Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Snoopy]

Astro is going to have legs by word of mouth. You can already see signs just by it maintaining its high position on Amazon charts. This is Astros real debut to the masses so you have to build a fanbase going from here. It would be ridiculous to compare it to Mario sales or some Sony huge AAA.

I guess the first game bundled free with the PS5 doesn’t count.

[Nintex]

Astro Bot won't do great numbers because it needs a $500 $550 console. 

People already think PS5 is expensive as hell, so this $700 upgrade is going to be dead in the water after launch.

[Jansen]

Spedfrom
Member
13 minutes ago
#2,785
People, use your brains please. Sell your current PS5. Should get you back around £300 or 300€, depending on market conditions where you live and the state the console is in. That's a decent rebate for a decent upgrade in tech.

Around 10% of users bought a PS4 Pro, it'll probably be similar for the PS5 Pro. So it's not like people are going to sell their PS5s in droves and bring down the resale value.

Personally I hope to get about £350 for my PS5, which is the most updated model just before the Slim launch. £700 - £350 = £350. Then £350 + £100 if you want a disc drive = £450 for a PS5 Pro. £350 if you go without. I can certainly live with that.

[nobody of note]

Constructive still trundling along...

B-Dubs "it's not hard to avoid what's banned, it's just porn!"

It's literally just porn games, that's it. We can't reliably list all the porn games. Just don't post about porno games and you're fine. This idea that we're constantly banning games and have some huge banlist is nonsense. It's just porn games, that's all.

Yeah, porn games is obvious... I was more thinking about the subjects of the moment - Harry Potter, Cyberpunk, AI etc... where there's specific rules in place.

The whole point of the AI OT was to stop the constant "Twitter user says: AI sucks/AI is amazing" threads and the absolutely insane shit-flinging fests they became from clogging up Etc side. That was literally it, there was no other reason. It was literally making Etc unreadable. If it's actually newsworthy in some way then make a thread, it's fine. We never banned positive AI threads and we never banned negative ones either, they just got an OT because nothing else was showing up on the Etc feed while we allowed it.

Potter we literally sent out a huge notice to the entire site, same with CP. If there's a sequel to CP then we'll evaluate that on it's own merits.

What I'm saying is, it's really not hard to avoid getting a thread locked.

I think what you're asking for DinkyDev is a list of banned topics, or topics with specific rules around them.

I don't think there is one that's up to date, and comprehensive. Maybe someone can advise if I'm wrong.

I believe the last dedicated thread for this was the policy update log and that

a) Doesn't clarify some of the stuff you might get in trouble for (no mention of Cyberpunk, sports betting, banned sources, etc)

b) Has been locked and not updated since May 2023

Someone will definitely update me if I am wrong and badly out of touch though!

B-Dubs ignores the "or special rules around them", again, to insist things that are quarantined aren't banned.

Also stop asking for a ban list it puts them in danger. Just intuit it!

Sports betting isn't banned, you can literally discuss it in the relevant threads! Cyberpunk isn't banned either, it's literally got an OT!

Also, once again, we're not putting out a list of banned sources because that's how harassment campaigns against staff get started.

Highly amused that this is still going and they still haven't really explained why sports betting can't have its own thread and it just needs to infect every other sports topic instead.

[kaleidoscopium]

“We only ban porn games! That’s it! And Hogwarts legacy! And cyberpunk! And quidditch champions! And…”

[AldusMoneyPenny]

LoL who led the shit flinging fests that ruin AI threads? 

[Nintex]

Don't forget about the original sin

[Besticus Maximus]

Harassment campaigns against staff only happen when there is a list of things that confirms the things that everyone knows are banned by which member of staff (nepenthe)

Why is sports betting banned? Because Nepenthe doesn't understand it and therefore it is EVIL. It also encourages maleposting. That is your reason, lurkers.

[Propagandhim]

Lol why would you buy a PS5 Pro when you can make or get a PC.

Sony is out of their minds.

GTA6.  The whole reason they're making this in the first place.  

[D3RANG3D]

All that money to play all those non existent games.

[kaleidoscopium]

Sounds like all the sports bettors need to start spamming all the relevant sports threads, that’ll make your users totally happy right b dumbs?

[Snoopy]

Spedfrom
Member
13 minutes ago
#2,785
People, use your brains please. Sell your current PS5. Should get you back around £300 or 300€, depending on market conditions where you live and the state the console is in. That's a decent rebate for a decent upgrade in tech.

Around 10% of users bought a PS4 Pro, it'll probably be similar for the PS5 Pro. So it's not like people are going to sell their PS5s in droves and bring down the resale value.

Personally I hope to get about £350 for my PS5, which is the most updated model just before the Slim launch. £700 - £350 = £350. Then £350 + £100 if you want a disc drive = £450 for a PS5 Pro. £350 if you go without. I can certainly live with that.

Lol. This patronising fucker is about to get a rude awakening. PS5s are selling used for £300 now. He’ll be lucky to get around £120 from the likes of CEX/Cash Converters. He might get around £300 on EBay but fees and postage will knock that down.

[Nintex]

All that money to play all those non existent games.

It's wild that 50% of the games they showed were PS5 launch titles. For the Haptic controller stuff, they showed CONTROL a late last gen title.  

  I guess there will be a peak in the supply of blow jobs soon. Better be the first to head to the back of the station Sony Ponies, before the prices drop.

[kaleidoscopium]

So frustrating that he gets free reign to ramble uninterrupted about any Nintendo game when his takes are so idiosyncratic. He's not your "Nintendo Guy", he's exactly as off beat and unique as Don and you should treat him that way.

This is needlessly harsh. Just a Zelda opinion, man.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/easy-allies-ot3-begin-corrections-music-please.145554/page-427#post-128452353

As harsh as you harassing them to fire Bradley Ellis across 5 different platforms, zeo? 

[D3RANG3D]

https://metacouncil.com/threads/metaconsole-here-we-can-talk-about-anything-regarding-consoles.2096/page-49#post-380429

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

[kaleidoscopium]

Please don't support GameStop.

You can put your original PS5 on Ebay and make more than you would via a GameStop trade-in.

no i absolutely wouldnt

ebay after fees id get like $250 MAX for my launch digital

gamestop is offering me $385 in store credit i can put right towards a ps5 pro

thats $15 less than what i paid for the thing at launch

My reasoning is that the CEO of GameStop is a monster.

But I also believe you can get more for your launch digital than you might think. I remember being very surprised at how much I got for my PS4 when I upgraded to the PS4 Pro.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ps5-pro-preorder-thread-of-deals-trade-ins-availability-pre-orders-go-live-sept-26th.977010/page-4#post-128476653

“Don’t trade in your ps5 at GameStop! Their CEO likes Trump!!” is so fucking stupid

[Taco Bell Tower]

The Albatross got banned because he politely questioned moderation decisions in the thread specifically for that, so no ban reason makes sense.

Ree users never learned from their time at GAF: You never, ever EVER question admins and mods.  You're literally asking for it.

[TylenolJones]

Spedfrom
Member
13 minutes ago
#2,785
People, use your brains please. Sell your current PS5. Should get you back around £300 or 300€, depending on market conditions where you live and the state the console is in. That's a decent rebate for a decent upgrade in tech.

Around 10% of users bought a PS4 Pro, it'll probably be similar for the PS5 Pro. So it's not like people are going to sell their PS5s in droves and bring down the resale value.

Personally I hope to get about £350 for my PS5, which is the most updated model just before the Slim launch. £700 - £350 = £350. Then £350 + £100 if you want a disc drive = £450 for a PS5 Pro. £350 if you go without. I can certainly live with that.

Welp, so much for that. 

[kaleidoscopium]

Spedfrom
Member
13 minutes ago
#2,785
People, use your brains please. Sell your current PS5. Should get you back around £300 or 300€, depending on market conditions where you live and the state the console is in. That's a decent rebate for a decent upgrade in tech.

Around 10% of users bought a PS4 Pro, it'll probably be similar for the PS5 Pro. So it's not like people are going to sell their PS5s in droves and bring down the resale value.

Personally I hope to get about £350 for my PS5, which is the most updated model just before the Slim launch. £700 - £350 = £350. Then £350 + £100 if you want a disc drive = £450 for a PS5 Pro. £350 if you go without. I can certainly live with that.

Welp, so much for that. 

It already went right back up and is the same price as the left.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Fuck that shit of not disk drive. I knew it was coming sooner than later but not at that fucking price.

It doesn't even have the vertical stand, that's a $30 USD 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/grrm-new-blog-post-some-new-twow-pages-written.976509/#post-128438541

Uzzy
Gabe’s little helper Member
Today at 2:21 AM
#40
Nah, fuck this pity party, he's been lying about progress on Winds for 13 years now and simply refuses to finish it. Even in this blog he talks about all the other work he's been doing, more lucrative work for sure (TV shows and Blood and Fire to make future shows.)

He wants to get sympathy? Quit lying about the book people have been waiting on since the Clinton administration. Just quit it, hand it off to someone who can finish it, or just say it's never coming out and work on those more lucrative projects. Just quit lying about Winds

Yet you trans cunts want pity parties all the time 

[Nintex]

The trade in is interesting but you'll have to be fast because the value will decrease as more people trade in PS5s to get PS5 Pro.
In the meantime the folks that trade in don't have a PS5 for a couple of weeks/months at all when the big holiday titles like Call of Duty release.

good job Sony 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-there-any-developers-publishers-you-boycott.976425/page-2#post-128436828

User Banned (Permanent): Sinophobia commentary on new account

I dont wanna play any chinese game. In fact I try to support China as little as I can.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/grrm-new-blog-post-some-new-twow-pages-written.976509/page-3#post-128451570

It's literally the only thing that makes sense. It explains everything he's said. And I'd respect if he just owned that. The execution was the main problem anyway, not the general concept.

But instead he lies and lies and lies. Now the lies are too deep and he knows he's let down his fans and he doesn't know how to fix it so he's depressed.

It's also why no one will ever finish the series. Because there is no ending but the one we got.

At least we know the ending

Ah GRRM conspiracy theories. I thought those weren't allowed

[TylenolJones]

"You were against fracking now you support it. Why is that?"

"Well it's a hard reality that there are communities that need this right now for their livelihood and while I still have grave concerns about the environmental impact I understand that this is a necessary thing in some places. With that said Trump has changed his position on abortion 3 times in two weeks and wants to ban IVF. I think that deserves equal scrutiny."

This is such a perfect answer. I hope someone from her debate prep team is a secret Era user.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2024-u-s-presidential-debate-vice-president-harris-vs-trump-abc-sept-10th-at-9-pm-et-6-pm-pt.976515/page-4#post-128480685

[Boredfrom]

Honestly, he should just actually assure everyone that he is going to hand over the plot line to someone when he dies but he is going to work on it (at his own pace) because is still his goddamn work. 

Is genuinely bizarre how entitled both him and his fans are. I get the idea of ASoIaF being a safety blanket for nerds and geeks of the 90.

If Martin cannot write you cannot force him to write, but I feel he definitely needs to get into a compromise with his fans about the state of the IP outside of HBO.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Welp, so much for that. 

It already went right back up and is the same price as the left.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-5-pro-launches-on-november-7-2024-699-%C2%A3699-%E2%82%AC799-2tb-disc-drive-and-stand-sold-separately.976914/page-5#post-128455866

Yikes at $699
I'll pass but if GameStop gives me $500 for my regular PS5 then I'm in

[Boredfrom]

He definitely likes the money that comes from being an actual best seller author and a producer of hit tv shows.  

Who wouldn’t?

[HaughtyFrank]

Advertising the PS5 pro by playing clips of old ass Demon Souls is wild. Sony what are you doing

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-5-pro-launches-on-november-7-2024-699-%C2%A3699-%E2%82%AC799-2tb-disc-drive-and-stand-sold-separately.976914/page-5#post-128455917
Pai Pai Master

OW MY BALLS that is pricey
(I'm still getting it ugh why am I like this)

Boys rhetorical club talk