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

[Uncle]

which is not nothing, but this is all data centers everywhere for every purpose: netflix, hulu, amazon, discord, forums, banking, commerce, streaming, AI , scientific research, etc

BTW:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jez-corden-given-compute-demands-for-ai-xbox-cloud-gaming-was-effectively-losing-money-when-used-beyond-15-hours-per-month.1625299/

So obviously the priority is AI over anything that people actually like or has decent reputation.

I know that era is specifically against AI

what I'm saying is that we don't have a clear picture on AI's impact on the environment specifically, but we do know that it is a subset of the data center number, which is 3% of all electricity and 1% of all emissions, and it already doesn't make sense to focus on a number that low as being make-it-or-break-it for the environment, much less whatever fraction of that goes to AI

[jimmys13]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-causes-this-flat-look-that-is-in-so-many-modern-games-and-what-graphical-effect-would-eliminate-it.1625599/

First of all, this is not an Onimusha hate thread, I'm loving the game, it's just my most recent encounter with this look.

So yeah, this is Onimusha running at max settings with RT and all that turned on. The whole scene just looks....flat. Like there's missing shading or lighting on all the characters and objects in the scene. One of the worst examples of this I've seen this gen for another example was FFVII Rebirth, which looked downright bad in certain scenes/conditions. This isn't really something I've really noticed/cared about before this generation, but it feels like every other game has this issue.

Stealth DLSS5 thread?

[Potato]

Does clicky know that True Crime obsession is primarily a female thing?

Same with body language "experts" and "speculative" True Crime.  

I hope we are because yes it's an issue. It's hard not to notice that DLSS5 tries to touch up women regardless of who they are to fit beauty standards, often seemingly trying to give them the same face. While the result are inept, the results show a disturbing future and one of the many reasons for why GenAI can't be allowed to be the future.

I think what frustrates me so much about all the discussion of DLSS5 is the waste of it all. A use of tech so bad for the environment and has already done so much damage to people, from toxic data centers, revenge porn, propaganda, scamming, wrecking education, has gotten so many people laid off etc etc etc and for what? So a video game can look "better" for some well off gamer bros? So Women in games can be made to fit beauty standards, oh wow so worth it.

Not going to lie, the past few days have been pissing me off so much, it feels like people just don't care about the long term damage and more upset at people against GenAI now then they are about how GenAI ills, that they are happy artists getting laid off and fired because they can get their games out sooner (to hell with the art itself, god Concept artists have been done so dirty), that the environment can go fuck itself because they can make a woman in a game prettier despite already being pretty.

Like [USER=2688]Dice[/USER] said, it feels hopeless, I'm glad there are few users who do care, but it feels like people are just accepting GenAI because Game companies keep pushing and pushing and pushing.

Look at this fucking cop thinking he should have the status to waddle around and go "oi, you got a loiscense for doing something I don't think has value?" A 40 year old dude who can't stop whining about how other people in fighting game or pocket monster communities aren't prioritizing his wants.

Crazy idea but maybe socialism would have a better reputation if they spend these conventions discussing how they'd make universal healthcare happen instead of talking about "black fat flesh"

Yeah, it's obvious you haven't read the theory and don't understand basic dialectics. We can't have universal healthcare until we problematize the hidden systems at work that perpetuate capitalism, colonialism and thin privilege. What good is "universal healthcare" when it's a fatphobic system that continues the ongoing slaughter and deliberate genocide of fat people as part of a system of upholding white supremacy? Like seriously, have you read any translated textbooks on dialectical materialism? Or are you sitting here trying to make a liberationary omlette through metaphysics?

How can we deliver universal healthcare if fat, black, trans, mentally ill, DSD, coeliac, dyslexic people are still being discriminated against? If we don't start by delivering my ultra niche community from evil, then nobody should have anything nice.

[Averon]

I've said it a few times before: this site is a boys' club and always will be, because the management and moderation team has clearly decided to prioritize a big tent approach to discussion topics and users and only shuts down the most egregious stuff. That makes it better than about 99% of other online forums, but it's still far from a safe space and sketchy behaviour is still allowed if it's done under a guise of plausible deniability.

The only solution is to find and/or make your own dedicated communities for women, femmes and nonbinary folks. You aren't going to find what you want here or anywhere else. It's been a nearly decade, nothing is changing. What we have is by design.

 

These are some of the most sensitive, dramatic people imaginable. Honestly, they could have their own private group chat/discord with like 12 fucking people, but even that would turn into a toxic, backbiting shithole. And they'd never admit this, but they enjoy having an audience more than actually forming or maintaining a tight-knit community. 

Never mind that the mod team has run off numerous fandoms and subcommunities to appease these fucking weridos. 

This entire thing is about being performative for their fellow inmates, not having a safe place to discuss video games or other topics. 

They will never leave no matter how much they complain because they like the power and influence they can exert on the mods and community. If they actually do fuck off and leave to form their own little thing, it will be the burka thread x100.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lilly-wachowski-is-%E2%80%9Ckinda-done%E2%80%9D-with-%E2%80%98matrix%E2%80%99-franchise-as-drew-goddard-takes-over-%E2%80%9Ci-don%E2%80%99t-wanna-play-in-that-sandbox-anymore%E2%80%9D.1625593/

Lilly added, "But there may be a thing that's happening with Drew Goddard, and he doesn't wanna go forward unless he gets our blessing."

https://deadline.com/2026/09/lilly-wachowski-kinda-done-matrix-franchise-1237069655/

[Let's Cyber]

Nep, comment please when you’ve finished celebrating 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-‘stand-your-ground’-law.1625491/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-%E2%80%98stand-your-ground%E2%80%99-law.1625491/#post-160125274

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric, it's a completely toothless observation without a recognition of the dialectical relationships and historical precedents that have led to this point where we are with gun ownership, many of which will continue to be unaddressed by the country at large. Like if you can't even acknowledge the racial dynamics involved, your judgement means nothing.

Gun control will come when we remake society such that there aren't multiple industries (weapons manufacturing/MIC, journalism, social media, etc.) and status quos contingent upon the exacerbation of reasons people feel the need to be personally armed in the first place.

With all that said, white man was bold to be walking up on a terrified woman aiming a gun at him. It'd be almost admirable if it wasn't entirely stupid.

This dumb cunt's opinion would change on a dime if the roles were reversed. No one on Era would think this was justified if it had been the woman slowly dying of a gunshot wound on the hot wal-mart parking lot. 

[Boredfrom]

Oh, she pulled the “when true communism comes, everything will be perfect” card.  

She could just say “is a white man harassing a black woman for a Walmart parking space, obviously she felt threatened” and everyone would have agree with her, including many of us.

[Boredfrom]

With all that said, white man was bold to be walking up on a terrified woman aiming a gun at him. It'd be almost admirable if it wasn't entirely stupid.

 

[HaughtyFrank]

Nep, comment please when you’ve finished celebrating 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-‘stand-your-ground’-law.1625491/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-%E2%80%98stand-your-ground%E2%80%99-law.1625491/#post-160125274

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric, it's a completely toothless observation without a recognition of the dialectical relationships and historical precedents that have led to this point where we are with gun ownership, many of which will continue to be unaddressed by the country at large. Like if you can't even acknowledge the racial dynamics involved, your judgement means nothing.

Gun control will come when we remake society such that there aren't multiple industries (weapons manufacturing/MIC, journalism, social media, etc.) and status quos contingent upon the exacerbation of reasons people feel the need to be personally armed in the first place.

With all that said, white man was bold to be walking up on a terrified woman aiming a gun at him. It'd be almost admirable if it wasn't entirely stupid.

This dumb cunt's opinion would change on a dime if the roles were reversed. No one on Era would think this was justified if it had been the woman slowly dying of a gunshot wound on the hot wal-mart parking lot. 

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric,

Oh fuck off, you can't say that and then whine about gun control. All of Europe has that figured out. Also insane to imply that "the global south" is doing better. Does she know the gun violence statistics of her beloved Brazil?

[DavidCroquet]

How can we deliver universal healthcare if fat, black, trans, mentally ill, DSD, coeliac, dyslexic people are still being discriminated against? If we don't start by delivering my ultra niche community from evil, then nobody should have anything nice.

We demand universal healthcare! Also, curing any illness or disorder is genocide.

I suppose by this standard, we're all getting universal healthcare every day, simply by doing nothing.  

[DavidCroquet]

Nep, comment please when you’ve finished celebrating 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-‘stand-your-ground’-law.1625491/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-%E2%80%98stand-your-ground%E2%80%99-law.1625491/#post-160125274

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric, it's a completely toothless observation without a recognition of the dialectical relationships and historical precedents that have led to this point where we are with gun ownership, many of which will continue to be unaddressed by the country at large. Like if you can't even acknowledge the racial dynamics involved, your judgement means nothing.

Gun control will come when we remake society such that there aren't multiple industries (weapons manufacturing/MIC, journalism, social media, etc.) and status quos contingent upon the exacerbation of reasons people feel the need to be personally armed in the first place.

With all that said, white man was bold to be walking up on a terrified woman aiming a gun at him. It'd be almost admirable if it wasn't entirely stupid.

This dumb cunt's opinion would change on a dime if the roles were reversed. No one on Era would think this was justified if it had been the woman slowly dying of a gunshot wound on the hot wal-mart parking lot. 

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric,

Oh fuck off, you can't say that and then whine about gun control. All of Europe has that figured out. Also insane to imply that "the global south" is doing better. Does she know the gun violence statistics of her beloved Brazil?

Of course she does. The real question is do you know about bad luck and systemic issues? Or even dianetics?

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-‘stand-your-ground’-law.1625491/#post-160125274

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric, it's a completely toothless observation without a recognition of the dialectical relationships and historical precedents that have led to this point where we are with gun ownership, many of which will continue to be unaddressed by the country at large. Like if you can't even acknowledge the racial dynamics involved, your judgement means nothing.

Gun control will come when we remake society such that there aren't multiple industries (weapons manufacturing/MIC, journalism, social media, etc.) and status quos contingent upon the exacerbation of reasons people feel the need to be personally armed in the first place.

With all that said, white man was bold to be walking up on a terrified woman aiming a gun at him. It'd be almost admirable if it wasn't entirely stupid.

She said the word!  

[simiansmarts]

First of all, this is not really me saying I'm in danger. I'm not contemplating hurting myself, nor am I in danger of taking my own life. But I'm currently going through a dark period in my life and I don't know if I see a way out of it, and...I don't know. I could use some outside perspective in looking at it. Also, fair warning that I share some personal stuff regarding past sexual abuse.



I'm 41 years old, autistic, and disabled. Almost a year ago, I received surgery on my back that, due to a combination of diabetes making healing slow, arthritis in both of my legs leaving both of my knees bone on bone, and severe depression, have left me unable to regain the ability to walk. I am currently scheduled for a joint replacement consultation for one of my knees that could, hypothetically, get me back into rehab and on the path to walking again, but that's not all I'm currently dealing with.



I am also living in a nursing home. Prior to my surgery, due to various circumstances, I lost housing at the ISL (Independent Supported Living) I was living at. Furthermore, due to living in a nursing home, my SSI was reduced to 30 dollars a month. My mother and father pay for my personal internet and phone, which puts a great deal of strain on them. I've ultimately managed to enjoy a few things due to the support of some friends, but that has had to come to an end. In general, I've had to face the facts that I'm also very bad with money, and am also a person who struggles with buying things too much because it allows her to feel some measure of control over her anxiety and poor life situation.



That's not the end of my problems. The housing company I lived at the ISL with ultimately had numerous problems with me, and submitted to my state's court to have me evaluated to be placed under a guardianship. The circumstances as to why are frankly too embarrassing and demoralizing to get into, and they ultimately do not make me feel good about myself. In my state (which I do not want to divulge in order to not dox myself), guardianships are wielded against people who have learning disabilities like a cudgel, disproportionately and oftentimes excessively. My plan is to try and get this down to supported decision making, but to do that I need to actually coordinate with my court appointed lawyer, with whom I am still having difficulty getting in contact.



Through it all, I can't help but shake the feeling I deserve this. When I was a teen, I was groomed on-line by a respected older friend and it made me carry a lot of shame and guilt into my adulthood. Shame and guilt that made me falsely believe that I had done the same to others when I had become an adult. It was only through therapy that I discovered that these memories weren't true, and yet, I still hold the shame of "having" them. They also don't erase some of the shitty and manipulative things I did as a teenager when I was being abused, or the fact that as an adult, I am a very abrasive, whiny, and difficult person to know, let alone like. I feel like most of my posting activity here is negative, and that no one would miss me if I disappeared.



That's to say nothing of the way our country is headed, or the fact that I have no way of getting out of here or standing up to anyone in power, or even trying to live a life with my Canadian girlfriend. I'm 41, trans, and I live in a deep red state. I have everything here all behind me too. It feels like my life is already over, and like better things will never be possible. I don't know what to do. Just...someone give me a reason to still keep pushing forward? Any encouragement at all. That'd 
be helpful.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-on-the-verge-of-losing-all-hope-for-my-future.1625602/

 
trans identified male: ✅  
autistic: ✅
obese: ✅
allegedly chronically disabled: ✅  
terminally unemployed: ✅
30s to 40s: ✅  
blames childhood trauma for current predicament: ✅  
spends all his money on games and toys: ✅ 
able bodied enough to write up gigantic self-pity manifesto: ✅ 
big into RPGs and anime like digimon: ✅
has long distance "girlfriend" who is certainly trans identified male: ✅ 
  
are we sure this one didn't come from the mutual aid bluesky thread?

[Averon]

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-562#post-160120342

People just turning this into a race to see who can post the funniest DLSS5 results is still engaging with the tech and normalizing its use and we need to have a more firm stance on this. Whatever laughs we're getting out of this isn't worth encouraging use of the tech and its impact.

Hidden post:

I've been limiting where I post more and more because of the boys-club aspect only gaining more and more prevalence. If well-meaning folks aren't explaining why you should get used to sexism, misogyny, etc., they're downplaying issues or essentially pressuring you into telling them that they're the exception or that the worst thing happening is when you make them realize their enjoyment doesn't overule everything.

It's frustrating to feel like if you leave, you're one more person people succeeded at pushing out, but it's also tiring to have to be subjected to all this day in and day out no matter what you do.

I dont get why people always do this, shitposting isn't protest.

It has always been something so stupid, people just see how shitty the tool is and then proceed to use it as a joke not getting that all it does is helping it become "better" and telling others that it is okay to use

Hidden Post:

I definitely feel like a lot of younger people and a lot of us older people need to go back and watch anti fascist youtube videos from the GamerGate/Trump in the White House the first time era. Sometimes it really feels like this forum is going more and more right wing, and that it is by design.

Especially having dedicated topics to sequester the people looking for real social justice and equality talk without being shouted down by the majority of cis het white guys and catching a ban for doing Feminism 101 or any equivalent discussion.

It does feel hopeless sometimes. There's a definite feedback loop to minority rights being taken away in real life to worse treatment (in real life and online) that leads to more rights being taken away... until what? The right wing fascist bubble isn't going to pop, because billionaires are going to blame women, 2SLGBTQIA+ folx, and POC for everything until climate change kills us all?

So it can feel hard to have hope. I still do, but damn is it a struggle.

As much as a part of me thinks that some people may feel like if they're making fun of it, it's pushing back in an easy way and believes that pushing back helps, you still have to think about what your actions ultimately amount to at the end of the day. Did we need to generate even more examples to show how shitty this tool is? People are already using DLSS5 to add makeup or other pointless things so that characters can suit their vision of what women should look like, we don't need to make more.

The Burka people really feel threatened by DLSS 5. Even equating it to fascism/Naziism/misogyny. Just more unhinged shit. 

Love that one suggestion is to get younger people to watch lefty 2016-era YouTube videos about GamerGate and Trump  

[Boredfrom]

Maybe they feel threatened because hyper realism has been the thing they have advocated for years and their porn addiction is showing when complaining about “those porn faces”… or they are just idiots, I dunno if hat the fuck they think anymore.

[Boredfrom]

I also think Trump benefited more early on when liberals become paranoid of him actually holding power rather than “normalizing” (  ) by joking about him. Conservatives and shitposters liked him precisely because he made liberals angry, making him the joke actually piss him off.

[Averon]

Maybe they feel threatened because hyper realism has been the thing they have advocated for years and their porn addiction is showing when complaining about “those porn faces”… or they are just idiots, I dunno if hat the fuck they think anymore.

A woman showing any sort of traditional femininity or, worse, is seen as attractive by cis men, is consider "gooner porn" to them. Someone here hypothesized that traditional feminine beauty triggers their dysmorphia. Can't said I can disagree.

[Boredfrom]

I definitely feel like a lot of younger people and a lot of us older people need to go back and watch anti fascist youtube videos from the GamerGate/Trump in the White House the first time era. Sometimes it really feels like this forum is going more and more right wing, and that it is by design.

Especially having dedicated topics to sequester the people looking for real social justice and equality talk without being shouted down by the majority of cis het white guys and catching a ban for doing Feminism 101 or any equivalent discussion.

It does feel hopeless sometimes. There's a definite feedback loop to minority rights being taken away in real life to worse treatment (in real life and online) that leads to more rights being taken away... until what? The right wing fascist bubble isn't going to pop, because billionaires are going to blame women, 2SLGBTQIA+ folx, and POC for everything until climate change kills us all?

So it can feel hard to have hope. I still do, but damn is it a struggle.

Fuck off and go touch grass.


If you want real social justice you are doing it wrong by bitching about fictional women in forums and getting sad because a dumb billionaire ruined your favorite social network.

[Boredfrom]

Maybe they feel threatened because hyper realism has been the thing they have advocated for years and their porn addiction is showing when complaining about “those porn faces”… or they are just idiots, I dunno if hat the fuck they think anymore.

A woman showing any sort of traditional femininity or, worse, is seen as attractive by cis men, is consider "gooner porn" to them. Someone here hypothesized that traditional feminine beauty triggers their dysmorphia. Can't said I can disagree.

But DLSS5 makes everything uglier.  

(Or at least the stuff that normally they get uppity about like female characters from East Asian games)

[Chumbawumbafan69]

Those DLSS 5 posters have no one to blame but themselves for feeling the way they do. Of course no one is going to hate something as much as you do if your argument is the tech isn't just bad, it's literally the cause of everything that's wrong in the world.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/digital-foundry-dlss-5-tested-nba-2k27-image-quality-benchmarks-mods-and-more.1625434/page-2#post-160120054/

 User banned (permanently): Inflammatory accusations, similar recent infraction. Account still in Junior phase

Nvidia's checks never bounce

[jimmys13]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-ideas-for-a-new-nintendogs.1625545/

i had a better idea.. i kick your wife in the back of the legs and fuck her bareback doggy style, just as i am about to nut i whip out nintendoggy 2 and using the dsi i record me covering her mouth and busting up her nostrils as she fingers my taint. bitch.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-neural-rendering-photography-thread-ot-comparison-screenshots-here.1624909/page-3#post-160081573

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Trolling, meta-commentary, thread derailment

Posting here just to ask to get thread banned. I don't think I'll respect the warning otherwise.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-neural-rendering-photography-thread-ot-comparison-screenshots-here.1624909/page-4#post-160085983

We can recognise reality without promoting the worst parts of it.
The existence of this thread, and the banning of dissenting voices, is not some neutral stance. It's active promotion of Gen AI.
This forum was one of the few places left on the internet not overrun with AI boosters, and it's sad that even the semi-permeable barriers in place are being taken down.

 User Banned (1 Week): Meta-commentary, ignoring thread rules

[cRumB]

Before the mods nuke it.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tim-schafer-is-delusional-and-needs-to-go-double-fine-needs-new-leadership.1625671/

Time Schafer quote below in Jason Schreier's Sept 4, 2026 Bloomberg Game On interview:

"We never actively tried to make a game we thought was going to lose money. I think people would say, 'Oh, Keeper looks like this art house thing that no one expects to be a hit.' But to me it's the kind of game that someone who doesn't play games would love. I really think there's a mass market appeal to Keeper."

Tim Schafer is an old-skool game dev and I respect what he did with his 90's point & click games, and for Psychonauts 1 and 2.

BUT

Tim Schafer is an active danger to the future of Double Fine and will run that company into the ground. Unless Schafer was giving a troll interview, then he legit believes that Keeper has/has mass market appeal.

IF

IF Tim Schafer was not trolling, joking, high on some kind of substance or got he got paid to say this, or one of his friends/collegues asked him to say this, and there were no mitigating circumstances in play.

THEN

Tim Schafer is THE most delusional, out of touch, popular game company leader there currently is and that there has ever been. And it shows that Schafer only has a bunch of yes men/women around him who are just looking to collect a paycheck instead of disagreeing with their deluded boss.

Time Schafer is stuck in the 2012 era of games where games like Journey could get non-gamers into gaming. And even then, Keeper looked so absolutetly dreadful, that the only mass market appeal it would get if it was somehow running as a tech demo in 1995.

If the leader of Double Fine things that games like Keeper has the same gravitas to pull the mass market like Call of Duty, Fifa, GTA Online, Minecraft, then he needs to replaced immediately.

Message To The Double Fine Devs:
If Tim is a noble as he appears on camera, then you need launch an intervention and ask Tim to create a succession plan where an actual in-touch development leader can take charge at Double Fine. Keep Tim as a figure head leader and as spokesperson to get the money and sales in. But do not let this man lead any kind of development effort.

[jimmys13]

Before the mods nuke it.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tim-schafer-is-delusional-and-needs-to-go-double-fine-needs-new-leadership.1625671/

Time Schafer quote below in Jason Schreier's Sept 4, 2026 Bloomberg Game On interview:

"We never actively tried to make a game we thought was going to lose money. I think people would say, 'Oh, Keeper looks like this art house thing that no one expects to be a hit.' But to me it's the kind of game that someone who doesn't play games would love. I really think there's a mass market appeal to Keeper."

Tim Schafer is an old-skool game dev and I respect what he did with his 90's point & click games, and for Psychonauts 1 and 2.

BUT

Tim Schafer is an active danger to the future of Double Fine and will run that company into the ground. Unless Schafer was giving a troll interview, then he legit believes that Keeper has/has mass market appeal.

IF

IF Tim Schafer was not trolling, joking, high on some kind of substance or got he got paid to say this, or one of his friends/collegues asked him to say this, and there were no mitigating circumstances in play.

THEN

Tim Schafer is THE most delusional, out of touch, popular game company leader there currently is and that there has ever been. And it shows that Schafer only has a bunch of yes men/women around him who are just looking to collect a paycheck instead of disagreeing with their deluded boss.

Time Schafer is stuck in the 2012 era of games where games like Journey could get non-gamers into gaming. And even then, Keeper looked so absolutetly dreadful, that the only mass market appeal it would get if it was somehow running as a tech demo in 1995.

If the leader of Double Fine things that games like Keeper has the same gravitas to pull the mass market like Call of Duty, Fifa, GTA Online, Minecraft, then he needs to replaced immediately.

Message To The Double Fine Devs:
If Tim is a noble as he appears on camera, then you need launch an intervention and ask Tim to create a succession plan where an actual in-touch development leader can take charge at Double Fine. Keep Tim as a figure head leader and as spokesperson to get the money and sales in. But do not let this man lead any kind of development effort.

Silentpanda is banned, but that awful orange text lives on. The only thing worse is the opinion expressed in the subject header.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lilly-wachowski-is-%E2%80%9Ckinda-done%E2%80%9D-with-%E2%80%98matrix%E2%80%99-franchise-as-drew-goddard-takes-over-%E2%80%9Ci-don%E2%80%99t-wanna-play-in-that-sandbox-anymore%E2%80%9D.1625593/#post-160131691

Didn't Resurrections flop? Why are they making more so quickly?

It's nearly impossible to properly judge the box office performance of Resurrections because of the circumstances that surrounded its release.

It released during COVID in December 2021, five days after Spider-Man: No Way Home had taken over theaters. And unlike No Way Home, WB put Resurrections on HBO Max the same day as the theatrical release.

It should have been delayed into summer 2022 with a theatrical-only release but was pretty much set up for failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Resurrections#Box_office

worldwide total of $159.2 million against a budget of $190 million

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-%E2%80%98stand-your-ground%E2%80%99-law.1625491/page-2#post-160133347

Hell yeah, based, fuck around find out.

[Uncle]

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I definitely feel like a lot of younger people and a lot of us older people need to go back and watch anti fascist youtube videos from the GamerGate/Trump in the White House the first time era.

Love that one suggestion is to get younger people to watch lefty 2016-era YouTube videos about GamerGate and Trump  

which ones could he be talking about? I want to see them 

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Nep, comment please when you’ve finished celebrating 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-‘stand-your-ground’-law.1625491/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-florida-woman-who-fatally-shot-man-to-not-face-charges-due-to-%E2%80%98stand-your-ground%E2%80%99-law.1625491/#post-160125274

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric, it's a completely toothless observation without a recognition of the dialectical relationships and historical precedents that have led to this point where we are with gun ownership, many of which will continue to be unaddressed by the country at large. Like if you can't even acknowledge the racial dynamics involved, your judgement means nothing.

Gun control will come when we remake society such that there aren't multiple industries (weapons manufacturing/MIC, journalism, social media, etc.) and status quos contingent upon the exacerbation of reasons people feel the need to be personally armed in the first place.

With all that said, white man was bold to be walking up on a terrified woman aiming a gun at him. It'd be almost admirable if it wasn't entirely stupid.

This dumb cunt's opinion would change on a dime if the roles were reversed. No one on Era would think this was justified if it had been the woman slowly dying of a gunshot wound on the hot wal-mart parking lot. 

While I can agree with folks that America (really, the West) is barbaric,

Oh fuck off, you can't say that and then whine about gun control. All of Europe has that figured out. Also insane to imply that "the global south" is doing better. Does she know the gun violence statistics of her beloved Brazil?

Yes, the barbaric West...I recently returned from attending a local beheading of an immoral woman accused of infidelity and then got a bonus hand chopping of a petty thief thrown in for my time. I then almost ran foul of the blasphemy laws and my gay neighbour better be careful because someone might throw him from a roof.

All this was recorded on my country's extensive citizen monitoring system and I expect I'll get lots of social credit which might allow me to travel overseas to see all those places the foreign devils live. 

Finally, the self-proclaimed dictator for life has just decreed that all Muslims in a certain part of the country should be rounded up and sent to patriotic retraining camps where their organs might be harvested for the ruling elite, who are just friends of the President's.



Oh, sorry, that was not my country. That was all the other countries that Nepenthe thinks the West should emulate.

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How can we deliver universal healthcare if fat, black, trans, mentally ill, DSD, coeliac, dyslexic people are still being discriminated against? If we don't start by delivering my ultra niche community from evil, then nobody should have anything nice.

We demand universal healthcare! Also, curing any illness or disorder is genocide.

I suppose by this standard, we're all getting universal healthcare every day, simply by doing nothing.  

Universal healthcare where everyone is declared healthy regardless of their health status sounds like a good cheap option honestly.