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Social Entropy, Where Hip-Hop Lives [Giant Bomb]
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Not all instances of phrases that begin with not all are not worth saying.
Like we here are a community
The GB forums are a community
But I don't think that you can reasonably call a group of individuals that happen to have a shared interest in an entertainment product a "community" when they literally never interact with each other
The tone and timbre of our discussion cannot affect that of, say, a reddit GB thread, because the two don't overlap
This isn't me trying to get out of being culpable, its just something I notice on the internet a lot, this idea of ascribing one hive mind or communal identity to a group that doesn't really interact
Anyway its just something I've been thinking about when discussions of internet shittiness comes up and it kind of rubs me the wrong way
Because assholes do gravitate towards assholes, and there are absolutely communities of horrible people on the internet
But misidentification of those groups doesn't seem like its going to help anyone
i can agree with this
it's like putting us in the 'video gaming community'
and i don't think anyone wants that
Furthermore, crafting classes have their own gear that you need to level up to use, and no one appears to sell level 1 clothes.
oh, and I sold my default outfit.
so I'm perched on a railing in the Chef's guild, naked, feverishly mashing out orders of maple syrup until i can hit a high enough level to equip a shirt and/or pants while cooking
...10/10
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No.
All of the pizza rolls.
All.
There's definitely a level 1 clothing vendor in every town, but really you don't need it. Even if you're on a job that needs the defense, you can fight naked to level 5 and wait for the good stuff from quests
and also, all the bodies in FFXIV are just so perfect and greek, you gotta look at them once in a while!
...go on
I swear I checked the vendor and he had nothing below level 5
just eat pizza, what are you doing with your life.
But I do think there is a way to generally group ourselves based on what attracts us to giant bomb or video games and how that media affects us
is it weird that i love the way totinos pizza tastes but hate the way totinos pizza rolls taste when I know very well they taste exactly the same?
Eating hamburgers instead of pizza, really.
Some relevant tweets:
On why there is nothing on the front page right now:
Moderation is taking action on the forums:
Responding to a suggestion that Giant Bomb / Forums be shut down until a statement is drafted:
Edit: Whoops, doesn't show the full conversation. Added context
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Won't somebody please take responsibility for all this unchecked gluttony?
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not all gluttons
I thought it was used to refer to sexists who butted women out of conversations to argue on their behalf unsolicited
http://www.audioentropy.com/
not all not all statements
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While that's definitely a definition that exists, I've seen it more often used as a way to dismiss defenses of females by attempting to claim that the defenders have selfish motives.
Like clambering for trigger warnings for things that might upset otherkin or something
And that ones definitely been taken by fuckheads to just literally refer to "advocates of social justice"
http://www.audioentropy.com/
typically used by mra-type pokemon to say that the white knight is arguing insincerely only to suck up to the damsel
while white knighting originally referred to something similar to this
white knight is now a term colloquially used to refer to when someone is championing a subject seemingly just for the sake of doing so, or when it's perhaps unnecessary for them to do so
so in this particular case in the tweets it's like, they're cracking down on the people who are using "white knight" to describe the people who are defending social justice issues
but men who drown out and overshadow women in their own conversations are a more real problem than men who act feminist cause they wanna get laid bro
I do like tree of might lots though
Agreed
The word community implies a level of control and commiseration that I don't think exists, but as people in the group of "giant bomb audience" we can at least try and be an example acceptable behavior
Sleep is fucking god tier at those low levels.
treat them like alternate universe possible adventures
#YesAllT4CT posts are worth reading
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It is a lovely short hand in that way.
as a teen who obsessed over things, i tried so hard to fit them into the timelines
but like, gohan would be wearing piccolo's outfit, but the dragon balls are active, and Krillin's not dead
really just Krillin being alive was a dead giveaway most of the time
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I was never really impressed by the main three movies toonami used to show- tree of might, dead zone, world's strongest- they always just felt like filler to me, even as a kid
my favorites were cooler's revenge and bojack unbound, though i couldn't begin to tell you what happened in them if you asked me about them now
mike please never stop being tsundere
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