Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Polident]

Unironically, if they continue to get talented people onboard the show, I’ll watch it and I have no connection or history with Harry Potter. 

One day I’ll watch the Alfonso Cuaron directed movie. Think it’s the fifth one so there’s a lot to get to the point.

[NekoFever]

This can't be stressed enough. She has no connection to any trans people other than her token trans friend she referenced when she started her crusade, who I seriously doubt is still her friend after her vitriol.

Rowling inserted herself into discussion of trans people, exerted her money and power over our lives, and claims victimhood at any pushback she receives.

I get so annoyed that we can't talk about our lived experiences without someone going "yeah, but what about J.K Rowling" because trans rights have nothing to do with her. She hijacked our identities and made the conversation about her

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-121?post=125059452#post-125059452

Said on post # 6033 of a thread dedicated to just Jk Rowling. The irony is too much

And if you want to see why she’s “obsessed” and claiming victimhood, look at the replies to absolutely any social media post she makes, whether about gender or not. She’s constantly getting the most vile stuff thrown at her.

“God she’s obsessed and never stops talking about us.”

Rowling: “How about this weather?”

[Snoopy]

I don’t know why anyone’s complaining. He got away with telling a black woman to shut her face. A new loophole has appeared

[HaughtyFrank]

[Daffy Duck]

TransEra in shambles right now

This popped up on my feed. It goes over the self-censorship social contagion that has spread like wildfire thanks to TikTok's awful algorithm, and how YouTube's awful algorithm enforced that kind of baby language.
And how saying things like "Sewer Slide" in relation to real events only hurts the perception of them.

Honestly, hearing dumb words like "Un-alive" really hurts a video. It's somehow worse than kids cartoons going "I will destroy you" instead of "I will kill you". At least "destroying" someone can be a legitimate threat.
It's the same thing with people that censor themselves on Reddit. Nobody is going to ban you for saying "kill" or "shot" or "rape". If anything, you'll just be mocked.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/quit-saying-un-alive-youtube-essay.913104/

[HaughtyFrank]

TransEra in shambles right now

This popped up on my feed. It goes over the self-censorship social contagion that has spread like wildfire thanks to TikTok's awful algorithm, and how YouTube's awful algorithm enforced that kind of baby language.
And how saying things like "Sewer Slide" in relation to real events only hurts the perception of them.

Honestly, hearing dumb words like "Un-alive" really hurts a video. It's somehow worse than kids cartoons going "I will destroy you" instead of "I will kill you". At least "destroying" someone can be a legitimate threat.
It's the same thing with people that censor themselves on Reddit. Nobody is going to ban you for saying "kill" or "shot" or "rape". If anything, you'll just be mocked.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/quit-saying-un-alive-youtube-essay.913104/

Idk I've read it so much now it's normal 🤷‍♀️

That you consider the corporate censorship shaped language normal is exactly the problem you idiot.

[Snoopy]

I use "self-terminate" instead.

I'm sorry, but you sound like a fag. lol

[Polident]

TransEra in shambles right now

This popped up on my feed. It goes over the self-censorship social contagion that has spread like wildfire thanks to TikTok's awful algorithm, and how YouTube's awful algorithm enforced that kind of baby language.
And how saying things like "Sewer Slide" in relation to real events only hurts the perception of them.

Honestly, hearing dumb words like "Un-alive" really hurts a video. It's somehow worse than kids cartoons going "I will destroy you" instead of "I will kill you". At least "destroying" someone can be a legitimate threat.
It's the same thing with people that censor themselves on Reddit. Nobody is going to ban you for saying "kill" or "shot" or "rape". If anything, you'll just be mocked.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/quit-saying-un-alive-youtube-essay.913104/

Wrong. This was good, actually.

[Daffy Duck]

Didn't see this energy for when us Brits were forced to call Rishi Sunak a Jeremy Hunt instead of a cunt because of the restrictions here. Double standards at play!!

[Steven Snell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-michelle-gellar-cast-in-%E2%80%98dexter%E2%80%99-prequel-series-%E2%80%98original-sin%E2%80%99.913155/?post=125068521#post-125068521

Of course being a trans woman gives you carte blanche to be the biggest perverts ever.

And it's of course the usual perverted suspects Uzzy and Kyuuji. I've noticed like the majority of the threads they both participate in they take it over with their "tee hee we're a couple tee hee lets pretend like we're a bunch of 14 year olds in love".

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Gentlemen and gentlewomen, we don't say "first world" and "third world" anymore. It's "America" and "Shithole Countries" now. Please show some respect. 

Unironically, if they continue to get talented people onboard the show, I’ll watch it and I have no connection or history with Harry Potter. 

One day I’ll watch the Alfonso Cuaron directed movie. Think it’s the fifth one so there’s a lot to get to the point.

It's the third one

[Propagandhim]

TransEra in shambles right now

This popped up on my feed. It goes over the self-censorship social contagion that has spread like wildfire thanks to TikTok's awful algorithm, and how YouTube's awful algorithm enforced that kind of baby language.
And how saying things like "Sewer Slide" in relation to real events only hurts the perception of them.

Honestly, hearing dumb words like "Un-alive" really hurts a video. It's somehow worse than kids cartoons going "I will destroy you" instead of "I will kill you". At least "destroying" someone can be a legitimate threat.
It's the same thing with people that censor themselves on Reddit. Nobody is going to ban you for saying "kill" or "shot" or "rape". If anything, you'll just be mocked.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/quit-saying-un-alive-youtube-essay.913104/

"Wizard game"

[Uncle]

Life for those living in the third would be considerably improved if the people there didn't continue to vote for socialists that inevitably turn the country into a kleptocracy.  Of course reeeee thinks every individual failing of a person in the "global south" is the fault of white people who have never been there.  Without this "forced globalization" (which has generally been bad for the US, since it puts American workers out of work in favor of labor from countries that don't have any standards due to corrupt leaders) most people in the third world wouldn't have any of the modern technology that everyone there now wants.

 

I fundamentally disagree with this.

Globalisation has allowed a steady supply of cheap goods into advanced economies and those advanced economies have continued to adapt and add more highly skilled jobs over time. Yes, it has caused temporary pain to specialised workers, but over time, more jobs and higher paying jobs have been created to more than make up for the shortfall.

For example, I can buy a pair of boots made in China for $50 or I can buy a pair of boots made in Australia for $450. I know the Australian ones are likely better quality and will last longer, but the Chinese ones will suffice for my needs and allow me to buy multiple pairs of boots for different purposes as my needs change. How much would a basic t-shirt cost without access to cheap and skilled textile manufacturing labour in Bangladesh?

Without globalisation, much more of my income would be taken up by things like basic clothing and housing, food and technology would be far more expensive and my choice would be severely restricted.

The morality of globalisation and the willingness of companies and governments to exploit people in third world countries is another debate, but in a purely economic sense, globalisation has been a massive positive to everyone.

weird synchronicity to read this

I had a long drive and literally nothing better to do so apropos of nothing youtube led me to a debate between Destiny and Metokur from shortly after Trump was elected

Trump got a lot of middle america rust belt vote based on promises that he would bring back manufacturing jobs to the US through tariffs, creating incentives for companies to build plants in the US again

and Destiny said literally everything you said above, about how we should let countries do whatever they're best at to benefit everyone, it's retarded to artificially punish one to let another catch up when they're not equipped for it, not to mention those kinds of jobs can't pay the cost of living in the US anymore while still being competitive globally

his weird off the cuff example was if you have two kids, one is good at making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the other is good at pouring milk, why would you punish one kid just to let the other catch up in their abilities at the other job when they already had their own specialization and role they could fill



...then later in the discussion, Destiny went all in ranting about how important affirmative action is, how you can't just hire "the most qualified candidate for the job," you have to insert pressures to give underprivileged groups like women and minorities a chance to allow those groups upward mobility...

I was annoyed that Metokur didn't throw his earlier example back in his face

why not just let people who are the best at what they do perform their jobs and benefit everyone? why prop up a group artificially?

[DavidCroquet]

But what about the creators?!

What are the creators to do?!

Easy to say when you aren’t under threat of being d*monetiz*d!!! 

Streamer work is work!

and so on.

[Boredfrom]

Russell Brand is still doing the same shit just fine. Probably just going more and more unhinged as he was just nodding along to Alex Jones the other day and calling on Americans to vote Trump to protect democracy.

The current age of the internet provides an absolutely dedicated fanbase to anybody who makes it big and they are primed to counter anything by just whining cancel culture. AKA my brother who just lays in bed watching Russell Brand on his phone all day.

Is worth being mad that he is not going to get totally canceled? Rather than cancel culture not existing you seem to imply that cancel culture should be more ruthless.

Dude is losing millions of dollars in sponsors and he is going to be labeled a pedo for the rest of his life, he is feeling the heat you idiot.

[Uncle]

I’m

One thing is being moralizing, and another being a cynic. It just feels depressing that you think that people like third world mentality or that some people bring it to the first world. Feel you can be against illegal (or even legal, if you hyper cynical ) immigration without sounding like someone from the Victorian era.

I said, statistically, not everybody wants that. People are individuals with different wants and needs. Pragmatism isn’t cynicism. Cynicism is saying you shouldn’t help anybody because a few reject it.

Twisting it as what I personally think or that it’s anti immigration is kind of weird, tbh.

old comment by now but it's equally fine to observe that some people prefer homelessness too (they might phrase it as not being tied down, not relying on gov assistance, freedom)

even countries that have "solved" homelessness have some people who will remain that way by choice and I don't necessarily see a problem with that if it's their choice and they're not hurting anyone else

[Boredfrom]

[Nintex]

So Trump was right about Russell Brand?  

[Alpacx]

I mean it is a guy telling a woman to shut up about concerns that affect her gender but not his own. Bonus points for him being white and her black. (Which doesn't really matter in the context but something something intersectionality)
This is the worldview they themselves have heavily endorsed (and still do if it aligns ideologically) and now they cry when it's used against them

He literally said he wants Badenoch to not exist. If the shoe were on the other foot and some center right person said that about a Trans person it'd be another step in the Trans Genocide.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I mean it is a guy telling a woman to shut up about concerns that affect her gender but not his own. Bonus points for him being white and her black. (Which doesn't really matter in the context but something something intersectionality)
This is the worldview they themselves have heavily endorsed (and still do if it aligns ideologically) and now they cry when it's used against them

He literally said he wants Badenoch to not exist. If the shoe were on the other foot and some center right person said that about a Trans person it'd be another step in the Trans Genocide.

[ComeAgain]

The Metroid Prime thread about people working on the game is some delicious 


Sudden pearl clutching about names listed “against their consent” from a bunch of people who harass and dox developers constantly if they deem a game problematic, but suddenly they give a fuck?

[MMaRsu]

It’s the catholics who are to blame 

But Doctor, I’m Catholic.

[HaughtyFrank]

Yeah this shit bothers me. I'll be the first person to jump up and defend censorship. There are reasons for censorship to exist and places for it to be used. Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Misogyny etc. These are things that should be censored.

What's happening to language on Youtube and other social media sites however is just outright dystopian. Unalived, PDF, sewer slide. We should NOT be having to dance around serious topics to please the corporate overlords. We are neutering the gravity of these topics by having to talk in fucking baby talk just to keep a bunch of suits happy. It is beyond ridiculous.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/quit-saying-un-alive-youtube-essay.913104/post-125083395

[Nintex]

It's interesting to see all the big names on there.
 
It used to be that Retro Studios wasn't popular to work at because in general Nintendo paid less than studios like EA or Activision.
But with all the uncertaintity in the industry it might be very appealing to work at Nintendo, knowing that Metroid Prime 5 will happen after Metroid Prime 4.

From what I've picked up Nintendo wants to emulate with Retro Studios in the US, what they did with Monolith Software in Japan.
To have them assist on projects and tech (first party and possibly third party) as well as develop their own big budget games.

[HaughtyFrank]

They just doxxed the entire team. What the fuck.

I'm not sure that this is "doxxing" but I do agree this is incredibly creepy and privacy-invading information. When you have real names, job titles, career history etc. you also have a pretty easy path towards targeted harassment or just unwanted or unsolicited attention. This is especially true for those who are visible minorities.

Not every game developer wants to have their job define them or have it follow them outside of working hours. This kind of thing is only going to encourage more developers to stop having public social media profiles or take more steps to hide their identities online. I have almost all my LinkedIn information private and have deleted all other personally identifying accounts for this exact reason.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vgc-this-is-metroid-prime-4-dev-team.912696/post-125072748



You guys know that videogames have credits, right?

[Nintex]

Well yes but most Planetsmashers aren't good enough to reach them

[Boredfrom]

Yeah this shit bothers me. I'll be the first person to jump up and defend censorship. There are reasons for censorship to exist and places for it to be used. Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Misogyny etc. These are things that should be censored.

What's happening to language on Youtube and other social media sites however is just outright dystopian. Unalived, PDF, sewer slide. We should NOT be having to dance around serious topics to please the corporate overlords. We are neutering the gravity of these topics by having to talk in fucking baby talk just to keep a bunch of suits happy. It is beyond ridiculous.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/quit-saying-un-alive-youtube-essay.913104/post-125083395

Dyno is a complete dumbass.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-sony-have-just-stuck-with-the-ps4.913713/

Sfags got mad as fuck with a quickness

[Snoopy]

It's not slang, it's something people started doing because of the tiktok algorithm. Nobody actually talks like that in real life. I've worked with kids, they all think it's dumb as shit and hate it.

Sure Dubs. You asked a bunch of kids what they thought of this unalive thing. That definitely happened you delusional freak.

[Nintex]

It's a fair point.

Microsoft, Sony (and Nvidia) fucked up by not having enough supply. So most gamers went back to playing their old games or expanding their libraries as they gave up waiting for new systems or GPUs. Third parties added fuel to the fire by sticking to PS4 longer because not enough new consoles were out there and they could do Switch/PS4 releases. Valve must've noticed this trend and released the Steamdeck, giving PS4 era games another boost.

Let's face it, a whole bunch of the 'best' current gen games like Resident Evil 4: Remake and Elden Ring are playable on PS4 (Pro).