Title: How Kylie Jenner used her social media following to build a $900m makeup empire
Reason: User Banned (1 Week): Misogyny
She’s a terrible influence on women. Solve your problems with plastic surgery. Stopped using lip fillers apparently.
Her sister is worse thinking Pepsi solves racism.
Then you have her other sisters who’d take their clothes off for attention and then say it empowers them or whatever bullshit they come up with.
Title: New Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee! Trailer
Reason: User Banned (Permanent): Defending sexual attraction to and sexualisation of minors, account still in the junior phase.
Old enough to move out of the house at 10, old to gamble at 10. Ten is legal age in their world.
Besides, I wanted this game to be post-SM so we would get an older Misty. Ain't my fault GF is keeping her a loli.
Title: EA's stock hits its highest ever value, company worth $45.5 billion
Reason: User Warned: Hostility towards another member
Dude you are trying too hard. Save the jokes for Dane Cook. He might be unfunny but his shows are only mediocre.
To everyone else sorry for the derail.
Title: Peter Strzok testifies before House Judiciary & Oversight Committees
Reason: User Banned (1 Day): Thread derailment.
This way of thinking is insane. Theres plenty of republicans that are not racists, homophobics or any other objectively regrettable thing.
Theres plenty of democrats that helped corrupt governs around the globe (I can tell you that as a non american), but I wont be arguing that every single democrat is a piece of shit due to that.
Title: Why is Gamergate support still so prevalent in gaming communities?
Reason: User Banned (Permanent): Defending hate movements
Imagine thinking that acknowledging the massive amount of whining from one side of the GG shitshow means you support harassing women.
TheBSPolice here is upset because his only argument was bringing up things that aren't a problem or happen years ago. That Halo Wars 2 situation was very dumb on my part and I regret everything that went down. However ive turned myself around since then and 343i/MS willingness to communicate with the Eldewrito team speaks volume on that. I've been in very close contact with 343i devs and they have even acknowledge this, they understand that hold grudges for years is extremely unhealthy.
As for Halo Online if modding the game was really a huge issue MS at the very least would have given us a cease & desist then escalated from there. That was not the case at all, MS is only concerned with removing download links to full builds of Halo Online version MS23 due to it being a pre-release alpha. Since then our team has been in talks with 343i and they have been pretty supportive of our efforts. If this was really as detrimental as TheBSPolice wants everyone to believe, then Phil Spencer and 343i wouldn't have name dropped our team and continuously kept in contact with us.
I find it very pathetic that TheBSPolice felt the need to run here and paint myself(Gamecheat13) and HiddenXperia as misogynist shitlords because he is lacking in any type of valid argument. I personally think that anyone who harasses women is a dickhead and I also support journalistic integrity. No one is a as black and white as some of you would like to believe and movements can easily be hijacked by assholes. Whether GG was originally about holding journalism accountable or just for harassing women is in the past, I honestly dont give a shit. Its been 4 years its time to move on like most sane people have.
Next time find a better argument instead of running here to paint us as bad guys, you spineless pathetic excuse for a human. Keep yelling at the clouds while I keep networking, bye now.
Title: Why is Gamergate support still so prevalent in gaming communities?
Reason: User Banned (Permanent): Rationalizing hate movements, account still in the junior phase.
Journos aren't above muckraking a person, not a month dead and badgering their greaving family for comment either, apparently.
Want to bad mouth a person and they're dead (and not some sort of criminal that warranted capital punishment with their crimes) then have the common decency to hold it in whilst the family is coming to terms at the very fucking least.
Badmouthing the recently deceased certainly stains it though.
Title: Why is Gamergate support still so prevalent in gaming communities?
Reason: User Banned (3 Days): Hate movement rationalization
Yeah and save for r/KotakuInAction I honestly think it goes both ways. It's either "Grrr, those Gamers and Gamergaters!" or it is "Grrr, those toxic developers and journalists" like, we really just NEED there to sides and someone to be the bad ones.
Again, outside of the trashy KotakuInAction I don't know who or where these GamerGaters are, and I use social media and boards and discord for gaming daily.
Title: Why is Gamergate support still so prevalent in gaming communities?
Reason: User Banned (3 Days): Hate movement rationalization
Depends what you mean. I haven’t really seen much of anybody who claims to be a supporter of gamer gate be vocal about it. The only context Ive seen in recent times was people on this board attributing the label to anyone who thought Jessica Price was in the wrong for her behavior, even those who didn’t think she should have been fired for it. It didn’t seem to be based on any factual context of whether someone supported gamer gate or not.
But maybe I’m missing something.
It seems to me that it’s become a catch all phrase to label anyone who has been perceived to be misogynist in the gaming community.
The intersection of those two things admittedly probably have a decently strong correlation.
Title: Why is Gamergate support still so prevalent in gaming communities?
Reason: User Banned (1 Week): Hate movement rationalization
Because people after their titty games and their toxic attitudes in online games. GamerGate is the side that's for those things. That plus journalists have rallied against gamers on numerous occasions. So even though GG is full of people who harass and was created in order to harass one specific person, there are folks who don't care about that when their attitudes and games are being attacked. GG's never gonna go away.
Title: Why is Gamergate support still so prevalent in gaming communities?
Reason: User banned (3 days) - concern trolling, inappropriate and hostile comment, accumulated infractions
Why are you so obsessed with gamergate that you actively check stranger’s twitter posts to see what they’re saying about it? That’s kind of creepy.
I mean there’s a lot of causes I’m passionate about, but I never go around screen-shotting complete fucking stranger’s twitters to prove a point. That is so weird.
Title: Henry Cavill: Hesitant to date in fear of being called a rapist
Reason: User Banned (Duration Pending): Downplaying sexual assault, previous infractions for similar behavior.
Way to overreact again, apparently saying that “a no can sometimes not really mean a no” here is taken as a “no means yes always” or as advocating for rape of women with short clothes?
Jesus, i’m outta here, keep burning the Cavill witch all you want guys.
Though I do feel to encourage you guys to actually get some experience with girls, that might help put you in a more moderate position.
Title: Henry Cavill: Hesitant to date in fear of being called a rapist
Reason: User banned (length under review) - Pushing false narratives to discredit #metoo + history of sexism
Some of the conclusions people are jumping to in this thread....my God
Although poorly worded he is simply stating that he needs to be careful when trying to engage with women as a person in his position can attract the wrong attention...particularly with #metoo swinging the pole so far to the left in some cases he could crack a fart and it might be recorded by a phone a deemed as sexual assault by some people.
If you were in his sort of position the usual courtship..flowers...meeting a person in random places over time and the progression to a relationship like the real world will not happen for him as soon as he steps out the door he would have cameras on him and people know this and if it were me I would be very sketchy of anyone outside of my group of friends.
Not discounting the pieces of shit that reside in celebrity land ...people really need to take a step back sometimes and look at the whole picture.
Title: The controversial ArenaNet firings of Guild Wars 2 writers (READ OP)
Reason: User Banned (Permanent): Account Suicide
I agree with this fellow user but mostly on the subject of moderation and the subject of double standards. There are users in this very thread that are offensive,dismissive and trolling and noone got not even a warning or ban. There was even an instance that one user( the cute barking one) that got banned for 5 minutes and mysteriously unbanned and some users you questing what happened got banned themselves. There is an agenda and a group of users that follow that that get free pass on anything they say and anyone who disagrees is marked as gator/bigot/mysoginist/sexist and gets banned! A lot of bans here where unjustifies and a few more that where,they were not given.
Also in the topic of 'vilifying journalism' I also think that is a really harsh policy to ban anyone who try to critisize an article especially when there are cases of relly clickbate biased pieces that the mods defend.(These are general remarks from my stay here and not saying that about the current articles in this op even though they are partial and try to elevate the matter to a gender issue).
I really am supportive of all the minorities and I am activily helping them in real life, but I suspect that I will be also marked as troll/bigot for this post because why not?But I could not be silent with all this happening in a forum I had high hopes when and how it was formed but undeserved bans left and right and double standards really sour my visits here. And I know that there are more who think likewise and remain silent or get silenced/banned...
I really hope that the moderators push for equallity and this place become more friendly and promoting civilized dialogue.
PS In the case I get banned please make it permanent and remove my account. I just hope you understand. Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post/slight derail.
Title: The controversial ArenaNet firings of Guild Wars 2 writers (READ OP)
Reason: User Banned (2 Weeks): Downplaying the influence and impact of harassment movements + downplaying institutional sexism
I tried to make that post neutral in case no one saw it yet, but this is where I'm at with her as well. The lack of awareness is quite amazing actually. She is somehow still painting this as a sexism issue where there were none atleast until she made it one (out of nothing such as bringing up mansplaining). She pretty much ignored why she got fired and instead went off explaining how she got fired (painting herself as the victim) and how it's a warning to all devs, in particular female devs, what it means in the industry if the committee wants you fired, you'll be fired.
Title: The controversial ArenaNet firings of Guild Wars 2 writers (READ OP)
Reason: User Banned (2 Weeks): Peddling disinformation + Victim Blaming
Noooooo. That's not it. Here. It's like some guy tweeted a male game developer after he posted a 12 part tweet over a game that person loves and has played for a long time and is incredibly familiar with it, though maybe doesn't have the time as a developer. That person still has a valid viewpoint because they play the game and they know what they like and what is fun and so they in their passion tweet the developer that they are a fan of and the reply is Go away randoasshat ATTACK MY MINIONS ATTACK! I would fire a male developer just as fast as a female for doing something like that. This is a non gendered issue and forcing a gender issue because of that. Also might I add that Price turning it into a gender issue is something that heavily motivated the GG'ers (like they need much to motivate them. Don't give them an easy target FFS!
Title: The controversial ArenaNet firings of Guild Wars 2 writers (READ OP)
Reason: User Banned (Permanent): Demonstrable misogynistic double-standard as contextualized by infraction history; accumulation of severe infractions
Lmao.
I’ve seen enough now. She deserved to go, and Arena were lucky it wasn’t worse and more damaging to their image. She’s aggressive, toxic and no doubt hard to get on with in the workplace.
Fries didn’t deserve the firing. Can’t believe this has to be discussed, it’s as straightforward as it gets.
Title: Switch is killing it this Summer with games
Reason: User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory point of comparison
The White House tonight said they've reunited all the caged immigrant babies and kids they're legally allowed to, in an official statement. Yet almost every press outlet disputes this. But because the horse's mouth said they have, it must be true, right?
Literally embarrassed for everyone in this thread who think Nintendo wouldn't use fairly standard PR tactics.
Title: 'Feminists' Who Exclude Trans Women Aren't Feminists At All
Reason: User Banned (2 Days): Arguing in bad faith
Nobody has said that. What I've said and what is written is that being bigots does not mean they are not "real feminists", because feminists, like any other person, can be bigoted and, sadly, they have sometimes been.
Title: Sakurai: players “gave up on Melee because it’s too technical", won't focus too much on competitive
Reason: User Warned - Inflammatory Comment
Ugh, this man will never forgo an opportunity to shit on Melee, will he?
Hell, the guy even uses the same asinine talking points from 2005.
First of all, not a single, solitary major media outlet that criticized SSBM for being "too technical" at the time of release. Zero. Nada. Completely, and entirely, NON-EXISTENT.
That's not to say that there weren't individual people from the hoi polloi who might have complained about Melee, obviously. But there was never widespread disappointment with SSBM. There was no large scale backlash. The game was universally praised when it came out. Need I remind everyone that this game that was so overtly "complicated" and utterly burdensome, managed to somehow sell two million MORE copies than its relatively far simpler predecessor? And on a userbase that had ten million fewer people. Any resentment that occurred was completely and entirely retroactive, and it was led by one man (I'll let you guess who).
Second of all, his logic is completely non-sensical. People couldn't enjoy Melee because their friends would be too skilled? Can't that argument be applied to literally every single competitive game in existence? If you can't enjoy a game because your friends are too good, well don't blame the game. Blame your shitty friends! Get new ones! Sakurai acts like people are forced to learn wavedashing, L-cancelling and all that other shit the moment they pick up a GC controller, as if no one has any agency whatsoever. Are you somehow mandated to enter tournaments the moment you place the game disc in the console? Do the Nintendo Ninjas show up at your house and hold your family hostage unless you sign up to Evo?
And finally, he once again creates this moronic false dichotomy where you can have either a competitive, highly technical an precision based fighting game, or a fun game. But you can't have both.
BULL.
SHIT.
I'm not even some snooty, elite tourney player. I don't like playing with items off on final destination all the time. Hell, I've been playing the game since 2001 and I have yet to properly wavedash. Yet, I think SSBM is still by far and away the most enjoyable and fun Smash Bros. title.
But Sakurai is so blinded by the animosity he developed the moment he found out people were playing SSBM in a way that he didn't approve of, that he wanted to throw the baby out the with the bathwater. Because in the end, that's all he is. A big, fat baby.
Title: Henry Cavill: Hesitant to date in fear of being called a rapist
Reason: User Banned (Duration Pending): Misogyny. Unfounded fear-mongering about women filing false rape accusations.
This forum is another level, if you actually read what he's saying it's about potentially being falsely accused of doing something he didn't do just because he's a man in the spotlight, if I was famous I'd avoid women like the plague, all it would take is one woman to be turned down or had a few dates and decided it doesn't feel right for a woman who is slightly crazy to lose her shit (I'm not talking about all women so don't try and start some debate on this) all because a famous person turned her down, and in the current climate it's not a bad thing.
Just like feminism, most feminists are decent people that are fighting for equal rights between men and women and absolutely deserve it, and yet you'll have that small minority that brings Feminism a bad name.
Title: Henry Cavill: Hesitant to date in fear of being called a rapist
Reason: User Banned (Duration Pending): Dismissing misogyny, derailing thread with complaints about moderation, history of drive-by posts and victim blaming in threads about sexual assault accusations.
Jeez look at that reason for someone getting banned up above. Ridiculous.
Title: Henry Cavill: Hesitant to date in fear of being called a rapist
Reason: User Banned (Duration Pending): Misogyny. Unfounded fear-mongering about women filing false rape accusations.
That'd be great if that is what he was talking about which it is obviously isn't.
If I were in his position I'd avoid talking to women without witnesses present. Judging by how most of Era behaves the first anonymous accuser on Twitter will spell doom for his career. In terms of liability he is risking far more than he could possibly gain by making himself vulnerable to accusation simply by talking to somebody.
Lastly, fear of false accusation doesn't mean a person is completely unaware of the realities of sexual assault and/or how prevalent it may be in oh, say, the movie industry. He's getting vilified for poorly expressing himself and you wonder why he is afraid of being falsely accused if he... poorly expresses himself. The validity of his position is being proven by the people complaining loudest about it in this thread, curiously enough.
