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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zootopia-2-review-thread.1364341/page-3#post-148328749

Saw this on Saturday night.

My first reaction with it is that I ever-so-slightly prefer it over the original in many respects, primarily because I think it handles its political themes with a lot less heavy-handedness and obvious dialogue that dates the original some, and there's a lot less copaganda in this one (I still think the themes hold up in the original more than most though as I never viewed it as about "racism" but about the intersecting vectors of oppression amongst a population oppressed in a multitude of ways.) I think the mystery aspect is a little more predictable here compared to the original's more traditional whodunnit structure, but I think the journey to get to the answer was a lot more fun and I was on board the whole way through. I also found it funnier than the original as well; pretty sure I had a constant smile on my face. However, I was annoyed by the central emotional conflict because honestly I don't think that Judy

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should've gotten away without apologizing to Nick for just how much she railroaded and ignored him. I think his concerns about them losing their lives were valid and she never recognized that. She needed the arc more than he did, honestly.

Also, I'm sorry, but "Zoo" blows "Try Everything" out of the water, holy shit.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot2-the-2025-elections-the-government-shutdown-and-the-redistricting-reckoning.1320466/page-94#post-148324072

My wife is so scared of this administration, that she's legit looking for ways we can move to Canada.
I think this might be an over-reaction...
Am I wrong?

This guy wrote that post one handed. 

[Jansen]

MAGA is slowing down y'all. Clearly this means the end of Republicans 

Finally we can go back to the good old days of Ronald Reagan and flooding the streets with crack

[Jansen]

And seriously what is up with the imgur victim mentality. Another derangement syndrome in the making?

[Jansen]

Just asking questions 

[boreform]

[boreform]

mfw factually incorrect 

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you were saying? 


#teamzeo

[Orange Juice Box]

Funniest line though -

I've been following US politics ardently since the Clinton years,

Entrement. Ardently following politics for decades. 

That is grim.  He has a Tommy Wiseau level of analysis to add to any conversation.  He could at least be some savant of dates, policies, and procedures but he's not. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zootopia-2-review-thread.1364341/page-3#post-148328749

Saw this on Saturday night.
My first reaction with it is that I ever-so-slightly prefer it over the original in many respects, primarily because I think it handles its political themes with a lot less heavy-handedness and obvious dialogue that dates the original some, and there's a lot less copaganda in this one (I still think the themes hold up in the original more than most though as I never viewed it as about "racism" but about the intersecting vectors of oppression amongst a population oppressed in a multitude of ways.) I think the mystery aspect is a little more predictable here compared to the original's more traditional whodunnit structure, but I think the journey to get to the answer was a lot more fun and I was on board the whole way through. I also found it funnier than the original as well; pretty sure I had a constant smile on my face. However, I was annoyed by the central emotional conflict because honestly I don't think that Judy

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

should've gotten away without apologizing to Nick for just how much she railroaded and ignored him. I think his concerns about them losing their lives were valid and she never recognized that. She needed the arc more than he did, honestly.

Also, I'm sorry, but "Zoo" blows "Try Everything" out of the water, holy shit.

She says nothing about it's facile understanding of colonization nor the fact that it promotes capitalism?

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/woke-zootopia-2-colonialism-race-box-office-b1260290.html

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I'm not an expert on Greek mythology but didn't they Pandora's Box at the end

I have beef with the mythology of Pandora's box. So she opens it and unleashes all the bad things on mankind. Then she closes it and retains hope for mankind. Is what's released from the box for mankind, or what's kept in the box for mankind? Inside or outside? Choose one, fablemaker.

Decolonial PogiJones out here just casually destroying white culture.

[Boredfrom]

I still think the themes hold up in the original more than most though as I never viewed it as about "racism" but about the intersecting vectors of oppression amongst a population oppressed in a multitude of ways.

I was wondering how crazy identity politics lefties as Nepenthe coped with that film. 

“Is not about racism, is about oppression.”  

“So I still can be a racist piece of shit without introspection.”

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

It’s the beginning of the end. The walls are closing in.

Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/list-of-games-that-use-generative-ai.1367848/page-8#post-148323796

I've put this together and tried to pick out every game I saw being mentioned through the various derails in the thread. I don't have the time to really maintain this one like I do the OST sheet, so I've made it editable by all and hidden so that only posting members can access the link.

I'd suggest keeping it to the big hitters and notable indies - otherwise this sheet is gonna be filled with a billion games nobody has ever heard of.

Honour system, be good and all that.

Left Deadlock highlighted in yellow because I don't fully understand the multi-hour long russian youtube vid being cited as a source even after looking up some explainers.

[DavidCroquet]

Yeah, don't put all the games in the list. Then it will be infinitely long and contain innumerable entries, beyond the human ability to count.

Unrelated reminder: AI is NOT universal or inevitable.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-have-any-role-models.1369498/#post-148335607

Poll results are 70% no, so far.

[Boredfrom]

I'd suggest keeping it to the big hitters and notable indies - otherwise this sheet is gonna be filled with a billion games nobody has ever heard of

Yeah, don't put all the games in the list. Then it will be infinitely long and contain innumerable entries, beyond the human ability to count.

Unrelated reminder: AI is NOT universal or inevitable.

 

Pretty that user is talking of Shovelware slop like “Hentai girls *insert occupation*” that plagues both Steam and the EShop. You know, your favorite genre.

[Geoff Marvel]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mccormick-drops-plastic-brings-back-classic-old-bay-tin.1369801/


KSweeley posting the important news

[Garfield]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot2-the-2025-elections-the-government-shutdown-and-the-redistricting-reckoning.1320466/page-94#post-148324072

My wife is so scared of this administration, that she's legit looking for ways we can move to Canada.
I think this might be an over-reaction...
Am I wrong?

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mccormick-drops-plastic-brings-back-classic-old-bay-tin.1369801/


KSweeley posting the important news

I love his little tirade when the reaction to his, "Have you heard of the plight of native americans," thread, with a dismissive, "uh, yeah?"  I wonder if will get butthurt again when nobody cares about this.

Actually, this name change became because people kept making fun his autistic obsession with Baltimore city councilors.   They have trains in Baltimore.  Get obsessed with something useful and interesting like that.

[DavidCroquet]

I'd suggest keeping it to the big hitters and notable indies - otherwise this sheet is gonna be filled with a billion games nobody has ever heard of

Yeah, don't put all the games in the list. Then it will be infinitely long and contain innumerable entries, beyond the human ability to count.

Unrelated reminder: AI is NOT universal or inevitable.

 

Pretty that user is talking of Shovelware slop like “Hentai girls *insert occupation*” that plagues both Steam and the EShop. You know, your favorite genre.

Boredfrom, as the usual Bire recipient of exaggerated attacks on your character, I am surprised to see you lob similar invectives against me--your sometimes ally!

I just know enough* to know that the AI shit in games--both explicitly and tangentially--is a done deal and here to say. There will be shit implementations of it, cut corners, job losses, etc. But it's not going to stop or go backwards. In part because people don't even care enough to define what "AI usage" in game even consists of. Placeholder art? Maybe ok...? AI voices? Not if voice actors don't get paid...wait, you paid them? Still no!

Then you get weird diminished versions of opposition that are only apply in cases where literal images are generated...and then it's like, what makes a .jpg so special and sacred above all other potentially AI generated things? AI generating extremely human looking NPCs and motion rigging obviously "cost jobs" too...but that didn't matter (and still doesn't).  

In fact, I expect devs will stop using Steam's opt-in AI disclosures, because doing so clearly does nothing but put a target on your game. If you don't disclose, and no one notices while playing, does the AI even exist? 


I have a pet theory that the main reason people are so assmad about AI are literally because of twitter/bluesky fartists being extremely obnoxious and amazingly influential. Remember the the Genocide when Twitter got bought by Elon? And how the number one reason not to leave twitter was some version of "my artists/my art"? And now that AI figured out how to make a picture of Winnie the Pooh smoking a joint, it's Genocide 2. I can't help but notice the parallels. 

I'm not even saying AI is great or perfect or without flaws, but the rules are the same as they ever were. A bad game is a bad game, an uninspired game is an uninspired game, a janky game is a janky game. And anyone can always decline to engage with any game for any reason, no matter how arbitrary. Just don't play games you don't like or don't interest you? 

*my uncle works at Nintendo.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-cosmic-invasion-ot-i-wanna-take-you-for-a-cosmic-ride.1368913/page-4#post-148332976
Pegasus_Seiya

Im gonna get it on Christmas

Im curious on who the dlc will be

Gladiator
Tigra
Scarlet Witch
Mantis
Hulkling and Wiccan (duo character)
Liberty

My wishlist
shadowhaxor

I'll add some context to that.
As much as I enjoy the game, there's a few things going against it.
1. It's a Marvel beat em up, and the roster is missing characters that people have wanted.
2. It's following the release of Absolum, which at least to me is one the best beat 'em ups I've played this year.
3. Some are getting fatigued with the genre.
4. The swapping, from what I've seen, has frustrated some. And to be honest, it does get annoying at times, but easily countered.

It was missing a lot i wanted tbh and imo it should've had more female characters

Doesn't he mean women, not female?  

[Vertigo]

Remember a few weeks ago some of the peasants tried to get Geoff Keighley out the paint over how he allegedly treated some indie devs and "used them" for good publicity before ghosting them.

For a day or two seemed the Reee "rebels" were about to get him but if there's one thing the many,many autists on that site love more than social justice preening its game awards especially if games they've shilled all year are up for awards. And there will be new game adverts for them to salivate over.

Any criticism of Geoff got ruthlessly beaten down and now things are back to "normal".

Geoff is an old hand at this. All he had to do is keep his head down, never acknowledge online chatter and they got bored within a day or two. The ones still raging got drowned out and gave up.

Masterclass from the Dorito Pope.

[Uncle]

I still think the themes hold up in the original more than most though as I never viewed it as about "racism" but about the intersecting vectors of oppression amongst a population oppressed in a multitude of ways.

I was wondering how crazy identity politics lefties as Nepenthe coped with that film. 

“Is not about racism, is about oppression.”  

“So I still can be a racist piece of shit without introspection.”

I was gonna say, the idea being that it's too convenient if racism can be solved by people talking to each other and learning each others' perspectives like "predators aren't just predators and get marginalized too," because if talking is a solution then you can't do your violent retribution/reparations

what's crazy is...she says an incredibly obvious example like this isn't race-based, but she has no problem seeing race in instances where it is not intended as the allegory, like evil jk rowling making the goblins JEWS...wait...they are greedy grasping little creatures trying to claim palestine so that's probably ok now nevermind

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-says-airspace-above-and-surrounding-venezuela-to-be-closed-in-its-entirety.1368097/page-3#post-148269916

Very hard to say that a country that militarly attacks anyone for a made up reason with no oversight is not a military dictatorship.

What countries have outside oversight over their military attacks?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-benedict-cumberbatch-buy-a-new-house.1368598/page-2#post-148295746

Benedict fucking Cumberbatch and his fucking family need to pay what they fucking owe!

What do they owe? Give me a figure and how you figured it.

They got $6 million for giving up their legal property, that's how emancipation worked everywhere but the US. It's actually part of why it didn't happen in the US, the non-slave holders didn't want to pay the slaveholders. Just imagine your taxes going up to get people to stop playing Hogwart's Legacy. It's simply absurd to attack a man because his ancestors followed the law.

And it wasn't considered an affront to the slaves to be slaves until liberalism posited that all people are inherently equal, that's why slavery is still fine in much of the world. Remember that's what you and Nepenthe reject when you reject liberalism.

Fiction

Having a ton of MRIs in my life, I can 100% tell where they scanning every time. You can feel it passing through your body.

Isn't this fundamentally impossible because otherwise the machines wouldn't work? And also why your metal shit would stick to it?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-chinese-airforce-is-broken.1363216/page-4#post-148122235

 User Banned (Permanent): Justification of imperialistic rhetoric

I don't think China should invade Taiwan but they also have far more justification to than the current US strikes in latin america, and almost any US war for the past several decades.

I think a lot of folks don't understand how Taiwan came to be. It would be like during the American civil war the confederates lost but they and the rest of the world decided they get florida. (it's more complicated than that but I think a lot of folks just haven't read its history, I encourage them to).

Again, I think it's been too long to care or provide real justification for it because war should be avoided at all costs, but there are people alive in China that remember when Taiwan was part of China.

If the CCP could have got across the sea they would have Taiwan already. That's why Taiwan is still an issue, because now they could get across the sea. At some point you have to give up on your claims that involve other people, like how North Korea continues to claim the entire peninsula is theirs even though nobody but them agrees to this. Would you say France or Spain has a claim to the island of Hispaniola? Of course not. China has no claim to Formosa.

The U.S. has no valid claim to attack Venezuela, or anywhere else, but an attack to the regime there (or Iraq) followed by handing the country back over to the people is a far more valid claim than the CCP's desire to destroy a democracy because it irritates them.

[Uncle]

Remember a few weeks ago some of the peasants tried to get Geoff Keighley out the paint over how he allegedly treated some indie devs and "used them" for good publicity before ghosting them.

For a day or two seemed the Reee "rebels" were about to get him but if there's one thing the many,many autists on that site love more than social justice preening its game awards especially if games they've shilled all year are up for awards. And there will be new game adverts for them to salivate over.

Any criticism of Geoff got ruthlessly beaten down and now things are back to "normal".

Geoff is an old hand at this. All he had to do is keep his head down, never acknowledge online chatter and they got bored within a day or two. The ones still raging got drowned out and gave up.

Masterclass from the Dorito Pope.

never 4get his absolute demolishing of angry joe



such an embarrassment  

[simiansmarts]

A couple users have finally had it with Neoxon's annoying ass 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-prime-4-beyond-preview-thread.1353631/page-72#post-148202614 
 

I mean you are just completely disingenuous in your arguments. You discount DK as my example of an IP far more popular in the West that has recently been taken in house and given prominence. But no that doesn't count because.......Miyamoto (even though its a character and game series that he hasn't touched for over two decades). And you prime counter example is.................Pikmin. The absolute favorite child in his IP collection that he is still deeply involved with and has been since its inception. But that counts?! I mean talk about one rule for me and another rule for you, just hilariously disingenuous.

I really hate how people just argue, with such authority, when their entire reasoning is "vibes". Especially when, based on the actual important stuff (and not what franchises appear in a random window on a store somewhere) Metroid has been far, far more heavily pushed. Since Pikmin on the Gamecube we have had 5 total games not counting re-releases (6 if you count it's appearance in Nintendoland). Prime 4 will mean the Metroid franchise since the Gamecube is upto 10. Oh and that did also appear in "Nintendoland" so I guess 11 if you want to bother counting those

 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-prime-4-beyond-preview-thread.1353631/page-72#post-148203502 

People absolutely seem addicted to making sweeping generalizations based on seemingly nothing other than vibes. And then say the wildest shit like "Miyamoto nepotism" when nobody's children are involved in any way. It's absolutely one of the worst parts of this fandom and it's like no one has ever heard of recency bias or an echo chamber. Vibes based analysis is cancerous

[benji]

I clicked back to the argument Neoxon is making and he completely ignores that Metroid is much more niche and harder to include in other stuff. You've got basically Zero Suit Samus and that's it. Metroid sells well because it's a big niche among the hardcore and it always has been, but Metroid isn't a franchise that's ever gotten any bigger than it was back in the day. It probably sells through to 95% of the fanbase that has a platform for it and nobody else. Donkey Kong is treated differently because it sells to everybody and always has.

[Orange Juice Box]

A couple users have finally had it with Neoxon's annoying ass 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-prime-4-beyond-preview-thread.1353631/page-72#post-148202614 
 

I mean you are just completely disingenuous in your arguments. You discount DK as my example of an IP far more popular in the West that has recently been taken in house and given prominence. But no that doesn't count because.......Miyamoto (even though its a character and game series that he hasn't touched for over two decades). And you prime counter example is.................Pikmin. The absolute favorite child in his IP collection that he is still deeply involved with and has been since its inception. But that counts?! I mean talk about one rule for me and another rule for you, just hilariously disingenuous.

I really hate how people just argue, with such authority, when their entire reasoning is "vibes". Especially when, based on the actual important stuff (and not what franchises appear in a random window on a store somewhere) Metroid has been far, far more heavily pushed. Since Pikmin on the Gamecube we have had 5 total games not counting re-releases (6 if you count it's appearance in Nintendoland). Prime 4 will mean the Metroid franchise since the Gamecube is upto 10. Oh and that did also appear in "Nintendoland" so I guess 11 if you want to bother counting those

 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-prime-4-beyond-preview-thread.1353631/page-72#post-148203502 

People absolutely seem addicted to making sweeping generalizations based on seemingly nothing other than vibes. And then say the wildest shit like "Miyamoto nepotism" when nobody's children are involved in any way. It's absolutely one of the worst parts of this fandom and it's like no one has ever heard of recency bias or an echo chamber. Vibes based analysis is cancerous

If that were a real forum someone would post an image of all his predictions that never came to be or his guesses that amount to, "I feel like the sun will rise after tonight."

Remember a few weeks ago some of the peasants tried to get Geoff Keighley out the paint over how he allegedly treated some indie devs and "used them" for good publicity before ghosting them.
For a day or two seemed the Reee "rebels" were about to get him but if there's one thing the many,many autists on that site love more than social justice preening its game awards especially if games they've shilled all year are up for awards. And there will be new game adverts for them to salivate over.
Any criticism of Geoff got ruthlessly beaten down and now things are back to "normal".
Geoff is an old hand at this. All he had to do is keep his head down, never acknowledge online chatter and they got bored within a day or two. The ones still raging got drowned out and gave up.
Masterclass from the Dorito Pope.

never 4get his absolute demolishing of angry joe

such an embarrassment  

Video Game Journalism

[Uncle]

Video Game Journalism

geoff always has this chad energy

[TylenolJones]

Remember a few weeks ago some of the peasants tried to get Geoff Keighley out the paint over how he allegedly treated some indie devs and "used them" for good publicity before ghosting them.

For a day or two seemed the Reee "rebels" were about to get him but if there's one thing the many,many autists on that site love more than social justice preening its game awards especially if games they've shilled all year are up for awards. And there will be new game adverts for them to salivate over.

Any criticism of Geoff got ruthlessly beaten down and now things are back to "normal".

Geoff is an old hand at this. All he had to do is keep his head down, never acknowledge online chatter and they got bored within a day or two. The ones still raging got drowned out and gave up.

Masterclass from the Dorito Pope.

never 4get his absolute demolishing of angry joe



such an embarrassment  

Forgot about this lol. Somehow his response is even more embarrassing 

[Uncle]

yes I linked the short one on purpose to be brief here but I cannot believe he thinks he comes across well in his longer breakdown of the interview and has kept that video up, it is so petulant