jesantu
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Post by jesantu on Mar 31, 2023 9:48:08 GMT -5
I dislike him for entirely different reasons.
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Post by gringoose on Mar 31, 2023 10:05:15 GMT -5
I have enough trouble with English because it's a second language for me and there's no accommodation for transgenderism in my native language. I think most of the world is this way. It's all bizarre to me and it would be bizarre to me for me to include it in my English.
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delirium
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Post by delirium on Mar 31, 2023 10:08:51 GMT -5
Ender and I aren't banned (to my knowledge anyway). We just haven't logged in since we were force-stored and have no interest in doing so. They did damage control after lifting the GDB ban I got when I made a post saying why we left-- by saying we were both welcome back with open arms but uh... considering the total lack of actual acknowledgement or apology for what they did and... *waves at everything else* thanks but no thanks.
Plus our lives have honestly been healthier and happier without the game in it, so there's that too.
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Post by lechuck on Mar 31, 2023 10:12:55 GMT -5
I have enough trouble with English because it's a second language for me and there's no accommodation for transgenderism in my native language. I think most of the world is this way. It's all bizarre to me and it would be bizarre to me for me to include it in my English. Ja, es gibt das nicht in Deutsch, Niederländisch, Dänisch oder etwas.
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mehtastic
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Post by mehtastic on Mar 31, 2023 10:16:47 GMT -5
I am 99% sure that Brokkr's first language is English and even if it wasn't, there are nearly 20 staff members on the team, most of whom do have English as a first language. And soon the staff will have five player committee members to review staff-to-player messaging.
In any case, there are probably a million reasons to not like Brokkr. Here are some of them. - He googles "where is IP address located" for random players (including but not limited to Maristen's player) - He tortured someone's PC without consent (Eukelade) - He saw what Halaster did with the Plainsman and decided "yeah I'm gonna do that too" (cheating to boost his mortal sorcerer, Silteyes) - He is is a creep towards women (secondhand from two staff sources) - He writes like a 60 year old British nun who still thinks it's okay to spank students (he/she instead of they) - He writes like he asks ChatGPT to write for him and then copy-pastes it (first robotic Producer of Armageddon) - He blamed some random staff member for leaking the game's code to me instead of the actual person who leaked it (a mystery person who I won't reveal because I think it's funny that the staff still don't know)
In summary, Brokkr is a very dull, incurious, and discourteous individual. An idiot, if you will.
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jesantu
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Post by jesantu on Mar 31, 2023 10:17:02 GMT -5
I have enough trouble with English because it's a second language for me and there's no accommodation for transgenderism in my native language. I think most of the world is this way. It's all bizarre to me and it would be bizarre to me for me to include it in my English. Same and English is my native language. I simply do not get all this trans stuff and it's virtually non-existent where I live. I feel like americans have this assumption that the whole world is on the same page with their specific culture and trends. For a country which prides itself on being inclusive, it's kind of ironic. But it's a minor point and for the most part I love America. Just saying, the rest of planet earth isn't even necessarily aware of all this trans/LGB language.
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delirium
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Post by delirium on Mar 31, 2023 10:20:18 GMT -5
I am 99% sure that Brokkr's first language is English and even if it wasn't, there are nearly 20 staff members on the team, most of whom do have English as a first language. And soon the staff will have five player committee members to review staff-to-player messaging. In any case, there are probably a million reasons to not like Brokkr. Here are some of them. - He googles "where is IP address located" for random players (including but not limited to Maristen's player) - He tortured someone's PC without consent (Eukelade) - He saw what Halaster did with the Plainsman and decided "yeah I'm gonna do that too" (cheating to boost his mortal sorcerer, Silteyes) - He is is a creep towards women (secondhand from two staff sources) - He writes like a 60 year old British nun who still thinks it's okay to spank students (he/she instead of they) - He writes like he asks ChatGPT to write for him and then copy-pastes it (first robotic Producer of Armageddon) - He blamed some random staff member for leaking the game's code to me instead of the actual person who leaked it (a mystery person who I won't reveal because I think it's funny that the staff still don't know) In summary, Brokkr is a very dull, incurious, and discourteous individual. An idiot, if you will. He also thinks that basic empathy and kindness are entirely superfluous concepts when dealing with other human beings. As the late Shalooonsh would say, I GOT DEM RECEIPTS.
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jesantu
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Post by jesantu on Mar 31, 2023 10:23:08 GMT -5
- He writes like a 60 year old British nun who still thinks it's okay to spank students (he/she instead of they) Whoa, wait. Just for clarification. If I use he/she instead of they does that mean I'm writing like an old British nun who thinks it's okay to spank students too?
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Post by lechuck on Mar 31, 2023 10:24:40 GMT -5
We might have to get the old redhat jcarter to split the topic at this rate.
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mehtastic
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Post by mehtastic on Mar 31, 2023 10:25:40 GMT -5
- He writes like a 60 year old British nun who still thinks it's okay to spank students (he/she instead of they) Whoa, wait. Just for clarification. If I use he/she instead of they does that mean I'm writing like an old British nun who thinks it's okay to spank students too? I'm afraid so, yes. Sorry. Best of luck with your career of teaching kindergartners how to read and helping the Pope clean people's feet.
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Post by lechuck on Mar 31, 2023 10:27:45 GMT -5
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jesantu
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Post by jesantu on Mar 31, 2023 10:32:19 GMT -5
Whoa, wait. Just for clarification. If I use he/she instead of they does that mean I'm writing like an old British nun who thinks it's okay to spank students too? I'm afraid so, yes. Sorry. Best of luck with your career of teaching kindergartners how to read and helping the Pope clean people's feet. I look forward to working with His/Her Holiness!
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Post by lechuck on Mar 31, 2023 10:34:32 GMT -5
I'm afraid so, yes. Sorry. Best of luck with your career of teaching kindergartners how to read and helping the Pope clean people's feet. I look forward to working with His/Her Holiness! Now, look here!
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mehtastic
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Post by mehtastic on Mar 31, 2023 10:45:16 GMT -5
I am 99% sure that Brokkr's first language is English and even if it wasn't, there are nearly 20 staff members on the team, most of whom do have English as a first language. And soon the staff will have five player committee members to review staff-to-player messaging. In any case, there are probably a million reasons to not like Brokkr. Here are some of them. - He googles "where is IP address located" for random players (including but not limited to Maristen's player) - He tortured someone's PC without consent (Eukelade) - He saw what Halaster did with the Plainsman and decided "yeah I'm gonna do that too" (cheating to boost his mortal sorcerer, Silteyes) - He is is a creep towards women (secondhand from two staff sources) - He writes like a 60 year old British nun who still thinks it's okay to spank students (he/she instead of they) - He writes like he asks ChatGPT to write for him and then copy-pastes it (first robotic Producer of Armageddon) - He blamed some random staff member for leaking the game's code to me instead of the actual person who leaked it (a mystery person who I won't reveal because I think it's funny that the staff still don't know) In summary, Brokkr is a very dull, incurious, and discourteous individual. An idiot, if you will. He also thinks that basic empathy and kindness are entirely superfluous concepts when dealing with other human beings. As the late Shalooonsh would say, I GOT DEM RECEIPTS. Yup, exactly. At the risk of embarrassing myself, I was personally told in a professional context a few years ago that a phrase I used had made someone uncomfortable in a meeting. At the time I didn't even think about it, but being told that made me realize "whoops, I hurt someone's feelings. That's not good". Knowing that you hurt someone by accident is never a good feeling. What I did was apologize and promise to never use that phrase again.
Brokkr on the other hand gets feedback like that, and it's in one ear and out the other. The guy helped Shalooonsh abuse people. Somehow he is still a Producer.
So in all seriousness, each single thing he's done individually only matters in the sense that it's part of the whole sum of who Brokkr is as a staffer and what he's done. To go back to a point I made earlier on this board, he is living proof (alongside Halaster) that the game has run out of options for leadership. The game keeps picking people that are just not good leaders. It keeps changing the rules for people who are not good at following rules. It keeps promising empathy from those who are incapable of it.
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Post by blahblahblah on Mar 31, 2023 11:00:49 GMT -5
I can't really trust arguments that Metekilot brings forward because of an observed tendency to not only attack the character of the person they are arguing with, but shift the focus of discussions by pushing goalposts as if it's a job. I may be particularly not fond of the poster because of the whole "codedly torturing other players" thread, which I'm still against because the game staff views CODED ways of harming other players as fair game in the case of whipping. That's an aside, though.
A lot of people ascribe to the "cast not the first stone" method of shutting down a conversation. Funny thing, the text that refers to is about a woman being accused of a crime, and people jumping on it with no reason to even be there, to carry out "justice". When the crawd melted away, HER ACCUSERS WERE NOT PRESENT. It was an unfair trial with no one that had an issue having the guts to stand for the execution of "justice", they just whipped up a mob.
That is not what's happened here. People that are making complaints and accusations are standing RIGHT here. The people being accused can't bring themselves to properly apologize. The "unharmed" parties that should probably just sit back and observe are the people that don't have these issues, rather than randomly jumping to someone's defense when they have no right to judge OR execute. So I sorta ask, what's the point of digging through the search history to find something one doesn't like, then making it a "whataboutism"?
Fuck, I'll throw a stone. I have skin in the game.
And also Mek, Fuck you for that whole shitshow on the forums. It caused my first long break, after I was already shaken from the deaf crap I got from staffers when I was freaked out about the lack of consent in a scene. It's funny that you want other people to have to deal with shit YOU want to dish out to THEM, but can't take it. Fuck right off.
Pardon everyone, been in the mind to say that to this guy for a bit, after all that.
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