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

[Potato]

speak for yourself i still remember when timedog was the unfunny forum celeb

Who?

[Polident]

Couldn’t tell you the guys name but there was a gaf user who questioned his sexuality. Went to his coworker’s house, blew him, asked for a napkin, and thanked him for the hospitality. Think he concluded that he’s straight.

Also some guy wanted to eat a Zelda 3DS cart.

[nachobro]

Couldn’t tell you the guys name but there was a gaf user who questioned his sexuality. Went to his coworker’s house, blew him, asked for a napkin, and thanked him for the hospitality. Think he concluded that he’s straight.

benjipwns

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-vietnam-war-and-the-reunification-of-the-country-is-today.1177074/#post-139325241

South Korea and North Korea literally there for people to see the example of what would happen if the North didn't unite the whole country.

A capitalist hellscape AND a "communist" hellscape.

South Korea: HDI (2022) 0.929 very high (19th)
Japan: HDI (2022) 0.920 very high (24th)
China: HDI (2022) 0.788 high (75th)
Vietnam: HDI (2022) 0.726 high (107th)
North Korea: "I reject your argument" -  (no really, HDI can't be calculated for them)

[Polident]

Counter-point: South Korea made sexist propaganda Stellar Blade. North Korea would never.

[benji]

Counter-point: South Korea made sexist propaganda Stellar Blade. North Korea would never.

FACT CHECK:

[benji]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-theatrical-movies-for-the-first-third-of-2025-feel-lacking-to-anyone.1177137/#post-139288590

ok I didn't want to spend forever assembling this data so forgive me for omitting April, but here is every Q1, in-calendar-year release from the last handful of years for movies with an 80+ MC. I think this still paints a reasonably complete picture of what explains this feeling. Bear with my random typos and whatnot, keep in mind some of these film titles are localized from their non-english originals, and that some of them never released in North America so the years may not exactly align.

2022 (15 releases) MC max theater
The Worst Person in the World 91 554
Great Freedom 89 10
Mr. Bachmann and His Class 89 no data
A Night of Knowing Nothing 87 no data
Playground 86 no data
The Fallout 84 no data
Turning Red 83 1560
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds 83 9
Belle 83 1338
RRR 83 1200
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche 82 35
A Hero 82 no data
Everything Everywhere All at Once 81 2220
Nitram 81 no data
X 80 2920

2023 (18 releases) MC max theater
Saint Omer 91 245
Walk Up 97 no data
Alcarras 85 5
Shin Ultraman 84 1040
Stonewalling 84 no data
The Blue Caftan 83 no data
Full Time 83 8
Bait 83 no data
Mars One 82 no data
Rye Lane 82 no data
After Love 81 no data
Close 81 233
Godland 81 7
Bruiser 81 no data
Huesera: The Bone Woman 81 no data
Rimini 81 1
A Thousand and One 81 926
Linoleum 80 17

2024 (14 releases) MC max theater
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World 95 14
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell 94 20
All We Imagine as Light 93 51
Here 92 2733
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus 91 11
Totem 91 12
La Chimera 91 216
About Dry Grasses 88 23
Pictures of Ghosts 88 no data
I Saw the TV Glow 86 469
Inshallah a Boy 83 4
Hundreds of Beavers 82 56
Skin Deep 81 3
The Settlers 80 19

2025 (18 releases) MC max theater
Sorry, Baby 88 no data
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 87 112
Black Bag 85 2713
I'm Still Here 85 762
Universal Language 84 44
Viet and Nam 83 no data
Eephus 83 82
Jazzy 83 no data
From Ground Zero 83 70
Misericordia 83 no data
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 83 no data
Holy Cow 83 9
Grand Tour 82 14
Grand Theft Hamlet 82 75
Twinless 81 no data
Secret Mall Apartment 80 82
The Falling Sky 80 no data

a few observations:

Unless you live in New York or Los Angeles or have access to film festivals, chances are you simply aren't ever going to get the opportunity to see even half of the highly-acclaimed pictures that come out in Q1 of any given year. That's just how film distribution works. Larger distributors aren't currently prone to releasing their critical darlings in the first three months of the year and the mid to smaller distributors often go with a platform release strategy: Release small then if it picks up critical and financial momentum, expand to hundreds if not thousands of screens later (see EEAAO). Sometimes, a small release stays very, very small; The financial incentive to go wide even in weak Box Office periods isn't enough to make that happen.

"no data" in these tables means literally that. Either the distributor never released them, the picture released straight to streaming, or they were international/film festival releases only. This doesn't mean nobody got to see them, but that's why I opened up with 'theatrical access to this is hard'

I stopped at 2022 as I don't want to compare The Now to The Before Times (and I don't want to be digging for literal hours), the box office is still very much in recovery mode, and 'the whole calendar is viable' from the record breaking 2008-2019 streak is basically over for the time being. We have to again get used to the idea that Jan-March are going to be relatively barren and smaller or genre releases are going to rule the day and those aren't calibrated by and large to be big awards winners. The ones that do come out that you have heard of and are playing near you turn out to be the rare exception.

Finally, there's some incompleteness in the above wrt previous holiday holdovers, which can often make a January or February feel much stronger than it actually is. Awards seasons can really clog up the first two months of theaters so your feelings about those offerings can strongly color your feelings about that calendar year, so your conclusions about '2025 movies' can hinge on exactly this.

So sure, Q1 2025 probably feels pretty dry. But it's not some extreme outlier.

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[Potato]

Couldn’t tell you the guys name but there was a gaf user who questioned his sexuality. Went to his coworker’s house, blew him, asked for a napkin, and thanked him for the hospitality. Think he concluded that he’s straight.

Also some guy wanted to eat a Zelda 3DS cart.

We're much more classy on thebire. We only come around to jerk each other off.

[Daffy Duck]

I see Barclays decided to be one of the first major places to preemptively capitulate and comply with something that isn't even required, and may very well prove unlawful. Fuck them.

God, they will be insufferable if they get it overturned

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-human-brains-ran-on-an-operating-system-and-you-had-to-give-it-a-name-what-would-you-call-it.1178382/#post-139343406

HomOS

[benji]

I see Barclays decided to be one of the first major places to preemptively capitulate and comply with something that isn't even required, and may very well prove unlawful. Fuck them.

God, they will be insufferable if they get it overturned

They going to ask Charles?

edit: Oh wait, they're anticipating the ECHR does it aren't they?

[NekoFever]

Next step is complaining that they didn't get disability even though DragonGirl69420 definitely diagnosed you as autistic, disabled and ADHD positive.

Hey, that’s my long distance girlfriend in Canada!

[NekoFever]

Oh wait, they're anticipating the ECHR does it aren't they?

Yep, and it’ll be another self-own when it stokes the right-wing parties who want to leave the ECHR even more than they currently are.

10/10 to the Decepticon who wrote this headline:

BBC: Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European court

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-company-attempting-to-grow-t-rex-leather-to-make-luxury-accessories.1174518/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/paleontologists-debunk-t-rex-leather-scam.1178214/

[Eric Cartman]

Being a lazy fucking idiot is NOT a disability.

You could even become president some day!

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-human-brains-ran-on-an-operating-system-and-you-had-to-give-it-a-name-what-would-you-call-it.1178382/#post-139343406

HomOS

no homos

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

homxs

[benji]

BBC: Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European court

Dr McCloud, 55, came out as trans in her twenties and is one of about 8,000 people to have legally changed the sex on their birth certificate.

[HaughtyFrank]

BBC: Trans former judge plans to challenge gender ruling at European court

Dr McCloud, 55, came out as trans in her twenties and is one of about 8,000 people to have legally changed the sex on their birth certificate.

This is one of those things where they lose me and probably most of the public too. Like it almost amounts to document forgery to me. Some weird way of claiming that they were never a biological man but at the same time still demanding trans healthcare

[benji]

You regularly see them on social media arguing "my documents say I'm female" as a counter to TERFs. Of course, when Trump or somebody orders that documents can't be changed they chant "the government can't decide people's sexes!"

[Polident]

Just hope they don’t salt the earth in their wake. I’m counting on Dolezalism taking off.

[Daffy Duck]

I see Barclays decided to be one of the first major places to preemptively capitulate and comply with something that isn't even required, and may very well prove unlawful. Fuck them.

God, they will be insufferable if they get it overturned

They going to ask Charles?

edit: Oh wait, they're anticipating the ECHR does it aren't they?

I’d imagine so yeah.

[HaughtyFrank]

Just hope they don’t salt the earth in their wake. I’m counting on Dolezalism taking off.

"A black woman is anyone who identifies as a black woman"

"I trust people to know their own racial identity" 

It works too well

[benji]

Just hope they don’t salt the earth in their wake. I’m counting on Dolezalism taking off.

"A black woman is anyone who identifies as a black woman"

"I trust people to know their own racial identity" 

It works too well

FACT CHECK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_transracialism_controversy

[Daffy Duck]

How many more L’s can they take?


https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-football-association-fa-bans-trans-women-from-womens-football-starting-june-1.1178433/

[malfoyking]

Shouldn't all that be confined to one topic? Or do they think the number of topics they make will make the greater era eventually care? 

I don't think they were actually that many trans footballers in UK leagues though.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

uhm chuddie? it all can't go into the rowling thread. They need to first post it there and then publicly for awareness.

[Snoopy]

It's a bad day for sport. If we can't play on the women's teams they'll just go back to being shit at football again. Thanks TERF Bitch

[Straight Edge]

Transracialism at least makes some sense since all of humanity emerged from Africa very recently in the grand scheme of things.

[Potato]

Transracialism at least makes some sense since all of humanity emerged from Africa very recently in the grand scheme of things.

On that basis, scientifically, transracialism makes more sense than transgenderism.