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[–] 9668233? 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

To me, Neogaf is on the cutting edge of the left's descent into sheer madness and reality denying ignorance. It preceded the same in popular culture by quite a bit, and continues to be a kind of signpost for where leftist popular culture will head in the near future.

In short, when you want to laugh at leftists, this site is the grand poobah. In addition to being able to see the latest deluded narratives spawn on the spot in a completely locked off echo chamber which is perfect for scientific observation.

Gaf is basically sometimes my festering Petri dish.

I used to unironically love the site, and came here for a while to mourn/mock it's downfall, but anyone doing the same in 2017, probably a half decade after sane Gaf's last gasps, seriously needs to let go. It's dead, Jim.

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[–] blahblahgafsucks 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Pretty much my feelings as well. I always felt GAF was coddling towards losers, but could mostly ignore it. Then the Trayvon Martin shit happened and I noticed the huge disparity between the reaction on reddit and GAF. That caused me to do a little research on the topic, and then I saw the mass bannings in the thread of anyone who questioned the narrative. By the time Gamergate happened, I realized the forum was a far-left shithole. It's even worse in summer 2017 than it was in summer 2014.

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[–] 9668786? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yup. Classical liberal here too, to show how much of a turn-off Gaf's extremism is.

Probably the first time I noticed it was that big brouhaha over Penny Arcade making that hilarious 'raped by the dickwolves' comic strip.

All of a sudden, I witnessed fellow posters that I respected go out of their mind over a funny, harmless comic strip. A dark one to be sure, but that apparently merited a hyperbolic response best compared to 90s parents freaking out that you could shoot someone in a videogame, or music CDs contained swearing.

Weren't we past this? Hadn't society reached the point where it could take a joke, and understand context without screaming it's head off for censorship?

I was a sweet summer child. It only got worse from there.

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[–] 9670744? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, it's been impossible to just enjoy gaming without agenda pushing either appearing in the comments, or in whole asinine SJW threads, from what I can tell.

Even if one could put up with that, the steady 'brain drain' that Gaf has experienced in purging every normal, funny, intelligent, easygoing member, has left it absolutely unremarkable at best, and terrible at worst, for discussion.

You can't pull fun times and intelligent analysis out of people who think 'Reeeeee! Russia!' and being offended by attractive women are the height of discourse.