VOAT Containment Megathread of Trash People for Trash People

[benjipwns]

and how am i just finding out theres a modbot 2? are there others?

yeah, there's like four of them officially, it's for when one of the other modbots is overloaded trying to access GAF too often or something

modbot was originally supposed to also be able to handle things beyond snarking while closing threads from the IRC or hiding who locked a thread like steam key giveaways and stuff

[TVC15]

Play Dragon Quest games for the graphics, breh..

The appeal of DQ games is in the story vignettes, characters, sense of adventure and classic turn based gameplay.

FF is for people who like dem graphic flash, glitz and bombast with no real substance or humanity present, just anime tropes through and through. It's the MCU of JRPGS, no wonder FF is more popular with bottle-fed smoothbrains. And don't even get me started on how much better SMT is than Persona.

 

I'm guessing this is sarcasm, right?

also please show me on the doll where the 3DS touched you? or are you still upset that it literally killed the vita... we all know what kind of games are on that vita, amirite???

I am kind of upset that it killed the Vita, but that has more to do with Sony's incompetence and Nintendo's hold on the market than any sort of superior quality of the 3DS. From my point of view, the 3DS is more comparable to the PSP than then Vita--3DS may have beaten it in some hardware metrics, but it was still severely hamstrung in the super-important screen quality department. The 3DS screens looked like things you'd see on a cheap, dim children's toy, but the PSP, let alone the Vita, looked liked products you'd expect to see on the market based on the tech of the time. The 3DS screens always looked like you were looking at them through a mesh screen door.

I have no problem admitting the 3DS has a nice library. It's just a bit sad that things worked out that way. My major concern at the time of the Switch announcement was that Nintendo would cheap out on the screen again. Luckily, they appear to have finally moved into the 21st century in that regard.

[benjipwns]

I really doubt either is in trouble unless they do something immediate to anger Fearless Leader (like too much of the dreaded META COMMENTARY). A community getting nuked is pretty rare. Old NBA-GAF and POPGAF are the exception, not really the rule.

NBA-GAF got done dirty because three juniors couldn't handle getting shat on for their overly invested fan garbage and the mods who came in and "cleaned it up" basically banned all the regulars for joking with each other as they had for years which Blackace ignored. Which the reincarnated version of the thread eventually went back to only with the new boring members who frowned on unapproved humor.

NBA-GAF didn't even usually bring stuff out into the normal threads that weren't NBA related most of the time unlike PoliGAF or BCT do. (Those posters are all the 25+ post per day dudes who flood every thread like Slayven and B-Dubs.)

Even worse that's when I transitioned to posting here far more than I ever did on NeoGAF.com.

[benjipwns]

BCT do. (Those posters

Those posters?

[Jenkem]

I'm guessing this is sarcasm, right?

absolutely not. dragon quest is leagues better than final fantasy.
 

[demi]

depends on the games.

i heard DQ8 is dogshit on mobile. i'd play the PS2 version over them all

[benjipwns]

 

[zomgee]

BCT do. (Those posters

Those posters?

Now this is pod racing digital blackface.

 

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Anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of race stereotypes, it ultimately undermines the concept of race equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo.

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[FStop7]

Yo, i dread an influx of popgaf posters way more than the other goofballs that have wound up here. The dumbest posters in this thread exclusively post in it, we don't have to argue why nazis are bad anywhere else. I fear the infestation of mariah carey gifs the bore will be subjected to if it becomes some popgaf refugee haven

We'll build a wall and NeoGAF's gonna pay for it.

[thisismyusername]

I fear the infestation of mariah carey gifs the bore will be subjected to if it becomes some popgaf refugee haven

[seagrams hotsauce]

phh if the gifs played "fantasy" every time it'd be tits

[Lothar]

Are reaction gifs mainly a Neogaf thing or is it pretty common?  I've never been on another forum that would tolerate it.  I believe that would be an instant ban on Something Awful and everywhere else I go.

I'm surprised Evilore tolerates it.  It doesn't seem like his sense of humor.  (He doesn't have any)

[seagrams hotsauce]

Also actually if it was just mariah gifs that'd also be tits. Popgaf has a habit of propping up some real flops tho

[thisismyusername]

phh if the gifs played "fantasy" every time it'd be tits

Tho...

But just for you, bb:



90's R&B: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Raist]

[thisismyusername]

She's fallen off the cliff post-90's, but I don't want to hear any shade on Mariah from the 90's.

[thisismyusername]

Pop-GAF, I summon thee to cleanse this board of the Ra(c)isT! Hating on Mariah. MROWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[Raist]

Her "music" is just about good enough to be the OST of some pre-teen soap on Disney Channel. That's about it.

[Mr. Nobody]

It's not at all controversial to think 3DS hardware is trash tier.

Hacking my OG really opened my eyes to how underpowered it was.

1.5MB/s write speed at absolute maximum no matter what type of sd card you use.

1MB/s download speed on OG with only a .5-1MB/s difference on a N3DS.

Even an overclocked N3DS can't prevent slowdown in some games.

$250 at launch 

[agrajag]

so the next community... Wrestlegaf or BCT?

God I hope Wrasslegaf. As bad as a general page of BCT is, a random page of Wrasslegaf is literally 80% guys posting as characters, repeating something that has been said 100 times, or copy/pasting something from the Observer as their own thoughts. It's an unreadable community that hate watches wrestling even more than this thread hate watches GAF. Which is insane. For every 2 people that actually enjoy and want to talk about wrestling, you'll have 15 that just revel in self loathing and complaining about something they spend 7 hours a week watching. For the sake of those posters, that community needs to be banished.

God I hope PoliGAF. As bad as a general page of BCT is, a random page of PoliGAF is literally 80% guys posting as characters, repeating something that has been said 100 times, or copy/pasting something from the Washington Post as their own thoughts. It's an unreadable community that hate watches politics even more than this thread hate watches GAF. Which is insane. For every 2 people that actually enjoy and want to talk about politics, you'll have 15 that just revel in self loathing and complaining about something they spend 70 hours a week watching. For the sake of those posters, that community needs to be banished.

God I hope  Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts  Bobby Roberts  Bobby Roberts, Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts, Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts  Bobby Roberts . Bobby Roberts  Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts, Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts, Bobby Roberts  Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts, Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts, Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts, Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts Bobby Roberts. Bobby Roberts.

              

[agrajag]

that's when I transitioned to posting here far more than I ever did on NeoGAF.com.

stop wearing digital transface benji

[bork]

If games could be ported to other platforms, what sales numbers could they reach?

Wrote previous thread in a hurry and got locked.

Lets say we have an X game on a specific platform (console, computer, smartphone etc). Eg exclusive games like Nintendo.
It could also be games on more than one platform. Eg SFV (PS4 and PC but missing on Xbox)

If information is available, post sales numbers. Then below post the sales numbers you estimate game could reach if it was ported to other platforms. It would be usefull to post your reasons too. Eg audience isnt there,similar games exist on that platform, bad support etc

WHO GIVES A FUCK!?

[Raist]

Stealth Switch port begging thread?

[Mr. Nobody]

Stealth Switch port begging thread?

Stealth Switch port begging thread.

[Pills Here]

Not Popgaf

[agrajag]

this thread should be good

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1415616

Bernie bros vs Jacks. 

[Nabbis]

If i lived in US i would probably be a Bernie voter(in theory, in this election would have been Hillary), but i can't really approve of that cancer medication vote. If i understood correctly he voted no due to some price shenanigans. Seems far more pragmatic to at least allow treatment first at the very least, i have a hard time believing congress or even the public would push price regulation outside of some bizarro world.

[Nola]

If i lived in US i would probably be a Bernie voter, but i can't really approve of that cancer medication vote. If i understood correctly he voted no due to some price shenanigans. Seems far more pragmatic to at least allow treatment first at the very least, i have a hard time believing congress or even the public would push price regulation outside of some bizarro world.

Eh, not a Bernie person per se, but if you look at his support for CHIP and then the ACA, in voting for those two and then defending the second whenever needed, it seems pretty clear he is just taking an ideological stand about his long-standing issue of drug prices knowing this is going to pass.

Its more humorous the Gaffers thinking this is some death blow to his optics and credibility. When this is really a soft ball that just immediately gives him an excuse to use his pharm stump speech which is a crowd favorite.

[benjipwns]

I hope none of you have any delusions Bernie could win in 2020, especially after this. The optics are horrific.

[stufte]

I hope none of you have any delusions Bernie could win in 2020, especially after this. The optics are horrific.

[studyguy]

I don't know who Nick Robinson is beyond a couple of his tweets, but RIP that guy's career I guess.

[studyguy]

Also stressing about 2020 candidates while still sitting in 2017 fam 

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The Lions will definitely take it to the SB this next year

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[stufte]

Also stressing about 2020 candidates while still sitting in 2017 fam 

Just looking forward to fucking it up again. Can't wait!

[Boredfrom]

I don't know who Nick Robinson is beyond a couple of his tweets, but RIP that guy's career I guess.

So some of the accusers tweets were deleted. Bad optics anywhere else but Gaf. Marcel post is probably the most WTF one:

If Nick was a serial harrasser and a creep then a fair share of the burden is on his friends and people who likely knew it was happening to people in their sphere and saying nothing about it.

[etiolate]

If NeoGAF hates you then you're probably doing something good.

If NeoGAF loves you then you're probably doing nothing but pretending otherwise.

If NeoGAF ignores your existence then you're probably doing little girls.

[benjipwns]

If i lived in US i would probably be a Bernie voter(in theory, in this election would have been Hillary), but i can't really approve of that cancer medication vote. If i understood correctly he voted no due to some price shenanigans. Seems far more pragmatic to at least allow treatment first at the very least, i have a hard time believing congress or even the public would push price regulation outside of some bizarro world.

Symbolic procedure/legislation deserves symbolic votes. Especially when it's going to be unanimous otherwise. And even more so if it's being used as cover.

How many more people know that the Senate* "Russian sanctions bill" (that contained no new sanctions against Russia) that Rand and Sanders alone voted against a month or whenever ago was actually an extension of sanctions against Iran (which around ten other Senators had originally opposed before the amendment) that Senate bipartisan leadership tacked on some toothless words about Russia to? Not enough to mean anything, but more than had they let the vote be unanimous.

Senators are the ones best positioned to do this kind of opposition on principle and gain awareness for it. And when it's an opportunity where something is happening no matter their consent or not, all the better to not throw another vote on top.

*The eventual version Trump signed this week from conference was a combined Russia/Iran/North Korea (another later addition!) set of sanctions.

[benjipwns]

I don't know who Nick Robinson is beyond a couple of his tweets, but RIP that guy's career I guess.

So some of the accusers tweets were deleted. Bad optics anywhere else but Gaf. Marcel post is probably the most WTF one:

If Nick was a serial harrasser and a creep then a fair share of the burden is on his friends and people who likely knew it was happening to people in their sphere and saying nothing about it.

Even worse than all that other stuff is that he tried to undermine Nintendo and the Switch:

[nachobro]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=245394975&postcount=182

I'm getting totally sick of this male ally circlejerk thing where "woke" secret creeps get protected for no other reason than they have the good, demonstrative opinions on Twitter. Seriously.

Interesting topic to bring up on neogaf dot com, home of protected former moderator and now banned user amirox. also dennis.

[nachobro]

i don't even know who he is. sorta surprising since he was a giant bomb intern but i don't remember ever seeing him on any of their stuff.

[counterhit]

Nick Robinson is pretty funny on twitter unlike most of his polygon coworkers. He's probably going to disappear soon though. A single DM screenshot with blurred out names would be nice first though.

[nachobro]

also i thought threads for the sole point of venting at someone or saying "fuck them" weren't something deemed needed and that's why there wasn't one about amirox

[Himu]

this is nick robinson

[Mr. Nobody]

Not gonna lie, I don't know who this guy is, and I sincerely don't care. I'm just reading this thread to move this Friday afternoon along

[TVC15]

Not gonna lie, I don't know who this guy is, and I sincerely don't care. I'm just reading this thread to move this Friday afternoon along

Fer real. I can't get off on this. Let's find something else to yap about.

[fistfulofmetal]

I'm cautious in making any assumptions because Twitter mobs can be weird and spiral out of control. Then again a lot of the people who look to be posting about it on Twitter are people I generally trust and don't think would say shit like this if it didn't have a spark of truth.

[FStop7]

Polygon 

[nachobro]

eh all these inclusive/safe space/woke sites are horseshit anyway. i was in a twitch streaming group that tried to make a good space for streaming and be inclusive, etc and eventually it led to a streamer sending unsolicited nudes to a chat member. what was the first reaction of the group? COVER IT UP AND MENTION NOTHING TO ANYONE

funny because the cover up involves some of the same folks getting mad on twitter about this nick dude too. guess it's easier to blow someone up when they aren't your friend.

[benjipwns]

As someone who doesn't really understand the industry dynamics that well, what power does some polygon producer / ex- rev3 host really wield that he can be a creep and get away with it? I guess I just don't get how this guy was in a position of that much power.

I guess coming from the Finance world, all the assholes are the Scaramucci-type guys who have insane clout and power over people's careers and livelyhood. I just don't get where a video producer at polygon has any sort of clout. I can see if women don't want to come forward just from embarrassment or undue shame, but what does this guy really hold over anyone's head? Review scores? game coverage? I guess I never considered Polygon that big of a deal.

These people don't wield power in money. They wield power in followers and followers tend to act like their personal army, whether the person intends to or not. And getting ahead in the games industry seems to be all about networking and relations. Nick is very popular and, alongside Griffin McElroy, is the pretty much the sole reason Polygon gets any significant amount of clicks. People make fan art of him. There's a huge fandom around the video series that he's involved in like Car Boys.

And the victims are women and the games industry treats women like shit. You can bet a bunch of pick up artist loser types would target them for even hinting that their favorite youtuber is sketch.

[benjipwns]

Well shit. The fact that even Polygon employees are unable to treat women in games as normal human beings is depressing as fuck.

[benjipwns]

Did he ever publically acknowledge he was a gamergator?

[Mr. Nobody]

eh all these inclusive/safe space/woke sites are horseshit anyway. i was in a twitch streaming group that tried to make a good space for streaming and be inclusive, etc and eventually it led to a streamer sending unsolicited nudes to a chat member. what was the first reaction of the group? COVER IT UP AND MENTION NOTHING TO ANYONE

funny because the cover up involves some of the same folks getting mad on twitter about this nick dude too. guess it's easier to blow someone up when they aren't your friend.

Now I'm starting to garner interest.

[benjipwns]

also i thought threads for the sole point of venting at someone or saying "fuck them" weren't something deemed needed and that's why there wasn't one about amirox

what are you talking about that doesn't happen on neogaf.com

They should be questioned, every facet needs to be explored. You are talking about ruining someones life, for the rest of rest their lives. It's not easy for victims to recount these things but it has to happen when the stakes are that high.

You're part of the problem.

In this day and age screencaps do nothing

Its simple to fake a Twitter conversation through any image editing software, create dummy accounts and forge the convo and then just swap out names and images where needed

And as others mentioned there's many other reasons why victims wouldn't go this route

You're also part of the problem.

[benjipwns]

What proof do you have that he hasn't solicited for nudes and acted in creepy ways for a while corroborated from multiple sources?

Well said. This is how it should be. This creep needs to prove that he's not a harasser. The victims of his sick harassment campaigns should not have to prove ANYTHING.

No, no, no, this was the same flaw as the Cardassian legal system, it allowed the guilty to introduce evidence that showed the state to be wrong.

[nachobro]

Now I'm starting to garner interest. (Image removed from quote.)

unfortunately it's very boring. i was in a group called streamfriends and it was a good group of folks including austin walker and the people from his RP podcast, as well as some others. in early 2015 austin emailed the group to let everyone know that someone in the chat had reported getting unsolicited nudes from one of the streamers. the reaction of austin and the group was that the best solution to this would be to write something in a "best practices" guide so that if it happened again, we could get rid of the offender.

i found this unacceptable and said that the offender should be revealed (if not publicly, then at least to the group) and quit. but that was deemed as something that wasn't going to happen and everyone else agreed with him, so i quit the group in disgust. still don't know who it was, just that the instant response was that this should all be covered up and swept under the rug and never mentioned again. and yes i have emails to prove all this, but again it's not very interesting stuff. just something that got me pissed.

[zomgee]

Now I'm starting to garner interest. (Image removed from quote.)

i was in a group called streamfriends... P podcast... got me pissed.

 

[benjipwns]

When did wanting to wait for evidence become such a shitty thing to do? I get that harassment cases can hardly have any concrete proof but what's wrong with the stance itself? Not everybody is saying women are maniacal misandrists and I already forget his name is innocent, just that a witchhunt ain't exactly the best reaction from the jump.

mods can you take care of this user like neogaf.com did: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=245402787&postcount=617

[benjipwns]

more well known gamergator WrathTron v2.0 debunking:

I'm weighing the evidence that is out there right now and the history of the industry and people like him against the fact that he didn't do anything wrong, and in my mind it's overwhelmingly obvious that he's not innocent

I don't need someone to show me a chat log or whatever

[studyguy]

Shouldn't have fucked w/ the Wu tbh. This is what happens when you meme too close to the sun.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/893542307948920832

[fistfulofmetal]

When did wanting to wait for evidence become such a shitty thing to do? I get that harassment cases can hardly have any concrete proof but what's wrong with the stance itself? Not everybody is saying women are maniacal misandrists and I already forget his name is innocent, just that a witchhunt ain't exactly the best reaction from the jump.

It never did, but this situation isn't happening in a vacuum. Women being harassed on Twitter and having to bend over backwards to get literally anyone to believe them has been a problem for years, especially when you have shitty men bending over backwards to play devil's advocate.

So in cases like this, where you he said she said she said she said she said, the standard idea of "wait for evidence" can't really apply perfectly.

I mean a bigger scale version of this is Bill Cosby. There's no actual evidence and there never will be, but when you have several people all making the same claims... what more do you want?

[benjipwns]

The victims have almost nothing to gain from speaking up about this. Best case scenario it's an act of altruism that stops others from becoming victims in the future, or whatever catharsis could be had from seeing him suffer the consequences - if people believe them. There is a lot to lose however, as opening up would come with a lot of scrutiny, particularity from groups that have proven to be less than impartial in matters like these. Case in point, people have mentioned the potential for him to cash in from a GGer crowd like that KF dude would be hampered due to his SJW leanings in the past, but reading some of the discussions on this over at some of their dens they've already started to take his side. I don't think Nick has any interest in courting these people, but they're already lining up behind him. Shit is bad.