Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

@andrewrousso

 

[Jansen]

Some kids deserve to have their ass beat. that kid got off easy

[Jansen]

Plus he's autistic so he didn't understand anyways

[Boredfrom]

If you like turn based games, please check out Get in the Car Loser, a lesbian road trip RPG with a trans woman protagonist!

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ive-been-banned-from-eurogamer-for-saying-they-source-their-news-from-this-very-forum.1179918/

User banned (1 week): instigating cross-forum drama

So, yesterday Eurogamer ran an article about the recent Xbox price hike. What caught my eye is that they explicitly sourced the piece of news from this post. I noticed sometimes in the past that they tend to parse Resetera to make articles, and I even suspected a few times they really did exactly that without properly crediting Era. I posted in the comments something pretty similar (if not word for word) to "if you read Resetera, you can stop reading Eurogamer, and you shouldn't miss much." I did this a somewhat snarky comment to raise awareness that I, as one of their readers, have become increasingly aware that they're not particularly eager to produce original pieces of news, rather than simply opting to write about what is posted in Era, among other sites. I guess this is common practice in videogame sites, but this is not the first time, nor the second, that I've noticed this behaviour, which I, at least, consider just poor journalism. Perhaps am I mistaken? Maybe the tone of the criticism was out of place? For sure it's not the first time I wrote in their comments to mention this very issue. I simply don't know.

So... today they've banned me from the comment section, apparently. What puzzles me is that, if you read the replies to my very comment, people are left and right attacking this forum, and those seem to be completely unscathed. That's a bit weird and it saddens me. I overall like Eurogamer, just not that they simply regurgitate forum posts to call them news articles, only to ban people calling them out for precisely that.

Am I in the wrong here?

Imagine reading Eurogamer and NOT understanding you're already neck deep in the bucket of diarrhoea!

[Potato]

Smash Players not being pedos speedrun impossible.

Who would win the paedo contest - Smash players or anime fans?

[HaughtyFrank]

@andrewrousso

 

There's a non zero percent chance that posting this on RE would get you banned for "homophobia"

[Boredfrom]

Smash Players not being pedos speedrun impossible.

Who would win the paedo contest - Smash players or anime fans?

Smash is anime.

[DavidCroquet]

who would cum faster, 100 men or 1 gorilla?

[Boredfrom]

Did you miss the WiiU or something? Nintendo have never been perfect with their communication (far from it). Doesn't change the fact you should thank them for killing games media though.

Edit: They also fucked up the initial reveal of the DS too.

Did you miss the WiiU? 

That last presentation was the reason why they decided to move to directs. They wanted to control the message because they “distrusted” traditional media outlets. The Switch 2 just proves that they are the ones deserving of the labels they try to avoid.

 And not, I’m not going to thank him given that, surprise surprise, they also helped in spreading the cancer that affected games journalism (you forget Nintendo Power?).

If you expected honest journalism out of a first party magazine, you're most likely mildly retarded.

I was 6. (We had an equivalent here in Mexico, with guides mainly translated).

[killamajig]

https://www.iflscience.com/gorilla-dicks-are-absolutely-tiny-the-reason-why-is-fascinating-76004

Why are gorilla penises so tiny?
It may strike you as odd that a silverback gorilla – literally the hugest, most powerful, most literally “alpha” primate there is – would have such minute genitalia. As counterintuitive as it may seem, though, the two facts are actually intrinsically linked: “the male gorilla’s huge stature is in fact the reason why he has such a small penis,” explained Suzanne Harvey, now Head of Schools, Impact, and National Partnerships at the Royal Institution, in a 2012 article for UCL.

Why? It’s simple, really: gorilla societies are both strictly hierarchical and almost always polygynous – that is, there is a single dominant male, and he has sole mating rights with all the females in the group. Basically, their genitals are small because they have no need to be big: “when competition between males occurs through physical aggression, an alpha male may fight off rivals and control his own mating success without the need for sperm competition,” Harvey wrote. “Other physically smaller males have little access to females in the group.”

Compare gorillas to their big-balled chimpanzee cousins, and the picture becomes even clearer. Chimps, unlike gorillas, “live in large multi-male, multi-female groups, where females are able to mate with many males,” Harvey explained. “Sperm can live for up to four days after ejaculation, and consequently when females mate with two males in close succession, sperm from two males can be in direct competition.”

If you’re a male chimp hoping to spurt your DNA into the next generation, then, it’s in your best interest to produce powerful, efficient sperm – and lots of it. The result: a pair of massive testes, more than a third the weight of the chimp’s brain – humans’ come in at less than three percent, for comparison – capable of producing vast amounts of sperm, many times a day.

And yes, we know exactly what you’re thinking…

How do humans measure up?
So, on the scale from “gorilla” to “chimp”, where do humans come? Well, weirdly, it’s kind of a paradox.

“Humans have a much longer and wider penis than the other great apes,” wrote Mark Maslin, a professor of Palaeoclimatology at UCL (a hotspot for this area of research, apparently), in a 2017 article for The Conversation. However, "our testicles are rather small […] and produce a relatively small amount of sperm.”

Other mating characteristics are equally mismatched in our species. While the human penis may be big, Maslin noted, it’s also “extremely dull – it does not have lumps, ridges, flanges, kinks or any other exciting feature that other primates have.”

That’s not just empty negging: in primates, a boring dick usually a sign that a species is monogamous – and it’s therefore strange to find on humans, Maslin explained. “[It] clashes with the fact that men are significantly larger than women,” he wrote, since that “suggests our evolutionary background involved a significant degree of polygynous, rather than exclusively monogamous, mating.”

There have been many attempts to reconcile these two competing impressions of our species – perhaps men are bigger than women to help protect our laughably pathetic offspring; maybe the supposedly “dull” human penis has a secret weapon in its coronal ridge. But in the end, Maslin suggests, trying to explain humans’ weird genitalia through the lens of wider great ape biology may be the wrong tactic entirely.

“If we view the evolution of monogamy mating systems in humans through the lens of human society it is clear that it takes a huge amount of social effort to maintain and protect more than one mate at a time,” he wrote. “It is only when males have access to additional resources and power that they can protect multiple females, usually by ensuring other males protect them.”

Basically, he explained, it takes a lot of resources and prestige to be able to take on multiple partners as a human – so the solution for most on an individual level has become to simply not. Monogamy becomes culturally endorsed, save for a select few who can afford – or get away with – supporting more.

In other words, Maslin concluded, “in complex human societies the largest and most important sexual organ is the brain.” While gorillas may beat their chests to prove their dominance, male humans might flaunt their cash or wit or good looks; whereas chimps must rely on buckets of spunk to further their family, humans tend to couple up long-term based on personal or social factors.

“Somewhere in our evolutionary past how smart and social we are became the major control on our access to sexual partners,” Maslin wrote. “Not how big or fancy a male’s penis is.”

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Other mating characteristics are equally mismatched in our species. While the human penis may be big, Maslin noted, it’s also “extremely dull – it does not have lumps, ridges, flanges, kinks or any other exciting feature that other primates have.”

Please don't leave Maslin only with the monkeys.

[BIONIC]

Other mating characteristics are equally mismatched in our species. While the human penis may be big, Maslin noted, it’s also “extremely dull – it does not have lumps, ridges, flanges, kinks or any other exciting feature that other primates have.”

[Boredfrom]

When not anglos try to copy Anglo-Saxon lefties hysterics:

People are free to not care about this but it is a fact that Tripathi is a Modi/BJP supporter (he was coy about politics in the past but last year admitted his full, uncompromised support). I cannot stress enough for Westerners that telling people to vote for Modi in 2024 is like telling people to vote for Hitler after it was fully clear what the Nazi program would be. Modi is about 100x more fascist (and more effective) than Trump if comparisons help. Tripathi (he prefers to go by Amish to cover up his high caste status) has spoken out in vociferous support of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple (I assume a lot of folks won't know what this means but in 1992 a group of rioting Hindutva fanatics tore down the Babri Masjid (a Mughal era mosque) as it had been made a cause celebre on the fascist right as supposedly a symbol of Muslim domination built on the "birthplace" of "Ram". [If this sounds perhaps like Zionist bullshit; you're on the right track.] This new Ram temple was built on the wreckage. (People like Triparthi are part of the cultural wave of Hindutva and he truly believes that like pre-Islamic India had space ships and nonsense like that.) I'm actually leaving a lot of stuff out here about his views and about fascism in India more broadly because my experience is that it's all quite new and shocking to Westerns who have a super idealized image of India as like "Yoga!" "Spirituality!", etc. His public persona is very "hey, I'm just a normal guy here" --- this is by design. His job (like literally, his government appointed job) is to make this kind of bullshit palatable in the Anglophone west. If none of that is enough, he literally blurbed a book called Conflict Resolution: The RSS Way . Again, I imagine many Westerns won't really get what that means but the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] is not just like fascist groups: it is an OG fascist organization dating back to the 1920s. When Mussolini's blackshirts and then the Nazis came on the scene in Europe, the RSS openly emulated their ideologies and tactics, just with Hindutva as the core ideology instead of imperialism or "race science." To this day (in fact more so today, after a decade plus of BJP rule with whom they are closely aligned) they still operate as a paramilitary meting out street justice against anyone perceived to be left-of-center (from milquetoast liberals to Marxists) or undesirable (Muslims, other religious minorities). So we're talking about a "nice guy" just a "fantasy writer" who's heaping praise on a book that in the West would be called Conflict Resolution: The Fascist Way.

I know nothing about Abboud or this game. Maybe it's a fine game; I have no idea. It looks pretty generic to me and very very right-wing if you know what you're looking for. I generally like to celebrate non-Western games (couple of years ago, I introduced as many non-Western sources as I could find for GotY counting for example). I also don't support jingoistic Western games (so no CoD for me, actually there's quite a lot of stuff beyond that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole but just as a light example).

Finally, it's sad to see a legend like Amitabh Bachchan (who at least at one point had decent politics in addition to being just an absolutely stellar performer) involved with this. Maybe Abboud and Bachchan are reforming Tripathi? I doubt it but I suppose it's possible. In any case, since people on this board often care about the politics both of the games and the game makers, this is easily EASILY on par with Rowling.

That last Rowling namedrop. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-age-of-bhaarat-from-studio-co-founded-by-amitabh-bachchan-bollywood-star-amish-tripathi-fantasy-author-nouredine-abboud-ghost-recon.1178586/

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Sorry but one is a white woman and the other is an Indian. PoC are allowed differing opinions about the LGBTQIA+++ (like muslims).

[Polident]

“the child stole” - obviously an impossible lie
“the kid is autistic” - empirical, ultimate truth. Also highly relevant in this case for some reason, even though we have already established that stealing is an impossible act for a 5 year old of any condition or level of development.

Did they ever catch that pregnant yt nurse for stealing a share bike from a group of teenagers?

[HaughtyFrank]

Why would a 5 year old not be capable of stealing anyway? Like when you're 5 you could just take something you really want.

[Alpacx]

When not anglos try to copy Anglo-Saxon lefties hysterics:

Ram Janmabhoomi temple (I assume a lot of folks won't know what this means but in 1992 a group of rioting Hindutva fanatics tore down the Babri Masjid (a Mughal era mosque) as it had been made a cause celebre on the fascist right as supposedly a symbol of Muslim domination built on the "birthplace" of "Ram". [If this sounds perhaps like Zionist bullshit; you're on the right track.

Nice website you have there B-Dubs.

Now apply the YohraUtopia story to the Al-Aqsa mosque. What did you expect decolonization to look like?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baldurs-gate-3-sucks.1180242/

I bought it when it came out got stuck at the goblin camp and quit. Trying again in explorer mode and I just can't do nothing as I can't progress.



lvl 3 or 4 and I can't even get passed the damn goblin section because I keep on dying. Make things worse, they are only level 2. Explorer mode is still too difficult as all my attacks keep on missing and they have way too many enemies to attack.



How the hell can you play this game when even in explorer mode, they have the damn enemies way too difficult. All the quest I have are definitely lvl 4 or 5 at least.

Op is making fun of PlanetSmasher

[Jansen]

These fucking cunts have no shame

[Cheers]

Nah fuck her and the racists donating her cash.

[Snoopy]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of those grifting low lifes actually does try to copy the dumb racist

[Eric Cartman]

The fuck is ableist about that?

I'm assuming he was injured, therefore disabled, and was offered less money for a sequel, therefore being discriminated against for being a disabled, because the only context to look at things through is your character builds perks and attributes

The reality is its pretty fucking clear hawkguy didn't do what it was intended to do, either in terms of new D+ subscription numbers, critical acclaim, or general zeitgeist buzz, because it was pretty mid.
Coming into it, he was big movie star avenger off the backs of a couple of billion dollar movies. Coming out of it he, uh, wasn't.

Like, if Disney were offering Ewan McGregor less for Obi Wan Season 2, or Rosario Dawson was offered less for Ahsoka Season 2, I'm sure some dipshits would be going OH BECAUSE THEYRE SCOTCH / WOMAN, RIGHT? but most normal brained people would be going 'Yeah, seems fair, season 1 was a nothing burger' (I say not having watched either of those, which actually kind of reinforces my point).

The only genuinely entertaining part of Hawkguy TV show is also apparently hard carrying the newest MCU property and getting centre stage characterisation because Florence Pugh is fucking great in a way that charisma vacuum not-ethan-hunt, not-jason-bourne, not-tony-stark, Jeremy Renner isn't.

[Eric Cartman]

The thing that's frustrating me most about Oblivion is it's a game that so many people have already played. It would be such an easy show of support to not play a game that they've played before.

    

Fake as poser.

Weren’t you salivating for the MCC sale, you fuck? 

Sonybots got a port of Oblivion but not Halo back in the day

[Nintex]

https://www.iflscience.com/gorilla-dicks-are-absolutely-tiny-the-reason-why-is-fascinating-76004

Basically, he explained, it takes a lot of resources and prestige to be able to take on multiple partners as a human – so the solution for most on an individual level has become to simply not. Monogamy becomes culturally endorsed, save for a select few who can afford – or get away with – supporting more.

In other words, Maslin concluded, “in complex human societies the largest and most important sexual organ is the brain.” While gorillas may beat their chests to prove their dominance, male humans might flaunt their cash or wit or good looks; whereas chimps must rely on buckets of spunk to further their family, humans tend to couple up long-term based on personal or social factors.

“Somewhere in our evolutionary past how smart and social we are became the major control on our access to sexual partners,” Maslin wrote. “Not how big or fancy a male’s penis is.”

Well the Asians are the Smartest, the Latinos the most social, the jews the most Resourceful and the Blacks ....  

[Eric Cartman]

Edit - racist piece of shit was most likely lying too when she said he was stealing cause thinking about it, a child at 5 shouldn't even have the mindset to steal.

Just a little bit of chaos, easily explained by bad luck or systemic issues

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-most-stacked-smash-tournament-of-all-time-is-set-to-happen-this-weekend-for-the-japanese-golden-week.1175961/#post-139220541

User Banned (3 Days): Inappropriate Joke

That's a lot of pro Smash players in one place. Hopefully they can just play the game and avoid diddling anybody / each other.

Would have gotten away with it if he'd stuck to the other low hanging comedy fruit of their personal hygiene

[Eric Cartman]

Basically, he explained, it takes a lot of resources and prestige to be able to take on multiple partners as a human – so the solution for most on an individual level has become to simply not. Monogamy becomes culturally endorsed, save for a select few who can afford – or get away with – supporting more.

So the science is settled and people in polycules are inherently the most privileged members of a society?

[Eric Cartman]

Why would a 5 year old not be capable of stealing anyway? Like when you're 5 you could just take something you really want.

I've been caught stealing once when I was 5.
I enjoy stealing, it's just as simple as that - Oh well, it's just a simple fact when I want something, man, I don't wanna pay for it, now I walk right through the door

[Jansen]

Nah fuck her and the racists donating her cash.

I'm referring to people using a recent headline in order to illicit sympathy for more donations.

God, do I really have to explain things here like I'm on reeee