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

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-direct-announced-for-2026-06-09-at-2-pm-utc-7-am-pdt-10-am-edt-11-pm-jst-50-minutes-with-a-95-minute-treehouse-live-right-after.1544536/post-156165103

I don't know how credible the sources for OoT and Super Metroid remake really are, but I just know that it makes me angry that Nintendo would even dare to touch these pretty much perfect games. For me it's a huge sacrilege and yes.... I know that's all irrational and the originals will always coexist. But man, sometimes I allow myself to embrace this sort of irrationality.

I just see a value in a collective popculture and knowing that these both games could get replaced by some remakes in the mind's of a future generation, when they think of Oot and Super Metroid just hurts.

[Jansen]

From now on, I'm dismissing any opinion about video games that doesn't cite French crime statistics.

The child abuse and violence in France from the post above is indeed horrible. But at the same time that has nothing to do with this game whose at the moment just a AAA game with a big sci-fi setting and gameplay with a character that looked like a kid in the beginning but looked older later in the trailer. Banning it just open up a big can worm that leads to many other existing games that have even more extreme stuff that's already being allowed.



Carlsojo from last page already have a perfect solution and an easy one too. Stellar Blade Blood Rain does not need a containment, nor banner, or a ban in discussion.



People should be able to make a normal thread and talk about Stellar Blade and could still criticize it like always or even say they are side eyeing people who plays it etc. As long as they don't go overboard and suggest people are pedos for merely planning to play it and/or go into a hostile attack like what happened to the banned posters in the previous threads..



Plus those that want nothing to do with the game always have even more choices for themselves if they choose to not going into the thread or even clicking thread ignore to not see it on their page.



So basically just the same as it is now but people coming in just need to avoid being as hostile as how a few went overboard in the last couple of threads. Nobody who criticize the game got banned because all games should be open to criticism, just a tiny few who went too hostile so just avoid doing that. Those that want to avoid it already got the solution to not go into the thread or just click on ignore thread or user etc.



I don't think it ever has to be this complicated in the first place but I said my piece multiple times. At the end of the day it's up to the mods and I'll respect whatever choices they decide.

[Jansen]

Just want to say I'm glad people are calling out the SB2 thing. It shouldnt need to be said, but seeing folks just accept that she looks young and looking enjoying it, or in some instances across the Internet, happily saying she's not an adult and being okay with that, is pretty off-putting. But yeah, no, glad it's a discussion point that's being kept alive and that there's spaces for it to be discussed like this place.



I'm also seeing Persona being discussed and apologies for not reading the full context but just want to comment in general on it. I've never played it but it always was something I wanted to get into. But I think I missed my boat. I look at P5 and some of it's content and realise I can get that stylistic turn based action elsewhere if I need. If I was a little younger when it came out though, it would have been my jam and I maybe wouldn't have seen it's issues as quickly.

Reminds me of Resi5. I played it when I was young, so being in my teens, I ended up with the "I don't think it's racist, it's just where it's set" argument. Ofcourse, now I know how racist it is. And while I still can appreciate the game, I heavily caveat it every time i mention it and make a point to emphasise the racism in it. Thankfully, I'd say Capcom have been improving. But if I played it now for the first time... I'd immediately be like wtf is this.



Moving on to everything Kojima makes because I have fallen out of love with him for similar reasons... I'm going to be skeptical of anything new he makes. I could ignore it when I was younger, begin to critique but still enjoy as I've gotten older, but now whatever he releases next is going to be getting a side eye from me. His female characters are consistently awful. And even when he's dealing with Hollywood types and can't get away with just objectifying them, it's still there as an undercurrent. I'm glad I can see it now as I've gotten older when I couldn't before
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-538#post-156171448

Enjoying things? Can't have that!

Hot take:



A drive by post is a drive by post.



This is a discussion forum, posting "looks great!" In a thread and dipping in any context imo is just a drive by. If you don't want to have a discussion don't post in a thread. If you just want to upvote go to Reddit.

I've done it myself I'm sure most have at some point but after doing it I was just like why? It's just completely valueless.



It is not at all unreasonable to conclude that posting "looks great" in a controversial thread has the explicit goal of downplaying whatever issue being discussed is.

If you don't want your intentions to be misinterpreted then state your intentions, caveat your positivity if you are afraid of being misunderstood. That would require someone to actually read threads, which again if you're not going to read the discussion then why post…



"I don't have to engage with a comment" ok no problem, what are you doing exactly then? Just shooting the breeze? It's a discussion forum discuss something or don't post.



"Just Ignore" as an argument is to me is exactly the opposite of why someone would even want to be a part of a forum like this. We don't just ignore stuff that opposes our viewpoint, we civilly discuss things. Why does a user need to ignore a bunch of looks good bots in order actually get a good faith discussion happening.

Hot take:
A drive by post is a drive by post.
This is a discussion forum, posting "looks great!" In a thread and dipping in any context imo is just a drive by. If you don't want to have a discussion don't post in a thread. If you just want to upvote go to Reddit.
I've done it myself I'm sure most have at some point but after doing it I was just like why? It's just completely valueless.
It is not at all unreasonable to conclude that posting "looks great" in a controversial thread has the explicit goal of downplaying whatever issue being discussed is.
If you don't want your intentions to be misinterpreted then state your intentions, caveat your positivity if you are afraid of being misunderstood. That would require someone to actually read threads, which again if you're not going to read the discussion then why post…
"I don't have to engage with a comment" ok no problem, what are you doing exactly then? Just shooting the breeze? It's a discussion forum discuss something or don't post.
"Just Ignore" as an argument is to me is exactly the opposite of why someone would even want to be a part of a forum like this. We don't just ignore stuff that opposes our viewpoint, we civilly discuss things. Why does a user need to ignore a bunch of looks good bots in order actually get a good faith discussion happening.

I think that's a completely reasonable take, I just don't know how that would be actually enforceable.

Maybe up the minimum word count, but even that might not help.

I think that's a completely reasonable take, I just don't know how that would be actually enforceable.
Maybe up the minimum word count, but even that might not help.

It can't be enforceable, it's why trolls love to do it, there's a huge plausible deniability and as long as they are not hugely obvious about it they will get away with it every single time and if you try to point that out you come off as crazy.

You can go through every comment in the original SB2 thread and spot who is doing it just to ragebait but they are not breaking any rules. It's a perfect grey area for trolls

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/massive-child-sexual-abuse-scandal-in-france-as-school-staff-investigated-for-violence-and-sexual-assault-tw-rape-pedophilia.1545553/

They should put some sort of tracking devices in all physical copies of stellar blade 2

[Besticus Maximus]

The gap in the AI market is the locally ran LLM but there are technical challenges mostly related to hardware that are difficult to fix until 2027 - 2028 and staffing issues.

Most companies want their own LLM with access to their own data and their own interface which is easy enough for workers to use and a hotline to have a AI engineer/operator fix prompts or other things on site. But the people who can install/prompt LLMs that well will not be interested in doing that and so far the compute/data centers required are way too expensive for small companies to buy themselves.

Plus big tech like Microsoft/Google is pushing cloud model subscriptions so even if your LLM is running locally you'll still have to hook it up to Office 365 or whatever and the data ends up in the cloud anyway.

Problem with local solutions at this point is the pace of change, every 6 months something amazing comes out from one of the vendors and it's yet another thing to try and implement bespoke solutions for way later than everything else as more new features trickle out.

I suppose most of us, being eminent scholars and ardent capitalist liberals who have jobs where we can borepost allday, have greater exposure to how these things are actually being used in businesses and whats actually being rolled out and implemented.  In my experience you're seeing more product start ups create stuff that incorporate AI features for specific problems in the short to medium term. Which of course means new companies and new jobs and different types of jobs. To companies AI products and services are items to raise POs for same as any other thing they buy in and I expect that to remain the same for a while but it will manifest in things like, instead of a mega enterprise salesforce rollout a company will have smaller products and AI agents managing the inbetween bits or something.

In my line of work I literally cannot understand why you'd ever be an AI crybaby, it's the golden goose that solves most of your unsolvable, can't do it myself problems. It's an actual assistant employee that you don't pay for that doesn't take days off or ages to email you back in terrible english. There are rules on how you can use it, yeah we're all being encouraged to do it but literally why wouldn't you? Would you uninstall outlook because it actually managed your calendar for you instead of you getting that pure feeling of a job well done because you clicked about yourself? Even something as stupid as like, being able to interrogate a document and have it talk back to you is useful in ways you can never predict before you get into the guts of the work. This is one of the things I find most frustrating about AI iconoclasm because its actually really exciting to be able to interact with data and information in genuinely novel ways but they're rejecting it on first principles for stupid reasons that are antithetical to their professed beliefs and hopes for humanity.

When it comes to design stuff AI saves an unreal amount of time when it comes to all the documentation, transcribing, deck building, analysing and all the other shite that you have to do to convince some cunt to pay 5 other cunts to make the change you don't care about.

[Disco55]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-direct-announced-for-2026-06-09-at-2-pm-utc-7-am-pdt-10-am-edt-11-pm-jst-50-minutes-with-a-95-minute-treehouse-live-right-after.1544536/post-156165103

I don't know how credible the sources for OoT and Super Metroid remake really are, but I just know that it makes me angry that Nintendo would even dare to touch these pretty much perfect games. For me it's a huge sacrilege and yes.... I know that's all irrational and the originals will always coexist. But man, sometimes I allow myself to embrace this sort of irrationality.

I just see a value in a collective popculture and knowing that these both games could get replaced by some remakes in the mind's of a future generation, when they think of Oot and Super Metroid just hurts.

Apparently just not buying the remake that you don't want is not an option.

[HaughtyFrank]

Just popping in to say, y'all, we see your "can't wait" posts and know exactly what you're doing.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-blood-rain-announced-shift-up.1541146/post-155965114

His avatar

Finally remembered who he reminds me of

[Nintex]

The gap in the AI market is the locally ran LLM but there are technical challenges mostly related to hardware that are difficult to fix until 2027 - 2028 and staffing issues.

Most companies want their own LLM with access to their own data and their own interface which is easy enough for workers to use and a hotline to have a AI engineer/operator fix prompts or other things on site. But the people who can install/prompt LLMs that well will not be interested in doing that and so far the compute/data centers required are way too expensive for small companies to buy themselves.

Plus big tech like Microsoft/Google is pushing cloud model subscriptions so even if your LLM is running locally you'll still have to hook it up to Office 365 or whatever and the data ends up in the cloud anyway.

Problem with local solutions at this point is the pace of change, every 6 months something amazing comes out from one of the vendors and it's yet another thing to try and implement bespoke solutions for way later than everything else as more new features trickle out.

I suppose most of us, being eminent scholars and ardent capitalist liberals who have jobs where we can borepost allday, have greater exposure to how these things are actually being used in businesses and whats actually being rolled out and implemented.  In my experience you're seeing more product start ups create stuff that incorporate AI features for specific problems in the short to medium term. Which of course means new companies and new jobs and different types of jobs. To companies AI products and services are items to raise POs for same as any other thing they buy in and I expect that to remain the same for a while but it will manifest in things like, instead of a mega enterprise salesforce rollout a company will have smaller products and AI agents managing the inbetween bits or something.

In my line of work I literally cannot understand why you'd ever be an AI crybaby, it's the golden goose that solves most of your unsolvable, can't do it myself problems. It's an actual assistant employee that you don't pay for that doesn't take days off or ages to email you back in terrible english. There are rules on how you can use it, yeah we're all being encouraged to do it but literally why wouldn't you? Would you uninstall outlook because it actually managed your calendar for you instead of you getting that pure feeling of a job well done because you clicked about yourself? Even something as stupid as like, being able to interrogate a document and have it talk back to you is useful in ways you can never predict before you get into the guts of the work. This is one of the things I find most frustrating about AI iconoclasm because its actually really exciting to be able to interact with data and information in genuinely novel ways but they're rejecting it on first principles for stupid reasons that are antithetical to their professed beliefs and hopes for humanity.

When it comes to design stuff AI saves an unreal amount of time when it comes to all the documentation, transcribing, deck building, analysing and all the other shite that you have to do to convince some cunt to pay 5 other cunts to make the change you don't care about.

The catch 20 is that if AI can do it all the people that can build the AI's will do it themselves.

I'm in the same boat why help these people improve their productivity when I can just 10x my own stuff. They're not as good as me with AI so I'll have a competitive advantage they can never catch up to and the potential revenue is far more than any billable hours for AI consultancy work. The same trend is happening with AI start-ups. All kinds of cool features built on top of ChatGPT by start-ups are just copied and put into the LLM itself.

The companies are looking for AI consultants that'll just troubleshoot something for $300 they can't figure out themselves or teach them how to do it. They're not going to find anyone capable to do it well because the return is far too small.

[Nintex]

Stellar Blade for Switch 2 It's over

[Snoopy]

From the wolves in sheep's clothing thread -

When I played P4, I was about 16-17 and, due to a variety of reasons, I was a really lonely kid; I had no 'real' friends at the time and my previous attempts at getting them ended with me realizing I wasn't a priority to any of my acquaintances at the time. It was to the point that I ended up going into my areas Early College program my Junior and Senior year because I had nothing going for me at the reg high school I was at (especially since the girl I had a crush on was doing it to. We didn't even end up going to the same community college lol).

Somehow ree is full of these obsessive stalkers

[simiansmarts]

Stellar Blade for Switch 2 It's over

Nintendo is an Epstein-coded company now, next they're gonna announce they use genAI development tools and I'll have to swear off playing new games for good, I mean it!! 
 

[Nintex]

Looking good Fire Emblem Waifus

[Nintex]

Now Nintendo is doing limited availability for levels in paid DLC packs like what the fuck

[Nintex]

Ok new Xenoblade Nintendo wins

EPSTEIN ISLAND IS BACK PATRIOTS

 sir that's Wuhu Island

[Taco Bell Tower]

Stellar Blade for Switch 2 It's over

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-coming-to-nintendo-switch-2-2026.1545682/

[Nintex]

Final Fantasy is now 2D again  

PROMISES MADE PROMISES KEPT

[Nintex]

OCARINA OF TIME REMAKE

[Jansen]

Boring ass Nintendo shit. Yawn

Nintendies have been conditioned into being excited for years late ports 

[Boredfrom]

Kingdom Hearts 4 was hype…  but then the Ocarina Remake was a underwhelming teaser.

[Boredfrom]

Final Fantasy is now 2D again  

PROMISES MADE PROMISES KEPT

I would have been hyped if it didn’t went the Fire Emblem Engage approach of Member Berries.

[Boredfrom]

Boring ass Nintendo shit. Yawn

Nintendies have been conditioned into being excited for years late ports 

I thought was decent. It had a lot of ports, but that's the Switch in a nutshell.

The Direct had enough new content in terms of what I typically look for from Nintendo.

Typical.

Xenoblade Genesis
Kingdom Hearts 4
Ocarina of Time Remake

And people are still bitching.

Just because a game isn't for you doesn't mean it's a bad direct.

Xenoblade Genesis looked like Fire Emblem Three Houses.

Kingdom Hearts IV was hype but lol not release date.

Ocarina Remake was just a teaser that only told me that Link was redesigned.

[Nintex]

I was hoping Nintendo would bring back the Riders of Doom theme and do a full blown epic reveal trailer but then I remembered it was 2026  

This Direct was not great and not terrible objectively and great for me personally.

I get the sense they'll trickle out the 4 or 5 first party exclusives year by year. Pad the line-up with Switch 2 Editions in the same franchise like they do with Xenoblade and stick with that until component shortages are over. The actual big new Zelda and Mario games? I think we're talking 2027/2028 at the earliest for Mario and 2030 for Zelda.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-coming-to-nintendo-switch-2-2026.1545682/#post-156180769

Get'em

[HaughtyFrank]

Boring ass Nintendo shit. Yawn

Nintendies have been conditioned into being excited for years late ports 

Shocked by the amount of A ratings

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-grade-would-you-give-the-nintendo-june-2026-direct.1546006/

[Boredfrom]

Boring ass Nintendo shit. Yawn

Nintendies have been conditioned into being excited for years late ports 

Shocked by the amount of A ratings

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-grade-would-you-give-the-nintendo-june-2026-direct.1546006/

Why? Nintendies live in denial.   Is again a Dry Year for Nintendo but somehow they are going to pretend is the biggest one ever. 

I should be exited for a new Xenoblade game but somehow they choose to do their own version of FE Three houses.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-538#post-156200257

I guess there are no rats in the game

[Snoopy]

No way SB2 gets banned now. The nints would go apeshit

[Jansen]

No way SB2 gets banned now. The nints would go apeshit

That's just the first game which was deemed acceptable somehow by their criteria.

[Jansen]

Hopefully, with Persona 6 being led by a new team with fresh talent instead of Hashino, we can get mature writing to match the mature themes, rather than dropping the ball right when the story needs to deliver its message.



Also, I highly doubt they will keep the homophobia, that seems to be a bygone era at Atlus (thankfully), as seen with Metaphor at the least. Now sexism is a whole different question, we'll have to wait and see how P6 handles it.



I wish the cowards at Atlus kept the original idea that Yosuke was a closeted gay, but I highly doubt they'll bring that back in the form of Link Episodes in Revival.

I'm not sure "queer people don't exist at all" is that much of an improvement tbh with Metaphor. I just think Atlus cannot write good stories and characters and so far, nothing they've made aside from the original Persona games seems to say oth
erwise.

[Let's Cyber]

Flat out jizzed in my pants when I heard Sarias Song.