M-Sinistrari wrote...
TheBlackBaron wrote...
M-Sinistrari wrote...
Over on Something Awful, the general concensus is the Bioware forums are filled with really scary people who fly off the hinge at the slightest bit of speculation and the really creepy obsessed of the assorted fan subsets. That I do come over here and actually post has had me called a woman with a set of iron balls on occasion.
And to bring things on topic, over on SA there's been some mild speculation towards transgender DLC as a future possibility.
To be fair, they are...not incorrect about that. At least to a certain degree.
I know it's not as bad overall as it was at one point. I do remember reading some posts from some fans threatening violence against others who were poking fun at thier favoured characters. But we do still get some laughs at those who take things more serious than life.
I didn't understand what these boards could really be like until this thread. I came here just a month or two ago, so I had only seen the workaday trolls who provide us with utterly ridiculous arguments that happen to be jumping-off points for quite good ones. I hadn't seen a knock-down-break-out forum fite, and now I have, and my spirit is chastened.
For someone who has been on the internets as long as I have, I've pretty much existed primarily in walled gardens even more tightly tended than this one, or walked trippingly by the deepest cesspools, taking in my bit of touristy shock and moving on. These boards are an interesting middle ground... well tended, with above average spelling and punctuation most of the time. I'd consider SA considerably more dangeresque, but that's just me.
The ebb and flow of this particular thread over the past few days has taught me some brilliant internet lessons. Every time I think it's settled down some fresh hell springs up. Still, the good fight has been foughten, and progress is being made.
Also, the mpreg stuff is so full of facepalm. So full of facepalm, indeed.