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[Borealis]

'The User Experience at Resetera' - Countdown to Starfield Discussion Bans

[kaleidoscopium]

The courts have been having a wild one this week, backing terfs.

It's left me with little hope that the legal system will do anything to protect trans rights in the UK.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-ot-antitrust-simulator-ms-wins-vs-ftc-uk-regulators-and-ms-to-pause-legal-battle-to-negotiate.633344/page-1464#post-108796497

User threadbanned (2 weeks): Trolling an OT over multiple posts

Okay, show where the deal expressly states all future releases in that 10-year span? Cause everything they've said in the numerous articles I could find was just a super vague: "We will bring CoD to this platform", no specifics beyond that. Hell, even Phil's own statement on the stand was just saying they wouldn't take CoD away from PlayStation. They never have gone specific with it.

Meanwhile other who doomposted got actual bans for a few days or two weeks.

[Snoopy]

Oh God. Please let them ban Starfield. It would be hilarious. Banning Starfield is about the only thing that would provide more entertainment than the Cyberpunk ban.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-trans-experience-at-zenimax-bethesda-past-employee-talks-about-how-she-was-treated.740793/page-2#post-108807231

You can really tell where this forum's priorities lie.

You can say "trans lives matter", but once it involves your beloved gaming company, then it's easier to just ignore it. Only two pages thus far as of this posting. Says a lot honestly. It says a lot that there's been more posts for today on the MS/Activision merger thread than here.

[Polident]

I’m pretty out of touch about modern western games. Did see a story recently about fucking insane budgets for last of us 2 and similar. And damn near every game ships broken with a roadmap to be playable. And there’s some indie LEGO Battlefield game blowing up in popularity because I guess that franchise has been in the toilet for ages. So much of the AAAA business doesn’t seem sustainable.

The way Dice has been mishandling Battlefield is truly a masterclass. And can't help but notice that this happened around the same time they started to go "woke". Maybe at that point they just started to ignore any and all player feedback or something because all those gamers are actually bigots.

Not too familiar with DICE’s story. Sounds to be the opposite of this indie game. Battlebit, btw. Team of three people. Originally were making a sim ARMA shooter. Listening to feedback, it shifted to what it is, basically the core of Battlefield 2 to 4. That’s all some people wanted and it’s this big surprise hit. Not that its success is on the level to make EA happy. Still, there’s something there.

[Potato]

Left unsaid is that they’re worried about their favorite toy’s place in the marketplace. Sony relies on heavy-handed third party deals. While their first party offerings sell well enough, they aren’t gonna move units in a meaningful way. They’re aware that as the pool of major third parties shrinks, Sony’s market position becomes pretty tenuous.

Sony had almost 30 years to bolster their first party output, they haven’t, it’s on them if they lose their place.

Sony's success is based on being the principal platform for Normie shit like FIFA and CoD. That's why the 360 ate the PS3's lunch in the US, but had a much more difficult time in Europe.

MS don't mind putting CoD on other platforms, but it will care to make XB the principal platform. That will be the big shift post acquisition.

Sony is extremely vulnerable, especially with EA playing silly games with the FIFA franchise.

[Pwnz]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-trans-experience-at-zenimax-bethesda-past-employee-talks-about-how-she-was-treated.740793/page-2#post-108807231

You can really tell where this forum's priorities lie.

You can say "trans lives matter", but once it involves your beloved gaming company, then it's easier to just ignore it. Only two pages thus far as of this posting. Says a lot honestly. It says a lot that there's been more posts for today on the MS/Activision merger thread than here.

Maybe, just maybe the performative purity test has always been bullshit. If I took the worst people of any company and immediately insinuated that it is company policy, I wouldn't be able to feed myself.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/twerking-olimar-takes-over-time-square-new-york.741066/#post-108818988

that "take over" billboard is funny until somehow a beheading vid ends up on there

I assume there's humans who see what's going up before they put it there?

humans, flawless, never been tricked once

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-ot-antitrust-simulator-ms-wins-vs-ftc-uk-regulators-and-ms-to-pause-legal-battle-to-negotiate.633344/page-1453#post-108790119

Right, so thank you for making my point. We’ll get Minecraft and Call of Duty on other platforms. Wahoooooooooooooooooooo. So pro consumer now I need to buy an Xbox or build a PC to play games I’ve been accessing on other systems since the 90s!

Love that he tried to claim he's been playing these games on other platforms since the 1990's and the only games he mentioned were post-1990's PC exclusives that didn't get console releases until later and one of them only because Bobby Kotick demanded a console version and then wasn't on PlayStation because the PS3 wasn't out yet.

What ActivisionBlizzard franchises were even on other platforms back then? Crash Bandicoot? Oh... right...

[Besticus Maximus]

Speaking as someone who works in IT, this is not a difficult fix. It's just a matter of doing something a little bit more than Nothing and paying attention when unexpected consequences pop up to get them fixed. Fixing an email address takes seconds if they're using Office 365, and the old email address automatically becomes an alias. Various system logins aren't any more difficult.

Watch out guys, this printer fixer is here to save Bethesda's internal tooling

[benji]

They think the e-mail address was the actual issue.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metas-twitter-competitor-called-threads-up-launched-7-5-23-over-100-million.737511/page-72#post-108565521

User Banned (1 week): Hostility over multiple posts, derailing

For someone who supposedly doesn’t care you’re certainly using a lot of emotive language

Who said I didn't care? I said I didn't care what their excuse was, not that I was indifferent to Threads. I think it sucks complete ass, which, yeah, that's certainly a kind of caring. Whatever excuse they have for why it sucks, that part I couldn't give a shit about, because, again, I am not inclined to extend grace and patience to Facebook of all companies.

Like half the responses I'm getting right now are responding to posts they've made up in their heads. "You say you don't care, but...". I never said that! I just said I have no interest in extending patience to Zuck et al. Your big GOTCHA isn't a gotcha at all.

Not sure why you also cut out parts of my post.

Never said only good opinions needed. It’s just that you seem especially angry about it. And that’s weird to me.

I cut the parts I wasn't responding to, for clarity. And also because it was the same "You said you don't care" nonsense as above.

And yeah I'm kind of angry at this point. I just thought the app sucked and said so, no big deal. It's all the crying-in-the-shower LEAVE ZUCKY ALONE responses attempting to GOTCHA me about... fully openly thinking it sucked and telling me to get out of the thread for daring to say I think it sucks that have me a bit irritated.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senator-chris-murphy-floats-selling-people-out-for-economic-unity-lol.739392/page-2#post-108615861

User Banned (3 Months): Concern trolling with regards to queerphobia across multiple posts, prior severe infractions

does it count as "performative" if you're part of the groups whose concerns are being written off as identity politics?

No, but telling people they are human scumbags and shitty people isn't going to make them want to learn why they are scumbags and shitty people.

Performative is the wrong word I believe, but whatever the current strategy (or lack of) is for LGBTQ rights right now is having a double edge sword of gaining large public support while creating more galvanized hate. Maybe I am too young, but I don't ever remember this much backlash against other social justice causes. The online battlefield of culture wars is not one where the decency is winning but in real society it does seem to, except for where the losing internet social war is bleeding in.

I don't think anyone especially here, can realistically say that things are going fine with the current situation and to discount it all to Musk/Fox/lack of moderation online is only part of the issue.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/axios-despite-pledges-nintendo-still-has-few-female-managers-in-japan-4-2-in-japan-and-23-5-global-basically-unchanged-since-2021.739278/#post-108597621

User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive Commentary

https://www.resetera.com/threads/axios-despite-pledges-nintendo-still-has-few-female-managers-in-japan-4-2-in-japan-and-23-5-global-basically-unchanged-since-2021.739278/#post-108599085

User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive Commentary

https://www.resetera.com/threads/axios-despite-pledges-nintendo-still-has-few-female-managers-in-japan-4-2-in-japan-and-23-5-global-basically-unchanged-since-2021.739278/#post-108599787

User Banned (3 Days): Dismissive Commentary

https://www.resetera.com/threads/axios-despite-pledges-nintendo-still-has-few-female-managers-in-japan-4-2-in-japan-and-23-5-global-basically-unchanged-since-2021.739278/#post-108600153

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissing Concerns Around Sexism; Misrepresenting Fellow Members

https://www.resetera.com/threads/axios-despite-pledges-nintendo-still-has-few-female-managers-in-japan-4-2-in-japan-and-23-5-global-basically-unchanged-since-2021.739278/page-2#post-108611418

User Banned (Permanent): Misogyny

https://www.resetera.com/threads/axios-despite-pledges-nintendo-still-has-few-female-managers-in-japan-4-2-in-japan-and-23-5-global-basically-unchanged-since-2021.739278/page-3#post-108612375

User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive Commentary

[Pwnz]

Dismissing of dismissing histories

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Speaking as someone who works in IT, this is not a difficult fix. It's just a matter of doing something a little bit more than Nothing and paying attention when unexpected consequences pop up to get them fixed. Fixing an email address takes seconds if they're using Office 365, and the old email address automatically becomes an alias. Various system logins aren't any more difficult.

Watch out guys, this printer fixer is here to save Bethesda's internal tooling

Strange how so many of those comments authoritatively blaming Bethesda and calling them shit and scum were made less than 4 hours after the video posted - almost like they just read the summary and based everything off of that.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senator-chris-murphy-floats-selling-people-out-for-economic-unity-lol.739392/page-2#post-108615861

User Banned (3 Months): Concern trolling with regards to queerphobia across multiple posts, prior severe infractions

does it count as "performative" if you're part of the groups whose concerns are being written off as identity politics?

No, but telling people they are human scumbags and shitty people isn't going to make them want to learn why they are scumbags and shitty people.

Performative is the wrong word I believe, but whatever the current strategy (or lack of) is for LGBTQ rights right now is having a double edge sword of gaining large public support while creating more galvanized hate. Maybe I am too young, but I don't ever remember this much backlash against other social justice causes. The online battlefield of culture wars is not one where the decency is winning but in real society it does seem to, except for where the losing internet social war is bleeding in.

I don't think anyone especially here, can realistically say that things are going fine with the current situation and to discount it all to Musk/Fox/lack of moderation online is only part of the issue.

queerphobia

New ban message

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senator-chris-murphy-floats-selling-people-out-for-economic-unity-lol.739392/page-2#post-108615861

User Banned (3 Months): Concern trolling with regards to queerphobia across multiple posts, prior severe infractions

does it count as "performative" if you're part of the groups whose concerns are being written off as identity politics?

No, but telling people they are human scumbags and shitty people isn't going to make them want to learn why they are scumbags and shitty people.

Performative is the wrong word I believe, but whatever the current strategy (or lack of) is for LGBTQ rights right now is having a double edge sword of gaining large public support while creating more galvanized hate. Maybe I am too young, but I don't ever remember this much backlash against other social justice causes. The online battlefield of culture wars is not one where the decency is winning but in real society it does seem to, except for where the losing internet social war is bleeding in.

I don't think anyone especially here, can realistically say that things are going fine with the current situation and to discount it all to Musk/Fox/lack of moderation online is only part of the issue.

This is a democracy, I shouldn't have to convince the majority to do what I want.

[books]

The fuck is queerphobia? I hate how my hate is being divided so I need to clarify my hatred so it's not being misconstrued.

Speaking as someone who works in IT, this is not a difficult fix. It's just a matter of doing something a little bit more than Nothing and paying attention when unexpected consequences pop up to get them fixed. Fixing an email address takes seconds if they're using Office 365, and the old email address automatically becomes an alias. Various system logins aren't any more difficult.

Watch out guys, this printer fixer is here to save Bethesda's internal tooling

Strange how so many of those comments authoritatively blaming Bethesda and calling them shit and scum were made less than 4 hours after the video posted - almost like they just read the summary and based everything off of that.

They only read when there's pictures involved.

[benji]

The fuck is queerphobia? I hate how my hate is being divided so I need to clarify my hatred so it's not being misconstrued.

That's exactly what the chuds want and why solidarity between all good guys like queers and Muslims and Marxists at all times is so important.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/johnny-harris-how-the-us-military-is-preparing-for-war-with-china.741084/#post-108823191

Johnny "CIA" doing State Department propaganda again?

you betcha

at this point he gotta just be doing it for the love of the game


or the world economic forum

https://www.resetera.com/threads/johnny-harris-how-the-us-military-is-preparing-for-war-with-china.741084/#post-108824535

what the fuck is this dog whistling dogshit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/johnny-harris-how-the-us-military-is-preparing-for-war-with-china.741084/#post-108824907

Partnered with them on a questionable video.

Are we really defending the WEF? Regardless of the anti-semitic whackjobs like Alex Jones that pin everything that has ever happened in the world on them, let's not pretend a public-private partnership advocate is a boon to the world.

Billionaires aren't a good thing but this WEF/Schwab/Soros shit are just the new lazy dogwhistles after BILDERBERGERS/TRILATERIAL COMMISSION/AGENDA 21 ran their course.

Learn to recognize.

Please use a bit of contextual reasoning before insinuating a dogwhistle, I know there are closet nazis still hanging around this forum, but don't just jump straight to the accusation, I beg thee.

 

[benji]

I’m almost afraid to ask but is a global scale war something that is actually possible still? Say China decided to start an expansionist war into Europe or something like that, it’s hard for my brain to fathom how it plays out. Maybe it’s because I don’t like war or want to contemplate it on that scale.

Look at a fucking map for once in your life jesus christ.

[benji]

I feel like his content shouldn’t be allowed here, feels like he doesn’t even try to be accurate in many cases

Really good video, thanks for sharing.

I feel like I remember that guy from Vox, and the style of the video reminds me a lot of Vox too

It didn't even answer the question he raised in the fucking video. He just went on about some "kinder" form of capitalism and then told you it was a WEF video. The same shit Charles Schwab wrote about. Trash video, trash YouTuber.

Doesn't help he considers Madeline Albright his hero. Really shows where his politics lie.

I'm gonna dunk on Harris as well. His videos while slick have so many inaccuracies to the point where there is a small cottage industry of reaction/critique YouTubers that debunk several of his videos. I'm both amazed and disgusted at the number of views he gets. He even commented on one video on how he needs to 'do better' in terms of his research and accuracy, but it's still monumentally awful.

He is so bad that he needs to be a banned source for a lot of things.

mods help

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How do they know he's not already a banned source for some things?

[Uncle]

Oh God. Please let them ban Starfield. It would be hilarious. Banning Starfield is about the only thing that would provide more entertainment than the Cyberpunk ban.

they won't, because it's not specific to the game like cyberpunk having "transphobic" ads in-game or harry potter being steeped in rowling's transphobia

blizzard has had many workplace scandals and they don't ban wow or diablo

[Polident]

I’ve seen his videos. Well edited, flashy, good production values. Not to my taste but not hard to see why he gets views. And why they aren’t fans. The entire video is only 20 minute long.

[Potato]

Speaking as someone who works in IT, this is not a difficult fix. It's just a matter of doing something a little bit more than Nothing and paying attention when unexpected consequences pop up to get them fixed. Fixing an email address takes seconds if they're using Office 365, and the old email address automatically becomes an alias. Various system logins aren't any more difficult.

Watch out guys, this printer fixer is here to save Bethesda's internal tooling

Strange how so many of those comments authoritatively blaming Bethesda and calling them shit and scum were made less than 4 hours after the video posted - almost like they just read the summary and based everything off of that.

The length of these videos has to be intentional because they know that no one will bother watching the whole thing and they can just use the title/headline to get their biased points across, right?

[benji]

Was looking for a screenshot of something, found a whole folder of ResetERA.com screenshots, they are now in our RE folder, in no real order:

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[FUME5]

Has fatty fat fat been up to anything interesting?

[remy]

Has fatty fat fat been up to anything interesting?

Lining up for bulk buys at the hood hot dog stand is pretty time consuming, I heard