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

[HaughtyFrank]

I didn't know there's a Diablo 2 beta. Thank you era 

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-and-sony-are-encouraging-you-to-pre-order-blizzards-next-game-diablo-ii-resurected-updated.469722/page-13#post-71330820

I finally got into the D2 beta and the music alone is like injecting nostalgia directly into my brain. I think I'm having flashbacks. This stuff was buried so deep into my childhood.

 

[Snoopycat_]

Patrice ripping into one of Rich Vos’s early sets is one of the funniest things ever

[HaughtyFrank]

I like this thread

https://www.resetera.com/threads/diablo-ii-resurrected-open-beta-has-begun-currently-3rd-most-watched-category-on-twitch-beta-key-drops-from-watching.471276/

The title is basically "Fuck yeah, Diablo!" while the OP then laments the success. Perfect way to get people who are mad at blizzard and those who don't care into one thread

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Oh God, is a Crash Override style scam:

https://gameshotline.org/about/

The Games and Online Harassment Hotline recognizes the pioneering work done by Zoe Quinn and Crash Override. Everything we do is building on their hard work and the lessons learned from their experiences in this space. 

Is totally a GamerGhazi con.


It must feel sad how irrelevant people like Anita and Zoe actually are when nobody have asked their opinion of the Blizzard debacle.

Giving all the benefit of the doubt in the world possible that this isn't just some scam to get paid, and is a legitimate charity with the goal of ending being harrassed while gaming;

How?

Like, what is the end goal you are working towards?
If you're getting shit on in a game, there's a whole fucking toolset of options you can take mid-match up to and including leaving that particular match and going somewhere else, so what is the charitable aspects goals that need funding?

Is it literally that you want the "thank you, your abuse report has been submitted and will be looked at for further action" message to be replaced with some infantilising "Awww poor baby, did mean stranger say bad things? U R A special snowflake, and we love you XOXOXO"?

Like... whats the fucking end goal? Whats your big idea to 'stop' harassment?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-general-discussion-ot25-im-oled-you-finish-but-trans-rights-are-human-rights-free-palestine.453169/page-285#post-71141604

User banned (1 month): don’t post walls of images objectifying characters, especially minors, even as a joke

A1hGnQo.jpg


He got them apple bottom jeans
Boots with the fur

edit: took out the wall of Rex butts. sorry the world wasn't ready for that yet.

[Nintex]

Oh God, is a Crash Override style scam:

https://gameshotline.org/about/

The Games and Online Harassment Hotline recognizes the pioneering work done by Zoe Quinn and Crash Override. Everything we do is building on their hard work and the lessons learned from their experiences in this space. 

Is totally a GamerGhazi con.


It must feel sad how irrelevant people like Anita and Zoe actually are when nobody have asked their opinion of the Blizzard debacle.

Giving all the benefit of the doubt in the world possible that this isn't just some scam to get paid, and is a legitimate charity with the goal of ending being harrassed while gaming;

How?

Like, what is the end goal you are working towards?
If you're getting shit on in a game, there's a whole fucking toolset of options you can take mid-match up to and including leaving that particular match and going somewhere else, so what is the charitable aspects goals that need funding?

Is it literally that you want the "thank you, your abuse report has been submitted and will be looked at for further action" message to be replaced with some infantilising "Awww poor baby, did mean stranger say bad things? U R A special snowflake, and we love you XOXOXO"?

Like... whats the fucking end goal? Whats your big idea to 'stop' harassment?

Yes

and then you cancel who harassed or misgendered you in the voice chat with a doxxing internet mob 

[team filler]

Patrice ripping into one of Rich Vos’s early sets is one of the funniest things ever

think you posted the wrong vid, mate. this one got patrice on it 

[Potato]

  Writing shitty articles based on press releases for $10
  Writing 10,000 word screeds for free on Resetera about how the line piece in Tetris being the best piece in the game is just reinforcing gender stereotypes

[Kurt Russell]

I didn't know there's a Diablo 2 beta. Thank you era 

Yup.

Currently watching Twitch to get me some sweet beta action. This guy is actually super likeable and also called ResetERA a hell hole earlier 

https://www.twitch.tv/kmusou

[benjipwns]

Twitter and RE are surprised of freelance Journos wages:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-dualshockers-took-an-interesting-approach-to-hire-people-from-marginalised-groups.471123/

If you can't pay your employees a living wage you have a failed business. The amount of articles per day you have to write to live off of $14 an article is crazy. It being "industry standard" for that size of a site is similar to how the US restaurant industry justifies below minimum wage for servers.

I understand in many cases improving worker pay is easier said than done but at least show you're trying to. Posting saying essentially "yeah it sucks but that's how it is" is using established poor practice as an excuse.

Or maybe, and this is just me, it's not actually a business but a hobby? Not all of life is work ya know.

How could you even afford to live on this. You'd have to write 10 articles a day 7 days a week and you still wouldn't be able to afford to rent your own place.

How does this type of job pay work? Like x amount per article plus an hourly wage? Or just what the article pays? If so wtf. How would a journalist survive doing this? How many articles do you need to write a day to "live" comfortably?

I assumed that journalists were paid hourly or salary, and the only people being paid per article were like... contractors/freelance or something who write articles specifically for websites that allow just about anyone to come in and post an article. And even then, I'd assume they'd get paid based on the number of clicks their article gets, rather than just "$15 an article".

None of this makes any sense to me.

Guarantee you the white men who own these companies are making more than $14.

[Potato]

I love that these people are suddenly having a realisation that the morons that write these shitty articles complaining about every aspect of their favourite hobby are just commoners who slave away for a pittance and the chance to be vERAfied.
 

[benjipwns]

Well we're back in business, I will probably post less going forward (concentrating on this thread) as it is no longer tenable for me to navigate the kafkaesque conversation restrictions.

MISREPRESENTING MODERATION

Also stealing from benji.

[clothedmacuser]

                https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-there-any-physiological-reason-the-chin-greys-faster-than-the-other-parts-of-a-beard.471351/





He can grow a beard.  Our little guy is becoming a man.

[Boredfrom]

Guarantee you the white men who own these companies are making more than $14. 

 

[Don Rumata]

Could it be that such articles, just... don't have that much market value?


But you know, the proof is in the pudding, and that's relatively easy to solve: Open your own patreon, with your own blog, and see how much readers are willing to pay to read your shit. 

This is how every "Content Creator" out there operates after all, Youtubers, artists, twitch people, etc. and you're writing about entertainment, not dodging bombs in Syria, so that's the landscape you're playing in.

[clothedmacuser]

In the glorious tomorrow bourgeois notions of quality and content will be stripped of their aristocratic heritage.  What matters is the word count.  You know, like Dickens.

[nudemacusers]

have we determined which formerly banned poliera centrist owns the warhawk4eva account?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/diablo-ii-resurrected-open-beta-has-begun-currently-3rd-most-watched-category-on-twitch-beta-key-drops-from-watching.471276/page-5#post-71353488

We're going to be using the same rules we always have for this stuff: don't dismiss or downplay the harm done and also don't go attacking people for not choosing to boycott. Whether you want to boycott or not is a personal choice, people do it for different reasons and have different lines they cannot cross. There's going to be women who want to play this game and people accusing them of not caring about sexual assault would be pretty horrific, given how normalized sexist bullshit is in the first place, especially if those accusations came from men.

Again, same rules we've always had. Wanna talk about gamers as a whole not caring, fine, but lay off each other. And for those who choose not to boycott, don't go downplaying or dismissing what's happened.

“Same rules” 

[benjipwns]

So they'll be limiting ActiBlizz to no hype threads and only an OT? Oh wait, this time the mods haven't gotten caught doing anything, so nevermind!

[Drainage]

B-chuds defending those who want to make a “personal choice”

 

[Snoopycat_]

think you posted the wrong vid, mate. this one got patrice on it 




Yup, that's the one.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

have we determined which formerly banned poliera centrist owns the warhawk4eva account?

Warhawk? Sounds like Hillary.


Claims to be a 41-year-old nonpracticing Jew, if that helps.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/politico-biden-on-afghanistan-not-my-problem.470373/page-12#post-71362722

[benjipwns]

This forum is full of racists.

[BikeJesus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pinknews-activision-blizzard-accused-of-routinely-deadnaming-trans-staff.471501/post-71365485

Light the kyuuji signal!

[Snoopycat_]

Here comes the Acti ban.

[SmokyDave]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pinknews-activision-blizzard-accused-of-routinely-deadnaming-trans-staff.471501/post-71365485

Light the kyuuji signal!

Oh man, looks like they're bringing out their best minds:

BUT MUH DIABLO 2 REMAKE!!!11
aND Me bOYcoTTinG tHEm woN't hELp em!!11

ERA Staff: We CaN't BaN EvErY CoMpAnY.

When is it enough? srsly

It's on.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pinknews-activision-blizzard-accused-of-routinely-deadnaming-trans-staff.471501/post-71365485

Light the kyuuji signal!

[NekoFever]

Well, there it is. Trump card played. Let's see how this goes.

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pinknews-activision-blizzard-accused-of-routinely-deadnaming-trans-staff.471501/post-71365485

Light the kyuuji signal!

Some poor sap in the virtual mail room is about to be cancelled because his (and cis/white) ass clicked "send all."

[Uncle]

Well, there it is. Trump card played. Let's see how this goes.

what's funny is this isn't even particularly surprising or extra-egregious, it's just yet another random sin

anything at all could've been the tipping point

"evidence shows repeated interference from top blizzard artists that kept strong females off game covers"

"insider information leaks that top blizzard execs were conservative christians, explaining the push for pro-religious themes and agendas in diablo"

"demoness andariel revealed to be supposedly modeled directly after blizzard employee, who left the company in tears as modelers laughed"

[HaughtyFrank]

It's pretty hilarious how these accusations are so much worse than anything CDPR ever did.

[Boredfrom]

This forum isn't as progressive as it would lead you to believe. Check out any thread dealing with social issues in games and wade through the minefield of banned posters being bigots.

At this point he is trolling, right?

[team filler]

 

[Boredfrom]

Iphones are essential to life, bro:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/diablo-ii-resurrected-open-beta-has-begun-currently-3rd-most-watched-category-on-twitch-beta-key-drops-from-watching.471276/page-9#post-71369766

[BikeJesus]

Y'all are fucking disgusting.

It's not hard to not play a video game.

Fuck Activision Blizzard and fuck anyone that gives Bobby money.

Imagine being this high and mighty. I don't personally play their games because i deleted battlenet after Destiny 2 came to Steam, but i don't give a fuck if other people do.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/diablo-ii-resurrected-open-beta-has-begun-currently-3rd-most-watched-category-on-twitch-beta-key-drops-from-watching.471276/post-71368206

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pinknews-activision-blizzard-accused-of-routinely-deadnaming-trans-staff-ignoring-making-fun-of-a-non-binary-employees-pronouns.471501/page-4#post-71370498

Android Sophia not learning anything from past experiences swears support Kiuuji and the woke squad mass trolling of Activision threads.

[Lonewulfeus]

I’m doing my part, I’m only gonna buy D2R when it’s at least 50% off

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mostly cause I’ve been playing Path of Exile again

[close]

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pinknews-activision-blizzard-accused-of-routinely-deadnaming-trans-staff-ignoring-making-fun-of-a-non-binary-employees-pronouns.471501/page-2

I see there is a boycott going on but is there more I can do to change this company’s toxic culture? Can I sign a petition or something?

 

[Boredfrom]

All I see on that thread are the worst users of the site organizing shitting on ActivisionBlizzard related threads because TransRE approved a open season.

[Snoopycat_]

I did my part. I bought Ghost Recon Wildlands.

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-can%E2%80%99t-get-my-%E2%80%9Cfriends%E2%80%9D-to-text-me-back.471540/

It seems like every time I try and connect with my friends who live elsewhere, they almost never reply. It seems like they’re actively trying to avoid me and it pisses me off. I got high last night and just wallowed over the fact that I don’t have any friends and none of them want to talk to me. I just don’t understand what is so bad about me. It makes me so fucking mad. I hate myself.

I can't imagine why nobody wants to deal with him.

[Pissy F Benny]

things are looking good for the most dedicated ree's rn, they get to morally grandstand and shit on toxic gamers at the same time

[nobody of note]

Did the Diablo 2 twitch viewership thread have a name change or is he seriously bitching that the responses aren't solely responding to the last line of the post
https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-102#post-71373936

How can it be, that a thread that clearly started as a reaction to, how most gamers don't care about the ongoing situation at Activision Blizzard
"Blizzard will learn nothing." turn into an unofficial thread about the Beta, where people can just freely discuss the game itself and the performance?

I thought the Guidlines are clear enough

Read the Thread Before Replying

When you enter a thread please ensure that you have read beyond the title before you respond. The absolute minimum effort you should put in is to read the original post (OP) in its entirety, along with any threadmarks or staff posts. Asking questions that have already been answered in the OP or threadmarks adds nothing to a discussion. If it is clear that you have not read the thread and missed important information that was appropriately highlighted, you may be subject to moderation.

Mod team really fucking up and letting people feel like they can freely talk about game performance

[joeboy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-can%E2%80%99t-get-my-%E2%80%9Cfriends%E2%80%9D-to-text-me-back.471540/

It seems like every time I try and connect with my friends who live elsewhere, they almost never reply. It seems like they’re actively trying to avoid me and it pisses me off. I got high last night and just wallowed over the fact that I don’t have any friends and none of them want to talk to me. I just don’t understand what is so bad about me. It makes me so fucking mad. I hate myself.

I can't imagine why nobody wants to deal with him.

Well, they say to make friends you have to find something in common with other people.

 

[HaughtyFrank]

Did the Diablo 2 twitch viewership thread have a name change or is he seriously bitching that the responses aren't solely responding to the last line of the post
https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-102#post-71373936

How can it be, that a thread that clearly started as a reaction to, how most gamers don't care about the ongoing situation at Activision Blizzard
"Blizzard will learn nothing." turn into an unofficial thread about the Beta, where people can just freely discuss the game itself and the performance?

I thought the Guidlines are clear enough

Read the Thread Before Replying

When you enter a thread please ensure that you have read beyond the title before you respond. The absolute minimum effort you should put in is to read the original post (OP) in its entirety, along with any threadmarks or staff posts. Asking questions that have already been answered in the OP or threadmarks adds nothing to a discussion. If it is clear that you have not read the thread and missed important information that was appropriately highlighted, you may be subject to moderation.

Mod team really fucking up and letting people feel like they can freely talk about game performance

Yeah really speaks for the incompetence of the mods. The outcome was easy to see as soon as the thread was made. Instead the only change they made to title was to add that there are twitch drops 

Either be woke fun police or put those idiots in their place, instead they sit on the sideline

[joeboy101]

Amazing how hard Astro is going to the paint for the mods.

I'm also saying look at the effort Kyuuji put into the thread that led to action taken with the CP2077 OT.

We draw the lines where we can, and this is a community where we as users need to put effort into making it better too. If you really a believe a specific company/game should have similar action taken like the CP2077 OT, then present a thread and argument why so it can be properly discussed and it might lead to it.

We need to the put the effort into these things as much as the staff do if we want changes to happen here. Saying "OK" like you're going to present something then just put two sentences in an thread about another issue isn't going to cut it.

Speak with staff first and make your case? I'm pretty sure Kyujji did that (might be wrong though).

I can't speak of close threads, were they well thought out OTs productively presenting the issue, or were they more meta-commentary on the way the place should be run?

Postering? Wanting equal punishment for all studios that do this shit is posturing?

Why are you being so dishonest? OBVIOUSLY I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the way you presented it, just posturing like you want to do something productive and instead just making a small post in an unrelated thread that will only serve to derail/take attention away from another issue like it is now.

You want to do something, actually present it properly so something might come of it.

I think you should make the thread first. Get it pinned. That would be the first step.

Then you could potentially work with staff to make it so any thread about these companies has some kind of link to it. Maybe one of the staff notes about the Post Reply field, or maybe a post at the top of the page like the CP2077 OT.

It's great that you're taking that first step to make the thread, I think that would be a wonderful thing to have here. My advice would be to not try to look at every hurdle right now and just try to make it and get it posted first and work from there.

Did you share your suggestions and outrage through the proper channels? Does this tool not realize what they sound like right now?

 

[joeboy101]

What's the bar on determining what should be limited? Who decides?

    To be clear I think the game discussion and the corporations should be very different threads.

    Boycotting is a very personal decision, calling out someone who wants to talk about Diablo on a Gaming forum thread dedicated to the game is just going to kill any discussion here over time

We do, as a community. Like Kyuuji decided they needed to do something and it paid off. She is not staff, she is a user like you or I. she presented it, we discussed it, it led to action. It didn't kill discussion.

Who said anything about calling anyone out?

What kind of revisionist bullshit is this? Kayiju got pissed of people weren't talk about her CDPR obsessions with every post so she went on a mission to shame the mods, that flew in the face of the boards popular opinion.

Guess what Astro, if they ban Blizzard, it will fly in the face of the community's opinion as well.

[Kurt Russell]

Imagine creating a video game forum and then systematically banning every developer of note.

Absolute fucking clownshoes.

[Boredfrom]

We do, as a community. Like Kyuuji decided they needed to do something and it paid off. She is not staff, she is a user like you or I. she presented it, we discussed it, it led to action. It didn't kill discussion.

You cannot even make threads about CD Projekt unless there is a negative spin.

[Pissy F Benny]

all because a large or at least most vocal part of the userbase are too immature to ignore threads discussing something or someone they don't like

[Uncle]

We do, as a community. Like Kyuuji decided they needed to do something and it paid off. She is not staff, she is a user like you or I. she presented it, we discussed it, it led to action. It didn't kill discussion.

You cannot even make threads about CD Projekt unless there is a negative spin.

to comment on CDPR in a positive light is in no way a discussion, it is corporate ballwashing in disguise

[jorma]

We do, as a community. Like Kyuuji decided they needed to do something and it paid off. She is not staff, she is a user like you or I. she presented it, we discussed it, it led to action. It didn't kill discussion.

You cannot even make threads about CD Projekt unless there is a negative spin.

If George Orwell was alive today he wouldn't set his novel on a farm, he'd spin a riveting tale about animals wresting control of an old forum from their owner and how they decided to go about creating utopia without those pesky humans involved. 

i think astro would make a good squealer, but good old redmerc probably wants a word in too

[Don Rumata]

I did my part. I bought Ghost Recon Wildlands.

 

Crossing Eden gets to eat another meal!

[Pissy F Benny]

will the moral posturing continue when they all want to consoom overwatch 2

guessing a lot of people on there will be playing it to confirm how bigoted it is

[Boredfrom]

The aggravating thing, in Cyberpunk's case, was that the game actually featured content that was greatly transphobic and despite numerous complaints, CDPR never properly acknowledged they were wrong or apologized for it. They stood by the content in the game, claimed it was just part of an evil world objectifying all kinds of bodies, and then went on to make questionable jokes on Twitter. Later they doubled down on it by electing a cosplay of the transphobic content in the game as the winner of some contest they were running. The cosplayer in question went on to be transphobic on Twitter after winning as well.

It was a big ass shitshow.

It was absolutely a showing of solidarity with the trans members of this forum. CDPR has a history of being pretty willfully ignorant when it comes to a number of things. They are particularly bad when it comes to transphobia (and they seem to refuse to be better, despite gesturing that they will be occasionally). That being said, the whole banning of CDPR thing was a giant mess (though I don't think the conclusion to ban them at the time was a bad one, given how high profile the game was and how willfully tone deaf they had been leading up to the game's release).

I feel that RE really wants to rewrite history and say that the reason why Cyberpunk is controversial is being transphobic and not being a incomplete game.

[Averon]

Just to remind everyone, Kyuuji new game+ CP 2077 after getting gifted a free copy of the game. Astro made a big deal about uninstalling and not playing CP 2077 only to reinstall it a week later and discussed the game enthusiastically in the OT.

People like Kyuuji and Astro are shit stirrers whose credibility should have been shot to hell when they played the very game--CP 2077--they all swore will bring about the next apocalypse for trans folks.

[HaughtyFrank]

Just to remind everyone, Kyuuji new game+ CP 2077 after getting gifted a free copy of the game. Astro made a big deal about uninstalling and not playing CP 2077 only to reinstall it a week later and discussed the game enthusiastically in the OT.

People like Kyuuji and Astro are shit stirrers whose credibility should have been shot to hell when they played the very game--CP 2077--they all swore will bring about the next apocalypse for trans folks.

Astro is even the top poster in the cyberpunk OT. Kyuuji is #5. There's hypocrisy and then there's being the fucking number one fan. What a bunch of cunts.

[Drainage]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tech-savvy-teens-falling-prey-to-online-scams-faster-than-their-grandparents.471555/

Feminist Frequency has a lot more subscribers than we thought

[D3RANG3D]