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[Ionian]

Excelspreadsheet?

Yeah the did, lemme find it later.

They're Canadian and that's only one example.

 

[Tuff McNutt]

Excelspreadsheet?

Yeah. The annoying thing about that is that they don't acknowledge how fucked up some of Canada is. Like ask your average indigenous person in Winnipeg how they are treated.

But hey, they're an expert on care bears and wrestling who work the night shift at a grocery store stocking shelves, so they know how to "solve" America's problems.

 

[thefool]

For those that were on Era at the very beginning, was there ever really a golden age when the place wasn't utterly toxic?

A quick scan reveals that most people seem to agree that with the OP. It's a wonder why they still bother posting there. It got to 6 pages before the mods stepped in:

era never had the same levity late-gaf had but at least you knew what you were getting, that was the tone of the board, the guidelines were strict and ready to be enforced. Better than the completely fuckery that was going on late-gaf (especially what 2 specific cunts of mods used to do on gaf). Was it ever a more fun place to read and participate than gaf? Not really.

With the changes on the mod team and the amount of whining that goes on that board (and that's what it is, straight up whining) the board became unbearable. Even ignoring threads, when some of the whiners started to go communities where I've posted for so many years and start to whine it's when I understood it's time to move on.

 

[BadBurger]

era never had the same levity late-gaf had but at least you knew what you were getting, that was the tone of the board, the guidelines were strict and ready to be enforced. Better than the completely fuckery that was going on late-gaf (especially what 2 specific cunts of mods used to do on gaf). Was it ever a more fun place to read and participate than gaf? Not really.

With the changes on the mod team and the amount of whining that goes on that board (and that's what it is, straight up whining) the board became unbearable. Even ignoring threads, when some of the whiners started to go communities where I've posted for so many years and start to whine it's when I understood it's time to move on.

I joined Era kind of early on. I didn't post much, but they did seem to make it clear they were biding their time to go nuclear retard.

On the flipside late GAF had Bishop, who made it clear he was going to stupidly ban anyone and everyone for whatever whim crossed his mind at the time. So there was that. It was really frustrating because they guy could barely communicate at the level of a child, so there was no getting across to him.

I'm just glad I mostly lurked on both. GAF is clearly the better board now.

 

[Goro Majima]

I've seen some of the more prominent trans posters social media accounts and they are basically guys in wigs and dresses. No one outside of their bubble would think they are female or find them attractive in any way. My cousin in law is a MTF trans and she hates people like that and calls it "fashion trans". People like Incelchief just jumped on a bandwagon because they are bitter losers but once they are "trans" they can use "phobic" as a reason their lives are shit and/or for woke/sympathy points.

I’ve literally never (knowingly) met a single trans person in my life. I even lived with a gay couple and been to the local gay bar on several occasions when I was younger (weirdly lots of straight women, good music, and a less angry vibe than the regular clubs). Had a graduating high school class of nearly 700 people and not one person has come out Trans.

It’s weird that throughout all that I still never met one which has led me to believe that Trans people are really quite rare in reality. Which is why I sometimes get a little exhausted that, while LGBs just want to love whoever which is easy and great, some very vocal Trans people want to completely overhaul how society thinks about sex and gender. Then they also want to police language use and how people think (under threat of “cancellation”) to accommodate a fraction of a fraction of individuals. That seems wild to me.

edit: I want to emphasize that I understand many Trans people just want to live their lives without all the authoritarian language and thought policing. As far as I’m concerned, that’s their business and more power to them.

The point being: how is it possible that like 25-30% of the most prominent posters on ERA is Trans? Honestly something smells like bullshit here.

 

[Ionian]

On the flipside late GAF had Bishop, who made it clear he was going to stupidly ban anyone and everyone for whatever whim crossed his mind at the time. So there was that. It was really frustrating because they guy could barely communicate at the level of a child, so there was no getting across to him.

His bans were even celebrated with *.gifs.

Neogaf even helped his comic book get kick-started

His EGO was off the map

 

[Tuff McNutt]

I’ve literally never (knowingly) met a single trans person in my life. I even lived with a gay couple and been to the local gay bar on several occasions when I was younger (weirdly lots of straight women, good music, and a less angry vibe than the regular clubs). Had a graduating high school class of nearly 700 people and not one person has come out Trans.

It’s weird that throughout all that I still never met one which has led me to believe that Trans people are really quite rare in reality. Which is why I sometimes get a little exhausted that, while LGBs just want to love whoever which is easy and great, some very vocal Trans people want to completely overhaul how society thinks about sex and gender. Then they also want to police language use and how people think (under threat of “cancellation”) to accommodate a fraction of a fraction of individuals. That seems wild to me.

edit: I want to emphasize that I understand many Trans people just want to live their lives without all the authoritarian language and thought policing. As far as I’m concerned, that’s their business and more power to them.

The point being: how is it possible that like 25-30% of the most prominent posters on ERA is Trans? Honestly something smells like bullshit here.

The actual trans population is around 0.5 percent. There are, of course, probably more, since all of them may not feel comfortable identifying themselves as such. But it boils down to trans people and their issues are heavily over-represented on ERA. I don't even think it is a matter of there being a lot of trans posters, it's just that most of them are like Incelchief with tens of thousands of posts and are good at cry-bullying, tattling to the mods, etc. as ways of steering the conversations.

Besides my cousin in law and some of her friends, I used to live in the "gay" neighborhood in my city and became acquainted with several trans people. They all were pretty receptive to answering questions and didn't take them as any sort of "phobia", which is the knee-jerk reaction on ERA. For most straight CIS people, the issue of one literally wanting to remove/alter their own genitals is something that warrants question, not just something that can be taken as fact on the surface.

The questions aren't coming (at least most times) from any place of hate, it's more just genuine curiosity and wondering. If the trans community on ERA wasn't unhinged, they could use the opportunity to help people learn and show them that trans people are just like any other people. Instead, they would rather screech "phobia" against anything that challenges their world view and ban the person. It's a lazy and hateful methodology, and certainly not one that is conducive for credible and productive discussion.

His bans were even celebrated with *.gifs.

Neogaf even helped his comic book get kick-started

His EGO was off the map

Bishop was a huge asshole who was only using the forum for his own personal gain (promoting his shitty comic book) and a power trip. He never actually cared about the forum or the posters. Once he was demodded, he never posted again and when people brought up GAF on his Twitter, he said "not my problem".

Besada was much the same and it's telling that he never even bothered to join ERA when the admins didn't make him a mod, even though he was practically begging them to in Discord.

 

[Lady Bird]

It’s weird that throughout all that I still never met one which has led me to believe that Trans people are really quite rare in reality.

I've been spotting a few trans people in my town recently, whereas that wasn't the case years ago. Guess they feel more confident to get out and show themselves nowadays.

But I've never met one in person. Would be interesting to have that chance someday.

 

[chris121580]

It may just be me but it annoys me so much how Ksweeley just creates a ton of new threads with news articles and then contributes nothing to the discussion. I don't understand why they would allow him to continue to make threads

 

[Ionian]

I did say I thought he was harmless before but yeh you're right.

He did get banned a few times I think for posting full articles.

 

[Tuff McNutt]

It may just be me but it annoys me so much how Ksweeley just creates a ton of new threads with news articles and then contributes nothing to the discussion. I don't understand why they would allow him to continue to make threads

It's not just you, even people on ERA give him shit for it. I think he did catch a ban for it recently but of course immediately when he came back, he created like a dozen threads about shit in Baltimore even people living there don't care about.

The guy is a piece of shit IMO. He gets disability because of his "crippling" anxiety and uses it to travel around to anime/furry conventions while living at home, and bitches all the time how the government isn't doing enough. he's almost as bad as OCDChewie pre-split, who had his account nuked after it became apparent he was scamming disability.

 

[Ionian]

Besada was much the same and it's telling that he never even bothered to join ERA when the admins didn't make him a mod, even though he was practically begging them to in Discord.

Oh he's on there all right. Just unknown and now, just actually irrelevant.

Even BishopTL made an account and nobody cared. He was shunned, even over there.

Changed usernames without repercussion are a blatant thing there

Best game is guess who Enzom21 ( a white guy ) who insists on people calling him a 'N' is

And of course Mods ignore it

 

[Mochilador]

Fuck me, which one of ye fuckers is this one?

Nooooooooo, that can't be trueeeeee

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Charli XCX fan doesn't like stripper poles in video games but in music its fine

yes no objectification of women allowed for this feminist male

he only enjoys good clean wholesome nonsexualized arists like this

yep not a total hypocrite who wants to enjoy a thing and gatekeep other people from enjoying the same thing. not at all a giant hypocrite!

 

[M1chl]

Fuck me, which one of ye fuckers is this one?

Must be troll. Switch and "open relatioship"...

 

[Chittagong]

That Banshee character is 100% a farmer. The post is like a hall of fame of all the petty shit peddled on the forum, and the main target seems to be up the insanity. Digital Sacha Baron Cohen aimed at the intersectional transfeminists

 

[nush]

The point being: how is it possible that like 25-30% of the most prominent posters on ERA is Trans? Honestly something smells like bullshit here.

You're right, here's why. There's maybe two groups, trans people who've been there all your life and have body dis-morphia (sp?). Which means they really are born in the wrong body to put it simply.

In recent years there's a new group that just say they are trans. These are trans trenders, they more often than not don't have body dis-mophia diagnosed and a significant number of them are on the autism spectrum. Again more often than not they are the loud, militant screechers getting all the attention. Its to say, fashionable, beneficial and escapism. Typically cis white men who are male to female trans and are absolute failures at life and just live on the internet looking for oppression to be outraged at but never leave their homes.

Normal trans people are never any problem and are perfectly fine but they get attacked by side two and grouped with them. Which is a damn tragedy.

 

[SkylineRKR]

If the whole Finn/Rose subplot was cut out of The Last Jedi, it would have been a much better film. It really wasn't that she was female or Asian, it's just when you're 8 films into a series, there is no need to introduce yet another character, especially one that has no relation to the already established ones. Also she is not a good actor and her dialogue was awful.

I forgot bits about this movie, and I must say its my fave of the last trilogy behind Rogue One anyway. Reasons for that could be that I thought TFA felt like a retread and I absolutely hate Rise.

But I think i remember I found that relation to be rather forced and out of the blue. It felt ham fisted, another crowd pleaser we'll see so many of. I generally hated the entire Casino scene.

Altered Carbon S2 is crowd pleaser the series for example. That was a rather terrible sequel that checked all kinds of boxes.

 

[DrCheese]

On the Adam Levine rape thread “This hit hard. There is no reason not to believe the victim. Nobody should side with Adam here. (Until investigation/court proves otherwise - of course)“ inguef

Oh of course that’s exactly how this should work. What is wrong with these people

It's so painful - There are a zillion reasons why we don't have a "Guilty until proven otherwise" based justice system, instead of having an "innocent until proven guilty" system but they want to throw it out & be able to chuck whatever they want at someone (With no real barrier to doing so) and instantly ruin their lives without any way of defending themselves or having their case heard fairly to be judged.

You can take a negative view of someone based upon an allegation if you want to, but you can not instantly ruin their lives & deny them the right to have a fair trial with everything being brought out into the sunlight to be fairly judged.

Defending people's rights to have this does not in *any way* condone a criminal act, like these clowns think it does

 

[Yoshichan]

What’s bishoptls twitter?

 

[Ymir]

What’s bishoptls twitter?

who cares?

 

[Yoshichan]

who cares?

:/ i’m asking so I guess I care?

 

[Oublieux]

Not sure if I will be judged for this, but I have primarily browsed ResetEra since the split and... have decided to return here. I will still be browsing ResetEra as I do think there are good community members there, but the overall atmosphere is just too... stringent. As pointed out, there has been a lack of levity, and it has been significantly less fun to participate in threads due to many threads segueing into politics. I get it, it's important, but sometimes I just want to talk about the games, and the joy and hype they bring.

 

[EviLore]

Not sure if I will be judged for this, but I have primarily browsed ResetEra since the split and... have decided to return here. I will still be browsing ResetEra as I do think there are good community members there, but the overall atmosphere is just too... stringent. As pointed out, there has been a lack of levity, and it has been significantly less fun to participate in threads due to many threads segueing into politics. I get it, it's important, but sometimes I just want to talk about the games, and the joy and hype they bring.

You didn’t porn bomb account suicide, so no worries. Welcome back.

 

[Martinski43]

Not sure if I will be judged for this, but I have primarily browsed ResetEra since the split and... have decided to return here. I will still be browsing ResetEra as I do think there are good community members there, but the overall atmosphere is just too... stringent. As pointed out, there has been a lack of levity, and it has been significantly less fun to participate in threads due to many threads segueing into politics. I get it, it's important, but sometimes I just want to talk about the games, and the joy and hype they bring.

Apart from the holier than thouh sentiment that permeate all through that forum, it is an ok forum to dicuss games at times. Even tho there are obvious fanboy clicks.

I don't spend too much thought on the whole extremist SJW agenda that permeate some part of the forum and such tho. That shit would give anyone anxiety.

 

[MilkLizard]

Charli XCX fan doesn't like stripper poles in video games but in music its fine

Off-Topic, but Anthems is such a banger. Check that song out GAF.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

edit: I want to emphasize that I understand many Trans people just want to live their lives without all the authoritarian language and thought policing. As far as I’m concerned, that’s their business and more power to them.

note: read "trans" as HRT + post op/preparing for op, this was before the wig and purse nutrans that emerged post 2010.
note: "passing" is lingo for "looking like the sex they were transitioning towards"

Earlier in my life I worked in the movie/tv industry on the production side and the company was looking into producing a documentary about trans people. That was about 2008 so trans were still pretty much "exotic". The project was abandoned because from my research and contacts with trans people, the ones that actually passed, none wanted the publicity. Only the ones who didn't pass were OK with it, since I guess, there was no way to hide themselves so it didn't matter to them to be on camera.

I learned that at that time people who transitioned during adulthood were generally speaking fired/pushed out from their existing jobs and those who didn't pass had extraordinary difficulties finding normal jobs. Most of them ended up around the sex trade somehow, either as prostitutes or serving drinks at exotic bars and so on. Families generally speaking ghosted them and were particularly vigilant about isolating children in the family from them. And being a peculiar looking prostitute in the streets at night turns out not to be safe, assaults were frighteningly common and a few ended up murdered. I attended a memorial for one of them.

 

[Yoshichan]

You didn’t porn bomb account suicide, so no worries. Welcome back.

Speaking or porn bomb account suicide, did I do anything crazy when the switch happened? I honestly don’t even remember... but I’m still here so I guess I was forgiven?

 

[#Phonepunk#]

top notch speech policing going on in the Brie Larson Loves Video Games And If You Don't Think This is Life Affirming That a Rich White Celebrity Enjoys Products Then You Should Die thread. someone who lists their gender as "Female" finds the term "female" gross and not ok

 

[EviLore]

Speaking or porn bomb account suicide, did I do anything crazy when the switch happened? I honestly don’t even remember... but I’m still here so I guess I was forgiven?

Haha, don’t think I would’ve given you closed beta access to the GAF redesign if you had done something like that.

 

[recma12]

I think it’s a troll.
“From under a Bridge”

The Account also hasn’t been around enough to start making “we need to be better” threads.

 

[ViolentP]

You didn’t porn bomb account suicide, so no worries. Welcome back.

This is the thing for me. Of everything that transpired a few years ago it's this that resonates with me. We had a mass evacuation of users who utilized pornography and grotesqueness as a sort of signature in departure on their way to Resetera., a progressive site.

Let's simplify this. The weakest of our group to create a stronger community.

It's as if I sold you a beautiful home held together by broken nails.

 

[Yoshichan]

Haha, don’t think I would’ve given you closed beta access to the GAF redesign if you had done something like that.

I just remembered that, holy christ that was great. Hope we did good :3

also, I’m glad I, out of all hyperbole people, didn’t initiate the hyperbole train when shit was real. Here’s one of the tweets near the end:

 

[EviLore]

I just remembered that, holy christ that was great. Hope we did good :3

It was helpful feedback from what I recall, yeah. Thanks for participating. You maintained a relentlessly positive disposition despite everything that was going on at the time, and that made a difference too.

 

[nush]

I think it’s a troll.
“From under a Bridge”

The Account also hasn’t been around enough to start making “we need to be better” threads.

It's amazing if it's a troll "McSpook" "Under a bridge" and the mods didn't notice and stickied the topic.

10/10 for the technique of just telling them what they want to hear and the unquestioningly believe it becuse it matches thier world view.

 

[Daffy Duck]

if that’s a troll it’s ducking fantastic

 

[SkylineRKR]

So let me get this straight: McSpook is ACTUALLY concern trolling as in the true definition of the word, and gets a pass?

It seems she is aiming to be even more anal and picky then those cretins themselves are, esentially making fools out of them. If true that person is doing a good job. I hope its a troll. On the other hand, other posts don't seem like troll posts and the above discussion is about her being offended by "the female from X game" being used to reference someone. Which is Ree standard. Could go both ways.

 

[Dick Jones]

So let me get this straight: McSpook is ACTUALLY concern trolling as in the true definition of the word, and gets a pass?

It seems she is aiming to be even more anal and picky then those cretins themselves are, esentially making fools out of them. If true that person is doing a good job. I hope its a troll. On the other hand, other posts don't seem like troll posts and the above discussion is about her being offended by "the female" being used as reference. Which is Ree standard. Could go both ways.

I think it went on too long before they copped it. I'd say banning now will cause a shit civil war led by Ketkat. Once it's unsticked it is banned alt account.

 

[NeilH1982]

Isn't it great that they get to call everybody garbage and trash, yet they so desperetaly need to be accepted by those same people they call garbage.

"Please accept me, you racist bigot, you must."

Yeah, FUCK YOU

 

[#Phonepunk#]

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I've very little knowledge of Angry Joe and the stuff he puts out but I watched the PS5 Reveal video of him and his cronies and when he took off his headphones in disgust as Goodbye Volcano High was shown and turned down the volume I bounced. Did not seem to be a place I wanted to hang out and watch. Not pertinent to this conversation though but hopefully not too out of place.

LOOOL

 

[Chittagong]

Oh man oh man, not gonna lie. Banshee Mcspook shot to my top of all time best era posters. Really makes the likes of excelsheet, red mercury and cheebo seem understated and rational. Absolute genius.

 

[Dick Jones]

LOOOL

That bastard Angry Joe being angry looking at a game. I never saw that coming, if only it was in his name or something so I could have advanced warning.

Spoiler

I did see it coming, I'm not a vegetable

AJ not supporting a game written by a blogger who had an article published on Kotaku with CGI images of an underage Emma Watson participating in simulated sex isn't the worst crime anyone's been accused of. Personally I'd be more angry with publishing inappropriate articles but that's just me. Ree always sticking up for paedophilia.

 

[VN1X]

Sigh. "Advocating for portrayals of transphobic abuse in-game". That post was perfectly reasonable. It didn't "advocate" for anything, it simply tried to explain that GTA is a game about shitty people with shitty opinions who do shitty things. Which is something various kinds of media portray in different ways constantly. There is just no sensible world in which that should be a bannable offense.

But that's the thing. You don't have to actually say anything offensive to get banned over there, it's enough that you don't agree hard enough with the official Era stance on the matter at hand. Fall in line or you're out.

lol you pleb, trans people are literal angels and they don't deserve your or anyone else's mockery or critique! GTA making fun of everyone? Wow. You filthy fucking CIS chud, you make me hurl out of sheer disgust just by your words alone.

 

[VN1X]

they've stickied this on top of the gaming forum lol

I wonder how exhausting all of this must be. To be in a perpetual state of victimhood while simultaneously beating the drums for another crusade against everything and all.

 

[Schattenjäger]

His bans were even celebrated with *.gifs.

Neogaf even helped his comic book get kick-started

His EGO was off the map

coloring book

 

[VN1X]

Got a one month ban because i called Tsushima, sushi because it sounds the same. https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-you-getting-in-july.238870/post-38552278

How up your own ass can you become?

Also i have no idea where racism or race factor in anywhere here.

This is possibly one of the funniest bans I've seen from there in a while. Kudos!

 

[Goro Majima]

I wonder how exhausting all of this must be. To be in a perpetual state of victimhood while simultaneously beating the drums for another crusade against everything and all.

That’s probably why talking about how tired and exhausted you are is part of the virtue signaling process when identity politics comes up.

 

[NeilH1982]

I wonder how exhausting all of this must be. To be in a perpetual state of victimhood while simultaneously beating the drums for another crusade against everything and all.

Best parti s them totally being ignored by the greater community

 

[Dick Jones]

I wonder how exhausting all of this must be. To be in a perpetual state of victimhood while simultaneously beating the drums for another crusade against everything and all.

We are seeing the normies on the gaming side leave without bans. Some are back, welcome back lads/ladies.

For their holier than thou routine they advocated putting pornographic material on this forum with the express intention of getting accounts banned. Funny how the leadership didn't lead by example, never ones to follow through themselves. They are all hypocrites and because the mental asylum is cranked to 11, the trolls can say absolute batshit stuff like McSpooky and that parody mirrors reality so well they are not spotted. Their notorious posters are now at troll level posting that trolls have difficulty trying to outshine them.

 

[RoadHazard]

Does anyone know how to get your RE account deleted after being banned? I just don't want my email address and stuff to exist on their servers anymore. I can't do anything logged in, since all I get is my ban message. Do I have to contact them? They've never answered my messages asking them to explain me being banned, so that seems unlikely to work?

Being an EU citizen, I'm pretty sure they are legally obligated to remove all personal data they have on me if I ask them, as per GDPR (it applies to US companies providing services in the EU as well).