!oldstrags did you know Metafilter still exists? It does!
Did you know it's a giant circlejerk even more insular than reddit? Of course you did.
(For those who don't know, MeFi is an ancient internet forum that costs $5 to join. It's like SomethingAwful if it were never funny, or rdrama if you losers had jobs and could afford 5 dollars to keep out the thirdies)
Anyway, in 2014 they had a struggle session about thinking the unspeakable wrongs.
Wendy Carlos is a transwoman. Seriously, I mentioned this once and it got instadeleted because WTF? apparently some longstanding flame war of which I wasn't even aware.
I don't know who Wendy Carlos is, but I know that trans 
women are women . There's no such thing as a "transwoman".
Anyway, after few thousand comments the thread devolves into people getting their fee-fees hurt and demanding apologies
If you want a personal apology for a comment that was not directed at you then you might as well just come out and say so instead of continuing to harp on it despite the fact that sweetkid has explained her reasoning and sincerely apologized to the actual people involved.
Then later on, down the end there's a big argument about whether it's okay to dox a 27 year old dude 
who really really likes a 17 y/o 
This comment does not look to me like an apology or an expression of misunderstanding. It looks to me like an admission he googled the information and intentionally doxxed someone he was characterizing as a "libertarian" and "sexual predator."
So folks are free to read the actual MeTa I am recalling and decide for themselves whether or not I am wildly misremembering anything or mischaracterizing it.
Y'all can't behave!
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Yuck! Really grossed me out and gave me the wince-inducing ick.
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What an ancient
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Sorry, I just like this marsey so much I use every excuse to post it.
Don't even fricking get me started on aging GenX left-wing neurodivergent forums.
They're way closer to Mean Girls than actual high school was. Here I try to actively push a few gimmicks just so people won't completely forget who I am. Over there, you post a couple opinions about movies and vidya and find out that a hundred people you've never talked to have been taking notes on you about your ideological purity for months. It's like living in Paris under Robespierre where you've gotta be constantly plotting to send someone else to the guillotine so it isn't you this time.
For all the stuff I say about dramanauts and zoomers being neurodivergent r-slurs, there are online communities out there that are way more dysfunctional.
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Total Gaymer Death
No age limit
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In Darklands there is no hard limit to the age of your characters. You begin in 1400 and if you keep playing for a really long time and your characters get too old to carry on, you can go to the local inn and recruit a young replacement.
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Oh bless your heart
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Rare wall-eyed 5 head.
Nice curls I guess
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