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[Averon]

I never got why calling them a bubble/echo chamber bothered them so much. Even back on GAF even implying that the place was a bubble/echo chamber got you the ban hammer, or at least a dogpile.

[EightBitNate]

Fuck, there’s nothing good on TV tonight. Plz make drama, people. Occupy me.

The CNN townhall is mildly interesting.

[counterhit]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4797531/

You can almost feel IrishNinja's outrage seeping through the monitor.

 

Every GAF/REE user with ninja in their name is fucking annoying. I don't know why this is a pattern.

[etiolate]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4797531/

You can almost feel IrishNinja's outrage seeping through the monitor.

 

 

[james]

Is it Transphobic to check out penises in the men's locker room at the gym?

[TVC15]

Fuck, there’s nothing good on TV tonight. Plz make drama, people. Occupy me.

The CNN townhall is mildly interesting.

Eh, watching people bitch at each other about guns is so old hat. I’ll stick to what I’m doing (rewatching Tourettes Guy videos).

[nachobro]

I am implying that you put quite a lot of effort into promoting and extolling the virtues of Mass Effect Andromeda when a fraction of the effort needed to do that is all it would take to vote. The latter would make a difference for a cause that's greater than the scope of just gamers but really the entire world. Here's hoping you can do better in the future.

Think you’re mistaking simply chatting with other posters about the game as “a lot of effort”. The fact that you’re even relating the two anywhere close together is absurd. What do they have to do with each other? This is no different than telling someone “why are you buying that game? You can give that money to charity instead!”.

I hope you see how ludicrous this sort of argument is.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4795219/

How DARE you imply I should take a break from discussing kideo games on the internet to go vote!

[james]

Is it Transphobic to check out penises in the men's locker room at the gym?

Are they circumcised?

Heading there now I'll let you know when I get back

[Averon]

Amazingly, IrishNinja got off scott free, is gloating about it ("bronsonlee doing the lord's work), and is right back at it now that the thread is reopened.

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4801877/

how white/cis/straight are you

 

[nudemacusers]

I am implying that you put quite a lot of effort into promoting and extolling the virtues of Mass Effect Andromeda when a fraction of the effort needed to do that is all it would take to vote. The latter would make a difference for a cause that's greater than the scope of just gamers but really the entire world. Here's hoping you can do better in the future.

Think you’re mistaking simply chatting with other posters about the game as “a lot of effort”. The fact that you’re even relating the two anywhere close together is absurd. What do they have to do with each other? This is no different than telling someone “why are you buying that game? You can give that money to charity instead!”.

I hope you see how ludicrous this sort of argument is.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4795219/

How DARE you imply I should take a break from discussing kideo games on the internet to go vote!

You publicly quit GAF in a huff over Mass Effect, made your own blog, and jumped on the train of the next thing to come along so you could be an admin. I'd say that's a lot more effort than mailing in a ballot and having an effect on your city, state and country. It's pretty shameful that the only thing that got you to take any action was children getting murdered in your backyard. I guess it's better than nothing.

Someone in this argument looks ludicrous but it's the guy who got more worked up over a sci-fi video game than making his voice heard and engaging with his country politically, not me. Not to mention you live in a swing state. You honestly should be ashamed of yourself for even trying to defend your behavior.

Shinobi annihilated in the digital realm.

[shosta]

This is worse than GAF ever was.

Cerium picked the wrong fucking people.

Then again, maybe it wouldn't have mattered who he picked, and this is just another illustration of absolute power corrupts absolutely. I'd like to think I would never hand out frivolous bans if I were appointed to a mod position, but what if I'm wrong?

(Image removed from quote.)

Fucking die you rasping hulk of semi-sentient garbage.

[Averon]

I am implying that you put quite a lot of effort into promoting and extolling the virtues of Mass Effect Andromeda when a fraction of the effort needed to do that is all it would take to vote. The latter would make a difference for a cause that's greater than the scope of just gamers but really the entire world. Here's hoping you can do better in the future.

Think you’re mistaking simply chatting with other posters about the game as “a lot of effort”. The fact that you’re even relating the two anywhere close together is absurd. What do they have to do with each other? This is no different than telling someone “why are you buying that game? You can give that money to charity instead!”.

I hope you see how ludicrous this sort of argument is.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4795219/

How DARE you imply I should take a break from discussing kideo games on the internet to go vote!

You publicly quit GAF in a huff over Mass Effect, made your own blog, and jumped on the train of the next thing to come along so you could be an admin. I'd say that's a lot more effort than mailing in a ballot and having an effect on your city, state and country. It's pretty shameful that the only thing that got you to take any action was children getting murdered in your backyard. I guess it's better than nothing.

Someone in this argument looks ludicrous but it's the guy who got more worked up over a sci-fi video game than making his voice heard and engaging with his country politically, not me. Not to mention you live in a swing state. You honestly should be ashamed of yourself for even trying to defend your behavior.

Shinobi annihilated in the digital realm.

Shinobi was dumb to mention he did not vote given the audience of ERA and the current political climate.

[samfish]

Well I just went down a rabbit hole reading about terrible pedophile torture porn. That's enough internet for me for about a week. See you cats later.

[shosta]

The idea of Jack being a mod thrills me to no end. I even recommended him for modship once, no joke.
 

[thetylerrob]

How do you even respond to that shit?

[etiolate]

These competing gender and cartel torture quote ziggurats

It's magical. I almost joined the TVC talk, but I can't find the research on repeated extreme stimuli's impact on the mind.

I’d actually be interested in that if you get bored enough to find a link.

Couldn't find anything on extreme violence images. Only some work on habitual and escalating pornography consumption.

In his highly regarded book on neuroplasticity, The Brain That Changes Itself [259] Norman Doidge summarized the research on addiction and the reward system, and stated that the continued release of dopamine into the reward system when an individual compulsively and chronically watches Internet pornography stimulates neuroplastic changes that reinforce the experience. Doidge went on to explain how these neuroplastic changes build brain maps for sexual excitement. He introduced an additional component of tolerance, in that previously established brain maps for “natural” sexuality cannot compare to the newly developed and continuously reinforced maps generated by continued compulsive watching of Internet pornography, and thus the addicted individual progresses to more explicit and graphic Internet pornography in order to maintain the higher level of excitement.

Incidentally, these researchers also reported that 60% of subjects (average age: 25 years) had difficulty achieving erections/arousal with real partners, yet could achieve erections with internet pornography. Note that this finding is in line with the actual results of a recent study purporting to find otherwise [264].

Kühn and Gallinat [263] conducted an MRI study with sixty-four healthy (non-CSB) male subjects and correlated hours of online viewing of explicit material per week and years of use with dorsal striatal structure and connectivity. Three main results were reported. First, longer duration and more hours per week of use correlated with lower grey matter volume in the right caudate. While the caudate serves multiple complex functions, volume changes in the striatum are associated with several addictions, while the direction of change is not consistent. Second, more years and more hours per week of use correlated with lower left putaminal activity in response to brief, still sexual images. fMRI studies confirmed that the putamen is activated during sexual arousal [265,266]. The authors suggested this lower volume may reflect tolerance brought about by desensitization: “This is in line with the hypothesis that intense exposure to pornographic stimuli results in a downregulation of the natural neural response to sexual stimuli” [236] (p. E6). Given the stronger response to 9-second explicit video clips in Voon et al. [262], it may be that brief (530 milliseconds) exposures to still images do not act as cues for today’s internet porn video viewers, and are instead a good way to measure decreasing sexual response. Alternatively, the non-addicts here examined may be responding differently than addicts would have. Finally, subjects who consumed more pornographic material were found to have less connectivity between the right caudate and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). While the DLPFC is concerned with executive functions, it is also associated with cue reactivity to drugs and internet gaming. Disruptions in this circuit are implicated in drug and behavioral addictions. Specifically, poor functional connectivity between the DLPFC and caudate (as found in the current study) is implicated in heroin addiction

[Transhuman]

The people "boycotting" Kingdom Come arn't really missing out on much because they probably wouldn't have bought it anyway, a realistic RPG is a fairly niche market. But imagine how much shit The Last Night will bring up. Plus there's going to be people pretending to boycott it, but playing it secretly... and people saying they got it for free so they're not really supporting Tim Soret...

The best part though is the people who really really want to play it, but actually follow through with not playing it. The punishment fits the crime exquisitely.

[Great Rumbler]

Mass Effect Andromeda isn't a very good game.

[hampster]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4797826/

I see we're back to calling everyone who bought the game a racist/nazi/whatever's the hot new name to abuse.

The game got virtually no attention anywhere until it blew up on twitch around release day. It'd be wrong to assume most of the 1 million knew about Vavra at all let alone that they'd agree with him or whatever. You guys really need to learn just how much of a bubble gaf/Era is.
 

BANNED !

Derrick fighting the good fight

[nudemacusers]

What’s even better is the dude is finally going to vote so he can help get trump out... because I guess state and local elections don’t need the attention. No wonder the R’s run states.

[Averon]

Mass Effect Andromeda isn't a very good game.

Which makes Shinobi all the more pathetic for making a big show quitting GAF and defending being too lazy to vote.

[Momo]

demi could i please have a dislike button for posts that shows dislikes as red text, I will pay you $9.99 per month

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4801877/

how white/cis/straight are you

 

*pushes all three sliders as far as they'll go*




...




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*pushes the straight slider back a few notches*

[Cream]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

[Assimilate]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from  it’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

 

[Joe Molotov]

Fuck, there’s nothing good on TV tonight. Plz make drama, people. Occupy me.

I binged Re:Mind today on Netflix. It's got some j-pop idols chained up in a basement, I assume it's based on a true story.

[etiolate]

demi could i please have a dislike button for posts that shows dislikes as red text, I will pay you $9.99 per month

DISLIKE

[Broseidon]

Mass Effect Andromeda isn't a very good game.

fucked up if true

[agrajag]

Can we please stop talking about Cream's penis?

[TVC15]

Fuck, there’s nothing good on TV tonight. Plz make drama, people. Occupy me.

I binged Re:Mind today on Netflix. It's got some j-pop idols chained up in a basement, I assume it's based on a true story.

Sounds like anime. I’m a gay sadist, not a pedophile.

[Joe Molotov]

Fuck, there’s nothing good on TV tonight. Plz make drama, people. Occupy me.

I binged Re:Mind today on Netflix. It's got some j-pop idols chained up in a basement, I assume it's based on a true story.

Sounds like anime. I’m a gay sadist, not a pedophile.

They're all canonically 18.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4802829/

Then leave, bitch.

DON'T SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT MY FORUM

[Cream]

Can we please stop talking about Cream's penis?

Mods!

....-looks around-

...fuck.

[agrajag]

Can we please stop talking about Cream's penis?

Mods!

....-looks around-

...fuck.

You're getting the hang of this forum quite well for a non-troll 

[nudemacusers]

Fuck, there’s nothing good on TV tonight. Plz make drama, people. Occupy me.

I binged Re:Mind today on Netflix. It's got some j-pop idols chained up in a basement, I assume it's based on a true story.

Sounds like anime. I’m a gay sadist, not a pedophile.

They're all canonically 18.

...months? 

[FUME5]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4801877/

how white/cis/straight are you

 

*pushes all three sliders as far as they'll go*




...




....





*pushes the straight slider back a few notches*

How many degrees of cisness are there?

[shosta]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

What does it mean to have a gender? How do you know you are one gender or another?

[thetylerrob]

Cream could actually be a decent poster here if they stay. Btw how big is that dick anyway?

[Joe Molotov]

Please move all penis talk to one of the designated penis threads.

[Assimilate]

Can we please stop talking about Cream's penis?

Mods!

....-looks around-

...fuck.

Cream, do manboobs hanging real low after a long night of drinking make one bi-gendered for that night?

Asking for a friend

[Eila]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4802829/

Then leave, bitch.

DON'T SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT MY FORUM

Play nicely, please.

LMAO the staff is losing it over this game.

[TVC15]

Please move all penis talk to one of the designated penis threads.

...they’re all penis threads.

[Cream]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

What does it mean to have a gender? How do you know you are one gender or another?

Thats a really tough, complex question and everyone has a different view on it. Personally, I don’t think gender is 100% a social construct. Maybe a big part of it is, but there is more to it than that. It’s incredibly difficult, really almost impossible to articulate it to someone that isn’t also gender non-conforming. You just...know.

Also it’s huge. I’m black remember?

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/4802829/

Then leave, bitch.

DON'T SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT MY FORUM

Is that user warned for saying it?  NOPE!  Just "Play nicely, please" in a reply.

[tuna_love]

big black beaks 

[nudemacusers]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

What does it mean to have a gender? How do you know you are one gender or another?

Thats a really tough, complex question and everyone has a different view on it. Personally, I don’t think gender is 100% a social construct. Maybe a big part of it is, but there is more to it than that. It’s incredibly difficult, really almost impossible to articulate it to someone that isn’t also gender non-conforming. You just...know.

Also it’s huge. I’m black remember?

I’m actually curious in a moment to moment sense how this plays out, being bigender. Is it mannerisms/external signals? Or mostly internal?

[etiolate]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

Not really. Sex and Gender are bimodal distributions. Meaning that the vast majority of people are born a sex and grow up to its affiliated gender. While there are elements such as hormones and other traits, the groupings appear in two bell curves with some overlap. The overlap is small, but there are intersex people and asexual gender identities. Overall, most fall into line with a sex/gender alignment.

Even transgendered people show up in a largely bimodal distribution where sex/gender distribution is largely male/woman and female/man.

So its not absolute, but to say biological sex has no impact on gender is false. You can't just erase the impact hormones have on a person, otherwise there would be no hormone therapy for transitioning.

[Assimilate]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

What does it mean to have a gender? How do you know you are one gender or another?

Thats a really tough, complex question and everyone has a different view on it. Personally, I don’t think gender is 100% a social construct. Maybe a big part of it is, but there is more to it than that. It’s incredibly difficult, really almost impossible to articulate it to someone that isn’t also gender non-conforming. You just...know.

Also it’s huge. I’m black remember?

I’m actually curious in a moment to moment sense how this plays out, being bigender. Is it mannerisms/external signals? Or mostly internal?

Seriously considering going bigender are we?

[Averon]

How are they going to handle The Last Night? Because that game will make all this contention with KCD tame in comparison.

[nudemacusers]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

What does it mean to have a gender? How do you know you are one gender or another?

Thats a really tough, complex question and everyone has a different view on it. Personally, I don’t think gender is 100% a social construct. Maybe a big part of it is, but there is more to it than that. It’s incredibly difficult, really almost impossible to articulate it to someone that isn’t also gender non-conforming. You just...know.

Also it’s huge. I’m black remember?

I’m actually curious in a moment to moment sense how this plays out, being bigender. Is it mannerisms/external signals? Or mostly internal?

Seriously considering going bigender are we?

I do like a lot of JW Anderson womenswear this season.

[shosta]

Thats a really tough, complex question and everyone has a different view on it. Personally, I don’t think gender is 100% a social construct. Maybe a big part of it is, but there is more to it than that. It’s incredibly difficult, really almost impossible to articulate it to someone that isn’t also gender non-conforming. You just...know.

Also it’s huge. I’m black remember?

What are some of the ways you know that you're a woman?

[etiolate]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

What does it mean to have a gender? How do you know you are one gender or another?

Thats a really tough, complex question and everyone has a different view on it. Personally, I don’t think gender is 100% a social construct. Maybe a big part of it is, but there is more to it than that. It’s incredibly difficult, really almost impossible to articulate it to someone that isn’t also gender non-conforming. You just...know.

Also it’s huge. I’m black remember?

I’m actually curious in a moment to moment sense how this plays out, being bigender. Is it mannerisms/external signals? Or mostly internal?

Seriously considering going bigender are we?

I do like a lot of JW Anderson womenswear this season.

In fashion speak, does this mean you're going to start wearing a suit and tie?

[TVC15]

Is it transphobic to ask someone if they have a penis

No, but it is irrelevant.  A persons genitals have no baring on their gender, and It’s a best practice to get away from the topic of genetalia when speaking to non-gender conforming individuals.

What does it mean to have a gender? How do you know you are one gender or another?

Thats a really tough, complex question and everyone has a different view on it. Personally, I don’t think gender is 100% a social construct. Maybe a big part of it is, but there is more to it than that. It’s incredibly difficult, really almost impossible to articulate it to someone that isn’t also gender non-conforming. You just...know.

Also it’s huge. I’m black remember?

I’m actually curious in a moment to moment sense how this plays out, being bigender. Is it mannerisms/external signals? Or mostly internal?

Seriously considering going bigender are we?

I do like a lot of JW Anderson womenswear this season.

What brand of underwear do you wear?

[nudemacusers]

1) I’ve pretty much moved to unstructured wools and cottons, pajama & robe-like. Some leather garb too. 🖤

2) underwear has been exclusively hanro cotton essentials trunks for 3+ years now

[shosta]

you gobshite wankers can collapse your blasted quote nests dontchaknow

[Assimilate]

What brand of underwear do you wear?

Underwear? 

[etiolate]

We're building pyramids and discussing brutal murder, Shosta.

We Aztec kings beeeeeeeeeeyoch

[Cream]

Thats a really tough, complex question and everyone has a different view on it. Personally, I don’t think gender is 100% a social construct. Maybe a big part of it is, but there is more to it than that. It’s incredibly difficult, really almost impossible to articulate it to someone that isn’t also gender non-conforming. You just...know.

Also it’s huge. I’m black remember?

What are some of the ways you know that you're a woman?

 The way I’m able to empathize with a female perspective.  The way I speak.  The way I write.  The way I dress.  The way my female friends respond to me and the way people online respond to me.  But above all that you just know.  I definitely didn’t just wake up one day and go yup I’m definitely a woman.  It took a lot of thinking and a lot of learning a lot of reading and a lot of talking to others.

[TVC15]

We're building pyramids and discussing brutal murder, Shosta.

We Aztec kings beeeeeeeeeeyoch

I prefer Aztec go-go boys.