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[BikeJesus]

Go fuck yourself, and fuck your family too, for raising such a cunt. Let there be no doubt here, the world would be a better place without you in it.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jussie-smollett-breaks-his-silence-after-vicious-attack-im-ok.97099/post-17487904

And yeah, by itself, him still having his subway doesn't conclude anything. I did also mention how there is no evidence of him having a broken rib, and if he lied about that . . .

[Leadbelly]

So I clicked that link in the article about Chicago's surveillance cameras.

Major European cities, including London, which may be the most surveilled city in the world, have long had networks of linked cameras. Now, in the United States, the technology race is on. Linked cameras are becoming commonplace in cities like New York and Baltimore. The Louisville police are considering using drones to respond to gunshots, and places like Orlando, Fla., and Washington County, Ore., are testing facial recognition software.

It linked to this article. It basically talks about the 5 most surveilled cities in the world. It may surprise you.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-spied-on-cities-in-the-world.html

That said, the original article is talking about networks of linked cameras. It is the technology more than the amount of cameras in itself. And it doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a blind spot in the area that the incident allegedly took place.

[Tektonic]

https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1091460453388017666

non-american here, is subway part of YUM conglomerate?

asking for a friend, who will use it as basis of judgement

[El Babua]

Subway is with some fraudulent group called Doctor's Associates.

[Leadbelly]

Must have been a really tasty Subway sandwich then...

[Tektonic]

Subway is with some fraudulent group called Doctor's Associates.

so you could say they are "made-up" doctors? could be a "made-up" story?! follow the dots... or at least the foot-longs

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1091460453388017666

non-american here, is subway part of YUM conglomerate?

asking for a friend, who will use it as basis of judgement

YUM! is KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.

[nachobro]

the holy trinity

[Leadbelly]

Jussie: "Haha it was just a social experiment. Will update you all once we've analysed the results"

Nah... I'll still wait until the police actually say something. I'm starting to wonder though now.

[Jenkem]

we all know what "holding his sandwich" really means

 

[benjipwns]

“Oh Waypoint, it’s such a unique voice.” *swoon*

It posted the same Uber woke commentary that so many other sites did as well. What the hell was so ‘unique’ about them?

I don't think they wrote much about ride-sharing really.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

This is how you respond to louis ck




I wonder if era finds this problematic

[benjipwns]

I can't, fortunately. Waypoint's brand of criticism goes beyond saying if a game is good or not, and their pieces are intended to touch upon cultural issues and encourage a much wider range of thought surrounding the medium we love. If a particular message doesn't click with you, then that's fine! But there's real value behind what they do precisely because it stimulates a different kind of discussion. Sometimes that requires the reader to put themselves aside and simply listen to the perspective the author brings, and perhaps find an understanding through it.

Have these discussions ever occurred, say for example on ResetERA.com, or is this another instance of "we need to have the conversation in which everyone reads the article and nods along but it's never actually discussed because that implies an invitation to dissent"?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Or more likely: "implies an invitation to mock the shitty writing/argument"?

[close]

[Cauliflower Of Love]

White ERA, what's up with white people and shying away from their history of racism

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hanson-appreciation-thread.97208

[Jansen]

White ERA, what's up with white people and shying away from their history of racism

"Come on whites let us hate on you some more" - era

[benjipwns]

RE wants to be what GAF was in the 00s to the gaming industry (the exclusive club that Devs post on, leaks and news broke on), except that GAF wasn’t even what GAF was before they jumped to RE in 2017. Message boards have been outmoded as a form of internet communication. They are used to having their own tightly moderated echo chambers, and won’t use the other platforms so they are bitter over it.

I think that’s where the continued salt over Ninja comes from.

An example of this, where they didn't "grasp" the "culture" ala Ninja or PewTheNazi, I liked because it was entirely self-inflicted and someone they themselves elevated first. ResetERA.com had a thread jerking off over some streamer named "Destiny" who sometimes would argue with alt-right people I guess or something so they loved him for the same stupid reason they love ContraPoints horseshit, and then he started posting in the thread and they were all YAAASSSS KINNNNGGGG WE ARE YOUR LEGIONS. Then a few months later he said faggit or nicca or something on stream, they decided he was always problematic and never worth championing, he posted in his thread that they were losers missing the forest for the trees, so they perma banned him.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youre-out-with-friends-or-family-to-get-a-bite-do-you-order-rare-medium-rare-or-dry-as-fuck.97212/post-17493737

Is this considered digital trans face?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Love a rare turkey burger. tears up my stomach, though. dunno why.

This is gold.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youre-out-with-friends-or-family-to-get-a-bite-do-you-order-rare-medium-rare-or-dry-as-fuck.97212/

[benjipwns]

wait, they permabanned destiny? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/twitch-has-a-racist-problem.59828/post-11099812

User Banned (Permanent): Homophobic and racial slurs have caused great pain for many members of our community and the defense of their use is not acceptable here.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

anyone who uses twitch and isn't getting paid is a pathetic piece of shit.

Point blank.

[joeboy101]

“Oh Waypoint, it’s such a unique voice.” *swoon*

It posted the same Uber woke commentary that so many other sites did as well. What the hell was so ‘unique’ about them?

I don't think they wrote much about ride-sharing really.

Maybe then it would have added more value to their site. Their loss.

[benjipwns]

This Destiny fellow was pretty sus anyway, only had 17 posts over nine months. Like come on. We see you.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1091386103649554432

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1091394522444029952

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"video game journalism" still makes me laugh every single time.

Critics for movies aren't called journalists, neither are food critics, or wine connoisseurs.

Fucking gamers.

[agrajag]

Nice Waypoint you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

"video game journalism" still makes me laugh every single time.

Critics for movies aren't called journalists, neither are food critics, or wine connoisseurs.

Fucking gamers.

This is a dumb take.

go on

there's a different between what journalists do and what critics do.

One is important and isn't subjective, the other one stinks.

[Propagandhim]

Sources close to the Smolett case claim that there are no records of a hospital visitation due to broken ribs.  Sources also state that Jussie has claimed to have tried but failed to check himself into Northwestern Medical, when upon arriving the practicing physicians screamed, "This hospital is MAGA Land, you dirty shit.  And no, I don't care if you star in what critics rave as a bold new take on Shakespearean whimsy...but with spice.  And fuck Tulsa!"

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Where's the picasso journalists?

[team filler]

BBC journalist here 

[Rufus]

Where's the picasso journalists?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_journalism

Note the sidebar for more categories. Can't find a link to just that.

I would complain about the elitism around the term, but the games press has built it up themselves to deflect criticisms (that didn't need deflecting), so fuck it.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Where's the picasso journalists?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_journalism

Note the sidebar for more categories.

Funny, I don't see a video game listing.

[Rufus]

It's in entertainment.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

It's in entertainment.

this will never not be funny

A good deal of information in the video game industry is kept under wraps by developers and publishers until the game's release; even information regarding the selection of voice actors is kept under high confidential agreements.[52] However, rumors and leaks of such information still happen, typically occurring though the online message forum NeoGAF.

[benjipwns]

BBC journalist here 

i didn't know you were British

[Cauliflower Of Love]

BBC journalist here 

i didn't know you were British

What's british about BBC?

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ny-times-y-a-author-pulls-her-debut-after-pre-publication-accusations-of-racism.97146/

based on the published tweets, no one could explain exactly what it was about Zhao's treatment of the subject that was offensive. "It is also HIGHLY troubling that no one in the process of publishing or editing Blood Heir saw a story about slavery, trafficking, and race relations and thought to bring in a sensitivity reader, or even several," noted one member of the community who didn't level any specific critiques about the book's handling of these subjects. "[T]o put something that resembles chattel slavery SO CLOSELY is distasteful," opined another, the implication being this simply isn't a subject to be written about. Among other critics, there seemed to be a lack of understanding that "slavery" doesn't mean "American slavery" and that the concept has a broader context and history than that. "[R]acist ass writers, like Amélie Wen Zhao, who literally take Black narratives and force it into Russia when that shit NEVER happened in history—you're going to be held accountable," said one contributor to the pile-on. "Period."

[benjipwns]

https://www.vulture.com/amp/2019/01/ya-twitter-forces-rising-star-author-to-self-cancel.html
https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html

Young Adult Twitter sounds hott

[benjipwns]

https://www.vulture.com/amp/2019/01/ya-twitter-forces-rising-star-author-to-self-cancel.html
https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html

Young Adult Twitter sounds hott

oof, not a cute look

[benjipwns]

https://www.vulture.com/amp/2019/01/ya-twitter-forces-rising-star-author-to-self-cancel.html
https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html

Young Adult Twitter sounds hott

oof, not a cute look

yikes

[Cauliflower Of Love]

oh no

[benjipwns]

L.L. McKinney, a YA author who recently published her own debut novel, highlighted for her 10,000-plus Twitter followers the fact that one of Blood Heir’s blurbs read, in part, “In a world where the princess is the monster, oppression is blind to skin color, and good and evil exists in shades of gray….” “….someone explain this to me. EXPLAIN IT RIGHT THE FUQ NOW,” she tweeted. “I don’t give a good god damn that this is an author of color,” she said later in the tweetstorm. “Internalized racism and anti-blackness is a thing and I…no.”

talk about being a stereotype

edit:

 

[BikeJesus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-mod-openly-threatens-members-for-considering-to-post.97218/

lol at the lock reason. Yeah, we know it wasn't serious you dildo.

[benjipwns]

The hype train was derailed in mid-March, however, by Shauna Sinyard, a bookstore employee and blogger who writes primarily about YA and had a different take: “The Black Witch is the most dangerous, offensive book I have ever read,” she wrote in a nearly 9,000-word review that blasted the novel as an end-to-end mess of unadulterated bigotry. “It was ultimately written for white people. It was written for the type of white person who considers themselves to be not-racist and thinks that they deserve recognition and praise for treating POC like they are actually human.”

The Black Witch centers on a girl named Elloren who has been raised in a stratified society where other races (including selkies, fae, wolfmen, etc.) are considered inferior at best and enemies at worst. But when she goes off to college, she begins to question her beliefs, an ideological transformation she’s still working on when she joins with the rebellion in the last of the novel’s 600 pages. (It’s the first of a series; one hopes that Elloren will be more woke in book two.)

It was this premise that led Sinyard to slam The Black Witch as “racist, ableist, homophobic, and … written with no marginalized people in mind,” in a review that consisted largely of pull quotes featuring the book’s racist characters saying or doing racist things. Here’s a representative excerpt, an offending sentence juxtaposed with Sinyard’s commentary:

“pg. 163. The Kelts are not a pure race like us. They’re more accepting of intermarriage, and because of this, they’re hopelessly mixed.”

 

Yes, you just read that with your own two eyes. This is one of the times my jaw dropped in horror and I had to walk away from this book.

Sinyard kept a running tally of her review’s circulation; “11,714 views on my review of THE BLACK WITCH and .@HarlequinTEEN and .@laurieannforest have not commented,” she tweeted. (That number eventually swelled to 20,000.)

Positive buzz all but died off, as community members began confronting The Black Witch’s supporters, demanding to know why they insisted on reading a racist book.

this is great

[benjipwns]

was among those who had been looking forward to The Black Witch

...

But her excitement soured when she caught wind of the book’s issues; just reading the sentences collected in Sinyard’s review and Twitter threads was painful, she says: “It hit me really hard. I’m so upset about it. It was very hurtful, and very, like, just harmful and triggering.”

[benjipwns]

Sinyard politely declined my request for an interview in what seemed like a routine exchange, but then announced on Twitter that our interaction had “scared” her, leading to backlash from community members who insisted that the as-yet-unwritten story would endanger her life. Rumors quickly spread that I had threatened or harassed Sinyard; several influential authors instructed their followers not to speak to me; and one librarian and member of the Newbery Award committee tweeted at Vulture nearly a dozen times accusing them of enabling “a washed-up YA author” engaged in “a personalized crusade” against the entire publishing community

this is better than any of these books could be

[benjipwns]

“They’re shouting at the people who already agree with them,” she says. “It sucks to say, but the fear is valid in that you will get dragged if you say, ‘Hey, maybe we shouldn’t tell this author to kill herself because one of her characters said something offensive.’” (Simone’s description is an exaggeration, but not by much. At the height of the pushback against The Black Witch, Forest was being derided as a Nazi sympathizer and accused of palling around with white supremacists, while those who questioned the tone of the discourse were rebuked for coded bigotry.)

huh sounds familiar but i can't quite place it...

[Bore Expert]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hanson-appreciation-thread.97208

Fernando is definitely one of eras’s best.

[clothedmacuser]

Honestly going from tiny Twitter info to info is stupid. Like what does holding his sandwich exactly mean? Was he munching on it? Ok, that's suspicious as hell. Was it wrapped and he just carried it home? That sounds normal to me. I'd carry my stuff home, even if beaten up.

It's all dumb.  It's the same as the people who says, "clearly it was a _______," 15 minutes after a public spree shooting.  Let's just wait a fucking week or two instead of saying it's a hoax or that people are racist for saying "what a strange thing to occur." 

It's amazing how quickly two narratives are built and people accept that dichotomy on Era.  There always has to be either a 0 or a 10.  The concept of a 2 or more is moderate, centrist, both-siderism.   We'll likely never know what "truly" occurred so why not wait for something semi-definitive.

[benjipwns]

Author Tristina Wright was one of several who condemned would-be readers of called-out books, while young readers followed suit. “Imagine being so privileged you care about your own entertainment more than the hurt of marginalized people,” one tweeted, while another declared, “Reading a book specifically because it’s been called out for racism doesn’t make you a champion of independent thought. It makes you racist.”

Mimi, the teen blogger ... is upset by the lack of response from Harlequin and galled by descriptions of the novel as pro-diversity and anti-prejudice. “I wanted the author and publisher to understand that there were people who were hurt by this,” she says. “But [Forest] says her book is for diversity, anti-homophobia, anti-racism, and it’s poking fun at all of us, like we did this all for nothing.”

The Black Witch, which took one of the worst online beatings in recent memory, scored a No. 1 rating in Amazon’s department of “Teen & Young Adult Wizards Fantasy” a few days after its release

"How does this keep happening? We performed all the rituals!" they screamed into the echo chamber.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/digital-foundry-anthem-console-first-look-xbox-one-x-ps4-pro-head-to-head.97038/post-17470376

User banned (5 days): peddling insulting conspiracy theories towards another member + history of infractions for antagonistic behaviour

DF is pushing the pro ‘twist’ lately to gain clicks it seems. I’m surprised they didn’t go for another “ how does it compare? The results may shock you!” Tabloid headline again.

bonus points for the DF guy being directly below this post laughing it off in response, while others freak out about it

[benjipwns]

User Banned (2 Days): Trolling forum member

Surely these numbers are wrong? Phantom Thief created a thread telling me switch was the biggest seller of 2018 days ago.

ResetERA™

[benjipwns]

Honestly going from tiny Twitter info to info is stupid. Like what does holding his sandwich exactly mean? Was he munching on it? Ok, that's suspicious as hell. Was it wrapped and he just carried it home? That sounds normal to me. I'd carry my stuff home, even if beaten up.

It's all dumb.  It's the same as the people who says, "clearly it was a _______," 15 minutes after a public spree shooting.  Let's just wait a fucking week or two instead of saying it's a hoax or that people are racist for saying "what a strange thing to occur." 

It's amazing how quickly two narratives are built and people accept that dichotomy on Era.  There always has to be either a 0 or a 10.  The concept of a 2 or more is moderate, centrist, both-siderism.   We'll likely never know what "truly" occurred so why not wait for something semi-definitive.

OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION

In this case there seems to be no legitimate reason to doubt Smollett's account of what happened. As such, any discussion of him faking the attack will be treated as victim blaming and actioned as such.

[pizzashit]

[benjipwns]

wait, these aren't normal everyday ResetERA.com posts?

User Warned: stereotyping the population of an entire state.

Outside of North Virginia....its pretty much Alabama. So expect that type of racism to exist there

User Banned (1 Week): Advocating and promoting systemic killing, inflammatory rhetoric

If the planet and the population continues going as is it might well become a viable situation where there would be orchestrated cullings of either humans or animals.

Hell China had a version of it through their one child policy that was active for 30 odd years

[benjipwns]

User banned (duration pending): transphobia

Do taxpayers have to foot the bill for this surgery? I think it's a slippery slope. On one hand you have someone not living as their true self, but it's also not cancer where chemo is necessary.

I'm not trolling or trying to not be empathetic but, I can see both sides. But at the same time, they are in there for murder.

another marrec type

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1091374534916272128

Dem Primary thread reacts...again:

It's 2019.

Can we do better than the random twitter clips that claim to dismantle a candidate and their entire record in a minute or less?

Harris literally NEVER advocates for more jails in that video.

You guys are just asking for a backlash on this shit.

A video where Harris talks about looking at criminal justice holistically?

Getting really tired of the glib twitter hot takes.

Or post Russia Today contributors

Oh she's an RT contributor? ffs

Are you seriously posting tweets from people from RUSSIA TODAY???

Maybe, just maybe not resort to paid Russian shills for your hitjobs on progressives. Is that really a hard ask?

I think we can be above linking to paid russia shills though.

You'd think we''d know better, but in some ways we can be just as disingenuous as republicans..

Oh the Russian bots are really afraid of Kamala Harris. She is the biggest threat to Putin and Trump.

Yep pretty telling. They haven’t gone after Warren or Castro or Gillibrand or Tulsi (lol) like they have against Harris . They know who the biggest threat thus far is

Most of the snuffing is being done by Russian bots and left of left of left folks. Neither of those have a candidate in mind who can beat trump

Beto was the first victim. Hopefully he doesn't run, but damn if the attack dogs didn't jump right on him the moment there was the slightest incline that he had some popularity in the race.

I have a feeling that debunking all the lies that will be spread about candidates who don't pass some far left purity test will get exhausting...

The idea that the younger straight white male leftist demo on social media thinks they have the ability to torpedo a candidate is honestly weird to me.

Did they miss the fact Hillary not only beat Bernie but crushed him by over double digits despite everything being flung at her and this demo being united behind Bernie?

Soccer moms and African Americans still wield the power in Democratic primaries. Unless you win a significant portion of the African American vote it is near impossible to win a democratic national primary.

[BikeJesus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jussie-smollett-breaks-his-silence-after-vicious-attack-im-ok.97099/post-17495911

Your holier-than-thou attitude is obnoxious. You can call me a racist all you want but to me all it shows is that your real life sucks and you like to make yourself feel better by passing judgment about people online.

You call me diet racist, but you’re full-blown asshole.

 

[benjipwns]

Really, trump supporters have gone on premeditated mass shootings and shipped bombs to multiple people... why would anyone honestly be skeptical that they would plan a nonsensically violent attack?

The "skeptics" won't be convinced until they see bodies and then they'll make excuses for the killers.

trump supporters have shot up yoga studios targeting and killing innocent women, used vehicles to run into people, literally shoot random black people in stores, target churches and synagogues, etc

fucking seriously, you have to have your head up your ass to be skeptical about this story at this point

wow, good thing we can vote in 2020 maybe in case Mueller turns out to be a diet racist skeptic too

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jussie-smollett-breaks-his-silence-after-vicious-attack-im-ok.97099/post-17495911

Your holier-than-thou attitude is obnoxious. You can call me a racist all you want but to me all it shows is that your real life sucks and you like to make yourself feel better by passing judgment about people online.

You call me diet racist, but you’re full-blown asshole.

 

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