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[PogiJones]

History of Hostility

So close to the all-time classic.  

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Forget superheroes, David Finchers The Killer drops on Friday

The yt cishet male led movie with the really white cishet cast by the yt cishet male who said "BOTH SIDES" about people trying to have their basic needs met? OOF. Sounds about white.

Like maybe if it was glorifying him guillotining billionaires it wouldn't be sus but as is I gotta side-eye you.

*puts on Messy hat*
I'm pretty sure he was cancelled for some kind of domestic abuse allegations or something? Also he stars in white savior film Last Goal Wins, directed by white-adjacent Hitler-platforming bigot Taika White-titi. 

[AldusMoneyPenny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-to-ban-sale-of-cigarettes-to-anyone-born-after-1-jan-2009-in-bid-to-create-smoke-free-generation.782777/page-6#post-114629606

User Banned (1 Week): Antagonizing Fellow Member; History of Hostility

Are you drunk? I am not holding it against you, and will be here for you when you wake up if you are. But are you drunk?

You are arguing and fighting like you are drunk.

History of Hostility

Why the fuck do they keep allowing people like this to come back?

Blame Space died in a lonely hospital room for this

[Chumbawumbafan69]

Except Kazaam is actually good.  

Slap a Marvel logo on it and Resetera would claim it's an important part of African American representation in film.

[Potato]

I unironically love Fat and Furious (watched it twice opening week) and they do a better job with time travel then a conic book movie.

Hold up. Admittedly, I noped out of Fast and Furious after like 2 (maybe 3?) movies. I have some idea that they turned it into a superhero/Bond/action series, but fucking time travel? WTF?

[Echelon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-should-either-treat-political-parties-in-the-u-s-like-monopolies-or-we-should-demand-public-funding-be-used-to-establish-viable-3rd-parties.783335/

You stupid, fucking idiot. You dumb, braindead monkey. Multiple political parties just form left and right coalitions which is no fucking different than the system we have now. Our greens, socialists, libertarians, ancaps, etc. all just live inside the shells of the two parties to save time on color coding 15 fucking parties on wikipedia that all just amount to the same thing.

But no, we should demand the government spend money on creating more political fuckery which will improve people's lives. These people shouldn't be fucking allowed to have unassisted thoughts.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Anyone dismissing someone for voting 3rd party should be BANNED.

VOTE FOR GENOCIDE JOE? THAT'S A NO FROM ME, BROTHER!

[books]

I unironically love Fat and Furious (watched it twice opening week) and they do a better job with time travel then a conic book movie.

Hold up. Admittedly, I noped out of Fast and Furious after like 2 (maybe 3?) movies. I have some idea that they turned it into a superhero/Bond/action series, but fucking time travel? WTF?

Every movie from The Fast & Furious (part 4) on officially takes place before Tokyo Drift (part 3) until Fast 7. Not really time travel is close enough.

[Boredfrom]

No, it isn’t. Like at all.

[Boredfrom]

Is not time travel because the production don’t want to deal with a character death from a film that was before F&F become a weird superhero/JamesBond hybrid.

[Polident]

Fast 5 is required viewing.

[Jordi L'Engorge]

I unironically love Fat and Furious (watched it twice opening week) and they do a better job with time travel then a conic book movie.

Are you latinx? if not, this either grants you honorary status or makes you a cultural appropriator.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-should-either-treat-political-parties-in-the-u-s-like-monopolies-or-we-should-demand-public-funding-be-used-to-establish-viable-3rd-parties.783335/

Alright, I'll look at it:

The current state of domestic and international affairs has convinced me that the only way we can actually save our democracy (if we ever had one in the first place) is to demand either public funding for the formation of viable third parties, or we deem the Republican and Democratic parties monopolies of the public trust and require that they be broken up into multiple smaller parties.
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We need New Deal level public funding for the formation of more political parties both at the sate and federal level. Anything. Something. I can't be the only one considering sitting out the next election, right?

This guy doesn't even know how elections work. One, and only one, party wins, so it's going to just keep going back to two-parties no matter how often you break them up as penalty for winning elections. Thankfully, at least half the posts in the thread were explaining this, a rare ResetERA.com victory.

America has always been a country designed for and by the rich, so while maybe there is a timeline where we avoid our current trajectory, it was on some level inevitable I would argue.

Uh, what? How? No other system has ever protected and empowered minorities and the general public as much. Nobody ever did it first.

The two main parties would just realign to absorb the smaller parties as needed. I get that you mean well but this isn't viable without rewriting the constitution to be a parliamentary system (which has its own problems).

Viable third parties literally cannot function in our political system. We don't have a parliamentary system.

What? A parliamentary system doesn't guarantee more than two parties. It just means no independent executive.

If the founders wanted 3rd parties to be viable, they would have amended the constitution to prevent them when that was still possible, instead of making it themselves

The problem is that they didn't think parties would exist when they wrote the Constitution so there are no safeguards in place at all for them.

What does this even mean?

Biggest issue isn't that it's only a two party system but rather we are dependent on the electoral college.

Yeah, as someone looking from the outside I am firmly convinced that the electoral college is the primary reason for a lot of your country's problems (well that and the lack of ranked choice voting). The Republican Party as it currently exists could never have survived without it, and propaganda networks like Fox News would have so much less power.

Neither of these people understand how it works and are complaining because others do.

"Viable" third parties still need people who want to vote for them. And as long as there are more people whose singular goal is "cause as much suffering as possible for as many people as possible", there will always need to be a single party that votes in higher numbers than those fuckers.

It's just not going to happen until the GOP collapses.

Lol at sitting out this election after what happened in 2016. There were so many bad-faith posters encouraging others to sit out that election on the previous board. Not only did we get fucking Donald Trump for four years, women lost reproductive rights, hate crimes went up, we were essentially leaderless during a pandemic, and national security secrets were just freely passed around because Big Baby wanted to impress his friends. I mean that's not even getting into the hundreds of other things that happened. Some of us minorities have to worry about harm reduction. It would be nice to have others worried about that as well. You care about climate change? Well, even if you think Biden didn't do enough during his term, Trump is going to rip all that up and set us even further back. It's insane that some voters have to work themselves up to get fucking excited to vote for someone. I guess they don't actually hate Trump that much?

Are we really going to re-run 2016 and make the same mistake again?

My life in 2016-2017 was a split-screen of supposedly left-leaning people I knew (mostly white) telling me how they just couldn't bear to vote for Hillary Clinton while my family was banned from traveling in and out of the country and undocumented folks in my life panicked about getting deported.

A Jill Stein voter I'd gone on a few dates with had the balls to text me a week after the election saying she was so sorry for how things turned out and that she was thinking about my family. Sure, yeah, thanks for nothing. I ghosted.

I hope you enjoy your theofascist dictatorship then, because that's exactly what this sort of naive idealism is going to get you. The Democrats may have issues, but you're an absolute fool to play the both-sides card here. Save the virtue signaling for Internet forums and freshman poly sci seminars. Anyone who is not actively voting against Republicans at this point shares a portion of the blame for what they would inevitably force upon the country.

I feel like just outlawing gerrymandering would go a long ways to improving things. If we could axe the senate on top of that, I dunno...

Both of these are effectively impossible.

The one thing I wish democrats would take from republicans is using primaries to weed out candidates they don't like.

Also the cap on the number of Representatives in the house is another issue which gives small states more power than they should.

That's not to say there isn't stuff that can't be done that might be an improvement like raising the number of representatives from what was set roughly a fucking century ago.

And the cap on the house is just a normal law, that's only a century old. It was put in place specifically to hobble larger states, but you'd only need a majority in both houses to change it

                    people listening to me about something Congress can do with a simple bill that will eliminate the minor electoral college disparity and increase representation?

A viable 3rd party means no one wins the absolute majority required meaning the people don't chose the President and Vice President, Congress does

No, it doesn't, see the many elections with viable third parties or independent candidates. This isn't how representative elections work, it's exactly the same in Canada. You elect the MPs by FPTP and then a majority of the MPs elect the PM. Same thing in the electoral college except they're different people, are elected as a block per state (though they don't have to be) and do a single task.

Repeal citizens united

This. This. This. This is the problem. So much can be solved if we remove the platform of legalized bribery out of the system.

Less power to the people! Billionaires and corporations should have a greater say! Freedom of criticizing politicians doesn't mean freedom from legal consequences!

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

STOP THINKING OF POLITICS AS YOUR TEAM VS THE OTHER TEAM

NO ONE WILL EVER FIT THE REE-LIBERAL CRITERIA AS PERFECT

btw only one team matters

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

if I take the shahada and refuse to vote in the upcoming election will I be exempt from criticism? 

[benji]

I'll post this in here too because Nepenthe would especially see how perverted this shit is:

That's right, this sicko AI generated art of that human dog love instead of commissioning it from an artist. FUCK PETER SINGER!

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

If you don't vote for dems you have blood on your hands, period.

If massive anti trans ads from GOP before this Tuesday didn't wake you up on the fact that trans lives hang by a thread in this country, I don't think anything will. Their stances on this is genocidal.

I would beg and implore every one of you to vote since I am not a citizen but have to be stuck here as a trans person for at least a few more years.

Not voting for dems ensures trans genocide.

Keldroc said:
Name me one right that was lost under Biden that would have still been lost if Hillary had been the one picking Supreme Court justices from 2017-2020.

No use talking to those people tbh. They are so utterly privileged that having a GOP president doesn't affect them one bit. But for us it could mean life and death. They don't care. I've seen too many on social media lately. I HATE all of them. ALL OF THEM.

And I dare any one of them to reply to me, as if I don't know which party proposes and passes anti-trans laws and appoint partisan activist judges to uphold these laws in court.

Dismissing concerns of Muslim folx 

Guess they didn't get the memo that the trans genocide is on hold.

[Not an Alt Account]

Well, does Disney want representation or profits more? Can't have both anymore. Tough economy.

also:

[Not an Alt Account]

Honestly same, high to mid 50s is still usually okay enough for me.

The copium

I guess our good friend is going to change his opinion now that the movie is fresh (60%) .

Also chuds annihilated.

[Daffy Duck]

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Can you imagine the mental strain it must be to be a mod on Era? I mean seriously. Just think about it. Sometimes it's cool on Era and then there's other days where's there's drama and chaos. Most of us are just regular posters. We ain't gonna deal with discussing whether a thread should be locked or a topic should be banned or other serious stuff. The mods and other staff actually gotta deal with that stuff. Just imagine the mental pressure that is. I'm a simple guy. My brain just melts just thinking of it lol

I appreciate the reminder that I am, in fact, a human being with thoughts and feelings behind this account haha. Although I will actually say I feel like the forum by and large has calmed down. We haven't had any large issues or flare-ups in awhile that have gotten out of control, and that's due in part to both staffers and members. We've clarified many of the major rules and found methods of working that are consistent and sensible, and members have done very well in reporting issues, approaching us with respect, and honestly just self-regulating themselves (It's as I say; the majority of people here are just here to hang out and post versus start trouble or try to assert themselves in a presumed pecking order). Once the bad actors who are trying to come at staff's throats are removed, things are largely civil! Who would've thought?!

Part of the problem we've had is that, early in the site's life, that there were various groups of people who thought trying to burn the place down if they didn't get their way was acceptable behavior. Like Nepenthe says, those types are largely gone at this point and things are a lot more chill as a result. There are people who left as a result of that crap, as a result of the insane stress, who would be shocked at how much calmer things are these days. That said, a lot of moderators, probably myself included, have a lot of emotional trauma from some of the crap you all put us through over the years.

Not going to lie, there was a lot of assholes, bigots, control freaks, and toxic personalities that needed pruning in those early days. Most of you will never know the extent to which some of these people were toxic, there's shit I found out about that still keeps me up at night sometimes. Truly reprehensible shit I seen over the years.

It's not just kiwifarms and 4chan. You can be leftwing and be a totally toxic dipshit. This is what people don't seem to get and how a lot of these people are able to hide in plain sight.

I can't believe the staff are gaslighting us and claiming things are better when things have never been more transphobic on ResetERA.com. The staff aren't just refusing to protect trans lives but they're outright telling us to be happy about how every page of the forum is covered in hate. This is why the trans community is either leaving in droves or shitting itself.

What thread is this from?

[Besticus Maximus]

The Marvels thing is like when they tried to bully everyone into liking Forspoken

[Daffy Duck]

Does Joe Public even care about Marvel anymore?

I fell off hard after End game and haven’t been bothered by pretty much any of it since, only films I’ve watched are the Spiderman stuff and the animated Spiderman films (which are amazing)

[Polident]

Well, does Disney want representation or profits more? Can't have both anymore. Tough economy.

also:

Actually, you can have both. It just needs to be on a streaming service so they can cook the books. The incredibly diverse Rebel Moon already made a trillion dollars on Netflix and it’s not out for another six weeks. And they didn’t need to rely on a yt cis colonizer woman as the lead as the lead.

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

I don’t know why it typed twice, but  

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wbd-q3-earnings-call-wb-games-crucial-to-companys-success-mk1-sold-over-3-million-copies-plans-on-more-monetization-in-their-games.783149/

Remember when RE was so hyper confident that WB games were a hopeless money pit?

Hope the wizard game flops on Switch

Between Hogwarts Legacy and MK1 WB seems perfectly fine with games having limited legs as long as they launch big.

Hasn't Hogwarts been in the chart every month since launch, and that's before the Switch version is even released?

[Uncle]

That's right, this sicko AI generated art of that human dog love instead of commissioning it from an artist. FUCK PETER SINGER!

tweet is like "oh btw art generated with DALL-E"

oh yeah? I wouldn't have been able to tell because of the fucking colored cubes DALL-E 2 stamps on every image which is easily cropped out and you didn't even bother doing, or because a couple of the stars are inside of the person, defying the style of the whole rest of the piece and you also didn't bother taking 5 seconds to edit out

[Boredfrom]

imam deserves better

kinda hate marvel and DC for fumbling the movies once they stopped starring exclusively white men

Did Black Panther and Wonder Woman suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth?

[Polident]

It’s actually very normal to treat a 20-something actor in a major motion picture like a three-legged dog.

[Boredfrom]

I really hope those rumors about Brie Larson being a diva in set were actually true as it would be funny Imam was more uncomfortable in the set that with the online chuds.

[kaleidoscopium]

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The Marvels thing is like when they tried to bully everyone into liking Forspoken

I recall mods banning people for saying that game didn’t look very good, the attempted reason was racism lol

One example:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/forspoken-review-thread-yeah-okay-this-is-something-i-do-now.678640/page-10#post-100109845

True.

It is what it is. There are no conspiracies here where people dunk on this game because of some racial ulterior motives. Else all these reviewers are secret racist.

Look I'm not saying some aholes out there on Twitter or Reddit shitting on the MC cause of who she is but on Era of all places? Cmon. It's just Era doesn't really like this game much. It's ok. You can enjoy the game just stop with all these reasons why it's not being highly being spoken about the way you want.

I love the MC design but that God awful VA or I should say dialog kills it for me. (Aside some of the bare environments we've seen)

Edit: looking at the overall score, 70% would be a solid game in my eyes and def would play if it lands on PS+ or buy at a discount in about 1 year. But it would be heavily based on my backlog.

Reason?

User Banned (Permanent): Dismissing concerns of racial bias, previous history of dismissiveness in sensitive threads.

[Taco Bell Tower]

If you don't vote for dems you have blood on your hands, period.

If massive anti trans ads from GOP before this Tuesday didn't wake you up on the fact that trans lives hang by a thread in this country, I don't think anything will. Their stances on this is genocidal.

I would beg and implore every one of you to vote since I am not a citizen but have to be stuck here as a trans person for at least a few more years.

Not voting for dems ensures trans genocide.

Keldroc said:
Name me one right that was lost under Biden that would have still been lost if Hillary had been the one picking Supreme Court justices from 2017-2020.

No use talking to those people tbh. They are so utterly privileged that having a GOP president doesn't affect them one bit. But for us it could mean life and death. They don't care. I've seen too many on social media lately. I HATE all of them. ALL OF THEM.

And I dare any one of them to reply to me, as if I don't know which party proposes and passes anti-trans laws and appoint partisan activist judges to uphold these laws in court.

Dismissing concerns of Muslim folx 

Guess they didn't get the memo that the trans genocide is on hold.

It ain't the first time they tell people if you don't vote dem people's blood are in your hands.  They do this every voting year.