Author Topic: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread (Read 4214642 times)

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #37620 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:08:55 PM »

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gaborn-news-cardinal-photographed-that-is-half-male-and-half-female.383450

Thread starts out well with people remembering Gaborn from gaf, then someone says he was racist and everyone flips.

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #37621 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:15:15 PM »

Gaborn was racist?

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #37622 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:19:49 PM »

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on February 23, 2021, 05:15:15 PM

Gaborn was racist?

Seems like he was a neo nazi based on the evidence.

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Speaking of the Alt-Right, have you all forgotten Gaborn's political leanings?

At the old place he argued that racism against Asians was justified because "Chinese people operate restaurants which are open on Christmas day"

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #37623 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:27:13 PM »

Isn't that a Jewish tradition Chinese food for Christmas?

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #37624 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:29:08 PM »

Yep.

Fuck your turkeys.

HaughtyFrank · « **Reply #37625 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:32:41 PM »

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 05:19:49 PM

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on February 23, 2021, 05:15:15 PM
Gaborn was racist?

Seems like he was a neo nazi based on the evidence.

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Speaking of the Alt-Right, have you all forgotten Gaborn's political leanings?

At the old place he argued that racism against Asians was justified because "Chinese people operate restaurants which are open on Christmas day"

Call it a hunch but I suspect that summary isn't accurate

jorma · « **Reply #37626 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:32:45 PM »

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 05:19:49 PM

Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on February 23, 2021, 05:15:15 PM
Gaborn was racist?

Seems like he was a neo nazi based on the evidence.

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Speaking of the Alt-Right, have you all forgotten Gaborn's political leanings?

At the old place he argued that racism against Asians was justified because "Chinese people operate restaurants which are open on Christmas day"

Yeah, shit on a dead guy with (what is probably) a really dishonest retelling of what he actually said, but don't have the balls to bring up b-dubs and chubigans even shadier past. Fucking cowards.

HaughtyFrank · « **Reply #37627 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:41:55 PM »

I found the original post, and guess what, it was an argument with the same guy who's calling him out on RE right now. He's holding this grudge for 13 years.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/i-hate-the-gooks-mccain-said-i-will-hate-them-as-long-as-i-live.234328/post-9562169

(and big surprise, he never said racism was justified, it was the classic argument about which minority has it worse where everyone ends up looking bad)

cosmicblizzard · « **Reply #37628 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:50:13 PM »

I like how the proof is from nearly a decade before B-dubs last used a slur.

Boredfrom · « **Reply #37629 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:53:03 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on February 23, 2021, 04:58:09 PM

Democrats banning video games?

Elections have consequences

You forgot Trump was also okay with that?

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #37630 on:** February 23, 2021, 05:56:03 PM »

Can you cancel a dead person?

Cauliflower Of Love · « **Reply #37631 on:** February 23, 2021, 06:12:47 PM »

Quote from: HaughtyFrank on February 23, 2021, 05:41:55 PM

I found the original post, and guess what, it was an argument with the same guy who's calling him out on RE right now. He's holding this grudge for 13 years.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/i-hate-the-gooks-mccain-said-i-will-hate-them-as-long-as-i-live.234328/post-9562169

(and big surprise, he never said racism was justified, it was the classic argument about which minority has it worse where everyone ends up looking bad)

holy shit,

I looked for a few minutes but couldn't find it.

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I absolutely believe you btw, no reason not to. I wonder if he would have changed his views later in life if he had been afforded the chance, theres plenty of stories about conservatives that did as much.

Gaborn has been re written in history as a conservative.

That place is nuts.

Averon · « **Reply #37632 on:** February 23, 2021, 06:19:05 PM »

If ERA is still around when B-Dubs bites it or just fucks off from the place, can you imagine how fast he's gonna get retroactively cancelled.
Everyone is gonna suddenly remember B-Dubs was a racist whenever his name comes up.

Same how everyone secretly knew Tyler was a creep or that Amir0x was a weirdo sex pest.

Don Rumata · « **Reply #37633 on:** February 23, 2021, 06:26:28 PM »

I don't get the reticence for banning violent videogames.

If seeing boob armor turns you into a rapist, and seeing an OK symbol turns you into a Nazist, why can't spending hours on GTA turn you into a mass shooter?

It seems like people have Play-Doh brains for everything BUT that one specific subjects.

benjipwns · « **Reply #37634 on:** February 23, 2021, 06:40:18 PM »

Gaborn was a hardcore Q Anon guy. He once told me that "the War on Christmas is the most essential fight in human history after Gamergate."

Potato · « **Reply #37635 on:** February 23, 2021, 06:43:37 PM »

You should have seen the stuff he said to me about boob armour and scantily clad women in games!!!

benjipwns · « **Reply #37636 on:** February 23, 2021, 06:51:14 PM »

Gaborn once preordered a copy of Hogwart's Legacy just to "stick it to the LGBT community."

Nintex · « **Reply #37637 on:** February 23, 2021, 06:56:31 PM »

I recall he didn't vote like Shinobi

BIONIC · « **Reply #37638 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:00:56 PM »

Gaborn once touched my peepee without permission $:-\$

BIONIC · « **Reply #37639 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:12:06 PM »

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-is-troy-leavitt-a-game-developer-who-used-to-make-anti-feminist-and-pro-gamer-gate-videos.381606/page-17#post-59341475

Quote from: Hecht, post: 59341475, member: 16

[STAFF]So this is a uniquely awful situation where both the creator of the IP and a senior producer on the game have unrepentant bigoted views.

The team has talked it over at length and as a result we've decided to implement a total ban on threads for promotional media for the game. This means there will be no threads for trailers or official announcements, no hype threads, no fluff pieces about its features. This functionally bans almost all threads leading up to release, unless there are major new developments about the controversy or something along those lines.

This is the first time we've done something like this and we consider this a very exceptional case. It's not just one bigoted game designer that made the difference here. JK Rowling's singular reach and influence, how closely that influence is tied to the Harry Potter IP, and what she chooses to do with that power, is a unique problem on top of this latest controversy.

We're going to revisit whether to have an OT much closer to the game's release. Learning from what happened with Cyberpunk, if there is an OT, it will have a text-only OP created by staff that lays out the controversy with the game and IP. The main reason to have an OT at all is the same one we've articulated before: Some minority members want a space to discuss the game's contents where they will not be shouted down by bigots.

For now though we're definitely not going to be platforming the marketing. If you see any threads for that stuff please report them. If you're unsure about a thread you want to post, please contact the staff first to check before creating it. [/STAFF]

Averon · « **Reply #37640 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:12:35 PM »

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-is-troy-leavitt-a-game-developer-who-used-to-make-anti-feminist-and-pro-gamer-gate-videos.381606/page-17#post-59341475

Quote from: Hecht

So this is a uniquely awful situation where both the creator of the IP and a senior producer on the game have unrepentant bigoted views.

The team has talked it over at length and as a result we've decided to implement a total ban on threads for promotional media for the game. This means there will be no threads for trailers or official announcements, no hype threads, no fluff pieces about its features. This functionally bans almost all threads leading up to release, unless there are major new developments about the controversy or something along those lines.

This is the first time we've done something like this and we consider this a very exceptional case. It's not just one bigoted game designer that made the difference here. JK Rowling's singular reach and influence, how closely that influence is tied to the Harry Potter IP, and what she chooses to do with that power, is a unique problem on top of this latest controversy.

We're going to revisit whether to have an OT much closer to the game's release. Learning from what happened with Cyberpunk, if there is an OT, it will have a text-only OP created by staff that lays out the controversy with the game and IP. The main reason to have an OT at all is the same one we've articulated before: Some minority members want a space to discuss the game's contents where they will not be shouted down by bigots.

For now though we're definitely not going to be platforming the marketing. If you see any threads for that stuff please report them. If you're unsure about a thread you want to post, please contact the staff first to check before creating it.

They are going the CP 2077 route again with Harry Potter. So only negative threads about the game will be allowed. They don't even have the guts to ban an OT

benjipwns · « **Reply #37641 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:14:56 PM »

What about other Warner Bros. products?

Potato · « **Reply #37642 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:17:00 PM »

TransERA really did win the persecution Olympics, huh?

benjipwns · « **Reply #37643 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:20:53 PM »

This is to ensure they don't get burned again by a Nazi hiding in plain sight like Black Chamber and Gaborn did with the Cyberpunk 2077 threads.

Nintex · « **Reply #37644 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:20:53 PM »

banning discussion of a licensed Harry Potter video game

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #37645 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:21:19 PM »

Why is the thread still open? Have the mods never heard the phrase ‘ There is no such thing as bad publicity’?

Nintex · « **Reply #37646 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:22:10 PM »

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 07:21:19 PM

Why is the thread still open? Have the mods never heard the phrase ‘ There is no such thing as bad publicity’?

So they can gloat in the praise of this BOLD STANCE

benjipwns · « **Reply #37647 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:26:12 PM »

They should probably ban ANY threads about Harry Potter or any of JK Rowling's other works. (Also anything produced by Warner Bros. who profits most off of Harry Potter.) There's no excuse to protect the marginalized from the video game only.

Averon · « **Reply #37648 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:26:25 PM »

Shouldn't they be banning all of WB Games, then? They knew about those YT videos and this guy's views but didn't care and hired him anyway. If they are going to start banning discussion of games based on who owns the IP or who is working on it and nothing in the games themselves, then all of WB Games are "tainted" and should be banned. That means no Mortal Kombat. No Lego games. No Lord of the Rings games. No DC games, which include Batman and Suicide Squad.

benjipwns · « **Reply #37649 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:29:24 PM »

Quote from: Hecht

The main reason to have an OT at all is the same one we've articulated before: Some minority members want a space to discuss the game's contents where they will not be shouted down by bigots.

How? ResetERA.com, especially "gaming side", is overrun with bigots. (Source: ResetERA.com members and staff.)

Nintex · « **Reply #37650 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:31:53 PM »

yeah this feels like only half a step in the right direction.

Just ban WB already all they do is pander to the worst in society.

reject modernity

[close]

embrace tradition

[close]

benjipwns · « **Reply #37651 on:** February 23, 2021, 07:35:49 PM »

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 05:08:55 PM

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gaborn-news-cardinal-photographed-that-is-half-male-and-half-female.383450

Thread starts out well with people remembering Gaborn from gaf, then someone says he was racist and everyone flips.

Thread locked, no message why.

benjipwns · « **Reply #37652 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:06:08 PM »

Quote from: https://www.resetera.com/threads/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-is-troy-leavitt-a-game-developer-who-used-to-make-anti-feminist-and-pro-gamer-gate-videos-see-staff-post-added.381606/post-59344802

Hopefully it doesn't turn up at Thursday's State of Play, otherwise I'll be turning the entire thing off. Sony should know better than to promote this product going forward.

Nintex · « **Reply #37653 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:07:35 PM »

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #37654 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:16:21 PM »

Are they going to let the rest of the site know that rule or do they expect them to have read the thread already?

Averon · « **Reply #37655 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:18:50 PM »

I mean, this new standard ERA is adopting is a bit crazy. At the very least when they banned games in the past, it was for stuff actually in the game itself. Now, that isn't the case anymore. A game can be "clean" of anything that rubs ERA the wrong way but can still be banned if they find out some worker on the game said or did something they didn't like. Or if the game is owned by someone they targeted for canceling. At that point, it is no longer about the game being "harmful" since there is nothing in the game that warrants it being labeled as such.

benjipwns · « **Reply #37656 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:29:09 PM »

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 08:16:21 PM

Are they going to let the rest of the site know that rule or do they expect them to have the thread already?

It was announced in a STAFF COMMUNICATION and the thread title notes that there's a STAFF COMMUNICATION in the thread. Any chud who defies the rules at this point knows exactly what they were doing.

Averon · « **Reply #37657 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:30:57 PM »

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on February 23, 2021, 08:16:21 PM

Are they going to let the rest of the site know that rule or do they expect them to have the thread already?

No, so when a poor sack makes a thread about the game that isn't framed negatively on the jump, or some poor bastard tries to defend talking about the game in peace, the mods can lock their threads/ban them for "dismissing concerns." And people like Excel can accuse others of being low-key transphobes for not being up-to-date on what pisses off TransERA that day.

joeboy101 · « **Reply #37658 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:32:14 PM »

Quote from: Averon on February 23, 2021, 08:18:50 PM

I mean, this new standard ERA is adopting is a bit crazy. At the very least when they banned games in the past, it was for stuff actually in the game itself. Now, that isn't the case anymore. A game can be "clean" of anything that rubs ERA the wrong way but can still be banned if they find out some worker on the game said or did something they didn't like. Or if he game is owned by someone they targeted for canceling. At that point, it is no longer about the game being "harmful" since there is nothing in the game that warrants it being labeled as such.

I just hope they up the violence in the game. That obviously has no harmful effects on gamers.

But if they see a boobie, or hear a word of non-praise to a transgender, that will turn them into a misogynistic transphobic chud on the first pixel.

Or cause them to break out in stigmata, obviously.

ShutUp · « **Reply #37659 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:33:46 PM »

What exactly IN the game is bigoted? Can the mods point out the stuff in the fantasy wizard game that is bigoted or....?

benjipwns · « **Reply #37660 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:35:54 PM »

Quote from: ShutUp on February 23, 2021, 08:33:46 PM

What exactly IN the game is bigoted? Can the mods point out the stuff in the fantasy wizard game that is bigoted or....?

FACT CHECK:

Quote from: https://www.resetera.com/threads/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-is-troy-leavitt-a-game-developer-who-used-to-make-anti-feminist-and-pro-gamer-gate-videos.381606/post-59225036

The very DNA of Harry Potter encourages and/or promotes a lot of this rhetoric

Lonewulfeus · « **Reply #37661 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:36:52 PM »

I wonder if discussion around Robert Galbraith’s books will be allowed

benjipwns · « **Reply #37662 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:38:08 PM »

Quote from: https://www.resetera.com/threads/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-is-troy-leavitt-a-game-developer-who-used-to-make-anti-feminist-and-pro-gamer-gate-videos-see-staff-post-added.381606/post-59346965

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I don't give a shit about what those guys say on Twitter, what J.K says about trans people. I wait for more than 15 years for a true RPG in the Harry Potter universe, and for the first, time I'll finally have this game. It's a dream coming true and no one will take this from me.
As a trans person and a veteran gamedev, if I could buy the studio and cancel this game, I will do it and I mean it. Destroying your shitty “dream” is worth it if it means we can save more women and trans lives.

I don't use the word hero lightly but

benjipwns · « **Reply #37663 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:39:41 PM »

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I have to say this one last time: if you don’t think directly giving money to JKR won’t cause trans death you’re either incredibly naive or just straight up lying

and Warner Bros. gets away with it yet again

james · « **Reply #37664 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:40:02 PM »

What am I supposed to do with my lego Harry Potter games on the Nintendo Wii?

ShutUp · « **Reply #37665 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:41:00 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on February 23, 2021, 08:39:41 PM

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I have to say this one last time: if you don’t think directly giving money to JKR won’t cause trans death you’re either incredibly naive or just straight up lying

Pixels literally murdering beyond the digital realm now.

Lonewulfeus · « **Reply #37666 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:41:21 PM »

JK Rowling hates women now too? She must be stopped

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #37667 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:48:24 PM »

https://mobile.twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1364386001339248641

> one of the largest video game forums

benjipwns · « **Reply #37668 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:49:13 PM »

Quote from: https://www.resetera.com/threads/cod-mobile-esports-player-murdered-by-male-gamer-in-brazil.383696/

Its fucked up how many teenagers have become radicalized over the internet, by incels or white supremacists or whatever. This is why we need to hold game companies accountable for allowing sexism and racism and bigotry to fester on their platforms and communities.

Are we sure it wasn't the violence of Call of Duty Mobile?

Lonewulfeus · « **Reply #37669 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:53:23 PM »

Quote from: https://www.resetera.com/threads/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-is-troy-leavitt-a-game-developer-who-used-to-make-anti-feminist-and-pro-gamer-gate-videos-see-staff-post-added.381606/page-18#post-59345504

Good stuff. Will report promotional threads when they pop up.

Like you weren’t already

benjipwns · « **Reply #37670 on:** February 23, 2021, 09:14:40 PM »

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Good decision to banned discussion of the game. We have to support each other, regardless of who, what or where we're from.

Unless you're from Avalanche Software or Warner Bros. of course!

benjipwns · « **Reply #37671 on:** February 23, 2021, 09:16:37 PM »

Quote from: Hecht

If by chance it's at the State of Play, people will likely react in realtime to the news and while we'll be on the lookout for anything overboard, there will be no separate thread for the announcement.

what would something "overboard" look like?

benjipwns · « **Reply #37672 on:** February 23, 2021, 09:19:04 PM »

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HP fans shouldn't be allowed to ignore this bigotry.

james · « **Reply #37673 on:** February 23, 2021, 09:33:49 PM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #37674 on:** February 23, 2021, 09:34:40 PM »

https://twitter.com/nonarylame/status/1364388268373118976

https://twitter.com/Sulik2/status/1364391266977533953

https://twitter.com/ZiaLovesWife/status/1364390158544613380

Snoopycat_ · « **Reply #37675 on:** February 23, 2021, 09:46:40 PM »

It would be hilarious if Sony announced a HP/TLOU crossover.

ShutUp · « **Reply #37676 on:** February 23, 2021, 09:49:17 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on February 23, 2021, 09:16:37 PM

Quote from: Hecht
If by chance it's at the State of Play, people will likely react in realtime to the news and while we'll be on the lookout for anything overboard, there will be no separate thread for the announcement.
what would something "overboard" look like?

Them threads during conferences over the next year as this game is talked about more and more closer to release will be increasingly awkward. Mods gonna ban anyone who dares utter "damn this looks fun!"?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #37677 on:** February 23, 2021, 09:59:51 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on February 23, 2021, 09:19:04 PM

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HP fans shouldn't be allowed to ignore this bigotry.

What a man names his cat is his own business.

bork · « **Reply #37678 on:** February 23, 2021, 10:00:05 PM »

https://twitter.com/RyClyGuy/status/1364387056517062657
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1364390452196171777
https://twitter.com/RyClyGuy/status/1364392235534548992
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1364392716696748034
https://twitter.com/swishcapybara/status/1364392458143076356
https://twitter.com/RyClyGuy/status/1364392622916329478

Averon · « **Reply #37679 on:** February 23, 2021, 10:00:55 PM »

Quote from: ShutUp on February 23, 2021, 09:49:17 PM

Quote from: benjipwns on February 23, 2021, 09:16:37 PM
Quote from: Hecht
If by chance it's at the State of Play, people will likely react in realtime to the news and while we'll be on the lookout for anything overboard, there will be no separate thread for the announcement.
what would something "overboard" look like?

Mods gonna ban anyone who dares utter "damn this looks fun!"?

Yes?

As far as they are concerned, Hect's post in that one thread is all the warning present and future ERA posters will get and deserve. If you don't know the full on bigots working on the HP game, you are "dismissing concerns regarding GG and/or transphobia" and deserve whatever mod action coming your way.

News:

Author Topic: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread (Read 4214642 times)