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[Boredfrom]

If the Gawker writers are such talented journalists couldn't they just branch off and go independent like gaming journalist and human icon Jeff Gerstmann did after kanenlynchgate?

I don't get the big deal. If anything they've been freed from their corporate shackles 

Do you think these writers have the talent to build a loyal fanbase large enough to sustain a viable, profitable business? These people can whine about capitalism all they want, but you need an actual userbase that want to read/watch your shit on a regular basis to remain a viable business. Having you userbase limited to ResetERA and and WayPoint forums is super niche.

Absolutely not lmao. I fucking hate reading Kotaku as a rule and the only thing salvageable from it was Tim Rogers, who it seems everyone but me hates. Kotaku had a bizarre effect on me that the more I scrolled the page down the further my eyes rolled into my head, as if connected by a string

But I also think it's not like Gerstmann was super duper popular before giant bomb 

Pretty sure they still had a pretty strong fan base pre Giant Bomb.

[Averon]

"Nobody's perfect" says man responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killings

So the go-to deflect about Obama bemoaning the lack of nuance and context in callout culture is..."but he used drones attacks so fuck off, boomer!" 

[Boredfrom]

"Nobody's perfect" says man responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killings

So the go-to deflect about Obama bemoaning the lack of nuance and context in callout culture is..."but he used drones attacks so fuck off, boomer!" 

 

[shosta]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-landlords-inherently-unethical.150022/post-25923192

I think these threads are great to show that ERA isn't some kind of radical leftist SJW den on the Internet like the alt-right chuds make it out to be.

It kind of feels like it's showing exactly that? Being told you're unethical for not letting people live on your property for free is .. something. I can't imagine many other social circles anyone would say that with a straight face.

I have seen this take a lot in leftist circles, people in here shocked at the notion are proving my point.

It's just such an absurd notion. There are totally unethical and shitty landlords, no one is disputing that, but to say that being a landlord as a whole is unethical? Absolute nonsense.

Like, the critique is deeper than any of your anecdotes and #notalllandlords, this critique goes hand in hand with a critique of capitalism as we know it, and how shelter should be a human right not a priviledge. How most landlords get their properties through inheritance, and that capital is used to further accrue capital on the back of people with less social mobility.

THANK YOU again Kurdel

Good lord. TIL my local grocer is holding my life ransom because they have the audacity to charge me for food

The capitalists who own the Grocery store are in fact doing that yes.

And Cerium is holding my posts ransom by taxing the poor and not listing me as a Staff Member despite the clear proof that I am in the loop! Nor is he paying me like was promised when ResetERA.com started! It's a LLC, that means nobody can take control and run it for profit! THE WORKERS UNITED CAN NEVER BE DIVIDED!

Fuck off, bunjie.

[benjipwns]

Fuck off, bunjie.

oops your job application to the Benji Network just fell into the shredder, got shredded completely and was then put in a trashbin which the Filipino slave labor took out and threw in the dumpster

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-on-call-out-culture-the-world-is-messy-there-are-ambiguities-people-who-do-really-good-stuff-have-flaws.150090/post-25931984

I’ve done some stupid shit - I’m 35, it’s almost impossible for me to have not done something stupid by this point.

(Fair warning, I’m going to bed at this moment, I’ll deal with the fallout tomorrow)

Look, there has to be a middle ground - people can love Bernie or Warren, but the position against the Republican size is dependent on realizing that the majority had a common ground.

I like Bernie.
I like Warren.
I like someone that can magically address my concerns.
I also know what makes sense realistically.
said, so what you can, but don’t be an asshole.

Holy fuck I drank a bit - short version fuck DJT

Also I hate all of you that can’t just exist without hating the “other”

unless it is trump - fuck those idiots lol

I'm not sure I understand who is meant to be the "other" in this context. You mean like racism?

i mean the quote/unquote those use when referencing their “targets.” To me, it’s the right-wing targets referencing the self-imposed targets

School targets imposed, I’ll allow it. But my class only needed targets for now.

[Don Rumata]

"Nobody's perfect" says man responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killings

So the go-to deflect about Obama bemoaning the lack of nuance and context in callout culture is..."but he used drones attacks so fuck off, boomer!" 

Still better than "that one joke tweet from 10 years ago".

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-on-call-out-culture-the-world-is-messy-there-are-ambiguities-people-who-do-really-good-stuff-have-flaws.150090/post-25931984

I’ve done some stupid shit - I’m 35, it’s almost impossible for me to have not done something stupid by this point.

(Fair warning, I’m going to bed at this moment, I’ll deal with the fallout tomorrow)

Look, there has to be a middle ground - people can love Bernie or Warren, but the position against the Republican size is dependent on realizing that the majority had a common ground.

I like Bernie.
I like Warren.
I like someone that can magically address my concerns.
I also know what makes sense realistically.
said, so what you can, but don’t be an asshole.

Holy fuck I drank a bit - short version fuck DJT

Also I hate all of you that can’t just exist without hating the “other”

unless it is trump - fuck those idiots lol

I'm not sure I understand who is meant to be the "other" in this context. You mean like racism?

i mean the quote/unquote those use when referencing their “targets.” To me, it’s the right-wing targets referencing the self-imposed targets

School targets imposed, I’ll allow it. But my class only needed targets for now.

Hecht by next week

[Bore Expert]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-favorite-vampire-film.149336/


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhaNkHRF8pM

[VomKriege]

Schreier
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1189310327760080898

The corporation that bought Kotaku:

(Image removed from quote.)

JS Denton will be back in Deus Ex : Homo Sapiens Kotaku

[OnlyRegret]

games blogging/"journalism"

[Tektonic]

thinking of nerds using Black Panther as the high water mark of comic book movies, makes me wonder... "what has Spike Lee said about comic book movies?"

remember, being silent is being complicit. Speak up Spike, recant your non-comic book movie silence!

[Tektonic]

"So many of those properties — it’s a childhood dream to be able to essentially see what you saw in your imagination as a child, watching or reading or whatever you were doing with that stuff,” he shared when discussing the prospects of directing a comic book film. “It’s a filmmaker’s dream. But you know, I feel like I only have so much time. I have a lot of stories to tell, and it just doesn’t feel right.”

And the name of that bigot? Jordan Peele. CANCELLED!

[clothedmacuser]

OFFICIAL STAFF COMMUNICATION
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[/color]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/blizzcon-2019-ot-seize-the-means-of-hype-read-staff-post.149901/post-25910548


Oh Joyus day! We are allowed to be excited.  How Grand and amazing. 

[Tektonic]

Back in 2012, he was on the short list to direct what would become Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And he took himself out of contention to instead direct the N.W.A. biopic that everyone is raving about.

We see you, F. Gary Gray. You are no ally...



ETC ETC.. So many Directors of color being traitors... it must be the White dominated industry that forces them to. (Mental Gymnastics engage)

[ResetBanBot]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-on-call-out-culture-the-world-is-messy-there-are-ambiguities-people-who-do-really-good-stuff-have-flaws.150090/post-25931984

I’ve done some stupid shit - I’m 35, it’s almost impossible for me to have not done something stupid by this point.

(Fair warning, I’m going to bed at this moment, I’ll deal with the fallout tomorrow)

Look, there has to be a middle ground - people can love Bernie or Warren, but the position against the Republican size is dependent on realizing that the majority had a common ground.

I like Bernie.
I like Warren.
I like someone that can magically address my concerns.
I also know what makes sense realistically.
said, so what you can, but don’t be an asshole.

Holy fuck I drank a bit - short version fuck DJT

Also I hate all of you that can’t just exist without hating the “other”

unless it is trump - fuck those idiots lol

I'm not sure I understand who is meant to be the "other" in this context. You mean like racism?

i mean the quote/unquote those use when referencing their “targets.” To me, it’s the right-wing targets referencing the self-imposed targets

School targets imposed, I’ll allow it. But my class only needed targets for now.

bruh

[Cauliflower Of Love]

That obama thread +
https://www.resetera.com/threads/jordan-peele-doesnt-want-fans-sending-him-their-tethered-halloween-costumes.149799/

[Lonewulfeus]

If "party membership" booms and your poll numbers crash, you have a massive issue.  A very enthusiastic minority can't win an election all by itself.  You call it a fracturing when you're seeing Labour's poll numbers crash at the same time the Lib Dems are getting resurrected. There is clearly a schism in the party electorate that hasn't been able to be resolved internally, explaining half of the crazy 4-way polling. 

If by "Corbyn's a symptom of a generation who doesn't want politics to run by the same old rules" you mean Corbyn's a baby boomer interested in blowing up all of the infrastructure and pulling up the ladder that allowed them success over the past few decades, then yes, I agree.

Labour's gains in urban upper income but socially liberal ancestral Tory areas at the same time they were losing seats in rural socially conservative ancestral Labour areas mirrored the exact same trends you're seeing across western democracies like the US and Germany as social/cultural factors become the biggest dividing line over economic ones as part of a broad political realignment no one's really able to avoid.  In 2017 Labour did better than expected, but attributing that to Corbyn was always ridiculous given that May's unpopularity and the structural realignment pretty much explained it, especially since Corbyn was unpopular prior to the election, and hasn't gotten any more popular since.

Oh god, we're in for 6 weeks of interminable uninformed pseudo-analysis from Americans pretending to understand the first thing about British politics aren't we.

No, Kirblar just hates the left

Kirblar annhilated

[EightBitNate]

don't worry, I made this one shorter for you

Then enlighten me

Under socialism:
- You pay for the cost of housing through a government tax. The tax covers the cost of building the housing. That's all you have to pay for.

Under capitalism:
- Someone bought that property from someone else for the price of the property.
- The price of the property is a reflection of its revenue generating potential (either through use as a small business or through the bloodletting of the working class). This is why cities love property taxes: taxes on the value of a property are an indirect tax on citywide incomes and almost impossible to avoid.
- The typical property owner aims to recover the cost of purchasing that property over the course of 5 to 7 years. Put another way, the price of the property is generally about what the buyer expects he can extract as rent over 5 to 7 years. This includes the cost of tearing the building down and putting a bigger one up, if that applies.
- Once the property has "paid for itself" it's free money time. The property owner can sit back and the renters pay the owner as long as they live there.
- Rent is going to be pushed up as high as the people living in that city can stand it because your desire to not be homeless exceeds every other desire you have. So... 30 - 50% of average incomes.

So either way, you have to pay for housing through an income tax. Except under socialism, that tax money goes to something else useful, whereas under capitalism it's an even higher tax and it's just a shitty transfer payment from you, a hardworking electrical engineer, to some guy who literally produces nothing for you (because the cost of the building was paid off thirty years ago).

So we’re supposed to act like upending our current system is practical? I could see the argument that the socialist approach is better, but it just seems almost impossible to implement within our current system.

Rent control, especially in places like New York and San Francisco, and better rent assistance for lower incomes seem like way easier methods of fixing the rent issue.

[VomKriege]

That obama thread +
https://www.resetera.com/threads/jordan-peele-doesnt-want-fans-sending-him-their-tethered-halloween-costumes.149799/

Huh, I would have figured an angle of racial insensitivity

[VomKriege]

Us will stick with black people for a long time. And every time one of ya'll try to act like just because YOU don't like it a fuckton of other people don't, you just prove what some of us are talking about in this thread even more.

Ok ?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jordan-peele-doesnt-want-fans-sending-him-their-tethered-halloween-costumes.149799/post-25910019

[HardcoreRetro]

"So given that, Jordan Peele isn’t too keen on opening messages and seeing a bunch of Tethered. He’s cool with people wearing costumes from Us as long as he doesn't have to see it, he just doesn’t want people to send him images of themselves dressed as that or any creepy characters for that matter."

"Jordan, this isn't it.
Let them dress up."

I can't believe they don't actually read the clickbait they post as threads.

[Pissy F Benny]

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1189332977416900611

Imagine being this high on comic books holy shit.

Movie bob is about 40, has an income and still lives with his parents, he’s a mega loser and his opinions should be taken with a grain of salt.

[Potato]

No matter how many times communism has descended into chaos or a complete authoritarian dystopian police state, fucking idiots raised with all the benefits and freedoms of a democratic capitalist society continue to think that they have the solution to human greed and self-interest that the others didn't.

If  you  think communism can  work  you're   a  fucking  idiot

[Philip Cardgage]

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1189332977416900611

Imagine being this high on comic books holy shit.

Movie bob is about 40, has an income and still lives with his parents, he’s a mega loser and his opinions should be taken with a grain of salt.

[Pissy F Benny]

Nice titties 

[HardcoreRetro]

Mario also saved him from killing himself. Always makes me laugh.

[Tektonic]

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1189331276190363649

 

[ResetBanBot]

I had to look up what a "Tethered Costume" was. I guess it's a red suit.

Trick or Treat Studios and Universal Studios are proud to present the officially licensed Us The Tethered Adult Costume.

This amazing costume was made using actual screen used patterns and swatches which were kindly provided by Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw Productions.

-- https://www.trickortreatstudios.com/licensed-designs/us/jordan-peele-us-tethered-adult-costume.html

Peele seems like an idiot.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

How did the goalposts move so far that this is now laser focused on whether or not someone was permanently cancelled as some kind of qualification?

it_is_a_mystery.gif

[Rufus]

From what I see, the rank and file are in open revolt and the new ownership/management of Kotaku seem to be on the verge of firing everyone. But it hasn't happened yet.

I had just got used to regular Tim Rogers videos. Don't take him away.

[Stro]

Surely Obama is cancelled on RE for saying cancel culture and slacktivism isn't real activism, right? That was a direct shot at RE, I always knew he was a Russian asset.

[Tektonic]

From what I see, the rank and file are in open revolt and the new ownership/management of Kotaku seem to be on the verge of firing everyone. But it hasn't happened yet.

I had just got used to regular Tim Rogers videos. Don't take him away.

how long before he gets cancelled?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Using people's indignation as a cudgel and exploiting their excitedness to join a mob is exactly what cancel/callout/outrage culture is about.

So if the alt-right were the ones weaponising indignation and the alt-right were the only ones excited to mobilize against Gunn then what we're critisizing here are harassment campaigns, right? Or are you talking about people disliking the jokes specifically? Because i'm not sure what you want to do about differing taste in humor...

Sure.

Let's pretend the only people indulging in #cancelculture are the alt right, weaponising indignation and outrage to harass people online as 'retribution' that far exceeds the 'crime' they committed.
And yes, you get to the point where you're now agreeing with Obama, that how these people act is really fucking shitty, and just an excuse for disproportionate harassment.

Now let's stop pretending that the only people doing this are 'the alt right'.
Why are the people who do this defending doing this, if its not because they enjoy being part of the mob?
Why are some of the worst proponents of - we just fucking agreed this is shitty disproportionate harassment, right? - harassment pretending that harassment doesn't even exist and that no true scotsman nobody has ever even been cancelled?

[james]

Comrade Benji, can you point me to brainchilds last stand?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot9-the-assassination-of-tulsi-gabbards-campaign-by-the-coward-hillary-clinton.147939/post-25855388

Argument that caused him to nope out starts a bit back further: https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot9-the-assassination-of-tulsi-gabbards-campaign-by-the-coward-hillary-clinton.147939/post-25850689

I was hoping for more fireworks, not just facts

Anyway, I wish you all well. I really mean that, but I hope that maybe one day this community can realize the kind of toxic, unwelcoming atmosphere it has fostered, because I am personally tired of it.

Another minority fleeing in droves

[thisismyusername]

don't worry, I made this one shorter for you

Then enlighten me

Under socialism:
- You pay for the cost of housing through a government tax. The tax covers the cost of building the housing. That's all you have to pay for.

Under capitalism:
- Someone bought that property from someone else for the price of the property.
- The price of the property is a reflection of its revenue generating potential (either through use as a small business or through the bloodletting of the working class). This is why cities love property taxes: taxes on the value of a property are an indirect tax on citywide incomes and almost impossible to avoid.
- The typical property owner aims to recover the cost of purchasing that property over the course of 5 to 7 years. Put another way, the price of the property is generally about what the buyer expects he can extract as rent over 5 to 7 years. This includes the cost of tearing the building down and putting a bigger one up, if that applies.
- Once the property has "paid for itself" it's free money time. The property owner can sit back and the renters pay the owner as long as they live there.
- Rent is going to be pushed up as high as the people living in that city can stand it because your desire to not be homeless exceeds every other desire you have. So... 30 - 50% of average incomes.

So either way, you have to pay for housing through an income tax. Except under socialism, that tax money goes to something else useful, whereas under capitalism it's an even higher tax and it's just a shitty transfer payment from you, a hardworking electrical engineer, to some guy who literally produces nothing for you (because the cost of the building was paid off thirty years ago).

So we’re supposed to act like upending our current system is practical? I could see the argument that the socialist approach is better, but it just seems almost impossible to implement within our current system.

Rent control, especially in places like New York and San Francisco, and better rent assistance for lower incomes seem like way easier methods of fixing the rent issue.

They won't and you know it. You're asking the local government to deal with their low-income folks humanely?

[nachobro]

lol shosta the lifelong do nothing calling someone else a leech

[FStop7]

“Cancel culture doesn’t exist” say the people who gleefully pushed Etika and Alec Holowka to suicide.

[benjipwns]

Now let's stop pretending that the only people doing this are 'the alt right'.
Why are the people who do this defending doing this, if its not because they enjoy being part of the mob?
Why are some of the worst proponents of - we just fucking agreed this is shitty disproportionate harassment, right? - harassment pretending that harassment doesn't even exist and that no true scotsman nobody has ever even been cancelled?

This is gaslighting, nobody has been harassed, there is slight but correct criticism of bigots. Plus you cannot harass or cancel up, so you are further gaslighting by claiming it has happened, when it simply hasn't. So this whole thing is yet another series of lies and gaslighting by the same people who founded GamerGate, yet again attempting to use the same tactics to achieve the same goals:

It's amusing how quiet the mainstream was during shit like Gamergate but now all of a sudden there's a crisis on college campuses.

Says the man who was afraid to call out Russia after finding out they were messing with the election

And ResetERA.com is going to roll right over for this Russian asset if it weren't for the brave few standing up to fight against the lies that harassment and "cancelling" is actually happening when it's not. Period.

[benjipwns]

That isn't cancel culture.

Doxxing is straight up illegal.

Excuse me, I have to make some phone calls.

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-on-call-out-culture-the-world-is-messy-there-are-ambiguities-people-who-do-really-good-stuff-have-flaws.150090/post-25931984

I’ve done some stupid shit - I’m 35, it’s almost impossible for me to have not done something stupid by this point.

(Fair warning, I’m going to bed at this moment, I’ll deal with the fallout tomorrow)

Look, there has to be a middle ground - people can love Bernie or Warren, but the position against the Republican size is dependent on realizing that the majority had a common ground.

I like Bernie.
I like Warren.
I like someone that can magically address my concerns.
I also know what makes sense realistically.
said, so what you can, but don’t be an asshole.

Holy fuck I drank a bit - short version fuck DJT

Also I hate all of you that can’t just exist without hating the “other”

unless it is trump - fuck those idiots lol

I'm not sure I understand who is meant to be the "other" in this context. You mean like racism?

i mean the quote/unquote those use when referencing their “targets.” To me, it’s the right-wing targets referencing the self-imposed targets

School targets imposed, I’ll allow it. But my class only needed targets for now.

FUCK OFFFFF

[Averon]

Says the man who was afraid to call out Russia after finding out they were messing with the election

Obama's a Russian agent?

[marrec]

Kitsunelane getting called out for their bullshit in that Jordan Peterson/Noam Chomsky thread is juicy

[benjipwns]

FUCK OFFFFF

BAN THE MODS AND FUUUUCKKK OOOOFOFFFFFFf

[Potato]

don't worry, I made this one shorter for you

Then enlighten me

Under socialism:
- You pay for the cost of housing through a government tax. The tax covers the cost of building the housing. That's all you have to pay for.

Can you imagine what a house built by the government from your taxes looks like?

It would be ugly, not very functional, expensive and identical to every other house in the suburb. This would be the most inefficient use of public money and would lead to so many unintended issues.

Who gets to live in the "good" neighbourhoods? Who makes the decision about where I get to live? I certainly don't want some public servant making that determination for me. What if I want to improve my house? Am I allowed to do that? If I am a single person, does that mean I can only have a one bedroom studio? What if I prefer more space?

[team filler]

 

[Rufus]

Can you imagine what a house built by the government from your taxes looks like?

It would be ugly, not very functional, expensive and identical to every other house in the suburb. This would be the most inefficient use of public money and would lead to do many unintended issues.

Who gets to live in the "good" neighbourhoods? Who makes the decision about where I get to live? I certainly don't want some public servant making that determination for me. What if I want to improve my house? Am I allowed too do that? If I am a single person, does that mean I can only have a one bedroom studio? What if I prefer more space?

[Potato]

 

[benjipwns]

Kitsunelane getting called out for their bullshit in that Jordan Peterson/Noam Chomsky thread is juicy

and my point is that there's a reason peterson fans (and peterson, apparently) think their weird lobster mating call can reach chomsky

same reason i wouldn't be surprised if they tried this with glenn greenwald

sorry, i don't have the mental energy for The Discourse(tm) right now, hope you understand

energy or capacity?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

you said you ignored the thread but now you're replying to a post that didn't even quote you.

[close]

[marrec]

Just wait until she gets backup, suddenly she'll have all the energy in the world to pile on

[benjipwns]

Or a manic episode kicks in again.

[Potato]

No please, go ahead filler, Rufus and the rest of you Commie bastards, please tell me how this socialist Utopia of yours decides who gets to live where? What would you do if you get assigned to live in a crime filled shithole?

[marrec]

No please, go ahead filler, Rufus and the rest of you Commie bastards, please tell me how this socialist Utopia of yours decides who gets to live where? What would you do if you get assigned to live in a crime filled shithole?

Black people reading this post:
 

[benjipwns]

No please, go ahead filler, Rufus and the rest of you Commie bastards, please tell me how this socialist Utopia of yours decides who gets to live where? What would you do if you get assigned to live in a crime filled shithole?

Why would you have a crime infested shithole in your utopia?

[Potato]

No please, go ahead filler, Rufus and the rest of you Commie bastards, please tell me how this socialist Utopia of yours decides who gets to live where? What would you do if you get assigned to live in a crime filled shithole?

Black people reading this post:
 

thatsracist.gif

[Uncle]

No please, go ahead filler, Rufus and the rest of you Commie bastards, please tell me how this socialist Utopia of yours decides who gets to live where? What would you do if you get assigned to live in a crime filled shithole?

Black people reading this post:
 

 

[Rufus]

No please, go ahead filler, Rufus and the rest of you Commie bastards, please tell me how this socialist Utopia of yours decides who gets to live where? What would you do if you get assigned to live in a crime filled shithole?

How is public housing assigned right now in Australia?

And I'm not a commie, root vegetable.

[benjipwns]

Anyone who is actively against black or transgender people in 2019 cannot plead ignorance. Or it's wilful ignorance at best, which is not a good thing either and they can still fuck off. I don't want any TERFs as my "allies" if they can be that hateful and horrible against a group of some of the worst treated & oppressed people on Earth.

Thanks, Obama marrec.

[Potato]

No please, go ahead filler, Rufus and the rest of you Commie bastards, please tell me how this socialist Utopia of yours decides who gets to live where? What would you do if you get assigned to live in a crime filled shithole?

How is public housing assigned right now in Australia?

By some public servant.

[benjipwns]

ugly commie vegetables