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

[Alpacx]

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

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

Complaining about the forum cops 4 times worse than comparing Israel to the Nazis.

Sounds about White #ACAB

[Rendle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zionists-are-not-welcome-here-naples-restaurant-asks-israelis-to-leave-after-harassment-received.1180995/#post-139523679

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Generalization, history of inflammatory and deeply insensitive commentary

I lived in Thailand for years. I met a lot of young Israelis just out of their IDF stint. They were invariably disgusting people, rude and arrogant, and really nasty to the servers and staff at the resorts.

Why is he banned but not the guy he responded to?

Also how surprising that this "anti-zionism" has slowly turned into hating Israelis themselves

They're very forward thinking, i'm sure a lot of them hated Israelis as a people even before it was the trendy thing to do.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Nobody could adequately explain why cyberpunk is taboo. It’s taboo because it’s taboo. They’re in too deep to admit otherwise.

Well you see there is a trans lady in the game and she has a truck that she calls Beast. The devs obviously called the truck Beast as a way to imply that the trans character is a Beast, which is a commonly known slur used to negatively refer to trans people. This is definitely a true fact and not just some bullshit made up to justify the pre-release rage.



You can feel the genocide emanating from this thing.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered-pc-performance-thread.1170327/page-28#post-139536429

I'm also very glad and proud the mod is still the #1 mod on Nexusmods for Oblivion Remastered (out of 2.000+ mods already available)

The Nazi website?

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zionists-are-not-welcome-here-naples-restaurant-asks-israelis-to-leave-after-harassment-received.1180995/#post-139523679

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Generalization, history of inflammatory and deeply insensitive commentary

I lived in Thailand for years. I met a lot of young Israelis just out of their IDF stint. They were invariably disgusting people, rude and arrogant, and really nasty to the servers and staff at the resorts.

Why is he banned but not the guy he responded to?

Also how surprising that this "anti-zionism" has slowly turned into hating Israelis themselves

What I’m getting from that exchange is these guys like to frequent Thailand. Big Kickboxer fans!

[benji]

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.

Don't worry, the Christian God is sending them to hell for their ignorance about Jesus or whatever.

[Potato]

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

A PC mod developer is the closest person they have to actual industry people and they even managed to drive them off the site.

[Potato]

Not a lot of mutual aid going on in here tbh

Yeah, but Bluebell stopped by briefly, so there was plenty of mutual AIDS!

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zionists-are-not-welcome-here-naples-restaurant-asks-israelis-to-leave-after-harassment-received.1180995/#post-139523679

Why is he banned but not the guy he responded to?

Also how surprising that this "anti-zionism" has slowly turned into hating Israelis themselves

They're very forward thinking, i'm sure a lot of them hated Israelis as a people even before it was the trendy thing to do.

Dare I say it...they always knew there was something off about those Jews!!!

[Potato]

Nobody could adequately explain why cyberpunk is taboo. It’s taboo because it’s taboo. They’re in too deep to admit otherwise.

Well you see there is a trans lady in the game and she has a truck that she calls Beast. The devs obviously called the truck Beast as a way to imply that the trans character is a Beast, which is a commonly known slur used to negatively refer to trans people. This is definitely a true fact and not just some bullshit made up to justify the pre-release rage.



You can feel the genocide emanating from this thing.

Cancel Eric Bana for transphobia!!!!

[benji]

I know a lot of you guys claim that Zionists are humans but have you ever considered just how much they aren't like us?

And would you still think that if media hadn't been only ever showing you how villains are cool?

[Polident]

I know a lot of you guys claim that Zionists are humans but have you ever considered just how much they aren't like us?

And would you still think that if media hadn't been only ever showing you how villains are cool?

Transformers 3 was about Sentinel Prime trying to colonize Earth and wipe out the population to rebuild Cybertron. It even showed how a human capitalist, Patrick Dempsey, was complicit in the plan. Yet this great art was shunned. Worse, they called Optimus a war criminal for executing Sentinel with a giant robot shotgun. Libs gonna lib.

[benji]

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

 

I reject the proposition that video game writers or any opinion-havers are inherently journalists and should therefore be respected.

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

Amusingly, Dean's an exception. Though he's a business reporter in the first place. He still should be mocked for this hilarious performance. And for not knowing you could level up in Mass Effect. And for thinking Warhammer 40K was a rip-off of Gears of War. Also any other dumb shit he's done beyond this.

[benji]

Also, the idea that it's reactionary to "mock professionals for displaying incompetence at their claimed expertise" makes me wonder why the forum is so harsh on AOC or Biden or Trump.

[benji]

The whole thing surrounding Dean Takahashi made it impossible to find any of the jokes at his expense funny. In a perfect world, his long, continous failure to perform one task in the tutorial could be something to poke fun at. After all, I've gotten into a rut on games I've replayed so many times where a simple task I could do in my sleep took me multiple minutes (was playing Super Metroid and couldn't wall jump to save my life for multiple minutes, despite never having that problem through my previous dozens of playthroughs), and it can be funny to see such a failure go on for a comically long amount of time. Unfortunately for Dean, since he was part of a video game publication, his video was used as ammo to show that video game journalists are not real gamers, and it was just ridiculous from the get go.

Now in 2025, I can be watching relatively new videos on Cuphead or difficult video games, and nothing kills my interest when the person in the video has to reference Dean in the tutorial level. There I'd the occasional joke where the person gets to that dash section of the tutorial and when getting past it, jokes how they got through the hardest part. While overplayed, it's harmless enough. The ones I have problems with is people doing that section or playing hard games and going "Well of course I was able to do that. I'm a gamer, not a game's journalist", or something to that effect. It's stuff like that which will make me instantly close the video.

While it's not everywhere, it still manages to pop up from time to time. Anyone else here randomly come across something making reference/jokes about it? Am I just being overly sensitive to what is ultimately just a joke about something coming close to a decade old, or do you also get annoyed at it as well?

The whole "games journalists suck at video games" caused by this and the Doom 2016 video, just soured things so much for everyone. Fucking reactionary gamergaters.

It should just be immortalized as a silly video of a really bad player at a video game. Unfortunately, outside context makes it harder to enjoy it that way, and when people reference it, the way it comes across is nebulous at best.

This all sounds like a you problem. Like normal.

Most of the thread actually comes agrees. Then the OP comes back to show how much respect he has for game journalists:

Damn, looks like the joke is on me going by the bulk of responses here. At least in the fact that I've been unlucky in watching videos with references to Dan and many here haven't thought about the incident until just this thread popping up randomly. I know internet law dictates I double down in hopes of looking better, but I will take the L gracefully.

Still think the overall reaction was bad and the rest of my feelings stand. Not surprised that there are actual, good reasons to go against Dan and the outlet he worked for, but as per usual, the people who claim to care about ethics ignore credible and actual ethical breaches.

Gold, Jerry:

Stuff like this is so frustrating about movements like GamerGate. It is a funny video. And even if the guy reports more on business, and doesn't write reviews, it's still kind of ridiculous that someone who's been in the industry that long is THAT incapable of passing a simple tutorial.

Obviously he doesn't deserve to be "burned at the stake." But I really don't see the harm in laughing at ridiculous videos like this one and the infamous Polygon Doom one. But when these movements start harassing people, or using it evidence of whatever corruption conspiracy they believe in, it looks questionable to poke fun at them, even if you don't share intentions with the shitty people.

 

Am I just being overly sensitive to what is ultimately just a joke about something coming close to a decade old, or do you also get annoyed at it as well?

In my opinion yes. Kids at my school laughed at it when it happened, it was just funny. You're only making yourself stress over nothing if you always have to evaluate every funny event to see if it can be interpreted in a way that gives ammo to people you argue online with.

This guy sounds like a fake feminist.  

The whole GAME JOURNALIST DIFFICULTY nonsense as a whole is what bugs me more, and crap like that stupid video did not help the perception.

We need more videos of known game journalists just absolutely smashing a difficult game.

Agreed.

It wouldn't change anything.
People see what they want to see, especially if they have to completely ignore reality to do it.

Game journalists are good at games, certainly better than any dipshit chud that's for damn sure.
It's why so many fuckheads latch onto some random Cuphead or Doom video from nearly a decade ago, because it's all they have. God forbid they'd challenge their own narrative by acknowledging the hundreds of thousands of instances of journalists being good at the games.

Wow, that's a lot of instances!

But yeah, you're right in that chuds have to desperately cling to any dumb culture war 'win' because they have so little (and most of them are actually nonsense if you look into them)

lol dumb chuds always losing what a bunch of idiots

I know quite a few journalists. They're MASSIVE gamers. They might not play what you play, but I can assure you they are all huge video game fans.

 

It's even more ridiculous when you realize that Game Journalists are the only ones who still get to play bigger games without having a complete guide available on Day one that will tell you how to deal with that difficult puzzle you're dealing with.

Everyone else can quickly look up a guide, written by that "incompetent games journalist*

 ...is it 1995 again?

[HaughtyFrank]

Nobody could adequately explain why cyberpunk is taboo. It’s taboo because it’s taboo. They’re in too deep to admit otherwise.

Well you see there is a trans lady in the game and she has a truck that she calls Beast. The devs obviously called the truck Beast as a way to imply that the trans character is a Beast, which is a commonly known slur used to negatively refer to trans people. This is definitely a true fact and not just some bullshit made up to justify the pre-release rage.



You can feel the genocide emanating from this thing.

Cancel Eric Bana for transphobia!!!!

lol so there's actually a far bigger precedent of referring to cars as Beasts than it somehow being a trans slur that no one has ever heard about

[jooseloose]

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

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

Not just inflammatory, deeply inflammatory

[xiceman191]

It will never cease to amaze me how you can be a Nazi/chud/gamergater just for expecting someone who reviews or covers media to be able to participate in the media they cover.

[Nintex]

Literally ass burning inflammatory 

[Potato]

Well you see there is a trans lady in the game and she has a truck that she calls Beast. The devs obviously called the truck Beast as a way to imply that the trans character is a Beast, which is a commonly known slur used to negatively refer to trans people. This is definitely a true fact and not just some bullshit made up to justify the pre-release rage.



You can feel the genocide emanating from this thing.

Cancel Eric Bana for transphobia!!!!

lol so there's actually a far bigger precedent of referring to cars as Beasts than it somehow being a trans slur that no one has ever heard about

If you drive an older or larger car, you call it "The Beast" in Australia. 

That's the law.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pro-palestine-protestor-calls-aoc-a-war-criminal-regarding-gaza-and-is-escorted-out-of-queens-townhall.1180425/page-9#post-139496943

User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing Concerns of Genocide

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.

Naturally, the guy pushing back against Nep in the AOC thread gets banned days later when the posters have all moved on.  Can’t debate the facts so resort to hostility and outright silencing, typical resetera mod behavior.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/more-than-25-protesters-arrested-after-taking-over-university-of-washington-building.1182027/#post-139577490

I was watching the morning news here in Seattle on King 5 and they mentioned these protestors specifically supported the October 7th attacks. Is that actually true?

Edit: This was in the their statement:

"We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student Intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th, which shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world," wrote the protestors in the manifesto.

Highly doubtful. I haven't met anyone, no matter how pro-Palestinian, who supports actual acts of terrorism.

Oh My Fucking God.

STOP.

Every day is an October 7 in Gaza. That's what companies like Boeing are enabling. But instead we get concern trolling over October 7. The sheer racism to constantly prop up this up and ignore the sheer magnitude of atrocities that dwarf it in comparison. Anyone bringing up the October 7 comparison is not operating in good faith at this point in the conversation. There are tens of thousands of dead children and women, a famine and an ongoing genocide and people have the gall to drag this shit out again and again.

If you're going to go after me, please leave in my final sentence asking if it was actually true. I don't take what the media says at face value and was looking for confirmation one way or the other.

Your concern has been noted. Did you know that no food or supplies have entered Gaza since two months? That over a million children are at risk of an engineered famine?

I am well aware that what is happening in Palestine is a genocide and that the IDF and Israeli government should be drug into the international criminal courts and tried for their terrible actions. I was caught off guard by that statement in the morning news and was hoping to better understand what this specific group meant by their statements.

I'm sorry, I'm just mad at what mainstream media generally does - which is hijack the conversation to make it all about October 7. It's not specifically at you, but I did want to call out exactly what the intention is when they dredge this up again and again.

Meanwhile people in the Israeli government talk like this with zero fucking blips on Western media.

Far right Israeli minister says 'Gaza will be entirely destroyed'
The far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has been speaking at a conference in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ofra.

"Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to... the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries," he said.

I'm just trying to understand the intention from this initial paragraph in this specific group's post concerning their protest last night:

We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student Intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th,which shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world.

Is there some nuance or context I'm missing here?

[Boredfrom]

Article seems to imply this is because he is Israeli, rather than because he is a Zionist.

Edit: which I am inclined to disagree with. I doubt any Israeli artist that was explicitly against the genocide would have any issues booking concerts at these venues.

The gall of these assholes. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jonny-greenwood-and-israeli-musician-dudu-tassa-condemn-‘silencing’-after-uk-concerts-pulled.1182102/

[Superstar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/more-than-25-protesters-arrested-after-taking-over-university-of-washington-building.1182027/#post-139577490

I was watching the morning news here in Seattle on King 5 and they mentioned these protestors specifically supported the October 7th attacks. Is that actually true?

Edit: This was in the their statement:

"We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student Intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th, which shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world," wrote the protestors in the manifesto.

Highly doubtful. I haven't met anyone, no matter how pro-Palestinian, who supports actual acts of terrorism.

Oh My Fucking God.

STOP.

Every day is an October 7 in Gaza. That's what companies like Boeing are enabling. But instead we get concern trolling over October 7. The sheer racism to constantly prop up this up and ignore the sheer magnitude of atrocities that dwarf it in comparison. Anyone bringing up the October 7 comparison is not operating in good faith at this point in the conversation. There are tens of thousands of dead children and women, a famine and an ongoing genocide and people have the gall to drag this shit out again and again.

If you're going to go after me, please leave in my final sentence asking if it was actually true. I don't take what the media says at face value and was looking for confirmation one way or the other.

Your concern has been noted. Did you know that no food or supplies have entered Gaza since two months? That over a million children are at risk of an engineered famine?

I am well aware that what is happening in Palestine is a genocide and that the IDF and Israeli government should be drug into the international criminal courts and tried for their terrible actions. I was caught off guard by that statement in the morning news and was hoping to better understand what this specific group meant by their statements.

I'm sorry, I'm just mad at what mainstream media generally does - which is hijack the conversation to make it all about October 7. It's not specifically at you, but I did want to call out exactly what the intention is when they dredge this up again and again.

Meanwhile people in the Israeli government talk like this with zero fucking blips on Western media.

Far right Israeli minister says 'Gaza will be entirely destroyed'
The far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has been speaking at a conference in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ofra.

"Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to... the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries," he said.

I'm just trying to understand the intention from this initial paragraph in this specific group's post concerning their protest last night:

We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student Intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th,which shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world.

Is there some nuance or context I'm missing here?

Going full mask off and not ignoring October 7th, but flat out celebrating it is an interesting choice.

[Boredfrom]

Highly doubtful. I haven't met anyone, no matter how pro-Palestinian, who supports actual acts of terrorism.

Why you guys lie?  

I bet you if the initial celebration of the terror attack from ProPalestine organizations was met with condemnation from your own side, maybe you will have more mainstream support.

[DavidCroquet]

The "nuance" is that Palestine is under illegal occupation and an ongoing apartheid and the right to armed resistance is recognized. Meanwhile Israel continues to "defend itself" by committing to a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing while annexing land illegally to fit their Zionist ambitions.

You're so close DistantMantra!

Please get spineduke banned, please get spineduke banned, please get spineduke banned...

[Daffy Duck]

Cis sex is disgusting…needs to be wholesome wlw content then we’re cool

I got the point. My first post was "I'm not sure about the couple/sex stuff" I think it was too much for a trailer... I mean, I got it with the first sex scene. Do we need 5 more sex shot to make a point? I think that's not necessary and kinda ruins it for me. But this forum thinks I have real life problems lol. It's so dumb.

Looks amazing, but I'm not so sure about all that relationship/sex/couple life in the game lol it's so cringe.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/grand-theft-auto-vi-trailer-2.1181970/page-23#post-139581852

This is what they’re gonna complain about ad nauseam about GTA6, it’s too cis.

[Boredfrom]

Oh My Fucking God.

STOP.

Every day is an October 7 in Gaza. That's what companies like Boeing are enabling. But instead we get concern trolling over October 7. The sheer racism to constantly prop up this up and ignore the sheer magnitude of atrocities that dwarf it in comparison. Anyone bringing up the October 7 comparison is not operating in good faith at this point in the conversation. There are tens of thousands of dead children and women, a famine and an ongoing genocide and people have the gall to drag this shit out again and again.

Imagine saying this shit to US citizens during the heyday of 9/11 and the Irak War. How many people would have you convinced to your side? 

Also, fucking bitch ass crocodile tears about “everyday is October 7 in Gaza”, because that would imply you didn’t see this coming after Hamas decided to start a war they couldn’t win. 

“Boo boo ho, we didn’t expect a war so disastrous for civilians at Gaza… even thought we did… even before the ground invasion.”

[Boredfrom]

The "nuance" is that Palestine is under illegal occupation and an ongoing apartheid and the right to armed resistance is recognized. Meanwhile Israel continues to "defend itself" by committing to a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing while annexing land illegally to fit their Zionist ambitions.

You're so close DistantMantra!

Please get spineduke banned, please get spineduke banned, please get spineduke banned...

They are not going to ban him because he is an ex mod, they only ban ex mods if they shit on the staff.

[Boredfrom]

We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student Intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th,which shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world.

 

Holy shit, WTF?