• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    “I remember walking into a 50s-themed diner claiming to offer an ‘authentic experience’ only to get banned when I called the waiter the n-word. Fucking liars.”

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    Every server I played on even back in the 90s would most assuredly ban you for being sexist, homophobic, or racist. I must assume “back in the day” for this anon was after developer owned servers and random matchmaking existed, but before they actually moderated anything.

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      1 month ago

      Even in the 2000s, many of the good servers on tf2 would ban for racism snd sexism. (Probably not homophobia tho). Gmod was worse for it, but there were still servers that didn’t allow it.

      And it makes sense. Even if bigotry isn’t a problem to you, bigots tend to be really fucking annoying about it. You don’t often find bigots that are chill with it. When you cut the bigots, you cut like 90% of the shit disturbers that made the game less fun.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    old days of the interwebs is like late 80s/early 90s, before centralized game servers were a thing. On the rare cases of fully online games (original Neverwinter Nights and other MUDs and MMORPGs), mods and admins were known to enforce rules if they were online

    Maybe what anon considers “normal” is early 2010s Dota/LoL/Heroes of Newerth, where winning meant getting called a “fucking cheating retard that doesn’t know how to play” and losing meant getting called a “stupid gay cunt retard n* piece of shit” and everyone was happy*

    * everyone playing those games was absolutely miserable