NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

What I find interesting is it was a completely unrelated Social media trend that ignited this shitstorm. EvilLore had the sexual harrasment accusations thrown around and its dismissed as false flag smearing, but it takes a mention by a woman in a different profession out of the blue, and everyone collectively shits themselves.

These gaming virtue signallers are just as hypocritical as they claim their detractors are.
 
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Also, what's really funny is the artist that did these also did the Ask Molestia tumblr.
 
That begs the question, what will happen when Neogaf inevitably dies?
They're gonna have a harder time trying to get opinions that fit their narratives. People like Brad Shoemaker copy and pasting opinions from NeoGAF directly into their brain to regurgitate verbatim in their writing/speaking. They may even be forced to read forums that don't actively create a safe space for their opinions.

Imagine reading NeoGAF, professionally, everyday for the last half-decade. Then finding you can no longer copy and paste other people's posts directly into Kinja. You can't get scoops from big subreddits since it's the most normie, pleb-tier regurgitated shit ever. You can't get SJW-friendly opinions and narratives fed directly into your skull.

Imagine if they had to open up /v/, or god forbid 8/v/.
 
I really sympathise with the people complaining about /v/ here. It isn't exactly a cathedral of glorious discourse, but it's nice to go chat about relevant the industry topics in a place you like.

The decision of the mods to ban all discussion of this on /v/ in particular seems really fucking random. Even moreso given I actually hopped on the IRC to talk about it with some mods, and pretty much got banned after five rounds of a mod replying to every post I made with 'go to /pol/'

Doesn't help at all that /pol/ is nigh unmoderated and shitposters fuck up the neogaf threads there constantly. One fun thing people brought up was that gawker got a sticky when they died, it's seeming almost like a mod has some vested interest there. Not to get too tinfoily.

The faggot janitors have always cracked down on the NeoFag funposting threads so it's not like this is anything new.
 
What I find interesting is it was a completely unrelated Social media trend that ignited this shitstorm. EvilLore had the sexual harrasment accusations thrown around and its dismissed as false flag smearing, but it takes a mention by a woman in a different profession out of the blue, and everyone collectively shits themselves.

These gaming virtue signallers are just as hypocritical as they claim their detractors are.
I was asking myself the same thing. It's been common knowledge that Tyler Malka is a pathetic little thing with rapey outbursts whenever the situation seemed right.
Honestly I think the mods just reacted compulsively, like they've been doing for years. They had this little world of theirs where the could act like superpeople defending the listens and the believes and whatnot, they aren't able to switch gears into sane mode any more.

Check bishoptl for a good example. From almighty ruler of GAF to some unknown Twitter rando nobody cares about.
The rest of them will look just as ridiculous once they bring their GAF mentality into real life.
 
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I'm looking forward to the new NeoGAF being worked on by the discordfags. I bet you it will be even better (worse) because it is being made for the explicit purpose and continuing the SJW hugbox. The logic being that they cannot go to other forums since places like reddit and GameFAQs are alt-right.

I hope /v/NeoFAG continues based off that forum if it ever materializes.

PS. they're looking for volunteers if you're interested in keeping gaming culture safe from the alt-right.
 
That begs the question, what will happen when Neogaf inevitably dies?
I hope some post-apocalyptic version of it survives, with tribes of suicidal furries and communist trannies trying to survive in a world without admins or mods. Some may talk about the mystical safe space over the horizon called Something Awful, but few dare make the trek because they heard tales of Lowtax being a white supremacist neo nazi.
 
IIRC Gies already got accused of being a sex pest once.

What the fuck is it with these people?

Because of the nature of progressive culture. As long as you are part of the group, you will be defended by people you don't even know about just because you are of that political persuasion. Its a hold-over from when progtards weren't the dominant force in culture. You can wrap yourself in the cloak of the virtuous and proudly say that you aren't like those people. You can push your ideology so hard you disarm other people. Its a very easy group for predators to infiltrate. There have been cases where trans people in the SJW community have preyed upon others and it goes unreported because trannies are a protected class. Look how hard they defended an obvious pedophile, Sarah Nyberg, because he was transexual.

A lot of the times you see the women they prey upon just skirt around the edges of the community. They don't have the influence that the predator does, and the predator can easily wield their followers to disrupt any sort of allegations. Or the stature of the predator makes the women fear that they won't be believed or ousted from the group. Not to mention sexual assault for both men and women comes with a huge amount of personal shame that prevents you from talking about it. Sexual predators have long since known the best way to hide is to cloak yourself among the virtuous. It disarms people, gets them comfortable and you've got innate protection with people from the group to defend you.

The thing is that progressives would have defended these people in the past, but with the magnitude of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the obvious hypocrisy of the progressives defending sexual predators exposed to pretty much everyone, it has basically become impossible for them to do so. Not to mention that its empowered a lot of people to overcome their innate fears and shame to expose other people. That's why you see this spontaneous combustion of many prominent male feminists and SJWs recently. Their group can no longer defend them and when allegations come, they are (rightfully) torn to pieces.

I hope some post-apocalyptic version of it survives, with tribes of suicidal furries and communist trannies trying to survive in a world without admins or mods. Some may talk about the mystical safe space over the horizon called Something Awful, but few dare make the trek because they heard tales of Lowtax being a white supremacist neo nazi.

Few dare because even NeoGafers aren't stupid enough to pay ten fucking dollars for a forums account in the year of our lord 2017.

That begs the question, what will happen when Neogaf inevitably dies?

Some people will try to start their own forum, it will fail. Others will flee to Reddit and Twitter. Others will curl up in a ball of tears because they no longer have a moderated safe space to fall back on. Everyone else will laugh and point and celebrate. SJWs will disavow.
 
the site is still down. how long has the site been down now?
Too long, ~4 hours maybe.

1. Sysadmin in Japan in took in down because moral reasons (unlikely, professionally this is super unethical/opens up to lawsuits)
2. Tyler took it down for PR/damage control/legal reasons, potentially scrubbing posts, won't bring it back up until he has his story straight with his lawyer/gamejournos contacting him.

I wonder if the intermittence we saw with due to the fact that NeoGAF is on a DNS round-robin with multiple IPs leading to the same machine (verified by SSH public key). He could have taken a single IP down and not the other in the webserver configuration by accident.

Maybe it was just high server load, but I find that odd considering they probably get the same if not more traffic during E3 and it's not normally this bad. Maybe he was taking a DB dump at the same time, before he took it offline. Though, typically you'd want to offline the site before the DB dump.
 
From as far as I can tell, were these people seriously the only source of screeching about shit like Jon Tron and Nick Robinson and all that BS? I swear anytime I saw someone passive aggressively threatening people over behavior they disliked it always got tied back to NeoGaf in some way. I really hope all this video game virtue signaling bullshit dies with this website.
There was a thread in GamerGhazi about a Polygon article explaining about how JonTron is still in the game "A Hat In Time" and most to all the users there don't think buying the game supports white supremacy or some shit, and only NeoGAF (and maybe some idiots on Twitter or Tumblr but I won't be surprised if they are also NeoGAF users) screeched about it.
 
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