(07-24-2023, 05:13 PM)Hemlocke Wrote: As a side note the only reason you'd care if someone's calling your character a fascist is if you think speech in the game environment should be controlled for your objectively good angel dudes that do no wrong and are clearly representative of an entire faction.
This is incredibly rich coming from the angle of an anti-Liberty player in the whole story arc -- you know, the side that unironically is portraying itself as an objectively good bunch of angel dudes who can do no wrong. You're still missing the point, though. It's not really about 'fascist' being used as the one-size-fits-all buzzword of our time; it's more the overall vitriolic and caustic tone of that whole interaction.
If you still can't (or won't!) see that, fine. You have people who actually play Liberty lawfuls a lot sitting in this very thread telling you they're not on board with the way things are playing out.
Zoner players are cringe, just like everyone else.
And my character's a rogue that kills people for fun. So..
Some Westerne- ahem, not only Westerners anymore. Some people definitely like to make sure they have exclusive rights to words and concepts and they also make sure they enforce that exclusivity online. Sometimes this even spills over onto their ideological rivals and said exclusivity becomes supported by two sides of the conflict with unaffiliated people having to deal with double the hysteria in case they say something not approved by either party.
Very disturbing indeed.
There was a nice suggestion by @Hemlocke - ignore. Many people on this forum won't be able to define what fascism is (or even spell it correctly) without looking it up on the internet. The same should apply to IC - not every random zoner inRP has a degree in political science (or any education, whatsoever) to understand the meaning of such an obsolete by Discovery standards socio-political system as fascism, or, say, know who Umberto Eco was and/or his 14 traits of fascism which are considered to be pillars to identifying the system. If you character perchance knows this stuff inRp - you can of course challenge their knowledge inRp and bore them to death by proving them wrong (something that I sometimes personally enjoy to do). Otherwise, your character is free to dismiss them as idiots and not nice people and fly away or drop /1 /2. Dropping accusations of being a fascist coming from both left and right are so commonplace nowadays that they have lost their original meaning and sound rather cringe, both irl and inRP.
A more valid point, however, is that coming to a system for some activity and getting some cringe "offences" disguised as "RP" is a waste of time and boring. So people who spew this quality RP should realise that their actions might have consequences of people just not willing to RP with them. If you want to offend someone, either do it more creatively for the other player to chuckle at least a bit or don't use so generic and trite groundless accusations - those are simply cringe and boring and difficult to RP around.
this place will never stop fascinating me with how many problems everyone has with one another, or how everyone purposefully creates new ways to have problems with one another
(10-13-2023, 12:51 AM)Haste Wrote: This is a feature as most Discovery players would not receive a response from women.
(07-25-2023, 05:31 PM)Chronicron Wrote: this place will never stop fascinating me with how many problems everyone has with one another, or how everyone purposefully creates new ways to have problems with one another