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

[benji]

The way the Canadians on there talk about trade is funny, but in line with the way most posters on there talk about everything. They think Canada can just suddenly change all its trade to other countries on a whim without ever considering if anyone in those countries will even take it. I suspect that a bulk of the 75% of Canadian trade that goes to the US is supplying US companies with fairly advanced manufacturing that produce finished products that then get exported. There's nobody else for Canada to export that stuff to, Europe often requires European suppliers, China definitely requires Chinese suppliers, etc. And nobody else in the world has the advanced manufacturing to produce the finished products. That's the main reason the US even gets to export a lot of stuff to Europe is because Europe doesn't produce the products or the US is the dominant supplier of specific things European companies need.

I think they really think the bulk of the advanced economy trade is Funko Pops or whatever instead of capital.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Edit: Boredfrom Uncle slapfight.

[Lonewulfeus]

I agree with that, lots of autistic people don't understand that you can't just paper over any statement with "ok seriously guys, from an objective aesthetic point of view" without coming across as creepy, even if they really and truly only see it in an aesthetic sense, they don't comprehend societal zero tolerance

  

(Calling you out from your free speech and contrarian mentality, not because the current discussion about loli shit)

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[Nintex]

   (shit all my DEI and making everything gay doesn't work...) "We must all stop trading with China because of uuhhh National Security, yes that's it National Security. The sand people beheading folks aren't the enemy China is the enemy."

[jooseloose]

Sony closing Bluepoint Games 

Era thread almost 10 pages within 15 minutes.

[Boredfrom]

I agree with that, lots of autistic people don't understand that you can't just paper over any statement with "ok seriously guys, from an objective aesthetic point of view" without coming across as creepy, even if they really and truly only see it in an aesthetic sense, they don't comprehend societal zero tolerance

  

(Calling you out from your free speech and contrarian mentality, not because the current discussion about loli shit)

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I was referring about how Uncle tends to make some unfortunate off color comments or how he was defending people like JD Vance because “what was saying it was sound even coming from him” and then suddenly “this shit looks bad even if I understand is just autistic sperging”.

[Boredfrom]

Sony closing Bluepoint Games 

Why the emoticon? Is legit fucking horrible.

[HaughtyFrank]

Sony is such a mess. But hey lets spend a 100 million on a horizon GAAS

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/u-s-asks-canada-mexico-for-help-with-tourism-after-one-state-is-hit-by-human-rights-travel-warning-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup.1439074/page-4#post-151521847

I have a brown Muslim Canadian born friend who keeps going to Vegas, Chicago, NY, CA for trips with his buddies. He just shrugs it off. Literally playing with fire.

[Greatness Gone]

Sad that people lost their jobs, but I personally think the work Bluepoint did wasn’t the best. Butchered the art for both of their remakes and messed up the movement a bit for Demon’s Souls.

[Boredfrom]

Sad that people lost their jobs, but I personally think the work Bluepoint did wasn’t the best. Butchered the art for both of their remakes and messed up the movement a bit for Demon’s Souls.

Is less about the remakes and more about killing a technical competent studio after forcing it to do remakes and live service during the JimRyan/Guerrilla era. Sure, you could argue the were already trapped in the remaster mines, but at least feels better use of their talents than remakes and GAAS.

[TylenolJones]

Sony closing Bluepoint Games 

Era thread almost 10 pages within 15 minutes.

Bungie is next.

[Greatness Gone]

Sad that people lost their jobs, but I personally think the work Bluepoint did wasn’t the best. Butchered the art for both of their remakes and messed up the movement a bit for Demon’s Souls.

Is less about the remakes and more about killing a technical competent studio after forcing it to do remakes and live service during the JimRyan/Guerrilla era. Sure, you could argue the were already trapped in the remaster mines, but at least feels better use of their talents than remakes and GAAS.

True. I thought it was weird that they weren’t part of the God of War Trilogy remakes, but I guess this explains why. And Bloodborne remake would have been easy money for PS6 launch.

[Boredfrom]

I honestly just want remasters or at least decent ports of old games.

[Greatness Gone]

Sony closing Bluepoint Games 

Era thread almost 10 pages within 15 minutes.

Bungie is next.

Yep. I actually think what I played of Marathon is pretty fun, but it’s way too hard for the average joe. It’ll have a ok launch but retention is going to be abysmal.

[saltygeneraltso]

I really don't want to research it, but I do find it pretty suspicious that both Nintendo and Capcom released games in the past year or so featuring little girls riding the player's back and it's very important in both games that she has bare feet.
 
Is there a popular anime or manga that they're all ripping off suddenly? Both seem pretty weird to release when videogames are so risk averse nowadays. Pragmata looks like a bomb to me, can't imagine the person that will spend $70 on that.

[Boredfrom]

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-mcdonalds-canada-is-serving-a-certified-pedophile-meal-now-ovo-drake.1440811/

[Uncle]

  

(Calling you out from your free speech and contrarian mentality, not because the current discussion about loli shit)

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I was referring about how Uncle tends to make some unfortunate off color comments or how he was defending people like JD Vance because “what was saying it was sound even coming from him” and then suddenly “this shit looks bad even if I understand is just autistic sperging”.

which is different, because unlike with pedo shit, there isn't a societal zero tolerance stance on supporting specific policies that might make sense even from people you don't like

I genuinely don't care if people think "it looks bad" if trump says the sky is blue and I agree with him that he is correct on this one particular point

[EaldNarche]

Shots fired in the burqa thread 

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-509#post-151548421

[Boredfrom]

Uncle: “It’s different.”  

And is more funny given how much you worry about European restrictions. 

(Just for the record: I don’t exactly disagree with you that there are differences… but that may give us some pause about our ow biases and self reflect about this positions and how we deal it).

[Boredfrom]

which is different, because unlike with pedo shit, there isn't a societal zero tolerance stance on supporting specific policies that might make sense even from people you don't like

I genuinely don't care if people think "it looks bad" if trump says the sky is blue and I agree with him that he is correct on this one particular point

Man, you are not even a sincere contrarian.  

Your post before the edit was better.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/veridis-joe-being-kawaii-while-black.1440100/

Look, we get it, Twitter is the Nazi bar, but it's not just racist Twitter replies, but that absolutism is spewed elsewhere that you can't be black and this other quality, and this time it's about being cute/kawaii. Black women have been masculinised and black children have been adultified, while black men are sexualised and seen as the peak of masculinity. There are loads of stereotypes that are harmful, even positive ones. But you can't be black and nerdy. You can't be black and cute. Because that goes against stereotypes.

Being not black but South Asian myself, it's more you can't be south asian and desirable or attractive, as dating research would show. Or you can't be south asian and have a creative profession or anything other than being a doctor/engineer/IT/lawyer.

The point about gyaru is so on-point.

Anyway, Veridis Joe has a cool channel.

[Boredfrom]

Egg talk, Messy.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-there-a-greater-slang-term-than-dude.1440019/#post-151516117

Bro cannot compete with the gender neutral power of dude

It's only gender neutral until you ask a straight man how many dudes he's slept with.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-there-a-greater-slang-term-than-dude.1440019/page-2#post-151524787

Regardless of personal sentiment on the terms, it is interesting how it's often terms originally for men that are impressed upon everyone as being totally gender neutral now, between dude and now bro. I see 'boys' used to refer to a team of both men and women in streaming spaces as well. Women are kinda just expected to suck it up and deal when I don't think the same would fly anywhere close to the same degree were men to start being called 'sis' and 'girl' across the board.

It's not a big thing. I use dude with my cis women friends and vice versa, though I like it less when a guy uses it toward me. It's just something I've noticed for a while now and continues to happen lol.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-there-a-greater-slang-term-than-dude.1440019/page-3#post-151531699

Really a hell of a thing to insist that dude is a gender neutral when it's regularly used to harass and misgender trans women. Speaking as a trans woman. It can certainly be used by and towards women affirmingly in certain contexts but it is far from having shed those masculine connotations.

And yes. Sure. High school girls might call each other "bro" sometimes. But I would strongly recommend against presuming that non-men are going to be OK with being addressed that way. Ask first. Know the person and where their lines are drawn. It's not that hard.

This is a great post by the way. Sums up a lot of my thoughts on the matter. Women in gaming culture being called "dude", "boys", "bro" is most often something imposed upon us. That doesn't inherently mean that it's unwanted but do consider how you'd feel if the roles were reversed. If you're a guy in this thread asserting that "dude" is now perceived as completely androgynous, I highly recommend asking some damn women. Very few women I know actively enjoy being addressed this way (though, again, I understand that many do and that's OK too).

Edit: Another overlooked aspect of this is that just because some women call each other dude, that does not necessarily mean that they are OK with being called dude by people outside of their social circle, particularly men, similar to what Kyuuji mentioned.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-there-a-greater-slang-term-than-dude.1440019/page-3#post-151537324

Some of us non-men really really dont like being called dude.

User Banned (2 weeks): Using a gif that says dude, do better

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/veridis-joe-being-kawaii-while-black.1440100/

Look, we get it, Twitter is the Nazi bar, but it's not just racist Twitter replies, but that absolutism is spewed elsewhere that you can't be black and this other quality, and this time it's about being cute/kawaii. Black women have been masculinised and black children have been adultified, while black men are sexualised and seen as the peak of masculinity. There are loads of stereotypes that are harmful, even positive ones. But you can't be black and nerdy. You can't be black and cute. Because that goes against stereotypes.

Being not black but South Asian myself, it's more you can't be south asian and desirable or attractive, as dating research would show. Or you can't be south asian and have a creative profession or anything other than being a doctor/engineer/IT/lawyer.

The point about gyaru is so on-point.

Anyway, Veridis Joe has a cool channel.

Or you can't be south asian and have a creative profession or anything other than being a doctor/engineer/IT/lawyer.

This sounds like a problem that's internal to the south asian community because I've never heard anyone say this

[benji]

What confuses me is why Chinese authorities are going after them over a work-related protest. Seems like the opposite of communism.

Almost as if the Chinese Communist Party isn't particularly communist.

These guys need to read their Lenin and Trotsky.  

In China, protests require submitting an application to the government asking for approval, and any application deemed "harmful to national stability" will not be approved. In practice, over the past few decades, only a handful of diplomatic protest against the US and Japan(and maybe S.Korea too? I forgot) have been permitted.

Such a bizarre, dumb rule.

Since y'all don't do the work and read the THEORY and so don't understand how to ORGANIZE:

History has shown that without revolutionary coercion victory cannot be achieved. Without revolutionary coercion directed against the avowed enemies of the workers and peasants, it is impossible to break down the resistance of these exploiters. On the other hand, revolutionary coercion is bound to be employed towards the wavering and unstable elements among the masses themselves.

Now we add to our platform the following: we must combat the ideological confusion of those unsound elements of the opposition [within the Party] who go to the lengths of repudiating all 'militarization of economy', of repudiating not only the 'method of appointing' which has been the prevailing method up to now, but all appointments. In the last analysis this means repudiating the leading role of the Party in relation to the non-Party masses. We must combat the syndicalist deviation which will kill the Party if it is not completely cured of it
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Marxism teaches us that only the political party of the working class, i.e. the Communist Party, is in a position to unite, educate, organize...and direct all sides of the proletarian movement and hence all the working masses. Without this the dictatorship of the proletariat is meaningless.

They have come out with dangerous slogans. They have made a fetish of democratic principles. They have placed the workers' right to elect representatives above the Party. As if the Party were not entitled to assert its dictatorship even if that dictatorship temporarily clashed with the passing moods of the workers' democracy!
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The Party is obliged to maintain its dictatorship...regardless of temporary vacillations even in the working class.

The revolutionary dictatorship of a proletarian party is for me not a thing that one can freely accept or reject: It is an objective necessity imposed upon us by the social realities — the class struggle, the heterogeneity of the revolutionary class, the necessity for a selected vanguard in order to assure the victory. 
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The revolutionary party (vanguard) which renounces its own dictatorship surrenders the masses to the counter-revolution
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Abstractly speaking, it would be very well if the party dictatorship could be replaced by the ‘dictatorship’ of the whole toiling people without any party, but this presupposes such a high level of political development among the masses that it can never be achieved under capitalist conditions. The reason for the revolution comes from the circumstance that capitalism does not permit the material and the moral development of the masses

Control by the party over soviet organs, over the trade unions, is the single durable guarantee that any measures taken will serve not special interests, but the interests of the entire proletariat

In general, this transition cannot be achieved without the leadership of that class which is the only class capitalism has trained for large-scale production and which alone is divorced from the interests of the petty proprietor. But the dictatorship of the proletariat cannot be exercised through an organisation embracing the whole of that class, because in all capitalist countries (and not only over here, in one of the most backward) the proletariat is still so divided, so degraded, and so corrupted in parts (by imperialism in some countries) that an organisation taking in the whole proletariat cannot directly exercise proletarian dictatorship. It can be exercised only by a vanguard that has absorbed the revolutionary energy of the class.
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It cannot work without a number of “transmission belts” running from the vanguard to the mass of the advanced class, and from the latter to the mass of the working people. In Russia, this mass is a peasant one. There is no such mass anywhere else, but even in the most advanced countries there is a non-proletarian, or a not entirely proletarian, mass. That is in itself enough to produce ideological confusion.

The Communist Party is a part of the working class, and moreover its most advanced, most class-conscious and therefore its most revolutionary part. The Communist Party is created by the method of the natural selection of the best, the most class-conscious, the most self-sacrificing, and the most far-sighted workers. The Communist Party has no interests that differ from the interests of the whole working class. The Communist Party differs from the whole working class because it has an overall view of the whole historical road of the working class in its totality and because at every turn in this road it strives to defend not just the interests of a single group or a single trade, but the interests of the working class in its totality. The Communist Party is the organisational and political lever with whose help the advanced part of the working class can steer the whole mass of the proletariat and the semi-proletariat on to the correct road.
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The Communist International rejects most decisively the view that the proletariat can carry out its revolution without having an independent political party. Every class struggle is a political struggle. The aim of this struggle, which inevitably turns into civil war, is the conquest of political power. Political power can only be seized, organised and led by a political party, and in no other way. Only when the proletariat has as a leader an organised and tested party with well marked aims and with a tangible, worked-out programme for the next measures to be taken not only at home but also in foreign policy, will the conquest of political power not appear as an accidental episode but serve as the starting point for the permanent communist construction of society by the proletariat.

The same class struggle demands in the same way the centralisation and common leadership of the different forms of the proletarian movement (trades unions, co-operatives, works committees, cultural work, elections and so forth). Only a political party can be such a unifying and leading centre. To renounce the creation and strengthening of such a party, to renounce subordinating oneself to it, is to renounce unity in the leadership of the individual battle units of the proletariat who are advancing on the different battlefields. The class struggle of the proletariat demands a concerted agitation that illuminates the different stages of the struggle from a uniform point of view and at every given moment directs the attention of the proletariat towards specific tasks common to the whole class. That cannot be done without a centralised political apparatus, that is to say outside of a political party.

Victor Serge has disclosed in passing what caused the collapse of the Bolshevik party: excessive centralism, mistrust of ideological struggle, lack of freedom loving (“libertaire”, in reality anarchist) spirit. More confidence in the masses, more freedom! All this is outside time and space. But the masses are by no means identical: there are revolutionary masses, there are passive masses, there are reactionary masses. The very same masses are at different times inspired by different moods and objectives. It is just for this reason that a centralized organization of the vanguard is indispensable. Only a party, wielding the authority it has won, is capable of overcoming the vacillation of the masses themselves. To invest the mass with traits of sanctity and to reduce one’s program to amorphous “democracy”, is to dissolve oneself in the class as it is, to turn from a vanguard into a rearguard, and by this very thing, to renounce revolutionary tasks. On the other hand, if the dictatorship of the proletariat means anything at all, then it means that the vanguard of the class is armed with the resources of the state in order to repel dangers, including those emanating from the backward layers of the proletariat itself. All this is elementary; all this has been demonstrated by the experience of Russia, and confirmed by the experience of Spain.

But the whole secret is this, that demanding freedom “for the masses”, Victor Serge in reality demands freedom for himself and for his compeers, freedom from all control, all discipline, even, if possible, from all criticism. The “masses” have nothing at all to do with it. When our “democrat” scurries from right to left, and from left to right, sowing confusion and scepticism, he imagines it to be the realization of a salutary freedom of thought. But when we evaluate from the Marxian standpoint the vacillations of a disillusioned petty-bourgeois intellectual, that seems to him an assault upon his individuality. He then enters into an alliance with all the confusionists for a crusade against our despotism and our sectarianism.

The internal democracy of a revolutionary party is not a goal in itself. It must be supplemented and bounded by centralism. For a Marxist the question has always been: democracy for what? For which program? The framework of the program is at the same time the framework of democracy. Victor Serge demanded of the Fourth International that it give freedom of action to all confusionists, sectarians and centrists of the POUM, Vereecken, Marceau Pivert types, to conservative bureaucrats of the Sneevliet type or mere adventurers of the R. Molinier type. On the other hand, Victor Serge has systematically helped centrist organizations drive from their ranks the partisans of the Fourth International. We are very well acquainted with that democratism: it is compliant, accomodating and conciliatory – towards the right; at the same time, it is exigent, malevolent and tricky – towards the left. It merely represents the régime of self-defense of petty-bourgeois centrism.

[Superstar]

The self-loathing Canadians of resetera have restored my patriotism  and even had me enjoying women's hockey and ensuing Candian posters meltdowns. Who knew our group of lesbians were a bunch of maga terfs

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-your-favorite-sicko-moments-in-the-infamous-onion-cartoons.1441168

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-your-favorite-sicko-moments-in-the-infamous-onion-cartoons.1441168

Only knew about the sicko from meme or joke posts, didn't know the creator was that insane and into alt right stuff likely...unless there is some parody i am missing

The Onion