Had trouble communicating over the phone with a customer service representative because of a cultural accent
This is actually a problem with customer support being farmed out, when you are trying to fix something with your bank account or schedule a replacement device, the last thing you want is to be connected with someone who can't speak clearly or understand you.
@jasoncooke: Like I said, you can go around and say that if you wish, but it still makes you a self-indulgent dickhead. You don't get to void your own responsibility, and you don't get to tell other people what hurts them.
Seriously, no-one exists in a vacuum.
You have to understand that you can't opt-out of the way your speech affects other people. If you're actually aware of the way you affect others with you speech, but you still choose to speak that way, then you're making a conscious decision to do something with the potential to cause harm.
If you know what you're doing is hurting others, and you consciously keep doing it, then you're a dickhead. It's the same as using racial slurs in casual conversation, albeit to a lesser extreme. No, you're not aggressively attacking someone, but you're choosing to perpetuate and legitimise a stereotype that does actually have harmful consequences.
It's up to you, and you alone to decide if you respect the harm your speech causes. You don't have to be perfect and obviously no-one is, but it never hurts to make a change for the better.
A trigger is something that makes something else happen. That's it, I don't know why you are trying to give it a negative connotation. It's not an insult, it's not a racial slur.
You are speaking in an authoritarian way and I don't know what stereotypes have to do with what I am saying.
No I'm not a dickhead, thanks. I wouldn't go around saying it because it would be overused and not everybody would get the implication.
I have a feeling most of the people calling it offensive are being offended on behalf of someone else that they think would be offended.
This is going to go round and round in circles so let's not.
@horseman6: I'm not saying that trigger warnings are necessarily the be-all-end-all of social consciousness, and they're most definitely not infallible. Yes sure, sometimes some people use them inappropriately, and sometimes people ARE over-sensitive, but by stereotyping trigger warnings in this way, you're hurting the majority of people who are using them earnestly.
I don't have a problem with marking content like that but I do have a problem when people say that using "triggered" is "not okay", if I was to say "that terrible season finale triggered me" it doesn't mean I'm mocking abuse victims, it means something was so bad it made me feel something negative.
Some people are saying stuff like "haha triggered" too much but I think the above usage is devoid of cringe and malice.
@jasoncooke: Trigger warnings are definitely a 100% real thing, and it's a shame that people like you apparently can't see that? I'm not sure what's so hard about understanding that some people have been through legitimately traumatic events in their life, and no amount of you telling them that "triggers don't exist" is going to make them feel better about it.
Yeah sure, a lot of people say it as a joke, but that joke is a shitty parody of real mental anguish.
I didn't say they don't exist, I didn't say they aren't a real thing.
My post states my surprise that people use them seriously as I've never seen it before and have only seen "triggered" used as a way to express annoyance, offense or anger caused by something.
I don't think saying you are triggered is mocking abuse, seems like a new Internet thing to say something is getting to you.
Maaaan those "triggered" jokes by randos are rough. They'll look back on that someday and cringe. Empathy is completely free and makes you a bajillion times cooler as a person.
Are you saying people say that something triggered them with a straight face? I can't imagine that happening, angry, upset, sure, but triggered? I thought it is always said as a joke.
Rando makes me cringe... I hate that word, I guess you could say it [redacted] me.
I mean it's supposed to be used for people who have pst and shit to give them a warning. Like: hey this thing I wrote has sexual assault in it so maybe don't read it if you were sexually assaulted if you're worried about having flashbacks.
It's "always said as a joke" by toughguy teenagers on the internet who have a lot of formless aggression they need to get out on everyone.
So the point of a trigger warning is to tell someone there's sexual assault (etc), but by doing so you're bringing up sexual assault which is also going to remind them of their trauma...
Shouldn't there be a trigger warning for a trigger warning then?
You are making wild judgements with that last part and to me that's more egregious than anything in this VRodeo.
Maaaan those "triggered" jokes by randos are rough. They'll look back on that someday and cringe. Empathy is completely free and makes you a bajillion times cooler as a person.
Are you saying people say that something triggered them with a straight face? I can't imagine that happening, angry, upset, sure, but triggered? I thought it is always said as a joke.
Rando makes me cringe... I hate that word, I guess you could say it [redacted] me.
About games not getting faster, you're just getting older. As a 22 year old, this looks like a speed-induced frantic mess. But I've always disliked Pacman ever since I was a wee lad.
That makes no sense, Jeff's perception of speed is not going to have changed in 5 years.
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