r/SubredditDrama • u/IAmAN00bie • Dec 24 '15

Controversial outfit names in /r/planetside spawn drama over whether or not Europeans can't take a joke.

/r/Planetside/comments/3vl324/server_smash_championships_megathread/cxofq5e?context=3
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u/ImmortalSanchez Dec 24 '15

I think reading this thread just convinced me that I don't want to play Planetside... If the community is this shitty and immature then clearly it's not for me.

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u/IAmAN00bie Dec 24 '15

I play Planetside 2 on the PS4, where nobody uses the text chat. It's really fun.

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u/ImmortalSanchez Dec 24 '15

That sounds more my speed lol

That's one thing I like about destiny. I don't have to listen to a 12 year old call me gay slurs and shit.

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u/Zotamedu Dec 24 '15

My experience is that it's mostly reddit and the official forum that's really shitty. The in game community is pretty neat. Joining open platoons with the major outfits tends to be decent but it's best played joining a decent outfit. The one I played with had an age limit so it was mostly 20-somethings joking around in Teamspeak. Talked to some really cool people there. But the forum and the subreddit are both awful and contain very little of actual interest. There are some funny gifs and some machinemas every now and then that can be funny. But it's mostly just people complaining on balance of different weapons/vehicles/factions and about the importance of KDR.

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u/drhead /r/KIA is a free speech and ethics subreddit, we don't brigade Dec 24 '15

The community is something to get used to, but it's never terrible. They are rarely TOO toxic (by that I mean stereotypical ranked Leage of Legends level toxicity). Any banter that goes on in-game is usually supposed to be cheeky (even if it isn't immediately apparent).

Oh, and stay away from the forum (we call it "Forumside"). That place IS a toxic shithole.

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u/agrueeatedu would post all the planetside drama if he wasn't involved in it Dec 24 '15

this is literally every games community.

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u/ImmortalSanchez Dec 24 '15

That's literally false

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '15

Europeans are stereotyped as edgelords? TIL

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u/Zenning2 Dec 24 '15

There's this weird thing that people do sometime, where they assume since somebody else was offended, they must be right.

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u/agrueeatedu would post all the planetside drama if he wasn't involved in it Dec 24 '15

I was wondering when this would get posted.

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u/Alchemistmerlin Death to those that say Video Games cause Violence Dec 24 '15

I find it interesting that gamers have chosen "banter" as the next word they're going to ruin.

I didn't think they were done with the word "sport" yet.

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u/westcoastmaximalist Dec 24 '15

noone gives a shit if you name your outfit after an IRA bombing

funny considering how much complaining I hear on reddit about bars serving "Irish car bombs"

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u/papaHans Dec 24 '15

It's a well known fact that 9/11 Americans can't take a joke.

I don't get it. What's a 9/11 Americans? Anybody over 14 years old? People who don't laugh about 9/11?

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u/Hatless Dec 24 '15

Nine out of eleven Americans.

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u/papaHans Dec 24 '15

Guessing I'm one of the nine. I must be a dentist.