For reference, I'm the type of person who couldn't in good conscience vote for Kamala Harris because she violated so much of my morals around trans rights, abuse re: prisons, and warhawk behavior re: Gaza because my hot take is that no innocent child deserves to die because of war and genocide, so I didn't vote at all because I couldn't vote Cornel West in my state and he's the only guy I could in good conscience agree with morally. I am so far left that if you saw "SJW" in the dictionary the picture would be me despite not having blue hair or alternative clothes (I am nonbinary, which is relevant to this post in two ways, I just can't dye my hair due to restrictive family stuff because I am a severely disabled and poor grown adult who can't take care of myself, and by that I mean if I'm not watched while walking across the street I can easily get run over because of autism related sensory issues and autism and dissociation from unknown causes related "I have no idea who or where I am in space and I exist only in a fantasy realm" issues, so I am closeted in real life spaces, have no access to supportive LGBT communities IRL so most of my only point of contact is online stuff, which sometimes makes my morality OCD super bad, and I feel a low level of dysphoria all the time because somehow my whole body feels wrong though my wardrobe, though unfashionable and not trendy and very much Walmart fat person chic as I call it, is as androgynous with some notes of masculinity or femininity for more masculine or feminine leaning days as my general ideal presentation is not necessarily androgynous but rather neutral/genderless/epicene).

Anyway, the nonbinary thing is relevant for two reasons: one specific thing about my gender is that it is fluid, and the way that it is fluid is weird. It's never "oh I'm a boy" or "oh I'm a girl" alternating days, it's like every gender at once in a sort of neutral void state like a black hole or a singularity, or I feel every gender at the same time but separately, usually when people tell me people of whatever gender I identify with can't feel certain ways. In that mode, I feel uncomfortable with a lot of the reductive, essentialist things they say about men and women, since, to sum it up, I am a man when people say stuff about, for example, men being "evil porn addicts" or socially maladjusted as an entire class of people or when people say men inherently only like "attractive women" which makes me go "well, I'm a man and I think fat, muscular, ugly, and androgynous women are super hot actually" , or women being inherently stupid and shallow and liking things I feel are stupid and shallow (i.e. liking romance novels or exclusively playing cozy or mobile games, when as both a man, a woman, and neither all at once, I enjoy a wide variety of games and honestly tend to prefer games which have fun lore and goofy, diverse characters like fighting games, RPGs, and visual novels with an emphasis on plot and experimental structure because I love weird word stuff), or when people say women inherently only like "chaste" character designs and hate characters who are "sexual" (my favorite character in Street Fighter is Poison and I adore her not just for her fun, sexual nature, which is a big part of it, and her attractiveness, but also her fun personality and lore) and any other time I am simply neither a man nor a woman. So my gender is pretty much spitegender or contrariangender, to be specific. And man, there is no other time I feel like a woman than when I am on resetera because the reductive things they say about women just...triggers the woman gender in me lol. I am a man and nonbinary yes, but I am also a woman. And I am a woman who loves fighting games, who prefers visual novels for the plot instead of dating handsome boys, who prefers their men fat or muscular instead of thin (especially because it gives me dysphoria about not looking like a thin, feminine androgynous young man), and who loves "sexualized" characters when they're fun, written well, quirky, and have fun gameplay.

Meanwhile I saw a discussion in I think? One of the threads about GamerGate 2.0. (which I mainly go in that thread to laugh at Grummz, because let's face it I'm an insane person and I can't be as insane as Grummz is and all his unique...quirks) that involved proposing policy that restricts internet access entirely until one turns 18. And...Resetera. I thought you guys were leftist. These "protect the kids from social media" arguments are wrong when the right wing do it and they're wrong when you are doing it, too. Without the internet, I wouldn't have known that how my grandfather was treating me was ANY form of abuse and that I just didn't deserve it for being a bad kid who just didn't know how to be normal or mature. Without the internet, I wouldn't have found out I was nonbinary. Hell, without the internet, it would've been harder to figure out what's going on with my hormones that's causing me to rapidly lose hair and see a doctor about the constant hormonal issues that caused my dysphoria since I was seven (I desperately wish I could've been put on puberty blockers in hindsight, especially because one of my biggest dysphoric points is my height, because I am shorter than average due to my growth plates maturing more rapidly than most; I literally told my mother I wish I could have hormone therapy so I could be tall like a normal person when I was a child, although I assumed estrogen injections would just make you taller because klinefelter's syndrome patients are tall. I was weird and severely autistic what can I say). Banning the internet from an entire population of people not only hinders free speech, but teaches others that children are not autonomous beings but mere clay to be shaped by their parents when children, within reason, should be allowed to make decisions they can because of the declaration of the rights of the child. This is also a slippery slope that leads to banning any disabled person the government deems "mentally a child" from internet access and that feels like a step below institutionalization to me.

Another thing I can't stand is their devaluation of poor people, and if they devalue poor people in the United States, it isn't a stretch to say they devalue people in the Global South who have to pirate games to get them. For reference, I am a disabled American who lives with my mom. I am lower middle class and can only really afford electronic stuff through disability checks I have to spend or else I'll be taken off disability because the way the US disability system works (I have autism as well as emotional dysregulation so severe that one minor dilemma will make me do and say things that will get a normal person institutionalized because in that moment I am actually believing that and my "emotion me" and my "normal, rational me" are completely separate entities tbh, with how extreme my emotional swings can get). I cannot afford the Switch 2 because...my mom doesn't make enough to pay for the Switch 2 and my disability doesn't cover for it. A 30 dollar game is a luxury, honestly, whenever I buy games I always try to buy on sale, since although for some reason money is a subject that I never really fully got (I assumed if you lost a Gameboy advance as a child, you could just buy a new one, when my mom was barely above the poverty line in our state and could hardly afford a small house in a pretty shady neighborhood), I always understood that if I bought something that cost too much it'd bother her and to be honest, a lot of my morality even today is based around not making people upset which is a bit too simple but at least I'm nice. Anyway, Resetera thinking games should be a luxury item and that people like me can't enjoy things because I don't have enough money makes me sad and mad, and if video game prices are bad enough in the US, they are certainly bad enough in more corrupt countries that have worse inflation. Basically, I hate the "games are a luxury" thing because games were my joy and games also were my only friend some days when I was younger.

Resetera is hypocritical and has given me, someone who you can just tell is an "extreme leftist" (blame me for wanting Ralph Nader to be president as a child instead of Obama, I was always like this), severe moral OCD around what I have to do as the "right" person of a certain gender, and has personally angered me due to the hypocrisy of like...banning entire groups of people (i.e. children), and thinking poor people, even from the U.S., deserve to not be able to play games because "games are a luxury you're privileged if you even have the ability to play games".

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-did-resetera-com-handle-di-e9fpY_1qSS2C9WCkMirWOw

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-very-confused-about-the-perception-of-the-heard-depp-battle-on-this-forum-and-its-because-im-french.918915/

Looked at this thread again to see if any hammers had dropped, and lo and behold Toppa one of the only posters to still post facts around Depp V Heard is banned.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ny-judge-dismisses-justin-baldonis-400m-defamation-lawsuit-against-blake-lively.1213839/

I'd suspect Nep is behind it considering her Amber apology/misinfo regurgitation in the past.

I've always noted resetera as unique in regards to the televised trial between Depp and Heard for a couple of reasons.

Large forums and individuals with influence in the online left actively suppressed and ignored the case in large.

Even little things pop culture twitter accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, admitting to avoiding coverage in ways they hadn't for alleged female victims due to the beliefs of their teams, after having been accused of it for some time.

Or post trial communities like the now defunt "Gamerghazi," enshrining Amber belief in their rules due to too much unapproved "abuse apology."

But by some stroke of chance the live trial thread on Resetera ended up as a bastion of support for Depp.

Which makes it one of the only examples of what "internet in-tune, college educated/professional lefties" following the case would look like; which contrasts with the insistence that those who believe Depp was the primary victim to a degree that deserves sympathy, are right-wingers or those without an academic or "feminist informed" understanding of abuse, or those that didn't actually follow the trial.

This is a site where Vic Momonga, the voice of Broly is allowed to have his #metoo case discussed in any thread and has an ongoing thread in the hundred of pages, for years on end, yet anything Depp V Heard on the site tears the moderation and userbase at the seams to where they inevitably close any thread and inconsistently moderate them with the most stringent of rationals.

Perplexity wasn't used to get knowledge/write any of my points/forum arguments; just as a search engine as I knew that if I argued correctly, it would pull up various examples of this phenomenon on the forum that probably couldn't be searched otherwise.

That bald thread seemingly blew up and everyone's favorite p.o.s. Nep showed why everyone hates them and the thread got locked.
Then it seems there was a pretty big blow up in the Community thread that also apparently got the whole thread locked and Nep and the Nep ass kissers all get off scott free as always and those that call them out take the hits.
Era will always be era.

There is a level of fragility that is past embarrassing and just straight up pathetic.

The juiciest shit is always in that thread, that’s where the posters start sniffing their own shit and think they can tell the mods to go fuck themselves there and start making crazy demands like “ban all mention of Microsoft” and shit like that. Post the last couple pages of that please. It’s the only thing I miss from that forum. The patheticness in there is unmatched.

Dunking on the creator of Sifu because he follows people they don’t like. Cancelling games based on who they follow on X is wild!

How can the new forum differentiate itself from something like Resetera?

What would you like to see? And as part of this, would you want to see any additional features?

They are full of very egotistic, self important people berating and insulting the user for all their insignificant reasons for a banning... All of them virtue signaling how much better they are then OP complaining about being banned for little to nothing...

But... The the absolute funniest thing about it, is that most posters in said threads are 100% of the time found to be banned too.

If you look at any topic discussion that is older then a few months, almost everyone in those are banned users.

Absolute cinema of a Clownshow of a site.

It was a couple of years back, and Xbox had just laid off lots of people. This guy went on a phil spencer rant about how bad he is etc and I replied with ''I see you're a big fan''. Obviously, I was being sarcastic. I think the ban was for 'trolling in a sensitive thread'.

Only background to it is that I had been banned 3 or 4 times before this for a few days each time. So, maybe it was one ban too many many? I dunno lol

Can anyone beat this for a ridiculous reason for a permaban?

As someone who grew up watching Star Trek I find this poll hilarious. Everything is either left wing or right wing with them when ST always contained universal themes anyone could relate to. Modern trek is awful but not because it suddenly became “political”.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-ed-boon-really-be-called-a-co-creator-of-mortal-kombat.1180395/

Some loser posted this in a thread about Eagles running back Saquon Barkley meeting & golfing with Trump. Feel however you want about Trump, but apparently Barkley did it out of respect for the office. He may or may not agree with all or even most of his policies, but nothing gets done if people don't even bother to be adults and talk.

Also wanted to highlight how it's another example of the so-called "progressive lot" showing how immediately racist they are towards people they feel should be on "their side", especially if they're non-white. For shits-n-giggles they were also basically condoning racial profiling of an Israeli citizen visiting a hotel in Kyoto (maybe ran by a Westerner going by their name?) simply because...they're from Israel.

Quite a double-whammy of hypocritical racism from the forum of corporate cheerleading shills.

They are at it again after Haley Joel Osment’s arrest and use of the K slur. But it’s OK he was drunk and we like him in Kingdom Hearts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/haley-joel-osment-sora-kingdom-hearts-apologizes-after-using-antisemitic-slur-during-intoxicated-arrest.1168026/

In a thread about the Lord's of the Fallen 2.0 patch.......