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

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-xbox-is-planning-to-shutter-peabody-award-winning-compulsion-games-up-negotiations-are-ongoing-between-xbox-studio-leadership.1551571/

UP: negotiations are ongoing between Xbox & studio leadership

Thread title updated.

Crack reporting from Imran's wife.

"Xbox is erasing Compulsion Games from existence, and slaughtering the staff like cattle"
*time passes*
"UPDATE: jk xbox and compulsion are in negotiations" 

With articles like these, who would dare besmirch the pristine reportage of Kotaku?

Sometimes they leak these things to journalists to put pressure on the brass

[Ethan]

Utterly bizarre to see so many people suggesting "AAA" games would cease to exist under Socialism.

Socialism still allows for, and indeed encourages, large scale projects. Be that infrastructure or entertainment.


"AAA" games would still exist under Socialism, made by worker owned and run co-operatives.

The biggest difference would be that instead of the excess labour value generated by the production of a "AAA" game being stolen by some Capitalist fuck-face it would be equitably distributed throughout the community.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-a-post-capitalist-aka-socialist-video-game-industry-would-look-be-like.1551460/post-156510643

Where is that worker co-op getting it's resources from?

They would start with gofundme. Then they would quickly run out of money as the game would quickly go into development hell as some employees would strike because of the lack of minority representation or the size of the main character's boobs. The remaining employees would be subsidized by their parents. And then, in an act of desperation, they would invite their potential customers to buy a share in the co-op in exchange for a portion of the future profits. Oops...never mind.

[Besticus Maximus]

South of Midnight has beautiful art, but it was a mid-ass game. THey should beg to be a Call of Duty support studio.

my missus enjoyed it but never finished it. An example of a game that was kind of sent out to die because it was on gamepass and didn't really have any objectives to realistically achieve.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/june-14-2026-in-a-now-deleted-post-by-daniel-cormier-eric-trump-dmd-him-to-ask-if-any-of-the-ufc-freedom-250-fights-are-rigged.1550962/#post-156480361

There's a user in here named pickledfresno that is just going ballistic completely destroying civil discourse

Reads fake

Is all it took

https://www.resetera.com/threads/june-14-2026-in-a-now-deleted-post-by-daniel-cormier-eric-trump-dmd-him-to-ask-if-any-of-the-ufc-freedom-250-fights-are-rigged.1550962/page-5#post-156506443

User Banned (1 Month): Ableism, multiple infractions within a short timespan

What drug or ism makes you take everything you see on Twitter at face value? Whatever happened to being skeptical and critical of things that don't even pass a sniff test? That's worthy of mockery now? There's plenty of real corruption to skewer Eric Trump over. Flailing at Twitter ghosts is not effective opposition or resistance, it's not even good hating. "It could be true, so it must be true" especially when it's validation served up on a silver platter is a bad way to navigate social media and the internet.

Posted not long ago in constructive which explains why they were quickly banned after I posted this not long ago in constructive which explains why they were quickly banned after I posted this

The back and forth in this thread between one user expressing skepticism for the claims in the op is at times uncomfortable. I know the mod team can't be everywhere, but I've been reluctant to make any reports in the thread as I'm kinda confused at this point what constitutes a personal attack, especially when someone is expressing an unpopular opinion. I reported a post that looked like a pretty straightforward attack last week, but the context was responding to someone saying something "wrong" so I guess that's okay? Or is a personal attack just generally not actioned when the person who made the post that sparks the attack is banned? That was the case in that prior thread (and to be clear I'm not attempting to relitigate or discuss that ban).



In the linked case, while I don't agree with the poster who has been dogpiled, the opinion they've expressed seems pretty benign to me, and I thought account shaming and slinging direct insults were just not okay. B-Dubs has posted several times in recent months asking people to make reports for personal attacks and hostility, but I'm at a point where I'm reluctant to do so when the attack is in response to an unpopular opinion, especially one I wouldn't personally defend.

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-a-post-capitalist-aka-socialist-video-game-industry-would-look-be-like.1551460/post-156510643

Where is that worker co-op getting it's resources from?

Or where is the user base getting its PC parts or console from? I assume there would still be some kind of state and government in this socialist utopia. Why would the state subsidize such an exorbitant, unessential, energy-consuming entertainment method like gaming?

I assume the topic creator is talking about actual Socialism and not the kleptocracies masquerading as socialism/communism for the last century. Actual socialism would not be like that.

Can you give me some real-world examples of this "actual socialism" please?

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-someone-who-doesnt-use-either-is-twitter-dead-yet-or-on-the-way-out-is-bluesky-taking-its-place.1551664/

yes and I've also heard that native american amputees who dabble in home appliance repair also find themselves begrudgingly confined to twitter

Drag Queening is a visual performance, wouldnt Instagram or TikTok be the social media platform of choice for that?

[Snoopy]

You can tell the Cormier tweets are fake because Cornier doesn’t know shit about anything. He’s the Slayven of MMA

[DavidCroquet]

I'm just enjoying the double-bind they put themselves in.

Dan Cormier is simultaneously too virtuous to allow something like questions about match fixing pass without broadly publicising the conversations, but also conniving and base enough to immediately lie about what actually happened. 

FAKE EDIT: even more ridiculous as I think about it...DC was like "how very dare you even ask me that about this sacred game" -> runs to twitter to immediately disclose -> just as immediately, backs off the whole thing. I'd assume if he was that easy to buy/threaten into compliance, Eric would've handled that in the original DMs, right?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-could-only-choose-1-game-this-holiday-ocarina-time-remake-or-gta-6.1550800/page-21#post-156497086

User banned (1 week): Ban whining and continuing platform after receiving a warning for the same behavior

Pot. Kettle. Black.


You are asking an enthusiast website about a re-release of a popular proven classic vs an anticipated new entry in a highly mainstream series. You will get this result from this dichotomy on literally any enthusiast website. Especially when the question is not "which will you get first" but "you can only have one, which one"

GTA 5 has more hardcore fans than all of the Zelda games combined. People literally role play as guard in GTA 5. Granted, GTA has more mainstream appeal but it has more enthusiastic fan that will obliterate enthusiastic Zelda fans. It is simple math. If era didn't have such skewing, the poll results are simply impossible.

"You will get this result from this dichotomy on literally any enthusiast website."

[DavidCroquet]

did they ban the wrong guy? I don't see any "ban whining". I'm not sure what "continuing platform" means, but that also seems of dubious applicability here.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Is that you, Comfortable-Pie56 or are you copying a comment from Reddit? Or is it the opposite?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tom-henderson-gears-of-war-budget-is-insane-ive-heard-upwards-of-400-million-dollars.1550143/page-3#post-156400000

 User banned (1 week): Antagonistic behavior towards another member

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-could-only-choose-1-game-this-holiday-ocarina-time-remake-or-gta-6.1550800/page-21#post-156497086

User banned (1 week): Ban whining and continuing platform after receiving a warning for the same behavior

Pot. Kettle. Black.


You are asking an enthusiast website about a re-release of a popular proven classic vs an anticipated new entry in a highly mainstream series. You will get this result from this dichotomy on literally any enthusiast website. Especially when the question is not "which will you get first" but "you can only have one, which one"

GTA 5 has more hardcore fans than all of the Zelda games combined. People literally role play as guard in GTA 5. Granted, GTA has more mainstream appeal but it has more enthusiastic fan that will obliterate enthusiastic Zelda fans. It is simple math. If era didn't have such skewing, the poll results are simply impossible.

"You will get this result from this dichotomy on literally any enthusiast website."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-could-only-choose-1-game-this-holiday-ocarina-time-remake-or-gta-6.1550800/page-8#post-156471079

There's the warning that triggered this ban I guess

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-someone-who-doesnt-use-either-is-twitter-dead-yet-or-on-the-way-out-is-bluesky-taking-its-place.1551664/

Jeff no where in that thread.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-a-post-capitalist-aka-socialist-video-game-industry-would-look-be-like.1551460/post-156510643

Where is that worker co-op getting it's resources from?

Or where is the user base getting its PC parts or console from? I assume there would still be some kind of state and government in this socialist utopia. Why would the state subsidize such an exorbitant, unessential, energy-consuming entertainment method like gaming?

I assume the topic creator is talking about actual Socialism and not the kleptocracies masquerading as socialism/communism for the last century. Actual socialism would not be like that.

Can you give me some real-world examples of this "actual socialism" please?

the problem with enacting the communist utopia is that the rest of the world will continue on as they have, in non-communist hellholes

capitalist hellholes where everyone is motivated by wealth and so works hard to innovate and make the best possible product so everyone buys their stuff instead of their competitors, so they can get rich

meaning you sit there languishing, ceding all major developments and innovations to the capitalist shit-societies

[kaleidoscopium]

LOL man I wish we had a like button

https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-someone-who-doesnt-use-either-is-twitter-dead-yet-or-on-the-way-out-is-bluesky-taking-its-place.1551664/page-2#post-156515341

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-says-he-wife-being-investigated-by-justice-department-at-direction-of-donald-trump.1551736/#post-156516592

hope this reminds everyone: vote blue no matter who

we're in this mess because too many folks spent the run up to the last election broadcasting complaints about "genocide joe" and how harris was "basically the same". hope it's clear now how much better things would be right now if everyone unilaterally supported the dem candidate

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/smackback-gaming-the-truth-about-black-nintendo-characters.1551562/#post-156509056

Which ain't looking good for FE so far imo with Theodora hitting the trifecta of blonde hair, light eyes, and super sexualised

[Mediocre Lager]

Have they mentioned this Black Nintendo Character™ yet?

[Boredfrom]

Utterly bizarre to see so many people suggesting "AAA" games would cease to exist under Socialism.

Socialism still allows for, and indeed encourages, large scale projects. Be that infrastructure or entertainment.


"AAA" games would still exist under Socialism, made by worker owned and run co-operatives.

The biggest difference would be that instead of the excess labour value generated by the production of a "AAA" game being stolen by some Capitalist fuck-face it would be equitably distributed throughout the community.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-a-post-capitalist-aka-socialist-video-game-industry-would-look-be-like.1551460/post-156510643

Where is that worker co-op getting it's resources from?

Isn’t the whole story of Tetris a good example of how this projects wouldn’t thrive in communist countries?

And most of the film stuff celebrated had their own nightmare problems and not exactly made to be what is considered blockbuster/AAA gaming.

[Boredfrom]

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I'm just enjoying the double-bind they put themselves in.

Dan Cormier is simultaneously too virtuous to allow something like questions about match fixing pass without broadly publicising the conversations, but also conniving and base enough to immediately lie about what actually happened. 

FAKE EDIT: even more ridiculous as I think about it...DC was like "how very dare you even ask me that about this sacred game" -> runs to twitter to immediately disclose -> just as immediately, backs off the whole thing. I'd assume if he was that easy to buy/threaten into compliance, Eric would've handled that in the original DMs, right?

My impression is that both are stupid morons.  

Even if it was fake… it’s something they could’ve damage control.

You guys understand you had a carny show at the White House and are discussing the intelligence of the family running it. 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-a-post-capitalist-aka-socialist-video-game-industry-would-look-be-like.1551460/post-156510643

Where is that worker co-op getting it's resources from?

Or where is the user base getting its PC parts or console from? I assume there would still be some kind of state and government in this socialist utopia. Why would the state subsidize such an exorbitant, unessential, energy-consuming entertainment method like gaming?

I assume the topic creator is talking about actual Socialism and not the kleptocracies masquerading as socialism/communism for the last century. Actual socialism would not be like that.

Can you give me some real-world examples of this "actual socialism" please?

Actual socialism is when I make all the decisions or alternatively all of the decisions are made to benefit me and only me.

[jooseloose]

mr. dossier visawife says we need to #freethenipple but not in the icky male-gazey way in response to a hidden wlw post that I infer is about his desire for women to rid themselves of patriarchal norms so they can go shirtless and hopefully date him.
  
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-539#post-156471064

A big step towards desexualisation of female breasts is normalising public breastfeeding, recognising breasts are not genitalia and they primarily serve a nourishment function for babies, that they are not just sexual objects, and to respect women's bodily autonomy. Women in India didn't cover breasts before colonial times when they wore sarees without blouses, and there are certain African tribes like the Himba that don't cover breasts. Japanese ama divers. There are dozens more examples below. The more breasts are shown and not outraged over, we will get towards desexualising.

This whole wiki entry is worth reading to see how breast/nudity desexualisation is and was throughout the world:

Don't know where else to ask or discuss this on ERA and I don't feel comfortable making a thread about this. Do you think it's possible for the de-sexualization of women's breasts in our culture? For them to be treated the same way as men's breasts without men being weird and gross about breasts? I've been thinking about this the past few days after I saw a discussion about how YGO cards are edited and censored for localizations which includes making some cards less sexualized.

Now I'm pro some of the edits because some of the cards are blatantly objectifying, but their are some edits I don't like, aka ones that involve decreasing breast sizes (also removing stuff like Pentagrams or changing the God Osiris name to "Slifer" but that's another story) like we're not talking about comically massive ones that defying realism or the laws of physics, some of them are the size I wish I had to be honest (like Dark/Black Magician Girl). I admit I'm not the biggest fan of that (especially if that's the only edit done to the art) because it feels like blaming women bodies (and yes I realize it's drawing likely drawn by a man I get that).

I realize this might be silly, but sometimes I do wish women breasts weren't so sexualized in fiction and real life or treated like something to hide, to feel shame for having. It feels frustrating as a trans woman to want women's breasts but hate the idea that women should feel shamed for having them or that having large breasts means your less automatically less appropriate or deserving of men to be weird and gross around you.

Sorry, I feel like I'm not making much sense.

Jesus fucking Christ

I was wondering what that fucking creep cunt's cowardly hidden post was in that thread

https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-someone-who-doesnt-use-either-is-twitter-dead-yet-or-on-the-way-out-is-bluesky-taking-its-place.1551664/

Twitter is absolutely not dead, but it's become largely insufferable to be on (even more so than it was). Still has hundreds of millions of users.

Bluesky has gotten pretty popular, most people I follow are on it. That said, it's a pretty boring platform, and it hasn't seemed to inherit the random, funny elements of Twitter's golden era. If you just want to keep up with people Bluesky is great, but, I can't deny isn't a pretty lame environment.

Something rarely mentioned is how bluesky has zero international presence. It's this weird gated community for Americans and I guess some British, judging from recent news. Threads probably has a bigger presence.

I've seen this brought up often in Era's weekly "Hey CHUD, why are you still using X?" discussions and it just gets glossed over. I don't think they realise how Americancentric Bluesky is and has been since day one. At least now there's some presence from UK users but I've been on it since it was in invite-only closed beta and the userbase was fucking insufferable back then. A bunch of the worst type of terminally online yank Twitter millenials falling over themselves trying to out-snark each other to get the viral tweet they were so desperate for but failed to get on Twitter. Unironically referring to themselves as "Bluesky Elders" when the platform opened its doors to all like they were some big shot celebrities.

"Everyone I know moved over to Bluesky!" says the autistic, jobless trans woman from a Discord-only polycule. No shit.

[simiansmarts]

Have they mentioned this Black Nintendo Character™ yet?

Rodin is a character from the Bayonetta series which is an IP owned by Sega 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/smackback-gaming-the-truth-about-black-nintendo-characters.1551562/#post-156509056

Which ain't looking good for FE so far imo with Theodora hitting the trifecta of blonde hair, light eyes, and super sexualised

The video doesn't even address the importance of seeing Splatoon characters get octo'd 

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-says-he-wife-being-investigated-by-justice-department-at-direction-of-donald-trump.1551736/#post-156516592

hope this reminds everyone: vote blue no matter who

we're in this mess because too many folks spent the run up to the last election broadcasting complaints about "genocide joe" and how harris was "basically the same". hope it's clear now how much better things would be right now if everyone unilaterally supported the dem candidate

User Banned (2 Months): Inflammatory thread derail, downplaying genocide, long history of various infractions

[kaleidoscopium]

I tried Bluesky. Logged in and saw the absolute most cringey millennial humor I ever laid eyes on and immediately went back to X.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-someone-who-doesnt-use-either-is-twitter-dead-yet-or-on-the-way-out-is-bluesky-taking-its-place.1551664/page-3#post-156516721

[PogiJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-someone-who-doesnt-use-either-is-twitter-dead-yet-or-on-the-way-out-is-bluesky-taking-its-place.1551664/

yes and I've also heard that native american amputees who dabble in home appliance repair also find themselves begrudgingly confined to twitter

That's brutal, having to get their Native American amputated

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/came-up-with-a-flawed-mathematical-explanation-as-to-how-the-gaming-industry-can-become-to-be.1551877/

[Cheers]

Utterly bizarre to see so many people suggesting "AAA" games would cease to exist under Socialism.



Socialism still allows for, and indeed encourages, large scale projects. Be that infrastructure or entertainment.





"AAA" games would still exist under Socialism, made by worker owned and run co-operatives.



The biggest difference would be that instead of the excess labour value generated by the production of a "AAA" game being stolen by some Capitalist fuck-face it would be equitably distributed throughout the community.







Unless you think literally nobody working on those games genuinely wanted those games to exist, that they are vehicles exclusively driven by the profit motive, I don't know how you can say this.



There would be less soul-less GaaS bullshit cash-ins, for sure, but large scale creative endeavours like Bananza would absolutely exist
 under Socialism.

Probably one the worst place to ask this question but I'd suspect we'd see lot more risk taken in a way to stand out, more people could afford to probably start their own studios and make their dream a reality without fearing to lose their home, healthcare, etc.



Regardless tho I'd much prefer a socialist society that is human driven rather than the current profit driven hellscape society we live in.

They clearly don’t understand or grasp the dialectics of degrowth economics. Read a fucking book.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-says-he-wife-being-investigated-by-justice-department-at-direction-of-donald-trump.1551736/#post-156516592

hope this reminds everyone: vote blue no matter who

we're in this mess because too many folks spent the run up to the last election broadcasting complaints about "genocide joe" and how harris was "basically the same". hope it's clear now how much better things would be right now if everyone unilaterally supported the dem candidate

User Banned (2 Months): Inflammatory thread derail, downplaying genocide, long history of various infractions

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-says-he-wife-being-investigated-by-justice-department-at-direction-of-donald-trump.1551736/page-3#post-156525637

When both of your choices are

1). Get shot in the head behind the shed (Newsom).
2). Get shot by a shotgun in front of everyone (Vance).

You still die.

Why wouldn't you not vote? At least stand for something before getting gunned down.

Trans people gotta vote away their rights so that the anxious cis person can feel normal for 2 years.