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[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/life-is-hard-right-now-and-i%E2%80%99m-beginning-to-lose-hope.810957/#post-129246228

So this is an old thread but I needed to revisit this.

It's been a hard couple of months, and last couple of weeks I've been driven to almost take my life twice. Both times I stopped myself.

But with this despair comes a new determination. I'm not giving up. I'm not going to let this be the end of me. I have so much potential, so many people counting on me to keep on living. And it's not just that. I WANT to live, I want to dig myself out of this hole. I want to be someone worth knowing, someone worth sharing a discussion with.

I'm going to get better. I HAVE to get better. I WILL get better.

I remember this guy. 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Laughable coming from the MCU cocksucker who ignores Disney wrongdoings because their newest cape flick makes them feel good. 

I love it when you get feisty.

[benji]

Yeah, but I’m good and pure so it is never going to get turn against me.  

And if it did I will whine on the internet about it. 

The evil chuds who control everything and are the entire reason I'm denied a dignified life and so exhausted would never use the absolute power of the system they control that itself controls everything against me. They just don't have enough power clearly.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Laughable coming from the MCU cocksucker who ignores Disney wrongdoings because their newest cape flick makes them feel good. 

I love it when you get feisty.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/life-is-hard-right-now-and-i%E2%80%99m-beginning-to-lose-hope.810957/#post-129246228

So this is an old thread but I needed to revisit this.

It's been a hard couple of months, and last couple of weeks I've been driven to almost take my life twice. Both times I stopped myself.

But with this despair comes a new determination. I'm not giving up. I'm not going to let this be the end of me. I have so much potential, so many people counting on me to keep on living. And it's not just that. I WANT to live, I want to dig myself out of this hole. I want to be someone worth knowing, someone worth sharing a discussion with.

I'm going to get better. I HAVE to get better. I WILL get better.

I remember this guy. 

Isn't he the one who had a complete meltdown over Palworld? 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Yeah that's the guy. He had two melt downs if I remember this right. Came back from a ban only to have another meltdown in the Palworld thread.

[Taco Bell Tower]

He should be happy now that Nintendo and Game Freak are suing Pocketpair 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-427#post-129234261

This'll probably sound weird, but I was actually tipped off that the GoY protagonist was a woman early in the trailer because of the shape and condition of her fingernails. Apparently manicures were a thing in rural 17th century Japan? (/sarcasm)

Am I crazy for seeing this? Women always having manicured looking fingernails is an unsung but very real character design trope in anime, one that I haven't been able to unsee for some time now. Ghost of Yotei isn't anime obviously, but it seems to be abiding by this particular beauty standard for some reason, even if it doesn't make any sense for the character, a killer on the run in the wilderness.

If I'm wrong on this, ignore me. This thread was the only place I could think of to post this.

Princess Bubblegum

That's the gender cue that tipped me off that she was a woman until we got enough of a look at her face. Her nails being glossy makes it look like she's wearing a top/clear coat. (I don't think that is what they are intentionally going for, probably just a rendering choice.)

[Daffy Duck]

So now we nitpick historical accuracy?

You're totally right. I shouldn't have included that sarcastic remark.

It just strikes me as strange for the character. Hell, even assuming the practice didn't exist in the historical context the game takes place in (I don't know whether it did, as you said it's quite possible), a certain amount of suspension of disbelief is completely fine. But for a warrior who appears to be an outcast? Feels weird.

[benji]

Princess Bubblegum

That's the gender cue that tipped me off that she was a woman until we got enough of a look at her face. Her nails being glossy makes it look like she's wearing a top/clear coat. (I don't think that is what they are intentionally going for, probably just a rendering choice.)

So now we nitpick historical accuracy?

You're totally right. I shouldn't have included that sarcastic remark.

It just strikes me as strange for the character. Hell, even assuming the practice didn't exist in the historical context the game takes place in (I don't know whether it did, as you said it's quite possible), a certain amount of suspension of disbelief is completely fine. But for a warrior who appears to be an outcast? Feels weird.

MAYBE SHE LIKES THE WAY IT LOOKS AND IT MAKES HER FEEL BETTER

[benji]

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54989

Oh, cool! Seems like a character with manicured nails would actually be entirely appropriate for this setting then, especially taking some amount of suspension of disbelief into account in addition.

I guess what kind of rankles me is the more general context, what at least appears to be a manifestation of the expectation that, in this case, women's nails specifically, must look a certain way. If Sucker Punch was fully aware of this practice's presence in this historical context and consciously included it, that's great. If taking pains with her appearance is an intended part of this character's writing that's quite interesting, especially considering other aspects of her identity (warrior, fugitive who often hides her identity behind a hat and mask). I'd be pretty stunned to see nuance like that treated with a high degree of seriousness in a game, but it'd be really interesting.

That's the gender cue that tipped me off that she was a woman until we got enough of a look at her face. Her nails being glossy makes it look like she's wearing a top/clear coat. (I don't think that is what they are intentionally going for, probably just a rendering choice.)

Yes! Phew, so I'm not totally nuts. I absolutely read it as a gender cue, and you're right, this could be a total coincidence caused by how things are rendered. It just struck me so clearly that I couldn't ignore it. If it was unintentional then it's pretty wild how directly they, uh, nailed the trope (I'm so sorry).

[wsippel]

Regarding one James Cameron and the discussion du jour:



This motherfucker right here.

The entire thread is basically just the usual luddite shit. There are interesting discussions to be had, like how applicable the technology really is, or why Cameron would invest in StabilityAI after they lost pretty much their entire research and tools teams to Black Forest Labs and ComfyOrg. Nope, it's all just "AI bad" and "Cameron is a hack".

[benji]

He's also been investing in all kinds of technologies for decades. He's explained countless times how much of this is so he can make Avatar shit.

edit: Can't forget all the deep sea stuff!

edit edit:

It's debut marked the culmination of countless hours of collaboration, innovation and creative melding between the world’s largest media and entertainment company and one of the film industry’s most technologically advanced up-and-comers.

“In this project, similar to all our projects, collaboration is key,” Djuan Rivers, Animal Kingdom theme park’s vice president, said in an interview released by Disney. He added that Cameron and Lightstorm “believe in the same things we do: creativity, technology, innovation.”

Joe Rohde, portfolio creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering and the creative director on the Pandora project, echoed similar remarks about the partnership.

“It's a really remarkable collaboration between Walt Disney Imagineering on one side and Lightstorm on the other,” Rohde said in the video. “There's a lot of crossover in knowledge base and skill, but there's also a lot of exceptional skills on both sides, and when we put this team together, we've been able to create a kind of super team with extraordinary abilities to approach the job.”

Those unique skills — including unrivaled storytelling knowhow and theme park development expertise for Disney, coupled with groundbreaking visual effects technology created by Lightstorm — were on full display during the development of one Pandora’s signature attractions, in which guests will have the sensation of flying on the back of a winged banshee creature from the film.

As Rohde explains in the interview, the Disney team leveraged Lightstorm’s pre-visualization technology to simulate and map out the flight path that the virtual banshees would take through an imaginary 3D world. It's the same technology Lightstorm initially built to produce flight scenes for the movie.

Neither Disney nor Lightstorm are new to strategic partnerships with other innovative companies. In Lightstorm’s case, for instance, the firm recently teamed up with Dell EMC, using the latter’s data storage, sharing and security technologies to help Lightstorm team members organize and share the petabytes of data (think illustrations, computer renderings, and video files) that will be used to make the upcoming Avatar sequels.

“Because we’re 100 percent digital, our storage needs have evolved,” Landau wrote in a blog post. “With the next three Avatar sequels, we’re going to be pushing the boundaries of technology. These movies couldn’t even be thought about without digital technology, or without strategic partners like EMC that help us to manage all of this data that needs to be stored and pushed out to different teams across the world.”

Cameron, 57, is setting the bar for 3-D technology with cameras he created and making millions for himself in the process by renting them to other film and TV directors.

The Cameron Pace Group, which the director formed 12 years ago with camera guru Vince Pace, last year generated revenue "in the ballpark of" $58 million, said its Chief Operating Officer O.D. Welch.

That is a fraction of what Lucas' ILM special-effects house generates, but as 3-D productions grow Cameron Pace is expected to as well. So far, it has rented cameras and other gear to more than two dozen movies, nine concert films and 140 sports broadcasts.

Hollywood's 3-D conversion movement may help Cameron erase his past failed efforts at being an inventor-entrepreneur. The eccentric and sometimes combative director, along with late special-effects maven Stan Winston, started Digital Domain in 1993 to compete with Lucas' ILM special-effects house.

Cameron left the company in 1998 after clashing with investors that included IBM and Cox Communications over the strategic direction, according to Rebecca Keegan's Cameron biography "The Futurist."

As a result, Digital Domain never held its planned initial public offering.

"I had begun to dislike the dynamic," Cameron told Keegan. "When it was clear that the very controls I needed fell mostly in the conflict-of-interest category, it obviated the upside for me."

Housed in three non-descript buildings near the Burbank airport, Cameron Pace collects money every step in the 3-D movie-making process. It rents its Fusion 3-D rig and other equipment to film producers such as Michael Bay, who used it for "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", for up to $3 million a film.

Another as yet untapped revenue stream could be harvested by certifying 3-D TV sets and other electronic products, said Welch. Cameron Pace may also consider licensing its eight patents, or the dozen more that are pending.

What draws a customer to Cameron's company continues to be his uncontrollable lust for all things 3-D. Michael Lewis, chief executive of RealD, a company that licenses 3-D projectors and glasses to theaters, was stunned when Cameron, a RealD board member, nearly became a production assistant during filming of the movie "Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away".

Digital Domain is the company behind all that face capture shit. Disney uses it for the MCU.

What an asshole.

[HaughtyFrank]

Music's debut lesbian is caught in the tough cookie and she can't crack it:

There's something amusing about the new generation of celebrities communicating this way because it's like they're getting trapped in fucking Resetera arguments

[Besticus Maximus]

Well she seems like an absolute party pooper doesn't she

[Polident]

Regarding one James Cameron and the discussion du jour:



This motherfucker right here.

The entire thread is basically just the usual luddite shit. There are interesting discussions to be had, like how applicable the technology really is, or why Cameron would invest in StabilityAI after they lost pretty much their entire research and tools teams to Black Forest Labs and ComfyOrg. Nope, it's all just "AI bad" and "Cameron is a hack".

Most of these guys don’t really have opinions. They wholesale buy into whatever they’re told and uncritically repeat it. Anytime somebody deviates from the script, the cult gets angrily defensive and tries silencing them.

The image I get is Gary Johnson telling a room of fellow libertarians how a driver’s license is reasonable. How a fully blind person maybe shouldn’t drive a Ford F150 into a school zone. And they all boo him.

[Vertigo]

Lol why is she still engaging them?

Stay off Tik Tok.

I guarantee by next week they’ll probably put so much pressure on her they’ll have her endorsing Kamala.

A pop star telling their fans to vote for who the fuck they want to?



Preposterous.

[Snoopy]

Prominents dogpiling a woman with unsanctioned opinions. It's a tale as old as Resetera.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I personally think the focus on the characters nails is pretty damn sexist. She's a warrior! She shouldn't have good nails! 

[Vertigo]

That girl you guys keep reposting with the belly looks perfectly normal. Cute even. Maybe you guys really are chuds now

Normal...yes.

Hot...

I’m going to be respectful, but yeah she’s more much more butch than cute these days, guess it fits her whole gender fluid look. The date of the picture that keeps getting quoted is from June 2021.   thats basically eons ago. 

I went to look at her their twitter and yeah they don't look like that anymore

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Lol why is she still engaging them?

Stay off Tik Tok.

I guarantee by next week they’ll probably put so much pressure on her they’ll have her endorsing Kamala.

A pop star telling their fans to vote for who the fuck they want to?



Preposterous.

She was made to kneel and said she'd vote for Kamala. If you aren't one of us you don't deserve even an ounce of peace. 

[Rendle]

I’m going to be respectful, but yeah she’s more much more butch than cute these days

I noticed that too



But that just proves she once was cute, otherwise we wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

[JoeBoy101]

if this website becomes sentient that's the bore's stripper name

If this website becomes sentient, I imagine it like a Lovecraftian event where it would begin shitposting the world and eventually consuming. And we, the Devotees of Bore would have the gift and honor for our service of dying first.

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-your-family-ever-try-to-shame-you-about-anything.992379/post-129280626

Melody Shreds
Yes, constantly.
They constantly give me shit for not being able to work anymore, calling me lazy. They shame me for rejecting the name they were "kind enough" to give me. They shame me for being a progressive and a T word that ends with a "Y".

They even shame me for being unable to buy food for myself and when I ask for help tell me it's not their job to keep me fed. It's worth mentioning I'm effectively homeless right now.

See I can’t engage with this because I’d ask hateful Chud-like questions like, “In the new age of hybrid office and remoting workers, WHY can’t you work?”

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-6#post-129250728

I've long started to stop taking people seriously who still mention October 7th. What happened then is such an insignificant event compared to ANYTHING that's been happening ever since.

For Israeli, October 7th was a bad day.

For Gaza, October 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, etc. have been bad days. Up to today. And now Lebanon gets to join this suffering.

The greatest evil in all of this is that Israel likely knew about the October 7th attack and could have prevented it. Heck, why would an area near the border be so devoid of IDF soldiers that day? So much bs going on.

And yet the West watches as innocent people are being murdered by Israel. In some years, we'll get to listen to current politicians' 'We're sorry' bs. Fuck them.

Nice Forum you got there, Dubs.

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-your-family-ever-try-to-shame-you-about-anything.992379/post-129280626

Melody Shreds
Yes, constantly.
They constantly give me shit for not being able to work anymore, calling me lazy. They shame me for rejecting the name they were "kind enough" to give me. They shame me for being a progressive and a T word that ends with a "Y".

They even shame me for being unable to buy food for myself and when I ask for help tell me it's not their job to keep me fed. It's worth mentioning I'm effectively homeless right now.

I really wish someone would ask them why they can't work anymore. Not knowing why is killing me

Probably a crippling condition like Anxiety, Lumbago, or Sinus Infection. You know, debilitating.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

10% on kofi btw, $20 from Stevarow thank you kindly

Now 32%

[Besticus Maximus]

They're unimpressed with Metaphor Refantazio but I smashed through it last night and it was a huge banger 

[Nintex]

Music's debut lesbian is caught in the tough cookie and she can't crack it:

There's something amusing about the new generation of celebrities communicating this way because it's like they're getting trapped in fucking Resetera arguments

That's the behaviour of their entire cope culture and they're all not going to vote and even if they do they certainly aren't telling anyone else to vote.
I don't know how the Democrats who were on top of this in the Obama era dropped the ball so hard. 

The Podcasts, Tiktoks and Discords are all being flooded with the register + vote Trump message. I'm seeing the notifications everywhere. 
Reaching out to new voters is a risky strategy for sure but what if they actually do show up?
 

[Polident]

When they complain about their parents, they don’t get how scary it is for them. Most have supported them for most of their lives. But they’re getting older. The parents, I mean. They can imagine a time when they’re not around to support their kids anymore. No parent wants that feeling of knowing their kids will be helpless when they’re gone. A lot have already given up on the wish of their kids supporting them.