Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Jansen]

Speaking of Iconera being hardcore Sony fans
https://www.resetera.com/threads/where-did-it-all-go-wrong-for-playstation.987621/

That's the question for which I wanted an answer. It's not a secret that the PS5 generation is building up to be quite precarious for not only players, who have been complaining about a lack of games to play, but also for developers and publishers who seemingly are unable to find success on the platform. If you remember, just a few years ago with the PS4 in full swing it really did seem like Sony was unbeatable and that they were simply destined for success, so what happened? Let's put ourselves in the middle of 2017. After a bit of a rocky start, the generation had finally pulled itself together with PS4 establishing itself as the place to be on if you were a third party publisher. Around that time we had gotten the releases of Nioh, Nier Automata, Yakuza 0, Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5 – all games that found massive success on the platform despite most of them being full blown PlayStation exclusives at the time. It's such a different situation compared to the PS5, isn't it? The idea of even just one of those games managing to sell impressively on it seems like a pipe dream, with nothing but Live Service and the biggest AAA games managing to thrive on it.

The answer to that question from the beginning is simple: complacency. Sony didn't accurately assess the rising threat from both PC, stealing a portion of the platform's hardcore audience, and Nintendo, who rose like a phoenix from the Wii U's ashes to be put on track of becoming the best selling console of all time (and slowly but surely convincing developers to support it along the way). What could Sony have done differently then? One obvious answer for the former could be not doing the PC ports, but PC ports are the symptom, not the cause. In their search for only selling the biggest and most expensive games, they found themselves in a situation where the platform had to carry the games, and not the other way around like traditionally consoles operated. Not only do these games cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, but they also take long enough to make that these studios have to find more ways of generating profit, hence the rise in PC ports and these pointless PS5 remasters, the extended crossgen period and throwing billions at Live Service games as a Hail Mary. With PS4 they at least had a very accessible platform where they could pursue aggressive discount strategies, but the situation was made even worse now with PS5 since the Hardware itself is too expensive to make, in turn limiting the audience of the games, cycling back to making the hardware less desirable, and so on -> death spiral.

For Nintendo, there's not much to say other than they handed them Japan on a platter really. The PS5 is probably the least appealing console you could ever make for the Japanese market, and they also spent a good few years at the start of the PS5 generation pissing off Japanese partners as well. They better pray the Switch 2 is unable to run most third party games, because if it is? Sony's longest held advantage in the console market will be gone and with that their reason to exist. Anyways, it's not over yet. It remains to be seen what impact things like GTA VI could have on sales, at some point the impact the failure of the GAAS move will stop being felt, and hopefully they now realize variety is key to a succesful platform. What do you think?

Goddamn at all the Sony cocksuckers in that thread. The PS5 is a huge piece of shit from a first party perspective. These cunts gladly make excuses like "but the way current dev cycles are ". Um why should I give a fuck that Sony couldn't manage their teams correctly as a consumer?  I DON'T CARE WHERE ARE THE GAMES A SHITTY NOSTALGIA BAIT PLATFORMER ISN'T GONNA CUT IT

[Jansen]

Also the PS5 is just HUGE AND LOOKS LIKE SHIT

[kaleidoscopium]

If you can't believe it then stop entertaining an idea spawned from a dumbass grifter who doesn't even work in the industry anymore and hasn't been relevant for years and who was being spammed on this forum by a troll. Like this is genuinely "I believed a situation someone made up and i'm mad about it."

Are you genuinely, and i mean genuinely, THAT gullible dude?

Like why're you getting so worked up over genuine bullshit. As I said before it's about as useful as reading some Grummz tweets and taking them as gospel.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-concord-director-steps-down-as-studio-behind-historic-playstation-flop-waits-for-sonys-decision.986304/page-16#post-129018744

Wonder if crossing eden knows that Colin owns a game studio and has put out... 4 games now with a 5th on the way
https://twinfinite.net/news/colin-moriarty-to-serve-as-chief-creative-officer-for-lillymo-games/

[benji]

If you can't believe it then stop entertaining an idea spawned from a dumbass grifter who doesn't even work in the industry anymore and hasn't been relevant for years and who was being spammed on this forum by a troll. Like this is genuinely "I believed a situation someone made up and i'm mad about it."

Are you genuinely, and i mean genuinely, THAT gullible dude?

Like why're you getting so worked up over genuine bullshit. As I said before it's about as useful as reading some Grummz tweets and taking them as gospel.

Hey, let's go back a month to a thread where you were already doing massive amounts of damage control and what dumbasses not in the industry were saying.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-took-8-years-to-develop.960057/#post-127499325

Pai Pai Master
Member
48 minutes ago
#34
This place is pretty toxic with most people not taking into account that the studio was only established 6 years go. And was only really getting off the ground as COVID totally upended game development for a lot of seasoned studios let alone new ones.
This is a pretty realistic timeframe for a AAA game from a brand new studio.

But yeah gotta get our "oof" quota in for the day.

If Concord is an AAA game then Sony is going to take a fucking bath on it.

[Venice]

New Melody Shreds lore just dropped:

Significant amounts of self-harm = falling over every time he walks in high heels

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vandal-metaphor-refantazio-will-be-as-long-as-persona-5.987666/page-2#post-129025839

How do you guys handle games like this with a main story that is 100+ hours long? Do you guys play something else in between and perhaps returning to the longer game days/weeks later?

I enjoy them. It's not a chore to me, unlike some people here. I'm not married, I have no children. I have friends but we only get together and do stuff maybe once or twice a week online, or like once every two months in person. I work a dead end retail job despite drowning in debt inherited from my family. I'm depressed and have no hope for the future, be it my personal future or the overall future of mankind. Life is meaningless and the only constant is suffering. But the fun anime video game makes me happy. I like the stories and themes and characters and gameplay.

So to answer your question I put a few hours in every day either before or after work. On days off without the family doing anything I'll just play it all day. Doesn't take that long. For Metaphor I'm taking the weekend off work so that's like at least 30 hours I'm putting in between those two days. But also there's A LOT coming out over the next month so I will probably play other things too.

[books]

Lol. The world makes em suicidal but anime saves them.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

New Melody Shreds lore just dropped:

Significant amounts of self-harm = falling over every time he walks in high heels

At first I was hoping they were learning but I think this is just another stage of the grift. They're trying to get the sympathy money, most likely their paypigs were complaining so Melds needs to pull the pity me act.

[kaleidoscopium]

At first I was hoping they were learning but I think this is just another stage of the grift. They're trying to get the sympathy money, most likely their paypigs were complaining so Melds needs to pull the pity me act.

Yep, as long as this continues it's not going to get any better



160% to 180% , $30

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

At first I was hoping they were learning but I think this is just another stage of the grift. They're trying to get the sympathy money, most likely their paypigs were complaining so Melds needs to pull the pity me act.

Yep, as long as this continues it's not going to get any better



160% to 180% , $30

[books]

The solution to this might be to fund a PS5 Pro for her to keep her living.

[kaleidoscopium]

Have to wonder how much money stevy/tessa (is the double name because of also being a PLURAL person?) donates by the end of the year. Couple hundred already from just what I've noticed.

[nachobro]

New Melody Shreds lore just dropped:

Significant amounts of self-harm = falling over every time he walks in high heels

eating those delivery burgers is self harm

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Have to wonder how much money stevy/tessa (is the double name because of also being a PLURAL person?) donates by the end of the year. Couple hundred already from just what I've noticed.

your job will be to go through the list and figure it out by December 31.

[benji]

New Melody Shreds lore just dropped:

[Lonewulfeus]

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Have to wonder how much money stevy/tessa (is the double name because of also being a PLURAL person?) donates by the end of the year. Couple hundred already from just what I've noticed.

I believe Tessa is his person of gender name.

[BananaBlast]

Damn, so they got wonkybump. Permanent ban.

Again, not at all surprised, but still speechless this is what these mentally ill manchildren pursue. Paranoia that someone may have the slightest dissention of opinions.

I wouldn't say that he deserved it, but he definitely was too careless. Shouldn't have reused the avatar, and definitely shouldn't have mentioned anything about DEI on IconEra. If he just picked literally any other avatar, his alt on IconEra would've probably never been discovered.

I saw him trying to defend himself on his quest411 account trying to play stupid that he wasn't wonkybump. It's funny as a tongue in cheek joke, but also kind of cringe. I know it might've been based to act as a double agent on Ree, but once discovered, he should've manned up and went out with a blaze of glory. But he just tried playing stupid, which failed miserably, and just got kicked down by both IconEra and ResetEra.

Anyway, Valkaria is a pussy ass autistic bitch with no life and stalks random ass accounts elsewhere just to snitch on them. Imagine being such a fucking weasel piece of shit you do patrol officer duty for commie fascists that already permanently banned your ass for not being woke enough. Truly pathetic scum. 

Also I hear (from here) they're apparently transgender. So they probably have thinning hair and a tiny, sterile, girl penis. Loser.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-tipping-at-ice-cream-parlors-now.987690/

So my motto on tipping is I only tip on waited service and deliveries. I do not tip for over the counter service or takeout.

But I went to Cold Stone ice cream earlier today and got a quick little small ice cream in a cup. When I went to pay by card, the credit card machine asked what do I want to tip and I pressed no tip. The girl working gave me a nasty look like she wanted to kill me in my sleep. 😂

The thing is I've been going to Cold Stone for years since I was atleast in high school and they never used to ask for tip but now expect me to tip nowadays? I aint having that. It's bad enough things have gotten more expensive while portions have stayed the same. 🤷‍♂️

A buck or two is apparently too much for Ree.

[benji]

Isn't Cold Stone where they sing when you tip?

[benji]

Oh, somebody mentioned it in that thread.

Also that Hello!! SAVE DATA guy is already unbanned?

Also Also:

Dominos carryout and Subway as well. It's ridiculous. I hit no on all of these places, but I get a bit anxious about them possibly tampering with my food if I'm paying before it's finished.

[benji]

I feel like a Presidential candidate that runs on banning these ridiculous tipping machines will win a 50 state sweep.

Aren't you a socialist? "Tipping machines"? You mean POS systems?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Based Valkaria 

Incel wonkybump 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Don't go to Cold Stone if you don't want to tip. Buy your own icecream and scoop it at home you poor ass bitch. Simple as. 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-dont-know-if-its-worth-it-anymore.985251/

So here I am, almost out of money, stuff to pay off, no job, and honestly just considering just giving up, all the result of my dumb arrogance in myself.

I got laid off at the start of the year, and when I got on unemployment, I got into a program about starting a business, I got the idea that, I would finally try to make a game, at least as much as one person could. And in earnest? It wasn't even going bad, I even got good impressions from the demos I produced from it, but ultimately... I needed more time and the program didn't afford unlimited time.

I had also, in my optimism in believing I would get it done in time, paid for stuff, I shouldn't have.

So, I decided to bite the bullet, admit I couldn't get it done in time, and in early August, started applying for jobs.

After now almost 2 months, I have applied for nearly 90 jobs and the response has been to basically: "Fuck off".

Some might remember me making a thread about getting into the Gaming Industry in a Junior level role, while yes, many of the jobs I did apply for where in such positions, I also applied for many that were just general Tech Industry jobs. Ones that fit my College degree and Programming know-how. Even those have been flunks and the best one I could potentially get basically told me: "We will at least glance at your resume in 6 - 8 weeks." Unfortunately, that wasn't at the start of August, so I am not even potentially close to that one.

So i thought, if I could just you know, maybe hold out, so I decided to open up Art Commissions. At least something, to get some money to help pay for stuff and wait to see about the jobs I applied for.

After all, I've done art for years now, while I'm not some AAA Artist, I am pretty decent and always improving. Since I hadn't done Art Commissions before, I decided to keep the price relatively low at $30 (which for anyone who isn't aware is quite on the low end), and you get a 3/4th body fully rendered piece of art. Even with the support of artists friends who are much bigger than I am, we couldn't get anymore to commission to me. So in the end, I only got 1 commission, from someone who is already a fairly long time good friend.

I don't drive, I am deathly afraid of being put behind the wheel of a car and so if I did get a retail job, I would be spending a lot of money every single day just getting to and from work. Hence why I was trying to go for Remote Work, after all, my last job went fully Remote during the Pandemic and that really helped me out.

So now...

I'm almost out of money.

No one wants to hire me.

No one wants to commission me.

I have stuff that needs to get paid off.

I am stressed out of my goddamn mind and I don't see any sign of hope. At this point, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't just go walk into traffic or something, I have been so thoroughly rejected by everything. And this is all my fault. When I lost my job originally back in January, I should have just tried for a job right there and then, I had the money at the time to not worry for a good long while... But that's what I did, I was stupid and now I'm paying the price.

https://kalentanvtuber.carrd.co/

Stream starts about six minutes in, talks about job hunt and game he's working on almost right away, he can't work on game cuz of stress:

Spoiler: are these all commissions he's paid for? lol (click to show)(click to hide)

Terms of Service!
It is assumed that all of this has been read prior to submitting your commission!

1. The art provided to the client will not be used to train ANY AI Program
2. The provided art must be credited to the Artist and is allowed to be used in a Personal Portfolio and Social Media, during and after the completion of the art. Please credit my social media account when posting the piece.
3. Commercial Rights to the Art is not included in the base price, and will cost 2x of the overall Price (Including the Add-Ons).
4. I will not be accepting any requests that can be deemed as NSFW or contains offensive imagery.
5. I have the right to refuse a commission if the Request does not follow the Terms of Service.
6. In the circumstance that I am not able to complete the Commission due to an issue on my own end (i.e. an emergency), I will refund the Client the amount paid for the Commission.
7. In the circumstance that the Client engages in repeated unprofessional behavior, such as harassment, the Commission will be cancelled without refund.
8. If the Client wishes the art to not be made public upon completion, please make note of that in the request. However, depending on the length of time, there may be additional Holding Fees of $10.
9. All commissions are offered 2 revisions during the Sketching Phase and none more, any other minor changes can be discussed with the Artist.
10. Any major changes that wish to be made to the art per the Client's request, must be done prior to the rendering phase, ideally during the Sketching phase.


Commission Information
> Commissions are accepted on Ko-Fi
>Art will be provided ONLY as Digital Files

Do's
------------
> People
> Furry (Note Wings can be a trouble point)

Don'ts
-------------
> Blood and Gore
> Offensive Content
> NSFW / Explicit Content
> Mechas

Ko-Fi Page
---------------
https://ko-fi.com/kalentuber

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

That's not worth 30 dollars at all. That's a 10-15 dollar honestly, it doesn't really look good enough to be 30. Sorry to be critical but it's just not that good.

[benji]

Oh, I completely missed it in that 2.0 video, his game is based around lore for his vtuber character.

[benji]

Kind of want to assemble an A-Team of ResetERA.com members in "game development" to make an RPG Maker game: this guy, Melody Shreds, Neoxon, Nepenthe, etc. PlanetSmasher and TransEra can be the scriptwriters.

Wait, no, not A-Team. BENJI'S ANGELS

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Well BananaBlast, when you're right, you're right. Valkaria IS a pussy ass bitch.

I apologise if it was just coincidences. I'm probably overly on alert over these things after how gaming discourse has been, particularly in the last few months.

I'm almost disappointed.

It's almost respectable that they realized they're in the wrong

They absolutely do not think they're in the wrong. It's entirely performative.

[BananaBlast]

.....Well this isn't very acceptable to draw for someone who posts in the "why women criticize sexualized female character designs" thread.🤔

This is like the fourth time I've seen someone in the burka thread be okay with sexualized big titty female characters, with one of them being Melody, a straight up gooner and lolicon. At least Melody doesn't seem to post in the thread these days, unlike this dude who still seems to be somewhat active in that godawful trash heap of a thread.

Now I'm hoping this neckbeard weeaboo fails in this endeavour, simply because of the hypocrisy. Try getting a real job, you bum. Stop being a manchild crawling in your mom's basement, trying to be an internet anime artist-personality hybrid.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I wonder what Kalentan's break point to their Do's and Don'ts.

What price would they sell their soul to draw a picture of a chud laughing at a trans individual?