Eh, i decided to stop posting as much because i have yet to find people i can talk honestly with, 'cause people get too hung up on their beliefs to question them, then they just have hard reactions. Outside of talking about certain games and randomly having hope for this place again, it's really useless. It's not a matter of hate, i just can't be bothered to type long things and do research only to get "see!? He's being nazi again" as a response, or a strawman argument, or any of the other usual fallacies. After awhile it's just tiring.

There's a huge problem with that mentality, though: politics is all about everyon and their ideas for the best ways for everyone to live their lives. Trying to escape from politics doesn't work: the harder you try to escape, the more ground you give for them to find a way to invade you. The whole point of government is to tell you what you can and cannot do, for the benefit of society at large. If you don't push back, it'll keep coming. Sit on some forums about porn? Yep, LGBT will come in as a mere preference, then someone will make it toxic. Want to talk about video games? Well, Ulfric Stormcloak is a typical nazi! Video game with a lesbian lead character? Totally pandering to homosexuality. Have a game where there's a sexy female? Guess what, that's toxic masculity and objectification of women. You try to ban political discussion, and your website is ultimately pandering to one side of the debate. There's no such thing as truly apolitical, which every site learns the hard way when they ban political speech. The only solution is to allow a free-for-all except where your site could be shut down for legal reasons, and accept that people will get sore over it. I'm not even kidding, even machine code programming gets political.

For detecting multiple personality disorder?

Did you know this was the argument for why only homeowners were allowed to vote in the US for a long time? Men who did not own homes were given the right to vote in exchange for the draft, which i think is precisely the perfect counter-argument: if government can ruin your life, you should have the right to vote.

If that's what you want to call the mysterious disappearance of Linko then sure.

I didn't like linko, to be honest, but it was more for being typical gog employee (can't be critical of GOG, having to constantly explain rational opinions of gog policy to him). Still, I'd rather him than others, and heaven only knows what'll come next. Fact is, GOG doesn't have a userbase capable of going beyond identity politics aside from a select few special users, so this just turns back into mud slinging which doesn't help anyone. And since it's not completely unmoderated, when an actual discussion breaks out, the identitarians can start their mud slinging then call in the airstrike of moderation that doesn't have the full context of the post to close and delete the thread, which usually ends up getting the people in the discussion inflamed and ultimately banned.

With all due respect, I believe politics and religion have a place of discussion in any public forum... The problem is, people are too busy being right to be logical.

I myself am often guilty of this.

This forum isn't all that bad at all, in fact the majority of other forums i have been to has been far worse but if one can't stand opposing views on things whether they are for good or bad or simply refuse to ignore them then i guess leaving is the only choice left.

KONRAD! MY MAN!

yeah it was nice to see an old skool blue around.

Can't be critical of GOG? Are you serious? All you have to do for upvotes here is post about how bad the website redesign is. Plenty of people post critical things about GOG, maybe you're just posting unwarranted criticism.

Why not just ignore political threads? Or are politics invading non-political threads? You can probably guess from my avatar that I like to talk politics but I don't go into non-political discussions and try to turn them into them.

I also get very suspicious when people talk about people hating trans individuals. I have criticisms of the situation and definitions... but in no way hate trans people. There is a lot of propaganda going around over the issue.

When the opposing view is something to the effect of "you are not valid as a person", it is not reasonable to expect me to stand that view.

The Twenty Sided forums handle this in an amusing manner. (Check the bottom section of the subforum list, and make sure to click through to one or the other of the subforums in question. ;) )

Pretty frequently, yes.