Sharkle_Bunwich
She/They
United States
If you hate me because of my gender identity you're focusing on the wrong 1%.

R.I.P. Kyzriel 12/8/18. You will be missed dearly.

I'm what you can call an old guard of the internet. I'm not an old, stubborn b*tch that is stuck in her ways but there's a lot wrong with today's internet I've grown tired of. I miss the days people didn't take this place so seriously; where the mentality among those who perused the internet was that arguing online was stupid and if you participated in it, YOU were stupid. Now it's unironically become the plot in MGS2 the Patriots were there to prevent. And it's funny because I grew up being told don't believe anything you see on the internet. Now suddenly everyone believes anything they see just because there's some fancy text slapped over a random picture, because they paid money to look like a "verified" source, because someone has a fancy set up, speaks in a ~soothing~ Youtuber cadence, and ragebaits them while offering convenient reasons for all their life problems. Even the older folk who once shared this wise wisdom have fallen victim to at least one of these cogs in the current internet hate machine. I can't even brush it off as just being isolated to cyberspace anymore. It feels like a weird paradigm shift occurred once internet became a necessity to live. A lot has happened and changed in such a short amount of time. The internet has always been a place where time moved fast but now it's bled so hard into real life that real life has started moving at a breakneck speed too. All these factors have culminated in a climate that is not only toxic but dangerous for myself and people like me that merely just want to exist and have the same human rights as everybody else. So I just keep to myself now, playing the video games I love to play, spending time with my friends and family, doing what I need to do in life as the stereotypical progressive queer liberal many love to hate while doing it. I live partially in spite of the haters. Hopefully things will even out on their own. Maybe soon people will realize a group of marginalized people that make up 1% of the US population isn't the problem and start recognizing the real problem are the elites and grifters that say we are.

And listen - if you're "anti-woke' or "anti-DEI" or whatever please just don't engage me; get a life, log off, and stop pretending that you like video games. Get the hell out of my hobby. I don't have a dog in this fight. Y'all flood forums and online spaces with your annoying rhetoric, shove it down everyone's throats and drown any legitimate conversation about the game. You don't allow people to just enjoy games anymore. Congratulations - you're the same thing you hated - just a different flavor. I just want to live in a world where this culture war BS doesn't exist. Where people from all walks of life can co-exist while extremists go away or have their behavior extinction bubble popped so they can integrate into the rest of society. And that goes for people on the "left" as well as the "right," so don't lump me in with weirdos. I can't wait until these radicals destroy one another so the rest of us can move on with our f*cking lives.

If you're still reading this and like what you read, feel free to add me if you'd like! I don't have much time to play games with others, but I do love shooting the sh*t whenever. Just be forewarned that being an internet old guard does mean my vocabulary can be a little... colorful.

Additionally, DON'T add me if:

- You want to trade. I have nothing for sale.
- You're under 18. Nothing personal, I just don't want to be friends with kids.
- You're a bigot. Self-explanatory.

P.S. If you're gonna clap at me in the comments you better have your profile/comments open. Cowards get their comments deleted.

Discord (preferred method of communication) : sharkle_bunwich

Avatar Credit: @seiji_artman (Twitter)
If you hate me because of my gender identity you're focusing on the wrong 1%.

R.I.P. Kyzriel 12/8/18. You will be missed dearly.

I'm what you can call an old guard of the internet. I'm not an old, stubborn b*tch that is stuck in her ways but there's a lot wrong with today's internet I've grown tired of. I miss the days people didn't take this place so seriously; where the mentality among those who perused the internet was that arguing online was stupid and if you participated in it, YOU were stupid. Now it's unironically become the plot in MGS2 the Patriots were there to prevent. And it's funny because I grew up being told don't believe anything you see on the internet. Now suddenly everyone believes anything they see just because there's some fancy text slapped over a random picture, because they paid money to look like a "verified" source, because someone has a fancy set up, speaks in a ~soothing~ Youtuber cadence, and ragebaits them while offering convenient reasons for all their life problems. Even the older folk who once shared this wise wisdom have fallen victim to at least one of these cogs in the current internet hate machine. I can't even brush it off as just being isolated to cyberspace anymore. It feels like a weird paradigm shift occurred once internet became a necessity to live. A lot has happened and changed in such a short amount of time. The internet has always been a place where time moved fast but now it's bled so hard into real life that real life has started moving at a breakneck speed too. All these factors have culminated in a climate that is not only toxic but dangerous for myself and people like me that merely just want to exist and have the same human rights as everybody else. So I just keep to myself now, playing the video games I love to play, spending time with my friends and family, doing what I need to do in life as the stereotypical progressive queer liberal many love to hate while doing it. I live partially in spite of the haters. Hopefully things will even out on their own. Maybe soon people will realize a group of marginalized people that make up 1% of the US population isn't the problem and start recognizing the real problem are the elites and grifters that say we are.

And listen - if you're "anti-woke' or "anti-DEI" or whatever please just don't engage me; get a life, log off, and stop pretending that you like video games. Get the hell out of my hobby. I don't have a dog in this fight. Y'all flood forums and online spaces with your annoying rhetoric, shove it down everyone's throats and drown any legitimate conversation about the game. You don't allow people to just enjoy games anymore. Congratulations - you're the same thing you hated - just a different flavor. I just want to live in a world where this culture war BS doesn't exist. Where people from all walks of life can co-exist while extremists go away or have their behavior extinction bubble popped so they can integrate into the rest of society. And that goes for people on the "left" as well as the "right," so don't lump me in with weirdos. I can't wait until these radicals destroy one another so the rest of us can move on with our f*cking lives.

If you're still reading this and like what you read, feel free to add me if you'd like! I don't have much time to play games with others, but I do love shooting the sh*t whenever. Just be forewarned that being an internet old guard does mean my vocabulary can be a little... colorful.

Additionally, DON'T add me if:

- You want to trade. I have nothing for sale.
- You're under 18. Nothing personal, I just don't want to be friends with kids.
- You're a bigot. Self-explanatory.

P.S. If you're gonna clap at me in the comments you better have your profile/comments open. Cowards get their comments deleted.

Discord (preferred method of communication) : sharkle_bunwich

Avatar Credit: @seiji_artman (Twitter)