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

[filler]

china has more claim to taiwan than the U.S. does to the middle-east. which country has more military installations in the region they want to control without the consent of the citizens? 

[Potato]

https://famiboards.com/threads/buy-a-trans-woman-a-pizza-day-2026-is-march-31st.17017/ 
 
>mod pinned thread

 
A few years from now we are going to have studies on this social contagion in online gamer spaces. Also I love how it's specifically "trans women" as opposed to LGBT or trans people, not even hiding that they view themselves as the default/primary audience. Typical white male behavior.

Some stupid brave person did it.

I don't know anyone irl that transitioned to being a woman. Is there one of these for folks that transitioned to being a man as well or do people also celebrate that tomorrow at all? I know some folks that did. It's not exactly an easy topic to just know unless you knew them before, I think. Unless they keep trans flags around or something.

transmascs are also fucked over by society but they have more opportunities to celebrate and less systemic threat. while transmascs tend to either be seen as men (and therefore gain access to male privilege) or reduced and attacked via transphobia and plain old misogyny, transfemmes opt into an abdication of societal power and are reviled with a sort of double-weighted transphobia and misogyny in either scenario. which certainly doesn't mean transmascs don't have it rough — but it is why you might see more special occasions designated for trans women specifically.

this day celebrates Mira Bellwether's birthday and was set up after her death. she was the author of the zine "Fucking Trans Women" and means a lot to those in the community, even though the day is far better known than she was in life. she spent her time on this earth fighting for better for us and loving with her whole heart.

so this one gets to be ours.

however, every day is a good day to buy your trans friends a pizza. so please, by all means, go for it.

[Potato]

china has more claim to taiwan than the U.S. does to the middle-east. which country has more military installations in the region they want to control without the consent of the citizens? 

Which country posts more hog?

[Boredfrom]

Wait they can't be called nazis?

Newsfeed.

[simiansmarts]

transmascs are also fucked over by society but they have more opportunities to celebrate and less systemic threat. while transmascs tend to either be seen as men (and therefore gain access to male privilege) or reduced and attacked via transphobia and plain old misogyny, transfemmes opt into an abdication of societal power and are reviled with a sort of double-weighted transphobia and misogyny in either scenario. which certainly doesn't mean transmascs don't have it rough — but it is why you might see more special occasions designated for trans women specifically.

this day celebrates Mira Bellwether's birthday and was set up after her death. she was the author of the zine "Fucking Trans Women" and means a lot to those in the community, even though the day is far better known than she was in life. she spent her time on this earth fighting for better for us and loving with her whole heart.

so this one gets to be ours.

however, every day is a good day to buy your trans friends a pizza. so please, by all means, go for it.

This is literally one of those incel arguments over how "women have it easier" through the framework of trans women 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bob-dylan-launches-ai-slop-patreon-with-speeches-by-historical-figures-the-tagline-%E2%80%9Cthe-dead-speak-%E2%80%9D.1477957/page-2#post-153229372

The only thing I know about Bob Dylan is that Bioware internally named the thing that Mass Effect died for after him, on grounds of "it'll be talked about for years to come, like Bob Dylan"

Which wasn't a good omen, because my first question when I heard about "Dylan" was... "Who the fuck is Bob Dylan?"

[Boredfrom]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/bob-dylan-launches-ai-slop-patreon-with-speeches-by-historical-figures-the-tagline-%E2%80%9Cthe-dead-speak-%E2%80%9D.1477957/page-2#post-153229372

The only thing I know about Bob Dylan is that Bioware internally named the thing that Mass Effect died for after him, on grounds of "it'll be talked about for years to come, like Bob Dylan"

Which wasn't a good omen, because my first question when I heard about "Dylan" was... "Who the fuck is Bob Dylan?"

 

I hope his neighbor keeps annoying him for life.

[HaughtyFrank]

He doesnt even know about trans pizza day 

[AldusMoneyPenny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/working-families-party-endorses-graham-platner.1477837/

Nah im still going to blame the idiots who couldnt come up with a candidate that couldnt wipe the floor with someone who had a nazi tattoo.

Nah, fuck that. The people to blame are literally the people supporting him and helping him despite all the bigoted things he's said online, despite the fact he worked for a PMC because he wanted to shoot more brown people, and despite the fact that he calls himself a military history buff and apparently didn't recognize a Nazi tattoo!

At what point is it your fault for not jumping ship?

Seething libs.

Luckily Dubs doesn't have any internet postings in the past which he regrets. Definitely nothing bigoted.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Imagine the screaming outrage if this article were about women.

Imagine a critic writing, with a straight face, that one of a franchise's "sincere pleasures" is watching "beautiful women get hurt." Imagine them lingering over their bodies, their injuries, their helplessness, their sounds, their animations, their vulnerability, then dressing it up in the dead language of media theory so it sounds respectable. It would be torn to shreds, and rightly so. People would call it creepy, fetishistic, and pathetic.

But swap in men, and suddenly it is meant to pass for insight.

That is the real joke here. Not that the article notices horror has bodies in it, or that Resident Evil is interested in injury, mutation, and physical peril. Anyone with eyes could tell you that. The joke is that it mistakes its own thirsty projection for serious criticism. It takes a series built on body horror, contamination, dread, and survival, then reduces it to "what if getting mauled was sexy though?" That is not analysis. That is a kink wearing a lanyard.

The whole thing collapses under the most basic test imaginable: replace men with women. If the headline, framing, and tone would instantly sound sleazy and indefensible with female characters, then they are sleazy and indefensible here, too. Equality does not mean inventing new excuses for objectification because the target happens to be male. A double standard does not become sophisticated just because someone writes "homoerotic" and "permeability" a few times.

What makes it worse is the smugness. There is this exhausting modern-critic habit of treating the most obvious projection in the world as though it were a buried truth the rest of us were too unsophisticated to notice. Leon Kennedy, being an attractive character, is not a revelation. Horror mixing fear, gore, desire, and vulnerability is not a revelation. But deciding that Resident Evil is fundamentally about the pleasure of watching beautiful men suffer says far more about the writer's own fixation than it does about the games.

At a certain point, the article stops analysing the gaze and becomes the gaze itself. It is not critiquing objectification. It indulges in it, then congratulates itself for being clever enough to notice what it is doing. That is what makes it so irritating. It wants the thrill of voyeurism and the moral prestige of criticism at the same time.

And underneath all the pseudo-intellectual varnish, the argument is embarrassingly thin. Resident Evil is not "about" eroticised male suffering any more than Alien is "about" workplace flirtation because people sweat and gasp in confined spaces. It is a horror series obsessed with the instability of the body, the terror of infection, and the panic of trying to stay alive while flesh fails you. To flatten all that into a smirking catalogue of Leon grunting, coughing, being tied up, and looking good while doing it is less like criticism than a teenager discovering subtext for the first time and refusing to shut up about it.

And once again, because it deserves to be repeated: if this exact article were written about women, careers would be ending over it. There would be no indulgent applause for its "provocative reading." There would be no pretending it was saying something daring about genre. Everyone would recognise it instantly as the ugly little spectacle it is. The fact that some people cannot recognise that same ugliness when the subject is male says everything about the state of current criticism and nothing flattering about it.

This is not brave. It is not incisive. It is not even especially interesting. It is just the same old objectifying gaze, repackaged in academic wrapping paper and sold back as intelligence.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/page-3#post-152984755

 User Banned (2 weeks): Concern trolling around misogyny

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ap-news-gulf-allies-privately-make-the-case-to-trump-to-keep-fighting-until-iran-is-decisively-defeated.1477996/

Hamas ERA is mysteriously absent. 

That Muslim solidarity…

[Rendle]

New human right unlocked. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/toby-fox-addresses-his-fans-in-latin-america-and-undertales-lack-of-localization.1477432/

Always knew Toby Fox was sus.

Oh boy, if you guys think the Anglo game community is nasty…  

The Spanish speaking community has thrown a lot of shit to Tobias Zorro.

I don’t care because I can read English, but I will admit… it feels bad when treated as second class in a globalized world.

I learned about fiery Latinas from Modern Family.

[filler]

trans pizza is when you order vegetarian pie and they surprise you with meat lovers 

[D3RANG3D]

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

Tran-ny surprise! Anyone...no, one...?

[Boredfrom]

They should instead maybe have some dignity and stop supporting/defending Israel, which is objectively the greatest threat to peace in the region.

  

That’s why Nintendies shouldn’t have say on politics.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

buy a trans pizza? what a time to detransition back to gameboy. 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-price-changes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-remote-player-50-to-150-price-increase.1475185/page-52#post-153223642
Dr. Poop

I just bought one in response to this news. I know by next year I won't be able to afford one maybe ever and with this I'll get to play GTA 6 and Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei now...but I'm bitter because I wasn't wanting to buy one at this time and money is tight but it's a wild time we're living in with appreciating game consoles becoming reality.

anyone know the best place to grab discount PSN points/$ cards?

[malfoyking]

[Taco Bell Tower]

[malfoyking]

This fella is hilarious lol

[Boredfrom]

Well, someone is finally honest:

As someone who is from the Arabian Pen and experienced first hand what Iran has done in the region to destabilize countries, I am not surprised at all. The Iranian regime don't have a lot of fans outside of few minor sects. They are widely hated and actually want the Iranian gov gone. But they also don't want a war to spell over and destroy the whole region. One thing I agree on is that I do understand that Iran will probably get even stronger if the current status quo continuous. The strait is block while they toll ships and also sell their oil. They will get a lot wealthier. Either somehow negotiate returning to the status quo(unlikely) or maintain the status quo, or escalate the war.

[Boredfrom]

This fella is hilarious lol

A Sanrio character?  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty

Is the most normie shit. 

(He is right in spirit).

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Well, someone is finally honest:

As someone who is from the Arabian Pen and experienced first hand what Iran has done in the region to destabilize countries, I am not surprised at all. The Iranian regime don't have a lot of fans outside of few minor sects. They are widely hated and actually want the Iranian gov gone. But they also don't want a war to spell over and destroy the whole region. One thing I agree on is that I do understand that Iran will probably get even stronger if the current status quo continuous. The strait is block while they toll ships and also sell their oil. They will get a lot wealthier. Either somehow negotiate returning to the status quo(unlikely) or maintain the status quo, or escalate the war.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

This fella is hilarious lol

A Sanrio character?  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty

Is the most normie shit. 

(He is right in spirit).

kuromi is transbian bait

pompompurin is king shit

[Chumbawumbafan69]

He doesnt even know about trans pizza day 

How does a pizza even become trans?

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-price-changes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-remote-player-50-to-150-price-increase.1475185/page-52#post-153223642
Dr. Poop

I just bought one in response to this news. I know by next year I won't be able to afford one maybe ever and with this I'll get to play GTA 6 and Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei now...but I'm bitter because I wasn't wanting to buy one at this time and money is tight but it's a wild time we're living in with appreciating game consoles becoming reality.

anyone know the best place to grab discount PSN points/$ cards?

fuck you fuck you fuck you 
 
he has to be doing this on purpose 

[HaughtyFrank]

I know by next year I won't be able to afford one maybe ever

"I'm planning to be poor next year, better spend my money now"

[Taco Bell Tower]

This fella is hilarious lol

A Sanrio character?  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty

Is the most normie shit. 

(He is right in spirit).

To be fair here Kuromi's debut was in Onegai My Melody. 

[Averon]

And no one will call Dr. Poop out because they will be deluged with variations of "How dare you say poor people can't have entertainment!!" until they are shamed into shutting up or banned for "attacking" a member.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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

Imagine the screaming outrage if this article were about women.

Imagine a critic writing, with a straight face, that one of a franchise's "sincere pleasures" is watching "beautiful women get hurt." Imagine them lingering over their bodies, their injuries, their helplessness, their sounds, their animations, their vulnerability, then dressing it up in the dead language of media theory so it sounds respectable. It would be torn to shreds, and rightly so. People would call it creepy, fetishistic, and pathetic.

But swap in men, and suddenly it is meant to pass for insight.

That is the real joke here. Not that the article notices horror has bodies in it, or that Resident Evil is interested in injury, mutation, and physical peril. Anyone with eyes could tell you that. The joke is that it mistakes its own thirsty projection for serious criticism. It takes a series built on body horror, contamination, dread, and survival, then reduces it to "what if getting mauled was sexy though?" That is not analysis. That is a kink wearing a lanyard.

The whole thing collapses under the most basic test imaginable: replace men with women. If the headline, framing, and tone would instantly sound sleazy and indefensible with female characters, then they are sleazy and indefensible here, too. Equality does not mean inventing new excuses for objectification because the target happens to be male. A double standard does not become sophisticated just because someone writes "homoerotic" and "permeability" a few times.

What makes it worse is the smugness. There is this exhausting modern-critic habit of treating the most obvious projection in the world as though it were a buried truth the rest of us were too unsophisticated to notice. Leon Kennedy, being an attractive character, is not a revelation. Horror mixing fear, gore, desire, and vulnerability is not a revelation. But deciding that Resident Evil is fundamentally about the pleasure of watching beautiful men suffer says far more about the writer's own fixation than it does about the games.

At a certain point, the article stops analysing the gaze and becomes the gaze itself. It is not critiquing objectification. It indulges in it, then congratulates itself for being clever enough to notice what it is doing. That is what makes it so irritating. It wants the thrill of voyeurism and the moral prestige of criticism at the same time.

And underneath all the pseudo-intellectual varnish, the argument is embarrassingly thin. Resident Evil is not "about" eroticised male suffering any more than Alien is "about" workplace flirtation because people sweat and gasp in confined spaces. It is a horror series obsessed with the instability of the body, the terror of infection, and the panic of trying to stay alive while flesh fails you. To flatten all that into a smirking catalogue of Leon grunting, coughing, being tied up, and looking good while doing it is less like criticism than a teenager discovering subtext for the first time and refusing to shut up about it.

And once again, because it deserves to be repeated: if this exact article were written about women, careers would be ending over it. There would be no indulgent applause for its "provocative reading." There would be no pretending it was saying something daring about genre. Everyone would recognise it instantly as the ugly little spectacle it is. The fact that some people cannot recognise that same ugliness when the subject is male says everything about the state of current criticism and nothing flattering about it.

This is not brave. It is not incisive. It is not even especially interesting. It is just the same old objectifying gaze, repackaged in academic wrapping paper and sold back as intelligence.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/page-3#post-152984755

 User Banned (2 weeks): Concern trolling around misogyny

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/#post-152969224

 User Banned (2 weeks): Concern trolling around misogyny

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

Its been this way for years

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-one-of-resident-evils-fundamental-joys-is-watching-beautiful-men-get-hurt.1471633/page-2#post-152978179

 User Banned (2 weeks): Concern trolling around misogyny

Wow, imagine if the article were the opposite : one of resident evils fundamental is watching beautiful women get hurt

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

 User Banned (2 weeks): Concern trolling around misogyny

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.