River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[remy]

No itch.io support, no buy.

Why would a digital service that simply directly streams games on servers to you have to support itch.io?

How would that even make sense?  :

Because half 3/4s of these fucking morons on gaming forums don't even have a beginners grasp of technology

[team filler]

Rory really is a monster.

Didn’t say “I love you” back to Dean the first time.

Ruined his marriage.

Dumped him for a rich douche.

And so much more.

She can’t keep getting away with it

an absolute legend

[Momo]

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al-Megrahi was INNOCENT

Is this Eddie Jordan

[remy]

You don't NEEED stadia to play indie games!!!!!


Yes... And? 

Counterpoint that might be distinguished mentally-challenged: doesn't stadia open up indie development to make games beyond retro throwbacks now that they don't have to target absolutely base level shitty systems to reach the widest population of players?

edit: fuck I engaged with a moron on reset. already feel myself getting stupider

[Transhuman]

aw cute joke

I'm sorry Cheebs. I don't get your Aaron joke. I was laughing at Triumph's baby joke.

It was meant to be stupid. I googled kids knock knock jokes.

This one is for you:

What do you call a distinguished black fellow in a suit?

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distinguished black fellow

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What do you call a mod who hides evidence by deleting threads?

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Guilty.

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Anyone source to the original?

[Momo]

I'm serious, this shit was amazing.. my wife and I discovered all of this.. found a post someone made about it on IGN:

https://www.ign.com/boards/threads/forum-poster-pretends-to-be-girl-for-10-years.208030983/

Anyone ever hear of Brianna Haskins or BleepGGE? Perhaps an Evil Genius or Eevul Jenius?

There are accounts all over various gaming forums with these names; TeamXbox, GameSpot, GamersRepublic.net, etc. All girl gamers with elaborate back stories, especially "Brianna Haskins/BlleepGGE" who has 10's of thousands of posts across numerous forums.

In one colossal thread it was discovered that this was all the work of one lonely man, who had been posting as multiple accounts on the internet, including having them talk to each other, for over a decade:

http://wecravegamestoo.com/forums/off-topic-lounge/9851-thread-dumb.html

It's a LOOOONG thread.. but I believe worth the read.

The gist of it:

- *redacted* is a 37 year old man from Puerto Rico
- *redacted* invented a fake cartoon pop band, made up of girl gamers from all over the world, including Australia, Japan, the US, and Puerto Rico
- Across various forums it looks like this JJ Esteban posted as various females, that somewhat correlate with the locations of his fake pop band.. they even have gamertags with avatars that resemble his drawings
- His "australian" character for instance says "m8" and "mum" every other word
- Through the course of this JJ stole various pictures of females from around the web
- Elaborate stories include "Brianna Haskins", his main fake account.. that over 10 years or so at TXB and other forums told tales of being married, owning hot topic stores, and adopting a 1 year old from China.

A long-time poster at various forums known as "riotous" unraveled most all of it (he posts as GhostOfR in the thread).

I THINK it's pretty damn funny. But then again, I've posted at forums with this person for a few years and always thought they were kind of fake.

The latest development? JJ Esteban himself shows up, to explain some of it.. and say how mad he is about his "friend" Brianna using some of his identity... of course, his IP matches Brianna's.

Anyways, check it out!

There's quite a bit more we ended up finding.

On a previous forum where I used to post, I was a bit of a diva and one of the 'popular' members. So enter this girl poster who flirted with me for years and years, I eventually figured out she was a man playing catfish games (she admitted it) so I started flirting back heavily and as a result she got to fish longer due to my 'credibility' lmao

[Transhuman]

I never said you wanted to see graves dug. I said that you are making arguments that will lead to more of the same, even when the bodies are still warm. Whether you are aware about it or not. That's what being complicit in the status quo means. It means you don't give a shit so long as you get your precious fucking cat memes or your endless regurgitations of the 2016 democratic primaries or your six hour long flat earth documentaries.

I for one am tired of the carnage that the unregulated internet is wreaking on our lives. Something needs to change.

After several days?!?

[who is ted danson?]

Stadia is by Google, and Google own Youtube.

This is the first console funded in part by alt right content creators and viewers such as PDP, Boogie, H3H3, and Jake Paul.

Stadia therefore is a Nazi console, and game streaming is the equivalent of the Nazi constitution.

[clothedmacuser]

Well fuck, Era got their way

https://twitter.com/P4u1_13/status/1089994767709208581/video/1


They killed the poo-flip vid.



Thank God  youtube respects history

[Potato]

Faaaaarrrrk! What? Why? How?

[counterhit]

really upset that I clicked on that youtube link

[Bore Expert]

Thanks Taco Bell 

[benjipwns]

lol three days again

[ResetBanBot]

[Momo]

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Have they asked the spineless fucks at facebook/twitter/youtube/google for details on kiwis that watched this?

[benjipwns]

you have to admit "Kiwi Farms" is a bit of an unfortunate name when attracting the attention of the entire country of New Zealand

[BisMarckie]

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lol three days again

Giving crazy people like that a slap on the wrist for being unhinged is great for our entertainment purposes.

[ResetBanBot]

I heard the ban site is affected by the boot-licking ISPs located in some freedom-hating shit-holes.

Reminder that the ResetEra Ban site is available on TOR: http://lpmrhm3ul3he6guy.onion/
Reminder that you should never use your ISPs DNS resolver.
Reminder that you should use DNScrypt: https://dnscrypt.info/

[shosta]

That's gotta be like the fifth time kitsunelaine's been banned for something. let that girl be

[BisMarckie]

You are worth less than dirt.

[BisMarckie]

Rorie is fantastic

Rorie should be on every feature and should start hosting the podcast. Both podcasts actually. Rorie is the voice that needs to be heard.

Think of all the asides and derails instead of the boring shit Brad, Alex and Ben are blabbering about.

[shosta]

You are worth less than dirt.

where on earth did this hostility come from and for what reason

[BisMarckie]

Glen Remington stole my password.

[Transhuman]

I heard the ban site is affected by the boot-licking ISPs located in some freedom-hating shit-holes.

Reminder that the ResetEra Ban site is available on TOR: http://lpmrhm3ul3he6guy.onion/
Reminder that you should never use your ISPs DNS resolver.
Reminder that you should use DNScrypt: https://dnscrypt.info/

I thought it might have been blocked by my ISP a few months back, but it's just blocked by the adblock app "block this!" that I have on android

[Transhuman]

you have to admit "Kiwi Farms" is a bit of an unfortunate name when attracting the attention of the entire country of New Zealand

Also farmers

[Lonewulfeus]

I never said you wanted to see graves dug. I said that you are making arguments that will lead to more of the same, even when the bodies are still warm. Whether you are aware about it or not. That's what being complicit in the status quo means. It means you don't give a shit so long as you get your precious fucking cat memes or your endless regurgitations of the 2016 democratic primaries or your six hour long flat earth documentaries.

I for one am tired of the carnage that the unregulated internet is wreaking on our lives. Something needs to change.

After several days?!?

You fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow, it’s still summer in the southern hemisphere

[Transhuman]

New Zealand is practically Antarctica

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot3-my-name-is-paul-manafort-and-i-fucking-love-crimes-and-the-judge-respects-that.101959/page-227#post-19022732

Why in the fuck is the Washington Post publishing anything Erdogan has to say?

The same reason the New York Times published an op-ed from Putin; clicks.

[Momo]

New Zealand is practically Antarctica

[VomKriege]

“Fun isn’t something considered when balancing the universe... but this does put a smile on my face”

Mahvel, Baybee!

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-disney-is-here-disney-fox-merger-officially-finished.106425/page-7#post-19027834

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-disney-is-here-disney-fox-merger-officially-finished.106425/post-19027253

Best day ever, never mind haters, we won!

WE WON

[D3RANG3D]

 

[Momo]

Google fined 1.5 billion Euro

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/australian-isps-blocking-8chan-4chan-liveleak-zerohedge-voat-et-al-for-hosting-christchurch-attack-video.106196/

Who the hell is going to any of those sites for "legitimate" reasons

8chan is just racists and pedos, 4chan is traps and unfunny memes, and live leak is car accidents and murder

Not exactly top tier quality sites

 

User Banned (1 Week): Transphobic rhetoric wnd derogatory language

HEY HEY HEY I DID NOT DELEGATE ANY MOD ADMIRAL POWERS TO HAUGHTYFRANK

 

[BisMarckie]

Google fined 1.5 billion Euro

More money to waste on useless EU projects.

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2020-democratic-presidential-primary-ot-bernie-hires-sirota-after-he-had-written-articles-attacking-rivals.91234/page-318#post-19027185

Ichthyosaurus valiantly fighting the Red Hordes alone

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Rory really is a monster.

Didn’t say “I love you” back to Dean the first time.

Ruined his marriage.

Dumped him for a rich douche.

And so much more.

She can’t keep getting away with it

It's called Moxy.

[VomKriege]

He was asked the other week if he would take any advice from Hillary about running against Trump and uh - it was almost surreal. I'm all about keeping it real - Hillary lost after all -- but he was so instantly angry and apparently oblivious to the fact that Hillary had a LOT of voters he needs that it made me question not just his political and diplomatic instincts but his actual rationality. He's never once demonstrated that kind of deep anger about you know, Donald Trump.

Let's not forget who the real victim is here.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2020-democratic-presidential-primary-ot-bernie-hires-sirota-after-he-had-written-articles-attacking-rivals.91234/page-317#post-19023880

During an interview on ABC's "The View" Friday, the Vermont independent senator, who's seeking the Democratic nomination, was asked if he plans to meet with Clinton to talk about 2020, which other Democratic candidates have done already.

"I suspect not. Hillary has not called me. Look, we have differences," Sanders said, before acknowledging that "Hillary has played a very important role in American politics."
Asked if he's interested in any advice from Clinton, Sanders replied, "I think not."
"Hillary and I have fundamental -- you know, fundamental differences. And that's what it is," he explained.

DEEP ANGER 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Bernie has never had anger against trump?


Hahaha holy shit these people are insane.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Counterpoint that might be distinguished mentally-challenged: doesn't stadia open up indie development to make games beyond retro throwbacks now that they don't have to target absolutely base level shitty systems to reach the widest population of players?

Nah, indies make retro styled games for the same reasons indie directors make films about the human condition and not CGI filled popcorn flick blockbusters filled with star power; can't fucking afford it & don't want to.

I dunno if stadia is going to be successful, but its a closer value proposition to "Netflix of gaming" than the console warriors on era want to admit.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Also, what kind of idiot doesn't think Google can't scale up their hardware much faster than me or Sony?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Also, what kind of idiot doesn't think Google can't scale up their hardware much faster than me or Sony?

I mean.. they can't really do it faster than MS.  MS is more experienced in that area and alread has more datacenters / a bigger infrastructure.

But yeah, Sony is a pawn.

xcloud seems like its going to be running actual xbox hardware (and presumably nextbox hardware) blades at their data centres, so you'll be streaming literal xbox games.
stadia is going to be custom hardware PCs, presumably running linux.
It'll be, what, a year? into the next gen console lifecycle where PC Ultra settings are noticably better than a console baseline.

e: but the fact that video of a game at PC Ultra is going to look better than video of the same game at a console baseline with AO / Lightsources / Shadows / etc set to lower values isn't what is going to sell stadia over buying an xbox and a gamepass subscription and an xcloud subscription and an xbl subscription and an EA gamepass subscription.

[porkbun]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-disney-is-here-disney-fox-merger-officially-finished.106425/#post-19022924

They actually made a celebration thread for a massive corporate merger
Reee becoming a massive Disney shill/fanboy/corporate zombie operation is something else

Because MAH SUPAHERO MOOOOOVIEZ~!!! and MAH REPRESENTATION~!!!

Nevermind that 1-2% of the average budget of these barely passable films (basically the catering bill) going to communities in crisis like Chicago would make a world of difference in the real lives of minorities, rather than lining the pockets of already rich people.

[headwalk]

identity alliances are such absolute nectar for big corps. no-one gives a fuck who or what you exploit to meet your projections as long as you send out your rent-a-mouths to grandstand on the burning social issue du jour.

[Momo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-disney-is-here-disney-fox-merger-officially-finished.106425/post-19027253

Best day ever, never mind haters, we won!

WE WON

https://deadline.com/2017/12/murdoch-stock-disney-fox-deal-1202227525/

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

identity alliances are such absolute nectar for big corps. no-one gives a fuck who or what you exploit to meet your projections as long as you send out your rent-a-mouths to grandstand on the burning social issue du jour.

What? No, Captain Marvel totally stands on its own merits, thats why its got such post release buzz and everyones still talking about it

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

KICKSTARTER PROJECT’S $85,000 RAN OUT A LONG TIME AGO, SAYS ZOE QUINN

In October of 2016 Zoe Quinn and Chuck Tingle managed to secure $85,448 to make a live-action FMV game. In August of 2018 Chuck Tingle claimed he had no involvement with the game, and that it was all in the hands of Zoe Quinn. Updates have been sporadic and infrequent on the Kickstarter page, but the latest update wasn’t on Kickstarter but Twitter.

In the update, posted on March 19th, 2019, 200 days after the last update, Quinn responded to a Twitter user asking about the Kickstarted FMV game based on Chuck Tingle’s characters. Quinn responded with the following…

ran out of money a long time ago, not cool with asking people to work for free, got a day job to start crawling out of debt and in a place where I can properly finish it. this is the day job.

 

I'm just kind of assuming era aren't going to cover zoe quinn scamming people on kickstarter

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Also, what kind of idiot doesn't think Google can't scale up their hardware much faster than me or Sony?

I mean.. they can't really do it faster than MS.  MS is more experienced in that area and alread has more datacenters / a bigger infrastructure.

But yeah, Sony is a pawn.

I mean, in terms of continually upscaling the hardware the games are running on. Instead of just iterating a fews years in between.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-ecological-impact-of-stadia.106445/post-19027029

god, yeah, us gamers care soooooooooooo much about the power consumption of our devices, with our 4k TVs and multiple consoles all hooked up simultaneously and all on standby for instant access, I'm totally not grasping at straws to make this threatening new thing look evil

we all bought WiiUs right?

[marrec]

KICKSTARTER PROJECT’S $85,000 RAN OUT A LONG TIME AGO, SAYS ZOE QUINN

In October of 2016 Zoe Quinn and Chuck Tingle managed to secure $85,448 to make a live-action FMV game. In August of 2018 Chuck Tingle claimed he had no involvement with the game, and that it was all in the hands of Zoe Quinn. Updates have been sporadic and infrequent on the Kickstarter page, but the latest update wasn’t on Kickstarter but Twitter.

In the update, posted on March 19th, 2019, 200 days after the last update, Quinn responded to a Twitter user asking about the Kickstarted FMV game based on Chuck Tingle’s characters. Quinn responded with the following…

ran out of money a long time ago, not cool with asking people to work for free, got a day job to start crawling out of debt and in a place where I can properly finish it. this is the day job.

 

I'm just kind of assuming era aren't going to cover zoe quinn scamming people on kickstarter

It'd go a long way if she'd just come out and say "the scope of the project was way beyond what we asked for and we can't finish it" instead of this feckless pity party. I like Quinn and enjoy her work, but I can't say I like what she's done here.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

itchy going in for the next meltdown from hillarygafera. told ya.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

User Banned (3 days): Trolling and system warring over multiple posts; previous infractions

Let's be real, if one of the big 3 announced a 10tf console I doubt you would see anyone saying "oh but power consumption, the poor environment". Instead you would have a bunch of excited nerds here salivating over the news.

But I guess it's easy to pick flaws and be supercilious when it's something you deem to be a threat to the things you like (or if it's something you don't like at all).

Sure, resetera mods.
"Trolling".

[HardcoreRetro]

Yeah, I imagine a FMV game for which they apparently already had all the footage shot is way beyond the scope of budget.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

The amount of ignorance about tech from era is mind boggling.

[VomKriege]

So many high and middle profiles Kickstarters for games went off rails in that manner, it's not really surprising really and calling it a scam (without any more info) is maybe hyperbole (I'd rather reserve that for Star Citizen).

Turns out making games is expensive still.

[HaughtyFrank]

KICKSTARTER PROJECT’S $85,000 RAN OUT A LONG TIME AGO, SAYS ZOE QUINN

In October of 2016 Zoe Quinn and Chuck Tingle managed to secure $85,448 to make a live-action FMV game. In August of 2018 Chuck Tingle claimed he had no involvement with the game, and that it was all in the hands of Zoe Quinn. Updates have been sporadic and infrequent on the Kickstarter page, but the latest update wasn’t on Kickstarter but Twitter.

In the update, posted on March 19th, 2019, 200 days after the last update, Quinn responded to a Twitter user asking about the Kickstarted FMV game based on Chuck Tingle’s characters. Quinn responded with the following…

ran out of money a long time ago, not cool with asking people to work for free, got a day job to start crawling out of debt and in a place where I can properly finish it. this is the day job.

 

I'm just kind of assuming era aren't going to cover zoe quinn scamming people on kickstarter

"not cool with asking people for something and giving them nothing in return"
The irony is palpable.

[VomKriege]

Also ONE ANGRY GAMER lol.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

So many high and middle profiles Kickstarters for games went off rails in that manner, it's not really surprising really and calling it a scam (without any more info) is maybe hyperbole (I'd rather reserve that for Star Citizen).

Turns out making games is expensive still.

I mean... its Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Hard Gay edition... the technical risks of making something that you could make on Youtube with annotations aren't going to be a big financial black hole...

e: Like... you could author it as a DVD and distribute it as an ISO with a link to VLC.

[BisMarckie]

Zoe Quinn should probably refocus on her crash override network. Which can be abbreviated to CON, can't make that shit up. 

[VomKriege]

So many high and middle profiles Kickstarters for games went off rails in that manner, it's not really surprising really and calling it a scam (without any more info) is maybe hyperbole (I'd rather reserve that for Star Citizen).

Turns out making games is expensive still.

I mean... its Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Hard Gay edition... the technical risks of making something that you could make on Youtube with annotations aren't going to be a big financial black hole...

e: Like... you could author it as a DVD and distribute it as an ISO with a link to VLC.

Maybe. But I think we all know by now a lot of Kickstarters have optimistic and unreasonable goals predicated on best case scenarios or some form of additional funding even when led by seasoned and experienced designers. 85,000$ would seem to me as barely enough to pay two persons over a full year. It's awfully meager even for a relatively simple game.

By all means she doesn't get a pass for it. And maybe she mismanaged it, as it stands I don't have any info to lean on that aspect.