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[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/movies-that-you-can-watch-over-and-over-again.758539/page-2#post-111169309

I don't usually rewatch films and I'd say I've barely seen four or five times, at most, some movies. They would be these:

- Gladiator
- Ocean's Eleven
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Toy Story 3
- Ratatouille
- La La Land
- Get Out
- The Social Network
- Harry Potter 1, 2, 3

 

[Taco Bell Tower]

Macron recently refused to apologize for French atrocities during colonialism.........

NepNep

Sounds about right for a colonial power.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-we-talk-about-the-ign-review-for-mary-kate-and-ashley-sweet-16-licensed-to-drive-the-official-videogame-of-the-official-olsen-twins.757099/page-3#post-110957821

So many magazines/websites around the turn of the century were essentially men’s lifestyle mags and this kind of creepy frat humor was completely par for the course. Doesn’t make it right, of course, it actually makes it extremely frustrating to read and reflect on how little reviewers talked about games in favor of being cumbrained weirdos. I was looking for a reviews of the Ultimate Muscle gamecube game and I found one in Maxim that took a detour to talk about how a character looked as ugly as Anna Nicole Smith.

Sites like Kotaku and more focused hobbyist spots like Eurogamer or 1Up were really what changed the way people wrote about games.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-we-talk-about-the-ign-review-for-mary-kate-and-ashley-sweet-16-licensed-to-drive-the-official-videogame-of-the-official-olsen-twins.757099/page-3#post-110962396

Reading this was rough from a self-reflection piece because I was 100% one of these people. I've reflected on this a lot over the years, but something about the language used in the article mirroring a lot of what I used to say for shock value really hit hard. A good chunk of my online persona in the late 90's to mid '00's was making jokes like this. I even wore shirts with profane jokes on this subject matter. Definitely not something I'm proud of, and I question how I ever got a date being that type of guy.

I can only imagine the amount of folks I hurt without even knowing it by making jokes like this. Folks that had been groomed, harassed, assaulted, etc. who just sat back and went along with the jokes because of the era.

These born again idiots are always telling on themselves. He looked in fucking Maxim, of course he's going to see that shit in it. (And ResetERA.com would have made fun of Anna Nicole Smith as well, just look at how they currently treat women and anyone else their culture determines is fair game.) And the worst thing he found, again in Maxim, is a side comment about a celebrity punch line of the era? This is his big example about the poverty of culture that was "everywhere" was a stray comment in a review in a non-video game website, which AGAIN, WAS MAXIM.

The video game press was absolutely never like this, they knew part of their audience was kids and younger teenagers. Of course people over two decades ago don't meet 2023 neurotic woke standards because nobody in 2023 meets these impossible standards. None of these magazines and popular websites were "creepy frat" (even though few of those writers were college degreed compared to today) and "men's lifestyle" and it's fucking hilarious that someone would claim Kotaku and 1UP "changed this" because they were absolutely more in that style than the traditional video game press. Those trend chasers were the guys who pushed this "gamer" stereotype to 11 while looking down their nose at any actual enthusiasts and then SAW THE LIGHT around Anita/Gamergate and now are scolding companies from the perch of Jeff Bezos's paper or some other venture capital funded future bankruptcy for not responding to their stupid non-game-related questions or spending all day on Twitter posturing for their new "moral" audiences that are infinitely less "inclusive" than the old cultures were.

Reviewers back then absolutely talked about games way more than they do now, they were not "cumbrained weirdos" even if they were objectively worse writers and less "informed" than the reviewers of today. There are vastly more big name reviews these days that talk about entire subjects but never the game, Kotaku ran "reviews" from that one "award winning" cumbrained weirdo that attacked games in racist and other ways while never telling you about the game. Kotaku is the place where a writer practically was measuring skull shapes of Street Fighter characters. All these "reviewers" now are walking on eggshells and scolding their audiences for not having morals that make the Puritans look like cumbrained weirdos.

And ResetERA.com, zeitgeist of the gaming community, is making itself complicit in a rewriting of video game journalism history to praise the wokescold irrelevances that have achieved sinecures in modern "gaming" journalism. They have to tear down history and enforce myths as part of their own personal narratives of "redemption" from the horrors of when they were young and wore "shirts with profane jokes" because they were so fragile and lacking in a sense of self that they simply went along with the mob they thought was popular. Something they repeat again but wish to lecture you about because of course they've heard the divine message, they once again know not to look down on others and criticize them for being different from themselves. Oh wait, they're doing exactly what they claim they used to do that was so wrong, they've simply only changed the targets of their behavior. And now they're demanding everyone else conform to them, since being born again, having their souls saved, their own personal tastes have elevated from meaningless drivel from uninformed non-intellectual malleable morons to missionaries for the modern self-proclaimed ecclesial caste. Blessed be us who can hear their sermons.

TLDR:

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gop-miami-mayor-francis-suarez-drops-out-of-presidential-race.758824/

Jesus, Miami has a Republican mayor??

[Averon]

I was visitinf family in Paris a couple of weeks back, and I visited the museum of the middle ages.

Long story short: there’s a tiny park set up there in honour of Samuel Paty, but that part didn’t bug me - it was that it stated in clear words “he was a victim of islamic terrorism”.

Now, in a fair world yea, that makes sense but I guess I’ve not seen any memorials dedicated to Christian terrorism, which made it a bit odd.

NB: While I am aware of the heinous crimes of the Christian church from a longer historical, I’m curious as to the term “[religious] terrorism” specifically if there are any other examples to align with it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/france-to-ban-full-length-muslim-robes-in-public-schools.758674/post-111192406

Wow

Seriously, wow

The man was beheaded by an Islamic extremist for political/ideological reasons. It's textbook terrorism. What do they want it to be called?
This is what I mean when I say lefties have this weird double standard when it comes to anything about Islam. If the attacker was from any other religion, those so called staunch atheists wouldn't bat an eye about that wording.

[TylenolJones]

lol missed this last week, bdumbs gets angry cause users aren’t making threads about every small update in the trump trials. 

So, a reminder: big news needs a new thread. We don't want major developments getting lost in this thread and missed by everyone else. I took care of it this time, but come on guys. I wouldn't have seen this if I hadn't turned on CNN.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-on-trial-episode-4-ot-the-one-with-the-missing-documents.727986/page-82#post-110836963

Can users be banned for not making a new thread?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/persona-3-4-5-director-says-atlus-was-on-the-verge-of-collapse-at-the-time-of-persona-3.758884/

Fatlus fans that hate Persona are going to throw a hissy fit. No wonder why they throw Kaneko under the bus even if those games are legendary on their own, but it sounds like bombas.

[benji]

I wouldn't be surprised if France has plenty of "memorials" and shit related to their Wars of Religion and related events. Or rather, I would be since Nepenthe announced that Europe has no culture.

[Boredfrom]

Shame part of this asshole's solution was to make the games more bigoted too but I guess since most people just sweep that shit under the rug it really did work out for the best huh.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/persona-3-4-5-director-says-atlus-was-on-the-verge-of-collapse-at-the-time-of-persona-3.758884/#post-111204952

Here we go.

[HaughtyFrank]

I was visitinf family in Paris a couple of weeks back, and I visited the museum of the middle ages.

Long story short: there’s a tiny park set up there in honour of Samuel Paty, but that part didn’t bug me - it was that it stated in clear words “he was a victim of islamic terrorism”.

Now, in a fair world yea, that makes sense but I guess I’ve not seen any memorials dedicated to Christian terrorism, which made it a bit odd.

NB: While I am aware of the heinous crimes of the Christian church from a longer historical, I’m curious as to the term “[religious] terrorism” specifically if there are any other examples to align with it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/france-to-ban-full-length-muslim-robes-in-public-schools.758674/post-111192406

Wow

Seriously, wow

The man was beheaded by an Islamic extremist for political/ideological reasons. It's textbook terrorism. What do they want in to be called?
This is what I mean when I say lefties have this weird double standard when it comes to anything about Islam. If the attacker was from any other religion, those so called staunch atheists wouldn't bat an eye about that wording.

I believe they're upset that it's called islamic terrorism, despite being exactly that, because naming things by their name is bad or something like that.

[benji]

The man was beheaded by an Islamic extremist for political/ideological reasons. It's textbook terrorism. What do they want it to be called?
This is what I mean when I say lefties have this weird double standard when it comes to anything about Islam. If the attacker was from any other religion, those so called staunch atheists wouldn't bat an eye about that wording.

You're mistaking what they're upset about. They're actually mad that there's no recent Christian terrorism that memorials can be made to because they desperately need the relativist moral equivalency to justify the moral hierarchy in which they place entire, millions or billions large, groups of diverse individuals. The fact that Christians, as a group, stopped killing other people for religious reasons centuries ago* and Muslims have not makes Muslims look bad and that can't be allowed as Muslims are "minorities" and therefore either morally pure or at least morally superior to Christians.

*"AHA GOTCHA" yells the ad hoc Explainer™, "I am enlightened by my intelligence, and therefore know that Christian majority countries have engaged in violence in non-Christian countries in recent times, I will personally cite America attacking Iraq as I don't know about any other countries but I suspect being white have done similar things, which I can therefore claim are really religious conflicts despite all the secular reasons for these events. If you dispute this, I will Google for quotes of secular leaders using religious language and metaphors to confirm this increasingly incoherent and unsupported theory to maintain false equivalence in the face of increasing empirical counterevidence."

[ComeAgain]

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The Starfield thing is interesting because about half of Resetera has a religious conviction that it will be the second coming and it's clearly not going to be the videogame that people have invented. It's even more strange that we've seen a fair bit of it and we already know it's coming in half baked. We've had this exact cycle again and again with the big MS games. If it was a banger they'd have shown it to everyone with eyes a thousand times over but they've shown the same stuff over and over, because that's what the game is, little patches of terrain with some buildings that you load in and out of.

How many times do people need to be caught up in hype cycles about games that clearly aren't delivering on the pitch? It's been obvious with Starfield from the beginning. Everything they've shown is what the game is and was all along. But like with Halo people have invented narratives about what it might mean or what they think is coming instead of looking at the game in front of them.

If a company fucks with the reviews, they have no confidence in the game and are hoping Marketing hype carries it. Same deal every single time, people never learn.

Reviewers have had the game for 2 weeks. Seen a fair few on Twitter do all they can to not talk about it until Thursday but even then they are saying without saying it’s something special. Bethesda isn’t hiding anything. It’s gonna be a 90+ reviewed game.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/china-behind-%E2%80%98largest-ever%E2%80%99-digital-influence-operation.758782/#post-111197233

considering the control anti-west whataboutism and astroturfing has even here in regards to derails and getting regulars banned through responses to bad faith posting, so surprised!

                 Conspiracy theorizing

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/movies-that-you-can-watch-over-and-over-again.758539/page-2#post-111169309

I don't usually rewatch films and I'd say I've barely seen four or five times, at most, some movies. They would be these:

- Gladiator
- Ocean's Eleven
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Toy Story 3
- Ratatouille
- La La Land
- Get Out
- The Social Network
- Harry Potter 1, 2, 3

https://www.resetera.com/threads/movies-that-you-can-watch-over-and-over-again.758539/page-3#post-111203653

lots of classic disney/pixar movies for sure

rush hour 1+2

infinity war + end game

ace ventura

blue streak

bad boys 1 + 2

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2023-ot-1-kevins-no-good-very-bad-day.672442/page-353#post-111207181

They should be explaining why he is perma banned and how the site expects to navigate the chasm between OT political topics and PoliEra political topics. This is honestly bigger than just TheHunter being banned... you have the vast majority of us opting to NOT venture into other subsections of this forum because of dogpiling, strawman arguments, and ban baiting via irrational arguments. What kind of fucking community is this when you basically quarantine dedicated members to their one thread in fear of venturing out because you are guaranteed a ban and there's no consistency in moderation? TheHunter being banned is another extension of the wildly inconsistent behavior from the admin and another example of lack of transparency in how they justify their actions.

This place is a shit hole compared to what it was originally marketed as when GAF collapsed. The entire philosophy was to avoid shadow mod banning and transparent understanding how to navigate topics and discussions in a pro-community way (unlike what Amirox and Evilore were doing in the final years of GAF). That we didn't believe in aggressive like discussions which if you venture into nearly any and all major threads across this forum is overflowing with vitriol, anger, and division.

As I said before no statement will have me deleting my account. I know I don't contribute much but slowly siphoning off good quality contributors and replacing them with echo chambering drive by's isn't worth my fucking time.

[NekoFever]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/some-rare-xbox-360-bc-titles-just-went-on-sale-for-the-first-time-in-years-edf2017-edf2025-from-dust-braid-monday-night-combat-onenchanbara.758554/#post-111168490

I've never played Monday Night Combat other than the demo on 360 when it came out, but for some reason its existence came to my head the other day and I realized it had one of my least favorite game titles ever. It like, implies it can only be played on a Monday, but it can be played any day of the week. Why is it called that.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Shame part of this asshole's solution was to make the games more bigoted too but I guess since most people just sweep that shit under the rug it really did work out for the best huh.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/persona-3-4-5-director-says-atlus-was-on-the-verge-of-collapse-at-the-time-of-persona-3.758884/#post-111204952

Here we go.

Nobody took the bait lol

I have yet to play any of these games..too intimidated by their length.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/china-behind-%E2%80%98largest-ever%E2%80%99-digital-influence-operation.758782/#post-111197233

considering the control anti-west whataboutism and astroturfing has even here in regards to derails and getting regulars banned through responses to bad faith posting, so surprised!

Hey! He's a great poster! Taking away the ability of non-members to search members posts is what ruined it for me, not what he's posted.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/china-behind-%E2%80%98largest-ever%E2%80%99-digital-influence-operation.758782/#post-111197233

considering the control anti-west whataboutism and astroturfing has even here in regards to derails and getting regulars banned through responses to bad faith posting, so surprised!

Hey! He's a great poster! Taking away the ability of non-members to search members posts is what ruined it for me, not what he's posted.

The only think I remember about astroturfing is how they did a 180 within a week to play the transphobic game Cyberpunk 2077. Can such a poor ally really be considered "great"?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2023-ot-1-kevins-no-good-very-bad-day.672442/page-353#post-111207181

They should be explaining why he is perma banned and how the site expects to navigate the chasm between OT political topics and PoliEra political topics.

Through the time-tested method of "shut up you."

The only think I remember about astroturfing is how they did a 180 within a week to play the transphobic game Cyberpunk 2077. Can such a poor ally really be considered "great"?

Sacrificing himself to protect others and get knowledge about the transphobic violence like Kyuuji did twice!

[Taco Bell Tower]

I remember astro supposedly had his friend's Steam account and somehow said friend had Cyberpunk 2077 on the download list.  He kept saying he was gonna download it on his PC, try it for a bit and uninstall it.  He later on reinstalls it to resume his gameplay 

[Taco Bell Tower]

Shame part of this asshole's solution was to make the games more bigoted too but I guess since most people just sweep that shit under the rug it really did work out for the best huh.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/persona-3-4-5-director-says-atlus-was-on-the-verge-of-collapse-at-the-time-of-persona-3.758884/#post-111204952

Here we go.

Nobody took the bait lol

I have yet to play any of these games..too intimidated by their length.

Nvm

It was their Final Fantasy
And P5 was their FFVII

Homophobic version of FF7

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-job-market-sucks-right-now.758902/

A couple of years ago, when I wasn't actively job hunting, I basically had to board up my door and windows to keep the recruiters out. People were basically throwing job offers my way whether I wanted them or not. Now that I'm actually hunting around for a job the market seems like its as dry as a bone. There are only a small handful of open roles out there and not much seems to be opening up. Anyone else looking at what's out there? How's it going for you.

This is the guy who was all   on his huge bonus bragging thread that pissed a lot of Ree users 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kids-in-iowa-now-need-a-permission-slip-to-go-by-a-nickname.758899/#post-111207520

A reminder that the US is currently underway in a genocidal movement against trans citizens, including elected officials.

So much for the bringers of democracy and human rights around the globe. We can't even guarantee them for our own.

Wow, you just reminded me of a situation just like this from years ago. I had a friend in one of my classes who was an international student from Korea. His Korean name was Cho-Sang, but he asked to be called Shawn (IME this was extremely common for students of Asian origin, of which there were many at my school).

The professor in this class just refused to call this kid Shawn. She always referred to him as Cho-Sang- which was apparently what was in the school registry- even after he specifically corrected her. He was visibly uncomfortable when this happened, but she either didn't notice or didn't care. She was one of the more progressive teachers at a school that was already leaning progressive, so I just never understood her position on this.

This was in college rather than grade school or high school, where it would be much more challenging to be referred to by a name you didn't like or didn't want used. It's pretty clear that this is going to be an unnecessary struggle for a whole bunch of kids in Iowa.

[Boredfrom]

Looking at their current output this is pretty ironic.

It definitely is, isnt it. Even just looking at P3R they had the opportunity to attract a bigger audience with a P5 level game including a female protagonist and they just let it go, they only want to please the hardcore fans.

Saying this like P5 didn’t sell like hot cakes and has a strong female fan base.

They truly overestimate the need of a female avatar.

[Venice]

Shame part of this asshole's solution was to make the games more bigoted too but I guess since most people just sweep that shit under the rug it really did work out for the best huh.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/persona-3-4-5-director-says-atlus-was-on-the-verge-of-collapse-at-the-time-of-persona-3.758884/#post-111204952

Here we go.

Has anyone on The Bore actually played Persona 5?

Because, while Persona 4 had a couple of missteps, Persona 5 is literally one of the most progressive games in the entire franchise, starting with Yusuke, the art-obsessed dude, who, to me at least, is intended by Atlus to clearly comes across as asexual and doesn't appear to have any romantic interest in either men or women.

Era also conveniently ALWAYS ignores Lala, the cross-dresser who manages the Crossroads bar in Shinjuku, who is one of the most well-written characters in the entire game and who constantly looks out for both the player and the alcoholic reporter chick:



Yet all they ever focus on are two short cutscenes, lasting a couple of minutes, in a 140 hour+ game, where 2 dudes hit on Ryuji.



People here may have their own opinions on those scenes (which Atlas censored later in P5R), but my own interpretations are:

1: The scenes were far more to show what a dumbass Ryuji is. Throughout the entire game he is shown to be a very likeable but clearly dimwitted guy. Almost every encounter he has with other NPC's are comedic, especially Morgana.

2: Go into any major city in the world, London, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Amsterdam, and you'll get people of all kinds hitting on you everywhere, including gay guys, especially if the city is known to be liberal and easy-going.

Somehow Era, Kotaku and other garbage websites managed to twist a couple of lines into a 'Atlus is homophobic' manufactured controversy.

[Boredfrom]

Kind offtopic but: The dude from zeboyd games really rubs me the wrong way, I’m always feeling he is just one step of saying something stupid because the RE kool aid  and ruining his studio.

Like, whenever the sales figures are, you and I have little idea of the realities of the Japanese market during that period, just because you like the older games better doesn’t mean that wasn’t case (specially since everyone is saying that SMTIII and DDS did bomb hard).

[benji]

I remember astro supposedly had his friend's Steam account and somehow said friend had Cyberpunk 2077 on the download list.  He kept saying he was gonna download it on his PC, try it for a bit and uninstall it.  He later on reinstalls it to resume his gameplay 

Oh, I think there may be some confusion. There's astro, the aggressive "non-binary" constantly hostile poster while I was talking about astoturfing who's a weird likely highly autistic Swede who has electrodes implanted in his spine because of a real disability. He used to post hilarious borderline non sequiturs in threads and nobody has ever really seemed to notice any of his posts.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kids-in-iowa-now-need-a-permission-slip-to-go-by-a-nickname.758899/#post-111207520

A reminder that the US is currently underway in a genocidal movement against trans citizens, including elected officials.

With a literally countless number of victims!

[books]

The professor in this class just refused to call this kid Shawn. She always referred to him as Cho-Sang

Would Era be supporting the professor for refusing to acknowledge Cho-Sang's new colonizing white name? Or would they support Cho-Sang for speaking her truth?