Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-congresswoman-rashida-tlaib-calls-out-biden-administration-after-gaza-aid-deadline-passes.1037928/

Blinken should not get to walk out of his position with any shred of grace.

Dude actually lied to Congress. I'm surprised he didn't get into deep shit over that.

 

It's painfully fucking clear that not only is she surrounded by Dems that don't give a fuck, institutionally they just want her gone and the rest of the Palestinians dead.

The Democrats love Israel more than they hate authoritarianism and it shows. I'm forever grateful to her for her service to a party that denies her right to exist. The world needs more politicians like her leading.

Respect to Tlaib for continuing to fight for Palestinians in a party utterly hostile to their very existence.

The party needs an enema, the old guard is fucking killing us, figuratively and for many literally.

With friends like these.

[Venice]

Another day, another pervert thread on ResetEra: "Question for hetro men: Who are some men you find beautiful?"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/question-for-hetero-men-who-are-some-men-you-find-beautiful.1038087/

I got zero problems with anyone wanting to admire hot dudes.

But the total hypocrisy of these kinds of threads on ResetEra.cum has been discussed before on TheBore. On Era, it's perfectly fine to:

- Create masturbatory threads on your favourite kawaii female anime characters ♡(^_^)♡
- Similarly, create masturbatory threads over your favourite male celebrities, with dozens and dozens of posts about how 'X celeb is so fucking hot!! 🔥🔥🔥'

But write a post about how you find a certain female celebrity/videogame character attractive? Thread locked and 1 month insta-ban for 'sexualising women', 'misogyny', 'history of the same' etc, etc...

Also, I found this post amusing:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/question-for-hetero-men-who-are-some-men-you-find-beautiful.1038087/#post-131772741

hetero cis man, and like 99.9% of the guys on TV/MoviesMusic or whatever are beautiful hunky hunks.

But like a true beauty with a glowing aura of beauty and kindness, that was the one time I had a nice chat with Ethan Hawk IRL.

My partner loves reality dating/singles shows and we are always comparing notes on who's hot and who we find more attractive, no insecurity around calling a hunk a hunk.

If you find 99.9% of men attractive, and are COMPARING WITH YOUR PARTNER WHICH DUDES YOU FIND HOT you're not hetero you dumb fuck 


You are, at the bare minimum, bisexual, but most likely you'll be coming out as gay or announcing your trans in less than 12 months time.

[Potato]

Reee also has a near monthly thread where they argue that renting is better than paying a mortgage on a house

It is...if you are disciplined with your money and wise with your investments and are prepared to move house a lot more than if you owned it and like being told what you can and can't do with your home and...

[Alpacx]

Reee also has a near monthly thread where they argue that renting is better than paying a mortgage on a house

It is...if you are disciplined with your money and wise with your investments and are prepared to move house a lot more than if you owned it and like being told what you can and can't do with your home and...

and you don't live in Blue States/Canada/England where it's impossible to build housing so you'll get fucked by the market if you rent.

[HaughtyFrank]

The wokest gaming site calls Veilguard too woke...

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/massive-carrot-recall-for-e-coli-in-the-united-states.1038132/

[imsotired]

The wokest gaming site calls Veilguard too woke...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-ot-halamshiral.1021152/page-145#post-131773482

Yeah, all the discourse around this game is very reminiscent of The Last Jedi for me.

You are not fooling noodlesoup.

[BananaBlast]

The wokest gaming site calls Veilguard too woke...

And it's a bait and switch article. 

Second paragraph:

I much prefer the way it’s used by people who declare themselves ‘the friend that’s too woke’, because I am that friend that’s too woke. I think it’s intellectually lazy to complain about people having critical thinking being ‘too woke’ because they say that your words or actions might be offensive. I am the friend who rolls their eyes when people talk about using ChatGPT to write their emails, the friend who boycotts brands out of solidarity, the friend who corrects people when they misgender someone. People pejoratively call me woke all the time, and I don’t consider it a mark of shame.

And then the stinger:

If you clicked on this thinking I was going to be complaining about pronouns, joke’s on you, and thanks for the view.

Do not fall for the trap as I have fallen. I have given them 1 view.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Now unban Shoot. 

Election is over. Dems lost. Shoot was right.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-incas-used-stringy-objects-called-khipus-to-record-data%E2%80%94we-just-got-a-step-closer-to-understanding-them.1038036/#post-131765049

User banned (2 weeks): attacking other posters and detailing the thread

You're doing that thing again where you just copy-paste an article so it makes it seem like you're the one that made this discovery, when you're not.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-pledges-to-end-any-offensive-weapon-holds-on-israel-on-day-1-in-office.1036179/page-5#post-131716920

User Banned (1 Week): Hostility towards another member

Trump withheld aid to Palestinians that Biden restored in 2021. Biden held back arms and threatened Israel. In the other thread people were saying Biden will rot in hell for what he did. We're about to really see how bad it gets for Palestine. All those protest voters are going to reap what they wanted. It's so sad.

Shut the fuck up Liberal.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Based Anomander. 

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/massive-carrot-recall-for-e-coli-in-the-united-states.1038132/

39 people sick wow, it must be at least half of the healthy eating americans.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-pledges-to-end-any-offensive-weapon-holds-on-israel-on-day-1-in-office.1036179/page-5#post-131716920

User Banned (1 Week): Hostility towards another member

Trump withheld aid to Palestinians that Biden restored in 2021. Biden held back arms and threatened Israel. In the other thread people were saying Biden will rot in hell for what he did. We're about to really see how bad it gets for Palestine. All those protest voters are going to reap what they wanted. It's so sad.

Shut the fuck up Liberal.

a week, really?  I expected a permanent ban

[Uncle]

Xbox 360 is like the MegaDrive/Genesis. The one hit wonder that defined a generation and the company that made it never managed to find out why it was such a success in the first place.

And yes Nintendo's post NES "success" is taken wildly out of proportion especially if you don't include Pokemon. If you look at sales numbers of games like Ocarina of Time, that's 7 million and on par with Tomb Raider. Nintendo mostly relied on that holiday gift market of a console + pack-in or that one killer app. That's why you see such high numbers for games like Tetris, Mario 64, Pokemon, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Wii Sports etc. and everything else lags way behind. Also one of the reasons why third parties lost interest in Nintendo consoles and in most generations they cut games in development post-launch and narrowed it down to a single big holiday release. They weren't able to fix this until the Switch.

Especially with PS1/PS2/PS4 Sony focused on that young adult with disposable income market that would regularly buy new games themselves and not just the one holiday release.

they lost interest because nintendo abandoned traditional controls (or at least gave that perception/for all intents and purposes, since "pro controllers" were an afterthought)

wii maintaining the same power level as a gamecube coupled with many fewer buttons available made standard ports practically impossible, which nintendo practically said was their whole purpose, "we want developers to think differently about how they can use our hardware," when the path of least resistance/highest profits makes catering to that prima donna attitude developmental suicide

DS saw decent support, but again the design demanded that devs shoehorn in touch functionality even when games didn't require it, so you end up with terrible ideas like castlevania's "draw a sigil to seal the boss" mechanic, or dumb situations where the whole touch screen was just a big pause button

for wii u they almost seemed to be in a panic about getting third parties back on board and got outsized support at launch (random port of mass effect 3, when the first two weren't even playable on any nintendo platform...) but in spite of the bump in power and bringing back the standardized set of buttons, again the design screamed "do something with the second screen!!" and devs just didn't want to feel obligated to deal with that albatross, end up with people criticizing them for being lazy for doing nothing with it

to this day they're feeling the effects of their choices in the wii/ds era, they generally struggle to port much of anything from those platforms due to the control schemes...if the new switch has two screens as is rumored, I feel like most of the point of that will be to milk their ds and wii u back catalogue (enhanced ports/remakes/sequels to ds games)

[benji]

a week, really?  I expected a permanent ban

Shut the fuck up Liberal.

[normalindividual]

My lovely Nanna recently asked me why she had to call someone them and just couldn't use their name.  Obviously I have followed ree advice and did the right thing and have cut her from my life and am pressing all family members to do the same.

Hateful TERF better watch out as I live in a place where euthanasia is legal.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-congresswoman-rashida-tlaib-calls-out-biden-administration-after-gaza-aid-deadline-passes.1037928/

Blinken should not get to walk out of his position with any shred of grace.

Dude actually lied to Congress. I'm surprised he didn't get into deep shit over that.

 

It's painfully fucking clear that not only is she surrounded by Dems that don't give a fuck, institutionally they just want her gone and the rest of the Palestinians dead.

The Democrats love Israel more than they hate authoritarianism and it shows. I'm forever grateful to her for her service to a party that denies her right to exist. The world needs more politicians like her leading.

Respect to Tlaib for continuing to fight for Palestinians in a party utterly hostile to their very existence.

The party needs an enema, the old guard is fucking killing us, figuratively and for many literally.

With friends like these.

Like, I would like to address some of these for their utter stupidity. 

Authoritarianism...yes, Hamas is famous for its love and respect for democracy.

Right to exist...well, are we talking about extremist Islamists and their total respect for the rights of gay, lesbian and trans people to exist?

Literally and figuratively killing people...well I guess only one side is literally and figuratively killing people *cough* October 7 *cough* From the river to the sea *cough*

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/massive-carrot-recall-for-e-coli-in-the-united-states.1038132/

Wanna be really disgusted? 

Contamination is most likely because someone used human shit to fertilise these "organic" vegetables.

[Polident]

What is this obsession over “existence”? Deny the existence…of somebody working in the US government. What are you talking about.

[Daffy Duck]

lol he ain’t wrong

[tweet]
https://twitter.com/pk13510/status/1857816975726055708?s=46
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[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

a week, really?  I expected a permanent ban

Shut the fuck up Liberal.

I briefly thought about posting the same thing, but then I realised I couldn't do that to the wholesome Taco Bell Tower.

What I'm saying benji, is that you are a monster.

[Potato]

What is this obsession over “existence”? Deny the existence…of somebody working in the US government. What are you talking about.

It's nonsensical because if you deny that trans people exist, then how on earth are you also capable of genociding them?

[Besticus Maximus]

What is this obsession over “existence”? Deny the existence…of somebody working in the US government. What are you talking about.

Well you see, the problem is that most of the things they say are important don't actually exist

[Snoopy]

Conspiracy ree thinks Amazon are fucking with him

My girlfriend and I were looking at board games on the buy 3 get 2 sale. We both know some games we are both looking for. We each stumbled upon Pandemic at the same time and she said Pandemic is 31.97. At the same time I was looking at my listing and it's 35.99. I checked her phone and looked at mine to make sure it was the same listing and it was. So naturally this led me to Google and I found out about price discrimination. They factor in what device you are using, your location and "your willingness to pay".

This blows my mind.

 https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-know-price-discrimination-is-a-thing-with-amazon.1038105/

[Polident]

Conspiracy ree thinks Amazon are fucking with him

My girlfriend and I were looking at board games on the buy 3 get 2 sale. We both know some games we are both looking for. We each stumbled upon Pandemic at the same time and she said Pandemic is 31.97. At the same time I was looking at my listing and it's 35.99. I checked her phone and looked at mine to make sure it was the same listing and it was. So naturally this led me to Google and I found out about price discrimination. They factor in what device you are using, your location and "your willingness to pay".

This blows my mind.

 https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-know-price-discrimination-is-a-thing-with-amazon.1038105/

Killing time on the train so I looked this up. Lower price is sold by Board Game Retail. Higher price is sold by Amazon. It’s not that complicated.

[Besticus Maximus]

Bad UI thread is a rare example of a good thread. Perhaps the best of the year.   a normal forum?

Let's see what's going on elsewhere

Nepenthe

And yeah, I'll never forget when he told a bunch of Black folks that he marched with MLK. While true, nothing is a bigger turn off than a non-Black person bringing that man up.

[Uncle]

The wokest gaming site calls Veilguard too woke...

And it's a bait and switch article. 

Second paragraph:

I much prefer the way it’s used by people who declare themselves ‘the friend that’s too woke’, because I am that friend that’s too woke. I think it’s intellectually lazy to complain about people having critical thinking being ‘too woke’ because they say that your words or actions might be offensive. I am the friend who rolls their eyes when people talk about using ChatGPT to write their emails, the friend who boycotts brands out of solidarity, the friend who corrects people when they misgender someone. People pejoratively call me woke all the time, and I don’t consider it a mark of shame.

And then the stinger:

If you clicked on this thinking I was going to be complaining about pronouns, joke’s on you, and thanks for the view.

Do not fall for the trap as I have fallen. I have given them 1 view.

no it's not, that's just the preface where they have to pre-defend themselves a dozen ways to build up a shield so they aren't cancelled by all their friends

the article is scathing and true

As many people (including our own James Troughton) have already complained, every member of the Veilguard gets along too well, even when they really shouldn’t. Everybody is nice to each other, and disagreements are smoothed over quickly, if there are any. Everybody is self-sacrificing and noble, and none of them have controversial beliefs.

Lucanis, the mage-killer, and Neve, the mage, get along just fine, even though they have plenty of reasons to be wary of each other. Lucanis is also possessed by a demon, which historically can lead to catastrophic consequences, but nobody seems to mind.

Your Rook is just as inoffensive, never saying anything that could step on anyone’s toes. Any dialogue you choose is going to be basically the same. Jokey responses are never sarcastic or mean-spirited. Aggressive responses are never hostile, just resolute. You can’t pick fights with your companions – you can’t even really lose approval with them because of the way the game is designed.

There’s already a total lack of interpersonal conflict in the game because these characters are generally totally lacking in negative traits, which in turn makes them completely yawn-worthy. But this attitude extends into Dragon Age’s copious lore.

For example, the Antivan Crows have long been portrayed as a very morally grey faction. They’re cutthroat and care only about coin – in Origins, the companion Zevran (my favourite character) can be recruited after he fails to assassinate you. He reveals that the guild is formed largely of child slaves who were bought and then tortured and abused into becoming cold-blooded killers.


In The Veilguard, these actions are never acknowledged or discussed. Instead, they’re freedom fighters who resist the Antaam and protect their city, and only take contracts on people they deem to be evil. This change in morality is never explained, nor does Lucanis ever talk about the abuse he canonically would have faced growing up. One of the most thematically interesting traits of the Crows is wiped entirely from the game in order to make them inoffensive and morally good.

Then there’s the Lords of Fortune, a group that is very pirate-coded. They’re treasure hunters who are based on the coast – you know, pirate stuff. We know that they do steal stuff, because Dragon Age: Tevinter Knights tells us so in Herold Had the Plan, where a trio of Lords attempt a heist.

But when Rook jokingly tells Taash not to steal anything from the Lighthouse, Taash informs them that the Lords of Fortune don’t actually steal things, they only take stuff that has no owner. They even go out of their way to return cultural artefacts to their original homes, like some kind of reverse Lara Croft. Any moral ambiguity is entirely erased, when it could have added complexity to Taash’s character.

Then there’s the issue of attitudes towards elves, which seems to have been totally ignored. The game’s Dalish characters, who are traditionally suspicious of outsiders, seem completely unbothered by their new roles in staving off the end of the world at the hands of their own gods. And nobody seems to hate elves anymore – where before I’d get called “knife-ears” by random people, barely anyone acknowledges my Rook’s race at all.

Origins had a very moving section about the conditions of elves in Denerim’s alienage, a slum where elves were segregated, and this discrimination has been a major factor in the series’ worldbuilding. It made me very sad the first time I played it, and it had a far more revolutionary message than anything The Veilguard has managed. That racism was interesting. Why was it removed?

a self-admitted woke person explicitly asking for more racism in games

[FEUER FREI.]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hearts-of-iron-iv-and-half-life-2-hit-all-time-ccu-peak-on-steam.1037898/#post-131771415

Yes. Or not introduce Adolph Hitler and his high command of Holocaust architects to the game as a tech tree reward. Because of how they tried to kill every Jew on the planet a few generations ago and antisemitism is currently in vogue again among Christians. I feel like it's fairly obvious.

lol this forum is so fucking retarded man hahah. he says "christians" but in reality it is the white left-wing hamas dickriders and muslims, and is either too retarded to say it or just afraid to

[jooseloose]

Bad UI thread is a rare example of a good thread. Perhaps the best of the year.   a normal forum?

Seems to be full of people that don't know the difference between a UI and UX.