Other Forums Containment Thread

[NekoFever]

It’s already announced for a Switch release in the summer.

It would be fun to see it on a Direct but I don’t know whether the marketing deal with Sony precludes that.

[Uncle]

there were at least 4 games in that direct where you either play as a cop or detective collaborating with the police

ghost trick, professor layton, the other level 5 game, the spike chunsoft game...

very sus

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/post-100948534

Game outlets and folks who work in gaming will advocate for inclusivity, LGBTQ+ rights, etc., develop an audience around this, then will have the audacity to post about how they're playing the TERF wizard game and get defensive about it. Like yeah I get you need the clicks to survive, that's the business but man, stop pretending like it's anything else.

Ok time for the mods to put up or shut the fuck up.

Also, as I predicted, they are now talking about Harry Potter, but not mentioning the game specifically. So that leads to the question of why is it ok to discuss the books when they were written by momma terf but not the game which only relation is the use of the IP?

He edited his post to say “enjoying the TERF wizard content” instead of “playing the TERF wizard game”, but the person below quoted him 

[NegativeCrepe]

are transes all so spineless that not one of them can say yeah i like the game and am looking forward to it, there are a lot of trans harry potter fans. what are they going to do ban you for your lived experience

trans gamers rise up against the reee era mods

show the world you arent all just a hivemind and you have opinions of your own

no?

well okay then

[BIONIC]

there were at least 4 games in that direct where you either play as a cop or detective collaborating with the police

ghost trick, professor layton, the other level 5 game, the spike chunsoft game...

very sus

Yeah, I was giving some major side eye the whole time. Feeling very unsafe rn tbh.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1623444310502051840

I usually don't say "Talk about first world problems" but man, talk about first world problems

[Rahxephon91]

Shouldn’t they ban Call of Duty since it funds Kotick who then funds republicans who then fund genocide?

I see there’s the casual post in regards to the Messenger about how the developers may or may not like Jordan P.

Is it not exhausting resetera to keep tabs on every problematic thing about a game and the need to “warn” people? Do you not see the slippery slope?

[Rahxephon91]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-grade-would-you-give-this-nintendo-direct.684715/

This thread is just pathetic. Pretty sure Nintendo could shit in a bag and they’d buy it for $70.

That being said, can’t wait for this thread after a direct that announces a port of Hogwarts.

It already is announced.

The proxy war for that will be the Digital Foundry Coverage for it.

[Boredfrom]

7000 jobs to be culled.
Dividends to shareholders to resume thanks to cost-cutting measures.

:sigh: a concerned DMED employee.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-drops-2-4-million-subscribers-in-first-loss-bob-iger-heralds-‘significant-transformation’-underway.684652/page-2#post-100957702

[Straight Edge]

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/yum-brands-yum-earnings-q4-2022.html

Yum Brands on Wednesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations, fueled by strong same-store sales growth at Taco Bell.

Overall, the restaurant giant saw solid U.S. demand as high-income consumers traded down to fast food and low-income diners bought its chains’ value meals. However, weak sales in China once again weighed on KFC’s and Pizza Hut’s results, after the Chinese government relaxed its zero Covid policy and a wave of new outbreaks hit the country. The resurgence hurt recovery efforts for Yum and other restaurant companies, like Starbucks
.

Here’s what Yum reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv:

Earnings per share: $1.31 adjusted vs. $1.26 expected
Revenue: $2.02 billion vs. $1.92 billion expected
Yum reported fourth-quarter net income of $371 million, or $1.29 per share, up from $330 million, or $1.11 per share, a year earlier. Excluding expenses tied to its decision to exit Russia and other items, the company earned $1.31 cents per share.

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-grade-would-you-give-this-nintendo-direct.684715/

This thread is just pathetic. Pretty sure Nintendo could shit in a bag and they’d buy it for $70.

That being said, can’t wait for this thread after a direct that announces a port of Hogwarts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-might-be-nintendos-first-70-game-retail-pre-order-pages-being-removed.684361/
They were bitching $70 is too much yet they're fine buying PS5 games.

[DJ Bedroom]

This terf wizard game is pretty cool so far. Riding your broom around the castle and the surrounding area is something that I dreamt about when I was but a young, nascent internet shitposter. Looking forward to when you go full Doom Eternal on anyone who has pronouns in their Twitter bio though, that's the quest where the game REALLY pops off from what I've heard

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-grade-would-you-give-this-nintendo-direct.684715/

This thread is just pathetic. Pretty sure Nintendo could shit in a bag and they’d buy it for $70.

That being said, can’t wait for this thread after a direct that announces a port of Hogwarts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-might-be-nintendos-first-70-game-retail-pre-order-pages-being-removed.684361/
They were bitching $70 is too much yet they're fine buying PS5 games.

BOTH SUCK

[BikeJesus]

Reeeee jannies, you forgot to sweep these up:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/post-100937203

All a bunch of my coworkers are talking about is this stupid game and how they’re waiting to play it after work and I’m juswt sitting here like “nah, I’m good not supporting that woman and her nonsense.”

And it’s absolutely everywhere due to marketing too. Even if you tried to avoid those people, every marketplace on the digital front is trying to push it on you. I’m hoping this cools down in a few weeks.

I know there was a nintendies direct, but you do have like 40 mods.

You are toothless and your users know it.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-46#post-100937203

Careful with the focus not to get the thread banned.

I sort of hate this tightrope. I have an interesting thread idea to discuss weaponizing spoilers but now I'm afraid it would get me banned.

[maninthemirror]

Good job chastising a nonexistent thing that isn’t happening.

 

Reading about what that video is supposedly about is basic common sense.  It's hilarious that it takes 2 1/2 hours to explain that maybe death threats against "wrong," people aren't justified.


Nepenthe

Good ol' Unc made a video that's basically just for me. I'm an hour and 40 minutes in and he hasn't missed. Pertinent notes that truly struck a chord with me:

- The lack of resulting systemic change and altered behavior from incidents of online drama is basically an indictment on how outrage/"cancel culture" just doesn't really accomplish much in the long term, with the exception of having created an environment where everyone of any note in an online space- even if that online space is irrelevant to real life- is assuming that their being "held to account" is basically an inevitability that will occur when, as a result of being imperfect, bad faith actors will undoubtedly drudge up anything and everything to indict that person over a fuck up. And I'm like "FD Signifier basically figured out what being a ResetEra staffer is like. Welcome to the club, friendo."

- How much of this energy is leveled at content creators and not anyone of any real power who is actually performing systemic harm, which ultimately ties back into a later point in the video that systemic change is really fucking hard to do because there's no rulebook or easy answers to find comfort in and act upon. It requires imagination, physical work, long-term commitment, and some element of blind faith, so in a effort to assert some level of control and to do our best to act on our principles, we turn to easy targets- basically absolute nobodies online.

However, not every nobody is created equal, and this tendency to publicly shame and even harass people for grievances, real or imagined, comes down harder on Black people and PoCs despite the fact that the online left has one of, if not the most, openly tolerant environments for trans people to exist, find community, and even become figureheads in (which isn't a surprise since white people can be trans), and in general the online left has an extremely obvious blind spot with regards to racism and anti-Blackness despite the fact that Black people are essentially the foundation and vanguards of liberalism and socialism in America. Ultimately, too many in the online left are beholden to systems that favor them above Black people and that is likely to not change anytime soon. Money talks to everyone and white supremacy is big business.

I'll keep watching, but it's an absolute banger.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100944976

Yeah, nepenthe always agreed with those principles, for sure.

 

so.........

are you telling me when the white liberal community favor Trans community over Dave Chappelle , that is proof of what the video says correct?

because.. the video admits the black community is treated worse than the trans community. YET. when Dave Chappelle as a black man jokes about EVERYONE including Trans he is verbally abused and derided when in fact as per this video that Nep says is good, he is as a result punching UP , not down and he should be defended not derided by the toxicity of the white liberals on the left

[BIONIC]

Scholastic pushed the FUCK out of the HP books. It was an absolute juggernaut in the "look, kids, it's approachable fiction!" market. I missed it myself - I was already deep into reading full-length fantasy stuff like Pern and Shannara by the time the first book came out, so by the time I got around to sitting down and reading the first HP book in like 2004 or 2005, I was like "this is lame and for babies" and didn't make it more than a few chapters in - but I saw how inescapable it was, marketing-wise.

It's not an exaggeration to say that if Scholastic wanted your book to sell to kids, they would make sure it did. They had that much influence back then.

———

I remember when I worked in a video store in high school and the first HP movie was on infinite repeat for like 3 weeks after it first came out, and my reaction to the Sorting Hat was basically "so wait, as soon as you get to magic school they tell you what your future's gonna be and you have literally no choice but to accept it? that's weird."

"You can either be a hero, a racist, classist asshole, or literally irrelevant. Good luck, idiots!"

"You're a nerd, but not the COOL kind of nerd. Ravenclaw!'

Is Hufflepuff the irrelevant one?.

Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

He sure knows a lot about a 7 book series for babies that he only read the first couple chapters from the first entry of

[FUME5]

Can y'all stop please?

[Snoopycat_]

VisaWife must be fuckin fuming

[BIONIC]

He should be slithering back tomorrow

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-might-be-nintendos-first-70-game-retail-pre-order-pages-being-removed.684361/page-13#post-100900081

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory comparison

Nobody has mentioned piracy except you.

Sound like a conservative accusing someone else of being the REAL racist.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/u-s-military-is-tracking-a-suspected-chinese-surveillance-balloon-over-the-u-s-update-shot-down.682771/page-14#post-100776115

User Banned (1 Month): Dismissive Commetnary Around the Harm of Imperialism; Sinophobia; Account in Junior Phase

No idea, maybe a true united Europe (one military, etc.). Also not talking about 50 years, more like 100-200 where we will all be gone.

I don't think we Europeans are interested in being the world's leading power. EU is happy with being a huge economic trading bloc and that's pretty much it. There have been talks of an EU army, but I can't see it happening to the extent of the US Army, able to project force globally

Yes I think we are becoming a multipolar world. I don’t think we will see a country dominate the way the US did the second half of the 20th century.

I don't think so.

It was supposed to be China's century, but it seems unlikely now, what with Xi Jinping's cult of personality and the problems they have (problems whcih aren't easy to solve). And thank fuck for that as under Xi Jinping PRC is a jingosit state. In fact, I'd go one step further and say that a few years ago when I left they were one step away from fascism. If they keep their current aggressive foreign policy they'll probably make the step into full fascism soon.

Who else can reach superpower status? Maybe India in 50 years (or more) if they play their cards right. But they also have a lot of internal problems they have to deal with before they even think of being "one of the 2 superpowers leading the world". Africa is too busy selling all their resources to the Chinese and complaining about it, so I don't see any African country becoming a superpower in the near (or far) future.

Russia is pretty much done after Putin's Hitler 2.0 stunt. Brazil, I don't see them becoming a superpower anytime soon. So who else?

In any case, I'd rather keep having America as the only global hegemon, than have one of the autocratic regimes become world leaders.

[Snoopycat_]

He should be slithering back tomorrow

It was bad enough when Kyuuji's mob left him under the bus. Now he's got ComedyFailure trying to take the bottom bitch spot.

[BikeJesus]

The JK thread is either gone, or moved to the special kids section.

Why not just ban the shitters? Sad to see the reee jannies participating in trans genocide.

[BIONIC]

The JK thread is either gone, or moved to the special kids section.

Why not just ban the shitters? Sad to see the reee jannies participating in trans genocide.

It’s members only now it would seem. Good thing we have our shared riotous account.

[Taco Bell Tower]

The JK thread is either gone, or moved to the special kids section.

Why not just ban the shitters? Sad to see the reee jannies participating in trans genocide.

It’s members only now it would seem. Good thing we have our shared riotous account.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

So their solution is to be hypocrites in private?

[Taco Bell Tower]

How they gonna win the battle if they're hiding 

[D3RANG3D]

By keeping it tactical. 

[BikeJesus]

Well after having articles written about what they said, they would look like even more insane hypocrites if they allowed them to talk about the game in public view. If they are still not going to let them talk about the game, then why hide the thread? Once again transera has bent the janny squad to their will and shown that they control the site.

This is also hilarious because now you can't link your friends to the thread so they can get the #FACTS about Joanne's(TERF CUNT WHORE) trans genocide for which she is the avatar.

[Jansen]

Finally we can move on from that one fucking thread y'all post nonstop about

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'm so tired#

[close]

[clothedmacuser]

Nepenthe

The video goes beyond leftist Youtuber drama and is an applicable indictment on how outrage is an algorithmic goldmine just as much for the left as it is for the right, and yet relatively meaningless for instituting systemic change that deals with the issues the left talks about. It's a good wake up call, and I would not necessarily side-eye anyone who called this video important. It's not like this is his TikTok reaction video which in itself ironically had better analysis than a lot of other long form shit posted here.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100976788


Nepenthe will not sidey-eye you for agreeing with the video.  She has a better video for you that is only four hours long.

[benjipwns]

What's funny is all of this is TransERA's own fault. Got exactly what they wanted--a full ban on HL--but still thought the ban was meant for all the other users on the site and not them.

Basically TransERA thought they were special and the rules didn't apply to them. And they are all shocked and upset that they, in fact, do have to follow the rules the mods lay out like everyone else

It just keeps happening. I'm so tired.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-45#post-100923442

I often wonder if she came out with all this shit prior to her Harry Potter success, if she would have ever amounted to anything.

The financial cushion she is insulated with due to her prior success just goes to show how much of a shield money can be for horrible people. She's thrown away her career and reputation to promote bigotry because she doesn't need either anymore. It seems almost strategic that she waited for all the HP books and movies to be concluded before she decided to let everyone know her horrible opinions, knowing it was going to destroy her career and marketability. Pure malice.

Definitely not. Her whole marketing pitch back in the 90s was "poor single mother who struggled to write a children's book in a pub for years". She leaned heavily on sympathy as a huge humanizing factor to help market herself and her books.

If she also had "EXTREMELY VIRULENT BIGOT" on top of that, companies like Scholastic never would've given her the time of day and published her books.

These are some of the funniest things written about her yet. I love that they're entirely serious. That Joanne back in the 1990's was like "damn, I really want a trans genocide but first I'd like to get rich, so I'll wait until I write a super successful series that turns into a major franchise and makes me a billionaire and then, only then, will it be time for the bodies to hit the floor." And despite achieving the necessary condition of this "pure malice" plot, she has yet to actually share any of her bigotry. This surely must also be part of her plot to gaslight her opponents into looking insane not matter how much they expose her real plans.

Nepenthe

Good ol' Unc made a video that's basically just for me. I'm an hour and 40 minutes in and he hasn't missed. Pertinent notes that truly struck a chord with me:

- The lack of resulting systemic change and altered behavior from incidents of online drama is basically an indictment on how outrage/"cancel culture" just doesn't really accomplish much in the long term, with the exception of having created an environment where everyone of any note in an online space- even if that online space is irrelevant to real life- is assuming that their being "held to account" is basically an inevitability that will occur when, as a result of being imperfect, bad faith actors will undoubtedly drudge up anything and everything to indict that person over a fuck up. And I'm like "FD Signifier basically figured out what being a ResetEra staffer is like. Welcome to the club, friendo."

- How much of this energy is leveled at content creators and not anyone of any real power who is actually performing systemic harm, which ultimately ties back into a later point in the video that systemic change is really fucking hard to do because there's no rulebook or easy answers to find comfort in and act upon. It requires imagination, physical work, long-term commitment, and some element of blind faith, so in a effort to assert some level of control and to do our best to act on our principles, we turn to easy targets- basically absolute nobodies online.

However, not every nobody is created equal, and this tendency to publicly shame and even harass people for grievances, real or imagined, comes down harder on Black people and PoCs despite the fact that the online left has one of, if not the most, openly tolerant environments for trans people to exist, find community, and even become figureheads in (which isn't a surprise since white people can be trans), and in general the online left has an extremely obvious blind spot with regards to racism and anti-Blackness despite the fact that Black people are essentially the foundation and vanguards of liberalism and socialism in America. Ultimately, too many in the online left are beholden to systems that favor them above Black people and that is likely to not change anytime soon. Money talks to everyone and white supremacy is big business.

I'll keep watching, but it's an absolute banger.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100944976

Great now Nepenthe is a TERF BITCH who spreads right-wing propaganda like that cancel culture exists. I don't feel safe at all anymore, I thought I could trust someone who reps Lucio but I guess not.

[Potato]

Good job chastising a nonexistent thing that isn’t happening.

 

Reading about what that video is supposedly about is basic common sense.  It's hilarious that it takes 2 1/2 hours to explain that maybe death threats against "wrong," people aren't justified.


Nepenthe

Good ol' Unc made a video that's basically just for me. I'm an hour and 40 minutes in and he hasn't missed. Pertinent notes that truly struck a chord with me:

- The lack of resulting systemic change and altered behavior from incidents of online drama is basically an indictment on how outrage/"cancel culture" just doesn't really accomplish much in the long term, with the exception of having created an environment where everyone of any note in an online space- even if that online space is irrelevant to real life- is assuming that their being "held to account" is basically an inevitability that will occur when, as a result of being imperfect, bad faith actors will undoubtedly drudge up anything and everything to indict that person over a fuck up. And I'm like "FD Signifier basically figured out what being a ResetEra staffer is like. Welcome to the club, friendo."

- How much of this energy is leveled at content creators and not anyone of any real power who is actually performing systemic harm, which ultimately ties back into a later point in the video that systemic change is really fucking hard to do because there's no rulebook or easy answers to find comfort in and act upon. It requires imagination, physical work, long-term commitment, and some element of blind faith, so in a effort to assert some level of control and to do our best to act on our principles, we turn to easy targets- basically absolute nobodies online.

However, not every nobody is created equal, and this tendency to publicly shame and even harass people for grievances, real or imagined, comes down harder on Black people and PoCs despite the fact that the online left has one of, if not the most, openly tolerant environments for trans people to exist, find community, and even become figureheads in (which isn't a surprise since white people can be trans), and in general the online left has an extremely obvious blind spot with regards to racism and anti-Blackness despite the fact that Black people are essentially the foundation and vanguards of liberalism and socialism in America. Ultimately, too many in the online left are beholden to systems that favor them above Black people and that is likely to not change anytime soon. Money talks to everyone and white supremacy is big business.

I'll keep watching, but it's an absolute banger.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100944976

Yeah, nepenthe always agreed with those principles, for sure.

 

The fact that these nincompoops NEED a 150 minute video to tell them this shit is evidence they are all distinguished mentally-challenged

[benjipwns]

If that's what they need to understand what everyone has been saying is the obvious and only result from what they've been pursuing as the most existential task possible then I can't really complain or insult them. But based on experience these lessons never stick and they will need another person they won't dismiss to say it yet again before they'll consider it to actually exist again let alone what the consequences of it are. I especially will expect it from Nepenthe considering how in that very same post where she literally says what everyone has been saying and that she's dismissed as lies from an evil conspiracy she immediately drifts back to that paranoid conspiracy theory.

[benjipwns]

And don't think I'm not side-eyeing how this video came out right when the Wizard Game discourse is harming a marginalized community.

[benjipwns]

Hey, you guys like ethics in your games journalism?

https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1623379190778155008

btw, Girlfriend Reviews fake crying was a deliberate setup to attack trans people for asking for basic human decency and basic human rights

Software Engineer (Derogatory) (Parody)
@JacobianInSEA

What was the harassment exactly? She was told it was disappointing then cried, triggering anger and harassment of trans people.

She had a mild critique and you people took it so much more serious than real laws harming trans people. I'm beginning to think you're just bigots.

Software Engineer (Derogatory) (Parody)
@JacobianInSEA

Except they weren't harassed. The majority of the toxicity came from them because they don't like being told that they're being harmful.

You chose to believe this lie because you care more about the minor discomfort of a white woman than actual bigotry.

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[Potato]

The JK thread is either gone, or moved to the special kids section.

Why not just ban the shitters? Sad to see the reee jannies participating in trans genocide.

It’s members only now it would seem. Good thing we have our shared riotous account.

Can the person using that account confirm if any bans have been handed out for mentioning the TERF wizard game in the fuck Joanne (TERF bitch) thread.

[maninthemirror]

Hey, you guys like ethics in your games journalism?

https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1623379190778155008

btw, Girlfriend Reviews fake crying was a deliberate setup to attack trans people for asking for basic human decency and basic human rights

Software Engineer (Derogatory) (Parody)
@JacobianInSEA

What was the harassment exactly? She was told it was disappointing then cried, triggering anger and harassment of trans people.

She had a mild critique and you people took it so much more serious than real laws harming trans people. I'm beginning to think you're just bigots.

Software Engineer (Derogatory) (Parody)
@JacobianInSEA

Except they weren't harassed. The majority of the toxicity came from them because they don't like being told that they're being harmful.

You chose to believe this lie because you care more about the minor discomfort of a white woman than actual bigotry.

[close]

so far I see

1. 80% of gamers who just want to play the game without getting into side issues
2. 10% of loud angry threatening trans folks and allies who think JK is worse than hitler
3. 10% gloaters

To Trans people saying "I don't agree that non-biological females are real women but they are trans women" is harrassment, its a debate

that is akin to an atheist telling me, a muslim, that my God is false. Ok. but thats not harrassment, its a debate, I am not going to have suicidal thoughts over it

OR it is akin to a woman who believes in abortion that abortion by women is wrong. Ok. but thats not harrassment, its a debate and 99% of women are not going to have suicidal thoughts over it

it is a mental illness being projected online at this moment . When you have a group of people who are mentally ill and then they are allied with another group of people mentally ill, the current events come out in plain sight.

There are MANY trans folks who are not mentally ill and have a semblance of thought and logical thinking. but the mouth frothers on twitter like Brianna Wu have an issue which is mental and if you tell that to them we are bigots. Of course someone who is mentally ill will deny being ill because they are not thinking straight

[benjipwns]

A subreddit moderator for a bunch of sci-fi communities who edited their automod to post Hogwart's Legacy spoilers and lock threads whenever Harry Potter was mentioned in order to stop the "harassment against the trans community" has stepped down but they're still deleting tons of posts about this and any discussion about it:

This has been a long time coming. I've been moderating this subreddit for just under 8 of the 11 years it's been in existence. In my time here it's increased over 80 times in size at a time when discussions about fandom became increasingly polarized and heated. It probably won't surprise anyone to hear that I've been actively resentful of moderating this sub for years but unwilling to stop due to two factors:

Someone had to, and I was frequently the one with the most availability and willingness to put time towards it.

It had become by far the largest-scale project I'd ever been a part of.

Perhaps it was unavoidable that in an environment like that I'd eventually lose my shit. I've tried to walk away at least three or four times in the last few years. I sincerely have tried. But those two factors kept nagging me, kept bringing me back.

Well, now I have no choice. I acted extremely unprofessionally and undermined the confidence hundreds of thousands of subscribers have in this sub.

I regret that. I don't, and never will, regret the cause I did it in the name of-- and today for every person whose respect I lost legitimately, we've seen one who never had any to lose, one who saw an opportunity to brigade and spread hate cloaked behind reasonable-sounding criticisms of the way in which I was a total dick. Fuck that and fuck them. Trans rights are human rights and I don't want any of you to forget that.

I mentioned before that both cause and symptom of my problems with this subreddit was that frequently I was the only person in a position to put in the time. Well, I'm not going to leave my former teammates in the lurch. This subreddit needs new mods, lots of them. Ones who will be active, who will keep things on topic, and who can keep a dispassionate head in the face of the problems this subreddit faces. If that sounds like you, please apply.

I'll be leaving this sub, and nuking my account, on Friday, roughly 48 hours from when this post goes up. For god's sake please leave the other moderators and your fellow users the fuck alone after I'm gone.

Remember where you were when the genocide came to a bunch of NuTrek subreddits or whatever:

[NekoFever]

The JK thread is either gone, or moved to the special kids section.

Why not just ban the shitters? Sad to see the reee jannies participating in trans genocide.

It’s members only now it would seem. Good thing we have our shared riotous account.

Can the person using that account confirm if any bans have been handed out for mentioning the TERF wizard game in the fuck Joanne (TERF bitch) thread.

No bans since Nepenthe announced that “any and every member will be subjected to an immediate month's-long ban on sight for any mention of the game. No exceptions.”

“Some exceptions and we’ll move the thread to members-only so we don’t look like spineless hypocrites in public” didn’t have the same ring to it, I guess.

Wasn’t the whole point of collating all these accusations into a single thread that it was a useful resource to direct people who didn’t understand the issue to?

[benjipwns]

Wasn’t the whole point of collating all these accusations into a single thread that it was a useful resource to direct people who didn’t understand the issue to?

Anyone who doesn't sign up to see it probably isn't really interested in being an ally in the first place.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Reading about what that video is supposedly about is basic common sense.  It's hilarious that it takes 2 1/2 hours to explain that maybe death threats against "wrong," people aren't justified.


Nepenthe

Good ol' Unc made a video that's basically just for me. I'm an hour and 40 minutes in and he hasn't missed. Pertinent notes that truly struck a chord with me:

- The lack of resulting systemic change and altered behavior from incidents of online drama is basically an indictment on how outrage/"cancel culture" just doesn't really accomplish much in the long term, with the exception of having created an environment where everyone of any note in an online space- even if that online space is irrelevant to real life- is assuming that their being "held to account" is basically an inevitability that will occur when, as a result of being imperfect, bad faith actors will undoubtedly drudge up anything and everything to indict that person over a fuck up. And I'm like "FD Signifier basically figured out what being a ResetEra staffer is like. Welcome to the club, friendo."

- How much of this energy is leveled at content creators and not anyone of any real power who is actually performing systemic harm, which ultimately ties back into a later point in the video that systemic change is really fucking hard to do because there's no rulebook or easy answers to find comfort in and act upon. It requires imagination, physical work, long-term commitment, and some element of blind faith, so in a effort to assert some level of control and to do our best to act on our principles, we turn to easy targets- basically absolute nobodies online.

However, not every nobody is created equal, and this tendency to publicly shame and even harass people for grievances, real or imagined, comes down harder on Black people and PoCs despite the fact that the online left has one of, if not the most, openly tolerant environments for trans people to exist, find community, and even become figureheads in (which isn't a surprise since white people can be trans), and in general the online left has an extremely obvious blind spot with regards to racism and anti-Blackness despite the fact that Black people are essentially the foundation and vanguards of liberalism and socialism in America. Ultimately, too many in the online left are beholden to systems that favor them above Black people and that is likely to not change anytime soon. Money talks to everyone and white supremacy is big business.

I'll keep watching, but it's an absolute banger.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-bread-left-tube-has-a-drama-problem-f-d-signifier-incredibly-important-video.684607/post-100944976

Huh, seems I've seen that take put a lot more succinctly somewhere else

[Taco Bell Tower]

A subreddit moderator for a bunch of sci-fi communities who edited their automod to post Hogwart's Legacy spoilers and lock threads whenever Harry Potter was mentioned in order to stop the "harassment against the trans community" has stepped down but they're still deleting tons of posts about this and any discussion about it:
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This has been a long time coming. I've been moderating this subreddit for just under 8 of the 11 years it's been in existence. In my time here it's increased over 80 times in size at a time when discussions about fandom became increasingly polarized and heated. It probably won't surprise anyone to hear that I've been actively resentful of moderating this sub for years but unwilling to stop due to two factors:

Someone had to, and I was frequently the one with the most availability and willingness to put time towards it.

It had become by far the largest-scale project I'd ever been a part of.

Perhaps it was unavoidable that in an environment like that I'd eventually lose my shit. I've tried to walk away at least three or four times in the last few years. I sincerely have tried. But those two factors kept nagging me, kept bringing me back.

Well, now I have no choice. I acted extremely unprofessionally and undermined the confidence hundreds of thousands of subscribers have in this sub.

I regret that. I don't, and never will, regret the cause I did it in the name of-- and today for every person whose respect I lost legitimately, we've seen one who never had any to lose, one who saw an opportunity to brigade and spread hate cloaked behind reasonable-sounding criticisms of the way in which I was a total dick. Fuck that and fuck them. Trans rights are human rights and I don't want any of you to forget that.

I mentioned before that both cause and symptom of my problems with this subreddit was that frequently I was the only person in a position to put in the time. Well, I'm not going to leave my former teammates in the lurch. This subreddit needs new mods, lots of them. Ones who will be active, who will keep things on topic, and who can keep a dispassionate head in the face of the problems this subreddit faces. If that sounds like you, please apply.

I'll be leaving this sub, and nuking my account, on Friday, roughly 48 hours from when this post goes up. For god's sake please leave the other moderators and your fellow users the fuck alone after I'm gone.

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Remember where you were when the genocide came to a bunch of NuTrek subreddits or whatever:
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What's their Ree account and of course never showing proof of said genocide

[SmokyDave]

Huh, seems I've seen that take put a lot more succinctly somewhere else

That’s why I didn’t expect Nep to post any real thoughts on the video. I’d forgotten that brazen hypocrisy is always on the menu though.

I definitely prefer people with objectionable principles to people with no principles.

[Snoopycat_]

I’m a full grown man on my moms account but they can pry that $8 from my cold dead hands. If I get kicked out I’m not coming back

Full grown man




https://www.resetera.com/threads/netflix-canada-an-update-on-sharing.684643/page-3#post-100980847

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsofts-ceo-satya-nadella-declares-war-on-google.684907/

TurkishDelight
C++ Developer at Microsoft Verified


       Astroturfing?

[Daffy Duck]

Lol they really made the JK thread members only

[D3RANG3D]

https://i.imgur.com/U16Aeb0.mp4

[CHOW CHOW]

A subreddit moderator for a bunch of sci-fi communities who edited their automod to post Hogwart's Legacy spoilers and lock threads whenever Harry Potter was mentioned in order to stop the "harassment against the trans community" has stepped down but they're still deleting tons of posts about this and any discussion about it:
(Image removed from quote.)

This has been a long time coming. I've been moderating this subreddit for just under 8 of the 11 years it's been in existence. In my time here it's increased over 80 times in size at a time when discussions about fandom became increasingly polarized and heated. It probably won't surprise anyone to hear that I've been actively resentful of moderating this sub for years but unwilling to stop due to two factors:

Someone had to, and I was frequently the one with the most availability and willingness to put time towards it.

It had become by far the largest-scale project I'd ever been a part of.

Perhaps it was unavoidable that in an environment like that I'd eventually lose my shit. I've tried to walk away at least three or four times in the last few years. I sincerely have tried. But those two factors kept nagging me, kept bringing me back.

Well, now I have no choice. I acted extremely unprofessionally and undermined the confidence hundreds of thousands of subscribers have in this sub.

I regret that. I don't, and never will, regret the cause I did it in the name of-- and today for every person whose respect I lost legitimately, we've seen one who never had any to lose, one who saw an opportunity to brigade and spread hate cloaked behind reasonable-sounding criticisms of the way in which I was a total dick. Fuck that and fuck them. Trans rights are human rights and I don't want any of you to forget that.

I mentioned before that both cause and symptom of my problems with this subreddit was that frequently I was the only person in a position to put in the time. Well, I'm not going to leave my former teammates in the lurch. This subreddit needs new mods, lots of them. Ones who will be active, who will keep things on topic, and who can keep a dispassionate head in the face of the problems this subreddit faces. If that sounds like you, please apply.

I'll be leaving this sub, and nuking my account, on Friday, roughly 48 hours from when this post goes up. For god's sake please leave the other moderators and your fellow users the fuck alone after I'm gone.

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Remember where you were when the genocide came to a bunch of NuTrek subreddits or whatever:
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Moderator of /shylesbians

LESBIAN! Every single time. Guarantee you if this person has a Twitter account it’ll say “18+, NSFW” on it, most likely with a furry avatar. 

I feel bad for genuine trans folx that have had their entire identity co-opted by insane LARPing incels that couldn’t get laid as dudes and decided they were women.

[Snoopycat_]

It's going to be a tough call on who's raging harder this morning. Visawife at being unable to post his psychotic stalker diaries public information files on GirlFriend Reviews. Or Kyuuji at Nep Nep for ghosting the TERF bitch thread into irrelevancy.

[Uncle]

Moderator of /shylesbians

LESBIAN! Every single time. Guarantee you if this person has a Twitter account it’ll say “18+, NSFW” on it, most likely with a furry avatar. 

I feel bad for genuine trans folx that have had their entire identity co-opted by insane LARPing incels that couldn’t get laid as dudes and decided they were women.

well I googled librarylass twitter and didn't find much, but I did find this, which sure sounds like the same person:

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/librarylass-receives-a-%F0%9F%92%80-permanent-ban-no-appeals.855818/

I don't have an account there so I can't expand the image, but it sounds like they were planning secret psyops on facebook to troll the mods/community and got found out

part of their secret plan was to "wait for them to let an instance of gross transphobia slide and bring it to the attention of Trouble Tickets" like this would embarrass and ruin them or something

sounds like they generally went around making an ass of themselves politically and bullying vulnerable users

[Cauliflower Of Love]

It was one time!

I'll never live that down.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsofts-ceo-satya-nadella-declares-war-on-google.684907/

TurkishDelight
C++ Developer at Microsoft Verified


       Astroturfing?

Looking at the state of Xbox I would absolutely piss my pants as Google,

from laughter.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I’m a full grown man on my moms account but they can pry that $8 from my cold dead hands. If I get kicked out I’m not coming back

Full grown man

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/netflix-canada-an-update-on-sharing.684643/page-3#post-100980847

8 bucks is too much?

[D3RANG3D]

I bet he payed 8 bucks for a twitter check mark though. 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

8 bucks is like two tendies

[BIONIC]

8 bucks is like two tendies

Worth every penny

[Propagandhim]

https://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/how-to-hide-your-hogwarts-legacy-achievements-and-trophies-from-your-friends-and-family/


Feel like I'm hiding Anne Frank in my fuckin' attic ova here