There's no jubilation at "seeing a big game fail" there's jubilation at seeing a game fail that is developed by a studio that is doing fucked up shit, or a game that is shovelling some fucked up agenda, or the like.

We dance on the graves of any game developed by Actiblizz, Ubisoft, EA, etc not because they are big games, but because they are developed by evil corporations.

To be clear, nobody was outraged by the devs using gendered language. The outrage was because they rejected multiple PRs to correct it under the guise of it being "political".

I don't know if I can say this "awakened" something in me because I was well aware of it but. Where is the rest of the story OP.

That's not be(e)ing very nice, Chris.

If I'm at a BBQ, I've been invited to it. The person who invited me to it absolutely knows that I am vegetarian and have been vegetarian for 28 years. Choosing not to accommodate that would be a pretty horrible thing to do.

Genuinely despicable to force people to choose between protecting themselves from disease transmission and protesting for causes they care about

Estroge- oh, I'm in the Linux community whoops

To be clear we aren't complaining about the existence of the gendered language. We are complaining that the maintainer has repeatedly rejected friendly contributions which would fix the gendered language, under the premise that it is ToO pOLItIcAl, instead of just merging the very obvious improvement and moving on with life.

CONSTANT slights or worse endured every day for most of their lives for some perspective.

This is part of those constant slights. How can you simultaneously gesture toward the issue at hand and say that its not worth working on?

Idk, I appreciate the progress pride flag because it explicitly includes trans, intersex and poc. There's a decent number of people who would consider themselves part of "the community" and use the standard rainbow flag, who don't consider any identities past LGB. Its nice to be able to signal to people that you are genuinely a safe person/group/whatever who cares about the whole community and their struggles.

Men?

In fairness, I would be distraught if I ever misplaced my gay card. What would the others think of me at the bi-weekly brunch?

You know how on reddit, and many other platforms, subcommunities within those platforms have rules? Like some subreddits had a no image macros rule? If you posted an image macro to one of those subs, and get warned or your post is actioned, that entirely on you and not on the community. it doesn't matter if you're "part" of that community, you should abide by the rules of that community when you post in it.

Of course, you're welcome to wilfully ignore or go against the rules of the communities you post in, but aside from being just a generally dick move, you also put yourself in the sights of the moderation of that community.

Bitch, I'm not even part of your "community"! You chose to federate with the rest of us!

And you chose to post in this community - abide by the rules or the moderators have every right to tell you you're breaking the rules, or take action if it continues.

I think, based on the attitude you've displayed here, I can see why you were not deemed a good fit for the community when you applied.

I sometimes find myself enjoying these greentexts and then they drop some racial slurs and I am punched in the face with reality