Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[DavidCroquet]

What I like about Taash is that she's also a hypocritical prick, just like her real life inspirations. In one review clip the MC points out that she's doesn't follow the Qun ideology and yet wears their arm ropes. She's responds in a snarky tone "Yeah I wear lot of stuff, you don't get to tell me who I am". Then 10 minutes later she proudly educates the MC about how she helps people because that's what the Qun teaches 

A+ no notes. She'd be a Twitter activist in the real world for sure.

The bolded made me laugh when I heard it. 
"If you don't practice judaism, why do you wear a yarmulke?"
"YOU DON'T TELL ME WHO I AM"

[Polident]

One day somebody will use a cartoon avatar of themselves that actually reflects what they look like.

[Uncle]

good news! we now know why dragon age veilguard is shit

I appreciate her pointing directly at the writer responsible, who, of course, looks exactly like you'd imagine

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it's turtles all the way down

how the fuck did this even happen, literally all normal people just decided to stop pursuing writing in the past 20 years?

or more like "hmm, you wouldn't be a good fit for our company, we're going with this other candidate for unspecified reasons"

[Snoopy]

There was a guy in the pub who looked just like that blatting on about immigrants taking all the houses. It was utterly bizarre. The only explanation I could think of is he'd accidentally installed his wife's Obnoxious Cunt Software.

[Nintex]

good news! we now know why dragon age veilguard is shit

I appreciate her pointing directly at the writer responsible, who, of course, looks exactly like you'd imagine

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it's turtles all the way down

how the fuck did this even happen, literally all normal people just decided to stop pursuing writing in the past 20 years?

or more like "hmm, you wouldn't be a good fit for our company, we're going with this other candidate for unspecified reasons"

HOW IT HAPPENED AT A COMPANY THAT EMBRACED

CFO: "If we support the ESGs we'll get a tax break we need to be more inclusive!"

CEO: "Only white dudes want to work here..."

COO: "What about the other roles, HR, office managers, customer support etc."

CFO: "Yeah that'll work, it's just about how many we hire not what they do"


Candidate 1: "I've worked on Metroid Prime as my first job, I did some work on Half Life 2, Deus Ex Human Revolution... then I took a break to focus on my family, did some contract work for EA on Battlefield and the likes to brush up my skills on military shooters. As you can see I mostly did sci-fi FPS games before so I might not be the best fit for a milsim but I'm happy to learn. I'm currently looking for something steady until my retirement which is a little more laid back than the AAA+ contracting crunch. As you can see I have 20 something years of experience making FPS games with 90+ MetaCritic scores. Here is my CV and a link to my Portfolio."

Candidate 1: "Hello it has been 3 weeks I was wondering if you received my email"

HR: "Yes I received your email, but you don't fit into our company culture"

Candidate 2: "I'm a 21 y/o they/them. Neurodivergent mess that just transitioned(lol) that likes to play wholesome games (guns are a big no no for me). I want to work on games. I've made this fan art drawing of Animal Crossing, Can I work for you?"

HR: "wow, you are so bold an amazing. I love animal crossing tooooo!!! <3 <3 <3, Can you start tommorow?"

[ComeAgain]

Nah the way this place (and the internet in general) treated the game was beyond the "I actually dont like this game but hope it finds it's audience". Maybe ya'll should read the threads or headlines again and see the bloodlust.

I'm of the belief that the gaming community also had a part to play in this game's funeral and thus the developer's fate.

We can't just condemn Sony but not look inwards into the collective behavior of the community when flops like this happen

*recalls how Era treated Redfall*

Sure, Jan

[Nintex]

If you want to know how bad things are.

"They" want to work from home, but they're too anxious to turn on their webcam. (in fact, they flat out refuse to because it's an invasion of their privacy).
So what about talking? Too triggering. So they'll join the stand-up meetings muted and they type things into the chat.

When the chat is ignored (obviously) they file a complaint with blue hair HR. 

Eventually people are sick of this shit and move on.

Here's another fun one:

Official company guideline
- Feedback should always be positive and constructive

Good luck on IMPROVING things if you can't point out what fucking sucks.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/welcome-new-members-introduce-yourself-here.119184/post-130647951

Gay Z
Xey/Xem/Xyr
Hi lovelies! Been a long-time ResetEra lurker but finally caved into making a new account!

I'm Z and goes by xey(xe)/xem/xyr pronouns but I'm fine with they/them as well! I'm a gay transmasc who is agender!

I have huge love for Pokemon, and love to write! I manage a small Pokemon server on Discord where I made different Pokemon emoji arts for people to use!

Feel free to say hello and/or reach out if you'd like to! <3

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-4-dont-complain-do-something.962805/post-130769004

Gay Z
Xey/Xem/Xyr
One of my partners and I sent in our ballots earlier in Nebraska (not in Omaha unfortunately), so our 2+ for Kamala won't make any difference but we did vote for Osborn though! Also managed to get my partner's mom (who live in Arizona, she's in her late 70s) to vote for the very first time, going for Kamala! So we did our part. Our lives are on stake especially as we're gay and trans!

Anyways, going to say my feelings on the 2024 election, I don't think the election will be as close as most people are making it out to be and that Kamala's win will be clear compared to 2020 election between Biden and Trump. We should not be using polls as a predictor on election and that it have been wrong in past elections more often than people would like to admit to.

Yes, Trump and his MAGA loyalists are not going down without a fight so we'll see them get frivolous with lawsuits regarding the election that will continue til December at least, maybe even into January but they're not going to succeed. We just might have to be on our edge of the seats for little longer due to that but I'm confident that Kamala will win, and they're all prepared for this to happen as well.

So yeah we'll find out what happens in over a week now, hopefully that's the case.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-4-dont-complain-do-something.962805/post-130868559

Gay Z
Xey/Xem/Xyr
Been catching up to this very page and I did not expect some people to be freaking out over Biden's comment when it's not even going to do anything. Frankly, it's pretty offensive to me as a non-white person reading that because it's being compared to orange man's racist and nazi MSG rally.

That being said, Kamala's closing speech earlier is marvelous! It's just making me more confident that she'll be the clear winner, and that election is not going to be as close As most people are making it out to be (but we'll see soon enough). Again, polls shouldn't used as a predictor (being treated more like an estimate) for an election.

[DavidCroquet]

If you want to know how bad things are.

"They" want to work from home, but they're too anxious to turn on their webcam. (in fact, they flat out refuse to because it's an invasion of their privacy).
So what about talking? Too triggering. So they'll join the stand-up meetings muted and they type things into the chat.

When the chat is ignored (obviously) they file a complaint with blue hair HR. 

Eventually people are sick of this shit and move on.

Here's another fun one:

Official company guideline
- Feedback should always be positive and constructive

Good luck on IMPROVING things if you can't point out what fucking sucks.

Are you talking about Bioware or every middle-class point-and-click email-sender desk jockey job in the US?

It definitely applies to the latter lol (spoken as a middle-class point-and-click email-sender desk jockey myself)

EDIT: and before you get the wrong idea about me: I work with my camera proudly ON. 

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[DavidCroquet]

Rare (dark) optimism* and empowerment from the famously miserable PlanetSmasher

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kinda-funny-please-vote-for-kamala-harris.1022607/page-10#post-130881849

Punishing the Democrats because Biden - who is not on the ballot and will never be President again - is a Zionist isn't going to help Palestine. Letting Trump win isn't going to help Palestine. Your conscience isn't clean if you go "not my problem", refuse to vote, and then your trans neighbor gets shot to death by a cop for the crime of existing while trans. If you want to step up for protecting life you can't say "only this one particular kind of murder matters to me and nothing else".

Project 2025 is openly pushing for genocide HERE. Genocide that we can actually stop by voting, unlike the genocide in Palestine that can only be stopped by ISRAEL CHOOSING TO STOP.

*obviously not a very uplifting post, but careful sifting will reveal some hope for the future and a baseline assumption that things can indeed be better.

[Uncle]

project 2025 isn't a concern

it's been the secret shadowy plans in various forms for like 50 years and it's never going to be implemented, it's broadly unpopular and unprofitable

it's brought up as FUD to push people to vote, guarantee some variation on it will be brought up every single election, it's the same as republicans saying "the dems will take all your guns!!! look at this document that says so!!!"

[ComeAgain]

It very much is a concern.

[HaughtyFrank]

I mean, there probably is a lot of fear mongering, but also, why roll the dice

[DavidCroquet]

project 2025 isn't a concern

it's been the secret shadowy plans in various forms for like 50 years and it's never going to be implemented, it's broadly unpopular and unprofitable

it's brought up as FUD to push people to vote, guarantee some variation on it will be brought up every single election, it's the same as republicans saying "the dems will take all your guns!!! look at this document that says so!!!"

I agree. Same old nightmare hellworld scenario we hear every 4 years and tied to every republican candidate.

It very much is a concern.

Wait, maybe I spoke too soon!

[HardcoreRetro]

Wow, Dragon Age Veilguard hitting 504p on PS5 in the performance mode. Great stuff. Finally a game to put my 4K OLED to good use.

[Snoopy]

And locked -

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kinda-funny-please-vote-for-kamala-harris.1022607/page-10

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-ot-halamshiral.1021152/post-130882752

So.. can you make an actually brutish looking Qunari? Or they're simply gimped afterall?

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-ot-halamshiral.1021152/post-130883121

TheEchosOfThePsycho
Still trying to pick a faction for my Dwarven Trans Sapphic Rogue Woman:

Antivan Crows (The Assassins): Nope, not after the shit I heard from Zevran and I don't want to be a cold blooded murderer. I honestly just don't want to associate with this faction at all but I feel that would be screwing myself over and missing a big chunk of the game.
Grey Wardens: Don't really want my character to be doomed and still not sure about them after how easily dupped and went turn coat back in Inquisition, feels like positions to be flaky allies.
Lords of Fortune (Pirates, oh I mean "Adventurers"): I really don't like those outfits but like the idea and has the backstory I like the best and has the best perks to my playstyle.
Mourn Watch (Aka the Necromancer Guild with the really goofy name): Kind of feels nonsensical for a Dwarf to be part of this, especially with the lack of magic and how many Dwarves think of life after death.
Shadow Dragons (The Great Rebellion): The other one I'd like to join but it's the organization I agree with most but not a fan of coming from a military family backstory.
Veil Jumpers (Magic lore finders who hope across dimensions): Also feels nonsensical for a Dwarf to be part of unless you're a Dwarf like Dagna which I don't feel my character would be.

[HardcoreRetro]

Why'd EA copyright strike the Dragon Age Taash cutscenes video when that shit is out tomorrow?

[DavidCroquet]

Not ResetEra, but found on ResetEra (in the Cancel Jon Stewart attempt #4398 thread).

Seems like comedians are noting that other comedians might be a little too conservative, and are CALLING THEM OUT! Let's see Marc Maron take these CHUDMEDIANS to the MAT.

Anxious, Folks.

We’re all anxious I assume.

It’s funny. I don’t do a political show but I am very political. Innately. I keep up. I read too many clickbait pieces. I waver between almost uncontrollable fear and, not really hope, but just fantasizing for an outcome that will guarantee the progress of culture and freedom of mind for everyone.

Once tolerance is removed from the dialogue, democracy suffocates.

Even though I do not do a political show I have been very clear in my specials and on the podcast that I believe, and have believed for years, what is brewing in this country is an American fascist movement rooted half in grievance and half in Jesus and enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources.

Well, it's fully percolated and pouring into the minds of all of us. It is shameless and proud. Culturally, the combination of blatant racist fear mongering and the anti-woke movement has delivered their message for the future. A future that marginalizes almost all voices.

The anti-woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers. Whether or not they are self-serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement. Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn’t matter. Whether they are driven by the idea that what they are fighting for is a free speech issue or whether they are truly morally bankrupt racists doesn’t matter. They are part of the public face of a fascist political movement that seeks to destroy the democratic idea.

When comedians with podcasts have shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show to joke around like they are just entertainers or even just politicians, all it does is humanize and normalize fascism. When someone uses their platform for that reason they are facilitating anti-American sentiment and promoting violent autocracy.

It may be all self-serving. Greedy influencers and comics and public personalities and certainly tech companies want to align themselves with an unapologetic right wing movement that has no concerns for regulation or law or justice or decency or democracy to increase their earnings and put them in the seat of power.

Fascism is good for business if you toe the line. Popular podcasts became tribal and divisive years ago. Now they may be in the position to become part of the media oligarchy under the new anti-democratic government.

Hopefully, it goes the other way and tolerance and diversity can breathe and inch forward but who knows?

I’m trying to remain a realist and live my life and do the things that keep the existential crisis this all seems to bring out of me at bay.

Try to realize that you don’t have to annihilate yourself in the face of cultural annihilation. Hold onto who you are and try not to be afraid to live your truth in the midst of an avalanche of toxic bullshit.

Today I talk to Robert Patrick about his acting roles, sobriety, motorcycles and life. Thursday I talk to Billy Corben about his new documentary on Lev Parnas and the crimes of Trump. Great talks.

Enjoy!

Boomer, Monkey and LaFonda live!

[Snoopy]

As someone that has had and still kinda does have aspirations to do stand-up/comedy, I would never let this shit slide. I'd beat yo ass you say some shit like that around me.

The thing about making jokes like these is you know who's actually joking and who's using "jokes" as a cover to be a piece of shit.

[Uncle]

Here's 26 minutes of my favourite new character.

for anyone who tapped out on this early missed it due to the copyright claim, holy shit this video is so bad

@ 20:24 https://youtu.be/CYzTNy1y7KU?t=1224

here now:

everyone is sitting around telling stories about an adventure and this warrior lady calls taash she instead of they



and taash is sooo good and such a sweetheart that she doesn't talk about how hurt she is that the wrong pronoun was used, instead this other girl goes "ummm...err..." until she realizes what she said

then she gets up and starts doing fucking pushups to apologize



and then they enter into an extended conversation about the nature of apologies and how great it is to do pushups to apologize because it makes you focus on what you did wrong and helps you remember so you don't do it again, and how actually apologies are bad because you get so upset that you make the apology all about you and force other people to feel bad for you

  

and throughout all this they're inventing made up fantasy words for the process of apologizing because don't you see this is a fantasy world very unlike our own

utterly fucking insane



also there's this

https://youtu.be/CYzTNy1y7KU?t=1190 link dead, gif still relevant

[HaughtyFrank]

^this is why the "BioWare was always woke" argument can kiss my ass. It was never this blatant and badly written

[Taco Bell Tower]

i will never get how B-Dubs is still the general manager here after saying the N word, trans fetish kinks and pedo stuff while being some white guy from wherever he's from. he apologized but didn't seem sincere for it and has been a sexist dick towards a poc woman admin. it's wild to me. he simply stopped doing it and the beef went away.

FTFY

[Besticus Maximus]

I've heard that in the early days, Zaslav and Joanne were actually stand up comedians

[Jansen]

Copyright'd by ea so i missed the funnies

The game is out in one day...

[Uncle]

It very much is a concern.

if trump is elected, here's what will happen:

over the course of his presidency, one or three of the goals of project 2025 will begin to look like they're being advanced through some piece of legislation, like it's laying the groundwork or a prerequisite for something worse

it won't actually be "project 2025" of course, it'll just be ordinary legislation that happens to lean a certain way, because their document is 887 pages and it would be impossible for the conspiratorially-minded not to draw connections to any piece of legislation

for example, immigration will be tightened up in some ways, because currently that's what most americans want, and not because a shadow organization wills it

proponents of doom will wail and scream and say this is just the start, oh my stars, it's happening

then little else will happen and life will go on as normal

and four years later you'll say phew we narrowly missed on all this evil stuff happening, if not for all the brave work from all who opposed it, we barely held them off from succeeding, but stay vigilant, because now there's project 2029 on the horizon

so it is declared, so it shall be

[Boredfrom]

good news! we now know why dragon age veilguard is shit

I appreciate her pointing directly at the writer responsible, who, of course, looks exactly like you'd imagine

Writer. Repped by
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it's turtles all the way down

how the fuck did this even happen, literally all normal people just decided to stop pursuing writing in the past 20 years?

or more like "hmm, you wouldn't be a good fit for our company, we're going with this other candidate for unspecified reasons"

I could argue that the untalented ones are stuck at video games or YA communities.

[Uncle]

Copyright'd by ea so i missed the funnies

The game is out in one day...

doing pushups to apologize for a heckin misgender:

full archive of the deleted video: https://www.transfernow.net/en/bld?utm_source=20241030HtjLCwri

[Boredfrom]

I mean, there probably is a lot of fear mongering, but also, why roll the dice

“Because I survived and I was not that affected by it.”  

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-discussed-using-nuclear-weapon-north-korea-2017-blaming-someone-rcna65120

Yes, let this dude in charge of the nukes one more time, now with more sycophants.