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

[simiansmarts]

In other news, Clicky finally made a thread that got more than 10 replies. 

This calls for a 5 hour Splatoon BNWO goon sesh! 
 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-got-banned-too-many-times-here-and-made-a-game-of-it.1520572/page-4#post-154973230

lol

I wonder if this is the person who reported me to my work

That's incredible levels of butthurt

 

[NekoFever]

Imagine if PSmasher and Dr. Poops Loud got into a fight over qualifications and work history

There’s another PhD in the amount of shit PlanetSmasher contains.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dating-has-gotten-so-expensive-that-nearly-half-of-u-s-singles-say-it%E2%80%99s-no-longer-worth-it-as-the-average-night-out-approaches-200.1518157/page-12#post-154934323

v  User Banned (1 Week): Hostility; History of the Same

Oh, come off it. Yes, shit is expensive. We all know that. I'm posting as someone who actively dated for two years in the Bay Area (I recently found a partner so yay!) and addressing how to date within a budget. You're making it sound like a bad thing. Yes, we could all just cry that it's expensive to get plastered on a date, but what good does that do? Instead, I'm showing how it's not only possible but easy to go on affordable dates instead of just giving up the entire hope of finding a partner.

Get out of here with your "Republican bootstrap" nonsense. Do you want solutions or do you just want to complain?

The fact that you are divorced is literally the least surprising thing I have ever heard. In fact I can imagine exactly why you are divorced.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-i-deserve-to-be-permanently-banned-on-reddit-for-this.1520599/

Reddit is like 50% of the internet nowadays. Every time I search for anything, the best answer ends up being on Reddit, I have 12 or 14 years old account there and about 2 months ago I replied to a post where a man shot a pregnant woman but she dodged the bullet and shot him back. I replied with: "I hope he died."

Soon after, I got permanently banned. I appealed and explained that I never threatened anyone, I was reacting emotionally to a guy who shot a pregnant woman. They rejected the appeal and kept the permaban.

I get it, I broke the rules. I'm not denying that. But was that really worth a permanent ban after more than a decade on the site? Especially when there's way worse racism and genuinely horrible stuff posted there daily that seems to get ignored. I mean, even serial killers sometimes get lighter sentences (not saying that's a good thing).

What sucks most is that any new account I make gets instantly banned too. It feels like being erased from the internet over one stupid reply. It reminded me of that Black Mirror episode, "White Christmas," where someone gets digitally erased with a single click.

Just so people know how serious a permanent Reddit ban is: it's almost impossible to avoid without changing your phone, the way you post, your location, and a bunch of other things. Their detection is extremely strong.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-i-deserve-to-be-permanently-banned-on-reddit-for-this.1520599/#post-154973941

I don't think so…maybe a subreddit ban but that's Reddit in a nutshell; some mod can just ruin your day out of nowhere

[D3RANG3D]

In other news, Clicky finally made a thread that got more than 10 replies. 

This calls for a 5 hour Splatoon BNWO goon sesh! 
 

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

[BananaBlast]

"Ah DURRRRR, It is acshukally difficult to be banned, most people are normal and compliant never even get banned!" 

Literally yesterday:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-women-put-their-cellphones-in-their-back-pocket-while-men-put-them-in-their-front-pocket.1515775/#post-154795612

 User Banned (3 Days): Boys Club Behaviour

Have you ever tried to put it in the front pocket in a women jeans?

Is that allowed?

[Boredfrom]

Subnautica 2, a game lambasted by the anti-woke crowd for having non-white protagonists has nearly half a million peak CCU on its first day in early access.

Oh well.

That just means now it's a non-woke game and its success is a blow against inclusivity to that crowd.

The guys crying on the Steam forums must've missed the memo.

 

Doesn’t this mean that most assholes bitching about it are posers (the first game also had a non white protagonist) and not worth paying attention to them? 

Why give them attention?

[killamajig]

Threads now about the unfair banning Fat4all.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-got-banned-too-many-times-here-and-made-a-game-of-it.1520572/page-5#post-154975417

I wanna @ Fat4All so bad...

I think the 3 month ban she got for a parody thread was BS, tbh.
Don't blame her for requesting her acct be deleted.

Still though, this steam listing is wild lol

She requested an account deletion?!

Day ruined 😭

Oh wow I didn't know about this! No wonder I haven't seen her name on a hot minute 😕

Let the moderators never be accused of having a sense of humor.

Wait, I'm confused. The user she was parodying made like 6 thinly veiled ad threads and are fine but she got three months for poking fun at it? What am I missing here?

Edit: Wait construct was banned too? Can't even find why for that one

Missing nothing, that's exactly what happened lol.

How they didn't get banned (or even a warning AT LEAST) is mind boggling.

On another forum I reported someone doing the same thing (subtle ad threads that got less subtle over time lol) and the forum admins were very receptive and thankful lol...here one makes fun of it and gets banned lmao

[Potato]

Plagiarize's true internal crisis is that he doesn't actually like warhammer or ff14

Gundam?

[HaughtyFrank]

Gonna be real, last I checked, most of the top posters have like 0 infractions. People talk about how easy it is to get banned, but in reality the average user barely knows the mods exist.

NIGGA STOP LYING 

Absolute. Total. Bullshit.

I don't even believe him that the most active users never got banned. Look now further than planetsmasher or Zeo

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-i-deserve-to-be-permanently-banned-on-reddit-for-this.1520599/

Reddit is like 50% of the internet nowadays. Every time I search for anything, the best answer ends up being on Reddit, I have 12 or 14 years old account there and about 2 months ago I replied to a post where a man shot a pregnant woman but she dodged the bullet and shot him back. I replied with: "I hope he died."

Soon after, I got permanently banned. I appealed and explained that I never threatened anyone, I was reacting emotionally to a guy who shot a pregnant woman. They rejected the appeal and kept the permaban.

I get it, I broke the rules. I'm not denying that. But was that really worth a permanent ban after more than a decade on the site? Especially when there's way worse racism and genuinely horrible stuff posted there daily that seems to get ignored. I mean, even serial killers sometimes get lighter sentences (not saying that's a good thing).

What sucks most is that any new account I make gets instantly banned too. It feels like being erased from the internet over one stupid reply. It reminded me of that Black Mirror episode, "White Christmas," where someone gets digitally erased with a single click.

Just so people know how serious a permanent Reddit ban is: it's almost impossible to avoid without changing your phone, the way you post, your location, and a bunch of other things. Their detection is extremely strong.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-i-deserve-to-be-permanently-banned-on-reddit-for-this.1520599/#post-154973941

I don't think so…maybe a subreddit ban but that's Reddit in a nutshell; some mod can just ruin your day out of nowhere

Lobster Roll

Reddit is mostly trash anyways. Doubly so when it comes to the comment section.

When they went after Apollo, I stopped using the website at my normal cadence (I'll admit that I do back to it for information gathering, like looking for tunes for Forza Horizon 6 in the near future) and as a place of daily browsing. I missed the routine for about a week or two until the digital addiction of daily visits cleared my head. At that point, I realized that I wasn't missing anything at all. Like basically nothing of value was lost, especially since I could dip in now and again for a piece of information, and then eject out.

So long as you're able to still browse and find things you need on it, this is blessing in disguise. Reddit comment sections are a quagmire and are mostly just people trying to come up with the most popular or Reddit-tier wittiest thing they can come up with as they fish for upvotes.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/was-weed-the-primary-cause-of-kevin-smith-falling-off.1520008/page-2#post-154962304

I can speak to this a little.

Of course you fucking can.

Scripting fight scenes is extremely difficult, especially when it comes to animation. Typically, a screenwriter isn't going to be the one writing out the exact flow of a fight scene from beat to beat. They'll write the dialogue, and they might specifically call out particular moments, especially if they're callbacks to previous moments or if it's integral to have a specific character do a specific thing for story reasons.

But the thing about fight scenes is that most of the time it's the choreographer and cinematographer's job to make a fight flow properly, because they're the ones that actually make the fight happen. Most writers are not action choreographers. And then when you extend this to animation, you kinda have to let the professionals do their jobs. You're just the one putting the story on paper, you aren't the one dictating specific shots.

I love the way he offers to impart his grand wisdom to everyone without being asked and then it turns out to be the most generic take ever. Like, who the fuck DOESN'T realise this?

[BananaBlast]

I completely forgot that Fat4all is a she/her now 

[HaughtyFrank]

Subnautica 2, a game lambasted by the anti-woke crowd for having non-white protagonists has nearly half a million peak CCU on its first day in early access.

Oh well.

That just means now it's a non-woke game and its success is a blow against inclusivity to that crowd.

The guys crying on the Steam forums must've missed the memo.

 

Doesn’t this mean that most assholes bitching about it are posers (the first game also had a non white protagonist) and not worth paying attention to them? 

Why give them attention?

This is factually wrong™ anyway. The game lets you pick your character among 4 presets, one of which is a white dude. I imagine in the 1.0 release you'll be able to fully customize the character.

[Potato]

Gonna be real, last I checked, most of the top posters have like 0 infractions. People talk about how easy it is to get banned, but in reality the average user barely knows the mods exist.

NIGGA STOP LYING 

Counting or not counting deleted members?

...and all the alts?

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-got-banned-too-many-times-here-and-made-a-game-of-it.1520572/

I’ve been hit with the sobering realization that the majority of Ree’s active posters legitimately think there’s nothing wrong with the site’s moderation.

I've never been banned/arrested/disappeared.  Therefore the powers must be correct. Only those who are banned/arrested/disappeared are bad.  If you are good you don't get banned.  I haven't been banned so I must be good.

[Boredfrom]

I bet this is the guy who had a thread backfire after it turned out he was being sexist and disrespectful in the Era FF discord.

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

How Do You Take Being Kicked/Banned out of a Social Media Community?

SOLDIER, Era's biggest Tifa simp, who always kept crying about "sexualized female characters" and "stop sexualizing Tifa", yet once casually admitted to being a longtime Tifa hentai gooner. 

Is double funny because the dude that rat him out is now a self requested banned user.   

I bet you he is just an annoying gooner poser like SOLDIER.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-got-banned-too-many-times-here-and-made-a-game-of-it.1520572/

I’ve been hit with the sobering realization that the majority of Ree’s active posters legitimately think there’s nothing wrong with the site’s moderation.

I've never been banned/arrested/disappeared.  Therefore the powers must be correct. Only those who are banned/arrested/disappeared are bad.  If you are good you don't get banned.  I haven't been banned so I must be good.

What I like is that there's a whole army of people on bluesky who used to think exactly like that until they got banned.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I bet this is the guy who had a thread backfire after it turned out he was being sexist and disrespectful in the Era FF discord.

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

How Do You Take Being Kicked/Banned out of a Social Media Community?

SOLDIER, Era's biggest Tifa simp, who always kept crying about "sexualized female characters", yet once casually admitted to being a longtime Tifa hentai gooner. 

Joe

I stalk the person who I got banned for arguing with, and then I wait for the community to, inevitably, fold and splinter and flee to some spin-off forum. Then, quick like an assassin in the night, I register the name of the person I'm stalking and make a new account with their name and avatar and start pretending to be them, knowing they must be stuck on the outside, screaming while I steal their internet life.

Must be The Obliterator who stole benji's name.

[Potato]

Subnautica 2, a game lambasted by the anti-woke crowd for having non-white protagonists has nearly half a million peak CCU on its first day in early access.

Oh well.

That just means now it's a non-woke game and its success is a blow against inclusivity to that crowd.

The guys crying on the Steam forums must've missed the memo.

 

Doesn’t this mean that most assholes bitching about it are posers (the first game also had a non white protagonist) and not worth paying attention to them? 

Why give them attention?

Maybe, just maybe, the success of a game is dependent on other factors and NOT dictated by the colour of the protagonist's skin? 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

real "there is no trans genocide on era" energy there b-dubs.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

get octo'd

[simiansmarts]

I completely forgot that Fat4all is a she/her now 

tbh I'm pretty sure fat4all is one of those "online trans only" types like Echoes because he hasn't actually posted a photo of himself ever since (allegedly) coming out of the closet. We know what fat4all looks like and he's an obese white neckbeard who wears Hawaiian shirts and gorges on large pizzas. 

[BIONIC]

Agatha can get fucked. Leaving our gal Melody to the wolves

[xiceman191]

"Ah DURRRRR, It is acshukally difficult to be banned, most people are normal and compliant never even get banned!" 

Literally yesterday:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-women-put-their-cellphones-in-their-back-pocket-while-men-put-them-in-their-front-pocket.1515775/#post-154795612

 User Banned (3 Days): Boys Club Behaviour

Is that allowed?

I can't even see why this would even be a worth a ban in the first place? What am I missing?

[BIONIC]

"Ah DURRRRR, It is acshukally difficult to be banned, most people are normal and compliant never even get banned!" 

Literally yesterday:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-women-put-their-cellphones-in-their-back-pocket-while-men-put-them-in-their-front-pocket.1515775/#post-154795612

I can't even see why this would even be a worth a ban in the first place? What am I missing?

filler can explain it to you in explicit detail

[Boredfrom]

Finally got a chance to read this thread and I have to say that I'm not all to surprised nor impressed with the corny-ass loudmouths on the Internet about this game. And to be as clear as possible: if the game just wasn't for you, that's fine. I'm not going to argue against that.

My whole thing is that we've had several years (decades at this point?) of people wanting to legitimize games being an art form, a idea that I support as well. As such, you can't cram every single game into the same box and then try to directly compare one to the other when they have absolutely nothing in common like "wow, this got the same score as Elden Ring from [random publication], you must be joking". So right off the bat, people are acting like morons when they try to prop this game up to games outside of its genre.

As for the technical skill or ability required to get through the game, people need to get over themselves. As somebody that is very good at games, especially ones that people traditionally struggle with, the high horse attitude of "this game plays itself" is extreme cornball behavior. You're correct, the game takes almost no skill whatsoever to get through. That doesn't mean that the game "plays itself". The one scene in particular that was being used to make fun of this was Rockford running to the Heaven 11. Yeah, if you press nothing, Rockford will just crash through everything or stumble over obstacles along the way. It's an interactive cutscene. You know what I did? I jumped and slid at every opportunity that came up in the cutscene. I did this because I'm not some hipster doofus curmudgeon who looks at a game like Mixtape while scoffing at the idea that there's not a fail state for my inputs.

The game is packed with moments of interactivity that elevate each scene in such unique, beautiful, weird, and interesting ways. Like you're up in Slater's bedroom and there's a fish tank. You can tap on the fish tank to get them to follow you around. You can touch the little electric ball thing to have it follow your finger. You can poke around the room and have Rockford tell you about certain objects. You're Rockford. You're just interacting with the world around you. These are fun, little touches that bring you deeper into the immersion of the game.

Do you need skill to swirl two tongues around with the joysticks? Of course not. But the scene triggers many emotions all at once. Immediate disgust at the visuals. Humor from the grotesque noises, the braces on the one set of teeth, and the extreme awkwardness of guiding the cutscene along. The hero of the entire cutscene finally arrives on screen "That's Enough". That's enough, indeed. Get me outta there! And then you reflect on the moment and it's like, yep, that was my disgusting ass back in the day, driving home another note of humor.

Do you need skill to guide Rockford through the valley as you float through the air on the way to the Ritz? Of course not. The cutscene is still wonderful shot and the interactivity of carving a path with your feet as flowers sprout behind you, catching streams of air to float higher & further out, and running alongside your friends the whole way makes for a peaceful & joyous reflection on what it felt like to waste an entire afternoon, running around and exploring with your friends on a beautiful day.

Do you need skill to walk around with a camera recording a party? Or painting a door? Or posing for shots in a photobooth? Or stumbling through a video store drunk? No, no, no, and no. But they're there to be interacted with and to be used as devices to sell these experiences. I was crying laughing trying to get Slater through that god damn Blockbuster and being like "NO, STOP IT" every time he dragged his hand along the tapes, knocking them all over. I'm thinking about that poor worker whose entire store just flipped upside-down and Slater having that dreadful moment every one of us has had while drunk - the wallet falls on the floor. Oh god, I have to BEND OVER right now? Ok, focus, dial it in.

I feel like I'm ranting but for a game that "plays itself", every chapter has interactivity and that interactivity makes the scene come to life. You can choose to cross your arms, be grumpy, and refuse to engage with the mechanics. You can also choose to lean into the joy the game is trying to evoke and interact when the moments are there. Happiness, in this instance, is a skill issue.

Honestly, this is the real reason why people shit on games like Mixtape.

That and people like Nathan Grayson trying to play the culture war game after all the shit they have experienced over the years. 

They talk like the game is a transcendental experience when the digital store front have no end of this kind of games, also claiming the game writing is excellent while clips paint a different picture (whatever is unfair or not, those moments stick) and ending with “happiness is a skill issue  ” from the most condescending pricks imaginable.

[Let's Cyber]

Lobster roll is lowkey one of the worst, most self-important dipshits on the site. His gaming takes are horrible. 

[benji]

ERA constantly bitchs about lack of good writing in vidja, but oh boy the are bunch of suckers if they think stuff like this is peak.

Look at what they think is good writing in other media. And look at their literacy of themes and meaning in those things. Remember stuff like "the point of Halo is that genocide is wrong"?

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-got-banned-too-many-times-here-and-made-a-game-of-it.1520572/page-3#post-154972951

For people who really hate Era, you sure see this site being talked about in a bunch of other sites.

And yet you don't see any threads about other sites here.

You'd think that'd be a wakeup call for them to do something better with their lives.

Yeah. Never.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-i-deserve-to-be-permanently-banned-on-reddit-for-this.1520599/

And don't forget the hundred page thread about Twitter.