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

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ive-come-to-the-decision-that-a-4-way-stop-is-merely-a-suggestion.1529629/

I want to know how this works out for them.

What the fuck do Yanks have against roundabouts?

What sort of fucking retard thought a 4-way stop sign was a logical idea?

roundabouts do take up a ton more space for similar functionality

there are a lot of low traffic country roads where the extra engineering would be a big waste

That's why you make roundabouts that you can drive straight over. Take up less space and allow larger vehicles to navigate them easily.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamersnexus-nvidias-abandoning-the-personal-computer.1529086/#post-155372503

I know they say never say never, but I will never subscribe to these companies who have basically turned their backs on the people who got them where they are and stream my day to day PC usage/gaming. I've already unsubbed from so many services over the past year. I'm sick and tired of paying forever to own nothing.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/welcome-new-members-introduce-yourself-here.119184/page-49#post-1545868811

I actually find these kind of sad

we're all digital nomads clicking across the internet, hoping to find cool people to talk to, and these people are like "oh hey a video game site where I can talk about my favorite games, nice"

they think they've found a home and then they realize oh god this place is horrible...and then probably drift back to fucking reddit

They should make a Bire account 

Factually correct

[Daffy Duck]

If there was a single thing about this community as a whole that I could snap my fingers and change it would be this.

I am so tired of people automatically assuming the absolute worst from a single post and trying to bury the person just because they are a bit different from the current consensus or whatever. I am guilty of it myself at times for sure over the years, but Jesus man it has gotten so bad in the past year. Hell it's happened to me just these last few days. It's just ridiculous.

I have never seen a community so ready to eat itself at the drop of a hat when certain topics pop up. I can go through thread after thread where its an adult mature conversation and then suddenly *insert topic* pops up and suddenly we are all raised by wolves thirsting for internet blood. Posters i see in random game threads or OTs who are the nicest posters I know in those settings are ready to shank someone in other threads because X got brought up and Y said this about it. People who I rarely see get controversial are ready to square up. Then the thread passes by and we all go back to just bullshiting around like nothing happened and as if a dozen people didn't just skirt the edge of a permaban. Its crazy.


"I know you said  *unpopular but not egregious opinion* but clearly you meant *obscene offensive and degenerate opinion* you will now be buried for your transgressions! Mods are we gonna allow this? I knew this forum was always fake about "X". This community is so *insert*. I can't believe it."


Thats not how a discussion forum should work in my opinion. I get given the current climate everyones nerves are piano strings ready to sing at the slightest touch, but I just wish we could all take a deep breath sometimes and realize it might not be as bad as you think on the first read. Instead of immediately burying someone just clarify a few things first and save everyone the trouble.

Found the hidden chudlord

User banned: Misrepresenting concerns of dismissing trolling 

Because it’s not a forum, it’s an echo chamber and it’s also a constant purity test with an ever changing goal line.

[Potato]

Found the hidden chudlord

User banned: Misrepresenting concerns of dismissing trolling 

Because it’s not a forum, it’s an echo chamber and it’s also a constant purity test with an ever changing goal line.

Look at this chud.

[PogiJones]

In solidarity with Jeff I will no longer post on the bire until Hasan is exonerated of these heinous accusations by the nazi Trump administration. 

[kaleidoscopium]

Man, Hasan is gonna be president. Will coperate dems vote blue no matter who?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/feds-subpoena-hasan-piker-medea-benjamin-over-cuba-trips.1528717/page-7#post-155407534

[remy]

No wonder Guitar Hero 3 was such a hit. Not a lot of competition there.

imo 2007-2011ish was absolute dogshit for gaming. I could probably pick the two bookend games where games got shit after and then interesting again

[who is ted danson?]

I think 2016 onwards was the year everything started to go downhill.

The cause: the release of Star Wars the Force Awakens in December 2015.

[who is ted danson?]

[HaughtyFrank]

Man, Hasan is gonna be president. Will coperate dems vote blue no matter who?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/feds-subpoena-hasan-piker-medea-benjamin-over-cuba-trips.1528717/page-7#post-155407534

Hasan fans: "OMG this is going to boost his popularity so much"

Hasan: "This fucking sucks, there's no silver lining to this"

[Let's Cyber]

I don't necessarily agree with this

Yeah I was a tad reactionary there. The 360/PS3 generation improved over time, it was just very rough out of the gate. So many publishers wanted BIG and shiny but we ended up with stripped down modes and features vs. the previous gen counterparts. The first Madden game on 360 was a good example where the previous gen version rated quite a bit higher. Even a few years on, DMC4 was literally half a game and you ran backwards through the levels as Dante for padding. Shit was bananas. Yeah part of that was shitty Capcom management at the time, but you could feel the dev constraints with time and budget in a tangible way.

, but one advantage that generation had over all of them that came after is that a team of like 15-25 people could turn around a game in a single year. And the publishers could make often a profit off of it.

Look, for example, at the Tony Hawk games. Single player, multiplayer (even in 3/4 before the platforms had it), completely new maps, graphics competitive with most everything else, etc. Vice City was also done in a single year. 

Look at a company like Pandemic and their release list over just four years:
2002 Triple Play 2002
2002 Army Men: RTS
2002 Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2004 Full Spectrum Warrior
2004 Star Wars: Battlefront
2005 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
2005 Destroy All Humans!
2005 Star Wars: Battlefront II
2006 Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
2006 Destroy All Humans! 2

Because the PS3 generation was so long, Insomniac and Naughty Dog could both do trilogies plus other games. But they did four games in the previous gen that was half as long:
2002 Ratchet & Clank
2003 Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
2004 Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal
2005 Ratchet: Deadlocked

2001 Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
2003 Jak II
2004 Jak 3
2005 Jak X: Combat Racing

By the next generation this was no longer feasible. Teams had to at least double and now take at least two years for a single game. Nobody could release a game every year anymore, let alone two like Pandemic was doing. Now teams twice that size can spend seven years and millions and not even make a game just a single vertical slice. Naughty Dog now has like 400 or more people and Intergalactic has no release date, it's already been in development for six years and they've only released remakes/remasters over that time.

Absolutely. Nowadays, even with smart asset reuse, dev times will still take 4+ years like with God of War: Ragnarök.  

Tears of the Kingdom used the same overworld map as Breath of the Wild and was a 6 year endeavor. Whereas the previous golden era for 3D Zelda with Ocarina of Time--->Majora's Mask--->Wind Waker* was only 4 years for 3 games. 

If you would have told me 11 years ago we still wouldn't have a new Witcher game as of 2026, I wouldn't have believed you. And God help the poor Elder Scrolls fans. 

*Released in 2002 In Japan just about 4 years after Ocarina, WW wasn't released until 2003 in North America. Not that any of this matters, I'm just an autist.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

In solidarity with Jeff I will no longer post on the bire until Hasan is exonerated of these heinous accusations by the nazi Trump administration. 

sex gifs

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/from-today-we-are-officially-one-year-away-from-gta-vi-may-26th-2026.1198938/page-2#post-155418160

Why is that every thread that's a year old or more has the OP banned? Lol.

doops sadly deleted his accounts in everything, or at least the ones I followed them in :(

damn doops was a good poster

[Let's Cyber]

Why is that every thread that's a year old or more has the OP banned? Lol.

Really gets the the noggin joggin, doesn't it? 

Or how some of the more prominent and heavy users are self-deleting and shit talking the moderation once they're off-site? But don't worry, just keep filling the board with content, I'm sure you'll be just fine. 

[Snoopy]

Man, Hasan is gonna be president. Will coperate dems vote blue no matter who?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/feds-subpoena-hasan-piker-medea-benjamin-over-cuba-trips.1528717/page-7#post-155407534

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/from-today-we-are-officially-one-year-away-from-gta-vi-may-26th-2026.1198938/page-2#post-155418160

Why is that every thread that's a year old or more has the OP banned? Lol.

doops sadly deleted his accounts in everything, or at least the ones I followed them in :(

damn doops was a good poster

Yeah, at trying to get people cancelled  

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/from-today-we-are-officially-one-year-away-from-gta-vi-may-26th-2026.1198938/page-2#post-155418160

Why is that every thread that's a year old or more has the OP banned? Lol.

Lots of trolls infiltrate Era. Not surprised to find out doops was yet another one and now he's trying to cover his tracks. These chuds aren't slick.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wired-us-law-enforcement-warns-of-%E2%80%98anti-tech-extremism%E2%80%99-as-ai-hatred-grows.1530091/#post-155421655

Khanimus
Banned

 User banned (1 week): advocating violence

Burn down every data center.

Copped a ban because of his AI derangement syndrome 

[BIONIC]

I’m sure it will come to you all as a great shock and surprise that Cunting Eden is in fact enough of a simpleton to simp for Scam Citizen:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/star-citizen-has-reached-1-billion-in-crowdfunding.1528861/page-4#post-155362771

They’re probably more focused on the part with the studio keeps releasing hefty updates to the game they’ve been playing for years.

A scam implies that there’s no product. People are at this very moment playing the game.

I think part of it is that a metric fuckton of people on this forum have never played SC but have VERY strong opinions about it. It's unironically that peach meme. I genuinely would not be surprised if some believed that like, it genuinely isn't a playable EA game. Like obviously they haven’t released the campaign yet but at this point the campaign isn’t even the selling point of the game. The liver service aspect is. Because it is at this point essentially a live service game

YouTube is right there

You literally have people on this very page asking if the game can be played at all.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/007-first-light-review-thread.1529914/page-13#post-155426599
can't believe this ableist bitch is trying to go in on a stroke victim

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it%E2%80%99s-not-just-kids-trump%E2%80%99s-crackdown-on-trans-healthcare-extends-into-adulthood.1530271/

Sometimes bad people do good things

[Taco Bell Tower]

Khanimus ban
https://www.resetera.com/threads/wired-us-law-enforcement-warns-of-%E2%80%98anti-tech-extremism%E2%80%99-as-ai-hatred-grows.1530091/#post-155421655

User banned (1 week): advocating violence

Burn down every data center.

An animator posted this 

Edited: Beaten by the laughing cat 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-lotr-popularize-movie-trilogies.1530139/

Or was it Star Wars? I don't remember movies chasing the trilogy trend until early 2000s. I feel like everyone was doing it then.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it%E2%80%99s-not-just-kids-trump%E2%80%99s-crackdown-on-trans-healthcare-extends-into-adulthood.1530271/

Sometimes bad people do good things

In Texas, a 37-year-old U.S. Army veteran regularly went to a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital for gender-affirming care, including therapy, wigs and prosthetics. Staff suddenly cut the services.

And in Colorado, a 37-year-old scientist for the federal government planned to undergo transition surgery. She discovered her insurance would no longer cover it.

A decade ago, these denials wouldn't have been allowed. The federal government widely supported access to transition care.

[Jansen]

Which one of you sick bastards is this

[benji]

Of course it wasn't going to end with children, they want us dead.

In before cis people go "well calling it genocide is a touch over dramatic"

Evil. This country is run by evil people.

I love you, fellow trans folks.

Calling the taxpayers not being forced with violence to pay for your wigs and prosthetics "genocide" is a touch over dramatic.

[BIONIC]

Which one of you sick bastards is this

Yeah one of the most obvious alts in a while. Hundreds of posts and just very recently joined. Called some politicians cunts a few weeks ago and never even got a warning. Curious

[benji]

lmao from that article:

What trans people are asking for isn’t extraordinary, advocates say. Nearly everyone, at some point in their lives, receives medical care related to their gender expression: taking estrogen or testosterone during menopause or treating erectile dysfunction.

I can think of another thing they're related to far more than "gender expression" whatever that means.

[simiansmarts]

visawife talking about his favorite subject again: those darn misogynistic incel chuds who ruin everything 
  
https://www.resetera.com/threads/girl-on-film-the-loser-incel-villain-archetype-when-horror-meets-the-manosphere-from-peeping-tom-to-obsession.1529761/

With the new hit horror film Obsession (this doesn't really go into spoilers and is at the very end of this video essay but you can pick up from the trailer), it's worth looking back all the way to the very start with slasher horror. Rachel Barker (no relation to Curry Barker haha, director of Obsession), explores this archetype of the loser incel villain and its evolution from killer (Peeping Tom, Halloween) to 90s manosphere revered characters (Fight Club, American Psycho), and now more down-to-earth "nice guy" sympathetic loner/loser misogynists with entitlement complexes (Companion, Better Watch Out, Blink Twice, Don't Worry Darling, Adolescence, and now Obsession).

I think it's about how middle class white men felt as the aggrieved in a patriarchal, capitalist system that left them behind and how they take it out on women (offline and online) rather than the social and economic structures no longer having them be dominant.