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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28560 on: September 02, 2022, 02:07:08 PM »
Albatross is mostly a sane poster that somehow has maintained his account. It took getting annoyed by incelsior to get on the crosshair.

now he has a cistory

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28561 on: September 02, 2022, 02:07:35 PM »
The Taliban are denialist LARPists of the highest order. Worse than luddites. If they weren't so, they wouldn't be so fanatical about their "we must live like in the middle-ages cuz the prophet did" beliefs. They wouldn't be re-subjugating and depriving women and LGBT from basic rights (and sometimes from their lives). Is it wise to believe that they will behave in a sensible and benevolent manner? Have we forgotten their broken promises to not revenge kill and to let women be free? I haven't. They broke their word. Shouldn't that have consequences?

When you make the democratic world hate you, you create political pressure to sanction you, shun you, isolate you and weaken you, like we're doing to Russia. That's what the voting masses want. If the Taliban want that money, they could start treating women like equals and letting them study and work. That would mollify public opinion and relieve that pressure. It's not that hard really. Why won't they do that? Why won't they just keep their word from when they had just conquered all of Afghanistan? I feel like, until they do that, this is on them. Nobody asked them to host fucking Al Qaeda 25 years ago either. It's all very poor judgement and emanating a lot of "fuck around" energy.

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28562 on: September 02, 2022, 02:09:44 PM »
Yeah, I got nothing on that ban :idont

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28563 on: September 02, 2022, 02:11:55 PM »
The Taliban are denialist LARPists of the highest order. Worse than luddites. If they weren't so, they wouldn't be so fanatical about their "we must live like in the middle-ages cuz the prophet did" beliefs. They wouldn't be re-subjugating and depriving women and LGBT from basic rights (and sometimes from their lives). Is it wise to believe that they will behave in a sensible and benevolent manner? Have we forgotten their broken promises to not revenge kill and to let women be free? I haven't. They broke their word. Shouldn't that have consequences?

When you make the democratic world hate you, you create political pressure to sanction you, shun you, isolate you and weaken you, like we're doing to Russia. That's what the voting masses want. If the Taliban want that money, they could start treating women like equals and letting them study and work. That would mollify public opinion and relieve that pressure. It's not that hard really. Why won't they do that? Why won't they just keep their word from when they had just conquered all of Afghanistan? I feel like, until they do that, this is on them. Nobody asked them to host fucking Al Qaeda 25 years ago either. It's all very poor judgement and emanating a lot of "fuck around" energy.

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Inflammatory Accusations... against the TALIBAN?

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28564 on: September 02, 2022, 02:14:35 PM »
Who made this latest spinoff?

https://icon-era.com/members/?key=founders

I never heard about any of those. These spin-offs are getting worse.

how many are there now? can we enumerate this

  • neogaf
  • that bire
  • wasn't there another one early on
  • resetera
  • what's the name of the nintendogaf one
  • install base (salesera treehouse)
  • d-pad
  • icon-era
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28565 on: September 02, 2022, 02:16:58 PM »
I think there’s an Xbox Era
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« Reply #28566 on: September 02, 2022, 02:27:54 PM »
There's also the one with no mods. Don't remember the name though. Something about a council maybe?

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« Reply #28567 on: September 02, 2022, 02:29:38 PM »
Meta Council?

Also Famiboards was the other one I think.

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28568 on: September 02, 2022, 02:37:39 PM »
I recognise none of those names :heh
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28569 on: September 02, 2022, 02:39:21 PM »
Inflammatory Accusations... against the TALIBAN?

Look, its very simple, RustyNails was mashing the report button because he strongly believes that you shouldn't sanction a country for the actions of their government, because it adversely affects the civilians.

This strongly held belief is evident in his errrrr posts about ummm israel

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28570 on: September 02, 2022, 03:02:37 PM »
Who made this latest spinoff?

https://icon-era.com/members/?key=founders

I never heard about any of those. These spin-offs are getting worse.

Me either. I think there was some overlap between them and dpad. Probably why there's beef.

 :idont

Who made this latest spinoff?

https://icon-era.com/members/?key=founders

I never heard about any of those. These spin-offs are getting worse.

how many are there now? can we enumerate this

  • neogaf
  • that bire
  • wasn't there another one early on
  • resetera
  • what's the name of the nintendogaf one
  • install base (salesera treehouse)
  • d-pad
  • icon-era

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Nintendo one is famiboards
Wasn't there an xbox one as well at some point?

Is there a connection to the coli?

who is ted danson?

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28571 on: September 02, 2022, 03:20:31 PM »
Need a Fandom Wiki for the GAF/ERA forum universe
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28572 on: September 02, 2022, 03:26:12 PM »
Need a Fandom Wiki for the GAF/ERA forum universe

Bore is the Piccolo of this universe.

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« Reply #28573 on: September 02, 2022, 03:27:20 PM »
Who made this latest spinoff?

https://icon-era.com/members/?key=founders

I never heard about any of those. These spin-offs are getting worse.

Me either. I think there was some overlap between them and dpad. Probably why there's beef.

 :idont

Who made this latest spinoff?

https://icon-era.com/members/?key=founders

I never heard about any of those. These spin-offs are getting worse.

how many are there now? can we enumerate this

  • neogaf
  • that bire
  • wasn't there another one early on
  • resetera
  • what's the name of the nintendogaf one
  • install base (salesera treehouse)
  • d-pad
  • icon-era
Is there a connection to the coli?
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28574 on: September 02, 2022, 03:30:32 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-to-target-maga-republicans-in-prime-time-speech-about-threats-to-democracy-8pm-est-today.627139/page-17#post-92554294

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You should be utterly embarrassed by everything you just said here.
I'm not, and I'm happy to tell you why.

For current events topics, your corner in this community is criticizing the mainstream media. It's your niche. For current events, it's the bent of most of your threads -- "You should be outraged at how the NYT is covering this story!" But it's always based on a viral tweet, facebook post, reddit link, or whatever, and in most of these circumstances, if you go to the New York Times website or the newspaper, they're not covering the story in the way elicits outrage, they're covering it in a pretty straight, accurate, facts-based approach, and usually there's some addendum of analysis on top of the coverage. But if you read the actual coverage, and not a snippet of an article, or one of the algorithm-driven headlines, or someone synthesizing an article so that it gets upvotes on reddit, you're going to see that the coverage usually doesn't elicit strong feelings or outrage. It's usually informative, accurate, and boring.

You think that you're above criticism when you post things that are wrong, because your overall narrative is right -- mainstream media cannot be trusted, so while you might post tweets, articles, selective quotes from a piece, an OpEd, or a tweet by someone who works for a newspaper, or something, even if you're misrepresenting the truth, because you believe so strongly that your narrative (mainstream media cannot be trusted) is right, it justifies posting things that are misleading, innaccurate, not the whole story, etc. Now, of course, we're nobodies... This is a nobody website... we have no influence over anything, we're very unimportant, so the stakes are low for us, but it's the community that we're a part of, but when I think your narrative is wrong, I'm going to come with evidence that shows that it's wrong. I don't think you're a bad person or that you're intentionally acting maliciously (where as I DO think that right wing media personalities ARE bad people and are acting maliciously), I think you're a good person who wants to make the world better, but that you're being manipulated by artificial intelligence that is programmed to appeal to whatever makes you feel most righteous.

In the grand scheme of the universe it doesn't matter at all though, we're unimportant people talking about current events on a dying format videogame website, but it is our community, and the reason I stand on my corner (being a shill for what I think is usually pretty good reporting & analysis sources), is because I look at what the "media distrust industry" did on the right wing and I see the spark of this happening on the left wing. I talk about it a lot and spill a lot of words, waste time, about it because I think it's important.

I have a strong belief that one of the major reasons that the right wing is so untethered to reality is because of lack of media literacy. There's always been some skepticism of "big city media" or mainstream media from all over the political spectrum, there's always been some hostility usually from the populist parts of left/right in America. Media criticism from presidents isn't new, Kennedy was critical of how the media covered his foreign policy, Lyndon Johnson was critical of how the media covered the Great Society, but Nixon really was the first president to go to war with media in a generation over, first, Vietnam/SE Asia, and then Agnew's scandals, Watergate. Reagan seized on that too, and by the 80s/90s, you had the right wing radio talk show hosts make it their corner on radio talk shows. By 2000 it was a huge media business on the right wing to undermine mainstream, boring, facts-based reporting. And today most of the American right or right-voting public is media illiterate. In the vacuum of reporting, anything can be believed and nothing can be challenged because if it doesn't fit the narrative in your brain, it's just another piece of fake news, dismiss it, and find something that fits the narrative. This partially explains the recurring trend we have on the left of "YouTuber who told me everything I want to hear for the last year is actually a piece of shit." It's like, well, yeah, no shit they are, they're chud nobody had ever heard of a year ago, stumbled upon something that triggered our pleasure receptors, went in hard on that, and then reality comes for a lot of them eventually.

Your threads are always very popular, and they should be, you're a good poster who knows how to make engaging posts in this format. You're 100x better than me.

What I really wish though is that when you see something on twitter, facebook, reddit, News+, Google News, or wherever, is that instead of coming here to repost it verbatim with the narrative of "The mainstream news cannot be trusted," I want you to pause for 10 minutes, go to the website or the source you're going to criticize, and read/engage/whatever with the complete coverage of that story or the complete coverage from that week. There's still going to be plenty of examples of shit news that you can bury, and I'll join you on those ones (for instance, I totally agree with your criticism of CNN, especially this morning anchor's show, It's garbage infotainment nonsense that probably makes viewers *less informed* for watching it), but I think you'll find that in a lot of the other cases, the actual coverage is not as biased, not as unfair, not as outrage inducing as the ~200 character tweet, screenshot from an article, or the reddit title is.

A criticism I have of NYT, WaPo, some of the others, is the ability to write multiple headlines for one article depending on the site it's being posted or picked up on. I hate this. But I think it's a symptom of the problem, not the problem. The problem is the strength that algorithms, artificial intelligence, and companies like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc, have on our news consumption. The symptom of that problem is that NYT/Wapo/Etc have technology that writes multiple headlines for stories based on chasing those recommendation algorithms. I hate that and I'm really critical of it. At the same time I know they have to do it or else they're going the way of the other 1400 newspapers that have closed since Facebook launched in 2004. I hate it, I'm critical of it, but it's the result that algorithms and AI have over our brains. We're victims of it.

(side note too, I really like Vox too, but Vox isn't really "Alt news." Vox's founder is AOL-TimeWarner exec Jim Bankoff, the founding editorial team was Ezra Klein from the Washington Post and now at the NYT, Matt Yglesias from the WaPo now I think writing a newsletter or something, Melissa Bell from the WaPo who is still at Vox I think. Joined early by Wall Street Journal alums Kara Swisher, who went onto join the NYT and is now back at Vox, and Walter Mossberg, now retired. THey merged with New York Media which is one of the big establishment current events analysis publishers, owners of New York Magazine. Vox is usually really good, I love their informative docs and some of their deep dives, but they don't hire reporters, or if they do they don't do reporting when they get to Vox. Vox is "new" in that its not a long time NY establishment like The Times or the New Yorker, but they're as mainstream media as anybody else, and they're usually pretty good. If you went to Vox today to get coverage of Biden's speech, you wouldn't find it at least as of early this morning because they don't employ reporters at scale. They did publish something at 9 or 10, and the coverage is pretty similar to the establishment media we're doing laps dunking on)

FUCK I'm sorry I know this is way too long and I'm adding more to it, I'm sorry, you don't have to engage with it, it's me rambling. There are places that *don't deserve any benefit of the doubt.*. Those are the usual culprits in the right wing press, Murdoch owned businesses, right wing outlets like Washington Examiner, Washington Times, NYPost, Boston Herald, obviously anything Fox/Nation, and the far right crazy shit. They have no credibility, no reliability, and they never come at anything from good faith. Those outlets, especially the new ones from the last 10 years or so that have exploded, are the result of the 80s/90s/2000s assault on the establishment media. Right now the left doesn't have those reaching the same amount of people that the right does, but I don't think we're immune to it... Like there's not a special gene that makes us immune to that sort of false manipulation, I think it's the bullwark of facts based journalism which most on the left still mostly ascent to that inoculates us from that for now.

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Goddamn. No lies detected. Stunned they only got a five day ban for it.

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28576 on: September 02, 2022, 03:35:07 PM »
Incelchief realizes Albatross will be back in 5 days, right?  :doge

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28577 on: September 02, 2022, 03:43:16 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/nigeria-bans-foreigners-in-ads-and-commercials.627457/

How to ban all LGB programming in your country, and then get wokescolds to cheer you doing it

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28578 on: September 02, 2022, 03:48:55 PM »
I was thinking and I just remembered how DC always announced several movies but they never ended up releasing most of them.

2014:

(Image removed from quote.)

If I could just interupt your fellating kevin feige for a moment, am I wrong in thinking that of the image you chose to headline your OP, 13 out of 16 of those films did in fact fucking come out?

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28579 on: September 02, 2022, 03:50:57 PM »
I also have to wonder just how fucking bad that inhumans movie must have been shaping up, given the MCU have greenlit every other fucking thing that went across their desk

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28580 on: September 02, 2022, 03:58:02 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/nigeria-bans-foreigners-in-ads-and-commercials.627457/

How to ban all LGB programming in your country, and then get wokescolds to cheer you doing it

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28581 on: September 02, 2022, 03:59:49 PM »
*Yass prince
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28582 on: September 02, 2022, 04:01:27 PM »
KEFFALS IS IN THE HOUSE

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-delists-domina-after-devs-transphobic-rant-mentioning-keffals-cw-transphobia.627241/

Let the bloodbath begin.
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Good riddance to bad bigot.

Sad that it took this long to get this hatred filled arsehole off of Steam but there we go.
TIL there's good bigot.
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28583 on: September 02, 2022, 04:15:39 PM »
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Sorry, but no. If you go as far as to compare a left wing trans person with right wing bigots like that to make your point then you absolutely deserve a ban. It's utterly thoughtless, harmful and horrible, and a 6 day ban to give the user some time to reflect is not only an incredibly benign punishment, but exactly what needs to be done when people cross a line like that.

There is absolutely no need to use whataboutism here, either.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-to-target-maga-republicans-in-prime-time-speech-about-threats-to-democracy-8pm-est-today.627139/post-92560765

Fucking stop it with those identity politics. Being left wing and trans still means you can be a stupid fuckhead, as demonstrated daily by excel
Correction: Reeeeesetera had taught me that being left wing and trans usually means you ARE a stupid fuckhead.
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« Reply #28584 on: September 02, 2022, 04:17:11 PM »
The Taliban are denialist LARPists of the highest order. Worse than luddites. If they weren't so, they wouldn't be so fanatical about their "we must live like in the middle-ages cuz the prophet did" beliefs. They wouldn't be re-subjugating and depriving women and LGBT from basic rights (and sometimes from their lives). Is it wise to believe that they will behave in a sensible and benevolent manner? Have we forgotten their broken promises to not revenge kill and to let women be free? I haven't. They broke their word. Shouldn't that have consequences?

When you make the democratic world hate you, you create political pressure to sanction you, shun you, isolate you and weaken you, like we're doing to Russia. That's what the voting masses want. If the Taliban want that money, they could start treating women like equals and letting them study and work. That would mollify public opinion and relieve that pressure. It's not that hard really. Why won't they do that? Why won't they just keep their word from when they had just conquered all of Afghanistan? I feel like, until they do that, this is on them. Nobody asked them to host fucking Al Qaeda 25 years ago either. It's all very poor judgement and emanating a lot of "fuck around" energy.

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Inflammatory Accusations... against the TALIBAN?

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Burka brigade from the "women are filthy whores" thread obviously didn't like that post.
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28585 on: September 02, 2022, 04:34:09 PM »
The US has absolutely no right to block the reserves of the Taliban though.

That's why the 'rules based order' they keep yapping about is falling apart, they apply and bend the rules as they see fit and come up with new rules retroactively.
Much like ResetEra.
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28586 on: September 02, 2022, 05:26:32 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-to-target-maga-republicans-in-prime-time-speech-about-threats-to-democracy-8pm-est-today.627139/page-21#post-92569249

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They are bad faith posters who would literally serve my black ass up to y’all not even to save themselves, but for a Starbucks Spice Latte coupon. Its not concern, its once again people who know they will be shielded from the violence if they stfu hoping they stop with killing me.

Scum.
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28588 on: September 02, 2022, 05:38:20 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-to-target-maga-republicans-in-prime-time-speech-about-threats-to-democracy-8pm-est-today.627139/page-21#post-92569249

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They are bad faith posters who would literally serve my black ass up to y’all not even to save themselves, but for a Starbucks Spice Latte coupon. Its not concern, its once again people who know they will be shielded from the violence if they stfu hoping they stop with killing me.

Scum.

So just to be clear, saying that someone should stop posting badly sourced tweets about how the evil mainstream media is lying because it makes you sound like Hannity gets you banned.

Saying that posters who said "I'm worried about what the maga people will do when they're mad" are literally Nazis who'd happily sell people to the gestapo for a spicy latte is cool though and in no way an inflammatory accusation

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28589 on: September 02, 2022, 05:44:22 PM »
In fairness, I’d probably sell most of you lot to slavery if it meant getting more than a 30% discount on just one 5+ year old Nintendo first party game  :trumps
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28590 on: September 02, 2022, 06:02:27 PM »


me rn

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« Reply #28592 on: September 02, 2022, 06:08:20 PM »
Jameela Jamil is an easy top 10 worst people online. If she wasn't hot everything thing about her would be dispicable.
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« Reply #28593 on: September 02, 2022, 06:11:50 PM »

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« Reply #28594 on: September 02, 2022, 06:12:51 PM »
She said nobody reads bios to learn the proper pronoun?   :trigger


That's a banning on Era
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28595 on: September 02, 2022, 06:15:44 PM »
I don't know what's worse:  Inherent disregard for reading bios or Inherent disregard for the Taliban.  People. are. fucking.  dying.

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« Reply #28596 on: September 02, 2022, 06:58:51 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-favorite-tom-cruise-moment-in-real-life.627541/#post-92573824
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people can be nice and insufferable at the same time

he's also not nice, he's an abusive scientologist
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This forum has a really weird love affair with Tom Cruise that baffles me. The success of the new Top Gun has lead to posts and threads about how great he is and stuff. I just don’t get it when we know what he is part of which is a disgusting cult. Abuse, sexual assault, harassment and god knows what else but he’s pretty idolized on here.
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Lots of Scientologists here.
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Not a fan of a dude who is pretty high up in the leadership of a cult that has done some serious damage to a lot of people. I get that he's been in a new movie that's made a ton of money, but it's like everyone's forgotten about all the Scientology exposé stuff of the past 10 years and is just giving him a pass and making memes about him and basically worshipping him. I try to avoid these conversations online because anyone bringing it up gets drowned out.

It's honestly pretty fucked.
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It’s possible? It just seems like Era has no problem shitting on people like Chris Pratt or other celebrities and yet Cruise who is arguably far more worthy of scorn than most is celebrated.

I think the more likely thing is not that they are Scientologists they just like him and would like to pretend that doesn’t matter.
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People were posting about going to the movies several times to help push this movie towards more profit. It was the weirdest shit ever and I'll never fucking understand it.
It was such a weird level of dissonance on a forum that has banned topics for less than what Cruise is accused and most likely a part of.
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It has consistently been an issue here for sure, the most you'll get is some nonsense about separating the art from the artist. If the dude was tweeting in support of Trump or something, I feel like in that case there would be an issue with platforming him but if he gets a car customized for him by a forced labor camp it's somehow not as bad. Or who knows, maybe people wouldn't care if he was a maga person and would still swoon over his movies. Lots of people have a weird deliberate blind spot when it comes to the guy, and I say deliberate because at this point I doubt there are many who don't know how awful scientology is and the harm it has done.
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I think all of the other choices besides Oprah are about him being an ass, therefore more relevant.

He lives in a cult sized bubble. And so smug. I really cant separate art from artist, do not like him. And when I saw the numbers Maverick was putting up, I remembered I’m in the minority.
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They seemed to forget Will and Jada Pink Smith were scientologists

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« Reply #28597 on: September 02, 2022, 07:02:23 PM »
Jameela Jamil is an easy top 10 worst people online. If she wasn't hot everything thing about her would be dispicable.

Kinda funny how her character in The Good Place is a dumb, vain, insecure, braggadocious socialite. Well, I suppose in real life she’s more an actor than socialite.

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« Reply #28598 on: September 02, 2022, 07:23:33 PM »
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If you removed all the apologies and people policing other people's language on Twatter, what are you left with?
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28599 on: September 02, 2022, 07:49:48 PM »

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28600 on: September 02, 2022, 08:00:44 PM »
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28601 on: September 02, 2022, 08:10:22 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/bungie-has-reduced-communication-with-destiny-2-community-due-to-real-threats-toward-our-people-and-studio.612798/page-3#post-92577175

https://twitter.com/710wonderdev/status/1565822095594262528

Test associate decides to pump fake online and call herself an Engineer. People at Bungie report her to HR. She then calls her co-workers cowards and publicly calls them out. They fire her ass. She is now crying about how Bungie bad.

People in that thread not immediately jumping on her side or starting a crusade against Bungie? Boy if Morrigan gets wind of that thread  :whew

There's gonna be a lot of Dismissing concerns of X messages

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28602 on: September 02, 2022, 08:24:45 PM »
Found a games developer who might be able to finally portray Samus as The Bire knows she should be: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2019950/Wheels_of_Duty/

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28603 on: September 02, 2022, 08:26:14 PM »
Eh, I've tried to say that Engineer should have a meaning, ie a Master's in the field, but the term is basically meaningless now. Brianna Wu says they are a software engineer and yet didn't have a degree.

I did an electrical engineering technology degree but I would never call myself an engineer. At most i would say i am a Technologist.

It should be a protected title, like Doctor.

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28604 on: September 02, 2022, 08:28:45 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-to-target-maga-republicans-in-prime-time-speech-about-threats-to-democracy-8pm-est-today.627139/page-18#post-92558674

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Ultimately though you've also chosen to make some deeply personal disparaging comments about me that amount almost entirely removing my agency in terms of my perspective, and basically have decided to stand by them, and you compared me to abhorrent monsters in the process. Pro tip don't compare someone to fascists and then say you only think they don't have the same goals as said fascists.
1. He didn't "almost entirely" remove your agency, he was criticizing you for the choices you make and asking you to reflect on them. He was giving you the benefit of doubt that you can think for yourself despite the lack of evidence.

A. He didn't compare you to fascists, but I will because you absolutely do have the same goal as fascists.

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28605 on: September 02, 2022, 08:42:06 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/bungie-has-reduced-communication-with-destiny-2-community-due-to-real-threats-toward-our-people-and-studio.612798/page-3#post-92577175

https://twitter.com/710wonderdev/status/1565822095594262528

Test associate decides to pump fake online and call herself an Engineer. People at Bungie report her to HR. She then calls her co-workers cowards and publicly calls them out. They fire her ass. She is now crying about how Bungie bad.

People in that thread not immediately jumping on her side or starting a crusade against Bungie? Boy if Morrigan gets wind of that thread  :whew

There's gonna be a lot of Dismissing concerns of X messages
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She could have addressed those idiots in the internal company's message board/group chat/slack channels whatever, why would you take that to twitter.

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I’ve had someone claiming my title that I worked super fucking hard to earn and then make a big scene when the employer refused to hand it to them because they chose to work my position when hired for something else. It was a huge punish for everyone involved and they were fired, and tbh everyone was relieved to have their disruptions removed from our day to day.

This has that energy.

She was also planning an engineering panel while being an associate. I mean… Love what she’s aiming for but maybe chill tf out a bit before ranting on socials about a position you aren’t in.
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28606 on: September 02, 2022, 08:57:48 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-to-target-maga-republicans-in-prime-time-speech-about-threats-to-democracy-8pm-est-today.627139/page-18#post-92558674

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Ultimately though you've also chosen to make some deeply personal disparaging comments about me that amount almost entirely removing my agency in terms of my perspective, and basically have decided to stand by them, and you compared me to abhorrent monsters in the process. Pro tip don't compare someone to fascists and then say you only think they don't have the same goals as said fascists.
1. He didn't "almost entirely" remove your agency, he was criticizing you for the choices you make and asking you to reflect on them. He was giving you the benefit of doubt that you can think for yourself despite the lack of evidence.

A. He didn't compare you to fascists, but I will because you absolutely do have the same goal as fascists.
Pointing out you behave like a fascist is not the same as comparing you to them. Cunts and fascists have a lot of behavioural similarities.
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28607 on: September 02, 2022, 09:03:45 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-i-ot-i-would-do-it-all-over-again.627178/page-8#post-92576035
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Holy shit it finally happened

I found the worst tweet ive ever seen in my life
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This is the most nauseating of arm chair development I've seen in recent years. I'd pay to watch them compose a game environment... Twitter needs to be deleted.
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https://twitter.com/Apuru_kun/status/1565128156402618369

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28608 on: September 02, 2022, 09:37:09 PM »
It's pretty funny that people in that thread freak out over every little graphical detail but when someone looks at the scene composition they're suddenly like "no one pays attention to that"

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28609 on: September 02, 2022, 09:42:26 PM »
Is "potentially sensitive content" a disclaimer you apply yourself on twitter or is there an algorithm that determined the guys screenshots were making people livid

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28610 on: September 02, 2022, 09:45:16 PM »
Is "potentially sensitive content" a disclaimer you apply yourself on twitter or is there an algorithm that determined the guys screenshots were making people livid

It’s an 18+ account
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28611 on: September 02, 2022, 09:51:22 PM »
18+ videogame reviews? I don't understand the internet no more

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28612 on: September 02, 2022, 10:03:40 PM »
18+ videogame reviews? I don't understand the internet no more

Reviews :confused

Its shitty NSFW fan art.
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28613 on: September 02, 2022, 10:25:01 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-wants-to-become-eras-official-cat.627604/#post-92582077

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28614 on: September 02, 2022, 10:28:30 PM »
Is "potentially sensitive content" a disclaimer you apply yourself on twitter or is there an algorithm that determined the guys screenshots were making people livid
Yes, you can apply it yourself. I think he might have done that for spoilers?

It can also get applied by Twitter if enough people report it I think. I've seen this happen to memes/images that have "slurs" in them, I would assume the same could happen to images that are too explicit in some way if a "normal" account is posting them as people who willingly look at porn accounts probably wouldn't report it. I don't know if it's done automatically or not until someone checks and says "nah that's fine" or if it flags it so someone can determine.
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28615 on: September 02, 2022, 10:36:59 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/bungie-has-reduced-communication-with-destiny-2-community-due-to-real-threats-toward-our-people-and-studio.612798/page-3#post-92577175

https://twitter.com/710wonderdev/status/1565822095594262528

Test associate decides to pump fake online and call herself an Engineer. People at Bungie report her to HR. She then calls her co-workers cowards and publicly calls them out. They fire her ass. She is now crying about how Bungie bad.

People in that thread not immediately jumping on her side or starting a crusade against Bungie? Boy if Morrigan gets wind of that thread  :whew

There's gonna be a lot of Dismissing concerns of X messages

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bungie-has-reduced-communication-with-destiny-2-community-due-to-real-threats-toward-our-people-and-studio.612798/page-3#post-92582125

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Seems she was with Bungie for… 4 months. And future employers can just search her name and a bunch of hits will come up. Definitely feel like she’s doing more harm to herself by publicizing all of this. I started as an associate and was basically doing “lead” real QA work on my team for over a year. And my first year as an associate rolled into sans associate in my title as is pretty customary, regardless of duties. If you think you deserve a raise based on duties performed you bring that up later at an appropriate time after getting along with your peers and managers. Self claiming a title and creating a hostile work environment (as she said herself) is not the way to do it, at all. Reporting linkedin posts is narc activity though
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28616 on: September 02, 2022, 10:59:41 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-to-target-maga-republicans-in-prime-time-speech-about-threats-to-democracy-8pm-est-today.627139/page-18#post-92558674

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Ultimately though you've also chosen to make some deeply personal disparaging comments about me that amount almost entirely removing my agency in terms of my perspective, and basically have decided to stand by them, and you compared me to abhorrent monsters in the process. Pro tip don't compare someone to fascists and then say you only think they don't have the same goals as said fascists.
1. He didn't "almost entirely" remove your agency, he was criticizing you for the choices you make and asking you to reflect on them. He was giving you the benefit of doubt that you can think for yourself despite the lack of evidence.

A. He didn't compare you to fascists, but I will because you absolutely do have the same goal as fascists.

are you sure? fascism is a protected term that can only apply to certain ideologies  :doggy
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28617 on: September 02, 2022, 11:00:58 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-favorite-tom-cruise-moment-in-real-life.627541/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-favorite-tom-cruise-moment-in-real-life.627541/#post-92575858

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What? I've heard of women being auditioned to be his girlfriends before.
Including one of the leads from the new Lord of the Rings show.

She had to scrub floors when it didn't work out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazanin_Boniadi#Scientology

 :cruise
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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28618 on: September 02, 2022, 11:11:38 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/bungie-has-reduced-communication-with-destiny-2-community-due-to-real-threats-toward-our-people-and-studio.612798/page-3#post-92577175

https://twitter.com/710wonderdev/status/1565822095594262528

Test associate decides to pump fake online and call herself an Engineer. People at Bungie report her to HR. She then calls her co-workers cowards and publicly calls them out. They fire her ass. She is now crying about how Bungie bad.

People in that thread not immediately jumping on her side or starting a crusade against Bungie? Boy if Morrigan gets wind of that thread  :whew

There's gonna be a lot of Dismissing concerns of X messages

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bungie-has-reduced-communication-with-destiny-2-community-due-to-real-threats-toward-our-people-and-studio.612798/page-3#post-92582125

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Seems she was with Bungie for… 4 months. And future employers can just search her name and a bunch of hits will come up. Definitely feel like she’s doing more harm to herself by publicizing all of this. I started as an associate and was basically doing “lead” real QA work on my team for over a year. And my first year as an associate rolled into sans associate in my title as is pretty customary, regardless of duties. If you think you deserve a raise based on duties performed you bring that up later at an appropriate time after getting along with your peers and managers. Self claiming a title and creating a hostile work environment (as she said herself) is not the way to do it, at all. Reporting linkedin posts is narc activity though

4 months? holy shit!! :dead

she's on twitter talking like she was fighting the man at bungie her whole life. talking about her achievements and how she stood up for herself, how representation matters and yaddy yadda

imagine having to work with someone who managed to stir so much shit up in less than 6 months before flaming out in a pathetic twitter ego fueled meltdown.  :neogaf

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Re: Other Forums Containment Thread
« Reply #28619 on: September 02, 2022, 11:22:21 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-to-target-maga-republicans-in-prime-time-speech-about-threats-to-democracy-8pm-est-today.627139/page-18#post-92558674

Quote from: excelsiorlef
Ultimately though you've also chosen to make some deeply personal disparaging comments about me that amount almost entirely removing my agency in terms of my perspective, and basically have decided to stand by them, and you compared me to abhorrent monsters in the process. Pro tip don't compare someone to fascists and then say you only think they don't have the same goals as said fascists.
1. He didn't "almost entirely" remove your agency, he was criticizing you for the choices you make and asking you to reflect on them. He was giving you the benefit of doubt that you can think for yourself despite the lack of evidence.

A. He didn't compare you to fascists, but I will because you absolutely do have the same goal as fascists.

are you sure? fascism is a protected term that can only apply to certain ideologies  :doggy

Does this mean Kim jong un is just a standup communist after all?