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Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by secondaryacct on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:15AM (#28784779)
What s rude is the shared imagery not the words. If I call myself MyDirtyDickInYourDogBringsMeToOrgasm, imagining this scene is disgusting enough to ask me to change it.

Words are not just symbols on paper, they are image triggers in your brain.

Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by Xiol on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:23AM (#28784833)
I have Aphantasia, thankfully I'm invulnerable to this.
Re:The naughty username checking system used by Twitch by dmos62 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:13AM (#28785220)
If someone attempts to degrade someone's emotional or mental state, that's something that should be stigmatized. But, that doesn't mean that the individual is not completely responsible for his own mental state, in the sense meant by Stoics. It's not about things, but our thoughts about things, which are ultimately under our control. We may play the victim, but we'd only be fooling ourselves.