Maybe the real NeoGAF was the friends we made along the way...

[Aeptia]

https://resetera.com/threads/resetera-revenue-should-go-back-to-the-community-and-gaming-charity-causes.826/#post-26175

If I ever win the lottery I promise to foot the bill to whoever paid for this

 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-revenue-should-go-back-to-the-community-and-gaming-charity-causes.826/

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now. One of my concerns, and many, many other members' concerns with that forum is how the owner financially managed it. It became user hostile with viglinks, intrusive ads, and hijack your browser mobile ads. More importantly, it was a forum built up of community generated content for free, moderated by unpaid volunteers, all set up for the profit of one single person. This set up disgusted me and I know it disgusted many others.

During the mass exodus, I knew this is our chance as a community to fix the above issue. If the community made the content, the community should be the ones determining how to spend the site revenue. I offered to fund the entirety of Resetera to accomplish this goal, but the current forum owner ignored me. There's a lot going on, I guess.

I understand this forum is new and there's a lot to work out. Perfect. Since we're not on a determined path, I propose all revenue generated by this forum be used to pay for the forum itself, to generate ways to create better content for the community, and send all other revenue toward another, gaming related causes. For example, game development for the underprivileged, the underrepresented minorities and women, Child's Play kind of endeavors, etc.

Granted, yes, the site is new, there's no money, no one's determined anything with money, etc., etc. However, it's important to have this discussion now. We can work toward being a better, more inclusive community. Do you have any thoughts on how the site should spend its generated revenue, if it ever gets to that point?

[Trurl]

It's weird being able to see everyone's age on ResetERA

[Aeptia]

I see Benji made an account.

link?

The post proves it's not you, unless you have sweaty alts https://resetera.com/threads/did-you-change-your-username.801/#post-23470

[Rufus]

oh god i fucked the quote up nvm

Time for some rest.

[Aeptia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-revenue-should-go-back-to-the-community-and-gaming-charity-causes.826/

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now. One of my concerns, and many, many other members' concerns with that forum is how the owner financially managed it. It became user hostile with viglinks, intrusive ads, and hijack your browser mobile ads. More importantly, it was a forum built up of community generated content for free, moderated by unpaid volunteers, all set up for the profit of one single person. This set up disgusted me and I know it disgusted many others.

During the mass exodus, I knew this is our chance as a community to fix the above issue. If the community made the content, the community should be the ones determining how to spend the site revenue. I offered to fund the entirety of Resetera to accomplish this goal, but the current forum owner ignored me. There's a lot going on, I guess.

I understand this forum is new and there's a lot to work out. Perfect. Since we're not on a determined path, I propose all revenue generated by this forum be used to pay for the forum itself, to generate ways to create better content for the community, and send all other revenue toward another, gaming related causes. For example, game development for the underprivileged, the underrepresented minorities and women, Child's Play kind of endeavors, etc.

Granted, yes, the site is new, there's no money, no one's determined anything with money, etc., etc. However, it's important to have this discussion now. We can work toward being a better, more inclusive community. Do you have any thoughts on how the site should spend its generated revenue, if it ever gets to that point?

Unless that includes diversity of thought, this place will die just like NeoGAF.

I doubt it will include diversity of thought, so this place is doomed just like NeoGAF.

[Dougstyles]

Oh you better believe Cerium already has a Porsche in mind.

[benjipwns]

I wish they'd allow posters to be monthly contributors. Maybe some type of vanity flair for their avatars as thanks.

I was actually going to get ahold of one of them odd and ask about something similar such as contributions and such.

Could we just start a subscription model instead of ads? I'm happy to pay for this. Love this site already.

I'd rather some donation type thing to keep the site running and cover costs than ads. I wonder if that's an option in the future?

I offered to fund the whole thing. It's still on the table. If this is an issue, I can fund it to accomplish my proposed direction of the community.

[hungrynoob]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-revenue-should-go-back-to-the-community-and-gaming-charity-causes.826/

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now. One of my concerns, and many, many other members' concerns with that forum is how the owner financially managed it. It became user hostile with viglinks, intrusive ads, and hijack your browser mobile ads. More importantly, it was a forum built up of community generated content for free, moderated by unpaid volunteers, all set up for the profit of one single person. This set up disgusted me and I know it disgusted many others.

During the mass exodus, I knew this is our chance as a community to fix the above issue. If the community made the content, the community should be the ones determining how to spend the site revenue. I offered to fund the entirety of Resetera to accomplish this goal, but the current forum owner ignored me. There's a lot going on, I guess.

I understand this forum is new and there's a lot to work out. Perfect. Since we're not on a determined path, I propose all revenue generated by this forum be used to pay for the forum itself, to generate ways to create better content for the community, and send all other revenue toward another, gaming related causes. For example, game development for the underprivileged, the underrepresented minorities and women, Child's Play kind of endeavors, etc.

Granted, yes, the site is new, there's no money, no one's determined anything with money, etc., etc. However, it's important to have this discussion now. We can work toward being a better, more inclusive community. Do you have any thoughts on how the site should spend its generated revenue, if it ever gets to that point?

Unless that includes diversity of thought, this place will die just like NeoGAF.

I doubt it will include diversity of thought, so this place is doomed just like NeoGAF.

Not directly, keep in mind gaf was the success for years despite it.

It's the fragility of the community when faced with real life that brought it down.

[etiolate]

I love that more inclusive is code for more bannings.

[Dennis]

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Registered two RejectEra accounts.  Not gonna post there but I might sell the accounts at the right price if I feel like it.

[Broseidon]

oh god i fucked the quote up nvm

Time for some rest.

but seriously, meine Deutsch braucht Besserung 

[kingv]

Given that the site was registered as a LLC and will have overhead, I assume there will be very soon.

I expect the admins and mods to tear themselves apart over a share of the pie too.

did they get their share in writing? or was all that Cerium's handling since he's paying for everything?

Bboy AJ is already calling for all proceeds to go to charity. 

[maninthemirror]

Oh you better believe Cerium already has a Porsche in mind.

And a hotel shower

[Aeptia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-revenue-should-go-back-to-the-community-and-gaming-charity-causes.826/

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now. One of my concerns, and many, many other members' concerns with that forum is how the owner financially managed it. It became user hostile with viglinks, intrusive ads, and hijack your browser mobile ads. More importantly, it was a forum built up of community generated content for free, moderated by unpaid volunteers, all set up for the profit of one single person. This set up disgusted me and I know it disgusted many others.

During the mass exodus, I knew this is our chance as a community to fix the above issue. If the community made the content, the community should be the ones determining how to spend the site revenue. I offered to fund the entirety of Resetera to accomplish this goal, but the current forum owner ignored me. There's a lot going on, I guess.

I understand this forum is new and there's a lot to work out. Perfect. Since we're not on a determined path, I propose all revenue generated by this forum be used to pay for the forum itself, to generate ways to create better content for the community, and send all other revenue toward another, gaming related causes. For example, game development for the underprivileged, the underrepresented minorities and women, Child's Play kind of endeavors, etc.

Granted, yes, the site is new, there's no money, no one's determined anything with money, etc., etc. However, it's important to have this discussion now. We can work toward being a better, more inclusive community. Do you have any thoughts on how the site should spend its generated revenue, if it ever gets to that point?

Unless that includes diversity of thought, this place will die just like NeoGAF.

I doubt it will include diversity of thought, so this place is doomed just like NeoGAF.

Not directly, keep in mind gaf was the success for years despite it.

It's the fragility of the community when faced with real life that brought it down.

GAF was running on the steam that it's glory days had offered it. It's reputation was built from that. This forum doesn't have glory days, and I see them taking things from GAF over in full force.

I thought the concept of REEEEE was to have a fresh start. Copying all of the systems they had at the place they left and bringing it over is not a fresh start by any means.

GAF was also on a decline and has been for years. REEEEE wants to start on the downward spiral from the jump. Stupid idea.

[Cryo]

I can't really condone flinging poo at RPGCrazed, it's clear that he actually has nobody else.

Also I have 4 extra Resetera accounts, DM me if you want to pay for early access.

[zomgee]

Socialism OT:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/socialism-ot-the-dawn-of-a-red-era.585/#post-27166

Man
wish benj and EV were around for this
brings a tear to the eye, it does. Even made me pick a suitable avatar.

They need you Benjibae

[Pills Here]

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now.

The smugness is annoying, they all seem to think a little too highly of themselves.

[headwalk]

I took down the Bobby Roberts (I feel like we should change this to something non-doxxing, like, Richard Periwinkle or something equally as generic) emote because I thought that whole thing was just weird.

a person's life doesn't end with their death, it ends when the last person uses their face as an emoticon on a message board.

[Rufus]

oh god i fucked the quote up nvm

Time for some rest.

but seriously, meine Deutsch braucht Besserung 

Hattest Du in der Schule Deutschunterricht?

[Dennis]

Moar RAM!

[Let's Cyber]

Kind of strange to see some long permabanned GAF usernames showing up in Rectalera

Dennis, NOW IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE!

[injurai]

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now.

The smugness is annoying, they all seem to think a little too highly of themselves.

Gaf at best was a plurality, and I'm not even sure that is entirely true.

If there were 20 video game forums then sure gaf had something like over 5%, but it was always dwarfed by the sea of options.

[benjipwns]

i just think it's so disgusting that they want to make profits like this is 2017, you're not supposed to make money off content creators

spoiler (click to show/hide)

if revenue gets too high, increase executives salary until there is a loss, then ask for community donations in fund drive

[close]

[Broseidon]

oh god i fucked the quote up nvm

Time for some rest.

but seriously, meine Deutsch braucht Besserung 

Hattest Du in der Schule Deutschunterricht?

Nein. Teaching myself fam but shit's hard 

[gfm793]

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now.

The smugness is annoying, they all seem to think a little too highly of themselves.

A bunch of nerdy far left gamers obsessed with social justice? Smug? Pshaw, say I! Pshaw!

[headwalk]

i hope recettear picks up the slack to keep this thread ticking over because GAF is just depressing now. it's got a vibe like a department store that was big in the 80s and is now only frequented by the elderly and the infirm.

unlike this place, which was never big.

[curly]

I want to be honest for a sec here. Its the overall bullshit right now...

The Social Studies Warriors imo will soon be run by the gangs (if they not already in the Latinx by ms-13 and the like) because what it seems to me is that they cant rely on the Dems big tent. I have been noticing something very fucking strange, but it made sense with the whole 21 Savage joining the whole Slut Walk thing - in order for these folks to even have their way in the dialogue, they need some way to enforce the ideal in the short term.

The sad truth is that the ethnic gangs are the only ones that have the money outside of the rich donors for the SSW to even exist for this long. The Antifa thing the FBI knew in April of 2016, FBI also made statements that there is a Black Extremist Movements (the way they phrase it is a massive dog whistle to be honest, but there still the crips and the bloods, and the other smaller gangs that surround as muscle for BLM, even though they VEHEMENTLY disagree with some of BLM solutions concerning queer folk) The Dems and the SSW are gonna break up in 2018 and where is the latter going to go?

They are making a massive bet that Hollywood/Silicon Valley will have better representation of ethnic groups/women after this Harvey mess, but they are in for a rude fucking awaking. And many of those groups in these liberal colleges are all going to go back to their communities. You think they dont have a game plan with all the connections they have from college? Its share and share alike.

Plus footnote to all this, how the fuck these SSW prostitutes (actual prostitutes, escorting is still prostitution) getting there cash to live from especially if there ethnic and especially they in the LBGT community? The dude from Evergreen when he gets back home has 6 or 7 "generous men" lined up and at least 5 have had priors or connected to the gangs, and they are on the DL and they keep secrets like we see with rentacenter.

Fucking Blare White and Riley Davis were both prostitutes before they became woke on each end and their partners were former clientele. Fuck out of here with this e-celeb bullshit. All the SSW wants is a leader that can kill these "Nazi's" en masse and they will follow them to the ends of the earth. Thats why the FBI is trying to get the gangs out first before this takes place.

so you ARE the novid I was thinking of

[bmoequalsGOAT]

i just think it's so disgusting that they want to make profits like this is 2017, you're not supposed to make money off content creators

spoiler (click to show/hide)

if revenue gets too high, increase executives salary until there is a loss, then ask for community donations in fund drive

[close]

Funny enough they would actually donate, just to keep their Utopia alive

[Dennis]

Eyestrain incoming. Capitalism, ho! needs a dark theme stat.

[benjipwns]

Hattest Du in der Schule Deutschunterricht?

i did, two years

i'm practically fluent

ich bin fischsimmel

[Baiano19]

Socialism OT:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/socialism-ot-the-dawn-of-a-red-era.585/#post-27166

Man
wish benj and EV were around for this
brings a tear to the eye, it does. Even made me pick a suitable avatar.

They need you Benjibae

Welp, that didn't take long.

[headwalk]

Jack Remington is my actual name, btw.

i assumed it was a porno name like justin magnum.

[bork]

i hope recettear picks up the slack to keep this thread ticking over because GAF is just depressing now. it's got a vibe like a department store that was big in the 80s and is now only frequented by the elderly and the infirm.

unlike this place, which was never big.

That is a perfect description of how it feels to browse that forum now, lol.

[Lothar]

I wonder what Evilore will do with his life now.

I'm liking ResetEra so far.  I love that I got permabanned a few months ago and then the entire forum leaves and goes somewhere else.  I didn't see that coming.

[gfm793]

It makes me wonder, if they do start accepting donations will they have to register as a 501c3?

[Rufus]

Nein. Teaching myself fam but shit's hard 

Ach du Scheiße, hard mode.

Bleib dran, Genosse. 

[RoystonBurn]

To be fair, that Wolfenstein II OT is gonna eat up some serious bandwidth $$$

[Jansen]

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now.

The smugness is annoying, they all seem to think a little too highly of themselves.

it will just make their inevitable downfall all the more enjoyable 

[benjipwns]

Socialism OT:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/socialism-ot-the-dawn-of-a-red-era.585/#post-27166

Man
wish benj and EV were around for this
brings a tear to the eye, it does. Even made me pick a suitable avatar.

They need you Benjibae

So here's actually a great example of the sort of thing I genuinely want to know more about: why is there so much reverence for the Russian revolution and the USSR? At least based on what I've learned so far it...didn't exactly work, insomuch as the socialist and communist systems that emerged from it aren't ones we particularly want to replicate, even setting aside the Stalinist era. My view of the entire rise and fall of the USSR is that there's a lot of very important lessons to be learned about organizational traps and dangerous tendencies within political structures

Depends on the person. I personally am not a big fan - I just like the memes - but I see the USSR as a grand failed project. I don't believe in Great Man theory; I don't believe the USSR was the living embodiment of the wills of Lenin and Stalin or whatever. It was an attempted democratic project of millions of people that failed due to the material conditions it evolved within. The democratic part got jettisoned pretty early, but even within the society that emerged there were still some elements of it that survived - for example, those 99% voting counts? Those actually happened, because the government was obsessed with showing its legitimacy, and the people knew that. They couldn't really freely pick who was on the ballot but they could abstain, or better yet threaten to abstain, which caused party members who had to organize the vote massive headaches which the people used to their advantage to get various local issues addressed. Quite clever.

The USSR helped fund anti-racist, anti-imperial, and anti-capitalist movements all over the globe. It made great strides in science. It provided for its people pretty well once they got through the initial horrors considering it wasn't following market logic. At the same time the civil war was horrendous, Stalin was a monster, and the subsequent leaders were pretty bog standard authoritarians, but no worse than what modern China does.

I guess I see it as a society striving to build itself according to new and higher principles that just kept subverting itself while also being sabotaged from the outside. There's a lot to take pride in and a lot to feel shame about. Not too different from the US.

One perspective I read that I liked was that after the revolution, the massacres, the famine, the show trials, and especially World War II the Soviet people felt that they had emerged from the crucible and, having survived, deserved their right to seek a new world. I'm just sad they failed to do it. But I'm still proud of the ones who genuinely tried.

[bork]

Still up since 10/16.


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252198227&postcount=5653

[Pwnz]

Tyler must feel like such a fucking idiot right now. 

I don't think he realized how good he had it. He could still stabilize gaf , but he's probably going to have to change his lifestyle to something more affordable.

[Piikm]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-revenue-should-go-back-to-the-community-and-gaming-charity-causes.826/

NeoGAF was the most popular video game forum. I suspect that era is over now. One of my concerns, and many, many other members' concerns with that forum is how the owner financially managed it. It became user hostile with viglinks, intrusive ads, and hijack your browser mobile ads. More importantly, it was a forum built up of community generated content for free, moderated by unpaid volunteers, all set up for the profit of one single person. This set up disgusted me and I know it disgusted many others.

During the mass exodus, I knew this is our chance as a community to fix the above issue. If the community made the content, the community should be the ones determining how to spend the site revenue. I offered to fund the entirety of Resetera to accomplish this goal, but the current forum owner ignored me. There's a lot going on, I guess.

I understand this forum is new and there's a lot to work out. Perfect. Since we're not on a determined path, I propose all revenue generated by this forum be used to pay for the forum itself, to generate ways to create better content for the community, and send all other revenue toward another, gaming related causes. For example, game development for the underprivileged, the underrepresented minorities and women, Child's Play kind of endeavors, etc.

Granted, yes, the site is new, there's no money, no one's determined anything with money, etc., etc. However, it's important to have this discussion now. We can work toward being a better, more inclusive community. Do you have any thoughts on how the site should spend its generated revenue, if it ever gets to that point?

Unless that includes diversity of thought, this place will die just like NeoGAF.

I doubt it will include diversity of thought, so this place is doomed just like NeoGAF.

Its gonna be a war..
One side to fund a war on minorities vs. Cops
Militant cheeseburgers wanting to proceeds to lop of dicks
White Cis allies heads exploding on which choice is the proper virtue signaling.

[Kartik]

Looks like Kagari had a fallout with them because they didn't give her the mod position. Left the Era discord channel as well.

[RoystonBurn]

Looks like Kagari had a fallout with them because they didn't give her the mod position. Left the Era discord channel as well.

FORUM WARS.

I'm betting on thebore - letthemfight.gif

[PogiJones]

It's off to a better start than I expected.

[Oblivion]

Looks like Kagari had a fallout with them because they didn't give her the mod position. Left the Era discord channel as well.

So either she never resigned, or she resigned and went crawling back to EL.

Hmm.

[etiolate]

Why would you give that place your full name?

Jack Remington is my actual name, btw.

Glenn will be sad to hear this.

[Vit-Symty]

Kagari has a thing for sinking ships. Seems like ResetEra isn't one.

[benjipwns]

Still up since 10/16.


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252198227&postcount=5653

you can edit posts without the "edited by" message showing now, they turned it off to hide the mods

[Dennis]

Slow for me right now. Capitalism, ho! needs to invest in more RAM.

[demi]

i hope recettear picks up the slack to keep this thread ticking over because GAF is just depressing now. it's got a vibe like a department store that was big in the 80s and is now only frequented by the elderly and the infirm.

unlike this place, which was never big.

It really fucking does jesus. I might honestly have to use the other site as my RSS feed at work for gaming news lmao

[injurai]

The only game socialism ever made was Tetris 

[border]

Thank god

At last a new home where we can all try to browbeat developers into changing App Icons that don't suit our refined and very particular aesthetic sensibility!

[headwalk]

FORUM WARS.

I'm betting on thebore - letthemfight.gif

i wouldn't.

the bore is like when you convince the teacher to let you have all your mates together in a group on your school project.

[benjipwns]

It went from being an icon with a nicely detailed key visual and the title of the game — consistent with icons for Nintendo’s first-party titles, as per Nintendo's own guidelines — and became something I would charitably describe as resembling cheap shovelware that doesn’t reflect the quality of the game.

[BlueTsunami]

Still up since 10/16.


http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=252198227&postcount=5653

you can edit posts without the "edited by" message showing now, they turned it off to hide the mods

Would have helped Amirox

[demi]

There's no war between either forum and us.

This site and us have been around while NeoGAF was around, I'm not sure how things are any different with... well, two NeoGAFs around

[etiolate]

Socialism OT:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/socialism-ot-the-dawn-of-a-red-era.585/#post-27166

Man
wish benj and EV were around for this
brings a tear to the eye, it does. Even made me pick a suitable avatar.

They need you Benjibae

So here's actually a great example of the sort of thing I genuinely want to know more about: why is there so much reverence for the Russian revolution and the USSR? At least based on what I've learned so far it...didn't exactly work, insomuch as the socialist and communist systems that emerged from it aren't ones we particularly want to replicate, even setting aside the Stalinist era. My view of the entire rise and fall of the USSR is that there's a lot of very important lessons to be learned about organizational traps and dangerous tendencies within political structures

Depends on the person. I personally am not a big fan - I just like the memes - but I see the USSR as a grand failed project. I don't believe in Great Man theory; I don't believe the USSR was the living embodiment of the wills of Lenin and Stalin or whatever. It was an attempted democratic project of millions of people that failed due to the material conditions it evolved within. The democratic part got jettisoned pretty early, but even within the society that emerged there were still some elements of it that survived - for example, those 99% voting counts? Those actually happened, because the government was obsessed with showing its legitimacy, and the people knew that. They couldn't really freely pick who was on the ballot but they could abstain, or better yet threaten to abstain, which caused party members who had to organize the vote massive headaches which the people used to their advantage to get various local issues addressed. Quite clever.

The USSR helped fund anti-racist, anti-imperial, and anti-capitalist movements all over the globe. It made great strides in science. It provided for its people pretty well once they got through the initial horrors considering it wasn't following market logic. At the same time the civil war was horrendous, Stalin was a monster, and the subsequent leaders were pretty bog standard authoritarians, but no worse than what modern China does.

I guess I see it as a society striving to build itself according to new and higher principles that just kept subverting itself while also being sabotaged from the outside. There's a lot to take pride in and a lot to feel shame about. Not too different from the US.

One perspective I read that I liked was that after the revolution, the massacres, the famine, the show trials, and especially World War II the Soviet people felt that they had emerged from the crucible and, having survived, deserved their right to seek a new world. I'm just sad they failed to do it. But I'm still proud of the ones who genuinely tried.

after all the massacres, executions and genocides, they were really hopeful