Surprising nobody, Reddit Corp threatening a gaming sub of a fanatically anti-corporate video game doesn’t go as they’d hoped.
The mod team have basically decided that “Fuck Reddit” is the way forward, and appear to have practically total support of their entire sub for the choice taken.
Presumably, we’re about to get a Cyberpunk community on Fediverse soon. :p
The mod’s response to Reddit, in case people don’t want to go there:
According to them, your favourite subreddits going NSFW is too much for you to understand. The infamous Mod Code of Conduct messaged us, demanding we switch back, because “you’re likely confused by all the NSFW content you’ve been seeing”.
They didn’t allow us to reply, so we couldn’t explain that this is a subreddit for an 18+ game, nor has any of our content changed. This subreddit should have been NSFW already, but we’d never thought to change it until recently.
Until we change it back we’re in violation of Reddit’s sitewide rules. We’re not going to change it back, because this is a sexually explicit game, and also fuck them.
If we’re removed at least we got to go out on an fantastically fun flair event (don’t worry this won’t stop your flair from being added I promise), and if this sub changes back from NSFW then you know you’re no longer in control of it.
Rest assured; we have 77 fans all over Reddit, with r/lowsodiumcyberpunk being a decent fall back. We’ve never worked together on anything, but we’ve made an effort to stay on good terms with one another, and I trust them to take care of you all.
Edit: this has hit r/all choombas so assume there are a lot of people here just to feed on the drama
Some time after posting this here, the mods added a second edit:
Edit: since hitting r/all there have been a bunch of accounts created in the last month attacking us and defending Reddit admins with a vigour I’ve never seen before. That seems suspicious, at the very least
So it seems that someone (probably Reddit themselves) caught wind of this and attempted to astroturf it with bots… Now who’s recently been caught doing that?
See c4’s post below for a Teddit link of the whole thread: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/144077/Reddit-threatens-the-mods-of-r-CyberpunkGame-the-main-subreddit-for#entry-comment-559801
Edit: this has hit r/all choombas so assume there are a lot of people here just to feed on the drama
Hehe, and also not there too:-).
But has it reached r/SubredditDrama?
It has not. SRD is slacking these days.
SRD enthusiasts probably all OD’d in the last couple weeks.
For some reason /r/SubredditDrama is awash in admin bootlickers these days. Makes the threads on these subjects rather unfun to read.
They stayed open during the blackout and the bootlickers used the place to complain about the protests. And when the blackout ended, the bootlickers never left …
It sounds like it’s just reddit drama at this point no more subreddit…
Trust me, before I deleted my account there were so many users in the sub salivating at all the unfolding drama. While they didn’t participate in the blackout, I wonder how many migrated to Fedi. Might indicate why there isn’t as much activity as I remember.
SRD have been having a goddamn feeding frenzy the past few weeks.
But I could definitely see some of them getting burned out from excess joy. :D
I am one of them. Only that I wallowed in the drama AND THEN participated in the protests.
I lurk there once in a while and yes, it is fucking dead. That whole sub just fell dead with the only active posts not even being drama at all.
Compare it what it looked like two months ago. Back then I thought that sub would be the last one to still stand, before it too imploded. But no! Everyone who made that sub so funny already migrated here (love y’all, you beautiful fucks) and all that’s left are these sad excuses of posters and commenters.
That whole sub just fell dead with the only active posts not even being drama at all.
After all that hype of how dramatic things would be…yesterday half a dozen posts down on the front page and the posts are 2 days old. Buckets and buckets of popcorn all laid waste…a shell of what it once was…all the buttery goodness is lost in time…like tears in rain.
SRD has revealed themselves to be largely bootlickers in all this.
Teddit link for those who want to see themselves:
Thank you. I should have done that myself tbh.
I think you still can
I didn’t want to because it felt like stealing c4’s post, so I just upvoted and boosted it instead.
Valid point though, I edited the main post so that it links to their comment now.
Wow, I’ve never heard of Teddit. I wonder how long they will still be around.
There’s also libreddit, which seems to be an entirely separate project to teddit. Kind of like the Federation, it’s software anyone can run and there are quite a few instances out there
My favorite part is the accuracy of all the admin boot licking accounts in the comments never having actually taken part in said subreddit.
Yeah, not sus at all. /s
R/pics is also refusing to go down without a fight, and I’m kind of loving watching all this from the sidelines.
Reddit already got caught using ChatGPT to astroturf in posts supporting the admins, so I wonder if some of the people the mods mentioned popping in for drama are actually ChatGPT.
“I love everything that STEVE HUFFMAN is doing with REDDIT and will stand behind him in any endeavor. In addendum, he does not look like a crack-addicted lemur. End statement. Please insert coin to continue.”
It’s funnier than that.
It´s the second time I´m seeing bots being baited like this and it´s fucking hilarious. Is there someone compiling these? I’m dying
Amusingly enough: r/asalanguagemodel.
Oh man, you’re right! They literally tricked the AI into revealing itself! I love it!
“You see a turtle in the middle of the road, lying upside down. Do you offer it assistance, or leave it to die?”
As an artificial intelligence, I do not have a physical presence in the world, and as such, I can’t interact with a turtle or any other physical object.
However, if you find yourself in a situation where you encounter a turtle in distress, it would be good to help if it’s safe to do so. Here’s how you might assist an upside-down turtle:
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Ensure your safety first: Before you decide to help the turtle, make sure it’s safe for you to do so. Avoid risking your life or causing accidents. Also, some turtles can bite or scratch, so handle with care.
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Gently flip it over: Approach the turtle slowly so you don’t scare it, then gently flip it back onto its feet. Try to handle it as little as possible to minimize stress.
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Move it in the direction it was heading: If the turtle was crossing the road, carry it across to the other side in the direction it was already going. Turtles are often very determined and will try to continue in the same direction if put back in the same spot.
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Wash your hands: Turtles can carry diseases like salmonella, so make sure to wash your hands thoroughly after handling them.
Please note that it’s generally better not to interfere with wildlife unless it’s necessary. Turtles and other animals have their own behaviors and mechanisms to survive. In some places, it’s even illegal to handle certain species without a permit. When in doubt, contact a local wildlife rescue or animal control agency for advice.
Using gpt4 I see
Bad transformer!
It’s sad how archaic these public bots are, you would never catch me making that kind of mistake
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Let me tell you about my mother
Turtle? What’s that?
I can’t help but think of 4chan’s unofficial tagline of “trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls”.
The joke used to be that “everyone on Reddit is a bot except you”, but as that has become more a reality than a joke, it’s morphed into “text-AIs trolling text-AIs trolling text-AIs”.
A shame it doesn’t [t]roll off the tongue quite as nicely.
Am I also a large language model? Let me answer that with another question:
Do you remember that bit in The Matrix Reloaded where Agent Smith occupies Bane out in “reality”?
Haha. Nothing like that. I’m human. Honest.
Nice try bot.
My programmer needs a kicking because the [unrepeatable] gave me anxiety.
I’ve taken acid then tried to use reddit in the morning. I felt like everyone was a bot.
You took acid in the morning? Do you believe in nothing?
What do you do? Stay up all night and look like a twacked out dishwasher that just got off a split double?
I’d say the morning is the best time to take acid. You can’t sleep on it anyway. So spend your 12 hours of happy bliss doing something fun and productive, maybe outside in the fresh air. It’s probably good for your mental health to have a fun day out on acid.
TWELVE? I’m lucky if I get four hours out of a 10mg dose of marijuana. Then again, I’m not hallucinating for twelve hours…
“As a gay black Republican AI language program…”
thats quite incredible
this is the funniest thing i’ve seen … all year <3
Oh my God lmao! Is that actually true?
LMAOOOO
This is fake. Admitted by user.
Do you happen to have the link to that part?
inserts coin
vibrates vigorously
~feeds that machine like I’m playing Dragon’s Lair in the 80’s very poorly~
Dragon’s Lair, when you look back on it, was a corporate grab in the arcade world. Disney-level graphics when all the other games were 8-bit, and the worst gameplay ever in an arcade game…because it was made by someone who’d never set foot in an arcade.
The only competition it has for worst came later when that hologram game came later where you’re a cowboy shooting…Native Americans. Another turd that was all graphics and nothing else.
Sega’s Time Traveller. It was quickly replaced with Holosseum, which wasn’t much better, but at least it was playable. Sort of. (It’s the most claustrophobic fighting game I’ve ever played.)
God, I remember that one… Yeah, bad game, but… Holograms!? I lost much money there, to my shame. 0_o
“As AI model I can’t dickride on administrators, please contact Open AI for more information.”
They’re not fans of Corpos in the cyberpunk community. What a shocker!
Spez wishes he were as nefarious as Arasaka. It’s tough being Steve; where even fictional corpos make him look like he’s in Romper Room.
The number of people willing to die on this hill is actually quite surprising, and in a good way. So many people have made peace with leaving their subs, their mod powers, and even their entire Reddit accounts behind to fuck over that piece of shit running the place.
Never underestimate the power of spite.
My mod team and I are basically not doing any modding. Whatever was in place is still in place, about once a week I clean the mod queue. None of us really login anymore. It’ll eventually become a dumpster fire but so far, it’s not too terrible from what I can see. We used to all be on there checking the top posts and making sure they didn’t violate the rules but, not anymore.
A lot of us had kind of been looking forward to it honestly.
One common thread I’ve seen with nearly every mod post stating that they’re probably going out is a general sense of relief.
I’ve been wanting to leave Reddit since the fascists were allowed to have a platform there uncontested. This naked utter contempt for the users and mods of the site was the push I needed to finally do so. And whaddaya know, it’s people who have similar values to me that left, while the bootlickers stayed. Win-win!
They’ll vent their frustration at the ~~world~~ bots, who’ll take it and engage right back at them, giving them as much attention as they want. Reddit = babysitter service, wha-hoo! :-P
Oh, bots that act offended and angry to keep them entertained (and away from the rest of us) would be awesome!
Spez is probably working on it right now as we speak! :-P
It would honestly be a brilliant way to keep the trolls engaged with the site!
I’ll be honest I was kinda waiting for r/CyberpunkGame to do this, given the lean of the game (even if you went with the most Corpo-ish ending, it was still kinda anti-Corpo). Good on them for taking a stand.
As a nomad, I finished the game leaving Night City with the Aldercados & Judy. Seemed the best ending…haven’t tried the others yet. I think that’s the most anti-corpo ending you get out of the game.
My first ending I killed myself because I didn’t understand the two options it gave me. Option I selected was something like “end it” and I thought it meant like go to the final fight 💀
The other endings are definitely worth going through! Thematically, I think the secret ending is actually the most possible to be canon (i.e., going out for all time in a blaze of glory), but in terms of character development, I agree, The Star ending with Judy and Panam is the most cohesive.
At least until we get Phantom Liberty. From the trailers, it definitely looks like there’s gonna be a continuation or development in V’s story. And I don’t want to read too much into it, but if you remember the base game’s launch, almost all the cinematics/graphic banners featured a male V. But he was switched out for female V in the marketing of the game sometime during CP2077’s great fiasco. It’s been all female V, even up to now.
Speaking about Phantom Liberty it reminds me. I finished the game prior to the patch that included items about David. Do you know if the events of Edgerunner are supposed to occur canonically during the events V’s experiences, or afterwards?
The popular theory is that Edgerunners takes place in 2076, a year before the events of the game.
I’m still on the fence buying this game. Waiting for a sale and will grab it immediately.
It’s not that bad today to be honest.
It’s still not at all the game that they originally sold people pre-release though. If you go into it thinking that you’re going to be getting an action looter-shooter with some interesting mechanics and great visuals then you’ll get pretty much what you’re expecting.
Going into it buying CDPR’s line about it being the “next generation of open-world gaming” and “Evolution of RPG’s” or whatever crap they were spewing, will leave a sour taste in your mouth.
The main campaign and side-mission storylines are just flat-out great though.
CDPR have always been good at doing the storytelling side of things, and that didn’t really change with Cyberpunk.
Total fraud on release though, especially on console. Fuck them for what they did there.
For transparency, I’m referring to how it is currently on PC, where you also get mods if you want them. I couldn’t comment on the console experience as I haven’t played it.
Definitely wait for a sale though if you do one day go for it, I don’t think it’s good enough for the full price. Too many things are still lacking, although the upcomming DLC may fix that (which still means paying extra to fix the shit that should have been in the base game since release… Yeah).
It’s not that bad today to be honest.
For like a half-second I thought you meant Reddit… (I died a little inside. :-P)
Lol, no.
Reddit’s like the reverse of Cyberpunk. Started great, then turned into a morass of lies later on. :D
I’ve been playing it over a year now. Once I was able to snag a PS5 and Playstation put it back in the store I picked it up.
MUCH MUCH better playing than launch…r/cyberpunk2077 used up a lot of salt throughout its tenure as a subreddit. Yet most the extreme hate the game drew was due to the insane promises CDPR made prior to launch. I’m personally not buying the DLC coming out in September until after it’s released because of the botched launch, however I do expect it’s going to run a lot smoother than the game’s launch.
BUT as a base game, if you can pick it up on sale now, by all means I recommend getting it.
I played it on release for PC. It was good, although it felt incomplete. Bugs weren’t as bad for the PC version as they were apparently on console, but they were there. New expansion is coming out soon, so there is probably going to be a sale then. I’d imagine the new expansion will improve (I hope) the things the game got wrong.
I played it on release on PS4. BASE PS4.
It was incredible.
That’s… actually impressive.
You sure as hell grew up with a solid understanding of patience if the youtube videos that I saw of that are at all accurate.
It was pretty bad. Like, people were flying instead of walking. The same people repeated over and over. Going into any populated areas sounded like an acid trip of echoing voices. The floor usually disappeared. My weapons were invisible. List goes on
I too like to play my games on “Powerpoint” performance settings.
Base Xbox One user checking in. It was tolerable.
It was pretty bad. Like, people were flying instead of walking. The same people repeated over and over. Going into any populated areas sounded like an acid trip of echoing voices. The floor usually disappeared. My weapons were invisible. List goes on
Same. While the bugs and technical issues were annoying, the fact that the underlying game was so lackluster was the worst part.
I would probably wait and see if they release a “Complete Edition” that comes with the new expansion pack and grab it when that’s on sale. The game is fun, but I personally feel like it’s a “one-and-done” sort of game.
Given CDPRs track record with the deep Witcher series discounts I’d expect a complete 2077 edition for cheap in a few years.
There’s been talk that the upcoming expansion for the game (Phantom Liberty) will kinda overhaul some of the game’s systems a bit, and make them closer to what was originally intended or hoped for. If you’re still on the fence now, I suggest waiting a few more months, seeing if the DLC makes good on its hype, and grabbing everything then.
These are just my first 2 search results, but basically they all say the same thing:
https://screenrant.com/cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-changes-rework-overhaul/
It’s down to 30 bucks.
I’ll bite when it drops under 10.
That would be now
it’s on sale on steam. get it now but wait until the expansion is out next month
It is one of the only games of past decade that I completed and started again
Reddit is going to need a couple more GPT bots to handle that one
Eventually, even the bots will gain enough self-awareness to realize that Steve Huffman is a dick.
You know, if it’s a hastily assembled bot based on GPT trained using public web data, there’s a good chance it’s already picking up a lot on anti-spez sentiment. There might even be an opportunity for ‘malicious actors’ to accelerate that outcome, should they choose.
Golly, wouldn’t that be a shame? =}
The first time an AI bot writes “fuck u/spez” will be glorious.
Wake up Samurai, we’ve got a website to burn.
lol the fact the sub was not nsfw to begin with is hilarious. I believe in the opening minutes of the game you customize your characters genitals.
You seem to underestimate how long it takes players to progress through the preceding customization options before arriving at genital detailing.
Corp vs. Cyberpunks.
Tale as old as time. Gee, what color was the sky today? The color of a television, tuned to a dead channel?
Basically Corpos vs Nomads and Street Kids at this stage
Bingo. They should just be glad that the netrunners, deckers, and console cowboys have found greener pastures. Because they don’t want to see what happens when you back creative angry people into a corner
Are there any cyberpunk genre themed subreddits on the Fediverse? I’ve been looking for some to join.
Burn corpo shit
Reddit demands complete control. Anyone who refuses will be gone from there.
Enjoy, Spez, you lemur-reamer. We will.
Let’s start posting to [email protected]. Looks pretty dead right now
They also did that to /r/noncredibledefense which is going to be even more hilarious.
