Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Boredfrom]

Absolutely horrifying. Our government needs to invest in infrastructure instead of funding a genocide.

This is just so terrible, friend of mine drove over that bridge like 6 hours ago.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baltimore’s-key-bridge-collapses-following-cargo-shop-collision-breaking.830886/

Whenever that user is serious or trolling, what fucking bad taste.

[NekoFever]

Absolutely horrifying. Our government needs to invest in infrastructure instead of funding a genocide.

This is just so terrible, friend of mine drove over that bridge like 6 hours ago.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baltimore’s-key-bridge-collapses-following-cargo-shop-collision-breaking.830886/

Whenever that user is serious or trolling, what fucking bad taste.

Actual Baltimore news story and KSweeley MDCrabCakeFan86 is nowhere to be seen.

[Echelon]

Absolutely horrifying. Our government needs to invest in infrastructure instead of funding a genocide.

This is just so terrible, friend of mine drove over that bridge like 6 hours ago.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baltimore’s-key-bridge-collapses-following-cargo-shop-collision-breaking.830886/

Whenever that user is serious or trolling, what fucking bad taste.

They'll probably cheer this on as a step in making Baltimore a more walkable city.

[Eric Cartman]

Capitalism absolutely is the core reason, yes.

For one, the idea that capitalism encapsulates some innate, universal human desire just doesn't have much actual physical evidence backing it up, as much as is true for any other economic system we've had before. Even feudalism wasn't practiced the same exact way in the same exact times across countries like Egypt, Japan, and England back when these systems were in place. Why? Because the physical environment of these countries was different, which in turn meant that the resulting conditions people had to deal with were different, which inevitably leads to different cultural evolutions. Human development is inevitable, but the outcome of the development is not; subsequently, the establishment of capitalism is loaded with such a shitload of chance that you get wildly different historical outcomes if certain events go a different way.

Seriously, tweak a few numbers and events here and there and you might get a timeline where Europeans aren't literally kidnapping so many Africans that the population didn't actually grow for centuries. However, we live in the timeline where Europe was able to establish significant military dominance, particularly at sea, in the run up to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, but what is important to note here is not only did capitalism lead directly to a slave trade on an unprecedented scale, but, like with feudalism, cultural conditions follow the economic conditions.

So it is with capitalism that you start seeing the establishment of not just white supremacy- all of the social, religious, and pseudo-scientific justifications for the economic reality of Africans being capital in and of themselves- but first the establishment of "whiteness" as a political class all on its own in the first place, mainly to help confused and sympathetic European indentured servants figure out which side they were supposed to be on. Literally, without capitalism, you don't even reach the concept of some unified "white people" in the first place.

Now, I don't think necessarily socialism would be immune from the racial ills we see today from a legacy of colonialism, because I don't think socialism on its own inherently fixes the fact that Africans are currently dealing with the outcome of a massive wealth, labor, and body transfer across centuries that amounts to trillions of dollars stolen, millions of lives and an immeasurable amount of culture lost forever, and the psychological trappings of the cultural conditioning that needed to be established for that to work for as long as it did. I feel for that to happen, you need actual violent revolution, and for Africans to take back what is rightfully theirs. You would also need conscious efforts at establishing African soft power and dismantling whatever white supremacist infrastructure existed in order to counteract centuries' old notions of our supposed inferiority.

However, ultimately the aim of socialism is inherently to disperse power over the material conditions of our economic systems- the ownership of land, factories, companies, etc.- across a generalized mass of workers. So, at the very least, it simply moves in the direction of fixing the condition of all Africans by stripping power away from the class of capitalists who ultimately owe all of their power specifically to African oppression. Socialism is more communal, cooperative, and less hierarchical in nature than capitalism is, meaning it is going to trend towards more egalitarian outcomes by default. That doesn't mean socialists can't be racist, of course, and it certainly doesn't mean capitalist racists wouldn't be able to try to infiltrate socialist movements specifically to sabotage them. They did it all throughout the civil rights movement of the 50s and they're still doing it today.

But ultimately if you're asking me whether or not I think capitalism or socialism would be better for Africans, it is socialism, no question. It's not just that capitalism inherently incentivizes greed, although it does do that. It's that the historical reality is that America and Western Europe are the wealthy power players they are specifically because they fucked over Africans and Indigenous groups for centuries. "Reforming" capitalism is not going to solve that problem, no more than an abusive partner is salvageable after the 30th time they've slammed your head into the wall.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-atlantic-too-much-purity-is-bad-for-the-left.829731/page-7?post=120865104#post-120865104

Democratic socialism is definitely not a centrist position in American politics, but it's still ultimately just capitalism. If you're talking to anti-capitalists, then countering with dismissals of your committal to leftism with the fact that you're a Dem Soc is not gonna convince that sector of leftists.

That is true under a leftist framework that poses that capitalism is the base problem with many a groups' oppression. Both parties are capitalist, therefore both are inevitably going to be responsible for the same oppression even if it's to different degrees.

Part of the fight is not just in understanding where you personally stand on a general praxis level, but in being open to really hammering down and critiquing your biases and blind spots. You might have liberal biases that you need to hammer out if you're interested in not being characterized as such. This shit is hard. And it only gets harder the more you learn.

What's great is you know she's never even read this shit. Probably hasn't even looked at the Wikipedia page about Lenin ever:

If we argue in a Marxist way, we must say: the exploiters inevitably transform the state (and we are speaking of democracy, i.e., one of the forms of the state) into an instrument of the rule of their class, the exploiters, over the exploited. Hence, as long as there are exploiters who rule the majority, the exploited, the democratic state must inevitably be a democracy for the exploiters. A state of the exploited must fundamentally differ from such a state; it must be a democracy for the exploited, “and a means of suppressing the exploiters; and the suppression of a class means inequality for that class, its exclusion from “democracy”.

...

As you see, the relation between the exploited and the exploiters has vanished in Kautsky’s argument. All that remains is majority in general, minority in general, democracy in general, the “pure democracy” with which we are already familiar.

And all this, mark you, is said apropos of the Paris Commune! To make things clearer I shall quote Marx and Engels to show what they said on the subject of dictatorship apropos of the Paris Commune:

Marx: “. . . When the workers replace the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by their revolutionary dictatorship . . . to break down the resistance of the bourgeoisie . . . the workers invest the state with a revolutionary and transitional form . . .”[14]

Engels: “. . . And the victorious party” (in a revolution) “must maintain its rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionaries. Would the Paris Commune have lasted more than a day if it had not used the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie? Cannot we, on the contrary, blame it for having made too little use of that authority? . . .”[15]

Engels: “As, therefore, the state is only a transitional institution which is used in the struggle, in the revolution, to hold down one’s adversaries by force, it is sheer nonsense to talk of a ‘free people’s state’; so long as the proletariat still needs the state, it does not need it in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the state as such ceases to exist. . . .”[16]

Kautsky is as far removed from Marx and Engels as heaven is from earth, as a liberal from a proletarian revolutionary. The pure democracy and simple “democracy” that Kautsky talks about is merely a paraphrase of the “free people’s state”, i.e., sheer nonsense. Kautsky, with the learned air of a most learned armchair fool, or with the innocent air of a ten-year-old schoolgirl, asks: Why do we need a dictatorship when we have a majority? And Marx and Engels explain:

—to break down the resistance of the bourgeoisie;

—to inspire the reactionaries with fear;

—to maintain the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie;

—that the proletariat may forcibly hold down its adversaries.

Kautsky does not understand these explanations. Infatuated with the “purity” of democracy, blind to its bourgeois character, he “consistently” urges that the majority, since it is the majority, need not “break down the resistance” of the minority, nor “forcibly hold it down”—it is sufficient to suppress cases of infringement of democracy.

...

The exploiter and the exploited cannot be equal.

This truth, however unpleasant it may be to Kautsky, nevertheless forms the essence of socialism.

Another truth: there can be no real, actual equality until all possibility of the exploitation of one class by another has been totally destroyed.

The exploiters can be defeated at one stroke in the event of a successful uprising at the centre, or of a revolt in the army. But except in very rare and special cases, the exploiters cannot be destroyed at one stroke. It is impossible to expropriate all the landowners and capitalists of any big country at one stroke. Furthermore, expropriation alone, as a legal or political act, does not settle the matter by a long chalk, because it is necessary to depose the landowners and capitalists in actual fact, to replace their management of the factories and estates by a different management, workers’ management, in actual fact. There can be no equality between the exploiters—who for many generations have been better off because of their education, conditions of wealthy life, and habits—and the exploited, the majority of whom even in the most advanced and most democratic bourgeois republics are downtrodden, backward, ignorant, intimidated and disunited. For a long time after the revolution the exploiters inevitably continue to retain a number of great practical advantages: they still have money (since it is impossible to abolish money all at once); some movable property—often fairly considerable; they still have various connections, habits of organisation and management; knowledge of all the “secrets” (customs, methods, means and possibilities) of management; superior education; close connections with the higher technical personnel (who live and think like the bourgeoisie); incomparably greater experience in the art of war (this is very important), and so on and so forth.

If the exploiters are defeated in one country only—and this, of course, is typical, since a simultaneous revolution in a number of countries is a rare exception—they still remain stronger than the exploited, for the international connections of the exploiters are enormous. That a section of the exploited from the least advanced middle-peasant, artisan and similar groups of the population may, and indeed does, follow the exploiters has been proved by all revolutions, including the Commune (for there were also proletarians among the Versailles troops, which the most learned Kautsky has “forgotten”).

In these circumstances, to assume that in a revolution which is at all profound and serious the issue is decided simply by the relation between the majority and the minority is the acme of stupidity, the silliest prejudice of a common liberal, an attempt to deceive the people by concealing from them a well-established historical truth. This historical truth is that in every profound revolution, the prolonged, stubborn and desperate resistance of the exploiters, who for a number of years retain important practical advantages over the exploited, is the rule. Never—except in the sentimental fantasies of the sentimental fool Kautsky—will the exploiters submit to the decision of the exploited majority without trying to make use of their advantages in a last desperate battle, or series of battles.

The transition from capitalism to communism takes an entire historical epoch. Until this epoch is over, the exploiters inevitably cherish the hope of restoration, and this hope turns into attempts at restoration. After their first serious defeat, the overthrown exploiters—who had not expected their overthrow, never believed it possible, never conceded the thought of it—throw themselves with energy grown tenfold, with furious passion and hatred grown a hundredfold, into the battle for the recovery of the “paradise”, of which they were deprived, on behalf of their families, who had been leading such a sweet and easy life and whom now the “common herd” is condemning to ruin and destitution (or to “common” labour . . .). In the train of the capitalist exploiters follow the wide sections of the petty bourgeoisie, with regard to whom decades of historical experience of all countries testify that they vacillate and hesitate, one day marching behind the proletariat and the next day taking fright at the difficulties of the revolution; that they become panic-stricken at the first defeat or semidefeat of the workers, grow nervous, run about aimlessly, snivel, and rush from one camp into the other—just like our Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries.

In these circumstances, in an epoch of desperately acute war, when history presents the question of whether age-old and thousand-year-old privileges are to be or not to be–at such a time to talk about majority and minority, about pure democracy, about dictatorship being unnecessary and about equality between the exploiter and the exploited! What infinite stupidity and abysmal philistinism are needed for this!

...

The indispensable characteristic, the necessary condition of dictatorship is the forcible suppression of the exploiters as a class, and, consequently, the infringement of “pure democracy”, i.e., of equality and freedom, in regard to that class.

This is the way, the only way, the question can be put theoretically. And by failing to put the question thus, Kautsky has shown that he opposes the Bolsheviks not as a theoretician, but as a sycophant of the opportunists and the bourgeoisie.

In which countries, and given what national features of capitalism, democracy for the exploiters will be in one or another form restricted (wholly or in part), infringed upon, is a question of the specific national features of this or that capitalism, of this or that revolution. The theoretical question is different: Is the dictatorship of the proletariat possible without infringing democracy in relation to the exploiting class?

It is precisely this question, the only theoretically important and essential one, that Kautsky has evaded. He has quoted all sorts of passages from Marx and Engels, except those which bear on this question, and which I quoted above.

Kautsky talks about anything you like, about everything that is acceptable to liberals and bourgeois democrats and does not go beyond their circle of ideas, but he does not talk about the main thing, namely, the fact that the proletariat cannot achieve victory without breaking the resistance of the bourgeoisie, without forcibly suppressing its adversaries, and that, where there is “forcible suppression”, where there is no “freedom”, there is, of course, no democracy.

[Besticus Maximus]

Lock me in a room with Nepenthe for 2 weeks until I can download Trotsky to her

[benji]

Absolutely horrifying. Our government needs to invest in infrastructure instead of funding a genocide.

This is just so terrible, friend of mine drove over that bridge like 6 hours ago.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baltimore’s-key-bridge-collapses-following-cargo-shop-collision-breaking.830886/

Whenever that user is serious or trolling, what fucking bad taste.

Actual Baltimore news story and KSweeley MDCrabCakeFan86 is nowhere to be seen.

He's what hit the bridge, not a ship.

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

Too soon.

[benji]

How dare you use the last great Star Wars game against me!

[Snoopy]

Told people this would happen when GP was first announced, but people were too happy with their $1 GP deals, and now this is the result. If you want the pub/dev to keep going strong you buy and support the games/hardware, not cheap out on a sub service.

Gamepass came out in 2017. This prophet pony has been waiting for 7 years to get his told yous in.









https://www.resetera.com/threads/chris-dring-at-gdc-xbox-sales-flatlining-in-europe-majority-of-xbox-games-coming-to-ps5-at-some-point-ms-putting-less-focus-on-gamepass-and-more.830718/page-16?post=120921354#post-120921354

[Nintex]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/aliifil1/status/1772523806994595937?t=VRywLQDHIxe4QLlNnGy9HA&s=19[/tweet]

Absolutely horrifying our country is going to hell. Instead of cancelling infrastructure week and funding forever wars and killing innocent gazans Joe Biden should've used our military to protect the great Francis Scott from complete and total collapse. This bridge which was very popular in terms of crossing and cruising has been totally NEGLECTED by failing Pete Buttedgedge. When I'm President this bridge will be completely restored. Thank you!

[Potato]

The Al-Shifa account of sexual rape from eyewitness Jamila Al-Hisi has been debunked and the stories have been retracted. Please don't continue to make claims on that basis. Its partly why we insist on having definitive sourcing when sharing stories, reputable news organizations will do the baseline to try and ensure that false allegations do not spread. It's very upsetting, because there are plenty of legitimate instances of sexual assault, and these kind of attempts to incite via false claims only harm the actual victims who already face an uphill battle in being believed.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-290?post=120921030#post-120921030

Oh no, Hamasbros.. What're we going to use now?

Yes. By Hamas on Jewish hostages you fucking cunt.

[Potato]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-demo-releasing-march-29th-2024-progress-carries-over-to-main-game.830646/page-3?post=120909444#post-120909444

Innocent comment about looking forward to play Stellar Blade in a SB demo thread. The Burka Brigade wasn't amused:



IrishNinja with the blatant ban baiting for good measure:

User banned (permanent): Troll account

I hope that piece of shit thinks twice before showing excitement for a non-banned game in its appropriate thread ever again.

Wow, absolutely unreal.

I’ve also noticed Queen cunt popping up in more and more threads recently, it’s almost as if she thought there was a pretender to the crown on the horizon and had to assert her authority on the place again.

The brigading of TransEra on that forum is so blatantly obvious.

It’s mental how you can’t say you enjoy a game on a “gaming” forum because the resident nut jobs don’t like the game and will report you for saying you like it.

They don't even dislike it on a gameplay basis, just on the basis that they don't like the outfit a character wears.

[HaughtyFrank]

The Al-Shifa account of sexual rape from eyewitness Jamila Al-Hisi has been debunked and the stories have been retracted. Please don't continue to make claims on that basis. Its partly why we insist on having definitive sourcing when sharing stories, reputable news organizations will do the baseline to try and ensure that false allegations do not spread. It's very upsetting, because there are plenty of legitimate instances of sexual assault, and these kind of attempts to incite via false claims only harm the actual victims who already face an uphill battle in being believed.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-290?post=120921030#post-120921030

Oh no, Hamasbros.. What're we going to use now?

Just unbelievable that this merely gets a mod response with zero bans while people get banned for calling sex slaves sex slaves. What are they even doing over there?

[JoeBoy101]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/aliifil1/status/1772523806994595937?t=VRywLQDHIxe4QLlNnGy9HA&s=19[/tweet]

Absolutely horrifying our country is going to hell. Instead of cancelling infrastructure week and funding forever wars and killing innocent gazans Joe Biden should've used our military to protect the great Francis Scott from complete and total collapse. This bridge which was very popular in terms of crossing and cruising has been totally NEGLECTED by failing Pete Buttedgedge. When I'm President this bridge will be completely restored. Thank you!

I mean, the bitching about infrastructure spending is not unreasonable and I agree with it in principle, but in this case a FUCKING TANKER SHIP hit the bridge support. I’m no engineer, but I would expect a majority of bridges even in developed countries would sustain catastrophic damage from that.

[Daffy Duck]

i cant believe this thread is only 6 fucking pages long for this sicko who has most likely done WAY WORSE than we know about. Some random youtuber gets busted for some bullshit and theres 40 page threads on it. Then someone like this gets caught with way worse shit and barely a peep. Dunno why this makes me so angry tbh.

Totally normally user base 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sean-p-diddy-combs-homes-in-los-angeles-and-miami-raided-by-homeland-security-breaking.830796/page-6#post-120923493

[kaleidoscopium]

One of the reasons they hate things like Control for Jesse Faden is because it's based off of an actual woman and ultimately, underneath the memes and the trolling, that threatens them. Having women in major roles helps uproot the myth that men are inherently better, which is the only way these people can feel any sense of worth since they're the bottom of the pile in their own category. The only way they can feel better about themselves is by adhering strictly to the mindset that they are inherently better than half the population, and resent women for their own mediocrity or insecurity. Part of this often persists into their sexual fantasies and needing to feel superior and dominant, in which fantasising about imaginary children is the easiest way for them to achieve it.

Unfortunately places like Steam remain fertile ground for spreading these beliefs and radicalising young, angry, disenfranchised white men and boys into the fold. So instead of some insecure teen who's not having luck with girls doing some introspection and improving their position, they cling to rhetoric like those seen in GG as it absolves them of having to change. White men are the real victims, western ideals (that happen to be modelled around a time where men subjugated women) are crumbling. There isn't anything wrong with them, it's just the world around them that's robbing them of their value and place in it. Which is why you end up with complaints like "men knitting" as it's a perpetual search for other things to be the problem.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-“sweet-baby-inc”-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-25?post=120923979#post-120923979


The absolute irony of any of this being posted by Kyuuji of all people

[Snoopy]

Kyuuji -

One of the reasons they hate things like Control for Jesse Faden is because it's based off of an actual woman and ultimately, underneath the memes and the trolling, that threatens them. Having women in major roles helps uproot the myth that men are inherently better, which is the only way these people can feel any sense of worth since they're the bottom of the pile in their own category. The only way they can feel better about themselves is by adhering strictly to the mindset that they are inherently better than half the population, and resent women for their own mediocrity or insecurity.

Also Kyuuji -

JK Rowling is a dumb TERF bitch who needs to shut up and learn her place

[kaleidoscopium]

This line felt like the biggest self report on Kyuujis life to me: 

So instead of some insecure teen who's not having luck with girls doing some introspection and improving their position

 

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-“sweet-baby-inc”-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-25?post=120925860#post-120925860

Yeah, they want games and by extension the world to cater to them and them exclusively. The specifics of that don't really matter, it's all and only about grievance.

Once you are this deep in it doesn't actually matter how pathetic and ridiculous it looks to anyone looking at it from the outside. Like of course all of this is complete nonsense, but that isn't the point. It's lashing out and exerting (some vague semblance of) power.

There's a reason they are trying to brand this as Gamergate 2.0. - there is some real nostalgia for it, which comes through in all of this.

If you change the last line to: 

There's a reason they are trying to brand this as ResetEra - there is some real nostalgia for it, which comes through in all of this.

It fits too, these people are so far up their own asses they can’t even see the similarities in the “gamergate” crew and their own calls to ban things like Hogwarts legacy or now Stellar Blade for daring to exist.

[Snoopy]

The adoration, wealth, fame and following of the Harry Potter franchise has given her unparalleled access to the hearts of many, and the presumption of good intent. At the time of writing this she has some 14 million followers on Twitter. She weaponises the franchise and the respect of the fans it affords her in order to push anti-trans disinformation and further entrench the notion that trans women are an existential threat to the rights of women.

She is consciously cunning in doing so. This wasn't a blunder down the rabbit hole, it was an active and malicious progression. Starting with subtle dog whistles and progressing her dialogue slowly over time as each point is taken, adopted and boosted by the media. It is testimony to the success of this that even today with all she puts out, she is still defended as a feminist whose main interest is in the safety and security of women and girls.

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

Having women in major roles helps uproot the myth that men are inherently better, which is the only way these people can feel any sense of worth since they're the bottom of the pile in their own category. The only way they can feel better about themselves is by adhering strictly to the mindset that they are inherently better than half the population, and resent women for their own mediocrity or insecurity.

105 pages of misinformation, outright lies and organized harassment of a woman all because she doesn't 100% support their views. What's the difference between them and the GG chuds?

[Bootsthecat]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-“sweet-baby-inc”-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-25?post=120925860#post-120925860

Yeah, they want games and by extension the world to cater to them and them exclusively. The specifics of that don't really matter, it's all and only about grievance.

Once you are this deep in it doesn't actually matter how pathetic and ridiculous it looks to anyone looking at it from the outside. Like of course all of this is complete nonsense, but that isn't the point. It's lashing out and exerting (some vague semblance of) power.

There's a reason they are trying to brand this as Gamergate 2.0. - there is some real nostalgia for it, which comes through in all of this.

If you change the last line to: 

There's a reason they are trying to brand this as ResetEra - there is some real nostalgia for it, which comes through in all of this.

It fits too, these people are so far up their own asses they can’t even see the similarities in the “gamergate” crew and their own calls to ban things like Hogwarts legacy or now Stellar Blade for daring to exist.

Some of these posts are so on the nose, you just gotta think they're trolling. 

No need to change the last part, these tards are the ones who want more sinister nonsense like gamergaye around forever to cry about, much moreso than the chuds or watever

[LegendOfSwagda]

they don't realize that most people don't want to watch/play/consume media that stars normal or quite frankly ugly people.....
there is a reason the majority fauns over stars and their daily lives.

I remember a WOMAN saying the reason she didn't go see the recent MCU movies was the fact that there wasn't enough hot guys in it.. They were seeing those films because they thought Chris Evans was hot.

Era's vocal minority whole world view is that if its not for me then its bad...is the biggest issue with that site because instead of being told to fuck off they somehow wrangled power lol.

Which is why the most fun is to simply ignore them and see them twist themselves into knots.  The key is to never engage and use wording that makes the ignoring less obvious. That one guy going "these devs sure know what they want" was enough to get the dogs out...gotta play it tactical lol.

[Daffy Duck]

One of the reasons they hate things like Control for Jesse Faden is because it's based off of an actual woman and ultimately, underneath the memes and the trolling, that threatens them. Having women in major roles helps uproot the myth that men are inherently better, which is the only way these people can feel any sense of worth since they're the bottom of the pile in their own category. The only way they can feel better about themselves is by adhering strictly to the mindset that they are inherently better than half the population, and resent women for their own mediocrity or insecurity. Part of this often persists into their sexual fantasies and needing to feel superior and dominant, in which fantasising about imaginary children is the easiest way for them to achieve it.

Unfortunately places like Steam remain fertile ground for spreading these beliefs and radicalising young, angry, disenfranchised white men and boys into the fold. So instead of some insecure teen who's not having luck with girls doing some introspection and improving their position, they cling to rhetoric like those seen in GG as it absolves them of having to change. White men are the real victims, western ideals (that happen to be modelled around a time where men subjugated women) are crumbling. There isn't anything wrong with them, it's just the world around them that's robbing them of their value and place in it. Which is why you end up with complaints like "men knitting" as it's a perpetual search for other things to be the problem.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-“sweet-baby-inc”-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-25?post=120923979#post-120923979


The absolute irony of any of this being posted by Kyuuji of all people

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-demo-releasing-march-29th-2024-progress-carries-over-to-main-game.830646/page-5?post=120927810#post-120927810

This thread also continues to deliver.

I have to ask, honestly.

If discussion about games that are inherently misogynistic or are tied to problematic franchises is forbidden here, why not this game, knowing its dev studio misogynistic behavior (and the game itself being fairly problematic, imo)?

Is every thread about Stellar Blade going to be like this?

So long as people keep hand waving the obvious parts, yes. So long as people call this "brave", yes.

I thought there was a rule against ban baiting and drawing people into these sorts of conversations that recently came out with them all going after people who posted they were interested in “x” game

[Besticus Maximus]

Kyuuji loves being a woman in the same way that Adolf loved being German, and crucially, neither of them were either of those things.

[Daffy Duck]

Kyuuji loves being a woman in the same way that Adolf loved being German, and crucially, neither of them were either of those things.

Yeah she absolutely loves being the main woman of era

Her and her bunch of harpies on discord just wait to do the blood sacrifices

[malfoyking]

Kyuuji -

One of the reasons they hate things like Control for Jesse Faden is because it's based off of an actual woman and ultimately, underneath the memes and the trolling, that threatens them. Having women in major roles helps uproot the myth that men are inherently better, which is the only way these people can feel any sense of worth since they're the bottom of the pile in their own category. The only way they can feel better about themselves is by adhering strictly to the mindset that they are inherently better than half the population, and resent women for their own mediocrity or insecurity.

Also Kyuuji -

JK Rowling is a dumb TERF bitch who needs to shut up and learn her place

Wait... who hated Jesse from Control? She was just another main character. Thats it. No one talks about her at all. Remove her from the game and replace her with a man or any other woman and it will not change anything.

[kaleidoscopium]

I liked Jesse she was cool, not an annoying self righteous lesbo like they want in games. Aloy was fucking annoying but Jesse was an example how to do good female MC.

[LegendOfSwagda]

People don't mind female leads

they mind the female lead that is boringly sanded down to nothingness to appease a small minority of people who actually hate women. The no emotions because you don't want it to seem like women are too emotional. No smiling because dudes totally ask women to smile more as if its the 1920's. Make sure they are covered head to toe because you don't want anyone getting a boner from some neck meat showing. She def don't need no man (but it totally attracted to girls....its not a fetish tho). And she is the best and most strongest who solves every problem with ease.... but that is actually her biggest flaw in that she doesn't trust others (especially those no good men folks) tho so there she isn't perfect afterall chuds.

Its fucking boring. Just like the stoic space marine man protag is. Just like the stock good soft black hair boy who all the girls like despite having the personality of a wall anime protag is.  But yet again they make their preference something more than that by attempting to attach real world importance to it by using sexist as a buzz word.  Its the same shit as back in the day in which any male protag with long hair was gay and not manly....its hilarious how much they do that is just like the chuds they claim to hate.

[Snoopy]

I don’t imagine anyone had problems with the control woman, but Kyuuji just can’t stop lying/ misrepresenting anything that involves women. It’s that GG dna

[HaughtyFrank]

People don't mind female leads

they mind the female lead that is boringly sanded down to nothingness to appease a small minority of people who actually hate women. The no emotions because you don't want it to seem like women are too emotional. No smiling because dudes totally ask women to smile more as if its the 1920's. 

Small aside but I found it absolutely hilarious that the first Captain Marvel movie does the whole "dude tells her to smile, she steals his motorcycle in retaliation" thing, and then the second movie has a scene on that musical planet (don't ask) where a guy tells the black woman to "be more cheerful" but it's completely played off as a joke. Like they can't even keep it consistent