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

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mastercard-releases-statement-clarifying-recent-headlines-on-gaming-content-relating-to-pulled-adult-content-on-steam-itch.1259835/page-2#post-143379027

Thanks for the reminder to call their and VISAs hotlines again today during lunch.

Fucking lying rat bastards. If all of what they said was true all of these previously removed games would be allowed back on their respective market places as of this statement. But they won’t of course.

Keep fucking calling.

Keep calling

Thank you for your service in reinstating underage incest rape simulators. Your passion for this matter is truly inspiring

Normal People who can't get their calls through to fix problems with their credit card are going to be thrilled when they find out it's for Daddy Daughter Incest Rape Simulator V

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-15#post-143339451

I do once again repeat that this ad wouldn't have been as effective at garnering attention if we didn't always have people immediately rushing to the defense of corporations and white celebrities when they engage in racist shit.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-16#post-143378850

Yup.

This thread (and the wider internet in general) should have been like "damn, what a wild dog-whistle". And AE could either stand by it, or say "whoopsies!"

It only blew up this much because of White 'allies' saying, "you guys are overreacting"

[DavidCroquet]

It only blew up because of people who responded to those who first reacted? That doesn't even make sense. 

Not to mention the thread has squashed all dissenters and it's just wokies circlejerking for at least the last 6 pages...

"if people hadn't been defending the ad, then this 16 page thread might have only 15 pages!"

[Hap Shaughnessy]

"Don't feed the trolls."

[HaughtyFrank]

"The only reason there's an outrage is because people defend the ad"

I wonder if that's the new tactic?The Daily Show had a segment about the AD but basically ignored the whole reason why people got upset at the ad and solely focused on right wing talking heads defending the ad

[Alpacx]

"The only reason there's an outrage is because people defend the ad"

I wonder if that's the new tactic?The Daily Show had a segment about the AD but basically ignored the whole reason why people got upset at the ad and solely focused on right wing talking heads defending the ad

Pre-2008 Daily Show would have shown the leftists crying at the ad.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gogs-new-freedomtobuygames-free-bundle-offers-you-a-bunch-of-dirty-sexual-violent-politically-uncorrect-games-agony-unrated-postal-2-more.1260273/

[Potato]

You cannot convince me Marisa and Manon are not couple and I wish Capcom would just flat out say it, like just say it! And also reveal Cammy as a Lesbian as well! Lilith (did nothing wrong) I wish for a lesbian/wlw fighting game.

We know Marisa is canonically bi & poly, so hopefully Manon can officially reciprocate.

On a similar note, Nintendo, please let EPD 5 spell out Pearlina being official. They've done everything but explicitly state it, it's so obvious at this point.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lesbians.1256439/page-2#post-143320173

These are supposedly adults, out there living in the world…  

Over under on neoxon becoming a WLW in the next year and joining the bluesky polycule?

Nah, Neoxon doesn't want a pussy, he just is one.

[Potato]

Isn't Marisa basically Bi. If someone is strong enough, she'll try to wed them. But whatever not like anyone cares that much about stories in fighting games anyway.

Fighting games have stories? 

[HaughtyFrank]

"The only reason there's an outrage is because people defend the ad"

I wonder if that's the new tactic?The Daily Show had a segment about the AD but basically ignored the whole reason why people got upset at the ad and solely focused on right wing talking heads defending the ad

Pre-2008 Daily Show would have shown the leftists crying at the ad.

The conservatives are crashing out over an ad!

[Besticus Maximus]

Isn't Marisa basically Bi. If someone is strong enough, she'll try to wed them. But whatever not like anyone cares that much about stories in fighting games anyway.

Fighting games have stories? 

If no one is being thrown into a volcano I don’t give a fuck

[Uncle]

Normal People who can't get their calls through to fix problems with their credit card are going to be thrilled when they find out it's for Daddy Daughter Incest Rape Simulator V

protest is supposed to be disruptive  

when your grandma dies because the ambulance can't get through because the road is blocked by palestine protestors, you'll think "wow maybe there's actually something to all this protesting going on, I've learned something today"

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mastercard-releases-statement-clarifying-recent-headlines-on-gaming-content-relating-to-pulled-adult-content-on-steam-itch.1259835/page-2#post-143379027

Thanks for the reminder to call their and VISAs hotlines again today during lunch.

Fucking lying rat bastards. If all of what they said was true all of these previously removed games would be allowed back on their respective market places as of this statement. But they won’t of course.

Keep fucking calling.

Keep calling

Thank you for your service in reinstating underage incest rape simulators. Your passion for this matter is truly inspiring

Remember, all this outrage is for games that contain the following: 

• Non-consensual content (real or implied)
  
• Underage or "barely legal" themes
  
• Incest or pseudo-incest content
  
• Bestiality or animal-related
  
• Rape, coercion, or force-related
  
• Sex trafficking implications
  
• Revenge porn / voyeur / hidden cam
  
• Fetish involving bodily waste or extreme harm (eg, "scat," "vomit")
  

The following high quality titles were affected on Steam: 

[Uncle]

my "outrage" isn't about specific games, it's about payment processors interfering with legal purchases, and you don't get to choose when a flashpoint happens or what the subject matter will be when you have a rare opportunity for people to get informed about how much control these corporations have over everything you do

fuck payment processors dictating who or what is allowed to engage with global financial markets

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mastercard-releases-statement-clarifying-recent-headlines-on-gaming-content-relating-to-pulled-adult-content-on-steam-itch.1259835/page-2#post-143379027

Thanks for the reminder to call their and VISAs hotlines again today during lunch.

Fucking lying rat bastards. If all of what they said was true all of these previously removed games would be allowed back on their respective market places as of this statement. But they won’t of course.

Keep fucking calling.

Keep calling

Thank you for your service in reinstating underage incest rape simulators. Your passion for this matter is truly inspiring

Like because this is true. I don’t care you were sarcastic, furro.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gogs-new-freedomtobuygames-free-bundle-offers-you-a-bunch-of-dirty-sexual-violent-politically-uncorrect-games-agony-unrated-postal-2-more.1260273/

Why Women Criticize thread rn 

Edited: Closed

I love how GoG is sticking it to Visa and MasterCard here, but we do have a "no NSFW content" rule that this breaks. As such, this thread is locked.

Didn't even remove the url 

[Uncle]

also fuck the UK for screeching "think of the children" and demand the whole internet make changes just for them so they can dox their own citizens for using ordinary websites

"really???? um sweetie don't you know that any site affected by UK's ruling hosts evil bad porn content? wow you're on the side of pornographers, the lady doth protest too much"

[Boredfrom]

my "outrage" isn't about specific games, it's about payment processors interfering with legal purchases, and you don't get to choose when a flashpoint happens or what the subject matter will be when you have a rare opportunity for people to get informed about how much control these corporations have over everything you do

fuck payment processors dictating who or what is allowed to engage with global financial markets

Then why you are doing the “actually protesting is annoying for the normies” for contacting MasterCard

We are the point that people are suggesting that people are going to be annoyed by people spamming call centers than the call centers being called centers.  

The fact that even Valve needed to clarify that “they told them indirectly to delist stuff”.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mastercard-releases-statement-clarifying-recent-headlines-on-gaming-content-relating-to-pulled-adult-content-on-steam-itch.1259835/page-2#post-143379027

Thanks for the reminder to call their and VISAs hotlines again today during lunch.

Fucking lying rat bastards. If all of what they said was true all of these previously removed games would be allowed back on their respective market places as of this statement. But they won’t of course.

Keep fucking calling.

Keep calling

Thank you for your service in reinstating underage incest rape simulators. Your passion for this matter is truly inspiring

Normal People who can't get their calls through to fix problems with their credit card are going to be thrilled when they find out it's for Daddy Daughter Incest Rape Simulator V

Normal people would still just rage to the call centers. 

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gogs-new-freedomtobuygames-free-bundle-offers-you-a-bunch-of-dirty-sexual-violent-politically-uncorrect-games-agony-unrated-postal-2-more.1260273/#post-143385306

All these games are still available on Steam as well.

ah, well nevertheless…

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gogs-new-freedomtobuygames-free-bundle-offers-you-a-bunch-of-dirty-sexual-violent-politically-uncorrect-games-agony-unrated-postal-2-more.1260273/#post-143385306

All these games are still available on Steam as well.

ah, well nevertheless…  (  )

FTFY

[Uncle]

Then why you are doing the “actually protesting is annoying for the normies” for contacting MasterCard

you see occasionally you may desire to post something of jovial jocularity and mild amusement even if it's not 100% in alignment with your own views so you frame your post to match the vibe of the one you are replying to

in improv this is known as "yes and"

in foruming this is known as a shitpost

[Potato]

my "outrage" isn't about specific games, it's about payment processors interfering with legal purchases, and you don't get to choose when a flashpoint happens or what the subject matter will be when you have a rare opportunity for people to get informed about how much control these corporations have over everything you do

fuck payment processors dictating who or what is allowed to engage with global financial markets

Yes. 

However, another way to look at it is why haven't Steam and Itch and other storefronts been at least a little bit interested in what's being sold on their platforms? 

Don't host Incest Daughters 1-4 (real titles) on your platform and maybe these payment processors won't interfere...

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-15#post-143339451

I do once again repeat that this ad wouldn't have been as effective at garnering attention if we didn't always have people immediately rushing to the defense of corporations and white celebrities when they engage in racist shit.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-16#post-143378850

Yup.

This thread (and the wider internet in general) should have been like "damn, what a wild dog-whistle". And AE could either stand by it, or say "whoopsies!"

It only blew up this much because of White 'allies' saying, "you guys are overreacting"

I don't know how you confuse cause and effect so much.

Event: The ad

Reaction: Some nameless dweebs on the internet get mad 

Reaction to the reaction: Call them dweebs.

If the first reaction never occurred nothing would have happened.



Vulture: Can We Not Be Weird About Sydney Sweeney for 5 Seconds?
https://archive.ph/uvTIO#selection-2123.0-2187.145

At first, the backlash received largely uncritical coverage. But when these women are criticized from the left, as happened here, the default assumption becomes that, because a lot of people are mad at them, they have therefore done something wrong. Thus, for Sweeney and American Eagle, others’ leaps in logic — that any mention of “great genes” is by definition promoting eugenics — became their problem. They were “tone-deaf.” They didn’t “read the room.”

The second wave of discourse got even stupider, as pundits like Joe Walsh as well as White House officials rushed to blame the backlash for the Democrats’ struggle to attract young men, part of a longstanding ritual in which the Democratic party is credited for anything any left-wing person says on TikTok. On the anti-Sweeney side — or even just the anti-anti-anti-Sweeney side — the arguments flipped 180 degrees in response. On Monday, Sweeney and American Eagle were dinged for releasing an ad that everybody agreed was obviously offensive; now, those outraged were a tiny, unrepresentative minority hardly worth paying attention to.

As Warzel notes, these culture-war flare-ups rarely have much to do with the object that’s actually being discussed. Rather, they are proxies for larger cultural debates. In this case, there’s a simple reason Sweeney’s critics are being so hyperbolic: They feel threatened — quite reasonably — by an authoritarian administration remaking the country in a white-nationalist image. When people feel threatened, they lash out at whatever’s in front of them. But while it’s understandable to worry about a “cultural shift towards whiteness,” I’d venture that a 15-second denim commercial is not a rich enough text to sustain this level of analysis. Nothing against the field of cultural studies, which we all like to indulge in now and then, but it’s possible to focus so much on the wider context that you lose sight of the thing that’s in front of you. Sometimes a pun is just a pun.

sl
Hmm.  New York Magazine sounds an awful like The New York Times!  I wonder if all of (((media))) is trying to provoke leftists by saying, "calm your tits." So some hysterical ninnies on your side freak out?  You don't have to defend them.  Just laugh and move on and pick a fight that's worth it. But Nepenthe and Co needs attention too much to allow that.   And B-dubs needs to not be seen as demanding his underlings toss his salad.

[Boredfrom]

Then why you are doing the “actually protesting is annoying for the normies” for contacting MasterCard

you see occasionally you may desire to post something of jovial jocularity and mild amusement even if it's not 100% in alignment with your own views so you frame your post to match the vibe of the one you are replying to

in improv this is known as "yes and"

in foruming this is known as a shitpost

But then you have some dude saying 100% seriously that “oh boy, when the normies realize that they couldn’t bitch to the call center because others were bitching at the call centers for gooner stuff.”  

“They are going to take the side of the Australian cat lady.”

[Taco Bell Tower]

There's always that one Ree or two
https://www.resetera.com/threads/gogs-new-freedomtobuygames-free-bundle-offers-you-a-bunch-of-dirty-sexual-violent-politically-uncorrect-games-agony-unrated-postal-2-more.1260273/#post-143384103

Postal 2's inclusion feels like a dog whistle to me
https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/67462/updated-gogcom-apologises-for-accidental-gamergate-tweet/

Would've been fine with just the porn games, but doesn't Agony Unrated have an explicit scene of sexual violence? And Postal 2, the gamergate game?

L Thammy

The Postal devs supported Gamergate, who harassed game journalists that didn't suit their agenda, so I don't really care for it being in this bundle. It's also pretty racist on its own merits; see the whole Arabs = terrorists section.

purseowner

Half of the games on that list are banned on this forum for being misogynistic garbage, so I'm a bit surprised to see y'all so keen on this

useless

Not the selection of games I'd go with, like at all, but it is nice to see that GOG is actually showing some backbone unlike Steam and Itch
It'd definitely be a better choice to also include other games in there like LBGT games and games that actually got wiped off stores too instead of just the most obvious rage bait (Postal 2) and (in some cases not all) "manosphere pilled white boy" gooner games though (most of which i'm going to hide), especially since most of these games are still on Steam
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L Thammy

Meanwhile, if I'm not mistaken, some versions of Postal 2 have a minigame where you kill gay people. Like, as the explicit purpose of the minigame.

That game's on sale in this bundle.
Last edited: Today at 5:30 PM

[Boredfrom]

my "outrage" isn't about specific games, it's about payment processors interfering with legal purchases, and you don't get to choose when a flashpoint happens or what the subject matter will be when you have a rare opportunity for people to get informed about how much control these corporations have over everything you do

fuck payment processors dictating who or what is allowed to engage with global financial markets

Yes. 

However, another way to look at it is why haven't Steam and Itch and other storefronts been at least a little bit interested in what's being sold on their platforms?  

They are, Steam has rejected adult games before… even after they initially approved them. Half of the smut needs an external patch from developers.

Don't host Incest Daughters 1-4 (real titles) on your platform and maybe these payment processors won't interfere...

“Obey the mega corporations, you perverts.”

[HaughtyFrank]

Vulture: Can We Not Be Weird About Sydney Sweeney for 5 Seconds?
https://archive.ph/uvTIO#selection-2123.0-2187.145

At first, the backlash received largely uncritical coverage. But when these women are criticized from the left, as happened here, the default assumption becomes that, because a lot of people are mad at them, they have therefore done something wrong. Thus, for Sweeney and American Eagle, others’ leaps in logic — that any mention of “great genes” is by definition promoting eugenics — became their problem. They were “tone-deaf.” They didn’t “read the room.”

The second wave of discourse got even stupider, as pundits like Joe Walsh as well as White House officials rushed to blame the backlash for the Democrats’ struggle to attract young men, part of a longstanding ritual in which the Democratic party is credited for anything any left-wing person says on TikTok. On the anti-Sweeney side — or even just the anti-anti-anti-Sweeney side — the arguments flipped 180 degrees in response. On Monday, Sweeney and American Eagle were dinged for releasing an ad that everybody agreed was obviously offensive; now, those outraged were a tiny, unrepresentative minority hardly worth paying attention to.

As Warzel notes, these culture-war flare-ups rarely have much to do with the object that’s actually being discussed. Rather, they are proxies for larger cultural debates. In this case, there’s a simple reason Sweeney’s critics are being so hyperbolic: They feel threatened — quite reasonably — by an authoritarian administration remaking the country in a white-nationalist image. When people feel threatened, they lash out at whatever’s in front of them. But while it’s understandable to worry about a “cultural shift towards whiteness,” I’d venture that a 15-second denim commercial is not a rich enough text to sustain this level of analysis. Nothing against the field of cultural studies, which we all like to indulge in now and then, but it’s possible to focus so much on the wider context that you lose sight of the thing that’s in front of you. Sometimes a pun is just a pun.

sl
Hmm.  New York Magazine sounds an awful like The New York Times!  I wonder if all of (((media))) is trying to provoke leftists by saying, "calm your tits." So some hysterical ninnies on your side freak out?  You don't have to defend them.  Just laugh and move on and pick a fight that's worth it. But Nepenthe and Co needs attention too much to allow that.   And B-dubs needs to not be seen as demanding his underlings toss his salad.

What is this? An article that takes a step back and analyzes the controversy from afar instead of happily participating in it and the culture war? How dare this man call himself a journalist

[Uncle]

my "outrage" isn't about specific games, it's about payment processors interfering with legal purchases, and you don't get to choose when a flashpoint happens or what the subject matter will be when you have a rare opportunity for people to get informed about how much control these corporations have over everything you do

fuck payment processors dictating who or what is allowed to engage with global financial markets

Yes. 

However, another way to look at it is why haven't Steam and Itch and other storefronts been at least a little bit interested in what's being sold on their platforms? 

Don't host Incest Daughters 1-4 (real titles) on your platform and maybe these payment processors won't interfere...

if this content is so disgusting that no one should be able to buy it, then make it actually illegal

I would take less issue with this, Chad No the fuckin thing and be done with it, don't have these shadow operators doing whatever the fuck they want without any insight into their reasoning and no recourse when they turn their eye on you

but western governments pride themselves on freedom and just can't deal with the optics, so it's always "oh, no, you CAN go to naughty sites and buy naughty games, that's totally legal, we just want to protect the children you see"



also I don't know if I'm vibin with the "don't wear slutty clothes and maybe you won't get raped" logic

maybe the rapists should stop raping

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/freedom_to_buy_games

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