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

[Pissy F Benny]

MGS5 should have been the greatest game of all time, fuck you konami cheapskates

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

MGSV still has VA-VA-VA-VA-VA-VA-VA-VAGINA BOMB! tho

[Pissy F Benny]

that was ground zeroes m8

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Just because Konami realised they could sucker thirsty kojima fan boys into paying £20 for a demo / prologue chapter doesn't mean I'm going to concede that's a seperate game

[BisMarckie]

The viddy titty thread... They're just going in circles... They're still talking about Quiet 6 years later...

 

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[close]

DSP looking a lot better, living his best life

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-160#post-68684806

Quiet was so embarrassing that I was afraid my husband would walk in on one of her helicopter scenes.

I warned my wife ahead of time and she still gave me shit about it (and I don't blame her one bit)

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-160#post-68684806

Quiet was so embarrassing that I was afraid my husband would walk in on one of her helicopter scenes.

I warned my wife ahead of time and she still gave me shit about it (and I don't blame her one bit)

(funny that posting "My wife has no issue with Quiet and actually likes her" would get you banned)

[HardcoreRetro]

Should've modded the scene to this superior version.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-160#post-68684806

Quiet was so embarrassing that I was afraid my husband would walk in on one of her helicopter scenes.

I warned my wife ahead of time and she still gave me shit about it (and I don't blame her one bit)

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(funny that posting "My wife has no issue with Quiet and actually likes her" would get you banned)

“Your wife should make an account and speak for herself you patriarchal scum.”

*Wife makes account and speaks for herself*

User Banned (Permanent): For being a bitch with internalized misogyny; account in junior phase

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/each-passing-year-shows-more-and-more-that-ps-home-was-way-ahead-of-its-time.451282/

With more and more gaming leaning into cross promotion and guest spots. Plus with streaming being popular, just shows PS Home was already doing what the industry was progressing to.

quality thread would read again

The only reason I remember Home is that it came out in that period when the PS3 was really struggling and the Sony fans on GAF were particularly keen to defend the hive and hail anything as mind-blowing innovation that was going to change the world.

[Potato]

So Morrigan was Varg all along.

(Image removed from quote.)

Varg is a much hotter chick than Morrigan will ever be

[BadAss2961]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/post-68670613

We should start the discussion by talking about why is sexualization bad. Is it?
In my opinion, that sexualization is something bad is a social construction, just as the idea of sex itself being bad. We have fought during decades for sexual liberalization and bow it seems we are walking backwards.
Summarizing: I dont see sexualization as something bad. I just see it has been forced to be considered like something bad. Think about it.

This discussion has been running for 3.5 years, you aren’t starting anything. Perhaps try reading the OP and re-reading the thread title as you’ve missed the entire context by a country mile.

Yeah. Had he been following the discussion for the last 3.5 years, he'd probably know not to interrupt since half the users in that thread have their dick in their hand.

Okay, it’s page one hundred and sixty…finally time to start the discussion

Close to realizing that no one in the thread actually discusses anything? It's a huge circle jerk

Imagine not posting for over a year and then dropping this lukewarm take lol

Correctly identifies the take as lukewarm, doesn't realize how absurd it is to ban someone for a lukewarm take

Just realized they actually gave him a perm for that post. lol

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/met-my-sleep-paralysis-demon-for-the-first-time-last-night.451414/
 :nepenthe

[paprikastaude]

Also why doesn't Samus have the physique of Conan or He-Man???

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-dread-announced-for-nintendo-switch-coming-october-8th-2021-gameplay-at-threadmarks.442639/page-118

[HaughtyFrank]

Also why doesn't Samus have the physique of Conan or He-Man???

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-dread-announced-for-nintendo-switch-coming-october-8th-2021-gameplay-at-threadmarks.442639/page-118

Why are they even so eager to turn Samus into a meathead when the whole point of the suit she's wearing is that you wouldn't need to be super buff?

It's like casting The Rock as Iron Man

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/two-namibian-sprinters-banned-from-olympics-400-meter-event-due-to-the-same-testosterone-rule-that-blocked-caster-semenya.451372/

Am I not understanding this? Aren't these bans the result of the same studies on trans athletes that Era trots out and are considered absolute, unquestionable truth in other threads? 

[Straight Edge]

read an article about this topic a few days ago:

By conflating gender and sex, I would argue we fudge the very reason we have sex categories in sport: the male performance advantage. Without a separate category for females, there would be no women in Olympic finals. Even in the 100m, one of the events with the smallest performance gap, approximately 10,000 men worldwide have personal bests faster than the current Olympic female champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah (10.70sec). And it’s not just track and field. While the smallest attainment gap between the sexes comes in running, rowing and swimming events (11-13%), this moves up to 16%-22% in track cycling, and between 29% and 34% when it comes to bowling cricket balls and weightlifting. The difference in punch power between men and women is a whopping 162%. Not, then, to be sniffed at. But the International Olympic Committee tweaked its guidelines in 2015 to allow athletes such as Hubbard to compete in the women’s category, provided their total testosterone level in serum is kept below 10 nanomoles per litre for at least 12 months. Transgender men face no restrictions in the male category for obvious reasons.
Increasingly, however, research is showing that these testosterone guidelines do not guarantee the “fair competition” the IOC was hoping for. Ross Tucker, a sports scientist and expert on testosterone advantage in sport, succinctly sums it up: “Lowering of testosterone is almost completely ineffective in taking away the biological differences between males and females.” There is just no proof that reducing testosterone takes away the advantage of muscle mass, strength, lean body mass, muscle size or bone density. Despite this new evidence from Drs Emma Hilton and Tommy Lundberg, the IOC has put off any further decisions making until after Tokyo and left it up to individual sports federations to decide their own transgender policies.
The most common argument used in favour of inclusion is that sport is all about natural advantage and that being a trans woman is just another factor to add to the list alongside Michael Phelps’s size 14 feet and double-jointed ankles. The problem with this argument is that we don’t compete according to foot-size, but we do protect the integrity of women’s sport because the advantage gained from male puberty is so comprehensive in terms of speed, power, strength and so much else. Phelps’s feet gave him an advantage as a swimmer; male puberty gave him a much bigger advantage across the board. At the Beijing Olympics, he won the 200m freestyle in 1.42.96, breaking the world record. Federica Pellegrini broke the women’s world record at the same distance, finishing in 1.54.82 – a time that wouldn’t have got her into the men’s semi-finals. It wasn’t internalised misogyny slowing her down.
But above all, there needs to be a realisation that you can’t always have it all. Just as women and trans men can’t dominate in men’s sports; and men can’t enter women’s sport; trans women shouldn’t be able to push open a door that was locked for a reason. It isn’t fair.

 

[HaughtyFrank]

read an article about this topic a few days ago:

By conflating gender and sex, I would argue we fudge the very reason we have sex categories in sport: the male performance advantage. Without a separate category for females, there would be no women in Olympic finals. Even in the 100m, one of the events with the smallest performance gap, approximately 10,000 men worldwide have personal bests faster than the current Olympic female champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah (10.70sec). And it’s not just track and field. While the smallest attainment gap between the sexes comes in running, rowing and swimming events (11-13%), this moves up to 16%-22% in track cycling, and between 29% and 34% when it comes to bowling cricket balls and weightlifting. The difference in punch power between men and women is a whopping 162%. Not, then, to be sniffed at. But the International Olympic Committee tweaked its guidelines in 2015 to allow athletes such as Hubbard to compete in the women’s category, provided their total testosterone level in serum is kept below 10 nanomoles per litre for at least 12 months. Transgender men face no restrictions in the male category for obvious reasons.
Increasingly, however, research is showing that these testosterone guidelines do not guarantee the “fair competition” the IOC was hoping for. Ross Tucker, a sports scientist and expert on testosterone advantage in sport, succinctly sums it up: “Lowering of testosterone is almost completely ineffective in taking away the biological differences between males and females.” There is just no proof that reducing testosterone takes away the advantage of muscle mass, strength, lean body mass, muscle size or bone density. Despite this new evidence from Drs Emma Hilton and Tommy Lundberg, the IOC has put off any further decisions making until after Tokyo and left it up to individual sports federations to decide their own transgender policies.
The most common argument used in favour of inclusion is that sport is all about natural advantage and that being a trans woman is just another factor to add to the list alongside Michael Phelps’s size 14 feet and double-jointed ankles. The problem with this argument is that we don’t compete according to foot-size, but we do protect the integrity of women’s sport because the advantage gained from male puberty is so comprehensive in terms of speed, power, strength and so much else. Phelps’s feet gave him an advantage as a swimmer; male puberty gave him a much bigger advantage across the board. At the Beijing Olympics, he won the 200m freestyle in 1.42.96, breaking the world record. Federica Pellegrini broke the women’s world record at the same distance, finishing in 1.54.82 – a time that wouldn’t have got her into the men’s semi-finals. It wasn’t internalised misogyny slowing her down.
But above all, there needs to be a realisation that you can’t always have it all. Just as women and trans men can’t dominate in men’s sports; and men can’t enter women’s sport; trans women shouldn’t be able to push open a door that was locked for a reason. It isn’t fair.

 

Trying to be slick quoting an "article" written by "journalists" from the well known tabloid "the guardian"

[benjipwns]

The Guardian is a well known alt-right rag associated with anti-trans regular Tucker Carlson guest Glenn Greenwald.

edit:

Worth noting the Guardian is very much part of the UK TERF brigade. It routinely publishes articles attacking trans women specifically. So much so that the American branch of the guardian wrote a public letter attacking the main UK paper for its transphobia.

On anything to do with trans issues I would be extremely, *extremely* sceptical to say the least.

Meanwhile the sports scientist quoted by the TERF rag you cited is out there retweeting Maya Forstater:

This all going beyond the fact that the current rise in transphobia and moral panic has been directly tied to right-wing efforts and radicalisation

THANK 👏 YOU 👏

[paprikastaude]

Also why doesn't Samus have the physique of Conan or He-Man???

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-dread-announced-for-nintendo-switch-coming-october-8th-2021-gameplay-at-threadmarks.442639/page-118

Why are they even so eager to turn Samus into a meathead when the whole point of the suit she's wearing is that you wouldn't need to be super buff?

It's like casting The Rock as Iron Man

Wait, this series already had a non-sexualized woman protagonist for 30 years?  WELLL but why isn't Samus a transgender person in a wheelchair?!? Check mate, nazis.

I don't think a single other forum turned their official Metroid 5 thread into a woke contest. They literally can't live without slacktivism.

[Averon]

As the industry conforms more and more to their wishes on how to present female characters, they need to dig further and further towards the bottom of the barrel to keep that same outrage energy up. Notice how the thread now mainly bitches about Japaneses weeb games, which they had to scale back bitching about because they were sounding hilariously racist to Asians; obscure games that sell less than 250,000 copies in the West, if it is even brought over to be localized; and mainstream games where women dare show a little bit of skin (A woman showing bare thighs?!? Fucking patriarchy/male gaze!). Their problem is that all of the low hanging fruit is gone in the West, but they want to still be just as outraged as they were 6-7 years ago. In trying to justify that outrage, they sound and act more and more puritanical and authoritarian in the process, as well as aiming at more and more niche targets like Japanese weeb games or niche mobile games.

[Nintex]

  

ResetEra has been an inviting bonfire at the crossroads of the gaming industry. Our goal is to provide a modern platform where enthusiasts and industry professionals alike will want to talk about all kinds of video games

[Potato]

Also why doesn't Samus have the physique of Conan or He-Man???

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-dread-announced-for-nintendo-switch-coming-october-8th-2021-gameplay-at-threadmarks.442639/page-118

Can't be a strong woman™ if you don't have the musculature of a male body builder...

[Don Rumata]

Imagine a gender-neutral, weight-class-neutral MMA of the future.

2.30m man against a 1.60m woman weighing as much as his leg. DING! DING! DING! fight!
 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-nxivm-member-sarah-edmondson-says-she-believes-allison-mack-regrets-her-role-in-sex-cult.451462/#post-68718046

When attractive consenting white people treat each other like shit in a private club for rich white people, it’s a cult?

As someone raised in an actual cult that abused minors, destroyed the fabric of my family and generations of finances, I gotta say “nah”.

These are over privileged assholes desperately trying to reframe their shitty adult decisions. They wanted to pay a steep social price to be part of an exclusive club, and that’s exactly what they did. Until it sucked.

LOL cult. Like Kali brainwashed you. Get fucked.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Unless you're Inuit, you shouldn't have a username with "Eskimo" in it.

[Straight Edge]

Imagine a gender-neutral, weight-class-neutral MMA of the future.

2.30m man against a 1.60m woman weighing as much as his leg. DING! DING! DING! fight!
 

As the Andy Kaufman of my time, I will get in the ring and fight any transman.

[Lonewulfeus]

I love that the rebuttal is entirely conjecture that we’re to take as absolute fact.

Most measures of physical strength minimize, muscle mass decreases, bone density decreases, and they become fairly comparable to women in their musculature. After as much time as has passed in her case, if tested, she would probably end up in the same muscle mass category as her biologically born female counterpart.

Most, fairly, and would probably doing a ton of heavy lifting here.  Do we know for a fact that this is the case?  If not why don’t we?  Seems simple enough to study and could put this whole issue to bed.

Though even in this rebuttal they admit that there could be some lingering physical benefit to having gone through puberty as a male or else most would be all.

[Potato]

Imagine a gender-neutral, weight-class-neutral MMA of the future.

2.30m man against a 1.60m woman weighing as much as his leg. DING! DING! DING! fight!
 

We don't need to wait. Just put Morrigan in the Octagon with NepNep and see what happens.

[benjipwns]

Coming soon to ResetERA.com?

https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1410996781677043713

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scott-the-woz-has-reportedly-finally-removed-accused-rapist-relaxalax-from-his-collab-video-and-unfollowed-him-on-social-media.451567/

[benjipwns]

It's been over a fucking month.

After several prominent YouTubers called him out over this.

[Rahxephon91]

I mean...

Quiet is a crappy character.

[Boredfrom]

Imagine a gender-neutral, weight-class-neutral MMA of the future.

2.30m man against a 1.60m woman weighing as much as his leg. DING! DING! DING! fight!
 

We don't need to wait. Just put Morrigan in the Octagon with NepNep and see what happens.

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1572761-fallon-fox-and-the-culture-of-ignorance-within-mma

Compare that picture of Fallon Fox with this one:

https://www.si.com/mma/2013/05/24/fallon-fox-transgender-allanna-jones.

I think they even photoshopped her head bigger in the first.

[Switters]

Imagine a gender-neutral, weight-class-neutral MMA of the future.

2.30m man against a 1.60m woman weighing as much as his leg. DING! DING! DING! fight!
 

We don't need to wait. Just put Morrigan in the Octagon with NepNep and see what happens.

Morrigan would get her frumpy ass beat while wearing an XL dimmu borgir sleeveless t-shirt and jean shorts. #TEAMNEP

[Potato]

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1572761-fallon-fox-and-the-culture-of-ignorance-within-mma

Compare that picture of Fallon Fox with this one:

https://www.si.com/mma/2013/05/24/fallon-fox-transgender-allanna-jones.

I think they even photoshopped her head bigger in the first.

Nah, it's the same size

[tiesto]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/each-passing-year-shows-more-and-more-that-ps-home-was-way-ahead-of-its-time.451282/

With more and more gaming leaning into cross promotion and guest spots. Plus with streaming being popular, just shows PS Home was already doing what the industry was progressing to.

quality thread would read again

The only reason I remember Home is that it came out in that period when the PS3 was really struggling and the Sony fans on GAF were particularly keen to defend the hive and hail anything as mind-blowing innovation that was going to change the world.

(Image removed from quote.)

Heh, I completely blanked PS Home out of my mind until earlier today when I was playing Astro's Playroom and got a trophy for standing under the PS Home logo
Man, those early days of the PS3 were -rough-... Sony stans going crazy over the most mediocre exclusives (what was that game where you play as a dragon again?) and niche feature-sets, while Xbox 360 and Wii were thriving with quality titles. Things definitely improved for the PS3 (while the 360 and Wii fell off hard) at that generation's midpoint though.

[Snoopycat_]

Today Ree is being all coy n shit about the sites they visit


https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-websites-excluding-social-networks-do-yall-frequent-on-a-regular-basis.451630/

No underage cartoons or weird furry porn sites. Really Ree?

 

[Nintex]

Today Ree is being all coy n shit about the sites they visit


https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-websites-excluding-social-networks-do-yall-frequent-on-a-regular-basis.451630/

No underage cartoons or weird furry porn sites. Really Ree?

 

I guess you haven't found the cartoon furry section on The Verge

But really what a boring af thread

[Snoopycat_]

I guess they spend most of their time searching Reddit/Twitter for things to get upset about, or drawings to jerk off on

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/each-passing-year-shows-more-and-more-that-ps-home-was-way-ahead-of-its-time.451282/

With more and more gaming leaning into cross promotion and guest spots. Plus with streaming being popular, just shows PS Home was already doing what the industry was progressing to.

quality thread would read again

The only reason I remember Home is that it came out in that period when the PS3 was really struggling and the Sony fans on GAF were particularly keen to defend the hive and hail anything as mind-blowing innovation that was going to change the world.

(Image removed from quote.)

Heh, I completely blanked PS Home out of my mind until earlier today when I was playing Astro's Playroom and got a trophy for standing under the PS Home logo
Man, those early days of the PS3 were -rough-... Sony stans going crazy over the most mediocre exclusives (what was that game where you play as a dragon again?) and niche feature-sets, while Xbox 360 and Wii were thriving with quality titles. Things definitely improved for the PS3 (while the 360 and Wii fell off hard) at that generation's midpoint though.

Lair. But they also pinned their hopes on such classics as Haze and Heavenly Sword. The meltdowns when they came out to mediocre reviews or another big franchise went multiplatform sustained me 

[Pissy F Benny]

haze was the shit bro

gaming must not be a religion to you

[Nintex]

HAZE was definitely the HALO killer we've all been waiting for

[Snoopycat_]

Escapist streams without Yahtzee

 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/research-says-your-ability-to-bulls-may-be-a-sign-of-intelligence.451591/#post-68728516

This tracks. I've been bullshitting my way through life for 36 years.  I once wrote an entire essay in college that was just three pages of me explaining why the assignment I was given was stupid and a waste of time and got an A for it.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

And then the crowd applauded, and that teachers name? Albert einstein

[Pissy F Benny]

who do their fake stories always make them sound like psychos

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shacarri-richardson-will-miss-olympic-100-after-marijuana-test.451249/

This thread is fucking WILD.

• Banning weed, a substance banned in the vast majority of the world and banned by an international committee is 'stupid', so it shouldn't even count as rule breaking
• Its specifically targetting black people, like the T score testing is, even though all drugs tests are done blind and the only reason T testing occurs was to accomodate trans athletes
• Shacarri is a homophobe because she doesnt like Lil Nas X, although shes lesbian. Also, here is a 7 year old tweet saying 'if you wear pink y'all gay' from her 15 year old self.
• Yeah, okay, although regular fucking drug testing is literally part of the job, and she knew its against the rules, and got caught and thats fair enough, her mom had died, so you shouldn't hold peoples actions against them when they're in a state of shock or grief (amirite Liam Neeson?)

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shacarri-richardson-will-miss-olympic-100-after-marijuana-test.451249/

This thread is fucking WILD.

• Banning weed, a substance banned in the vast majority of the world and banned by an international committee is 'stupid', so it shouldn't even count as rule breaking
• Its specifically targetting black people, like the T score testing is, even though all drugs tests are done blind and the only reason T testing occurs was to accomodate trans athletes
• Shacarri is a homophobe because she doesnt like Lil Nas X, although shes lesbian. Also, here is a 7 year old tweet saying 'if you wear pink y'all gay' from her 15 year old self.
• Yeah, okay, although regular fucking drug testing is literally part of the job, and she knew its against the rules, and got caught and thats fair enough, her mom had died, so you shouldn't hold peoples actions against them when they're in a state of shock or grief (amirite Liam Neeson?)

This post was even getting black posters telling them to maybe rein it in a bit:

White people will always come in last if the playing field is leveled.

Very happy to see them squirm when superior athleticism steps onto the field.

[Straight Edge]

“Black people have extra bones that make them more athletic ”
Stormfront or Resetera?

[Mostima]

At no point did I mention genetics. Superior athleticism comes from years of just having to be better in order to be seen or be given an opportunity to be given an opportunity.

Fastest dude I know is white so you may be onto something…

Would have been better to mention decades of controlled systemic oppression making our lives harder and others easier for no reason other than we are colored differently. It’s pretty exhausting and to have them start labeling our women “intersex” when they’re not simply because they’ve beating records at a young age. No matter how smart we play, the house will always win.

 He's squirming so hard, afraid he'll get banned

[headwalk]

Today Ree is being all coy n shit about the sites they visit


https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-websites-excluding-social-networks-do-yall-frequent-on-a-regular-basis.451630/

No underage cartoons or weird furry porn sites. Really Ree?

 

even taking into account ree's bent, that thread is a pretty good illustration of how small the internet is nowadays.

make that thread 15 years ago and there'd be all kinds of weird stuff on there.

[clothedmacuser]

The Guardian is a well known alt-right rag associated with anti-trans regular Tucker Carlson guest Glenn Greenwald.

edit:

Worth noting the Guardian is very much part of the UK TERF brigade. It routinely publishes articles attacking trans women specifically. So much so that the American branch of the guardian wrote a public letter attacking the main UK paper for its transphobia.

On anything to do with trans issues I would be extremely, *extremely* sceptical to say the least.

Meanwhile the sports scientist quoted by the TERF rag you cited is out there retweeting Maya Forstater:

This all going beyond the fact that the current rise in transphobia and moral panic has been directly tied to right-wing efforts and radicalisation

THANK 👏 YOU 👏

Maybe we should all chip in and buy Kyuuji a Guardian subscription so she can review it and make sure it's safe. And then she can never get back to us on how pure it is.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shacarri-richardson-will-miss-olympic-100-after-marijuana-test.451249/

This thread is fucking WILD.

• Banning weed, a substance banned in the vast majority of the world and banned by an international committee is 'stupid', so it shouldn't even count as rule breaking

I mean, banning weed was stupid to begin with.

[Kurt Russell]

I mean, banning weed was stupid to begin with.

If I ignored every law or rule I thought was stupid, I wouldn't pay taxes. Nang.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-99#post-68696809

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm getting kind of tired of searching the forum on google and seeing the old place show up on the right side of the screen, in that box pulled from wikipedia.
I don't think we should have any more association with that place, and a simple ticket with google support should be enough to clear this.

[Propagandhim]

(Google) mods, halp!!!!

[Lonewulfeus]

Why are you searching on google for a forum you regularly visit?

Googled thebore and here’s what we got…

This is a person whose conversation is so dull, you would rather watch paint dry for an hour than listen to them for a minute.

Oof, us annihilated.

[Boredfrom]

I mean, banning weed was stupid to begin with.

If I ignored every law or rule I thought was stupid, I wouldn't pay taxes. Nang.

No ignoring the rule, just saying that is stupid and not worth defending at basis of “other countries also dislike it” given how involved the US was in the “war on drugs” shitshow to begin with. Of course, that is very different from excusing the athlete.

(All of this I’m saying in the sense of “recreational drug” not as a doping substance).