EtcetEraThreadHawaii Wants Tourists to Postpone Their Trips, but Many Aren’t Yet
ReasonUser Banned (3 Days): Inflammatory Generalization; Prior Ban for the Same
Yea people here love to feel all high and mighty and tut tut at anyone even remotely close to having “privilege”
It’s like they want everyone else to be as miserable and poor as them
and before you pass judgment on me if you’re posting on a hobby video game forum you are not as “poor” as you think you are
GamingThreadPlayStation Studios |OT23| Marvel at the Creative Bankruptcy
ReasonUser banned (1 month): Dismissive metacommentary over a sensitive topic
Weird how everyone agreed at the time that the interview Jim gave was good until now. Now its the guy is a PR nightmare.
And I’m not just talking about the ME comment
GamingThreadWill SMTV be the break out hit for the series that Persona 5 was?
ReasonUser warned: port-begging
I'll buy it, hands down. But i am REALLY REALLY REALLY praying for like... a wider console release later on down the road. (I will probably also end up emulating my purchased copy).
being forced to play incredible games with great art direction on a switch is a real monkey's paw.
EtcetEraThreadLetitia Wright (Shuri) links to anti-vax video on Twitter [UPDATE: She has deleted her Twitter account]
ReasonUser banned (3 days): Ableist language
LOL she fires her reps for how they handled the shit she put out there on social media. What a fucktard.
But not surprising when there's still people out there not-so-slyly excusing her.
EtcetEraThreadHow is cryptocurrency meant to function as an everyday currency?
ReasonUser ThreadBanned : Trolling
Those coins are more like critical ass.
I'd recommend re-reading what I said and coming back with a proper response because right now, you can miss me with that "do your own research" bullshit as a rebuttal.
No one uses your cherrypicked cryptocurrencies that no one has ever heard of prior to this thread on anywhere near the same scale of transactions as centralized financial systems and no one ever will. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if just learned about Solano by Googling "solar crypto" right before posting the above.
I know for a fact that miners.
EDIT: Just to visualize this nonsense:
This is just one coin.
GamingThread89 Characters & Not a Single Black Character: The Anti-Blackness of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
ReasonUser Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissing Concerns Around Representation
Demonstrably false. The fact that many heavily Asian coded characters you see them as “white” because they’re light skinned says a lot about the way you see the world.
GamingThread[VGC] The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked
ReasonUser warned: Inflammatory comparison
Why does Era get so worked up over Joel Osteen and other televangelists? It takes years of discipline and charisma to lead a church. Not everyone can do it. And he provides a free (really, there's no cost!) service to millions. In fact, according to a Washington Post article, Osteen often stays long after a sermon is finished and talks to the people individually. He's a people person. And if those people want to donate to someone who provides them a free service, so what? Let them spend their money their own way. Sure, he sometimes thanks contributors and bestows them special statuses, but he doesn't force anyone to contribute.
/s
edit: I’m wrong.
GamingThreadMetroid Dread is the biggest launch for the franchise in UK chart history, beating Prime 3 by a good margin (doesn't include digital downloads)
GamingThread[Kotaku] Metroid Dread Is Already Running Great On Switch Emulators
ReasonUser Warned - Platform Warring
Finally a good Kotaku article. Very rare.
And if Nintendo does not want these sorts of articles to be written they should maybe consider making a current-gen console. But who am I kidding.. it's Nintendo.
GamingThreadThe Anti-Blackness of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
ReasonUser Banned (1 Month): Concern Trolling Around Representation; Account in Junior Phase
I re-read the above sections and noticed something that wasn’t addressed in the OP.
There is a lack of primary, humanoid darker-skinned characters in Smash. Why is this the case? The is evidence for Japanese-centrism.
Academic papers support the connection of Japanese paleness as a Japanese cultural bias, so in the absence of darker-skinned Japanese characters, it cannot be said that paleness is unrelated to Japanese-centrism.
I support diversity in all situations, but I don’t support imposing Western values on other cultures.
I really don’t know what to do about this issue.
Does anyone know how to reconcile these two seemingly opposing concepts?
GamingThreadPlayStation Studios |OT23| Marvel at the Creative Bankruptcy
ReasonUser banned (2 weeks): Dismissive commentary about a sensitive topic. Metacommentary. Prior infractions.
Oh look, Jimbo says something silly again.
Some will get needlessly overly heated and a bunch of sites will get some clicks out of it.
And then everyone will move on.
GamingThreadPlayStation Studios |OT23| Marvel at the Creative Bankruptcy
ReasonUser Banned (3 days): Trolling
Twist your words? Are you reading or just making things up so you can skip answering the question? You said you didn't like option A, so I asked would you rather option B or do you think there is another option? Seems simple or is that difficult?
But sure don't answer if you can't think of something.
Nah.
Middle Eastern players do what they can to play games, and historically that includes a lot of bootlegs, romhacks and piracy.
Is it just as bad as the evil Metroid Dread pirates or not?
Do we need to go deeper in how and when it is justified? Maybe based on your revenue or something?
My question is: when is piracy morally acceptable? Because we have two threads next to one another that end up in complete contradiction.
When are we supposed to defend the corporations and when do we do defend the players?
Another Jim Ryan interview, another clanger of a soundbite that people will quote and refer to years later. I think it's time for the dude to cease partaking in interviews and PR full stop.
I knew in my heart of hearts that the moment the Media Create community left this site, the level of corporate defending here would rise.
GamingThreadIGN Middle East: No, Jim Ryan - Gaming In The Middle East Existed Long Before PlayStation
ReasonUser banned (1 week): Dismissive commentary on a sensitive topic
This has happened enough times by now to see that Jim Ryan often exaggerates his words to pass his point. He is one of those that have worked at PlayStation in expanding EME regions for decades and he has seen a lot of data on how it has been growing as part of that. Thats where this comment has come from.
good for them. the "pirates" have done a better job with game preservation than the actual companies have. why should i have to pay hundreds of dollars for some obscure jrpg when the money isn't going to the developer and/or publisher when i can just download it and no one is hurt?
this article is highlighting on the emulators anyways, which yeah - were probably developed by the same "pirates" and you know what? good for them
edit: as others have said here, emualtion and piracy are two totally different things, but it's a good thing for video games that both of them exist
GamingThreadUPDATE: Super Mario 64 and OoT Source Leaked, Massive Nintendo Data Leak...Source Code to Yoshi's Island, A Link to the Past, F-Zero and more
ReasonUser banned (3 days): Hostility
Wild douchebag appeared!
Is that gaming-related enough for you?
ReasonUser banned (2 weeks): Trolling over a series of posts, history of infractions for trolling and hostility
About a whopping 74% of my posts here are serious. I just don't speak in an overly argumentative tone like the rest of y'all that can be summed up in the format of "Oh so you yadda yadda yadda yadda. But yes of course, here is my sarcastic conclusion to my rebuttal" because you spend too much time arguing about video games here. I like to insert just an ounce of fun when I'm talking to people here, otherwise it would be awfully boring. I would like to thank someone in this thread who got the gist of that and called me beautiful, I genuinely blushed.
And I genuinely think getting your knickers in a twist over this is being mad for the sake of it. For most people, the removal of this content changes the game in a way that is no different from how it is now. Come February 22nd, the only change they might as well have made is that Spider is in the Tower now and his name is Rahool. That is the reality of it. I paid $40 to experience what Forsaken has to offer 3 years ago. Got my money's worth 3 years ago. That content I paid for being gone now makes no difference to me. Anyone who wants to get that same value can do it right now in a span of 5 hours. And then you'll be right where I am.
Y'all wanna get mad out of principle, okie dokie artichokie. I commend your valiant stance. But it's so easy to not care. Thems my breaks and I lube them frequently.
GamingThreadIGN Middle East: No, Jim Ryan - Gaming In The Middle East Existed Long Before PlayStation
ReasonUser Banned (1 week): Dismissive commentary in a sensitive thread
When it comes to Jim Ryan, one sentence (13 words very exactly, I counted !) from a 20 minutes chat is all it takes for the good cultured people of Era to suddently forget the meaning of the word "hyperbolic".
GamingThreadIGN Middle East: No, Jim Ryan - Gaming In The Middle East Existed Long Before PlayStation
ReasonUser banned (1 week): Dismissive commentary over a sensitive topic
it's not controversial maybe? Someone can be ignorant on something and it not come from a place of malice. And it seems like Jim Ryan is controversial on era when he's just a PR parrot for his company. The cancel culture spirit is too crazy on here, he gets quoted all the time for normal ass lines.
GamingThreadIGN Middle East: No, Jim Ryan - Gaming In The Middle East Existed Long Before PlayStation
Red TextThis thread is now re-opened to discussion, but we're going to lay down some ground rules here. Whether Jim Ryan's comment was what he meant or not is not the discussion. It's what he said, and what he said was insulting to people in the Middle East. Dismissing that or handwaving it will be met with strict moderation. If your sole purpose in this thread is to defend the corporate PR executive of your favorite gaming company, you'd be much better off just not posting.
GamingThreadIGN Middle East: No, Jim Ryan - Gaming In The Middle East Existed Long Before PlayStation
ReasonUser banned (1 week): Dismissive commentary over a sensitive topic
What an age to be alive where anything you say will be taken to the extreme. Wonder if this was written by that one poster who went ballastic about this quote on the original interview thread. Look at all his examples obviously people in those countries all played games before PlayStation but not at the level PlayStation expanded it to. There were also people with smart phones before iphone.
