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

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

My final thought, is extreme classism better than casual racism?

I guess if you're gonna have prejudice, money based prejudice is the least worst as its the most mutable

[Uncle]

I think riotous is a cynic. I would leak the shit out of any information if I had some just for the hell of it, and I certainly don't care about cred.

"i would totally risk my entire career by leaking shit i'm not supposed to leak - just for the hell of it", says the guy without a job

I used to steal shit from my old work all the time for the hell of it, if that helps.

And I have a job, it's just not a "job" job

let's just say that i don't believe that if you got a job in comedy you'd leak the scripts to the show in advance just for the hell of it

the equivalent to leaking an upcoming game announcement is leaking the fact that chapelle has a new special coming that no one knew about

the kind of leakers we're talking about don't drop the actual content of the game

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

They rebooted the Nintendo direct speculation thread a few hours ago and it already has 1700+ posts. I don't understand what there is to talk about

whining that they don't have any new releases and arguing over so called insiders lol

I generally don't comment on this stuff just because I feel like it's impossible to not come across as just sour grapes whining that we aren't running the show anymore, but if there's like any one thing I would point to as a criticism of things being worse than how we handled it, it would be when they allowed a 24/7/365 Nintendo Direct speculation thread to not only exist, but exist as not even a buried community thread. It's an absolutely garbage thread premise that feeds on itself to exacerbate the situation. There's this constant ebb and flow in terms of whether the insiders are heroes are villains and their importance and vilification is fueled by this dumbass hype thread that they have let live. People are hyped about getting hyped about getting hyped. There's no actual, productive purpose to this thread other than people had fun once in a leadup to a Direct and now it's a meta thing where people are more into game hype than games themselves.

I'm pretty sure its allowed because one of the previous ones is the only organically fun threads the sites ever had

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

resetera has probably done more to hurt the left than cth

I dunno to what extent era has any actual influence to people not on era, but some of the shit they come out with is basically indistinguishable from some shit I would expect a right wing super pac / think tank to come up with to run as a negative fear mongering campaign

[Uncle]

[Steve Youngblood]

They rebooted the Nintendo direct speculation thread a few hours ago and it already has 1700+ posts. I don't understand what there is to talk about

whining that they don't have any new releases and arguing over so called insiders lol

I generally don't comment on this stuff just because I feel like it's impossible to not come across as just sour grapes whining that we aren't running the show anymore, but if there's like any one thing I would point to as a criticism of things being worse than how we handled it, it would be when they allowed a 24/7/365 Nintendo Direct speculation thread to not only exist, but exist as not even a buried community thread. It's an absolutely garbage thread premise that feeds on itself to exacerbate the situation. There's this constant ebb and flow in terms of whether the insiders are heroes are villains and their importance and vilification is fueled by this dumbass hype thread that they have let live. People are hyped about getting hyped about getting hyped. There's no actual, productive purpose to this thread other than people had fun once in a leadup to a Direct and now it's a meta thing where people are more into game hype than games themselves.

You badly wanting to "NoFunAllowed" a Resetera thread is kinda killing me lol

Haha. I'm just saying of all the things that have transpired in the last three years that have made the internet completely miserable and me not at all upset about not being a forum janitor in these awful times, the one thing that I'll break silence on and unabashedly weigh in on is that we were absolutely right to try to stamp out fanboyism as much as possible. There's lots of things where I'm happy to let bygones be bygones and not try to re-litigate the past. As it pertains to modern incarnations of ResetEra or NeoGAF it's their show and I'm elated to not be a part of it.

But this!? We were right and they are wrong. The hype threads are bad and obfuscate the ease of which one can cut through the nonsense and find actual vetted news/credible rumors.

[headwalk]

the main problem with those threads on ree and pre meltdown neogaf is that the crusade for moral unambiguity spills out all over the place. the same kind of righteous sanctimony that drives political threads gets transposed into threads about the most inane bollocks.

fanboy wars has always been heated going back to snes shitters trying to justify their lack of blast processing, but it becoming wrapped up in the puritannical moral grandstanding hellscape of internet 2015+ has meant that everything must have a right and a wrong and if you're wrong, you might aswell be a nazi.

[Joe Molotov]

I like when they get hyped up for something that Nintendo said wasn't happening because maybe Nintendo just wanted to save it for a surprise.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-bella-thorne-becomes-first-to-earn-1-million-in-a-day-on-onlyfans.274994/

[Transhuman]

She is a pretty lady, why not her

[Joe Molotov]

Reported Transhuman for Boys Club rhetoric.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

She is a pretty lady, why not her

For that kind of cash for whats apparently an FHM / Maxim level shoot, I'd assume it would be someone ultra famous, not just one of the Disney channel production line

[Transhuman]

I imagine the age range of people who use onlyfans and the age range of people whe know who she is are fairly close

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I've come to terms. We're not even two full weeks in, and I've already been exposed to a positive case with several more awaiting test results. I love my kids, and I can't just sit back 6+ feet from them when they need help. Every fiber of me wants to help a student in need. It's the reason I took this job. I can't help but wonder what will be the toll in all this. Sending my thoughts and prayers to my fellow teachers out there.

Tagged as "news"

[Crumb]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-starts-inviting-people-for-ps5-pre-orders-via-e-mail-only-us-so-far-registrations-open.275066/

Notice me Daddy Sony.

[VomKriege]

Still the best. Just the name, no fancy drawing.

"No drawing"


"Hurr durr weird logo looks like anus "
intensifies

[demi]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-starts-inviting-people-for-ps5-pre-orders-via-e-mail-only-us-so-far-registrations-open.275066/

Notice me Daddy Sony.

waiting for my free xbox series x personally



#buygamepass
#ad
#gamepass
#xbox
#influencer

[samir]

You have to check people's Instagram followers to truly judge fame these days.

She has 50% more followers than Giselle Bundchen who would be far more known in the mainstream..   fame is weird these days because you can be insanely monetizable before what you'd consider "mainstream fame."

I'm sure part of it is people imagining her still as a teenager though;  all the Disney/Nickeleon girls leaned into "sex sells" at 18 and I'd assume a good chunk of the success there are the pedos latching on to a fantasy.

Maybe if you're a boomer   

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-bella-thorne-becomes-first-to-earn-1-million-in-a-day-on-onlyfans.274994/#post-43586840
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Damn y'all wanna see a skinny white boy at all?

Fit people are attractive. Lol at the idea of being in good shape making a woman a boy.

I'm trying to gauge interest in my own only fans, but ok.

[VomKriege]

I think there's a bigger meta-story about the polling and horse races. The fact that Nate Silver and such have to go to such extreme lengths (adding absurd amounts of uncertainty, punishing Biden for the lack of a convention bounce) to make the election look like it is a horse race in any way tells you that it's really not.

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

For a $30 million a month payout I'm expecting Taylor Swift bukkake or something

[benjipwns]

I like when they get hyped up for something that Nintendo said wasn't happening because maybe Nintendo just wanted to save it for a surprise.

Nintendo left it out of their financial reports and then didn't announce it so as to not spoil the surprise!

[BrokenVerses]

I think there's a bigger meta-story about the polling and horse races. The fact that Nate Silver and such have to go to such extreme lengths (adding absurd amounts of uncertainty, punishing Biden for the lack of a convention bounce) to make the election look like it is a horse race in any way tells you that it's really not.

 

Could have been copy-pasted from 2016 PoliGAF. They will never learn.

[benjipwns]

We routinely banned insiders for getting shit wrong.

No wonder they all fled the hostile NeoGAF.com That Steve Youngblood Built for the loving home of ResetERA.com which allows anyone to embrace their inner insider.

[benjipwns]

make the election look like it is a horse race in any way tells you that it's really not.

This person is making an accurate criticism but not in the way they intended. "Horse race" coverage is wrong not because an idiot like this can confuse it for "close race" but because it implies that a candidate can win by getting to election day faster. But it's against FEC rules to time travel therefore any candidate who did so would be disqualified. Look it up lieberals.

[Boredfrom]

Sage, there is still a lot of racism in Latinoamerica that people here try to deflect saying “is not like from US”. The racism here is mostly passive aggressive and “just joking but not really kind”. While minorities here tend to have a way less US centric view on race there is still a ton of issues that people prefer to ignore or brush off.

While I’m glad there is no the hypersensitive racial panic like in the US, the shitty thing is that actual racism is generally brushed off as a ‘non-problem’. So people here still make cringe racial jokes about a Afro Mexican singer or treat indigenous people as second class citizens.

That is true.  All asians are called Chinese or chino/chinita.  The casual racism from what I've seen is the casual racist banter you can pull with friends.  As in, "you dumb mick," or, "I thought you were mexican and you call this salsa?" At that level from professional workers it's jokey and funny.  Those casual jokes that are frowned upon in the USA are more broadly accepted world wide.

Yet at the same time the institutional racism is on another level.  There are caste systems, social stratification, and state actioned economic inequality.  In America saying it's not racism it's economic inequality is seen as a racist statement.  Saying "poverty is your fault," is the same.  Sometimes it's heavy handed but it's often true that it stems from a belief that you are better than another person. 

I'm confused now.  Maybe crushing hard on funny, jokey racism between colleagues is a better path to solving social inequality than accepting it.

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My final thought, is extreme classism better than casual racism?

I mean, both paths seem to end with a populist idiot taken charge and fucking their countries. One just will blame “the blacks and the Mexicans ” and other “los empresarios”.

[benjipwns]

User banned (2 weeks): dismissing concerns around representation

This seems to be a misrepresentation of what people have talked about at length on this point. It also glosses over how they're still using diversity and inclusivity as a promo and selling point while putting out something that comes at the expense of it.

I don't think I am misrepresenting the general consensus of the discussion in that thread at all. Most people seemed to think this would be an easy fix and didn't consider the fact that this game will be fully localized in 10 different languages, of which many of are heavily gendered. I understand why people are skeptical about CDPR on the subject of trans representation but I do not think it is fair to blame them for not implementing such a resource intensive change that would be a first for an AAA game (and please correct me if I'm wrong).

They never intended to have non-binary or trans options in the character creator or they wouldn't have included gendered dialogue in the first place.

I'm not sure if you are arguing for the removal of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Polish localization here.

"errs on the side of non-US perspectives"

[HaughtyFrank]

User banned (2 weeks): dismissing concerns around representation

This seems to be a misrepresentation of what people have talked about at length on this point. It also glosses over how they're still using diversity and inclusivity as a promo and selling point while putting out something that comes at the expense of it.

I don't think I am misrepresenting the general consensus of the discussion in that thread at all. Most people seemed to think this would be an easy fix and didn't consider the fact that this game will be fully localized in 10 different languages, of which many of are heavily gendered. I understand why people are skeptical about CDPR on the subject of trans representation but I do not think it is fair to blame them for not implementing such a resource intensive change that would be a first for an AAA game (and please correct me if I'm wrong).

They never intended to have non-binary or trans options in the character creator or they wouldn't have included gendered dialogue in the first place.

I'm not sure if you are arguing for the removal of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Polish localization here.

"errs on the side of non-US perspectives"

Also not sure how I feel about the idea to remove any gendered dialogue towards the player character to accommodate a fraction of a fraction of the player base.

They’re welcome to stop trying to touch on trans/nb topics and people while remaining wilfully ignorant to the subtleties of them

RE fucking screamed for trans/nb representation after the Klepek article

"How can this be cyberpunk if there aren't any trans characters etc. etc."

[Clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-we-truly-reconciled-with-gamergate.275183/

GamerGate completely changed the way politics worked on social media. People began to question what is appropriate, and when. Notions of intersectionality were dismissed. There was a campaign of cynicism against social justice! As if SOCIAL JUSTICE were a bad thing!

Themes like free speech, white identitarianism, enlightened centrism, and distrust of the media began from GamerGate.These themes, as we know, have become omnipresent in American politics nowadays. Were we always going to come to this fate? What would society look like had GamerGate not happened?

Bill of rights GG material confirmed.

[benjipwns]

The elements of the internet that led to GamerGate were present long before it, Ron Paul 2008 was 6 years before that and it's pretty easy to draw a straight line between those two phenomenons.

QAnon is Gamergate + Seth rich conspiracy theories + DNC hack leaks + far right politics

Finding the downplaying of GamerGate pretty surprising TBH. Its tendrils are in everything from /r/the_donald to QAnon to right wing outrage culture concerning TLJ, Captain Marvel, and TLOU2. It's the primordial soup with which the alt-right sprung. Hell, I'd argue its influence can even be seen in those posters that only stick to the gaming side and dance around saying controversial opinions out loud.

More like fascists in training.

It radicalized a lot of people and that's still going on today.

They moved on to Captain Marvel and Star Wars (Kelly Marie Tran) etc.

[benjipwns]

Zoe Quinn's book even implies that GG has a straight line to Trump winning the presidency and when you take the involvement of the likes of Steve Bannon into account, I think that's a fair assessment

[benjipwns]

Fuck no. GG's need to be strung up lynching style at this point.

[benjipwns]

I think after Occupy Wall Street happened in the early 2010s a lot of political and corporate leaders realized if Americans divided themselves along class lines, the leaders would be the ones at the end of the cross hairs at the end of the day. So they worked really, really hard to turn the debate away from economic and class lines into classic divisions along race, sex, religion, sexuality, and party identity.

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-we-truly-reconciled-with-gamergate.275183/

GamerGate completely changed the way politics worked on social media. People began to question what is appropriate, and when. Notions of intersectionality were dismissed. There was a campaign of cynicism against social justice! As if SOCIAL JUSTICE were a bad thing!

Themes like free speech, white identitarianism, enlightened centrism, and distrust of the media began from GamerGate.These themes, as we know, have become omnipresent in American politics nowadays. Were we always going to come to this fate? What would society look like had GamerGate not happened?

Bill of rights GG material confirmed.

Did they even have republicans before GamerGate?  I can't remember that far back.

[benjipwns]

You didn't have to think about politics or climate change or hate before GamerGate, you just let Obama take care of everything for you. Before Obama it was this humble painter dude.

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/handymanera-plz-urgent-help-question-about-power-drills-and-screwdrivers.275249/

 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/handymanera-plz-urgent-help-question-about-power-drills-and-screwdrivers.275249/

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-light-went-out-and-i-have-no-clue-how-to-change-it.275204/

[benjipwns]

User Banned (1 month): Antagonizing other members over multiple posts; long history of similar behavior

lmao era leakers arent worth anything anymore

[benjipwns]

Michael Jordan: "Republicans buy sneakers too"

LeBron James: "Fuck this I'm out" in an effort to positively impact the world

The GOAT argument has been decided tonight folks.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fortnite-and-marvel-what-the-hell-is-happening.275114/

Hype is what’s happening.

THANK YOU DISNEY/EPIC

[Boredfrom]

I thought Kyushu will hate the shut out of fortnite given “predatory behavior” by forcing kids to buy MTX.

[Boredfrom]

He's still miles ahead that Jordan in that regard.

But you made excuses for him because he's MJ.

I'm skeptical of the people bringing up HK into this. When we don't have our shit over here together to begin with.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/to-those-well-into-their-professional-careers-is-follow-your-passion-one-of-the-worst-advice-to-give-a-young-person.275240/#post-43628702

I followed my passion. I got where I wanted. Then I said "what's next" and im working on my next passion.

[tuna_love]

 

[VomKriege]

Fuck no. GG's need to be strung up lynching style at this point.

Send everyone who has a gamer chair to the rice paddies.

[Uncle]

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/to-those-well-into-their-professional-careers-is-follow-your-passion-one-of-the-worst-advice-to-give-a-young-person.275240/#post-43628702

I followed my passion. I got where I wanted. Then I said "what's next" and im working on my next passion.

Set your goals low and you'll never miss

 

[Ghoul]

I'm a mr manager of a banana stall. 

[Transhuman]

Why work at a banana stand when I can make YOUR banana stand

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

[BIONIC]

@Mod Admiral:

Wasn’t this feller just permabanned?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-blockbuster-video-games-mint-millions-while-grunts-get-exploited.275318/#post-43644968

Game developers need to just start destroying executives cars and shit. Cause clearly asking ain't working

[Propagandhim]

I read that cosmically stupid line, "What would society look like had GamerGate not happened?" And now I'm questioning if coming into this thread is legitimately making my days worse.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Had the dude not shot himself they would have, chances he got out of that situation alive was next to nothing

 

[benjipwns]

@Mod Admiral:

Wasn’t this feller just permabanned?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-blockbuster-video-games-mint-millions-while-grunts-get-exploited.275318/#post-43644968

Game developers need to just start destroying executives cars and shit. Cause clearly asking ain't working

Guess the appeals process does work!

OPTO, HEROMANZ AND PAPA SATANUS: NOW PERMANENT (28 DAYS)

These have been changed to three months (Opto) and one month (Heromanz) now.

Also as an UPDATE:
BDS: NOW PERMANENT (22 DAYS)

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/handymanera-plz-urgent-help-question-about-power-drills-and-screwdrivers.275249/

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-light-went-out-and-i-have-no-clue-how-to-change-it.275204/

  Do you really need a light there? I wouldn't bother. 

Just give up

[Nintex]

To be fair that's a tricky spot for a bulb and this gave me a good chuckle

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

We need someone who-

A.) Can snatch all three branches away from Republicans, and

B) Will have the spine to go after GOP criminals and these online right-wing cabals to the fullest extent of the law.

Anything else is not good enough. Biden isn't going to do it, so this farce where we pretend conservatives aren't deliberately trying to kill minorities and leftists will continue.

Do you think that in this country anyone publicly willing to do B would be able to do A? That person's not even getting elected.

No. I honestly think the situation is hopeless inasmuch as we're talking about solving it, outside of actual demographic shifts where white people simply can't assume power of this scale ever again.

Nut up pussies, and declare your political rivals enemies of the state and that you'll arrest them all if elected!

[VomKriege]

To be fair that's a tricky spot for a bulb and this gave me a good chuckle
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Pretty sure there's adjustable shifts to change hard to reach lights.

[benjipwns]

I promise if re-elected as mod admiral I will shut down the alt-right haven known as ResetERA.com's "gaming side" (an alt-right dog-whistle codeword) immediately*!

*tbd

[Joe Molotov]

@Mod Admiral:

Wasn’t this feller just permabanned?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-blockbuster-video-games-mint-millions-while-grunts-get-exploited.275318/#post-43644968

Game developers need to just start destroying executives cars and shit. Cause clearly asking ain't working

I heard Stinkles is refusing to make Halo until social change is enacted.