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

[Besticus Maximus]

I like the Indy game tbh. It's the best thing machine games have made since the ps4 wolfenstein. It feels more like Dishonoured than any of those though.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-on-meet-the-press-on-nbc-we%E2%80%99re-subsidizing-canada-100b-yr-mexico-300b-yr-if-we%E2%80%99re-going-to-subsidize-them-let-them-both-become-states.1055391/

Just in case you thought that he was "joking" in that meeting with Trudeau. He is now publicly saying it on live TV. Even including Mexico as a state now too.

Today I learned that jokes are not something that someone "publicly says on live TV". 

These people have become the most obnoxious form of communication autists whenever it comes to Trump. 
"If he's joking why isn't there a laugh track and a large flashing sign that says JOKE INCOMING? Also if someone means something at all, even 1%, then it can never be a joke at all" 

[Straight Edge]

I mean, the Era thread was directly responsible for Concord's shutdown, so yeah.

[D3RANG3D]

[DavidCroquet]

I like the Indy game tbh. It's the best thing machine games have made since the ps4 wolfenstein. It feels more like Dishonoured than any of those though.

For me I think it's evidence that MS just doesn't have a clue. They struggle to put quality out the door. When they do pull it off, they're awful custodians of their own product. I wouldn't be surprised if Xbox heads see that Starfield and Indiana Jones are only 2 points apart on Metacritic PC, and just helplessly shrug.

"The inner machinations of the gamer mind are an enigma".

[Besticus Maximus]

We're in a strange place with xbox stuff because

- There aren't comparatively many Xboxs out there in the grand scheme of things
- Everyone who is likely to play the game is either on PC or playstation anyway
- If they aren't playing it on xbox the majority will be playing it right now on pc gamepass which won't show up in the steam count (and is a low number overall)

I agree that they are tragic and have been for a while though, the bore tends to focus on playstation/nintendo manchild behaviour but the delusional xbox fellas are the weirdest imo, I can understand slavish devotion to bloodborne or zelda

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-on-meet-the-press-on-nbc-we%E2%80%99re-subsidizing-canada-100b-yr-mexico-300b-yr-if-we%E2%80%99re-going-to-subsidize-them-let-them-both-become-states.1055391/page-4#post-132682587

When Trump says something stupid, and then keeps on doing it over and over, it isn't strategy. It's a symptom of narcissism.
 

Many such cases.

[DJ Bedroom]

I like the Indy game tbh. It's the best thing machine games have made since the ps4 wolfenstein. It feels more like Dishonoured than any of those though.

 
Kinda the thing though, this is the first thing they've done since Wolfenstein. Time doesn't exist anymore

[kaleidoscopium]

The era meltdown thread should be fun

[HaughtyFrank]

I like the Indy game tbh. It's the best thing machine games have made since the ps4 wolfenstein. It feels more like Dishonoured than any of those though.

Yeah, it's pretty good so far.

Honestly I think Microsoft is a bit cursed right now. Doesn't matter what the quality of the game is, it'll just sell like sludge. Expecting Avowed to be the next meager launch. (Not that the dumbass activist dev didn't help with that)

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99ve-never-cared-for-this-bullshit-category-at-the-game-awards.1055625/#post-132675411

The Game Awards exist for game companies to promote their newest titles. It's barely better than its Spike TV predecessor.

This is undeniably false.

Nope.

Yep.

You clearly do not actually remember the Spike awards, which involved the award show equivalent of booth babes.

That's not to say that The Game Awards doesn't have problems. But it being better than the old Spike awards really isn't up for debate. You're just being negative for the sake of it.

I remember them just fine. Are you this way with every type of media? I remember you being this bull-headed about people's opinions on Marvel movies. Anyway, just stop replying to me, k?

I don't think you do remember them. Again, they were deeply sexist and barely better than The Man Show at times.

It's also pretty undeniable that the industry itself takes The Game Awards a lot more seriously than they did the Spike awards.

Also, I wasn't the only one to reply to that comment. You can put me on ignore though if you don't want to see my posts.

CountCorvinus tried to outplay Zeo at Zeo's own game and soon found out no one can out-obstinate Zeo

[HaughtyFrank]

The era meltdown thread should be fun

You see, Penny was actually trying to fix systemic homelessness by killing one homeless guy.

[DavidCroquet]

 

Guaranteed Benji-highlighted post.

[Jansen]

Why would I buy the new Indy when I could just sub to gamepass to play it. This is a problem ms created for themselves.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99ve-never-cared-for-this-bullshit-category-at-the-game-awards.1055625/#post-132675411

The Game Awards exist for game companies to promote their newest titles. It's barely better than its Spike TV predecessor.

This is undeniably false.

Nope.

Yep.

You clearly do not actually remember the Spike awards, which involved the award show equivalent of booth babes.

That's not to say that The Game Awards doesn't have problems. But it being better than the old Spike awards really isn't up for debate. You're just being negative for the sake of it.

I remember them just fine. Are you this way with every type of media? I remember you being this bull-headed about people's opinions on Marvel movies. Anyway, just stop replying to me, k?

I don't think you do remember them. Again, they were deeply sexist and barely better than The Man Show at times.

It's also pretty undeniable that the industry itself takes The Game Awards a lot more seriously than they did the Spike awards.

Also, I wasn't the only one to reply to that comment. You can put me on ignore though if you don't want to see my posts.

CountCorvinus tried to outplay Zeo at Zeo's own game and soon found out no one can out-obstinate Zeo

The count didn't have the stamina to go to toe with Zeo. try harder next time you lazy fucker

[DavidCroquet]

Yeah, it's pretty good so far.

Honestly I think Microsoft is a bit cursed right now. Doesn't matter what the quality of the game is, it'll just sell like sludge. Expecting Avowed to be the next meager launch. (Not that the dumbass activist dev didn't help with that)

I just think about Phil Spencer's clip from a I think a year back where he said that making good single player games won't change the situation for Xbox.

It just reeks of a lack of, I dunno...corporate imagination. Of course the calculus isn't just "make good games that review well and win the console wars". I gotta believe Sony and Nintendo both think really hard about better-than-good constantly, and consider tons of factors external to just the game quality: release timings, advertising windows, marketing positioning, in-house vs. external, do we marry this to an IP or not, etc etc.

Like, I don't know if Sony would've even gone for Indiana Jones...is that really the IP you want your best developers working on in 2024? Does the IP offer anything beyond added constraints?

I just feel like Xbox doesn't even ask get around to asking those questions. "Hey, we've got licensed IP games too!" is about the beginning and the end of their analysis and planning as far as I can tell.

[Daffy Duck]

Problem is they can’t make an explorer type IP from scratch because people would say they are just ripping off Uncharted, so why not go for the Indy IP, it’s dormant (the last couple of films don’t count lol)

[Cauliflower Of Love]

What are titty skittles?

TOPG:

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[Polident]

I like the Indy game tbh. It's the best thing machine games have made since the ps4 wolfenstein. It feels more like Dishonoured than any of those though.

I liked the three single player games. Don’t know the full lore and if it’s like Doom with everything connected. Among other reasons, people were upset over the co-op game with the daughters for skipped over Wolfenstein 3. Like, they skip over beating the Nazi and killing Hitler? Something like that.

[Garfield]

I am absolutely thrilled that the jury did the right thing and acquitted Daniel Penny today!!!

[Greatness Gone]

>EAT THE RICH

>BILLIONAIRES  SHOULD ALL BE GUILLOTINED 

>THERE ARE NO ETHICAL BILLIONAIRES

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swifts-eras-tour-is-the-first-in-history-to-gross-over-2-billion.1055571/

YAAS QUEEN 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/syrian-rebels-launch-major-attack-on-regime-forces-in-aleppo-province-assad-regime-is-gone-israel-landgrabbing.1048323/page-16#post-132655062

User Banned (1 Week): inflammatory Generalization

Alot of of popular pro Palestinian accounts are exposing themselves. They can't can't express even little happiness for most of the Syrians who have been oppressed and killed by Assad regime for decades. They are mad that iran and russia lover Bashar has fallen. Like yeah I hate israel and I don't really trust the armed rebels, but al Assad family have been the main villains to the Syrians for decades and we should be happy with the syrians that they have fallen.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/syrian-rebels-launch-major-attack-on-regime-forces-in-aleppo-province-assad-regime-is-gone-israel-landgrabbing.1048323/page-16#post-132656292

User Banned (2 Weeks): inflammatory Generalization; History of Inflammatory Commentary

The majority of those only cares depending of who is the perpetrator of the massacre. If is Israel, they are concerned. If is Iran, Syria or Russia, not so much, maybe they deserved it...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/syrian-rebels-launch-major-attack-on-regime-forces-in-aleppo-province-assad-regime-is-gone-israel-landgrabbing.1048323/page-16#post-132656997

User Banned (1 Week): inflammatory Generalization

That much has been very obvious.

Hit dog hollers.

[Alpacx]

Hamas Era absolutely butthurt over Assad going. He was one of the most staunch anti-israelis, one of the few leaders left who actually would have liked to eradicate Israel, so of course they're in there scolding people for enjoying his downfall. When that doesn't work, round up the discords and get another anti-jew thread going. Pathetic.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/drewpavlou/status/1865701878526595451
[/tweet]

Clearly Assad wasn’t against israel enough if he could enjoy Borat, Valkyrie, and Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice. Never meet your heroes.

NuTrek? Cancel his ass

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-needs-lebensraum-says-blog-by-major-national-newspaper.1054800/#post-132667293

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

Lebensraum is freaking normal word, nothing Nazi, not everything is Nazi, whats up with the Nazi fixation. Its a Habitat of a specific species. And a Habitat is defined by resources needed to support a population. But if you would like to go with ecological terms, we can take about invasive species, trying to expand their Lebensraum.

[Boredfrom]

thread to watch:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-the-rohirrim-extended-sneak-preview-dec-13.1050921/

for commentary on this:

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-war-of-277

Warner Bros.’ upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim animated film bombed in its release at various international box offices only bringing in a total of $2 million.

It’s also likely that the Tolkien fan base is not interested in the film’s feminist messaging, which it has made apparent in its marketing by making the unnamed daughter of Helm Hammerhand the protagonist of the film rather than Helm Hammerhand.

watch it become the latest darling that must be defended at all costs from the chuds trying to make it fail because it stars a GIRL

Honestly, I thought it was straight to DVD/Streaming. Warner didnt promote this stuff.

[Ethan]

Looks like the hero of the revolution has been caught and he's not as awesome as he was made out to be.
Too many posts from disappointed simps to quote.

[Alpacx]

Era's going to Milkshake Duck their anticapitalist assassin.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/us-news/person-of-interest-in-fatal-shooting-of-unitedhealthcare-boss-brian-thompson-idd-as-luigi-mangione-an-ex-ivy-league-student/

On the Goodreads website, Mangione’s account shows quotes he particularly likes ranging from Socrates to Bruce Lee

Mangione was valedictorian of his 2016 high school graduating class at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he played soccer, according to online sites. High school tuition at the all-boys school is nearly $40,000 a year.

He said at the time of graduation that he planned to seek a degree in artificial intelligence, focused on the areas of computer science and cognitive science at the University of Pennsylvania,

[Nintex]

Xbox is transitioning into unaliving itself.

They want to drop hardware but they don't quite have the streaming quality they need to do it.
They want to focus on GamePass full stop but they can't abandon the sales they get on Steam and other platforms.
They want to end the console war with PlayStation but they can't push out the games at the same time on all platforms yet.

To point out the insanity, they're now shipping 'physical games' which are essentially empty discs because everything installs from the cloud.

Even the name of the product doesn't make sense, so they came up with this "Everything is now an Xbox" nonsense which just hammers home the point that you don't really need an Xbox if you own an iPad or Samsung TV?

On the 'how the hell do we make this profitable' side things are even more dire. They basically have to put everything on GamePass (including Call of Duty and Indy) to give GamePass enough 'value' so existing subscribers don't cancel. However that means that GamePass becomes very lopsided for 'big releases' and first party IPs and is no longer interesting for third party developers that have to compete with the Xbox/Bethesda/Activision library.

The 'hours played' metric they use to measure succes also seems like a bad choice. After all, the more people play their games the higher the server costs will be while the subscription fee remains flat. And finally the what I call "Ghetto Gamers" which is Xbox main target audience now is mostly playing on GamePass + Series S because it's the cheapest option. They have no interest in spending on the DLCs and cosmetics that would otherwise make the F2P model work.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-on-meet-the-press-on-nbc-we%E2%80%99re-subsidizing-canada-100b-yr-mexico-300b-yr-if-we%E2%80%99re-going-to-subsidize-them-let-them-both-become-states.1055391/

DO IT!!!!! 

(enjoy the Narcoviolence and corruption )

[Greatness Gone]

Xbox is transitioning into unaliving itself.

They want to drop hardware but they don't quite have the streaming quality they need to do it.
They want to focus on GamePass full stop but they can't abandon the sales they get on Steam and other platforms.
They want to end the console war with PlayStation but they can't push out the games at the same time on all platforms yet.

To point out the insanity, they're now shipping 'physical games' which are essentially empty discs because everything installs from the cloud.

Even the name of the product doesn't make sense, so they came up with this "Everything is now an Xbox" nonsense which just hammers home the point that you don't really need an Xbox if you own an iPad or Samsung TV?

On the 'how the hell do we make this profitable' side things are even more dire. They basically have to put everything on GamePass (including Call of Duty and Indy) to give GamePass enough 'value' so existing subscribers don't cancel. However that means that GamePass becomes very lopsided for 'big releases' and first party IPs and is no longer interesting for third party developers that have to compete with the Xbox/Bethesda/Activision library.

The 'hours played' metric they use to measure succes also seems like a bad choice. After all, the more people play their games the higher the server costs will be while the subscription fee remains flat. And finally the what I call "Ghetto Gamers" which is Xbox main target audience now is mostly playing on GamePass + Series S because it's the cheapest option. They have no interest in spending on the DLCs and cosmetics that would otherwise make the F2P model work.

100%. Entire brand is a disaster. Which is unfortunate because 2025 and beyond look like they're going to be amazing for Xbox first party.

The problem is that this kind of output should've started in 2015, not now.