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Diversity by Daylight?
I think the dbd community is kinda diverse so I'm wondering to what extent that may be.
The options I chose don't really follow any specific guideline or reason for being selected.
Poll is anonymous because it can be a very sensitive topic. I might have missed a few options which you would expect.
As a gay person myself I think it can be easy to just pretend you're just an ordinary straight person and keeping any oddity or difference to yourself because you'd assume people would take it in a bad/good way. Either way I know there's a lot of similarities between a lot of us.
Sometimes it can be easy to think because you're different you are like a separate species from everyone else. I think the knowledge of how many people share your difference can be quite empowering and warming.
If you have any other things which you think make you different from everyone else and you want to share it then please do because I think it would be really insightful and it'll be nice seeing how no matter what we all share the same interest in spoopy horror games which are not at all scary apart from the first few weeks of playing.
Diversity by Daylight? 63 votes
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I am a gay 15 year old
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I had no idea, you seem really mature and knowledgeable to be 15. Also well done for sharing.
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Thank you, I’m pretty open about my homosexuality. :)
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- Straight
- White
- Healthy as can be
- 24
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I am also a gay 15 year old
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I'm 15 years of age and I'm Straight :P
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Just about the most average person I could be.
(Except for the time I got strep twice in 6 weeks.)
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Strep is the worst! Can’t imagine getting it twice in 6 weeks..
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Hmm okay why do we need that, i only see a problematic poll
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What a plot twist. Inb4 half the trusted forum members turn out to be people who legally shouldn't be playing the game in the first place lol.
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No its not surprising tbh
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@Fibijean Nothing wrong with playing a game you enjoy. What do you want? Everyone below the age of 18 to never be able to develop a passion for games or movies because of a stupid certificate rating which is there as guidance so you know what it is you're watching/playing.
If you think there's something wrong with being too young to play then you need to get real.
@Aldo @Aldofer Hardly a problematic poll trying to see how diverse the playerbase is. Just leave them alone the both of you.
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Chill out, mate. I was clearly joking around.
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@Fibijean Hmmm ok then. I just thought you could have been serious and I didn't want you to make it seem like they were doing something wrong by playing the game. I'm chill now you've clarified it was a joke.
Also for anyone who wants to raise the question about infringing upon the law to play a game underage then I can say that the certificate rating is a means to highlight what audience it is suitable for, you may be required to be a particular age rating when buying but playing is a different story.
It's basically so 5 year olds don't accidentally buy the new resident evil games and find it too much to handle.
Also the certificate rating system is kinda outdated and dumb. I've got a massive gripe with how EA basically have gambling in their games and it's suitable for ages 3 and above.
Just a little insight to those who feel like you're breaking the law by playing, you're not the certificate rating is just a guideline.
I'm only going on because if it was me would be feeling as if I shouldn't be playing with the question of legality going around. I hope I put that question to bed.
Again no offense to Fibi I'm just making sure if this concern is raised again it won't hold any significance. 🙂
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No offence taken, sorry if I gave the wrong impression. Sometimes it's hard to communicate or receive the intended message over text 🙂
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Gay, 24.
Very put off by the fact that you're trying to say diversity is good, then blatantly insult straight people calling them plain and basic.
Seriously, you're part of a community that has been looked down on for ages, why keep that sort of negative attitude to judge people for being different from you?
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By plain Jane I was just referring to the normality of most people identifying as straight rather than talking bad about them. Again it's hard to talk generally about such a delicate topic unless I try to clarify every single thing which may be misinterpreted as offense.
Diversity is good, it encourages acceptance and makes a community or whatever more friendly about our differences we all have. I'll edit the part you're referring to and rephrase the point I was intending to get across.
Your point is actually spot on, it was a little dumb of me reading back what I initially typed, have an upvote.
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im genderfluid and bisexual, so i just voted multiple options :P
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I got it once and forgot to replace my toothbrush. It was a real bruh moment.
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I feel like DBD has a very diverse community. :)
Also I feel gaming in general has just become more inclusive over the years which creates a broader audience, and that is only a good thing. Video games are amazing and should be enjoyed by everyone!
Im a 23 year old dude who is gay btw.
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I am an oppressed left-handed person.
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Legally I can play it, someone else just had to buy it for me. :P
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I'm a straight, white, 17-year-old male (though my comments on these forums make me seem more like I'm in my 30s).
If we're talking physical disabilities, my right foot is twisted, causing me to walk on the side of it. I'm also pretty sure I'm bordering legal blindness (I can't read anything more than three inches away without my glasses, and it keeps getting worse).
If we're talking mental disabilities, I have pretty bad OCD, and I'm pretty sure something else is wrong with me, but we haven't figured out what.
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15, straight, and have an issue with my brain :D
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Wait I mean I'm totally over 18 years of age. I'm not a young boi at all :P
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Well Dwight is at LEAST 18 so...
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Totally 18, not 15 at all (• ▽ •;)
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I'm a gay 16 year old with nothing better to do in life than answer polls on this website
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Bisexual, mental and physical disabilities - a good chunk over the ages some people are posting, but nowhere near 50 :P
Age and experience does help developing a sense of humour so I can laugh at how sad some players must be to behave the ways they do :P
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Boosted to adulthood :P
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😄😃😀😐😶
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I have a very bad feeling about posting here...
Autistic counts as a disability, right? I voted "multiple", as it is most likely the truth.
I agree with the Pig main, you say straight people are "ordinary" @AshleyWB It can rub off as insulting.
I also have quite a few problems with your OP. Of which I want to write about. But it's late and I currently have that text bug that replaces what I write when I try to correct something earlier in my post...
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I never said it's ordinary to be straight. I said it's more common for people to identify as straight. At least that's what I think I said.
I realized that the options in this poll can easily overlap too.
I don't really see what issues you might have with my original post other than misinterpreting what I say. If I did happen to cause offense then there was no I'll intention and it would have been accidental. If you point out where I can edit it to sound more friendly.
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Actually I just read my post. I was describing my experience of feeling like I had to pretend that I was ordinarily straight like everyone else I know. Ordinarily meaning that I don't know any openly gay people in person and I still to this day feel like I have to pretend to be a straight person. I'm not really surrounded by nice people. My family and a lot of people in my neighborhood are really homophobic and I just don't feel like I should bother making it public or whatever.
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"As a gay person myself I think it can be easy to just pretend you're just an ordinary straight person and keeping any oddity or difference to yourself because you'd assume people would take it in a bad/good way."
"just pretend you're just an ordinary straight person"
"just" "just an" "ordinary"
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"I don't really see what issues you might have with my original post other than misinterpreting what I say."
I actually think I've interpreted your OP correctly. However, I would want to do this in a separate comment.
"If you point out where I can edit it to sound more friendly."
I don't think you'll be editing this, actually. I have problems with quite a few important bits, you're more likely to snap at me and start calling me -ist labels.
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You can say whatever you like, you're entitled to your view as long as it's given in a fair and respectable manner.
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This is nice but...
When people read "As a gay person myself I think it can be easy to just pretend you're just an ordinary straight person" people don't think "I don't know any openly gay people in person" or "I still to this day feel like I have to pretend to be a straight person".
There's more that I want to say in response to this, I think, but my exhaustion is affecting my ability to spot what I'm taking fault with and forming responses.
… Sorry to hear that you are surrounded by hostile people though.
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You're trivialising too much. I used the word 'ordinary' and you're misinterpreting it's meaning.
I don't really want to discuss with someone who keeps picking apart everything I say looking for something to be outraged about. You said you're tired, maybe once you're more awake you'll make sense of my point.
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Also I'm tired too I'm not gonna continue listening to you quote me and then say I meant something else. Change the tone of the discussion and I'll be more than happy to discuss whatever you like. There's nothing to gain from heating it up.
And a final thing for now, I made it clear in my post that I didn't really know how to phrase my poll so it's not really fair to paint me as whatever eventhough the very reason I wanted to make this poll was to see if I'm one of many people who have to endure being different. It's a touchy subject but if you look at the results so far then it's clear how many voters have a similarity of being different from expected 'traditional' Straight people.
That final line there, I have no idea what word to use instead of traditional or ordinary. What I do know is that there is no ill intent whatsoever. I want to defend my point because it's personal to me but I don't really want to fuel this discussion with you right now.
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"Trivialising too much" I see you're one of those people who keeps going "stop strawmanning me!" until people who have something to say in response go away, huh?
Because half of your replies have been ignoring what I've said and responding with some excuse on how I'm "misinterpreting" it.
Also, maybe it's... YOUR fault you keep getting "misunderstood", if you aren't just changing your general statement from the OP over and over again? It's your job to make your words and statements clear.
I'm also rather awake now. A bit late, but awake. Not too much has changed.
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Stop quoting me because it's getting confusing. Just tell me where the problem is and I can give you a proper answer.
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Fine, here. I'll do it now.
I don't really like the entire tone of this entire OP, as well as your thought process, as it is part of a bad pattern. But this is more of a flimsy nitpicky outlier. Don't focus on this bit, okay?
""Sometimes it can be easy to think because you're different you are like a separate species from everyone else."
Yeah, please don't encourage this illogical mindset. This promotes segregation.
"I think the knowledge of how many people share your difference can be quite empowering and warming."
And I think this should not be promoted, as it encourages taking pride in labels.
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"I think the knowledge of how many people share your difference can be quite empowering and warming."
“And I think this should not be promoted, as it encourages taking pride in labels.”
It encourages people speaking up about these differences so people don’t feel ashamed of them, because people do feel ashamed of these differences and people speaking up about it and making these differences seen as something that isn’t shameful just promotes people being ok with their differences.
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"It encourages people speaking up about these differences so people don’t feel ashamed of them,"
I had not said this yet, but you're making the same mistake as the others in this thread (https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/92434/making-david-king-homosexual/p2)
You are... how do I put this... taking OP's words and reinterpreting them. OP was saying the KNOWLEDGE of other people existing with your difference is empowering. Which doesn't make sense.
You have a different, not intended interpretation of what Ashley is saying. So this counterreply, in a attempt to correct me and defend Ashley's statement, is wrong.
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@bubbascal I don't want to lecture you but this discussion isn't about who's right and who's wrong. The purpose of it was to just to see what differentiates the playerbase in the general terms which define diversity. There isn't any ill-nature in anything mentioned at all.
You keep on stopping after each comment and blasting someone on how they are wrong. You can have your own opinion but when you don't back down it just becomes toxic continuing to discuss the same meaningless point again and again.
I don't see what part of my original post. Maybe it's me, maybe it's you. Can we give it a rest because it's just becoming constant spam which just keeps spilling all over the place.
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It is empowering to know that other people who share your difference are speaking about it too, not because we take pride in our differences but because, the more people who open up, the more likely we are to become accepted and perceived as normal.
What Ashley said is not promoting taking pride in labels.
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If you can’t understand how people who have faced real life discrimination for their differences find comfort in other people who are just like them and accept them for who they are, then I don’t know what to say... literally no one here is saying that being straight is bad or that being gay makes you special so I’m really not sure where all this negativity is coming from.
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@bubbascal you're alright. I think it's good of you to be skeptical of certain things which you care about. I did kinda have zero organisation putting this poll together and there are definitely things I should have made clearer.
I don't blame you for being cautious about how I phrased things, it's always gonna be a tough topic to talk about.
I hope you're gonna back down from criticizing me but I kinda want to keep this discussion/poll whatever this is on topic of everyone's differences and embracing them for the sake of just being more aware that we actually do share a lot in common.
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