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prophecythirteen
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So this morning while out on my daily jaunt through my dailies I met this really nice person who was funny, friendly, and good with the space combat. We got to chatting and he said he needed a fleet so I invited him to mine and he offered to whip up a website and forum and had it done in ten minutes.
After chatting for a good hour the subjects of "What do you do?" "Where are you from?" and "Hows the love life?" came up as they always inevitably do and I said "I'm a TRIBBLE male" and oh my god would you know those are the magic words that send the universe into self destruct? He left the fleet, left the team and blocked me. =-S It really sucked because we were checking the boxes on every other subject and I was starting to think "yay I have a friend" apparently not lol
Just because I'm TRIBBLE doesn't mean I want your body, I do have standards and I'm happy that some of you are confident enough to think you embody them but sorry no. I also do not want to corrupt your mind or soul, nor do I want to impregnate your chest with a TRIBBLE alien that is going to burst out with glitter and jazz hands.
Do half the people who play this game watch Star Trek? Do they not get that one of the core beliefs of Trek is that everyone is accepted and included and that is our differences that make us strong and help us flourish?
After chatting for a good hour the subjects of "What do you do?" "Where are you from?" and "Hows the love life?" came up as they always inevitably do and I said "I'm a TRIBBLE male" and oh my god would you know those are the magic words that send the universe into self destruct? He left the fleet, left the team and blocked me. =-S It really sucked because we were checking the boxes on every other subject and I was starting to think "yay I have a friend" apparently not lol
Just because I'm TRIBBLE doesn't mean I want your body, I do have standards and I'm happy that some of you are confident enough to think you embody them but sorry no. I also do not want to corrupt your mind or soul, nor do I want to impregnate your chest with a TRIBBLE alien that is going to burst out with glitter and jazz hands.
Do half the people who play this game watch Star Trek? Do they not get that one of the core beliefs of Trek is that everyone is accepted and included and that is our differences that make us strong and help us flourish?
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*gets off soap box*
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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What one person considers BS another can hold as a firm principle or belief. Not related to orientation, I have a friend who is a creationist I only found that out after knowing him for couple of years, to me that is BS but to him it is a firmly held belief.
It is just one of those things you are going to have to just roll of your back because if you let it get to you it can cause more problems than it is worth. Don't take it personally they are the one with the problem not you. His loss not yours.
That made me LOL so hard!
To answer your question:
No, I'm fairly certain that half of the people who play don't really know Star Trek and even a bigger percentage missed the points of Star Trek beyond "phaz0rz go pew-pew". But it is what it is, no point sweating about it.
Whatever happened to IDIC
Thier loss. I'm a fine looking man.
<<<<< just look at that Avatar.:D
R.I.P
I guess there will always be idiots and homophobes.
That doesn't mean those reasons aren't ignorant and pathetic :mad:
Its not just a homophobe thing.
R.I.P
I mean, BranFlakes is pretty openly TRIBBLE, as is Smirk, and Trendy's TRIBBLE, I strongly suspect that Tacofangs is bi, and there are multiple openly LGBT fleets in-game.
Being homophobic in STO is like, LOLwut? This is a game where it's practically a GOOD thing to be out and proud.
I don't think there's a single TRIBBLE person in my fleet (at least among the 2/3 of it that I have really interacted with), and I've NEVER had this kind of nonsense. Even the ex-Army guy who works as a military recruiter in Arizona likes to talk about the time he helped train the security for his cousin's TRIBBLE bar.
Which makes it all the more surprising when someone random is a homophobe.
I mean, LOLwut?????
As one poster put it earlier... infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
Be well.
And as my sig says... have fun!
I have had to deal with the fallout of friends coming out and losing people they thought were friends who they had known for years. There was nothing to say to help them feel better it was just about being there for them.
No reason to hang around those who do not want to hang around you, it will just ruin your mood.
It is after all your choice weather or not to suffer fools.
Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln
Occidere populo et effercio confractus
Don't let it worry you as you haven't done anything wrong. Don't let him knock your confidence down.
Who knows? I do not watch tv; once in a while but talking less than 10 hours per year, maybe double that if you count movies.
But why apply the actions of one person as if he represented a majority opinion. Did half your fleet leave? Anyone else freak out?
Its his right to freak out and be intolerant. Know anyone who is intolerant of intolerance? Very few people are actually able to fully embrace the live and let live mentality, and it takes a certain maturity to get there, to overcome bias learned from parents/environment/etc. And part of the live and let live mentality is that you have to accept his world view as well -- you don't have to agree with it, but coming on here to mount your soapbox and condemn this guy is as bad as what he did. Its the great paradox --- if everyone has to tolerate and accept the views of others, then YOU have to accept and tolerate HIS view as well.
Not everything you see on the internet is true - Abraham Lincoln
Occidere populo et effercio confractus
And that's even leaving out de novo mutations...
You know, just because your dad "hates" you for a stupid reason does not invalidate someone dealing with his parents hating him (as in, wishing he were dead and no longer "embarrassing the family") for being who he is. (And yes, refusing to move to Japan is a choice - you weren't "born that way".)
It's always interesting to me to see folks complaining about us standing up for ourselves, when we're not really doing anything different than anyone else in that regard. For example, straight dudes talk about their straightness all the time (when they talk about their girlfriends, or how hot Seven of Nine is, or whatever), but when OP happened to mention he was TRIBBLE, he got shunned. If I said something inflammatory about cis men, I'd be ignored/reported (rightly, according to the rules), yet trans women are constantly mocked and told to die in-game, and everyone just turns a blind eye to that -- unless, of course, we say something about it, in which case we're the ones who get vilified.
Sometimes I hear folks say something along the lines of, "I'm just here to play a game; I don't want to think about social issues!" And okay, that's fair, I understand... but, you see, I feel the exact same way! I'm just here to play a game, too. I don't want to have to defend my humanity every single time I play. And I would imagine that OP feels similarly.
what?? i didnt know any of that.
i suppose i dont take any notice of peoples sexuality because its completely off my radar. i dont really care, to be honest. it makes no difference to me whether you are TRIBBLE, or whether you are an 8 year old child, because in my sto the conversations never go.... there. im here for pretty straight-forward gaming, so none of that other jazz really ever enters into the picture.
i suspect that the ops 'ex-friend' was one of those that was looking for a bit that, and ops open admission was the realisation of 'ex-friends' worst fear :eek:
i wouldnt take it personally. he was the prevert
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Yeah, IIRC Bran was (and still is) a member of Stonewall Fleet long before he worked for PWE. Didn't know that about Trendy, though; that's pretty cool.