Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[HaughtyFrank]

The UK Equalities Minister protecting Gender Critical views while also invalidating the very notion of trans people.



Gotta love this country 🙃🇬🇧

And yet you continue living here under the exact same legal rights everyone else has and cashing those benefit cheques to buy vidya and watch capeshit at the cinema 

Are they upset about the "no basis in science" comment? Because currently their definition of what makes someone a woman seems to be "whoever says they identify as a woman is a woman" so they did indeed completely abandon science

[NekoFever]

This thread is wild. People are now arguing whether characters in FF16 are sufficiently non-white enough:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi%E2%80%99s-lack-of-diverse-characters-makes-a-huge-world-feel-small.734409/#post-107910447

How is that confirming that Hugo is white? I'm playing the game. I'm looking at Hugo. I'm looking at Vivian.

Again, how are they white? Because Eurogamer said so? In what reality is Hugo a white man?

This is a white woman to you?

They look like white people with slight tans to me. And the developers didn't jump to cite them as PoC when asked; instead, they said that PoC wouldn't be realistic to medieval Europe. (Which is ahistorical nonsense.)

The fact that you had to say "Hugo aside" confirms that even you understand the statement "no PoC" isn't true lol. Hugo isn't white no matter how you look at it. The game is lacking in diversity and that is an issue. But there are objectively PoC in this game. There's no amount of reaching that would change that.

Am I missing something because the people in Dhalmek actually do look brown to me (I’m brown and they’re darker than I am)

Apparently everyone in Dhalmekia is white because The Verge and Eurogamer said so. I’m all for wanting devs to do better, but this is a bit too much when they straight up present misinformation about the game.

This is what happens when you're obsessed with bland, token representation: arguing whether a character is sufficiently shaded to be considered white/non-white.

[Eric Cartman]

Are they upset about the "no basis in science" comment? Because currently their definition of what makes someone a woman seems to be "whoever says they identify as a woman is a woman" so they did indeed completely abandon science

Pretty sure they're upset because someone on twitter told them they should be

[Taco Bell Tower]

This thread is wild. People are now arguing whether characters in FF16 are sufficiently non-white enough:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi%E2%80%99s-lack-of-diverse-characters-makes-a-huge-world-feel-small.734409/#post-107910447

How is that confirming that Hugo is white? I'm playing the game. I'm looking at Hugo. I'm looking at Vivian.

Again, how are they white? Because Eurogamer said so? In what reality is Hugo a white man?

This is a white woman to you?

They look like white people with slight tans to me. And the developers didn't jump to cite them as PoC when asked; instead, they said that PoC wouldn't be realistic to medieval Europe. (Which is ahistorical nonsense.)

The fact that you had to say "Hugo aside" confirms that even you understand the statement "no PoC" isn't true lol. Hugo isn't white no matter how you look at it. The game is lacking in diversity and that is an issue. But there are objectively PoC in this game. There's no amount of reaching that would change that.

Am I missing something because the people in Dhalmek actually do look brown to me (I’m brown and they’re darker than I am)

Apparently everyone in Dhalmekia is white because The Verge and Eurogamer said so. I’m all for wanting devs to do better, but this is a bit too much when they straight up present misinformation about the game.

This is what happens when you're obsessed with bland, token representation: arguing whether a character is sufficiently shaded to be considered white/non-white.

This pic is a moblin worthy like.
Also, a trans admin was in tears when resigning, what? 

[Kadayi]

Everybody forgets the real reason that all happened. The staff had refused TransEra's demands, told Black Chamber to just ignore them and keep doing what he was doing. This was leaked and TransEra posted it and other private communications they had obtained. The staff responded to that by banning Black Chamber and Cyberpunk 2077. This is what eventually led to poundsandgate.

The whole thing was absurd, but the biggest mistake they made was not instantly flushing the people leaking private mod communications, versus instead throwing BC under the bus, and turning themselves into a complete laughing stock in the process. 

BC made an OT for the ages and they basically handed GAF a massive boost in traffic out of it when he decanted there after his perm.  

I'm good friends with BC. We've collaborated on a few OTs now, and are in the process of putting one together for Starfield (which is going to be massive). With him doing the gifs & myself putting together the structure & contents  (wall is covered in post-it notes as we speak...it's going to be a busy couple of months). We are also going to be working on an OT for Star Wars: Outlaws as well next year which should be pretty awesome. Dude loves to push the envelope.  

He's an extremely talented dude who basically just loves video games (he did all of the Cyberpunk OT using a Galaxy Note which blew our minds) and the way ERA has publicly vilified him was totally unwarranted, to the extent that the breakaways at Kamiboards banned him the instant he signed up there because despite everything they take still their lead from Era apparently. All the dude wanted to do was make OTs for them. Their loss our gain.   

Still, they're no longer about games at Era as I think we all know by now.

[Averon]

I mean…the brown skin people there have dark enough skin where the first thing I thought when I go there was “Wait, I thought there were no PoC in this game.” They’re dark enough where it becomes hard to imagine how someone could say there’s no diversity in the world of the game with a straight face. Did they really just mean there are no black people?

Of course that's what they meant. To them, diversity only means black people, apparently. All other PoC don't count.

[Besticus Maximus]

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1687598030[/url]']Everybody forgets the real reason that all happened. The staff had refused TransEra's demands, told Black Chamber to just ignore them and keep doing what he was doing. This was leaked and TransEra posted it and other private communications they had obtained. The staff responded to that by banning Black Chamber and Cyberpunk 2077. This is what eventually led to poundsandgate.

The whole thing was absurd, but the biggest mistake they made was not instantly flushing the people leaking private mod communications, versus instead throwing BC under the bus, and turning themselves into a complete laughing stock in the process. 

BC made an OT for the ages and they basically handed GAF a massive boost in traffic out of it when he decanted there after his perm.  

I'm good friends with BC. We've collaborated on a few OTs now, and are in the process of putting one together for Starfield (which is going to be massive). With him doing the gifs & myself putting together the structure & contents  (wall is covered in post-it notes as we speak...it's going to be a busy couple of months). We are also going to be working on an OT for Star Wars: Outlaws as well next year which should be pretty awesome. Dude loves to push the envelope.  

He's an extremely talented dude who basically just loves video games (he did all of the Cyberpunk OT using a Galaxy Note which blew our minds) and the way ERA has publicly vilified him was totally unwarranted, to the extent that the breakaways at Kamiboards banned him the instant he signed up there because despite everything they take still their lead from Era apparently. All the dude wanted to do was make OTs for them. Their loss our gain.   

Still, they're no longer about games at Era as I think we all know by now.

He’s known in my other e-haunts as one of the very best YouTube reviewers so fuck era and all those idiots

[Kadayi]

I mean…the brown skin people there have dark enough skin where the first thing I thought when I go there was “Wait, I thought there were no PoC in this game.” They’re dark enough where it becomes hard to imagine how someone could say there’s no diversity in the world of the game with a straight face. Did they really just mean there are no black people?

Of course that's what they meant. To them, diversity only means black people, apparently. All other PoC don't count.

Indeed. It's such a binary mindset it's increasingly hard to take seriously.

[HaughtyFrank]

I mean…the brown skin people there have dark enough skin where the first thing I thought when I go there was “Wait, I thought there were no PoC in this game.” They’re dark enough where it becomes hard to imagine how someone could say there’s no diversity in the world of the game with a straight face. Did they really just mean there are no black people?

Of course that's what they meant. To them, diversity only means black people, apparently. All other PoC don't count.

Indeed. It's such a binary mindset it's increasingly hard to take seriously.

The Dragon's Dogma 2 trailer featured one black dude and RE instantly declared it sufficiently diverse. It's all so dumb

[Averon]

People in this thread seeing a tanned white person really going "How is this not a person of color?" smh.

They are desperate to hold on to the narrative FF16 has no "diversity" to the point they are gaslighting others and themselves that those clearly non-white people are "tanned" yts.

[Kadayi]

Of course that's what they meant. To them, diversity only means black people, apparently. All other PoC don't count.

Indeed. It's such a binary mindset it's increasingly hard to take seriously.

The Dragon's Dogma 2 trailer featured one black dude and RE instantly declared it sufficiently diverse. It's all so dumb

Tokenism at its finest. Southpark ahead of its time.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yong-yea-is-kiryus-new-english-va-in-lad-gaiden.733323/page-8#post-107908908

"Trans woman", not "transwoman", please.

CDPR aren't exactly well-regarded in the trans community, given the tokenized trans woman in a side quest, the Manticore ad (and transphobic cosplay model), and pronouns are tied to V's voice. That's without getting into CDPR employees spouting transphobia openly.

Trans humanism, it's right there.
Trans people are the most punk, it couldn't make more sense.

If the game's so transhumanistic, where are all the trans people? You can't even acknowledge V's own transness should you decide to play them as transmasc or transfemme.

grammar policng a fellow trans woman is not cool, i was tired when i posted that. sorry.

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The only time I've heard Yong Yea do voice acting was in Lorelai - a 2d indie horror game for PC, by Harvester Games

Yong Yea, along with James Sterling, were the low points in VA quality in that game…

you mean James Stephanie Sterling? It might be minor to you, but I prefer not to completely dead name somebody who is fully came out as non-binary.

Everything here is just

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yong-yea-is-kiryus-new-english-va-in-lad-gaiden.733323/page-8#post-107908908

"Trans woman", not "transwoman", please.

CDPR aren't exactly well-regarded in the trans community, given the tokenized trans woman in a side quest, the Manticore ad (and transphobic cosplay model), and pronouns are tied to V's voice. That's without getting into CDPR employees spouting transphobia openly.

Trans humanism, it's right there.
Trans people are the most punk, it couldn't make more sense.

If the game's so transhumanistic, where are all the trans people? You can't even acknowledge V's own transness should you decide to play them as transmasc or transfemme.

grammar policng a fellow trans woman is not cool, i was tired when i posted that. sorry.

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The only time I've heard Yong Yea do voice acting was in Lorelai - a 2d indie horror game for PC, by Harvester Games

Yong Yea, along with James Sterling, were the low points in VA quality in that game…

you mean James Stephanie Sterling? It might be minor to you, but I prefer not to completely dead name somebody who is fully came out as non-binary.

Everything here is just

Dead name someone because they forgot the middle name 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yong-yea-is-kiryus-new-english-va-in-lad-gaiden.733323/page-8#post-107902281

This is another content creator I presently keep away from. I was simply made too uncomfortable with ... her once mentioning that her views were far away from an "SJW".

THAT BITCH

Not sure where people stand with Suzy on here, I just know some people didnt like her attitude when it came to the Ada RE4 Remake actress laughing at her performance then hiding in the background during in the RE4 Remake cast stream while people were showing support for Lily, I used to respect Suzy a whole lot because of the RE lore videos but not sure how to feel about Suzy after the RE4 Remake Ada stuff, she laughed at her performance not once but twice on another show. I hope Lily gets another shot at Ada, as for everybody pointing me in the right direction with the Yong stuff, Thank you. now I know how much of a scum person he was/is.

THAT BITCH AND CHUD 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yong-yea-is-kiryus-new-english-va-in-lad-gaiden.733323/page-8#post-107920134

He's a piece of shit but I didn't even know the Yakuza/LaD series even had English dubs beyond the PS2 version of the first one so I guess that's easily ignored.

Imo don't bother. Its done by the Arems. They are best known for their work directing and voicing in almost all Atlus projects. The fact that they hired this guy.......its concerning

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi%E2%80%99s-lack-of-diverse-characters-makes-a-huge-world-feel-small.734409/page-3#post-107920251

East Asians basically see themselves as honorary white people and look down upon darker skinned people. I get to say it because I’m Chinese ._. But it’s true and saddening.

So East Asians are "honorary whites."
What other non-black PoC does ERA think are "honorary whites?"

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yong-yea-is-kiryus-new-english-va-in-lad-gaiden.733323/page-8#post-107908908

"Trans woman", not "transwoman", please.

CDPR aren't exactly well-regarded in the trans community, given the tokenized trans woman in a side quest, the Manticore ad (and transphobic cosplay model), and pronouns are tied to V's voice. That's without getting into CDPR employees spouting transphobia openly.

Trans humanism, it's right there.
Trans people are the most punk, it couldn't make more sense.

If the game's so transhumanistic, where are all the trans people? You can't even acknowledge V's own transness should you decide to play them as transmasc or transfemme.

Literally all over the city, in the manticore poster you're so mad about?

In a world where people can completely remodel their entire body nobody would be visibly trans unless they choose to.

Also transhumanistic doesn't refer to trans people you imbeciles

[Taco Bell Tower]

I'm starting to think Ree's trans people don't actually know what trans means other to use, "I AM A TRANS LESBIAN WOMAN!"

[kaleidoscopium]

Another for the tire fire that is transera:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/yes-it-is-trans-genocide-a-faq-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-today.711593/page-4#post-107863863

Considering how screwed up Florida’s health care system is & the cost of healthcare in general (even with insurance), it’s obvious these requirements are essentially there to price people out. >.>

Yes, how dare someone.... get a mental diagnosis before getting medical treatment for a mental disorder...

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-studios-ot36-phase-two-discs.730305/page-71#post-107933802
Ree Sony Ponies sure are something

I mean that is still happening, it's just that now you have all these pseudo competitive law exports thrown into the mix making the whole thing multiple times worse.

Just imagine how absurd this story would have sounded during the 360 era:

MS lobbied US politicians so that they would complain to Japan to have them look into Sony uncompetitively exploiting their "monopoly" in Japan by making FFXVI a timed exclusive.

The fact this happened and that there are plenty of people out there not seeing the absolute absurdity of that series of events and instead view it as a somehow legitimate thing that deserves to be investigated just shows how off the rails we've gotten with this entire thing.

[nobody of note]

I swear this thread is just Excel trolling to see how many people she can get to agree with her weird takes:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/heres-an-evil-time-based-math-question.734589/

Not that I believe this is a real test question but on the chance it is, whoever wrote it better not believe their wording  absolutely precludes all but 1 answer.

Why wouldn't it be D, which is 3 minutes after midnight? Or do you think the question writer only considered time going forward, in which case 11:55 am would be closest to the next midnight? I could see that being a point of contention

And thus you have demonstrated the failure of the question!

If you had a meeting at Midnight D is the correct answer

If the ritual must be performed at Midnight A is the correct answer

The questions is asking which is closest to midnight. Closest can be before or after.

Not in actual time

No it’s 3 minutes away, I don’t understand how D is not the only right answer.

Because time is one direction forward and midnight repeats every 24 hours

Thus A is completely an acceptable answer

Something about projecting extra conditions not actually in the text is very Era though.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Did she even read her answer correctly?  It says 11:55AM

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yong-yea-is-kiryus-new-english-va-in-lad-gaiden.733323/page-8#post-107920134

The fact that they hired this guy.......its concerning

I'm literally shaking.

[kaleidoscopium]

Kinda weird how they never actually say why this guy is so "problematic", and instead clutch pearls for multiple pages. Reminds me of how SkillUp is a banned channel there, but they won't say why

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microtransaction-hell-yeah-i-think-im-done-with-anything-bungie-again-after-the-final-shape.732750/page-4#post-107665116

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Generalization; Metacommentary; Long History of Accululated Infractions

Want blindly irrational people defending stupid decisions? You've come to the right place. Welcome to ResetERA.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-xvi-spoiler-thread-open-spoilers.731475/page-13#post-107642145

User banned (1 week): Inflammatory commentary

I mean, I legitimately think FFXIV is the worst mainline FF and that all the people who are ride or die with it and hype it up to absurdity are a bunch of weirdos, but the way Yoshi-P dresses doesn't have anything to do with it. Let the man wear what he wants.

It has more to do with the general culture around that style and the people who popularized it. Long story short a vast majority minus a few exceptions of visual kei dudes from that era were the equivilent of sleazy rock here

One of them being very notably a right wing nationalist nut case who tries to run for politics now... or Miyavi who dressed in nazi fashion because he thought it was cool.

The whole genre of style comes from a yikes place. It's not the same as general ura-hara style.

It says something about the individual in most cases and based on the shit we can find in Yoshi-P's games I think it confirms it.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Kinda weird how they never actually say why this guy is so "problematic", and instead clutch pearls for multiple pages. Reminds me of how SkillUp is a banned channel there, but they won't say why

Like all the transphobic things Rowling has said or done, it's just too horrible to put into words.

[MJBarret]

Did she even read her answer correctly?  It says 11:55AM

Meaning 12hrs and 5 mins 'til midnight, going clockwise at least.

The rest are longer

[Uncle]

Kinda weird how they never actually say why this guy is so "problematic", and instead clutch pearls for multiple pages. Reminds me of how SkillUp is a banned channel there, but they won't say why

I forget exactly, it was something like reviewing a game without addressing the elephant in the room, saying "look I've got a job to do and I'm going to be fair"

might've been ion maiden for the "oil of ogay" controversy

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-ot-antitrust-simulator.633344/page-1089#post-107705043

User Banned (1 week): inflammatory accusations

Because it’s been clear from jump thag FTC is full of ideologues who are just “Big tech bad” and CMA’s argument are full of holes and nonsensical arguments. If the process was done fairly the deal would have closed months ago.

Big tech is bad though. And governments should be stopping these kinds of acquisitions. I’m a left-wing socialist though, so political allegiances may vary among gamers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition-ot-antitrust-simulator.633344/page-1095#post-107782959

User banned (1 week): inflammatory accusations

FTC look awful in this, come off as dishonest time wasters, shades of Trump legal team (let's not speak of EC remedies yet cite them in regards to anticompetitive behaviour? Wtf?!). Hope the Judge sees through their BS. Sad to see what they've become, underhanded and desperate. CMA for instance presided with some dignity, truly believing in the process.