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[nightscrawl]

This thread, Nat.

 

Nice gif use, btw. Man, I haven't seen that movie in yeeeears.

[Grieving Natashina]

Thanks. One of my favorite Disney movies.

The gif matched the look on my face perfectly. Usually I get up, kick out the dogs and have a smoke outside, then come in and grab my coffee.

As far as that thread goes, I'm sadly not as surprised as I should be. The mods seem to have little-to-no supervision and/or training. They seem to be allowed to do whatever they please, despite reports of threads and posts that are very much against the rules. I thought it was just reactionary moderation on their parts. Now I'm starting to wonder if the mods deliberately ignore some reports and use their personal feelings on others.

All of this makes me more determined than ever. I'm not giving up on that post and if needed be, I'll find a way to make the mods listen. No harassment or anything like that, so no worries there.

[nightscrawl]

This is so exciting! Rep. John Lewis organized a sit-in in Congress for the gun legislation. Speaker Ryan shut off the C-Span cameras that were broadcasting it, but they're showing live streaming from a phone anyway (yay 21st century technology!)
 
Jezebel (on Gawker network) has a nice summary of events with running updates. You can watch the C-Span feed here.


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I just love how C-Span said "F you Paul Ryan" and is showing this anyway (barring other technical issues).

[Dani100]

Damn, last week I had two temp. crowns put in on my front teeth as I had broken part of them off. They had to use a laser to cut my gums, they have been hurting all week. Today they checked how they were healing and did some work without numbing me. I don't know if anyone has seen an old movie called Marathon Man. wow!!!! It was painful, kept waiting for the dentist to ask me if it was safe.

[Grieving Natashina]

Ow ow ow! I've seen Marathon Man, though is been years. Talk about a crappy way to start the season. Hang in there.

[FKA_Servo]

Man, I kinda want to tell BM02 to just put the thread out if its misery.

[Grieving Natashina]

Which one? There's a few that need to be shutdown imho.

[Lady Artifice]

I just saw that thread. The mods have strange priorities.

 

Speaking of which, I was poking around the second page of posts and saw the locked vent thread. Is this group actually private, or can non-members view and report posts? Do the mods prowl around looking for things to moderate in private groups?

 

 

Evidence suggests that it was actually reported by a certain poster with a proclivity for pseudo intellectual gobbledygook and frequent name changes, who messaged several people in the thread--about the thread--before it was locked. 

[Grieving Natashina]

Evidence suggests that it was actually reported by a certain poster with a proclivity for pseudo intellectual gobbledygook and frequent name changes, who messaged several people in the thread about the thread before it was locked.

That was an extraordinarly elegant way of putting it.

[FKA_Servo]

Welp, that's four.

I guess I need to go back to indirectly addressing these things. Or maybe just go to bed.

[nightscrawl]

FFS WHY must every thread where sexuality is even hinted at end up getting into how gay Dorian's storyline is?

I'm really torn on whether to be irritated that it seems to be the primary thing that so many people focus on, or pleased that he managed to tick so many of them off.

 

There is SO much other stuff to focus on in these games. As much as I like the game, DAI did have some serious weaknesses in the (primary) narrative, as well as gameplay problems. Can't we focus on those??

[SmilesJA]

Well, I think one that has been bothering me lately is how other gamers and game developers developer have seemingly taken a negative stance on violent video games.

 

https://twitter.com/..._src=twsrc^tfw 

 

What makes this worse is that they say all these things in light of a tragic shooting that had less to do with violent video games and more of hatred of a sexual orientation. 

[SmilesJA]

I lost a lot of respect for Blow when he took the opportunity to talk about "violence glorification" in video games after the shooting.  It was a very awkward time for E3 to come on after the tragedy, but to use that tragedy to promote your narrative that had nothing to do with it is disgusting (that goes the same all the other outlets who say the same thing.)

[nightscrawl]

^ Yeah I just love when people say a thing on social media and get all bent out of shape when people respond negatively. David Gaider does the same crap (or used to more often) and then gets defensive about it. Yeah, well maybe don't say stuff on the internet. Think about your audience. It's crappy to tell someone to self-censor, but it's a function of being an adult. It's also a part of reality of being a semi-public figure like a video game developer on a franchise played by millions of people.

 

Suck it up or don't type. And maybe take a step back and try to figure out WHY your words might have been misconstrued.

[SmilesJA]

If you want to criticize "glorification of violence" in video games fine, but to use the tragedy to promote a narrative that's irrelevant to it is shameful.

[SardaukarElite]

E3 was in a difficult position given the recent shooting and considering that I think was handled with as much grace as could be expected. 
 
That said, there has been a discussion about the casual depiction of violence common in games and glorified at E3 going back several years now. I think it's an important one, even if there isn't a simple answer, and a lot of it is hyperbole.
 
The shooting was a horrific example of what real violence is like, so how we depict violence for entertainment is related. Beyond that, it shocked a lot of people, caused them to do some soul searching and try and effect positive change, for some people that involved writing about a culture they care about. 
 
Generalizing games to being mass murder fantasies is pretty stupid though. 
 

It started from 'women cannot be ground troops' (...)

Drink.
 

(...) 'none of them have a jaw like Cassandra.'

And again.

[HuldraDancer]

Either tonight or tomorrow the person I carpool with to work is going to be leaving early so I'm either going to have to miss a few hours of work or barrow someone's car to get there and back myself. The problem with missing work is I'm still making up time for the car wreck that caused me to be out in two days and a fee for my license that keeps coming out of my pay check. My problem with borrowing their car is that I have never driven on even remotely busy roads before let alone a highway while it's dark out and the car they offered is falling apart. What's bothering me the most about this is that they do not have to take off early they just want to and say that they have to and are trying to make me feel like a jackass for daring to be a nervous driver who is terrified to drive on a highway they barely know while it's dark out. Maybe it's a petty or selfish rant and I am the one in the wrong here this time, it just feels like though that they go out of their way sometimes to do this to people cause of either laziness or they think it's funny.

 

Sooner I move out the better, crazy cheap rent or not. 

[FKA_Servo]

Not to alarm anyone, but this place can be viewed by outside people, they just have to log out, but I don't think we're getting much traffic from that.

 

Going back to this - looks like this group can actually be viewed by anyone, any time. I was curious, so I tested it.

 

I have an alternate account (never used for posting) just to save my previous user name (TommyServo) because I'm pretty attached to it. On it, I'm able to view this thread and the whole group discussion forum by going there through USAC's post history. Which is visible of course, because I don't have my profile set to private. So yeah, all you need to do is click on a group post from someone's posting history.

 

Is that a limitation of the (not so) new forum? Are private things just not actually private by design?

[nightscrawl]

You know you can change your user name, right?

[FKA_Servo]

You know you can change your user name, right?

 

Yep. I really just wanted to keep my old name off the market.

[Sylvianus]

Mhhh. I'm considering leaving the bsn, at least for a while. Everytime I come to this site and I loose one-two hours reading the mass effect forum instead of doing something else in my life, I'm wondering " why I came and lost my time again ? " 

 

Honestly, it's always the same. A troll creates a dumb topic, pretending to be I don't know what, or another one known like Dutch and everyone seems happy to play the smartass. Let alone the other uninteresting or stupid threads. Or redudant topics like feminism, gender war, SJW vs anti- sjw folks. 

 

( Though, I'm willing to admit that it's maybe me who is not funny or has a different way of finding things fun, )

 

There are moderate interesting people with interesting opinions, but they do not posts enough compared to those I'm used to read and that don't particularly impress me with their comments and jerk reactions, or posts with nothing else than pics supposed to mock someone. 

 

It will probably remain that way until the N7 day in november. And I don't enjoy the forum at all. The trailer showed too little content and people don't know what to discuss anymore. Anyway, even the atmosphere is meh. 

 

I'm not the kind of guy that procrastinates too much when he is truly displeased. I would have deleted my account and moved on, if I could. It's quite dumb that we can't delete the account. This is the first time i see a forum not allowing it. 

[vertigomez]

Sorry Huldra, I hope you get to move out soon. And I know what you mean, Sylvianus - sometimes you just need a break. BSN can get, um, overwhelming.

In unrelated news, somebody on reddit said Sera was "the poorly developed afterthought character of DAI". I get that some people don't like her and that's fine. If they said she was an insufferable ***hole or whatever, I'd get it even if I disagree. But... poorly developed? An afterthought created just to demonstrate the tempest spec? Lmao wat.

[SmilesJA]

I do wish we had more information, but I'm with you guys in not going to Mass Effect forums.

[Dani100]

@Sylvianus this morning when I got up I checked the Andromeda forums saw a new topic that made me hang my head, knew it would be a disaster. I just got home from work and noticed it's closed, don't have any desire to read it. I'm going to stay as far away from the forums as I can for a while.

[Panda]

There surely is lack of information which is partially reason for all troll threads. I was bit disappointed with E3 cause I finally though we could get more info than we did. But at least Bioware said they will give more companion information this year so looking forward to that. Should give discussions more content as well.