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

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Hasan is a net positive for the left. He doesn't always phrase things in the best ways but he's consistent on topics. Him being rich hasn't changed that, which I think is telling. Like any left leaning political influencer, I will judge them off how consistent they adhere to their beliefs.

It is crazy that people still give Hasan shit for the most middle of the road take on the Ukraine/Russia war though.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-looking-to-ban-transgender-people-from-having-a-gun-and-declaring-them-%E2%80%98mentally-ill%E2%80%99-report.1289226/page-3#post-144713934

My 12 Gauge probably won't do much, but if it comes down to it I'm going down swinging.

Fun to think about how far you would have to go back in the GAF/Era timeline for this kind of post to be considered ban worthy but now it’s just another regular day in the office.

[kaleidoscopium]

This is my experience from most Hasan clips I've seen.

*Starts playing a video he is supposed to be reacting to. Pauses after two seconds and goes on ten minute rant. Starts the video again but instead of watching he scrolls through his chat looking for a comment that will annoy him. Finds one. Pause video again and goes on 20 minute rant aimed at the comment. Starts video again. Gets up and leaves while the video is playing. Comes back a minute later with a plate of food. Starts eating. Repeat ad nauseum.*

Sure he's a net positive for the left. But I can't stand watching him.

I mean I don't want someone to just sit in silence and watch a video. The entire point of his streams are to use these videos as jumping off points for discussions for him to help educate people on issues.
Yeah, he often gets stun locked by chat but that's because he actually CARES when people start spreading misinformation in his chat.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-hasan-piker.1289370/page-4#post-144727647

“You see, he’s only retarded because he just cares SO MUCH” 

[Rendle]

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/talks-of-labeling-every-trans-american-as-a-domestic-terrorist-are-now-on-the-table.1289262/#post-144712893 

I'm mad, like tears running down my face mad, like... I hate this, I hate the entire US System, I hate this so much.

First our boy Echoes is stuck on TERF Island, now the United States is becoming the United TERFs

They should take advantage of all those other countries that are so much better than the US or UK and that have completely open borders and take their saleable skills there. I'm sure China and Russia are just champing at the bit to take unemployed autistic trans people. It MUST be better than living in TERF island or bigot central.

[Potato]

'Cause I see your real face, and it's ugly as sin
Time to put you in your place, 'cause you're rotten within
When your patterns start to show
It makes the hatrеd wanna grow outta my veins

I don't think you're ready for thе takedown
Break you into pieces in the world of pain 'cause you're all the same
Yeah, it's a takedown
A demon with no feelings don't deserve to live, it's so obvious

what were they trying to imply? 

Benji, can you murder Gameboy in the digital realm?

Not only do I have to listen to this shit at home, I've gotta put up with it here too?

My concerns are very much dismissed!

[Potato]

Might get in trouble for saying it but if they start to label us as domestic terrorists.... I'm just sitting here, wondering. C;

And I don't care what moderator knows this I am armed, trained and proficient in two different martial arts. Let them try. I ain't going back to the closet.



Oh and for those thinking I'm going too extreme replace LGBT people with "Christian/Judeo" religious beliefs as "mentally unwell" and see what would happen. Oh? It's different because persecution complex? Lol

Proficient

Absolutely criminal this was posted with no username or link to the post. How do I know who I'm laughing at when there's no way to see?

[Potato]

if you're trained in anything that's not MMA or krav I'm not going to take your martial arts seriously

Muay Thai?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I'll accept that 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

how much is he selling that shirt for?

Fuck streamers btw

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

They should take advantage of all those other countries that are so much better than the US or UK and that have completely open borders and take their saleable skills there. I'm sure China and Russia are just champing at the bit to take unemployed autistic trans people. It MUST be better than living in TERF island or bigot central.

Depends on the state of their organs.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/talks-of-labeling-every-trans-american-as-a-domestic-terrorist-are-now-on-the-table.1289262/#post-144712893 

I'm mad, like tears running down my face mad, like... I hate this, I hate the entire US System, I hate this so much.

First our boy Echoes is stuck on TERF Island, now the United States is becoming the United TERFs

They should take advantage of all those other countries that are so much better than the US or UK and that have completely open borders and take their saleable skills there. I'm sure China and Russia are just champing at the bit to take unemployed autistic trans people. It MUST be better than living in TERF island or bigot central.

Why are you forgetting Iran?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jagex-ceo-says-they-scrapped-annual-runescape-pride-parade-was-to-%E2%80%9Cprotect-the-imminent-future-of-the-game%E2%80%9D-despite-online-protests.1289388/

Jagex can't win. Put in pride, people leave. Take out pride, people leave. Maybe make a poll for the actual players next time!

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-51#post-144730092

New Poll from Yahoo News / YouGov showing Newsom ahead:

I mean, we're not even in 2026 yet, a lot can happen between now and June 2028. Hopefully Pritzker can eek out a lead sometime soon, he just needs more people pushing him.

why is era caping for some former AIPAC zionist who aided the genocide?

[Boredfrom]

My understanding is he continues to deny that mass rape by Hamas occurred on October 7th. I find anyone doing so completely reprehensible in the face of substantive documented evidence.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/1kdbzor/hasan_doubles_down_on_denying_mass_rapes_on/

LSF is a cesspool of Destiny fans, worst place in the world to litigate Hasan. Hasan has the same take as Ta-Nehesi Coates that nothing excuses apartheid and genocide. That's the whole point when putting atrocities into context.

What I know is Hamas committed mass rape on October 7th and that had been thoroughly documented and this Hasan guy is on video denying it. Hence, "terrible person".

that's insane propaganda from haters, don't fall for that BS.

In general you can ignore whatever that subreddit says.

Hasan never said rapes didn't happen. Both Hamas and the IDF have committed acts of sexual violence. But you are repeating dishonest talking points that are most commonly stated in harassment groups and in communities belonging to actual monsters like Destiny and Ethan Klein.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-hasan-piker.1289370/page-4#post-144727146

These people are truly brainwashed

The moment that Hassan tries to go deeper than surface level rich Muslim champagne socialist, is the moment he becomes less popular and he knows it.

He attracts people because he is “uncompromising” (or more selective in what atrocities to complain about  ) while being a good looking man that watches one piece. Is the idea of the social conscious Nerd that EraWokies like have been claiming for since the beginning of modern Internet geekdom since more than 2 decades ago. But he cannot go deeper than propaganda talking points and has not the talent of someone like Coetes to sell this ideas beyond dumb Gen Z retards. That’s why his attempts to go to mainstream political coverage has always ended in disaster or getting kicked out. 

Entremet is stupid if he thinks he has any intention to go deeper or meaningful beyond becoming a leftist Rogan if he discovers how to appeal to a more general public.

[Boredfrom]

They should take advantage of all those other countries that are so much better than the US or UK and that have completely open borders and take their saleable skills there. I'm sure China and Russia are just champing at the bit to take unemployed autistic trans people. It MUST be better than living in TERF island or bigot central.

Depends on the state of their organs.

Some leftist article two days ago: The west should stop considering Putin as a supervillain monster if they want to end the Ukrainian conflict.

https://theconversation.com/the-wests-image-of-vladimir-putin-as-an-untrustworthy-monster-is-getting-in-the-way-of-peace-in-ukraine-264204

Literally next day: Putin and Xi discuss supervillain stuff like trying to live forever by organ transplants.  

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Leftist don't care if Xi is gathering organs from Uyghurs. Just like BLUEMAGA to ignore genocides huh? 

[Boredfrom]

Concord devs blame marketing for not being able to market a unmarketable game:

Reading some of the excerpts, yeah you could tell this was a game made by talented, passionate, compassionate people.

Why? It didn't feel abusive when I spent time playing it, unlike the vast majority of online FPS/multiplayer games today.

Makes total sense about their positive company culture. It was felt here. It was a game made by happy people, I could definitely tell. It felt earnest, not cynical, unlike the vast majority of games out there (esp the stuff people like to champion in contrast against this).

And it's exactly a huge point as to why it was so viscerally and doggedly attacked.

So many games out there just demand so much of your time, money, attention, and are just such drags on your emotions. This game was only concerned with one thing: having fun.

Wasn’t the whole problem the toxic positivity that made them unaware of how much their product sucked?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ex-concord-devs-interview-on-a-life-well-wasted-podcast-it-was-the-most-beautiful-car-that-we-crashed.1289436/page-3#post-144732399

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Wouldn't be a Concord thread without DeliciousSunnyD!

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-director-for-bloober-teams-cronos-the-new-dawn-insists-theres-no-feminist-agenda-here-with-their-choice-for-a-female-protagonist.1289514/

They're actually mad about this

[jooseloose]

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=379&pid=146114#pid146114

They're passive aggressive cowards so seek to avoid any open confrontation and want to manipulate all situations to their advantage by setting up favorable conditions.

Does this dude have zero self awareness? It's exactly what he's doing. Stalking people and talking about them on a circlejerk forum where everyone agrees with him. He doesn't even have the balls to try to reply to them. 

[jooseloose]

This was such a good show. Wish it was still around, they'd be having a field day with AI storylines.

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-director-for-bloober-teams-cronos-the-new-dawn-insists-theres-no-feminist-agenda-here-with-their-choice-for-a-female-protagonist.1289514/

They're actually mad about this

Hmmm

Very weird they felt the need to say anything. This line in particular,

it's "more interesting to have a female protagonist in some strange suit in a sci-fi setting than to put another male one."

Acting like its a novelty and we haven't had Samus Aran existing for however many decades. Also maybe not in a "strange suit" but Ellen Ripley says hi from way back in the late 70s for women protags in survival horror scenarios.

If this is some pandering to the chuds angle for sales that's even sadder.

That line is literally what Era comes out with on a daily basis though? 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

what if banning trans folx from guns is the GOPs attempt to lure the Dems into becoming more pro gun 

[Chumbawumbafan69]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ex-concord-devs-interview-on-a-life-well-wasted-podcast-it-was-the-most-beautiful-car-that-we-crashed.1289436/page-4#post-144734730

Lol.

People's reading comprehension is terrible. Though I may also struggle to properly articulate my position at times too, which is totally fair.

It's why I won't articulate more seriously about this here beyond this post now, but I will still write about this game.

But let me write a little more here now, to speak more honestly about this/try to clear this up as it is something I feel very seriously about. Not about Concord itself necessarily (which I am passionate about ofc), but regarding what's happening beyond games. The fascism, specifically.

When I was writing about that originally, I was saying that the broader collective reaction towards this game was a harbinger/reflection of a fascist culture in swing. And I think it's pretty hard to deny. A few months later, Donald Trump was back in office and I wasn't surprised in the slightest. You and most other people may not see it, but the reaction towards this game absolutely was a "canary in the cultural coal mine" moment. On top of all the other ones, that is.

The most popular FPS games in the world, despite their quality year in and out, are FPS games that are aimed at more real world, militarized action. The fetishization of real military force is ever increasing and ever more popular.

This is a game that featured an openly trans person, and this is a society that is in the act of committing genocide against trans people. Full stop. No minced words. One of the parts in the process of committing genocide against a group of people is to destroy works in which they are referenced.

While it wasn't one-to-one like a government, top down true fascist government "book banning" style event, the level of cheerful, joined in glee in celebrating this game's destruction was very eerily similar. "Yes, make the thing we despise be destroyed! Join in everyone and point and laugh!". Just a bunch of real hatred towards something that was actually, legitimately very good/well made. A big ole hate circle jerk resulting in destroyed art. And a bunch of people coming away thinking they were 'better off' as a result somehow.

Just because most other people can't see video games through a broader and more critical media lens, doesn't mean there aren't people out there who ARE capable of doing so.

Never did I mean that people who didn't like the game or who had legitimate criticisms or whatever were "fascists". That's ridiculous. This game absolutely wasn't for everybody as I've tried to speak to numerous times. But I do think the broad treatment, the fear of speaking more honestly favorably due to the crowd pressure (this was a thing that legitimately happened), etc. etc. were all very reflective of a culture that is in the process of being subsumed by fascist forces. It was another reflection of the times.

I would really love to see a more serious examination on this specific topic (Concord's treatment sure, but the general importance and role video games and the internet have played in building and normalizing this new 21st century fascist culture/how they have affected people's material conditions to better facilitate such a thing), but it will likely never happen. At least not in my lifetime.

Is gaming still too young of a medium to be seen through a more critical lens? I think it is. And with the way things are heading, it's hard to see it changing more broadly any time soon anyway.

Yeah, yeah. Concord was a goofy ass, multimillion dollar, historically unsuccessful, super niche massive failure of a weird FPS multiplayer game. But it WAS legitimately great, idc what anyone thinks/says. And it WAS treated as if it were legitimately bad, yet it was anything but. It'd be baffling to me, but it really isn't.

So the reaction to it fits wholly perfectly in an "up is down", "the sky is green and the grass is blue", and "war is peace" kind of topsy-turvy world we find ourselves in. I fully stand by these thoughts.

It is very clear that people's collective ability to discern quality/judge character is eroding. Just look at the President of the United States (and all the other fascist dictators occupying office the globe over). And my point deploying that language the entire time is that Concord's failure is just reflective of the state of things. In the good timeline, it definitely would have found its people and not been destroyed.

This is almost as insane as your average Benji post.

[jooseloose]

Thinking Concord was bad = GENOCIDE

[Besticus Maximus]

Why... the FUCK is trans genocide being brought up in response to people not liking Concord, like what the fuck??

Didn't you know that literally everything is about trans weeaboos?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ex-concord-devs-interview-on-a-life-well-wasted-podcast-it-was-the-most-beautiful-car-that-we-crashed.1289436/page-4#post-144734730

Lol.

People's reading comprehension is terrible. Though I may also struggle to properly articulate my position at times too, which is totally fair.

It's why I won't articulate more seriously about this here beyond this post now, but I will still write about this game.

But let me write a little more here now, to speak more honestly about this/try to clear this up as it is something I feel very seriously about. Not about Concord itself necessarily (which I am passionate about ofc), but regarding what's happening beyond games. The fascism, specifically.

When I was writing about that originally, I was saying that the broader collective reaction towards this game was a harbinger/reflection of a fascist culture in swing. And I think it's pretty hard to deny. A few months later, Donald Trump was back in office and I wasn't surprised in the slightest. You and most other people may not see it, but the reaction towards this game absolutely was a "canary in the cultural coal mine" moment. On top of all the other ones, that is.

The most popular FPS games in the world, despite their quality year in and out, are FPS games that are aimed at more real world, militarized action. The fetishization of real military force is ever increasing and ever more popular.

This is a game that featured an openly trans person, and this is a society that is in the act of committing genocide against trans people. Full stop. No minced words. One of the parts in the process of committing genocide against a group of people is to destroy works in which they are referenced.

While it wasn't one-to-one like a government, top down true fascist government "book banning" style event, the level of cheerful, joined in glee in celebrating this game's destruction was very eerily similar. "Yes, make the thing we despise be destroyed! Join in everyone and point and laugh!". Just a bunch of real hatred towards something that was actually, legitimately very good/well made. A big ole hate circle jerk resulting in destroyed art. And a bunch of people coming away thinking they were 'better off' as a result somehow.

Just because most other people can't see video games through a broader and more critical media lens, doesn't mean there aren't people out there who ARE capable of doing so.

Never did I mean that people who didn't like the game or who had legitimate criticisms or whatever were "fascists". That's ridiculous. This game absolutely wasn't for everybody as I've tried to speak to numerous times. But I do think the broad treatment, the fear of speaking more honestly favorably due to the crowd pressure (this was a thing that legitimately happened), etc. etc. were all very reflective of a culture that is in the process of being subsumed by fascist forces. It was another reflection of the times.

I would really love to see a more serious examination on this specific topic (Concord's treatment sure, but the general importance and role video games and the internet have played in building and normalizing this new 21st century fascist culture/how they have affected people's material conditions to better facilitate such a thing), but it will likely never happen. At least not in my lifetime.

Is gaming still too young of a medium to be seen through a more critical lens? I think it is. And with the way things are heading, it's hard to see it changing more broadly any time soon anyway.

Yeah, yeah. Concord was a goofy ass, multimillion dollar, historically unsuccessful, super niche massive failure of a weird FPS multiplayer game. But it WAS legitimately great, idc what anyone thinks/says. And it WAS treated as if it were legitimately bad, yet it was anything but. It'd be baffling to me, but it really isn't.

So the reaction to it fits wholly perfectly in an "up is down", "the sky is green and the grass is blue", and "war is peace" kind of topsy-turvy world we find ourselves in. I fully stand by these thoughts.

It is very clear that people's collective ability to discern quality/judge character is eroding. Just look at the President of the United States (and all the other fascist dictators occupying office the globe over). And my point deploying that language the entire time is that Concord's failure is just reflective of the state of things. In the good timeline, it definitely would have found its people and not been destroyed.

This is almost as insane as your average Benji post.

Arugala

Go get some fresh air

DeliciousSunnyD!

Don't worry, I'm good dude. This is something I've thought very seriously about for almost 20 years. Long before Concord was even a thing; this is a topic that goes beyond Concord for me. But Concord specifically was a moment for the medium juxtaposed against broader culture that I won't forget, that's for sure.

I understand that most people will read what I write in these threads regarding this game (and this specific topic) and roll their eyes/"get a load of this guy!". And well, I don't give a shit about those people lol. Trust me, I'm very self-aware here. My thoughts here are not for "normal people consumption", but I've typed them out anyway.
I will bite my tongue on this further, because I'm not trying to rile people up/cause shit fights. I'm just trying to espouse my true, honest thoughts regarding this game and the broader, collective response to it.

[imsotired]

Concord was a seminal moment in the culture wars, when the right side eventually comes on top it'll be in the history textbooks.   

[malfoyking]

Concord. That shit-ass game where they gave a fucking robot a pronoun. It was made to virtue signal to the gender cultists like Tha Veilguard was.