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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45660 on: July 15, 2021, 03:56:10 PM »
https://twitter.com/xpatriciah/status/1409874996269363207

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I hate that so much of what video game websites consider worthy of coverage is often written for a specific type of presumed reader. It does not matter if a website is considered “progressive.” It says everything that, when writing about certain issues, video game websites often have to take care in explaining basic-ass concepts like “racism is real.”

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I do not want to tell my writers to grow thicker skin, though inevitably they do. I want the world to be a kinder place. It shouldn’t require bravery to write about fucking video games.

You are doing a tremendous job Patricia :trumps
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« Reply #45661 on: July 15, 2021, 04:00:49 PM »
Patricia Hernandez was always this terrible :lol :lol :lol.  I dunno if it was Gamergate or the push of corporate progressives but you couldn’t bitch about how awful Gawker media related sites and reporters were for years without people getting offended.

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« Reply #45662 on: July 15, 2021, 04:05:39 PM »
Quote from: riotous
You could comment on this without insulting the director, who also does a lot of hard work, Kotaku.

I'm glad he enjoys hanging out with his new gamer gate friends


Kotaku is literally the yikes fuel that the gamer gate trump nazi hate train runs on and I'm tired of them getting away with posting such oof garbage in bad faith  :hmph
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« Reply #45663 on: July 15, 2021, 04:10:12 PM »
Patricia Hernandez was always this terrible :lol :lol :lol.  I dunno if it was Gamergate or the push of corporate progressives but you couldn’t bitch about how awful Gawker media related sites and reporters were for years without people getting offended.

Gamergate was certainly a part of that. I lost count the number of times a game journalist would have a terrible take, gets criticism for it, and then bring up Gamergate out of the blue to shut the discussion down and discredit their critics. Frankly, Gamergate ended up being a boon for shitty, irresponsible games journalism. They used GG quite regularly as a shield, and it was effective. Hell, they still use this tactic today.
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45665 on: July 15, 2021, 04:23:53 PM »
People are now bragging about harassing him in the thread.  :lol

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« Reply #45666 on: July 15, 2021, 04:34:41 PM »
Unlike the real research Kotaku does on Harry Potter hentai.
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45667 on: July 15, 2021, 04:36:04 PM »
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Devs pushing back slightly and the Kotaku staff on twitter are all circling the wagons yelling "harassment!" Absolutely pathetic. The fuck happened to that site?
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"Criticizing my intentionally inflammatory writing is harassment!"

What a snowflake. Hi, Ian.

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I replied to Ian, "what they said wasn't silly though," and he blocked me :lol

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If more people are exposed to your bullshit, more people are likely to call you out on it.

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they do it for the clicks

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Ian, you blocked me for saying you were tilting at windmills. Such harassment. Wow.
:sicko

Every one of these comments would have gotten you banned for "attacking games journalism", "supporting harassment" and/or posting "Gamergate Rhetoric" not too long ago :lol

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« Reply #45668 on: July 15, 2021, 04:41:34 PM »
is it any wonder that the alt-right gaming side of era is demolishing the gaming (virtualnotreal) media?

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« Reply #45670 on: July 15, 2021, 04:50:59 PM »
Pretty amusing to see a Kotaku "journalist" talk about low-effort shit.

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« Reply #45671 on: July 15, 2021, 04:53:55 PM »
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Just because something is trending on twitter, doesn't mean it's actually threadworthy.
B-Cucks strikes again
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« Reply #45672 on: July 15, 2021, 04:59:19 PM »
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Just because something is trending on twitter, doesn't mean it's actually threadworthy.
B-Cucks strikes again

"games journalist called out for article by multiple developers and other journalists? not thread worthy on this gaming forum"

So obvious he got cold feet

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« Reply #45673 on: July 15, 2021, 05:00:21 PM »
He got cold feet because one of his mods was due to drop a hot take  :lol
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« Reply #45674 on: July 15, 2021, 05:01:17 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/miami-herald-%E2%80%98we-are-not-afraid-%E2%80%99-cubans-take-to-the-streets-to-demand-freedom-food-vaccines.455587/page-11

cuban revolutionaries meet blm meet bct meet cubanos

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« Reply #45675 on: July 15, 2021, 05:03:58 PM »
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« Reply #45676 on: July 15, 2021, 05:21:22 PM »
I don’t know why they need to message him personally over his bad take.  That said, it’s an awful take and should be criticized.  No room for nuance on Resetera though, unless you’re a mod who did something bad.

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« Reply #45679 on: July 15, 2021, 06:21:58 PM »
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Site should have been banned from discussion here once they did that stint with porn of fictional minors on their site and nobody on that top end was fired
3d or 2d porn of minors is still child porn before anyone argues otherwise.

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Yeah, I'm surprised they survived that in any capacity, let alone here of all places. I guess child porn isn't as bad an offense as others.

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« Reply #45680 on: July 15, 2021, 06:29:40 PM »
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Site should have been banned from discussion here once they did that stint with porn of fictional minors on their site and nobody on that top end was fired
3d or 2d porn of minors is still child porn before anyone argues otherwise.

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Yeah, I'm surprised they survived that in any capacity, let alone here of all places. I guess child porn isn't as bad an offense as others.

 :gladbron
The community that had a certified paedophile as a former mod is not phased by child porn?
 :crazy
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45682 on: July 15, 2021, 07:46:02 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/communism-is-a-failed-system-a-universally-failed-system-president-biden.457636/
Communist LARPers are distraught

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This kind of opinion coming from him is not newsworthy and will not produce valuable discussion.

It's only the President of the United States condemning an entire philosophy/economic system.
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« Reply #45683 on: July 15, 2021, 08:16:43 PM »
He got cold feet because one of his mods was due to drop a hot take  :lol

Yet on first page:

Quote from: GhostCrew, Moderator
That headline, especially next to that photo of one specific person, just seems really, really cruel.

Like, I know what they're trying to do and say. But, it's just nasty, y'know?

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This is embarrassing.

If the article wanted to make a point that grunt work is not rewarded enough and producers jobs are too "cushy", this was REALLY the wrong approach.

It's not that producers are lazy. The issue would be inequality in salaries, benefits, etc.

This is ignorant and stupid, but I'm not surprised anymore, misrepresentation seems to be the author's bread and butter. At least he didn't call the devs fuckboys, I guess.

And eight pages in three hours, yet Dumbs has the gall to act like its not threadworthy.

How's those Taku balls taste?

Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45684 on: July 15, 2021, 08:20:22 PM »
Does it mean anything if closures for lack of threadworthiness have become so capricious and closure messages so value-free that even RedMercury is wondering what's up?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-100#post-69562876
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I don't usually do this but I'm curious as to why this thread was closed: https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-calls-research-done-by-call-of-duty-devs-a-nice-european-vacation.457459/

The stated reason for closure was basically "not everything on Twitter needs a thread".

I guess I don't really understand what the point of any thread is if not for discussion of the thing the thread is about. There are a ton of threads that are posted that don't "need" to be threads or are maybe a bit silly or whatever else. The thread in question here was up to 7 pages in a relatively short period of time- this is obviously something people wanted to discuss. As far as I can tell it's about an article based on video games, posted on a site dedicated to gaming news, so we know it's on-topic for the gaming forum.

This isn't the only instance of this happening but it would be cool to have some clear, relatively objective standards as to why a thread people are interested in can just be closed based on what seems like, from the outside looking in, a subjective value judgement of one or maybe a few individuals. There have been many other threads where a third party has determined a thread has run its course, but threads do that naturally on their own when people stop posting in them, it happens every day.

I can understand locking a thread for a while to get reports under control, or if the subject matter of the thread just cannot be discussed within the TOS of the site, but in this (and sometimes other) it felt like kind of, just because.

So I guess the question is, what determines something being "threadworthy" if not for a high level of participation and interest, and if a topic is to become basically verboten (it's not like someone could have turned around and made another similar thread) shouldn't that necessitate some higher level of examination or explanation? What is the process of making that determination and how is it applied evenly across all threads?
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Just had a look at that thread and while the article is definitely a bad take, that thread had basically just ended up being people posting "lol i tweeted at him that his article was dumb and he blocked me". Regardless of the bad take, guy doesn't deserve incessant comments like that aimed at him and the thread was just cultivating that.

The closing the thread message could've been more informative though, I agree.


on the other thread closure side, tbh I think they should just suck it up and create a "Leftist rage about Biden continually being an old white liberal who says exactly what you'd expect" OT

Edit: he's still going
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Okay, but there have been a ton threads where someone says something stupid or has a bad take that go on for a very, very long time where the vast majority of comments are relatively the same, so if that is the reasoning it wouldn't make sense. It's also really subjective as to what kind of criticism the person deserves, as of now they are still doubling down on a very bad take, this is someone who represents a major gaming outlet, to you or Joe or Jack it may seem like too much, but to Jill and Harry and Jim it may not, and within the thread everyone is free to make that point and discuss. If people aren't interested, well the thread falls off the front page and that's usually pretty much it, the community is capable of deciding what is or is not worth discussing IMO.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.resetera.com/threads/communism-is-a-failed-system-a-universally-failed-system-president-biden.457636/page-4[/URL]

Here is another example, a statement from the President of the United States calling Cuba a failed state and remarks on an entire system of Government, thread decided to be not newsworthy despite there actually being news articles from major platforms about the statement. Like, someone should have told CNN and Politico to not bother running his remarks.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.resetera.com/threads/scarlett-johansson-still-praising-joss-whedon.455278/[/URL]

There's another one, plenty of people posted in it but somehow, by some metric, it "isn't needed".

I just don't get why it has to be so heavy-handed, why discussions can't just play out naturally. If people are breaking the rules, do you what you have to do but it's like taking your kids out for ice cream and one of them is acting up, so you turn the car around and take them all home, it feels like people making these decisions either think everyone are children who don't know what's best for themselves, or don't want the hassle of moderating if things get heated. Why use a machete when you can use a scalpel?

I'm usually the first to say that I appreciate all the work the mods/admins here put in, because I know it sucks and can be not fun and there are people here who do a lot. Maybe it's just differing philosophies, I'm just having a hard time seeing where the impetus is for shutting things down instead of taking the admittedly more time consuming but I think better for the end user approach of moderating in the truest sense of the word, helping keep the discussion within the parameters of the forum through presence and participation.

If someone posts something and a ton of people respond, and discussion is very active, that's the userbase telling you it's content they want to discuss, that they think is worthy of discussion.
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45685 on: July 15, 2021, 08:48:52 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/no-cults-no-politics-no-ghouls-how-china-censors-the-video-game-world-the-guardian.457258/post-69506206
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Well I guess that’s part of the reason, why there is no good games coming out of China.

It's racist to say there are no good games coming out of a place where there are no good games coming out of?
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45686 on: July 15, 2021, 08:59:56 PM »
I think I’m now firmly on the “Red Merc is a troll” side after those posts :heh

That said, mods closing the thread instead of banning the people who were admitting to harassing the author on Twitter is just lazy modding.

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« Reply #45687 on: July 15, 2021, 09:07:04 PM »
Dubs has lost RecMerc??

Ooooh, never a good side when the sickiest of sycophants calls you out for your bullshit.

 :gladbron :delicious :popcorn

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45688 on: July 15, 2021, 09:18:06 PM »
merc having a tough day at work before his weekend

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45689 on: July 15, 2021, 09:36:03 PM »
It's almost like there is a list of troublemakers that they have been quietly perming over the last couple of months.

Can confirm this is 80% accurate, but a bit more complex than this.

So "the list" is basically socialism era, people who criticize Biden and other people poli-era hates?
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45690 on: July 15, 2021, 10:16:03 PM »
It's almost like there is a list of troublemakers that they have been quietly perming over the last couple of months.

Can confirm this is 80% accurate, but a bit more complex than this.

So "the list" is basically socialism era, people who criticize Biden and other people poli-era hates?

Poli-Era has always gotten people banned, that’s not new at all.

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« Reply #45691 on: July 15, 2021, 10:52:35 PM »
Seems like a good time to bring that up. :trumps
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« Reply #45692 on: July 15, 2021, 11:09:42 PM »
Compiling a list of enemies and disposing of them quietly so the rest of the people don’t see what’s going on… for as much as they hate fascism on ResetEra, they sure don’t mind borrowing some of its practices. :teehee

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« Reply #45693 on: July 15, 2021, 11:28:22 PM »
https://twitter.com/iantothemax/status/1415783799548350465

Maybe he should write an article

 :sicko

Patricia is telling him to get on it as we speak.

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« Reply #45694 on: July 15, 2021, 11:34:31 PM »
There's nothing I want more than a Kotaku article trashing Resetera. Battle of the irrelevant titans

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« Reply #45695 on: July 15, 2021, 11:36:40 PM »
Quote from: sensui-tomo
Site should have been banned from discussion here once they did that stint with porn of fictional minors on their site and nobody on that top end was fired
3d or 2d porn of minors is still child porn before anyone argues otherwise.

Quote from: cowbanana
Yeah, I'm surprised they survived that in any capacity, let alone here of all places. I guess child porn isn't as bad an offense as others.

 :gladbron
The community that had a certified paedophile as a former mod is not phased by child porn?
 :crazy

Again trying with the “they are all pedos because they perverts in their discords”? 

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« Reply #45696 on: July 15, 2021, 11:38:14 PM »
It's almost like there is a list of troublemakers that they have been quietly perming over the last couple of months.

Can confirm this is 80% accurate, but a bit more complex than this.

So "the list" is basically socialism era, people who criticize Biden and other people poli-era hates?

But why is Socialism Era so distinguished mentally-challenged?

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« Reply #45697 on: July 16, 2021, 12:43:40 AM »
It's almost like there is a list of troublemakers that they have been quietly perming over the last couple of months.

Can confirm this is 80% accurate, but a bit more complex than this.

So "the list" is basically socialism era, people who criticize Biden and other people poli-era hates?

But why is Socialism Era so distinguished mentally-challenged?
Umm...
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45698 on: July 16, 2021, 05:30:03 AM »
If there wasn't already evidence for it, the way some on the left talk about Cuba is prime horseshoe theory shit.  It's no wonder so many in Florida vote Republican when there's not a single public person associated with the right that refuse to place some of the blame on Cuba's government.

It's because a lot of people can't reconcile the fact that a dude writing about generic physical product manufacturing factories 150 years ago as the basis for broad socioeconomic analysis has little relevance in a world where capital isn't tied to any physical product like gold, and where you can become a billionaire by playing Fortnite on youtube, or writing a book about wizard school.

So they decided that Cuba is actually paradise on earth, but any minor flaws are all necessary to prevent big bad USA destroying their utopia.

It's basically just the equivalent of religious dogma at this point, and despite evidence to the contrary things must be true because it says so in their Holy Book.

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« Reply #45699 on: July 16, 2021, 05:30:51 AM »
But why is Socialism Era so distinguished mentally-challenged?

see previous post  :-*

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« Reply #45700 on: July 16, 2021, 05:32:46 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/communism-is-a-failed-system-a-universally-failed-system-president-biden.457636/
Communist LARPers are distraught

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This kind of opinion coming from him is not newsworthy and will not produce valuable discussion.

It's only the President of the United States condemning an entire philosophy/economic system.

But has he played Titanfall?

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« Reply #45701 on: July 16, 2021, 05:46:15 AM »
Merc sweating over his history of stupid hot takes

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« Reply #45702 on: July 16, 2021, 05:59:47 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/australia-says-furry-representation-with-2021-olympic-mascots.457770/

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The sticker booklets, comic, collectible coins, and even a concept for a plane wrap were designed by Twitter user @SailorFailures, who got the gig when the Royal Australian Mint said it wanted someone who could draw anime art. “Rest assured the people employing me had no idea what furries were,” they tweeted. “But I did.”

 :walkaway

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« Reply #45703 on: July 16, 2021, 06:04:07 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/australia-says-furry-representation-with-2021-olympic-mascots.457770/

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The sticker booklets, comic, collectible coins, and even a concept for a plane wrap were designed by Twitter user @SailorFailures, who got the gig when the Royal Australian Mint said it wanted someone who could draw anime art. “Rest assured the people employing me had no idea what furries were,” they tweeted. “But I did.”

 :walkaway

I wish I knew how to draw this to the attention of Internet Historian.
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« Reply #45704 on: July 16, 2021, 06:43:54 AM »
The only "statement" Valve is making is that by only being able to ship to a small limited number of countries as usual, they are essentially releasing a niche experimental product that will maybe please enthusiasts (who live in the countries it is available in) and have no larger impact on anything. The same can be seen in all their other hardware efforts - Steam Machines, Steam Controller, Valve Index. Different levels of success but same negligible impact on a worldwide market. Relax.

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What regions can I reserve Steam Deck from?
Customers in the United States, Canada, European Union, and the United Kingdom can reserve a Steam Deck. Information about expanded regional availability coming soon.



 :brain

The only big traditional territory being missed is Japan, who don't like the PC and have never been a big market for PC gaming, as their weird attitude towards ports has shown.
The big missing PC market is Russia, which I'm sure will be buying via EU channels as soon as they can.

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« Reply #45705 on: July 16, 2021, 06:58:04 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/australia-says-furry-representation-with-2021-olympic-mascots.457770/

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The sticker booklets, comic, collectible coins, and even a concept for a plane wrap were designed by Twitter user @SailorFailures, who got the gig when the Royal Australian Mint said it wanted someone who could draw anime art. “Rest assured the people employing me had no idea what furries were,” they tweeted. “But I did.”

 :walkaway
I apologise on behalf of all Australians. We will feed them to the dingos as soon as they are found.
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45706 on: July 16, 2021, 07:23:58 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/australia-says-furry-representation-with-2021-olympic-mascots.457770/

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The sticker booklets, comic, collectible coins, and even a concept for a plane wrap were designed by Twitter user @SailorFailures, who got the gig when the Royal Australian Mint said it wanted someone who could draw anime art. “Rest assured the people employing me had no idea what furries were,” they tweeted. “But I did.”

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This is what you get, you take a break from owning the libs for 6 months and the furries take over government :trumps
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Uncle

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45707 on: July 16, 2021, 09:04:59 AM »
I apologise on behalf of all Australians. We will feed them to the dingos as soon as they are found.

the naivety, assuming that vore wasn't already part of their plan
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« Reply #45708 on: July 16, 2021, 09:12:54 AM »
They could be releasing this on the Moon and it'd still be a "niche product".  :yeshrug

Cauliflower Of Love

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45709 on: July 16, 2021, 09:26:21 AM »


 :existential

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45710 on: July 16, 2021, 09:46:24 AM »
Yeah I'm highly considering getting one for the cool tech factor. Only use I could see is if I hang out with friends at their place or when I travel for work, but I also own a gaming laptop so it may be pointless.

Since getting a GPD Win Max last year, and now with the Win 3, my laptop doesn't get much use.  It's a lot more convenient and comfortable to use one of these handhelds and most games will run great.
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45711 on: July 16, 2021, 09:46:56 AM »
There's nothing I want more than a Kotaku article trashing Resetera. Battle of the irrelevant titans

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benjipwns

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45712 on: July 16, 2021, 11:30:54 AM »
User Banned (1 Month): Trolling With Regard to Masks; Prior Ban for the Same

Public officials: "Go get the vaccine and we can all get back to normal"

Also public officials: "LOL sike your vaccine is worthless."
:huh

HaughtyFrank

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45713 on: July 16, 2021, 11:36:04 AM »
Their bans can be so weird

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Saying "Black America doesn't understand ________", where blank includes examples of state oppression, is one hell of a wild take. You may want to reconsider such a stance.
Fuck no, I won't reconsider it. They're literally siding with an oppressive dictatorship state that has been abusing and torturing their people for years. They're either stupid, or hypocrites.

User Banned (3 Days) Inflammatory rhetoric. While the statement from BLM is not above critique, it is important not to use such a post to denigrate all of Black America as regime sympathizers.

But it wasn't even him who equated the BLM post with "Black America"

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Good on them to condemn the embargo. Black America has a history of standing with Cuban revolutionaries:

Of course no ban for this person

Either you stand against any generalizations at all, or you allow this rhetoric

benjipwns

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45714 on: July 16, 2021, 11:37:40 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/socialism-ot-the-dawn-of-a-red-era.585/post-69493402
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I don't think anyone is willing to believe you're here to do anything beyond trolling when you were attacking members of this community elsewhere and had your first post in a community thread to call people out. That's really strange behavior.

Welcome to the community, though, comrade!
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Mostly because 4 years ago I was trying to flesh out the links in OP and tossed it in there. I've never heard of any of the people you're referring to, but in an act of good will, I will take you at your word that you are a socialist and remove it, though your post history and your activity so far in the thread leaves me skeptical.
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It comes across as really antagonistic or looking to troll when your first post in this topic is to make accusations about something.

I don't have any stake in those writers, or the website itself, but it is just especially odd since the very sources you posted shows they hadn't written for them since 2015. I'm sure if you dug into any sort of website you'll find a problematic writer here or a problematic article there; these websites publish hundreds of articles a year and get 10x more than that as pitches. Some shit will occasionally slip through, or sometimes the culture of the site will change; it's impossible for any content creation anywhere to be 100% pure and unproblematic.

For all I care, the website could be removed from the OP, but do think about why members in this thread are responding the way they are. Especially since it's pretty common for users on this site to concern troll members from this thread.

If you genuinely want to engage perhaps talk a little about yourself instead of going straight to raising concerns in an accusatory way. Engage with the posters here as well instead of being on the defensive. Ask about what parts of socialism is appealing to us. I'd genuinely love to hear your ideas of democratic socialism, for instance, and why you are for it.
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are you suggesting that perhaps at times in recent history accusations of antisemitism against even only somewhat left-wing figures have been used by bad actors to attempt to make leftist politics look bigoted

and that being someone who's never even posted anything hinting at socialism but suddenly coming into a thread about socialism claiming I'm A Socialist And I'm Very Concerned About How This Link In Your OP That Nobody Reads Makes My Movement, Socialism, Look Bad might potentially make you look like one of those people that's just trying to stir shit up for the sake of political points

this may not be the true motivation - I'm certainly not making that accusation - but also, anyone who's paid any attention at all to the past like five years of left-wing-ish politics probably ought to know that this kind of thing would get an immediate side-eye from us
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Part of it is because there are threads on this website in which forum members constantly talk out the sides of their mouths about fellow forum members who are socialists. It's a frustrating feature of this website that precedes your joining this thread, and since your first post here was a critical one I hope you might understand how that precedent influences the wariness with which you were initially received. Everyone here is anti-fascist and responsive to critique--it was more a matter of first impressions. If you mean well, then you're welcome to chillax here and share in the joys of socialist discourse.
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This community has dealt with countless drive-by's, trolling, disingenuous snide-posting and targeting, etc over the years. Please put our reaction in that context. Your first participation in this thread was not introducing yourself as a democratic socialist but instead an attack on the nearly-four-year-old original topic post. Frankly that would have been better done through a DM to the OT creator.
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Yes, because of the way a lot of conversation is dictated on this website, I do think the initial reactions were justified. I don't think it is unsurprising to feel cautious at a first interaction that implies similarly to regular EtcetEra Forum posts that denigrate fellow forum members who are socialists. I understand your offence, but again, the responses drew more upon that general experience than they were about you personally. If you'd like to move on together from that initial reaction then you are welcome, but you are of course free to choose otherwise.
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When I barge in as a complete unknown, brimming with spoiling-for-a-fight energy, people aren't receptive and are suspicious of my motives for some reason. Alas. So much for the tolerant left.
being a socialist on ResetERA.com is tough work

benjipwns

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45715 on: July 16, 2021, 11:40:50 AM »
But it wasn't even him who equated the BLM post with "Black America"
Part of the problem is their insistence on believing the fallacy that BLM the organization and BLM the movement are one and the same. A view they've enforced with bans on the forum before.

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45716 on: July 16, 2021, 12:46:42 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/no-cults-no-politics-no-ghouls-how-china-censors-the-video-game-world-the-guardian.457258/post-69506206
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Well I guess that’s part of the reason, why there is no good games coming out of China.

It's racist to say there are no good games coming out of a place where there are no good games coming out of?

China has a pretty storied and interesting history with game dev, lots of cool-looking wuxia themed RPGs and such. Of course hardly any of them got international releases so they're super obscure in the west (aside from of course Genshin).

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45717 on: July 16, 2021, 01:42:51 PM »
Have you ever felt like you had a "nexus" event in your lifetime?


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This year's MCU installments have me thinking about my past. …

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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45718 on: July 16, 2021, 01:43:38 PM »
speaking about China
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WTF I love Communism now.
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Re: Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread
« Reply #45719 on: July 16, 2021, 01:46:40 PM »
Taiwan belongs to China
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