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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #900 on: January 29, 2020, 02:52:15 AM »
I love this! They’re each insulting the other by calling them “ignorant” and “privileged!” This is the most ResetEra post ever!

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« Reply #901 on: January 29, 2020, 02:59:59 AM »
All those emotes.  Tread softly because you tread on my heros.


Except James.  What a creeper
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« Reply #902 on: January 29, 2020, 03:22:50 AM »
I was a member on a forum dedicated to doing the Policenauts translation, i remember spoony was there too. There was a stupid uproar over Jonathan's line 'i'd eat anything off that ass' as well. People are fucking insane.

Which side of the debate were you on?
have i ever shied away from eating ass?  :delicious

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« Reply #903 on: January 29, 2020, 03:28:44 AM »
All those emotes.  Tread softly because you tread on my heros.

Not the hero we need, but the one we deserve :expert
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« Reply #905 on: January 29, 2020, 06:29:27 AM »
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Most people are not smart. That or they're far too preoccupied with trying to balance and maintain their lives.

re posters are best posters?

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« Reply #906 on: January 29, 2020, 06:32:30 AM »

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« Reply #907 on: January 29, 2020, 07:04:59 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/maryland-cop-charged-with-murder-after-he-shot-an-unarmed-man-7-times-while-he-had-him-handcuffed-inside-his-cruiser.167308/

Thread title likely gets engine revving.

Oh shit, the mugshot.

Nevermind, let's find a way to spin this.

Era reads title "FINALLY SOMEONE GOT CHARGED! ACAB"
Open thread see's tweet "ANOTHER BLACK MAN IN JAIL"
reaction "OF COURSE THE BLACK OFFICER GETS CHARGED GOD DAMN WHITES"

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« Reply #908 on: January 29, 2020, 07:50:49 AM »
https://twitter.com/ReeraTakes/status/1222000560246861824

Hardcore gaming 101 seems like he sucks.

The reset thread about this is a graveyard:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/translations-for-goemon-2-3-sequels-to-legend-of-the-mystical-ninja-have-finally-been-released.166598/page-7

I was wondering what a forum typically uninterested in anything other than moronic smash DLC speculation and AAA Sony exclusives was doing with a 7 page thread about fucking Goemon on SNES

There's folks complaining in a few of their discords about how folks aren't being "woke enough" because "cheeseburger being a slur should be super important!" when they ran a damn fan translator off.

Pour one out for the sad fuckers in the "Don't y'all forget Kobe was a rapist!" thread as it wallows on page 3 whilst people continue to post about all the amazing things he did in the other thread.

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You seem really bothered by folks thinking Kobe is a rapist. Like, this is your fiftieth (exaggerating) post about it. It's ok, dude. Let it go.
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #909 on: January 29, 2020, 08:06:19 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/guardian-oped-the-power-of-celibacy-giving-up-sex-was-a-massive-relief.167195/page-4#post-28655345

Quote from: Rhomega, post: 28655345, member: 1442
I'm a 34 year old virgin, and I'm passing. I have better things to do with my time, like watch movies, play games, and check up on Era.

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« Reply #910 on: January 29, 2020, 08:09:11 AM »
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« Reply #911 on: January 29, 2020, 08:10:53 AM »
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Hmmm
So, most of the times cops get away with murder. Let’s see what the difference is this time..

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This guy definitely deserves it...I just wonder if he would get charged if he was white tho...

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I’m glad he’s being charged but it certainly seems like there’s one sad differentiating factor between this and all the other stories of police murdering people with no repercussions.

But wait, the facts start to emerge...

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This story was all over the local news (DC area).

At first, they tried to say the suspect was on PCP, but then his family did some interviews and that sounded unlikely.

Also this cop apparently has a history and has shot folks before so he had less 'benefit of the doubt' already.

Nah fam, let's double down on the race angle huh? Only got charged cause he's black y'all!

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boy I wonder why he was actually charged unlike other cops


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Fucking unhinged.
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« Reply #912 on: January 29, 2020, 08:30:07 AM »
I'm not a pokemon
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« Reply #913 on: January 29, 2020, 08:39:35 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/maryland-cop-charged-with-murder-after-he-shot-an-unarmed-man-7-times-while-he-had-him-handcuffed-inside-his-cruiser.167308/

Thread title likely gets engine revving.

Oh shit, the mugshot.

Nevermind, let's find a way to spin this.

I like that a link was posted showing that white cops were less likely to shoot minorities than non-white cops, and then the follow-up to that was the assumption that a white cop would’ve double-murdered the victim and then framed it as a suicide.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, reset posters. Stop fighting racism with racism.

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« Reply #914 on: January 29, 2020, 08:39:57 AM »
Slayven with the :brain  take.

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This happened yesterday and he is already charged? Damn
Of course he's been charged already. It's a pretty obvious case of murder you fucking mentally challenged hamster.

Looks like the full brains trust is out today. Neopetenthe leaning in even more than Slayven

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We want all homicidal cops charged. It's just that it's also another expression of the racist system that the one that gets charged in a day, no questions asked, also belongs of the same racial class that is routinely murdered by such cops in the first place.

The whole system needs to rot.


Just a reminder that both of these morons are mods.
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« Reply #915 on: January 29, 2020, 08:57:01 AM »
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Hmmm
So, most of the times cops get away with murder. Let’s see what the difference is this time..

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This guy definitely deserves it...I just wonder if he would get charged if he was white tho...

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I’m glad he’s being charged but it certainly seems like there’s one sad differentiating factor between this and all the other stories of police murdering people with no repercussions.

But wait, the facts start to emerge...

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This story was all over the local news (DC area).

At first, they tried to say the suspect was on PCP, but then his family did some interviews and that sounded unlikely.

Also this cop apparently has a history and has shot folks before so he had less 'benefit of the doubt' already.

Nah fam, let's double down on the race angle huh? Only got charged cause he's black y'all!

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boy I wonder why he was actually charged unlike other cops


 :gamergate


Fucking unhinged.
Are they saying a white officer would not be charged if he fired seven rounds into an unarmed man handcuffed inside a police cruiser?

Maybe in Missouri.


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« Reply #916 on: January 29, 2020, 08:59:11 AM »
The absolute smoothness of their brains

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« Reply #917 on: January 29, 2020, 08:59:23 AM »
no questions asked, says nepenthe  :neogaf
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« Reply #919 on: January 29, 2020, 09:26:02 AM »
The translator Tom issue got me heated, Tom rules. I tried my best to call em out, esp the weirdos who keep saying DDS has a history. Based on what?

"Uhhh i dont remember the specifics" the fuck lmao

Interesting that most people playing this translation will be pirating the games since I can’t imagine there’s many people on here owning a Japanese only released game. Is piracy somehow allowed when it’s for old games on old systems? Or do we just pretend everyone has a legit game that they purchased and rom dumped?
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« Reply #920 on: January 29, 2020, 09:27:57 AM »
I'm not a pokemon

That's true you're a nonce.

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« Reply #921 on: January 29, 2020, 09:40:01 AM »
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All Tom did was translate a slur into a slur. Newhalf IS a slur. Due to human error, Tom's translation ended up being more offensive than the original text, but the original text WAS offensive, do not forget that. I give Tom the benefit of the doubt when he says he didn't realize how much more offensive the t-slur was than newhalf.

People are criticizing Tom for being defensive. But why would he not be defensive? The outrage mob is at his throat, demonizing him and treating him like trash. I know most of you here don't act like that, but keep in mind what twitter is like. I'm not surprised he's chosen to withdraw himself from the platform.
User Banned (2 weeks): Antagonizing Other Users Over a Serious Topic
https://www.resetera.com/threads/translations-for-goemon-2-3-sequels-to-legend-of-the-mystical-ninja-have-finally-been-released.166598/post-28611245

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« Reply #922 on: January 29, 2020, 09:53:21 AM »
as a self-professed expert in this field I can tell you exactly what prompted this ban

you see it is use of the phrase
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outrage mob

this is what is commonly known as a dog whistle which is when someone stuffs their hands in their pockets and starts whistling in an attempt to act natural but cannot disguise the fact that they are a dog
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« Reply #923 on: January 29, 2020, 09:59:29 AM »


everyone is so friendly  :-[
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« Reply #924 on: January 29, 2020, 10:58:17 AM »
its by no means ree exclusive, but someone getting a dig in at a banned user is an extra soft move  :badass
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« Reply #925 on: January 29, 2020, 11:05:37 AM »
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Goemon 3 ended up being longer than I expected.
Goemon 2 was a little more than two hours, but I ended up spending almost six with Goemon 3.

Eternally greatful to the translator.
wow look at this gloating Nazi

Mods help!
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« Reply #926 on: January 29, 2020, 11:10:39 AM »
https://twitter.com/ReeraTakes/status/1222000560246861824

Hardcore gaming 101 seems like he sucks.

Anaea pulled something similar once with that Xseed dude that was hyper no censorship (a little before he went to a deep end). I think she used Hardcore Gaming 101 to spread the BS, also.

I feel most circles of fan and pro translators are made from scumbags, a lot of drama involving companies and fan circles.

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« Reply #927 on: January 29, 2020, 11:27:27 AM »
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Goemon 3 ended up being longer than I expected.
Goemon 2 was a little more than two hours, but I ended up spending almost six with Goemon 3.

Eternally greatful to the translator.
wow look at this gloating Nazi

Mods help!

Mods are already helping in that thread.  ???
https://www.resetera.com/threads/translations-for-goemon-2-3-sequels-to-legend-of-the-mystical-ninja-have-finally-been-released.166598/page-7#post-28621086
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« Reply #928 on: January 29, 2020, 11:35:17 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-a-fracking-ban-doom-democrats-in-pennsylvania-ny-mag.167322/#post-28652645
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It's not like the renewable energy industry can use them or anything.
600,000 Pennsylvania oil and gas jobs (inflated number probably) won't be replaced by jobs in the renewable energy industry.

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« Reply #929 on: January 29, 2020, 12:55:35 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-a-fracking-ban-doom-democrats-in-pennsylvania-ny-mag.167322/#post-28652645
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It's not like the renewable energy industry can use them or anything.
600,000 Pennsylvania oil and gas jobs (inflated number probably) won't be replaced by jobs in the renewable energy industry.

A lot of stupidity in that thread, especially the person quoting salary numbers, as if that shows the full picture. For a community so committed to a progressive identity about tolerance and being as woke as humanly possible, they sure are quick to shit on those that work jobs like this and are in these income and social brackets.

They have a long track record of being intolerant/unsympathetic to poor and/or rural white people, even though the majority of REE posters are in extremely privileged positions compared to your average coal miner.  You're not going to see many of those people spending hours a day on a gaming forum debating what pronouns to use.

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« Reply #930 on: January 29, 2020, 01:06:56 PM »
There's an easy trick the establishment hasn't thought about.
Just limit voting rights, to people who have jobs and pay taxes.

Problem solved, The establishment always wins.
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« Reply #931 on: January 29, 2020, 01:15:00 PM »
There's an easy trick the establishment hasn't thought about.
Just limit voting rights, to people who have jobs and pay taxes.

Problem solved, The establishment always wins.

They don't teach the French Revolution in the Netherlands?

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« Reply #932 on: January 29, 2020, 01:25:19 PM »
There's an easy trick the establishment hasn't thought about.
Just limit voting rights, to people who have jobs and pay taxes.

Problem solved, The establishment always wins.

They don't teach in the Netherlands?
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« Reply #933 on: January 29, 2020, 01:26:48 PM »
yeah something tells me the hate for the rural people is more of a spiteful revenge on grandpa or uncle joe who REFUSES to respect my pronouns which is a HATE CRIME :maf

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« Reply #934 on: January 29, 2020, 01:44:48 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-a-fracking-ban-doom-democrats-in-pennsylvania-ny-mag.167322/page-2#post-28661702
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Government bans a potentially permanently damaging practice at the expense of hundreds of thousands of jobs? Won't someone think of these poor boomers.

Do they know what boomers are? The youngest boomers are 55/56. Only 20% of US jobs in "mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction" are done by boomers, most of whom will retire shortly anyway. The losses would disproportionately hurt Generation Xers and Millennials.

edit: the median age for the industry is lower than the overall median age for employed persons.

The oil and gas industry exists because the state has extensive fossil energy resources. What would be the draw for the renewable energy industry? There isn't one, which is why there are only 9,200 renewable energy jobs in the state (source e2.org). That's less than 2% of the US total.

Note: This was not an endorsement of fracking.

edit 2: The article from the thread links to the e2.org study I mentioned. It exaggerates the number of "clean jobs" by including 68,820 energy efficiency jobs, including 14,286 in energy star and lighting, 19,008 in traditional HVAC, etc. These jobs would be there regardless of the source of electricity.
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« Reply #935 on: January 29, 2020, 01:57:24 PM »
Ok boomer
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« Reply #936 on: January 29, 2020, 01:59:16 PM »
There's an easy trick the establishment hasn't thought about.
Just limit voting rights, to people who have jobs and pay taxes.

Problem solved, The establishment always wins.

They don't teach the French Revolution in the Netherlands?
They didn't have drones and all the other technology we have today.
Nor did they have corporations and media conglomerates backing them up.
They took away everything from those 'folks' but forgot to take away the voting rights.

Talking about France. The fire fighters are fighting the riot police because their pensions are being stolen by Macron and his banker cronies.
Most outlets barely cover it, if at all. Well, Russia Today maybe. They love to report on riots in the EU. Who do you think those people will vote for in the next election, pro-tip: probably not Macron.

You can either have France run by Le Pen or you can easily solve the problem so Macron stays in power. With some riots maybe on occasion, sure.
At some point you have to ask yourself. What would you rather have, the Trump's, Bolsonaro's and Boris's winning or the neo-liberal order surviving?
So far the neo-liberals have opted for the former because they think they can negotiate with them and their policies are more aligned economically (with Trump this seems to be somewhat working).

I mean, how do you even begin to fight nonsense like this?
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1222570722469564417
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« Reply #937 on: January 29, 2020, 02:01:40 PM »
I would like to see my penis in origami form. I've shown my dick to a few people here - they're gone now. Permanently
Makes it kind of sound as if your dick is like Ark of the Covenant.


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« Reply #938 on: January 29, 2020, 02:02:38 PM »
I would like to see my penis in origami form. I've shown my dick to a few people here - they're gone now. Permanently
Makes it kind of sound as if your dick is like Ark of the Covenant.

Molotov is still here, it's not that ugly

There is no such thing as an ugly dick :bolo


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« Reply #939 on: January 29, 2020, 02:18:10 PM »
Rapist :rkelly
Rapist :kobeyuck
Rapist :trumps
Rapist :money

Sexual harasser  :badass
Sexual harasser  :oreilly

Dates underage high schoolers  :whatsthedeal

Pedo :jared
Pedo :expert

Pedo Libertarian :paul
Pedo james :pika

We really don’t have the best track record with emotes :doge

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« Reply #940 on: January 29, 2020, 02:22:15 PM »
its by no means ree exclusive, but someone getting a dig in at a banned user is an extra soft move  :badass

thats the kind of punk ass lil bitch move I'd expect Kapala Joe to pull

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« Reply #941 on: January 29, 2020, 02:30:15 PM »
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User Banned (Duration Pending): Excusing a Transphobic Slur; Prior Severe Infractions
This is awesome, I've always wanted to try these. The N64 Goemon games are some of my all time favourites.
Shame on everyone dogpiling the dude on twitter over this though. I'm sure he could have picked a better word to use but can people please not try to "cancel" everyone who makes dumb/uninformed decisions? I hope he doesn't leave the scene for good over this, he does such good work.
Looks like you've been... cancelled.  8)

Read your reply in an AHNULD voice.
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« Reply #942 on: January 29, 2020, 03:00:25 PM »
But he didn't even 'excuse' the slur.  What the hell?  He even said it was a dumb decision but he hopes that he isn't whisked away from the scene because of it.  Where's the excusal?  Is the only non-excuse to just say, "I hope he's done translating games" ?

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« Reply #944 on: January 29, 2020, 03:05:12 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/city-people-what-do-you-think-when-you-hear-rural-area.167329/page-2

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Racism, sexism and MAGA.


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Rednecks and racists.


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MAGA hat wearing homophobic, racist, Bible thumping, close- minded rednecks.

These are reasonable people.
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« Reply #946 on: January 29, 2020, 03:11:39 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/city-people-what-do-you-think-when-you-hear-rural-area.167329/page-2

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Racism, sexism and MAGA.


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Rednecks and racists.


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MAGA hat wearing homophobic, racist, Bible thumping, close- minded rednecks.

These are reasonable people.

I love how a lot of replies are "boring" or nothing to do" when the vast majority of that site does nothing but post on REE, play games, watch movies, etc.  Small towns have the internet too, dumbass.

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« Reply #947 on: January 29, 2020, 03:20:00 PM »
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Rural areas in the US are fucking dire. I always think of hicks, bigots, deer hunting, long drives to get anything you want/need.

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« Reply #948 on: January 29, 2020, 03:22:54 PM »
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Bigotry.

At least that was my experience the first 20 years of my life in rural America.
This.

I just moved back home after being away for 15 years and the amount of casual racism (and Trump 2020) stickers I see on a daily basis makes me want to hurl.

Can't wait to get out of this shit hole where civilization goes to die.

Don't ever go to Susanville, Ca.
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Goddamn, that is super north.
Yep, and the people here are salty as fuck about it. Constant bitching about California, or Democrats, or anything that doesn't fit their narrow, myopic backwards ass world view.

It's like they can't realize it's an insignificant town propped up by two state prisons that has slowly been dying for the past 30 years. It contributes nothing to the state. It's a cultural dead spot that is a blight on an otherwise beautiful area.

I so can't wait until I can leave again.
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And I thought Berry Creek was bad. GTFO man.
Working on it.

It's just hard with no money. I can't afford a place in Reno or Chico.

Hopefully by this summer I'll be able to get back on my feet and my fiancée (who is in South Dakota) and I can get a place in Reno.

This time last year i was newly engaged and living happily in Minneapolis.

I miss civilization.
can confirm that someone there is salty as fuck

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« Reply #949 on: January 29, 2020, 03:24:28 PM »
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Rural itself is an interesting spectrum.

Like, in the northeast where I live, rural has different connotations than in the midwest or down south, I think. Out of curiosity I just Googled this and found:
According to the Census Bureau, 61.1 percent of Vermont's population lived in rural areas in 2010. In 2000, Vermont was the most rural state at 61.8 percent and Maine was second at 59.8 percent.
I just looked up a new census report and it seems to be the same in 2016.

But when people think rural, they don't think of New England, I don't think. I live in New England and when you say "rural" the first thing I think of is Kansas. So what rural is and what it looks like is not the same across the country at all.

New England rural isn't characterized by wide open spaces or poverty so much as isolation. Houses are far apart on multi-acre lots. Roads will have miles of forest on either side. There is not a strong corporate presence in your town either because there is no business for it or because your town has ordinances against it. The place I grew up in, for example, only allowed a single fast food restaurant in the entirety of the town. There is usually only one of everything (one grocery store, one school, etc). There is almost no traffic and almost never a wait for anything - except the DMV. Walking anywhere is not an option. Things are not necessarily a long drive, but it takes 10 minutes to drive somewhere versus hours to walk there and back with no sidewalks. People's cars are much more utilitarian because they have to get through the winter and survive long commutes. There are a lot of contractors who work locally in jobs like construction, landscaping, etc. But a lot of people don't work in town because there's no place to work unless you run your own business, so you drive 40 minutes to work every day.

Culturally, there's a lot of an "everyone knows everyone" kind of energy. Some people have lived in the town, or near the town, their whole lives. So they know everyone's names and everyone's families and their family history and stuff. "That's Dougie, Susie's cousin. He just got out of jail," or "Mary from the hardware store just beat her cancer." This is more the older people - who've been there for decades - than the younger people. A lot of younger people leave after high school to go to college or get jobs somewhere else so there's a high rate of exodus. There's definitely racists and people rigid in their notions of traditionalism but they don't run the town. You notice them more because there are fewer people but they don't necessarily define the area. Vermont and Maine are both predominantly blue states and this is not limited to the urban centers. However, there are definitely pockets of super conservative towns that have become this way over decades of progressive people leaving for more a comfortable environment.

Education is usually fine except for a lot of locals not being college educated. People's health is usually fine other than having an older population by average. There's way more pick-up trucks. People wear a lot of similar clothes (work boots, baseball hats, hoodies). People are usually very environmental and dislike developments, pollution, or corporations owning land. The town is governed by favoritism and nepotism and people bolstering their own friends and families so it's very hard to succeed at anything without knowing the right people. Crime is usually low but cops are basically just groups of high school guys who thought carrying a gun would be cool. Every time you get pulled over it's some jocky bonehead you went to high school with who used to make animal noises in shop class.

People usually strongly object to change. When I was growing up, a local restaurant (family owned, super popular) took down their wooden sign and put up a digital one. It was such a controversy. People said it was ruining the aesthetic of the town, that it made them not want to eat there anymore, people mused about breaking it with a rock, etc. People got over it and then all the other businesses that had wanted to updated digital marquees updated their signage too. Now it's common for businesses to have digital signage and nobody cares. So while there is usually a big objection to change when it's introduced, it just happens anyway and people get over it. Older people will lament that something got torn down to build a gas station or that certain businesses aren't around anymore but none of these towns successfully resist change. They just whine about it.

Folks are generally pretty nice to people from their area, even if they're an uncommon demographic. People are mostly friends with the ethnic minorities who run businesses, they're mostly respectful to the women who work in male-dominated labor industries, they have no objections to the lesbian couple they always see at the farmer's market. If you're local, it's no big deal. They might treat you like a bit of a novelty but it's at least rooted in affection rather than hate. They will patronize you and defend you and respect you as a resident. Prejudice is much more rooted in being perceived as an outside influence and then all bets are off and the real bigotry comes out. "The Somalians are ruining this town," "I remember when men were men," "go back to New York." Not everyone is like this but it's definitely tolerated more than it should be.

There is definitely a sort of libertarian vibe to a lot of people in rural New England, but not in the literal sense. They just prefer to be left alone. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you. If you stay off their land, they'll stay off yours. If you don't insult their family, they won't insult yours. This sort of predictable frame of mind makes the social cues pretty easy to navigate. It's easy to avoid trouble but it's also easy to cause trouble. Just remember "mind your own business" and "what's mine is mine, what's yours is yours". Not to endorse that way of thinking, that's just the status quo.

I guess that's how I'd summarize New England rural as someone who has lived here their whole lives. I live in a small developing city now but things are still very far apart and walking anywhere is absolutely not an option.

And yet, despite living in these places, they aren't what I think of when I think of rural. When I think of rural. I guess the "racist redneck" stereotype wins more in my mind than my own actual life experience. This is interesting to reflect on.

Edit: Punctuation and stuff.

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« Reply #950 on: January 29, 2020, 03:26:49 PM »
I am legally obligated by the Koch Brothers to draw emphasis to this part of that:
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There is definitely a sort of libertarian vibe to a lot of people in rural New England, but not in the literal sense. They just prefer to be left alone. If you don't bother them, they won't bother you. If you stay off their land, they'll stay off yours. If you don't insult their family, they won't insult yours. This sort of predictable frame of mind makes the social cues pretty easy to navigate. It's easy to avoid trouble but it's also easy to cause trouble. Just remember "mind your own business" and "what's mine is mine, what's yours is yours". Not to endorse that way of thinking, that's just the status quo.

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« Reply #951 on: January 29, 2020, 03:36:13 PM »
I think he just means "not in a capital L philosophy sense"
that's even worse :rage

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« Reply #952 on: January 29, 2020, 03:41:20 PM »
:ohyeah byuu the accurate emulator man
FACT CHECK: byuu is non-binary

just going by the headline of the article he wrote about himself in 2011  :doge

unless this is an incredible hexidecimal joke  :doge
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« Reply #953 on: January 29, 2020, 03:42:41 PM »
What if I told you this was a mostly accurate Gore Vidal quote: "Bill Clinton tapped into America's libertarian streak of live and let live."
I'd quibble with the accuracy of whether or not Clinton did that entirely but he is using the term correctly and then I'd warn him that if he called me a crypto-nazi one more time I'd sock him in his goddamn face.

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« Reply #954 on: January 29, 2020, 03:45:10 PM »
just going by the headline of the article he wrote about himself in 2011  :doge

unless this is an incredible hexidecimal joke  :doge
He's since had a mental breakdown over whether or not he was accomplishing anything with the projects, announced he was non-binary and a furry, spent all his time on Twitter talking about being a non-binary furry until he was completely depressed and then finally got back into programming and started acting normal again.

He's even updating higan again now when that was what caused his breakdown.

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« Reply #955 on: January 29, 2020, 03:52:05 PM »
just going by the headline of the article he wrote about himself in 2011  :doge

unless this is an incredible hexidecimal joke  :doge
He's since had a mental breakdown over whether or not he was accomplishing anything with the projects, announced he was non-binary and a furry, spent all his time on Twitter talking about being a non-binary furry until he was completely depressed and then finally got back into programming and started acting normal again.

He's even updating higan again now when that was what caused his breakdown.

working with a lot of hexidecimal numbers which is certainly a great deal distant from binary  :lol

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« Reply #956 on: January 29, 2020, 03:52:09 PM »
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Honestly? Trump/Republicans/Racists. Obviously that isn't always true and is unfair to a lot of good people, but that's what I think of when I hear rural now. There is no longer any sort of pastoral beauty in my head.
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One thing I don’t miss whenever I get home from visiting my sister out in the sticks is the miasma of masculinity and the constant need to demonstrate it that’s prevalent in rural areas.
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Racism, dirt roads, poorly maintained roads, lots of empty land, clear and beautiful skies at night, quiet, lack of police presence, guns, confederate flags, payday loans, way more churches than schools.

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« Reply #957 on: January 29, 2020, 03:54:38 PM »
I busy myself with lavish displays of femininity
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #958 on: January 29, 2020, 04:05:25 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/city-people-what-do-you-think-when-you-hear-rural-area.167329/page-2

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Racism, sexism and MAGA.


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Rednecks and racists.


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MAGA hat wearing homophobic, racist, Bible thumping, close- minded rednecks.

These are reasonable people.

I love how a lot of replies are "boring" or nothing to do" when the vast majority of that site does nothing but post on REE, play games, watch movies, etc.  Small towns have the internet too, dumbass.

Quiet, little-to-no traffic, more house for the price...man.  I wish I could live in a rural area.   :P
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #959 on: January 29, 2020, 04:07:36 PM »
So people in rural New England are libertarians without the pedophilia?

Without?
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