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

[Vertigo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-political-era-2026-ot1-burnham-down-the-house-trans-rights-are-human-rights.1619122/page-15#post-160574716

 User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing Concerns of Racism; Prior Ban for Xenophobia

a political campaign video in a foreign language for a mp seat is going to raise eyebrows, especially if the candidate is obviously speaking phonetically. i don't think that automatically makes someone a racist

That this is called racism is wild to me. When politicians in your country start speaking foreign languages to appeal to voters that's at least a little crazy, right?

Its absolutely crazy. How do you come to a country and have no interest in learning the local language? And I know many of those people have been in the UK for decades. No interest in assimilating. But a blind eye is turned.

Its also Reee so I expect no better, the types to cheer along anything as long as its 'anti establishment' and of course its the green party and dangerous idiot Zack Polanski, that party is being very obviously captured by conservative Muslim and south Asian elements, its darkly hilarious to see. But will have very real consequences.

Its like the Queers for Palestine lot just dumb lambs to the slaughter.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/converse-ad-sparks-controversy-over-insensitive-racist-imagery.1637080/

Jesus christ, this is why you hire diverse design teams. I don't think it was intentional, but it absolutely should have been caught.

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So in the last couple of hours, Converse is receiving backlash for an image in the recent chuck 70 x promotion featuring Karina. Now, immediately most people noticed that the visuals and lighting make Karina’s skirt look like a klan hood next to a hanging to a body.

What sort of fucked up mind do you have to own to see a Klan hat and hanging feet?

I honestly didn’t see it at first, cause I looked at the whole image not just parts.  But… the part of the skirt that the light is hitting, by itself, does look like a clan hood.  Now I’m white and not a racist so I’m not primed to see KKK regalia in everyday objects but after looking at it closely I kinda get it.  There’s no way it was intentional though, I don’t think white supremacists are the main audience for chucks though

[BIONIC]

Now I’m white and not a racist

Not possible

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-7-revelation-will-let-players-raise-their-characters-level-automatically-to-skip-grinding-side-content.1638958/

Just because the option exists doesn't mean you need to use it. This doesn't take anything away from your experience.

This is a GOOD thing for accessability.

Accessibility?

Guess people with disabilities aren’t able to complete sidequests now.

These cunts will twist every fucking phrase and concept until it literally means nothing

[DavidCroquet]

Purposeful. There are too many layers in marketing that shit has to go through for it not to be intentional.

What exactly would be the purpose of everybody in Converse's oldest brand to advertise with an intentional Klan lynching image?  

Insert that comic strip:
"How does this help us sell shoes?"
"...sell shoes?"

"Whether you're a card-carrying Klansman or the victim of a racist lynching, you gotta have Converse!"

[Snoopy]

Shit. I’ve got 4 pairs of Cons. Andy Warhol edition. Blondie. Hello Kitty. Tyler. Welp. Into the trash they go.

[Yulwei v2]

This PlatinumGirafarig account has to be an actual bot, right?

Registered last month
1340 posts and every single one is a Sony dick slurping post in one way or another

This is a level of inhuman that it is difficult for me to comprehend

[Mediocre Lager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-7-revelation-will-let-players-raise-their-characters-level-automatically-to-skip-grinding-side-content.1638958/

Just because the option exists doesn't mean you need to use it. This doesn't take anything away from your experience.

This is a GOOD thing for accessability.

Accessibility?

Guess people with disabilities aren’t able to complete sidequests now.

These cunts will twist every fucking phrase and concept until it literally means nothing

Probably my biggest annoyance with that entire forum is how they equate "accessibility" to "every game should have unlimited options so you don't have to actually play the game at all".

At that point why not just watch someone play it on Youtube? Hell, why not let AI create a game for you since the ultimate goal is for players to do whatever the fuck they want and design intent doesn't matter?

If you have to implement something so that players can skips large parts of your game the better option is to not include things that people want to skip.

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This really bugs me and now I have to go take an angry poop.

[Vertigo]

This PlatinumGirafarig account has to be an actual bot, right?

Registered last month
1340 posts and every single one is a Sony dick slurping post in one way or another

This is a level of inhuman that it is difficult for me to comprehend

I looked through all 10 pages of their posts and apart from one post laughing about Asha and Xbox PR its all about Sony related things.

Not even Sony cockslurpers like RedKong are on that level.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvels-wolverine-censored-mystique%E2%80%99s-lesbian-relationship-for-middle-east-release.1638571/#post-160821397

 User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive Commentary; Account in Junior Phase

Are people just now realizing that not every person is welcome in every country?

 User Banned (permanent): Troll account

Glad they can have a blast. (I mean playing the game, not the Iran situation.)

Bire post.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tomshardware-wiki-documents-at-least-44-instances-in-which-sony-says-you-own-your-games-as-digital-games-ownership-lawsuit-progresses.1631437/page-3#post-160772020

 User banned (permanent): Troll account

"I have my own idea of what a man or a woman is that I am going to guess is different from the (trans) politician in question."

I wonder what that idea is!

Sure. Let's do that. I'll quote my post from December of 2024 on the website in question, with a correction for a typo. This post remains live today for anyone to read.

I have no issues with trans people & treat them the way I want to be treated. For me it isn't a question of my opinions on their identity. It's just human fucking decency. One example; this fuckface I had as a mailman walks into my store, while I am helping an obviously trans customer. I treat this customer the way I treat any other customer; I run to the front to help, I treat this customer with an of service mindset, & I do everything I can to ensure a happy outcome. My mailman is staring, making these disgusted looks, then laughing under his breath. I took him aside and told him to never fucking do that again.

I asked him, regardless of what you think; do you honestly believe this person went through high school in new york city without having someone laugh or snicker at them? Do you really think you're adding something to the conversation by laughing at them, treating them like they're different/weird or like a piece of shit? Above all, who the fuck do you think you are to look down your nose at MY customers when you're in MY FUCKING BUSINESS? Get the fuck out of here you piece of shit. That obviously came at a price unless you believe that nobody picking up my mail & the superviser having to show up to pick up what that mailman didn't after, it was a point worth making.

To be clear, I don't think men are women or vice versa. But that doesn't mean I walk up to people and go out of my way to call someone who is obviously trying to pass as a "she" a "he" just to be a dick, and I think it's stupid as fuck that people see taking part in behavior that causes non-deserving people to feel shittier for no good reason as a marker of being a "real man.". as someone who has literal brain damage from my own childhood, I am INFINITELY sympathetic to the plight of the people who do not fit in; the people who feel weird & uncomfortable in their own skin. For WHATEVER reason. I am not here to make their lives shittier for no reason. Yes I roll my eyes out of my head at people who claim it is "transphobic" for me to want to exclusively date what i believe to be biological women.

My personal trainer got banned from an online dating site. after having so many trans people reach out to him, he finally put "only interested in biological women" on his profile. he was banned for this, on a website where profiles routinely state "only interested in 5'9" and up" - it is ok for someone to have a preference for height, but not ok for him to have a preference that he date someone who was born a woman. i think that's fucking ridiculous.

That is a separate issue than whether or not I decide to be pieces of shit to everyone in that group regardless of how they have treated me. THESE ARE UNRELATED.

This seems to be something that is lost in modern society where everyone wears their political opinions & speaks about them as if it's WWF wrestling. There's this idea that if you have more conservative beliefs about gender, you have to go out of your way to laugh behind the backs of trans people or go out of your way to call them something you just know is going to piss them off. How much effort does it take for me to say "absolutely my friend"? And isn't that the same amount of courtesy I would hope someone would show me? Further, what do I have to gain from saying "absolutely, sir!" to a trans person trying to pass as female? I am going to make them feel like shit & then I'll feel like shit that I made someone's day worse, after they were nothing but nice to me. What am I adding to the world with that interaction?

Is that how I want to be remembered? NO.
Will that get more people interested in my cause? NO.
Will that result in me living a better life? NO.

so why do it?

Every trans person I have met in real life has been incredibly kind, nice, & accepting of me - & I have in turn provided the same treatment to them.

You can treat people with decency without being a piece of shit; you can actually treat people very kindly. Above all, I'm not here to assume that every person I meet from a group thinks the same(or is as negative towards me) as the worst experiences I have had with a small subsection of those people on the internet.

that's about it for that.

The problem I have with you isn't that we have disagreements on anything. Rather, it's the disingenuous & manipulative way that you present things in order to whip up a mob frenzy. In the very posts you are referring to, I am discussing an altercation I had that damaged my business because I stood up to someone bullying a trans person rather than stay quiet, and in my own life I go out of my way to use non-gendered language to refer to people when it seems like they're trying to pass for something else as a courtesy. The one area where I draw the line, is that if someone was born biologically as a male, I don't consider them part of the dating pool.

The things that I say are reasonable to most people. You know if most people read what I actually said, they might come to a different conclusion than the one you have put forward(calling me a "nazi"). That is why you don't quote what I say; rather, you poison the well to signal to people who are already on edge that I am some sort of psycho extremist. In reality, even people who disagree with me(to the left or the right) usually find my viewpoint to be much more nuanced than what you put out there.

[HaughtyFrank]

If Square can do this, Disney and Sony could have afforded not to release the game the Middle East. Pathetic.

That requires Disney to not also be homophobic as fuck.

You'd think whole countries banning being gay would put things into perspective for them but guess not

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lady-gaga-welcomes-first-child-via-surrogate.1637212/#post-160737532

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Misogynist Rhetoric

As someone strongly against surrogacy, screw them and anyone who resorts to it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lady-gaga-welcomes-first-child-via-surrogate.1637212/page-2#post-160739353

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Misogynist Rhetoric

I'm not gonna lie surrogacy is kinda fucked up when there are plenty of babies who have no home. I don't give a fuck about the other part involving the women of said surrogacy, that's their body to do what they want.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/boob-straps%E2%84%A2-the-modern-hotness-in-hot-female-design.1636642/page-5#post-160740271

 User banned (1 month): Trolling and dismissing concerns of misogyny over multiple posts

Oh, my God! What an egregious insult to good taste.

I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these women being debauched to further the cause of video games. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this.

[Greatness Gone]

how is being against surrogacy misogynistic...that stance is pro-woman. 

[Let's Cyber]

I honestly think they're just ignorant on top of not caring. How many of them even made more than a single post about Israhell or Zios before Oct. 7/Gaza? Let alone devoted their personality to it and treated it like the biggest event in human history.

⁣I naively believed the wave of hyperfocus on Gaza post Oct 7th would eventually lead to a greater interest by a younger generation in geopolitics and US foreign policy. That would be the conduit to them becoming more politically aware. 

Instead, it led to a bunch of slacktivist, conspiracy-brained dumbdumbs going down a pop-socialist rabbit hole and worshiping tankie, grifting fucks like Hasan. And then proudly chirping about their refusal to vote.  

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/no-changes-being-made-to-kanji-and-naoto-in-persona-4-revival.1639252/

Always thought it's funny how they're upset by Naoto's storyline. A girl who doesn't want to be a girl in a deeply patriarchal society seems like a pretty real story that's worth telling but they seem upset by the mere implication that people could have complex feelings about their gender without being trans.

[Mediocre Lager]

Have they considered letting you just skip any narrative complexity entirely?

It's called accessibility, chud.

[BIONIC]

Have they considered letting you just skip any narrative complexity entirely?

It's called accessibility, chud.

Or having icky men hitting on my hot WLW lesbian in my RPGs that I also want to challenge me

[Potato]

It feels kind of racist to suggest that people of different skin colors would automatically interpret images differently and in a very specific way. Especially people of the same background, education, income status, etc. Especially when so many diverse people on Era and across the internet are capable of it despite not being of that skin color but by simply being properly in tune with the Right Side of History.

Why would a Black person, for example the President of the Jordan brand also employed at Nike (the owner of Converse), who apparently lived her entire life in Oregon automatically have visions of a Klan lynching when seeing this image? Something that probably never happened in her lifetime? Is it supposed to be embedded in her DNA just because she's Black even if it never happened to any of her ancestors anymore than any white person?

Strange how DNA can encode such things from before her lifespan but literally does nothing at all when it comes to her sex.

Generational trauma. That's why people born in 2026 should be financially responsible for crimes of colonisation committed in 1788.

[Potato]

Shit. I’ve got 4 pairs of Cons. Andy Warhol edition. Blondie. Hello Kitty. Tyler. Welp. Into the trash they go.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/no-changes-being-made-to-kanji-and-naoto-in-persona-4-revival.1639252/

Always thought it's funny how they're upset by Naoto's storyline. A girl who doesn't want to be a girl in a deeply patriarchal society seems like a pretty real story that's worth telling but they seem upset by the mere implication that people could have complex feelings about their gender without being trans.

I have IRL family similar to Naoto, so it always pisses me off the “she must be trans, coward writers”. 

I can see the debate with Kanji, but in the end of the day his arc is more about “accept the parts of himself that aren’t considered masculine” than the Yosuke’s take: “you gay.”

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-7-revelation-will-let-players-raise-their-characters-level-automatically-to-skip-grinding-side-content.1638958/

Just because the option exists doesn't mean you need to use it. This doesn't take anything away from your experience.

This is a GOOD thing for accessability.

Accessibility?

Guess people with disabilities aren’t able to complete sidequests now.

These cunts will twist every fucking phrase and concept until it literally means nothing

Probably my biggest annoyance with that entire forum is how they equate "accessibility" to "every game should have unlimited options so you don't have to actually play the game at all".

At that point why not just watch someone play it on Youtube? Hell, why not let AI create a game for you since the ultimate goal is for players to do whatever the fuck they want and design intent doesn't matter?

If you have to implement something so that players can skips large parts of your game the better option is to not include things that people want to skip.

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This really bugs me and now I have to go take an angry poop.

It's just a symptom of their hyper consumerism and the bullying and ostracism they have received their while life. 

They HAVE to be part of every conversation, they HAVE to feel like they're part of the Zeitgeist, they HAVE to have other people cater to their specific needs. 

Just cunts.

[Boredfrom]

how is being against surrogacy misogynistic...that stance is pro-woman. 

I get why some would consider it that but I think you can heavily object calling it “pro woman” depending of the circumstances.

[Potato]

If Square can do this, Disney and Sony could have afforded not to release the game the Middle East. Pathetic.

That requires Disney to not also be homophobic as fuck.

You'd think whole countries banning being gay would put things into perspective for them but guess not

I think I found a map which makes it clear where Nepenthe's "Global South" is...

[Mediocre Lager]

They bang the accessibility drum because it gives them what they really want. The bait is so transparent; No matter what you say in response they can just come back with "Oh so you hate disabled people and want us to just shut up and die?"

They have a Gaming forum where you can't discuss the nuances of game design. They have a Politics forum where you can't discuss the nuances of anything. A Pop Culture forum where everything is black and white.

They don't actually give a shit about accessibility or anything else they bring up. They just want to have their Gotcha Moment and then feel morally superior while everyone admires how progressive they are.

[Mediocre Lager]

They bang the accessibility drum because it gives them what they really want. The bait is so transparent; No matter what you say in response they can just come back with "Oh so you hate disabled people and want us to just shut up and die?"

They have a Gaming forum where you can't discuss the nuances of game design. They have a Politics forum where you can't discuss the nuances of anything. A Pop Culture forum where everything is black and white.

They don't actually give a shit about accessibility or anything else they bring up. They just want to have their Gotcha Moment and then feel morally superior while everyone admires how progressive they are.

No one cares. Shut up nerd.

[Boredfrom]

That requires Disney to not also be homophobic as fuck.

You'd think whole countries banning being gay would put things into perspective for them but guess not

I think I found a map which makes it clear where Nepenthe's "Global South" is...

Japan still doesn’t legally recognize Gay marriage.

[HaughtyFrank]

I think I found a map which makes it clear where Nepenthe's "Global South" is...

[img]https://i.imgur.com/mGLioD0.jpeg[img]

Male illegal, Female legal

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lg-2017-2026-oleds-optimized-settings-for-xbox-one-series-x-s-ps4-ps5-switch-1-2-pc-and-webos-movies-sdr-hdr-dv.73304/page-490#post-160839850

Just to confirm, it seems the only downside my C6 77" has to my old G4 77" is the fact that it seems like it cannot transmit DTS:X through eARC, am I right? Otherwise it seems like it wins out on every feature and tech spec. Glad I made the switch regardless.