Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Doesn't at all sound like the type to cry all day at work in front of their subordinates, tbh

[Chumbawumbafan69]

Honestly, marvel doing stylized one offs, disconnected from whatever the main connected shit show is, would probably help. Ranging from stuff like 300 and Sin City to even Joker. When 40 of their 43 movies look and feel the same, maybe audiences will start wanting something else. It’s the Ubisoft thing. You can only climb so many towers to add icons to your map.

I’m not savvy with box office shit but that seems to be part of the story with recent successes. Barbie is a heavily stylized movie that looks made by people. captain marvel 2 doesn’t.

It really is the Ubisoft of movies, changing the main character to a woman only gets you so far, eventually people realize it's the exact same shit we've been eating up for almost two decades.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Hilarious thread where OP goes on a multi-day adventure to buy an ipad, when he could have just taken 5 minutes to call his bank and clear it up (the obvious and correct thing to do). And of course fights with everyone who mentions this in the thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rant-apples-absolute-garbage-payment-system.790152/

[benji]

Hilarious thread where OP goes on a multi-day adventure to buy an ipad, when he could have just taken 5 minutes to call his bank and clear it up (the obvious and correct thing to do). And of course fights with everyone who mentions this in the thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rant-apples-absolute-garbage-payment-system.790152/

so I don't think my mom was exactly in the spirit to call the damn bank (and neither am I tbh because I buy on the net all over the world and never got flagged for anything).

No, it was. Because neither of us had it to call the damn bank. And, especially after I had to call Apple twice already. And, don't forget, it was my mom's card so she had to call herself and she would have refused. She has enough on her plate already.

I repeat myself. I never had my card flagged online for anything personally (and I buy from the weirdest places) so, it never ever occured to me to call the damn bank even after the first time.

Man, fuck Tim Apple. Fucking capitalism. I'm so tired.

[benji]

Speaking of, "On Break" as typical doesn't mean not posting:

I love being free.

About time. Like goddamn.

They said at BlizzCon that they would be making previous Mythics available for grabs if you finish future Battle Passes, which is definitely nice.

However, the lack of customization options we're seeing in new Mythics is not all that great. Orisa's color options are nice, but like, why can't you change her into different animals or something considering the theme? Fearing a letdown for my boy now. 😔

The custom options are the thing separating A mythic from a normal Legendary so it makes perfect sense why people complain

Yep.

Previous legendary skins and eve sincen epic skins have changed the effects, voice lines, and audio before. What makes a Mythic a Mythic is the color and armor customization.

Without that, what is separating it from a Legendary?

Most Overwatch players actually don't care about this at all. Slow news week it seems.

I CARE.

but the skins and the rewards in the BP have gotten better since then. Comparing most mythics to Genji's is a bad idea since they peaked with his imo lmfao.

Only one that comes close is Kiriko. I do not think there's a single character outside of Kiri Genji where their mythic is in contention for their best skin. The customization options were always bad and barebones.

I think the look of each is subjective and we could argue about that all day (I really love Tracer's IT'S SO CUTE.) I'm talking about the objective amount of options for players to customize. Different colors is the bare minimum. Weapon/armor changes, and tattoo/texture changes should be, like, the standard.

I'd really like to know the pipeline on these things, especially since I know very well that Blizzard is still outsourcing different parts of skin development outside of the studio. How in the world did Genji's take a year?

I wouldn't even worry about Lucio either. Ain't no way his mythic is as trash as Ana's.

If my boy don't have different armor, tattoos, AND new music options, then I'm fucking rioting.

[Polident]

Reading that Snyder piece, there’s a bit not really about him but Tom Cruise. He shares a story about how Cruise saw the 300 trailer and invited Snyder to his house to chat about it. Then when the movie came out and had a huge opening weekend, Cruise called Snyder to congratulate him. Cruise told him it was a success before WB.

Cruise probably knew Osama was killed before even The Rock.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wkd-box-office-%E2%80%A2-11-24-26-23-%E2%80%A2-i-wish-i-was-a-little-bit-higher-i-wish-i-flew-further-i-wish-i-had-legs-that-were-good-id-go-faster.788892/page-13#post-115590228

Chuds won. This is going to embolden them to the moon.

If the battle for justice needed to be won inside a multibillion corporation then it was already lost from the start. Weird people acting like buying a Disney product was activism got some people confused.

[Eric Cartman]

Joanne has blood smeared across her hands of Brianna and every other trans murder. Just venting at how sickening this is and how much I despise her and what she is doing to the UK and the world wide trans community. I'm just in distraught from this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-94#post-115570344

its all fun and games until this is part of the manifesto discovered after the incident has occurred

[Eric Cartman]

If my boy don't have different armor, tattoos, AND new music options, then I'm fucking rioting.

I'm sure that will be a devastatingly effective as your 'see how you get along without me modding!' ultimatum

[Eric Cartman]

Fuck you Jk Rowling, Glinner, GB News, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Julie Bindel, Posie Parker, Oli London and every other hatemonger, you have her blood on your hands you murderers.

I hope Karma hits you like track 3, of the Mortician Album "Chainsaw Disfigurement"

[Potato]

It's a direct result of reading comic books.

I need to defend my people. Comic fans who actually really read the stuff seem to be far more critical and negative about the nonsense or pandering or whatever in comics compared to the brand fans who attach themselves to everything Marvel or whatever. I've thought the former have always been more critical of the MCU and more forgiving of the DCEU (and Sony thing) because they're actually aware of what has been done or attempted in the comics regarding narratives. The MCU embodies a lot of the most disliked tropes that comics went through many decades ago. (Not saying they don't still happen, DC and Marvel are corporations after all, but most good writers are well aware of them.) I know not everyone holds my appreciation for how Snyder and Patty Jenkins tapped into a thematic core that is a special strength of comics and their form of storytelling but I think it's obvious why brand fans would never be on board with it. (I think the Sony stuff is an amusing very cynical type of "you know these characters so you'll see it anyway you obsessed pieces of shit" that has created this sense of freedom you sometimes see in comics from the same situation where somebody gets roped into doing a book that the company wants but doesn't care too much about and so does what they want like giving Venom cum eyes and making the whole thing a strange sexual metaphor that turns out to be successful specifically because nobody at the company really cared.) If somebody somehow adopted Planetary completely straight to film/TV, it'd blow the casual and brand fans minds and there would be a neverending stream of idiots writing paeans about how SEE MOM CAPESHIT ACTUALLY IS ART AND MEANS SOMETHING! When the whole thing isn't really that far divorced from what Snyder did or things like The Authority (that Gunn is now adapting) where someone simply is attempting to take the logic of superhero comics to the obvious places they'd go in a bit more realistic world that has one different premise: superheroes are a thing.

Slayven's just mentally handicapped and probably legitimately smooth-brained, though even he seems to have this critical eye when he begins dipping into the actual comics he shifts to brand fan when it moves to movies or cartoons or whatever else.

Lol, didn't read, LMFAO!

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But seriously, my zero level of comic book knowledge was not a problem when the MCU was giving me Elon Musk in armor and punching ghost Nazis in the face. Things weren't even too bad when anthropomorphic raccoons and walking trees were the main characters. What really started turning me off was the lol we're in a multiverse now and nothing that happened before matters because we can bring back any character and change things however we want. All those 25+ movies you wanted were worthless because lol we're in a multiverse now...did we mention the multiverse?

[Potato]

Fuck you Jk Rowling, Glinner, GB News, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Julie Bindel, Posie Parker, Oli London and every other hatemonger, you have her blood on your hands you murderers.

I hope Karma hits you like track 3, of the Mortician Album "Chainsaw Disfigurement"

It's "Chainsaw Dismemberment" you fucking retarded poser.

For the record, that track is called "Drowned in your blood".

Lol, avatar says DSBM, which stands for depressive suicidal black metal.


That figures for Resetera.

[benji]

Fuck you Jk Rowling, Glinner, GB News, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Julie Bindel, Posie Parker, Oli London and every other hatemonger, you have her blood on your hands you murderers.

I hope Karma hits you like track 3, of the Mortician Album "Chainsaw Disfigurement"

I've been following this for a while and haven't commented because I don't know what I could even hope to add. This pair was going to kill regardless and it's heartbreaking that in a lot of ways Brianna seemed like the "easy" target to them. And then the media before this trial proved them right. I'm glad they're facing consequences even if I'm worried even one of them will weasel out of this despite the overwhelming evidence, but who knows what else could happen in the future with people spreading such dehumanizing ideas? I just honestly don't know.

And thank you, but also I'm so sorry Kyuuji. You've done so much to expose others in this community, but I hope one day you'll get a break from reporting these injustices. Sometimes I get exhausted talking about queerness to my own family and you're extending it to strangers. I know it's necessary, but that it is just makes the cruelty that much worse. =/

[Daffy Duck]

The reason queen bee doesn’t want twitter embeds banned is because she can’t signal boost the great crimes of JK then and they’ll fall off a cliff into irrelevance

[Snoopy]

[benji]

Guess I'll check out the full insanity of the thread:

Justice for Brianna. Fuck transphobes and anyone that enables their hate and bigotry

May the transphobes in this world never know a moment of peace until they reckon with and understand the horror they've brought into this world.

Rest in loving peace and power, Brianna.🏳️‍⚧️💙🤍💜

Lucky Nepenthe is On Break.

absolutely fuck this country's media and political class for the hostile environment it's created for trans people over the past half decade

Really hoping they get convicted and the usual transphobia that infuriatingly is very prevalent here in the UK doesn't rear it's ugly head when the jury hands down the verdict

Also, big fuck you to this countries horrific press and Government for contributing to an ever increasing hostile environment for trans people.

Rest in power Brianna.

All the fucking terfs (including media outlets) are complicit in this one. Fuck all of them and may they reap similar rewards as what they are sowing

I'm so desensitized to the violence that trans people receive that I can only just sit here and read all of that while feeling numb.

The obsessive hatred the killers felt for Brianna is really disturbing to read. I can't understand how they became so twisted at such a young age.

This kind of hatred is taught. When you live in a culture that so obsessively hates transness, this is the result.

The transphobia, especially in the media, in the UK makes it seem like a tragedy like this was inevitable. The worst part is that they will use some kind of mental gymnastics about impartiality to absolve themselves of any responsibility.

Her death is on these assholes but also those who know better but dabble in transphobia for clicks and political careers. May you burn in hell of whatever deity you worship.

Sad to see the 10pm news dedicate a whopping 60 seconds (roughly) to this story.

This should be a world shocking story of how absolutely evil and sickening it is, but hasn't even made a blip of a blip. Cis don't care.

The court trying to ignore the hate crime of this whole affair is just so infuriating and a complete lie when it's clear Brianna was targeted for being trans.

Sad to see the 10pm news dedicate a whopping 60 seconds (roughly) to this story.

The coverage has been shameful. They're complicate and they know it

Everyone who has engaged in transphobia is partially to blame for this horrific murder as far as I'm concerned.

Brianna was clearly a wonderful person who deserved a long and happy life. She was utterly failed by society.

As to those who did it, I cannot fathom the depths of their evil. The details disturb me beyond my ability to cope with them.

The police have been vile in their treatment of Brianna and her family. Fuck them and the media for deadnaming her. Fuck every politician who has failed the trans community and all of society by inciting transphobia and deliberately blocking for some the equality and dignity everyone deserves.

I cannot believe this is being downplayed as a hate crime.

We have so, so far to go.

I'm also sorry you and others in the community have to go through this, Kyuuji.

That was so hard to read. I'm forever incensed at the inhumanity of it all. My heart goes out to the people affected by this, close and far.

This is utterly heartbreaking to read and I imagine it couldn't have been easy to put together. Thank you, Kyuuji. Sending all my love to TransEra and everyone affected by this today.

I sincerely wish Brianna was given the care, love and support she needed in life, and respect to her actual identity in death. The basic human dignity that every single one of us should be entitled to. It is utterly shameful to us all that she was denied even that. That would have been something much closer to true justice to me.

I really hope that if there is ever a documentary about this, that it will go into the broader context of British medias and politics transphobia and how they reported on this case compared to cis victims or when they are stoking hatred and fear towards trans people.

I generally hate this whole true crime crap but this seems almost necessary. Like overturning a stone to expose the bugs hiding under it.

The Daily Mail has some page in it with some equivalent of "follow every twist and turn of the Brianna Ghey murder case from the team behind the smash hit podcast The Case of Lucy Letby". They previously pushed the narrative it wasn't a hate crime and deadnamed her in their original article. Alongside obviously being one of the largest broadcasters of transphobia in the media, alongside the Times and the Telegraph.

I suspect the defence's case is going to rest heavily on them trying to prove that this was not a hate crime, with them pointing out that Brianna wasn't their original target etc. There's a much broader and more complicated argument for the Crown to make that it should constitute a hate crime because the climate in the UK is so heavily tilted towards transphobia that this made Brianna into a target in a way she wouldn't have been in a more just and tolerant society.

The actual murder case seems completely cast-iron. These two people are clearly killers. It should be the Crown's job to prove they killed Brianna specifically because she was trans, and by necessity I think that has to lead into unpicking the prevailing culture of hate in UK society.

Spend years spreading virulent anti-trans disinformation and hate speech. Contribute heavily to a transphobic culture that got a young girl killed. And then sensationalize the trial to make even more money off it

There is nothing I find more revolting in this world than the UK media. They are shamelessly corrupt and utterly bereft of empathy or morality. Absolute fucking vultures

Literal transphobic slurs in the texts fantasizing about killing her, and it's "not a hate crime", what a fucking joke. I hope the murderers get locked up for life and are put through hell.

This not being tried as a hate crime is beyond blood boiling. Shows exactly how truly alone, vulnerable, and ostracized the entire trans world community really is.

There just aren't that many of us. I genuinely hate having to acknowledge it but we're largely at cis peoples' mercy in terms of safely living as ourselves. Cis people who care need to either really, really start to step up rather than passively "support" or our lives will continue to be precarious even in the "best" places to be.

Yep. Just saying "trans rights are human rights" or having the flag in your bio isn't going to change the tide of how fast things are moving in a horrifying direction. There needs to be action beyond that taken by 'allies'. At this point I don't think there is anyway to get that reach to them as a whole or even get them to care on that level.

Even ignoring the hate crime part (which I agree with a poster here is because the culture is pushing people like this to do that)

This case is the reality of transphobia, i can't even finish reading, it's fucking horrific

The case is not being tried as a hate crime, especially because the teens plotted multiple murders of people. They got caught after the first murder.

[Snoopy]

These are the victims of hate who ostracized Melody Shreds for the crime of not passing

[NekoFever]

Fuck you Jk Rowling, Glinner, GB News, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Julie Bindel, Posie Parker, Oli London and every other hatemonger, you have her blood on your hands you murderers.

I hope Karma hits you like track 3, of the Mortician Album "Chainsaw Disfigurement"

Stochastic terrorism refers to political or media figures publicly demonizing a person or group in such a way that it inspires supporters of the figures to commit a violent act against the target of the speech. Unlike incitement to terrorism, this is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

These are the victims of hate who ostracized Melody Shreds for the crime of not passing

I "passed" on donating to their Kofi - does that count?

[Uncle]

Imagine the mainstream reaction of Comics Thanos.

[Uncle]

These are the victims of hate who ostracized Melody Shreds for the crime of not passing

...as a woman, or "away" 

[Eric Cartman]

The case is not being tried as a hate crime, especially because the teens plotted multiple murders of people. They got caught after the first murder.

Lucky for certain moderators they weren't black and noone has to defend the 'just a little chaos' take

[malfoyking]

Have not been following this trial. I'm guessing era is mad because its not a hate crime? I wondered how long it'll take before they blame JK.

[Snoopy]

These are the victims of hate who ostracized Melody Shreds for the crime of not passing

...as a woman, or "away" 

At this point it's probably 50/50. They know we've adopted her as our trophy lesbian and they're not happy about it.

[Potato]

Fuck you Jk Rowling, Glinner, GB News, Maya Forstater, Helen Joyce, Julie Bindel, Posie Parker, Oli London and every other hatemonger, you have her blood on your hands you murderers.

I hope Karma hits you like track 3, of the Mortician Album "Chainsaw Disfigurement"

I've been following this for a while and haven't commented because I don't know what I could even hope to add. This pair was going to kill regardless and it's heartbreaking that in a lot of ways Brianna seemed like the "easy" target to them. And then the media before this trial proved them right. I'm glad they're facing consequences even if I'm worried even one of them will weasel out of this despite the overwhelming evidence, but who knows what else could happen in the future with people spreading such dehumanizing ideas? I just honestly don't know.

And thank you, but also I'm so sorry Kyuuji. You've done so much to expose others in this community, but I hope one day you'll get a break from reporting these injustices. Sometimes I get exhausted talking about queerness to my own family and you're extending it to strangers. I know it's necessary, but that it is just makes the cruelty that much worse. =/

Sooooo, what you're saying is that this really wasn't a hate crime targeting a trans kid for being trans, just a weird fucked up crime by two mentally ill teenagers targeting an easy target?

[NekoFever]

These are the victims of hate who ostracized Melody Shreds for the crime of not passing

...as a woman, or "away" 

At this point it's probably 50/50. They know we've adopted her as our trophy lesbian and they're not happy about it.

How did you know she's a lesbian? She never mentions it.

[Tycoon Padre]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/karl-jobst-thecompletionists-charity-has-allegedly-kept-all-the-money.784928/page-29#post-115597836

For what it's worth, I've had all three of these streamers/youtubers blocked for years for their shitty right wing politics. Any of them, or their fans, trying to bring up eachother's racism or whatever, is just deflection.

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NB literally nothing about this topic has anything to do with racism

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Also am I the only person who thinks of Ben Pack every time they see this emoticon

[kaleidoscopium]

What’s strange to me, is that the Brianna murder was murdering someone who happened to be trans and they had other planned victims that weren’t trans. She wasn’t targeted for being trans. But they so dearly want it to be a hate crime targeting her for being trans. Seems weird you would WANT your people to be murdered. 

Truly a strange death cult.

[Snoopy]

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...as a woman, or "away" 

At this point it's probably 50/50. They know we've adopted her as our trophy lesbian and they're not happy about it.

How did you know she's a lesbian? She never mentions it.

It’s in her biography, Sabbath The Early Years.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2023-ot-2-tapping-the-sign.768689/post-115600443

Take a drink every time Thordinson says the word "folks" on a page of PoliERA without dying challenge: Impossible

Bonus: another poster ripping his holier than thou ass a new one

You know it's exceedingly arrogant coming into a political thread and just assuming nobody else "does the work." There are plenty of folks here that volunteer and work with local shelters. There are plenty of folks here who are in coops. There are plenty of folks here who run food drives. The only difference between them and you is that that they aren't bragging about it and painting themselves as some paragon with access to unique insight. Stop this. We don't come to this thread to read arrogant ignorant holier than thou bullshit.

The reality is that you live in an especially shitty state with shitty policies that negatively impact the communities most vulnerable. You extrapolate the effects of your crazy ass GOP dominated state legislature and governor as being a nationwide trend and then ignore or dismiss any national data that rebuts it. Local anecdotes in a gop hellholle aren't applicable to the country writ large. And it's insufferable trying to address this with you because you constantly dismiss everyone explaining this to you by claiming your anecdotes are the only proof you need. That's not how this works.

On a macro level we are just now coming out of a literal once in a century level of mass inflation. Historically inflation impacts those with the least and organizations relying on donations the most. It takes a longer time for donations and pay in the lower end of the pay scale to rise to meet mass inflation. Until this happens food banks, shelters etc will be facing shortages. The answer here is to increase state and federal funding to match inflation. Notably this is something that's already happening in some states. Hell even West Virginia is addressing this. You have the state and federal government stepping in there to help fund food banks and stock them with surplus food. The governor of Texas specifically turned down a similar program that offered federal aid via food surplus for food banks. So again your state is uniquely shitty in this regard.

And yes seeing those most vulnerable heavily impacted by inflation is heart wrenching but something it is not is a portent of some wider economic catastrophe.