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[HaughtyFrank]

What does "offensively white-mayo on wonder bread white" content mean when it comes to tech or videogames?

Do they expect a black reviewer to rap the review or something?

"Now that's some real black content!"

[Potato]

Even with MKBHD, Marques is literally the only Black person on his entire team. Hell, he didn't hire a woman to be on the team until recently.

While he's usually quite apolitical, I remember he said he's usually the only black person in the room due to his interests and that he cares more about action than performative activism so this is quite disappointing.

Messyidiot thinks performative activism is more important than action?
 

[benjipwns]

What does "offensively white-mayo on wonder bread white" content mean when it comes to tech or videogames?

Do they expect a black reviewer to rap the review or something?

"Now that's some real black content!"

"I know the title and thumbnail says we're going to benchmark the new GeForce GPU but instead we're going to talk about how benchmarking hardware upholds systems of colonialism and white supremacy."

[Polident Hive]

How are people aware about MKBHD’s team? Any video of his I’ve seen, he’s the only one in front of the camera. Do they catch reflections of the camera operators in the OnePlus Fold15X video?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendolife-splatoon-3s-shiver-appears-to-be-nintendos-first-major-non-binary-character-update-nintendo-deconfirms.620169/page-3#post-92722240

I kind of agree that Nintendo probably should have clarified instead of thinking they were being lead on, but it’s worth noting that some non-binary people still use gendered pronouns, so the use of female pronouns in and of itself wouldn’t necessarily disqualify the character from possibly being non-binary

I mean... you can be a girl and be non-binary? Those aren't mutually exclusive.

Just end me 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendolife-splatoon-3s-shiver-appears-to-be-nintendos-first-major-non-binary-character-update-nintendo-deconfirms.620169/page-3#post-92722240

I kind of agree that Nintendo probably should have clarified instead of thinking they were being lead on, but it’s worth noting that some non-binary people still use gendered pronouns, so the use of female pronouns in and of itself wouldn’t necessarily disqualify the character from possibly being non-binary

I mean... you can be a girl and be non-binary? Those aren't mutually exclusive.

Just end me 

Are you telling me that I am not a non-binary man who is also sometimes a lesbian?

Don't do a genocide.

[HaughtyFrank]

I love how matter if he fact he says that. Like, duh, of course can you be non-binary and a girl. Are you some bigot or something?

[Himu]

A TRAN KILLED KIWI FARMS

[FUME5]

Only a man can have a bussy, this is not a point I am willing to compromise on.

[FUME5]

A TRAN KILLED KIWI FARMS

I'm sorry but aren't you....you know, like 5 foot tall?

Pretty sure you are too short to have an opinion on this one.

[Himu]

A TRAN KILLED KIWI FARMS

I'm sorry but aren't you....you know, like 5 foot tall?

Pretty sure you are too short to have an opinion on this one.

I'm 5'5! May be short, but at least I'll live longer. Also tall people dancing smh pathetic giraffe people. Also those short man muscle gains ahahahaha suck it.

[FUME5]

Okay, but, counterpoint: manlet.

[Himu]

Counter counter-point: this dick in your mother.

Also this is the season of short kings

[FUME5]

Counter counter counter-point: nah.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/KylePlusComics/status/1566904801954234369

No one's ever heard of The Cathedral and The Bazaar?

Not everything is a fucking Neo Nazi term...

From the intelligence I've gathered 75% of the population is a Nazi and the other 25% supports Trump in secret

[Himu]

Counter counter counter-point: nah.

Tall ass stumbling giraffe nicca gonna have calcified knees by 40 lmao

Gonna be walking like a dead roach that just got stepped on and still moving by reflex but deep down it's already dead.

How them legs and back feel tall boy? 

[FUME5]

Pretty fucking good, shoutout squats and deadlifts.

Now back to the important shit, who has found royalards 'thirst' trap pics?

[Himu]

One of the most bizarre points about "don't use blacks!" some of those race obsessed people cry is that every person I've witnessed say blacks also says "whites".  They're not dehumanizing black people or saying we aren't people. They're categorizing with a short hand in the same way we do with Hispanics or Asians or Latinos or Natives. Notice none of those descriptors have the word people after, but they're still in common use.

Pretty fucking good, shoutout squats and deadlifts.

Now back to the important shit, who has found royalards 'thirst' trap pics?

Congratulations! That's the real shit 

[SmokyDave]

Also tall people dancing smh pathetic giraffe people.

Fuck off, I can’t dance because I’m white. The height is just a rythmic co-morbidity.

[Snoopycat_]

Uh excuse me but all this talk of size is becoming very toxic to those of us with vertical dysphoria. Not everyone identifies with the height they were assigned at birth. Some days I wake up feeling like I'm a jazzy 7 feet tall. Other days I identify as a sassy 4"2 yass queen

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rick-and-morty-s6-ot-in-finite-central-curve-spoilers-on-episode-drop.627904/page-3#post-92726674

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm a comic book geek. Retaining obscure minutiae of story and character is what I do. And this is all from a single show that's only been airing linearly for nine years.

[Risible]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/“thirst-traps”-and-the-prevalence-of-them-on-social-media.628243/page-2#post-92690665

I really don't understand how the IG algorithm works at all.

Because I have the opposite problem OP has. I post thirst traps, I like thirst traps. I occasionally dabble in portrait photography, so I follow a lot of models.

Yet what does the algorithm show me?

Seafood and drag queens.

EDIT: Oh, and rottweiler puppies. But you can never have enough of those in your feed.

I’m too lazy to think of a joke, so you fine and upstanding gentlemen can have at it.

Edit: posted too soon of course y'all already made the joke lol

[Snoopycat_]

Posted on Resetera -

Reminder: Sexism is not an argumentative sword to be used because you don’t agree with others’ opinions.

Actually posted on Resetera.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-people-feel-that-aloy-speaks-too-much-in-horizon.628555/page-2#post-92733067

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Imagine being a sexist on era.

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You get all that work for free!

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[Himu]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/“thirst-traps”-and-the-prevalence-of-them-on-social-media.628243/page-2#post-92690665

I really don't understand how the IG algorithm works at all.

Because I have the opposite problem OP has. I post thirst traps, I like thirst traps. I occasionally dabble in portrait photography, so I follow a lot of models.

Yet what does the algorithm show me?

Seafood and drag queens.

EDIT: Oh, and rottweiler puppies. But you can never have enough of those in your feed.

I’m too lazy to think of a joke, so you fine and upstanding gentlemen can have at it.

Porn is everywhere and inescapable now. Honestly social media is a cancer. We need to bring back slut shaming. When women are openly advertising their only fans account on their social media and female acquaintances tell you they're considering getting into porn it's time to bring back the slut jokes.

[Propagandhim]

*said in Malcolm X voice*

These women are contributing to the slutifcation of the world.
But the slutification of the world, is the stultification of the world.
*audience claps* *audience says "Uh huh"*
I don't know about you, but I'm not getting any extra puss puss
So what's the point?  What's the point of the pussy being put in my face all the time?
The Black Man asks, "What's the point?"
The White Man asks, "What's in it for me?"
and the Jew says, "Yes.  Yes.  I did this."

[Himu]

*said in Malcolm X voice*

These women are contributing to the slutifcation of the world.
But the slutification of the world, is the stultification of the world.
*audience claps* *audience says "Uh huh"*
I don't know about you, but I'm not getting any extra puss puss
So what's the point?  What's the point of the pussy being put in my face all the time?
The Black Man asks, "What's the point?"
The White Man asks, "What's in it for me?"
and the Jew says, "Yes.  Yes.  I did this."

These days being horny on main is the default. We need to return to a time when we all consumed  - and made - porn in shame. The coomers have gotten too stronk and have amassed a lot of cultural cachet.

[Propagandhim]

I kinda agree.  Plus, there was something magical about finding really low quality porn in the woods as a kid.  Do we really want to take the wonderment of discovery away from children by disseminating it everywhere.  Magazines with real uglies with like gunshot wounds on their thighs and shit.  There was something there that made you feel like you found something...not necessarily worth keeping, but you found it..

[BIONIC]

I kinda agree

https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576

[Himu]

I kinda agree.  Plus, there was something magical about finding really low quality porn in the woods as a kid.  Do we really want to take the wonderment of discovery away from children by disseminating it everywhere.  Magazines with real uglies with like gunshot wounds on their thighs and shit.  There was something there that made you feel like you found something...not necessarily worth keeping, but you found it..

Imagine the brain of a child that discovers hardcore porn at 8 or so. Due to the prevalence of social media, kids having phones, and being a literal whore becoming normalized and mainstream kids have access. It's beyond bizarre. The conservative Christians were right.

Then there's the disrespect and assumption that as a man all that it takes to interest me is a big, thick booty. Like men are just giant penis brained monkeys.

This is without mentioning the obvious elephant in the room that it diminishes women to just their booty cheeks. For all the female empowerment that's happened it feels like women are props as sexual apparatus more than they were ten years ago. These days every whore is shaking her ass in a man's face trying to make a score or get attention. Every day normal women must be completely embarrassed.

[Propagandhim]

Sure -- Hard agree.  There's definitely externalities to the modern world: instant gratification when it comes to high-speed data and communication, including ease of access to pornography for everyone, including kids.  Porn is desensitizing, and a general sense of lack of delayed gratification, ease of reward signaling, from content in general has made people less happier on average over time.  The good news is, you can step away from these things through your own efforts.  Information overload is a choice, and high-speed data is curated by volitional actions and attitudes that the individual controls -  lot of people can mire themselves in the misery of culture war, news, demoralizing and degrading content, or they can make the executive decision to step away from it.  As facile as this sounds, I have never heard an Ariana Grande song, and if I have, I wouldn't know it's her.  I don't know what she sounds like.   I might hear one in Starbucks, but because I never seek it out or appoint any attention to it, it's like a noise I've habituated to not listening to.  That is what life is for a lot of people.  And for a lot of people, they're addicted to the sound - like they're addicted to twitter commentary and cultural doomposting.  Parents needs to use parental controls and take an interest and track what their kids consume, and then they need to teach them how to make these decisions for themselves when they're adults.  They should also teach them that they're not a set of autonomic impulses and they can observe the contents of their mind and make decisions that lead them away from that kind of stress and misery.  It's not just about what technology feeds you - you can control what you consume and how you want to live.    It doesn't have to be so bad.

[Himu]

Agreed. For that reason you need to fight the common grain and return to tradition: call them whores and sluts and make it uncool again.

Also the idea that parents can control every part of their child's consumption diet isn't realistic. As said, porn has been  normalized.

[Propagandhim]

All you can do is your best, then deal with the consequences as they come.  I'm not going to sit in a corner, shivering and getting sick about the momentum of modernity if I've done what I can and what I think is right.  Use the best parental controls available and teach your kids how to be mindful of their actions and that's it.  I can't control the world.

[Himu]

All you can do is your best, then deal with the consequences as they come.  I'm not going to sit in a corner, shivering and getting sick about the momentum of modernity if I've done what I can and what I think is right.  Use the best parental controls available and teach your kids how to be mindful of their actions and that's it.  I can't control the world.

Quite right. I feel like there's a way to discuss healthy sex but I'm not sure if what we are dealing with in modern times is healthy. It feels like an excess. An overcorrection to puritanical living. Can't hide the kids in a forest or be one of those weird "I don't want to have children because because the world is going to end" doomers so all you can do is the best you can.

Finally, to your point about avoiding. For an adult, I wouldn't suggest avoiding the material outright because it is what it is and it is everywhere. I think it's much more fruitful to get the discipline to be able to not be swayed by every woman trying to get your dick hard. There's power in that - being attracted to someone or something but not letting it sway you or influence your behavior.

Good talk, have a good day.

[Pissy F Benny]

Posted on Resetera -

Reminder: Sexism is not an argumentative sword to be used because you don’t agree with others’ opinions.

Actually posted on Resetera.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-people-feel-that-aloy-speaks-too-much-in-horizon.628555/page-2#post-92733067

How can anyone have any other opinion, she never shuts the fuck up and sounds like Bret Weinstein's wife too

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cyberpunk-2077-dlc-reveal-phantom-liberty-coming-2023.628636/

Who's gonna buy Kyuuji's copy this time?

edit: thread deleted as usual. Still can't talk about CP outside the OT 

[nobody of note]

In Constructive, someone asks if Cyberpunk can be set free from Era Jail:

Sooo...long shot.  But can we stop the thread ban on Cyberpunk yet?  KEEP the disclaimer that starts every new page, but has it been in "game jail" long enough?

🔥  🛡️  I feel the thread ban is....kinda odd to still have. The game had a TRASH social media rep who caused a lot of dumb heat for fucking nothing (and deserved to be called out), but the game itself (besides edgy garbage in-game advertising where like 80% of it was fetishistic and dumb) was a lot tamer with some great lgbtq+ characters and content too. Atlus has done a lot worse IMO in a few of their games. :/

The controversy with the game seems to have largely been a loud and obnoxious social media person (they absolutely shoulda been canned/demoted or given a stern-ass talking to).  But the in-game content itself was for the most part pretty chill with how it handled a lot of subjects or lent the appropriate gravity.

I'm absolutely willing to take an L on this, because it's important to have good standards IMO (I actually wasn't going to get the game because of the controversies myself, but got it gifted when I got covid lol), but I thought I'd bring it up since it makes discussion a little less annoying as content is still being made for it.

Kyuuji there in a flash to nip that right in the bud:

Guessing you're not including the only trans woman of worth in the game having repeat references to a beast, when coupled with the other reference to trans women being beasts there is in the game. Or the mock conversation in the dressing room about being a real woman that I seem to recall.

I truly don't recall this TBH and genuinely sorry to bring up something bad.  But hmm... I remember Claire had a car she called the Beast (w/ trans flag on the back to boot), but I didn't know that was a slur.  I also don't recall a dressing room scene (and google turned up nothing).
My time with Cyberpunk was playing a badass lesbian 👍 Really not trying to start anything bad.

The questline for her character is called 'The Beast In Me', her car is called Beast. Do you think that this is coincidence from a company that directly relates trans women to beasts in their in-game advertising and was rampantly transphobic for years leading up to the game's release. That the sole trans character of note in the game just happens to also have 'Beast' related to her?

Like I said, if you enjoy the game and your playthrough I can't see anything – looking back through the pages of the OT – that would have made discussing the game difficult if it's what you wanted to do?

Sorry, again I'm not familiar on all the slang/slurs and never took the word that way.  I thought it was some "road warrior"-related naming since she's a racer, but I've never heard it applied to the lgbtq community; her in-game dialogue and backstory was otherwise, again, pretty chill with how she's treated. :/

Mostly surprised anyone was naive enough to think CyberPunk's ban has anything to do with the game,  vs just being a symbol at this point.

[Pissy F Benny]

I personally took the beast to mean her lust for revenge (as well as the name of her souped up pick up) but I suppose I'm a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow instead 

[HaughtyFrank]

Spoiler alert: Beast is not a trans slur

[Pissy F Benny]

I don't think kyujji can't fully comprehend characters who aren't black and white good or evil in the first place (a lot of ree as a whole struggle with this, see any sopranos etc thread), and it probably broke her brain that they'd dare have a transgender character with shades of grey (an understandable but ultimately misguided thirst for revenge).

[Taco Bell Tower]

Kyuuji says that while buying the dlc

[Boredfrom]

Spoiler alert: Beast is not a trans slur

The worst thing is that everyone is going to take her word for it because she is the current Queen of Transexuals of RE. Not one is going to question she blatantly gaslighting everyone because she likes the power trip (not even hating the game outright).

[BIONIC]

I’m response to B-Chuds’ rant about tickets

Who said anything about back and forths or arguing with the person? Whatever happened to just sending a short reply (even if it's a "Sorry (user), we took no moderation action as we did not see any rule being broken" or any kind of stock message like that) and closing/locking the ticket?

This was routinely done when I was staff. Rejecting a ticket without a reply was usually reserved for rude or obviously ridiculous tickets, not good faith inquiries from well-meaning users, so it's disappointing to hear that it's happening so often now. You don't need to do a "back and forth" at all. Just say "sorry, but nah" which is the minimum that users like RecLib deserve.

[Boredfrom]

Morrigan is a delusional cunt.   

May as well write: go fuck yourself, you fuck.

[BIONIC]

Spoiler alert: Beast is not a trans slur

FACT CHECK:

The in-game advertising relates trans women to the mythical beast the manticore. An amalgam of different parts of different creatures that means maneater. Not exactly subtle as to which transphobic doors it's knocking on. Then the one trans woman in the game just happens to have her quest-line and vehicle name relate to a beast and part of her being one. You could call it coincidence, but considering the game was made by people who actively sought to mock and deride trans people over years I'm not going to extend the courtesy where others might.

[HaughtyFrank]

Spoiler alert: Beast is not a trans slur

FACT CHECK:

The in-game advertising relates trans women to the mythical beast the manticore. An amalgam of different parts of different creatures that means maneater. Not exactly subtle as to which transphobic doors it's knocking on. Then the one trans woman in the game just happens to have her quest-line and vehicle name relate to a beast and part of her being one. You could call it coincidence, but considering the game was made by people who actively sought to mock and deride trans people over years I'm not going to extend the courtesy where others might.

These god damn transphobes, always putting trans people and trans flags in their games. And they even have the audacity to hire a trans voice actor!

Meanwhile Kyuuji doesn't give a fuck about Guilty Gear where a character comes out as trans who was forced to dress up like a girl since childhood, playing directly into right-wing grooming fantasies. Not to mention the that the character has a cis voice actor which to people like Kyuuji is usually a death sentence

 

[Joe Molotov]

[Taco Bell Tower]

Wait, Bridget's VA is a cis?  Time to cancel Guilty Gear

[Propagandhim]

Kyuuji has the whole forum hostage in making sure nobody can talk about the new Cyberpunk hotness   

Any attempt to be like, "Guys, can we be pragmatic here.  I don't think this game is as transphobic as you think it is." is met with some crazy mind acrobatics about how they're adding euphemism to the names of characters to secretly propel the anti-trans agenda.  The whole game is one $300m+ vehicle to advance the hatred of trans folx.   One schizophrenic trans person is preventing everyone from having a discussion about the game.   

[benjipwns]

Do you think that this is coincidence from a company that directly relates trans women to beasts in their in-game advertising and was rampantly transphobic for years leading up to the game's release.

But those things did not happen?

[benjipwns]

Still can't talk about CP outside the OT

[BIONIC]

Actual real-life doxx of Kyuuji:

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[Pissy F Benny]

i wonder if they'll use the scene from witcher 3 with the cross dressing elf and geralt is a bit weirded out but its also kinda framed that he's being a jerk about it as further proof of their years long trans genocide?

[Pissy F Benny]

idk a lot of the (online autist) trans movement has gotten so weird and twisted in their logic at this point that i wouldn't be surprised if they call any man who makes a pass at them feggits at this point

[Boredfrom]

Cyberpunk Edgerunners seems is going to be LGBT friendly given some of the protagonists.

[Pissy F Benny]

thats just a trick, they're faking it and lying so they can sucker queer folx and above all queer folx of colour in and then expose them to unrivalled bigotry don't you seeee?

[benjipwns]

Kyuuji has the whole forum hostage in making sure nobody can talk about the new Cyberpunk hotness   

The last time a trans poster tried to hold the forum hostage the staff said "who gives a shit if everyone Ketkat saves the lives of daily in the Mental Health thread is dead in a month?" Yet Kyuuji gets them to continue to ban games even after B-Dubs said they weren't doing it anymore since it didn't actually accomplish anything.

[Pissy F Benny]

who was the reset era user who claimed they'd fucked up their legs/feet by pretending to be a dinosaur most of their child and teen years?

[Propagandhim]

Kyuuji has the whole forum hostage in making sure nobody can talk about the new Cyberpunk hotness   

The last time a trans poster tried to hold the forum hostage the staff said "who gives a shit if everyone Ketkat saves the lives of daily in the Mental Health thread is dead in a month?" Yet Kyuuji gets them to continue to ban games even after B-Dubs said they weren't doing it anymore since it didn't actually accomplish anything.

FACT CHECK:     banning Blizzard and Sony games doesn't do anything.  As every company rapes. 

The Polish Question, however, is still on the table.   

[BisMarckie]

who was the reset era user who claimed they'd fucked up their legs/feet by pretending to be a dinosaur most of their child and teen years?

shondy aka shosta IIRC