Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

Hopefully she'll be replaced by an equally qualified woman of color.

Either way, fuck that entire swath of people who think they done a good job.

I think that ideally they wouldn't hire another woman of color who has done plagiarism.

[Boredfrom]

Do you honestly think a white man would have faced this much scrutiny and manufactured outrage if he was in this position?

Yes? 

Hell, this should have happened before she got the job.

[Potato]

They think Harvard should have stood tall behind her because the wrong people noticed that she fucked up.

Lots of people they repeat uncritically were saying this on Twitter weeks ago. For example these two morons:

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If Trump cheated on a fifth grade exam they would demand impeachment.

[Daffy Duck]

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Hogwarts legacy won best steam deck game, and they are upset lol 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-2023-steam-awards-winners.801279/

That fourth award - gross. Are you down with editing the post to remove it? People can still see it within the link, but the cheerful little blurb that goes with it in the post makes me nauseous.

Sure, editing shortly. Though to be honest it doesn't hurt to know that unfortunately this is what the wider industry thinks of the game as well. Which is nauseating.

EDIT: I think someone else (an admin I guess) got to it first

Turns out it was Jawmuncher

Yeah, a lot of these awards feel like Steam users decided to troll

Using your position as a mod to attack another game publisher when you work at another publisher seems scummy

I love how much just even the mention of it triggers them.

Bunch of pussy ass little bitches.

[Potato]

Whoever prepped these people was totally incompetent and set them up for failure.

The entire episode was designed so they'd fail. And by "fail" I mean "create clips that Fox News could play on a loop to show that the Liberals are the real issue in this country." I don't think any level of training would have prevented that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/claudine-gay-resigns-as-president-of-harvard-shortest-tenure-ever-chris-rufo-rejoices-in-another-propaganda-victory.801264/post-117092706

True galaxy brains now. You see, there was just no way for the university presidents to say that calling for genocide is unequivocally bad. It's one of these incredible mind traps laid by the conservatives where they ask you to condemn anti-Semitism

Fucking hell, all that's left is for them to blame the extreme level of idiotic incompetence on infiltration of the Universities by right wingers.

They really are on the verge of their own QAnon-style united conspiracy theory.

[HaughtyFrank]

Do you honestly think a white man would have faced this much scrutiny and manufactured outrage if he was in this position?

Yes? 

Hell, this should have happened before she got the job.

A white woman literally resigned before Gay did but somehow they're not talking about that.

In fact the internal chatter from Harvard was that they were specifically soft on Gay because making the first black female president resign is bad optics

[benji]

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[Potato]

play with capitalism you'll get burned

lol

oh no, our shareholders!

The CCP are not real leftists and China is 100% a capitalist state just run as a dictatorship. At the end of the day money is power. I expect more pushback from Chinese capitalists against the state if it keeps trying to eat into their profits.

Though this is just a layman's perspective

Even if the draft was bad still sad this whole fiasco happened because it will weaken the talk that is absolutely needed about regulating gacha and gaas

The third guy is sailing close to the wind on acceptable political criticism. Might catch a ban for racism and xenophobia.

[kaleidoscopium]

I still can't get over how out of place FC24 was in the GOTY finalists pool. Wizard game and Lethal Company being there also felt...forced at best.

[Potato]

I can't believe people are falling for the campaign of hate against Dr. Gay. 1) The hearing was purposely set up as a gotcha against those university presidents 2) Many academics would run into similar issues if they had that much scrutiny on them.

This is a success of fascists like Chris Rufo, that's it. There's no merit to this ousting. They'll go after more university presidents after this and the same shit will play out and people will again try to act like this isn't an unjust result of a hate campaign.

They're just using the Gamer Gate playbook! Just like GGers got Allison Rapp fired from Nintendo! They dug through her old stuff.

For fuck's sake, I have a PhD and I know if you went through some of my student papers you'd find sloppy shit. Even sloppy citations. It happens. Especially when you're writing a document that's hundreds of pages. I'm reading posts accusing Dr. Gay of all kinds of shit, making her sound like she's James Somerton when she's nothing of the sort.

Holy fucking shit. I'm a female POC academic and I am livid. Fuck this. Fuck anyone defending this. This is 100% a hit job by the right that centrists and others went along with. Seeing how easy it was, it's going to happen again and again and again. I am sick to watch this. This is how the US falls further into fascism, when bullshit like this is given good faith interpretations by people who should know better.

Amen

The first thing that most colleges drill in you is that “Plagiarism is not okay and it can be done by just citing badly.

Ummmmm, it's "woman POC academician" you TERF cunt.

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They could all have simply avoided the issue by saying all genocide is bad, but they didn't.

[benji]

I AM NOT AN ANTI-SEMITE, I AM AN ACADEMICIAN

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

Fc24? as in EA FC24?

[Potato]

Fascism is when academics can't do a plagiarism. And Nintendo fires pedophilia advocates doing sex work after explicitly agreeing not to do sex work.

Errr, correction fascist. 

Academics make sloppy mistakes ALL THE TIME and PhDs are regularly handed out to cis white male academicians without proper peer review which would have picked up on those mistakes in their work. They are also allowed to equivocate on whether it's acceptable to genocide the Jews and there certainly wasn't any shady business going on when a woman POC was controversially promoted to a role, even though it was "a good look" at the time.

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

I mean wasn't the Havard lady's time basically up when she made a complete tit of herself in that hearing?

[Potato]

Kasumin didn't even think the accusations were real on the previous page:

Is there actual evidence of her plagiarizing anyone? I see this repeated as fact but with no actual confirmation, which I find really disturbing. This is an example of misinformation triumphing in addition to the right using Gamer Gate tactics on major public figures

Where does this woman POC academic stand on the evidence used to convict Joanne (TERF cunt) on multiple counts of murder and genocide?

[Besticus Maximus]

I want to know what Princess Bubblegum thinks about the thresholds of plagiarism at Harvard before I decide one way or t'other

Also, does Claudine give her full name to security when she goes to her therapist?

[Potato]

Fc24? as in EA FC24?

Yes, that sorry broken mess of a game.

[Potato]

I mean wasn't the Havard lady's time basically up when she made a complete tit of herself in that hearing?

Well, that was part of THEIR* master plan you see...

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*They being stupid conservatives who are stupid and dumb and continually vote against their own interests and did I mention they're dumb and stupid? 

Yeah, those guys executed a long-running plan to install a woman POC to a leadership role in a top University and then instigated a war in the middle east, just so they could embarrass progressives in the US.

[ComeAgain]

Their bewilderment whenever these games/movies/TV shows they swear “no one is talking about” turn out to be award winners, GOTY contenders and winners and some of the best selling of the year continue to be hilarious.

[HaughtyFrank]

I AM NOT AN ANTI-SEMITE, I AM AN ACADEMICIAN

I get chills everytime Superman says that

[Shecky Fragbaum]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-is-a-far-left-website-that-some-would-describe-as-a-hive-mind.801339/

Self Awareness Alert!!!

[kaleidoscopium]

I'm seeing comments by people claiming Dr. Gay must hate Jews based on warped news coverage. Wasn't she just reiterating Title IX policy? Why does her flubbing a gotcha Congressional testimony mean she should be fired?

She was attacked like this because she's a black woman. Harvard won't magically become safer for Jewish students after this. Heck, it's not like the right actually cares about antisemitism or academic integrity.

This whole thing gives the fascists a win. They get to paint someone on the left as an antisemite while distracting from how their best buddies are actual Nazis. And judging by this thread, it's working!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/claudine-gay-resigns-as-president-of-harvard-shortest-tenure-ever-chris-rufo-rejoices-in-another-propaganda-victory.801264/page-2?post=117096069#post-117096069

[Pwnz]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-is-a-far-left-website-that-some-would-describe-as-a-hive-mind.801339/

Self Awareness Alert!!!

I'd say the AI is mostly right.

The people that should be moderating discussion are trying to moderate beliefs into some hyper left tankies utopia where if you're trans your right with every topic otherwise reeee genocide.

Now the people that are being quiet, the vast majority, are probably center left like me. And like the 300 former poliera people on discord. One of the few things they ban people for us freaking out over one off polls a year ahead.  That's like 20% of the concern trolling on era.

"I think Trump isn't likely to win because of X"

"how dare you threaten my existence. How privileged you are that you don't have to worry about your livelihood. Look at these reactions to polls on shitter. Mods ban pls"

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-is-a-far-left-website-that-some-would-describe-as-a-hive-mind.801339/

i think for most people who are aware of the games industry enough to know of this site, but not actually use this site, this is a pretty common perception. i've definitely heard Era described as a hivemind before

GET HIM FOR CALLING US A HIVEMIND

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-is-a-far-left-website-that-some-would-describe-as-a-hive-mind.801339/

[HaughtyFrank]

Wasn't she just reiterating Title IX policy?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/claudine-gay-resigns-as-president-of-harvard-shortest-tenure-ever-chris-rufo-rejoices-in-another-propaganda-victory.801264/page-2?post=117096069#post-117096069

Kasumin got no fucking clue

Title IX states:
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

[benji]

This whole thing gives the fascists a win. They get to paint someone on the left as an antisemite while distracting from how their best buddies are actual Nazis. And judging by this thread, it's working!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/claudine-gay-resigns-as-president-of-harvard-shortest-tenure-ever-chris-rufo-rejoices-in-another-propaganda-victory.801264/page-2?post=117096069#post-117096069

MAGA really hates pedophiles and human traffickers too, don't give the fascists a win!

[Averon]

And locked

No offense, but given who that AI is citing, we're not entirely comfortable hosting this thread.

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-is-a-far-left-website-that-some-would-describe-as-a-hive-mind.801339/

i think for most people who are aware of the games industry enough to know of this site, but not actually use this site, this is a pretty common perception. i've definitely heard Era described as a hivemind before

GET HIM FOR CALLING US A HIVEMIND

No offense, but given who that AI is citing, we're not entirely comfortable hosting this thread

Sure bdumbs, that’s why you’re closing down the thread.

[Pwnz]

"I mean I do think to a certain extent mods will let personal feelings influence their judgements such that people they dislike might get harsher punishments and people they like are more likely to get off the hook, but that's less a resetera problem and more a human one, that's going to happen on literally every forum ever."
https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-is-a-far-left-website-that-some-would-describe-as-a-hive-mind.801339/?post=117096354#post-117096354

Uh, it doesn't have to. Try that on Wikipedia or contributing to open source software.  You know, actual peer review and moderation.