Code of Conduct Changes - Do better at least for optics
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Why won't you just make your own forum for your discussions, or a Discord server, if you enjoy talking to each other about certain type of topics so much? Seriously, Discord is cool, especially for such type of conversations where you go off-topic in off-topic. You would have each other, I wouldn't have you. Everyone would be happy!
The Bother progress: 11%
You don't even imagine how much harm you've caused. I'm not sure I'll live long enough to finish "The Bother". You're one of my murderers. You will never get my forgiveness unless you make up for what you've done. | |
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I'm not really capable of making too many posts that aren't inflammatory to somebody in some way. And to be perfectly honest, I couldn't give a damn less about random people's personal sensitivities, online or off. I say very un-PC stuff in public, or in establishments all the time, and nobody ever says a peep to my face about it. There only seems to be outrage on the internet.
This of course means, I'm not going to be around for very long, if I regularly post here, so i'm out. I don't want my account banned on the off chance I decide to play PoE again (looking extremely unlikely at this point), but at least I got some stuff to barter with in standard league.... If I do decide to play PoE again, I'd make my own discord, and anyone can say whatever they want with no rules whatsoever. Because rules on speech are for chumps. Last edited by MrSmiley21 on Jun 12, 2019, 11:12:57 PM
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"It's my understanding that forum violations (outside of actual illegality) have a maximum penalty of indefinite probation. For instance, BMBI wasn't banned, merely perma-probated. Unless that policy has also changed, I believe you're worried over nothing. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB on Jun 12, 2019, 11:52:25 PM
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" Yup, I've been put on probation and while I could no longer post on the forums or access private messages, I could still play PoE. Over 430 threads discussing labyrinth problems with over 1040 posters in support (thread # 1702621) Thank you all! GGG will implement a different method for ascension in PoE2. Retired!
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" Thank you for the belly laugh. Over 430 threads discussing labyrinth problems with over 1040 posters in support (thread # 1702621) Thank you all! GGG will implement a different method for ascension in PoE2. Retired!
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"  When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted.
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" " " Imagining in your mind that people here call you "your grace" doesn't by extension imply you act gracefully. Those are not the same things Charan. Saying your gracious in the same post where you make a caricature out of people in this thread is sort of redundant stupidity for anybody with an inkling of how a discussion or conversation works. Peace, -Boem- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
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" Some of my post was sarcasm. It clearly wasn't received as such. Although, I'm probably not gonna touch PoE again. I don't really care if they end up banning me or not, like they did with BMBI, or worse. And it's to my understanding that they can ban you for any reason they want, or no reason at all. Doesn't mean they'll do it, but they technically can if someone gets under the skin of the right employee. Especially considering that Tencent now owns them. Last edited by MrSmiley21 on Jun 13, 2019, 2:59:12 PM
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EDIT: oh just to give my opinion on the topic of no-politics on the forums;
I dont mind at all, I even have a character named after it. Oblivious Last edited by Disrupted on Jun 15, 2019, 3:57:47 AM
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" No such implication was made. GGG's preannounced purge of free thinking does not mean some free thinkers will not remain. " People imagine that they understand each other, yet much of what we think is hidden behind barriers. Without free speech, there can be no real freedom of thought or effective communication. " "some" - Meaning that many deep interesting conversational topics are verboten. Things that technically qualify as small talk would still be allowed. Facebook level discussion of personal experiences would probably still be allowed. " "If your opinion is different than mine , then your opinion must be wrong and you should adjust it because..." is what I hear from your comment. " temporal adjective (1) tem·po·ral | \ ˈtem-p(ə-)rəl How to pronounce temporal (audio) \ Definition of temporal (Entry 1 of 3) 1a : of or relating to time as opposed to eternity b : of or relating to earthly life c : lay or secular rather than clerical or sacred : civil lords temporal Religion is the opposite of temporal. Its primary concern is of things not of this Earth, of things eternal. It does have application (in the eyes of adherants) to life on this Earth and how it should be lived, which is where the conflicts come in. Perhaps you meant to use another word instead of temporal? " The start of free thinking? Grasping at "I think therefore I am?" Maybe we have no idea? That is exactly the mindset that precluded any advance in science for thousands of years. Is science perfect and without flaws? Of course not. Our scientific understanding is always changing and occasionally being overturned. It provides us with a model of the world that far more useful than "maybe we have no idea". That we are discussing this topic across the world is proof of that. So why didn't the Aztecs, the ancient Chinese, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Babylonians or any of other earlier civilizations not reach the levels of science we have? I'll answer that for you - a societal belief that "maybe everyone's right, and maybe everyone's wrong" . " Is one side free thinking, and the other not? Unless this is the case, your assumption makes no sense. If both (or many sides) involve free thinking, then the only way to hinder them is to silence them, since there is no "opposite" position to take. " Not yet. Depending on what books are brought up, we could very well see a difference. " You've assumed a right is necessary to recognize something. Pattern recognition is part of human intelligence. As writer and philosopher George Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." We've seen where censorship leads. Inflammatory Topics? In other words controversial? How about Wraeclast itself? Is that inflammatory/controversial? The poem (The Wanderer) from which GGG found Wraeclast's name is considered controversial - for its potential religious and non-religious themes. Oft him anhaga are gebideð, metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig geond lagulade longe sceolde hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sæ wadan wræclastas. Wyrd bið ful aræd! "Another difficult question has been what, exactly, the wanderer has been learning. Bradley, not surprisingly, views The Wanderer solely as a Christian poem" "not every scholar has seen this poem as simply Christian sermonizing, the product of a thoroughly Christianized culture. W.W. Lawrence has argued against the separation of the poem into Christian and Pagan elements, believing that the poem was the work of a recently converted people: " http://homepages.bw.edu/~uncover/Beth_translation_project.htm http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Wdr Under the new GGG policy, such discussion would be forbidden. We can still talk about the weather though. PoE Origins - Piety's story http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2081910
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