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

[TheGuntinator]

if only this mod practiced a little bit of opsec, it could all be fine, but i guess these people use the same account and name for everything.

They love accountability until they realize it applies to them too. Then they realize they're gigantic fucking retards and have created a traceable network of accounts that reveal all their secrets when you tug a single thread.

 

[jallsballs]

Honestly spoiling that Fig dies and you can’t save him at least means you don’t have to worry about trying to load saves.

its also basically telegraphed from the very beginning of the game, I assumed he was going to die and the fact troons thinking they are ruining it for anyone is pretty stupid

 

[Kayfabe]

Harry Potter is a book series built on liberal value and anyone who argues otherwise is in denial.

There is a 2017 copypasta about this:

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It very neatly describes the way liberals see the world and political struggle.

Lots of people complain about the anti-climatic ending, but really I don't think it could any other way. I'd like to imagine that there's some alternate universe where Rowling actually believed in something and Harry was actually built up as the anti-Voldemort he was only hinted as being in the beginning of the books. Where he's [sic] opposes all the many injustices of the wizarding world and determines to change their frequently backwards, insular, contradictory society for the better, and forms his own faction antithetical to the Death Eaters and when he finally has his showdown with Voldy, Harry surpasses by adopting new methods, breaking the rules and embracing change and the progression of history. While Voldemort clings to an idyllic imaging of the past and the greatest extent of his dreams is to become the self-appointed god of a eternally stagnant Neverland. Harry has embraced the possiblity of a shining future and so can overcome the self-imposed limits Voldemort could never cross, and Voldemort is ultimately defeated by this.

But that would require a Harry that believed in something. and since Rowling is a liberal centrist Blairite that doesn't really believe in anything, Harry can't believe in anything. Harry lives in a world drought with conflict and injustice, a stratified class society, slavery of the sentient magical creatures, the absurd charade the wizarding world puts up to enforce their own self-segregation, a corrupted and bureaucracy-chocked government, rampant racism, so on and so forth. But Harry is little more than a passive observer for most of it, only the racism really bothers him (and then only racism towards half-bloods). In fact, when Hermione stands up against the slavery of elves, she's treated as some kind of ridiculous Soapbox Sadie. For opposing chattel slavery. In the end, the biggest force for change is Voldemort and Harry and friends only ever fight for the preservation and reproduction of the status quo. The very height of Harry's dreams is to join the aurors, a sort of wizard FBI and the ultimate defenders of the wizarding status quo. Voldemort and the Death Eaters are the big instigators of change and Harry never quite gets to Voldy's level. Harry doesn't even beat Voldemort, Voldemort accidentally kills himself because he violated some obscure technicality that causes one of his spells to bounce back at him.

And this is really the struggle of liberals, they live in a world fraught with conflict, but aren't particularly bothered by any of it except those that threaten the multicultural pluralism. They see change, and the force behind that change, as a wholly negative phenomenon. Even then, they can only act within the legal and ideological framework of their society. So for instance, instead of organizing insurrectionary and disruptive activity against Trump and the far-right, all they can do is bang their drum about what a racist bigot he is and hope they can catch him violating some technicality that will allow them to have him impeached or at least destroy his political clout. It won't work, it will never work, but that is the limit of liberalism just as it was the limit of Harry Potter.

 

[Slap47]

There are some games on there where to get 100% you have to seriously do some insanely autistic things for endless amounts of time. Just for example on Batman: Arkham City you have to play the challenge mode pretty perfectly for many hours with every character and Torchlight you have to play on the hardest difficulty collecting gobs of shit, less than 1% of players get just one of these achievements the number who gets all of them must be lower than the troon percentage of the population (until ColdSun gets done with them by playing more Hogwart's Legacy):
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I would bet money that they just cheated for them. That steam profile had the telltale signs of a collector - Long drawn out descriptions, giant friends list, etc.

 

[Optimus Prime]

There are some games on there where to get 100% you have to seriously do some insanely autistic things for endless amounts of time. Just for example on Batman: Arkham City you have to play the challenge mode pretty perfectly for many hours with every character and Torchlight you have to play on the hardest difficulty collecting gobs of shit, less than 1% of players get just one of these achievements the number who gets all of them must be lower than the troon percentage of the population (until ColdSun gets done with them by playing more Hogwart's Legacy):
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Oh, GOD, Arkham City.

That goddamn Calendar Man achievement pissed me the fuck off, because I was on track to getting it done in a year...except surprise, college paper LABOR DAY WEEKEND and I was so hammered to get that thing done that I completely forgot to check in on baldy in the basement.

Had to wait a whole fucking YEAR for a SPECIFIC DAY just to talk to him again. And besides the achievement, what do you get? Oh, he just leaves the game and you find a convict that's hanging from the ceiling in his cell instead, so you LOSE the ability to talk to a guy.

The only ones worse about timegating in my opinion are the Stanly Parable ones, but given what Stanly Parable is those are absolutely on brand.

 

[Fields Of Rye]

I used to not care about my Steam profile being public until they added a feature where you could go back and look at every gamer tag that account had used. That included the "NiggersTongueMyAnus69" stuff from when I was a young teenager. I just figured there was a remote possibility that seeing every gamer tag I've used could lead to my real identity so I went private and never looked back. It changed literally nothing about my gaming experiences.

For real, its so common that I had a habit of "doxing" people in games of Dota because they would have their old school and all their buddies in a public club with "BigDickJohnMcCormicJR" as their original name. Protection from trannies should be built in IMO

 

[JustStopDude]

It's weird the way Americans use the term "liberal" to mean leftist.

Literally the only country on the planet that does it. It's just odd to read people go on about Harry Potter, the Torie, and realize I forgot to think like a Yank.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Taking away Muggleborns' wands only makes sense as an allegory for gun control if wands were only used as weapons, but they are used for all kinds of magic, beyond self-defense.

That argument against gun control allegory only works if guns aren't used as hunting tools and hunting doesn't exist among the magic folk. Hunting is very much canon in Harry Potter. Death eaters disharming the muggleborn could even use a metaphor for Jews being disarmed by Nazis before the Holocaust happened.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

I for one am shocked and quite frankly disgusted that an admin for a video game website is enjoying videos games.

I shall be sure to report this to politburo at once.

 

[CptnSnshn]

It is, but most leftists aren't insane screeching retards who care about bullshit like this.

They hated Dynesus because he told the truth.

 

[JoeBidenSniffMe]

Looks like the Resetera admin is behaving a little counter-revolutionary.

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Does anyone know what Hasan Piker Steam account is? I want to see what he recently played?

 

[Ishtar]

You don't see any LGBT overtones in the original books because it takes place in the 90's and it is a children's book series about a magical boarding school. If the absence of LGBT overtones, in that context, is "shocking, conservative and traditional" then you have a low bar.

Taking away Muggleborns' wands only makes sense as an allegory for gun control if wands were only used as weapons, but they are used for all kinds of magic, beyond self-defense. In order to be an equal participant in the Wizarding World, you need a wand. Taking away a Muggleborns' wand was Death Eaters sending the message that they were not equal.

Furthermore, there is plenty of restrictions on wand usage in the Harry Potter books. Goblins, house elves, etc. are not allowed to own wands. Students who are expelled from Hogwarts (Hagrid, for example) are not allowed to own wands. And each wizard is only allowed one wand. You are not allowed to stockpile them, the way that American gun enthusiasts tend to do. The reason that J.K. Rowling did not bog down her books with legal theory on when someone is or isn't allowed to use magic is because her primary audience, adolescent girls, would get bored.

The "traditionalist" character, Salazar Slytherin, is portrayed as evil and backwards. There is a wide variety of female characters and witches are not confined to "traditional" gender roles. The series celebrates and promotes diversity at every turn.

Harry Potter is a book series built on liberal value and anyone who argues otherwise is in denial.

That’s very true. At the same time liberals and leftists have begun to criticize the books because well it isn’t leftist enough. Hermione is treated as ridiculous for caring about house elf slavery, the status quo is what Harry and company are defending is rather conservative(at least in terms of attitudes within itself), etc… I saw a breadtuber video once where someone attacked the books in great detail.

To be honest the anti HP sentiment from liberals comes from the animus against Rowling. These sorts of breakdowns as to why “Hp is actually reactionary” YouTube socialists do are themselves reactionary.

Remember an entire generation of people grew up with HP-including many young women who became the SJW feminists of today. Their entire belief system was built around it, we meme “read another book” but it was THEIR book, the equivalent of the Bible or the Odyssey. So when Rowling became anti trans they took it as a massive betrayal, and so the animus against the books followed.

If Rowling had been pro trans then I suspect HP would remain a go to liberal IP and cultural touchstone.

It’s important to remember that these people feel personally betrayed. If Rowling were A CS Lewis type Christian fantasy writer or a right wing military sci fi writer they wouldn’t care. They cared about HP, wrote gobbles of fanfic and had plenty of Wattpad blogs and then their goddess didn’t support the current thing.

Imagine the shock and anger, the confusion. Everything you see in terms of liberal animus against the books or arguments about how they are actually reactionary(in actual substance not vibes) flows from this deep sense of betrayal that Rowling who ought to have been one of them didn’t agree with the tranny crap.

That is why they react this way.

 

[Tilapia]

That’s very true. At the same time liberals and leftists have begun to criticize the books because well it isn’t leftist enough. Hermione is treated as ridiculous for caring about house elf slavery, the status quo is what Harry and company are defending is rather conservative(at least in terms of attitudes within itself), etc… I saw a breadtuber video once where someone attacked the books in great detail.

To be honest the anti HP sentiment from liberals comes from the animus against Rowling. These sorts of breakdowns as to why “Hp is actually reactionary” YouTube socialists do are themselves reactionary.

Remember an entire generation of people grew up with HP-including many young women who became the SJW feminists of today. Their entire belief system was built around it, we meme “read another book” but it was THEIR book, the equivalent of the Bible or the Odyssey. So when Rowling became anti trans they took it as a massive betrayal, and so the animus against the books followed.

If Rowling had been pro trans then I suspect Ho would remain a go to liberal IP and cultural touchstone.

It’s important to remember that these people feel personally betrayed. If Rowling were A CS Lewis type Christian fantasy writer or a right wing military sci fi writer they wouldn’t care. They cared about HP, wrote gobbles of fanfic and had plenty of Wattpad blogs and then their goddess didn’t support the current thing.

Imagine the shock and anger, the confusion. Everything you see in terms of liberal animus against the books or arguments about how they are actually reactionary(in actual substance not vibes) flows from this deep sense of betrayal that Rowling who ought to have been one of them didn’t agree with the tranny crap.

That is why they react this way.

Right, but if it were true that J.K. Rowling's core audience of young women who are now "the SJW feminists of today" had any widespread "animus" against the books, Hogwarts Legacy would not be as successful as it is. Do you think it is white conservative men driving sales? It is a tiny minority of Extremely Online Leftists doing all of the shouting while liberals do not give a fuck and are only vaguely aware that there's even controversy.

 

[Ishtar]

Right, but if it were true that J.K. Rowling's core audience of young women who are now "the SJW feminists of today" had any widespread "animus" against the books, Hogwarts Legacy would not be as successful as it is. Do you think it is white conservative men driving sales? It is a tiny minority of Extremely Online Leftists doing all of the shouting while liberals do not give a fuck and are only vaguely aware that there's even controversy.

Well yeah, I’m referring to the extremely online troons and their feminist handmaidens. The average liberal still used the dumb “Trump is Voldemort” rhetoric as late as 2019. Breadtubers and Twitter troons yell very loudly, and thus one could be forgiven for thinking they represent baseline liberal opinion.

 

[R00T]

I find it weird how JKR is literally the devil and hogwarts is hell, but South Park is fine?

South Park Season 26

Season is supposed to start this Wednesday. It’s on at 10pm again. Probably on HBO MAX the next day. I assume it is 6 episodes again like last season. With a break in between. https://twitter.com/southpark/status/1622684094667833344?s=46&t=486EKhnMYQ2mpYNiwBEuPw

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It’s because Rowling is a woman. They hate women.

 

[Incognito Mode]

Breadtubers and Twitter troons yell very loudly, and thus one could be forgiven for thinking they represent baseline liberal opinion.

This. It's a tough pill to swallow to anyone who's given too much of themselves to ideology, but the twitter troon screeching about being misgendered by a parrot at the zoo is the equivalent of a right wing conspiracy nut who thinks the earth is flat and run by aliens. You'd struggle to find people like these irl aside from some very specific locations.

People get a skewed impression of the true numbers of these ideological zealots because social media algorithms are designed to reward the most outrageous takes, not the reasonable ones, and both the left and right are also constantly gamed by sociopathic grifters who profit from being controversial. Good people are generally reluctant to fight tooth and nail for a position that's not good for much else than exploiting others.

Even just browsing Kiwifarms can easily trick someone into thinking that there doesn't exist a single reasonable troon in the world, because the sample size that makes it here has been specifically curated to contain the worst of the worst.

 

[Runch]

Only in their Discords and Construction Criticism thread would their be mentioning. Sifting through everyone's opinion here, seems like no one has access to either.

There has been no discussion of this in either the Constructive Community Discussion thread or the J.K. Rowling and Her Legacy of Hate thread.

The constructive thread has had a few posts debating whether "hype" threads should be allowed, and the Rowling thread is just more bitching about her associates and articles about Tavistock.

Either I'm a retard or there aren't any links to their secret members only forums anywhere, you just have to know how to get to them?

You won't be able to access these without an account, but these are the links:

https://www.resetera.com/forums/etcetera-member-only.23/

Which contains:

J.K. Rowling and Her Legacy of Hate: The UK Gender Critical Movement

-- -- -- -- -- TL;DR -- -- -- -- -- It's likely of no surprise to many here at this point that J.K. Rowling is a bigot, but unless you follow it it can be hard to keep track of what she's done, who she's inspired, who they in turn support or are supported by, and what the culmination of these...

www.resetera.com

https://www.resetera.com/forums/announcements-member-only.24/

Which only contains the constructive thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/

 

[greenthrowaway]

has there been no discussion about this on resetrera? or are the mods above the peasants

In the progressive stack, inconvenient truths exposed by an enemy must never be spoken. In their world this site was shut down because of the brave efforts of a trans woman. Even though it’s more likely a poster from their forum noticed the steam status, because we highlighted it it didn’t happen. Only if it were first exposed on their site would a purge be deemed valid and legal.

It’s not a resetEra rule, it’s always been a tenant of Marxism. An example of this was when the leader of South Korea was removed from office. She was herald as a leader of feminism (used it as a shield against corruption). When she was removed nearly no news service would mention this and just mention their next leader as if there was an election and nothing happened. If you brought up that she was charged with crimes and removed with a scandal they’d accuse you of reading dangerous right wing news sources and claim you were an agent and nazi. The only reason they knew about it is because they are allowed to check “hate watch” sites to screen members. Basically anything verboten must be forgotten and never spoke up. If anyone brings up on their forum about this admin transgression they’ll be accused of being a farms sleeper instigator. Behind the scenes the admin will be facing a struggle session to keep their position but to users they’ll present a unified front of claiming this NEVER happened.

 

[deepFriedBaka]

So when do we get the news that ColdSun and all of the TRAITORS who dare commit trans genocide have been calmly escorted out of the premises permabanned by an admin throwing a shitfit? I haven't laughed this hard in a thread in a long, long time.

Dude was so fucking lazy he couldn't set up an alt and thought he could get away with it when the Trannyburo would be scrutinizing his online activity for the next century? Yup, that's a recipe for disaster.

I can't blame ColdSun either. "Working" with Nepenthe (who's batshit insane), Slayven (who has no life outside of ResetEra), and BDubs (who has a perpetual stick up his ass) is enough to make anyone question their life choices. Hell, if they were coworkers in real life I'd probably drink for a long, long time after I left.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

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It’s incredible how many niggers on this site still don’t take 60 seconds to archive links before rushing to post. Banworthy offense tbh.