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

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/maybe-we-should-be-crediting-the-developers-who-are-allowing-capcom-to-have-a-generational-run.1469845/#post-152888572

This is me speaking from the outside of the Capcom fanbase. I don't play Resident Evil games, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, Ace Attorney, or Monster Hunter. I've played some of those entries in the past, thanks to friends. So, I'm just going by how people talk about their games. Forgive me but I rarely hear people credit the designers, writers, leads, as much as they do for other company's games. Last time I heard people mention the creatives' names regularly in regards to Capcom games was...Shinji Mikami and I think Itsuno? I don't hang out in Capcom fan spaces. I'll hear plenty of people say Capcom has been doing amazing, is on a generational run, they're on a hot streak the past few years, call them "Capgods". But I had to look up myself who the creatives are, such as Koshi Nakanishi, Tomonori Takano, Keiji Teranishi, Kenji Fukasawa, Isamu Hara, Shuichi Kawata, Maito Yamada, Kazunori Kadoi, Morimasa Sato, Yasuhiro Anpo, Hidehiro Goda, Hajime Horiuchi, Keisuke Yamakawa, Kaname Fujioka, Yuya Tokuda, Shu Takumi, and so on. I've not heard of them before just through cultural osmosis, so forgive my ignorance.

Especially in the capitalist nightmare age of generative AI, mass layoffs, shutdowns, crediting issues, labour issues, lack of unions, and other issues, I think we should be crediting the humans who built these great games.

EDIT: I've heard of Ono in relation to Street Fighter, definitely.

But we are talking about the creative arts, so someone's style and imprint can be visible and noticed. I'm not speaking to auteur theory either, like just talk about one person only. The programmers, designers, game directors, creative directors, art directors, concept artists, etc.

I’ve never used the term virtue signaling before but fuck me if this isn’t the clearest cut example of it. Just repugnant individual top to bottom. How is this man a therapist?!?

[Boredfrom]

People have been calling him out these weeks, so I imagine he is trying to win some brownie points before eating another 1 month ban. 

I don't hang out in Capcom fan spaces.

Maybe you should before creating the thread?

[Potato]

I know the therapist/the rapist jokes are passe, but when it comes to Messo, they're apt.

[jooseloose]

GUESS WHO

I remember a long time back I was eating dinner with my parents and a friend at a restaurant in Chicago and Michael Shannon was on the other side of the room eating dinner with his parents. The entire damn meal my friend was like "I gotta go say hi! It's Zod!" and I'm just like "dude he's with his parents, just let him eat his damn dinner in peace". I think at one point he heard me because we both looked right at each other and he nodded once and then went back to his food, lol.

The difference between my situation and Roan's is that my friend was 38 and should've known better. An 11-year-old just looking at a celebrity in a public place shouldn't be subject to aggressive action from a bodyguard. If the kid busted into her table and started haranguing her for an autograph that's a slightly different situation but a kid still deserves some degree of grace as long as they aren't being extremely disruptive.

[Snoopy]

Only pretend Michael Shannon? He should have made it pretend Spielberg or Taylor Swift. Probably saving them for a better fantasy

[Boredfrom]

People already eating Chappell story out.  

I imagine if it was a third party security guard she could dispel the accusation immediately than doing a instagram post in her bed showing how stressed she is.  

Same old “she is a woman and that man lied” when the whole problem is that she didn’t say shit for a day.  

Don’t get me wrong, is low tier celebrity BS but why people keep failing for this? Why excuse her and the throw others under the bus for less? Why care either way when she sounds like was pretty okay with it for a day? Is a pop star that “hates” fame while doing drag shows.

(If I need to guess what happened, she may have not noticed the girl and the security acted independently of her… but because the hotel have explicit instructions on not letting anyone annoy her or approach her. In that case, why wait a day? You PR can kill the story in seconds… )

[killamajig]

Yeah it's fash-core + backlash to the "unnatural BBL" curves that the "least desirable" types of women happen to be more likely to naturally have and the aesthetic components that came with them. Just more white supremacy basically.

Can't tell if Rinoa is a troll or one of the all time Era nutcases 

The biggest eating disorder out there is overeating. It's ever persistent food noise and not being able to turn that off or control it. Current medications help with that.

As a natural blonde and skinny woman who has had cosmetic surgery I don't know how to take this at all. I guess I'm a fascist by appearance? I don't know. I was born this way 🤷‍♀️

You do not have to be a fascist to benefit from a turn towards it. All privilege works this way. The very best men benefit from patriarchy, non rich people in the west benefit from the structure of western imperialism

This is a psychotic and borderline dangerous take. I hope in public you keep your opinions to yourself.

Lol

This post is deranged on so many levels

There's such a thing as Mar a Lago face too. Body positivity has been deemed woke and the culture has shifted in the other direction. Eating disorders are massively on the rise and even here on Era people will sometimes justify it.

It's a really worrying time out there. Terrifying how normalized this is becoming for everyone, especially other women.

Psychotic? Wow.

All I said is GLP-1s are good. IDK why you are all so resistant to that idea.

I guess I'm deranged too.

Thanks. This place is so welcoming towards women.

Love you all ❤️

Using GLP-1s IS NOT AN EATING DISORDER lol.

Pepper got popped 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-it-seems-like-extremely-skinny-bodies-are-back-in-fashion.1469782/#post-152881960
User banned (permanent): Inappropriate commentary, trolling, and body shaming. Long history of trolling about sensitive topics.

[Snoopy]

Should’ve come to the bire. Nobody would’ve curred about her Hitler moustache

[HaughtyFrank]

People already eating Chappell story out.  

I imagine if it was a third party security guard she could dispel the accusation immediately than doing a instagram post in her bed showing how stressed she is.  

Same old “she is a woman and that man lied” when the whole problem is that she didn’t say shit for a day.  

Don’t get me wrong, is low tier celebrity BS but why people keep failing for this? Why excuse her and the throw others under the bus for less? Why care either way when she sounds like was pretty okay with it for a day? Is a pop star that “hates” fame while doing drag shows.

(If I need to guess what happened, she may have not noticed the girl and the security acted independently of her… but because the hotel have explicit instructions on not letting anyone annoy her or approach her. In that case, why wait a day? You PR can kill the story in seconds… )

Very funny to see them cry "what about innocent until proven guilty" when they are the same people who constantly declared "no such thing in the court of public opinion"

Now they're also saying that this is just another case of a queer woman being attacked, as if her sexuality was relevant at all

[Superstar]

Even if it went down exactly as transcribed, literally who cares? An overzealous security guard yelled at a kid. That has to me the most inconsequential story in human history.

[jooseloose]

Burka thread from this post onwards   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/post-152862925

To much to quote but there's so many 

[nachobro]

ERA forgiving celebrities they like: 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/soccer-star-accuses-chappelle-roan-of-sending-her-security-after-11-year-old-daughter.1469809/

Anyone else would be the worst person in the world.

But oh wait, you want people with mental health issues that are on the creative side to just hide away right? Just go away and be entertainment for your little fishbowl! Honestly I swear I remember a story last year about people not understanding how bipolar works and it absolutely astonishes me the amount of non-sympathetic people. It isn't something you can control and sometimes it's overwhelming!

well yeah, thats what yall said about n word tourettes guy

[Alpacx]

And unlike y'all yts, this is a trans person actually ORGANIZING to stop the genocide:

8% returns? Is this the first trans Ponzi scheme?

[nachobro]

chappelle roan makes music for girls and homos and didn't expect to get hounded by obsessive fans constantly?

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

it's like someone choosing Asuka and Rei over Misato.  

A fellow Misato appreciator!

[Jansen]

chappelle roan makes music for girls and homos and didn't expect to get hounded by obsessive fans constantly?

She just wants to be a diva so bad

[Jansen]

Seeing all the cis people giving excuses for the casting of a female cis actor for a trans male is so tiring, especially the ones who claim to be trans allies. Should have cast a cis male actor if they really couldn't find anyone, at least it would match the gender Lev identifies with. Also, just to be clear, this is not me throwing any shade at the one who was cast, but the people that cast her.

Lev is not actually trans in the modern/current sense though. He's (presumably) not taking male hormones or transitioning.



The character was a girl who shaved his head and changed his name to identify as male to become a solider and escape a forced marriage. Not too dissimilar from Mulan.



So it wouldn't actually make sense for a trans boy or cis boy to play him. In this instance I think it's ok for a cis girl to play the character.

Holy moly. Respectfully, you are so incredibly wrong about this.



You don't need to take hormones to be trans, and he does transition.



He wasn't escaping a forced marriage by transitioning, it wasn't a disguise, it was his identity. He wasn't 'pretending to be a boy' to escape to somewhere else and hide, everyone knew who he was and reacted with violence after he publicly shaved his head to fit his true self. Like, Yara and Abby have an entire conversation about this.



The forced marriage was just the straw that broke the camel's back for him and made being forced to live as a girl unsurviveable. He maintains his identity post-Seattle.



Lev is trans. He is a boy.

Ok I don't disagree with any of this. Although I'm not sure if the game is that clear about his gender identity, it could be more subjective. What I was disagreeing with is how it would have been better for a cis boy to play the role over a cis girl. Although I agree a trans boy would have been the most ideal.

It is clearly as crystal. Lev is a boy.

and even if they weren't you'd create that head canon anyways

[Daffy Duck]

They’re smashing that report button

[simiansmarts]

Banned for dismissing concerns from THE MOST marginalized individuals

[HaughtyFrank]

Holy moly. Respectfully, you are so incredibly wrong about this.



You don't need to take hormones to be trans, and he does transition.



He wasn't escaping a forced marriage by transitioning, it wasn't a disguise, it was his identity. He wasn't 'pretending to be a boy' to escape to somewhere else and hide, everyone knew who he was and reacted with violence after he publicly shaved his head to fit his true self. Like, Yara and Abby have an entire conversation about this.



The forced marriage was just the straw that broke the camel's back for him and made being forced to live as a girl unsurviveable. He maintains his identity post-Seattle.



Lev is trans. He is a boy.

Is he though?

I mean, sure I absolutely believe that this is what Neil Druckman meant to write (and no modern writer would ever dare to tell a story about a character that detransitions) but at the same time Lev is part of an incredibly controlling, cult like society. The idea that it's maybe not that much about his actual gender and more about him trying to escape the heavily enforced gender roles is not an unlikely assumption to make.

[Bootsthecat]

And unlike y'all yts, this is a trans person actually ORGANIZING to stop the genocide:

8% returns? Is this the first trans Ponzi scheme?

I wondered this as well. Are they manufacturing semiconductors? Selling communal vegetables? Where would the returns come from exactly. 

It would just be a bunch of autistic folks doing nothing productive, wearing dresses and being useless, in that capitalistic way.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-art-found-in-crimson-desert-update-multiple-images-found.1469002/page-11#post-152857672

 User banned (1 week): sniping at other members

This post in a 10 page thread that is FULL of people not giving it a pass is what is embarassing.

Ah yes, the single 10 page thread on this site that is obviously an indication of what the entire hive mind of the internet thinks.

This isn't even being talked about in the OT. No one there cares cause them having fun with their new toy is more important than caring about the ethics of art.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-my-son-said-he-wants-to-join-the-military.1466749/#post-152749108

 User banned (1 week): inflammatory trolling

if you're 'murican, disown him for wanting to fight for a fascist state

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-we-spoke-to-game-devs-and-all-of-them-hate-dlss-5.1467991/page-2#post-152809942

 User banned (2 weeks): Trolling over multiple posts

Between this, all the voices on social media and the Insider Gaming piece saying devs at Capcom and Ubisoft were blindsided by all this.....

these companies are huge, you think every single individual programmer / their entire teams worked on this? you think the "great investigative" reporters of the GAMING INDUSTRY actually talked to the people who worked on this? Or maybe they're just saving face after seeing the reception (see: digital foundry)

like i said, i'm happy to corroborate / prove to a moderator how i know this, but I don't think most folks are interested in the truth in regards to this topic

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-my-son-said-he-wants-to-join-the-military.1466749/#post-152749108

 User banned (1 week): inflammatory trolling

if you're 'murican, disown him for wanting to fight for a fascist state

Why is he getting banned but not messy?

Crazy to encourage anyone to join the military on any level for a fascist regime and empire intent on invading and destabilising the rest of the world.

[Uncle]

Jason Schreier, paragon of journalistic integrity, apparently declared that yet more evil AI art had been discovered in crimson desert and posted it on bluesky

he deleted the blueskeet because turns out the image was from an actual historical grimoire

   

of course you know era, notoriously quick to forgive in all circumstances 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-art-found-in-crimson-desert-update-multiple-images-found.1469002/page-13#post-152892109

I attribute this more to Crimson Desert than Jason or anyone else. Once you use AI then you can't be trusted and people will wonder about everything

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-252#post-152891836

Can people please stop with the Warcrimes Olympics?

If only there was something you could do about those posters.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-254#post-152896402

Official Staff Communication

Again, can we knock off the Warcrimes Olympics?

[simiansmarts]

Jason Schreier, paragon of journalistic integrity, apparently declared that yet more evil AI art had been discovered in crimson desert and posted it on bluesky

he deleted the blueskeet because turns out the image was from an actual historical grimoire



of course you know era, notoriously quick to forgive in all circumstances 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-art-found-in-crimson-desert-update-multiple-images-found.1469002/page-13#post-152892109

I attribute this more to Crimson Desert than Jason or anyone else. Once you use AI then you can't be trusted and people will wonder about everything

This forum's utter disdain for game developers will never not be hilarious  

These guys are absolutely fiending to go "FUCK THESE PEOPLE!" over any transgression in their eyes

[Potato]

Burka thread from this post onwards   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/post-152862925

To much to quote but there's so many 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-252#post-152891836

Can people please stop with the Warcrimes Olympics?

If only there was something you could do about those posters.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-254#post-152896402

Official Staff Communication

Again, can we knock off the Warcrimes Olympics?

Is warcrmes the next word they're going to devalue after genocide and Nazi?