Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

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[Daffy Duck]

There is some weird Reddit campaign going on right now. The posts will not stop, but the proof I've seen is weak. A lot of it is anti trans crap so it's hard to tell.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ava-kris-tyson-steps-down-from-all-things-mr-beast-after-old-messages-and-weird-behavior-unveiled.935043/page-2?post=126235482#post-126235482

Downplaying sexual abuse of a minor….

It’s incredible how they will circle the caravans just because the person is transgender

[benji]

This goes in here instead of the U.S. Politics thread for I think fairly obvious reasons:

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

This goes in here instead of the U.S. Politics thread for I think fairly obvious reasons:

it's AI art but omg MCU!! 

[D3RANG3D]

[Besticus Maximus]

The men with guns come to the door. They bundle you into a van. You go into a dark room, hooded, where a kangaroo court reads your sentence. They throw you into a cell, blindfolded. You hear breathing in the room. A burly, breathy voice in the corner says 'I WON'T BE ABLE TO GET MY FUCKING AMPHETAMINES JESUS CHRIST'. This is your life now, forever.

[Boredfrom]

You know, Star War used to be fun. Even the prequel trilogy could be fun both ironically and unironically. Now it sounds like misery porn.

To be fair, in many ways these are the types of Star Wars stories you’d find in books, comics, games. Relatively niche stories most people weren’t exposed to.

Now we’re seeing Luuke types of slop in mega budget TV shows from Disney.

When Disney bought Star Wars, I thought they were going the Marvel route of pick and choose the better (or more mainstream, if you like) elements of the comics. That’s why we didn’t get an Iron Man that puts heroes in concentration camps and the Avengers being the Ultimates without the Mark Millar baggage.

But they decided to throw everything out the window with Star Wars (and people, short sighted, celebrated it) until it was clear they had no better ideas other than rehash or “subvert expectations”.and somehow it feels they have chosen the worse elements of the ExpandedUniverse to latch on.

The Acolyte sounds like a decent idea on paper but without the writing chops to pull it off, just baffled that they decided to end it with “to be continued…” as if they expected to people to give a shit. Beyond being woke or not, when your main characters are unlikeable and the only one with a talented actor dies at the end…

I dunno, I just think Star Wars is not fun to follow anymore, even if you are only interested in the fandom drama, because it sounds this pissed everyone off to the point that Mike from RLM needed to concede “the Jedi were less stupid in the prequels”.

[Polident]

Absolutely. It was the expanded universe shit and video games like Force Unleashed that changed the force from a mystical power that people could tap into to influence the world into this kind of retardation

Half watched the Obiwan show and they actually did this. It was really dumb. Outdone by the ending where we learn Obiwan and Vader fought once more between 3 and 4. Obiwan wins by, and I will stress this isn’t a shitpost, throwing rocks at Vader. And the show has Quigon’s return as a force ghost asking Obiwan to help him find that black robed bastard.

[Boredfrom]

Absolutely. It was the expanded universe shit and video games like Force Unleashed that changed the force from a mystical power that people could tap into to influence the world into this kind of retardation

Half watched the Obiwan show and they actually did this. It was really dumb. Outdone by the ending where we learn Obiwan and Vader fought once more between 3 and 4. Obiwan wins by, and I will stress this isn’t a shitpost, throwing rocks at Vader. And the show has Quigon’s return as a force ghost asking Obiwan to help him find that black robed bastard.

Unpopular opinion time: Darth Vader is lame. Always have. I was pissed by the ending of Fallen Order when they tried to make him cool and all powerful. I’m glad to hear he was defeated by rocks.

[Boredfrom]

Maybe is the consequence with growing up with the Super Nintendo games were Luke has all this cool force powers… and the old trilogy has him losing his hand in a duel with his crippled dad. And years later… Revenge of the Sith happened and made Anakin way more lame even when doing acrobatics in the middle of a duel in lava planet.

Not saying that force powers aren’t dumb, but that people genuinely have different perceptions of Star Wars depending of what films you grow with, for better or worse. So, to me, Darth Vader is inherently lame because it is obvious that the dude in the costume can barely move and the prequel arc paints him like a dunce.

[Chudder Barbarity]

You know, Star War used to be fun. Even the prequel trilogy could be fun both ironically and unironically. Now it sounds like misery porn.

To be fair, in many ways these are the types of Star Wars stories you’d find in books, comics, games. Relatively niche stories most people weren’t exposed to.

Now we’re seeing Luuke types of slop in mega budget TV shows from Disney.

When Disney bought Star Wars, I thought they were going the Marvel route of pick and choose the better (or more mainstream, if you like) elements of the comics. That’s why we didn’t get an Iron Man that puts heroes in concentration camps and the Avengers being the Ultimates without the Mark Millar baggage.

But they decided to throw everything out the window with Star Wars (and people, short sighted, celebrated it) until it was clear they had no better ideas other than rehash or “subvert expectations”.and somehow it feels they have chosen the worse elements of the ExpandedUniverse to latch on.

The Acolyte sounds like a decent idea on paper but without the writing chops to pull it off, just baffled that they decided to end it with “to be continued…” as if they expected to people to give a shit. Beyond being woke or not, when your main characters are unlikeable and the only one with a talented actor dies at the end…

I dunno, I just think Star Wars is not fun to follow anymore, even if you are only interested in the fandom drama, because it sounds this pissed everyone off to the point that Mike from RLM needed to concede “the Jedi were less stupid in the prequels”.

It was so easy too. Just adapt the thrawn trilogy (ok, loosely since the actors are too old, or just recast them). free money.

[Chudder Barbarity]

Speaking of fleecing

https://bsky.app/profile/melodyshreds.bsky.social/post/3kxvxca6kib22

haven't actually reached my goal btw, my partner sent me money for food using Ko-Fi which made it appear that I did but none of that went into my "changing my name" fund, i just needed to eat. 

If you wanna help I still need money to change my name!

https://ko-fi.com/melodyshreds/goal?g=27

He had gotten like 150% of $120 goal iirc.

I'm still convinced the benefactor is mels, but I'm told otherwise

"I can afford my licenced Star Wars shirt, SMTV and a replica claymore, but can't afford to change my name."

-- Melody Shreds

Malds looks exactly like Chris Chan here lmao absolutely uncanny. Cracker dad better hide the wife.

[jooseloose]

Absolutely. It was the expanded universe shit and video games like Force Unleashed that changed the force from a mystical power that people could tap into to influence the world into this kind of retardation

Half watched the Obiwan show and they actually did this. It was really dumb. Outdone by the ending where we learn Obiwan and Vader fought once more between 3 and 4. Obiwan wins by, and I will stress this isn’t a shitpost, throwing rocks at Vader. And the show has Quigon’s return as a force ghost asking Obiwan to help him find that black robed bastard.

Unpopular opinion time: Darth Vader is lame. Always have. I was pissed by the ending of Fallen Order when they tried to make him cool and all powerful. I’m glad to hear he was defeated by rocks.

Only time Vader has been cool was the ending of Rogue One.

[benji]

Only time Vader has been cool was the ending of Rogue One.

[HardcoreRetro]

Saying Darth Vader can barely move... smh...

[wizardora]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-2-what-can-be-unburdened-by-what-has-been.933294/

Krazen initiates a soft-takeover of the OP (clearly with mods work) and then talks about "I am going to take over the OT to help keep things on the rails behind the scenes." Brother thinks he actually does something in the thread and doesn't have B-Dubs hand wedged firmly up his ass 

[benji]

They used the same title I did here, now I have to change it. 

[Snoopy]

Soo....Blah Blah Blah entire novel of autistic gibberish about Dark Souls games....

With a concerned look on her face, she asked me "are you really sure you want to do that?" Her only experience with FromSoft games is hearing me saying something like "why would you inflict something like this to yourself?" while watching the let's plays,

"With a concerned look on her face, she asked me "are you really sure you want to do that?"

Not his mum, or his full time carer. His wife.




https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-fascinated-by-fromsoft-games-and-finally-took-the-plunge-to-playing-one.935271/

[wizardora]

They used the same title I did here, now I have to change it. 

Great minds think alike! 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

At this point I think some folks just have a "locked in a prison camp" fetish.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Members only:

So I'm a poor PhD student, ravaged by an ugly divorce that got litigious and lots of debt and I'm basically crawling to the finish line of this long PhD that ultimately outlived my marriage. I badly need a job and I badly need one soon. I'm defending in 3 weeks and will lose my paycheck end of next month. Nearly lost the home due to antics by the ex.

Well the research I just published a couple of weeks ago for my dissertation…was something like the right kinds of relatable, easy to understand, important and relevant to a hot field in science that it went viral, like dozens of news articles across dozens of languages about my research and our findings now. It has a crazy metric score. I'm talking, CNN, BBC, NBC viral…

How do I best leverage what is going on at this very moment to my potential notoriety in a way that it helps my odds of getting a good job?

[Polident]

Why are you asking era. What answer could you possibly expect from the brain trust who shits themselves and watches preschooler cartoons, in that order.

[Besticus Maximus]

The first thing Nothing Loud should do is delete all the posts were they were cruising for homeless drug addicts while microdosing in their marital home, and then the hedgehog murder posts, and possibly the one where he got plastic abs because that was just off putting to employers generally on grounds of sheer neediness

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

That ex is the only reason he even got to go to college with a roof over his head. Nothing Loud won the lotto and all he had to do was not be a druggy freak.

I feel bad for the ex. The guy tried but there's a breaking point.

[Polident]

The first thing Nothing Loud should do is delete all the posts were they were cruising for homeless drug addicts while microdosing in their marital home, and then the hedgehog murder posts, and possibly the one where he got plastic abs because that was just off putting to employers generally on grounds of sheer neediness

Unironically, yeah. Erasing any association with that place saves a future headache if the intention is to be somewhat noteworthy.

[Potato]

This is why nobody in the Republic cared when Order 66 was issued. The Jedi using the Force to be dicks to everyone.

Qui-Gon casually using the force to flip up the Twi-lek's skirt to impress his Padawan.

[Potato]

Absolutely. It was the expanded universe shit and video games like Force Unleashed that changed the force from a mystical power that people could tap into to influence the world into this kind of retardation

Half watched the Obiwan show and they actually did this. It was really dumb. Outdone by the ending where we learn Obiwan and Vader fought once more between 3 and 4. Obiwan wins by, and I will stress this isn’t a shitpost, throwing rocks at Vader. And the show has Quigon’s return as a force ghost asking Obiwan to help him find that black robed bastard.

Star Wars is a 3 movie series. That's it. You can't change my mind on this.

[Snoopy]

Wasn't he just bragging about cruising for homo in Rome?

[Potato]

Wasn't he just bragging about cruising for homo in Rome?

Apparently all the employers were sucking his hog begging him to work for them. Looks like it didn't work out for him the way he expected...

[remy]

Why are you asking era. What answer could you possibly expect from the brain trust who shits themselves and watches preschooler cartoons, in that order.

Bragging.It's like the phd version of saying your fb post is popular.