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[Taco Bell Tower]

User Banned (2 Weeks): This type of language, even as a joke, is not acceptable

That's awesome! Now, just die please

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-2021-mlb-season-thread-the-boys-of-summer-are-back-and-so-are-the-fans.386162/page-119#post-74359779

[Lonewulfeus]

Sanjuro must have been banned 10+ times now, I don’t know how people still take the shit he posts seriously

[Uncle]

Sanjuro: Shadows Banned Twice

[Uncle]

a glimpse into resetera's future:




https://www.foxnews.com/us/antifa-member-charged-shooting-anti-vaxxer-washington

Varela is a member of the forums at website Something Awful using the screen name "Doorknob Slobber." He has a long history of making extremist posts and has been suspended repeatedly by the moderators. In a 2017 thread discussing Antifa’s organizational structure, Varela wrote, "I think it has something to do with … remaining decentralized in an effort to create cells instead of an organization structure that is easily targeted by law enforcement and other fascists."

At the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, Varela wrote: "Start hurting people, the coronavirus is going to provide great cover for a real revolution." He called for people to take up arms. The same month, he posted a rant wishing that both conservatives and liberals die of the coronavirus. In 2018, he wrote, "9/11 was good because the US is a Nazi state so we deserved it."

Varela, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, deleted most of his social media accounts before his arrest, but posts still available on Twitter show he corresponded back and forth with the Spokane and Olympia DSA chapters as well as Libcom.org, an anarchist-Communist website. Prior to deleting his Twitter account, his bio read, "professional anarchist, thug, and paid protester." His YouTube account, which is still online but doesn’t have any videos available to the public, features a red and black Antifa flag as its profile image.

• for anyone not caught up, somethingawful has become resetera
• this dude was banned for innocuous shit like bernieposting while the mods let him cheer violence for years unimpeded
• he went to an antivax rally and while fleeing the proud boys fired off 5 shots, one of which caught a pursuer in the toe
• he quickly shed his black bloc clothing but then his girlfriend ratted him out to the cops
• now that this has happened, somethingawful is quickly trying to delete everything and hide threads

this socialist white male forum poster shot a proud boy Samoan





I don't support fox news or proud boys, just was thinking if era had any sense they would acknowledge that these kinds of people exist and they are tacitly encouraging them

[james]

His mistake was having a girlfriend.

His second mistake was posting in a popular forum. If I ever get caught by the feds bork can take his sweet time scrubbing my account because no one will look here

[cosmicblizzard]

I genuinely do not see Era lasting long enough for a radicalized member to try something irl.  Maybe an alumni that posted there years before the site's fall.  As awful as Era is, some of the stuff I saw on SA made them look normal.  Sure, there's been some alarming stuff said on era, usually from the socialist-era crowd, but calls to violence were a lot more overt on SA before they started cracking down on it, and only in a "hey, if you want to organize some political violence, talk about it in this discord here and not on the site" way rather than any legit discouragement.

[benjipwns]

ResetERA.com's members can't even do performance protest properly, they'll never organize any actual violence. SA has always been far worse for everything extremist. That's where Zoe Quinn got her rampage killing start.

SocialistERA is mostly all talk from First Worlders. Even Nepenthe is more like a white suburban Karen in real life than the Black separatist she LARPs as on ResetERA.com and only ResetERA.com. (Go look at her Blizzard forum persona for example.)

PoliERA has more unhinged members than SocialistERA.

[james]

All I'm saying is that in an alternate universe, where Bernie was president and they stole the reelection from him, January 6 would have gone a lot differently

Seriously, you get a revolution going and not one van on fire? Trumpers are so fucking incompetent

[Mostima]

Horseshoe theory is real, all the goons out there trying to justify the shooting with reasons like "he had a criminal record!".

https://twitter.com/RealGameQuoter/status/1442919490015010818

[Uncle]

they're actually right though, the guy he shot is notable enough to have a wikipedia page, there are no winners here


I think what bothers me the most is...while this isn't a big news story by any stretch, why the fuck are the only places reporting on it right wing and tabloid-esque sites? like, this isn't fake news, this is a thing that happened with photos and video and facts to back everything up, the story is several days old and no one left of fox has even made a small blurb of it? not even trying to spin it in their favor?

I don't want to believe that so-called center or left wing news sources are as bad as fox with simply ignoring stories that don't support their side 

[benjipwns]

It's not a left or right-wing thing, but there are agendas at play always.  The largest bias in media has always been in what they choose to cover. Look at last week when all of the media was hopping on Twitter and social media to chastise the media for covering only missing white women, then they all ran back to their studios and keyboards and only covered the Gabby Petito story. Or how they covered the bombing of ISIS-K but notably were less enthralled with covering how it turned out to just be some dude. How about all the coverage of Jussie Smollet being attacked and the comparative silence to when he finally got justice from his attackers? The media outside of Newsmax and OANN ignored the Arizona audit until it said that oh, Biden did win, then they splashed it everywhere as if it was legitimate instead of a fraud in the first place. Look at the J4J6 event where the media outnumbered the Feds who outnumbered the protesters.

The notion of an "objective" media that reports "just the facts and all the news that matters" is a post-war fictional narrative that journalists wrote about themselves.

[Transhuman]

for anyone not caught up, somethingawful has become resetera

Doesn't SA have crazies on both sides of the political spectrum? That was always my understanding.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nft-collectors-of-era-show-off-what-you-have-here.494007/page-3#post-74413077

User banned (1 week): Extreme hostility and misuse of font options

FUCK OFF OP!

OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION

Thread rebooted. The original version of this thread got off to an awful start: NFTs are not a banned topic and neither is crypto. Hostility towards the OP for making this thread is unacceptable. If you don't want to engage the topic, you don't have to post. Drive-by trolling is not okay. Towards the end there was starting to be some actual discussion but the first couple pages had almost none. Let's have the discussion from the start this time please.

User threadbanned: trolling

here's a few of my rare ones

User threadbanned: trolling

Check out my portfolio, really proud of these:

User threadbanned: hostility over series of posts

Humans are the stupidest species on this planet The sooner you realize that the sooner you can make money.

This website lives in a giant naive dream that somehow the human race will become altruists lol

User threadbanned: hostility over series of posts

What an incredibly shitty, small minded, and selfish view to take. But unsurprising given your arguments.

User Banned (Duration Pending): Telling another member to self-harm

Thanks for comfirming my suspicians that all crypto bros are complete shitbags.

so are you

Do the world a favor and jump of the nearest bridge.

OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION

It doesn't appear that a productive discussion is going to happen in this thread as constructed, and for that reason it will remain locked.

good talk

[Potato]

Reeeeesetera: How can anyone afford to own a house in this market? I'm going to be stuck paying rent to evil landlords my whole life. Thanks Trumbama!

Also Reeeeesetera: Hey, look, I just spent real money on a knockoff Simpsons jpg! Should be getting a huge payday once I flip this asset.

Also also Reeeeesetera: Climate catastrophe is coming, we're all gonna die if we don't stop using so much electricity.

[Uncle]

for anyone not caught up, somethingawful has become resetera

Doesn't SA have crazies on both sides of the political spectrum? That was always my understanding.

not anymore, to the best of my knowledge

they had an "anything goes" trash fire board FYAD where people could say almost anything they wanted, and the trans posters got upset about it and demanded that it be closed, its main mod got Black Chamber'd by being polite and trying to stand up for its existence

but Lowtax, thinking he would be saved when the revolution came for him if only he would bend the knee, shut it down

however only 5 months later, they bullied Lowtax into selling ownership of the forum to someone else after his own he-said-she-said shower incident

and now it's resetera

[Snoopycat_]

Surprised Lore isn't charging for registration. He could easily set up a sub for all the loons he banned. Then charge them a fee to re-join so they can cry about libruls and Mexicans stealing their freedems

[Transhuman]

I knew about the the lowtax thing, but the board itself I knew nothing about. Well, besides one thing:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

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[Snoopycat_]

This is amazing. This mentalist is pretending he's a Hollywood insider -

"Anyone know how much she got paid?"

Terms weren’t disclosed, but I’m hearing at least $40-45 million. I’m trying to verify that, I’ll report back if I can confirm that

He's "hearing" and he's "trying to verify." Interesting. I wonder what inside sources he has that can verify to him what he's been hearing -

A source told Deadline that the payout was indeed at least $40 million. Remember, Scarlett initially claimed she lost a $50 million payday due to the streaming release.

Fucking Deadline. That's his inside source.

Ree's insiders in a nutshell. Pretend they have super secret knowledge and connections. In reality all they have is Twitter and Deadline.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/scarlett-johansson-disney-have-settled-their-breach-of-contract-lawsuit-over-her-pay-on-black-widow.494118/page-2

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

I will ask her on our next date.

[wsippel]

Reeeeesetera: How can anyone afford to own a house in this market? I'm going to be stuck paying rent to evil landlords my whole life. Thanks Trumbama!

Also Reeeeesetera: Hey, look, I just spent real money on a knockoff Simpsons jpg! Should be getting a huge payday once I flip this asset.

Also also Reeeeesetera: Climate catastrophe is coming, we're all gonna die if we don't stop using so much electricity.

What's really funny is that NFTs do have a practical use, but it certainly isn't random JPGs. One interesting potential use case is in-game items in MMOs for example. If the items are NFTs, they can be tracked (providing cheat and theft prevention, most dupe exploits wouldn't work if the items had unique cryptographic fingerprints and all transactions were fully atomic) and traded outside the game if the developers allow it.

[benjipwns]

I’ve never played Bayo but it really feels like a gsme that straight dudes can jerk it to while claiming feminism

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

That post is very offensive to lesbians.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I’ve never played Bayo but it really feels like a gsme that straight dudes can jerk it to while claiming feminism

(Image removed from quote.)

Holy shit, that's stupid. How are you going to play with one hand?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-deference-that-all-era-members-are-expected-to-show-towards-beliefs-regarding-religion-pseudoscience-superstition-etc-is-starting-to-annoy-me.492246/#post-74185404

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Point of Comparison

It is pretty wild that we have multiple threads mocking people for their belief that ivermectin is an effective COVID cure but other superstitions are off the table. The tacit position of the moderation stuff is that there are beliefs which are deserving of mockery. Say what you will about those people but they're at least onto something in that ivermectin is demonstrably medicine.

[ldcommando (notthegafone)]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/far-cry-6-ot-unionize.494070/

Paging crossing Eden. Oh wait, he's banned.

[BIONIC]

good talk

PAUL WALKER CERIUM’S ALIVE… and he’s trying to get on the NFT grift train

scratching my head at some of the threadbans in that NFT thread, to say the least. Especially with the OP threadmarking their own posts arguing with critics.

Yeah, that was not the OP threadmarking those posts; it was Cerium, the owner of the website.

The team was shorthanded and asked him to threadmark posts that were informative about technical aspects that people were confused about. No decision to threadmark anything was done by a single person.

[Uncle]

good news everyone they're fixing world of warcraft! it's becoming a more friendly space for everyone!

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/ptr-915-development-notes/1082616/17

Several emotes have been adjusted:

• Drool, cough, burp, fart, whistle, spit, and moon no longer change when used while targeting a player.
• Pounce and groan have been adjusted when used while targeting a player.
• 4 new emotes have been added – Huzzah, magnificent, impressed, and wince.
• Kick, stink, shake, and moan have been removed.
• • Developers’ note: Some of these emotes seem to have harmless intentions at a glance, but when used while targeting another player, their intentions can turn unexpectedly suggestive or intrusive. We’ve made adjustments to these emotes with negative connotations towards another player, while also adding a few new ones.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/female-only-ghosts-in-karazhan-updated-to-include-male-versions-324371

The early trash in Karazhan is largely made up of the tower's undead former residents and party goers, many packs of which were comprised of female only models - particularly those enemies found on the way to the Maiden of Virtue - most of which would transform into a Banshee or Succubus at low health. This PTR update changes many of those mobs to include male versions with new or gender neutral transformations, and although not every pack now contains male and female models, the area as a whole is a bit more diverse than it was before.

[benjipwns]

good talk

PAUL WALKER CERIUM’S ALIVE… and he’s trying to get on the NFT grift train

scratching my head at some of the threadbans in that NFT thread, to say the least. Especially with the OP threadmarking their own posts arguing with critics.

Yeah, that was not the OP threadmarking those posts; it was Cerium, the owner of the website.

The team was shorthanded and asked him to threadmark posts that were informative about technical aspects that people were confused about. No decision to threadmark anything was done by a single person.

dude hasn't posted in like two years, but the staff were "shorthanded" and in a crisis (people were saying untrue things about NFTs!) so he steps in and works with other staff members (who are still "shorthanded") to decide on threadmarking some posts

[BIONIC]

Is cerium offering nepnep furry Lucio NFTs as payment? 

[HaughtyFrank]

Mods of course vote on every decision, why would anyone doubt that.

Like when they changed the thread title of the far cry 6 thread into an OT (after Messo organized a mass reporting)

If y'all just report the first post to the mods, they'll make it the OT. I've already done. Sometimes mods have converted the longest thread for some small game to be the OT, upon request.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/far-cry-6-ot-unionize.494070/post-74441277

And then B-dubs locked the thread an hour later

It's too early for an OT, we don't allow them until a few days before release.

See, total unanimous decisions.

[benjipwns]

so he edited "|ot| unionize" back out of the thread title but couldn't be assed to simply make it something like "is anyone excited for far cry 6?" and leave it open

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Resetera found a way to keep toxic lurkers down I guess, those  full page ads are terrible, I keep forgetting about them until it loads up.

[BIONIC]

Don’t think this was posted from the constructive thread, but one of Bronson’s cronies got permed for bore-like behavior He got too close to the sun by shitting on Morrigan in the media create thread, and he just handed them an excuse

User banned (Permanent): Hostility towards multiple members of the community

So what's up with this poster being 'banned: duration pending' for weeks then not only being unbanned but the ban message being completely removed from the post like it never happened?

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-has-a-right-wing-extremism-racism-problem-on-their-discussion-forums-that-needs-to-be-addressed.485398/post-73215859[/URL]

(Image removed from quote.)

So now people go around taking screenshots of banned users, saving them and waiting for a gotcha moment?

Creepy af

So a ban that should be permanent not only getting reversed but all evidence of it being erased is fine. Calling that out is the real problem.

Gotcha.

You can appeal to bans and reverse them. And yeah. Its creepy making screenshots of other peoples ban and then come back for a gotcha.
And it doesnt even show it should be permanent. It showed duration pending.

Did you even read the post or series of posts from the user in question?

The ban wasn't permanent. It was a month.
No evidence was removed, I simply submitted a ticket explaining my position because I was neither trolling or antagonizing the poster (which my post in that thread highlighted. I never accused them of doing something purpusefully bad, but I tried to convey that how I understood their sentence).

The real problem here is that your behaviour is creeping me out honestly.

According to the image name, your screenshot was taken on September 14th. I don't know why you felt compelled to do so, but let's say you did, which is already creepy to be honest.

You checked everyday until you noticed I got unbanned today (after submitting a ticket a few weeks ago) and then you came here to complain about someone you interacted with 3 times.

That's honestly creepy and downright stalking.

[benjipwns]

How did he know they've interacted 3 times?

[BIONIC]

so he edited "|ot| unionize" back out of the thread title but couldn't be assed to simply make it something like "is anyone excited for far cry 6?" and leave it open

 

Mod Admiral strikes again

https://www.resetera.com/threads/far-cry-6.494070/page-5#post-74448309

Thread reverted and reopened.

[Chim Richalds]

How the fuck can a forum moderation staff be short-handed?  This ain't a business with a schedule, coverage requirements, lunch breaks, etc. etc. 

[benjipwns]

Administrators
AliceAmber (Mod Captain)
B-Dubs (General Manager)
ColdSun
Delphine
ghostcrew
Hecht
JayC3 (Mod Captain)
Nepenthe (Mod Captain)
Poodlestrike (Mod Captain)
The Woods
Transistor (Mod Captain)

Moderators
bunkitz
cvxfreak
deimosmasque
Fairy Godmother
FelipeMGM
FliXFantatier
Gowans
In Amber Clad
Jawmuncher
Judge
kaebie
K.Jack
Kaitos
Lonestar
Minaret
nihilence
Pandora012
Pau
plagiarize
Quinton
RatskyWatsky
SapphiCine
Serpens007
Sheng Long
shiba5
ShyMel
Slayven
Snormy
spider
Syder
Tavernade
The Artisan
The Bear
wandering

"shorthanded"

[Snoopycat_]

Most of the mods are probably busy stacking shelves, writing manifestos, harassing people for having the wrong opinions about heavy metal, or colouring in their Spider-Man books

[Taco Bell Tower]

User Banned (2 Days) Console warring/trolling

For GOW fans, the day it won IGN's GOAT award, it was the greatest day in their life. For BOTW fans, it was Tuesday.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-is-currently-polling-the-goat-video-game-across-all-of-its-platforms.487480/page-22#post-74241279

Original ban was:

User Banned (1 week): Console warring/trolling

[Nintex]

All I'm saying is that in an alternate universe, where Bernie was president and they stole the reelection from him, January 6 would have gone a lot differently

Seriously, you get a revolution going and not one van on fire? Trumpers are so fucking incompetent

I don't want to believe that so-called center or left wing news sources are as bad as fox with simply ignoring stories that don't support their side 

They are worse I would argue. When there's a negative story about 'their side' Fox will still air it but try to spin it.
You still get the news, although biased. i.e. "Yes everyone is dying right now but do you remember the Swine Flu?"

The other side is different. Hunters laptop does not exist in that universe, neither does Obama's drone campaign, shootings in Chicago, tent cities in Cali or Kamala's comments about not trusting the vaccines.
Jullian Assange? Russian misinformation! Oh, and they so easily flip. Just look at Assange.

The conservatives stick to their sometimes misguided guns but mostly accept past events as part of their history even though they try to romanticize that past.
They often point to some event or moment that made them see the error of their ways (we abolished slavery, so we can't really be the bad guys right?)
That's also why past revelations don't hit as hard and don't matter as much in that community as it does on the liberal side.

Liberals are always 'shocked' because their perfect world is shattered on a moments notice and they never see it coming. Lefties are shocked because they live in la la "Communism isn't bad, because we never tried 'real' communism"
 fantasyland. Just look at the current cervix debate where they accidentally erased women from existence and degraded them to non-binary breeding factories in order to be 'inclusive' oops.

Conservatives however are often more aware that events have a long history leading up to that point and they make an effort out of preserving that history.
And after 20 years of 'progress' can we really say things have gotten better? 

[benjipwns]

COVID probaby messed them bad.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/apple-and-disney-among-companies-backing-groups-against-us-climate-bill.494232/

don't buy from these companies

Abbott
Alphabet/Google
Amazon
Apple
AstraZeneca
Bayer
Best Buy
Cisco
Citi
Coca-Cola
Deloitte
Disney
Eaton Corporation
ExxonMobile
Facebook
FedEx
General Electric
General Motors
Gilead Sciences
Goodyear
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase
Intuit
Microsoft
PayPal
PepsiCo
Pfizer
Procter & Gamble
Target
Uber
United Airlines
Verizon

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[benjipwns]

If they are wrong (they are), they can maximize YOY profits for the next 20 years; but our planet burns and LIFE ON EARTH AS WE KNOW IT IS OVER.

I'd say to come back to this post in twenty years, but life as we know it will be over so you can't.

[james]

Resetera found a way to keep toxic lurkers down I guess, those  full page ads are terrible, I keep forgetting about them until it loads up.

Look at grandpa here surfing the web without protection

[porkbun]

Reeeeesetera: How can anyone afford to own a house in this market? I'm going to be stuck paying rent to evil landlords my whole life. Thanks Trumbama!

Also Reeeeesetera: Hey, look, I just spent real money on a knockoff Simpsons jpg! Should be getting a huge payday once I flip this asset.

Also also Reeeeesetera: Climate catastrophe is coming, we're all gonna die if we don't stop using so much electricity.

And all typed out on $1000 iPhones that were constructed using slave labor in China.

[benjipwns]

Fuck it, throw the book at his daughter. Have the DOJ turn every ounce of its prosecutorial power on that criminal, and let's see how committed to this number Joe actually is.

[Propagandhim]

Yeah, that'll happen.  Might as well just keep posting "eat shit" and "Fuck offff".  Might get further.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Don't worry, PoliEra has assured me this is all theatre. Pelosi can handle this and both bills will be passed.

[Nintex]

Fuck it, throw the book at his daughter. Have the DOJ turn every ounce of its prosecutorial power on that criminal, and let's see how committed to this number Joe actually is.

Sinema is cray cray. But Chuck signed a deal with Manchin that outlined his conditions and based on that his position seems pretty reasonable.

[HardcoreRetro]

Resetera found a way to keep toxic lurkers down I guess, those  full page ads are terrible, I keep forgetting about them until it loads up.

You should see the stuff that pops up when you use ad-block. #Traumatized

[Transhuman]

If I turn off my blocker the banners are all high interest loans and sports betting. Resetera clearly a site that cares about people.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-cinematic-universe-the-deadly-hands-of-kung-fu.110740/page-374#post-74379009

User Banned (2 weeks): Trolling

Venom 2 ends with the symbiote licking the picture of a 16 year-old boy, and there is a thread in Etc. where many people are excited by this.

[Pissy F Benny]

i thought the kreee was protected

[joeboy101]

i thought the kreee was protected

His protection is based on post count, and he’s burned through his.

[KillRideMedley]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wapo-justice-kavanaugh-tests-positive-for-covid-breakthrough-case.494349/
 

[HaughtyFrank]

I’ve never played Bayo but it really feels like a gsme that straight dudes can jerk it to while claiming feminism

(Image removed from quote.)

Funny how dismissing the opinion of women suddenly isn't ban worthy as long as you argue against titties. It's not straight dudes who came up with Bayonetta being feminism

[Propagandhim]

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-cinematic-universe-the-deadly-hands-of-kung-fu.110740/page-374#post-74379009

User Banned (2 weeks): Trolling

Venom 2 ends with the symbiote licking the picture of a 16 year-old boy, and there is a thread in Etc. where many people are excited by this.

 

[benjipwns]

Joey Mannychin and Kurstan Smegma

[clothedmacuser]

good news everyone they're fixing world of warcraft! it's becoming a more friendly space for everyone!

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/ptr-915-development-notes/1082616/17

Several emotes have been adjusted:

• Drool, cough, burp, fart, whistle, spit, and moon no longer change when used while targeting a player.
• Pounce and groan have been adjusted when used while targeting a player.
• 4 new emotes have been added – Huzzah, magnificent, impressed, and wince.
• Kick, stink, shake, and moan have been removed.
• • Developers’ note: Some of these emotes seem to have harmless intentions at a glance, but when used while targeting another player, their intentions can turn unexpectedly suggestive or intrusive. We’ve made adjustments to these emotes with negative connotations towards another player, while also adding a few new ones.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/female-only-ghosts-in-karazhan-updated-to-include-male-versions-324371

The early trash in Karazhan is largely made up of the tower's undead former residents and party goers, many packs of which were comprised of female only models - particularly those enemies found on the way to the Maiden of Virtue - most of which would transform into a Banshee or Succubus at low health. This PTR update changes many of those mobs to include male versions with new or gender neutral transformations, and although not every pack now contains male and female models, the area as a whole is a bit more diverse than it was before.

AV Club lost their balls when they wrote up about the WoW rape house.


https://www.avclub.com/world-of-warcraft-players-find-new-freshly-depressing-1818826083

I kept expecting for the usual AV Club derisive mocking of such a stupid complaint but it never came.  The real victim of 9/11 was the death of sarcasm and irony.

an in-game location that’s picked up the charming in-game nickname “rape tavern” from some of its frequent residents. Located near the starting area for human players, the tavern has long been a hotspot on some servers for “erotic role play,” whether in the form of carefully crafted descriptions of textual intercourse, or in the use of a variety of items, dances, and poses to simulate sex. (“Snow cannons,” which fire white globules of material into the air, are apparently a popular feature.)

the Motherboard piece notes a vocal contingent of players who are upset that many tavern participants won’t take “No” for the answer it needs to be. The most distressing examples include moments in which people overwhelmed by the sexual chaos flee the tavern, only to be pursued, surrounded, and harassed by other players

"It was supposed to be a nice evening. I created a mage and went straight to Goldshire. The tavern was packed. All the guests were wearing either fancy costumes or nothing at all. I've never seen so many purple breasts. I thought I'd landed in a real sex club," Klara said. After a few minutes, various tavern guests sent her public and private messages. "I was asked if I want to have sex. That wasn't all that surprising to me, so I asked what the chat rules were, something I'm used to from my escort work in Second Life." A number of players told her that it's a lot more about the "animations" than long sensual descriptions of intimate moments, as is the case in Second Life.

A PLAYER SHOUTS "WHO WANTS SOME CUM?" IN A PUBLIC CHAT AND THEN RUNS AROUND THE TAVERN WITH A SNOW CANNON. SCREENSHOT VIA BLIZZARD - Names blurred to protect the innocent



THOSE WHO WANT TO LOG OUT OUTSIDE OF A BUILDING HAVE TO WAIT 20 SECONDS, DURING WHICH THEIR CHARACTERS KNEEL DOWN—A MAGNET FOR GUESTS OF "RAPE TAVERN".