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

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-love-robin-hood-fiction.1180386/

wlw?

[NekoFever]

But what if the gorilla was trans?

Could go either way. Estrogen reduces strength until you can no longer open jars uwu or does nothing because it’s misogynistic to say that men are stronger than women. It works both ways in humans, depending on which is more convenient to the current argument.

[Snoopy]

What if the gorilla was an Israel and the men were middle aged furrys who hadn’t sent it the costumes it ordered 6 months ago

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/

Suddenly, Era understands why this kind of activism is useless.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/

Suddenly, Era understands why this kind of activism is useless.

Protesting people that have pushed to stop sending weapons to Israel is confusing. She's fucked up for sure but targeting her is foolish imo because you also should acknowledge her good things on this issue like being one of the first to call it a Genocide. Unfortunately she is one of the only people putting herself out there to large crowds so it opens her up to these kinds of things. If people want her to withdraw and hide like most politicians then I guess that's a play.

This has the same energy as the Pride parade here in Toronto that was stopped by pro-Palestinian protesters. I don't get it. Corey Booker was just sitting on steps and I don't think he got this kind of action from protesters when he is an AIPAC stooge yet AOC gets so much smoke. It's curious and I don't entirely trust it's authenticity.

Scuffed implying its a false flag because truly an unhinged pro palestine protestor is unthinkable

[BananaBlast]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-ed-boon-really-be-called-a-co-creator-of-mortal-kombat.1180395/

Hear me out.

Mortal Kombat is credited as being created by both Ed Boon and John Tobias. Ed Boon was the main programmer of the original game while John Tobias was the character designer and story writer. (Mortal Kombat 1 only had 4 people who worked on it) Much of Mortal Kombat's look and feel was derived from John Tobias reading a book on asian mythology and of course taking inspiration from films they grew up with.

Ed Boon was there, of course, he came up with some of the moves, such as the spear move, Ed is shown on video going "You know what would be a cool ass move?" then does the spear motion. John Tobias generally said something along the lines that ninjas were known to use rope darts and that it could be based on that. Ed Boon is not a writer or character designer. John Tobias is though. John Tobias was the one who gave the characters their backstories and generally came out with the whole mythos of the series.

A case in point: how did Reptile came to be. Ed figured "Well, we have a yellow guy and a blue guy so we should have a green guy who does both their moves." But he didn't tell anybody he was doing this, so John finds out about this and basically goes "Okay, for the sequel, he doesn't copy Scorpion and Sub-Zero's moves, he has his own moves and they're all reptilian themed because you named him Reptile and here's the story of why there's a lizard man in Outworld."

Part of the reason Ed is so attached to Scorpion is because I suspect, since he himself came out with the spear move and also does Scorpion's voice (He refuses to let anyone else who plays Scorpion in modern era do the "GET OVER HERE!" it always has to be Ed's voice) So that gives him a personal attachment to Scorpion (though he doesn't seem to care whose behind the mask as he has no problem with putting Sub-Zero in Scorpion's clothes for the New Era but that's another story)

Ed, as stated before, is not a writer or a designer, he usually leaves that to other people, so can Ed really be called a true "creator" in the sense of the word? When it came to creating who the characters were and the world they inhabited, it was pretty much all written on a notebook of John Tobias. Maybe the wrong guy left. (Although considering how Tobias never got anything off the ground, maybe the two were best as a duo?) So I guess Ed is a creator in the sense that he was good at bringing John Tobias' ideas to life.

 User banned (2 weeks): Inflammatory commentary. Creating a troll thread.

Okay, this is probably the only petty salty Resetera ban that I can unironically get behind.

Saying Ed Boon isn't the creator/co-creator of Mortal Kombat is like saying Akira Toriyama is not the creator Dragon Ball Z.

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-ed-boon-really-be-called-a-co-creator-of-mortal-kombat.1180395/

Hear me out.

Mortal Kombat is credited as being created by both Ed Boon and John Tobias. Ed Boon was the main programmer of the original game while John Tobias was the character designer and story writer. (Mortal Kombat 1 only had 4 people who worked on it) Much of Mortal Kombat's look and feel was derived from John Tobias reading a book on asian mythology and of course taking inspiration from films they grew up with.

Ed Boon was there, of course, he came up with some of the moves, such as the spear move, Ed is shown on video going "You know what would be a cool ass move?" then does the spear motion. John Tobias generally said something along the lines that ninjas were known to use rope darts and that it could be based on that. Ed Boon is not a writer or character designer. John Tobias is though. John Tobias was the one who gave the characters their backstories and generally came out with the whole mythos of the series.

A case in point: how did Reptile came to be. Ed figured "Well, we have a yellow guy and a blue guy so we should have a green guy who does both their moves." But he didn't tell anybody he was doing this, so John finds out about this and basically goes "Okay, for the sequel, he doesn't copy Scorpion and Sub-Zero's moves, he has his own moves and they're all reptilian themed because you named him Reptile and here's the story of why there's a lizard man in Outworld."

Part of the reason Ed is so attached to Scorpion is because I suspect, since he himself came out with the spear move and also does Scorpion's voice (He refuses to let anyone else who plays Scorpion in modern era do the "GET OVER HERE!" it always has to be Ed's voice) So that gives him a personal attachment to Scorpion (though he doesn't seem to care whose behind the mask as he has no problem with putting Sub-Zero in Scorpion's clothes for the New Era but that's another story)

Ed, as stated before, is not a writer or a designer, he usually leaves that to other people, so can Ed really be called a true "creator" in the sense of the word? When it came to creating who the characters were and the world they inhabited, it was pretty much all written on a notebook of John Tobias. Maybe the wrong guy left. (Although considering how Tobias never got anything off the ground, maybe the two were best as a duo?) So I guess Ed is a creator in the sense that he was good at bringing John Tobias' ideas to life.

 User banned (2 weeks): Inflammatory commentary. Creating a troll thread.

Okay, this is probably the only petty salty Resetera ban that I can unironically get behind.

Saying Ed Boon isn't the creator/co-creator of Mortal Kombat is like saying Akira Toriyama is not the creator Dragon Ball Z.

Can we really say John Carmack helped create Doom when he was just some fucking nerd doing code shit?

e:
The Chad John Romero was most recently making Empire Of Sin, while nerd fuckboi carmack was designing lenses for facebook or some shit idk

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-ed-boon-really-be-called-a-co-creator-of-mortal-kombat.1180395/

Hear me out.

Mortal Kombat is credited as being created by both Ed Boon and John Tobias. Ed Boon was the main programmer of the original game while John Tobias was the character designer and story writer. (Mortal Kombat 1 only had 4 people who worked on it) Much of Mortal Kombat's look and feel was derived from John Tobias reading a book on asian mythology and of course taking inspiration from films they grew up with.

Ed Boon was there, of course, he came up with some of the moves, such as the spear move, Ed is shown on video going "You know what would be a cool ass move?" then does the spear motion. John Tobias generally said something along the lines that ninjas were known to use rope darts and that it could be based on that. Ed Boon is not a writer or character designer. John Tobias is though. John Tobias was the one who gave the characters their backstories and generally came out with the whole mythos of the series.

A case in point: how did Reptile came to be. Ed figured "Well, we have a yellow guy and a blue guy so we should have a green guy who does both their moves." But he didn't tell anybody he was doing this, so John finds out about this and basically goes "Okay, for the sequel, he doesn't copy Scorpion and Sub-Zero's moves, he has his own moves and they're all reptilian themed because you named him Reptile and here's the story of why there's a lizard man in Outworld."

Part of the reason Ed is so attached to Scorpion is because I suspect, since he himself came out with the spear move and also does Scorpion's voice (He refuses to let anyone else who plays Scorpion in modern era do the "GET OVER HERE!" it always has to be Ed's voice) So that gives him a personal attachment to Scorpion (though he doesn't seem to care whose behind the mask as he has no problem with putting Sub-Zero in Scorpion's clothes for the New Era but that's another story)

Ed, as stated before, is not a writer or a designer, he usually leaves that to other people, so can Ed really be called a true "creator" in the sense of the word? When it came to creating who the characters were and the world they inhabited, it was pretty much all written on a notebook of John Tobias. Maybe the wrong guy left. (Although considering how Tobias never got anything off the ground, maybe the two were best as a duo?) So I guess Ed is a creator in the sense that he was good at bringing John Tobias' ideas to life.

 User banned (2 weeks): Inflammatory commentary. Creating a troll thread.

Okay, this is probably the only petty salty Resetera ban that I can unironically get behind.

Saying Ed Boon isn't the creator/co-creator of Mortal Kombat is like saying Akira Toriyama is not the creator Dragon Ball Z.

Locked by Master Chief Collection supporter who can't get Oblivion because the BDS moment Transistor

Given how ridiculously insulting this thread is to game developers and programmers, it is now locked.

Edited: Wonder why he didn't locked it after he first posted there

[Taco Bell Tower]

But what if the gorilla was trans?

Gorilla wins by accusing the men as transphobic.

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-love-robin-hood-fiction.1180386/

wlw?

Also shut the fuck to anyone upset at more modern versions of Robin Hood making the Merry Men more diverse by including more women or having characters of Saracen and Moor decent. It makes perfect sense that a group sick of the status quo would have people of all walks of life and these people did exist in the UK, their not "historically inaccurate".

 

[Eric Cartman]

you dont know for a fact that a passing moor trader DIDNT knock up some innkeepers daughter

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/

Suddenly, Era understands why this kind of activism is useless.

Our favorite Admin chimes in

Y'all told us not to protest the people responsible though.

Democrats are not on the left.

Subsequently, this means leftist purity testing is not the thing sinking candidates. Leftists with consistent principles are not a meaningful part of the Democratic Party or even the general voting population.

What kills progressive candidates is deliberate undermining and sabotage by liberals within the Party who know what the game is really about.

Get lost if your efforts are detrimental to the overall cause. Clear your head and you're more than welcome to return, though

Look at you, Royal Leader of the Gaza Movement.

I'm not biting on that.

Good, because you were being pompous

These (AOC & Bernie) are worth protesting, actually.

(Responding to "coalition building is hard)
Where is the coalition-building happening?

Democrats lose because they fucking suck, and they preside in a two-party, FPTP system which statistically ensures that sometimes they will inevitably lose just because math.

Well it's definitely not happening with the help of the person screaming at the townhall.

If AOC is weak enough to let a person screaming at her in a town hall make her take her ball and go home, that's on her. Politicians, whether in an out of power, don't and shouldn't have the luxury of being coddled and assuaged and obliged. They're not your parents.

Regardless, I find all of complaining about how certain actions harm coalition-building to be irrelevant. There is no meaningful coalition-building that occurs within the Democratic apparatus because it's fundamentally a bougeois capitalist Party. They don't actually care about these issues on a systemic level, and thus they are not looking to meaningfully include and empower the minorities they pander to within the whole of the political process. That is why all of the "coalition-building" that occurs is basically just demanding leftists to give up their standards and principles to assimilate into the fold.

Protesting people who are by every single metric in the top 10 people in Congress on I/P is just going to convince every other representative there is zero reason to listen to pro-Palestinian protesters because they are impossible to please.

What convinces other representatives to side against Palestine is the fact that Israel is necessary to America's geopolitical and economic interests. This isn't actually a fight being waged on morals; it's a fight regarding the material capitalist conditions that underpin why Israel even came to be in the first place.

When the thread doesn't go Nepenthe's way...

I see the thread has devolved into asking citizens what they have done to change the tide in Gaza and not our politicians

TIL that on this forum some members really hate AOC. Kinda surprised by that

I don't care for her myself because as an inevitability of becoming a popular Democratic figure, she has inevitably cozied up to liberal and monied power within the Party.

Is she the worst? No.

Is she some Stokely Carmichael-esque ally? Not by a long shot. No one in the Party inevitably can be because it is a bougeois capitalist Party by design.

Capitalism Bad:

God, the internet was the worst thing to happen for progressive causes.

Progressive causes have fundamentally always been undermined by conservative establishments and economic interests. It's not the Internet; it's capitalism.

Like, sorry. Fighting for a better and new world means you are pretty much destined to lose more than you win. You keep going regardless.

If you are only concerned about holding power of the current political apparatus, choose whichever flavor of capitalist party fits your mold better. Do you like the Nazi imperialists or the Rainbow imperialists?

You can't grow in US politics without cozying up to monied power.

Of course. If you just want to be a typical politician, you take the money and sacrifice your morals. We know this.

But if you are actually trying to build a better world, I don't think that is true because the American populous has not seriously tried and tested mass organized movements that seek to actually abolish capitalism. We haven't even gotten past the education step yet; this entire thread is filled with reactionary, though-terminating, unimaginative drivel because a single person dared to yell at a politician. Many of you all have merely resigned yourselves to this weird fate that we must abide by systems that are not only not that old within our species' overall lifespan but are actively destroying the habitability of the only planet we've ever lived on.

I didn't read most of that

[DavidCroquet]

I don't care for her myself because as an inevitability of becoming a popular Democratic figure, she has inevitably cozied up to liberal and monied power within the Party.

Is she the worst? No.

Is she some Stokely Carmichael-esque ally? Not by a long shot. No one in the Party inevitably can be because it is a bougeois capitalist Party by design.

I know she didn't just deadname Brother Kwame Ture? gtfo with this fake-ass allyship.

[TylenolJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-kevin-feige-says-watching-all-marvel-shows-and-movies-have-become-homework-cutting-down-to-1-2-live-shows-a-year-fixing-the-movie-slate.1180518/

Who does this fucking chud Kevin Feige think he is 🤔

[Besticus Maximus]

Nepenthe is a version of Kanye West that was forged on the Sonic the Hedgehog forums instead of rocafella records

[HaughtyFrank]

So what the fuck is Nepenthes plan? In one post she argues there needs to be a giant mass  organization to abolish capitalism (who knows how the fuck that works) and in another post she talks about how real leftists are a tiny minority.
So by her own admission, why should anyone give a fuck about this tiny minority of communist brained people? And why do these communist brained people think they don't need to build up allyship with anyone for their gigantic mass movement that will end capitalism?

[TylenolJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-love-robin-hood-fiction.1180386/

wlw?

Great post from them in the Fetterman thread

Brain damage leads to conservatism, no surprise there.

Yeah can we not do this? The "People with mental health issues are inherriantly dangerous/bad people" shitck (which is the opposite of true)? We can shit on this shit without perpetuating ableist conspiracy nonsense that is sadly all too common used against people with mental health issues and the neurodivergent.

  

I’m a Proud Mentally Ill Leftist!!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nymag-fetterman-staff-memo-concerned-over-ongoing-mental-health-crisis-incl-wreckless-driving-gun-purchase-getting-news-from-x.1179708/page-2#post-139418919

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/page-5#post-139464672

User Banned (Permanent): Trolling

Palestinian do deserve Trump

Be more subtle next time, Nintex.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-stop-making-canada-51st-state-jokes.1176162/page-3#post-139261263

User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory Speculation in Sensitive Thread

Happened twice in the past six hours. Almost every time it's some American being facetious. The intent doesn't matter. It is always unwelcome. Also jokes about Canada adding regions of the US as new provinces isn't funny or welcomed by Canadians.

I tihnk though the latter is wishful thinking by those of us making jokes about you taking over. I seriously would welcome canada taking washington state or even the whole west coast. I just know in reality it would not happen (unless Canada got some one as evil as Trump or we start a wwIII and (hopefully) lose and the world forces us to seperate the country). But yeah, it's wishful thinking that I like where I live but I don't like the country I'm in. And I really do wish we could secede or join canada. Both of which aren't happening but doesn't stop wishful thinking.

[Superstar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-kevin-feige-says-watching-all-marvel-shows-and-movies-have-become-homework-cutting-down-to-1-2-live-shows-a-year-fixing-the-movie-slate.1180518/

Who does this fucking chud Kevin Feige think he is 🤔

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Employees talked regularly about "Marvel fatigue." They worried they had created a "no new fans club," in which people unfamiliar with the state of the MCU couldn't watch a new release because they'd have no idea what was going on.

Feige and Marvel employees think there is/was Marvel fatigue? I think i just heard Jeff Marvel's brain explode.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/question-for-all-would-you-hug-pet-your-favourite-wild-animals-if-you-could-so-so-ethically.1180536/

Hi all!!! Pretty much what the thread title says, if you had the opportunity to pet or hug your favourite animals in an ethical way that didn't due stress or harm to the animal (because their care and freedoms should always be above our wants to pet them)? Whether they be mammals, reptiles, birds etc etc?

If so, what species are they and what do you think it's like (:

For me (:

Favourite Feline: Cheetah, oh god yes!!!!
Favourite Non-Feline Mammal: Highland Cows, YES AND I HAVE MANY TIMES!!!! THEIR LOVELY BOVINE!!!!! 
Favourite Reptile: Komodo Dragons, Yes, the calm actually be very calm around humans once they are you to use.
Favourite Bird: Jackdaws, Yes and I have done so in the past, they were tamed Jackdaw (though my local ones actually do gather around outside when I'm sitting in the garden and wait for me in the morning, they don't fear me and know I'll give them food (: )
Favourite Amphibian: The Poisonous Golden Dart Frog, Yes and I have (though that one wasn't poisonous because they didn't have the formicine ants that makes them poisonous in the wild)
Favourite Fish: Puffer Fish, Yes but only wearing gloves and with a safer species
Favourite Insect: Wasps, Yes and have done so (delicately)
Favourite Arachnid: Daddy Long-Legs/Common Harvestmen, No as I don't want to hurt or scare the poor things.
Favourite Land Mollusc: Snails and Slugs, Yes and I have, beautiful giant African Snails (:
Favourite Other land Invertebrate: Millipedes, Yes and I have, a beautiful giant African Millipede (:
Favourite Sea Mollusc: Sea Angels, No I don't wont to hurt them.
Favourite Sea Cucumber: Sea Pigs, No humans are horrible to them, leave them alone!
Favourite other Maine invertebrate: Bloodybelly Comb jellies, No, I think I would explode from trying, also they should be left alone.

[Snoopy]

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/question-for-all-would-you-hug-pet-your-favourite-wild-animals-if-you-could-so-so-ethically.1180536/

Hi all!!! Pretty much what the thread title says, if you had the opportunity to pet or hug your favourite animals in an ethical way that didn't due stress or harm to the animal (because their care and freedoms should always be above our wants to pet them)? Whether they be mammals, reptiles, birds etc etc?

If so, what species are they and what do you think it's like (:

For me (:

Favourite Feline: Cheetah, oh god yes!!!!
Favourite Non-Feline Mammal: Highland Cows, YES AND I HAVE MANY TIMES!!!! THEIR LOVELY BOVINE!!!!! 
Favourite Reptile: Komodo Dragons, Yes, the calm actually be very calm around humans once they are you to use.
Favourite Bird: Jackdaws, Yes and I have done so in the past, they were tamed Jackdaw (though my local ones actually do gather around outside when I'm sitting in the garden and wait for me in the morning, they don't fear me and know I'll give them food (: )
Favourite Amphibian: The Poisonous Golden Dart Frog, Yes and I have (though that one wasn't poisonous because they didn't have the formicine ants that makes them poisonous in the wild)
Favourite Fish: Puffer Fish, Yes but only wearing gloves and with a safer species
Favourite Insect: Wasps, Yes and have done so (delicately)
Favourite Arachnid: Daddy Long-Legs/Common Harvestmen, No as I don't want to hurt or scare the poor things.
Favourite Land Mollusc: Snails and Slugs, Yes and I have, beautiful giant African Snails (:
Favourite Other land Invertebrate: Millipedes, Yes and I have, a beautiful giant African Millipede (:
Favourite Sea Mollusc: Sea Angels, No I don't wont to hurt them.
Favourite Sea Cucumber: Sea Pigs, No humans are horrible to them, leave them alone!
Favourite other Maine invertebrate: Bloodybelly Comb jellies, No, I think I would explode from trying, also they should be left alone.

Oh lord, Echos did fucked that wasp queen 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/page-5#post-139466583

Words just don't have any meaning any more to some people. Actually dumb.

[Besticus Maximus]

Nepenthe's still going at it hard with the democrats are the real hitler

[Propagandhim]

 
Democrats are not on the left.

Subsequently, this means leftist purity testing is not the thing sinking candidates. Leftists with consistent principles are not a meaningful part of the Democratic Party or even the general voting population.

What kills progressive candidates is deliberate undermining and sabotage by liberals within the Party who know what the game is really about.

Subsequently is not a synonym for "therefore" or "consequently" or another word that signals logical consequence, not just sequence.   Almost as bad as her constantly using "equivocate" as a synonym for "equate".  Y'all be equivocating the left with Democrats but y'all be lacking the theory, subsequently (and subsequentially, per se) speaking"
Anyway I didn't read the rest..is she yelling about not having money in the global south fart pee poopoo pee again?

[Potato]

you dont know for a fact that a passing moor trader DIDNT knock up some innkeepers daughter

#notrape

[Propagandhim]

  A world in which every country has achieved equivalent development given their different demographics, geographies, histories etc. would mean that we would have radically changed the way in which society even functions, because the reason goods are so cheap is because of deliberate underdevelopment and pillaging of unfairly-cheap raw materials and labor following centuries of colonialism. You would, essentially, have to get rid of all of the exploitation and wealth hoarding underpinning our current status quo for this hypothetical to make sense, meaning the way in which goods are produced, priced (if they're priced at all), and shipped would also have to radically change in response as well.

aka, welcome to communism, enjoy your stay.

A nice little convenient story you can tell yourself about how "developing nations" is a misnomer because development is impossible, which is ahistorical, but fuck it, who cares.  I can just say shit and nobody calls me out on it.  My name is Nepenthe, subsequently, I'm in charge here.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/page-6#post-139468662

Like, I don't get how you psychologically and emotionally stall out like that as an adult.

[Boredfrom]

She just wants to justify not voting for Kamala without mentioning it directly. People here have mentioned how her beliefs seems  more in line with MAGA and Trump: “Burn everything down (as long we are in the top), is all the fault of globalists”.

I’m surprised how much ERA confuses her nihilism and misanthropy with “idealism”.