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

[benji]

If you are Black/Brown, you do not, and frankly never did, have the luxury of participating in politics in such a isolated and selfish manner because imperialism is not bound by borders. You do not have the luxury to be ignorant. You do not have the luxury of thinking that you can ever fully assimilate.

She completely agrees with all the racists on Twitter. I don't mean Jeff, I mean the actual white supremacists and neo-Nazis. "Blacks back to Africa!" (Not that Nepenthe even fantasizes about this, it's for other people, she'll be in Bahia which was stolen from the Indigenous.)

I would also ask yet again, so what is she doing if this is true? Absolutely nothing. Not a single thing. Where's the bombings of Cop City? Where's the seizing of territory in suburban Atlanta? Where's the warlord state? How much #MutualAid has she sent to Hamas? Where's the deposing of B-Dubs? Sorry, there's Lucio skins to grind and coupons to reject. She needs y'all to get on that whole completely reversing all of human history thing.

[Uncle]

I just love how much the ActiBlizzard purchase has completely fucked Microsoft over and basically set them on the path to going third-party  I don't think there's ever been such a major fuck-up like it in gaming.

Phil Spencer

can you or nintex remind me how this fucked them over specifically

not that I don't believe you, I just don't follow MS

like what, was it so expensive for their gaming division that they couldn't fund any new games, which was what they really needed? have actiblizz's games all been shit and losing them tons of money?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

uhm actually trump admin is fudging the numbers and we still have more deportations under biden

Trump really won over HamasEra with the ceasefire with how this thread is going. PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

[BIONIC]

If you are a Black or Brown person admitting that "my people are now in danger," first of all, where the fuck have you been the last 400 years of European and American imperialism?

That's just objectively untrue for people being picked up by ICE right now but of course that's not something Nepenthe has to worry about so who cares

Some might even say that it’s

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factually incorrect

[davepoobond]

Blessed Sunday:

No one can escape Jeff’s wrath

he called her "pretty"

thats objectifying

[Uncle]

Idk, USA protest are tame and low energy compared to how the rest of the world protest.

People in the USA are worried about being killed by the police.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/breaking-white-house-budget-office-says-substantial-firings-of-federal-workers-have-started-in-government-shutdown.1322167/page-5

USA protests are tame because:

• 50% of people disagree with your leftist cause du jour and won't protest
  
• 30% of the remaining people care but aren't as extreme as era so they won't feel the need to protest
  
• 18% of those remaining people who care and are willing to protest can't because they're living paycheck to paycheck and are scheduled to work that day
  

leaving 2% to feebly sit in their college president's office until they get kicked out

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

screen shot your jeff posts I ain't doing it for y'all, I refuse to use X the nazi platform. 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Worse genocide ever!

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

(Except she has no pets, damn, thwarted again!)

Being that she's a furry, do you think perhaps that this is a legal requirement?

[Boredfrom]

I just love how much the ActiBlizzard purchase has completely fucked Microsoft over and basically set them on the path to going third-party  I don't think there's ever been such a major fuck-up like it in gaming.

Phil Spencer

can you or nintex remind me how this fucked them over specifically

not that I don't believe you, I just don't follow MS

like what, was it so expensive for their gaming division that they couldn't fund any new games, which was what they really needed? have actiblizz's games all been shit and losing them tons of money?

Is less that they don’t have funds and more like both Activision and Gamepass has not given the results they wanted to justify Xbox’s Hardware and first party titles. 

Gamepass didn’t become the Netflix of gaming, CoD actually did a tiny little worse last year and their hardware was lagging behind both Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft big wigs just lost the patience with Phil Spencer’s promises.

[benji]

(Except she has no pets, damn, thwarted again!)

Being that she's a furry, do you think perhaps that this is a legal requirement?

Kamala Harris is a furry? Then how could she support genocide?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

(Except she has no pets, damn, thwarted again!)

Being that she's a furry, do you think perhaps that this is a legal requirement?

Kamala Harris is a furry? Then how could she support genocide?

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Nazi_Furs

y'all don't even know the fandom 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I just love how much the ActiBlizzard purchase has completely fucked Microsoft over and basically set them on the path to going third-party  I don't think there's ever been such a major fuck-up like it in gaming.

Phil Spencer

can you or nintex remind me how this fucked them over specifically

not that I don't believe you, I just don't follow MS

like what, was it so expensive for their gaming division that they couldn't fund any new games, which was what they really needed? have actiblizz's games all been shit and losing them tons of money?

Is less that they don’t have funds and more like both Activision and Gamepass has not given the results they wanted to justify Xbox’s Hardware and first party titles. 

Gamepass didn’t become the Netflix of gaming, CoD actually did a tiny little worse last year and their hardware was lagging behind both Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft big wigs just lost the patience with Phil Spencer’s promises.

That's what they fucking get for turning World of Warcraft into what it is now. 

[benji]

I doubt it's the purchase, it's that 95% of Xbox's revenue comes from stuff that isn't hardware. If you aren't putting the hardware on store shelves there's no point in putting the game boxes.

This is why they were shifting to Xbox partner hardware but I can't imagine they won't still have to put out at least a single cheap Xbox for the foreseeable future. They are really stupid if they think making a Sony platform monopoly won't threaten GamePass. Although I can't imagine there are many people left who were there and remember why Microsoft even started the Xbox in the first place. (Hint: they feared a Sony platform monopoly.)

[Uncle]

couldn't MS have died BEFORE they bought Bethesda??

[benji]

Xbox is making more money than ever. I have to imagine they had forecasted dumping the S and X for some kind of Series C for cheap and crap that would push up closer to the X but they could sell for the price of the S. Then the supply situation fucked all that. They seem to have decided to pull the hardware plug anyway and ride it out.

The idea of all the purchases I think supports the idea that they have enough content that they could undercut Sony in price and still create a big enough market that Sony doesn't start turning everything into exclusives again like the PS2 era. I find it hard to believe GenocidePass would do well without an actual Xbox platform as a base. This is the main reason I don't buy that they can go third-party. They aren't a publisher, they're a platform provider. They aren't looking to make money selling their titles as games on a Sony platform but as reason to subscribe to GenocidePass. The rest is all extra you just don't leave on the table because it's dumb.

The third-party fantasies are all based around the idea that Microsoft desires to just stop taking in tens of billions in revenue (that they can funnel to Israel) every year because it "lost" the "console war." I assume it must be unaddressed trauma from Sega, which was doing so poorly as a platform provider that its owner had to personally cover its costs multiple times.

[Uncle]

I do think if they take a break for a few years, a triumphant return of new hardware could really revitalize the brand

just imagining the reaction to them coming back after 5 years or something, waves of nostalgia driving purchases

[filler]

dream cast II by microsoft 

[benji]

In case y'all ever forget not to trust libs, scratch a lib, find a Nazi:

[davepoobond]

I think Microsoft is simply changing strategies, letting partners take over the hardware side primarily, re-apportioning existing hardware to sell them in areas with actual demand, and let partners take over those areas. 

Microsoft will be North America primarily I think, everywhere else is up for grabs by Asus, Lenovo whoever else wants to get into it

[benji]

When you completely miss the point of what the offense is:

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"69 views"
nice

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 to both

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-spirit-exports-to-canada-plummeted-85-says-u-s-trade-group.1322632/page-2#post-146301058

Wish I could buy Canadian to not support red states. Unfortunately, that means I am just paying tariffs. I'll just buy products from blue states for now and in the future.

[benji]

Easy because of how many companies are incorporated in Delaware. 

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[benji]

So then why are these companies so silent about fighting to get the tariffs removed?

Oh you can be sure they are absolutely hammering them in back channels and lobbying. They won't do it publicly to avoid backlash from MAGA and weakening sales in the US further.

They say in a thread about a press release issued by an industry trade group. And which features this quote:

In a news release, council CEO Chris Swonger said trade tensions are having an immediate and adverse effect on the export of U.S. spirits.

"We urge the President to help facilitate a lasting return to tariff-free trade with our longstanding trading partners to ensure the continued growth and vitality of this great industry,” he said.

[FUME5]

I'll be using a shock collar on your balls if you dont supply me with some fatboy roy content 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/republicans-could-draw-19-more-house-seats-after-an-upcoming-supreme-court-ruling-on-the-vra.1323235/#post-146343604

Given the lack of posts, I assume others are equally unsure of what to say at this point. Any kind of hope (in this case, midterms) feels like it's being ripped away.

I'm actually thinking of blocking politics altogether because every day there's a nightmare story like this that makes me want to jump off a bridge.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-grandmas-brother-was-mentioned-in-two-new-york-times-articles-in-1975.1323079/

So I'd always been told that my grandma's brother worked for Chrysler as a big-wig back then. I was doing some digging and actually found some NYT articles from January 1975 where he was mentioned. He was VP for automotive sales and helped create a rebate program for people to use when purchasing a car. It's a neat story.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/08/archives/chrysler-plans-rebates-to-stimulate-auto-sales.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/25/archives/auto-rebate-plans-spread-amid-glee.html

Almost as neat as my grandma's other story, where she went to see him at work, admiring his nice office, checking out his University Of Illinois degree on the wall. Mom told me grandma's next words were "Rodney, you've never been to college or Illinois"

[Boredfrom]

Given the lack of posts, I assume others are equally unsure of what to say at this point. Any kind of hope (in this case, midterms) feels like it's being ripped away.

The lack of posts is probably because there is no a lot of people at ERA that actually understand US politics to say this is the case or is the usual doom posting from a random article.

Also, the SC related threads have become eternal “buh buh poor us”  for stuff that is yet to happen.

[Boredfrom]

There will be only one option left to have your voice heard.

Tell us what you mean with that, my dear. Don’t be a chicken shit coward and say it, so retards like maximumzero can hear it.

[Potato]

Xbox is also transitioning

#boycottswork