gramps wrote:Besides that, neutering language always stirs up an unpleasant shitstorm and usually pisses off more people than it satisfies, meaning it's probably detrimental to the causes of people who do it because of a political leaning.
if "people deserve to exist without hiding" is such a radical idea to a person that it drives them up the wall, then chances are they're giant pieces of shit who would be aghast by the various other ideas like "race shouldn't determine a person's lot in life" and "gonads hold no significant meaning in what a person is capable of doing, except reproduction"
not to mention, again, there's doubtlessly more than enough stuff linked to zdoom for that type of person to cause a shitstorm anyway - if that's something that absolute must be avoided for whatever reason, then it's time to pack our bags and launch it into the sun
Graf Zahl wrote:So you are denying ZDoom its 20 year history? The "historic" origins are not Quake but early ZDoom times.
... which for quite a while used the Quake 2 terminology of "cyborg," not "other." I'm not sure what you're getting at other than you yourself don't know the history of the thing you've sunk years of your life into.
Graf Zahl wrote:the latter a clear sign of something going wrong.
ah, yes, clearly there's something terribly,
horribly wrong with being sore about people pretending you don't exist or thinking you're just making a core part of your identity up
who is this graf person, anyway, gez, i think he might just be your imaginary friend or something
Warning issued -Rachael