Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[HaughtyFrank]

Sometimes, toxic fandoms behave reactively. A “House of the Dragon” episode featuring two female characters kissing and an episode of “The Last of Us” focusing on a gay couple were both review bombed.

By the way it turned out those negative reviews for House of the Dragon were mostly from Muslim countries who were upset over lesbians. So that's a whole different can of worms than just "toxic fandom"

[Hap Shaughnessy]

By the way it turned out those negative reviews for House of the Dragon were mostly from Muslim countries who were upset over lesbians. So that's a whole different can of worms than just "toxic fandom"

This is a blatantly Islamophobic post.

[benji]

Steam has one of the best review bombing response things I've seen. It detects a sudden rush of outliers and then tells you and lets you either see them or not. It's pretty much entirely trusting you to look at those and see if you think they're legitimate or some temporary controversy. But Valve doesn't sit there and try to "correct" the score because they correctly suspect that it's temporary statistical noise and will be overwhelmed by legitimate reviews over the long run.

[Nintex]

Review bombing is dumb but in most cases you don't need reviews, you only need barely functioning eyes and ears to see how crappy these products are.
The Disney slop these days has horrible quality CG. XMen movies of the early 2000s have more pleasing visual effects compared to what Disney puts on the screen.
Your average JRPG CG cutscene on PS2 is better animated. 

You can compare Star Wars Outlaws to the last Splinter Cell to find more advanced physics and better take down animations.
Metal Gear Solid 5 a game launched in a half finished state 9 years ago runs, looks and plays better than most of the latest AAAA products put out by western studios this year.

Also there is a new type of "reception" that is perhaps worse than the toxic fandom. Games like Concord and Dustborn that bomb so hard because literally nobody gives a shit.

[Potato]

this is the official story, perhaps with some spin

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1fsvcdg/from_the_godot_foundation_board/


from the comments, sounds like the "unnofficial" server was actually the original server, and the biggest one





both servers have the same mods, and you can't even get into the new official one because they locked it due to the current drama, so the only server anyone can get into is the one with the incredibly racist mod, or something

I'd say there's some degree of spin there. Like the tweet they totally didn't expect to be controversial arguably tried to stir some culture war flames by asking people to show off their "woke Godot games"
Then some dude merely replied with "can we keep politics out of it?" and was instantly blocked. Turned out that guy was some kind of diamond tier donor who then made a big stink about it. That they're now arguing the poor community manager was just overwhelmed feels like reaching considering nothing in that reply was an insult

update

one of the original and best godot contributors became incredibly disillusioned with the project, was pushed out by toxic leadership, and wrote a massive expose on how it's being mishandled (literally a book)

https://waiting-for-blue-robot.gitlab.io/

or a 2 hour video, if you prefer





I think this guy's communication style leans toward the annoying? just wants to imply things a lot of the time, perhaps so as not to incur litigious wrath?

this might be the most informative part of his book: https://waiting-for-blue-robot.gitlab.io/no_longer_a_blue_robot.html

or y'know these sections



the implication seems to be that the top level maintainers have a vice grip on everything and want to raise money for themselves which doesn't actually go into the project at all, longstanding issues go unfixed in favor of focusing on community fuckery

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fortunately, some people got fed up with this latest controversy and have forked godot into a new version, redot!

open source software  

some people are saying that some of the biggest longstanding developers on godot have already jumped ship, hoping they can actually finally fix issues that kept getting rejected by the god-king maintainers

the godot community is harrassing them and trying to interfere with their project already

Open source game engine developer exhibits autistic traits and behaviour! 

[Jansen]

Forspoken is Good.

No 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kurzgesagt-there-is-something-hiding-inside-earth.999558/page-2#post-129666783

So is there a possibility of megafauna and/or lost civilizations inside our earth?

[Jansen]

https://bsky.app/profile/melodyshreds.bsky.social/post/3l5mjlkpyoo25

I wish I could do a before and after comparison of my transition but I'm afraid I was too attractive as a man so I don't wanna do it

[Polident]

Nobody would care about toxic fandom if these things were successful.

[benji]

Such a cool idea that they've done fucking nothing with.

I mean, this should 1000% be the setting of a huge set-piece battle to end an entire saga if there's any sort of real planning going on over there.

Maybe ask Slayven about the Celestials? (And Galactus.)

Or look at the Captain America trailer.

[Jansen]

Fuck me eternals was terrible

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[Propagandhim]

Absolute joke. Genuinely disgusting. No pushing boundaries, no challenging audiences, no equal opportunities for fresh and new stories and takes to be shared. Fuck off.

Would really love it if this guy could tone down the Islamophobia

[Steven Snell]

https://bsky.app/profile/melodyshreds.bsky.social/post/3l5mjlkpyoo25

I wish I could do a before and after comparison of my transition but I'm afraid I was too attractive as a man so I don't wanna do it

I feel like I have a pretty good idea what Melody looked like before the transition.

[Jansen]

Watched civil war the other day and wondered why anyone would get into an argument over it - it's just mindnumbingly boring

[Jansen]

https://bsky.app/profile/melodyshreds.bsky.social/post/3l5mjlkpyoo25

I wish I could do a before and after comparison of my transition but I'm afraid I was too attractive as a man so I don't wanna do it

I feel like I have a pretty good idea what Melody looked like before the transition.

Fat and bald?

[benji]

Watched civil war the other day and wondered why anyone would get into an argument over it - it's just mindnumbingly boring

That was the film and the specific part of it that told me the MCU wasn't going to recover from stupid garbage like Age of Ultron.

[Steven Snell]

https://bsky.app/profile/melodyshreds.bsky.social/post/3l5mjlkpyoo25

I feel like I have a pretty good idea what Melody looked like before the transition.

Fat and bald?

Probably similar to the PS5 and PS5 Pro differences screenshots. It's the same picture!

[Alpacx]

Forspoken is Good.

No 

This is a blatantly Islamophobic post

[Taco Bell Tower]

Such a cool idea that they've done fucking nothing with.

I mean, this should 1000% be the setting of a huge set-piece battle to end an entire saga if there's any sort of real planning going on over there.

Maybe ask Slayven about the Celestials? (And Galactus.)

Or look at the Captain America trailer.

Asked
Bengraven

Slayven Earth X vibes.

Slayven

Exactly. Call Franklin

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-found-out-i-need-glasses-and-suddenly-everything-makes-sense-now-astigmatism-thread.1000221/
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So, I've been basically going down the check list of making sure I get all my health stuff updated and in check throughout this year, since you know that shit is important to do. After finally finishing all my dental work, I decided it was time to finally get my eyes checked because it's been a really long time. Now, for reference, I've seen this image above for so many years and stumbling upon it made me realize I might have an astigmatism considering I did always struggle to see at night due to all the lights or even while watching movies sometimes because the light streaks would be distracting. Like most people, I thought that was normal and just how people saw but no, younger me was dumb and wrong.

Fast forward to today, I went to take an eye exam and it turns out that this picture that's often spread across social media is actually right. If you see lights like the image above at night, you might (or likely do) have an astigmatism and I can say that because it turns out, I just found out that I do actually have an astigmatism and do need to get glasses for this exact reason.

Just wanna shoutout this Tiktok because it's what made me finally book an eye exam appointment to find this out. Without stumbling upon this Tiktok recently, I might've delayed finding out this news for who knows how much longer:

Anyways, I guess it's time for me to figure out where to buy glasses online now lol

[AnnoyedCanadian]

Nordic4tKnight

They really really hate LBGTQ+ people. People often forget that many Muslims are as socially conservative as evangelicals.

KingK

So shit like this is totally cool to go unchallenged in this thread?

They changed his post

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-4-dont-complain-do-something.962805/page-552#post-129626061

A small group of them still hate LBGTQ+ people. People often forget that some Muslims are as socially conservative as evangelicals.

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Bunch of fucking nutjobs the lot of them are.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Watched civil war the other day and wondered why anyone would get into an argument over it - it's just mindnumbingly boring

Greatest political thriller in the past 100 years.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

wait, which civil war

[Greatness Gone]

"a small group of muslims still hate LGBTQ people"

 

literally what the FUCK? is this the most blatant denial of reality of all time on this site (aside from kyuuji's self-identified high femme status/princess bubblegum's belief that he is a biological female lesbian)?

[benji]

"A small group of them"

[benji]

"A small group of them"

This is a blatantly Islamophobic post.

[Greatness Gone]

Watched civil war the other day and wondered why anyone would get into an argument over it - it's just mindnumbingly boring

Greatest political thriller in the past 100 years.

actually it's Captain America: The Winter Solider  

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Watched civil war the other day and wondered why anyone would get into an argument over it - it's just mindnumbingly boring

Greatest political thriller in the past 100 years.

actually it's Captain America: The Winter Solider  

oops, all those things blended together

[benji]

It just drives me crazy that nobody sees this as a blatant attempt to get power/clout. Shit heads like Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger are still bad people. They're still Republicans. They'd flip the moment Trump dies/leaves. But for now, they can't get power in their own party so they'll hijack ours. Don't normalize these people!

Okay this rhetoric bothers me. It's one of the reasons things have become so polarized is because we treat opposing parties as blood enemies as if we should never associate with them because "GOP" blood runs through their veins. We already seen instances on the other side where they claim they would rather vote for Putin or a pedophile than a Democrat.

But aside from extremists or political diehards, most regular everyday Republicans and Democrats have somewhat irregular shaped political beliefs. I watch a local city council meeting where this very pro-military Republican was giving a passioned speech on the need for our local & state government to do more to house, feed, and give medical assistance to the homeless. His stance on homelessness was super liberal and he's probably been more actively involved on the issue than most people in this forum where we just talk about it. But he's still a diehard 2nd amendment Republican and on the balance of issues, I probably wouldn't agree much with him at all. Does that mean though I should spit in his face if he offers to collaborate on an anti-homelessness initiative or event because he's a "filthy Republican"? If your answer is yes to the latter, then nothing will ever get better and we might as well throw in the towel and just get started on the civil war now.

Liz Cheney actively supported policies that I found disgusting. I would never vote for her unless under extreme circumstances. Liz Cheney was in lockstep with the MAGA GOP, but when they tried to overthrow democracy, that was too much for her. However unlike other Republicans who only made complaints behind closed doors and still kissed Trump's ass in public to protect their career, Liz Cheney said, "WTF GOP" and then when she was met with silence and threats, and instead of slinking away quietly like everyone else does, she said "Fuck you GOP!" She lost her high ranking House position. She lost her seat, which she could have kept for the rest of life. She lost her influence in the party. And instead of hiding under rock for the storm to blow over for a cushy GOP lobbyist job, she's now on even bigger "Fuck you GOP!" tour by actively campaigning for Kamala Harris AND the Texas Democratic Senate candidate! She's also been continuing to bang the J6 drum and is one of the reasons why Jack Smith's J6 case was even able to take flight in the first place.

Say what you will about Liz Cheney, she has giant steel ovaries who was willing to torch her political career in order to try to burn out MAGA from the GOP, which she sees as a threat to democracy. Our interests are definitely aligned right now and she can certainly speak to Never Trumpers or help convince a few moderate Republicans on the margins that "maybe Harris isn't such a radical lefty if NeoCon Liz is actively campaigning for her".

When Kamala Harris becomes President, what will happen to Liz Cheney? No clue. I don't really care. If she wants to become the new Michael Steele and go on the MSNBC news circuit, that's whatever. Keep in mind, being a MSNBC paid contributor is a HUGE step down from being in House leadership of Congress, so let's not pretend she's doing all of this just so she can sit next to Rachael Maddow for 80k a year. Maybe Harris will throw her a low level cabinet position? That's better than nothing, but still nothing compared to the path she was on in the GOP leadership where she had the potential to be the speaker of the House.

Like quite a few Americans, Liz Cheney is complicated. On quite a few issues her moral compass is way off the mark, but on democracy, her compass points at true north and unlike most politicians, she was willing to slash and burn her own career to stay on true north with democracy. I give her respect on that. Most people sacrifice their principles for career and power. She sacrificed her career and power for her principles on democracy.

 This kind of white nonsense is exactly why Nepenthe doesn't feel safe in the PoliEra thread.

[Vertigo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-met-an-incel-in-your-personal-life.998748/

Obviously a thread with a lot of potential. Starting immediately from the minute you recognize the OP.

Nepenthe
One of my friends' ex-boyfriends was an incel.

We had a long argument one night about how women have to preemptively protect themselves in situations involving men. He found this extremely discriminatory and misandrist. That was the first red flag.

After they broke up, like, a few months later, he tried to get with me just as a fuck buddgy. I told him absolutely not, and then told my bestie. I'm assuming she told him to knock it off, and he came back at me with the longest text rants I've ever seen about how I was in the wrong for basically being an adult about the matter.

We've both cut off all contact. He's probably off being miserable or taking his issues out on another woman somewhere.

That guy really did hit rock bottom if he found any sexual interest in Nepenthe