I was looking for the origin of "lunchtime rowdies" and found this super active site. Apparently economists don't have much real work to do so they spend their time gossiping, hating on minorities and shitposting.

It's legit economists

Random shitposts

So much racism against

Their snappy is various versions of "tell your mom"

Funny shit on there, check it out.

Note: The UI is older than digg, zero images, completely opaque upvote and username system. Probably impossible to infiltrate

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/12fc4ve/stop_trying_to_make_40k_political/jffn9it/?sort=controversial

"Meanwhile, me being guilt tripped by a random anon om the internet, because when I first experienced things like 40k, Pratchett, Lovecraft, I lived in a different part of the world, isolated from the political context and experienced them as pure fiction. And that apparently makes me racist fascist homophobe."

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/12fc4ve/stop_trying_to_make_40k_political/jffik21/?sort=controversial

"More as in: "stop trying to tell me I should feel bad for liking the 9 feet tall supermen in a Range Rover's worth of armor".

We get it. "Imperium bad because totalitarianism". Guess what? I don't care. IG is cool, SM are cool, SoBs are cool, let me enjoy my funny soldier game's lore without shoving your political views down my throat. Be an adult and just enjoy the factions blowing eachother up with WMDs because gods are real and they hate you."

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/12fc4ve/stop_trying_to_make_40k_political/jffomft/?sort=controversial

"Don't be political" is a dumb statement,the more apt is "Don't shove your personal politics down the consumer's throat.

And realistically you can look at the actions of the central figure,the Emperor,as both being aspiringly visionary or balls in your face dumb and naive."

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/12fc4ve/stop_trying_to_make_40k_political/jffjvz0/?sort=controversial

Thatcher = genocidal race warlord

Here's the rightoid clickbait feed as well: https://twitter.com/BoundingComics/status/1643661002448175104

https://revisesociology.com/2021/06/13/gender-and-crime-statistics/

Introduction

Final Fantasy XIV (FF14) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Square Enix. The game was originally released in 2010 but received a major overhaul in 2013 (due to receiving a ton of negative feedback) with the release of its second version, A Realm Reborn. Since then, the game has continued to receive regular updates and expansions with the latest being Endwalker. In the game, players create their own unique characters and embark on an epic adventure in the world of Eorzea. The game features a rich and immersive storyline, filled with memorable characters and epic battles. Players can choose from a variety of different races and classes, each with its own unique playstyle and abilities. Stereotypical to the genre, the game's available races consist of elves, humans and all their variations, e.g. humans with cat ears or humans with bunny ears. Another race, which this drama is all about, are the Lalafells - I'll call them Lala(s) from now on:

Despite being small in stature and childlike in appearance, they are known to possess great intelligence and are skilled in various crafts. In game, there is the occasional joke about their tiny appearance but they are mostly treated seriously. None of this really matters because they are the token 'cute-smol-child' race and are known to only be played by fujos, freaks and total losers - so the only people interested in this game to begin with. Being a Lala is already quite difficult as you get regularly bullied in dungeons and raids and everyone thinks you're a p-do loser but recently square enix added a new cosmetic designed for them and things got heated. You see, there are in game houses you can buy in the game which you can decorate with furniture according to your liking. Lala players have been very vocal to the developers about wanting more Lala specific furnitures and recently their wishes were granted by adding a new chair:

The Chair

As you can see, this is essentially a chair made for adults and definitely not aimed at children.

Drama

Official Forum

The thread about this - Please Change/Rename Lalafell "Lifter"... - has reached 60 pages of pure undistilled seethe from Lala players starting from the OP:

As the title says, with patch 6.35 we received some new housing items! One of them being... the lalafell lifter. We have been begging for lalafell furniture for the longest time, especially after visiting Tomra and seeing all of the lalafellin sized furniture. We haven't had an official lalafell furniture since the step stool, so we were excited to finally have something that wasn't huge or way over our heads!

...Except this piece of furniture is not what we were hoping for. It's insulting and a lot of my friends think the same. It looks like a toddler's high chair. It doesn't even look like a proper chair with a proper backing and arms. It's forced to stay a pure white color and the dyable area is the part that makes it look like a furniture chair.

We've been hoping for lalafell beds, tables, anything... but this? The chair is great as a high chair in general. But not when most descriptions in a lot of languages note that it's specifically good for children and toddlers.

Please reconsider changing the design/default white wood to a more neutral look. Or rename it to anything else that doesn't allude to lalafell-specific item. I don't want to even imagine going to people's in game houses or RP venues just to be told to go sit in the child's corner

As the forum allows you to pick your character as your profile picture, you can easily tell which players play a Lala and which aren't playing one. I'll cherry pick some examples but feel free to browse yourself:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/479512-Change-Remove-Lalafell-Lifter-...?p=6206166&viewfull=1#post6206166

This is... unbelievable levels of uncool. Is THIS what they thought we wanted, really? How about giving us furniture where things like stools and high chairs aren't required at all? This is awful, absolutely awful

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/479512-Change-Remove-Lalafell-Lifter-...?p=6206195&viewfull=1#post6206195

Seems pretty funny. Think you guys are just upset over literally nothing, as par for the 'internet terminally online on a forum' course. Doesn't affect me in the slightest, and shouldn't for you either.

1. No "terminally online" excuses when clearly a number of people don't like it/don't want it. In fact, you have way more posts than I do here.

1. It effects those of us who love decorating their houses/apartments and have been yearning for lalafell furniture instead of having to glitch things through the floor to appear smaller or just having to deal with oversized items. We're not asking for anything major, just something that doesn't look like a baby highchair... This is a feedback forum so we're providing our feedback

Twitter

https://twitter.com/_Virus_Kid_/status/1633523596004843535

The addition of this chair and the amount of people genuinely angry at it is one of the funniest things I've seen in recent memory. The forum thread is 27 pages (and ongoing) of discourse.

https://twitter.com/redditFFXIV/status/1633218767634464768

"They added a pink baby chair for Lalafells..." by DrForester

Reddit

r/Hobbydrama

Two posts about this in the weekly discussion thread with moderately more information as my post but no real drama:

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of March 13, 2023

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of March 6, 2023

r/FFXIV

A lot of posts about this topic with most of them being obvious jokes and shitposts but there is the occasional argument in there:

Please lala's these are not the same!

My Lala re-education room

All "outrage" aside, the new lala chair is nice. I can actually eat comfortably at my own table now.

Get in the chair, now.

Trigger Warning - Chairs :O

Some drama in these threads:

The Lala Chair

They added a pink baby chair for Lalafells...

Poll for Lalafels Players

There are multiple other subreddits discussing this but I won't bother linking them here as it's mostly (rightfully) pooping on people who care about this but I'll leave some links to some insane youtubers discussing this topic with some of their videos reaching up to 100k views lol:

YouTube

Final Fantasy XIV Lalafell Drama | Xeno Reacts [20min, 75k views, 800+ comments]

Huge FFXIV Drama: Pyromancer vs Xeno [1 FRICKING HOUR, 100k Views, 1800+ comments]

Asmongold reacts to Pyromancer RESPONDS to the FFXIV Lalafell Drama [30min, 140k Views, 1300+ comments]

TLDR for everything up to now: FFXIV released a highchair for the short race. A few people who play as the short race got angry. Xeno reacted to the issue finding it ridiculous and hilarious. Pyro saw Xeno's reaction and blew up for some reason with weird takes. Everyone laughed at Pyro.

Conclusion

Yes, I know everyone involved in this needs to die but feel free to discuss the game and this drama in the comments. I like the game but quit at the release of Endwalker because I felt it was a huge downgrade to Shadowbringers (unironically kino game) and I felt I was wasting my time despite never aprticiaptaitng in high end raids and stuff and only erp with huge bunny 10inch+ futas haha im joking of course but FRICK i ahve to hrry and I have to hurry now FRICK IM already late ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh CARP PIN

link to thread. I really want to see the finished product

I know there’s a stereotype that women play games by saying one thing when they mean another. I hate to play into that but darn it! Can men just consider my needs for once?

I just don’t want to deal with the guilt of being the reason his plans are cancelled. Not while I’m already feeling awful

Run. This man has no interest in your wellbeing, but only in his influence and power over you. Hedors not have your back. His behavior is controlling and very not ok. Get out ASAP.

When I think of men limiting the media consumption of their partners I can help but think of that quote from 1984- “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Wrong fantasy, honey

TwoX is the reason I hate men.... And I'm a man.

Smoosh my wife's face with my titties lol

Furiously masturbate, enjoy female orgasm, cry (tears of joy)

I’d be such a slut

I would play with myself to figure out what a vagina is like. Then I would play with my boobs to figure out what boobs are like.

Run to mirror, cry, stop crying and masturbate, realize I could be having s*x instead, get laid

Get pregnant so fast you would be shocked.

after crying my eyes out, look at myself in the mirror for hours, take it all in

What's your favorite form of data visualization, Marsey?

I made 2 variants and idk if I should ask for both variants (bar chart, pie chart) to be made into emojis or only one of them. (Update: Both were added.)

Pie chart version:

Standalone Marsey:

Tbh I have to agree that the journos sounded pretty annoying lol. If you tell her that you're gonna publish a story about it in 2 days why wouldn't she just say it herself?

https://twitter.com/sapphoslibrary/status/1535598181353914369

i am so beyond disgusted at this. turns out rebel wilson only came out to avoid being forcefully outed and now that newspaper is pissed at her for ruining their scoop?? so they wrote this mess?? i am so angry and so sorry for rebel, no one deserves this.

Why do some white chicks on the internet write statements as questions???

https://twitter.com/manwithoutatan/status/1535520460498157570

In case you were wondering how Pride Month is going, the @SMH got in touch with Rebel Wilson to say they’d be outing her in the next few days, so when Rebel came out herself the journ*lists are throwing a tantrum that she robbed them of an exclusive.

https://twitter.com/meghamohan/status/1535608176837525504

Sydney Morning Herald really out there complaining that Rebel Wilson “gazumped” their threat of outing her on their terms by posting about her own life on her own terms! What a mindblowing piece to write!

https://twitter.com/HisLgbt/status/1535737208413384704

Apparently @RebelWilson was forced out of the closet by @AndrewHornery an unprofessional journ*list at the Sydney Morning Herald, and he had the nerve to complain that she “gazump[ed] the story” with her coming out tweet.

https://twitter.com/sallyrugg/status/1535872362226524160

Absolute kicker is @SMH legitimately scolding Rebel Wilson bc when faced with a newspaper saying they are going to out her without her consent & she has two days to supply a quote, she quickly came out first.

As if @SMH owns HER story, is entitled to break it & she scooped THEM!

https://twitter.com/_NatashaDevon/status/1535758431948259328

It’s really quite brazen the way this newspaper seems to think it deserves our sympathy when it a) threatened to out Rebel Wilson b) is angry with her for taking control of the announcement of her new relationship and c) is being subtly but very noticeably biphobic.