Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

You'd figure farmers will be some of the most environmentally aware people, given that their whole thing depends on nature being...alive and all.

Maybe, but they probably aren't stupid enough to believe nature is going away in their lifetimes or that some random EU regulations to marginally raise local costs would somehow prevent nature going away.

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” - George Orwell

[Boredfrom]

It's banworthy to call what's happening in Gaza a genocide now? What the fuck?

Edit: I get the sensitivity around stereotypes and "jews run the media" type hate speech but is that really what those folks were saying? You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater if we're censoring any kind of discussion re: rabid zionist support in hollywood. Shouldn't just sweep that under the rug when 30,000 Palestinians are dead and support for their struggle will get you blacklisted.

For a forum obsessed with language and dog whistles, they seem to be particularly clueless about this issues when is convenient.

[benji]

we're censoring any kind of discussion re: rabid zionist support in hollywood. Shouldn't just sweep that under the rug when 30,000 Palestinians are dead and support for their struggle will get you blacklisted.

I wonder why Robin won't get banned a month for this antisemetic rhetoric.

[HaughtyFrank]

Weaksauce cowards, being bullied around by a handful of business owners on tractors.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/victory-for-europe%E2%80%99s-farmers-as-brussels-caves-in-on-emissions-targets-and-eating-less-meat.813564/post-118745076

Those fucking workers owning their means of production.

[Vertigo]

Hogwarts Legacy confirmed as the top selling game of 2023 world wide 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hogwarts-legacy-has-officially-cleared-zelda-as-2023s-best-selling-game-worldwide/

I'm shocked you'd post this. Our sitewide blanket ban on the 'wizard game' was successful

Successful I tell you

 

1000's of us boycotted publicly then secretly brought and played the game anyway.

She can't keep winning like this

[Boredfrom]

I’m going to post this thread again, and look how many people were thinking the dude was a “rabid Zionist Palestine heater”:

So Atlus is collaborating with this person?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/persona-3-reloads-latest-trailer-is-live-action-and-features-aidan-gallagher-from-the-umbrella-academy.808224/?post=117984429#post-117984429

The actor seem to have deleted the Instagram post. Censorship and black listed? 

[HaughtyFrank]

Hogwarts Legacy confirmed as the top selling game of 2023 world wide 

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hogwarts-legacy-has-officially-cleared-zelda-as-2023s-best-selling-game-worldwide/

Remember when they were celebrating that Metroid Prime Remake had better pre order sales for a day or two?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-prime-is-currently-the-best-selling-video-game-on-amazon.685471/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98the-white-lotus%E2%80%99-milo%C5%A1-bikovi%C4%87-exits-hbo-series-amid-controversy.812364/?post=118737165#post-118737165

I've seen people on Reddit criticizing Resetera for being pro imperialism or centrist more than once, apparently they weren't wrong.

Not the first time I've seem bans for criticizing Israel or Zionists as "anti semitism". Death to Palestinians I guess right? Ban me for life I don't care.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98the-white-lotus%E2%80%99-milo%C5%A1-bikovi%C4%87-exits-hbo-series-amid-controversy.812364/?post=118745970#post-118745970

We got pro-zionism mods here now?

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

You'd figure farmers will be some of the most environmentally aware people, given that their whole thing depends on nature being...alive and all.

[Besticus Maximus]

Watch them buckle toward the nazi cunts

[benji]

Weaksauce cowards, being bullied around by a handful of business owners on tractors.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/victory-for-europe%E2%80%99s-farmers-as-brussels-caves-in-on-emissions-targets-and-eating-less-meat.813564/post-118745076

Those fucking workers owning their means of production.

Don't forget all of the poor and everyone else who has to pay higher prices. Fucking cowards being bullied by them. 

[Boredfrom]

Shits gonna backfire globally like this when industrial agriculture and the profit seeking over food production instead of needs based production has been the norm.

It's why you can't solve the climate crisis under capitalism, it has to be through worker power and socialism. World leaders and the bourgeoisie won't relinquish power so this kind of shit will keep happening while we all cook our way to 2.5+ C warming by the end of this century.

I thought you guys wanted some immediate solutions? Not just pipe dreaming about a bloodless revolution that will bring the Utopia and a perfect benevolent government.

[benji]

Shits gonna backfire globally like this when industrial agriculture and the profit seeking over food production instead of needs based production has been the norm.

It's why you can't solve the climate crisis under capitalism, it has to be through worker power and socialism. World leaders and the bourgeoisie won't relinquish power so this kind of shit will keep happening while we all cook our way to 2.5+ C warming by the end of this century.

Right on, comrade! Fuck these bougie "land owning" farmers, we need to rationalize production around needs!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933

[benji]

Global central planning where Western progressives who need Disney are irrelevant and probably instantly executed as a class for being "malingerers" and enemies of the state.

[Boredfrom]

It's shit, but i understand farmers that are already living with very low income don't want to lose even more, especially if these limitations from governement don't come with compensations or help to move toward other solutions to let them keep their livelihood...

Perhaps the regular traditional farmer would be better off if they didn't have to compete against the mega farms with tens of thousands of livestock, who are the worst polluters here but seemingly agitated everyone else as if they weren't the main problem.

So these regulations only affected the mega farmers or everyone regardless? Or you are suggesting they were poor morons manipulated by megacorps.

[benji]

It's why you can't solve the climate crisis under capitalism, it has to be through worker power and socialism.

By the 1990s, 40% of Russia's territory began demonstrating symptoms of significant ecological stress, largely due to a diverse number of environmental issues, including deforestation, energy irresponsibility, pollution, and nuclear waste.[2] According to Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Russia is currently warming 2.5 times faster than the rest of the globe.[3]

China was ranked 120th out of the 180 countries on the 2020 Environmental Performance Index.[1]

...

In 2012 the Center for American Progress has described China's environmental policy as similar to that of the United States before 1970. That is, the central government issues fairly strict regulations, but the actual monitoring and enforcement is largely undertaken by local governments that are more interested in economic growth. Furthermore, due to the restrictive conduct of China's undemocratic regime, the environmental work of non-governmental forces, such as lawyers, journalists, and non-governmental organizations, is severely hampered.[51]

Mao Zedong initiated the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1961. During this period, large hydropower and irrigation projects were extended throughout the country. The deforestation, erosion and siltation from these projects was immense, and to little national gain. By 1980, and estimated 2,976 dams built during this period had collapsed, highlighting the futility of the large-scale environmental degradation (Shapiro 2001).

China’s forestry history chronicles “Three Great Cuttings” or “San Da Fa”, campaigns during which communities were mass-mobilized towards deforestation. The First Great Cutting took place during the Great Leap Forward. In an effort to catch up with Great Britain in steel production, villages across China were engaged in smelting iron and steel in rudimentary backyard furnaces. In regions where the coal supply was limited, large swathes of forest were cut down to fuel the nation’s 600,000 furnaces (Lynch et al. 2011). Climate change followed the massive deforestation. The diversion of agricultural labour towards steel production and dam construction, averse weather conditions, locust swarms and a flawed system of taxation (and export) combined to push the country into the worst famine in the 20th century, dubbed the Three Hard Years. Food security became paramount, with forestry policy of non-state forests once more determined by agricultural policy.

...

China’s political isolationism encouraged the ideology of self-reliance, and each province was required to be an independent producer of its own grain. With the national slogan “Take Grain as the Key Link”, grain production took precedence over forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries. Following the pseudo-scientific doctrine of Lysenkoism, it was widely believed that grain could be made to grow anywhere: flood plains, grasslands, steep slopes and sandy beaches (Shapiro 2001). The forested slopes of the northeastern and southwestern provinces paid the price in the Second Great Cutting during the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976. As a result, in the north and northwest, grasslands were opened to the plough and, with or without irrigation, winds eroded the soil and turned farmland into desert. In mountainous areas with slopes over 25 degrees forests were cut down and crops planted in rows down the slope, increasing the rate of erosion (Shapiro 2001).

When it came into power, the Chinese Communist Party inherited a rural economy that included eighty million hectares of farmland, 40% of which were rice paddies. By the end of Mao’s rule in 1976, the total area increased by 50% to 120 to 130 million hectares (Smil 1993). In thirty years as a People’s Republic, as much farmland had been added as had been under the plow for one millennium, from the Han to the Song dynasties. Much of this increase came from the forests of Yunnan and Manchuria, which were particularly affected (Lynch et al. 2011).

[benji]

Just do the simple and necessary things that need to be done rather than make those errors.

[Nintex]

Global warming is a Chinese hoax to kill the Xbox 

[Potato]

Nep Nep forgetting that she's banned fifty billion people for suggesting that police have a role to play in society

If he broke the law within the process of their deaths, he should go to prison. If he didn't, oh well. Afaik, I haven't made a declaration one way or another about criminal proceedings. I've been very careful about that because I know pending investigations can change.

Wait. Is she saying she doesn't make snap judgements about ongoing investigations?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-97?post=118728393#post-118728393

This is insanity. How does a trans person have an advantage in pool of all games?

It reminds of the banning of trans women in Chess. If there were any sports you'd think these people would concede a man doesn't have an "advantage" it'd be recreational sports like Chess, video games, etc. But nope, they're still some unforeseen and unproven advantages and we can't be bothered to provide evidence of it so sweeping ban.

It's so transparent in what the real issue is.

That there doesn't need to be a separate women's category at all if men have no advantage?

[Potato]

It's why you can't solve the climate crisis under capitalism, it has to be through worker power and socialism.

By the 1990s, 40% of Russia's territory began demonstrating symptoms of significant ecological stress, largely due to a diverse number of environmental issues, including deforestation, energy irresponsibility, pollution, and nuclear waste.[2] According to Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Russia is currently warming 2.5 times faster than the rest of the globe.[3]

China was ranked 120th out of the 180 countries on the 2020 Environmental Performance Index.[1]

...

In 2012 the Center for American Progress has described China's environmental policy as similar to that of the United States before 1970. That is, the central government issues fairly strict regulations, but the actual monitoring and enforcement is largely undertaken by local governments that are more interested in economic growth. Furthermore, due to the restrictive conduct of China's undemocratic regime, the environmental work of non-governmental forces, such as lawyers, journalists, and non-governmental organizations, is severely hampered.[51]

Mao Zedong initiated the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1961. During this period, large hydropower and irrigation projects were extended throughout the country. The deforestation, erosion and siltation from these projects was immense, and to little national gain. By 1980, and estimated 2,976 dams built during this period had collapsed, highlighting the futility of the large-scale environmental degradation (Shapiro 2001).

China’s forestry history chronicles “Three Great Cuttings” or “San Da Fa”, campaigns during which communities were mass-mobilized towards deforestation. The First Great Cutting took place during the Great Leap Forward. In an effort to catch up with Great Britain in steel production, villages across China were engaged in smelting iron and steel in rudimentary backyard furnaces. In regions where the coal supply was limited, large swathes of forest were cut down to fuel the nation’s 600,000 furnaces (Lynch et al. 2011). Climate change followed the massive deforestation. The diversion of agricultural labour towards steel production and dam construction, averse weather conditions, locust swarms and a flawed system of taxation (and export) combined to push the country into the worst famine in the 20th century, dubbed the Three Hard Years. Food security became paramount, with forestry policy of non-state forests once more determined by agricultural policy.

...

China’s political isolationism encouraged the ideology of self-reliance, and each province was required to be an independent producer of its own grain. With the national slogan “Take Grain as the Key Link”, grain production took precedence over forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries. Following the pseudo-scientific doctrine of Lysenkoism, it was widely believed that grain could be made to grow anywhere: flood plains, grasslands, steep slopes and sandy beaches (Shapiro 2001). The forested slopes of the northeastern and southwestern provinces paid the price in the Second Great Cutting during the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976. As a result, in the north and northwest, grasslands were opened to the plough and, with or without irrigation, winds eroded the soil and turned farmland into desert. In mountainous areas with slopes over 25 degrees forests were cut down and crops planted in rows down the slope, increasing the rate of erosion (Shapiro 2001).

When it came into power, the Chinese Communist Party inherited a rural economy that included eighty million hectares of farmland, 40% of which were rice paddies. By the end of Mao’s rule in 1976, the total area increased by 50% to 120 to 130 million hectares (Smil 1993). In thirty years as a People’s Republic, as much farmland had been added as had been under the plow for one millennium, from the Han to the Song dynasties. Much of this increase came from the forests of Yunnan and Manchuria, which were particularly affected (Lynch et al. 2011).

So, basically, what you're saying is that, communists are retards?

[benji]

Global warming is a Chinese hoax to kill the Xbox 

Considering the energy efficiency of the various consoles, this plot doesn't seem to be working.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-97?post=118728393#post-118728393

This is insanity. How does a trans person have an advantage in pool of all games?

It reminds of the banning of trans women in Chess. If there were any sports you'd think these people would concede a man doesn't have an "advantage" it'd be recreational sports like Chess, video games, etc. But nope, they're still some unforeseen and unproven advantages and we can't be bothered to provide evidence of it so sweeping ban.

It's so transparent in what the real issue is.

That there doesn't need to be a separate women's category at all if men have no advantage?

I thought it was well documented that men have better spatial awareness than women?

I'm all for the removal of gender divisions in professional sports. It means we can stop wasting precious broadcast hours trying to make Women's sports a thing and concentrate on making football great again.

[benji]

Why are they so worked up about sports? Think about all the gender divisions in video gaming they could be focused on like trying to convince that women can code or whatever the fuck people kept hiring Anita Sarcasemo for.

[Boredfrom]

I'm all for the removal of gender divisions in professional sports. It means we can stop wasting precious broadcast hours trying to make Women's sports a thing and concentrate on making football great again.

 

[benji]

So, basically, what you're saying is that, communists are retards?

It's more that they know everything too much. That's how they know what's so simple and just needs to be done.

[Boredfrom]

Morrigan reading comprehension:

Did even a single person ever say that the costumes were going to have narrative significance

Yes, in this very thread you had people use Nier Automata as an example, or use the dev's past games to suggest it could matter in the story:

Then she quotes:

But the actual writers might care more about those issues. In Nikke (Shift Up's gacha game), the art design is infamous for its heavy sexualization, yet the story largely hinges around the exploitation of the Nikke characters, and the fight to be treated as humans.

A quote where nobody said anything about those costumes having narrative significance.

An actual human being typed that out. Hilarious.

A poster insulting another community member?  

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bluesky-is-officially-open.813597/?post=118748787#post-118748787

I've got some bad news about resetera dot com

By definition? sure, but here we have mods and it is a pleasant environment (most of the time). but rushing for another Twitter clone? That's for terminally online people.

[Boredfrom]

Yeah. Aside from the fact that the claim is inherently unbelievable (sorry folks) the idea that a creator would tuck a legendary narrative triumph away in a game with imagery like this speaks poorly of the writers' sensibilities as a writer.

Like, setting is a part of narrative. Let's use True Detective: imagine Rust Cohle is sitting across from the police interrogators during his famous "time is a flat circle" line, but the table is creaking and groaning under the weight of his massive heaving tits, and he's also blushing coquettishly the whole time. Even if the rest of the details remain exactly the same, it is effortless to see how that suddenly transforms the entire story in a significantly worse way.

Because True Detective was a neo noir show, and this is a gacha anime game that happens to have an aceptable story. Totally the same genre and expectations. That is how fiction works. 

But half of the forum where defending stuff like The Marvels with “it is fun” or saying that The Last Jedi is for intellectuals and people just doesn’t get it.  

Its all the fault of the Chuds that people cannot discuss media anymore without going batshit insane.

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98the-white-lotus%E2%80%99-milo%C5%A1-bikovi%C4%87-exits-hbo-series-amid-controversy.812364/?post=118737165#post-118737165

I've seen people on Reddit criticizing Resetera for being pro imperialism or centrist more than once, apparently they weren't wrong.

Not the first time I've seem bans for criticizing Israel or Zionists as "anti semitism". Death to Palestinians I guess right? Ban me for life I don't care.

You think this guy has ever had an original thought in his life?