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[Nintex]

I think the biggest issue with Era these days is that there are no actual experts. Nobody knows WTF theyre talking about.

Go to a railroad enthusiast forum, and you have people with 40 years of railroad experience. People who drive trains. People who lay tracks. People who work in the corporate office. There are people there to learn, yes, but they ask questions, they dont post like theyre experts. Thats not to say everybody is right, but at least they're pulling from real-world experience.

Same is true in a forum about theme parks.

Same is true in a forum about AV equipment.

I assume the same is true in forums about cars or postage stamps, or whatever other hobbies people have.

Era doesnt have that. Nobody there works at the ESRB. Nobody there works at any developer of note. The closest ties to the industry involve working a minimum wage job at Gamestop.

It's even worse in OT. The people who post in Poliera proclaim themselves experts, but they dont know shit. The people who post in the World Cup thread apparently started watching the sport last week.

It’s no different than Gaf. Take away Wikipedia and they got nothin

10 years ago, GAF had actual industry people though. Real developers. Real publishers. Even "journalists" like Jeff G

They chased them off.

I know quite a bit about the game industry(TM) myself but REEEE just has a habit of chasing people off.
Like I would say: "Diddy Kong Racing 2 was in development" and someone would quote my post and put 'RUMORED" in front of it in bold.
"FIXED IT FOR YA"

I responded with actual assets of the game (that I happen to have collected ages ago) and I get back: "WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT?"
We used to have this cool club of people who would share stuff of games in development, especially Rareware Xbox prototypes.  :'(
But there was now this kid that was considered 'TEH EXPERT' and it was 'HIS THREAD'. Thread ownership is especially the worst.

Sure we may occasionally get something wrong but the debate was just so toxic.
I remember posting that I expected Super Mario Odyssey DLC. And someone started spamming my DM's to say I was spreading fake news. That Nintendo had said there would never be ANY DLC and speculating that they might do that would hurt the games sales.
A week or two later, they come out with some form of DLC but obviously that didn't count because it was free and not paid DLC. 

They're just not fun people to be around.

[Joe Molotov]

The people who post in the World Cup thread apparently started watching the sport last week.

yeah dawg, this is every world cup thing everywhere. everyone is now a soccer expert that is using some goofy ass british slang that they heard on tv even though they couldn't tell you anything about soccer past a week ago

Um excuse me, it's called football or "footy" for short.

[nachobro]

soccer is

[Bore Expert]

I think the biggest issue with Era these days is that there are no actual experts. Nobody knows WTF theyre talking about.

Go to a railroad enthusiast forum, and you have people with 40 years of railroad experience. People who drive trains. People who lay tracks. People who work in the corporate office. There are people there to learn, yes, but they ask questions, they dont post like theyre experts. Thats not to say everybody is right, but at least they're pulling from real-world experience.

Same is true in a forum about theme parks.

Same is true in a forum about AV equipment.

I assume the same is true in forums about cars or postage stamps, or whatever other hobbies people have.

Era doesnt have that. Nobody there works at the ESRB. Nobody there works at any developer of note. The closest ties to the industry involve working a minimum wage job at Gamestop.

It's even worse in OT. The people who post in Poliera proclaim themselves experts, but they dont know shit. The people who post in the World Cup thread apparently started watching the sport last week.

It’s no different than Gaf. Take away Wikipedia and they got nothin

10 years ago, GAF had actual industry people though. Real developers. Real publishers. Even "journalists" like Jeff G

I posted on Gaf back then and remember it. Eventually the idiots far outnumbered the legit people though and the celeb status thing created a bunch of posters trying to be “insiders”. Then the “bish checked” tag made things even worse.

[Nintex]

Nintex and his Glory days posts...

Dudebro!

Ah yes. That was a beautiful day. 

[kingv]

Nintex and his Glory days posts...

Dudebro!

I would prefer glory holes posts

[HaughtyFrank]

They have a guy from Insomniac posting there but he got a little annoyed with people complaining about the swinging Spiderman

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spider-man-2018s-webswinging-is-concerning-as-a-spider-man-2-fan.49893/page-4#post-9398773

[Nintex]

On NeoGAF I tricked one dude in sending me an NDA'd Excitebots presentation that I would under no circumstances share with anyone so I could exclusively rip out the screenshots and publish them on the website I wrote for at that time.
I also stockholm syndrome'd him into thinking that was a good idea because Nintendo had not shown anything of a game that would launch within 3 or 4 weeks. We were saving the game and the developer.

I don't know if that guy ever got into trouble. I did make sure that there was no way to trace it back to him.

Every once in a while when something leaks in Europe I still get the Nintendo of Europe people scouring my LinkedIn to look for clues.
They're not entirely wrong. I occasionally still assist with the leaks. 
 

[Let's Cyber]

It's pretty fine if you want to actually talk about videogames in the official threads and communities, though.

This is essentially all GAF had going for it towards the end as well, especially those last 3 years or so. Eggplant didn't improve anything over old, decrepit NeoGAF.com*. I'm really not surprised GAF communities overlapped so much with discord, either. GAF was somewhat redundant.

GAF admins and mods did have this weird hatred towards community threads where they'd break things up if cliques became too ingrained but at that point, what should a community thread be about? If you don't posters to form bonds and communities to gel, what the fuck is the point of communicating with others via message board?  I don't know if that is how community threads on ERA are managed, so maybe they made an improvement on that end. Based on the things I've seen posted here about the Steam thread drama, I'd guess it is still rather poor.

Edit:  *other than not running whatever archaic version of vBulletin EviLore was still running at the time.

[james]

On NeoGAF I tricked one dude in sending me an NDA'd Excitebots presentation that I would under no circumstances share with anyone so I could exclusively rip out the screenshots and publish them on the website I wrote for at that time.
I also stockholm syndrome'd him into thinking that was a good idea because Nintendo had not shown anything of a game that would launch within 3 or 4 weeks. We were saving the game and the developer.

I don't know if that guy ever got into trouble. I did make sure that there was no way to trace it back to him.

Every once in a while when something leaks in Europe I still get the Nintendo of Europe people scouring my LinkedIn to look for clues.
They're not entirely wrong. I occasionally still assist with the leaks. 

 

[tummyfat]

GAF thought it was funnier to ban actual industry names. Dyack, Boogie, FartofWar, etc.  TotalBiscuit couldn't even get an account approval

[james]

Fuck Boogie

And isn't that biscuit guy dead? Why give a dead guy an account

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"Community threads" are where you go find out who the "mod captain" is,that is in "charge" of certain "topics" on the main "board" by getting "warned" while trying to be "friendly" with other "posters"

[marrec]

GAF thought it was funnier to ban actual industry names. Dyack, Boogie, FartofWar, etc.  TotalBiscuit couldn't even get an account approval

lol at Boogie being an actual industry name

Also, dude got banned because he was constantly posting about wanting to kill himself in completely unrelated threads, dude was an attention whore who just wanted to derail threads and make everything about him. Good riddance to bad rubbish imo

[paprikastaude]

REE has an all star mod team consisting of professional shills, fake rumour makers and guys "famous" for being a Dino Crisis meme. I think I have seen some Digital Foundry dude being mod? But I'm not sure. Though it made me think what even the requirements are to be a mod there. Be somewhat "known" within the bubble for something dumb, plus be clean of saying anything on Twitter that could go against "I want to murder white people"?

[james]

Serious question:

In real life, when you interact with real people, like at a bar, there are conversations about movies, TV shows, and occasionally even video games.

In the history of humanity, have real people ever discussed the newest youtube stream or whatever people like Boogie release?

[BisMarckie]

OMG I read that newspaper once!

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Seriously though, that's terrible to hear.

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[Uncle]

But there was now this kid that was considered 'TEH EXPERT' and it was 'HIS THREAD'. Thread ownership is especially the worst.

[REDPILLALPH ABIGCOCK]

GAF thought it was funnier to ban actual industry names. Dyack, Boogie, FartofWar, etc.  TotalBiscuit couldn't even get an account approval

lol at Boogie being an actual industry name

Also, dude got banned because he was constantly posting about wanting to kill himself in completely unrelated threads, dude was an attention whore who just wanted to derail threads and make everything about him. Good riddance to bad rubbish imo

lol that was a fucking lie, an "Amir0x? Dont know him" tier lie.
He posted on 4chan and said cigarillo and the mods banned him for that but didnt want to admit it, that was just the bullshit they put around to try and justify it, dont come here and try to sell us that level of bullshit.

[tummyfat]

Whenever news happens, this dude is ready with CAPSLOCK double spaced platitudes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shooting-reported-at-capital-gazette-newspaper-in-annapolis-maryland.52173/page-3#post-9817975

[joeboy101]

OMG I read that newspaper once!

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Seriously though, that's terrible to hear.

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i lived near Annapolis once

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[Boredfrom]

GAF thought it was funnier to ban actual industry names. Dyack, Boogie, FartofWar, etc.  TotalBiscuit couldn't even get an account approval

lol at Boogie being an actual industry name

Also, dude got banned because he was constantly posting about wanting to kill himself in completely unrelated threads, dude was an attention whore who just wanted to derail threads and make everything about him. Good riddance to bad rubbish imo

lol That is Besada excuse...

[joeboy101]

And everyone is assuming this happened because Milo said something about killing journalists?

Its pretty sad that they take a situation where at least 4 people died to push their narrative.

Let me cribsheet the thread, without having looked once at it:

- Another Day in America
- Altright will stop at nothing
- imprison Milo (noooooooo.j
- blood on Republicans hands
- no1currs

EDIT: credit where credit is due, the thread actually is remarkably even keel so far. I stand corrected.

EDITEDIT: Nevermind. Now it’s going as usual.

[tummyfat]

thots&prayurrrrs

The_Donald officially worse than ISIS

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shooting-reported-at-capital-gazette-newspaper-in-annapolis-maryland.52173/page-4#post-9818648

[Propagandhim]

And everyone is assuming this happened because Milo said something about killing journalists?

Its pretty sad that they take a situation where at least 4 people died to push their narrative.

Let me cribsheet the thread, without having looked once at it:

- Another Day in America
- Altright will stop at nothing
- imprison Milo (noooooooo.j
- blood on Republicans hands
- no1currs

you aint slick

thots&prayurrrrs

The_Donald officially worse than ISIS

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shooting-reported-at-capital-gazette-newspaper-in-annapolis-maryland.52173/page-4#post-9818648

What the fuck are these Ted Dansons even deliberating over?  There's absolutely no information about the killer or the motive or anything.   

[Uncle]

And everyone is assuming this happened because Milo said something about killing journalists?

Its pretty sad that they take a situation where at least 4 people died to push their narrative.

Someone linked a tweet that apparently had something to do with Milo saying to kill journos, but it doesn't exist anymore

So was it a tweet he made saying to do that, or was it a tweet someone else made to say he had said it but they removed it because it was libel?

[joeboy101]

Right here:

I wasn't concerned about your president's views on the media

OWNED

Philip annihilated.

[Propagandhim]

And everyone is assuming this happened because Milo said something about killing journalists?

Its pretty sad that they take a situation where at least 4 people died to push their narrative.

Someone linked a tweet that apparently had something to do with Milo saying to kill journos, but it doesn't exist anymore

So was it a tweet he made saying to do that, or was it a tweet someone else made to say he had said it but they removed it because it was libel?

It was an Instagram post:
 

[Boredfrom]

thots&prayurrrrs

The_Donald officially worse than ISIS

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shooting-reported-at-capital-gazette-newspaper-in-annapolis-maryland.52173/page-4#post-9818648

The_Donald is worse than diarrhea, though.

[Uncle]

yeesh

I don't know how Milo is even a person anyone talks to anymore after his pedophilia scandal, it's like he's as impervious as Trump talking about grabbing pussies

cept he's grabbing lil boy dix

[agrajag]

yeesh

I don't know how Milo is even a person anyone talks to anymore after his pedophilia scandal, it's like he's as impervious as Trump talking about grabbing pussies

cept he's grabbing lil boy dix

I wouldn't say he's impervious, he lost a multi-million dollar book deal over the pedo stuff.

[joeboy101]

If he doesn't have any ID, they can just use fingerprint records.

Are Americans fingerprinted regularly? How would they have a file on him if hes never been arrested or left the country?

There’s a list of jobs that can require you to be fingerprinted. Banking and such. Also, I believe bonded companies require employees to be fingerprinted. It’s not as uncommon as you would think, outside of law enforcement.

And of course, numerous governmental workers get fingerprinted.

[james]

Ugh, I just realized all the twitter bots I paid for to follow me have been deleted. I need to throw in another dollar

[benjipwns]

They traded all the actual experts with people who rank highly on the oppression pyramid.

did they? is there even an ongoing thread discussing this?

[benjipwns]

joy behar, restera member?

https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/1012409703689842688

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/9820714/

Glad to see Fox is concerned with the fucking ideological make up. Priorities

 

[Shuri]

But there was now this kid that was considered 'TEH EXPERT' and it was 'HIS THREAD'. Thread ownership is especially the worst.

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Oh yeah, the ‘retrogaming expert’ who could not figure out how to output in 4:3 from his supergun and ossc setup..

 

[Leadbelly]

Milo's biggest problem was Milo. For instance, the story about him giving a blowjob to a priest when he was 14, I don't believe it. I think he said it because it was the shocking thing to say. When your game is to be a self-described provocateur, and when you crave attention as much as Milo did, the only way forward is to be even more controversial and even more provocative. He got away with it for so long, he thought he could say literally anything.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/9820714/

Glad to see Fox is concerned with the fucking ideological make up. Priorities

most logical answer is that it's a moderate, someone who didn't even vote in 2016, "both sides", someone who's seen a video on youtube, etc.

[clothedmacuser]

Whenever news happens, this dude is ready with CAPSLOCK double spaced platitudes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shooting-reported-at-capital-gazette-newspaper-in-annapolis-maryland.52173/page-3#post-9817975

Thats what happens to you when you are still getting bullied in college.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-most-humiltating-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-you.52157/#post-9815268

[benjipwns]

Whenever news happens, this dude is ready with CAPSLOCK double spaced platitudes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shooting-reported-at-capital-gazette-newspaper-in-annapolis-maryland.52173/page-3#post-9817975

Thats what happens to you when you are still getting bullied in college.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-most-humiltating-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-you.52157/#post-9815268

Shit like that creates fucking super villians.

[stufte]

GAF thought it was funnier to ban actual industry names. Dyack, Boogie, FartofWar, etc.  TotalBiscuit couldn't even get an account approval

lol at Boogie being an actual industry name

Also, dude got banned because he was constantly posting about wanting to kill himself in completely unrelated threads, dude was an attention whore who just wanted to derail threads and make everything about him. Good riddance to bad rubbish imo

Haha, that's bullshit. They banned him because he didn't go hard against GG with the rest of the pukes.

[Shuri]

If you want actual gameplay discussions, hit the reddit subs, twitchh and specialized forums.

Gaming threads on ERA are a total waste of time. These are people who refuse to accept youtubers, twitchers, multiplayer stuff, mobile gaming and voice chat in 2018 and that keep demonizing those concepts as being signs of gaming being doomed.

Completely irrelevant people.

[benjipwns]

Haha, that's bullshit. They banned him because he didn't go hard against GG with the rest of the pukes.

Shit like that creates fucking super villain Nazi's.

[benjipwns]

These are people who refuse to accept youtubers, twitchers, multiplayer stuff, mobile gaming and voice chat in 2018

standing up against the hateful toxic lairs that spawned GamerGate and got Trump elected to the dictatorship is something one should be proud of, especially in 2018 when the world is literally ending and just staying alive every day is basically impossible

[stufte]

here's the ban message he got.

Your time at NeoGAF has been spent consistently apologizing for -- and disingenuously ignoring the actions of -- a movement of harassment and hate, while diverting as much attention as possible away from the issues at hand and toward yourself. You are not the victim here for being thought less of in your tacit support of disgusting and illegal behavior.

Individuals standing up for victims continue to receive thousands of hate messages and death threats, and a third member of the video game industry is forced out of her home and into hiding. People you claim are your friends are leaving social media behind in the wake of mass harassment by the movement you are championing. These are your people. This is your movement.

As you've also expressed a strong desire to leave NeoGAF but continue to participate, you'll now have some more free time to reflect on your decisions of the past several weeks. 

-NeoGAF Administration

[Bananas]

If you want actual gameplay discussions, hit the reddit subs, twitchh and specialized forums.

Gaming threads on ERA are a total waste of time. These are people who refuse to accept youtubers, twitchers, multiplayer stuff, mobile gaming and voice chat in 2018 and that keep demonizing those concepts as being signs of gaming being doomed.

Completely irrelevant people.

Gaming threads suck because they don't talk about mah favorite youtuber telling me why Destiny 2 sucks. 

And reddit interface is a nightmare and literally THE internet echo-chamber you guy hate so much.

[benjipwns]

here's the ban message he got.

Your time at NeoGAF has been spent consistently apologizing for -- and disingenuously ignoring the actions of -- a movement of harassment and hate, while diverting as much attention as possible away from the issues at hand and toward yourself. You are not the victim here for being thought less of in your tacit support of disgusting and illegal behavior.

Individuals standing up for victims continue to receive thousands of hate messages and death threats, and a third member of the video game industry is forced out of her home and into hiding. People you claim are your friends are leaving social media behind in the wake of mass harassment by the movement you are championing. These are your people. This is your movement.

As you've also expressed a strong desire to leave NeoGAF but continue to participate, you'll now have some more free time to reflect on your decisions of the past several weeks. 

-NeoGAF Administration

This is why you leave forum running to the professionals.

[nachobro]

here's the ban message he got.

Your time at NeoGAF has been spent consistently apologizing for -- and disingenuously ignoring the actions of -- a movement of harassment and hate, while diverting as much attention as possible away from the issues at hand and toward yourself. You are not the victim here for being thought less of in your tacit support of disgusting and illegal behavior.

Individuals standing up for victims continue to receive thousands of hate messages and death threats, and a third member of the video game industry is forced out of her home and into hiding. People you claim are your friends are leaving social media behind in the wake of mass harassment by the movement you are championing. These are your people. This is your movement.

As you've also expressed a strong desire to leave NeoGAF but continue to participate, you'll now have some more free time to reflect on your decisions of the past several weeks. 

-NeoGAF Administration

imagine now smug Besloppy must have been after writing that out. and now boogie is thin(ner) and still rich and Besloppy is a fat bum who no one even wanted around after gaf took a shit

[benjipwns]

and Besloppy is a fat bum who no one even wanted around after gaf took a shit

pretty sure that was by choice when a deal couldn't be reached on the gift basket negotiations

[Uncle]

And reddit interface is a nightmare and literally THE internet echo-chamber you guy hate so much.

If people hated it they would complain about it 

[james]

here's the ban message he got.

Your time at NeoGAF has been spent consistently apologizing for -- and disingenuously ignoring the actions of -- a movement of harassment and hate, while diverting as much attention as possible away from the issues at hand and toward yourself. You are not the victim here for being thought less of in your tacit support of disgusting and illegal behavior.

Individuals standing up for victims continue to receive thousands of hate messages and death threats, and a third member of the video game industry is forced out of her home and into hiding. People you claim are your friends are leaving social media behind in the wake of mass harassment by the movement you are championing. These are your people. This is your movement.

As you've also expressed a strong desire to leave NeoGAF but continue to participate, you'll now have some more free time to reflect on your decisions of the past several weeks. 

-NeoGAF Administration

Decent ban message

Resetera stopped providing detailed explanations. Now all my accounts simply get "banned for trolling"

[BisMarckie]

This is some Joker shit straight out of The Dark Knight

 

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/9822241/

Just have Haberman write something polite and normalizing about the shooter. Problem solved.

NYT annihilated by 343 industries.


https://www.resetera.com/posts/9822270/

And the nra has been owned and funded by russia since 1948.

[Bore Expert]

Thats what happens to you when you are still getting bullied in college.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-most-humiltating-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-you.52157/#post-9815268

 

[benjipwns]

here's the ban message he got.

Your time at NeoGAF has been spent consistently apologizing for -- and disingenuously ignoring the actions of -- a movement of harassment and hate, while diverting as much attention as possible away from the issues at hand and toward yourself. You are not the victim here for being thought less of in your tacit support of disgusting and illegal behavior.

Individuals standing up for victims continue to receive thousands of hate messages and death threats, and a third member of the video game industry is forced out of her home and into hiding. People you claim are your friends are leaving social media behind in the wake of mass harassment by the movement you are championing. These are your people. This is your movement.

As you've also expressed a strong desire to leave NeoGAF but continue to participate, you'll now have some more free time to reflect on your decisions of the past several weeks. 

-NeoGAF Administration

Decent ban message

Resetera stopped providing detailed explanations. Now all my accounts simply get "banned for trolling"

My GAF ban message turned me into a Doxxer-American as I had to find a new "juvenile game":

You have been banned for the following reason:
I've witnessed several troll burnouts before, they're generally caused by someone improperly posting stupid shit. Which you did, often and despite multiple warnings. Your long-running game of being a contrarian troll has gone on long enough. We are not interested in hosting your juvenile games.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

[Uncle]

Thats what happens to you when you are still getting bullied in college.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-most-humiltating-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-you.52157/#post-9815268

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I don't think he ever revealed to the forum whether he was actually on his period or not

[james]

here's the ban message he got.

Your time at NeoGAF has been spent consistently apologizing for -- and disingenuously ignoring the actions of -- a movement of harassment and hate, while diverting as much attention as possible away from the issues at hand and toward yourself. You are not the victim here for being thought less of in your tacit support of disgusting and illegal behavior.

Individuals standing up for victims continue to receive thousands of hate messages and death threats, and a third member of the video game industry is forced out of her home and into hiding. People you claim are your friends are leaving social media behind in the wake of mass harassment by the movement you are championing. These are your people. This is your movement.

As you've also expressed a strong desire to leave NeoGAF but continue to participate, you'll now have some more free time to reflect on your decisions of the past several weeks. 

-NeoGAF Administration

Decent ban message

Resetera stopped providing detailed explanations. Now all my accounts simply get "banned for trolling"

My GAF ban message turned me into a Doxxer-American as I had to find a new "juvenile game":

You have been banned for the following reason:
I've witnessed several troll burnouts before, they're generally caused by someone improperly posting stupid shit. Which you did, often and despite multiple warnings. Your long-running game of being a contrarian troll has gone on long enough. We are not interested in hosting your juvenile games.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

Not being a Hillary-right-of-center Democrat = contrarian troll

I tried to log into GAF to see my ban message, but it says incorrect password. Oh well.

[Bananas]

And reddit interface is a nightmare and literally THE internet echo-chamber you guy hate so much.

If people hated it they would complain about it 

Most of the reddit userbare is underage kids who never saw a forum.

Downvote what you don't like, upvote what you like, the ultimate safe space for like-minds.

[james]

Most of the reddit userbare is underage kids who never saw a forum.

Downvote what you don't like, upvote what you like, the ultimate safe space for like-minds.

So many 12-15 year olds pretending to be 18 in the dating and gone wild pages.