Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

Bought a guinea pig as a pet despite everyone on era telling him not to because they need special care or something, I'm sure it didn't last long

I remember this. Poor animal had a mostly empty cage. No wood chips on the floor, bright light above it. Only a very small plastic shelter to sleep in at the bottom right and food/water all the way at the top left. He basically built a Gitmo for guinea pigs.

And when people gave tips he obviously ignored them and instead started feeding it medicine.

It was a fancy kind of hamster he bought at an exotic animals roadshow iirc

Didn't he get another one after he killed the first one? Or just make a thread about how he wanted to get another one to kill?

[Besticus Maximus]

No I was wrong. It was a hedgehog. IIRC the thread hinted that he had a history of neglecting animals to death.

[Boredfrom]

Gears and Halo suffer the same error of having all the most interesting parts in the lore outside the games. And that they cannot move on from the OG enemy faction. But I think Gears has been the one that suffered getting on the spotlight again.

[benji]

All the Halo games are about Master Chief and Cortana because Microsoft is scared of Gamergate 2.0.

[Besticus Maximus]

Gears wants to both be cool and edgy and gnarly but also fast and the furious melodrama and it just comes off as a bit naff nowadays

[DocWager]

Weird how he could have killed someone but the most dangerous thing we've been told he's done is stab PlanetSmasher.

And his brother really "snapped" on a "hair trigger" but then took the time to go out and buy a gun and wait for the background check and everything else?

Also I swear PlanetSmasher has said he's nearly punched holes in walls before. To where I'm going to Google:

I legitimately punched a hole through my coffee table fighting the Defiled Watchdog. That whole series of dungeons was unmitigated shit, and locking the Queen Yharnam boss behind them was unnecessary cruelty.

I got so mad at Guardian Ape in Sekiro that I got sick for nine days afterward. Just dying over and over and over and over and over again to that stupid fucking boss. I almost snapped my DS4 in half down the middle.

Sekiro being single-player-only and being focused exclusively around parrying meant it forced me into a style of play I hated and gave me no options to beat bosses any way beyond that one strategy. It was a perfect confluence of factors designed to make me absurdly mad. The anger and stress the game caused in me literally weakened my immune system. It sucked.

Exhaustingly. When I was stuck on the Defiled Watchdog of the Old Lords for 9 straight hours I punched a hole through a coffee table.

I genuinely cannot believe how bad the combat and the boss fights were in TEW2. The stealth fundamentally doesn't work, and so many enemies can soak up absolutely absurd amounts of ammo and not even fall down.

The flamethrower boss near the end of the game made me so angry it gave me stress flashbacks to the Defiled Watchdog from Bloodborne, which is a boss that made me punch a hole through a coffee table. I literally emptied every single shot of every single weapon I had into him and he kept going. Miserable, miserable experience.

I literally punched a hole through a coffee table while playing Bloodborne once and it's never once occurred to me, even in the depths of a gamer rage burst, to start spewing racist or homophobic shit.

I punched a hole through a coffee table after Defiled Watchdog of the Old Lords killed me for the 115th time in Bloodborne.

wait you mean a GOOD emotional response? no, I don't think I have.

It would be pretty nice for something like Elden Ring to make Malenia stop spamming Waterfowl Dance once I'm in the midst of a rage breakdown from dying too many times.

And I thought punching a hole through my crappy $20 Ikea coffee table during the Defiled Watchdog fight was bad.

It’s almost like he himself is actually the brother.

[Switters]

What a fucking cunt

[Shecky Fragbaum]

What a fucking cunt

Ironically the only thing he's never smashed

[Rendle]

Gears and Halo suffer from the same problem: it's not 2007 anymore

[Nintex]

Gears wants to both be cool and edgy and gnarly but also fast and the furious melodrama and it just comes off as a bit naff nowadays

Just one of the many contradictions of the Xbox brand that tries to appeal to everyone and thus appeals to no one.
 
Gears of War was literally: "Here's some cool shit we made in Unreal after playing Resident Evil 4 and Half Life 2"

By Gears 5 reviewers said it had "grown up" because of the more 'mature' themes, 'deeper' story lines, anti-war messages, trauma, loss and moments to contemplate your actions. 
While I didn't think Gears 5 was that bad, I liked the simplicity and relentless pacing of this more:


Gears 2 especially was a rollercoaster ride, probably the best game in the series.

All the story beats were there simply to fuel your rage boner so the brehs had reasons to blow these freaks to bits without remorse in a blood soaked tour of vengeance.

[Jansen]

God I fucking hate autistic people

The fuck I do to you, asshole?

Eat shit and die asspie

[Polident]

Gears and Halo suffer from the same problem: it's not 2007 anymore

Thanks, Obama.

[Steven Snell]

When's the new Grand Theft Auto coming out? Don't follow gaming news that much anymore.

[Nintex]

When's the new Grand Theft Auto coming out? Don't follow gaming news that much anymore.

If all goes to plan fall 2025.

[Steven Snell]

If all goes to plan fall 2025.

Cheers. That's like the game I'm looking forward to personally.

[Polident]

I played those first three Gears games and cared so little for the story I didn’t realize you weren’t fighting on Earth.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

No I was wrong. It was a hedgehog. IIRC the thread hinted that he had a history of neglecting animals to death.

Probably had those fucking multicolored lights on disco mode around the cage, making the poor hedgehog crazy

[Nintex]

Poor animal died

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile the rodent men of ree are outraged


https://www.resetera.com/threads/where-did-the-hype-over-hot-rodent-men-come-from.902691/

[Boredfrom]

I played those first three Gears games and cared so little for the story I didn’t realize you weren’t fighting on Earth.

I only could play 1, I never got the hype, I just thought that what people really liked was the multiplayer. Halo 1 was similar but was fun as hell to play and the music tricked the dumbass young me in thinking it was the most epic shit in history of storytelling. And I think Halo 2 has legit great moments and lines… wasted in a “to be continue” game, so I didn’t play 3.

[Eric Cartman]

I think what they’re trying to say is that women are autistic

Ironic, because most symptoms of autism - inability to read social cues, difficulties processing emotions, tendencies towards obsessive behaviours like collections as hobbies, dislike of disruptions to routines, tendencies towards isolation rather than socialising, preferences dealing with objects than people, etc - at some point on the spectrum blend into 'just regular guy behaviour'

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/over-6-months-later-has-the-playstation-portal-changed-the-way-you-play-games.901827/?post=124483722#post-124483722
Nothing Loud

I personally always thought the Portal was a ridiculous product. Imagine paying lots of money to stream PS5 games and that's the ONLY thing it does. Meanwhile an Odin, a Steam Deck, a Legion Go/Ally, hell even your phones can stream PS5 and other system's games using Chiaki, PS Remote Play apps, Moonlight, Steam Link, etc. I was never able to fathom what would compel someone to buy such a goofy, ugly-looking device for such a niche use case, when most of us already have devices that enable this feature without needing to buy one of these things.

I'm not gonna dunk on NothingLoud for pointing out what a pile of shit the Playstation Portal is.

Its a fucking WiiU controller, but more expensive than a WiiU controller, but also with worse functionality

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-know-people-with-anger-issues-short-tempers.902601/?post=124534986#post-124534986

Yes. My brother was an absolute hair trigger growing up. So many holes punched in walls. At one point he absolutely snapped and bought a gun. He was pretty scary when he was on a tear.

I also knew a kid when I was in middle school who was shockingly violent. Attacked several of my classmates in broad daylight, even attacked me in the middle of class with the teacher watching. School never did shit about it, either. He could've killed someone.

That school bullies name?
Mahatma Gandhi.

Checkmate, atheists.

[Eric Cartman]

Weird how he could have killed someone but the most dangerous thing we've been told he's done is stab PlanetSmasher.

And his brother really "snapped" on a "hair trigger" but then took the time to go out and buy a gun and wait for the background check and everything else?

Also I swear PlanetSmasher has said he's nearly punched holes in walls before. To where I'm going to Google:

I legitimately punched a hole through my coffee table fighting the Defiled Watchdog. That whole series of dungeons was unmitigated shit, and locking the Queen Yharnam boss behind them was unnecessary cruelty.

I got so mad at Guardian Ape in Sekiro that I got sick for nine days afterward. Just dying over and over and over and over and over again to that stupid fucking boss. I almost snapped my DS4 in half down the middle.

Sekiro being single-player-only and being focused exclusively around parrying meant it forced me into a style of play I hated and gave me no options to beat bosses any way beyond that one strategy. It was a perfect confluence of factors designed to make me absurdly mad. The anger and stress the game caused in me literally weakened my immune system. It sucked.

Exhaustingly. When I was stuck on the Defiled Watchdog of the Old Lords for 9 straight hours I punched a hole through a coffee table.

I genuinely cannot believe how bad the combat and the boss fights were in TEW2. The stealth fundamentally doesn't work, and so many enemies can soak up absolutely absurd amounts of ammo and not even fall down.

The flamethrower boss near the end of the game made me so angry it gave me stress flashbacks to the Defiled Watchdog from Bloodborne, which is a boss that made me punch a hole through a coffee table. I literally emptied every single shot of every single weapon I had into him and he kept going. Miserable, miserable experience.

I literally punched a hole through a coffee table while playing Bloodborne once and it's never once occurred to me, even in the depths of a gamer rage burst, to start spewing racist or homophobic shit.

I punched a hole through a coffee table after Defiled Watchdog of the Old Lords killed me for the 115th time in Bloodborne.

wait you mean a GOOD emotional response? no, I don't think I have.

It would be pretty nice for something like Elden Ring to make Malenia stop spamming Waterfowl Dance once I'm in the midst of a rage breakdown from dying too many times.

And I thought punching a hole through my crappy $20 Ikea coffee table during the Defiled Watchdog fight was bad.

easily explained by bad luck or systemic issues

[kaleidoscopium]

Knowingly platforming Matty of LSM/Colin Moriarty connection because he got a Todd Howard interview is hilarious. Please ZeoVGM show up and start screaming at them

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-bethesda-abk-ot31-perfect-doom.894510/page-119?post=124551984#post-124551984

It’s own thread now too https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-todd-howard-interview-talks-fallout-starfield-tes-and-all-things-bethesda.902850/

[ClothedMac]

Weird how he could have killed someone but the most dangerous thing we've been told he's done is stab PlanetSmasher.

And his brother really "snapped" on a "hair trigger" but then took the time to go out and buy a gun and wait for the background check and everything else?

Also I swear PlanetSmasher has said he's nearly punched holes in walls before. To where I'm going to Google:

I legitimately punched a hole through my coffee table fighting the Defiled Watchdog. That whole series of dungeons was unmitigated shit, and locking the Queen Yharnam boss behind them was unnecessary cruelty.

I got so mad at Guardian Ape in Sekiro that I got sick for nine days afterward. Just dying over and over and over and over and over again to that stupid fucking boss. I almost snapped my DS4 in half down the middle.

It’s almost like he himself is actually the brother.

That's the entire point.  He takes things like careers, incidents, schooling, that happened to other people and confabulates them with his own life.  Or vice versa in the "punched an hole though," narrative.  He's the rage machine and now another person is.  His brother is. 

Maybe he attacked another kid who had to stab him off with a pencil.  "A crazy kid attacked me in school"
He went to an open mike night and saw a performer who got moderately big and now Smasher went to comedy school.
He actually found a juicy scoop and gave it to a gaming journalist and that person found a story.  Now he's a gaming journalist. 

A fabulist

Edit: Era is now full of these weirdos who have a single perspective that must be respected and never contradicted. I did a search, "What ever happened to the web site WWTDD (What would tyler durden do?)" and a top link was NeoGaf asking the same question in 2012.  

It was at one time a useful place with diversity and opinions and thought.  Now it's populated by people who must have their ideas agreed with or else you are the enemy.

I guess that's what it is and it's now just a joke to prod for the rest of the internet.  What a shame because I would love to know why celeb gossip and nude pic sites are gone.  I have my theories.  Now celebs just post their own sexy pics on instagram.

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

the soyU 100% wouldn't exist if sony didn't have a shit load of unused phone/tablet screens laying around

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98south-of-midnight%E2%80%99-is-renewing-my-faith-in-video-games.897930/page-2?post=124318599#post-124318599

User banned (1 week): Antagonistic behavior, history of similar behavior

Please stop posting Forbes contributor articles like they are coming from a news outlet. It has the same level of legitimacy as making a thread about someone on Era saying they think South of Midnight looks cool.

(It does look cool)

You literally log into to this site to complain everything.

Please stop doing that first. Lol.

[Snoopy]

Congratulations Dubs. This is the result of kneeling to the freaks on your board -

Did Cyberpunk ever come back? No one talks about the game anymore.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-a-game-like-starfield-even-have-a-major-redemption-moment-in-the-public.902844/?post=124553475#post-124553475

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jez-corden-gears-of-war-e-day-with-director-matt-searcy-and-manager-nicole-fawcette-multiplayer-%E2%80%9Chorror%E2%80%9D-tone-new-direction-for-franchise-etc.902307/page-4?post=124556913#post-124546626

I very much doubt this is the case, the new characters were boring, female or not.

With Gears you need to be playing as Marcus, like playing as the Master Chief in Halo.

Kait wasn't boring.

Not even close to the same thing.

He is literally incapable of accepting that someone else can have a differing opinion. He is genuinely fucked in the head