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

[Greatness Gone]

joanne at it again

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j-k-rowling-wont-fire-harry-potter-snape-actor-1236207399/

But on Monday morning, Rowling tweeted an image of a UK tabloid report which cited anonymous sources which predicted that Rowling — who is an executive producer on the HBO series — won’t fire Essiedu and “won’t care at all” about his “defiance.”

Rowling then clarified her position: “I don’t have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldn’t exercise it if I did. I don’t believe in taking away people’s jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine.”

[Jansen]

joanne at it again

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j-k-rowling-wont-fire-harry-potter-snape-actor-1236207399/

But on Monday morning, Rowling tweeted an image of a UK tabloid report which cited anonymous sources which predicted that Rowling — who is an executive producer on the HBO series — won’t fire Essiedu and “won’t care at all” about his “defiance.”

Rowling then clarified her position: “I don’t have the power to sack an actor from the series and I wouldn’t exercise it if I did. I don’t believe in taking away people’s jobs or livelihoods because they hold legally protected beliefs that differ from mine.”

Slay, Queen 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-it-normal-for-women-to-have-a-burping-fetish.1180938/page-2#post-139519944

I have a lot of fetishes but this is not one of them.

Edit: Hidden

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-it-normal-for-women-to-have-a-burping-fetish.1180938/page-2#post-139519944

I have a lot of fetishes but this is not one of them.

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[DocWager]

“Boys club rhetoric”, but then all the pervy men became online women.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zionists-are-not-welcome-here-naples-restaurant-asks-israelis-to-leave-after-harassment-received.1180995/page-2#post-139548519

These Zionists act with complete impunity. It's disgusting, if you want to know how Nazis got away with their shit just look at Israel and it's supporters. Modern day Nazis.

Just want to say ERA keeping this absurd ban message well into this genocide is utterly pathetic. Actively whitewashing Israel crimes.

Agreed, wtf are the mods on

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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/page-458#post-139537710

100 Line has been surprisingly decent at not being too creepy so far, but there's one specific character that's bothering me in a really dumb way:
There's a gal that has 'pukes a lot' as her funny character gimmick and it's constantly triggering my Writer's Thinly Disguised Kink-sense hard lol

TBH I felt the same way about Lune in Expedition 33 because she's barefoot for no reason. She can fly (sometimes, mostly just when you're controlling her, and positioned/framed in a way that the soles of her feet are visible), but is generally walking around on rocks and corpses and stuff barefoot and it's really dumb. She even has unique footprints in snow.

[HaughtyFrank]

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/page-458#post-139537710

100 Line has been surprisingly decent at not being too creepy so far, but there's one specific character that's bothering me in a really dumb way:
There's a gal that has 'pukes a lot' as her funny character gimmick and it's constantly triggering my Writer's Thinly Disguised Kink-sense hard lol

TBH I felt the same way about Lune in Expedition 33 because she's barefoot for no reason. She can fly (sometimes, mostly just when you're controlling her, and positioned/framed in a way that the soles of her feet are visible), but is generally walking around on rocks and corpses and stuff barefoot and it's really dumb. She even has unique footprints in snow.

They're really so sad. If you ask me having her barefoot is downright brilliant character design, it instantly makes her stand out and you wonder what's up with her. They accuse others of having porn brains and yet everything is sexual to them (puking wtf?)

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zionists-are-not-welcome-here-naples-restaurant-asks-israelis-to-leave-after-harassment-received.1180995/page-2#post-139549698

Lots of folks from Isreal are going to find out they are the villains in their story one day

That would imply an ability to self reflect. I think unfortunately many of them are in their monstrous bubble of thinking they're the victim here.

[BIONIC]

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/page-458#post-139523826

Also, am I the only one who doesn't think this is funny and not a good look on MTG?

https://www.thegamer.com/magic-the-gathering-final-fantasy-tifa-card-italian-senate-incident/

It feels like the joke is on Tifa and no the creep senetor which feels like how many of these types of jokes go, always on the fictional woman and not on the real man.

And honestly, I always find it weird and uncomfortable some people seem to base the opinions on fictional women and other characters on porn based around them (especially when porn often erases lesbians and can be very problematic, which of course meanss men get pissy and angry if you dare criticise it); and it's especially weird when they do it around stuff like Pokémon like the recent threads are the Eeveelutions and Gardevior or that time a few years back I posted a thread about incineroar posted and image of their search number on a porn site and people got weird about it.

It’s just an awkward coincidence because Tifa is in Cloud’s commander deck and Cloud is a red/white/green card so the other commander in the deck needs to be as well.

It’s just a coincidence.

From the article, here's the tell-

"As highlighted by MTG content creator Kurohitsuki..."

Some Youtuber needed clicks and a web site picked up on it for more clicks. That's all that's happening here.

Oh, so I've just screwed up again and got rage baited into sharing click bait nonsense, yeah really feeling like a failure feminist right now.

[Steven Snell]

yeah really feeling like a failure feminist right now.

Feels like a parody almost.

[HaughtyFrank]

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/page-458#post-139523826

Also, am I the only one who doesn't think this is funny and not a good look on MTG?

https://www.thegamer.com/magic-the-gathering-final-fantasy-tifa-card-italian-senate-incident/

It feels like the joke is on Tifa and no the creep senetor which feels like how many of these types of jokes go, always on the fictional woman and not on the real man.

And honestly, I always find it weird and uncomfortable some people seem to base the opinions on fictional women and other characters on porn based around them (especially when porn often erases lesbians and can be very problematic, which of course meanss men get pissy and angry if you dare criticise it); and it's especially weird when they do it around stuff like Pokémon like the recent threads are the Eeveelutions and Gardevior or that time a few years back I posted a thread about incineroar posted and image of their search number on a porn site and people got weird about it.

There was no "creep senator" the zoom call got hacked.

Also just insane to go on this tangent about lesbians and Pokemon.

[Shecky Fragbaum]

Resetera <or> Stormfront DLC  stealth drop from outta nowhere. MOBA letting the devs cook.

[Orange Juice Box]

Quick, let's take a lone internet account and google translation of Italian restaurant owners (known for their composure) at face value as fast as possible.  It's not as if Italians or those in Europe have an anti-semitism problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_21st-century_Italy#Selected_acts_of_antisemitism

/rant


Actually, Italy does more to fight anti-semitism than the USA.

In early 2024, Italian police raided the homes of 24 Italians under investigation for gathering at a restaurant in the Jewish quarter in Ferrara and praised Adolf Hitler. The group also threatened to kill those who interrupted their admiration for fascism

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hailing-hitler-mocking-anne-frank-italy-probes-24-over-racist-event-in-jewish-area/

Italian police on Wednesday raided the homes of 24 people who are under investigation for promoting fascism during a gathering at a restaurant in the Jewish quarter of Ferrara at which they lauded dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

The suspects are all residents of the northern Italian city in their 20s and 30s who attended a December 20 gathering where they passed out material that praised Hitler and Mussolini, and insulted Anne Frank and the Black Italian athlete Fiona May, said investigator Andrea Zaccone.

The suspects wore orange prison uniforms common in the United States to the gathering, but it wasn’t clear why.

I checked on my VPN and Resetera.com is blocked in Italy for anti-semitismo
 

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/doug-bowser-says-diversity-is-important-to-nintendo-it-was-in-place-years-before-people-starting-using-the-dei-acronym-and-it-will-stay-in-place.1180596/page-2#post-139482858

User banned (2 weeks): Dismissing concerns of representation

Good statement from Bowser.

I knew ERA would find a way to turn this into something negative.

era 'progressivism' in a nutshell tbh - its more important to make an inauthentic Forspoken type character that people don't want and won't buy into, than to hire real people to make things they enjoy and be treated well as employees.

Nintendo make Zelda and Mario games you can’t just fucking drop a black person in there and be like “job done”, do you even know Nintendo IP you dumb cunts

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Blueballs is my favorite poster.

[Besticus Maximus]

Echoes gets sexual gratification from people comforting him for not being a good enough lesbian, which is absurd, but evidently so

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/digital-foundry-tests-ultimate-engine-tweaks-unreal-engine-ini-file-mods-that-supposedly-improve-performance-results-this-doesnt-do-anything.1181520/page-3#post-139550145

Wow, didn't expect that the wild aggressiveness of Oblivion PC Performance Thread would escalate to a literal digital pitchforks' crowd.



I will only say that not all the 363k people that downloaded my Oblivion Remastered tweaks alone (for free) and 4.700+ who endorsed it in less than 2 weeks are total idiots who've fallen for a placebo.

Same thing if you go back in the Comment sections of most of my other mods (especially FF7 Rebirth and Stalker 2 ones) and I'm not talking about the first pinned post, but like the last 10 pages of those sections at least.



I also already uploaded 3 videos where the difference for Oblivion was actually noticeable, one for a potato PC and two for the same super high end PC here (all not done by me to avoid being called as biased)

Like also said in the other thread I tried to warn Alex he was testing an unstable version of Oblivion modded .ini which I was able to fix only later (with v3.1) when he already recorded the Direct.



Too late, so I will leave you with the pitchforks' party special and, like already promised even before the opening of this topic, I will never post or talk about my .ini mods ever again on this forum.




Have fun,

-P

[Besticus Maximus]

The interesting thing about that one is I've got no idea whether he's the crank or they are, great times

[Mask]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/doug-bowser-says-diversity-is-important-to-nintendo-it-was-in-place-years-before-people-starting-using-the-dei-acronym-and-it-will-stay-in-place.1180596/page-2#post-139482858

User banned (2 weeks): Dismissing concerns of representation

Good statement from Bowser.

Yet they are last among the 3 when it comes to showing the same in their games.

Where them non-white protagonists at tho

I knew ERA would find a way to turn this into something negative.

How on earth does THAT warrant a ban... oh wait, guess he went against some sort of nebulous stance

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile Ted The Larian Fan is getting bodied -

My Rogue is a Swashbuckler, so stealth isn't really her forte. She's more of an evasion tank/one on one crit monster.

I remember you from the OT. For some personal reason you really, really hate the combat encounters. Honestly that's okay. But blasting the game for your issues feels weird.

I mean that's the issue. Not everyone playing BG3 is a CRPG vet or a Larian vet. And some people like me hated both of the Divinity games because of their overreliance and over-focus on massive hordes of ranged enemies and "better figure out environmental interactions or you're gonna die, lol" encounter setups.

The fact that you're still trying this after the infamous thread where it turned out that your hatred of larian and "swen's puzzle design" came from trying to brute force through dos1 without ever recruiting a party member is really shameless

Personally, if I'd hated both Divinity OS games, I would have approached BG3 with a 100ft barge pole - were you expecting them to completely change their approach? I can understand getting wrapped up in hype, but you played their previous games, you know their approach.

......................why the fuck am I wasting energy trying to converse with that viewpoint 🫠

holy lol

your entire concept of "trick" in RPGs is anything more complicated than bumrushing the main story while mashing the attack button and then repeatedly insisting that the vast majority of players who figured out how to navigate a basic menu and equip things are all weird turbo nerds

It's the way you speak about the developer and the games, and as I have been reminded I now remember getting bristled previously by how you have spoken that way. We don't see eye to eye, thats fine and we can go on with our day.

lol no wonder they seemed familiar. What an embarrassing read that was back when they made those posts and I see nothing has really changed.

 

Poor Ted

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baldurs-gate-3-sucks.1180242/page-11

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

yeah really feeling like a failure feminist right now.

Feels like a parody almost.

They seem like their on the verge of another crashout. Instead of being happy they were seeing patterns where there were none, they throw a pity party over being baited. While it's true they should probably take this chance to reflect why something so minor sent them into a rage, I sincerely doubt this will happen.

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If I had an era burner account I would make a thread about my favorite way to kill wasps right about now.

[Orange Juice Box]

Spoiler-sensitive watchers of The Last of Us Season 2, avert your gaze!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-hbo-series-season-2-game-spoiler-ot-too-good-to-be-gone-open-game-spoilers.1160046/page-95#post-139523145

Finally watched episode 3. Yeah, I'm not feeling all these changes. The time skip sucks and led to a lot of telling and not showing. The council meeting sucked. The only part that landed was Ellie visiting Joel's house, as abridged as it is. I appreciate them doing more with Dina, but they are really dropping the ball with their approach to Ellie/Dina. Where's the tension??? Mazin clearly doesn't know how to write sapphic romance and whoever directed needed to do better with the tent scene because the script wasn't up to task. I know Ellie is supposed to be closed off but the handling of Dina asking her about her first kill was pretty shit. Jesus, let Ellie crack a little.

"Lesbian" continues to be a dirty word. 😮‍💨

This might be one of the best examples of someone on Era starting from a conclusion and working backwards, explicitly because this is all addressed overtly and clearly in the following episode.

"They're afraid of sapphic love!" Actually, you're just a peabrained gooner.

I'm glad someone is monitoring that thread.  I cntrl+f'd for "zion," and "jew," because apparently the game and show has either a very pro or negative opinion of them.  Found nothing but it's Era.  Sooner or later they will blame the jews or asians.


Edit:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-not-so-hidden-israeli-politics-of-the-last-of-us-part-ii/

How was this game/TV show not banned?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/years-later-and-the-jokes-about-cuphead-and-dean-takahashi-are-even-more-annoying-than-ever.1178532/

Yeah, hate this stuff. Someone universally hating journalists in any field, including gaming, is always a red flag. Usually speaks to someone who bases their views on reactionary headlines

 

In a forum that constantly complains about the media helping Trump or excusing Israel.

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

If I'm recalling correctly, there was a thread about the Israel V. Palestine symbolism, and perceived Israeli bias, in the game's story. But Cunting Eden shat up the thread hollering about racism against Druckmann, and B-dubs closed it. Later, there was a member's only thread where B-Dubs more or less confirmed the topic was verboten, as Druckmann had an Era account and the entire subject was "antagonizing an era member" or some BS mental gymnastics. I believe quotes or screencaps were posted in this thread but it was a while back.

[Cheststrongwell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-americans-still-don%E2%80%99t-know-how-and-when-to-wash-their-hands.1181538/

Most of these dirty cunts don't even know how to properly clean their filthy assholes, and they're over here tut-tutting about Americans not washing their hands after leaving the coffee shop.

[FUME5]

Not a lot of mutual aid going on in here tbh

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zionists-are-not-welcome-here-naples-restaurant-asks-israelis-to-leave-after-harassment-received.1180995/page-2#post-139548519

These Zionists act with complete impunity. It's disgusting, if you want to know how Nazis got away with their shit just look at Israel and it's supporters. Modern day Nazis.

Just want to say ERA keeping this absurd ban message well into this genocide is utterly pathetic. Actively whitewashing Israel crimes.

Agreed, wtf are the mods on

User banned (1 month): deeply inflammatory accusations toward staff

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/modern-villains-consistently-given-sympathetic-traits-is-a-pet-peeve-of-mine-only-in-real-life-are-people-boring-enough-to-just-be-evil-assholes.1180887/page-3#post-139520220

Depends on the setting, tone, circumstances and the quality of the writing for me. I personally REALLY dislike it when Disney tried to pull this with Maleficent because it took so much away of what made her fun and great as a villain.

And as pointed out in the thread, the other big issue is that you can end up with a villain that is way more sympathetic and relatable then the supposed heroes, especially in the villain is actually TRYING to make the world a better place while the heroes are status quo warriors.

This actually relates to two things that REALLY bothers me in fiction, the first is that people who suffer from trauma or mental health issues in fiction, especially in comics are to be portrayed as villains or monsters, where the trauma feels like fluff to make them look more "eviler" who deserve to be thrown into outdated ableist ideas of mental intuitions like Arkham Asylum. Ignoring the fact that the opposite is more often true, we're usually the VICTIMS of violent crime; it frustrates me that people with severe trauma, neurodivergence or mental health issues etc rarely get to be the hero, we're nearly the villain or a victim to be pitted.

The second (and something depressingly common real life) when it comes to these types of villains; the treatment of their victims.

Because so often the victims get the short end of the stick and vilified if they not forgive them for their past actions, if they feel uncomfortable around them, don't accept their apologies; or worse will become villains themselves or be revealed to be bad people to downplay the villain's past actions or if you're a woman, suddenly because the person who wronged you love interest (Shonen Jump REALLY pisses me off with how much is does the last two).

And it's so damn common, one just has to look at bullying episodes of Children's media to see how insidious it is. "Oh he had a bad childhood!" "He was bullied himself" etc etc "So YOU are in the wrong for calling him out or fighting back when NO ONE told him to knock it off!" and other victim blamey shit. As someone who was traumatized by extreme bullying, I was pressured and shamed into accepting apologies from bullies who absolutely didn't mean it and went on back to physically assaulting and throwing homophobic slurs at by Teacher who were more happy to blame victims then punish bullies (aka assaulters but we downplay when its kids for some reason).

And quite bluntly no, victims has no obligation to forgive the actions of villains or those who wronged or abused them, you don't get to dictate other people's trauma. I despise people who shame Leia for not forgiving Anakin/Vader, or the treatment of Sakura in Naruto, or people who vilify Carol for not forgiving Rogue for what she did to her etc etc.

If you actually are trying to redeem yourself, you'd accept the consequences of your past actions, understand that you did wrong by people and to DO better, not just peer pressure, bully and tell your victims off for not forgiving you just because you said you were "sorry", you shouldn't be expecting the people who wronged you to reward you (like so many writers and real-world scum think), to be blunt that makes it very clear you were never redeemed in the first place.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-expedition-33-just-show-us-that-people-still-are-opposed-to-jrpgs-when-they-have-anime-aesthetic.1175487/page-31#post-139508766

User Banned (1 Month): Xenophobic Generalization; History of Dismissive Commentary

I can't speak for Xenoblade as I haven't played them (yet) but it's an interesting thing to bring up. For one thing, of course media from a specific culture will have tropes and styles unique to that culture. It's fine to like them as much as it is to dislike them. But as always there's a difference between "I can't really get into the directing in this" and "this is bad". I've seen a lot of people approach anime and JRPGs as if they should adhere to the sentiments of American productions. That's an argument that has unfortunately been co-opted a bit by angry boys who don't like it when fanservice is criticized but I'm obviously not talking about that. Because the actual core of that argument does have merit. I feel like a lot of people online, especially people let's say 30 and above, would treat works from most other countries with the understanding that they will be influenced by the way writing and art was developed in that culture. These people will then turn around and make fun of anime for "being too anime".

And when it comes to writing, this is ESPECIALLY true when the work is being translated. Because now you have a piece of writing that contains things that worked in one language being localized into a different language and there's so many nuances to that. But you have to be willing to accept and understand that a translated Japanese script is never going to sound like a native English script. Even if the localization is very loose and not literal, it'll still have a unique vibe of being translated from Japanese. It can't be helped. (lmao)


Ahh, the great Frieren push of Page 28. How nostalgic.

I'll try to do this the best I can in posting-form, so here's my thoughts while rewatching the beginning of Xenoblade Chronicles 3:

13:51 why are these so-called soldiers all just running around the field without any care for their life, even though the narration just told us how much they desire life? There's no organized structure, just running against each other. Pretty dumb.
14:02 what is that goofy animation there? Looks like a weird dance move, lol
14:31 there's a silly looking guy in all red standing on the big machine, are we supposed to just accept that?
16:20 okay, people communicate during battle, but could they sound like it's a more serious situation please? They sound way too calm and relaxed here.
22:21 "Lanz, the front line!" why is he shouting like Lanz WASN'T standing directly next to him here? Awkward
22:48 enemies shooting at each other, ok, this is a common situation, but why are these 2 groups literally standing there, entirely static? Looks weird
28:10 The entire "victory is ours" scene and how it transpires, it comes off as so stiff and dorky. Like, you guys just won a life-or-death battle, could you display both more exhaustion AND relief? And anyone who's seen a bunch of anti-war movies knows that soldiers wouldn't react like that. It's such a childish, game-i-fied version of a war victory.
29:00 Nonsensical, hard cut to Melia, where we see the silliest fast-growing of humans inside capsules ever. This cutscene was not needed here, it just cheapens everything

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And now you can watch this entire almost 3 hours-long playthrough of E33 and you'll have none of the above. I know some of you will call the above "nitpicky", but in its sum, it just makes games like Xenoblade Chronicles 3 look worse and cheaper, and I'm not talking about budget, but quality. Meanwhile I'm watching the beginning of E33 and people there talk like ... actual people. Animations look natural. Voice-acting always suits the occasion. And neither environment nor npcs ever look generic or empty, everything is filled with detail and unique interesting visuals. And if you want to argue with "well, Monolith Soft didn't have a huge budget", try again considering who made this JRPG. Their budget was probably smaller.

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Again, "you're nitpicking" will be what this posting of mine is gonna be dismissed with, but I really see it as a key differentitator between Japanese-made JRPGs and western games in general: Western games more often pay attention to detail. E33 certainly does. Meanwhile Japanese-made JRPGs leave out things, feature cheap animation, empty and ugly environments, same-looking npcs, bad sound-mixing, weird animation, awkward pacing, etc., and we're supposed to gloss over this. And we do so, because we're used to it. But most people are not, hence why most people are notb uying JRPGs. We're often discussing why JRPGs aren't pulling those 10+ million numbers and this right there is part of the answer. You have ONE JRPG-franchise that manages to reach those hight numbers, and that's Final Fantasy thanks to a mix of outstanding graphics and brand recognition. But not other JRPG-franchise comes close to these numbers. And we really don't need to keep wondering "what do JRPGs need to do to become more successful?" as long as we keep ignoring the flaws of these games. Ffs, why did Naughty Dogs' games, be it Uncharted or TLoU, become so popular? Because they decided to present human characters that behave like human characters and games that were polished to the end and back again. These are qualities that people recognize, whether they can put it in words or not. And that's why we have 2 seasons of a TLoU-tv show and will probably never have a (western made) tv-show of Xenoblade, Tales of or Persona. E33 follows the school of thought of Naughty Dog and that's an objectively good thing in this case.