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

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Imagine if messy used thebire to make dossiers on RE’s finest  

Benji is messy?!?

This might be the most offensive thing ever posted on the bire, and I'm including that Himu thread.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-grand-theft-auto-vi-screenshots.1559314/#post-156910363

I hate the beach wtf. Fuck that shit.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-grand-theft-auto-vi-screenshots.1559314/page-7#post-156922603

hmmh i have to say i dont like the beach very much either... so dont get mad at me Beach-Era. we are allowed to have strong opinions about these things, right?

so if this game has lots of beach in it, I won't go to them even for quests. simple as that.

What level of autism is this? 
 

Maximum?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gta-vi-opens-pre-orders-on-june-25-at-midnight-local-time-79-99-%E2%82%AC79-99-%C2%A369-99-standard-and-99-99-ultimate-physical-edition-will-not-include-discs.1559287/page-26#post-156927538

 User Banned: Troll account

Rockstar pushing the industry forward. I love it. Physicals are a thing of the past. I think it's time for gamers to step into the future. Ease of use for gamers, better for the environment plus the maximization of profit to help the men and women that made this possible. For the folks still stubbornly on the physical train, there are rumors that a physical edition will be coming early next year, so you'll have the opportunity to double dip if need be. The gaming industry has been taking lots of blows the past few years but Rockstar is showing us the proper way to maximize shareholder value and gamer satisfaction simultaneously.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supergirl-ot-woman-of-tomorrow.1560412/#post-156962173

Hours later and I'm still pissed at the film.

Krpto is less of a character than he is in Superman and I'm not even talking about screentime. Gunn is on another level in regard to how he writes animals.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/search/43661389/?q=%22in+that+vain%22&c[users]=Nepenthe&o=date



Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/search/43661815/?q=vain&c[users]=Nepenthe&o=date

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/max-payne-as-an-intro-to-noir-games-that-got-you-into-other-things.1559212/#post-156917440'

I learned most of my driving skills from Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/poll-for-those-who-primarily-buy-physical-games-and-are-gta-fans-are-you-buying-gtavi-digitally-or-boycotting.1559401/page-2#post-156916285

My partner won't buy it because digital = rental license. And shes right.

Partner?

[benji]

We know Disney found She-Hulk to be mad profitable and still wont greenlight a new season or character appereance due to internet negativity impacting the brand.

Does this mean it was super low budget?

This isn't much different from Dukakis being asked a fucked up question about his anti-capital punishment stance and that becoming a whole ass thing because his answer was deemed imperfect.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/3-democratic-socialists-have-ousted-incumbents-in-ny%E2%80%99s-legislature-claire-valdez-and-brad-lander-win-darializa-on-track-to-oust-espaillat.1559158/post-156905263

Dukakis, famously tripped up from a simple gotcha question. Anyway, here's an unrelated photo from an otherwise extremely popular presidential candidate:

It's bullshit to call this a "gotcha" or "fucked up question" because Dukakis was too stupid to not dismiss the emotional ploy before reading his memorized talking points:


If you can't answer obvious objections to your position, you're a fucking idiot and anything that happens from you being questioned is your own damn fault. And unlike the nut job who can't even answer the prison abolition question, in the course of four attempts she admits there'd still be prison after prison abolition, Dukakis actually had an answer. He fucked up the "appear human" part.

Also people massively overplay this, and the Willie Horton stuff, because they believe elections work like movie plots. Plus why is anyone on Era defending Dukakis? DLC lib ass who helped destroy the Democratic Party by moving them away from the success they saw in 1984 announcing they would raise taxes.

Still going to see it this weekend though. In the meantime, since we're talking about Wonder Woman, everyone can argue over my DCEU ranking that I redid last year:
Peacemaker - S1
The Suicide Squad
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Blue Beetle
Wonder Woman
The Flash
Shazam!
Wonder Woman 1984
Aquaman
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Man of Steel
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Suicide Squad
Justice League
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Ultimate Edition
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Black Adam

imagine watching and ranking any of them 

you look back at the past 20 years and it's like, was everyone possessed with this memetic psychosis

imagine it's the 2050s looking back and everyone's like ah yes the classic movies of the 2010s...a sea of random-ass superheroes as far as the eye can see

Actual proper ranking:
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice - Ultimate Edition
Wonder Woman
Man of Steel
Birds of Prey
Aquaman
who gives a shit about the rest, Jeff should be in prison for putting all that shit over ZSJL the very personification of a superhero film (even if a three hour cut would be objectively better) and all of that especially JL over BvS:UC

This is the only good part of Wonder Woman 1984 and it still has stupid CGI:


It's funny to think that if this was more like the first film and Snyder she probably kills those dudes in the early part just from the force she uses.  

Of course Jeff also loved Thor 4, another failed sequel that only has one good scene, before eventually he backtracked as popular opinion changed. I don't think his taste really has anything to do with the actual quality of any work. He was trashing The Flash with the rest of them just because it was DCEU, now he's ranking it as legitimately good. You can almost see his rankings reflecting the "appropriate" demographics of the films more than anything else. He's more like a personification of excitedly consume thing and get excited for next thing "but progressive."

Cue MR WORLDWIDE:

[StandingOvation]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-stephen-colbert-already-at-work-on-a-new-show-play-group-media-on-yt.1560427/
^ obviously a rando YouTuber who is uploading Colbert’s stuff for engagement.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/that-scene-in-mina-the-hollower-and-the-problem-with-puppets.1560424/
^ dev literally states that “it’s not a SA allegory” Era User: “But isn’t it?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”


Jesus, the average level of Media Literacy on that site must be so incredibly low.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-stephen-colbert-already-at-work-on-a-new-show-play-group-media-on-yt.1560427/
^ obviously a rando YouTuber who is uploading Colbert’s stuff for engagement.

I've done a bit of searching this evening and can't find anything about the channel or this new "Midnight Fare" being linked with Colbert.

Love that this "bit of searching" didn't even involve looking at the other videos on the channel.  

I'm surprised it might be coming so soon as corporations love their "Non-Compete Clause" for about a year.

Does that usually apply when the employee is axed by the employer?

Why would it apply at all? CBS isn't doing a late night show anymore and even if this theorized Colbert YouTube show was a late night show it's not competing because it's not on at 11:35pm.

Also, Colbert wasn't "fired" or anything. They just didn't renew his contract.

Although even though this isn't Colbert doing a YouTube show and just a random person's channel there would be an irony in that, considering CBS's claim was that too many people were watching clips on YouTube instead of the show and that's why it was losing money.

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/that-scene-in-mina-the-hollower-and-the-problem-with-puppets.1560424/

View: https://youtu.be/AUU3Fs3y2cQ?si=5-v9IYvux3LJ2hG5

For those who do not want to spoil themselves, the scene is about non/dubious consent, and the loss/surrender of autonomy. It's allegorical to some bigger spoilers later on in the game, and, recently, has been described by some fans as BDSM coded. Additionally, people have had adverse reactions to the scene, to the point at which there is at least one public Yacht Club Games statement on the matter.

[benji]

My thoughts on the scene itself were it was weird/unsettling but I personally will raise an eyebrow if you played the game and got to that scene and remotely had a sexual interpretation of it considering the tone of the game overall.

What the actual fuck ?
What kinda discourse is this ?
Does everything have to be fetish-coded now ?

« Ackchually FNAF 3 is very BDSM coded since Springtrap was forced into a mechanical suit that was painful »

Dismissing concerns.

[benji]

I guess what I'm really rambling towards here is the dilemma of creative works whose narratives are forced to get awfully close to kink power-lines in a way that may be unavoidable, such as when the topic is about consent and autonomy, or the lack thereof.

• Have you ever seen a situation where a studio appears to have stumbled into something they might not have seen coming?
  
• What about a creative design decision that appears to have been made explicitly to AVOID such a situation?
  
• Is there another game where you are suspicious and not very willing to extend the benefit of the doubt?
  
• Do you have thoughts on the scene itself?
  
• Have you ever done something bad?
  
• Something... unforgiveable?

Been complicit in capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy. 

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/that-scene-in-mina-the-hollower-and-the-problem-with-puppets.1560424/

View: https://youtu.be/AUU3Fs3y2cQ?si=5-v9IYvux3LJ2hG5

For those who do not want to spoil themselves, the scene is about non/dubious consent, and the loss/surrender of autonomy. It's allegorical to some bigger spoilers later on in the game, and, recently, has been described by some fans as BDSM coded. Additionally, people have had adverse reactions to the scene, to the point at which there is at least one public Yacht Club Games statement on the matter.

furries who are always gooned out of their brains 24/7 see a game with an animal character in it and mutter "heh, the devs totally know what they're doing here   " under their heavy breath and unzipped pants

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/that-scene-in-mina-the-hollower-and-the-problem-with-puppets.1560424/

View: https://youtu.be/AUU3Fs3y2cQ?si=5-v9IYvux3LJ2hG5

For those who do not want to spoil themselves, the scene is about non/dubious consent, and the loss/surrender of autonomy. It's allegorical to some bigger spoilers later on in the game, and, recently, has been described by some fans as BDSM coded. Additionally, people have had adverse reactions to the scene, to the point at which there is at least one public Yacht Club Games statement on the matter.

when I played through this part I KNEW some motherfucker was gonna be all   IT'S JUST LIKE RAPE, SHE GOT RAPED, THE ACHIEVEMENT IS EVEN CALLED TRAUMATIZED!!

does this mean I recognized it as SA?  

it's a fucking mouse being forced to dance like a puppet on a string

practically all video games are full of non-consensual things, the enemies don't consent to being murdered by mina either, do they?

I mean let's compare it to a game that mina is explicitly an homage to, link's awakening

   

 OH MY GOD, THE BOMB UPGRADE IS CHARACTERIZED AS LINK BEING FORCED TO CARRY MORE BOMBS AGAINST HIS WILL! LACK OF CONSENT, LINK WAS RAPED!!

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/that-scene-in-mina-the-hollower-and-the-problem-with-puppets.1560424/

View: https://youtu.be/AUU3Fs3y2cQ?si=5-v9IYvux3LJ2hG5

For those who do not want to spoil themselves, the scene is about non/dubious consent, and the loss/surrender of autonomy. It's allegorical to some bigger spoilers later on in the game, and, recently, has been described by some fans as BDSM coded. Additionally, people have had adverse reactions to the scene, to the point at which there is at least one public Yacht Club Games statement on the matter.

furries who are always gooned out of their brains 24/7 see a game with an animal character in it and mutter "heh, the devs totally know what they're doing here   " under their heavy breath and unzipped pants

There's an entire documentary about how they made Mina the Hollower and the dude who came up with all the stuff is basically a zen monk who never stops working any second of the day

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

why do people care about that libbed up rat Colbert?

Do they forget how he capped for Genocide Joe and Kamala?

[simiansmarts]

For those who do not want to spoil themselves, the scene is about non/dubious consent, and the loss/surrender of autonomy. It's allegorical to some bigger spoilers later on in the game, and, recently, has been described by some fans as BDSM coded.
 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-stephen-colbert-already-at-work-on-a-new-show-play-group-media-on-yt.1560427/
^ obviously a rando YouTuber who is uploading Colbert’s stuff for engagement.

I've done a bit of searching this evening and can't find anything about the channel or this new "Midnight Fare" being linked with Colbert.

Love that this "bit of searching" didn't even involve looking at the other videos on the channel.  

I'm surprised it might be coming so soon as corporations love their "Non-Compete Clause" for about a year.

Does that usually apply when the employee is axed by the employer?

Why would it apply at all? CBS isn't doing a late night show anymore and even if this theorized Colbert YouTube show was a late night show it's not competing because it's not on at 11:35pm.

Also, Colbert wasn't "fired" or anything. They just didn't renew his contract.

Although even though this isn't Colbert doing a YouTube show and just a random person's channel there would be an irony in that, considering CBS's claim was that too many people were watching clips on YouTube instead of the show and that's why it was losing money.

oh look its the libby going after the low hanging fruit again

never change, colbert. 

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dead-or-alive-6-last-round-new-original-character-minato-announced-coming-this-summer.1560385/#post-156964168
 

Here's a terrible release and a sexualized child. Is your trust restored yet??? Are we doing it right yet?

 
 
this is literally all that was shown  
 

 

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

 

 
 
Between SB2 and DOA7, these guys are in for a rough few years

[benji]

I mean let's compare it to a game that mina is explicitly an homage to, link's awakening

 OH MY GOD, THE BOMB UPGRADE IS CHARACTERIZED AS LINK BEING FORCED TO CARRY MORE BOMBS AGAINST HIS WILL! LACK OF CONSENT, LINK WAS RAPED!!

Look how young Link is, this is basically normalizing child rape. They knew what they were doing. Watch the capital-G Gamers downplay this.

For those who do not want to spoil themselves, the scene is about non/dubious consent, and the loss/surrender of autonomy. It's allegorical to some bigger spoilers later on in the game, and, recently, has been described by some fans as BDSM coded.
 

 Maybe don't post BDSM porn as part of trying to normalize pedophilia and child sexual abuse.

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/3-democratic-socialists-have-ousted-incumbents-in-ny%E2%80%99s-legislature-claire-valdez-and-brad-lander-win-darializa-on-track-to-oust-espaillat.1559158/page-4#post-156903487

 User banned (3 months): antisemitism, prior bans for bigotry and antisemitic dog whistle

Hebrew in the bio, you know why

antisemitism, prior bans for bigotry and antisemitic dog whistle

You'd think this would cross enough lines but somehow less problematic than trying to argue take crybaby Kyle Rittenhouser wasn't guilty

I got permed for saying the General Lee car in The Dukes of Hazzard wasn't considered a bigot-mobile in the 80's because the meaning of symbols change over and across time and place.  That's worse than repeated antisemitism? 

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

It was because two prominent members jumped on it and said, "so you are racist or something, huh?  I bet you a southern bubba lover, ain't chu boy." And that was it for me.

You don't know what you're talking about. It's a ridiculous comment. 

I know way more than you jeff

This is creepy as fuck.
Always crazy to me the ways troll accounts out themselves.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supergirl-review-thread-jun-26.1559860/page-8#post-156947434

That dude is dead.  

Edit: oh Holy Shit!  He is    I didn't actually think the mods would rally around 'lil pop-tart

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/compulsion-games-staff-members-posting-looking-for-work-on-linkedin-many-others-set-to-opentowork.1560463/

Literally just doxxing redundancies these days on there

A dangerous game given the bad luck and systemic issues which plague the general ability to consent to labour on that forum

[simiansmarts]

I'm surprised that people don't get sexual connotations from that scene. The cuts to silhouette, the obvious and well trodden allegory between dancing and sex, "Thankyou for not pulling away", "our strings sing together", "There we go", the whole puppeteer thing.

That entire sequence reads as unmistakably hypno-fetish coded to me, but that likely says more about me than the people writing it


Regardless of intent, I promise it's going to be "Fetish Mined" (thanks for the new term OP!) to hell and back.

 
  
  
my honest reaction:

[Uncle]

why do people care about that libbed up rat Colbert?

Do they forget how he capped for Genocide Joe and Kamala?

because you mentioned "rat colbert" in this context I thought you were talking about something from mina the hollower

"hmm which character is he talking about, I don't remember a colbert" 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/compulsion-games-staff-members-posting-looking-for-work-on-linkedin-many-others-set-to-opentowork.1560463/

Omega thread backfire

Can you guys PLEASE stop stalking our LinkedIn profiles. We're actual individuals with lives. We don't want out face plastered over some forum whether if it's because people stalk our profiles for leaks, news about games or layoffs. You guys are not journalists. It's doing nothing. It adds pressure. It's weird behavior.

From Constructive about it

Want to ask this as a genuine question to staff and others as I personally am not sure how I feel about it: what is the stance on people trawling through Linkedin to find news about studios closures/layoffs to post here?
There's a thread currently on the front page which is that; I've reported it but no idea if its against the rules or not. I think personally, given that we're talking about real people's actual livelihoods, it feels a bit uncomfortable to me to have information sought in that way and then speculated on by other posters. I think I'd feel more confortable if people waited for either official confirmation or media reporting before posting this as news... but then I'm also aware that what's being posted is publicly available information and so its out there to be talked about.

I think it's pretty shit. Back when I was checking in on the Xbox OT on the regular there was always someone there doing that I always found that disgusting, like, what is the point?

I mean its publicly available information at the end of the day. Like its kind of creepy but its not like its hidden away from prying eyes.



edit: ok yeah having now seen the thread in its entirety I think posting a bunch of peoples posts directly is pretty iffy when the gist of the thread being "This studio has done some layoffs" or whatever. I don't think they need to out specific people there.

Want to ask this as a genuine question to staff and others as I personally am not sure how I feel about it: what is the stance on people trawling through Linkedin to find news about studios closures/layoffs to post here?
There's a thread currently on the front page which is that; I've reported it but no idea if its against the rules or not. I think personally, given that we're talking about real people's actual livelihoods, it feels a bit uncomfortable to me to have information sought in that way and then speculated on by other posters. I think I'd feel more confortable if people waited for either official confirmation or media reporting before posting this as news... but then I'm also aware that what's being posted is publicly available information and so its out there to be talked about.

I don't think it's a problem to have a general post but what i do see critical is posting personal information like full names of affected devs.

Want to ask this as a genuine question to staff and others as I personally am not sure how I feel about it: what is the stance on people trawling through Linkedin to find news about studios closures/layoffs to post here?
There's a thread currently on the front page which is that; I've reported it but no idea if its against the rules or not. I think personally, given that we're talking about real people's actual livelihoods, it feels a bit uncomfortable to me to have information sought in that way and then speculated on by other posters. I think I'd feel more confortable if people waited for either official confirmation or media reporting before posting this as news... but then I'm also aware that what's being posted is publicly available information and so its out there to be talked about.

It's my thread. I'm not engaging with the posts on there calling it gross and stalking etc as it will just derail the thread. As far as I know, it's within the rules (thread whining not so much). For the record, it's not "stalking" as suggested in that thread - one of my contacts there posted about their layoffs, I clicked Compulsion Games, those are the most recent posts.



I'd really prefer ResetEra didn't try to silence dev's only voices. The official lines are things like this:







Which, in my opinion, is actually gross.

I don't think it's a problem to have a general post but what i do see critical is posting personal information like full names of affected devs.

To be clear, those are the public posts of the devs. Their posts are linked, it may help get employment (which is why they posted).

To be clear, those are the public posts of the devs.

The names still have no relevance to the information you want to convey.



If i posted a thread about look how Mr RedbullCola is looking for a job it would also be weird

The names still have no relevance to the information you want to convey

It's their own posts and profiles which are set to OpenToWork. Many of them have little to no interactivity on their LinkedIn posts. They've set them public and their posts are sharable. By linking them here, it brings visibility which may get them hired.

The names still have no relevance to the information you want to convey

They're people announcing to the world they've been laid off and are looking for work. Surely boosting their exposure is a positive thing.

If someone posted one of my public profiles here from another platform without inquiring it with me, I would find it very uncomfortable regardless of the context. This forum isn't known for recruitment, it's known for being weird about everything.

Boosting them by putting their named out on a video game forum will surely lead to them finding a job.



I'm sure studios are just itching to search through era to find their new employees.



How about next time you look for a job you tell me and i post your information on a forum?

If I was looking for a job in video games I'd be happy to have it posted here. Don't link it to my Era account though. I've probably said a lot of stuff that'd put employers off.

I don't think it's about silencing dev voices; it's that the people posted in the thread haven't asked to be made into news. If a former staff member made a post saying the studio had laid people off, and that was made into a thread, that feels different to me than just saying "hey it seems like a lot of people have left the studio". It's a subtle difference but it's there.



But anyway, I think I actually have less of an issue with the thread itself than the reaction it inevitably brings. Because you just end up with a load of people speculating based on very limited information, and that's the bit that grosses me out when we're talking about real people. Already people are guessing that the studio has closed, which is not what you or the thread have suggested.



I don't know, like I said before I genuinely don't know how I feel about it and can see both sides, I was more just raising it for discussing and staff input.

I don't think it's about silencing dev voices; it's that the people posted in the thread haven't asked to be made into news. If a former staff member made a post saying the studio had laid people off, and that was made into a thread, that feels different to me than just saying "hey it seems like a lot of people have left the studio". It's a subtle difference but it's there.



But anyway, I think I actually have less of an issue with the thread itself than the reaction it inevitably brings. Because you just end up with a load of people speculating based on very limited information, and that's the bit that grosses me out when we're talking about real people. Already people are guessing that the studio has closed, which is not what you or the thread have suggested.



I don't know, like I said before I genuinely don't know how I feel about it and can see both sides, I was more just raising it for discussing and staff input.

I get the concern, of course. There's a few posts from people there who have their posts set to private - obviously, I haven't included those.



My view is it's ultimately up to the people posting the messages to chose the distribution. If we didn't talk about things people post on social media here or try to seek permission to post social media posts here first, the forum would be very quiet as that's the basis of a lot of threads.



I will say - there's been about 4 threads speculating about Compulsion Games future here in the past few weeks, all driven by media reports (e.g. one a few weeks ago said everybody had already been laid off - that wasn't true). This is the first time devs have directly, publicly said they're looking for work. In my opinion it seems like a good idea to talk about that, as it's factual information direct from the developers for a change. But ultimately, yep, I'll follow any staff guidance. I'm not super keen on being called a stalker in that thread, because.. it's literally LinkedIn posts where they've tagged Compulsion, it isn't rummaging through bins to find them.

Boosting them by putting their named out on a video game forum will surely lead to them finding a job.



I'm sure studios are just itching to search through era to find their new employees.



How about next time you look for a job you tell me and i post your information on a forum?

The same video game forum where there are a lot of actual video game devs, ranging from indie to AAA?



It's not weird. Your whataboutism is, though.

There are several devs in that thread calling on OP not to do it because it's weird so please don't assume you're doing something good here

 

I think it's important to think about the wider context of what's happening for events like this.



With Compulsion, specifically, the narrative from some sections of the internet is that they made a "woke" game and because of that, the studio deserves to go out of business, and people are celebrating these people being out of a job.



Is that happening here? Well no, but it is not necessarily a good thing to spread the names of the people who are losing their job to a wider audience, especially since they are especially vulnerable to harassment and there is absolutely a group waiting to dance on the studio's grave on the internet.



Even here, a place that is generally seen as more sympathetic to devs, has seen posts about how Compulsion and others involved "should have put out good games", "should have put out something more appealing" and other similar sentences that are both disconnected from how being a developer works and does have an uncomfortable amount of dissonance within it if you don't know the poster's intentions.



But yea, in normal situations this would probably be less of a problem, but when the people in the industry being laid off worked on something "woke" or are LGBTQ2S+ or women, you are putting a target on their back and raising their profile to the wider internet, and that can absolutely follow them to wherever they go next.



Food for thought that I hope people keep in mind in the future.

unrelated 

Hello. Maybe we could have AI subforum like we have with Sales/CCU? I don't want to see couple of the same/new threads every day because somebody said something about AI or some company is using AI.

Hello. Maybe we could have AI subforum like we have with Sales/CCU? I don't want to see couple of the same/new threads every day because somebody said something about AI or some company is using AI.

There's an AI tag. Also, there are two separate AI OTs that exist (one positive, one negative). I personally appreciate the new news, new thread threads relating to AI because they serve as PSAs to people on here on which companies (especially gaming ones) are engaging in unethical practices. For example, I'd rather have it be known to all that a developer or publisher is replacing their artists via layoffs in the name of AI and having an individual user filter that out than shoving the entire forum's head in the sand by burying that news in a subforum.

I love the fact that they think they're going to die if they see the letters AI

[HaughtyFrank]

It's my thread. I'm not engaging with the posts on there calling it gross and stalking etc as it will just derail the thread. As far as I know, it's within the rules (thread whining not so much).

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Jansen is like Santa Claus.

[Let's Cyber]

BDSM/hypno-fetish coded

[Shecky Fragbaum]

The rallying behind the  newly elected "NO mixing of zee races / just let Russia curbstomp Ukraine"  representative from NY is heartwarming, really.