Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Boredfrom]

I just want to eat some donuts:

[benji]

While that is true, although giving to Ukraine is weird since they're yts and so are oppressors, I meant that I just don't buy anything with real money in any F2P thing.

"But but but but the cooldown timers!!!" Okay, I'm done until then.

"But but but the exclusive items!!" Buddy, let me tell you about how understanding how probability works completely stops me from playing at casinos or in lotteries.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

is the above okay for Polident to see or will the yakuza get them? 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

While that is true, although giving to Ukraine is weird since they're yts and so are oppressors, I meant that I just don't buy anything with real money in any F2P thing.

"But but but but the cooldown timers!!!" Okay, I'm done until then.

"But but but the exclusive items!!" Buddy, let me tell you about how understanding how probability works completely stops me from playing at casinos or in lotteries.

based and f2p pilled

[Boredfrom]

Stay the fuck away from this game people. Shit was made to be addictive and make you spend money without even caring. It'll start slowly, but surely you fall into the trap.

Except that I simply refuse to spend money on any of this shit.

No! They will trick you to spend money! Even if the “whales” are the minority of gacha players, they are going to make you a gambling addict!

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Exactly why I'm warning people. I spent almost 2 thousand dollars in Genshin alone, even when it's a very F2P friendly game. Started with the package where I received premium currency and the BP.

Then I started getting packages to get pulls.

I don't play Genshin for almost 3 years now (mainly for it's shitty race representation). I can't recommend gachas no matter how F2P friendly they sell themselves as.

That explains it. babies first gacha player who probably started during covid and chased the meta instead of playing for fun.

[benji]

Exactly why I'm warning people. I spent almost 2 thousand dollars in Genshin alone
...
I don't play Genshin for almost 3 years now (mainly for it's shitty race representation).

[Boredfrom]

Exactly why I'm warning people. I spent almost 2 thousand dollars in Genshin alone, even when it's a very F2P friendly game. Started with the package where I received premium currency and the BP.

Then I started getting packages to get pulls.

I don't play Genshin for almost 3 years now (mainly for it's shitty race representation). I can't recommend gachas no matter how F2P friendly they sell themselves as.

That explains it. babies first gacha player who probably started during covid and chased the meta instead of playing for fun.

For fun? You are playing for fun? People maxed their credit cards to get Raiden Shogun and you are having fun?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

playing a chinese game and expecting them to care about race representation instead of what sells

y'all got to be crazy

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Exactly why I'm warning people. I spent almost 2 thousand dollars in Genshin alone, even when it's a very F2P friendly game. Started with the package where I received premium currency and the BP.

Then I started getting packages to get pulls.

I don't play Genshin for almost 3 years now (mainly for it's shitty race representation). I can't recommend gachas no matter how F2P friendly they sell themselves as.

That explains it. babies first gacha player who probably started during covid and chased the meta instead of playing for fun.

For fun? You are playing for fun? People maxed their credit cards to get Raiden Shogun and you are having fun?

spiral abyss was never that serious to begin with. 

[Boredfrom]

playing a chinese game and expecting them to care about race representation instead of what sells

y'all got to be crazy

There is furry representation in Zenless Zone Zero.  

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

furries get representation before trans and poc*

so sad 

*black folx, asians are not poc

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/passengers-at-u-s-airports-no-longer-have-to-remove-shoes-during-regular-tsa-checks.1238871/

Why didn't Biden do this? Too busy helping genocide?

[books]

Its possible China's beloved legendary Monkey King might be trans and just not know it yet.

[Boredfrom]

There is a black dude in Lycaon and Hugo backstory… is a thief.

[Boredfrom]

Psychological addiction isn't something you can say is just shrug off as outliers who develop problems. That targeting is built into the design, deliberately aka whales. Of course you can f2p or spend carefully, that is not the point.

But that is the thing, whales as a whole are the minority of the player base.

Is not like I don’t get your point about how assholish and predatory it is, but you guys talk about it like no person has the strong will to avoid these pitfalls and is making kids addicted to gambling.

I don’t even think is wrong hating these type of games, but the moralist discourse is genuinely annoying.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Horse racing is amazing. What's skeez about the horse girls? This shit is tame as fuck and the trainer / horse relationship is not even sexualized. 

[Boredfrom]

Ehhh most the horses have gigantic boobs and each pose they do in conversations is meant to make them jiggle as much as possible

 

What fucking game are you playing, my dude? 

Even their schoolgirl uniform is designed to be conservative as hell.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

edit: it’s an unspoken rule to never show these horse girls in sexual situations. Do not post top of the page hot anime horse girls.

Edit horse girls into this post, benji.

[books]

If the world exploded and that caused you change into a horse girl, what other horse would you make out with in an empowerment hlh way and not a equine pervert way?

I think Mr Ed, but he has to be trans.

[Tektonic]

Francis the Talking Mule is my representation

[Boredfrom]

Since when did movie discourse become like video game discourse lol

"This has to to hit a score of 90+ or else the DCEU is finished!"

Since MCU became a thing.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/superman-review-thread.1238643/page-12

[benji]

Psychological addiction isn't something you can say is just shrug off as outliers who develop problems. That targeting is built into the design, deliberately aka whales. Of course you can f2p or spend carefully, that is not the point.

Except I can shrug it off as outliers because they are outliers. That's what you do with outliers. That's what outliers are.

These guys will yell to nobody in particular how much they love sex work and nobody should ever criticize anything about sex work or being lewd in public. But don't you dare suggest they want to take things people enjoy away from them for "their own good" because "they know better" by pointing to outliers you're not allowed to "shrug off" for some reason. They going to target casinos? What about liquor? How about state lotteries? Those latter ones are really fucking insidious, the power of the state used to steal income from the poor to fund upper and middle class services. You want to see the racial demographics of the transfer? Of course you don't, back to wringing your hands about people enjoying themselves with the HIGHLY SEXUAL gacha games.

[wsippel]

When I first heard of Uma Musume, I was expecting pony girls. Needless to say, I was quite disappointed.

There is a black dude in Lycaon and Hugo backstory… is a thief.

Have you seen Ironheart?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Ehhh most the horses have gigantic boobs and each pose they do in conversations is meant to make them jiggle as much as possible

 

What fucking game are you playing, my dude? 

Even their schoolgirl uniform is designed to be conservative as hell.

Era is always against Asian games. If this were GTA they'd be all over it.

[Greatness Gone]

I can't tell from Ree's impressions whether or not they even really like Superman. Half of the praise is just basic platitudes like "this is a humanist work" or "this is the Superman we need in today's world". Literally what the fuck? No impressions on acting/cinematography/plot/dialogue/pacing basically?

[Tektonic]

so far it seems like
US critics: superman is actually battling trump guys 5/5
UK critics: superman is trash 2/5

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I can't tell from Ree's impressions whether or not they even really like Superman. Half of the praise is just basic platitudes like "this is a humanist work" or "this is the Superman we need in today's world". Literally what the fuck? No impressions on acting/cinematography/plot/dialogue/pacing basically?

AI bots

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-horse-girl-gacha-game-thats-taking-the-internet-by-storm-umamusume.1238784/page-4#post-142464792

I firmly believe this to be true: we will never have a kinder, more equitable society while this gooner gacha slop exists. The people who profit off of the industry where gambling addicts pay to get a png of a new fictional child slave to masturbate to must be gently, but firmly placed in mandatory work programs to feed the poor or something

Yeah, it's probably time to retire "gooner."

Sexualisation and predatory practices
But its anime
So ResetEra Has no problems with the game

"Sexualization is when female characters on the screen."

Yes because female racing like horses is "when female is on screen"
Get a grip

Does seeing women running excite you that much?

This game is the tamest shit and is still getting labeled gooner lmao. Touch grass weirdos.

Ya the guidelines on what they can do with the characters seems pretty strict.

If this is a gooner game then Azumanga Daioh is a gooner anime.

 stay mad.

Infinity Nikki is about taking the agency away from a woman and dressing her up like a doll but y'all ain't ready for that conversation.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

More community shenanigans. A post obviously referring to Nepenthe:

As Fat4all correctly pointed out, being more specific in what we write here is only inviting trouble. I've had issues with a specific staff member's post but usually just scrolled by. Once, in a politics thread (because of course lol), that staff member was arguing with a bunch of people, was clearly unfamiliar with some of the basic stuff discussed in that thread but was smug to everyone anyway. I quoted one of the posts that was full of blatantly incorrect information, corrected them and gave the necessary context to explain what was discussed in that topic.

Well, the staff member went through my post history and banned me in retaliation for something that was 2 weeks old at that time. The post was ripped out of context, misrepresented and misunderstood (further proving my original point in the other thread). A flimsy excuse was found and used to retaliate. I appealed the ban, but whoever looked at it just immediately dismissed it, stood by the other staff member and closed the ticket so that I couldn't reply again.

I hope this doesn't count as ban litigation and that I won't be threadbanned or something, but this incident goes a few months back at this point. Ever since then I simply want to remove that staff member from my Era browsing experience, because they don't give me anything positive. It's simply one of many things that have soured the atmosphere of the forum and given the utter refusal of apologizing even when blatantly wrong (like the DK BANanza), despite claiming that they'd do so if necessary, keeps making things worse. No idea who told staff that doubling down is a good strategy, all it does is increasing the frustration of the members. You know, the community. The ones who use, hell, who are the website.