Toxic Global Chat

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Boomshakalakaring wrote:

op i'd highly recommend finding a friendly active guild, theres some good ones out there and you won't be mocked by people who'd rather try and get a reaction rather than be nice or helpful when people ask questions.

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kompaniet wrote:

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Boomshakalakaring wrote:

op i'd highly recommend finding a friendly active guild, theres some good ones out there and you won't be mocked by people who'd rather try and get a reaction rather than be nice or helpful when people ask questions.

I agree. Report the people using vulgar profanity and death threats, then turn off global chat and join a big guild.

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Exile009 wrote:

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Mythreindeer wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Turn off chat. Problem solved.

Oh... and we're all part of the problem. You too. The problem is that there's too many fucking (literally) people on this planet. We've gone from a population of a few thousand to 7.5 billion. We've eliminated all our major predators, and still breed like we are faced with extinction. There's too many fish in the aquarium and it's going to crash.

+1 to turning off global chat. It has been a cesspool of humanity in all games for a long time now.

+1 also to Shags on the troubling truth about human overpopulation. No one really wants to engage me on that discussion but it's spot on.

Here's one set of reasons why overpopulation (which is a convenient thing for the west to obsess about, since it's the one thing they can't be blamed for) isn't pushed for all that much - https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/26/16356524/the-population-question

For another, to expand even further on the things they mention towards the end of that article, it's cos we're already doing all the most effective (humane) things we can to fix population, just for the sake of other typical development goals. And they're working (even India's population growth rate is only slightly above replacement level now, and still falling). About the worst thing you can do now for population control is adopt policies that hurt that development, which a lot of the more inhumane solutions (aka forced sterilization and/or genocide) do. Population is dismissed by serious policymakers cos they know a focus on it achieves nothing but cater to the worst social impulses.

Go read up on the literature. You want efforts made to control population (that don't involve widespread human culling)? They're already being done, and have been for decades, just without being explicitly labelled population control. Cos the last thing they want is to feed that dark narrative.

And btw, if you want to do some old-fashioned culling anyway, it's far more effective to begin with people in America, Australia or Austria rather than Argentina, Afghanistan or Angola. Have fun with it!