Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Eric Cartman]

Oh my god, they're still talking about this game.  These people have fucking NOTHING to do all day.

They're not mad at the game, they're mad at what it represents:

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that they don't have 100% capitulation on everything they demand

[Boredfrom]

Lumpy: huehuehue he told us to read a book.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-there-any-genuinely-good-companies-other-than-indies-in-the-game-industry-at-this-point.853941/

Are you ten?

Seeing layoffs, copyright takedowns, misappropriated funds, CEO and C-suite golden parachutes, focus on short-term games at the expense of worker living quality and rights (on top of video game quality), and other wrongs running rampant throughout this industry, it begs the question:

Is there any company in the video game industry that is genuinely good?

So his conception of a "morally good" company is apparently one that never makes mistakes or whose game doesn't sell?

There were never any to begin with. No such thing as a good corporation.

You don't start a for-profit business with the intent of being "good".

If you're looking for morally good companies you should ignore entertainment all together.

I see Larian and Remedy and I agree with those picks, but surely they can't be the only two.

That just seems dystopian.

"Morally good company" is pretty oxymoroni

That just seems dystopian.

Welcome to Capitalism

I mean, late stage capitalism is pretty dystopian

Capitalism has to end for such a company to exist, even one with good intention.

That's late stage capitalism baby.

Any company that is publicly traded is a corporation and is obligated to make the most money it can, you cannot ascribe morality to this kind of organization. It is an entity which exists for the purpose of growing and making profit.

No, there isn't. Companies live by exploring your workers. Thats just how capitalism works.

Good companies do not, and have never, existed.

Producing things that other people want, receiving compensation for your labor and providing employment to others: morally wrong!

Capitalism™: in its late stage since 1848!

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-batman-superhuman.853977/
entremetGPT

In the comics, he's seen as peak human, but if you put everything together, it's kinda nuts. Yes, I know it's still "comics".

But look at these feats:

Leg press 2500lbs for reps. World record is 3000 for one rep.
Benches 1000lbs for reps! I think the World Record is 1400 for one rep.
He barely sleeps, on purpose. And still is able to handle his superhero duties. Most people need 7-9 hours of sleep per night. Cognitive function is compromised if sleep deprived for a few days in most people.
Master level of dozens of martial arts.
Parkour expert, gymnast, ninja arts
Intellect wise, he's just shy of Lex Luthor, and a genius in various fields basically.

Not to mention all the wear and tear he's taken. Should be in a wheelchair. But nah.

So what makes him superhuman is really the mastery of all these. In reality most people cannot be so well rounded since many of these feats require years of specialization. But Batman clears these with ease.

Amanda Waller sees him as meta human as well.

[benji]

No, he's not superhuman because those are all human attributes. Happy to help.

[Boredfrom]

It's the fact that we label any praise or criticism as pro or anti Nintendo that's telling. I generally like Nintendo and can like or dislike their decisions. Depends on what the thing is. Ultimately the Samus thing wasn't a big deal, but just for calling it a stupid decision some people felt the need to be "of course y'all are all outraged about Nintendo again" when it was never that serious for anyone.

  I wish we could just talk about these things, without the whole accusations of bias. Especially when two months ago people were going on about Nintendo's success in other threads about companies experiencing layoffs like that wasn't super gross. People pick and choose too much about when they care about that kind of thing.

People just need to stop taking criticism of their fav company as personal insults.

[benji]

The issue with Bruce he that he's peak at everything. Hence, the superhuman thing.

He's basically a master power lifter and parkour expert. And that's just two disciplines. He's peak in many many more and intellectual ones too. Things that take decades of specialization.

Dick Grayson is a more believable. He's just not as skilled and peak in as many things as Bruce is.

So this guy basically hasn't read any comics featuring Dick Grayson.

[benji]

No but I will say that the Nolan trilogy addressing some of this stuff is one of the reasons I like it. Batman should be pushing himself more than is healthy and his social life should be a barely held together facade.

Literally stuff the comics have been covering for decades.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-there-any-genuinely-good-companies-other-than-indies-in-the-game-industry-at-this-point.853941/

Are you ten?

this has been going on for at least a decade now

LITERALLY EVERYONE HAS DONE OR SAID SOMETHING THAT YOU DISAGREE WITH

LITERALLY EVERYONE HAS A SKELETON IN THEIR CLOSET

YOU CAN EITHER CLUTCH PEARLS AND VOLUNTARILY SEQUESTER YOURSELF AWAY FROM ALL MEDIA, OR LEARN TO FUCKING LET THINGS GO AND/OR FORGIVE

[Kadayi]

NYT has always been trash. There;'s an excellent book called The Grey Lady Winked which has detailed at length how the Paper has consistently fucked up innumerable times and it fully huffs its own farts when it comes to this idea that it is this bastion of truth and Journalistic integrity for decades.

[benji]

Slayven or somebody mentioned Daredevil in that thread but I think Daredevil is pretty obviously superhuman. Do these dudes just not understand what actual humans can and cannot do?

edit: I'd disagree with their claim about Captain America, yes, the serum isn't "natural" but in theory he's still bound by natural human capabilities. The serum just ensures he's always at peak condition. Batman's "training" is treated essentially the same way story wise. The argument would have to turn on whether or not Captain America not needing to do anything makes him superhuman.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-310?post=122135874#post-122135874

Yep. Early on a family member asked whose side he should take in the whole conflict, Israel or Hamas. I said the civilians. Their plight is tragic.

[nachobro]

Slayven or somebody mentioned Daredevil in that thread but I think Daredevil is pretty obviously superhuman. Do these dudes just not understand what actual humans can and cannot do?

when you're sitting at a pc all day and unable to open pickle jars cause you do literally no physical activity, any ability to move or lift a weight is superhuman

[Potato]

Absolutely not true, for example, we did a good job of shutting down the super league 

Absolutely not true, for example, we did a good job of shutting down the super league 

Thank God we were there to protect FIFA and UEFA from those madmen

This is quality discourse mostly lost on these heathen yanks. 

Good job.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-310?post=122135874#post-122135874

Yep. Early on a family member asked whose side he should take in the whole conflict, Israel or Hamas. I said the civilians. Their plight is tragic.

Hamas attacks construction pier that will allow maritime aid

It's a good thing it's not even needed as there are plenty of entry points for aid if Israel would stop fucking with it. The audacity to talk about Hamas sabotaging a vestigial thumb of a port when Israel has been actively attacking aid trucks, aid workers and people trying to get aid for months nevermind directly cutting off water and blocking aid entry. I and many others only ever saw this port as being made for Israel to use for their own needs and not to help Palestinians. Hamas are terrorists so you can't control what they do but you should be able to control what Isarel does and so far they have been actively starving Gaza.
This is the pathetic state of this PR port.

Cool, just casually providing an excuse for why Hamas is sabotaging aid efforts.

[Potato]

How can Stellar Blade possibly impact your life at all. It's appears to be an okay-to-good hack and slash game that's gonna sell like 2 million tops, who cares? Oh no boobs and ass I guess. The only reason why it's having such a large impact on these weak souls is that they can't browse their beloved Resetera the way they want.

Resetera right now:

"Other people might be enjoying something I don't!!!!!!"

[Besticus Maximus]

A port?  A vestigial thumb of a port! 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Bonus: 

Someone just proudly bragged about putting me on ignore for being too "negative" about the game. I'm so fucking tired.

Imagine posting this to the feminist thread as a man. Stay in your own lane, bitch.

[Potato]

Bonus: 

Based on the OT, it seems like it is allowed. I think many of us are just tired of screaming into the void about this fuckin game. You post criticism or commentary and it gets drowned out by "looks sick, can't wait" type shit.

It feels like ppl do that shit out of spite

I guarantee you that they do. Every time I try to post about the game's problems in certain threads, people come out in swarms to flood the thread with hype tweets from random journalists or Sony regional branches so that my posts are buried.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-374?post=122125107#post-122125107


The fact so many people admit to having you on their ignore list suggests otherwise Mr Smasher 

Is it ok or not to enjoy the game? They keep saying it's ok, but every time someone doesn't agree with them they complain that nobody is listening. Why is the only acceptable conversation one that centres their personal fetishes issues?

[Potato]

Bayonetta definitely deserved discussion over its contents at the time. However Bayonetta was designed by Mari Shimazaki a woman, and Hideki Kamiya while problematic in his own ways maintains a decent relationship with his female colleagues and collaborators such as Ikumi Nakamura.

A lot of discussion on these subjects is nuanced. Knowing what I know about Stellar Blade and its development makes the discourse, and conversation a very different one

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-review-thread.852417/page-18?post=122123796#post-122123796

Care to share what well sourced information you have on the development of stellar blade that makes it very different from Bayonetta? 

All those multiple women who work at Shift Up have been press ganged into service. As opposed to all those indie western development studios which are solely staffed by men cosplaying women.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/reddit-is-currently-down-for-me-it-made-me-realise-just-how-much-i-rely-on-it.853716/

And I don't mean for posting, which I rarely do. Simply for searching for relevant information. With how cluttered the internet has gotten with SEO exploiting sites that copy paste info, Reddit is one of the few ways to quickly source information. Many internet searches I make I add "reddit".

“Why is my brain fried? I don’t understand why I’m such an idiot. Pls tell me how to live my life Reddit.”

Reddit really is the only place in the world with worse moderation and an even more retarded population than Resetera.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Because he's video game adjacent:

based and techtv pilled.

[Potato]

Ah my mistake fellow cataloguers, THIS is the first step that got planetsmasher so riled up 

Disgusting that that piece of shit is selling well. So disappointed in reality as a whole right now.

Good games tends to sell well, shocking right?

There are dozens of other melee action games that have as good or better combat than that rancid pile of trash, without contributing to a culture of institutionalized sexism and misogyny. The game is absolutely embarrassing on every conceivable level.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-studios-ot40-helldivers-ff7-help-im-suffering-from-foam-o.813078/page-394?post=122113284#post-122113284

And then people proceeded to post around him, either due to ignoring him via forum tools or just ignoring his weird posts actively. And then someone said they are thankful for the ignore tools

Enjoymentsmasher should take his concerns up with kyujigiji who seems to have disregarded the memo that this "rancid pile is trash" is not as good as "dozens of other melee action games" out there...

[Boredfrom]

It's a good thing it's not even needed as there are plenty of entry points for aid if Israel would stop fucking with it.

“All help is needed except when it doesn’t. How dare the U.S. to bait Hamas to attack a port and have a humanitarian PR win. Terrorist are gonna terrorize.”

[D3RANG3D]

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Bayanita

[benji]

It's a good thing it's not even needed as there are plenty of entry points for aid if Israel would stop fucking with it.

Like the Egyptian border?

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The joke is that it's Egypt, not Israel, that's almost always closing that border for their own reasons rather than endless solidarity with their fellow oppressed.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

The "Poland Defense Minister says they are ready to deport ukranian war refugees so they can be forcibly conscripted" thread showing all these war hungry spectators treating human lives dying for their favorite sport team is something alright.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/poland-defense-minister-says-they-are-ready-to-deport-ukranian-war-refugees-so-they-can-be-forcibly-conscripted.853467/page-5?post=122131545#post-122131545

I'm really conflicted here.

I'm not, conscription is wrong.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/poland-defense-minister-says-they-are-ready-to-deport-ukranian-war-refugees-so-they-can-be-forcibly-conscripted.853467/page-5?post=122132823#post-122132823

Aren't most of us anti-war as a general rule?

[cRumB]

[hide]Also, is there any way I can hide my text to members only, like the cowards at Re do?[/hide]

Yeah, the "hide" tags. The lock to the right of the Twitter icon will insert them. Or you can type them.

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Bayanita

Anita gotta pay those bills huh.

[benji]

Did they literally warn a guy for doing the same thing Nepenthe is doing in that thread?