VOAT Containment Megathread of Trash People for Trash People

[Joe Molotov]

Took my daughter trick or treating tonight-and benji was handing out shitposts to kids instead of candy. I had to laugh. Halloween is one night of the year-can you have ONE night where too don't have to make everything about yourself?

[zomgee]

I don't know.... I've heard things.....   That's all I'm saying....

Maybe you heard more than me....

I'm Wolf Blitzer, CNN.

[zepblackstar]

So Putin controls GOP, Trump, FBI, Alt-Right, Syria...

Fuck it, make him President for real, he gets shit done

[benjipwns]

Took my daughter trick or treating tonight-and benji was handing out shitposts to kids instead of candy. I had to laugh. Halloween is one night of the year-can you have ONE night where too don't have to make everything about yourself?

WRONG, FAT CHECKS

i wound up taking all the shitposts for myself

[headwalk]

fairly impressed by that thread's segue from debunked ruski dealings to homemade kiddie porn allegations without stopping for breathe.

[agrajag]

I don't know.... I've heard things.....   That's all I'm saying....

Maybe you heard more than me....

I'm Wolf Blitzer, CNN.

I'm definitely no expert in the matter, and I assume neither are you, but that is what I'm hearing.

[zomgee]

I don't know.... I've heard things.....   That's all I'm saying....

Maybe you heard more than me....

I'm Wolf Blitzer, CNN.

I'm definitely no expert in the matter, and I assume neither are you, but that is what I'm hearing.

It sounds like you're hearing some of the same things I've been hearing, that's all I'm saying...

Dan Rather, CBS Special Investigations

[benjipwns]

I'm just fucking sick of how republicans get away with everything. Is it just the natural order of our universe? Being evil is just easier and reaps more rewards than being good, is that it?

I know we might tell ourselves that we need opposing views in order to evaluate our own but how can that be possible when the opposition is such asinine that it only serves to drag everyone down?

They start the mudslinging and deception and suddenly liberals are equally bad. They get in power and make the government ineffective and wasteful, continuing the cycle that they intended in the first place. But the blame falls on us as well.

It is like a cult of racists and selfish assholes. The republican party should not exist in its current form and it angers me that they will only get worse.

[Nola]

lol they're now accepting motherjones as gospel because it agrees with their narrative? you literally cannot make this shit up
people keep saying this election exposed the racists, but it also exposed just the plain old weak-willed idiots who resort to groupthink to shield themselves from any #triggering they might fall victim to

A large portion of GAF seems to be people that have co-opted the arguments and positions of their preferred streak of populist liberalism with none of the underlying critical thinking that originally derived some of those opinions.

Since most posters that come along that would force people to qualify their positions get shouted down or banned - and mods seem to give a wide berth to them if they adhere to their general worldview - it invites a never ending onslaught of poorly thought out hot-takes and politics-as-a-sport posts.

IMO well moderated contrarians and alternative viewpoints have an inherent value of forcing a person to qualify and think about their position from different angles and to an extent discourages shit posting.

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...I guess what I'm really saying is, I hope GAF will learn the error of their ways and unban Jeff_Rigby..... A legend lost too soon.

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[agrajag]

I don't know.... I've heard things.....   That's all I'm saying....

Maybe you heard more than me....

I'm Wolf Blitzer, CNN.

I'm definitely no expert in the matter, and I assume neither are you, but that is what I'm hearing.

It sounds like you're hearing some of the same things I've been herding, that's all I'm saying...

Dan Rather, CBS Special Investigations

And we have news coming in that confirm what we've been hearing, and my sources say there is still more to come.. stay tuned for more coverage after this commercial break

Tom Brokow, NBC News Special Report

[benjipwns]

A large portion of GAF seems to be people that have co-opted the arguments and positions of their preferred streak of populist liberalism with none of the underlying critical thinking that originally derived some of those opinions.

Since most posters that come along that would force people to qualify their positions get shouted down or banned - and mods seem to give a wide berth to them if they adhere to their general worldview - it invites a never ending onslaught of poorly thought out hot-takes and politics-as-a-sport posts.

We all do this, GAF isn't special in that regard.

Where parts of PoliGAF and its fellow OT travelers are different than some people is that it has an open and professed hatred for actually having those discussions or confronting the underlying reasoning of their views. They even despise "revisionist" history of things they don't even know the common version of beyond a paragraph summary. Me and Metaphoreus (who Walrus killed r.i.p. in peace to both) from time to time doing this on topics was constantly considered absolute derailing and made people angrier than anyone actually posting talk radio garbage as people begged to get back to posting reinforcing Vox articles and ten month out polls.

You can't debate people who can't argue or even articulate their own position. So anyone who does like being contrarian will just give up. Especially since nobody understands what being facetious means. Or when half the forum warns others that a libertarian-leaner is trolling when they post fairly standard libertarian views. Hypothetically, of course. I can't think of anyone who actually posts that way.

Again and of course, you can find the same stuff all over gaming side just altered for their favored corporations. It's also more diverse in the corporations supported, American PoliGAF just supports a single corporation.

[zomgee]

Just one more week.

And four more years.

[benjipwns]

Just one more week.

And four more years.

Wow, you don't want to re-elect Hillary? Do you want the Gamergate Party to get control of the Supreme Presidency? They already hold the House and a quarter of the Senate because you fuckers didn't vote in the 2018 midterms!

[benjipwns]

Just watched Lincoln again the other day. For context, my wife has never seen me cry, but I was getting visibly emotional during the vote for the 13th Amendment.

Can someone explain to me how the Republicans of that day have flipped to Democrats? I just find it hard to believe that the modern Republican party blocks desegregation, to this day attempts to stop/disenfranchise African Americans to vote, imprison African Americans at a tremendous rate, and attempt to destroy any social safety nets. How is this the party of Lincoln?

[thisismyusername]

Toku Trigger warning:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222384935&postcount=712

[stufte]

Just one more week.

And four more years.

Nah, only really 2 years until we start getting wall to wall coverage for the 2020 election.

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222360535&postcount=1071

lol Black Ops 2 is much better than Cod4, Cod 4 has nostalgia effect on it but the game has nothing on Black Ops 2, Bo2 was fun, competitive, skillful and very balanced.

Cod4 on the other hand has perks that ruin the game like Stopping power or Juggernaut, making other perks pretty useless when you are on 1v1, it also i a UAV GALORE wich is terrible, nobody has the courage to say this but it is the true, Cod4 still has a place in my heart but it was bad balanced and is miles behind Black Ops series on that front, specially Bo2 wich was absolutely amazing.

Being realistic does not hurt, Bo2 is miles better than Cod4 but Cod4 still remains an favorite simply because it was the game that changed everything and that is why we love it and i will play it, also gameplay is fantastic.

BLOPS1 was amazing and better than everything IW did but BLOPS2 is just alright

3 is

[agrajag]

So, how much speed did Amir0x need to take to get through this election season?

[benjipwns]

good news!

God i am so happy my job just cancelled a business trip scheduled for election day. Now i get to hang out on GAF and drink tears

Would have felt weird being around for this whole ride yet having to miss all the discussion after i voted

[Momo]

Amir0x is totally taking advantage of this election for some good boywill points on the path to modship.

Even the most fucked up mod (besada) wouldn't fuck with Amir0x with a 30 foot pole.

[Nola]

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....And then there is the page this brilliant reddit GIF first occurred on 


Including this gem    

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[VomKriege]

Amir0x is totally taking advantage of this election for some good boywill points on the path to modship.

Even the most fucked up mod (besada) wouldn't fuck with Amir0x with a 30 foot pole.

Yeah, he's never getting that back. He's an insufferable buffoon but the real killer is that he was caught red-handed being the pettiest asshole.
Though he's sure using for all its worth that umbrella of protected opinions.

[OnlyRegret]

I want Titanfall 2 but I also want Battlefield 1 but what I want the most is to just keep playing Overwatch instead of any other team-based shooter. Maybe I'll buy the next one.

pretty much
I can't be bothered to play anything else

[Let's Cyber]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222376231&postcount=200

I think i should be an FBI agent. Tons of Corruption and seems easy as fuck from how incompetently everything is being handled

lmao can you even imagine?  I don't think he'd pass any portion of the interview process 

The background check process can take anywhere from several months to over a year to complete and also includes personal interviews with the applicant and his family, friends and colleagues.

 

[VomKriege]

I would grab the bible out of his hand, take out a lighter and burn it. Tell him to stop pushing religion on others.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222379143&postcount=33

 

[VomKriege]

More_Badass, who couldn't stop defending NMS at every turn :

I went from really excited to utterly apathetic for the game once it released, but I am pissed that the game probably poisoned the well for the possibilty of $60 indie games for years to come

It's funny. I had preordered it, but it ran like shit on my laptop (never even got to loading my first planet) so I had refunded it with the intention to getting it on PS4. But then other impressions started coming in, and other games came out or were releasing soon, and I stopped caring about NMS

I was even preparing to do in-character journal entry posts documenting my travels. Kind of tells you how excited I was

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222394923&postcount=2586

[agrajag]

Fuck, I ate steak tartare the other day, am I going to die??

[benjipwns]

you can divide it like that, it's just not addable

[agrajag]

Prosciutto 

jamon serrano 

[Cerveza mas fina]

This place in Madrid

[VomKriege]

Serrano might be "raw" but as similar hams has to be prepared and aged tho, right ?
Sashimi is straight raw fish though.
Saying uncooked, unprepared meat is an exception is mostly correct, I'd say.

[agrajag]

This place in Madrid

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heaven

[benjipwns]

The piles of Gamergate money have gotten to Tina Fey now:

Fey said the intensely angry mood of this election season has even impacted the comedy scene, pointing to the flack her old Weekend Update partner Jimmy Fallon took for handling Trump (and his hair) with kid gloves. “This election is so, so ugly, it’s not business as usual. I really felt for Jimmy when people were so angry. It’s not Jimmy who peed in the punchbowl. It’s not Jimmy who created this horrible world we’re living in.”

Anonymous • on Oct 29, 2016 11:00 am
Yes, Jimmy didn’t create this environment but he’s goofing around and acting like Trump isn’t a horrible person. Tina now has the Trump stink on her for defending Jimmy on SNL and this interview

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Years later, when Franken hit her up for a political contribution, Fey saw her chance for revenge. Franken won his Senate seat, but without Fey’s help. “I texted him and said, ‘I knew you could do it without my $4,000.’ To which the Senator Al Franken, to his credit, texted back: Fuck You.’”

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[VomKriege]

...and Sam Bee ? wtf ?

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=222398583

[Raist]

[...]But humans are omnivores [...]

if humans truly were omnivores, we wouldn't have to prepare meats in order to make it addable. The truth is, our digestive track isn't built for meat at all, it's way too long, and more akin to a horse or a cow. The only reason human eat meat is because someone discovered fire and it became part of our culture a few thousand years back. Without proper preparation, you'll die eating meat.

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Ha, the intestine length thing. One of the myths that just won't die.
And lolz @ dying when eating meat without preparation. I suppose tartare and carpaccio don't exist.

Serrano might be "raw" but as similar hams has to be prepared and aged tho, right ?
Sashimi is straight raw fish though.
Saying uncooked, unprepared meat is an exception is mostly correct, I'd say.

It's cured meat. It's about as raw as smoked salmon.

[Momo]

I see benji the fraud can't even be assed to do more than copy and paste his memes. 

We should get Steve Youngblood to ban him

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

This place in Madrid

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I've been here before.  It's every bit as amazing in person as it is in the pictures.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Imagine working next to that place, lunchtime you would go for a boccadillo jamon with a little cerveza for like 3 bucks.

[thisismyusername]

Nah, here:

Hey, Steve: I thought Thread whining was frowned upon? Here's a Toku-alt spotted in the wild. You're welcome: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222420495&postcount=178

[Phoenix Dark]

Imagine the freakouts if Hillary was running against just about anyone except Jeb or Cruz. It would basically be clear she was going to lose or barely win, and GAF would be on suicide watch daily.

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1304951

i'm tired.

i'm so tired.

i'm tired of negativity, i'm tired of hatred, i'm tired of oppressive cynicism.

i'm tired of watching people's enthusiasm for the things they love get ground down by the needless attacks of other people.

i'm tired of people going out of their way to attack others, to be negative, to demean and demoralize for the sake of making themselves feel better.

i'm tired of insults being easier than compliments.

of my hobbies being suffocated by people who hate the sight of anything that isn't specifically made for them

of people going out of their way to not listen or empathize so that they can feel vindicated in the beliefs they use to hurt other people with

of death threats and slurs over video games, over accusing people who just want to feel included of censorship, of hurtful, hateful, vicious people

i'm tired of seeing my friends being made to cry because they happened to be a woman and dared to use voice chat in a videogame and were buried in horrible slurs

i'm tired of this community, of the people who share my interests, of the pervading sense that no one's allowed to want to make things better or they're the enemy.

just...

i'm tired.

i want things to be better, but i'm running out of energy to fight for it.

and on some level, i know that's what they want, to shout and push until the people who care stop caring.

and i'm tired of that, too.

I'm starting to think this hobby isn't worth it anymore.

videogames

[bork]

They sound like pussies.

Seriously.  Some truely cringe-worthy shit in that thread.  I just had to respond to the OP but kept it civil.    If people are being douchebags...mute them.  Report them if you must.  Leave the game if it bothers you so much.  I stopped using a mic like a decade ago, unless playing with friends or counter-trolling idiots in fighting games.

But look at some of these replies-

OP chiming in:

Im not really gonna apologize for being 'overdramatic' when I spent twenty minutes talking down my best friend from sobbing

It might not be a big deal to some people but it was to her so it is to me

Jesus fuck 

The reason why I turned myself into local coop almost exclusively =/

We really need to fix the sexism problem in gaming

And of course Platy has to chime in with TEH SEXIST! 

I think the only answer is to stop buying online games. Not to shield yourself/your friends from the awfulness but it's just about the only message you can send to big publishers that "harassment by default" is a shitty model for online interaction.

Money is the only language these companies speak and right now they figure some blocking/reporting tools that put the onus on the target of harassment are acceptable.

If you're overly sensitive then game chat isn't for you. In fact the Internet as a whole isn't for you

Yes.  Harsh, but true.  What does GAF think?

Overly sensitive? Is this a joke? So you are saying that OP's friend is at fault, not the awful human beings that verbally abused her?

Overly-sensitive answer! 

I assume most of these people are twenty-somethings?  What the fuck happened to that generation?  Everyone is a fucking pussy who just can't wait to be outraged by the stupidest shit.

[railGUN]

So tired...

so very, very tired...

:'(

[Let's Cyber]

Imagine the freakouts if Hillary was running against just about anyone except Jeb or Cruz. It would basically be clear she was going to lose or barely win, and GAF would be on suicide watch daily.

They'd blame it on Sanders and third party supporters, no doubt. And young people FOR NOT voting. And old people FOR voting. 

Scott Walker might have made a decent push this general election. He has that "Look at my dumb face, don't you just want to have a beer with me?" G.W. vibe going for him. I'm glad he was annihilated so early in the process.

[Momo]

The Neogaf Blame Game -
[ ] Trump
[ ] alt right (what the fuck does this even mean? srs)
[ ] gamer gate
[ ] cis crackers 
[ ] ??
[ ] Russia

[bork]

I really don't get what the problem is here. There's an artist that has spent decades in erotica doing art and another doing cheesecake doing art. Shit, even Joss Whedon himself says he isn't above cheesecake. Why is the left so sex negative? I thought our side was supposed to be the evolved one where we aren't ashamed of our human bodies and needs.

2D characters aren't "our human bodies and needs".

Literally pointed out why this was all a thing earlier in the thread.

Has very little, if anything, to do with sex positivity and very much to do with how a company presents certain characters to an certain audience.

Here's an example. You want to market Batgirl to a wider audience, including younger women. Which version do you choose?

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Probably the former, because context is everything. The entire point is to choose writers and artists to present a version of the character that will reach the audience you want. You don't put Bill Sienkiewicz on the all-ages Spider-Man book. Context is important.

I'm unsure why people don't get that.

That has little to do with Manara giving Cho any artwork. I find the art itself rather poor in this case, but whatever, they're grown men. But how we got here is a whole other thing.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222434167&postcount=202

I get the point you are trying to make but I don't see how anyone could find that second picture appealing. That's just grotesque.

"Grotesque"


 

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Actually that pic is kinda ugly. 

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[railGUN]

The best way to tell somebody can't actually defend their positions is when someone doesn't even bother trying to refute the evidence contained therein. It's OK dude, grab a towel and go wash up. You did good today, most improved player. Go reward yourself with an ice cream.

Have you hit the speed again?

fucking

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222439083&postcount=206

this dude is annoying

[bork]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222440671&postcount=258

Really.

It's just reality. The world ain't a friendly place, people aren't friendly.

If you're upset by what some strange Internet voice says then I honestly don't know how you can function in society.

So you are OK with random people insulting you for no good reason at all? Like, I can walk up to you and just start shouting in your face and you'll be all "the world ain't a friendly place"?

The internet is a large part of our lives now, yet the social norms that we have in our day to day lives still don't seem to apply here for some reason. And that is not something we should accept and just don't care about, because it does have real impact on people.

Lmao. Gross and cowardly. This is a twisted fucking perspective.

If everyone was actually out to be assholes to each other, we'd all be ashes by now. It's the belief that they're free from repercussions that lets the horrible douchebaggery out.

I love how the first reaction for some people is to victim blame as fast and as hard as possible.

Honest question: what's the intention there? Do you just feel an overwhelming need to defend video games or video game culture from attacks? Do you genuinely believe people should suck it up? Do you have specific people in mind you are trying to defend?

I don't see it as victim blaming so much as it's GROW SOME FUCKING BALLS.

Hearing dumb insults by random idiots online is absolutely nothing like it is to be harassed in person.  Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

[stufte]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will reduce me to tears.

[VomKriege]

Heh, I'll cut them some slack. The abuse in game chats can be ridiculous and way beyond any normalcy (you'd probably be kicked out in any other setting for saying 1/10th of what some trolls spout online).
But yeah there's not much to do besides muting it (not that it will be of any utility with randos in most situations anyway) and reporting the guys. I'm fairly confident that stuff will be stomped at some point in the future when companies will care enough to do so.

[fistfulofmetal]

Being dismissive over online harassment is pretty scummy, tbh. Especially when the harassment is targeting their gender.

[Jansen]

set voice and messages to friends only

problem solved

[I'm a Puppy!]

gamers are generally trash.
Learning to ignore gamers though...

[Mupepe]

Being dismissive over online harassment is pretty scummy, tbh. Especially when the harassment is targeting their gender.

No one is saying those people aren't assholes or scum.  They're saying there's tools at your disposal to avoid/ignore it and that blubbering because a 12 year old said some mean shit to you over the internet is a waste of energy.

[Let's Cyber]

set voice and messages to friends only

problem solved

What if your gaming "friends" constantly harass you in chat too?

Asking for a friend

[Averon]

The best way to tell somebody can't actually defend their positions is when someone doesn't even bother trying to refute the evidence contained therein. It's OK dude, grab a towel and go wash up. You did good today, most improved player. Go reward yourself with an ice cream.

Have you hit the speed again?

fucking

  AmiroX has been on a tear for the past several days.  And he's still going on today, with his latest work in this Donna Brazille thread. Funny how the mods find his overly aggressive behavior fine, but "shitty meta commentary" (whatever the hell that is) is an instant ban.

[bork]

I'm fairly confident that stuff will be stomped at some point in the future when companies will care enough to do so.

Some games do it, some don't.  Street Fighter V has no voice chat, for example.  One my buddies whined and complained about this, and I explained why this was a good thing, but he still wanted it.  Can't win.



Personally I think voice chat should always been an optional thing.  Just add a "mute everyone" option for anyone who doesn't want to hear anything.

Being dismissive over online harassment is pretty scummy, tbh. Especially when the harassment is targeting their gender.

No one is saying those people aren't assholes or scum.  They're saying there's tools at your disposal to avoid/ignore it and that blubbering because a 12 year old said some mean shit to you over the internet is a waste of energy.

Exactly.

And if said 12 year old idiot says some some shit to you and your response is to go cry for 20 minutes...you might be a little over-sensitive.   

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222434167&postcount=202

I get the point you are trying to make but I don't see how anyone could find that second picture appealing. That's just grotesque.

"Grotesque"
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Actually that pic is kinda ugly. 

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That image is grotesque, though not for the reason that poster is thinking of. 

[zomgee]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=222449731#post222449731

Surreal.