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

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

"Trans lives are not a bargaining chip or talking point to help you win elections"

But it looks like they are? 

[Daffy Duck]

He said he enjoys the game but plays it off stream because his own community is so toxic about it. Definitely the community he's fostered himself though.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-reaches-steam-peak-of-88-337-in-first-24-hours.1455688/page-28



Not mass quoting as on mobile, but Jeff getting dragged in that thread

Nonsense. If you claim that a noticeable number of people are refunding the game, you need to be able to back that up that "observation" with evidence.

Given that the actual facts point to the opposite of that (overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam + a largely steady player count, even if the overall numbers aren't impressive), it's a perfectly reasonable request.

disagree. The language he used makes it obvious it's an observation. If he had said 10,000 people refunded it, I'd agree there should be a source. But saying it seems like a bunch refunded it isnt some thing requiring a source.

You don't have to fight every one about this game being a success or not

Yes, it is.

No, it isn't.

When there is hard evidence that points to the opposite, as I pointed out, you should in fact provide a source or evidence -- something -- if you are making such a claim.

You don't get to be "it's just an observation" and that wipes away the need for sourcing your claim.

Yeah, thats what I said. Dont question anything ever, you nailed it.

Going on the ignore list, should have done it a few messages ago

lol

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-trump-says-i-guess-americans-should-worry-about-iran-retaliating-on-u-s-soil-like-i-said-some-people-will-die.1455136/page-4#post-152294452

This is the kind of shit that got me to go out and buy body armor for myself and my wife. Never was that kind of scared until this president. Same thing with owning a gun.

[Uncle]

RE thread creators really slipping on making drama threads

Is curious, because it also sounds like the film tested very poorly internally and Docter said he wanted to respect families decisions to those themes on an early age.

Sounds like a lot of families still prefer heteronormative stuff for better or worse.

it's come out that it was more than just him having a pink bike or putting on a "trash-ion show" wearing a pink tank top, there was a scene of elio imagining his future life with the boy he had a crush on and the two of them raising a child together


also, just because it's relevant: today it was revealed that another Pixar movie has been cancelled, it was to be called Be Fri (half of a "Best Friend" necklace) about two girls who are friends and one of them gets invited to a sailor moon-like hero club thing and is going to transform into her super girl form forever and this drives a wedge between the two girls

was to be directorial debut of Kristen Lester

leaked animatic from twitter, disney ninjas got to it very quickly but it's been making the rounds, streamable links like this disappear after 48 hours or if disney reads the bire:

(sound issues are from original upload, there isn't much audio, just in the first part)

honestly it just looks like more modern bean face art style and retreading turning red again, metaphors for burgeoning womanhood and puberty and all that

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-senate-votes-against-resolution-to-prevent-trump-from-continuing-war-with-iran.1453759/#post-152170744

 User Banned (Permanently): Justifying Warcrimes; History of Inflammatory Commentary

Like NATO's Rutte has said, this makes the region safer, Iran has been a sponsor of terror from a fairly safe position due to their impenetrable geography , this shouldn't be a dem vs republican issue…

The world doesn't need another North Korea and they absolutely were moving to that position

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-senate-votes-against-resolution-to-prevent-trump-from-continuing-war-with-iran.1453759/page-2#post-152180101

 User Banned (1 Month): Justifying Warcrimes

The western mind never ceases to amazed.

You bomb the people, their schools, hospitals, civilians, children, woman, literally everyone with no care

Yet after all that they expect a boot licking regime.

And the diaspora execuse again? What was Iraq not enough of a.blood sacrifice for you?

I mean they don't bomb civilian infrastructure like you say, there might have been some terrible collataral damages (not to excuse those!), but tte focus clearly lies on the military and government.
And after the regime killed 30k people in January I could imagine that the ones opposing the regime do have hope for the time after this war.

Alt account   Joined Nov 11, 2022   Messages 12,114  Good job Hecht.

[simiansmarts]

Death to all yt libs like Mamdani:

"I shouldn’t have to baby you on this." 
 
doops your greatest career achievement is writing for a fucking videogame website and making opening posts on a videogame forum. you are not a politician staffer no matter how hard you post on bluesky.

[Yulwei v2]

RE thread creators really slipping on making drama threads

Is curious, because it also sounds like the film tested very poorly internally and Docter said he wanted to respect families decisions to those themes on an early age.

Sounds like a lot of families still prefer heteronormative stuff for better or worse.

it's come out that it was more than just him having a pink bike or putting on a "trash-ion show" wearing a pink tank top, there was a scene of elio imagining his future life with the boy he had a crush on and the two of them raising a child together


also, just because it's relevant: today it was revealed that another Pixar movie has been cancelled, it was to be called Be Fri (half of a "Best Friend" necklace) about two girls who are friends and one of them gets invited to a sailor moon-like hero club thing and is going to transform into her super girl form forever and this drives a wedge between the two girls

was to be directorial debut of Kristen Lester

leaked animatic from twitter, disney ninjas got to it very quickly but it's been making the rounds, streamable links like this disappear after 48 hours or if disney reads the bire:

(sound issues are from original upload, there isn't much audio, just in the first part)

honestly it just looks like more modern bean face art style and retreading turning red again, metaphors for burgeoning womanhood and puberty and all that

 another bean mouth monstrosity 

Can you imagine if they had gone forward with this? The comparisons to k-pop demon hunters would have been endless. This movie would have been the internet's punching bag the ENTIRE way to release.

Whichever Disney exec nipped that shit in the bud saved them from another guaranteed flop

[Boredfrom]

Are Magical Girls shows popular on the west outside Sailor Moon or Sakura Cardcaptors?  Madoka doesn’t count because its intended audience are not kids. Seems that only Transbians and perverts like the shows in the west, while Sailor Moon is for Transbians and women with Arrested Development. 

Toei has tried to bring PreCure with mixed results.

[Boredfrom]

The comparisons to k-pop demon hunters would have been endless.

The thing is that KPop is relevant for the western youth… while Magical Girls doesn’t.

[Boredfrom]

Man, you guys were not kidding about the bean mouth.  

Fucking Steven Universe ruined a whole generation.

[Uncle]

Man, you guys were not kidding about the bean mouth.  

Fucking Steven Universe ruined a whole generation.

genuinely seems to have stolen designs from stephen universe with the whole "color person in diverse body shapes" thing

those girls are definitely lesbians

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-trump-says-i-guess-americans-should-worry-about-iran-retaliating-on-u-s-soil-like-i-said-some-people-will-die.1455136/page-4#post-152294452

This is the kind of shit that got me to go out and buy body armor for myself and my wife. Never was that kind of scared until this president. Same thing with owning a gun.

Are they really going to wear body armor everywhere they go?

edit: Not a conspiracy theory forum btw:

He wants this to happen. That way he can declare a state of emergency or martial law and steal/cancel elections or some other unconstitutional power grab.

I'm getting the impression our government just wants to cause as much death as possible. Doesn't matter who or where. Just more blood for the blood god I guess.

"We expect some things" puts conspiratorial thoughts in my head like they might let a few attacks through in hopes for a 'rally around the flag' moment like we had after 9/11.

and with a totally incompetent FBI, we are most assuredly gonna be "attacked" because of this pointless ass war.

Get ready to be drafted folks! They'll probably raise the enlistment age to 60.

So false flag when?

They are going to blow us up, blame Iran, stop elections

My first thought as well.

It won't work out the same way as 9/11 given HE directly initiated attacks and will asuredly be directed the anger of any domestic hostilities that may occur. Yet... with the media, courts, and even Congress where its at right now, they won't exactly need our opinion to try and mitigate something awful out of anything that may occur. Can absolutely see the billionaires pushing hard for national chest-pounding and patriotic bloodlust and many will buy into it if a Reichtag were to occur. I mean anything that does occur would be due to gross incompetence or allowance on behalf of desperate criminals in charge of preserving power and messaging.

The one thing he learned from zelensky was that if the country is in martial law, then no elections needed

I mean.. it's more a case of who it's gonna be

Deported person/family member heading back?
A republican incel?
Someone from:
- Venezuela
- Iran
- Greenland
- Canada
- Mexico?
- Most of Europe
?
False flag by Israel or South Africa?

The list is almost endless

And that's what he wants to cancel his little elections, doesn't he?

Trump wants his own version of 9/11

This.

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past Trump to attack America himself and blame Iran to justify further genocides to help Israel.

Fairly certain this is an outcome he'll actively cheer for and want to incite and encourage at this point.

They want something to happen and I suspect part of motivation with starting the war is to provoke it. They've planned for it and it's an old historical tactic. They'll use it to increase their power, strip more rights from Americans, quash dissent, and further entrench fascism, all the while profiteering from this war and subsequent ones. Just like with 9/11.

It has been pretty obvious from Trump first term that he and his cronies (especially Stephen Miller) have been salivating to the idea of an attack on US soil as the perfect and bipartisan pretext to cancel all elections for the forseable future. His admin has been teasing and teasing middle eastern powers, especially Iran, with a clear intent to provoke an attack on US bases and/or sovereignity.

This is SS Miller's plan.

They desperatly want a terrorist attack on US soil to enact more fascists measures and stop the midterms.

Is he literally TRYING to repeat 9/11? Like, actually seriously attempting to manufacture one? Because everything altogether sure feels like it

Yep, I'm wondering if this is what it is- manufacturing crisis to stay in power, indefinitely.

they want it to happen to justify doing more atrocities

This seems consistent with what was said previously; Trump wants a big terrorist attack to gain exceptional control over the nation. It is chilling to say the least.

they're gonna get impatient when no significant attack occurs here and they'll just do it themselves.

It's utterly embarrassing how no one has stepped up to organize a protest.

Like seriously, why has nobody just done it?  

I'm not that afraid of immediate retaliation.

I'm more afraid of nuclear proliferation route that humanity will embark. The seeds of hatred has been sow so deeply because of unilateral war crimes committed by nuclear states that it's almost inevitable we'll go down this path, however long it'll take.

Thanks I guess.

 

Feeling great about flying tomorrow.

Stay safe.

[Boredfrom]

Again, is this shit even popular? Or are just the animators obsessions? Why Disney attracts those weirdos? One of the ex Disney showrunner just did a web animated series with the same thematic character design for the MCs, a fat butch girl and a tall neurotic nerdy girl (but at least I feel the show is trying to do something more than “hue hue representation” and “member childhood?”)

[Rendle]

After Incredibles 3 they should just end all animated movies

[Boredfrom]

You know why girls like KPop Demon Hunters? Because is a power fantasy for girls. And most people like pretty good looking characters. They being conventional pretty is the same reason Disney Princess are still popular even with people that should hate the shit out of them.

[Boredfrom]

I'm more afraid of nuclear proliferation route that humanity will embark. The seeds of hatred has been sow so deeply because of unilateral war crimes committed by nuclear states that it's almost inevitable we'll go down this path, however long it'll take.

Do you guys think that Iran having Nukes was a good idea given how they immediately launched drones to lash out against the rest of the region?

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-think-i%E2%80%99m-feeling-my-age-not-having-a-good-night.1456708/#post-152292925 
 

Amongst other things, I think I have a bladder infection as I can't stop wanting to go to the bathroom and in the midst of all that, my lower back has started aching me.

I'm trying to keep my mind off it but man, is this what it's like to be old? It sucks ass. I hate it

I'm 37 btw

 

 
   


This site really is manchildren central

[simiansmarts]

Again, is this shit even popular? Or are just the animators obsessions? Why Disney attracts those weirdos? One of the ex Disney showrunner just did a web animated series with the same thematic character design for the MCs, a fat butch girl and a tall neurotic nerdy girl (but at least I feel the show is trying to do something more than “hue hue representation” and “member childhood?”)

That show is following the trend of kids horror where it's colorful mascot characters but spooky and twisted, it's even about animatronics. Everyone wants to be the next Five Nights at Freddy's because that formula is insanely lucrative if it hits. 
 

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-think-i%E2%80%99m-feeling-my-age-not-having-a-good-night.1456708/#post-152292925 
 

Amongst other things, I think I have a bladder infection as I can't stop wanting to go to the bathroom and in the midst of all that, my lower back has started aching me.

I'm trying to keep my mind off it but man, is this what it's like to be old? It sucks ass. I hate it

I'm 37 btw

 

 
   


This site really is manchildren central

This is less precisely an age issue and more the wear from a lifetime of sitting and playing games. Literally just go for a walk and eat a broccoli once in a while.

[Potato]

Furries aren't necessarily animal cosplayers. They're self-ascribed members of the Furry Community. There is no qualifier for a Furry (you don't need a fursuit) beyond self-identification. Therians are people who believe on some spiritual level that they have an animal spirit inside them, are guided by an animal, are part animal, etc.. It's an emotional/spiritual thing.

The former to me is a hobby and one I partake in; the latter has always seemed like it's tackily jacking Indigenous cultures, and as a result I don't really fuck with it.

 

Very interesting concept here Nepenthe. 

So, what you're saying is these people who believe that they may identify on a spiritual level with a gender species that they were not assigned at birth shouldn't believe that because it may be that they are invading women only spaces tackily jacking Indigenous cultures?

[davepoobond]

It’s funny seeing the reaction to the Iran war like “Iran is going to destroy all of the GCC!” As if all opinions about said countries werent about how bad they are and not wanting “Saudi money” buying up gaming companies or movie studios.  Like why do they care now about these countries?  No one wants oil to be produced either

[Switters]

[/quote] 
This site really is manchildren central
[/quote]


This thread isn't about the bore, sweetheart.

[Besticus Maximus]

My wife wears body armour too. It's called being a decent fucking person and no she can't leave the house.

[Nintex]

replaced knee raises with leg raises
10k steps daily minimum
no take-out, except 1 McDonalds lunch
networking drinks with local politicians and entrepeneurs
3 hour drive to make a 30k deal
tuesday 9AM - 11PM (work - deal - networking)
45 hours clocked in total
3 rounds of free drinks from the neighbour of the King
tequila with 23 y/o
6 beers(double / IPA's) + 1 tequila, no hangover
cleaned out more of my storage unit
sorted games for trade-in
working on a business plan to turn that 30k into 100k
organizing better care for my gravely ill parents
watched a movie with my best friend and pet his cat
cut costs significantly on subscriptions and insurance

All during a week with thick fog which is not helpful when you're astmatic. Everything takes 2x the energy.

I'm 37 next week btw

[filler]

replaced knee raises with leg raises
10k steps daily minimum
no take-out, except 1 McDonalds lunch
networking drinks with local politicians and entrepeneurs
3 hour drive to make a 30k deal
tuesday 9AM - 11PM (work - deal - networking)
45 hours clocked in total
3 rounds of free drinks from the neighbour of the King
tequila with 23 y/o
6 beers(double / IPA's) + 1 tequila, no hangover
cleaned out more of my storage unit
sorted games for trade-in
working on a business plan to turn that 30k into 100k
organizing better care for my gravely ill parents
watched a movie with my best friend and pet his cat
cut costs significantly on subscriptions and insurance

All during a week with thick fog which is not helpful when you're astmatic. Everything takes 2x the energy.

I'm 37 next week btw

[TylenolJones]

A younger entremet wanted to be a chef. I also went to culinary school and did some "stages" or post school internships. Luckily, I never staged at an abusive kitchen. Overall, I found that world not for me. I'm still a big hobby cook, though.

But kitchens like these are not unheard of, especially in the Michelin starred caliber of restaurants. I find Michelin highly problematic as well, but that's another topic.

I'm glad victims of this monster have spoken up. I'm glad I never bought his cookbooks either.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/punching-slamming-screaming-a-chef’s-past-abuse-haunts-noma-the-world’s-top-rated-restaurant.1456804/

[Snoopy]

Replaced no exercise with even less

No take out, except 3 pizzas and cheesecake

Networking can of lager with neighbour. 

10 minute drive to replace an office entry system. Had cup of tea with secretary. 

Wednesday 1-3pm. Work - scrolling on phone - saw a squirrel

22 hours clocked in total

Had 6 pints down the pub watching the match

Cleaned cat's litter tray

Networked with mad woman who didn't have power supply on. Explained I needed electricity to test her central heating. Assured her I was not a government agent. She was not convinced. 

Working on plan to remake First Blood with Peter Dinklage. He has not responded to any of my emails. Yet!

Organized porn folder

Bought some Honey Nut Cornflakes and a packet of Wispa bars

I am 28

[killamajig]

Back I my day, Bean Mouth is what we called Mexicans

[killamajig]

RE thread creators really slipping on making drama threads

They bumped this thread with the info...
https://www.resetera.com/threads/thr-inside-%E2%80%98elio%E2%80%99s%E2%80%99-%E2%80%9Ccatastrophic%E2%80%9D-path-america-ferrera%E2%80%99s-exit-director-change-and-erasure-of-queer-themes.1232256/page-3#post-152301856

Docter told the WSJ that Pixar didn't want to expose its young audience to things they weren't ready to see or hadn't discussed with their parents. He said, "We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy."

Pete Doctor everyone, the vocal Christian.

[DavidCroquet]

Furries aren't necessarily animal cosplayers. They're self-ascribed members of the Furry Community. There is no qualifier for a Furry (you don't need a fursuit) beyond self-identification. Therians are people who believe on some spiritual level that they have an animal spirit inside them, are guided by an animal, are part animal, etc.. It's an emotional/spiritual thing.

The former to me is a hobby and one I partake in; the latter has always seemed like it's tackily jacking Indigenous cultures, and as a result I don't really fuck with it.

 

Very interesting concept here Nepenthe. 

So, what you're saying is these people who believe that they may identify on a spiritual level with a gender species that they were not assigned at birth shouldn't believe that because it may be that they are invading women only spaces tackily jacking Indigenous cultures?

I could almost swear Nepenthe posted in an extensive thread about Furry discrimination a year or two back. If I am remembering correctly, she was describing it as much more than a hobby back then. I'd go as far as to say she was "tackily jacking" herself, even.