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

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I hope Blueballs is okay. . 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-tariffs-bite-xbox-fans-even-harder-as-microsoft-again-increases-xbox-series-x-s-prices-in-the-us.1302888/page-4#post-145385940

Go ahead, defend your genocidal corporate overlords

[DavidCroquet]

I was talking to my wife about this Jimmy Kimmel thing and accidentally reminded myself that late night talk show hosts are just the most massive drama queens imaginable. Remember when Conan got booted from being Leno's successor? People online were acting like Leno committed a genocide against Conan O'Brian. This kinda shit goes back to Johnny Carson, right? 

With the way people are acting online, you'd be forgiven for thinking that a 22-year-old ideologically motivated sniper assassinated Jimmy Kimmel at 200 yards during a public appearance...now it makes more sense sense.

Anyway I think the more apt comparison for Kimmel is actually Bill Maher, who also once faced network consequences for saying indelicate things. And look at us, 20 years later. America still alive and kicking, free speech still speechin', Bill Maher bigger than ever. Things are actually lookin' up for ol' Jimmy K!

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-in-droves-over-jimmy-kimmel-axe.1302969/

Probably less than 1% of their subscribers

[Lonewulfeus]

Pictured: What happens when B-Dubs is subpoenaed by congress for running a hate site. 

Josh Hawley: so.. you have an admin on your site called nep-nep, is that correct? Did i get that right?
B-dubs: oh shit

That could eventually lead them here, but if I see “This is the post that prevents office” on cspan I’ll have a stroke.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-voted-yes-on-resolution-honoring-the-life-and-legacy-of-charlie-kirk.1302900/

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll282.xml



Notably Pelosi did not, she voted present, and a bunch of Dems actually voted no because the game at play here is obvious



Now McBride wasn't alone even Jeffries voted for it



But for a trans person to vote yay on this:



https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/719/text?s=2&r=4&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Charlie+Kirk%22%7D







Is beyond disqualifying



It's a glazing of Kirk with barely anything actually about condemning violence



It's a farce



Fuck why did the first trans congress woman have to be so without spine

Merely being minoritized in some way does not mean you have the principles and/or the convictions necessary to fight for a world liberated from the very systems that minoritize you. Subsequently, shielding individuals from critique of their inability to uphold their duties to their constituents just because they're a minority is the same feckless liberalism that has led us into this political situation. Now is not the time for spared feelings.

[Nintex]

When does the "Why do I have to go to Charlie Squirts vigil what did he ever do for me? Did you hear his wife cheated on him with a n" tape leak.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-tariffs-bite-xbox-fans-even-harder-as-microsoft-again-increases-xbox-series-x-s-prices-in-the-us.1302888/page-4#post-145385940

Go ahead, defend your genocidal corporate overlords

Nintex cancels GamePass
Xbox goes up $50

Nintex remains undefeated

[DavidCroquet]

Merely being minoritized in some way does not mean you have the principles and/or the convictions necessary to fight for a world liberated from the very systems that minoritize you. Subsequently, shielding individuals from critique of their inability to uphold their duties to their constituents just because they're a minority is the same feckless liberalism that has led us into this political situation. Now is not the time for spared feelings.

I've said it once before at least, but I am still trying to resist Nepenthe-posting. But my god, does she make it difficult.

[Propagandhim]

Merely being minoritized in some way does not mean you have the principles and/or the convictions necessary to fight for a world liberated from the very systems that minoritize you. Subsequently, shielding individuals from critique of their inability to uphold their duties to their constituents just because they're a minority is the same feckless liberalism that has led us into this political situation. Now is not the time for spared feelings.

I've said it once before at least, but I am still trying to resist Nepenthe-posting. But my god, does she make it difficult.

Now is not the time for spared feelings.   I say unto you, now is the time for declaration.  Declaration, whether your silence lay in silk or whether it be the tinder that ignites the conflagration of the soul.  Will you stand up and fig

....LAAAAURENNNNN THE MEATLOAF IS READY.  COME DOWN


Mother.  I am in the middle of something.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-in-droves-over-jimmy-kimmel-axe.1302969/

Probably less than 1% of their subscribers

Dude with Goof Troop Pete pfp

The hard part for me is convincing my disney adult sister to not go to the parks

Lot of   in that thread.

[HaughtyFrank]

I hope Blueballs is okay. . 

I heard he landed quite a shot last week

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Spiderman/s/W3Q3TK16w6

I don’t like him but cancelling the show is insane, other guy was a n@z! without power, he had no empathy just like a facist, and the way americans show him like a hero figure is disgusting, I trully hope those facist never gain power because I like to remind you no one realize who is facist until they have the power in their hands, I wish americans a better fulture

Since when was using the word nazi censorship?

[DavidCroquet]

this is just the internet I think. Lots of people modify how they spell certain words because they think they're fooling...the algorithm? or something?

see: eggs, unalive, grape, pdf, etc. 

I'm assuming these brain geniuses also presume that talking bad about "n4žy"s is something the the algorithm is going to shadowban them for or whatever.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-tariffs-bite-xbox-fans-even-harder-as-microsoft-again-increases-xbox-series-x-s-prices-in-the-us.1302888/page-4#post-145385940

Go ahead, defend your genocidal corporate overlords

Banned.

Not slick at all trying to hide that white supremacy symbol there in the gif usage.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-tariffs-bite-xbox-fans-even-harder-as-microsoft-again-increases-xbox-series-x-s-prices-in-the-us.1302888/page-4#post-145385940

Go ahead, defend your genocidal corporate overlords

Banned.

Not slick at all trying to hide that white supremacy symbol there in the gif usage.

Holy crap, I didn't realize that til you pointed it out 

[Polident]

this is just the internet I think. Lots of people modify how they spell certain words because they think they're fooling...the algorithm? or something?

see: eggs, unalive, grape, pdf, etc. 

I'm assuming these brain geniuses also presume that talking bad about "n4žy"s is something the the algorithm is going to shadowban them for or whatever.

( \_/ |\/|

[Uncle]

we've been criticizing them for their hypocritical worship of all things disney for like a decade

for me, ever since disney partnered with china, filming mulan within eyeshot of an actually-genocided uyghur concentration camp

and james kimmel is what finally does it, of all things

[benji]

Merely being minoritized in some way does not mean you have the principles and/or the convictions necessary to fight for a world liberated from the very systems that minoritize you. Subsequently, shielding individuals from critique of their inability to uphold their duties to their constituents just because they're a minority is the same feckless liberalism that has led us into this political situation. Now is not the time for spared feelings.

If only McBride, Congressperson from the only Union slave state, had voted against this meaningless resolution we'd have inched ever closer to the world liberated from capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy we all deserve. But organize to vote against Donald Trump for the Presidency of the United States? Fuck off colonizer.

[kaleidoscopium]

I'm propably going back to piracy until these fuckers go away or give up. Is Netflix in good standing? As an European I am missing some of the news and headlines

Have you heard of WWE and Dave Chapelle? I mean everyone needs to make their own choices but I dropped Netflix a while back and only just dropped Disney+ et al today.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-in-droves-over-jimmy-kimmel-axe.1302969/page-2#post-145391886

[Taco Bell Tower]

I'm propably going back to piracy until these fuckers go away or give up. Is Netflix in good standing? As an European I am missing some of the news and headlines

Have you heard of WWE and Dave Chapelle? I mean everyone needs to make their own choices but I dropped Netflix a while back and only just dropped Disney+ et al today.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-in-droves-over-jimmy-kimmel-axe.1302969/page-2#post-145391886

ResetEra still haven't banned WWE 

[benji]

It's so funny how they make all these grandstands about casting out the sinners over the slightest offense but just blindly consume for eons until there's some incident that garners enough attention for them to notice and they feel they need to signal their purity about. Then they suddenly seem to know all the offenses the company or person has always done and they ignored until then.

I definitely don't want people to forget that B-Dubs said there's sexual assault and criminal sexual harassment happening at every video game developer yet they continue to not only run a platform dedicated to this criminal industry but they won't even ban a company they accuse of actively carrying out and funding a genocide. These people are claiming to be moral paragons because they'll cancel (either metaphorically or literally) something for symbolic purposes while looking the other way on actual no-shit serious crimes without any kind of discussion about it.

[Orange Juice Box]

I've said it once before at least, but I am still trying to resist Nepenthe-posting. But my god, does she make it difficult.

Now is not the time for spared feelings.   I say unto you, now is the time for declaration.  Declaration, whether your silence lay in silk or whether it be the tinder that ignites the conflagration of the soul.  Will you stand up and fig

....LAAAAURENNNNN THE MEATLOAF IS READY.  COME DOWN


Mother.  I am in the middle of something.

I read that in Bane Voice.

[Boredfrom]

Nepenthe shits on the Silksong git gud thread:

I think this diminishes other mediums and gaming as well, but on two different fronts.

Gamers like to commonly describe, say, books and movies as passive and games as active simply on the fact that games require manual input from the audience to progress through the experience. But I would also say that the implication of passivity- that books, films, visual art, etc.- are just feeding you the context is indicative of how much general audiences' abilities to critically engage with traditional works have degraded within our social media-addled, friction-adverse society. If your mind isn't on, if you are distracted, not thinking, or just too naive or ignorant to understand the greater cultural, political, or artistic subtext of a work, then I'd argue that you're not actually experiencing it within a meaningful way.

Yes, you can sit there and have images or words flash by your eyes, but that means nothing in terms of whether or not you mentally and emotionally engaged in the work (which is the point,) whether you are truly comprehending it. If the light isn't on, if you just consume it and leave so fast you can't even give a basic plot summary or an opinion beyond "it was fine," or, worse, conclude that people who did actually engage are taking it too seriously because "it's not that deep," then what was the point? Reading and watching art are active activities too in a similar way as performing mathematics is.

Subsequently, sometimes this does mean that people are locked out of a traditional work. If a movie or book is too esoteric, too verbose, too abstract, or hell if it's not even translated into a language you understand or a medium you can physically interact with within your given ability, you're screwed. You can't "experience" it even in terms of just basic interaction of understanding the plot. But we're okay with not watching some Russian film from the 50s with no subtitles or okay with the existence of Finnegans Wake, a book most people bail on because its form of English is nigh-on incomprehensible, but games must be accessible to every potential audience member in terms of challenge level? Why?

You touch on the answer with saying that "games are a product," which in turn is diminishing to the medium. Here the argument leaves the artist and their intentions as secondary to the act of commodification wherein games can never actually be art within a cultural sense because they are meant to be consumed by an audience in order to enrich capitalists, not grappled with or experienced as a conversation between artist and audience. One's ability to create what they want is ultimately trivialized by the fact that the audience is just made up of "paying customers" within a society wherein not just our power to change the landscape but our very humanity and sense of self and worth is reduced down to nothing more than purchasing power, and thus our demands for a satisfactory "product," a "commodity" that is "worth our money" should be considered sacrosanct over the artists wishes to create what is in their heart.

It is an attitude I do not jive with because it undergirds not only the innumerable contradictions present from being an artist within a capitalist framework but also the AI push wherein the act of creation has been considered irrelevant to the existence of a product, an act we have been doing since before the existence of large scale agriculture, and it is pitiable to me.

This is not to say that you cannot dislike, be frustrated, or critique Silksong's difficulty level or the ways in which it structures that difficulty. I imagine some level of frustration was a necessary emotion they wanted players to experience. But the fact that you believe that you putting down money for something you cannot finish is, in itself, a flaw the work is fundamentally disagreeable.

Beyond an adherence to safety and respect for labor, artists do not owe anyone anything in terms of how their work is made nor the difficulty in terms of experiencing it for the average person.

Compare her posts with anyone else defending difficulty in that thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dexerto-hollow-knight-silksong-devs-address-difficulty-concerns-“you-have-choices”.1302201/page-12#post-145392744

[benji]

Don't call yourself an "ally" if you won't arm up and fight back.  

On Thursday, a group of protesters gathered outside the building in response to the ABC network suspending late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.

The station had received numerous complaints.

[Superstar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-voted-yes-on-resolution-honoring-the-life-and-legacy-of-charlie-kirk.1302900/

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll282.xml



Notably Pelosi did not, she voted present, and a bunch of Dems actually voted no because the game at play here is obvious



Now McBride wasn't alone even Jeffries voted for it



But for a trans person to vote yay on this:



https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/719/text?s=2&r=4&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Charlie+Kirk%22%7D







Is beyond disqualifying



It's a glazing of Kirk with barely anything actually about condemning violence



It's a farce



Fuck why did the first trans congress woman have to be so without spine

It's impressive how these regards manage to always take the wrong side of everything. Political violence is insanely unpopular across the board. Charlie Kirk himself was not violent. A celebration of life is ultimately harmless and meaningless. Literally just let the Rs have that moment and stay out of political crosshairs otherwise. The only thing that would possibly be affected here is being voted out for "taking a stand" over an otherwise innocuous gesture. Not the hill, or something.

[Boredfrom]

Don't call yourself an "ally" if you won't arm up and fight back.  

On Thursday, a group of protesters gathered outside the building in response to the ABC network suspending late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.

The station had received numerous complaints.

Blocking my ad blocker is an act of violence, ABC. 

[Lonewulfeus]

Don't call yourself an "ally" if you won't arm up and fight back.  

On Thursday, a group of protesters gathered outside the building in response to the ABC network suspending late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.

The station had received numerous complaints.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/abc-sacramento-affiliate-station-hit-by-gunshots-police-say.1303131/

Resetera has learned nothing this past week and are calling it a maga attack.

Could easily be a MAGA person just trying to stir the pot.

I almost guarantee it's some MAGA scumfuck trying to make it look like a liberal did it. They've already shown how deranged and evil they are this past week.

[Orange Juice Box]

Nepenthe shits on the Silksong git gud thread:

I think this diminishes other mediums and gaming as well, but on two different fronts.

Gamers like to commonly describe, say, books and movies as passive and games as active simply on the fact that games require manual input from the audience to progress through the experience. But I would also say that the implication of passivity- that books, films, visual art, etc.- are just feeding you the context is indicative of how much general audiences' abilities to critically engage with traditional works have degraded within our social media-addled, friction-adverse society. If your mind isn't on, if you are distracted, not thinking, or just too naive or ignorant to understand the greater cultural, political, or artistic subtext of a work, then I'd argue that you're not actually experiencing it within a meaningful way.

Yes, you can sit there and have images or words flash by your eyes, but that means nothing in terms of whether or not you mentally and emotionally engaged in the work (which is the point,) whether you are truly comprehending it. If the light isn't on, if you just consume it and leave so fast you can't even give a basic plot summary or an opinion beyond "it was fine," or, worse, conclude that people who did actually engage are taking it too seriously because "it's not that deep," then what was the point? Reading and watching art are active activities too in a similar way as performing mathematics is.

Subsequently, sometimes this does mean that people are locked out of a traditional work. If a movie or book is too esoteric, too verbose, too abstract, or hell if it's not even translated into a language you understand or a medium you can physically interact with within your given ability, you're screwed. You can't "experience" it even in terms of just basic interaction of understanding the plot. But we're okay with not watching some Russian film from the 50s with no subtitles or okay with the existence of Finnegans Wake, a book most people bail on because its form of English is nigh-on incomprehensible, but games must be accessible to every potential audience member in terms of challenge level? Why?

You touch on the answer with saying that "games are a product," which in turn is diminishing to the medium. Here the argument leaves the artist and their intentions as secondary to the act of commodification wherein games can never actually be art within a cultural sense because they are meant to be consumed by an audience in order to enrich capitalists, not grappled with or experienced as a conversation between artist and audience. One's ability to create what they want is ultimately trivialized by the fact that the audience is just made up of "paying customers" within a society wherein not just our power to change the landscape but our very humanity and sense of self and worth is reduced down to nothing more than purchasing power, and thus our demands for a satisfactory "product," a "commodity" that is "worth our money" should be considered sacrosanct over the artists wishes to create what is in their heart.

It is an attitude I do not jive with because it undergirds not only the innumerable contradictions present from being an artist within a capitalist framework but also the AI push wherein the act of creation has been considered irrelevant to the existence of a product, an act we have been doing since before the existence of large scale agriculture, and it is pitiable to me.

This is not to say that you cannot dislike, be frustrated, or critique Silksong's difficulty level or the ways in which it structures that difficulty. I imagine some level of frustration was a necessary emotion they wanted players to experience. But the fact that you believe that you putting down money for something you cannot finish is, in itself, a flaw the work is fundamentally disagreeable.

Beyond an adherence to safety and respect for labor, artists do not owe anyone anything in terms of how their work is made nor the difficulty in terms of experiencing it for the average person.

Compare her posts with anyone else defending difficulty in that thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dexerto-hollow-knight-silksong-devs-address-difficulty-concerns-“you-have-choices”.1302201/page-12#post-145392744

Dismissing concerns of accessibility? 





I came back just to point out that Ted Cruz has more integrity that most of Era.  His side (the bad side), won a point but he doesn't think it's a good thing.  Imagine the people on Era (good side), standing by their principles like that. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ted-cruz-fcc-brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-threat-free-speech-rcna232496

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, blasted Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on Friday for threats he made this week related to Jimmy Kimmel's show, calling the Trump administration official's actions "dangerous as hell."

“I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying we’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying,” Cruz said on his podcast, "Verdict with Ted Cruz."

Yes, I find it somewhat repulsive for him to have a spine.

[Boredfrom]

Of course his only concern is that this could be used against conservatives in the future and pretending like Trump hasn't been laying the groundwork to turn America into a permanent conservative helltopia.

That still makes him more intelligent and savvy than most of ERA.