FactsAreUseless posted:

There once was a man named Taint Reaper
Who everyone thought was a creeper
He posted real bad
But nobody got mad
His posts just made them all sleepier

The Colonel posted:

DK64 had some really cool worlds. Fungi Forest, Frantic Factory and Creepy Castle were the best.

The Taint Reaper posted:

If you mean people like those who dye their hair in rainbow colors I really can't say that their opinions lie within the realm of sanity. Like everything they say is within the realm of madness and when they get angry it's like double thesaurus mad.


Anyways the poem was funny and clever and to just get butthurt to the point where you make open threats to a developer which causes them to remove it and get even more open threats is comedy in itself.

Ahundredbux posted:

it was a limerick about a guy who accidentally sleeps with a man dressed as a woman and then jumps off a cliff or something

lmao

Sleeveless posted:

It's nothing really that interesting on its own. Some people complained about one of the bits of text a backer put in the game, Obsidian agreed and admitted that it shouldn't have made it through QA, and it was quietly patched out.

Then the usual Let's Play pantshitters started making GBS threads their pants and sending out rape threats over it because it's censorship and political correctness gone mad and the developers are obviously just bowing down to the threats of the feminazi shadow cabal.

NutritiousSnack posted:

Nothing of the sort happened. Shotgun Bladder, former FYAD friend, complained about it and started a shitstorm on twitter. Devs asked the backer if he wanted it changed because of it. He said sure and wrote a new one mocking the people who got angry.

Stux posted:

the important part is that its idiot reactionary nerds that are angry now and thats still true.

Ahundredbux posted:

every part of this owns

Lurdiak posted:

As long as Totalbiscuit is mad about this, it's a good thing.

NutritiousSnack posted:

It's quite clear from why the backer changed it, the "reactionary nerds" weren't the only ones mad, but only the pure hearted good people were too.

NutritiousSnack posted:

Nothing of the sort happened. Shotgun Bladder, former FYAD friend, complained about it and started a shitstorm on twitter. Devs asked the backer if he wanted it changed because of it. He said sure and wrote a new one mocking the people who got angry.






Weird Twitter got insanely owned and is patting themselves on the back like they won WWIII.

Stux posted:

lol that fixed poem isn't even a burn its the dude owning himself this is even better hahahaha

Stux posted:

kill all nerds

CJacobs posted:

If you got the chance to basically say "go gently caress yourselves" to tens of thousands of people whether you are right or wrong or they are right or wrong and get away with it completely scot-free you are lying if you claim you wouldn't do it

It's probably not worth acting smug about but it is a pretty funny resolution to the issue

Lurdiak posted:

CJacobs posted:

If you got the chance to basically say "go gently caress yourselves" to tens of thousands of people whether you are right or wrong or they are right or wrong and get away with it completely scot-free you are lying if you claim you wouldn't do it

It's probably not worth acting smug about but it is a pretty funny resolution to the issue

Ahundredbux posted:

My only regret is how smoothly they handled this instead of turning it into gamer gate 2.0

Stux posted:

its not even saying that, its really dejected "they asked for blood so now he's just dead"

NutritiousSnack posted:

he actually kept a pretty low profile and handled this like a mature adult unlike GamerGate and Werid Twitter/SRS/Stux.


Yeah, this is still getting the twitter week of outrage. people just realized the new poem is mocking them, and are getting extremely pissed, and gg is now claiming this as an utter victory.

NutritiousSnack posted:

you either have zero reading comprehension or are extremely mad, either way it's funny.

quote:

There's only so much room for context in four lines of an epitaph. How the masses can extrapolate so much back-story without knowing anything is beyond baffling. It's extremely entertaining though, I'll admit.

Firedorn is a character. A fictional character. He's a creation based on a combination of different people I've seen in my life. He's overly macho, making up for his other shortcomings. Talks a whole lot but doesn't say much. He's a womanizer, an alcoholic and he's not too bright. He's also has self-esteem issues, which is why he over compensates by being overly sexual. Incidentally, he believes that being with a man will somehow make him a lesser man. You know the type of person I'm referring to. You've seen him. You probably even know him, or someone like him. I've crossed paths with people like him, numerous times in my life.

But the fact remains, Firedorn is a character. A fictional character. Representing part of what's wrong with people today. The limerick was written as a form of artistic expression from a nobody, trying to ridicule the ideas, rationale and justifications presented by people like him. It is a fictional representation of real life, of what's around you. And this fictional character died in spite of his foolishness and idiocy. That's what I wrote. I don't regret writing it either, as killing off an idiot for being an idiot was extremely satisfying. No other platform has allowed me such artistic expression, nor did I anticipate this type of response. However, I'd kill him again.

To anyone how was offended by this, I sincerely apologize. My intent was to ridicule the perpetrators of such behavior and not offend its victims. Any form of artistic expression leaves a lot to interpretation and is entirely subjective. But extrapolating any intent from a short limerick and crying in outrage is not the way to go about any of the struggles these victims face. Laugh at Firedorn's misfortune, his idiocy, his stupidity and narrow mindedness instead.
Anyone accusing Firedorn of "transmisogyny": please review the definition of the word before sounding like an idiot. I know it's new to the lexicon, but nowhere was it even implied that he did anything to harm anyone, much less a trans woman.

A little hobbit over in a bent corner once said: "People should be free to create and share art they enjoy without censorship from the self-appointed art police". While I understand that not everyone will enjoy all forms of artistic expression, asking for censorship is inherently wrong in today's world. While the character's choices were questionable, they are a reality both in the factual world and in fiction. Life imitates art and art imitates life. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll stop being angry at the world every time you see or hear something you don’t like, and move on to more productive things.

Screw you
Don't give a poo poo
Everyone should have the freedom to express themselves however they want, be it written, visual or audio. That goes for both artists and their critics. If someone puts up something controversial, then they should expect that some people won’t like it. The right to express your opinion is the same as a person’s right to express themselves artistically. Asking for censorship, however, goes against all that...especially when you don't know a god damned thing about the context of the art piece.

But what do I know? I'm just a chump on the internet.

-- Firedorn

Stux posted:

I'm actually both, please update your pplwhoareangry and pplwhocantread text files.

Stux posted:

that post up there that he wrote in response to having to change it is only missing a fedora tip to be perfect.

Black Baby Goku posted:

Endorph posted:

im not reading these huge-rear end posts

NutritiousSnack posted:

"justifiably



yeah that dude wins out on the normality contest.