http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftEZy3Qf-ZY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
this makes me feel bad, and happy cause thats how I feel.

to be honest Idgaf if i'm called an autist
I love to build "pointless" forts knowing they'll be wrecked by a greifer eventually :P
and if they're greifing while i'm adding onto it, of course I'll be pissed, but did it even help the team? maybe but not always...

Autism here is somthing like calling others "gay faggot" in other games and irl.
They are not in fact gay (or autist) but is used as an adjective to make it sound more insulting.
Also autist here are just useless players doing nothing but building.

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Except that everyone on /v/ is autistic. The way I see it, there's two types of autism. One that makes you love minecraft, and the other that makes you hate it.

Stop getting butthurt over the fucking internet. If you want to know the origin of builders being called autists, stay a while and listen.

Long ago in a magical realm called 4chan, in the land called /v/, there lived a man named Manly Tears. Now, all of /v/ hated video games, but once they discovered a game called Minecraft, they thought it was a gift from God. Everyone except Manly Tears, who, due to his extreme hatred of building things and his Napoleonic Complex; hated Minecraft, calling players children or "autists", due to the supposed fact that autistic children love Legos. Eventually, the saying spread all over /v/, many started to resent Minecraft players, calling them autistic. And now that Ace Of Spades has come, similar in Minecraft due to the building aspect, the word has migrated.

nvm

So nigger is not offensive because...
autist is offensive because...

fill in blanks pl0x

Its a name, not a Description...

It's not shocking an asian would say the whole nigger thing doesn't bug him.

Calling somebody "autistic" can be easily misinterperted. Much like the problem with people making swasticas. They would say, "It's a bhuddist religious symbol" but, a lot of people would take it to be a nazi symbol. Here's the thread. http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=3226

In other words, people will take it to be a slur at the expense of actual people with afore-mentioned mental condition, regardless of what it actually is supposed to mean.

The problem I have with people calling others "autists" is that it's mislabeling not to mention that autism itself is no laughing matter. Then again... this IS the Internet.

TL;DR - Autism b srsbsns. STFU and GTFO

me my friends bro has autism

So has anyone ever been offended?

i mean wtf and people are like lol how would you feel if you were autistic

i agree that autists have a serious mental health condition and people should respect them

The whole "Nigger" part doesn't offend me either, but its the calling of "autists" that really get to me... Are you guys so fucking senseless as to not even care the Autism is a REAL disease? Hell, even some of the kids who DO play this game could be suffering from Autism themselves! The saying of "Sticks and Stone may break my bones, but names will never hurt me" has basically been ignored by myself because the calling of Autists just really gets to me....

Oh my god.... you people are so sensitive. Like I said, people call other people (who are white) niggers online all the time. you don't see me jumping into it and saying OMGOMGOMG RACIST

If it's not referring to you, ignore them. Simple as that.
You're autistic? Coolbeans man, like I said I'm black, and people use the actual word black as an insult (not nigger, black), it doesn't bother me. Why does it bug you?

PySpades has a mute feature, which I like, and could be quite useful in the vanilla code (which could really use more admin controls). An ignore feature might be nice as well, so you don't have to wait for the host to notice you to stop having to deal with that troll flooding your chat.

As a response to the OP, there's a few things to note. What is and isn't acceptable on a server is entirely up to the host, since they're using their own bandwith and CPU to host the server. In general, though, pointless buildings in war servers are seen as wasteful, and destroying them is considered acceptable by quite a few members of the community. Useful buildings, however, are strategic assets and shouldn't be destroyed unless they're being used by the rival team.

Oh, and it's never OK to try to go on a griefing rampage in a build-only. Like I said above, the server rules are the server host's business. If you don't want to deal with the autism, find a war server.

@joesph

what you are referring to is a language filter. A mute feature would prevent any message typed in chat from being received from his client to yours. Also known as ignore feature. Common commands being...

/mute deuce1
/mute all
/ignore griefer

i did i know that...on perpose

I seriously hope you misspelled grammar...

Back to the topic, myself personally don't mind autistic people that much, you can't stop them anyway.

pssh who needs gramar

You get off the forums, your lack of proper grammar and spelling hurts my eyes.

gtfo the forums...austism is a real problem.

and you act like a 2 year old so i will call you bubba

I call them autistic because they act like autistic people.

Also, I don't like them because all the builders are usually on my team, so we're horribly outnumbered and nobody switches because we appear to have more players.

@NameCalling: Mute system can easily be bypassed. I could just type "a utist" and the script would ignore it. Also, good idea.

As for the "autist" thing, if people want to call me an autist for building something that they deem might be unnecessary then whatever. I'll be ventilating enemy heads over that next hill.

I guess some people don't know that there's a time and place for everything. And that building superfluous structures in a battle server isn't exactly the most productive thing to do.

Devas, please don't euthanize my little brother.

Calling people 'autists' negatively is still derogatory against actual people with autism, I don't care how fitting anyone feels it is, and personally I'd like the term to die and change. Likely? Maybe not but oh well.

People who decide to wreck the 'autists' buildings and think they are a helping really aren't. It doesn't stop them from building in the future, it doesn't do anything for the team because you are in the back being just as useful as the useless builders, and it only makes you look like a jerk.

Some people take things way too far with deconstructing 'autist' structures... I mean, is it really that bad for me to add a little flag at the top of the tower I just finished with my extra blocks while I'm up there? That doesn't magically make me an 'autist'. I'm not saying I care the flag falls, it's gonna happen, but I don't like the quick label.

Name calling is childish behavior. Simple as that. Maybe implement a mute system. Until then...

Live and let live. Ignore people who frustrate you. Kill the enemy.
Help the team. Win the game.
Have fun?

I dunno, crazy ideas, perhaps to some.

I've never heard anyone call anyone an autist, but I do hate people who sit in the camp and build useless stuff, especially when I'm the only one on a team of 7-16 defending the intel, and I'm wracking up more kills than everyone on my team combined.

If you want to build, join a build server. I noticed a lot of good servers get filled up, and when i can finally joined its full of idiots who are building colourful rainbow houzes omg so kewl.

Either way, people need to stop getting offended over shit so easily. I'm black, people say nigger all the time. People draw Swastikas all over 50% of servers I join, people votekick with the reason "nigger" or "fucking nigger." Who gives a fuck? It's an online game.

Seriously, if you want to build, Minecraft is all for you. But when I put 30 minutes of my time into playing the game, keeping the scores neck n neck while only 2 or 3 players help me fend against 10 or 12, and we lose because most of our team is building, I usually just break their shit, and tell them it's not a build server, and to stop building shit.

due to some builders building pointless structures in the back of the battlefield (i mean pointless, things that dont protect or are even near intel/base$), writing pointless messages on the ground, drawing pictures or writing their name really fancy-like, building minecraft creatures or portals, etc, they are called autists for their minecraft-like attention to their structure and defending it pointlessly

"game isnt free minecraft"