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

[Straight Edge]

was there actually a substantial conversation about skillup in the community constructive? Seems so arbitrary and sudden.

He's just launched a new gaming news site so maybe it's orders from above

He's significantly more important to the industry at this point than resetera is tbf

The shit my dog took on the lawn is more important to the industry than Resetera.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/james-gunn-talks-with-josh-horowitz-about-superman-spoilers-batman-wonder-woman-future-of-dcu-letting-henry-cavill-go-and-more.1247505/#post-142835709

I'm imagining a post-credits scene where Pattinson's Bruce sees Corenswet's Superman revealing himself to the world for the first time, letting the audience know that The Batman is part of the same universe and takes place a few years before Superman. Would be the hypest shit.

I don't know how people can possibly see a movie where the absolute height of fantastical element is a bulletproof suit and a beefed up car and think that this would mix perfectly with a movie filled with nano machine cyborgs, pocket universes and kaijus. Just no. 
All Zeo wants is an "OMG hype" post credit scene. The mind of a child.

[DavidCroquet]

Doesn't he realize he could create such a scene in his own home right now with his action figures?

[kaleidoscopium]

No one would. I mean, my trans looking ass is off putting to them for one. They know they'd likely get in trouble with HR if they did that shit. Doesn't hurt that I'm friends with the democratic Sheriff who runs our whole department.

I only talk politics at work around people that I know I am 100% safe to do so within ear shot of. I show up. I work hard. I'm pleasant to everyone. I know there's Trump supporters, but they all seem to know better than to start any shit like that around me. Long may that continue.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-deal-with-conservative-co-workers-that-talk-politics.1247874/#post-142859658

They have to know a good amount of us know what they look like right? They just look like an old guy with a bad haircut… though to be fair that is 80% of trans guys online

[Jansen]

I have the feeling that hardly anyone talks to him about anything at work

[DavidCroquet]

ACAB until I'm friends with the sheriff

[Bootsthecat]

ACAB until I'm friends with the sheriff

I get the feeling they don't hang out in public tho

[Besticus Maximus]

I'm the sheriff round here son 

[benji]

Also there's not a single conservative that will enter political discourse with good faith.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-deal-with-conservative-co-workers-that-talk-politics.1247874/#post-142853403

When your standard for "good faith discourse" is "agrees with everything I say, especially the unexamined premises" you won't find many people who talk politics, or much of anything, in good faith.

I imagine for people who constantly display they have no theory of mind this is exceptionally hard.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-honestly-chilling-just-how-evil-the-cia-and-the-fbi-were.1247631/page-2#post-142862613

America is the Great Satan for a reason. There's always new evil to learn about it.

[Snoopy]

Probably a regional thing then. I've worked all kinds of customer service and office jobs. White people never tried to talk politics with me even though I heard them talking politics around other people.

I've been in academic spaces for a long time now, and those spaces are mire liberal. Now it's usually me and other black and brown people talking about stuff and only engaging with white people we trust and feel safe around. It's never white people engaging me, even if we have similar beliefs.

Nobody wants to talk to the retard

Bonus Nep fantasy 

Depends upon how they talked to me.

The few times I've had conservative coworkers, they've either asked me in earnest what I thought about a social issue because they trusted my judgement, in which case I politely explained in a way they could understand, or they were legitimately combative in which case I argued back.

I never just let it slide though.

[benji]

Really you can construct a flow chart for every single Era discussion that shows how bad faith all of its discussions are.
1. Person posts extreme black-and-white moral statement they have no intention of defending.
2. If anyone objects, they get attacked for having bad morals for not agreeing.
3. That person defending themselves just reveals their bad faith further.
4. Cops are called, the only person who tried to have a conversation is put down.

To use that as an example:
You can't object that America may be flawed like any state but is clearly superior to so many, as can be shown by the fact that Era members all live there and refuse to leave, the fact that Era members from there can freely post and the fact that Era members from there aren't forced into a religion. This would be Sinophobic, Islamophobic, dismissing concerns of white supremacy, etc.

Not a single person will give you an actual good faith argument defending the statement, they will either make accusations about your morals or just yell at you to get informed. If you display more knowledge on the topic and live long enough to dispense it, they'll just stop responding. They regularly have threads about "how do you convince conservatives" or whatever and everybody says "you can't, convincing chuds of things is impossible." They should know since they've tried nothing and they're all out of ideas, but it's not just conservatives, they don't try convincing anyone of anything. With far less seriousness this thread regularly displays a far broader consideration of positions from "progressive premises" which would not only talk circles around the prominent members there but have them reporting the posts immediately. Until MAGA, I may have considered "the right" to be more open to argumentation from their own premises, I convinced multiple conservatives to vote against Michigan's same sex ban constitutional amendment for example, but the Era form of "the left" (which differs not from MAGA in any appreciable form) is especially immune in part because they have no premises or principles except power.

The porn sick cumsoomers on that forum don't even notice or care when their "champions" like Nepenthe or Tranisistor betray them on things they claim to care about. Those two chant all the buzzwords so they praise them for doing nothing at all. Meanwhile Transistor makes excuses for allowing genocidal companies when he isn't promoting their products. Nepenthe stays absent from the threads about age bans on porn or whatever because she knows they're hostile places to her views that the police should be heavily monitoring the internet, which should allow no anonymity at all, and arresting people for things they say or view. They don't even care that their champions who constantly tell people the police do nothing but murder minorities and that you should never call them in any circumstances have both reported people to the police for non-crimes and supported B-Chads in his doing it. Everyone on that forum fully endorses allowing outsiders to speak over marginalized groups, minorities or even individuals as long as the outsiders have the proper views. Men get to speak over women, the rich over poor, the indebted over laborers, journalists over industry members, Americans over Africans/South Americans/etc., radical shut-ins over normal non-queer Black people, people with a single career over PlanetSmasher, etc.

And don't get me started on the stuff that's completely made up on a forum that once boasted that members are not allowed to post misinformation. On some topics posting accurate information gets you banned.

Calling for the cops to shut up arguments you can't respond to is the epitome of bad faith. The most common complaint on that forum is that not enough people are being shut up.

[DavidCroquet]

Probably a regional thing then. I've worked all kinds of customer service and office jobs. White people never tried to talk politics with me even though I heard them talking politics around other people.

I've been in academic spaces for a long time now, and those spaces are mire liberal. Now it's usually me and other black and brown people talking about stuff and only engaging with white people we trust and feel safe around. It's never white people engaging me, even if we have similar beliefs.

Nobody wants to talk to the retard

Bonus Nep fantasy 

Depends upon how they talked to me.

The few times I've had conservative coworkers, they've either asked me in earnest what I thought about a social issue because they trusted my judgement, in which case I politely explained in a way they could understand, or they were legitimately combative in which case I argued back.

I never just let it slide though.

*exasperatedly taking off my klan hood after a fruitless and heated discussion at my local chapter, massaging my brow in frustration*

"fellas, I think we need the black furry to weigh in on this one..."

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-netflix-uses-generative-ai-in-one-of-its-shows-for-first-time.1247370/page-3#post-142864305

You underestimate artists and the cultural fondness for traditional media.

People still create handdrawn art. Create black and white films. Do hand embroidery. Take polaroid photos. Collect viynl records. Listen to cassette tapes, CDs...

There will be filmmakers and writers that are adamant to not using AI.

These people are delusional.

[Cheststrongwell]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05195-y

Needs a reee thread asap.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-netflix-uses-generative-ai-in-one-of-its-shows-for-first-time.1247370/page-3#post-142864305

You underestimate artists and the cultural fondness for traditional media.

People still create handdrawn art. Create black and white films. Do hand embroidery. Take polaroid photos. Collect viynl records. Listen to cassette tapes, CDs...

There will be filmmakers and writers that are adamant to not using AI.

These people are delusional.

I like that they didn't use the most obvious example, filmmakers who still shoot on film instead of digitally. (That the studio then scans and mostly distributes digitally.)

I'd love to know what films and shows from the last 20 years still use matte art instead of digitally edited photos or rendered scenes. The number of shows in the middle of their runs around 2010 that stopped doing practical effects for bad CGI that probably didn't save any money seems like all of them.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/skillup-is-no-longer-banned-has-launched-a-new-video-game-news-website-no-ads-no-a-i-slop-no-seo-reliance.1247820/page-2#post-142852791

 User Banned (Duration Pending Admin Review): Highly inflammatory rhetoric towards staff

It's his brother. I never got why he was banned so fast when other source did way worse and are not banned. Didn't make any sense.

Ah, okay, wow. If this is really true, I hope the person responsible for the ban gets banned. To punish someone for the guilt of a family member is literally a Nazi method and forbidden in most countries. Absolutely crazy.

[Boredfrom]

The number of shows in the middle of their runs around 2010 that stopped doing practical effects for bad CGI that probably didn't save any money seems like all of them.

[benji]

That would only be a gotcha if I was objecting to the use of CGI in all cases because some people use it poorly.

[Boredfrom]

That would only be a gotcha if I was objecting to the use of CGI in all cases because some people use it poorly.

And I agree with you in that.  

I’m not opposed to El Eternauta doing it.

[benji]

Then what's your point?

[Boredfrom]

Why are you getting mad about the observation if we are in the same page in that? 

Clueless C-suite mismanagement of using new technology just because  “is the hot thing right now” that making any actual sense has been one of my complains. I don’t doubt CG as a whole is more practical and cheaper than practical in effects… when people know when and how to use it.

[benji]

Because like normal I have no clue what you're even trying to say but assume you must be trying to make some kind of point or else you wouldn't be passive aggressively responding to me. I assume it's another of your weird things where you eventually admit you aren't actually anti-AI but you're trying to paint me as somehow AI uber alles because I'm anti-anti-AI luddites.

[Boredfrom]

No, it was an observation. I didn’t want to fight just pointing out that you understand the reservations that people have against AI and is not necessary blind Luddite’s hate.

It was not a malicious observation, maybe a little passive aggressive but I didnt want to make you mad outside of “you understand why the not insane people at social media are not so hot for AI” reflection.

I understand why El Eternauta, The Alters (outside the botched translation) and Late Night with The Devil used AI.

[benji]

No, it was an observation. I didn’t want to fight just pointing out that you understand the reservations that people have against AI and is not necessary blind Luddite’s hate.

It was not a malicious observation, maybe a little passive aggressive but I didnt want to make you mad outside of “you understand why the not insane people at social media are not so hot for AI” reflection.

No, the anti-AI people are 100% blind luddite hate. They do not believe AI should ever be used for any reason and definitely not to lower costs for production. You're trying to bring up a completely different group as if that somehow makes the first group justified.

edit: The only two opinions I think I have on AI are that both of these statements are false:
1. AI usage is morally wrong.
2. Statistical models replace knowledge.

Stuff like "AI produces crap currently so you shouldn't use it yet" or "AI should only be used when appropriate" are to me just stating the obvious and not support for either of the above two propositions and so irrelevant to any opinions I express on the topic. If you concede there could be uses for AI then you aren't an anti-AI person and not ever one of the luddites I'm talking about.

[Boredfrom]

Fair enough.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Sure thing, boss.

[Orange Juice Box]

Sure thing, boss.

Now eat his ass . . .

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/humble-bundle-has-an-unofficial-harry-potter-reference-library-bundle-that-benefits-the-trevor-project-who-was-not-involved-in-the-bundle-selection.1248153/

[Tektonic]

I know a surprising amount of people who are trans positive and are still into Harry Potter. I don't think it's that uncommon..

warning? or a straight ban? (downplaying shared history of histories)
(joined 2017, 3200+ posts = account in junior phase?)