Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Uncle]

"the enemy"  

new nepenthe alt, writes for fortune

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youtubers-who-you-sub-but-then-certain-red-flags-show-up-that-they-become-or-are-maga.952383/page-9#post-128249253

In general I'm kinda wary of white dudes channel talking about history….. specifically weapon and warfare history….

Fuck Dr. Mark Felton!

Look at his most recent video. He's gone full mask off. I always knew he secretly liked to talk about Nazis.

[Polident]

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Me too that's why i get my weapon info from a fellow brown man.

I would give a lot to shoot one of those.

Brown people?

Politically incorrect. We call them Italians now.

[benji]

Yeah, I don't know that it's useful in any way to blame centrist voters.

I don't believe centrist politicians are really distinguishable from the right in any meaningful way though.

These people claim to be super informed and above buying stupid propaganda and conspiracies, but they post every single day repeating nearly century old Soviet propaganda:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_World_Congress_of_the_Communist_International
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_fascism

Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy

Even the Soviets abandoned it within a decade but these rubes cling to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_World_Congress_of_the_Comintern

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-byte-futuristim-in-leak-cox-media-group-brags-about-listening-to-your-phone%E2%80%99s-microphone-to-serve-ads-for-stuff-you-mention-aloud.973173/post-128222577

Dr. Nothing Loud Poop
Now I have to watch this video too, because basically until now I have always thought "yes it is totally possible, but why would they be doing this, blatantly lie about it, get away with it, when they can get just as good info most of the time from proxy data in your pocket instead of having to listen to you all the time for advertising fodder.

My take on this has recently evolved and been:
- Could it be happening? Yes, but I thought, not likely, until recently, for mostly this reason:
- Listening to devices 24/7 was costly noise for a company to parse.
- But if you think about it, if they could crack the solution to this problem, i.e. "How do we streamline organizing and acting upon information we hear 24/7 to ignore unimportant information but also document information we do value to sell our products" it's the golden goose for advertising $$$.
- Until the last couple of years, this seemed like the golden egg that had yet to be cracked. But then you got articles recently explaining that Amazon lied about their "smart tech" figuring out how you shop at Amazon Fresh locations....instead they just mass hired cheap labor in South and Southeast Asia to watch you on camera and manually document what you bought. Not only is that deceptive, it's still extremely costly at-scale, but they minimized cost where possible: hired cheap labor overseas and used their big wallets to sustain that initiative. while deceiving shareholders that they had some kind of edge on sophisticated technology that allowed them to do this mostly unsupervised. This demonstrates that companies not only have the means, but the will, to deceive us and actually brute force their way through data analytics...but now, things are even more precarious because:
- LLM AI has gone mainstream and consumer-grade, meaning they now have a sophisticated tool that can "brute force" through the data noise with minimal human oversight. Instead of having to log all info it hears, AI can, to a degree of accuracy, determine which key words and phrases out of all the audio it captures are worth logging or selling advertising about. I surmised that this was now not only possible, but combined with other articles, we can see companies now have the means, the wallets, the intent, and the deception behind, using audio from your devices, to sell your life to others, or even report to authorities (which I guarantee will disproportionately affect minorities).
- It's especially eyebrow-raising to read this article and the extents to which this is going. I knew I wasn't crazy when I had some private convos in the last few years where I literally unplugged all my smart home devices and put phones in another room to talk. Part of me thought that was insane, like do I really live in the reality where companies are doing this, but there have been NUMEROUS suspicious examples in my life in the past couple of years where there was simply no other explanation than either "very good guessing" from proxy data like proximity, contact lists, GPS, etc. to guess what you're talking about, OR these companies have now engaged tech that lets them lazily listen to you 24/7 for what they want to hear. I have had instances where me and 3 friends were talking about something we've never searched for on our devices, and at least 2 of us suddenly got search results in our online shopping that suggested the very brand and thing we were talking about, over an hour after the conversation was over and we had transitioned ideas/activities/topics. It was so creepy that I never forget moments like that.

This is very concerning to me as an AI data scientist. Just because the tech is good and powerful at certain things (like pretty much it is invaluable to science and engineering innovation), when you make tools like this consumer-grade and available to pretty much anyone for almost free, with little/no global or national ethical oversight, you risk huuuge human rights violations and ethical trespasses that I'm not sure how to fix.

The genie is out of the bottle.

[benji]

- Until the last couple of years, this seemed like the golden egg that had yet to be cracked. But then you got articles recently explaining that Amazon lied about their "smart tech" figuring out how you shop at Amazon Fresh locations....instead they just mass hired cheap labor in South and Southeast Asia to watch you on camera and manually document what you bought. Not only is that deceptive, it's still extremely costly at-scale, but they minimized cost where possible: hired cheap labor overseas and used their big wallets to sustain that initiative. while deceiving shareholders that they had some kind of edge on sophisticated technology that allowed them to do this mostly unsupervised. This demonstrates that companies not only have the means, but the will, to deceive us and actually brute force their way through data analytics...but now, things are even more precarious because:

I read about this and it's not what Amazon did.

The mass cheap labor was about providing a second data source to confirm the accuracy of the technology they were testing. And it was a whole bunch of different sets of technology, much of which worked just fine.

Also, if you stop and think for a second, you realize there's no need for a "brute force" or "AI" technique to figure out "how you shop" because you have the data of what the person is buying. Which is Amazon's extremely profitable thing they already figured out. Amazon Fresh was about attempting to have an automated store with minimal humans, they were trying to figure out how to measure what you were actually physically putting in your cart and taking home not just what you wanted to buy. Something that, again, Amazon already figured out how to do.

Amazon Fresh's problem was that Amazon couldn't squeeze the margins down because of the short-term nature of too much of the inventory. Amazon was convinced it could figure this out because it always had but found they were too baffled by the nature of the grocery store, that's why they pivoted and bought Whole Foods.

[benji]

Also he's assuming he's way too unique and doing BAD DATA SCIENCE by only counting instances where the "suspicious" events happened and not the billions of times he got an ad that was completely unrelated to whatever he talked about in the last hour.

Literally one of the most well known common statistical fallacies in human reasoning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

This man wants you to hire him for some super important wealthy job because of his PhD.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately-offering-refunds-to-all-customers-the-game-will-be-taken-offline-beginning-sept-6th-check-staff-post.970872/page-36#post-128111772

Im sorry, but the fact that characters have to either look "sexy" or "badass" is craaaazy.

It's why Concord failed: characters didn't looked interesting

[Boredfrom]

"the enemy"  

new nepenthe alt, writes for fortune

“Ashton Kutcher’s opinion”

[BananaBlast]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-6-has-sold-4-million-units.973596/page-2#post-128240532

This game will have longer legs than Manon.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Another thing.

My stance is this: when the creator of a game is someone who is openly, blatantly bigoted, I won't support them. It's literally impossible to be perfectly ethical in a capitalist system, but when the people who are the reason a piece of media exists at all are bigots actively pushing narratives that make life worse for innocent people, that media is tainted by association in my book.

It's no different from how I will not support anything related to the Harry Potter IP because JK Rowling openly and unapologetically wants my friends to die. The IP is Rowling and giving her money would just allow her to keep spending it to fund legislation to erase trans people from existence.

I don't expect you to necessarily share the exact same stance as me, but I think that open bigotry is a slightly different kind of situation than "drama", if that makes sense.

They always say this shit, every single time but they do not have any proof at all. Yet it is always repeated by these fuckers everywhere. Whether its people on Twitter who should know better but there is never any proof.

new guy

post hog

New guy

What does cum taste like

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-6-has-sold-4-million-units.973596/page-2#post-128240532

This game will have longer legs than Manon.

"effective range: mid-range"

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately-offering-refunds-to-all-customers-the-game-will-be-taken-offline-beginning-sept-6th-check-staff-post.970872/page-36#post-128111772

Im sorry, but the fact that characters have to either look "sexy" or "badass" is craaaazy.

It's why Concord failed: characters didn't looked interesting

I like that the person he quoted didn't even mention sexy and yet I guess it's understood that none of the concord characters are

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately-offering-refunds-to-all-customers-the-game-will-be-taken-offline-beginning-sept-6th-check-staff-post.970872/page-36#post-128111772

Im sorry, but the fact that characters have to either look "sexy" or "badass" is craaaazy.

It's why Concord failed: characters didn't looked interesting

Says something about these guys where they assume others have their same sick mindset of either or. Normal people aren’t looking at Splatoon characters and thinking in those terms about squid kids with water guns. Overwatch has a hampster in a robot ball. As degenerate as that fan base is, I don’t think even they’re thinking in those terms. 

I’d mention Astro Bot here, but PlayStation fans are an unusual bunch. Vita threads used to be filled with them getting paper cuts watching Tearaway trailers.

[Potato]

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Me too that's why i get my weapon info from a fellow brown man.

I would give a lot to shoot one of those.

Brown people?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately-offering-refunds-to-all-customers-the-game-will-be-taken-offline-beginning-sept-6th-check-staff-post.970872/page-36#post-128111772

Im sorry, but the fact that characters have to either look "sexy" or "badass" is craaaazy.

It's why Concord failed: characters didn't looked interesting

I like that the person he quoted didn't even mention sexy and yet I guess it's understood that none of the concord characters are

Says something about these guys where they assume others have their same sick mindset of either or. Normal people aren’t looking at Splatoon characters and thinking in those terms about squid kids with water guns. Overwatch has a hampster in a robot ball. As degenerate as that fan base is, I don’t think even they’re thinking in those terms. 

I’d mention Astro Bot here, but PlayStation fans are an unusual bunch. Vita threads used to be filled with them getting paper cuts watching Tearaway trailers.

Problematic, not sex liberationist and an example of the capitalist, colonialist and white supremacist hegemony that the Concord characters aren't appreciated as sexy.

[benji]

[Potato]

Absolutely no one has Brianna fucking Wu being the voice of reason for lefties on their bingo cards in 2014

[benji]

I mean, no, let's not praise a complete fraud scumbag who never stops lying and still pushes insane and highly misogynistic things including in that video where the obvious truth was finally admitted because they're saying a few sensible or different things. That's what the ResetERA.com types do. A look at Wu's daily tweets would completely disabuse anyone of the notion that they've become some kind of voice of reason. If there's not a tweet begging for the U.S. to launch global war just scroll back a few days.

Ironically, in that "coming out" video Wu (presumably lying) shares the fact that they're losing their ability to speak and that's why they have to "step back" from politics.

[Polident]

Let’s be fair here. Somebody who does not pass being catty towards somebody else, saying they never were able to pass, is absolutely woman behavior.

[benji]

[Daffy Duck]

Sony Ponies getting excited over 'tease' of PS5 Pro design, ie, extreme-zooming in on a small, grainy, pixelated section of an anniversary picture:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-ps5-pros-design-is-teased-on-the-playstation-30th-anniversary-logo.973383/






From having a meltdown over the failure of Concord, to intense wanking sessions over anything anti-Xbox, these freaks have the weirdest hard-on for Sony.

Not defending this but… have you seen Nintendo Fans getting excited about buttons colors in UI?

When you say fans, you mean grown adults with autism right?

[benji]

Let’s be fair here. Somebody who does not pass being catty towards somebody else, saying they never were able to pass, is absolutely woman behavior.

I think the thing to appreciate more is the hypocrisy of all the trans people claiming it was obvious when they're the same exact people who claim nobody can tell anyone else's sex from looking at them. There's a bunch of them in the replies/quotes/etc. beyond this just being something Caraballo/etc. constantly insists is true.

[Potato]

I mean, no, let's not praise a complete fraud scumbag who never stops lying and still pushes insane and highly misogynistic things including in that video where the obvious truth was finally admitted because they're saying a few sensible or different things. That's what the ResetERA.com types do. A look at Wu's daily tweets would completely disabuse anyone of the notion that they've become some kind of voice of reason. If there's not a tweet begging for the U.S. to launch global war just scroll back a few days.

Ironically, in that "coming out" video Wu (presumably lying) shares the fact that they're losing their ability to speak and that's why they have to "step back" from politics.

I said "voice of reason for lefties". There's a lot of heavy lifting being done by those two words in bold.

[benji]

Neoxon retweeted this:


 so so so close to Nepenthe's phrase

[Besticus Maximus]

Mad that all of this happens because women don't post very much on games forums

[benji]

I said "voice of reason for lefties". There's a lot of heavy lifting being done by those two words in bold.

I still disagree.

[Potato]

The media stopped covering Greta when it became obvious that she was being used by a bunch of evil fuckers and her causes just don't pass the pub test.

[benji]

Mad that all of this happens because women don't post very much on games forums

Why would they when there's threads about things like Stellar Blade, Black Myth: Wukong and Hogwart's Legacy?

[Potato]

I said "voice of reason for lefties". There's a lot of heavy lifting being done by those two words in bold.

I still disagree.

Not really a Twatter user so I could have missed the lefties with any reason or intelligence. Apologies.