Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Potato]

Lol, B-dubs got overruled

This thread has been re-opened, please continue discussing.

Balls in a jar

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Lmao the stupid bitch gave in.

Discussing what? 

“Yeah, I want that trans actress to get her dream job, I guess. Don’t ban me.”

What is the point of discussing anything when the only allowed opinion is: “I want a transexual as Zelda because my fetish life style existence demands validation”. 

And not, Princess Chicle, being a trans woman doesn’t make you a lesbian or makes lesbians thirsty for you.

It'll just turn into the "which movie roles should we trans swap" OT.

[benji]

If Snyder shot five hours on $250 million for Justice League (that Warner wanted paired down to two hours, then spent another $50 million reshooting enough with Whedon that it was half their theatrical cut), then how much did DaCosta shoot on $275 million for The Marvels that Disney paired down to 105 minutes? Why is Bob Iger genociding more fun? #ReleaseTheDaCostaCut #LetBlackWomenMakeMovies #OscarsSoWhite #FreePalestine #TransRightsAreHumanRights

[Potato]

Not that Reddit was ever good but lately it is just unbearable with the r/antiwork and Resetera-esque left-wing politics getting shoehorned into everything. 

Even a smaller finance sub is now just endless screenshots of Era-tier Twitter lefty "zingers," upvote to the right content now.

Deleted my reddit account ages ago. Never regretted it.

[Boredfrom]

Mario Wonder has unleashed the shackles of the usual Mario roster and granted upon us a new roster of varied and adorable enemies not seen before in a 2D Mario. And unlike the original New Super Mario Bros which actually introduced a bunch of new foes, it feels like the ones in this game are like...leagues ahead and destined to hopefully become mainstays? Though I do miss those boxing ghosts, they're tight.

But what enemy was your favorite, mechanically or just being damn cute? Worth noting a lot of the new enemies don't even have official names browsing the Wiki, if they're not the title of a level they're basically only know by their internal Japanese code name.

I for one can't help that love Missile Meg. Even though it's just a new variant of a classic foe, I'm glad Bowser has diversified his living ammunition army. Actually I think this is his first ever female-coded grunt? Excluding Pom Pom and Wendy, who are generals. There's the lady Goomba in Odyssey but she feels like a civilian and not a combatant.

Edit: or not in Japan Missile Meg just translates to "Long Bullet Bill". Damn. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-was-your-favorite-new-mario-wonder-ememy-that-made-you-go-wowie-zowie.783713/

[benji]

actually reading through this thread, I'm kind of astounded by how many great enemies are in this game. they somehow already feel iconic

Sometimes a part of me hates how they use words.

[Not an Alt Account]

She'd be a sick link tbh

See, this guy know what's up. I wonder how they are going to react to his post.

[Nintex]

Miyamoto be like

Zelda = Emily Blunt
Ganondorf = Morgan Freeman
Tingle = Jason Mamoa
Beedle = Vin Diesel
Link = Jason Statham
Impa = Gal Gadot
King = Ken Watanabe

[NekoFever]

She'd be a sick link tbh

See, this guy know what's up. I wonder how they are going to react to his post.

You mean Zelda or Link as a girl?

[NekoFever]

Mario Wonder has unleashed the shackles of the usual Mario roster and granted upon us a new roster of varied and adorable enemies not seen before in a 2D Mario. And unlike the original New Super Mario Bros which actually introduced a bunch of new foes, it feels like the ones in this game are like...leagues ahead and destined to hopefully become mainstays? Though I do miss those boxing ghosts, they're tight.

But what enemy was your favorite, mechanically or just being damn cute? Worth noting a lot of the new enemies don't even have official names browsing the Wiki, if they're not the title of a level they're basically only know by their internal Japanese code name.

I for one can't help that love Missile Meg. Even though it's just a new variant of a classic foe, I'm glad Bowser has diversified his living ammunition army. Actually I think this is his first ever female-coded grunt? Excluding Pom Pom and Wendy, who are generals. There's the lady Goomba in Odyssey but she feels like a civilian and not a combatant.

Edit: or not in Japan Missile Meg just translates to "Long Bullet Bill". Damn. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-was-your-favorite-new-mario-wonder-ememy-that-made-you-go-wowie-zowie.783713/

“Female-coded”

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[Besticus Maximus]

I am pleased to report that Nintendo being awesome, Zelda will not be played by a man who likes Steven Universe.

[Snoopy]

Could you homos chill with the hate speech please. Trying to sell this place to Ben Shapiro

[benji]

[benji]

“Female-coded”

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Purple means girl, TERFCHUDTRIARCH.

[Besticus Maximus]

the fucking booj at it again

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Why is he so terrible at what he does? Moderating seems like some easy shit for forced-inside folks. You ban them and they disappear.

It's because of their fundamental assumptions about what policing is and how it should be done. It's not surprising that a forum like The Bire run by an anarchist or even the OG run by older type progressives is interested in a light touch that lets things play out and be handled by the community itself and only really stepping in when others can't do anything (for example on here, deleting spam bots has been most of what me and bork have done) with a minimal interest in solving everything with bans. It's also not surprising that a forum run by these people (and NeoGAF.com before except for certain exceptions) is run by people who think the position that happenstance has granted them reveals the inherent value of the person in it and that there should be a hierarchical set of castes that "manage" all discussion to the correct end points. 

They see the ban as the way to handle things because it's the way to maintain control (and you have to ban, what, you'd let the bad guys get away after they reveal themselves?), if you let the community police itself it may drive off people ZeoVGM through relentless mockery and that conflicts, for whatever reason, with the castes goals. Hence the ever spiraling need for protected classes and restricted topics where every simple discussion becomes an existential one that could cost you your account for a misstep. Unless you suck up to the rulers and that's what's really important to everyone involved here and their ideological predispositions. That others come to them to ask them to use power and in return everyone worships them. Or else.

This is what they want, a police state where everyone is at everyone else's throats about everything because everything can escalate to an existential conflict. If they claim otherwise it's because sometimes the highest caste has to lie in the service of the greater good.

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not to sound like a carebear but this place is pretty welcoming and I'm glad I finally made an account. You and everyone do a good job fostering this little community.

wait 

now back to liking posts 

[benji]

not to sound like a carebear but this place is pretty welcoming and I'm glad I finally made an account.

[Potato]

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[benji]

Wow, just learned about another transphobic crime by CDPR thanks to a Kotaku article from back in June:

Cyberpunk 2077 launched as a broken game. But as someone who was going through the early work of gender transition during a world-stopping pandemic at the time, it somehow made sense that the big-budget, mega-popular video game everyone was so hyped about was also falling the fuck apart.

Amid the heat of the pandemic, most nights for me would end the same, especially before I started hormone therapy: I’d drink myself to sleep, usually waking up with the sun glaring through the window of my bathroom, where I’d ended up at some point in the evening. I would just lay there, staring at the ceiling before finally pulling myself up to look in the mirror, the pain of which was always a trial.

Peeling myself away from the mirror those mornings (which were often in actuality afternoons, or evenings), I’d mosey over to my computer to play a distracting video game. Cyberpunk’s disastrous launch state was alluring. I had enough of seeing the disaster of myself in the mirror, enough of seeing the disaster of the world outside, so why not go check out something else busted to make me feel a little better about this fucked-up world, and my place in it?

Playing Cyberpunk 2077 at launch was an experience in harmony with gender dysphoria, which for some trans people is a condition that can spontaneously ebb to the point that it feels like it was never present in the first place. It will lie to you, creating an illusion that the life you’re living is fine, is good enough. Gender dysphoria will shrink until it’s just rough edges of discomfort you can excuse away as something else. You just get used to it. Until you can’t.

Like a violent glitch that suddenly sends your car flying halfway across Night City and buries V into the side of a building, you’ll catch yourself in the mirror or notice something about your body and realize it’s not fine, and that some mixture of the software and hardware that is “you” is not playing well, is crashing to desktop again. Or in my case, the beer-bottle-littered floor.

Here, V awakens from a mission gone wrong to find out she’s not alone in her head. In Cyberpunk 2077, that additional mental construct is a messed-up former rockstar from whom the world has moved on, zealous in his perspectives on society and completely willing to risk his life for them. It was the kind of person I knew well; it was the kind of person I myself had been before coming out, having traveled the country and other parts of the world playing metal music in venue after venue, night after night.

That extra person, that construct, wanted to take over my brain and push me out, turning me into nothing more than a loud-ass walking stereotype. It was what I had to resist. Am I talking about the game or about how hard it was to finally come out and override my own faux construct? Probably both.

Whenever a friend would ask me what I thought of Cyberpunk 2077, I’d give some variation of the same answer: “It’s a broken game about a broken world where I’m a trans woman with the consciousness of a self-destructive male rockstar stuck in her head and she has to take pills to make him go away.” Anyone to whom I would’ve said this already knew I was trans and knew about my previous life as a touring metal guitarist. There’d usually be a collective moment of silence and an unvoiced, “oh…” in response.

The state of the game and the disastrous situation my V found herself in from the beginning mirrored my life…and then the Johnny Silverhand flashbacks only doubled down on the parallels.

The opening moments of “Love Like Fire,” in which you first experience this figure now riding shotgun in your brain through Johnny’s memories of being backstage at a small club before going on, reminded me vividly of countless nights I’d lived through myself, and the way the game framed Johnny’s experience there was essentially how I’d felt for 30 years of my life: that I’m not me. That I’m just going through the motions—the script.

When Johnny says into the mic, “I’m here to say goodbye,” it reminded me of the last show I played before quitting tour life. And just as that night ended violently for Johnny, so did my own final show during that chapter. Full of rage about the music industry and my place in it, I threw my guitar against the wall. I’d quit a few short days later.

My departure meant the death of the band, an expensive, ambitious project. “So you’re just going to fucking burn this all down?” a bandmate asked me. Yeah. Like the Arasaka Towers, I did.

But in 2020 those memories were nearly four years old. I had come out as a woman, ready to start medical transition, and was living my life anew. And like Johnny glitching himself into existence to haunt V, so did my former life bedevil me. For the first year and a half of transition it was a trial to even touch a guitar. To do so would just summon my own Johnny Silverhand, interrupting me and fucking with my sense of reality and identity. And like V, I had a choice to make.

But every interaction with Johnny Silverhand made it too hard to ignore the obvious question I’d been wrestling with and would continue to wrestle with: Do I choose hostility or grace when faced with aspects of my life that make me uncomfortable? Do I learn to make peace with this unwanted “other” self, or do I tell him to fuck off? Do I give in and let this other identity take the wheel? Or do I just eat pills, take blockers, and see what happens?

nikudan
6/07/23 3:11pm
Wow. Thank you for sharing. There is something about this game. I have had two trans friends also talk to me about how it was special to them, though not for anything like the reason this article spoke of.

Skamanda
6/08/23 10:08am
I had the same sort of experience with my own gender dysphoria, the first time I played through Cyberpunk...

And I guess I’m about to start another playthrough...

How are these people so ignorant about what CDPR stands for, endless hatred and genocide? I don't think they even read the STAFF COMMUNICATION on ResetERA.com at all.

[benji]

Thanks, I was trying to find this and the phone one outside the car but could only find the car one bork made.

[Uncle]

plz code the "moving right to left" thing so we can make her driving her car

[malfoyking]

So cyberpunk, because of Johnny, it's like having gender dysphoria... Is there nothing these people wouldn't make about themselves...?

[kaleidoscopium]

“Why make a movie about ELON????!!!?” a forum screams, while opening their 300th topic about him specifically. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/variety-elon-musk-biopic-in-the-works-at-a24-with-darren-aronofsky-set-to-direct.783782/#post-114726986

[Uncle]

[Taco Bell Tower]

Mario Wonder has unleashed the shackles of the usual Mario roster and granted upon us a new roster of varied and adorable enemies not seen before in a 2D Mario. And unlike the original New Super Mario Bros which actually introduced a bunch of new foes, it feels like the ones in this game are like...leagues ahead and destined to hopefully become mainstays? Though I do miss those boxing ghosts, they're tight.

But what enemy was your favorite, mechanically or just being damn cute? Worth noting a lot of the new enemies don't even have official names browsing the Wiki, if they're not the title of a level they're basically only know by their internal Japanese code name.

I for one can't help that love Missile Meg. Even though it's just a new variant of a classic foe, I'm glad Bowser has diversified his living ammunition army. Actually I think this is his first ever female-coded grunt? Excluding Pom Pom and Wendy, who are generals. There's the lady Goomba in Odyssey but she feels like a civilian and not a combatant.

Edit: or not in Japan Missile Meg just translates to "Long Bullet Bill". Damn. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-was-your-favorite-new-mario-wonder-ememy-that-made-you-go-wowie-zowie.783713/

“Female-coded”

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[HaughtyFrank]

“Female-coded”

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That's a penis

[Straight Edge]

But it’s a feminine penis, shitlord.

[kaleidoscopium]

B-Dubs wasn't just overruled on the trans Zelda post, his post was removed and replaced with Princess bubblegums. That is wild lol
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god damn, I really don't even know who to mention on here anymore, the amount of youtubers I casually watch and mentioned in the past someone always finds some dirt on them here and tell me not to post them. Bare in mind I have no clue about the allegations/controversies most of the time.

At this point I don't think I should post anybody lmao

Here's a golden rule, always look up their reviews of:

Captain Marvel
The Last of Us Part 2
The Last Jedi

If they're shit they'll show it for sure in one of those

He also gave a glowing review to the MAGA hit Sounds of Freedom while trashing Barbie and it's "pandering message" along with Guardians of the Galaxy 3. I only learned of his past bullshit not too long ago, but he's been showing his ass for a while.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-marvels-ot-furys-angels.780227/page-11#post-114730982

[HardcoreRetro]

I read that in the original Japanese she's called Girldick Gina.

[Besticus Maximus]

Well waddaya know, it turns out if you hand over control of your forum to a sex cult of mentally ill degenerate fuckwits, eventually they'll have your head too, and you will be replaced by Princess Bubblegum, who probably looks like mid stage Harvey Weinstein