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

[Potato]

Do these cunts genuinely think there's a "legal" war?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-numbers-ive-heard-floating-around-aaa-na-game-dev-these-days-are-300-million-or-more-—-budgets-are-almost-entirely-of-dev-salaries.1473538/

“Dev salaries” 

“These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)”

I wonder why AI is such an appealing tool for game development houses when almost all of their costs are salaries? 

If AI can eliminate the most "labour intensive:least important" tasks like creating background assets and textures, then some of those resources can be reallocated to actually developing the fun part of the game, maybe these developers can get back on some sound financial footing again.

[filler]

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hbo nordic? 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-numbers-ive-heard-floating-around-aaa-na-game-dev-these-days-are-300-million-or-more-—-budgets-are-almost-entirely-of-dev-salaries.1473538/

“Dev salaries” 

“These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)”

I wonder why AI is such an appealing tool for game development houses when almost all of their costs are salaries? 

If AI can eliminate the most "labour intensive:least important" tasks like creating background assets and textures, then some of those resources can be reallocated to actually developing the fun part of the game, maybe these developers can get back on some sound financial footing again.

Then again:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-set-discontinue-sora-video-platform-app-wsj-reports-2026-03-24/

But is funny how ERA wants it both ways:

-Same salaries and production values, accelerate production.

-Not using AI to try to accelerate production and cut costs.

[filler]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://wearemoba.com/investor-information/single-press-release-eng/?slug=m-o-b-a-network-initiates-written-procedure-under-its-outstanding-bond-loan-to-request-existing-bondholders-approval-of-previously-announced-amendments-to-the-terms-and-conditions-for-the-bond-loan

M.O.B.A. Network initiates written procedure under its outstanding bond loan to request existing bondholders’ approval of previously announced amendments to the terms and conditions for the bond loan
24 mars 2026 12:50:00
Regulatory

As announced on 17 March 2026, M.O.B.A. Network AB (“M.O.B.A.” or the “Company”, and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") and an ad hoc committee of certain larger holders of the Company’s outstanding bond loan with ISIN SE0020050540 (the “Ad Hoc Committee” and the “Bonds”, respectively) have reached an agreement to, inter alia, extend the maturity date and to make certain amendments to the terms and conditions for the Bonds (as further described in the press release dated 17 March 2026) (the “Amendments”).

Today, M.O.B.A. announces that the Company has initiated a written procedure to request the necessary approval of the Amendments from the holders of the Bonds (the “Written Procedure”). The Company has instructed CSC (Sweden) AB (the “Agent”), in its capacity as agent under the Bonds, to send a notice of the Written Procedure including voting instructions to the direct registered owners and registered nominees of the Bonds in the Company’s debt ledger held with Euroclear Sweden as per 23 March 2026. For more information regarding the requested approval of the Amendments, please refer to the notice of the Written Procedure which is available on the Company’s and the Agent’s respective websites.

Holders of the Bonds, together representing approximately 55.50 per cent of the total adjusted nominal amount of the Bonds, have irrevocably undertaken to vote in favour of the request in the Written Procedure.

The outcome of the Written Procedure will be announced by way of press release in connection with the termination of the Written Procedure. The voting record date is 27 March 2026 and the last day for voting in the Written Procedure is 14 April 2026.

For questions for the Agent regarding the administration of the Written Procedure, please contact the Agent at se.trustee@cscglobal.com or +46 70 833 52 90.

The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out below, at 2026-03-24

Contacts
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[Nintex]

So a resetti is responsible for building the missiles Trump and Benjamins Netanyahoo require for their war criming?

These writers

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

This is one of the few relative "safer" spaces online at this point for talking about various issues, so that is also a factor. More people here feel more confident and posting their natural feelings than most other places.

[HaughtyFrank]

That potter trailer looked great, never watched a potter film in full (kids don’t mind it) but I’m gonna give that new series a watch.

Might give the game a play too just cus.

Wow, why don't you just say you want to rip the estrogen out of little kids hands

[Boredfrom]

Snape being black really blow a lot of people minds.  

Take that Adam Driver fans.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-275#post-153026935

So no way is this ending soon. Just learned today that Raytheon called.

My program is contracted to build 16 missile wings from now through September. We were in process of getting an order for 10 more.

Apparently they asked if we have the capability to ramp up to 24 per month.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-275#post-153027118

Couldn't this be due to the sheer amount of ordnance that needs replacing?

Yeah also possible. All I know is that it's a huge increase. Double last years worth of orders per month now. Crazy because it takes 22 days to build just one. I'm gonna increase my work cell 5x from this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-275#post-153027265

Is it appropriate to share this kind of information on a public forum?

 
Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-275#post-153027694

No company info here and it's not wild to know Raytheon makes missles. No financial data either.

What kind of imperceptible tweaks can you make to render them useless?

I don't build them. I just make sure we have all the resources in place to get the job done.

It's fine, he puts all the sensitive stuff on the War Thunder boards like a regular person

That doesn't seem like a lot? Is that where our production numbers are at?

For me it seems like a ton because I don't have the fixtures to support that.


Edit - What's War Thunder boards? My interest in the field I work on ends when my shift does lol. I'm not that interesting. I hang out in Resetera.

Euphoria edited his post

Edit - Deleted post. Was derailing thread as users believed it ma contain info that could be legally troubling.

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[TylenolJones]

[benji]

This is one of the few relative "safer" spaces online at this point for talking about various issues, so that is also a factor. More people here feel more confident and posting their natural feelings than most other places.

Can we get a staff post on the "IDF tortures Palestinian toddler" thread regarding comparisons to Nazis? Because as more genocidal actions pile up, people are going to be more inclined to draw those comparisons. If it's a matter of phrasing(like "these guys aren't even regular Nazis"), it would be helpful have guidance to spell that out because right now people are getting upset and more upset that they can't voice that for fear of getting banned.



As is, it seems to have only turned up the pressure.

It's like people mostly joined here in their early 20s and are stuck in a state of arrested development.

Yeah tbh I don't get it either. People on the regular here (rightfully) call basically every republican (and some dems) nazis with no pushback. I don't see why it's not applicable or allowed for discussing the IDF.

I get where the moderation team is coming from. But when we have Holocaust scholars and Israeli figures drawing parallels between the IDF's conduct and the historical Nazis I can't help but think that the guideline requires an update. Anti-semitism is obviously unacceptable and heinous. Criticizing the actions of a fascistic and genocidal state's military arm actively engaging in an ethnic cleansing campaign and constantly committing war crimes should not be seen as anti-semitism by default. I suppose some posters use the comparison precisely because they believe Israel "should know better" than to act in the way it does.



In threads like that there are often comments along the lines of " 'Never again' only for Israel, but not for other genocides". I'm wondering if that is also an actionable offense.

These rules feels very dated and need to be updated. Specifically the 'Nazi' comparison rule and the "right to exist" rule. No nation has a "right to exist", people do, not arbitrary borders. It feels like a liberal nationalist sentiment, especially in the context of Israel being an expansionist imperial nation now. Why should we pretend they have a "right to exist" as they are right now? It's nonsense.

I didn't realize that was in as a rule, and ofcourse do completely understand how the context led that to be the case, but as Vaenyr stated, it feels like the new context of what is Israel has done and is doing to Palestinians, and now as well in Lebanon, the direct comparison now in fact has legitimate backup to it by historians. I'm not gonna argue that it should be completely over turned or changed, but it should be a discussion.



Also



I feel like the fact that it has been completely allowed and accepted (understandably) to call Stephen Miller (Jewish) Goebbels and consistently as a nazi, it can add to the conflicts of this rule. I'm saying this genuinely...I just feel like these rules should be looked at with newer context in general.

I get the concern about anti-Semites trying to worm their way in through any crack they can, and there are some choices of specific language that makes me raise an eyebrow(ex: "actually worse than this or that Nazi group"), but as ClickCal' said: With atrocities piling up and Jewish historians weighing in, the language in the rules might need an adjustment. Not to allow antisemitism to sneak in but to let people confront the subject honestly and not having to second guess themselves when grappling with an extremely upsetting topic.



As is, I feel like people that were angry in the now closed thread are left wondering how they're supposed to talk about this at all and the tension is only further raised.







I'm in that subset, with the stance that genocide is something one is either "adamantly against" or "actually okay with happening", nothing in-between.

Experts weighing in who clearly think the genocide started after October 7, 2023.

As is, I feel like people that were angry in the now closed thread are left wondering how they're supposed to talk about this at all and the tension is only further raised.

What do they even want to talk about other than calling for mass violence against some people they've never met? You're focused on the "don't say Nazi rule" rather than the "no shock threads" rule.

[benji]

These rules feels very dated and need to be updated. Specifically the 'Nazi' comparison rule and the "right to exist" rule. No nation has a "right to exist", people do, not arbitrary borders. It feels like a liberal nationalist sentiment, especially in the context of Israel being an expansionist imperial nation now. Why should we pretend they have a "right to exist" as they are right now? It's nonsense.

I think you don't understand the consequences of trying to remove that one when the US has pushed the arbitrary borders in cases of talking about annexing Canada and Greenland.

The US shouldn't have that same "right" either. And I'm an American saying that. Should be crystal clear what I'm talking about. Let me put it this way: Nobody is saying "Russia has a right to exist" during it's invasion in Ukraine. Why? Because it's a frivolous argument to make and many people who rightfully oppose that sentiment. What right does "existence" give to a nation?

It does not matter that the US has a right to exist or not, i'm saying that there are currently posters in this forum that would HATE receiving the argument that their countries have no intrinsic right to exist, with the current different geopolitical clusterfucks happening and invasions, even if the original poster was talking about the ppl attacking and not the ppl being attacked. It's something that will cut deep for some ppl, and will def cause conversations in threads to degrade.

I don't think this is a great discussion to have here lol. But simply put… where do you expect people to live if not in a country? This is a ridiculous argument. Countries exist because people have to be somewhere.

I still don't entirely with the rule in place but so be it. I just feel it stifles some conversations that are worth having but if it makes a few people more comfortable, whatever

It's funny but expected that nobody took him to task for thinking the rule was only about Israel's right to exist when it states:

Do not deny the right of either Israel or Palestine to exist as independent states.

He should try posting more that Palestine has no right to exist rather than stifle some conversations worth having. After all, one of the benefits of Era is that you can have this kind of abstractly focused conversation:

This is one of the few relative "safer" spaces online at this point for talking about various issues, so that is also a factor. More people here feel more confident and posting their natural feelings than most other places.

[Uncle]

Snape being black really blow a lot of people minds.  

Take that Adam Driver fans.

if it sticks to the book's plot it's really gonna change the vibe at certain places

harry assuming that his only black professor must be evil...

which would be fitting, considering he's the son of a racist...

[Lonewulfeus]

Snape being black really blow a lot of people minds.  

Take that Adam Driver fans.

if it sticks to the book's plot it's really gonna change the vibe at certain places

harry assuming that his only black professor must be evil...

which would be fitting, considering he's the son of a racist...

And using levicorpus on a black guy, gonna be hard to just shake that off.  Oh you know, your dad was just reenacting a lynching cause he hates snape.  Big oof.

[benji]

Side-eyeing some people in here knowing the plot and characters of a well known fascist manifesto. Sounds about white.

Some of us don't have the privilege of "just reading a story to enjoy it" when the author wants us dead and spends their every waking moment doing everything possible to achieve that.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Capcom: We're gonna retcon the Alex controversy
Hours Left who was sad Alex wasn't guy as his wet dreams had hoped for
https://www.resetera.com/threads/today-in-character-assassination-capcom-makes-alex-marry-impregnate-his-cousin-step-sister-in-sfvi-who-he-also-helped-raise-from-a-baby.1465594/page-24#post-153038902

It looks like they're keeping them married which is still gross.

This guy was whining Capcom had been silent since Alex was released and now when they do he's still not happy.

[filler]

it's still hilarious how the harry potter lady became the final boss in trans right world


of all people, it's just some old lady who had an abusive husband and worries about women not having their own spaces where they don't have a male presence when they are not expecting one. 

the only answer to the restroom problem that works for everyone is to have all gender single person restrooms. I've seen enough places do this, but it's nice pooping in peace with a door between you and the rest of the world instead of a stall. so we all win!

locker rooms and battered women shelters are a little more complicated. allowing or not allowing trans people in becomes someone else deciding for other people. 

I've been at a bar where I've seen trans people and never seen any in the mens restroom, even the f to m. so they all go into the women's restroom and nobody seems to care, but it's also all adults there and they have a bouncer who can kick someone out if need be. I did once see someone more recently  that looked like they could be trans but I have no idea how they identified. just looked like someone trying to be a girl with clothes hair and make-up, but also had a mustache. when I went to take a piss and saw buddy at the urinal I very much felt like they didn't belong in the men's restroom 

[HaughtyFrank]

Capcom: We're gonna retcon the Alex controversy
Hours Left who was sad Alex wasn't guy as his wet dreams had hoped for
https://www.resetera.com/threads/today-in-character-assassination-capcom-makes-alex-marry-impregnate-his-cousin-step-sister-in-sfvi-who-he-also-helped-raise-from-a-baby.1465594/page-24#post-153038902

It looks like they're keeping them married which is still gross.

This guy was whining Capcom had been silent since Alex eas released and now when they do he's still not happy.

So he's mad that Capcom isn't rewriting the entire story, draws new art, records new voice lines etc  etc. 

Yeah no idea why they'd pick the option where they change a single line and solve the whole incest thing

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-273#post-153018820

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Armchair diagnosis of a medical diagnosis, account in junior phase

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[simiansmarts]

The truth nuke is: 99% of the people who like Harry Potter do not give a shit about the political views of JK Rowling let alone the "trans genocide".

[benji]

So he's mad that Capcom isn't rewriting the entire story, draws new art, records new voice lines etc  etc. Instead of just changing a single line that solves all of the incest problems

They've been trying to tell you, techbros have total contempt for artists and want to eliminate them.

[benji]

The truth nuke is: 99% of the people who like Harry Potter do not give a shit about the political views of JK Rowling let alone the "trans genocide".

Even Rowling doesn't give a shit as much as they do. The "funding trans genocide globally" claim is based on her giving a few thousand to a single TERF shelter in the UK.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-would-be-your-better-than-life-game-experience.1457347/

For those who don't know, Better Than Life is a Total Immersion video game (AKA a AR game on steroids) from the Sci-Fi series Red Dwarf that creates effectively a theme park (well V1 does anyway, V2 slowly kills you by masking itself from your memory and making you think you're in reality) for you based on deepest wishes, wants, desires; and basically just do anything you want. So famous people you want to meet will be there, rides, attractions and activities made just for you; be told we done by that dad you could never please etc.

You start on a sunny beach and drive/ride anyway you want to the grand entrance where you will be taken to your hotel room (which will be made to be perfect for you). The hotel has a restaurant that will serve you your most wanted and loved food. There you can do anything you want.

So... What would be your Better Than Life experience (You can bring your friends and family with you if you have multiple headsets)?

CHALLANGE MODE FOR THE RIMMERS OUT THERE (OPTIONAL)!!!

What would happen if your brain rebels and decides to punish you and turn your wonderland into a nightmare?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-edition-what-would-happen-if-your-avatar-suddenly-came-to-life-in-the-real-world.1471240/

So you're browsing Resetera on a stormy night when suddenly something freak occurs, through a mixture of a lightning strike, quantum and that Hobgoblin that lives inside your walls farting (which are magical) just in the right time causes your screen to freak out and causes a miracle to happen.
A new being emerges and is born from your screen... YOUR AVATAR IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!
So... WHAT HAPPENS (Short term and long term)

Ground rules:
1. If your avatar is a picture of you, there is now two of you (with the new one being the age the photo was taken or picture made and only has memories from up to that point)
2. Ditto if your avatar is a picture or photo of a pet, a family member or a celebrity.
3. If your avatar is of a fictional character, then they have the memories of up to the point the screenshot was taken or the game their art is from. They will also likely experience some issues and realize that everything they've experienced, everyone they knew and loved wasn't real, fiction so good luck with that.
4. If your avatar is fan art of a fictional character, they become said fictional character with the memories of all the games and media they were in up to when that fan art was made.
5. If you're avatar is of a non-living object, it's still a non-living object.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/times-where-it-took-you-too-long-to-realize-the-joke-in-your-favourite-media.1473583/

Are their any cases where it took WAY too long to realize the joke or in some cases, realize their even was a joke or comedic reference happening, even in a comedy work?

I post this because I've just done this with one of my favourite comedies, Red Dwarf, one that was staring me in the face all this time, who the JMC (the Jupiter Mining Corporation) was mocking. For those who's never seen the show, the Red Dwarf (a JMC ship) and JMC products are meant to be low quality and suffer from poor performance and just shoddy products that fail constantly (this is especially obvious in the first season, especially in the unproduced episode Bodysnatcher) and remember that this show was made in the 80s in the UK (and was originally began to be developed in 1983).

I should have figured it out but it took seeing the JMC insignia and seeing it mentioned on the Red Dwarf wiki to realize it; the JMC was mocking the DMC, aka the DeLorean Motor Company (which for those only familiar with the DeLorean through Back to the Future, in the UK, the company and it's products were INFAMOUS for being shoddy and low quality):

Has this ever happened to you?

[Superstar]

Consider me an ally then. What exactly is the point of this? It looks like a shot for shot remake right down to the aestetics, except for one change by giving Snap dreads. All of that, fine, but the OG movies are still some of the most watched movies in the whole world on a yearly basis. Well the point is obviously to print money, but if it is indeed all the same, I wonder if we'll see some rejection of it for the OGs. Granted I guess Warners could bury them.

[benji]

Jeff thought this was such a banger he retweeted it a few hours later rather than delete it like all his other tweets that are the same:

It's cute that he thinks Americans want ICE abolished.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/times-where-it-took-you-too-long-to-realize-the-joke-in-your-favourite-media.1473583/

which for those only familiar with the DeLorean through Back to the Future, in the UK, the company and it's products were INFAMOUS for being shoddy and low quality

There's also that part where the company is infamous for going bankrupt, a bunch of likely embezzlement led to only a handful of cars being produced and John DeLorean was arrested for smuggling cocaine. (Entrapment by the FBI and DEA, naturally.)

edit: I forgot there was a movie with Alec Baldwin:

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/page-4#post-153004303

This shit is just getting weird at this point, sorry to be a buzzkill

Imagine saying this about what happens to Lara Croft in the reboot Tomb Raider games

The hypocrisy is concerning but this is nothing new.

Lusting after male video game character = "Good and here's 20 articles objectifying said character."
Lusting after female video game character = "Bad and here's 20 articles explaining why you're sexist"

I don't mind it, but if you want to be taken seriously, at least remain morally consistent.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/page-4#post-153005362

"What about men???"

Yeah, what about them? 🙄

It's almost like these double standards exist for a reason. You don't have to like it, but if this is about objectification, the objectification of women just means something different - and has a different level of historical precedent - than the objectification of men.

Also, people are calling this article "creepy, fetishistic, and pathetic."

Historical context explains why objectification of women carries different weight. It does not transform obvious objectification of men into noble criticism. If an article luxuriates in beautiful people suffering and being violated, people are allowed to call it creepy. Pretending the double standard is too sophisticated to be questioned is just a pompous way of admitting you do not actually believe in the principle consistently.

Nobody cares about this sort of argument, it's extraordinarily bad at getting anyone to change their mind. "Hypocrite" is just about the least effective accusation you could throw at anyone. If you catch yourself saying "imagine if it were X" know that you are effectively saying "I concede the point, please make fun of me."

Anyway, sex sells, fanservice sells, titillation sells, and chuddies were right all along.

"Nobody cares about hypocrisy" is not a rebuttal, it is an admission that your standards are fake. "Imagine if it were X" is a test of whether your principle survives contact with consistency. If it does not, your principle is garbage.

And yes, sex sells, titillation sells, fanservice sells. That is precisely why this article reads less like criticism than a sleazy thirst post trying to cosplay as theory.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/page-4#post-153007081

I'm curious, what content of the article itself do you actually find objectionable? Like what do you think the author is actually saying?

What I object to is the tone and framing.

The article is not just saying Resident Evil has an erotic dimension or that horror often mixes fear, violence, and desire. That would be fair enough. It goes further than that and seems to take obvious pleasure in describing attractive men being hurt, restrained, infected, and degraded, then presents that as criticism.

That is why people are calling it creepy. It is not the interpretation itself so much as the way it is written. It feels less like analysis and more like the author indulging in their own fixation while pretending to stand outside it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/page-4#post-153010834

Yeah I'm not seeing it. Obviously if you're writing about sexuality and eroticism, that is going to be a part of the tone of your writing - you have to, essentially, put your audience in the position to understand what is erotic about what you describe. You can't just take as obvious that the possible elements of pleasure will just appear to your reader, you have to show it to them. It's literally just how you need to write to argue this kind of point. Plus the actual description of "attractive men being hurt" is only a minor aspect of the article, popping up mostly at the beginning and end as bookends to the central argument.

If your primary beef is with the possibility that someone might derive a kind of sado-voyeuristic (or even masochistic) pleasure from watching horror violence, then I'm sorry, but you're going to have to take that up with a big chunk of visual horror media that has come out in the past 60 or so years.

That's fair, and I don't object to the article raising eroticism in horror at all. My issue is more with emphasis than subject matter.

I agree that if you're writing about sexuality, the prose has to convey why something might read that way. But for me, the piece occasionally crosses from explaining that charge into seeming a little too enamoured with it, which is why some readers are reacting to the tone rather than the argument itself.

And no, I'm not denying that horror has long invited complicated mixes of fear, desire, disgust, and voyeurism. That's absolutely true. I just think there's a difference between analysing that dynamic and writing in a way that feels a bit too close to indulging it. That's really the distinction I'm making.

[filler]

Jeff thought this was such a banger he retweeted it a few hours later rather than delete it like all his other tweets that are the same:

It's cute that he thinks Americans want ICE abolished.

but who's gonna pay for it, benji?