08-18-2026, 12:17 AM
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Anya7890 wrote:rjinaz wrote:Hey remember that genocide that happened to your people and now you want to do it to others?!.... well, you're talking about descendants of people who where most likely find with it until it was turned on them....very leopards eating my face types.
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08-18-2026, 12:33 AM
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(08-17-2026, 07:24 PM)Greatness Gone wrote: Ree: Anything involving criticism and negativity 
Also Ree: Anything involving criticism and negativity about *insert Sony product* 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-marvel%E2%80%99s-wolverine-is-another-victim-of-the-internets-x-twitter-endless-gaming-negativity.1606285/ (08-17-2026, 07:28 PM)HaughtyFrank wrote: I kind of enjoy this because this time around they can't just claim that it's people being racist or sexism It's still an opportunity to whine about the horrible cHuDs on X, however.  Most of the claims Era makes about Twitter are also true of Era.  Whole asses are being shown.
The entire board is an inescapable, all-consuming black hole filled with complaints and grievances. People seem to get off more on convincing others how horrible everything is rather than being enthusiastic about their supposed hobby.
They couldn't even be normal about Mortal Shell II. Boobs on the armor, oh no.
They'll also do the stupid-ass shit where the most prominent members with 40k+ posts will whine about how shitty the community can be. You dumb motherfuckers, your posts make up the content of the board.
Kyuuji wrote:Accurate and Era isn't immune from it either, it's tiring. Yeah it is, and you're part of the problem, asshole.
I think my brain finally broke this weekend with the dumbest argument imaginable between PSmash and excelsiorlef:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/avengers-doomsday-official-d23-special-look-trailer.1604707/page-7#post-159165328
excelsiorlef wrote:PlanetSmasher wrote:Because if you want to have a movie with 30+ people in it, you gotta set its big climactic fight inside a PS2 CGI cutscene because those folks aren't all shooting that scene together. NONE OF THIS IS PS2 CGI good lord PlanetSmasher wrote:The point is these third act fight scenes don't feel like real people doing shit, they look like noisy, ugly video game FMVs. excelsiorlef wrote:Please look at PS2 game cutscenes again PlanetSmasher wrote:True. The FMV secret movies from Kingdom Hearts looked better and had vastly more personality than most Marvel movie CGI third act fights. Especially the critically ugly gray/orange sludge at the end of Endgame, which they seem to want to replicate with the Doom fight in this movie. excelsiorlef wrote:*Sigh*
Whatever enjoy you hyperbole
It's distinguished mentally-challenged fellows all the way down, breh.
Something about Marvel stuff specifically attracts the worst posters in the community, too, like flies to shit. Earlier in the thread, Minthara and Lord Vatek were screaming into the void about white-washed Dr. Doom for literally the 20,000th time, as if Kevin Feige himself might finally see these cringe posts and change course by kicking that bum RDJ to the curb for being white. Keep in mind, none of these motherfuckers have ever met a Romani in their lives.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/avengers-doomsday-official-d23-special-look-trailer.1604707/page-2#post-159155170
Lord Vatek wrote:And lest we forget:
DOOM
IS
NOT
WHITE Yes, thank you! I had almost forgotten!
My prefrontal cortex started leaking out of my ear and I began losing executive function, so I closed the tab before I became completely brain-dead.
At that moment it wasn't even fun to hate-read anymore. These goddamn people are insufferable.
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Trey wrote:This is a failure of leadership on AOC and Mamdani's part
If anything, is the reason why they make them appealing to a wider electorate… including the minority electorate that is not aware (or care) about “black leftie” politics of the 60’s.
I would argue that leftie appeal to Paltner had less to do with racism and more with tribalism and leftie infighting.
When Trey talked about the biggest summer blockbuster of the year being copaganda, my first thought was "was Zootopia 2 released this summer???" Immediately followed by "oh duh, he probably means paw patrol".
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We call that “getting Cyberpunk’d”
How can I play this black metal game if it acknowledges boobs?
What do you mean Motörhead had strippers on stage? Rock/Metal and sex should never cross over
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(08-17-2026, 09:01 PM)Boredfrom wrote: Shinobi just discovered Ben-Gvir:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/senior-israeli-minister-calls-for-daily-killings-of-30-40-palestinians-in-gaza-theyre-not-even-people.1606399/
shinobi wrote:But don't you dare call it a genocide.
Quote: Discussing Israel's response to the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza, and Israel's recent move to reduce the number of strikes being carried out in the decimated Palestinian territory, Ben-Gvir said: "It's no secret, I disagree with the prime minister … I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night."
I mean, you are not wrong in saying he is a scumbag and is shitty the whole government is plagued by Chuds like him… but worst example.
“They reduced the number of of killing, I disagree, I want more!”
“Genocide. ”
BTW, has he heard any of Hamas and Iran rhetoric against Israel? 
Interestingly genocide definition has evolved into not people dying but simply what the people are stating as their goal. Something that definitely opens to door to arguing that Hamas or Iran are also committing genocide but I haven't seen anyone arguing that yet.
(08-18-2026, 12:08 AM)Jansen wrote: Trey, post: 159253819, member: 1135 wrote:I missed when the "Woke 1" discourse first popped off, so I was a bit behind on the conversation. Catching up with the drama - wherein Mamdani and AOC both denounced "Woke 1" policies such as "defund the police" - the entire fracas strongly represented something that has been bugging me about online political rhetoric for a while. Progressives and left leaning folks so easily allow conservative interests to corral their policies and reframe them. And "woke" being appropriated by the right and turned into a pejorative is perhaps the most disgusting recent example of this. And of course the media is complicit in this charade, but the call is coming from inside the house as well.
"Woke" as a term originates as black slang from the 60s when a lot of black radical thought on imperial America was consolidated and organized. It means to be conscious and aware of how America attempts to subjugate and oppress the minority class with propaganda and bald faced lies, alongside collusion and intimidation or straight up murder. You are awakened and see with fresh eyes, hence you are "woke." Pretty straightforward. "Redpill" and all its offshots are (white) rebrands of this concept.
White folks first got a hold of the term when politics on social media really started taking off as we got deeper into the 2010s, as rhetoric could more easily be shared. And it was generally used as an adjective to show respect or solidarity with a shared ideology, as in "she is so woke because she supports a Green Initiative." I distinctly remembered being annoyed at the time because it was appropriating black verbiage in order to engage in mindless virtue signaling, but given that black voices were becoming more prominent, I chalked it up to an awkward element in coalition growing.
But everything since then has reinforced that most white Americans, including progressives and leftists, fundamentally do not understand or care for black politics and ideology. It shows every time, and this "woke 1" situation and everything surrounding it tells the story plainly. To use black political speech as an expedient tool such as abolitionist language like "defund the police" requires a moral core that most white people do not share, namely an inherently adversarial relationship with the day to day police state. Nor an existential relationship with the application of law through state monopoly on violence. I think many can certainly *empathize* with the struggle, and see the downstream impacts of racism as A Bad Thing. This is where AOC and Mamdani come in.
As a lawmaker and city executive, AOC and Mamdani are beholden to many masters in a Democracy. A democracy that is still majority white, but that distinction is fading year over year, and the current cultural moment is being waged over that fact. "Defund the police" became a popular slogan in progressive spaces on the heels of George Floyd's public execution, as the social unrest at the time was perhaps at its highest point in decades. Left leaning politicians across the spectrum took up ostensibly black centered causes, but inelegantly and mindlessly, which just like using the term "woke" in the first place was mindless virtue signaling. AOC and Mamdani both engaged in that virtue signaling without adopting the requisite moral core, and that's why they're backsliding on "defund the police" and acceding to conservative framing that it was woke nonsense that they went too far in engaging with. Because neither AOC nor Mamdani are actual abolitionists. And most people aren't! The biggest movie of the summer is shameless copaganda. So it's inherently bad framing from the first principle to take defund the police on as a policy plank unless you actually want to heavily cut police funding, rather than redefine the police force's relationship with the community. It's why certain reforms are massively successful in Democratic cities such as bail reform and mental health task forces, and why body cams were so easily adopted despite them mostly helping the cops rather than the citizens. There are several popular police reform initiatives going on in certain Dem states for this reason, but all of them come with massive up arrows on police spending.
This is a failure of leadership on AOC and Mamdani's part, and why leftists were outflanked by the terminally incurious Right with the term woke, because their apparatus (DSA et al) do not fundamentally engage with the morals underpinning these inherently black politics. It's why leftists still have a massive racism issue among their ranks to the point that Graham Platner could get as far as he did, and break leftist discourse so thoroughly. Any successful engagement now and in the future requires an honest accounting of this lack of comprehension within ostensibly shared morals, otherwise this schism remains. Virtue signaling myopics who used black ideology to shortcut their way to influence now are in part responsible for a term meaning to be aware of the state's violence to the oppressed now being used to call anyone who question said state shrill radicals. Abolitionist ideology has been successfully co-opted by its worst enemies because its supposed champions were faking the funk. Now that more convenient targets like AIPAC, Israel, and ICE can comfortably draw their most colorful barbs without much backlash, they don't want to play in the riskier markets of black facing politic any more.
Here is further discussion between Brianha Joy Gray and FDsignifier on Mamdani and AOC dropping BLM-era rhetoric out of expedience. It's long and goes into further topics like the surveillance state, progressive infighting, and I-P.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/woke-1-and-the-capitulation-of-leftists-and-progressives-to-right-leaning-framing.1606558/
"Hmmmm, how could a term which means that the "in group" is awake to something and everyone else is asleep be turned around and used on me as a pejorative?"
08-18-2026, 03:09 AM
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(08-18-2026, 02:29 AM)HaughtyFrank wrote: ![[Image: aKDduCV.png]](https://i.imgur.com/aKDduCV.png)
How can I play this black metal game if it acknowledges boobs? 
What do you mean Motörhead had strippers on stage? Rock/Metal and sex should never cross over
Metal (including black metal) has always acknowledged boobs. Even Morricunt knows this...
Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide)
https://youtu.be/Qq4j1LtCdww?si=56HZNpZdnnin91Um
08-18-2026, 03:25 AM
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(08-17-2026, 07:50 PM)Uncle wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98capitalism%E2%80%99s-not-working%E2%80%99-why-democrats-are-turning-to-socialism.1605628/
TrueSloth wrote:I'm trying to make a distinction between forms of governance and economic philosophies. Capitalism has exploitation as a feature, while socialism doesn't. This is only true because Marxism defines "exploitation" in a specific way so that the state forcing you to labor for it is not exploitation because you're "actually" working for "yourself."
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But this is the important distinction, those aren't failures of capitalism, they're failures of reality to be by your own design. Capitalism has done more to end starvation than anything ever but because it hasn't ended it completely you're claiming it's a deliberate creation of capitalism, which doesn't make any sense and it's frankly remarkable that any person could believe this is a strong argument rather than something that deserves complete mockery.
The sins of socialism are all part of its deliberate design, the abolition of choice for a command economy with no alternatives is not something you can just pretend isn't the entire point.
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And this is what the defenders of socialism refuse to believe, that the fundamental design, it's very purpose is to eliminate liberty and property. To abolish the "waste" of people doing whatever they want instead of what the state dictates be done by its perfect vision of how things should be. They prefer to believe the purpose of socialism is "to eliminate all bad things" rather than what its actual design and targets are and always have been. Something Marx, Lenin, Mao, etc. were not shy about expounding on. But then, they weren't "real communists" were they.
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(08-17-2026, 07:50 PM)Uncle wrote: TrueSloth wrote:Where socialism/communism have a more egalitarian framework. The only argument that people have made against it is that it's prone to abuse because humans being humans. Which isn't really a strong argument against it since Capitalism is also prone to abuse. It's just literally a built-in feature and makes it harder to see. It's actually not just a strong argument but the ultimate argument because socialism posits that it's not run by humans but instead by literal gods, beings who will have complete and perfect knowledge of everything everywhere at all times with no limitations on their ability to instantly dictate how things are. So if it can only be run by actual humans than it will inherently fail and leave only abuse.
(08-17-2026, 05:14 PM)HaughtyFrank wrote: Morrigan wrote:Think I'll pass until devs start treating women warriors with respect. Maybe when it's inevitably free on PS+ or EGS somewhere down the line. Kind of weird that she would want to support developers who don't treat women warriors with respect just as long as she doesn't directly pay them to abuse women warriors.
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(08-18-2026, 04:01 AM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/avengers-doomsday-official-d23-special-look-trailer.1604707/#post-159153490
Milly79 wrote:Minthara wrote:Not a fan of the accent. Not a fan of whitewashed Doom. Insufferable 
ZeoVGM, post: 159153859, member: 1119 wrote:Yeah, RDJ is killing it as Doom. I was so worried about the voice and he sounds great.
Hats of to Marvel for still not showing his face.
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08-18-2026, 04:19 AM
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Mansplaning again:
Aw yeah, roast the losers, Jeff:
Cop alert:
Anyone willing to suffer through contemporary discussion of season 1 of the mandolorian to see that what is an almost guaranteed praise for Gina Carano’s acting ability by Jeff because she has yet to be unpersoned at that point?
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(08-18-2026, 04:25 AM)BIONIC wrote: Anyone willing to suffer through contemporary discussion of season 1 of the mandolorian to see that what is an almost guaranteed praise for Gina Carano’s acting ability by Jeff because she has yet to be unpersoned at that point? 
I could be mistaken, my googlefu is not as stronk as Benji’s, but I couldn’t find any Jeff milfless posts in the season 1 OT.
08-18-2026, 05:00 AM
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I searched his posts, he never mentioned Carano by name or even the character before she got fired. But he's posted about her being a "charisma blackhole" since.
I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps his anti-Disney bigotry silent sometimes until it becomes a more accepted view, like his recent admissions that he actually did believe there was a drop in MCU quality recently. Nobody wants to wind up in another Lilo and Stitch situation.
(08-18-2026, 02:29 AM)HaughtyFrank wrote: ![[Image: aKDduCV.png]](https://i.imgur.com/aKDduCV.png)
How can I play this black metal game if it acknowledges boobs? 
What do you mean Motörhead had strippers on stage? Rock/Metal and sex should never cross over
It's like the saying goes -"Drugs, rock'nroll' and absolutely no sexual activity of any kind".
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(08-18-2026, 05:00 AM)benji wrote: I searched his posts, he never mentioned Carano by name or even the character before she got fired. But he's posted about her being a "charisma blackhole" since.
I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps his anti-Disney bigotry silent sometimes until it becomes a more accepted view, like his recent admissions that he actually did believe there was a drop in MCU quality recently. Nobody wants to wind up in another Lilo and Stitch situation.

I wish someone would post at Ree about Jeff's mansplaning. He was never like this until the MILF left him
08-18-2026, 06:57 AM
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for me, it's southern belle rogue.
(08-18-2026, 04:01 AM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/avengers-doomsday-official-d23-special-look-trailer.1604707/#post-159153490
Milly79 wrote:Minthara wrote:Not a fan of the accent. Not a fan of whitewashed Doom. Insufferable   Incoming ban for dismissing concerns of representation.
Morrigan just got a complex because she is flat as a board.
That's how it always ends
Nancy Mace is on some kinda pipeline. I've seen similar rodeos advertised.
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