Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Besticus Maximus]

Patrick Rothfuss thread is great, who would have thought a collection of such astounding 'media literacy' experts had never encountered an unreliable narrator

[Orange Juice Box]

I still find it that in, what, a couple of years? era official policy has entirely pivoted from "you're not allowed to compare israeli policy towards palestinians to german ghettoisation in the 30s and 40s because it upsets our jewish members" to "eat a ban if you imply israel didnt basically ask for this, hamas had no choice perpetrating one of the worst atrocities in recent years"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sorry-about-this-thread-it-has-been-deleted.774542/

What was OP?

The Mod's are allowing those wacky pranksters at ResetEra to have state-sanctioned fun again.

In fact, it's the most fun Era has had since the 'Count as high as we can until the mod's close the thread' hijinks. Wild times.

Edit:  Top of the page Gal Gadot to help with the peace process:

Please refrain from posting pictures of a war crime criminal.  Her teaching yoga to IDF soldiers probably cost the lives of millions.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Please refrain from posting pictures of a war crime criminal.  Her teaching yoga to IDF soldiers probably cost the lives of millions.

Hamas would have won if those damn IDF soldiers weren't so damn flexible.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

There's a mass masking off event going on right now

https://www.resetera.com/threads/semafor-msnbc-has-quietly-taken-three-of-its-muslim-broadcasters-out-of-the-anchor%E2%80%99s-chair-since-hamas%E2%80%99s-attack-on-israel-last-saturday.774680/post-113435981

And please ban this guy for discussing the truth dismissing concerns

A lot of reactionary responses here. Ayman was on Alex Wagner just last night or the night before. He's part of the conversation regularly as I understand it. And ali velshi is reporting live from Israel/the area. And I've seen Mehdi Hasan reporting providing commentary as well.

If they are trying to hide them, they are doing a bad job. A lot of other regular programming has been sidelined for live coverage. I think people need to not rush to judgement here. Whether these are deliberate decisions, it could be the case, but there's no good evidence for it yet. I mean, this is one article, might just be clickbait

https://www.resetera.com/threads/semafor-msnbc-has-quietly-taken-three-of-its-muslim-broadcasters-out-of-the-anchor%E2%80%99s-chair-since-hamas%E2%80%99s-attack-on-israel-last-saturday.774680/post-113436707

[Polident]

What’s amazing is even Gal Gadot, who has skin in the game, had a saner response. Saying she’s pro innocent Israelis and Palestinians civilians, and those who aren’t, maybe should ask themselves why. Can you imagine? It’s easy if you try.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I blame the writers strike for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. If the stars of The Marvels were allowed to promote the film then none of this would have happened.

[Not an Alt Account]

Even the glorious Nihon is siding with genocide. Quick someone ask Nintendo and Sony what are their position on the conflict.

[PogiJones]

What’s amazing is even Gal Gadot, who has skin in the game, had a saner response. Saying she’s pro innocent Israelis and Palestinians civilians, and those who aren’t, maybe should ask themselves why. Can you imagine? It’s easy if you try.

Pretty light pigment though 

[Nintex]

Even the glorious Nihon is siding with genocide. Quick someone ask Nintendo and Sony what are their position on the conflict.

From the river to the sea Hyrule will be free

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/australia-counts-down-to-landmark-vote-on-indigenous-voice-al-jazeera.774728/page-4

Once you hit retirement age you should retire from voting too. If under 18’s can’t then over 65’s shouldn’t either.

I wonder how much demographics would shift..

If you're terminally online and post on Resetera you should be banned from voting.

I wonder how much demographics would shift..

[Nintex]

We need a Bibi emoji ASAP

Please use responsibly

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-disney-ceo-deputies-are-pushing-for-iger-to-transform-disney-into-a-gaming-giant-perhaps-via-ea-acquisition-currently-non-committal.773396/#post-113262623

EA is already making Star Wars, Iron Man, and Black Panther so it kind of makes sense. I still think EA is going to be the next big acquisition whether it's by Disney, Apple, Amazon, or Sony IDK. Sony getting just EA Entertainment and leaving EA Sports standalone makes a lot of sense and would circumvent a lot of regulatory pressure.

I wonder if Disney getting EA and getting into game making presents an issue for Insomniac, MachineGames, Ubisoft, etc.

[Polident]

On the latest Marvel slop flop, evidently the real reason is Taylor Swift’s movie? Concert? I’m not exactly sure what it is.

yt women, who voted for trump*, are choosing to watch it instead of the brave glass ceiling breaking captain marvel 2. 

*

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

[Nintex]

At some point her flock will demand that Swift picks a side and I don't think she'll side with the war mongering trans marxist jew hating vegan baby killers but we'll see what happens
 

[jorma]

At some point her flock will demand that Swift picks a side and I don't think she'll side with the war mongering trans marxist jew hating vegan baby killers but we'll see what happens
 

you're kinda leaving her out of options here 

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-disney-ceo-deputies-are-pushing-for-iger-to-transform-disney-into-a-gaming-giant-perhaps-via-ea-acquisition-currently-non-committal.773396/#post-113262623

EA is already making Star Wars, Iron Man, and Black Panther so it kind of makes sense. I still think EA is going to be the next big acquisition whether it's by Disney, Apple, Amazon, or Sony IDK. Sony getting just EA Entertainment and leaving EA Sports standalone makes a lot of sense and would circumvent a lot of regulatory pressure.

I wonder if Disney getting EA and getting into game making presents an issue for Insomniac, MachineGames, Ubisoft, etc.

EA just folded the Need for Speed team into Respawn Entertainment just to get Battlefield out the door and BioWare is falling apart.
Why the hell would you want Sony to buy them   

One interesting rumor I learned about the other day is that Sony is exploring to take over somewhat popular but dormant IPs from Ubisoft, Embracer, EA and other publishers to expand their IP library. It would be less risky than new IPs and cheaper than buying out studios. Need for Speed was mentioned as something that interested them. Also not many at Sony liked the direction of creating 10 additional GAAS games that Jim Ryan bet on. Most of them feel Sony should focus on their expertise which is the AAAA+ single player games and help out with the marketing of Hoyoverse as they did with Square Enix back in the day. 

Making licensed games is really a step back for the likes of Ubisoft and EA. It shows that they have little trust in their own IPs or their ability to develop, market and sell them.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/australia-counts-down-to-landmark-vote-on-indigenous-voice-al-jazeera.774728/page-4

Once you hit retirement age you should retire from voting too. If under 18’s can’t then over 65’s shouldn’t either.

I wonder how much demographics would shift..

If you're terminally online and post on Resetera you should be banned from voting.

I wonder how much demographics would shift..

Been waiting for this shit to pop up.

This has been a highly divisive debate from the beginning when the idiot PM decided to link constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians to an absurd "advisory" body which would also be enshrined in the constitution.

From the beginning this was doomed for a number of reasons:

• We have tried across multiple bodies and levels of government to create indigenous advisory bodies. Every single one has failed for multiple reasons, always resulting in multiple billions in wasted money.
  
• If this one failed as well, the only solution would be to throw even more money at it because it could only be removed with another referendum.
  
• Voting in Australia is compulsory, so any time we have to go to the polls is a big impost on people and there are certain levels of public funding that go into elections.
  
• The Yes campaign has been extremely scarce on detail on what this body would look like and how it would function. When asked, their response has been little more than, "trust me, bro" and you don't need to have Benji's distrust of government institutions to be concerned about that.
  
• Australians are extremely egalitarian, so anything that sets one group out as receiving more benefit than others is always a hard sell.
  
• Many of the big corporations who love their virtue signaling (Qantas particularly) have supported the Yes campaign. All while being typically hypocritical in their business practices.
  
• The Yes campaign immediately branded anyone intending to vote No as a racist, even though there were many more reasons to vote No than simple racism. Of course there was racism involved, but you don't get a defeat like this based on racism alone. There were fundamental issues with the proposition.
  
• The leading voices in the Yes campaign were white Australians. The leading voices in the No campaign were Indigenous Australians.
  
• The Murdoch press were far more balanced in their coverage than any of the other media, the problem was that almost all the other media were biased in favor of the Yes vote. Personally, I hate the Murdoch press and only read it for work purposes, but if these idiots at resetera actually read the Murdoch press, they would have seen this.
  
• Accusations of racism have been the leading message in the Yes campaign. That's it. That's been their message. You're racist if you don't agree to constitutionally enshrine a new body of Parliament that has not been defined and wouldn't be until after you voted Yes.
  

If the idiot PM had simply split the question in two so we could separately vote on constitutional recognition and a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament, the country would have overwhelming voted Yes to the first question and No to the second.

As usual, the drooling idiots of the left have retreated to their safe spaces to accuse everyone else of racism instead of actually looking at the real reasons people decided that voting for an undefined advisory body to represent a select few people in the country that would be next to impossible to remove might not seem like a great idea.

[PogiJones]

ZeoVGM is having a massive RE meltdown over EZA's Brad bringing onto a podcast his friend who happens to work with Colin Moriarty.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/easy-allies-ot3-begin-corrections-music-please.145554/page-384#post-113389445

Alright, I wanted to gather myself on this and make sure I had the appropriate information (or "receipts," as they say) to fully explain my thoughts before commenting. My hope is that this doesn't come off as abrasive or argumentative but instead, an explanation of where I'm coming from. I'm going to tag Bloodworth in this because I think it's important for him and the other Allies to consider.
I am really disappointed to see a collaboration with Last Stand Media.
It is not possible to separate Colin Moriarty from LSM. It is his podcast network and it came to be after he "left" Kinda Funny following controversy around a sexist "joke" he made on Twitter.
Since then, he has used his platform (both personally on social media and professionally through LSM) to spread harmful misinformation, racism and transphobia. An example of the racism would be him claiming that racism doesn't exist because... some Asian people have money and live longer than white people.

An example of the transphobia comes from just this year. After Limited Run Games fired their community manager for transphobia, Colin invited her onto an LSM podcast specifically to defend her. I won't be linking to their Patreon but here is a screenshot of how it was described, along with some very questionable comments from whoever handles replies on their Patreon:

As you can see, Last Stand Media was used just this year to defend and platform a transphobe. Not only that, but LSM then agreed with the incredibly dangerous and irresponsible idea that the person who originally shared her transphobic tweets is a pedophile. Undeniably disgusting stuff.
A quick look at the comments on the new Frame Trap shows people from their community jumping over, with some being clearly passive aggressive because they know EZA's audience. One of them is a comment asking for Blood to go on Colin's podcast (the same one that he did damage control for the transphobe on). Another comment actually mocks Servbot24's above post, making fun of the fact that some people will be upset that EZA did a collaboration with LSM (despite the reasoning being valid, as I've laid out here).

A good number of LSM's community are people who mock other communities for being inclusive and caring about trans rights. The kind of people who call a person "woke" for calling out bigotry. Make no mistake, there is a crossover with the GamerGate-type crowd, as you can see in their Patreon comments.
So again, Last Stand Media can't be separated from Colin Moriarty because Last Stand Media is being used to platform his bigotry. And while Dustin himself might absolutely be a good person who doesn't share Colin's "opinions," the fact remains that this episode of Frame Trap is promoting a podcast network and Patreon that has purposefully and defiantly given a platform to bigotry.
There are so many fantastic gaming groups out there with very knowledgeable people who aren't using their platform to give a voice to hate and are often doing the exact opposite -- Kinda Funny, MinnMax, What's Good Games, YoVideoGames, Giant Bomb, Good Vibes Gaming -- where this simply didn't need to happen.
It was a mistake to collaborate with LSM and I hope collaborations like this are considered a bit more carefully in the future.

The comments on the video itself--



--were universally praising the guest appearance, but apparently EZA caved to the loonies, putting up some patron discord message apologizing for having Brad's friend on. Now the comments on the video are raking EZA over the coals for cowardice. There's even someone calling out ZeoVGM in there. And even most of the REs in that thread are calling out EZA for how poor form it was, with ZeoVGM continuing his meltdown.

[Snoopy]

I honestly cannot wait for the day he gets permed then crawls back to Gaf and starts screeching about the wokes

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/australia-counts-down-to-landmark-vote-on-indigenous-voice-al-jazeera-up-referendum-defeated.774728/post-113444465

I seriously had a half aboriginal woman tell me to vote no outside the polling place today. She told me it was the white city people wanting it, not aboriginal people. I kept my mouth shut but man I wanted to ask what had happened to her to believe that.

Fucking lol. Literally telling indigenous people what's good for them.

Is there anything more racist than being patronising to an indigenous person about what's best for them?

These people are insane. Horseshoe theory in effect.

Edit: looking at the results, it literally was only the white inner city people who voted Yes. Not a single electorate outside the inner city areas populated by upper middle class white people voted Yes.

Voted Yes and foolishly optimistic. I live in a bubble but I hope it's at least close if it is no. Otherwise it's a huge step back versus a slight step forward.

Absolutely fucking insane that people have been made to feel so empowered to have an opinion on something as fundamental as this though.

Holy shit. The level of ignorance and arrogance in this quote. I mean, that's the whole fucking point of democracy you idiot. People get to express their opinion, especially about the fucking constitution. If the government wants a change, then they need to convince people it will be of benefit to the country.

[RetiredSkunk]

Colin Moriarty? Wtf no one has thought of him since 2010.

[Not an Alt Account]

Were trans women included in his joke too?

[tweet]https://twitter.com/longislandviper/status/839542070050115584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E839542070050115584%7Ctwgr%5E1438ce7c7888cd8f8601d73e5996faa8b76d778a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygon.com%2F2017%2F3%2F13%2F14911306%2Fkinda-funny-co-founder-colin-moriarty-quits-after-sexist-tweet[/tweet]

If not, what a chud. Trans women are women and should shut the fuck up for a day as well

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/australia-counts-down-to-landmark-vote-on-indigenous-voice-al-jazeera-up-referendum-defeated.774728/post-113446529

Murdoch has been an absolute cunt on this one. I'm amazed at how much of modern history that man continues to taint.

This will fail. You can't read any mainstream media in Australia without this being shown as a negative outcome. Disgusting.

And I hate that the yes campaign is blamed for not messaging it better. Like you can just break through the Murdoch wall if you try harder

This is just a straight up lie. 

I could go and find you multiple opinion pieces published in the Australian Murdoch press that support the Yes vote. 

If you made a comparison to any other media outlet in Australia I guarantee you that you that the ratio of Yes/No pieces was most balanced in the Murdoch press and most unbalanced in the media organisations which lean left, even in the national broadcaster which has a published standard that it not unduly favour one perspective over another.



Edit: Masterful troll here

A bit of an aside, but how much influence does Murdoch still have around here?

He used to be an actual kingmaker but with newspaper circulation down so much, I dunno if Sky News can totally fill that gap in his reach.

[Potato]

Not one of these cunts is concerned that one of the groups the leading No campaign had to move their official function after death threats were aimed at one of its leaders (an indigenous woman).

Death threats are ok as long as they're directed at your political enemies...apparently.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/qld-politics/death-threats-force-no-camp-to-brisbane/news-story/4a674b6035d754277d9698a3a8265d41



Benji will love this one:

The fact it even requires a vote is so fucked to me

I'm very comforted by the fact that those COAlition fascists and the whinge-and-fold Shit-Lite Labor party can't change the constitution without a referendum. It's a good protection.

It just sucks when we have to use the same mechanism to vote on empowering a marginalized group subjected to 250 years of genocide in a country full of racist dickheads.

The most hilarious part is that it didn't even require a vote. This advisory body could have been implemented with a simple Act of Parliament, which the government has the numbers to pass. 

Instead they chose to go the constitutional route by linking the advisory body to the constitutional recognition, resulting in the worst possible outcome for indigenous people.

[Venice]

Colin Moriarty? Wtf no one has thought of him since 2010.

More importantly, is there something wrong with your 'Like' button, son? 

Do you have a Ko-Fi we can donate to, so you can buy a new mouse?

[Shecky Fragbaum]

A dark turn in The Marvels Copium thread:

Unless its spidey, dr strange or they finally give us blade I just don't give a fuck anymore. I'm burned out man. Enough of the bullshit give us the X-men  

Man's didn't just dismiss concerns in a sensitive thread, he straight up called them bullshit, and in a post directly following ZVG at that. I'm just so tired.

[HaughtyFrank]

ZeoVGM is having a massive RE meltdown over EZA's Brad bringing onto a podcast his friend who happens to work with Colin Moriarty.

It must be so exhausting to have fans like this.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sorry-about-this-thread-it-has-been-deleted.774542/

What was OP?

The Mod's are allowing those wacky pranksters at ResetEra to have state-sanctioned fun again.

In fact, it's the most fun Era has had since the 'Count as high as we can until the mod's close the thread' hijinks. Wild times.

Edit:  Top of the page Gal Gadot to help with the peace process:

the things I would do for gadot

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

she'd approve

[Nintex]

Not one of these cunts is concerned that one of the groups the leading No campaign had to move their official function after death threats were aimed at one of its leaders (an indigenous woman).

Death threats are ok as long as they're directed at your political enemies...apparently.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/qld-politics/death-threats-force-no-camp-to-brisbane/news-story/4a674b6035d754277d9698a3a8265d41



Benji will love this one:

The fact it even requires a vote is so fucked to me

I'm very comforted by the fact that those COAlition fascists and the whinge-and-fold Shit-Lite Labor party can't change the constitution without a referendum. It's a good protection.

It just sucks when we have to use the same mechanism to vote on empowering a marginalized group subjected to 250 years of genocide in a country full of racist dickheads.

The most hilarious part is that it didn't even require a vote. This advisory body could have been implemented with a simple Act of Parliament, which the government has the numbers to pass. 

Instead they chose to go the constitutional route by linking the advisory body to the constitutional recognition, resulting in the worst possible outcome for indigenous people.

To me it seems like the indigenous would rather sit at the table of the real government/parliament instead of creating some sort of advisory group that has no say in things but allows the left to pretend that they care.

[Snoopy]