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[Taco Bell Tower]

I saw thebire liking Riotous Sr more.  I didn't think that was bullying him 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/crickey-new-nintendo-3ds-turns-8-years-old-today.642153/#post-94682229

2014 feels like.... yesterday???

The good old days when racism and climate change didn’t exist, shitlord 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-spoke-directly-to-putin-before-tweeting-out-batshit-peace-plan-and-promised-to-meet-all-his-conditions.642204/#post-94687119

And lots of posters in the Twitter thread we’re actually asking “will anything really change when he owns Twitter since it already sucks?”

This asshole will actively use Twitter to promote, advocate, and launder Putin’s misinformation.

Wouldn't be surprised if Putin is funneling money into Musk's efforts to buy Twitter since supposedly some of his prior investors backed out.

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tom-cruise%E2%80%99s-space-movie-will-make-him-the-%E2%80%98first-civilian-to-do-a-spacewalk-outside-of-the-space-station-%E2%80%99-universal-boss-says.642201/#post-94687713

I’m not thrilled about Doug Liman directing this. May end up average. Liman is more miss than hit, with his last good film was that sci-fi movie Day After Tomorrow.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-spoke-directly-to-putin-before-tweeting-out-batshit-peace-plan-and-promised-to-meet-all-his-conditions.642204/#post-94687119

And lots of posters in the Twitter thread we’re actually asking “will anything really change when he owns Twitter since it already sucks?”

This asshole will actively use Twitter to promote, advocate, and launder Putin’s misinformation.

Wouldn't be surprised if Putin is funneling money into Musk's efforts to buy Twitter since supposedly some of his prior investors backed out.

 

They have the least generous expectation of content policy under Musk because they know how they'd run the show if they were in charge.      Elon's kind of a useful idiot when it comes to this Russia stuff, but there's no indication that he'd clamp down on opposing views in his version of the platform. 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Yea I’m Finding it remarkable that people have been called out on their bullshit and continue to do said bullshit as if they haven’t been telegraphing it for years.

I genuinely wouldn't be able to tell if this post was pro or anti Tulsi Gabbard if it wasn't for the forum its posted on

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-pic-of-matilda-lutz-as-red-sonja.642282/

bu-bu-but FEMORAL ARTERIES

[Nintex]

alright guys, I'm giving up my isp email address to go into era.

I'm tired of these people.

brb

Remember that they check the site of the isp so it has to be a legit one.

I had a domain for emails but I was too lazy to make a fake ISP site.
If enough people donate I might do that tho

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tom-cruise’s-space-movie-will-make-him-the-‘first-civilian-to-do-a-spacewalk-outside-of-the-space-station-’-universal-boss-says.642201/#post-94687938

You can do great space effects without doing stupid shit like have a 60 year old do a spacewalk. Gravity is a great film for instance.

As far as I can tell, He's already older than the oldest astronaut to have done a spacewalk* and that's for good reason. Space is super hostile to life and it's not a joke to fuck around and try and do some insane filming stunt for. Astronauts are typically half his age for good reason. This is like how everyone takes the piss out of Armageddon for sending a bunch of drillers to space because how hard can being an astronaut be?


*And a cursory Google says there's only been a small number of astornauts at his age in general

guy has literally done everything life has to offer, has enough money to never work again. this is him living out his passion

video games are bad for your eyesight at this age, you should stop playing them…. that won’t stop you from running out and getting the next bloodborne clone, so let tom cruise enjoy his hobby too

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I realized being doxxed by the era wasn't worth it.

so i'm totally not there.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-pic-of-matilda-lutz-as-red-sonja.642282/

bu-bu-but FEMORAL ARTERIES

They haven't shown the full look yet but I'm hoping that it's the classic chainmail bikini just to see RE debate on whether they should call the trans director sexist or not.

[BIONIC]

Sounds like it’s time for Nojobxon to harass another trans woman on Twitter 

[Pissy F Benny]

it doesn't look like outright childrens media so I doubt he cares

[Crumb]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nfs-unbound-gameplay-trailer-is-scheduled-for-tomorrow-5-pm-cest-8-am-pt.641781/post-94690479

My god, when will these companies stop with the, "How do you do, fellow kids" social media marketing? This shit didn't fly 10 years ago let alone today.

The icing on the cake would be if they are white.

Shout out to the homie extremely cringe,

They are definitely white.

No. The guy that manages the NFS account is black and has been pretty vocal about it.

https://twitter.com/NeedforSpeed/status/1579575045873356801

O well that's surprising.

His tweets are pretty corny though.

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how da fuck do I link twitter on here 

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[Joe Molotov]

Delete all the stuff after the question mark.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nvidia-rtx-4090-1600-october-12th-4080-1200-16gb-900-12gb-november-and-dlss-3-announced.634241/page-77#post-94684593

  User Banned (2 Months): Misgendering another user, ban doubled after appeal failed to address issue

Glad to see you've turned up like clockwork. Trying to downplay the fucking insane 4090 performance, just lmao.

It wouldn't be resetera if some didn't show up to put out there desires. You don't need to downplay it, it won't hit some people's metrics as I already mentioned, but those people are basically performance nutjobs. I admit mine freely and we still aren't even close to DDR5 1TB baby I want to make but we are getting there. Could be there in 2 gens vs 3 or 4 I was expecting.

Don't entertain him he literally managed to do some amd shillin again.

Hi ridge I remember you from the last gen of amd gpus before they came out, the only faithful guy comes right back in to mark his archnemsis.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I'm a mod now

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/these-black-gop-members-stay-true-to-beliefs-despite-criticism-from-their-communities.642357/#post-94704036

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://twitter.com/aguycalleddave/status/1579952798057123840?
I don't see BCT peeps at ResetEra having a black pfp

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2022-ot-2-nu-clears-the-ex-president-thank-you.619137/page-165#post-94662126

This is why all the rants about 'Dems dropping the ball' ring hollow to me. I place the blame solely on voters.

Anyone who would rather vote in the GOP or idly stand by and abstain is an enabler in my eyes. This is now fascism vs democracy. Those are the stakes. I'd sooner vote for the gum under my shoe than for a Republican. This country deserves whatever happens to it.

Interesting "fascism vs. democracy" take from the guy with the ugly racist kid.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-spoke-directly-to-putin-before-tweeting-out-batshit-peace-plan-and-promised-to-meet-all-his-conditions.642204/#post-94687119

And lots of posters in the Twitter thread we’re actually asking “will anything really change when he owns Twitter since it already sucks?”

This asshole will actively use Twitter to promote, advocate, and launder Putin’s misinformation.

Wouldn't be surprised if Putin is funneling money into Musk's efforts to buy Twitter since supposedly some of his prior investors backed out.

 

They have the least generous expectation of content policy under Musk because they know how they'd run the show if they were in charge.      Elon's kind of a useful idiot when it comes to this Russia stuff, but there's no indication that he'd clamp down on opposing views in his version of the platform.

Don't worry, their standard is "anything I think is Russian misinformation shouldn't be allowed" so he's guaranteed to fail.

[benjipwns]

Subscribe to Blackness?

I subscribe to Black ass if that counts.


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Her hand is upsetting me, it's some kind of green screen effect.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/these-black-gop-members-stay-true-to-beliefs-despite-criticism-from-their-communities.642357/#post-94704036

I think we're going to need a Staff Summit to figure out if racial slurs by staff members are acceptable or not.

[BIONIC]

Subscribe to Blackness?

I subscribe to Black ass if that counts.


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Her hand is upsetting me, it's some kind of green screen effect.

I was looking at a hairy pussy thumbnail gallery post when I noticed the girl's shirt in the pic

[FUME5]

I think the problem is the writers don't know what to do Royalan. He's doesn't have the extreme hatred and stupidity as Nep. He's not as gangsta as Slayven. The gay bear subplot is dead. The pedo thing has been done. It's too late to make him trans. There's not much left. At this point he's basically a sub par Oprah. I'm concerned.

If it turns out that he's enzom then the series has truly jumped the shark.

[Snoopycat_]

I think we're going to need a Staff Summit to figure out if racial slurs by staff members are acceptable or not.

That's Slayven at his most slick. I'm actually amazed he didn't post "if you know you know. Winkyface" under the photo.

[Propagandhim]

Just need a white person to quote that Slayven post and be like "Ha Ha, so true!"

 

[benjipwns]

If you feel like you have to "police" people of the same U.S. Census demographic category for potentially having opinions you don't like then guess what?

You a cop, breh.

[clothedmacuser]

Self-policing and monitoring your neighbors is community building!





Self police that border

[Snoopycat_]

Paging VisaWife... Paging VisaWife...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-was-put-up-%E2%80%98for-sale-as-a-muslim-woman-vice-india.642531/

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

Messy is going to post his family referral code.

[Potato]

Messy is going to post his family referral code.

Buy one get one free.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/russia-ratifies-deal-with-mexico-to-install-satellite-system-believed-to-be-used-for-espionage.641325/#post-94552479

User Banned (1 Month): Racist Joke

T.A.C.O.

• Tactical
• American
• Covert
• Observation

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/russia-has-begun-a-full-scale-invasion-in-ukraine-read-staff-posts.556366/page-1849#post-94643436

User Banned (3 Months; Permanent Threadban): Inflammatory Generalization; Don't Blame the Entire Population of a Country for its Leaders Actions; History of the Same

Someday, we will face the reality that russian society, as product of their history and values, is inherently imperialistic, aggressive, and what we could call “evil”. I wonder how long will Ukraine suffer until the west at large stops trying to reason with unexisting anti-war majorities.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-both-its-writers-directors-workshops-as-well-as-stage-13-major-paths-for-underrepresented-voices-in-tv.642360/#post-94707156

I think it’s time for everyone to boycott all WB entertainment. Cancel your HBO Max. Refuse to watch WB movies or anything on TNT, TBS or Cartoon Network. Fight the power people!

[Taco Bell Tower]

Paging VisaWife... Paging VisaWife...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-was-put-up-%E2%80%98for-sale-as-a-muslim-woman-vice-india.642531/

Sickening, slavery still existing is unacceptable.

First post and this user didn't even watch the video

[John Dunbar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-both-its-writers-directors-workshops-as-well-as-stage-13-major-paths-for-underrepresented-voices-in-tv.642360/#post-94707156

I think it’s time for everyone to boycott all WB entertainment. Cancel your HBO Max. Refuse to watch WB movies or anything on TNT, TBS or Cartoon Network. Fight the power people!

All of Resetera will join the boycott as soon as this season of Hot D ends.

 

[BikeJesus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/idea-of-limited-time-demo-is-horrible-and-unfair.642534/post-94738653

The same type of consumer that "accepted" instagram way of life, is same kind of audience of those who never objected to lootboxes or mictrotransactions or gachas that go offline when servers are off. And similar kind of those who accepted swapping good and practical webdesign with functional set and informatinal hierarchy, for horrible approach of "mobile-first" ui/ux whuch looks horrible when you browse those sites on your desktop monitor, and then you wonder why forum engine from 2000s was much more functional with ways of navigation, accessing, searching, sorting, viewing and distribution of information more than modern "social platforms".

Seems like a pattern.

Those social platforms that really do huge impact on FOMO and, especially, way of thinking that is "the only current moment matters".
Which why you have endless scrolling instead of pagination or grid.
Which is why those platforms dont provide right tools to view anything more old then "most recent".

That's part of same problem as modern youth being lured into "clip thinking" phenomena and everything like that.
Everything about fomo, hype, rising of bloggers, "short stories", absence of good navigation and hierarchy, layout that makes you only comprehend the most recent things...

People who do not read a thing that was posed in discord just a 30 minutes before, because they are used to read just the current disccusion option and never bother to scroll stuff they missed (why they missed? cause unlike forums you cant return back after a month and display a list of topics to choose from, no! you have endless scrolling chats, and you dont have time or ability to read everything, which is why you just stick to the recent new things at best. And you never know what was discussed before cause there is no separation into topics. And also lack of pagination prevent you from "read 5 pages today, 7 tomorrow).

This all is many many sided of one Rubick's Cube.

This is why i say it's cultural.


Ż\_(ツ)_/Ż

The OP and most of his responses in the thread are pure concentrated idiocy. Has to be a troll.

A demo is free

Not really if it expires soon.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mermaids-a-charity-for-trans-children-has-had-to-reduce-their-helpline-hours-due-to-transphobic-abuse-and-harassment.642597/#post-94740159

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mermaids-a-charity-for-trans-children-has-had-to-reduce-their-helpline-hours-due-to-transphobic-abuse-and-harassment.642597/#post-94740159

Sure is funny to forget to mention that the charity is under fire because they had a pedo advocate employed...

[BisMarckie]

Anyone who supports keeping stolen artifacts in European countries is a racist. Full stop.

I like that our boy RustyNails convienently forgets that modern Egypt is a result of the Arab Invasion and their colonization.

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mermaids-a-charity-for-trans-children-has-had-to-reduce-their-helpline-hours-due-to-transphobic-abuse-and-harassment.642597/#post-94740159

Sure is funny to forget to mention that the charity is under fire because they had a pedo advocate employed...

Non-profits have little resources and even less time. Just because it was "publicly available" doesn't mean it was easy to find or that even the people in charge of it are tech savvy enough to know how to comb that deep for things like that.

Beyond that, searching for the information now is obviously going to be much easier than say when the person was hired, as now there's media attention and more people looking up the information to fact check/weaponize it.

Mermaids did the right thing and as soon as they were made aware of the information they fired the person.

lol, this from the Total Information forum that flips out when Sony hires an intern who made a bad twitter post 8 years ago.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mermaids-a-charity-for-trans-children-has-had-to-reduce-their-helpline-hours-due-to-transphobic-abuse-and-harassment.642597/#post-94740159

This has been discussed in the JK Rowling thread (yes she's involved in this, someone else can go into detail if needed but suffice to say she's been especially active and transphobic online recently, with Mermaids being one target)

OF COURSE THAT TERF BITCH JOANNE WOULD BE INVOLVED

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/at-twitchcon-streamer-adriana-chechik-fell-in-a-unsafe-foam-pit-and-broke-her-back-in-2-places-getting-surgery-and-metal-rod-placed.641520/page-8#post-94623645

User Banned (3 Days): Inappropriate Commentary

Thank god she retired from her other endeavors

https://www.resetera.com/threads/at-twitchcon-streamer-adriana-chechik-fell-in-a-unsafe-foam-pit-and-broke-her-back-in-2-places-getting-surgery-and-metal-rod-placed.641520/page-11#post-94739556

User banned (permanent): Troll account

Except the event wasn’t held “on the ground“, but a platform that you were supposed to knock opponents off of. Which was the entire purpose of the event. So if your stance is some libertarian nonsense of, “Well, if you fall for the organizers fooling you into thinking the event is safe, you’re wholly responsible for participating to begin with,” then you can’t be reasoned with.

That convertible sure looks safe. I’m going to attack this gravel lane on this motorcycle this slight s-curve should be fine. I thought daytime running lights were sufficient for visiting a New Year’s Eve event (that stated at 9pm). Do you mean how many cans of Truly or BiG boys officer?

[tiesto]

Subscribe to Blackness?

I subscribe to Black ass if that counts.


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Her hand is upsetting me, it's some kind of green screen effect.

I was looking at a hairy pussy thumbnail gallery post when I noticed the girl's shirt in the pic

Wonder if she has a hairy pussy?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/overwatch-2-and-the-new-predatory-economy-changes-its-a-problem.642408/page-8#post-94747671

wouldn't really call it predatory, they're 100% cosmetics.

My God. If Blizzard didn't think cosmetics mattered, then they never would dedicated developmental time and resources not just to making hundreds of items, but actually marketing them. We used to get actual fucking trailers for new skins, and part of the fun of the holiday events is the new skins, voice lines, and other things.

Cosmetics do not exist in a vacuum. Like goddamn, do you walk into threads about representation and go "Why do you want different skin tones when cosmetics don't matter? Just play the default, who cares?"

No, you don't. And you know you don't. Because you know it's bullshit. People want to look cool, use their favorite colors and themes, or be able to see themselves in games. And that's fine.

If you don't care about cosmetics and are okay with looking basic in every game you play, that's also fine. But stop saying that gatekeeping these things behind unreasonable price walls isn't at all predatory. I mean, goddamn if it were gameplay-defining elements being gated (and they are since Heroes are part of the Pass now), would that not also be fucking stupid because "You don't have to play!"

Like all video games are useless. Therefore there can be no bad business practices with them?

Nepnep taking having to now pay for Lucio skins pretty hard 

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[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/overwatch-2-and-the-new-predatory-economy-changes-its-a-problem.642408/page-8#post-94747671

wouldn't really call it predatory, they're 100% cosmetics.

My God. If Blizzard didn't think cosmetics mattered, then they never would dedicated developmental time and resources not just to making hundreds of items, but actually marketing them. We used to get actual fucking trailers for new skins, and part of the fun of the holiday events is the new skins, voice lines, and other things.

Cosmetics do not exist in a vacuum. Like goddamn, do you walk into threads about representation and go "Why do you want different skin tones when cosmetics don't matter? Just play the default, who cares?"

No, you don't. And you know you don't. Because you know it's bullshit. People want to look cool, use their favorite colors and themes, or be able to see themselves in games. And that's fine.

If you don't care about cosmetics and are okay with looking basic in every game you play, that's also fine. But stop saying that gatekeeping these things behind unreasonable price walls isn't at all predatory. I mean, goddamn if it were gameplay-defining elements being gated (and they are since Heroes are part of the Pass now), would that not also be fucking stupid because "You don't have to play!"

Like all video games are useless. Therefore there can be no bad business practices with them?

Nepnep taking having to now pay for Lucio skins pretty hard 

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She just compared this



to racial representation 

I guarantee you that if someone else had made that post on a different day she'd ban them into oblivion

[BisMarckie]

on the other hand Overwatch analogies are the only thing she might  understand

[BIONIC]

Hence the word unfortunately.

Cosmetics do matter because there will always be people wanting to buy them, which is why they price them this way. They don't matter from the very objective point of view of them not having an impact on the game, which is what I was referring to, they're not pay to win and they're not must-haves. Your gameplay experience will be the same whether you have a skin or not and I think that's pretty agreeable. Skins are skins, they're nice to have but what if the game just didn't have skins and never did? The game would be the exact same and no one would care. The only reason people care now is because they used to be able to get the skins for free through lootboxes, in hindsight an incredibly generous system compared to any other online game out right now.

The rest of your post is entirely non-sensical and irrelevant and barely even deserves a proper response. Representation is a little different than silly costumes and I'm sure you can figure out why. And if we want to go down the route of everything is technically useless then sure our entire existence is meaningless so what's the point of anything really? We're talking about clearly defined parameters here of something effecting the game and being pay to win vs something completely optional and cosmetic that you choosing to not spend money on it will have no impact on your gameplay ability.

Edit: Just to add, I do think these skin prices are outrageous amounts for what is a cosmetic, especially in a first person game where you won't even see it most of the time beyond your weapons. But I don't think anything that is 100% optional and not at all needed is predatory. It's just expensive.

Literally no one cares if cosmetics don't have a numerical impact on the gameplay. Tons of shit doesn't directly affect the 1s and 0s governing player movement, but it still matters to the overall experience and positive associations you get from playing and thus it does matter to the game as a whole. You don't look at people docking a game points for horrible visual or audio quality because "derp it's not gameplay."


Which shows how much you know about Overwatch because a lot of actual real world and mythic cultural representation in the game comes in the form of the goddamn fucking skins and other cosmetics like voice lines in a character's native tongue. You think I use Capoeira Lucio in my avatar and in-game for shiggles? No. It's because it's the most meaningful bit of Afro-Brazilian representation to be had in the overall fucking game. As a Black (albeit American) person who plays capoeira and is interested in the history of that martial art why the absolute fuck wouldn't I want to wear it? Why wouldn't it make me happy to see it and use it? Again, you might not give two shits. And that's fine. But yes, cosmetics do matter and they do overlap with matters of representation.


I didn't say everything is useless. I said gaming is useless, which it is, meaning under your argument it is impossible for games to have predatory practices because you can just opt out of playing them altogether, just like you can opt out of utilizing cosmetics. If you think this is stupid then surely you can easily apply this to your original argument and understand why the "it's just cosmetics" excuse really is just that- an excuse.

[Yulwei]

User banned (permanent): Dismissing concerns of video game cosmetics

that overwatch battlepass looks really shitty and grindy. understandable to criticize them for that

having a melty over video game cosmetics and desperately trying to prove to people it's a very serious matter? touch grass ASAP

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mermaids-a-charity-for-trans-children-has-had-to-reduce-their-helpline-hours-due-to-transphobic-abuse-and-harassment.642597/#post-94740159

Sure is funny to forget to mention that the charity is under fire because they had a pedo advocate employed...

The poster who brought it up saying they were surprised to hear about it because people have been running pretty effective damage control trying to bury it, is probably a little less surprised since bringing it up got a mini dogpile going against them for mentioning it.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mermaids-a-charity-for-trans-children-has-had-to-reduce-their-helpline-hours-due-to-transphobic-abuse-and-harassment.642597/#post-94740159

Sure is funny to forget to mention that the charity is under fire because they had a pedo advocate employed...

The poster who brought it up saying they were surprised to hear about it because people have been running pretty effective damage control trying to bury it, is probably a little less surprised since bringing it up got a mini dogpile going against them for mentioning it.

They also make it sound like it's a suicide hotline but from what I can tell it seems to be a general hotline for kids questioning their identity and who have questions. Not that such a hotline shouldn't exist but it also isn't as life or death dramatic as the RE presents it

[Yulwei]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mermaids-a-charity-for-trans-children-has-had-to-reduce-their-helpline-hours-due-to-transphobic-abuse-and-harassment.642597/#post-94740681

was considering putting this context in the OP, but honestly it's so obviously hypocritical, deeply flawed rubbish by TERFs to make it seem like their abuse is legitimate, that it almost feels like giving them a win to acknowledge it at all.

Ah so they were fully planning on never bringing it up unless someone else did. Very cool. Nothing weird about that.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/russia-has-begun-a-full-scale-invasion-in-ukraine-read-staff-posts.556366/page-1849#post-94643436

User Banned (3 Months; Permanent Threadban): Inflammatory Generalization; Don't Blame the Entire Population of a Country for its Leaders Actions; History of the Same

Someday, we will face the reality that russian society, as product of their history and values, is inherently imperialistic, aggressive, and what we could call “evil”. I wonder how long will Ukraine suffer until the west at large stops trying to reason with unexisting anti-war majorities.

Again, this person is not doing this. Critiquing "Russian society" or "Russian culture" (the earlier ban) is not blaming the Russian people but asking them to perhaps question the values of the culture and society in which they operate. ResetERA.com understands this completely the thousands of times a day when somebody says "Americans are [Y]" or "America does [Z]" or whatever but when it comes to Russia or China they lose their minds.

It's funny because I know their out would be that America is a democracy and these are authoritarian states so Americans shoulder a greater blame for actions of the group yet most of their critiques targeting America/Americans include the claim that America is a faux-democracy where the people have no actual power.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alex-jones-must-pay-965-million-in-damages-to-families-of-8-sandy-hook-victims.642768/page-3#post-94763886

one thing folks in this topic should understand by now is that all american laws are fake and subject to the whims of whatever judge gets the case on their desk

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/overwatch-2-and-the-new-predatory-economy-changes-its-a-problem.642408/page-8#post-94747671

My God. If Blizzard didn't think cosmetics mattered, then they never would dedicated developmental time and resources not just to making hundreds of items, but actually marketing them. We used to get actual fucking trailers for new skins, and part of the fun of the holiday events is the new skins, voice lines, and other things.

Cosmetics do not exist in a vacuum. Like goddamn, do you walk into threads about representation and go "Why do you want different skin tones when cosmetics don't matter? Just play the default, who cares?"

No, you don't. And you know you don't. Because you know it's bullshit. People want to look cool, use their favorite colors and themes, or be able to see themselves in games. And that's fine.

If you don't care about cosmetics and are okay with looking basic in every game you play, that's also fine. But stop saying that gatekeeping these things behind unreasonable price walls isn't at all predatory. I mean, goddamn if it were gameplay-defining elements being gated (and they are since Heroes are part of the Pass now), would that not also be fucking stupid because "You don't have to play!"

Like all video games are useless. Therefore there can be no bad business practices with them?

Nepenthe, the game is free.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alex-jones-must-pay-965-million-in-damages-to-families-of-8-sandy-hook-victims.642768/page-3#post-94763886

one thing folks in this topic should understand by now is that all american laws are fake and subject to the whims of whatever judge gets the case on their desk

I hope this is a wake up call for all forms of american media. Hiding behind "freedom of speech" doesn't mean freedom from consequences. You lie and make up bullshit, expect consequences.

Jones lost because he refused to even participate in the trial, not because there's some secret special carve out in the First Amendment now.

[HaughtyFrank]

Literally no one cares if cosmetics don't have a numerical impact on the gameplay. Tons of shit doesn't directly affect the 1s and 0s governing player movement, but it still matters to the overall experience and positive associations you get from playing and thus it does matter to the game as a whole. You don't look at people docking a game points for horrible visual or audio quality because "derp it's not gameplay."


Which shows how much you know about Overwatch because a lot of actual real world and mythic cultural representation in the game comes in the form of the goddamn fucking skins and other cosmetics like voice lines in a character's native tongue. You think I use Capoeira Lucio in my avatar and in-game for shiggles? No. It's because it's the most meaningful bit of Afro-Brazilian representation to be had in the overall fucking game. As a Black (albeit American) person who plays capoeira and is interested in the history of that martial art why the absolute fuck wouldn't I want to wear it? Why wouldn't it make me happy to see it and use it? Again, you might not give two shits. And that's fine. But yes, cosmetics do matter and they do overlap with matters of representation.


I didn't say everything is useless. I said gaming is useless, which it is, meaning under your argument it is impossible for games to have predatory practices because you can just opt out of playing them altogether, just like you can opt out of utilizing cosmetics. If you think this is stupid then surely you can easily apply this to your original argument and understand why the "it's just cosmetics" excuse really is just that- an excuse.

Isn't she like hardcore appropriating Brazilian culture? (I mean not really but she would in her own logic) I wonder how she justifies this while also screaming because that one Mei skin had a typical MMA cornrow hairstyle.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alex-jones-must-pay-965-million-in-damages-to-families-of-8-sandy-hook-victims.642768/page-3#post-94763886

one thing folks in this topic should understand by now is that all american laws are fake and subject to the whims of whatever judge gets the case on their desk

I hope this is a wake up call for all forms of american media. Hiding behind "freedom of speech" doesn't mean freedom from consequences. You lie and make up bullshit, expect consequences.

Jones lost because he refused to even participate in the trial, not because there's some secret special carve out in the First Amendment now.

"Freedom of speech but not freedom of consequences" is the dumbest phrase ever. I bet Erdogan says it every time when he jails another journalist