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

[DocWager]

Oh they do the same shit too there. What’s the point of being at Famiboards? So the Nintendo Fanboys(Famboys?) from The Bire can avoid the Sony Ponies?

IIRC they broke off and started their own forum because of issues they had with moderation.

And then they said that they had no issues with era moderation and would run their forum the same way.

Probably someone wanted that same kinda money that Era got for its sale.

[Besticus Maximus]

Famiboards looks lovely tbf to the nutters

Great wee themes and a nice dark mode too

[Jansen]

Wait, is Famiboards even more autistic than ERA? 

It's fucking distilled Nintendies what do you think? 

[Taco Bell Tower]

Is fat4all trying to get into Melody's pants? 

[Potato]

Between the two of us we barely clear $1000 a week income. 

They have $4000 post tax per month for the two of them? I’m not saying that’s a ton of money but get the fuck out of here.

I misread it first time. I thought it was $1000 a month.

$1000 a week?!?

Yeah, fuck them.

Don't forget that $20,000 in credit card debt. That shit will fuck anyone's finances. 

Clearly that's someone else's fault though.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ps-portal-could-be-sonys-entry-level-playstation-its-a-game-changer-for-this-tv-sharing-parent.1063278/

I picked up a PlayStation Portal at the weekend from Facebook Marketplace, so I've come in to the userbase after the release of the Cloud-Streaming beta. Thoughts now follow, and I'm not being paid to say this! 😆







ENTRY LEVEL PLAYSTATION



This thing is awesome. In fact, I would go so far as to say - in places with high speed Internet (that's a sizeable caveat I know) - this should be Sony's entry level device. At MSRP, it costs half the amount of the cheapest PlayStation-proper. It's under ⅓ of the cost of their new flagship model. I imagine if you stripped out DualSense features or cost-reduced the components, you could really drive the cost of something like this down even further.



A new handheld with dedicated silicon will not be cheap, and this device makes me question the wisdom of even making one. You could put this tech in a dongle, or release a version with HDMI-out, and you'd have a gateway drug to the world of PlayStation. As long as users' Internet could handle it, and with some improvements - this could be the last version of PlayStation some people would ever need.



I have mixed impressions / experiences of the cloud streaming from Sony's servers, which I'll get to in a moment - but from both the PS Plus library and my own PS5 - it generally works very well!



If you shop around - you can get the Portal for less than the RRP/MSRP of £200. I picked mine up for £140, and having played over the weekend and the last couple of days - I consider that a bargain.





MORE WAYS TO PLAY



The Switch transformed any notions of how, when and where I could play my Nintendo library; it conveniently reduced the costs incurred personally too, because I no longer have to buy two separate devices each generation. Xbox Play Anywhere and cloud streaming have let me play Xbox games on my mobile devices and PC in a similar way. I actually played Psychonaughts 2 entirely via streaming (on a tablet, with a proper gamepad) long before I eventually picked up a Series X. This device has been similarly transformative for me for PlayStation.



I have 2 small children and a wife that loves watching TV / Films / Youtube. At the start of this gen, I invested in a new TV, but I'm not anti-social -- we all share it. Anything that gives me "more ways to play" is most certainly a positive.



I have felt myself at odds with the wider Internet at times this year, because - while people have been lamenting the performance of the Xbox (and seeing the multiplatform strategy as some kind of death knell), I have been playing my Xbox more than my Switch or my PS5. For the last few days I've been playing Indiana Jones on the Xbox itself, and if the TV is in use of an evening - I play it on my PC. The save game seamlessly synchronises and away I go. I could stream it if I wanted, to similar effect.



Over the past year, I've picked up games for the PS5 and then just let them linger in the backlog. Every month, I try and find time to check the monthly PS Plus games and maybe download one or two of those - but I don't really play them.





ENTER THE PORTAL



Upon day 1 of owning this device, I went back to Astro Bot, and last night I platinumed it. I went back to Ratchet and Clank. My youngest son had deleted my save in Spiderman 2 months ago and I found it too demoralising to start another. I've now started again. I've got other games like Sonic x Shadow Generations, Frontiers, FF XVI, GOW:R - in various states of play, unfinished, and I feel I can finally crack on with them. There are smaller-budget games I just haven't had the time to try, or I would prefer playing them on my Switch, now I feel like the PlayStation is an option. I feel like I'm finally able to get my moneys worth from my PS5... it just cost another 140 quid to make it happen 🙈





CLOUD STREAMING



My time spent with the cloud streaming is kind of limtied but I've played a few PS One games and the opening parts of FFVII remake. The way it all works is quite nice, the quality - particularly on the handheld's screen, is at a good standard, and the input latency is - in my opinion - acceptable and often quite good. However, one critique I have is that the way they handle game-saving and connection-loss is a bit frustrating.



I was moving around the house when playing FFVII's intro sequence, and I lost connection -- when I restarted, it was basically a whole new session -- I had to play everything again. To me, it would make sense to suspend (or pause) games on a connection loss, and keep sessions alive for a minute or two. This would give players a chance to reconnect and resume the game. I'm sure there are some kind of heuristics they could employ to detect if the connection loss was intentional, ie. is the user back online, is their account or Portal reachable? They could suspend the game, poll for PS sign-in a few times, backing off gradually until just giving up. That's what I'd do personally. I realise that might come with higher running-costs.



Likewise, they are telling users they can transfer their saves and download games to their physical device after streaming - and I think this is just bad UX. I may be wrong, and it may already work like this (in which case they should probably just change the advice) - but to me, I think they should just be synchronising saves automatically. Make it seamless like play anywhere games for Xbox and Xbox PC.





HEADSETS



I understand why Sony are using their own proprietary system for headsets. I use bluetooth pods with my Switch, and there's an ever so slight latency when using them - but I find that super convenient. My choices with Portal are either a Pulse headset or something wired. I'd like to see more options in future.





TLDR



This is, to my gaming life, what I hoped it would be. It actually increases my interest in devices like Logitech's GCloud - because I find myself wishing I could also play my Xbox and PC library on it. I suppose going forward that might get easier 😆 - I was a little disappointed to read that the HEVC decoder hack that allowed PSP emulation has been patched, and kind of hope it gets hacked again to allow universal streaming domination.



All in all, I'm happy with my purchase and I just wanted to share thoughts in case anyone else is in a similar boat and needs pushing over the edge

Legit paid advertising for PlayStation Portal

As it's always been on NeoGoof and Retardera

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar’s-‘win-or-lose’-streaming-series.1063782/

Usual suspects are upset that Disney removed a transgender episode from a Pixar kids show. Weird how they claim to be against grooming and psy ops yet cry the most when their plans are foiled.

[Stonehenge]

They are raging in this thread.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98win-or-lose%E2%80%99-streaming-series.1063782/

[Potato]

What's going on in a society always seeps through in Art which is obviously often times made by ignorant (if not straight up problematic) people.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamerant-persona-producer-explains-why-most-persona-protagonists-are-male-students-spoiler-it’s-sexism.1062990/page-4#post-133109499

Sure you do Malik, sure you do.

. What does Nepenthe think of that?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/f-d-signifier-its-bigger-than-diddy.1062954/page-3#post-133119219

As I've gotten older and especially as I've become a parent, I've fallen out of love with hip hop. I can only take it in small doses. The cultural disdain for women and poor men is just too much for me sometimes. It's a lot to unpack.

Someone ban this bigot for deploying these racist dogwhistles about hiphop music!

How do these fucks not realise how racist they all are deep down inside?

[TylenolJones]

Arguably that’s worse than what cd projekt or the hogwarts devs did, but somehow they won’t ban Disney properties from being discussed. 

Though lol at them going I’m going to boycott this show for preschoolers.

[Daffy Duck]

Good, shit like this has no place in content aimed at children, you’re a fucking wrong un if you think it does

[kaleidoscopium]

Maybe it's time to admit the chuds won

Social media has been much more of a harm to progress than the previous decades of a mainstream media.

People are dumb and hateful. Things were better when we had gatekeepers tbh

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar’s-‘win-or-lose’-streaming-series.1063782/#post-133134468

But I thought social media was required for people to learn about genocide and being broken out of their CIS egg?

Are any of you not going to watch the next Marvel thing because of this?

[DavidCroquet]

Arguably that’s worse than what cd projekt or the hogwarts devs did, but somehow they won’t ban Disney properties from being discussed. 

Though lol at them going I’m going to boycott this show for preschoolers.

That's IT! After the season finale of Bluey airs--which I will be watching alone as a man in my late 30s--I will NOT be renewing my Disney+ subscription!

[Jansen]

They are raging in this thread.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98win-or-lose%E2%80%99-streaming-series.1063782/

Fuck yeah I love Disney now

[Uncle]

Speaking of manufactured scarcity out of greed, don't tell me this thread is dragging again.

it's christmas  

also conflates with less content on the era side too other than suicide threads

He meant slow loading sir

[DavidCroquet]

Maybe it's time to admit the chuds won

Social media has been much more of a harm to progress than the previous decades of a mainstream media.

People are dumb and hateful. Things were better when we had gatekeepers tbh

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar’s-‘win-or-lose’-streaming-series.1063782/#post-133134468

But I thought social media was required for people to learn about genocide and being broken out of their CIS egg?

Social media is essential, but more work must be done.

Mandatory social and political re-education programs get a real bad rap versus the default alternative we all live with everyday, is all I'm saying.

[Potato]

Wait, is Famiboards even more autistic than ERA? 

Yes. I've been saying this for a while now. 

Resetera is retarded in a way that you can make fun of it. Famiboards is actually retarded so you'll probably feel guilty making fun of it.

[JoeBoy101]

https://famiboards.com/threads/nintendo-switch-2-speculation-thread-st-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-2.7757/post-1469149

2500 pages filled with knowing nothing about the switch 2

Jesus fucking Christ! I thought you were joking about the page count.

I now feel much better about myself as an internet user.

[D3RANG3D]

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[ClothedMac]

Consent must be asked for EVERY TIME. It is not a blanket thing.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. No excuses. People have a right to change their mind, even in the moment, even if consent was previously given.

Stated by a normal human being living in the world of reality.

 Every single time?

Every two minutes you rapist.

[Jansen]

it's christmas  

also conflates with less content on the era side too other than suicide threads

He meant slow loading sir

What's wrong, are you slow

[Hap Shaughnessy]

The moderation on Famiboards does seem more consistent and transparent than Era, though.

[kaleidoscopium]

i think going to any of their parks is a red flag now

well, it has been before too, but take an extra hard look now

what

unless you clicked quote when it was showing as half my post:

disney has parks
+
supporting disney is a red flag
=
going to disney parks is a red flag

It is deeply unserious to claim that going to Disney World is a red flag.

they're caving to fascists so i strongly disagree

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar’s-‘win-or-lose’-streaming-series.1063782/page-2#post-133136148

This new zeo arc is gonna be fun 

[JoeBoy101]

They have $4000 post tax per month for the two of them? I’m not saying that’s a ton of money but get the fuck out of here.

I misread it first time. I thought it was $1000 a month.

$1000 a week?!?

Yeah, fuck them.

Don't forget that $20,000 in credit card debt. That shit will fuck anyone's finances. 

Clearly that's someone else's fault though.

I’ve been in rough credit card debt from decades old desperation as well. I empathize with them in that case, but that’s why Bankruptcy exists. If you can’t possibly pay all your bills, then you can declare and start fresh (or fresher). 

But that will require them going through and justifying their expenses to someone, even if a sympathetic actor, like their bankruptcy attorney. And I’ll put dollars to donuts that they aren’t as strapped as they think they are.

[Uncle]

He meant slow loading sir

What's wrong, are you slow

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/intergalactic-the-heretic-prophet-a-new-space-ip-by-naughty-dog-has-been-announced.1060260/page-50#post-132979233

User banned (permanent): Extremely inflammatory accusations. Multiple prior bans for inappropriate behavior.

Yes, I saw that. It seems like you chose to ignore what I wrote, just like incels do.

[kaleidoscopium]

It seems fucking weird to me to try and attack Disney park fans in this, many of which have giant LGBTQ+ circles and have already had to endure shit like Disney's whole fumble and war with DeSantis.

While you can argue that you shouldn't give Disney money in general, it's extremely hard to divorce the LGBTQ+ community that's formed within Disney and are literally throughout the parks. In fact, that's the community that needs to make their voices heard louder than ever right now.

Their closest competitor literally has entire sections of all their nearby parks dedicated to a brand by someone who uses her billions to attack trans people.

Going to Disney parks may put the money in the pockets of a shitty company, as does basically every other form of spending money on this planet, but I don't think throwing away something that's a cornerstone for some LGBTQ+ people or trying to guilt trip them for wanting to get lost in that escapism, especially as the current world feels like its collapsing in at all sides, is the way forward.

So yea, trying to paint people who go to Disney parks as "red flags" is probably not the best idea.

Encourage people to boycott Disney though, by all accounts!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar’s-‘win-or-lose’-streaming-series.1063782/page-2#post-133136577

Yes the well known group of theme park fans… LGBTQ people! 

[DavidCroquet]

Consent must be asked for EVERY TIME. It is not a blanket thing.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. No excuses. People have a right to change their mind, even in the moment, even if consent was previously given.

Stated by a normal human being living in the world of reality.

 Every single time?

Every two minutes you rapist.

Personally I have my partner sign a document of consent (with someone on hand to notarize for my files) after each thrust cycle. 

Anything less is an endorsement of rape culture.

[Polident]

Hair equity for actors. Amazing.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98win-or-lose%E2%80%99-streaming-series.1063782/page-2#post-133136961

Are any of you not going to watch the next Marvel thing because of this?

Ive been saying ERA needs to make a boycott list.