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

[Boredfrom]

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

90’s Lex Luthor took some cues from Trump.

[Boredfrom]

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?

But that has always been the case with ERA. 

[Boredfrom]

Yeah anyone who thinks they're getting a "free" or "generous" gacha is kidding themselves, it's a game with potentially endless microtransactions and unlimited potential purchases. It's a skinner box where by entering a player is matching their will against the best behavioural psychologists the game developers can afford, who will design systems to influence spending and hit addictive tendencies

“Normal people don’t have the strong will to not buy a bikini skin”.  

I think Gachas 100% deserve a disclaimer about addiction and spending that gambling sites do. It honestly annoys me to see a game go viral like this, that isn't some actual friendly game, but instead a trap that's designed to extract inordinate amounts of money from people and will probably ruin at least 1 person financially.

Is a good thing this game has a FUCKING DISCLAIMER and age restrictions on purchases.  

Also, I am supposed to feel sorry for that person that is going to ruin his life for rolling for horse girls?

[Besticus Maximus]

Im genuinely amazed that there are enough people left unassimilated by the borg to voice objection to the noncey horse game, clearly the 'more bannings are needed' faction are in the ascendency.

[Boredfrom]

Im genuinely amazed that there are enough people left unassimilated by the borg to voice objection to the noncey horse game, clearly the 'more bannings are needed' faction are in the ascendency.

Eh? What? 

You understand that the usual ERA talking point is shit on gacha and anime games outside their OT? 

I’m more surprised that Jeff Marvel is defending the horse girl game.

[imsotired]

Im genuinely amazed that there are enough people left unassimilated by the borg to voice objection to the noncey horse game, clearly the 'more bannings are needed' faction are in the ascendency.

Eh? What? 

You understand that the usual ERA talking point is shit on gacha and anime games outside their OT? 

I’m more surprised that Jeff Marvel is defending the horse girl game.

It's a twitch fad, one of his favorite streamers probably played it.

[Daffy Duck]

Hahahahah it’s so funny how immediately they jump to the defence of these types of games, bet the burka brigade are raging in their little safe space

[Besticus Maximus]

Hahahahah it’s so funny how immediately they jump to the defence of these types of games, bet the burka brigade are raging in their little safe space

the burkah brigade are the ones playing the game and posting horse girls

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

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.

No one should be using Fat4All as an example when they've created offsite drama about the admin of the forum. Anything from Fat4All on the forum should be considered bad faith trolling, not actual site criticism.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Hahahahah it’s so funny how immediately they jump to the defence of these types of games, bet the burka brigade are raging in their little safe space

the burkah brigade are the ones playing the game and posting horse girls

 it's the "feminist" men on the forum crying. You know, the nice guys.

[benji]

From the reviews Superman sounds as weak as the leaked plot sounded, but perfectly up the MCU fan alley who has been long immunized to such things. Series of events "plot" with rampant IT'S THIS GUY appearances and a non-entity set of nearly all characters. So I expect over the top proclamations both positive and negative from people jerking off against imagined kulturkampf enemies none of whom have any actual interest or history with the franchise or comics in general. So in other words it feels pretty much like Trek since JJ Abrams and then Discovery "saved it" and "made it relevant again" just like I'm imagining I'll be hearing about this.

Love that all the talk about All-Star Superman "inspiration" was merely Gunn poaching random shit like Snyder poaching panels. And that Hollywood will probably continue to be immune to poaching any of the coherent plots or ever digging past the canon of "CBR MUST READ" works that often aren't even that good.

I imagine Lanterns is still the thing that will make or break this DCU's early potential, but I have to admit my skepticism is activated by a film titled Superman that sprawls into so much not involving Superman at the same time that the list of things Gunn has greenlit for "Chapter One" has also continuously sprawled beyond the original things announced with things then announced possibly already on the way out.

I still think a fatal flaw of these things is that they aren't really plotted out from the start by people who know how to plot out extended arcs versus people used to doing two hour films so they're only really held together by trivia, one thing Snyder did right was know the story he wanted to tell across the (then) four films: the plot of Excalibur but with DC superheroes.

But what I think Zaslav should really think about is look at what's working for Marvel Rivals, copy a well known game and give GOONERS women to oogle. In other words, a female superhero racing stable gacha game.

[Boredfrom]

Or you can wait until you see it.

[Boredfrom]

Im genuinely amazed that there are enough people left unassimilated by the borg to voice objection to the noncey horse game, clearly the 'more bannings are needed' faction are in the ascendency.

Eh? What? 

You understand that the usual ERA talking point is shit on gacha and anime games outside their OT? 

I’m more surprised that Jeff Marvel is defending the horse girl game.

It's a twitch fad, one of his favorite streamers probably played it.

I would say that if it wasn’t a 4 year old game that just got localized.  

The original JP release also did crazy numbers even when people believed the game was vapor ware (the first trailer was released 7 years ago, the anime was released two years before the actual game).

Weebs were waiting for this game but nobody expected the global launch to blow up in popularity as hard it did.

[benji]

Or you can wait until you see it.

I wasn't reviewing the film, I was discussing my expectations. And how they have only decreased with every new piece of information about the DCU. Additionally, I find most superhero movies to be significantly worse than the reviews that universally fail to make them sound good. Every MCU movie but Eternals through Phase Four is considered positively for example, I would struggle to get to double digits despite there being thirty of them.

[Alpacx]

Community Thread:

I imagine people are doing that so as not to paint a target on their backs. Something I would note wouldn't be as much an issue if there wasn't fear of reprisal.

not an entirely irrational fear

ive seen ppl rebuke a mod and get banned a bit later, not for that post rebuking the mod, but instead for unrelated posts upwards of 2+ weeks old

maybe it was just a coincidence that action happened against them right after rebuking a mod. to multiple users back to back. in the same thread.

Easily explained by bad luck and systemic issues.

[clockwork5]

These horse girls aren’t even wlw… what’s the fucking point?

[Snoopy]

Ree are playing at internet tough guy again

I prefer to be. I can and will go scorched earth on someone verbally if I have to though. Especially on Karens just trying to cause trouble.


Physical confrontation is obviously a last resort.

But if someones is cutting in line, I do give them a couple of dirty looks. Which is a type of confrontation. If a bunch of guys are being a jackass to someone else, I'm saying something about it.

I'm practical about my confrontations. If it's just me I'm ready to go but if I'm with someone who clearly isn't then I'll can it and use my wits. If it's me and my brother who is also pretty good about measuring up a risk then we'll jump in if need be.

Work smarter not harder.

I don't go looking for confrontations, but I don't shy away from them either

Yes, my wife really dislikes this about me, she wants me to get into arguments with my parents or with people in public in trivial situations

Whereas she is the opposite, gets into arguments with her parents, if a person in public has annoyed her in some way she will let them know and not just keep her head down and continue with her day etc. I just have never been like that, I've always been focused on my goal like in a public place I have somewhere to be or something to do etc. why would I let some minor trivial annoying person sidetrack me?

And the problem with her being like that, is if one day she reacts to the wrong type of person in public (hopefully I'm there) then that will force me into a potential physical fight or something.

I can go Karen if needed.

I don't initiate confrontation but I'm a carer for my wife who's disabled and care for multiple disabled family members. Come at them and I'm gonna go in HARD.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-you-non-confrontational.1238925/

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Community Thread:

I imagine people are doing that so as not to paint a target on their backs. Something I would note wouldn't be as much an issue if there wasn't fear of reprisal.

not an entirely irrational fear

ive seen ppl rebuke a mod and get banned a bit later, not for that post rebuking the mod, but instead for unrelated posts upwards of 2+ weeks old

maybe it was just a coincidence that action happened against them right after rebuking a mod. to multiple users back to back. in the same thread.

and then they turned into transformers

[BIONIC]

As [USER=906]Fat4all[/USER] 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.

You’ll never guess what happened next:

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

User threadbanned: blatantly misrepresenting their ban history

User threadbanned: ignoring the rules of the thread

After multiple mistakes (including serious ones that a regular member would’ve been banned for), I’d love to know why B-Dubs is still a moderator for Era. I honestly don’t get it. You’re keeping someone as a moderator who has consistently created friction and conflict among your community — not saying that all problems in Era would resolve, but certainly many conflicts would’ve been avoided (and I’d expect more conflicts/problems to be prevented in the future).

Is the rule to show fealty to Dear Baldy McLittleDick at all times?

[Snoopy]

How long is it going to take these morons to realize the only person who can fire Dubs is his MOBA boss, who  won't give a fuck as long as that sweet ad revenue keeps rolling in.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

imagine being the trump of resetera

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Once, in a politics thread (because of course lol),

[Polident]

I wasn't reviewing the film, I was discussing my expectations. And how they have only decreased with every new piece of information about the DCU. Additionally, I find most superhero movies to be significantly worse than the reviews that universally fail to make them sound good. Every MCU movie but Eternals through Phase Four is considered positively for example, I would struggle to get to double digits despite there being thirty of them.

Somewhat related. The YouTube recommended Iron Man clips. Clicked through a few. It’s kind of shocking how much better they look than the newer stuff. CGI, grading, composition. Even stuff that looked loopy at the time, you didn’t realize how much standards would plummet. That last Captain America looked absolutely awful. The ads for Superman look like the Fight Night 3 fake gameplay shown by Kudo Tsunoda in 2005. The same camera movements but with a fish eye lens effect. 

It’s weird. Other modern movies look decent. That new Jurassic Park movie looks fine. Not the movie, but like visually. With superhero movies, maybe there’s the idea people will consume whatever. We’re a couple years away from reevaluating The Amazing Bulk.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Ironman I cg/practical is honestly the best of all MCU.

It's like they told brett fravreu to step down after that.

Related, It's hilarious how hard Terrance Howard got fucked over.  If anyone wants some evidence of trying to keep a black man down.

[Cheststrongwell]

When's Dubs gonna grow a nutsack and ban Fat4all? The drama would be fantastic.

[Polident]

Ironman I cg/practical is honestly the best of all MCU.

It's like they told brett fravreu to step down after that.

Related, It's hilarious how hard Terrance Howard got fucked over.  If anyone wants some evidence of trying to keep a black man down.

Terrance beat math. Do you have any idea how powerful the math lobby is.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Ironman I cg/practical is honestly the best of all MCU.

It's like they told brett fravreu to step down after that.

Related, It's hilarious how hard Terrance Howard got fucked over.  If anyone wants some evidence of trying to keep a black man down.

Terrance beat math. Do you have any idea how powerful the math lobby is.

I know you're joking. A lot of denigration targeted  Howard for wanting to put something new, isn't not related to preventing him from wanting to be an individual.

NDT saw that and said, yes lets look at it, lets be objective. Yes it's fucking stupid, but yes it's valid to have people step outside their zones. 

All that to say, Howard in the iron machine suit would look so much sexier than don fucking cheadle.

[DavidCroquet]

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.

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/for-those-involved-in-the-online-political-space-i-think-some-more-vocal-leftist-have-lost-the-plot.1237710/#post-142413009

Online leftist spaces fall deep into the hole of endless purity tests and performativity. It's so detached from reality.

Posting this on resetera

I’m catching up on the last few pages, but reading the first page of that thread and then skipping to the last is a ride.

Page 1:

“Seems reasonable.”
“I don’t disagree.”
“Matches my experience.”
“Leftists should perhaps stop alienating allies.”
“Maybe some introspection wouldn’t hurt.”



Page 8:

GAZA
GENOCIDE
YA’LL YA’LL YA’LL
THREAD LOCKED

[BIONIC]

We’re a couple years away from reevaluating The Amazing Bulk.