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

MirrorNoir said:
The murder of Terry in the pilot episode of the Shield is one of those "shock for shock sake" things in TV lore and legends that ended up being a double edged sword: it basically MADE the Shield, as far as making it watercooler talk after the pilot aired, especially after the piss poor promotional lead-up to the pilot (which had Reed Diamond front and center in them). There was ZERO buzz for The Shield until the pilot hit and it exploded online and made the show's rep and elevated Vic Mackey from generic rogue cop protagonist to something much more: the sort of Captain Sensible Villain Protagonist who you can't wait to see what he does next.

The downside is that it basically put a millstone around the show's neck as far as people wondering when Terry's death would come into play against Vic and while the show largely downplayed it until the last couple of seasons, it's to his credit that Shawn Ryan NEVER took the easy way out to retroactively make Terry a monster and justify what Vic did.

(Which is one of the reasons why the atrocious Low Winter Sun was critically and commercially panned: it was a badly written Shield rip-off that featured the lead killing a fellow cop in the pilot but then afterwards made a big song and dance to say it was justified and that the dead cop had done all sorts of evil shit to retroactively make the lead's actions OK. )

And to his credit, after spending the bulk of the run dancing around it, Ryan payed off Terry's death in the final couple of episodes of the show's run in a way that cemented Shield's place in the tv pantheon with one of the most soul gripping finales of the 00s.

That being said.....

The Shield is a show that you could never make nowadays and that's not talking about it's take on corrupt cops or how the show vacillates between condemning Vic and claiming he's a necessary evil. Or the whole "Julian prays the gay away" storyline done to appease the actor.

Also, it's a show that is along the same lines of Venture Brothers in that it was a big deal but managed to avoid a casual/normie take-over of the fandom, so that said fandom stayed clean and pure and avoiding the toxic elements of modern post-Eternal September 1999 internet fandomisms. Part of it was circumstances beyond it's control (the show was infamously blackballed from getting coverage on Television Without Pity due to the fact that said website famously hated FX and outside a couple of shows that got one or two seasons max covered, refused to actively cover the network's offerings) and also, due to the fact that it was opposite the Wire, which got all of the press and fawning praise, leaving Shield and it's fanbase to be protected from the sort of worst kind of normie/casual type fans which corrupt and pervert fandoms.

That said, it's biggest footprint on fandom was the way that Ronnie Gardocki (a minor character in the show's run) became so popular within the show's fandom. To the point that he basically was a sort of prototype for what happened to Derpy Hooves in MLP FiM fandom in terms of becoming super popular within the show's fanbase.
Click to expand...
The Shield is better than The Wire. It’s always fun to see people who watch the show for the first time get blown away by it. As you mentioned, The Wire got nonstop fawning praise so except for maybe the first and fifth seasons, The Shield got little press by comparison. RetardEra is RetardEra so I’m not surprised they have the exact opposite take.
America's Hat said:
It's interesting that a thread discussing the failures of the Epic Game Store, is a thread I can completely agree with. It seems that when you remove all politics and identities they can act rationally. It might explain how some era users have well paying jobs, they don't come off as unhinged unless someone comes across as a racist, and it can seem defensible to normies to say: "I hate sexists and rapist", who don't know what they quantify as "sexist" or "racist".
Click to expand...
During the halcyon days of GAF/NeoGAF, these people were a lot more forward about things like this. Those gaming “what did you buy” threads were fun because you had people buy cool shit that would extend to things like new cars or new houses. Basically all you’re allowed to do is shit your pants and ree.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Judge Dredd and TJ88
lemmiwinks said:
Nepenthe isn't black, she just looks that way. She's a rich white kid from the suburbs.
Is there a commonly used slur for a person who is racially black, but culturally white? Like Natives will call out other natives as "apples"; red outside, white inside. Or Asians say "bananas".
If this term hasn't already been coined, I nominate "coconuts".

Edit: I guess Rssetera would just call her coon or uncle tom 🤷‍♂️
Click to expand...

Fuck off you unseasoned boiled-chicken eatin' niggardly house nigger uncle tom cracker chink mayo white whitey
(i'm very progressive)
 
  • Like
  • Winner
  • Feels
Reactions: Subhuman Degenerate, Buttigieg2020, DriveByTrolling and 8 others
NeoGAF Lurker said:
The Shield got little press by comparison. RetardEra is RetardEra so I’m not surprised they have the exact opposite take.
Click to expand...
Not just the opposite take but the easy take. “Oh, everyone talks about this show, so I’ll just say it’s good. Then I can get all the easy asspats without having to think about why I do or don’t like it.”

I don’t think you have to always be contrarian, that just irritates people. And you don’t always need a reason to like something - I love The A-Team because it’s fun - but the majority of ResetEra seems to always go for the obvious, mainstream opinion.
 
  • Like
Reactions: George Floyd Sneed
I'm just going to post this without context because even with context it's still insane

jhkhjkhgjkgfjfgj.png

ghkjghkfgjhfgjh.png

khjkddfgsdfg.png

fghdfjjkhjlkhglk.png
 
  • Lunacy
  • Autistic
  • Like
Reactions: Strange Looking Dog, Smaug's Smokey Hole, Agent Abe Caprine and 6 others
  • Lunacy
  • Like
Reactions: folly magnet, Product Placement, Buttigieg2020 and 1 other person
jallsballs said:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/4th-circuit-upheld-dylann-roofs-convictions-death-sentence.476730/

If you are at all familiar with the discourse around the death penalty on restarea then this thread will be entertaining. The black mods immediately chime in and try to swing the narrative so that you aren't allowed to be anti death sentence in this one specific example otherwise it's super sketchy and you're racist.
Click to expand...
“The death penalty is a good thing!”

ResetEra 🤝 KiwiFarms

Maybe we aren’t so different after all.
 
  • Optimistic
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Like
Reactions: Sundae, folly magnet, Dafuqisdis? and 2 others
Oh Long Johnson said:
Which rots your frontal lobes faster, syphilis or posting on Ree?
Click to expand...
Posting on Ree unironically, absolutely faster.
However, reading or subtle troll posting takes its toll after a while because you're still exposed to that weapons grade retardium. Sooner or later the joy you get watching these people ruin their lives, make stupid decisions, act stupid in general, or have hilariously bad takes on nearly every possible subject isn't enough to counteract the massive pervasive retard faggot energy blasting out of that fucking place.
 
  • Feels
  • Like
  • Agree
Reactions: Sundae, Agent Abe Caprine, Super Guido and 2 others
A founding father and former admin.

roterda.jpg

Yet, he blocked me when I said that he was part of the resetera in the past.

The stupid thread in question:
www.resetera.com

"December 8th is Fall" this must stop.

Halo Infinite's release date being December 8th caused some discourse on whether or not this is Fall because December 8th is literally Fall but no one considers early December to be actually Fall. Overall, referring to release dates with terms like "Spring" or "Winter" is frankly bullshit and...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Posted in the Nintendo Tranny Rights are Human Rights Stop Asian Hate thread. lol. Let's see if this will gain traction.

roterda2.jpg

The retard warrior boy is mad. Too bad that he can't blame Kiwi Farms now.

zeotard.jpg

Trout P said:
This is fucking amazing
Click to expand...
And now you can't have preferences, you must like all women, even those who are men with wigs.

roterda3.jpg
 
Last edited by a moderator:
  • Winner
  • Like
  • Informative
Reactions: Shaka Brah, Sundae, Buttigieg2020 and 9 others
jallsballs said:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/4th-circuit-upheld-dylann-roofs-convictions-death-sentence.476730/

If you are at all familiar with the discourse around the death penalty on restarea then this thread will be entertaining. The black mods immediately chime in and try to swing the narrative so that you aren't allowed to be anti death sentence in this one specific example otherwise it's super sketchy and you're racist.
Click to expand...

6KivcJR.png


"Certain blacks are gonna do what they're gonna do"

kYNtwIv.png


"If you're exhausted, then take a break from the internet"

:story: :story: :story:

AirdropShitposts said:
View attachment 2479973
Click to expand...

Always bets on black, until the Asian killed him.

RIP.
 
  • Like
  • Feels
Reactions: Sundae, Buttigieg2020, Dafuqisdis? and 4 others
Cured Tranny said:
A founding father and former admin.

View attachment 2481747

Yet, he blocked me when I said that he was part of the resetera in the past.

The stupid thread in question:
www.resetera.com

"December 8th is Fall" this must stop.

Halo Infinite's release date being December 8th caused some discourse on whether or not this is Fall because December 8th is literally Fall but no one considers early December to be actually Fall. Overall, referring to release dates with terms like "Spring" or "Winter" is frankly bullshit and...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

Posted in the Nintendo Tranny Rights are Human Rights Stop Asian Hate thread. lol. Let's see if this will gain traction.

View attachment 2481764


The retard warrior boy is mad. Too bad that he can't blame Kiwi Farms now.

View attachment 2481930
Click to expand...
This is the second time on twitter he's shitting on his former employer. I wonder what got him so buttmad tho.
 
Dreamland said:
This is the second time on twitter he's shitting on his former employer. I wonder what got him so buttmad tho.
Click to expand...
He works with data for a chinese company...
Perhaps Isamu Fukui asked for some money if he wanted to continue to steal to collect users data.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back