Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Everyone calling Bridie "Birdie". We all know who the true Twoheart loyalists and the bandwagoners are. Giving all y'all the side eye. 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-106?post=121193928#post-121193928

If there's a very thin, silver lining to the terminally-online dystopia that is our 21st-century world, it's that the same process where the petty tyrant next door or in the cubicle across from us gets drawn into toxic online echo-chambers that enable radicalized behaviors so extreme as to threaten his standing in society seems to be increasingly playing out with many of the planet's legitimately powerful and wealthy figures. (If at levels of exposure and degrees of megalomania greater by orders of magnitude.) The runaway narcissism of it all, requiring virtually nonstop feeding of the ego by an army of online sycophants and spiraling into utter intolerance of any dissenting voices, accelerates like nothing else does the inevitable, very public ripping away of the mask, revealing the sheer insanity underneath for all to see. We've seen once-beloved luminaries like Trump, Musk, Roseanne Barr, Scott Adams, etc., wreck or curtail their "box office" mainstream following because they could no longer keep the raging narcissist within contained.

Not a single one of these is an example of this. Musk maybe among the ignorant progressives that originally worshipped him but certainly not the others who were train wrecks well before Twitter.

It's actually hilarious that these people somehow think online is more echo-chambery than life before. All they do is complain about how chuds are breaking into their echo chambers all the time or how the algorithms are forcing them to see content they don't want to see. How many are running that transphobe detecting plugin? How many have block lists in the thousands or millions?

[Taco Bell Tower]

Everyone calling Bridie "Birdie". We all know who the true Twoheart loyalists and the bandwagoners are. Giving all y'all the side eye. 

[kaleidoscopium]

This thread being 50 pages is wild lmao. More replies than Ronin OT

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-47?post=121222023#post-121222023

Wait until the review thread and game thread, Kyuuji will be sending her demonic transbians to shitpost while loving the game

[books]

Them folkx throwing tantrums about video games and forcing people to acquiesce to their demands no matter how ridiculous is how they transitioned to their real lesbian selves in the first place. And since they were able to get normal people to call these tubs of lard women that it's just natural to bulldoze for everything else in their lives.

[kaleidoscopium]

Over in the burqa boys thread they’re lamenting that forspoken had no marketing push by Sony because… well let’s hear them say why 

Truthfully? The cynic in me just chalks it up that they did a piss poor job to market Forspoken because it had a female protagonist and because she was black. I think I got more marketing material telling me to preorder Forspoken directly from emails by Square Enix than I saw on Playstation.

People starting shitting on forspoken as soon as they saw a black girl, and they really started giving it shit when the trailers with dialogue dropped. Holding her to far more dramatic standards.

Was some of the game dialogue corny in the end? Yes. Did it get way too much crap by comparison? Far and away.

This game is just cringe worthy in so many layers but because eve is being received in a positive light... none of that kind of commentary from the usual suspects.

Sony throwing more budget behind it marketing wise is sad as hell, even if it's completely transparent.

Forspoken really felt like it was sent out to die, like Square Enix never had much faith in it. And yeah, sadly I suspect it having a black female protagonist probably contributed to that.

I don't remember really seeing much (if any) advertising or marketing for the game after it released either. I wasn't even aware it got DLC until I stumbled upon it myself on the PSN store. I may have missed it but I tend to regularly check quite a few different gaming news websites, so I'm usually pretty informed. So not sure if that speaks for how poor their marketing was or not, but it's pretty rare for me to be completely unaware that a game I'm interested in is getting DLC.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-354?post=121222287#post-121222287

It was announced at the PS5 reveal event, shown every year until release at every showcase they did, given multiple deep dives and multiple demos. The game just stunk, Stellar Blade in comparison doesn’t. Why is this hard for them to understand, it’s not black woman vs Asian woman it’s good game mediocre game.

[benji]

Them folkx throwing tantrums about video games and forcing people to acquiesce to their demands no matter how ridiculous is how they transitioned to their real lesbian selves in the first place. And since they were able to get normal people to call these tubs of lard women that it's just natural to bulldoze for everything else in their lives.

I actually think it's the other way around. People's good faith and attempt to do BASIC HUMAN DECENCY reinforces pre-existing tendencies and confirmed their belief (women are easy mode) that justified transition.

They were these types of people before, then "social justice" provided a justification to attack things they personally didn't like under the cover of making things better, and becoming trans furthered into making them a protected caste whose accusations cannot be "dismissed" under any circumstances. They would have identified as Black if a) it was socially possible to do and b) they didn't think Black people were subhuman. They worship an ideal concept of women, hence "sapphic" lesbians, so that's the more salient position to take in communities dominated by men.

[HaughtyFrank]

Yes, obviously Sony decided to fund a game with a black female protagonist only to not advertise it because it has a black female protagonist.

[benji]

If I, as an anarchist world famous professor, can teach you nothing it's that politics is truly nothing but social relations. Totalitarian political systems eliminate all other justifications and leave only social relations, this is what is left in Sovietology and the Chinese equivalent to pick the two most famous examples. The domination of the staff caste and prominent members clique is inherent in the system adopted by ResetERA.com.

poli-

[benji]

Yes, obviously Sony decided to fund a game with a black female protagonist only to not advertise it because it has a black female protagonist.

It makes sense if they did it to get the hurrahs and then try to set back all of society as part of a plan to support Gamergate 2, JUST LIKE I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR AT LEAST DAYS!!!!

[Potato]

Over in the burqa boys thread they’re lamenting that forspoken had no marketing push by Sony because… well let’s hear them say why 

Truthfully? The cynic in me just chalks it up that they did a piss poor job to market Forspoken because it had a female protagonist and because she was black. I think I got more marketing material telling me to preorder Forspoken directly from emails by Square Enix than I saw on Playstation.

People starting shitting on forspoken as soon as they saw a black girl, and they really started giving it shit when the trailers with dialogue dropped. Holding her to far more dramatic standards.

Was some of the game dialogue corny in the end? Yes. Did it get way too much crap by comparison? Far and away.

This game is just cringe worthy in so many layers but because eve is being received in a positive light... none of that kind of commentary from the usual suspects.

Sony throwing more budget behind it marketing wise is sad as hell, even if it's completely transparent.

Forspoken really felt like it was sent out to die, like Square Enix never had much faith in it. And yeah, sadly I suspect it having a black female protagonist probably contributed to that.

I don't remember really seeing much (if any) advertising or marketing for the game after it released either. I wasn't even aware it got DLC until I stumbled upon it myself on the PSN store. I may have missed it but I tend to regularly check quite a few different gaming news websites, so I'm usually pretty informed. So not sure if that speaks for how poor their marketing was or not, but it's pretty rare for me to be completely unaware that a game I'm interested in is getting DLC.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-354?post=121222287#post-121222287

It was announced at the PS5 reveal event, shown every year until release at every showcase they did, given multiple deep dives and multiple demos. The game just stunk, Stellar Blade in comparison doesn’t. Why is this hard for them to understand, it’s not black woman vs Asian woman it’s good game mediocre game.

The last hope of the vanquished...appeal to the BCT for support and maybe you get Nepnep and Slayven onside...

[books]

The obvious solution to all video game controversy is to ascii everything like Caves of Qud. You're straight? Trans? Bi? Awesome. You're @.

[benji]

The obvious solution to all video game controversy is to ascii everything like Caves of Qud. You're straight? Trans? Bi? Awesome. You're @.

Oh, sure, choose one with curves.

Try to make it a little less obvious that you're porn obsessed.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I think we need more games about pluralism.

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-43?post=121204569#post-121204569

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

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

[benji]

I think we need more games about pluralism.

It's actually a great idea for a sandbox survival horror game done in how DID is supposed to work if real. Your character blacks out and comes to with things changed, you slowly deduce that it's another person doing this to you, then that it's actually you as another personality. Then you have to figure out how to communicate to take on the greater evil. Other characters maybe only know you through one of their personalities and you come across them in the other, some are manipulating you though knowing you're the same person ala Memento. Then you can play the game from the other personalities perspective.

Didn't one of the Silent Hills do a sequence along these lines? The story of Eternal Darkness essentially does this across time with different people going mad but there's no reason it couldn't be one person and the "abilities" are limited to their own personal knowledge. The swapping in Resident Evil Zero, or the general ability to place items for the other character across those games, is something to look at too.

[benji]

Agents of Mayhem is also pro-plural if instead of swapping between characters you're swapping between one person's personalities. This is why capital-G Gamers came out against Volition, they knew that developer was a threat to capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy.

It's very telling that they love Super Princess Peach when she's merely swapping between emotions not actually ever changing from being a singlet. Another instance of pathologizing normal human behavior or traits.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/reuters-exclusive-disney-prevails-over-trian-nelson-peltz-in-board-fight-sources-say.833496/

RE cheering for Iger after months of calling him a CHUD.

[benji]

Nelson Peltz has ten children, these incels can't stop going after our progressive culture.

[benji]

Gabe yet again* does what pro-Gamergate Sony won't:




*Previously on Steam:

[Steven Snell]

I liked the demo, highlights for me were the music on Eidos 7 and the boss fights. I definitely want to give the full game a go and experiment more with the equipment load-outs.

Speaking as a woman (because we are not a monolith like some are trying to imply) I don't mind "problematic" female protagonists in character action games like Nier Automata, Lollipop Chainsaw and Bayonetta, it barely even registers to me compared to the real-life misogyny I have experienced in my lifetime. You'll find that a lot of women either aren't bothered or even vibe with such designs and express that through cosplay and fan art. I don't understand why this game has to be some deep cultural battleground: we can examine and criticise media while still enjoying it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/post-121162122

:O

It's always a good tell when they mention a lot in a post about how they're a woman. You can be damn sure it's a male to female transperson, which is the case with Windrunner.


But hey good post from him/her/whatever I guess. Even though it's hilarious on Resetera how transwomen are telling biological women how to feel.

[Besticus Maximus]

We are not a monolith. Some of us, for example, use Kyuuji's discord, while others use Princess Bubblegum's.

[benji]

We are not a monolith. Some of us, for example, will refuse to play Stellar Blade, while others will play it to better critique and warn about its dangers.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I for one look forward to a real womans review of Stellar Blade once the full release is out.

 I'm sure Kyuuji's review will spot on once they platinum it after multiple playthroughs like Cyberpunk. It's better if she plays it instead of me suffering through the onslaught of anti-feminist rhetoric.

[Steven Snell]

I wonder what the Resetera Trans Mafia's honest thoughts would be on the skimmy cosplayers cosplaying(actual women!) as the main character from Stellar Blade?

On Resetera: "They're just being forced by horrible men"
Behind closed doors: Jerking off to it

[benji]

We are not a monolith. Some of us, for example, hate Joanne because she's a children's author who betrayed us ideologically, while others hate Joanne because she's a woman who refuses to do as we tell her.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-48?post=121228134#post-121228134

IGN France apologise to Shift Up after the article

https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/04/01/ign-france-scrambles-to-backpedal-after-writing-off-stellar-blade-protagonist-eve-as-a-doll-sexualized-by-someone-who-has-never-seen-a-woman/

IGN France has found themselves scrambling to defend themselves after writing off Stellar Blade‘s lead protagonist Eve, despite being based entirely on the real-world appearance of an actual female model, of being nothing more than the “sexualized” fantasy of “someone who has never seen a woman”.

..

The design of the game, in particular its character, highlights an obvious bias,” wrote Ossola, per an English translation of his piece provided by this article’s author. “We’re going to beat up the alien, but if we can do it while pleasuring the eyes of the men, that’s a bonus.”

“And the result doesn’t really work,” he continued. “It’s not new, and other games have made the choice to highlight the assets of their female characters, but where Bayonetta bears an iconic character design, or 2B from NieR: Automata, inspired an entire generation of cosplayers, Stellar Blade’s Eve is just boring. A doll sexualized by someone who has never seen a woman.”

Bend the knee and kiss the ring.  

[Eric Cartman]

Wait, so did they finally said something other than the tired "TRIPLE AAAAAAAAAAAAA" or "Microtransactions bad" for once?

No idea. I find it impossible to watch Sterling's videos these days. I start one. Quickly fast forward past the wacky 80s toy/sexual innuendo/wrestling promo bit. Get to the actual topic. Listen to his Italkreallyfastbecausethatdefinitelymakesmesoundmoreinsightful part for around 20 seconds then switch off. I can't be the only one doing that. It probably fucks up his engagement numbers.

It was obvious he peaked when that shitty dev went nuts and threatened to sue him. Sterling was never going to get that kind of drama again, and since he relies on drama it was all downhill from then on.

Jim Sterling has always been an obnoxious piece of shit starting fights with people smaller than him (which is most of the human population of earth HEYOOOOOO ) including that shitty dev who was selling amateurish games on steam for a few - fully refundable - bucks a pop) because like the piece of class he is Jim sterling was doing the equivalent of Roger Ebert going to high school student films and taking a big shit on them.

Fun fact - Five Nights At Freddies is what it is because Jim Sterling did the same thing to him, shitting on how bad his 3D modelling and animation was that it reminded him of nightmare fuel animatronics, and he went "Fine, I'll do that deliberately then". I'd say he got the last laugh there.

[Eric Cartman]

Speaking of Jim sterling....

I actually think it's the other way around. People's good faith and attempt to do BASIC HUMAN DECENCY reinforces pre-existing tendencies and confirmed their belief (women are easy mode) that justified transition.

They were these types of people before, then "social justice" provided a justification to attack things they personally didn't like under the cover of making things better, and becoming trans furthered into making them a protected caste whose accusations cannot be "dismissed" under any circumstances. They would have identified as Black if a) it was socially possible to do and b) they didn't think Black people were subhuman. They worship an ideal concept of women, hence "sapphic" lesbians, so that's the more salient position to take in communities dominated by men.