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[benjipwns]

It's amazing how anyone who dislikes Black Panther must be a racist. At least this guy is upfront and doesn't do all that "you know why" bullshit.

i can't think of another reason someone wouldn't think it's not the best film of the year and probably one of the three best of the century, especially when people start describing their wack reasons to downgrade it like MLK's legacy, they ain't that slick

it certainly crushes any other film you want to talk about like infinity war or spider-man or justice league or the last jedi or jurassic world or deadpool or solo or ready player one, i mean maybe if we saw the snyder cut it'd be different but we won't so it's not like there's any other film out there to stand up to it, certainly not one with an important message that is inspiring billions

like what else you gonna bring up, jumanji? pacific rim?

[benjipwns]

he also had that dumb limp dick lightsaber. maybe dooku is the real fraud here

Dooku is one of the more baffling characters in the most baffling of a baffling set of films developed through a baffling set of decisions...really the whole separatist plotline and Dooku are really up there...

AOTC is arguably best summed up by the fact that the titular Attack of the Clones, which dominates one of the plotlines and is the non-Anakin bullshit pole of the movie, happens in the last ten minutes, totally on the side of the "good guys", for entirely in-world justified reasons (the droid army) which is why the Jedi sign on...Yoda and Obi-Wan's foreboding comments notwithstanding...and then the Clone Wars all happen in a TV series

[agrajag]

Count Dooku is where they jumped the shark for me. Like why the fuck is there a random Count? There was no previous indication that there's some kind of feudalism in the galaxy.

[bork]

Count Dooku is where they jumped the shark for me. Like why the fuck is there a random Count? There was no previous indication that there's some kind of feudalism in the galaxy.

Nerdo-storyline explanation:

Dooku was a Jedi Master who fell to the dark side of the Force and became a Dark Lord of the Sith, known as Darth Tyranus. Born into a noble family on the planet Serenno, he was the heir to vast wealth and the noble title of Count. Dooku was taken by the Jedi Order as a child and apprenticed to Thame Cerulian. As a Jedi Knight, he took Qui-Gon Jinn as his first Padawan, and later trained Komari Vosa. Dooku was a respected instructor in the Jedi Temple and one of the most renowned swordsmen in the galaxy, surpassed only by Grandmaster Yoda and equal to Master Mace Windu.

The real reason, I'd wager, was that it was an homage to Christopher Lee's older roles like Count Dracula.

[agrajag]

I know, but I'd wager most people that watch Star Wars movies don't know/care about EU bs, so dropping a count on them out of the blue is cray

[jorma]

I know, but I'd wager most people that watch Star Wars movies don't know/care about EU bs, so dropping a count on them out of the blue is cray

You are correct, we don't care about EU bs but we also don't care about why there's suddenly a duke there.

[agrajag]

k

[Stro]

I don't think he was a like....an actual count. It was just a name, like Darth Icky, ELAN SLEAZEBAGANNO, NOTLUWISKI PAPANOIDA, and SALACIOUS B. CRUMB

I saw the "new controversy"  with Scarlett Johanssen playing a trans man and could have sworn that Jared Leto got HEAVY praise just a few years ago for playing a trans woman (including Oscar, Golden Globe, and SAG awards) and thought it was weird that a woman playing a transman is now super terrible and everyone should be ashamed. But then I looked it up and there are think pieces about how we shouldn't celebrate Leto's performance as a trans woman anymore and he wouldn't be casted for such a role today. A mere 5 years later.

[agrajag]

My favorite Lucas's silly naming thing is the squid-like species that Admiral Akbar belongs to is Mon Calamari.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

The only good thing about anything star wars related were the fantasies I had about Kiera Knightly, Natalie Portman and JarJar.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/10027485/

Lots of people here are forgetting that she got something better than an old age home and even better than staying in her own house: Sweet revenge.

 

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[thetylerrob]

https://youtu.be/tG7wLK4aAOE
Star Wars is the most mishandled media franchise of all time.

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/happy-4th-of-july.53299/

I hope fireworks burn our entire infrastructure down (with minimal casualties)

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ap-trump-pressed-aides-on-venezuela-invasion-us-official-says.53297/#post-10026048

US invasions might be the only thing less successful than socialism.

Socialism is working just fine for China. America's bank.

[Uncle]

awww the restera ban site is gone

hope it's only temporarily

From a certain site:

ResetEra filed a trademark notice against GitHub, who gave it to me. I didn't see it until I saw the site go down. New site, with a non-trademark infringing username:

https://resetbanbot.github.io/

I do not believe the contents of the website itself creates any sort of market place confusion, and is clearly labeled a ban bot aggregator with direct links to the original content. Perhaps I will add "unofficial" or "fan-made" to the page.

Direct from ResetEra Inc.

The reported account is infringing on our trademark by posing as an official aggregator of content from our website. Their repos contain anti-semitic content (as seen in the upper left) which is highly damaging to our trademark and brand. Additionally, their repos and account were expressly created for the purpose of tarnishing the image of ResetEra, LLC.

(The "anti-semitic content" was a star of David the creator put there because he is Jewish and it's in protest of actual Nazis)

I've established a backup, non-GitHub host: https://reeera.neocities.org/
Neocities will be regularly updated, but the updates will be delayed behind the GitHub primary site due to the nature of how they accept automatic uploads.

The bot will self-archive the posts page after updates:
https://archive.fo/https://resetbanbot.github.io/*
https://archive.fo/https://reeera.neocities.org/*
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://resetbanbot.github.io/posts/
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://reeera.neocities.org/posts/

Neocities supposedly will automatically pin the site in IPFS, but it hasn't generated me a hash, yet.

Finally, I created a PGP key and a Pastebin for ULTIMATE DAMAGE CONTROL.

Other info:

Thanks to some graphs, we know the following:

* While they've maintained some pretty steady userbasing and traffic, this is a mere shred of the traffic they had when ResetERA got started. At current, the site's traffic and income is about one quarter what it was in October 2017. The actual consistent traffic fluctuates, but generally is about 20-40% of that number. As of July 4th, 2018, they have fewer hits per page than they ever have.

* Alexa shows some surprisingly positive results for them, but solely because they've only really been audited once, about three months ago, long after the free-fall plummet from October of 2017, and as such it looks like a straight line with the usual minor fluctuations until recently.

* Critically, Alexa's data shows that they bleed about 1500 users a month, presumably divided between banhammer recipients, dead accounts getting removed from the calculations, and so on. The account fluctuation seems to be coming from how well they're able to offset the bleed or not at the end of a given month.

* Fittingly, the site's reach is in a free-fall plummet and is currently in the midst of an all-time low.

* This is despite a significant increase in ranking in search results due to them being piped by friendly sites (Siliconera, Destructoid, Kotaku, etc). Over 70% of the traffic to ResetEra is via such piping (direct links on other sites), with Social Media accounting for less than 7% of its traffic and affiliate links barely over 2%. Somehow this has resulted in there being substantially more pageviews, but less pageviews per user. Predictably the time range for users on the site is also fucking awful.

Conclusions: ResetEra isn't doing so well. It's been having increasingly shrinking reach despite considerably improved traffic to the site, and that has a lot to do with its insane moderator staff chasing off anyone who dares show critical thought or an understanding of causality. Basically every other gaming site is doing better, with even NeoGAF doing better despite dramatically slashed numbers.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Link?

[nudemacusers]

I’ll laugh if evilore ultimately triumphs

[tummyfat]

The best part of everyone having to go back to GAF would be all the super annoying people account suicided with shower memes

The second best part would be Stormfront GAF and Social Studies Warrior GAF civil war

lol what is woman on about?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fifa-world-cup-2018-ot4-all-according-to-lukaku.52586/page-386#post-10007768

[Great Rumbler]

Count Dooku? More like Count Doodoo.

[Transhuman]

Who knows with women hey. Their minds are an enigma

[agrajag]

Count Dooku? More like Count Doodoo.

Dookie

[HaughtyFrank]

lol what is woman on about?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fifa-world-cup-2018-ot4-all-according-to-lukaku.52586/page-386#post-10007768

congratulations to england

hopefully they're able to win their future games without the benefit of a racist referee

https://www.resetera.com/posts/10007318/

Blaming racism for Colombia losing 

if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

[Uncle]

Blaming racism for Colombia losing 

if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

that's disingenuous, some things also look like a sickle

[Transhuman]

So did something actually happen to make someone accuse the referee of racism?

Or did their team just lose

[SmokyDave]

I’ll laugh if evilore ultimately triumphs

Are you going to undo my ban when you’re modding GAF?

I just want to access all the pictures of flaccid cocks in my PM box.

[tummyfat]

Banning people like SmokyDave and Amazon Tony just showed that Evilore was a cunt who hated when a poster was more well liked than him

[HaughtyFrank]

So did something actually happen to make someone accuse the referee of racism?

Or did their team just lose

The Colombians were playing super rough. If anything the referee should have been harsher

https://www.businessinsider.de/england-beats-colombia-penalties-2018-7?r=US&IR=T

[Transhuman]

I’ll laugh if evilore ultimately triumphs

Are you going to undo my ban when you’re modding GAF?

I just want to access all the pictures of flaccid cocks in my PM box.

I used the vestiges of my influence to try to get you unbanned, check tomorrow

[who is ted danson?]

So did something actually happen to make someone accuse the referee of racism?

Or did their team just lose

Colombia tried to play dirty like their Argentinian cousins against England, except they lost.

[thisismyusername]

awww the restera ban site is gone

hope it's only temporarily

From a certain site:

ResetEra filed a trademark notice against GitHub, who gave it to me. I didn't see it until I saw the site go down. New site, with a non-trademark infringing username:

https://resetbanbot.github.io/

I do not believe the contents of the website itself creates any sort of market place confusion, and is clearly labeled a ban bot aggregator with direct links to the original content. Perhaps I will add "unofficial" or "fan-made" to the page.

Direct from ResetEra Inc.

The reported account is infringing on our trademark by posing as an official aggregator of content from our website. Their repos contain anti-semitic content (as seen in the upper left) which is highly damaging to our trademark and brand. Additionally, their repos and account were expressly created for the purpose of tarnishing the image of ResetEra, LLC.

(The "anti-semitic content" was a star of David the creator put there because he is Jewish and it's in protest of actual Nazis)

I've established a backup, non-GitHub host: https://reeera.neocities.org/
Neocities will be regularly updated, but the updates will be delayed behind the GitHub primary site due to the nature of how they accept automatic uploads.

The bot will self-archive the posts page after updates:
https://archive.fo/https://resetbanbot.github.io/*
https://archive.fo/https://reeera.neocities.org/*
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://resetbanbot.github.io/posts/
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://reeera.neocities.org/posts/

Neocities supposedly will automatically pin the site in IPFS, but it hasn't generated me a hash, yet.

Finally, I created a PGP key and a Pastebin for ULTIMATE DAMAGE CONTROL.

Other info:

Thanks to some graphs, we know the following:

* While they've maintained some pretty steady userbasing and traffic, this is a mere shred of the traffic they had when ResetERA got started. At current, the site's traffic and income is about one quarter what it was in October 2017. The actual consistent traffic fluctuates, but generally is about 20-40% of that number. As of July 4th, 2018, they have fewer hits per page than they ever have.

* Alexa shows some surprisingly positive results for them, but solely because they've only really been audited once, about three months ago, long after the free-fall plummet from October of 2017, and as such it looks like a straight line with the usual minor fluctuations until recently.

* Critically, Alexa's data shows that they bleed about 1500 users a month, presumably divided between banhammer recipients, dead accounts getting removed from the calculations, and so on. The account fluctuation seems to be coming from how well they're able to offset the bleed or not at the end of a given month.

* Fittingly, the site's reach is in a free-fall plummet and is currently in the midst of an all-time low.

* This is despite a significant increase in ranking in search results due to them being piped by friendly sites (Siliconera, Destructoid, Kotaku, etc). Over 70% of the traffic to ResetEra is via such piping (direct links on other sites), with Social Media accounting for less than 7% of its traffic and affiliate links barely over 2%. Somehow this has resulted in there being substantially more pageviews, but less pageviews per user. Predictably the time range for users on the site is also fucking awful.

Conclusions: ResetEra isn't doing so well. It's been having increasingly shrinking reach despite considerably improved traffic to the site, and that has a lot to do with its insane moderator staff chasing off anyone who dares show critical thought or an understanding of causality. Basically every other gaming site is doing better, with even NeoGAF doing better despite dramatically slashed numbers.

Haha. That's hilarious that *incoherently screeching* (you know what, Dogbot? This is better than the original) is crashing harder than GAF did. Guess when you mod a few BCT members and allow them to ruin topics that could get productive discussion going, you'll chase off anyone that would be willing to listen.

#SlayvenCanYouSortThis

I just want to access all the pictures of flaccid cocks in my PM box.

Just so we're clear: Yours or others?

[Transhuman]

Man I honestly wish I cared enough about anything passionately enough to accuse someone of racism, or flip a car in the street. They care so much whether they win. I barely have enough motivation to get out of bed everyday.

I remember Artie Lang talking about how he and Norm Macdonald used to do lightning bets, and he described the electric feeling you get from the bet as "literally heroin for gamblers". Which is a crazy sentiment to hear from a literal heroin addict.

[SmokyDave]

Banning people like SmokyDave and Amazon Tony just showed that Evilore was a cunt who hated when a poster was more well liked than him

Eh, my ban was deserved. I should’ve articulated my frustrations better or just walked away.

I’ll laugh if evilore ultimately triumphs

Are you going to undo my ban when you’re modding GAF?

I just want to access all the pictures of flaccid cocks in my PM box.

I used the vestiges of my influence to try to get you unbanned, check tomorrow

I’ll chuck you a few cock-shots if I can.

[nudemacusers]

lol what is woman on about?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fifa-world-cup-2018-ot4-all-according-to-lukaku.52586/page-386#post-10007768

Ban bait troll/alt account. Too bad besada and co aren’t running the show at resetera or they’d fly under the radar better.

[VomKriege]

You guys ever notice that "The Lord works in mysterious ways" is ultimately synonymous with "The ends justify the means"

Which explains a lot

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-went-to-a-conservative-christian-church-yesterday.52870/page-5#post-10025833

[FStop7]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/10020875/

Microsoft endorsing Nazis, Sony prevails.

[davepoobond]

I don't think he was a like....an actual count. It was just a name, like Darth Icky, ELAN SLEAZEBAGANNO, NOTLUWISKI PAPANOIDA, and SALACIOUS B. CRUMB

I saw the "new controversy"  with Scarlett Johanssen playing a trans man and could have sworn that Jared Leto got HEAVY praise just a few years ago for playing a trans woman (including Oscar, Golden Globe, and SAG awards) and thought it was weird that a woman playing a transman is now super terrible and everyone should be ashamed. But then I looked it up and there are think pieces about how we shouldn't celebrate Leto's performance as a trans woman anymore and he wouldn't be casted for such a role today. A mere 5 years later.

i know that when i watch a movie, i am looking for realism from everyone.   if Tom Cruise ain't a real actual spy, then he has no place being in these Mission Impossible films.   no more acting!  only real people doing what they do in real life!

[VomKriege]

That seems pretty obvious to me. Avenatti has Trump in his crosshairs, if he can't get him before the next election, seems natural that he'd pull out the stops and try to gun for him in said election.

I'd prefer a solid dem with years of experience though.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/avenatti-announces-he-may-run-for-president-in-2020.53326/#post-10030211

 
I'm sure he was convinced by his detailed platform.

[Momo]

Reason: User Banned (Duration Pending): Junior Account + Radially-Charged Trolling

[TVC15]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/10027485/

Lots of people here are forgetting that she got something better than an old age home and even better than staying in her own house: Sweet revenge.

 

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A warning for that? That joke is barely dark! Holy shit at the humorlessness of the shitty Resetera mods. White Man would have never lasted there.

I’ll laugh if evilore ultimately triumphs

I mean, I’m kinda rooting for him at this point, if I had to pick a side.

[davepoobond]

SmokyDave freed

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neogaf-ban-review-justice-project-off-topic-edition.1463407/post-253324156

Banning people like SmokyDave and Amazon Tony just showed that Evilore was a cunt who hated when a poster was more well liked than him

Eh, my ban was deserved. I should’ve articulated my frustrations better or just walked away.

apparently not deserved?

[D3RANG3D]

[TVC15]

SmokyDave freed

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/neogaf-ban-review-justice-project-off-topic-edition.1463407/post-253324156

Banning people like SmokyDave and Amazon Tony just showed that Evilore was a cunt who hated when a poster was more well liked than him

Eh, my ban was deserved. I should’ve articulated my frustrations better or just walked away.

apparently not deserved?

Not just freed. He was fellated.

I <3 smokydave tbh. Some folks had this intense hate boner for him in the mod team for some reason. I kinda wanted to make him a mod lol.

He's been visiting recently. It'd be great to have him back.

...oh, of course __________ permed him. This guy is turning out to be some weirdo pathological liar/bullshitter with all his bans. Further investigation required but everything has been consistent with that. Internet crazies. :| "It seems that &quot;Slave Tetris&quot; will be your Waterloo. (European history, lol!)" Okay....


@SmokyDave freed. Sorry dude. Let's hit the peace pipe sometime.

He’s on his way to becoming the next beseda.  Grats, Dave!

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-to-handle-employees-inappropriate-father-weird-situation.53290/

ARE YOU FUCKING HER ? YOU MUST BE ?
When detective ERA meet virgin ERA.

[BisMarckie]

Please don't ban me SmokyDave.

[TVC15]

Bumpin’ some Jaco in celebration for SmokyDave.

[nudemacusers]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fifa-world-cup-2018-ot4-all-according-to-lukaku.52586/page-396#post-10009596

Pretty impressive how zatt is disliked by pretty much every community he attaches to.

Also still brainlessly posting any tweet he comes across.

[Transhuman]

Hero? Me? Your words not mine.

[nachobro]

Yes, yes they are.

These idiots honestly believe they're at war with any who doesn't think like them.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/10025408/

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fifa-world-cup-2018-ot4-all-according-to-lukaku.52586/page-396#post-10009596

Pretty impressive how zatt is disliked by pretty much every community he attaches to.

Also still brainlessly posting any tweet he comes across.

He is great, just a great source of entertainment.

World Cup thread is fun and the only thread I will partake in at this place.
50% talking football and 50% low-key trolling

[nachobro]

Also when am I gonna get unbanned? Make a couple of harmless Amirox jokes and you're shown the door smh

[nudemacusers]

Also not a single shoutout in the gaf ban thread 


I guess I’ll have to make do with this as my sole hate site 

[Uncle]

wait...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fifa-world-cup-2018-ot4-all-according-to-lukaku.52586/page-396#post-10009521

We were specifically told by a mod (can't remember who) to drop ALL political references.

But I guess the rules don't apply to some people.

How is this even possible?  Reset mods and mod captains and resettlers have maintained constantly that EVERYTHING is inextricably politicized, so calling for less politicization in discussion is futile

[Momo]

EviLore unban me, I desperately need to make a new neomod award thread

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/10020875/

Microsoft endorsing Nazis, Sony prevails.

That literally just means you support law enforcement.

In order words you support a gang of Nazi bullies who murder people with impunity and are above the law thanks to support from our racist justice system.

Damn, everyone's a nazi

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scarjo-reteams-with-gits-director-for-something-else-ill-conceived.53111/page-9

This casting endangers the safety of trans people

 

[EightBitNate]

EviLore unban me, I desperately need to make a new neomod award thread

I would go back to NeoGAF in a heartbeat if I was unbanned. I say that having an unbanned RE account.

Make NeoGAF Great Again

[SmokyDave]

  fucking ‘ell, I actually got unbanned?

Huh. I can’t resist popping on there, but I can’t see me posting much. I’m nowhere near as cool as the dude people seem to remember.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/racist-chases-american-citizen-down-for-having-an-afghan-flag-bumper-sticker-nsfw-video.53255/#post-10019666

Being a racist seems so tiring, like who has the time and energy for this?

Just reading about it is exhausting, these people read hatred, write hatred, act out hatred, there's like no aspect of their lives that isn't permeated by it. If you take it away they'd probably be like a snail when you put salt on it, shit just replaces everything good with horribleness

[EightBitNate]

fucking ‘ell, I actually got unbanned?

Huh. I can’t resist popping on there, but I can’t see me posting much. I’m nowhere near as cool as the dude people seem to remember.

Wait actually?

[BisMarckie]

fucking ‘ell, I actually got unbanned?

Huh. I can’t resist popping on there, but I can’t see me posting much. I’m nowhere near as cool as the dude people seem to remember.

Where are the flaccid cocks? You promised...