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

I've read now during the last two days the last 50 pages and I'm actually a bit confused. What I got out of it all is that some user didn't put a disclaimer about the alleged transphobia of Cyberpunk and the troons chimped out.
I'm not really into games anymore, so I don't really know what the actual problem with the game is. Is it just the chick with the huge dick? Or what? As far as I know is the chick with the dick based on a real trans woman, right? Even horsecock connoisseur Vaush didn't think that it is necessarily transphobic.

I'll hopefully write up a full point-form summary of all the drama that's happened till now (with links to posts) later, but here's about everything at the initial kickoff of all the events

- Transera wanted all discussion of the game banned from the site. Didn't happen. Black Chamber (BC) was allowed to post "Night City Episode" threads based on the game's marketing. BC and black user Vestan are set to eventually make the Official Topic (OT) for the game

- Transera antagonizes BC for 5 months

- BC, trans admin Android Sophia, and admin B-Dubs work behind the scenes on putting together a paragraph acknowledging transphobia in the game for the OT as well as pin a message about it at the top of every page

- Kyuuji made a thread calling CDPR transphobic and it was pinned. From here, transera constantly shit-talked BC and everyone who was enthusiastic about the game (e.g. calling them transphobic, idiots, etc.)

- BC and Kyuuji had a PM exchange where Kyuuji said he would derail every thread BC makes with links to his own thread, which despite being stickied was getting way less attention than BC's Cyberpunk threads

- BC agrees with mods to limit the number of Cyberpunk posts so there's only 1 open at a time in a sign of respect to transera, and posts this publicly

- transera still complains about people posting Cyberpunk threads despite mods locking new ones as fast as they can; they also complain that users have them on ignore and are not responding to them. Anyone who reveals they have a tranny on ignore is banned

- before the launch date was moved, mods and BC agreed to lock the thread the day after launch in honor of Tranny Genocide Awareness Day. Once the launch got delayed, they said they'd still hold to the promise and lock it after launch. I think they also locked Cyberpunk threads on Tranny Day too

- a week before launch, transera antagonizes female user marzoo with constant insults, coordinating attacks on her from the stickied tranny thread into the Cyberpunk Night City thread. They managed to get her banned when she accidentally 'misgendered' (aka. failed to call a father-of-two with a five-oclock shadow "she") Lamptramp in a mod report for one of his many posts attacking her

- emboldened, the weekend before launch Kyuuji led a brigade of a Night City thread to demand BC answer if he would acknowledge their special victim status to make them feel welcome. BC responded by saying that everyone was welcome. Everyone 💯

- transera is offended by no special treatment - they mock and insult him while saying his emoji usage (💯 and 🙏) is disrespectful to them because troonphobia is a serious issue. They demand mods forbid BC from making the OT

- Kyuuji leaks his PMs with BC via another tranny account. Trannies screech that he's transphobic for saying that Kyuuji bringing up transphobia was "derailing"

- Android Sophia posts and locks the topic, saying that they already had all this planned for the OT with special troon acknowledgment

- transera starts screeching in their stickied topic that BC deliberately antagonized them by not telling them that, and he made them unnecessarily upset and unhinged, all his fault for not saying the right words

- Vestan defends BC, says they would probably have still been attacked if they had stated their plan

- transera dogpiles Vestan, insults and abuses him ("fuck you" etc.) until he is banned for 1 week. Mission accomplished - he can no longer make the OT. Next, transera sets their sights on the big dog himself, BC...

- BC, Android Sophia, and B-Dubs discuss what to do. BC agrees to take a 1-month ban after posting the OT as a way of apology and to send a strong message that transera is welcome in the OT

- transera is enraged, saying that now he looks like a martyr - he'll come back to a hero's welcome and they look like the bad guys. They're also enraged that the mods negotiated this without their involvement

- Android Sophia (and B-Dubs) contact BC and tell him he won't be making the OT anymore. They both agree transera's demands are ridiculous

- first transera digs up something he was temp-banned for in the past: posting a video about "TLOU2's agenda" and asking for opinions. Then they dig up a tweet from nearly 2 years ago where he joked that he was tipping his MAGA hat to a youtuber

- B-Dubs contacts BC and asks if the tweet was real and if he voted for Trump. BC responds that it's real and he has never voted and doesn't like Trump. He is permabanned.

- B-Dubs posts that they were "fooled by Black Chamber", that he's a Trumper, and asks "if you suspect that another member might be a Trumper" or "if you have proof" from doxing them, to give it to mods. He also says mods will do a better job of vetting people by going through their social media profiles for offsite wrongthink in the future

- mod Redcrayon apologizes for not seeing "everyone is welcome" as an alt-right dogwhistle like "all lives matter"

- trannies who were banned for hostility to Vestan and Black Chamber get unbanned for righteous indignation


All through this, mods were aggressively banning anyone who expressed frustration at the 1-thread rule for Cyberpunk or disagreed that transphobia was a problem. All through this, troons were aggressively lying about what happened to exaggerate their victimhood (e.g. the mods locked our stickied thread! the mods told us they were ashamed of us! Mods took the side of a literal nazi over transfolx!) and insisting they were being ignored by staff.

All of this led to banning ACG videos from discussion, 3 trans admins being attacked and kicked from the tranny discord, Android Sophia resigning bedridden in tears, calls for the janny B-Dubs to turn in his mop, and the banning of anyone who questioned why all the shit-stirring trannies were now playing the game.
 
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Going back to the first page of that cyberpunk 2077 thread I saw the usual getting mad at someone who isn’t joining in on the circlejerk.
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- Vestan defends BC, says they would probably have still been attacked if they had stated their plan
And turns out he was absolutely right, deep down he knows there's no way of pleasing these people, regardless if he believes they're entitled to being so fucking angry and unhinged or not, the point remains, he knows they're a tickling bomb and that he is walking through a mine field.
 
Minor correction here: CD Projectk Red's twitter made a "Did you just assume their gender" joke to someone saying they wanted to hear more from the guys working there, not an "attack helicopter" joke.
Couple things bug me about this.
1-) The idea that a social media grunt on the GOG social media account speaks for all of CDPR. It's just some (probably) underpaid 20 year old making a joke. Who cares. Do you think the social media guy behind the Wendy's account represents Wendy's culture? If so, why don't I get a free side of gf with my baconator? Or whatever dumb meme of the week that account latches onto.
2-) The attack helicopter joke wasn't designed to make fun of your average transgender person. It's not a "YOU IDENTIFY AS A MALE AND THAT'S RIDICULOUS, I IDENTIFY AS AN ATTACK HELICOPTER" it's supposed to be "YOU IDENTIFY AS A DEMISEXUAL VERSION OF POPULAR MCU CHARACTER THOR WITH PRONOUNS SIMBA/SIMBO, THAT'S RIDICULOUS, I IDENTIFY AS AN ATTACK HELICOPTER" I mean, I'm not stunned these things were misrepresented because they're trying to make their little clique above reproach, but still.

I hate the modern Internet, fuck.
 
And turns out he was absolutely right, deep down he knows there's no way of pleasing these people, regardless if he believes they're entitled to being so fucking angry and unhinged or not, the point remains, he knows they're a tickling bomb and that he is walking through a mine field.

Reminds me of my favorite post from this debacle, which was posted right after Vestan's post before he got banned. It's unironically true:

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I'd love to hear what Vestan, Black Chamber, Android Sophia, AliceAmber, Delphine, Poodlestrike, Transistor, B-Dubs, and anyone who tried to reason with troonera feel about that now.
 
Going back to the first page of that cyberpunk 2077 thread I saw the usual getting mad at someone who isn’t joining in on the circlejerk. View attachment 1791086View attachment 1791088View attachment 1791089View attachment 1791090View attachment 1791091
Random NPC: "You see, I'm an edgy consoomer, I think that apathy and tolerance are the same thing. I'm a tough guy who only cares about his own gratification. One day you will be as cool as me, my fellow sheep folks but first you gotta ask no questions, CONSOOOOOOOM product and get excited for new product"
Butthurt trannies: "YOU ABSOLUTE WASTE OF FLESH, YOU TRANSPHOBIC TROLL, YOU BIGOTED PEON, YOU PLEBEIAN LAZY CIS, MAKE THE EFFORT TO BOW TO THE GIRL DICK REEEEEEEE"

Too bad they banned it. These "people" deserve to suffer each other.
 
The best part is, and they don't even realize it, is that Isamu Fukui has Cyberpunk'd them hard.

He gives them a site where they are encouraged to go around acting like complete lunatics, having his jannies slightly cater to their whims, fetishes, and cryposting. He then goes and cashes his check, far away from their insanity.

And they don't even realize it.

They became a commodity to make money. By offering a "ReeeeSetEra SafeSpace(TM)" for "True and Honest Womyx", allowing them to sperg everywhere, and telling them "Only here will you be lauded and glorified", he's turned them into far far more pathetic creatures than even the GirlDick Poster.

It's so fucking meta it almost hurts.
 
Reminds me of my favorite post from this debacle, which was posted right after Vestan's post before he got banned. It's unironically true:

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I'd love to hear what Vestan, Black Chamber, Android Sophia, AliceAmber, Delphine, Poodlestrike, Transistor, B-Dubs, and anyone who tried to reason with troonera feel about that now.
You can tell you're in dangerous waters when the syntax is this specific weird brand of sarcasm. As the psych majors noted, it's all fake, there's never any sincerity, or a direct statement about their issues that treat perceived opposition with any degree of respect.
Something damaged their brains and now the only way they cope with disagreement is to double down on the insincere persona of being so much smarter and so much more moral than everybody else... behaviour which really makes anybody not in the thick of things turn 360 degrees and away from them.
 
You can tell you're in dangerous waters when the syntax is this specific weird brand of sarcasm. As the psych majors noted, it's all fake, there's never any sincerity, or a direct statement about their issues that treat perceived opposition with any degree of respect.
Something damaged their brains and now the only way they cope with disagreement is to double down on the insincere persona of being so much smarter and so much more moral than everybody else... behaviour which really makes anybody not in the thick of things turn 360 degrees and away from them.
So, they stay in the same place.
 
Reminds me of my favorite post from this debacle, which was posted right after Vestan's post before he got banned. It's unironically true:

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I'd love to hear what Vestan, Black Chamber, Android Sophia, AliceAmber, Delphine, Poodlestrike, Transistor, B-Dubs, and anyone who tried to reason with troonera feel about that now.

Made even funnier when @Denmark Mafia discovered Lamptramp is a literal fake tranny. A married man with children who was on Resetera pretending he was a woman and making jokes about how he hasn't told his wife yet.

Now he's doing a DFE and basically went full Enzom21 and stopped posting on Resetera.
 
He's not even wrong. CDPR doesn't give a shit, they ARE just ticking boxes by cynically throwing lgbt catnip.

It makes you wonder: if ResetEra hates it, and KiwiFarms GamerBros hate it, why does it still happen? Who are these people who just gobble this crap up? Funkopop-Americans?
Performative allies who just want diversity boxes checked.

Now that may SOUND like ResetERA, but they don't actually care about diversity, real or fake. They just want something to bitch about.
 
He's not even wrong. CDPR doesn't give a shit, they ARE just ticking boxes by cynically throwing lgbt catnip.

It makes you wonder: if ResetEra hates it, and KiwiFarms GamerBros hate it, why does it still happen? Who are these people who just gobble this crap up? Funkopop-Americans?
Normies who get sucked into the marketing hype because it's the New Hotness.
 
He's not even wrong. CDPR doesn't give a shit, they ARE just ticking boxes by cynically throwing lgbt catnip.

It makes you wonder: if ResetEra hates it, and KiwiFarms GamerBros hate it, why does it still happen? Who are these people who just gobble this crap up? Funkopop-Americans?


Stop asking questions. Just consume product and get excited for next product.
 
Stop asking questions. Just consume product and get excited for next product.
I had a woman over for Thanksgiving dinner in 2019 who was very excited for it to come out in a few months because she loves cyberpunk.
She doesn't know what Neuromancer is.

She loves anime and thinks the good anime all comes from Studio Ghibli.
She doesn't know that in Japan most anime runs as infomercial paid advertisement for manga.

She loves that one kind of punk that isn't steampunk but kinda looks like the '50's.
That's how she describes dieselpunk.

She preordered 2077 and at her husbands insistence they also own baby yoda merch.

These people exist in their millions to buy crap, and after they buy it they can't admit to themselves it's crap because that would make them retarded in their minds and they are perfectly correct.

TL:biggrin:R Retards are everywhere.
 
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ResetEra should, from a technical standpoint, cost virtually nothing to run. It's just a forum hosted somewhere - the staff is all volunteer and all of the content is fan generated. It targets a very specific demographic so the ads CPM should be good. It also never looks like it's invested into - meaning that the owner is just keeping the money that piles up. It's not like the forum will ever cost more to run in the future. They're probably making really good money for doing literally nothing.

All corporate "progressivism" is hypocrisy. Google says they're "progressive" but was going to sell China a search engine that returned 0 results for "Tiananmen Square Massacre" and probably would have coded in a feature that sends your IP to the CCP automatically. Nike says that Black Lives Matter and "all people should be free" while profiting from literal Chinese slave labor. Apple goes on and on about "human dignity" while making equipment in sweatshop factories with barred windows, child labor, and suicide prevention nets.
In fairness google tried once not to be evil. In 2005 iirc they tried to start a motion to leave West Taiwan rather than bow to CCP demands and shareholders vetoed it. Capitalism, ho!
 
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