Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Potato]

Imagine what NepNep would say if the opportunist kids stealing all the stuff under the cover of "protests" were white...

[benji]

bour-gee-oise is the stupidest word and I cannot take it seriously whenever I see it

say what you mean in a language that is less vowel-infested

Marx's biggest crime imo.

Write the canon of the semi-literate workers, fill it with obscure and arcane terms while using words in uncommon, incoherent and incredibly opaque ways.

[Anti-Monitor]

Hey there

I used to post in GAF waaaay back in the day and got curious about how The Bore was doing. Sorta-catching-up these last few days has been wild, better than a soap opera. Also, sometimes, legit infuriating.  

I swear this just needs another JK Rowling-fueled shooting to be worthy of a Tiger King-style documentary. Something that reported the descent into madness of GAF to the absolute insanity of ResetEra. "Hookup knife" should be a widespread meme.

Just dropping by to say it's been extremely entertaining to read you all. And, just to drop my two cents, I think ResetEra has really encapsulated the absolute shitshow that social media in general has been in the last few years. The ridiculous witch hunts, the depressing self-pitying, the race to be the most oppressed, the continuous seethe, hatred, racism and misogyny from the holier-than-thou paragons of virtue. For all the talks about being more welcoming-to-women, I remember the community used to be far friendlier and fun than the worthless pit of patronizing delusion it has become now.

Keep up the good work, really looking forward to the new season with its new suicide-note-baiting main character.

[benji]

Seriously, if you're just going to argue with idiots online, never read any Marx except the Manifesto. Marxists on the internet will just tell you Marx never said the things he said in the Critique, Grundrisse or Kapital that were supposed to be the actual theory part. One on Twitter called me a right-winger for quoting Marx at him.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-home-secretary-discrimination-for-being-gay-or-a-woman-should-not-be-enough-to-qualify-for-international-refugee-protection.768281/#post-112589798

User banned (1 month): gendered slur

We really are the best CUNTry

Fucking idiots

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Last night 100+ kids took to the street to loot stores all over the city. Philadelphia looking a mess

Philadelphian here. You should probably mention why the looting (and the following protests this morning) happened:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...nst-philly-officer-who-killed-him/ar-AA1hj2CR

As drizzle fell Tuesday evening, around 100 supporters of Eddie Irizarry gathered outside City Hall to protest a Philadelphia judge's earlier decision to dismiss all charges — including murder — against former city Police Officer Mark Dial, who shot and killed Irizarry during a traffic stop in Kensington last month.

Royalewithcheese again rushing to threadmark and retitle a thread to defend a little

chaos

with context already in the OP when the actual protesters don't want to be associated with looters and - although I haven't looked too depply into ther case - I suspect it is pretty fucking unlikely Footlocker, lululemon or Apple were involved in the killing and are just getting their comeuppance

User Banned (2 weeks): creating a misleading thread on a serious issue

[benji]

The serious issue being law abiding working people being able to keep the proceeds of their labor?

[Boredfrom]

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The serious issue being law abiding working people being able to keep the proceeds of their labor?

INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE

[benji]

Oh, yes, I forgot that free thing that makes everything go away. (Unless they, presumably illegally, drop you without telling you over a car you don't have.)

[TylenolJones]

Bdumbs is getting paranoid. 

Wait, wouldn't John also be part of SAG?

Not everyone in sag is on strike, there's different contracts for different roles. It's why gameshows and soap operas are still running.

We really need to try and stop this gotcha stuff already, it's gotten old

Who does he think that poster is baiting here?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-sundays-on-hbo-returning-with-season-10-from-19-february-2023.24115/page-17#post-112668476

[RetiredSkunk]

Isn't Nephentes dad like some higher up in the US Military?

[benji]

FACT CHECK:

u/Swarm_Queen
6 hr. ago
For those of you wondering "who?", she was involved in dumb gamer gate stuff some years back, and used her found fame to run for office as a Democrat. She's trans herself, but is the same brand as contrapoints/keffals

She's cis actually.

[this thread shows more fun stuff about her] (https://twitter.com/nxtpeyton7/status/1707027255426269516?t=M4cYd-nvQj5ChJRHT8Jt3g&s=19)

Anti enby, transmed, libs are the true leftists


u/Conscious_Tour5070
3 hr. ago
Brianna Wu is a cis woman


u/Swarm_Queen
1 hr. ago
Holy fuck lmao you're right what the fuck

Why does she think she's an authority on trans and enbies?

I looked into it further and she's been full terf since earlier this year

[benji]

Bdumbs is getting paranoid. 

Wait, wouldn't John also be part of SAG?

Not everyone in sag is on strike, there's different contracts for different roles. It's why gameshows and soap operas are still running.

We really need to try and stop this gotcha stuff already, it's gotten old

Who does he think that poster is baiting here?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-sundays-on-hbo-returning-with-season-10-from-19-february-2023.24115/page-17#post-112668476

We really need to try and stop this gotcha stuff already, it's gotten old

No need to assume the worst out of an innocuous question

Misrepresenting moderation, history of Islamophobia, etc.

[Boredfrom]

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Isn't Nephentes dad like some higher up in the US Military?

I dunno about her dad, her step dad is a car’s dealer.

[porkbun]

Isn't Nephentes dad like some higher up in the US Military?

IIRC nothing has been "doxxed" in regards to that.  Her - or whatever pronouns they are choosing to use today - stepdad did fuck them over on a car loan.

Neppy, you read this thread.  Despite your gender of the day, you are a cunt of the highest order.

You live in an upper middle class neighborhood and "work" doing shitty art and being a terrible forum moderator.

And you're a fucking furry.

Please don't equate yourself with minorities that risk getting robbed as they have to ride the bus for an hour to pull a double shift on their feet at a job that they hate so they might be able to pay the rent this month.

People with acutal hardship don't have the privilege to play video games, much less develop an attachment to one to the point one of the characters becomes your hero.

The worst you have experienced in your life is people giving you "side eye".  Not because of the color of your skin, your sexuality, or your gender.  But because you are a miserable cunt.

In the words of your "boss" B-Crumbs, do better.

And quit being a furry.

[benji]

I don't know anything about her dad, no famous person or military person turned up with his name but his name is really common. George or Charles or something, I forget which. There were like 300 of them with the same first and last name in Georgia alone.

Her mom does seem to possibly be military though, I found a resume with the name that would indicate such and Nepenthe has bragged that she's on USAA insurance.

[Propagandhim]

Benji

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Nepenthe is a perpetual child being taken care of by her parents for her whole life. It's a sweet gig if you can get it.

[benji]

I don't see any of you carrying hookup knives to armed police abolition meetings and furry conventions.

[Orange Juice Box]

I watched Henry Sugar by Ronald Dahl on netflix.  I was pissed when it looked like it was just that single short story being made into a movie and not the one with the tortoise or his autobio or the pickpocket. But it was a short film and it sounds like the others will come out the same way in due time.  

What I can't wait for is the OT on Era.  "Wasn't he . . ,"  "Didn't he . . ,"  "You mean the guy who . . .,"  

Hail Satan!

[Orange Juice Box]

Ben Kingsley brown faces it in Henry Sugar.







Did winning an Oscar teach him nothing!

Academy Award nominations for Ghandi (* denotes win)
Picture*
Lead actor* (Ben Kingsley)
Art direction*
Cinematography*
Costume design*
Direction*
Editing*
Makeup
Music
Sound
Writing*

At least it didn't win for Make-up!



Sadly Ben Kingsley never played Groucho

[Polident]

Fact check: Ben Kingsley is half-brown whose real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji. His self hating white half changed it or something I don’t know maybe there was another actor with that name in the actors guild.

What’s great is he’s played various shades. From Arabs to Israelis, Nazis to Auschwitz prisoners, Spanish to Persian. Rivaled by the likes of Cliff Curtis.

[Orange Juice Box]

Cliff Curtis.  The ultimate race traitor

[benji]

Cliff Curtis.  The ultimate race traitor

Because he worked for the postal service and hung out with a bunch of yts at a bar?

[Besticus Maximus]

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Seriously, if you're just going to argue with idiots online, never read any Marx except the Manifesto. Marxists on the internet will just tell you Marx never said the things he said in the Critique, Grundrisse or Kapital that were supposed to be the actual theory part. One on Twitter called me a right-winger for quoting Marx at him.

The German ideology is the most interesting Marx. When he was just an edgy philosopher he wasn’t quite so concerned with putting square pegs in round holes.

[Potato]

Fact check: Ben Kingsley is half-brown whose real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji. His self hating white half changed it or something I don’t know maybe there was another actor with that name in the actors guild.

What’s great is he’s played various shades. From Arabs to Israelis, Nazis to Auschwitz prisoners, Spanish to Persian. Rivaled by the likes of Cliff Curtis.

I will always be pissed off that this is not recognised as Ben Kingsley's best performance

[benji]

Ben Kingsley is probably the best part of the last five years of the MCU.

[Daffy Duck]

1695862031[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-home-secretary-discrimination-for-being-gay-or-a-woman-should-not-be-enough-to-qualify-for-international-refugee-protection.768281/#post-112589798

User banned (1 month): gendered slur

We really are the best CUNTry

Fucking idiots

And yet this post is still unmoderated

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cyberpunk-2077-ot-welcome-to-night-city-read-the-op-before-you-post.340270/page-698#post-112631024

[AldusMoneyPenny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deep-rock-galactic-dev-explains-why-female-playable-characters-arent-being-added.768752/

Hilarious thread of "tighten up the graphics on level 3"-level insights about game development by people who don't know anything.

Then there's this exchange, that in light of what happened with Cyberpunk and Hogwart's (hugely inclusive, but with one small thing like voice being dictated by sex you choose making it all horribly offensive) or Persona remake makes me 100% sure that just adding a new character model without full voice or adding the voices without totally new character models would end up with this being a total meltdown on ERA.

said:
Would people be genuinely satisfied by them just adding new VO lines and calling it a day?

Actual factual question because it's one I don't have an answer to.

i mean more satisfied than them doing nothing at the very least.

Creepy Dossier creation, too!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/deep-rock-galactic-dev-explains-why-female-playable-characters-arent-being-added.768752/post-112691405

Thanks. Well, hope they resolve this issue for the future.

This just speaks to the makeup of teams and the blindspots. The team's written statements say they "try to foster an open and inclusive work environment" (props for being a co-op) but also who you hire matters, and when your team is 32 mostly white dudes, with about 6 female developers who are not in lead positions to call the shots (Sandra Anden is an animator, Simone Jahn and Harpa Ellertsdottir are 3D artists), this is still likely to happen unfortunately.

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[benji]

There's a few people in there trying to be accurate and explain how much this would cost but everyone else on the zeitgeist of the gaming community is THEY FUCKED UP THEY HATE WOMEN SOUNDS ABOUT WHITE MALE eventually culminating in Messofanego posting a picture of the current dev team (which started as six dudes) complaining about how it's all white cishet men and the few women don't count.

This just speaks to the makeup of teams and the blindspots. The team's written statements say they "try to foster an open and inclusive work environment" (props for being a co-op) but also who you hire matters, and when your team is 32 mostly white dudes, with about 6 female developers who are not in lead positions to call the shots (Sandra Anden is an animator, Simone Jahn and Harpa Ellertsdottir are 3D artists), this is still likely to happen unfortunately.

Denmark is over 91% white and well more than half of the rest are white-adjacent. (Asian) Around 1% is of African ethnicity.

Also this nutcase is pretty good:

I just see a lot of excuses in this thread.

Either way, I bounced off the game immediately because of this lack of rep and also because I actually couldn't stand listening to the male VA for very long. Dude sounds like literal gravel scraping against my ears; I have no idea how people put up with it.

I do wonder how many lost sales/customers this single aspect accounts for. Probably not an insignificant number.

There's a lot of ways the devs could do this wrong and a few ways the devs can do this right, and no one knows which is which until the money has been spent. And if they do it wrong they're gonna get hit with a bunch of bad PR and if they do it right they'll get a likely negligible bump in sales.

These posts are just stupid, though.

LITERALLY EXCLUDING HALF OF HUMANITY and all you can think of is "that's a negligible bump in sales" lol lmao

fuck off

"Accidentally overlook" is, again, not something that makes me feel better in an industry that has repeated this pattern from before 5 years ago. The reverse would never happen. An all women dev team wouldn't "accidentally overlook" adding men to a multiplayer game. I'm not angry and going to yell at them about it, but I'm not giving it a pass either. That comes if they actually show they learned from it.

^this
look I'm just fuckin' tired, alright? I don't care about reasons or excuses or whatever

it's always women (and 99% of games also don't care about NB people but that's neither here nor there), never men, it's tiresome and I'm sick of it and there's nothing to be done about it except make it known how tiresome it is and maybe someone somewhere will listen and think about it some more before letting the technical debt get as bad as it is for this game I dnno fuck

just gimme a break, dude

I'm so tired of everyone being so tired.

edit:

guess we'll have to wait for deep rock 3 to get some melanin on deck

You can customize skin tone to literally any color you want. There's a few "black" hair styles as well, though they could definitely add more.

could we not just start making shit up to be snarky?

then let me rephrase, maybe we'll could get some actual black folk and not just skin swaps

So you’re basically proving the point that just putting a female head on the same body would actually upset/annoy people