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

[Disco55]

Bro is hyper focusing on the blue scent from Skill Up while ignoring the wider point Skill Up was making with the game being extremely handholdy. Like ok, the blue scent isn't there all the time, but that is not the point.

[malfoyking]

I wonder why they cant get funding for this bullshit.

[who is ted danson?]

jean gray fart cloud

[Let's Cyber]

I'm not getting Wolverine, but there is no way the game is bad.

I don't need to play it to know it ain't bad.

I will not be playing this game. Nor am I ever interested in playing this game. 

But here are multiple posts explaining why I'm big mad people are attacking this game and calling it bad, one I will not be playing btw. It definitely isn't bad, this game I'm not buying and have no emotional attachment too. 

It definitely isn't bad, and I will not be playing it. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-4#post-160431541

I love Semites.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-4#post-160434535

 User banned (permanent): troll account

Always good to hear you love both Jewish and Arab people.

Exactly.

So being antisemitic is being... against both arabs and jews? Doesn't make any sense to me.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-announces-customer-appreciation-sale-made-possible-by-tarrif-related-refunds-starts-9-13.1629445/page-9#post-160346617

 User banned (1 month): Inflammatory commentary, history of similar behavior

OH LOOK! More American exceptionalism running unchecked on Era! What a surprise. I'm sure the bans on non-Americans are about to follow.

[who is ted danson?]

Wolverine is the Driv 3 r of the PS quintuple generation

Its ok every gen needs one

[Daffy Duck]

I wonder why they cant get funding for this bullshit.

I want them to make it just so I can not see it and it bombs, what a talentless hack she is, but we’re not ready for that conversation

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-2#post-160422016

 User Banned (Permanent): Downplaying and dismissing genocide over a series of posts

Also, we really have to stop with the "she did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes" stuff. It is completely irrelevant.

You know who else did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes? Debra Messing and Tara Strong, both of which are horrible Islamophobic monsters. Doing good things for one marginalized group does not excuse bigotry toward another.

It may be irrelevant to you but it isn't irrelevant to me. What is it they always say? "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? You can't look at a human being, separate all the good they've done from all the bad they've done and then sweep away all the good as if none of it ever mattered. That's such a childish way of going through life that I can't even begin to understand why you'd think that's the right way to do it.

Obviously the optics of calling out someone when they're saying "Free Palestine" are horrible, but just because someone says "Free Palestine" it doesn't mean we forgive all the bad things they've done either. It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Actually it can...

Well I don't actually use Instagram so I don't know how many words you can fit in a caption so you might be right. Where would you even start, though? The stupidity of the Balfour Declaration? The way the Ottoman Empire handled Palestine?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-2#post-160422016

 User Banned (Permanent): Downplaying and dismissing genocide over a series of posts

Also, we really have to stop with the "she did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes" stuff. It is completely irrelevant.

You know who else did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes? Debra Messing and Tara Strong, both of which are horrible Islamophobic monsters. Doing good things for one marginalized group does not excuse bigotry toward another.

It may be irrelevant to you but it isn't irrelevant to me. What is it they always say? "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? You can't look at a human being, separate all the good they've done from all the bad they've done and then sweep away all the good as if none of it ever mattered. That's such a childish way of going through life that I can't even begin to understand why you'd think that's the right way to do it.

Obviously the optics of calling out someone when they're saying "Free Palestine" are horrible, but just because someone says "Free Palestine" it doesn't mean we forgive all the bad things they've done either. It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Actually it can...

Well I don't actually use Instagram so I don't know how many words you can fit in a caption so you might be right. Where would you even start, though? The stupidity of the Balfour Declaration? The way the Ottoman Empire handled Palestine?

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=378&pid=203586#pid203586

Called it!!!! You could call me Nostradamus and it's definitely not a pattern of learned behavior

[Snoopy]

I understand Jeff’s rage. Poor guy can’t afford to pay his mortgage, sub to Hasan and buy the special edition of Wolverine. Times are tough for the white man.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-2#post-160422016

 User Banned (Permanent): Downplaying and dismissing genocide over a series of posts

[quote=ZeoVGM]Also, we really have to stop with the "she did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes" stuff. It is completely irrelevant.

You know who else did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes? Debra Messing and Tara Strong, both of which are horrible Islamophobic monsters. Doing good things for one marginalized group does not excuse bigotry toward another.

It may be irrelevant to you but it isn't irrelevant to me. What is it they always say? "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? You can't look at a human being, separate all the good they've done from all the bad they've done and then sweep away all the good as if none of it ever mattered. That's such a childish way of going through life that I can't even begin to understand why you'd think that's the right way to do it.

Obviously the optics of calling out someone when they're saying "Free Palestine" are horrible, but just because someone says "Free Palestine" it doesn't mean we forgive all the bad things they've done either. It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Zeo is such a dumb bitch even his examples are just actresses. Like at least come up with an activist or politician who enacted actual change both ways

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-5#post-160439758

I don't know why stars get into discussions around politics. It's a no win situation and I'd rather not.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-5#post-160441219

I know there are a shitload of bad celebrities who use their influence for bad and that's why you feel this way. But you also have people like Macklemore saying free Palestine and Christian Bale's recent initiative for foster children; celebrities using their platform for good

Nope. Because I don't really care what they feel personally. That's not why I like them or hate them. Unless they running for political office I don't need to hear from them. It's a dumb move and you'll destroy your career either way.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-5#post-160441462

People with a large following are a big part of our culture and help shape our cultural norms. That's why it's important for people like Pink to be advocating for LGBT rights and why we need to criticize her when she calls a genocide a "complex war".

But as observers of their careers we don't have to put that importance on it. It's a day in the life of said person and it shouldn't define them, but it does. It's a no win situation unless you are running for political office.

A person being morally good or bad does infact define a person.

Day to day, no it doesn't. Unless you are the holy grail of a humans we all are constantly learning. Let's get over ourselves.

This is so incredibly empty.

Do you have any idea the good someone like Taylor Swift would have been able to do if she spoke out against Israel in 2024 instead of cowardly keeping quiet?

It would have helped normalize the truth. That has impact. That matters.

Did you have this same attitude when Colin Kaepernick spoke out against police violence? Or was that different?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-5#post-160442392

This is so incredibly empty.

I don't define my entertainers based on whatever politically motivated they are that day. It's so dumb to me.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-5#post-160442485

I edited my post. Can you please read it and answer my question?

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-5#post-160444135

shut up and dribble

Literally.

I can't believe some of the rhetoric I'm seeing on Era lately.

Depends who you ask?

No, it doesn't. It's not an opinion. There is an objective yes or no answer to the question, "Is Mark Ruffalo's career destroyed?"

The answer is "no."

But again, I would ask that you please respond to my previous post.

[HaughtyFrank]

Reminder:

[Lonewulfeus]

It should be separating the artist from the art in that example

[Ethan]

I hate to say this because I know it's controversial but sometimes I feel if both sides support taking away rights, if both sides equal sliding right and just more corruption, that it's not a system worth saving? That keeping a rotten system just harms more than it helps? At this point, I just don't trust the system, the UK system especially where it feels all sides lead to transphobia and hate, with no one in power serious in actually trying to fix the system. I Honestly dread in the Dems get into power 2028, they'll at best fix some stuff to make things back into the "status quo" but won't do any of the serious fixes to re-regulate news media, fix loopholes, break ties with Israel, reinstate Roe and trans rights, Reform the Supreme Court, limit executive power, start stripping billionaires of tech bros of their wealth and power etc... Nothing will actually reform and so in 4-8 years we're right back with an even worse Bigot in charge of the US.

You're correct. Nepenthe has been pushing for socialism/communism for a long time now because this system doesn't benefit us. I agree with them too. Out lives are worth more than living in fear of others being upset about our gender. We could be contributing to the world with the energy we have to waste constantly fighting for our safety.

That transcends "race", gender and sexual orientation and we have common cause with every other human to work our way out of this system. It's why Mandani and El-Sayed scare the establishment so much too and why we should support them.

This is a project that won't be completed in our lifetimes. I still think it's worth advocating for though. What you are doing on this forum supports it. By existing as your unique and special self out in the world you support it too. People see that and 'normalizing' you being you pulls them into another, better reality.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/talarico-i-oppose-trans-athletes-playing-in-girls-sports-if-it-endangers-safety-or-fairness-update-doubles-down-on-transphobic-talking-points.1628977/post-160437175

[BIONIC]

It should be separating the artist from the art in that example

Separate deez nuts in your mouth lmao goteem

[Boredfrom]

I hate to say this because I know it's controversial but sometimes I feel if both sides support taking away rights, if both sides equal sliding right and just more corruption, that it's not a system worth saving? That keeping a rotten system just harms more than it helps? At this point, I just don't trust the system, the UK system especially where it feels all sides lead to transphobia and hate, with no one in power serious in actually trying to fix the system. I Honestly dread in the Dems get into power 2028, they'll at best fix some stuff to make things back into the "status quo" but won't do any of the serious fixes to re-regulate news media, fix loopholes, break ties with Israel, reinstate Roe and trans rights, Reform the Supreme Court, limit executive power, start stripping billionaires of tech bros of their wealth and power etc... Nothing will actually reform and so in 4-8 years we're right back with an even worse Bigot in charge of the US.

You're correct. Nepenthe has been pushing for socialism/communism for a long time now because this system doesn't benefit us. I agree with them too. Out lives are worth more than living in fear of others being upset about our gender. We could be contributing to the world with the energy we have to waste constantly fighting for our safety.

That transcends "race", gender and sexual orientation and we have common cause with every other human to work our way out of this system. It's why Mandani and El-Sayed scare the establishment so much too and why we should support them.

This is a project that won't be completed in our lifetimes. I still think it's worth advocating for though. What you are doing on this forum supports it. By existing as your unique and special self out in the world you support it too. People see that and 'normalizing' you being you pulls them into another, better reality.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/talarico-i-oppose-trans-athletes-playing-in-girls-sports-if-it-endangers-safety-or-fairness-update-doubles-down-on-transphobic-talking-points.1628977/post-160437175

Cultist shit. 

“Echoes being a nuisance on the internet will push a better world, just like Nepenthe screaming at the whites a Resetera on her parents’ high middle class house.”

[filler]

this thread is worse than just reading reeee

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-2#post-160422016

 User Banned (Permanent): Downplaying and dismissing genocide over a series of posts

Also, we really have to stop with the "she did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes" stuff. It is completely irrelevant.

You know who else did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes? Debra Messing and Tara Strong, both of which are horrible Islamophobic monsters. Doing good things for one marginalized group does not excuse bigotry toward another.

It may be irrelevant to you but it isn't irrelevant to me. What is it they always say? "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? You can't look at a human being, separate all the good they've done from all the bad they've done and then sweep away all the good as if none of it ever mattered. That's such a childish way of going through life that I can't even begin to understand why you'd think that's the right way to do it.

Obviously the optics of calling out someone when they're saying "Free Palestine" are horrible, but just because someone says "Free Palestine" it doesn't mean we forgive all the bad things they've done either. It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Actually it can...

Well I don't actually use Instagram so I don't know how many words you can fit in a caption so you might be right. Where would you even start, though? The stupidity of the Balfour Declaration? The way the Ottoman Empire handled Palestine?

Timmy Turner is Islamophobic? 

[simiansmarts]

Jeff is using every fiber of willpower in his body to not just post “9/11 was justified and here’s why”

[Nintex]

I think that a lot of people have mixed feelings about 9/11 because their identity hinges on it

Without 9/11 no Obama, Trump or any of the other political heavyweights of the post 9/11 era.

The Islamist and trans movements probably wouldn't exist in their current form. And neither would woke. As woke started as a counter revolution (Bush is a Nazi) and protest against the Iraq war. 

Without the Iraq war Russia would've been more scrutinized by the global south for waging his "justified" wars in response to various western interventions.

Europe wouldn't have faced down so many refugees and illegal migrants. 

The world wouldn't have been fixated on this this whole mess of security checks, data collection and pre-emptive military and policing actions.

[who is ted danson?]

Played a bit of (X2) Wolverine('s Revenge), a game I last played on a GameCube demo TV way back when

You have to use R2 to access stinky trail mode. It's also possible to get lost and die.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/page-2#post-160422016

 User Banned (Permanent): Downplaying and dismissing genocide over a series of posts

[quote=ZeoVGM]Also, we really have to stop with the "she did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes" stuff. It is completely irrelevant.

You know who else did great work for LGBTQ causes and women's causes? Debra Messing and Tara Strong, both of which are horrible Islamophobic monsters. Doing good things for one marginalized group does not excuse bigotry toward another.

It may be irrelevant to you but it isn't irrelevant to me. What is it they always say? "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"? You can't look at a human being, separate all the good they've done from all the bad they've done and then sweep away all the good as if none of it ever mattered. That's such a childish way of going through life that I can't even begin to understand why you'd think that's the right way to do it.

Obviously the optics of calling out someone when they're saying "Free Palestine" are horrible, but just because someone says "Free Palestine" it doesn't mean we forgive all the bad things they've done either. It's not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Zeo is such a dumb bitch even his examples are just actresses. Like at least come up with an activist or politician who enacted actual change both ways

Honestly, I'd love this old dog to catch that car. As entertaining as Zeo is alone, imagine the dramatics if he managed to bag himself a fallen z-lister or OF starlet. 

I'm rooting for you, lil bro!

[HaughtyFrank]

Accessiblity advocate defends the mandatory stink line, how can you be so stupid

This is why being a game accessibility advocate is so hard. Dozens of us fought for YEARS to convince devs to put OPTIONS like this in games to help people who need it. Yet tweets bashing those options get 6 M views.

Bro, if you don't like an accessibility feature, turn it off. If it can't be toggled, deal with it. That blue trail is "horrible" for you but a Godsend for someone else.

It's OK to voice dislike, but consider that a dev choice might've been made to give someone else an opportunity to play AT ALL.

Guy just hurt his case worse than any sweet baby inc

[Potato]

I wonder why they cant get funding for this bullshit.

I want them to make it just so I can not see it and it bombs, what a talentless hack she is, but we’re not ready for that conversation

Who is the "she" in this conversation?

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/indie-shooter-wardogs-opens-to-353-714-concurrent-users-and-rising-1-5-million-in-sales.1630942/page-2#post-160418278

If anybody is wondering where the giveaway keys came from, I paid for them. Yolo. A way to support a British studio.

...the giveaway bot post very clearly credits him.

Yep. I'm playing as a helicopter pilot. That's all I do, ferry passengers and supplies around the map to help people.

Those special title tags were always a bad idea. This dude was a nobody until he played MindsEye. Now he thinks he's helping people.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/talarico-i-oppose-trans-athletes-playing-in-girls-sports-if-it-endangers-safety-or-fairness-update-doubles-down-on-transphobic-talking-points.1628977/page-10#post-160427239

I Honestly dread in the Dems get into power 2028, they'll at best fix some stuff to make things back into the "status quo" but won't do any of the serious fixes to re-regulate news media

But the federal government has never regulated news media.  

Reform the Supreme Court, limit executive power, start stripping billionaires of tech bros of their wealth and power etc... Nothing will actually reform and so in 4-8 years we're right back with an even worse Bigot in charge of the US.

I love how he put that one in between the other two.

Also how his idea of "actually reform" seems to somehow include making it impossible for "bigots" to win elections even though this wasn't listed in any of the things he named.

Bro is hyper focusing on the blue scent from Skill Up while ignoring the wider point Skill Up was making with the game being extremely handholdy. Like ok, the blue scent isn't there all the time, but that is not the point.

Nice try, but making any single factually incorrect statement means everything you've said is a lie and lalalalala I can't hear you chud.

Do you have any idea the good someone like Taylor Swift would have been able to do if she spoke out against Israel in 2024 instead of cowardly keeping quiet?

lmao

You're correct. Nepenthe has been pushing for socialism/communism for a long time now because this system doesn't benefit us. I agree with them too.

Not according to her she doesn't, just abolishing capitalism for a "new way of living" while also explicitly in the past ruling out socialism as the answer. (This was before she discovered the essential truth of dialectical materialism though.)

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Like Intelligence, what does that actually mean? What is the actual difference between a 7 and an 8; so often it's just "knowledge" and to me, knowing a lot doesn't actually make you smart, a Harvard student can be a bigoted idiot and a kid with no formal education can be highly intelligent, knowing how to use that knowledge to me is more important then just having that knowledge. It's such a shallow and inaccurate idea of intelligence; like why is wisdom so often separate to intelligence? I treat wisdom as a core part of intelligence. I wish there were other systems that didn't do this.
And this gets to Charisma and Rogue classes talents to just side step morality. Like you could have a deep moral and philosophical discussion, actually try to convince people on your views or prove yourself... But nah, just a *charisma check* Just side step the dilemma away!

Talk to your DM when they ask you for a charisma roll for speech. Any good DM will allow another type of roll depending on your argument. You just need to, you know, actually be willing to make said argument.

I dislike that so much and wish these games (tabletop and video games) didn't have that shit; a woman refuses to sleep with you? *Charisma check*, you murdered someone? *charisma check*. What a shallow and shit system yet so much of High Fantasy pulls this shit.

Passing a charisma check, even a nat 20, does not mean you automatically get what you want. Passing a check could be the difference between the guards attacking you then and there or taking you to a cell for further interrogation.  It is the same with seducing a woman. Yes there is the LOL CHARISMATIC BARD THAT SLEEPS WITH EVERYTHING meme but rolling high doesn't mean the bar owners wife is going to sleep with your character.

A lot of these issues sound like they're taking internet memes seriously or play with gooners.

Why can't lesbians and gay men be companions in games like Baldur's Gate III or other fantasy games, because they "ruin my power fantasy" and "they can be gay in someone else's game". I'm sick of that mentality. I want more. I want to be challenged by these RPGs.

Oh so you're just upset that the characters are bisexual. This whole rant is bisexual erasure, got you.

[Uncle]

yeah that's some dumb shit, any DM worth anything runs the world with verisimilitude, they don't say "derrr you rolled 20 so magically the woman sleeps with you now"

instead, "you rolled 20 so she sympathizes with you and doesn't hate you but still rejects you respectfully"