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

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-misinformation-regarding-mihoyos-ai-usage-is-insane.1531216/page-2#post-155477194

OP ain't going to provide the misinfo.



OP is also named after the loli girl group from ZZZ (one of MiHoYo's games). Not a super fan at all. Nope. Just a regular person trying to stop the spread of 'misinformation'.

[simiansmarts]

Echoes’ self-admitted favorite characters are Cammy and Morrigan but he swears they’re only for wholesome wlw romance reasons that only a lesbian like himself can truly appreciate. It’s totally not because of Cammy’s big juicy ass and Morrigan’s jiggling succubus titties, only filthy cis male incels care about that (which Echoes is DEFINTELY NOT despite admitting he may never have a real relationship as he approaches his mid thirties).

This isn't his funniest opinion about fighting game women though. It's still that he thinks Anna (or Nina? I forget) from Tekken is autistic.

He's projecting his own characteristics on videogame women he's horny for

[benji]

All I discovered from looking at Grummz timeline is nothing about James Bond but I did find this guy owning dumb chuds over Marathon:

[Boredfrom]

[simiansmarts]

I've been thinking about why Yujiro bothers me so much specifically bothers me and I think the above posts kind of nails it, it's kind of impossible to separate the character from rape, it's linked to who he is. It isn't just some one time think some shitty writer did for shock value and it's portrayed in a comedic, edgy way that makes it more unsettling.

And the other issue for me is choice, this isn't like say a game based on The Boys or Invincible where the character is from and a large part of the series or even like with Deathstroke (another character I can really understand why is presence would bother people given his infamous rape which the narrative made out the (underage) victim, Terra as the bad one, something that it took DC decades to acknowledge and it's pretty obvious modern DC writers find shameful), he's a guest star, unless their was some bizarre mandate we don't know about, they could have picked any other character but chose Yujiro.

 

Yup. Not to mention that like, rape is a particularly heinous act. It's not "just" violence, it's psychologically scarring and traumatizing in the same way something like torture is. It is about complete dis-empowerment and humiliation of the victim, which is what makes it so uniquely repulsive. The person doing it is fully aware of how harmful the act is and what kind of lasting impact it might have.

Even in fiction, colossally evil things like violence are often sanitized, but rape is unique in just how particularly bad it is. Guys who reduce it to a joke or simple shock value, or act like it's on the same level as something like murder are totally missing the point, either out of ignorance or, unfortunately, often very willingly.

 
 

[benji]

Because I bothered to look into this, the "woke" claim seems to be coming from a single chud (and his alt account):

Everyone else seems to be mostly just going off his lead more than any actual details until you get to the schizo accounts:

[Let's Cyber]

1TB Steam Deck OLED is now almost $1,000 USD...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/valve-appears-to-have-raised-steam-deck-prices-512gb-789-1tb-949.1531396/#post-155478892

As of now, fuck gaming honestly.

 

"Well, maybe the children will have two dolls consoles instead of 30 dolls consoles, and maybe the two dolls consoles will cost a couple of bucks more."

[benji]

Yup. Not to mention that like, rape is a particularly heinous act. It's not "just" violence, it's psychologically scarring and traumatizing in the same way something like torture is. It is about complete dis-empowerment and humiliation of the victim, which is what makes it so uniquely repulsive. The person doing it is fully aware of how harmful the act is and what kind of lasting impact it might have.

Even in fiction, colossally evil things like violence are often sanitized, but rape is unique in just how particularly bad it is. Guys who reduce it to a joke or simple shock value, or act like it's on the same level as something like murder are totally missing the point, either out of ignorance or, unfortunately, often very willingly.

Yeah, regular ass violence and murder is never scarring and traumatizing or about disempowering the victim. Jesus fucking christ.

[HaughtyFrank]

So only some nobody is crying about Bond?

Actually I'm surprised RE isn't crying about it considering I saw a screenshot of Bond talking to a woman in a bikini with her whole ass out

[Polident]

Yup. Not to mention that like, rape is a particularly heinous act. It's not "just" violence, it's psychologically scarring and traumatizing in the same way something like torture is. It is about complete dis-empowerment and humiliation of the victim, which is what makes it so uniquely repulsive. The person doing it is fully aware of how harmful the act is and what kind of lasting impact it might have.

Even in fiction, colossally evil things like violence are often sanitized, but rape is unique in just how particularly bad it is. Guys who reduce it to a joke or simple shock value, or act like it's on the same level as something like murder are totally missing the point, either out of ignorance or, unfortunately, often very willingly.

Yeah, regular ass violence and murder is never scarring and traumatizing or about disempowering the victim. Jesus fucking christ.

Fact check: There are examples of sexual violence victims who've unalived themselves. Yet afaik no murder victims have molested themselves (@grok ??)

[benji]

We don't talk enough about how one major problem with necrophilia is the lack of affirmative consent.

[Snoopy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-americans-are-about-to-pay-even-more-at-the-grocery-store.1531402/

Surely this is the perfect time for Nep to unveil her carrot based economic plan to the nation

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-americans-are-about-to-pay-even-more-at-the-grocery-store.1531402/

Oh joy, prepping to seriously start meal prepping for weeks in advance. It's no longer viable to spot buy things on a given day for meals anymore. For me at least.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wired-us-law-enforcement-warns-of-%E2%80%98anti-tech-extremism%E2%80%99-as-ai-hatred-grows.1530091/page-2#post-155425915

 User banned (1 week): advocating violence

Burn down the data centres. Nail the tech bros to the wall

[simiansmarts]

“Why is our forum userbase so bloodthirsty??”

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zzz-nicks-aka-copies-hacking-mini-game-from-other-game.1530451/page-2#post-155439637

 User Banned (1 Month): Sinophobia

Wow, I can't believe a Chinese company stole someone else's thing and made a cheap mass-produced version of it.

I sure hope they don't make a habit of doing this.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/avatar-legends-the-fighting-game-azula-trailer.1528618/#post-155331946

 User Banned (1 Week): inappropriate Commentary

I can fix her.

[Let's Cyber]

Jason Schreier has a face for radio and a voice for writing Bloomberg articles. 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wired-us-law-enforcement-warns-of-%E2%80%98anti-tech-extremism%E2%80%99-as-ai-hatred-grows.1530091/page-2#post-155425915

 User banned (1 week): advocating violence

Burn down the data centres. Nail the tech bros to the wall

Advocating murder will always result in a permanent ban.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hideo-kojima-collabs-with-nicholas-winding-refn-on-making-genai-short-film-for-prada-promotional-event.1530937/page-5#post-155477341

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hideo-kojima-collabs-with-nicholas-winding-refn-on-making-genai-short-film-for-prada-promotional-event.1530937/page-5#post-155477341

This sucks but ya really all need to understand how different the perception of AI shit is in Japan. Like, the view on it is completely opposite that what most of us here feel. I despise it myself, though, but I think this context is important.

This is like watching an anime full of lolis and saying Japan has a different perception of little girls and we should understand the context. I mean, it's true that they have a different context... but we can criticize them.

I've always called Kojima a hack. So no surprises here.

Fashion industry fucking loves genAI for some reason

Yet hates knockoff of their product.

 

It blows me away how visionary artists who are so meticulous and controlling could use AI and not lose their minds over how much they lose creatively.

It makes more sense if you view his actions as a businessman first and creative second.

Dudes entire net worth hinged on how he marketed himself and took all the credit for his games while most people couldn't name a single person on those dev teams , he named his company after himself, he knows how to manipulate the media to get his name out there.

Getting on board the AI slop train is absolutely consistent with his entire career.

 

Having literally quit a crative job because of LLM shit:

Fuck right off with that stupid argument.

Good for you for being able to quit and still be Ok, honestly. Bad thing is, most people can't do that.
Of course all this does not apply to Kojima, but since you're using yourself as an example, as a regular person I know I would totally do some dumb AI thing if it pays right, reality nowadays would not allow me to pass on such an offer.

I wasn't though so don't give me that please. Instead of only working in games press I now work more as a janitor.

   

[Uncle]

wow what a pull, from 2014, randomly in the middle of a 2 hour video

Yeah I had to dig to find it. Kotaku is so irrelevant nowadays, I rarely get an opportunity to reference it.  

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

I don't remember the context, whether it was at gaf, twitter, or a kotaku comments section, but I once brought up this review to brian himself, and he said he was annoyed that he had never actually received his agreed-upon clove of garlic

[huffs]

Kojima is one of the most respected auteurs in the industry and headed up some of the most revered games of all time, emerged stronger after being treated like shit and abused by his own employer, doesn't play it safe, talks culture, philosophy, psychology, struck out on his own, founded his own company, goofs around with movie reviews, travels well and seemingly has a wide range of friends encompassing some of the leading figures across various industries.
I truly get the anti AI sentiment, which some of his own works have explored as themes, and sure critique them. Call him out on them specifically but this threads absolutist / reductive and quite personal trashing / slurring the entire careers of anyone who touches AI does very little to further the argument.
Some of my friends have remarked on some things they find cool with AI, albeit whilst still being worried about job threats etc.
I don't start screaming 'i always thought you were a weirdo hack, you've always been full of it, you're dead to me' - that's not how relationships or people work
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You might be right but it's time to tar and feather you anyways

The whole situation there is just so fuckin sad. The staff is domineered by people on a declared ideological crusade, which they persue by ignoring their own moderation rules in order to pump the board full of antagonistic doomer shit in hopes it turns more people there away. Maybe so, but at the price of swamping Era with in-yo-face triumphalist AI press releases at all times, leaving them to wallow in useless performative despair and hatred to the point of wishing death on people.

And I really don't get this pov:

They got me three times on youtube and one of them was a REALLY cool swing/disco/jazz cover of Megaman X1... and no matter how cool it is, the fucking heathen machine has no heart for me to care about those sick beats.

The problem is unlike AI graphic art or AI writing, AI music can be actually really bangin' and enjoyable and sound very "real". It's infuriating.

i now have to do 1 hour deep dives on everything before i can enjoy something.

oh woe is me, the laughable worthless slop machine keeps putting out certified bangers, I really liked it and am thus morally violated, &c. I can't imagine committing yourself to so abjectly despising something you admittedly enjoyed that's steadily becoming a part of the mainstream and legitimised by film festivals, awards, studios (from AAAA to indie), well-known auteurs, &c. There's a reason there were ten billion AI cover songs on Youtube last year to the point record labels sued to own it themselves — this shit is objectively cool and beautiful when done right and people want more of it. So sad, Alexa play Despacito (as sung by Kanye)

also:

The really challenging element, especially if you know you're prone to cognitive dissonance, is if the regulars in THIS thread can see how inaccurate the majority on resetera view AI (ie, the bubble popping thread shows how most people still think its just a chat bot simply trained on reddit threads from 2014).....then what else could the resetera era community be wrong about?

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[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hideo-kojima-collabs-with-nicholas-winding-refn-on-making-genai-short-film-for-prada-promotional-event.1530937/page-5#post-155477341

wow this guy really wound their refns

[HardcoreRetro]

The new James Bond game should have a scene in which he holds a dead baby.

He then says his iconic catchphrase: "Shaken, not stirred."

[Uncle]

let me say this, as someone who has played with it a little (it is hella expensive), seedance 2 is fucking insane and it is easy to see how someone could make a complete short film with it without too much trouble

it's hard to relate how well it works short of using it yourself, you can throw in some reference photos/turnarounds of characters and they will always appear with that consistent look, doing whatever you describe, including camera moves and subtle touches

you can use somewhat purple prose, saying things like "he goes into a thousand-yard stare, his pupils shifting subtly as painful memory washes over him, but a second later he remembers where he is and composes himself" and it works

you can also give it hand drawn shitty keyframes and it will use them for different shots

you can only generate 15 seconds at a time, but you can start the next chunk from the last frame of the first, and there are other tools to smooth the hard stop at each transition

best to prompt it for no music and then use suno to generate your score

if I had some passion project and a script and some idea of how I wanted it to look, I would probably be experimenting right now...I don't blame kojima and others for working with it at all

[Jansen]

I feel like OT is one of the most miserable places on the Internet. Thread after thread of bad news that people are very eager to post, even if you keep the political threads hidden. And what is there really to say in threads like those? It's just a circle jerk of "we're fucked."

welcome to 2026, i guess. it probably wont change until AI collapses, the Iran war ends, Trump is gone forever, and lets not even address the situation with Star Wars.

I mean...it's bad news, but it's also news of the reality we are in. It's gonna be posted...so hope for better news to happen. I don't know what else to say.

It is possible to try and post more silly/fun stuff. It doesn't need to be constant horror threads.

I have legitimately tried balance out negative threads with positive ones. Like yesterday I made the Marlon Wayans thread, but then also the one about The Simpsons inspiring Obsession. One of them just stayed alive and one didn't though.

[HaughtyFrank]

welcome to 2026, i guess. it probably wont change until AI collapses, the Iran war ends, Trump is gone forever, and lets not even address the situation with Star Wars.

Okay I laughed

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-since-we%E2%80%99re-in-this-crazy-torment-nexus-timeline%E2%80%A6protect-your-hardware%E2%80%A6.1531489/#post-155483077 
 
whew, good thing melody snagged that $700 GPU before shit hit the fan. gotta keep your head above water no matter what.

[Potato]

I still don't understand this bond review thing, I'm going to need a diagram, I understand now that Imram has a wife and she works for kotaku and is not into gundam or 40k but she didn't write the review so what the fuck are they arguing about?

Some leftist you are not understanding solidarity*





*Solidarity is where leftists must support everything someone else says forever until some other leftist decides that what that person said in the past is now transphobic/racist/bigoted or they are exhibiting behaviour similar to gamergate. Them solidarity good out the window and now that person is a chud©®™.