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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

His stance is that it depends on the situation.

And that's transphobic. Full stop. Unless it's Twitter, deliberately deadnaming or misgendering somebody is transphobic (and it's only okay in Twitter's case because Twitter isn't a person and deadnaming it is just resisting Musk's absurd insistence on trying to force a new identity on it against whatever will it can be said to have). The only situation in which it is not is if you are a medical professional responsible for the well-being of the person in question and you have genuine cause to believe that their apparent gender dysphoria will be better served by not providing gender-affirming care, and even that situation is exceedingly rare because the vast majority of the body of research on the subject advises against being so antagonistic to anyone seeking gender-affirming care.

In every other case - with no further exceptions - deliberate deadnaming and misgendering is nothing more than a self-righteous circle jerk at the expense of the mental health of your victim. End of story.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

So Fandom simply does not understand what the word "political" means?

Pretty much.

It's almost like making a treatment decision after several years of consulting multiple specialists and working through numerous less-invasive/irreversible steps to ensure it's the right decision for you stands a high chance of actually being the right decision for you. I'm not remotely surprised that the rate of regret is lower than decisions that are made more independently and without oversight from anyone to ensure people are as informed as possible before making them.

Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted...

Wow they overturned it without me appealing

Even the mod staff can't agree on what "politics" means.

Zareth posted...

I wish they could just like irradiate my nuts or something instead of painful surgery.

As I understand it, it's no more painful than most dental cleanings. It's not pleasant, so you aren't exactly going to book a bunch of recreational vasectomies, but it's not painful enough to warrant avoiding it out of concern for the pain if you do in fact want to be sterilized.

For that matter, the driver/passenger would have likely been able to claim self-defense if they just straight up shot the tow truck driver for trying to kidnap them.

Careflation

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I suspect you haven't tried listening to his actual comments on the subject instead of what people are saying about him.

Does he or does he not take issue with referring to people by their chosen names and pronouns instead of alternatives which he believes are more appropriate (for whatever reason)?

Jen0125 posted...

I don't have any negative side effects from the IUD. I also don't have a period and haven't in 11 years which is nice. I might revisit again if the voter initiative here doesn't pass. But also I can get sterilized out of state and my insurance covers travel for procedures.

Fair. That's just my thinking on the matter, which doesn't really matter to anyone else.

Personally, I'd still be inclined to go for it, just to eliminate side effects from the IUD, avoid the discomfort of future IUD insertions, and to protect yourself from any future legislation that might make sterilization or even IUDs illegal, but you do you. It's your body and you should do whatever you're most comfortable with.

Jen0125 posted...

Report the ad to the mods for politics

For that matter, the new ToU explicitly prohibits misgendering and other forms of transphobia, and we all know Peterson's all about that. Removing that ad should be a no-brainer.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

no reason to not use an ad block

especially here

But also this. I haven't seen an ad on GameFAQs in over a decade, and from how it sounds the ads are going these days, that won't be changing. If they stopped being so aggressively obnoxious with them and actually took responsibility for their contents and safety? I might consider it. But that's precisely the opposite of their current direction and the ad philosophy displayed on every other Fandom site, so I don't expect much.

It's alright, but not something I enjoy enough to bother seeking it out most of the time.

Timmy_Duncan posted...

I think I'm missing something - is GameFAQs shutting down or just becoming less active?

Fandom recently decreed that CE should get the LUE treatment (new accounts can't access it, any existing account that gets purg'd loses access to it), as well as that all "political discussion" (a term which they've done a very poor job of explaining) is now forbidden on every board except CE. They've also shut down the Sex and Sexuality board with little warning and no particular explanation except a vague ban on "hornyposting," as well as shutting down the Religion board with no explanation beyond "hardly anyone used it anyway." The general impression is that they're trying to stamp out all board traffic that isn't gaming-related in an effort to ensure that people who stumble across the site looking for gaming discussion aren't turned away by off-topic or offensive content, but given that it's really not possible to accidentally end up on a social board, that excuse doesn't really track.

It might not be getting outright killed any time soon, but Fandom's recent direction seems to suggest that they want to change it up in ways that probably don't include us.

Metalsonic66 posted...

TBH it's kinda bulls*** that they didn't let Hagrid get his Wizard GED after the events of the second book

Instead, they just made him a teacher without offering him any additional training or requiring a Wizard GED.

https://imgur.com/rrIcGGl

keyblader1985 posted...

Someone please tell me this is real

https://i.imgur.com/EIPDgVS.jpeg

I could believe it, but I don't really want to dig deep enough into Twitter to find out for sure.

darkknight109 posted...

I still don't really get why the "forum" model of the internet died out. Nothing that's replaced it seems like an improvement to me, at least in terms of being able to find stuff.

It's a combination of wikis and other social media formats, I'd say. As semi-permanent repositories of information, wikis generally work better than forums because they're organized somewhat logically instead of just by who felt like discussing the subject and when, plus they tend to be more reliably updated. Upvote-based social media platforms also work better than traditional forums for people that are just googling whatever question they have, since they can generally rely on the assumption that an answer with lots of upvotes (which will also show up higher in search results) is more likely to be correct (strictly speaking, that's fallacious, but most everyday questions don't actually need rigorous, logically-valid proofs of their answers). That lets them avoid having to sift through a whole thread to see if there were any major corrections or better answers, which is better for people that aren't looking to actively participate in a thread.

On the social media side of things, it's a shift from sitting down and participating in a community to being able to casually peruse a feed of new content. For those who want to immerse themselves in a community and see its history and whatnot, that's a downgrade, but from the perspective of those that just want to kill a bit of time by checking in and see what's new/interesting, Reddit and Facebook both do a better job (the latter actively curating things according to perceived interests), and newer social media has continued that trend. It's become harder to find older/less popular conversations as a result, but most people aren't thinking about finding older/less popular conversations when they pull out their phones to kill a few minutes.

Judgmenl posted...

I will not watch any streamer that uses Youtube as a secondary content platform because Twitch does not respect me.

Youtube respects users only marginally less than Twitch, and is arguably even worse to creators.

"Arm wrestling"

Colder...

I'm generally not huge on Discord over a forum structure like this, but the writing's on the wall for GameFAQs, so I might as well get in while it's possible.

Sarcasthma posted...

Alberta Dillweed Jamesonirishwhiskey Liu, you go to your room right now.

Close, but not quite.

I'll be surprised if console generations are still a thing by the time PS12 would be rolling around, given how harsh the diminishing returns are getting on new generations, but I expect Sony will keep the same naming scheme for as long as they are (possibly changing it up for whatever the final one ends up being).

https://imgur.com/Ml0HDBd

8.6% ($1749 to $1900 CAD). The legal maximum is 5%, but we're on a series of fixed-term leases because my province doesn't do nearly enough to protect tenants from fixed-term leases being abused, giving us no legal recourse for that.

Nade_Duck posted...

maybe i remember wrong but i don't think there's anything saying link doesn't stick around for a little bit to fix things up before he leaves. i'd imagine if you've done all the sidequests and have the masks that link would probably remember what he did to get the and could act accordingly, or even possibly get help from redeemed skull kid.

It's not impossible, and the credits strongly imply that Anju's wedding happens despite not actually showing Kafei being there such that I'm sure everything works out in the long run, but it still just feels wrong to listen to them say "We will greet the morning together" and then say "jk I'm just gonna rewind time so none of this happened bye." They're greeting the morning together, and it's up to me to make sure they have a morning to greet, dammit.

faramir77 posted...

However, I have already obtained the one from completing the Deku Playground minigame on each of the three days, which I used to think was one of the toughest heart pieces in the game to get.

I usually end up getting that one early simply because there's very little else to do in the first cycle if you know what you're doing. If the choice is between sitting around and waiting for the clock tower to open or bashing my head against the playground, I'll take the playground (though it is indeed much easier now than I remember it being as a kid. Funny how that works).

There was one post in one of the feedback topics where he outright said "insult me if you want, but don't insult Fandom," and that just made me really sad. Nobody gets paid enough for that degree of corporate simping.

STEROLIZER posted...

Hes an employee. Not the owner. He doesnt have authority to make sporadic changes on a dime or even respond and comment to some things.

Hes taking notes, and working in the backend. The fact that hes even interacting at all is proof of this.

Disgruntled GameFaqs users ranting and raving isnt going to suddenly bless DToast with a promotion so that he can make the series of executive decisions. All its going to do is make him apathetic in his duties.

This is common sense. I dont understand why none of you understand this. Its like screaming at the Starbucks Barista, and going so far as to key that college kids car because pumpkin spice lattes were taken off the menu.

That's nice, but it still doesn't change that there's plenty of feedback, so your premise that there's nothing but insults or whatever is outright false. He's just also told everyone that their feedback is worthless, so there's really no room to suggest that people can be more constructive.

https://imgur.com/FjdaEow

Bonus comment: "3 Pumps Daddy is my new rapper name."

The part where there's feedback. The official statement from the community manager is (paraphrased) "We're getting a lot of people saying that they're unhappy with the changes, which is exactly what we expected, but we're going to make absolutely no changes to our plans." There never was any intention of adjusting the plan based on feedback.

STEROLIZER posted...

Provide feedback, not cowardly insults, and incoherent ranting

There's plenty of feedback. He's outright said they're ignoring it.

TomNook posted...

Nah. They need a board to discuss the poll of the day. That is this board.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1324-actual-poll-of-the-day

https://imgur.com/GjMiQps

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that there aren't many game developers looking at the GameFAQs message boards to help them track down exploits. That means discussing them is just going to result in more people using them and messing with others' fun until they get fixed.

https://imgur.com/ez69obJ

rjsilverthorn posted...

Yeah, that alone makes having a sex and sexuality board a bit iffy. I was never on the board so I have no idea how spicy things got over there, but even having a discussion about sex with someone that young is a good way to end up on a watch list.

I would say there is actually a need for teenagers to be able to discuss sex openly with people who are more experienced so they can get useful advice (there's a ton of misinformation out there). It's just not necessarily in the context of a bunch of adults discussing their sex lives as adults under the assumption it's all other sexually active adults they're talking to.

Annoyingly, most sites that are generally tame and mature enough to potentially take on that responsibility are also the sorts of sites that are going to face problems with age verification laws because they aren't trying to fly under the radar. But then states pushing for age verification laws tend not to be overly keen on comprehensive sex ed in the first place, so they probably aren't too concerned about that.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's probably more the mindset that "Women obviously want kids because maternal instinct", with the assumption that if you're denying you ever want kids you're just young and confused and will change your mind eventually. So there's always an implied "You're going to regret this decision" if you choose to have an irreversible method of birth control when you're "too young to know what you really want".

It's still sexist, just a different flavor of sexism.

That's why the opposition exists in the first place, but specifically requiring their husbands' permissions is just outright stating "it's only okay for you to not want kids if your husband also doesn't want kids." While I would generally say that sterilization is a decision that should be discussed between partners and a consensus should be reached before going ahead with it (whether that consensus is being okay with sterilization or divorcing because it's an irreconcilable dealbreaker), asking the husband for permission is quite overtly treating the woman as his property.

keyblader1985 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e7112908.jpg

That's in the same vein as putting The Iron Giant in a fighting game. It kind of misses some crucial elements of the character and just boils down to "don't you want to see *insert popular character here* in a video game?"

Soap. Polysporin and a bandaid if I think there's a significant risk of infection or if it's likely to bleed everywhere.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Considering the push some states have made towards ID requirements for sites with 'sexual' content they could also be trying to keep out of that mess.

I suspect this is the biggest factor. Completely stamping out sexy content altogether? That probably won't happen, nor will it be necessary to stay under the radar of age verification laws. Shutting down a board specifically intended for discussions of an explicitly sexual nature? That's something that might actually be needed to avoid having a verification requirement, particularly where the only age restriction now is "promise us you're over 13" when you create your account and that obviously won't cut it for 18+ content.

captpackrat posted...

Wasn't there a poll that showed the site actually trends older than you'd think?

Which is precisely why they want to do more to attract a younger demographic.

LinkPizza posted...

While all of it is crazy, this is the one thing I think is the worst Why should the choice be up to their husband? It makes absolutely no sense at all I think a lady should be able to have control of their own body without needing a man to make her decisions She not a child

Presumably, it comes from the attitude that it's a woman's obligation to provide kids to a husband who wants them. Which is... not okay.

I doubt it. None of the higher-ups particularly broken up by the idea of CE's community being gradually whittled away. I can't see Toast caring enough to reinstate anyone.

Plus that gives you more control over the matter. Not to plan for breaking up with your boyfriend, but if you're ever looking for a new relationship this guarantees what happened with your ex won't happen again.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

It was just am excuse. They have rolled back every other covid policy but that

Companies have stuck with ditching 24-hour service, yeah, and it makes sense because those periods generally don't generate enough business to cover the costs of staffing them, but it was also an official government policy to stop offering 24-hour service (at least around here). Sticking with it is the business' choice, but I'm just not sure why it was part of the Covid restrictions initially.

Jkd91 posted...

That's actually pretty crazy that you could then sue if you change your mind, seems like the sort of thing that if you decide to go through it then you're done.

I don't know how often it actually happens, nor how often those suits are successful, but with the prevailing cultural norm that women are expected to want kids and there there's therefore something wrong with any that don't, many doctors choose to simply avoid the issue entirely by refusing to do sterilizations. Unless a woman already has multiple kids (and even then it's still often an uphill battle), it's not at all unusual to have to go through multiple doctors, get psych evaluations, and/or have their husbands sign permission slips (if they aren't married, they're out of luck) before any doctor will be willing to do the procedure.

Of course, this is assuming the woman in question is white. Minority women still pretty often get sterilized without their consent, because there are still too many genocidal maniacs practicing medicine.

Jkd91 posted...

I got a vasectomy at the beginning of the month and needed a referral from a doctor which took about 30 seconds, he literally asked if i wanted children and if i was sure then sent the necessary stuff to the clinic.

I've no idea how easy it would be for a woman to get it done here (england) but for a man its super easy.

That's generally how it works in the US and Canada as well. Vasectomies are all but offered in drive-thrus; men not wanting kids is seen as totally normal and something doctors are happy to accommodate. There are the facts that vasectomies are a less invasive procedure than tubals, and are a more effective form of birth control, and can be reversed more easily (the failure rate is non-negligible, but low enough that changing your mind later due to changing circumstances isn't the end of the world), all of which mean that if a couple wants to be sterilized it makes more sense for the man to do it, but even outside of couples or other cases where a decision is clearly being made between a vasectomy and a tubal men have a much easier time of getting sterilized.

Jkd91 posted...

Just so im aware, you pay for this right ? why would they say no if you do ?

Part of it is a fear that the woman will come back and sue for malpractice for not doing enough to discourage her if she changes her mind down the line. Most of it, though, is the assumption that all women want kids and that any who say they don't are just wrong and the doctor knows better.

Honestly, from what I've seen of Tony Hawk's public/social media activities, it'd be pretty on-brand for him to just hang out on a random GameFAQs social board and not tell anyone. He seems to be pretty chill and low-profile.

blu posted...

As long as if the amount doesnt go down. I always loved the chance to stay an extra day on vacation and get $1500-2500 (for two people) on a trip I paid $400 for.

It probably will go down, given that the numbers seen in non-cash compensation are artificially inflated by the fact that the company knows they won't actually be paying out on them and to make them seem more generous. If airlines actually have to pay for every instance, they won't be paying as much, though I expect they'll still have to cover immediate requirements like paying for a hotel room if you're stuck overnight.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

I am mad however that Walmart stopped being 24/7 made no sense I could accidently social distance at 2am in walmart

The mandatory reduction in hours for essential services is one thing that always struck me as being counterintuitive. If it's essential, people are going to be shopping there regardless of what the hours are, so reducing the hours means you end up with the same number of total customers showing up within a smaller time window. That increases density and the risk of transmission, exactly the opposite of what the goal was. I'm sure there were further considerations like being able to reduce the number of overlapping shifts for employees and the impacts it had on traffic timing, and increasing the extent to which people were able to take advantage of the disinfecting effects of the sun, plus maybe secondary concerns like overall reductions in traffic increasing the risk that people are victimized by street crime (already an elevated risk for late-night shopping, but with fewer people overall that means even fewer late-night shoppers), but at face value it never really made sense to me.

slacker03150 posted...

"That's not political. Just because one particular group likes to make science and social denial their political points doesn't mean those things actually are politics."

One of the mods said something to that effect as well (specifically about gay/trans rights), which is just obviously nonsense and boils down to "'political discussion' just means taking a political stance we don't like." Ironically (or not, depending on how strict you want to be about defining "irony"), that's pretty much exactly the same way people complaining about media being "too political" use the term, except they use it as a dog whistle for "black people exist" whereas here it's a dog whistle for "racists exist."

Come to think of it, I haven't seen The Flash today.

I'm at least 65% certain it's one of the two.

Cupcake2006 posted...

What happens June 8?

An event of a nature which we are no longer permitted to specify happens in Arizona, which may or may not be related in some way to the subject of women's reproductive health.

Jen0125 posted...

My lights and two Christmas trees stay up year round. You should try it!

We don't keep all of the Christmas decor up, but we do keep some of the string lights. They're just nice to have regardless of the season.