Open letter to Square Enix and Yoshi P

[Breakbeat]

If trouble seems to follow one around relentlessly, the best thing to do is to step back and take a look at one's self. Running into this much negativity - as you seem to do, OP, since you are constantly reporting on it - isn't normal or healthy and doesn't happen to most people.

Does it happen to some reasonable people some of the time? Yeah.

Does it happen to some reasonable people all of the time, or even frequently? Nope.

Examine your own behavior. Perhaps you should avoid discussing sexuality and gender identity in-game, and switch to a support group or something. This really isn't the place for it anyway. I've never felt the need to bring my sexuality and gender identity into the game (whatever that may be; it's irrelevant no matter what it is, anyway).

Healthy, normal, happy humans want to be accepted for being human first. Not sexuality/gender first, and human second. That's a whacked out way to socialize. If you actually would rather be accepted for something sexual or gender-related before being accepted for you the human... well... I've already given my opinion on getting real-world help with your mental health.

To put a sharper point on that, if you are in need of discussion of sexuality and gender identity, you've made an extremely poor choice of where to do so. There are plenty of places online where you can enter into discussion about these facets of your life, along with other people who are visiting the same (site, group, whatever) as yourself. There's also therapy, which you should avail yourself of, if you find yourself frequently angered, frustrated or depressed when discussing sexuality and gender.

Expecting any kind of reasonable, level-headed, informed discussion here is fairly silly. This is a video game for teens, after all. No offense, but you might want to really take that support group advice to heart. Do it online if you have social anxiety.

If you go to the playground to discuss deep issues, common sense says someone's gonna throw stuff at you. Obviously, yeah? And further, there's never going to be a point in either of our lives when bullies and sociopaths don't want to act the fool. They will always be there; to try to teach all of them how life works is futile and a fairly unsound endeavor. You need to take this stuff in stride, instead of getting bogged down with it and obsessing over how other people think and act.

I hope you do feel better one day, Ativan, 'cause these folks you are constantly trying to build walls around - they're never going away, and this incessant discomfort you feel in FF isn't healthy. But, you know this, I have no doubt. In fact, I am positive you know that getting some more robust verbiage communicated to players about how to behave won't change a thing. At least not as far as how you feel inside.

Good luck.

[Zaniel]

They are on a roll .

Its 2 out of many atm that have posted in their respective character since the servers went back up

Hunky Gladiator the FF14 "stats" poster

Ativan the LBGT+ activist

Im expecting Reaver1236 to post another "why cant we be/have/contents-are-too-hard" post anytime soon


Its like they have alt accounts filed under character names in their diary

You forgot that guy who writes fan fiction than spasms around the forums like a man on fire enraged that SE didn't use his headcanon for the MSQ.

Assuming the OP is legit, just report them, there are plenty of systems in game to address these issues and Square does action them.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Harassment is already a bannable offense, so congratulations. You already got what you asked for before you even asked.

[Vencio]

Equality,

“LGBTQ”

Where’s the “H” for Heterosexuals?

[Kaliesto]

Is everyone Titanmen these days or is it just a running joke?

[Jagick]

Is everyone Titanmen these days or is it just a running joke?

Titanmen is in us all. He's like the heart of the cards or something, I don't know.

[Kolsykol]

Is everyone Titanmen these days or is it just a running joke?

Tbh people mock the Titanmen, but they're a pretty accurate reflection of the forum lol...

They're just more on the nose because of the issues they troll about, but people unironically talk like that all the time on this forum and have just as extreme if not more views and mentalities.

[Vatom]

But I guess the real question is how can we leverage the synergy of a cloud based blockchain to underpin the deep learning inherent in these ML algorithms.

Dang don’t do that I feel old

[Striker44]

Equality,

“LGBTQ”

Where’s the “H” for Heterosexuals?

In the same place where heterosexuals experience bullying, violence, and even being murdered for being heterosexual...

[Renathras]

My suggestion at least in the short term while developing machine learning algorithms to detect homophobia and transphobia automatically, is that they should announce the measures they are taking against homophobia and transphobia.

Will it also go after heterophobia and cisphobia? Oh, and John Connor, of course. And Winston Smith while it's at it. You can't have a good Skynet meets Orwell's 1984 if you let the John Connors and Winston Smiths escape persecution.

How about this instead:

No.

EDIT:

In the same place where heterosexuals experience bullying, violence, and even being murdered for being heterosexual...

Oh, so in the real world.

This is such a stupid argument. While you can argue it happens FAR LESS, it ALSO happens. You cannot build a system of inclusion by specifically and explicitly EXcluding a group of people under the argument "they don't need it", which also makes them umprotected and open season. There's no Pride Parades for Straight people, and no, if "every other month is Straight Pride Month", then where are all these Straight Pride parades? And how come the one that someone tried to run a few years ago was instantly called homophobic and no option was offered for one that was non-homophobic/wouldn't be called homophobic? You can't have it both ways.

A system of inclusion must include. If it allows exclusion, it isn't a system of inclusion. If it encourages exclusion, it is, in fact, exclusionary. Full stop.

Karen? Is that you?

Ah, oh! The manager is in for it now!