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Guess I missed that. I steered clear of the GG thread but I don't recall the politics thread ever being banned. Do you have specific examples? We can continue this over PM if you'd prefer. I'd have to look it up when I get home - I'm using the mobile version from a passenger seat - but essentially at the time the GamerGate stuff got closed and people moved it to the politics threads. It was right after the Sexy Women threads got closed by decree above us mods. But essentially what I'm saying, though I'll admit I was a bit too nebulous, is use common sense, don't use the forum as a platform to direct harassment at specific people. News articles are fine, directing to personal twitter accounts of abuse and going 'look at this lying bitch' is not (and definitely would fall under either our harassment, objectionable content or discrimination guidelines). That's the kind of stuff that got those threads closed. Hope that clarifies the concern. Edit: Mobile version cut out the quote.

I really hope I'm misunderstanding what you meant by this. Because if it means you're going to start letting your political views -and this extends to what you believe one should or should not be allowed to say- affect your work as moderator, beyond what the guidelines provide for, that is going to make the forum... a worse place. Fighting the never-ending tide of bull**** is tiresome, I get it. That does not warrant you using your position to advance an agenda. If you are too tired, ask for a time-out. Doubly so if this is an issue that affects you personally. I hope you understand that after your post, your ability to remain objective can be compromised in the eyes of some. Do not take the easy way out and crack down on those who are in the "wrong", please. This warning is meant to discourage the naming and shaming behaviour that got the #GamerGate and politics threads banned before - which was not my decision - so that's always been the place you're in.

On my way to the zoo with my lady for our anniversary.

These statements do not fit together. This will not encourage anyone to come forward. Especially considering the latter being demonstrably false, false cases are a vast minority according to police data - Gromnir helped me pick the CDC (or was it WHO?) research apart here a couple of years ago, and by helped I mean he beat my misconceptions and false reading of said on the matter to a pulp so I'm not quick to forget.

Bear with me here, because I am doing my level best not to rage out: Most women don't file charges at all. Both in my personal life and through therapy I have met nearly a dozen victims, and not a single one ever filed charges. Most of them also never accused anyone in public. Of 11 women, the only one whose own family even knew was the one who was four years old and literally tied to a tree and left to die, rescued by strangers. Let that sink in, out of 11 women, this was the only one that led to a criminal investigation and no charges were filed in the end, all others had hidden it out of shame. This one could have too, but wasn't given that choice. None of them certainly ever tweeted anything. My wife was a victim at nine years old, I was the very first person she told - we had already been together for six years. When my wife came out to family, my mother admitted that she was abused not once but systematically as a child as well and none of us knew. My wife's response to #MeToo was: "Why on earth would I ever broadcast it like that? Everyone would treat me different." #MeToo is only a limited and very skewed version of it, and airing something on twitter is certainly not the same as "getting support" because twitter does not actually matter. I can guarantee you with 100% certainty, you know women in your life who are victims and you don't know about it. It could be the ones closest to you, it could be your wife, your mother, your sister, and they will never tell you. They will be ashamed, they will be scared, and they certainly won't feel confident enough to come out and seek justice because people will tell them they're lying attention seekers. So next time, before you go "oh I'm sure it's a lie" try to imagine what it would be like if it was them, and how you would feel if they were treated that way. I used to think like you. But I've talked to enough victims to know that that's just persecution complex, a symptom of the disillusionment of the past two generations of men (which is a different problem altogether) and the truth is much, much worse than even the "loony left" makes it seem. Anyway, tread lightly with this topic. If you guys start throwing links and shaming victims without proof, I will delete it and that will be a one-way ticket to moderated status. Zero tolerance.

Man, am I glad I skipped Deadpool 2 in theatres. Why did it play so much straight? Some fantastic action scenes but that wasn't why I was there. So few laughs! Also such gratuitous fridging. I actually groaned when it happened. They really couldn't make Deadpool work without resorting to such a cliche? They didn't even make fun of it. They played it for drama.

Considering all the publicity it's generating, I'd say lots of people got exactly what they wanted.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/musician-12-percent-43-billion-revenue/ The music industry made 43 billion dollars in revenue and musicians saw 12% of that.

Triggered? It's The Onion, man. It's a parody article.

There's no edge. He got banned for continually breaking terms of service (despite being warned repeatedly that it would result in closure) by, among other things, directing and instigating harassment. He's broken terms of service before and got off scot-free. These platforms have been giving him extreme preferential treatment for years that other accounts wouldn't have survived. He pushed his luck and brought this down on himself. There's no sudden unfairness or politics here, as much as the usually 'keep politics out of this' folks try to inject it. It's just another internet troll getting banned. Just a well-known one.

Capitalism at work. He hurts their respective brands, so they kick him off their platform. I can't wait until ISPs realize the same thing, what with him supporting the removal of Net Neutrality and all. That would simply be delicious. Didn't he also throw a fit about how private businesses should be allowed to refuse services? Like bakeries refusing gay people etc.? I wonder how he feels now that he's in their shoes.

The reason scammers write like that is because the workload of following up on responders would be too large if they were any more convincing. No joke.

Feeling a bit depressed, so I'm doing what I always do when the stress of modern life gets to me. I open up my grandfather's letter and I move to Stardew Valley.

I actually liked Gaiman's American Gods spinoff, Anansi Boys, a lot more. Though it's considerably lighter tone wise. Reminded me of Terry Pratchett.

Yeah, universal healthcare will never happen in the US unless "big pharma" is reined in with the ridiculous overpricing. It astounds me that the American people squabble over guns when their real rights are being held hostage by corporations. Also: "according to a study by a university-based libertarian policy center"

Even people with dyslexia get used to subtitles here. But then I've noticed our basic subtitles on everything here are about a hundred thousand times more legible than any subtitles or closed captions I've seen on international products. I dunno what it is, but font design seems to be completely beyond English speaking production designers. Some of them use serif fonts! Half of them put giant square blocks around low res letters. Ugh.

I can see that being true. I grew up with parents preferring 'subs before dubs'. My Dutch is mediocre and I don't care for Dutch 'culture' one bit. So here's some anecdotal evidence of correlation for your claim.

An RPG is literally everything in which you play a role and is a game. It doesn't even have to be a computer game. There is nothing else to discuss - any "but what is a true RPG" nonsense is just people being pedants or grognards.

Rampage. You know a movie is doing something wrong when you're rooting for the monsters.

Mikey, obviously. He was the biggest pizza lover.

What the heck is that?

Me too. Never did manage to beat Shadow Link though.

Well, that WoW Warmode with bounties and supply crates being fun lasted about a day and then got ruined by the same thing that ruins all random PvP on EU servers: Russians. Warmode shall remain disabled going forward.

Yeah, that sounds like Zelda II.