Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[HaughtyFrank]

I think it says a lot that aside from 'Why Women' leading the poll, the second highest option is 'Rear Automata' with more votes than the three actually clever and funny options ('EVE Offline', 'Not Quite Bayonetta but Nier Enough' and 'Seoulsborne') combined.

Yeah... It sort of gives you a peek behind the curtain at what's actually going on, behind the veneer of politeness.

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-367?post=121960095#post-121960095

The shocking truth revealed behind the curtain of politeness!!

...a pun about butts and nier automata?

[benji]

They really don't understand playfully mocking something you like, do they?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

A third poll will be leaked anyway. The OP should just make up their own mind but no one will be happy due to it.

The smart thing would be to let "Why women criticise sexualised character designs" win, then wait to make a copies sold celebration thread and have real game discussion there.  

Call it the Truth Social plan. 

[kaleidoscopium]

This is all somewhat out of my hands now as mods are reviewing and will make a decision on everything soon. I just hope everyone can still enjoy the OT and talk about their experiences playing the game there later this week.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960311#post-121960311

aka Hecht noticed we were voting on it and told him they will decide on the name instead. Good job Hecht enjoy another bender with a box of wine tonight

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

This is all somewhat out of my hands now as mods are reviewing and will make a decision on everything soon. I just hope everyone can still enjoy the OT and talk about their experiences playing the game there later this week.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960311#post-121960311

aka Hecht noticed we were voting on it and told him they will decide on the name instead. Good job Hecht enjoy another bender with a box of wine tonight

"This is all somewhat out of my hands now as mods are reviewing and will make a decision on everything soon."

Pussyo going to the feds like that.

[books]

How's that Ree Smash Bros tourney going? I've never seen a more unorganized tourney that's been in the making for years. Nep probably wins for equity.

[kaleidoscopium]

Oh no! the poor people playing a clearly sexualized and objectified game would feel called out!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960440#post-121960440

This stuff is making me so so sad we didn't get to see the similar Hogwarts Legacy OT play out

[benji]

Why would the staff need to review anything? Just pick the real one you want or don't. Why do you need the cops for this?

[HaughtyFrank]

I think it says a lot that aside from 'Why Women' leading the poll, the second highest option is 'Rear Automata' with more votes than the three actually clever and funny options ('EVE Offline', 'Not Quite Bayonetta but Nier Enough' and 'Seoulsborne') combined.

Yeah... It sort of gives you a peek behind the curtain at what's actually going on, behind the veneer of politeness.

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-367?post=121960095#post-121960095

"Where's our safe space" he cries, already forgetting how some dude was perma banned for daring to correct Vonocunt about sport uniforms

[Daffy Duck]

The conversation around this game is maybe one of the most bizarre I have seen about any game in this forum.

Watching the general tenor go from deserved side-eye to genuine stanning has been shocking…I'm thinking of that poster who was banned for unironically praising Eve's wonderful character and like…that's just the thread now, lol.

All the handwringing because an OT title that—rightfully!—calls out the sexualized character designs is winning a pointless poll is icing on the cake.

Just remake the poll, remove the "why women" option, and replace all other options with Big Sean lyrics to guarantee an ass-based title if that's so important.

Ridiculous stuff.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78

Duh, it’s because Queen Bee played the demo 10+ times and likes it now so told her harpies on discord to fall in line and shut up shitting in the thread, I know it’s difficult to keep up, but do better honey

[kaleidoscopium]

As long as mods are watching, I'd probably like to insist that we keep an eye out for personal attacks against reviewers when the embargo is up. Because embargo day is probably gonna be bad.

I'm pretty sure that any reviewer that doesn't give the game above 85 is going to regret it.

Sure that's what he meant

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960584#post-121960584

edit:

Anything else I say about this one either way probably gets too close to breaking embargo. I just know what no matter where things fall, half the people are going to rip reviewers are apart. Which, you know, fine. Just don't get personal about it.

Reading between the lines and the general tone of Resetera he's responding to, this game is going to be reviewing pretty damn well. With him at least

[benji]

As long as mods are watching, I'd probably like to insist that we keep an eye out for personal attacks against reviewers when the embargo is up. Because embargo day is probably gonna be bad.

I'm pretty sure that any reviewer that doesn't give the game above 85 is going to regret it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960584#post-121960584

Damn, they really want to flush out all the Gamergaters still lurking on the forum after seven years ready to launch their attacks against defenseless games journalists in a thread about a game.

[Besticus Maximus]

It really is beyond tedious, you've got a few dozen genuine nutters ruining what is lining up to be a very good videogame for everyone else and they're all actually blokes who enjoy hentai waifus anyway

[kaleidoscopium]

Glad I'm going to be away for a wedding and offline for review thread and launch.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960746#post-121960746

good to know carl

[Lonewulfeus]

I voted for why women criticize 5 times so those person of gender nutters could get at least 1 win in life

[Steven Snell]

Glad I'm going to be away for a wedding and offline for review thread and launch.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960746#post-121960746

good to know carl

1. Clickity will be online
2. Oh my fucking god a review thread and a game launch is such burden on you that you're happy to be away. God forbid something truly horrible happens to these people.

[kaleidoscopium]

Oh yeah that makes sense. I only started the second poll because the first could be abused so easily (refresh and vote again) and it had been posted externally from Era. However, the second poll is in the exact same situation now which is why I'm hands off with things and letting the mods decide.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960833#post-121960833

[books]

ClickyCarl will be online during the wedding. Don't make promises you can't keep.

[Lonewulfeus]

Ugh I just imagined clickycarl in a dress and now I’m gonna vote 10 times for Rear Automata

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I voted for why women criticize 5 times so those person of gender nutters could get at least 1 win in life

We won, Bire bros.

[benji]

Glad I'm going to be away for a wedding and offline for review thread and launch.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-78?post=121960746#post-121960746

Because you like the game and are offended that other people like it? I'm not understanding.

[BIONIC]

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-367?post=121960356#post-121960356

I think that Rear Automata is a little more effective at capturing the state of the discourse around it whether people are for the game essentially being boiled down to this, against the criticism, proud of it etc. The "Why women criticize..." title just feels more mocking to me than anything.

Wouldn't it be better for an OT be about the game itself and not the discourse?

Cunt was literally brigading to get an OT title that had nothing to with the game??

[Steven Snell]

I voted for why women criticize 5 times so those person of gender nutters could get at least 1 win in life

We won, Bire bros.

This movie has such an incredible soundtrack.

[BIONIC]

Hidden posts from our faves:

Have nowhere else to post this (and don't want to make a thread so I'll post here, sorry if this isn't the best place for it).

As I've said elsewhere on Era and here, I have very mixed feelings on how a lot of video games handle romance and the wish for a game where you play as character created woman (that isn't sexualized trash), where all the romance options are women and NBs). I ended up having a thought last week of why not play into the gamey nature of video game for satire and comedy.

My idea (I really wish I was a good artist and programmer so I could make my own indie games rather than just speculating ideas) ended up basically being a corny gameshow crossed with a dungeon crawl where you play as Fantasy woman adventurer trying to find love so the show presents you with 10 lady adventurers whom you go through 10 semi-randomized dungeons of increasing difficulty with camp sites to talk, mini-games to unlock gift, trivia questions, puzzles, battles etc. You can also help some of the other women adventurers get together (like the scout and healer) instead to let them be happy. The secret 11th option is the show's but upon NB staff member who's job is to be yelled at the producer and having to set-up all the dungeons and catch all the monsters to put into them, often to great injury and humiliation.

So I spent the past two weekend between revision and Star Wars rewatching when I should have been revising trying to find as many WlW communities I could to try to get a good idea of what women besides from myself wanted from WLW romances in gaming.

Like a big goofy Half Orc woman with the big shield and axe/mace that likes to pick you to sit you on her shoulders and acts as your bodyguard.
The snooty upper class childhood rival bully (like Lili or Karin from from fighting games) with a rapier and sarcastic wit.
The adventurers, charming, dashing gambling Pirate rogue armed with a handcannon and a cutlass.
The crass and crude mercenary/ranger cynic who loves to drink, smoke and suffering from PTSD from the war.
The quirky, dorky all-loving inventor and rune master Gnome/Halfling lady.
The stoic Elegant Elven arcane user woman with white glittering hair that loves to read.
The Femme fatale flirty, confident thief with the mini crossbow and hidden knives and the heart of gold.
The athletic extrovert scout who's now your new best friend and no you don't get a say
The shy introvert healer elf/gnome/fey who has a fluffy pet lizard owl-chinchilla
The lovable crazy Necromancer who loves to burn things.

Again sorry if this was the wrong place to post this.

I would say that the big things I go wild for in women would be weird little neet women (potential overlap with the inventor) and people who are good with my littles, so maybe this could potentially be a place to put in a character with DID as I mean having the option of dating a character with DID hasn't really been done before in a video game. Like imagaine the snooty childhood bully getting too wound up mid way through a dungeon and she wakes up at night wanting to play with you because the kid part of her remembers when you were friends.

[Averon]

If B-Dumbs had any balls, he'd ban ClickyCunt for starting this cross thread drama.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

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-367?post=121960356#post-121960356

I think that Rear Automata is a little more effective at capturing the state of the discourse around it whether people are for the game essentially being boiled down to this, against the criticism, proud of it etc. The "Why women criticize..." title just feels more mocking to me than anything.

Wouldn't it be better for an OT be about the game itself and not the discourse?

Cunt was literally brigading to get an OT title that had nothing to with the game??

"Clicky why the fuck did you cause all this drama if you thought the OT should be about the game and not the discourse?"

[benji]

Hidden posts from our faves:

Have nowhere else to post this (and don't want to make a thread so I'll post here, sorry if this isn't the best place for it).

As I've said elsewhere on Era and here, I have very mixed feelings on how a lot of video games handle romance and the wish for a game where you play as character created woman (that isn't sexualized trash), where all the romance options are women and NBs). I ended up having a thought last week of why not play into the gamey nature of video game for satire and comedy.

My idea (I really wish I was a good artist and programmer so I could make my own indie games rather than just speculating ideas) ended up basically being a corny gameshow crossed with a dungeon crawl where you play as Fantasy woman adventurer trying to find love so the show presents you with 10 lady adventurers whom you go through 10 semi-randomized dungeons of increasing difficulty with camp sites to talk, mini-games to unlock gift, trivia questions, puzzles, battles etc. You can also help some of the other women adventurers get together (like the scout and healer) instead to let them be happy. The secret 11th option is the show's but upon NB staff member who's job is to be yelled at the producer and having to set-up all the dungeons and catch all the monsters to put into them, often to great injury and humiliation.

So I spent the past two weekend between revision and Star Wars rewatching when I should have been revising trying to find as many WlW communities I could to try to get a good idea of what women besides from myself wanted from WLW romances in gaming.

Like a big goofy Half Orc woman with the big shield and axe/mace that likes to pick you to sit you on her shoulders and acts as your bodyguard.
The snooty upper class childhood rival bully (like Lili or Karin from from fighting games) with a rapier and sarcastic wit.
The adventurers, charming, dashing gambling Pirate rogue armed with a handcannon and a cutlass.
The crass and crude mercenary/ranger cynic who loves to drink, smoke and suffering from PTSD from the war.
The quirky, dorky all-loving inventor and rune master Gnome/Halfling lady.
The stoic Elegant Elven arcane user woman with white glittering hair that loves to read.
The Femme fatale flirty, confident thief with the mini crossbow and hidden knives and the heart of gold.
The athletic extrovert scout who's now your new best friend and no you don't get a say
The shy introvert healer elf/gnome/fey who has a fluffy pet lizard owl-chinchilla
The lovable crazy Necromancer who loves to burn things.

Again sorry if this was the wrong place to post this.

I would say that the big things I go wild for in women would be weird little neet women (potential overlap with the inventor) and people who are good with my littles, so maybe this could potentially be a place to put in a character with DID as I mean having the option of dating a character with DID hasn't really been done before in a video game. Like imagaine the snooty childhood bully getting too wound up mid way through a dungeon and she wakes up at night wanting to play with you because the kid part of her remembers when you were friends.

I'm really not joking, this is a great idea for one of those fetish Steam games. I check the Steam new release list every week, just mousing over and seeing the descriptions and there's so much of this for one specific dude's fetishes or whatever. There's a (small) niche market for this for transbians for sure, especially if it was halfway decently produced in terms of art/gameplay/etc.

Though I'm not sure it's entirely original, it certainly "feels" close to a lot of stuff I've seen on Steam already but I am not informed enough and definitely do not want to become informed enough to know if there's anything truly similar that's already out.

I might look at the list again because I really think there was some kind of DUNGEON LESBIANS thing from this week.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Hidden posts from our faves:

Have nowhere else to post this (and don't want to make a thread so I'll post here, sorry if this isn't the best place for it).

As I've said elsewhere on Era and here, I have very mixed feelings on how a lot of video games handle romance and the wish for a game where you play as character created woman (that isn't sexualized trash), where all the romance options are women and NBs). I ended up having a thought last week of why not play into the gamey nature of video game for satire and comedy.

My idea (I really wish I was a good artist and programmer so I could make my own indie games rather than just speculating ideas) ended up basically being a corny gameshow crossed with a dungeon crawl where you play as Fantasy woman adventurer trying to find love so the show presents you with 10 lady adventurers whom you go through 10 semi-randomized dungeons of increasing difficulty with camp sites to talk, mini-games to unlock gift, trivia questions, puzzles, battles etc. You can also help some of the other women adventurers get together (like the scout and healer) instead to let them be happy. The secret 11th option is the show's but upon NB staff member who's job is to be yelled at the producer and having to set-up all the dungeons and catch all the monsters to put into them, often to great injury and humiliation.

So I spent the past two weekend between revision and Star Wars rewatching when I should have been revising trying to find as many WlW communities I could to try to get a good idea of what women besides from myself wanted from WLW romances in gaming.

Like a big goofy Half Orc woman with the big shield and axe/mace that likes to pick you to sit you on her shoulders and acts as your bodyguard.
The snooty upper class childhood rival bully (like Lili or Karin from from fighting games) with a rapier and sarcastic wit.
The adventurers, charming, dashing gambling Pirate rogue armed with a handcannon and a cutlass.
The crass and crude mercenary/ranger cynic who loves to drink, smoke and suffering from PTSD from the war.
The quirky, dorky all-loving inventor and rune master Gnome/Halfling lady.
The stoic Elegant Elven arcane user woman with white glittering hair that loves to read.
The Femme fatale flirty, confident thief with the mini crossbow and hidden knives and the heart of gold.
The athletic extrovert scout who's now your new best friend and no you don't get a say
The shy introvert healer elf/gnome/fey who has a fluffy pet lizard owl-chinchilla
The lovable crazy Necromancer who loves to burn things.

Again sorry if this was the wrong place to post this.

I would say that the big things I go wild for in women would be weird little neet women (potential overlap with the inventor) and people who are good with my littles, so maybe this could potentially be a place to put in a character with DID as I mean having the option of dating a character with DID hasn't really been done before in a video game. Like imagaine the snooty childhood bully getting too wound up mid way through a dungeon and she wakes up at night wanting to play with you because the kid part of her remembers when you were friends.

I'm really not joking, this is a great idea for one of those fetish Steam games. I check the Steam new release list every week, just mousing over and seeing the descriptions and there's so much of this for one specific dude's fetishes or whatever. There's a (small) niche market for this for transbians for sure, especially if it was halfway decently produced in terms of art/gameplay/etc.

Though I'm not sure it's entirely original, it certainly "feels" close to a lot of stuff I've seen on Steam already but I am not informed enough and definitely do not want to become informed enough to know if there's anything truly similar that's already out.

I might look at the list again because I really think there was some kind of DUNGEON LESBIANS thing from this week.

Time to rev up RPG maker, Benji. Get your fortune.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Vote tampering on an OT subtitle on a video game forum full of old people??

Tampering? Has there been hacking of the poll?

the title that critizises the sexualized nature of the character is winning, so obviously it's tempering, it's impossible for there to be so many people bothered by that aspect of the game.

A very obvious and malicious attempt!

In case it's not obvious I was poking fun at the claim the poll has been tampered with.

[nampad]

I hope the game reviews and sells well just to have laugh at those idiots. Thought the demo was quite mediocre though so the whole buzz around it is even more stupid.

But the funniest thing is the 180 by the hypocritical ass cuntjuji about such a mediocre demo.