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[HardcoreRetro]

Rich billionaire...

Pouring one out for all the poor billionaires.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4-up-musk-exposes-that-twitter-censored-stolen-naked-pictures.649272/page-461#post-98252749

User banned (1 week): thread derail

Wrong decision by the mods to lock the other thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4-up-musk-exposes-that-twitter-censored-stolen-naked-pictures.649272/page-462#post-98254519

User banned (1 week): thread derail

A poor decision by Era mods? Well, I never!

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I saw one those righteous posts and knew he'd be getting dog piled by era.

lol

[Hap Shaughnessy]

at least 50% of the threads on this forum are fake.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/you-played-the-forspoken-demo-wrong-but-its-ok-its-not-your-fault.665404/page-2#post-98263384

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wapo-twitter-abruptly-suspends-more-than-half-a-dozen-journalists-from-cnn-the-new-york-times-the-washington-post-and-other-outlets.665428/

"Free speach." How do their heads not explode from cognitive dissonance?


https://www.resetera.com/threads/wapo-twitter-abruptly-suspends-more-than-half-a-dozen-journalists-from-cnn-the-new-york-times-the-washington-post-and-other-outlets.665428/page-2#post-98255479

Always desired praise no matter where from and lashed out at the slightest criticism. Where have we seen that before and when have these men proven to not be exactly the same?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wapo-twitter-abruptly-suspends-more-than-half-a-dozen-journalists-from-cnn-the-new-york-times-the-washington-post-and-other-outlets.665428/page-2#post-98255740

Eventually the most unhinged and prolific poster becomes a mod, and then it's just a matter of time before the whole place goes to shit.

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

If you say it could make money it could make money! 

[Taco Bell Tower]

Speaking of money
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vice-us-senator-asks-gabe-newell-why-steam-hosts-so-much-neo-nazi-content.665563/#post-98278363

Edit: NVM. It's era so i know this will be misinterpeted as me defending nazis.

Apparently someone made a post so bad it got deleted lol.

Edited: o nvm boy that post was something..

[Boredfrom]

It's a good question, since people been pointing it out for years. Remember "Hatred", the game created by Neo Nazis that Gabe personally apologized for removing? Pepperidge farm remembers

Nobody could confirm the developers were NeoNazis, you fuck. There is legit NeoNazi shit at steam, but that game was just Edgelord shit, you fucking dumbass.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Speaking of money
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vice-us-senator-asks-gabe-newell-why-steam-hosts-so-much-neo-nazi-content.665563/#post-98278363
Apparently someone made a post so bad it got deleted lol.

Edited: o nvm boy that post was something..

Google cache:

Hatred is a fun Postal like game. You fegs are fucking obsessed with politics and only see your ultra leftist beliefs as right. Get better

[Pissy F Benny]

Imagine sacrificing your burner to cape for fuckin Hatred

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4-up-musk-exposes-that-twitter-censored-stolen-naked-pictures.649272/page-461#post-98252749

User banned (1 week): thread derail

Wrong decision by the mods to lock the other thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4-up-musk-exposes-that-twitter-censored-stolen-naked-pictures.649272/page-462#post-98254519

User banned (1 week): thread derail

A poor decision by Era mods? Well, I never!

Meanwhile these remain unbanned

Also B-Dubs I implore you to unlock the other thread; this isn’t some “whacky thing Elon did” I think this is big enough to warrant its own thread.

B-Dubs strongly disagree with the decision to close the thread about the journalist purge.

Understand the policy but you should have let the thread stay open given the magnitude of the development.

Yup strongly agree with everyone B-Dubs . Don't ignore this.

Absolutely should've left the other thread open. Things get buried in this thread, and it's easy to forget about if you aren't actively following it. These developments are notable enough to warrant their own thread.

Please unlock the other thread.

Please unlock the other thread, this news absolutely needs it's own thread.

This is not "Twitter drama", it's open fascism.

But remember, all rules are applied equally and there is no favoritism or arbitrariness

[HaughtyFrank]

I kinda agree with riotous. I can only think of one reason why someone wants to amplify the current location of someone's private jet. Like, information on a jet's location has nothing to do with "the free marketplace of ideas." Doxxing almost always takes the form of disseminating and amplifying publicly available information. People are being intentionally obtuse just because they hate the dude being doxxed.

Lumping this in with doxxing someone’s address feels really disingenuous.  It’s not like people can swat his plane.  At worst people could meet him at the airport where there’s tons of security.  He’s making a big deal out of basically nothing.  Siding with riotous, yikes.

Musk is being a drama queen but at the same time I could totally see the same people who ridicule him for the jet thing to be instantly up in arms if you do the same thing with a leftist celebrity

[james]

I kinda agree with riotous. I can only think of one reason why someone wants to amplify the current location of someone's private jet.

Try and think a little harder.

The reason the account was created was because Musk was using his plane to get from one side of LA to another. It was to point out how hypocritical hes being with his save the world stuff.

The account also pointed out that living in LA and working in SF is not very good for the environment.

Same with Taylor Swift, although Swift responded calmly that its not actually her plane and it is used by other people who lease it so most flights arent hers

[Pissy F Benny]

Imagine sacrificing your burner to cape for fuckin Hatred

In fairness and off topic, but Hatred is an interesting bit of internet history of one of the successful (?) early culture war grifts. There was a mini moral panic on gaming sites about it, then it turned out to be some lame edgy garbage (shock).

[Boredfrom]

Speaking of money
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vice-us-senator-asks-gabe-newell-why-steam-hosts-so-much-neo-nazi-content.665563/#post-98278363
Apparently someone made a post so bad it got deleted lol.

Edited: o nvm boy that post was something..

Google cache:

Hatred is a fun Postal like game. You fegs are fucking obsessed with politics and only see your ultra leftist beliefs as right. Get better

Holy shit. 

What an idiot.

[PogiJones]

I kinda agree with riotous. I can only think of one reason why someone wants to amplify the current location of someone's private jet. Like, information on a jet's location has nothing to do with "the free marketplace of ideas." Doxxing almost always takes the form of disseminating and amplifying publicly available information. People are being intentionally obtuse just because they hate the dude being doxxed.

Lumping this in with doxxing someone’s address feels really disingenuous.  It’s not like people can swat his plane.  At worst people could meet him at the airport where there’s tons of security.  He’s making a big deal out of basically nothing.  Siding with riotous, yikes.

I agree it's much more mild. But then I just keep asking: why do people want to broadcast this info?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/forspoken-demo-out-now-on-ps5.662704/page-17#post-97928998

The graphics are really bad with awful contrast and the gameplay seems uninspired at best. Probably will pass and maybe get it for dirt cheap later next year

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-did-you-guys-think-of-the-forspoken-demo.663835/page-3#post-98274385

Really bad. I managed to play for 20 mins and deleted it. The game instantly went from day 1 buy to I’ll grab it for pennies/on PS Plus

It was a matter of time.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I kinda agree with riotous. I can only think of one reason why someone wants to amplify the current location of someone's private jet.

Try and think a little harder.

The reason the account was created was because Musk was using his plane to get from one side of LA to another. It was to point out how hypocritical hes being with his save the world stuff.

The account also pointed out that living in LA and working in SF is not very good for the environment.

Same with Taylor Swift, although Swift responded calmly that its not actually her plane and it is used by other people who lease it so most flights arent hers

If that's the point they wanted to make, they can do that by taking one minor little fucking step to show that data simply as miles travelled, or even just as CO2 generation without the actual, you know, the whole real time updating of his location aspect.

I also don't exactly think its a giant fucking breach of unspoken rules if you're a journo who actually thinks "guy realtime tracking elon musk banned from twitter" is an actual story to leave the story there, instead of the followup "Although hes now banned there, heres a link to his new site doing the exact same thing!" - I mean, come the fuck on.
Flying your private jet all over while preaching environmental responsibility is arguably news worthy as hypocrisy of a public figure, but you can do that without the whole 'realtime location data' aspect pretty fucking easily.

This shit is even stupider than changing your name to elon musk to 'prove' impersonation is gonna be a problem, then bitching about getting banned for impersonation.

e:
I mean, I'm not even gonna lie - the level of distinguished mentally-challenged and butthurt about twitter from 'journalists' is really souring me on my previous assumption many of these people were in fact intelligent and qualified enough to do their actual fucking jobs and not just act like ego maniacal bloggers

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Every industry under the sun is being forced to adapt to AI, machine learning or automation.

Why the fuck should I be playing a violin specifically for artists?

"This is bullshit" said painters when photography was invented.
"This is bullshit" said musicians when sampling and loops were invented.

We still have music and we still have painting.
We arguably have better music and visual art thanks to technology democratising the process. We inarguably have more.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tor-books-accidentally-uses-ai-art-for-upcoming-book-cover-releases-a-statement.665293/

this thread really highlights how bad eras take on AI assisted art tools are;


This picture is an AI generated stock photo.


This picture is an art creation made by a paid artist using a stock photo for reference, like a lot of professional artists fucking do.

Era are too fucking stupid to read the OP to parse this, and are talking like HAL / SKYNET done stole muh pickshures

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mr-beast-is-coming-to-fortnite-and-one-lucky-player-will-win-1-million-dollars-not-clickbait.664048/page-3#post-98092828

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissive Commentary; History of Dismissive Commentary

I only quoted this one but there were others and I like how the ban messages aren't even saying what the dismissive commentary is about anymore. I guess they're going to start banning dismissive commentary of any kind? (haha jk they'd never ban the protected members dismissive commentary)

[HaughtyFrank]

Imagine if they used AI for pharmaceuticals. They'd shut that shit down in a heartbeat.

 

(spoiler: They use AI to help develop pharmaceuticals)

[benjipwns]

He really is following the Nazi playbook.

His “my son was attacked in the car by a deranged leftist” claim is the equivalent of Communists being blamed for the Reichstag fire.

He’s now passed his version of the Enabling Act by putting himself above the laws/values he swore to protect.

Now the Night of Long Knives is underway.

If the trend continues, more propaganda and silencing of dissent is on the way, followed by pogroms and targeting of minority groups,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let’s-keep-it-here-parody-🔵-official-ꕤ-up-musk-exposes-that-twitter-censored-stolen-naked-pictures.649272/page-462#post-98254675

But everyone thinks a Communist probably did start the Reichstag fire though.

And "his version of the Enabling Act" was slightly rewording a years old Twitter rule that's always been enforced this way?

Also, saying this is "the Night of the Long Knives" implies that all the people getting banned are also Nazis since that was, you know, a purge of the SA to eliminate rival power centers to Hitler.

[james]

If that's the point they wanted to make, they can do that by taking one minor little fucking step to show that data simply as miles travelled, or even just as CO2 generation without the actual, you know, the whole real time updating of his location aspect.

That doesn't point out the hypocrisy of taking the plane literally from one side of LA to another which is what i my recollection prompted the account.

Also, you proposal makes more work for the kid. And hes doing now is getting the origin and destination from the automated FAA service and retweeting it. Its like 30 seconds of effort, versus the whole 2 minutes it would take to calculate emissions.



And lets think logically for a second. This information has always been public. Meanwhile, there have been hated billionaires with private jets much longer than Musk. The Koch Bros. Shelden Vegas Casino guy. Trump. In fact articles are frequently written about who is attending summits or conferences based on that info.

Example:

We brought an antenna to Davos to track private air travel, and here’s what we found

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting here attracts a high-flying set of attendees. This year, Quartz endeavored to discover just how high-flying these Davos men and women are by tracking private helicopter travel in and out of the Alpine town during the conference.

To do that, we built an antenna and installed it at our apartment in Davos from Jan. 19, the day before the event officially began, to its conclusion on Jan. 23. The device captured more than 2 million transmissions, most of them from commercial airliners flying overhead.

https://qz.com/600590/we-brought-an-antenna-to-davos-to-track-private-air-travel-and-heres-what-we-found

Or celebrities like Bieber or Swift that have crazy stalker fans.

Heres an article that even has the floor plan and interior pictures of Swifts NYC apartment
https://hudsonvalleycountry.com/has-taylor-swift-been-working-in-the-hudson-valley-i-have-a-theory/

If these super rich and powerful people have never felt the need to ask their personal senate reps to change the law....

Then its clearly a nothing burger.

All Koch had to do was call up Cruz and be like "pop this one line into the new defense bill"

But the fact that they didnt do it shows it isnt an issue and never has been.

What did happen is little Musky got booed by 15k people and got his feelings hurt. Meanwhile, his entire twitter feed is about antifa and whatnot (he replied to the chung guy saying as such). So mix that in with all the pills hes clearly popping and the next thing you know hes ranting about "assassination coordinates"

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

That doesn't point out the hypocrisy of taking the plane literally from one side of LA to another which is what i my recollection prompted the account.

Also, you proposal makes more work for the kid. And hes doing now is getting the origin and destination from the automated FAA service and retweeting it. Its like 30 seconds of effort, versus the whole 2 minutes it would take to calculate emissions.

I assume he has a bot that scrapes for information and then posts to twitter, and the 'effort' involved would literally be just changing how the data is output.
Now, if he ever actually had an opportunity to do that before the rules kicked in (or lets be fair - were now applied in a way they previously have not been) is a different story, and probably does boil down to musks inherent evilore.

Let's put it another way;
If there was an AOC tracker reporting her real time position, some random masked twat accosted her and she claimed it was due to that same tracker, and that tracker account got suspended, would any of these journalists bawwwing about being suspended have a problem with that, because knowing where she is is all the time is newsworthy?
Would they be posting how that account is inactive but you can still get those updates on that accounts new Truth account and linking to it?
Would they be implying there are no crazies out there that might want to hurt her, and that probably didn't even happen and shes acting like a prima donna about it?

[benjipwns]

If these super rich and powerful people have never felt the need to ask their personal senate reps to change the law....

Then its clearly a nothing burger.

All Koch had to do was call up Cruz and be like "pop this one line into the new defense bill"

But the fact that they didnt do it shows it isnt an issue and never has been.

Or it shows that you can't make it illegal since it'd clearly violate the law to do this?

[benjipwns]

Imagine if they used AI for pharmaceuticals. They'd shut that shit down in a heartbeat.

 

(spoiler: They use AI to help develop pharmaceuticals)

"They'd clearly make this illegal" is one of my favorite genres. Especially from the ACAB progressive cohort who fall for every fake panic.

[PogiJones]

I kinda agree with riotous. I can only think of one reason why someone wants to amplify the current location of someone's private jet.

Try and think a little harder.

The reason the account was created was because Musk was using his plane to get from one side of LA to another. It was to point out how hypocritical hes being with his save the world stuff.

The account also pointed out that living in LA and working in SF is not very good for the environment.

Same with Taylor Swift, although Swift responded calmly that its not actually her plane and it is used by other people who lease it so most flights arent hers

Then what's the issue with the time delay requirement?

[james]

Now, if he ever actually had an opportunity to do that before the rules kicked in (or lets be fair - were now applied in a way they previously have not been) is a different story, and probably does boil down to musks inherent evilore.

He was banned, both the jet account and his personal account, and then LATER the TOS were updated to say it wasnt allowed. He was then unbanned, asked "how long of a delay is allowed" and was immediately banned again

If there was an AOC tracker reporting her real time position, some random masked twat accosted her and she claimed it was due to that same tracker, and that tracker account got suspended, would any of these journalists bawwwing about being suspended have a problem with that, because knowing where she is is all the time is newsworthy?
Would they be posting how that account is inactive but you can still get those updates on that accounts new Truth account and linking to it?
Would they be implying there are no crazies out there that might want to hurt her, and that probably didn't even happen and shes acting like a prima donna about it?

You mean like any of the dozens of accounts that track celebrities?

https://mobile.twitter.com/jbtraacker

https://mobile.twitter.com/jbtrackermedia/status/1603536127134162944

Like youre fully aware that there are newspapers who pay people to follow celebs around right?

Musk said everything that is legal is allowed.

Paparazzi might be 100% shitty, but guess what, its legal.

Then what's the issue with the time delay requirement?

There is already a 5 minute time delay built in by the FAA for security.

When the kid asked Elon directly how long of a delay was ok, he was banned again

The NYT reporter was banned for linking to an article recapping the event - aka everything had happened more than 24 hours previously.

[benjipwns]

He was banned, both the jet account and his personal account, and then LATER the TOS were updated to say it wasnt allowed.

I told you this in the other thread, the TOS wasn't changed to disallow this, Twitter has for years interpreted posting public information as violating their rule on posting "private information" and banned people for it.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

You mean like any of the dozens of accounts that track celebrities?

And if one of those celebs went "Hey twitter moderation team, I just got harrassed IRL by a dude who is stalking me using the information provided by this account, can you suspend that account for providing realtime updates to my location?" and they did, would people have a problem with that?

And if the answer is "Well, that depends on which celebrity it was" thats the same problem. 

Like youre fully aware that there are newspapers who pay people to follow celebs around right?

Musk said everything that is legal is allowed.

Paparazzi might be 100% shitty, but guess what, its legal.

Not sure where you're going with this, because its also legal for twitter to ban anyone at any time for any fucking reason they feel like

[james]

He was banned, both the jet account and his personal account, and then LATER the TOS were updated to say it wasnt allowed.

I told you this in the other thread, the TOS wasn't changed to disallow this, Twitter has for years interpreted posting public information as violating their rule on posting "private information" and banned people for it.

My apologies Benji, if I missed that and failed to call you an idiot previously.

Musk added this AFTER he banned elonjet
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1603149774026428416

As a reminder, this is what the ToS looked like upon transfer of Twitter.com from public ownership to Elon

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376

Not sure where you're going with this, because its also legal for twitter to ban anyone at any time for any fucking reason they feel like

I am a proud law and order free speech absolutist. While it is of course legal for twitter to ban anything they want, it goes against the public town square design of the space

[benjipwns]

My apologies Benji, if I missed that and failed to call you an idiot previously.

As a reminder, this is what the ToS looked like upon transfer of Twitter.com from public ownership to Elon

You know other people don't have to accept your lies right?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I am a proud law and order free speech absolutist. While it is of course legal for twitter to ban anything they want, it goes against the public town square design of the space

So you're saying instead of suspending those accounts he should have just made his own tracker accounts posting their real time location instead as a less controversial solution

[james]

So you're saying instead of suspending those accounts he should have just made his own tracker accounts posting their real time location instead as a less controversial solution

If they have private jets, sure?

Here, feel free to track me tomorrow:

https://www.flightstats.com/v2/flight-tracker/B6/4521

Now, Musk has the money and resources to pay paparazzi to follow the journalists and post their photos and locations, like the celeb trackers. I think it would have been interesting for him to do that.

I assume it would look like this

https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1603830349930401792

My apologies Benji, if I missed that and failed to call you an idiot previously.

As a reminder, this is what the ToS looked like upon transfer of Twitter.com from public ownership to Elon

You know other people don't have to accept your lies right?

You drunk Ben? Youve failed to provide any proof of anything recently. Were you long on TSLA?

[benjipwns]

You drunk Ben? Youve failed to provide any proof of anything recently. Were you long on TSLA?

What proof are you needing provided here? You yourself are the one who posted tweets (which the links still work from thanks to The Bire's high quality embedding system) that showed the TOS hasn't changed in this regard.

[Boredfrom]

 

[james]

You drunk Ben? Youve failed to provide any proof of anything recently. Were you long on TSLA?

What proof are you needing provided here? You yourself are the one who posted tweets (which the links still work from thanks to The Bire's high quality embedding system) that showed the TOS hasn't changed in this regard.

Is this a bit Ben?

Entire lines about live tracking were added post ban.

[james]

RE: "Real time doxxing"

https://twitter.com/nickmartin/status/1603723099806978048

[benjipwns]

Is this a bit Ben?

Entire lines about live tracking were added post ban.

You see all that other text on the pages right? The unchanged text that Twitter used for years to ban people for this "doxxing" right?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/famous-game-leaker-“the-snitch”-is-retiring.665638/

Leaker retires because sources got compromised, news at 11.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/famous-game-leaker-“the-snitch”-is-retiring.665638/

Leaker retires because sources got compromised, news at 11.

The forum that's the zeitgeist of the gaming community seems to be pretty upset at this guy who leaked stuff yet never posted there.

[Boredfrom]

Suddenly RE cares again for corpo marketing teams. 

[Nintex]

Weren't there lay-offs at IGN?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/avatar-the-way-of-water-reviews-thread.664363/page-21#post-98291785

User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing concerns of racism and cultural appropriation

Wtf is a blueface lol, it’s a movie about aliens you probably think that Ben 10 is racist too then

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biggest-free-standing-cylindrical-aquarium-bursts-in-berlin-hotel.665494/page-2#post-98299645

I feel really bad for the fish.

Not sure if I should feel bad or relieved for them.

I always get infintely sad when I see an aquarium with living fish in it. It must be one of the worst fates for a sentient being.

  

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-batman-ends-2022-being-one-of-its-best-reviewed-blockbuster-movies-and-a-bit-over-begins-currently-do-you-see-a-grand-future-for-the-franchise.665623/#post-98285524

I am so blessed I never saw Twilight and I knew Pattinson as that dude that gave a pretty good performance in Harry Potter lmao. (In the early days of his career).

My ex (Massive wanker, she as abusive) made me stay up till 3AM once to see the second for the third time and we went to the cinema to see the third a couple of times. My mum bought her the books for Christmas (She cheated on me and lesson learnt). I respect him a lot more learning he can actually act.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/avatar-the-way-of-water-reviews-thread.664363/page-21#post-98291785

User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing concerns of racism and cultural appropriation

Wtf is a blueface lol, it’s a movie about aliens you probably think that Ben 10 is racist too then

Get banned for having the same opinion as a mod. Royalan last month

How is Avatar culturally offensive? We’re talking about blue aliens. What specific culture is being referenced here?

This is the problem with referencing movies that are not only different but decades apart. You’re blending these films together to critique an idea.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/avatar-the-way-of-water-reviews-thread.664363/page-21#post-98291785

User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing concerns of racism and cultural appropriation

Wtf is a blueface lol, it’s a movie about aliens you probably think that Ben 10 is racist too then

Get banned for having the same opinion as a mod. Royalan last month

How is Avatar culturally offensive? We’re talking about blue aliens. What specific culture is being referenced here?

This is the problem with referencing movies that are not only different but decades apart. You’re blending these films together to critique an idea.

And yet they want us to believe three(!!!) other mods signed off on MillionIII's 1 month ban 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/forbes-staff-faze-clan-faces-‘substantial-doubt’-it-can-survive-—-five-months-after-going-public.665533/

Super interesting article, the only influencers that seem to be able to jump the main stream have been the Kardashians.

 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/avatar-the-way-of-water-reviews-thread.664363/page-21#post-98291785

User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing concerns of racism and cultural appropriation

Wtf is a blueface lol, it’s a movie about aliens you probably think that Ben 10 is racist too then

Get banned for having the same opinion as a mod. Royalan last month

How is Avatar culturally offensive? We’re talking about blue aliens. What specific culture is being referenced here?

This is the problem with referencing movies that are not only different but decades apart. You’re blending these films together to critique an idea.

Royalan's post probably came before the staff completed their research on the issue.

[joeboy101]

BTW, Mod Admiral, you need to get your crew working.

I don’t know why volunteering genocide of the poor and working class was even brought up, I guess was my point

"Volunteering genocide" is the sort of craven and hollow self serving virtue signaling that plagues this thread. Genocide has a fucking definition, and its a pretty meaningful and serious one too, for you to just be throwing it around because the monopoly man is playing chicken with the country.

You're the worst type of fucking liberal. You're a self serving wage slave with class anxiety

User banned (duration pending review): Hostility; extremely long history and lengthy bans for similar behavior

Nov 30, 2022

[Tektonic]

Was the stalker that Elon doxxed (and therefore Elon should under his own rules be banned but anyway) stalking X Musk whilst thebore.com forum was giving 502 errors?

AND if so, is it a possibility that the stalker could be a member of thebore.com forum?
AND if so, am I in my rights to be positively shaking right now?!!

also someone dared compare Henry Cavill's metoo comments with Gunn's rape joke and it was handwaved away. CANCEL CULTURE DOESN'T EXIST*

*if you make marvel movies

[Coax]

"This is bullshit" said painters when photography was invented.
"This is bullshit" said musicians when sampling and loops were invented.

We still have music and we still have painting.
We arguably have better music and visual art thanks to technology democratising the process. We inarguably have more.

Broadly yeah, tech in the past hasn't diminished the role of most involved. Though the scope of who were most affected was narrower in those cases I'd argue. Only certain types of musicians were competing with sequencers and sampled instruments. One example would be studio drummers for certain genres of music. Whereas writers, singers, rappers or well-established musicians all still had their roles. Such new inventions were only responsible for a facet of the whole process.

With artwork it was realist and portrait painters that were directly competing with photography. There has always been some role for portrait painters but realist painting definitely appeared to diminish and go out of vogue for the longest time. I think about some of the Russian photo-real realist painters in the 19th century. On the whole painting of course survived just fine.

AI has the capability of producing whole artwork in as many styles as its been trained with and is getting better each year. On the positive side it allows non-artists to experiment with ideas they'd previously have to pay for or learn, while also providing a faster way for some artists to iterate or incorporate it into their workflow. On the negative side, with more accurate AI models, it's directly competing for attention with many smaller freelance digital artists and we've seen develop a culture of users who think they're artists now merely by spending time thinking of just the right keywords and who will increasingly see less value in even cheaper artists.

A good chunk of NovelAI output is indistinguishable from real artists of similar styles and can create some complex illustrations. There's so much quantity that should posters drop anything to denote it's 'AI' I wonder how much it will drown out the visibility of real artists. It's no surprise ArtStation users are making a big deal about it since it's as much about preserving platforms for visibility of real talent as AI replacing anyone's role (how the site would police it though is anyone's guess if some incorporate it in workflows).

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-left-the-us-after-20-years-and-2-years-later-it-was-the-best-decision-i-ever-made-for-my-mental-health.665683/

Id love to live in Thailand for a few years

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Do you remember that thing Henry Cavill said and apologized for four years ago? ZeoVGM remembers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/henry-cavill-and-gal-gadot%E2%80%99s-cameos-removed-in-the-flash.665725/page-4#post-98302219

[BIONIC]

More ZeroVagine content:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/happy-5-year-anniversary-to-the-universally-beloved-star-wars-the-last-jedi.665296/page-6#post-98320171

A fascinating look at how important redrafting is. The script was like 80% first draft according to Rian's producer buddy, and you can tell by the way this movie just doesn't hang together at all with any critical view. The themes are less than half-baked, and the character writing is lazy and terrible. The worst and most lazy shorthand was cutting from Rey in the cave to Rey and Kylo having a fireside chat. What the fuck? How did that situation possibly arise, what words could possibly have been shared to have led to that scenario based on their previous interaction? Rian's a lazy fool of a writer, so the answer is "doesn't matter, I want them here now"

This was actually just you not paying attention to the film.



lmao

That statement is basically a YouTube thumbnail in text form.

No it's actually having more than 2 brain cells to rub together

No, definitely not that.

I don't respect you or your opinion, so think whatever you'd like

Given that you just referred to Rian Johnson as a "lazy fool of a writer," that's probably a compliment.

Given that your first response to criticism of a movie is being a patronizing twat and accusing me of not paying attention, you’re insecure about your love of it

[HaughtyFrank]

Do you remember that thing Henry Cavill said and apologized for four years ago? ZeoVGM remembers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/henry-cavill-and-gal-gadot%E2%80%99s-cameos-removed-in-the-flash.665725/page-4#post-98302219

He apologized after the backlash. Hopefully he's grown from that but the fact that he had those thoughts at all is incredibly problematic.

Zeo is such a dumb cunt. Cavill's comments aren't even that wrong when you consider how often RE goes "An actor hitting on someone who isn't famous? Think of the power dynamics. Rapist much?". At worst Cavill was just tone deaf making it about his dating life while metoo was going on

[Uncle]

• Every human artist is also "stealing" (i.e. learning) from others' art; otherwise you'd all still be doing cave paintings. You take what others do and transform it.
• No, typing a prompt into an AI doesn't make you an artist, any more than paying a human artist to draw your fetish makes you an artist.
• Yes, it sucks when your industry starts replacing you with automated machines. It's happened for over a hundred years, you'll get over it.

It's really not complicated.

this is a bit reductionist

some people spend hours tweaking the same prompt to get exactly what they're picturing into the image

some will use inpainting to carefully and selectively replace parts of the image until it fixes things that look imperfect

some will use AI art as just one tool in the toolbox -- generate a cloudy sky landscape as the background for your actually hand-drawn/Photoshopped foreground character (essentially AI as part of collage)


it's like saying you're not an artist for taking 5 seconds to scribble with a crayon, vs. you're not an artist if you use crayons to create an amazing drawing over the course of 5 hours

but then you get into semantics about the amount of time taken to create "art"...is photography an art?  isn't it possible to get lucky and snap something in 5 seconds that becomes iconic throughout history?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

• Every human artist is also "stealing" (i.e. learning) from others' art; otherwise you'd all still be doing cave paintings. You take what others do and transform it.
• No, typing a prompt into an AI doesn't make you an artist, any more than paying a human artist to draw your fetish makes you an artist.
• Yes, it sucks when your industry starts replacing you with automated machines. It's happened for over a hundred years, you'll get over it.

It's really not complicated.

this is a bit reductionist

some people spend hours tweaking the same prompt to get exactly what they're picturing into the image

some will use inpainting to carefully and selectively replace parts of the image until it fixes things that look imperfect

some will use AI art as just one tool in the toolbox -- generate a cloudy sky landscape as the background for your actually hand-drawn/Photoshopped foreground character (essentially AI as part of collage)


it's like saying you're not an artist for taking 5 seconds to scribble with a crayon, vs. you're not an artist if you use crayons to create an amazing drawing over the course of 5 hours

but then you get into semantics about the amount of time taken to create "art"...is photography an art?  isn't it possible to get lucky and snap something in 5 seconds that becomes iconic throughout history?

(Image removed from quote.)

can you stop posting rape