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The guys running /Politics and /WorldNews will ban people if they don't endorse israel committing Genocide.
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Do you even care about movies if you donβt watch them in the original language?
To be honest Iβm that guy. But I donβt judge anymore and German dubs are actually top notch compared to other countries. But itβs a tough decision for me to watch a new movie in German just so I can share it with someone else and I will comment on it once!
I would be bothered if a movie written in pig-latin was dub to English... who doesn't understand pig?
What beautiful language.
I used to roll my eyes at people who watch movies in o-tone. I just thought they are kind of pretentious. But fuck me they were right.
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German dubs are actually top notch compared to other countries.
Sadly, this does not apply to the show Dark. Fantastic show. Terrible dubbing.
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TERFs
Gatekeep so hard they require DNA tests
Security guards.
Bouncers
Gamers love to call people who focus on one particular type of game or console "not real gamers"
Not true. We just call people who focus on the wrong kinds of games "assholes."
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Let's just call it fromsoft fans
Boggles my mind when people claim that using mechanic present in the game is not playing the game "as intended".
Who do you think put the feature there? The pesky magical game dev that spawns at 2 am to code in a mimic tear?
It's bizzare. Man i hate that they have two powerful bosses that attack you ar the same time. I had to try 156 times to get good rng and one guy got stuck in a pillar.
You know they are very weak to sleep and there is also a summon....
NO, THAT'S NOT HOW THE COOL STREAMER DOES IT.
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Any "hardcore full loot pvp MMORPG"
North Korea.
Anime - People don't like you when you're into the popular ones.
Video Games - It's everywhere here. If you're into AAA games, you'll never hear the end of it. If you're into Indie games, then you have to be into games like Hollow Knight, Undertale .etc or you just don't know indie.
Metal Music - Fucking hell, you're always going to be snubbed and looked down upon because you're not into Death or Black Metal. Doesn't matter if you're into Iron Maiden or X Nu Metal band here, but you're just not metal until you listen to anything Black/Death. Maybe I don't want to listen to Cookie Monster and Friends.
I listen to a variety of metal. If most of your song is incomprehensible screaming or growling (in any genre, for that matter), I'm not interested in that song.
As an older metalhead, this makes me a bit sad, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. The metal scene I joined in the early 90s did have its tolerance problems specifically against other music genres, but I never knew it as particularly gatekeepy, at least the circles I socialised with and the concerts and festivals I went to. There were some people who though you weren't a real metal fan if you didn't exclusively listen to metal, but they were a minority. Nobody had a problem with me not particularly liking Slayer or MotΓΆrhead, and there was no requirement to have long hair and be covered in leather and/or band patches.
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And even if you do listen to death/black metal, you can still get crap from some people if it's not a certain sub-genre. It's just music, let me listen in peace, I don't need a lecture.
"Yeah, I like tons of metal bands! ...just not sure which ones as I can't read any of their names."
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I grew up in a very conservative Catholic community. Imagine a group where JD Vance and Harrison Butker would be considered mild. If a new person didn't show up in the right kind of clothes and faux humility, people would make a snap judgement and start gossiping. If the new person were wealthy or had a lot of children (8+) or were in a medical field, they would probably be ok. The single parent mom with two kids who dared to send one to public school for better STEM classes? Lol, she had no chance.
There was a "welcome wagon" type group who were supposed to invite new people to coffee and doughnuts with the congregation in the basement after services. I watched the one invite one family and offer a handshake, visibly retracted the hand to skip over Single Mom, and then extend an invitation to the next family. Ice cold.
There was a "welcome wagon" type group who were supposed to invite new people to coffee and doughnuts with the congregation in the basement after services. I watched the one invite one family and offer a handshake, visibly retracted the hand to skip over Single Mom, and then extend an invitation to the next family. Ice cold.
Just like Jesus would have wanted eh
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North Korea
hoarders are good at gate keeping
A lot of more traditional hobby communities like HAM and model aircraft clubs, that want you to take a dozen tests to play with them. Those same communities seem to scratch their heads as to why they can't attract new members.
I think those only need 1 test to play with them, and that's because they are regulated by the government. They want people to follow the rules because if they don't it can come down on all of them.
The biggest one of these that I know of is falconry which requires 1 falconry test, 1 hunt test, 1 inspection, and finding a two year sponsor. Falconry is specifically set up to gatekeep as to protect the sport in the USA.
How is putting up so many barriers to participation meant to protect the sport?
Well, the last guy they let have falcon killed a baby black bear & blamed it on a bicyclistβ¦
Iβm guessing they needed to sure up their ranks after that nonsense.
Falconry in the US exists as an exclusion from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Both of these laws make it illegal to disrupt or possess native birds or their parts. Falconers successfully petitioned the government to let them take wild raptors from the wild as long as falconers themselves regulate the participants. If the falconers are not being respectful of the birds it would be incredibly easy to strip their privileges.
In the same sense RC flying is a privilege from the FAA after too many people flew drones into airports and HAM is a privilege from the FCC to keep people from jacking up the airwaves.
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I'm on board with rules if it involves live animals tbh
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Ham licenses make sense. If you screw up, you ruin things for everyone, so you have to make sure everyone who transmits knows what they're doing. The problem is the elitism, and how many of them look down on anything more modern than vacuum tubes as not being real amateur radios.
But from experience, hams are usually enthusiastic to explain anything related you might be interested in
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Just whatever makes sense
The fish doorbell folks.
Sheepdog trials. Though mostly it's about making things go through the gates.
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Fire Emblem Three Houses, the game literally has an NPC named "Gatekeeper" who won a yearly Fire Emblem popularity poll with the highest vote count ever.