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[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-declares-highest-alert-over-monkeypox.611097/page-4#post-90558771

Fuck the WHO I'm getting laid this weekend.

Congrats on the monkeypox!

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-brooklyn-clergyman-is-robbed-while-delivering-sunday-sermon.612012/

I never want to hear the phrase ‘victim blaming’ from those droopy dreary dredges again.

Although, if you're delivering "sermons" about faith, hope and charity while wearing $1 million in jewellery, then you're not really the real victim, are you?

I mean, it looks to me like an insurance job by a swindler. We’re allowed to say that because we’re not dogmatic ree posters.

Not sure if it's worse that I didn't pick up that it was weird for a "bishop" to be wearing $1 million worth of jewellery and that it could be an insurance scam or that I just figured these preachers in the US are so corrupted that it's not unusual for one to be wearing $1 million in jewellery while preaching.

[HaughtyFrank]

Y'all... Xenoblade 2 is literally a "what if your slave master was a nice person" plot.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/post-90497661

User banned (3 weeks): inappropriate comparisons, please stop comparing everything to slavery and the struggle of black people in America

[Taco Bell Tower]

 
NepNep banned Dice, didn't she?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Y'all... Xenoblade 2 is literally a "what if your slave master was a nice person" plot.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/post-90497661

User banned (3 weeks): inappropriate comparisons, please stop comparing everything to slavery and the struggle of black people in America

I don't see where they did that? As hard as Nepenthe may find it to believe, not everything is about her, and slavery existed for more than Black Americans.

[Transhuman]

I'll be honest guys I was trying to summon transhuman with that one.

Use a picture of Michelle Jenneke next time

[Uncle]

Uh, pretty sure that people, especially whites, don't change their bigoted views, why are we giving Sterling a pass for being a far-right Nazi? (Especially since they've never been recanted, apologized for and whatever else that list of requirements Nepenthe made for forgiveness was.)

https://twitter.com/GamesNosh/status/1366182984261500928

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-brooklyn-clergyman-is-robbed-while-delivering-sunday-sermon.612012/

I don't agree with the robbery, but I do agree the fact a supposed man of the church somehow has more than $1mill of Jewelry is a little hypocritical.

What a truly enlightened stance.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-brooklyn-clergyman-is-robbed-while-delivering-sunday-sermon.612012/

I never want to hear the phrase ‘victim blaming’ from those droopy dreary dredges again.

I don't know why so many people are invoking robin hood in that thread.
Those words don't mean a robbery in the hood.
They also don't mean stealing from someone richer than you are, which is uhhhhhhh most fucking professional robbery.

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/former-japanese-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-shot-in-the-back-in-nara-city-suspect-arrested-up-abe-confirmed-dead-see-staff-post.605334/post-89708277

2 weeks on and the staff of resetera.com still not sure where they stand on "advocating murder".

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

For the life of me I don't understand what you are actually in favor of doing. And by that I mean right now. What price are you willing to pay today to support your cause?

I don't think you understand. I'm not telling anyone to not make personable actions that address their individual contributions to environmental pollution. I'm telling them that this is not enough on its own, even if millions of people do things like eat less beef or use paper straws, to reverse climate change because climate change is not being driven primarily by individual actions of the poor and middle classes. It's being driven, and sometimes accelerated, by the existence of capitalism and neocolonialism, by the upper classes' desire to strip this planet for all it's worth simply because it affords them power, and thus the actual solution to climate change is inherently to dismantle capitalism and neocolonialism.

Small actions in doing this are things like working for a union or unionizing a workplace, volunteering for mutual aid projects in your community, fighting against gentrification and other methods of neocolonial occupation of Black and Indigenous lands, and protesting state actions that bolster the inverse. Large actions that are outside of the scope of individual or small groups' ability include the establishment of workable supply chains to vulnerable communities in the North and South, advances in sustainable energy grids that meets these communities' needs to stave of the need for coal and gas, investment in these communities' ability to maintain economies that are locally owned and more vertically integrated inside their borders so that they are making money off of their resources and labor for themselves and not some assholes in America, Europe, or China, deliberate attempts to hamper efforts by natural gas and coal companies to destroy these lands, and other ways to ultimately return autonomy of the land to the peoples we stole it from in the first place.

So, to clarify, the personal actions you are taking to prevent climate disaster are *fuck all*, other than stringing "environomentalism" onto the bow of attending the cult you're already a member of.

Also fact check please on millions of individuals performing an action to improve a situation not counting as "collective action" because they're, what, not paying a fee to scammer-in-chief and signing up to a manifesto?

I'm pretty sure there's more, but I don't have all the answers. I'm not a Magical Negro. I'm just one person who is pointing to the 5 alarm problem and asking for a collective effort to reach the obvious solution to that problem, instead of wasting time arguing over whose footprint is smallest.

no fucking shit

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-6th-committee-public-hearings.590625/page-89#post-90393516

User banned (3 months): Transphobia

Kinda looks like he is transitioning, similar to Jenner.

User got banned because of other people's insults.


That's fantastic.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hulu-blocks-ads-on-abortion-guns-and-climate-change.612105/

Abortion rights, gun control, and climate change have taken center stage for Democrats running in this year’s midterm elections. But the popular streaming service Hulu has repeatedly rejected Democratic ads focusing on these central campaign issues over the last few weeks, as first reported by The Washington Post on Monday.

Deplatforming works?

[nobody of note]

Era does, apparently, still have rules about grave-dancing.

Martha Stewart's peacocks get torn up by coyotes. This is deemed newsworthy, reported as news, and someone makes a thread.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tragedy-beyond-words-martha-stewarts-peacocks-are-dead.612081/

Responses, at first, are pretty joking:

"The coyotes came in broad daylight and devoured him and five others including the magnificent White Boy," she wrote in the caption of her post.

The end of White Boy's summer. RIP.

she looks like she needs a blunt. time to call up snoop

First the Choco Taco, now this.

SMH

But, as this is not a designated Official Fun Thread, the jocular nature is called out and discussed, including a plea for empathy with the billionaire:

Hmm. This is not a funny thread. RIP those peacocks. No knock on the OP, thank you for making me aware of this, but some of these replies are fucked.

Seriously, imagine if they were her cats or something.

Same result really. Its Coyote's doing what they do. I'm not going to be upset at nature doing its thing.

You can both understand the coyotes simply wanted a meal which is nature running its course, and empathize with a woman that lost six of her beloved companions in a brutal fashion.

It's not that hard. This thread is a bit mean-spirited and not in good taste imo.

Okay, but then don't come here and cry when your pet dies.

How about some sympathy for a woman who just lost six of her pets?

Why are people mocking someone who just lost 6 of their pets?

She's rich

So? Who cares if she is rich or not? Do rich people not feel sad when their pets are killed?

And then:

Thread is locked

Let it never be said Era can't draw the line--you maybe be able to grave-dance the owner, but no joking about the circumstances of the pet death.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hulu-blocks-ads-on-abortion-guns-and-climate-change.612105/

Abortion rights, gun control, and climate change have taken center stage for Democrats running in this year’s midterm elections. But the popular streaming service Hulu has repeatedly rejected Democratic ads focusing on these central campaign issues over the last few weeks, as first reported by The Washington Post on Monday.

Deplatforming works?

without knowing the actual content of the ads, this is pretty much a non-story isn't it?
It's not the Democratic party who made (or even endorsed) these ads, its a PAC and - outsider looking in - they're the ones who do the really shitty character assassination and outright lies style US political ads (yes, on both sides)

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Lest we forget Trump bombed a random Iranian General for shits and giggles.

Qassem Solimani was a national hero, not necessarily a random general. It's like somebody bombing McCain if he were still serving in the military.

Jumping in to defend the honour of Qasem Soleimani as a national hero...

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hulu-blocks-ads-on-abortion-guns-and-climate-change.612105/#post-90571323

Been meaning to cancel my Hulu subscription since I rarely use it. Guess now is a good time to cancel.

 

[Uncle]

hulu already did the math on this and determined that running the ads would maintain Barrin's subscription for a few more months, but on the other hand would lose them 12,055 conservative subs

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hulu-blocks-ads-on-abortion-guns-and-climate-change.612105/#post-90571323

Been meaning to cancel my Hulu subscription since I rarely use it. Guess now is a good time to cancel.

 

Time to cancel my sub again.

[HaughtyFrank]

Canceling your sub 

Upgrading to ad free tier 

[Tasty]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hulu-blocks-ads-on-abortion-guns-and-climate-change.612105/#post-90571323

Been meaning to cancel my Hulu subscription since I rarely use it. Guess now is a good time to cancel.

 

Time to cancel my sub again.

Yeah cause Hulu has shit all to watch and you ran out

[Joe Molotov]

Resubbing for a month so I can cancel twice!

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-leadership-candidate-rishi-sunak-pushes-sinophobia-as-part-of-leadership-campaign.612150/

Yeah, let’s bat for the CCP, yet again.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-leadership-candidate-rishi-sunak-pushes-sinophobia-as-part-of-leadership-campaign.612150/

Yeah, let’s bat for the CCP, yet again.

Apparently the confucius institutes are situated on uni campusses and partially funded by the CCCP.

So he's not wrong there.

Cybersecurity has been an issue for a while.

Framing it as "China" and not the CCCP is wrong, but western countries should be carefull when they are playing into hands of a regime that practices genocide.

Instead of calling out the CCP directly (which I guess is because they're too chickenshit to do it) they generalize it as China and implicitly (or explicitly, I give them no benefit of the doubt) promote more phobic attitudes. Like, if the CCP is such a threat then the first step should be calling their administration out by name. Don't hide behind an entire country.

Still weird to me that saying "china" is so frowned upon while we do this constantly with every other country. For example, does anyone on RE even know what Putin's party is called?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-leadership-candidate-rishi-sunak-pushes-sinophobia-as-part-of-leadership-campaign.612150/

Yeah, let’s bat for the CCP, yet again.

Apparently the confucius institutes are situated on uni campusses and partially funded by the CCCP.

So he's not wrong there.

Cybersecurity has been an issue for a while.

Framing it as "China" and not the CCCP is wrong, but western countries should be carefull when they are playing into hands of a regime that practices genocide.

Instead of calling out the CCP directly (which I guess is because they're too chickenshit to do it) they generalize it as China and implicitly (or explicitly, I give them no benefit of the doubt) promote more phobic attitudes. Like, if the CCP is such a threat then the first step should be calling their administration out by name. Don't hide behind an entire country.

Still weird to me that saying "china" is so frowned upon while we do this constantly with every other country. For example, does anyone on RE even know what Putin's party is called?

GOP.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-leadership-candidate-rishi-sunak-pushes-sinophobia-as-part-of-leadership-campaign.612150/

Yeah, let’s bat for the CCP, yet again.

Apparently the confucius institutes are situated on uni campusses and partially funded by the CCCP.

So he's not wrong there.

Cybersecurity has been an issue for a while.

Framing it as "China" and not the CCCP is wrong, but western countries should be carefull when they are playing into hands of a regime that practices genocide.

Instead of calling out the CCP directly (which I guess is because they're too chickenshit to do it) they generalize it as China and implicitly (or explicitly, I give them no benefit of the doubt) promote more phobic attitudes. Like, if the CCP is such a threat then the first step should be calling their administration out by name. Don't hide behind an entire country.

Still weird to me that saying "china" is so frowned upon while we do this constantly with every other country. For example, does anyone on RE even know what Putin's party is called?

GOP.

 

he said it
he did tha damn ting

[Propagandhim]

Racism and bigotry are a function of the power dynamic.  At some point, China, whom everyone knows has an adversarial position to the West's interests and are leveraging their talent to outcompete us with huge resources of money and human ingenuity, are going to pull ahead as a superpower.  But not yet.  No doubt, a fraction of Chinese talent comes to the West to educate themselves on student visas, only to come home and bring that knowledge to their country's advantage - a phenomenon that doesn't happen in the opposite direction.  A smaller percentage have subverted security to bring clandestine knowledge home, too.  My only goal is to make sure the CCP understands that tipping the bigotry scales in the wrong direction by accumulating too much power in The Dynamic would be serious business for their claims to the global order, so doing that stuff is a big no no.  And when that happens, ya boi is gonna call all that shit out.    Once they become the defacto world power, they've got some esplainin' to do, racist bitches.  They will have to capitulate to our demands to stop editing our beautiful disney movies, to release The Wiggers from enslavement, and most importantly to stop calling them "The wiggers".   I'm gonna go full HasanAbi baby - angry ass youtube videos with jumpcuts up the pussy.  They're gonna be like "Nooooo dooont".   I don't know how to accuse non-white people of being racists yet,  YET,  but it's gonna happen if these cheesebags don't stop accumulating power.  For now, I have no choice but to call out the blatant Sinophobia because of The Dynamic.  But just you wait, China!!

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-leadership-candidate-rishi-sunak-pushes-sinophobia-as-part-of-leadership-campaign.612150/

Yeah, let’s bat for the CCP, yet again.

Apparently the confucius institutes are situated on uni campusses and partially funded by the CCCP.

So he's not wrong there.

Cybersecurity has been an issue for a while.

Framing it as "China" and not the CCCP is wrong, but western countries should be carefull when they are playing into hands of a regime that practices genocide.

Instead of calling out the CCP directly (which I guess is because they're too chickenshit to do it) they generalize it as China and implicitly (or explicitly, I give them no benefit of the doubt) promote more phobic attitudes. Like, if the CCP is such a threat then the first step should be calling their administration out by name. Don't hide behind an entire country.

Still weird to me that saying "china" is so frowned upon while we do this constantly with every other country. For example, does anyone on RE even know what Putin's party is called?

it's incredibly common to see people saying fuck the US as a whole and not specifically saying the GOP, or specific practices/policies etc.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/u-s-rep-glenn-thompson-r-pa-toasts-his-gay-sons-wedding-three-days-after-voting-against-the-respect-for-marriage-act.612180/#post-90580728

He was invited to his sons wedding? I would immediately cut this scumbag out of my life.

His son could possibly be one of those Log Cabin republicans. In the same way you got black people and self-proclaimed feminists who will still align with Republicans because they ultimately value their personal wealth over everyone else.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bayonetta-creator-hideki-kamiya-says-nintendo-never-asked-to-make-the-series-less-risqu%C3%A9.611655/page-2#post-90531492

Tragically true. Anyone expecting Nintendo to fix Bayonetta was always going to be disappointing because this was the Platinum franchise, of all their possible franchises, they chose to shepherd. It's salted earth at this point.

Fix" lmfao. Just say you're insecure about the sexual tone of the game.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bayonetta-creator-hideki-kamiya-says-nintendo-never-asked-to-make-the-series-less-risqu%C3%A9.611655/page-2#post-90534732

"Fix" lmfao. Just say you're insecure about the sexual tone of the game.

I don't know about the other user, but I HATE hypersexualization in any media. For me, it is a cancer that should all be fixed. But, yeah, I know that in the product I like it is not to please a teenager at the height of her hormones, it is for the "empowerment" and "for her own enjoyment" of a digitally created character.

Yep, glad you agree that it's empowering and that your post totally isnt a thinly veiled insult to the games and the people who enjoy them

Totally empowering. The purest feminist art in history.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bayonetta-creator-hideki-kamiya-says-nintendo-never-asked-to-make-the-series-less-risqu%C3%A9.611655/page-2#post-90535578

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissive Antagonistic Behaviour over a Series of Posts; History of the Same

Stay mad lol. No sexuality in my media!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xenoblade-chronicles-3-spoiler-thread-open-spoilers.610998/page-8#post-90486417

User Banned (1 Month): Xenophobic Generalization

Y'know, I'm really glad I'm not into japanese and anime stuff when I see shit like this lmao

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xenoblade-chronicles-3-spoiler-thread-open-spoilers.610998/page-8#post-90486417

User Banned (1 Month): Xenophobic Generalization

Y'know, I'm really glad I'm not into japanese and anime stuff when I see shit like this lmao

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fanaticals-newest-killer-bundle-includes-a-kyle-rittenhouse-game-update-game-removed-bundle-updated.612165/page-2#post-90580053
https://twitter.com/Fanatical/status/1551957321575710720

Fuck 100% off with this excuse jesus

There's a few in that thread that never heard of Kyle Rittenhouse and they're from the UK.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Cant believe that the first potential British PoC PM is a racist shithead.

You mean you can't determine the quality of someones character by the colour of their skin?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fanaticals-newest-killer-bundle-includes-a-kyle-rittenhouse-game-update-game-removed-bundle-updated.612165/page-2#post-90580053

Reported. Shame on Valve to allow this game on Steam.

steam have made it abundantly clear they have no interst as a storefront having editorial control over what people make, so who the fuck are you 'reporting' to?

[HaughtyFrank]

Cant believe that the first potential British PoC PM is a racist shithead.

You mean you can't determine the quality of someones character by the colour of their skin?

I mean I doubt they would have known regardless of where they are from. Just glancing at the box art I wouldn't have known. Who would willingly include something that's going to make themselves look that bad on purpose.
Reported on steam. That's who people should really be mad at.

You would think they would do the minimum level of scrutiny on games they are putting in their bundle. The art definitely raises red flags and the description even more so. There is no way these people are THAT ignorant of current world affairs.

And I was also here for the transphobic CDPR tweets and all the excuses people were making here about how "they aren't a western country and might be ignorant of transphobic memes" and claiming ignorance for stuff like this which is meant for an international audience is just bullshit

I always love the "for an international audience" because it always just means "for an american audience"

edit:

Apologies should end with a promise to do better in the future. Ain't seeing that.

What a self righteous little piece of shit

[paprikastaude]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hulu-blocks-ads-on-abortion-guns-and-climate-change.612105/#post-90571323

Been meaning to cancel my Hulu subscription since I rarely use it. Guess now is a good time to cancel.

 

Time to cancel my sub again.

Yeah cause Hulu has shit all to watch and you ran out

late stage slacktivism

[VomKriege]

Era does, apparently, still have rules about grave-dancing.

Martha Stewart's peacocks get torn up by coyotes. This is deemed newsworthy, reported as news, and someone makes a thread.

Should never have trusted those good reviews for Party Wolves.

[Lonewulfeus]

Iirc isn't there a rumor a about a game based on the TV adaptation of Legion(FX) developed by a new AAA studio upstart.

I think Jerry Schreirer reported it

[ShutUp]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fanaticals-newest-killer-bundle-includes-a-kyle-rittenhouse-game-update-game-removed-bundle-updated.612165/page-2#post-90580053
https://twitter.com/Fanatical/status/1551957321575710720

Fuck 100% off with this excuse jesus

There's a few in that thread that never heard of Kyle Rittenhouse and they're from the UK.

Immediately removes the game, apologizes because they had zero clue who he was due to their location in the world until it was pointed out.

FUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKK OFFFFFFFF

So why should companies ever apologize again? Because had they stayed silent, it would’ve then been “they need to remove it and apologize” so….

[BisMarckie]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/congo-to-auction-land-to-oil-companies-%E2%80%98our-priority-is-not-to-save-the-planet%E2%80%99.611784/post-90582549

 

Nepenthe political theory.

Like, at that point I am right to be repulsed with the whole thing from top to bottom. Of course, capitalism inevitably produces things that are good, but again I don't consider this a unique feature of capitalism so much as it's just a feature of human beings. We produce shit even when it's not economically viable; like, my fanfiction isn't doing anything for my bank account.

If you are not for decolonization, which ultimately means the dissolution of systems like white supremacy and capitalism, then again, you are not really for solving the problem.

Love it, that other than buzzwords nepenthe has never posted anything constructive ever in her screeds. You don’t need to type 5000 word essays when it just boils down to capitalism bad. *



*unless you’re in academia

[BIONIC]

We produce shit even when it's not economically viable; like, my fanfiction isn't doing anything for my bank account.

Newsfeed plz

[Propagandhim]

 

[Potato]

We produce shit even when it's not economically viable; like, my fanfiction isn't doing anything for my bank account.

Newsfeed plz

Oh, but if she posted a link, it would do wonders for us!

[ShutUp]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i’m-a-vfx-artist-and-i’m-tired-of-getting-‘pixel-f–ked’-by-marvel.612351/

Three pages in and the usuals are nowhere to be seen. Then you look at all the stuff announced for the next few years. Maybe they’ll think about this article before getting all excited.


LOL who am I kidding. KANG IS COMING BAYBAY

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-brooklyn-clergyman-is-robbed-while-delivering-sunday-sermon.612012/

I never want to hear the phrase ‘victim blaming’ from those droopy dreary dredges again.

I don't know why so many people are invoking robin hood in that thread.
Those words don't mean a robbery in the hood.
They also don't mean stealing from someone richer than you are, which is uhhhhhhh most fucking professional robbery.

Mandatory reminder that Robin Hood was "stealing" from the state (and corrupt Sheriff) and returning the funds to the taxpayers.

[benjipwns]

Like, if the CCP is such a threat then the first step should be calling their administration out by name. Don't hide behind an entire country.

Lots to unpack here. What the CCP really fears is somebody saying "CCP bad"? Also, it's a totalitarian single-party state, the CCP is completely synonymous with the state.

[benjipwns]

For the life of me I don't understand what you are actually in favor of doing. And by that I mean right now. What price are you willing to pay today to support your cause?

I don't think you understand. I'm not telling anyone to not make personable actions that address their individual contributions to environmental pollution. I'm telling them that this is not enough on its own, even if millions of people do things like eat less beef or use paper straws, to reverse climate change because climate change is not being driven primarily by individual actions of the poor and middle classes. It's being driven, and sometimes accelerated, by the existence of capitalism and neocolonialism, by the upper classes' desire to strip this planet for all it's worth simply because it affords them power, and thus the actual solution to climate change is inherently to dismantle capitalism and neocolonialism.

So, to clarify, the personal actions you are taking to prevent climate disaster are *fuck all*, other than stringing "environomentalism" onto the bow of attending the cult you're already a member of.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/congo-to-auction-land-to-oil-companies-%E2%80%98our-priority-is-not-to-save-the-planet%E2%80%99.611784/post-90582549

 

Nepenthe political theory.

Like, at that point I am right to be repulsed with the whole thing from top to bottom. Of course, capitalism inevitably produces things that are good, but again I don't consider this a unique feature of capitalism so much as it's just a feature of human beings. We produce shit even when it's not economically viable; like, my fanfiction isn't doing anything for my bank account.

If you are not for decolonization, which ultimately means the dissolution of systems like white supremacy and capitalism, then again, you are not really for solving the problem.

Love it, that other than buzzwords nepenthe has never posted anything constructive ever in her screeds. You don’t need to type 5000 word essays when it just boils down to capitalism bad. *



*unless you’re in academia

I propose an alternative theory: Nepenthe is a climate change accelerationist who is trying to lure the other members of ResetERA.com into defeatism and nihilism so as to hopefully speed up the bringing about of the apocalypse she desires that will lead to the utopian Year Zero for Black people.

[Polident Hive]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i’m-a-vfx-artist-and-i’m-tired-of-getting-‘pixel-f–ked’-by-marvel.612351/

Three pages in and the usuals are nowhere to be seen. Then you look at all the stuff announced for the next few years. Maybe they’ll think about this article before getting all excited.


LOL who am I kidding. KANG IS COMING BAYBAY

They cry at their desks so we can cry in theaters when Forbush Man sacrifices himself to stop Big Wheel. The feels.

[VomKriege]

Can you imagine a thread on the gaming side about a systemic crunch issue at a particular studio being met with a poster saying 'Nah this isn't this studio's fault, so much as the fault of the industry at large'.

The corporate shilling on display here is embarrassing.

Says the biggest shill of them all just because it says marvel your pretending that it's the only on them but if it comes out avatar or any of your favourites than you'll ignore it and pretend that it doesn't happen.

[VomKriege]

Corridor digital should scoop up these peeps and keep them safe and protect their creative freedom.

"Corridor Digital / Number of employees : 9"

[VomKriege]

But a lot of this comes down the VFX houses. Like Marvel doesn't determine the amount of people who work on a project, and I would imagine this person knows that, but it doesn't come across that.

Clients don't and won't care how the sausage is made but
It's one of the biggest entertainment conglomerates around, they certainly know enough if only just to keep the order as cheap as possible. The proposed bids probably do specify man-hours, actually.

[benjipwns]

Is he saying Disney is powerless to do or even say anything about how their special effects are done?

top of the page sexy Disney special effects

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[ShutUp]

Weird how it’s an industry wide issue and yet we don’t really see talk about it as an industry wide issue until Marvel is being criticized. And some in that thread “oh it’s actually the VFX studios fault” 

Brain washing on a Jim Jones level. Terrifying.

[FUME5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-growing-a-beard-for-the-first-time.612468/

Also holy shit not having to shave as much saves me probably 40 minutes each day of shower prep time. More time to pleasure my lady before I gotta go to work which is nice.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-growing-a-beard-for-the-first-time.612468/post-90616242

BTW you know how when two women hang out their periods sync I heard when two men hang out their beards grow the same way is that true.

I choose to believe he is serious with this post.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Robin


Robbing

[benjipwns]

If you’ve felt uncomfortable about the rice paddy hats in Stray, you aren’t the only one. Stray lifts Asian aesthetics to evoke exoticism and danger, but it doesn’t engage with the history of the city it appropriates. This is especially problematic because its real-world setting carries painful historical baggage that can’t be reduced to neon signs and cramped apartments.

Thankfully, Stray meets the bare minimum of not racist language to describe the robots (even if its gratuitous use of the Japanese language in fictional Hong Kong is a bit eyebrow-raising). But the game’s rampant appropriation of Asian history and culture needs to be supported by care in design and implementation. Singapore-based Alexis Ong wrote an excellent Polygon article about Stray’s accuracy to Hong Kong, while others like Lam are less impressed by how the game portrayed the Walled City.

“The graffiti and signage is a huge question mark. Anything in English is clearly player facing but [in-game], who would those tags be for?” Lam told Kotaku. “It’s one thing if it’s robots passing messages to each other but some overlap each other instead of being written around each other. Which calls into question if said developers also understand graffiti culture and the etiquette. But also...Why deliberately make some robots wear rice hats? When there’s clearly no way to go outside or anywhere in game to farm?”

I’m sure that the developers weren’t gleefully rubbing their hands together when they decided not to implement any human characters. But Walled City 99 was yet another cyberpunk city in which people like me weren’t welcome. Not unless I was a robot in a conical hat. And that doesn’t sit well with me either. “Asian Robot” is a Hollywood troupe that frequently dehumanizes Asian people (Ex Machina, Cloud Atlas, The Matrix). There’s even a genre name for it: Techno-orientalism. In these works, Asia is expressed through “an aesthetic sensibility rather than by representing or centering actual Asian characters.” Stray falls squarely within this genre.

 

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bernardg
7/25/22 5:58pm

Yet this site name is Kotaku. If there is a sense of irony about “appropriation” being ignored here... *shrugged*

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[HardcoreRetro]

They should've called the robots "chinks" cause that's the sound they make when they walk around.

[HaughtyFrank]

Similarly to Si-fu these complaints seem shockingly weak. The graffiti culture isn't perfectly accurate? That's supposed to be a problem in a fictional sci-fi game? And the robots wearing rice hats is odd to the author but not that they wear any clothing at all? Could it perhaps be that they imitate the past civilisation? And then they apparently came up with that clever plan to not have any human characters at all, just so there wouldn't be any Asians in the game

[Potato]

The biggest mystery is how the fuck Kotaku still exists.