Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[BananaBlast]

If you don't understand how this photo mode is made explicitly for the male gaze then I doubt there is much for us to discuss.

I hate this user so much.

I'd truly love them to lay out what exactly makes this male gaze. Because right now lefties declare this male gaze:

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while this recent red carpet picture of the Acolyte actress isn't

 

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I'd love to see that to. Would love to see Ry. attempt to rub together braincells to argue that completely SFW family friendly photoshoot of actress-scanned video game characters is somehow more "scandalous male gaze objectification" than transparent nudity in public, other than his incel delusions.

The crux of the argument would probably be "her body her choice" and "uhhh anything involving a man is more problematic than a woman herself"

Unless of course, someone on the forum makes a single comment on that Acolyte actresses body, in which they'll get banned for "boy's club rhetoric", doubly so if they are not given the feminist woman, they/them, or transbian pass.

[Polident]

I just want ports of Snatcher and Policenauts (I know, I know, illegal downloads for them but I like to own my games personally), MGS4, 5 and Rising on the PS5. The Lords of Shadow games would be rad too but I don't know if I'd double dip for them (already have them on Steam).

I'm a simple man. I like music, movies, TV shows, games, big tits, big asses, attractive ladies and I keep to myself. Plus I don't get offended by every single thing like a lot of people on that dumbass forum do and on social media.

Doing my due diligence before making a dumb joke about censoring the boob touching in Policenauts, I discovered they already censored it way back on the PS1. The original release had the option to fondle every lady. Sony told Kojima to tone it down for the PlayStation.

Gamergate has been raging on since the 1990s?? Prehistoric chuds are why Cutthroat Island flopped.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-did-having-female-main-character-trigger-people-so-much.994146/page-6#post-129425217

User banned (permanent): dismissing sexism, account in junior phase

Yeesh. Someone mentions Asmongold and people are instantly triggered and more than willing to pile on in spite of there being no context being provided by the OP.

This topic is overblown and I think the issue is more to do when a franchise moves from a male protagonist to a female one. I didn't even know that was a backlash for the new Ghosts game until it was mentioned here. Had they simply created a new IP for her, I doubt people would care.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-did-having-female-main-character-trigger-people-so-much.994146/page-6#post-129427149

User Banned (Permanent): Troll Account

It's like January 6th all over again.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-did-having-female-main-character-trigger-people-so-much.994146/page-6#post-129427149

Dont these chuds realise that playing the as same old white dude over and over again gets tiring after a while.

Nope, to the chuds this was peak video game design:

This is what they grew up with and now want to return to because they can't stand the world changing

[HardcoreRetro]

Bloober is fucking terrible. They had press X to push away childrape trauma and tried to make excuses for the pedophile character in The Medium.

These are the last people you'd want to work on a Silent Hill 2 remake. The trailer already showed them desexualising enemies and npcs who's entire point is a direct reflection of James' sexual frustrations.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-seems-to-have-more-female-protagonists-in-their-aaa-games-recently.991650/page-2#post-129252603

User banned (1 month): Dismissing concerns of misogyny. Account in junior phase.

Objectification as a collectable...

OT - more female protagonist is always welcome. I like that star wars is keeping to this aswell, despite the pushback it gets

I mean, it's nice to get all these costumes as unlockables, and some of them looked great. Not every costume was just a cheap swimsuit. I get that sex appeal is seen as bad by some people, but as a woman, I love female protagonists like Eve and Kassandra. Both can coexist. Though, I could do without all the culture war nonsense

I guess they dropped any pretense that this is about listening to women.
Or that it's about character variety. All she said is that these characters can coexist

[railGUN]

Excel going full bitch eating crackers channels her inner Slayven with this reply

it nunbs people through false help

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fetishization-of-empty-gestures-is-a-fascinating-thing-completely-part-of-the-theory-of-dystopia-as-aspiration-that-were-constantly-being-sold.995856/#post-129476394

[Uncle]

oh if only this subject would come up on era











for the uninitiated:

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a babyfur is a pedophile who unsuccessfully tries to use plausible deniability to explain why they keep posting toddler bear cubs wearing diapers everywhere

to call them the "canary in the coal mine" would be to say the same if open pedophiles were welcomed into the LGBT community and they sadly got lambasted all the time by normies who just don't understand
 
"first they came for the pedos, and I said nothing, because I am not a pedo"
"then surprisingly they didn't come again for anyone else because they'd taken care of the problem and everyone was better off for it"

[Besticus Maximus]

Furries are the creepiest fuckers on the internet

[Boredfrom]

AshenOne (you fucking guessed it, Palestine flag)

This disgusting behavior from the western allies is really is something.

If this somehow leads to world war 3 or some big war. Its totally on them.

They are one sidedly giving ammunition to multiple genocides in the middle east.

They do not deserve to remain unscathed or have their freedom.

Here's an idea to you LARPer commies on Retardera. Fuck off from western countries and move to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, one of these countries that you simp for, etc. and see how much you like it there compared to what you have now. Terminally online fucks wouldn't last a day without the internet.

Also, calling for violence. B-Dumbs going to do something? Most likely not.

I feel BDumbs just doesn’t even bother to look those comments anymore.  

Hamas Era seem to getting closer and closer to TransEra in terms of power.

[books]

Gamergate and possibly slavery too, has left such an indelible stain on our culture and country with the repercussions still being felt today.

[Boredfrom]

Far as I can tell there hasn't been some mob of woke American gamers coercing these teams into updating their approach to gender in character creation lol.

That is a fucking lie.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-18#post-129458802

User banned (1 month): downplaying warcrimes and genocidal rhetoric

Brianna, Elon etc are the new group of Twitter assholes who were formerly progressive and then went right wing as quick as fuck. They've been proven to have a shallow understanding of the topic (

No offense, but asking "how many countries have Russia invaded in the last 20 years" as a rhetorical way of saying that Russia isn't as bad as the US on this subject while seemingly being unaware of their invasions of Chechnya, Georgia and ignoring the current invasion of Ukraine means that you clearly don't have the knowledge necessary to take part in discussion in world politics, and even less in making statement as assertive and aggressive as you're doing.

I know about Chechnya but if you were to list all of them it would still be less than the US. My point is we shouldn't pretend the US are preventing the world from falling apart when they are the instigators of many of the world's current conflicts.

Even with Ukraine, this isn't because Putin is simply a madman who wants to invade all neighbouring countries. The US/West's expansion of NATO has been a huge contributing factor to the situation we're in

[AnnoyedCanadian]

AshenOne

As the US and allies have shown, they are not only not above working with terrorists they ARE terrorists. They have invaded iraq on a lie of chemical weapons and massacred the iraqi civies..funded Israel for decades to continue their massacre and now genocide.

Hezbollah, Hamas, Putin, Al-Qaida, whatever you name it... the CIA, Mossad, Mi6, their govts.. all are opposite sides of the same gotdamn coin.

This has to be some potent crack cocaine they are smoking. In what fucking world are TERRORISTS the same as COUNTER TERRORISTS? This is some strong fucking malarkey Jack.



Brazil

Just learned that family members of a close friend were killed by israel yesterday in Lebannon (in a town that's basically entirely Christian).

Zionism is the ideology of death.

I feel sorry for his loss but really? Say that about Islamism and see how fast you'd get banned.

Rules for thee, but not for me. At least B-Dumbs shits on Hamas Piker and deletes posts that feature him from what I've seen. The only redeemable thing he does as an admin which isn't saying much.

[Boredfrom]

Kind of disturbing they are more mad about Lebanon than Gaza.

[Nintex]

oh if only this subject would come up on era











for the uninitiated:

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a babyfur is a pedophile who unsuccessfully tries to use plausible deniability to explain why they keep posting toddler bear cubs wearing diapers everywhere

to call them the "canary in the coal mine" would be to say the same if open pedophiles were welcomed into the LGBT community and they sadly got lambasted all the time by normies who just don't understand
 
"first they came for the pedos, and I said nothing, because I am not a pedo"
"then surprisingly they didn't come again for anyone else because they'd taken care of the problem and everyone was better off for it"

They're fucking the dogs, they're fucking the cats, they're rapists, they are pedophiles and they are animals

[Boredfrom]

The crux of the argument would probably be "her body her choice" and "uhhh anything involving a man is more problematic than a woman herself"

Fucking caring about how a fictional character looks because having no agency is worse when the person doesn’t exist to begin with.  They know this is a BS argument so the hide it behind diversity and inclusion shit:

“If there were a lot more of character designers that were women those characters will not look sexualized”

“Japan has a lot of character designers that are female”

“Internalized misogyny.”

[DavidCroquet]

Everything is problematic to them. Words lose their meaning on that forum with how often they are used to describe things.

I have a couple of Bloober's games (haven't played them yet, my backlog is fucking scary to be honest) and I honestly have no idea what they are talking about. Probably a topic that wasn't sugar coated or handled with children's gloves and explained to them like they're retarded.

The Medium does some cycle of abuse narrative, with a victim of abuse turning out to be the main baddie or something.

I'm not even joking. This Dummies-Guide-to-Human-Psychology dynamic is genuinely what set them off, and made Bloober "problematic". 

I also think I remember some of them pulling a muscle to make some point about how Layers of Fear is about dead wives and dead wives is a misogynist trope and...

[DocWager]

Shit, I thought my Pepsi would be the flattest thing I’d see today, then you show me her.

you gotta drink it faster my dude

Sorry my man, sometimes I forget I have these cans in the fridge. I mostly go for Da Dry, or Da Pep. Pepsi is a last resort.

[Potato]

The only time when people who work with Kojima get upset is when he stops working with them. 

"I did his previous game, why won't he call me" 

He's really only about the art of creating digital entertainment and directing every minute detail.

He would be better suited to just directing the technical aspects and leaving others to write the scripts.

[DocWager]

The only time when people who work with Kojima get upset is when he stops working with them. 

"I did his previous game, why won't he call me" 

He's really only about the art of creating digital entertainment and directing every minute detail.

He would be better suited to just directing the technical aspects and leaving others to write the scripts.

Are you kidding? Metal Gear wouldn’t be “Metal Gear” without all the WTF writing, and extremely long ass cut scenes.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/death-stranding-2-will-have-a-unique-photo-mode-that-apparently-impacts-the-story.995535/page-6#post-129467349

My first thoughts as well. I genuinely hate this and the fact that it has story impact so I "Have" to engage with it is even worse.


Edit: to the people asking "why?" It feels weird. To me it feels like when you watch a porn video and the actors are interacting directly with the cameraman with non-sexual actions. There is just a vibe of a power dynamic where the women on screen are attempting to please the man taking the photo.

I don't expect that is something that many people would understand. Something doesn't have to be sexual for it to have a bad power dynamic. It's that power dynamic which makes the whole thing have creepy vibes.

Final edit: also the fact that they are constantly making little "coo-ing" noises is very infantilizing. Women, in my experience, don't actually do that around other women. It's specifically an action meant to be pleasing to men.

Klastikal watching the video about the photo mode, then posting, then rewatching the video to make edits, then thinking about the video some more, then editing the post more, then rewatching the video again, then watching the video with headphones on, then making his final edit to his post: 
  

[AnnoyedCanadian]

They're apparently a "woman" as well. Rainbow avatar and all that, probably a man LARPing knowing that forum.



There are like 3 actual women on that forum that I know of. Dice, the drowned rat / Gollum cosplay / Morrigan and the black supremacist / collective nation of Jews / my step dad runs a car dealership / Nep. I was always under the impression that Booshka was a trans man unless I'm wrong.

The rest are men thinking they are women who are balding and obese like Melody. I may be wrong on the exact numbers

[Venice]

Excel going full bitch eating crackers channels her inner Slayven with this reply

it numbs people through false help

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fetishization-of-empty-gestures-is-a-fascinating-thing-completely-part-of-the-theory-of-dystopia-as-aspiration-that-were-constantly-being-sold.995856/#post-129476394

Nice find, railGUN. I think TheBore overlooked the return of one of ResetEra's legendary shittiest members ever, and this is a great thread to highlight the absolute hypocrisy of this ridiculous human being.

So what makes Excelsiorlef unhappy this time is that the US Military, on clean-up duty, find an American flag in the mud, dig it out, give it some respect and fold it away:

Excelsiorlef describes this gesture as a 'fetishization of Empty Gestures'.

Bitch, absolutely nothing, NOTHING on Earth, is a bigger 'fetishization of Empty Gestures' than waving the Trans-flag at every single opportunity and every single protest on the planet.

You idiots are waving the Trans-flag at Palestine protests... Palestine! A country whose Islamic religion would either behead you, or throw you off a building, for the crime of being gay or pretending to be a woman.

There is absolutely nothing going on in Excels brain. Zilch.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Excel going full bitch eating crackers channels her inner Slayven with this reply

it nunbs people through false help

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fetishization-of-empty-gestures-is-a-fascinating-thing-completely-part-of-the-theory-of-dystopia-as-aspiration-that-were-constantly-being-sold.995856/#post-129476394

Making sure a flag has a "proper burial" after a natural disaster, and thinking it's inspiring.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/death-stranding-2-will-have-a-unique-photo-mode-that-apparently-impacts-the-story.995535/page-6#post-129467349

My first thoughts as well. I genuinely hate this and the fact that it has story impact so I "Have" to engage with it is even worse.


Edit: to the people asking "why?" It feels weird. To me it feels like when you watch a porn video and the actors are interacting directly with the cameraman with non-sexual actions. There is just a vibe of a power dynamic where the women on screen are attempting to please the man taking the photo.

I don't expect that is something that many people would understand. Something doesn't have to be sexual for it to have a bad power dynamic. It's that power dynamic which makes the whole thing have creepy vibes.

Final edit: also the fact that they are constantly making little "coo-ing" noises is very infantilizing. Women, in my experience, don't actually do that around other women. It's specifically an action meant to be pleasing to men.

Klastikal watching the video about the photo mode, then posting, then rewatching the video to make edits, then thinking about the video some more, then editing the post more, then rewatching the video again, then watching the video with headphones on, then making his final edit to his post: 
  

Women, in my experience, don't actually do that around other women. It's specifically an action meant to be pleasing to men

"The female human coos to please the male" actually the most sexist shit posted in that thread.

Also just typical bullshit because if that photoshoot was happening in dead fucking silence they'd freak out even more.

[DocWager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/death-stranding-2-will-have-a-unique-photo-mode-that-apparently-impacts-the-story.995535/page-6#post-129467349

My first thoughts as well. I genuinely hate this and the fact that it has story impact so I "Have" to engage with it is even worse.


Edit: to the people asking "why?" It feels weird. To me it feels like when you watch a porn video and the actors are interacting directly with the cameraman with non-sexual actions. There is just a vibe of a power dynamic where the women on screen are attempting to please the man taking the photo.

I don't expect that is something that many people would understand. Something doesn't have to be sexual for it to have a bad power dynamic. It's that power dynamic which makes the whole thing have creepy vibes.

Final edit: also the fact that they are constantly making little "coo-ing" noises is very infantilizing. Women, in my experience, don't actually do that around other women. It's specifically an action meant to be pleasing to men.

Klastikal watching the video about the photo mode, then posting, then rewatching the video to make edits, then thinking about the video some more, then editing the post more, then rewatching the video again, then watching the video with headphones on, then making his final edit to his post: 
  

Women, in my experience, don't actually do that around other women. It's specifically an action meant to be pleasing to men

"The female human coos to please the male" actually the most sexist shit posted in that thread.

Also just typical bullshit because if that photoshoot was happening in dead fucking silence they'd freak out even more.

It’s a “woman” saying this, though. She must know more than the average man, or even woman. High femmes that observe from the outside are the most knowledgeable of women.

[Steven Snell]

I think she's a Satanist or something

Yeah that's correct.

[DocWager]

Excel going full bitch eating crackers channels her inner Slayven with this reply

it nunbs people through false help

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fetishization-of-empty-gestures-is-a-fascinating-thing-completely-part-of-the-theory-of-dystopia-as-aspiration-that-were-constantly-being-sold.995856/#post-129476394

Excel must’ve been fired from the local Dairy Queen. He’s back to posting more threads while being at home at mommy, and daddies big house.

[DocWager]

I think she's a Satanist or something

Yeah that's correct.

Why should she care? Being a satanist is ironic… Or whatever.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

I literally have never had a woman "coo" to me. That is some straight up misogyny right there but it's fine since its a "WOMAN" Y'ALL.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. For actual trans women I know who are normal people, don't make it their entire identity, don't fetishize themselves, act their age and are sane, I feel bad for them as people think of the terminally online trans women instead of them.

I don't know any trans men but if I did, it'd most likely be the same thing in my life experience of knowing people from all walks of life. Just stop being fucking weirdos online

Also Uncle, that shit makes me want to Minecraft myself because holy fuck I totally forgot about that.