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can we like... not say flaghat

this is a SUPER petty rant but i will use my outlet however i want asshole
_{tl;dr if you really don't care: reddit... AITA for being selective about which one of my friends/friend groups can say slurs?Edit from February: new associates are subject to a zero-tolerance slur policy. reason being i now find any usage regardless of intent to be kinda lame to me and i will find the user not worth hanging with due to this. the rant will be left here for posterity's sake}- I love patterns. Blah-blah blah. This is the same thing as the previous post. This time though. it's about slurs! Wondrous.There's another thing I might get thrown off by. Derogatory terminology, a.k.a., slurs, a big majority of the time. Please hear me out on this one.
- Obviously I hate slurs, go figure. Whatever man. This is more the line of when we actually interact as buddies and shit.
What I'm really against is when people who I feel won't say slurs do say them.
- Call me the picky selective asshole all you want, but only after I explain myself.
It's more the line of, when we've known each other for a long while and you haven't said any slurs, but then randomly on some autumn day you say the one word and it's like what the fuck bro can we be for real
- Like dude... Come ON man. I thought you were better than this bruh... This isn't who you normally ARE man... Shit is completely unexpected. Not natural, even. Normally bro wouldn't even say that. I can't handle you at your worst because I wasn't aware that it can go further than what I've already known, or some shitty pseudo-poetic mumbo-jumbo here.Oh, sick. It gets worse.
- Completely going on a tangent, this issue is even worse when another person is introduced to the mix. As now, if there are two of them saying it, and both of them are using it _{(or one person adopted the trait from the other)}, then what's the big fucking idea man? It's like even more of an exclusive party, like I'm not in some group chat that all my other friends are in, but now everyone's a fucking prick and I don't like what they're saying, and when my envious bitchass does get invited or even sees a peek I'm gonna get alienated and consider cutting ties
- Like dude. COME ON. The two people I don't expect to say slurs, the least likely group, are saying slurs. That's TWO of them!! Can we be for real?? That's even further of a throw-off cuz why the FUCK are you oh my GODDDDDOnce again, this entire fucking bullshit does not apply to people I've met that have been throwing that shit out on Day 1 on the second. Again, I've already known them for them saying those. Internally, they've already introduced themselves as Mr. Flaghat. I KNOW they're gonna whip out some bullshit. But when I see Mr. "wsg chat hehe" go "whats up flags?" I WILL LOSE MY MARBLES!!This is more Serious than the previous one. Typing quirks are fucking baby shit, but this time we're messing with terminology that was once or still is hateful language. You can't just hit me with a 180 degree angle personality shift in being a fucking DOUCHE
I will proudly claim the title of "snowflake" in honor. Whatever man. I didn't like you using the word. Hey, asshole. I know you're calling me a flag in your head. DNI.Shit still won't work if you try to gradually introduce it into the vocabulary you use with me either. No man. Day 1 bonus. I don't expect you to say it and I never will._{Edit from January: I saw these YouTube comments about a racial slur, which, this rant wasn't about a racial slur, however I feel as if it could still apply somehow. These guys were like "Is it more racist to exclusively have certain people say the word," and "Is it more racist to just not say the word," and I thought, "what"...
Now, this logic might be flawed, but hear me on this. Replace every instance of the slur you said with "niche panda retaliating the falsified target" what do you think of that one (???)}tl;dr to my friends who DON'T say slurs around me please stop using slurs. they make me uncomfortable🥺
tl;dr to my friends who DO say slurs around me disregard literally everything i've just said and go on your merry way
I am not apologizing this time. I got genuinely upset.
_{"gomen" it doesn't seem like you're serious about that.}

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Proper sentence formatting scares the shit out of me! ...AAAHH

this is more a nitpicky thing, if anything i don't really care that much about it
[ THIS IS NOT SERIOUS 😭 ], but- I love patterns. I find it easy to follow patterns. When I meet someone new, I will immediately attempt to adapt with the person I'm to associate with as a means of not wanting to look like a loser. Whatever opinions they have about a certain media, I will not bring up ever again. Do they hate specific jokes? Never sending them. If we're buddies, I will enjoy guessing their reaction. How they type and what their messages look like? Well...There's one thing I might get thrown off by, and it's one changing how they normally type after a good while of knowing someone. Yes, it sounds unrelated, and that I've shifted the focus to myself thinking about the other person, but this is still pattern-related. Please hear me out on this one.
- I mean, I can understand changing your thing on writing e-mails, essays, locked-in roleplays, actual storylines or books, online posts, documents, vents, rants, etc., but DAMN, when I see a capital letter and a period on multiple messages after a specific date and it's NOT a roleplay, nor an e-mail, nor an essay, nor ok well you get it, I'm GOING to wonder. "dude... you good? which english teacher did this to you brother 😰😰" "DID YOU GET HACKED HOLY SHIT?? FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
- Even if you ARE okay, DAMN!! I'm STILL gonna ask "bro why you so FREAKY all a sudden?? 😨😰😰". This is some uncharted territory! Did your balls drop? Bro became SERIOUS!! Dude put on a tie and went to sell insurance at the local trade center!! Damn!!
- I can understand if you're typing for a job, or if you're like a teacher or something and you're all casual on the Internet, but if you've BEEN casual on the Internet, and suddenly you pull off the Bestselling Novel-ass writing "casually on the Internet", DAMN!!
- It gets even worse since I'm most of the time lame with tone in text. I can't say much because _{(even though I am neurodivergent)} I HATE using tone indicators, even though they're a good thing; though the seriousness of a properly formatted sentence makes me think "oh shit. they're serious. did i do something bad 😓" and I can't trust a SINGLE sentence with such a layout, I might NEED that "/j" more often...
- This whole thing does not apply to people I've met that have been typing properly since I first saw them. Again, it's because I've already "adapted" to their serious typing. Internally, they've already introduced themselves as Mr. Serious. I KNOW they're the serious typer guy. But when I see Mr. "wsg chat hehe how r u LOSERS" go "What's good, chat. How are you losers?" I WILL LOSE MY MARBLES!!even if this is more a silly thing, and it is rather silly, it's still gonna throw me off. you can't just hit me with a 90 degree angle in character behavior😭tl;dr the way you type makes it look like you look like you've lost ALL your whimsy. please come back to sillytown
this one i actually apologize for if we know each other and you feel targetted by this. i understand your reasons for the changes but i will still have the opinion above 😭

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dawg all i did was ask why you added a red bandana to a ponytown pony your ass had an attitude for thinking i had that inflection

- I have always thought that some design choices originate from any particular media or experience. It's like, if you add a cape on someone, there's a chance that you just like classic superheroes or something, or maybe you saw a guy with a cape, and thought it would be nice to take something from that. You make a character a robot? You were probably inspired by robots in media, like Quote from Cave Story, or Mega Man from... Mega Man. Add a hat on someone that puts a shadow on their face? The possible origin is mysterious characters in media. A red bandana? Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, I don't fuckin' know... Woody from Toy Story, or Papyrus Undertale?
- Sure, you could say it's their "style". what they wear in canon but like, again, some of these stylistic choices could have origins... Why would they wear such article? What happened in the story that made them wear this specific green shirt with red stripes?
- I know it doesn't have to be deep, I'm just saying that there's just something a design choice comes from, even something as miniscule as "i made my character have a green shirt with red stripes because i wear a green shirt with red stripes" suffices. Though it may just be to look cool, a second reason (or more) is still possible regardless,
"it was available in the clothing selection" "green makes it more flashy" "it popped up in the clothing generator"
- I'm ranting about this with fanon designs of characters in other fandoms in mind; I've seen my fair share of people adding nail polish to a detective, or the tried-and-true "add hair to a bald robloxian".
- I'd ask why a specific design choice was made, but I will not take "it just looked cool", or "it just looked nice" as a valid answer. That's not being creative. If anything, you just put some random ass article of clothing that doesn't add anything to a character.this is a very specific rant, but, this was made with at least four dipidiots in mind. you know who you are. you know why this is here.
"it doesn't hurt anyone" well i wasn't hurting anyone by ASKING WHY they added that red bandana you DICK. stupid mfs named after planetsyou fools will NOT live a single second in the character design classes

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