Other Forums Containment Thread

[marrec]

You guys are being glib but how would you feel if you were paid millions of dollars to play football?

[Propagandhim]

Imagine a slave on a plantation not knowing that in the future some history prof will compare the hell he's going through to athletes playing sports and earning millions

"White people can get doctorates in bullshit and make a living producing ridiculous metaphorical narrations of the trauma of our people?" 

[benjipwns]

You guys are being glib but how would you feel if you were paid millions of dollars to play football?

I reject this every day. I am an accomplice, not an ally.

[joeboy101]

Assuming good intentions from a transphobic company over transphobic elements in their output is wilful ignorance. Relating the only trans character to a beast isn't a bar I'd set for positive portrayal either, especially when it's the second element in the game to do so.

Beast is a heavily modified pickup truck used as a street racing vehicle by Claire Russell. She does the maintenance and upkeep on the it, and it sports several modifications, including additional bulletproof armor used to protect its occupants from gunfire.[1]

Claire used to race Beast with her husband, Dean Russell, who died while participating in one of Night City's death races in 2076. In 2077, V drove Beast while helping Claire win the annual death races.[2]

Pretty sure this is what gaslighting is, dirtbag.

Also, giving odds on Niko in that thread getting banned.

So two posts after douchebag’s post:

Given that we allowed an OT for the game and discussion of it, it's perfectly fine for people to say that Cyberpunk 2077 is their game that fits this topic.

However, what's not fine is for people to dismiss the blatant transphobia surrounding the game, its marketing, and its release. Such commentary will be met with strict moderation.

I wonder if Transistor is jumping through on that so quick because he posted in that thread hours before about Godfall, looking past all of those problematic posts liking Cyberpunk?

[joeboy101]

Benji please as Mod Admiral you need to make sure Madden NFL Football gets added to the banned game list

Glad that Professor opened my eyes. Now I’m not sure what the NFL stands for!

 

[benjipwns]

However, what's not fine is for people to dismiss the blatant transphobia surrounding the game, its marketing, and its release.

Do not "dismiss the blatant transphobia surrounding the game, its marketing, and its release."

You must accept the existence and severity of the "blatant transphobia surrounding" all those things. Or else.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-cerium-get-his-other-1-million-yet.533000/

User Banned (Permanent): Troll account

I know when Cerium sold Resetera for $4.55 million he got $3.55 million upfront and another $1 million was supposed to be due by December 31, 2021. Does anyone know if he got the extra $1 million yet?

It's been awhile since he's posted and I hope it all worked out in the end and that he's ok. Not only with getting the last part of the money but managing it, managing friends and family trying to mooch off of it, hangers on etc. And also just dealing with the lack of a major enterprise in his life he's not around to manage anymore. I know he had a major workload behind the scenes; in a sense it's like he's retired young. Maybe some of the staff have spoken with him recently?

For real?

Bait thread is bait.

[CHOW CHOW]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lindsay-ellis-appreciation-thread.147998/page-3

‘Lindsay Ellis appreciation thread’ was bumped after the other one was locked. Incelsiorlef must be hotter than the Sun right now, constantly F5’ing waiting for her ban to be up

[porkbun]

i wonder what happened to the lindsay ellis thread? it must take alot of time to answer all those reports

They're doing the usual "lock the problematic thread and hope no one brings it back up" shit tier REEE moderating.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-hard-to-fuck-up-pizza-which-makes-mama-celeste-such-a-mystery.532742/

I am no snob, I love me a 99 cent frozen pizza. But this shit right here? Tastes like the cardboard it ships in, I tried different ways of cooking it, different spices. And nothering can save it

 

99 fucking cent frozen pizza?  JFC if you didn't think Slayven was dumb enough.  I wonder if he even heats it up or just shoots it straight into his drooling maw while he's watching Endgame for the 1056th time.

Cough up the $4 for a Jack's Mexican pizza, you fucking heathen.

And "nothering" isn't a word, Simple Jack.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-op-ed-video-game-industry-struggles-to-shake-sexist-attitudes-tae-kim.532267/page-2#post-79348249

Tae Kim

Hyung-tae Kim

Gail Kim

 

[Lonewulfeus]

It’s amazing how fast they react when it comes to protecting the former owner of the site.  Shame they can’t take care of other issues that quickly

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-cerium-get-his-other-1-million-yet.533000/

User Banned (Permanent): Troll account

I know when Cerium sold Resetera for $4.55 million he got $3.55 million upfront and another $1 million was supposed to be due by December 31, 2021. Does anyone know if he got the extra $1 million yet?

It's been awhile since he's posted and I hope it all worked out in the end and that he's ok. Not only with getting the last part of the money but managing it, managing friends and family trying to mooch off of it, hangers on etc. And also just dealing with the lack of a major enterprise in his life he's not around to manage anymore. I know he had a major workload behind the scenes; in a sense it's like he's retired young. Maybe some of the staff have spoken with him recently?

For real?

Bait thread is bait.

"FOR REAL?!  Asking about the previous owner of this site who promised to come back and field some questions, but decided not to for no apparent reason?! FOR REAL?!"

[Drainage]

Sounds like Cerium hasn't had to trouble himself much with moochers and hangers on

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lindsay-ellis-appreciation-thread.147998/page-3

i thought michael hobbes’s thread here was pretty on point:

https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1475710316327714816

I watched a good portion of Ellis' apology video but couldn't stomach the whole thing. The thing that strikes me even now is the association of this targeted harassment campaign, which I don't think most people acting in good faith do not acknowledge as being a thing, with "cancel culture." It's a phrase coined by bad faith actors on the right complaining about solidarity campaigns like #MeToo or just being held accountable for their actions. People say "cancel culture" doesn't exist because we associate that phrase with people trying to paint legitimate victims as a "woke mob" and perpetrators with actual crimes to be held accountable for, as victims. Framing this whole mess as "cancel culture" feels legitimately dismissive of people who weren't part of the hate campaign.

I'm not saying anything dumb like, "maybe if she didn't use that word it wouldn't have gotten so bad" because again, she is the victim of a hate campaign driven by bad actors. I just think our associations with certain phrases and our knee-jerk impulses, combined with the pressure to get a take out there asap to "take a side," or whatever, makes nuanced discussions about these things nearly impossible. People end up talking past one another while bad faith actors control the conversation. The whole well is just poisoned.

Looks like we're definitely going for a whole "so maybe this thing is real and maybe it is worth criticizing, but the real problem is people using the phrase 'cancel culture' are bad people which is why we need to insist it's not real while lamenting the whole situation" approach. Especially if Michael Hobbes, who has seemingly devoted a career to "disproving" the existence of "cancel culture" by repeating over and over that it's not a thing that actually exists because he doesn't accept any example of it as evidence, is starting to talk about the need for an "adult conversation" around it. (As long as those terms aren't used of course!)

[joeboy101]

Sounds like Cerium hasn't had to trouble himself much with moochers and hangers on

He just convinced them all to moderate the site.

[marrec]

The left doesn’t understand why J. K. Rowling has a hard time with the re-definition of the word woman but will constantly say that we shouldn’t use phrases like cancel culture because they have been hijacked by a bad faith group of actors

[Averon]

Still can't quite believe Cerium got B-Dubs and crew to mod the forum for free for years. Then, after pocketing all the money from the surprise sale he closed behind their backs, got those same people he took advantage of to run interference for him after news of the sale came out. Even got them to say how grateful they were to not be paid at all!

The whole thing is so bizarre and pathetic

[Propagandhim]

I watched a good portion of Ellis' apology video but couldn't stomach the whole thing. The thing that strikes me even now is the association of this targeted harassment campaign, which I don't think most people acting in good faith do not acknowledge as being a thing, with "cancel culture." It's a phrase coined by bad faith actors on the right complaining about solidarity campaigns like #MeToo or just being held accountable for their actions. People say "cancel culture" doesn't exist because we associate that phrase with people trying to paint legitimate victims as a "woke mob" and perpetrators with actual crimes to be held accountable for, as victims. Framing this whole mess as "cancel culture" feels legitimately dismissive of people who weren't part of the hate campaign.

I'm not saying anything dumb like, "maybe if she didn't use that word it wouldn't have gotten so bad" because again, she is the victim of a hate campaign driven by bad actors. I just think our associations with certain phrases and our knee-jerk impulses, combined with the pressure to get a take out there asap to "take a side," or whatever, makes nuanced discussions about these things nearly impossible. People end up talking past one another while bad faith actors control the conversation. The whole well is just poisoned.

This your brain doped up on ideology. 

[joeboy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lindsay-ellis-appreciation-thread.147998/page-3

i thought michael hobbes’s thread here was pretty on point:

https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1475710316327714816

I watched a good portion of Ellis' apology video but couldn't stomach the whole thing. The thing that strikes me even now is the association of this targeted harassment campaign, which I don't think most people acting in good faith do not acknowledge as being a thing, with "cancel culture." It's a phrase coined by bad faith actors on the right complaining about solidarity campaigns like #MeToo or just being held accountable for their actions. People say "cancel culture" doesn't exist because we associate that phrase with people trying to paint legitimate victims as a "woke mob" and perpetrators with actual crimes to be held accountable for, as victims. Framing this whole mess as "cancel culture" feels legitimately dismissive of people who weren't part of the hate campaign.

I'm not saying anything dumb like, "maybe if she didn't use that word it wouldn't have gotten so bad" because again, she is the victim of a hate campaign driven by bad actors. I just think our associations with certain phrases and our knee-jerk impulses, combined with the pressure to get a take out there asap to "take a side," or whatever, makes nuanced discussions about these things nearly impossible. People end up talking past one another while bad faith actors control the conversation. The whole well is just poisoned.

Looks like we're definitely going for a whole "so maybe this thing is real and maybe it is worth criticizing, but the real problem is people using the phrase 'cancel culture' are bad people which is why we need to insist it's not real while lamenting the whole situation" approach. Especially if Michael Hobbs, who has seemingly devoted a career to "disproving" the existence of "cancel culture" by repeating over and over that it's not a thing that actually exists, is starting to talk about the need for an "adult conversation" around it. (As long as those terms aren't used of course!)

Well that’s because they define it with asinine moving goalposts.

“They got harassment and death threats personally, but they didn't lose their job.”
“They lost their job, buts its not like they can’t find another one.”
“They lost their job, and are unemployable, but its not like they can’t work for themselves or make some other type of living.”
“Oh, they killed themselves. …. God I wish we could do something about online harassment.”

[Propagandhim]

Still can't quite believe Cerium got B-Dubs and crew to mod the forum for free for years. Then, after pocketing all the money from the surprise sale he closed behind their backs, got those same people he took advantage of to run interference for him after news of the sale came out. Even got them to say how grateful they were to not be paid at all!

The whole thing is so bizarre and pathetic

And then they write term-paper length screeds about deconstructing capitalism and decolonizing the United States.  Wackadoodles. 

[marrec]

If your weapon of social destruction cant exist without being hijacked by bad faith actors maybe stop using it

[benjipwns]

Still can't quite believe Cerium got B-Dubs and crew to mod the forum for free for years. Then, after pocketing all the money from the surprise sale he closed behind their backs, got those same people he took advantage of to run interference for him after news of the sale came out. Even got them to say how grateful they were to not be paid at all!

Better than that, they spent days attacking the people wanting them to be paid (and anyone with questions about the sale) as bad actors out to smear Cerium's private good deeds.

[benjipwns]

If your weapon of social destruction cant exist without being hijacked by bad faith actors maybe stop using it

Oh, so you want to silence the voices of marginalized people? This kind of thing is exactly why we can't have any representations of women in video games that don't embarrass 40+ year old male business writers.

[marrec]

If your weapon of social destruction cant exist without being hijacked by bad faith actors maybe stop using it

Oh, so you want to silence the voices of marginalized people? This kind of thing is exactly why we can't have any representations of women in video games that don't embarrass 40+ year old male business writers.

This from the guy who wants mods to be paid and make Era some kind of plantation cosplay

[HaughtyFrank]

Now they're upset that Rowling isn't as transphobic as RE claimed she is 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/terf-jk-rowling-continues-to-be-a-hateful-bigot.221245/post-79428596

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1476194103528407046

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1476194942921977863

i love trans folk, i just decided to become a figurehead for virulently transphobic people as a jest

“I have a new film coming out soon so of course I said trans lives matters ”

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lindsay-ellis-appreciation-thread.147998/page-3

i thought michael hobbes’s thread here was pretty on point:

https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1475710316327714816

I watched a good portion of Ellis' apology video but couldn't stomach the whole thing. The thing that strikes me even now is the association of this targeted harassment campaign, which I don't think most people acting in good faith do not acknowledge as being a thing, with "cancel culture." It's a phrase coined by bad faith actors on the right complaining about solidarity campaigns like #MeToo or just being held accountable for their actions. People say "cancel culture" doesn't exist because we associate that phrase with people trying to paint legitimate victims as a "woke mob" and perpetrators with actual crimes to be held accountable for, as victims. Framing this whole mess as "cancel culture" feels legitimately dismissive of people who weren't part of the hate campaign.

I'm not saying anything dumb like, "maybe if she didn't use that word it wouldn't have gotten so bad" because again, she is the victim of a hate campaign driven by bad actors. I just think our associations with certain phrases and our knee-jerk impulses, combined with the pressure to get a take out there asap to "take a side," or whatever, makes nuanced discussions about these things nearly impossible. People end up talking past one another while bad faith actors control the conversation. The whole well is just poisoned.

Looks like we're definitely going for a whole "so maybe this thing is real and maybe it is worth criticizing, but the real problem is people using the phrase 'cancel culture' are bad people which is why we need to insist it's not real while lamenting the whole situation" approach. Especially if Michael Hobbs, who has seemingly devoted a career to "disproving" the existence of "cancel culture" by repeating over and over that it's not a thing that actually exists, is starting to talk about the need for an "adult conversation" around it. (As long as those terms aren't used of course!)

Well that’s because they define it with asinine moving goalposts.

“They got harassment and death threats personally, but they didn't lose their job.”
“They lost their job, buts its not like they can’t find another one.”
“They lost their job, and are unemployable, but its not like they can’t work for themselves or make some other type of living.”
“Oh, they killed themselves. …. God I wish we could do something about online harassment.”

When it is cases of someone killing themselves due to their bullying, they either stop talking about it, like that porn star ERA help bulling into suicide for having reasonable concerns about performing with gay male performers during an STD outbreak, or they blame the person for committing suicide at all and imply they are the asshole, not them (see: Alec Holowka).

[marrec]

All I’m saying is, it’s no coincidence that they drove Ellis into a mental breakdown after Philosophy Tube came out as trans. Once Dan Olson announces he’s non-binary Sarah Z is gunna get it

[benjipwns]

Now they're upset that Rowling isn't as transphobic as RE claimed she is 

Don't believe her lies about how she means what she originally said because it's all cover for her to push her transphobic agenda.

[Great Rumbler]

It's so transparent that the main goal of those tweets isn't to raise awareness for concussions and support of players, it's just someone who wants to wag their finger at people who commit such atrocities as... playing videogames and fantasy football.

People who do fantasy football are disgusting degenerates who deserve to be shamed tbh

[benjipwns]

Now they're upset that Rowling isn't as transphobic as RE claimed she is 

Don't believe her lies about how she means what she originally said because it's all cover for her to push her transphobic agenda.

For example:

[marrec]

When you don’t wanna write about something but the EIC makes you

[Lonewulfeus]

No way that’s a glitch, I’m sure some transphobe developer at 343 put that in the game as a dog whistle to transphobes on Xbox.  343 ain’t slick

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This would be every post in the resetera thread if it gets made

[close]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Here's a new ban thanks to Morrigan sicing the mods on this user.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-op-ed-video-game-industry-struggles-to-shake-sexist-attitudes-tae-kim.532267/page-2#post-79348249

S1 User banned (1 month): Misogynistic rhetoric over a series of posts. Linking to an alt-right source.

Imagine posting drivel from a bad faith dipshit who rails against SJWs as "a valid opinion"

Imagine thinking everyone knows everyone on the internet and does a background check on every person they quote. I think the valid opinion of hers is that female gamers want to play sexy characters. I know a few woman in private, who design sexy characters in editors, because that's what they want to play. They don't want to play as ugly character and I disagree with the notion of the poster I quoted that everyone not wanting to play certain characters need to grow up.

Thw heck is S1 User lol

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48241.msg3008465;topicseen#msg3008465

S1 User Banned (1 Month): Excusing Racism

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steve-from-minecraft-announced-for-super-smash-bros-ultimate-alex-zombie-enderman-skins-too.298532/page-35#post-47283128

S1 - User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing Concerns Around Representation

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ricky-gervais-suggests-the-office-would-not-get-made-now-due-to-%E2%80%98cancel-culture%E2%80%99-and-political-correctness.454633/page-5

S1 User Banned (1 Month): Dismissive Commentary; Prior Ban for Insensitive Posting; Account in Junior Phase

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-national-guard-twitch-streamer-said-6-million-wasnt-enough-on-stream.287669/page-2#post-45522692

S1: User Banned (1 Month): Concern trolling around holocaust denial

https://www.resetera.com/threads/moe_tv-i-am-going-to-stop-using-f-got-because-it-might-hurt-my-income-up1-30d-ban-on-twitch.52541/page-4#post-9880949

S1 - User Banned (1 Week): Downplaying the use of hateful pejoratives as something only minorities care about

Internal code for a downplaying, excusing, or dismissing type of ban.

[benjipwns]

No way that’s a glitch, I’m sure some transphobe developer at 343 put that in the game as a dog whistle to transphobes on Xbox.  343 ain’t slick

These kinds of things don't "just happen" like they claim.

Also, wasn't a big name at 343 banned from ResetERA.com for racism? Yikes, not a good look.

[Taco Bell Tower]

They banned that guy who was kicked out of a AMC theater for screen hopping, let's see if his thread on that was trolling because the shirt

User Banned (1 Month): Inflammatory Point of Comparison

i so want to ban delivery culture. It’s so exploitative it feels almost plantation like. there are a few times it’s useful but for most people it’s just paying for a servant. go walk a few blocks, lazy ass

https://www.resetera.com/threads/doordash-will-require-all-employees-to-deliver-goods-or-perform-other-gigs-at-least-once-a-month.531439/page-11#post-79301152

[ShutUp]

Still can't quite believe Cerium got B-Dubs and crew to mod the forum for free for years. Then, after pocketing all the money from the surprise sale he closed behind their backs, got those same people he took advantage of to run interference for him after news of the sale came out. Even got them to say how grateful they were to not be paid at all!

The whole thing is so bizarre and pathetic

And then the discussion in the sale thread somehow ended up at pages upon pages of the janitors working for free burying legit questions from members with forced attempts at FUN!! as they talked about tags under their usernames. Instead of wondering along side the members at how Cerium duped them and bounced.

That’s a level of loser I didn’t think was possible to achieve.

[ShutUp]

Now they're upset that Rowling isn't as transphobic as RE claimed she is 

Don't believe her lies about how she means what she originally said because it's all cover for her to push her transphobic agenda.

For example:
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The hell does Quidditch have to do with transphobia?? Stop using the word transphobia like its a damn catch all buzzword! 

[Drainage]

For real?

Didn’t we all decide never to speak about the sale again? Oh wait, that conversation was in the secret discord. Anyways, perma ban

[Lonewulfeus]

Now they're upset that Rowling isn't as transphobic as RE claimed she is 

Don't believe her lies about how she means what she originally said because it's all cover for her to push her transphobic agenda.

For example:
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The hell does Quidditch have to do with transphobia?? Stop using the word transphobia like its a damn catch all buzzword! 

Noted serial trans murderer JK “I’m a terf bitch” Rowling created quidditch so by the transitive property of always online internet whatever it too is transphobic. 

[tiesto]

Madden endorsing senseless violence toward plantation cosplayers at @1:28.

I'm just so tired.

Digging that song (it's been years since I've played the Genesis Maddens). EA's Genesis sports games had some overlooked soundtracks. The Coach K Basketball ost in particular fucking slaps:

[benjipwns]

The hell does Quidditch have to do with transphobia?? Stop using the word transphobia like its a damn catch all buzzword! 

Nice try "just asking questions", transphobe, learn some facts:

Quidditch is getting ditched. The sport started growing beyond the Harry Potter books years ago, when college students first translated it into a real-world game. But now two large leagues plan to drop the famous name, citing author J.K. Rowling's "anti-trans positions."

A new name hasn't been chosen yet. Both U.S. Quidditch and Major League Quidditch say they'll use a series of surveys in the next few months to reach a decision.

The two leagues put out a joint statement this week announcing the looming name change.

"For the last year or so, both leagues have been quietly collecting research to prepare for the move and been in extensive discussions with each other and trademark lawyers regarding how we can work together to make the name change as seamless as possible," MLQ Commissioner Amanda Dallas said in the statement.

...

The leagues say Rowling's controversial opinions about trans people are not welcome in their ranks.

"Our sport has developed a reputation as one of the most progressive sports in the world on gender equality and inclusivity, in part thanks to its gender maximum rule, which stipulates that a team may not have more than four players of the same gender on the field at a time," the leagues said. "Both organizations feel it is imperative to live up to this reputation in all aspects of their operations, and believe this move is a step in that direction."

[Hap Shaughnessy]

So you have to officially declare your gender at the beginning of the match? That doesn't seem very progressive to me.

Edit: On second thought, I guess it fits in with racially segregated hair styles and food.

[Uncle]

so a random lady says that there are many expressions of gender and they are all valid, and says trans people deserve love and respect, and that trans rights are human rights, but that she feels like it's going a bit too far to differentiate natal women as "womb-havers," and that she wishes natal women could retain spaces for themselves and their own lived experiences

as a result of this, a bunch of nerds will now be running around a field awkwardly with a stick in their crotch (no it DOESN'T represent a broom or any transphobic media content), playing a game newly christened as Plasmoblorpen, which is now entirely unaffiliated with said woman who created the ridiculous game, and everyone present is desperately trying to pretend they weren't ever interested to begin with because of her retroactively transphobic books



 

[Uncle]

literally no one is approaching this "sport" without having passed through the filter of harry potter media

are they expecting ex-harry potter fan parents to force their poor kids to play Grumblespoon without any of the context surrounding it, and create a new generation for the league

if you hate the creator so much you could just not fucking play it 

[Uncle]

So you have to officially declare your gender at the beginning of the match? That doesn't seem very progressive to me.

Edit: On second thought, I guess it fits in with racially segregated hair styles and food.

imagine that you are unable to find enough girls to play in order to make your team legal (a problem common to most Quidditch Alphascratch leagues)

so you quietly take Brad aside and tell him that next week he has to come wearing his sister's clothes and declare his new gender

[benjipwns]

More on the "why it's a problem but why we can't call it 'cancel culture'" beat:
https://twitter.com/Quinnae_Moon/status/1476016484581208067
https://twitter.com/Quinnae_Moon/status/1476017182907592704
https://twitter.com/Quinnae_Moon/status/1476020499033382913

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-have-sex-in-2021.533021/
The polls are wrong

[HaughtyFrank]

More on the "why it's a problem but why we can't call it 'cancel culture'" beat:
https://twitter.com/Quinnae_Moon/status/1476016484581208067
https://twitter.com/Quinnae_Moon/status/1476017182907592704
https://twitter.com/Quinnae_Moon/status/1476020499033382913

This attempt of trying to acknowledge the problem of cancel culture while absolutely terrified of using that word is hilarious.

"It's not cancel culture, it's abuse, bullying and out of control crowd dynamics" 

You literally described cancel culture!

Any new term you're going to come up with is going to be used by Louis C.K. anyway, you moron

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-all-the-punisher-car-stickers.533048/
Keeping an eye out on ya dude with the Ree Punisher avatar

[benjipwns]

It's funny that Moon cites Isabell Fall as one of those being erased by calling it "cancel culture" when it was those most in favor of "cancel culture" who originally led the jeremiad against Fall's "transphobic" story and those opposed who were the ones that criticized it.

One of the story's critics, Arinn Dembo, the acting president of SF Canada, wrote that "this reads like it was written by a straight white dude who doesn't really get gender theory or transition & has no right to invoke transphobic dog whistles for profit".[13] After the story's removal, Dembo stood by her critique, saying that "a lot of people might have been spared a lot of mental anguish" if a statement about Fall's identity and intentions had been provided.

https://reason.com/2020/01/17/canceled-transgender-story/

Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke published a lengthy note about the removal that politely objected to the critics' most unreasonable claims. Some had apparently claimed that Fall's stated birth year—1988—was an alt-right dog whistle, since the double eights could be seen as referencing H.H. (H being the eighth letter of the alphabet), or "heil Hitler." ...

Even with ownvoices authorship [authors writing about their own race, class, sex, etc.] and ownvoices sensitivity reading, it is still possible to miss something. In this case we can see two groups of trans readers with directly opposing views that are deeply rooted in their own experience and perspectives. In some cases, what made the story speak to some is also what alienated others. Neither perspective is wrong, but they appear to be incompatible with one another on some level. Knowing that this was a potentially controversial story, we should have employed a broader range of sensitivity readers. This is not to say those we worked with failed, but rather that they only represented a slice of the community and additional perspectives could have helped inform us of a potential conflict. It may not have "fixed" things but it would have provided opportunities to better prepare ourselves and our readers for what lay ahead. This was an oversight….

That we didn't understand enough about trans politics to properly advise a new author who was wading into the deep end. I'm not suggesting that we tell an author what they can and can't say, but had the previous two items be done correctly, we would have been in a better place to prepare her. Because of those failures, our knowledge gap contributed to the problem….

In the meantime I offer my sincere apologies to those who were hurt by the story or the ensuing storms.

Clarke began his note with this statement: "This is not censorship. She needed this to be done for her own personal safety and health."

https://theoutline.com/post/8600/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter-moralism

Many reactions to Fall’s story, for all that they come from nominal progressives, fit neatly into a Puritanical mold, attacking it as hateful toward transness, fundamentally evil for depicting a trans person committing murder, or else as material that right-wing trolls could potentially use to smear trans people as ridiculous. Each analysis positioned the author as at best thoughtless and at worst hateful, while her attackers are cast as righteous;

[joeboy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-all-the-punisher-car-stickers.533048/
Keeping an eye out on ya dude with the Ree Punisher avatar

 

[Potato]

Still can't quite believe Cerium got B-Dubs and crew to mod the forum for free for years. Then, after pocketing all the money from the surprise sale he closed behind their backs, got those same people he took advantage of to run interference for him after news of the sale came out. Even got them to say how grateful they were to not be paid at all!

The whole thing is so bizarre and pathetic

If it was any other group of people, you would automatically assume it was all an elaborate ruse to hide the fact that they were all being paid on the sly...BUT...this is Reeeeesetera and you just have to assume that they are all really just that fucking stupid.

[marrec]

Alright everyone we really need to talk about cancel culture but if you call it cancel culture we’re going to cancel you anyway whos first

[benjipwns]

Alright everyone we really need to talk about cancel culture but if you call it cancel culture we’re going to cancel you anyway whos first

Not surprised that you would use this alt-right phrase.

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-have-sex-in-2021.533021/

Not bothered in years. Not worth the effort and hassle. Doubt my other half agrees with me but it really doesn't matter.

very normal people with healthy relationships!

[marrec]

Alright everyone we really need to talk about cancel culture but if you call it cancel culture we’re going to cancel you anyway whos first

Not surprised that you would use this alt-right phrase.

I want to formally apologize to my fans and my supporters for using this vile language but most of all I want to apologize to the people who I -hurt- by saying that phrase. Yes my wife has left me because of this but please don’t blame her I used a short hand colloquial turn of phrase that everyone understands in context but has been used once or twice by right wing media figures and so is anathema. I know this apology will only create more fodder for bad faith actors to mine but unless I apologize I will be seen as further entrenching my original slight which, to remind everyone was using a popular, contextual turn of phrase that a small minority have deemed poisonous

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-have-sex-in-2021.533021/

Not bothered in years. Not worth the effort and hassle. Doubt my other half agrees with me but it really doesn't matter.

very normal people with healthy relationships!

I too doubt that their other half didn’t have sex this year.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-all-the-punisher-car-stickers.533048/
Keeping an eye out on ya dude with the Ree Punisher avatar

Ah I see the galaxy brains have decided that marvel should just cancel the punisher

[Jansen]

We should probably press the brakes on making threads for every shitty take randos have on Twitter.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-horrible-tweets-about-the-madden-video-game-are-horrible-but-ea-is-actually-pushing-propaganda-for-the-nfl.533099/#post-79452554

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-all-the-punisher-car-stickers.533048/
Keeping an eye out on ya dude with the Ree Punisher avatar

Ah I see the galaxy brains have decided that marvel should just cancel the punisher

I see just as many trucks out there with calvin from calvin and hobbes mischievously pissing on various things

I know the creator may not have wanted his creation to end up a symbol for the alt-right, but at a certain point you have to ask yourself whether your creation has become irrevocably tainted

if he had any ounce of self-reflection and responsibility in his body he'd hang up his pen and end his problematic comic for good

[Great Rumbler]

Madden endorsing senseless violence toward plantation cosplayers at @1:28.

I'm just so tired.

Digging that song (it's been years since I've played the Genesis Maddens). EA's Genesis sports games had some overlooked soundtracks. The Coach K Basketball ost in particular fucking slaps:

Not EA, but NBA Jam: