Using autism and cancer in comments and as a derogatory term...

[TemporaryName17122019]

I know making this post will not stop the few of the FFXIV community using comments like this, however, this platform gives me a platform to voice my displeasure.

I am now on my third data centre concerning the NA servers in less than a month I moved to Goblin to be with some old friends in a Free Company to try to recreate with myself a sense of community in FFXIV having previously been on Leviathan but moved from there for different personal reasons, a story for another time maybe.

I am quite frankly used to people saying things like "that's cancer" "what <name> has done is cancer" things of this ilk, I get it, it's fashionable, I am not against fashion.
Just last night I had been settled in a Free Company for approx three weeks happy to with with some old friends I had known for over 4 years and quite obviously greeting new members to the Free Company as well as greeting 'almost' everybody that logged into the game while I was online as long as I wasn't in a dungeon or PVP.

As I was gathering hides to work with things concerning collectables there was a conversation concerning a bad run in something I assume was pretty much a newbie dungeon when someone piped up "you should give them the cancerous DPS chat spam" to which I took no notice of, you know fashion and all that, I get it!
Someone then stated "incoming chat spam", obviously everybody waits with bated breath over what this chat spam looks like. It was a picture made of many punctuation marks etc etc I think a lot of people know the kinda thing I mean of a pig in a bed surrounded by other pigs to which I have no idea of the context it is lost on me with the statement "YOUR DPS JUST GAVE ME CANCER".

This kind of comment I feel is absolutely a lack of understanding, ignorant and quite moronic in my opinion, that quite frankly wasn't the only problem. A few other people I can only claim to be 'morons' were piping up with, "lol" "I have to have that!" "That is awesome!" etc etc I think you get the jist oh actually I think there was one "wtf" but that didn't come from me.

I was doing what I was doing for approx 20 mins just stewing over the issue, this is not fun for me, I wanted to say how I felt but also didn't due to not wanting to make it look like an issue I have personally dealt with but more how someone else might feel concerning that comment but feeling like I'd have a lack of support I couldn't bring myself to say anything.

So I proceeded to put myself to 'busy' and left the mentioned Free Company I was in, I did hang around Goblin for a little while but kept seeing people with the Free Company tag of the Free Company I was in, fearing a potential form of harassment I decided to look into moving to the only data centre I hadn't been on concerning the NA data centres as there are now three, I was quite frankly surprised that I could move again in a short period of time and was actually expecting I wouldn't be able to.

Thanks for the understanding.

[NekoNova]

simply report them.

[Kurando]

I was quite frankly surprised that I could move again in a short period of time and was actually expecting I wouldn't be able to.

I believe there is a 3 day cooldown period between transfering worlds usually, unless you move from a congested to a preferred world then it's 90 days. Might be some other exception as well, but pretty sure that's the gist of it.

[DumdogsWorld]

Words only mean stuff because we attribute meanings to them. Without that, they're merely pixels on a screen, sounds resonating from vocal chords, etc.

With the invention of the internet, every word in existence has a "normal meaning" and an "internet meaning".

When they say something about cancer, they don't mean cells mutated to have uncontrolled cell division.

When they say something about autism, they don't mean the neurological condition by the same name.

[DumdogsWorld]

Thanks for that, doesn't stop people from having 'real' experiences in 'real' life and having 'real' feelings.

Don't assume that I have no real feelings or no real experiences. I have my fair share of both. Quite a bit.

People will say stuff like that no matter what you do. I decided a long time ago that I would lose my mind if I let it bother me as much as it used to. I came up with an intellectual reason in my head to separate those cases of misfortune from the shallow words of an internet troll.

If that makes me insensitive or whatever, so be it. Doesn't change the fact that my life is not fine and dandy.

[DumdogsWorld]

Your assumption of my assumption is purely wrong

I'll admit to being at fault there. I read your reply the wrong way. However, I still think the a tough skin is the only way to survive on the internet. I didn't come to that conclusion because I have no feelings. I came to that conclusion because I feel things a little too much.

When I was a little kid, I couldn't handle this sort of thing on the internet. I would almost get like a form of depression because I wondered what "humanity was coming to." Then I stopped, and I now I realize that I would never want to go back to those days.

[Rosentretter]

People complaining about a robot named Queen.
People complaining about not having both genders in both races.
People complaining about the height, hairstyle and appearance of races they still haven't completely seen.
People complaining about absolutely whatever reason.
And people complaining about a macro.

Welcome to the internet!

Now can we get 5.0 so people stop making useless threads, thanks.

[LittleChickenNugget]

For someone who got offended over a meme, you sure like calling people 'morons'. I don't think the mods would like that very much, no no no.

[Alucard135]

People complaining about a robot named Queen.
People complaining about not having both genders in both races.
People complaining about the height, hairstyle and appearance of races they still haven't completely seen.
People complaining about absolutely whatever reason.
And people complaining about a macro.

Welcome to the internet!

Now can we get 5.0 so people stop making useless threads, thanks.

It's getting worse by the day.

[Kurando]

Learn to recognize when people is joking and when they're being serious. You can't be that b**thurt over stuff like this.

The thing is unless you know somebody it's difficult to know if they are joking or not and that's when some people take offense with certain words. Of course it's true everyone should have a little thicker skin but at the same time a random has no idea how someone will react to something they say so perhaps a little restraint from both parties is best you know. Consider what you say to others but also consider how you respond to it.