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

[Jansen]

Shitty open world game from square enix so misunderstood even though it had a demo anybody could try

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yoshi-p-says-younger-players-havent-had-the-chance-to-connect-with-final-fantasy-as-the-release-intervals-for-new-titles-have-gotten-longer.1470157/page-11#post-152941927

 User Banned (1 Week): Antagonizing Fellow Members; Metacommentary; Concern Trolling; Account in Junior Phase

So Mat Piscatella says that 77% of US Rebirth players were 30+
62% were 35+
https://www.xcancel.com/Genki_JPN/status/2036132313164292594?s=20

What resetera considers to be "the games industry" is entirely isolated to millennials who are beginning to age out entirely, and who are not being replaced by Gen Z and Gen A in any significant quantity.

Going to be an extremely harsh future for those on this forum who's big idea for saving the games biz is essentially "going back to 2010 when games were actually good" or similar copes.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israeli-soldiers-torture-toddler-in-gaza-the-boy-was-abused-to-coerce-his-father-to-confess.1471840/#post-152971879

 User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Point of Comparison

I dont even know what you say man. You cant even call them Nazis cause this isnt average Nazis. This is Dirlwanger brigade shit that IDF does regularly.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-had-a-neighbor-that-just-always-seems-to-be-there.1472362/

Mostly a rant post but lately, I've felt like I've been trapped in my house because of my neighbor. I live in what I call a "suburbilly" neighborhood in South Dakota where the houses are pretty modest but appeal to a blue collar/ low to middle income family type. Extremely midwest, if you know what I mean. Something I've noticed about my neighborhood and other similar neighborhoods in the midwest is that people really really like to hang out in their garages. They will setup camping chairs and just either sit in the driveway or hangout in the garage drinking beer, or, I guess I don't even know what. What's odd is that so many of these people have nice decks and decent sized backyards that seem like a much more suitable place for said activities but I guess there is some sort of social aspect to what they do that warrants their behavior.

Anyhow, my neighbor directly across the street takes this pastime to the extreme. If the temp is above 50 degrees, the guy has his garage door open, his grill in the driveway, and a tv going that he setup right at the edge of the garage door (I know some people have tvs in their garage but this guy has it as close to the door as possible). He runs his own landscaping company so he will work early in the mornings and then spend from about noon until 9pm sitting out in his garage.

On one hand, my feelings are "let the guy do whatever he wants, it's his house" but on the other, I feel like I'm trapped in my house and have to watch out the window for opportunities to either go and get the mail or mow my lawn when he's not there. The reason being is that I simply cannot go outside without him trying to talk to me. Moreover, anytime someone is out for a walk by his house, he almost always flags them down and starts talking to them. And he talks, and talks, and talks at you but doesn't really receive anything you're saying back to him. I think the guy is just lonely but it's such a strange way of dealing with it (to me anyhow) and absolutely drives me insane!

Long story short and a point of discussion: Have you ever had neighbors that either a) constantly did something weird, b) wouldn't leave you alone, or c) was crazy and you just want to get something off your chest about it?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dayton-webber-amputee-cornhole-player-accused-murder

LA PLATA, Md. - A professional cornhole player with no arms and legs has been accused of murder in La Plata.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/march-24-2026-quadruple-amputee-and-cornhole-pro-accused-of-fatally-shooting-man-while-driving.1472413/

I scooped MDCrabCakeFan86.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98john-wick%E2%80%99-spinoff-caine-expected-to-begin-production-next-month-donnie-yen-starring-and-directing-rina-sawayama-returning.1472341/

Lionsgate's John Wick spinoff, the untitled Caine project which will see Donnie Yen directing and reprising his role as the blind assassin, will begin production next month, we understand.

Shouldn't they get a real blind person to play him?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-270#post-152991550

Iran needs to mow the lawn in israel. they have not experienced enough pain yet. the only thing these bloodthirsty fucks understand is force and until they face severe disruption and pain from losing their own infrastructures and water, they will never stop. enough with the kid gloves, this needs to be a teachable moment.

[Boredfrom]

I imagine that if Iran could genuinely do at full boots in the ground war against Israel they would have done that already rather than using drones to attack other countries.

While Trump and Israel may underestimate Iran, Hams Era is overestimating them like hardcore.

[Boredfrom]

This is effingvic avatar:

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-270#post-152991550

Iran needs to mow the lawn in israel. they have not experienced enough pain yet. the only thing these bloodthirsty fucks understand is force and until they face severe disruption and pain from losing their own infrastructures and water, they will never stop. enough with the kid gloves, this needs to be a teachable moment.

Just so we're clear: Bombing Iran will not lead to a regime change and only make things worse but bombing Israel will lead to a government change and only have positive effects?

[Snoopy]

It doesn't matter anymore.



All is lost

[Boredfrom]

It doesn't matter anymore.



All is lost

Chainsaw Man Ending:

[benji]

how do they even have the motivation to do this, year after year? or can we expect that it's not very motivated, that it's like bleary-eyed, just-woke-up-getting-coffee, brain fog, rolling your eyes, going "ugh ugh this is the worst thing ever, rah rah"

I know why we have motivation to watch and comment, because it's hilarious and often deranged, I just don't get their motivation

I mean I guess if anything like you said it seems like they're losing motivation

It's done as justification and confirmation of what they believe, that life is horrible and only getting worse and nobody is doing anything about it even though they keep telling people who agree. It's the entire reason they do this and also why they drop it when it comes to something they're actually interested in.

You don't need motivation to do it because it's lazy and it's always been lazy, as we demonstrate all the time it's simple to spend zero time thinking and just come up with some new offense about literally anything at all you see or someone says.

Can take two seconds to take offense at what you said and what I'm saying, we're completely downplaying how horrible everything is and making fun of the people suffering the most.

that's insane.

lmaoooo capitalism literally ruins everything. your pro-sex worker pro-feminist ostensibly progressive, pro-lgbtq platform is exploiting low paid workers in foreign markets, underpaying them to exploit people who think they're interacting with the content creators, to upsell and make tons of money on media, and you can bet it's all handled by some scummy netbiz mba.

When was OnlyFans those things?

And it's hilarious how they think OnlyFans or any companies at all exist out of the goodness of someone's heart before "capitalism ruins it" especially when it's an industry that's outright illegal in most of the world. Hell, these same dudes are regularly whining about states or credit card companies cracking down on it.

Why even bother with this fucking hobby anymore….

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-epic-games-is-laying-off-more-than-1-000-workers-today-tim-epic-were-spending-significantly-more-than-were-making.1471555/page-12

Fortnite is not as profitable anymore and Tim Epic shows, yet again, how to mismanage a profitable company… and I thought ERA would be doing less doomposting.

These guys need the industry to constantly be getting worse to justify their stances. The fact that the game industry is bigger and more stable than ever has to be ignored so they can bitch about it and claim that the industry's status matters to whether they can enjoy games. They go nuts over percentages of workforces being dismissed when that's good because in the old days the companies just went out of business. The goliaths of today, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, etc. are the outliers in a sea of companies that went under. They often gobbled up many of those that would have never lived if they hadn't been bought. It's fair to bitch about something like Origin or Bullfrog but those were not companies that were going to survive if they weren't bought. They would have been defunct the instant they had the flop that EA sidelined them over.

Not a single one thinks about how amazing it is that Epic can have a thousand workers to lay off. Companies didn't have a thousand workers total in the game industry until recently. Especially not a single game company like Epic. A game that came out a decade ago and is F2P. That's nuts. But all they do is whine about it and how it makes them not want to play games.

I still fully believe to this day Forspoken wouldn't have been near as hated online if it was a white man instead of a black woman for a main character. Frey is, legitimately, one of my favorite characters and the fact that online racism essentially sent the game to die is so fucking sad.

I can guarantee you if it was a DMC Dante style character saying "is that a fucking dragon" you'd have the internet celebrating it instead of blasting it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/post-152967376

Didn't they make this DMC game? And then there was that Final Fantasy game that was similar? And didn't everyone blast them? Apparently "gamers" even forget these exist, unlike Forspoken which nobody forgets. Dunkey just referenced it, yet again, in his latest video for example.

Grace uneasily inhabits various labels and identities: trans, queer, lesbian, woman, white, autistic, annoying, disordered, mormon, ex-mormon, american, settler, Marxist and more which she will not name.

Would love to discuss Marxism and what it says about her interests with Grace.

[HaughtyFrank]

It doesn't matter anymore.



All is lost

I gasped when reverse image searched it


Gal Gadot

Aryan Aryadot

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israeli-soldiers-torture-toddler-in-gaza-the-boy-was-abused-to-coerce-his-father-to-confess.1471840/#post-152971879

 User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Point of Comparison

I dont even know what you say man. You cant even call them Nazis cause this isnt average Nazis. This is Dirlwanger brigade shit that IDF does regularly.

I love how obsessed with Nazis they are but are constantly downplaying what the actual Nazis did just so they can attack some modern non-Nazi as worse.

I imagine that if Iran could genuinely do at full boots in the ground war against Israel they would have done that already rather than using drones to attack other countries.

While Trump and Israel may underestimate Iran, Hams Era is overestimating them like hardcore.

They can't do it against Israel because of geography, there's a whole bunch of countries in the way. Also their lack of an Air Force.

This is the reason Hezbollah took over Lebanon.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yoshi-p-says-younger-players-havent-had-the-chance-to-connect-with-final-fantasy-as-the-release-intervals-for-new-titles-have-gotten-longer.1470157/page-11#post-152941927

 User Banned (1 Week): Antagonizing Fellow Members; Metacommentary; Concern Trolling; Account in Junior Phase

So Mat Piscatella says that 77% of US Rebirth players were 30+
62% were 35+
https://www.xcancel.com/Genki_JPN/status/2036132313164292594?s=20

What resetera considers to be "the games industry" is entirely isolated to millennials who are beginning to age out entirely, and who are not being replaced by Gen Z and Gen A in any significant quantity.

Going to be an extremely harsh future for those on this forum who's big idea for saving the games biz is essentially "going back to 2010 when games were actually good" or similar copes.

millenial mod got xim/xer's feelings hurt 

[Boredfrom]

Didn't they make this DMC game? And then there was that Final Fantasy game that was similar? And didn't everyone blast them? Apparently "gamers" even forget these exist, unlike Forspoken which nobody forgets. Dunkey just referenced it, yet again, in his latest video for example.

People ended loving the Final Fantasy game, if only because it feels charming and corny knowing that’s what Japan considers cool and edgy.

[benji]

That post is entirely accurate and you can tell just from what things get threads and how long threads live. Some of the biggest new titles get zero attention from Era, and franchises from the 1990s get fifty threads and thousands of posts. Era, hell back to GAF, Call of Duty has never received the forum's attention compared to the industry's, and many of the people who do play it on there only play the campaign. Even before Warzone, MP and Zombies was what most gamers actually played.

I'm certainly not in touch with modern gamers but I can see what's trending on Steam or Google Play for example. Because Steam is ordered by revenue, the "traditional" capital-G Gamer game gets outsized boosts from being $60+, yet it often loses spots to stuff that trends with zero hype probably just because streamers and/or YouTubers are playing it. Sometimes it's funny just to see what porn slop outsells stuff Era cares about.

[benji]

People ended loving the Final Fantasy game, if only because it feels charming and corny knowing that’s what Japan considers cool and edgy.

Yeah, and years later there was a bunch of love for that DMC too. But the trailers, which is what hurt Forspoken too, were nothing but savaged. The Bore was one of the few places I saw people even half-jokingly enjoying the characterizations of Stranger of Paradise. But The Bore also loved Marlow Briggs before it was cool too.

[Rendle]

Maybe you should start your own gaming forum

[benji]

Maybe you should start your own gaming forum

And wind up with nerds like this posting?

[benji]

that's insane.

lmaoooo capitalism literally ruins everything. your pro-sex worker pro-feminist ostensibly progressive, pro-lgbtq platform is exploiting low paid workers in foreign markets, underpaying them to exploit people who think they're interacting with the content creators, to upsell and make tons of money on media, and you can bet it's all handled by some scummy netbiz mba.

When was OnlyFans those things?

And it's hilarious how they think OnlyFans or any companies at all exist out of the goodness of someone's heart before "capitalism ruins it" especially when it's an industry that's outright illegal in most of the world. Hell, these same dudes are regularly whining about states or credit card companies cracking down on it.

FACT CHECK: Porn before capitalism:

[Uncle]

that's the kind of thing where some crazy man on an ancient media preservation forum buried seven layers deep on the internet has an aneurism and embarks on an immediate cross-country journey to save those tapes and digitize them because no one has ever found a complete copy of Musky Madams 3, and if it has the promos at the beginning that's even rarer and more valuable

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

friendly bunch

"You should kill yourself" say the people who threaten to kill themselves.

"I'll kill you" say the people who claim everyone wants them dead.

"I'll rape you" say the people who claim using the men's toilets is too dangerous.

[benji]

friendly bunch

"You should kill yourself" say the people who threaten to kill themselves.

"I'll kill you" say the people who claim everyone wants them dead.

"I'll rape you" say the people who claim using the men's toilets is too dangerous.

It's called having empathy you literal Nazi piece of shit.

[Polident]

that's the kind of thing where some crazy man on an ancient media preservation forum buried seven layers deep on the internet has an aneurism and embarks on an immediate cross-country journey to save those tapes and digitize them because no one has ever found a complete copy of Musky Madams 3, and if it has the promos at the beginning that's even rarer and more valuable

Waiting for somebody to find the film stock for 1990s hungarian smut and scan it in full glory. Remaster frenchbabexxx.rmvb

[benji]

While Trump and Israel may underestimate Iran, Hams Era is overestimating them like hardcore.

To ghoulishly sperg to defend our Zionist masters: their basis for this seems, based on how much they refer to it, to partly be in their belief that Iranian leadership is "grizzled veterans" of the Iraq-Iran War. A war that was forty years ago and mostly famous for how much of it was fought using methods and tactics from World War I. (Including literally spending seven years in trench warfare and turning their Soviet tanks into stationary artillery at the same time the Soviets were driving theirs in circles around Afghanistan.)

Which, even if this claim is true, we already saw the grizzled veterans of the other side who built one of the world's largest militaries see it completely ineffective thirty and twenty years ago when the US either obliterated it from the air and/or drove around any positions that weren't abandoned. Combined arms and mobility being ancient tactics perfected in the world war after the first.

I also don't think they know much about those conflicts and imagine that they were done with a handful of troops like Trump is apparently slowly being weaned off himself believing. The Gulf War saw nearly a million troops deployed, the initial deployment the second time was still half a million troops and only was lower because the first one saw most of them never leave Saudi Arabia and there were questions about how many could physically be stationed in Kuwait. (Also the Bush team sans Powell believed the resistance would collapse from bombing, which they were actually right about, the later resistance was a different one in form not the Iraqi military force holding its own.)

I also think they don't know anything about Afghanistan either. They think of both Iraq and that only in terms of the occupation, not the actual war part which was short and extremely divisive mostly because the opposition left the field to fight another day since it's meaningless suicide to try and fight the US military in a regular war.

There's little good reason to believe Iran wouldn't be the same (because this is the pattern in almost all post-Cold War conflicts globally), only with Trump you might have someone who has interest in declaring victory and leaving ASAP instead of any interest in propping up some kind of better government. This solves their actual complaint about those conflicts since like Trump they aren't honestly anti-war. (As indicated by their regular demands for world nations to launch war against Israel and/or the US, but I repeat myself since those are literally the same.)

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

she's the rare kind of game critic who knows how to tackle a subject like this.

Even if that was the case… why publish it in a mainstream vidja website?

"a subject like this" being a bunch of stupid bullshit.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Alright fellas can we lighten up on the Forspoken shit talk? I'm gonna have to report this derail to Benji it if keeps up...because ya'll are hurting my feelings. 

ERECTION ENGAGED

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

It's called having empathy you literal Nazi piece of shit.

but not for women.

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