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

[DavidCroquet]

What the heckie? Why would Jeff start deleting old lilo and stich posts?! 

Zeo: “So I was arguing with…my friends about lilo and stitch. Anyway you came up so I told them we saw it together on a date.” 😍
MILF: “We’re not dating and for the fifth time please never speak about me or my son again.”
Zeo: “Uh…yes, of course. My mistake.”

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-folks-ehrcs-new-transphobic-code-of-practice-expected-to-come-into-force-but-timeline-unknown-see-threadmarks-for-updates.1547842/

I guess pinning this thread on Era didn't work. I wonder why?  

[clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-commute-to-work-using-3-different-rail-lines-1-is-fine-1-is-ok-and-the-last-one-is-a-straight-homeless-shelter.1573654/

And to be clear I'm not talking down on people who need help, I used to run a project called "Black Wagons" that helped feed people In need that were sleeping on the street so I'm not coming from a position unfamiliar I'm just shocked it got this bad right under my nose.

Time for me to get out my phone and get back in the streets!

Stealth brag thread

Haha. I knew this was about the El in Philly even before I clicked through to the OP. It really is a dystopian nightmare. I’d rather walk.

[Disco55]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/palworld-official-1-0-launch-trailer.1573045/page-2

https://www.resetera.com/threads/palworld-changes-design-of-some-creatures-to-less-resemble-pokemon.1574077/

Whelp, looks like the reeing over Palworld begins. Probably will see more since right now it is clear by the Steam CCU that gamers don't care and Nintendo's bogus lawsuit had basically backfired on them.

[Uncle]

Some of us don't even have Funko Pops

I used to be a proud non funko pop haver but when the young nephew is so excited that you introduced him to What About Bob that he buys you the Bob funko pop you must accept it gracefully

[Uncle]

you know what else is kinda funny, they love Muppet Christmas Carol (as anyone should) and as we were watching What About Bob I was like wait...this music sounds oddly familiar in some ways, just the way it's orchestrated, the way it flows

and I looked it up and What About Bob and Muppet Christmas Carol were both done by the same musician, Miles Goodman, only a year apart...makes sense since they're both involved with frank oz

and I swear you can hear little similarities

[Disco55]

Definitely not my take as someone who likes Palworld!

When it came out, I was like "damn that looks like the very hot Ark + creature capturing game I've been dreaming of......others have tried, but they all fizzled in development. It's clearly pokemon inspired creatures with a cool open world sandbox survival world/loop like Ark, hell yeah!"

There was an element of "okay clearly they've vetted that these designs aren't actually violating any of Nintendo's IPS -- that would be *hilariously stupid* if not. They look similar, but I can go pull 5 other 'creature capture' games with gameplay loops much more similar to Pokemon than this that have some designs that are QUITE similar to Pokemon, and they've existed for years....probably gonna be fine, but we'll see!"

Then, we had the social media storm that eventually lead to Nintendo declaring that they were going to scrutinize the game heavily as requested and sue if they deemed anything to be infringing upon their IP. Amidst that, we had people posting things on twitter saying that certain models were DEFINITELY full "okay they just copy pasted this model from pokemon and added a few frills"......and I was like "oh damn if that's true......they are just the dumbest ever! corporations can be real dumb, so it's possible".

But, those allegations were wrong. The most popular one (the dog pal that.....looks like a dog pokemon woah!) was specifically retracted with the author saying he spoke too specifically and did not actually have evidence that it was a model ripoff (the internet ran wild with it and said it definitely was -- the zeitgest never updated to 'whoops I lied'......because that's how hivemind internet stuff works sadly).........it was just a fantasy dog model, that looked like another fantasy dog model.

What SHOULD have been the final nail in the coffin: Nintendo's lawsuit. The one that.........at no point ever attempted to argue that Palworld was ripping off their creature designs. An absurdly valuable IP by a very litigous company........did not assert in any way shape or form that these Pals were ripoffs, and definitely not "full model ripoffs" as the (false) statements alleged. They instead, wound up suing for the........generally silly gameplay patents like "we invited the idea of riding a fantasy horse that can also fight stuff". Whether you consider that valid or not, doesn't really matter for this discussion! It was all gameplay mechanics, nothing about Pal vs. Pokemon designs.

Unlike "random dudes on twitter and forums".....Nintendo has access to essentially infinite resources for the purposes of suing someone and proving that they blatantly ripped off 'mons with their pals. Discovery is a thing and it would be incredibly easy for Nintendo to compel Pocketpair to produce the full byte by byte data of how they came to get design and create the models for their pals. To protect the most valuable IP in the world, they would do it in a heartbeat!

They.....did not do this.

Do the math on that one -- it's not complicated. All we have now for "proof" are....people on twitter, reddit and forums authoritatively saying that they eye tested that these designs are definitely Pokemon ripoffs. If you.......know anything about "eye tests"....you should know they're essentially the most unreliable, confirmation bias prone evidence that exists. In our information dystopia of 2026 internetland.......they're essentially the last leg you stand on when all better forms of evidence have been tried and been found to be false. Before the twitter "proof" was retracted -- it was their hard evidence that proved Pocketpair was definitely going down. Now that they were retracted......well it doesn't matter, "we all have eyes", and that's all the evidence needed to keep on going, all verifiable evidence be damned.

It's 2026 in a nutshell -- "yes all of these IP experts and lawyers agree it's NOT copyright infringement, it's not plagiarism, Nintendo themselves isn't even alleging that *while suing Pocketpair* -- but my gut, my friends, and some loud people on the videoscreen say it is. So it is, and I will say that until my dying day."

I remain the crazy person deferring to experts in complicated situations like this, allowing my opinion to change as evidence is introduced/confirmed/refuted, understanding that looking at a model and having it look similar with "eye test" does not mean it's "definitely plagiariasm" and......... hey I'm at least used to being on an island with this stuff as it's an issue much larger than videogames, pokemon, and Palworld in our current crazy political climate information dystopia. Climate change is fake because I saw a snowball, scientists are all liars and you should trust your loud uncle who "heard some things on the internet", etc. etc.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/palworld-official-1-0-launch-trailer.1573045/page-2#post-157757281

[BIONIC]

you know what else is kinda funny, they love Muppet Christmas Carol (as anyone should) and as we were watching What About Bob I was like wait...this music sounds oddly familiar in some ways, just the way it's orchestrated, the way it flows

and I looked it up and What About Bob and Muppet Christmas Carol were both done by the same musician, Miles Goodman, only a year apart...makes sense since they're both involved with frank oz

and I swear you can hear little similarities

Wow, stay safe.

[Bootsthecat]

Of the unlimited options available, why would anyone show a child what about bob.

[HardcoreRetro]

Should've shown him Twin Peaks and gotten that cool Laura Palmer funko pop.

[Jonsey]

Jeff thinks he’s superior apparently 

Some pretty Nazi rhetoric in this message about subhumans and some people not counting as people.

He has some deep hatred in his heart

[Jansen]

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-545#post-157762720

[Besticus Maximus]

 take thee away foul tempters! I am trying to be good!

[Alpacx]

Ann Widdecombe murder posts
https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-political-era-2024-ot1-starmergeddon.928968/page-501#post-157742923

The swivel eyed loons' favourite swivel eyed loon, Ann Widdecombe, has died. Somehow one of the least weird people in Reform.

I'm terribly sad by this.

Terribly sad because it cost us Bonnie Tyler to get rid of Ann Widdecombe.

Nice news to wake up to and on a Friday aswell.

Oh no, what a terrible shame ....

Someone salt the Earth so Ann doesn't come back.

A genuinely evil, grifting piece of shit, rehabilitated to loveable national treasure status by our national broadcaster's light entertainment department. Rest in piss.

Ann Widdecombe was only 78? Hate really does age you.

Huh, Ann Widdecombe finally did something good with her life (by dying)

I really hate feeling relief about a death. Something so dirty but also inevitable, about finding some people so vile that when they pass you can't bring yourself to show empathy. What I mean is I feel that relief, but also feel dirty about it haha

If you ever feel bad about it just remember that she likely wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, she was a vile woman full of contempt

Then the tone changes

Police are investigating Anne Widdecombe's death. Uh oh.

Well that's a shocking update. Hoping it's not a political assassination, which is a grim thing to hope for tbh.

The Era version of Serving Cunt:

Pretty much. Doesn't shock me that someone so corrupted by hateful bigotry ends up like this. Try not being a banned word, maybe.

    she'll not have wanted this at all!

Me Me Me Me Me

I'm hoping the death of Anne Widdecombe is not related to a political assassination either. But I fear people are gonna go into conspiracy overdrive and people in the LGBTQ community, especially trans people, are gonna see some indirect repercussions out of it.

[Let's Cyber]

[/spoiler]

Jesus, resetera's ability to radicalize people into performative tankies is almost undefeated

This is like the flashback scene in SLC Punk! when we realize that all of the punks were actually just middle-class adolescent D&D nerds a few years earlier. All of this revolutionary shit is just a front for someone deeply insecure and lacking real-life agency.

[Alpacx]

UK PoliEra also discussed new safeguarding guidelines for English Schools https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-political-era-2024-ot1-starmergeddon.928968/page-501#post-157727656
   

Th cruelty against trans children continues. Not enough to remove education of us from schools, not enough to ban their healthcare, promote conversion therapy, and forcibly detransition them. No, now we must make it as hard as we can for them to even socially transition.

This government is a plague on trans people.

Unfortunately Burnham has said that he feels the matter is settled, "the time has come to take the Supreme Court ruling and the guidance and implement it" and that "we've got to move into the next phase and not constantly re-running the arguments". So I don't have any hope that we will see change under him when his first response on the matter was to immediately u-turn on past positions and agree that we need to introduce segregation of trans people. That anything else would be to be 'arguing'.

Bire fav plagiarize with some insight.

The trap people keep falling for with legislation like this is to look at it and go 'well both sides seem unhappy so it must be fair' when the transphobes can literally never be happy with any plausible outcome.

It should be plainly obvious that you need to ignore people like that. They don't want trans people to exist, but we do, and will continue to, no matter how cruel the measures taken are. They want an impossibility, they want reality to bend into the overly simple binary they were taught so they don't have to feel any way about trans people or non-binary folks. Can't be called a bigot towards something that doesn't exist... never have to self reflect.

But we arent a belief that can be stamped out, we are part of the natural world, and giving those ghouls *anything* is just needless cruelty. Even when they arent interacting with any openly transgender people they imagine cis people are trans and go on witch hunts.

[Bootsthecat]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-are-you.1574107/page-2

These threads always make me feel better about myself, wat can I say.

These motherfuckers are just so broken, it's crazy