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

[Uncle]

Canas Renvall responds to Elf Needs Food Bad

If you don't think it applies to you, it doesn't apply to you. I didn't get offended when she talked about whites in general cause guess what, I know that she's right, lmao. We are doing what we can to stop white supremacy from hurting minorities but that doesn't mean we need special recognition for it. Get over yourself.

It's kinda the same thing as when people were getting offended by Canadians making jokes and being mad about Americans, whining that "it's not OUR fault don't be mad at US"

Guess what homeboy? You're right. It is not individually your fault, nor mine. But collectively, we own that shit because we have benefitted from white supremacy. We own that shit and we do everything in our power to undo white supremacy. And we don't get mad at the victims of white supremacy while we do it.

White supremacy isn't our fault, but dismantling it is our responsibility.

racists: "boy I hate indians, they're all stinky poo people"

random bystander: "wow, I'm indian and I don't stink, I put a lot of priority on personal hygiene and your generalization is hurtful"

racists: "lol if my statement doesn't apply to you then obviously I wasn't talking about you, was I?"

[Boredfrom]

He was also getting uppity for the Mario film of all things.

Most characters in the Mario games are not flat/one dimensional. They have a lot of depth and often have character arcs that span multiple games. The film just replaced their personalities with generic tropes.

Again play the games before you type in the thread.

I've been playing the games for nearly 40 years.

 Great, then you should know this.

Kind of difficult to discern if he was intentionally trolling or was the autism speaking.

Mario canon is consistent throughout and retcons are rare.

I don't even know what you are getting at lmao.

Nintendo just made Pauline a child to have a sad dad game with Donkey Kong.

[Boredfrom]

Bananza looks incredible, thought. I just wish they used the Kremlings again.

[Uncle]

But it's all just a justification for mass murder, there's no actual logic to it about the supposed problem. The only reason it seems like a debate is how deep Malthusianism is ingrained in our culture. People think everything needs to be controlled relentlessly by a single power (aka themselves), so they think it makes sense to have random people murder others until resource usage is "perfect" as defined by those random dudes. It's Bastiat's problem of the seen and the unseen. You can see it in that second Reddit link. The guy argues against increasing resources because of potential problems, never does he weigh the potential problems of killing half of everyone in one blip and never does he place any value on all those lives lost. He's trying to justify the murder ("we have to do something, this is something so we should do this"), not address the problem of resources.

This is why Darkseid is superior, no delusions about what is to be. All will be one within Darkseid. Darkseid is.

the dumbest thing about it all is that it's a boring "wish"

if you can do literally anything there are tons of other things he could've done that he wouldn't have had the power to do earlier, and also as long as you maintain that power, there's no risk of failure, you simply undo it and try something else

thing #1 he could've done which would've resolved all of his potential problems would be to snap half the universe while simultaneously erasing the memory of the event and those who were gone from all minds, as well as erasing memory of himself

another thing he could do rather than increasing all resources would be to add a new genetic response to all beings that makes them violently ill at the very idea of war, genocide, or the sight of gore

or make half of all populations infertile, without making it known or obvious that you've done so, so no one has to go through the pain of dealing with the death of loved ones and there's just mysteriously a much lower birth rate in the future that leads to his desired population equilibrium anyway

[benji]

Canas Renvall responds to Elf Needs Food Bad

If you don't think it applies to you, it doesn't apply to you. I didn't get offended when she talked about whites in general cause guess what, I know that she's right, lmao. We are doing what we can to stop white supremacy from hurting minorities but that doesn't mean we need special recognition for it. Get over yourself.

It's kinda the same thing as when people were getting offended by Canadians making jokes and being mad about Americans, whining that "it's not OUR fault don't be mad at US"

Guess what homeboy? You're right. It is not individually your fault, nor mine. But collectively, we own that shit because we have benefitted from white supremacy. We own that shit and we do everything in our power to undo white supremacy. And we don't get mad at the victims of white supremacy while we do it.

White supremacy isn't our fault, but dismantling it is our responsibility.

racists: "boy I hate indians, they're all stinky poo people"

random bystander: "wow, I'm indian and I don't stink, I put a lot of priority on personal hygiene and your generalization is hurtful"

racists: "lol if my statement doesn't apply to you then obviously I wasn't talking about you, was I?"

I think it's better because the rest of the post (and the later replies from others) goes on to clarify that actually, yes, they were talking about him and every white person.

[Uncle]

Nintendo just made Pauline a child to have a sad dad game with Donkey Kong.

I didn't even see this

coinciding with DK having a visual design much closer to his arcade original, they're going with a wreck it ralph vibe?

feels kind of blatant

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-bds-movement-calls-for-a-boycott-of-xbox-and-microsoft-gaming-products-over-its-parent-companys-complicity-in-the-genocide-in-gaza.1155057/page-18#post-141748935

I've been able to boycott all of the priority ones easily enough. The pressure targets I've nuked my accounts with all but one (stuck with Google for work, unfortunately, but I've gotten rid of it in my personal life). I didn't partake in any of the organic ones anyways, so that's easy lol.

People can do it. It sucks. Believe me, I've got two kids. Cancelling Disney+ was not easy. But at the end of the day, sending a message matters more than easy streaming or video games.

Fuck Microsoft and everything to do with them.

Indy was the last one I bought and it's the last one I will buy. Skipping DOOM was damn hard, but we gotta do what we gotta do to show support.

Well, except for staff on ResetERA.com who need the Microsoft money to keep rolling.

It's gonna be hard if they announce a new Spyro game anytime soon (which doesn't seem likely) but I'll power through

I was considering getting a Crash Team Racing tattoo because it's one of my favorite games of all time, but fuck if I want that on my body now. It fucking sucks that these monsters own so many franchises.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I'd wish for all trans folx to become their spiritual gender and for cis folks to be made into their opposite gender so they know how trans folx felt. 

[benji]

I'd wish for all trans folx to become their spiritual gender and for cis folks to be made into their opposite gender so they know how trans folx felt. 

The fact that we'll never get a cis genocide shows just how fucked up and cruel this capitalist hellworld is.

[benji]

Big THANKS to everyone on The Bire:

"Guys, I just want to tell you that I'm going to bed wearing boxers so tight my bulge would make a nun blush #slut"

Not a fetish...

It's not, it's just girl talk:

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Agatha at least stands by their tweets and doesn't delete them unlike some Marvel fans.

[Taco Bell Tower]

h3h3 annihilated

Jeff's profile is still factually incorrect:

Seriously, why is he so embarrassed to delete his tweets?  He pwnd h3h3 and fucking deletes it 

[Polident]

But it's all just a justification for mass murder, there's no actual logic to it about the supposed problem. The only reason it seems like a debate is how deep Malthusianism is ingrained in our culture. People think everything needs to be controlled relentlessly by a single power (aka themselves), so they think it makes sense to have random people murder others until resource usage is "perfect" as defined by those random dudes. It's Bastiat's problem of the seen and the unseen. You can see it in that second Reddit link. The guy argues against increasing resources because of potential problems, never does he weigh the potential problems of killing half of everyone in one blip and never does he place any value on all those lives lost. He's trying to justify the murder ("we have to do something, this is something so we should do this"), not address the problem of resources.

This is why Darkseid is superior, no delusions about what is to be. All will be one within Darkseid. Darkseid is.

the dumbest thing about it all is that it's a boring "wish"

if you can do literally anything there are tons of other things he could've done that he wouldn't have had the power to do earlier, and also as long as you maintain that power, there's no risk of failure, you simply undo it and try something else

thing #1 he could've done which would've resolved all of his potential problems would be to snap half the universe while simultaneously erasing the memory of the event and those who were gone from all minds, as well as erasing memory of himself

another thing he could do rather than increasing all resources would be to add a new genetic response to all beings that makes them violently ill at the very idea of war, genocide, or the sight of gore

or make half of all populations infertile, without making it known or obvious that you've done so, so no one has to go through the pain of dealing with the death of loved ones and there's just mysteriously a much lower birth rate in the future that leads to his desired population equilibrium anyway

The storyline in the comics was purposefully irrational. Even Thanos losing was explained as him subconsciously wanting to lose. The glove is so overpowered he’s fighting concepts and ideas.

Think they started at “kills half the universe” and tried finding a rational explanation. Because Zaslav forbid a character be a romantic who commits genocide for the manifestation of death.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/skill-up-just-posted-an-almost-2-hour-long-documentary-about-the-development-of-expedition-33.1224687/

Inmates trying to fight back

[Kyon1988]

They're talking about "Earth" so killing the 50% richest people on the planet is anyone making above, what, $15 a day?


 

In practice, the global bottom 50% captures a very small share of global income, just 8.5%. This means that, on average, the bottom 50% earns slightly less than one fifth of the global average, i.e. just €2,800 per year or €230 per month. 

edit: even lower (unless they're talking about the percentage of people who have the largest share of total wealth of the world, then it's a bit more optimistic for everyone outside of 1st world countries)

Only Malds will survive Thanos' wrath to post about the evils of capitalism on resetera.  Not even the dude from Baltimore who lives off the gov't would make it.

For a forum so obsessed with genocide it's odd they have no trouble with killing millions of people

[Yulwei v2]

entremet has to be one of them university research lab AI experiments or a CIA chat bot. the kind they drop into communities to scrape data from its userbase. no human is that inquisitive. my man cannot stop making threads asking inane questions

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/skill-up-just-posted-an-almost-2-hour-long-documentary-about-the-development-of-expedition-33.1224687/

Inmates trying to fight back

Hurr hurr Dino Crisis mod

Locking this thread as SkillUp is on the "Banned" list. You can ask about that potentially being changed via the "Constructive Community Discussion" thread.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/skill-up-just-posted-an-almost-2-hour-long-documentary-about-the-development-of-expedition-33.1224687/

Inmates trying to fight back

Hurr hurr Dino Crisis mod

Locking this thread as SkillUp is on the "Banned" list. You can ask about that potentially being changed via the "Constructive Community Discussion" thread.

Is that where the details of the Switch 2 Cyberpunk thread were hashed out? Or did mods (or their capitalist paymasters) decide arbitrarily and without input from the community that for this one thing only, it had been “long enough”?

[Besticus Maximus]

entremet has to be one of them university research lab AI experiments or a CIA chat bot. the kind they drop into communities to scrape data from its userbase. no human is that inquisitive. my man cannot stop making threads asking inane questions

He’s a research sock puppet, which is absolutely fine for some capitalistic reason

He posts his daily questions and then gets his verbatim for thematic analysis. Thing is, he must have access to some user data to get the demographics to make it all worthwhile. So you’d assume there’s a quid pro quo going on somewhere.

[Cheers]

But it's all just a justification for mass murder, there's no actual logic to it about the supposed problem. The only reason it seems like a debate is how deep Malthusianism is ingrained in our culture. People think everything needs to be controlled relentlessly by a single power (aka themselves), so they think it makes sense to have random people murder others until resource usage is "perfect" as defined by those random dudes. It's Bastiat's problem of the seen and the unseen. You can see it in that second Reddit link. The guy argues against increasing resources because of potential problems, never does he weigh the potential problems of killing half of everyone in one blip and never does he place any value on all those lives lost. He's trying to justify the murder ("we have to do something, this is something so we should do this"), not address the problem of resources.

This is why Darkseid is superior, no delusions about what is to be. All will be one within Darkseid. Darkseid is.

the dumbest thing about it all is that it's a boring "wish"

if you can do literally anything there are tons of other things he could've done that he wouldn't have had the power to do earlier, and also as long as you maintain that power, there's no risk of failure, you simply undo it and try something else

thing #1 he could've done which would've resolved all of his potential problems would be to snap half the universe while simultaneously erasing the memory of the event and those who were gone from all minds, as well as erasing memory of himself

another thing he could do rather than increasing all resources would be to add a new genetic response to all beings that makes them violently ill at the very idea of war, genocide, or the sight of gore

or make half of all populations infertile, without making it known or obvious that you've done so, so no one has to go through the pain of dealing with the death of loved ones and there's just mysteriously a much lower birth rate in the future that leads to his desired population equilibrium anyway

The storyline in the comics was purposefully irrational. Even Thanos losing was explained as him subconsciously wanting to lose. The glove is so overpowered he’s fighting concepts and ideas.

Think they started at “kills half the universe” and tried finding a rational explanation. Because Zaslav forbid a character be a romantic who commits genocide for the manifestation of death.

Zaslav is WB… 

But yes, this is what you get when you’re too embarrassed to tell a comic book story. You adapt and change it until it resembles nothing and is nothing, vapid. Endgame and IW are empty experiences that only sort of work the first time you see them.

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/skill-up-just-posted-an-almost-2-hour-long-documentary-about-the-development-of-expedition-33.1224687/

Inmates trying to fight back

Hurr hurr Dino Crisis mod

Locking this thread as SkillUp is on the "Banned" list. You can ask about that potentially being changed via the "Constructive Community Discussion" thread.

Weird how the Banned List isn't public. Would save mods some work if people knew the "banned" sources they're not supposed to post.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Send help

I probably won't.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/skill-up-just-posted-an-almost-2-hour-long-documentary-about-the-development-of-expedition-33.1224687/

Inmates trying to fight back

Lol insane.  Anyway, the video is really well done and eye-opening.  Clair is an incredible game.

[BIONIC]

You’ll never guess which wife buyer is trying to build up his dossier in community

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

I saw that recently locked thread about SkillUp's new video, and was recommended to bring it up here to relitigate SkillUp as a banned source. Tbh I haven't followed his work ever since he ran an anti-SJW channel with his brother, but some people in that thread said he seems fairly progressive (because of the company he keeps?), but I guess wanted to continue the conversation here. Someone even said he's one of the best independent gaming journalists? I wasn't aware he was anything more than a content creator? Does he have any journalism experience?

Perhaps the people who are calling for him to be unbanned could post some evidence of him taking ownership or apologising for his previous content? That would seem like a reasonable place to start.

Yeah, that's what I would like to know as well.
Unless you clearly distance yourself from your past which, if you really regret what you did or what company you kept, shouldn't even be that hard, I find it hard to take your turn serious. So I'm curious if they have talked about that.

Yeah, I haven't seen evidence that he's progressive, so I agree with proof being required.

I’d argue that there’s 5 years of videos of quality respectful content that should be enough. I could understand if it’s a difficult decision to publicly denounce your own family, he has to live with that in his personal life.

Whatever his personal politics are, I’ve seen none of that anti-SJW in the SkillUp channel, I’d argue that his acceptance by the rest of the industry should be enough (if you take a look at the Friends Per Second podcast guest list).

The podcast handled the Completionist situation as well as could be given the circumstances too(he was a co-host of the podcast, and left or asked to leave after that scandal).

His review videos would particularly be beneficial to the discussions around here, they typically show a lot of nuanced discussions about game design that can be lacking in other reviews.

The company he keeps doesn't necessarily tell if he's progressive. Joe Rogan has all kinds of people on his podcast, doesn't stop him from becoming a raging bigot. Did he ever denounce their channel together or disavow from brother's politics?

I don’t know to be perfectly honest, someone else here might know if he said something in the earlier podcasts.

I’m not sure what the specific criteria is around here for banning, I don’t personally expect the content creators/developers/industry professionals to all be of upstanding moral character, I’m sure many of my favourite games’s creators aren’t amazing people in reality(exceptions made though for the JK Rowling of the world, they shouldn’t be given a platform).

From what I gathered from other banned sources like Colin Moriarty, was that the major problem was that any discussion involving this persons’ content became toxic quickly, so the decision was to ban them. Am I correct that this is the main criteria for a ban?

What? No, Colin is banned because he's a right wing douchebag who literally used "Don't tread on me" as his profile picture on socials for years.

You aren't owed forgiveness or a second chance if you never apologize for the thing that made you a jerk (or worse) in the first place. In fact, it's even worse if you don't apologize, because then it actively looks like you don't care/know your fans will not care anyways.

Also, being friends with people isn't exactly a ringing endorsement either, people like ItmeJP are all over other content creators networks and podcasts, including his own with Cohh Carnage, and he's (JP) been accused of sexual harassment and grooming.

People within the video game influencer space aren't exactly the best judge of character.

It would also be handy to see examples of why he's actually banned here rather than vague reasons since there's still no official public list of banned media personalities on Era. Every time he is brought up in a review thread or wherever no one ever provided evidence of what he's actually done other than "yikes, SkillUp oof"

Agree I've yet to see good evidence for his content ban. It's just "he was on a chud channel years ago" guilt by association despite him not doing that for years (and no-one bringing up any actual statement of support he made, not to mention said channel being his literal brother likely makes things more complicated than it would be otherwise) and then bitch eating crackers bad faith readings of pretty ordinary things he's said more recently. While rarely "political", the times I've seen him go into anything touching on it in the last several years he's seemed pretty progressive or liberal at worst. So in the worst case it seems reasonable to assume that he was worse in the past and then got better, unless there's actual examples of him being a chud in the last few years (and I'm fine with him being on thin ice if something does happen like that).

Every other content ban I've seen is easily justified because examples of them being trash are super easy to find or they have a whole list of stuff (just see the Colin Moriarty stuff here). With SkillUp it's always just vague statements of things from years ago with no actual examples.

[Propagandhim]

You can tell there's a sense of exhaustion among normal users on there that they're tired of the nonstop patronizing and cult-like policing.  They're actually asking what the Suppressive Person did rather than just accepting it.    The first step into breaking out of a cult.

[Boredfrom]

Edit: Sorry, I just woke up. Wrong poster I was answering for.

[HaughtyFrank]

What? No, Colin is banned because he's a right wing douchebag who literally used "Don't tread on me" as his profile picture on socials for years.

I love when they can't even remember their real "crimes" and then only bring up harmless shit like this 

You aren't owed forgiveness or a second chance if you never apologize for the thing that made you a jerk (or worse) in the first place. In fact, it's even worse if you don't apologize, because then it actively looks like you don't care/know your fans will not care anyways.

What if you apologize and then admit you didn't mean it

Jokes aside, it's always amusing how personal they take this stuff. "Skillup thought Battlefield V's marketing was dumb. The violence and hurt he has caused is indescribable! He needs to apologize to ME."

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pierced-ears-era-what-made-you-do-it.1223550/

Hey Era, how ya doin'? You okay? Do you want to talk about ears?

The TL/DR is that I'm trans and 9 months into my transition. I'm 36, cis-man presenting, and I have never pierced my ears. That changes tomorrow! Very exciting. Very cool. Going to a tattoo shop to have it done, which will also be my first time in a tattoo shop.

I'm kinda freaking out?

The thing is, I'm not worried about the pain. After six rounds of laser hair removal, I can tank some pain on my face and head. I'm more hung up on ... shoving a needle through me to put a hole for aesthetic purposes. I don't know why. Something about it just kind of makes me cringe. And I know if I let the hole be, it will close up. This isn't even that permanent. And and! God forbid I'm this deep into hrt--I'm already changing my body in big ways that maybe aren't exactly "natural" without outside intervention. I got no problems with that. What are a few holes in my ears when compared to having hips now?

So to alleviate my worries, and because I'm actually curious: What made y'all pierce your ears? For me it's 100% chasing gender euphoria. I know plenty of cis men with their ears pierced, yet my lizard brain codes it as a very feminine thing to do, and I'm chasing those feelings with gusto. They make me happy.

What about you? And those with gauged ears can chime in too. Those things are neat. I'd never have it done, but i can't lie that they aren't cool.

Takes hormones without a second thought but getting ears pierced is scary. 

Not a metal illness.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pierced-ears-era-what-made-you-do-it.1223550/

Hey Era, how ya doin'? You okay? Do you want to talk about ears?

The TL/DR is that I'm trans and 9 months into my transition. I'm 36, cis-man presenting, and I have never pierced my ears. That changes tomorrow! Very exciting. Very cool. Going to a tattoo shop to have it done, which will also be my first time in a tattoo shop.

I'm kinda freaking out?

The thing is, I'm not worried about the pain. After six rounds of laser hair removal, I can tank some pain on my face and head. I'm more hung up on ... shoving a needle through me to put a hole for aesthetic purposes. I don't know why. Something about it just kind of makes me cringe. And I know if I let the hole be, it will close up. This isn't even that permanent. And and! God forbid I'm this deep into hrt--I'm already changing my body in big ways that maybe aren't exactly "natural" without outside intervention. I got no problems with that. What are a few holes in my ears when compared to having hips now?

So to alleviate my worries, and because I'm actually curious: What made y'all pierce your ears? For me it's 100% chasing gender euphoria. I know plenty of cis men with their ears pierced, yet my lizard brain codes it as a very feminine thing to do, and I'm chasing those feelings with gusto. They make me happy.

What about you? And those with gauged ears can chime in too. Those things are neat. I'd never have it done, but i can't lie that they aren't cool.

Takes hormones without a second thought but getting ears pierced is scary. 

Not a metal illness.

At least they're self aware about it. Though someone instantly felt the need to correct them on the "not natural" line

I got my ears pierced at age five-ish? My family's hispanic, so I was probably the oldest to get mine done considering I remember it. Also: HRT does change your body in a natural way. It's just more puberty. All of our boobs grow like that.

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pierced-ears-era-what-made-you-do-it.1223550/

Takes hormones without a second thought but getting ears pierced is scary. 

Not a metal illness.

An aside. Youths these days are all trying to look like Rob Lowe in St Elmo’s Fire and George Michael with the single dangling earring. Everything is cyclical. Invest in jnco jeans…?