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

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

FREE PAL-

BAFTA:


N-N--N*****!!

BAFTA:

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-feel-im-ever-more-afraid-of-trying-new-story-driven-aaa-games-old-mans-thread.1446634/

I got Metro Exodus and Returnal a while back. I only played a few minutes of the former before starting the later, which I wanted to beat first. Doing that, I went back to Exodus. It's a nice enough game, beautiful to look at (minus a very annoying pixelation issue), the gameplay is basic but solid, it's immersive with its mechanics and overall I'm enjoying my time with it. When I am *playing* it.

Becuase a lot of the time I'm not. I'm hearing people speak. And I don't care a bit. There is a bunch of military dudes, a cute girlfriend, and they talk about stuff. And it's all just noise. Of course you can't expect to care about a story instantly (although there are many examples of those that accomplish that) so I'm willing to take my time with it. But it's getting harder. And getting absorbed in a story shouldn't feel like work, it should be an enjoyable experience. But if the game can't do that, just give me gameplay goodie.

 

I’m disappointed in ERA because no one has mentioned that Metro Exodus is the third part of a story and the dude sounds like didn’t play the past ones to begin with. Not that I think the Metro games are the best vidja storytelling ever, but you play those games to get immersive in the world. Dude make it sounds like he is playing a particularly verbose Call of Duty campaign.

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

He is going to hate the last level and the ending. Because the game whole theme is about caring about these characters.

It drives me nuts because these are the same guys that shitted on “gameplay first” people for years (so supported slop) or think the height of storytelling is Marvel stuff (so stories without instant gratification are bad).

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-25-2026-four-killed-and-six-injured-after-armed-men-on-u-s-speedboat-opened-fire-at-cuban-coast-guard.1446292/page-2#post-151818718

Tbf we don't know if they were US nationals (Cubans are also americans).

Did this guy really just confuse Cuba for Puerto Rico?  Or is this just a really dumb way of saying people of Cuban descent can be American citizens? 

Edit:

In Europe (well, most of Europe) and Latam we are taught that America is a single continent.

So cubans are (North) Americans cause they exist above the North American continental plate?  This guy is retarded.

 Reading that thread.  Everyone is freaking out.  Some are saying Trump is going to use it as an excuse to reenact Bay of Pigs Invasion.    

The conspiracy part of my brain says this is a false flag operation pushed by Trump to get the public prepared for an invasion of Cuba, but it's probably just smugglers or idiot Americans.

We had this story a few months ago: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtx/p...t-texas-international-murderkidnapping-scheme

This might very well have been a coup attempt, by the stupidest people in the planet, much like what happened in Venezuela in 2020

They love to play Fox News/MSNBC producer and make any event an attack from THEY.  The tourettes guy had some old school Mission Impossible operation pulled off so he would say the n-word at the right moment.  Nothing can ever just happen.  It has to fit the narrative that THEY are coming to get US. 



https://clip.cafe/the-other-guys-2010/okay-i-put-together-a-little-bio-complete-with-pictures-of-mr-david-ershon/

Frontline Narration App: Ershon Consortium, current financial investments exceed $70 billion. His largest clients include Schering-Plough and Lendl Global.
Terry Hoitz: Well, Lendl Global has those TV ads where I can't figure out what they do.
Allen Gamble: Yeah, oil, media, healthcare. You've probably heard their jingle. "Lendel Global, we're in everything."
Frontline Narration App: David Ershon is often found in the company of Judge Scalia...
Terry Hoitz: Yeah.
Frontline Narration App: ...and the lead singer of Maroon 5.
Terry Hoitz: I mean, this guy could be connected to drug cartels, black market organ sales, human trafficking, all of it.
Allen Gamble: How do you get that from anything I just said? 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-feel-im-ever-more-afraid-of-trying-new-story-driven-aaa-games-old-mans-thread.1446634/

I got Metro Exodus and Returnal a while back. I only played a few minutes of the former before starting the later, which I wanted to beat first. Doing that, I went back to Exodus. It's a nice enough game, beautiful to look at (minus a very annoying pixelation issue), the gameplay is basic but solid, it's immersive with its mechanics and overall I'm enjoying my time with it. When I am *playing* it.

Becuase a lot of the time I'm not. I'm hearing people speak. And I don't care a bit. There is a bunch of military dudes, a cute girlfriend, and they talk about stuff. And it's all just noise. Of course you can't expect to care about a story instantly (although there are many examples of those that accomplish that) so I'm willing to take my time with it. But it's getting harder. And getting absorbed in a story shouldn't feel like work, it should be an enjoyable experience. But if the game can't do that, just give me gameplay goodie.

 

I’m disappointed in ERA because no one has mentioned that Metro Exodus is the third part of a story and the dude sounds like didn’t play the past ones to begin with. Not that I think the Metro games are the best vidja storytelling ever, but you play those games to get immersive in the world. Dude make it sounds like he is playing a particularly verbose Call of Duty campaign.

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

He is going to hate the last level and the ending. Because the game whole theme is about caring about these characters.

It drives me nuts because these are the same guys that shitted on “gameplay first” people for years (so supported slop) or think the height of storytelling is Marvel stuff (so stories without instant gratification are bad).

A surefire way of knowing if someone suffers from severe foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is to see how invested they are in video game storylines.

[Geoff Marvel]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people-demanding-the-immediate-surrender-of-drivers-licenses.1446676/

[filler]

translicense-ide

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-ipc-confirms-famine-in-gaza-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-501#post-151811191

2 years since Aaron Bushnell's self immolation and I had to watch the video again and hear his screams to remind myself to never look away from the evil in this world.

RIP

Free Palestine

It they hadn't mentioned "self immolation" I wouldn't know who they were talking about.

Dude set himself on fire, only to fade away.

[DavidCroquet]

I thought he meant this guy and briefly believed I had missed out on a major piece of trivia…

[filler]

were allowed to be a different gender on their license than in reality?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people-demanding-the-immediate-surrender-of-drivers-licenses.1446676/

If you continue to use an invalid form of ID while driving on public roads you will be subjected to the law. So just like using an expired or fake ID?

The OP made it seem like it was major until I read the letter. This comes across as only needing to to visit the DMV before the law goes into effect. Thankfully letters have been sent out beforehand but I'm sure some with ID reflecting their gender identity will fall through the cracks. Hopefully they will be given some leeway once discovered and given help.

Edit: Wow Feb 28th? Not even a lengthy time period? They really are wanting to make headaches lol.

Just more genocide

sigh and this is why gavin is going to become the dem nom, please stop.

[Cheers]

Is it more problematic to click "Interested" or "Not interested"? A tough cookie to crack. 

Depends on what Uncle picks. 

[BananaBlast]

Wait, did I really just glance past Monster spoilers as I randomly decide to watch it?

What the fuck man.... What are the odds? God fucking hates me or something.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people-demanding-the-immediate-surrender-of-drivers-licenses.1446676/

It's distressing how much backsliding there has been on this issue. 10 years ago, the backlash to North Carolina's bathroom bill was immense. The NBA even moved their all-star game in protest. We've gone from that to the Democratic presidential frontrunner (albeit a very early one) throwing trans people under the bus.

Yea I wonder what changed in the intervening decade?  

[benji]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-black-culture-community-ot-05-got-the-rona-rub-some-tussin-on-it-youll-be-aight.206712/page-166#post-151806055

I don't care about the insults. What I didn't expect was the lengths to which they would go to to say that Black people not being perfectly okay with that word being thrown around is inherently ableist.

Hell, one member was arguing that Davidson didn't "say" the word because "saying" implies intent; not even Tourettes' activists were making that argument. Like it's fine to say that some of the stuff he says is involuntary/reflexive. But the level of infantilization was wild.

Also wild was people saying he shouldn't apologize (and they are completely absent in the new thread as a result), as if unintentional harm just isn't a concept in folks' heads.

Basically, this conversation was really nothing but an excuse for whites to say we just need to take whatever comes in this society. Usual shtick.

Edit: Finally someone getting to the fucking heart of the matter:

Ah ok, I get it now.

Davidson's life should be a comically sisyphean cycle of offensive outbursts punctuated by groveling apologies, or perhaps woven fully together in such a way that one cannot tell where an outburst ends and an apology begins.

I would note that many times in the past Nepenthe has said that racists (or people accused of racism) being able to just apologize and go on with their life is completely unacceptable, a further offense against Black people, and that the only way for any whites to show any form of penance for offending a Black person is to dedicate themselves to public work to achieve definitive material change for all Black people.

[Uncle]

Depends on what Uncle picks.   

listen, you and malfoy jumped all over me last time I said anything about washing chicken

I don't even want to go to their shitty cookout where they washed all the chicken with dawn dish soap   

Relax. Nobody will miss you.

so when the subject came up again the other day I intentionally didn't say anything so as not to upset you

meanwhile lots of other people here yucking it up about black folx washing their meat and you don't say a word to them

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-y’all-wash-meat-before-cooking-it.1445356/
Awwww yes here we go again.  Time for a bunch of people to dismiss concerns of black folx!

why do black folx love washing their chicken so much?

there's little black bits that need to be removed, didn't you read? 

I guess meat's back on the menu, boys

[Boredfrom]

Wait, did I really just glance past Monster spoilers as I randomly decide to watch it?

What the fuck man.... What are the odds? God fucking hates me or something.

If it makes you feel better, there is a lot of context out of my post.

[Boredfrom]

meanwhile lots of other people here yucking it up about black folx washing their meat and you don't say a word to them

We were dunking on stupid people that use race and ethnicity to justify a bad custom they grow with.

[Uncle]

meanwhile lots of other people here yucking it up about black folx washing their meat and you don't say a word to them

We were dunking on stupid people that use race and ethnicity to justify a bad custom they grow with.

I didn't quote you

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

what's wrong with washing meat? Not everyone gets theirs from a store. Sounds pretty privileged to me. 

[benji]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-black-culture-community-ot-05-got-the-rona-rub-some-tussin-on-it-youll-be-aight.206712/page-166#post-151806055

Edit: Finally someone getting to the fucking heart of the matter:

I didn't watch this 41 minute video that mostly consists of some white guy talking to his camera but just from context clues (the thumbnail plus reading the comments) I can determine that this video, and therefore Nepenthe, advance the conspiracy theory that BAFTA/BBC deliberately put a microphone near the Tourette's guy to catch him saying a racial slur and then deliberately did not edit out the n-word because they're colonizers and their goal was to divide the Left to weaken its efforts against anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism. In other words, Nepenthe, site admin, yet again pushing an insane conspiracy theory something which staff have said members are not allowed to do.

If you're skeptical that I'm right just from the thumbnail even as it includes text suggesting this exact thing:

@meganfletcher4685
12 hours ago
John mentioned recently that he was confused about why, despite being 40 rows away from the stage, that he was placed near a microphone. This was purposefully done. It feels so icky that the bbc weaponised John to direct racism towards Jordan and Lindo. And its even worse that it seems the public have not been able to accept that BOTH sides are being hurt, with racism and misconceptions towards tourettes both being perpetuated.
The real evil is the institution. Thank you for such a well done intersectional video.

@gwen5495
12 hours ago
That's what I've been saying. They did this on purpose. They wanted the disabled community and black community to be pitted against each other. Reasonable accommodations could have been made for John. The slurs could have been edited out. They could've made it easier for him to leave before he said the n word multiple times. They could've properly explained corprolalia before the event. They could have checked on black attendees before and after. They did none of that.

@lyricistrito
13 hours ago
i genuinely dont think we will ever get to a place where these things don’t happen because on top of them pushing their own colonial agendas, i genuinely feel like racist and ableist people find these situations entertaining. as a black person we are always forced to be the bigger person and just ignore racist slurs and i genuinely feel like racists love it, they love making oppressed people feel embarrassed and upset. the fact that they didnt edit it out of the broadcast means they can make so many more black and/or disabled people embarrassed and upset.

@egx161
13 hours ago
Someone in charge is very racist. It only takes one person with enough power, to allow this to air.

@Depresso_dr
10 hours ago
This is peak yakubian trickonology. They get to put Disabled and racialized folks against each other while at the same time no one gives a shit that a simple gesture of solidarity for Palestinians, Sudanese and Congolese folks were censored. Goebbels would be proud

@juliettedemaso7588
10 hours ago
The most callous way to sum this up; wasps who've sat monocropping in their positiins of power long enough, tiny power or huge, have always delighted in the woopsie daisy deployment of useful idiots.

@hughanderson8876
12 hours ago
couldn't agree more. The pitting of marginalized community against another. The blame, I place squarely at the top.

@Ta_Sa_
14 hours ago
As a black person I am tired of forcing others to acknowledge/grow from their willful cruelty. It is what it is.

@angelak609
11 hours ago
It’s such a red herring to get people to not focus on Sinners!

@Goggle-l2w
11 hours ago (edited)
When stuff like this happens people always pull the “it’s black people vs queers, disabled people, women” and any other marginalized group that white people can be apart of, when a white person does something racist. Which is inherently racist because it erases blackness within these communities, ignores intersectionality, and centers white people in these marginalized experiences. Which furthers validates their perception that they can’t be racist because they “get it” or they can just say that black people are just all bigots and deserve it. It only serves too alienate black people who aren’t cis het and able bodied because other black people who are, think they are aligning with whiteness for having an identity thats “just a crazy white people thing”

The intentional erasure of intersectionality by colonialism cannot be encouraged by the mass.

@T_kats
14 hours ago
Intersectionality is more important than ever.

@elmismisimoyakub
14 hours ago
Thats something that a lot of people dont really get, but its really easy, no one is free until we are ALL free.

@Reu8enofleon
14 hours ago
I don’t say this word lightly, or ever… but Elliot you are a hero for the things you’re doing. I really needed this video to help me process the flattening and zero sum empathy response to all of this.

Also other facts in the comments:

@stabbysorrows
12 hours ago
Ableism has always been weaponized against racialized people. I'm not black, so I won't speak to that, but I'm a disability advocate.

Ableism isn't just discrimination against disabled people, it's a system of categorization based on you're ability (or lack thereof) to produce... ie. how exploitable you are.

(That's why ableism is so often weaponized against racialized, and specially black, people. Black people can't be disabled because  our systems are based on the exploitation of black people.)

All of this means that disabled people are literally less (abled) than. Less able to work, less able to live, and less able to do harm. This perceived lack of ability to do harm is often weaponized (intentionally or not) against others, specially by white disabled people.

Dismissing the harm caused by Davidson's tics isn't just incredibly racist, but also ableist. His disability doesn't take away from the fact that he is fully realized person. It doesn't take away from the fact that he is still a white man that said the n-word to two black men.

And in regards to the lack of accommodations for Davidson, there is this concept that's not problematized enough (or at all) in disability spaces: "reasonable adjustments". It's exactly as it sounds. Accomodations, flexibilities, adjustments, etc, that are given to disabled people at work, or school, etc, are done in so far as they are "reasonable' for  the context. Who defines what's considered reasonable you may ask? That's the fucking problem. It's not the professionals, specialized in providing accommodations. Certainly not the disabled person who needs them. It's the people in charge, who know jack shit about disabilities and who often don't even want disabled people to be there. So a lot of accommodations are considered to be too much work, too much money, too unfair, etc.

I have not doubt that many of the accommodations that could have prevented this whole situation would have been considered "unreasonable" by the BAFTAs and BBC.

And in Black History Month of all months:

@TommieAngel15
10 hours ago
Not done with the video yet but THANK YOU for calling it a trauma. It IS traumatic as a black person to hear that word. Especially in a professional setting. Especially in a room full of people who don't do anything to help you. Especially when everyone tries to downplay it. Black people are human too, we have feelings that can be hurt. We have mental health issues. Just seeing all of the commentary about this is giving me so much anxiety and depression. I hate not being seen as a real person. Everyone is basically saying that we're stupid for being offended because we simply must not know what Tourette's is. As if we live under a rock.

We are never awarded the same empathy as white people. We don't get to be seen as sensitive or soft even though a lot of us are! My heart hurts. It's been such a horrible month for us. I'm genuinely hoping for better days to come but this has been absolutely difficult to juggle on top of everything else we all are dealing with on a personal and community level.

[benji]

Jeff really loves talking down to women on the Nazi site.

They should be more like his Nazi mom:

19 likes, Jeff isn't going to delete that post.  

He deleted them, but as allies we should never forget that goofy Jeff mansplained to a trans woman about her genocide. Women aren't safe around lil poptart and any website that platforms him is complicit.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

meanwhile lots of other people here yucking it up about black folx washing their meat and you don't say a word to them

We were dunking on stupid people that use race and ethnicity to justify a bad custom they grow with.

I didn't quote you

You didn't quote me either, but that won't stop me from waiting until you go to sleep, sneaking into your bedroom, and taking pictures of myself putting my balls in your mouth.

[Potato]

Of course Jeff Marvel has a MAGA mother

[benji]

I know this is all hypothetical and worst-case scenario speculating, but we don't want to host discussions where users fantasise about studio closures and layoffs, for obvious reasons.

Even the fascist studios and chud developers?

[BIONIC]

We were dunking on stupid people that use race and ethnicity to justify a bad custom they grow with.

I didn't quote you

You didn't quote me either, but that won't stop me from waiting until you go to sleep, sneaking into your bedroom, and taking pictures of myself putting my balls in your mouth.

[benji]

Oh shit here come the vultures. They're licking their beaks!

Modern commentary across the board is so fuckin eyeroll worthy.

Love this guy:

Yes, this is a super fascist red flag for any of those unaware.

This woman's elevation is pretty devastating and another symbol of just the dire state of society. Like, it's pretty fucking -bad- dude.

This woman seems like a true believer.

Not interested in playing this game, and even less so with this shitstorm (and how Ed is seemingly leaning into it). But it creates conflicting emotions seeing it gain so much traction and millions of players apparently oblivious or indifferent to the issues. Seeing big streamers you like playing it and not batting an eyelid... Why's it so difficult to navigate this space?

Money. Influence. Power.

Tales as old as time.

Yes absolutely. It's a larger, systemic, cultural problem. It has actually been quite visible within the culture of video games themselves for quite awhile, but now the level of technological entrenchment into people's lives is just devastating. And most people are completely oblivious. In fact, they'll happily celebrate the material reality.

It's actually a pretty seriously nightmarish situation, not speaking specifically about video games.

Yeah Jason Stanley, Tim Snyder, and Marci Shore, the three former Yale professor now expatriates, are three people who've most known what's been truly going on for the last decade+.

Everything he wrote here is exactly correct, especially the assessment about the American populace.

That thread is hilarious for two things:
1. It takes Jason Stanley completely seriously and an expert on anything at all.
2. Lots of shots at Nepenthe and other refuseniks for not voting against Trump, saying they're complicit in all fascism that happens.

Also, mentioning Snyder is funny because he denies Stanley's claim about fleeing Trump/fascism:

Snyder and his wife moved from the United States to Canada in the summer of 2024 because of "difficult family matters."[130] Shore wrote that their children were factors in the couple’s decision. A spokesperson for Snyder said he made his decision for personal reasons, and he made it before the election. In an emailed statement Wednesday, Snyder said, "The opportunity came at a time when my spouse and I had to address some difficult family matters....aside from a strong appreciation of what U of T has to offer, the motivations are largely that--personal."[131]

Some media reported that he, like his close friend Jason Stanley, was fleeing the perceived fascism of President Trump; as he wrote, "I did not leave Yale because of anything Trump is doing; the chronology and the psychology are all wrong; I was not and am not fleeing anything."[6][132][131]

[Uncle]

We were dunking on stupid people that use race and ethnicity to justify a bad custom they grow with.

I didn't quote you

You didn't quote me either, but that won't stop me from waiting until you go to sleep, sneaking into your bedroom, and taking pictures of myself putting my balls in your mouth.

as long as you don't wash them with dawn dish soap

wait

[D3RANG3D]

Jeff's mum hit him with a factually incorrect!

[Daffy Duck]

Of course Jeff Marvel has a MAGA mother

Explains a lot, he’s Norman Bates

[Daffy Duck]

This is the best comment I’ve seen on this Tourette’s situation