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[Besticus Maximus]

I have no idea what Venba is and now I'll never play it out of spite 

[kaleidoscopium]

Worst movie I've seen so far this year.

To be fair, it's February 2.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/argylle-review-thread.811377/page-4?post=118536861#post-118536861



That’s the joke you dunce

[Polident]

I have no idea what Venba is and now I'll never play it out of spite 

Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.

You’re missing out!

[kaleidoscopium]

tbf Venba is supposedly pretty good, but you'll have to do outside research to see if its for you, winning the retardera games for impact category isn't a good marker given the pedo game Goodbye Volcano High is on there

[PogiJones]

what the fuck is an example of a game that doesn't copy some other game?

are generic realistic graphics the only thing you're allowed to do because it can't be plagiarism if it's similar to the actual real world?

The rich part of all this is these same people have no issue with Donkey Kong, and even celebrate Nintendo winning Universal's lawsuit against them. These people are allergic to consistency.

Tropical Freeze rules btw

[nobody of note]

Constructive talking about the latest request for a ban log, which cannot be allowed to happen because people here have smelly hands:

what popular sites do this? I can't think of any so why should Era, this place already has people who think they are private investigators, no reason to fuel that further.

Something Awful has a full log of mod actions, sortable and filterable by mod, type of action, date, etc. Want to see all the bans handed out by the site's owner? You can!

Each user also has their own personal publicly viewable rap sheet, listing any mod action that's ever been taken against them.

People rightfully give a bad rap to internet detectives or people hunting through post histories for gotchas, but it's nice to be able to click someone's profile and see they've had 15 probations for being an unfunny jerk and are probably not worth arguing with. There's no need for private investigators when everything's public.


Of course it's probably a bad cultural fit for Era.

Not just a bad cultural fit. There are groups of shitbabies out there, wanking themselves silly over every ban that happens on this site. Literally fucking jerking off 24/7 over it. Stalker twats with horrible smelly hands. If they could access an itemised list of every mod action ever, they'd buy up every box of Kleenex on Earth.

[Nintex]

Not just a bad cultural fit. There are groups of shitbabies out there, wanking themselves silly over every ban that happens on this site. Literally fucking jerking off 24/7 over it. Stalker twats with horrible smelly hands. If they could access an itemised list of every mod action ever, they'd buy up every box of Kleenex on Earth.

 boys club rhetoric

[Taco Bell Tower]

PogiJones has been banned for like market manipulation.

Only way to fix it is moblin likes

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/palestinian-american-leaders-decline-invite-from-secretary-of-state.812142/page-2?post=118539402#post-118539402

User Banned (Permanent): False accusations against staff

Meeting with him is also guaranteed to do nothing because Biden doesn't care about Palestinians. He's not stupid. He's not naive about what's going on and being accidentally swooned over by propaganda. He's the fucking President of the United States. What's happening is happening because he's okay with it, and that in turn is because he has always been hawkish regarding Israel.

What has the greatest chance at moving the needle is what the world is doing now- consistent protest and pressure in the streets to let our public officials know that fostering a genocide over geopolitical aims isn't okay, and consistent social media aims to combat IDF propaganda. People are already doing the work. Acting like this is the fault of a few Palestinians who don't want to meet with the cheerleaders of their genocide so they can get a photo op isn't cool.

This is an absolutely shameful statement but I'm not surprised when it's coming from a moderator who faces zero consequences for being highly antisemtic.

[kaleidoscopium]

Funny how they continue to circle and gaslight, as if we can't read her insane posts.

[Besticus Maximus]

Look at them circling the wagons around the racist in chief

[Nintex]

Hmmmm supplying the weapons means your guilty eh? So Biden is responsible for 10,000+ dead babies and tens of thousands more innocents because he approved and sent off the bombs to kill them in Gaza.

What the fuck is there to talk about? Sending your lackey to say "please understand" to the family of a bunch of victims is pathetic.

Genocide Joe killed millions of beautiful babies

[Eric Cartman]

What has the greatest chance of moving the needle is not meeting representatives of your own government to express your concern as citizens, but posting shit on social media

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/palestinian-american-leaders-decline-invite-from-secretary-of-state.812142/page-2?post=118539402#post-118539402

User Banned (Permanent): False accusations against staff

Meeting with him is also guaranteed to do nothing because Biden doesn't care about Palestinians. He's not stupid. He's not naive about what's going on and being accidentally swooned over by propaganda. He's the fucking President of the United States. What's happening is happening because he's okay with it, and that in turn is because he has always been hawkish regarding Israel.

What has the greatest chance at moving the needle is what the world is doing now- consistent protest and pressure in the streets to let our public officials know that fostering a genocide over geopolitical aims isn't okay, and consistent social media aims to combat IDF propaganda. People are already doing the work. Acting like this is the fault of a few Palestinians who don't want to meet with the cheerleaders of their genocide so they can get a photo op isn't cool.

This is an absolutely shameful statement but I'm not surprised when it's coming from a moderator who faces zero consequences for being highly antisemtic.

Would love to see which three mods signed off on that. I’m positive NepNep isn’t one of them.

[JoeBoy101]

I have no idea what Venba is and now I'll never play it out of spite 

Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more.

You’re missing out!

Oh, your burying the lede with that tame description. You’ll need Kleenex for more than your smelly hands after reading this description:

Venba is a bite-sized gaming experience that is no less impactful for its shorter length. It explores a poignant immigrant story between mother and son over the passing years via a series of chronological interactive vignettes, entwined around cooking and food. It is a deeply personal story as much as it is universal, as food is inseparable from culture, family, and memory. For the titular Venba, Tamil cuisine is a connection to her mother back in southern India, along with her husband Paavalan who she moved to Canada with, and is now a legacy to pass on to her son. For a young Kavin, food is a source of joy as much as misery, as it is yet another way of standing out instead of blending in. Venba is impeccably written and is a masterclass in scene writing. Each vignette starts at the last possible moment and ends at the earliest, and every single one is memorable and emotional. The game's narrative structure means that they could have become formulaic, but Venba keeps things unpredictable with some vignettes taking place in pivotal moments, whilst others are in the aftermath of events that happened off-screen. A tagline for the game could have been 'you'll cook and you'll cry'. All the characters are beautifully written with compassion, depth, and nuance. I felt the ache of experiencing young Kavin's actions through the eyes of his mother, seeing echoes of my younger self and wishing I could go back and make different choices.

[Boredfrom]

I wish the marketing was better for that game.

[HaughtyFrank]

Nice try but I wont be participating in this cultural appropriation that lets white guys experience how to cook Indian food.

[PogiJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/palestinian-american-leaders-decline-invite-from-secretary-of-state.812142/page-2?post=118539402#post-118539402

User Banned (Permanent): False accusations against staff

Meeting with him is also guaranteed to do nothing because Biden doesn't care about Palestinians. He's not stupid. He's not naive about what's going on and being accidentally swooned over by propaganda. He's the fucking President of the United States. What's happening is happening because he's okay with it, and that in turn is because he has always been hawkish regarding Israel.

What has the greatest chance at moving the needle is what the world is doing now- consistent protest and pressure in the streets to let our public officials know that fostering a genocide over geopolitical aims isn't okay, and consistent social media aims to combat IDF propaganda. People are already doing the work. Acting like this is the fault of a few Palestinians who don't want to meet with the cheerleaders of their genocide so they can get a photo op isn't cool.

This is an absolutely shameful statement but I'm not surprised when it's coming from a moderator who faces zero consequences for being highly antisemtic.

Something something "thinks being called antisemitic is worse than being an antisemite"

[Boredfrom]

Yep. Palworld even plagiarised the toxicity of the Pokémon fanbase. Can they be stopped??

[JoeBoy101]

Plus I see we have the usual bullshit of buying Hamas’ numbers for casualties as if they have even a sidelong glance relationship with telling the truth on anything.

And here we are, 30,000 dead after 3 months, 13,000 of them children and most of Gaza razed to the ground.

Hmmmm supplying the weapons means your guilty eh? So Biden is responsible for 10,000+ dead babies and tens of thousands more innocents because he approved and sent off the bombs to kill them in Gaza.

Yeah. Nearly half of those killed are children. That they buy that shit with a straight face shows how badly they want to chew on Israel’s neck.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/palestinian-american-leaders-decline-invite-from-secretary-of-state.812142/page-2?post=118539402#post-118539402

User Banned (Permanent): False accusations against staff

This is an absolutely shameful statement but I'm not surprised when it's coming from a moderator who faces zero consequences for being highly antisemtic.

Something something "thinks being called antisemitic is worse than being an antisemite"

It's strange. I thought when someone accuses you of being racist you should shut up and listen, not get defensive. Talk about white nepenthe fragility.

[Boredfrom]

Anti Capitalists deference to business practices:

TPC is living rent free in a lot of ERA's minds lmao

I guess it's pushing all the grey matter out of their heads too.

And yeah welcome to the world of business, back in the day you could have had companies who lost contract to Nintendo because they publicly said the name Sega too often or vice versa.
Or maybe it was Nike and Rebook or any number of corporate rivalry.
Sorry for the realization that we're still living in a capitalist world.

I’m sure bitching about Palworld will make the world better.

[Boredfrom]

It's that, and the vociferous desire for a Pokémon game that looks good, runs well and deviates heavily from the traditional formula. Now, had they done that without all the plagiarism—which is incredibly easy to do, y'know, not plagiarize—I'd probably be team Palworld too—to a healthy extent, at least.

As 2014 showed, if you show gamers a target you can make them hate enough they'll send their life savings to Satan with delight.

GAMERGATE !!!! 

[HaughtyFrank]

Anti Capitalists deference to business practices:

TPC is living rent free in a lot of ERA's minds lmao

I guess it's pushing all the grey matter out of their heads too.

And yeah welcome to the world of business, back in the day you could have had companies who lost contract to Nintendo because they publicly said the name Sega too often or vice versa.
Or maybe it was Nike and Rebook or any number of corporate rivalry.
Sorry for the realization that we're still living in a capitalist world.

I’m sure bitching about Palworld will make the world better.

It's hilarious when their defenses contradict each other. Like one guy says that the Pokemon company would never do this and then the next guy claims that this is typical business practice. You'd think those cunts would then call each other out but nope, because they know they're both on the same side. Same thing happened in the Stellar Blade thread.

[Eric Cartman]

I know people will argue meetings like this are useless but personally I think it's good. Not pounding into blinken the tragedies that are happening from a Palestinian perspective. Nothing will change otherwise.

Things are not going to change anyway. Biden sides with Israel, and Israel is intent on committing a genocide. What was meeting with Blinken actually going to do?

Well, idiot, things are not going to change while hamas - who do not want a 2 state solution, or any deescalation at all - are the governing authority, and israel isn't going to stop until - bare fucking minimum - their citizen hostages at least get the bodies turned over to their families.

What the US CAN do, is use back channels - by, say, talking to respected palestinian community leaders who are fairly safe from reprisal living in the US - to offer an alternative democratic palestinian authority who would be elected and supported by diplomatic powers and who could feasibly be trusted to pursue a two state solution, give humantiarian aid to people who need it instead of using it to build rockets, not launch a terrorist attack on israeli citizens et-fucking-cetera.

Or just harass random fucking celebs on twitter and shout at cancer hospitals while sniffing your own farts while pretending how much you care about the actual people dying

[Nintex]

That's the weird thing about their discourse, they barely interact with or quote others.

Each post is like its own thing not part of a greater collective

[Potato]

Worst movie I've seen so far this year.

To be fair, it's February 2.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/argylle-review-thread.811377/page-4?post=118536861#post-118536861



That’s the joke you dunce

Well, to be fair, Marvel have yet to release a film this year.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/positivity-thread-tell-us-something-good-going-on-in-your-life-right-now.812097/page-2?post=118534617#post-118534617

Ok lol. In the interest of sharing some trans joy, I have boobs and they are the most comforting and comfy things ever. Maybe an unusual response but like, they're new and novel and a good handful+ so yeh. It's an alignment between body and self that I haven't felt before, and I'm soaking it up. I'm really happy I came out and transitioned. Despite any hardship it brings, it will always be the best thing I allowed myself.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Yep. Palworld even plagiarised the toxicity of the Pokémon fanbase. Can they be stopped??

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/positivity-thread-tell-us-something-good-going-on-in-your-life-right-now.812097/page-2?post=118534617#post-118534617

Ok lol. In the interest of sharing some trans joy, I have boobs and they are the most comforting and comfy things ever. Maybe an unusual response but like, they're new and novel and a good handful+ so yeh. It's an alignment between body and self that I haven't felt before, and I'm soaking it up. I'm really happy I came out and transitioned. Despite any hardship it brings, it will always be the best thing I allowed myself.

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