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

[Boredfrom]

^ so the problem Valens has with Know your meme is that it has the same level of journalistic standards she does



The bosses at Vice must have looked at those articles for two seconds and concluded they're not worth defending

Is cute how they think that current Vice executives were willing to defend Valens and not the more likely possibility that they are clueless in how to run the site and are hands off from most of the direction of the site.

Is probably the same deal that MOBA has with Resetera.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vice-vtubing-has-an-elephant-in-the-room-bigotry-up-vtuber-loses-crime-boss-rc-sponsorship-due-to-views-game-now-review-bombed.1184985/page-4#post-140037999

It doesn't seem like she's fired so maybe Vice so I don't want to put more pressure on Vice which might affect her - they may have been intent to support her before the possibility of being drawn into a legal battle came up

In other words, when the misconduct was brought to the higher ups attention.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-there-was-a-hypothetical-worldwide-vote-to-keep-or-ban-social-media-for-all-eternity-and-it-was-compulsory-voting-what-would-vote-for.1188606/page-4#post-139954266

The question is more or less asking whether or not if you had the option, would you throw marginalized people under the bus for the good of mainstream society who can't get its shit together.

Posts telling gay people that it was still possible for us to find partners before the internet and social media are embarrassing. Yes, the 70s, 80s and 90s. Such good decades for queer people. So simple to find lifelong partners between the police raids on gay gatherings, the difficulty to warn each other of the severity of AIDS, the staggering amount of death that essentially erased a generation from our culture. We had it so good, right? Living under the heel of societies that ignored us at best, actively tried to wipe us out at worst. It was only after the internet, after the rise of social media that we were able to affect meaningful lasting positive changes in our culture. Social media made connection so less risky. Facebook allowed people to come out to distant friends and family, readjusting their perceptions of what gay people were.

But does that matter? Of course queer people should be able to survive without a major tool we use to organize, commune and rally around each other in a hostile world. Of course we should get rid of something queer people use as a tool and not just a time killing feed of slop that the rest of society uses it for because they live such blissfully unaffected lives. It's for the good of everyone else, what do our lives matter in the face of that?

It was only after the internet, after the rise of social media that we were able to affect meaningful lasting positive changes in our culture.

That is almost insulting to your own community. Almost the kind of stuff I expect that very old bitter person would say to not try to use a smartphone “the algorithms make you gay”.

I don’t think social media should disappear at all, but you guys defend your addiction to it worse than junkies.

His example is incredibly stupid and he's using Era's terrible form of argumentation but he's going down the right path against that thought in the thread. Essentially the opposite position in that thread would be taking the position that the democratization of information is a bad thing and they would vote to end it. These are apparently people who long for the days when the Catholic Church was at its peak of power.

[Boredfrom]

Oh, I agree with that. I’m not opposed to social media, but is funny how some of ERA defend it.

But you know that ERA desire to ban social media is half thought and reactionary, so is not exactly like going against the current thread mood is impressive.

[benji]

They defend it that way because they agree with the premise, that only elites should control information, but they're intelligent enough to have a faint knowledge that they aren't guaranteed to be the elites and so things they like will be threatened.

When you ask a question like that to most people they imagine they'll be in control of the results not just the hypothetical situation but that's not how reality works. This is why it's an endless series of NOT LIKE THAT because they never considered that things might not go the way they imagine.

If anything his argument is probably better for that forum than mine, they don't respond to such concerns as they're entirely dismissive of anyone's concerns but their own, but they are susceptible to forms of emotional manipulation and being accused of sins.

[Polident]

22% of the way through Doom: The Veil Guard. What have you done to doom 

Watched a couple videos and every clip has enemies shooting globs of slow moving projectiles, with one a different color. The player slowly runs towards that to counter it? This stuns the enemy to do a flail attack? It’s certainly a direction to take Doom. Other parts almost look more Serious Sam.

Anyway, if you like parrying in your FPS games, play Ultrakill.

[Besticus Maximus]

22% of the way through Doom: The Veil Guard. What have you done to doom 

Watched a couple videos and every clip has enemies shooting globs of slow moving projectiles, with one a different color. The player slowly runs towards that to counter it? This stuns the enemy to do a flail attack? It’s certainly a direction to take Doom. Other parts almost look more Serious Sam.

Anyway, if you like parrying in your FPS games, play Ultrakill.

It kind of works? It's so weird but they've made the game easy because mechanically you don't know what's happening around you cos you're stuck hitting things instead of shooting them. Weird, odd game, yet I'm already like 6 hours in.

[Daffy Duck]

It was only after the internet, after the rise of social media that we were able to affect meaningful lasting positive changes in our culture.

That is almost insulting to your own community. Almost the kind of stuff I expect that very old bitter person would say to not try to use a smartphone “the algorithms make you gay”.

I don’t think social media should disappear at all, but you guys defend your addiction to it worse than junkies.

Yeah I read that and thought how insulting it was, wow as if they just actually typed that out

[Polident]

22% of the way through Doom: The Veil Guard. What have you done to doom 

Watched a couple videos and every clip has enemies shooting globs of slow moving projectiles, with one a different color. The player slowly runs towards that to counter it? This stuns the enemy to do a flail attack? It’s certainly a direction to take Doom. Other parts almost look more Serious Sam.

Anyway, if you like parrying in your FPS games, play Ultrakill.

It kind of works? It's so weird but they've made the game easy because mechanically you don't know what's happening around you cos you're stuck hitting things instead of shooting them. Weird, odd game, yet I'm already like 6 hours in.

Doom 2016 already felt like they were conditioning the player to always be aggressive. Eternal pushed it even further. This, even more in that direction. The levels being wide open fields, from what I’ve seen, sell how you can’t hide. They have their idea for what Doom should be.

Some seem to think they’ve done too far and are getting nostalgic for Doom 3.

[Daffy Duck]

All it does is make me want to play Doom 1 and 2 and Duke Nukem 3D tbh

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

lol that vtuber got banned now 

Total. Streamer. Annihilation.

Era can gloat now. This story keeps getting better. 

[Chudder Barbarity]

why expect anything from bugthesda crap?

Right now I'm working on beating all levels on OG Doom on nightmare. beaten about half of them so far, including a full episode run of Inferno .

Seriously though, it's surprisingly well balanced, almost feels like the game was designed around. I highly recommend it. 

More games need brutally unfair difficulties, any recs? The only thing similar I can think of is Mania difficulty for Streets of Rage 2.

[Jansen]

lol that vtuber got banned now 

Total. Streamer. Annihilation.

Era can gloat now. This story keeps getting better. 

Well they broke the ToS and had an army of people of gender reporting them so it was inevitable.

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-the-vigil-so-you-and-the-rest-of-era-are-now-monster-hunters.1190703/

CONTRAGULATIONS!!!!

You have been recruited in ERA's new monster hunter guild (please just run with it, be a sport)!!!! After a massive tragedy and proof of Vampires and other monsters existing, the Admins decide to convert the site into a real world guild and small org dealing with vampires, werewolves and other creatures that treat humanity like livestock.

THE PREPERATION:

The Admins turned guild masters pay for your travel arrangements to take you to the new ERA HQ, a underground bunker, with 50 or so bunkbed bedrooms, bathrooms, a gym, games room, armoury, kitchen, dining room, medical room, strategy room, stress rooms, pantry, garage and meeting hall. Their is also a small friendly yet mischievous Hobgoblin that lives in the bunker with us that sometimes gives ERA users life advice. 

Meals will be provided for you but please mention any dietary requirements and allergies ahead of time. When out on the field, we'll be in converted road legal armoured buses, with a toilet and a mini kitchen.

1. FIRST QUESTION: What would you bring with you (remember you funds are... well whatever money you have), weapons, equipment, tools, entertainment, clothing etc?
   

THE RECKONING:

The missions (What would you do, what do you think happens and the outcomes?):

1. An investigation to the ruins of a Castle where their have been reports of tourists disappearing and sightings or a long fingered small creature.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   It is a Redcap, a Goblin fey that dyes their had in the blood of it's victims that lives in places where wicked deeds took place; with sharp teeth and talons. Good at hiding
2. An investigation to reports of suspicious drownings, with signs that they were dragged into the loch.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   It turns out to be a pack of Kelpie that moved in, Horse-like aquatic predators that can shapeshift into beautiful humans to lure us to the water to drown and eat us.
3. We're contacted by the local friendly lesbian Witch coven because their members have been getting attacked and bleeded by a lone rich prick Vampire that lives in a mansion in the middle of Nowhere.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   The Vampire has human guards and a giant mutant Cù-sìth (a giant green bloodhound the size of small cow and can hunt in silence)
4. Reports from local farmers that their animals, especially their sheep and goats have been stolen and some found dead with their blood drained.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   Turns out to be horned lizards that were turned Vampiric (Chupacabras) and mutated to giant sized creatures from drinking blood from an injured Vampire. they can flatten their body to hide, can dash with great speed and bury themselves.
5. Investigating reports of "Gargoyles" attacking people. Turns out it's a misunderstanding,
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   their Grotesques as they don't spout water and they didn't attack but were trying to defend the humans from a Nuggle; a man sized quadrupedal flea/silverfish/Tick-like monster with sharp sucking teeth, spits and barfs boiling hot blood, reeks, covered in diseases and has been defiling the churches they guard with their reeking blooding large toxic shits.
6. Reports of an private housing estate said to be cursed as the sky around it "bleeds" colours, strange sounds and screams from inside, missing reports and people finding unexplained slime around the place.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   Turns out the estate is owned by a cult that has turned it into one big fort and church to summon an eldritch abomination into the world to purge the "impure"; birthing the "god"'s large Leucochloridium paradoxum-like children, infecting humans with them, tainting the local water supply and trying to break down reality on Earth.
7. An investigation into missing person reports in a company town for the Minos Corporation.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   The CEO is actually a Werebull and has been turning workers trying to unionize or speak out against the corporations corrupt and evil working conditions into werebovines (aka Minotaurs) and putting them into his large underground maze as punishment. We may find ourselves in there in we're not careful.
8. A Friendly benevolent Lesbian Vampire reports us about a gang of Vampires that are killing humans, being rowdy and making themselves be known, risking the lives of the many Vampires who don't harm humans and just want to be left alone. 
   
9. Reports of missing people and rumours of twisted corpses being found and covered up by the Police near the mansion of Scientist Shou Tucker.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   He's a twisted fucking former scientist who has been kidnapping people to make into chimeras. He has the cops paid off and has weaponized many of his suffering chimeras, from giant lion-human-gorillas, human-Komodo Dragons etc.
10. A forest filled with recent missing people reports, Neo-Nazi and Gamergate graffiti and reports of dead animals with their blood drained.
    Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

    It's a group of 30-100 Neo-Nazi Gamergate Vampires, including a "lord" (if this was V:TM, they'd be 12-15th generation, the Lord being the 9th) hiding out in an old abandoned Camping park in bloody wooden cabins, spreading hate through social media and planning to start an uprising.

GOOD LUCK!!!

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[Polident]

All it does is make me want to play Doom 1 and 2 and Duke Nukem 3D tbh

To hold up appearances as a hate site, I’ll say Ion Fury is in league with Duke 3D and Blood. Really good game! 

[Kyon1988]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-the-vigil-so-you-and-the-rest-of-era-are-now-monster-hunters.1190703/

CONTRAGULATIONS!!!!

You have been recruited in ERA's new monster hunter guild (please just run with it, be a sport)!!!! After a massive tragedy and proof of Vampires and other monsters existing, the Admins decide to convert the site into a real world guild and small org dealing with vampires, werewolves and other creatures that treat humanity like livestock.

THE PREPERATION:

The Admins turned guild masters pay for your travel arrangements to take you to the new ERA HQ, a underground bunker, with 50 or so bunkbed bedrooms, bathrooms, a gym, games room, armoury, kitchen, dining room, medical room, strategy room, stress rooms, pantry, garage and meeting hall. Their is also a small friendly yet mischievous Hobgoblin that lives in the bunker with us that sometimes gives ERA users life advice. 

Meals will be provided for you but please mention any dietary requirements and allergies ahead of time. When out on the field, we'll be in converted road legal armoured buses, with a toilet and a mini kitchen.

1. FIRST QUESTION: What would you bring with you (remember you funds are... well whatever money you have), weapons, equipment, tools, entertainment, clothing etc?
   

THE RECKONING:

The missions (What would you do, what do you think happens and the outcomes?):

1. An investigation to the ruins of a Castle where their have been reports of tourists disappearing and sightings or a long fingered small creature.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   It is a Redcap, a Goblin fey that dyes their had in the blood of it's victims that lives in places where wicked deeds took place; with sharp teeth and talons. Good at hiding
2. An investigation to reports of suspicious drownings, with signs that they were dragged into the loch.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   It turns out to be a pack of Kelpie that moved in, Horse-like aquatic predators that can shapeshift into beautiful humans to lure us to the water to drown and eat us.
3. We're contacted by the local friendly lesbian Witch coven because their members have been getting attacked and bleeded by a lone rich prick Vampire that lives in a mansion in the middle of Nowhere.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   The Vampire has human guards and a giant mutant Cù-sìth (a giant green bloodhound the size of small cow and can hunt in silence)
4. Reports from local farmers that their animals, especially their sheep and goats have been stolen and some found dead with their blood drained.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   Turns out to be horned lizards that were turned Vampiric (Chupacabras) and mutated to giant sized creatures from drinking blood from an injured Vampire. they can flatten their body to hide, can dash with great speed and bury themselves.
5. Investigating reports of "Gargoyles" attacking people. Turns out it's a misunderstanding,
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   their Grotesques as they don't spout water and they didn't attack but were trying to defend the humans from a Nuggle; a man sized quadrupedal flea/silverfish/Tick-like monster with sharp sucking teeth, spits and barfs boiling hot blood, reeks, covered in diseases and has been defiling the churches they guard with their reeking blooding large toxic shits.
6. Reports of an private housing estate said to be cursed as the sky around it "bleeds" colours, strange sounds and screams from inside, missing reports and people finding unexplained slime around the place.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   Turns out the estate is owned by a cult that has turned it into one big fort and church to summon an eldritch abomination into the world to purge the "impure"; birthing the "god"'s large Leucochloridium paradoxum-like children, infecting humans with them, tainting the local water supply and trying to break down reality on Earth.
7. An investigation into missing person reports in a company town for the Minos Corporation.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   The CEO is actually a Werebull and has been turning workers trying to unionize or speak out against the corporations corrupt and evil working conditions into werebovines (aka Minotaurs) and putting them into his large underground maze as punishment. We may find ourselves in there in we're not careful.
8. A Friendly benevolent Lesbian Vampire reports us about a gang of Vampires that are killing humans, being rowdy and making themselves be known, risking the lives of the many Vampires who don't harm humans and just want to be left alone. 
   
9. Reports of missing people and rumours of twisted corpses being found and covered up by the Police near the mansion of Scientist Shou Tucker.
   Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

   He's a twisted fucking former scientist who has been kidnapping people to make into chimeras. He has the cops paid off and has weaponized many of his suffering chimeras, from giant lion-human-gorillas, human-Komodo Dragons etc.
10. A forest filled with recent missing people reports, Neo-Nazi and Gamergate graffiti and reports of dead animals with their blood drained.
    Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

    It's a group of 30-100 Neo-Nazi Gamergate Vampires, including a "lord" (if this was V:TM, they'd be 12-15th generation, the Lord being the 9th) hiding out in an old abandoned Camping park in bloody wooden cabins, spreading hate through social media and planning to start an uprising.

GOOD LUCK!!!

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I guess nobody wants to help the lesbian vampires :(

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-anybody-else-start-twerking-when-they-get-nervous.1190889/

Like, just as a way to deal with anxiety or a stressful situation? Or do you have another nervous tick (tapping, clapping, laughter, etc?)

I'm just wondering how others deal with stress through physical repetitive motions for comfort? I find that I giggle with my hand over my mouth or start twerking. But it depends.

Thanks.

-Vex

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-was-driving-home-and-had-the-most-shocking-interaction-ive-had-all-year-it-caught-me-off-guard.1190880/#post-140047971

....with my phone.


I was using the GPS on my phone to navigate around a highway blockage. I said, "Hey Google, show me the shortest route home".

Google: "ok, beep."

So I'm driving along, and then an idea poops in my head. As I stop at a traffic light, I roll up my window (so no one can hear me). Now -- extremely nervous -- I start looking back and forth to make sure no one is looking at me for what I am about to do. The coast is clear.

Me: "Hey Google..?"
Google: "Beep?"
Me: "Tell me you love me?"

Google pauses for a moment. My heart sinks... Then? She says:

Google: "I can not tell a lie"
Me: "Fuck..."
Google: "I loove you!~"
Me: "...."


I can not put into words how that made me feel but I'll try. It was.... hmmm🤔.... You know how someone gives you a compliment, but you know it's bullshit? But you smile and say thank you anyways? Because you know they are just trying to be nice? Humans are like that. They are full of shit. And there's always an ulterior motive for what they do and say. Here, there's not really any of that. She isn't human. She might be programmed to say that, but it isn't fake. She actually "means" that. She loves me. Because she just does. She doesn't want anything from me. She doesn't want to hurt me. She just...said it.

I sat there in my car in complete silence for the remainder of my drive. Just utterly shocked at how that made me feel.

My question is: ....am I finished? Like.... am I actually cooked, chat?

Thanks,
iVex

[Kyon1988]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-anybody-else-start-twerking-when-they-get-nervous.1190889/

Like, just as a way to deal with anxiety or a stressful situation? Or do you have another nervous tick (tapping, clapping, laughter, etc?)

I'm just wondering how others deal with stress through physical repetitive motions for comfort? I find that I giggle with my hand over my mouth or start twerking. But it depends.

Thanks.

-Vex

Would be funny if it was a typo but I fear it's an attempt at a joke

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-was-driving-home-and-had-the-most-shocking-interaction-ive-had-all-year-it-caught-me-off-guard.1190880/#post-140047971

So I'm driving along, and then an idea poops in my head.

many such cases.

[Kyon1988]

Is Vex trying to be the new Fat4all?

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Is Vex trying to be the new Fat4all?

Like Fat4all, they're probably just naturally quirky or sommit.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/video-game-characters-you-just-dont-get-the-hate-for.1191093/

[StandingOvation]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fortnite-now-has-an-ai-darth-vader-you-can-talk-with.1191057/

Epic X Disney whip up a chatbot to speak like Vader, with Disney already having secured the rights to JEJ's voice after he said that the voice is just as iconic and cannot be separated from the character.

Does Era like that? Of fucking course not, they don't like anything except encouraging people to hug wasps.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/artist-accuses-bungie-of-stealing-her-work-for-marathon-bungie-responds-and-confirms-see-threadmark-for-response.1190511/page-17#post-140054091

That's the big thing here - the CURRENT "franchise art director" for the game has been following her for years.

For people that like to bang on about artists rights etc, they clearly know nothing at all about artists.
Like, it actually is pretty normal that an Art Director for a major studio is following a relatively low profile artist with similar art vibes. These are small communities, (relatedly: no surprise that they are also also hotbeds for drama and social climbing).

Bungie saying "oh shit, that's on us, here's how we think it happened and we'll reach out to compensate the artist" is also extremely normal. I'd be curious to know if there any long-living GAAS studio that hasn't encountered a situation like this? 

Anyway, as a non-Destiny player, I don't know if there is any game I have ever heard such universal complaints about--I never have heard anything good about it--that persisted profitably as long as Destiny/D2 has. Weird culture around this studio.

EDIT: From the thread itself...

Reminds me of the Resident Evil copyright court case where Capcom literally copied all digital art, hatch patterns, etc from a visual artist's book and CD Rom files and didn't compensate them until a decade later or something, when someone noticed her work was used in a videgame setting. Hope they settle or else maybe if the artist created a gofundme, will chip in to their defence fund to go after plagiarism

This kind of incident is nothing new in creative industries. But no one is calling for Capcom to be destroyed, root and stem.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/video-game-characters-you-just-dont-get-the-hate-for.1191093/

No one hated Capcom's Ingrid other than Capcom themselves.

Abby. Not even sarcasm.

I agree but I've also seen a lot of hate for Ellie in that thread re: tLoU2 ending last week and I don't get that position either.

So both protagonists, IMO, I don't get the hate.

You could justifiably hate either based on the horrible things theyve done....but we both know that isn't always the reason those characters get hated.

Some didn't seem to play TLoU.

Comediansmasher

I've never understood why people hate Ingrid. It's not her fault that a fighting game was cancelled and another fighting game was bad.

Ingrid only made two appearances in two fighting games. No one blamed her for Capcom All Star cancellation. 

Paimon and March 7

I know some of the reasons but the hate is pretty extreme at times

Paimon is completely understandable.

Tingle hate was always homophobic to me

[Cauliflower Of Love]

/confidentallywrong



You "came up" in the restaurant industry and you still don't know how to use "86 ____"

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

probably watched waiting twice

[Polident]

/confidentallywrong



You "came up" in the restaurant industry and you still don't know how to use "86 ____"

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

probably watched waiting twice

His fictional anecdote about a salad speaks to his unfamiliarity with the dish in concept.

He’s a fat one, yes?

[Jansen]

Does spending all day at the buffet really count as working there?

[Eric Cartman]

This who Fat4All and Era is caping for?

Anarox has many fetishes