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[Potato]

I just can't reconcile "she's so filled with hate" with reading what she's actually saying at pretty much every turn

her messaging is always loaded with empathy for anyone who who is suffering, including trans people, and I know era will say it's insidious snake oil crocodile tears bad faith, but holy fuck

Her crime boils down to what exactly...saying that a biological woman's experience of life is different to a trans woman's experience?

 

[FUME5]

I believe him.

[Polident Hive]

Wasn't the use of gendered insults considered bad and misogynistic. Maybe I'm stuck in the archaic feminism think of 2018. Same with people of color and racial insults. Is there some threshold where dipping below renders a person less than. Some loop hole to purge all the bottled up racist and sexist thoughts. Isn't that what xbox live is for?

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/russia-has-begun-a-full-scale-invasion-in-ukraine-read-staff-posts.556366/post-84027574

stupid Jill Stein tweet

I have but one thing to say to anyone who has ever voted for this fucking Russian troll. You killed my country and now you push the world to destruction and want to kill my child, all while sitting on a moral high horse.


Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!

It is something that the people that many of us accused of being Russian agents (Stein, Greenwald, Tulsi, Tucker) while everybody else mocked the idea, have gone full on Russia defense even as Russia invades a neighbor and does daily war crimes against them.

How about that? I'm old enough to remember when the same thing happened to wikileaks.

Your language is too kind.

While Russia murders innocents and butchers children, all while these fucking cretins carry water for them and deflect. Anyone who defends the Green party or Carlson(I think no-one on this forum) should have to watch footage of Mariupol every fucking day they have left.

Amazing, what are the odds that everyone I've been calling a Russian agent for the last six years turns out to actually be a Russian agent working purely to achieve Putin's sinister global ends as proven by them saying the same kinds of things they've always said.

[Potato]

Wasn't the use of gendered insults considered bad and misogynistic. Maybe I'm stuck in the archaic feminism think of 2018. Same with people of color and racial insults. Is there some threshold where dipping below renders a person less than. Some loop hole to purge all the bottled up racist and sexist thoughts. Isn't that what xbox live is for?

Calling yourself a "feminist" in 2022 is basically outing yourself as a bitch TERF. 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghostwire-tokyo-review-thread.564640/page-6#post-84010039

Waiting for a sale. ACG said it's mid. I value his opinion over most of those outlets

This is ultimately unrelated to Ghostwire and ACGs opinion on it, but I feel like it's important to let you know as someone who consumes their content. While I of course can't tell you who to value the opinion of, just letting you know that ACG exposed themselves as a transphobe back during the Cyberpunk fiasco.

Oh? I hadnt heard that. Pretty unfortunate as he seems like a cool dude, but at the end of the day to each his own. As long as his personal views aren't effecting his objectivity...unless that's already happened 🤔.

What does "to each his own" mean here in the context of being informed of someone's transphobia?

It means everyone is entitled to their own opinions and views. What you or he or anyone else believes has no bearing on my life. As a result, I'm not here to judge you or him for those views.

Has plenty of bearing on trans people's lives though.

Eh I'd hope trans people wouldnt waste the energy worrying about what ACG thinks.

User Banned (1 Month): Excusing transphobia across multiple posts

Another terf bitch annihilated 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-neighbors-are-loud-and-have-anger-issues-too.564544/#post-83971441

User Banned (3 Months): Inappropriate commentary regarding the n-word

Can I have my tag changed to “hot dog ass nicca” please

But one day ban for laughing at domestic abuse
I am SCREAMING

[NekoFever]

Evidently MIMIC found Royalan’s Grindr profile.

[Transhuman]

Eh I'd hope trans people wouldnt waste the energy worrying about what ACG thinks.

Prepare for disappointment son.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/philosophy-tube-men-abuse-trauma.564955/
 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Wasn't the use of gendered insults considered bad and misogynistic. Maybe I'm stuck in the archaic feminism think of 2018. Same with people of color and racial insults. Is there some threshold where dipping below renders a person less than. Some loop hole to purge all the bottled up racist and sexist thoughts. Isn't that what xbox live is for?

ITS HOW THEY POLICE THEIR OWN

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Let's put some effort into our threads, and not just post a video.

...since fucking when?

[Snoopycat_]

I don't want to be all cynical and say Ree are lying like fuck, but these are the same people who have screaming rage fits every time Netflix or Amazon raises their subs

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-salary-what-do-you-do-and-where-do-you-live.564889/

[Potato]

Let's put some effort into our threads, and not just post a video.

...since fucking when?

No. You see, it's the random tweets with no context that are ok. Not videos with no context.

[SmokyDave]

I don't want to be all cynical and say Ree are lying like fuck, but these are the same people who have screaming rage fits every time Netflix or Amazon raises their subs

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-salary-what-do-you-do-and-where-do-you-live.564889/

They're not lying. I'm a poor kid, and we poor kids always know other poor kids, even when later draped in acquired fineries.

There are very, very few poor kids on ree. Probably why they romanticise struggling so much.

[Potato]

I don't want to be all cynical and say Ree are lying like fuck, but these are the same people who have screaming rage fits every time Netflix or Amazon raises their subs

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-salary-what-do-you-do-and-where-do-you-live.564889/

Lol

Reading this thread...

'eat the rich!' right guys?

lol

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

There are websites where all people do is talk about the users on this website, please think twice before posting that information here!

Yeah, you don't want to make the site look bad by exposing the userbase as a bunch of six figure salaried Michael Scotts, underneath all the Eat The Rich / Guillotines talk that literally just boils down to envy

Era really are the epitome of the petty bourgois

[headwalk]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/philosophy-tube-men-abuse-trauma.564955/
 

hey it's that person who let the UK gov use their channel for a psyop in exchange for cash.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

If anyone was curious about that BOMBSHELL EXPOSÉ Leigh Alexander was going to be dropping today...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1505975146217099273.html

So back in 2014, I was working as a game journalist. When Gamergate kicked off, I wrote a confrontational column about our consumer culture:

'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over.

Although I'd been the target of gendered harassment during my entire games career, the response in this case was extremely virulent. Gamergaters swarmed Intel, one of my employer's major advertisers, with complaints, and they responded

Intel Pulls Ads From Site After 'Gamergate' Boycott

Though short lived, this 'triumph' for GG was an extremely dark time. It was not a sure thing that the industry was going to reject this hate campaign at first. Most other outlets were publishing prevaricating updates to their review score policies
I was experiencing a new volume of hatred and unsafety and I nearly lost my job; had Kris Graft not been EIC at the time, I believe I would have


Within a couple days I heard from friends and colleagues who worked at Intel. They were horrified by what was surely some overwhelmed ad agent's political blunder, hoped I was okay, wanted it fixed
Eventually I was contacted in a formal way by a PR guy who said the company was going to make things right with a publicly-announced diversity fund. Millions. There would be a conference for women in games and I could be involved...
I was advised to stand by, that they were seeking expertise from well-known women in games who might show leadership here, such as Robin Hunicke. Sure enough, Robin soon slid into my DMs
She said she wanted to "make sure I understand" that the opportunity here for women in games is bigger than just something about me, and that she would be in touch to let me know how I could help with the new initiatives
Well, having sacrificed chunks of my own personal security and mental health to attempt to advocate for equality in the games industry I had no problem with her rationale. It was a comfort to me that the stupid thing that had happened could become something better
I had known Robin for many years and covered her talks on joy as an alternative vocabulary to violence, and like everyone else fully believed she practiced what she preached
At the same time, I felt, and probably said to her: What can Intel do for women in games as a whole when they can't even apologize to one of us directly


Time passed and Intel's multimillion-dollar initiatives were announced, "the most important news at CES"

Intel opposes Gamergate as part of $300 million effort to fix diversity in tech

I soon found out through a mutual friend that Robin Hunicke had informed everyone at Intel that I couldn't be trusted to participate in the initiatives. I was "too angry", she said


To be clear, my problem was not that Robin took an opportunity from me, although she did. I was emotionally exhausted at the time and did not want the responsibility. Like many people thrust into the 'social justice' spotlight I had no special qualifications, just a platform
And you know? I was angry. Really angry. I was 'complicated to support'. I had not always carried the pressure of my visibility well, the impression people got of me did not always match the professionalism I brought to the job
Robin Hunicke was the good kind of woman, the kind men trusted with initiatives, and seats on their panels and on their stages and in their classrooms. If I could have been more like her, everyone wouldn't have come for me like that, I felt
But now thanks to reporting by PMG and brave stories from her employees and faculty it's come out this admired Woman in Games has a pattern of wresting control of diversity initiatives into her own hands in order to gatekeep people who can actually help, using people's personal information to secure her position
During the worst pile-on of my career I should have had mentors, but instead I had Robin. I wonder how it was she made the case to these anxious executives that I was so unstable that I could not be trusted
But more than that, I wonder where the $300 million went. What did Robin do with this opportunity? Who did she help, who did she allocate invitations and resources to? What became of the Women in Games initiatives that she was asked to lead
at Intel, as well as everywhere else she was constantly self-marketing as a diversity person? How many people's faces did she shut the door in, smiling all the while?

Do you think I'm too angry? Aren't you angry too?
Anyway, it’s GDC so feel free to discuss openly. Important questions for our industry in terms of who it raises up and how we seek actual accountability

tl;dr - didn't get a cushy corporate diversity paycheck THAT FUCKING BITCH

[Snoopycat_]

Looks like Royalan's going to be adding more dates to his apology tour

[Uncle]

If anyone was curious about that BOMBSHELL EXPOSÉ Leigh Alexander was going to be dropping today...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1505975146217099273.html

tl;dr - didn't get a cushy corporate diversity paycheck THAT FUCKING BITCH

To be clear, my problem was not that Robin took an opportunity from me, although she did.

TIL all millionaires are actively taking opportunities from me by simply possessing money they never offered me in the first place

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/philosophy-tube-men-abuse-trauma.564955/
 

this comment on the video



woke virtue signaling 2 years ago, ridiculously offensive troll comment if posted today 

[Snoopycat_]

I knew it. I could've been rich if that greedy TERF bitch Joanne had given me her money. 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Perfect Day by Lou Reed.

https://www.y outube.com/watch?v=9wxI4KK9ZYo

I imagine the Playstation ad might have ruined this song for some people but I still love it. Just a simple song about having a lovely day with someone you care about which reminds me that sometimes the best things in life don't have to be complicated or difficult to achieve.

[SmokyDave]

Leigh Alexander only stuck out in my mind in 2014 for being drunken, belligerent, and unpleasant on the old Giant Bombcast. "Too angry" and "complicated to support" are something of an understatement going on every single time she has ever come to my attention.

Still, if we ever need someone to obnoxiously shout 'Fuck Boston' over and over and over, she'd be perfect.

[HaughtyFrank]

I don't even understand the callout. She literally admits that she was too angry and "too complicated to support"

[joeboy101]

I don't even understand the callout. She literally admits that she was too angry and "too complicated to support"

Just bitter she didn’t setup the same kind of scam that Anita did.

[HardcoreRetro]

Perfect Day by Lou Reed.

https://www.y outube.com/watch?v=9wxI4KK9ZYo

I imagine the Playstation ad might have ruined this song for some people but I still love it. Just a simple song about having a lovely day with someone you care about which reminds me that sometimes the best things in life don't have to be complicated or difficult to achieve.

Golden Brown by The Stranglers is also a good song for him.

[Averon]

Leigh Alexander is the typical, unbearable narcissist that blames everyone else outside her immediate friend group for her lack of relative success. People like that wonder why others not in their clique avoid them and not give them rewards/promotions they think they're "owed".

[BisMarckie]

Still, if we ever need someone to obnoxiously shout 'Fuck Boston' over and over and over, she'd be perfect.

Another job lost to ever advancing text-to-speech tech   

[BisMarckie]

I am incredibly glad that she has come forward with this incredibly powerful story that didn’t prove the person who she accused was right at all.

We should aleays listen to survivors like Leigh Alexander, Intel should give her most if not all of the $300 millions.
If not, I will no longer support Intel. By that I mean that I will probably still buy their products (capitalism ugh) but I will let everyone know that they are a trash company.

[Joe Molotov]

Wasn't the use of gendered insults considered bad and misogynistic. Maybe I'm stuck in the archaic feminism think of 2018. Same with people of color and racial insults. Is there some threshold where dipping below renders a person less than. Some loop hole to purge all the bottled up racist and sexist thoughts. Isn't that what xbox live is for?

[benjipwns]

$300 million? That's 38.7% of an illegal amount of money.

[benjipwns]

Also, good job Leigh of not supporting the notion that a lot of these accountability culture pile-ons are just people unleashing long nursed personal grudges to obtain status within their industries.

[Uncle]

now Leigh is angry that Robin made a non-apology (which is clearly going through the required motions on twitter) and is characterizing this absolute non-issue a "pattern of abuse"

https://twitter.com/leighalexander/status/1506189263049740291

and she demands restitution  and is mad that "dudes" are favoriting Robin's apology tweet, because no one is allowed to interact with Leigh on twitter except for positive feedback

https://twitter.com/leighalexander/status/1506194595901751297

looking at both of them, they are both nobodies, with averages of 5 replies and 10 retweets and 100 likes

and the replies are from pre-approved people who say things like "sorry you had to go through this"

[Propagandhim]

Perfect Day by Lou Reed.

https://www.y outube.com/watch?v=9wxI4KK9ZYo

I imagine the Playstation ad might have ruined this song for some people but I still love it. Just a simple song about having a lovely day with someone you care about which reminds me that sometimes the best things in life don't have to be complicated or difficult to achieve.

 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/leighalexander/status/1505140863382573057
https://twitter.com/leighalexander/status/1505172568814366724
https://twitter.com/leighalexander/status/1506269732076408841

Totally valid and principled dispute about holding someone accountable for their bad behavior so we can all learn for the future.

[SmokyDave]

Never noticed how much Leigh Alexander looks like Rachel Dolezal. Huh.

[Propagandhim]

Damn, I wonder why nobody wanted to work with this woman and give her free money. 

[benjipwns]

and the replies are from pre-approved people who say things like "sorry you had to go through this"

We shouldn't downplay the bravery of Leigh Alexander upon seeing a bunch of people in the gaming industry attacking a woman who may have been mean to them sharing her own personal story from nearly a decade ago about how she also too thinks that woman was mean to her.

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and also LOL BOOM BLOX LIKE SERIOUSLY AND PEOPLE RESPECT HER AND LET HER HAVE A JOB LIKE LOL LEADERSHIP? SHIP SOMETHING SOMETIME BITCH

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[headwalk]

sometimes i think i should've got a twitter just to alleviate any chance of having some introspection. i'd probably be a billionaire by now, or at least think i should be.

[benjipwns]

They're not lying. I'm a poor kid, and we poor kids always know other poor kids, even when later draped in acquired fineries.

There are very, very few poor kids on ree. Probably why they romanticise struggling so much.

lol u yt breh

[Joe Molotov]

Boom Blox was a good game, I stand with Robin.

[benjipwns]

User Banned (5 Days): Body Shaming; Inappropriate Rhetoric; History of Inappropriate Commentary

Apparently saggy titz has moved onto some other micro-YT-controversy to leech off of.

He's talking about a woman who literally goes by the username: Saggy Melonz. 

[clothedmacuser]

Perfect Day by Lou Reed.

https://www.y outube.com/watch?v=9wxI4KK9ZYo

I imagine the Playstation ad might have ruined this song for some people but I still love it. Just a simple song about having a lovely day with someone you care about which reminds me that sometimes the best things in life don't have to be complicated or difficult to achieve.

 

Didn't lou reed once refer to a transgender person by saying, "he was a she?"

Let's put some effort into our threads, and not just post a video.

...since fucking when?

I could swear to god that last month some Messo type said he was compiling a list of all the incidents of peeping-toms in media.

[benjipwns]

Personally, I'm hoping they go the custom character route. Really let the player shape their own personal Witcher avatar.

Please no. So many WRPG games have custom characters, I one more with a pre-defined protagonist.

What is this opposition to Ciri? Some of you really don't want to play a woman charcter, do you?

Jesus. That isn’t a fair assumption to make. People have their reasons for not wanting to play as Ciri, but nobody is saying or indicating that it’s because she’s a woman. And I say that as someone whose first post in this thread was literally “please make Ciri the protagonist,” or if not Ciri, then yes, a different female character.

Ok, fair enough, I apologize.

Look at that, problem solved by the users themselves.

Oh, just one more thing:

User Banned (3 Days): Inflammatory accusation

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghostwire-tokyo-review-thread.564640/page-6#post-84010039

This is ultimately unrelated to Ghostwire and ACGs opinion on it, but I feel like it's important to let you know as someone who consumes their content. While I of course can't tell you who to value the opinion of, just letting you know that ACG exposed themselves as a transphobe back during the Cyberpunk fiasco.

I'm going to make a wild guess and assume that "exposed themselves as transphobes" merely translates to "He didn't think cyberpunk was transphobic"

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghostwire-tokyo-review-thread.564640/page-6#post-84010039

This is ultimately unrelated to Ghostwire and ACGs opinion on it, but I feel like it's important to let you know as someone who consumes their content. While I of course can't tell you who to value the opinion of, just letting you know that ACG exposed themselves as a transphobe back during the Cyberpunk fiasco.

I'm going to make a wild guess and assume that "exposed themselves as transphobes" merely translates to "He didn't think cyberpunk was transphobic"

FACT CHECK: He's worse than an transphobe, he's a GAF poster.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cyberpunk-2077-ot-welcome-to-night-city-read-the-op-before-you-post.340270/page-22#post-53473306

[Snoopycat_]

He was found to post in gaming threads on GAF and he responded once that "no one who matters does" on a tweet asking who still takes gaming journalism seriously on a Polygon-article about Cyberpunk edgelord marketing.

 


https://www.resetera.com/threads/cyberpunk-2077-ot-welcome-to-night-city-read-the-op-before-you-post.340270/page-22#post-53473153

[Averon]

Fuck JK Rowling. Fuck everything she touches and makes money from. I'm not giving her a cent, a view, a like a nothing as long as I can avoid it. Fuck that hateful TERF. Fuck bigotry.

Fuck JK Rowling.

 

[Pissy F Benny]

He was found to post in gaming threads on GAF and he responded once that "no one who matters does" on a tweet asking who still takes gaming journalism seriously on a Polygon-article about Cyberpunk edgelord marketing.

 


https://www.resetera.com/threads/cyberpunk-2077-ot-welcome-to-night-city-read-the-op-before-you-post.340270/page-22#post-53473153

Why isn't this bigoted pos deplatformed and in jail right now?

[Pissy F Benny]

Is Jim Sterling, who never misses a chance (or never used to at least) to have a dig at games journalism totally sus too

[BisMarckie]

If you regard women as a different species enough to just call them "females", you come off as more suspect as a potential serial killer than anyone else.

I don’t know, I once saw this guy eat hot wings and that were major serial killer vibes. Turns out he is in an arranged marriage and has over thirty thousand tweets to only a couple hundred followers. If anything they should put that guy on a watchlist.

[clothedmacuser]

Female means different species? 

Top Page Females

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[Taco Bell Tower]

Fuck JK Rowling. Fuck everything she touches and makes money from. I'm not giving her a cent, a view, a like a nothing as long as I can avoid it. Fuck that hateful TERF. Fuck bigotry.

Fuck JK Rowling.

Yet he posts in a JK thread

[benjipwns]

If you regard women as a different species enough to just call them "females", you come off as more suspect as a potential serial killer than anyone else.

I don’t know, I once saw this guy eat hot wings and that were major serial killer vibes. Turns out he is in an arranged marriage and has over thirty thousand tweets to only a couple hundred followers. If anything they should put that guy on a watchlist.

Thread is great. He's making an obvious joke and multiple people in the thread explain what he's saying is true but there's even more people going ALWAYS KNEW HE WAS TRASH, FUCKING TOXIC MASCULINITY, FUCK TERF JOANNE, SOMEDAY WE'LL LEAVE THESE CHUDS IN THE PAST, etc.

[BisMarckie]

Thread is great. He's making an obvious joke and multiple people in the thread explain what he's saying is true but there's even more people going ALWAYS KNEW HE WAS TRASH, FUCKING TOXIC MASCULINITY, FUCK TERF JOANNE, SOMEDAY WE'LL LEAVE THESE CHUDS IN THE PAST, etc.

It's always interesting reflecting back on how fucked up and stress-inducing toxic masculinity is. I'm a straight male, and I felt it (and perpetuated it in turn) throughout my childhood.

My Power Rangers would visit my sisters' Barbies in the big dollhouse all the time to hang out. I'd never tell my friends that though, and I'd never ever admit to anybody how jealous I was at the seemingly infinite amount of compatible accessories Barbie had available.

I don’t think toxic masculinity is the reason you probably shouldn’t talk about that as an adult.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-salary-what-do-you-do-and-where-do-you-live.564889/

Figured this would be a good thread to make as a resource for people wrapping up their Q1 and maybe on the job hunt after a last bonus check - or want to help trade tips on salary negotiation.

I make 157k USD a year as a Sales Marketing specialist for a relatively small tech company. I've been in tech for just over four years since graduating university, and I live in the Southwest United States.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anyone-else-just-not-give-a-fuck-about-their-career-and-how-much-they-make.564985/

I’ve seen a bunch of threads here recently about people making like 100k+, and hunting job offers, moving to different cities/states for jobs, learning new skills to make more money etc, and I just don’t get it. I can’t relate in the slightest.

I work in a restaurant. I make enough to pay my bills and have enough left to buy things like games, go out for dinner, and put some aside for holidays and stuff.

I work to live. I go in, get paid, and switch my brain off afterwards. I’d much rather be spending my time worrying about practically anything else with my short time on this earth.

I just feel really out of touch with a lot of this forum in this regard.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Calling JK Rowling Joanne is not a good look, considering the reason women authors go by their initials is the sexist response to feminine names.

[benjipwns]

Calling JK Rowling Joanne is not a good look, considering the reason women authors go by their initials is the sexist response to feminine names.

Tone policing how the oppressed speak to their oppressors.