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[Ionian]

Corollary post: If you can't afford the $60 a year for a Costco membership maybe you should rethink your life priorities. Amazon Prime and Netflix both cost way more than that yearly. Costco membership has long been one of the best values in retail and that's why they have so many members.

They limit the amount of toilet rolls you can buy though, that's pretty fascist to me.

 

[Bannedforexisting]

Looks like one Resetter is finally waking up. Ironically, one named Daffy Duck.

9 out of 10 people found to be biased against women - UNDP report

with regards the hidden content (and I know the the thread is now locked) but why was this thread allowed to stay open https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-serious-question-how-attractive-is-adam-driver.171193/ Surely if it was the other way round and “boys club culture” it would be locked down...

www.resetera.com

As usual, Reset admins run to the bullshit defense of "sexism". You can never question women/feminism or you're sexist.

Yeah, that shit doesn't fly in the real world. If I know a woman was purposely trying to keep me down because of my gender, I'm not going to tolerate it.

They don't care about women or sexism. Men rule ree.

 

[nush]

This is a really long rant but the actual reality of the Costco hot dog can be explained in 1 short paragraph.

Costco makes over 85% of their revenue from the membership fees. They sell those hot dogs and rotisserie chickens at a loss to get people to join. Chickens are in the store already and can't be purchased by non-members but the food court used to be allowed to slide. This is no longer the case, because Costco is tired of subsidizing cheap food at a loss for non-members. The End.

Actually (and I don't know about other countries) the membership of cash and carry wholesale stores allows products to be sold to "members" at a lower tax rate. So whenever you see member price and non member price that's where the saving is from.

Yes, they are making money from the membership fees BUT they could also make membership free and still make money that way due to the tax break.

There are a few stores around the world that use this model.

 

[nush]

Potential ResetEra Data Breach (Appears to be False, See Threadmark)

Not trying to create a panic but this morning, someone on Twitter claimed that ResetEra had been breached and user data including emails and passwords had been leaked online. I posted this in the site issues thread and messaged staff, but no one has responded so far. Given how serious this is, I...

www.resetera.com

Yeah, we know how this plays out every time.

FrankDrebinnothingtoseehere.gif

 

[cormack12]

I thought that data breach was like really early? Can only vaguely remember a little bit.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Actually (and I don't know about other countries) the membership of cash and carry wholesale stores allows products to be sold to "members" at a lower tax rate. So whenever you see member price and non member price that's where the saving is from.

Yes, they are making money from the membership fees BUT they could also make membership free and still make money that way due to the tax break.

There are a few stores around the world that use this model.

They aren't going to throw away 85% of their revenue to cater to a tiny screaming group of nutjobs who wouldn't shop there anyways like Ree so the point is moot. But yes, they are able to purposely limit their margins on actual stuff they sell to only 13% because of the money they make from membership fees.

 

[nush]

I thought that data breach was like really early? Can only vaguely remember a little bit.

Potential ResetEra Data Breach (Appears to be False, See Threadmark)

We pushed out a site-wide notice for the update we made to the General Guide the other night.

www.resetera.com

So the "other night" they heard about this and just updated the general guide? So they would not have said anything specific as a potential warning? I can't wait for those passwords to get dumped and watch them run around with official staff notices damage control next week.

 

[DragoonKain]

Apparently someone has been logging into users accounts and posting on them.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

It's the final countdown.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Today's reminder that if you aren't using something like https://passwordsgenerator.net/ you are doing it wrong.

GAF suffered a data breach back in the day too, for the real veterans here who remember the good old days.

 

[ManaByte]

Potential ResetEra Data Breach (Appears to be False, See Threadmark)

We pushed out a site-wide notice for the update we made to the General Guide the other night.

www.resetera.com

So the "other night" they heard about this and just updated the general guide? So they would not have said anything specific as a potential warning? I can't wait for those passwords to get dumped and watch them run around with official staff notices damage control next week.

 

[Khilandros]

They nuked the post like nothing happened, way to handle the issue by pretending it isn't there....oh lord, lol

 

[ManaByte]

They nuked the post like nothing happened, way to handle the issue by pretending it isn't there....oh lord, lol

If the PWs are just stored as hashes (not salted hashes) and they reuse their passwords elsewhere, they're very easy to crack.

 

[sophnar0747]

I like how I'm now being attacked for warning them about a leak and to tell em to change their passwords. Fuck that site.

 

[DragoonKain]

I like how I'm now being attacked for warning them about a leak and to tell em to change their passwords. Fuck that site.

You can’t expect rational from the irrational.

Agendas never take a day off.

 

[Dick Jones]

I like how I'm now being attacked for warning them about a leak and to tell em to change their passwords. Fuck that site.

You're doing your job to warn them, even if they are behaving like idiots. Keep it up.

When was the leak? When did they know? For the European posters, has the breach been notified to the proper channels (must be 72 hours, I think)?

 

[ManaByte]

You're doing your job to warn them, even if they are behaving like idiots. Keep it up.

When was the leak? When did they know? For the European posters, has the breach been notified to the proper channels (must be 72 hours, I think)?

Of course it hasn't been reported. They're trying to bury the news and attack the messenger to deflect. They won't be able to deflect the EU fine though.

 

[YukiOnna]

I think I'm too dumb to understand this msg

 

[Dick Jones]

#prayforcerium


#prayforbdubs


#livefootageofthemods

 

[Dick Jones]

I think I'm too dumb to understand this msg

Too dumb? I think you are not dumb enough by far.

If you really want to understand the message, ask a friend to drop a bag of cement on your head from about 200ft. Then you'd be as brain damaged as the poster who wrote that.

 

[tkscz]

Eating at the Costco Food Court Will Now Require A Membership

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-03-03/costco-food-court-membership Rejoice, Costco members! We shall soon be free of the plebs choking up the lines that are not one of us! But seriously, should help keep membership from going up in price. Members have basically been subsidizing...

www.resetera.com

Man, that Costco thread was a goddamn hilarious read.
Everything that's wrong with "SJW" types summed up over a few pages.

So it appears that Costco hotdogs are famously rather good and are sold at an excellent price.
However you need a membership to shop at Costco and some people who go there to eat the famous hotdogs do so without memberships.
So Costco wants to enforce their "members-only" rules.

This is really not a big deal.

However, entitled little twats who love cheap delicious hotdogs, virtue signalling and "standing up to authority" are taking a strop because they are being blocked out in favor of those big spending, high flying, upper class types who are spending... 60 bucks... a year... on "exclusive" memberships.

With ReetardEra being a videogame site primarily I can't help but see the humor in the fact that a Costco membership for an entire year costs about the same as a videogame. A videogame that would need to be played on a 300+ buck device or a relatively expensive computer.

Anyway, so now it needs to become a social justice issue and it's telling that the "anti-Costco" mob go for an emotionally manipulative response.

Hey guys you know some families they just don't have much and "going out for dinner" for them might mean going to Costco and splitting a hotdog 4 ways and putting 4 straws into the soda. You want to deny them that? You heartless bastards!

Like, if you are that fucking poor then I don't see how blowing 1.50 on a single hotdog and little drink of soda is a wise move.
Pack the kids into the car and drive to Costco because a 1.50 hotdog is all we can afford.
Doesn't McDonalds also have a dollar menu or something?
How much is a loaf of bread and some milk in the US?

Oh but what about the homeless? The homeless are cold and starving and maybe this 1.50 hotdog could be saving lives!
So now the argument is that Costco should not shut this down because they are providing a public service by offering cheap food to the homeless.

If this is the case then why not argue that the hotdogs should just be given away to the homeless for free OR maybe Costco could run a soup kitchen out the back of their store.

What is it with these whiny little brats using the impoverished and the homeless as their bargaining chip in this argument which is basically "those Costco hotdogs are famous and popular and I am jealous of people who have a membership so I want to complain that they are shutting ME out". Except 99.9% of sensible people when faced with a clown on a videogame forum using a laptop or phone to post messages complaining about not being able to get a 1.50 hotdog will say "stop whining and eat elsewhere you fucking cheapskate". So we need to bring out poor immigrant families and almost dead homeless people to attack the big Costco Strawman.

Then there's the escalation to "the world is fucking ending and we are all dying and it's all because of capitalism and this is an example of that!" REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I feel entitled to this cheap 1.50 hotdog without needing to pay for a membership!
They won't let me have it!
Reeeeeeeeee! This is why capitalism is a disease!
How dare those paying members want to keep the stuff they paid for all to themselves?
This is disgusting capitalism! How can you defend this!
Food should all be free anyway reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

All this entertainment and screeching over a shitty hotdog that costs 1.50.

I mean, no shit, if I am paying a membership fee for certain privileges and services then I want to take advantage of that.
Otherwise why would I bother with the membership?
So if some dude is there going "haha fuck that membership fee, I am going to take advantage" then I probably would be looking to the people running the whole thing to do something.
Otherwise what am I actually paying for?

Of course Incelsiorlef gets it backwards and upside down as usual trying to portray paying members as the entitled ones.
Here's the strawman Costco customer.
"I paid my 50$ Only I should get a 1.50$ hot dog on my way out, it's not fair!"

Well why do you think people are paying their 50 bucks membership?

Company X: If you pay 60 bucks a year we can offer you the following benefits.
Customer A: Sounds good. Here you go. Now I can enjoy shopping and maybe grab one of your famous hotdogs when I'm done.
Company X: Good chap, enjoy shopping with Company X.

Incelsiorlef: Look at this goddamn entitled Customer! He thinks because he paid for benefits that he should get them and people who haven't paid shouldn't. How entitled!

This is the mind-set of some of these people on ReetardEra.
If you pay for services and benefits and expect to get them you are entitled.
If you don't think non-paying customers should get the same deal as you then you are entitled.
However, if you demand the same benefits without paying and moan when you don't get it? Not entitled.

To be fair a lot of them are calling out this bullshit on the thread. So there is a bit of hope in there yet.

Highly, highly, entertaining. I LOVE IT!

TL;DR
"I want those famous hotdogs for cheap without paying for a membership! Reeeeee!"
Well, how about you just buy a pack of hotdogs and some buns and get like 8 hotdogs for 1.50?
"Some people are homeless or poor and can't cook hotdogs! Reeeeeeee!"
But it's you that wants the hotdogs, no? Do you have a microwave or stove or...?
"You just want people to die you capitalist pig! What about families with no money!? Goddamn membership paying entitled assholes! Reeeeeeee!"

You could've easily stopped at McDonald's. Let's face facts, you get more for about the same price. They are FAR more convenient and there are just straight up more of them. Seriously, theres a McDonald's on like every block, but how often do you even run into a costco where this is a problem? The closest one to me requires a car to get there, where I'm surrounded by 3 or 4 McDonald's within walking distance.

This isn't about the poor or homeless, who choose fast food places WELL before a costco, this is about greedy Reeeee members too cheap to pay $60 a year for the Costco membership, but I bet they pay $60 a year for XBL or PSN.

 

[Ionian]

Too dumb? I think you are not dumb enough by far.

If you really want to understand the message, ask a friend to drop a bag of cement on your head from about 200ft. Then you'd be as brain damaged as the poster who wrote that.

They're desperately trying to stay relevant, much like Hobbes, it's gone so far from funny to utterly pathetic for them.

Still is funny though, I cannot lie.

 

[Dick Jones]

Of course it hasn't been reported. They're trying to bury the news and attack the messenger to deflect. They won't be able to deflect the EU fine though.

God bless the European Union. As long as we can find out when they knew of the breach and it's over 72 hours, a suggestion to my EU brethren to advise the data commissioners of this breach.

 

[Dick Jones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/po...-be-false-see-threadmark.173661/post-29676985

It's funnier after the communication that everything was fine. It's awful that people's data is breached but JFC don't fucking lie and get caught out straight away.

 

[ManaByte]

God bless the European Union. As long as we can find out when they knew of the breach and it's over 72 hours, a suggestion to my EU brethren to advise the data commissioners of this breach.

When the EU comes knocking they won't accept "it was an alt-right troll!" as an excuse.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

I think I'm too dumb to understand this msg

Canadian man in a dress is an idiot, blames capitalism

news at 11

 

[YukiOnna]

Canadian man in a dress is an idiot, blames capitalism

news at 11

Going to assume he has a Humanities degree with a post like that.

 

[Plague Doctor]

Canadian man in a dress is an idiot, blames capitalism

news at 11

Canadian member sees racism everywhere...

except for their own prime minister they voted for wearing black face too many times to remember.

That's the progressive way.

 

[Bigrx1]

I had a feeling ERA would be quite excited to hear r/gamersriseup was banned considering r/gamingcirclejerk (the leftist counterpart to r/gamersriseup) seems to basically just be ERA members on reddit. This of course comes hot on the heels of yesterday's massive ban waves of other subreddits that don't join the leftist group think like r/average_redditor and a bunch of others. Which also comes hot on the heels of them dismantling T_D. It's almost as if they don't want opposing viewpoints on their platform? Regardless, this is quite the win for ERA members indeed another group of nazi bigots silenced and eliminated!

Reddit bans GamersRiseUp board

They targeted gamers, etc. For those of you not in the know about this particular board, this was originally set up as a board parodying the overly-dramatic 'gamer' stereotype of complaining about feminism and all that. And you know how some people out there take these parodies seriously, end...

www.resetera.com

 

[TrainedRage]

Data breach you say? Work and school emails given away you say? Passwords given out you say?

.... nope nothing happened it’s just trolls.

 

[captainraincoat]

The pedo discord pretty much revealed how reee plays things when they get presented with evidence

1)at first ignore and ban/lock discussion
2) if the discussion is offsite mass report and force it to disappear
3) discredit the actual leaker or antagonist
4) staff communication and we do give into alt right trolls post

they are then safe and can go back to shrieking at titties in Japanese games and trying to stack the oppression ladder in the correct order

meanwhile someone now has access to your username...your passwords and your work/personal details and can no go about fucking up your life for shits and giggles while captain “Nword moment” b-dubs instructs his admins to ban anyone who questions their explanation

this year is already delivering...and we are not even at the starting block of the election yet,

 

[CasperDarling]

Look at them! Bunch of rich, hotdog hoarding, bastards!
Making sure poor people won't have supplies when that coronavirus spreads!

What the fuck is wrong with these people. You would think a nuclear bomb was about to go off or an asteroid was on a path towards earth.

 

[cormack12]

 

[ManaByte]

What the fuck is wrong with these people. You would think a nuclear bomb was about to go off or an asteroid was on a path towards earth.

No, they've just been reading the Coronavirus panic thread here and are convinced everyone is going to die.

 

[raduque]

Its Pugsly Addams!

 

[Blam]

About the recent (and now confirmed) leak that the staff is trying to…

archived 6 Mar 2020 22:18:21 UTC

archive.is

Looks like the "leaker" has beef with bdubs.

 

[SirKicksalot]

I won't make an effort to crop this but fucking lol, especially at the sticky:

(Edit: deleted thread screenshots since there's an archive)

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Hahaha. I love how the troll is going from breached account to account.

 

[Sephimoth]

Hahaha. I love how the troll is going from breached account to account.

Like whack-a-mole

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Like whack-a-mole

LOL.............. "It's me again!"

I wonder how many days he's going to to do it for.

 

[nush]

About the recent (and now confirmed) leak that the staff is trying to…

archived 6 Mar 2020 22:18:21 UTC

archive.is

Looks like the "leaker" has beef with bdubs.

I love how the second reply is a reetard telling him he's going to get banned for using an alt!

 

[Saber]

Looks like one Resetter is finally waking up. Ironically, one named Daffy Duck.

9 out of 10 people found to be biased against women - UNDP report

with regards the hidden content (and I know the the thread is now locked) but why was this thread allowed to stay open https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-serious-question-how-attractive-is-adam-driver.171193/ Surely if it was the other way round and “boys club culture” it would be locked down...

www.resetera.com

As usual, Reset admins run to the bullshit defense of "sexism". You can never question women/feminism or you're sexist.

Yeah, that shit doesn't fly in the real world. If I know a woman was purposely trying to keep me down because of my gender, I'm not going to tolerate it.

And to surprise of no one, a member says that "men are trash" and nothing happens. No punishment. Swap genders and see what happens.

 

[ManaByte]

C'mon. Get creative. Get access to an admin account, ban all mods, lift all bans in the system. Watch the world burn.

 

[JordanN]

C'mon. Get creative. Get access to an admin account, ban all mods, lift all bans in the system. Watch the world burn.

You need to think bigger.

If anything, someone needs to leak the Private Messages. Remember some of the heinous shit they did on GAF. Expose all corruption.

 

[JORMBO]

Dear White People, Please don't do this...... Ever..... No, Seriously

This is easily one of the worst political clips I've ever seen........ Hot damn... Dear White People, 1. Please... Please don't loudly and INCORRECTLY quote/summon/resurrect MLK to be used as a talking point to defend a white person's activism... Please Don't 2. PLEASE, PLEASEEEEE Don't EVER...

www.resetera.com

 

[nush]

C'mon. Get creative. Get access to an admin account, ban all mods, lift all bans in the system. Watch the world burn.

I'd rather they leak mods DMs, but I think they moved all mod chat to the Discord after they found they had an insider (Robin, Kethkats partner) leaking before.

Hopefully this will be an entertaining popcorn weekend on Ree.

 

[Ymir]

B-dubs, you should adress your past now. The community must know who you are.

https://imgur.com/a/N5ms1V1

www.resetera.com

B-Dubs getting called out

 

[M.W.]

B-dubs, you should adress your past now. The community must know who you are.

https://imgur.com/a/N5ms1V1

www.resetera.com

B-Dubs getting called out

Thread closed, user started another, closed and banned. Time to jerk off.

 

[Mochilador]

B-dubs, you should adress your past now. The community must know who you are.

https://imgur.com/a/N5ms1V1

www.resetera.com

B-Dubs getting called out

Damn, could he be the same guy who warned them about the leak?

 

[M.W.]

Another thread popped up under a different user, deleted immediately