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[kaleidoscopium]

33 days later has to be one of the latest post to bans we’ve seen

[wizardora]

It's a disappointment that nothing can be done to clean out the Moderation Team wholesale.

[HaughtyFrank]

Better ban him for something that they deem is wrong in a page that won’t be seen by everyone, than on a recent page where he has valid criticisms about the way the site handles things incorrectly, and their confusing policies that effect just the posters, never the abusive mods.

Yeah this shit has happened more than once. Find some old ass post, maybe some old report they initially dismissed and now decide to ban the person

[Rendle]

The Albatross is now banned, anyone with an account got the reason?

Post in thread 'DNC 2024 |OT| We love life and love ourselves! We can govern!'

I get through to undecided voters, I don't get through to undecided voters who are supporting Trump when it comes to Israel/gaza. These are single issue voters who are supporting a far right pro Israel regime. I don't have patience for them. There are more issues than that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dnc-2024-ot-we-love-life-and-love-ourselves-we-can-govern.957351/page-173


They got him in some old thread for practically nothing. What is this if not vindictive? Do the mods not care how transparent that is? And for what, pointing out that their policies are nowhere to be found and sport bet discussion is ok because Papa Disney says it’s ok?

Nah that ban has elapsed, and he's posted since then. His newest ban has no reason stated.

[Potato]

So what the fuck is kofi? 

Can I get some donations for food and shit too? 

Im poor

Do what everyone else does and suck cock in a back alley...

[DocWager]

It's a disappointment that nothing can be done to clean out the Moderation Team wholesale.

If Benji had the guts, he’d actually expose them. He doesn’t though. Too by the book for doxing.

[MMaRsu]

It's a disappointment that nothing can be done to clean out the Moderation Team wholesale.

The only thing that can happen is a mass exodus like what happened on GAF

But that will never happen again

[Besticus Maximus]

What we need to do is stoke the civil war between princess bubblegum and Nepenthe. I’ve told you all before. Gotta bait nepenthe into saying Princess Bubblegum is not infact a princess.

[kaleidoscopium]

Yikes at the YouTube live comments!
Best to disable comments immediately, folks.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ps5-technical-presentation-hosted-by-mark-cerny-ot-9-minute-event-focusing-on-the-ps5-and-innovations-in-gaming-technology.976797/page-2#post-128449776

Always funny seeing these people flail about when they leave their safe space

[nachobro]

It's a disappointment that nothing can be done to clean out the Moderation Team wholesale.

no idea why this would be a thing anyone could want. as is its one of the funniest websites around because of how inept and self-serving they are.

[Rendle]

It's a disappointment that nothing can be done to clean out the Moderation Team wholesale.

The only thing that can happen is a mass exodus like what happened on GAF

But that will never happen again

It's only a matter of time before a mod gets outed as a ped or a pred. If there was two on neogaf staff there's gotta be at least 3 on resetera. It's just a question of whether enough of the userbase is willing to account suicide to signal boost that info, there might not be enough users left with any backbone given how thoroughly they ban for having one.

[kaleidoscopium]

It's a disappointment that nothing can be done to clean out the Moderation Team wholesale.

no idea why this would be a thing anyone could want. as is its one of the funniest websites around because of how inept and self-serving they are.

Think some people here like us are here to document and laugh at the retards, but some others want to force change on that site so they can post on it again, or they’re still active already and just want some mods gone.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joker-folie-%C3%A0-deux-tickets-now-on-sale.975693/page-2#post-128449404

I will be seeing Joker 2 at opening night but I already don't like Joker 1 and hate musicals so I am extremely unexcited

Make it make sense

[killamajig]

It's a disappointment that nothing can be done to clean out the Moderation Team wholesale.

no idea why this would be a thing anyone could want. as is its one of the funniest websites around because of how inept and self-serving they are.

That reminds me of a reality show on years ago. It was like big brother or something where the audience could vote people out. The audience voted out all the assholes and then nobody watched the show because it was boring.

As much as I would like MOAB or whoever owns that site to clean house on the moderators. I think it would be  "Careful what you wish for" scenario.

[HardcoreRetro]

Loving the 800 euro PS5 Pro.

[davepoobond]

Loving the 800 euro PS5 Pro.

what a time to be alive

[Jansen]

LMAO and it doesn't even have a disc drive. Sony sucks. Guess they gotta make up for the psvr2 somehow.

[Jansen]

I think everyone balking at the $699 price is legitimately delusional with how expensive tech is now.

They had to RAISE console prices in various regions to account for inflation. I don't know what you guys were expecting.

A 33 TFLOPS GPU + a 2TB SSD for $699 is honestly pretty reasonable

[Nintex]

800 Euro console

"pretty reasonable"

[Disco55]

Lol why would you buy a PS5 Pro when you can make or get a PC.

Sony is out of their minds.

[Uncle]

It's a disappointment that nothing can be done to clean out the Moderation Team wholesale.

no idea why this would be a thing anyone could want. as is its one of the funniest websites around because of how inept and self-serving they are.

That reminds me of a reality show on years ago. It was like big brother or something where the audience could vote people out. The audience voted out all the assholes and then nobody watched the show because it was boring.

As much as I would like MOAB or whoever owns that site to clean house on the moderators. I think it would be  "Careful what you wish for" scenario.

big brother 1 was largely like that, people voted out the assholes and instigators pretty quick, which incentivized the rest to generally be nice and friendly, but people still watched due to the novel truman show-esque concept

after that they just pitted them against each other which I found boring

[DocWager]

Wait what’s going on? Why can’t you guys buy a 5Pro? Too poor? AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Ethan]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-is-worse-for-gaming-capitalism-or-communism.976488/

Layoffs in the video game industry reached a high water mark this year. Beloved studios are fading away. Concord happened. It feels like greedy suits with dollar signs for eyes have sucked half the life out of gaming in one year alone. Capitalism is busted and it's hurting games.

Is communism any better? Or is it even worse? Black Myth Wukong sold like 80 million copies but thanks to all of the regressive censorship PR demanded , the game seems to have left a bad taste.

Mean while, China does not produce very many global video games. Maybe the don't have to.

I thought capitalism was worse for video games, but now I'm not sure. What do you think?

The cure (or improvement) for capitalism isn't communism, it's capitalistic socialism.

Communism is better if you like indie games
ideally everyone would have the means to work their hobbies and this would be amazing for small indie games

Capitalsm is better if you like AAA games, as they are the ones more geared towards profit and enrichment

So communism

Politics is certainly not that black and white.

But in an ideal "optimal" world where we don't really need to worry about money, because our society is run efficiently by computers/robots and humans only chip in with as much work as they like and can spend the rest of their time on hobbies, I do think we'd see a lot more great indies and smaller sized games, but the giant AAA offerings might just take ten years each to make. Unless passionate developers improve the open-source tools so much that making games is much faster and more efficient and everyone involved is all in and loving the process and okay, I'm just rambling at this point.

I've voted communism.

Concord is uniquely a failure of capitalism in the sense that is a failure that can only exist in capitalism.

It's failure is basically because executives saw something making money, put A LOT of money into making more (because more money = more profit) and didn't considered that after the time it takes to make it, the market would be overcrowded.
Concord's budget and how it failed is connectec to capitalism because AAA and profit seeking GaaS games are insanely connected to capitalism.

Communism would not have AAA and would not have GaaS because it is not a profit centered system

Communism requires an international effort that I don't think we'll see in our lifetimes, sadly.
Also Capitalism is going to end humanity so... I guess Capitalism is worse for gaming because gaming will not even exist in the future.
And China isn't even communist, technically speaking no country can even be communist because communism requires the end of the state or whatever the fuck, whatever.

There are no communist countries in the world today. One could argue there has never been one, period.

Considering the stated goal of Communism is to allow the laborer freedom to pursue their own interests and goals for the sake of fulfillment, I don't see why gaming couldn't exist under such a society. Granted they likely wouldn't be to the scale we know them as today but they'd probably be far more diverse, personal and interesting.

Uh, no it's not.  

China's uses a hybrid system that combines market mechanisms with strong state control and socialist values. Unlike let's say…. the states (where I'll just assume OP is from), China's focus is on long-term development, poverty alleviation, and collective welfare. It has lifted millions out of poverty, avoiding the pitfalls of unchecked market systems like in the states. China's approach is about prioritizing social stability and communal progress over PURE profit. Look into the fall of the soviet union and how they went out in their way to avoid that without becoming a neoliberal wasteland like the states.

It's people named Jeff, if people would stop naming their kids Jeff, everything would work out.

SHOTS FIRED

Then two guys reply to Chief Malik:

That is a WILDLY charitable explanation of how China works.

Have you ever been to China? One of my oldest friends has lived there for nearly 10 years, and the day to day he experiences is not at all China prioritizing long-term development, poverty alleviation, and communal progress. At all.

You are regurgitating government propaganda.
- China has some of the poorest social safety net, it is tiered and CCP officials get the best stuff
- China has some of the highest real estate prices in the world even after years of declining (yes, worse than the US now: check out what "six wallets" mean)
- China does not really have universal healthcare, its system is again, tiered, and poor, rural people get the worst healthcare
- China tries to achieve social stability by the most oppressive panopticon-like surveillance system ever exists
- The criteria of China's "lifting poverty" is extremely low; still 600 million people lives on <$150 a month

I've seen such rhetoric spouted by ignorant westerners so many times I've lost count.

China doesn't have *strong state control*; the state acts like a company: a (many elite) family-owned, dynastic company, much like the zaibatsu in Japan. It is owned by the elites, not any one of us.

And B-Dubs races in to the rescue with the lock:

Do we really need to do this? All these sorts of threads do is turn into ideological slap fights while the people who lived in places like China get ignored when they talk about what life is like for them.

Even though the bulk of the thread was just people making jokes or mocking the OP before Platy and Malik took it seriously.

Bdubs is such a fucking buzzkill. Threads about gaming under glorious communism used to be the best thing on that forum. What do we have left? More threads about how you should wipe your ass?

[Nintex]

God damn, that's such a hard no from me. $700. No disk drive. No stand. Showing it off with last gen ports of tlou2 and transphobic trash like Harry Potter. Yeah bro. I'm so good.

[Snoopy]

Entire thread full of cope


https://www.resetera.com/threads/christopher-dring-astro-bots-uk-sales-physical-only-so-far-arent-huge-opening-week-is-about-a-third-lower-than-2021s-r-c.976806/

It genuinely looks like a good game but watching ree ponies meltdown will never stop being funny

[TylenolJones]

Entire thread full of cope


https://www.resetera.com/threads/christopher-dring-astro-bots-uk-sales-physical-only-so-far-arent-huge-opening-week-is-about-a-third-lower-than-2021s-r-c.976806/

It genuinely looks like a good game but watching ree ponies meltdown will never stop being funny

Maybe now they’ll learn not to count chickens before the hatch.

[DocWager]

God damn, that's such a hard no from me. $700. No disk drive. No stand. Showing it off with last gen ports of tlou2 and transphobic trash like Harry Potter. Yeah bro. I'm so good.

Poor ass looking for excuses. Open a Ko-Fi!!!!

[Boredfrom]

Fuck that shit of not disk drive. I knew it was coming sooner than later but not at that fucking price.

[Nintex]

They didn't even upgrade the CPU, so that thing is bottle necked as hell.

[Straight Edge]

We in Neo Geo territory now.