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[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-parks-new-special-not-suitable-for-children-is-out-on-paramount.797415/page-3?post=116635203#post-116635203

They get banned but the others don't? Laughable.

Having a sub 10k per year post count on Ree means you are just a pleb to the mods.

FTFY

[benji]

Posts about how awesome the special is, interspersed with posts about how transphobic south park is reminds me of when there's a thread for a game and the creator is revealed to be horrible, and people pop into the thread to say "looks great day one!" like they are making some anti cancel culture point.

The insomniac hack really brings out the true colours of gaming journalists seeking some clout

Nobody can just post stuff anymore, it's always a SECRET AGENDA at work by the chuds!

This is not projection btw.

Yeah. The whole internet has become so aggressively corporatized and ad-heavy that it's pushing everyone away. It's not zoomers' fault, it's the Gen-Xers who have started to settle into corporate leadership roles as the boomers fade out.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-year-millennials-aged-out-of-the-internet.797886/post-116652702

What in the fuck is he talking about? He's been running ad blockers so long he thinks a pristine internet wasn't like two decades ago. And what does any of this have to do with nonsense generational categories? Oh, people want their businesses to keep operating rather than going under? Maybe they should fire the idiot who watches multi-hour YouTube horseshit.

This whole column is based on nonsense premises in the first place:

Something is changing about the internet, and I am not the only person to have noticed. Everywhere I turned online this year, someone was mourning: Amazon is “making itself worse” (as New York magazine moaned); Google Search is a “bloated and overmonetized” tragedy (as The Atlantic lamented); “social media is doomed to die,” (as the tech news website The Verge proclaimed); even TikTok is becoming “enjunkified” (to bowdlerize an inventive coinage of the sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, republished in Wired). But the main complaint I have heard is was put best, and most bluntly, in The New Yorker: “The Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore.”

It’s indisputable that we are living through a transitional period in the short history of the internet.

...

According to the consumer research firm GWI, millennials’ screen time has been on a steady decline for years. Only 42 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds say they’re online “almost constantly,” compared to 49 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds. We’re no longer the earliest adopters, even: 18- to 29-year-olds are more likely to have used ChatGPT than 30- to 49-year-olds — though maybe only because we’re no longer being assigned homework.

These stats confirm what a brief survey of popular posts on TikTok or Instagram or X will already tell you: The heaviest users and most engaged American audience on the internet are no longer millennials but our successors in Generation Z. If the internet is no longer “fun” for millennials, it may simply be because it’s not our internet anymore. It belongs to zoomers now.

...

And yet zoomers — and the adolescents in Generation Alpha nipping at their generational heels — still seem to be having plenty of fun online. Even if I find it all inscrutable and a bit irritating, the creative expression and exuberant sociality that made the internet so “fun” to me a decade ago are booming among 20- somethings on TikTok, Instagram, Discord, Twitch and even X. “Skibidi Toilet,” “Fanum tax,” “the rizzler”: I won’t debase myself by pretending to know what these memes are, or what their appeal is, but I know that zoomers seem to love them. Or, at any rate, I can verify that they love using them to confuse and alienate middle-aged millennials like myself.

This is just aging.

The internet never belonged to you or any other generation and still doesn't you fucking narcissist. The handful of places you hang out aren't the internet and never have been. Get over yourself.

Of course ResetERA.com's narcissists are eating the drivel up since it confirms their ignorant biases:

I don't think it's just that though. I think that we can blame a good chunk of it on corporate greed. The internet is becoming worse and worse because every corporation that operates on it is looking to maximize profits and have infinite growth, and unfortunately that comes at the cost of making things deliberately more restrictive, less convenient, ad-riddled, algorithm-tailored. There's a reason why your Facebook Events page only shows your next 3 events on the front page, accompanied with promoted events below it, making you go to extra hoops to see all your upcoming events, and it's not Gen Z, it's profits.

The internet sucks now, but it's not because of Gen Z. It's because everything has been condensed down into a handful of apps and social media spaces, all owned and controlled by corporations that either want to sell you something or sell your data.

Nah, the internet is worse than it used to be and the kids don't know how much better it could be because they can't imagine things being different. The water is getting hotter but not everyone is noticing

Yeah the problem with the internet is it's now controlled by essentialy 3-4 corporations who own every single major website and control everything.

The internet is bad because every inch in every corner has been commidified.

And thats the reality. there are like 5 websites now. All the different websites have been absorbed or killed by corps and the web is a more sterile and boring place with less unique voices because of it. Its only going to get worse with ai articles and art becoming used more and more.

Nah, it's the consolidation bit. The internet feels closer to a bit like when ClearChannel bought like every radio station.

There are still pockets here and there, but when your choices are everything being paywalls or riddled with ads to an absurd degree and everyone's chasing every last nickel and dime with SIO optimization, it's degraded a lot.

Yeah, there's an element of this, sure. But it's not the full story. The internet changed because it was tamed by corporations and monetized to hell. As the population of internet users expanded to "just about everyone" they all filtered into the same handful of websites/apps because those were the ones with the money to dominate.

Now that being said, yes, a lot of the things I liked about the internet stopped being popular and things I don't care for as much took over. Unironically one of the reasons I am on this forum, it's one of closest thing around to the internet I remember that isn't also filled with bigots.

Fucking morons who check only the same five things while deliberately siloing themselves from everything else and whine about how there's only those five things. "It must be someone else's fault!"

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/few-gaming-outlets-didnt-report-about-insomniacs-stolen-data-and-this-should-be-worth-mentioning.797061/page-34?post=116646852#post-116646852

User banned (1 week): Thread derail

Greg Miller takes Saudi Arabian blood money when he works for WWE so I'm not sure why people expect him to have a shred of moral decency

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-parks-new-special-not-suitable-for-children-is-out-on-paramount.797415/

[D3RANG3D]

That new South Park special sucks ass.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wolverine-pc-dev-build-has-leaked-and-playable-insomniac-hack.797703/?post=116631225#post-116631225

User banned (1 month): Driving a thread derail, off-site metacommentary, antagonizing another member

The insomniac hack really brings out the true colours of gaming journalists seeking some clout

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

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wolverine-pc-dev-build-has-leaked-and-playable-insomniac-hack.797703/page-4?post=116634531#post-116634531

User banned (1 week): Modwhining, history of similar behavior

This is terrible for the team. I really hope whoever did the hack gets what's coming.

The insomniac hack really brings out the true colours of gaming journalists seeking some clout

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

Awful guy, we'll admit it now but calling him out previously or accusing him of that bias would get you warned by some of Era's fucking (biased) mods.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wolverine-pc-dev-build-has-leaked-and-playable-insomniac-hack.797703/page-5?post=116635848#post-116635848

User banned (2 weeks): Modwhining, prior bans for similar behavior

This is terrible for the team. I really hope whoever did the hack gets what's coming.


Awful guy, we'll admit it now but calling him out previously or accusing him of that bias would get you warned by some of Era's fucking (biased) mods.

This!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wolverine-pc-dev-build-has-leaked-and-playable-insomniac-hack.797703/page-9?post=116643927#post-116643927

User banned (1 week): Antagonistic behavior, ignoring staff post

The insomniac hack really brings out the true colours of gaming journalists seeking some clout

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

Tom a clown fanboy is well known

[Pwnz]

South park thead keeps giving though.

"Reminder, go fuck yourself"

7 posts since 2020. Totally not an alt. Ignored.

There's totally a discord of these people.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-parks-new-special-not-suitable-for-children-is-out-on-paramount.797415/page-4?post=116660022#post-116660022

Reminder that if you support South Park you directly harm or are content with bigotry against people like me

[BIONIC]

PacinoMan

[Pwnz]

See, some of them were literal with the pronouns being plural.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-need-to-be-telling-men-that-their-worth-is-not-determined-by-their-relationship-status.797535/page-2?post=116617752#post-116617752

User Banned (1 Week): Drive-By Posting; Account in Junior Phase

I'm glad so many people on here have solved the problems of modern men with a single sentence on this forum. Made all my personal struggles instantly vanish.

[TylenolJones]

That new South Park special sucks ass.

Sorry mate, you can only judge South Park on what people who haven’t watched the episode think about it.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-shopping-cart-updates-and-private-games-now-in-beta.797556/?post=116612505#post-116612505

User Banned (2 Weeks): Trolling, Thread Derailment Attempt, Account in Junior phase

From Gabe's perspective this is more about being able to buy wholesome games like that wizard game and not having to risk repercussions from the self-righteous morality police.

[Besticus Maximus]

If anyone is an expert on the tribulations of being a man in the universe, it's the trans women of Era

You won't believe what this one trick did

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-parks-new-special-not-suitable-for-children-is-out-on-paramount.797415/page-4?post=116660022#post-116660022

Reminder that if you support South Park you directly harm or are content with bigotry against people like me

Can someone with the keys to the riotous account misgender that person by calling them "you" and then self report?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/substack-says-it-will-not-remove-or-demonetize-nazi-content.797949/

We don't approve of Nazis, we just refuse to do anything to stop them from spreading their propaganda while we keep profiting off of them.

You mean like Morrigan did?

[HaughtyFrank]

Oompa loompa Xi,Xer,Xou 
Is South Park transphobic or is it just you?

[Tucker's Law]

The Resetera Transpocalypse Holiday Series this year so far has been pretty lit.  Think we’ll get more splinter forums before the end of the season?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-shopping-cart-updates-and-private-games-now-in-beta.797556/?post=116612505#post-116612505

User Banned (2 Weeks): Trolling, Thread Derailment Attempt, Account in Junior phase

From Gabe's perspective this is more about being able to buy wholesome games like that wizard game and not having to risk repercussions from the self-righteous morality police.

Was ColdSun one of the three staff members who signed off on this ban?

[TylenolJones]

I gotta be real, I can't blame people for being more than a bit disillusioned at everything. There's a strain of people that have been more than happy to completely write off any instance of antisemitism as simply "Zionists trying to shut down the protests against Israel". Does that happen? Sure, of course. But there's actual shit getting brushed aside in the same way and a lot of alt right neo-nazi types have been actively rising to prominence off of the movement. Bomb threats, random Jewish people being conflated with the state of Israel, random acts and threats of violence against random Jewish people. What Netenyahu is doing to the Palestinians is wrong, and Biden ain't doing nearly enough, but that doesn't make everything being done by all of us to fight it right or good.

All that said, he's never been what you all held him up as. I still remember the first time I saw him on Parts Unknown talking to Anthony Bourdain and my initial impression was literally, "A centrist type guy who leans left and is willing to loudly advocate for the people he represents." Dunno where anyone got progressive firebrand from tbh

I never expected him to be a firebrand of course, which is why I mentioned I wasn't surprised. However, I am disappointed because part of being a progressive is learning and changing your perspective when new information and situations occur, instead of hardening and even worsening your position, as conservatives do. That's what I mean with regards to Fetterman.

Way to dodge part of my point

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2023-ot-2-tapping-the-sign.768689/page-188?post=116659767#post-116659767

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wolverine-pc-dev-build-has-leaked-and-playable-insomniac-hack.797703/?post=116631225#post-116631225

User banned (1 month): Driving a thread derail, off-site metacommentary, antagonizing another member

The insomniac hack really brings out the true colours of gaming journalists seeking some clout

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

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wolverine-pc-dev-build-has-leaked-and-playable-insomniac-hack.797703/page-4?post=116634531#post-116634531

User banned (1 week): Modwhining, history of similar behavior

This is terrible for the team. I really hope whoever did the hack gets what's coming.

The insomniac hack really brings out the true colours of gaming journalists seeking some clout

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

Awful guy, we'll admit it now but calling him out previously or accusing him of that bias would get you warned by some of Era's fucking (biased) mods.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wolverine-pc-dev-build-has-leaked-and-playable-insomniac-hack.797703/page-5?post=116635848#post-116635848

User banned (2 weeks): Modwhining, prior bans for similar behavior

This is terrible for the team. I really hope whoever did the hack gets what's coming.


Awful guy, we'll admit it now but calling him out previously or accusing him of that bias would get you warned by some of Era's fucking (biased) mods.

This!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wolverine-pc-dev-build-has-leaked-and-playable-insomniac-hack.797703/page-9?post=116643927#post-116643927

User banned (1 week): Antagonistic behavior, ignoring staff post

The insomniac hack really brings out the true colours of gaming journalists seeking some clout

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

Tom a clown fanboy is well known

Tom after his one day ban

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-parks-new-special-not-suitable-for-children-is-out-on-paramount.797415/page-4?post=116660022#post-116660022

Reminder that if you support South Park you directly harm or are content with bigotry against people like me

Can someone with the keys to the riotous account misgender that person by calling them "you" and then self report?

I'd rather make a new account with a Nintex's email burners than lose thebire's riotous account.  That's the only account we can get away with it

[Pwnz]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-parks-new-special-not-suitable-for-children-is-out-on-paramount.797415/page-4?post=116660022#post-116660022

Can someone with the keys to the riotous account misgender that person by calling them "you" and then self report?

I'd rather make a new account with a Nintex's email burners than lose thebire's riotous account.  That's the only account we can get away with it

What about thorsdickinson?

[Taco Bell Tower]

I gotta be real, I can't blame people for being more than a bit disillusioned at everything. There's a strain of people that have been more than happy to completely write off any instance of antisemitism as simply "Zionists trying to shut down the protests against Israel". Does that happen? Sure, of course. But there's actual shit getting brushed aside in the same way and a lot of alt right neo-nazi types have been actively rising to prominence off of the movement. Bomb threats, random Jewish people being conflated with the state of Israel, random acts and threats of violence against random Jewish people. What Netenyahu is doing to the Palestinians is wrong, and Biden ain't doing nearly enough, but that doesn't make everything being done by all of us to fight it right or good.

All that said, he's never been what you all held him up as. I still remember the first time I saw him on Parts Unknown talking to Anthony Bourdain and my initial impression was literally, "A centrist type guy who leans left and is willing to loudly advocate for the people he represents." Dunno where anyone got progressive firebrand from tbh

I never expected him to be a firebrand of course, which is why I mentioned I wasn't surprised. However, I am disappointed because part of being a progressive is learning and changing your perspective when new information and situations occur, instead of hardening and even worsening your position, as conservatives do. That's what I mean with regards to Fetterman.

Way to dodge part of my point

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2023-ot-2-tapping-the-sign.768689/page-188?post=116659767#post-116659767

Booshka

Don't feel like engaging with a point that starts with "bit disillusioned at everything." Obviously the antisemitism that is heightened by this conflict is terrible, and anyone using Palestines plight to be a bigot are assholes.

[malfoyking]

What in the what is an Xer/Xi/Xou?? 
Do these people just make up genders and pronouns?

[benji]

It is frankly nonsensical and ignorant to try and brute force the Israeli-Palestinian quagmire onto some left-right political spectrum especially since it's all too often done so through a Western (and particularly American) lense. But I really don't want to risk catching a ban again so I'm not sure what else I want to add.

[benji]

What in the what is an Xer/Xi/Xou?? 
Do these people just make up genders and pronouns?

Yes.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-parks-new-special-not-suitable-for-children-is-out-on-paramount.797415/page-4?post=116660022#post-116660022

Can someone with the keys to the riotous account misgender that person by calling them "you" and then self report?

I'd rather make a new account with a Nintex's email burners than lose thebire's riotous account.  That's the only account we can get away with it

I agree. The problem with the riotous account is that you have to play the part of a complete fucking wanker all the time. Get's tiresome. Kind of like how you need to be a complete little cockless biaaaatch whenever you log into the Shosta account at oldbore.

[Potato]

What in the what is an Xer/Xi/Xou?? 
Do these people just make up genders and pronouns?

I genuinely want to see someone banned for using the wrong pronouns on that one. Like, it's the litmus test for whether the bans for misgendering are just performative or if they are serious about respecting someone's pronouns.

I am actually tempted to register today since my work has slowed down to nothing and test this shit out.

EDIT: Turns out my ISP doesn't allow me to set up inboxes anymore. Fuck.

[FEUER FREI.]

you know with how much the transes bitch and whine that theres so many transphobes on reee and internet, interesting how there is no trans forum, why none of them have ever fucked off to a trans forum with their own community that is private and can ban as they please

i know why its because they love the victim complex, suiciding baiting + donations and attention. that’s why these transes hang around

grow some fucking balls b-dumbs, they’re manipulating and destroying your site. what relevance is reee any more any way than the odd first source for a leak? you even have some people now wanting leaks banned l o l

[benji]

you know with how much the transes bitch and whine that theres so many transphobes on reee and internet, interesting how there is no trans forum, why none of them have ever fucked off to a trans forum with their own community that is private and can ban as they please

i know why its because they love the victim complex, suiciding baiting + donations and attention. that’s why these transes hang around

It's because the point is obtaining power in existing spaces. Search your heart you know it to be true.