Other Forums Containment Thread

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/how-to-hide-your-hogwarts-legacy-achievements-and-trophies-from-your-friends-and-family/


Feel like I'm hiding Anne Frank in my fuckin' attic ova here

I'm never clicking this link, because I want my thoughts to run wild about the byline.

[Propagandhim]

 

[HaughtyFrank]

So over the past months I've been slowly chipping away at ME1, which all told is not a great game and I seriously wondered what all the hubbub is about. I knew that ME1 is supposedly the weakest of the trilogy, so I prevailed. Then I came to the ending of ME1.

I entered Virmire and the whole Reaper plot was revealed which hooked me a lot. Entering the Citadel from space while the sovereign tried to get in before us was one of the best action game levels I've ever played (the Lovecraftian horror of one of its mandibles trying to break into the citadel was *chef's kiss*).

So I went into ME2 with a lot of anticipation. The updated battle mechanics and the overhauled star map system then convinced me that ME1 was indeed just a tiny taste of that which people loved about the games. However, one thing that annoyed me in ME1 a lot and that I had hoped they would do better in the sequels was its politics. Released in 2007, ME1's worldbuilding is steeped in War on Terror rhetorics of the 2000s. The whole war with the geth does not only sound like USian warhawks mobilising against the Middle East. By using religious allegory (indoctrination, Saren viewed as a God, etc.) it became clear to me that the Geth were a metaphor for Islamists. Which isn't to say that this is an intended metaphor. After having finished ME3 today, I think it is more accidental, because the Geth's plotline has been more complicated than that. But the overall tone of the games had this very War on Terror (and to a similar degree Cold War) vibe and was pretty off-putting.

Then I entered the citadel in ME2 and met Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani, the annoying yellow press reporter I've already ran into in ME1. She started to interview me and I saw the button prompt for the Renegade option. This mechanic was new in ME2, I wasn't really accustomed to it yet and decades of QTE's have conditioned me to press any blinking button prompt as soon as possible.

And then Shepard hit her. Straight in the face, without warning, with the full weight of his body and armoured suit.

I was shocked. What just happened? Why did he do that? Why was that a possibility in this game? Who at BioWare thought that this would be a great thing to implement? To hit a brown women for doing her job? An unarmed, unthreatening women, unless you count attacks on your character threatening? In a game that is so beloved? I then researched and found out that apparently this was a running joke? A running joke that, if Shepard hit her both in ME1 and ME2 results in Shepard headbutting (!) her unconscious in ME3.

Needless to say at that point until the very ending of the trilogy, I never felt immersed into Shepard at all. I was literally anxious of accidentally hitting the renegade prompt, in fear of seeing my player-character acting in a way that is just not excusable. But what nearly as much shocked me was that apparently, no one criticised the game for implementing this. At least I couldn't find anything on this topic. This game was so influential that it sparked a buttload of articles and opinion pieces but at least from what I could see, noone took specific issue with hitting al-Jilani. The only thing I could find was this not so old German article and this Reddit thread (which was like any other Reddit thread would go). But a whole lot of articles and guides alluding to hitting al-Jilani, mostly in relation to the morality system and that sometimes it's OK to be a renegade.

Please Era, tell me I'm not the only one being offended by this! Am I just not looking in the right places for people already problematising this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-mass-effect-trilogy-not-my-shepard-or-how-i-learnt-about-the-button-prompts-and-accidentally-hit-a-women.684979/#post-101004061

 

[paprikastaude]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-46#post-100937203

Careful with the focus not to get the thread banned.

I sort of hate this tightrope. I have an interesting thread idea to discuss weaponizing spoilers but now I'm afraid it would get me banned.

Weaponizing spoilers
Taking over Twitch chats
Flagging Youtube ads

it's war bitch

[Pissy F Benny]

Tbf people pissed their britches when gamergame losers did similar stuff

[maninthemirror]

So over the past months I've been slowly chipping away at ME1, which all told is not a great game and I seriously wondered what all the hubbub is about. I knew that ME1 is supposedly the weakest of the trilogy, so I prevailed. Then I came to the ending of ME1.

I entered Virmire and the whole Reaper plot was revealed which hooked me a lot. Entering the Citadel from space while the sovereign tried to get in before us was one of the best action game levels I've ever played (the Lovecraftian horror of one of its mandibles trying to break into the citadel was *chef's kiss*).

So I went into ME2 with a lot of anticipation. The updated battle mechanics and the overhauled star map system then convinced me that ME1 was indeed just a tiny taste of that which people loved about the games. However, one thing that annoyed me in ME1 a lot and that I had hoped they would do better in the sequels was its politics. Released in 2007, ME1's worldbuilding is steeped in War on Terror rhetorics of the 2000s. The whole war with the geth does not only sound like USian warhawks mobilising against the Middle East. By using religious allegory (indoctrination, Saren viewed as a God, etc.) it became clear to me that the Geth were a metaphor for Islamists. Which isn't to say that this is an intended metaphor. After having finished ME3 today, I think it is more accidental, because the Geth's plotline has been more complicated than that. But the overall tone of the games had this very War on Terror (and to a similar degree Cold War) vibe and was pretty off-putting.

Then I entered the citadel in ME2 and met Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani, the annoying yellow press reporter I've already ran into in ME1. She started to interview me and I saw the button prompt for the Renegade option. This mechanic was new in ME2, I wasn't really accustomed to it yet and decades of QTE's have conditioned me to press any blinking button prompt as soon as possible.

And then Shepard hit her. Straight in the face, without warning, with the full weight of his body and armoured suit.

I was shocked. What just happened? Why did he do that? Why was that a possibility in this game? Who at BioWare thought that this would be a great thing to implement? To hit a brown women for doing her job? An unarmed, unthreatening women, unless you count attacks on your character threatening? In a game that is so beloved? I then researched and found out that apparently this was a running joke? A running joke that, if Shepard hit her both in ME1 and ME2 results in Shepard headbutting (!) her unconscious in ME3.

Needless to say at that point until the very ending of the trilogy, I never felt immersed into Shepard at all. I was literally anxious of accidentally hitting the renegade prompt, in fear of seeing my player-character acting in a way that is just not excusable. But what nearly as much shocked me was that apparently, no one criticised the game for implementing this. At least I couldn't find anything on this topic. This game was so influential that it sparked a buttload of articles and opinion pieces but at least from what I could see, noone took specific issue with hitting al-Jilani. The only thing I could find was this not so old German article and this Reddit thread (which was like any other Reddit thread would go). But a whole lot of articles and guides alluding to hitting al-Jilani, mostly in relation to the morality system and that sometimes it's OK to be a renegade.

Please Era, tell me I'm not the only one being offended by this! Am I just not looking in the right places for people already problematising this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-mass-effect-trilogy-not-my-shepard-or-how-i-learnt-about-the-button-prompts-and-accidentally-hit-a-women.684979/#post-101004061

 

mental illness proof #14234234

[Propagandhim]

We failed to take a stand against spoiler culture
now the weaponization starts....
Only the dead have seen the end of war....
Only the living have seen the spoilies.

[maninthemirror]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-46#post-100937203

Careful with the focus not to get the thread banned.

I sort of hate this tightrope. I have an interesting thread idea to discuss weaponizing spoilers but now I'm afraid it would get me banned.

Weaponizing spoilers
Taking over Twitch chats
Flagging Youtube ads

it's war bitch

(Image removed from quote.)

so the difference between releasethesnydercult cult members and era trans is ....nothing

[Yulwei]

So over the past months I've been slowly chipping away at ME1, which all told is not a great game and I seriously wondered what all the hubbub is about. I knew that ME1 is supposedly the weakest of the trilogy, so I prevailed. Then I came to the ending of ME1.

I entered Virmire and the whole Reaper plot was revealed which hooked me a lot. Entering the Citadel from space while the sovereign tried to get in before us was one of the best action game levels I've ever played (the Lovecraftian horror of one of its mandibles trying to break into the citadel was *chef's kiss*).

So I went into ME2 with a lot of anticipation. The updated battle mechanics and the overhauled star map system then convinced me that ME1 was indeed just a tiny taste of that which people loved about the games. However, one thing that annoyed me in ME1 a lot and that I had hoped they would do better in the sequels was its politics. Released in 2007, ME1's worldbuilding is steeped in War on Terror rhetorics of the 2000s. The whole war with the geth does not only sound like USian warhawks mobilising against the Middle East. By using religious allegory (indoctrination, Saren viewed as a God, etc.) it became clear to me that the Geth were a metaphor for Islamists. Which isn't to say that this is an intended metaphor. After having finished ME3 today, I think it is more accidental, because the Geth's plotline has been more complicated than that. But the overall tone of the games had this very War on Terror (and to a similar degree Cold War) vibe and was pretty off-putting.

Then I entered the citadel in ME2 and met Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani, the annoying yellow press reporter I've already ran into in ME1. She started to interview me and I saw the button prompt for the Renegade option. This mechanic was new in ME2, I wasn't really accustomed to it yet and decades of QTE's have conditioned me to press any blinking button prompt as soon as possible.

And then Shepard hit her. Straight in the face, without warning, with the full weight of his body and armoured suit.

I was shocked. What just happened? Why did he do that? Why was that a possibility in this game? Who at BioWare thought that this would be a great thing to implement? To hit a brown women for doing her job? An unarmed, unthreatening women, unless you count attacks on your character threatening? In a game that is so beloved? I then researched and found out that apparently this was a running joke? A running joke that, if Shepard hit her both in ME1 and ME2 results in Shepard headbutting (!) her unconscious in ME3.

Needless to say at that point until the very ending of the trilogy, I never felt immersed into Shepard at all. I was literally anxious of accidentally hitting the renegade prompt, in fear of seeing my player-character acting in a way that is just not excusable. But what nearly as much shocked me was that apparently, no one criticised the game for implementing this. At least I couldn't find anything on this topic. This game was so influential that it sparked a buttload of articles and opinion pieces but at least from what I could see, noone took specific issue with hitting al-Jilani. The only thing I could find was this not so old German article and this Reddit thread (which was like any other Reddit thread would go). But a whole lot of articles and guides alluding to hitting al-Jilani, mostly in relation to the morality system and that sometimes it's OK to be a renegade.

Please Era, tell me I'm not the only one being offended by this! Am I just not looking in the right places for people already problematising this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-mass-effect-trilogy-not-my-shepard-or-how-i-learnt-about-the-button-prompts-and-accidentally-hit-a-women.684979/#post-101004061

 

I'll go a step further and say untreated mental illness proof #14234234

[nobody of note]

No bans in the J.K. thread and for the most part  it's just kind of flailing about past transgressions because everyone's really mad about HL but can't actually post about HL so it's just generic 'she sucks' instead:

It's genuinely unsettling how she tweets like a supervillain with zero self-awareness. It's like when the illusion of 'Everyone loves me, I'm children's fiction's favorite author!' wore off, she just went "FUCK IT, DARK LORD TIME".

I don't think that's accurate. She tweets like a smug, stupid dickhead. The other day she said something like "I put your opinion in the box where I store my missing fucks". She tried to craft one of those clever versions of "I don't give a fuck" and totally blew it. What a bonehead.

But this is the most recent post in the thread and is currently about 30 minutes old:

https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/1623705659274563587

Chuck Tingle stays winning.

I'd expect someone to swoop in and warn the poster, who'll then self-edit and escape moderation since that's what seemed to happen last time (and is probably how it should work but isn't exactly how Era generally handles rule-breaking after mod posts.)

[Nintex]

So over the past months I've been slowly chipping away at ME1, which all told is not a great game and I seriously wondered what all the hubbub is about. I knew that ME1 is supposedly the weakest of the trilogy, so I prevailed. Then I came to the ending of ME1.

I entered Virmire and the whole Reaper plot was revealed which hooked me a lot. Entering the Citadel from space while the sovereign tried to get in before us was one of the best action game levels I've ever played (the Lovecraftian horror of one of its mandibles trying to break into the citadel was *chef's kiss*).

So I went into ME2 with a lot of anticipation. The updated battle mechanics and the overhauled star map system then convinced me that ME1 was indeed just a tiny taste of that which people loved about the games. However, one thing that annoyed me in ME1 a lot and that I had hoped they would do better in the sequels was its politics. Released in 2007, ME1's worldbuilding is steeped in War on Terror rhetorics of the 2000s. The whole war with the geth does not only sound like USian warhawks mobilising against the Middle East. By using religious allegory (indoctrination, Saren viewed as a God, etc.) it became clear to me that the Geth were a metaphor for Islamists. Which isn't to say that this is an intended metaphor. After having finished ME3 today, I think it is more accidental, because the Geth's plotline has been more complicated than that. But the overall tone of the games had this very War on Terror (and to a similar degree Cold War) vibe and was pretty off-putting.

Then I entered the citadel in ME2 and met Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani, the annoying yellow press reporter I've already ran into in ME1. She started to interview me and I saw the button prompt for the Renegade option. This mechanic was new in ME2, I wasn't really accustomed to it yet and decades of QTE's have conditioned me to press any blinking button prompt as soon as possible.

And then Shepard hit her. Straight in the face, without warning, with the full weight of his body and armoured suit.

I was shocked. What just happened? Why did he do that? Why was that a possibility in this game? Who at BioWare thought that this would be a great thing to implement? To hit a brown women for doing her job? An unarmed, unthreatening women, unless you count attacks on your character threatening? In a game that is so beloved? I then researched and found out that apparently this was a running joke? A running joke that, if Shepard hit her both in ME1 and ME2 results in Shepard headbutting (!) her unconscious in ME3.

Needless to say at that point until the very ending of the trilogy, I never felt immersed into Shepard at all. I was literally anxious of accidentally hitting the renegade prompt, in fear of seeing my player-character acting in a way that is just not excusable. But what nearly as much shocked me was that apparently, no one criticised the game for implementing this. At least I couldn't find anything on this topic. This game was so influential that it sparked a buttload of articles and opinion pieces but at least from what I could see, noone took specific issue with hitting al-Jilani. The only thing I could find was this not so old German article and this Reddit thread (which was like any other Reddit thread would go). But a whole lot of articles and guides alluding to hitting al-Jilani, mostly in relation to the morality system and that sometimes it's OK to be a renegade.

Please Era, tell me I'm not the only one being offended by this! Am I just not looking in the right places for people already problematising this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-mass-effect-trilogy-not-my-shepard-or-how-i-learnt-about-the-button-prompts-and-accidentally-hit-a-women.684979/#post-101004061

 

Someone didn't pay any attention playing Mass Effect. The annoying bitch comes at you with fake news about some council of losers.

If this idiot can't handle a little lesson in discipline wait until the actual genocide starts - I was always humanity first. Batarians? Never heard of 'em. Ancient relic? Well I propose we bomb the shit out of it

That's enough genocide for today fellas you enjoy yourselves.

[NekoFever]

Almost a day and those posts about the game in the Rowling thread remain unbanned. The mods must be busy or something.

[BIONIC]

Almost a day and those posts about the game in the Rowling thread remain unbanned. The mods must be busy or something.

Give them a break. It’s still the Holiday/New Year period.

[Taco Bell Tower]

So over the past months I've been slowly chipping away at ME1, which all told is not a great game and I seriously wondered what all the hubbub is about. I knew that ME1 is supposedly the weakest of the trilogy, so I prevailed. Then I came to the ending of ME1.

I entered Virmire and the whole Reaper plot was revealed which hooked me a lot. Entering the Citadel from space while the sovereign tried to get in before us was one of the best action game levels I've ever played (the Lovecraftian horror of one of its mandibles trying to break into the citadel was *chef's kiss*).

So I went into ME2 with a lot of anticipation. The updated battle mechanics and the overhauled star map system then convinced me that ME1 was indeed just a tiny taste of that which people loved about the games. However, one thing that annoyed me in ME1 a lot and that I had hoped they would do better in the sequels was its politics. Released in 2007, ME1's worldbuilding is steeped in War on Terror rhetorics of the 2000s. The whole war with the geth does not only sound like USian warhawks mobilising against the Middle East. By using religious allegory (indoctrination, Saren viewed as a God, etc.) it became clear to me that the Geth were a metaphor for Islamists. Which isn't to say that this is an intended metaphor. After having finished ME3 today, I think it is more accidental, because the Geth's plotline has been more complicated than that. But the overall tone of the games had this very War on Terror (and to a similar degree Cold War) vibe and was pretty off-putting.

Then I entered the citadel in ME2 and met Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani, the annoying yellow press reporter I've already ran into in ME1. She started to interview me and I saw the button prompt for the Renegade option. This mechanic was new in ME2, I wasn't really accustomed to it yet and decades of QTE's have conditioned me to press any blinking button prompt as soon as possible.

And then Shepard hit her. Straight in the face, without warning, with the full weight of his body and armoured suit.

I was shocked. What just happened? Why did he do that? Why was that a possibility in this game? Who at BioWare thought that this would be a great thing to implement? To hit a brown women for doing her job? An unarmed, unthreatening women, unless you count attacks on your character threatening? In a game that is so beloved? I then researched and found out that apparently this was a running joke? A running joke that, if Shepard hit her both in ME1 and ME2 results in Shepard headbutting (!) her unconscious in ME3.

Needless to say at that point until the very ending of the trilogy, I never felt immersed into Shepard at all. I was literally anxious of accidentally hitting the renegade prompt, in fear of seeing my player-character acting in a way that is just not excusable. But what nearly as much shocked me was that apparently, no one criticised the game for implementing this. At least I couldn't find anything on this topic. This game was so influential that it sparked a buttload of articles and opinion pieces but at least from what I could see, noone took specific issue with hitting al-Jilani. The only thing I could find was this not so old German article and this Reddit thread (which was like any other Reddit thread would go). But a whole lot of articles and guides alluding to hitting al-Jilani, mostly in relation to the morality system and that sometimes it's OK to be a renegade.

Please Era, tell me I'm not the only one being offended by this! Am I just not looking in the right places for people already problematising this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-mass-effect-trilogy-not-my-shepard-or-how-i-learnt-about-the-button-prompts-and-accidentally-hit-a-women.684979/#post-101004061

 

OP replies

But....did any of you actually feel like Shepard was your character? That you were immersed in the character? Because this is what it often enough sounds like when people talk about "their Shepard". Or was it more a relationship akin to e.g. Nathan Drake? As in, he is a full character of his own, making his own choices and you are more like a film director making up amazing action scenes on the fly?

Because none of the options presented ever felt like options I would have taken. Even choosing the paragon option often enough resulted in Shepard to be a mean, vindictive person, only more self-controlled and not so lacking in the impulse control department. I felt like one of those little creatures from Inside Out, desperately trying to monitor Shepards impulses and reactions.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/atomic-heart-releases-in-17-days-hype-check.683332/page-5#post-100858096

User banned (1 week): Metacommentary over a series of posts

All you do is keep pressing the mods, accusing them of double standards. There is plenty of discussion here about the funding of the game, so idk what you're on about

Buying any Russian product at this point will in some capacity support the war, just like Western companies still operating in Russia. Hell, I bet you're not gonna find any affluent Russian investors without questionable ties.

Sending a warning to a user and a ban to another user does not mean that you are neutral. That's the issue, there's very little discussion about these stuff. The mods can take a stand and do the same they are doing for the other game(y'know the one).

Well, yeah that's the point, any russian product will in some capacity support the war. The very least we can get a warning for users to know that heir money are going directly to VK and Gazprom.

[Propagandhim]

So that, "You can play ANY game, why choose this ONE game to die on this hill?" HP guilt trip went out the window with Atomic Heart?  You can buy any game that doesn't generate revenue for the Russian war machine, why choose this one, Resetera?  Hmmm?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-bethesda-softworks-otxxii-developers_developers_developers.672088/page-350#post-100885984

User Banned (2 Weeks): Circumventing Content Ban

I asked this a few pages back, but wanted to come back with my own answer. Hogwars Legacy runs great on the Series X and in particular I found that the Quality/30fps was really good. For this type of game you don't need 60fps, sure it is nice, but I think they way they implemented the 30fps was really good and the game looks great in Quality mode. I have not had a chance to try the 40fps mode yet, but will do that today some time.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-bethesda-softworks-otxxii-developers_developers_developers.672088/page-352#post-100913608

User Banned (2 Months): Ignoring the staff post regarding banned content

Concerning "Hogwarts Legacy" and JK Rowling
After continued internal discussion, we began to start outlining the issues put forth by Rowling and the game in question and each time, and as we discussed it all, we kept coming back to the simple fact that Rowling is not only a bigot but is actively pushing, in her position as a wealthy and...

wtf JK doesn't have anything to do with Hogwarts legacy lol

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/#post-100938583

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissive drive by in a sensitive thread, a history of severe infractions

Christ.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/virtual-youtuber-ot2-clap-clap-next-thread.452203/page-1192#post-100818634

User Banned (2 Weeks): Circumventing Content Ban

As expected, Lui will be playing the game that must not be named on Wednesday

[Boredfrom]

It's genuinely unsettling how she tweets like a supervillain with zero self-awareness. It's like when the illusion of 'Everyone loves me, I'm children's fiction's favorite author!' wore off, she just went "FUCK IT, DARK LORD TIME".

Do we need to be worry about your mental health, buddy?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98you-people%E2%80%99-actor-claims-jonah-hill-and-lauren-london%E2%80%99s-pivotal-kiss-was-faked-with-cgi.684949/#post-101000425

Wasn't this an entire storyline in Bojack Horeseman? How do you give out awards when the actors don't even have to do the things we're seeing on screen?

  Wait until he finds out that they faked some of the stuff in Black Panther too.
 

[Greatness Gone]

It's genuinely unsettling how she tweets like a supervillain with zero self-awareness. It's like when the illusion of 'Everyone loves me, I'm children's fiction's favorite author!' wore off, she just went "FUCK IT, DARK LORD TIME".

Do we need to be worry about your mental health, buddy?

he makes ~100 posts on resetera daily. It is safe to say whatever mental faculties he had (if he ever had any) are gone.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

so the difference between releasethesnydercult cult members and era trans is ....nothing

The release the snyder cut crowd ended up getting what they wanted

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/#post-100938583

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissive drive by in a sensitive thread, a history of severe infractions

Christ.

  sensitive thread 
Its promotion of a fucking youtube video essay

[HaughtyFrank]

Haha, I feel like they should’ve picked one of those racially ambiguous actresses that would actually go for Jonah IRL. Lauren was with Nipsey, no way she’d look twice at Mr. Hill 🥹

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98you-people%E2%80%99-actor-claims-jonah-hill-and-lauren-london%E2%80%99s-pivotal-kiss-was-faked-with-cgi.684949/post-101000704

Isn't this kind of racist and sexist?

Meanwhile people in the dating thread get banned for saying that a guy who is desired by many women is considered more desirable.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

In the future if you want to engage with this kind of content please remember the principal of charity. Which is fundamental day 1 philosophy academics stuff.

You have to take an argument in it's best interpretation or else there is no constructive debate to be had with anyone ever.

wheredoyouthinkweare.gif

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/#post-100938583

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissive drive by in a sensitive thread, a history of severe infractions

Christ.

  sensitive thread 
Its promotion of a fucking youtube video essay

Was this the guy with the Team Fortress Deus Ex avatar? Never really liked him but wild to ban a longtime member for this shit. Meanwhile they debated a month whether demanding that politicians should be shotgunned to death is perma ban worthy or not (it wasn't)

[blame space]

taking the lords name in vain

PERMABAN 

[blame space]

youtube is brain poison

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/#post-100938583

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissive drive by in a sensitive thread, a history of severe infractions

Christ.

  sensitive thread 
Its promotion of a fucking youtube video essay

Was this the guy with the Team Fortress Deus Ex avatar? Never really liked him but wild to ban a longtime member for this shit. Meanwhile they debated a month whether demanding that politicians should be shotgunned to death is perma ban worthy or not (it wasn't)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israels-national-security-minister-posts-a-video-of-him-eating-bread-after-stopping-the-supply-of-bread-to-palestinian-prisoners.684466/#post-100918810

Are people still catching bs bans for posting this kind of stuff?

I think they decided to pull the trigger after he criticized their prior "anti-Semitism" bans. 

[jorma]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/#post-100938583

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissive drive by in a sensitive thread, a history of severe infractions

Christ.

  sensitive thread 
Its promotion of a fucking youtube video essay

he should have known better given that nep nep was out tilting at windmills by post 10 

[Polident Hive]

I’m a full grown man on my moms account but they can pry that $8 from my cold dead hands. If I get kicked out I’m not coming back

Full grown man

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/netflix-canada-an-update-on-sharing.684643/page-3#post-100980847

Not to go all capitalist pig dog here, going from spending $0 to spending $0 is meant to hurt them

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/#post-100938583

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissive drive by in a sensitive thread, a history of severe infractions

Christ.

  sensitive thread 
Its promotion of a fucking youtube video essay

Was this the guy with the Team Fortress Deus Ex avatar? Never really liked him but wild to ban a longtime member for this shit. Meanwhile they debated a month whether demanding that politicians should be shotgunned to death is perma ban worthy or not (it wasn't)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israels-national-security-minister-posts-a-video-of-him-eating-bread-after-stopping-the-supply-of-bread-to-palestinian-prisoners.684466/#post-100918810

Are people still catching bs bans for posting this kind of stuff?

I think they decided to pull the trigger after he criticized their prior "anti-Semitism" bans. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israels-national-security-minister-posts-a-video-of-him-eating-bread-after-stopping-the-supply-of-bread-to-palestinian-prisoners.684466/#post-100922170
ISIS sympathizer RustyNails

User Banned (3 days): Hostility

Isn't it still owned by the Qatari Royal Family? I meant powerful in terms of reach / interactions - a lot of people get their news from there.

I think you should fuck off.

[HaughtyFrank]

But this is the most recent post in the thread and is currently about 30 minutes old:

https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/1623705659274563587

Chuck Tingle stays winning.

I'd expect someone to swoop in and warn the poster, who'll then self-edit and escape moderation since that's what seemed to happen last time (and is probably how it should work but isn't exactly how Era generally handles rule-breaking after mod posts.)

There's now multiple posts in that Rowling thread mentioning the game and they didn't do shit. Meanwhile people get banned in completely random threads for merely mentioning it exists, people who likely had no idea that instant ban rule even exists 

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/#post-100938583

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissive drive by in a sensitive thread, a history of severe infractions

Christ.

  sensitive thread 
Its promotion of a fucking youtube video essay

Was this the guy with the Team Fortress Deus Ex avatar? Never really liked him but wild to ban a longtime member for this shit. Meanwhile they debated a month whether demanding that politicians should be shotgunned to death is perma ban worthy or not (it wasn't)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israels-national-security-minister-posts-a-video-of-him-eating-bread-after-stopping-the-supply-of-bread-to-palestinian-prisoners.684466/#post-100918810

Are people still catching bs bans for posting this kind of stuff?

I think they decided to pull the trigger after he criticized their prior "anti-Semitism" bans. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israels-national-security-minister-posts-a-video-of-him-eating-bread-after-stopping-the-supply-of-bread-to-palestinian-prisoners.684466/#post-100922170
ISIS sympathizer RustyNails

User Banned (3 days): Hostility

Isn't it still owned by the Qatari Royal Family? I meant powerful in terms of reach / interactions - a lot of people get their news from there.

I think you should fuck off.

When are they finally going to get the balls to permaban this dude like they did Deepwater? They're basically the exact same kind of poster.

[Joe Molotov]

https://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/how-to-hide-your-hogwarts-legacy-achievements-and-trophies-from-your-friends-and-family/


Feel like I'm hiding Anne Frank in my fuckin' attic ova here

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I'm never clicking this link, because I want my thoughts to run wild about the byline.

Tim Allen creeped on Pamela Anderson when she was on Home Improvement. Get spoilered, bitch! 

[HaughtyFrank]

Pamela Anderson showed me her titties without my consent but you don't see me complaining about it

 

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My head of PR advised me to mention that this is a joke. I do not condone dick flashing

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[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/#post-100938583

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissive drive by in a sensitive thread, a history of severe infractions

Christ.

  sensitive thread 
Its promotion of a fucking youtube video essay

Was this the guy with the Team Fortress Deus Ex avatar? Never really liked him but wild to ban a longtime member for this shit. Meanwhile they debated a month whether demanding that politicians should be shotgunned to death is perma ban worthy or not (it wasn't)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israels-national-security-minister-posts-a-video-of-him-eating-bread-after-stopping-the-supply-of-bread-to-palestinian-prisoners.684466/#post-100918810

Are people still catching bs bans for posting this kind of stuff?

I think they decided to pull the trigger after he criticized their prior "anti-Semitism" bans. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israels-national-security-minister-posts-a-video-of-him-eating-bread-after-stopping-the-supply-of-bread-to-palestinian-prisoners.684466/#post-100922170
ISIS sympathizer RustyNails

User Banned (3 days): Hostility

Isn't it still owned by the Qatari Royal Family? I meant powerful in terms of reach / interactions - a lot of people get their news from there.

I think you should fuck off.

When are they finally going to get the balls to permaban this dude like they did Deepwater? They're basically the exact same kind of poster.

Oh, they actually permabanned him for like maybe half a year.  Why unbanned him is unknown

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I think it was around the time people were bringing up Morrigan's Islamophobic Neogaf posts.

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

There's now multiple posts in that Rowling thread mentioning the game and they didn't do shit. Meanwhile people get banned in completely random threads for merely mentioning it exists, people who likely had no idea that instant ban rule even exists 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-love-video-games-but-the-70-price-for-a-new-game-is-killing-my-enjoyment.684379/page-9#post-100923640

User Banned (2 Weeks): Circumventing Content Ban

I live in Canada and I've just stopped buying games day of except in very rare cases.

I buy 100% of my physical games from Shoppers Drug Mart. They have a point system where its 15 points per dollar spent. Every 10 days or so, there is either a 20x the points day (so 300 points per dollar spent), or spent $75 and get 20K points. For every 10000 points you redeem you get $10 off. Sometimes there are points events where you spent 50000 points for $65 off.

When you can find games in stock I just pretend I am not spending that point value so games are really $60-70. Points earned at Shoppers can be spent at any Loblaws store so they can be spent on groceries, or rolled into another game down the line. I have 90k points lined up for Hogwarts Legacy and it is probably going to come into stock between Friday and next Thursday

[benjipwns]

Looking at the state of Xbox I would absolutely piss my pants as Google,

from laughter.

haha yeah this is great news for Stadia

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-bethesda-softworks-otxxii-developers_developers_developers.672088/page-352#post-100913608

User Banned (2 Months): Ignoring the staff post regarding banned content

Concerning "Hogwarts Legacy" and JK Rowling
After continued internal discussion, we began to start outlining the issues put forth by Rowling and the game in question and each time, and as we discussed it all, we kept coming back to the simple fact that Rowling is not only a bigot but is actively pushing, in her position as a wealthy and...

wtf JK doesn't have anything to do with Hogwarts legacy lol

I notice this guy got a more severe ban for responding to the STAFF COMMUNICATION with contempt of cop.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-bethesda-softworks-otxxii-developers_developers_developers.672088/page-352#post-100913608

User Banned (2 Months): Ignoring the staff post regarding banned content

Concerning "Hogwarts Legacy" and JK Rowling
After continued internal discussion, we began to start outlining the issues put forth by Rowling and the game in question and each time, and as we discussed it all, we kept coming back to the simple fact that Rowling is not only a bigot but is actively pushing, in her position as a wealthy and...

wtf JK doesn't have anything to do with Hogwarts legacy lol

I notice this guy got a more severe ban for responding to the STAFF COMMUNICATION with contempt of cop.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-bethesda-softworks-otxxii-developers_developers_developers.672088/page-352#post-100913725

28 posts, nothing since October.

why is the go-to insult whenever they disagree with someone always that their post count is low? 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-bethesda-softworks-otxxii-developers_developers_developers.672088/page-352#post-100913725

28 posts, nothing since October.

why is the go-to insult whenever they disagree with someone always that their post count is low? 

"ONLY EVIL SABOTUERS OF OUR INCLUSIVE UTOPIA WOULD WRONGTHINK IN PUBLIC!"

[HaughtyFrank]

Paging Neoxon

https://twitter.com/StarSnorlax/status/1623518976587309057

[Taco Bell Tower]

He's on calling blaming Sakurai.

[Propagandhim]

Paging Neoxon

https://twitter.com/StarSnorlax/status/1623518976587309057

What is this spazz flipping out about now?  That there are people with dark skin tones?

[HardcoreRetro]

It's the combo of dark skin woman with bright lipstick that instantly makes them scream blackface. I was waiting for someone to show their ass over this since they see racism in everything.

[Potato]

So over the past months I've been slowly chipping away at ME1, which all told is not a great game and I seriously wondered what all the hubbub is about. I knew that ME1 is supposedly the weakest of the trilogy, so I prevailed. Then I came to the ending of ME1.

I entered Virmire and the whole Reaper plot was revealed which hooked me a lot. Entering the Citadel from space while the sovereign tried to get in before us was one of the best action game levels I've ever played (the Lovecraftian horror of one of its mandibles trying to break into the citadel was *chef's kiss*).

So I went into ME2 with a lot of anticipation. The updated battle mechanics and the overhauled star map system then convinced me that ME1 was indeed just a tiny taste of that which people loved about the games. However, one thing that annoyed me in ME1 a lot and that I had hoped they would do better in the sequels was its politics. Released in 2007, ME1's worldbuilding is steeped in War on Terror rhetorics of the 2000s. The whole war with the geth does not only sound like USian warhawks mobilising against the Middle East. By using religious allegory (indoctrination, Saren viewed as a God, etc.) it became clear to me that the Geth were a metaphor for Islamists. Which isn't to say that this is an intended metaphor. After having finished ME3 today, I think it is more accidental, because the Geth's plotline has been more complicated than that. But the overall tone of the games had this very War on Terror (and to a similar degree Cold War) vibe and was pretty off-putting.

Then I entered the citadel in ME2 and met Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani, the annoying yellow press reporter I've already ran into in ME1. She started to interview me and I saw the button prompt for the Renegade option. This mechanic was new in ME2, I wasn't really accustomed to it yet and decades of QTE's have conditioned me to press any blinking button prompt as soon as possible.

And then Shepard hit her. Straight in the face, without warning, with the full weight of his body and armoured suit.

I was shocked. What just happened? Why did he do that? Why was that a possibility in this game? Who at BioWare thought that this would be a great thing to implement? To hit a brown women for doing her job? An unarmed, unthreatening women, unless you count attacks on your character threatening? In a game that is so beloved? I then researched and found out that apparently this was a running joke? A running joke that, if Shepard hit her both in ME1 and ME2 results in Shepard headbutting (!) her unconscious in ME3.

Needless to say at that point until the very ending of the trilogy, I never felt immersed into Shepard at all. I was literally anxious of accidentally hitting the renegade prompt, in fear of seeing my player-character acting in a way that is just not excusable. But what nearly as much shocked me was that apparently, no one criticised the game for implementing this. At least I couldn't find anything on this topic. This game was so influential that it sparked a buttload of articles and opinion pieces but at least from what I could see, noone took specific issue with hitting al-Jilani. The only thing I could find was this not so old German article and this Reddit thread (which was like any other Reddit thread would go). But a whole lot of articles and guides alluding to hitting al-Jilani, mostly in relation to the morality system and that sometimes it's OK to be a renegade.

Please Era, tell me I'm not the only one being offended by this! Am I just not looking in the right places for people already problematising this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-mass-effect-trilogy-not-my-shepard-or-how-i-learnt-about-the-button-prompts-and-accidentally-hit-a-women.684979/#post-101004061

 

OP replies

But....did any of you actually feel like Shepard was your character? That you were immersed in the character? Because this is what it often enough sounds like when people talk about "their Shepard". Or was it more a relationship akin to e.g. Nathan Drake? As in, he is a full character of his own, making his own choices and you are more like a film director making up amazing action scenes on the fly?

Because none of the options presented ever felt like options I would have taken. Even choosing the paragon option often enough resulted in Shepard to be a mean, vindictive person, only more self-controlled and not so lacking in the impulse control department. I felt like one of those little creatures from Inside Out, desperately trying to monitor Shepards impulses and reactions.

Translation: "How can he be MY Shepherd when there is no option to just stay indoors and play vidya all day while tweeting about trans genocide?"

[Potato]

In the future if you want to engage with this kind of content please remember the principal of charity. Which is fundamental day 1 philosophy academics stuff.

You have to take an argument in it's best interpretation or else there is no constructive debate to be had with anyone ever.

wheredoyouthinkweare.gif

No, no, no, no, no...charity ACTUALLY means the money that someone donates to some random grift after we cancelled them due to the most uncharitable interpretation of something they said on Twatter six years ago.

[MMaRsu]

https://mobile.twitter.com/PlayStationUK/status/1623692450333093889

Oh.Sony gonna get cancelled now

or are they?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100938880

Anyone immediately dismissing FD Signifier's commentary because of the length of the video is a fucking herb. Dude has one of the best Black leftist content creators period. I'll be glad to dive into this.

Yep. 2 hours in the grand scheme of things is nothing. Bet all of us have watched an hour video based on a 1 minute teaser trailer of some game that won’t be out for 2 years.

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100938880

Anyone immediately dismissing FD Signifier's commentary because of the length of the video is a fucking herb. Dude has one of the best Black leftist content creators period. I'll be glad to dive into this.

Yep. 2 hours in the grand scheme of things is nothing. Bet all of us have watched an hour video based on a 1 minute teaser trailer of some game that won’t be out for 2 years.

https://twitter.com/FDsignifier/status/1623767794989912065

That was only the Early Access release, now you have to watch it again.

[BIONIC]

This is why I only buy games once all the DLC is released and the deluxe edition is 50% off these days

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100938880

Anyone immediately dismissing FD Signifier's commentary because of the length of the video is a fucking herb. Dude has one of the best Black leftist content creators period. I'll be glad to dive into this.

Yep. 2 hours in the grand scheme of things is nothing. Bet all of us have watched an hour video based on a 1 minute teaser trailer of some game that won’t be out for 2 years.

No, not all of us have. Some of us will absolutely refuse to watch any video longer than 20 minutes except for select purposes. Commentary about other YouTube commentary is not one of those. I'd be willing to skim through a transcript of this video though to mock it, would you prefer that?

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100938880

Anyone immediately dismissing FD Signifier's commentary because of the length of the video is a fucking herb. Dude has one of the best Black leftist content creators period. I'll be glad to dive into this.

Yep. 2 hours in the grand scheme of things is nothing. Bet all of us have watched an hour video based on a 1 minute teaser trailer of some game that won’t be out for 2 years.

https://twitter.com/FDsignifier/status/1623767794989912065

That was only the Early Access release, now you have to watch it again.

[benjipwns]

Holy crap, how is there six pages of this thread?

I don't want to read through this but I'm already seeing things like:

Can't wait to watch this tomorrow over dinner. This topic has been touched on before but I'd love to hear Fiq's take on this.

People on the right have communication issues, but the difference is when there's a disagreement they either absorb both people's position, or they just ignore the difference from the person that isn't in on the groupthink. The groupthink and overall message that has the most momentum/weight/support is prioritized above all. I don't think that's what the left should do, though, so I'm interested in what he says about potential ways to avoid it (other than deleting twitter, obviously).

And of course:

I feel this. I'm online a lot but I don't follow livestreamers at all, so oftentimes a lot of streamer drama just sounds to me like I'm back in the 90s and hearing kids at school talking about TV shows from subscriber-only channels that don't get advertised on cable.

I have plans right after I get off work tonight so I can't watch this until later but I'm definitely putting this on my "watch next" list for a few hours from now when I'm free.

[maninthemirror]

someone post this chatgpt response on era

 

[benjipwns]

That photo looks like a good time though.

Regardless, Vaush told on himself in the Professor Flowers debate and a few other times that he thinks Black autonomy is basically the equivalent of white genocide revenge fantasies, which really underlies the point-

White people of all political stripes are absolutely scared to death that Black people want to take revenge for all the shit that's happened these past few centuries. Which in itself is an own goal, an admittance that they are responsible for these atrocities and that there might actually be a moral justification for these feelings. After all, they'll lynch even a child for perceived slights. Why shouldn't Black people feel the same for centuries of documented, undeniable fuckery?

But instead of realizing race wars are stupid and untenable, and working towards a society where the possibility of revenge by one class being actively subjugated by another isn't really a scenario that defines the relationship in any notable way, white people just... fucking do nothing about it, because excessively carceral executive control keeps the asylum in order.

Yeah, I may be scared to death of Jerome, but hey, that's what having a state-sanctioned execution squad three numbers away is for!

holy shit