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[Dontero]

It honestly looked like footage from Hardcore Henry. Insane how he was doing that while having his personal playlist on in the background.

Yeah dude is clearly lunatic.

When i was young for fun i watched rotten with friends often for all my life i thought that i couldn't be grossed by anything, like terminator.

Then i was just walking to my work one day like 10 years ago and dude hit woman on sidewalk, like pupped she were thrown just near me and she ended up with sitting position i looked down and i saw that her both legs had torn knees.
No kind of any kind of gore could prepare you for real gore, i just vomited straight away it was good that someone was tending to her because i couldn't even stand straight for good 5 minutes. Just smell alone was enough for me to throw up again and again.

Dude was just tearing people apart with this rifle and didn't bat an eye.

 

[J-Roderton]

So, were there two shooters or no?

 

[Verdanth]

Shit this is a sick world we live in.

Regret watching the video, seriously, way to graphic and hardcore.

Of course this will have repercussions, specially in Europe.

The human being is just twisted in so many ways.

 

[Brawlz]

Wow lol, Apparently I've just been banned from Resetera for 2 weeks. On the grounds that I was "downplaying hate speech" somehow, even though that isn't true.

How can people discuss this horrible and sensitive situation in a civil and reasonable way, and not simply react before thinking, when you're punished for not falling in line with the partisan views of the mob and the moderation?

I have no prior history of warnings, no previous banning, I do my best to never be rude when addressing other posters if not provoked. Bam! 2 week ban, no warning.
Simply for making a plea to be more reasonable and to not lay the blame of all this massive suffering at the feet of Pewdiepie. I made my point to consider the motives of the psycho that actually committed this evil act. as he makes it clear himself. To not play into what he want. Neither we nor the media should be giving these fuckers the reactions they want. I quoted another poster, who in my opinion, made some reasonable points. The poster was even apologetic in their tone, but was also issued a 2 week ban for that very post.

Open racism toward whites, and sexism towards men go unchecked on there, but my post was somehow "downplaying hate speech."
Fucking. Clown world.

Welcome to the hive-mind.

You're not allowed to voice a contrarian opinion on Reset without fear of being ostracized, even if its completely sincere and level-headed. Its hilariously comical.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

selfishly, I for one, am happy this wasn't in the US for once

RIP victims. my thoughts are with your famlies, friends, country and culture.

even if its too much to ask 7.5 billion people to all get along, efforts must continue to be made no matter how small.

first off, lets get rid of religion. then make it mandatory that people can only procreate with an opposite race. or reverse the order

 

[Thurible]

first off, lets get rid of religion. then make it mandatory that people can only procreate with an opposite race. or reverse the order

This is a thread about a tragedy, not weird and unethical political ideas. People actually died, don't make this about how religion is bad or how certain races "need" to be mixed or eliminated.

 

[Reyben]

then make it mandatory that people can only procreate with an opposite race. or reverse the order

Excuse me?

 

[JimiNutz]

Excuse me?

So that we all end up one race of light brown people I guess?

Like that episode of South Park where the people come back from the future and they're all a light brown colour because race no longer exists and they speak a universal language that is a mixture of all the previous national languages.

I don't think there's any need for that but I guess that's what heckmanimation is talking about?

 

[ThatStupidLion]

This is a thread about a tragedy, not weird and unethical political ideas. People actually died, don't make this about how religion is bad or how certain races "need" to be mixed or eliminated.

defensive much Mr. Catholicism?

this is a thread about a vicious terrorist attack. a terrorist attack where their motive was race and religion based.

all im facetiously saying, is that an (obviously) impossible solution would be to eliminate the main reasons that cause division in the world.

nothing was political about my comment. nor did i specify certain races need for elimination. I'm talking about all of mother natures people need unity and homogeneity.

 

[BossLackey]

So, were there two shooters or no?

I watched the entire thing.

Just one guy with a semi-auto shotgun and a semi-auto AR-15 with several magazines.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

I watched the entire thing.

Just one guy with a semi-auto shotgun and a semi-auto AR-15 with several magazines.

how bad was it? sounds terrible .cant believe they streamed it. thats some scary next gen shit.

 

[JimiNutz]

how bad was it?

It's a video filmed from a first person perspective in which a man murders nearly 50 innocent people using a shotgun and rifle... It's bad.

I'm not going to bother describing exactly what happens in the video but to give you an idea of how fucked up it is: At one point he walks up to a woman injured on the floor, begging for help and shoots her multiple times in the head at near point blank range.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

It's a video filmed from a first person perspective in which a man murders nearly 50 innocent people using a shotgun and rifle... It's bad.

I'm not going to bother describing exactly what happens in the video but to give you an idea of how fucked up it is: At one point he walks up to a woman injured on the floor, begging for help and shoots her multiple times in the head at near point blank range.

wow - thats heartbreaking and stomach turning. poor people

 

[Clear]

even if its too much to ask 7.5 billion people to all get along,

Billions can and do get along. All it takes is one sociopath to commit atrocities like this if they are sufficiently armed to do so.

The issue that people need to focus on is one of capability. If nuclear devices were as commonly available as paramilitary-grade arms how long would it take before whole towns and cities started getting wiped off the map?

Motive is irrelevent. Evil acts get perpetrated every day globally, and there's always a "reason" (usually bad), but understanding that doesn't help anyone so long as the means exists to execute it.

The most notable thing about this crime is its specific weaponization of social media in order to maximize the notoriety of the offender. The bullshit reasons "why" they allegedly committed it are irrelevent, focussing on them simply plays to the sociopathic intentions of the perpetrator.

 

[Antoon]

Thats horrible, but where can I see the video?

 

[crobb991]

i read the fuckers manifesto.... this world needs Jesus

 

[waxer]

I didn't expect that my reaction to this would be not just about sadness but as a new zealander I feel a deep sense of shame. Fault or not.

Specualation says Sounds like three Australians involved so far.

Wonder if fourth person arrested was with them or if one of the people who defended as the police would no doubt be forced to arrest anyone with weapon until investigated.

 

[hariseldon]

This is a thread about a tragedy, not weird and unethical political ideas. People actually died, don't make this about how religion is bad or how certain races "need" to be mixed or eliminated.

Absolutely +1 to this.

 

[KoolAidPitcher]

My heart goes out to those who were impacted by the brutal rampage of this sociopath. Anyone who commits an act like this based on one's religion or immutable characteristics (race, gender, etc.) deserves no attention or fame. Do not publish his name. Do not read his manifesto.

Now is not the time to advocate for the censorship of speech. Speech did not cause this lunatic to go on a rampage. As a matter of fact, censoring and banning people from social media for unpopular speech only causes them to go into darker places on the internet where they interact with other extremists and become radicalized.

 

[KoolAidPitcher]

By the way,

Anyone using this tragedy to score cheap political points, left or right needs to check themselves before they wreck themselves. Blaming Spyro the Dragon, PewDiePie, Candace Owens, Fortnite, the music he was listening to, or anything else for the actions of this raving lunatic is nonsense and damaging to public discourse.

 

[Xenon]

Truly sick actions. My hearty goes out for those people and their family members.

 

[synchronicity]

Welcome to the hive-mind.

You're not allowed to voice a contrarian opinion on Reset without fear of being ostracized, even if its completely sincere and level-headed. Its hilariously comical.

Ironically hive-mind, me-good / you-bad, is exactly what leads to these horrible things. The lack of patience and tolerance for others and their viewpoints, positions, culture, etc. is the very catalyst to the tragedies we see perpetrated with seemingly increasing frequency. Their itchy-trigger condemnation of you (the poster referenced) is in total harmony with the itchy trigger of these gunmen senselessly killing masses.

 

[Scopa]

Society is doomed. The internet is not real life, but people are being mass brainwashed into treating life like a game. Empathy is getting closer to extinction with every generation. Selfishness is the rule of the day. It’s disturbing and tragic.

Something has to give.

 

[darkziosj]

Why is everyone blaming pewdiepie? he has like a billion subscribers of course some of them are fucking crazy, just like every, work place, school, college etc has them.

 

[CyberPanda]

Why is everyone blaming pewdiepie? he has like a billion subscribers of course some of them are fucking crazy, just like every, work place, school, college etc has them.

Because the shooter said ‘subscribe to pewdiepie’ during his stream. That’s why, and Era is full of morons. They blame everyone except the shooter himself.

 

[choco-fish]

Thats horrible, but where can I see the video?

Why? Why would you ask that?

I’m struggling to deal with the amount of comments of people who have actually admitted to watching the live stream let alone asking for links to the video....

 

[Cybrwzrd]

Billions can and do get along. All it takes is one sociopath to commit atrocities like this if they are sufficiently armed to do so.

The issue that people need to focus on is one of capability. If nuclear devices were as commonly available as paramilitary-grade arms how long would it take before whole towns and cities started getting wiped off the map?

Motive is irrelevent. Evil acts get perpetrated every day globally, and there's always a "reason" (usually bad), but understanding that doesn't help anyone so long as the means exists to execute it.

The most notable thing about this crime is its specific weaponization of social media in order to maximize the notoriety of the offender. The bullshit reasons "why" they allegedly committed it are irrelevent, focussing on them simply plays to the sociopathic intentions of the perpetrator.

Billions *do not* get along. That is why we have nation states of people who are supposed to get along. And that is why we have diplomacy to make sure those nation states themselves get along.

 

[Javthusiast]

Holy shit, Era going full in on blaming PewDiePie for promoting shit like this racist terrorist attack.

 

[nkarafo]

I don't get it, what was his target? I thought it was muslims, that's why he attacked the church. But then why did he kill the random people outside?

 

[wzy]

how bad was it? sounds terrible .cant believe they streamed it. thats some scary next gen shit.

It's horrible but nothing that would give anyone nightmares, except maybe towards the end there's a girl in shock screaming "help me!" before she's killed.

People should watch the video, frankly. They should learn that real world violence is never quite as satisfying as killers expect it to be. There's no catharsis, no spectacle, no geysers of blood or exploding skulls or anything like that. It's about the farthest possible thing from entertaining. The worst part (and the reason the kill count is so high) is that he strolls around executing people who have already been shot, which, even if you're the psycho killer in the video is nothing remotely like a triumph. Hollywood has a way of making violence seem so full of meaning and purpose but what you see in the video is almost the total opposite.

 

[triplestation]

on fucking point

 

[Guiberu]

I've seen some shit. I watched the footage. It's revolting.

The man is very clearly disturbed. Scrawled all over his weaponry and ammo. Brief moments of humility can be heard in the way he breathes, but his sanity is gone. His intention was most certainly to be killed on site.

Nothing to do with political or social influencers. All to do with severe mental illness.

 

[badblue]

Thats horrible, but where can I see the video?

Why the fuck would anyone willingly want watch it?

 

[triplestation]

I've seen some shit. I watched the footage. It's revolting.

The man is very clearly disturbed. Scrawled all over his weaponry and ammo. Brief moments of humility can be heard in the way he breathes, but his sanity is gone. His intention was most certainly to be killed on site.

Nothing to do with political or social influencers. All to do with severe mental illness.

Agreed. Also, Kamikaze pilots had nothing to do with politics. Al Qaeda had nothing to do with politics. Nazis had nothing to do with politics. The gas chambers, the suicide crashes. I mean what normal person would do that? How's it not crystal clear that none of that had to do with politics? It was just a bunch of mentally ill people. Just because this guy had a white supremacist manifesto makes this about politics? Just doesn't add up.

 

[triplestation]

Why the fuck would anyone willingly want watch it?

 

[Guiberu]

He was insane. Not a zealot.

 

[triplestation]

He was insane. Not a zealot.

Yeah, nobody aware to the phenomenon of racism is going to dismiss him as just plain insane, especially given how tightly knit and calculated his plans were. I do hope you reconsider your thoughts.

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

so stupid small scale idiot. you stream when you surpass hitler and reach skynet, we who are the messiah the xman the most powerful mutant, it is only once we have the machine race fully in line that we begin mass genocide of all organic life.

 

[BossLackey]

how bad was it? sounds terrible .cant believe they streamed it. thats some scary next gen shit.

It's not "gory" per se. I don't even know if there's blood. But he walks up to a Mosque where two men were standing with their back to him, and he doesn't stop firing his shotgun until it's empty. Then he throws it it on the ground and immediately pulls out his rifle and shoots fleeing people before putting several magazines into two cowering groups on opposite sides of the room.

One guy tries to run past him and he shoots him point blank while getting knocked down.

He keeps going back to the main room and firing into the mass of bodies on either side of the room.

He gets back in his car, drives a bit, then starts firing one of his other shotguns through the windshield at people. It's hard to tell if they're obviously Muslim or if he's firing indiscriminately. Especially since he pauses at a crosswalk and two people walk right past him none the wiser.

This is all basically 1st person in the video.

 

[Horsemama1956]

Agreed. Also, Kamikaze pilots had nothing to do with politics. Al Qaeda had nothing to do with politics. Nazis had nothing to do with politics. The gas chambers, the suicide crashes. I mean what normal person would do that? How's it not crystal clear that none of that had to do with politics? It was just a bunch of mentally ill people. Just because this guy had a white supremacist manifesto makes this about politics? Just doesn't add up.

I mean politics were clearly used to get people to fall in line and help with this stuff. Thousands of mentally ill people dont just get together and commit these crimes(in the cases of terrorism cells/nazis etc).

Politics and religion are just tools.

 

[Clear]

Billions *do not* get along. That is why we have nation states of people who are supposed to get along. And that is why we have diplomacy to make sure those nation states themselves get along.

Way to miss the point, did I really have to specify billions of individuals when pointing out that the overwhelming majority of people on this planet go through their entire lives without committing acts of mass-murder?

 

[V4skunk]

Holy shit, Era going full in on blaming PewDiePie for promoting shit like this racist terrorist attack.

They are also straight up banning people that read the 75 page manifesto that the killer uploaded.

 

[JimiNutz]

I don't get it, what was his target? I thought it was muslims, that's why he attacked the church. But then why did he kill the random people outside?

The random people outside were also Muslim. Non Muslim people walk by him when he's in his car and he doesn't shoot them. He does randomly start shooting out of his car windows at one point but it's not clear whether he's actually shooting at anyone or just intentionally breaking his windows and windshield (maybe in anticipation of a shootout with the Police?) The people he shot outside the Mosque were definitely Muslim though.

 

[SaniOYOYOY]

Because the shooter said ‘subscribe to pewdiepie’ during his stream. That’s why, and Era is full of morons. They blame everyone except the shooter himself.

Just did an account suicide there yesterday because of this. I tried to tolerate those lunatics for a while. But now they focused more on trump/pdp/candice rather than mourne. They only care about their agenda, not the victims

 

[CyberPanda]

Just did an account suicide there yesterday because of this. I tried to tolerate those lunatics for a while. But now they focused more on trump/pdp/candice rather than mourne. They only care about their agenda, not the victims

I might as well talk to a wall. I would get a better conversation with a lifeless object than a Era member lol.

 

[Punished Miku]

Just did an account suicide there yesterday because of this. I tried to tolerate those lunatics for a while. But now they focused more on trump/pdp/candice rather than mourne. They only care about their agenda, not the victims

It really is best to get the fuck out of there. You'll notice your writing will actually get better even. I read posts of mine on other websites and on here from 2014 and my thoughts were much freer, longer paragraphs, more articulate. Then after a year of posting at Resetera and being afraid to type anything like a normal person with a clear opinion, I noticed my posts were significantly less interesting and my actual thoughts were getting worse.

Tell everyone you know to get the fuck out of there. It's a shithole.

Furthermore, they don't even do a good job aggregating gaming news anymore. It's gotten so bad that I don't miss it at all, because they spend more time persecuting each other than even discussing games. You really wont miss it.

 

[CyberPanda]

It really is best to get the fuck out of there. You'll notice your writing will actually get better even. I read posts of mine on other websites and on here from 2014 and my thoughts were much freer, longer paragraphs, more articulate. Then after a year of posting at Resetera and being afraid to type anything like a normal person with a clear opinion, I noticed my posts were significantly less interesting and my actual thoughts were getting worse.

Tell everyone you know to get the fuck out of there. It's a shithole.

Its like the communist USSR gulag's over there.

 

[Brawlz]

Just did an account suicide there yesterday because of this. I tried to tolerate those lunatics for a while. But now they focused more on trump/pdp/candice rather than mourne. They only care about their agenda, not the victims

I won't lie, the pure gaming size of Era isn't the worst experience in the known multiverse, but, any political conversation always ends in the same autistic pattern.

Shame too considering that side always bleeds into the only tolerable side that site has.

 

[Lionel Richie]

They are also straight up banning people that read the 75 page manifesto that the killer uploaded.

What the fuck? Why? Listen, the PDP thing I can understand. I don't agree with and I think it's moronic and ridiculously unimportant, like JFC seriously the guy just carries out a massive attack and we're talking about e-celebs, suck my dick Resetera/anyone that did that. Anyway, shielding your eyes from the manifesto isn't going to bring anyone back and it's important information when you consider what we could learn from this situation. It's an insight to the mind of a severely crazy person and anyone that is mature enough to understand that and wants to see how frighteningly dangerous extremism and extremist speech are should read in fact read it.

You're not platforming it by reading it.

 

[Sqorin Hammerfarf]

Ironically hive-mind, me-good / you-bad, is exactly what leads to these horrible things. The lack of patience and tolerance for others and their viewpoints, positions, culture, etc. is the very catalyst to the tragedies we see perpetrated with seemingly increasing frequency. Their itchy-trigger condemnation of you (the poster referenced) is in total harmony with the itchy trigger of these gunmen senselessly killing masses.

Speaking of radicalization, I took a brief moment to go over to ResetEra, saw a thread about boycotting THQ Nordic and... one of those fuckers is going to murder someone one day. Like literally murder someone. I don’t tend to hang out at white supremacist places, but I have to imagine the rhetoric is going to be eerily familiar. The lyrics are different, but the melody sounds the same. You can tell that there is nothing behind the eyes but pure, unadulterated hate.