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

[BananaBlast]

MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls would be my first fighting game if they could show some restraint and not sexualize over half the women. *sighs*

......Are you telling me this fuck has never even touched a fighting game before? 

[nachobro]

marvel tokon  hulk looks sick

[kaleidoscopium]

Also, would y'all stop coming in here talking about why it can't be done? Of what use is that. Start working on making it happen

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-need-to-start-messaging-asap-for-if-we-win-the-trifecta-in-2028-expand-the-house.1509082/#post-154511782

[simiansmarts]

MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls would be my first fighting game if they could show some restraint and not sexualize over half the women. *sighs*

......Are you telling me this fuck has never even touched a fighting game before? 

Like xiceman said, the fact you can tell the character is a woman triggers PB’s gender dysphoria. The characters need to be genderless blobs or have girlfriends for PB to self-insert as and stick it to those cis hetero male chuds.

[Let's Cyber]

Keep an eye on the Saros OT. Planetsmasher bought it so expect some crash outs about the games difficulty in the coming days.

• New video game is announced, Planetsmasher derides it as horrible for not conforming to his very narrow interests in games
  
• Post for months pre-release in every thread concerning said game confirming the game not being for him. 
  
• Buys game anyway. 
  
• Hates game. 
  
• Acts as if someone twisted his arm to play it
  
• Post for months post-release about how horrible the game is
  

Tale as old as time. Hobbies are supposed to be enjoyable. Dude needs a conservatorship at this point.

[BananaBlast]

The fact she thinks Faye Valentine is better in the netflix adaption just because she's a desexualized aggressive lesbian girlboss 

[Lonewulfeus]

The fact she thinks Faye Valentine is better in the netflix adaption just because she's a desexualized aggressive lesbian girlboss 

Those people of gender would suck trumps girl cock if he came out as trans.  And on that disgusting note I’m going to kill myself now.

[Nintex]

gamer culture

[who is ted danson?]

As an 8 year old, I'm always amazed by how futuristic the early 2000's were

Wish I was there

[Disco55]

So looks like Michael didn't seem to have the front loading that Era might have hoped.

[Nintex]

we have front loads we have back loads we have all the loads

[malfoyking]

Michael probably gonna make a billy lol.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/utah-first-state-to-hold-websites-liable-for-users-who-mask-their-location-with-vpns-%E2%80%94-law-goes-into-effect-designed-to-prevent-bypassing-age-checks.1509334/

[Nintex]

Michael probably gonna make a billy lol.

That about covers the cost on 1 playstation

[HardcoreRetro]

I wish everyone in that Aphelion thread would die.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-hot-toys-ahsoka-tano-figure-draws-fan-collector-and-pretty-much-everyone-elses-online-criticism-fucking-creepy-doll-inside.1509325/

https://bsky.app/profile/lucasfilmcollector.bsky.social/post/3mkwushgoq22i

[Straight Edge]

How did Michael Jackson die?

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

He ate a 7 year old wiener!

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/utah-first-state-to-hold-websites-liable-for-users-who-mask-their-location-with-vpns-%E2%80%94-law-goes-into-effect-designed-to-prevent-bypassing-age-checks.1509334/

I wish the agent who is trying to figure out the connection between the Mark Felton video about the missing eagle from the Reichs chancellory, Mega Man X Remixes and Iranian LEGO propaganda a very nice day as I open up another video about the air defenses in Valdai and the Makenai Ai Ga Kitto Aru video clip from 1997.

And for the record, yes this is all connected. We are standing back and standing by

[Let's Cyber]

The old GAF thread for MJ's death is a pretty wild ride 

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/rip-michael-jackson-1958-2009.366312/

2009 sucks

Little did they know, they were living in the halcyon days of unicorns and rainbows. 

Still, I hope he's remembered more for the music than for the child molesting.

"Still, I hope Roman Polanski is remembered more for Chinatown than for the child rape. "

He was a pedophile and so, it's hard to feel sad.

[Nintex]

I dunno if he was or he wasn't but Smooth Criminal was good shit and some bad actors tried to get his music rights.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aphelion-launches-to-219-peak-ccu-on-steam.1508695/post-154513450

No sympathies in this case. Maybe you shouldn't antagonize the people you're relying on financially.


What do you mean people didn't buy my game after a comment like this? surprisedpikachu.jpg

I'm rolling my eyes at you. This is proper Gamergate nonsense.

That article is 12 years old. Likely older than you considering this post. Grow Up.

That Leigh Alexander quote is almost giving me nostalgia. Will you post a rant about Anita Sarkeesian next?

am i truly seeing a post on era suggesting that a game should be commercially punished for the perceived sins of the lead writer having written an op-ed back in 2014 abt gamer culture being comprised of toxic young men (at height of gamergate)?

I didn’t know the lead writer was Leigh Alexander. 

[Boredfrom]

MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls would be my first fighting game if they could show some restraint and not sexualize over half the women. *sighs*

......Are you telling me this fuck has never even touched a fighting game before? 

Missing out lesbians on Arcana Heart.

[simiansmarts]

He was a pedophile and so, it's hard to feel sad.

[simiansmarts]

Michael probably gonna make a billy lol.

It also has one of the most racially diverse audiences for a blockbuster in recent memory so take that for what you will. 

 
 

[Nintex]

Also it's pretty cool that Michaels cousin plays Michael in the film and not some rando.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/snl-uk-an-italian-plumber-with-princess-problems.1509061/

Damn, this is like a newer (and much louder) version of a sketch I directed like ten years ago, lol. Blast from the past.

Of which there is conveniently NO EVIDENCE.

[Boredfrom]

That's also true, but I'd argue that I've never seen anything as bad as this in all my years of writing reviews. This year alone I've had two cases of death threats and harassment due to giving games "the wrong score".

Just two? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tim-cain-says-parasocial-relationships-and-alignment-with-preferred-influencers-have-supplanted-informed-critical-review-for-most-gamers.1509154/page-4#post-154522531

[BananaBlast]

He was a pedophile and so, it's hard to feel sad.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aphelion-launches-to-219-peak-ccu-on-steam.1508695/post-154513450

No sympathies in this case. Maybe you shouldn't antagonize the people you're relying on financially.


What do you mean people didn't buy my game after a comment like this? surprisedpikachu.jpg

I'm rolling my eyes at you. This is proper Gamergate nonsense.

That article is 12 years old. Likely older than you considering this post. Grow Up.

That Leigh Alexander quote is almost giving me nostalgia. Will you post a rant about Anita Sarkeesian next?

am i truly seeing a post on era suggesting that a game should be commercially punished for the perceived sins of the lead writer having written an op-ed back in 2014 abt gamer culture being comprised of toxic young men (at height of gamergate)?

Somehow quoting her own words is gamergate rhetoric...

[Jansen]

So, to comment, the hidden posts idea, while good, isn't really possible. Hide tags, like quotes and staff post and all the rest, are a bb-code thing and don't actually affect the site itself. Something like what is suggested might be possible, but would take an inordinate amount of development time to accomplish. Trust me, I've asked about something along these lines before.





Beyond that, someone in either this thread or another said something that stuck in my head and got me thinking: how we handle new game releases goes against the whole "new news, new thread" rule and builds a culture of not doing that. In addition, it is also a pain in the butt on our end.



The way we handle new game releases is for a single reason: to stop the main page of the gaming forum from getting overtaken by a single popular release. We don't want a single game to make it so nobody can see any other discussion and as a result we lock all sorts of interesting threads about these games and funnel them into the OT. We can all agree that this is not great. It stinks for people looking to discuss story stuff, it stinks for people in the OT looking to talk about the game itself, it stinks for people looking to discuss stuff outside of the game.



This is when we had a thought: why not use the embedded subforum system to solve this issue on a technical level?



The proposal is as follows: we create a "New Releases" subforum that will house all threads on brand-new releases. So, say the new Bond game comes out and it's a smash and everyone has a million things to say. Instead of pushing it all into a single OT, we put it all into the subforum. The OT will still exist, but it will largely be for people actively playing the game. Threads about story beats, themes, technical stuff, impressions, and all the rest of the sort of threads that normally get locked would now be allowed, they'd just be in the "New Releases" subforum. We would no longer have to police thread creation when a new game comes out because if people don't want to see those threads, they can just click a single button and make them all go away as they browse.



If we were to do this, people would have far more freedom to make threads to talk about specific things instead of clogging up the OT with everything under the sun and the people who don't want to see those threads can just rid of them if they so choose. Beyond that, it would free us up to handle actual pressing issues instead of just having to police thread creation to keep the main page from getting overcrowded.



We can also potentially mandate the usage of prefixes and add some new ones for that subforum only, to better allow people to filter and see the threads they are interested in.



So, listening to people's complaints about stuff, I think we have found a technical solution to a problem that has kind of bugged everyone, including all of us, for a while now. I bring it up in here to see what everyone thinks before we start moving forward with anything.

Oh no that's horrible 

But of course acceptance is not part of the community they fostered so here is the first response 

I think that's a great idea that absolutely addresses a pain point some people have with this forum surrounding new games that likely have a lot of hype. It's always felt a bit strange to have momentum and buzz killed in such a way but this definitely seems like a win/win situation for all sides. I'm commenting on this specifically because I want to stress that while I had a post a few days ago that was critical of some elements of subforms and the steps required to ignore them versus larger structural changes, I do still think the move to subforums is better than not having them at all. I may not have made that clear in my previous post but I wanted to do so here. In particular this one would solve multiple issues with one solution. I like it, personally.



I am curious about the specific details of how it would work. For one, how long would a game be considered a "new release"? Once that period is up would all the threads in question be moved out of the New Release section into the main section? If they are, that's a rather tedious job for staff. But if they aren't, what happens when a thread remains in use or someone has an update to it after the game's New Release period? Would it become a faux pas to bump or use a thread after it's time in the section is up? I think as long as those things are ironed out beforehand in a way that everyone is cool with there shouldn't really be any issues. Especially if the mentioned tags are implemented to help people further filter out specific games when multiple big releases happen at once (which is the only thing I can imagine some complaining about).



Also, I hope this doesn't come across as condescending or weird to comment on because I don't mean it that way (but I think it's important to express praise equally as criticism when either is warranted)... I've noticed recently a push from you to bring up these sorts of potential changes in here and ask for user feedback on them. The last one caused a debate and in the end a compromise was found and this one seems like it'll probably be well liked with little issue. Both of those outcomes are a success and across the board I think it's an approach that a lot of people probably appreciate and in my personal opinion is a solution to some of the friction that may have arisen from changes in the past. Good stuff.





Reactions to playing the game/random thoughts would still be the territory of the OT, I imagine. Or at least threads all talking about the same type of things would be considered duplicates. I think this is more for when there's specific things about the game that justify having their own thread where people would want to talk specifically about that thing without it getting drowned out in a sea of other conversations within the OT.