Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Taco Bell Tower]

They didn't care for gaming crunch, they sure as Hell ain't gonna for Marvel stuff.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yong-yea-is-kiryus-new-english-va-in-lad-gaiden.733323/page-8#post-107902281

This is another content creator I presently keep away from. I was simply made too uncomfortable with ... her once mentioning that her views were far away from an "SJW".

THAT BITCH

[Polident]

Some YouTube did a voice for Shadow Warrior 3. It was really bad. Think I’m too out of touch to understand these e celeb gimmick castings. In my day they’d use rappers and we were blessed with art like Volcano High.

[Uncle]

In my day they’d use rappers and we were blessed with art like Volcano High.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/datingera-this-isnt-like-one-of-your-animes.666/page-560#post-107860359

One week she tells me one thing and a whole another thing the next. We both agreed to postpone the trip until later in the year once we are both financially stable and she can take more time off to see me. I told her I don’t want to come down to Florida unless we’re in a committed relationship and she said fair enough.

I want this to work out so bad but my time and energy is finite.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-acquired-bethesda-after-hearing-starfield-would-be-exclusive-to-playstation.734379/#post-107904456

Hope this finally puts to rest the nonsense about them not taking games away. This is literally the definition of that.

[Boredfrom]

Playing more of FFXVI and I was reminded of this:

your game is still special with an 8.8. we're very sorry that some POC feel the game deserves a couple points less because it believes we're unwelcome in its world.

Holy fuck, why the fuck you would want any black fellow in this world, is fucking miserable, you guys would not want to play “12 years a slave” The JRPG.

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

The last 5 side quests I have played have been just: “being a branded is miserable.”

Is like the x-Men but without random deformities or chance to fight back. Holy shit.

[Taco Bell Tower]

What lol jfc

[Greatness Gone]

this explains everything

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-xvi-ot-phoenix-down.732582/page-88#post-107884836

I'm a theatre kid. We do not bounce our heads around and do stupid poses all the time. Also, theatre kids like drama, not stupid badly-timed jokes.

[Boredfrom]

Uncle is right, even Clive was black they will throw a hissy fit given how miserable the world is.

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

Is so bad, that our hero, a kind person otherwise, doesnt mind when a fellow Branded makes a wolf kill a noble Slave owner and his shitty little child.

The problem is that the game isn’t , at least still, a power fantasy; so most people will not be able to get a kick of that. There is small victories, but….

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-acquired-bethesda-after-hearing-starfield-would-be-exclusive-to-playstation.734379/page-4#post-107906640
ZeoVagina

And just like MS is going with Bethesda games now.

I'll never understand takes like this. That MS did what they had to do or implying that they were the good guys (or better guys) in the scenario. It's fucked up that one company is doing it but not the other? Microsoft would jump at the chance to lock down FF but Square would obviously never agree to that.

Both of these companies are buying exclusives, whether it's title by title or by purchasing full publishers.

Literally nobody was calling MS the good guys 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-acquired-bethesda-after-hearing-starfield-would-be-exclusive-to-playstation.734379/page-9#post-107909478
Fat4all

ok i just got like 7 notifications immediately yall need to do sommit better with your time

and i mean all of you, everyone

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-acquired-bethesda-after-hearing-starfield-would-be-exclusive-to-playstation.734379/page-9#post-107909478
Fat4all

ok i just got like 7 notifications immediately yall need to do sommit better with your time

and i mean all of you, everyone

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-acquired-bethesda-after-hearing-starfield-would-be-exclusive-to-playstation.734379/page-9#post-107909697

banned

[benji]

This thread has been locked due to a large number of reports.

Why won't these algorithms just leave us alone????

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-acquired-bethesda-after-hearing-starfield-would-be-exclusive-to-playstation.734379/page-9#post-107909478
Fat4all

ok i just got like 7 notifications immediately yall need to do sommit better with your time

and i mean all of you, everyone

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-acquired-bethesda-after-hearing-starfield-would-be-exclusive-to-playstation.734379/page-9#post-107909697

banned

Wait, for trolling and not derailing the thread?  

[AldusMoneyPenny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-acquired-bethesda-after-hearing-starfield-would-be-exclusive-to-playstation.734379/page-9#post-107909478
Fat4all

ok i just got like 7 notifications immediately yall need to do sommit better with your time

and i mean all of you, everyone

Sommit got him banned

[Potato]

If mods react to someone liking a tweet like this I wonder if there was some internal fallout over Coldsun daring to play Hogwarts

Mods are infallible, chud!

[remy]

If mods react to someone liking a tweet like this I wonder if there was some internal fallout over Coldsun daring to play Hogwarts

they're like cops man, mods protect their own.

although to be fair atm reset is only covering for a hogwarts player and bdubs saying the n word. on gaf they were hiding pedophiles

[Boredfrom]

Starting to think they wanted to do a story about slavery but didn't know how to fit black characters into that in a way that wasn't problematic so they just made up the "there's no black people on this continent" excuse to avoid talking about the more complicated reason.

Yeah, I don't have a clue why they mostly made this game all white, given the diversity of locals you traverse. I think the game would have been heavily criticised if the approached colour lines along white free / black bearers, for instance, as that would be just reproducing our historically-contingent prejudices in a problematic way. On the other hand, they should have made the different cultures and subcultures more diverse and have representation on either side of the free / slave divide. They should also have had more nonhuman races, one of the things I liked about some of the previous FF games, like FFX.

I have got to say, and this is no disrespect to you, why is it only black people that get mentioned in relation to slavery? I understand it is because of the Euro-centric / Anglo-centric narrative, but slavery still exists in India for instance, it also exists in Thailand in the fishing industy, it was rife in the Incan empire, Nepali are essentially slaves in Saudi Arabia...I find the discourse around representation often becomes a bit too dialectic around black and white sometimes. For instance, in this game I find it even more bizarre how few Japanese-looking people there are. The devs are Japanese after all, and it is just strange how little they include people who look like them in the work.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-xvi-ot-phoenix-down.732582/page-101#post-107919129

With a little of luck, maybe a flame war about slavery oppression Olympics will start…

Also, Japan doesn’t care, they were an imperialist power and their conception of race probably has not do with skin color. If the lead was a black guy everyone will scream in the high heavens given how miserable his life is.

(In game they also made clear that the main setting are a bunch of nations on two main Islands and that there is a main continent that still can’t get a foothold on).

[benji]

Yeah, I don't have a clue why they mostly made this game all white, given the diversity of locals you traverse.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/datingera-this-isnt-like-one-of-your-animes.666/page-560#post-107860359

One week she tells me one thing and a whole another thing the next. We both agreed to postpone the trip until later in the year once we are both financially stable and she can take more time off to see me. I told her I don’t want to come down to Florida unless we’re in a committed relationship and she said fair enough.

I want this to work out so bad but my time and energy is finite.

Somehow, with all the cognitively, emotionally and psychologically impaired people inhabiting Reeeeeesetera, this fucking retard manages to stand out.

Dude, I know you're probably reading this. Please, get help. She ain't gonna love you. She's just stringing you along while getting bulk dick every other night.

Fuck!

[Kadayi]

Wow, Schreier must have some real dirt on ResetEra for this level of defense,

It's not that he has dirt on them, it's that

1. He works for Bloomberg and therefore his assorted hit pieces articles have the potential to negatively impact share prices because financial chuds read whatever BS he's pulling out of his ass and take it at face value and act accordingly with investments (CDPR can attest to this amongst others). 

2. He's notoriously thin-skinned to the point where he regularly blocks anyone who remotely disagrees with his opinion on Twitter. 

Is it worthwhile for Era Moderation to show him the door and possibly deal with the potential blowback from MOBA when Shreier writes a series of articles about what a toxic mass of landfill one of their assets is, especially given the questionable conduct of its moderation team? 

I mean he certainly isn't the first person they'd have banned for things they've said off-site, which by any measure is the absolute height of insanity versus how they comport themselves on a forum. 

Weirdly I was chatting to a content creator the other day and mentioned Era and they said that's exactly how they got permed. Apparently, they liked a tweet someone wrote, someone at Era Moderation spotted it and they weren't happy about it and they wrote them a DM and said that has 12 hours to respond to explain themselves and if they didn't they would be banned. The dude was asleep, and never even read the DM as they don't sit on the site 24/7 (having a life and all), just woke up to find they'd been banned for failing to address the concerns raised in the time frame given. Absolute madness.

Was that the youtube dude who ran the cyberpunk hype thread? They got him good as fuck because he was actually like, good at videogames forumming and his threads were bangers. So Kyuuji rounded up the loonies and baited him for weeks until they finally got him.

No this was a Youtuber. Though Black Chamber who I think you are referring to got banned over apparently liking a 'problematic' tweet years ago IIRC. Once the lunatics have you on their shitlist they'll happily go out of their way to search your social media for any instance of wrongthink going back years. Nothing remotely creepy and unhinged about that sort of conduct whatsoever.

[benji]

Black Chamber made a joke on Twitter about supporting Trump, they spun this into him legitimately supporting Trump which he then "confirmed" by posting on NeoGAF.com after they permabanned him.

Everybody forgets the real reason that all happened. The staff had refused TransEra's demands, told Black Chamber to just ignore them and keep doing what he was doing. This was leaked and TransEra posted it and other private communications they had obtained. The staff responded to that by banning Black Chamber and Cyberpunk 2077. This is what eventually led to poundsandgate.

Lots of threats made against the staff including by still unbanned users:

I don't want to derail this thread, but I can't post in the community feedback thread, since I got threadbanned a few months back for refusing to allow the staff to sidestep what they had done to Asian Era. So I just wanted to say it is an EXTREMELY horrific look to ban a trans member for expressing their disappointment with staff and the way the site has been treating minority members in the one thread where it is like the MOST on topic to do so?? And to make matters worse, it was a ban made a week after the fact (and once the conversation had moved to a new page) and is literally the only interaction staff has had with that thread recently.

Just proving once again that the only thing the Era staff will ever actually take a stand on is any criticism of their modding practices. Not even trying to hide this ban behind a shitty "hostility :(" ban either. Just going mask off against trans users.

Edit: I just didn't think it's cool for a ban like that against a trans member to be (relatively) hidden from the community

Spoiler: parts of the revolt in the immediate wake (click to show)(click to hide)

yeah it's really gross, a week later, with that ban message? like really? no consideration for what had just happened when it was posted? really still going down that line of civility above all else, even if it led staff to trust a maga chud over a bunch of people going "wtf is this shit, are you all seeing this obvious dog whistle?"

I must admit even with my abysmally low expectations, I expected more than a week without any incidents regarding the trans community. That ban is complete bullshit.

How can they be this bad at it?

Yeah, that's what is arguably the worst part about it... they bent over backwards for BC, letting HIM dictate the terms of his ban, even with all the evidence laid out before them against him (like sure he ultimately got perm'd but only because "he was a trumper" like that was the worst part)... And yet a trans member makes a post venting about the situation in the thread meant for that... and she gets a permanent ban????

I was about to post this in the Off Topic thread about that ban, but since (surprise) it's been closed, I'll post it here

Given what the OP states and the "reason" for the permaban...this is incredibly petty. I do understand that the last few days must've been stressing for the moderation team after their massive screw up with Black Chamber but that's not how you react to it. That's another big screw up, and it definitely gives the (bad) impression that there's no change happening outside of nice words and talk of "ongoing communication with the trans community".

That's exactly what is happening. It's all performative.

yup

And I'm gonna offer my Trans Opinion™️ two cents here too, since that thread got shut up in a really disgusting manner and no one's gonna read it anyway

With how that poster was treated I'm exlectk going BAN REASON: doesn't want to be here (duration: banned for three fucking millenia), though, even though I do wanna be here!

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I've been avoiding the entire board since Cyberpunk got released, and I'll probably be doing it for a while longer. I originally wanted to rakse a complain that discussion of such a blatantly hateful game shouldn't even be here and it should be treated the same as fucking Hatred, because it isn't even being blatantly ironically edgy about the subject. (...of, being edgy and hateful)

I am a pretty inflammatory person by nature, so I really didn't want to even make the argument myself. But seriously just letting that garbage fester is normalizing transphobic opinions.

Now we have an admin telling a trans member to pound sand for being legitimately concerned about the way the Sibylus ban is being handled..

Real great work trying to improve the site.

Even if it was a self-requested ban, that message is snarky and petty as hell. Like a “good riddance.”

Friends of Sibylus have confirmed this was not a requested ban and came out of left-field for her as well.

What the fuck??? How is that ban in any way justified or warranted?

Before and after the migration there has been zero accountability for bad bans. Only when other people step up like this is anything done, because I can assure you they do not read anything you send them when banned.

Their message when locking that thread was more of the same: They are going to handle this privately with the banned person so that whoever made this decision can go on being the kind of person they are with no accountability.

It's also completely disrespectful to close that thread on the basis that "this is between the mods and that user" when bans like that have much wider implications that affect every other person on this site. It's complete bullshit to act like that's not the case and we have no reason to talk about it because it's not our business.

How is any trans person in specific or any minority in general supposed to feel safe posting here when admins will lie in ban messages like that?

So when a trans user uses the "proper channels" to discuss another user's ban with staff, she gets told to pound sand..? Is this real life? Poodlestrike feeling really comfortable showing his disdain for trans users when he thinks it's in private I guess.

I’m just speechless. What is the staff doing. smh

This site is quickly becoming unrecognizable and openly hostile towards the trans community.

Real change needs to happen. Changing the color of the logo isn’t going to cut it.

Pound sand, huh.

I don't really know how to react any more, it's like... One extremely easily avoidable fuck up after another. Constantly. Like it's a sport, almost. Let's see how many basic things we can fuck up today!

Seriously. I don't even care if it was a heated gamer moment or whatever bullshit excuse will inevitably come of this. He is a fucking ADMIN of this site. At minimum, he needs to apologize and step down. And there better be some DAMN good staff communication in the works, because it was fucked up that it's been radio silence even before this! The fact that they keep getting away with just sweeping everything under the rug like this. Just deleting threads, (thread)banning anyone who tries to keep things from being forgotten... Like what the hell?

I guess I need to put a message that I'm not requesting a ban here, so if that's ever the ban message I get, it's inaccurate. The reason this pisses me off so much is because I want this to be a good site for minority users like it was promised to be. That's the reason people push so hard for justice when this shit keeps happening. Not becuase they "don't want to be here"

Wtf did I just miss?

Staff making it abundantly clear that trans people aren't welcome here.

One trans user getting banned for speaking out in the constructive discussion thread, with the ban message 'Doesn't want to be here' making it sound like it was a self-requested ban (it wasn't).

Another trans user getting told to pound sand by Poodlestrike when complaining about it.

Tldr what the post above me said

Should also mention that the ban happened a week after that post was made.

assuming that its true that a 'perm ban' has to be approved by a number of mods/admins. I'd say that's probably why.

THey usually ban people with a shorter ban time with a note in the ban message that the duration is under review, not stealthily ban someone a full week after the post in the hopes that no one will notice.

All of this didn't even have to be necessary my god. It's been a week, and literally no one was offended by that post except - maybe - a few mods. Whatever this will lead to, it was not worth the revenge ban. Not even starting about this happening literally days after the trans community almost was lost to the board because no mod dared to stand up for them against two now GAF poster shills of a game that's literally transphobic and raving against other minorities on different levels.

I have no idea how this keeps happening, and how the (non) reaction from staff is the same head-in-sand tactic every single time, until it's too late, again, and there's nothing else to do but the empty "we will do better next time", again. Man.

It's petty, pathetic, and cowardly.

B-Dubs AliceAmber Transistor This needs addressing IMMEDIATELY.

Poodlestrike retire you transphobic bitch.

Fuck being civil if you're going to tell trans people to pound sand. If you hand in that ban as your résumé, the old site'll surely welcome you back with open arms.

Yeah if someone like that is allowed to be a fucking admin then this site ain't safe for us.

Maybe we'll stop telling you to go fuck yourself if you stop being a transphobic bitch Poodlestrike. Good going, too, hiding yourself behind minorities to defend yourself.

This is just so dissapointing. Again. I just have no words anymore and I'm not trans so I can't even imagine how exhausting it must be for y'all.

More leeway was given to a fucking neo-nazi maga sack of shit lmao

Mask off moment. What a complete letdown. This site clearly isn’t a safe place.

This is where I'm at. The way the trans community has been treated here is just the fucking worst. Something has to change and it never does.

There are plenty of us here that do care about you guys, I wish it was more easily shown from the top down.

Jesus FUCKING christ that reply. I love "we're done trying to please everyone." WHO IS "EVERYONE"??? The capital G Gamers TM who want nothing more than to be able to post about their flavour of the month without having to think about the people the game has affected? Because it's certainly not the minority users on the site that have to deal CONSTANTLY with racist/transphobic threads and usually end up getting banned for not being """civil""" before the bigoted users themselves get banned? What the actual fuck is going on.

a user in the Constructive thread got banned within 2 minutes of posting. perma banned with a snap of a finger

Yeah, Permanents only require group approval if you want it to it seems.

Exactly! Why the FUCK should era bend over backward to please these people time and again??

Also, I just want to point out that this is not the first time Poodlestrike has shown his complete and utter disdain towards minority members. He copped the same attitude towards Asian Era when the community discussion thread was being created. He should have resigned THEN. But instead, we get even more proof that nothing seems to matter to the staff here besides protecting each other and not taking any responsibility for the environment THEY create.

That's not the A.By I know. And by using that kind of language against her, Poodlestrike, you've opened yourself up to us doing the same to you. Hope your ass is lit on fire.

Is he talking about Sophia? Because she told me just yesterday not to worry about her leaving and that it was planned before discussion with us even took place. Very confused that each and every admin I've spoken to over the last week has given us drastically different responses and answers. I've made promises not to betray anyone's confidence but what Poodlestrike is saying outright contradicts what other admins have directly spoken to me and others about. Y'all need to get on the same page.

I'm honestly kinda speechless that things got to this level, that shit is gaslighting plain and simple.

Whatever happens from here on out, let me say that every trans voice is valid and I value every single one of you for pushing to change things for the better for the trans community.

What really makes me cringe is the fact that an admin here tried to cover up their telling a trans user to "pound sand" for expressing moderation concerns.

These images were hosted on a Discord, perhaps TransEra's, so I found them a new home:



The Admins still as of this post:

Administrators

aerie
AliceAmber (Mod Captain)
B-Dubs (General Manager)
ColdSun
Delphine
ghostcrew
Hecht
JayC3 (Mod Captain)
Nepenthe (Mod Captain)
Poodlestrike (Mod Captain)
Transistor (Mod Captain)

[NekoFever]

She was vicious, cruel, and erased their identities, something we were promised would not happen.

This just makes me laugh for some reason.

No! Please don’t erase my identity! You promised not to!

[Eric Cartman]

I wonder how Era will cope with this, they hate gaming crunch, I wonder if this will be any different. Especially considering it’s a trans icon film

Animator whistleblowers: "They ran us ragged, and made us redo work that had already been done fucking 5 different ways for a marketing stunt"

Era: "WOW THATS SO COOL THERE ARE MULTIPLE TAKES, I ONLY NOTICED ON MY FOURTH VIEWING!"

[benji]

She was vicious, cruel, and erased their identities, something we were promised would not happen.

This just makes me laugh for some reason.

No! Please don’t erase my identity! You promised not to!

Nice identity, would be a real shame if someone happened to erase it...

[JoeBoy101]

I wonder how Era will cope with this, they hate gaming crunch, I wonder if this will be any different. Especially considering it’s a trans icon film

Animator whistleblowers: "They ran us ragged, and made us redo work that had already been done fucking 5 different ways for a marketing stunt"

Era: "WOW THATS SO COOL THERE ARE MULTIPLE TAKES, I ONLY NOTICED ON MY FOURTH VIEWING!"

This movie is the coolest ever

Now, THAT is erasing some identity. Specifically of sweat shop animators.

[Eric Cartman]

The UK Equalities Minister protecting Gender Critical views while also invalidating the very notion of trans people.



Gotta love this country 🙃🇬🇧

And yet you continue living here under the exact same legal rights everyone else has and cashing those benefit cheques to buy vidya and watch capeshit at the cinema

[Besticus Maximus]

Why do they have three trans admins in the first place? Does HRT give you +2 wisdom?

This is half of their problem. They're putting people in charge based on stupid bullshit and not on the basis of, are they responsible people to run a forum. As a result they only have a few dozen users who are allowed to participate and lead discussion, everyone else gets banned and the entire forum is in the thrall of some genuine nutters who wouldn't be safe to be left in charge of a bee in a jar.

[Averon]

This thread is wild. People are now arguing whether characters in FF16 are sufficiently non-white enough:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi%E2%80%99s-lack-of-diverse-characters-makes-a-huge-world-feel-small.734409/#post-107910447

How is that confirming that Hugo is white? I'm playing the game. I'm looking at Hugo. I'm looking at Vivian.

Again, how are they white? Because Eurogamer said so? In what reality is Hugo a white man?

This is a white woman to you?

They look like white people with slight tans to me. And the developers didn't jump to cite them as PoC when asked; instead, they said that PoC wouldn't be realistic to medieval Europe. (Which is ahistorical nonsense.)

The fact that you had to say "Hugo aside" confirms that even you understand the statement "no PoC" isn't true lol. Hugo isn't white no matter how you look at it. The game is lacking in diversity and that is an issue. But there are objectively PoC in this game. There's no amount of reaching that would change that.

Am I missing something because the people in Dhalmek actually do look brown to me (I’m brown and they’re darker than I am)

Apparently everyone in Dhalmekia is white because The Verge and Eurogamer said so. I’m all for wanting devs to do better, but this is a bit too much when they straight up present misinformation about the game.

This is what happens when you're obsessed with bland, token representation: arguing whether a character is sufficiently shaded to be considered white/non-white.