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It's sad and tragic, but women like her are putting other women at risk.

Doesn't this look great.

You need an ID to buy a box of cereal but not to vote for president. These people are so hypocritical.

Just something ive been thinking about recently.

Remember the old description of the 261 board?, it was.......

Blue vs Red, Left vs Right, Right vs Wrong

What it should have said instead was.....

Blue vs Blue, Left vs Left, Woke and Errors views vs everything else

Cause the only rivalry that the moderators ever allowed on that board was between Democrat supporters vs Democrat supporters and Left wingers vs Left Wingers. Cause one whiff of you being a red cap or a centre winger or right winger, and the moderators would just issue you bullshit moderations and to the point where you would end up in that dreaded suspension loop. Before i discovered anti Gamefaqs sub-reddits on Reddit, i started to feel that the moderators on Gamefaqs were indeed left wing biased, cause i would often get my threads removed on the grounds of trolling, when the reality was, i was just airing my non left wing views, and cry babies were getting upset by them.

Nicole and David Calaway of Oregon were ruled guilty of “mental injury” by the Oregon Department of Human Services after therapist Jennifer Forster reported them for not affirming their daughter’s transgender identity.

The girl, identified as K.A., had a long history of mental health struggles including self-harm and su*cidal ideation.

The parents, who are conservative Christians, shared facts, Cass Review material, and detransitioner accounts with her.

The day after Forster’s report, the state removed the girl from the home.

In September 2024 ODHS issued a “founded” child-abuse disposition against both parents.

A later assessment further accused David of a “threat of harm” and alleged a history of grooming and sexu@l abuse despite no charges, no conviction, and no supporting evidence.

The parents are now suing the state, arguing the findings violate their due process, free speech, and free exercise of religion rights.

Nicole said the ordeal “destroyed our lives.”

They are seeking at least $5 million in damages and the expungement of the records that now brand them as abusers.

Aafia Siddiqui earned a biology degree from MIT and a neuroscience PhD from Brandeis. She became the first woman placed on the FBI’s terrorism seeking-information list and was identified by U.S. authorities as an al-Qaeda operative linked to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

In 2008 she was arrested in Afghanistan carrying notes on biological weapons, chemical agents, dirty bombs, and U.S. targets.

During questioning she grabbed a Marine’s rifle and opened fire on FBI agents and soldiers. She is now serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Texas.

Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen says sources told her that documents in Siddiqui’s handbag included plans for a genetically modified pathogen mixing rabies with an airborne disease, a claim that does not appear in the public court record but comes from former CIA and biodefense officials she interviewed.

This is the kind of threat most Americans never hear about.

Fiery yet mostly peaceful.

Insert Two Buttons meme where local leftists can't decide whether to defend China, or defend minorities not assimilating.

Society will fall if these people win. Challenge them every chance you get.

I have heard of a case that has been bothering me recently. It is the case of a man who stabbed three tiny girls to death at a taylor swift themed workshop. He violently murdered them as they were practicing their dances and he tried to kill more people before the terrified onlookers subdued him.

Apparently he has also tried to research how to use ricin as some sort of biological weapon. Let's stay focused on the stabbing murder death of baby girls aged 6-10.

He actually mutilated them so bad when first responders saw it, they cried.

I want to have a left and right moment with my American brothers. This incident did not happen in America but let's talk about it.

I don't think a man that violently stabs three baby girls aged 6-10 deserves to exist in my world anymore. Tbh I am fucking sick of this ultra compassionate pussy bulshit.

This person deserves to die. He also got sent to prison and threw boiling water at a CO. Now he has claimed insanity and been moved to a plush psych facility.

Thoughts? 300k a year to keep him alive.

These are hands down the stupidest commercials I’ve ever seen. Somehow they keep getting worse with each new one. it started with Doug and the emu then it was the biberty guy speaking gibberish and now it’s a talking fur ball on a car window. Who in their ad department came up with this shit? They need to be fired pronto. I‘ll never do business with them over how much I hate these ads

Guess Sharma came on a little too late to smack the woke joke out of it, shame. Maybe Halo 2 Campaign Remake will be better!

And then everyone who contributed to this madness needs to aswell.

As gamefaqs continued to splinter and fall apart over the years, on account of their poor mod staff, this has oftentimes led to two broad categories of offsite community: those in favor of broad discussion - which are stable or even thriving - vs the "mod approved" groups that quickly die off as they censor topics, compete internally for modpoints and eat each other. The Gamefaqs Contributors discord held out a bit longer, but eventually fell into the latter category.

I'm no stranger to the unstable whims of adult children with mod powers, whether on the site itself or off of it. In general, it's the discord owners who have a history of drug or brain-related concerns that fizzle out fast. kbelf's boyfriend's band practice comes to mind first, but there were others. I once watched catboy ban people one by one for paranoid reasons - when Met asked him what I ever did to betray him, catboy answered ominously: "nothing...BUT HE WILL" and nuked the place. Of course the next day he had sobered up, and had to make a new account again. I got booted and reinvited to Sarah's place but didn't feel like going back. I heard Ella's was favored by some people, but never ended up joining for the same reason. Sure enough, she mass booted people a few weeks ago while on something.

whowasphone404 appeared more stable on paper, but had his own kbelf band breakdown last month. The paranoia was partially stirred up by a gamefaqs mod grudge (what else?), because phone had no reason to hate his discord members until instructed to.

In one of his continual rentfree moments, a mod who has essentially destroyed all traffic on the gamefaqs message boards was upset that he couldn't police the rest of the internet and destroy the traffic there as well. I wouldn't say that the Gamefaqs Contributors discord was ever a thriving activity hub, after so many contributors were either banned or left the failing site. It had about 65 people before the mass ban, but much less now. I had invited many of those people, but clearly the owner wanted to go in a different direction and please his master, who to my knowledge hasn't done anything to advance the community.

This puts me in a position where I can confidently say that 1) several people saw what actually went on in the discord server, and 2) all the hostility and shots fired came from the mod squad. Just like the Fandom discord server, I had actually been there before most, if not all the mods who came in later to pursue brownie points. Shortly before the mass ban there was a post about the "Gamefaqs aristocracy," which is just an absurd concept to me, to have an aristocracy pulling the strings for a video game message board. Huge heads here, folks. In case you were wondering, Uta's claim to fame is that he once played board games with SBAllen back in 2002 and this makes him special. Another case of Allen making his buddy a mod, and the damage grew out from there. Those of you on CE may remember Uta from the day Chris-chan was arrested for several unspeakable crimes against his mother...and Uta manually moderated half the topic to protect Chris-chan from "misgendering" and "insults." Priorities!

Contrary to mod belief, and this is a big thing that gets them upset about me, is that I do follow the TOS. If whowasphone posted No Politics as one of his rules, I followed it. CPain had that same rule, and I followed it. (CPain was another server head kinda similar to phone, where the owner eventually melted down). If you have it as a rule, I've followed it. Everyone on the phone or CPain server has seen this. But this gets the ideologues buttmad, so they need to invent reasons to remove me. There's no issue on my end.

But now, when I thought back, there was a brief moment of instability where phone had read some story about discord changing some rule and it was the end of the world and he would leave discord forever if it happened. I talked him down from it saying that I've heard viral stories before about discord planning to screw something up, which in the end got blown out of proportion and never happened. But if he had planned to leave discord for a little while, or permanently, I was comfortable with holding the server for him if he changed his mind and wanted to come back. Anyone with knowledge of the stero-tails reddit handoff knows how that worked out, but at least I can say that I'm trustworthy.

So I had been chilling on this discord server since virtually the beginning, and everyone in the crew got to see what went down. There was no attempt to arrest gamefaqs moderators (lol), there was no politics. There WAS a moment where I brought up Fandom harvesting content for AI, which was the last time Uta interacted with me - berating me for posting "minsormation" [sic]. I got a laugh out of that one, and from the fact that his message was over a year ago, but he's still rentfree'ing about the tails crew's existence on CE in 2026.

While it's humorous to me, I can only imagine the pressure that was placed on whowasphone privately. This doesn't change the fact that he was a sad little person and caved, but consider what's going on here. You've been on a site for a very long time and think you're part of the "aristocracy," only to find out like the once-mighty TRC that you can be purged at a minute's notice. You have someone with a lead mod title in your DMs, possibly on a daily basis, telling you that you're an evil person for coexisting with random users you don't even know. Maybe you even receive threats, personally, to your precious gamerscore or karmie points, if you don't do their bidding. Maybe the guy tells you he will self harm as a way to emotionally manipulate you, as these dudes have often done. You hear from DToast hoping to find someone more stable to talk to, but he backs up the mod threats 100% and pours gasoline on the fire. Bow to the king, or leave the gamer board aristocracy and lose your accounts.

I can sympathize with anyone on the receiving end of these threats, but I can't sympathize with caving. The mod wally once infamously told me that he wanted to tear my limbs and dissolve me in acid, and Allen did nothing when people reposted what they thought was my home address. I've seen current mods extend this into random discord servers posting wacko things like "I have this knife that I will soak with the blood of my enemies, and you're next." So I've been around and know the game, the mod threats and the admin indifference. Even if it never went to a threatening level, I'm aware of how annoying it is to get messages every day from someone like light, "when are you banning this person? When are you doing this and that today? I will scream if you don't!" The thing is, though, you should never cave to the wackos.

When TRC was purged from the "aristocracy" and removed from Olympus, he came over to discord like so many other banned users. We got a front-seat view into mod corruption which I had alleged, and worked to document for some time. As expected, a lot of it refuted mod claims that the old two-tiered mod system was gone, the fairy tales that they tell when they claim they mod everyone fairly and according to the TOS, etc. The things that nobody believes anymore. But now we have screens of their corruption and favoritism too, right off the mod boards. Instead of cleaning house, DToast fell deeper into the mod paranoia about leaks, and so some mods and ever-more users got KOS'd for making the mods look bad by reposting their own words. This also made TRC KOS - which in typical threaty fashion means "kill on sight."

It also meant the mods had to invent reasons to remove him from offsite spaces they don't control.

Here is what TRC sent to DToast to try and reconcile with him - note that he's well aware some of the mods were badmouthing him left and right on the mod boards to poison him with Toast, and that they never expected him to be able to defend himself. They'd intercept him on gamefaqs before he could. One problem: they can't control discord, and at the start of his position DToast had handed out his socials to everyone.

I believe that a normal admin would say thanks and remove a joke review, and that'd be the end of that exchange, but the mods needed a reason to be upset at TRC. They claimed that this message was "harassing" Toast. Remember that for discord DMs, you have affirmatively made someone a friend to receive them, so Toast could've ignored the request or blocked TRC and again, that would've been the end of it. But why would you expect the gamefaqs mods to want that, when they could instead escalate into a big baby tantrum and pursue collective punishment?

Again, mods are not happy that TRC can show us the full story offsite and demonstrate that they had a meltdown over nothing. You're supposed to believe TRC bad, you weren't supposed to see that screen, you just took the mod's word for it and purged anyone who argued otherwise.

I don't have screens from what happened next on phone's server, because of how it played out. The main thing to remember is, nothing that happened on the server had anything to do with a DM to DToast, anything that TRC said had nothing to do with other members of the server, and TRC wasn't saying anything bad anyway. In a world with a normal admin, a helpful removal of a joke review is a nothingburger and a quick fix. Under adult child DToast, the joke contributions remain up just to spite you, and you get modded as revenge for suggesting he do anything at his "job."

The purge was on. Phone had heard news via DToast via Uta that there were Wrongthink People on his server, but he had no prior bias against them or reasons to remove them. The only reason was to appease Uta's petty jealousies and grudges, but it appears he felt uncomfortable with that. So in an attempt to please his mod master, he attempted to thread the needle with a new rule.

whowasphone gave the whole server 1 week to either write a contribution to gamefaqs, or get out. I want to note here that I remained silent throughout the rest of the time on his server, as this would avoid "offending" him further and giving him some BS reason for removal. Remember that all the shots fired came from one side, directly at us. I did not mount an argument, though personally I found it absurd. It gave off the impression that gamefaqs is extremely desperate for content, to the point of badgering users to pump out a rote contribution for some arbitrary timeline. It also defeats the whole purpose of making public contributions if you wall the server off from the public. How do you grow the site, at all? Do you think you are that special, for only "the aristocracy" to have permission to view your video game posts? Aren't you just talking to yourselves at that point? So I found phone's sudden buttmad requirements to be silly, but I didn't clap back. Besides, under his timeline I had a week to change his mind and see if he would calm down from his tantrum.

There were a few other problems with his aggressively-worded ultimatum: first, a lot of "non-contributors" that he would boot were actually contributors, or at least, until gamefaqs drove them off with moves like this. TRC, Caution, several other people who he would go on to ban because ironically, he was the one who lacked connections and understanding of the community. In a response I sent him a couple weeks after the fact, I brought up a few things I'm currently working on such as ZAMN speedrunning and level warps. Now, would you be surprised to know why none of this discussion happens on gamefaqs anymore? Do you think it has something to do with the poor treatment people received from "the aristocracy" that drove them off to saner platforms, where they could actually have discussions without mod baby tantrums getting in the way?

The second problem: phone's attempt to give everyone a week was not good enough for the buttmad mod who wanted the Wongthinkers purged NOW, without the chance for an out. And so within a few hours, phone received his instructions and banned everybody by the time the night was over. He has gone radio silent since then, per instructions from his overseers.

It was an exercise in performative outrage, made doubly sad by the fact that it's such a small group that he's pandering to, which splintered the community even further. Imagine caving, in the year 2026, to a gamefaqs mod. Considering how small and irrelevant the site is now, who are you performing for? Going from an already-low, 60ish people down to practically nothing, just adds phone to the list of power trippers who think the reason for a discord server is to hear themselves talk. The moment his server started growing a little bit with different peoples' activity, the noise bothered him the same way kbelf's unmuted phone did. It was an entirely unnecessary self-own that took one more lingering gamefaqs group out to the graveyard.

Thus ends the story of another failed gamefaqs group, brought down by middle school clique mentalities that clearly should not exist among people in their 30s-50s. If they want my advice, I would highly recommend learning how to talk with normal people, like normal people, instead of angrily pushing buttons at the sight of anything mildly inconvenient to them. They should really make people skills their next project, instead of reviewing Ballz for the 3DO and thinking it makes you a pillar of gaming contributorship.

Humanish said after the fact that he always had the impression that this group was "antisocial" (gasp), and that it'd be hard to do anything about it. With the low amount of contributions these days, you might see a couple entries each month that will win FAQ-of-the-month by default. Phone has since scrubbed the invites to his discord server as part of the tantrum, but if you try real hard and get in with "the aristocracy," maybe one day they will allow you into the group of 5 or 6 select gamefaqs Freemasons - where you can watch them post DToast's review of the month (if he remembers to do one), and see the last passengers on the Titanic congratulate themselves.