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We're making the last round of preparations for our forum platform upgrade/migration, and should be ready to go live by approximately the end of December (or first week of January otherwise).

To be fair, he didn't specify which year.
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That moderator line "There is no reasonable defense that can be offered of Dave Chappelle's specific transphobic jokes" is awful.  Like...be moderators and make sure that the discussion is civil.  Don't outright stop people from talking about a subject because you feel that way.  Fucking thought police over there- was anything like that even ever said on NeoGAF?
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That moderator line "There is no reasonable defense that can be offered of Dave Chappelle's specific transphobic jokes" is awful.  Like...be moderators and make sure that the discussion is civil.  Don't outright stop people from talking about a subject because you feel that way.  Fucking thought police over there- was anything like that even ever said on NeoGAF?
That's because you are transphobic.
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You are alt right and use Nazi language
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No one is stopping them from watching it and enjoying it, but there is clearly a rule on a forum (and perhaps society as a whole) like this that you can't actively defend it. The Dave thread had in big red mod letters do not defend his jokes or you are banned.

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Lol, that's not what the mod said. At least be honest.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/2806825/

There is no reasonable defense that can be offered of Dave Chappelle's specific transphobic jokes. Defending his specific transphobic jokes will be treated the same as any other post in defense of transphobia from this point forward. You have been warned.


https://www.resetera.com/posts/2678867/

And right after those posts it gets locked by that very mod...

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Wait...did I miss something?  That thread is specifically about ResetEra staff's picks...not the forum.  So what is Duckroll even talking about?  ???

And staff picks?  That is pretentious as fuck.  :lol 

My favorite:

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I think his point is that the mods posting their own personal GOTY list (which is already pretentious as you remarked) is pretty shitty when the members' vote is still ongoing.

It's a bit like "we're not voting with you peasants, read our picks in a dedicated stickied thread, and before you guys are even done".

They're so far up their own arses I bet they can tell you how their own tonsils taste. It's amazing.

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LOL, a mod tries to justify that red text after the thread was locked.


The advice given in the Chappelle thread was very specifically only about defending the specific jokes which are clearly transphobic, not about defending his jokes. Many people have said they like the specials or thought they were funny. How many were banned? In future if you have questions about moderator actions, please contact a moderator or an admin rather than posting something in a thread. We don't have time to read all the posts and are likely to miss something like this if it isn't brought to our attention.


https://www.resetera.com/posts/2807635/

I didn't even defend the joke and still got a one month ban.
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I didn't even defend the joke and still got a one month ban.

Please don't discuss these things in public where everyone can see that the mods are on a Powertrip, instead please contact them per PM away from the public eye.


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That place is fucking mental.

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-diversity-matters-a-positive-thread-about-how-diversity-in-games-has-made-us-feel-better.13770/

That this thread has not even made it past 50 posts says it all. People enjoy complaining so much more than positivity. (Hey, that's why I'm in this very thread)

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Mods don't reply to PM's so that doesn't really work.

With that said, I'm not sure why that poster (or many others) do not understand why identity politics are futile.

The group just keeps getting smaller and smaller. First you identify as a blue collar transgender progressive.
The next day you are a blue collar transgender cis hispanic obese big beautiful vegan progressive
You don't vote because the progressive eats hamburgers also you have only one online friend.

Three dudes walk into a bar in Alabama.
One is a Nazi, the other wants lower taxes and the third is cop.
They all have a beer and vote for the pedophile 

Or you just ask the majority of white/black working straight people who eat at McDonalds who they identify as and sell them a useless piece of clothing to feel connected.  :trumps
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My recent education about TERFs proves that identity politics is a losing battle.
As you say, the group keeps getting smaller and smaller.
I'm just waiting for gold star gay to go from being a joke to now a completely exclusionary group.
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Trans people are murdered af a higher rate but it’s mostly because prostitution is dangerous work

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-diversity-matters-a-positive-thread-about-how-diversity-in-games-has-made-us-feel-better.13770/
These posts are the fucking worst

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God damn it please keep trans stuff in Cindi's thread where she can argue with slapdicks for pages and pages and keep this to making fun of RE/GAF places.

You’re fighting a losing battle. Trans-related discussion is like the most popular topic on Resetera. You cannot escape.
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That moderator line "There is no reasonable defense that can be offered of Dave Chappelle's specific transphobic jokes" is awful.  Like...be moderators and make sure that the discussion is civil.  Don't outright stop people from talking about a subject because you feel that way.  Fucking thought police over there- was anything like that even ever said on NeoGAF?
You're misdiagnosing it. There's one transgender administrator who's very sensitive about the issue and completely explodes over anything even vaguely transphobic. Pretty much everyone else doesn't care all that much but nobody wants to be the person who stands up for transphobes (real or merely alleged) so it's not worth a fight. Not to mention administrators are completely separate from moderators and the latter function more as unpaid labor (and never as policy makers).

I don't really care all that much and I don't think resetera is a thought police nightmare enforced by jackboot moderators. I think people are just imperfect and the social pressures just led to these specific, isolated, perverse interactions between site staff and posters.

and I'm on that one admin's shit list.  I'm boned.
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That moderator line "There is no reasonable defense that can be offered of Dave Chappelle's specific transphobic jokes" is awful.  Like...be moderators and make sure that the discussion is civil.  Don't outright stop people from talking about a subject because you feel that way.  Fucking thought police over there- was anything like that even ever said on NeoGAF?
You're misdiagnosing it. There's one transgender administrator who's very sensitive about the issue and completely explodes over anything even vaguely transphobic. Pretty much everyone else doesn't care all that much but nobody wants to be the person who stands up for transphobes (real or merely alleged) so it's not worth a fight. Not to mention administrators are completely separate from moderators and the latter function more as unpaid labor (and never as policy makers).

I don't really care all that much and I don't think resetera is a thought police nightmare enforced by jackboot moderators. I think people are just imperfect and the social pressures just led to these specific, isolated, perverse interactions between site staff and posters.

The insanity of this admin is only one part of a forum that's already paved with wacky warnings and bans for some of the mildest or straight up uncontroversial shit.

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Hi folks,
I'm Luna and I am an autistic white queer trans woman with several mental illnesses

This feels like when a guy walks into a bank and announces he's strapped a bomb to himself.

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That actually sounds like a troll. On an LGBT Christian discord, we will get raided a lot by conservative Christians who tell us to stop living in sin. They're gate kept and locked out of the servers rooms besides a welcome room and you have to introduce yourself and state why you're there. Any time we get raided it's full of conservatives who say stuff like,"I'm a pansexual polyamarous trans woman and my preferred pronouns are they and I've read the rules, can I come in?" Like, they go completely over the top with it. Not to say that person is doing that, butttttt, it's a possibility.
« Last Edit: January 03, 2018, 08:08:53 PM by Cindi Mayweather »
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God damn it please keep trans stuff in Cindi's thread where she can argue with slapdicks for pages and pages and keep this to making fun of RE/GAF places.

Surprisingly, I don't like talking about the trans thing a lot and generally keep it to myself or among other trans people but I feel obligate to address it here because it's such a common topic and I just can't let the tucutes get away with monopolizing the trans narrative. Sorry.  :-\
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That moderator line "There is no reasonable defense that can be offered of Dave Chappelle's specific transphobic jokes" is awful.  Like...be moderators and make sure that the discussion is civil.  Don't outright stop people from talking about a subject because you feel that way.  Fucking thought police over there- was anything like that even ever said on NeoGAF?
You're misdiagnosing it. There's one transgender administrator who's very sensitive about the issue and completely explodes over anything even vaguely transphobic. Pretty much everyone else doesn't care all that much but nobody wants to be the person who stands up for transphobes (real or merely alleged) so it's not worth a fight. Not to mention administrators are completely separate from moderators and the latter function more as unpaid labor (and never as policy makers).

I don't really care all that much and I don't think resetera is a thought police nightmare enforced by jackboot moderators. I think people are just imperfect and the social pressures just led to these specific, isolated, perverse interactions between site staff and posters.

lol resettera is for the lonely bin

your a mod? lololololol
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GAFReset gives off that vibe often.

« Last Edit: January 03, 2018, 08:05:29 PM by etiolate »

Am_I_Anonymous

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GAFReset gives off that vine often.

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And yet it happened and here you are still whining about it like a scorned 14 year old girl. You lose.
YMMV

Himu

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God damn it please keep trans stuff in Cindi's thread where she can argue with slapdicks for pages and pages and keep this to making fun of RE/GAF places.

Surprisingly, I don't like talking about the trans thing a lot and generally keep it to myself or among other trans people but I feel obligate to address it here because it's such a common topic and I just can't let the tucutes get away with monopolizing the trans narrative. Sorry.  :-\

You like to argue and get got by trolls like 10 times a day. Blatant troll posts at that. And then the next 5 pages will be you writing 8 paragraphs to someone who was just trying to get a rise out of you. You're like benji but the one being trolled.

I CAN'T HELP IT

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GAFReset gives off that vine often.

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And yet it happened and here you are still whining about it like a scorned 14 year old girl. You lose.

what are you talking about?

I'm talking about Cindi's comment that the poster may be just another joke character parading freely on Reset.

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Butts.
« Last Edit: January 03, 2018, 08:10:55 PM by Am_I_Anonymous »
YMMV

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Stro :brazilcry
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Himu

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No offense, but why read this thread then? It's the Gaf/Reset thread. It's full of SJWs. Why would you not expect tumblr talk?
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Who was the GAF girl that became webcam girl? Koshiba?

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https://www.resetera.com/posts/2806825/

There is no reasonable defense that can be offered of Dave Chappelle's specific transphobic jokes. Defending his specific transphobic jokes will be treated the same as any other post in defense of transphobia from this point forward. You have been warned.


https://www.resetera.com/posts/2678867/

So defending transphobic jokes from this point forward will be treated like any other post defending transphobia.

When you take into account that SweetNicole considers not being sexually attracted to a transgender person transphobia, this change in policy and action really isn't saying much. Might as well have done it from the start. I mean, there is practically nothing SweetNicole doesn't consider transphobia anyway.

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That actually sounds like a troll. On an LGBT Christian discord, we will get raided a lot by conservative Christians who tell us to stop living in sin. They're gate kept and locked out of the servers rooms besides a welcome room and you have to introduce yourself and state why you're there. Any time we get raided it's full of conservatives who say stuff like,"I'm a pansexual polyamarous trans woman and my preferred pronouns are they and I've read the rules, can I come in?" Like, they go completely over the top with it. Not to say that person is doing that, butttttt, it's a possibility.
Sounds like a lot of work and excuses when you could just. stop. living in sin.
I mean, it's just so ... tiring ... to have to explain endlessly to all those who don't follow His Word.
Can you like just not, [Quran 68:18]

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The insanity of this admin is only one part of a forum that's already paved with wacky warnings and bans for some of the mildest or straight up uncontroversial shit.

Yeah. The inmates really are running the asylum.

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There's one transgender administrator who's very sensitive about the issue and completely explodes over anything even vaguely transphobic.

Right...that person should not be an administrator or mod or whatever.  She clearly can't handle it.

Pretty much everyone else doesn't care all that much but nobody wants to be the person who stands up for transphobes (real or merely alleged) so it's not worth a fight.

Forget transphobia here (although I guess it's kind of related)- it is discussion about a stand up comedy special.  Seriously, if you're that passionate about social/gender stuff, what the hell are you wasting your time thought-policing a video game message board for?  Go get out in the real world.
« Last Edit: January 04, 2018, 07:33:33 AM by Dos Locos Tacos »
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It's the Gaf/Reset thread. It's full of Social Studies Warriors.
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It's the Gaf/Reset thread. It's full of Social Studies Warriors.
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I mean, the forums the thread is about is about are full of Social Studies Warriors. Bad syntax on my part.
« Last Edit: January 03, 2018, 09:17:24 PM by Cindi Mayweather »
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Aha, that makes a lot more sense lol

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Why do you use SSW instead of Social Studies Warrior?

Stealth edit: There's a filter on SJ.W?  lol.
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LGBT Christian discord

:lol

:( LGBT hate us, Christians hate us. Gotta support each other.

Unfortunately you're not a cool lgbt person unless you're an atheist satanist or pagan or witch or whatever always on the borders of being some edgelord who will cast a spell on everyone so :idont
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Notice how alphabetical order gets the person of color introduced last? The alphabet is just another oppressive invention of the white male patriarchy.   :thinking

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LGBT Christian discord

:lol

:( LGBT hate us, Christians hate us. Gotta support each other.

Unfortunately you're not a cool lgbt person unless you're an atheist satanist or pagan or witch or whatever always on the borders of being some edgelord who will cast a spell on everyone so :idont

Given the meaning of "discord" (the noun, not the IRC reskin) I just found it amusing.

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I’ve seen maybe 3 transgender people in my entire life.  Yeah, it’s easy to tell 99% of the time by looks and voice. 

Despite this, that forum is trans trans trans 24/7.  Trans make up like a fraction of 1% of the population.  It’s absolute insanity over there.  I’ve never seen anything so completely in contrast to the real world before.  What is wrong with these people?
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Mods don't reply to PM's so that doesn't really work.

With that said, I'm not sure why that poster (or many others) do not understand why identity politics are futile.

The group just keeps getting smaller and smaller. First you identify as a blue collar transgender progressive.
The next day you are a blue collar transgender cis hispanic obese big beautiful vegan progressive
You don't vote because the progressive eats hamburgers also you have only one online friend.

Three dudes walk into a bar in Alabama.
One is a Nazi, the other wants lower taxes and the third is cop.
They all have a beer and vote for the pedophile 

Or you just ask the majority of white/black working straight people who eat at McDonalds who they identify as and sell them a useless piece of clothing to feel connected.  :trumps

Yeah that's a good way to put it.

I mean I would probably not vote for a pedophile, I don't think that's an example of progressives wrongfully turning their noses up.  But they sure like to make a bunch of shitlists and dealbreakers, and cut "toxic people" out of their lives.  No room for forgiveness.  Telling their own parents they never want to see them again because they voted for Trump because the TV told them to, and breaking their poor confused hearts.
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I’ve seen maybe 3 transgender people in my entire life.  Yeah, it’s easy to tell 99% of the time by looks and voice. 

Despite this, that forum is trans trans trans 24/7.  Trans make up like a fraction of 1% of the population.  It’s absolute insanity over there.  I’ve never seen anything so completely in contrast to the real world before.  What is wrong with these people?

Bro I answered this question pages ago when you last asked it.  If the sum total of the internet is 100% then consider Reset to be the 1% trans of it.

Stuff doesn't appear in equal distribution everywhere.  It's not like if I write a paragraph then 10% of the paragraph needs to be gay and 1% of the paragraph needs to be trans.
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I’ve seen maybe 3 transgender people in my entire life.  Yeah, it’s easy to tell 99% of the time by looks and voice. 

Despite this, that forum is trans trans trans 24/7.  Trans make up like a fraction of 1% of the population.  It’s absolute insanity over there.  I’ve never seen anything so completely in contrast to the real world before.  What is wrong with these people?

The internet - specifically left leaning niche gaming boards have a larger percentage of queer posters, including trans. Regardless, what do you mean exactly "what's wrong with these people" because that's a pretty fucking stupid and gross thing to ask.

Trans issues are no less important than any other human rights issue so I really don't understand the questioning that goes on in this thread about it.
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These boards are also full of men who don't know how to wipe their asses, how to shampoo their hair without getting it in their eyes, but have 10inch hogs and can't get a date, so YMMV

Shampoo?  I thought they decided that soap and shampoo weren't needed and that your body cleans itself with "natural oils."  :doge
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a bath???! but it's not saturday!!

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I remember those gaf threads about not using soap or shampoo.  Trying to say that your hair just naturally gets clean with its own oils and shampoo ruins it, and a bunch of people posting progress reports like some sort of gross anti-washing support group.
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Oh wait, I mis-remembered:
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/products-where-paying-extra-is-a-scam.14169/

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Let's get some easy ones out of the way:

- wine
- coffee
- cholocate
- beer

All that shit tastes the same wether you paid 1€ or 1000€. Everybody would fail a blind test on those things.

Possibly more controversial:

- headphones (or audio equipment in general)

It's not quite as clear-cut in this case. Going from your garbage 20€ headphones to mid-range Beyerdynamic BT 770 Pro is absolutely worth it and a huge leap. Past the mid-range, diminishing returns definitely kick in, although I opted for <200€ headphones myself and I'm happy I did. >300€ headphones don't strike me as being worthwhile under any circumstances, and I consider audiophiles as largely deluded.




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I remember those gaf threads about not using soap or shampoo.  Trying to say that your hair just naturally gets clean with its own oils and shampoo ruins it, and a bunch of people posting progress reports like some sort of gross anti-washing support group.

I was a big promoter in those threads.  They struck me the same as "I cut my own hair and everyone says it looks great!"  Teh same as "I don't wear deodorant and nobody has ever complained!"

So nobody walked up to you and said "you look/smell like shit," so clearly you are the epitome of style and hygiene.
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Listen I use shampoo and conditioner rarely and never use soap.

I also never excercise and am pretty much always in an air conditioned room tho

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if you can't tell the difference between craft beer and budweiser then may the lord smite yee

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Budweiser is that fancy foreign beer that costs $9 a bottle

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/products-where-paying-extra-is-a-scam.14169/

Quote from: Imp the Dimp,
Let's get some easy ones out of the way:

- wine
- coffee
- cholocate
- beer

All that shit tastes the same wether you paid 1€ or 1000€. Everybody would fail a blind test on those things.

Possibly more controversial:

- headphones (or audio equipment in general)

It's not quite as clear-cut in this case. Going from your garbage 20€ headphones to mid-range Beyerdynamic BT 770 Pro is absolutely worth it and a huge leap. Past the mid-range, diminishing returns definitely kick in, although I opted for <200€ headphones myself and I'm happy I did. >300€ headphones don't strike me as being worthwhile under any circumstances, and I consider audiophiles as largely deluded.

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 :trigger :trigger :trigger aaaaaugh

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/police-officers-deliver-baby-girl-after-panicked-father-sparks-car-chase-as-he-speeds-to-hospital.14170/

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I know people are going to have some negative stuff to say about this and how it was handled, but that is a great story.

Nice to see some positive moments these days.


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If he were black, she'd be a widow.
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I need a shower just after reading the last few posts. :kobeyuck
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Listen I use shampoo and conditioner rarely and never use soap.

I also never excercise and am pretty much always in an air conditioned room tho
didnt you talk up your teeth on gaf but they were yellow?