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

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pragmata-ot-delay-exe-has-stopped-working.1490479/page-29#post-153949927

My twitter “for you” feed is being dominated with posts of Diana being adorable.

Self-report?

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-homewrecker-lawsuits-rocking-north-carolina-a-few-states-still-allow-a-spouse-to-sue-a-‘homewrecker’-for-breaking-the-marriage.1495447/#post-153952432

Whoa, Kyrsten Sinema jumpscare. It figures though, that insufferable cutesy thumbs down she pulled back in the day spoke volumes.

[Snoopy]

Son I know we’ve had our ups and downs but I just want you to know that one day you’ll inherit everything.

Everything?

Yeah. I’m leaving you all my investments. That’s 2 copies of Spiderman Deluxe edition. 7 copies of Horizon Forbidden West and 3 copies of Last Of Us 2. Son. You’ll never have to worry about money again.

[Straight Edge]

Son I know we’ve had our ups and downs but I just want you to know that one day you’ll inherit everything.

Everything?

Yeah. I’m leaving you all my investments. That’s 2 copies of Spiderman Deluxe edition. 7 copies of Horizon Forbidden West and 3 copies of Last Of Us 2. Son. You’ll never have to worry about money again.

Son proceeds to trade them in for $10 GameStop credit towards a used copy of Hogwarts Legacy.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/even-with-10-mil-follows-on-social-media-imagine-dragons-singer-new-game-barely-reaches-600-ccu-15-hide-seek-hero-shooter-last-flag.1494934/page-5#post-153950941

 User banned (1 week): Trolling derail over multiple posts. Account in junior phase.

They should have put a giant thoughtless open world or a half-naked little girl robot in their game if they wanted more attention.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamesradar-crimson-desert-and-clair-obscur-dont-copy-other-aaa-games-the-witcher-3-director-says-so-they-stand-out-in-an-industry-chasing-money.1492207/page-2#post-153818497

 User Banned (1 Week): Hostility, Account in Junior Phase

Again, there is a difference between inspiration and copying. If you actually PLAY E33, it's very structurally and mechanically different from Persona 5.

ya but

*Posts UI image that barely resembles the other game*

Take thoss truthfacts and shove them in your pie hole!!!11

I swear this thread is key in the examples of "reading into something what you want" vs what was actually said. Tons of bad faith posters just posting bad faith arguments.

[Besticus Maximus]

I played pragmata for like 5 hours straight last night, game bangs hard. But I also came away with the distinct impression that the reason these people are crashing out so hard is they cannot process paternal caring. The game is like a daughter simulator in a way that the last of us 2 tilted at with lev but it’s actually just miles better at presenting how a little girl behaves. TLDR they don’t know how to live normally and probably never interact with little girls despite being them online.

[D3RANG3D]

[Straight Edge]

I played pragmata for like 5 hours straight last night, game bangs hard. But I also came away with the distinct impression that the reason these people are crashing out so hard is they cannot process paternal caring. The game is like a daughter simulator in a way that the last of us 2 tilted at with lev but it’s actually just miles better at presenting how a little girl behaves. TLDR they don’t know how to live normally and probably never interact with little girls despite being them online.

Yeah, Diana is cute and reminds me of my daughter when she was little. Anyone who suggests this game is secretly pedo coded needs to be on a list.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/automaton-japanese-devs-weigh-in-on-why-retrofitting-live-service-games-with-offline-support-is-harder-than-gamers-think.1494355/page-3#post-153897688

One of the games I worked on had an annoying-ass script system for just skin color changes alone that I still had to account for as an animator. I wasn't even programming anything!

But sure Jan, the devs are just lying. Just press the red button and you magically get an offline-mode from an online-only game.

How many have you worked on?

[Uncle]

but Stop Killing Games isn't about forcing devs to patch in offline modes to always-online games, the biggest part of it is just stop fucking with your customers who choose to take it apart and try to mod/fix it on their own

it could be as simple as providing the community with the program that runs the server-side part of it and saying here, you're on your own, we wash our hands of it

that would absolutely be enough

that's what provided a path to continued play for games like city of heroes, which I believe wasn't planned/voluntary, but initially due to a dev who literally took home his computer with the server-side code on it and then provided it to the community

likewise the fact that this type of event never happened for wildstar means that to this day no one can really play it and people are just kind of slowly piecing together what they can to even be able to explore the world with nothing going on in it

[Uncle]

His most absurd point is when he lists systems that need to be re-worked and one of the ones he mentions is the random number generation. Which is just... what.

That one is not that crazy.

Online games often have their entire player economy balanced around RNG numbers fine tuned. Or drop rates are intentionally tuned so players have to grind or work together to get better loot.

If you use a MMO as a framework example: if you make an offline mode, should the item that has a 0.001% drop rate still have that drop rate? Is that still fun for the player? Should the item still even exist?

Drop rates are intentionally tuned in many online games.

Think of how arcade games used to be tuned to eat as many quarters as possible. Online games are often tuned to keep you playing without being overly frustrating, and often what prevents things from being too frustrating is the community of the game and the ability to show off your loot to other players in said game.

That, at least partially, goes out the window when you are changing the game design to an offline version.

this is all dumb bullshit that doesn't matter

devs can deliver a fundamentally broken game to players at end of life, all the drop rates badly tuned, whatever

the point is that the players who care about the game will fix it on their own

the devs have no responsibility to continue maintaining the game or hand it over in a perfect flawless state, the entire point of all of this is preservation of the worlds, the graphics, the sound, the area design, the monster design, the music

if anything is broken and the community cares, they will fix it

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/automaton-japanese-devs-weigh-in-on-why-retrofitting-live-service-games-with-offline-support-is-harder-than-gamers-think.1494355/page-3#post-153897688

One of the games I worked on had an annoying-ass script system for just skin color changes alone that I still had to account for as an animator. I wasn't even programming anything!

But sure Jan, the devs are just lying. Just press the red button and you magically get an offline-mode from an online-only game.

How many have you worked on?

I think this thread is funny just because it shows how ideologically flexible Era can be when the tone of the article tells them to pivot. 

Headline: Ubisoft is ending support for Rabbids Bwaahalla War: Mobile
Era thread: French Nazis genocide neurodivergent children who rely on Bwaahalla as life-saving "third place" to escape from parents who just don't understand

Headline: Making online only games into offline playable games is difficult, say glorious and honorable Nipponese developers
Era thread: Of course stupid gamers--none of those around here, thankfully--don't understand the level of blood, sweat and tears go into tightening up the graphics on level 3

[Besticus Maximus]

Can you believe that they asked an animator to be responsible for animation? In this economy? Fortunately I have fucking principles so back to walgreen I went, as a choice you see

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/automaton-japanese-devs-weigh-in-on-why-retrofitting-live-service-games-with-offline-support-is-harder-than-gamers-think.1494355/page-3#post-153897688

One of the games I worked on had an annoying-ass script system for just skin color changes alone that I still had to account for as an animator. I wasn't even programming anything!

But sure Jan, the devs are just lying. Just press the red button and you magically get an offline-mode from an online-only game.

How many have you worked on?

I think this thread is funny just because it shows how ideologically flexible Era can be when the tone of the article tells them to pivot. 

Headline: Ubisoft is ending support for Rabbids Bwaahalla War: Mobile
Era thread: French Nazis genocide neurodivergent children who rely on Bwaahalla as life-saving "third place" to escape from parents who just don't understand

Headline: Making online only games into offline playable games is difficult, say glorious and honorable Nipponese developers
Era thread: Of course stupid gamers--none of those around here, thankfully--don't understand the level of blood, sweat and tears go into tightening up the graphics on level 3

Are you overthinking it? Isn't the moral standpoint just whatever NepNep thinks on any given day according to her moods?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/looksmaxxing-influencer-claviclur-hospitalized-for-suspected-drug-overdose.1492042/page-6#post-153924862

Damn the length people will go. Meanwhile I tried on a skirt with thigh highs and a wig with a jacket for the first time and gained enough confidence that I was looking at myself in the mirror and wear it all night.

They need therapy

It's so ironic how much of this is projection and insecurity.

The common joke for guys is 'anything but therapy. Which is sad because it is anything but the answer they need.

[clockwork5]

1776621533[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/automaton-japanese-devs-weigh-in-on-why-retrofitting-live-service-games-with-offline-support-is-harder-than-gamers-think.1494355/page-3#post-153897688

One of the games I worked on had an annoying-ass script system for just skin color changes alone that I still had to account for as an animator. I wasn't even programming anything!

But sure Jan, the devs are just lying. Just press the red button and you magically get an offline-mode from an online-only game.

How many have you worked on?

Can that bitch talk about ANYTHING without injecting race and skin color into the conversation?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/automaton-japanese-devs-weigh-in-on-why-retrofitting-live-service-games-with-offline-support-is-harder-than-gamers-think.1494355/page-3#post-153897688

One of the games I worked on had an annoying-ass script system for just skin color changes alone that I still had to account for as an animator. I wasn't even programming anything!

But sure Jan, the devs are just lying. Just press the red button and you magically get an offline-mode from an online-only game.

How many have you worked on?

Funny that she despises all forms of AI because that sounds like a situation it would be super helpful for

[simiansmarts]

Can you believe that they asked an animator to be responsible for animation? In this economy? Fortunately I have fucking principles so back to walgreen I went, as a choice you see

 
Has Nep actually drawn anything lately? 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/french-man-86-issues-historic-apology-for-family%E2%80%99s-role-in-transatlantic-slavery.1495501/#post-153950803

Despite all this, black people never initiated nuclear warfare, was not in the Epstein files, and did not subject the modern world to genocide via colonization.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2026/02/16/epstein-s-african-connections-included-presidents-heirs-and-recruiters_6750524_124.html

[Uncle]

1776621533[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/automaton-japanese-devs-weigh-in-on-why-retrofitting-live-service-games-with-offline-support-is-harder-than-gamers-think.1494355/page-3#post-153897688

One of the games I worked on had an annoying-ass script system for just skin color changes alone that I still had to account for as an animator. I wasn't even programming anything!

But sure Jan, the devs are just lying. Just press the red button and you magically get an offline-mode from an online-only game.

How many have you worked on?

Can that bitch talk about ANYTHING without injecting race and skin color into the conversation?

my first thought was that knowing her history it was probably fur color but she's subconsciously embarrassed to admit that

[Boredfrom]

OMG, is she bitching about the furry fighting game? The only game we know she was working for?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-got-an-adhd-diagnosis-now-what.891681/page-2#post-153949390

Late self diagnosis (age 37).

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/automaton-japanese-devs-weigh-in-on-why-retrofitting-live-service-games-with-offline-support-is-harder-than-gamers-think.1494355/page-3#post-153897688

One of the games I worked on had an annoying-ass script system for just skin color changes alone that I still had to account for as an animator. I wasn't even programming anything!

But sure Jan, the devs are just lying. Just press the red button and you magically get an offline-mode from an online-only game.

How many have you worked on?

Funny that she despises all forms of AI because that sounds like a situation it would be super helpful for

Extra funny because communism is, and has always been, predicated on some sort of all-powerful AI controlling resource allocation to actually work.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-got-an-adhd-diagnosis-now-what.891681/page-2#post-153949390

Late self diagnosis (age 37).

Given he posted this immediately below that post, I'll allow it. 

Late self diagnosis (age 37).

Everyone goes through life facing trials and tribulations. Suddenly, I understand why I've succeeded where many have failed and failed where many have succeeded.

On a side note: spicy food is a cheat code

 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-got-an-adhd-diagnosis-now-what.891681/page-2#post-153960070

Now, welcome to the club. I disagree that my condition should be called ADHD, though. ADD sounds like a proper name since I don't have the hyperactivity part. But I do have the part in having difficulty concentrating.

[benji]

The game is like a daughter simulator in a way that the last of us 2 tilted at with lev but it’s actually just miles better at presenting how a little girl behaves.

Yeah, Diana is cute and reminds me of my daughter when she was little.

[BananaBlast]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/even-with-10-mil-follows-on-social-media-imagine-dragons-singer-new-game-barely-reaches-600-ccu-15-hide-seek-hero-shooter-last-flag.1494934/page-5#post-153950941

 User banned (1 week): Trolling derail over multiple posts. Account in junior phase.

They should have put a giant thoughtless open world or a half-naked little girl robot in their game if they wanted more attention.

How the fuck isn't this a permaban considering the account was made last month? Oh I guess they can sympathize with believing people playing pragmata are into little girls, but god forbid you make a cheeky joke about the community being outrage muppets.

[D3RANG3D]

Looks like wokeslop...liked so I could then unlike...

[BananaBlast]

Also been noticing a lot of these mentally ill radfem types complaining about the pragmata girl, not just the projecting creeps. Maybe some of these fucks have legit childhood trauma, but that doesn't give you an excuse to start sperging out and seeing demons over a video game with a father-daughter dynamic.