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Are there many other women on here/playing Elite: Dangerous?
- Thread starter [VR] Dr Gentech
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Hey! I made a joke! 1 single, beluga colored joke! I refuse to get involved in dramaJust calm down please.
What's wrong with everyone today.
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None in my opinion. They should build Legs gameplay around what is to do in game and new activities they surely thought of. If there have to be parts with gunplay, fine, but I would make them like in Destiny 2 so not much oppressive. Dying there should really be inconsequential like dying in destiny is. And I would organize PvP exactly as in Destiny - a separate game mode, outside of which there's PvE only (eg. Thargoid base assault, defending ship from aliens or somesuch). The salt fountain on the forums would be a nice bonus to watch. I hope they realise how brutal this will get if they allowed willy nilly skill based FPS PvP with all the instancing problems, griefers, cheaters etc.
Go to the Xbox app and save it to your phone. Or do so from the “Game DVR” app.
Good grief, and in the context of this thread no less.
I hope you enjoyed the intended irony!!
Please explain the "irony" in dismissively joking about the notion that little people should be afforded respect and not ridiculed for a medical condition they were born with.
I'm 100% sure any dwarves reading it will take it in the nature it's intended and realise I was using it to highlight another point about how we were skirting the absurd in our discussions of correct speech. They know I wasn't being dismissive, that should be clear from the context. If any dwarfs have a problem with it I'm sure they'll contact me and I'll explain. Sheesh man, I know it's lockdown but relax a little, go for a jog or something!
That is staggeringly condescending. If you offend someone (even inadvertently), you don't explain, you apologize.
Well, you're wrong. I have dwarfism and so did my mother. And what you said was offensive. You don't get to decide whether or not others should take offense at what you say.
I get where you're coming from, but just because there's a long history of it being considered OK to ridicule to people with dwarfism doesn't make it OK. There's a whole history to that that you probably don't know about, which means you really shouldn't be joking about it.
P.S. The plural is dwarfs not dwarves, we aren't fantasy Tolkien creatures.
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Everyone is offended by something. If you want to spend your life apologizing, go for it. Definitely not how most people plan to live, but you do you.
Well then I apologize!! I never thought you with dwarfism would be offended by that when it was clear I was using hyperbole to make a point! Sorry it upset you, my bad!
There is no escape.
Well, thanks for the defensive non-apology apology I guess.
I don't want an apology though. I really just wish that you understood why using dwarfism as an example of taking mutual respect too far is offensive.
I apologized, I don't see it as a non-apology! I can explain if you'd like.
You can't apologize while defending what you said at the same time, it's a contradiction.
But I don't really care about that, and I don't care so much about your post either, I have a fairly thick skin about such things. But I called it out because no one else will, there are very few of us and few people who know people like us, so if we don't speak up for ourselves no one else will.