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  • Hazarding a guess that they feel OP is using schizo as a shorthand reference for crazy/delusional, given the context is Internet conspiracy theories. They possibly feel that it is being used as a perjorative which disrespects folks who struggle with schizophrenia. In essence, calling something you find crazy “schizo” is the same as calling something you find dumb “retarded”.

    I don’t have a dog in the fight one way or the other, but, in the absence of their reply, that’s my assumption.









  • Not OP but overexplaining jokes is my PaSsIoN.

    If you do a raw substitution of Roman numerals for Arabic numerals when writing FF15, you wind up with FFIV. Of course, because of the way Roman numerals work, FFIV ≠ FF15 (as that is properly written as FFXV). Instead, FFIV refers to Final Fantasy 4.

    The joke is that the only way you can make FF15 (or FFXV, if you prefer) good is to misunderstand the numbering and play a different game instead.

    Edit: aw beans someone beat me to it.



  • Sympathies. That tightrope walk of dealing with someone who is misinformed but not malicious is tough. It’s important to challenge them, but not so stridently as to teach them not to engage with you, as you don’t want them to retreat further into that space. I wish I were more successful at it, but my mouth tends to outrun my brain. How did your colleague react to that reality check?