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

[benji]

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.

Oof, a gay or lesbian companion would "challenge" his worldview? Yikes. Not a good look.

[Jonsey]

Pokémon games are easier to get lost in than the new wolverine game

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

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"

Rules as written doesn't even allow for nat 1 or 20s in skill checks, only attack rolls and death saving rolls. For someone as autistic as Echoes I would have assumed they actually read the rules. It's more of a house rule, and a fine one at that in certain situations, but it does not always mean success.

[Boredfrom]

The Hamas containment thread just went full pro Iran:

It's maddening that there are still some in Iran who believe an agreement with the West is possible

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-645#post-160460977

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/diablo-v-announced-coming-2029.1631542/page-9#post-160460770

After spending 400? 500? dollars on skins for this game I just feel like I should have been investing in POE2 the entire time if this game is now dead.

Perhaps play video games because they’re fun and not an “investment”

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

sunk cost cum

[benji]

Nope, wrong:


Jeff casts "reverse racism" like a chud:


Jeff replies to a Variety tweet to tag and mansplain to a woman the story is about:

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/diablo-v-announced-coming-2029.1631542/page-9#post-160460770

After spending 400? 500? dollars on skins for this game I just feel like I should have been investing in POE2 the entire time if this game is now dead.

"Now"? 2029 is at least three years away.

[Lonewulfeus]

Buying skins for games, Jesus weeps.  At least PoE is free to play, and stash tabs are really the only thing you kinda need to spend money on.  But also most stash tabs bought in PoE1 transfer to PoE2 so fair play to GGG.

Also I got a mageblood in a ritual on like day 8 of 0.5.5 so now I’m rich and my season has no struggle left

[Jonsey]

   

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/diablo-v-announced-coming-2029.1631542/page-9#post-160460770

After spending 400? 500? dollars on skins for this game I just feel like I should have been investing in POE2 the entire time if this game is now dead.

Perhaps play video games because they’re fun and not an “investment”

It really is a strange mentality because there's just no scenario where those 500 bucks on skins aren't wasted.

[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

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?

No wonder they banned him, he brought up Macklemore dressing up as Jewish caricature 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/p-nk-responds-to-outrage-over-her-comments-on-macklemore-situation-doubles-down-on-zionism.1631050/post-160416805

Of course his reply was met with "who cares it was a decade ago" which is just so funny on a forum that will happily remind you that Justin Trudeau did blackface once.

[benji]

THOSE SKINS WERE GOING TO BE HANDED DOWN TO HIS CHILDREN*

*if the world wasn't a hellscape that nobody should bring children into

[Taco Bell Tower]

Nope, wrong:

Nope. Wrong.

Also, there is no "switch up." A small number of angry people on Twitter, a Nazi website that most people abandoned except the most terminally online, is not a "switch up."

Says the one who paid for the blue check mark so he's supporting the Nazi site by giving money 

[Potato]

Buying skins for games, Jesus weeps.  At least PoE is free to play, and stash tabs are really the only thing you kinda need to spend money on.  But also most stash tabs bought in PoE1 transfer to PoE2 so fair play to GGG.

Also I got a mageblood in a ritual on like day 8 of 0.5.5 so now I’m rich and my season has no struggle left

Buying skins for games as an "investment"!!!!

[benji]

I've only ever bought one cosmetic in any game ever and that was because Amazon was giving people a store-wide $5 credit if you bought anything through their now dead marketplace. It might not have actually been a cosmetic but like a time skip or weapon or something, I can't remember. It was 99 cents. I can't fathom spending tens of dollars let alone hundreds.

I barely even buy cosmetics with in-game currency you earn purely by play time. You'd have to pay me to get me to outfit my character with some of the things people pay to outfit theirs with in 2K.

[jimmys13]

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?

2,293 posts since joining less than 3 months ago. Posting all day everyday doesn't matter when you haven't been around long enough to know the ban trap is set.

[Potato]

Zero VAG making fun of 3000 people who were horribly killed by terrorists.

Edit: screenshot for reference once he deletes

[Taco Bell Tower]

Yikes, wasn't expecting Jeff post that 

[HaughtyFrank]

Zero VAG making fun of 3000 people who were horribly killed by terrorists.

He's just so weird

"Wow, did you just say retard? That's disgusting you're a fucking Nazi"

and at the same time 

"You're so dumb being offended by a 9/11 joke, who cares"

[Straight Edge]

[Boredfrom]

I'm legally blind and appreciate accessibility features that make navigation easier. I know people have clarified that it isn't always around, but even I can tell it could be toned down a bit in the sections it appears in.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thoughts-on-wolverine’s-blue-trail-up-developer-comments-see-threadmarks.1630366/page-15

[benji]

I don't understand how it's an accessibility feature. Can someone that mentally impaired do any of the rest of the game?

You actually see this a lot in modern games, they know the players are stupid (and they're right) but they don't bother to comprehend how the players are stupid. So they just default to assuming the player is borderline subhuman in intelligence.

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

When that's actually just game journalists:

[Boredfrom]

I was seeing Jeff Gerstmann playing Blast Corps and got the part when he needed to move a train to create a route for the nuclear truck. He failed in the first try, fair enough because he didn’t realize he could use the train. But there was a second obstacle when he needed to do the same but with a boat. For some reason he went the wrong way because a small 3D collision pushback and wasted his time searching the boat at the opposite side. He was going to blame the game until he realized how stupid it would sound.

I remember that I did the same mistake… when I was a kid. 

I don’t think Jeff is dumb and probably is the age… but I also think modern gaming conventions have ruined a lot of critical and creative thinking. People that use “accessibility” to demand  handholding are usually brain dead assholes that larp as disable people.

[benji]

No, this is the OoT remake.

[Let's Cyber]

Diablo 4 is bad and anyone dumb enough to spend hundreds of dollars on skins deserves to be scammed. 

[DavidCroquet]

I don't understand how it's an accessibility feature. Can someone that mentally impaired do any of the rest of the game?

Don't tell Nida this, but usually we just let them hold a dead controller and gesticulate in whatever random direction while we have a uncommentated longplay going in the background. 

He has an absolute blast "playing" all the biggest games like this, and that's what's most important.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvels-wolverine-%E2%80%93-review-thread.1629529/page-104#post-160464913

This was me, by the way, so I'd like to apologize here. I wish I could post in the CCU/Sales forum again, as I am interested the industry generally, and I was misguided in trying to start a private conversation with you to that effect. Please accept my apology.

Why 

[Lonewulfeus]

I'm legally blind and appreciate accessibility features that make navigation easier. I know people have clarified that it isn't always around, but even I can tell it could be toned down a bit in the sections it appears in.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thoughts-on-wolverine’s-blue-trail-up-developer-comments-see-threadmarks.1630366/page-15

Legally blind means 20/200 or worse as best corrected vision, not totally blind, it’s definitely possible.

[Boredfrom]

I'm legally blind and appreciate accessibility features that make navigation easier. I know people have clarified that it isn't always around, but even I can tell it could be toned down a bit in the sections it appears in.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thoughts-on-wolverine’s-blue-trail-up-developer-comments-see-threadmarks.1630366/page-15

Legally blind means 20/200 or worse as best corrected vision, not totally blind, it’s definitely possible.

Okay, good to know. Fuck Nida, thought.