Other Forums Containment Thread

[BisMarckie]

I agree that most of our oppression is through racial imperialism and enclosure of the commons. Marx and northern leftist critical theory has an issue with recognizing the centuries of oppression before capitalism and imperialism. To be honest, I align with black feminist socialist liberation movements that centers and empowers some of the most oppressed populations to reorganize our humanity. Pan-Africanism decolonial feminism is where I am at, like I have been empowered the most by my black female workers in my personal experience, and when I consider the theory and history, I want to defer to them, I trust them the most. They are the promised land.

Whitest shit I have ever read tbh

[Snoopycat_]

I guarantee his black female coworkers see right through that bullshit

[BisMarckie]

I guarantee his black female coworkers see right through that bullshit

Yes, because they are magical beings with magical powers and an inability to do evil things. If we put brown/black bodies in charge, we would be living in a utopia.

[Snoopycat_]

You know what those cunts really think are. It'd be wonderful if you lovely black ladies were in charge, and I was in charge of you

[BIONIC]

She is the promised land

[HaughtyFrank]

Earlier last month, Pikamee, a popular vtuber canceled her Hogwarts Legacy stream and went offline for three weeks, neither tweeting nor creating video content from February 8 through March 1. Yesterday, she announced she will retire from her vtubing career entirely. Angry fans have latched onto the Hogwarts Legacy controversy as the reason why their favorite vtuber will no longer produce content. But it’s more complicated than that

Because Pikamee’s Hogwarts Legacy tweets have been deleted, it’s hard to get a holistic view of how strongly people actually opposed her stream, though evidence suggests the criticism was clear in its disappointment but did not seem to escalate to harassment. However, Pikamee’s most militant fans seemed to take issue with the callout all the same. Between the quote retweets on the official retirement announcement and the tweets found by searching “Vtuber” on Twitter, people are upset at the possibility that opposition to Pikamee because of her decision to stream Hogwarts Legacy led to her retirement (which again, is currently unconfirmed).

The transphobic backlash

This mere possibility has led trans streamers and allies to fear the speculation will lead to increased transphobia in the vtuber community as it paints the problem group as trans people and trans allies. One tweet angry over Pikamee’s retirement showed an edited image depicting Hatsune Miku, a music software mascot, burning a trans flag. Several said that trans people deserved their oppression. Others condemned the entire queer community. Some tweets contained ableist slurs and threats against transgender people. From all the anti-LGBTQ tweets in relation to Pikamee currently trending on Twitter, (and one slur-filled thread on the hate forum Kiwifarms), the fear appears well-founded.

Amazing reporting by kotaku

[Uncle]

defend, defend, downplay...

I saw this one the other day too where they seem to imply that it's reasonable that desantis is ending disney's special governorship, but are mad that he's doing it for the wrong reasons



https://kotaku.com/disney-district-ron-desantis-florida-don-t-say-gay-1850174244

This week, Florida governor Ronald Dion DeSantis signed a bill that targets the Disney Company’s control over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a nearly 40-square mile area in Florida’s Orange and Osceola counties. The area covers the Walt Disney World Resort and was, until now, under independent governance largely controlled and influenced by the Disney corporation. In doing so, the governor claims to have dealt a decisive blow to the “Corporate Kingdom.” But recent disputes between DeSantis and Disney over LGBTQ issues place the move in a very different context.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/car-debt-is-piling-up-as-more-americans-owe-thousands-more-than-vehicles-are-worth-bloomberg.692422/

[joeboy101]

Amazing reporting by kotaku

Well, given this is that authors last article before it…

https://kotaku.com/dragon-age-inquisition-iron-bull-dreadwolf-bioware-rpg-1850173274

We really need to talk about how marginalized races are handled in BioWare’s RPG

Do we? Do we really?

[BisMarckie]

Sure let's publish an article about Dragon Age Inquisition in 2023, I am sure this will generate tons of revenue and help sustain this fine journalistic outlet.

[BisMarckie]

If you were streaming to more than 2 viewers, you'd be the #1 Dragon Age Inquisition streamer on twitch

[HardcoreRetro]

#QunariLivesMatter

Say his name! Iron Bull.

[Propagandhim]

I agree that most of our oppression is through racial imperialism and enclosure of the commons. Marx and northern leftist critical theory has an issue with recognizing the centuries of oppression before capitalism and imperialism. To be honest, I align with black feminist socialist liberation movements that centers and empowers some of the most oppressed populations to reorganize our humanity. Pan-Africanism decolonial feminism is where I am at, like I have been empowered the most by my black female workers in my personal experience, and when I consider the theory and history, I want to defer to them, I trust them the most. They are the promised land.

Whitest shit I have ever read tbh

"Gary, I'm the 4th black woman at the office you tried this on.  We don't want to date you."

[nobody of note]

I think Nepenthe used a whole-ass staff post in the degrowth Marxist thread to, essentially, get the last word in on the pets v degrowth thread:

OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION
Bringing up the locked thread regarding how pet ownership could essentially pay for world hunger is quite amusing.

Had most of the posters bothered to read that OP, as well as the thread creator's multiple clarifications, it would've been easy to glean that the Oxfam article never actually mentioned pet ownership's impact or lack thereof on world hunger. That was a comparison specifically brought up by the OP as a way to illustrate the monetary scale of the problem in relatable terms. It was not a call to action for mass pet release or euthanasia, nor was it a negative judgement on part of pet owners, in the same way that telling a McDonald's employee that they have to work 1000 hours a day to earn Elon Musk's wealth or whatever is not an indictment on McDonald's employees' work ethic. Sometimes, just sometimes, you make comparisons just to illustrate concepts.

It was pet owners who got up in their feelings because of a bad read. And I get the read- we've become hip to the fact that corporate and political entities will frame large scale sociopolitical issues in terms of individualistic action in order to temper mass calls for legislative action. "Get a job." "Reduce your carbon footprint." "Just follow the law." etc. I want to assume in good faith that that is what happened, because a lot of people felt personally attacked and insisted on rerouting blame to billionaires.

However, facts don't care about your feelings. It was a complete misread on part of pet owners and, ironically, was illustrative of part of Booshka's point that liberals in the Global North are not prepared for the idea of confronting any personal sacrifices that may need to happen in order to live in the equitable world they call for. It's easy to call for systemic change because that's up to the bigwigs, and it's also largely true, but it belies the fact that systemic change means you will not be guaranteed the same quality of life you have now. And if you can't handle that, you're not really for saving the world. It's all talking the talk but not walking the walk. And even then, neither the OP or Booshka said that people should not be allowed to own pets. They clarified multiple times in the previous thread.

Now you're dragging this dumb shit from a locked thread into this one because some of you now have a personal grudge against Booshka for something they never said because you couldn't be bothered to read the OP.

Knock it off, or risk a ban.

yikes on the bolded etc

Also degrowth thread has basically devolved to commieEra getting pissed at the idea that they might need to use words normal people understand if they ever want to win over the unwashed masses:

My issu

These words are only shocking to you and you're feeling ignorant about them only because its the first time youre hearing about them. It's not uncommon to find people feeling the same as you are when their worldview is questioned, and you feel the urge to attack the messenger. Suddenly, these terms come off a buzzwords. I'm sure in Booshka's circles these words are quite common.

If you can't communicate without words that are only understood among your own circles, you're doing something wrong. It's the same for any field. For instance, as an engineer, I can say most journal articles are terribly written from a communication stand point and the fields have way too heavy a reliance on jargon. There are times when incredibly precise language is needed and can't be avoided, but if you're talking to a crowd which you know won't all be familiar with your ideas and still fall back on jargon repeatedly, it means you probably don't actually have a good enough understanding of what you're talking about to rephrase it. There's a reason "explain it like I'm 5" is a thing that professionals will talk about constantly. Because if you can't explain your ideas in plain language, you probably don't understand them well yourself

It's not Booshka's fault you don't know the meaning of the words he's talking about, and it's certainly not his job to explain his beliefs to you like you're 5. Chatgpt is free. Just go ask it "what is imperialism" instead of attacking Booshka as a faker/poser using scary words, and we can go from there.

I actually do understand what they're generally saying, that doesn't mean the overuse of buzzwords isn't a sign of poor communication. I know what imperialism is. I know what the global south is. I understand the core concepts behind most of the buzz words being used and the ones I don't I can figure from context. That doesn't mean the overuse of buzzwords isn't a sign of poor communication skills and generally an indicator that someone doesn't actually fully understand their own concepts. If you tell people to "go look things up themselves" that doesn't make you seem smarter or them seem dumber, it just makes you look like a jackass elitist with a stick up their ass and people will leave. This is doubly true when you're trying to sell people on an idea. I don't think they're a poser or a faker, I was just offering constructive criticism over what I percieve as poor communication. You're free to disagree.

Also lol at the idea of suggesting chatgpt as a good way of learning literally anything

Nah if you want to convince people you should make sure they understand you. Relying on the people you are trying to present an argument to either be aware of the jargon or to look everything up is just bad communication

To be fair, I partially agree with this. We shouldn't avoid learning new words, terms, phrases, or concepts. That said, the mark of somebody who is actually understands the subject matter that they're speaking on is that they're able to decode it and present it in a way that's more easily understandable to get their point across. If you go to the doctor because you're not feeling well or you twisted an ankle or something, they're not going to speak to you in medical terms. They're going to decode those terms and explain the situation to you plainly and without reliance on jargon.

Are you saying people in this thread clueless about political terms in a highly political thread are similar to those in a patient-doctor relationship? Because it's a political thread. You're expected to know things. If not, then knowledge is free. It's not a communication issue more than people who consider themselves politically-literate feeling attacked because they don't know what some of the terms mean.

 If this was a medical forum and everyone was speaking in medical terms, you're not gonna go in and say "Hey wait a minute, explain all of this to us commoners!", while also taking part in the said medical thread?

Sir this is a videogame forum and we can't even get people to listen to developers, understand the development process and why certain descisions are made that results in the current state of the industry.

chastising people for not understanding very high level political theory on a videogame forum and effectively telling people not to get involved in discussing these things if they don't understand. Is frankly bizarre, perhaps an enthusiast game forum isn't the place for this kind of conversation if you aren't willing to take the time to explain things in layman's terms.

Capitalist dictator steps in to lay down the law and suppress the free expression of those truly committed to deep change:

Honestly, no. When you are making an argument, it is on YOU to be understandable. You don't get to chastise people when all you're doing is throwing out jargon

[Boredfrom]

Earlier last month, Pikamee, a popular vtuber canceled her Hogwarts Legacy stream and went offline for three weeks, neither tweeting nor creating video content from February 8 through March 1. Yesterday, she announced she will retire from her vtubing career entirely. Angry fans have latched onto the Hogwarts Legacy controversy as the reason why their favorite vtuber will no longer produce content. But it’s more complicated than that

Because Pikamee’s Hogwarts Legacy tweets have been deleted, it’s hard to get a holistic view of how strongly people actually opposed her stream, though evidence suggests the criticism was clear in its disappointment but did not seem to escalate to harassment. However, Pikamee’s most militant fans seemed to take issue with the callout all the same. Between the quote retweets on the official retirement announcement and the tweets found by searching “Vtuber” on Twitter, people are upset at the possibility that opposition to Pikamee because of her decision to stream Hogwarts Legacy led to her retirement (which again, is currently unconfirmed).

The transphobic backlash

This mere possibility has led trans streamers and allies to fear the speculation will lead to increased transphobia in the vtuber community as it paints the problem group as trans people and trans allies. One tweet angry over Pikamee’s retirement showed an edited image depicting Hatsune Miku, a music software mascot, burning a trans flag. Several said that trans people deserved their oppression. Others condemned the entire queer community. Some tweets contained ableist slurs and threats against transgender people. From all the anti-LGBTQ tweets in relation to Pikamee currently trending on Twitter, (and one slur-filled thread on the hate forum Kiwifarms), the fear appears well-founded.

Amazing reporting by kotaku

It sounds like Pikamee did plan the retirement since a while ago, a non affiliated big Vtuber confirms that was a big rumor. Still, generally speaking, Vtubers close to retiring want to stream more before the announced day than disappearing for a month, so I felt that is not the whole story regardless.

Given how insane touchy are the terminally online trans activists are, you can’t blame that people speculate that this is a cover story to not generate more drama or unwanted attention. Look how hard they latched on it  (and the harassed was a false flag operation) before there was legit sources confirming it.

[Boredfrom]

I think Nepenthe used a whole-ass staff post in the degrowth Marxist thread to, essentially, get the last word in on the pets v degrowth thread:

OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION
Bringing up the locked thread regarding how pet ownership could essentially pay for world hunger is quite amusing.

Had most of the posters bothered to read that OP, as well as the thread creator's multiple clarifications, it would've been easy to glean that the Oxfam article never actually mentioned pet ownership's impact or lack thereof on world hunger. That was a comparison specifically brought up by the OP as a way to illustrate the monetary scale of the problem in relatable terms. It was not a call to action for mass pet release or euthanasia, nor was it a negative judgement on part of pet owners, in the same way that telling a McDonald's employee that they have to work 1000 hours a day to earn Elon Musk's wealth or whatever is not an indictment on McDonald's employees' work ethic. Sometimes, just sometimes, you make comparisons just to illustrate concepts.

It was pet owners who got up in their feelings because of a bad read. And I get the read- we've become hip to the fact that corporate and political entities will frame large scale sociopolitical issues in terms of individualistic action in order to temper mass calls for legislative action. "Get a job." "Reduce your carbon footprint." "Just follow the law." etc. I want to assume in good faith that that is what happened, because a lot of people felt personally attacked and insisted on rerouting blame to billionaires.

However, facts don't care about your feelings. It was a complete misread on part of pet owners and, ironically, was illustrative of part of Booshka's point that liberals in the Global North are not prepared for the idea of confronting any personal sacrifices that may need to happen in order to live in the equitable world they call for. It's easy to call for systemic change because that's up to the bigwigs, and it's also largely true, but it belies the fact that systemic change means you will not be guaranteed the same quality of life you have now. And if you can't handle that, you're not really for saving the world. It's all talking the talk but not walking the walk. And even then, neither the OP or Booshka said that people should not be allowed to own pets. They clarified multiple times in the previous thread.

Now you're dragging this dumb shit from a locked thread into this one because some of you now have a personal grudge against Booshka for something they never said because you couldn't be bothered to read the OP.

Knock it off, or risk a ban.

yikes on the bolded etc

Also degrowth thread has basically devolved to commieEra getting pissed at the idea that they might need to use words normal people understand if they ever want to win over the unwashed masses:

My issu

These words are only shocking to you and you're feeling ignorant about them only because its the first time youre hearing about them. It's not uncommon to find people feeling the same as you are when their worldview is questioned, and you feel the urge to attack the messenger. Suddenly, these terms come off a buzzwords. I'm sure in Booshka's circles these words are quite common.

If you can't communicate without words that are only understood among your own circles, you're doing something wrong. It's the same for any field. For instance, as an engineer, I can say most journal articles are terribly written from a communication stand point and the fields have way too heavy a reliance on jargon. There are times when incredibly precise language is needed and can't be avoided, but if you're talking to a crowd which you know won't all be familiar with your ideas and still fall back on jargon repeatedly, it means you probably don't actually have a good enough understanding of what you're talking about to rephrase it. There's a reason "explain it like I'm 5" is a thing that professionals will talk about constantly. Because if you can't explain your ideas in plain language, you probably don't understand them well yourself

It's not Booshka's fault you don't know the meaning of the words he's talking about, and it's certainly not his job to explain his beliefs to you like you're 5. Chatgpt is free. Just go ask it "what is imperialism" instead of attacking Booshka as a faker/poser using scary words, and we can go from there.

I actually do understand what they're generally saying, that doesn't mean the overuse of buzzwords isn't a sign of poor communication. I know what imperialism is. I know what the global south is. I understand the core concepts behind most of the buzz words being used and the ones I don't I can figure from context. That doesn't mean the overuse of buzzwords isn't a sign of poor communication skills and generally an indicator that someone doesn't actually fully understand their own concepts. If you tell people to "go look things up themselves" that doesn't make you seem smarter or them seem dumber, it just makes you look like a jackass elitist with a stick up their ass and people will leave. This is doubly true when you're trying to sell people on an idea. I don't think they're a poser or a faker, I was just offering constructive criticism over what I percieve as poor communication. You're free to disagree.

Also lol at the idea of suggesting chatgpt as a good way of learning literally anything

Nah if you want to convince people you should make sure they understand you. Relying on the people you are trying to present an argument to either be aware of the jargon or to look everything up is just bad communication

To be fair, I partially agree with this. We shouldn't avoid learning new words, terms, phrases, or concepts. That said, the mark of somebody who is actually understands the subject matter that they're speaking on is that they're able to decode it and present it in a way that's more easily understandable to get their point across. If you go to the doctor because you're not feeling well or you twisted an ankle or something, they're not going to speak to you in medical terms. They're going to decode those terms and explain the situation to you plainly and without reliance on jargon.

Are you saying people in this thread clueless about political terms in a highly political thread are similar to those in a patient-doctor relationship? Because it's a political thread. You're expected to know things. If not, then knowledge is free. It's not a communication issue more than people who consider themselves politically-literate feeling attacked because they don't know what some of the terms mean.

 If this was a medical forum and everyone was speaking in medical terms, you're not gonna go in and say "Hey wait a minute, explain all of this to us commoners!", while also taking part in the said medical thread?

Sir this is a videogame forum and we can't even get people to listen to developers, understand the development process and why certain descisions are made that results in the current state of the industry.

chastising people for not understanding very high level political theory on a videogame forum and effectively telling people not to get involved in discussing these things if they don't understand. Is frankly bizarre, perhaps an enthusiast game forum isn't the place for this kind of conversation if you aren't willing to take the time to explain things in layman's terms.

Capitalist dictator steps in to lay down the law and suppress the free expression of those truly committed to deep change:

Honestly, no. When you are making an argument, it is on YOU to be understandable. You don't get to chastise people when all you're doing is throwing out jargon

A furry that hates animals and pets, uh?

[Propagandhim]

However, facts don't care about your feelings. It was a complete misread on part of pet owners and, ironically, was illustrative of part of Booshka's point that liberals in the Global North are not prepared for the idea of confronting any personal sacrifices that may need to happen in order to live in the equitable world they call for.

This is rich coming from someone who can't stop consuming animal products for 1 day, and then prioritizing *checks notes* people that are stewards for and care about other sentient creatures enough to take them in their home as enemy #1 for the global capitalist hellscape system.  What a fucking thing, of all things, to focus on.  Always with the most insufferable opinions. 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

James Stephanie Sterling fired their editor, badmouthed them on patreon, and the editor has come back with their side of the story including low pay for what they were expected to do and just general abusive behavior

wow, sterling is a huge obnoxious piece of shit for reals, and its not just heel kayfabe that hes been running long before doing any wrestling?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/animation-vfx-youtubers-corridor-crew-trained-an-ai-to-convert-their-live-action-footage-into-animation-what-do-you-think-of-the-results.691309/page-16#post-102102253

User Banned (Permanent): Trolling and derailing a thread over a series of posts; abuse of the report system and multiple severe infractions

The AI filter was literally trained with images taken from a pirated copy of a film. AI can't make shit it's own. That is the reason why if you go in the midjourney discord, tons of people can be found complaining that specific artists are using watermarks or putting their social media on private. And subsequently multiple artists on twitter complaining about the sheer amount of times their name pops up in the search bar. It's stolen art. Period.

Ok it’s Crossing Eden says it’s stolen art, not “literally stolen art”.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/assuming-capcom-remake-resident-evil-5-next-how-how-should-they-tackle-its-problematic-aspects.691189/#post-101915173

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissive post in a thread regarding Black representation

I haven’t played RE5 at this moment, but why cut the village?
RE 4 village is also supposed to be located in a real world inspired location: país vasco in Spain and it is not a real depiction of people in spain… and also… dubbed in mexican spanish 😅. They should also change RE4 starting village, because as a spaniard, I do not feel represented at all… is it about real world representation? Thx!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/losing-patience-with-the-graphics-this-gen.692503/page-11#post-102116512

User Banned (Permanent): Long history of hostility towards other members, recently received long ban for hostility

Someone said there was something about a PS4 dev kit or something in the leaks last year.................



You can charge whatever you want but I'm definitely less interested at full price if it's not pushing the system to the limits from the ground up. Talking about AAA games. Unless it's something ridiculously good, sure.

How does it benefit me that they optimised it for two platforms. They get sales out of that at the cost of the game not pushing the system I want it for as it could have - because it had to be designed to support a less capable system.



That's what I'm worried about. Fortnite could do it though but I've only seen snippets of the gameplay, need to check that out more.

Stop fucking posting, for the love of God, every post is somehow worse.

[jorma]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/animation-vfx-youtubers-corridor-crew-trained-an-ai-to-convert-their-live-action-footage-into-animation-what-do-you-think-of-the-results.691309/page-16#post-102102253

:copUser Banned (Permanent): Trolling and derailing a thread over a series of posts; abuse of the report system and multiple severe infractions

The AI filter was literally trained with images taken from a pirated copy of a film. AI can't make shit it's own. That is the reason why if you go in the midjourney discord, tons of people can be found complaining that specific artists are using watermarks or putting their social media on private. And subsequently multiple artists on twitter complaining about the sheer amount of times their name pops up in the search bar. It's stolen art. Period.

Ok it’s Crossing Eden says it’s stolen art, not “literally stolen art”.

trying to report a protected member, what was he thinking? 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

era: AI generated art is for fucking losers incapable of expressing their own creativity

also era: not my job to explain hegemonic misogynoir of the imperial core, go chatgpt it

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

chatgpt:

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-254#post-102101740

Did you forget about the equally (if not more) horny Zangief post?

Nope, didn't forget. I just wasn't bringing it up was because it's not relevant.

Guess it's okay to horny post male characters.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-254#post-102103579

I've never been a fan of using "horny jail" or "horny fans" as a justification for sexualization and objectification because it implies fighting games fans not into that are real fighting games fan (and in many cases I've experienced, deserving of belittlement and mockery for "Ruining the fun") and justifies the sexist BS in the industry. Seriously why does EVERYTHING have to appeal to people who demand every woman is sexualized or go one a rampage if Jade wear's more clothes.

And as we've seen with the recent Netherrealm games, Fighting games don't have to be "horny" 24/7 to be successful. As I've said in the past but this type of BS pushed me away from several fighters in the past because they pushed it more and more. Team Ninja pushed away most of it's female fanbase (including myself) just so they can appeal to "horny fans" and I roll my eyes at a lot of SNK's fair for more of the same.

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

Amazing reporting by kotaku

Well, given this is that authors last article before it…

https://kotaku.com/dragon-age-inquisition-iron-bull-dreadwolf-bioware-rpg-1850173274

We really need to talk about how marginalized races are handled in BioWare’s RPG

Do we? Do we really?

From that Pikamee article and I think this user corrected it

I wouldn't take much of what Sisi says at face value. I'm a queer person, and find a lot of her takes pretty unnuanced. (Which isn't to say I think people should support JKR. I won't be buying this game and tell people I know I don't think they should, either.)

The author

If you’re going to accuse me of takes on a post labelled “News,” you should at least try to gender me correctly.

[Pissy F Benny]

This v tuber shit is still

[BIONIC]

After much introspection, I realized I was wrong with regards to the vtuber drama. The callous disregard I displayed was simply unacceptable. I fully own up to it, and I promise to do better. My full statement below:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/285670822264307712

[close]

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-ot-antitrust-simulator-latest-update-eu-antitrust-regulators-are-not-expected-to-block-deal.633344/page-613#post-102116878

God damn I love this thread. I can't look away!

Yeah it’s great. It’s like an attractive train wreck. A bunch of lifelike sex dolls were on a train that got derailed and even though I am disgusted I can’t help but continue looking. And staring on occasion. Maybe having a poke.

[benjipwns]

We should definitely be more mindful of how we talk about poor Tom Cruise, we REALLY don't wanna get labelled SPs after all.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tom-cruise-currently-shooting-%E2%80%98mission-impossible-8%E2%80%99-flight-scenes-aboard-a-u-s-aircraft-carrier-off-the-italian-coast.692518/

They realize this is what the prominent members and staff of the forum does every single day right?

[Propagandhim]

Scientology is the blueprint for their cult, except Scientology doesn't hate you for having a dog.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/car-debt-is-piling-up-as-more-americans-owe-thousands-more-than-vehicles-are-worth-bloomberg.692422/

bonus content for The Benj:

the contradictions will continue to pile up as capitalist economists (aka court wizards) are incapable of reconciling the tendency of the rate of profit to fall with their nonsense ideology that relies on infinite growth

We just have to keep waiting! Sure, the math is wrong because Marx had no idea where profit came from and no Marxist can fix it because you have to throw out the entire basis for exploitation in their model, but it'll happen eventually! The forces of history told him so in a vision!

[Propagandhim]

The incel Marxist vs the Chad Buy the Dip-er. 

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tennessee-gov-signs-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-drag-restrictions-into-law.692671/#post-102100504

GOP wants to kill trans kids.

Unfortunately it feels like we'll see more and more of this as Republican politicians learn from Trump and Desantis. Banging on the culture war is popular with Republican voters.

This is the GOP, and has always been the GOP. Stop acting like this is new.

And like, no, this isn't "war on Christmas" bullshit, this is literally people's lives being invalidated by law. Don't open your mouth if you think the elimination of providing gender-affirming care is "culture war lip service" rather than the genocide of trans people that it is.

How does moving drag performances solely into adult businesses and banning horrific pseudoscience for children invalidate anyone's lives no matter how stupid the first part is?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tennessee-gov-signs-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-drag-restrictions-into-law.692671/#post-102103462

It is all of that. I’m not disagreeing, but the GOP has never been more comfortable about saying the quiet part out loud.

You referred to my life as culture wars, like if you want to be a ally, at least listen when we say our lives are not some something to be uttered in between sips by winos.

And like, GOP did the move bombings, and the media whitewashed it. It does not matter what they say when the media is complicit.

Look at every thread Excelisorf has posted about how NYT has used their platform to further white supremacy

The GOP did the MOVE bombing"s"?

And "winos"? Yikes, not a good look.

Please don’t trash the state. Trash the religious groups funding this shit.

Powerful energy when we just had a thread where people said I should be left for dead because I can't afford to leave Florida, yesterday.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tennessee-gov-signs-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-drag-restrictions-into-law.692671/post-102103078

Relax, I'm sure someone will swing by to pick you up when the revolution finally kicks off.

[BisMarckie]

The incel Marxist vs the Chad Buy the Dip-er. 

(Image removed from quote.)

Could you convert it for me in carrots taken vs. carrots planted?

[Propagandhim]

The incel Marxist vs the Chad Buy the Dip-er. 

(Image removed from quote.)

Could you convert it for me in carrots taken vs. carrots planted?

Okay, people use investment vehicles to save for retirement.  More and more people have a stake in the assets and incentives that lead to a nation's growth.  But there's a catch:  it has to stop at some point because relying on an infinite growth cycle to fund your future is impossible.  Here's where carrots come in:  When you invest money into a 401k, and the economy inevitably collapses, the first thing you're gonna wanna do is plant vegetables on a communal rooftop garden in a hollowed out city that used to house industry.  Forget about the industry, we got carrots now.    Then, in this collapsing economic hellscape, the good in people will really shine:  a set of really nice, perfect people will apportion your stake according to your contribution to the garden, and according to your needs.  The garden will grow to accommodate all peoples' needs for present and future and give rise to better conditions out of the current economic hellscape because there will be infinite growth, and...oh shit.  oh fuck.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aaron-taylor-johnson-ralph-ineson-and-simon-mcburney-join-robert-eggers%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98nosferatu%E2%80%99.692932/#post-102142015

Another almost entirely all white cast for a Robert Eggers movie? What a shocking twist.

His first movie takes place in a 1600s Puritan colony, the second movie is about 1800s lighthouse keepers, the third movie is a Nordic fable, and this one is in 1800s Germany/Transylvania. What are these casts supposed to look like?

[benjipwns]

The incel Marxist vs the Chad Buy the Dip-er. 

(Image removed from quote.)

Could you convert it for me in carrots taken vs. carrots planted?

Okay, people use investment vehicles to save for retirement.  More and more people have a stake in the assets and incentives that lead to a nation's growth.  But there's a catch:  it has to stop at some point because relying on an infinite growth cycle to fund your future is impossible.  Here's where carrots come in:  When you invest money into a 401k, and the economy inevitably collapses, the first thing you're gonna wanna do is plant vegetables on a communal rooftop garden in a hollowed out city that used to house industry.  Forget about the industry, we got carrots now.    Then, in this collapsing economic hellscape, the good in people will really shine:  a set of really nice, perfect people will apportion your stake according to your contribution to the garden, and according to your needs.  The garden will grow to accommodate all peoples' needs for present and future and give rise to better conditions out of the current economic hellscape because there will be infinite growth, and...oh shit.  oh fuck.

Seems like someone needs to do some reading on Parecon which solved all problems by assuming an omniscient and omnipotent community.

[Potato]

Earlier last month, Pikamee, a popular vtuber canceled her Hogwarts Legacy stream and went offline for three weeks, neither tweeting nor creating video content from February 8 through March 1. Yesterday, she announced she will retire from her vtubing career entirely. Angry fans have latched onto the Hogwarts Legacy controversy as the reason why their favorite vtuber will no longer produce content. But it’s more complicated than that

Because Pikamee’s Hogwarts Legacy tweets have been deleted, it’s hard to get a holistic view of how strongly people actually opposed her stream, though evidence suggests the criticism was clear in its disappointment but did not seem to escalate to harassment. However, Pikamee’s most militant fans seemed to take issue with the callout all the same. Between the quote retweets on the official retirement announcement and the tweets found by searching “Vtuber” on Twitter, people are upset at the possibility that opposition to Pikamee because of her decision to stream Hogwarts Legacy led to her retirement (which again, is currently unconfirmed).

The transphobic backlash

This mere possibility has led trans streamers and allies to fear the speculation will lead to increased transphobia in the vtuber community as it paints the problem group as trans people and trans allies. One tweet angry over Pikamee’s retirement showed an edited image depicting Hatsune Miku, a music software mascot, burning a trans flag. Several said that trans people deserved their oppression. Others condemned the entire queer community. Some tweets contained ableist slurs and threats against transgender people. From all the anti-LGBTQ tweets in relation to Pikamee currently trending on Twitter, (and one slur-filled thread on the hate forum Kiwifarms), the fear appears well-founded.

Amazing reporting by kotaku

I wish I could harass someone off a social media site and then claim that the real problem and what everyone should be concerned about is that what I did might lead to more harassment against me.
 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-does-youtube-know-my-childs-name.692944/

I'm seriously creeped out right now. I just launched Youtube on my Series X and on the 'Who's watching?' screen, in between my account and the Guest option, is a Kids account. And at the top right corner the notification: 'Kids profiles were added select one anytime to watch to watch videos on YouTube Kids. To update their profile, go to yt.be/kidprofile.

And now the creepy part: The account name of the profile is the first name of my three year old and also oldest kid... WTF? How did that information get there?
I immediately asked my wife if she set something up, but she is as shocked as I am. And no, it couldn't have been set up by my child.

I checked the youttube apps on all my devices and it's the same on PS4 and Switch. On my phone, my PC and our TV there is only my profile.

I googled it but found nothing. And I hope someone has a logical explanation. I'm actually a bit terrified right now....

[benjipwns]

Because Pikamee’s Hogwarts Legacy tweets have been deleted, it’s hard to get a holistic view of how strongly people actually opposed her stream, though evidence suggests the criticism was clear in its disappointment but did not seem to escalate to harassment.

The transphobic backlash

This mere possibility has led trans streamers and allies to fear the speculation will lead to increased transphobia in the vtuber community as it paints the problem group as trans people and trans allies. One tweet angry over Pikamee’s retirement showed an edited image depicting Hatsune Miku, a music software mascot, burning a trans flag. Several said that trans people deserved their oppression. Others condemned the entire queer community. Some tweets contained ableist slurs and threats against transgender people. From all the anti-LGBTQ tweets in relation to Pikamee currently trending on Twitter, (and one slur-filled thread on the hate forum Kiwifarms), the fear appears well-founded.

I notice that no evidence was provided yet the "evidence" was still said to debunk the claims and the criticism was "clear" as there being no harassment in the first instance.

Then when we turn to the second situation we have evidence such as "one tweet angry" and "several tweets" and "some tweets" and "one thread on Kiwi Farms" as very convincing proof to where the author finds no need to use language like "seem" or any of the other caveats and disclaimers applied in the first instance.

[Propagandhim]

edit: none of this is interesting enough to warrant a page full of these pics.   

[Pissy F Benny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aaron-taylor-johnson-ralph-ineson-and-simon-mcburney-join-robert-eggers%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98nosferatu%E2%80%99.692932/#post-102142015

Another almost entirely all white cast for a Robert Eggers movie? What a shocking twist.

His first movie takes place in a 1600s Puritan colony, the second movie is about 1800s lighthouse keepers, the third movie is a Nordic fable, and this one is in 1800s Germany/Transylvania. What are these casts supposed to look like?

Why do you think he chooses these settings?

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-does-youtube-know-my-childs-name.692944/

I'm seriously creeped out right now. I just launched Youtube on my Series X and on the 'Who's watching?' screen, in between my account and the Guest option, is a Kids account. And at the top right corner the notification: 'Kids profiles were added select one anytime to watch to watch videos on YouTube Kids. To update their profile, go to yt.be/kidprofile.

And now the creepy part: The account name of the profile is the first name of my three year old and also oldest kid... WTF? How did that information get there?
I immediately asked my wife if she set something up, but she is as shocked as I am. And no, it couldn't have been set up by my child.

I checked the youttube apps on all my devices and it's the same on PS4 and Switch. On my phone, my PC and our TV there is only my profile.

I googled it but found nothing. And I hope someone has a logical explanation. I'm actually a bit terrified right now....

The only logical explanation is that the Amazon driver that broke into that one ERA member's house to deliver a package; came by your house, broke in and created those accounts.

 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aaron-taylor-johnson-ralph-ineson-and-simon-mcburney-join-robert-eggers%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98nosferatu%E2%80%99.692932/#post-102142015

Another almost entirely all white cast for a Robert Eggers movie? What a shocking twist.

His first movie takes place in a 1600s Puritan colony, the second movie is about 1800s lighthouse keepers, the third movie is a Nordic fable, and this one is in 1800s Germany/Transylvania. What are these casts supposed to look like?

I, for one, am concerned about the lack of diversity in films such as Boyz n the Hood and Friday.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-does-youtube-know-my-childs-name.692944/

Don't underestimate your kids.

I watched my then 2 year old turn on my WiiU, create her own profile, correctly spell her own name, and create a fairly accurate Mii character for herself.

No assistance necessary.

He doens't have acces to the devices and he can't even spell his name correctly, certainly not type it. He is three and a half and can't read, nor did he ever control a device. He doesn't even know what thoses consoles do and they are on a shelf that is 220cm high above the ground.

Kid's already nearly two years behind the competition just with ResetERA.com parents.

[Propagandhim]

What is he even thinking?  That he didn't give Youtube that information and they're spying on him?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gina-carano%E2%80%99s-new-ben-shapiro-produced-movie-is-somehow-still-too-woke-for-some-right-wingers.692869/

Who knew pandering to manchild sexists would lead to this?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-greener-marx-kohei-saito-on-connecting-communism-with-the-climate-crisis.692683/#post-102111301

User Banned (1 Month): Thread Derail; Cross Thread Drama; Hostility; Assorted History of Related Priors

Incredible to make this thread just because people got mad at you for saying that people should let their dogs die earlier and only have mules as pets.

Just because you keep saying Marx was pro degrowth won't make it true.

User Banned (1 Month): Thread Derail; Cross Thread Drama; Hostility; Assorted History of Related Priors

OK but does the pet-killing start before or after we degrowth?

"History of Related Priors" doesn't sound like cops at all.

[HaughtyFrank]

Hitting people with completely nonsensical sounding charges in a thread dealing with communism is almost poetic 

[HaughtyFrank]

Earlier last month, Pikamee, a popular vtuber canceled her Hogwarts Legacy stream and went offline for three weeks, neither tweeting nor creating video content from February 8 through March 1. Yesterday, she announced she will retire from her vtubing career entirely. Angry fans have latched onto the Hogwarts Legacy controversy as the reason why their favorite vtuber will no longer produce content. But it’s more complicated than that

Because Pikamee’s Hogwarts Legacy tweets have been deleted, it’s hard to get a holistic view of how strongly people actually opposed her stream, though evidence suggests the criticism was clear in its disappointment but did not seem to escalate to harassment. However, Pikamee’s most militant fans seemed to take issue with the callout all the same. Between the quote retweets on the official retirement announcement and the tweets found by searching “Vtuber” on Twitter, people are upset at the possibility that opposition to Pikamee because of her decision to stream Hogwarts Legacy led to her retirement (which again, is currently unconfirmed).

The transphobic backlash

This mere possibility has led trans streamers and allies to fear the speculation will lead to increased transphobia in the vtuber community as it paints the problem group as trans people and trans allies. One tweet angry over Pikamee’s retirement showed an edited image depicting Hatsune Miku, a music software mascot, burning a trans flag. Several said that trans people deserved their oppression. Others condemned the entire queer community. Some tweets contained ableist slurs and threats against transgender people. From all the anti-LGBTQ tweets in relation to Pikamee currently trending on Twitter, (and one slur-filled thread on the hate forum Kiwifarms), the fear appears well-founded.

Amazing reporting by kotaku

I wish I could harass someone off a social media site and then claim that the real problem and what everyone should be concerned about is that what I did might lead to more harassment against me.
 

https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/809637479674281984

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-does-youtube-know-my-childs-name.692944/

I'm seriously creeped out right now. I just launched Youtube on my Series X and on the 'Who's watching?' screen, in between my account and the Guest option, is a Kids account. And at the top right corner the notification: 'Kids profiles were added select one anytime to watch to watch videos on YouTube Kids. To update their profile, go to yt.be/kidprofile.

And now the creepy part: The account name of the profile is the first name of my three year old and also oldest kid... WTF? How did that information get there?
I immediately asked my wife if she set something up, but she is as shocked as I am. And no, it couldn't have been set up by my child.

I checked the youttube apps on all my devices and it's the same on PS4 and Switch. On my phone, my PC and our TV there is only my profile.

I googled it but found nothing. And I hope someone has a logical explanation. I'm actually a bit terrified right now....

This thread is gonna end up with OP being a system.

I really can't remember doing this, but what else could it be,

[PogiJones]

A furry that hates animals and pets, uh?

It's the incel way: hate them and fantasize about boning them

[benjipwns]

What is he even thinking?  That he didn't give Youtube that information and they're spying on him?

That's what many members are thinking:

I wonder if an Alexa or Google Assistant could have heard them talking about the kid and made the account?

I know I have had conversations at home with my housemate either around our phones or a Google speaker and within 12-48 hours I have had something related to what we talked about popping up in my news feed.

Facebook has been making shadow profiles for like a decade now, I wouldn't be surprised if Google is doing the same thing.

I could believe it was just added by their creepy AI. Google, without me entering anything, start giving me highlights like "look back at pictures of *daughters name*"

Then it started auto organizing my photos based on people in my life with their names included.

I'd be concerned if your kids have a unique or very odd spelling of a name, then Google just have all your data.

Regardless of the literal, actual answer, at some point I feel like people should be peak pissed about this stuff just being dropped on them.

"well, you searched baby names in 2018 and seemed to revisit the Abernathy page often. Since you have already agreed to Google's EULA and we note in the public record that a male child was born to your family in early 2019, we used the data <that you explicitly agreed to share in the aforementioned EULA agreement> to help you organize your family's needs across the Alphabet family of products and devices."

We have threads about "I talked about earwax once with a friend and now I'm getting targeted ads like crazy" monthly at this point. Regardless of whatever contorted version of you-did-it-to-yourself leads us here, these companies need to seriously chill out.

You might have uploaded a picture of your child to google photos.
You might have spoken about the child near google assistant.
You might have entered search terms that would indicate that you were going to have a child.

Take your pick, their EULA allows for data collection, processing and resale in this manner.

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aaron-taylor-johnson-ralph-ineson-and-simon-mcburney-join-robert-eggers%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98nosferatu%E2%80%99.692932/#post-102142015

Another almost entirely all white cast for a Robert Eggers movie? What a shocking twist.

His first movie takes place in a 1600s Puritan colony, the second movie is about 1800s lighthouse keepers, the third movie is a Nordic fable, and this one is in 1800s Germany/Transylvania. What are these casts supposed to look like?

Excuse me, ResetEra has proven on numerous occasions that medieval Europe was highly diverse. If 15th century Bohemia was a melting pot, imagine was Transylvania was like by the 1800s.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aaron-taylor-johnson-ralph-ineson-and-simon-mcburney-join-robert-eggers%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98nosferatu%E2%80%99.692932/#post-102142015

Another almost entirely all white cast for a Robert Eggers movie? What a shocking twist.

His first movie takes place in a 1600s Puritan colony, the second movie is about 1800s lighthouse keepers, the third movie is a Nordic fable, and this one is in 1800s Germany/Transylvania. What are these casts supposed to look like?

Excuse me, ResetEra has proven on numerous occasions that medieval Europe was highly diverse. If 15th century Bohemia was a melting pot, imagine was Transylvania was like by the 1800s.

I remember some of them being upset that the "Northman" wasn't diverse, because according to them, research has shown that vikings were diverse. The funny thing is if you actually look up that research, what the researchers mean by "diverse" is that the Vikings didn't have exclusively Scandinavian DNA but also DNA from other Europeans. however those Europeans would still be considered as white by everyone.
Basically it's true that Europe wasn't exclusively white as there were travelers, merchants etc. but they're overcorrecting so hard to the point of total absurdity.

[benjipwns]

Europe today is like 2% Black. France is the only country over 4% and they want the whole continent represented not by United States demographics (where there's large geographical areas with almost none) but more urban United States demographics.

[benjipwns]

Europe today is like 2% Black. France is the only country over 4% and they want the whole continent represented not by United States demographics (where there's large geographical areas with almost none) but more urban United States demographics.

SAY WHAT YOU REALLY MEAN

[nobody of note]

Excel posts a tweet in the JK thread that basically says JKR is now a Milo-supporter.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-56#post-102146884

https://twitter.com/scottdagostino/status/1631701442577694736

Lmaoooo

The thread reacts about how you'd expect to what seems like the most outright alt-right friendly thing JKR has ever done:

JK is one more podcast appearance away from endorsing Donald Trump.

Quite ironic that Joanne is basically Lady Voldemort these days.

Siding with Milo... Shouldn't be surprised at all.

Of course she does, she wants to be able to say whatever she likes and not suffer any consequence. Right now, even though it's plain to see what she is, she's holding back out of fear. These people are cowards, they'll never go 100% mask off because they know it would ruin them, but they're inching toward the possibility every chance they can get.

Germaine Greer (terf) wrote a pedo book about sexy boys. terfs all over the internet whine about losing access to shapely young boobs. Their reactionary allies are the type to do straight up pedophilia and also make their teen daughters marry them with promise rings and shit. This is who she is.

Obviously it could be that, but it also feels like the sort of thing the people she’s now surrounded herself with might still be worked up enough over that she’d hear about it through them? And then just parrot it as a talking point.

Like her politics before she went mask-off already sucked, but at least publicly it was in a different way than supporting people like him. So starting to care about it to fit in with her alt-right buds would make the most sense to me.

I haven't listened to the podcast. But what I did do was go ahead and click through to the article to see what JKR apparently said, because stanning for Milo would actually be pretty gross. And excel would never, ever mislead people with a tweet, right? Well...
https://www.avclub.com/j-k-rowling-authoritarian-milo-yiannopoulos-podcast-1850183976

But surely, the author who wrote a whole series about children fighting allegorical Nazis would at least support the shunning of Nazis? Also no. In the same podcast episode, Rowling says critics should have engaged with alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos rather than running him off college campuses. “I’m watching from across the pond as he tries to speak on various campuses and there are protests, riots, ‘We want him de-platformed, we don’t want him to speak at all,’” she recalls (per The Telegraph). “And I thought it was a terrible strategic error. My feeling was, you are giving this man way more power than he deserves by behaving in this way. It made Milo look sexier and edgier than he deserved to look.”
“I thought it was strategically appalling… get on that platform and eviscerate his ideas, get on that platform and expose him for the charlatan that he is. You push back hard. You’ve given him so much power by refusing to talk,” Rowling continues. “In fact, they were serving his purposes because he was able to walk away from that saying, ‘Look, they don’t dare debate me, this is how dangerous and edgy I am.’ And I don’t think we want to cast the alt-right in that light.”

It's hilarious because JKR going actually pro-Milo would be a pretty good reason for middle-of-the-road people fully turning on her. But for some reason I don't see claiming she supports him based on her saying, basically, people fucked up and gave him more power than he should have had accomplishing that and that giving Milo power was a bad thing paying off. I don't know if this is irony or what but this kind of misrepresentation is just such an epic strategic error that will, ultimately, give her another situation to to claim to be a witch-hunt victim in.

[benjipwns]

Of course she does, she wants to be able to say whatever she likes and not suffer any consequence. Right now, even though it's plain to see what she is, she's holding back out of fear. These people are cowards, they'll never go 100% mask off because they know it would ruin them, but they're inching toward the possibility every chance they can get.

Germaine Greer (terf) wrote a pedo book about sexy boys. terfs all over the internet whine about losing access to shapely young boobs. Their reactionary allies are the type to do straight up pedophilia and also make their teen daughters marry them with promise rings and shit. This is who she is.

Like her politics before she went mask-off already sucked, but at least publicly it was in a different way than supporting people like him.

Her strong support for the Labour Party and against Brexit?