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[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-1-smoked-filled-mar-a-lago-rooms.826662/page-8?post=120784479#post-120784479

Wait. Vacate the speaker? Are we doing this again? What is this about and why does my asking for clarification require me to write more words than the post I'm responding to?

Chill on the passive-aggressiveness. Same kind of crap that ruined the previous thread.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pork.829848/

During Ramadan, of all times?

[Eric Cartman]

Wouldn't the evidence be the lack of effective leftist coalitions? If not that, the article starts by giving the example of the DSA refusing to endorse Biden in 2020.

You mean the leftist coalitions that were systematically undermined by the FBI for decades?
The leftist coalitions that are often infiltrated and attacked even by liberal institutions?
The leftist coalitions that are a frequent target of law enforcement, even in liberal cities? (See Stop Cop City for a recent example)
The leftist coalitions that do not have access to the kind of funding that liberal and hard right groups do?

Gee, I wonder why?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-atlantic-too-much-purity-is-bad-for-the-left.829731/post-120788514

Considering how AOC and Bernie are suddenly bad guys now I'll go with dumb infighting (and cop city seems like a dumb cause)

fucking baffling why law enforcement would pay extra careful attention to "Stop Cop City"

[clockwork5]

I honestly don’t even see the “fun” in being a prominent member there now. Sure stirring up shit and destroying entire communities would be fun on NeoGaf or even early RE. But now. Like what is the point.  Those early days had outrage, drama, fighting, reputations on the line, the stakes were higher. Now it’s just predictable, boring, even more embarrassing and obviously begging for attention than those early days. Just breaking the bones of the skeleton at this point.

[DocWager]

Wow, weeks of shitting on Kate Middleton, and it turns out she has cancer, and wanted it private. Now Era is like “Oh uhhhhhhh… Pulling for her😁”.

[clockwork5]

Wow, weeks of shitting on Kate Middleton, and it turns out she has cancer, and wanted it private. Now Era is like “Oh uhhhhhhh… Pulling for her😁”.

Scum.

I will say that a few of them don’t even have the decency to let it go at this point. “Why didn’t they tell us? What kind of cancer is it? She gives up her right to medical privacy because reasons. I deserve to know before her children!”

Beyond scum.

You can say fuck cancer but I don’t believe you. Scum.

[bork]

Capcom deserves the backlash, it was overdue, even if it's mostly coming from misinformation.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-dragons-dogma-2-launches-to-mostly-negative-review-bombing-after-microtransactions-reveal.829815/page-11?post=120774612#post-120774612

That is so leftist and right wing lunatic:

“X deserves the backlash, it was overdue, even if it’s mostly coming from misinformation.”

That game is retarded in that it only allows you to make one character and makes you jump through hoops to delete them if you want to start a new one. In a single player game. That costs $70 for the base game.

Yeah, I’ll keep playing Last Epoch and Enshrouded.

They've already said that they're going to fix the character deletion thing.  The game has performance issues (YMMV oN PC), but otherwise is pretty awesome.

[Besticus Maximus]

I predicted that chief woman hating cunt Kyuuji would have egg on face because of Middleton

[HardcoreRetro]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-286?post=120704109#post-120704109

International law is a joke.

Laws only matter if and how they are enforced.

US is the power that could enforce international laws and laws of war on Israel, but US is actively choosing not to and instead actively enable Israel.

How? Invade Israel?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-286?post=120771255#post-120771255

At this point someone should interfere. Someone should send a military to Gaza and get the IDF the hell out of Palestinian Territories. And I'm not talking about Peacekeepers, it should be an actual military with an actual Navy, Air Force and heavy artillery, otherwise this slaughter will never end.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-286?post=120704109#post-120704109

Laws only matter if and how they are enforced.

US is the power that could enforce international laws and laws of war on Israel, but US is actively choosing not to and instead actively enable Israel.

How? Invade Israel?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-286?post=120771255#post-120771255

At this point someone should interfere. Someone should send a military to Gaza and get the IDF the hell out of Palestinian Territories. And I'm not talking about Peacekeepers, it should be an actual military with an actual Navy, Air Force and heavy artillery, otherwise this slaughter will never end.

You know what will stop this war in Gaza? More war in Gaza!

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-dragons-dogma-2-launches-to-mostly-negative-review-bombing-after-microtransactions-reveal.829815/page-11?post=120774612#post-120774612

That is so leftist and right wing lunatic:

“X deserves the backlash, it was overdue, even if it’s mostly coming from misinformation.”

That game is retarded in that it only allows you to make one character and makes you jump through hoops to delete them if you want to start a new one. In a single player game. That costs $70 for the base game.

Yeah, I’ll keep playing Last Epoch and Enshrouded.

They've already said that they're going to fix the character deletion thing.  The game has performance issues (YMMV oN PC), but otherwise is pretty awesome.

Alright, if Bork is vouching, I’ll reconsider.

[Boredfrom]

It is kind of depressing how misinformation could kill a game from a company as big as Capcom. 

But is funny to read that some of the people mad at the game are also anti review bombing in any other game.

[malfoyking]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-major-terrorist-attack-reported-at-moscow-concert-hall.829983/#post-120796020

Doug Dimmadome said:
Feelings on Russian government aside, the victims were likely civilians so RIP to them. I fear the Russian response

svacina said:
Have you read any interviews with honest to god russian civilians?

These people are just really ghoulish.

[Nintex]

The Russian terrorist attack is fucking crazy. An attack of this scale in a big city hasn't been seen since the Madrid Metro bombings?

[NekoFever]

Let’s watch Ree pretend they don’t run purity tests on each other all day every day

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-atlantic-too-much-purity-is-bad-for-the-left.829731/

I love how many of these idiots think the far left endlessly splintering until it’s completely ineffectual and then eating itself over purity tests is an online thing.

Half of Life of Brian is making fun of it and that came out in 1979.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-major-terrorist-attack-reported-at-moscow-concert-hall.829983/#post-120796020

Doug Dimmadome said:
Feelings on Russian government aside, the victims were likely civilians so RIP to them. I fear the Russian response

svacina said:
Have you read any interviews with honest to god russian civilians?

These people are just really ghoulish.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-major-terrorist-attack-reported-at-moscow-concert-hall.829983/?post=120796305#post-120796305

User Banned (2 Months): Dismissing civilian suffering

Are you implying civilians deserve to be killed in a terror attack?

Nobody deserves to be killed in a terrorist attack, it's just that the same people being shot there would cheer on me being murdered and I am fed up.

What do you expect people who are routinely abused if they outwardly profess anti-government sentiment to say?

I am sorry but no. The russian insane opinions about, well, everything are not the result of their government/secret police. Their government/secret police are the results of the average russian's insane opinions about everything.

There is no "if only Putin were gone." There will be no change, it's fucking Russia.

Edits:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-major-terrorist-attack-reported-at-moscow-concert-hall.829983/page-2?post=120797655#post-120797655

oh look, it's just like before the second war in chechnya
vlad needs to sell the next mobilisation wave

Yea, I can't help but think there's a false flag here, considering this is Russia and Putin land.

I feel for the victims regardless, but I would not trust a damn thing that comes out of the Kremlin about this.

                 Conspiracy theorizing


https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-major-terrorist-attack-reported-at-moscow-concert-hall.829983/page-2?post=120798270#post-120798270

Hundreds of civilians injured, dozens killed, and some of you immediately start proposing completely unbased conspiracies. Fucking ghouls. Please stop.

[DocWager]

Who’s side are the tankies on?

[Nintex]

Baseless conspiracies? 



What do I call you again? Look Muhammad the guns are in the trunk and this "No Russian" plan sounds marvelous but I talked it over with the old man in the States and we would prefer it if you just gave the Moscovites a bit of a bloody nose instead of mass murder. So good luck with your Jihad and all but we don't want to start World War 3, we're all sensible people right, this is not a videogame, these oil prices are killing us. Just twist their nipples a bit to have Vladimir piss his knickers, right mate. Cheerio.

[Disco55]

You know, you'd think big companies would be making sure their games run on PC properly considering Steam has more concurrent players than all the current consoles probably put together.

[kaleidoscopium]

https://deadline.com/2024/03/bbc-sex-and-gender-briefing-jk-rowling-1235864310/

BBC presenters have been told to challenge guests who accuse others of transphobia after the broadcaster admitted that news items on J.K. Rowling fell short of its editorial standards.

In an internal briefing note, BBC journalists and production teams were advised that "care is needed" when people are labeled "transphobic" and the term should be interrogated during on-air debate.

We may also need to challenge claims or assumptions by contributors. Care is needed, for example with use of the term 'transphobic' to describe people who would not themselves accept that label."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-105?post=120786180#post-120786180
The usual bunch are upset about this, imagine upholding editorial standards…

[kaleidoscopium]

Nep and I are gonna battle this weekend!

Surely after she is done with the police report and gets a chance to breath? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pokemon-tournament-double-battles-scarlet-and-violet-sign-ups-now-live-win-an-analog-pocket-and-amazon-gift-cards.817725/page-7?post=120789720#post-120789720

Tournament is clearly a clusterfuck already btw 

For the upper bracket we need:

Fumpster vs Spinosaurus
milkyway vs SpeedyBlueDude

For the lower we still need:

mjw vs Brazil
W1ckedEvoX vs Firestorm
Theorymon vs jman0625
fek vs gryvan
Serpens007 vs Nepenthe

The lower bracket especially needs to get on it because a few members are waiting to find out who they're going to face in the next round. If anyone is having any issues putting a match together send me a PM and we'll both go to your opponent and find out what's up.

[Rendle]

Hundreds of civilians injured, dozens killed, and some of you immediately start proposing completely unbased conspiracies. Fucking ghouls. Please stop.

To be fair if saying you'll wait for more information gets you banned what else are people supposed to do besides jump to conclusions?

[Uncle]

So I 'own' the computers and pencils, but I can't actually sell them, because really they are owned by the company collective, correct? In practical terms that sounds no different to my current working arrangement.
Also what about the thing of actual value, the IP of Mickey Mouse? (and I don't just mean the now-public Steamboat Willy version of him!).
Do I own that? Part of that? Can I sell my part of that to someone? After all, being allowed to reproduce his likeness is part of my Means of Production, so I gotta own it in some way right?
And how does the profit-sharing work? Totally equal split for everyone? or based on role, experience and so on? What about loss-sharing? If the company hits hard times do we all have to pay back the losses?
What if I create the next Mickey Mouse level hit? Do I just have to take my equal share of the profits? or do I get a decent payout for creating an IP of such value? How does IP ownership work in this system?

But these questions are already being asked and answered in multiple cooperative companies that already exist... you can email your questions to KO_OP (link) who are a cooperative videogame developer. Watch their GDC talks. I mean your post is basically "how would X that exists in our current model continue to exist in Y model?" which is already curtailing the conversation that is possible here. But we already have companies that exist in that curtailed space.

Bonus: 

Are you seriously comparing Goodbye Volcano High to Star Wars? Things don't scale up that way in real life.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-atlantic-too-much-purity-is-bad-for-the-left.829731/page-3?post=120780429#post-120780429

I clicked through on their link which led me here

https://www.ko-opmode.com/jobs

which has a link to this article by 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xybb4/giving-workers-equal-power-isnt-radical-this-studios-done-it-for-years

Canadian developer KO_OP has been experimenting with the co-op model long before America's socialism flirtation—and it's working.

 

the studio was founded in 2012 and the article is from 2019

when was "america's socialism flirtation?" even if it was at the time of the article, 7 years is "long before?"

KO_OP describes itself as an “an artist run game studio,” and is your quintessentially quirky modern video game developer, having worked on everything from experimental soundscape projects like Skipping Stones, to the monster face puzzle solver GNOG, and even expansion packs for the Tomb Raider mobile spin-off, Lara Croft GO. Despite this, it’s not what makes KO_OP stand out. It’s the way KO_OP, as a developer, is structured; KO_OP is also a co-op.

Under the new rule of socialist empress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, maybe you’ve heard of the term in passing. Maybe, like me, it’s mostly in the context of the neighborhood grocery store you’re told is owned by a group of people, but, well, what’s that even mean? The notion of a co-op, in which a business is explicitly owned by the workers operating it, runs counter to ingrained notions of capitalism and the business/employee relationship; it shifts the power dynamic. The worker being the owner means no distance between the fruits of one’s labor.

having worked on everything from "barely-a-game you've never heard of" to "shitty licensed spinoff you've never heard of"


also what the fuck with the AOC comment   must've been in the middle of "qween can do no wrong" worship? you'd drag your testicles through three miles of broken glass just to be able to sit in a room AOC had farted in a week earlier?

KO_OP is only 10 people, and while each has a distinct role—Dabbous, for example, handles a lot of the day-to-day business decisions, and is often their public spokesperson—they have an equal seat at the table. Every person, for example, has the same salary. If you joined the studio today, you make the same as someone who’s been there since day one. Small decisions are made by individuals, because otherwise nothing would get done, but KO_OP’s big decisions happen as a group.

To date, KO_OP has not had split decision votes, where part of the studio wants to go in a direction, but it’s technically a majority vote system. Several other KO_OP team members I spoke to echoed Dabbous’ claim that KO_OP’s decisions have largely been universal.

sounds like absolute shit to me

also sounds like they've cultivated an echo chamber like this

so what about the discussion about how co-ops work in reality, how they scale up?

This has its own constraints, of course. Nobody at KO_OP has a child, but if someone suddenly required more money to afford child care and other expenses, it doesn’t mean increasing that one person’s salary to accommodate—it means moving up everyone’s salary. KO_OP tries to manage the challenge of this problem by limiting the scope; not many people work at KO_OP by by design.

 uhh...

KO_OP is structured like a co-op, but not legally a co-op—at least, not yet. To access various funding mechanisms, like government grants, KO_OP remains technically a for-profit company, but it’s currently exploring how to transition formally, legally into a co-op. This is different than The Glory Society, a co-op formed by several Night in the Woods developers. (You can read a recent interview with them about their move here.) The legal question is important because while being a spiritual co-op is nice, it’s still a company, not a co-op, and it means certain individuals do have more power than others, they have just chosen to, so far, not exercise it. That’s a potentially dangerous problem.

[...]

It’s also not a union, either, though Dabbous supports the growing movement to introduce unionization to the games industry. But equality comes in different forms, and at KO_OP, they’ve found, through fits and starts and improvisation, progress.

great system you got there, absolutely thriving

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/man-arrested-after-boarding-delta-flight-using-photo-of-another-passenger%E2%80%99s-ticket-cnn.829611/?post=120748539#post-120748539

User Banned (1 Week): Thread whining, numerous past infractions

Ok, but what am I supposed to do with this information? Just react to it?

[Water Enjoyer]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marjorie-taylor-green-has-filed-a-motion-to-vacate-speaker-mike-johnson-report.829935/page-2

is this now a politics thread where I can't shitpost?

answer: yes, now I can't talk normally, now I need to fill my posts with bullshit cus I need to fill space bye

edit literally bye, fuck this limited word post bullshit, fuck you

hey mods can post less than 30 words or whatever, that's ok, but I cant any more, yet (im at 20 words) I cant just post normally (not at 30 yet) now im at 30 words

see this?

this is too few words

you need much more words if you wanna post in a political thread

im at 20 words

imagine if I had to post 'lol' 30 times

that'd be a bad post

thankfully this is a "political" thread now, no more lazy

oh wow, it's not a political thread anymore?

nevermind I guess

This is like Fat4all's 3rd meltdown running into B-Dub's stupid politics thread word count, it's worth it for this alone 

[Shecky Fragbaum]

https://deadline.com/2024/03/bbc-sex-and-gender-briefing-jk-rowling-1235864310/

BBC presenters have been told to challenge guests who accuse others of transphobia after the broadcaster admitted that news items on J.K. Rowling fell short of its editorial standards.

In an internal briefing note, BBC journalists and production teams were advised that "care is needed" when people are labeled "transphobic" and the term should be interrogated during on-air debate.

We may also need to challenge claims or assumptions by contributors. Care is needed, for example with use of the term 'transphobic' to describe people who would not themselves accept that label."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-105?post=120786180#post-120786180
The usual bunch are upset about this, imagine upholding editorial standards…

Why can't those Nazi chuds at the Beeb simply let us apply radioactive labels to just anyone?  It's fuckin' BULLSHIT, mayun.

Also, cancel culture doesn't exist!

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marjorie-taylor-green-has-filed-a-motion-to-vacate-speaker-mike-johnson-report.829935/page-2

is this now a politics thread where I can't shitpost?

answer: yes, now I can't talk normally, now I need to fill my posts with bullshit cus I need to fill space bye

edit literally bye, fuck this limited word post bullshit, fuck you

hey mods can post less than 30 words or whatever, that's ok, but I cant any more, yet (im at 20 words) I cant just post normally (not at 30 yet) now im at 30 words

see this?

this is too few words

you need much more words if you wanna post in a political thread

im at 20 words

imagine if I had to post 'lol' 30 times

that'd be a bad post

thankfully this is a "political" thread now, no more lazy

oh wow, it's not a political thread anymore?

nevermind I guess

This is like Fat4all's 3rd meltdown running into B-Dub's stupid politics thread word count, it's worth it for this alone 

did they move it out of the politics area due to the whining?

[clockwork5]

Kyuuji:

Utterly horrific. Zero interest in watching the footage and don't need it described in the thread. Can only wish the best for the survivors and the families of all.

 

Translation: 
Holy shit that’s crazy. However, Russian’s aren’t really a protected group here at resetera, so while we will describe in gruesome detail any tragedies that happen to the groups we root for, there isn’t much to talk about here. RIP Komrades.

[Snoopy]

I agree, but these aren't normal people, and their lives are funded in part by the people of the UK. There is a degree of responsibility to the people they have. They are not private citizens—they are public figures.

But I personally would want them to have privacy.

People have the right to ask what’s going on. Not me, of course. I would never do that. I respect their privacy.

God these people are absolute snakes.