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[Taco Bell Tower]

Got an email from GameStop for this
https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/products/hogwarts-legacy---playstation-5/340599.html
Free mount and poster for preordering this tainted transphobic game

[benjipwns]

At the very least, Latinas should be given a voice, but silencing women of colour is very "on-brand" for Reeeeesetera.

FACT CHECK:

This isn't a discussion for cis people, it's not a discussion for white people or anyone who isn't a part of the community that is having this discussion.

Only trans latinas are part of the community having this discussion.

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I don't know if non-trans non-binary latinos or latinas are part of the community having this discussion so I do not know if a Hispanic astro is being excluded or not.

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[benjipwns]

Kiwi Farms -> Gamergate -> Trump -> Joanne -> Hogwart's Legacy -> End of Democracy

https://twitter.com/alibreland/status/1620824786787254272
https://twitter.com/shane_burley1/status/1621015825737203713
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1620848195457941504

edit: Oh, how did I miss this, and from one of my favorites too:
https://twitter.com/FangGong7/status/1620841925401276416

“One of the big things that hit me running for office is that when you Google my name, Kiwi Farms is one of the first things that shows up,” said Brianna Wu, a video game developer and former congressional candidate who was also a major target of Gamergate. “It’s hard when you have these people who create your reputation in a way that permanently damages it,” she added.

Wu has tried to get Google to delist her Kiwi Farms results. “I’ve had five or six meetings with them,” she told me last spring. “It’s not something that they’ve taken serious action on.”

“I think we need the federal government to step in,” Wu said. “A lot [of the harassment] I got was unquestionably a crime. It’s a crime to tell someone every single day in lurid graphic terms that you’re going to murder them.”

edit edit:

Kiwi Farms victims have had no better luck getting law enforcement to take action. “I’ve talked to the FBI. They’ll all do diddly-squat,” Darling said. “Law enforcement’s view is that you could live a normal life if you were willing to live a normal life, a.k.a. go back into the closet.”

When someone mailed Darling feces, she remembered it was a bureaucratic hell to attempt to report it to authorities. “We informed the police. The police said, ‘Call the postmaster general.’ The postmaster general said, ‘Call the FBI.’ The FBI said, ‘Call the Postmaster General.’”

Fong-Jones had a similar experience. “I contacted NYPD. I showed them Kiwi Farms threads. I said, ‘I’m afraid someone is going to SWAT me,’ and they were like ‘Get off the internet.’”

[Nintex]

Shitposting kings  -> 2 trillion in defense spending

[Coax]

It's interesting to compare to the investigative journalist Brian Krebs, who has had credible threats, a SWAT team show up pointing shotguns and semi-autos at him, drugs and "gift packages" from Russian cyber criminals at his doorstop, a dark web criminal marketplace named after him and frequent mockery among them...

It's surprising how well he's taken it all things considered but I suppose he understands he's what he's putting himself into given the subjects he investigates. Funny thing with the SWAT team incident is he'd even warned the local department such a fake report may be issued to send a SWAT team months prior but they apparently ignored it.

[NekoFever]

It now sits at a 65 with 94 critics after reviews by The Jimquisition (50) and Noisy Pixel (45) were added.

Forspoken is insufferable.

Well-known chud James Stephanie Sterling with the heel turn.

[BIONIC]

Drive-bys and anything that can be construed as being dismissive of the valid issues at hand will be hit as such, with standard two week bans going out and escalations happening to members with similar priors.

NOT COPS

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nick-offermans-last-video-game-was-banjo-kazooie-which-he-lost-a-couple-of-weeks-to-jimmy-kimmel-tlou-interview.682474/#post-100635718

My dad used to tell me games were a waste, then proceed to smoke weed with his friends, gamble and put us in debt.

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-38#post-100639186

Naturally; we're on one of the largest gaming forums and the game was always going to attract massive sales. It's the fact they can't resist telling people, and in some cases gushing about it (in a thread that's purposefully avoided mentioning it, on a forum that's banned discussion of it), that makes me laugh. Some nerds gotta feel like they're making a point I guess.

Quick, run to the bunker to bitch and moan


https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-38#post-100639630


Unrivalled about to get mass reported and permabanned for trolling, the favonius fox smells blood

[Daffy Duck]

Ok, so WTF…I just googled what favonius means because I have no clue

The god of the west wind
Proper noun

Favonius. (Roman mythology) The god of the west wind. He is also the husband of Flora and the father of Karpos. He is the Roman counterpart of Zephyrus.

Have they been misgendering Queen Bee all this time with that tag?

[Snoopycat_]

Kyuuji having a proper one today. Policing the sales thread. Accusing other members of being trolls.

I wasn't actually, I made up my mind over the last few days. And I am no longer posting in this thread so please stop quoting me.

Yeh going from being deeply conflicted to hyping up sales records sure seems legit.

 

Come on Dubs, grow a pair.

[Daffy Duck]

Kyuuji having a proper one today. Policing the sales thread. Accusing other members of being trolls.

I wasn't actually, I made up my mind over the last few days. And I am no longer posting in this thread so please stop quoting me.

Yeh going from being deeply conflicted to hyping up sales records sure seems legit.

 

Come on Dubs, grow a pair.

Must be the time of the month

[MMaRsu]

Holy shit cant even admit to buying the game anymore?

How are their lives so pathetic?

[MMaRsu]

It now sits at a 65 with 94 critics after reviews by The Jimquisition (50) and Noisy Pixel (45) were added.

Forspoken is insufferable.

Well-known chud James Stephanie Sterling with the heel turn.

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Can we ban Stephanie from Reee? Seems like he has a hate boner for black women

[NekoFever]

February pickup thread is now silently locked with no explanation. Mods finally got instructions through from Kyuuji.

Edit: Ah, they’ve opened a new one with a STAFF POST and the wrongthink excised.

[Averon]

They actually locked the thread and warned everyone who mentioned they will get Hogwarts Legacy
Kyuuji was all in that thread, too. Probably immediately went on Discord to bitch at the mods to do something.

[Daffy Duck]

Lol called it.

Also unrivalled banned for a week

I reported a number of the more egregious "This game looks like it's gonna be the BEST" post. Because those ones are the most Dogwhistle-y to me, someone saying "It's on my list" or "my partner wants it" not as likely imho.

Bunch of warnings handed out it seems too, so hopefully going forward we see less of that sort of post.

[NekoFever]

They’re now on their third attempt at a February pickup thread 

Remember when the first one was locked on the grounds that they don’t allow list threads? Despite monthly pickup threads being a regular occurrence. Strange how that was the reason for locking it but now there’s been a totally unrelated decree they’re allowed again.

[HardcoreRetro]

Can we ban Stephanie from Reee? Seems like he has a hate boner for black women

He?

We see what you're doing and you ain't slick. Mods? MODS!!!!??

[Snoopycat_]

People can't even say they're buying the game now. 

Dubs, what are you doing man?

[benita]

People can't even say they're buying the game now. 

Dubs, what are you doing man?

Apparently you're allowed to say you're buying the game, but not that you're looking forward to playing it.

We're through the looking glass now.

[Daffy Duck]

I’m not sure saying ‘I’m buying it pre owned’ is quite the get out of jail free card for buying the game some people think it is. Like, you’re still endorsing rowlings transphobic views by playing it at all.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-39#post-100641229

[NekoFever]

People can't even say they're buying the game now. 

Dubs, what are you doing man?

Apparently you're allowed to say you're buying the game, but not that you're looking forward to playing it.

We're through the looking glass now.

That’s the loophole for when Kyuuji checks it for transphobia.

[HardcoreRetro]

I like how they're going about this for months and I still don't know what Rowling did.

The "worst" thing I could find is that she doesn't consider trans women actual women.

[Uncle]

I like how they're going about this for months and I still don't know what Rowling did.

The "worst" thing I could find is that she doesn't consider trans women actual women.

I think her own opinion (or at least prior to having her views calcified by harassment) would be that trans women can say whatever they like about themselves, as long as they acknowledge they don't have a lifetime of experience of the unique challenges that come from being a natal woman, and realize that they can't necessarily expect to be welcomed into every traditionally female space as an equal

seems like her biggest complaint is almost the opposite, that mass media no longer acknowledges natal women and says things like "womb-havers"

so it's not "more people are considered women than should be," it's "natal women are not even acknowledged as women anymore"

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-what-are-you-buying-this-month-february-2023-edition.682108/post-100602793

Friend gifted me the Lightfall season pass edition and That Which Must Not Be Named, and I need to grab Forspoken.

Cannot decide if the euphemism is to try to show support or to avoid getting caught if someone is ctrl+f-ing Hogwarts in the thread.

Btw, I think that actually worked. I saw a couple who did this getting off scot free, but people who explicitly named Hogwarts got hit with a “Discussing Banned Game” warning

[NekoFever]

I like how they're going about this for months and I still don't know what Rowling did.

The "worst" thing I could find is that she doesn't consider trans women actual women.

She hasn't even said that. She's explicitly said "trans rights are human rights" etc. She just thinks there are issues that affect biological women specifically (she mainly talks about protection from abuse and the provision of single-sex spaces due to her past but has also mentioned other things), and their opinions and experiences are often shouted down in the eagerness to erase the difference between sex and gender. And her refusal to shut up and get back in line makes certain very online people really mad.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269406094595588096

And she's kind of this comic in action due to all the shit flinging:

[Averon]

>Can't talk about games if a small minority deem it Mein Kampf 2.0 (Hogwarts Legacy, Cyberpunk 2077)
>Can't lightly dunk on mediocre to bad games if it stars a minority character (Forspoken)

What a great "gaming" forum ResetERA is

Also, remember these are the same clowns with delusions of overthrowing capitalism all the while completely wrapping their self-worth in commercial products, whether good or bad (Hogwarts Legacy, comic books, MCU/DC movies, Star Wars, etc...).

[Uncle]

Urgent communication to ERA staff!

I have managed to infiltrate some of the chud discords that make it their pathetic lives to troll and antagonize ERA.

There is an ongoing movement right now which you need to be aware of.

Users there have collectively agreed to use the game called "Like A Dragon" as a euphemism for Hogwarts Legacy.  They intend to openly talk about their shared love of this transphobic TERF game by filtering all conversation through plausible deniability.

If you have any respect for your trans users, please, you must scrutinize any user who claims to be buying or playing "Like A Dragon."  While this policy might affect those who legitimately enjoy that game, we cannot take that chance.  (And really, what is being lost...is it worthwhile to glorify the Yakuza in the first place?)

Thank you for your consideration.

[NekoFever]

Urgent communication to ERA staff!

I have managed to infiltrate some of the chud discords that make it their pathetic lives to troll and antagonize ERA.

There is an ongoing movement right now which you need to be aware of.

Users there have collectively agreed to use the game called "Like A Dragon" as a euphemism for Hogwarts Legacy.  They intend to openly talk about their shared love of this transphobic TERF game by filtering all conversation through plausible deniability.

If you have any respect for your trans users, please, you must scrutinize any user who claims to be buying or playing "Like A Dragon."  While this policy might affect those who legitimately enjoy that game, we cannot take that chance.  (And really, what is being lost...is it worthwhile to glorify the Yakuza in the first place?)

Thank you for your consideration.

This is true. I saw a H*gwarts Legacy trailer with a dragon in it and everything.

[SmokyDave]

I like that the warning is ‘Discussing Banned Game’ but they forgot to add ‘outside of the JK Rowling Official Thread, which has done nothing but discuss the game this whole time’.

It’s the honesty and integrity of these people that I admire.

[joeboy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-what-are-you-buying-this-month-february-2023-edition.682108/post-100602793

Friend gifted me the Lightfall season pass edition and That Which Must Not Be Named, and I need to grab Forspoken.

Cannot decide if the euphemism is to try to show support or to avoid getting caught if someone is ctrl+f-ing Hogwarts in the thread.

Btw, I think that actually worked. I saw a couple who did this getting off scot free, but people who explicitly named Hogwarts got hit with a “Discussing Banned Game” warning

None of the above.

I only plan to pick up one game this month, I did want to pick up Ishin too but I think I'll have too much on my plate unfortunately.

I might pick up a couple of PSVR2 games as well nearer launch.

Proper tip-toeing among the land mines there. How soon before a statement like that gets aggressive interrogation? ‘What GAME?! HUH? Are you an ally for real?!”

[Averon]

I mean, they say not to "platform TERF Bitch Joanne" and "signal boost" her all the while having a dedicated hate thread where the follow and report her every tweet and mention in the press. Funny enough, it's not all that different from threads on Kiwi Farms where they obsessively follow and report on someone.

[Propagandhim]

Kiwi Farms -> Gamergate -> Trump -> Joanne -> Hogwart's Legacy -> End of Democracy

https://twitter.com/alibreland/status/1620824786787254272
https://twitter.com/shane_burley1/status/1621015825737203713
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1620848195457941504

edit: Oh, how did I miss this, and from one of my favorites too:
https://twitter.com/FangGong7/status/1620841925401276416

“One of the big things that hit me running for office is that when you Google my name, Kiwi Farms is one of the first things that shows up,” said Brianna Wu, a video game developer and former congressional candidate who was also a major target of Gamergate. “It’s hard when you have these people who create your reputation in a way that permanently damages it,” she added.

Wu has tried to get Google to delist her Kiwi Farms results. “I’ve had five or six meetings with them,” she told me last spring. “It’s not something that they’ve taken serious action on.”

“I think we need the federal government to step in,” Wu said. “A lot [of the harassment] I got was unquestionably a crime. It’s a crime to tell someone every single day in lurid graphic terms that you’re going to murder them.”

edit edit:

Kiwi Farms victims have had no better luck getting law enforcement to take action. “I’ve talked to the FBI. They’ll all do diddly-squat,” Darling said. “Law enforcement’s view is that you could live a normal life if you were willing to live a normal life, a.k.a. go back into the closet.”

When someone mailed Darling feces, she remembered it was a bureaucratic hell to attempt to report it to authorities. “We informed the police. The police said, ‘Call the postmaster general.’ The postmaster general said, ‘Call the FBI.’ The FBI said, ‘Call the Postmaster General.’”

Fong-Jones had a similar experience. “I contacted NYPD. I showed them Kiwi Farms threads. I said, ‘I’m afraid someone is going to SWAT me,’ and they were like ‘Get off the internet.’”

ACAB but I need 7 meetings with the NYPD and the feds for Google search results.

[BIONIC]

The TERF BITCH thread will be closed for metacommentary any minute now, right?

Also:

Oh hey that unrivaled guy is a poster on gaf complaining about era’s HL policy

Banned for being an internet detective?

I completely support black people but I need to buy the David Duke game because reasons.

Banned for inflammatory comparisons?

This whole article made me fucking gag. Lick her boot a bit more.


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Banned for copy pasting an entire article without even linking it?

...


Well, at least it should be obvious to everyone else you were trolling now.

Banned for cross-thread drama? 

[HardcoreRetro]

She hasn't even said that. She's explicitly said "trans rights are human rights" etc. She just thinks there are issues that affect biological women specifically (she mainly talks about protection from abuse and the provision of single-sex spaces due to her past but has also mentioned other things), and their opinions and experiences are often shouted down in the eagerness to erase the difference between sex and gender. And her refusal to shut up and get back in line makes certain very online people really mad.

That's literally the same as saying they aren't women. The entire thing seems to be about trans women wanting to be acknowleged as biological women. Not some nebulous broad category "women" that's basically meaningless.

[Propagandhim]

Lol called it.

Also unrivalled banned for a week

I reported a number of the more egregious "This game looks like it's gonna be the BEST" post. Because those ones are the most Dogwhistle-y to me, someone saying "It's on my list" or "my partner wants it" not as likely imho.

Bunch of warnings handed out it seems too, so hopefully going forward we see less of that sort of post.

 . Unbelievable

[Straight Edge]

But I was told Keffals destroyed Kiwi Farms.

[Potato]

Kyuuji having a proper one today. Policing the sales thread. Accusing other members of being trolls.

I wasn't actually, I made up my mind over the last few days. And I am no longer posting in this thread so please stop quoting me.

Yeh going from being deeply conflicted to hyping up sales records sure seems legit.

 

Come on Dubs, grow a pair.

Must be the time of the month

Who's? Bchubbs? It's certainly not kyujijijigi's

[Uncle]

But I was told Keffals destroyed Kiwi Farms.

[Averon]

There was this weird period where Kiwi Farms was still clearly up and running, yet everyone KF pissed off pretended that it was gone and dusted. It was like they didn't want to believe their "win" against KF was short lived and just wanted to indulge in the lie that KF was offline for good.

[Potato]

She hasn't even said that. She's explicitly said "trans rights are human rights" etc. She just thinks there are issues that affect biological women specifically (she mainly talks about protection from abuse and the provision of single-sex spaces due to her past but has also mentioned other things), and their opinions and experiences are often shouted down in the eagerness to erase the difference between sex and gender. And her refusal to shut up and get back in line makes certain very online people really mad.

That's literally the same as saying they aren't women. The entire thing seems to be about trans women wanting to be acknowleged as biological women. Not some nebulous broad category "women" that's basically meaningless.

Still one of the most absurd delusions created by this weird generation.

[Pissy F Benny]

This shit is so stupid and we've not even gotten our appetiser yet

[NekoFever]

She hasn't even said that. She's explicitly said "trans rights are human rights" etc. She just thinks there are issues that affect biological women specifically (she mainly talks about protection from abuse and the provision of single-sex spaces due to her past but has also mentioned other things), and their opinions and experiences are often shouted down in the eagerness to erase the difference between sex and gender. And her refusal to shut up and get back in line makes certain very online people really mad.

That's literally the same as saying they aren't women. The entire thing seems to be about trans women wanting to be acknowleged as biological women. Not some nebulous broad category "women" that's basically meaningless.

There are people who want to paint it as saying trans women aren’t women, but I disagree. “Trans women are women” and “There are challenges and experiences unique to biological women that should be acknowledged and addressed” aren’t contradictory. I don’t even see why either should be controversial.

[BIONIC]

Y’know, I think the worst part of the Scottish rapist thing is the hypocrisy.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Y’know, I think the worst part of the Scottish rapist thing is the hypocrisy.

I'd say it's the scots

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/Yig_is_Yig/status/1621147611393826822

How the turn tables

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-38#post-100639621

funny that on top of denying her TERFness, the article still pretends JKR is a good writer

Sincere question: is she a bad one?
I only read the first four Potter books and was entertained back then.

yes... there's a great video that goes in depth on how the books are very silly when you read it with a critical eye:

[URL unfurl="true" media="youtube:-1iaJWSwUZs"][/URL]

+ there are the Fantastical Beasts movies that she wrote by herself and are a fucking trainwreck.

“Yes, JKR is a terrible writer because this 1 hour and 45 minute video told me she is. We are not a monolith. We are not NPCs.”

[MMaRsu]

What the fuck even is kiwi farms and why should I care

[Boredfrom]

https://twitter.com/Yig_is_Yig/status/1621147611393826822

How the turn tables

Why the fuck PC Gamer cares about this?

[Boredfrom]

What the fuck even is kiwi farms and why should I care

Don’t answer him, Uncle. I know you want it. I don’t want another 3 page discussion of Kiwi Farms is the devil or not.

The site has a Wikipedia article, dude. Is also back in the clear net.

[Pissy F Benny]

the long and short: its an e-drama/cyberstalking message board and all the posters are 4chan type edgelords.

[HaughtyFrank]

I hope Mega64 catches wind that their video is now straight up banned on RE 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mega64-more-game-adaptations-coming-to-hbo.682591/

[Pissy F Benny]

its still funny how certain people on there pissed their britches over a video pretty mildly mocking a recently released squaresoft game that was written by a soy boy.

[Uncle]

Don’t answer him, Uncle.

 

[Boredfrom]

Don’t answer him, Uncle.

 

 

[Boredfrom]

RE social media addiction continues:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tiktok-dealt-another-hit-as-democratic-senator-joins-calls-for-banning-the-app.682534/

[paprikastaude]

OMFG, please read this in full

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2023/02/nintendos-big-mario-kart-ride-at-universal-can-only-be-ridden-by-thin-people/

The app’s copy indicates that there’s a test seat available to gauge whether or not an attendee meets these requirements. Given that the average waist circumference in the U.S. is just around 40 inches, this certainly seems likely to exclude a good number of folks.

Another popular tweet calls out the absurdity of such a strict waist limitation. “A 40” waist line is about a [women’s] size 20.”

According to CDC statistics cited by Healthline, the average clothing size for adults assigned female at birth hovers between 18 to 20. As many replies to the tweet above indicate, a 40-inch waist is a “very normal and common size to be for many body types.”

The waistline requirement particularly stings as Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge is the only ride to be featured at Super Nintendo World, yet it’s not designed to accommodate average or plus size attendees’ physical dimensions.

Fuck me. These people are fucking ridiculous.

This children's attraction isn't made for thin people, it's made for children.

The real reason you don't out yourself as a gamer in public isn't because you'd be associated with gameralligator, like those tinfoil hats at resetti believe, but because the hobby is still overrun by fat manbabies.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-details-of-netflix-password-sharing-killer-up-netflix-backtracks-for-now-see-threadmarks.681859/page-16#post-100621153

User Banned (1 week): Hostility toward other users over multiple posts. History of antagonistic behavior

Netflix alone is still drastically cheaper than network and cable tv and arguably provides the same value now as a single platform as network/cable tv did back then making it an insane value for lower income people relative to pre cord cutting (and even today)

So where does the line get drawn, price wise, where Netflix needs to be to make it friendly to all lower income people? Even cheaper or allowing sharing still didn't make it inclusive for everyone and the free argument is something businesses really can't support. End of the day, absolutely nothing is free

Not asking for it to be free. Asking to be able to do whatever the fuck I want with my 4 simultaneous streams. If I want to share that with other people and they share their service with me it's paid for so what's the problem. Also just fuck you in general. I pay for the streams they aren't free. Think of the businesses approach is just gross. I've seen the word abuse, exploit, and now free. Like I just hijack the netflix streams. If I'm paying for 4 streams I should be allowed to use them as I feel fit. Also I don't give a fuck what's good for Netflix and you shouldn't either. Expecting people to stand up for consumers is too much I guess. If I want to set them up with an auto clicker to keep playing non stop I paid for them.

Using what you pay for =/= free

[HardcoreRetro]

The average is around 40 inches?  I'm 6 foot overweight and still only hit 33 inches. I'm amazed you can even get out of the chair to go to an amusement park at that size. That's not fat, that's morbidly obese.