NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

[Bullet Club]

Does anyone know what this thing is? Is this yet another splinter?

https://icon-era.com/

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A GAF splinter site started by Bryank75. A very, very pro-Sony forum. Most of the members were either banned from GAF or left due to them thinking GAF was too pro-MS.

 

[H3LLH4MM3R666]

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There must be some rule in place at REE where people have to post that they are a transwoman and how shit their life is every time they start a new thread.

And what a shitty thread it is.

It's an unwritten rule, but you DO need to mention that you are black and/or trans every few posts, in order to be licensed to shitpost without restaint

 

[Bullet Club]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-heritage-foundation-leader-project-2025-architect-%E2%80%98second-american-revolution%E2%80%99-will-be-bloodless-%E2%80%98if-the-left-allows-it-to-be%E2%80%99.918615/

 

[The Grognard]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/conservative-heritage-foundation-leader-project-2025-architect-%E2%80%98second-american-revolution%E2%80%99-will-be-bloodless-%E2%80%98if-the-left-allows-it-to-be%E2%80%99.918615/

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Not a single one of these people will do anything when Trump gets re-elected.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

https://icon-era.com/threads/gamers-declare-war-against-sweet-baby-inc-and-elon-musk-gabe-newell-seem-to-be-on-board-stop-watering-games-down-with-hidden-political-agendas.10539/

Can someone who has less of a life than me check this site every now and then and post anything funny or unhinged?
IDK if these people are like resetera, but atleast some of them are sus. Possibly rapefugees banned from the other 'era?

 

[Perfect Paz]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-tells-democratic-governors-he-needs-more-sleep-and-plans-to-stop-scheduling-events-after-8-p-m.919194/

https://archive.is/wip/cL0Js

https://archive.is/wip/qLOKs

https://archive.is/lfMCD

So a new thread about Biden literally being Sleepy Joe gets made based on CNN/NYT articles, and it gets closed within an hour of OP. I'm now archiving the thread to preserve the contents, since the next level of coping could easily be them not just locking, but outright deleting, threads that say negative things about Biden. It's only 3 pages long.

However, the highlights of the thread are hilarious. Even ResetEra users are getting sick of this shit and pointing out that if it were Trump there would be no skepticism at all:

SHUT IT DOWN

 

[Captain Cornbread Corneli]

I want a Trump win simply for the salt and trans genocide.

It's trans genocide even if Narcoleptic Joe wins but it doesn't have that umami flavor the organic tranny salt adds.

 

[Lone Star]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-tells-democratic-governors-he-needs-more-sleep-and-plans-to-stop-scheduling-events-after-8-p-m.919194/

https://archive.is/wip/cL0Js

https://archive.is/wip/qLOKs

https://archive.is/lfMCD

So a new thread about Biden literally being Sleepy Joe gets made based on CNN/NYT articles, and it gets closed within an hour of OP. I'm now archiving the thread to preserve the contents, since the next level of coping could easily be them not just locking, but outright deleting, threads that say negative things about Biden. It's only 3 pages long.

However, the highlights of the thread are hilarious. Even ResetEra users are getting sick of this shit and pointing out that if it were Trump there would be no skepticism at all:

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I think this is the most sane I've ever seen this site being, and it's in a half-defense of Trump of all things. Truly a strange, entertaining day we're having.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Not a single one of these people will do anything when Trump gets re-elected.

They aren't doing anything now even though they say the threat is only six months away and the alternative is a guy currently presiding over multiple genocides of their forum members.

 

[Bullet Club]

Can someone who has less of a life than me check this site every now and then and post anything funny or unhinged?
IDK if these people are like resetera, but atleast some of them are sus. Possibly rapefugees banned from the other 'era?

It's only really worth checking if Sony or MS do something to upset them, which causes meltdowns.

They also used to run ads on David Jaffe's podcast.

 

[Shaneequa]

I could wallpaper my house with that guy's posts.

 

[Bullet Club]

Here are the latest GAF bans. Mostly they are for console warring but there are a few for other reasons.

 

[Perfect Paz]

Here are the latest GAF bans. Mostly they are for console warring but there are a few for other reasons.

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Why would you ban people for console warring on a fucking video game forum? Probably the most engaging thing about such a forum would be Sonyggers vs Nintentoddlers or whatever.

 

[Bullet Club]

Why would you ban people for console warring on a fucking video game forum? Probably the most engaging thing about such a forum would be Sonyggers vs Nintentoddlers or whatever.

It is weird but the GAF staff have had a thing about console warring for a while. Yes, it's stupid, but letting people fight over consoles is something that could have kept GAF more active and the members online figure higher. Maybe the fighting affects Adsense though, which is why politics discussion was banned.

 

[Perfect Paz]

It is weird but the GAF staff have had a thing about console warring for a while. Yes, it's stupid, but letting people fight over consoles is something that could have kept GAF more active and the members online figure higher. Maybe the fighting affects Adsense though, which is why politics discussion was banned.

There's a similarly dumb rule on rpg.net about "edition warring" (D&D 3.5e vs D&D 5e, oWoD vs nWoD, etc), so I think it might have something to do with the fop-shitlib fake politeness mindset.

Dude seems to have forgotten that his party's idea of "democracy" includes removing their political opponents from the ballot and prosecuting them on paperwork charges.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Why would you ban people for console warring on a fucking video game forum? Probably the most engaging thing about such a forum would be Sonyggers vs Nintentoddlers or whatever.

It's the decades later mutation of an older rule where this meant basically not derailing an entire thread to be about it. Like not going into a thread about a Halo announcement with "haha GAYLO look at all these PlayStation exclusives!" or "why would I want this when I can play Splatoon on my Nintendo Switch" and then pages of back and forth. But both there and Era it became a way for jannies to crack down with plausible excuses even though they've never wielded it consistently or fairly and use it to shut down discussions that nobody would consider Console Wars but have been reported by a bunch of console warriors. So basically like all their rules.

 

[Bullet Club]

What have the LGBTQIA+ community ever done for us?

Not much, except for making games, movies, TV shows and comics way shittier.

 

[Perfect Paz]

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What have the LGBTQIA+ community ever done for us?

Not much, except for making games, movies, TV shows and comics way shittier.

I love bringing this up with fags, but really all of the left-identitarian groups. To them, their interests are the argument. They appeal to their interests directly, with an expectation that you take those interests seriously. What if I just didn't? Is there any particular reason I ought to?

It's the decades later mutation of an older rule where this meant basically not derailing an entire thread to be about it. Like not going into a thread about a Halo announcement with "haha GAYLO look at all these PlayStation exclusives!" or "why would I want this when I can play Splatoon on my Nintendo Switch" and then pages of back and forth. But both there and Era it became a way for jannies to crack down with plausible excuses even though they've never wielded it consistently or fairly and use it to shut down discussions that nobody would consider Console Wars but have been reported by a bunch of console warriors. So basically like all their rules.

There is something to be said on this. Forums from like 20yrs ago all had these verbose codes of conduct and elaborate disciplinary procedures that read like some kind of nation-state's constitution. On the one hand, this was in some way virtuous because it betrayed how civically-minded forum users at the time were, but on the other hand, these documents were never actually followed and the real rule was always "don't piss off the mods." That includes this forum, to be clear, although the disposition of the mods here are less psychopathic than most forums today.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Nintentoddlers

I never heard this term. Might have to steal it because it's perfect.

There's a similarly dumb rule on rpg.net about "edition warring" (D&D 3.5e vs D&D 5e, oWoD vs nWoD, etc), so I think it might have something to do with the fop-shitlib fake politeness mindset.

That's interesting because, unlike current year console wars where there's no difference. There are huge differences between RPG editions.

I don't even think it's fake politness, since these rules tend to only cut one way. Like all the constant derails whenever a Harry Potter game is mentioned.

 

[Perfect Paz]

I never heard this term. Might have to steal it because it's perfect.


That's interesting because, unlike current year console wars where there's no difference. There are huge differences between RPG editions.

I don't even think it's fake politness, since these rules tend to only cut one way. Like all the constant derails whenever a Harry Potter game is mentioned.

I characterize it as fake politeness for this very reason. The rules aren't there to be enforced with any consistency. They're there so that they can denigrate you, find some reason to say you're the one being rude or out of line, and then clutch their pearls when you tell them to fuck off.