River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[benjipwns]

the ban bot site is broken and not updating, should i e-mail resetera@gmail.com or whatever it is?

[benjipwns]

omg, i went to the faq to check the e-mail address and cerium updated it yesterday with like ten pages of shit: https://www.resetera.com/threads/general-guide-to-resetera.9777/

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what, nothing about Epic Games Store?

[Don Rumata]

In all seriousness, there is a debate on how legislation and implementation of nutrition guidelines does help contribute to the raising levels of obesity that we're currently seeing in the U.S.

Also, school lunches are terrible, and I legit see kids every day bypass or throw away school lunches to eat a bag of takis that were smuggled in because L.A. County said the school couldn't sell junk food (Chips, soda, snacks, etc) to fundraise.

I mean, I don’t this is a bad idea (not selling junk food).

In schools? Sure. In general? Lol.

I doubt not selling junk food in schools will make that much of a difference though.

[Tripon]

In all seriousness, there is a debate on how legislation and implementation of nutrition guidelines does help contribute to the raising levels of obesity that we're currently seeing in the U.S.

Also, school lunches are terrible, and I legit see kids every day bypass or throw away school lunches to eat a bag of takis that were smuggled in because L.A. County said the school couldn't sell junk food (Chips, soda, snacks, etc) to fundraise.

I mean, I don’t this is a bad idea (not selling junk food).

Sure, but like I said earlier, we now have kids smuggling onto campus in duffle bags and selling it like it's contraband. I only care because we have kids actively leaving class during session to seek the students selling chips like they're arranging a drug buy.

[benjipwns]

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[benjipwns]

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[benjipwns]

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talk about thankless, no mention of the Mod Admiral

[benjipwns]

can we get a comprehensive General Guide To The Bire, tia

[D3RANG3D]

But what about women, lgbt and minorities leaving in droves?

[Uncle]

Show female empowerment by having a woman (with the skills of a pilot) almost cause an accident the moment she operates a motor vehicle.

K...?

Would be interesting if the guy hadn't relented and the altruistic do-gooder hero of our movie decided not to let him keep his hand

for the sin of approaching a woman with some confidence and meeting her on her own terms with a handshake as requested(?)

[benjipwns]

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Thank you, hopefully Cerium will add a section explaining why past moderators have left the staff and been permabanned so that members can feel safer.

[benjipwns]

But what about women, lgbt and minorities leaving in droves?

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[Joe Molotov]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/d-d-cartoon-suv-commercial-has-been-released.118758/post-21073507

I almost cried watching this. Couldn’t care less about Kwid, but thank you Renault for finally bringing the kids back home.

 

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Zatt:
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[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/JekoJekoUEM/status/1130544751177023488

[benjipwns]

Gameplay is a secondary concern to diversity to me.

you don't say

[Tripon]

Gameplay is a secondary concern to diversity to me.

you don't say

Daenerys avatars blasted.

[PogiJones]

Today ResetEra is the most popular independent gaming forum on the internet as measured by traffic

Maybe, but


https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/resetera.com

 

[PogiJones]

Bonus:

Only 161 sites refer to RE


RE userbase largely consists of users of alt-right platforms Youtube and Reddit, and drives traffic to them


RE users confirmed not that interested in games 

[remy]

nerds that love marvel movies ONLY

[benjipwns]

I must admit that I'm still shaking a little bit after reading Biestmann's plantphobic comments. His whole spiel is very humancentric and not at all considerate of diversity within the entire biosphere. Piranha Plant provides further plant representation to the roster and promotes a very progressive view of plants rights. His narrow viewpoint demanding a human female or human of color ignores not just plants but all other non-human animals and creatures. That kind of toxic humanism should be treated as the hate speech it is against us non-human readers of ResetERA.com.

But the main thing is that I hope sabrina is okay.

[nudemacusers]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gun-to-your-head-which-game-is-more-influential-resident-evil-4-or-demon-souls.119320/

I voted for RE4. OP can you explain some of your reasoning behind why you think Demon Souls was influential? I don't see the impact on Shovel Knight for example. Or Watch Dogs and Journey?

In Shovel Knight, you lost your loot when you died and had to get it back similar to the Souls mechanic if it worked exactly how it does in Dark Souls.

Further evidence that soulsborne games rot brain matter.

[benjipwns]

lol at the only thing "influential" about RE4 being the over the shoulder camera angle, while "Souls invented a genre, level design and encounter design"

[benjipwns]

This forum is wildly messed up if it talks about Demon’s Souls influence and nobody has mentioned its influence on social aspects. It was revolutionary. It’s very clearly the influence behind Nintendo’s entire take on social media (Miiverse being very clearly related to its message system and the games that have followed even after Miiverse’s death, most recently Mario Maker 2) and many other games copying that.

All of the previous Miiverse integration in their games felt like a light hearted take on Demon’s Souls message system.

[PogiJones]

Demon's Souls' influence is far-reaching, and not to be underestimated. It invented messaging. And on the most popular independent gaming forum as measured by traffic resetera.com, you can message people. And I don't think I need to go over resetera.com's credentials, now do I? Without Demon's Souls, who knows if language would even be a thing by now.

[Lonewulfeus]

Um, the thread is specifically about America/addressed to Americans? Why would anyone respond in Celsius? If Fahrenheit bothers you so much, don't open a thread literally about temperatures in America.

 

[benjipwns]

those are always good threads to acquire location data for the dossiers

i mean, hypothetically

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ScrubQuotesX/status/1130841426219098112

I'm actually offended.

[BisMarckie]

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Shosti annihilated.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-need-food-regulation-in-the-states-like-yesterday.119350/post-21171467

So y’all actually want to limit the portions people are allowed to eat?

mmm, lets get started

When you give the addict a million choices that offer their addiction but have about 1% of choices that don't, they're probably going to continue eating the stuff that's shit for themselves. It's why if you're an alcoholic you probably shouldn't walk into a liquor store.

So y’all actually want to limit the portions people are allowed to eat?

We do it with other things...a bar can legally cut off people from drinking more. There are alcohol and cigarette age limits and there are there are things that cigarette companies must do like putting warning labels on their packaging. Soda's should have just as agressive warning labels as cigarettes or alcohol.

So y’all actually want to limit the portions people are allowed to eat?

It's a public health crisis. It's like cigarette and seatbelts laws. Those are in place because deaths, accidents, and health issues that arise from those place a toll on public institutes and funds. Ultimately tax payers are fronting the bill for industries that are killing people. It's not control on an individual level but taxing businesses that sell addictive substances and carry on billion dollar ad campaigns to promote misinformation should be regulated. I mean they're not going to be because it's America and those businesses make the laws and fund the science, but they should be.

So is that a Yes?

yes, we should be trying to limit portion sizes that can be bought and sold. maybe at a gas station, make 64oz cup sizes illegal. small things like this that have big impacts on what people will consume.

Yes and no. People are allowed to purchase whatever they may like, and the government should be allowed to tax industry for pollution and public health damages. Maybe that means some items are no longer offered on store shelves because companies are bankrupt, but I'm also not sure if I would consider that regulating food portions. Inversely we're so concerned about the American government limiting portions that we're obfuscating our view of how corporate America is controlling our portion intake.

So prohibition 2.0, in other words.

So only allow healthier choices to be available. I didn't say it was going to be fun. i said it's something that needs to be done.

I don't really mind if people want to be fat.

We can't afford healthcare costs as it is, imagine what it's going to be like when the majority of american's have diabetes. We're quickly getting to that point and it's only going to keep getting worse unless we address it with legislation.

To be fair, I don't want to have my health insurance premiums going up (in the US) because people are eating junk (mostly the fault of companies/businesses that put junk in their food). Yes, people talk about Medicare for All here in the states, but that does absolutely nothing to prevent people from eating junk and later being hospitalized with cancer, diabetes, heart diseases, etc.

So you both want to try Prohibition again.

What’s the next step after that? Mandatory exercise?

How is this prohibition if you're still a) allowed to purchase the food albeit it at a potentially greater cost and b) if the food is no longer produced what-so-ever due to companies saying it's not worth producing? It's not a prohibition as no one is making the food illegal to sell or consume. Maybe we'll go back to 2013 and have another Twinkie shortage.

Tax per calorie with exemptions for produce?

I think being frustrated by the situation and how little is being done about it may evoke these responses, especially how the majority of the posters are against any regulation or public works efforts and have a somewhat GOP bootstraps ideology to food consumption.

That seems to be pretty damn totalitarian to me. I'm really not sure how else to read that other than some fascist BS about government knowing best and people falling in line.

Saying, let's reduce options of sugar intake. Isn't the same as banning everything. Allow Oreos but only in packages of 300 calories or less. Make people pay extra to have more. Get rid of king size candy packages and XXXXL m&m bags that cost less per ounce than the single sized portion bag. Regulate how big a cup size can be at a fast food joint. Fact of the matter is, we over consume because we are allowed to overconsume and it's advertised to us as the correct choice to make by the companies that sell them. "You sure you don't want to the large size? All cups cost the same amount, there's no reason not to get the large." People talk about Japan but fail to realize that they don't have these big sizes like we do. A large in Japan is the small of America... They're literally doing what I'm suggesting.

You can moan about whole grain ingredients or you can focus on solutions that would actually address the main problem. American stomachs require too much food to feel full.

Just put a ban on restaurants (fast food included) from selling more than a thousand calories per person. If they need to buy take-out for multiple people, then make the customer sign a slip with the number of adults or children eating and it'll give you the limit. Yes, some people will lie every time but most people will feel some shame about it. Do the same thing when buying groceries for the household.

Also redo the general diet recommendations to focus on two meals a day rather than three. It's easier to skip breakfast than to eat small portions a bunch of times a day.

If you want to overhaul American diets, you can only afford to institute a couple rules. Trying to phase out various nutritional categories (ie: everything that is empty calories/high sodium) is just a stupidly large challenge from a regulatory standpoint. A quota system on total calories consumed makes more sense. Of course most people don't like restricting the amount of food eaten because it actually requires a lifestyle change.

[BisMarckie]

To be fair, I don't want to have my health insurance premiums going up (in the US) because people are eating junk (mostly the fault of companies/businesses that put junk in their food). Yes, people talk about Medicare for All here in the states, but that does absolutely nothing to prevent people from eating junk and later being hospitalized with cancer, diabetes, heart diseases, etc.

Step 1: Why should I pay for others that make bad choices?
Step 2: Why should the state have any say in what I should pay for my health insurance?
Step 3: Why have a state after all?
benji:

[Momo]

what if i told you all benji is a genie i keep my dildo and he only comes out after i've rubbed it a good while?

[BisMarckie]

Are you saying that he is spiritual ejaculate?

I thank that is incredibly rude.

And hot.

[Don Rumata]

Going by that obesity thread, ERA tackling the low birth rate problem, would look a lot like The Handmaiden's Tale. 

[BisMarckie]

I’m 27 and single guy and a successful job.
30 years of raising kids with tons of responsibilities or 30 years of gaming with zero responsibilities ?
The choice is easy.

I find looking for a girl to date just to get married is too much work and stress. Fuck all. I just hope my siblings have kids so my parents can have grandchildren.

[clothedmacuser]

To be fair, I don't want to have my health insurance premiums going up (in the US) because people are eating junk (mostly the fault of companies/businesses that put junk in their food). Yes, people talk about Medicare for All here in the states, but that does absolutely nothing to prevent people from eating junk and later being hospitalized with cancer, diabetes, heart diseases, etc.

Step 1: Why should I pay for others that make bad choices?
Step 2: Why should the state have any say in what I should pay for my health insurance?
Step 3: Why have a state after all?
benji:

Step was sounds an awfully lot like victim shaming/blaming.  "Why should I pay for those unwilling to work who choose to use drugs?"

That's Centrist talk!

[BisMarckie]

Everyone who comments about their lack of children so they have time to play video games are pathetic. Just guessing most responses here.

You should think before writing things this stupid.

Why do you care so much what other people choose to do with their life?

[Joe Molotov]

Dark Souls invented an entire genre of games consisting of such varied titles as Dark Soul II, Dark Souls III, Samurai Dark Souls, and Super Mario Sunshine.

[Potato]

User Banned (1 Day): Drive-by Trolling

The word "Studies" has been tainted. Everyone and their pet dog doing wild studies nowadays.

 


Banned for questioning a questionable "study".


Never change you fucking mumble-faced cockmongles.

[VomKriege]

Brexit does, in fact, represent a binary issue; are you for or against the multicultural exchange of people, goods, and culture or not?

Because that's what the Leavers were so mad about (because they're racist) and what Remainers should be in favor of.

It's that simple !

https://www.resetera.com/threads/corbyn-backs-referendum-on-brexit-deal-after-voter-exodus.119378/#post-21174977

[clothedmacuser]

User Banned (1 Day): Drive-by Trolling

The word "Studies" has been tainted. Everyone and their pet dog doing wild studies nowadays.

 


Banned for questioning a questionable "study".


Never change you fucking mumble-faced cockmongles.

In the year of the replication crisis in science that ban is like telling someone who says ulcers are caused bacteria instead of stress or anger an idiot.

[Lonewulfeus]

Kidding: should this site/gaming quit existing because there is so much complaining? We'd all be happier without it around. This study is humorous at face value.

 

[Potato]

User Banned (1 Day): Drive-by Trolling

The word "Studies" has been tainted. Everyone and their pet dog doing wild studies nowadays.

 


Banned for questioning a questionable "study".


Never change you fucking mumble-faced cockmongles.

In the year of the replication crisis in science that ban is like telling someone who says ulcers are caused bacteria instead of stress or anger an idiot.

Or like banning someone who questions whether a study involving self-reported performance in an unrelated sporting activity is relevant to whether a trans athlete has an unfair advantage in something like boxing...

[paprikastaude]

Brexit does, in fact, represent a binary issue; are you for or against the multicultural exchange of people, goods, and culture or not?

Because that's what the Leavers were so mad about (because they're racist) and what Remainers should be in favor of.

It's that simple !

https://www.resetera.com/threads/corbyn-backs-referendum-on-brexit-deal-after-voter-exodus.119378/#post-21174977

So Brexit is good because it's against cultural appropriation?

[benjipwns]

It's well known that multicultural exchanges of people, goods and... culture cannot happen outside the framework of the European Union.

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/airmen-onboard-the-u-s-s-wasp-spotted-wearing-trump-styled-patches-during-trumps-speech.119413/

nudemac, just like moderate muslims need to justify and disassociate from extremists, you need to explain this.
 

[VomKriege]

So apparently he targeted a group of school girls in that BBC article. I wonder if this was motivated by an inability to form a deep connection with others. I remember an incident a few years ago where a man stabbed an idol because she rejected him, I also remember the guy who went on a stabbing spree in Akihabara also complained about being single.

"Japan's handling of mental health is so terrible. Now let me play armchair psychiatrist."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/at-least-18-people-injured-in-kawasaki-stabbing-incidents-in-japan-majority-of-them-were-children-update-2-dead-suspect-died-in-the-hospital.119360/page-3#post-21178485

[Potato]

But aren't they supposed to be happier when they are shut-ins who just play videogames? That's what REEEEEEEEE just told me.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Brexit does, in fact, represent a binary issue; are you for or against the multicultural exchange of people, goods, and culture or not?

Because that's what the Leavers were so mad about (because they're racist) and what Remainers should be in favor of.

It's that simple !

https://www.resetera.com/threads/corbyn-backs-referendum-on-brexit-deal-after-voter-exodus.119378/#post-21174977

The EU was literally formed as an economic union to reduce trade barriers and increase the profits for the bourgeoisie, under a 'unity from above' model, so it should be of zero fucking surprise to anyone who understands the positions involved that an old school socialist would be against it in principle.

Meanwhile, while all the blair-babes hungry for political power want to blame Corbyn for somehow making brexit happen, he chaired 4 seperate fucking motions for a second referendum that were all overturned in the commons, despite obviously not believing in the principles of a european monetary federation himself.

e:
a cursory google search:
https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/7292/20-05-2009/why-socialists-oppose-the-eu

[Momo]

lmao, those smooth brains dont realize the more you call brexit musketeers racist and ignore their qualms the more they will just ignore them and double down.

[VomKriege]

 Just need to ban racism rations over 1000 calories.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I personally think leaving is a mistake for all of the same reasons I thought a scottish bid for independence is a mistake, because although british national character is such that we think of Ireland as a tiny little island off the coast of the mainland, the truth is that we're a tiny little island off the coast of the mainland.

But even if I was ardently against being in the EU, it makes no fucking sense whatsoever not to revoke our invocation of Article 50 and stay a member until we have an actual fucking exit package sorted out.
Its like going through a divorce with an active pre-nup against you and just going "NO, FUCK IT, TAKE IT ALL, I DON'T CARE, I JUST WANT TO LEAVE!". You're a goddamn idiot.

[Ghoul]

ERA seem to think Brexit is really alt right, it's not it's just the poors being too lazy, stupid and slightly racist for the jobs these foreigners allegedly are stealing from them.

The fact is these stupid and lazy people, would never do the low paying shitty jobs a lot of them come over and do.

They also don't see immigrants properly. mainly use the "brown" argument.

The way Welfare works in the UK is quite incredible that you can actually earn enough to live without working with a lot of failures to force these fat poor fucks into any form of work.

Whilst targeting disabled people and forcing them to work

but yeah mate once ruled the seas and owned everything.

 

[Momo]

I think they capped/shut down the money for babies wellfare, my cousin had a bunch of kids and she was living like a queen in London lawl

[Ghoul]

Yeah there was a lot of backlash about it. lazy pricks saying wut I have to get a job now?

I do always love the papers that find these rare cases when a family get a big house and a large amount of welfare and they're rightly crucified.

Also the fight the right mantra they have on ERA and on the extreme left is why Trump will likely win 2020 and they'll lose their collective minds.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

The Brexit vote was insanely complicated in who voted to leave, it really is absurdly reductionist to say "just racists".
There were a bunch of protest votes against pig-fuckers austerity measures, because 'remain' appeared to be the preferred policy of the tories
There were a bunch of anti-federalist votes, who perceive the EU as a wasteful bureaucracy
There were a bunch of people who were lied to about what we spend, and what we receive in return
There were a bunch of nationalist votes - not the same as 'racist' - who think trivial shit like whose face is on a coin or banknote, or that beer comes in pints and not litres is A Big Deal.
Like I said above, a lot of old school socialists / trade unionists being against it as it undermines collective bargaining of workers, because if you get a bunch of uppity strikers you can just replace them wholesale with immigrants from elsewhere.

I can understand - somewhat - americans and their binary partisanship thinking believing its a modal left / right issue, but anyone who lives here and has like... absolutely any political consciousness can see it isn't.

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Yeah there was a lot of backlash about it. lazy pricks saying wut I have to get a job now?

I do always love the papers that find these rare cases when a family get a big house and a large amount of welfare and they're rightly crucified.

Also the fight the right mantra they have on ERA and on the extreme left is why Trump will likely win 2020 and they'll lose their collective minds.

yeah, I have to say shit like "Benefits Street" isn't exactly an accurate reflection of the general populace, when we have shit like fucking food bins preventing actual starvation

[Ghoul]

I mean the worst thing about just how fucked it is here there are a lot people with the public sector having to use food banks to survive which is absolutely disgusting.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I've been looking forward to a new Lindsay video but this slight against John Hurt a couple of minutes in has me shook. I'll have to watch the rest another time.

I'd put him in the same class in popular media as Alan Rickman -- obviously they're damn talented actors (especially on stage) but their roles in film are more character work and voice over stuff. One was in Galaxy Quest, Harry Potter, and the H2G2 film; the other was a "forgotten" Doctor Who incarnation and all those nightmare-inducing animated films like Watership Down, Plague Dogs, The Black Cauldron. And again, both damn talented.

Alan Rickman: Truly Madly Deeply, Robin Hood, Dogma, Love Actually, and f'ing DIE HARD
John Hurt: 1984, the Elephant Man, Spaceballs, V for Vendetta, Hellboy, and f'ing ALIEN

[Momo]

Lindsay Ellis had a really distinguished mentally-challenged fellow take about GOT on twitter the other day. Would never take film crit from someone with that mindset seriously unless it's technical.


EDIT: distinguished mentally-challenged fellow take I was talking about

[VomKriege]

I've been looking forward to a new Lindsay video but this slight against John Hurt a couple of minutes in has me shook. I'll have to watch the rest another time.

I'd put him in the same class in popular media as Alan Rickman -- obviously they're damn talented actors (especially on stage) but their roles in film are more character work and voice over stuff. One was in Galaxy Quest, Harry Potter, and the H2G2 film; the other was a "forgotten" Doctor Who incarnation and all those nightmare-inducing animated films like Watership Down, Plague Dogs, The Black Cauldron. And again, both damn talented.

Alan Rickman: Truly Madly Deeply, Robin Hood, Dogma, Love Actually, and f'ing DIE HARD
John Hurt: 1984, the Elephant Man, Spaceballs, V for Vendetta, Hellboy, and f'ing ALIEN

Heaven's Gate too.