Please feel free to ignore this thread because as i write it i'm about 50/50 on whether i'll actually post it or whether i'll just shut the browser and do some artwork instead.
Before i begin, as a query i wonder does anyone remember a time, long ago, early in UT2003's release or possibly before that, it had become popular and a bit of a fad for people to insult each other in an off-hand way for whatever reason by calling each other gay,ghey, a fag, etc. After a while the joke got old and a few threads and complaints popped up here and there, often from people who were actually gay.
I remember distinctly one specific thread that popped up, a few heated debates occured therein but a general concensus was sort of reached... bitterly in some cases but the opinions became clear and, well generally speaking, using such language in such a manner hasn't been anywhere near as frequent ever since,(This is it i think, maybe)
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=117808
which is a good thing really in theory although i think even less people would be bothered by it these days.
And now to the meat of the post...
In a similar vein i wanted to raise some of my concerns. Possibly it's stupid and whilst i realise this is the internets and wild flailing for comedic success in the vain hope of popularity will be rife in any highly populated forum, i can't help but say that even BuF seems to have gone down hill in recent times.
Now i don't mean to point fingers and i certainly don't want to hold everyone or anyone accountable for anything in particular as this is just a kind of all encompassing observation and i realise many things are situational and not even meant literally but... well when BuF turns into a place where people can make threads about it being Good that someone is going to die horribly, make a post about how funny it would be if a woman got raped, all the funny circumstances that could lead to it and how terribly amusing these events could be, jokes are made that people are paedophiles, etc.
Is it just me or is the general level of humour on BuF falling/rising to a somewhat uncomfortable level. I realise censorship is not something that BuF is about, short of nudity and non-disguised sw34rs, and a sort of self-consensus of what is acceptable has maintained these boards until now in some ways. That said though i'm the sort of person who believes that if people go too far... then they need to be told because how would they know if they weren't old? Even if your wrong about how far they went and your being too prudish, at least you've then given them the chance to say that you are the one in fact going too far.
Well already this post has turned out quite long and I imagine your either bored and are planning to quote the bit at the beginning about not posting and telling me to follow my own advice, just written TL;DR in spite or despite of reading the post and/or are wondering why I mentioned Memes in the title.
Well i blame them. I'm of the opinion that some people try too hard to "invent" or "pioneer" Memes*. I guess you'd call them the Forum-Troll-Hero wanting to invent the next Chuck Norris. It's very much like doing what the cool kids do in the hope of fitting in but it's started too, from my perspective anyway, spill over into a few too many threads, it's almost become more important to meme amusingly than it is to post sensibly. I guess i'm asking for people to "Meme-responsibly"... heh, that sounds stupid.
... I'll stop writing now(Edit- apparantly not) but i should say really... That i am the sort of person who is a Mighty Boosh fan, if you've heard of it, or similarly Venture Brothers. I enjoy both of them very much but i'm aslo the sort of person who is always a bit disapointed when they make rape jokes or similar. It is a thing that is too real in my opinion to be funny, i simply can't see the funny side to it in any light.(please don't see this as a challenge to try and show me it's funny)
I'd like to know what others think on the subject though, i'm certainly not bestowng a judgement upon all of BuF and i'd like to know what others think, whether anyone else has noticed the same, similar, don't care or whether i'm simply getting too old for these forums now really. I apologise now if this post makes people angry, it's genuinely not intended to be flammatory. How are our standards? Do we have any?
*- I do appreciate it would be terribly funny to respond to this post with nothing but meme's by the way so feel free.
Before i begin, as a query i wonder does anyone remember a time, long ago, early in UT2003's release or possibly before that, it had become popular and a bit of a fad for people to insult each other in an off-hand way for whatever reason by calling each other gay,ghey, a fag, etc. After a while the joke got old and a few threads and complaints popped up here and there, often from people who were actually gay.
I remember distinctly one specific thread that popped up, a few heated debates occured therein but a general concensus was sort of reached... bitterly in some cases but the opinions became clear and, well generally speaking, using such language in such a manner hasn't been anywhere near as frequent ever since,(This is it i think, maybe)
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=117808
which is a good thing really in theory although i think even less people would be bothered by it these days.
And now to the meat of the post...
In a similar vein i wanted to raise some of my concerns. Possibly it's stupid and whilst i realise this is the internets and wild flailing for comedic success in the vain hope of popularity will be rife in any highly populated forum, i can't help but say that even BuF seems to have gone down hill in recent times.
Now i don't mean to point fingers and i certainly don't want to hold everyone or anyone accountable for anything in particular as this is just a kind of all encompassing observation and i realise many things are situational and not even meant literally but... well when BuF turns into a place where people can make threads about it being Good that someone is going to die horribly, make a post about how funny it would be if a woman got raped, all the funny circumstances that could lead to it and how terribly amusing these events could be, jokes are made that people are paedophiles, etc.
Is it just me or is the general level of humour on BuF falling/rising to a somewhat uncomfortable level. I realise censorship is not something that BuF is about, short of nudity and non-disguised sw34rs, and a sort of self-consensus of what is acceptable has maintained these boards until now in some ways. That said though i'm the sort of person who believes that if people go too far... then they need to be told because how would they know if they weren't old? Even if your wrong about how far they went and your being too prudish, at least you've then given them the chance to say that you are the one in fact going too far.
Well already this post has turned out quite long and I imagine your either bored and are planning to quote the bit at the beginning about not posting and telling me to follow my own advice, just written TL;DR in spite or despite of reading the post and/or are wondering why I mentioned Memes in the title.
Well i blame them. I'm of the opinion that some people try too hard to "invent" or "pioneer" Memes*. I guess you'd call them the Forum-Troll-Hero wanting to invent the next Chuck Norris. It's very much like doing what the cool kids do in the hope of fitting in but it's started too, from my perspective anyway, spill over into a few too many threads, it's almost become more important to meme amusingly than it is to post sensibly. I guess i'm asking for people to "Meme-responsibly"... heh, that sounds stupid.
... I'll stop writing now(Edit- apparantly not) but i should say really... That i am the sort of person who is a Mighty Boosh fan, if you've heard of it, or similarly Venture Brothers. I enjoy both of them very much but i'm aslo the sort of person who is always a bit disapointed when they make rape jokes or similar. It is a thing that is too real in my opinion to be funny, i simply can't see the funny side to it in any light.(please don't see this as a challenge to try and show me it's funny)
I'd like to know what others think on the subject though, i'm certainly not bestowng a judgement upon all of BuF and i'd like to know what others think, whether anyone else has noticed the same, similar, don't care or whether i'm simply getting too old for these forums now really. I apologise now if this post makes people angry, it's genuinely not intended to be flammatory. How are our standards? Do we have any?
*- I do appreciate it would be terribly funny to respond to this post with nothing but meme's by the way so feel free.
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