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Raymondo Person
Jun 13, 2009

by Ozmaugh


I find the tone of these reviews enjoyable but also odd in that less than a year ago we had a front page feature run by a guy who constantly used "gay loving enjoyable human being" as an insult without the tiniest hint of irony and seemed to perfectly embody all of the hella edgey aspects of SA and now suddenly we have... this. It feels as if SA has a huge identity crisis now.

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Raymondo Person
Jun 13, 2009

by Ozmaugh


Nucular Carmul posted:

The fifteen year olds who were here when the site was first started are now like 27. It's been happening for a long time, the demographic is growing up.
This was back in like 2010 though, Occupy Japan made fun of kids on Youtube and called them "gay loving faggots" then condemned the use of racial slurs in the very same entry and no one seemed to have the tiniest issue with this. Oh he also made fun of handicapped people (physical or mental) then said "heh im so goin 2 hell for this " as if that made any difference at all.

It's like SA is constantly going back and forth between stuff like that and Current Releases which are like... polar opposites.

Raymondo Person fucked around with this message at Mar 23, 2011 around 03:33

Raymondo Person
Jun 13, 2009

by Ozmaugh


Honestly I don't really think every SA writer needs to be needlessly bitter about everything, sneak in unrelated complaints about furries and anime in every entry or be ironically offensive to truly "belong" here but I do think everything could be presented in a more unique way beyond just having different views, praising movies that most critics hated and whatnot. They're technically good reviews but I think they need some kind of unique aspect to them in order to be remembered as more than just "those normal reviews that seem out of place on SA"... as for what that aspect should be, I honestly don't know. But basically I think they need some kind of reasonably memorable defining trait.

niggapolis posted:

There is definitely a split between the "you should make fun of everything nothing matters" crowd and the more liberal minded people who care about cultural stuff like not using gay/racist slurs or what kind of message does a kids movie have.
It's more about hypocrisy that guy showed, he claimed that white people who use racial slurs are all horrible and yet used gay-related insults and made fun of the disabled all the time.

Unless he's gay and also physically & mentally disabled then I'm not sure how that attitude is not totally hypocritical.

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