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

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/converse-ad-sparks-controversy-over-insensitive-racist-imagery.1637080/

Jesus christ, this is why you hire diverse design teams. I don't think it was intentional, but it absolutely should have been caught.

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So in the last couple of hours, Converse is receiving backlash for an image in the recent chuck 70 x promotion featuring Karina. Now, immediately most people noticed that the visuals and lighting make Karina’s skirt look like a klan hood next to a hanging to a body.

It's a cropped photo.  I doubt anyone will risk their account pointing that out. 

[DavidCroquet]

Look at Orange Juice Box over here, running interferences for the Korean chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Masks, slipping, etc. etc.

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tomshardware-wiki-documents-at-least-44-instances-in-which-sony-says-you-own-your-games-as-digital-games-ownership-lawsuit-progresses.1631437/page-3#post-160772020

 User banned (permanent): Troll account

"I have my own idea of what a man or a woman is that I am going to guess is different from the (trans) politician in question."

I wonder what that idea is!

Sure. Let's do that. I'll quote my post from December of 2024 on the website in question, with a correction for a typo. This post remains live today for anyone to read.

I have no issues with trans people & treat them the way I want to be treated. For me it isn't a question of my opinions on their identity. It's just human fucking decency. One example; this fuckface I had as a mailman walks into my store, while I am helping an obviously trans customer. I treat this customer the way I treat any other customer; I run to the front to help, I treat this customer with an of service mindset, & I do everything I can to ensure a happy outcome. My mailman is staring, making these disgusted looks, then laughing under his breath. I took him aside and told him to never fucking do that again.

I asked him, regardless of what you think; do you honestly believe this person went through high school in new york city without having someone laugh or snicker at them? Do you really think you're adding something to the conversation by laughing at them, treating them like they're different/weird or like a piece of shit? Above all, who the fuck do you think you are to look down your nose at MY customers when you're in MY FUCKING BUSINESS? Get the fuck out of here you piece of shit. That obviously came at a price unless you believe that nobody picking up my mail & the superviser having to show up to pick up what that mailman didn't after, it was a point worth making.

To be clear, I don't think men are women or vice versa. But that doesn't mean I walk up to people and go out of my way to call someone who is obviously trying to pass as a "she" a "he" just to be a dick, and I think it's stupid as fuck that people see taking part in behavior that causes non-deserving people to feel shittier for no good reason as a marker of being a "real man.". as someone who has literal brain damage from my own childhood, I am INFINITELY sympathetic to the plight of the people who do not fit in; the people who feel weird & uncomfortable in their own skin. For WHATEVER reason. I am not here to make their lives shittier for no reason. Yes I roll my eyes out of my head at people who claim it is "transphobic" for me to want to exclusively date what i believe to be biological women.

My personal trainer got banned from an online dating site. after having so many trans people reach out to him, he finally put "only interested in biological women" on his profile. he was banned for this, on a website where profiles routinely state "only interested in 5'9" and up" - it is ok for someone to have a preference for height, but not ok for him to have a preference that he date someone who was born a woman. i think that's fucking ridiculous.

That is a separate issue than whether or not I decide to be pieces of shit to everyone in that group regardless of how they have treated me. THESE ARE UNRELATED.

This seems to be something that is lost in modern society where everyone wears their political opinions & speaks about them as if it's WWF wrestling. There's this idea that if you have more conservative beliefs about gender, you have to go out of your way to laugh behind the backs of trans people or go out of your way to call them something you just know is going to piss them off. How much effort does it take for me to say "absolutely my friend"? And isn't that the same amount of courtesy I would hope someone would show me? Further, what do I have to gain from saying "absolutely, sir!" to a trans person trying to pass as female? I am going to make them feel like shit & then I'll feel like shit that I made someone's day worse, after they were nothing but nice to me. What am I adding to the world with that interaction?

Is that how I want to be remembered? NO.
Will that get more people interested in my cause? NO.
Will that result in me living a better life? NO.

so why do it?

Every trans person I have met in real life has been incredibly kind, nice, & accepting of me - & I have in turn provided the same treatment to them.

You can treat people with decency without being a piece of shit; you can actually treat people very kindly. Above all, I'm not here to assume that every person I meet from a group thinks the same(or is as negative towards me) as the worst experiences I have had with a small subsection of those people on the internet.

that's about it for that.

The problem I have with you isn't that we have disagreements on anything. Rather, it's the disingenuous & manipulative way that you present things in order to whip up a mob frenzy. In the very posts you are referring to, I am discussing an altercation I had that damaged my business because I stood up to someone bullying a trans person rather than stay quiet, and in my own life I go out of my way to use non-gendered language to refer to people when it seems like they're trying to pass for something else as a courtesy. The one area where I draw the line, is that if someone was born biologically as a male, I don't consider them part of the dating pool.

The things that I say are reasonable to most people. You know if most people read what I actually said, they might come to a different conclusion than the one you have put forward(calling me a "nazi"). That is why you don't quote what I say; rather, you poison the well to signal to people who are already on edge that I am some sort of psycho extremist. In reality, even people who disagree with me(to the left or the right) usually find my viewpoint to be much more nuanced than what you put out there.

The person who pointed out he was a nazi got banned.  So don't be a nazi and don't point them out?

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Accusations; Prior Ban for the Same

Also, noted nazi. Have fun getting recruited y'all. That's what these guys are here for.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tomshardware-wiki-documents-at-least-44-instances-in-which-sony-says-you-own-your-games-as-digital-games-ownership-lawsuit-progresses.1631437/#post-160442098

[benji]

If Square can do this, Disney and Sony could have afforded not to release the game the Middle East. Pathetic.

That requires Disney to not also be homophobic as fuck.

Homophobic as fuck is when you make a minor edit to your media to release it in countries that literally outlaw something rather than respecting that culture and giving them product anyway.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mary-peltola-d-ak-senate-candidate-puts-out-political-ad-%E2%80%9Cno-i-don%E2%80%99t-support%E2%80%A6men-in-women%E2%80%99s-bathrooms%E2%80%9D.1638616/page-2#post-160844227

Electoralism is ultimately just marketing, and your job as a marketer is to appeal to people regardless of the morality of the messaging in question. This is why you cannot really expect this Party to be anything other than reactive versus proactively standing up and acting on an established set of principles.

Well, no. This is just a math issue, if the Party STANDS FOR SOMETHING outside of the marginal mainstream another Party will form to take the vacated position. (Or the Republicans will dominate to the extent that the Democrats will naturally moderate.) But this also assumes that the members of the party want to do it but are constrained by the inherent logic of the electoral system. We have no evidence that all Democrats wanted to let men into women's bathrooms in the first place, Talarico, for example, at least has years of loudly saying that. We'd have to find out about Peltola.

It's extra funny because Nepenthe actually has posts where she (correctly) lectures others that first past the post has this moderating effect on parties which prevents the Democrats from being a party that advocates for the violent abolition of every Americans way of life.

[benji]

A troll account is when you register under your own name (and username you use everywhere) to respond to people making accusations against you.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/converse-ad-sparks-controversy-over-insensitive-racist-imagery.1637080/

Jesus christ, this is why you hire diverse design teams. I don't think it was intentional, but it absolutely should have been caught.

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So in the last couple of hours, Converse is receiving backlash for an image in the recent chuck 70 x promotion featuring Karina. Now, immediately most people noticed that the visuals and lighting make Karina’s skirt look like a klan hood next to a hanging to a body.

It's a cropped photo.  I doubt anyone will risk their account pointing that out. 

It's funny to me that the KKK thing is much easier to see in the full version...but then you don't get the hanging legs effect. Terminally online leftists really are the most retarded people in the world.

It's also funny that the only way you get the hanging legs effect is that they have intentionally darkened the photo.

[benji]

GET THE LOOK: 2026 Nazi Uniform
1. Harry Potter shirt
2. American Eagle jeans
3. Converse Chuck 70s

[HaughtyFrank]

I missed this bit from the reddit post

I also feel like they used Karina for this imagery because of her image as a pretty Korean woman whose name begins with a K.

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

I missed this bit from the reddit post

I also feel like they used Karina for this imagery because of her image as a pretty Korean woman whose name begins with a K.

And what was Korea when Chuck Taylors were first created in 1922? An annexed part of the Japanese Empire, allies of the Nazis. They weren't slick about this at all.

[Polident]

It's a cropped photo.  I doubt anyone will risk their account pointing that out. 

Are we not gonna talk about the shoe on head referencing 4chan humor? Holding shoes in front of her face to form a mustache, evoking Vlad Tepes? The twin grey socks at an angle with the skirt looking like smoke…9/11 much? The neckless blending into the star on her shirt, surrounded by empty shoes. Still working on that one. Need to sniff more glue. Darfur?

[HaughtyFrank]

Karina. Korea. Konverse.

Could it be anymore obvious?

[DavidCroquet]

skirt because tradwife!

[D3RANG3D]

She's not dysgenic...y'all ain't slick! 

[Straight Edge]

The only way they'll drive out Jason is if he sides with Israel

Funny enough a quick Google search brought me to a socialist reddit trying to get on his case for exactly that reason 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialistGaming/comments/1vt86ko/stumbled_upon_an_old_article_from_gaming/

rule 2
This is a gaming subreddit
Please keep all things gaming related.

rule 10
The situation in Palestine
We are on the side of the Palestinian resistance. Supporting the settler colony of Israel will get you banned without warning.

[Straight Edge]

Shit. I’ve got 4 pairs of Cons. Andy Warhol edition. Blondie. Hello Kitty. Tyler. Welp. Into the trash they go.

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-has-heard-that-blizzard-layoffs-are-coming-imminently.1639537/#post-160864330

Just remember that a lot of this money "being saved" is going straight to both the IDF and datacenters

*Asha smirked Jewishly as she slashed jobs at Blizzard and siphoned the money directly to Netanyahu*

"Now the IDF can genocide even more Palestinians, just as we planned!"

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-has-heard-that-blizzard-layoffs-are-coming-imminently.1639537/#post-160864330

Just remember that a lot of this money "being saved" is going straight to both the IDF and datacenters

I can't believe the software company behind Windows, Azure and Xbox Live is spending money on datacenters.

[Greatness Gone]

Every Overwatch battle pass Nepenthe buys helps Microsoft fund unspeakable violence, but every Lucio skin she buys supports Brazilian representation. This is what morally complex gaming looks like. 

Don't forget it.

[benji]

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[benji]

BRAVE FEMALE JOURNALIST Taylor Lorenz declares TOTAL ZEOVGM VICTORY over the pussies who fled rather than stay to Finish The Fight:

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[benji]

TOTAL ZEOVGM VICTORY

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[benji]

lmao at the replies on that Bungie tweet:

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I also like the many "but you said this wasn't possible, now you're going to do it? FUCK YOU FOR GASLIGHTING ME" posts when in the (short) video they outright say they have to spend time to rework the game to be able to restore everything. Real Arthur Gies level comprehension of what "possible" means. 

edit: Making that joke led me to thinking more about this:

My main memory of Polygon is still that Arthur Gies guy being very adamant about defending the latest Sim City game being always online. This happened shortly after the site was launched and they never did anything that made me see the site in a different light.

(The game was later updated to include an offline mode)

IIRC, it wasn't just that Maxis patched it, it was that the fan patch literally didn't stop any of the single player part of the game from working. The "online" connection was entirely meaningless, they didn't actually generate anything server-side like they claimed so a client-side "server" just sending back a response that it was there was all that was needed to avert the online requirement. Maxis had tried to spin the requirement as if your city's simulation was dependent on the outside world but it wasn't except for the specific connections to other cities as in previous games, your city was the same disconnected client-side-only simulation as always.

[jimmys13]

TOTAL ZEOVGM VICTORY

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"We fucking won, Guardians."

[Boredfrom]

Just remember that a lot of this money "being saved" is going straight to both the IDF and datacenters

They are paying Israel to use their products?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-7-revelation-will-let-players-raise-their-characters-level-automatically-to-skip-grinding-side-content.1638958/page-13#post-160847869

 User banned (permanent): Extremely inappropriate trolling around accessibility

This thread is a good reminder that some people just don't give a shit about people with accessibility needs.

Accessibility isn't just about assistance tools for folks with disabilities. Actual well-adjusted adults with jobs and families don't have time to grind games. And "not having enough time" falls under the accessibility bracket. Sad that it needs to be explained at all.

But of course, capital G Gamer NIMBYs will come around and say "well just don't play games then".

The entitlement is truly something to behold.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mat-piscatella-on-the-playstation-blackout-there-was-no-significant-change-at-all-in-player-count-or-engagement-in-our-tracking.1632955/page-10#post-160616032

 User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive Commentary; Account in Junior Phase

Yes, I can deny that. There's a difference in workers stopping means of production, which de facto means stopping production and revenue versus not logging your PS5 online for a week.

Calling that an action is quite generous and far fetched. You realize that there are people who every month do the same """action"""" just because they were busy this week ?

It's the equivalent of pouting for 5 minutes and then coming back. Hence why it produced said results: because it was litterally nothing.

Teachers, librarians, public health care staff, etc striking is pointless because they'll finish teaching the curriculum, treat all the patients, and everything anyway, and there is no revenue to damage. What was the point or consequence? Demonstrations against nazis and the rise of right-wing is also equally pointless because clearly their numbers keep going up regardless, and most importantly, there is no effect on anyone's revenue. Suck it, leftist scum!

(ps just to pre-empt the asinine "are you saying video game platform is as important as teaching or antifascism" comment that must already be percolating, I see what you are doing, and I will not engage with you further)

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvels-wolverine-censored-mystique%E2%80%99s-lesbian-relationship-for-middle-east-release.1638571/page-2#post-160835344

 User banned (1 week): Extremely inappropriate joke

They should do DLC where you chop the limbs off a journalist.

/s

[Boredfrom]

“He saw dead children and picked a side”.

Does he? If someone did a interview with Macklemore do you think he will say “I support Hamas” or he is just going to be vague explaining about Palestine liberation like most ProPalestine people online? Technically he will not pick a side. (That’s why is ridiculous that he got banned and Ed Sheeran myopic decision of not defending his colleague). 

But, if you think that saying “Free Palestine” means supporting terror groups… maybe he deserved to get banned.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-7-revelation-will-let-players-raise-their-characters-level-automatically-to-skip-grinding-side-content.1638958/page-13#post-160847869

 User banned (permanent): Extremely inappropriate trolling around accessibility

This thread is a good reminder that some people just don't give a shit about people with accessibility needs.

Accessibility isn't just about assistance tools for folks with disabilities. Actual well-adjusted adults with jobs and families don't have time to grind games. And "not having enough time" falls under the accessibility bracket. Sad that it needs to be explained at all.

But of course, capital G Gamer NIMBYs will come around and say "well just don't play games then".

The entitlement is truly something to behold.

Staff showing their neolib asses and going mask off dismissing perfectly reasonable concerns about accessibility. And they wonder why marginalized people and leftists don't feel safe on their forum.