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

[nachobro]

The people who think DMC should be like Freiren where all demons should be killed with extreme prejudice are dumb as fuck and are exposing themselves as the "fake tourists" they themselves are hating on.

Someone is in for a surprise for later seasons of Frieren 

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

While demons are portrayed as “evil fantasy race”… there is demons that want to  genuinely understand humans… the results are not exactly encouraging. Is treated as a tragedy.

This is explored further in the previous DMC anime by Madhouse where there are good demons living among humans disguised and just want to be left alone. There is mention of stuff like this throughout DMC.

Look, I’m not DMC fanboy and I’m more casual about those games and lore… but you know there has never been a focus about that, not even when the series got political with DmC.  And the problem people have is not that there is “good demons” but is trying to be an allegory for refugees/immigrants and the War on Terror (  ). Demons in the OG games are explicitly supernatural beings while the Netflix series says that they are just evolved humans (  ), that changes the dynamics like a lot.

noted "caring about other people" poster, dahbomb

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-poster-for-ari-asters-eddington-starring-joaquin-phoenix-pedro-pascal-austin-butler-and-emma-stone.1160283/

That poster screams AI for some reason

Nah man they actually threw three buffallo offa the cliff or something

[DavidCroquet]

"Eddington is a Western set during the pandemic, featuring lots of 2020 politics. It has been called an "ensemble film," but the main story focuses on the rivalry between Sheriff Joe Cross (Phoenix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pascal).

The conflict begins when Joe refuses to wear a face mask at a local grocery store. This leads him to run for mayor of Eddington, challenging Ted, who thought he would run unopposed."

As great as that cast is, that premise almost sounds triggering to me at this point. I never wanna think about those types of dumbass situations again. Feels like a snowball that never stopped growing until we get where we are today.

Yeah, it feels too soon for me. I might come back to this one in ten years or so.

Ouch that premise. I think I'm out, it's too close

[Besticus Maximus]

I always knew that I was right to be suspicious about Ari Aster

[Snoopy]

Poor Pedro is cancelled

You're not alone he annoys the fuck outta me lol 🤷‍♂️ also just not into middle aged dudes acting "cutesy hot" but that's his brand I guess so can't blame him, just feel like he's overplayed atp

man I am getting really tired of seeing Pedro Pascal...I was there for the first 400 things he was in, but this is getting absurd lol...love the dude, but it's so much oversaturation.

Sadly there are only two other actors on the planet to choose from

Would you rather it be a piece of shit instead? Ezra Miller? Spacey? Because I remember when they were in everything.

[Daffy Duck]

Shoulda been that Hunter Shaft woman in it tbf

[killamajig]

Poor Pedro is cancelled

You're not alone he annoys the fuck outta me lol 🤷‍♂️ also just not into middle aged dudes acting "cutesy hot" but that's his brand I guess so can't blame him, just feel like he's overplayed atp

man I am getting really tired of seeing Pedro Pascal...I was there for the first 400 things he was in, but this is getting absurd lol...love the dude, but it's so much oversaturation.

Sadly there are only two other actors on the planet to choose from

Would you rather it be a piece of shit instead? Ezra Miller? Spacey? Because I remember when they were in everything.

Counterpoint:

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/#post-138315069

Damn, thats low - any reason why? Performance issues?

No its just a low key game and also a harassment campaign lodged against it

damn those harassment campaigns. 

I wonder why there's never an endorsement campaign to counteract this stuff?

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/#post-138315069

Damn, thats low - any reason why? Performance issues?

No its just a low key game and also a harassment campaign lodged against it

damn those harassment campaigns. 

I wonder why there's never an endorsement campaign to counteract this stuff?

I got two things to say about this.

First, define harrassment campaign. Because they seem to define it as more than one person talking negatively about a game. And if that’s how your defining it, fair point, but that makes their site one of the biggest websites for harrassment campaigns on the inter webs. And more to the point, where exactly was this campaign. I barely even saw a hype campaign for it. I could see the point made for Outlaws or Veilguard, though I consider the criticism of those to be fair. But for this game, aside from the occasional mention in passing I haven’t seen anything.

Second, they really are this desperate to claim victimhood aren’t they? Or more to the point, to claim oppression so they can feel vindicated about a game that they likely don’t even own themselves. But because Bobby T. Chud mentioned it in passing, its now got its gold star as a ‘important’ game that needs to be protected.

[JoeBoy101]

Would you rather it be a piece of shit instead? Ezra Miller? Spacey? Because I remember when they were in everything.

See, look at this toxic shit.

“I think Pedro is in too much, he’s getting overstaturated.”

“Oh, so you want to see nothing but train wrecks and Chud adjacent actors, don’t you?”

What poisonous mind jumps to that conclusion based on that mild ass statement?

[JoeBoy101]

Oh, y’all might not care, but caught my first actioning and ban on Era.

You have been banned for the following reason: User Banned (1 Month): Transphobic rhetoric through the report system; history of misusing the report system. Your ban will be lifted on May 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM.

Oops, got a history now. Though of course, never got a warning on the ‘misuse’ of the reporting system.

Even more amusing is it was never misused. Every report I made was an honest indictment and frequency? I might make 2 reports a month, where you have some posters on there clocking 2 an hour.

Lastly, the report was in the poster referring to women as ‘ovary-havers’.

ERA misogyny clearly reaches the highest levels.

[Besticus Maximus]

This feels like a gamepass game.

Otherwise known as a game no one wants to buy

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/save-act-house-passes-gop-voting-bill-that-could-disenfranchise-millions.1160607/#post-138342465

Who can still easily find their birth certificate?

Rich ass whites.

I mean...what is there left to say about her at this point?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/#post-138315069

No its just a low key game and also a harassment campaign lodged against it

damn those harassment campaigns. 

I wonder why there's never an endorsement campaign to counteract this stuff?

I got two things to say about this.

First, define harrassment campaign. Because they seem to define it as more than one person talking negatively about a game. And if that’s how your defining it, fair point, but that makes their site one of the biggest websites for harrassment campaigns on the inter webs. And more to the point, where exactly was this campaign. I barely even saw a hype campaign for it. I could see the point made for Outlaws or Veilguard, though I consider the criticism of those to be fair. But for this game, aside from the occasional mention in passing I haven’t seen anything.

Second, they really are this desperate to claim victimhood aren’t they? Or more to the point, to claim oppression so they can feel vindicated about a game that they likely don’t even own themselves. But because Bobby T. Chud mentioned it in passing, its now got its gold star as a ‘important’ game that needs to be protected.

They're so dumb. By blaming harassment campaigns (and this case a seemingly non existent one) they're telling publishers "your game will fail if it features diversity".

Meanwhile in reality I guarantee you this game wouldn't sell if it was exactly the same thing with a white dude. MS games are currently just doomed that way

[DJ Bedroom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/#post-138315069
damn those harassment campaigns. 

I wonder why there's never an endorsement campaign to counteract this stuff?

I got two things to say about this.

First, define harrassment campaign. Because they seem to define it as more than one person talking negatively about a game. And if that’s how your defining it, fair point, but that makes their site one of the biggest websites for harrassment campaigns on the inter webs. And more to the point, where exactly was this campaign. I barely even saw a hype campaign for it. I could see the point made for Outlaws or Veilguard, though I consider the criticism of those to be fair. But for this game, aside from the occasional mention in passing I haven’t seen anything.

Second, they really are this desperate to claim victimhood aren’t they? Or more to the point, to claim oppression so they can feel vindicated about a game that they likely don’t even own themselves. But because Bobby T. Chud mentioned it in passing, its now got its gold star as a ‘important’ game that needs to be protected.

They're so dumb. By blaming harassment campaigns (and this case a seemingly non existent one) they're telling publishers "your game will fail if it features diversity".

Meanwhile in reality I guarantee you this game wouldn't sell if it was exactly the same thing with a white dude. MS games are currently just doomed that way

Beyond that, it's the newest game from the makers of Contrast and We Happy Few. Not exactly barn burners

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/#post-138315069

Damn, thats low - any reason why? Performance issues?

No its just a low key game and also a harassment campaign lodged against it

damn those harassment campaigns. 

I wonder why there's never an endorsement campaign to counteract this stuff?

the harassment campaign about not supporting games on the genocide box?

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/page-2#post-138320766

Not really a fan of calling this out though.

It's one thing if it's a game expected to be massive and it's funny because the developer sucks. And I get it, MS sucks, but it's not MADE by them, it's made by a very small team.

But this is a game that has a massive harassment campaign against it, starring and developed by POC and it feels like we're feeding into the chuds victory lap by calling this out.

you sure about that? 

[benji]

There has never been any implementation of communism. There has been preparations for implementing communism, but no country has ever reached communism. State capitalism is what is implemented with the intention (not always the actual intention) to move over to communism and hand over the means of production to the people.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/u-s-trade-representative-greer-donald-trump-will-not-allow-a-situation-where-wall-street-is-%E2%80%9Callowed-to-run-the-economy%E2%80%9D.1158690/page-4#post-138275742

Beyond parody with this talking point (even if partially true)

Everyone attempting the delineated process of finding Utopia has turned up fruitless..which is NOT, in any way, shape or form, evidence that my magical religious Utopia doesn't exist, and thus we will absolve the core ideology of its disastrous historical record.  God I fucking love science and the scientific method.

This is one of the biggest enduring myths about socialism but the Soviets did try it exactly as Marx ordered. They eliminated commodity production, the entire country collapsed (except for the White controlled areas, a bit of an issue during a Civil War you might imagine) and Lenin enacted the NEP which was essentially high-tax fascism except for peasants and other similar classes who were exempted entirely from taxes and quotas. Lenin didn't interfere in the Soviet market anywhere near as much as Hitler would, it was more like Mussolini's version of looking the other way as long as state policy was generally supported by the capitalist output.

Lenin actually restored capitalism and a more liberal capitalism than Russia had under the czars. Lenin's cult of personality was so powerful that this couldn't be reversed until Stalin defeated the other heirs. It was so powerful that Trotsky even defended it from Stalin's attempts to recollectivize despite this being Trotsky's own position. Trotsky's piece about why Stalin would fail and only create a bureaucratic totalitarian state is essentially the Mises argument against socialism. Trotsky just asserted that Lenin had a master plan and was someone who could do the art of the deal which meant the capitalists were leading themselves to the gullotines by thinking they were making money. Stalin's rhetoric about social fascism was partly because he needed to undermine what Lenin had done. People weren't idiots, Stalin wasn't yet God, they would have recognized that Mussolini's system was similar to the NEP. But there was Soviet resentment against those who had prospered under the NEP, like the kulaks and shopkeepers, so it was relatively easy to claim that these kinds of economic policies (fascism, NEP, etc.) were capitalist retrenchment against the revolution. By tearing down the NEP, Stalin was enhancing his own power by eliminating opposition.

You can't "reach" communism because communism is an impossible state of existence. It's one where nobody disagrees about anything, all people have perfect knowledge of all things, and all people have perfect ability in all things so everyone just does what everyone thinks which is all the same. Marx didn't believe individuals existed. Whenever he writes in a way that sounds like an individual he's talking about society, all of society, acting through the individual to achieve its own goals. Communism isn't a state where you have your own goals or your own life, you don't exist separate from society, you exist to do what society desires to achieve. Marx's complaint about capitalism is that this didn't happen, everyone just pursued their own interests and therefore society didn't have control over the economy which creates alienation, under communism there would only be society doing what it wanted at all times, this would solve alienation which isn't an individual state of being unhappy but a systemic issue of lack of control. The Marxist/socialist claim is that none of this should be a barrier to attempting to achieve it and that enough violence can achieve it. You place everything in control of the state, which has perfect knowledge and ability because we say it does, then it just happens. People who disobey the central plan by not achieving it (for whatever reason) are traitors because why else would someone not achieve what the state orders? You exist solely to do what society orders which acts through the state.

Thankfully, historically, world leaders haven't been stupid enough to actually attempt socialism since the Soviets. They've merely engaged in totalitarian state planning that led to mass murders of millions but that's not reason to not try again. They obviously failed because they didn't have total knowledge of everything including all possible futures like we (aka myself) do. I know it's possible because I want it to be and therefore it is. Everyone else's failure to achieve this clearly simple task just proves that I am the Chosen One. If the rest of y'all would actually organize instead of being white.

TLDR: Most modern socialists don't know what socialism is or what it was, especially as described by Marx, so they don't realize what it is to enact it and why the Soviets did what they did (actually try to enact socialism) and then nobody else tried after them for good reason.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-switch-2-us-pre-orders-will-not-start-on-april-9th-due-to-tariffs-effects-launch-date-unchanged.1155423/page-91#post-138280176

User Banned (1 Month): Concern Trolling; Antagonizing Fellow Members over a Series of Posts; History of the Same

I'm not asking for pity - I'm asking you to get a fucking clue

OK JD Vance. I'll make sure to say thank you to the Americans who are trying to crash our economy. I'll give up my minerals to you.

Please stop crashing my countries economy now.

Why is it up to us to understand Americans? Why is it always the Americans who deserve this privilege above everyone else?

I don't want to understand you Americans. I want you to leave us the fuck alone.

You don't get it. Trade Wars are a type of warfare. Your country is declaring war on the rest of the world.

So he wants Americans to stop trading with his country at all?

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/#post-138315069
damn those harassment campaigns. 

I wonder why there's never an endorsement campaign to counteract this stuff?

I got two things to say about this.

First, define harrassment campaign. Because they seem to define it as more than one person talking negatively about a game. And if that’s how your defining it, fair point, but that makes their site one of the biggest websites for harrassment campaigns on the inter webs. And more to the point, where exactly was this campaign. I barely even saw a hype campaign for it. I could see the point made for Outlaws or Veilguard, though I consider the criticism of those to be fair. But for this game, aside from the occasional mention in passing I haven’t seen anything.

Second, they really are this desperate to claim victimhood aren’t they? Or more to the point, to claim oppression so they can feel vindicated about a game that they likely don’t even own themselves. But because Bobby T. Chud mentioned it in passing, its now got its gold star as a ‘important’ game that needs to be protected.

They're so dumb. By blaming harassment campaigns (and this case a seemingly non existent one) they're telling publishers "your game will fail if it features diversity".

Meanwhile in reality I guarantee you this game wouldn't sell if it was exactly the same thing with a white dude. MS games are currently just doomed that way

Basically every review suggests it's not a game you need to play, because everything except the gameplay is interesting.

Having beaten it, that's true. You better believe I used the skip battle button as soon as I found out it was a thing.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/page-8#post-138348360

for comparison sake since the game is also on gamepass, blue prince currently sits at 5154 CCU on steam.

Of course Blue Prince sits at that. 

It's a mysterious roguelike that checks all the boxes that "coincidentally" got excellent word of mouth from critics/press/Feep jacking off to the "payoff" which likely involved an actual payoff, since it's on PS+ AND Game Pass. That upfront money could easily find a way into someone like Mr. Sneak Fuck's pocket.

[StandingOvation]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-era-your-new-roommate-is-a-fantasy-being-what-happens.1160916/

Surprise surprise, TheEchosOfTheCyborg posts yet another thread about fantasy roommates except....they did the same thing about 50 days ago too: https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-you-discover-that-a-neighbour-roommate-someone-close-by-is-actually-fantasy-being-of-folklore-elf-dwarf-hobgoblin-dragon-etc.1120038/

What is it with this freak and nudist Hobgoblins?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/niko-bellic-and-roman-bellic-are-30-and-31-years-old-in-gta-4%E2%80%A6.1160733/#post-138345471

Ages in video games are usually stupid.

Like V in Cyberpunk 2077 is like 23, which is just ridiculous.

Lol what? I assumed he was like 35.

FemV is even harder to believe.

So CuntyCal played a video game that actively promotes their genocide. Curious

[benji]

What is it with this freak and nudist Hobgoblins?

He has like five super interests that go years back and he repeats them endlessly. That old blog had stuff about Hobgoblins, I wouldn't be surprised if it mentioned wasps too. 

Echos is one case where the autism is super true and confirmed science rather than just the Kiwi Farms insult version.

[Boredfrom]

I'm gonna be honest, as a Canadian, the game's setting, which used to look incredibly appealing just a few months ago, is now the last thing I care to see or want to support with everything going on here. And it's heartbreaking too, bec the developers are from Montreal

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/page-8

[benji]

Promises made, promises kept.

[Snoopy]

However, they'll be fiercely loyal and protective of you as your roommate and if you live in Scotland, will sometimes randomly show up when English tellers are telling you they can't accept your change to help you out/punch out the teller.

Wut? English tellers have to refuse Scottish bank notes in England. It's not legal currency down there. Does the retard think they're refusing him out of spite?

[Jansen]

Why are there so many guests these days?

[Jansen]

Promises made, promises kept.

What exactly do they think a gun is going to do against ICE? They'll maybe get one shot off and then they'll definitely not get due process

[benji]

What exactly do they think a gun is going to do against ICE? They'll maybe get one shot off and then they'll definitely not get due process

They also don't know the fears of typical gun dudes, that getting a gun puts you in a database so the feds know you have a gun before they come for you.

[benji]

Guess who's back and promising to expose the truth about Brianna Wu:

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

[Taco Bell Tower]

Oh, y’all might not care, but caught my first actioning and ban on Era.

You have been banned for the following reason: User Banned (1 Month): Transphobic rhetoric through the report system; history of misusing the report system. Your ban will be lifted on May 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM.

Oops, got a history now. Though of course, never got a warning on the ‘misuse’ of the reporting system.

Even more amusing is it was never misused. Every report I made was an honest indictment and frequency? I might make 2 reports a month, where you have some posters on there clocking 2 an hour.

Lastly, the report was in the poster referring to women as ‘ovary-havers’.

ERA misogyny clearly reaches the highest levels.

First marrec and now you?  

I got two things to say about this.

First, define harrassment campaign. Because they seem to define it as more than one person talking negatively about a game. And if that’s how your defining it, fair point, but that makes their site one of the biggest websites for harrassment campaigns on the inter webs. And more to the point, where exactly was this campaign. I barely even saw a hype campaign for it. I could see the point made for Outlaws or Veilguard, though I consider the criticism of those to be fair. But for this game, aside from the occasional mention in passing I haven’t seen anything.

Second, they really are this desperate to claim victimhood aren’t they? Or more to the point, to claim oppression so they can feel vindicated about a game that they likely don’t even own themselves. But because Bobby T. Chud mentioned it in passing, its now got its gold star as a ‘important’ game that needs to be protected.

They're so dumb. By blaming harassment campaigns (and this case a seemingly non existent one) they're telling publishers "your game will fail if it features diversity".

Meanwhile in reality I guarantee you this game wouldn't sell if it was exactly the same thing with a white dude. MS games are currently just doomed that way

Basically every review suggests it's not a game you need to play, because everything except the gameplay is interesting.

Having beaten it, that's true. You better believe I used the skip battle button as soon as I found out it was a thing.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-of-midnight-launches-to-1-411-steam-ccu.1159953/page-8#post-138348360

for comparison sake since the game is also on gamepass, blue prince currently sits at 5154 CCU on steam.

Of course Blue Prince sits at that. 

It's a mysterious roguelike that checks all the boxes that "coincidentally" got excellent word of mouth from critics/press/Feep jacking off to the "payoff" which likely involved an actual payoff, since it's on PS+ AND Game Pass. That upfront money could easily find a way into someone like Mr. Sneak Fuck's pocket.

Ccu thread-whining is getting ridiculous. If you don't care, don't post. Simple.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/niko-bellic-and-roman-bellic-are-30-and-31-years-old-in-gta-4%E2%80%A6.1160733/#post-138345471

Ages in video games are usually stupid.

Like V in Cyberpunk 2077 is like 23, which is just ridiculous.

Lol what? I assumed he was like 35.

FemV is even harder to believe.

So CuntyCal played a video game that actively promotes their genocide. Curious

Kyuuji made some accounts just to multi plat Cyberpunk 2077, really promoting trans genocide.