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

[Taco Bell Tower]

If it helps, Alex, Tom and I are completely against it. We do NOT agree with this. At all. The complete opposite.

Those DF guys need to stop posting on ree

First of all imagine throwing two of your colleagues under the bus so publicly  


The others should know better but hasn't Dark1x has been around since the Neogaf days?

No way he'd want to be an outcast on Reee

Ree literally ran Dark1x off the site before.  I don't know why he came back.

[Jansen]

I don't mean to be mean but having just done Disney with my kids it's pretty weird to be there as an adult without kids.



Like... some of the rides were great, but they are great because you are there with your family. Laughing with your wife & kids, seeing their faces light up meeting Spider-Man or Woody. 



Why are grown ass people putting ears on and spending a billion dollars to meet Lightning McQueen?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-disney-adults.1485928/#post-153555964

Oh that is a critical hit

[benji]

Weird that licensing engines hasn't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

Weird that using platform API's hasn't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

Weird that scanning people, objects and materials hasn't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

Weird that the mouse hasn't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

[Yulwei v2]

I don't mean to be mean but having just done Disney with my kids it's pretty weird to be there as an adult without kids.



Like... some of the rides were great, but they are great because you are there with your family. Laughing with your wife & kids, seeing their faces light up meeting Spider-Man or Woody. 



Why are grown ass people putting ears on and spending a billion dollars to meet Lightning McQueen?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-disney-adults.1485928/#post-153555964

Oh that is a critical hit

They're in there like angry ants 

Anything Disney/Marvel/Star Wars are sensitive subjects on this board

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-disney-adults.1485928/page-2#post-153556747

[DavidCroquet]

On the real real, the obvious problem with Disney Adults is that when a bunch of DINKs get fixated on teletubbies or whatever the hell, and then start throwing major cash to for the best tickets to Teletubbies on Ice, then suddenly it is a lot more difficult for normal people to take their drooling baby children to stuff like this, that is ostensibly for them. 

Naturally companies are absolutely ecstatic to “democratize” their products to some non-committal ageless realm. I think this is part of why you see wokeification in kids shows…its not even for the kids—who often don’t even pick up on it—but to cater to some vague wider audience of mental case adults with fake corporate jobs, money to burn, and a deep meaninglessness in their lives. 

I want to make some point about the proliferation of YA novels but I’m bored of typing.

[filler]

average bore autist

[benji]

On the real real, the obvious problem with Disney Adults is that when a bunch of DINKs get fixated on teletubbies or whatever the hell, and then start throwing major cash to for the best tickets to Teletubbies on Ice, then suddenly it is a lot more difficult for normal people to take their drooling baby children to stuff like this, that is ostensibly for them. 

Naturally companies are absolutely ecstatic to “democratize” their products to some non-committal ageless realm. I think this is part of why you see wokeification in kids shows…its not even for the kids—who often don’t even pick up on it—but to cater to some vague wider audience of mental case adults with fake corporate jobs, money to burn, and a deep meaninglessness in their lives. 

I want to make some point about the proliferation of YA novels but I’m bored of typing.

And here come the calls for genocide of people just trying to survive in our hellworld.

[simiansmarts]

Do you feel this way about Super Nintendo World down the block?


"Disney adult" hated is hilariousky gendered, which is why everyone is fine with dudes doing the marvel and star wars stuff at Hollywood studios and get very weird about magic kingdom.

Disneybounding, for example, is just wearing a vaguely themed outfit of a character.

  
Literally pretending that the soyjak stereotype doesn't exist and hasn't been a punchline for several years now. 

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-house-pressuring-fifa-to-change-transgender-policy-threatening-to-rescind-womens-world-cup-bid.1485589/

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7172280/2026/04/08/world-cup-trump-transgender-policy/

An NBC News poll in April 2025 reported that 75 percent of American adults said they do not believe transgender women should be permitted to participate in women’s sports. A Pew Research Center poll, also in early 2025, said that 66 percent of U.S. adults favor or strongly favor laws and policies that require transgender athletes to compete on teams that match their sex assigned at birth. However, the same poll found 56 percent of adults expressed support for policies aimed at protecting trans people from discrimination in jobs, housing and public spaces.

Era needs to accept the fact that people that would otherwise be their allies can have a good faith difference of opinion on trans women in women's sport.

Amusing statement in the OP…

If they bow to this pressure, a number of very high profile players, I would expect, would come out against it

Really? Who? Name them. So high profile apparently they don’t get a mention.

Bad news for Era, there was a report in the Times right after the IOC policy that FIFA is already planning to follow suit.

[Jansen]

I thought lilpoptart was banned for 3 months or something but he's back already


https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98extraction-3%E2%80%99-a-go-as-chris-hemsworth-closes-deal-to-return-sam-hargrave-back-to-direct-idris-elba-and-golshifteh-farahani-also-returning.1485634/page-2#post-153559192

NVM it was one month again 🤦

[Alpacx]

I don't think the Limited Run Games shill mod at Era will be posting about this LRG news.

[filler]

I hear "hamas-era" in his voice every time 

[benji]

Wow a trans retro emulator developer?

edit:

Jeffrey (now Vicki, but not in 2002, so, for purposes of this story, I will refer to my younger child as Jeffrey)
...
It was a few weeks before he actually turned 13, but I was assured that was “kosher”.

Michelle, Jeffrey’s tutor, came to our home one afternoon a week and prepped him on all the Hebrew prayers he had to learn, as the child really co-officiates at the service. It was slow going. By the time he entered 7th grade he barely went to school. He disliked being in class and spent most of the day in the Special Education Resource Room. The teacher there was very nice and tried her best, but Jeffrey could not be coaxed out. He sat with one other boy and played video games. Writing was problematic for him. He knew the rules of grammar well, but couldn’t put words to paper. Any sort of decisions were difficult.

By this time Jeffrey had three diagnoses: ADHD (which is really a misnomer, he pays rapt attention to something he’s interested in, but cannot focus on anything else; very poor executive function skills), Asperger’s Syndrome (now called Autism Spectrum Disorder; Jeffrey is very bright and high-functioning, but had classic features of thought-rigidity, inability to infer, socially awkward, poor motor function, sensory integration issues – he didn’t like to be touched or hugged, among other issues), and Child-onset Bipolar Disorder (he has never displayed mania, but does have bouts of deep depression and would throw huge tantrums as part of the cycle).

[benji]

I thought lilpoptart was banned for 3 months or something but he's back already


https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98extraction-3%E2%80%99-a-go-as-chris-hemsworth-closes-deal-to-return-sam-hargrave-back-to-direct-idris-elba-and-golshifteh-farahani-also-returning.1485634/page-2#post-153559192

NVM it was one month again 🤦

Don't worry, he's still CHUD CHECKING:



And being mad about women:


And demonstrating that he pays for Twitter by writing weird shit to nobody:

Apparently Trump gave into Iran's demands. Who knew?

[Boredfrom]

I thought lilpoptart was banned for 3 months or something but he's back already


https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98extraction-3%E2%80%99-a-go-as-chris-hemsworth-closes-deal-to-return-sam-hargrave-back-to-direct-idris-elba-and-golshifteh-farahani-also-returning.1485634/page-2#post-153559192

NVM it was one month again 🤦

Don't worry, he's still CHUD CHECKING:



And being mad about women:


And demonstrating that he pays for Twitter by writing weird shit to nobody:

Apparently Trump gave into Iran's demands. Who knew?

Well…

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-proposes-u-s-iran-joint-venture-to-charge-tolls-in-strait-of-hormuz.1486042/

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vtuber-appears-in-japanese-highschool-textbook.1486045/ 
 
textbook    
 
 
textbook, japan 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vtuber-appears-in-japanese-highschool-textbook.1486045/ 
 
textbook    
 
 
textbook, japan 

Salome is great. 

[benji]

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[Alpacx]

Amongold grosses me out. I don't understand how anybody can watch him without retching.

[Uncle]

For your entertainment…

Luddites: The Thread

Are there use-cases for AI in video games that wouldn't upset you?

Is the point still to replace people and jobs by using stolen data?

Then no.

STOLEN DATA 

such a thought-terminating cliche that not a single one of them has examined in any meaningful way

it doesn't matter which side of the pond you're on:

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2025/07/fair-use-and-ai-training

The “purpose and character” factor has, in recent years, often turned on whether the court deems the defendant’s use to be “transformative.” In both Bartz and Kadrey, the court unequivocally found that use of the plaintiffs’ copyrighted works to train the defendant’s AI models was transformative. Judge Alsup in Bartz described Anthropic’s use as “quintessentially transformative,” and Judge Chhabria in Kadrey highlighted that the purpose of Meta’s copying is to train its LLMs to perform certain functions while the purpose of the plaintiffs’ books is to be read by humans.

Judge Alsup and Judge Chhabria differed on how each step of the training process should be viewed. While Judge Alsup in Bartz found that each step in the process (e.g., downloading, copying, etc.) needed to be considered on its own merits, Judge Chhabria viewed the downloading and training as one integrated process and that the initial downloading must be considered “in light of its ultimate, highly transformative purpose.”

Both judges found that Anthropic’s and Meta’s copying, respectively, of the plaintiff’s complete works was reasonably necessary in relation to the transformative purpose of training LLMs, especially given that the AI models would not output any meaningful amount of the plaintiffs’ works.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/getty-images-london-high-court-seattle-amazon-b2858201.html

Tech companies have long argued that “fair use” or “fair dealing” legal doctrines in the United States and United Kingdom allow them to train their AI systems on large troves of writings or images.

Getty is also still pursuing a claim of “secondary infringement” of copyright, saying that even if Stability’s AI training happened outside the U.K., offering the Stable Diffusion service to British users amounted to importing unlawful copies of its images into the country.

Smith dismissed Getty's argument, saying that Stable Diffusion's AI didn't infringe copyright because it doesn't store “store or reproduce any Copyright Works (and has never done so)."

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-house-pressuring-fifa-to-change-transgender-policy-threatening-to-rescind-womens-world-cup-bid.1485589/

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7172280/2026/04/08/world-cup-trump-transgender-policy/

An NBC News poll in April 2025 reported that 75 percent of American adults said they do not believe transgender women should be permitted to participate in women’s sports. A Pew Research Center poll, also in early 2025, said that 66 percent of U.S. adults favor or strongly favor laws and policies that require transgender athletes to compete on teams that match their sex assigned at birth. However, the same poll found 56 percent of adults expressed support for policies aimed at protecting trans people from discrimination in jobs, housing and public spaces.

Era needs to accept the fact that people that would otherwise be their allies can have a good faith difference of opinion on trans women in women's sport.

The higher the division in women's amateur football, the higher the number of trans players. 

[Kyon1988]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nothing-is-working-what-should-i-do.1485787/

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-house-pressuring-fifa-to-change-transgender-policy-threatening-to-rescind-womens-world-cup-bid.1485589/

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7172280/2026/04/08/world-cup-trump-transgender-policy/

An NBC News poll in April 2025 reported that 75 percent of American adults said they do not believe transgender women should be permitted to participate in women’s sports. A Pew Research Center poll, also in early 2025, said that 66 percent of U.S. adults favor or strongly favor laws and policies that require transgender athletes to compete on teams that match their sex assigned at birth. However, the same poll found 56 percent of adults expressed support for policies aimed at protecting trans people from discrimination in jobs, housing and public spaces.

Era needs to accept the fact that people that would otherwise be their allies can have a good faith difference of opinion on trans women in women's sport.

The higher the division in women's amateur football, the higher the number of trans players. 

NGL, I want to see Barbra Banda forced to play in a men's league after failing a sex test.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-never-to-be-brought-back.1484197/page-26#post-153511360

Everybody else was instantly banned but for some reason this user is okay 

Hecht has posted in the thread and you know that John has been reported into oblivion

Still not banned.

Update

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Still not banned. Must be from a protected class on reeee

Definitely a mod alt

[Potato]

So I made a post about how my parents stole over 10K of my money in cash and threatened to kill me and the police said they don't care to do anything and as a man I should get a better job. I only have a month left before I'm forced to leave my apartment. I'm broke and am forced to leave to a shitty motel. My parents even stole my dog and now I have to lose my Guinea pig (gifted to me after I left my parents house by a friend) because the motel doesn't want to accept him. I feel lost because my parents stole so much cash from me and refuse to pay me back unless I stay with them but I don't want to as they abuse me mentally and physically. I feel like my life is taking a turn for the worst and no one cares. Sometimes I wish I had a better childhood but now I'm just waiting to die.



I haven't eaten all day and I reek. Even my car stopped working due to the engine. Just lost all motivation. Can I vent here?

 Guess who's back back again

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LoomianDev

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nothing-is-working-what-should-i-do.1485787/#post-153550120

Always, always blame something else for your problems. Job sucks? Parents should have educated you better. Car is fucked? It's the engine's fault, not yours for never servicing it. 

Retards man.

[Potato]

For your entertainment…

Luddites: The Thread

Are there use-cases for AI in video games that wouldn't upset you?

Is the point still to replace people and jobs by using stolen data?

Then no.

Same as with music, answer is no. There's endless amounts of things to experience already, things that are handcrafted by actual humans, so I rather spend my time experiencing those.

When AI can do the dishes or fold the laundry of game developers (and everyone), I'd be good with that.

No, not a single one.

Nah. There's no part of my life, especially in video games, where I find generative AI would be helpful. All of it is upsetting.

I've done plenty of thinking about this, and the simple answer is no. If I'm taking the medium at all seriously, as an artform and a legitimate career, AI simply has no place in the process for me.

Weird that other advancements and automation haven't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

And STILL nobody in that pussy arse forum has the guts to speak about procedural generation or automated environmental generation being examples of current use cases of AI in gaming that everyone accepts. Let alone speaking about software like Massive being used in movies in place of large amounts of extras. Even those giant screens they use in Star Wars so they don't have to build practical sets or go on location is an example of using computers to eliminate jobs that would otherwise be needed to create things.

[Potato]

Weird that licensing engines hasn't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

Weird that using platform API's hasn't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

Weird that scanning people, objects and materials hasn't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

Weird that the mouse hasn't reduced crunch/workload. What makes you confident that GenAI will be different?

Look, I just want photorealistic graphics, a massive open world that's 1:1 accurate with a modern city, NPCs that can hold realistic conversations and have humanlike routines, non-sexualised characters that titillate my personal fetishes only, and I don't want to pay any more than I was paying for games in 1986 not have any AI or crunch in the development process.

Is that too much to ask for this disgusting industry?

[benji]

STOLEN DATA 

such a thought-terminating cliche that not a single one of them has examined in any meaningful way

These are people who chant "property is theft" and "billionaires shouldn't exist" as part of justifying violence and then turn around to scream "STOLEN ART/DATA" when someone extracts information from IP without getting permission or paying for it every time you reference the information. They'd want you to have to pay to cite something from a book while upholding the "right" to steal that book from a store (they have insurance) or just confiscating the assets of the publisher.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Era needs to accept the fact people that would otherwise be their allies can have a good faith difference of opinion on trans women in women's sport.

They aren't allies if they're willing to murder people with the push of a button.

Oh, I had no idea it was that easy.

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[wsippel]

I don't think the Limited Run Games shill mod at Era will be posting about this LRG news.

LRG is garbage, but what’s the point here? This person claims/ appears to be a dev, but never looked at mGBA’s license? LGR doesn’t need to ask for permission - mGBA is under the MPL 2.0: https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/blob/master/LICENSE

Edit: I can’t be arsed to look into it much further, it’s possible LRG violates the license by not disclosing the use of mGBA source code and not making the source code available (if they made any modifications), but they still wouldn’t need express permission to use mGBA. It’s called Mozilla Public License for a reason.