Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Switters]

If some guy takes a massive shit in your bus, you can get arrested for mentioning that you're glad the guy taking massive bus shits is gone. 

Stay safe.

[Uncle]

ZeoVGM, notorious bus shitter

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Holy shit, I saw people mocking this on Twitter and you'll never guess what old NeoGAF.com user I found in the replies FACT CHECKING people:

Wait it took ten months for them to clip him out?



Did they have an intern learning adobe premiere in charge?

[Eric Cartman]

That link led me to this gem

https://icon-era.com/threads/ot-drama-other-gaming-forums-gaf-resetera-d-pad-etc.864/post-48707

Their real reasons for banning me involved a multi-paragraph rant from Hecht about how I'm annoying and won't let people enjoy things, and Transistor telling me that I'm "making people miserable" by criticising an upcoming video game, even though many people have thanked me for the level of detail and effort I put into my posts.

Can you imagine if these were actual enforced rules on ResetEra?

Planetsmasher would be running out of ISPs to sign up alts from

[Eric Cartman]

Sure, that's reasonable, but you're not going to sit on their lap at Thanksgiving dinner, right? If they only caught a whiff when you're shaking hands or giving hugs I wouldn't imagine there would be this kind of request about dinner. It seems very likely they can smell it at a distance as well.

Anyway, just throwing my two cents in. You seem pretty set on things.

I'm pretty set on things. I mean, you might disagree, but I would consider sitting next to someone at a meal at a small table to be a reasonable proximity, or assumed proximity...after all, there isn't really any way to know if they only detected it in a hug but hate cologne so much that they just don't want to risk it at a holiday dinner.

I will say, as a general update to the thread since it's been bumped anyways, that I floated this scenario to many people in my circles in various capacities (including regular intimate partners) to get a reaction and try to determine if I might, indeed, need to rethink my application. Most people in my life reacted with laughter or "I didn't know you wore it all the time," *except* my Mom, who said "yeah you shouldn't wear that stuff around your uncle." He is apparently so sensitive to it that he forbade his daughters to wear perfume when they were growing up. So I will of course be sensitive to this also in the future. If anyone else is in that category but lied when I gave them a golden opportunity to clear the air, I don't think that's my fault

edit: I guess I should also say that I am moving towards semi-seriously dating someone who **might** be working his way towards telling me he prefers my natural scent. If that happens, there will of course be a major thread update

[Eric Cartman]

Hezbollah also only exists because Israel launched a full-scale invasion on Lebanon in the 1980's btw.

Cool forum. Cool cool cool.

[TylenolJones]

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Holy shit, I saw people mocking this on Twitter and you'll never guess what old NeoGAF.com user I found in the replies FACT CHECKING people:

10 months to edit a scene where they cut away at the best part

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

if you want some laughs, search for kevincow in dating subreddits.

[Vertigo]

Look at this absolute snitch who got two people banned as they lightly made fun of Zerovag. Imagine going out of your way to report posts. For Alexandros the fear is if Zeo can get made fun of for being a non-critical MCU drone so can he. I think the mods are kinda non plussed I see Solo only got a weeks ban. I'm sure he'll love Alexandros when he gets back.

Also lol at that first post Reeee dishes out 'frontier justice' each and every day to people who usually don't deserve it.

I don't quite agree with your description of the situation but that is neither here nor there. My main point is that it is not our place as simple members of this forum to dish out frontier justice to anyone who we feel deserves it. There is a moderation team that handles reports and administers penalties that anyone can seek the help of or bring a matter to their attention as I just did. The person in question did the crime and is currently doing the time, so to speak. That should be the end of it. A group of users taking advantage of that to tar and feather said person serves no purpose and can be very, very dangerous for someone's mental health.

Without wishing to backseat mod, the advice in these situations is always the same:

Report the posts.

The rules are pretty clear on antagonizing and attacking other members, but Staff can't action posts they don't see.

I already did that for a couple of posts. I really didn't want to swamp the mod team with multiple reports on an issue I couldn't know for sure was worthy of further action since it's not my decision to make. Mentioning the broader issue here seemed like a more elegant solution.

As far as I can tell you reported two posts, and both members in question were banned in short order. So I am not exactly sure what else you expect us to do?

Nothing at all. As I said above, I wasn't sure if this was an issue worth reporting so I posted here to get a feel of how the mod team sees it. I wasn't aware that the second post was already actioned against because I didn't get the relevant notification.

[DocWager]

So basically it’s okay for a member you like to be a bully, but when people tease his ass back it becomes a “Oh you can’t do that. Think about his mental health.”. Typical lying bully behavior tactic.

Also love he needs to be told that the person was “action’d”. What a little sniveling snake.

[Polident]

Can’t read those posts without picturing

[Besticus Maximus]

luckily, the forum cops were around to save the day and prevent independent thought of humorous japes

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-a-trailer-for-marvels-echo-drops-tomorrow-source-mytimetoshine.781292/#post-114371528

User Banned (1 Month): Dismissive Commentary; Ableism

How is a show focued on a mute deaf character gonna work?

Seems like a valid question to me.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Echo actually looks pretty decent. However, it's about to be cancelled...

UnderSiege said:
From the director, Sydney Freeland:
Her power in the comic books is that she can copy anything, any movement, any whatever. It's kind of lame," Freeland said. "I will say, that is not her power. I'll just kind of leave it at that."

Ah ok. Sounds like they're giving her a different power, then?

Also: using the term "lame" when the character in your show has an amputated leg is…not great.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-studios-echo-official-trailer-disney-and-hulu-streams-january-10.781463/post-114399815

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

There literally is only one way to do things. Yet it is deviated into "optimal way" Then newer more refined ways are deviated afterwards, bandwagons for, hipsters take over, and people are rioting all over again on the streets.

We need to ditch "Deviations" Figure out what exactly works, and do them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383522

Technology will get us to a final solution. It was impossible without it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383627

Weekend thread, I see.

OP, I beg you to look up what phrases mean before you use them. "Standard of deviation" and "final solution" have much more specific meanings than you seem to think they do.

No need to beg. Words have several defining points depending on tonality which cannot be expressed through script. So I understand.

Uhhhhhhhhhh.

And I mean without violence. A final solution unlike that of Hitler's.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383678

You're not "meaning" shit.

Please don't curse in my threads.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383705

Fifteen minutes before this thread the OP was posting another thread about wanting to find out how to get the population numbers of console games. What the hell happened in those fifteen minutes?

Time has no dimensionality one cannot traverse into time. Time is dignified as a guide itself.]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383816

Vonocourt I wasn't joking.

There's literally one way to do one thing and that is mathematically provable. You can't just deviate.

Math leads to the worlds and discoveries and advancement but it has yet to trickle into us ourselves.

When it does, we ditch the standard of deviating ideas and expressions, and stick to what works. A un-Hitler-esque "final solution"

And may GOD bless those hurt by the Holocaust.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383867

Final Solution = Final Solution of the Grandest of all equations being solved.

We have not done this yet.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383996

Emotional Standards must improve. Technological advancements have been made yet our philosophies are not so very well polished since the tech-bloom.

These two need a merger and a settlement.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/page-2#post-114384092

We must save the Planet. It has fallen into the wrong hands. Goodnight. Gonna take a rest and read some book.

Visit ya in the morning.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/page-2#post-114384332

You should get some sleep, and my advice, don't try to co-opt terms that refer to genocide.

[HaughtyFrank]

For those of you wondering, I asked for this.

I don't know how people can't understand the appeal about an indigenous woman leading a Marvel show. I thought Echo was great in Hawkeye.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-studios-echo-official-trailer-disney-and-hulu-streams-january-10.781463/post-114403097

I find this to be such a strange argument. Like if you've been looking for that representation, good for you, but at the same time you're basically saying that there is nothing else to it.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-microsoft-employees-aren%E2%80%99t-happy-that-they%E2%80%99re-losing-free-xbox-game-pass-ultimate.781265/page-4#post-114374324

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory comparison

To be fair, a normal business involuntarily removes about 6% of their workforce each year for all reasons combined. At Microsoft, 6% of 225k employees is 13.5k employees. That's like a small shop of 10 people laying off/firing one person every other year. It just seems worse because the numbers are so big.

I guess you were okay with sacrificing 2% of the population during COVID just because the % was low huh? Even though that's like hundreds of millions of people dying. like come on lol. You cant conflate %'s like this. A large number has a way larger impact than any small number. Regardless of the proportion of a %.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-marvels-ot-furys-angels.780227/page-3#post-114320510

child?


wtf

Just looked it up, she's 21 years old looool

Now I wonder if Fj0823 sees his supposed gf being a child instead of being in her 30s.

[Vertigo]

Wait it took ten months for them to clip him out?



Did they have an intern learning adobe premiere in charge?

Knowing Marvel likes to cheap out on who they get to do the VFX on the Disney+ shows probably.

[Daffy Duck]

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Sure, that's reasonable, but you're not going to sit on their lap at Thanksgiving dinner, right? If they only caught a whiff when you're shaking hands or giving hugs I wouldn't imagine there would be this kind of request about dinner. It seems very likely they can smell it at a distance as well.

Anyway, just throwing my two cents in. You seem pretty set on things.

I'm pretty set on things. I mean, you might disagree, but I would consider sitting next to someone at a meal at a small table to be a reasonable proximity, or assumed proximity...after all, there isn't really any way to know if they only detected it in a hug but hate cologne so much that they just don't want to risk it at a holiday dinner.

I will say, as a general update to the thread since it's been bumped anyways, that I floated this scenario to many people in my circles in various capacities (including regular intimate partners) to get a reaction and try to determine if I might, indeed, need to rethink my application. Most people in my life reacted with laughter or "I didn't know you wore it all the time," *except* my Mom, who said "yeah you shouldn't wear that stuff around your uncle." He is apparently so sensitive to it that he forbade his daughters to wear perfume when they were growing up. So I will of course be sensitive to this also in the future. If anyone else is in that category but lied when I gave them a golden opportunity to clear the air, I don't think that's my fault

edit: I guess I should also say that I am moving towards semi-seriously dating someone who **might** be working his way towards telling me he prefers my natural scent. If that happens, there will of course be a major thread update

edit: I guess I should also say that I am moving towards semi-seriously dating someone who **might** be working his way towards telling me he prefers my natural scent. If that happens, there will of course be a major thread update

Dude, nobody gives a fuck!

[Snoopy]

The woman from Metal Gear Solid says she was happy with the character and liked Kojima

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-5s-stefanie-joosten-on-playing-quiet-working-with-kojima.781490/

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

There literally is only one way to do things. Yet it is deviated into "optimal way" Then newer more refined ways are deviated afterwards, bandwagons for, hipsters take over, and people are rioting all over again on the streets.

We need to ditch "Deviations" Figure out what exactly works, and do them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383522

Technology will get us to a final solution. It was impossible without it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383627

Weekend thread, I see.

OP, I beg you to look up what phrases mean before you use them. "Standard of deviation" and "final solution" have much more specific meanings than you seem to think they do.

No need to beg. Words have several defining points depending on tonality which cannot be expressed through script. So I understand.

Uhhhhhhhhhh.

And I mean without violence. A final solution unlike that of Hitler's.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383678

You're not "meaning" shit.

Please don't curse in my threads.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383705

Fifteen minutes before this thread the OP was posting another thread about wanting to find out how to get the population numbers of console games. What the hell happened in those fifteen minutes?

Time has no dimensionality one cannot traverse into time. Time is dignified as a guide itself.]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383816

Vonocourt I wasn't joking.

There's literally one way to do one thing and that is mathematically provable. You can't just deviate.

Math leads to the worlds and discoveries and advancement but it has yet to trickle into us ourselves.

When it does, we ditch the standard of deviating ideas and expressions, and stick to what works. A un-Hitler-esque "final solution"

And may GOD bless those hurt by the Holocaust.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383867

Final Solution = Final Solution of the Grandest of all equations being solved.

We have not done this yet.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/#post-114383996

Emotional Standards must improve. Technological advancements have been made yet our philosophies are not so very well polished since the tech-bloom.

These two need a merger and a settlement.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/page-2#post-114384092

We must save the Planet. It has fallen into the wrong hands. Goodnight. Gonna take a rest and read some book.

Visit ya in the morning.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-standard-of-deviation-is-why-we-are-stuck-as-a-culture.781358/page-2#post-114384332

You should get some sleep, and my advice, don't try to co-opt terms that refer to genocide.

Indeed by permanently banning the person.  Also, ironic on don't try to co-opt terms that refer to genocide when they have this
https://www.resetera.com/threads/yes-it-is-trans-genocide-a-faq-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-today.711593/

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/when-the-posted-store-hours-are-8a-8p-but-the-store-locks-the-door-at-745p.780878/
Baby's first time leaving the house on their own

Sure locking the doors a few minutes early isn't a problem but 15 minutes is egregious and who ever allowed it should be trapped with a fart in a revolving door.

[HaughtyFrank]

The woman from Metal Gear Solid says she was happy with the character and liked Kojima

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-5s-stefanie-joosten-on-playing-quiet-working-with-kojima.781490/

You see she actually hated it but cant say 

Eh on her stance regarding Quiet's outfit and its explanation. Very neutral "I don't want to step on anyone's toes" vibe.

I'm really happy for her overall. She seems like a decent person. If Quiet were to get a prequel story, I'd be down for it.

It's easy for people who's livelihoods (like ours) don't depend on getting this kind of work to speak out against hope preposterous the costume is. Though I have a negative opinion on the outfit, I'm in no place to judge her public opinion because I don't have to bow to patriarchal ideals for my next meal

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mcdonald%E2%80%99s-chipotle-to-raise-menu-prices-in-california-next-year-as-fast-food-minimum-wage-rises-to-20-in-april.781391/#post-114388310
Of course the fat man dog would reeeeeee
fat4all

fucking asshole scum

they been doing that already, but to just come out and proudly announce it?

fuck you fucks

anti-employee stains on existence

Guess his parents are gonna make him get a job if he wants McDonald's

[Venice]

The woman from Metal Gear Solid says she was happy with the character and liked Kojima

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-5s-stefanie-joosten-on-playing-quiet-working-with-kojima.781490/

Entire thread is basically 'This is what this woman really meant to say' 

It's almost as if Era is mansplaining.

It's almost as if pro-women, believe-women, diversity, gender-equality, Era is actually very deeply misogynistic and doesn't give a fuck what women really have to say.

[Taco Bell Tower]

The woman from Metal Gear Solid says she was happy with the character and liked Kojima

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-5s-stefanie-joosten-on-playing-quiet-working-with-kojima.781490/

Entire thread is basically 'This is what this woman really meant to say' 

It's almost as if Era is mansplaining.

It's almost as if pro-women, believe-women, diversity, gender-equality, Era is actually very deeply misogynistic and doesn't give a fuck what women really have to say.

They have a thread fully dedicated on mansplaining
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-298#post-114411998

Gender
Male

The Kojima thread got me thinking about something that I really dislike about the sexualization of women in videogames (and other media), which is how insidious it is. And it's not limited to the game itself; you see that same phenomenon in the marketing and discussion of the game too.

In the case of MGSV, most of what you would experience is the stealth action gameplay and the espionage storyline. That's what the creator of the game and subsuquent marketing would describe as the main vision of the game. But an inextricable part of that vision is Kojima's view of women. That's been a constant thread through all his games. That makes sense as he sees himself as an "auteur", which you could say necessitates him to represent unsavory parts of himself in his works. So that begs the question, if this auteur's vision is so celebrated, why is this particular aspect treated like a dirty secret? Why doesn't the marketing parade around Kojima's latest iteration of "woman"? Surely the people interested in his works would continue to be interested.

Except, maybe some people wouldn't. They might be put off by an explicit showcase of his vision. I'm sure Kojima himself wouldn't mind if his vision is off-putting to some in a creative sense. But games are a business so marketing ends up representing the game in a way that generates the most appeal. So you end up with a product that essentially trojan horses a certain view of women after masquerading as having little to no opinion on the matter. I feel this helps to explain the prevalence of "embarassment" when it comes to playing games like these. And for those who don't notice or aren't bothered, it silently affirms their existing worldview (which in this particular case is the sexualization of women as the status quo).

To be clear, I'm not advocating or expecting Kojima to change his art. I can respect that he sees his creations as a reflection of himself and his views. But I don't respect how this art is packaged into a product that obscures its true nature and results in an insidious disseminiation of these views.

[Besticus Maximus]

Listen chuds, the only person in the fucking world right now who is qualified to interpret whether or not Kojima lady wanted us to worship the gourd or the shoe is motherfuckin' Kyuuji, first of their name, lord of women in videogames spaces (not true and honest), chosen of Nepenthe, OP of the Joanne thread(s)

[Nintex]

The one consistent thing you hear about people working with Kojima is that they really ejoyed working with him.

The only common criticism is that people that he used to work with are dissapointed he no longer hires them. 
If Kojima treated women or other actors badly they wouldn't line-up to star in his videogame projects or meet up with him. 
Word travels fast in Hollywood.

Also Joosten used to go to MGS fan meet-ups and comic-cons and whatnot long after Konami would pay her for such promotions.

[Besticus Maximus]

Kojima is andy warhol, everyone wants in on his shit because he's the coolest dude in the room

[Nintex]

Also note how Kojima gets 'cinema' actors who would otherwise skip on doing these things for EA or Microsoft or whatever.

Not to mention that when he left Konami to set-up Kojipro most of his key staff joined him or joined later when their contracts allowed them to.