Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)
A credentialed team of scholars investigate an elaborate social experiment
(11-20-2024, 02:31 PM)books wrote: 10 barves

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(11-20-2024, 10:15 AM)benji wrote:
(11-20-2024, 09:40 AM)BananaBlast wrote: Holy shit I just now realized I've been mixing up plagarize with deimosmasque. lol
plagiarize: British "non-binary" who does IT for the cops, sex slavery expert, has solar panels all over the top of his house in Massachusetts.
deimomasque: Trans former amateur fetish photographer, (former?) partner of AliceAmber, lives in standard Florida shithole.

It's either Florida or some Midwest dumpster. The Wakanda of these freaks.

But why? Is all the heat giving them brain rot? Maybe Fentanyl? 

hmm
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(11-20-2024, 01:09 PM)Jansen wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/high-court-rules-calling-a-man-bald-is-sex-related-harassment.1040436/

Good news for kyuuji

Kyuuji's fucktoy Uzzy is in that thread being all smug. Must be painful for poor Kyuuji Mjcry
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Prettybigpotato wrote:Thank you Kyuuji for all the work you've put into the thread and all the work you do to raise awareness.

Elandyll wrote:Yes thank you Kyuuji for your unwavering support and hard work for Trans rights year round.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/20th-november-is-transgender-day-of-remembrance.1039284/#post-131898699


Yes, the hard work of… quoting articles on a gaming forum… 

Egomaniac
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it doesn't even accomplish anything because they all already believe it

it's like doing the motion of what they've heard other organizations do in the real world without any thought as to the context of how it's done or evaluating its effectiveness
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(11-19-2024, 08:59 AM)benji wrote: Heartbeat HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Heartbeat


Fucking hell you're almost in your 40s Melody! Getting birthday presents or not stopped being crucial like 20 years ago.
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fj083 wrote:It's just exhausting.

I grew up reading, watching, playing, listening to all these beautiful stories about selflessness, heroism with characters that are either models of understanding and tolerance or warnings against the rise of fascism and hatred.

And yet now I can't talk about any of these things online without an absolute idiot telling me that these very evident messages are not really there and that I'm reading too much into it. Or complete asshats telling me how "non political" the thing was until now because the franchise added a black woman or some shit...

And THEN you can't even search for a thing you like without the angry YouTube angry men with zero media literacy calling everything shit based on the most stupid reads possible and pushing buzzwords and overly simplified jabs at basic storytelling that idiots will repeat non-stop to appear intelligent.

All these while the same dipshits are turning the fucking world we live in in the exact oppressive, hateful society these stories warned us about.

God, I am so tired.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-so-so-tired-of-having-to-share-media-with-absolute-idiots.1040631/#post-131898954

omfg 

He’s upset about people not liking MCU and Star Wars anymore lol
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(11-20-2024, 02:54 PM)Steven Snell wrote:
(11-19-2024, 08:59 AM)benji wrote: Heartbeat HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Heartbeat


Fucking hell you're almost in your 40s Melody! Getting birthday presents or not stopped being crucial like 20 years ago.

He could literally open his front door, go outside and build a trans safari park
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I think so many Era posters would have a significantly increased quality of life if they stopped letting the reactions of other people define their emotional state.

If you really see see Iron Man 2 as a wholly metaphorical treatise on the essence of self-actualization (or whatever), then someone dismissing your take because it's "really" about a robot punchman shooty boom boom should have 0 impact on you.
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They should also accept that sometimes other kinds of ideas and perspectives are allowed regardless of whether they're for or against the final judgement and apocalypse

Or that someone might even be able to make something that's about something that they themselves are not or may not have actually done.

Media literacy appears to be the same thing as the right side of history, and only available to people without university degrees or indeed jobs
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Shrelody Meds, forever:

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(11-20-2024, 01:29 PM)Uncle wrote:
(11-20-2024, 01:09 PM)Jansen wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/high-court-rules-calling-a-man-bald-is-sex-related-harassment.1040436/

Good news for kyuuji

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did you know men can have vaginas and women can have dicks now?

so sexual harassment is impossible, since no verbal abuse is gendered anymore, anyone can have any parts

SCIENCE!

FFS, men can’t even have baldness according to these shitheads.
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media literacy
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(11-20-2024, 03:04 PM)Cauliflower Of Love wrote: media literacy

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harinezumi wrote:This no longer works because the people who make the stuff (or rather the executives above them) are starting to listen to these people and catering to their whims.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-so-so-tired-of-having-to-share-media-with-absolute-idiots.1040631/#post-131900685

Businesses that profit off of media are listening to what their audience wants? 

literally shaking
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/christopher-dring-dragon-age-the-veilguard-1st-week-sales-in-europe-were-over-18-lower-than-dragons-dogma-2-and-nearly-21-below-ff-vii-rebirth.1040778/

I believe that the big gaming sites gave this game a high rating just to stick it to the chuds.
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Quote:Can't say I'm surprised. Bioware's name doesn't carry much weight anymore and Veilguard doesn't do anything to turn that around.

A 10 year wait for that.

wag  Banplz 

Quote:Devastatingly disappointing game, but God I hope it's a sales success. I need BioWare to keep going, and an eventual return-to-form DA5, even if it takes another ten years.

YOU CRAZY MAN YOU CRAZY

your beloved company is long gone, the people who made what you liked have left, you care about a name more than people

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/136moxn/david_gaider_former_lead_writer_and_creator_of/

"David Gaider (former lead writer and creator of Dragon Age) says BioWare "quietly resented" its writers, with a reliance on expensive narrative seen as the "albatross" holding the company back" (tweets protected, of course, no way to actually see what he wrote)
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Quote:Devastatingly disappointing game, but God I hope it's a sales success. I need BioWare to keep going, and an eventual return-to-form DA5, even if it takes another ten years.

HOW MANY RETURN TO FORM DISAPPOINTMENTS YOU NEED! 

They are never going to get better. Even Sonic Team has been more consistent than them.
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Feel free to fact check because I never played DA3, and Mass Effect 3’s ending colored the perception of the full game, but all that leaves Mass Effect 2 as the last well regarded BioWare game? 

One could argue BioWare has been bad longer than they were ever good. Is it fair to compare old development cycles to modern ones? Absolutely. So Baldur’s Gate 1 to ME2 was 12 years. DA2 to DA4 was 13 years.
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(11-20-2024, 02:32 PM)Polident wrote:
(11-20-2024, 02:16 PM)Besticus Maximus wrote: Stalker is a mess, to the thread  Sickos

In what way?

I bought the first game at launch. If it isn’t freezing your PC, popping out the disk tray, and causing all sorts of unidentifiable noises, it wouldn’t be true to the original.

Or did they make into a boring slavic Far Cry?

Good news. Is a STALKER game.
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Nepenthe wrote:My favorite game to play is seeing if a person has a political take completely opposed to the franchise or character they have in their avatar.

"We should not tear down the system."

"My brother in Christ, you have a Clive Rosfield avatar."
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-so-so-tired-of-having-to-share-media-with-absolute-idiots.1040631/#post-131906028

omfg
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(11-20-2024, 04:34 PM)Polident wrote: Feel free to fact check because I never played DA3, and Mass Effect 3’s ending colored the perception of the full game, but all that leaves Mass Effect 2 as the last well regarded BioWare game? 

One could argue BioWare has been bad longer than they were ever good. Is it fair to compare old development cycles to modern ones? Absolutely. So Baldur’s Gate 1 to ME2 was 12 years. DA2 to DA4 was 13 years.

founded by 3 actual medical doctors who wanted to make a digital version of their D&D game

so quaint and guileless
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(11-20-2024, 04:34 PM)Polident wrote: Feel free to fact check because I never played DA3, and Mass Effect 3’s ending colored the perception of the full game, but all that leaves Mass Effect 2 as the last well regarded BioWare game? 

One could argue BioWare has been bad longer than they were ever good. Is it fair to compare old development cycles to modern ones? Absolutely. So Baldur’s Gate 1 to ME2 was 12 years. DA2 to DA4 was 13 years.

I think DA3 is good, or at least good enough to set up a memorable villain for 4… that it sounds they unceremoniously screwed over.
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(11-20-2024, 04:38 PM)kaleidoscopium wrote:
Nepenthe wrote:My favorite game to play is seeing if a person has a political take completely opposed to the franchise or character they have in their avatar.

"We should not tear down the system."

"My brother in Christ, you have a Clive Rosfield avatar."
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-so-so-tired-of-having-to-share-media-with-absolute-idiots.1040631/#post-131906028

omfg


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You now who has a say in political takes?

People who vote.
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(11-20-2024, 04:38 PM)kaleidoscopium wrote:
Nepenthe wrote:My favorite game to play is seeing if a person has a political take completely opposed to the franchise or character they have in their avatar.

"We should not tear down the system."

"My brother in Christ, you have a Clive Rosfield avatar."
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-so-so-tired-of-having-to-share-media-with-absolute-idiots.1040631/#post-131906028

omfg

When will Nepenthe move from her parents home to go to defeat Ultima?
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/christopher-dring-dragon-age-the-veilguard-1st-week-sales-in-europe-were-over-18-lower-than-dragons-dogma-2-and-nearly-21-below-ff-vii-rebirth.1040778/page-3#post-131906247
Yerffej wrote:
noortsyk wrote:
Ganryu wrote:A bad game with bad sales
Not much to add to that. Thank God I didn't pre-order and had a very busy schedule during the release.
Did you play it?
Context clues here would indicate that, no, noortsyk has not played the game, and is in fact specifically posting in relief that he hasn't. Because all indications are that it is bad.
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(11-20-2024, 04:44 PM)Boredfrom wrote:
(11-20-2024, 04:38 PM)kaleidoscopium wrote:
Nepenthe wrote:My favorite game to play is seeing if a person has a political take completely opposed to the franchise or character they have in their avatar.

"We should not tear down the system."

"My brother in Christ, you have a Clive Rosfield avatar."
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-so-so-tired-of-having-to-share-media-with-absolute-idiots.1040631/#post-131906028

omfg

When will Nepenthe move from her parents home to go to defeat Ultima?

There is a much more relevant lesson Nepenthe could take from the example of Clive Rosfield

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Fans: Pls, BioWare, more RPG like…

BioWare: YOU WANT MORE ACTION AND LESS CHOICES!! GOOD! 


Fans: Pls, at least good writing.

BioWare: We hired writers from our forum and Tumblr. Use their preferred pronouns, por favor…

Fans: Baldurs Gate 3 was a success, BioWare pls…

BioWare: What is a Baldurs Gate?
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I do think FF16 and Veilguard have very similar issues, wokism aside.

They both feel like they are reacting to "no one wants those old and dusty RPGs anymore...we have to do something different to stay relevant!"

When BG3 came out while both of these are mid-development, I am positive many pants were shat. But it was too late to pivot. 

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(11-20-2024, 02:54 PM)kaleidoscopium wrote:
fj083 wrote:I grew up reading, watching, playing, listening to all these beautiful stories about selflessness, heroism with characters that are either models of understanding and tolerance or warnings against the rise of fascism and hatred.

And yet now I can't talk about any of these things online without an absolute idiot telling me that these very evident messages are not really there and that I'm reading too much into it.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-so-so-tired-of-having-to-share-media-with-absolute-idiots.1040631/#post-131898954
Yeah? Which were those? But that's none of my business...

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