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[EightBitNate]

Got that electrical engineering degree tho

And you're looking wistfully at carpenters? Enjoy your bones not being ground to dust.

Doing small repair jobs and room makeovers around the house has made me look at it like a fun hobby. I’m sure it’d be different full time but I kinda hold some regret over not considering it at all. Even electrician’s school might not have been a bad idea.

[marrec]

Got that electrical engineering degree tho

And you're looking wistfully at carpenters? Enjoy your bones not being ground to dust.

Doing small repair jobs and room makeovers around the house has made me look at it like a fun hobby. I’m sure it’d be different full time but I kinda hold some regret over not considering it at all. Even electrician’s school might not have been a bad idea.

Man, I've never met an Engineer who wistfully imagines being an electrician lmao

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Good ol', "who us? bigots?" - gaf.


https://www.neogaf.com/threads/apple-ceo-tim-cook-announces-new-iphone-feature-being-gay-or-trans.1508461/

[thetylerrob]

^this guy gays

[Ghoul]

They love a good gay bashing on GAF.

[BisMarckie]

We love a good gay smashing here on the Bire

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

This news piece feels kinda disturbing with your avatar, considering what is going on in that very scene.

Anyhow, let's hope for the best for everyone involved.

 

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot9-the-assassination-of-tulsi-gabbards-campaign-by-the-coward-hillary-clinton.147939/page-134#post-25855388

You know what, I wasn't going to post here again, but before I leave (and yes, I will be requesting a permanent self-ban) people should know why I'm actually leaving.

Anyone who knows me knows that I have absolutely no problem with long, extended arguments, but I do not tolerate ad hominems, and I could already see that this thread was headed down that path again after comments like yours. I've been through that too many times with poli-era, and just in general, interactions here have just not been very pleasant. This is more like the straw that broke the camel's back.

As for your argument about Sanders. It's hogwash. He literally brought up exactly what you talked about, but you couldn't be arsed to look at the full exchange to see that, very much in the same way that I didn't realize how out of context Kamala's quote was, ironically.

Yes, Sanders is flaky on race issues sometimes, but there are other times where he has the best responses on race issues, but that never gets acknowledged here. In fact, I don't think I've seen anyone here acknowledge just how far he's leading the pack on his criminal justice platform compared to everyone else in the field, but that's not surprising.

Anyway, I wish you all well. I really mean that, but I hope that maybe one day this community can realize the kind of toxic, unwelcoming atmosphere it has fostered, because I am personally tired of it.

Cheers. It's been fun.

Last chance chow chow!

I'm now Bire exclusive.

[Joe Molotov]

Dudes out here having kids on purpose.

[Raist]

In this week's episode of Nintarded Delusions.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/time-for-sony-and-microsoft-to-release-a-%E2%80%9Clite%E2%80%9D-online-sub-to-compete-with-nintendo.149931/

[Risible]

Got that electrical engineering degree tho

And you're looking wistfully at carpenters? Enjoy your bones not being ground to dust.

Doing small repair jobs and room makeovers around the house has made me look at it like a fun hobby. I’m sure it’d be different full time but I kinda hold some regret over not considering it at all. Even electrician’s school might not have been a bad idea.

Yeah, carpentry is super cool. Maybe you'll get lucky and be like my brother in law whose wrist just disintegrated from using the nail gun every day and now he can't do anything that involves putting any weight whatsoever on his wrist.  That sure was awesome. Also no medical rocks. Construction workers sure have it good compared to engineers. Also this was at age 26, so only 50 years or so to go not using that wrist.

[paprikastaude]

In this week's episode of Nintarded Delusions.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/time-for-sony-and-microsoft-to-release-a-%E2%80%9Clite%E2%80%9D-online-sub-to-compete-with-nintendo.149931/

The most  argument I remember was from those Gamexplain goons. Talking about how Nintendo has better online, because there's too many games on the other platforms to play/receive, so it's more comfortable to only have Tetris and S/NES to concentrate on Also these are the people being moderators for the little that remains of 'normal' game discussion on that site.

[Ghoul]

Got that electrical engineering degree tho

#SexForGrades huh?

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so your professor was a guy then. Thanks for the clarification

[EightBitNate]

Got that electrical engineering degree tho

And you're looking wistfully at carpenters? Enjoy your bones not being ground to dust.

Doing small repair jobs and room makeovers around the house has made me look at it like a fun hobby. I’m sure it’d be different full time but I kinda hold some regret over not considering it at all. Even electrician’s school might not have been a bad idea.

Yeah, carpentry is super cool. Maybe you'll get lucky and be like my brother in law whose wrist just disintegrated from using the nail gun every day and now he can't do anything that involves putting any weight whatsoever on his wrist.  That sure was awesome. Also no medical rocks. Construction workers sure have it good compared to engineers. Also this was at age 26, so only 50 years or so to go not using that wrist.

My wrists are already ruined

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Got that electrical engineering degree tho

And you're looking wistfully at carpenters? Enjoy your bones not being ground to dust.

Doing small repair jobs and room makeovers around the house has made me look at it like a fun hobby. I’m sure it’d be different full time but I kinda hold some regret over not considering it at all. Even electrician’s school might not have been a bad idea.

Yeah, carpentry is super cool. Maybe you'll get lucky and be like my brother in law whose wrist just disintegrated from using the nail gun every day and now he can't do anything that involves putting any weight whatsoever on his wrist.  That sure was awesome. Also no medical rocks. Construction workers sure have it good compared to engineers. Also this was at age 26, so only 50 years or so to go not using that wrist.

It's 2019 and ergonomics were invented in 2018.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

If Unions are so fucking great, why doesn't Disney®s Marvel©s The Avengers™ have one?

Checkmate, communists

[nachobro]

Blizzard/Blizzcon threads getting the Kingdom Come treatment

[Joe Molotov]

This is why poster unions are important.

[stufte]

This is why poster unions are important.

My forum paycheck was horrible after paying my union dues. Fuck unions.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Yup they are missing what made the entire gawker family of sites so good by forcing this.

[nachobro]

sure resetti is mad some sport blogger got fired, but just post this and they'll change their mind and say they never supported him

https://twitter.com/SwansonE12/status/1189229382054940672

[EightBitNate]

Acting like everyone wasn’t cool with rape jokes in 2006.

[marrec]

Also, I love the idea that two questionable tweet jokes make you "not a good person at all".

[paprikastaude]

Also, I love the idea that two questionable tweet jokes make you "not a good person at all".

I NEVER SAID ANYTHING STUPID IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, I AM PURE AND YOU ARE A FASCIST

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

rape is never funny

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unless its by a clown 

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[marrec]

rape is never funny

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unless its by a clown 

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They say that but they'd all laugh it Trump was humped by a dog.

[stufte]

rape is never funny

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unless its by a clown 

[close]

100% Correct.

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Though jokes about rape can be funny...

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[nachobro]

Also, I love the idea that two questionable tweet jokes make you "not a good person at all".

i know, someone should find out his opinion on the MCU before making a final decision.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Resetera should fill in gap with a sister news site

lmgtfy?=popcorn.gif

[marrec]

Also, I love the idea that two questionable tweet jokes make you "not a good person at all".

i know, someone should find out his opinion on the MCU before making a final decision.

He's only ever made one Marvel tweet and it was deleted 

[EchoRin]

I'm surprised a dude that works at Deadspin would pop off a rapey post a few weeks ago. Considering that Deadspin always points out anytime anybody does anything with Barstool Sports for example. Had this guy written for some other more fratty publication I guess it wouldn't be a surprise, but Deadspin? Way off brand.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pbs-to-air-on-tuesday-january-7-2020-the-22nd-annual-mark-twain-prize-for-american-humor-award-show-recipient-of-award-is-dave-chappelle.149955/

era:

[Joe Molotov]

I'm surprised a dude that works at Deadspin would pop off a rapey post a few weeks ago. Considering that Deadspin always points out anytime anybody does anything with Barstool Sports for example. Had this guy written for some other more fratty publication I guess it wouldn't be a surprise, but Deadspin? Way off brand.

It was from 06.

[EchoRin]

I'm surprised a dude that works at Deadspin would pop off a rapey post a few weeks ago. Considering that Deadspin always points out anytime anybody does anything with Barstool Sports for example. Had this guy written for some other more fratty publication I guess it wouldn't be a surprise, but Deadspin? Way off brand.

It was from 06.

Ah... so it is. Yeah the "06" part eluded my eye and I just noticed the month and day. Well in that case it's more than fair to look at how he has conducted himself in the last 13 years since. I mean let's not forget on NeoGAF someone had a tag given to them by a mod that said something like "cheeseburger fucker lol". Maybe as recently as the early 2010s.

edit: Cheeseburger means trans slur

[jorma]

The only one to come out of this in good standing is "big sloppy" who took the time and effort to  a 12 year old tweet. Now that is dedication to the cause.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I’ve said before, making a film without risk is like making a baby without sex. Part of it is risk, and that’s what make it so interesting, that’s why we learn so much when it’s made.

What

He's saying, Homosexuals aren't real parents because they never went through the pregnancy and Birth process.

What that has to do with marvel is beyond me.

 

Uhhhhh... he really fucking isn't....

I mean, OBVIOUSLY not fully appreciating the MCU automatically makes you rabidly homophobic. Obviously.

[EchoRin]

Talk about a bad faith argument 

That's the longest stretch I'll read all day

[Tuckers Law]

Schreirs dick getting full-on gobbled in that thread.  It’s going to be really awkward once they discover a reason to cancel him.

[Nintex]

I was making $8 an hour during college. For some reason, the grocery store I worked at had a union, and union fees were $25 per paycheck. One week I only worked a single shift (4 hours) because finals. After taxes and everything, I only made $4 that week, or $1 per hour. Fuck unions.

Yep, that's Unions 

I'm currently building a web app for a union though, thank you for your contributions 

To all the aspiring media investors who have been playing footsie with the idea of starting something new—the editorial talent for what would be one of America’s best publications is just sitting on the curb right now.

This is the funniest thing I've read all year.

I'd hire them all for a dollar 

[Joe Molotov]

Schreirs dick getting full-on gobbled in that thread.  It’s going to be really awkward once they discover a reason to cancel him.

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1039320943787692034

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/imranzomg/status/1189247868848300038

It's because you dumb dumbs are not doing your JOBS.
All these outlets are going bankrupt because you apparently fail to produce anything that the average reader considers valuable.

And that's some revelation considering some people commission pregnant Sonic fan art 

[paprikastaude]

You could tell when old GAF was still normal, because Kotaku was banned and lampooned by people.

[Uncle]

Yup they are missing what made the entire gawker family of sites so good by forcing this.

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I mean "stick to sports" is just coded language, like when a forum owner says "no more political discussion" when he actually means "please stop bringing up my freshly exposed realignment to misogyny and transphobia in the light of my outing as a shower goblin sex pest."

this is bore appropriation 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Its amazing how all these gawker journos giant fucking air quotes with their wilful disregard for 'old media' journalistic ethics provisions, reliance on click-bait editorials, refusal to change their working methods when their old methods are not commercially viable, and rush to air their professional dirty laundry in public while telling their employers 'fuck you' aren't being snapped up by whoever the fuck people think would want to hire these people

[HaughtyFrank]

I googled what's up with deadspin and this tweet had me rolling

https://twitter.com/RobynElyse/status/1189219245755916290

[nachobro]

why are they screaming about unions again? how is it relevant? there's a gawker union and all of them are about to be jobless.

[Uncle]

Its amazing how all these gawker journos giant fucking air quotes with their wilful disregard for 'old media' journalistic ethics provisions, reliance on click-bait editorials, refusal to change their working methods when their old methods are not commercially viable, and rush to air their professional dirty laundry in public while telling their employers 'fuck you' aren't being snapped up by whoever the fuck people think would want to hire these people

reading that era thread the impression I get is that all these people who have been writing random clickbait for years are angry that they got bought by someone who told them to write even baitier clicks and specifically sports ones

they're fighting back with journalistic integrity by writing articles in protest like Look At This Meat I Found In The Road and Pics Of My Dog Posed As If He Is Reading Celebrity Autobiographies

[Tuckers Law]

Its amazing how all these gawker journos giant fucking air quotes with their wilful disregard for 'old media' journalistic ethics provisions, reliance on click-bait editorials, refusal to change their working methods when their old methods are not commercially viable, and rush to air their professional dirty laundry in public while telling their employers 'fuck you' aren't being snapped up by whoever the fuck people think would want to hire these people

reading that era thread the impression I get is that all these people who have been writing random clickbait for years are angry that they got bought by someone who told them to write even baitier clicks and specifically sports ones

they're fighting back with journalistic integrity by writing articles in protest like Look At This Meat I Found In The Road and Pics Of My Dog Posed As If He Is Reading Celebrity Autobiographies

Meanwhile, most Deadspin readers probably didn’t notice any difference from before.

[BisMarckie]

The Russians can produce click bait with bots for a fraction of the cost.

[EchoRin]

I mean yeah the clickbait stuff is the only way these publications can actually survive. It sucks though. Putting aside the "loltaku" stuff. Jason Schreier has mentioned it himself that there is no way they could keep the site going if they didn't do plenty of superfluous articles. Think it was in a more recent SuperBunnyHop youtube video.

Around 13:20 and then it gets to the expose articles around 15:30

[Averon]

These journos spend all their time on Twitter sniffing their own farts, shitting on their own readership, and jerking each other off on how much of an "ally" they are and how the rest for the world are Nazis. Sucks for them that they can't have a long-lasting career on self-serving, self-congratulatory clickbait yellow journalism.

[paprikastaude]

Maybe videogame bloggers shouldn't be called journalists, even if they act pretentious and get to suck corporate tits from time to time.

[EchoRin]

Jason will be fine if or when Kotaku gets Ziff Davis'd. Always sucks to get the boot, but of all the the people there he will have many suitors.

[Boredfrom]

I mean yeah the clickbait stuff is the only way these publications can actually survive. It sucks though. Putting aside the "loltaku" stuff. Jason Schreier has mentioned it himself that there is no way they could keep the site going if they didn't do plenty of superfluous articles. Think it was in a more recent SuperBunnyHop youtube video.

Around 13:20 and then it gets to the expose articles around 15:30

Why act like assholes when people mention that their clickbait shit gets people pissed off? Even if is a “necessary evil”, most of Gawker generation writters seem wired to pass stuff like this like “decent enough”. For every Jason exposure there is 20 Patricia Hernandez clickbait shit.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Gawker Media is dead, of course. But it’s not dead because it failed; it’s dead because it was murdered by a vindictive billionaire and there existed no legal infrastructure to protect it. When Gawker was murdered in a terrifying blow to freedom of the press, a shocking number of other journalists said the site deserved it: They should have had more decorum, should have been less rude, should have placated the right people instead of making fun of them. What those journalists didn’t say, and what they still don’t say, was that Gawker made journalism better through inspiring new publications and through pushing the legacy ones to be more interesting. They don’t say that Gawker unionizing made conditions better across the industry. And they don’t say that the company’s websites were consistently profitable and beloved by readers, that the business model—publish stories that people wanted to read, supported by advertising—worked exactly as it was intended to.

[marrec]

I don't even know what you're trying to say Sage, what Deadspin did was fucking hilarious.

[Boredfrom]

I don't even know what you're trying to say Sage, what Deadspin did was fucking hilarious.

I think this:

Gawker Media is dead, of course. But it’s not dead because it failed; it’s dead because it was murdered by a vindictive billionaire and there existed no legal infrastructure to protect it. When Gawker was murdered in a terrifying blow to freedom of the press, a shocking number of other journalists said the site deserved it: They should have had more decorum, should have been less rude, should have placated the right people instead of making fun of them. What those journalists didn’t say, and what they still don’t say, was that Gawker made journalism better through inspiring new publications and through pushing the legacy ones to be more interesting. They don’t say that Gawker unionizing made conditions better across the industry. And they don’t say that the company’s websites were consistently profitable and beloved by readers, that the business model—publish stories that people wanted to read, supported by advertising—worked exactly as it was intended to.

Is what is deserving of “smelling their own farts”.

[EchoRin]

I mean yeah the clickbait stuff is the only way these publications can actually survive. It sucks though. Putting aside the "loltaku" stuff. Jason Schreier has mentioned it himself that there is no way they could keep the site going if they didn't do plenty of superfluous articles. Think it was in a more recent SuperBunnyHop youtube video.

Around 13:20 and then it gets to the expose articles around 15:30

Why act like assholes when people mention that their clickbait shit gets people pissed off? Even if is a “necessary evil”, most of Gawker generation writters seem wired to pass stuff like this like “decent enough”. For every Jason exposure there is 20 Patricia Hernandez clickbait shit.

I don't really have anything to add to that other than both variations of 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

If anything, printing unsourced gossipy libel and revenge porn made the entire industry better, and there were no drawbacks to doing that as a business model, other than that one huge fucking one which tanked the company

[ShutUp]

I know this is going to sound so "high horse"-ish, but that TRoS Projections thread is driving me nuts. People who don't understand how projections/BO work yet commenting on it is such a pet peeve. They're all being so smug about it having low projections when *it's in-line with the last 2 movies*

It's a minor annoyance, I know. I just went ahead and ignored the thread.

Anything that fits their dumb angry white male youtuber narrative

Didn’t work with Joker. Not going to work with Terminator. Attempt number three with new Star Wars movie will surely work!

Wait until they find out more than just white dudes don’t like the new trilogy.