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

[benji]

No country in the world has a "right to exist", even less so when they are ethnostates. Nazi Germany didnt have the right to exist either.

Wait, then on what grounds does Palestine have a right to exist?

Bad news about some other nearby large states as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_nationalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_nationalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Turkism

I would also love to discuss some African states with the Black Excellence posters.

[benji]

In all seriousness, the typical line about why others don't count but Israel does is that they don't limit democratic participation or rights by ethnicity because they don't have it at all for anyone. Hamas didn't let anyone in Gaza vote or have any rights, so you can't say they're discriminating by ethnicity!

[Uncle]

   

"impossible to feel happy if you can't accept yourself"

when transitioning is all about refusing to accept yourself

[benji]

Fourth panel needs another pass to transition into wording that makes sense.

[Besticus Maximus]

Fourth panel needs another pass to transition into wording that makes sense.

Really disappointed that it didn't end with an impassioned cry to those at the back of the room who may not have been able to hear it well enough tbh

[NekoFever]

Some of the posts in that Hormuz thread are just missing the (((parentheses))).

[DavidCroquet]

You could entirely cut the black haired one and nothing about the comic would change.

[Let's Cyber]

The right see nothing wrong with their retarded takes and they don't care if you criticise them. The left get offended when you point out how retarded their takes are. 

Who do you think people will torment?

The right mald constantly and absolutely pearl-clutch, just over different shit. We focus on REE here so it feels more one-sided for lefties, but your average conservative evangelical is just as fucking brain-rotted and thin-skinned as your average Discord tankie, just in a slightly different way.

Anyone who voted for Trump 3 times shouldn't procreate, tbh. Luckily we don't need to worry about Hasan fans having babies because most of them don't leave their basements and women actively avoid them. 

[benji]

FAVTUALLY WRONG:

[Taco Bell Tower]

Is favtually wrong the next covfefe?

[nachobro]

you are an idiot for doing fanboy garbage about ff7 unlike me, a genius doing fanboy garbage about ff7

[nachobro]

fact check: favtually incorrect to say presenting objective truths is fanboy garbage

[Boredfrom]

I mean, those FFVII remakes games are awesome… but they are also a blueprint on how not to make a Remake.  

They are quixotic project born from an ill conceived E3 Presentation. Both they are also fun action JRPGS that are surprisingly not fumbling both gameplay and story wise.

[Let's Cyber]

The Era chatbot is broken.

But shit is funny as heck lol.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-tiktok-saxophone-getting-louder-sound-is-gotta-one-of-the-funniest-internet-things-in-a-while.1556122/

Not familiar with this trend, but the particular video posted was not funny

I don't find either of these videos funny at all, what am I missing?

They don't get louder though? I can't figure out what's supposed to be funny here. I must be too old.

Those are really bad exemples of that meme you posted there OP...

But the saxophones aren't getting louder? They're staying exactly the same volume? And there's nothing funny in either video?

[Steven Snell]

They're great. But not maybe if you wanna make money and bring in newer players.

Expecting people to have the patience to stick around for circa 7 years, buy 3 games over various platforms(including exclusivity at one point) and the story having a lot of meta shit and stuff only the nerdiest people will appreciate was maybe not the best of ideas. But I'm a massive nerd so I love them.

[Boredfrom]

Dunno how a first timer would understand the alternate universe Zack shit, specially because the game still wants to play the OG twist with Cloud.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-tiktok-saxophone-getting-louder-sound-is-gotta-one-of-the-funniest-internet-things-in-a-while.1556122/

I gotta believe this is where this trend started and then white people picked it up lmfao

Damn, they gentrified the Boyz N the Hood score too? Smh

But also this joke was kind of dead the first time I saw a non black person use it for when they ruined their sourdough starter.

The sound has lost its original meaning. Fuck cultural gentrification

Coming into era with a gentrified version of a black meme and watching all the white folks talk about how it doesn't make sense is a very interesting experience. I don't know how to feel.

Of course white people would misinterpret this.

Looks like white people ruining something funny again.

At this point, I wish Era would leave Black shit alone and continue talking about Seinfeld and the Simpsons.

At 43 I saw Boyz n the Hood in 91 and this meme is dumb but the reaction is really... something.

White people/vampires started it.

Damn, they gentrified the Boyz N the Hood score too? Smh

My exact thought. Can't have shit these days :P

At 43 I saw Boyz n the Hood in 91 and this meme is dumb but the reaction is really... something.

It's really yt is what it is

A massive amount of US culture and then internet culture is rooted in raiding black culture.

This TikTok "fad" is digital colonization lol

OP you can't post a meme about a popular black movie to a predominantly non-black space like era and expect a good reaction lmao

The meme only really works if you've seen boyz n the hood and was funny before it got gentrified like the videos you posted

If there was one Black film that I expect most White movie fans to have seen its Boyz N the Hood. I guess I was wrong lol.

Another example of appropriation of Black culture.

 fucking yts at it again

[Let's Cyber]

I didn't make it past page one and missed the lead

[HaughtyFrank]

Dunno how a first timer would understand the alternate universe Zack shit, specially because the game still wants to play the OG twist with Cloud.

Even not as a newcomer it leaves question marks. Dangerously close to Kingdom Hearts buffoonery. Still love the other 99% of the remakes though

[HaughtyFrank]

 fucking yts at it again

Countries have no right to exist but don't you dare to even look at meme culture that isn't your own

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/notes-from-my-recess-rewatch.1556410/

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-tiktok-saxophone-getting-louder-sound-is-gotta-one-of-the-funniest-internet-things-in-a-while.1556122/page-2

At this point, I wish Era would leave Black shit alone and continue talking about Seinfeld and the Simpsons.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/need-for-speed-unbound-official-soundtrack-revealed.654030/page-2

Fact of the matter is, Black artists and Black-dominated genres always get these dismissive attitudes from non-Black folks. "I don't know them." "Who?" "Where's the rock music?" It's annoying.[...]. This low-key disregard towards film and game soundtracks that use genres like rap and r&b as a basis for their composition has been consistent pattern, and it's not cute anymore.

[ZeoVGM]

you are an idiot for doing fanboy garbage about ff7 unlike me, a genius doing fanboy garbage about ff7

favtually correct

[benji]

I love how it's supposedly Black culture just because of where the music comes from, but you could do the same exact meme with the Jaws theme and it would represent the same idea from an earlier (and Zionist) film.

And nearly all the bafflement has nothing to do with the "Black culture" aspect but that entremet posted two random ass videos while describing the meme incoherently. Many of the posters had clue what they were even looking for.

Two other thread aspects I was amused by:
1. People saying they've seen Boyz n the Hood 50 million times and talking about needing to watch it yet again, like dear god how do these people watch the same shit so many times.
2. The thread posters appropriation of both the film and John Singleton's work to be broadly "Black culture" rather than specifically South Central Los Angeles.

[wsippel]

"impossible to feel happy if you can't accept yourself"

when transitioning is all about refusing to accept yourself

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nerdlesque-nyc-presents-zelda-themed-burlesque-show-breasts-of-the-wild.1556293/

                     Boys Club Rhetoric


Never mind, some of the performers are in drag, so this thread is sex-positive despite this type talk leading to bans in most threads?

[Shecky Fragbaum]

I love how it's supposedly Black culture just because of where the music comes from, but you could do the same exact meme with the Jaws theme and it would represent the same idea from an earlier (and Zionist) film.

And nearly all the bafflement has nothing to do with the "Black culture" aspect but that entremet posted two random ass videos while describing the meme incoherently. Many of the posters had clue what they were even looking for.

Two other thread aspects I was amused by:
1. People saying they've seen Boyz n the Hood 50 million times and talking about needing to watch it yet again, like dear god how do these people watch the same shit so many times.
2. The thread posters appropriation of both the film and John Singleton's work to be broadly "Black culture" rather than specifically South Central Los Angeles.

The BCT has been seething since the Anthony verdict thread (a case NOBODY wanted to discuss until the verdict thread showed up[a day late] and this is the payback. 

Taste the organization, yts.

[Snoopy]

Before we went to LA we were joking about going to Compton to see what it was all about. After a few days of walking around and seeing the absolute state of the "safe" areas my mate says, so eh about Compton then? How we laughed

[HaughtyFrank]

I reported this game to Visa and Mastercard so hopefully major retailers and digital storefronts wont be allowed to sell it

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-blood-rain-shiftup-ceo-hyung-tae-kim-to-ign-yes-she-is-younger-shes-smaller-in-size.1547899/post-156748861

Troll account

What makes this one a troll and others not? You had people fantasizing about shift up getting sued

[benji]

Token costs coming down: frontier models will just use more tokens
The amount of work reduces: you work much more in the same time
The costs are reduced: price of things won't go down
We can do more with less: people lost their jobs and do not find any other and their families start to die of hunger
It uses less resources: more data centers will be constructed, polluting local communities water sources AND with that jet about to take off sound that NEVER STOPS.

PRICES OF GAMES GO UP. PRICE OF CONSOLES AND PCS GO UP.

This is the scenario we have right now. And a bunch of FUCKERS are still defending it because they're FUCKING LAZY TO LEARN how to do it. They will justify the training as fair use, they'll justify the polution as THE PRICE FOR PROGRESS.

I truly hope the worst for people like you.

And the thing about the environmental impacts is that it's classic NIMBYism. People are happy to hand-wave it away, obfuscate the truth, straight-up lie, or attempt to minimize what's happening because they're currently unaffected on a micro scale.

I think what makes all this frustrating for me is how dumb I feel trying to keep up with it. Like NFTs were way easier to explain and criticize but the level of mudding waters, multiple definitions and techniques makes me feel like I never have a firm grasp of what is going on.

I voted None as I think GenAI doesnt pass environmental or even ethical barriers based on the amount of theft and destruction its causing as whole.

all generative AI is based on work stolen from the working class by the wealthy, doesn't matter if it's art or code.

I love the way pro-AI arguments always seem to come from a world where we're somehow not stuck in the death throes of late-stage capitalism.

What the fuck is wrong with hundreds of people voting that it's ok to use it for all those things???

I hate the whole "oh we don't use AI for the final product, we just use it to generate slop concept art which we then create final art assets based in part on" excuse. I don't want games derived at some level from AI slop. I want you to hire concept artists to make actual art. And never mind that the slop that AI is generating was made possible in large part by wantonly stealing and ingesting the work of human artists.

Automating more logic-based tasks like coding or making spreadsheets or summarizing a presentation or whatever? Sure, I see a role for that. Again though, this is setting aside ALL of the ethical issues about what is powering these AI agents both literally and figuratively. As it stands at the moment, between the wanton disregard for mass theft of copyrighted works and the obscene resources being used up to power the hardware, I don't think it's possible to ethically use AI right now. But I also recognize the studios themselves in many cases probably aren't being given a choice.

Why is stealing code from substack and GitHub considered ok , but stealing images from art station and flicker not?

The same 5 AI boosters love having another thread outside of the OT to do their usual schtick in, eh?

I've been banned for pointing this in the past, so beware.

Never let AI boosters gloss over the consequences. They are championing a corporate movement that is killing us.

NEVER LET THEM EVADE ON THIS SHIT.


GenAI is unethical and destructive at the root and poisons whatever product it's shoved into.

Yeah that's the elephant in the room that is curiously sidestepped by ardent supporters. I don't think the world needed more major elements to poison/harm people and the environment.

Yep, to me that is the beginning and end of the conversation, I don't give a fuck that some people can be more efficient, how is that more of a priority then having a livable planets and the millions suffering because of it? To be blunt, if it comes down to the Environment or the game industry, it's the former, Entertainment should never come before human life or the planet.

In theory, a couple of those uses are ok in individual instances, but everyone involved in or championing AI bullshit has just been so obnoxious, and the whole enterprise is so environmentally, economically, and culturally destructive, that I think the answer is "nothing" just on principle.

We can worry about nuance once we've come to the point where this shit isn't going to literally erode the foundations of human society.

Is it still using stolen works across human history, a crux on society, a drain on the electric grid, poisoning water supplies, disrupting nature with its constant noise, etc. Ai and the data centers it rode in on can get out.

Each of the things listed is a job to someone, an art form to someone, that can be crafted with human hand. Let humans be creative. You don't need to poison a neighborhood to write an email, brainstorm, make a power point, draw a character.

fix the issues with the destruction with the environment. Until that happens bare minimum, AI has zero use cases. Zero. Any argument otherwise while data centers poison towns and water and trees burn away is moot.

for me it is nothing. not code, not text to be read, not images, not sound, not anything. if i can observe that anything i see is actually generated by ML and not human my consideration for the person immediately drops - because their consideration for me must be that much lower too, to think that i would either be entertained or tricked into thinking it was something of their own creation. so they are either lying or being inconsiderate.

and if the person use it even without showing it to me, like as an assistant to the development/creative process, they have failed morally and ethically. except in very specific cases of models used in very controlled scenarios such as academic investigation to explode combinatory methods, where the model is something very specific and perhaps developed by the researchers. but to use the LLM services of a large private company is fundamentally immoral - and there is no sufficient mitigation to make it not so.

Cult.