Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

Tell me when Zuck kicked 90% of his company out with the most insidious of comments about it. Tell me when Zuck disowned his daughter 'cause she's trans. Remind me when Zuck tweeted he'd donate 6 billion to end world hunger without ever following up on it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ps4-ps5-will-no-longer-have-twitter-x-integration-as-of-nov-13th-2023-cant-share-video-pics-directly-to-the-site.782366/page-5#post-114549653

None of his first three examples happened.

[JoeBoy101]

Fairy Godmother's posting history is even funnier. Going back, she only did two things:

1. Closing Threads
   
2. Posting to the Steven Universe thread.
   

That's it. Pretty sure she's just a proxy account for mods.

[benji]

I'd argue the Fairy Godmother username is a clue as well.

[ClothedMac]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mr-beast-builds-100-wells-in-africa.781940/post-114537749

But here's the thing... None of what your saying is actually helping at all. Like seemingly your thesis is that, we should hope for some societal collapse that will result in the power structures changing as to escape from under the thumb of Capitalism. Cause seemingly, being under the hope that people will actually do the right thing and people will try to get those in power who can make good changes... Is apparently a Capitalistic ideal. So that isn't our way out of this situation.

People may finally be tired or Nepthe's monthly rant that we need to burn down the world and give her all the power

[kaleidoscopium]

How Jawmuncher can be a mod and be an employee at LRG without disclosing that I’ll never know. Hilarious

[benji]

It is pretty funny that a forum that's supposedly all about the community and has admins who post about tearing down the hierarchy for community never has had any public discussion about who should be approached as potential staff members.

[davepoobond]

outside of a few cases, i dont think moderators are ever hugely contributory to the overall atmosphere of a forum from a posting point of view.  same thing was happening on neogaf before the split ::shrug::

im sure its all about who they can trust will be a team player more or less.

its funny that dude copped a 3 month ban tho.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-93#post-114516557

As I've said multiple times in the past, there seems to be a few ways to stop these terfs:

• A well-known person or company in the UK starts advocating for trans protection. The terfs and the news that support them will be looking for *any* bit of information to smear them because of course they will. all the person/company needs to do is publicly twist the cancel culture boogeyman against the attackers.
  
• A well-known feminist starts dividing the group. Would cause them to fight amongst themselves instead of the trans people they are terrorizing. Their arrogance and need to be in the right will cause themselves to self-implode. Doesn't have to be a terf who does this.
  
• The queen terf finally faces her consequences and gets sued by someone who knows what they are doing. Would force her to shut up about trans people for at least a year. Terf news, who are now deprived of their main source of validation, would cry and whine about this for a while, until their bottom line starts getting affected. During that time, trans supporters can work on improving public perception on trans people, making them less vulnerable to terf nonsense.

[benji]

Is this really the first time she's went fully mask off? I so want her to suffer serious consequences for her actions, she is such a monster.

She's gone "fully mask off" several times. But she hasn't said "kill trans women" so everyone pretends that there is zero oppression against us, while ignoring all of the other people JKR endorses who have said to kill us.

Yep, it feels like there has been at least 10 times I've seen this exact same reaction to something she has done/said. The truth is....always has been mask off. She has and never will do anything to take in a serious legal measure and will just be going at this forever.

It's always been clear but I've mostly seen it couched in "protecting women's rights" and other such bullshit. Directly equating all trans women with rapists does seem like a further step, honestly.

Also, holy shit:

You can disprove literally anything TERFs and GC's say by throwing their other arguments against it.

The only reason it doesn't work is cause they don't give a single shit if their arguments literally disprove eachother when applied outside of a vacuum. Our mere existence interrupting the status quo is enough to justify wanting us dead.

It also doesn't matter if their arguments don't work because they are automatically granted "interpretation sovereignity"* by the societal elite who are primarily interested in keeping the patriarchy untouched.

Of course this is another flaw in their whole ideology that they are basically self-professed "radical" feminists who try to uphold patriarchy in an almost religious fevor.

* I had to awkwardly translate the German "Deutungshoheit" wich basically means that a certain interpretation is given privilege over others (possibly better ones) either because of cultural orthodoxy or because they are supported by wealthy and powerful interests.

Ultimately that is the whole crux of the "gender critical" movement. It runs contrary to feminism because GCs believe in enforcing strict gender roles, particularly if you are AMAB.

It's why their claims that they're defending their fictional definition of the word woman, or that they're protecting cis women from predators is nakedly horse shit. Because they're also infuriated by non binary people, drag artists and effeminate cis men.

Just look at how the GCs got mad about Dylan Mulvaney wearing a sports bra, because she was a trans woman. A lot of people, rightfully, pointed out that trans women also need to wear a bra. But as a thought experiment, would it have hurt anyone had Nike challenged gender norms by hiring a cis male model? You'd be targeting a very small, specific demographic in doing so, but it's a demographic that exists. Would the GC's, and their claims that they're okay with people wearing whatever they want, be okay with that? Because somehow I seriously doubt it

[books]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-93#post-114516557

As I've said multiple times in the past, there seems to be a few ways to stop these terfs:

• A well-known person or company in the UK starts advocating for trans protection. The terfs and the news that support them will be looking for *any* bit of information to smear them because of course they will. all the person/company needs to do is publicly twist the cancel culture boogeyman against the attackers.
  
• A well-known feminist starts dividing the group. Would cause them to fight amongst themselves instead of the trans people they are terrorizing. Their arrogance and need to be in the right will cause themselves to self-implode. Doesn't have to be a terf who does this.
  
• The queen terf finally faces her consequences and gets sued by someone who knows what they are doing. Would force her to shut up about trans people for at least a year. Terf news, who are now deprived of their main source of validation, would cry and whine about this for a while, until their bottom line starts getting affected. During that time, trans supporters can work on improving public perception on trans people, making them less vulnerable to terf nonsense.

Not sure I like the new direction Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is going, but I'll keep an open mind.

[Potato]

It is pretty funny that a forum that's supposedly all about the community and has admins who post about tearing down the hierarchy for community never has had any public discussion about who should be approached as potential staff members.

Funny, or simply following the fascist communist carrot economic model of development playbook

[HaughtyFrank]

On lighter news, in the Community Dump, BDumbs does out reach to cement ties with the community on his board:

Can we have a shake-up/breakdown of who is even a mod these days? I spied Fairy Godmother close a thread earlier today and they haven't posted/engaged with the community in a way that wasn't closing a thread since early 2020. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't call that prime Mod material.

User threadbanned

We're not doing this. Straight up.

Just in case you forgot Dumbs,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/active-staff-roster.7164/

Last edited by a moderator: Aug 3, 2023

And oh look, its been more recently updated then the Policy Thread for tracking changes to their rules.

lmao b-dumps put on his big boy pants

Listen up, you want to snipe at me? Fine, I can handle it. I've dealt with worse than all of you in my real life. I've been threatened, had my tires slashed on multiple occasions, you name it. There's almost nothing you can say to really hurt me. However, you do not get to do that to anyone on staff. Ever. Especially totally unprompted.

I don't care if it's in this thread or any other thread on this site. So long as I'm here, this doesn't go. We clear?

"You can come at me, I can take it, but don't you ever come for my staff!"

Meanwhile, just few posts earlier he banned someone 1 month for saying that he showed his ass again

huge surprise that b-dubs shows his ass again.

User banned (1 month) + threadbanned (permanently): Anti-staff sentiment and long history of the same

You usually don't give the "I can take it" speech while also banning anyone for the smallest insult. You gotta pick one.

"Give me all the snipes you got, I can take it, motherfuckers I've been in Vietnam"

"Hey, you're a dick"

"BANNED FOR A MONTH!"

[malfoyking]

GC's dont want traditional gender roles. wtf are they talking about? GC's just want tra's to use their common sense. A man cannot become a woman. A man cannot be a lesbian like a real woman is a lesbian. That is a fact. You are free to be who you want to be but you cannot literally change your biological sex. Oh thats right, biological sex isnt important anymore. Its how you feel that matters.

[benji]

It is pretty funny that a forum that's supposedly all about the community and has admins who post about tearing down the hierarchy for community never has had any public discussion about who should be approached as potential staff members.

Funny, or simply following the fascist communist carrot economic model of development playbook

STAFF COMMUNICATIONS are to help free the People from false consciousness so they can know their actual interests which align with the staff who are their will made flesh.

[davepoobond]

Benji is a wonderful human being and i will never say anything bad about him.  he has no ass to show.  wait, did i just call him a no-assed freak?  shit

[benji]

Listen up, you want to snipe at me? Fine, I can handle it. I've dealt with worse than all of you in my real life. I've been threatened, had my tires slashed on multiple occasions, you name it.

[benji]

Benji is a wonderful human being and i will never say anything bad about him.  he has no ass to show.  wait, did i just call him a no-assed freak?  shit

[TylenolJones]

Peace at last, finally someone Resetera and The Bore can hate together!!!

I think it was Russ Pitts and MovieBob that revived the site, and neither of them were kept around.

Speaking of MovieBob, I hear he's poisoned his reputation

Guy's slime.

Not 100% sure, but I think that's related to why he was no longer at The Escapist.

Yeah, he always came off as an arrogant jackass to me

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-escapist-seems-to-be-imploding-yahtzee-of-zero-punctuation-also-leaving.782477/

[benji]

Speaking of MovieBob, I hear he's poisoned his reputation

Assumes facts not in evidence.

[TylenolJones]

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On lighter news, in the Community Dump, BDumbs does out reach to cement ties with the community on his board:

Can we have a shake-up/breakdown of who is even a mod these days? I spied Fairy Godmother close a thread earlier today and they haven't posted/engaged with the community in a way that wasn't closing a thread since early 2020. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't call that prime Mod material.

User threadbanned

We're not doing this. Straight up.

Just in case you forgot Dumbs,

https://www.resetera.com/threads/active-staff-roster.7164/

Last edited by a moderator: Aug 3, 2023

And oh look, its been more recently updated then the Policy Thread for tracking changes to their rules.

lmao b-dumps put on his big boy pants

Listen up, you want to snipe at me? Fine, I can handle it. I've dealt with worse than all of you in my real life. I've been threatened, had my tires slashed on multiple occasions, you name it. There's almost nothing you can say to really hurt me. However, you do not get to do that to anyone on staff. Ever. Especially totally unprompted.

I don't care if it's in this thread or any other thread on this site. So long as I'm here, this doesn't go. We clear?

"You can come at me, I can take it, but don't you ever come for my staff!"

Meanwhile, just few posts earlier he banned someone 1 month for saying that he showed his ass again

huge surprise that b-dubs shows his ass again.

User banned (1 month) + threadbanned (permanently): Anti-staff sentiment and long history of the same

You usually don't give the "I can take it" speech while also banning anyone for the smallest insult. You gotta pick one.

"Give me all the snipes you got, I can take it, motherfuckers I've been in Vietnam"

"Hey, you're a dick"

"BANNED FOR A MONTH!"

I was about to be on bdumbs and the admins side, but then I saw the thread they closed. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/november-6-2023-gamesradar-xboxs-phil-spencer-considers-playstation-nintendo-players-part-of-the-xbox-community.782435/

You folks think you can simply close a KSweeley thread?!?

[books]

I've dealt with worse than all of you in my real life. I've been threatened, had my tires slashed on multiple occasions, you name it. There's almost nothing you can say to really hurt me.

He's probably uncontrollably shaking right now.

[kaleidoscopium]

The Escapist went down the drain once Gamergate reared its head, and Yahtzee be having some white-ass takes. Can't say I'll miss it or be holding out hopes for the new venture.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-escapist-seems-to-be-imploding-yahtzee-of-zero-punctuation-also-leaving.782477/page-2#post-114554084

Imagine saying “nepenthe be having some black-ass furry takes” 😂

The fact that Yahtzee stayed with escapist during it's gamergate phase really didn't sit well with me. A lot of people left during that but he didnt. You can say you aren't political as much as you want but it doesn't hold water when you are working for the gaming equivalent of stormfront

The… gaming equivalent of stormfront… these people really are fucked in the head. I’d like them to explain what they think “gamergate” was.

[benji]

What are they even talking about?

[books]

Everyone at resetera is always almost an expert. There's always chatter that someone said something some time. Didn't this person do this? I dunno, but I heard.

Germans would have loved em in the '40s.

[TylenolJones]

Y’all ain’t slick. Yahtzee didn’t even try to hide his nazi ties. 

[benji]

Yahtzee's who convinced me of the benefits of genocide. Then Dunkey just confirmed the hierarchy of genocide.

[books]

Not to be some Stan, but the escapist reviews were awesome as fuck. Dude hit an untapped source and got it going. 

And unless he was caught with CP, it feels really insulting to downplay dudes influence in gaming culture and academia(lol) and to retroactively say he was shit is disingenuous and gaslighting at its finest.

[benji]

It's pretty ironic to be talking about how a website took a fash-turn into "the gaming equivalent of stormfront" after firing MovieBob.

[BIONIC]

“Anti-staff sentiment”

[negativecrepe]

The… gaming equivalent of stormfront… these people really are fucked in the head. I’d like them to explain what they think “gamergate” was.

gamergate was people trying to hold gaming media to a real standard instead of 'journalists' getting free games and loot boxes all the time and not wanting to give bad ratings so they dont lose access. it was the only good thing to happen to that industry in 20 years and of course progressives had to kill it all because they wanted to stand with some pink haired broad developer that was trying to fuck her way through the industry