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Any of the hot button topics on here about equality regarding race, gender, sexuality or what have you. Also anything regarding the law, not because LULz GUYS FUCK DA POLICE ORIGINAL GANGSTER but because the discussion goes absolutely nowhere and it's just essentially one guy going here's my facts the other guy going here are mine we've reached an impasse fuck. Also I hate subjective versus objective arguments whether it's about morals or opinions or whatever. Oh! and I absolutely hate posting about drug users, mostly because I pity them and beleive we should help them instead of treating them like they should be euthanized. | |
inb4 Friendzone. Actually, that's my answer; friendzone. Unfortunately, I don't think that topic will be leaving these forums any time soon. | |
Job-hunting and money troubles. | |
It's a shame too. How the hell can people discuss at length somebody lamenting their own social ineptitude and not making their intentions clear? | |
ohh yeeeeeeees AND "this girl left me and I'm so depressed" <- to be unsympathetic but it happens to everyone | |
Definitely the friendzone ones. Generally I don't say much in the taboo subjects either, but that's mainly due to by the time I check them out, somebody has given the same sort of opinion as me, and I wouldn't want to just go "This", generally I try to add something if possible. | |
You heard it here first, folks, had a girl left Vault101 at some point! The Escapist forums: bringing you all the news you don't want to hear. OT: Well, I'm really starting to tire of piracy. I think soon I'll just drop out of the whole issue. It's full of people who apparently have only heard of piracy through second hand rumours. And others who seem to room temperature IQ. In Celsius, to specify. Last truly idiotic statement I read was about somebody saying he pirated [insert game here][1] because it didn't have support for his native language. The game was in English and it was released only in English. There weren't even fan-made language packs. I'm long bored with ME3 threads or "BioWare is bad". These have decreased drastically lately, for which I'm glad. And finally, and this isn't a huge issue on the Escapist, "is the cabbie Caine?" in Bloodlines. I've seen this so much that any time it comes up I can make a checklist with arguments and start ticking them off as they come up. I'm pretty sure that the total time and effort spent arguing on this (I'm a bit ashamed that some of it is mine) would be enough to build two more VtM video games. [1] Can't remember which one it was, but certainly one of the recent bigger ones | |
*Refuse* to discuss? I'm not sure if there's anything I refuse to discuss. I'll probably discuss just about anything. Maybe if it got too personal I'd refuse to discuss it? There are some topics I might gloss over, but it's not that I refuse to discuss them, it's just that I'm not up to it at the moment. I'm an argumentative person by nature. Though there might be times where I refrain from discussing, not because of the topic, but because I think the OP or someone else is just impossible to reason with or a troll. | |
British food. I steer well away from that clusterfuck of silliness. | |
if it ever happnes I'll be sure to a big thread about it | |
There isn't really a topic I'll always refuse to discuss. | |
Racism is one I like to keep hidden away mostly, due to controversial beliefs and views I hold. Other than that, I'm pretty open with most discussion, though I'm not really into the intense debating that often takes place on here. I swear some of you guys are completely motivated by argumentation sometimes, like it's in your blood. xD | |
MLP | |
LIAR! You have made several topics on this subject! | |
I'd be prone to ignoring those if we saw them a lot because it would take more work than I'm willing to go through to find them evidence that they will just ignore anyway. | |
You don't say. The sarcasm was lost on you, wasn't it :D | |
Here on The Escapist? Gender, misogyny, uhhh... Lemme get back to you. In general I have no problem discussing anything. Here on the Escapist the topics I don't like to discuss have been discussed to death and it has never changed anyone's opinion. Plus there are stronger, more eloquent, voices here. (Are Evilthecat or Katakori-Kun still around?) | |
Not that I haven't ever discussed it but Feminism. I am just tired of hearing the same excuses whenever I bring up the fact the feminists might be being a tad unfair with something. Women are hurt more therefore they are entitled to more, and men shouldn't have things because of it. Just so frustrating every time. Does not help having a feminist for a girlfriend haha. | |
EXACTALLY! its good to see somones gets it.... a girl has never left me...there was a guy but I think I may have left him | |
But I'm so perfect for her! I saved all her facebook pictures! I know her blood type! I'm so much better then that stupid jock. When has he ever watched my little pony? when has he ever wrote a 10k essay about why Micheal Bay's transformers is the worse thing in the world. All he does is exercise, socialize, study a bit for exams and stuff. He's never spent ten hours on the internet masturbating to pokemon hentai! Women! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efTloIPzkkA Wanted to post this for so long. Anything to do with politics ever. Partly because I'm well quite right wing, this site is usually quite left wing so meh. Also you get the crazies there. The classic rape thread goes something like this "If I'm strong enough to pin a women down and she can't resist then that's consent" | |
Anything involving circumcision,because those tend to get real bad real fast,rape and at least here anything concerning JRPG's unless it's a recommendation thread. | |
Religion and politics. It usually devolves into arguing and insulting each other. I don't like doing that. Especially online. | |
Can't think of any general topic category I won't get into. There are specific discussions I won't touch, but those are generally due to a lack of interesting discussion and/or a plethora of overly irrational posters. Hmm, on second thought, I'm changing the stance presented in the first sentence. I won't touch any "which X is better" threads | |
Nothing I really refuse to discuss if you personally ask me to discuss it, but I might cut the discussion off pretty quick. Everyone at least gets a chance to prove they'll at least consider my point of view, because I will briefly consider theirs. | |
There's no point in discussing why all British food is inferior to the poutine, so I don't blame you. OT: I made the mistake of posting in a few abortion threads, I usually prefer to stay away from those because no matter what side you're on, you're either a murderer or a conservative nut job who hates women....... I never intend to return to the R & P section of this forum actually. These friendzone and gender war threads get pretty annoying as well. | |
Mainly politics and religion since I don't feel like getting into an argument over semantics and whatever. Also, I have very different views than most people that go to that forum, so I'm just avoiding a headache and countless messages. Anything dealing with sexuality and rape, those can get very ugly very fast, and I'd rather not be involved in them. | |
If I can't add anything to the conversation or don't have a solid opinion about something, I don't post. | |
Validation of my martial training. I refuse to go into that. | |
I have a few that I refuse to discuss: Circumcision, I seriously didn't know this was a problem until I came here. It's honestly one of the fucking dumbest things I've ever seen debated. Girl Problem threads, I seriously have no sympathy for you and your lack of social skills. I've had my share of girl problems but I never complain about them. Anything involving police, These also lead to nasty "I hate police" debates which I hate. There are more but these are the biggest ones. I'm not a big debater so I stay away from anything that could lead to a debate. | |
It was M'aiq it was. | |
I still think my favorite quote I have got on many occasions is "the purpose behind evolution is to make things into humans" it appears to be the end game revelation of "Higher and lower forms of evolution" wherein things are somehow more ore less evolved with human being the most evolved and somehow best and a random organism being the worst for very ambiguous reasons such as "That organism is total shit!" a clearly scientific view that can be demonstrated as true to one's peers | |
Of course there's the whole thing of religion and politics things that I will never bring up unless I actually know you. To just keep it Gaming related: Because if you are stupid enough to believe any of these in the first place, I know I'm wasting my keystrokes. Also, | |
Oh urgh, that's awful. Reminds me that it isn't *just* the creationists with a rather ignorant view of evolution, since I've seen terrible misunderstandings of it from non-creationists too. | |
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Everyone has a few topics that they just will not debate about. I'm curious about this and would invite you to share what kind of things that you just won't discuss anymore, either because you've discussed it to death, have a unusual/controversial opinion and would rather just keep that Pandora's box closed, or just think that discussing that topic is pointless.
There are two topics that seem to come up here every once in a while that I won't discuss: Piracy and Suicide. Piracy because the same tired arguments get brought up time and time again and no one is going to have their mind changed and suicide because it is such a personal subject that it's easy to piss someone off.
So any topics that you just refuse to discuss and if so, why?