Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[BananaBlast]

Get ready for the next big culture war discourse, a game about Africans stealing back artifacts from museums 

I'm trying to be open minded here..... but how on earth did they think this was a good idea?

Don't they know this is just going to be the next Dustborn x2?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-feel-about-people-you-cant-have-a-proper-conversation-with.1210983/

I don't mean political differences or anything like that, I mean people that you try to have a healthy dialogue with but instead they seem to either misinterpret everything you say or answer something that is the opposite, or go on some random rant or diatribe you didn't ask for, just a completely different vibe from what you were going for, that either ends up taking things in a different way or just souring the entire thing.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-years-sgf-seemed-obsessed-with-noting-how-few-people-developed-the-games-that-were-showcased-solo-devs-weigh-in.1210908/page-6#post-141146991

The future of gaming is small teams (30 to 80 people) with outsourcing help. Teams of 200-300 people is too messy and makes every process take much longer than necessary.

You are literally yapping and need to shut up. Like genuinely you have no idea what you're talking about. Don't be confidently wrong about this. Actually stop. The literal most agreed on at this juncture GOTY needed 400 people btw.

Literally only reason he’s mad about the topic is because it denigrates Ubislop’s 10,000 dev team monstrosities

[Propagandhim]

[Taco Bell Tower]

So we'll see Melody being marked as spam soon.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-has-officially-federalized-the-national-guard-in-california-and-will-order-them-to-be-deployed-in-la-after-ice-protests-confirmed-by-newsom.1211586/page-2#post-141144519
ClickyCal'

How will people that don't follow politics at all and didn't vote will react to tanks rolling down the street?

Easy, be a keyboard warrior 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-has-officially-federalized-the-national-guard-in-california-and-will-order-them-to-be-deployed-in-la-after-ice-protests-confirmed-by-newsom.1211586/page-3#post-141147606

Having just binged Andor season 2, I cant help but think "The Empire" will have a sniper attack one of their own so its the protestors' fault and give them a reason to go full auto.

Can y'all please save marvel/star wars/whatever tf for another thread? This is real life here.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Get ready for the next big culture war discourse, a game about Africans stealing back artifacts from museums 

I'm trying to be open minded here..... but how on earth did they think this was a good idea?

Don't they know this is just going to be the next Dustborn x2?

I think it's fine because I'd rather people make games like this instead of bitching about companies not making games that pander to them. Let the marketplace create winners and losers.

I wish them luck! 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-has-officially-federalized-the-national-guard-in-california-and-will-order-them-to-be-deployed-in-la-after-ice-protests-confirmed-by-newsom.1211586/page-2#post-141144519
ClickyCal'

How will people that don't follow politics at all and didn't vote will react to tanks rolling down the street?

Easy, be a keyboard warrior 

Uhm, mods? This is harassment against users who refused to vote for Genocide.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-has-officially-federalized-the-national-guard-in-california-and-will-order-them-to-be-deployed-in-la-after-ice-protests-confirmed-by-newsom.1211586/page-3#post-141147606

Having just binged Andor season 2, I cant help but think "The Empire" will have a sniper attack one of their own so its the protestors' fault and give them a reason to go full auto.

Can y'all please save marvel/star wars/whatever tf for another thread? This is real life here.

absolutely based. Tell those consoomers to FUCK OFF.

[benji]

So we'll see Melody being marked as spam soon.

Nah, dude barely tweets.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-has-officially-federalized-the-national-guard-in-california-and-will-order-them-to-be-deployed-in-la-after-ice-protests-confirmed-by-newsom.1211586/page-2#post-141144519
ClickyCal'

How will people that don't follow politics at all and didn't vote will react to tanks rolling down the street?

Why would they deploy tanks? Does the National Guard even have tanks?

[benji]

The National Guard has 5 Armored Brigade Combat Teams (ABCTs) equipped with M1 Abrams tanks. These ABCTs are part of the Army National Guard and are ready to support both domestic and international missions.

Armored Brigade Combat Teams (ABCTs): The Army National Guard has 5 ABCTs, each comprising 87 M1 Abrams tanks.

On r/nationalguard you can find people whining that they're shutting these down because of the "job losses" it will create and how lame it is to sit in trucks.

edit: The ABCTs are in Tennessee, Minnesota, North Carolina, Mississippi and Idaho. Not California so I still win, suck it ya'll bald libs. Get therapy. But not from AI.

The game-changer at home station, Turner says, will be the V3’s onboard training capability.

By leveraging this digital toolset, “you can conduct some of the preliminary gun tables, in a virtual environment on the vehicle, as opposed to having to go to a separate location to conduct the training in a simulator,” he says.

They have built-in VR gaming?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

So we'll see Melody being marked as spam soon.

Nah, dude barely tweets.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-has-officially-federalized-the-national-guard-in-california-and-will-order-them-to-be-deployed-in-la-after-ice-protests-confirmed-by-newsom.1211586/page-2#post-141144519
ClickyCal'

How will people that don't follow politics at all and didn't vote will react to tanks rolling down the street?

Why would they deploy tanks? Does the National Guard even have tanks?

they desperately want their own Tiananmen square

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

even if we all know that the so called mass gunning of Tiananmen square is western propaganda and never happened

[Jansen]

So we'll see Melody being marked as spam soon.

Nah. For whatever it's worth Melody either figured it out or was told but they don't use the mutualaid hashtag.

Spamming and using hashtags is what killed britt...again.

[benji]

Fuck Jeff:


For some reason, Agatha is now bashful (such a girl) and no longer lets her tweets embed:





"blatant"



They are less authentic, they aren't real:

Glad to see they're admitting that their goal is using violence to force people to believe what they want them to believe. As always, listen to trans people, they're totalitarians.

Anyway:

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

this is what gives trans folx a bad name.. I'd rather have 5 melodies if it meant removing 1 fat4all.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

nevermind. Meld likes lolicon.

I'd rather have TEN nepneps over both of them.

[benji]

BAN 👏 WIKIPEDIA 👏 LINKS 👏

A trans software engineer fired by Wikipedia is speaking out after she filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit website claiming wrongful termination.

Kayla Mae said that the “bigotry” described in her suit is “organization wide” and that most of her former colleagues “are as against the problems in leadership as I was.”

“Unfortunately, I became the squeaky wheel for management to retaliate against by reporting the discrimination,” Mae wrote on Reddit, “instead of quietly leaving like others did.”

Mae was hired in 2022 by the Wikimedia Foundation, the website’s parent organization, as a software engineer in a remote role based in Texas, The Desk reported in May. Her direct supervisor was based in Kenya.

The lawsuit states that from the moment the neurodivergent, transgender woman was hired, she faced abuse and harassment by her supervisor, leading her to file complaints with Wikimedia Foundation’s human resources department.

Among other things, her supervisor asked her inappropriate questions about her sexual identity and inquired about her medical history. In emails to HR, Mae characterized other behavior by the supervisor as “transphobic microaggressions” and “ableism”. She wrote that the situation made her “dread work.”

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Very active in the Texas LARP scene

Former professional Magic: the Gathering player (2010-2018)

Activism
I'm an LGBTQ and Intersex activist, especially focused on transgender issues. I also try to bring awareness to nontraditional relationships and commitment ceremonies like Ethical Non-Monogamy and Handfasting.

This lesbian can't catch a break:

A woman who is suing the Wikimedia Foundation for gender discrimination and wrongful termination filed a similar workplace discrimination lawsuit against a different employer three years ago, The Desk has learned.

The woman, Kayla Mae — who also goes by the name Kayla Morgan — employed the same attorney and law firm in a discrimination case brought against a Texas-based company called Security Brands, where she alleged ongoing workplace abuse and harassment because of her sexual orientation.

In both cases, Mae first filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and received letters that informed her of her right to sue. She hired Dallas-based Daryl Sinkule to represent her in the first case, and Sinkule is her attorney of record in the case against the Wikimedia Foundation.

In her first lawsuit, Mae said she worked as a senior software developer for Security Brands in 2020. From the moment she was hired, Mae says she was subjected to harassment because of her gender identity as a “lesbian female who presents as masculine.”

“She is sometimes perceived as transgender, although she is not,” the complaint read.

...

In both cases, Mae said her supervisors subjected her to sexual harassment and discrimination. At Security Brands, the human resources director reportedly told Mae that she didn’t “agree with your lifestyle” and encouraged her to “follow Jesus” one week before terminating her employment.

Mae worked for Security Brands for about two months before her employment was terminated. In a motion to dismiss, Security Brands said Mae “was a lackluster software developer” and “refused to take direction or feedback on her work.”

This is exactly why we need to abolish capitalism.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

wikipedia is transphobic? They bend over backwards for their she dick overlords. 

[almostheathen]

Dang Britt looks famished af, and poor Shreds the fomo of no switch 2 shes starved too.

[almostheathen]

sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorryplzdonatesorrysorrysorry

[mormapope]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-jared-leto-morbius-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women-including-some-who-say-they-were-underage-as-actor-denies-allegations.1211589/page-2#post-141151134

  it's always the ones you most suspect  

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/brazilian-comedian-sentenced-to-jail-for-racist-homophobic-jokes.1211220/#post-141128847

i expect a bunch of overseas folks to take this badly.

but as a Brazilian: fuck him.

i'm glad my country deliberately fights against hate speech.

you don't accept racism, never.

"b-but it's just a joke"

alright so intolerance is cool with you, as long someone cowers behind one of the most basic and blatantly obvious excuses.

good to know.

I mean, you're saying intolerance is cool with you.

Probably excessive, but I also don't care what happens to hateful people who contribute to the oppression of marginalized groups so.....meh, fuck em.

"I don't care what happens to people whose human rights are violated. Fuck em."

I'll just use this opportunity to state again as a generality that I don't have much respect for the Bill of Rights or America's state cult dedicated to it. It's an old, often poorly thought out document which people refuse to treat like a living legal text even while praising the amendments which were added after the fact to fix the thing.

That includes the American view of freedom of speech where hate speech doesn't exist, and so statements of an intent to kill racialized minorities are protected under the law because they're supposedly just as valuable as, like, plans to fight poverty.

And of course that's immediately followed by the part of the law which says that the mass shooter you folks have more than once a day on average should rightly have been given the gun they needed to kill; the declaration of war that America wrote against its own populace.

It's all justified the same way. This is the rule, the divine law handed down from from the beginning. It's flawless and cannot be changed; the problems that it ignores must simply be accepted as necessary evils in order to maintain this perfect tradition.

No, that's not why the speech of minorities are protected. It's protected because nobody should have their rights violated simply because the state doesn't want them to speak.

Your argument is that the state knows best, always, and the Constitution is flawed because it ties the hands of what the cops are legally allowed to do to minorities. It's not that it's perfect it's that your idea is worse.

Promoting mass murder of minorities should net you a prison sentence at least double than this.

Calling for Nepenthe to receive at least 16 years in prison for her posts? Yikes, that's putting staff in danger!

Not criminalizing nazi speech is the exact reason shit is as bad as it is now. None of these nazi fucks should be allowed to exist in society to begin with.

Also I'm not sure what you mean by "the alternative is". The "free speech capital of the world" is the country in the world that more throws people in paddywagons for speaking out against injustice.

                      promoting mass murder of minorities?
 

At some point y'all are going to have to pick a damn lane whether words and ideologies are merely empty rhetoric or they contribute to systems of oppression and thus lead to violence and death. You can't straddle the line on this

Because if you believe the former then you're fundamentally against all hate speech laws; if you believe the latter then on some level you SHOULD support legal punitive consequences for hate speech.

The state imprisoning and killing minorities for their speech is apparently not a system of oppression that leads to violence and death.

Another thread full of people "against" racism and bigotry who believe nothing should actually be done about it. We should just "wait it out".

Another thread full of "progressives" demanding more state oppression by a white supremacist fascist state.

That's why people saying 8 years is too harsh and he should just be fined in this very forum/thread baffles me. Fuck this racist piece of shit into oblivion. We cannot tolerate intolerance.

Remember, they want everything illegal.

There's nothing Americans love more than imposing their own worldviews around morality (especially free speech) on other people after all ...

Even liberals, as seen in this thread.

I'm so fucking tired of Americans in this forum trying to teach others or impose their American views on other countries, that I wanted to say: thank you for the energy in this post.

Yeah, kind of the whole point of HUMAN FUCKING RIGHTS.

We brazilians managed to make being racist/homophobic crimes (even if it's not always effective) while not puting people in jail for saying "Fuck Catholics". Sounds like a skill issue to me.

PS: Being a nazi or displaying nazi symbols/tattoos or even nazi salutes are crimes too! And it mostly works, we didn't make a major influencer do one on one of our president's inaugurations.

Oops:

In their case, officials claimed that the material denigrated a wide swath of Brazil’s population; including Jews, people with disabilities, the elderly, gay individuals, black citizens, indigenous groups, northeastern Brazilians, those living with HIV, evangelical Christians, and others.

Someone gets up on stage and calls for genocide of indigenous populations and pedophilic incest is not just being an asshole. Words have power, allowing hate speech against the marginalized leads to real world violence. This type of speech should be punished and prevented, because the ideology undergirding it comes from historical violence that the state recognizes as a continuing problem.

Booshka endorses imprisoning anyone who calls for socialism.

for folks wondering about hypotheticals and how such laws can be exploited:

i have lived my whole life here and it never, not a single time caused me any problems and i don't know any person on my personal life that suffered over it.

why? well, for starters, i'm not a bigoted, racist nor homophobic person.

and i never willingly had any real connections with someone like this either.

it's that simple.

hate should never be accepted, allowed to grow and be part of our lives.

if you allow it to exist, directly or not, you're resposible for how it will affect others and become a weapon in society.

"Well, I've never been arrested and imprisoned for it, so it's not a problem. I just don't speak in ways the state doesn't like."  

The core principles of freedom of speech are there for people's protection, even if it does mean you have to deal with a lot of intolerance. But the alternative really is someone getting thrown in a paddywagon because they tried to speak up against injustice.

not trying to get on your case or anything because im sure you don't know. But "paddywagon" is an offensive term towards Irish Americans.

  (Why didn't he call out Lilly-Anne for it?  )

It has always been easy for fascists and "free speech" protections have never truly existed. The US government has been disappearing and assassinating people for their speech for many many decades

Are you complaining? Because everyone in this thread seems to think that's a good thing. It's necessary to fight intolerance.

A lot of posters in this thread with Elon Musk's "you can't do comedy anymoreee" vibe, eh?

Allowing hate speech to fester is exactly why you have Trump as president fucking up the world.

But this case here is making Jordan Peterson Salivate, this is the example he has been waiting forever, after fabricating shit about Canada's laws. This will be definitely weaponized by the chuds because there is nothing more terrible to them than actually having to face consequences for their bigotry.

See, we just need the state to decide what political views the people can elect. For the people's own good. Democracy is when the state tells you what people can be elected.

But how could it be any different since 'Murrica is the not just the only country that exists in the whole world, but also the best country in the world?

You see, people from other nationalities shouldn't even have an opinion, and the laws of their make-believe countries shouldn't be taken seriously if they differ from 'Murrican laws. And racist jokes should be allowed because there's no such thing as the Overton Window or societal consequences for allowing comedians (or anyone really) to say that people from this or that race are dumb, prone to criminal acts, okay to be enslaved, and so on.

It's baffling to see that, even in a so-called "progressive" forum such as this, there are so many bleeding hearts for a fucking racist who got what he deserved. Boycotting doesn't work, as fellow racists would go to his "comedy" acts just to spite the people who were offended by it, and fines wouldn't work because the same racists would give enough money to pay the fines ten times over. Incarceration is the only thing close to an effective punishment, so I'll take what I can get.

Wow, I can't believe there's people in a progressive forum who thinks human rights are important?

Americans should probably reflect on what free speech is really protecting them from when people are regularly jailed and deported right now for their speech.

I think a lot of our obsession with free speech comes from our indoctrination of the American story and not because there is some greater truth or reason for it.

And maybe the American view of free speech is better serving to protect white supremacy than we think it is.

Another dude arguing that because America isn't perfect we should throw out the most important human rights. Like, fuck trials right, innocent people go to prison all the time, so why even bother having them???

what i can say for sure without speaking for others...

while growing up, the level of seriousness and thoughtness about social issues and responsibilities really impacted my life, behavior and awareness.

to the point i was shocked to learn the US specifically allows homophobia, racism and Nazism to be expressed publicly.

it not only feels like the bare minimum, but natural to the point i can't imagine living another way.

and on top of that, i am very well educated on the fact people around here feel a lot more secure and safe knowing they have laws that can protect them, in terms of actively punishing harmful people.

This might be the dumbest post in the thread.

joking about how you want indigenous to stop existing it's not a joke, it's a nazi hitler speech with a fucking laugh track at the end

The Nazis considered the Aryans to be Indigenous.  

the cognitive dissonance of american exceptionalism truly on full display in this thread. truly astonishing how americans can gnash their teeth at all the fascists america has created and enabled to its highest seats of power yet unblinkingly repeat truly fucking nonsense appeals to the absolute infallibility of the american principle of freedom. i have no other idea how you can make the leap to 'laws meant to penalize hate speech will actually make it much worse', in a 'free' country where it's now debatable and frankly passe to argue about what doing a nazi salute on national tv actually means.

How can Americans be so dumb as to think those fascists should not be allowed to imprison minorities for speaking?

Sounds like it was years of fucking around and finding out that didn't fully take, so it escalated to where this asshole wanted it to go.

Fuck him.

We love the capitalist state, it's all wise!

It's harder for the younger to become racist when there's less racism to be in contact with.

As someone who works with teenagers on a daily basis, this cannot be more true. They're so rotten with edgy humor from TikTok and Instagram that whenever I see them joking about "the Austrian painter" or "the guy with the funny moustache", I always call them out on it and say it out loud. Maybe they'll hate me for being woke, but I take delight on racists acting like victims to the bullshit they spew. Do you hate black/non white people? Be brave and say it loud so everyone knows you're a piece of shit.

'm honestly so baffled because i thought 'allowing anything to become normalized through jokes has social consequences' was like, a done deal in (liberal) american discourse for years. we briefly had a come to jesus moment over using the r-slur, we briefly got comedians to remove themselves (or be removed) from the limelight because audiences became hostile to humour that was meant to punch down. we live in the social consequences of letting racists play the 'irony' card ad nauseum, and the magical thinking that there is no difference between a law that says you cannot demean someone - particularly the marginalized - by the things that they are marginalized by to begin with, and a law that says you cannot question your government.

and by the way, the r-slur is coming back, those comedians came back to netflix to the tune of millions, and the kids who got their notion of right and wrong from /pol/ are reading your social security number right now. i have to emphasize this, the richest guy on earth did a sieg heil on national tv and out of solidarity, fascists across america were doing the same thing and declaring they were only 'making a joke'. i'm sure there was nothing that could've been done somewhere in between.

i don't think most of the americans here are like, not aware of this. somehow they just have a blindspot in applying any of this outside their country, and not only that, but that they automatically assume they have a seat at the table as the self-appointed arbiters of free speech, like it's something they gave everyone else and therefore get to be the last word on how 'correct' it is. i don't think the people here do it out of like, actual malice or even thought about it at all, but like... maybe do think about it more.

There isn't. The state decides what "demean" means and the "someone" it applies to.

Americans get to be the last word because we did it the most correct. We severely restricted the state's ability to police thought. It's not our fault the rest of you don't do it better and want minorities to be imprisoned more easily.

Everyone saying this is too much, are you all white? Just asking…

People questioning his punishment are not truly against racism, they just think they are anti-racism to feel superior to the racist actually saying it. And for me, you might not be saying those jokes, but you are the reason this dude exists, it's is a whiteness pact shielding this kind of bullshit.

Fines won't do shit, poor or rich, he is safe because he is white, and we don't need stuff like this in Brazil, you can keep this to yourself in US:

People are divided on here in Brazil. We have some other comedians trying to say the codemnation was too much. It's a pretty divisive subject.

What we should not allow, though, is for people to think that he wasn't commiting crimes. Maybe the punishment was too much, but the crime was being done behind "it's a joke bro" defense.

Should be noted that almost every single comedian that complained identifies as white. The black one is almost 70 years old.

Sounds about white. Only whites ever care about stupid shit like having your rights protected.

I just want to say thank you so much. That shows a lot of the nuance that gets lost in a story like this.

The repeat offender stuff especially helps with context a lot. It recontextualizes everything.

PERPS GOT PRIORS YELLS THE FORUM COP  

bad things should happen to bad people.

"I agree." -  

If its coded in the law, and he broke that code, then good! Rot over jokes, fucko.

 The law is the law. We love the cops. 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-jared-leto-morbius-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women-including-some-who-say-they-were-underage-as-actor-denies-allegations.1211589/page-2#post-141151134

  it's always the ones you most suspect  

"I'm so glad I never liked him"
"I had the feeling"
etc etc

[Polident]

What to do with Tron 3?

Disney releases it. Bad.

Disney shelves it, so a Batgirl situation. Bad. Zaslav!!

Use AI to make replace Leto with another actor. Somebody queer or black. Thinking Ezra Miller or the Kang actor? Less bad?

[benji]

The NYT has released a podcast that covers how the "science" for "trans" children's "healthcare" is bullshit:

Spoiler: And in case you're wondering the revolution is here exactly as prophecy said and this prediction won't be wrong like all the others (click to show)(click to hide)

[HardcoreRetro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-jared-leto-morbius-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women-including-some-who-say-they-were-underage-as-actor-denies-allegations.1211589/page-2#post-141151134

  it's always the ones you most suspect  

He must've been method acting for his role in Dallas Buyers Club.

[benji]

I'm sure if you yell FIRE in a crowded hospital and later say it was just a joke everything will be just fine. Freedom of speech and all that

Pretty much, or yelling "Bomb" at a plane/airport.

But somehow, being homophobic and extremely racist is just fine because "muh freeze peachh". Again, this is Elon Musk
-level arguments.

Embarrassing to read people defending this crap.

Not complete idiot bootlickers at all. People who know what they're talking about and have exposed human rights as unnecessary.

[benji]

Look, this is a cool and funny thing
(Please forget that we are working with war criminals)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-taking-the-canadian-market-seriously-with-new-milk-jug.1205067/

So if we see a thread that we think we should have the pin, are we supposed to report it or reply to the OP? What's the suggested protocol?

I'd like to know this too, mods?

Reporting it would be best.

I've been reporting Microsoft related threads with the following:

"Request to add staff post about the BDS Movement to boycott Microsoft for their involvement in genocide."

And we look at every one of those reports. But I'm gonna be honest, every thread related to Microsoft isn't going to get it. But we're making sure that the hype threads, OTs, and such are getting it.

I got a message from a mod saying to only report OT or hype threads. Maybe a stupid question, but what distinguishes a hype thread? Does it have to literally have hype in the title? I don't see a prefix for it.

I reported IDK, like 5 threads, one was Xbox Tell Me Why being free for Pride (seems pretty hype), the thread on how to get deals on Game Pass (lots of hype in that thread), and the notepad getting rich text features (ok, this one I could've left out). Is it purely just being hyped for a new game?

NGL, I'm a little disappointed by this decision. I get that it's a lot of work for mods and I respect that, but it just feels like the bare minimum. But if that's the rule I'll respect it as much as I can, that is once I understand what a hype thread is.

Edit: Also the Xbox 4TB thread, which seemed kinda anti hype tbh.

That's disappointing and a little odd, since there's so much that isn't covered by OT or Hype. There was a thread, PSA Halo MCC is once again $10 / £8.49 on Steam, which almost felt like an ad and was posted just weeks after this thread. That's the kind of thread that would definitely need a disclaimer.

Those are all obvious hype threads that should have the notice, imo.

Being told to only report hype threads without a clear description of what that is exactly, is an instruction that's not possible to follow. Would be preferable if we could arrive at some sort of clarity and consistency, but I'm not sure if a "hype thread" can be objectively defined. Feels like a vibe. Evidently a subjective one. I'll just report threads I think qualify and maybe a mod will agree.

is it possible to move the message to the top of threads instead of the bottom? I feel like it's easier to ignore at the bottom compared to the top.

Actually, it's the other way around. In order to post, you go to the bottom. So for people who are looking at these threads and posting in them, the positioning is perfect to ensure that they see it.

I love when they ignore the pertinent questions and reply about something irrelevant. B-Dubs responded to that question in 15 minutes. There's still zero response to the other questions after multiple days. Even as they've been back to edit that one guys post and ban him for speaking out against the staff's support of genocide:

User banned (2 weeks): Inappropriate commentary and using a sensitive issue to attack staff
MOD EDIT: Inflammatory post reverted

Or just ban all Xbox talk! But they won't do that because their traffic is more important than families dying.
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[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

The NYT has released a podcast that covers how the "science" for "trans" children's "healthcare" is bullshit:

Spoiler: And in case you're wondering the revolution is here exactly as prophecy said and this prediction won't be wrong like all the others (click to show)(click to hide)

who am I to believe.. Twitter or journalists?