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

[Boredfrom]

also the scare quotes on "democratize art" always frustrate me, it really is a  literally a  

  

You are the guy that was complaining about “boring stories and premises”.  

And before you ask, yes, GenAI can be a tool to create awesome things… most people don’t use that way, one of my problems with the “democratize art” techbro talking point.

[Boredfrom]

If anything, “Democratize art” is the   talking point.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/two-figures-revealed-for-silent-hill-2-mouthwashing-have-fans-upset-over-their-depictions-open-spoilers.1327093/

With the Nendoroid you could at least never use the additional accessories (which still begs the question why they went with them anyway) but the specifications of her Nendoroid would have been worked out between Good Smile and the IP holder, not to say that excuses anything but it will have been the developers call not 100% on Good Smile

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/two-figures-revealed-for-silent-hill-2-mouthwashing-have-fans-upset-over-their-depictions-open-spoilers.1327093/

These toys depict rape. It's unhinged!

*sits down at my ToyStation 5 to play in my fantasy adventure worlds in which I am the hero! (specifically of stories that depict this exact content)*

[Boredfrom]

The nendoroid though is just fucking tasteless. Mouthwashing is just not the property you use for cutesy merchandise. Everything about that game is incredibly bleak, dark, and morbid.

 

The developers approved this… and I know for a fact that the Mouthwashing fanbase is extremely tumblerina like, with shipping and cutesy shit all over the place.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/two-figures-revealed-for-silent-hill-2-mouthwashing-have-fans-upset-over-their-depictions-open-spoilers.1327093/

With the Nendoroid you could at least never use the additional accessories (which still begs the question why they went with them anyway) but the specifications of her Nendoroid would have been worked out between Good Smile and the IP holder, not to say that excuses anything but it will have been the developers call not 100% on Good Smile

People who want Abstract Daddy are the same people that said Angela should be more hott, bustier, and sluttier in the game (aka the chuds)

[Boredfrom]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/two-figures-revealed-for-silent-hill-2-mouthwashing-have-fans-upset-over-their-depictions-open-spoilers.1327093/

These toys depict rape. It's unhinged!

*sits down at my ToyStation 5 to play in my fantasy adventure worlds in which I am the hero! (specifically of stories that depict this exact content)*

To be fair, you don’t play the Hero in Mouthwashing.

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But the one that did the act… off screen.

[Venice]

Off topic but I finished Monster: Ed Gein. Which I thought was pretty good, minus the sympathetic angle given to a man who literally killed women, with chainsaws, ate their boiled organs, and wore their skin. But I later learned how inaccurate it was, and I had to bump my rating down because half of it was essentially fan-fiction. I didn't know anything about Ed Gein other than he was some kind of serial killer.

Now imagine my realization of what killimaij's avatar was the entire time

I totally thought it was a selfie and thought killamajig was very handsome     

[DavidCroquet]

It might as well be, because he is 

[Daffy Duck]

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

This might be the best post ever to have been made on this site

[DavidCroquet]

Hello, could we maybe get an explanation on why everyone in the Hasan thread got warned and threadbanned for posting/discussing a new video of his, regarding well-known racist Asmongold, which had absolutely nothing to do with the dog issue that got (rightly) shut down?

I'm assuming an accident 'cause the situation was heated, but I really do not understand. That thread is for discussing his content, no?

Thank you.

+1, I will concede I probably should not have mentioned the collar-issue, but the main intent of my post was to discuss Asmongold and how he should not be allowed on Twitch. I understand and accept the warning, but a threadban seems a bit severe for someone who wants to discuss the content of the thread. I was a regular contributor to that thread/community OT, so this is difficult.

I looked into this a little more, and the Hasanbros are technically correct: the video is superficially an unrelated "takedown" of Asmongold. 

But I enjoy when the common Erans are mistreated by the authorities, so it's all gravy.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/two-figures-revealed-for-silent-hill-2-mouthwashing-have-fans-upset-over-their-depictions-open-spoilers.1327093/

With the Nendoroid you could at least never use the additional accessories (which still begs the question why they went with them anyway) but the specifications of her Nendoroid would have been worked out between Good Smile and the IP holder, not to say that excuses anything but it will have been the developers call not 100% on Good Smile

Anything can be merchandisable including a dead rape victim from your favorite nerd media franchise!!
 
 
 

The nendoroid though is just fucking tasteless. Mouthwashing is just not the property you use for cutesy merchandise. Everything about that game is incredibly bleak, dark, and morbid.

 
The developers approved this… and I know for a fact that the Mouthwashing fanbase is extremely tumblerina like, with shipping and cutesy shit all over the place.

 
Yeah, just one glance at the fanbase for that game is full of cutesy sadgirl fanart of the Wendy Torrance lookalike character. People eat that shit up.

[BananaBlast]

Because a character was sexually assaulted, she can't be made into a cutesy figurine? 

Are they saying a woman can't be seen as anything other than a "broken rape victim that shall not be spoken of"?

I can understand the Silent Hill one as a morbid piece of art, which is exactly how the monster looks in the game.

Now, that Anya figurine is just an abomination. Its "Cutefying" a victim of SA and quite literally

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

Showing her as a smiling dead body after her suicide.

That is beyond disgusting.

This shit makes even less sense. Creepy rape abomination monster good, woman bad?

Have fun displaying "A figure representing incest rape"

Maybe I fucking will.

[simiansmarts]

Silent Hill is a franchise that survived for YEARS off of its fans buying merchandise and tie-in material in place of actual games. There IS an audience for the rape monster figurine that will buy it no matter how much REEE types want to morally grandstand about how the vendor is "insensitive" for making it.

[simiansmarts]

Have fun displaying "A figure representing incest rape"

Maybe I fucking will.

Erm...you know what the monster symbolizes, sweetie? pushes up glasses smugly Did you even play the game? wipes the the cheeto dust off my limited edition facehugger shirt from the Disney/Fox owned Alien film franchise 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I love Silent Hill but I don't really see the appeal of "rape monster". It's not like it's aesthetically pleasing despite the context.

Though to be fair I don't see the appeal of any of those poptoys/nendoroids/whatever.

[DavidCroquet]

People already have collected kitschy bullshit like this for so many years and so many characters that they don't even register at all anymore, so it is silly to see them be like this rape monster goes too far (to embody as a statue...it's fine to include in a video game). 

Pyramid Head is a rape monster. 

Freddy Krueger is a serial child molester!

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/got-halfway-through-the-first-book-of-something-is-killing-the-children-before-returning-it-what-the-fck-was-that.1327141/ 
  

Got halfway through the first book of "Something is Killing the Children" before returning it. What the fck was that?

Jesus Christ....why?
Got a stack of graphic novels from the library since I've been out of the scene for about 10 yrs and just grabbed a few Id heard about and this was part of the stack.

What the fuck was that.

It is just such a standard monster hunting story, like could be a YA novel it's so just whatever based on my skimming of the back half. But it has legitimately the grisliest visialized violence against children I have seen in any media. Just pages and pages of some of the most intense violence I've seen in a comic.

I'm typically very whatever on media violence but this genuinely made me ill. Like the hook of the series as far as I could tell was the violence against kids.

What do fans of the series find in this?

 
 
>be me 
>open comic book called "something is killing the children" 
>be disgusted by the visuals of children being killed  
 

[Snoopy]

I worked with this old dude years ago at a retail job. It was a friday afternoon, he was all excited to go home and enjoy his weekend off. On his way through the backroom someone asked him what he was doing over the weekend. He very loudly exclaimed he was going home to watch some porn.

That one neat trick got him EVERY weekend off. Because he was immediately fired. So, do or don't do that when asked, depending on your desired outcome.

[Vertigo]

These exchanges are hilarious, someone using Zeo's own tactics on him. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/comics-kumail-nanjiani-and-ilana-glazer-abruptly-cancel-dreamforce-performance.1327099/#post-146492614

Comedians with integrity? Wow.

…come on.

That was quite clearly just a dig at the comedians who played the Saudi festival. I am aware that other comedians spoke out against it. Relax.

It quite clearly was not, or you wouldn't be simultaneously responding to two people pointing out your argument is flawed.

It wasn't quite clear, actually, or I wouldn't have responded to you. It looked like a swipe at a large industry full of minority artists for internet points to me. You can keep holding the L.

What.

This is straight up insane. I said these comedians have integrity as an obvious dig at the ones who played at the Saudi festival.

And you took that as....... a swipe at minorities?

Good on kumail!  Looks like I should be glad that zero is still on ignore

It's Zeo, actually.

[kaleidoscopium]

The weirdo from earlier is already unbanned 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Good on kumail!  Looks like I should be glad that zero is still on ignore

It's Zeo, actually.

No one cares, Jeff Marvel.

[HaughtyFrank]

I hate to side with zeo but...

It wasn't quite clear, actually, or I wouldn't have responded to you. It looked like a swipe at a large industry full of minority artists for internet points to me. You can keep holding the L.

[Boredfrom]

License departments are unlikely the same people as game directors or artists who envisioned them in the first place. Nobody in the room signing things off is able to be like "well what I was trying to depict here is..." It's lawyers and people who work in marketing.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/wrong-organ

Company size: 2-10 employees

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I hate to side with zeo but...

[Boredfrom]

I think the catch here for one of these things is that like

Mouthwashing is a very indie game AFAIK, the chances that they have a separate licensing department sufficiently divorced from the mainline devs rather than it being just the devs themselves (especially with how people mentioning that the devs seem to be alright with this kind of treatment of their game in general) seem low enough to make the Anya figure so ?????????

Like usually it's a case of licensing departments being funny or just not double checking things (e.g what likely happened with that one Peacemaker emote with Fortnite), but especially with how people have mentioned that the figure has a very specific plot reference, I feel like a lot of stuff for it is leaning towards "I have a lot of questions and some of them are just me wanting to question the devs out of sheer bafflement over how we got here"

“Is like that character is not a real person, or something.”  

Are you going to question Toriyama for how cruel were the deaths of Krilin?

[DavidCroquet]

I hate to side with zeo but...

It wasn't quite clear, actually, or I wouldn't have responded to you. It looked like a swipe at a large industry full of minority artists for internet points to me. You can keep holding the L.

I simply assumed they're just baiting him into a ban. Not sure if that is more indicative of my character or of Era's.

[Jonsey]

Everybody hates him. It’s the one universal truth

[BananaBlast]

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Honestly this censorship annoyed me. It's already censored enough in an artistic way in the original. The remake just makes the entire scene feel pointless because you can barely see jack shit. And the people who claim to be anti-censorship were mostly very silent on this one, because it didn't involve a waifu.

This guy claims "artistic reasons" of why it annoyed him, but the truth is that he's a gay man upset there isn't more male fanservice in games. Said so himself. 

Reminder this guy constantly whines about women being sexualized in the burka thread, under the pretense of feminist virtue signaling bullshit, but in reality it's mostly because he's grossed out by women, and salty his homoerotic fantasies aren't being catered to.

[D3RANG3D]

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