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

[Ravana]

Can you still have people banned for $10 on SA? I haven't been there since Lowtax made everyone start using 132 character passwords which is kind of useless when you longer have the email address you registered with (aside from the fact the forum went to shit in 2003/2004) .

You can have people banned for free! Just have to accuse them of being racist, homophobic or transphobic. One of those key words are a must.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

In all seriousness, one of my favorite bits of fluff in the original Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop game is its description of fashion in a transhumanist age. In the Dark Future, no one looks average anymore. Everyone is either perfectly beautiful, or very creatively ugly.

This explains why my V in CP77 looks either like a gay biker or a past it game show host.

 

[The Asian Dictator]

Most of the people who were making GAF shit moved to ResetEra when EviLore didn't give in to their attempted coup. In fact, EviLore calling their bluff and telling them to go pound sand go away if they didn't like the forums is the reason why ResetEra was created in the first place. Had he given in all the madness would likely be happening on GAF instead.

I can't talk about the current state of NeoGAF, but it seems to be a nice forum and it's recovering from the blow its numbers suffered back then. It's not nearly as big or as active as it was in its heyday, but the numbers have been steadily increasing.

It’s still a malware invested hole that only exists to make Lord Virgin shekels. Most of the militant crazies have gone over to Fukui’s money making scheme but Malka is still a sperg.

 

[CheezzyMach]

There really aren't that many trans people. Legitimately trans, that is. They're a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population both in the United States and throughout the world. I define "legitimately trans" as a person who is actively seeking treatment (of some kind -- not necessarily surgery, but maybe therapy or medication) for gender or body dysmorphia and is either making an active effort to present and live as their "preferred" sex or making an active effort to treat and manage their dysmorphia so they can live a normal life as their physical gender. These people are rare, quiet, non-confrontational and go to great lengths to conform with the social norms expected of their preferred gender, or their physical gender if they're trying to treat the dysmorphia psychologically or medically (without surgery). They don't screech for attention, whine about oppression or even make a fuss over themselves. Apart from the mental illness of dysphoria, they're relatively normal, sane people. That's why we don't notice them.

There's a whole metric fuckton of trenders and posers, though. Ever since gay marriage was legalized by the Supreme Court half a decade ago, homosexuals have essentially been "demoted" on the progressive stack and, arguably, have had their victim cards collectively revoked by the woke crowd. All the same kinds of "protections" and outrage on behalf of the oppressed that used to benefit homosexuals have all shifted onto the trannies instead. So all sorts of "genderfluid" morons, special snowflakes and straight up grifters have all transitioned (heh) into transtrending. Most have no intentions to transition, get therapy or take hormones. Some make piss-poor attempts to dress up and roleplay like the opposite sex, but some are brazen enough to make no physical changes at all while still demanding people treat them as their preferred sex anyway. Jake Alley is a great example -- he's fat, has male pattern baldness and has a grey beard six inches or longer. He wears men's clothing, doesn't wear makeup, speaks with his normal male voice, and lives as a male. Yet he calls himself "transgender" and gets upset when people "misgender" him.

Trenders have figured out that all they have to do to claim the "protected status" afforded to trannies by the woke crowd is to simply state they are trans. The woke crowd will defend them against all criticisms, including pointing out the obvious, calling all of it "transphobic" and calling for people's jobs and heads.

ResetEra is a perfect illustration of this. I guarantee you there's only a handful of legitimately trannies on the site (my guess would be five or so, if that) and the rest are (as we've already seen revealed on several occasions) dumb angry white men larping as trannies because it makes them impervious to criticism or rebuke there. They can misbehave all they want and say all the nasty shit they want, and the rest of the site has to sit there and take it with a shit-eating grin lest they offend the "trannies" and they get the mods involved. The mods hate the trannies too, but as we've seen in the past few days, they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Keep them around, and they'll keep dragging the site down. Kick their asses to the curb, and they'll scream "transphobia" to anyone who will listen. Given that even now, nobody actually listens to them besides the peanut gallery (e.g. us), I'd argue that's a risk worth taking and the mods would be much better off banning every tranny participating in this meltdown and anyone who takes their side and complains about it.

This is happening online so much more than IRL simply because they can maintain their illusion much more easily online. IRL, ain't nobody with a beard and a deep voice tricking or convincing anybody around them that they're really a woman. It just isn't happening. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it. It's been said this sort of thing "shatters the illusion" and causes a narcissistic injury, so the trenders avoid it as much as possible.

TLDR is that being gay isn't special anymore and horrors of horrors is becoming mainstream.

Which is why we've seen LGBT groups and trenders endorse and advocate more extreme shit these last 5 years they want to be provocative rebels not boring normies.

Hence why I said trannies on Twitter should pay close attention to what's currently happening to gays * particularly lesbians * and maybe stop being so antagonistic to normies.

If the media and zeitgeist moved on from and replaced them they'll do the same to you.

 

[ZMOT]

Like I say, if the trans contingent ever actually left, it would probably deal a fatal blow to Era's branding. If ResetEra is no longer the safest space for the wokest gamers, it isn't anything at all. It's the GameFAQs boards. But the thing is, they'll never leave unless someone makes them leave. They don't want their own space. They want to run everyone else's space.

wasn't retardera actually taken over too? I remember back in the days during the exodus literally everyone, including oh so progressive reddit, told them to pound sand, till they settled on reeeera which was going out of it's way to accommodate them.

 

[The Last Boyscout]

If the media and zeitgeist moved on from and replaced them they'll do the same to you.

tbh, the gaming media's response to CP2077 p much proves it already is well on its way there. I was seriously expecting some bullshit mass-coordinated effort between game journo shills, that would hope to farm clicks en masse on a super-popular title, but the only one still carrying the water for these nutjobs in any way are certain has-beens from Polygon, Gamespot and Kotaku who review games without even playing them nowadays. the vast majority of others' main complaints are around the bugs and unplayable state on PS4 and Xbox One, which are actually valid criticisms. plus don't see something on that scale with Fuckmann not getting the player's choice game award either during the same week, as all the 'alt-right trolls made GoT win' cries seem to have fizzled out.

and the troon screams into the void, where once they merited a coordinated media browbeating of Gamergate, now results in only token pity side-mentions.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

If the media and zeitgeist moved on from and replaced them they'll do the same to you.

What's the next step beyond forcing biological denial onto people? There's a lot of Tumblr ridiculousness that festered back in the day, but can things like 86 genders and otherkin really go mainstream? Even with the trans bullshit, it's still functionally a reification of the gender binary. Furries, for example, have been around for decades and yet never moved past being "those weird fetishists who dress up in animal costumes to have sex."

 

[Ultrapenguin]

What's the next step beyond forcing biological denial onto people? There's a lot of Tumblr ridiculousness that festered back in the day, but can things like 86 genders and otherkin really go mainstream? Even with the trans bullshit, it's still functionally a reification of the gender binary. Furries, for example, have been around for decades and yet never moved past being "those weird fetishists who dress up in animal costumes to have sex."

Idk if there is a next step beyond. It's possible society's going to reach a breaking point soon and things will start swinging back in a reflexive conservative direction, meaning narcissists desperate for power and attention will simply stop pretending to be gender specials and will instead switch to pretending they're righteous individuals who just care about god and traditional values, and instead of "think of the minorities!" it'll go back to "think of the children!". Then after a while of that the pendulum will swing the other way and things will be liberal again and they'll go back to that. Like, these aren't intelligent individuals nor individuals with any actual principles, they're basically animals that instinctually sniff out and gravitate towards anything they can parasitize to feed their egos. That's it.

Keep track of these folks. I'd bet 6-10 years from now the majority of them are going to be using the fact they were "tricked" into becoming trans by evil socialist degenerates as their new source of victimhood and excuse to rain moral judgement on everyone around them.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Why do they even need Era when they have all these Discords?

Was this what Kojima meant when he was talking about proxy wars?

Sorry for the delayed response, i'm the guy that runs that account and i'm still recovering from a recent surgery and had finals on college,

I'm no expert, but I don't think you're meant to do the surgery exam on yourself.

Get well soon.

FLOUT the rules. FLOUT the rules. Jesus Christ don't use words this terribly. Flaunt and flout are two entirely different words. Okay I sound like an asshole I'm fucking off now.

Also I agree with everything else you said but goddammit I hate the flaunt/flout thing seriously.

Your tacking it two serial.

But I could care less.

Does ResetEra even have any real influence or sway in the industry anymore? I knew it was a joke years ago, but it seems like they all still take themselves super seriously.

Getting mad about CP2077 over its trans shit is like getting angry at the Children of the Corn because it promotes high fructose corn syrup. Like, how can you miss the point so entirely? It's so absurd it borders on not even being funny.

Yes and no.

Yes in that Capcom recently got woke (citing ResetEra and Anita Sarkeesian talking points) and they still have members in Nintendo Treehouse and the games press.
No in that basically nobody outside of their clique listens to them any more.

And back to your daily insanity. Remember, AJAB.

#AllJaniesAreBastards

Cyberpunk as a genre never shows cops in a good light. Except for Blade Runner. ...and Ghost in the Shell. ...and Appleseed. ...and AD Police, and Tank Police, and Judge Dredd, and Robocop- look, just trust ResetEra and ignore all the evidence that's right in front of your face.

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Mist used to be a janny on Resetera

What does Sailor Moon have to do with ACAB?

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

Idk if there is a next step beyond. It's possible society's going to reach a breaking point soon and things will start swinging back in a reflexive conservative direction, meaning narcissists desperate for power and attention will simply stop pretending to be gender specials and will instead switch to pretending they're righteous individuals who just care about god and traditional values, and instead of "think of the minorities!" it'll go back to "think of the children!". Then after a while of that the pendulum will swing the other way and things will be liberal again and they'll go back to that. Like, these aren't intelligent individuals nor individuals with any actual principles, they're basically animals that instinctually sniff out and gravitate towards anything they can parasitize to feed their egos. That's it.

Bold of you to assume that culture will continue moving socially back and forth like it has since time immemorial and that now we're not suddenly in the liberal end game. Can all those blue checkmark twitterati be dumb enough to think reality has always had and will always have a liberal bias? But then the corporations wouldn't put special badges on their social media accounts to illustrate that their statements are more legitimate!

 

[Mr. Manchester]

The past 50 or so pages of this thread have been a wonderful and insightful delve into ResetEra. Thank you to the knowledgeable regulars and their helpful update posts. I feel like I just finished a good novel and can't wait for the next book in the series.

Also we never should have closed the asylums holy shit.

 

[Hoff Man]

how do we know for sure resetera isnt some ultimate endgame trolling project

 

[Herbert West Reanimator]

I look away for a week and you fucks blow this thread up with sixty additional goddamn pages. Glorious. I have enjoyed feasting upon the products of the salt mines for the last couple of days. Looking forward to watching the latest trainwreck continue to unfold.

(Hi, ResetEra stalkers!)

 

[kaien]

Cyberpunk as a genre never shows cops in a good light. Except for Blade Runner. ...and Ghost in the Shell. ...and Appleseed. ...and AD Police, and Tank Police, and Judge Dredd, and Robocop- look, just trust ResetEra and ignore all the evidence that's right in front of your face.

At the same time, none of those feature entirely positive portrayals of the police either. It's almost like ambiguity makes for interesting stories.

(okay, Robocop might be an exception, but Paul Verhoeven was never one to go for subtlety when he could shoot you out of a cannon instead)

The Cyberpunk 2020 cop sourcebook is a pretty interesting read, by the way, one of the better early 90s-era supplements. It certainly pitches the cops as the protagonists of your campaign. But, you know, it's a game. Fiction. Another one of those ambiguities a lot of people seem to have a hard time with.

 

[CheezzyMach]

Idk if there is a next step beyond. It's possible society's going to reach a breaking point soon and things will start swinging back in a reflexive conservative direction, meaning narcissists desperate for power and attention will simply stop pretending to be gender specials and will instead switch to pretending they're righteous individuals who just care about god and traditional values, and instead of "think of the minorities!" it'll go back to "think of the children!". Then after a while of that the pendulum will swing the other way and things will be liberal again and they'll go back to that. Like, these aren't intelligent individuals nor individuals with any actual principles, they're basically animals that instinctually sniff out and gravitate towards anything they can parasitize to feed their egos. That's it.

Keep track of these folks. I'd bet 6-10 years from now the majority of them are going to be using the fact they were "tricked" into becoming trans by evil socialist degenerates as their new source of victimhood and excuse to rain moral judgement on everyone around them.

I mean that's pretty much what happened to the hippie subculture in the 80s. So it's possible.

 

[Whatsup bud?]

Idk if there is a next step beyond. It's possible society's going to reach a breaking point soon and things will start swinging back in a reflexive conservative direction, meaning narcissists desperate for power and attention will simply stop pretending to be gender specials and will instead switch to pretending they're righteous individuals who just care about god and traditional values, and instead of "think of the minorities!" it'll go back to "think of the children!". Then after a while of that the pendulum will swing the other way and things will be liberal again and they'll go back to that. Like, these aren't intelligent individuals nor individuals with any actual principles, they're basically animals that instinctually sniff out and gravitate towards anything they can parasitize to feed their egos. That's it.

Keep track of these folks. I'd bet 6-10 years from now the majority of them are going to be using the fact they were "tricked" into becoming trans by evil socialist degenerates as their new source of victimhood and excuse to rain moral judgement on everyone around them.

I am looking forward to seeing what will happen to millenials re: hippies becoming fundamentalists in the 80s

 

[Dick Justice]

how do we know for sure resetera isnt some ultimate endgame trolling project

ironic shitposting fagposting is still shitposting fagposting
a half-decade of ironic shitposting fagposting is a youth wasted

 

[kaien]

ironic shitposting fagposting is still shitposting fagposting
a half-decade of ironic shitposting fagposting is a youth wasted

If you keep making that face, as mama always said, it's gonna freeze that way.

 

[Postal Pippa]

Its kinda fucked these people, troon and not cant just enjoy a fucking video game. But thats not saying something that someone anyone else has already said. Though I agree, Gaf finally getting redemption arc is insane. 2020 really has been a hell of a ride from front to back.

Also if anyone from ResetEra is here to stalk the thread and reads this, hi, go play some video games and quit being a whiny bitch.

 

[kcbbq]

I am looking forward to seeing what will happen to millenials re: hippies becoming fundamentalists in the 80s

A LOT of hippies became fundies back in the 60s, and more so the early 70s. Weird Jesus movement cults popped up all over the place with the worst kind of sexual predator leaders. Children of God is the first one that springs to mind, but there were lots of the things. Charles Mason's Family was another. There's a reason The People's Temple, while around since the 50s really took off in the 60s.

Hippies becoming the 80s fundies was a toning down of the insanity, a move towards rationality, not away from it. The fact that they were still loonies shows how messed up the stuff in the 60s was.