Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[kaleidoscopium]

Nepenthes further thoughts on the judge that was assaulted by a criminal 

That dude was definitely going away regardless of whether or not he attacked her because of his shitty record even if we take into account his mental health, because frankly mental health debilitation has a high threshold to clear in order to be granted leniency anyway. My post wasn't really mourning him in particular, but a lamentation of this shitty system Black people have to operate under.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/las-vegas-judge-attacked-by-defendant-during-sentencing-hearing.801723/page-4?post=117169986#post-117169986

[Besticus Maximus]

this is what happens when you let someone with a history of dismissing concerns run amok

[DocWager]

1704392577[/url]']
Nepenthes further thoughts on the judge that was assaulted by a criminal 

That dude was definitely going away regardless of whether or not he attacked her because of his shitty record even if we take into account his mental health, because frankly mental health debilitation has a high threshold to clear in order to be granted leniency anyway. My post wasn't really mourning him in particular, but a lamentation of this shitty system Black people have to operate under.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/las-vegas-judge-attacked-by-defendant-during-sentencing-hearing.801723/page-4?post=117169986#post-117169986

So it was a “Drive-by post”, and was used to “derail”. Something the mod team has made a bannable offense.

I get that mods like to get in on the action, and they’ll go against their own rules on accident, but this is almost every single post she makes. She’s deliberately bending the rules of the forum every single day.

[HaughtyFrank]

Nepenthes further thoughts on the judge that was assaulted by a criminal 

That dude was definitely going away regardless of whether or not he attacked her because of his shitty record even if we take into account his mental health, because frankly mental health debilitation has a high threshold to clear in order to be granted leniency anyway. My post wasn't really mourning him in particular, but a lamentation of this shitty system Black people have to operate under.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/las-vegas-judge-attacked-by-defendant-during-sentencing-hearing.801723/page-4?post=117169986#post-117169986

Nepenthe sees a guy who was given plenty of chances at rehabilitation, a guy who is such a violent criminal he literally beats up a judge in court and concludes "But yeah think about how unfair the system is"

[JoeBoy101]

Nepenthes further thoughts on the judge that was assaulted by a criminal 

That dude was definitely going away regardless of whether or not he attacked her because of his shitty record even if we take into account his mental health, because frankly mental health debilitation has a high threshold to clear in order to be granted leniency anyway. My post wasn't really mourning him in particular, but a lamentation of this shitty system Black people have to operate under.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/las-vegas-judge-attacked-by-defendant-during-sentencing-hearing.801723/page-4?post=117169986#post-117169986

Right. That’s not gaslighting when your short post clearly says she’s going to fuck over every black defendant in front of her going forward.

Every other Black person who steps in front of that judge is fucked from the jump no matter how much rehabilitation they put in.

You got called out on your derail and now are spinning madly to try and browbeat people into agreeing with you and twisting your original post.

[Potato]

immediately pictured Nepenthe as the judge and Chairman Yang as the dude yeeting himself at her

Wouldn't it be the other way around? Except that the judge got thrown in jail?

[Eric Cartman]

Their plagiarized "Games for impact" award voting thread sits at 27 posts. How fucking pathetic when even Resetera doesn't want to participate in your virtue signaling

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-goty-sub-vote-thread-games-for-impact.796830/unread

Is there actual evidence of them plagiarizing anyone? I see this repeated as fact but with no actual confirmation, which I find really disturbing. This is an example of misinformation triumphing in addition to the right using Gamer Gate tactics on major public forums.

[Uncle]

immediately pictured Nepenthe as the judge and Chairman Yang as the dude yeeting himself at her

Wouldn't it be the other way around? Except that the judge got thrown in jail?

her take is projection

she's the cop punishing someone for taking a swing at her, and being forever extra sensitive afterward, leaping at the slightest shadow

[nachobro]

Wondering when nepenthe starts labeling suspected white and Jewish users with a star or jar of mayo.

absolutely has already happened, xenforo lets you write notes on users that only mods/admins can see

[Eric Cartman]

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Chairmanchuck pissed off Gachaera now he's going after fighting game era. It takes a special someone to be so opinionated about politics in video games.

All you should care about is fun gameplay, muscular men, and tits.

[Boredfrom]

1704392577[/url]']
Nepenthes further thoughts on the judge that was assaulted by a criminal 

That dude was definitely going away regardless of whether or not he attacked her because of his shitty record even if we take into account his mental health, because frankly mental health debilitation has a high threshold to clear in order to be granted leniency anyway. My post wasn't really mourning him in particular, but a lamentation of this shitty system. Black people have to operate under.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/las-vegas-judge-attacked-by-defendant-during-sentencing-hearing.801723/page-4?post=117169986#post-117169986

That still makes you a fucking racist. 

“The judge is going to fuck black people because this dude prove her right that he was dangerous asshole even with help (and having little to do with race this reasoning). “

[Boredfrom]

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Chairmanchuck pissed off Gachaera now he's going after fighting game era. It takes a special someone to be so opinionated about politics in video games.

All you should care about is fun gameplay, muscular men, and tits.

He probably just wants to prove his discord friends that he is not a pervert and his motivation is to troll shield himself by acting like he cares about this stuff.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

1704392577[/url]']
Nepenthes further thoughts on the judge that was assaulted by a criminal 

That dude was definitely going away regardless of whether or not he attacked her because of his shitty record even if we take into account his mental health, because frankly mental health debilitation has a high threshold to clear in order to be granted leniency anyway. My post wasn't really mourning him in particular, but a lamentation of this shitty system. Black people have to operate under.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/las-vegas-judge-attacked-by-defendant-during-sentencing-hearing.801723/page-4?post=117169986#post-117169986

That still makes you a fucking racist. 

“The judge is going to fuck black people because this dude prove her right that he was dangerous asshole even with help (and having little to do with race this reasoning). “

This thread is still more engaging than the Trans genocide one. I can see where Era's priorities are. 

[Shecky Fragbaum]

Every other Black person who steps in front of that judge is fucked from the jump no matter how much rehabilitation they put in.

I see what you did there...

This guy. 


Also: how has no one made the "throwing himself upon the mercy of the court" zinger? 


Also also: kmfdmpig better watch that ass.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-agree-theres-less-us-cultural-dominance-now.801954/

context: i'm not american and i wasn't alive back in the 80s and 90s but i'm always told by family and older friends that growing up EVERYTHING coming from the United States was cool, pop music was at its height, Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson were more famous than Jesus, movies from Hollywood were cool and everyone talked about them, etc.

now in the age of internet and social media, the world is basically connected in a single instant, but at the same time feel like there's no sense of a cultural dominance from North America.

i don't see any kids stanning some US pop star, on the contrary even, my sister friends love kpop lol there's also a huge presence of korean shows and movies here, i have no idea if it's the same in the rest of the world

something i've also noticed is that on my internet bubble there's way more knowledge of concepts like imperialism, which may be a good thing?

i don't know, i guess this is kinda random but just something i thought on the shower. curious to know perspectives from and outside the US, and also specially from non-western ppl

[Boredfrom]

Didn’t Taylor Swift break all musical records last year? That sounds like pop star dominance. 

Cultural dominance in general, is probably less in some areas and way more in others.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Slayven can't let the koreans have anything. It's all tiring..

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-agree-theres-less-us-cultural-dominance-now.801954/

context: i'm not american and i wasn't alive back in the 80s and 90s but i'm always told by family and older friends that growing up EVERYTHING coming from the United States was cool, pop music was at its height, Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson were more famous than Jesus, movies from Hollywood were cool and everyone talked about them, etc.

now in the age of internet and social media, the world is basically connected in a single instant, but at the same time feel like there's no sense of a cultural dominance from North America.

i don't see any kids stanning some US pop star, on the contrary even, my sister friends love kpop lol there's also a huge presence of korean shows and movies here, i have no idea if it's the same in the rest of the world

something i've also noticed is that on my internet bubble there's way more knowledge of concepts like imperialism, which may be a good thing?

i don't know, i guess this is kinda random but just something i thought on the shower. curious to know perspectives from and outside the US, and also specially from non-western ppl

What the fuck does this guy think comic book movies are? There's even one called Captain America FFS!

[Uncle]

social justice, all the LGBT stuff, that IS US cultural dominance

that's what middle eastern nations, China, and Russia mean when they talk about wanting to avoid westernization/the west's hedonism

it's being imposed upon everyone through US exported media



ultra-tolerance isn't something that Chile or Ghana or Nepal arrived at first and then it slowly spread from there, it's entirely a US export

[Potato]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/italian-priest-struck-off-for-calling-francis-an-anti-pope-usurper

So, a priest in Italy was excommunicated for criticising the Pope. That's the equivalent of a Resetera permanent ban, right?

I wonder how Her Holiness nepnep III would react if someone compared her to the Catholic Church?

[Besticus Maximus]

She’s Torquemada, you need to win a popularity contest if you want to be pope and she’s as popular as finding lumps

[Potato]

Well, you only have to be popular with the Cardinals and they seem to be the equivalent of Resetera's "prominent members".

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-im-growing-tired-of-the-word-content.801807/

"Content" in the term of movies, Streaming and Games is something you probably heard or read more than once last year as it's become very popular buzz term to use when discussing these mediums. Personally though, I've growing tired with the term and feel like it has potential issues and implications that many don't see.

Firstly, I often find it, intentionally or unintentionally, feeds into the right wing "anti-woke" machine. This connects to something I've noticed becoming more and more common the past few years in general and was something that was RELLY noticeable around the pre and post release of The Marvels (and stuff around Brie Larson in particular). I've noticed that the "real" art crowd often seems to pick the same works to complain about everything being "CONTENT!" as the anti-woke crowd does to complain about everything being "WOKE!".

Like I remember the discussions around The Marvels, how people who had concerns about the social implications or worries about how the right will use it were dismissed, mocked or downplayed; in some cases trying to re-write history about what happened around Captain Marvel back in 2018. I remember how the "real" art crowd would go on and on and on about movies like this were ruining cinema etc, seemingly all focused on THIS MCU movie and like, why? Why is this, the one starring three women different in particular compared to all the others that released in 2023? Like people seemed to expect for some reason this to be the next Thor: The Dark World level of bad when really it seems to be fine at best but wouldn't get that from the pre-release talk. I remember how much shit the director Nia DaCosta got for the movie, something I do not recall any other MCU director that year getting, especially after she admitted she was inspired by Advent Children.

And it isn't just the MCU, I remember seeing similar with Blue Beetle around it's pre and post release, I remember comments like "Not every group needs their own superhero!" from "real" art fans commenting on threads and articles and it really became hard to distinguish between them and the anti-woke people. The Rings of Power series was a massive hot spot for both as well, with both really loving to use the same imagery (Galadriel in particular) when complaining the work is just "CONTENT" or "TOO WOKE!!!" to the point that it's really difficult to figure what is what just searching on YT or going through my YT recommendations.

And when I see a bunch of white men telling me that all these diverse works are "content" and link to me to videos by white men (white big images of their faces in the thumbnail) tell me that stuff isn't "REAL" art compared to [INSERT LIST OF WHITE DIRECTORS AND THEIR FILM], it really becomes fucking suspect. To be clear, I'm not saying everyone who uses the word "content" this way are alt-right arseholes, many aren't, just that you should really be careful in how use it and frame it.

But hey, after all, if it's just "content" and not "REAL" art! We shouldn't care that the people making these works get mass laid-off, we shouldn't care about the quality, we shouldn't care about the abuses of power behind it right, RIGHT?!

And that's the second major issue I have for the term as it's used now... It's just snobbery most of the time, that's really what it truly goes down to. It's just used to make it clear you think this work is beneath you, beneath critique, analysis etc because you think you're above it and only watch "REAL" art (aka, what you happen to like). I've been focusing on movies but this attitude is very noticeable from the "I only play indie games!" crowd as well.

It's intellectual laziness and it isn't new, it's just got a new buzzword. Wrestling fans should be really familiar with it and so should animation, gaming (many of whom have become the same snobs that were attacking them back in the late 00s), speculative fiction fans etc. You might as well just say, "It's popular so I hate it!" because that's what I get from people who use it so much of the time.

To me, it is no better than the "Lazy" dev rhetoric or the "Everyone who worked on this should be very ashamed of themselves" line that was so common during the angry review era of YT programming; just shallow ignorant critique that shows a lack of understanding of the manpower and hard work that goes into even the worse of large commercialized art. It feeds into the ignorance about the making of movies and games that already exists; where people attack and blame everything on the writer, seemingly unaware that writers in these massive projects have very little power, often mandated that X stuff has to be include and having to do the best they can in the limited time they have and then have very little control over how that ends up in the final work after it's be altered, warped and edited.

It ignores that these productions can have hundreds if not thousands of people, from developers, Sound mixers/editors/designers, make-up artists, dressers, background Artists, concept artists, VFX programmers and artists etc who do hours of hard work everyday to make these films and games as good as they can; often with the hindrance of crunch, bad management, poor planning from said management, last minute changes or dealing with Directors who have no idea what their doing so just go, "Eh, they'll fix it in post!" (who then get credited for every idea under "Auteur" Theory nonsense). All with the knowledge that this project could lead to layoffs or their VFX studio closing down even if the game or movie is successful because the game/movie executives have fucked these industries for money to the point they've became incredibly unstable and don't give a shit about these people's livelihoods; most of the execs want to replace them with AI because they don't care about this work as art but platforms to make money.

Which takes me to my last issue; we are in a very sad predicament where so much of our art is ran by people who don't care about art and wants to get rid of the artists to make more money for themselves. So much of the art we see from corporations like EA, Disney, WB, Activision Blizzard etc is a good as it is in spite of these executive and comes down to the thousands of people working their arses off to make it to the best of their abilities; their passion exploited by these corporations who will happily lay so many of them off to push the lie of infinite growth to shareholders who also couldn't give a shit about art. This is why unionization and strikes are so damn important.

Like as some of you know, I hate battle passes, loot boxes and other forms of RNG microtransactions, "time savers" and other exploitive gaming practices in gaming that affect me and others negatively and have gone off ones explaining why. However, I would never shit of the devs and artists making them or declare their not artists or their work isn't art; on the contrary, I find the "It's just cosmetic" to be a terrible and lazy excuse that in many cases is just factually wrong. My anger is with the corporations and executives pushing for this stuff, who don't think of me as human but a living piggy bank to break.

To me, acknowledging, even the worse of AAA games and blockbusters movies pops out is still art made by hundreds of people who did their best is the bare minimum of dignity we can give to these people and the smallest of, "fuck you!" we can give to corporations who want to turn everything into soulless husks. Whatever you want to call these works, we can least not pretend their not "low effort".

So where do I think the term "content" is used best? When it's used to describe AI art. "Art" that has no artistry too it because their is no actual creator, just a mishmash of (stolen) assets to make an imitation of art that many tech bros and executive are currently pushing to fire and get rid of real artists, seemingly not getting that if their are no more artists, their is no more art to feed into their AI.

The other areas where I think content is used validly is when talking about plagiarists, people who steal art or writing from others and try to claim it as their own. Plagiarists aren't aren't artists, like AI their imitating art. The other area and this much more of a grey area is truly "Low effort" like AI's who just read out the plots to movies or works, like "reaction" videos where someone just reacts to another persons video or article or in some cases are reacting to another persons reaction video.

I say this is a much more grey area because you could then argue that stuff like MST3K, Rifftrax, online reviews that follow a linier format, let's plays etc are just this which I wouldn't agree with so where is the line?

tl;dr
Screeching over the word woke

[HardcoreRetro]

Is it because they're never content in their life?

[AldusMoneyPenny]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-wonder-what-announcers-will-say-when-calling-his-plays.802044/
In another rare occurance of "some of us are more equal than others," Moderator posts thread consisting solely of tweet.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-wonder-what-announcers-will-say-when-calling-his-plays.802044/
In another rare occurance of "some of us are more equal than others," Moderator posts thread consisting solely of tweet.

I just watched a Facebook short from a comedian who said he no longer uses the n-word, he uses the k-word instead. Like knight, know and knuckle.

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

Stay safe

[malfoyking]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2023-video-game-awards-season-tracking-and-discussion-thread.784544/

You seen this bullshit? It's a full-on gif. These fuckers will really never learn and move on.

[Not an Alt Account]

it is weird that they are tracking the goty awards of a banned game.

[Boredfrom]

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social justice, all the LGBT stuff, that IS US cultural dominance

that's what middle eastern nations, China, and Russia mean when they talk about wanting to avoid westernization/the west's hedonism

it's being imposed upon everyone through US exported media



ultra-tolerance isn't something that Chile or Ghana or Nepal arrived at first and then it slowly spread from there, it's entirely a US export

China and Russia want the same but in their favor. What you think Russia anti lgbt policies and China censorship are justified with? Keeping their “cultural values”.