Don't post personal information you don't want people seeing, dumbass (that means you!)
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Graven devs do not seem to have bigoted beliefs (for now). They are just signed with 3D Realms.
The studio is founded by the VP of 3D Realms.
I do not Plan on covering games where I find the whole of the developers abide racism, transphobia, sexism or any other such things.If it comes out that a Single dev of a studio or a small Group of individual at a studio harbour such views I honestly do not know how to react immediately Visavis the game in question - as a game is the products of many and not few always. Take naughry dog games with their documented extremely poor work culture and exploitation - or Rockstar, or a game like Dying Light 2 which had Chris Avelone doing the entire narrative apparently. What is the mass of 'unacceptability' among the few or many for a person to condemn the whole? I am not sure when it comes to game coverage always as I do not see the entire picture and my judgement can be skewed quickly. I just know the things I do not like and I try and talk about them here on Era or Twitter.And no I cannot make statements for DF as a whole so do not think I can please. No organisation works that way..
. 3D Realms is a company that surrounds themselves with neo nazis.
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Sorry in advance for the long text.A buyer on eBay bid on my Oppo 203 bluray player I had listed.When I hadnt received payment for two days I messaged them asking if they required more time to pay. They responded saying they needed a day or two. Three days later after still not having received the money I messaged them again asking for an update and did not get a response. That same day I filed an unpaid item claim so I could ensure I get my eBay fees refunded and to notify eBay that they didnt pay. Days go by and I still dont hear from the buyer and am simply waiting to the unpaid item deadline to pass to repost.On a Friday (the last day) the buyer ends up sending payment so I ship the item out the same day and think its over and done with. On the following Monday however, I receive a return request from the buyer despite the item being shipped and in transit. The buyer stated that they "made a mistake and wanted a dennon instead" they said they would refuse the shipment and for me to refund them the money and apologied. I immediately denied the return request as I do not accept returns until the item is physically damaged and also because I suspected the buyer had no true intention of buying the item- they just wanted to avoid the unpaid item infraction.I told the buyer I would not accept a return until I was guaranteed by ebay to be reimbursed for the extra $50 dollars I paid to ship the Oppo. After subsequent back and forth with the buyer and me accusing him of not ever wanting the Oppo, we finally agreed to go through with the return. I asked the buyer to send me another return request and they stated they could not and that I had to do it on my end. When I tried to cancel the transation I was given a message that stated I could not cancel after a return request and when I tried to do a return request I was unable to do so. I told the buyer I would call ebay to sort it out and that they should do the same. He replied "OK".The next day I called Ebay and told them what happened and asked if I could do a return and they said that once a case was closed it was closed. I also expressed to them that I only was willing to do the return because I had concerns of the lengths the buyer would go to get their money back and feared they would try to damage the item or claim something was wrong with it when it in fact was in perfect condition. The representative assured me that no further action could be taken.The buyer then tells me Im a liar and says I cannot talk to ebay directly and that I should just accept the return. He claimed that he already sent back the item but when I checked the tracking it just said delivered" and he did not provide any tracking number. I then told the buyer that I wasnt lying and even screenshoted my call with them and he still didnt believe me. I then told him that I was done with it and would report him should he continue to harass me. After more back and forth and me calling him a scam artist and that he if he never wanted the item he should never had bought it. He then proceeded to call me "liberal scum".I have told him that I am done with the exchange and have contacted ebay twice to resolve but they themselves have said they cant do anything outside of an appeal. He doesnt seem to want to do an appeal and so I told him to go through ebay going forward because the back and forth had grown increasingly nasty. Yet he persists! Im starting to get afraid he will try to come find me or something after calling me liberal scum Im afraid hes one of those MAGA asshats. I have a baby on the way next week and dont need this stress. I already suffer from anxiety!What should I do era?Below are some screenshots of the convo.Convo with Ebay guyTLDR: A guy bought an item, didnt wanna pay and only after I filed an unpaid item claim the paid for it. After already shipping item and while in transit he requests a return before receiving it. I refused the return because I dont accept returns unless damaged and felt he only bought to avoid unpaid item penalty. Buyer changes up reasons for not wanting item. Claims I falsely described item (did not). We agree to return but I cannot return through ebay after refusing first time. Buyer refuses to accept my explanation and has been messaging me non stop and has even called me "liberal scum." I dont want to do a return outside of ebay and buyer doesnt seem trust worthy at this point but also scared that buyer is crazy and will come find me.
I’m not nailing him down to anything, I asked a question with the literal understanding it was one he likely couldn’t effect.
. Thanks Dictator for taking the time to answer here, it's a complex subject and as someone else said, keep up the good work and stand up for your principles as much as you can. As long as people are willing to listen when such issues are brought up, there's progress to be made. Perhaps disclaimers can help to inform the DF community about a publisher's/developer's well knownoffensive views while still engaging in tech coverage.
It's fucked up that the mods are allowing the crazies to go after the guys from DF when the forum itself has not refused to platform 3D Realms.Posting on reeeee is a dumb idea for DF. They are almost at a million subs. They don't need reee.
Thanks for the replies and serious engagement everyone.
Not gonna lie, I was about to cross you out due to the apparent deafness shown related to 3DR, but after reading the comments specifically addressed to you in both youtube and gaf (which were surprisingly loaded), I think we can rule you out as enabler. But you know how stuff is getting, 3dr has sheltered and helped people of the worst kind. Sooner or later, no matter how nostalgic they are, you’ll have to decide...
I mean, you have an Animal Crossing avatar so how long am I really supposed to stay frosty. Probably more of a blunt wording than I could have gone with, so don’t apologise. It’s true the topic doesn’t tend to bring my warmth out lol.
It's real disappointing considering how I've viewed this band in the past. :/
Yeah with all the replies I can tell I didn't phrase that correctly.
If Mendinso is just trolling with the constant thread derails and outbursts I hope they are around for a very long time.
What got messofanego banned?
QuoteBut how is this making things better? 9/11 victims and their families are not a 1:1 overlap with alt-right shit-heals or All Lives Matter people. So you are using innocent lives to troll the right? It's shitty and no one doing this thinks this hashtag is going to change anyones mind. It's just lazy trolling and designed to do what? Prove racist shit-heads are inconsistent? We already knew that, they already know that.So...why are you talking about 9/11 victims? Are they All Lives Matter people too? These are All Lives Matter folks being outraged at All Buildings Matter.
But how is this making things better? 9/11 victims and their families are not a 1:1 overlap with alt-right shit-heals or All Lives Matter people. So you are using innocent lives to troll the right? It's shitty and no one doing this thinks this hashtag is going to change anyones mind. It's just lazy trolling and designed to do what? Prove racist shit-heads are inconsistent? We already knew that, they already know that.
On any other board the mods would contact such a member to protect him against himself but this is ResetEra so they're basically allowing him to shit up their board until the inevitable self destruction.
Quote from: Nintex on September 12, 2020, 08:19:32 PMOn any other board the mods would contact such a member to protect him against himself but this is ResetEra so they're basically allowing him to shit up their board until the inevitable self destruction.Protect him from what? How? His entire freakin problem is that he's not seeing the posts he wants to see. The solution is for him to leave and go somewhere that doesn't upset him like Twitter and Twitch where he can curate the content and so isn't having regular meltdowns. It's not the mods job or within their abilities to cater to everyone or fix their problems for them when the problems are irrational.
Who?
QuoteEven being real generous and not counting pre-announcement production time against them, it's been nearly 8 years. So yeah, fairly ridiculous to dismiss concern with the statement that it's not going to take 10 years... when it's already been 8.He's not dismissing the concern, he's dismissing the surface level explanations from internet users that attempt to say that the development of Star Citizen and the issues it faces are easily fixable, and then he's offering insight as to why.
Even being real generous and not counting pre-announcement production time against them, it's been nearly 8 years. So yeah, fairly ridiculous to dismiss concern with the statement that it's not going to take 10 years... when it's already been 8.
A podcast on 9/11? Wow.
This thread is being archived in the same way that the BCC meeting and summary threads were archived. We’re not going to claim that members or staff achieved what we wanted with it, and that’s something we truly regret. The team genuinely wants better discourse around Asian issues and that was our only goal when we organized the meeting in the first place. For many of us that goal is personal.We’ve learned not to oversell or paint too rosy a picture. But the meeting and this thread did bring issues and examples to our attention that we'll use to improve and focus our moderation.Neither we nor the site will ever be perfect. But we’re going to do our best.
Asian summit unstickied and ending with a whimper on today of all days.JayC3:QuoteThis thread is being archived in the same way that the BCC meeting and summary threads were archived. We’re not going to claim that members or staff achieved what we wanted with it, and that’s something we truly regret. The team genuinely wants better discourse around Asian issues and that was our only goal when we organized the meeting in the first place. For many of us that goal is personal.We’ve learned not to oversell or paint too rosy a picture. But the meeting and this thread did bring issues and examples to our attention that we'll use to improve and focus our moderation.Neither we nor the site will ever be perfect. But we’re going to do our best.
User threadbanned: This does constitute ban relitigation, but a Mod Captain will reach out by PM to discuss the case
I apologize if it falls under "relitigating bans", It covers the happenings of how an entire thread is going / is about more than a singular user and also involves implementation of threadbanning, a recent feature, so, I think it's worth discussion.Thread banning is supposed to help equalize things and cool down threads without having to resort to hasty bans, but already it's becoming obvious that it's far too easy to misapply this power. We see it tipping the scales even further in the wrong direction in the recent Renegade Cut thread, where the user who has been antagonistic across multiple threads has a ban quickly reduced to a thread ban and an honest reaction to their shitty behavior results in a duration pending, presumably because it calls into question a previous ban that well, also was a reaction to the same users shitty behavior. I You accidentally got it right with the first banner "history of trolling and hostility against other users". That's what happened to Ketkat and it's what's happening to Rushersauce now. How can a banner referencing a history suddenly disappear become a threadban. If the user has a history, clearly the problem behavior is not relegated to a specific thread, leniency is inappropriate and reinforcing a pattern of behavior. However, if the history does not exist, it creates a new concern: why moderation was so quick to reference a history? What's silly is, the other user in question who is reacting to an encounter, is a much better application of a threadban, if any moderation is necessary at all.Yes, I feel passionate about this because Ketkat is my girlfriend, but I don't think I'm being unreasonable in questioning how is this an appropriate application of power, and honestly I'm pretty frustrated. How many more TransEra users have to be banned before you action the verified user? Because our community is pretty much dead at this point.
So who's our current 'General Manager' since the current one is now 'On Break' after avoiding this thread and AsianEra like the plague?
Regarding B-Dubs: I will level with you. People blame him for a lot of things that are actually group decisions discussed with the staff. He goes out and makes official posts because he feels responsible, and he takes a lot of hits for the team. As someone who has been a manager for years, I get the sense of responsibility that someone in that role has. But because I've been in that role before, I absolutely know that it usually isn't one person's fault. We all take breaks from time to time, and to be blunt, B-Dubs has needed a proper break for months now and he has not been able to take one. I’m not going to go into details about this but his leave couldn't be put off any longer. If you think the problem is that he doesn’t care, I promise you it’s just the opposite.
How do we deal with this? I'm fucking tired of it. Nix the internet? I really would not fucking care. I hate people as proven by the world leaders they vote for. Fuck off, die, and rot, racist shits.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-is-brazil-like.285656/No mention of politics yet.
User Banned (Duration to be determined by administrators): Dismissing concerns of ableism; prior bans for dismissing concerns of stereotypes and transphobia Quote from: DarksolQuit calling people motherfuckers, you guys, it’s offensive to some Americans in the south.
Quit calling people motherfuckers, you guys, it’s offensive to some Americans in the south.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-words-like-idiot-moron-dumb-etc-offensive-should-we-stop-using-them.285131/#post-45108473QuoteUser Banned (Duration to be determined by administrators): Dismissing concerns of ableism; prior bans for dismissing concerns of stereotypes and transphobia Quote from: DarksolQuit calling people motherfuckers, you guys, it’s offensive to some Americans in the south.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/making-souls-games-more-accessible-without-an-easy-mode.285539/They have this thread once a week.
Oh I have no doubt he's missing with Hispanics.I highly doubt 41% of them.
Shit tactic but you reap what you sow as a citizen-murdering mob.
Edited* because people will take it out of context.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/two-los-angeles-police-officers-in-critical-condition-following-%E2%80%9Cambush%E2%80%9D-attack.285800/Quote from: BLEEN Shit tactic but you reap what you sow as a citizen-murdering mob.After being called out:Quote from: BLEENEdited* because people will take it out of context.Yes, totally taken out of context. Cool forum.
QuoteThe blood lust in this thread saddens me. No one, good or bad, should be shot like that.There's no bloodlust. Everyone is correctly pointing out what lead to this on the whole. This is on the LAPD/SD.
The blood lust in this thread saddens me. No one, good or bad, should be shot like that.
Dunkey dropping slurs, even if in videos from years ago, is clearly not okay.A big part of the problem with a blanket ban is that it will hide the issue and make sure that nobody talks about it. Right now posters are welcome to raise the matter in discussions about his content, and they do, and this is how people become aware of it. A blanket ban sweeps it under the rug and does nothing to actually address the problem.The creators we ban are the creators who are still peddling hate and problematic content that we simply don’t want to engage with or platform. Dunkey doesn’t meet that criteria, but the conversation about his older transgressions is a conversation that should be had.If there is any concern that the OT will become some kind of safe space for fans where these issues cannot be raised then rest assured that will not be the policy. We ask that members do not attack each other personally and respect these concerns when they are raised. We are prepared to issue bans if folks try to shut down that kind of talk.
Maybe we as a country need to get to a place where cops aren't killing civilians, and civilians aren't killing cops, out on the streets
Cancel culture doesn't exist except as an alt right talking point.
EDIT: I've just learned this was from a previous book of hers called "The Silkworm". I'll leave it up for prosperity, regardless.https://twitter.com/TheStuffOfMemes/status/1305207416439611394
The creators we ban are the creators who are still peddling hate and problematic content that we simply don’t want to engage with or platform. Dunkey doesn’t meet that criteria, but the conversation about his older transgressions is a conversation that should be had.
Quote from: https://www.resetera.com/threads/jk-rowling-writes-a-new-transphobic-book-with-a-pen-name-named-after-a-conversion-therapist.285980/#post-45236615EDIT: I've just learned this was from a previous book of hers called "The Silkworm". I'll leave it up for prosperity, regardless.https://twitter.com/TheStuffOfMemes/status/1305207416439611394As someone who actually read the book, the outrage totally ignores the context of the conversation. It’s early in the private detective’s investigation and a witness puts someone in a burqa at the scene of the crime the same night the victim dies. The police think the victims wife killed him but the main character does not, and he’s trying to prove it wasn’t her. They have no suspects yet and the detective merely points out that a man could easily have used a burqa to disguise his identity as well and to assume nothing. It’s not a statement on gender but on making no assumptions or ruling out any possibility until they know more.They also bring up the possibility that there was no burqa at all and the witness could be a crazy islamophobe./marrec
EDIT: I've just learned this was from a previous book of hers called "The Silkworm". I'll leave it up for prosperity, regardless.
