River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

That era is great thread is rapidly becoming a whos who of [DO NOT ENGAGE] posters

Woo! Three, two, one, go!
Have you heard the news? Everyone's talkin'
Life is good 'cause everythings awesome
Lost my job, there's a new opportunity
More free time for my awesome community
I feel more awesome than an awesome possum
Dip my body in chocolate frostin'
Three years later wash off the frostin'
Smellin' like a blossom, everything is awesome
Stepped in mud, got new brown shoes
It's awesome to win and it's awesome to lose

[TVC15]

“I weave in their genitals in a way that feels feminine, soft, and affirming“ is almost tag worthy.

[benjipwns]

Kyuuji is directing people to their earlier essay in lieu of actually writing anything that makes sense:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/polygon-cdpr-responds-to-sexualized-trans-advertisement-in-cyberpunk-2077-read-staff-post-before-posting.122807/post-21816704

From an earlier post of mine. It breaks down why it's more than just one person and why the responses were unsatisfactory. I'm not disagreeing that there are great people working within CDPR either, but that's true of most companies.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/polygon-cdpr-responds-to-sexualized-trans-advertisement-in-cyberpunk-2077-read-staff-post-before-posting.122807/post-21817719

If you're genuinely interested in how it's more than a single tweet then I wrote a post that would help provide context. It's pretty long but there's subheadings to make it easier to read.

[benjipwns]

I advise you read all my other posts in this thread, because I already addressed that PR excuse earlier, and I'm not keen on repeating myself for yet another person who wants to brush my grievances away.

consider this my reply to all of you who refuse to join the increasing millions who follow @BenjiSales

[shosta]

Oh fuck, Pogi, no!!!

A thread by an OP saying Era made him feel depressed got closed immediately for "Metacommentary", but a thread saying how great it is here gets left open?

That doesn't make any sense. Are we only allowed to smile here, even if it's a mask? That's a recipe for disaster.

[benjipwns]

holy shit Kitsunelaine

I am genuinely not lying, I don't follow every developer to the teeth or envelop my life following 100% of all game news. I only know about that one tweet, but cool to attack me personally assuming my intelligence.

You're telling a trans woman to her face that she should just lie down and accept what this company is doing and I'm having none of it. No, I don't give a shit if you didn't know I was trans before. This site is supposed to be friendly to those issues as a default, and you are exceptionally unfriendly to them. I'm tried of people like you who think they've got it all figured out and are content to say "Hey, this is okay with me, therefore this should be okay for everybody".

Don't want to be caught out? Don't comment on shit you know nothing about as if you're an authority.

Dude is literally pulling the "I don't know much about this topic BUT ACTUALLY YOU GUYS ARE WRONG!" card. He thinks he's hot shit but he ain't.

[Pwnz]

JINKIES y'all we have an authority on Twitter that'll shut down all this transphobic transphobia.

[benjipwns]

One of the most damning things from the article IMO is how it points out that the ad was almost immediately weaponized by the alt right. They’re eating that shit up right now. So even if, somehow, the game ends up delivering the fabled context that makes this work, the fact that they didn’t do so now has already given ammunition to the transphobic hate machine.

POLAND 👏 PLANNED 👏 AHEAD 👏

[benjipwns]

is Pogi banned yet?

nope, but this is better:

Might not be the most popular opinion but lurking GAF back in the day and then joining in, made me realize how fucking awful gaming as a hobby can be with racism, sexism, homophobia and other social problems, along with showing me how fucked up and horrible the world is.

Like I said, might not be a happy opinion or whatever, but I feel like my vision of the world improved after I started hating most videogames these days and realizing how horrible people can be around the world.

So thanks for that, and no, I'm not being sarcastic. I have got a lot of education and information on stuff I didn't know before, like LGBT issues and racism that I wouldn't have learned just anywhere else.

[Tripon]

A friend and one of the most prominent trans voices in journalism (especially games journalism) just posted this piece, and it's a highly recommended read because she is super fab at dissecting these kinds of issues, exploring their nuances, and just generally at her job as a writer:
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/cyberpunk-2077-transphobic-ad/

holy shit it's that same Ana Valens yet again! they all know and follow her independently! what are the odds?!?

https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1138769983113183237

Even if the ad is supposed to depict a trans woman or a trans femme in good faith, it’s terribly inaccurate in a way that furthers harmful stereotypes already existing in our society. Many trans women cannot maintain erections thanks to hormone replacement therapy, while others can only become somewhat stiff for a short period of time without erectile dysfunction medication. Yet cis people generally assume trans women’s penises operate like cis men’s until proven otherwise. That stigma is only further reinforced by cis male-centric porn, which expects trans models to use their penises in a way that operates exactly like cis men’s dicks.

big yikes?

I just got finished reading this actually, and it’s really comprehensive. Brilliant, arguably required reading for this thread.

/Definitely/ required reading imo. I won't make the mistake of discounting dissenting trans voices/opinions as a cis person, and it isn't my place to dictate whether the issue at hand is fine or not, but I do really agree with her. I recommend following her work if you don't already--she's incredible.

Oh, now that you point it out, I can see you're right. BIG YIKES. I'll DM her about this right now.

The article Heartimecia posted is pretty thorough and includes both of their transphobic tweets. What it doesn't include is their refusal to publicly apologize for the second second one (which, considering the context behind that tweet, was especially cruel). The did (quietly) fire the asshole behind the tweets, however.

I'd recommend you read the entire article.

THIS ARTICLE IS NOW THE GOOD WORD HAVE YOU HEARD IT

Isn't this just admitting that the people complaining are just fucking grifters?

[BisMarckie]

How many Polacks does it take to plan a transphobic conspiracy?

[ResetBanBot]

the alt-right is eating up girl dick?

[shosta]

BisMarckie, I'm tasking you with relating all of this to Pilsudski's autocratic government, good luck and we're all counting on you

[benjipwns]

have you guys tried hating everything and seeing how terrible life is?

[Don Rumata]

the alt-right is eating up girl dick?

Lines up with 90% of 4chan's threads.

[Tripon]

the alt-right is eating up girl dick?

The alt-right today is okay being gay and nazis, I guess.

[BisMarckie]

BisMarckie, I'm tasking you with relating all of this to Pilsudski's autocratic government, good luck and we're all counting on you

I might finally be able to get published

[benjipwns]

Needs to be in the OP. Great article and can't wait to read the revision.

what a cult lol

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/RooteUser/status/1138576887977054208

WHOA

[ResetBanBot]

the alt-right is eating up girl dick?

The alt-right today is okay being gay and nazis, I guess.

Yikes, a man sucking girl dick is actually totally straight. End this transphobia.

[Pwnz]

Cyberpunk is now on the list of things that can't be discussed on re because of sheltered, immature fuckwits.

OMG ALT RIGHT LIKES CARTMAN, SOUTH PARK IS ANTI SJW.

Bill Maher is right about something for once. These SJW grifter cunts are going to hand 2020 to Trump.

[Rufus]

Pedo mod levels of activity in here, wtf.

[Lonewulfeus]

Oh fuck, Pogi, no!!!

A thread by an OP saying Era made him feel depressed got closed immediately for "Metacommentary", but a thread saying how great it is here gets left open?

That doesn't make any sense. Are we only allowed to smile here, even if it's a mask? That's a recipe for disaster.

Looks like someone is getting a promotion to the soon to be available Bire Ambassador to ResetEra position

[TVC15]

have you guys tried hating everything and seeing how terrible life is?

 

[benjipwns]

this article is hilarious:

At first blush, it’s hard to tell whether CD Projekt Red’s ChroManticure joke really was intended to be a dog whistle. But that seems increasingly likely as previews of the E3 2019 Cyberpunk 2077 demo come out.

...

At first, CD Projekt’s track record was troubling, but firing Halliday seemed to be a step in the right direction. But any good faith CD Projekt obtained since Halliday was let go has been squandered. Between transphobia across both GOG and CD Projekt Red, as well as the company’s various non-apologies for its troubling social media presence, the games industry is done giving CD Projekt second chances.

Transgender games journalist Astrid Johnson has written for Eurogamer, Polygon, Rock, Paper Shotgun, and VG247, among other outlets. She believes Redesiuk had good intentions, but that her comments “really further highlight just how clueless those at CD Projekt Red are about trans bodies and what constitutes good trans representation.”

“It’s difficult. Because, at first glance, you’d likely praise the nuance of portraying a futuristic world where queer identity is accepted but exploited by corporations in advertisements. Because that’s something that no doubt would happen,” Johnson told the Daily Dot over Twitter DM. “But this is the first trans character we’ve seen in Cyberpunk 2077. And it’s a fetishization.”

Johnson suggests there’s serious cognitive dissonance between the game’s stated intentions and its actual features. Cyberpunk 2077 seemingly has commentary on capitalism manipulating trans and nonbinary people, yet the game also forces the player to stick to the gender binary in its character creator. She ultimately believes CD Projekt Red is “using queer identity as set dressing” to “appease a progressive audience and as the subject of mockery for its more socially conservative audiences.”

“Redesiuk talks in such a way as it feels like she rarely interacts with trans people, if at all,” Johnson explained. “I think she genuinely does want to make an earnest and genuine portrayal of representation in Cyberpunk. She clearly needs to talk to us more and understand us better before trying to act on that, but I think she wants to do good. That desire to do something good for trans people doesn’t seem to be shared with the rest of the studio, though.”

The problem here isn’t the trans body. It’s how the game depicts that body, frames it for cis players’ amusement, and does so at trans peoples’ expense. In Johnson’s case, CD Projekt’s past behavior weighed heavily on her initial interpretation of the joke, and she called it a “continuation of CD Projekt Red’s tone-deaf disregard for trans people.” For players who miss Redesiuk’s commentary, it’s likely they’d walk away with the same first impression she did.

“Ultimately, the lesson here is that in order for trans representation to be done right, trans people need to be involved in the decision-making process,” she explained. “It’s pretty apparent that CD Projekt Red hasn’t consulted trans people when making these decisions, and in a genre that has evolved to where it is today—rich with queer culture—that’s a deeply disappointing oversight.”

...

As the Daily Dot’s Gavia Baker-Whitelaw wrote last July, cyberpunk’s mainstream creators struggle with “nuanced depictions of trans identity” because they’re more interested in “telling formulaic stories from conservative viewpoints.” In her piece, she calls for radical inclusion in the genre by centering the punky, DIY trans creators working in the indie world. And for his August 2018 essay “Hood Cyberpunk,” Unwinnable games critic Yussef Cole pointed out how privileged white writers tend to “build their visions of the future by imaginatively slumming in the present” so they can “live out their fantasies of unrestrained frontierism” without pushing for any real change.

“Someone who has actually suffered deprivation, who has experienced oppression under existing social systems, might want to see a model of cyberpunk that does incorporate political struggle and organized mass movements,” Cole writes. “A fictional future built from Hood Cyberpunk tenets might hopefully provide energy with which to confront and even challenge the oppressive reality that we’re currently used to, that we expect to go on forever, unchanged.”

But it’s unlikely that Cyberpunk 2077 will bring about the change Cole or Baker-Whitelaw want, because its own creator seems happy with capitalism as it stands today. CD Projekt is known for its highly critical Glassdoor reviews complaining about “insane” crunch that leads to “hemorrhoids, bad back, and depression.” Its internal culture is so bad, as one reviewer alleges, that it’s best considered a “culture of blame” in an “extremely politicized work environment” where who you know, not what you do, is the most important factor to career advancement.

So before CD Projekt starts playing with gender in hamfisted ways, perhaps the company should look to itself, and question whether it’s perpetuating the very same capitalist dystopian fantasy Cyberpunk 2077 is, on the surface, trying to critique.

Ana Valens is a reporter specializing in online queer communities, marginalized identities, and adult content creation. She is Daily Dot's Trans/Sex columnist. Her work has appeared at Waypoint, Truthout, Bitch Media, Kill Screen, Rolling Stone's Glixel, and the Toast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

wtf is the daily dot

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If it’s happening online, the Daily Dot is there.

 


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oh, it's a blog

[Pwnz]

Cable news hosts are more composed that that slop.

[benjipwns]

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shosta explain

[benjipwns]

Hey thanks for your response! On my last question, I would like to know if you believe there is any acceptable way to depict the intended message that the designer stated in her responses?

I know I'm not the person you are asking but: better representation.

wow thx

I only read the quotes in the OP so far but I feel like I just got cisplained to in a damage-control capacity.

Wonder if she sorry, this "person", to use her apparently favorite word for fictional future trans folk who most likely, if we're being honest, identify as women, has many trans friends.

lolol

[BisMarckie]

I should open up a diversity consultant firm, I think that will be a profitable grift in the coming years.

[ResetBanBot]

Visit KF to learn more about Ana Valens.

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[joeboy101]

I love that her first basis mentioned for alt-right 'weaponizing' is a 6 post thread on 4chan, with the op saying "[OurGame] confirmed". That's it. What in the fuck are they weaponizing? How??

Truly they love being recreationally angry.

[benjipwns]

I should open up a diversity consultant firm, I think that will be a profitable grift in the coming years.

you're a cac fool

[ResetBanBot]

That hasn't stopped anyone before. The majority of corporate-tier grifters are white cis women. Racial social justice/affirmative action has taken a backseat to white feminism.

[BisMarckie]

I should open up a diversity consultant firm, I think that will be a profitable grift in the coming years.

you're a cac fool

I will hire all relevant minorities(no slavs, japanese or jewish people)  and exploit them financially by letting them work for me for exposure.

[benjipwns]

another mod laments their existence:

I'm so tired

[BisMarckie]

You‘re interested shosta?

Might be able to help you get a working visa.

[benjipwns]

forget incelsiorlef and RedMercury, they're old hat, worn out, boring, tired, sad

the new mod list should be:
Kitsunelane
Icemonk191
SaphhiCine
Biestmann (male representation)
Devenir Ácrata (WrassleEra representation)

make it happen Finale Fireworker or you're fired

[BisMarckie]

TheSyldat
Biestmann
Hobbes
Branduil #unbanbranduil
PERSEPHONE(!!!!!!)
sabrina, who I hope is okay with this.

[KarpalaJoe]

I should open up a diversity consultant firm, I think that will be a profitable grift in the coming years.

you're a cac fool

I will hire all relevant minorities(no slavs, japanese or jewish people)  and exploit them financially by letting them work for me for exposure.

Basically resetera.

[benjipwns]

can't trust Hobbes, France is closer to Poland than America

[benjipwns]

also i know shosta mentioned it and i forgot but did anyone actually see what happened to that dude who randomly went to china

did he find anything in shower drains?

edit: Oheao

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tomorrow-i-leave-for-china.100018/post-21349627

I'm doing fine, I have about a month left in my stay. I did get some nasty food poisoning going to the Great Wall though, or water contamination, or whatever it's called, from having ice cream and a milkshake at Baskin Robbins. Many of my classmates teachers and other students got sick from ordering there and at the Subway that it shared a building with.

[joeboy101]

Your exclusion of Ms. Galaxy just further damages her with your dismissals.

[BisMarckie]

Your exclusion of Ms. Galaxy just further damages her with your dismissals.

Ms. Galaxy is Portuguese, just one of those 32 white countries CD Projekt Red hired from. Not interested.

[benjipwns]

fuckin Hobbes is turning into a real journalist by accident: https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-riot-games-is-now-being-investigated-by-the-state-of-california-for-gender-discrimination.122894/post-21818943

I wonder (with heavy doubt) if any Rioters on Era would like to share their thoughts on this?

ever since I pasted his avatar over that bulging transphobic cock hours ago

[shosta]

shosta explain

https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/98873147448758272

[benjipwns]

 

https://twitter.com/ItsSweetNicole/status/1138827289255436288

[BisMarckie]

What did gamergate founder and archduke assassin Gerstmann say?

[benjipwns]

after they appoint all those moderators I suggested (not the Poland-adjacent BisMarckie) they should put a verified tag on this account:

[benjipwns]

i can't find this giant bomb thing in the thread but i did find this galaxy brain post:

I cant believe how hard people are falling for the Keanu thing. Its such an obvious marketing gimmick

[Uncle]

another mod laments their existence:

I'm so tired

someday one of them is going to crack real hard and write a book about their experiences

it will be called FULL CONVERSION MOD: How Three Years on the Inside of a Radical Leftist Gaming Forum Swung My Political Needle

[Tripon]

i can't find this giant bomb thing in the thread but i did find this galaxy brain post:

I cant believe how hard people are falling for the Keanu thing. Its such an obvious marketing gimmick

It'll be this video, but I have no idea what they're talking about.

[BisMarckie]

I could look for it in the Giant Bomb OT, but I don‘t hate myself enough today to read that thread.

Easily top 3 when it comes to worst communities on GAF/Era

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/giant-bomb-e3-2019-have-fun-be-safe-be-kind-call-home.121418/post-21779802

ERA D I S S

Live critique of era going on right now.

[benjipwns]

He said he comes reads era last when it comes to checking impressions of Destiny stuff since he comes away from here depressed.

talking about

Mark Noseworthy

General Manager, Destiny

Bungie guy said its hard to read ResetEra threads about Destiny sometimes
Jeff said he just stopped reading ResetEra entirely

Destiny dude said he occasionally checks Era but comes away feeling terrible about the game and Jeff nodded and said "I stopped."

that it all basically goes to shit by page 3

Paraphrasing: "I check forums, Reddit, ResetERA and with ResetERA I can get to page 3-4 before closing the browser but with Stadia I got to page 25-26 of mostly positive news about Destiny, and I'm like, I think we're onto something here."

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://twitter.com/ItsSweetNicole/status/1138827289255436288

Pretty. Fucking. Rich.

[BisMarckie]

And what did Jeff say?

How much he loves gamergate and that Kosovo is a illegitimate state?

[Boredfrom]

Jeff said he just stopped reading ResetEra entirely

 

[benjipwns]

lmao this dude is still bitching about Dan Ryckert

[benjipwns]

this thread actually seems to pretty much hate ResetERA too

edit: i mean the GiantBomb one over there, not this thread, although maybe this one too i dunno that's not what i meant

you're not my real dad i don't have to listen to you

[BisMarckie]

lmao this dude is still bitching about Dan Ryckert

The French-Canadian sex pest?
Did I mention that he is French-Canadian?