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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ex-concord-devs-interview-on-a-life-well-wasted-podcast-it-was-the-most-beautiful-car-that-we-crashed.1289436/page-11#post-144777879

I loved playing this game so much, still angry at the docuhbag online reaction to frankly some bullshit , and then that Sony caved to it and pulled it. Should have stuck with it, eventually people would have found it was actually good

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

M-MY ASS!

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I don't know if the X is them though, but they are using the persons art if not.

[Rendle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/man-sues-canadian-grocer-alleging-egregious-assault-by-staff-as-he-tried-to-steal-car-outside-store.1284858/#post-144507411

 User banned (1 week): Misogyny

Funny, but I just can't picture a scenario where a female employee would take part in the violence, unless it was with her own car. In my mind, it would only make sense if she fit that "movie punk" stereotype. Which, honestly, might be a sexist way of thinking on my part.
After all, women can enjoy violence too.
I really didn't expect this article to make me reflect like this.

"As a result of the assault and the resulting injuries, including vertigo and nerve damage, Prince says he is unable to seek and maintain employment," the lawsuit says. "He suffers from constant fear, anxiety, apprehensiveness, depression and feelings of worthlessness as a result."

He didn't feel worthless already? Was he proud of being a carjacker?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

After all, women can enjoy violence too.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I can't believe the replies in this thread. Capitalism made this man turn to crime and y'all in the thread and mocking and blaming him?

[Potato]

WHAT HAPPENS??

these are grown people thirsting over childish cartoon characters. yikes

That's not really something thebire as a collective should be too critical of.

[Boredfrom]

All of these arguments about not jumping to conclusions, being less reactive and being considerate towards what's being discussed are greatly hurt by the fact that many of the posters saying this are also being reductive towards anyone understandably concerned about the usage of the term "feminist agenda" and apparent attempts to appease crowds who care concerned about said agenda.

They just hate Bloober or they didn't bother reading the article or they're pretending to care or trying to look like they have the moral higher ground. I'm not sure some of you understand or care about why people reacted so badly and that's really going to need to matter more if you're trying to weigh in on sexism, feminism, how it shapes portrayals of women in media and how people react to them.

Not to mention people saying "I get it" and defending the non-sarcastic interpretation of the text... hmmmmm

I mean, you are living negative feminist stereotype Morrigan. 

You guys really miss that period of time where people could get cancelled for saying “I’m not a feminist.”

No wonder why Messy is searching anything to shit on it, as a contingent of ERA still wants to shit on the game because reasons. 

Though, Cronos: The New Dawn isn't a political statement – "no feminist agenda here," director Jacek Zięba swears to God while we talk during a recent hands-on event in California. "It's not like we hate ourselves, or males," it's just the simple fact that it's "more interesting to have a female protagonist in some strange suit in a sci-fi setting than to put another male one."

Uh... sorry, but where is the "sarcasm" in saying "no feminist agenda here"? Was he being sarcastic because there is actually a "feminist agenda" in the game... or did he say it in a mocking tone to look edgy to appeal to bigots online?

"Ha, ha, yeah, don't worry, guys, no feminist nonsense here, we aren't like that!"

I don't know, maybe it is because English isn't my first language, but if this was supposed to be a "joke," I don't find it funny.

Actually, this sounds to me like they are trying to play both sides, like when someone says something obviously rude and hurtful and when someone else calls them out for it, they quickly say: "It was just a joke! You guys have no sense of humor!"

Except it wasn't a joke.

Narrator: it was a joke.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Boredfrom you know for a fact that we can never joke about feminism, not with chuds around. 

Comedy is never about punching down, only punching up.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-admin-to-pull-the-covid-vaccine-off-the-u-s-market-%E2%80%9Cwithin-months%E2%80%9D-update-approved-with-new-restrictions.1279827/page-8#post-144802605

I just had a thought about all this, since covid vaccines use eggs, and usa is already in an egg shortage, is this a political play to avoid egg demand from the government and prevent prices going up?

[benji]

He explains the joke, followed by the normal meaning. Era conflates "feminism" with "not hating women" but the guy is joking saying "feminist agenda" to say it's not about the "hates men" stereotype. Era posters live in such a paranoid bubble that they think "women should be mostly equal to men" isn't the norm so it then becomes this bold feminist proclamation. It's not, you're the ones out of touch and gaslighting yourselves. Everyone else has lived in the world where there's been multiple waves of feminism already. This is why modern feminism is infinitely split over topics like "should women be allowed to want sex with and make themselves attractive to men?", "should pornography be a hate crime against women?", "should women have their own separate sports?" and other such specific debates. When people refer to "feminism" or "feminists" they mean this kind of thing, not the feminism of 1890. These guys believe "you shouldn't beat and rape women" is this brave and stunning position that shocks the normies.

Era posters have no arguments for their positions so they have to conflate the two so they can browbeat and emotionally abuse people for "rejecting feminism" if they think consensual pornography shouldn't be illegal. Oops, wait, Era sides with the libs on that one rather than certain academic feminists and other leftists. Damn complexity, stop helping the ruling class!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/man-sues-canadian-grocer-alleging-egregious-assault-by-staff-as-he-tried-to-steal-car-outside-store.1284858/#post-144507411

 User banned (1 week): Misogyny

Funny, but I just can't picture a scenario where a female employee would take part in the violence, unless it was with her own car. In my mind, it would only make sense if she fit that "movie punk" stereotype. Which, honestly, might be a sexist way of thinking on my part.
After all, women can enjoy violence too.
I really didn't expect this article to make me reflect like this.

This isn't misogyny, it's just probability.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/viral-phillies-karen-steals-home-run-ball-from-young-fan.1290633/page-5#post-144808614

I wonder if this would even be a thing if she just didn't take the ball from the kid.

[simiansmarts]

why y'all ignoring Scherzo in that thread? They're literally using fetish art for their avatar. F'real, google image search that shit.

https://x.com/fruitfrakker

The Willy Wonka blueberry inflation is such a specific thing to get a fetish from yet there's an entire community of people online who are into that shit. It's the epitome of this image.  
 

[benji]

All those kids in Willy Wonka died. If you buy the corporate story, you might as well subscribe to Genocide Pass.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ryan-reynolds-complains-about-us-vs-them-identity-politics-says-nothing-better-than-working-with-maga-advocates-learning-their-perspective.1290822/ 
 
Here's where Jeff Marvel and his REEEE ilk start boycotting Disney for siding with Nazis, right? Right? 
 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ryan-reynolds-complains-about-us-vs-them-identity-politics-says-nothing-better-than-working-with-maga-advocates-learning-their-perspective.1290822/#post-144809130

Not surprising.

There was a "woke mob" joke in Deadpool & Wolverine too. Kinda made it clear what his views were.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

why y'all ignoring Scherzo in that thread? They're literally using fetish art for their avatar. F'real, google image search that shit.

https://x.com/fruitfrakker

The Willy Wonka blueberry inflation is such a specific thing to get a fetish from yet there's an entire community of people online who are into that shit. It's the epitome of this image.  
 

it really is odd when you look at the persons twitter and see them posting gifs of the little girl turning blue..

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ryan-reynolds-complains-about-us-vs-them-identity-politics-says-nothing-better-than-working-with-maga-advocates-learning-their-perspective.1290822/page-2#post-144809559 
 

As usual, you didn't have to say anything at all. Just a rambling "both sides" non-answer where he makes it clear that he's not MAGA but still lives in a dreamworld where the two sides are simply different opinions, despite the clear evils on one side very much overshadowing the negatives of the other.

I think it's important to recognize that a rich white person spouting off "let's all work together" nonsense does not make them conservative, as some in this thread are implying. What he's saying he is very much a stereotypical privileged white liberal take to have.

They support dems and they donate to good causes but when it comes to calling out the fascists on the other side, they don't want to piss off potential product consumers.

Writing comments like this off as "must be conservative" kind of ignores the reality of how many liberals actually feel.

 
Jeff playing damage control for Disney like clockwork, anything for his favorite franchise 
 
But OP isn't having any of that shit  
 

There's no need to downplay this, especially as there's a lot of Canada-specific context here that makes what he says especially damning. He's talking about a country and ideology that threatened Canada with invasion. The reality that's most important here is just how utterly ghoulish and morally bankrupt that honestly is, especially given at the same event people were giving speeches about resisting that shit and his response was 'but maybe learn from them instead of fight?'

When the implicit question is 'how do you feel about working in America in the wake of Canada being threatened with invasion?', the both-sides let's just learn from each other point is so, so much worse. ESPECIALLY from someone who uses Canada as part of his brand to make millions.

 
 

[benji]

Libs are conservative, Jeff. They don't support revolution that overthrows capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy. Reynolds is a conservative just like your boy Hasan. 

[benji]

There's no need to downplay this, especially as there's a lot of Canada-specific context here that makes what he says especially damning. He's talking about a country and ideology that threatened Canada with invasion. The reality that's most important here is just how utterly ghoulish and morally bankrupt that honestly is, especially given at the same event people were giving speeches about resisting that shit and his response was 'but maybe learn from them instead of fight?'

When the implicit question is 'how do you feel about working in America in the wake of Canada being threatened with invasion?', the both-sides let's just learn from each other point is so, so much worse. ESPECIALLY from someone who uses Canada as part of his brand to make millions.

Considering he lives in the United States and has American citizenship, he's probably not ignorant enough to take any of that seriously.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

BLUEMAGA strikes again

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/viral-phillies-karen-steals-home-run-ball-from-young-fan.1290633/page-3#post-144796452

Heard she was fired today apparently after word of this got out.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/viral-phillies-karen-steals-home-run-ball-from-young-fan.1290633/page-3#post-144796803

That sounds very unverifiable.

I saw a Facebook post earlier while casually scrolling. It had 54k likes. Usually those are true with that many likes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-100-worst-games-of-all-time-according-to-average-user-ratings-on-backloggd-as-of-now-how-many-have-you-played-and-do-you-like-any-of-them.1290558/#post-144785832

i've played 11 of them and they're all good. no i won't be disclosing which ones

I respect that very much

However, given that some of the games on this list are actually problematic, you’d probably be better off disclosing after all lmao

(I’m kidding, just to be clear)

Yes, kidding

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/viral-phillies-karen-steals-home-run-ball-from-young-fan.1290633/page-3#post-144796452

Heard she was fired today apparently after word of this got out.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/viral-phillies-karen-steals-home-run-ball-from-young-fan.1290633/page-3#post-144796803

That sounds very unverifiable.

I saw a Facebook post earlier while casually scrolling. It had 54k likes. Usually those are true with that many likes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

if that were true then b-dubs would allow likes

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/viral-phillies-karen-steals-home-run-ball-from-young-fan.1290633/page-3#post-144796452

Heard she was fired today apparently after word of this got out.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/viral-phillies-karen-steals-home-run-ball-from-young-fan.1290633/page-3#post-144796803

That sounds very unverifiable.

I saw a Facebook post earlier while casually scrolling. It had 54k likes. Usually those are true with that many likes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Holy shit, they're that naive 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

white man relenting and giving something to a white woman instead of standing up for his son.

what a role model to show him the pecking order early in life

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ryan-reynolds-complains-about-us-vs-them-identity-politics-says-nothing-better-than-working-with-maga-advocates-learning-their-perspective.1290822/page-2#post-144809559 
 

As usual, you didn't have to say anything at all. Just a rambling "both sides" non-answer where he makes it clear that he's not MAGA but still lives in a dreamworld where the two sides are simply different opinions, despite the clear evils on one side very much overshadowing the negatives of the other.

I think it's important to recognize that a rich white person spouting off "let's all work together" nonsense does not make them conservative, as some in this thread are implying. What he's saying he is very much a stereotypical privileged white liberal take to have.

They support dems and they donate to good causes but when it comes to calling out the fascists on the other side, they don't want to piss off potential product consumers.

Writing comments like this off as "must be conservative" kind of ignores the reality of how many liberals actually feel.

 
Jeff playing damage control for Disney like clockwork, anything for his favorite franchise 
 
But OP isn't having any of that shit  
 

There's no need to downplay this, especially as there's a lot of Canada-specific context here that makes what he says especially damning. He's talking about a country and ideology that threatened Canada with invasion. The reality that's most important here is just how utterly ghoulish and morally bankrupt that honestly is, especially given at the same event people were giving speeches about resisting that shit and his response was 'but maybe learn from them instead of fight?'

When the implicit question is 'how do you feel about working in America in the wake of Canada being threatened with invasion?', the both-sides let's just learn from each other point is so, so much worse. ESPECIALLY from someone who uses Canada as part of his brand to make millions.

 
 

ZeoVagina

At literally no point did I.

MyDudeMango

As a Canadian, you absolutely did. I appreciate that it was not intentional, perhaps coming out of instinct to want to believe an actor who is quite beloved and is probably in a lot of movies you like isn't so terrible on a level beyond the average, but there is aggravating context here that makes it beyond the usual liberal fence-sitting. Equating it to just usual average liberal attitudes from that US lens absolutely downplays it and disregards specific cultural and political context, even without meaning to.

We're talking about someone who claims to be proud of being from a country, who profits from that association, being at an event where the literal prime minister is giving a speech about standing up to the country that threatened to invade us, and then gave an utterly spineless 'maybe we should learn from the people who are threatening to invade us?'

I appreciate that you didn't intend to, but you did in effect. Not being Canadian, not having that perspective, I understand it. But as someone with that perspective, please do learn from that and just what makes this so much more damning than the usual and already-lamentable shitty lib actor stances.

ZeoVagina doesn't reply and posts this

It needs to be said that the idea of sharing phones to see each other's algorithm is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard.

No one does that. That's not a thing people do.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Not my heckin DEADPOOLARINO!

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-director-for-cronos-the-new-dawn-insists-theres-no-feminist-agenda-with-their-choice-for-a-female-protagonist-up-sarcasm-see-threadmarks.1289514/page-8#post-144806841

Not to mention people saying "I get it" and defending the non-sarcastic interpretation of the text... hmmmmm

The "I get it" post. Wasn't it clearly stated what the "get it" means, with the " From what I understood they're just bored of male protagonists and that should be fine". They understand the want to have a woman as a protagonist and the reasoning for it (female protags being in the minority). The person also excplicitly said that the "feminist agenda" part shouldn't have been there. They said what they agree with and with what they don't. They are commenting the article, not just the headline of this thread. The hostility towards them is completely unwarranted.

Even if the article itself is bit unclear, this person's post isn't. It's being misinterpreted.

What "hostility"? Lord, the fragility here

Look inwards.

Your condescension is more hostile than anything I've said about a questionably worded post

It wasn't questionably worded at all, it was few sentences and super clear in it's intent.

If several people "misread" it and the poster never came back to elaborate then no it wasn't "super clear" 🙄

[NekoFever]

why y'all ignoring Scherzo in that thread? They're literally using fetish art for their avatar. F'real, google image search that shit.

https://x.com/fruitfrakker

Looks pretty queer and affirming, so not problematic and your kink-shaming is fascist-adjacent at best.

edit: They/them/she write fiction too:

Aerith and Tifa learn not to eat food prepared for them in the Corel Labor camp, the hard way. Pear & Watermelon Transformation/Expansion. Popping. Oneshot.

Of all the way's Tifa imagined dying, wasting away in a Shinra labor camp wasn't one of them. It had been several days since they'd been falsely imprisoned for a massacre in the Golden Saucer--which mockingly loomed over the entire facility--but when had the truth ever stopped Shinra oppression? So here she was, busting rocks twelves hours a day, with only the prospect of being a Chocobo jockey to look forward to. Her whole body ached, and her skin and hair felt grimey from all the dirt and dust. Her only company at the moment was-

Tifa gave a sidelong glance at the door to the ruined cabin as it swung open. Aerith; even with a frayed blouse and frizzy brown hair, she exuded an aura of pure, feminine beauty. Tifa had always felt a weird sensation when around her as group, but now separate from the rest of the party it had begun to manifest as an uncomfortable awkwardness.

Realizing she had been eyeing her, Tifa cleared her throat. "So, any luck meeting up with the guys?"

She tilted her head, biting her lip. "Well... yes and no. I met with Barrett and Cloud--they seemed to be alright--but the wall dividing he camp is really sturdy and heavily guarded. We agreed to meet back tomorrow morning between guard shifts to discuss the situation more."

Tifa leaned back in her chair, rubbing her chin. "So you met Cloud... did you talk about anything?"

Aerith blinked. "Besides trying to get out of here you mean? No, why do you ask?"

"It's just..." Tifa searched for the words. "Well, you've been getting along awful well with him, having just met him and all, and I just-"

"Is this really the time for that?" Aerith said with a hint of frustration. "We need to work together to get out of here."

"I wasn't saying anything," Tifa said with a shrug, throwing up her gloved hands. "Just curious is all."

Aerith sighed, then glanced over at the table set across from her. "Wait, they brought you food?"

"Hmph?" Tifa gave a perplexed look. "What are you-"

Out of the corner of her, she saw it, startling her from her seat. A nicely prepared tray with two pieces of fruit sat on the table; a pear and a slice of watermelon, with a note she couldn't read due to the distance and dim lighting. Tifa noticed Aerith's eyes were now glaring her.

"Th-that wasn't here before..." she muttered, slowly making her way over to the table.

Aerith brushed back one of her bangs as she strutted forward as well.'Yes, I'm supposed to believe you didn't notice them bringing in a platter of food... have they been feeding you this the whole time, while the rest of us are stuck with gruel?"

"I haven't touched it," Tifa explained. "I literally noticed it just now." She picked up the note, which read, in elegant cursive: "COURTESY OF H. , WITH LOVE."

"And they brought us just two pieces of fruit," Aerith scoffed.

"I mean, there are two of us, so it does kinda make sense," Tifa said, holding out the note for Aerith to see. "Apparently a gift of some guy named H-something? Probably a guard I'd bet."

Aerith rolled her eyes. "Just what we need, a secret admirer..." She tapped her fingers against the plate. "Well, no sense letting this food go to waste, assuming you haven't already wasted most of it," she wrapped her fingers aroun

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"M-MY ASS!" Aerith shouted, placing her hands on her hips.