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

[Uncle]

remember how casually everyone on gaf used to call him oatmeal cookie face



wonder how many era users should be banned for unfortunate face shaming

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-got-older-and-became-a-communist-deleted-posts-show-maine-senate-hopeful-graham-platners-raw-views-on-politics-war-and-police.1326382/

Era: “why we lose elections?”  

Also ERA: 

How can you be a well-meaning politician and not hate most of your constituence?

(Dunno if serious, but  )

[Snoopy]

I was thinking how cool it would be if Sony made a video game and the main character was a woman with a sword. Maybe she could be a Asian girl who makes sassy quips like, I ain’t got time fo this shizzle, when she’s jumping over rooftops or woo baby dat der muthafucka be deader than disco, when she kills a boss.

[simiansmarts]

I was thinking how cool it would be if Sony made a video game and the main character was a woman with a sword. Maybe she could be a Asian girl who makes sassy quips like, I ain’t got time fo this shizzle, when she’s jumping over rooftops or woo baby dat der muthafucka be deader than disco, when she kills a boss.

So you want a game starting Awkwafina?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-got-older-and-became-a-communist-deleted-posts-show-maine-senate-hopeful-graham-platners-raw-views-on-politics-war-and-police.1326382/

Era: “why we lose elections?”  

Also ERA: 

How can you be a well-meaning politician and not hate most of your constituence?

(Dunno if serious, but  )

"We love that hes such a radical outspoken guy. Fuck cops!

Yea, using ableist slurs is so cool

Ah, missed that part. yeah that does suck and wish he hadn't said that.

Oh noooo, he used a forbidden word, not my wholesome radical!

[Taco Bell Tower]

The Tomunobu Itagaki thread is a trip.

Were there reports that he was kind of a creep? I remember seeing something like that around the time of the Me Too movement

Didn't he sexually harass his co workers?

Good games but as a person he was most likely a POS

He was sued for sexual harassment and the court ruled he was innocent

According to Wikipedia "Meanwhile, the court has found Itagaki innocent of the charges."

 

Itagaki was fired from Tecmo for being too much a of a super cool leather jacket badass and katana expert, chud!

They always do this, always ask if the person who passed away was a POS to piss on their graves.

[Snoopy]

I was thinking how cool it would be if Sony made a video game and the main character was a woman with a sword. Maybe she could be a Asian girl who makes sassy quips like, I ain’t got time fo this shizzle, when she’s jumping over rooftops or woo baby dat der muthafucka be deader than disco, when she kills a boss.

So you want a game starting Awkwafina?

Or Zoe Kravitz. Dinner is served muthafucka. She quips sassily as she stabs a bad guy with a fork. An it look like mayonnaise be on the muthafuckin menu

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-490#post-146449618

Atsu is fucking hot (sorry if I'm being disrespectful to the women in the OT) just wanted to say this lol

 User banned (1 month): Inappropriate and misogynistic commentary in a sensitive thread

[Taco Bell Tower]

Inappropriate and misogynistic commentary in a sensitive thread

The fucking irony because that's what Why Women Criticise thread is about 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-mom-just-told-me-i-didn%E2%80%99t-really-talk-until-i-was-4-have-your-parents-ever-told-you-something-about-your-childhood-only-after-you-were-grown.1326196/#post-146464831

That I wasn't actually theirs.

Even Zeo's parents don't like him.

[Taco Bell Tower]

No wonder Jeff Marvel Superman is full of hatred 

[simiansmarts]

Jeff Marvel’s real parents must’ve been Nazi chud incels, he was too good for them anyways smh

[kaleidoscopium]

Collecting the receipts like this, I have no idea why Asmongold is still not banned permanently. Well, I kinda do, but it's still not a particularly good look for Twitch when seeing what others are being banned for.

I knew he was bad, I don't think I knew he was THAT bad.

It's unbelievable, really. But no, people instead need to be mad about an alleged shock collar.

Asmongold should've been banned yesterday to go rot on Kick or Rumble.

Right?

Where are all the low post count righteous defenders when the context actually calls for them?

Hrmmmmm.

Then again, those of us who actually watch Hasan, know full well this is just another day, and another example, of Asmongold's usual depravity.

Real shame that his father was such a good fellow, a real Hasanabi-head too, RIP.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-63#post-146470168

They stopped posting about this because you whined until mods put up a ban warning

Shouldn't all these people be banned as well? The mod warning was for everyone to drop it, not for just one side to stop talking lol.

Slap on the wrist for each of them 

User warned: continuing derail after a staff post saying to stop

[PogiJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-mom-just-told-me-i-didn%E2%80%99t-really-talk-until-i-was-4-have-your-parents-ever-told-you-something-about-your-childhood-only-after-you-were-grown.1326196/#post-146464831

That I wasn't actually theirs.

Even Jeff Marvel Superman's parents don't like him.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

That is rough, though. I feel bad for him.

[BIONIC]

Jeff Marvel’s real parents must’ve been Nazi chud incels, he was too good for them anyways smh

Always knew Jeff’s parents were sus

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/welcome-new-members-introduce-yourself-here.119184/page-46#post-146471677

Hello, thanks for the approval.

Currently playing: BF6, Hogwarts Legacy, and Helldivers 2

[NekoFever]

“You’re still our son.”
“Factually incorrect.”

[HaughtyFrank]

Some twitch v-tuber blew up because he was streaming weird diaper fetish stuff. The account was now banned

That username.... seems awfully familiar, no?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spacex-starship-test-program.340843/post-126942678

No idea if "tygre" is a common name, but considering the RE member is also a furry...

Edit: after seeing a clip of the v-tuber (god have mercy on my soul) he doesn't have a British accent while the RE user claims to be from the UK, so maybe false alarm

[simiansmarts]

“You’re still our son.”
“Factually incorrect.”

[kaleidoscopium]

Some twitch v-tuber blew up because he was streaming weird diaper fetish stuff. The account was now banned

That username.... seems awfully familiar, no?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spacex-starship-test-program.340843/post-126942678

No idea if "tygre" is a common name, but considering the RE member is also a furry...

Edit: after seeing a clip of the v-tuber (god have mercy on my soul) he doesn't have a British accent while the RE user claims to be from the UK, so maybe false alarm

Era Tygre claims to be British and… unfortunate to watch this freak to see but he doesn’t… sound British? 

https://youtube.com/@tygre?si=4L6upl_TFcvjBa5A

A furry that pretends to be a baby tiger with a diaper though what the fuck 💀

[Uncle]

They always do this, always ask if the person who passed away was a POS to piss on their graves.

some of them ask because they genuinely feel bad but don't want to get banned for saying so

"no wait, I'm sorry!! I didn't know he was a sex offender! nooo now one of the prominent™ trolls will accuse me of being just as bad! noooooo"

[DavidCroquet]

I was mostly pointing out confidently inconsistent the hivemind is about this.

Chris Avellone’s obituary thread would go very differently, despite the fact that he—perhaps even more definitively than Itagaki—was found innocent.

[nampad]

“You’re still our son.”
“Factually incorrect.”

Post of the year!

[Jonsey]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-mom-just-told-me-i-didn%E2%80%99t-really-talk-until-i-was-4-have-your-parents-ever-told-you-something-about-your-childhood-only-after-you-were-grown.1326196/#post-146464831

That I wasn't actually theirs.

Even Zeo's parents don't like him.

Good

[Taco Bell Tower]

“You’re still our son.”
“Factually incorrect.”

Banner plz

[Jansen]

Capitalist realism rears its head again.



The idea that the vague corporate talking points (and indeed, that vagueness is the point- what exactly are those tasks that are deemed to be "tedious?" They never explain. Gee, I wonder why) about generative AI's boons to the arts are sincere is laughable when not only are the companies themselves or their sycophants not actually providing the metadata necessary to prove these talking points as fact, but the affected workers are telling you to your faces that they are experiencing massive layoffs, displacement and isolation, and decreased efficiency.



This is not even counting the fact that the very nature of the system of capitalism is mired in the contradictions of lofty, seemingly humanistic promises to smooth over nakedly economic and imperialist ends for the few. The car was supposed to "free the man." Social media was supposed to "bring us together." And now, gen AI is supposed to "democratize art." It's always meaningless, feelgood paff that nonetheless gets swallowed whole by the undiscerning masses constantly waiting for this magical technological boom that is supposed to "save them" from the dehumanization of the very system they place their hopes in.



It is especially apparent with generative AI that this is all really an attempt to exponentially increase the level of exploitation and profit theft not just within the arts but everywhere this shit is being pushed when you fundamentally understand that profit solely comes from the exploitation of human labor, both physical and intellectual. You can't exploit an algorithm and magically pay it less than what it costs to operate the machinations necessary for its "work" (which I put in quotes because robots, algorithms, etc. do not actually classically perform labor like humans because they are fundamentally not autonomous beings acting independently to change the world through that labor), meaning it can't be exploited. If it costs $1000/mo. to operate Midjourney, then that's just what it costs.



But humans can be exploited. You can enslave humans or just simply not pay them the value of what they produce, hence the very existence of profit. (And don't act like we still don't engage in slavery just because it's not happening on your great-great-great grandpappy's backyard anymore). And what better goldmine of exploitation than pretty much all of the art in human existence that was scraped without the consent of its creators and privatized through legally-dubious means, all of that physical and intellectual labor just gobbled up by craven capitalists and being sold back to you under these enticing Faustian promises that you will finally be that artist you always dreamed of being or that you will have to wait less time for your distracting little treats to be made? GenAI is not a tool in the traditional sense that it is an object meant to vacuously increase the potential of human labor power; it is also a medium based upon and through which human exploitation occurs simultaneously.



This, of course, is just on top of the fact that the data centers necessary to power these things are massive energy sinks which, in a society actively dying due to rapid climate change, are fundamentally unsustainable (hey, did you know we just reached a tipping point with coral reef death? Welp, now you can't un-know that). Electricity costs are soaring. Towns are having their drinking water sucked dry. Forests are being cleared and polluted. Going back to exploitation, African data workers are the ones who are having to manually pick through all of the violent imagery, CSAM, and other gnarly shit that was inevitably nabbed up by these data scrapers, leaving them riddled with psychological issues and turning to drug abuse. All of this misery and destruction so some nerd on the Internet can create an ugly fake Ghibli screenshot, or some rich asshole like Kojima can not deal with the "tedious tasks."



Granted, I know none of this matters within the context of a hobbyist culture founded on little more than mindless consumerism. I just mistakenly expected better
 at this point.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hideo-kojima-on-ai-id-like-it-to-handle-the-tedious-tasks-that-would-lower-cost-and-cut-down-on-time-co-creating-with-ai-instead-of-just-using-it.1326079/page-6#post-146478958

Stop slacking y'all

[Jansen]

Granted, I know none of this matters within the context of a hobbyist culture founded on little more than mindless consumerism. I just mistakenly expected better at this point.

[BananaBlast]

RIP Itagaki. Crazy it happened just before the release of Ninja Gaiden 4. I love the Ninja Gaiden series. Dead or Alive too, although I much prefer Tekken.

Harada's tweet was also sad. Glad they became friends later down the line.

Fly high, you crazy diamond.

They always do this, always ask if the person who passed away was a POS to piss on their graves.

Maybe it's possible they're just deep cover Era trolls, but that's unlikely, and they're just complete pieces of shit.

And they'd better get banned.

I was mostly pointing out confidently inconsistent the hivemind is about this.

Chris Avellone’s obituary thread would go very differently, despite the fact that he—perhaps even more definitively than Itagaki—was found innocent.

I wonder how the thread would've went if Itagaki was properly Me Too'd. I'm pretty sure his situation happened back in the olden days, before "internet cancel culture" was ever a thing.

Also may have a little something to do with Chris Avellone being American.

[Boredfrom]

And what better goldmine of exploitation than pretty much all of the art in human existence that was scraped without the consent of its creators and privatized through legally-dubious means, all of that physical and intellectual labor just gobbled up by craven capitalists and being sold back to you under these enticing Faustian promises that you will finally be that artist you always dreamed of being or that you will have to wait less time for your distracting little treats to be made?

Then get out there and fucking work for it, Nep. You don’t even showed interest in getting back to work in that shitty furry Fighting game you worked on.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thems-fightin-herds-diesel-legacy-and-other-games-possibly-being-brought-back-by-new-publisher.1318162/

[Uncle]

the affected workers are telling you to your faces that they are experiencing massive layoffs, displacement and isolation, and decreased efficiency.

https://www.businessinsider.com/impact-ai-job-market-change-role-2025-10

According to at least some technologists and CEOs's dire predictions, AI will herald the end of work as we know it — especially for white collar employees. Yet, for now, AI isn't as likely to steal your job as it is to reshape it.

The next couple of years will likely be bumpy as companies and employees figure out what AI can do, workplace observers told Business Insider.

"It's still very, very early," Martha Gimbel, executive director and cofounder of the Budget Lab at Yale, told Business Insider. She said the fears about AI as an imminent job killer "speaks to how much this debate has, frankly, gotten a little bit out of control."

Recent Budget Lab research has found that, in the nearly three years since the release of ChatGPT, the overall labor market hasn't experienced major disruptions. That's because it often takes years — even decades — for people and businesses to adopt even breakthrough tech.

More than one in five US workers use AI to complete at least some of their work, the Pew Research Center found in a September survey. That's up from 16% about a year earlier.

Some of those workers are likely in areas such as customer service or communications, which involve keyboard-heavy tasks where AI can excel.

Generative AI can help communications staffers save 26% to 36% of their time, a recent study from Boston Consulting Group found. If companies change their processes, BCG estimates that GenAI can help increase the time savings of comms workers by 47%.

The Economic Innovation Group, in a recent analysis of the effect of AI on jobs, found that workers "highly exposed" to AI are doing better in the labor market than those who are less so. The think tank said that workers more exposed to AI earn more, are more likely to have an undergraduate or graduate degree, and are less likely to be unemployed.

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This, of course, is just on top of the fact that the data centers necessary to power these things are massive energy sinks which, in a society actively dying due to rapid climate change, are fundamentally unsustainable (hey, did you know we just reached a tipping point with coral reef death? Welp, now you can't un-know that). Electricity costs are soaring. Towns are having their drinking water sucked dry. Forests are being cleared and polluted.

how timely, this was posted yesterday, this man is more or less an era user and even he can separate fact from fiction

@mylifeisanrpg

 

literally every data center on earth (not just the AI ones, ALL data centers) are responsible for 0.3 to 0.6% of our carbon emissions

a weirdo's exhaustive deep dive into why AI isn't bad for the environment: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for