Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[HaughtyFrank]

I imagine it was either Sony being advised to remove the game from those countries or that Valve simply decided that they're not going to be part of that bullshit. Either way that's definitely the moment they lost this whole thing so I don't think they that did willingly. Even the hardcore Sony defenders could not come up with any decent defense for this

[Echelon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-idea-that-hip-hop-can-only-truly-be-experienced-by-black-folks-is-puzzling-to-me.863466/

This entire thread is a direct shot at the retarded racist cunt that is Nepenthe. I hope she has a fucking stroke from how asspained she's going to get that whitey listens to rap.

[Polident]

It sounds crazy, right? It's happening at my university as well and it feels like I'm taking crazy pills. I can't fathom being more concerned about the status of a graduation ceremony than the innocent lives of people experiencing genocide.

this dumbshit take is always used so narrowly, as if it doesn't justify literally anything

"why aren't you flying to israel to protest directly to their fat jewish faces? oh you don't have money to fly there, and you have other responsibilities at home? what, like watering your plants? throw them in the trash and take out a loan and buy a plane ticket. why are you more concerned about your own financial stability than literal genocide? isn't that such a small price to pay?"

why are you posting on an internet forum when people are dying?

why are you participating in trans history week when objectively fewer trans people are dying than palestinians right now?

Simple answer is these guys are so rapt in their cult, any thought outside of propaganda and programming doesn’t occur to them. Saying “I can’t fathom” is honest. They can’t.

[clockwork5]

Having lived here for a few years now, Soapbox is 100% authentic Philly weird. Even down to the weird food threads.

Chill Nep, he is more authentic than you are.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

Am I wrong or is the Helldivers drama actually an example of review bombing being used productively? The game was literally made worse so people changed their reviews to reflect that.

[Jansen]

The people that whined about making a psn account are the biggest bitches on the planet

[Shecky Fragbaum]

To the ~21 guests or so peeking in: The Holocaust actually happened.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

The people that whined about making a psn account are the biggest bitches on the planet

But also: fuck making me sign into anything to play a game.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Having lived here for a few years now, Soapbox is 100% authentic Philly weird. Even down to the weird food threads.

Chill Nep, he is more authentic than you are.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-idea-that-hip-hop-can-only-truly-be-experienced-by-black-folks-is-puzzling-to-me.863466/page-3?post=122597355#post-122597355

To be clear if it's not, I am black. I wasn't trying to hide it or trick anyone. I thought it was clear.


And to be even more clear, I have done my part keep Hip-Hop culture alive and well for the next generations but this thread does not address my actual point. The online discourse is one thing but are the people that are in the b-boy/b-girl ciphers, doing the graffiti etc...is this real with those people? But as I read this thread I find that this point is moot. This is hyper-focus on a pop star who raps and an emcee who was in the halftime show at the superbowl.


And further, I am a 46 year old backpack emcee and some of yall really think I would have more in common with mumble raps or all this singing autotune adjacent trash simply because I am also black? Really? More so than somebody who grew up in my hood? When it comes to rap, I respect the pen first. Most people don't even bang with the whole culture of HipHop to me but I am a dinosaur in that respect. An old man yelling about the days of mixtapes and walkmans and freestyles off the dome. I know that I'm outdated.


I came for the lesson and I am listening but this don't make sense to me.

[HaughtyFrank]

Am I wrong or is the Helldivers drama actually an example of review bombing being used productively? The game was literally made worse so people changed their reviews to reflect that.

For some reason they hate it when gamers accomplish something that's objectively better for everyone 

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[Potato]

Strange to see the dissonance in some folks I talk to who think Israel may be committing genocide and yet are upset at the protestors for having graduations canceled. I feel like doing everything we can to end this war is more important than some ceremony.

It sounds crazy, right? It's happening at my university as well and it feels like I'm taking crazy pills. I can't fathom being more concerned about the status of a graduation ceremony than the innocent lives of people experiencing genocide.

On the other hand, I've been organizing for my school's encampment for about a week...and I am so tired, guys. I know I can't afford to be. I'm banned from campus and have charges pressed against me for protesting. But interest from the student body is dwindling as the semester is winding down for the summer. Plus, the current administration seems hell-bent on making an example out of us. I don't know. It blows my mind how some people choose to be apathetic while my mind is split into many different directions: from the livelihood of Palestinians to the possibility of me being incarcerated, it's not a good time.

I just want to say that I have all the support and respect in the world for you and what you are doing.

I have been reading your posts here and each one means a hell of a lot to me.

If you decide to step back, it is understandable.

No matter what you decide to do from this point on, I thank you for all you've done.

It's not understandable at all. Gaza are not able to take a step back. If this is all it takes for Noodle to give up then he didn't care in the first place. 

Edit: link for Uncle
https://www.resetera.com/threads/protests-at-columbia-university-continue-as-groups-on-both-sides-of-the-aisle-call-for-action-to-be-taken-university-shifts-to-hybrid-classes.851787/page-31?post=122591430#post-122591430

Sounds like that regret is kicking in hard. Any day now we're gonna get that thread...

[Polident]

But also: fuck making me sign into anything to play a game.

Last week I downloaded Max Payne 3 on Steam. It wants to download and install the Rockstar launcher. I’ll acknowledge some hypocrisy over already having Steam and an account. But an account on top of an account to play a single player game is annoying. Thankfully PC gaming wiki has resources to bypass all that.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Having lived here for a few years now, Soapbox is 100% authentic Philly weird. Even down to the weird food threads.

Chill Nep, he is more authentic than you are.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-idea-that-hip-hop-can-only-truly-be-experienced-by-black-folks-is-puzzling-to-me.863466/page-3?post=122597355#post-122597355

To be clear if it's not, I am black. I wasn't trying to hide it or trick anyone. I thought it was clear.


And to be even more clear, I have done my part keep Hip-Hop culture alive and well for the next generations but this thread does not address my actual point. The online discourse is one thing but are the people that are in the b-boy/b-girl ciphers, doing the graffiti etc...is this real with those people? But as I read this thread I find that this point is moot. This is hyper-focus on a pop star who raps and an emcee who was in the halftime show at the superbowl.


And further, I am a 46 year old backpack emcee and some of yall really think I would have more in common with mumble raps or all this singing autotune adjacent trash simply because I am also black? Really? More so than somebody who grew up in my hood? When it comes to rap, I respect the pen first. Most people don't even bang with the whole culture of HipHop to me but I am a dinosaur in that respect. An old man yelling about the days of mixtapes and walkmans and freestyles off the dome. I know that I'm outdated.


I came for the lesson and I am listening but this don't make sense to me.

Doesn't that user supposedly have like 8 kids?

[Potato]

The people that whined about making a psn account are the biggest bitches on the planet

If it wasn't necessary then why insist on it? 

Fuck Sony and fuck the corporate cocksuckers who swallowed the salty load that Sony tried to force down everyone's throat.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

I'll sign into Steam/Epic/GOG or whatever all encompassing launcher but beyond that fuck off. If you disagree with me I will protest at the nearest university campus.

[Propagandhim]

The disagreement seems to stem from a misunderstanding of what people's issues are in the context of the Drake/Kendrick beef, which is that non-Black participants, especially non-Black participants who don't listen to rap, are liable to say some dumb and annoying shit because they don't understand certain nuances and unwritten rules about the culture, a culture which is primarily informed by Black people.

Yeah that's crazy.  Saying dumb and annoying shit because you don't understand nuance.   That's just nuts.

[Besticus Maximus]

As a leftist, why are we focusing on the middle class aspect here, it's not fair 

[benji]

Weird lost all of the posts I quoted but the first and last.

Is his uni a good one or just a random no hoper one like Nepenthes

Illinois State is fine, standard state public university. Nepenthe's school is some weird art only thing that's both highly respected within very very limited niches and also for complete washouts like her.

Am I wrong or is the Helldivers drama actually an example of review bombing being used productively? The game was literally made worse so people changed their reviews to reflect that.

For some reason they hate it when gamers accomplish something that's objectively better for everyone 

What they hate is who accomplished it based on who they imagined the people are. They instantly, within seconds of hearing there was any kind of controversy, decided the people against this were chuds and so it had to always be chuds and now chuds are getting a win which means global fascism is getting a win. Same as deciding all the Stellar Blade fans must be chuds. Or The Marvels flopped because of chuds. Or Joker was going to lead to incel shootings. Or Johnny Depp's lawsuit was part of a fascist chud incel plot.

They obsessively decide on the enemy first and then everything is only that enemy.

Think about how they treat Gamergate. What was Gamergate? I don't mean in reality but in their telling. A harassment mob that went after women journalists and women games industry people for months. Where does this jump to some kind of ideological thing that expands into something that takes up "sides" in Depp's lawsuit or PSN logins? There's no connection at all except that the people angry about Gamergate have a desperate need to make all their "enemies" into one solidified enemy. And because the "enemy" doesn't actually exist, or is more diverse and nuanced than they want, it's designed as simply the anti-them. The chud is me but inverse. No, I didn't care about Helldivers backend login but now I do and so the chuds must be on the other side from me. No, I didn't care about Palestine before but now I do so now I hate Joe Biden even though this has been his position for 50 years and it's entirely in the mainstream. He has to be an extreme bloodthirsty monster because I'm not. And Gamergate probably loves Israel because I don't.

I slipped out of gaming or media there but you can see them doing the same thing all the time. Look at how they reacted to companies not issuing statements against Roe being overturned. The Washington Post's former Kotaku employees published multiple articles about the companies that weren't issuing statements and the companies that refused to reply to them. That trickled down to ResetERA.com where Jim Ryan telling everybody to get back to work became him being this far-right beast they needed to protest but not enough to stop buying Sony products.

They see themselves as the pure Good Guys of their favorite nuance-free media and to show they're the Good Guys and the Heroes they need an Enemy. Real life doesn't offer these up so you have to invent them and they refuse to allow their enemies any possibility of being right or themselves of being wrong. Hence, an endless Crusade where defeat is always treated as total and existential.

If you'll indulge me a historical quote about America, I think it apt to this crusader mindset they have:
"But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.  ... She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit." - John Quincy Adams

[Jansen]

The people that whined about making a psn account are the biggest bitches on the planet

But also: fuck making me sign into anything to play a game.

Imagine your life is so vapid that you stomp your feet over literally nothing

[benji]

"I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produce big gamates"

I think she's slowly but surely running out of any form of logical ways to define what she believes is a woman as trans women will fit the same criteria so now she's started bringing up things that most people have never even heard of/nor would anyone ever care about.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-116?post=122560539#post-122560539

Most people have never heard of junior high school level biology?

And this is why games will never be "art" its always been a commodity.

The problem with this take is thinking this action was purely altruistic, it will always be weaponized to any idea not in the white cis wheelhouse.

You cant just bully artists into doing things you like. Sony absolutely fucked up by pushing a release early and basically removing access to this game by requiring it. The order of operations was wrong and forced them into this outcome. Which is great for the consumers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-weve-heard-your-feedback-the-may-6-helldivers-2-update-will-not-be-moving-forward.862866/page-17?post=122565240#post-122565240

Here's a person completely ignorant of the history of art. 

...when you can't buy a game in a country, does that also remove it from your library? the post doesn't say "now they can't play it," it says "now you can't buy it"

Steam does not remove games from your library except in very unique circumstances like fraud or copyright. If you bought it, you keep it. 

Even if it doesn't work. There's lots of Steam games that simply aren't playable anymore but I could install them. First one that comes to mind because it was a big enough title to land on Game Informer's cover and comes from a major publisher: Battleborn. You could theoretically play this because it includes a solo mode and the co-op can connect without a server, except that the game has to check a server that Gearbox turned off. I didn't buy this game, got it for free when they were giving it away but before it went F2P, but since it was registered to my account I still have it. There's a lot of these. There's also some that are weirdly removed from the Steam store like Kane vs. Lynch 1. Which might have a GFWL login and that's why it's yanked? I have no idea. But I can still install it.

I did from some bundle get some of those games from that one fraud company that Steam removed but it pops up a thing that it's been removed from your account when you login. (Not that it tells you why, this is still Valve after all.)

[Chumbawumbafan69]

The people that whined about making a psn account are the biggest bitches on the planet

But also: fuck making me sign into anything to play a game.

Imagine your life is so vapid that you stomp your feet over literally nothing

[Rendle]

The people that whined about making a psn account are the biggest bitches on the planet

But also: fuck making me sign into anything to play a game.

Imagine your life is so vapid that you stomp your feet over literally nothing

If it's nothing then why do they have to do it

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Noodlesoup isn't doing press yet.

https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/05/07/illinois-state-university-protestor-was-ready-leave-handcuffs-over-war-gaza/

https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/05/07/dozens-illinois-state-university-faculty-members-sign-letter-opposing-students-suspensions/

[Polident]

Only somewhat related to the Steam/PSN talk. Just remembered Portal 2 on PS3 asked you to create a Steam account for additional features. Gave you a bonus copy on PC, too. Not comparable to the current situation. Happened right before the PSN hack.

[benji]

I'm pretty sure they were bitching about that Steam requirement back on NeoGAF.com but not enough to actually check it and confirm my assumptions.

Though I do remember that PS3 INTEGRATES WITH STEAM was a big weapon against the XBOTS (who could not) so maybe that was more important in the War.

[benji]

[Snoopy]

I really don't know you like that, much less like you enough in this moment for you to be fuckin' around with me.

Sorry if I offended you. Not for the compliment. I love your posts they are normally very informative. Wasn't trying to be mean. That's all.

Just makin' sure nigga. xD

Absolutely unbearable. 


https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-idea-that-hip-hop-can-only-truly-be-experienced-by-black-folks-is-puzzling-to-me.863466/page-3

[PogiJones]

Apparently famiboards.com is where the Nintendo RE community splintered off to after--I can only assume--yet another B-dubs screw up?

Anyway, they actually have an official banned content list:

Hey everyone, staff have documented a list of banned content and subject matter that we feel are not consistent with site values, and don't make sense to host discussion of on Famiboards. This list (and the relevant reasoning per item) is viewable here.

https://famiboards.com/threads/banned-content-list.8059/

But you need an account to view it. Anyone got an account there that can post the doc?

[Besticus Maximus]

I don't really understand what is happening with this drake v kendrick lamarr thing, seems to be a fairly construed beeve

[Jansen]

But also: fuck making me sign into anything to play a game.

Imagine your life is so vapid that you stomp your feet over literally nothing

If it's nothing then why do they have to do it

Okay, minor inconvenience. Fucking cry babies need real problems.