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[HaughtyFrank]

Why is my stomach constantly growling/gurgling?
Why does tap water taste like trash?
Ive been getting up to piss 4-6 times a night for a long time

These were three of the five most recent threads. Shitty, lazy, boring threads.

You can't talk about anything more complex than that on Reset.  You can't discuss "alt-right" infuriating comments and people like Jordan Peterson, and if you make a progressive thread like how pink pussyhats are exclusionary, you also get banned because the topic wasn't made in good faith and discussion wasn't productive.

You literally cannot talk about anything but petty personal observations like "hey reset what are the top 3 items in your fridge right now?"

I think that OP is on a great course on becoming one of the biggest pricks on RE, but I have to wonder how they concluded that it wasn't made in good faith.

He appears to actually believe that those hats are exclusionary

[Brehvolution]

Assimilate what was your name on GAF?

Fernando Rocker

[Uncle]

Why is my stomach constantly growling/gurgling?
Why does tap water taste like trash?
Ive been getting up to piss 4-6 times a night for a long time

These were three of the five most recent threads. Shitty, lazy, boring threads.

You can't talk about anything more complex than that on Reset.  You can't discuss "alt-right" infuriating comments and people like Jordan Peterson, and if you make a progressive thread like how pink pussyhats are exclusionary, you also get banned because the topic wasn't made in good faith and discussion wasn't productive.

You literally cannot talk about anything but petty personal observations like "hey reset what are the top 3 items in your fridge right now?"

I think that OP is on a great course on becoming one of the biggest pricks on RE, but I have to wonder how they concluded that it wasn't made in good faith.

He appears to actually believe that those hats are exclusionary

I'm wondering whether it was determined/guessed that the OP seemed to be too over-the-top to the point of self-parody, a secret troll trying to get the left to eat themselves.  Other Reset threads have been closed with similar conclusions but they were more obviously bait.

They can't allow discussion of what the alt-right or conservatives might be doing, and they also can't trust their own allies to be genuine.

[Assimilate]

Assimilate what was your name on GAF?

thinks i'm going to out myself in front of benji

 

[samfish]

I bought Savage Empire when it came out. It was... decent. Not great, but not the worst thing I've ever read. The main character was effectively his GAF persona. There are points where you'll be reading the book and, because we're all so familiar with his antics, it pulls you back and makes you say, "yeah, you can tell Bish wrote this..."
I have no idea how it would read if I had no idea who the author was or if I didn't have a generally negative taste for him.

The art and coloring is somewhat uneven, which reflects the apparent struggle with getting the art finished and such.

Overall I'd give it a 7/10, if I'm feeling generous. More like a 6.5/10. There is nothing in the book that makes it a compelling page turner or anything. It tries to be mostly a fun action romp, but it doesn't really build up much drama or significant character development.

[thisismyusername]

Bishop's coloring book is up on Amazon.

It costs FIFTEEN FUCKING DOLLARS

Oh voat...

This is the most racist thing I've ever read. Hugely problematic, evidently written by someone overflowing with male privilege. Books like this are EXACTLY why we have Trump in the Whitehouse.

I feel like most of the arguments within this coloring book were made in bad faith and what is up with the main character? he's bi?

Generally speaking, the work of a disliked egomaniac. On a personal level, I also hate the fact that he refuses to pay child support. We should not be supporting this type of artist.

[D3RANG3D]

 

[Joe Molotov]

(he's bi)

[PogiJones]

I think Resetera just got its slogan

I apologize for my attempt at humor and have deleted the comment.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-i-get-banned-so-be-it-wasnt-this-site-supposed-to-be-different-modding-related.18739/#post-3733846

Robin is the chillest mod on there. What other mod would quickly and openly listen to criticism on there, instead of banning or warning the OP for making 3 consecutive closed threads, two of which were complaining about moderation?

[benjipwns]

Slayven.

[railGUN]

I've been a GAF member since 2007.

Last year, I wrote a post here about how NeoGAF had been a safe space for me in ~2005-2007 when I was bullied through grade school. I would read the forum every day after school. It had a real sense of community. It was a very positive community. And I wrote in that post that I had grown frustrated with the hostile groupthink and culture of intolerance that now characterized NeoGAF. It was preventing reasonable (and enjoyable) discussion from taking place.

And I was banned for that post.

What made GAF such an enjoyable forum between 2007 and until at least 2012 was its fun, collegial, open-minded, and relatively laid back atmosphere. It had a real sense of community. My favorite time of year growing up was always E3 and the threads it spawned on NeoGAF. It was so much fun. The threads moving so quickly you could barely follow everyone's reactions, the memes, in-jokes, and a smaller scale of discussion that just isn't possible on other sites. NeoGAF was intimate, inclusive, and a happy place for a lot of people. It felt like a kind of internet home. The reality is that for a place to feel like home it needs to be inclusive, tolerant, and it needs to cut people some slack and let them speak freely and risk saying something offensive.

This forum, its moderators, and EvilLore, did almost everything wrong. Their actions and inactions pushed reasonable users like myself away. Year over year, users like myself posted less often and users who were harsh, unreasonable, and frankly bullies were encouraged to stay and post. This encouraged groupthink; it facilitated the toxic Social Studies Warrior obsession with seeing racism and sexism in EVERYTHING -- which literally ruins culture and makes everything miserable (including gaming); this encouraged witch hunts and it had a horrible chilling effect on discussion.

By 2015, NeoGAF was NOTHING like what it had been. It was the opposite of the forum that I went to to escape being bullied in school. It was a forum where people were actively hunted down and bullied for expressing their often very reasonable viewpoints. What a disaster.

Currently, I post on /r/KotakuInAction, which is an open, inclusive, and tolerant forum for discussing all manner of issues related to gaming. Other subreddits are decent, but they have hivemind tendencies (/r/NintendoSwitch is particularly bad) due to what I imagine is the rigging of the voting mechanism or perhaps just emergent aspects of the voting mechanism that promote conformism. This means that the calibre of discussion in those subreddits isn't always the best and criticism is downvoted into oblivion.

While I am glad to have the opportunity to make this post, the circumstances leading up to EvilLore's change of heart and to the changes here at NeoGAF don't inspire much hope. While it is a terrible injustice that EvilLore has been subjected to defamatory allegations that have not been substantiated, the fact that those allegations (and the flight of users who I have no doubt were driving massive amounts of advertising revenues) were necessary to bring NeoGAF to this point is upsetting. Not only should it have never gotten this bad, intervention should have occurred for entirely different reasons. That they are motivated almost exclusively by EvilLore's self-interest, and given that he has no credibility to claim otherwise, I remain deeply skeptical that NeoGAF will ever be anything like what it used to be so many years ago.

With that said, I believe that NeoGAF may be capable of becoming that kind of a home once again. Its smaller scale community is more unique in 2018* than it was in 2007. Sites like Reddit are increasingly struggling to offer a sense of community due to their size, scale, and algorithmic nature. So if NeoGAF can offer what they can't, I might come back. Because that was something special. But I'm not holding my breath.

 

Someone finally called EviLore out. Anyone who honestly believes that guy gives a single fuck about "building a community" or "fostering discussion" is delusional. He cares about nice cars and grand trips and lording over nerds.

I'm really enjoying the slow death of GAF, and that a new, alt-right-lite version is rising from its ashes.

 

[benjipwns]

You literally cannot talk about anything but petty personal observations like "hey reset what are the top 3 items in your fridge right now?"

User was suspended (two fortnights): Being openly exclusionary towards those members who struggle to get items for their fridge after facing daily literal rhetorical violence potentially used against them which is deterministically not a good look; after applied heuristics, post history was found under review to not be within the doctrinal standards of good faith, no appeals will be heard. It is so ruled.

[benjipwns]

Please only post on subjects that all users can enjoy discussion about: potential rumors about potential Nintendo announcements of potential announcements in the future.

[Leadbelly]

Bishop's coloring book is up on Amazon.

It costs FIFTEEN FUCKING DOLLARS

I'm surprised there's only a few one-star reviews from Bish haters. I did sensibly chuckle at the one that said it had a terrible coloring job.

I actually find the 5 star reviews quite funny as well.

Great quality, wonderful art and story. Looking forward to see where the story goes!

*Reads the plot summary*

A dark and terrifying vision of Los Angeles on the brink of Dinosaur Armageddon. In the year 2018, the Big One finally triggers in Southern California. The magnitude of the quake not only kills hundreds of thousands of people, but has actually caused a large portion of the SoCal area to fall and crumble into the Pacific. What little that remains is hanging on to the mainland by a thread, and a massive island has now appeared 30 miles south of San Clemente Islands, in disputed waters between Mexico and the United States. Ancient creatures now reclaim their territory, rampaging through the newborn island of Los Angeles and acting as harbingers of an even more malevolent force in the Pacific

So a huge earthquake kills hundreds of thousands of people. You'd think that was enough, but no, the big quake was just ushering in Dinosaur Armageddon. For some unexplained reason Dinosaurs troddle along and reclaim their land. And it seems it doesn't stop there. They are just the harbingers of an even more malevolent force in the Pacific.

Yep, I really can't wait to see where the story goes. I'm not sure where he could possibly go from there, but I remain intrigued.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-time-working-out-in-a-while-felt-a-slow-burning-sensation-of-pain-in-arm.18861/

Ask a forum for medical advice. Meanwhile you could be having a heart attack dumbass

[agrajag]

I mean, if you think the site sucks, don't come. If you like the site, participate. If you're not sure yet, wait and see. It's a big internet. I didn't visit those spots personally, but to my knowledge KiA had a pretty huge hate hard-on for GAF and it sounded obsessive and unhealthy, so I'm dubious of your description of it and dropping a giant post like this when you say you don't care for this place kind of fits with my understanding of it in relation to GAF. It's a video game message board. Is all the internet drama really necessary? I know GAF itself was a haven for drama, but it's all exhausting and dumb and most of it picked up and went elsewhere anyhow. Let's just move on.     

lol denutted

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-time-working-out-in-a-while-felt-a-slow-burning-sensation-of-pain-in-arm.18861/

Ask a forum for medical advice. Meanwhile you could be having a heart attack dumbass

Yeah, but that also could be a misdiagnosis and you could have wasted ten years doing nothing about it. Better to just wait for it to solve itself instead of trusting medical scams.

[Joe Molotov]

“I mean, if you think the site sucks, don't come.“
~Pornhub, 2018

[Nabbis]

Right on cue as the money for escorts ran out. Evilore starts posting again.

[Jansen]

you gotta be careful with free weights, bad form can cause injuries that take a few months to heal.

have you changed your elbow oil recently?

ERA mods pls ip check these two

[Phoenix Dark]

Evillore being hit with that "...I guess...but the last guy I was with bought first class or business tickets so I expect a certain level of things..." sugar baby banter as he tries to cut costs.

[Himu]

EviLore hasn't learned shit

[etiolate]

Lore trying to open up to the Gamergate crowd after going on a massive distinguished mentally-challenged crusade against it is some bizarro shit.

"KiA seems to really hate us"  Yes, because you helped label people monsters and your forum heaped abuse and harassment on them.

[Optimus]

KIA is full of shit people though... so... they deserved it?

KiA had both leftwing and rightwing libertarian people that just hated the authoritarian SJ W lunatics. The last couple of years it has been overrun by 4chan distinguished mentally-challenged fellows but during gamergate most of them were there because they were sick of the Sarkeesians and the basadas of the gaming community.

The harassment bullshit, just like it happened with the latest Peterson interview, is just a cheap tactic SJ Ws use to distract from the incompetence to debate opponents. They shine a light to the most extreme voices of the other side even though they have equal amounts of extremists in their ranks to avoid any kind of discussion with others.

[Averon]

To EL, NeoGAF was first and foremost a money making operation and a place where he can brag. He never cared what happened to the community as long as the money came in and the people there was sucking him off.

It explains why he waited this long to upgrade the forum's outdated software.
It explain why the slightest criticism of him lead to him wiping out your account.
It explain why he rarely brought his mod staff to heel.
It explains why he kept using virus and malware ridden ads.
And it explain why he's suddenly active and making a fake plea of being contrite about the sites problems after losing his audience and ad revenue.

The guy is so blatant about it that it is sad some people are actually falling for his act.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Stumpokapow's finest moment:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/clinton-has-pneumonia.1277131/page-17#post-216630046
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/election-day-bets.1310579/

[Joe Molotov]

STEP BACK NERDS, LET A REAL ALPHA THROUGH. *grabs a girl's ass, causing her to orgasm instantly*

[Joe Molotov]

Stumpokapow's finest moment:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/clinton-has-pneumonia.1277131/page-17#post-216630046
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/election-day-bets.1310579/

I just lost my entire Amiibo collection because of Trump's win.

FUCK

[agrajag]

diablos didn't get his tag?

[Atramental]

Stump was probably too busy getting angry drunk and punching holes in his house's dry wall to give diablos a tag.

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or getting sad drunk and crying in his bed

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"IT WAS HER TURN GODDAMNIT!!"

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[Let's Cyber]

diablos didn't get his tag?

No, he had a "Can't Stump the Diablos" tag for a while. Not sure why it's gone now.

[Uncle]

I'd guess he got it and they were all wiped out in the forum change.  I mean they talk about how it's a lame tag as if they're seeing it.

[railGUN]

"The Hill Stump Died On" should have been the tag  :'(

[BlueTsunami]

“I mean, if you think the site sucks, don't come.“
~Pornhub, 2018

The Statement (JOI)

[ToxicAdam]

neogaf was that college party that went to 4am but all the cool people left 3 hours ago.

[Coitus]

the spergs that remain are now paying e-tribute to levelheaded Master Malka.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-playing-subnautica-its-just-left-ea.18818/

Pretty blatant viral marketing right here.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/3759374/

Gotta try harder to hide Dem alts

[thisismyusername]

Stumpokapow's finest moment:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/clinton-has-pneumonia.1277131/page-17#post-216630046
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/election-day-bets.1310579/

Shame that bet didn't go through. I would've loved to have seen GAF flip out over Stump losing.

[Nabbis]

Stumpokapow's finest moment:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/clinton-has-pneumonia.1277131/page-17#post-216630046
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/election-day-bets.1310579/

Shame that bet didn't go through. I would've loved to have seen GAF flip out over Stump losing.

Stump lost the moment he joined Gaf.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Any way to view the 'who posted' stats for a thread on RE the way you could on GAF?

[zepblackstar]

Tyler knew what he was doing for the money by catering to the more needy members of GaF while kicking/running out everyone with actual content.


He got burned by his own creation

[shosta]

Any way to view the 'who posted' stats for a thread on RE the way you could on GAF?

This requires some backend PHP code for xenforo and no one ever wrote it.

[Assimilate]

we're still talking about the elf?

 

 

[clothedmacuser]

68% of USA overweight.

Maybe if the US wasn’t such a hyper-capitalist society with little to no regulations on corporations allowing them to do whatever the fuck they want to increase profits, while concurrently defunding and entirely obliterating all public institutions aimed at taking care of their citizens, then people wouldn’t get so overweight and malnourished.

I see that the US cannot and will not ever improve if it doesn’t tackle its massively gross treatment of inequality, lack of education, and business deregulation.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/3760374/

Guess who?  How can such and entity relate these things.

[Rufus]

we're still talking about the elf?

 

 

This forum was once named EvilBore.

[Boredfrom]

People are turning on Lime in the The DACA Saga: The Dems Chicken oí thread

[clothedmacuser]

People are turning on Lime in the The DACA Saga: The Dems Chicken oí thread

Haha, they are!   Apparently I'm not crazy.  They see it too!  They see it too!!!!

[Boredfrom]

People are turning on Lime in the The DACA Saga: The Dems Chicken oí thread

Haha, they are!   Apparently I'm not crazy.  They see it too!  They see it too!!!!

They even try to alude she is a Russian Troll because she tried to support Manning.

[nudemacusers]

The naïveté in that thread... posters really suggesting a historically long shutdown? Edging ever closer to the singularity...

Also people need to realize this stupid wall thing will get marked to death once/if the senate flips blue. No point in long term explanations with these people, wouldn’t fit in a tweet.

[Boredfrom]

The naïveté in that thread... posters really suggesting a historically long shutdown? Edging ever closer to the singularity...

Then it should have been not a shutdown in the first place. Feels like a political backfire.

I think people should be allowed to say "my political party is stupid as fuck".

[nudemacusers]

A weekend shutdown wedged the issue and was not grossly painful... dumb but will be forgotten feb 8...and sure you can say your party is stupid but if your reasons for doing so are shallow and thoughtless :shrug

[Boredfrom]

A weekend shutdown wedged the issue and was not grossly painful... dumb but will be forgotten feb 8...and sure you can say your party is stupid but if your reasons for doing so are shallow and thoughtless :shrug

Come on, you know that PoliRes would deflect even if nobody said "they should have go for a whole month". Is hard to fucking sell the "we have the best deal we could have. Vote for us, we are not as bad" when the same users promised the sky a week ago.

[nudemacusers]

A weekend shutdown wedged the issue and was not grossly painful... dumb but will be forgotten feb 8...and sure you can say your party is stupid but if your reasons for doing so are shallow and thoughtless :shrug

Come on, you know that PoliRes would deflect even if nobody said "they should have go for a whole month". Is hard to fucking sell the "we have the best deal we could have. Vote for us, we are not as bad" when the same users promised the sky a week ago.

Don’t really care about hilldawggaf or polires tho

[Boredfrom]

Complete willful ignorance of political realities.

This is Bernie Sanders' fault.

See? A full thread of Jacks saying that they need to shut up and bend over.

[seagrams hotsauce]

I'm kinda surprised ya'll are acting like this isn't shitty. It's spineless, though expected.

[nudemacusers]

Didn’t say it was not shitty... but primary everyone? Shut down for months? What?

[Optimus]

If your grandstanding turns out to be a transparent bluff you shouldn't have attempted it at all since it makes you look like a pathetic show-off.

[samfish]

Limes been slipping lately. The hive turned on him(?) the other day in the pussy hat thread, if memory serves.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Didn’t say it was not shitty... but primary everyone? Shut down for months? What?

I mean whaddya expect out of em? Any explicitly political topic there is dominated by hyperbole.