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

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/linus-torvalds-ai-is-a-tool-just-like-other-tools-we-use-and-its-clearly-a-useful-one.1578862/page-6#post-158012284

No one said that the Luddites' position was a panacea for humanities' ills, just that they were correct in their general assessment and moral framework.

They were? They didn't want to eliminate machinery in general, let alone abolish capitalism, just protect their status within it. They didn't even have an ultimate vision for society, let alone one that could be expressed in a single sentence.  

You're forgetting christian redemption through the true christ lord jesus 

[Boredfrom]

Fantasy movie inspired by Africa with an all black cast. "Cool"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/first-pics-of-the-children-of-blood-and-bone-movie.1579354/

Fantasy movie inspired by North Europe with a white cast (so far). "Fuck you, you piece of shit. Probably loves MAGA too."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/andy-serkis-responds-to-question-about-lack-of-diversity-in-%E2%80%98lotr-the-hunt-for-gollum%E2%80%99-casting.1576951/

Just to be clear, don't have an issue at all with that African fantasy movie, looks neat. I just don't know how RE doesn't notice the parallels.

(bonus drama is that it's rumored that the Author of Children of blood and bone disavowed the movie because Amanda Stenberg is too lightskinned)

Even the good afro fantasy/futurism stuff gets ignored by ERA. Remember that Disney+ show that was decent but nobody there watched?

[Boredfrom]

I don't think Concord champion SunnyD is mentally prepared for when Marathon gets shut down which is rapidly approaching

The CCU is dire. I never thought Marathon would be a hit but I didn't expect it to be the worst performing extraction shooter on all of Steam.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-ccu-thread.1505815/post-157998907

They should have made a single player game with the lore of OG Marathon and this one. Or a Destiny clone without the technical baggage.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-handle-it-when-youre-mildly-annoyed-with-your-partner.1579513/

My wife is out of the country for a few weeks and keeps missing our video chats, or ends up being busy later than expected so by the time she's ready I'm going to bed. I feel a little neglected but it's a temporary problem so I don't know that it's worth bringing it up. But I do feel a little resentful and it doesn't make me want to put a ton of effort into planning time to talk to her. How do you guys deal with stuff like this?

 

[Uncle]

Man, Frank Herbert had it nailed, huh? We're just gonna ban computers at some point if we want to survive. Everyone who makes them and their fundamental software is insane.

I absolutely fucking hate the people who use fiction as evidence of anything, or consider it predictive

like all the people who compare AI to syndrome from the incredibles when he says "when everyone's special, no one will be" as if that has any bearing on anything in the real world, where it's kind of awesome if everyone gets access to new technology

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-fetterman-warns-he-would-leave-democratic-party-if-it-turns-its-back-on-israel.1579315/page-3#post-158019061

The United States is an occupied nation. It's leaders are more loyal to Israel than they are the united states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/some-of-you-dont-realize-how-much-of-a-problem-something-the-success-of-michael-is.1578754/page-2#post-158011345

I do my part by always mentioning that he was a pedophile every time I talk about his music and dance numbers.

Wait, why doesn't he just stop talking about his music and dance numbers? "Thriller, he was a pedo by the way, is just the greatest fucking album of all time."

   

[Taco Bell Tower]

Its summer, beach bodies are in, we're all looking our best, I think this is great.

These are not real people, they don't feel sun on their skin, they don't swim in real water, stop equating Fortnite characters with real people, and please read through the thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-guess-even-fortnite-is-doing-more-bikini-type-skins-now.1577221/post-158005441

I like how they just endlessly repeat this argument as if it made much sense.

Then what the fuck is the point of having a burka thread!?

[Taco Bell Tower]

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-548#post-158002018

I don't know if this has been posted in the thread for the DC skins but Fortnite has added multiple female skins with boob jiggle physics this year. Three of them are collab skins, Meg from Hercules, Mercy from Overwatch and Kafka from Honkai Star Rail. As for the DC skins added today, the three women all have jiggle physics for their boobs and as far as I'm aware, only Ivy has jiggle physics on her arse.

Please God let this be true 🙏

Comediansmasher

They put jiggle physics on a skin based on a Disney character? That's ridiculous.

[Uncle]

As I’ve said before it’s obvious why so many ree are trans. They can’t get over their guilty pasts. They’d rather hide in their ridiculous fantasy world than deal with whatever shit they got up to. I only apply this to trans Ree because I suspect the majority of them are ex gamergaters. When you look at how quickly and viciously they attack women they don’t like, it becomes quite clear who they really are

In the sense that they were gamergaters before Gamergate was a thing, sure. 

Honestly, you could see this behavior during Gaf days.

   

[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-548#post-158006734

Just checking for Meg but I am not really seeing it there? Looks like regular animation stretching when emoting. Creeps me out to look too much into it so happy to be corrected.

[url unfurl=true media=youtube:AkQsLeMdgg8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkQsLeMdgg8[/url]

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Wow the Mercy skin design is bad bad however

Hmm wonder why that is

[HaughtyFrank]

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-548#post-158006734

Just checking for Meg but I am not really seeing it there? Looks like regular animation stretching when emoting. Creeps me out to look too much into it so happy to be corrected.



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Wow the Mercy skin design is bad bad however

Hmm wonder why that is

Clicked through the video and had to laugh at how the game handles avoiding upskirts



And yet these people think this game is horrifically objectifying

[Let's Cyber]

In the sense that they were gamergaters before Gamergate was a thing, sure. 

Honestly, you could see this behavior during Gaf days.

Gamergate in 2014 ultimately fractured gaming side and it never really recovered. The polarization and zero-sum thinking went into hyperdrive, and anyone perceived as a member of the out-group was banned. Even commenting that you didn't really care about the sex lives of these random devs and journalists would get you perma'd. A lot of the humor and good posters didn't really survive after that. Kind of funny how GAF's downfall is a mirror reflection of real-life politics; culture war bullshit is very much at the forefront now. 

There were RiskyChris's of the world before then, but once excelsiorlef and backslashbunny were domineering discussions on off-topic, the community was probably already cooked. The mods slowly weeded out normies and the weirdos filled the void, especially with the move to Era. 

Who wants to be browbeaten over and over when you just want to talk about dumb shit online? It's just fucking video games, chill the hell out. 

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[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvels-wolverine-aint-no-hero-trailer-also-playing-in-front-of-the-odyssey-in-select-us-theaters.1579516/#post-158018695

There's something off about Wolverine's jaw. His face looks wrong with the mask on.

Body shaming! DISMISSING CONCERNS!!!

oh wait, this is a digital man we're talking about, not a digital woman? 

Carry on, brave soldier. 

[Potato]

I had never read the Doom Patrol run after Grant Morrison left until now. A trans woman, Rachel Pollack, takes over the series and I'm mentioning this at all because it's quite funny. First of all, they move to a house full of sex ghosts living out fetishes that are referred to as SRS. Little on the nose, but a decent enough pun I suppose. Then they introduce a former prostitute drawn as an entirely passable woman with zero hints who has gained powers and spend about five issues dropping hints that SHE'S NOT A CIS WOMAN but CLIFF STEELE IS ATTRACTED ANYWAY WON'T HE BE SURPRISED. (Don't worry, he'll be understanding and true love will win out. Not that they can even have sex because Cliff is a robot.)

At this point, if it's not obvious this is a mary sue expy, we get an entire multi-issue plotline where the bad guys are the ones who imposed not only language but gender on humanity in order to control us and place us inside a box and suck out our life forces so we just mindlessly serve rather than feel anything. The good guys are all genderless emotional free spirits in touch with every aspect of the universe. At the same time that all of this is being explained incoherently at extensive length the trans woman character lectures Cliff that they were always a woman and they always knew they were a woman and we get a backstory that consists entirely of they tried to wear a dress one time as a kid. Also Cliff is the idiot cis normie who keeps asking obviously stupid and embarrassing questions so the trans woman can put him in his place over and over again in brave and stunning fashion where the reader stands and claps.

They're also the only character that can defeat the bad guys because they're also the only one in connection with the genderless free past of emotions and those entities. (Even as this raises the question of why they're trying to impose gender like the bad guys.) And the way to defeat them is that the trans woman's soul has to merge with Cliff's robot body through both having orgasms* which turns into a hermaphrodite body followed by like two issues of drivel about this being so strange yet so right culminating with the trans woman soul grabbing the robot's breasts and exclaiming how this is what she wanted. (Then all of this sort of turns out not to matter at all because the genderless things do some deus ex machina instead.)

It just really amused me to read. Over thirty years ago and literally all the same shit.

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

cum

Egg post

Benji has so many egg posts he could probably qualify as an omelette

[HaughtyFrank]

Every time I'm reading that Fortnite thread and basically confront myself with the "are we the baddies" meme, it's so nice being able to hop in this one and realize no, it's actually the children who are wrong.

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/post-158022115

Congrats, you admitted you're an idiot in an echo chamber

[Boredfrom]

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-548#post-158006734

Just checking for Meg but I am not really seeing it there? Looks like regular animation stretching when emoting. Creeps me out to look too much into it so happy to be corrected.



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Wow the Mercy skin design is bad bad however

Hmm wonder why that is

Clicked through the video and had to laugh at how the game handles avoiding upskirts



And yet these people think this game is horrifically objectifying

There is a up-skirt pandemic in Japan just when vidja started to have the cold feet about it.  

Coincidence?  

[Potato]

Am I the only one who only reads the parts of Nepenthe screeds that Benji bolds?

wlw

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

Wait, people read the unbolded parts?

[Boredfrom]

I will never understand why people have such an allegiance to Israel.

I will never understand why people justify Muslim countries behavior and religious oppression.  

I don’t blame anyone just not willing to support Israel government but is crazy how much the rhetoric devolves to thin veiled antisemitism or the pathological need to take a side in a conflict that doesn’t affect them directly.

Then again, Netanyahu decided to encourage Trump in getting involved with Iran.  

[Potato]

These are not real people, they don't feel sun on their skin, they don't swim in real water, stop equating Fortnite characters with real people, and please read through the thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-guess-even-fortnite-is-doing-more-bikini-type-skins-now.1577221/post-158005441

I like how they just endlessly repeat this argument as if it made much sense.

It's an argument that characters shouldn't wear any clothes at all because they can't choose which clothes to wear. But also that they shouldn't be naked because they can't choose not to wear clothes. Really, characters shouldn't be depicted at all.

Bring back text adventures!!

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But don't you dare describe their bodies. That's Haram.

[killamajig]

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-548#post-158006734


Hmm wonder why that is

Clicked through the video and had to laugh at how the game handles avoiding upskirts



And yet these people think this game is horrifically objectifying

There is a up-skirt pandemic in Japan just when vidja started to have the cold feet about it.  

Coincidence?  

[benji]

Man, Frank Herbert had it nailed, huh? We're just gonna ban computers at some point if we want to survive. Everyone who makes them and their fundamental software is insane.

I absolutely fucking hate the people who use fiction as evidence of anything, or consider it predictive

like all the people who compare AI to syndrome from the incredibles when he says "when everyone's special, no one will be" as if that has any bearing on anything in the real world, where it's kind of awesome if everyone gets access to new technology

Exactly as Plato predicted in The Republic.

[Besticus Maximus]

[Boredfrom]

I absolutely fucking hate the people who use fiction as evidence of anything, or consider it predictive

like all the people who compare AI to syndrome from the incredibles when he says "when everyone's special, no one will be" as if that has any bearing on anything in the real world, where it's kind of awesome if everyone gets access to new technology

Exactly as Plato predicted in The Republic.

I see what you did there…

[benji]

We should start a countertrend where we respond to everything by pointing out that a work didn't predict it. Which is exactly what Animal Farm failed to predict.

[Boredfrom]

Old Invincible fans didn’t predict invincible memes:



(January of 2011)

[Boredfrom]

Holy shit, the Burka thread is bitching about Clannad.   

I get the relation with Moe art but…  

I don't really have an issue with the Clannad art. Yeah they look young but it's not like the game is meant to be jerked off to.

I remember that Clannad was the first non Adult VN from Key. Precisely because no one bought their past games to goon.    

the more you look at it, and think about why they look that way, the more fucked up it feels.
Like, that kind of character design need a reckoning one of these days

That art style has been dead for a decade.  

[TylenolJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-fetterman-warns-he-would-leave-democratic-party-if-it-turns-its-back-on-israel.1579315/page-3#post-158019061

The United States is an occupied nation. It's leaders are more loyal to Israel than they are the united states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_Occupation_Government_conspiracy_theory

User banned (3 months): blatantly antisemitic rhetoric

Keep it subtle you guys.

[BananaBlast]

What are we even talking about here. You'll seriously tell me if Nintendo next time does Zelda not only ass first, but nude all the time, that's not objectification? Is it because the female presenting, made up character, designed by a male, modelled by a male, critiqued and greenlit in a meeting of males and one bigger male with the last word really really wants to be nude?

Also, representation: Fortnite has no lack in female presenting store models. Quite the opposite, they basically take anyone. Oh an in the process making them all the same hot-perceived proportions with basically the same base body, legs for days and not a gram of realistic fat, basically Bruce Timm Harley for everyone. They even sexified cartoon characters like pomni from the digital circus.
But surely, I already hear someone, they also do that for the male characters because something something aiming fairness and Fuck no they don't. Those are muscular or fat or shlubby or skinny or big or small. On this thread alone we had homer next to John wick, heck, the same digital circus license brings a lanky tall bunny. Almost every female fortnite character has the same meticulously formed body type "hot" with different clothes. And I'm not talking "but Cammy has skin tight tights now", as if that really makes a difference.

Your entire argument has lost the plot of the game, or any game, honestly, and the world we live in, where almost everything, even dang advertisements for women's shower ware, is directed at the male gaze. And no, a huge dong in a famously interviewing game doesn't change this reality, even if it probably made said male meeting time laugh heartily for a minute.

Learning that BufBaf is a dude makes him far creepier, cuz now you just know he can't stop tugging his dick and makes it absolutely everyone else's problem. 

They absolutely did not,
They stretched her arms and legs so she fits the Fortnite rig/hit box that every skin uses

Its the reason big buff males look goofy because they are literally the same size as thin teenage girls in game

Oh bullshit. Since when does "stretching to fit hitbox" include stereotypical "hot legs" and realistically proportioning body, legs, arms, bust into a neat and very Fortnite hourglass figure for a character looking like this


Oh guess fucking what, in the EXACT SAME spot introducing sexy Pomni, they LITERALLY had this model all done and well designed for "a new hitbox".


which, coincidentally, is the exact same form that gets thrown in the battle bus as well. I can't wait for the hitbox related explanations for why she then looks like this


while the male character from the same show looks like this, and oh wow, he has neither weirdly sexy-coded proportions nor hot legs nor has he made smaller "to fit the hitbox".



I can't wait.

This gooner motherfucker is actually complaining about Pomni from the amazing digital circus. 

They give her human legs instead of spaghetti noodles, and he immediately needs to shout "IT'S BEEN SEXIFIED!" 

[Vertigo]

I have had to step back away from things a lot recently because sexy/sexual things don't really hit for me if you feel me.



That thread was wild as shit, because while I do fall on the "it's only a swimsuit" spectrum NORMALLY, it's because I'm ace, and not because I'm looking to justify underboob in Fortnite.



A general rule should be, regardless of all else, the moment underboob is involved the "it's just a swimsuit" is no longer valid.  I feel like that's a universal.

Hear that you fiends once underboob is involved all bets are off.

The "people wear swimsuits in real life" comments are crazy cus like… How do you not see the difference between a woman choosing to wear a swimsuit, and a designer(s) coming together and deciding that a character will wear the swimsuit. Like even if you don't see a problem with the Fortnite swimsuits, how are those a comparable situation?

Also at a real beach, you will see women of all shapes and sizes who do not exist as a product (for men).

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-548#post-158006734

So artists are not even allowed to put characters in swimsuits now as its problematic?