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i was watching Atraus the other day
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friend of the channel and he was talking
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about someone getting a 72-hour
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suspension on Elder Scrolls Online and
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it's not for cheating it's not for
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harassment it's not even for cyber
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bullying it's for teaagging yeah
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teaagging for the uninitiated that
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weren't around back in the day
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teabagging is a taunt in a game where
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you crouch repeatedly over somebody's
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avatar so let's say you kill them you
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shoot them you one v one them you win
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you pone them and then you just
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repeatedly crouch over them so
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essentially it looks like your character
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is teaagging them it's classic it's It's
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gaming 101 taunt if If you are a old
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school gamer from back in the Halo days
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360 era you've been teabagged or you
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have teaagged somebody it's not new it's
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not malicious it just comes with the
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territory it's just dumb online antics
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but little woke snowflakes have always
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kind of been upset about it to the point
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where companies like Bethesda evidently
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ban people from it off of Elder Scrolls
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Online and I looked on their forums
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there's been countless threads about
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what's the rules on teaagging and all
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this well I saw a tweet from this
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individual called Pain in the Axe all
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right and this is the individual that
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said they got suspended saying they got
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a 72-hour ban in the Elder Squirrels
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teaagging they said "Honestly this is
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such a pathetic rule this honestly feels
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like the result of a mass report but
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regardless of that I only dish out
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reciprocal bags to those who did it
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first or if I'm just memeing around with
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friends." So it's a hey I got teaagged
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so I'm going to teaag first kind of
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says on top of that they are supposed to
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ask you to stop and continuing from
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there would result in your account being
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actioned which did not happen will
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source dev post below if and when I
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received such a message I always have
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complied would have laughed of course
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but wouldn't have been a problem to do
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so he's saying hey if I would have been
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told to stop teaagging my uh enemy on
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Elder Scrolls Online I would have done
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it he says even equating teaagging to
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physical harassment is wild really great
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way to water down what real world
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physical harassment looks like and is
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disingenuous more often than not this
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rule gets used to weaponize the report
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system against others where the victim
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is actually the one instigating the
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behavior by doing the exact thing
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they're reporting you for why do we have
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a rule to empower these bad actors so
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here's the screenshot let me move it to
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where you guys could check it out and uh
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yeah it's a a mod team response saying
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"This account is receiving a 72-hour
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suspension and final warning due to
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violating the code of conduct we cannot
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allow teaagging/physical harassment as
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it is in direct violation of the
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following sections of our code of
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conduct this is pathetic this is
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actually really sad to see happening in
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video games now I get it there's a lot
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of people out there that can't handle
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gaming culture but this is a bad look
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this is straight up humiliating I feel
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for the entire gaming industry
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especially after something like
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Expedition 33 comes out and kills it as
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far as RPG games go like Square Enix and
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Bethesda should be like taking notes and
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seeing how a small studio of like 30
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people made a game that has sold over 2
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million copies in less than two weeks
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the development team of that had barely
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any experience it was mainly juniors and
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Bethesda yeah they dropped Oblivion just
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the other day out of nowhere and it blew
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up everybody's playing it it's in
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contention for game of the year and now
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we're distracted by this darker issue in
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the gaming industry and it's terms of
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service and and what Bethesda would do
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in regards to something as simple and
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teaagging all right again this is an
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iconic taunt halo popularized it and it
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spread everywhere you frag someone you
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teabag them boom it was almost tradition
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i used to say if a game didn't let you
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teaag that's minus one point on the
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review right so minus one that's holding
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it against it you got to let players
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assert dominance right digitally and
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it's part of the online trash talk
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ecosystem and it's so stupid when you
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really want to sit down and argue the
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point about oh should we allow teaagging
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should we not so when I see someone get
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banned for this it blows my mind
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honestly like where are we at right now
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a 72-hour ban because someone virtually
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crouched over another player's corpse in
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a video game cry me a river cry like are
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you acting traumatized from it it wasn't
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even done maliciously they were either
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returning the gesture or just goofing
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around with friends which that's what
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gaming's about there was no warning no
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request for them to stop just straight
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to punishment and I get it terms of
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service you agree to at will they could
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decide to enforce punishments and stuff
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like that but this person said even if
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they were asked to chill they would have
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chilled this issue is deeper though it's
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about how the system and terms of
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service get it exploited right people
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weaponize reporting systems we've seen
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it on Twitter seen it on Facebook we've
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seen it on YouTube people mass report
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okay if you get jealous or upset about
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somebody and you're some little
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snowflake you'll act like victims even
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though you start the stuff we see it all
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the time on X you get people starting
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doxing harassing people stalking them
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and then when it's done to them they cry
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about it right Merante so now teaagging
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is being compared to real world physical
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harassment in this i think that's absurd
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it's a joke and I believe it waters down
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what actual harassment is like actually
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is so the email that I showed you said
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that they got that you know it said it
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violated the code of conduct because it
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was physical harassment in a video game
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it's not even real life like how is that
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possible there wasn't even a voice chat
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incident with this it was just a visual
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gag again it's a visual gag that's been
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around for over two decades and this is
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what happens when people running the
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industry are more worried about optics
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than fun like like really like who cares
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right who really cares now eventually
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the devs did walk it back a little the
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suspension was removed during an
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internal investigation but why was there
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even an investigation in the first place
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gamers aren't being toxic they're just
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playing it it's an online game this
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comes with the territory and now they're
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what are they going to be doing putting
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gamers under surveillance for digital
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crouching/tagging i think this whole
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incident highlights how far gone we've
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we we are at this point right you got
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real issues in games you got cheaters
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exploiters toxic players who actually do
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real harm that swat people that go in
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real life that stalk that docks and
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these folks often get away with that
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stuff but if you do a little teaag after
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a kill boom god forbid you're hit with a
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suspension like where's the logic in
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this i think some people are looking at
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things in all these like online gaming
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situations i think it's harsh but I
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these dev teams need to get their
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priorities straight straight up it's not
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harassment to have fun in a video game
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one dev even pointed out the hypocrisy I
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saw on Twitter that you could shoot
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people in the face in a game but
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crouching on their bodies too far like
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come on now right and and let me break
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it down for you it's perfectly fine to
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run over people with your car in GTA
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online right do drivebys blow up players
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repeatedly go to the strip club but god
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forbid you get out of your car and teaag
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them then it's a problem right that's
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what they say is crossing the line that
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a little that's a little bit too
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snowflaky for my liking you can't make
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this stuff up so anyways let me know
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your thoughts on the situation guys has
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the gaming industry gone too soft i I'm
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leaning towards that it's gone absurdly
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soft are we policing too much harmless
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behavior in the name of just being safe
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let me know down in the comments and as
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always subscribe we're on the road to
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