You banned in doomworld?

for real though, a gay and gender nonconforming exclusive mapping project is kinda awesome. kinda cool to see from a player perspective what gay mappers like to do in the doom map editor. I think it's good for gay players/mappers to discover together what delineates their mapping styles from straight mappers and lean the fuck into it <3

"so be careful about anything negative you have to say as it can and will be misinterpretted as hateful"

This is a pretty hilarious sentence. Its a great and very direct way to remind everyone that you have feelings and are not looking to have them infringed upon. I can respect that. but its a riot to see this used as a mapping project rule. Like, imagine the day I'm kicking people out of doomer boards project because I adopted this gay genderqueer rule into dbp.

tester: Umm the map was fine but I couldn't figure out where the yellow key was for like a half hour and I kinda wish I didn't waste so much time in my test being lost"

mapper: Umm do you go swimming with your t-shirt on so people don't see the swastika tattoos on your chest? [tester banned]

Not that it's even a straight thing, but being a mapper is, unfortunately, learning to just eat shit sometimes. Whether its people writing a comment that said they didn't like your map, or worse, (in my opinion) watching a video of someone playing it, noticeably not having a very good time, and then lying about how they still liked just to protect your feelings. God, just mentioning it as a hypothetical, a mapping environment like that would kill the thrill for me.

That was my thought as well.  It just seems too over the top to be legitimate.

LET'S MAKE A DOOM PROJECT ABOUT HOW I LIKE TO GET FUCKED IN MY ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!

The fact that that person used Boykisser GIF's, while making a project centered around buggery, makes me uneasy.

Without saying anything, I don't see why anyone would reasonably think that any new or existing doom project would not already be for straight people and/or straight allies. I go forth in life with so little resistance to my heterosexuality that it has never once blinked in my mind to ever question whether me being straight would disqualify me from participating in any doom project ever.

You're too mellow; Start a white people's only project, then it'll be a blast.

I really hope the mod that issued that ban has a wonderful day, and enjoys being with his loving wife and adoring family.

Technically speaking it's not harassment, it's behind-the-back shit talking by supposed "pillars of the community". Which is actually worse in my book but I've been told I have warped values in the past.

Are you sure this is the "straights" thinking? Wouldn't it be the other way around in this case? Not only is there a big disclaimer essentially saying "you cannot challenge us in any way, including any statement that could be even remotely interpreted as offensive", but I guarantee you anyone going into that thread and challenging them will be getting timeouts at a minimum.

Dude, they just straight up booted a 20 year card-carrying member out of their little gay doom club. That's not gay people wanting a room with other gay people: that's the modus operandi of a colonizing force.

Stodgy was right when he called them a caricature. It's so fucking cartoonishly villainous (and they are so obliviously hypocritical) that people - real, regular people, not online buttchuds - are started to get really, really pissed off with this theft of estate. It's never straight people moving in and throwing the gay people out (unless IRL muslim, but don't buy an apartment that needs an elevator, I guess) - it's *always* the opposite way round.

The LGB needs to clean their fucking house before this fucking clique of cretins pulls the whole fucking edifice down on top of everyone's head.

I didn't say anything about "straight = bad"

I was originally responding to Tangra's comment to say gay mappers wanting to map with other gay mappers is just as valid as mappers that like 1994 wads wanting to make maps with other mappers that like 1994 wads.

If you're straight and want to include yourself on how these gay mappers run their projects, you're probably going to have just as bad of a time as you would if you worked on gzdoom gameplay/weapon modifications and tried to impose your mods onto a team of 1994-style vanilla mappers that are working on a vanilla mapping project together. People that have a particular idea in mind for their project don't need to be inclusive to everything if it doesn't serve their project goals.

By virtue of being straight, you and I don't have to be entitled to everything gay. Does that help clarify what I'm saying?