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

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-is-littered-with-ai-art-slop-because-your-70-means-nothing-anymore.1353736/

Any moment now the AI bubble will pop

The worst offender is the game's Prestige icons, the crème de la crème of CoD achievements for those who really care. While these icons do appear to be slightly touched up ever so slightly, they reek of generative tools with over-designed lines, smeared details and other design inconsistencies.

All of this leads to the question: what the hell is the $70 for? Call of Duty is not made by some struggling indie dev who's big fault is that they can't draw.

That site should try using AI to proofread.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-is-littered-with-ai-art-slop-because-your-70-means-nothing-anymore.1353736/

Any moment now the AI bubble will pop

The worst offender is the game's Prestige icons, the crème de la crème of CoD achievements for those who really care. While these icons do appear to be slightly touched up ever so slightly, they reek of generative tools with over-designed lines, smeared details and other design inconsistencies.

All of this leads to the question: what the hell is the $70 for? Call of Duty is not made by some struggling indie dev who's big fault is that they can't draw.

That site should try using AI to proofread.

Better, auto correct.  

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-is-littered-with-ai-art-slop-because-your-70-means-nothing-anymore.1353736/

Any moment now the AI bubble will pop

The worst offender is the game's Prestige icons, the crème de la crème of CoD achievements for those who really care. While these icons do appear to be slightly touched up ever so slightly, they reek of generative tools with over-designed lines, smeared details and other design inconsistencies.

All of this leads to the question: what the hell is the $70 for? Call of Duty is not made by some struggling indie dev who's big fault is that they can't draw.

That site should try using AI to proofread.

Better, auto correct.  

Slayven: 

[Potato]

It's a pretty wholesome tradition tbf.

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This is probably a better system than what we have now.

"I need a REAL man with funny to step up who wants to be responsible for 3 kids (pregnant with 4th), earns at least $2m a year (hair, travel, groceries, car) is emotionally available, not a workaholic, take me through Africa in a camper van. Lifts 200lbs. Is not needy. respects me. Believes in god and no sex before marriage. Must be loyal in an open relationship. Shares my values and believes. My ex(not the father) was a narcissist"

[...]within the trans community there are likely many people who will empathize with you and have potential romantic feelings for you.

Do not let the weight of the world get in the way of your happiness, it is obtainable for you.

But he doesn't want a trans woman, he wants a real woman...

[Potato]

Took zero time:


Literally an art murdering tech bro:



Although with an atypical path to it:

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That is the most made-up list of jobs I've ever seen. 

All those impressive titles followed by (self-employed).

Just admit you were sitting in your parents basement masturbating to anime child porn you fucking freak.

[benji]

From looking into a little more I think this "Maddison" thing isn't even what I assumed. I assumed it was some kind of sexy chatbot or whatever, like you see some places (even Steam) and so you could chat up Maddison about her problematic desire to have blue eyes with blonde hair rather than her natural brown eyes. But no, actually Maddison is just Sadsic using gen AI to create sexy pictures to post on social media while Sadsic pretends to be Maddison. All for the purpose of hopefully pumping and dumping the memecoin. Which is why he gave up on it months ago when nobody cared.

It'd be terrible to see examples of it posted in the burka thread with some outrage about how this is what chuds are using AI to do. But should I really risk the riotous account that way?

[Potato]

I remember Sadsic from the mother of all suicide/internet detective threads:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/detective-gaf-suicide-risk.483509/

Glad she's okay 13 years later

Even more evidence that being trans is just a symptom of mental health problems

[benji]

Literally everything this dude has worked on (other than transitioning to an attractive woman) since COVID is adult crypto scams:





Interview with the "CEO" of the one (Proof of Peach), where she enthusiastically explains that if you earn enough points you can unlock LOOTBOXES!

https://web3.career/@crasskitty

[Potato]

From looking into a little more I think this "Maddison" thing isn't even what I assumed. I assumed it was some kind of sexy chatbot or whatever, like you see some places (even Steam) and so you could chat up Maddison about her problematic desire to have blue eyes with blonde hair rather than her natural brown eyes. But no, actually Maddison is just Sadsic using gen AI to create sexy pictures to post on social media while Sadsic pretends to be Maddison. All for the purpose of hopefully pumping and dumping the memecoin. Which is why he gave up on it months ago when nobody cared.

It'd be terrible to see examples of it posted in the burka thread with some outrage about how this is what chuds are using AI to do. But should I really risk the riotous account that way?

I think the riotous account has enough social credit score to survive the attempt. Go for it.

[D3RANG3D]

Guys, you should really think about investing in this MaddisonAI thingy. I heard it's the next big thing.

I hope this influencer/AI/token/crypto (???) does wholesome wlw content.

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[benji]

Maybe the reason you guys haven't been donating to my RTX5090 survival fund is that you've waiting for the launch of $BIRE.

[Greatness Gone]

failed straight white male to trans pipeline is UNBEATABLE holy shit

[HaughtyFrank]

failed straight white male to trans pipeline is UNBEATABLE holy shit

Trans people are predominantly white, aren't they? 



At least on the Internet

[Bootsthecat]

I think the black ones irl are mostly gay prostitute crossdressers.

The wyts are the blueskys and gamerz

[benji]

Trans people are predominantly white, aren't they? 



At least on the Internet

From the self-reported USTS trans survey (which is promoted as science by experts like Erin Reed and the source of much published "science" on the topic):


According to the US Census, the US is:
58% White
19% Latinx
12% Black
6% Asian
4% Multiracial

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-administration-will-require-snap-participants-to-reapply-for-benefits.1354255/#post-147697519

Just making peoples lives harder for no legitimate fucking reason. Also, MOST SNAP RECIPIENTS ALREADY FUCKING WORK! So fucking tired of hearing dumbasses telling people on SNAP to get a job.

[Straight Edge]

Can someone direct me to a pie graph showing what % of women who are fans of Warhammer 40k are trans or cis?

[kaleidoscopium]

failed straight white male to trans pipeline is UNBEATABLE holy shit

Trans people are predominantly white, aren't they? 



At least on the Internet

white or asian it seems, very few black mexican or whatever else trans from my limited experience

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-administration-will-require-snap-participants-to-reapply-for-benefits.1354255/#post-147697519

Just making peoples lives harder for no legitimate fucking reason. Also, MOST SNAP RECIPIENTS ALREADY FUCKING WORK! So fucking tired of hearing dumbasses telling people on SNAP to get a job.

"Most"

[Boredfrom]

The Trump administration will require millions of low-income people to reapply for food stamps as part of an effort to crack down on "fraud," Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.

[Boredfrom]

On other hand:

Welfare queen mythology is deeply embedded in the country's psyche. People imagine everyone on a program is laughing and using tricks to lay on the couch all day eating ice cream and watching tv. What these tricks are they don't know. It's Lazy Poor Magic.

https://www.thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=379

This is how pervasive and effective this propaganda is. I even have democratic, centrist of course friends (that's almost all democrats in reality) who think that this is like cover your bills money. Because they've never even been close to poverty or have any understanding of it. Peoples brains are so broken in this country as a result of lies, grift and manipulation. Neoliberalism and capitalist realism has destroyed people's abilities to abstract any concept beyond its nose baseline emotional response on these things.

Also what are the odds they are just taking this money and utilizing it illegally or at the very least extremely morally dubiously on pet projects or other things to enrich themselves

https://www.thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=379

[simiansmarts]

failed straight white male to trans pipeline is UNBEATABLE holy shit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-performative-male-problem-by-funkyfrogbait-spoiler-its-veiled-misogyny-and-homophobia.1332304/#post-146735935 

I used to perform being a male but I was bad at it.

 
 

[benji]

Also what are the odds they are just taking this money and utilizing it illegally or at the very least extremely morally dubiously on pet projects or other things to enrich themselves

Low, it's not that much money. There's way more easy and legal ways to direct large amounts of funds to your friends in the federal budget that will never get attention from the media let alone oversight from Congress.

Also, the majority of this money already goes to Red States and Swing States that voted for Trump.

Kind of weird to ascribe this to neoliberalism when that's the bulk of what Trump openly despises and blames for everything.

[benji]

Look at all this concern dismissing I came across:

And that is, of course, if we accept these people’s extremely sclerotic and self-serving definitions of what should be allowed and shouldn’t be. What these people always fail to point out is that Newton’s pioneering anti-Substack work identified eight newsletters on Substack that he called Nazi publications. When they were brought to Substack’s attention, seven of those eight newsletters were immediately banned. So what did the critics do? Fixated on the eighth, which was not banned because it wasn’t found to violate the terms of service. In other words, the anger is simply that people with views they found objectionable were allowed to keep using a network that’s intended to be value-neutral. Which was what this all ultimately came down to in liberalism’s great experiment with censorship as a political tool in the High Social Justice period of 2012ish to 2022ish - you start off banning “just Nazis,” and then you say, well, Alex Jones is pretty much a Nazi, and so is Tucker Carlson, and the next thing you know, you’re not even pretending that you’re up to doing anything other than banning conservatives. Which, among other things, makes people understandably cynical about the whole project of “fighting Nazis” online, which looks an awful lot like the vanity project of people who have never done a day of offline organizing in their lives.

...

The bigger thing, beyond all the petty hypocrisy, is that this vision of liberalism has comprehensively failed for at least a decade, and yet they keep trying. I don’t know what it will take for people to see that you can’t beat the right with the terms of service, that you can’t get the hall monitor to chase away extremism.

“Terms of service liberalism” is my name for the conviction, apparently tattooed on the brains of a certain kind of center-left figure, that you can meaningfully defeat the far right by giving more clipboards to the moderators. It’s the idea that conservatism is like a rowdy kid in the schoolyard who will finally shut up once the vice principal wanders over with a detention slip, as if the essential engine of right-wing politics were rule-breaking rather than an ugly but coherent and depressingly popular ideology embraced by millions of people. This worldview treats fascism as a ToS violation, something that can be resolved by appealing to the vague, benevolent authority of some platform’s Trust and Safety team. They’re looking for Big Mommy, in other words, the calm and wise authority figure that, they’re sure, will someday restore order. But the internet is crawling with reactionaries for the same reason the offline world is: because such people exist in vast numbers, they believe what they believe, and they vote accordingly. They vote in sufficient numbers, in fact, that Donald Trump won the popular vote and every swing state in the nation in the 2024 election. There is no procedural shortcut to changing that reality. The only thing that works in the long run is the hard, often thankless work of persuading people that your ideas are better than theirs - and the great irony of terms of service liberalism is that it’s a politics built around avoiding that work entirely.

I mean, look at Twitter. In the second half of the 2010s and early 2020s, Twitter became far more aggressive about banning accounts that published content they deemed objectionable; conservative accounts fell by the thousands. For one thing, this didn’t placate any progressives, who simply expanded their censorious ambitions and defined “Nazis” or “extremism” to include more and more people they didn’t like. They also discovered that it’s essentially impossible to really censor anything online. (It’s both a bad idea and doesn’t work!) You see, you can’t censor away extremism. It’s not that you shouldn’t, but that you can’t, that it doesn’t work, particularly in the internet era. It’s a problem with what’s possible, not with what Substack or any other entity sees as appropriate. All of this grandstanding about building a clean internet is predicated on a horribly misguided notion about what’s possible when it comes to actually shutting down speech you don’t like. Then again, they’re actually motivated by the desire for personal purity - just keep it off my timeline! - but that just underlines that this is all emotional self-servicing and marketing.

There is also, of course, the banal observation that the speech codes you want will inevitably be used against you, especially if you care about the Palestinian people. The day strong anti-“hate speech” laws are passed in the United States is the day Palestinian rights activism dies here. Look at the UK, where more than 400 people were arrested this weekend for sitting and holding signs. “But we’ll be in charge of who gets censored!” No, you won’t, and your own ideology tells you that you won’t. It’s one of the most bizarre aspects of modern liberalism: liberals believe that the system is bent against the interests of “the marginalized,” that people from minority groups live under the yoke of oppressions that are systemic and existential, but also that they can build a coercive censorship apparatus that won’t ever come back to censor and oppress those minority groups. It makes zero sense, until you realize that they don’t actually have any intention of ever taking power but instead associate complaining impotently with virtue.

The most important observation is that the most ambitiously censorious period of modern liberalism happened in precisely the era where Trump rose, won the presidency, and become the dominant force in American politics. Sure doesn’t seem like all of that banning helped much! Sure doesn’t seem like rewriting the ToS really impeded the march of the far right, at all. Seems instead to have simply played into the persecution narratives that the right weaponizes effortlessly and effectively. But then, the usual suspects can and will always say we should have censored harder. All they have is the banhammer, so all they see are nails. It will never work. You guys: it will never work.

  

[HaughtyFrank]

All they have is the banhammer, so all they see are nails. It will never work. You guys: it will never work.

Are we sure this isn't about Resetera? 

[Potato]

Can someone direct me to a pie graph showing what % of women who are fans of Warhammer 40k are trans or cis?

The Venn diagram is a circle

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Have you considered that perhaps you are not good at making pornography?

Maybe don't post transphobic shit like this on The Bire?

Tell me you jack off to Ana Valens without telling me you jack off to Ana Valens.

[benji]

All they have is the banhammer, so all they see are nails. It will never work. You guys: it will never work.

Are we sure this isn't about Resetera? 

That's why I posted it in here. The rest of it is about progressive grifters who use the claim that what they're doing is fighting against fascism and that's the reason you need to hit like and subscribe for their worthless clickbait garbage that's mostly about people in the same/adjacent industry they hate or some social media trend they're jumping on, which also...

[Snoopy]

This is one of the greatest music vids about a trans prostitute. Sean Baker said it had a massive influence on his work. Of course it's never been posted on Ree.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Please benji, stop posting about this physically attractive cute girl tech bro creep. 

I can't take it anymore. This level of pathetic is just too much for my heart and soul to bear.