What happend to Den-fi?

[Imapancake15]

I know they left but why?

(If this is already a topic sorry)

[WhitetailAni]

His words:

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I don't want to create false hope for myself or anyone else.

I'm already guilty of that thinking I could just ignore someone who was being themselves.

That's really... rude. If I have to close my eyes to avoid someone who is being a completely normal person in their own eyes, then I'm the one that's the problem.

Leaving and saying "well maybe I'll feel differently about this later" is not how that works. If I were to come back, I'd be good for all of 5 minutes before I start to resent people for being who they are. I'm not about to do that to anyone. So that's all there is to it. This place is growing and I am not. I won't stick around and slow it down.

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It's not like that now. I regret grumbling about "the way things are now" because really, who has a right to stop time?

Just gotta realize that this doesn't align with me anymore. It's not any one person, it's just what time has done.

 

Make of that what you will.

[The Blackhat]

Den has moved a majority of his online interactions/material to Level1 and AnotherSuperSeries/Site/Society.

 

https://anothersupersite.com/author/den-fi/ here you can find his new work. AnotherSuperSociety is the forum.

[Imapancake15]

11 hours ago, The Blackhat said:

Den has moved a majority of his online interactions/material to Level1 and AnotherSuperSeries/Site/Society.

 

https://anothersupersite.com/author/den-fi/ here you can find his new work. AnotherSuperSociety is the forum.

Thanks, I also noticed they stopped posting on pcpartpicker but didn't delete the account.

[The Blackhat]

5 hours ago, Imapancake15 said:

Thanks, I also noticed they stopped posting on pcpartpicker but didn't delete the account.

He definitely is still posting there lol.

[Imapancake15]

15 minutes ago, The Blackhat said:

He definitely is still posting there lol.

Oh I checked their builds and they hadn't posted anything in the last month but I checked the comments and went "Hmmm"

 

[Imapancake15]

3 minutes ago, Caroline said:

me every time someone uses they, them and their when referring to an individual

 

 

Pain.

Um what am I supposed to call them.

[Imapancake15]

2 minutes ago, comander said:

It can reasonably be assumed that the dude is a dude. 

The push to use they/them is mostly coming from the crowd in San Francisco. Basically once you hit 300k a year of income as a software engineer at a progressive tech company, all of your problems go away other than what icky poor people do so you need to fix THEM...

I say "guys" usually when talking to a group, But  even when I was young I used them/they to address a person I don't know the gender of. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Elisis]

3 hours ago, Caroline said:

me every time someone uses they, them and their when referring to an individual

 

 

Pain.

You have an issue with a commonly used piece of grammar that's been in place for hundreds of years? This is something a third grader can do, so I wouldn't recommend telling on yourself like that.

[Zando_]

3 hours ago, Caroline said:

me every time someone uses they, them and their when referring to an individual

"Hey, look at that person over there, I wonder what they are doing."

It's normal English lmao. Singular "they" has been in use for fuckin ages, and most native English speakers do it automatically when they don't know much about someone.

[imreloadin]

3 hours ago, Caroline said:

me every time someone uses they, them and their when referring to an individual

 

 

Pain.

Someone needs to educate themselves...

https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/they-is-a-singular-pronoun/

[flibberdipper]

2 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

Someone needs to educate themselves...

https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/they-is-a-singular-pronoun/

But they don't want to.

[Zando_]

32 minutes ago, Caroline said:

Basically a cool story about old english used as a long excuse for wokespeech.

Wokespeech? It’s how English works, friend. You seem to be taking this as a reference to non-binary individuals who commonly ask to be referred to by they/them. Whether or not you respect an individual’s requested pronouns has more to do with you as a person than with how English works. “They” is a valid singular and plural pronoun. 
 

34 minutes ago, Caroline said:When I went to school I was just told that when you don't know someone's sex or name then you just use he, him or himself depending on the sentence, unless a female given name is mentioned. 

Weird school. It’s extremely common to use singular “they” for an unknown individual. I’ve read and heard it used in spoken english by all sorts of people. 

[Elisis]

43 minutes ago, Caroline said:

When I went to school I was just told that when you don't know someone's sex or name then you just use he, him or himself depending on the sentence

You used to see this in books, and for obvious reasons it's rather dated. "They" is so prevalent nowadays you see people using it automatically.

[imreloadin]

46 minutes ago, Caroline said:

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Quit trying to politicize something that's not political? It's how grammar works lmao

I mean I get it if you went to school 40 years ago or something but then they also believed in things like not allowing women to open bank accounts and shit and I'm sure you're ok with that now...weird hill to die on but whatever

 

[Tog Driver]

Why is this a discussion of they/them.

 

I read the thread, so I can see what happened, but seriously.

[imreloadin]

1 minute ago, Tog Driver said:

Why is this a discussion of they/them.

 

I read the thread, so I can see what happened, but seriously.

The snowflakes are offended by how people use language correctly I guess? Always trying to make shit political for some reason.

[Tog Driver]

3 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

The snowflakes are offended by how people use language correctly I guess? Always trying to make shit political for some reason.

Looks like not liking a part of normal language because of the politicization of the involved words.

[Elisis]

2 minutes ago, comander said:

The push for "they" and gender neutral language is mostly coming from the types of people that attended Harvard's Graduate School of Education

There is no push for "they" given it's already solidly cemented as a valid part of the English language... 

 

3 minutes ago, comander said:

drank the woke KoolAid and then went on a mission to "educate" the youth.

Someone's definitely drinking the kool-aid here. There is no such indoctrination of the use of "they" like you're suggesting. Language evolves so... get over it, I guess?

[King of Memes]

I mean, the off-topic discussion was interesting, but it has nothing to do with the original topic. 

[Spotty]

Pretty sure an argument over grammar and inclusive language isn't how Den-Fi wants to be remembered. Y'all are weird.

Den just felt the Linus Tech Tips forum was no longer the right place for him and chose to leave. Nothing more.