Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

did kimmel get justice yet 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-tariffs-bite-xbox-fans-even-harder-as-microsoft-again-increases-xbox-series-x-s-prices-in-the-us.1302888/page-4#post-145385940

Banned.

Not slick at all trying to hide that white supremacy symbol there in the gif usage.

Holy crap, I didn't realize that til you pointed it out 

thankfully I'm well educated in white supremacy. 

These racists won't slip past me.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/abc-sacramento-affiliate-station-hit-by-gunshots-police-say.1303131/

Resetera has learned nothing this past week and are calling it a maga attack.

Could easily be a MAGA person just trying to stir the pot.

I almost guarantee it's some MAGA scumfuck trying to make it look like a liberal did it. They've already shown how deranged and evil they are this past week.

Because of this, for the record, I want to say I was just making a joke not actually claiming this was some ally. (Not that resistance against your oppressors isn't appropriate and ethical.)

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Don't call yourself an "ally" if you won't arm up and fight back.  

On Thursday, a group of protesters gathered outside the building in response to the ABC network suspending late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.

The station had received numerous complaints.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/abc-sacramento-affiliate-station-hit-by-gunshots-police-say.1303131/

Resetera has learned nothing this past week and are calling it a maga attack.

Could easily be a MAGA person just trying to stir the pot.

I almost guarantee it's some MAGA scumfuck trying to make it look like a liberal did it. They've already shown how deranged and evil they are this past week.

Truth. The left can't even open a pickle jar*, how can you expect them to fire a gun?

* for my trans sisters out there

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-tariffs-bite-xbox-fans-even-harder-as-microsoft-again-increases-xbox-series-x-s-prices-in-the-us.1302888/page-4#post-145385940

Go ahead, defend your genocidal corporate overlords

User Banned (2 Weeks): Antagonizing Fellow Member; History of the Same

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/abc-sacramento-affiliate-station-hit-by-gunshots-police-say.1303131/

Resetera has learned nothing this past week and are calling it a maga attack.

Could easily be a MAGA person just trying to stir the pot.

I almost guarantee it's some MAGA scumfuck trying to make it look like a liberal did it. They've already shown how deranged and evil they are this past week.

Because of this, for the record, I want to say I was just making a joke not actually claiming this was some ally.

It’s gonna be an ally of someone, I’d say it was a smart hedge.

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I hope most people here are smart enough to know that 99% of posts in this thread are shitposts and the other 1% are posts no one reads

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Hopefully you didn’t feel the need to do this over my last 5 pages of posts being careposts

[Jansen]

Happy to see a barrier to entry to that genocide enabling ecosystem.



I hope it craters.

[Boredfrom]

At least now I finally found out where the sentiment that this game was meant to be an entry point for people new to the series came from.
Team Cherry actually did say this, and they also claimed the difficulty would be comparable to the original (LMAO).

Edge interview from four years ago:

“Almost like stuff changes after 4 years.”

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-tariffs-bite-xbox-fans-even-harder-as-microsoft-again-increases-xbox-series-x-s-prices-in-the-us.1302888/page-4#post-145385940

Go ahead, defend your genocidal corporate overlords

User Banned (2 Weeks): Antagonizing Fellow Member; History of the Same

Yeah, wouldn't want to antagonizing people defending genocide.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Keep note of every name in that Disney+ cancel thread and cross reference it with the next Disney/Marvel OT. 

Edit: top page wlw

[Boredfrom]

Nepenthe shits on the Silksong git gud thread:

I think this diminishes other mediums and gaming as well, but on two different fronts.

Gamers like to commonly describe, say, books and movies as passive and games as active simply on the fact that games require manual input from the audience to progress through the experience. But I would also say that the implication of passivity- that books, films, visual art, etc.- are just feeding you the context is indicative of how much general audiences' abilities to critically engage with traditional works have degraded within our social media-addled, friction-adverse society. If your mind isn't on, if you are distracted, not thinking, or just too naive or ignorant to understand the greater cultural, political, or artistic subtext of a work, then I'd argue that you're not actually experiencing it within a meaningful way.

Yes, you can sit there and have images or words flash by your eyes, but that means nothing in terms of whether or not you mentally and emotionally engaged in the work (which is the point,) whether you are truly comprehending it. If the light isn't on, if you just consume it and leave so fast you can't even give a basic plot summary or an opinion beyond "it was fine," or, worse, conclude that people who did actually engage are taking it too seriously because "it's not that deep," then what was the point? Reading and watching art are active activities too in a similar way as performing mathematics is.

Subsequently, sometimes this does mean that people are locked out of a traditional work. If a movie or book is too esoteric, too verbose, too abstract, or hell if it's not even translated into a language you understand or a medium you can physically interact with within your given ability, you're screwed. You can't "experience" it even in terms of just basic interaction of understanding the plot. But we're okay with not watching some Russian film from the 50s with no subtitles or okay with the existence of Finnegans Wake, a book most people bail on because its form of English is nigh-on incomprehensible, but games must be accessible to every potential audience member in terms of challenge level? Why?

You touch on the answer with saying that "games are a product," which in turn is diminishing to the medium. Here the argument leaves the artist and their intentions as secondary to the act of commodification wherein games can never actually be art within a cultural sense because they are meant to be consumed by an audience in order to enrich capitalists, not grappled with or experienced as a conversation between artist and audience. One's ability to create what they want is ultimately trivialized by the fact that the audience is just made up of "paying customers" within a society wherein not just our power to change the landscape but our very humanity and sense of self and worth is reduced down to nothing more than purchasing power, and thus our demands for a satisfactory "product," a "commodity" that is "worth our money" should be considered sacrosanct over the artists wishes to create what is in their heart.

It is an attitude I do not jive with because it undergirds not only the innumerable contradictions present from being an artist within a capitalist framework but also the AI push wherein the act of creation has been considered irrelevant to the existence of a product, an act we have been doing since before the existence of large scale agriculture, and it is pitiable to me.

This is not to say that you cannot dislike, be frustrated, or critique Silksong's difficulty level or the ways in which it structures that difficulty. I imagine some level of frustration was a necessary emotion they wanted players to experience. But the fact that you believe that you putting down money for something you cannot finish is, in itself, a flaw the work is fundamentally disagreeable.

Beyond an adherence to safety and respect for labor, artists do not owe anyone anything in terms of how their work is made nor the difficulty in terms of experiencing it for the average person.

Compare her posts with anyone else defending difficulty in that thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dexerto-hollow-knight-silksong-devs-address-difficulty-concerns-“you-have-choices”.1302201/page-12#post-145392744

Holy shit

I don't think there is a more eloquent or compelling argument in this thread than this.. and hell I'm on this forum alone we have raked this topic over the coals many times over where even I felt there was nothing else to do beyond repeating past arguments.

To the point of parody where we have posters copy pasting the same things back and forth as a form of dismissal that now one can even argue their position in a meaningful way anymore.

Then you come along and put into words what has been in my own heart and mind but lacked the... Uhh.. writing talent to express?

Thank you.

[Snoopy]

Ree are hittin the streets. Takin a stand. Givin it to the man

I was one of them, & I NEVER THOUGHT OF CANCELING A SERVICE REGARDLESS OF WHAT THRY DID. but this? This is very important, this is hitler takes Poland type shit. We have to take a stand here & now.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

time to get those good boy points with moderation 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Ree are hittin the streets. Takin a stand. Givin it to the man

I was one of them, & I NEVER THOUGHT OF CANCELING A SERVICE REGARDLESS OF WHAT THRY DID. but this? This is very important, this is hitler takes Poland type shit. We have to take a stand here & now.

It's time for us to be like CAPTAIN AMERICA in the AVENGERS! Like KATNISS in the HUNGER GAMES! Like the REBELS in STAR WARS: ANDOR!

This is OUR TIME! OUR MOMENT! OUR CHANCE TO SHOW ORANGE HITHER WHO IS BOSS!

*picks up thors hammer and captain americas shield* WHO IS WITH ME!!!!

REDDIT! ASSEMBLE!

[Boredfrom]

Do the legit think that is the best post ever or just being sycophantic with Nep?

[benji]

I was one of them, & I NEVER THOUGHT OF CANCELING A SERVICE REGARDLESS OF WHAT THRY DID. but this? This is very important, this is hitler takes Poland type shit. We have to take a stand here & now.

[HaughtyFrank]

Ree are hittin the streets. Takin a stand. Givin it to the man

I was one of them, & I NEVER THOUGHT OF CANCELING A SERVICE REGARDLESS OF WHAT THRY DID. but this? This is very important, this is hitler takes Poland type shit. We have to take a stand here & now.

No? Trump taking Canada or Mexico would be Hitler taking Poland type of shit.

[benji]

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

where's the polls, I want to see Jeff dab on these folx.

How's the crime rate been? 

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/abc-sacramento-affiliate-station-hit-by-gunshots-police-say.1303131/#post-145395690

jimmy kimmel is, as sad as it is, one of the bigger pushes that could get random middle of the road whites/liberals to turn to things like this

they can be very disconnected as long as he keeps it distant or abstract enough from impacting their lives, but directly and openly taking their tv away? hoo boy

[Boredfrom]

In one hand, if it works it works.  

In another hand…  Jimmy Kimmel.

[Uncle]

It's time for us to be like CAPTAIN AMERICA in the AVENGERS! Like KATNISS in the HUNGER GAMES! Like the REBELS in STAR WARS: ANDOR!

This is OUR TIME! OUR MOMENT! OUR CHANCE TO SHOW ORANGE HITHER WHO IS BOSS!

*picks up thors hammer and captain americas shield* WHO IS WITH ME!!!!

REDDIT! ASSEMBLE!

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/abc-sacramento-affiliate-station-hit-by-gunshots-police-say.1303131/#post-145395690

jimmy kimmel is, as sad as it is, one of the bigger pushes that could get random middle of the road whites/liberals to turn to things like this

they can be very disconnected as long as he keeps it distant or abstract enough from impacting their lives, but directly and openly taking their tv away? hoo boy

In one hand, if it works it works.  

Mistargeted violence against vaguely related businesses? In hopes of keeping a late night show on the air?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/abc-sacramento-affiliate-station-hit-by-gunshots-police-say.1303131/#post-145395690

jimmy kimmel is, as sad as it is, one of the bigger pushes that could get random middle of the road whites/liberals to turn to things like this

they can be very disconnected as long as he keeps it distant or abstract enough from impacting their lives, but directly and openly taking their tv away? hoo boy

In one hand, if it works it works.  

Mistargeted violence against vaguely related businesses? In hopes of keeping a late night show on the air?

Not about the shooting, but that supposedly actives the normies caring about this shit and sidetracking the canonization of Charlie Kirk.

Because the dude in question didn’t directly mention the shooting, I was using as a generalization about all the Kimmel drama.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/abc-sacramento-affiliate-station-hit-by-gunshots-police-say.1303131/#post-145395690

jimmy kimmel is, as sad as it is, one of the bigger pushes that could get random middle of the road whites/liberals to turn to things like this

they can be very disconnected as long as he keeps it distant or abstract enough from impacting their lives, but directly and openly taking their tv away? hoo boy

Finally libs are getting of their asses, shooting tv stations

[benji]

[benji]

The New York Times is now a banned source on The Bire:

[benji]

Why did nobody post this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-are-conservatives-so-fragile.1300128/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-voted-yes-on-resolution-honoring-the-life-and-legacy-of-charlie-kirk.1302900/page-2#post-145391922

Surely you know about Sarah McBride's previous comments that disappointed many in the trans community, right?

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/what-sarah-mcbride-gets-wrong

This reply isn't really directed towards you, Alavard. Here's my filthy institutional liberal take on this — I'm a minority but I'm not part of the LGBTQ community. However, I feel like that doesn't mean dropping a line on these issues makes my take invalid. I've never disregarded the opinion of all the white dudes here that speak up for black folks while on their MacBooks sipping on their double espresso lattes at Starbucks. If you make a good point, you make a good point.

CHANGE is incremental. It's not overnight, it's not straight to 100 mph, it's a step-by-step process over an extended period of time. The fact that an openly trans member of congress exists in this climate is wild. She's not perfect, she doesn't align with every talking point on Erin Reed's substack or whatever, but she exists. With all of the insane issues we have going on right now, seeing a thread trying to specifically bury Sarah McBride of all people for not voting against this Kirk holiday thing is completely missing the point. After everything that's happened over the past year, how have we not learned that this isn't the way? It's not how politics works, it's not how LIFE works.

[Boredfrom]

Why did nobody post this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-are-conservatives-so-fragile.1300128/

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Empire_(disambiguation)

Alongside the various Sith Empires, there have been numerous other empires:

Canon

The Infinite Empire, an empire that existed before the Imperial Era
The Ubdurians' empire.
The Chiss Ascendancy, a libertarian empire in the Unknown Regions
The Zygerrian Slave Empire was a slave empire that was set up over a thousand years before the Clone Wars.
Jabba Desilijic Tiure's criminal empire was the crime syndicate of Jabba the Hutt, who based himself in his palace on Tatooine.
The Galactic Empire (later known as the Old Empire) that was reorganized from the Galactic Republic at the end of the Clone Wars.