Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-did-dc-fumbles-it-movie-universe-so-badly.733560/

I think they are forgetting that the only other semi successful Cinematic Universe has been… Monsterverse.

But they totally don’t have a hate bonner.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/titanic-tourist-sub-goes-missing-sparking-search.732486/page-35#post-107776713

i can't stop imagining an accident happening because they forgot to charge the gamepad properly.. like it was supposed to be charging but the cord wasn't properly attached so the battery had just drained to almost empty... and the dude controlling the sub realizes that when they're already half-way down there, suddenly in freefall, and has to tell the others they're gonna die because the usb cord was a bit loose earlier in the day when he left it charging.

arghhh oh god why does my mind go to such places.. maybe because i can so easily something like that happening to me, because i can be very careless.

This is why replaceable batteries are a good idea.

[DocWager]

Are people forgetting Final Fantasy The Spirits Within starring Not Sandra Bullock, and Not Ben Affleck?

[Boredfrom]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/titanic-tourist-sub-goes-missing-sparking-search.732486/page-35#post-107776713

i can't stop imagining an accident happening because they forgot to charge the gamepad properly.. like it was supposed to be charging but the cord wasn't properly attached so the battery had just drained to almost empty... and the dude controlling the sub realizes that when they're already half-way down there, suddenly in freefall, and has to tell the others they're gonna die because the usb cord was a bit loose earlier in the day when he left it charging.

arghhh oh god why does my mind go to such places.. maybe because i can so easily something like that happening to me, because i can be very careless.

This is why replaceable batteries are a good idea.

Dude is totally trolling.

[HaughtyFrank]

I'm pleasantly surprised this didn't get a 90+. More reviewers should call them out for the lack of non-white people and the terrible treatment of the few female characters in the game.

Hopefully Square Enix will finally get out of their edgelord boys club phase with FF XVII in 2028 or so. Maybe next time women will be allowed to do *something* besides being abused and rescued by the main white male character. Perhaps a woman could even be the next FF protagonist. Can you imagine it?

Anyway, I guess I will keep waiting for FF VII Rebirth in the meantime. I can't believe a 1997 game is more diverse than a 2023 game, but here we are.

Again: Trolling or not self aware?

Lightning: Am I a joke to you?

It's all so dumb. For over half a decade Final Fantasy was exclusively female led and RE didn't give a shit.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_fish

Presumably they can tell the difference.

[NekoFever]

Slavery is a huge plot point in Final Fantasy 16. 'Bearers', humans that can use magic without the help of crystals, don't have human rights in Valisthea and they're mostly used as tools. The game makes a point of showing the extensive mistreatment of Bearers. The thing about Bearers that made me a bit uncomfortable is that Square Enix seems to have borrowed from slavery in the United States specifically. Obviously, slavery as a whole has existed for thousands of years but I would argue the writers were inspired by black history.

This is a game were NPC's spit out the word 'bearer' any time they see one. It's also a game that has characters hunting bearers with dogs and it even has some lynching. The game also shows that the bigotry is far worse in rural towns than in the cities. All that together with the specific high medieval time period makes for some unfortunate parallels. I am by no means stating that bearers are completely analogous to black slaves, but I'm also fairly sure that if the game did feature black bearers in some of these situations clips of it would have gone viral.

The thing about Bearers that made me a bit uncomfortable is that Square Enix seems to have borrowed from slavery in the United States specifically.

All that together with the specific high medieval time period makes for some unfortunate parallels.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/got-a-job-offer-that-will-take-me-from-the-us-to-the-uk-and-im-scared-advice-tips-tricks.733491/page-2#post-107772810

For god's sake if you're not cis don't come here. If you want to place the UK somewhere on the spectrum of "bad for trans people" in terms of US states, it's up there with Florida or Texas. Just... Don't. It's not worth it.

We don't have a functioning healthcare service at all, we get paid less, the quality of literally everything is getting worse by the week, and there's no reason to believe it will get better in the years to come.

Unless it's the dream job of a lifetime that will skyrocket your career advancement, I would stay far FAR away from the UK.

Not going to lie, it was hard not to have this as my reaction as well. Especially as a lot of us are currently sat on a perpetual concern over being forced to leave the country if we wish to continue living as ourselves.

[Uncle]

yoshi p could've just honestly said "we want to explore some themes of serious social strife and adding in other ethnicities muddies the water"

if you have slaves and black people are among the slaves then you're either reopening that wound for cheap fantasy drama, or not properly showing the horrors of how bad real slavery was so you're downplaying it

if you have slaves and black people are among the oppressors then you done fucked up

if you have slaves and black people are somewhere in the story far removed from that, people will still ask why you didn't portray them doing more to stop the slavery



basically you can choose to make a creative work with an oppressed people in it, or you can choose to make one with diverse ethnicities, but not both

[MJBarret]

"Why does that painting have no black people?!"

"Uh, it's a self portrait."

*gets dragged away in shackles*

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/reddit-is-about-to-kill-third-party-apps-their-pricing-is-nuts-apollo-would-owe-reddit-20m-yearly-in-api-fees-up-apollo-shutting-down-6-30.725013/page-60#post-107783085

Just feels so much like a pissy forum admin throwing a tantrum when called out on his [her] behavior, assuming everyone who disagrees is wrong and that users are on his [her] side.

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/persona-5-tactica-pre-orders-and-achievements-now-live-59-99-and-89-99-dlc-includes-akechi-kasumi-more.733413/#post-107753772

User banned (duration pending admin review): Continued antagonistic behavior over multiple posts, long history of similar behavior

your being needlessy aggressive over some benign comment. i remember you acting simialry in the p3r thread. maybe go outside and breath some fresh air to chill you out atlus faithful

did the person with an Atlus avatar just call me - a person who posted about not playing/finishing a lot of Atlus games just a few days ago - an Atlus faithful

if your approach to shitty posting is to deflect it back on the other person I gotta tell you that's not the finest approach

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/were-mai-and-ty-lee-genuine-friends-to-azula.732324/#post-107592348

User Banned (2 Month): Misogynistic Boys Club Behavior; Prior Ban for Sexual Objectification

For sure. Best buddies. Mai only turned on Azula cuz she was dickmatized

[Boredfrom]

Double funny because you could also argue that the Reddit mods are the same given that everyone seems to not give a shit about API or Spez opinions in either direction.

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/super-mario-bros-wonder-announced-2d-mario-game-launching-october-20.733377/page-19#post-107778579

So, I've gotten the permission and I can finally announce that I, Birdie---or my real name, Thomas Butterson, am the one who was cast by Nintendo to provide the talking flower you see in the trailer. His name is  Wordswort and there's more to him than meets the eye...or ear, as it may be.

Working with Miyamoto-san even in such a small capacity was a blessed experience. This is my first acting role in a major product, and I hope you'll cheer me on to do my best.

Honestly, Birdie’s autism is so big that this could be either an unfunny shitpost or he got a VA work and just doxxed himself.

Also, take note of the guys that believe him immediately…

[Uncle]

there would be no publicly available credits for the game yet, and if tommy butters shows up in the credits of the final game, well then

[HaughtyFrank]

yoshi p could've just honestly said "we want to explore some themes of serious social strife and adding in other ethnicities muddies the water"

if you have slaves and black people are among the slaves then you're either reopening that wound for cheap fantasy drama, or not properly showing the horrors of how bad real slavery was so you're downplaying it

if you have slaves and black people are among the oppressors then you done fucked up

if you have slaves and black people are somewhere in the story far removed from that, people will still ask why you didn't portray them doing more to stop the slavery



basically you can choose to make a creative work with an oppressed people in it, or you can choose to make one with diverse ethnicities, but not both

Funny thing, that was basically one of his arguments

Conversely, the Final Fantasy series of games have always inherently dealt with conflict and struggle, especially between the empowered and those used and/or exploited by those privileged few — a prominent trend in human history. In a game that, by design, allows players to experience that conflict and struggle first- hand through dynamic, realistic battles, it can be challenging to assign distinctive ethnicities to either antagonist or protagonist without triggering audience preconceptions, inviting unwarranted speculation, and ultimately stoking flames of controversy. The best part of pulling inspiration directly from history, however, is that it allows us to revisit and re-examine our own pasts, while also allowing us to create something new.

In the end, we simply want the focus to be less on the outward appearance of our characters and more on who they are as people — people who are complex and diverse in their natures, backgrounds, beliefs, personalities, and motivations. People whose stories we can resonate with. There is diversity in Valisthea. Diversity that, while not all-encompassing, is synergistic with the setting we’ve created and is true to the inspirations from which we are drawing.

https://www.ign.com/articles/final-fantasy-16-square-enix-interview-lore

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/secret-invasions-opening-credits-were-made-using-ai.733266/page-6#post-107785467

You know it's bad when MovieBob rushes to its defense like he does for any criticism of the MCU.

https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1671476571125829636

AHHHH, he deleted the tweets, but here's what he said. Lad seems to take any criticism of the MCU as being in bad faith.



That ratio, man.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/secret-invasions-opening-credits-were-made-using-ai.733266/page-6#post-107786838

Holy crud, this dude stinks.

I always thought he was an arrogant know-it-all

https://www.resetera.com/threads/secret-invasions-opening-credits-were-made-using-ai.733266/page-6#post-107787297

Moviebob is a fucking blight. Just a totally insufferable windbag who thinks way too highly of himself. Also, it's fucking rich that he said this garbage while having a "WGA Solidarity" to his twitter profile, lol. What a fraud.

[Boredfrom]

Why the fuck they care about what MovieBob thinks?

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/persona-5-tactica-pre-orders-and-achievements-now-live-59-99-and-89-99-dlc-includes-akechi-kasumi-more.733413/#post-107753772

User banned (duration pending admin review): Continued antagonistic behavior over multiple posts, long history of similar behavior

your being needlessy aggressive over some benign comment. i remember you acting simialry in the p3r thread. maybe go outside and breath some fresh air to chill you out atlus faithful

did the person with an Atlus avatar just call me - a person who posted about not playing/finishing a lot of Atlus games just a few days ago - an Atlus faithful

if your approach to shitty posting is to deflect it back on the other person I gotta tell you that's not the finest approach

that poster is a really annoying overly aggressive cunt. jigglesbunny needs to go next, his posts are the exact same flavor of stupid.

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/got-a-job-offer-that-will-take-me-from-the-us-to-the-uk-and-im-scared-advice-tips-tricks.733491/page-2#post-107772810

For god's sake if you're not cis don't come here. If you want to place the UK somewhere on the spectrum of "bad for trans people" in terms of US states, it's up there with Florida or Texas. Just... Don't. It's not worth it.

We don't have a functioning healthcare service at all, we get paid less, the quality of literally everything is getting worse by the week, and there's no reason to believe it will get better in the years to come.

Unless it's the dream job of a lifetime that will skyrocket your career advancement, I would stay far FAR away from the UK.

Not going to lie, it was hard not to have this as my reaction as well. Especially as a lot of us are currently sat on a perpetual concern over being forced to leave the country if we wish to continue living as ourselves.

I guess I missed the part where they removed their rights to vote, own property, work, or marry. Funny, I figured we would have heard about those, but nope. RIGHT to expatriation.

And yes, its a real fear! Like the genocide!

[Besticus Maximus]

That MovieBob fellow has entered my sphere of conscience recently and every single time it's some cunt reposting some drivel that cunt wrote on twitter like it's a manual on multiple orgasms for men written by aliens, unearthed from a tomb this very day

[Snoopy]

Forced to leave the country. Lol. Shut up. 

The only thing Kyuuji is sat on is perpetual bullshit

[BIONIC]

I would like a list of 10 countries that have better trans rights than the UK. I’ll wait.

[Straight Edge]

I would like a list of 10 countries that have better trans rights than the UK. I’ll wait.

Transylvania 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/titanic-tourist-sub-goes-missing-sparking-search.732486/page-39#post-107790996

Someone wanna explain to me why Morning in America has an "Air Runs Out" timer in the bottom right?

That seems...exceedingly dark

Wow can't believe they'd sink this low

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-did-dc-fumbles-it-movie-universe-so-badly.733560/

I think they are forgetting that the only other semi successful Cinematic Universe has been… Monsterverse.

But they totally don’t have a hate bonner.

By rushing out a universe in their attempt to copy Marvel but anyone could've told them that was a bad idea so I'm not sure what these decision making execs are getting paid for

[Taco Bell Tower]

Double funny because you could also argue that the Reddit mods are the same given that everyone seems to not give a shit about API or Spez opinions in either direction.

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/super-mario-bros-wonder-announced-2d-mario-game-launching-october-20.733377/page-19#post-107778579

So, I've gotten the permission and I can finally announce that I, Birdie---or my real name, Thomas Butterson, am the one who was cast by Nintendo to provide the talking flower you see in the trailer. His name is  Wordswort and there's more to him than meets the eye...or ear, as it may be.

Working with Miyamoto-san even in such a small capacity was a blessed experience. This is my first acting role in a major product, and I hope you'll cheer me on to do my best.

Honestly, Birdie’s autism is so big that this could be either an unfunny shitpost or he got a VA work and just doxxed himself.

Also, take note of the guys that believe him immediately…

His edit

This was an ill-advised joke post. The flower is weird

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/will-you-boycott-final-fantasy-16-due-to-the-lack-of-diversity-minority-characters.731853/page-6#post-107529903

User Banned (2 Months): Dismissing Concerns of Representation and Inflammatory Commentary

It's a Japanese game why should they have to be forced to shoehorn in diversity. Let people make the games they want to make.

[books]

  This is likely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me, and my partner is fully onboard, so odds are good I'll accept the offer.

Sounds like great news so of course these crabs want to drag dude down with negativity. Why even bother asking these sad sacks for their opinion.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/titanic-tourist-sub-goes-missing-sparking-search.732486/page-39#post-107792700

It is pretty telling of this board that any talk about these billionaire dumbasses was immediately stopped. When migrants die all the time trying to travel and it's not covered at all. People just trying to get a better life die while mods here are pining over how we need be kind to dead billionaires for discussion reasons. I'm fine with a ban ya'll are fucking goofy.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/titanic-tourist-sub-goes-missing-sparking-search.732486/page-40#post-107793717

what are you trying to say?

It's an interesting news story but I find the moderation about criticizing billionaires is odd. This isn't the 18 year old jumping off a boat story and people were shitting on that dude with no remorse. It's odd to have such strict moderation over talking points on this subject because it's just "rude" or some shit when we are talking about billionaires. This level of respect is never given to anyone else.