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

[filler]

“Trump attacked a POC politician.”  

My dude… why that deserves a thread?

best part is how it's white euro's blowing vuvuzelas and there's a dark african guy very annoyed 

[benji]

The first step is to tackle vendor lock-in. Holding people hostage to remain in contact with their friends/family should be illegal. Enforce interoperability. There's standards there in the same way the EU forced USB-C. Healthier competition can then take hold instead of being kept to the fringes allowing people to migrate instead of being tied to toxic algorithms. Pour in lots of money for research into algorithms and moderation and create "social health health standards" you can then use to ban or fine anything that is "unhealthy" nationwide.

Remove the monopoly structure in the first place by tackling vendor lock-in. Allowing people to migrate their social graphs to healthier competitors.

Aside from this guy wanting Trump to Make Internet Healthy Again I love that, like the typical Era member reconstructing a system from scratch, he doesn't realize that his scheme would eliminate competition and create a single monopoly. What would be the point of different sites if they all have to be the same? Why would anyone create a site if they have to mirror the same database of users and the same functions as every other site? Wouldn't that be a massive burden on any startup while the established player of Meta would handle it easily as they already are trying to do this to get people to join their site over others? Would everybody have to mirror Google's YouTube archive so as to maintain interoperability? Nobody else on the planet can afford Google's storage. Does Valve now have to pony up for the size of moderators that Meta and YouTube run? If every site just becomes a meaningless frontend for the same backend wouldn't that make the backend a monopoly with absolute market power? If Trump banned LGBT content or Era overreacted and banned doops wouldn't they be banned from everywhere since it's the same backend?

But it's so clear to him. You break the "monopoly" of all the sites by making a single monopoly so everyone can compete. Yes, yes, we have the Saudi's merge Netflix, Warner, Paramount, Comcast and Disney into a single company! Finally, competition among streaming services!

I thought the argument was that marginalized groups need social media as an essential lifeline or something to organize and get mutual aids together wtf

They're arguing past each other just throwing these assertions at each other. "It will kill all marginalized kids!" "If we don't eliminate it they'll all be killed!" I think there was only a single post I saw that actually seemed to try and tackle the issue of the thread seeking two fundamentally opposed ends.

[Potato]

I brought this up in the Silent Hill community thread a while back but the horror genre just needs less teen girls/very young adult women as protagonists at this point. Just once I would love to see a woman who acts and looks like she's older than 20 and doesn't have her entire plot revolve around typical "womens issues".

"See, the film Carrie is about the horrors of menstruation."

I want my games featuring women to be about issues which affect me, a male.

[davepoobond]

messageboards are back baybee! 

just gonna get filled with australian teenagers

hey mates!

[HaughtyFrank]

MEDIA LITERACY:

As every page of this thread shows, games having characters that are girls and a game or character being FOR the girls are very different things. Grace is really strongly reading as that "created to inspire protectiveness over her, you want to see her safely through" type of design oriented to men, as far as I see it.
With SHf's Hinako to use a recent example- from the start you could see a real sense that she had her own world view that was varied, flawed, and informed individual behaviors. People were trying to figure out her motivations and the source of her reactions in early showings. And I think we can now firmly put her in the "FOR the girls" camp.

Which is not to say Capcom is unaware or unconcerned of the large amount of women who like RE. Grace's co-star is extremely popular with female audiences after all.

 

Silent Hill f was written by a middle age Japanese dude that writes VN. His audience are teenage and middle age Otakus. He is a good writer and, given he worked in children protection services, he actually knows how to write young characters and their problems. But is laughable that he is and Konami are limiting themselves with “this is for the girls”  

What are you describing is not necessarily “written for me, because I’m a girl”  , but an actual character.

Still, I will advise against judging a character until the game comes out because I remember your social circle being annoyed of Hinako (another teenage girl in sailor dress  ) before the game comes out.

Yeah the RE girls are kinda just like Ellen Ripley or Sara Conner, still strong characters but clearly because the creators like/are attracted to that archetype.
Capcom have just leaned into everyone's hot nowdays, while backing away from the sillier fan service outside of games that sells skins... SF6.

Their media literacy is truly amazing. Just completely brain dead, asking like a toddler "is this for me?" and not even letting the game itself determine this but the simple circumstance that the game also features a male character.
The idea that a character can appeal to both men and women doesn't even seem to enter their mind, like yeah, never heard of a woman liking Ellen Ripley or Sara Connor, right? Just an extra irony how these feminists enforce a completely rigid gender divide

[TylenolJones]

All timer KSweeley post

Maryland's attorney general along with the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaiʻi, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands has announced that there's a pending settlement with Google that has a court date of April 30, 2026 for the court to either approve or deny the settlement. If the court approves this settlement, people who made purchases on the Google Play Store between August 2016 and September 2023 and were harmed by Google's anticompetitive conduct will receive monetary payouts through either PayPal or Venmo, there will be a supplemental claims process for people who do not have a PayPal or Venmo account. It's stated that started on December 2, 2025, people who made purchases on the Google Play Store between August 2016 and September 2023 and were harmed by Google's anticompetitive practices began receiving notices about the distribution process for the settlement funds and that most of the affected consumers do not need to take any further action to receive a payment from this settlement fund:

Typing out every single state and territory in the union!!!!



https://www.resetera.com/threads/dec-9-2025-md-announces-with-52-other-u-s-attorneys-general-settlement-with-google-that-if-approved-on-april-30-2026-will-have-monetary-payouts.1377910/

[benji]

Exclude Yourself Get out of the Action. Get no benefits from the Action. Keep your right to sue Google.

If you ask to be excluded, you will receive no benefits, but you will keep any rights to sue Google separately over the claims at issue in this lawsuit.

Object to the Settlement Write to the Court explaining why you don’t like the Settlement. You will still be bound by the Settlement if the Court approves it, and you will still receive money from the Settlement Fund.

What if I do both?

edit: Definitely going to object to the Settlement because they put the same question twice on the FAQ with two different answers:


What's next, a gold-fringed flag in the courtroom???

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I forgot that filler main gimmick is being annoying. 

He's the best there is at what he does.

[Propagandhim]

Maryland's attorney general along with the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaiʻi, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands has announced that

was the first 5 words necessary

[benji]

It looks like he copied and pasted from the press release these chunks into a single paragraph with minor editing:

Joining Attorney General Brown in securing this settlement are the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaiʻi, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

If the settlement is approved by the court, at a hearing on April 30, 2026, the majority of the settlement funds will be distributed to consumers who made purchases on the Google Play Store between August 2016 and September 2023 and were harmed by Google’s anticompetitive conduct.

Beginning December 2, 2025, consumers who made purchases on the Google Play Store between August 2016 and September 2023 and were harmed by Google’s anticompetitive practices began receiving notices about the distribution process for the settlement funds. Most affected consumers do not need to take further action to receive a payment from the settlement fund.

There will be a supplemental claims process after the automatic payments process is complete for consumers who either:

Do not have an existing PayPal or Venmo account and do not want to sign up for PayPal or Venmo;

Then he of course quoted the entire press release. And then quoted the settlement website saying the same stuff after saying again:

Per the website, a consumer protection and antitrust lawsuit was filed by the Attorneys General of all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands against Google that resulted in this proposed settlement:

In case you missed it when he listed all the states and territories at the start of the post.

[benji]

The lawsuit is because of Google basically telling and paying people to use the Google Play Store instead of other stores available on Android. I wonder if Google offered to settle by giving people $10 in Google Play Store credit and the states talked them down to $2 in actual PayPal/Venmo credit.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/georgia-democrat-eric-gisler-flips-a-state-house-seat-in-district-trump-won-by-double-digits.1377964/#post-148683733
Dad with a racist kid shinobi602

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/georgia-democrat-eric-gisler-flips-a-state-house-seat-in-district-trump-won-by-double-digits.1377964/#post-148683733
Dad with a racist kid shinobi602

Do you think they're ready to admit that maybe the reason Trump won both times was because the candidates they put up against him were both fucking retarded morons who were unelectable?

[books]

Please dont make KSwee- err CrabCakes feel bad.

[filler]

messageboards are back baybee! 

just gonna get filled with australian teenagers

hey mates!

we got enough bogans on here already tbh 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/japanese-game-companies-ask-potential-recruits-to-draw-in-front-of-them-to-avoid-generative-ai-fraud.1378033/

How dare you asked me to draw in front of you for this job about drawing

[Taco Bell Tower]

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-496#post-148680409

Yeah the RE girls are kinda just like Ellen Ripley or Sara Conner, still strong characters but clearly because the creators like/are attracted to that archetype.

Capcom have just leaned into everyone's hot nowdays, while backing away from the sillier fan service outside of games that sells skins... SF6.

Are you saying RE girls are like Ripley or Sara because the creators of the RE girls like/are attracted to women like them? Or are you saying that Ripley and Sara are written like they are because the people who created them are just into women like that?

If it's the latter, I feel like that's not at all a fair shake for Ripley. All the characters in Alien were intentionally written as unisex and the suggestion for Ripley to be a woman was suggested by the head of Fox. It didn't come from the writers or from Ridley Scott. But I think that's part of why the characters of Alien or so effective, especially Ripley. They're just written as regular people, independent of anything else. No thinly veiled fetishes (at least insofar as specific character traits are concerned) and no stereotypical roles for anyone.

Now if you want to argue James Cameron has a type of woman that he writes, especially in that era, fair. I may have gone on a tangent for literally no reason, I now realize.

In any case, I think we need more Ripley's and more Sara's and more Selene's (Returnal). Strong, capable women that handle whatever situation they're thrown in. As much as I think Capcom has been riding high lately, I seriously question how they've handled their women characters. I hope the new RE trends more towards the aforementioned ones and way less towards "let's put Chun Li in a thong".

I'm surprised they haven't brought up Marvel Rivals Rogue Savage skin.

PaperSparrow

Oh, huh, that's true. I didn't think about how unique that was at the time.

Rinoa~

Amanda the Adventurer's popularity also surprised me. Outside of the indie space I think people would have been awful about it, frankly.

In the case of modern RE, outside of remakes, they seem so hung up on that 10's "every man" design (which usually came with a woman to save or condemn...) to the point where some interviews almost read as veiled resentment towards the previous era of characters. But you make Resident Evil. A series about people who work for and with various shadowy agencies against bioweapons. I am sorry.

If you want people to shut up about "where's Jill" you have to give them someone to be that invested in.
It is both an immediate buy in and super badass to see Jill looking at the state of Racoon City, saying "I have to leave everything behind get the fuck out of here", picking up some supplies and going on a nightmare goodbye tour of her hometown. I don't even enjoy playing RE3. But there's just something instantly iconic about that. Now we have Grace, who of course is visible and hot, but they've spent 6 months drilling in that they took away the cool/badass/charismatic factor as if it's supposed to be a plus. I would rather feel connected to the character arc and the way they react to uncovering the conspiracy or threat with their impractically large weapon of choice at the end of an RE title than have a final jumpscare or stalker section attempting to still feel as "scary" as it did in the first hour of the campaign.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pornhubs-year-in-review-most-popular-video-games-in-2025.1378015/

Boy rhetorical club?

[Daffy Duck]

Cum?

[HaughtyFrank]

I didn't think she had a chance to win in Texas but this and all the chatter around her recently coming off as misogynoir.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/notus-exclusive-an-%E2%80%98astroturf-recruitment-process%E2%80%99-national-republicans-propped-up-jasmine-crockett-to-push-her-into-a-senate-run.1378201/post-148694818

Chat, is it misogynoir to confront someone with comments they made a year ago about Latino voters when they're trying to win a state that's 40% latino?

[Ethan]

Misogynoir is a term referring to the combined force of anti-black racism and misogyny directed towards black women.[1][2] The term was coined by black feminist writer Moya Bailey in 2008[3] to address misogyny directed toward black transgender[4] and cisgender women[5] in American visual and popular culture.

Transmisogyny, otherwise known as trans-misogyny and transphobic misogyny, is the intersection of transphobia and misogyny as experienced by trans women and transfeminine people.[1][2] The term was coined by Julia Serano in her 2007 book Whipping Girl to describe a particular form of oppression experienced by trans women.

The term "transmisogynoir" was created to refer to the intersection between transmisogyny and misogynoir, meaning the oppression of black trans women. Transmisogynoir comprises transphobia, misogyny, and anti-blackness. It was coined by Trudy of the womanist blog Gradient Lair.

Is it transmisogynoir to say that Trudy didn't have to work too hard on that coinage?

[Uncle]

saying mean things

but specifically mansplaining anti-women mean things

toward women

who are black

and trans

can we invent a term for even more of a niche subject? how about criticizing the caloric intake of malaysian mattress retailers who happen to be enamored with chibi robo, but only the 3DS entry and they couldn't care less about the cube classic?

[JoeBoy101]

saying mean things

but specifically mansplaining anti-women mean things

toward women

who are black

and trans

can we invent a term for even more of a niche subject? how about criticizing the caloric intake of malaysian mattress retailers who happen to be enamored with chibi robo, but only the 3DS entry and they couldn't care less about the cube classic?

How dare you?!

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-snitch-hes-back-lol-teases-kratos-for-tga.1376971/page-2#post-148654753

 User banned (1 week): trolling over a series of posts

You can block the "rumor" tag

I've been told that using tags alone is not enough, that the OP should bend over backwards to reiterate the tag in the title of their post in big bold letters.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-snitch-hes-back-lol-teases-kratos-for-tga.1376971/page-2#post-148656289

[Snoopy]

I'd say alcohol is one of the worst ones. Very unimaginative and just assumes the person drinks.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-metroid-prime-4-makes-you-drive-around-the-desert-in-silence-unless-you-buy-this-30-amiibo.1373860/page-4#post-148487557

 User banned (1 month): Hostility and metacommentary. Prior bans for the same behavior.

Come on OP, even for you who always look for an opportunity to diss Nintendo, this is embarassing. At least try to fact-check first, sheesh.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-metroid-prime-4-makes-you-drive-around-the-desert-in-silence-unless-you-buy-this-30-amiibo.1373860/page-4#post-148487557

 User banned (1 month): Hostility and metacommentary. Prior bans for the same behavior.

Come on OP, even for you who always look for an opportunity to diss Nintendo, this is embarassing. At least try to fact-check first, sheesh.

Dunfish guess you actually have no interest in discussing anything huh? Besides seeing this as an opportunity to dunk on Nintendo, that is.

 

Prime 4 middling reception really fuck Nintendies brains.

[Boredfrom]

don't know about him being a troll account but he has always been consistent in doing anything that signals his.... I don't even say 'dislike' since the word is rather tame to properly explain it... hatred is more appropriate I suppose... towards Nintendo.

Sometimes even if the topic has nothing to do with the company he still found away to mention Nintendo and dismissing them 😅

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-snitch-hes-back-lol-teases-kratos-for-tga.1376971/page-2#post-148654753

 User banned (1 week): trolling over a series of posts

I've been told that using tags alone is not enough, that the OP should bend over backwards to reiterate the tag in the title of their post in big bold letters.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-snitch-hes-back-lol-teases-kratos-for-tga.1376971/page-2#post-148656289

That is so permanent ban worthy 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Laughing Banana is the one that keeps pointing out Kyuuji's bullshit with Cyberpunk so he's probably on "the list".