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

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-the-fucking-king-of-dreamworks-all-star-kart-racing-you-fucking-pieces-of-shit.1072488/#post-133726182

Shut up and post hog.

alt account Banned

Shut up and post hog

[HaughtyFrank]

Street Fighter 6 is now a 'live service' game

Lmao

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ive-seen-enough-no-more-forcing-singleplayer-studios-to-make-mediocre-live-service-games.1074516/page-3#post-133880631

Helldivers 2, Final Fantasy XIV, Minecraft, Street Fighter 6 and Sea of Thieves, to name a few, are a live service games. Would you ever question the value and worth of those?

Why? Because it receives one character every other three months? Or because they have a season pass?

In that case, every fighting game is a 'live service' game

Le Sigh

According to some even Hitman World of assassination is a 'live service' game. LMAO

You mean the game that doesnt get any updates ever

They always stretch the definition to the loosest one possible so no one can get mad at their precious live service games. Meanwhile everyone knows that sony's live service initiative doesn't mean they're making a game like street fighter 6

[Nintex]

A., who The Inquirer is identifying by the first letter of her first name because of safety concerns, is new to the world of shooting ranges and target practice. As a trans woman who lives in Philadelphia, she began seriously considering armed self-defense this summer, as she saw Texas uphold a ban on gender-affirming care for minors and Florida prohibit nurse practitioners from prescribing hormones to transgender people. She watched with increasing dread as Republicans spent nearly $215 million on network TV ads portraying people like her as a dangerous threat to the country.

“Three months before the election, that’s when the alarm bells started to ring,” A., who is 24 and speaks carefully and thoughtfully, said recently. When she mentioned wanting to learn how to fire a gun to friends, they stared at her blankly.

But she felt she couldn’t have been more rational. On Nov. 2, she bought her first gun, at Delia’s Gun Shop in Northeast Philly.

“Minorities that are armed are more difficult to legally oppress,” she said. She was reassured by the idea that “in the event of hate crimes or terrorist attacks, knowing that, ‘OK, I’m personally armed and I can protect my property and people that are close to me.’” She is applying for a concealed carry permit in Pennsylvania, though she doesn’t plan to carry the gun with her every day.

By the end of her practice at the outdoor range at French Creek State Park, bullet casings littered the ground near her backpack and water bottle, which was decorated with rainbow hearts and a “Protect Trans Kids” sticker.

“There’s definitely a feeling among a lot of LGBT individuals: ‘If I can’t protect myself, who will?’” said Madeline Shearman, a trans woman based in Glen Mills who runs a casual and growing “2A social group” in Pennsylvania. “I feel that way myself.”

The devastating mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Florida in 2016 was another catalyst. That’s when Matthew Thompson, who lives in Oakland, N.J., purchased his first gun. A gay man and custom leather worker, Thompson often travels to leather and bear events on the weekends, and feared what might happen. He began practicing drills at home — setting a timer on his phone, wearing his unloaded gun around the house, and drawing it quickly when the timer went off.

Days after the presidential election, he began pursuing his concealed carry permit in New Jersey. He is also organizing other LGBTQ people to practice at a local gun range.

“The people I’ve been seeing on the left and the gay people who are out purchasing guns for the first time, it’s all about self-defense and fear,” said Thompson, who is 36. “We’re not looking to arm up and storm the Capitol. We just don’t want to be put in concentration camps.”

Doug, a therapist who asked to be identified solely by their first name to maintain professional privacy, joined the SRA after the election. They had been in the Boy Scouts growing up, had shot BB guns at camp, and gone to the shooting range occasionally with friends. But they had never owned a gun.

They attended the gun-safety class. Then in early December, they purchased their first gun, an AR-15. Doug was partly motivated by the fact that their official identifications are gender nonspecific, which could alert authorities to the fact that they are nonbinary. They feared they might not be able to buy a gun in the future.

“This country is not, I wouldn’t say, on very solid footing,” Doug said. “As a Boy Scout, I’d rather be prepared.”

Notice the lack of cis allies arming up and getting in the streets.

Only Trump can make "boyscouts" arm to the teeth and join the NRA.

We call it gays for guns, am I right fellas?

[nachobro]

In that case, every fighting game is a 'live service' game

sf and tekken really want to be live service games, they are just shit at it

monthly/bi-monthly battle passes, crossover events with outside and internal properties, constant stream of avatar outfits and items for world tour/battle hub/fight lounge in their real money store, character additions, etc

they do a lot of content but none of it is any good, tekken was giving bullshit like this for their battle pass



so in answer to that resetti poster's question, yes i question the value of spending time on garbage like this when capcom/namco could be making something good instead, or at least something useful in the game itself. season passes cost more but come with less stages and characters, plus there's been one costume added in 1.5 years...but hey you can spend $20 on a ninja turtle costume for your avatar man in battle hub!

[Boredfrom]

In spite of the "he fucking sucks, and always did" and "I hate him and PP" scorching cold takes, it's pretty impressive that Trudeau divined the political calculus well enough that he, even now, gets labelled as center-right, far left, leftish, neoliberal, liberal, and more, all in just the last couple pages.

I'm sure some loon called him far right as well, and I just missed it.

Isn’t almost like those labels are mostly useless…

https://www.resetera.com/threads/canada-pm-trudeau-to-announce-resignation-as-early-as-monday-globe-and-mail-reports.1074543/page-5#post-133894968

[DavidCroquet]

what that ball do

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion-2024.859116/page-47#post-133895508



That Tendo post is surely done on purpose

[killamajig]

what that ball do

it might be one of these..

[nachobro]

what that ball do

its a costume piece so you can attach it to the character. people mostly used it to make clown costumes

[Boredfrom]

MMaRsu opinions are getting cuter by the day.

“Street Fighter 6 is not live service you guys!”

“Hitman doesn’t get updates. We just dreamed about people bitching about Connor McGregor and Van Damme being new targets.”

[DavidCroquet]

For me,  I think there are a couple categories of "live service"

Real ass GAAS
There's the giants like Roblox or even MMOs (the OG live service games) that both:
A) require extended commitment from players to even function correctly
B) constantly incentivize the player to spend spend spend spend

Fake GAAS (Ethanol?) games
This is your Tekkens, your SF6s, your Hitmans. These games do B, but not A. You can play a fighting game at home, just as in Ye Olde Tymes, even if no one even plays online at all. Same with Hitman. They want you to drop cash, but they don't require huge player bases to function as a game.

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

Also Blueball, if you're still watching, the extremely gay post that I just made is exactly why some of us still go to Era...we're Gamers 

[nachobro]

yeah thats about right, real gaas vs half gaas

fortnite, roblox, marvel rivals, even warzone vs something like a cod regular mp, sf6, or whatever else i cant think of right now

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I, personally, only have benji on ignore.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

out of respect for the institution

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lg-tvs-are-now-an-xbox-cloud-gaming-app-coming.1074972/#post-133897845

Very cool! The Stadia (rest in power, king 💖) app on mine worked great.

Oh no, SwampBastard, what have you done?! She's coming!!!

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nvidia-teases-geforce-rtx-5000-at-ces-2025-on-1-6-25.1060764/page-30

But: Anybody who's got 3000 dollars to buy a gpu is wealthy. Saying otherwise means you have no grasp of the rest of the world. But this is probably getting offtopic, so if there's interest in such debate, me or someone else can make an OT-thread later.

A lot of the postings in this thread really have me on the edge of making an OT-thread about "When is wealth unethical?". So many people casually spending 2000 bucks on a GPU, talking about upper limits of 2500 or 3000 bucks. And meanwhile so many people in the world are starving. Yes, I know that's always true, but at these prices for what's supposed to be a mainstream product, I can't help but have these thoughts.

I live comfortably, but am not anywhere close to wealthy. $2-3,000 gadget is not insane for someone with disposable income and no children. This entire thread is reetards seething that there are people who are able to buy expensive tech. 

What happened to Toma? He was supposed to be based.

[nachobro]

$3000 for a gpu is pretty retarded. if the 5090 is actually priced like that i hope it flops, even 2000 would be a huge jump in pricing vs previous gens

that being said, a 5090 is not a "mainstream product" so he's way off there

[Greatness Gone]

I agree. I just don't see the correlation between wealth and inequality and someone making a decent living buying an expensive item.

[nachobro]

oh thats just their typical jealousy of anyone slightly more well off just saying id think someone was dumb for spending that much on a gpu but yeah, wouldn't see it as an indictment of the system and be ready to break out the guillotines

[DavidCroquet]

I think this is the natural consequence of a forum that defends Series S as some kind of noble palisade of the inalienable rights of man to uh...buy the latest possible gaming hardware? 

You would be forgiven for assuming they were debating access to clean water whenever the "Series S was a mistake" conversation comes up.

[Switters]

Is there a function to ignore problematic likes?  

:DigitalBlackFace

[Snoopy]

It’s the annual Tabris rage bait thread 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/post-your-gaming-setup-and-home-2025-edition.1074495/

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shift-up-the-studio-behind-stellar-blade-gifts-all-311-employees-a-ps5-pro-and-a-5-000-bonus.1074639/

Suddenly the Shift Up haters disappeared.

“Yeah, Stellar Blade totally failed you guys.”

[wizardora]

It’s the annual Tabris rage bait thread 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/post-your-gaming-setup-and-home-2025-edition.1074495/

ResetEra: where the users span from those calling for communism, reparations and attacking those with generational wealth, all the way to users posting from literal ivory towers.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shift-up-the-studio-behind-stellar-blade-gifts-all-311-employees-a-ps5-pro-and-a-5-000-bonus.1074639/

Suddenly the Shift Up haters disappeared.

“Yeah, Stellar Blade totally failed you guys.”

Truly shocked that clicky cunt or Eimi (or whatever their name is now) haven't raised a stink yet

[Propagandhim]

A lot of the postings in this thread really have me on the edge of making an OT-thread about "When is wealth unethical?". So many people casually spending 2000 bucks on a GPU, talking about upper limits of 2500 or 3000 bucks. And meanwhile so many people in the world are starving. Yes, I know that's always true, but at these prices for what's supposed to be a mainstream product, I can't help but have these thoughts.

I need to make a thread.  There is an INJUSTICE going on.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shift-up-the-studio-behind-stellar-blade-gifts-all-311-employees-a-ps5-pro-and-a-5-000-bonus.1074639/

Suddenly the Shift Up haters disappeared.

“Yeah, Stellar Blade totally failed you guys.”

I know that Stellar Blade PC port is about to be lit  

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/post-your-gaming-setup-and-home-2025-edition.1074495/










This dude is doing the THEORY.  That sticky-icky anti-capitalist THEORY.  He even has the OG Nights 3d Controller.  That's another level of praxis.

[Snoopy]

Fantastic Toma banned

[HaughtyFrank]

It’s the annual Tabris rage bait thread 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/post-your-gaming-setup-and-home-2025-edition.1074495/

Tabris actually living like Patrick Bateman will always be funny. I was about to joke that the only reason he doesn't have an Xbox is because it doesn't come in white but upon a closer look I saw he managed to get a white series X