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[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-mentally-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-win.909036/page-7?post=124916799#post-124916799

If he wins I kinda lose faith in humanity and will probably withdraw a bit from what it might even mean to be a modern day member of any form of community. I feel that I am already on the edge so if he takes it I'll see it as a sign to "stop caring" and just recede into a more solitary existence for the foreseeable future/ remainder of my life.

Less than a third of the country will vote for the winner and this guy, who probably already isn't any kind of member of any community, is using it as an excuse to give up on all of society.

Just to illustrate, the % of voting-age population for each of the winners:
1988: 27%
1992: 24%
1996: 24%
2000: 24%
2004: 28%
2008: 30%
2012: 27%
2016: 25%
2020: 32%

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/china-says-military-drills-encircling-taiwan-designed-to-test-its-ability-to-%E2%80%98seize-power%E2%80%99.881163/page-4?post=123599805#post-123599805

A month later and Thordinson's still on duration pending
Isn't he the last old guard of Socialist ERA?

[Shecky Fragbaum]

And that's all the proof needed to ban him?  He didn't even say anything about Islam.  If a train derailment caused the death of 200 evangelicals what response would be tolerated on Era?  They would call it God's Will and celebrate.  But in this case offering wishes to impoverished muslims is called sarcastic and not allowed.  Strange people.

Only “exotic” religions need to be respected. White man religion is to be mocked.
(In this case, is because Shoot is a covert Muslim fundie that defends stuff like people beheading school teacher  )

Islam gets a criticism pass because as religions go it's *brown* and white opinions should stay in their corresponding lanes. 
Shit on X-tianity at will, comrades

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Even though Jesus was black :(

[TylenolJones]

realize NFTs aren't popular here but I bought one now that they have sold off to show support of the studio's decision.

 

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Nobody tell him Dr probably still has ownership of the company

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ex-twitch-employee-insinuates-dr-disrespect-was-banned-from-twitch-due-to-sexting-a-minor-in-twitch-dms-up-terminated-from-midnight-society-studio.908469/page-17?post=124947117#post-124947117

[books]

Any mid-season surprises? The Ree reality (forums) shows are just so negative all the time and I'm just looking for some shit to laugh at.

Edit- I thought nothing loud was black? No wonder he doesn't like Italy if Series A monkey and banana chants are a regular occurrence. Or maybe he's just a complainer.

Edit2- I missed two pages of insanity.

[benji]

Edit- I thought nothing loud was black? No wonder he doesn't like Italy if Series A monkey and banana chants are a regular occurrence. Or maybe he's just a complainer.

He's "Hispanic" and recently changed his name from James Johnson to Johannes Johnson-Martínez to better live that truth:

[books]

Yikes.

He's normal looking so why is he so weird and hostile?

[JoeBoy101]

Wow! Forspoken is going places for the sequel.

[benji]

1. Islam isn't popular with white normies in America and Europe, therefore it's a powerless oppressed minority like China.
2. Muslims only do bad things because they're forced to by capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy, after liberation the religion will be as peaceful, tolerant and progressive as everyone else in Wakanda.

[Potato]

Yikes.

He's normal looking so why is he so weird and hostile?

He's "normal" looking in the same way Ted Bundy was normal looking...

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Pressumtion of Innocenice

Press Y to presume innocence

[benji]

3. Generally being non-white Muslims are noble savages and therefore more spiritually connected to the natural truths of Gaia implying some greater cosmic awareness to Islam that inferior cultureless white cishet society fails to grasp especially after being stripped of understandings of beauty by capitalism.

[benji]

4. 📢 Islam is queer!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dave-grohl-trades-blows-with-taylor-swift-after-he-jabs-that-foo-fighters-actually-plays-live.909525/page-7?post=124950732#post-124950732

User Banned (Duration Pending): Justifying harassment. Account in junior status.

Was he drunk or senile? Taylor Swift has never said anything disparaging about him, and if his kid, who is old enough to know better, made a snarky comment about Taylor Swift's "Carbon Footprint" and Swifties fought back, it was not Taylor's doing. Also, she uses her private plane for work, and has been working steady for more than a year now. Did Dave Grohl never do that? Would he have flown privately to a gig if he had the chance? I seriously doubt he would say, NO, I'll fly commercial. His kid should think before SHE opens her mouth - and HE should not try to fight his almost an adult kid's battles. She did that to herself, he did that to himself, and Taylor hasn't done anything to either of them. Bitter old man who was talking to empty seats. Jealous much?

 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dave-grohl-trades-blows-with-taylor-swift-after-he-jabs-that-foo-fighters-actually-plays-live.909525/page-7?post=124950732#post-124950732

User Banned (Duration Pending): Justifying harassment. Account in junior status.

Was he drunk or senile? Taylor Swift has never said anything disparaging about him, and if his kid, who is old enough to know better, made a snarky comment about Taylor Swift's "Carbon Footprint" and Swifties fought back, it was not Taylor's doing. Also, she uses her private plane for work, and has been working steady for more than a year now. Did Dave Grohl never do that? Would he have flown privately to a gig if he had the chance? I seriously doubt he would say, NO, I'll fly commercial. His kid should think before SHE opens her mouth - and HE should not try to fight his almost an adult kid's battles. She did that to herself, he did that to himself, and Taylor hasn't done anything to either of them. Bitter old man who was talking to empty seats. Jealous much?

 

Imagine being an adult and giving a fuck about this shit?

Just KYS you dumb fucks and help us to meet our climate change targets that way...

[Jonsey]

I’m guessing the girl lied about her age to Dr. that’s what makes sense

[benji]

This in addition to his firm commitment to fully implement the recommendations of the deeply transphobic Cass Review.

Labour's open embrace of the kinds of vile transphobia which were the exclusive domain of extremist hate movements just a few short years ago has made it impossible for me to countenance voting for them, while in turn making it impossible for anyone who considers this kind of hatred to be a true red line to vote for either of the UK's two biggest parties.

They're scum, plain and simple.

"Safeguarding of children" what abt the trans children dead as a result of transphobic policies. Guess they don't count. Fuck off

The trans bigotry is on a whole other level in the UK. Not even the 'left' is an ally

Labour put a pamphlet through the my door today. Very safe seat, will always be labour but really hoped they would have knocked on my door so I could rip the shit out of them.

No matter what anyone tells you or how angry they get, never vote Labour.

Killing trans children IS their idea of safeguarding cis kids.

My heart is going out to all the trans kids who'll be hurt by this.

That reason is absolute insanity.

The best way to protect children is to teach them.

Having cis kids understand trans identities early is protecting trans youth. Not doing so will result in more harm.

And it's even more important for trans children themselves.

And most likely all just to please that botoxed-up corpse that is JK Rowling...

JK Rowling must have scared Starmer, this is what happens when you stand for nothing and worry about what bigots think instead of your "base"

We really need to stop pretending Labour is doing all this garbage as some weird ass chess match. They aren't. Labour as a party has been completely destroyed and there's barely any differences between them and the Tories left

Didn't they just announce recently (today?) that they were simplifying the gender recognition process to make it easier? Kind of mixed signals.

I mean, less shit is technically easier than 'really shit' but the standards they are proposing people meet are still far higher than they should be.

Didn't they just announce recently (today?) that they were simplifying the gender recognition process to make it easier? Kind of mixed signals.

Not mixed signals because the pathetic pieces of shit at Labour want to make the gender recognition certificate to be completely useless .

Really depressing thinking about the trans kids who will have worse lives all in an useless effort to pretend we don't exist with the idea we'll go away if they just shove us back into the closet.

I'm in the safest of safe Labour seats anyway, but who is the best vote if trans rights are the deciding factor?

None of them are perfect, but the only major party with a commitment to Self-ID in its manifesto is the Greens.

To illustrate just how far the political centre has shifted with regard to trans rights, in no small part because of Starmer's Labour: Theresa fucking May supported Self-ID.

Make no mistake, I despise Theresa May, but her position on trans rights was more progressive than modern Labour's. That's how far they've fallen.

Starmer is a Transphobic bigot.
He's not saying this shit to win votes, Labour are winning this election in the biggest landslide in British electoral history, he just hates trans people.


Labour, once in power, will enact a bunch of Transphobic policies.
The lives of Trans people are going to be made worse by the next Labour government.

The worst thing is there's absolutely nothing we can do about it, other than try to prepare ourselves.

Yeah, that's what I thought. This isn't some strategic way that Starmer's Labour trying to win over conservatives. They just are center-right, and have actively purged the leftists out of their party.

If kids don't all find out about us in school it makes the genocide easier. their intent is clear.

Starmer just doing section 28 again. Transphobic piece of shit. Him and his brain rotted band of cronies. Fuck em all. Don't vote Labour.

Then the Conservatives will retain my constituency.

There are more parties than Labour or the Tories.

I am not going to promote yet another party run by a bunch of right wing ghouls that are actively trying to cause harm to my friends and loved ones and have been stirring up yet more psychotic transphobic rhetoric. This isn't a debate I am going to have.

Keir Starmer's Labour is so desperate to be the Tories, they should just drape themselves in blue and get on with it.

Literally taking the shittiest positions possible during a free election, what a rotten bastard.

I couldn't with a clear conscience vote Labour under this grotesque man.

Masks fully off now I see. Only took a single JK Rowling tweet against them.

Fucking hate this stupid rhetoric. Can't even have a sensible debate about anything trans now thanks to our media & the far right. Trans people just want to exist without this vitriol and neither of the 2 main parties can even allow that.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-121?post=124954845#post-124954845

It doesn't even make any sense. She's not an expert. She's a fucking random that yelled herself into the conversation.

[Boredfrom]

Do they realize that they lost the PR war against Rowling? Outside the usual bubbles, people are not going to take the side of perceived harassers and kill joys against a beloved children IP.’

[Boredfrom]

Devs should make games more accessible when doing so is both easy and doesn't take anything away from the current experience, yes, that is precisely my position. It's the same thing as people saying they want better widescreen support, they want a solid 60 FPS, they want working cloud saves, whatever. Do you respond to literally any criticism as "wow you sure want devs to make games how YOU WANT THEM"? Is it wrong to want, I don't know, a stable framerate? How is that any different?

You have yet to describe why or how implementing simpler/easier difficulty levels could possible make your experience worse. You just try to ridicule literally anyone suggesting that From Software could do things differently.

Re: Hoyoverse, it's completely reasonable to not want to play the game because it's kinda gross. This is a totally valid criticism and I would never tell anyone otherwise (though the resources required to re-make every single Genshin character with alternate outfits is prohibitively insane). But remember, the *stated design goal of From Software* is to struggle and finally succeed. Because people have inherently different skill levels, it is *outright impossible* to create this finely tuned level of difficulty for most players without options to account for those players.

A great player is simply not going to have to struggle as hard or as long or deal with as much mind-numbing frustration as a worse player. How could both of these players possibly have ideal experiences with the game, when one takes 10 minutes to beat a boss, and the other takes five hours? There's a reason why difficulty levels exist. Even if you say the five hours is what you or Miyazaki or whoever wants, then the expert is ill-served.

Obviously From Software will happily stroll along, making great games and having massive amounts of financial success. But success doesn't mean you can't do better, and the obnoxious gatekeeping will never stop annoying me when it makes zero fucking sense. You can have the exact same thing you currently have, but you're actively against the idea of anyone else joining the party, even if their experience with an easier mode results in precisely the same amount of struggle that you had. It's elitist nonsense and I will continue to call it out every time I see it. Difficulty *is* accessibility.

[benji]

I bet Genocide Joe doesn't even do anything to stop Genocide Keir, probably say a bunch of bullshit about how he's an ally or something. I'm so tired.

[Garfield]

I can't move to most of EU or NYC anymore, I've decided. I will not tolerate the bullshit of 85F/30C+ weather in April-June like is happening in much of the world but NYC and EU are notorious for no a/c in homes/public spaces and that is just fucking insane given climate change and sorry I just won't. Which is sad cuz I'm at a science conference and lots want to hire me but in EU and besides EU pay being abysmal I just won't tolerate the heat here in Italy and other places without a/c. Had to drag 100 lbs in suitcases across long stretches of cobblestone in 90F weather a couple days ago here in Italy and I was like…okay I'm done, never again with that lol

These people are always blaming energy companies and American consumers' overconsumption for climate change and he's some sort of "scientist" yet does he know that AC is powered by electricity that is usually generated by burning coal and other fossil fuels?

Also did you know Nothing Loud is in Italy and everyone there wants to hire him?

[Garfield]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-mentally-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-win.909036/page-6?post=124899438#post-124899438

It's absolutely baffling to me, an outsider, that ~50% of the electorate in the United States of America are so fucking stupid as to vote for Donald Trump into office a second time. The country is in a serious state of disrepair, ethically and intellectually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-mentally-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-win.909036/page-7?post=124926915#post-124926915

This was pretty much the feel back in 2004 (center bottom), some here may not have been an age where they noticed these things...but yea.

                                                                           

OMG how can someone possibly think Joe Biden and John Kerry are terrible candidates!

ethically and intellectually

So this Euro-fartsniffer thinks he is my ethical and intellectual superior and wonders why people are voting for the other guys.

[Polident]

Devs should make games more accessible when doing so is both easy and doesn't take anything away from the current experience, yes, that is precisely my position. It's the same thing as people saying they want better widescreen support, they want a solid 60 FPS, they want working cloud saves, whatever. Do you respond to literally any criticism as "wow you sure want devs to make games how YOU WANT THEM"? Is it wrong to want, I don't know, a stable framerate? How is that any different?
You have yet to describe why or how implementing simpler/easier difficulty levels could possible make your experience worse. You just try to ridicule literally anyone suggesting that From Software could do things differently.
Re: Hoyoverse, it's completely reasonable to not want to play the game because it's kinda gross. This is a totally valid criticism and I would never tell anyone otherwise (though the resources required to re-make every single Genshin character with alternate outfits is prohibitively insane). But remember, the *stated design goal of From Software* is to struggle and finally succeed. Because people have inherently different skill levels, it is *outright impossible* to create this finely tuned level of difficulty for most players without options to account for those players.
A great player is simply not going to have to struggle as hard or as long or deal with as much mind-numbing frustration as a worse player. How could both of these players possibly have ideal experiences with the game, when one takes 10 minutes to beat a boss, and the other takes five hours? There's a reason why difficulty levels exist. Even if you say the five hours is what you or Miyazaki or whoever wants, then the expert is ill-served.
Obviously From Software will happily stroll along, making great games and having massive amounts of financial success. But success doesn't mean you can't do better, and the obnoxious gatekeeping will never stop annoying me when it makes zero fucking sense. You can have the exact same thing you currently have, but you're actively against the idea of anyone else joining the party, even if their experience with an easier mode results in precisely the same amount of struggle that you had. It's elitist nonsense and I will continue to call it out every time I see it. Difficulty *is* accessibility.

Don’t they get tired of this? Something like 15 years and 8 games in this one series that’s only grown in popularity.

[benji]

Until they cater to me personally, From Software isn't being inclusive and needs to do better. 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-mentally-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-win.909036/page-6?post=124899438#post-124899438


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-mentally-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-win.909036/page-7?post=124926915#post-124926915

This was pretty much the feel back in 2004 (center bottom), some here may not have been an age where they noticed these things...but yea.

                                                                           

OMG how can someone possibly think Joe Biden and John Kerry are terrible candidates!

[Potato]

I don't like FromSoft games. I tried Bloodborne, I tried Dark Souls. I've even tried a couple of their imitators.

Not for me. I don't buy them and I don't waste my time playing them.

I'm happy for those who enjoy that kind of thing though.

You know what I don't do?

Keep buying them and then complaining about them.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Devs should make games more accessible when doing so is both easy and doesn't take anything away from the current experience, yes, that is precisely my position. It's the same thing as people saying they want better widescreen support, they want a solid 60 FPS, they want working cloud saves, whatever. Do you respond to literally any criticism as "wow you sure want devs to make games how YOU WANT THEM"? Is it wrong to want, I don't know, a stable framerate? How is that any different?

You have yet to describe why or how implementing simpler/easier difficulty levels could possible make your experience worse. You just try to ridicule literally anyone suggesting that From Software could do things differently.

Re: Hoyoverse, it's completely reasonable to not want to play the game because it's kinda gross. This is a totally valid criticism and I would never tell anyone otherwise (though the resources required to re-make every single Genshin character with alternate outfits is prohibitively insane). But remember, the *stated design goal of From Software* is to struggle and finally succeed. Because people have inherently different skill levels, it is *outright impossible* to create this finely tuned level of difficulty for most players without options to account for those players.

A great player is simply not going to have to struggle as hard or as long or deal with as much mind-numbing frustration as a worse player. How could both of these players possibly have ideal experiences with the game, when one takes 10 minutes to beat a boss, and the other takes five hours? There's a reason why difficulty levels exist. Even if you say the five hours is what you or Miyazaki or whoever wants, then the expert is ill-served.

Obviously From Software will happily stroll along, making great games and having massive amounts of financial success. But success doesn't mean you can't do better, and the obnoxious gatekeeping will never stop annoying me when it makes zero fucking sense. You can have the exact same thing you currently have, but you're actively against the idea of anyone else joining the party, even if their experience with an easier mode results in precisely the same amount of struggle that you had. It's elitist nonsense and I will continue to call it out every time I see it. Difficulty *is* accessibility.

Planetsmasher's brother?

[benji]

I don't like FromSoft games. I tried Bloodborne, I tried Dark Souls. I've even tried a couple of their imitators.

Not for me. I don't buy them and I don't waste my time playing them.

I'm happy for those who enjoy that kind of thing though.

You know what I don't do?

Keep buying them and then complaining about them.

Okay, but have you considered this: YOU'RE BEING LEFT OUT OF SOMETHING!!!!

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-mentally-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-win.909036/page-6?post=124899438#post-124899438


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-anyone-mentally-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-win.909036/page-7?post=124926915#post-124926915

This was pretty much the feel back in 2004 (center bottom), some here may not have been an age where they noticed these things...but yea.

                                                                           

OMG how can someone possibly think Joe Biden and John Kerry are terrible candidates!

ethically and intellectually

So this Euro-fartsniffer thinks he is my ethical and intellectual superior and wonders why people are voting for the other guys.

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