• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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.”

  • atlas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    i got automatically kicked on an IRC channel because i had sent a bot command without the / and everyone saw it so i said “oh im retarded” and when i rejoined the mod says “you gotta be cardful with that word, 2 more kicks and its a ban” mfw

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    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

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    To be fair, there absolutely were Christian servers back in the old days, that absolutely would ban you for cursing or taking the Lord’s name in vain.

    I saw this in … shit, Battlefield 1942/Vietnam/2, Garry’s Mod before it was even sold for money, various source games and mods… Red Orchestra… all kinds of games that had dedicated servers back in the early 00s, there would usually be a couple that were explicitly Christian and would ban you for swearing.

  • smokeysnilas@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    In the old days you’d go one after the other through public servers until you find one that’s decently moderated and not super toxic. And then people would get kicked/banned from the server for bad behavior. You learned to voluntarily avoid all the internet trash. That is actually a very important lesson that nowadays people mostly seem to lack. Thus they become mindless TikTok or Insta zombies consuming hidden advertising brainrot all day.