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

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Factually incorrect.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

that cammy art is the furthest away from a fat ass that I've ever seen for her.

[HaughtyFrank]

 




   




BOOK EM, DETECTIVE MESS

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/post-144534024

:o first time seeing that, didn't know there was more to the image.

[Taco Bell Tower]

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rttp-resident-evil-5-looks-amazing-without-the-piss-green-filter.1285200/#post-144532389

Yeah it looks super good without the racism filter.

^

Yep. One big thing I hope they fix if they remake it. That and removing forced coop.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Thought experiment:

You're tasked with making a sequel to ResetEra. There isn't a huge backlash like there was with GAF > Era, but instead, notable members make it known they are unhappy with the status quo and so, in dribs-and-drabs, new (read: Era) members start signing up to this NewResetEra site over a period of weeks and months.

I think we are all fairly on the same page with what issues the site currently has; idiotic moderation, fealty to 'famous' members, inconsistent moderating, extremely poor/non-existent communication with the wider community, and then site-wide decisions being made by cliques. Then on top of that, you have users like Echoes/Fat etc. who put on 'trans' labels in order to be able to deflect from any criticisms and generally act like lairy creeps.

What rules do you put in place to deal with that? You're not transphobic, but you don't want to appease the infantilised weirdos who are acting as trans. What do?

We are not responsible for your mental health.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rttp-resident-evil-5-looks-amazing-without-the-piss-green-filter.1285200/#post-144532389

Yeah it looks super good without the racism filter.

^

Yep. One big thing I hope they fix if they remake it. That and removing forced coop.

Removed forced coop, huh?  What's wrong with Shiva?  

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

NotDaRealSlimShady and Something Creative, both men, hopping into the thread to get their good boy points. 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

But wait.... how did he know to do this? I actually didn't suspect anything sus about his current avatar, unlike his last avatar which clearly looked like some sort of hentai version of cammy. Does he just random search images on the fly or something?

His previous avatar was definitely from the same artist, despite now claiming he has never seen the full image though. lol.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

It is the perfect time to get your sock puppets into the thread to be honest. Go dunk on the fake feminist.  

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

My avatar is a work of art, paid for with hood burger funds.

Art? More like a work of FART. 

Boom. Gottem'

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

that cammy art is the furthest away from a fat ass that I've ever seen for her.

It's just a regular sized ass.

[DavidCroquet]

Messy knows because he is polishing his hog to this and worse nonstop, obviously.

[Alpacx]

that cammy art is the furthest away from a fat ass that I've ever seen for her.

It's just a regular sized ass.

No regular woman with a regular ass would wear regular tight athleisure clothing in public.

I know because I'm a trans incel who never leaves the house.

[Snoopy]

Remember that ree who went apeshit because someone had the same avatar as him on a different site. I think it was a mod

[Taco Bell Tower]

Remember that ree who went apeshit because someone had the same avatar as him on a different site. I think it was a mod

Yeah, it wasn't even his original idea either lol
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-am-having-an-existential-crisis-because-some-random-person-has-an-avatar-like-mine-update-now-a-cowboy-and-doing-a-giveaway.360361/

As I have become a cowboy I am now giving away cowboy games. Thanks.

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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a headless suit. To me, being a suit was better than being President of the United States. Even before I first wandered into the chatroom for an after-school troll, I knew what I wanted for my avatar.

I have always taken this form. Back in the bad old days I used imagery specifically from Elite Beat Agents. I made this in Paint based on a few different sprite rips and cleaned it up one pixel at a time.

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But over time I moved away from my EBA origins. I have no artistic talent to speak of — I struggle very much with pen and pencil, digital or otherwise. But wanting something truly original, I made something all myself. It looked terrible, but it was my own work and I was proud of that.

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But I knew it could be better. Over the next few months I saved to properly pay an artist to redraw the art from scratch with some actual talent. I started with an artist here I really admired who produced a sketch for me to use as a basis going forward.

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Then I found an artist on Twitter who I asked to redraw it however they wanted and I would pay them regardless of the result. She returned me this, which I wore briefly as my first professionally drawn avatar.

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But I didn't love the posture and wanted something a little more tradmasc, so I found a fledgling artist who I was impressed with specifically because of how they drew men's fashion. I approached them with my concept and they brought back the first "perfect" version of the avatar, which I wore from then on. To a lot of people on the internet, this is what I look like. This is Finale Fireworker.

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But mid-2019 to mid-2020 was a rough time for me. I went through a lot of things that really pushed me to the brink of my personal fortitude. Without paying too much mind to the diversion, I wasn't sure if I was going to make it. But I did. And as I worked through this stuff, I felt like it was time for a change. It was time to switch out of the suit — at least for a while — and in to business casual. A very talented friend of mine redrew my avatar yet again as a gift into the shirt and suspenders I wear to today.

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My avatar, my consistent face online, has followed me through many formative years of my life. It is how I've presented and how I've been perceived for close to 10 years. At no point in this continuum have I ever looked any different online and I never doubted what I looked like. This was me.

Enter @SuccessfulStra3, a random account that showed up on my timeline as a promoted tweet: https://twitter.com/successfulstra3?s=21

They are a mundane account. They have 7,000 followers and mostly tweet vague affirmations and aspirations about "business" and "doing business." But their avatar is... me.

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I know logically that this is not really me. I am not a creative genius. It is very normal and natural that someone else would have come up with this idea at some point. The imagery probably occurred to them just as easily as it occurred to me. I do not believe they stole it from me or that my insignificant existence had any influence on this equally insignificant Twitter account.

And yet I feel... compromised. To look on my own image and see not myself has thrust me coldly in to the reflecting pool. What do I do now? Who am I? If someone else can be me, who was I ever? Can I still be me knowing that someone else is too?

I have seen my doppelgänger. I rehearsed this moment so many times in my head. I knew that if I faced them with imperfect courage I would end up trapped in the Black Lodge — maybe forever. And now that they are here I know I have failed this test of character. By virtue of their existence, my own existence has ceased.

Really makes you think. Maybe I should reinvent myself.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

From the Trump dying conspiracy theory fun thread:

Where all the moral high grounders from the Biden cancer thread?

Man fuck that thread lol
I caught a 3 month ban in that one

User banned (1 month): blatantly misrepresenting prior ban

[benji]

Full post:

User banned (1 month): blatantly misrepresenting prior ban

Man fuck that thread lol

I caught a 3 month ban in that one

You will never guess why

I talked about genocide deniers broadly instead of reporting individual posts

a bannable offense in this anti progressive liberal hellscape of a site

Lib staff helping this progressive to avoid the hellscape?

[Boredfrom]

I would like to say, what were SIE smoking when they greenlighted this game's concept? An utterly ham-fisted and trite commentary on class dynamics and wealth inequality, wrapped in Fortnite-esque art and irreverence. With absolutely nothing worthwile to say. A cheap, capitalistic and deeply ironic cash grab on a serious issue. If anything over the years that shows Sony lost the plot, it's this game.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fairgames-director-daniel-drapeau-has-departed-haven-according-to-linkedin.1285329/

I mean, not wrong but the usual “capitalismcapitalismcapitalism” is getting old.

Also, ‘serious issue’ as if wealth inequality has never been discussed seriously.

[Boredfrom]

I can't wait for this game to underpeform out the gate and Sony just fucking nukes the game and studio from existence before they can rebound again.

Don’t worry, all is pointing to this game to be nuked (and the studio closing) before release.

I certainly hope they aren't that ruthless again, but we'll see.

Most companies like to burn money in a lost cause.  

 

The thing is I wonder about Sony's ability to judge whether a GAAS will be successful or not during development. If they didn't notice the signs with Concord, Destruction All Stars etc then they might not notice until it’s too late with this one.

“But if they do… I hope they stick to the devs and lose a lot of more money. For a game I would not play.”

But yeah, I imagine they don’t want another Concord. 

Then the one who actually greenlit it gets off scot free while the developers are thrown under the bus...

What if those developers were there to make this kind of game, to begin with?

[nampad]

From the Trump dying conspiracy theory fun thread:

Where all the moral high grounders from the Biden cancer thread?

Man fuck that thread lol
I caught a 3 month ban in that one

User banned (1 month): blatantly misrepresenting prior ban

That is one of the worst ban messages 🥶
Moderation is full of thin skinned losers hiding behind their ability to ban people.

[Boredfrom]

Kiyamet is an asshole thought. He only gets banned because he goes uppity towards the mods, because otherwise is HAMAS TIME!

[HaughtyFrank]

I would like to say, what were SIE smoking when they greenlighted this game's concept? An utterly ham-fisted and trite commentary on class dynamics and wealth inequality, wrapped in Fortnite-esque art and irreverence. With absolutely nothing worthwile to say. A cheap, capitalistic and deeply ironic cash grab on a serious issue. If anything over the years that shows Sony lost the plot, it's this game.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fairgames-director-daniel-drapeau-has-departed-haven-according-to-linkedin.1285329/

I mean, not wrong but the usual “capitalismcapitalismcapitalism” is getting old.

Also, ‘serious issue’ as if wealth inequality has never been discussed seriously.

If anything I'd say an empty critic that has nothing to say beyond "capitalism, am I right?" is exactly what Resetera craves

[Potato]

I honestly think Hashino is just a deeply immature person. Even in Metaphor the game is less SEXUALLY weird but its internal politics are the dumbest, most juvenile I've ever seen. In a game that wants to be deeply political, the game's core thesis statement is so blitheringly stupid it makes my head spin.

I can only assume that everything Hashino writes, he does so from the perspective of what he thinks a 13-year-old straight boy would agree with and think is cool, even though he's in his fifties and hasn't been a 13-year-old boy for almost half a century.

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-485#post-144508839

Said unironically on a forum where the admin genuinely thinks going back to a barter system is how the world should progress to solve inequality...

[Uncle]

Trump winding these idiots up by not being in public for 24 hours is the greatest part of this. He has them in the palm of his hand. 

They need to pray Trump doesn't die because if Vance becomes head then their worried Project 2025 has more of a chance happening under him. 

Project 2025 is already happening though. About 50% completed in just a bit over 7 months now.

if that's actually true then wow, it sure doesn't seem to have been such a bad thing after all

[Chumbawumbafan69]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a24-launching-an-ai-division.1285140/

As A24 wants to get bigger, they're becoming as awful as the rest. Wonder if filmmakers will jump ship and go elsewhere. Don't know many auteur filmmakers who fuck with AI except for Darren Aronofsky.



https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs

Legacy studios such as Sony Pictures have attempted to buy a stake in A24; instead, the company has opted to take Wall Street money, preferring not to be drawn into what one executive called Hollywood's "hundred years of doing things a certain way." But emphasizing innovation comes with other hazards. Thrive Capital, which helped to secure A24's $3.5-billion valuation, is also a major backer of OpenAI, and A24 courted the firm specifically for its artificial-intelligence connections. Scott Belsky, the head of A24 Labs, the studio's tech initiative, has embarked on a listening tour, speaking with filmmakers about how they might benefit from such advances. Not everyone is likely to be receptive. Aster recently told Letterboxd, "If you talk to these engineers and the people ushering this A.I. in, they don't talk about A.I. as this great new medium. . . . They talk about it as a god." Daniel Kwan, the co-director of "Everything Everywhere All at Once," has described A.I. as "fundamentally incompatible with our institutions," calling on studios to form "a unified front against the tech industry."

Belsky is building a team of engineers and designers who—in his words—"see storytelling as the ultimate delivery mechanism for inspiration and hard truths." His mandate is partly to develop tools for internal use, including some in the realms of predictive marketing and audience discovery, but he has said that his goal is to help "the world's greatest creators take more creative risk" by making it easier to "explore the full landscape of their imagination," from ideation onward. He's speculated about such use cases as "a deep conversation with an LLM to debate a character's mindset" and "pre-visualizing characters, costumes, and particular scenes." Nandan told me, "There's talent toe-dipping into it, and we want Scott to be a guide for them." A.I., he mused, could let the studio target "microcommunities": "You can maybe make something that's valuable for a thousand people, because the cost is cheap enough that it doesn't have to reach ten million people ."

Hero to Villain in the blink of an eye

The irony of all this outrage about AI being slop is that anything that makes filmmaking (or gaming or anything creative) cheaper can shrink reliance on mega-budget, focus-group capeshit garbage that needs mass-appeal in order to turn a profit.  More room for mid-budget, original films, reducing the volume of formulaic franchise crap is a good thing, and if AI can help, then great.  It literally says A24’s push explicitly aims to lower costs and target niche “microcommunities” which supports a market less dominated by these mass-market tentpoles and more by auters or distinct voices who take creative risks.  

At this point, the only thing that can make Street Fighter 3/KOF13-level sprite animation in games economically viable again is AI.

This is how we get our WLW warhammer 40k period piece.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Trump winding these idiots up by not being in public for 24 hours is the greatest part of this. He has them in the palm of his hand. 

They need to pray Trump doesn't die because if Vance becomes head then their worried Project 2025 has more of a chance happening under him. 

Project 2025 is already happening though. About 50% completed in just a bit over 7 months now.

if that's actually true then wow, it sure doesn't seem to have been such a bad thing after all

we truly live in the age of the handmaid's tale.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-79-clasps-both-hands-in-desperate-bid-to-cover-up-bruises.1280079/page-51#post-144547041

[Boredfrom]

Trump winding these idiots up by not being in public for 24 hours is the greatest part of this. He has them in the palm of his hand. 

They need to pray Trump doesn't die because if Vance becomes head then their worried Project 2025 has more of a chance happening under him. 

Project 2025 is already happening though. About 50% completed in just a bit over 7 months now.

if that's actually true then wow, it sure doesn't seem to have been such a bad thing after all

Uncle, why?

[Boredfrom]

I honestly think Hashino is just a deeply immature person. Even in Metaphor the game is less SEXUALLY weird but its internal politics are the dumbest, most juvenile I've ever seen. In a game that wants to be deeply political, the game's core thesis statement is so blitheringly stupid it makes my head spin.

I can only assume that everything Hashino writes, he does so from the perspective of what he thinks a 13-year-old straight boy would agree with and think is cool, even though he's in his fifties and hasn't been a 13-year-old boy for almost half a century.

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-485#post-144508839

While I don’t think that modern Persona games and Metaphor are incredibly written and without flaws… those games resonate with their intended audience (teenagers and young adults). If anything, I think both Persona 5 and Metaphor are a lot more progressive and political than the burka thread are willing to admit, only because they tend to ignore anything that would contradict them.

Also, what is juvenile politics for Resetera? We are talking about a forum that thinks Capitalism is the root of all evil, that murdering politicians is okay and jeans ads promote eugenics. 

It is always funny how much ERA seems to hate those games, but are first on the line to buy them.