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[martian]

KursedVixen, on 21 July 2025 - 08:44 AM, said:

since we're going to have free pride content may i suggest free country flag decals?

Or creating missing factional banners such as the Word of Blake flag or the ComStar flag (among others).

[GuardDogg]

KursedVixen, on 21 July 2025 - 08:44 AM, said:

since we're going to have free pride content may i suggest free country flag decals?

That is the day I uninstall MWO "free Pride content".

[martian]

GuardDogg, on 21 July 2025 - 09:55 AM, said:

That is the day I uninstall MWO "free Pride content".

Check your game client's Mechlab.



All other decals must be bought for MCs, but just these three decals are for worthless C-Bills.

That means that they are practically free.

[1453 R]

Pride decals have been in the game for a few years now, yes. They cost C-Bills specifically so they do not show up in players' "Owned" decal libraries unless that player opts in by paying the C-Bills for them. The content is not pushed on anyone, you do not have to acquire any of the Pride decals. Nor do the Pride decals ever show up in supply caches, which I believe every other decal potentially can. You HAVE to buy them and actively choose to opt in, or you'll never be troubled by them.

[GuardDogg]

1453 R, on 21 July 2025 - 10:18 AM, said:

Pride decals have been in the game for a few years now, yes. They cost C-Bills specifically so they do not show up in players' "Owned" decal libraries unless that player opts in by paying the C-Bills for them. The content is not pushed on anyone, you do not have to acquire any of the Pride decals. Nor do the Pride decals ever show up in supply caches, which I believe every other decal potentially can. You HAVE to buy them and actively choose to opt in, or you'll never be troubled by them.

Well, I do not see it during rounds. Good thing.

[KursedVixen]

GuardDogg, on 21 July 2025 - 10:46 AM, said:

Well, I do not see it during rounds. Good thing.

you will if somebody is using it.

[GuardDogg]

KursedVixen, on 21 July 2025 - 10:52 AM, said:

you will if somebody is using it.

I turn away from it. I find the thing disturbing.

[Ttly]

Here's another idea, how about turning AWAY from any sort of serious competitive e-sports scene this game has?
I've personally never found that side of this game to be appealing at all anyhow.

[LordNothing]

1453 R, on 21 July 2025 - 07:29 AM, said:

Y'know LordNothing, you mostly had my agreement up until this post. But now I've gotta crack you, because this was pretty gross.



Yes, schools like to push for mental illness diagnoses because that means more money diverted their way from government programs. This is bad and unhelpful. Not one single soul is asking a school to diagnose crap. We're saying STOP(!!!!) ripping LGBTQ+ books out of school libraries. STOP erasing even the merest mention of the word "identity" from school lexicons. STOP punishing and brutalizing LGBTQ+ students in an effort to silence them or drive them into home-schooled exile, like I was. STOP trying to control the narrative such that they squeeze every last trace of us out of it.



Why someone decides to transition is their business. Trying to lessen or delegitimize someone's decision to transition by claiming it's not dysphoria or is "just [X]" is ugly, and I'm going to ask you to stop. First of all, medical dysphoria is broader than just "I hate my body", which I can speak to because I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria by a licensed professional as an adult and my experience had little to do with physical self-hatred. Who you are in the depths of your heart often has little to do with the body you were issued at birth, and everyone's experience of themselves deserves due consideration.



So we're simply supposed to suffer injustice, humiliation, ostracization and physical danger for, what? Another thirty, forty, fifty years before we're allowed to stand up and say "Knock this **** off"? No. We did make a lot of progress in the oughts and the early teens that was wiped out by the Orange Man, but the fact that we've suffered such heavy setbacks doesn't mean we quit and limp back into the closet to slowly die of our wounds. It means we've hit the second phase of the Dark Souls boss fight, and it's time to knuckle down and dodge roll harder.

As for the rest of you: we exist. Deal with it. Our existence isn't "political", it's an issue of fundamental rights. Don't like it? Stop murdering us, or denying us basic goods, services and rights because of your own personal beefs.

i actually saw some stats the other day that indicate that trans folk are actually less likely to be murdered than some other groups. it turns out that most murder victims are male, especially males of a certain racial profile. so excuse me if i dont buy the "they're killing us" narrative.

[Bud Crue]

As this thread, which was supposed to be about ways to save MWO, has descended into well, whatever luminaries like DATA, Guard Dog, Lord Nothing and Meep Meep are going on about above, I'd like to propose my just as useful commentary for saving MWO, which is to remove the stupid helmet from the FRR loyalty pattern.

That's it. That's the solution.

My pretend viking heritage is being misrepresented by this travesty of real world fiction and only by making this necessary correction will those of real viking heritage finally be granted a taste of dignity that other groups in MWO take for granted. This is the sort of change that on the fence players and folks who don't spend have been waiting for. By making this change and taking a stand for better inclusion of pretend viking culture such folks will finally see that MWO gives equal and accurate representation to all; a necessary step in attracting new players.

Geez, I leave for a few weeks and this is what I come back to. Kill the forums, leave the game.

Edited by Bud Crue, 21 July 2025 - 02:54 PM.

[LordNothing]

if anything it shows the lack of substance in the game actual if the forum political debate gets more action than our mech inventories.

[GuardDogg]

I really had nothing about politics, or sexual oritation. First I wrote, we need Graphics, needing VR MWO. All of a sudden I see about sexual stuff put in here. I never seen the stuff during rounds which is a good thing. Why should we care what political, or sexual views (orintation) is in MWO (when we should not be seeing going through a game), and you know what? It is! After I just seen my name in a post that I am one of a problem. I have decided to uninstall and go back to DCS, and other. This MWO been killed from salty kids (adults), low amount of players, and the PSR. Soon after the PSR been changed it helped decimate about of players from 100's thousands to 20,000, to 700 players daily. I do not want to be part of a FN problem (again). "Kill the forums and leave the game." PGI can not fix the MM, PSR because they are only thinking about the $$, Only Buffing, nerfing mechs, and look what mech is coming ahead. But never the game (sim) ever. MWO is never going to be fixed, adjusted. If they fix the PSR back, more players will leave (and we know who they are, why PGI is scared of changing it back). In fact that PSR (tiers) should be totally romoved now. Low amount of players. Okay...done! Bye!

Edited by GuardDogg, 21 July 2025 - 04:54 PM.

[Meep Meep]

MechMaster059, on 21 July 2025 - 07:18 AM, said:

Could a moderator please step in and lock this thread?

It's been hijacked and derailed and the people involved clearly won't stop posting.

I was only replying and obviously they have their panties in a twist over something I never said or implied. Meh no issues its a pew pew game and no one knows you are gay or trans or a southern baptist unless you make it a point to bring up. Which is odd because this is a pew pew mech game and there really isn't any reason ~to~ bring it up. People are here to shoot each other in the face not wax poetic about their life choices.. But hey live and let live.

[Ekson Valdez]

This topic is locked until the off-topic has been handled.
Everyone involved in derailing this thread get's an official warning:
Be mindful of what you are discussing and if you feel a topic should be discussed that moves away from the OT, feel free to open a new thread to discuss it there.
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