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

[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.

[Alpacx]

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.

Mortemis:

bro had an interest in Japanese birth rates? are we sure he ain't on era

I laughed. Great post.

[Greatness Gone]

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,

I looked at his twitter and it's the most milquetoast, inoffensive stuff you could possibly imagine a 26 y/o white male ivy leaguer posting about. There is someonre on ree already calling him right wing though. He seems "normal". Or as normal as a murderer can be.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/photos-showing-face-of-man-sought-in-killing-of-insurance-c-e-o-focus-manhunt.1052907/page-49#post-132691665

Looks like he's pretty right wing judging by his posts?

Definitely more right wing than left.

Follows RFK for God's sake

[Propagandhim]

"The guy that killed someone on the street...FOLLOWS a KENNEDY on TWITTER.  Holy shit, I was wrong about this guy!"  -- overheard in a psych ward.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/photos-showing-face-of-man-sought-in-killing-of-insurance-c-e-o-focus-manhunt.1052907/page-49#post-132691665

Looks like he's pretty right wing judging by his posts?

Definitely more right wing than left.

Follows RFK for God's sake

It would be both sad and hilarious if he believes some of the RFK nonsense.

[Boredfrom]

This guy does more to move the world towards justice than about 99.999% of people and so many here pearl clutch about crap on Twitter? SMH.

could be wrong but it comes off as some sort of Libertarian who really wants to start a revolution / bring the system down. I'd bet he voted Trump.

Isn’t that what you guys wanted?

[Greatness Gone]

they are mad at the killer for posting this about Japan 

The solution to falling birthdates isn't immigration. It's cultural.

Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:
* ban Tenga fleshlights and "Japan Real Hole" custom pornstar pocket pussies being sold in Don Quixote grocery stores
* replace conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering, with actual human interaction with a waiter
* replace 24/7 eSports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via Tekken fighting and Overwatch shooting games, with athletics in school
* heavily stigmatize maid cafes where lonely salarymen pay young girls to dress as anime characters and perform anime dances for them
* revitalize traditional Japanese culture (Shintoism, Okinawan karate, onsen, etc)

[Boredfrom]

they are mad at the killer for posting this about Japan 

The solution to falling birthdates isn't immigration. It's cultural.

Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:
* ban Tenga fleshlights and "Japan Real Hole" custom pornstar pocket pussies being sold in Don Quixote grocery stores
* replace conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering, with actual human interaction with a waiter
* replace 24/7 eSports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via Tekken fighting and Overwatch shooting games, with athletics in school
* heavily stigmatize maid cafes where lonely salarymen pay young girls to dress as anime characters and perform anime dances for them
* revitalize traditional Japanese culture (Shintoism, Okinawan karate, onsen, etc)

Right wing weeabo is still a weeabo.  

(Is not like the Japanese government haven’t tried this stuff  )

[Eric Cartman]

If more folks wake up to realize that cops don't prevent crime they protect capital then politicians and intelligence agencies will get upset.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/photos-showing-face-of-man-sought-in-killing-of-insurance-c-e-o-focus-manhunt.1052907/page-39#post-132666402

True true comrade, the best kind of crime prevention is to only employ people as police in secret so nobody knows who they are, and vanish suspects in the middle of the night while keeping the crimes and accusers undisclosed, which doesn't matter because they will be tried in secret anyway and the arbiter will write down whatever best loosely fits their crime in the redacted record, probably something something something dissident.
Combine this with sending all records to central bureaucracy so that official crime figures can be correctly measured to reflect successful policy, and you will have barely any crime at all!

[Besticus Maximus]

His Facebook account, which did not have any recent postings, says he is the co-founder of AppRoar Studios, which describes itself as “an app development start-up founded to provide the simplest and most engaging gaming experience.”

While at Penn, Mangione appeared in an article in a student publication that praised him for starting up a student-run video game development club. The club is now known as the University of Pennsylvania Game Research and Development Environment.

I'd say we're odds on he has a Resetera account.

[Eric Cartman]

so, "prevent crime" means to set right the wrongs that occur when laws are broken, and much of the law does in fact revolve around who owns a thing and who has damaged it or stolen it or deprived someone else of value/benefits that legally belong to them

so yes, protecting capital is the same thing as preventing crime

if you meant police tend to provide more benefit to the wealthy or to large corporations, there are much better ways to express that belief

Its also the fact most police forces are not called "crime prevention" - they are called something like peace keepers or law enforcement.
Visibility that laws are enforced / public order is maintained is the prevention aspect, the closest you get outside of precog units to prevention is use of informants, which has its own downsides.

[Polident]

Surprisingly unsurprising shooter reveal. Of course he’s a Kaczynski fan.

Although I do like the conspiracy that the real killer hired multiple people with similar outfits to throw off suspicion. Nathan for You did that.

[Eric Cartman]

Imagine it's about the Indiana Jones game.

They should've made Skibidi Toilet and the Diminished Dodecahedron. Kids would've loved playing that.

Indiana Jones and the Circle of Soy...

Indianx Jones And The Massive DEI Circlejerk

[Boredfrom]

I'm just more surprised that we went from "they found his ditched backpack with Monopoly money inside, clearly taunting police" to "oh yeah we found the guy with a gun matching the footage, a New Jersey ID, and oh what's this, an entire manifesto"

 

This is real life, not a film.

[Bootsthecat]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/police-question-man-in-pennsylvania-over-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting.1055997/page-2

The non stop 'snitch!' posts are the funniest thing I've seen on that site in a bit.

Yeah, autistic loser who would call the cops for anything and everything, I'm sure you'd be giving out lots of stitches. You can't even make eye contact with other humans during a regular interaction.

These motherfuckers are beyond gone, it's great

[Nintex]

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 )

I'm telling you Trump might accidentally create a world government if he keeps floating this.

"Hello Mr. Trump"

"How is it going?"   

"Well, we're having a hard time to tell you the truth. We can't compete with China, the Russians are hacking us day and night, inflation is soaring and government approval ratings are at record lows. We need to pay off IMF loans that we covered with more IMF loans. Plus if this government falls there is likely going to be some Russian funded Nazis waiting on TikTok to rig the elections. We're dealing with illegal immigrants and crime is at record highs."

"Perhaps you should become a state then loser!"  

"So our people can travel and work in every US state, oil will be dirt cheap, our government has access to an infinite money printer and the biggest army in the world will protect us? Where do I sign?"
   

There is at least a dozen countries that would instantly join the US if offered the chance.

[Eric Cartman]

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.

Nintendo try and make 'good' (YMMV - they basically do the successful indie route of make something innovative and then polish the shit out of it, sometimes slap on a Known Franchise as its face to get eyes on it) games because when the GC was a pretty powerful machine at a lower price than the competition it fucking bombed and they don't have the funds from other income sources to play a protracted moneyhat war.

Sony don't give a fuck about 'good', they spend all their cash on proven templates to make people go WOW LOOK AT DEM GRAPHIX, and of course then want to buy a bigger better TV, new soundbar, etc etc etc. They don't really give a shit about their first party making its money back because as long as It Is Known that Playstation is better than Xbox they get all the third party moneys. They'll also happily release an IP tie-in if they can monetise it elsewhere (kind of surprising they didnt do a AAAA ghostbusters tbh), but they'd rather create new IP to try and monetise elsewhere (look forward to Concords upcoming TV show!).

Xboxs established bet is to be 'most powerful', but you can't show that off when all your studios are either technically or artistically incompetent; Jankfest Starfield isn't making people go "Holy shit, Xbox is a beast!". Rare (used to?) have the technical know how, but they make everything look artistically shit and then add googly eyes.

[Eric Cartman]

TOPG:

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Transhuman...

[Eric Cartman]

"The guy that killed someone on the street...FOLLOWS a KENNEDY on TWITTER.  Holy shit, I was wrong about this guy!"  -- overheard in a psych ward.

wtf I hate my anti-capitalist travis bickle now

[DavidCroquet]

The Travis Bickle comparison is fucking bang on, holy shit. 

The Era threads about this guy were practically an AuDHD forum version of the final scenes of Taxi Driver.

"Wow, what a hero! Let us deliberately evaluate this scenario on the most superficial level possible, and commit to never consider the context that might cause an individual to be in such a circumstance or behave in such a manner."

[Boredfrom]

i can tell you right now that young brother politics are not centrism lmao

you legitimately have no concept of political ideology if someone who talks about AGI transcedence and willful political violence in lieu of safe obeyance is "centrism" to you

following joe rogan and AOC at the same time is not centrism, I beg

I don't see any of his views as discordant. All of the stuff he's into and shares come from a similar privileged background. that "cold absolutist logic" that a lot of left leaning and right leaning people subscribe to, usually from folks who code or engage primarily with logic based heuristics and math proofs.

he summarily executed a person on a public American street! him praising the unabomber and talking about behavioral based solutions to the japanese birthrate should be expected

Go on...

[Ethan]

His Facebook account, which did not have any recent postings, says he is the co-founder of AppRoar Studios, which describes itself as “an app development start-up founded to provide the simplest and most engaging gaming experience.”

While at Penn, Mangione appeared in an article in a student publication that praised him for starting up a student-run video game development club. The club is now known as the University of Pennsylvania Game Research and Development Environment.

I'd say we're odds on he has a Resetera account.

Had a Resetera account.

if you don't have the self-control to not assassinate someone, I doubt you have the self-control that would prevent you from being perma-banned by Nep.

[Uncle]

main takeaway is that he was anti-capitalist which means increased scrutiny for all those morons moving forward

[Uncle]

His Facebook account, which did not have any recent postings, says he is the co-founder of AppRoar Studios, which describes itself as “an app development start-up founded to provide the simplest and most engaging gaming experience.”

While at Penn, Mangione appeared in an article in a student publication that praised him for starting up a student-run video game development club. The club is now known as the University of Pennsylvania Game Research and Development Environment.

I'd say we're odds on he has a Resetera account.

Had a Resetera account.

if you don't have the self-control to not assassinate someone, I doubt you have the self-control that would prevent you from being perma-banned by Nep.

 

he used to spend all his time on era, then got permed and was like "welp what do I do with all my free time now"

[Boredfrom]

His Facebook account, which did not have any recent postings, says he is the co-founder of AppRoar Studios, which describes itself as “an app development start-up founded to provide the simplest and most engaging gaming experience.”

While at Penn, Mangione appeared in an article in a student publication that praised him for starting up a student-run video game development club. The club is now known as the University of Pennsylvania Game Research and Development Environment.

I'd say we're odds on he has a Resetera account.

Had a Resetera account.

if you don't have the self-control to not assassinate someone, I doubt you have the self-control that would prevent you from being perma-banned by Nep.

He planned a murder.

[Greatness Gone]

on an unrelated note, I usually don't care about GOTY lists but the lack of praise Silent Hill 2 is getting is kind of depressing . Beat it this weekend and it's probably my favorite game this gen outside BG3. 

[Nintex]

His Facebook account, which did not have any recent postings, says he is the co-founder of AppRoar Studios, which describes itself as “an app development start-up founded to provide the simplest and most engaging gaming experience.”

While at Penn, Mangione appeared in an article in a student publication that praised him for starting up a student-run video game development club. The club is now known as the University of Pennsylvania Game Research and Development Environment.

I'd say we're odds on he has a Resetera account.

Well he did create a simple game of hide and seek

[Boredfrom]

main takeaway is that he was anti-capitalist which means increased scrutiny for all those morons moving forward

He sounds like a tech bro. 

[Boredfrom]

Pigs want us to believe that a dude that was on the run for an entire week, with the whole country looking for him, was just hanging out on a McDonalds with the weapon of the crime AND a printed manifesto in 2024?

Yeah I don't buy it.