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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/angry-video-game-nerd-james-rolfe-finally-going-all-ass-out-on-gamergate-game-awards.1090881/page-3

User banned (1 month): Dismissive commentary

I'll play defence here. He has a new game that he wants to promote, someone came to him offering him exposure/money to present at a game awards.

Seems innocent enough: "Hey, we have a light hearted award show, can you be your character and briefly shit on this game?".

Considering James doesn't seem to follow modern gaming - doubt he'd played/heard of the game in question. At a surface level would he have a reason for thinking this is an unreasonable thing to do?

Crappy thing to be a part of but think too many snap judgements being made here.

Feel free to make the argument that he either knew or should've looked into it. But the former is an assumption and the latter isn't something I'd judge someone to harshly on.

[Potato]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

We actually put tariffs on everything in Europe but we just call it 'carbon tax', 'sugar tax' or 'plastic tax'.

In my town we even have some additional 'service fees' for companies not based in our town that want to sell stuff at our tourist markets that local companies don't have to pay. 

We also have way higher parking costs for folks that don't live here. I pay 20 Euro a year to be able park everywhere in town basically.
If you're not from this town you pay 5 Euro an hour if not more.

The 2023 parliamentary election our town voted 80% right wing and 20% left wing
Mostly because they merged us with another town which mostly has farmers and polish immigrants.
Otherwise it would've been 90/10 as before. The national government has filed countless of lawsuits because we don't build any social housing.

Tariffs are a tax on the consumer because the cost of the tariffs is usually passed on to the consumer. C'mon Nintex, you are a businessman, if the government were to implement an AI tax would you eat that cost or increase your prices?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/german-conservatives-pass-motion-for-migration-reform-with-votes-from-extreme-right-afd.1095126/page-2#post-135067023

User Banned (1 Month): Xenophobic Rhetoric

It's not like no one is acknowledging it.

acknowledging is not enough when we have weekly knife attacks by people who shouldn't even be here. i blame this whole situation on the ampel who didn't do enough the last 3 years even though scholz promised "abschiebungen im großen stil"

Post #88 too. He knew what he was doing.

[Taco Bell Tower]

User reviews all the way. Someone like a steam reviews metacritic would be more useful.

https://steamdb.info/extension/

Website has a score filter: https://steamdb.info/instantsearch/

https://augmentedsteam.com/ lets you filter by the score on Steam's own search pages.

https://isthereanydeal.com/ also shows a number of scores on their pages:

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

You won’t fool me Blueballs.

Yeah, now that Blueballs is officially one of us I have to see the username with the cat avatar is 

[Boredfrom]

I think your question is essentially "what would filmmaking look like under socialism," and it's honestly difficult to give you a straight answer to that because we live under capitalism and our imagination is limited to that model.

That said, I think it's fairly likely big budget filmmaking would not exist, or look radically different, under socialism. Those types of movies are produced first and foremost to create millions of dollars of profit. The financial incentive to fund them probably wouldn't exist. Filmmaking would absolutely still exist as a medium, but it would be radically different. At the very least, under socialism it should be questioned if it makes sense to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these products. We would have to radically rethink the way we produce commodities in general, and that includes entertainment.

No PreCure for you, comrade.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/german-conservatives-pass-motion-for-migration-reform-with-votes-from-extreme-right-afd.1095126/page-2#post-135067023

User Banned (1 Month): Xenophobic Rhetoric

It's not like no one is acknowledging it.

acknowledging is not enough when we have weekly knife attacks by people who shouldn't even be here. i blame this whole situation on the ampel who didn't do enough the last 3 years even though scholz promised "abschiebungen im großen stil"

Post #88 too. He knew what he was doing.

"It's not like no one acknowledges it"

*Acknowledges it* 
*Gets banned*

And yes the Greens actually do a really shit job at acknowledging that there's any problem at all

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/

I need to preface this by saying I am not saying what trump and his ilk are doing is in any way defensible or needs to be treated as anything other than an immediate threat on the US and the world before people jump on the title without reading the thread. I also had to either do sensitive topics or US Politics so I'm sorry to those who have US Politics blocked.

I'm coming at this from a point of view of being autistic and having a mental block when it comes to specific words so feel free to tell me I'm off the mark.

Preface over, is calling trump and the maga flock nazis doing a disservice to the messaging of the actual real harm being done by the American far right? I worry that people who NEED to hear of these atrocities may hear the word nazi and immediately just assume hyperbole, leading to them not realizing just how dire things are for literally everyone who isn't a wealthy shit man (i actually wrote white man but my phone autocorrected and it also fits). Basically i worry that using a term that is generally thought of as the German far right hitler party may lead people to not take the threat we face seriously.

I'm not sure if I'm making any sense (i second guess myself a lot) so please let me know if you have thoughts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/#post-135101058

OP this ain't gonna go well. You dropped a reasonable, practical take, but social media has made it so that type of rhetoric isn't paid any mind. Everything is either 0 or 100.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/#post-135102828

Requesting a thread lock because i am having a panic attack. I'm sorry i said anything, please don't think i in any way condone what's going on or that I'm trying to downplay anything

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/#post-135103035

Thread locked at OP's request.

[Nintex]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

We actually put tariffs on everything in Europe but we just call it 'carbon tax', 'sugar tax' or 'plastic tax'.

In my town we even have some additional 'service fees' for companies not based in our town that want to sell stuff at our tourist markets that local companies don't have to pay. 

We also have way higher parking costs for folks that don't live here. I pay 20 Euro a year to be able park everywhere in town basically.
If you're not from this town you pay 5 Euro an hour if not more.

The 2023 parliamentary election our town voted 80% right wing and 20% left wing
Mostly because they merged us with another town which mostly has farmers and polish immigrants.
Otherwise it would've been 90/10 as before. The national government has filed countless of lawsuits because we don't build any social housing.

Tariffs are a tax on the consumer because the cost of the tariffs is usually passed on to the consumer. C'mon Nintex, you are a businessman, if the government were to implement an AI tax would you eat that cost or increase your prices?

Depends on what my clients are willing to pay and how high the tax is. It also depends on if my competitors get the same tax.
The thing with tariffs is, that it is not applied to local companies. So you can't raise your prices too high unless you want to price yourself out of the market.

A lot of Chinese shit is accepted because it is cheap shit, but when Chinese shit is no longer cheap it becomes a less attractive option. So either they keep it cheap and sell at a loss or lose business. In Europe it works different, because in most cases like with electronics we can't compete in both product and price with the Chinese. The US can often compete product wise but China just under cuts. Lets say the Switch 2 is impacted and the price goes up from $400 to $500 because Nintendo puts it on the consumer, it wouldn't be as easy to sell anymore. Nintendo would probably have to eat half the cost of the tariff themselves and price it at $450.

Europe should just buy the stuff from China because we're not going to make it ourselves anyway (unless it impacts national security).
The US however has a lot of domestic production capability and raw materials.

[kaleidoscopium]

Requesting a thread lock because i am having a panic attack. I'm sorry i said anything, please don't think i in any way condone what's going on or that I'm trying to downplay anything

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/#post-135102828

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-ban-on-gun-sales-to-adults-under-age-21-is-unconstitutional-under-bruen-court-rules.1096461/

This headline challenges ResetEras reading comprehension.

It's incredible how many posts are talking about children. I seriously underestimated how many there would be.  

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

We actually put tariffs on everything in Europe but we just call it 'carbon tax', 'sugar tax' or 'plastic tax'.

In my town we even have some additional 'service fees' for companies not based in our town that want to sell stuff at our tourist markets that local companies don't have to pay. 

We also have way higher parking costs for folks that don't live here. I pay 20 Euro a year to be able park everywhere in town basically.
If you're not from this town you pay 5 Euro an hour if not more.

Thank you for confirming your ignorance.

Yeah, now that Blueballs is officially one of us I have to see the username with the cat avatar is 

If he posts more often as to make this an issue I will change the avatar by either reversing it, turning it upside down or making the colors negative.

[railGUN]

selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional

to adults under the age of 21

adults

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-trump-eo-will-jail-teachers-for-using-trans-kids-names-and-pronouns.1095405/page-5#post-135099111

Echos
Fucking evil and I hope the fuck something like this never gets passed. Though as already pointed out in the thread, it doesn't matter whether this passes because the threat (and I'm going to assume this is the first of many) already has power. Fuck Trump.

User subforum banned (1 week): antagonizing other members
EmergencyPasta said:

Yep, plenty of people on this very website did that exact thing.

Babu93 said:

Some of the discussion on here around whether or not to vote for Harris was extremely frustrating going into the election. Including from prominent senior members. People talking about the consequences of witholding their vote as if it was in the abstract. Folks acting as if they're living in a civics lesson and not real life.

You know what, no. As a trans woman, I ain't going the revise and erase history of another minority group, especially ones that include trans people who put in one of the most fucked up situations possible. If we're talking about people on this site, to be blunt nearly all the times I saw that here were Arab Americans, Muslims and others who were directly or indirectly by the Genocide in Gaze and the surrounding area with no hope in site and the people in charge actively supporting Israel, with their feelings constantly downplayed, dismissed or shouted down and just vote for the people actively aiding the genocide of Arabs, "for their own good". I ain't even going pretend to know how it must have felt for trans Arab Americans last November given everything, especially when it constantly seemed they were constantly being erased from the trans community to create the fucking narrative of trans people vs Arabs in some people's minds.

I'm sorry I ain't faulting any Arab Americans who chose not to vote or voted third party that election (those who voted for Trump on the other fucking hand is another story) and I'm especially not going to erase their feelings of hopelessness just so it's easier to vilify them, I am so fucking sick of minorities every fucking time used as scapegoats.

They didn't cause the rise of Trump, the fucking middle-class white Americans who cared more about their fucking egg prices and have never ever gave a single fucking damn about the concerns of minorities, people who never fucking showed human decency fucking failed them, Biden and his Pro-Israel behaviour fucking failed them. The media and fucking billionaires who used their power to push a tyrant like Trump fucking failed them. The system failed them the same way we are fucking failed by the system now.

NepNep subforum banned EmergencyPasta!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-trump-eo-will-jail-teachers-for-using-trans-kids-names-and-pronouns.1095405/#post-135046290
Vic Damone Jr

Still directing my ire towards republicans and the current admin but seriously, if you withheld a vote for Harris fuck you.

EmergencyPasta

User subforum banned (1 week): antagonizing other members

Yep, plenty of people on this very website did that exact thing.

[killamajig]

BTW, I am implementing a 25% tariff on reading my posts. However, I am exempting anyone from the tariff if they like this post.

[books]

Not a fan of this new political season. It's like when The Wire went to the docks in season 2 instead of sticking with the corners. 

Gimme more Nep being racist or a crook or a hypocrite. Gimme poor posters getting permed for being new and not knowing the insane asylum rules. Gimme more wlw topics like which animal is most likely lesbian and would you have sex with her.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

BTW, I am implementing a 25% tariff on reading my posts. However, I am exempting anyone from the tariff if they like this post.

Thank God.

[StandingOvation]

1738282402[/url]']

selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional

to adults under the age of 21

adults

Yanks can’t read good.

Case in point; https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-children’s-reading-skills-reach-new-lows.1096500/ it’s a thread dupe, but that doesn’t bother our heroic admin, teacher of children.

[Boredfrom]

Scuffed keeps pushing hard for China:

We can't be cutting off electricity. Trump is nuts I have no idea how he would respond to something like that. Americans would actually hate us for doing that and we need them to hate Trump. It has to stay tariff oriented imo. Our government is all fucked right now. Singh is tunnel visioning on having an early election. I don't like it at all. This is not the time for that shit. Things have changed. PP is a Trump doormat. Smith in Alberta is actually a Trump cultist.

We need to make bigly trade deals with China but that's a huge ask with all the Sinophobia that has been pushed everywhere in the west for so long. I don't even know how fast something like that can happen. We can't be sitting around though and hoping it's a bluff that won't last long. We need to focus on new trade partners not punishing the U.S. because we lose that exchange if we don't have big trade deals as back up.

 

I love how Booshka and Scuffed are mask off. Are they the ones spamming Sinophobia reports?

[Boredfrom]

am surprised at the amount of vitriol directed at Veilguard and the developers here.

Don't get me wrong, the writing is abysmal in many (not all) areas. But the game was designed one way, then another, then a third before finally coming out, I can't imagine its final form had nearly enough time in pre-production for the kind of game that it is: a fully voice acted, dialogue heavy RPG sequel to a series famously rich in lore.

Laying blame for "writing" squarely on the writers / developers after that kind of production process just seems hollow.

You think this is the only game that has suffered from development hell? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-ea-is-restructuring-bioware-following-dragon-age-the-veilguard-moving-some-developers-onto-other-projects-within-ea-bioware-focused-on-me5.1095120/page-9#post-135105369

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-and-especially-women-of-era-who-are-you-favourite-villainesses.1096605/

I've made it clear in the past that I love bad to the bone villainesses, those who are deliciously evil and so amazingly charismatic, charming, strong and independent, cunning and capable of chewing the scenery while still so fun to watch etc etc etc etc (especially if they have good points and reasons, see Poison Ivy being just right about her environmentalism).

So with my own evil minions on the mend (my cats though I guess you can also count the 12+ Jackdaws that wait for me every morning for the bread I give them, poop on that bigoted neighbour's car for me and have very comforting the past few weeks... Why are corvids considered evil?) and me in a very fuck the system mood right now...

ERA? Who are you favourite villainesses in fiction and why?

I wonder what the story is there.

[Boredfrom]

me in a very fuck the system mood right now...

[cRumB]

Not a fan of this new political season. It's like when The Wire went to the docks in season 2 instead of sticking with the corners. 

Gimme more Nep being racist or a crook or a hypocrite. Gimme poor posters getting permed for being new and not knowing the insane asylum rules. Gimme more wlw topics like which animal is most likely lesbian and would you have sex with her.

That season was great 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-and-especially-women-of-era-who-are-you-favourite-villainesses.1096605/

I've made it clear in the past that I love bad to the bone villainesses, those who are deliciously evil and so amazingly charismatic, charming, strong and independent, cunning and capable of chewing the scenery while still so fun to watch etc etc etc etc (especially if they have good points and reasons, see Poison Ivy being just right about her environmentalism).

But Poison Ivy isn't a villainess, especially not a "bad-to-the-bone" and "evil" one, because of that very reason. She's been practically an anti-hero for decades at this point, especially when she's running around with Selina and Harley. She's even been so defanged that she's hard to call a plant zealot* anymore, she backs down when even Bruce asks nicely nowadays.

*she's not an environmentalist, let alone "just right", especially in her more crazed, radical or villain form, she outright wants the extermination of humanity and possibly all animals (including those beloved cats) for plant supremacy.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Poison Ivy did nothing wrong except having to deal with Harley's shit and wlw weirdos wanting her to stay with a complete retard r-word.

[nachobro]

THE FUTURE IS NOW OLD MAN.

dodgers embrace vtubers and win the world series, boomers destroyed

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamalas-late-campaign-rally-in-texas-with-beyonce-was-to-get-on-rogans-show-but-rogans-people-moved-goal-posts-according-to-new-book.1095591/page-2#post-135060660

Fucking Christ this is an overreaction. "Most botched campaign". Get out of here with that comment. Her campaign may have made some mistakes, but a single fucking rally in Texas didn't cost her the election. Her DNC was pretty great. She lost every single swing state, I don't think she then wins those if she breaks with Biden on Gaza.

I don't know this was a winnable election for Dems at all, but it certainly was near impossible after Biden decided to run for re-election.

Every country in the world has seen the incumbents lose because post COVID inflation has fucking hurt everyone and the public at large are fucking stupid everywhere, apparently.

Could've been something if they hadn't decided to drop ol' Joe and put up a woman who wasn't even in the top 3 of the 2020 DNC primary.

[Uncle]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

I assumed he meant that whatever the price increase would be for US citizens, they would decrease their selling price by that amount, effectively paying the tariff in order to sell their goods at the same price as before and not risk people refusing to buy the now-more-expensive good

[books]

Not a fan of this new political season. It's like when The Wire went to the docks in season 2 instead of sticking with the corners. 

Gimme more Nep being racist or a crook or a hypocrite. Gimme poor posters getting permed for being new and not knowing the insane asylum rules. Gimme more wlw topics like which animal is most likely lesbian and would you have sex with her.

That season was great 

This is factually incorrect.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamalas-late-campaign-rally-in-texas-with-beyonce-was-to-get-on-rogans-show-but-rogans-people-moved-goal-posts-according-to-new-book.1095591/page-2#post-135060660

Fucking Christ this is an overreaction. "Most botched campaign". Get out of here with that comment. Her campaign may have made some mistakes, but a single fucking rally in Texas didn't cost her the election. Her DNC was pretty great. She lost every single swing state, I don't think she then wins those if she breaks with Biden on Gaza.

I don't know this was a winnable election for Dems at all, but it certainly was near impossible after Biden decided to run for re-election.

Every country in the world has seen the incumbents lose because post COVID inflation has fucking hurt everyone and the public at large are fucking stupid everywhere, apparently.

Could've been something if they hadn't decided to drop ol' Joe and put up a woman who wasn't even in the top 3 of the 2020 DNC primary.

She didn't even make it to Iowa in 2020, she dropped out before then.

I love how this post says there's nothing she could have done but only proposes breaking with Biden on Gaza as something to win votes. Ignoring that Kamala herself said she wouldn't do anything different from Biden on anything. This was a trap more obvious than Joe Rogan's trap of saying he wasn't available on a day he wasn't and she walked blindly into it rather than admit any mistakes. Then she tried to fight her way out with the bold, brave and stunning defense of "Joe Biden isn't on the ballot." Which only serves to remind people of why the sitting President wasn't running for re-election anymore.

[kaleidoscopium]

TW: Article includes quotes containing Transphobia, Homophobia, and bigotry.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-york-magazine-the-cruel-kids-table-among-the-young-confident-and-casually-cruel-trumpers-who-have-their-sights-on-america.1096662/#post-135108933

I remember kids like this from when I was growing up. Like the kid who my dad threatened to beat the shit out of when he found out said kid carved a Swastika on the computer desk in our basement office during an overnight gaming party. "I should be able to say and do whatever I want with no consequences!!!!!!"

Totally happened exactly like that

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-considered-running-for-local-office-in-your-area.1096644/#post-135109434

I did, but I was pressured into not doing so because it's almost impossible for an atheist to hold elected office in most parts of the country.