Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

That doesn't even make sense.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-sie-is-laying-off-around-900-people-from-multiple-studios-london-studio-closing-twisted-metal-live-service-game-cancelled-firesprite.821697/page-19?post=119778111#post-119778111

User Banned (3 Days): Accusations of Shilling

If you want to place blame anywhere, blame capitalism, and the never ending need for growth and profit or this will just keep happening, the hydra that is captialism will just sprout new heads.

Instead of posting a long message here, take the time to look into your local politics, inform yourself about who's pushing for more socialist policies, who'll help push change that'll make sure people like these have social safety nets for when the next round of layoffs hit.

There's a lot of national elections coming up this year, get out and use your vote!

Big "Don´t blame my favourite company they had to do it" energy yikes

And telling people not to post here? Are you actually a shill trying to get people not to discuss here?

[Ribosome]

Interesting how the fringe far-left online communities that Aaron Bushnell was radicalized in before immolating himself sound extremely similar to content that is posted daily on ResetEra.

[Taco Bell Tower]

DragonSJG has been logging in since the day he got permanent banned.  Ree must really mean so much for him to check if the admins are giving him mercy.

[Boredfrom]

If you want to place blame anywhere, blame capitalism, and the never ending need for growth and profit or this will just keep happening, the hydra that is captialism will just sprout new heads.

Instead of posting a long message here, take the time to look into your local politics, inform yourself about who's pushing for more socialist policies, who'll help push change that'll make sure people like these have social safety nets for when the next round of layoffs hit.

There's a lot of national elections coming up this year, get out and use your vote!

“Become a socialist so video game layoffs are less severe”.

I feel video games, as a hobby, is incompatible with Socialism.

[Taco Bell Tower]

If you want to place blame anywhere, blame capitalism, and the never ending need for growth and profit or this will just keep happening, the hydra that is captialism will just sprout new heads.

Instead of posting a long message here, take the time to look into your local politics, inform yourself about who's pushing for more socialist policies, who'll help push change that'll make sure people like these have social safety nets for when the next round of layoffs hit.

There's a lot of national elections coming up this year, get out and use your vote!

“Become a socialist so video game layoffs are less severe”.

I feel video games, as a hobby, is incompatible with Socialism.

I appreciate the optimism, but voting away a corporate control of a Japanese megacorp in your local elections is a bit overly optimistic to say the least lol

Voting to make sure people in your country have actual safety nets when companies fuck them over isn't optimistic, it should be basic human rights

Same user

[Chumbawumbafan69]

Pretty wild that someone admitted to frequently having thoughts about hurting children which was then just swept under the rug by the mods and everyone else in that thread. 

What a fun gaming forum.

[Besticus Maximus]

Infinite growth is bad and if we're being real, nobody who has ever did a thought crime should ever have a job or even be allowed to live 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

The American political system hasn't worked anything like that for decades. It's Left vs Right. Us vs Them. The times where a candidate won based on promises is long past. The only thing that matters is which party you are apart of. The Dems vote for the Democratic candidate and the Republicans vote for the Republican candidate.


Each candidate could promise a dozen different things and they could fail on each and every one of them. They would still get the majority of their parties votes from the average voter in the next election by virtue of their political affiliation because they are apart of their respective teams and the other team cannot be allowed to win.


It is bleak. It sucks. It's not fair. That's just where we have been now for quite a long damn time. Politics in America is not about promises for most people. It's about teams. Especially for the Right at the moment who cares only to "own the libs". Meanwhile the Left is just desperately hanging on hoping that Trump doesn't win and collapse society. Biden's promises are irrelevant to most compared to that prospect.

Except if your team is third party. Then you're "Wasting your vote" and "Letting Trump win".

[NekoFever]

They misconstrued what I said in a very anti-Jewish light, which is not at all what I'm saying.

Do they don’t understand why is antisemitic? or they just pretend that they don’t understand?

It must suck to try to argue with extremists who will deliberately misconstrue whatever you say in the least charitable way possible in order to denounce you.

[Boredfrom]

Voting to make sure people in your country have actual safety nets when companies fuck them over isn't optimistic, it should be basic human rights

I’m all for better labor laws and safety nets in general. I just found is pretty dishonest to mix this with the usual “fuck capitalism” screed that the online left loves so much. Video games is pretty much a capitalist enterprise, a lot of people can just afford two 60 dollar games at year, is a luxury product that is not cheap to make (it was not cheap to make 20 years ago) and the biggest players are entertainment or tech conglomerates.

Is such a fucking fake ass discourse enter a layoff thread and scream “IT IS THE HYDRA OF CAPITALISM”. Layoffs suck and people should shit on big corpos and CEOs… but get a fucking grip when you blame the economic system that made your favorite hobby possible.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/humpback-sex-photographed-for-first-time-–-and-both-whales-were-male.822240/page-3

And straights, I want to point out for you, just so you know…

Every time you swim in the ocean…

You’re swimming in gay whale sex juice.

Under capitalism, that gay whale sex juice will be glorified for health benefits and commodified until there will be mechanisms to enforce gay sex among humpback whales to keep extracting that sweet sweet sex juice 🥲

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Gargling cum is peak comedy!

[Boredfrom]

Under capitalism, that gay whale sex juice will be glorified for health benefits and commodified until there will be mechanisms to enforce gay sex among humpback whales to keep extracting that sweet sweet sex juice 🥲

[HaughtyFrank]

I'm trans, my wife is trans, a few of my best friends are trans....trans people across the country will be done if Trump wins. If it comes down to this, idk what to really even say then. Like we are the point of fighting for individual genocides then I guess.

Actual Palestinians are dying. Trans folks being told to shut the fuck up isn't a genocide.

These are not equal. 

it's a horrifying thought, but the intersections of late stage capitalism kinda bring us here

They're just randomly saying capitalism and think it means something

[Eric Cartman]

why yes, ambergris is worth thousands of dollars per ounce, accidental knowledge sharers on retardera dot com

[Eric Cartman]

This is always the part left out by the people arguing against companies who take action to protect their IP. If this was about preservation, why the need to have current gen machines emulated? 

Because it's stupid to start preserving things only after companies abandon them.

Plus there's the fact that emulation is not an IP violation. Nor should it be.

These companies have shown every single time that they don't care about preservation even when it benefits them. Why should we wait when they don't even do the minimum?

why have you got me defending nintendo?
Its pretty clear they DO give a shit about preservation, because they reheat all their frozen franchises every decade or so to serve up to a new audience to see if they can pad it out into a new meal, they can drop games nobody even knew had been made when they feel like (like Starfox 2 on their mini SNES thing) and when they get hacked people got full source code for Zelda OoT and SM64 to make their own ports of.

Note that preserving something doesn't mean giving everyone on the planet access to a free copy of their own.

[Boredfrom]

why have you got me defending nintendo?

Nobody is making you.

Nintendo cares in the cynical Disney’s vault way and is clear the Virtual Console initiative has been transformed in subscription bait or limited products.

Yes, is awesome that they released StatFox 2… is too bad is tied to a subscription service or a limited and discontinued mini console. 

I’m sorry that I’m distrusting Nintendo after stuff like Super Mario 3D All Stars or the limited (  ) digital release of Fire Emblem NES.

[Besticus Maximus]

Native 2spirit folk killing whales for woo woo reasons actually rules, some of you have zero hunting gathering literacy

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/humpback-sex-photographed-for-first-time-–-and-both-whales-were-male.822240/page-3

And straights, I want to point out for you, just so you know…

Every time you swim in the ocean…

You’re swimming in gay whale sex juice.

Under capitalism, that gay whale sex juice will be glorified for health benefits and commodified until there will be mechanisms to enforce gay sex among humpback whales to keep extracting that sweet sweet sex juice 🥲

Royalan is the authority on gay whales.

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

But not having sex

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-sie-is-laying-off-around-900-people-from-multiple-studios-london-studio-closing-twisted-metal-live-service-game-cancelled-firesprite.821697/page-19?post=119778111#post-119778111

User Banned (3 Days): Accusations of Shilling

If you want to place blame anywhere, blame capitalism, and the never ending need for growth and profit or this will just keep happening, the hydra that is captialism will just sprout new heads.

Instead of posting a long message here, take the time to look into your local politics, inform yourself about who's pushing for more socialist policies, who'll help push change that'll make sure people like these have social safety nets for when the next round of layoffs hit.

There's a lot of national elections coming up this year, get out and use your vote!

Big "Don´t blame my favourite company they had to do it" energy yikes

And telling people not to post here? Are you actually a shill trying to get people not to discuss here?

I'm sure this type of ban will be applied evenly across all of the different layoff threads.

[Potato]

The American political system hasn't worked anything like that for decades. It's Left vs Right. Us vs Them. The times where a candidate won based on promises is long past. The only thing that matters is which party you are apart of. The Dems vote for the Democratic candidate and the Republicans vote for the Republican candidate.


Each candidate could promise a dozen different things and they could fail on each and every one of them. They would still get the majority of their parties votes from the average voter in the next election by virtue of their political affiliation because they are apart of their respective teams and the other team cannot be allowed to win.


It is bleak. It sucks. It's not fair. That's just where we have been now for quite a long damn time. Politics in America is not about promises for most people. It's about teams. Especially for the Right at the moment who cares only to "own the libs". Meanwhile the Left is just desperately hanging on hoping that Trump doesn't win and collapse society. Biden's promises are irrelevant to most compared to that prospect.

Except if your team is third party. Then you're "Wasting your vote" and "Letting Trump win".

These people can't conceive of a section of the community that might not be politically affiliated or brainwashed and votes according to which of the candidates has the stated policies that might resonate with them the most.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/humpback-sex-photographed-for-first-time-–-and-both-whales-were-male.822240/page-3

And straights, I want to point out for you, just so you know…

Every time you swim in the ocean…

You’re swimming in gay whale sex juice.

Under capitalism, that gay whale sex juice will be glorified for health benefits and commodified until there will be mechanisms to enforce gay sex among humpback whales to keep extracting that sweet sweet sex juice 🥲

Soooooooo, we've never witnessed sexual activity between humpback whales, but now that we've seen two males with their cocks out, we're convinced they were fucking?

[malfoyking]

why was DragonSJG perma banned? Even zeo was banned not too long ago

Also, I get dunking on era is the point of this place. Let's not pretend that if Trump wins, he and his people won't do Project 2025. this is not the first time they have brought this up before.

[HaughtyFrank]

why was DragonSJG perma banned? Even zeo was banned not too long ago

Too lazy to find the post but he dared to tell B-dubs that he's dismissing concerns over the Palestine genocide and was then banned for "inflammatory accusations."

Feel kind of bad for the guy because he seems to have a pretty big fixation on Era and while he made pointless threads I'll take that over depressed bozos like planetsmasher

[wsippel]

“Become a socialist so video game layoffs are less severe”.

I feel video games, as a hobby, is incompatible with Socialism.

There was a single sanctioned (and government-owned) video game publisher in the German Democratic Republic. They paid developers 50 Ostmark per game, flat. No royalties, either. To put that into perspective, a KC 85/3, the most common microcomputer used to develop and play those games, was 4,300 Ostmark (three times the average monthly income in 1989). But I guess it's true, there have never been any mass layoffs in the East German video game industry, at least.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/allyship-most-of-the-time-feels-like-a-lie.822477/

I feel like most of the time I see someone calling themselves an ally to a marginalized group, my first though is to doubt their being genuine and I hate that. That they will claim they will support a group, but the moment that support is needed, they will abandon them or turn against them and show their true colours.

The movement women criticize sexualization and objectification in media or fandom, especially when it comes to popular comics and video games, most of that allyship suddenly goes away and people will go out of their way to defend it at treat us as killjoys or talk down to us. Fuck me the way comic fans go apeshit if you suggest or when artists have attempted to cover up Power Girl's boob hole or fighting game or RPG fans when it's suggested women should be less objectified.

Same with representation in genres, Shonen being a big example of this for me because men will just lie to your face to keep the status quo and will just pretend women don't read shonen manga (despite the statistics that show not only do we do, we represent around 50% of the readership) because they really don't want more women leads, don't want their favourite creators and editors called out on their blatant misogyny and blocking women writers, don't want women treated with more respect, don't want to acknowledge their not the only fans. Same with video games, fantasy etc.

People will claim they support women being independent, having bodily autonomy and able to call out abuse, but the moment an article pops up about low fertility rates in a country or a popular performer is accused of harassing/abuse a woman that all suddenly goes out the window and we're blamed for societies ills, that we should shut up and have babies and if we don't want to we're just bad people who are selfish and cowardly or we're suddenly now not meant to believe potential victims or now Feminism has gone too far etc.

And for me, shit like really stings being Trans. I will never be able to give birth to Children and unless thing suddenly get REALLY better in the UK, will never be able to adopt or come out publicly as a woman outside of places online where I can be with close friends or places like here where I can be openly trans thanks to having a anonymous username. Guess I'm a waist of space in these people's eyes. I'm already aware how little the word of trans "allies" really means, aka, jack shit. I've seen time and again that people happily say "Fuck Rowling" or say they support trans people, but the moment they actually have to do something other than empty platitudes, they'll vanish and look from afar as the media, governments and giant personalities make it clear they want us dead and will happily take away our rights to exist.

Same with mental health, oh people will say they care and support, but will then happily use us as the scapegoats for mass shooting in the US, use Autism as slur against incels, transphobes, bigots and other horrible people (like thanks, really nice to know you think I'm no better than the scum that want me dead) or dismiss anything you say, make it clear they think your experiences are less valid because they know something who's autistic or a family member and will weaponize them against you and to talk over you. Or say they support you but the moment you turn your back on them, their mocking your autism and make it VERY clear what they think about you and other people on the Autistic spectrum.

And bisexuality is so frustrating because it feels so many "allies" don't get why it's so infuriating seeing bi-erasure in media and real-life like if a bi-women marries or dates a man, their suddenly considered straight or a straight couple; they'll shrug their shoulders and act like nothings the issue.

It really feels like a lot of the time "Allyship" for many people is just a word to make themselves feel good, that they can feel good about supporting women without actually doing anything to actually help and supporting women, or trans people, POC etc; wanting the admiration without any of the work. To me, if you truly want to be a ally, DO SOMETHING, don't just say you will, even if it's just a simply of not talking over the people your allying with, signing petitions, not supporting well known bigots through views, merch, tell others etc. Actually listen to what people you want to ally with are saying and remember that not everyone in those communities are going to agree so don't butt into internal debates and arguments.

They finally realizing all these "allies" are fake virtue signalers

But also a whole lot of ME ME ME ME ME ME!!! 
"Why won't you listen to me and bend to my every whim, 'allies'"!!!!

Edit: 
They made it members only, so here's a screenshot of the OP:

[Lonewulfeus]

Resetera in a nutshell, we’ve been saying that for years

[Uncle]

why have you got me defending nintendo?
Its pretty clear they DO give a shit about preservation, because they reheat all their frozen franchises every decade or so to serve up to a new audience to see if they can pad it out into a new meal, they can drop games nobody even knew had been made when they feel like (like Starfox 2 on their mini SNES thing) and when they get hacked people got full source code for Zelda OoT and SM64 to make their own ports of.

Note that preserving something doesn't mean giving everyone on the planet access to a free copy of their own.

almost two decades of their handhelds (2004 to 2020 end of 3DS production) they've more or less said "huh well the two screen thing was a weird concept, we can't really port those thousands of games to anything else due to the form factor and touch reliance, oh well"

[Snoopy]

"And for me, shit like really stings being Trans. I will never be able to give birth to Children and unless thing suddenly get REALLY better in the UK, will never be able to adopt"

I'm sick of ree and their never ending, lying, manipulative bullshit. Trans have exactly the same legal adoption rights as everyone else in the UK.