Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Boredfrom]

The comments on steam are super harsh. Calling it a scam. I'm not surprised a developer might go and delete some of the comments. Some would easily cop a ban here. One post claims it's full of malware (just on a hunch, doesn't own it) just because they believe it is a scam. Stupidity really spreads hard on the internet. It's contagious.

I'm watching a streamer play it just fine. Actually looks very interesting. Not really my type of game but I could be persuaded by friends to buy it, assuming servers are sorted out.

Guess the game:

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

 https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-day-before-has-released.792891/page-3#post-115965381

[Shecky Fragbaum]

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you can't make this shit up, ppl

norman lear dies, thread is (rightly) praising his incredible career

but lo, a brave soul appears to let you know that john lennon beat his wife if you hadn't heard





and where does this person post after apparently mistaking norman lear with norman mailer (who died like 15 years ago?)

to a thread worried about declining rates of reading skills, of course!



this could be a bit, but i'm not seeing it.

Dammit, I'm sorry for the mix-up re: my last post confusing Lear and Mailer. I've been very sleep-deprived and off my ADHD meds lately.

As for Lear creating Archie Bunker, yeah, we all know Lear intended to make fun of Archie. But just like the creation of Al Bundy, it was a spectacular backfire. Fact is, you provide a platform for a character like that to come on TV every week and spew bigoted garbage, even if the intent is to show him up for a buffoon, bigots in the audience are going to completely overlook the critique and champion the character that gets to broadcast his hateful views weeks after week to millions of people. I have unfortunately known countless Conservatives who hold him up as a hero to this day.

It's the reason why this new movie showcasing a "fictionalized" Donald Trump character is so irresponsible. Chuds won't like the negative angle the movie will no doubt put on him, but they'll be willing to put up with that because it glamorizes their evil God Emperor onscreen, providing him a platform to hit his usual beloved bits.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/norman-lear-tv-legend-dies-at-101.792303/page-2#post-115955847

Not sure that’s how ADHD works.

Is this the new “Somebody hacked my account”?

"Oopsie, did I just do a racism? Nah, must've been the ambien talking. ^_^"

[Besticus Maximus]

My adhd meds make my posts 200% more factually better

[Boredfrom]

Hamas Cheerleading thread was closed:

I'm temporarily locking this thread because there's shit that needs saying and you all will need to hear it.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2023/nov/30/model-meg-turney-cammy-cosplay/

THE HORROR!  THE ABSOLUTE HORROR!

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

GAT DAYUM

View this post on Instagram

SEX WORK IS WORK

Cosplayers have their own agency and can CHOOSE to be sexy, video game characters DO NOT. 

Tired of these wolves in sheep's clothing coming in and acting like they stand with us REAL GIRLS by dismissing the agency of sexy cosplayers.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/plagiarism-and-you-tube-new-hbomberguy-video.791178/page-26#post-115882812

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Point of Comparison; Dismissive Commentary

Let the man grab his bag.

I know people mean this is support but honestly that basically means hey even if this Creator is lazy and is pulling up a dead tree behind him let him make his money because he has kids! In that case you got to give money to every poor woman out there who has her kids as props and will immediately take that money to buy beer. Think of the kids!

Sorry, a guy is NOT entitled to money just because he wants to relive the crappy 8 bit days or to cosplay being a rockstar with very crappy 8-bit covers. And no I don't understand that decision for him to do that nonsense either.



Not directed at you but going back to a few people who replied to me I kind of laugh how "oh he only plays the games that he knows" when you have people like Sega Lord x and a few other Sega guys who have expanded from their preferred platform (in his case Genesis and Saturn).

Hell that dude's last video was doing a look at some company who's doing a 16-bit ROM repro for the Genesis that can be bought next year. Games are still being made for the old systems. Quality? Well that's what videos are for! It's off topic so I shall stop ther

She made a comment of Raya being derivative of Avatar
Then made a comment about how you can see it being racist if you squint at it
And being the internet interpreted in the least charitable light and got chased off the internet or at least youtube and twitter

She used a racial slur for Asians I can't find the topic right now but I remember people saying it wasn't a big deal here while some of the Asian American members ended up leaving because they felt completely upset and ignored. Not to mention the phrasing of squint really didn't help the optics either.

I'll use the word in context what she said, but behind spoilers

Spoiler: FROM LINDSEY'S OLD EXPLANATION VIDEO (click to show)(click to hide)

she said something to the effect of 'chink' in the armor. Given the context of an Asian based movie plus the Avatar references this was not very well timed. I argue if she is just simply apologize for it it probably wouldn't have gone anywhere but by the time Twitter did what it did it was already main character syndrome.

I completely agree with her decision just eliminate Twitter at that point looking back it was probably for the best.

It's like I often hear people at work say "hope you enjoy that chief"when giving medication or anything like that but when handing anything to myself or a certain other Native American patient that we have? Yeah the context matters

Ehh, I will say that it's less that but the fact that it's probably better as a white person even if you're right, even if there's an undercurrent of angry mob for the sake of angry which followers her by the nature of being just a woman, it's best to approach with humility when accusations of racism are involved even if you think it's stupid or fake, lol.
*Snip*

It was definitely taking advantage of but the thing is I think it's because the Right knows and exploits the fact that left leaning people have and do acknowledge things that they lean into that a lot more.

Hell you have people here are crucifying people without the allegations being completely put out or of course the general "I never liked them" and then they disappear people. That's a whole other thing that I'm not qualified to go into. Haters ready to hate

Edited for some racial context.

Guy reads like he visits r/TheCinemassacreTruth 

Can't stop the Rolfe.

[jorma]

you can't make this shit up, ppl

norman lear dies, thread is (rightly) praising his incredible career

but lo, a brave soul appears to let you know that john lennon beat his wife if you hadn't heard





and where does this person post after apparently mistaking norman lear with norman mailer (who died like 15 years ago?)

to a thread worried about declining rates of reading skills, of course!



this could be a bit, but i'm not seeing it.

Dammit, I'm sorry for the mix-up re: my last post confusing Lear and Mailer. I've been very sleep-deprived and off my ADHD meds lately.

As for Lear creating Archie Bunker, yeah, we all know Lear intended to make fun of Archie. But just like the creation of Al Bundy, it was a spectacular backfire. Fact is, you provide a platform for a character like that to come on TV every week and spew bigoted garbage, even if the intent is to show him up for a buffoon, bigots in the audience are going to completely overlook the critique and champion the character that gets to broadcast his hateful views weeks after week to millions of people. I have unfortunately known countless Conservatives who hold him up as a hero to this day.

It's the reason why this new movie showcasing a "fictionalized" Donald Trump character is so irresponsible. Chuds won't like the negative angle the movie will no doubt put on him, but they'll be willing to put up with that because it glamorizes their evil God Emperor onscreen, providing him a platform to hit his usual beloved bits.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/norman-lear-tv-legend-dies-at-101.792303/page-2#post-115955847

[Besticus Maximus]

Morrigan is right about something for once

I'm pretty far into the game now (got to the "end" of Alan's part, I'm after the Cynthia boss with Saga) and I struggle to understand the praise. It's not a completely awful game but it's incredibly... blah. It's mediocre as a horror game, it's outright bad as an action game and even worse as a detective game. The story is stupid nonsense and not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, and it's never even scary or even creepy or unsettling at all and I couldn't care less about what happens to any of the characters. Saga case board is just pointless busy work, the combat is mid, Alan's sections are a total slog with the same boring enemies all the time. The UI is atrocious, with the map cursor constantly being out of focus whenever you open it (what the hell is up with that anyway) and the item management being tedious too.

The best part is just the flavour stuff like the brothers' commercials or the old rocker's vest patches and the like.

Control is so, so much better in every way, what a step down from Remedy.

[Water Enjoyer]

It's amazing and sad how these people are so terrified of ideas, characters, or themes getting any sort of media portrayal that they don't approve of. Like, they really do believe the general public is just a movie/tv show away from going full "Heil Hitler." It's silly.

- They thought The Joke movie will cause an incel uprising and movie theaters around the country will be bloodbaths.
- To this day, they still blame South Park for voter apathy and numerous other social ills.
- Any depiction of bare female skin will apparently tun men into sexist bigots at the drop of a hat

I don't have a rich political analysis background to entrench this in, but I feel like once you reach a certain level of political extremism you view everything that isn't overt propaganda for your beliefs as dangerous and in need of immediate correction. Everything needs to be incredibly simplified, black-and-white, and dumbed down to ensure that there's zero possibility of the Wrong Message being sent and activating the Nazi/communist switch built into everyone's brain.

Mostly I just think back to Benji pointing out how many of them appear to have zero faith in the appeal of their own ideology and beliefs and think the only way for them to succeed is to ensure all opposing thought is prevented from reaching a single person.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-ongoing-israel-palestine-conflict-news-thread-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-230#post-115952034

User Banned (5 Days)/Threadban: Inflammatory insinuations towards other members in violation of the staff post

And they still won't acknowledge the fundamental truth in this entire conflict — Palestinian's own right to defend itself from an occupying, apartheid state before, during and after October 7th.

Palestinians have a right to defend themselves, yes, but are you excusing the actions of Hamas on 10/7? Hamas was not defending Palestinians on 10/7.

This guy explicitly said that Palestine has the right to defend itself, specifying that this also includes during October 7th, and when one guy calls him out on it everyone reacts with "whoa there, no one said Hamas, you're mean" and he gets banned. Come the fuck on. Who the hell else are you talking about when you say that Palestine has the right to defend itself during October 7th?

[ClothedMac]

It's amazing and sad how these people are so terrified of ideas, characters, or themes getting any sort of media portrayal that they don't approve of. Like, they really do believe the general public is just a movie/tv show away from going full "Heil Hitler." It's silly.

- They thought The Joke movie will cause an incel uprising and movie theaters around the country will be bloodbaths.
- To this day, they still blame South Park for voter apathy and numerous other social ills.
- Any depiction of bare female skin will apparently tun men into sexist bigots at the drop of a hat

It's funny because those are the same people now saying "non-voting" for Biden is perfectly acceptable and the non-voters should not be shamed but maybe even celebrated. 

Not voting Gore/Bush = Bad
Not voting Biden/Trump = Virtuous

I guess the left views Bush as worse than Trump.  Bush is afterall more centrist

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cfor-every-30-minutes-that-someone-watches-tiktok-every-day-they-become-17-more-antisemitic-more-pro-hamas-%E2%80%9D.792933/

We're not platforming The Blaze. It's not happening. Glen Beck is not welcome here.

OK, I'm sure *checks notes* Glen Beck couldn't wait to sign up to ResetEra.

[Boredfrom]

I'm legitimately happy that so many people across the world are finally taking the plight of the Palestinians seriously. They've been ignored, admonished, and trodden upon for far too long and it's about time the world takes their voices seriously and listens to what is happening to them. In a just world, everyone would be united behind their plight and working in unison to stop the Israeli government and their campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

However, that is not all that is going on as a result of the events that have taken place. Alongside this outpouring of support for the Gazan people, we have had a number of people, both online and in the real world, use these horrific events as a way to push bigotry and hate to new levels and we as a society haven't done enough to call them out on their actions.

On the internet, specifically twitter, we have seen literal neo-nazis and right-wing fascists rise to prominence by pretending to care about the Palestinians and their cause. These people are bigots and don't actually care, they have just decided that they hate jews more than they hate muslims. In addition, there have been far too many people on Twitter willing to downplay Hamas's actions in various ways.

In the real world, we have seen an epidemic of anti-Semetic hate crimes in the west. In New York City alone, bias crimes against jews have gone up almost 300% overnight. Last Friday alone, in a single day, FIFTEEN synogauges in New York City and it's suburbs recieved bomb threats. Exactly a week ago multiple jewish people in the city, people who were just going home from work or the store, got beat up by a single group of teenagers, using the plight of the Palestinians to excuse their hate. All of that, the bomb threats and the attacks, was in the space of two days last week and were just the biggest events that week.

We cannot and should never turn a blind eye to bigotry in any of it's forms. What the government of Israel is going to the people of Gaza is ethnic cleansing. This cannot and should not be denied. It is no different than the actions Milosevic took against the people of Bosnia in the 90's, during the Yugoslav wars. Netenyahu is bombing indiscriminately and with an eye towards exterminating the people of Gaza. He is a war criminal and needs to be not only stopped but prosecuted.

This does not mean we should ignore the bigotry being aimed at Jewish people, and especially Jewish people who have not actually done anything wrong. It is really easy to assume anyone calling antisemitism when discussing this situation is in bad faith because this is the cry that the Israeli government uses to dismiss criticism of their actions, but that is not always the case. We cannot be starting from the assumption that people talking about bigotry come from a place of bad faith because then we become blind to actual hate that has taken place.

All of this is why the entire situation is so fucked up. The government of Israel is engaging in pure bigotry and hate, they are engaging in ethnic cleansing. Jewish people in the west, as a result of bigots hiding in people's legitimate anger, are facing an almost unprecedented amount of hate themselves. This is why the situation is so complicated, we not only have to deal with the bigots doing the violence but the bigots using our anger to hide and the bigots concern trolling about it all.

I guess all I'm really saying is this: being inflammatory feels good but it doesn't help anyone. Assuming others are in bad faith feels good, but it doesn't help anyone. Nothing any of us do in this thread is going to affect anything one way or another, the only things we can affect are each other and we have to remember to be kind to each other at the very least. If you think someone has gone over the line report them. If you think someone is concern trolling, report them. We'll decide who is doing what and we might not always be right, but at the very least you'll all stop alienating each other.

Why is Nepenthe still an Admin?

I also like how he doesn't bother to mention Hamas or October 7. Just like that, one day Netanyahu decided to kill his political career by allowing a massacre just to kill palestines. Great job, BDumbs.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Yeah, okay, B-dubs.. but you contradict your whole post by keeping Nepnep on staff.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

"If you think someone is concern trolling, report them. We'll decide who is doing what and we might not always be right, but at the very least you'll all stop alienating each other."

THE GREAT DECIDER.

[Besticus Maximus]

I really fucking care, honestly I do.

But you fucking tell her she's fired, jesus christ, I'd rather walk into Gaza with a tin opener and take on the IDF myself

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-is-coming-to-the-nintendo-switch-in-2024.792849/

Thread goes exactly as you’d expect. No word from Nep yet. Probably too busy girl bossing at the pharmacy

I find it weird how Harry Potter and Cyberpunk threads get shut down but not threads about this game.

fair response, really shows the balance of power in the mod team given the trans mafia can get 2 games banned and black mafia can't even get one lol

[Snoopy]

The sheer fucking nerve of that dumb fuck using “the internet” and Twitter as a distraction so he can carry on pretending it hasn’t been happening on his website for weeks

[Nintex]

It is no different than the actions Milosevic took against the people of Bosnia in the 90's, during the Yugoslav wars.

He knows the court ruled in favor of Milosevic multiple times right? Mostly putting the blame on Mladic, Serb seperatists and rogue elements of the Serbian security apparatus?

Also the Palestinians have never been able to show any evidence of this 'massacre' even though BBC and other channels would be frothing at the mouth to see images of piles of dead Palestinians. The IDF targetting of militants has been on point and the IDF is taking lots of hostages now that the Hamas soldiers are being flushed out of their tunnels with sea water.

There is no evidence that this war has many more casualties than recent conflicts. In fact, the death toll is probably lower than it is in Ukraine.

[Besticus Maximus]

That not withstanding, it is in fact an entirely different situation than the yugoslav wars

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I really fucking care, honestly I do.

But you fucking tell her she's fired, jesus christ, I'd rather walk into Gaza with a tin opener and take on the IDF myself

Fire Nepnep = Resetera is scorched earth. Thebore laughs for a few days then we have nothing to react to.
Keep Nepnep = We can all continue to laugh.

Nepnep deserves to be fired and B-dubs is a little bitch for skirting around it, but we NEED Nepnep's continued involvement because the Zoo needs its best attraction.

The two Nep solution.  

[Boredfrom]

Netanyahu is scum, and the Israel population is starting to notice how careless is their own military. But I think is important, for your message to come across, that people don’t dismiss or legitimate the October 7th attack. Because it just makes you sound like you don’t want to alienate your pseudo revolutionary social circle of friends rather than want legitimate talks of peace or change.

[Potato]

It is no different than the actions Milosevic took against the people of Bosnia in the 90's, during the Yugoslav wars.

He knows the court ruled in favor of Milosevic multiple times right? Mostly putting the blame on Mladic, Serb seperatists and rogue elements of the Serbian security apparatus?

Also the Palestinians have never been able to show any evidence of this 'massacre' even though BBC and other channels would be frothing at the mouth to see images of piles of dead Palestinians. The IDF targetting of militants has been on point and the IDF is taking lots of hostages now that the Hamas soldiers are being flushed out of their tunnels with sea water.

There is no evidence that this war has many more casualties than recent conflicts. In fact, the death toll is probably lower than it is in Ukraine.

I'm absolutely amazed that any legitimate news organisation is taking casualty numbers from Hamas seriously.

[Nintex]

The best part was when during the truce they kept saying there were multiple groups fighting and Hamas would be blamed even if they weren't responsible. Of course the truce ended with Hamas lobbing dozens of rockets at Israel. 

[Averon]

I'm legitimately happy that so many people across the world are finally taking the plight of the Palestinians seriously. They've been ignored, admonished, and trodden upon for far too long and it's about time the world takes their voices seriously and listens to what is happening to them. In a just world, everyone would be united behind their plight and working in unison to stop the Israeli government and their campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

However, that is not all that is going on as a result of the events that have taken place. Alongside this outpouring of support for the Gazan people, we have had a number of people, both online and in the real world, use these horrific events as a way to push bigotry and hate to new levels and we as a society haven't done enough to call them out on their actions.

On the internet, specifically twitter, we have seen literal neo-nazis and right-wing fascists rise to prominence by pretending to care about the Palestinians and their cause. These people are bigots and don't actually care, they have just decided that they hate jews more than they hate muslims. In addition, there have been far too many people on Twitter willing to downplay Hamas's actions in various ways.

In the real world, we have seen an epidemic of anti-Semetic hate crimes in the west. In New York City alone, bias crimes against jews have gone up almost 300% overnight. Last Friday alone, in a single day, FIFTEEN synogauges in New York City and it's suburbs recieved bomb threats. Exactly a week ago multiple jewish people in the city, people who were just going home from work or the store, got beat up by a single group of teenagers, using the plight of the Palestinians to excuse their hate. All of that, the bomb threats and the attacks, was in the space of two days last week and were just the biggest events that week.

We cannot and should never turn a blind eye to bigotry in any of it's forms. What the government of Israel is going to the people of Gaza is ethnic cleansing. This cannot and should not be denied. It is no different than the actions Milosevic took against the people of Bosnia in the 90's, during the Yugoslav wars. Netenyahu is bombing indiscriminately and with an eye towards exterminating the people of Gaza. He is a war criminal and needs to be not only stopped but prosecuted.

This does not mean we should ignore the bigotry being aimed at Jewish people, and especially Jewish people who have not actually done anything wrong. It is really easy to assume anyone calling antisemitism when discussing this situation is in bad faith because this is the cry that the Israeli government uses to dismiss criticism of their actions, but that is not always the case. We cannot be starting from the assumption that people talking about bigotry come from a place of bad faith because then we become blind to actual hate that has taken place.

All of this is why the entire situation is so fucked up. The government of Israel is engaging in pure bigotry and hate, they are engaging in ethnic cleansing. Jewish people in the west, as a result of bigots hiding in people's legitimate anger, are facing an almost unprecedented amount of hate themselves. This is why the situation is so complicated, we not only have to deal with the bigots doing the violence but the bigots using our anger to hide and the bigots concern trolling about it all.

I guess all I'm really saying is this: being inflammatory feels good but it doesn't help anyone. Assuming others are in bad faith feels good, but it doesn't help anyone. Nothing any of us do in this thread is going to affect anything one way or another, the only things we can affect are each other and we have to remember to be kind to each other at the very least. If you think someone has gone over the line report them. If you think someone is concern trolling, report them. We'll decide who is doing what and we might not always be right, but at the very least you'll all stop alienating each other.

As long as Nep's is on staff, all that bullshit above should fall on deaf ears. Just fuck off, B-Dubs.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-ongoing-israel-palestine-conflict-news-thread-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-230#post-115952034

User Banned (5 Days)/Threadban: Inflammatory insinuations towards other members in violation of the staff post

And they still won't acknowledge the fundamental truth in this entire conflict — Palestinian's own right to defend itself from an occupying, apartheid state before, during and after October 7th.

Palestinians have a right to defend themselves, yes, but are you excusing the actions of Hamas on 10/7? Hamas was not defending Palestinians on 10/7.

Unbanned.

[Daffy Duck]

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Of fucking course they're already fantasizing that the GTA 6 girl could be bisexual

I'm wondering if there will be any romantic choice like there has kinda been with dates in past games. Would be great to see Lucia controlled during the hetero romantic scenes/missions though for that often unseen type of rep (even if it's not to my proclivities). Would be sad if they put in a choice to opt out of that, but shamelessly admit I would be happy to have her date a woman if it's a possibility.

I feel like there's no way there won't be a betrayal. So if she's bi... but it's Rockstar Games.

Yeah no, I don't want them touching queer women with a ten foot pole. Even with Dan Houser gone, can't trust the rest of them lot.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/post-115875306

Yeah, this is totally about representation and not a fetish thing.

She could be trans, I mean the trailer is adorned in pink and blue

[Uncle]

she won't be trans, that implies trans people are of the type to go ballistic and mow down citizens and rob banks and generally make themselves a menace 2 society

also if the story involves suffering of any kind, don't trans people suffer enough, that you would subject them to such evils even in a video game, isn't the real world difficult enough for them already without being tortured virtually for everyone's amusement

[Daffy Duck]

You make a good point

[kaleidoscopium]

Ok so, just casually putting it out there like with other game show threads.

PLEASE do not feel the need to tell the class about how much you hate hiphop/rap when they show up in trailers. 🙏

Ever since posters have been pointing out why that's pretty offensive there's been a downward trend of that happening so let's keep continuing that downward trend.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-game-awards-2023-ot-where-gta-geoff-trailers-awards.792075/page-14#post-115972530