Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-9-not-being-delayed-to-be-announced-soon-and-released-january-2025-set-in-the-southeast-asia-sea-inspired-by-singapore.861309/page-13?post=122884920#post-122884920

why didn't you tell the guy who was asking you on twitter about the south east asian setting that whatever you've heard might have been outdated info? why did you let the rumor spread for days before backpedaling?

Simple: I've been busy, and thinking best how to approach this when it started blowing up. I'm s blabby person who did something thoughtless, so I decided to be more thoughtful when it was out of my hands when I had time to more properly tackle it publicly.

[clockwork5]

First, an astounding amount of professional artists use iPads, it’s practically an industry standard for some tasks. Does Nep not know this? Second, they are the ones that are most affected by AI art/design and its recent progress. Does Nep not understand this?

No it’s the anti-colonial furry and Lucio precum still life artists that need to wave the flag. Get over yourself.

they need to realize that the average person isn't generating some art and saying "look, I'm an artist now!"

AI is mostly being used by ARTISTS or at least people interested in graphic design and the visual arts, because it's not an "I win" button to instantly make perfect art, it's always flawed and doesn't represent your vision, which is why an artist's eye is needed to tweak it significantly for it to be used professionally

artists stand to benefit the most from utilizing a new tool, just like they did at the advent of photoshop

the ones who embrace it and incorporate it into their workflows are profiting from it and the ones who reject it without even trying it will suffer as society moves past them

Agreed! Though I think in any field some of those steps that AI is assisting might also be somebody’s job. 

Imagine a local band (this is where I’m personally coming from as someone who has always been a part of my local music scene). They record some demos in the basement of a guy like me. I record and mix this demo EP and it sounds nice. Now I want it mastered. This local band can hire someone to do this, I can do it myself spending hours fighting with subpar equipment and my own inadequacies in the field of mastering, or I can use an AI tool to get it pretty darn good. AI it is. Now the band needs some cover art for their demo EP that they will use on social media / streaming stuff. They can commission an artist, steal some art, try to doodle something themselves or use AI to make something cool and on theme. AI it is. 

That’s two artists out of the job. Now I would argue that the vast majority of the time the local band doesn’t have the resources or conviction in their product to shell out the money for those two artists but still, some do and those that do help keep the local art scene going and integrated. I do worry about this. I would also say that the mastering process has long been an expensive , you-get-what-you -pay-for hurdle for smaller bands, like the kind I’ve always been in, so I’m so excited to see this all evolve.

Edit: and I realize you are talking about a larger perhaps more corporate scale. And I agree with you if I didn’t make that clear. I guess I’m talking about something kind of different anyway. I’m really on one tonight. 🤷‍♂️

[Rendle]

Remember, Noodlesoup has seen the new Planet of the Apes movie (which just came out) THREE TIMES already (runtime 2h30). Clearly he doesn't he's not worried about his pending court date.

How can I remember something I never knew in the first place?

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-9-not-being-delayed-to-be-announced-soon-and-released-january-2025-set-in-the-southeast-asia-sea-inspired-by-singapore.861309/page-13?post=122884920#post-122884920

why didn't you tell the guy who was asking you on twitter about the south east asian setting that whatever you've heard might have been outdated info? why did you let the rumor spread for days before backpedaling?

Simple: I've been busy, and thinking best how to approach this when it started blowing up. I'm s blabby person who did something thoughtless, so I decided to be more thoughtful when it was out of my hands when I had time to more properly tackle it publicly.

Man is out here claiming his 50/50 leak posts require real effort and care.

Then you have this SketchDog character running damage control: "Circumstances change, I heard similar things!"

I've seen them on GameFAQs bullshitting people too. These types of pathological liars shouldn't be allowed on forums.

[Uncle]

First, an astounding amount of professional artists use iPads, it’s practically an industry standard for some tasks. Does Nep not know this? Second, they are the ones that are most affected by AI art/design and its recent progress. Does Nep not understand this?

No it’s the anti-colonial furry and Lucio precum still life artists that need to wave the flag. Get over yourself.

they need to realize that the average person isn't generating some art and saying "look, I'm an artist now!"

AI is mostly being used by ARTISTS or at least people interested in graphic design and the visual arts, because it's not an "I win" button to instantly make perfect art, it's always flawed and doesn't represent your vision, which is why an artist's eye is needed to tweak it significantly for it to be used professionally

artists stand to benefit the most from utilizing a new tool, just like they did at the advent of photoshop

the ones who embrace it and incorporate it into their workflows are profiting from it and the ones who reject it without even trying it will suffer as society moves past them

Agreed! Though I think in any field some of those steps that AI is assisting might also be somebody’s job. 

Imagine a local band (this is where I’m personally coming from as someone who has always been a part of my local music scene). They record some demos in the basement of a guy like me. I record and mix this demo EP and it sounds nice. Now I want it mastered. This local band can hire someone to do this, I can do it myself spending hours fighting with subpar equipment and my own inadequacies in the field of mastering, or I can use an AI tool to get it pretty darn good. AI it is. Now the band needs some cover art for their demo EP that they will use on social media / streaming stuff. They can commission an artist, steal some art, try to doodle something themselves or use AI to make something cool and on theme. AI it is. 

That’s two artists out of the job. Now I would argue that the vast majority of the time the local band doesn’t have the resources or conviction in their product to shell out the money for those two artists but still, some do and those that do help keep the local art scene going and integrated. I do worry about this. I would also say that the mastering process has long been an expensive , you-get-what-you -pay-for hurdle for smaller bands, like the kind I’ve always been in, so I’m so excited to see this all evolve.

Edit: and I realize you are talking about a larger perhaps more corporate scale. And I agree with you if I didn’t make that clear. I guess I’m talking about something kind of different anyway. I’m really on one tonight. 🤷‍♂️

I'm talking about all of it, and you're right

any time a new tool appears that reduces the amount of human labor required, you're gonna see a few fewer jobs

but then also imagine the jobs created by it, imagine your local band records their demos and they can't master it properly or afford someone who can master it for them, and it sounds shitty and they know it, so the music never even sees the light of day

or imagine they get it mastered poorly by whoever will do it for cheap, and they get art done by whoever will do it for cheap, and the cheap shitty product they made goes in the trash at every potential venue/record label

whereas AI in either of these cases could be enough to elevate them and get people to notice who might not have, and now you're in an alternate universe where "rock band" is their job instead of "McDonald's employee"

[clockwork5]

Again. You are on point. Up until a few years ago essentially all of the underground/small bands had awful masters of their music and that is changing. 

Mastering had long been a necessary step but a huge gatekeeping step where money=quality. Looking back at some of my favorite lesser known artists from the 80s and 90s, those albums sound really bad by todays standards, by the hits of the day’s standards and even sound bad compared to the hits of 20 years prior. The AI mastering revolution is something I’m personally very excited about.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair.868623/?post=122879247#post-122879247

At some point I think people globally will need to consider inaction and active efforts by politicians to block action on climate as a direct attack against them, their families and their communities, warranting of self-defense.

This is where I'm at.

Billions of people are being held hostage by a comparatively few amount of politicians and billionaires, oil barons, and military industrial complex folks. Whatever happens to these classes as the planet heats up is simply what happens at this point.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair.868623/?post=122879247#post-122879247

At some point I think people globally will need to consider inaction and active efforts by politicians to block action on climate as a direct attack against them, their families and their communities, warranting of self-defense.

This is where I'm at.

Billions of people are being held hostage by a comparatively few amount of politicians and billionaires, oil barons, and military industrial complex folks. Whatever happens to these classes as the planet heats up is simply what happens at this point.

**Waits patiently for someone else to take action**

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Overwatch won't play itself.

[Boredfrom]

they need to realize that the average person isn't generating some art and saying "look, I'm an artist now!"

AI is mostly being used by ARTISTS or at least people interested in graphic design and the visual arts, because it's not an "I win" button to instantly make perfect art, it's always flawed and doesn't represent your vision, which is why an artist's eye is needed to tweak it significantly for it to be used professionally

artists stand to benefit the most from utilizing a new tool, just like they did at the advent of photoshop

the ones who embrace it and incorporate it into their workflows are profiting from it and the ones who reject it without even trying it will suffer as society moves past them

Agreed! Though I think in any field some of those steps that AI is assisting might also be somebody’s job. 

Imagine a local band (this is where I’m personally coming from as someone who has always been a part of my local music scene). They record some demos in the basement of a guy like me. I record and mix this demo EP and it sounds nice. Now I want it mastered. This local band can hire someone to do this, I can do it myself spending hours fighting with subpar equipment and my own inadequacies in the field of mastering, or I can use an AI tool to get it pretty darn good. AI it is. Now the band needs some cover art for their demo EP that they will use on social media / streaming stuff. They can commission an artist, steal some art, try to doodle something themselves or use AI to make something cool and on theme. AI it is. 

That’s two artists out of the job. Now I would argue that the vast majority of the time the local band doesn’t have the resources or conviction in their product to shell out the money for those two artists but still, some do and those that do help keep the local art scene going and integrated. I do worry about this. I would also say that the mastering process has long been an expensive , you-get-what-you -pay-for hurdle for smaller bands, like the kind I’ve always been in, so I’m so excited to see this all evolve.

Edit: and I realize you are talking about a larger perhaps more corporate scale. And I agree with you if I didn’t make that clear. I guess I’m talking about something kind of different anyway. I’m really on one tonight. 🤷‍♂️

I'm talking about all of it, and you're right

any time a new tool appears that reduces the amount of human labor required, you're gonna see a few fewer jobs

but then also imagine the jobs created by it, imagine your local band records their demos and they can't master it properly or afford someone who can master it for them, and it sounds shitty and they know it, so the music never even sees the light of day

or imagine they get it mastered poorly by whoever will do it for cheap, and they get art done by whoever will do it for cheap, and the cheap shitty product they made goes in the trash at every potential venue/record label

whereas AI in either of these cases could be enough to elevate them and get people to notice who might not have, and now you're in an alternate universe where "rock band" is their job instead of "McDonald's employee"

Again. You are on point. Up until a few years ago essentially all of the underground/small bands had awful masters of their music and that is changing. 

Mastering had long been a necessary step but a huge gatekeeping step where money=quality. Looking back at some of my favorite lesser known artists from the 80s and 90s, those albums sound really bad by todays standards, by the hits of the day’s standards and even sound bad compared to the hits of 20 years prior. The AI mastering revolution is something I’m personally very excited about.

[PogiJones]

Agreed!

you're right

Again. You are on point. 

Get a room, you two  

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-9-not-being-delayed-to-be-announced-soon-and-released-january-2025-set-in-the-southeast-asia-sea-inspired-by-singapore.861309/page-13?post=122884920#post-122884920

why didn't you tell the guy who was asking you on twitter about the south east asian setting that whatever you've heard might have been outdated info? why did you let the rumor spread for days before backpedaling?

Simple: I've been busy, and thinking best how to approach this when it started blowing up. I'm s blabby person who did something thoughtless, so I decided to be more thoughtful when it was out of my hands when I had time to more properly tackle it publicly.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-9-not-being-delayed-to-be-announced-soon-and-released-january-2025-set-in-the-southeast-asia-sea-inspired-by-singapore.861309/page-12?post=122884776#post-122884776

Can we ban dusk as a "source" now?

It won't happen because I've already proven to the mod team multiple times I do have legitimate sources, and I can always revalidate in private if ever any concern over that.

[Garfield]

Ok, Capitalism is Spiraling Out of Control Right?

Like holy shit.

Everything keeps getting more expensive, it seems like every company is trying an approach of "MAKE ALL THE MONEY RIGHT NOW OR EVERYONE IS FIRED!", and just the general quality of shit keeps degrading because all these shareholders are trying to get as much blood from a stone as possible for no other reason than "number go up".

When is this shit going to calm down already??

I will say, without being all crazy about it, it really does feel like all the elites got together recently and said "this shit is gonna crash …. Forget the future, extract everything you can right this moment."

Feels like every exec at a public company has finally realized nothing three quarters matters or is guaranteed. Sacrifice long term health for line go up this quarter.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Biden's near-double digit inflation.

Climate change has elites speeding up because they know shits gonna boil over once real effects start being felt by large swaths of populations. They're making money while they can.

The "elites" that believe in climate change so much they stopped sailing on yachts, flying on private jets, and buying ocean-front property.

It was out of control when it was founded upon wholesale Indigenous genocide, four centuries of African slavery, and aggressive land theft and economic disenfranchisement.

But yeah, now that farm-raised eggs are $6, there's advertisements on top of advertisements, and global warming in general keeps getting worse, the Westerners are finally panicking.

Yeah, because it was the Global South™ that banished the slave trade, not England and the US. And all the "Indigenous" people were peaceful, prosperous, and all that.

Yep. And considering we know the worst effects of climate change are gonna hit the Global South, they're still not taking it seriously.

Climate refugees to the west, and only the west!

I keep hearing North Americans in here expecting a "breaking point". You just have to look at the third world to see that there is no rock bottom in the exploitation of the middle and lower classes.

I don't think this guy realizes that this is true because of the "elected" Presidents-4-life in many/most Global South™ nations.

I'm not even sure we can call it capitalism anymore. We are increasingly living in a feudal state where everyone must pay to merely exist in society to an increasingly smaller number of richer and richer hands. There is no market, only monopolistic entities occupying each facet of your life engaging in rent seeking behavior.

So even though America and Europe have huge welfare safety nets, since people still have to work for a living to get nice things it's just medieval feudalism all over again, or worse.

Trickle Down Economics has brought the working class to their knees.

And raising the highest marginal tax rates back to 50-70% would solve everything.

i think needing regulation is an implicit admission that capitalism doesn't work. like, if the 'good parts' of capitalism are only possible due to government intervention, then... why do we need the capitalism part. i can't think of the last time i went to a private library to check out a book.

Libraries still have books? I thought they only existed for reeeee posters to use the internet. And lol at this guy acting like he never used his university's library(which are private insofar as they're for the students of the university and not the gen. public) or pretending that the rest of us don't go to Barnes and Noble to avoid the homeless stank and general unpleasantness of the local library.

i am not sure what need there is to gatekeep that knowledge behind a private university/college outside of capitalist incentives.

Because every university library should become a homeless hangout.

Well...universities in this country (at least the public ones) largely WERE free until the mid to late 1960s. You'll find that date popping up A LOT in every question about "why doesn't the US just do things that make sense."

It's the racism.

Yes it's racism that caused universities to stop being as cheap in the 1960s..not the fact that there were an unprecedented number of babies born post-WW2(there's a name for them on the tip of my tongue..), all of whom wanted to be the first in their family to graduate from college..

Went out for groceries this morning and it's wild how expensive it is. It's really scary.

Don't worry, Biden says the inflation is only transitory

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

welcome 

[Garfield]

thanks and cheers!

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/another-day-another-corp-microsoft-silently-hikes-up-old-game-regional-pricing-on-steam.868896/

Like I've been saying in the Sony Delisting threads, Smaller countries or countries from where these corporations don't get a lot of their money from, they don't care much and just increase the price or some other stupid shit without caring and nobody cares until it affects them

Dude doesn’t realize that regional pricing is still generally cheaper than paying in dollars.

[Garfield]

But God forbid we actually do something to stop this bullshit, because even the bare minimum efforts to reign in the excesses of capital get castigated as "socialism," even though most Americans wouldn't know actual socialism even if it jumped up and bit them in the ass.

This is true, insofar that most of the people who advocate for socialism on reeee and reddit think it'll give everyone the life of someone making multiple six figures while working 2 hours a day on "hobbies" and poasting.

If it were up to me, all these big megacorps would be broken up and the fragments converted into worker-owned co-ops, where the employees regardless of station vote on who their bosses are. I guess you could call me a "market socialist." I have no idea how such a system would actually work (I'm not an economist)

You're telling me.

Something is up because Warren Buffett is just holding tons of cash.

This guy apparently thinks most of Warren Buffett's fortune sits in a vault he can swim around in like that cartoon duck

This reminds me of something I heard on NPR during my morning commute.

Oh boy.

At one end you have progressive, liberal individuals that view the welfare of their community, other people, and society at large as being in their self interest. At the OTHER end are people like your roommate who embrace a very conservative view, whose sense of "self" (and thus self interest) is so narrow that it likely doesn't extend much farther than themselves and immediate family- so the welfare of anyone beyond that is irrelevant so long as they themselves benefit.

Yes, the progs are such good people, wanting to control our entire lives for our benefit! Anyone who doesn't think that's a good idea..well they're just selfish and greedy.

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-9-not-being-delayed-to-be-announced-soon-and-released-january-2025-set-in-the-southeast-asia-sea-inspired-by-singapore.861309/page-13?post=122884920#post-122884920

why didn't you tell the guy who was asking you on twitter about the south east asian setting that whatever you've heard might have been outdated info? why did you let the rumor spread for days before backpedaling?

Simple: I've been busy, and thinking best how to approach this when it started blowing up. I'm s blabby person who did something thoughtless, so I decided to be more thoughtful when it was out of my hands when I had time to more properly tackle it publicly.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-9-not-being-delayed-to-be-announced-soon-and-released-january-2025-set-in-the-southeast-asia-sea-inspired-by-singapore.861309/page-12?post=122884776#post-122884776

Can we ban dusk as a "source" now?

It won't happen because I've already proven to the mod team multiple times I do have legitimate sources, and I can always revalidate in private if ever any concern over that.

If I was one of Dusk Golem's sources, I'd be pretty pissed at his "blabbermouth" and intentionally feed him fake leaks because of his bitchlike behavior.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

IrishNinja speedrunning getting banned again.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-322?post=122896833#post-122896833

[Nintex]

The new generation of insiders are too soy and retarded. Acting like they're handling nuclear secrets. Most of these "leaks" are sourced from job postings, LinkedIn, PR/localization firms, distributors, interns and developer portfolios. But they somehow think they own publication rights.

Back in the day we'd just leak shit without lengthy disclaimers. Just dumping powerpoints, screenshots, alpha footage, leaked builds or whatever. If you didn't believe it, that was your problem. If it was bullshit, well don't trust what you read on the internet.

[Nintex]

IrishNinja speedrunning getting banned again.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-322?post=122896833#post-122896833

Pretty rich for a muslim to accuse the NYT of carrying water for fascists when all his Houthi, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Grey Wolves, Nepenthes and IRGC friends are literally fascists that want to destroy the collective nation of Jewish people.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-9-not-being-delayed-to-be-announced-soon-and-released-january-2025-set-in-the-southeast-asia-sea-inspired-by-singapore.861309/page-13?post=122884920#post-122884920

why didn't you tell the guy who was asking you on twitter about the south east asian setting that whatever you've heard might have been outdated info? why did you let the rumor spread for days before backpedaling?

Simple: I've been busy, and thinking best how to approach this when it started blowing up. I'm s blabby person who did something thoughtless, so I decided to be more thoughtful when it was out of my hands when I had time to more properly tackle it publicly.

Man is out here claiming his 50/50 leak posts require real effort and care.

Then you have this SketchDog character running damage control: "Circumstances change, I heard similar things!"

I've seen them on GameFAQs bullshitting people too. These types of pathological liars shouldn't be allowed on forums.

Can we ban dusk as a "source" now?

Dusk Golem

It won't happen because I've already proven to the mod team multiple times I do have legitimate sources, and I can always revalidate in private if ever any concern over that.

Edited: Beaten like noodlesoup

[Besticus Maximus]

I've noticed the OTs have really low numbers these days. Stellar blade granted they ran a silencing campaign, but Rise of the Ronin is about the same and many others are barely 20-30 pages now

[Taco Bell Tower]

IrishNinja speedrunning getting banned again.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-322?post=122896833#post-122896833

i just came off a one month ban for simply pointing at the NYT's history of carrying water for fascists, which as framed as "concern trolling in a thread about neo-nazis", an impressive feat of mental gymnastics & as an antifascist, pretty funny as well

[Chudder Barbarity]

bit late, but Rowling is the last person who should be talking about sports. Name a stupider fictional sport than quidditch lol

And really, the idea of a woman being able to handle a team of PED filled primadonnas who could break her in two is inherently silly. but y'all ain't ready for that conversation.

[Nintex]

Sony Ponies on suicide watch, Square Enix pivots to multiplatform for their AAA games, including Nintendo platforms 

[tweet]https://twitter.com/gematsu/status/1789914500705005744?t=bWlOClJzw0SCeUjGEZxOvQ&s=19[/tweet]

[Propagandhim]

The optics of a forum that has to say "we banned the New York Times as a source" is too good.  It would be so fucking funny. Please god do it.

[Polident]

bit late, but Rowling is the last person who should be talking about sports. Name a stupider fictional sport than quidditch lol

American Football

[Besticus Maximus]

Cricket is canny stupid if you think about it

[Taco Bell Tower]

Sony Ponies on suicide watch, Square Enix pivots to multiplatform for their AAA games, including Nintendo platforms 

[tweet]https://twitter.com/gematsu/status/1789914500705005744?t=bWlOClJzw0SCeUjGEZxOvQ&s=19[/tweet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/square-enix-is-shifting-to-a-multiplatform-strategy.868902/?post=122897298#post-122897298

I'm guessing graphics won't be as ambitious going forward. All good, they tried for a while now and we have quite a few games that will look good on future consoles (not just PS5 Pro) through BC.