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

[Snoopy]

Start giving a shit and pay people.

Someone should point out people did pay her and she ripped them off

[Uncle]

   



"a dog biting at a red mesh ball underwater is just such a heckin' unique idea, this artist should own the concept for 100+ years! in fact, even if the AI had changed the dog to a dalmatian and the ball to green, even that shouldn't have been enough! give artists total ownership over concepts naow!!!!"

Also there's this guy saying what "should happen" is what already is the case:

It makes sense, you don't own the way an image is framed. What should happen is that people should be allowed to freely distribute this comic, as AI works should not be allowed to be copyrightable.

given USCO precedent and guidelines, edits to the image such as inpainting to add more bubbles or changing the dog's teeth slightly could be offered copyright protection over the "arrangement" of those inpainted edits, similar to the protection afforded collages (where you disclaim the imagery but call the layout your own), and in practice that's about as good a protection as full copyright, since people still couldn't use the dog cartoon as-is and wouldn't actually know which parts weren't part of an edit and would thus be unprotected

[normalindividual]

For thousands of years the whole middle east was a place of peace and quiet harmony where the jews, christians, sunni and shiites all got along.  Then that British Lawrence of Arabia fellow came along and invented jihad.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/one-dead-several-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-car-driven-into-crowd-at-berlin-pride.1587259/page-2#post-158415541

  User Banned (Permanently): Islamophobia; History of Racist & Islamophobic Commentary

There are problems that you have said but there are also problems with some Muslim kids in the West from more conservative families being raised to not mix with the majority society.

Their religion says pork (and chicken and red meat not cut a certain way), alcohol, women wearing what they want, homosexuality, dancing, singing, dating marrying who you want and pre-marital sex is wrong, while growing up in societies where all of those are the norm for the majority, it can create problems.

Not necessarily leading to terrorism but just divisions in society. But then those divisions can further create the foundation for the bad actors who radicalise there young men and women to perform these actions.

You can't control how families raise their kids but any organisations that radicalise people should be investigated and shut down well in advance of these kids going down these rabbit holes.

I'm 99% sure that guy once talked about being Turkish so he's likely Muslim himself or was at least raised that way. Muslims abroad being more devout than in i.e. Turkey itself is also nothing new.

Absolutely nothing he said here would be considered controversial if he had been talking about conservative Christians

https://www.resetera.com/threads/one-dead-several-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-car-driven-into-crowd-at-berlin-pride.1587259/page-2#post-158415541

  User Banned (Permanently): Islamophobia; History of Racist & Islamophobic Commentary

There are problems that you have said but there are also problems with some Muslim kids in the West from more conservative families being raised to not mix with the majority society.

Their religion says pork (and chicken and red meat not cut a certain way), alcohol, women wearing what they want, homosexuality, dancing, singing, dating marrying who you want and pre-marital sex is wrong, while growing up in societies where all of those are the norm for the majority, it can create problems.

Not necessarily leading to terrorism but just divisions in society. But then those divisions can further create the foundation for the bad actors who radicalise there young men and women to perform these actions.

You can't control how families raise their kids but any organisations that radicalise people should be investigated and shut down well in advance of these kids going down these rabbit holes.

You can say young men are all cunts and need to be drowned at birth because they’re white men until the cows come home, but don’t you dare spell out the issues with Islam and the very foundations it’s based on? No that’s Islamophobia, incredible

Places like ERA and the left in general will never be able to deal with the toxic, homophobic aspects of Islam that often becomes violent. It's just too much of an uncomfortable topic for them, criticizing religions and cultures that they view aren't majority white. It just brings up too many uncomfortable implications that they cannot totally ignore. One being maybe mass immigration of people from extremely conservative cultures that view LGBT people as demons that need to be killed isn't such a great idea for the host nation and its society.

Can't have that conversation, though. Better to just shut it down via banning anyone who brings it up and yell "Islamaphobia" and "racist!"

[Snoopy]

Not sure why they don't immigrate to the deep south. Plenty of like minded extreme conservatives there.

[benji]

"a dog biting at a red mesh ball underwater is just such a heckin' unique idea, this artist should own the concept for 100+ years! in fact, even if the AI had changed the dog to a dalmatian and the ball to green, even that shouldn't have been enough! give artists total ownership over concepts naow!!!!"

It's always a funny position for someone to take if their public output of artwork for the last however many years mostly consists of drawing a copyrighted corporate character including falsely vowing to produce their own book featuring the character just because the owner hasn't.  

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

[Besticus Maximus]

This neoluddite drawing cartoon dogs on her ipad pro with apple pencil

[DavidCroquet]

My AU Lucio has an OC grandma that is so cool and charming. Just LOOK at these lectures…half of the frame is text boxes. Isn’t she just lovely?!

[Propagandhim]

What gets put on the Internet, what gets boosted, and thus what gets stolen by the crawlers of the algorithm depends upon who has access to the infrastructure necessary to put their culture on the Internet, and what Big Tech and by proxy our governments allow us to access. Most people here have no idea what the fuck is going on in Namibia's Internet ecosystem, for example- their memes, their manner of online speech, their unique social networks (if any, because unless you have a firewall like China you might be fucked, stuck in America's ecosystems like Amazon or Google with no economic throughline to developing your own stuff, aka digital colonialism)- and there's reasons for that beyond apathy.

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.

[Snoopy]

Lol. Neither did that fucking pseud until she saw an article on google yesterday

[DavidCroquet]

for some reason i thought entremet was black…

[HaughtyFrank]

What gets put on the Internet, what gets boosted, and thus what gets stolen by the crawlers of the algorithm depends upon who has access to the infrastructure necessary to put their culture on the Internet, and what Big Tech and by proxy our governments allow us to access. Most people here have no idea what the fuck is going on in Namibia's Internet ecosystem, for example- their memes, their manner of online speech, their unique social networks (if any, because unless you have a firewall like China you might be fucked, stuck in America's ecosystems like Amazon or Google with no economic throughline to developing your own stuff, aka digital colonialism)- and there's reasons for that beyond apathy.

Interesting, so Nepenthe wants Internet borders but is also upset if you don't cross those borders

[DavidCroquet]

It was really fucked up that my tribe wasn't allowed to invent their own fire, because the neighboring tribe did it first and then we were exposed (against our own will!) to the idea and just went with it because it worked. 

They fucking colonized our minds, man!

[Besticus Maximus]

I wonder what is going on in namibia's online ecosystem and what we can learn from it

Forgive my earth boiling google

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/04/a-digital-odyssey-the-convergence-of-rapid-digitization-population-dynamics-and-financial-risk-in-namibia

So they're doing all the things she thinks are shit and bad because capitalism? Oh dear

[Ethan]

I guess it never occurred to me (as an American) that other countries do big Pride events outside of the month of June. Is that fairly common?

Hope everyone injured can pull through.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/july-25-2026-one-dead-several-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-car-driven-into-crowd-at-berlin-pride.1587259/page-3#post-158418076

It happened in non-Pride Month of all months?!?

[Uncle]

why is pride month in june of all months, it forces your mouth to say "jew"

[Uncle]

they should hold pride month in muslimuary

[Jansen]

Literally what's even the point of these mega games when they sell like 5 million copies, then Nintendo make modestly budgeted remakes of 20 year old games that sell the same or more. What is this industry

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-fable-has-run-%E2%80%9Cuncomfortably-beyond-budget%E2%80%9D.1587919/page-5#post-158449246

Reeeeeetards

[Snoopy]

Sometimes I like to put on my UFC t-shirt and have a good cry thinking about all the Namibians with shit internet

[HaughtyFrank]

I wonder what is going on in namibia's online ecosystem and what we can learn from it

Forgive my earth boiling google

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/04/a-digital-odyssey-the-convergence-of-rapid-digitization-population-dynamics-and-financial-risk-in-namibia

So they're doing all the things she thinks are shit and bad because capitalism? Oh dear

*Nepenthe arriving on the Namibian Internet*

"No, no it's fine, I just didn't expect it would be German"

[Boredfrom]

It's so weird to see this brought up like it's some obscure and forgotten trivia.. when it's part of my day-to-day life for decades.

Of course I know about it. Kiddy is finally getting a new model, since the cancellation of Donkey Kong Racing and I'm static.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-heard-of-donkey-kong-racing-rares-diddy-kong-racing-sequel-for-the-gamecube-that-was-obviously-cancelled.1586074/

How can you write this shit with a straight face?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-gordon-do-the-right-thing-by-accepting-the-g-mans-job-offer-at-the-end-of-half-life-3-screenshots.1588174/

Needs a you tried sticker

[Boredfrom]

for some reason i thought entremet was black…

 

He is the whitest motherfucker at ERA. 

If he was a real person, of course…

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-zelda-do-the-right-thing-sending-link-back-to-his-childhood-at-the-end-of-ocarina-of-time.1587967/page-2#post-158445082

There's a bunch of complaining about spoilers in this thread and B-Dubs response has got a mad as fuck 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-zelda-do-the-right-thing-sending-link-back-to-his-childhood-at-the-end-of-ocarina-of-time.1587967/#post-158443939

[STAFF]

Can we not derail the thread over spoilers for one of the most famous games in history? A game that is literally 30 years old and has had multiple releases and a remaster.

[/STAFF]

Community thread 

It's not a major story spoiler is the thing. It's the very very very end, it's the denouement. It's practically the last scene in the entire game. It's the furthest thing from a major spoiler. There's two big twists in the game and this is neither and both of those twists are such common knowledge that even people who have never played before know them.



Beyond that, it's literally the thing that creates the entire Zelda timeline, which is so commonly discussed when Zelda games come out that you can literally bet money we will have a thread about where a game falls. Hell, it's a whole genre of YouTube video essay.



Its absolutely on par with "Vader is Luke's father." Is it possible someone missed it? Sure, but only if they've never actually played a Zelda game and then discussed it at any point in the past.



It's also 30 years old and has been released on every single home console Nintendo has ever made. It's not like it's a hard game to find. Plus, the very existence of Majora's Mask spoils it, since it's a direct sequel and Link is a kid again.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/july-25-2026-one-dead-several-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-car-driven-into-crowd-at-berlin-pride.1587259/#post-158398429

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

This shit just keeps happening...

And somehow this only keeps happening close to elections in Germany.

Condolences to everyone involved

https://www.resetera.com/threads/july-25-2026-one-dead-several-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-car-driven-into-crowd-at-berlin-pride.1587259/page-2#post-158411944

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

So this could've been prevented. Disgraceful.

Don't wanna sound conspiratorial, but I almost begin to think that they don't want to prevent these horrific attacks. Same red flags over and over, and yet...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/july-25-2026-one-dead-several-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-car-driven-into-crowd-at-berlin-pride.1587259/page-3#post-158425705

 User Banned (1 Month): Islamophobia

We also really need to stop meddling in the Middle East, and just get the hell out of there. All that radical "Islamism" is the result of our messing up things there; it's a very recent phenomenon. And of course Israel is benefitting from it, having also ties to the far-right in the West. And in general, we need to stop othering regular muslims. Yes, there are enclaves that are a problem, but they are the result of people being discriminated against time after time after time.

What do you mean it's recent? Gay people have been persecuted and killed due to Islam since… the dawn of Islam. Don't blame the west for that.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rockstar-region-locking-gta-6-on-playstation-appears-to-mean-hundreds-of-countries-cant-legally-play-gta-6-after-purchasing-it.1587820/#post-158439148

 User banned (permanent): Troll account

Omg at people saying this isn't an issue, how complacent can you be?

This is a thread about Sony on Resetera.

Kid gloves is an understatement.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/july-25-2026-one-dead-several-with-life-threatening-injuries-after-car-driven-into-crowd-at-berlin-pride.1587259/page-3#post-158425705

 User Banned (1 Month): Islamophobia

We also really need to stop meddling in the Middle East, and just get the hell out of there. All that radical "Islamism" is the result of our messing up things there; it's a very recent phenomenon. And of course Israel is benefitting from it, having also ties to the far-right in the West. And in general, we need to stop othering regular muslims. Yes, there are enclaves that are a problem, but they are the result of people being discriminated against time after time after time.

What do you mean it's recent? Gay people have been persecuted and killed due to Islam since… the dawn of Islam. Don't blame the west for that.

The madlads really did it.

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-gordon-do-the-right-thing-by-accepting-the-g-mans-job-offer-at-the-end-of-half-life-3-screenshots.1588174/

Needs a you tried sticker

Transistor furious that Dubs got the thread lock before him.

[Let's Cyber]

for some reason i thought entremet was black…

Naw he has a weird focus on "affluent white techbros do the darnedest things" type articles. I assume he's a white guy in his late 30's and works a desk job in the Northeast, probably New York or Boston. He also has a fixation on New England weather. 

But this is all conjure because he's actually a bot. 🤖 beep boop

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/women-of-era-with-receding-hairlines-bald-patches-help.1588297/

This morning I noticed that my hairline on the left side of my head has receded extremely compared to the right...and it leads into this kind of patchy bald spot...

Already been having a stressful few weeks so this development has made me real depressed. Does anyone have any advice for this sort of thing? Like how to make it look nice or less noticeable or something.

Edit: Now member only.