Free Step Dodge

"Jesus only helps those that help themselves."

On topic, Shade is equivalent to direct insult from what I gathered here. In other words, custom words in similar fashion to Shots Fired. They are human? Yup they are, so another word that can be excessively used to develop interior salt when providing it to a quiet individual who's tearing shit up. Great, exactly what I was looking for.

Man all these replies and I can't even get one from my friend in a two day time span XD

"Reads" are direct insults going by drag slang but since this is the fgc read already means something else

It's ok, you don't miss out on text. I mean, apparently one would somehow provide some sort of percentage regarding the LGBT society of things when 30-40% is not even a correct estimate since the numbers are randomized with people who hide it.

That number came from agencies that deal with homeless youth. If you want to see the breakdown of reasons they're homeless (spoiler: none are acceptance) and where I got the numbers

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Durso-Gates-LGBT-Homeless-Youth-Survey-July-2012.pdf

I said 30-40% bc of the drop in centers, street outreach, and housing programs having different amounts but that page says 40% average so I probably should've said that

What is going on here?

@SilverForte - Well, kinda simple. The players I've encountered online have tried to assert some sort of dominance to prove something within the game, which was basically typical common talk that you'd normally see in a random lobby. Which is nothing.

Then the topic changed a bit in finding out what 'Shade' is, which is urban slang from the drag scene that was bought out by the gay community (which is still humans trying to be different) and then finding out from surfing across the net and all over FB+plus here, is that it's exactly the same thing as Shots Fired (which is also slang).

What initially sparked this post is that I wrote 'Shade' as part of the topic simply because it's the latest trend and latest word that has been used on the day-to-day typical DOA lobbies, even from individuals who are not gay, therefore Shade just proves that anyone can use it 'because freedom of saying what you want' which also proves that "no one is truly special" especially not in a DOA game within lobbies.

Now, the point I was trying to make is that when you are providing indirect insult/Shots Fired/Shade to an individual who has done nothing wrong but being quiet while playing the game and tearing shit up legitimately in a net battle, none of those speeches truly matter if it's just endless whining+develop slow salt, or extensive criticism since that one is new.

I can't think of a single person who likes shade thrown their way when it's not a hot sunny day myself.

But seriously though, unprovoked trash talk is the worst.

I see, so typical lobby garbage?

"(Which is still humans trying to be different)"

Curious, what do you mean by this

For example, say I want to take over the word "God" and use it for my own ways. The word is already popular as it is but I just happen to be that common person who wants to change it to something else just so that it's different than how it's usually used.

A good example is "Godlike" or "GDLK" that's been all over anime forums/comments, FG forums (Ein/Hayate DOA forums), where it's used to describe something for coolness or epic but usually it's not directly related or described to anything that's "actually" godly.

What I mean up there is generally people looking for something to be different when they don't actually have to be any different than anyone else, because of the fact that everyone is the same. So why should one isolate or buy something off a word that everyone generally use.

This goes for everyone really. No one really should have any special privileges to just go out their way to change a common word just for their own desires to be different when they can be easily accepted as everyone else technically speaking but it's somewhat safe to do it anyway if more than one person is agreeing to follow that trend. No one is really special whether you are straight, gay, dog, cat, plant etc.

Fact is, everyone is human. Changing something is basically no different than the standard straight man to pick something off the dictionary and say "I want this word to have a new meaning now! screw the dictionary!" - If anything, nicknames is one of the most acceptable things since it's mostly towards an individual than as a whole central group that is somehow asking to be isolated.