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

[books]

the relationship with me and my parents has only been getting worse, since they always had a "money is everything" mindset, whereas I, even before I got into my situation, never cared about money at all. Not because I was rich, but because I never liked the idea of letting money dictate my happiness.

(Obviously) upper class and lazy, draining his parents' money who absolutely can't work because he has the sads.

Echoes of Cyborg with some nonsense regarding nonvoters-

If we're talking about chuds and white centralists who voted trump or didn't vote because they cared more about cheaper food then human rights (ignoring Trumps policies would at best do jack shit and more likely make food more expensive) then I agree.

If we're talking about Muslims and Arabs (especially trans and non-binary Arabs because I refuse to erase them like a lot of people have the past few months,

It wasn't any minority group that failed us, it was cis and straight white voters who failed us, it was political system that made sacrificing human rights for "the greater good" acceptable that failed us.

[Potato]

The only people erasing trans and non-binary Arabs and Muslims are...Muslims and their ultra-conservative religious and social beliefs. And by erasing them, I mean stoning them to death.

[D3RANG3D]

I got about jack and shit!

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and Jack left town...please like share and subscribe and tickle that bell icon and pretend it's my lady balls bigot!

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Too poor for presents even for myself thanks Joebama!  

[benji]

it was political system that made sacrificing human rights for "the greater good" acceptable that failed us.

That's the system you guys want though.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-astonishing-to-me-that-inside-out-2-has-become-this-years-biggest-box-office-success-what-is-your-opinion-on-this.1068948/

There is a high correlation between displayed she/her/they/them pronouns and not understanding the success of Inside Out 2.

Unsurprisingly, a bunch of 35 year old men cosplaying as women can't relate to a movie about the emotional turmoil of being a girl dealing with the onset of puberty.

[Nintex]

The only people erasing trans and non-binary Arabs and Muslims are...Muslims and their ultra-conservative religious and social beliefs. And by erasing them, I mean stoning them to death.

Alright fellas buckle up. We found this great place with a lot of bricks. Either he grabs her pussy or we're going to stone. His friends are saying Harold is gay let's see what happens.

[benji]

I think that dude's right, his mom is obviously trying to murder him by giving him the tools to bake more often and gorge himself to death.

[Potato]

I'm sure it was the home baking that made him fat. If his mother just didn't enable the home baking, in no time he would be in shape and have a job.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-astonishing-to-me-that-inside-out-2-has-become-this-years-biggest-box-office-success-what-is-your-opinion-on-this.1068948/

There is a high correlation between displayed she/her/they/them pronouns and not understanding the success of Inside Out 2.

Unsurprisingly, a bunch of 35 year old men cosplaying as women can't relate to a movie about the emotional turmoil of being a girl dealing with the onset of puberty.

How is this surprising at all? The first one came out nearly a decade ago and made $900 million. That's a decade worth of people who have seen it since it nearly smashed $1 billion the first time.

Then there's this:

The teaser was viewed 157 million times in its first 24 hours, it was the most-watched animated film trailer until the teaser of Moana 2 surpassed that record in May 2024.

Add in the fact that the projections were because people thought a sequel to a major hit should perform like flops and streaming releases:

On a budget of $200 million, Inside Out 2 was initially projected to gross $80–90 million in its domestic opening weekend. The sub-$100 million industry projections were partially due to the notion that general audiences remained hesitant to return to theaters, given the direct-to-streaming releases of the Pixar films Soul (2020), Luca (2021), and Turning Red (2022) on Disney+, the underperformance of Pixar's Lightyear at the box office in 2022, and the lackluster box office results of several films in 2024

edit: wait, this came out in June and they're only just noticing it made $1.5+ billion?

[Potato]

Pretty sure if I was an investment banker, I would just make my strategy exactly the opposite of what the general Reeesetera consensus is on any topic.

Also if I was a politician.

[benji]

You'd think that people who get blindsided by everything so often would be less sure of their infallibility and expert knowledge about every and any subject.

[jooseloose]

I hope Melody didn't sleep through Christmas dinner 

[benji]

I just realized that if we all pitched in and helped Melody escape to Germany to live with FantasticToma, that FT could bake to his heart's content with his new mixer (from that bitch who wants him dead) and Melody could eat it all, protecting FT from his eating disorder and preventing Melody from going hungry again!

[wizardora]

I just realized that if we all pitched in and helped Melody escape to Germany to live with FantasticToma, that FT could bake to his heart's content with his new mixer (from that bitch who wants him dead) and Melody could eat it all, protecting FT from his eating disorder and preventing Melody from going hungry again!

Come on now, Germany has never done anything that bad to warrant shipping Melody over to them.

[Polident]

A 40 year old guy whining about his parents gifting him a kitchen mixer. How do you fix somebody like that. How many wrong choices has he had to make in life to become that person.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/better-not-click-if-youre-enjoying-a-happy-christmas-did-you-ever-find-out-your-parents-no-longer-love-you-and-how-did-you-react-cope-with-it.1069110/#post-133453533

Let me get this straight...your mother got you something useful that you might use to bring joy to others and yourself and your father changed a meaningless tradition to accommodate people you haven't seen in 10 years and might not see for another 10 years and you think they did it all because they don't love you?

Dude, you're either trolling or you are the least resilient person on this forum. Just read what others in this thread have been through and think about what you posted.

[benji]

Dismissing concerns.

[Nintex]

What a clown. I had breakfast and dinner with my parents and made my depressed mother smile for the first time in 12 months, my dad was so happy a true Christmas miracle. She also liked the Gingerbread man with a flower pot in his backpack that I got her. She can only have small things in her room in the clinic, so this was perfect. 

If you want to kill yourself at 40 because your parents gave you a mixer, you are truely a lost and irredeemable soul.

[wizardora]

To be fair, he said it cost 30 Euros, so it probably wasn't a decent one, like the KitchenAid one I used today to make a chocolate cake with the wife.

[nachobro]

Yeah, much more progressive to give your cut to GOG (alt-right transphobes), Epic (Tim Sweeney is a centrist), Ubisoft directly (sexual abuse of employees) or EA directly (EA) over a privately held company just because it ignores its ancient message boards like everyone else.

this is why i give my money to MSActiBlizz who have never done anything wrong ever

[nampad]

That christmas thread just shows how crazy those people are. Was his username just „Toma“ before or is this some other user?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-did-you-get-for-christmas-2024-edition.1068849/page-2#post-133436736

I got a jacket and some Christmas whisky samples, got my gf a book about Heinz ketchup (she's mildly obsessed) an Xbox controller (deep pink) and a large blahaj IKEA shark.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-can-larian-sell-baldurs-gate-3-at-30-in-some-regions-and-still-stay-alive.1069176/

User banned (1 week): Bad faith thread creation. Decided to make another thread after having their original locked.

Yeah, so my last thread with exact same title was closed before I could reply about my original point. If the admin still thinks my points are null and void, they can lock the thread. I seriously didn't think era would miss such obvious sarcasm.

"Yeah, so I really really DID NOT think so many people on Era will miss the sarcasm, and miss the point of the post.



1. Baldurs Gate 3 is huge game, with 96% approval rating on steam with over 500k reviews. I don't remember any recent triple A title being remotely close to that.



2. And it rightfully deserve the praise. The game is breaming with quality content. I have played only act 1 and some of act 2. For reference game has 3 acts. And Act 1 alone has more quality content than most of the AAAA titles whose names I won't mention so that none get offended. I haven't been to an area with same enemy variety. Each encounter has different dialogue for multiple companion you bring. And each act probably have 50 major encounters minus the minor ones.



3. Baldurs Gate 3 also highlights everything wrong with the industry. I have been gaming for probably 15 years. With so much advancement with technology instead of getting more games like Baldurs Gate 3, we're heading backwards. Games releasing with extremely high budget with barebone content, outright broken state.


4. Some people have rightfully pointed towards the some cause of this problem,but most of them missed the point.


5. And this discussion fortunately bring out another VERY IMPORTANT point, regional pricing. There have so few games with regional pricing that I did not even bother to search for regional pricing. That just shows how lame and non caring other developers are.


6. What if it's $50, with the amount of content it have, they can easily get away with selling each act as a separate game, or expansion pack. That is the norm, not the exception currently.

Now my original point.

I LOVE gaming, and I know people on era do the same. And making a decent game needs time, money and passion. Unfortunately, the last one is missing in a large number of games, to the point it seems like a checklist simulator. Money is Money. Spending a ridiculous amount of money on games like X/Y (name not mentioned to avoid offense) is batshit crazy, crazier than my original post. Even if you read some of executives interview, you would get this picture, many of them think making another Overwatch or Fortnite is the only way to success. They don't even try to make something remotely close to BG3. This is a self destructive path, that has hurt gaming as a whole and may destroy gaming altogether. That I dearly care about. And if you are naive, or read some of their interviews, you would not think my original OP was crazy. That what they literally think, other developers would not survive making a game like BG3.

For reference: https://www.nme.com/news/baldurs-ga...e-playing-games-warns-game-developers-3471538

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-best-videos-explaining-hideo-kojimas-troubling-depiction-of-women-sexual-violence-as-well-as-his-dismissal-of-colleagues-series-spoilers.1068144/page-8#post-133433550

User Banned (Permanent): Trolling, antagonizing other users, multiple previous bans

You guys sure love to look like a bunch of incels.

Hit dog hollers.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/brazilian-prison-uses-geese-to-prevent-jailbreaks.1065624/#post-133337196

User banned(1 Month): Casual Misogyny, Racism

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pc-gamer-gooner-9-11-averted-as-zenless-zone-zeros-butt-obfuscation-technology-is-rolled-back-after-horny-outrage.1065072/#post-133205751

User banned (permanent): Extremely inappropriate commentary. Transphobia.

ah the good ol' ceiling check for traps.

[garamonde]

Wait, wasn't FantasticToma one of the finest soldiers in ERA? First Embiid, now him, what's going on?  



I can't handle all this losses, I'm so tired.

Nice memes though, so I'll take it. Happy Holidays everyone.

Fuck I think it's a troll. It's too dumb.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/howd-you-get-that-scar.1067601/#post-133349106

User banned(2 weeks): Boy's club rhetoric

Eating pussy

[Potato]

I just realized that if we all pitched in and helped Melody escape to Germany to live with FantasticToma, that FT could bake to his heart's content with his new mixer (from that bitch who wants him dead) and Melody could eat it all, protecting FT from his eating disorder and preventing Melody from going hungry again!

Come on now, Germany has never done anything that bad to warrant shipping Melody over to them.

Have you not heard German EDM?

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/howd-you-get-that-scar.1067601/#post-133349106

User banned(2 weeks): Boy's club rhetoric

Eating pussy

Would he'd gotten a ban if he say "sucking cock" instead?