Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Polident]

I really wonder how the new Assassin's creed will go over. To make one of the main characters Yasuke certainly feels like a choice that could be interesting or end up incredibly pandering.

Granted I haven’t played all the games, especially recently, but you’re usually playing a fictional character interacting with real historic figures? So I don’t think you’re playing as Yasuke. Probably some character inspired by him. Like how Shogun is inspired by Williams Adams and Last Samurai by Jules Brunet. 

If it’s kind of weird, it’s because Yasuke is only notable for being there. He didn’t really do anything. For better or worse the fiction and myth superseded the history. Assassin’s Creed used to respect history. Like when Italian Zorro fought the Pope with the help of Da Vinci.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/live-action-r-rated-%E2%80%98teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-last-ronin%E2%80%99-movie-in-the-works-from-producer-walter-hamada.841713/?post=121569408#post-121569408

Sounds like a terrible idea. Why would they purposely eliminate their core audience

I'll still watch it

35-45 year olds?

entremet

Live action is wack.

But I guess animation is "too kiddy" for films. Even though we've made great progress on the TV front.

Animation is just going to win on expressiveness and visual variety.

Does the ChatGPT know where it's posting at?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/operation-prosperity-guardian-to-protect-red-sea-shipping.796164/page-12?post=121317672#post-121317672

User banned (1 month): trolling about a bigoted terrorist group

Aren't the Houthi a bit more of the good guys here? :d

They said they're doing it in support of Palestine and will keep doing it until Israel stops its genocide there.

Apologise in advance if i'm being an idiot here

I can excuse terrorism but I draw the line at bigoted terrorism!

They banned the guy for asking a question in honest confusion from the ad hoc nature of the forum's principles?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nytimes-grifters-and-bigots-riding-rage-over-israel-to-online-prominence.842133/

In honestly, I was a bit surprised to see this grifter/bigot get written about in a major newspaper like this. People like him have been taking advantage of people's anger in the wake of the Gaza invasion, taking their anger and not only enriching themselves but attempting to create a new version of the alt right pipeline and grow support for fascists and authoritarians both abroad and at home.

Hinkle is far from the only one doing this, he's just the most masks off about it. There's dozens and dozens of these assholes all over social media, all of them dressing themselves up in the rhetoric of the left, pretending to take up legitimate causes, in order to push people more toward the assholes of the world.

What I'm saying is this: for the love of god, don't just believe everything you see on social media. These influencers are not your friends and we shouldn't be uncritically sharing their bullshit and we shouldn't be following these sorts of people.

I thought about sharing it this morning when I saw the article, but I held off because I figured it might start a stupid fight or that people would just straight up ignore it or try and defend the asshole. Then I realized that not everyone is savvy enough to realize that assholes like this are grifters or trying to pipeline people into supporting fascism.

Seriously, be careful with who you follow or share on social media. These fuckfaces are all over the damn place.

Hinkle isn't trying to "pipeline" people into fascism because that's not a thing, he's trying to make money and get attention.

It's not a "grift" if the person is serious about it.

B-Chuds really hates Turdinson

I need a multi-page dossier about this.

You'd think they would like the Joker because it's literally the type of thing they advocate on a daily basis.

The ruling class gut social services and healthcare in favor of their own capitalist goals, denying people their medicine. Grifters prey on the weak for views and entertainment and eventually the Joker gets the people to rise up and enact his revenge.

Joker was always the "burn it all down" anarchist seeking to uplift the poor and take down the system and Batman the conservative that is blind to the capitalist and political corruption that creates the violent criminals in the first place.

[benji]

And you guys claim ResetERA.com isn't down with the kids:

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Really isn't a good look for moderation. Thordinson is a target of PoliEra and any reports issued against them should be scrutinized. We don't want to start supporting genocide denying terrorists, right?

#JusticeForThordinson

[Potato]

And you guys claim ResetERA.com isn't down with the kids:

Oh that shit is rich. How long will it take to undo Trump's damage once he's gone in 4 years? How much more damage is he going to do to her abortion rights in the meantime? What if he stacks the Supreme Court even more?

Fucking retards being led up the garden path by foreign government bot accounts on twatter...

[books]

The folks getting banned are just regular 9-5 folks who decided to join a vidyagme forum to get some news and shit post and they end up not knowing about the hidden rules made by terminally online Ree prominent posters.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

And you guys claim ResetERA.com isn't down with the kids:

Oh that shit is rich. How long will it take to undo Trump's damage once he's gone in 4 years? How much more damage is he going to do to her abortion rights in the meantime? What if he stacks the Supreme Court even more?

Fucking retards being led up the garden path by foreign government bot accounts on twatter...

Trumps damage? What about Biden's damage. There's a genocide going on! 

Abortion rights? Sounds privileged to me.

[Boredfrom]

No, Biden is a grown-ass man. If he looks like a genocidal goon, that's his doing.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/democrats-fear-netanyahu-may-have-undermined-biden’s-image-among-voters.842091/

[Boredfrom]

*Biden handing Netanyahu a gun*
*Netanyahu shooting Hannibal Buress*
Democrats: "Why would Netanyahu do this to Biden's reputation?"

 

At least use the meme in a competent way.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

B-dubs really needs to take Shoot's thread making privileges away. He just keeps posting Israel / Hamas thread related news out of its quarantine zone.

[Boredfrom]

What he needed to do was let people call out MuslimEra when they went in their extremist tangents. And let people call out PoliERA, and SocialistEra, and TransEra, and BCT.

At this point is just byzantine Cold War between Discords and Mods.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

What he needed to do was let people call out MuslimEra when they went in their extremist tangents. And let people call out PoliERA, and SocialistEra, and TransEra, and BCT.

At this point is just byzantine Cold War between Discords and Mods.

Agreed. Except with MuslimEra because MuslimEra is never wrong. #UnbanRustyNails

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-sounding-names-get-called-back-for-jobs-more-than-black-ones-a-new-study-finds.842136/page-2?post=121591269#post-121591269

If all it took was undeniable and irrefutable proof to convince people of things, then we'd already be living in a relative utopia. Racism isn't perpetuated off of the back of ignorance; it's perpetuated off of systemic momentum and white folks' emotional investment in their whiteness.

It's not only convenient to perpetuate because the system already trends towards racist outcomes, but sometimes it feels really good to do, or at the very least, actively being anti-racist feels so uncomfortable that most people don't want to deal with that kind of work. So you're going to get the path of least resistance or active animosity by default even if you're bringing "facts and logic."

Seriously, people don't care about that when they're being challenged, or at the very least when they're not in an environment where they're aware that they are not the expert in the room and need to actively learn, such as in school or on job training (and white people don't consider ethnic minorities experts on racism). They care about narratives, stories, and belonging to something great, and the objective history of racism isn't one that's in any way flattering to those who subsumed their cultures under the politics of whiteness.

[I don't swear]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-sounding-names-get-called-back-for-jobs-more-than-black-ones-a-new-study-finds.842136/page-2?post=121591269#post-121591269

If all it took was undeniable and irrefutable proof to convince people of things, then we'd already be living in a relative utopia. Racism isn't perpetuated off of the back of ignorance; it's perpetuated off of systemic momentum and white folks' emotional investment in their whiteness.

It's not only convenient to perpetuate because the system already trends towards racist outcomes, but sometimes it feels really good to do, or at the very least, actively being anti-racist feels so uncomfortable that most people don't want to deal with that kind of work. So you're going to get the path of least resistance or active animosity by default even if you're bringing "facts and logic."

Seriously, people don't care about that when they're being challenged, or at the very least when they're not in an environment where they're aware that they are not the expert in the room and need to actively learn, such as in school or on job training (and white people don't consider ethnic minorities experts on racism). They care about narratives, stories, and belonging to something great, and the objective history of racism isn't one that's in any way flattering to those who subsumed their cultures under the politics of whiteness.

Nepenthe this, Nepenthe that, Nepenthe this, Nepenthe that, Nepenthe this, Nepenthe that, make it end, please. I'm begging.

[benji]

Fucking retards being led up the garden path by foreign government bot accounts on twatter...

My man, you're optimistic if you think this needs foreign governments.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-sounding-names-get-called-back-for-jobs-more-than-black-ones-a-new-study-finds.842136/page-2?post=121591269#post-121591269

If all it took was undeniable and irrefutable proof to convince people of things, then we'd already be living in a relative utopia. Racism isn't perpetuated off of the back of ignorance; it's perpetuated off of systemic momentum and white folks' emotional investment in their whiteness.

It's not only convenient to perpetuate because the system already trends towards racist outcomes, but sometimes it feels really good to do, or at the very least, actively being anti-racist feels so uncomfortable that most people don't want to deal with that kind of work. So you're going to get the path of least resistance or active animosity by default even if you're bringing "facts and logic."

Seriously, people don't care about that when they're being challenged, or at the very least when they're not in an environment where they're aware that they are not the expert in the room and need to actively learn, such as in school or on job training (and white people don't consider ethnic minorities experts on racism). They care about narratives, stories, and belonging to something great, and the objective history of racism isn't one that's in any way flattering to those who subsumed their cultures under the politics of whiteness.

[benji]

By Nepenthe's logic, white people are experts on global racism.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Nepenthe this, Nepenthe that, Nepenthe this, Nepenthe that, Nepenthe this, Nepenthe that, make it end, please. I'm begging.

That you, B-Dubs?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-sounding-names-get-called-back-for-jobs-more-than-black-ones-a-new-study-finds.842136/page-2?post=121591269#post-121591269

If all it took was undeniable and irrefutable proof to convince people of things, then we'd already be living in a relative utopia. Racism isn't perpetuated off of the back of ignorance; it's perpetuated off of systemic momentum and white folks' emotional investment in their whiteness.

It's not only convenient to perpetuate because the system already trends towards racist outcomes, but sometimes it feels really good to do, or at the very least, actively being anti-racist feels so uncomfortable that most people don't want to deal with that kind of work. So you're going to get the path of least resistance or active animosity by default even if you're bringing "facts and logic."

Seriously, people don't care about that when they're being challenged, or at the very least when they're not in an environment where they're aware that they are not the expert in the room and need to actively learn, such as in school or on job training (and white people don't consider ethnic minorities experts on racism). They care about narratives, stories, and belonging to something great, and the objective history of racism isn't one that's in any way flattering to those who subsumed their cultures under the politics of whiteness.

That's RIGHT!

[benji]

Is funny they are bitching about the show (supposedly)

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

“retconned Fallout 1 and 2”  

but Amazon Prime was giving Fallout 2 for free.

That’s how much they hate those games. 

Amazon is giving out Fallout 76 now for Xbox and PC 

If anyone wants my keys courtesy of Bill and Jeff. PC one is for Microsoft Store, which they gave away once before.

Amazon Prime has functionality for connecting to all your accounts to activate stuff, that's how they do Epic keys now for example, and these are just keys to paste in.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-image-of-sebastian-stan-as-donald-trump-from-the-apprentice.841425/

[benji]

 

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

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/april-11-2024-woman-leaves-yu-gi-oh-event-because-it-smelled-horrible-the-woman-blamed-both-stinky-men-and-women-duelists.842292/

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/april-11-2024-woman-leaves-yu-gi-oh-event-because-it-smelled-horrible-the-woman-blamed-both-stinky-men-and-women-duelists.842292/

KSweeley is amazing:

Kotaku and ComicBook.com has reported on a woman who left a Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh tournament due to bad body odor from both men and women and it's reported that this isn't the first time that bad body odor at tournaments has made the news.

In 2019, Konami actually made hygiene mandatory for official tournaments, a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament rule states: "You are expected to be clean when you enter a tournament. Neglecting to wash or put on clean clothes contributes to an unpleasant atmosphere at the event, as the tournament can be crowded and the day can be long. Persons who neglect self-care to the point that they are negatively impacting the tournament may be asked to correct the issue in order to continue in the event."

Sadly, this is not the first time the fandom has made headlines over hygiene. The vast majority of fans are perfectly kept, but in 2019, Konami released a new tournament guideline that made hygiene mandatory for official tournaments.

"You are expected to be clean when you enter a tournament. Neglecting to wash or put on clean clothes contributes to an unpleasant atmosphere at the event, as the tournament can be crowded and the day can be long. Persons who neglect self-care to the point that they are negatively impacting the tournament may be asked to correct the issue in order to continue in the event," the rule reads.

[benji]

Go read a few ERA threads about showering. Several people here admit to not showering every day and genuinely think they don't smell like ass.

How are people with jobs that require any human interaction able to do this
Like seriously

That's what I ask myself.

I think the answer here is pretty self-explanatory.

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/april-11-2024-woman-leaves-yu-gi-oh-event-because-it-smelled-horrible-the-woman-blamed-both-stinky-men-and-women-duelists.842292/

I still laugh at the story about the regular Smash Bros tournament where the locals would call whatever day of the week it happened “stinky day”.

[HaughtyFrank]

the irony of NYT pointing out the platforming of fascists...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nytimes-grifters-and-bigots-riding-rage-over-israel-to-online-prominence.842133/post-121593333

Plz ban Irishninja B-Dubs. Such an insufferable poster

[benji]

That's not ironic.

Especially since that's not the thrust of the article.

[benji]

This thread is hilarious:

This isn't "tankies" this is actual, dyed in the wool fascists. This is always how fascists have operated. They have no values expect for their own personal power, they take advantage of whatever they can to grow their power and influence.

We've whitewashed how these people come to power over the years because if we didn't then we would have to engage in actual critical thinking and media literacy when deciding who to listen to online or what politicians to support. They'll pretend to be conservatives, liberals, capitalists, socialists, communists, whatever; they'll hate your enemies with more fervor than you do right up until they stab you in the back and take power.

How many "actual, dyed in the wool fascists" does this guy think have come to power historically?

We can't be responding to the rise of Nazis with "ITS NOT THAT BIG OF DEAL! ITS A MINORITY! DONT WORRY ABOUT IT".

Welcome to the same shit we saw in the build up to Trump and Charlottesville. Nobody took that shit seriously and guess where we wound up?

Where did we wind up? With Genocide Joe?

Gonna be honest, we tossed someone for platforming one of these assholes a week or so back and when they got back I immediately got a PM from them justifying their love of said creator. I pointed out the fact they actively retweeted nazis and other assholes, but, nope, totally justified because those Nazis made good points. One of the Nazis in question was literally Jackson Hinkle.

I really don't think people get how hard it is to keep these sorts of assholes off Era when they're actively being normalized by the rest of the internet.

Real talk, we're all in for a bad time in the near-future. If not this year then next or the year after. Shit is getting legitimately frightening out there.

but yeah, elon in particular fosters this; literally one of the first things he did at the helm was follow andy ngo's requests to ban some of the largest antifascist/community defense networks, from itsgoingdown to crimethinc and beyond. oddly, twitter used to be a place you could get some good work done deplatforming large fascists - now it's quite the opposite

while being craven for power is certainly characteristic, this is a rather ahistorical take - fascism, as an ideology, very much has values. central to the ethos is hierarchy, a foundational belief that some (them) are more worthy of life than others. this leads how they organize & why they're vehemently anti-communist, particularly with anarchists, as those practices are defined by being non-hierarchical.

from the third reich until today, it's why they particularly go so hard on their trahsphobia: if you understand the aspects of humanity that they deem as tantamount being anything less than immutable, you can't be at the top. again, while fascists very openly act in poor faith & lie/twist leftist and liberal terminology to fit their goals, this core tenant is pretty key. minorities and those they deem "degenerate" are allowed to work in service of their goals, but they're understood to not be among the worthy after said goals are met

it's a big part of why i & others teach that shutting down transphobia is practicing anti-fascism

i can assure you, if you really want to harm trash like this, go after his patreon/etc and try to get them to enforce their TOS. you can usually get paypal & larger vendors to drop them

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