Gamer’s Delight

moz, they/she/he, 27, writer, fool, games enthusiast

[release-the-sheep]

just witnessed something devastating

guy on the subway with one ear pierced, little gold hoop. other guy on the subway very quickly and subtly googling "which one is the gay ear". it is not the gay ear. visible disappointment on his face as he puts his phone away.

[cannibalchicken]

[crabussy]

-> listening to a jaunty country style song -> hear the lyrics wrong -> pause. frown. go back a few seconds to relisten -> hears the same fucked up lyrics -> check the actual lyrics to see what it ACTUALLY says

-> oh!

[officialpenisenvy]

calling a mutual by their name and having to check you're right like omg what if they transitioned and changed their name in the twelve hours since i last saw them on my dash

[spiribia]

it's actually sick you get tired of eating the same food over and over when some animals they just eat grass all day mind you. just another pointless challenge mechanic added in by big universe to get you to go to the grocery store

[skopostheorie]

[fervent-bookwomb]

i think that soy sauce fish and honey bear must be the very very best of friends

[fervent-bookwomb]

look at them. look at them!!! i bet they have tea parties together when the spice cabinet is closed.

[emtearzz]

buddies!!

[dogpuppy]

[luntfontanne]

cannot stop thinking about this tweet… AUGH 😭

[lemonsharks]

This is art at the same volume as the banana duct taped do a wall but in the opposite direction

[lesbianlizard]

adhd solidarity in unexpected places

[blackjame]

Madison Square Garden sues Wired over article alleging celebrity 'risk scores'

Madison Square Garden filed a defamation lawsuit against Wired Magazine over story claiming the arena tracked and assigned risk scores to ce

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly

Madison Square Garden Has Been Secretly Tracking Queer Musicians

The venue’s database also assigned a “high risk” label to Freddie Gibbs, Lil Jon, and other rappers

Madison Square Garden Allegedly Marked Celebs as “LGBTQIA” in Surveillance Database

New reports from 404 Media and Wired reveal a database that allegedly categorized 93 celebrity guests as “LGBTQIA.”

MSG is suing Wired over recent surveillance article

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[wizardshark]

The number 1 defense against defamation is the truth.

[suffer-louder]

Quote from that 3rd link:

Soon after the Garden began to relax its Covid restrictions in the spring of 2021, Nina Richards was regularly going to Knicks games there. According to one former MSG security staffer, she became a fixation for Eversole.

Eversole, a former senior director of global investigations at Oracle, instructed his deputies to compile “work-ups”—open source intelligence dossiers—on her. He made sure she was in the Garden's face-recognition system and ordered the Garden's security apparatus to focus on her, former MSG security staffer Donnie Ingrasselino later alleged in a lawsuit. Not because she posed any kind of danger at that moment. Because Richards was a transgender woman, and Eversole allegedly wanted to keep her “away from the players.”

Eversole targeted Richards “because of her gender identity,” Ingrasselino added in his suit. Employees who were forced to conduct the surveillance were often uncomfortable, since they believed it to be a clear act of profiling, according to the first former staffer. "She posed no threat," added a second former employee.

"She wasn't taking pictures in restricted areas. She wasn't trying to go places she shouldn't be,” the source continued. “This is just a very large transgender woman, being a fan, walking around.”

But Eversole's orders were explicit: Keep watching. According to the lawsuit, he showed Richards' picture in several weekly meetings, misgendering her, and telling employees to watch out for “him or it or whatever it is.” Ingrasselino further contends in his court filing that “Eversole did not similarly limit access to others who socialized with athletes, including individuals who had extensive criminal histories and had the potential of posing a legitimate threat to MSG.”

On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden. It was Pride night. Richards was there, attending with a friend. An 18-page report prepared by Eversole's Threat Management Group and reviewed by WIRED shows just how closely she was being monitored.

07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5

07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse

07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher

Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red.

08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar

08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks

08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table

It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG “membership experience executive” (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds.

[Scans of two documents reporting on her movements. Photographs of her have been blurred]

Every MSG security source who was knowledgeable about this surveillance campaign used the word “excessive” or some synonym for this level of scrutiny. The report listed no reason for including these details on her movements. But when Richards and her guest on that January night began to move to some of the best seats in the house, the document's background turns red. It catalogs Richards talking to a security guard at 9:06 pm; that same guard walking over to section 1, row 1—right next to the Garden's famed “celebrity row” and Richards taking one of those seats 34 seconds after.

That night, Richards posted photos to her Instagram account. The images were included in the MSG security report. “What a great night,” she wrote in the captions. “I pray that this new year brings more peace, love and understanding to everyone.” In three of the photos, she's standing on the court, presenting a striking figure in a glittery jacket and boots. The post got 13,501 likes.

People who make it courtside often take such pictures or are caught on camera during TV broadcasts. According to Ingrasselino's lawsuit, Eversole claimed that if an “openly” trans woman were noticed, it could “damage MSG’s reputation.” The first former employee adds that they were told the very sight of Richards made the Garden brass uncomfortable.

“This was harassment. This was not OK,” the third former staffer said.

There's been centuries' worth of theorizing about the effects of surveillance on people's actions. More recently, neuroscientists have demonstrated what happens to the brains of people under the spycam’s gaze. Associate professor Kiley Seymour of the University of Technology Sydney has theorized that it induces a kind of hyper-reactivity, a constant state of fight-or-flight. “Being watched,” Seymour told Scientific American, “drives this hardwired survival mechanism into overdrive.”

Richards used to have an active, vibrant presence online. Today, Richards has functionally erased herself from the internet. Her 44,000-follower Instagram account has been nuked. Richards didn’t respond to requests for comment about her treatment by the Garden’s staff, other than to ask that WIRED not use her real name.

(An MSG spokesperson didn't respond to detailed questions about the treatment of Richards. But in a court filing, Garden lawyers said the allegation that “Eversole directed the use of facial recognition software to monitor the activities of a transgender woman” was “a clear attempt to cast Eversole in a negative light”—one carried out in “excessive, needless detail.”)

Richards was banned from the Garden, right when the Knicks have been fielding their best teams in decades. “Mr. Eversole [f]abricated a stalking allegation to justify banning” her from the Garden, according to Ingrasselino's suit. Every knowledgeable MSG security source we spoke to about this felt the charge was a smear. But it worked.

If a plutocrat’s corporate enforcer can put Richards in that position, it opens any of us to being the subject of the next paranoid campaign. “You have all this work going into tracking someone who's not doing anything tangibly wrong,” the second ex-staffer says.

These Garden security sources—and several others—claim the pursuit of Richards was very much in character for Eversole, who brought an intensity to his role at the Garden that colleagues alternatively described as scary, cartoonish, ruthlessly effective, or a combination of all three.

[64mpg]

“but if i communicate it perfectly then they will understand me” WRONG 10,000 years of suffering

[davros42]

When old comics age extremely well.

[davros42]

We have an update on the situation.

[thejorie-deactivated20160327]

My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

[airoehead]

that’s really great man

[clara-the-cat]

Yeah that’s really cool, I wish I had three weed smoking girlfriends, I’m happy for you

[portraits-of-afrikan-beauty]

Nigerian sculptor Blessing Ejiroghene Instagram · @ejirofenegal

[foreveriallyzombified]

i think i’m going to be straight now can a girl come on this post so i can practice i want to try to be straight today

[foreveriallyzombified]

i need a girl to come on to this post i need to try something

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

ok. im come over.

[foreveriallyzombified]

heyyyy lol 😛 sooooooo *leans against the wall in a way that’s way way way way too close and you can smell my deer attractant and axe body spray combo* ummmm *blushes* *goes red*

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

ok. whatever. *looks away from you, hornily*

[foreveriallyzombified]

*i panic and rip your face off*

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

ummm.... ok... kind of weird... you are such a weird guy lol.... kind of funny tho... lol... can we kiss now. *i am unperturbed and my face is growing back slowly because i am immortal*

[foreveriallyzombified]

OOC: Godmodding. This is why i never RP with women

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

OOC: Typical misogyny. And of course the mod team does nothing. This is why rpworld.zetaforums.net is failing. I’ll be taking me - and my FOURTY-SEVEN active RP threads - to roleplaydream.invisionfree.com. Thanks for nothing.

[foreveriallyzombified]

OOC: Have fun getting anyone to play with your shitty mary sue. Go back to fanfic

[thenightling]

What the fuck did I just read?  As a role player and a non-straight woman... I think I need a drink after reading this.  You are BOTH terrible role players, and neither of you are worthy of a good plot. 

[foreveriallyzombified]

*crawls towards you on all fours submissively hoping you don’t hurt me*

[thegeekgene]

More ghosts should have diarrhea

[curlicuecal]

see i realize now you mean 'as their cause of death' but upon first read this just felt like a very bizarre curse upon ghosts