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

[DavidCroquet]

[simiansmarts]

Gaming/tech journalists are just another marketing arm of the industry, when will people learn? It would be less embarrassing and more accurate to say "I'm pursuing marketing as a career" than "I'm pursuing gaming journalism as a career".

[Besticus Maximus]

If the videogames journalists wanted my sword, they should have thrown themselves on the grenade when Hogwarts and Cyberpunk did their genocide 

[simiansmarts]

While Disney not relying so much on sequels and reboots sounds good on paper, I am not looking foward for what this "chase younger men" directive means,

It feels like everyone is bending the knee

https://www.resetera.com/threads/variety-disney%E2%80%99s-boy-trouble-studio-seeks-original-ip-to-win-back-gen-z-men-amid-marvel-lucasfilm-struggles.1277001/

How is this different from when Disney talks about how they try to appeal to girls or minorities? They just hear "men" and get scared

This exchange is funny af 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/variety-disney%E2%80%99s-boy-trouble-studio-seeks-original-ip-to-win-back-gen-z-men-amid-marvel-lucasfilm-struggles.1277001/page-4#post-144162684

I think part of the problem is boys and young men just... don't really engage with scripted story telling, like, at all. They watch Youtube, TikTok, Twitch Streamers (including all the manosphere garbage) and play multiplayer games with little to no story, and don't read. It's parasocial relationships, short form clips, memes, and ragebait/anti-feminist content. Outside of the occasional trendy anime that's good for memes, they just don't really have an interest in storytelling at a basic level.

I also think this is partially related to boys and young men lurching so far to the right. Scripted story telling is an exercise in empathy. You relate to the characters, put yourselves in their shoes, etc. While obviously not perfect, the cartoons and movies we all grew up with mostly made at least some effort towards representation and showing other points of view.

On top of social media destroying all of our attention spans, boys in particular are just not engaging with any form of media that involves practicing empathy.

  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/variety-disney%E2%80%99s-boy-trouble-studio-seeks-original-ip-to-win-back-gen-z-men-amid-marvel-lucasfilm-struggles.1277001/page-4#post-144163473

Reading Young men not being into the MCU/Star wars/Indie etc. as a sign of lack of empathy while instantly dismissing the story content they do consume seems a bit dramatic to me.

And I'll gladly argue that multiplayer gaming requires more empathy than watching the fantastic 4 at the cinema.

 

[Boredfrom]

Gaming/tech journalists are just another marketing arm of the industry, when will people learn? It would be less embarrassing and more accurate to say "I'm pursuing marketing as a career" than "I'm pursuing gaming journalism as a career".

I mean, you have marketers like entremet RolePlaying as an anti capitalist socialist while doing thinly veiled marketing research with Chat GPT

[Besticus Maximus]

I mean that initial coverage of the game is going to be lower quality, as the outlets that care more about clicks than genuine critique and serving readers will have the resources to rush out shitty reviews and guides, and those that do actually care will be left scrambling to catch up.

So all of them anyway then

Three cheers for the guy who dreams of being a videogames journalist, let's see if he does better than Planetsmasher did at vaudeville

[Potato]

Someone should start a movement to encourage ethics in game journalism...or something.

[Boredfrom]

I think Schreier didn’t expect the backlash and that everyone will buy TeamCherry story of “avoiding crunch for the sake of our daily lives”.

[Boredfrom]

Gaming/tech journalists are just another marketing arm of the industry, when will people learn? It would be less embarrassing and more accurate to say "I'm pursuing marketing as a career" than "I'm pursuing gaming journalism as a career".

I mean, you have marketers like entremet RolePlaying as an anti capitalist socialist while doing thinly veiled marketing research with Chat GPT

Very interesting. Just shows you how fortunate they were with the HK sales and the smaller team.
Capitalistic realities really make this more complicated for many studios.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-why-‘silksong’-took-seven-years-to-make.1277013/page-7

I'm going to be honest that I don't really like this sort of an article from Jason. Because at the end of the day it features all the same bullet points you'd see in jason's usual reports (missing deadlines by years, constantly overscoping, perfectionism, you can see these points repeated in all his articles), but spun as a positive here because their specific situation of a 3 person studio with constant cash flow.

[Propagandhim]

And I'll gladly argue that multiplayer gaming requires more empathy than watching the fantastic 4 at the cinema.

"CrystalFang STOP FUCKING FEEDING.  YOU'VE GIVEN UP THREE SHARDS ALREADY YOU FUCKING N****R.  IF YOU CAN'T PLAY SUPPORT DC SO A BOT CAN TAKE OVER YOU FUCKING JEW-LOVING F****T"

[Boredfrom]

I mean, yeah, an Indie passion project is different from a big commercial studio project

Strictly speaking, the game was originally a Kickstarter stretch goal and they still plan to sell the game for money. They also decided to give little to no communication to their fan base.

When a dev making $150,000 a year says he's spending all his time in the office because it's fun, that's going to come across as cynical because we understand the capitalist realities that developer exists under.

“Because every person is like me.  ”

When a dev who made north of $10 million (and probably closer to $30 million) just on his share of his first game says essentially the same thing about a game he's making with his 2 friends, we understand that differently because it ... just is a different set of material circumstances.

Ironically, that sounds hyper cynical to me for a different reason.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supermans-mr-terrific-fight-is-now-on-youtube.1276905/#post-144145710

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Ableist Rhetoric

Favorite part of the movie. It's such an expected part of James Gunn superhero movies for me now, that stylish musical beatdown. Yondu in GotG2, No Sleep Til Brooklyn in GotG3, and then this in Superman. It's the same trick every time, but I'm gonna love it every time because he makes them with such style.

There was the Harley scene in TSS too. That was fun with Harley's schizo visuals exploding onto screen also lol.

[Boredfrom]

I'm absolutely expecting Haunted Chocolatier to have a similar "we were just having too good a time making it while totally funded by and secure from the success of the previous game" story. Makes me really ponder just how much human creativity we're squandering on the altar of capitalism in general.

Really glad that people are going to be able to play this soon!

I just can’t with these dudes…

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/accented-cinema-movies-need-to-shut-up.1273392/page-3#post-144042615

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Ableist Rhetoric

Netflix content is specifically designed for the ADHD second screen no attention span generation. Civilization is already cooked.

[Boredfrom]

It lowkey reminds me of Deltarune's dev situation, which is similarly - and technically - indie beyond 8-4's assistance with localization. Undertale's success gave Toby Fox a ton of cash that allows him & crew to work on Deltarune with little pressure; the big difference between his team and Team Cherry however, is that dude's made an habit to keep fans consistently updated on whatever progress they do even if it's small.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lost-soul-aside-hype.1271760/page-3#post-144046848

 User banned (permanent): Their be a troll account hear

hype isnt their anymore for me. took too long to come out and now these kind of games are a little more common

There*, dumbass

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-panhandlers-in-your-area-becoming-aggressive.1274049/

 User Banned (1 Week): Creating Inflammatory & Insensitive Thread

Where I live, there are panhandlers at every major intersection and shopping areas. Most of these people are in organized rings. Some will bring their entire family out with them, sometimes faking playing violin music piped through a speaker.

The problem now is they are increasingly aggressive. They will come up to peoples cars to tap on their windows or stand right in front holding their sign. Ive had them come up to me inside the grocery store and ask to buy an entire cart of groceries for them. I have to assume people are still giving out cash to them since they seem to be increasing in numbers.

[BIONIC]

And I'll gladly argue that multiplayer gaming requires more empathy than watching the fantastic 4 at the cinema.

CrystalFang STOP FUCKING FEEDING.  YOU'VE GIVEN UP THREE SHARDS ALREADY YOU FUCKING N****R.  IF YOU CAN'T PLAY SUPPORT DC SO A BOT CAN TAKE OVER YOU FUCKING JEW-LOVING F****T

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kirby-air-riders-is-70-usd-25-gb-file-size.1273713/page-3#post-144047163

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Hostility; History of the Same

But 50 bucks feels right because it does feel budget ... why would it otherwise?

It's posts like these and your previous ones in this thread that give that Nintendo brain-blockage-fan archetype actual credibility.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-joins-nintendo-in-raising-console-prices-in-response-to-trumps-tariffs.1275837/page-2#post-144113475

 User banned (1 week): Ableism

But internet told me it's only Nintendo that is greedy by having high prices currently. What is good guy PS doing? Reeeeeeee

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lost-soul-aside-hype.1271760/page-3#post-144046848

 User banned (permanent): Their be a troll account hear

hype isnt their anymore for me. took too long to come out and now these kind of games are a little more common

There*, dumbass

First ban from Slayven?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-5-console-prices-increasing-in-u-s-beginning-august-21.1275681/page-17#post-144145275

 User banned (1 week): Inflammatory trolling

It's Trump this case. I get needing to continue pointing at the collapse of the world economy due to capitalism, but that will still be true in all other cases, you don't need to lie about the bonus round where the cause and effect is clearly due to an Orange.

Orange man bad.

But thinking it'd be any different under Harris or something is copium.

I mean many stuff would be less worse under Harris or anyone other than the Donald, but in this case not so much.

[NekoFever]

Gaming/tech journalists are just another marketing arm of the industry, when will people learn? It would be less embarrassing and more accurate to say "I'm pursuing marketing as a career" than "I'm pursuing gaming journalism as a career".

Every single colleague I worked with when I was in the games press who remained in the industry went into marketing/“community management”. It was just seen as the next natural step in the career path — the same job but more money.

The article that led to Rab Florence leaving Eurogamer was about how close the media and marketing people were. This was shortly before they all started creating ethics policies because people started to ask questions about all the freebies and extravagant review trips.

[simiansmarts]

And I'll gladly argue that multiplayer gaming requires more empathy than watching the fantastic 4 at the cinema.

CrystalFang STOP FUCKING FEEDING.  YOU'VE GIVEN UP THREE SHARDS ALREADY YOU FUCKING N****R.  IF YOU CAN'T PLAY SUPPORT DC SO A BOT CAN TAKE OVER YOU FUCKING JEW-LOVING F****T

JeffMarvel uses social media like he's in front of a live studio audience. He needs to step away from the computer for five minutes loooool

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/accented-cinema-movies-need-to-shut-up.1273392/page-3#post-144042615

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Ableist Rhetoric

Netflix content is specifically designed for the ADHD second screen no attention span generation. Civilization is already cooked.

“low attention” = i sleep
“attention deficit” = Real Shit

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-respons-to-bed-bath-beyond-after-ceo-says-they-will-not-open-any-stores-in-cali-because-it-is-too-regulated.1277526/page-2#post-144168636

being openly transphobic is not just "shitty"
it's actively genocidal in today's climate

On top of him being genocidal to homeless, which are about as targeted right now

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-475

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I had (probably still have in parent's basement) the MegaZord toy.  


Coincidentally, I think ZEO was the end of when I watched. Then they got cars and some kid was part of the team then they went into space or something.

look at this guy downplaying the peak of the power rangers cinematic universe.



MIGHTY ENGINES ROAR
TURBO CHARGED FOR MORE

Blueballs is right. This site is factually wrong on so many things.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

cum

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-respons-to-bed-bath-beyond-after-ceo-says-they-will-not-open-any-stores-in-cali-because-it-is-too-regulated.1277526/page-2#post-144167556

you don't need to hand it to the transphobe...

I do wonder how much less hype he would get if it was blatant homophobia...or racism instead. His two main awful stances, transphobia and anti-homeless are the two things people in general tend to be able to gloss over.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Clicky you still need to vote for him if he becomes the dem nom.