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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aftermath-two-months-after-firing-over-charlie-kirk-comments-ghost-of-yotei-dev-blames-harassment-campaign-not-%E2%80%98bad-joke%E2%80%99.1363291/#post-148087243

People boycott Sucker Punch because one dev made that joke, or because of Erika Ishii
People boycott Sucker Punch because that dev got fired and leadership sucks

I'm so tired of this shit, this game deserved better. It's one of the best games from 2025. I miss the old days, when people actually talked about the quality of the games.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aftermath-two-months-after-firing-over-charlie-kirk-comments-ghost-of-yotei-dev-blames-harassment-campaign-not-%E2%80%98bad-joke%E2%80%99.1363291/page-2#post-148088734

I'm honestly confused at the dogpile that poster is receiving for decrying the shitty leadership and saying they lament the days when games weren't at the center of harassment campaigns and culture wars nonsense... like, what?

                 Dismissing concearns

[BananaBlast]

Since they're dogpiling someone for saying the game deserved better, the inmates should start attacking prominent users who actually bought the game

[Boredfrom]

"Full disclosure, the joke was not in the best taste," Harrison, who had never been formally reprimanded during her tenure, said. "But at no point did anyone ask me to delete it. At no point did anyone ask me to apologize — and for the record, I would have. I would have worked with PR to write an apology. It feels like nobody investigated the harassment me and my coworkers were receiving."

This feels more like “I wanted to be protected by my corpo” for a self inflicted controversy.

[Boredfrom]

we're reached the step of openly creating the culture the dictator wants to exist

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

 https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-reportedly-pushing-larry-ellison-and-paramount-to-revive-the-rush-hour-franchise.1362565/

evil, conniving dictators of the past: cult of personality, statues of dear leader everywhere, worship the visage of your new god

trump: want to see funi black man and chinaman

Being fair, is totally something I can see the dude from North Korea would try to pull off. Trump is just dumb enough to not understand that the USA is not North Korea.

[books]

Of course white people (on Ree) would have a problem with a new Rush Hour movie.

[BananaBlast]

link

100%

I can't imagine seeing a thread or some such about something I have zero interest in, like sports or whatever, and deciding to go in just to type something along the lines of "ew, sports. Cringe". The very notion of doing such is completely baffling to me personally, because when I'm apathetic to something, I just don't even bother to interact with it.

It definitely always raises some eyebrows from me whenever I see people champing at the bit to mock furries, or complain about rap. Like... Why do you care so much? Is it so hard to just ignore something and scroll past? It really does often feel like it's simply because it's a "socially acceptable" form of venting their pent up bigotry in not so subtle ways, like some kind of bizarro dog whistle or something.

Either that or it's some way of distancing themselves from something they think is going to paint a target on their back, but in those cases I think simply saying nothing is going to go over immensely better for you than "Furries are gross, amiright? (I'm totally not a furry you guys, serious!)" lol

PallasKitten, you literally fucking post in the burka thread about how much you despise those darn icky attractive female characters. 
You absolutely do not "ignore things and scroll past them" nor "stop interacting with something you don't like". 

[HaughtyFrank]

"Full disclosure, the joke was not in the best taste," Harrison, who had never been formally reprimanded during her tenure, said. "But at no point did anyone ask me to delete it. At no point did anyone ask me to apologize — and for the record, I would have. I would have worked with PR to write an apology. It feels like nobody investigated the harassment me and my coworkers were receiving."

This feels more like “I wanted to be protected by my corpo” for a self inflicted controversy.

It feels like nobody investigated the harassment me and my coworkers were receiving."

Investigate what? They were people on the Internet who were mad about a joke you made that you yourself admit was in bad taste. Your coworkers were harassed because you fucked up, you created this entire situation.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Of course white people (on Ree) would have a problem with a new Rush Hour movie.

anti-black and sinophobic

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aftermath-two-months-after-firing-over-charlie-kirk-comments-ghost-of-yotei-dev-blames-harassment-campaign-not-%E2%80%98bad-joke%E2%80%99.1363291/

Literally FAFO

Angry posts yet they're still playing GoY 

[filler]

it's a classic

[simiansmarts]

Wanting to make Rush Hour 4 happen is one of the least damaging things this admin has done. More moves like this and less moves like releasing Jan 6ers into the streets to molest kids.  
 
 
 
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/arrest-trump-pardon-insurrection/ 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/january-6-rioter-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-crimes 
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/david-daniel-capitol-hill-jan-6-child-porn-b2687670.html 
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5276336/donald-trump-jan-6-rape-assault-pardons-rioters 
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article310818120.html

[Taco Bell Tower]

Yeah, I too knew Dark Fairy Princess had to be someone's alt. The whole "i'm a 16 year old girl" thing felt way too suspicious and fishy.

But it's funny that a reasonable argument defending Stellar Blade is what set their alarm off

I wonder if DFP's inbox was flooded by the male Ree users being supposedly underage and all  

[Boredfrom]

So much truth about how don't feed the trolls doesn't work anymore and companies have no idea how to deal with harassment campaigns and protecting their workers e.g. Star Wars actors facing racism.

I feel for your patients.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

For benji:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/full-list-of-degrees-not-classed-as-%E2%80%98professional%E2%80%99-by-trump-admin.1362202/page-3#post-148089532

I've got a Masters of Education in School Psychology. Glad to know it's trash now.

[Boredfrom]

I need these kids to go full terrorist mode on the corpos

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

 https://www.resetera.com/threads/digimon-beatbreak-ot-glitch-the-future-new-episodes-every-sat-sun-on-crunchyroll-hulu.1314193/page-4#post-148094944.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/snap-benefits-update-usda-to-%E2%80%98completely-deconstruct%E2%80%99-program.1358197/#post-147945799

I lost weight and barely ate last month in the richest country on earth.

And then I had to reapply for that privilege last week.

Glorious.

[Boredfrom]

I wish somebody would call him out.

[Boredfrom]

“Hey guys, I barely eat last month but here is me playing Pokemon slop in my IPad while taking a bath.”

[Snoopy]

He forgot to mention he has a PhD.

[HaughtyFrank]

So much truth about how don't feed the trolls doesn't work anymore and companies have no idea how to deal with harassment campaigns and protecting their workers e.g. Star Wars actors facing racism.

I feel for your patients.

They never ever say what those companies should actually do. How do you stop people from being mean on the Internet?

[Boredfrom]

This needs to be a "see you in 3 years" thing, with regards to the declining further talks

That is if the Trump Admin just doesn't decide to eliminate term limits or just goes full on indefinite dictatorship. Given how fucked their entire government systems and laws are these days.

Well may be see you in 1 year thing when congress can control what Trump does assuming Democrats can wrest control back.

It would be ideal, but I feel the Democrats have also passed the point of no return with how fucking useless they are. Nothing will positively for them until all their old idiots like Schumer are gone.

Why they keep saying shit like this when they just won an election, the shutdown backlash was directed to Trump and republicans and got your meme candidate to take a photo OP with the meme president? 

One thing is being cautious and another is “pack it up folks, we are going to lose because socialism is still not popular enough”.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-quietly-holds-off-canada-tariff-increase-initially-part-of-anger-at-world-series-reagan-ad-meanwhile-canada-turns-down-further-talks.1362988/#post-148080148

Is also funny how many of the most outspoken and aggressive progressives in ERA are Canadians.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I wish somebody would call him out.

Someone tried but got dogpiled

[Averon]

Right. Someone meekly said maybe Dr. Nothing Loud should sell all that expensive PC gear and custom handhelds he's always bragging about. Then some other Reeetards dogpiled the dude essentially saying "How dare you!! Poor people can have hobbies, too!" 

[DavidCroquet]

For benji:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/full-list-of-degrees-not-classed-as-%E2%80%98professional%E2%80%99-by-trump-admin.1362202/page-3#post-148089532

I've got a Masters of Education in School Psychology. Glad to know it's trash now.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Right. Someone meekly said maybe Dr. Nothing Loud should sell all that expensive PC gear and custom handhelds he's always bragging about. Then some other Reeetards dogpiled the dude essentially saying "How dare you!! Poor people can have hobbies, too!" 

They even apologized 

[books]

Doctor Loud is poor cuz he spent all his money. Obviously someone should start a gofundme.

[Uncle]

when it comes to shit like that it's like...ok so at what point would it become valid?

you're talking about the absolute top tier bleeding edge of consumer computing hardware that most people would never dream of buying

like, what if he owned 17 horses and was paying a stable to care for them? would it be ok to recommend that he maybe sell 2 or 3 of them?

what if he owned a yacht?

[filler]

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/an-entire-ps5-now-costs-less-than-64gb-of-ddr5-memory-even-after-a-discount-jumps-to-600-due-to-shortage-and-its-expected-to-get-worse-in-2026.1363537/#post-148098466

Can't even be happy about the AI bubble bursting because it's going to bring the entire economy along with it. Really fucking glad I built my new PC in September, feels like getting the last chopper out of Saigon.

[Taco Bell Tower]

For benji:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/full-list-of-degrees-not-classed-as-%E2%80%98professional%E2%80%99-by-trump-admin.1362202/page-3#post-148089532

I've got a Masters of Education in School Psychology. Glad to know it's trash now.

Royalan

Well, there goes my profession.

What's even more terrible and kinda buried in the lede here, is that anybody wanting to go into these fields will now have a harder time applying for financial aid.

We're talking generational damage.

So, you know…that's great.

Dr. Loud Nothing 

Bingo. That's the real damage here.
They dismantled the Grad PLUS Loan program (Part of how I funded my grad education) and now that these aren't "professions" anymore, they're not eligible for federal loans for professional degrees such as the PLUS Loan (which is now gone) and there are now "lifetime caps" on money you can borrow from the government for education. Each of these things taking effect would have stopped/prevented me from getting my PhD last year.

They have essentially ruined the pipeline for getting more teachers, nurses, architects, accountants, etc, because now you gotta be rich to have the tuition to pay to go be one, you can't borrow via FAFSA for grad school for these professions in the same way anymore. Period.

Education has been dismantled in the USA. Having gotten my science PhD in 2024 before AI took over everyone's queries and before this shit happened, I feel like the last of a dying breed in the USA in terms of having been able to have the privilege to get a PhD. It was so hard to finish, I can't even imagine if my funding was constantly under threat because of this news.

VidgameJunkie

Hilarious that they want America to stay so fucking dumb so they can control the voters but at the same time their great leader can spit in their face and say "Americans aren't skilled enough workers." ugh.

Dr. Nothing Loud

And since we are destroying our immigration systems and reputation for wanting to be here, we won't be able to attract any foreign skilled workers to fill the needs of our country's already overwhelmed, underfunded and underrepresented caches of labor in these departments. We're fucked.

Maxim726x

Hey. I'm a PA.

Does this have any implications beyond those attempting to go into a PA program (or nursing, etc)? Does this have any tax implications?

Dr. Nothing Loud making it about himself

The gulf legal gap between a MD/DO and a PA has just widened a bit when it was basically that both those on a medical case have legal authority based on their licensure for their practicing of their profession, but now I don't know what the fuck the implications are if PA isn't considered a "profession"--do you lose your legal authorities in comparison to a doctor? Might want to ask an attorney? Are there enough attorneys that would even know about this? See the lunacy in what this administration is doing to cause chaos in our society?

I was taught in engineering ethics and philosophy that professions are careers that are defined by skillful gaining of knowledge where the fruits of said studies benefit the public and are therefore bound by accountability (a governing body of some kind) and a code of ethics that holds the professionals accountable via licensure and discipline and monitoring of professionals' output to society and their adherence to the ethical principles of their profession. I.e. it's more than just a trade, or apprenticeship, or a "job", a professional degree program that awards professional degrees often trains the next generation of licensed professionals (minus some like the MBA, which may or may not lead to certifications or licensures of some kind) and teaches them their code of ethics and the regulatory bodies that will monitor them throughout their careers. This jurisdiction umbrella covers things like architects, engineers (civil, chemical, mechanical, electrical, computer, and maybe more soon), lawyers, physicians and healthcare professionals including nurses (no longer fucking real I can't believe as I'm typing this), all meet these criteria. Their signatures have legal implications, they have severe consequences for betraying the public, and if they provide goods and services to the public, they must be held accountable.

In fact, the only legal reason engineers (mechanical, chemical, electrical, engineering) can produce goods and services for the public in the USA WITHOUT an Engineer-in-Training (EIT) license awarded upon passing the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam after getting an ABET-accredited engineering degree in said discipline you're asking for licensure...is because there is a stipulation in US legal code and ABET and state boards that unlicensed engineers can produce for the public, like an electrical engineer can work for Apple, if they are employed by a private entity. But if you make bridges, or roads, or goods for the public by working directly for a public employer, they often ask you to have your EIT/PE license because then your signature as an engineer holds legal authority in court and you can go to prison for your designs failing or lose your licensure similar to a physician or a lawyer. Having your PE license is an immense responsibility but anyway, yeah, little tidbit for all of y'all is that engineers' abilities to even hold jobs in the private sector kinda hinges on precedent of legal and ethical semantics of what constitutes the profession of engineering and whom should be able to title themselves as engineer, and if that gets dismantled overnight because a lunatic in the Oval Office decides engineers aren't professionals anymore....oh boy...