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

[Uncle]

now THAT would've been

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disturbing

[benji]

You guys are being mean, let's see how you look when you're... 45?!?

[Uncle]

(45 to be read in this tone of voice)

[HaughtyFrank]

(45 to be read in this tone of voice)

was hoping for Plinkett, well done

Also appropriate:

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ars-technica-mods-react-as-reddit-kicks-some-of-them-out-again-%E2%80%9Cthis-will-break-the-site%E2%80%9D.1299813/#post-145262889

That's not a huge deal, is it? Not modding more than 5 subreddits with that many visitors sounds very reasonable.

Think of the person taht does that.....just picture them

Done. What now?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mercedes-amg-wants-its-future-cars-to-pass-the-batman-test.1299747/#post-145258044

“the cars need enough interior space where you could fuck batman” that’s the test right

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[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

boysclub?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yougov-poll-trump-is-well-underwater-almost-everywhere.1299393/

Dang. I hope he's able to bounce back for re-election... Wait a second. 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

You guys are being mean, let's see how you look when you're... 45?!?

As a 45 year old who doesn't look like Jabba the Hut..



The closet you'd get is if she wore my skin like a costume, but that would be like wearing a hospital gown several sizes too small.

[Polident]

Just got this shitehawk fired from Jimmy John’s for saying Alita Battle Angel doesn’t deserve a sequel. It’s a new day out there.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Just got this shitehawk fired from Jimmy John’s for saying Alita Battle Angel doesn’t deserve a sequel. It’s a new day out there.

fucking based

[Garfield]

Resetera now praising an article by Coates saying that Charlie Kirk advanced the "terrorization of the Black population" and other nonsense.

They also seem to think the shooter was some "conservative white boy that just happened to have a furry boyfriend that claimed to be a woman" and one of the leftists they read even claimed that "the shooter is straight because he dated a woman*" (*woman being defined as a person with a penis that claims to be a woman)

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-orders-slavery-era-photo-removed-from-national-parks-and-museums.1299402/

To be fair, this is how the country has largely operated for most of its history. Like, John Brown didn't become canonized in our collective canon of heroes for a reason, nor do we talk about the numerous Black political prisoners that are still behind bars in inhumane conditions on bullshit charges since the civil rights era.

Hell, let me tell you how much Black History was pushed by this country not to actually educate people about Black radicalism and its history, but to focus on a few select figures with which to propagandize about assimilation because white people were ultimately terrified of revolution (which is why King was killed; he started talking about fighting capitalism and not just fighting for voting rights.) Hell, you don't even learn about folks like Kwame Ture, Marcus Garvey, or Patrice Lamumba until college unless you're lucky, at which point most people are not invested in Black people's collective welfare and political history to give a shit looking it up themselves, as is by design.

Remember, most people learned about Greenwood from Watchmen.

Shit is dire and I need you all to reckon with the fact that anti-Blackness and Black oppression underneath the bootheel of capitalism is just, like, the oil of this country's engine, and not an exclusive mark of Trumpism.

thank god anti-blackness and black oppression is under the bootheel of capitalism..getting crushed.  step on that shit...then the squished product is the oil that... fills the country's engine?   I dunno, that sentence made blood come out of my ears.

Like, John Brown didn't become canonized in our collective canon

Maybe she's drunk?  that would explain her jumbling of sayings, reasonings, and theories.  It's a vomited dog breakfast of regurgitated ideas she splays on a canvas for her suck ups to upvote by saying "this!," "So much!," and "thank you!" but never actually engaging with her blemish of thoughts.  

Just got this shitehawk fired from Jimmy John’s for saying Alita Battle Angel doesn’t deserve a sequel. It’s a new day out there.

What kind of asswipe doesn't want more Rosa Salazar 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

sigh.. why can't we all have a cute little transgender girlfriend..

it's not fair... if you read this you're gay. 

[benji]

sigh.. why can't we all have a cute little transgender girlfriend..

it's not fair... if you read this you're gay. 

So you're trying to deny me a trans girlfriend? Because gay men don't date women.

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                      egg post?
 

[Boredfrom]

I was so ready for this collectors edition and I hate that they fired a dev over Charlie Kirk which made me cancel my order.

I hate that I feel conflicted about it considering the amount of hate the game has gotten from the usual crowd but I just didnt feel right getting it day 1 now.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghost-of-yōtei-one-thousand-blades-trailer.1299267/page-4#post-145265499

[Boredfrom]

I've been arguing for a while now that specifically Souls-games and Souls-likes are video games that let us re-enact and reaffirm the cruelty of living under capitalism first and foremost. I've argued this point extensively on my blog: Hustling Souls — Hard games and neoliberal catharsis

https://flocksy.de/hustling-souls-hard-games-and-neoliberal-catharsis.html

That piece is explicitly about FromSoftware's games so I'm not a 100% if it applies to Silksong, too.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-makers-toolkit-whats-the-point-of-hard-games-anyway.1299264/

[benji]

I've been arguing for a while now that specifically Souls-games and Souls-likes are video games that let us re-enact and reaffirm the cruelty of living under capitalism first and foremost.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/game-makers-toolkit-whats-the-point-of-hard-games-anyway.1299264/

Well, that's stupid.

It follows, then, that the basis and the identity on which notoriously difficult games, chief among them FromSoftware's, are built on is a lie — a lie that tells us that we all start as a blank slate and that it is up to us to forge our own success. It is a lie that negates any inherent differences, that it is not normal to struggle where others easily succeed. A lie that reinforces that all that stands between us and our victory are our own weaknesses that must be overcome, that must be purged. A lie that tells us that it is on those who fail and give up if they are left behind and that those who persevere are born to lead, to dominate, to subjugate. A lie that sees us all as equals in a rivalistic world. It is the world of capitalism, the world of colonialism, of imperialism, misogyny, domination, white supremacy, the world of hegemony.

It is a lie in the real world as there is no god-given or natural law that governs that humans need to see themselves and their surroundings in a rivalistic manner. We are just as capable to help each other and to see each other as allies where we can celebrate others' victories as much as our own. Not because we benefit from their victories but because we know how it feels to achieve something and feel enjoyment simply by knowing that the other feels the emotion of achievement. Parents know this, they experience it almost every day whenever their children learn something new or are excited for something mundane. We can be and we mostly are compassionate, empathetic beings, even if we might not always know how to act like it. We are told the lie about our rivalistic world and are conditioned and socialised to accept it, to reinforce it every day because it is the most effective way to conserve our world of differences with predetermined winners and losers while simultaneously obfuscating it, placing the blame on those who are continually crushed by the oppressive difficulty of our world.

Games that focus their gameplay mechanics on providing crushingly difficult combat by necessity focus their games on reproducing the crushing realities of our world based on exploitation and domination. One needs not look any further than how they perform the lie of everyone starting out as equals by providing a character builder that — depending on the resources of the game creators —  is more or less exhaustive (and time and time again fails Black people) to then prove that only through failure and pain, by playing to the rules of this oppressive regime will they prevail. They reinforce that people with disabilities or differing sensibilities are just as superfluous to this world as are acts of solidarity and ally-ship. The cost of the catharsis from our imperialist, capitalist and colonialist world Souls games seemingly provide is the affirmation of our world as the only possible one, the negation of any alternative.

Moreover, if these Foucaultian systems of discipline and punishment in these games were then interpreted through Mark Fisher's concept of capitalist realism the games would quickly reveal themselves as the neoliberal propaganda that they are. To be unapologetic, FromSoftware's Souls games are the pinnacle of neoliberal ideology and culture production and are only enjoyable perhaps even thinkable in our globalised and financialised 21st century with all its contradictions and shortcomings. If there is a single reason why these games are as successful as they are it's because they are the gamification of (living under) neoliberalism par excellence.

What is important, though, is to interrogate why we do and enjoy the things we do. If we play these kinds of games because we feel we have to because they reflect onto us how the world around us already is then maybe what we actually try to accomplish is to verify the validity of it all. Still beholden to the idea that not everyone deserves to see a good ending for themselves — not seeing the harsh world as something to be overcome but something to be embraced. It is important to not herald the games that reproduce the harshness of our world as the best kind of games simply because they do so in the most obvious and visceral way, lest we rob ourselves of the opportunity to understand how we can make this world a better place. A better place for those struggling the hardest under our current systems just as much as for ourselves, our neighbours and everyone, really. Video games are meant to challenge us not to affirm the slanted believes we already hold against our better judgement.

When, one day, we find ourselves in a world where cooperation and empathetic helpfulness is seen as the norm and the notion that everyone is a rival in a free-for-all game is viewed as entirely absurd maybe then we find that what remains of the difficult games of today is the mechanic of helping each other in tough situations.

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[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-warner-bros-discovery-nbcu-sue-chinese-ai-company-minimax-alleging-it-%E2%80%98pirates-and-plunders%E2%80%99-studios-copyrighted-works-on-%E2%80%98massive-scale%E2%80%99.1299258/
Ree: Wtf I love Zaslav now

[Daffy Duck]

Cis allies need to arm up? Ahem, queen Kyuuji has thoughts on that..

I'm sure we'll see more as time goes on but to go and smoke Kirk out of some misplaced valour for your trans partner only to then get them involved by dumping everything out to them in the aftermath…

So cis allies shouldn’t take up arms now?

I’m so tired as to what we should be doing

[benji]

Oof, he works for a Zionist front:

In January 2017, the Department of Law and Anthropology has invited the controversial American activist and political scientist Norman Finkelstein as a visiting scholar. The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology has thus been criticized for providing a platform for a controversial speaker. In a statement the Max Planck Institute said that the purpose of Finkelstein's invitation to the Institute was to engage in a dialogue with him to discuss his work within an academic context. The research institute is dedicated to basic research where controversy cannot be ruled out; controversy is a "trait of academic work".[4]

In February 2024, the Max Planck Society faced widespread criticism for terminating the employment of Lebanese-Australian professor Ghassan Hage from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, citing his social media posts on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as incompatible with the society's core values.[66] This decision was publicly condemned by numerous scholars and academic organizations, who argued it infringed on Hage's freedom of expression. ...The Max Planck Society and the President Patrick Cramer have not yet respond to these letters, as of July 2024.[78][79] The Max Planck Society's has made public statements expressing support for the state of Israel in the Gaza war.[80][81]

On 7 October 2023, Hage published a text on his blog stating "the Palestinians, like all colonised people, are still proving that their capacity to resist is endless. They don't only dig tunnels. They can fly above walls."[11]

The Max Planck Society published a press release, stating that many of the views he had shared via social media after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel are incompatible with their core values and that "racism, anti-Semitism, islamophobia, discrimination, hatred and agitation have no place in the Max Planck Society".[12] Hage rejected any accusation in a statement.[13]

[Boredfrom]

Is bad when I already know what talking points are you gonna drop in your essay

- Competition is bad

- Meritocracy is a lie 

- But I like video games.  

At least an admission that FromSoftware games is a product of neo liberalism.

[Tektonic]

You guys still on about kirk

Meanwhile NEOGAF™ asking the real questions

[Boredfrom]

It is a lie in the real world as there is no god-given or natural law that governs that humans need to see themselves and their surroundings in a rivalistic manner.

We are just as capable to help each other and to see each other as allies where we can celebrate others' victories as much as our own. Not because we benefit from their victories but because we know how it feels to achieve something and feel enjoyment simply by knowing that the other feels the emotion of achievement. Parents know this, they experience it almost every day whenever their children learn something new or are excited for something mundane. We can be and we mostly are compassionate, empathetic beings, even if we might not always know how to act like it. We are told the lie about our rivalistic world and are conditioned and socialised to accept it, to reinforce it every day because it is the most effective way to conserve our world of differences with predetermined winners and losers while simultaneously obfuscating it, placing the blame on those who are continually crushed by the oppressive difficulty of our world.

Pls, my dude, don’t follow that line of logic. Go outside and touch grass. Don’t pull the “I feel oppressed by game difficulty.”

Also, phone grammar check says that rivalistic and socialised are not real words.

[HaughtyFrank]

sigh.. why can't we all have a cute little transgender girlfriend..

it's not fair... if you read this you're gay. 

lol I forgot how they were hung up on that "you're gay joke" and then it turns out the guy is gay or bi

(And before anyone says trans women are women, it appears they were a couple even before the partner transitioning)

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I was so ready for this collectors edition and I hate that they fired a dev over Charlie Kirk which made me cancel my order.

I hate that I feel conflicted about it considering the amount of hate the game has gotten from the usual crowd but I just didnt feel right getting it day 1 now.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghost-of-yōtei-one-thousand-blades-trailer.1299267/page-4#post-145265499

the left hate the kirk virtue signaling in firing a dev, the right hate the virtue signaling of including a woman.

Now I want the game. Centrists win again.  

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

You guys still on about kirk

Meanwhile NEOGAF™ asking the real questions

is the bire really the centrist platform? 

I've never seen much anti-feminist crying here.

[imsotired]

You guys still on about kirk

Meanwhile NEOGAF™ asking the real questions

is the bire really the centrist platform? 

I've never seen much anti-feminist crying here.

The Bire supports real feminists. 

[BananaBlast]

The absolutely irony of the threatening to boycott Ghosts of Yotei over factors that don't affect the actual gameplay......... after arrogantly mocking the "g*mers" for ......disliking factors that don't affect the actual gameplay.

Swearing to back the game because "chuds mad", now declaring Sucker Punch Nazi sympathizers, and swearing boycott because some no-name senior artist got fired for obvious corporate image reasons.

Man, if only these narcissistic ghouls had a smidgen of self-awareness

[Boredfrom]

Can't post Charlie Kirk's own quotes.
Can't project images of Donald Trump and his friend.
Can't protest genocide.

Can have a far right protest led by criminals.

Some centrist: "I think we all need to accept this as the new normal so society can heal!"

“can’t say that JK Rowling was not denying the holocaust”
“Can’t say the Casey Report is valid and needed.”
“Can’t say that non Jewish people using Zionist at the drop of a hat is an antisemitic dog whistle.”
“Can’t say that cancel culture existed before Charlie Kirk’s death”

Amalthea:    

Also, protip, you need those centrists to agree with you if you want any chance to get power again.  

I also want Trump gone, but you assholes are not helping.