With Apologies to Sena Bryer

[Aword3213]

On a more different topic. But all the hate I've been seeing on the official forums since I feel endwalker maybe as early as shadowbringers is a result of sunk cost fallacy. That there are people who can't help but hate 14, but they don't want to quit it because they have sunk so much money into this game that quitting would mean they wasted years worth of money.

You need to take a chill pill buddy

[Willemdarke]

My point: All of FF14 community is the laughing stock. Doesn't matter where you go. We're MMO players for god's sake - no one's writing home about our contributions to society

I will agree that the trans hate is extremely disheartening. But calling every single person on the entire forum a laughing stock for it is kinda silly

Dude, preach.

We are on the internet. We're all isolated into our own little communities (read: echo chambers), we are all to some extent radicalised in our beliefs and we think everyone with a different opinion is wrong/crazy/woke/-ist/-phobe.
Forums/Reddit/X are just meeting places where disparate communities get to interact and most of the time the result is little more than: flaming, shitposts and bad memes.

I think it's just important to keep reminding ourselves that behind the avatars there are real people with real feelings and there's no place for personal insults and generalisation - something I, and I'm sure most of us, are guilty of sometimes.

For example, using a stupid word like "she" might mean nothing
to most of us, but it means everything to someone. Using the proper words is a basic human decency.

I know nothing about this VA besides some random twitter posts people have linked and, yes, from these very few posts I've seen
she seems to have a victim mentality and is attention seeking, but a few comments do not paint a full picture of a person. And even if she's like that all the time and she is that horrible and annoying, why "stoop to her level" and misgender/insult her, lol?

What she does in her personal life or what is between her legs has nothing to do with bad VA performance, miscasting, bad direction, horrible writing, boring quest design, etc.

[Bananarama]

Using the proper words is a basic human decency.

Oh my soyence

[lolnotacat]

Oh my soyence

Totally deserves 100 updoots and reddit gold my good ma'am/lady/them/xir/sir!

[Bananarama]

Totally deserves 100 updoots and reddit gold my good ma'am/lady/them/xir/sir!

I can't wait to show this to my Wuk wholesome chungus Dawntrail xisters back at my FC on Faerie!!!!111!!!!11!one

[Archeron]

I want to be referred to as His majesty, God emperor and ruler of all the shards, conqueror of Garlemald, Slayer of wyrms, most honorable, and divine Varian Nightsteel, the one true emperor. Anyone who refuses to refer to me as such is a bigot, and is violating my human decency.

[Maxilor]

We're MMO players for god's sake - no one's writing home about our contributions to society

It was my understanding that all of these threads were just for entertainment/venting.

Are people seriously hoping any of these threads will amount to Social Change or a Cultural Revolution?

...Oh.

[Raven2014]

It was my understanding that all of these threads were just for entertainment/venting.

Are people seriously hoping any of these threads will amount to Social Change or a Cultural Revolution?

because it's never about any of that. It's just a way to feel good about oneself.

Hey, I'm getting angry at a random on the internet, therefore I'm morally upstanding person.

[Bananarama]

because it's never about any of that. It's just a way to feel good about oneself.

Hey, I'm getting angry at a random on the internet, therefore I'm morally upstanding person.

As you know, being Mad at the Internet is one of life's virtues.

[Gunz_Zbestest]

As you know, being Mad at the Internet is one of life's virtues.

I'm not mad. This thread is creepy... is all conservative comedy this ancient?
Only someone insecure in themselves would genuinely care about someone's gender identity, caring about what a grown adult finds comfort in. Life is hard. Let people live theirs.