Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[D3RANG3D]

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I found Nep's pseudonym

[Eric Cartman]

What's great about Nepenthe is that she's decided her entire personality is "fervent anti-capitalist" (to cover her racism) but she's never bothered to generate any conceptual understanding of capital. You can tell from her various posts that she thinks of it purely as cash money, so the Global South had to have this super wealthy peaceful past or else where would the whites get rich from? You look at everything she says about just video game or media companies and you can tell she has no understanding of the industry from the business side at all. So it makes sense to describe a massive public corporation as "white-led" because the CEO is a white guy. I doubt she could tell you how her own Rite Aid even operates in these terms, that it must have some big vault of cash somewhere that it piles up from charging people for things.

There's something very similar about B-Dubs vision for this highlight thing and really much of the forum in general. They instinctively hate the idea of things not being in the control of the powerful. Good things like "productive discussion" just flow down from on top, same as bad things like character design choices in video games. All of it planned, all of it intentional, all of it directed towards some clear morally based goal. Intents are made clear (somehow, even though it takes so much learning to see how these systemic forces operate) and either basic human decency or basic human cruelty leads directly to the achievement of those intents. So intent is the only form of judgement that ever matters. (Hence why you need to spend so much time uncovering the true intent of lying chuds by blindly psychoanalyzing them based on your own personal hangups.)

You can't trust the masses with likes or recommendations on YouTube because those will just be manipulated by "outside" forces towards the results they intend. Which is why it's so important for the "good" powerful to manipulate things towards their results first and with greater protection over their control. Now you can see the very massive danger in ever putting the staff at risk.

It's funny, because they know and use the right words that break out of this mentality: "critical thinking", "media literacy", "transparency", etc. but use them as terms to bolster their ideology like they call other people fascists when they're the ones behaving like fascists.  It's probably subconscious, but it is meant to erode and undermine conversations that might threaten the ideology.  And when those words are just throwaway terms, people can't even engage in a constructive dialogue with each other because nobody agrees on what those words mean - they've purposely confused people by disjointing meaning from real words.

Its covered in Orwells Politics And The English Language (which I am longterm triggered by incelchief always citing but had clearly never fucking read) which is - ironically - summarised by the phrase thought terminating cliché

[Eric Cartman]

I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don’t know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism? One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.

[Polident]

They previously posted curated tweets from Japanese people who are happy/not bothered Yasuke is in the game and and it was completely fine. Weird how it's now suddenly pure fucking bullshit when someone does it the other way around.

Concluding how an entire nation feels about something from some Google translated tweets is dumb period

As dumb as both sides are, has to be said, the establishment and corporations are on their side. It isn’t like a vote or debate about whether it should happen. It already happened. Ubisoft invested hundred of millions on it. They so badly want to be victims.

If nothing else, this stuff is something of a cheat code to shift the conversation away from sexual harassment cases and toxic work environments within the company. Blizzard is king at this.

[Eric Cartman]

Such BS. We know she is pretty willing to discriminate against Asians.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/may-17-2024-ign-let’s-not-pretend-we’re-mad-the-new-assassins-creed-shadows-samurai-isn’t-asian.875043/

There's definitely been some questions I've had concerning the nature of the disappointment of the new AC game utilizing Yasuke. The anger is easily explanatory- Black people's mere existence in media bring out the racists. But I cannot particularly understand how Shadows is somehow a missed opportunity given its setting. As the author notes, male ninjas and samurai are a dime a dozen across both East Asian and Western media. If all people were looking for were a Japanese male as a samurai, I mean, you've got your pick of the litter. How many books, television shows, films, anime, and games across time have male Asian samurai in them? In turn, what would subsequently be special about Assassin's Creed: Shadows other than it's simply a higher-profile game than something like Ghosts of Tsushima?

Like, is this actually about representation, or is it about something else? Is it about the feeling that Black people took away an opportunity you felt you were owed (which would be doubly side-eye worthy because I don't think there's a significant contingent of people out there who petitioned for a hypothetical AC game set in Japan to focus on Yasuke), is this about finding acceptance under a white gaze, or a little of both? May be time to have a hard discussion with yourself if you're pressed. Or maybe I'm off kilter and AC as a franchise just has a significant contingent of folks pining for a male Asian lead. If such is the case, far be it from me to stop y'all from demanding what y'all want.

She cannot help herself.

I bet I can count more AAA videogames with black leads released in the last 5 years than I can where you play as a Japanese male in feudal Japan

[Eric Cartman]

Such BS. We know she is pretty willing to discriminate against Asians.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/may-17-2024-ign-let’s-not-pretend-we’re-mad-the-new-assassins-creed-shadows-samurai-isn’t-asian.875043/

There's definitely been some questions I've had concerning the nature of the disappointment of the new AC game utilizing Yasuke. The anger is easily explanatory- Black people's mere existence in media bring out the racists. But I cannot particularly understand how Shadows is somehow a missed opportunity given its setting. As the author notes, male ninjas and samurai are a dime a dozen across both East Asian and Western media. If all people were looking for were a Japanese male as a samurai, I mean, you've got your pick of the litter. How many books, television shows, films, anime, and games across time have male Asian samurai in them? In turn, what would subsequently be special about Assassin's Creed: Shadows other than it's simply a higher-profile game than something like Ghosts of Tsushima?

Like, is this actually about representation, or is it about something else? Is it about the feeling that Black people took away an opportunity you felt you were owed (which would be doubly side-eye worthy because I don't think there's a significant contingent of people out there who petitioned for a hypothetical AC game set in Japan to focus on Yasuke), is this about finding acceptance under a white gaze, or a little of both? May be time to have a hard discussion with yourself if you're pressed. Or maybe I'm off kilter and AC as a franchise just has a significant contingent of folks pining for a male Asian lead. If such is the case, far be it from me to stop y'all from demanding what y'all want.

She cannot help herself.

I bet I can count more AAA videogames with black leads released in the last 5 years than I can where you play as a Japanese male in feudal Japan

Japan had major trade ports, you don't know a passing merchant vessel didn't have sex with a barmaid at an inn

[Snoopy]

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I found Nep's pseudonym

Sara Goldfeld. 



You ain't slick Nep.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

They're so dumb. Just say your implementing a hidden like system and still do your selective highlights. 

Just the like economy here.

[Straight Edge]

I don't need to watch a four hour YouTube video to assume the problem with a Star Wars hotel is that they didn't actually do things like make it look like Cloud City, have a "Lando" be the concierge and when you go to dinner Darth Vader turns out to be there.

Ooof, having a black man as a servant is yikes. Be better, chud.

[HaughtyFrank]

"Likes can be abused"

How?  Liking posts that you're not supposed to like?      Cultic freaks

Remember these people deleted multiple polls because they found the outcome to be inflammatory (how dare people not boycott Harry Potter) and regretted that poll votes are invisible.

[Besticus Maximus]

Remember when Hecht spent a year trying to rig polls before giving up, great times

[killamajig]

[Not an Alt Account]

All this "fighting" over the latest Ubisoft AAA(A) slop.  

[HaughtyFrank]

Lilith that's depressing, stay safe people, this is why we shouldn't be ignoring these trash people online on twitter and elsewhere or the grifters encouraging them because they can be really dangerous, they can and will hurt us.

Again stay safe.

Wilsongt said:

I blame Twitter/X/Elon and the people he protects.

I really want Elon to rot in jail, I really want people like him held accountable for allowing that rhetoric on their sites and him openly encouraging and accepting it should be a crime and his assets stripped from him to support social programs.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-warns-of-possible-pride-month-attacks-worldwide.874992/post-123174561

All of them just ignoring that the warning is about chatter coming from ISIS and has nothing to do with alt right grifters.

...also yes, they said Lilith instead of god 

[Nintex]

Islam is not the problem for violence against the alphabet people but the black man that makes jokes on Netflix, the orange man that dances to the YMCA, the white man that makes electric cars.
 

[D3RANG3D]

They just like to hate on an African American brotha they ain't slick y'all!

[HaughtyFrank]

What I find amusing is that the very same group who made it their mantra to say "fuck historical accuracy" is now arguing historical accuracy in the case of Assassin's Creed and how it's actually pointless to present these facts because the Chuds are just racist

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aftermath-stop-trying-to-defeat-racism-with-logic-theres-a-black-samurai-in-the-new-assassins-creed-game-and-it-has-made-some-people-mad.875046/

Flip the script and make it based on a historic white samurai and you'd get tons of articles about why this is bad and terrible etc. etc. and that historical accuracy is meaningless and what even is history but lies
Not to entirely excuse those "Chuds" either as I imagine they'd flip their script just as much if it was a white samurai but then again the big corpos are all behind team hypocrite A at the moment.
Basically it's stupid culture war again. What matters most is that the other side doesn't like it and the completely white writing team for this game can pat themselves on the back

[kaleidoscopium]

New article on noodle soup and co, includes his mugshot. 

https://agitationrising.com/peace-activists-arrested-for-occupying-isu-building-students-for-palestine/?amp=1

[Polident]

Noticed more and more people don’t care about the racist label because it’s been so devalued. Probably around the Will Smith slap when apparently it’s beyond racist for the spirituality cac man Chris Rock to mock a black woman’s (lack of) hair. A lot of people were   about it. Now somehow not wanting to buy a $70 to $120 video game is racist. You can only go so far in manipulating semi decent people like that.

[nachobro]

In turn, what would subsequently be special about Assassin's Creed: Shadows other than it's simply a higher-profile game than something like Ghosts of Tsushima?

Yes that is what is special about it, you dunce. Much like these people say it's important to see representation in high profile marvel or star wars movies or whatever. Just purposely missing the point 

[tweet]https://www.twitter.com/Mangalawyer/status/1791670900716171708[/tweet]

[Polident]

New article on noodle soup and co, includes his mugshot. 

https://agitationrising.com/peace-activists-arrested-for-occupying-isu-building-students-for-palestine/?amp=1

I’m not up to date on the story or doxing or whatever but there’s a random 40 year old man mixed in with grand slam breakfast club?

[Propagandhim]

In turn, what would subsequently be special about Assassin's Creed: Shadows other than it's simply a higher-profile game than something like Ghosts of Tsushima?

Yes that is what is special about it, you dunce. Much like these people say it's important to see representation in high profile marvel or star wars movies or whatever. Just purposely missing the point 

[tweet]https://www.twitter.com/Mangalawyer/status/1791670900716171708[/tweet]

These people are so obsessed with race, it's so fucking weird.   "Intersectionality is a tough cookie to crack"     You can tell Nepenthe wrote that.    She's always going on about how hard it is to "get it right", which is true, because having a perspective of race essentialism for me and cultural appropriation for thee will always run into problems.  Now you gotta figure out how to incorporate this hypocrisy into a multi-race culture war against the true oppressor - whitey.  This cookie sure is tough to crack!  To quote the great Nepenthshiro on famed Reseteratsu, Japan's biggest gaming bonfire message board:

Non-Japanese folks think they can waltz up into Japanese culture and just take whatever they want because they fundamentally have no respect for Japanese ownership of our culture.

[nachobro]

"Our oppressors benefit from this infighting"
"Building a world where white acceptance doesn't matter"

Imagine thinking like this all the time, especially about asscreed 17 or whatever they are on now

[Propagandhim]

"Our oppressors benefit from this infighting"
"Building a world where white acceptance doesn't matter"

Imagine thinking like this all the time, especially about asscreed 17 or whatever they are on now

She's fucking nuts.

[Straight Edge]

New article on noodle soup and co, includes his mugshot. 

https://agitationrising.com/peace-activists-arrested-for-occupying-isu-building-students-for-palestine/?amp=1

Amazing that the Reeject is the most normal looking one.

[kaleidoscopium]

New article on noodle soup and co, includes his mugshot. 

https://agitationrising.com/peace-activists-arrested-for-occupying-isu-building-students-for-palestine/?amp=1

I’m not up to date on the story or doxing or whatever but there’s a random 40 year old man mixed in with grand slam breakfast club?

Grad student at their university, does ACAB beat poetry and ropes kids into his DSA club like this

[HaughtyFrank]

In turn, what would subsequently be special about Assassin's Creed: Shadows other than it's simply a higher-profile game than something like Ghosts of Tsushima?

Yes that is what is special about it, you dunce. Much like these people say it's important to see representation in high profile marvel or star wars movies or whatever. Just purposely missing the point 

Don't they realize how they sound exactly like the people they're decrying? "Hey we already have three black main characters in Assassin's Creed what's so special about Yasuke"

There probably is some "Asians are white adjacent" animosity here.

[kaleidoscopium]

I've said it before but I'm at the point where I'm genuinely considering getting a license and purchasing a firearm for self defense purposes.

I'm a (mostly) closeted cisgender pansexual white man who's primarily been in hetero relationships so I'm not exactly walking around all day feeling targeted but I go to pride. I don't hide my queer passions, affiliation with my local queer community or suppress myself so long as I'm not around family. Fuck, it's really not even about me. If I were murdered, fuck it, but I'll be damned if I live the rest of my life fearing for the safety of other queer people.

I don't feel totally comfortable with the idea as someone who's struggled with suicidal ideation since I was young (it's gotten better but it's never truly gone away) and is vehemently anti-gun in just about every conceivable way and circumstance but I just don't see an alternative at this point.

Protecting the people in your community is how queer people survive. To a lesser extent, I should try to protect myself too. If I have to live in fear of some psychopathic bigot with a gun, I should have the ability to try and stop them since there still isn't any effort from governing bodies to protect us in any meaningful way.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-warns-of-possible-pride-month-attacks-worldwide.874992/page-2?post=123167193#post-123167193

Reads like the posts they find 6 months before a mass shooter goes on their spree.

[Uncle]

New article on noodle soup and co, includes his mugshot. 

https://agitationrising.com/peace-activists-arrested-for-occupying-isu-building-students-for-palestine/?amp=1

I’m not up to date on the story or doxing or whatever but there’s a random 40 year old man mixed in with grand slam breakfast club?

that's the chinese-funded handler

[HardcoreRetro]

Gotta put this here. Great poem by the 40 year old man.

ACAB
Steven Lazarov


I

one of the best feelings in the world
is calling a fucking pig a fucking pig
to their fucking pig face

II

when I walk up to a pig w their riot visor down
& say fuck you pig, melt your badge
& burn your uniform—I don’t call a pig
a pig to their pig face bc it feels good
I call a pig a pig because we should see
the leashes around their neck

III

just got back from the action in Humboldt / Logan
the State had the pigs in riot gear lined up
in front of their pen like a wedding receiving line
very convenient to communicate our terms to each pig by name:
melt your badge & gun, burn your uniform

three pigs, visors down, stood
at the end of the receiving line
& openly gripped their billy clubs
in upright striking position & pounded the baton
into their waiting palm

I bet you can only get hard
with that baton in your hand
ready to beat some one

when I get beaten again, I’m gonna blame Deleuze
& my poppy for being a fucking smart ass all the time
& myself of course, I will remind myself:
none of us are to blame—it’s the fucking pig’s fault
for being a fucking pig