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

[Boredfrom]

It's wild how people are giving Kojima a big 'rehabilitation' period now post DS2 just because he doesn't have women that are 90% naked in them. Just a decade after Quiet.

Don't know if it's part maturity or that Quiet was the first time he felt the heat for having a bad female character design but DS1 felt like a drastic(not perfect) change from his usual schlock, and now that hollywood/hollywood media loves him he feels enboldened to keep appealing to them, which means more movie actors that he can't design it in a ridiculous way.

Because film actors are known for being puritans and not going half naked to awards shows. 

But hey, Norman Reedus having constant naked scenes in DS 1 and 2 is not objectionable because he is man. Is just need to see those scenes every time Die-Hartman and Dollman nag me about taking a shower.

Also, I don’t see anybody bitching about Tomorrow’s outfit in the sequel, about how impractical it is and how it doesn’t make sense in the context of the series.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-472#post-143123595

[Boredfrom]

Those motherfuckers bitching about objectification while their friends bitch about how Steam and Itchio are bowing to censorship. 

They ‘won’ but they are too stupid to see it or accept it because they don’t want to admit is the insecure puritan talking, the person that believes that is progressive while posting “Quiet should be a dyke because she is a soldier, look at my fan drawing, it covers her”.

[Superstar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tea-a-women-only-dating-advice-app-is-now-1-on-the-us-app-store-up-suffers-data-breach.1251441/page-10#post-143115771

I didn't think the Leopard app designed to doxx people would doxx me.

Lol

[Jansen]

An app created for doxing leads to people getting doxed is peak irony.

[Boredfrom]

These restrictions are astonishingly broad. Based on a strict interpretation, I couldn't sell my webcomic on itch, since one story element is the sale of artificial people, which would fall under the sex trafficking rule, regardless of the fact that it's presented as a bad thing.

I'd say it was self defeating for people so vocally opposed to sex trafficking to make it impossible to make art opposing sex trafficking. But they don't actually care about it, it's just useful cudgel to censor anything they find vaguely distasteful.

“Is like people that bitch about any depiction of rape (hello Pau, you bitch) are retarded and just contribute in fomenting acceptance of this restrictions by the uncaring general public until is too late.”  

How many of you fuckers said “Stellar Blade should be considered porn and lepered.”  

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-472#post-143017614

So I've been wondering whether or not I should post this or not. It's been something on my mind ever since I learned about SkillUp; the expectation that I should forgive male YouTubers for their actions, often based on very little because "They've changed!"; despite histories or misogyny, right wing support or being friendly with right wing Influencers, transphobia, homophobia, racism, ableism etc.

I've never liked or felt comfortable with this, especially because their always feels like bit of fan bullying with a lot of it (fans bullying people for bringing up their past actions or not willing to give YouTubers second chances). Like I have been burned WAY too many times to forgive that easily, ignored way too many red warning signs that something was up and they begin openly being misogynistic. Like I ain't forgetting transphobia, sexist remarks about women, constant use of the R word etc because "they've changed" which often just translates to "They've kept quiet for a bit" which isn't change, that's just acting or hoping you'll forget it.

Like I don't know these people or want to know them, I'm not clicking on their videos to see if they've changed (I don't want to risk supporting a chud) just because you tell me to, especially when their are YouTubers without that baggage I can watch. That isn't going to change just because their saying something people like such as what happens with Luke Stephans and Star Citizen a few months back. I don't owe any of these people, especially if they have a history of misogyny, transphobia, right wing support etc; if they want me to believe them, that's on THEM to actually DO something to help and do it sincerely.

It's hard not to notice that it's nearly exclusively men that are expected to be allowed second chances or be easily forgiven, women in turn rarely get this treatment and get hated forever, often for similar or smaller offenses (if that). To end on a more positive note, is their any recommendations for women YouTubers who discuss sexualization in video games and women designs in video games?

The bold happens at ResetEra too, a lot.  Echos is literally posting in a misogyny thread ffs.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oklahoma-state-superintendent-caught-with-images-of-naked-women-on-his-office-tv-during-meeting.1254231/

[HaughtyFrank]

It's wild how people are giving Kojima a big 'rehabilitation' period now post DS2 just because he doesn't have women that are 90% naked in them. Just a decade after Quiet.

Don't know if it's part maturity or that Quiet was the first time he felt the heat for having a bad female character design but DS1 felt like a drastic(not perfect) change from his usual schlock, and now that hollywood/hollywood media loves him he feels enboldened to keep appealing to them, which means more movie actors that he can't design it in a ridiculous way.

Because film actors are known for being puritans and not going half naked to awards shows. 

But hey, Norman Reedus having constant naked scenes in DS 1 and 2 is not objectionable because he is man. Is just need to see those scenes every time Die-Hartman and Dollman nag me about taking a shower.

Also, I don’t see anybody bitching about Tomorrow’s outfit in the sequel, about how impractical it is and how it doesn’t make sense in the context of the series.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-472#post-143123595

It's not enough for them that Kojima isn't "problematic" anymore, no, they demand retributions because he made a game starring a woman in a bikini. The entitlement and self grandeur is kind of disgusting honestly.

And yes, people would lose their minds of Sam was a female character with that amount of nudity, but because he's a guy all those shower scenes are actually a power fantasy or something

[Potato]

TERF campaign? He’s been videotaped doing this weird woman grabbing for a while now lol, some in there even claiming it’s AI  

Locked by a mod anyways 

This really doesn't need to be given oxygen

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-pedro-pascal-and-anxiety-around-womens-meme.1254048/page-2#post-143121522

Pedro has a trans brother. He's untouchable.

[Potato]

Of course they'll protect Pedro. He ticks all their virtue-signalling boxes. So this is what they do. Deep down they know its fucking weird as hell.

As people have said, if it was any other actor that did this, they'll be calling them out immediately.

Just wait until they turn on him (they always do) and then they all do the, "I always knew there was something off about him" shit.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/based-on-customer-feedback-target-will-end-price-matching.1248810/page-3#post-142922706

 User Banned (1 Month): Antisemitism

Target employees probably love this. I bet people got pushy and ridiculous over price matching.

They do. I was in sales at large corp for electronics and fuck folks were annoying, especially if the item they were trying to price match was out of stock. But so many times, I'd just wonder why they didn't buy it from where it was cheaper in the first place. Not like we had gift cards or anything they could use. Most were obnoxious though. Don't even get me started on the Jewish folks out of Brooklyn who would constantly try to trick us.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-strikes-syrias-presidential-palace-and-army-hq-in-damascus-as-fighting-rages-in-the-south.1245060/#post-142739403

 User Banned (1 Month): Justifying invasion of another country

Not openly of course, but striking Syria right now is pretty much going against Turkish interests in the region.

I've just had a quick catch up read about the Druze situation in Syria, and I've got to be honest, this particular military intervention by Israel might be justified unlike their other ones.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jeremy-corbyn-and-zarah-sultana-launching-new-left-wing-uk-political-party.1253094/page-4#post-143109057

 User banned (1 month): denying ethnic cleansing

Just because Russia invaded doesn't make it less of a proxy war. The war continues because the countries are giving weapons to Ukraine but also refuse to enter the war to end the conflict.

If our governments actually cared about genocide, they would be doing way more to stop it. We'd see boots on the ground in Palestine, we would see official boots on the ground in Ukraine. Like Shoot said a couple of posts ago, is there evidence in regard to the Ukranian genocide? Are there genocide scholars who have come out and said it's a genocide? I'm not denying war crimes have happened, but genocide has been intensely studied.

The concept of blowback is real. Maybe there is no blowback in the region by funding endless war. I like to look at history and see blowback in the conflicts western countries have funded in the past.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oklahoma-state-superintendent-caught-with-images-of-naked-women-on-his-office-tv-during-meeting.1254231/

[Boredfrom]

As always, you can get a million and a half signatures on your petition to get it all back but it really only matters how many of those signatures belong to people with lots of numbers in their bank account or have access to assets that the payment companies would like to have or at least not be denied access to.

Capitalism, baby.

  

How the fuck that is Capitalism you dumb retard? 

The capitalism thing would be not giving a fuck and let the market decide if they want smut. The payment processors decided that they are willing to bend themselves for political/social clout (half assed it, mind you), you could argue that they are “investing” rather than losing money, but this power plays are not even close to be exclusive of capitalism.

Fucking idiots.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/itch-nukes-adult-games-you-cant-even-download-them-anymore-if-you-paid-for-them-update-itch-releases-statement.1251720/page-19#post-143133165

[Boredfrom]

It is exhausting to go through this same song and dance every couple of years; whatever it is about pornography or erotic content that gets certain groups of people tilted need to understand that their views give them no right to dictate what others create and/or consume. Hopefully in the future the adult industry can find an alternative to these payment processors and develop an ecosystem that will eliminate issues like this altogether so that creators don't have to play the guessing game trying to make a living.

 

The real way to deal with this is actually opposing the puritans and not justifying this shit when is stuff you don’t like. Fucking Tygre almost admitting that he likes foal  but he was always defending SJW shit because it didn’t affect him.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-the-american-propaganda-angle-of-military-shooters-bother-you.1254078/page-5#post-143132181

Even when I was a dumb teenager wasting my summers away by playing MW3 and Blops, I knew the shit was pretty racist and nationalistic. I don't know how you can't not notice it unless you're either just that deep in the Kool-Aid or just don't think about what you consume at all.

I mean, don't get me wrong; you put me on Nuketown and I'm a happy camper. But I'm not so out of it that I can't just look at the overall product and be like "that's propaganda as fuck."

And it's not something I'm actively doing either. I'm just conscious.

[Boredfrom]

With how Itch keeps going lower and lower with each passing hour, I can't help but wonder if they're in a "Bend the Knee" situation where Visa/Mastercard, or whoever else are testing how low they can force Itch.io - Deeming every thing Itch does to be compliant to be not good enough until they're effectively ground into dust by this.

Which brings me to something I've considered for years now - It's not just the Christo-Fascist angle (Which is honestly a redundant word - Christianity and Fascism are inherently joined at the hip) - It's also a matter of Neofeudalism.

Indie-Anything is intrinsically offensive to the Billionaire Class - NSFW indie-games are a cross-sectional gap-in-the-armor that this assault on drives the interests of both the Fascists and Billionaires simultaneously. I've been seeing the signs for the better part of a decade now of Big Business interests wanting to crush small-business on principal alone, with their best-case-scenario being functionally giving up all their surplus-value as Rent/Digital Sharecropping one way or another.

Itch.io, at its core, is a small-business for small-business, many of which on the platform hold egalitarian views that clash with the desires of the Fascists and Economic Royalists/Technofeudalists. That makes it a prime target to make an example out of.

The Myth of Consensual Capitalism: Didn't you forget to ask the Billionaires before making money?
Rosebud

 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-472#post-143017614

Like I don't know these people or want to know them, I'm not clicking on their videos to see if they've changed (I don't want to risk supporting a chud) just because you tell me to, especially when their are YouTubers without that baggage I can watch. 

God forbid. I love how often he runs to Era to ask if he's right to not listen to unnamed people's opinions he disagrees with.  

Yep. The way this franchise has been so thoroughly mismanaged and run into the ground is kind of horrifying.

No good thing can be allowed to thrive under capitalism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/initial-details-of-new-halo-title-to-come-at-hcs-in-october-infinite-being-retired-at-the-end-of-the-year-no-replacement-until-after-2026.1254135/

Yeah, Microsoft is too busy funding a genocide to spend that on Halo games to sell. Fucking capitalism.

It's wild how people are giving Kojima a big 'rehabilitation' period now post DS2 just because he doesn't have women that are 90% naked in them. Just a decade after Quiet.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-472#post-143123595

Just a decade after Quiet.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-the-american-propaganda-angle-of-military-shooters-bother-you.1254078/page-5#post-143132181

Even when I was a dumb teenager wasting my summers away by playing MW3 and Blops, I knew the shit was pretty racist and nationalistic. I don't know how you can't not notice it unless you're either just that deep in the Kool-Aid or just don't think about what you consume at all.

I mean, don't get me wrong; you put me on Nuketown and I'm a happy camper. But I'm not so out of it that I can't just look at the overall product and be like "that's propaganda as fuck."

And it's not something I'm actively doing either. I'm just conscious.

The bad guys in MW3 and Blops are Russians. MW3 takes place in Europe.

As always, you can get a million and a half signatures on your petition to get it all back but it really only matters how many of those signatures belong to people with lots of numbers in their bank account or have access to assets that the payment companies would like to have or at least not be denied access to.
Capitalism, baby.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/itch-nukes-adult-games-you-cant-even-download-them-anymore-if-you-paid-for-them-update-itch-releases-statement.1251720/page-19#post-143133165

Indie-Anything is intrinsically offensive to the Billionaire Class - NSFW indie-games are a cross-sectional gap-in-the-armor that this assault on drives the interests of both the Fascists and Billionaires simultaneously. I've been seeing the signs for the better part of a decade now of Big Business interests wanting to crush small-business on principal alone, with their best-case-scenario being functionally giving up all their surplus-value as Rent/Digital Sharecropping one way or another.

Itch.io, at its core, is a small-business for small-business, many of which on the platform hold egalitarian views that clash with the desires of the Fascists and Economic Royalists/Technofeudalists. That makes it a prime target to make an example out of.

The Myth of Consensual Capitalism: Didn't you forget to ask the Billionaires before making money?
Rosebud

Payment processors don't make money from the wealthy elite. The system you guys are thinking of and describing is socialism.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-466#post-143084241

Meanwhile, Israelis have brought their kids to block aid trucks that aren't even being let into Gaza with glee. This sick, rotten, cruel, depraved genocidal society is on borrowed time. It has no future.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-466#post-143084574

It's been a long standing policy here to not conflate a people with their governments. Yet, at this juncture its clear that a majority of Israelis do in fact support this campaign of genocide and starvation. I know some brave Israelis are daring to speak out, but it should be noted there is a large societal problem, with a radicalized population that is conscripted into the same army that routinely dehumanizes and murders innocents on a daily basis. At its core, the IDF should be dismantled, its leaders sent to the Hague and rebuilt from the ground up. I have very little hope that Israel will ever pay reparations and be judged for their crimes, but I can't just pretend its just a few bad apples at this point.

A country doesn't commit this type of campaign of genocide because of the whims of one man. It doesn't happen out of nowhere. This notion that Palestinians are an inconvenience at best and a scourge at worst has been deeply embedded in Israeli society since the very beginning of its founding. The Nakba was a concerted policy decision by the Western-backed Zionist militias. Golda Meir infamously said "there is no such thing as a Palestinian". You don't say that without the intent of wiping out an ethnic group later down the line. The West has been complicit with this dangerous ideology for decades and just now they are realizing what their "final solution" looks like.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-467#post-143086398

We've all seen the poll at this point. The entire society is sick, from tip to toe. The western world is going to have to reckon with this eventually now that Israel has laid bare its barbarity for billions to see. It's going to implode violently, far worse than apartheid South Africa or Rhodesia ever did.

It was in the best interest of liberal zionists desperate to keep the colonial-apartheid project alive to have vehemently made sure it never reached this point but they cheered it on and now they can't stop what's coming.

This is what I mean when I say it has no future. Its political turmoil and the weight of their atrocities are going to drag them into the ground. Israeli lobbying groups pushing to criminalize anti-zionism via censorship and state control is a sign of political rigor mortis. This is not an ideology that will survive the next 20 years.

[benji]

I never get tired of how their theory of capitalism and the wealthy is that they're so unfathomably greedy that they constantly and deliberately do stuff that loses them money out of blind lockstep loyalty to their sketchily defined class that doesn't benefit from any of it either but is somehow all part of some conscious long term plan.

But then the way they talk about Zionists, libs, chuds, white people, etc. is similar. Everyone else is always scheming for ways to hurt people just because that's what those people do.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-really-good-if-you-ignore-the-weird-parts%E2%80%9D.1254297/

This thread is going to hurt boredfroms feelings

[Boredfrom]

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-466#post-143084241

Meanwhile, Israelis have brought their kids to block aid trucks that aren't even being let into Gaza with glee. This sick, rotten, cruel, depraved genocidal society is on borrowed time. It has no future.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-466#post-143084574

It's been a long standing policy here to not conflate a people with their governments. Yet, at this juncture its clear that a majority of Israelis do in fact support this campaign of genocide and starvation. I know some brave Israelis are daring to speak out, but it should be noted there is a large societal problem, with a radicalized population that is conscripted into the same army that routinely dehumanizes and murders innocents on a daily basis. At its core, the IDF should be dismantled, its leaders sent to the Hague and rebuilt from the ground up. I have very little hope that Israel will ever pay reparations and be judged for their crimes, but I can't just pretend its just a few bad apples at this point.

A country doesn't commit this type of campaign of genocide because of the whims of one man. It doesn't happen out of nowhere. This notion that Palestinians are an inconvenience at best and a scourge at worst has been deeply embedded in Israeli society since the very beginning of its founding. The Nakba was a concerted policy decision by the Western-backed Zionist militias. Golda Meir infamously said "there is no such thing as a Palestinian". You don't say that without the intent of wiping out an ethnic group later down the line. The West has been complicit with this dangerous ideology for decades and just now they are realizing what their "final solution" looks like.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-467#post-143086398

We've all seen the poll at this point. The entire society is sick, from tip to toe. The western world is going to have to reckon with this eventually now that Israel has laid bare its barbarity for billions to see. It's going to implode violently, far worse than apartheid South Africa or Rhodesia ever did.

It was in the best interest of liberal zionists desperate to keep the colonial-apartheid project alive to have vehemently made sure it never reached this point but they cheered it on and now they can't stop what's coming.

This is what I mean when I say it has no future. Its political turmoil and the weight of their atrocities are going to drag them into the ground. Israeli lobbying groups pushing to criminalize anti-zionism via censorship and state control is a sign of political rigor mortis. This is not an ideology that will survive the next 20 years.

Person: Man, kids and babies are starving. Maybe Israel is in the wrong…

HamasERA: Fuck the Zionists. Fuck even the good Israelis. 



Person:  I guess is not my concern to care about this.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-8#post-142965912

 User banned (3 months): antagonizing other users, an incredibly long history of the same behavior

Cool, so the pro-Palestine protests and protestors are generally anti-semitic because some members of the protests/leadership have made extreme anti-semitic statements? Are all leftists russian stooges because some prominent ones tried to blame the invasion of Ukraine and Russia's attempted genocide there on the US? Are all socialists idiots become some socialist idiots decided that inflation wasn't a real thing and tried to get everyone to buy into MMT right before the second-largest inflation shock in our economy's history? Is that how we're doing this now?

I've somewhat normalized the insane position we're in - where the hard left hates the center-left more than the hard right - but this is just profoundly unserious, and this kind of rage-bait has become the only way the bulk of the party is discussed in this thread, recently.

Just gonna point out the irony of you getting really worked up about people conflating individual behavior as being representative of a whole group then in the very next breath doing the same thing but about the left......

That said, Rahm's statements do seem to be objectively in line with a number of other centrist Democrats and representative of a broader trend within the party to distance or disavow certain social justice fights like trans rights, concede on certain culture war issues like trans people in sports specifically, and use that as a Third Way triangulation to appeal to the mythical moderate swing voters as an electoral strategy.

One of the underlying thesis arguments of the whole Abundance agenda is that "the groups" are becoming a hindrance to winning and getting stuff done. which is defined by them as social and environmental justice NGO's, which force these well meaning centrists into radical positions that are unpopular or handicapping like trans rights or demanding projects use pesky things like union labor.

Sure, you are right, this is not all centrists/liberals, but unlike your interesting choice of a logical comparison, it is a intentional and well represented view within that wing of the party to distance and soften themselves on this issue.

"an incredibly long history of the same behavior"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-9#post-143130891

3 month ban for this post, jesus

what a convenient way to get someone out of your hair

edit: made a ticket like a good girl

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-melody-kuromi-official-trailer-stop-motion-animated-series-from-netflix.1216167/

Any yuri in this?

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-melody-kuromi-official-trailer-stop-motion-animated-series-from-netflix.1216167/

Any yuri in this?

what is yuri? I’m glad I have affiliated weebs who I can ask these things of rather than google it

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-melody-kuromi-official-trailer-stop-motion-animated-series-from-netflix.1216167/

Any yuri in this?

what is yuri? I’m glad I have affiliated weebs who I can ask these things of rather than google it

A Mexican singer.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-melody-kuromi-official-trailer-stop-motion-animated-series-from-netflix.1216167/

Any yuri in this?

what is yuri? I’m glad I have affiliated weebs who I can ask these things of rather than google it

[El Derpo]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/ozzy-osbourne-dead-at-76.1250193/page-13#post-143015181


It has been nearly 8 years and most people still don't know what the moderation policies are. Including the staff.

It's weird, because its one of the few policies they actually bothered to fucking write down rather than just relying on 'mod vibes':

Obituary Threads

We generally do not welcome celebration or cheering the death of public figures. Members that appear to be using an obituary thread solely to post about how glad they are that person is dead may be moderated. This does not preclude sober criticism of a person's legacy or mistakes in life. We simply do not want to celebrate death. Context will matter, and some individuals have done things so heinous that rare exceptions may need to be made.

   

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You know what? I'm beginning to think appointing mods based on their identity rather than any sort of competency at doing the job might not have been a great idea...

Stealth DEI burn