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[benjipwns]

User Banned (2 Weeks): Condescending behaviour towards marginalised communities in a sensitive discussion.

I think you need to take your own advice. I said a pretty innocuous thing about people having some wider context and you’ve been having a complete wobble since.

It's easy for me to see based on what you've said you aren't educated on the subject.

User Banned (3 Months): Ableist Language and Inflammatory False Equivalence Surrounding Bigotry

When you start learning writing then one of the first things you learn is never to underestimate your readers, however, that only works when your messaging is clear and doesn't allow for 2 interpretations that are both valid and contradict each other.

That is what happened in TLJ, a lot. From Luke the magnificent symbol hero to the coward failure on the other side, Rose with the levelheaded action and positive message to the crazy in love traitor kamikaze that sabotages Finn where Holdo and Luke were allowed to succeed. Kylo the badass conflicted dude that frees himself from his master to the ranting crybaby that fails at everything etc etc etc.

There is value in not describing every detail and let the audience speculate a bit, but if the audience doesn't even agree on what was going on then that is a sign of weak messaging! That's also where the blame game comes from, suddenly we have the sjwarriors using the movie as a tool to further their college intellectual agenda and on the other end the incel racists that are too dumb to get the simplest of things in a movie for kids.

[benjipwns]

Never forget the lesson of Episode III: You're either with me or against me. I identify as having the high ground.

[railGUN]

There’s a place near where i live called the Waffle Brothers. I hate them with a passion. I curse their name every time i walk by. Never actually eaten there or heard much about them. I just hate them so much.

lol what the fuck?

[thetylerrob]

He got the ban because he said sjwarriors

[benjipwns]

shosta help who do I change the leader of The Oppressed Peoples of ResetERA to?

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vendettas-you-have-against-local-businesses.162761/post-27911273

There's a small halal restaurant across the street from my old capoeira gym. Me, Mestre and his family went there after class one day. One of the dudes behind the counter- we'll call him Tucker- was wildin'.

Strike 1: My company was speaking to each other in Portuguese. Tucker decided the best way to broach them was to speak condescendingly in low-level Spanish. He continued this until the teacher ordered in English.

Strike 2: It's my turn to order. Now, I've never been to a halal place. Don't know what to really order. I politely ask, "Excuse me, what's in the white sauce?" Because I hate mayonnaise by itself. Tucker had a fit with me and said "No, I'm not answering that. We're on this. Do you want chicken or beef?" Alright Tucker.

Strike 3: As we're eating, Mestre's wife begins lamenting the treatment we all got at the counter. Mestre decides to do say something and calls over the manager. My teacher asks for Tucker's name, and says "I think Tucker is having a bad day, because he's not been treating the customers right." Tucker sees this and decides- in all of Tucker's wisdom- to come over and start another fight, loudly asking "What's the problem?!"

I'm thinking to myself: "This dude must be a Viking because even the child has a few belts. All four of us about to move furniture."

Ultimately no one got killed. The manager took him in the back and had it out with him. We got an apology and comped food.

But you know Tucker has done that shit before. Why he was there to begin with is beyond me. Fuck Tucker.

Ultimately no one got killed.

[benjipwns]

-The local Kelly's Roast Beef. Gave my dad food poisoning once. That was over 25 years ago and they are still in business.

[Uncle]

Can you really blame Cerium? He sees the writing on the walls in regards to ERA. The increasing toxicity. The constant whining from the different interest groups. The traffic slowing down. What's the point of dealing with all that drama when you can sucker some other smuck to do it for free and cash on the peanuts the site makes?

 

the big picture is becoming completely backseat nobody so you can't get unperson'd and have your site stolen out from under you when people discover your history of homophobia

although it seems having other people run your forum for you isn't working out so well for lowtax

[blame space]

https://www.seniorforums.com/threads/shock-jock-legend-don-imus-died.45383/

imus canceled

[Transhuman]

I like that the forum uses big text just to really reinforce the fact that they are old people

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vendettas-you-have-against-local-businesses.162761/post-27911273

There's a small halal restaurant across the street from my old capoeira gym. Me, Mestre and his family went there after class one day. One of the dudes behind the counter- we'll call him Tucker- was wildin'.

Strike 1: My company was speaking to each other in Portuguese. Tucker decided the best way to broach them was to speak condescendingly in low-level Spanish. He continued this until the teacher ordered in English.

Strike 2: It's my turn to order. Now, I've never been to a halal place. Don't know what to really order. I politely ask, "Excuse me, what's in the white sauce?" Because I hate mayonnaise by itself. Tucker had a fit with me and said "No, I'm not answering that. We're on this. Do you want chicken or beef?" Alright Tucker.

Strike 3: As we're eating, Mestre's wife begins lamenting the treatment we all got at the counter. Mestre decides to do say something and calls over the manager. My teacher asks for Tucker's name, and says "I think Tucker is having a bad day, because he's not been treating the customers right." Tucker sees this and decides- in all of Tucker's wisdom- to come over and start another fight, loudly asking "What's the problem?!"

I'm thinking to myself: "This dude must be a Viking because even the child has a few belts. All four of us about to move furniture."

Ultimately no one got killed. The manager took him in the back and had it out with him. We got an apology and comped food.

But you know Tucker has done that shit before. Why he was there to begin with is beyond me. Fuck Tucker.

Ultimately no one got killed.

lol, the thought of nepenthe and a family of 3 attacking a cashier with CAPOERIA and killing them is hilarious.  I bet it's what nepenthe thinks or as they warm up. " My dance/fake fighting will take down Tucker.  One day."

[10centtacos]

Wow that Cerium thread has no momentum whatsoever. It’s a bunch of mods making their presence known for appearances sake.

[benjipwns]

Wow that Cerium thread has no momentum whatsoever. It’s a bunch of mods making their presence known for appearances sake.

Just like this thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/best-mods-of-the-decade.162125/

spoiler (click to show/hide)

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[Switters]

Eddy Gordo V. Mayonaise 2020.

[benjipwns]

SO WHAT WAS IN THE WHITE SAUCE

 

[clothedmacuser]

I'm thinking to myself: "This dude must be a Viking because even the child has a few belts. All four of us about to move furniture."

We got a child who knows capoeria here!  With belts.  Stand back or you might be compelled to put 3 bucks in his hat while he dances.




Oh shit, the capoeria crew showed up.  Time to bounce. 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ReeraTakes/status/1212963490622775302

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-embassy-in-iraq-attacked.162206/page-4#post-27857601

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned

Rusty tried to be slick and use an alt and got got. He was banned only two days ago, so he got caught pretty quickly 
Makes you wonder how many of them got alts ready to go.

Still says he's only doing a 3 month ban, but getting caught using alts should be an automatic downgrade to a perm ban.

[nudemacusers]

How y’all missing this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-welcome-your-new-general-manager-b-dubs.162842/

So today I am relinquishing my involvement in day to day operations here on ResetEra, including staff management, moderation, policy creation, etc. Of course I never handled any of that by myself; the staff have always done everything as a team, and that collaborative spirit will endure. Going forward I do not intend to have a direct hand in anything but industry outreach and logistical support. I'll be on indefinite hiatus for the foreseeable future.

B-Dubs is your new General Manager. This is an enormous responsibility, requiring more work (and more stress!) than you might think. I really respect his courage and enthusiasm in taking this on.

This is some pimp shit, cept the hoesmods just get a title, not pretty shoes

[Potato]

Knowing Ree they'll get worked up and off themselves because they think they'll be drafted

We live in hope

[Tripon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-embassy-in-iraq-attacked.162206/page-4#post-27857601

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned

Rusty tried to be slick and use an alt and got got. He was banned only two days ago, so he got caught pretty quickly 
Makes you wonder how many of them got alts ready to go.

Still says he's only doing a 3 month ban, but getting caught using alts should be an automatic downgrade to a perm ban.

I don't think they can afford to get rid of active users.

[ResetBanBot]

ResetEra has a really shitty sysadmin so I can tell they're running off (and overpaying) of Google's cloud service. If they had their stuff properly configured, I wouldn't be able to tell this. They're not even "really" protected by CloudFlare because of their misconfiguration. It's only because no one cares that they haven't been DDoS'd and had their cloud bill run up and/or the site gets turned off because of billing limits.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vendettas-you-have-against-local-businesses.162761/post-27911273

There's a small halal restaurant across the street from my old capoeira gym. Me, Mestre and his family went there after class one day. One of the dudes behind the counter- we'll call him Tucker- was wildin'.

Strike 1: My company was speaking to each other in Portuguese. Tucker decided the best way to broach them was to speak condescendingly in low-level Spanish. He continued this until the teacher ordered in English.

Strike 2: It's my turn to order. Now, I've never been to a halal place. Don't know what to really order. I politely ask, "Excuse me, what's in the white sauce?" Because I hate mayonnaise by itself. Tucker had a fit with me and said "No, I'm not answering that. We're on this. Do you want chicken or beef?" Alright Tucker.

Strike 3: As we're eating, Mestre's wife begins lamenting the treatment we all got at the counter. Mestre decides to do say something and calls over the manager. My teacher asks for Tucker's name, and says "I think Tucker is having a bad day, because he's not been treating the customers right." Tucker sees this and decides- in all of Tucker's wisdom- to come over and start another fight, loudly asking "What's the problem?!"

I'm thinking to myself: "This dude must be a Viking because even the child has a few belts. All four of us about to move furniture."

Ultimately no one got killed. The manager took him in the back and had it out with him. We got an apology and comped food.

But you know Tucker has done that shit before. Why he was there to begin with is beyond me. Fuck Tucker.

Ultimately no one got killed.

Tucker most definitely spat in their food...at the very least.

[ResetBanBot]

Sabrina is so fucking based for loling at Cerium. lol is right. Even the admins do it for free, even when that guy who gets all the money basically steps away entirely out of a sense of social self-preservation. It's all self-running now, relying on an army of unpaid JANNIES who are paid in delicious gamergate bans. Plus now B-Dubs gets to be the fall guy when the cheeseburgers and enbies go to war.

I hope B-Dubs is ready to get the ContraPoints treatment.

[Philip Cardgage]

So Giantbomb only hope is someone that works for CNET?

[ResetBanBot]

Giant Bomb should have ended about a year after Ryan died. They tried to see if they could make it work without him, and it was clear they couldn't. Now it's just a money thing.

[Transhuman]

I thought Jeff was the main guy

[Raist]

Happy new year! It's hard to believe that it's been over two years since this site was first founded. It feels like an eternity and yet it feels like no time at all. We had to put a lot together in a hurry, and today the community is thriving on a cutting edge platform with exclusive features. It's been humbling to be a part of building that and accompanying you all on this journey. However, I've been feeling burned out for a while now. 2020 is set to be a big year, and you deserve a General Manager who can put their best foot forward.

 

[ResetBanBot]

Jeff is a bit of comedian himself, but Ryan was a true force multiplier in the comedy-sense. After Ryan died Jeff was never as funny, never as willing to break out of his shell to make something as funny as like his child molester character. With the death of comedy, especially in the game/technology sphere Jeff doesn't even have the option to be funny anymore. Comedy is problematic. Comedy does not fit in with the culture at CBSi in 2020, or really any tech company.

[bork]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/resetera-discussion-stay-civil-dont-get-personal-keep-it-in-here.1506304/page-133

They can keep chirping it like parrots, but GAF is very far from dead. Activity keeps rising. In fact, it’s getting a little too fast for my liking. All these new names and shit.

Today:

Nothing against GAF or pro-Resetera, but comments about traffic trends for both sites seems overly exaggerated. If anything, they're more or less stable for at least 6 months, with Era performing slightly worse:

I don’t need a graph to tell me activity is increasing everyday and new members are coming/old members are returning in numbers recently. Just need eyes and observational skills.

[bork]

I don’t need a graph to tell me activity is increasing everyday and new members are coming/old members are returning in numbers recently. Just need eyes and observational skills.

Real data is obviously more reliable than your own personal and probably biased experience, but to each his own.

Only website owners have access to their respective sites’ real analytics data.

Indeed, very true. Would you say that SimilarWeb's stats are reliable enough? They seem to be pretty well regarded from a reputation perspective.

*NO RESPONSE*

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-it-okay-to-take-your-shoes-off-at-the-movie-theater.162905/

 

[Momo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-it-okay-to-take-your-shoes-off-at-the-movie-theater.162905/

 

only if you're hot, if no then fuccckk ooooff

[BIONIC]

Hello everyone! This is a huge honor and responsibility. To tell you the truth, I’m not entirely sure how to feel about all of this. That probably goes for a bunch of you as well. For years, since the site’s inception, Cerium has been a big part of the team and keeping the trains running on time.

[BIONIC]

That graph makes perfect sense for GAF.  Despite posting being “up” relative to a year ago they must be steadily losing “guests.”   So the forum can appear to be growing as traffic goes down.

Unban filler, lore!

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

[railGUN]

If GAF was doing good, EviLore wouldn't post 50 times a day and constantly make threads designed specifically to get clicks.

[team filler]

 

[ResetBanBot]

when you look up victim blaming in the dictionary and you see this image


also /r/GenderCynical is like /r/KotakuInAction but ran by cheeseburgers who hate TERFs

[Potato]

when you look up victim blaming in the dictionary and you see this image
(Image removed from quote.)

also /r/GenderCynical is like /r/KotakuInAction but ran by cheeseburgers who hate TERFs

There's also r/LGBDropTheT which is the reverse.

[Raist]

Happy New Years my dudes, what did I miss?

The entire literal 9/11 star war

I'm gonna need a link, WTF?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-i-already-failed-my-news-years-resolution-and-now-im-really-depressed-about-it.162538/#post-27873520

Yesterday at 10:51 PM

My new years resolution was simple. I opened a new art account on twitter and was to post a full drawing every single day for the rest of the year. Now, it's one hour until the end of the first day of the year and I don't have a drawing done yet, and one hour is not nearly enough time to get a drawing finished. I don't really think it's at all OK to attempt to attempt the challenge after failing the very first day to deliver. Now I'm not in the mood to draw at all. Shit sucks.

Not even one day lmao.

Update

With a new thread, because why not.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-at-a-point-where-i-just-dont-know-what-to-do-with-my-life-and-i-dont-know-how-to-keep-it-going.162917/

[Pissy F Benny]

Thats a bit of an overreaction 

[VomKriege]

 

Thank you, Cerium , for all your hard work in getting this site launched and getting it to where it is today (and also for putting up with me during the brief time I had the privilege to be part of the team). This place would not be here without you. Thank you for everything, and may 2020 bring you some peace and rest. 💖

Congratulations to B-Dubs for his new role. You're a good dude, and I know you'll kick ass at it. ✨

Cerium, I haven't spent as much time working closely with you as some of the other admins, but in all that time, I've seen how much you do for the site behind the scenes and how much effort you've put in to make the forum as great and welcoming as possible. Thank you so much for giving us all a home, and I hope that you get some well deserved rest.

Thanks for all you did Cerium, espeically for getting this site launched in the first place with both time and money! Sorry you're feeling burned out. Hopefully not too much of that is due to the site lol. I suspect you'll still help out in a bunch of ways we'll never know about until a decade later.

Good luck from me, B-Dubs. And thank you for your work so far. One of the mods/admins I can actually remember from the top of my head.

 

[VomKriege]

Them tweets 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/non-binary-ot-01101110-01101111-01101110.119742/post-27906058

https://www.resetera.com/threads/non-binary-ot-01101110-01101111-01101110.119742/post-27918820

[VomKriege]

Benji-Wise

https://twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1213244396784758786

[benjipwns]

User Banned (permanent): inflammatory metacommentary

As a lurker who came over after Neogaf, I find myself checking the site less and less.

- The trigger happy ban policy is absurd. I get the impression users are scared to have an opinion that doesn't fit the mods agenda. This leads to nothing more than echo chamber with no real discussion to be had. Imagine in your personal life if you shut down every conversation where you disagreed with someone.

- Awful topic threads. The same posters over and over posting personal topics that are of no interest to anyone but themselves, to get a sense of validation that I assume is absent in their own lives.

- Negativity and toxicity. The constant bickering is exhausting. It feels like everyone is playing morality top trumps, trying to out do each other and be faux outraged by any slightly divisive opinion.

- I hate Trump as much as anyone, but the constant daily threads about him and his party on here are depressing. It would be nice to have a break for a bit. I swear posters get off on posting about his latest bullshit. We get it. He's a total prick.

- Opinion threads posted as fact like a BuzzFeed clickbait headline.

- Threads with people threatening to take their own lives. This is a serious topic obviously, but it seems to be the same people over and over who never take onboard any of the genuinely thoughtful and caring feedback from other posters. I know this is a complicated topic, and these people deserve and need attention and help, but I wish just they would help themselves. I feel like stepping away from Era and its negativity would probably do them some good.

It's just all so tiresome. I think I'm done with the forum, checking it out of a daily reflex doesn't add anything positive to my life tbh.

[bork]

Permanent?  For that? 

[VomKriege]

That I agree with. The "ban happiness" of this forum is way overstated IMO. There have been very few false positives. Most bans are well deserved and obvious and caught fast, the ones that are controversial have a lot more visibility. Also a bunch of people who have questionable opinions but don't want to introspect about it tend to blame how you can't even voice your opinion about something, when in reality those opinions are probably not really nice.

I think there are definitely issues with the moderation team when it comes to PC/VR threads specifically, but when it comes to social topics I think they mostly do fine (excluding the trans week fiasco)

Very few false positives.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-it-just-me-or-have-postings-on-era-kind-of-slowed-down.162792/post-27920100

[HaughtyFrank]

Someone actually did the "on this day of all days" in the contrapoint thread 

[Straight Edge]

Permanent?  For that? 

He saw that the emperor had no clothes and is too dangerous to keep around.

[Spieler1]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-played-sekiro-with-an-easy-mode-mod-and-it-was-fun-as-hell.162915/

I love how gleeful and smug they always get by cheating this game. Hopefully they'll provide this mod to all the disabled people that were somehow prevented from playing this because of high enemy damage - because that was always their intention, right??? 

[Nintex]

Sekiro on rails 

[HaughtyFrank]

I was really disappointed that Sekiro wasn't more racially diverse.

Can't even customize my character.

Let's hope Ghost of Tsushima makes better choices.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cdprs-response-over-the-witcher-3s-lack-of-diversity-rings-more-hollow-after-the-netflix-series.162936/post-27937500


It's happening 

[pgtl_10]

Can you really blame Cerium? He sees the writing on the walls in regards to ERA. The increasing toxicity. The constant whining from the different interest groups. The traffic slowing down. What's the point of dealing with all that drama when you can sucker some other smuck to do it for free and cash on the peanuts the site makes?

He learned pretty quick about how forums get hijacked and become insular.

[BisMarckie]

If I had my way, I'd create a government program that gave major incentive toward interracial marriages/family units. A dating program included. I'd be first in line.

Then after a few generations, We'll have fixed A TON of problems.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cdprs-response-over-the-witcher-3s-lack-of-diversity-rings-more-hollow-after-the-netflix-series.162936/#post-27937068

The Witcher 3 is a straight white male game's wet dream come true and I'm convinced that's a huge reason for it's success. Because that gameplay is fucking atrocious and the characters interactions are often ridiculous and immensely cringe worthy, especially when the long cast of perfectly beautiful women *hint hint* is involved.

[nudemacusers]

Dudes ciri comments are even better lmao. Thinking he was dropped on his head as a baby.

[Raist]

NiOh is white-washing because the main character is a westerner.

Sekiro doesn't have enough diversity.

I'm gonna guess Ghost won't either, despite the fact that enemies are Mongols.

[ShutUp]

A thread full of Americans telling the rest of the world what to do. Sounds about right.

'Muricasplaining

[BisMarckie]

My plan was to make a comment saying "Sorry I only have a single picture of my current state of hair (or lack thereof), going full Captain Picard was a super recent development"

Becuase I have like only one usable picture of my current appearance. And I'd make it my main to prevent confusion.
 

I'm currently in the process of making up a Bumble account.
I have a picture of me crossdressing in a bloodied Alice (In wonderland) costume for Halloween, and they don't like that.

[pancakesandsex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vendettas-you-have-against-local-businesses.162761/post-27911273

There's a small halal restaurant across the street from my old capoeira gym. Me, Mestre and his family went there after class one day. One of the dudes behind the counter- we'll call him Tucker- was wildin'.

Strike 1: My company was speaking to each other in Portuguese. Tucker decided the best way to broach them was to speak condescendingly in low-level Spanish. He continued this until the teacher ordered in English.

Strike 2: It's my turn to order. Now, I've never been to a halal place. Don't know what to really order. I politely ask, "Excuse me, what's in the white sauce?" Because I hate mayonnaise by itself. Tucker had a fit with me and said "No, I'm not answering that. We're on this. Do you want chicken or beef?" Alright Tucker.

Strike 3: As we're eating, Mestre's wife begins lamenting the treatment we all got at the counter. Mestre decides to do say something and calls over the manager. My teacher asks for Tucker's name, and says "I think Tucker is having a bad day, because he's not been treating the customers right." Tucker sees this and decides- in all of Tucker's wisdom- to come over and start another fight, loudly asking "What's the problem?!"

I'm thinking to myself: "This dude must be a Viking because even the child has a few belts. All four of us about to move furniture."

Ultimately no one got killed. The manager took him in the back and had it out with him. We got an apology and comped food.

But you know Tucker has done that shit before. Why he was there to begin with is beyond me. Fuck Tucker.

Ultimately no one got killed.

lol, the thought of nepenthe and a family of 3 attacking a cashier with CAPOERIA and killing them is hilarious.  I bet it's what nepenthe thinks or as they warm up. " My dance/fake fighting will take down Tucker.  One day."