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

[Polident]

When I first heard about it I thought it was going to be an awful Rick and Morty clone in space.

I'm so glad I gave it a shot. It's hands down the best Trek has been in a long time, and it seems to understand what Trek is better than any of the other modern shows. It's funny, but still 100% has the same soul as the golden age shows.

fd signifier had a great video a few months back about making fun of maga edgelords and their ilk for identifying with the joker, homelander, private rico (starship troopers), etc.



i recommend the whole video, but he makes a point at the end that what attracts people to these characters is that the satire still dresses up the villain character (whether they're the protagonist or not) in cool outfits and gives them cool things to do. so maybe we need media out there that doesn't do that, and valorizes good people.

star trek lower decks is a great example of that. the show adheres strictly to an idea that the federation is a post-money democracy that works, and that people are really good at their jobs because they enjoy the work and genuinely want to improve things.

gonna segue into something else for a bit - lindsay ellis made a point years ago about something mel brooks was right about. real-life neofascist movements adopt the fascist visual elements in american history x, pink floyd's the wall, etc - but you know what they don't copy? the nazis' real-life hokey pageantry being made fun of in springtime for hitler.

star wars, especially under the disney brand, has been really bad about this. there's no reason, none at all, that there should have been a first order path on the star wars hotel. people shouldn't be excited to meet kylo ren. stormtroopers shouldn't be out and about in the park like they're the same as gaston or a cartoonishly evil queen.

yeah, why would you let people explore their literal Dark Side in a fantasy role play environment, where there are no meaningful consequences?

While we're on the subject, why the fuck did bioware let people not choose anything except paragon in mass effect?
How do Bethesda keep letting people get away with making Bad Choices in the Fallout and TES games?
Why the fuck does D&D let you pick any alignment other than Lawful Good?
How dare people laugh at Jack Thompson in his hecking valid efforts to get the GTA games banned for being murder simulators?
Why would people ever even pretend that there is any difference at all between how they act in society and their private darker thoughts and impulses that make up a part of their inner world, because they must just be awful people.

I see no societal drawbacks at all of enforcing psychological purity at all times. We should eradicate crimethink.

Not watching that video but I’m gonna assume he never brings up Killmonger.

[Boredfrom]

Oh God, I don’t want to see Signifier awful takes about AoT. Why these dudes don’t criticize Gundam when it genuinely does the same “mistakes”  on their villains while trying to be even more moralizing about war? Sunrise/Bandai can’t decide if Char was a murderous asshole or a hero worthy of selling cars and burgers. 

(AoT shits the bed at the end, but not for the lack of trying.) 

I wonder how young people are going to react if the Dune films get to God Emperor of Dune.

[HaughtyFrank]

Joker and Homelander are outdated anyway. It's all about being Ryan Gosling and dying alone in the snow

[Snoopy]

The only Hasan vid I've watched

[Polident]

Oh God, I don’t want to see Signifier awful takes about AoT. Why these dudes don’t criticize Gundam when it genuinely does the same “mistakes”  on their villains while trying to be even more moralizing about war? Sunrise/Bandai can’t decide if Char was a murderous asshole or a hero worthy of selling cars and burgers. 

(AoT shits the bed at the end, but not for the lack of trying.) 

I wonder how young people are going to react if the Dune films get to God Emperor of Dune.

They do and they’ve concluded that Zeon is right (, actually). They’re zeonists. The logic was something like the Earth Federation represents yt colonialism. Zeon is fighting for independence and freedom. Killing a side/space colony population with chemical weapons and accidentally dropping it on Australia was justified. 

Anyway, he’s the character favorably likened to Hitler leading a “Sieg Zeon” chant,



I need a 14 hour video essay to break down the subtext

[killamajig]

super late but finally read the “microsoft is genociding people” article, one would think that its about microsoft creating skynet 3.0 or something

in reality, the article “exposes” that they provide cloud services, ms teams and chatgpt translator

A new fish on the yard.?

Welcome

[killamajig]

This topic is also back on the menu…

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-we-ever-going-to-see-a-jrpg-winning-goty.1062168/page-15

They’re trying to claim that French RPG that’s just come out is a JRPG, I must’ve missed that thread first time round as well because of course JRPG is a problematic racist term…what the fuck does these people not fucking moan about

It's like when my liberal friends would try and correct me when I talked about my Mexican friends I had when I lived in Arizona. They would tell me I shouldn't use the word "Mexican". I tell them they were born in Mexico. They now live or work in the United States. They call themselves Mexicans and they are proud to be Mexicans. They don't want to be called Mexican Americans or whatever.

When you live in a lily ass white town in Wisconsin, the only time you hear the word Mexican is in a derogatory way. So I get it. But I don't play JRPG so I'm not really sure what the sensitivity is with this particular term.

[Nintex]

Joker and Homelander are outdated anyway. It's all about being Ryan Gosling and dying alone in the snow

I channel Tommy Shelby but a female friend told me, I need to be more brooding and less happy.

I went with more happy but she said I should dial that back a notch. 
And the fact that I know you can dial that on a whim she said, makes it even more scary.



Ryan Gosling I tried too, especially the one from Bladerunner 2049. But he doesn't have the commanding edge and persistence.
The power of the ENTJ is truely taking bold action after the post acceptance stage instead of giving up. 

Yes, the neoliberal world order is burning down, no it doesn't bother me at all. Maybe we should side with the communists.

[Cheers]

Oh would you look at that. The heckler and the modcop share the same opinion:

[HaughtyFrank]

Oh would you look at that. The heckler and the modcop share the same opinion:

This could be a shocking revelation for Nepnep but I imagine in truth she denies the rapes too.

[Eric Cartman]

"In the united states, as we know, the health care system is for profit... the healthcare industry in the united states is very zionist"



fucking wow.

I remember arguing with Himu at The Old Place when there was some news about accusations about anti-semitism in the Uk Labour party that it was entirely possible for people with left leaning politics to be pro-Palestine, but also not anti-semitic, and that there was a big difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism.

Let's just say based on how things have actually happened since Palestine becoming a cause celebre, I feel like a huge fucking twat, because I am clearly very, very, very wrong about that

[Shecky Fragbaum]

OK idea for Malds, hard r to some little kid and collect switch 2 and power supply donations.

Shleprock over there can't even solo a jar of pickles, I'm not sure she can face the buzzsaw of a freshly-slurred black toddler.

[killamajig]

The amount of blind Hamas support from the Left shocked even my cynical ass. Outright denying rape, murder and torture. It sickens me they still cling to that narrative.

[Nintex]

They would've swiped right on Muhammad anyway might as well save them a Super Like

[HaughtyFrank]

"In the united states, as we know, the health care system is for profit... the healthcare industry in the united states is very zionist"



fucking wow.

I remember arguing with Himu at The Old Place when there was some news about accusations about anti-semitism in the Uk Labour party that it was entirely possible for people with left leaning politics to be pro-Palestine, but also not anti-semitic, and that there was a big difference between anti-zionism and anti-semitism.

Let's just say based on how things have actually happened since Palestine becoming a cause celebre, I feel like a huge fucking twat, because I am clearly very, very, very wrong about that

It's so weird. Like some dark urge that you suddenly can't admit anymore that killing civilians in s actually a bad thing.

[BIONIC]

Joker and Homelander are outdated anyway. It's all about being Ryan Gosling and dying alone in the snow

I channel Tommy Shelby but a female friend told me, I need to be more brooding and less happy.

I went with more happy but she said I should dial that back a notch. 
And the fact that I know you can dial that on a whim she said, makes it even more scary.



Ryan Gosling I tried too, especially the one from Bladerunner 2049. But he doesn't have the commanding edge and persistence.
The power of the ENTJ is truely taking bold action after the post acceptance stage instead of giving up. 

Yes, the neoliberal world order is burning down, no it doesn't bother me at all. Maybe we should side with the communists.

Nintex, I regret to inform of this, but you’re actually an extremely lame Dutch incel. Sorry you had to find out this way.

[Eric Cartman]

They would've swiped right on Muhammad anyway might as well save them a Super Like

No they wouldn't.

No profile pic.

[Vertigo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-ii-has-sold-3-million-copies-in-3-months-kcd1-10-million-copies-sold-to-date.1180731/

Before release you could tell the vocal ones on Reeee wanted this game banned it’s funny to see the pushback from people in the thread who’ve actually played and loved the game. The haters are outnumbered.

What a shame.

Gross.

Yeah, I didn't support GamerGate then, I still don't support it now. It goes in the bin right next to Harry Potter games -- I honestly don't care how good a game is if buying it funds a giant bigot, and it sucks how many people honestly just don't care about that.

There are other games you could buy that don't support proudly racist and misogynist GamerGate assholes. Or send that message that holding these views is acceptable or praiseworthy.

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/twitch-streamer-showcases-how-off-the-youtube-dislike-extension-is-nowadays-showed-only-a-42-like-ratio-in-the-extension-actual-like-ratio-was-87.1180665/#post-139484409



PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE HASAN, HE CAME OFF GREAT IN THAT DEBATE, HE ONLY USUALLY AVOIDS DEBATES BECAUSE IF ANYTHING HE IS TOO GOOD AT THEM

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-is-suing-accessory-maker-genki-the-company-that-showed-off-a-mockup-of-the-switch-2-before-the-consoles-reveal.1180467/

User warned: DO NOT use the edit function to bypass the Twitter ban

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-is-suing-accessory-maker-genki-the-company-that-showed-off-a-mockup-of-the-switch-2-before-the-consoles-reveal.1180467/

User warned: DO NOT use the edit function to bypass the Twitter ban

Lmao, the twitter embed works again if you edit it into a post

[Eric Cartman]

These are worth protesting, actually.


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.

Nah, you know what, nah. Read the goddamn room.

I'm gonna say it: the situation in Gaza is bad, but the situation in our own country is a higher priority right now. It's one thing to take down reps when the government is functioning in any normal capacity, but to continue to torch even what few allies you have when an historic tyrant is dismantling society both domestically and globally is asinine and directly leads to the current existential crisis we're in. This take is functionally just as stupid and destructive and self-defeating as MAGA, and by virtue signaling away every person in existence who could do anything about it, it directly enables the current admin to cause MORE oppression. This take doesn't just not lead to help for Gaza, it ensures the US BECOMES Gaza. You can argue the people you care about weren't getting the help they needed before and still won't be now, but the fact is those same people will now be objectively worse off as will everyone else.

So if you and others wanna continue to on like this, just protesting without any actual implementable alternatives or solutions, then you're gonna need to own all the horrible shit Trump does just as much as anybody who directly voted for him and the rest of his GOP enablers. Every immigrant deported and family torn apart, every life lost due to lack of resources or medical care, blood on your hands. You don't get to brush this shit off as simply tough choices or inconveniences any more.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Do you think B-Dubs regrets purging PoliEra? He agrees with them on most things and compared to the rest of Era they were sane.

Is that the dumbest thing he's done?

Edit: more Word Salad for Benji to eat:

shiteater

None voter says what?

And when they lost the election, liberals finally became oh-so concerned about Trump building hotels on top of the bodies. Don't ask how those bodies got there, of course. And this was in between shitting on Palestinians who sat out or voted for another party aside from Democrats, with some folks basically saying in roundabout ways that they deserved to continue being ethnically cleansed, because nothing says allyship like "I hope your people cease to exist because you didn't vote how I liked."

[Nintex]

Fuck off.

Thank you Nepenthe

[killamajig]

Fuck off.

Thank you Nepenthe

Everything else. Current events, entertainment, technology, life, food, politics, pets, randomness, and anything in between. Civil discourse triumphs.

[killamajig]

Come on CrunchyFrog, tell Nep to eat your whole ass.

[benji]

To be fair, if Trump eliminates elections then the Democrats won't preside in a two-party FPTP system which statistically ensures that sometimes they will inevitably lose them just because math.

Also, I need to point out that her claim is false. A two-party FPTP system doesn't ensure that either statistically or just because math. For many instances, we just need to canvas the global South where there are many two-party FPTP systems where elections didn't determine the winner anywhere near 50/50. Boredfrom can inform her of a close to home one for nearly a century. Much of the Americas have had periods of "turn" politics where the parties alternated winning 99% of the vote, for example, Brazil's first Republic. We can also look at a place responsible for greater culture than the Beatles, where the Liberal Democrats have dominated the post-war period. In the United States, we had the Democratic domination of the House from 1930-1994.

[Nintex]

Do you think every single house in the country will be bombed and reduced to rubble

Do you think all of our infrastructure and crops and livestock will be eradicated

Do you think there'll be a wall placed around us to block aid from coming through so we can starve to death

Do you know Anything At All

 
Who knows what could happen

[benji]

Where is the coalition-building happening?

What does she think a political party is?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-may-the-fourth-trump-posts-himself-as-a-jedi.1180773/

I really hope he dies soon