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[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/7-teens-in-philadelphia-assault-elderly-man-on-camera-victim-dies-following-day.605511/page-10#post-89936685

14-year-olds get carried away. They beat him and he succumbed to his injuries. I live in Philly. I have seen it all in my city. We had frequent flash mobs 10 years ago. folks randomly punching people in the face and running. jumping folks. It's bad. But this is what kids do. This is chaos. Surely they didn't mean to kill him and yes their actions played a huge factor in his death. But to call them animals and change them into adults and not rehabilitation having them in juvie furthers the school to prison pipeline and fails children, especially Black children.

 

How can someone even write this with a straight face. Their actions were the only factor that caused his death

Um, his injuries killed him.

It was natural causes. If you are severely beaten, it's natural for you to die.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/7-teens-in-philadelphia-assault-elderly-man-on-camera-victim-dies-following-day.605511/page-10#post-89936685

14-year-olds get carried away. They beat him and he succumbed to his injuries. I live in Philly. I have seen it all in my city. We had frequent flash mobs 10 years ago. folks randomly punching people in the face and running. jumping folks. It's bad. But this is what kids do. This is chaos. Surely they didn't mean to kill him and yes their actions played a huge factor in his death. But to call them animals and change them into adults and not rehabilitation having them in juvie furthers the school to prison pipeline and fails children, especially Black children.

 

How can someone even write this with a straight face. Their actions were the only factor that caused his death

Um, his injuries killed him.

It was natural causes. If you are severely beaten, it's natural for you to die.

This kind of talk is starting to feel familiar... but I can't quite remember where I've experienced it before. For years and years. Platformed uncritically in the media.

[HaughtyFrank]

(Image removed from quote.)

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/7-teens-in-philadelphia-assault-elderly-man-on-camera-victim-dies-following-day.605511/post-89709510

User Banned (3 Months): Racist dogwhistling

Fucking animals

https://www.resetera.com/threads/7-teens-in-philadelphia-assault-elderly-man-on-camera-victim-dies-following-day.605511/post-89736750

User Banned (3 Months): Racist dogwhistling, previous ban for racist stereotyping

I find it difficult to believe that anyone, even this young, that is capable of doing something like this could be rehabilitated.

I think I remember a similar kind of case recently here in the UK where an elderly man was beaten/left for dead in the street. It's just inconceivable, I cannot even begin to get in to the headspace of these animals.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/7-teens-in-philadelphia-assault-elderly-man-on-camera-victim-dies-following-day.605511/post-89740161

User Banned (3 Months): Racist dogwhistling
Animals.

Nep actually went back and put in the work. lol

Just up and decided to hand out 3 month bans days after the fact.

I want to highlight this again because it's so insane that people got a 3 month ban for this. From what I can tell 3 month is basically the highest amount they give before a perma ban (some rare exceptions aside). All because they called some kids who killed a man and then laughed about it "animals". Even crazier when you compare it to what kind of other shit gets less. Like the "advocating murder one" was two month initally.

[Uncle]

In my lived experience as an injured person with an experience in injuryness, injuries don't kill people.  It's the system that fails to address those injuries that kills people.  It's the society that societizes those injuries in this so-called system of justice that poopoo peepee doodoo

this tweet will do numbers

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-16-ditched-turn-based-combat-to-appeal-to-younger-generations-producer-says.607527/page-14#post-89998671

because young people buy Final Fantasy games...right...

[Uncle]

This is the best critique so far. People do not understand that a real women with bodily autonomy choosing how they dress or act is different than a fictional women being created to dress or act a certain way by other people, usually men. How can the latter be empowering and sex positive? Makes little sense.

Because you can represent those real women in a videogame? Like how is this hard to understand? We constantly represent types of people that exist in real life in fiction. That's what the whole call for representation is about you dumb dumb

arguing from one side of your mouth that characters arent real therefore no 'agency' concerns matter, while simultaneously arguing out the other side of your mouth that it doesnt matter if the characters are real because the responses to them are is some real have your cake and eat it bullshit

bimbo wearing a metal bikini in real life: daring. challenges traditional concepts of femininity. "empowering."

bimbo wearing a metal bikini in a video game: insulting. perpetuates the male gaze. "problematic."

bimbo wearing a metal bikini in full-motion video in a video game: an actress wielding her agency. positive role model for young girls. "empowering."

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/7-teens-in-philadelphia-assault-elderly-man-on-camera-victim-dies-following-day.605511/page-10#post-89936685

14-year-olds get carried away. They beat him and he succumbed to his injuries. I live in Philly. I have seen it all in my city. We had frequent flash mobs 10 years ago. folks randomly punching people in the face and running. jumping folks. It's bad. But this is what kids do. This is chaos. Surely they didn't mean to kill him and yes their actions played a huge factor in his death. But to call them animals and change them into adults and not rehabilitation having them in juvie furthers the school to prison pipeline and fails children, especially Black children.

 

How can someone even write this with a straight face. Their actions were the only factor that caused his death

Um, his injuries killed him.

It was natural causes. If you are severely beaten, it's natural for you to die.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Stolen from Steven Wright, actually.

[BIONIC]

Stolen from Steven Wright, actually.

Lame. I steal all my jokes from the greats like PlanetSmasher and Transhuman.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

  Not all of us have 10 years of comedy school to rely on.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-makes-you-lose-all-respect-for-a-person%E2%80%99s-opinions.606990/#post-89913306
Kyuuji

Bigotry is usually the fastest way to get me to not respect whatever it is you have to say.

People who slap an ally badge on but then spend more time turning around and talking down to, or pushing back on, minorities than doing anything to support them.

Going down the rabbit hole on some conspiracy theory.

It's more context dependent but using female/females in place of woman/women.

Yet they openly and gleefully admitted how fun Cyberpunk 2077 was to even replay it a couple of times 

[HaughtyFrank]

It's more context dependent but using female/females in place of woman/women.

I wonder what that context is cause apparently it's even wrong when it's in a scientific study

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk%E2%80%99s-dad-errol-musk-reveals-he-had-a-second-child-with-his-stepdaughter.607761/page-2

Honestly, fuck articles like this. Fuck this shit. The sins of the father don't mean shit on the child no matter if its musk or not. This thread is in bad taste.

me rn:

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk%E2%80%99s-dad-errol-musk-reveals-he-had-a-second-child-with-his-stepdaughter.607761/page-2

Honestly, fuck articles like this. Fuck this shit. The sins of the father don't mean shit on the child no matter if its musk or not. This thread is in bad taste.

me rn:

Huh? His dad gave this interview this is about him.

I know, but the whole point of this shit is to put it on his Son. No one cares about his dad. This is them using the evils of his father against him and I wont stand for shit like that.

The Elon quote doesnt matter. This is just BS, if someone used the evils of anyones parent against them then theyre scum of the Earth.

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constance-wu-attempted-suicide-after-fresh-off-the-boat-tweet-backlash.607740/

Twitter dogpiles 
Era dogpiles 

(Not that we're better, mind)

[Nintex]

Ivana Trump Dead at 73

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ivana-trump-dead-at-73.607731/

 

[Averon]

ZeroVagina rightly getting called out by everybody for his bullshit in this thread : https://www.resetera.com/threads/constance-wu-attempted-suicide-after-fresh-off-the-boat-tweet-backlash.607740/#post-90003351

[VomKriege]

This is an important point. It's not great when people are shitty on Era but it's extremely unlikely that it'll get back to the people who are being discussed (unless they're users here).

Well I guess we all have the same excuses.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/with-half-of-marriages-ending-today-what-are-your-thoughts-on-that-institution.607470/page-5#post-90006120

The divorce rate has NEVER been close to 50%. It's a flawed calculation where someone took the number of divorces (per 1000) that year and divided by the number of marriages (per 1000) that year. The problem is, the people who divorced that year married years ago if not decades ago, when the number of marriages were much higher.

The true divorce rate which peaked in the 70s-80s was probably closer to 40%, and it's been steadily dropping since. It's probably closer to 30% nowadays. If you remove the number of second and subsequent marriages, and people who get married super young, it's even lower, probably in the 20s. Having a college degree drops that number lower still.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constance-wu-attempted-suicide-after-fresh-off-the-boat-tweet-backlash.607740/

Twitter dogpiles 
Era dogpiles 

(Not that we're better, mind)

ZeoVGM (the OP of this thread) getting roasted for posting this in the original backlash one

I don't have much to say here other than, "What a complete asshole."

Lots of actors and crew members lost jobs today and she's upset that she gets to keep her job. Quit the damn show. She is putting her co-workers in an incredibly awkward position.

Unprofessional, selfish, embarrassing.

I'm not sure why Zeo would even make that thread considering he fucking loves being at the forefront of any cancel attempt

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constance-wu-attempted-suicide-after-fresh-off-the-boat-tweet-backlash.607740/

Twitter dogpiles 
Era dogpiles 

(Not that we're better, mind)

Honestly the way I get treated on here sometimes makes me want to just curl up in the tub and pass out. People really have absolutely no cognizance of the way their words can be interpreted by the receiver. Like you can disagree with someone without going straight for personal attacks, and that shit adds up when it's coming from a dozen or a hundred voices all at once. Dogpiling is fucking terrible for mental health.

[VomKriege]

One person is "heh I expected worst from the old thread, actually pretty mild" which let's just say... agree to disagree.
Also filled to the brim to "you should be content with whatever contract you signed" "be grateful to your employers" "hopefully she'll struggle to get work after that" which are very not current year talking points

[HaughtyFrank]

Will people ever stop talking about Quiet?

https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-solid-v-quiet-character-design-hideo-kojima-1849175116

And no one ever cares to actually talk to Stefanie Joosten

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constance-wu-attempted-suicide-after-fresh-off-the-boat-tweet-backlash.607740/page-3#post-90006141
ZeoVagina

Well, this thread went places. Went to clean some litter boxes and came back to this.

I was aware that I posted in that thread when I made this one.

I absolutely feel bad for my post in that thread. I contributed to the toxicity surrounding that situation, as many people did. And the irony of me feeling embarrassed from the dogpiling in this thread certainly isn't lost on me.

While I think her initial tweets were certainly with criticizing, there was no reason to be as harsh about it I was, immediately jumping to name-calling. There is a way to criticize without being toxic and I didn't do it in that thread.

That’s fair, though I definitely wasn’t trying to subtweet (not a fan of that practice). Either way I was trying to keep it light-hearted with the “misdeeds” comment.

You’re all good.

We forgive you queen

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constance-wu-attempted-suicide-after-fresh-off-the-boat-tweet-backlash.607740/page-3#post-90006501
Planetsmasher

Honestly the way I get treated on here sometimes makes me want to just curl up in the tub and pass out. People really have absolutely no cognizance of the way their words can be interpreted by the receiver. Like you can disagree with someone without going straight for personal attacks, and that shit adds up when it's coming from a dozen or a hundred voices all at once. Dogpiling is fucking terrible for mental health.

I’m gonna be super real with you. It’s not just one thing that you do at times. You constantly have the same exact response to the same things over and over again and there is a cycle of people that know exactly what you will say and others who are unknowingly enabling the same conversation you have at least on the gaming side.

You have two sides to your self there is a great person there and you can be very insightful and warm but There are times where people can and will get upset since you have had the same exact takes on certain things over and over again to where the dog piling can happen.

I hope you do take some self reflection because honestly you aren’t a bad person, you seem pretty decent but sometimes you do have to look in the mirror and ask why does something keep happening and it’s various people at different times saying the same thing.

And many times I do not agree with the dog piling you can get at times. But I see the cycle.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Ivana Trump Dead at 73

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ivana-trump-dead-at-73.607731/

 

B-Dumbs

Shit, I had a really good joke for this but turns out it was about Marla Maples.

Another sexist joke I bet.

[VomKriege]

Social media is terrible and should be banned or made impossible to operate in its current form.

There needs to be better moderation.

Sure is working here at ERA !

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constance-wu-attempted-suicide-after-fresh-off-the-boat-tweet-backlash.607740/page-3#post-90008115

Honestly the way I get treated on here sometimes makes me want to just curl up in the tub and pass out. People really have absolutely no cognizance of the way their words can be interpreted by the receiver. Like you can disagree with someone without going straight for personal attacks, and that shit adds up when it's coming from a dozen or a hundred voices all at once. Dogpiling is fucking terrible for mental health.

I mean, I've beat this drum before but people online - and in this forum - largely do not care how giving shit to people makes them feel as long as they feel like at least one person is giving them props for it.

I've been guilty of it and been the victim of it. It sucks. But sympathetic ears are also forgetful ones, especially when convenient.

[Averon]

ZeroVagina is the exact kind of person everyone in that thread is complaining about: Someone constantly on social media just waiting to pounce on some perceived slight and/or wrong-think so they join in on a good ol' mobbing and dogpiling to feel smug and self-righteous. And once they get their fill, move on to the next target without any regard to the damage they leave behind. ZeroVagina does it so often he forgot he was part of this mob in particular

[VomKriege]

In the old thread :

When I see people like Dwayne Johnson pumping out 5-10 movies a year, advertisements, and also starring or co-starring in tv shows all around the same time, I all of a sudden question whether or not a single TV show role is truly boxing out an actor from other roles, or if it's just the actors themselves and they're making excuses.

ResetERA : Big fan of the sigma grindset.

[BIONIC]

There needs to be better moderation. People are so hung up on the "free speech" bullshit despite free speech not applying to a private website and demand to have permission to say whatever with no consequences.

It's difficult because a lot of the time it's the constant dogpiling that's the real issue. One person saying "I hate you and wish you would die" you can brush off, and is something that can be moderated against, but a million people saying "Hey, just my opinion, but I think you suck just a teeny tiny bit" can be like death by a thousand cuts.

True, sometimes I do underestimate the sheer number of replies there can be.

WillieDontCare.jiff

[thetylerrob]

Had to login to the bore on my phone to say this. Ugh

Can someone please call professor beef out in that thread? I can’t believe he of all people is in that thread trying to paint his fellow prominent posters as victims. What a scumbag.

[VomKriege]

Have you ever seen the tears of crocodiles under the pale moonlight ?

[benjipwns]

There needs to be better moderation. People are so hung up on the "free speech" bullshit despite free speech not applying to a private website and demand to have permission to say whatever with no consequences.

The only meaning of "free speech" is the legal one? How did it ever become a legal term then? How can anyone ever argue for more or less free speech than the law currently allows?

[ShutUp]

I don't think better moderation is the issue, because people say very horrible things, and people who look at those horrible things as a job are also horribly affected.

Social media was a mistake. It's terrible. Delete it all: reddit, Resetera, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. Or better yet: I just don't understand why social media websites can't be held responsible for the shit that's posted on their websites, but the same can't be said for newspapers.

Oh I don’t think you’d want websites to start being held accountable for things said on the site, champ.

[VomKriege]

Ye olde faithful

Neither it got extended beyond its moment

Wu literally had to turn down at least one movie dream opportunity iirc to fulfill obligations on a show that was well past its prime.

It literally got renewed just long enough to fuck her over, it was canceled literally the next summer

[Boredfrom]

Had to login to the bore on my phone to say this. Ugh

Can someone please call professor beef out in that thread? I can’t believe he of all people is in that thread trying to paint his fellow prominent posters as victims. What a scumbag.

That is the only reason why he still has an account there. 

He is such a slimy scumbag, that makes everyone else like principled individuals.

[Polident Hive]

The Vtubers thread at RE has occasional existential crisis when some Female Vtuber is unapologetic horny or if someone is not political correct as RE. I don’t think all the stuff they bitch about in the Female Character Design thread is totally without merit, is just so shitty how much act like pricks or don’t think of some hypocrisies.

Princess Bubblegum: “I hate fetishized lesbians in media. I have an avatar of a fetishized couple in a kids cartoon.”

Fetish and sexuality is only valid when it is in my very narrow spectrum, not if everyone gets to do it in a way I don’t like.

Was reminded about the old lady orc argument when I checked out Overwatch 2 videos. They introduced a new lady to fit the Junkrat and Roadhog aesthetic. Where they’re a 600lb guy in a gas mask and Mad Max Beavis, she’s conventionally attractive with some muscles and a mohawk. Is there a conspiracy about Blizzard getting paid by the surprisingly lucrative Overwatch smut industry? Absolutely. There’s still a remarkable difference in how far they go in designing female and male characters. But truth is most male characters are conventionally attractive, too. There’s just variety. Feels like that should be the goal instead of wanting Bayonetta in a muumuu.

(No disrespect to anybody who find Roadhog hot. It takes all kinds.)

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-6-has-just-frames-precise-input-for-better-version-of-specials.595686/page-10#post-88428081

User banned (duration pending admin review): Antagonizing metacommentary. Multiple prior bans for the same behavior.

It's amazing how many people have no idea what a just frame is and how little it will affect them in the game.

I mained Jin for like a decade on Tekken, but go off with your assumptions.

Edit: Nah, I'm out of this embarrassing epeen-waving contest of a thread. Touch some grass y'all.

Shouldn't have gone after Hecht.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/johnny-depp-jury-finds-that-amber-heard-defamed-him-in-op-ed.590196/page-35#post-88338018

A month later and we have another dev permabanned:

User Banned (Permanent): Antagonizing metacommentary. Long history of hostility and multiple prior bans for the same behavior.

Weltall was one of the worst posters there. Easily Crossing Eden/Red Mercury/ZeroVagina levels of bad. ERA got slightly less terrible with this perma ban. Though I'm sure he's still posting under an alt. People like that can't stay away.

[benjipwns]

I don't think better moderation is the issue, because people say very horrible things, and people who look at those horrible things as a job are also horribly affected.

Social media was a mistake. It's terrible. Delete it all: reddit, Resetera, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. Or better yet: I just don't understand why social media websites can't be held responsible for the shit that's posted on their websites, but the same can't be said for newspapers.

Oh I don’t think you’d want websites to start being held accountable for things said on the site, champ.

Uh, because newspapers can feasibly curate everything they publish?

Newspapers also basically aren't liable for things published under someone else's name who is not an employee. NYT v. Sullivan was because white supremacist police were suing and winning millions of dollars against the New York Times for an ad somebody paid for saying that police in the South were racists, these police claimed it was both libel and about them specifically and they got friendly juries to try and put the NYT out of business completely. (Something I'm sure ResetERA.com would love to be able to do against anyone.) Section 230 doesn't grant social media special protections it grants everyone on the internet the same protections as exist in the real world, you aren't liable for something you didn't publish.

This dude basically wants the entire internet to be destroyed.

[Uncle]

Will people ever stop talking about Quiet?

https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-solid-v-quiet-character-design-hideo-kojima-1849175116

And no one ever cares to actually talk to Stefanie Joosten

Metal Gear artist Yoji Shinkawa pictures Quiet as naked in some early concept art, a meditation he performs with many of his female characters. It’s a ridiculous practice, another confirmation that women video game characters are designed with a man’s libido front and center

MOTHER FUCKER ARTISTS NEED TO DEVELOP THE ANATOMY OF THE CHARACTERS THEY DRAW

LOOK AT THESE INDUSTRY STANDARD BOOK COVERS

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=figure+drawing

"hurr durr a true artist need not debase themselves to the male gaze, smut has flown under the radar as 'anatomical studies' for far too long, artists who are allies simply learn to draw all characters clothed"
 

[HaughtyFrank]

Will people ever stop talking about Quiet?

https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-solid-v-quiet-character-design-hideo-kojima-1849175116

And no one ever cares to actually talk to Stefanie Joosten

Metal Gear artist Yoji Shinkawa pictures Quiet as naked in some early concept art, a meditation he performs with many of his female characters. It’s a ridiculous practice, another confirmation that women video game characters are designed with a man’s libido front and center

MOTHER FUCKER ARTISTS NEED TO DEVELOP THE ANATOMY OF THE CHARACTERS THEY DRAW

LOOK AT THESE INDUSTRY STANDARD BOOK COVERS

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=figure+drawing

"hurr durr a true artist need not debase themselves to the male gaze, smut has flown under the radar as 'anatomical studies' for far too long, artists who are allies simply learn to draw all characters clothed"
 

The author also writes in the very same article that it would have been interesting to just make Quiet fully naked, something that was actually thrown around as an idea as shown by the concept art. So they considered exactly what she claims would have been interesting but then she complains anyway?

[Potato]

I dunno why they keep repeating that “society and poverty” is the justification when most also admitting most people don’t murder old folk when they are teenagers.

Yes, socioeconomic issues are the cause overall of this kind of stuff, but arguing that rehabilitating someone is an end for all.

It's not that its that eye brow raising to argue these points, especially in regards to appropriate punishment for crimes from a liberal / left leaning perspective.

It's that its only popping up under extremely specific circumstances, but desperate white trash still get the regular "hope you get butt-fucked in prison" era replies.

It's just typical Reeeeesetera behaviour of (intentionally?) misunderstanding that while socioeconomic issues are usually the root cause of these behaviours they do not create a situation where they are the excuse.

[FUME5]

Said it before, but professor beef is an ugly little dwarf who used to camp out in the girlgaf thread.

Absolute fucking cretin.

[Potato]

Marriage is a sham, but not because they sometimes end. People who have faith their relationship will last don't get the government involved. If you think your partner actually loves you you'd make it as legally easy as possible for them to leave you, hoping that they won't. If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

In fairness, the fact the government draws distinctions between married / not married in mundane aspects of citizenship like tax codes, power of attorney, inheritance etc means there are tangible reasons to declare yourself legally married (and the reason why gay marriage is important from a civics perspective, its not just to piss off religious folks who are looking at it solely as a religious ceremony).

A fair criticism would be "why would the government give a shit about which citizens are single or not", but... you know. They do, so you gotta accommodate that.

In Australia you are considered to be in a de facto relationship if you've been together as a couple for at least 2 years, and shorter if you have a kid together, and it comes with more or less the same kind of asset division on death/seperation that a married couple might be entitled to provided there's no will or anything like that. Although having a will and power of attorney organised should be something everyone should get sorted, regardless of whether they're in a relationship or single.

I remember something about if you spend 3+ nights under the same roof you are considered a de facto couple.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constance-wu-attempted-suicide-after-fresh-off-the-boat-tweet-backlash.607740/page-3#post-90006501
Planetsmasher

Honestly the way I get treated on here sometimes makes me want to just curl up in the tub and pass out. People really have absolutely no cognizance of the way their words can be interpreted by the receiver. Like you can disagree with someone without going straight for personal attacks, and that shit adds up when it's coming from a dozen or a hundred voices all at once. Dogpiling is fucking terrible for mental health.

I’m gonna be super real with you. It’s not just one thing that you do at times. You constantly have the same exact response to the same things over and over again and there is a cycle of people that know exactly what you will say and others who are unknowingly enabling the same conversation you have at least on the gaming side.

You have two sides to your self there is a great person there and you can be very insightful and warm but There are times where people can and will get upset since you have had the same exact takes on certain things over and over again to where the dog piling can happen.

I hope you do take some self reflection because honestly you aren’t a bad person, you seem pretty decent but sometimes you do have to look in the mirror and ask why does something keep happening and it’s various people at different times saying the same thing.

And many times I do not agree with the dog piling you can get at times. But I see the cycle.

So many words to say, "You're a cunt, have you tried to stop being a cunt?"

[Potato]

Ivana Trump Dead at 73

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ivana-trump-dead-at-73.607731/

 

B-Dumbs

Shit, I had a really good joke for this but turns out it was about Marla Maples.

Another sexist joke I bet.

Slayven KNOWS exactly what Bdumbs really wants to say. He ain't slick...

[bork]

Ivana Trump Dead at 73

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ivana-trump-dead-at-73.607731/

 

B-Dumbs

Shit, I had a really good joke for this but turns out it was about Marla Maples.

Another sexist joke I bet.

As always:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/general-guide-to-resetera.9777/#post-21141033

Obituary Threads

We generally do not welcome celebration or cheering the death of public figures. Members that appear to be using an obituary thread solely to post about how glad they are that person is dead may be moderated. This does not preclude sober criticism of a person's legacy or mistakes in life. We simply do not want to celebrate death. Context will matter, and some individuals have done things so heinous that rare exceptions may need to be made.

Someone needs to report B-Dubs 

[benjipwns]

Already four pages for the ex-wife (since 1992) of a guy they all hate and wish would go away?

[Propagandhim]

As someone who hasn't yet read the posts on this page yet, I will say this: A hit dog hollers.

[Transhuman]

Marriage is a sham, but not because they sometimes end. People who have faith their relationship will last don't get the government involved. If you think your partner actually loves you you'd make it as legally easy as possible for them to leave you, hoping that they won't. If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

In fairness, the fact the government draws distinctions between married / not married in mundane aspects of citizenship like tax codes, power of attorney, inheritance etc means there are tangible reasons to declare yourself legally married (and the reason why gay marriage is important from a civics perspective, its not just to piss off religious folks who are looking at it solely as a religious ceremony).

A fair criticism would be "why would the government give a shit about which citizens are single or not", but... you know. They do, so you gotta accommodate that.

In Australia you are considered to be in a de facto relationship if you've been together as a couple for at least 2 years, and shorter if you have a kid together, and it comes with more or less the same kind of asset division on death/seperation that a married couple might be entitled to provided there's no will or anything like that. Although having a will and power of attorney organised should be something everyone should get sorted, regardless of whether they're in a relationship or single.

I remember something about if you spend 3+ nights under the same roof you are considered a de facto couple.

Maybe it's 3+ nights per week for 2 years or something? Definitely not 3 nights

[Uncle]

if it was 3 nights there would be an entire genre of wacky comedy movies 


"a hole in my apartment wall was large enough for the courts to consider me living in the same dwelling as my neighbor and now she has two husbands!" 


"I wanted to collect the ransom money for you, not marry you!"   

[Potato]

Marriage is a sham, but not because they sometimes end. People who have faith their relationship will last don't get the government involved. If you think your partner actually loves you you'd make it as legally easy as possible for them to leave you, hoping that they won't. If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

In fairness, the fact the government draws distinctions between married / not married in mundane aspects of citizenship like tax codes, power of attorney, inheritance etc means there are tangible reasons to declare yourself legally married (and the reason why gay marriage is important from a civics perspective, its not just to piss off religious folks who are looking at it solely as a religious ceremony).

A fair criticism would be "why would the government give a shit about which citizens are single or not", but... you know. They do, so you gotta accommodate that.

In Australia you are considered to be in a de facto relationship if you've been together as a couple for at least 2 years, and shorter if you have a kid together, and it comes with more or less the same kind of asset division on death/seperation that a married couple might be entitled to provided there's no will or anything like that. Although having a will and power of attorney organised should be something everyone should get sorted, regardless of whether they're in a relationship or single.

I remember something about if you spend 3+ nights under the same roof you are considered a de facto couple.

Maybe it's 3+ nights per week for 2 years or something? Definitely not 3 nights

Yeah, there is definitely a "for X years" involved.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I'm curious, do people with CCTV have an obligation to hand it over to the police for evidence if requested? Is this just an extension of that?

Cops have knocked & asked me for my camera's footage before and I just said it doesn't work. Not much they can do if you say that. Well, unless you have a Ring camera lol

Fuck off, piggy. Do it the ol ' fashioned way. Look at ya!

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

How is this different than your cell carrier giving all your text or call logs to the government after a warrant is produced?

Because a warrant isn't being produced? It's a bit different when an actual legal warrant, signed off on by a judge and served to amazon, is then followed as required by law and amazon just deciding when and what to share based on their own opinions on what's happening and the police asking them directly.

Most carriers will follow the same policy like ATT. If they feel compelled by law enforcement they will still release your logs without a warrant.

They shouldn’t. Compelled is also doing a lot of heavy lifting when they are simply asking for it and receiving it.

Ring has said before it will not share customer information with police without consent, a warrant or due to "an exigent or emergency" circumstance.

Ring says it will only "respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information in cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person."

[HaughtyFrank]

I'm curious, do people with CCTV have an obligation to hand it over to the police for evidence if requested? Is this just an extension of that?

Cops have knocked & asked me for my camera's footage before and I just said it doesn't work. Not much they can do if you say that. Well, unless you have a Ring camera lol

Fuck off, piggy. Do it the ol ' fashioned way. Look at ya!

Does he even know what they were looking for?

"Fuck off pig, try finding that missing girl the old fashioned way!"

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

It was probably just some young scamps raising a little chaos with a traffic cone, nbd

[Snoopycat_]

Planetsmasher’s been studying the prominent’s guidebook

I just need to know that I'm not the only person who has literally nothing to look forward to anymore.

Chapter 5. How to handle criticism from civilians.

You are prominent. You are special. You are popular. 90 posts a day is an achievement you can be proud of.

However, as much as we can do to protect you sometimes bad actors get through the net. It’s rare, but it can happen.

Here are some situations to be aware of -

1. You posted a thoughtful, well reasoned criticism of a game and some civilian has accused you of being a whiny bitch. Now the other ingrates are mocking you. What to do? Easy. Abandon the thread. Wait for 12 hours then make another thread about how terrible everything is and show all those h8rs how totally not butthurt you are.

2. You made a humorous, uplifting post about your dad’s Chinese meal. Someone accused you of racism. Oh no. What should you do? Simple. Wait for 9 hours then make a thread about feeling blue because people don’t appreciate your humour. Be sure to pepper it with amusing anecdotes of your horrifying life.

3. You notice the plebs are discussing a comedian they like. This is it. 25 years in the game. It’s your time to shine! But oh no, 40 posts later and no one has quoted your witty insights. You used all the popular phrases like national treasure and yass king, but somehow the riff raff haven’t responded with their usual cap doffing sycophancy. What do? Simple. Wait 14 hours then make a totally unrelated thread about your 40 years of stand up night class. Be sure to include 94 reasons why you are actually funnier than every major comedian. Highlight these with hilarious tales of your horrifying existence.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-else-having-trouble-seeing-a-future-for-this-hobby.607914/

[Propagandhim]

I'm just extremely unhappy at the moment and having your main hobby basically do an about-face and walk straight away from you when you need something to drag you out of the pit is really extra painful.

Look man, video games aren't going to drag you out of a depressive pit.  They're an amusing distraction, but...

Oh, it's definitely part of it. My D&D campaign fell apart because everybody's having babies and can't find the time to play anymore, most of my non-D&D friends also have kids now so I never see them, I was in the hospital and had a near-death scare barely a week and a half ago, I can barely leave my house because it's impossible to buy a car in the modern economy, which makes it impossible to meet new people, just contributing to this Moebius strip of being stuck in traction for days at a time with no way to climb out of the pit.

Being in your late thirties fucking sucks. I just barely even want to be awake most of the time.

That's what I'm trying to say, man!  You're so close to recognizing that you're lacking some compelling meaning in your life when you see your friends with kids.  It's not the videoga...

Serious question: doesn't it take like six to eight months for a Steam Deck order to fulfill? I looked into it a couple months ago and it was like "estimated shipping date: December 2022". Has that calmed down lately? Is it actually possible to order one and get it within a reasonable amount of time?

NO STOP

[Uncle]

being fair, plenty of people have kids for the sake of manufacturing some meaning and it can be just as much an attempt to fill a void that could be filled with other things

then they realize kids are a ton of work and they aren't willing to put in that work but it's the one commitment you can't walk away from, and they end up dead tired and resentful and stressed 24/7