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

[simiansmarts]

And btw. The character from the 1st game does not look like an adult or a teen or anything. It looks like a sex doll complete with the "realistic" anime face features.

 
come on, man. what is it about this game that makes these people start seeing red?? I never played it because I'm not big into the genre but it looks like a run-of-the-mill hack n slash
 
 

This is funny to me because there were so many people who defended the first game with stuff like "it's not about her body!! there's more to it!!"

There isn't. Not saying there isn't more game there, but the devs know what they're doing. And it's embarrassing and sucks.

 
there's that phrase again

[HaughtyFrank]

Read those above Nepenthe posts and remember that she was not only defending a nearly decade long sentence in Brazilian prison over a comedian making offensive jokes, she was hating America and calling it a failed society for not doing it.

Just to put it side by side:

i expect a bunch of overseas folks to take this badly.

As an overseas person, bigotry should be punished more in the Western world and it's wild that it's not.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/brazilian-comedian-sentenced-to-jail-for-racist-homophobic-jokes.1211220/post-141129393

(I think in general though people should recognize why they feel a frothing-at-the-mouth need for carceral punishment whenever people, regardless of race, break the law and whether or not this is a mindset that's actually conducive to any semblance of justice, rehabilitation, or bettering this country. Something tells me people won't though.)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/karmelo-anthony-case.1548097/post-156304222



She just inahbits completely different personas depending on the day. 

Murderer sentenced to prison 

"Wow, who does this really help. Maybe think about rehabilitation, justice and what would better this country. Bet you won't though"


Comedian sentenced to prison

"Wow, I wish we could do that here"

[Jansen]

Come on man

[benji]

She just inahbits completely different personas depending on the day. 

Not just the day, in that Anthony thread she's bitching that others didn't receive harsher sentences. Even as she's accusing other posters of just wanting to see people punished instead of thinking about abolition. Outright saying a guy who went to jail and is on the sex offender registry for life got to "walk away" because he was white.

[HaughtyFrank]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/IZaPZ2g.png[img]

Come on man

How are they taking those doctor who news by the way?

[benji]

James Crisan
on June 11, 2026 8:36 am

I wonder if Neil Gaiman could be persuaded? Guaranteed return to the roots of the Doctor: serious sci-fi, a Gallifreyan determined to carry on his life(s) long mission of protecting the universe. No more impotent namby pamby doctors relying on their companions to save the day. And no more musical theater. NG has the right stuff to restore the integrity.

[HaughtyFrank]

It is funny that getting Gaiman would now be the "anti-woke" move

[NekoFever]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/IZaPZ2g.png[img]

Come on man

How are they taking those doctor who news by the way?

The Era thread was the only place I’ve seen that seemed disappointed. Literally everywhere else I’ve looked, even sites that aren’t neck deep in culture wars, has been like, “thank god, it’s been preachy shit for years now”.

[benji]

It is funny that getting Gaiman would now be the "anti-woke" move

"Now, I admit, I have not, probably since the pandemic, I have not talked to him."

[simiansmarts]

I still can't get over the Stellar Blade honeypot thread and the burka brigade OPENLY celebrating the sniped bans while also being frustrated that it scared potential chuds from engaging with the thread out of justified fear that their positive opinions on the game would result in a mod popping a cap in their ass. I guess they just wanted a higher kill count.   
 
This is one of the most RE moments of all time. Like goddamn, this was some down and dirty mafia shit they did.

[Besticus Maximus]

as despicable as the plan was it only works if people are dumb enough to fall for it

The real chad move would be making a sin free stellar blade 2 thread and getting some of them banned in return

[simiansmarts]

The release day of the new Stellar Blade game will be a fucking bloodbath on RE (if it doesn't get completely banned before then). The brigade has been waiting for a game that could justify mass purging for sexualization/misogyny and it seems they found their golden goose by making their "sexualization of a woman -> pedophilia" mental gymnastics work.
 

[Let's Cyber]

I’m curious but one of you assholes changed the riotous password so I can’t try.

tacoBellchalupasupreme1$

[who is ted danson?]

Imagine if threads on the bire had booth babes trying to lure in unsuspecting gamers, like an E3 demo back in the day

[DavidCroquet]

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I think "she looks a bit too young, they should tweak her a bit just to make clear she's not 16-ish" would have been a lot more convincing argument to take than immediately screaming about a mass conspiracy of pedophiles. But this is exactly why I'm not serious and nobody feels safe around me.

Speaking of lascivious little canonically 16-year-old minxes, what’s Era’s sentiment about Expedition 33? A re-evaluation is in order, certainly.

[benji]

Speaking of lascivious little canonically 16-year-old minxes, what’s Era’s sentiment about Expedition 33? A re-evaluation is in order, certainly.

Don't forget the chud devs used AI, they knew what they were doing. The cruelty is the point.

[Propagandhim]

It wasn't all white, it had people of other ethnicities on it - but nobody black specifically.

If there were no black people in the jury then realistically it was all white. Other ethnicities in America get their framing of black people through a white lens.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/karmelo-anthony-case.1548097/post-156330823

whys this fucking cookie not cracking!!!!!!

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/karmelo-anthony-case.1548097/page-5#post-156323806

OryxTheBakinKing

User Banned (Permanent): Racism. Post reverted for context

The part about white immigrants ending slavery is pretty weird but I don't think he's wrong here

This trial was not perfect but I think the racial conversation surrounding it is radicalizing people in the wrong direction.

The white immigrants makes me think he is well intentioned but he has been in a lot of “CHUD” forums. Probably able to express the idea better but we will never know.

[simiansmarts]

 
The fact that one of the main proponents of the great Stellar Blade purge is a user sporting an SF6 Ingrid pfp is absurdly ironic. If Stellar Blade 2 is the pedobait game then you are literally maining the pedobait SF character, the only difference is that Street Fighter is an IP from your childhood so it's safe and protected in your eyes.
 


It's not like Capcom is above appealing to pedos according to RE, do we not remember the Pragmata debacle??

[Jansen]

Here's what's bothering me. Would we even be having this discussion if it was a more niche game with a smaller marketing budget? If this was some indie anime game that just showed up on Steam or something, just a random action game that sexualized a main character that looked that young to that degree, would there be this hesitation and discussion, or would we just go "we don't do that here?"
Legitimately, I'm wondering. Because if this would still be a difficult call, then fine. But if not, then what's the actual principle we're talking about here? We banning based on the morality of the thing, or the number of wishlists a game has?

Being this is a community that communicates about gaming, having such a high profile game would drive discussion and debate far more than a little indie game that may or may not be worse in its depictions, and ultimately it boils down to what kind of a community are we trying to have here.



And yes, despite how nice the idealistic stance of "we'd be ever-vigilant and ban them all!" may sound, it's a massive workload. Sniping the huge titles that could have a toxic net effect on a community is probably the ugly, pragmatic way of doing things, if banning is even practical at all given the work involved in doing it.



Honestly the best thing we can probably hope for is OT containment and vigilant users on news threads/discussions outside of the OT's scope like we've done here. I personally would nuke it off of the face of the earth because I think it's an exploitative, gross mess of a game that is pushing a dangerous, abusive ideology about women to a world that could use less of thos
e things.

Dude will just not shut up about it

[Boredfrom]

All joking aside, the dead boy's father failed his sons. He is seeing things clearly now(says all he feels now is rage, which is the correct response) but in the past he raised his kids to believe all the colorblind do-gooderness worldview nonsense. If he had raised his son in something other than do gooder fantasy land his son would have been much more likely to avoid altercations with dangerous strangers. It's a real tragedy and I feel really bad for the kid who died and his family. At least the jury and judge got it right with the verdict and sentencing.

[Jansen]

You are free to do what you want, but I respectfully don't think this type of passive-aggressive response will encourage any discussion. If anything, the poster you were responding to was agreeing with you.

It's not a passive-aggressive response. It was pretty direct; I do not regret my original language and I'm not interested in changing it because a white guy assumed I was calling him basically a KKK member because he took "stoning a beautiful Black body" literally (hell, did whites even historically stone Black people? I don't think so but I could be wrong) and got offended and naturally defensive, especially when I don't know him and wasn't even talking to him uniquely and specifically.



I do acknowledge that he consciously agrees with me on the overall macro politics of the issue, but what does that matter to me when at the end of the day, what happened was white guy equivocated an acknowledgement of racial bias by a Black person with the perpetuation of that bias by non-Black people by basically saying "how can you not see you're just like the people you're criticizing?!!!" (which is basically just reverse racism with extra steps) and then at the end of it going "Yanno, I probably do have racial biases against Black people, but I'm a really good person if you get to know me!" Like...thanks????



Y'all really aren't as safe as y'all try to make out to be. 😐

[Jansen]

I was talking about this with some of my Korean friends and said what people were saying and they were like "She doesn't even look Asian? More like a westerner, maybe mixed white and Asian at best"

Which, I definitely noticed it too, the NPC characters in the crowd walking past her at the station look more visibly East Asian in contrast, even the main villain she is chasing.

Y u lyin

[simiansmarts]

Here's what's bothering me. Would we even be having this discussion if it was a more niche game with a smaller marketing budget? If this was some indie anime game that just showed up on Steam or something, just a random action game that sexualized a main character that looked that young to that degree, would there be this hesitation and discussion, or would we just go "we don't do that here?"
Legitimately, I'm wondering. Because if this would still be a difficult call, then fine. But if not, then what's the actual principle we're talking about here? We banning based on the morality of the thing, or the number of wishlists a game has?

Being this is a community that communicates about gaming, having such a high profile game would drive discussion and debate far more than a little indie game that may or may not be worse in its depictions, and ultimately it boils down to what kind of a community are we trying to have here.



And yes, despite how nice the idealistic stance of "we'd be ever-vigilant and ban them all!" may sound, it's a massive workload. Sniping the huge titles that could have a toxic net effect on a community is probably the ugly, pragmatic way of doing things, if banning is even practical at all given the work involved in doing it.



Honestly the best thing we can probably hope for is OT containment and vigilant users on news threads/discussions outside of the OT's scope like we've done here. I personally would nuke it off of the face of the earth because I think it's an exploitative, gross mess of a game that is pushing a dangerous, abusive ideology about women to a world that could use less of thos
e things.

Dude will just not shut up about it

 
 
NIGGA YOU MAIN A STREET FIGHTER CHARACTER THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS! 
 

[HaughtyFrank]

Alinea threads should be banned

Otherwise we have threads like this one, with rampant concern trolling about the performance of console games when they have proven to be wrong time and time again

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alinea-analytics-releases-its-playstation-studios-sales-estimates-yotei-4-8m-ds2-1-7m-saros-406k-sons-of-sparta-132k.1549072/post-156349891

[benji]

This game is empowering the pedos worldwide.

[simiansmarts]

I really, really hope jrx8080 is an elaborate troll playing everyone.

[benji]

Speaking of lascivious little canonically 16-year-old minxes, what’s Era’s sentiment about Expedition 33? A re-evaluation is in order, certainly.

I really, really hope jrx8080 is an elaborate troll playing everyone.

Considering how people ITT kept going on about how this game feels grown up and aimed at mature adults, seeing fan service outfit for its under-18 character is.... well, somewhat amusing, in a way..

It's a bathing suit.

Meanwhile, can we talk about the loli squad in Genshin?

User Banned (2 weeks): Downplaying sexualization and antagonizing another user

If you dont think a bathing suit as a quest reward that conveniently hugs every curve of a 16 year olds body isn't there for fan service then idk what to tell you.

Also, no? I dont have any interest in talking about Genshin Impact, why should we? Game X having problematic elements doesnt justify Game Y having them too.

Have you seen a bathing suit before?

I think this might be you projecting.

Hey, did you get back to explain how a 16 year old running around in a skintight swimsuit is justified in the context of the game or did you just pointed at Getshin Impact again? It's not racist but disingenuous as fuck applying wide generalizations to games developed from certain regions and being ok with the same shit when they are not.

Several (maybe all) of the characters get swimsuits.

How many 10 year olds in lolita gear does Genshin have again, and do any of the husbandos have it?

I doubt someone cited Genshin in the context of "Here's a game that doesn't have sexualized young characters" though.

It's both a swimsuit, a pretty normal one, and an incredible desperate reach to try and gotcha.

Of course I'm going to respond to what actual fetishization of minors looks like, and it's not normal pool gear. If you people actually think a bathing suit is sexual fan service then stay away from the public beach.

what? you were the one that brought it up in context of the swimsuits lmao

Yes, because I wanted context to what people were squicking out about with regards to these games and minors. Context people are fervently trying to shut down and remove from the thread as fast as possible.

I wonder why.

Being honest to you, I've seem the same argument being said about a lot of games that does the "swinsuit in minors" thing worse than Clair Obscur.

Specially with Xenoblade X, when Nintendo of America removed Lin's swinsuit in the western version.

I mean, I feel like we are at Gamefaqs' realm when I see people accusing each other of projection for thinking a swinsuit is problematic. I think we could be better than this lol

My thing is, context wise, is the gear normal? The swimsuit Lyn was in was a lot... well less? I dunno the full context here so I can't really say much.

I just felt the "bomb" that got dropped in the thread because of Maelle's swim trunks was hilarious and kind of let it go, but people have been dragging it back as some kind of "WELL EXPLAIN THIS" but immediately shirk at the idea of someone bringing up something like Klee. Minor portrayals is one of the things that is fully on the subject of "anime" in JRPG's and peoples (debatable) distaste towards it, so it feels weird that nobody wants to talk about it unless it's specifically that single costume from Clair Obscur.

[HaughtyFrank]

Amazing find Benji 

[Jansen]

If only I could use this information against them on reeee