Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread

[headwalk]

firefighters are tools of repression. the flatfoots who keep the flames of revolution from burning the bigoted institutions to the ground.

let them burn you cowards, preferably with you dancing in the flames as i look on and smile.

we just want to feel safe.

[benjipwns]

Found more Cyberpunk talk not being moderated in the Giant Bomb thread. Also this TL;DR recap:

dude, whole situation is grim

Discord. That's where people started posting the bulk of his MAGA tweets, and BC, in the thread, defended himself immediately. Everyone who believed in him took about 5 minutes to go from disbelief to anger, and in that same time frame he went from saying "I'm not a Trumper" to ""I'm off to the other site, where they will accept who I truly am and not bully me."

It was ... intense.

I remember when JK Rowling dropped the mask, one of the big lessons was "hey, those of you who continuously gave her the benefit of the doubt: just listen to us next time, okay? please?"

this is a situation where a massive, massive piece of shit, someone who was literally handcrafting advertisements for a transphobic company on the daily, someone who HAD BEEN BANNED FOR BIGOTRY, somehow managed to make nice with the mods to the extent that they continued to take his side even as trans people screamed to the heavens that he was hurting them

(and, to be clear, "take his side" in this case means PROTECTING HIS RIGHT TO MAKE A FUCKING OT FOR A TRANSPHOBIC GAME, not even just refusing to ban him, and running interference on his behalf to such a degree that Black Chamber himself would've blushed at the bizarre boot licking)

to make matters worse, this is in stark contrast to the frustration and defensiveness that have defined how the mods have approached actually valuable members of the community

seriously, maybe it shouldn't be considering the history of this place, but it's genuinely shocking to me how this all unfolded

I so love that this is the narrative of what happened, that it was a deliberate long con purely to hurt TransEra aided and abetted by the mods who knew better

[DJ Bedroom]

REVIEWS ARE SAYING CYBERPUNK SUCKS
ALSO GHOST OF TSUSHIMA IS GOTY

[Pissy F Benny]

the giant bomb community has always been the low-key craziest on neogaf/ree

I’ve not looked but I wonder how they’re coping now the site is probably on its last legs

[Pissy F Benny]

REVIEWS ARE SAYING CYBERPUNK SUCKS
ALSO GHOST OF TSUSHIMA IS GOTY

lol ghost of Tsushima is ubisoft trash without the moreish factor

spoiler (click to show/hide)

im currently enjoying ac Valhalla warts and all

[close]

[Pissy F Benny]

Tbf one of the things about having a personality driven platform is you will end up attracting lonely losers who start treating the staff like they’re a close and personal friend

I bet most subreddits for any popular podcast are pretty wassy

[ShutUp]

Still waiting for all these transphobic issues they swear exist to actually be posted. They "want to highlight the issues" but the issues are never actually brought up. They just remain issues. A tweet someone was fired for? In game ads we now see as stuff like two guys humping or a chick puking into a toilet? Being able to "mix it up" which is another way to describe body modifications? None of these are problematic issues.

"screamed to the heavens that he was hurting them"

The goddamn hyperbole on display good lord.

[benjipwns]

They kinda did scream to the heavens and God responded by giving them an out-of-context tweet to save the admins with.

[DJ Bedroom]

REVIEWS ARE SAYING CYBERPUNK SUCKS
ALSO GHOST OF TSUSHIMA IS GOTY

lol ghost of Tsushima is ubisoft trash without the moreish factor

spoiler (click to show/hide)

im currently enjoying ac Valhalla warts and all

[close]

Grabbed ghost on ps5 cuz what else is there and I'm kind of floored how AC2-2009 it is. How the fuck these people think it's actual GOTY is fuckin beyond me

[Clockwork5]

Cyberpunk is the first game that I’ve actually stopped to read the user agreement. Even the dry legal stuff has the CDPR flair to it.
Meanwhile on Reddit, a post about how witty the 2077 TOS is has 50,000+ upvotes. Gonna be a long December for Era.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/k8qojg/cyberpunk_is_the_first_game_that_ive_actually/

[benjipwns]

Look at the chud who liked this chud's post on Pissbabys:


 

[Pissy F Benny]

Pls stop using the term piss baby it is highly triggering 2 me

[Boredfrom]

the giant bomb community has always been the low-key craziest on neogaf/ree

I’ve not looked but I wonder how they’re coping now the site is probably on its last legs

It is because San Francisco and lot of woke indie devs are there.

[Propagandhim]

Which one of you guys is this?

[Clockwork5]

SoyPrincess. What a username lol

[paprikastaude]

Ah yes. Sorry guys, I have to play this game now because of my 'boyfriend'. 

[Uncle]

I was just coming here to post that

[DJ Bedroom]

When the OT actually goes up, it's just gonna be a bunch of trans people sharing builds but NO CIS-SCUM ALLOWED

[benjipwns]

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Which one of you guys is this?

User Banned 3 days: Trolling activity in a sensitive thread

Suffice it to say, I don't think we'll be doing anything sexual for a little while. But I'm considering what material actions I might get him to take

I am impressed. This is the most pathetic thing I've ever read on this site.

[benjipwns]

By the way, I’m so over the game press.
The last time I saw this level of cowardice was during the GG days. I don’t ever want to hear or read about games as an art form from them ever again.

uhh yikes sounds like gater talk to me

[Tasty]

I was just coming here to post that

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Replace the Rift with Cyberpunk

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cyberpunk-reviews-are-rolling-in.340381/

User banned (permanent): Transphobic trolling, prior ban for dismissing concerns surrounding transphobia

I don't think the game will live up to the hype, but I believe it will be transformative in a way most games aren't. It sits at a 91 metacritic with 44 reviews...so people's, do you think it will be great or what?? Why??

I think the sum of its parts, the visuals, sound and game world xp will outstrip the complaints about hokey dialogue and minor bugs and legitimately be a great game.

[Averon]

So we're allowed to finally shit talk the gaming press without being accused of being alt-right Nazi GamerGaters? Wow. It only took over 6 years. That means people can admit to liking CP 2077 without being accused of being transphobes around early 2027.

[BrokenEchelon]

SoyPrincess:



The Boyfriend:

[Uncle]

It must suck knowing that whatever you posted got removed almost instantly before anyone could see it. I’m sure you wanted a grand account suicide that would have been quoted over and over, but you wasted it. All of us just see a basic ass mod edit. You couldn’t even get red text lmao. What a fucking failure.

next time try harder.

you just quoted it dummy

I was trying to remember who bamelin was, I felt like I remembered him posting something notable either at gaf or era, like "oh yeah it's that guy"

I googled him

https://www.resetera.com/threads/political-purity-tests-lets-have-a-discussion.18566/page-5#post-3730330



yooooo how the fuck did this guy survive until this exact moment

[benjipwns]

(Image removed from quote.)


Which one of you guys is this?

User Banned 3 days: Trolling activity in a sensitive thread

Suffice it to say, I don't think we'll be doing anything sexual for a little while. But I'm considering what material actions I might get him to take

I am impressed. This is the most pathetic thing I've ever read on this site.

They unbanned this guy and permabanned SoyPrincess instead.

User banned (permanent): troll account

Good job figuring it out mods.

[Himu]

SoyPrincess

Obvious troll

How'd they get away with it this long

[Tasty]

Wasn't that just Emily Rogers?

[Uncle]

these defiant era account suicides have the slightest hint of EVILORE RETIRE BITCH energy to them but it's like the years of walking on eggshells and keeping quiet have drained all the life out of them

[Boredfrom]

these defiant era account suicides have the slightest hint of EVILORE RETIRE BITCH energy to them but it's like the years of walking on eggshells and keeping quiet have drained all the life out of them

I mean, with Evilore was the promise of a holy land, the community still thought that SJW was a slur and Bishop memes were funny.

[NegativeCrepe]

i have no idea how I havent been banned in that thread yet these people are fucking dumb, they have no idea whos a troll or not

[Clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-informer-cyberpunk-2077-epileptic-psa.340393/

Woopsie! Really though, this is the kind of awareness that SHOULD be raised.

[Propagandhim]

Pls stop using the term piss baby it is highly triggering 2 me

Stop trying to radicalize the means of discussion

[Clockwork5]

i have no idea how I havent been banned in that thread yet these people are fucking dumb, they have no idea whos a troll or not

I legit don't know if someone is a troll or not anymore. Like... Even the post history makes me confused.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-informer-cyberpunk-2077-epileptic-psa.340393/

Woopsie! Really though, this is the kind of awareness that SHOULD be raised.

Absolutely sickening by the devs to put this in the game intentionally.

How did no one pick this up in development?

I'll give you three guesses but I bet you'll only need one.

Fuck CDPR.

Not only is the game transphobic it wants to kill you too

[benjipwns]

i have no idea how I havent been banned in that thread yet these people are fucking dumb, they have no idea whos a troll or not

The pathetic thing is these trolls actually think they are funny and are accomplishing anything

[Clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-informer-cyberpunk-2077-epileptic-psa.340393/

Woopsie! Really though, this is the kind of awareness that SHOULD be raised.

Absolutely sickening by the devs to put this in the game intentionally.

How did no one pick this up in development?

I'll give you three guesses but I bet you'll only need one.

Fuck CDPR.

Completely expected. Though, I linked the GI article to an epileptic friend and he was super grateful. He said that flashing light helmet fucked him up for days afterwards.

[team filler]

  knew this game was dangerous, hope it kills everyone who plays it for being transphobes

[benjipwns]

knew this game was dangerous, hope it kills everyone who plays it for being transphobes

Except Kyuuji, hope she's safe.

[ShutUp]

Do they actually think CDPR invented epileptic triggers now too? 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cyberpunk-2077-ot-welcome-to-night-city-read-the-op-before-you-post.340270/

It begins again.

[benjipwns]

Do they actually think CDPR invented epileptic triggers now too? 

My biggest 'fuck CDPR' of the day.

Seriously - if you're reading this CDPR - fuck you. This is ableist, childish, and incredibly dangerous. You clearly have a flagrant disregard for the wellbeing of so many in the world who are not as privileged as you. Stop attacking the marginalised.

[Don Rumata]

Psa: Cyberpunk 2077 copies, are intentionally coated with Anthrax.

[NegativeCrepe]

answer this

how do you have a thread for people to praise a transphobic game without it platforming transphobia

oh i know because they dont actually care about anything but video games and anime, if there was a thread for a trump rally and ppl said i'm excited to hear him speak theyd be banned, they are all hypocrites

they get a few token trans people to say no everyone its okay to want to play the game because they are so addicted to games they will use any excuse to cling to and those peoples opinions i guess mean more than other trans people because they did make the thread, guess what those trans ppl are probably white and rich and dont give a shit lol or they are just lying like most of these people

i admit i'm not the smartest guy in the world but i know a snake oil salesman or transman when I see one and if anybody from REEE thinks that forum cares about 'trans issues' you deserve to get scammed, video games are more important to them and ad revenue is more important to the dumbasses who run the site

At least Gaf is open about who they are lol but prove me wrong the next time someone says they enjoyed a joe rogan podcast or posts a thread about one and it doesnt get locked or banned

[benjipwns]

I think CDPR just probably thinks people with epilepsy don't really play modern games, if they even thought of them at all. Sure we put that warning because we have to legally, but those people don't engage with my hobby duh, just like they didn't expect there to be any real trans people looking at their game. They really don't seem to consider marginalized identities as anything more than set dressing to inspire their craft, not people who will actually ever see and be impacted by it.

[benjipwns]

Except Kyuuji, hope she's safe.

Oh thank god, she posted on the third page of the OT, she's alive and watching. Hope she sees the warning about the seizures CDPR put in the game.

[FUME5]

Shiron isn't even trans?

Incredible.

[benjipwns]

Completely unsurprising that the early impressions we're seeing validate the concern that there's no grounding or justification for the repeat transphobia, and fetishization, of trans people in the game, and from CDPR up until release.

Used as a promo tool to help shift sales outside of the game. Used as set dressing to add to a vapid and juvenile world with little to say inside the game.

Not only a massive waste of potential considering the setting and the reach, but actively harmful toward trans people as another piece of transphobic media that will be put into the minds of millions. As the pre-release Polygon article mentioned, it's hard not to think of what the potential was were CDPR not concerned with appealing to some of the worst parts of the gaming community.

[benjipwns]

Indeed. Like, our lives fucking depend on smelling out this bullshit. Because unfortunately, there are people out there who want us dead or otherwise want to make us miserable, so we have to quickly learn to how to sniff out those kind of people, before they can tell their nonsense.

Obviously, I knew nothing about him being a Trumper or anything. But just his past behavior in the past few days was enough outside of that.

In addition, while we members don't have access to ban histories, the staff definitely does? Why was that not checked, at all, any point?

And ban history aside, that still leaves the question of why the concerns of TransEra were completely ignored and the staff gave so much deference and benefit of doubt to this person. Why? Even without their ban history, why put so much weight on them and completely ignore the concerns of TransEra? Why did this one person mean so much to begin with?

And that was of course then, which was scary enough.

But now with hindsight, it's even scarier.

Because why exactly was Black Chamber making so many threads on Cyberpunk, why did they want to be the face of the OT, why did they have their own discord, why did they ignore the concerns of transgender members in the OT instead of just saying that a paragraph was supposedly planned to be in an OT all along?

Because with all these revelations about them being a Trumper and not giving a fuck and all that, it seems pretty clear: they were indeed doing every bit of it on purpose, almost certainly to deliberately stoke hostilities against the transgender community here.

Because think about it.

We know they're a Trumper and they don't give a fuck.

And due to people like Android Sophia we knew there was indeed intended to be a paragraph to support transgender members in the actual OT supposedly.

But that's something Black Chamber themselves refused to say and just beat around the bush on.

Why?

Knowing they're a Trumper, it makes perfect sense.

The whole goal along all along was to foster hostilities against the transgender community here.

And just looking at the reactions in the Night City Wire OT, with how many people he had on his side on singing and his praises and all that, he got pretty damn close to doing just that.

Not just close.

Since transgender members have actually left the site due to all this, you could even say he was successful in that goal.

And that's disgusting and unacceptable.

Because the staff had multiple points they could have put a stop to all of this, even before his history came out.

He made a gameplan, to play the longgame, and the sad thing is, despite being permed, he still won, by creating those schisms and getting multiple transgender members of the community to leave, and that's purely on the staff for not nipping it in the bud and actually taking the time to listen to the transgender community, ban history or no ban history, tweets or no tweets, or whatever.

They could have just listened to the concerns of the transgender community, instead of putting the interests of some nobody OT-starter and making backroom deals with them instead and putting all of that above the transgender community.

They could have just checked their own fucking backlogs.

They could have done so many things, but they failed to do each and every one of them.

There were so many things that could have been done.

So many. But they failed at every point instead.

There was a point I trusted the staff. The staff themselves can vouch for this if they have access to my post report history because for a while, I made a point of trying to remember to thank them for their hard work whenever I reported a post. I didn't always remember to do that. But I tried my best.

But those days are gone.

Because this is a fuckup beyond fuckups.

All trust I have for the staff of this site is completely gone.

Just zip. Zero. Zilch.

Because even before their actual history came out, there were still so many points, so many opportunities to avoid every bit of this.

But none of them were taken and Black Chamber was given the benefit of the doubt over the transgender community, all their suspicions and misgivings, everything.

And that's something I can not easily forget or forgive.

THAT SAID, I am thankful and very appreciative for being unbanned early. I truly do appreciate that.

But in the name of full transparency, I feel like I have to share the ban appeal tickets I made while I was banned, which I never got a single response to on any single one of them, and which I do feel, especially collectively, do a very good job of summing up why this was all handled so terribly, even without knowing about any of Black Chamber's ban history or tweets or anything and I just wouldn't feel right if this wasn't shared for all to see, as yeah, it really demonstrates how I feel and why this was so badly handled, revealing ban history or tweets or no (dashes indicate the end of one post I made in my ban appeal and the start of another new post in the appeal ticket):

And I do realize there is indeed some hostility in what I'm about to quote. But I hope that can be forgiven because this was originally written in the context of a ban appeal thread and is just me quoting it verbatim, with nothing hidden because I don't want to hide that and the whole point is honesty and transparency here, so I hope that can be understood in that context and not lead to anything or be taken outside of the context of a then-banned member naturally being frustrated at their situation and being powerless to change what was happening and going on outside in the forum while they were banned, desperately wanting to say so, SO very much and just not being able and being tremendously frustrated by what I was seeing and reading and not being able to do anything about that, and so yeah, I hope it can be understood in that context.

With that said, here's everything I said in my ban appeal thread for my situation:

"
Hello. ShironRedshift. I'd like to appeal my ban. Well, no. I'm not sure you can call this a ban appeal exactly. Because I know what I did was wrong and crossed the line. I fully admitted that when I made the posts I did.

However, I nonetheless want the staff to hear my side and how it feels like your leaving minority members like me with no options. That no matter which option we choose, civility, hostility, or anywhere between, that they're ALL bad and ALL lead to negative consequences in their own way.

But like I said in later posts in the same thread, it's a case of learned helplessness.

That civility has gotten nowhere. That the whole point of keeping the threads on Cyberpunk open, according to the mods, was to among other things help to educate others on transgender issues.

But not only has that not happened, but the whole disagreement that lead into the confrontation that lead to be getting banned in the first place was, nevermind the subject of education in general, it didn't even touch on that, but it all started with a dispute with rather a single paragraph, a single paragraph was too much or not.

Which, as it turns out, the plan was to include that paragraph...?

But the person who will be the OP of the thread denied that for reasons unknown and strung them along for no discernible reason in that case and just increased hostilities all around.

Many tried to be more civil than me in the initial (locked) thread that ultimately lead to nothing. Just more dismissive responses, as has been the case since this whole saga with this game began.

Which then lead to me seeing that, seeing so many wonderful people trying their best to be so incredibly, incredibly patient, and it not working and them only being dismissed. That even if the mods indeed banned many of the offenders, many more just came to replace them in return. Certainly no learning was happening.

Which in turn lead to my hostile response. Which I knew wouldn't fix anything either. Which I knew would lead to be being banned as I said, so I can't truly complain.

But at the same time, what was I to do?

Civility is a complete failure that lead to nothing.

And hostility obviously is also nonetheless both wrong and lead to people such as myself being banned.

And then of course there's the option of just doing nothing.

But that just leads to a feeling of learned helplessness, uselessness, and depression, things I certainly don't need more of as I already struggle with social anxiety and depression and mental illness.

Just all options are bad in their own way.

Be civil? Nothing changes, and we keep going in circles.

Get hostile, and vent some of my true feelings? I get banned.

Give into helplessness? My anxiety and depression goes into overdrive?

What are people like me SUPPOSED TO DO?

Like, I'm honestly asking here.

I know what I said and did was wrong and crossed the line.

But civility was not working (and clearly continues to work, as the person I believe I was believe the person I responded to got a lesser ban for me and will potentially still share a role in creating the Cyberpunk OT despite their own ban, so what exactly does that say about where civility gets you in matters of transphobia and the like? That as long as your civil about and do it in a polite way you'll be comparatively rewarded? Surely that can't be the intended message, but it's the message that's sent regardless of whether it's intended or not).

And obviously hostility just leads to stuff like my own ban.

And doing nothing and just sitting passively while this goes on does nothing for my anxiety and depression?

So what is the answer?

Because I've got nothing.

Like I said, I can't honestly say this is an appeal for my ban, because I knew what would happen when I made that post and knew the risks.

But I don't know what in the world I'm supposed to do, because every possible option is bad, so that being the case, being surrounded by a variety of bad options, I just picked the bad option that would at least let me vent my feelings.

That's not a defense. I know it's not.

But this is a subject that needs to be handled better in general, is what I am saying I suppose.

How, I'm not sure.

But certainly it needs to be handled better than a way that only gives minority members such as myself 3 options (1. Be civil to our abusers while they're abusing us and maybe they're banned, maybe they're not, either way only to be replaced by others who don't care and go back to square one 2.) Vent our true feelings and get banned for it or 3.) Just be quiet and silent and give into learned helplessness and depression).

None of those options are good. Not a single one of them.

But as far as I can see it, those are the only three options minority members have.

Like, I'm not good at this type of thing (likely in part because of my social anxiety and autism, and like, I've mentioned this before I believe in certain post reports and stuff, that I myself used to be a moderator of a global large forum when I was a teenager, NarutoFan forums, around like, god, like 2007 or 2008, when Naruto was pretty much at the peak of its popularity, and I pretty much gave that power away and switched into being in the "Advisor" role for inactive staff precisely because among other things I realized I was no good at it and definitely didn't have the answers, so I'm certainly not one to give advice.

And bans in particular even then were one of the trickiest subjects that gave me the most anxiety even back then, because judging what crossed the line and what didn't and if it did cross the line exactly how much time it deserves and how stuff like prior bans should factor in or signs of changed behavior and so many other things, even with an entire mods-only board to discuss exactly that type of thing, there's just so many factors to consider that among the things that gave me the most anxiety about being a global moderator, bans were definitely at the top of the list and I was terrified of screwing them up.

But anyway, the point being, that having been there, I realize precisely how difficult being a moderator and making these decisions are, how it's just so very much incredibly gray so many times and there are no easy answers and it's just a bunch of unpaid people trying their best to make due with something incredibly stressful and not having any type of instruction manual and just trying to do their best. I feel that so much, having been in that position once upon a time on a site that, god, I can't remember how many active users it had at that time, but it had to at least rival this if not exceed it.

But at the same time, the status quo certainly cannot stand.

Because it only leaves minority members such as transgender individuals with three options, which all suck:

1.) Be civil to their oppressors and just wait for the mods to ban them, which the staff does a good job of doing, but doesn't do anything to make up for the hurt caused by them in the meantime and also doesn't take away from how for how each one that's banned, two more seem to crawl out of nowhere, just making the whole approach incredibly frustrating, when it's certainly not being met in return with civility and doesn't seem to lead to many of the promised opportunities for learning and growth.

2.) Let some of our true feelings flow and basically, in, uh, less than polite language, tell them to get lost, which just leads to we ourselves getting banned.

3.) Doing nothing. Which is just the thing. Nothing. And by it's very nature, changes nothing. Leading to stuff like feelings of learned helplessness, feelings of not belonging or not being cared about, feelings of anxiety or depression, and so forth.

None of these are good options, but they seem to be the only three on the table.

And that's what I'm asking to change.

I don't know how. Like I said, I've been in the position of being a global moderator in the past. I don't envy it. That's part of why I left, so I know it's kind of hypocritical for someone like me to ask for answers I couldn't find and just ran away from.

But nonetheless, I suppose this isn't so much an appeal for my ban, but for the sake of the transgender community, among so many communities on the site, such as AsianEra and what they're dealing with in the Monster Hunter threads and such (like even with Capcom itself admitting fault while trying to pass the blame and the movie itself potentially being banned in China, still trying to deny the racism. And of course they get banned, which is great, but that doesn't change how much hurt those posts cause in the first place, especially since it's the same problem of basically playing whack-a-mole), that something needs to change.

I don't know what those answers are.

And I really have no right to ask the staff to figure out stuff that I couldn't and ran away from myself when I was a mod (for much lesser problems in my case, because it wasn't even anything like transphobia or stuff like that I was fearful over how long to ban people over, but just your run of the mill flamewars over people getting to angry and hostile over who the best character in the series is and stuff like that and attacking each other over having the "wrong" opinion, just stuff like that was too much with my social anxiety).

Nonetheless, while I don't have the answers, I know this can't be sustained. So I'm using the opportunity hear to ask the mods to do just that. Because while I don't have the answers, the status quo can't go on, that's for sure.

Thank you for your time, and have a wonderful day.

REAL NAME CENSORED

AKA ShironRedshift (and in the NarutoFan days aka Shiron and MeijinNoKori and IceMasterHitsugayaKun and Payaso Coronado along with a bunch of other names I've forgotten)

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And I'd like to append this. Just look at what in the world happened when the Night City Wire thread was unlocked:

Post after post thanking the person who made a mockery of transgender member's concerns, apparently planning the whole time to have the paragraph they wanted in the OP while at the same time not just saying that and letting hostilities rise for no reason.

That person is getting post after post of thanks with no mention of transgender member concerns whatsoever:

Cyberpunk 2077 Night City WIRE: Episode 5 |OT| Time moves in one direction, memory in another [Media Impressions, Console Footage & Discussion] OT
If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Cyberpunk 2077 Night City WIRE: Episode 5 |OT| Time moves in one direction, memory in another [Media Impressions, Console Footage & Discussion] OT
If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Cyberpunk 2077 Night City WIRE: Episode 5 |OT| Time moves in one direction, memory in another [Media Impressions, Console Footage & Discussion] OT
If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Cyberpunk 2077 Night City WIRE: Episode 5 |OT| Time moves in one direction, memory in another [Media Impressions, Console Footage & Discussion] OT
If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Cyberpunk 2077 Night City WIRE: Episode 5 |OT| Time moves in one direction, memory in another [Media Impressions, Console Footage & Discussion] OT
If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

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If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

etc.

These people are being "civil" but their civility is a direct insult to transgender members of the community, especially with no acknowledgment of what happened and how it affected transgender members, just "thanks" all the same.

And since that's "civil" that's apparently fine.

What in the world are transgender and other minority members supposed to do with that?

Like I said previously, it just feels like there's no winning move.

You try to be civil in return, you get dismissed as complaining over as nothing.

You get hostile, you yourself get banned.

Or you give into learned helplessness in some way or another.

This has to change.

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And this is all the more insulting when Black Chamber himself didn't even apologize and this was his first response:

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If the impressions are true, then the patches pre-release + day 1 should fix the bugs, and press normally gets access to special builds with these patches applied. In 2 years time, an unpatched (or day1) version of the game will look a mess compared to where we end up, it’s just the nature of...
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No acknowledgment of wrongdoing or any harm to the transgender community, just thanking people for supporting him for no fucking reason. While more "thanks" posts flood in:

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you can't sit in every chair or bench. Small touches that lend to imersion aren;t there apparently. Ah I see, thanks. Maybe one for a future patch but don’t see it knocking any pints off the MC
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Thank you for maintaining the thread and the discord despite everything that's been going on. I know it can't be easy to walk the line like you have been doing. And I'm glad you have maintained the idea that everyone is welcome for the OT. I think it's important that the thread is open for...
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Thank you for maintaining the thread and the discord despite everything that's been going on. I know it can't be easy to walk the line like you have been doing. And I'm glad you have maintained the idea that everyone is welcome for the OT. I think it's important that the thread is open for...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

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Thank you for maintaining the thread and the discord despite everything that's been going on. I know it can't be easy to walk the line like you have been doing. And I'm glad you have maintained the idea that everyone is welcome for the OT. I think it's important that the thread is open for...
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Like seriously. That's a fuckton of posts.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY THE FUCK MORE THAN THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY GOT!

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE POSTS IN SUPPORT OF THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY, THAT AREN'T COMING FROM THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY THEMSELVES?

Whereas people are just flooding into that thread, just flooding in to thank Black Chamber .

How is that supposed to make transgender members of the community feel appreciated, or safe, at all?

What message does that send?

Like seriously. Just think about this from the perspective of a transgender member.

The trans community is getting next to no support whereas person after person after person is flooding into to support Black Chamber in particular without even the slightest acknowledgment of what happened.

Part of the reason the OT was supposed to be allowed to be open was so that transgender members could address their concerns.

Even if they are indeed allowed to do that, they're clearly being ignored and falling on completely deaf ears.

If that isn't a demonstration of that, well, I can't think of anything that could possibly be more clear.

Whatever experiment the staff was trying with the Cyberpunk threads has been a complete failure that just allows people to be "civilly" disrespectful to transgender members of the community with no consequence, whereas there's nothing they can do about it.

That's not how things should be.

Not remotely close.

Again, whatever experiment was being tried is clearly a complete failure at this point, I don't see how one can draw any other conclusion in good faith.

I'm not sure what the answer is at this point, I'm not an answer person as I said, but if anything this has made me more convinced then ever that Cyberpunk should not be allowed any form of Review thread or OT thread WHATSOEVER, because after so many floods of posts like that, a complete deluge of posts, what's the point?

What does the staff expect to happen at this point?

Please, I'm not asking to be unbanned.

I'm asking for the staff to reconsider their policy on Cyberpunk getting an OT.

Because it's more clear than ever whatever experiment was being tried is a complete failure and is only driving members away.

So please, for the sake of the community, so people can feel safe, I'm begging you, honestly begging you, to reconsider.

No game is worth that.

Or at least no game should be.

Please, just put a stop to it.

Please.

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And it just continues to be a complete trainwreck, with so many members complaining about "dogpiling" while not giving a single fuck about the transgender community and how they're being harmed:

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ERA mods, you are not handling this at all well if you think this person is in any way capable of showing the respect and recognition that Trans ERA deserves. least surprising aspect of all of this (other than the future revelation that OP is on CDPR's payroll), moderation has been shocking and...
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ERA mods, you are not handling this at all well if you think this person is in any way capable of showing the respect and recognition that Trans ERA deserves. least surprising aspect of all of this (other than the future revelation that OP is on CDPR's payroll), moderation has been shocking and...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

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ERA mods, you are not handling this at all well if you think this person is in any way capable of showing the respect and recognition that Trans ERA deserves. least surprising aspect of all of this (other than the future revelation that OP is on CDPR's payroll), moderation has been shocking and...
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Not a word of concern for transgender members. It's all about dogpiling the poor, poor OP.

This is not sustainable. This does no one any good.

At this point, it's very clear that unfortunately it's between this game and the transgender community.

And I hope the staff does the right thing and picks the community, and tells anyone who has a problem with that to get lost.

But either way, this cannot last or be sustained. Things need to change because it's disgusting how the transgender community is being thrown under the bus for an OP the vast majority of people defending him of course don't actually know, but care about infinitely more than the transgender community, because ?

The experiment has failed, and something needs to change.

Please.

Please.

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To add one more thing to this, in addition to the whole subject of transphobia, I have to admit one more particular reason this bothers me is because of a particular mistake I made while I was a global mod/advisor of the NarutoFan forums.

While I was active there, one of the things that happened was legal Crunchyroll fansubs popped up for Naruto for the first time.

But of course not only that. At the same time, for lack of a better term, a "bootleg" group called BakaSubs I believe also popped up, whose whole thing was somehow managing to get access to Crunchyroll's fansubs before they actually went live, and releasing them early, through torrents and the like, while pretty much claiming them as their own work and getting internet fame off releasing other people's work, legal work, early.

Seeing this, I so badly wanted to bring up the idea of completely banning discussion/leaks to BakaSubs because fansubs were bad enough and still a thing at the time, but those were stolen official subs, and there was no reason for there to be links for them period instead of telling them to wait.

Moreover, because there were legal versions of subs, that is, Crunchryroll's actual stuff, I also pondered whether links to fansubs should be allowed at all.

Because yes, for most me, Crunchyroll's fansubs would be a week behind the Japanese release.

But it was still a legal way of watching the series, with no consequences.

So I so desperately wanted to bring up the discussion of banning not only links to BakaSubs, but banning links to Naruto fansubs in the Anime section period, as they were not only still obviously illegal but completely unnecessary and if someone can't wait one week, just one goddamn week, well, they can get fucked at that point, was my thought process.

But due to a combination of my social anxiety, being scared that I would be laughed out of the room, and knowing that even if the mod team somehow did agree with me and hear me out, Tazmo (the owner of both the forums and the main site at the time) would still have links to fansubs on the main site regardless gave me so much pause I never so much as actually broached the subject.

And this is all something that went down over 10 years ago at this point.

But I still regret not brining it up, because, well, of course, even bringing up the subject would have been a scary change from the status quo of weekly threads for that stuff and there's no way of knowing if I would have just been laughed out of the room, and even if I weren't, how such change would be received.

To put it in short, I know the thoughts going through my head were the right thing to do but my social anxiety and fear of change just made me do nothing and let problems like that continue to fester instead.

And my choice of inaction, not knowing what happens if I would have acted differently, if even if I hadn't fought against fansubs in general and the hard work put in the animation team, if I had at least stuck up for the hard work of the people working for Crunchyroll at the very least instead of passively letting thread after thread be made for BakaSubs each week instead and let them get credit for stealing their work just because they released it earlier...

It still haunts me from time to time, even all this time later, how things might be different had I at least opened my mouth and got a discussion going in the modroom.

The point of this whole diatribe?

I don't want anyone on the staff on the site to make the same type of mistakes I made, to potentially have the same regrets over inaction that I do even years after the fact. The wondering if they did the right thing or not. The wondering if they could have done something more.

Because that stuff doesn't go away, even years after you stop visiting a site like that.

At least it doesn't for me.

Because yeah, I can only speak to my personal case. But in that case, a decade later, those regrets and doubts and questions still linger.

And in my case, that's just over stuff about how we should handle a very particular type of illegal content on a fansite.

That ain't even touching on subjects like transphobia, attacks on people who they are as human beings which they have absolutely no control over. Something that has a very real affect on many members of the community's mental well being and sense of safety.

So yeah, the points of all that being, if I still have regrets over not speaking up over BakaSubs and perhaps fansubs in general on the fansite I moderated over a decade ago, I can't imagine how heavily some of the decisions that have to be made, one way or the one, are weighing on the staff right now, because if what I went through wasn't easy, I can't begin to imagine how the decisions on what to do or not do or whatever about this situation is

But the point being that whatever is decided, make sure it's something that you won't have any regrets over.

Because whether it's a decision I agree with or not, I don't want any of the staff to go through what I did and have regrets about doing the right thing or not, regrets about being silent when you should have spoken up, or anything like that.

Even if it's not what I and others want to hear, I want to make sure that whatever decision is made is one that will allow for no regrets, because doing otherwise just isn't worth it.

So please. I know you probably don't need to hear any of this from me, and might even find this condescending, and I don't blame you if so, but I suppose this is a case of me myself not wanting to have any further regrets than I already do and not wanting to repeat the mistakes I personally made in the past, and not speak up when I could have.

Because the only way to know how things will go is if you do indeed speak up. Nothing starts until then.

As one of my favorite video game quotes go,

"Elapsam semel occasionem non ipse potest Iuppiter reprehendere"

"Not even Jupiter can find a lost opportunity."

So please, whatever you do decide, don't let this be your own lost opportunity.

And that's all I want to say for now I guess.

Be well.

ShironRedshift.

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I just have to say, I'm furious about the latest developments with Black Chamber.

Why the fuck DO THEY GET TO SELF-REQUEST THEIR BAN?

WHY DID THE MOD TEAM NOT CHOOSE TO BAN THEM THEMSELVES?

AND WHY DID THEY SEEM TO SPECIFICALLY REQUEST THEIR BAN LENGTH AND TIME IN A WAY THAT WILL PRESUMABLY STILL LET THEM HAVE CONTROL OVER THE OT?

WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS ACCOMPLISH?

Like, you saw what happened earlier, when the thread was locked? Upon the thread being unlocked, they were immediately treated like a martyr just for the thread being locked:

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If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Cyberpunk 2077 Night City WIRE: Episode 5 |OT| Time moves in one direction, memory in another [Media Impressions, Console Footage & Discussion] OT
If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Cyberpunk 2077 Night City WIRE: Episode 5 |OT| Time moves in one direction, memory in another [Media Impressions, Console Footage & Discussion] OT
If some people are lacking the context, the original unfiltered back-and-forth is pretty straightforward and easy to follow. 👇 Speaking of the OT. Will there be a blurb in it welcoming the Trans community and while there maybe some questionable content regarding them, that they are wanted in...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

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Thank you for maintaining the thread and the discord despite everything that's been going on. I know it can't be easy to walk the line like you have been doing. And I'm glad you have maintained the idea that everyone is welcome for the OT. I think it's important that the thread is open for...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Like, seriously. THAT'S what happened just with a thread being temporarily locked.

If they're indeed the OT for the thread, what in the world do you think will happen if they are indeed the OP of the thread, especially considering the ban is apparently self-requested on the part of Black Chamber instead of being actual staff action.

They'll be hailed as a larger martyr even more so than ever when they come back.

This in no way helps the transgender community.

This is clearly Black Chamber seeing the hero's welcome they got for a thread being LOCKED for a tiny period of time for all things, and using that as a chance to get the same hero's welcome in a month's time.

This is something the mods should have done THEMSELVES, NOT VOLUNTARING IN A PERSON WHO'S ALEADY WRONGED THE TRANGENDER COMMUNITY'S ATTEMPT TO JUST MAKE THEMSELVES EVEN MORE OF A MARTYR.

And to put a cap on it all, if it was truly wrong what Black Chamber did, why did he have to volunteer to be banned?

Why did the staff not ban him of their own volition?

The staff might be oblivious to it, but after the reaction they got from a thread being locked of all things, it's just a very transparent attempt at making himself a martyr, and it's disgusting to see the staff go along with it instead of just banning him outright and remove OT privileges.

Like, seriously, if you ignore everything else, just look at the response Black Chamber got from a thread being LOCKED OF ALL THINGS.

Look at those posts I linked. Look at them.

And then take a second thought about why someone like that might want to suddenly take a self-ban, instead of, y'know, just being outright banned from the staff.

Whether it's intentional or not, you're walking into dangerous territory. And I can't say I'm a fan of that.

It might be well-intentioned on the part of the staff, but this is not the way this should be handled.

At all.

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Like seriously, this is beyond insane at this point.

By Android Sophia's own admittance:

CDPR is a transphobic company. It's time we stop making excuses for them.
These chuds and others like them spend their entire life day-in-day-out obsessing over us. Best not to pay them that much mind. Yup. Living rent-free in many places.
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Communications were held with Black Chamber to arrive at this "resolution" of sorts.

But were any communications at all, a single one, held with the transgender community over this, the very people he hurt?

Because it sure doesn't seem like there were any.

Why does he get to talk to staff and decide his own "punishment" of sorts?

Why were the transgender community not involved whatsoever?

And on top of that, like I said, just looking at how the thread reacted when it was reopened after briefly being locked and him getting a hero's welcome just for that of all things, how can you possibly think this is a good situation no matter how you slice it?

I was already disappointed with the staff over this, and I only get more and more so as this continues.

Because how is someone like myself, or the transgender community supposed to interpret this or read into this?

That you reached out to Black Chamber in private but had no communications with the transgender community whatsoever, no public ones or anything obvious anyway?

How is that supposed to be interpreted other than the staff caring more about Black Chamber / Cyberpunk more than the transgender community that this is apparently the way things went down?

Like I've said, I've just continued to get more and more disappointed in the staff in this goes on and this doesn't help.

Please, PLEASE reconsider what you're doing here.

Please consider why you reached out to Black Chamber but not the transgender community.

Please consider the hero's welcome Black Chamber got for a thread being locked for a few hours and think about what will happen when he comes back from a self-chosen ban after a month.

Please, please think all this through again.

Because even if this is being done with the best of intentions, regardless of what those intentions may be or how well they may be intentioned, this will not help things and only make things worse.

So please reconsider this approach.

For the sake of the transgender community, and the site as a whole.

Please.

Please.

Don't let things go like this. Nothing good will come of it. The reactions from the thread being locked already demonstrate that.

Please don't repeat what's already failed.

Please, please listen, even though as a currently banned member, I know I have no right to ask that and especially to keep hounding you with messages like this.

But regardless, the point being, no matter how good the intentions of the staff may be here, this will not end well and will not help so I beg for some reconsideration on this matter.

Please.

Please.

Thank you for your time.

ShironRedshift"
 

Great post, read every word of it.

+1

just want to say i've started reading this post and will reply to specific paragraphs at a later date.

quick update: almost done reading the post. please like and subscribe so I can reach the finish line and provide the kind of great content that you, my fans, love.

You could have at least left a like for my work copying and pasting that entire thing.

my bad, i'll get to that right after I'm finished reading the quoted post, and this post below:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cdpr-is-a-transphobic-company-its-time-we-stop-making-excuses-for-them.307474/post-53426071

What's going on y'all,

What an absolute utter shitshow. I got caught up and quite simply, I'm not surprised. Not the least bit in regards to how this further broke down entirely. Im know some of you feel hurt and you shouldn't have had to deal with all the anxiety and trolling thats been going on in the past 48Hrs. Idk how much Im able to contribute in regards to advice but having dealt with this type of internet animosity before I wanted to share some experience Ive gained and hopefully that can possibly help us all get past this and back to enjoying your browsing time on the site



- Make a Discord and hunker down

I know you have a TransERA Community thread and Im unaware if you all have made a discord in conjunction to it. I highly suggest doing so as it will allow you all to consolidate your community and protect yourselves further from extraneous animosity. You all are well aware of the more visible posters who represent your community so start there and start working your way out. Start with the people that actually post in your Community OT or even this thread and do whatever you need to do to keep that circle tight. Sometimes its tough to question an account that nobody is familiar with and not wanting be exclusionary but you have to be vigilant against the "troll spies" who look to document and post on other sites. Your peace of mind is worth more than that. Rely on the users you know you can trust and allow newer unfamiliar users to build that trust. A good way of doing that is maybe having a policy where you must be present in the TransOT for a certain amount of time before graduating to the Discord. After a while you will build a solid coalition of posters who can support each other and you'll only be more stronger for it


- Open a dialogue with the ERA mods

This is the hardest suggestion to make right now because the wounds are fresh as hell and I can feel the anger behind the situation. I was in the exact same place once before and angry with how moderation was set up but over time I was able to realize that they don't want to see the site in this manner either and the last thing they would want is shit breaking down because it would make their efforts pointless. simply put, the mods fucked up with this. Ill say it again, the mods fucked up. And it doesn't help with there being a history of this leading up to the current silly shit going on. Allow them to take the steps to repair the damage, allow them to prove to y'all that they are willing and able to foster a better community so the bullshit doesn't happen again. It looks like Kyuuji does have that line of contact and that should be a hard established link moving forward. I saw Android Sophia post about how heartbroken she was over this not only being a mod but also a member of your community and thats the exact person you need to establish your bridge. Every community on ERA should have a mod representative of that community. Remember the Discord? Sophia should be a part of that and the you'll have line of direct contact if you were to have any questions or spitball ideas about how you all can move forward. I know right now its tough to try to establish that trust, I totally understand that. I don't expect that to come back today, tommorrow, or next Tuesday. But what you all should know is that you do have support on the other side and people advocating for your success. Bring them closer and push them to represent your needs.


- Don't take visits to Pissbaby Land and ChudWorld

Its a symptom of palace intrigue and you'll feel inclined just by pure curiosity to take a look at what the pissbabys are up to. Its not worth it. I tell you from experience. I even went with my own name and they were so fucking dumb they didn't even believe it was me. Theres nothing there for you, and you'll just be subjecting yourself to their whining and written filth they spew. Your mental health is worth more than that. Don't bring their filth to ERA threads because quite simply, they aren't worth an ounce of your time or energy. Not a speck of it. Whats the smallest molecule of matter? A Quark? They aren't worth a fucking quark of your energy. These are miserable fucking people who virtually have nothing going for them but these video games and the culture it breeds. Their bullshit president is out (even he's losing his fucking mind), More and more people speak out against their bullshit, and the world continues to become more and more diverse, Along with the gaming community that they want to hide away in because they can't handle reality. They are raging, throwing anything against the wall to make something stick. Thats how pathetic they are. Don't entertain that. Combat them here, let them come to you and embarrass themselves to get that one post off before a perm. Let them waste their time with VPNS and sign up processes. This is a long haul, and while things are a lil hectic over on this side, look where the hell they are, failing websites and hate holes where they endlessly cry about another website they stalk daily. How fucking sad.


- Don't Give Up

The only possible goal that chuds could possibly organize for is to cause you strife. Everything they do is for the purpose of making you feel small, but none of you are small. Quite the opposite, you'll have some of the biggest hearts on the planet and that equals power. Thats why it pained me to see some of you lend so much good faith to obvious shitbirds that try to mess you. There was times I was ready to walk from the site, but what really kept me was thinking about all the people who don't have accounts, who read these boards and see these messages of support. Thats worth it to me, if it can make someone who feels alone in the world find comfort that there are others willing to fight for them.

All the nerds love Demons Souls right? Theres a quote from that game that I ended up loving a lot ironically

"You have a heart of gold, don't let them take it from you"

Thats so true its crazy. Defend yourselves fiercely and boldly. Defend your identity. Defend your love. Thats your birthright. You are allowed to be happy, You are allowed to love yourself, and you are allowed to fight for that. Ill get in a lil trouble here cuz it might square with ERA's hostility clause, but you are not entitled to give ANYONE who doesn't respect you ANY respect in return. Respect is earned, not granted. And there are quite a few topics that simply are NOT up for discussion. Your safety and livelihood is one of them. When the chads come JAQing off in threads, they don't deserve benefit of the doubt with no work. Its quite honestly a tell sign of someone trying to thread the needle of civility and antagonization. Clearly with the current events, we've seen just how damn effective it can be and you can combat that just by being vigilant.

Here's a way to look at it. Like a teacher and a student with a math problem.

If the student comes to the teacher and says "I can't sove this problem" and show them a blank paper, well..... you didn't even try. You usually get a 0 for that. Theres a wealth of resources on this web to educate ones self or get a primer before looking for outside assistance.

However, if that student shows the teacher a paper full of math work, even thought the answer may be wrong, we can see exactly what steps were taken and where the student may have went wrong or what specific part they don't understand. They showed effort. They showed faith in themselves to try to understand an issue without being spooned the answer. That student always gets credit. Because student showed effort.

Let people show you effort before you indulge them. And if they rebuke what is being told to them immediately after they just inquired about it, thats another tell, a frankly common one


Anyway lemme not drone on and on but I felt it would be worth sharing this knowledge with you all. Things will get better, just stay frosty. Remain vigilant and most importantly, protect your peace. That has value, all of you have value. Id press a button and delete every video game on earth if it meant transpeople could finally live in acceptance and peace (Losing Animal crossing would suck but its a no brainer lol😂)

Holla at me if you me, PM or Discord, Ill always have your back, and Ima keep reading and staying up on whats going on here. Much love

i have to confess something

this is really embarrassing but you, my fans, need to know the truth.

i thought I was done reading both quotes in full

but as I was writing my response

i realized that i had them mixed up halfway through

so i'll need to start over again

i'm really sorry

but please smash that like button to get me across this finish line once again

nudemac, make sure to include this in your readings:

Hoo boy. Ok, I have a bad memory but... Well, on Friday in the Cyberpunk Live Wire |OT|, user Beth-Cyra asked the future Cyberpunk OT creator Black Chamber if he could include a paragraph talking about the trans issues. Instead of saying yes or no, he responded with "everyone is welcome 💯 " Then refused to answer anyone else who asked this. Only answering a joke post with "Everyone is welcome 💯 ". Naturally, this upset a lot of trans folk who kept on asking this basic yes or no question. Apparently a lot of users decided that trans era was bullying Black Chamber for...not answerng a question and started to attack trans era for it. Eventually, mods locked both that thread and Kyuuji's thread...and took Black Chamber's side. Saying that they were "dissapointed" in TransEra and even saying that they were cyberbullies for it.

When both threads were opened, everyone who was excited for Cyberpunk started celebrating Black Chamber like a goddamn hero for...not answering transera and Black Chamber took all the praise and subtle jabs at TransEra. TransEra got (rightly) upset by this and many left and requested self-bans and requested Black Chamber actually, you know, stop this. Mods, again, sided with Black Chamber and started harshly banning anyone who criticized him. Then IceMonk revealed a PM he sent to Kyuuji where he accused her of "derailing his thread" and other barely concealed transphobia and told him to fuck off after repetaedly dodging basic questions. Mods, AGAIN, sided with Black Chamber and banned IceMonk. Meanwhile, Black Chamber lied about the context and tried to pant Kyuuji like a villain. Apparently Black Chamber was such a charmer that mods were convinced he was in the right and Black Chamber "Gracefully" accepted a 1 month ban...after his precious precious OT was created.

TransEra, after this, was incredibly upset, and rightfully so. Some started to go into his past resetera history and found he had a history of "anti-sjw rhetoric". And THEN someone went into his twitter bio...and found that he was an alt-right MAGA shitheel. Apparently (I wasn't on this discord) people confronted him on his Cyberpunk discord and after dodging the question said he was being prosecuted and fled to GAF. All of this, btw, while posters were now openly calling transera cyerbullies, hate campaigners, and other nasty things and running on twitter to spread the word of the evil trans folk daring to rob people of their precious Cyberpunk game. Mods then locked all the threads and FINALLY banned Black Chamber and he fled to "the other site" where he has since said stuff like "they chose trans lives over innocent lives" and other blatantly transphobic stuff. We are currently in the aftermath of that. We then learned that because Black Chamber was so polite, mods repeatedly gave him second chances and refused to believe he was bad because he was civil until the MAGA stuff made it imposssible to ignore.

So now, Black Chamber has succeeded in creating a narrative that TransEra are bullies of the highest order for daring to criticize his precious video game that many Era members fell for hook line and sinker. The TransEra community has been deeply hurt by this with many members have left thanks to this debacle, trust in the mods have sunk again, and we have a smaller OT than the "GRAND STORY" Black Chamber was hyping up.

So...yeah...shit happened. If someone more involved in this wants to correct me I'm down for that but I believe I covered most of the basics.

[Joe Molotov]

Completely unsurprising that the early impressions we're seeing validate the concern that there's no grounding or justification for the repeat transphobia, and fetishization, of trans people in the game, and from CDPR up until release.

Used as a promo tool to help shift sales outside of the game. Used as set dressing to add to a vapid and juvenile world with little to say inside the game.

Not only a massive waste of potential considering the setting and the reach, but actively harmful toward trans people as another piece of transphobic media that will be put into the minds of millions. As the pre-release Polygon article mentioned, it's hard not to think of what the potential was were CDPR not concerned with appealing to some of the worst parts of the gaming community.

It's so disgusting, I almost uninstalled my preload!

[benjipwns]

I am really starting to wonder what kind of company CDPR is. Between the transphobia, the twitter snark, and then this? Are they a far right company and we are just now starting to realize?

[Joe Molotov]

Did Shinobi get banned? I'm not reading through 10 pages of this shit.

[benjipwns]

Of course not.

[ShutUp]

The continued display of just flat out not knowing what the cyberpunk genre actually is remains incredible. Fetishizing people? In a cyberpunk game? No. It can't be.

I look forward to them scouring Twitch streams praying to find a single person who is playing the game and actually making fun of the trans community so it can validate these delusional scenarios they've cooked up.

[ShutUp]

I am really starting to wonder what kind of company CDPR is. Between the transphobia, the twitter snark, and then this? Are they a far right company and we are just now starting to realize?

Epileptic triggers. The latest entry into the CDPR Nazi manual 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/messofanego/status/1336071239803211780

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/DBot5000/status/1336074805800480768
https://twitter.com/GreenSaber84/status/1336075377723183105

[close]

https://twitter.com/shinobi602/status/1336042652391845890

[Joe Molotov]

Of course not.

Well then why are there 10 pages!?

[BIONIC]

Of course not.

Well then why are there 10 pages!?

Because we hate ourselves, and have nothing better to do with our lives.

[benjipwns]

Well then why are there 10 pages!?

You know why.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cyberpunk-2077-ot-welcome-to-night-city-read-the-op-before-you-post.340270/page-7#post-53450317

Seriously, this OT needs to be renamed to "Trans Rights Matter. WARNING: This game might kill you"

Like wtf