Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[DavidCroquet]

Imagine a world when people ask for being able to pause Soul games without the baggage of accessibility and disability.

That’s hard to imagine. Almost as hard as playing dark souls as a parent!

[Boredfrom]

I’m not gonna read up on the whole discourse but is it ever pointed out how the series has a built in system that ostensibly functions as a pause? You just quit. The games constantly auto save outside of battles. It’s so frequent the system is abused to cheat death. If the argument is they want to pause during battles, it gets in the way of the endurance aspect.   And if you have to take a break, again, quit and the game places you back at the start of the battle.

Nah. Fuck that noise. 

If you are playing offline mode, you should be able to pause in the middle of a boss fight.

[benji]

I was searching for something else and came across this:

[Garfield]

Most(all?) of the "misery" that happened during Trump's presidency was due to covid (caused by the CCP) and the damage from the blm/antifa riots in 2020.

[Garfield]

Please elaborate on this FinaleFireworker lore

I have had three experiences that have given me a lot of perspective on sexual harassment.

1. When I was eighteen, I worked as a housekeeper at an upscale inn. I worked seven days a week, but the hours were short, and the pay was incredible. I would work four hours there and make more than I did working eight hours at my other job. The inn was owned by a middle-aged married couple. They were very, very well liked by the community and their guests.

The husband used to follow me around from room to room as I cleaned and reset them. At first it was under the guise of a quality check, but then it was clear he was just hanging around to talk. He would ask me questions about my life and my plans. He would also always ask if I had found any "naughty things" in the suites. This was always his launching pad for a dirty joke or sexual comment. I just laughed with him even though it was never very funny.

Eventually the comments really ramped up. I started to dread when he would darken the doorway. He would stand there, blocking the only exit, and watch me make the beds and clean the sinks and ask me how I knew I wasn't gay. He would tell me "God blessed me with strong intuition" and tell me how gay I was. He would try to get me to come out to him even though I assured him I was not gay. He would call me "young dumb and full of cum" and other gross things. And if I ever seemed upset, he would give me a raise. I just let it happen and kept collecting the paychecks.

Eventually, I asked for a few days off (four months in advance) to go on vacation. He didn't like the idea, he didn't want me to leave, and didn't think it was "fair" my family would plan a trip when they knew I was working. I explained it wasn't a family trip, it was a trip with my girlfriend, and he fired me immediately.

This taught me that you cannot hope sexual harassment will stop and that keeping your head down to keep your job will not last forever. Eventually, something will happen, and you'll always wish you got out sooner.


2. I was 24 and managing a movie theater. There was a girl there who I was really attracted to, and she was very nice to me, and I thought I could leverage that into a date. We were definitely friends, but I wanted to be more than friends, so I started manipulating the schedule to give us more time together.

I would schedule the two of us to work the same nights. I would send other people home so it was just the two of us. I would keep her late so we could talk alone in the office. I don't know if she ever expected anything. I think, to her, we were just good work friends. I started to get frustrated that nothing was happening.

So I started physically putting myself close to her more often. I would follow her around. I would lean against her. I would intentionally try to pass by her and put my hands on her as I did. Finally, one time, I followed her into a small stock room. I stood in the doorway and watched her and knew she wouldn't be able to leave the room without squeezing by me or asking me to move. I wanted her to touch me. So I intentionally blocked her exit.

And as I was doing this, I had a really sickening epiphany that I was doing to her what my boss at the inn used to to. It was like being hit with some kind of dark lightning. It felt like all the flesh had exploded off my bones and all that was left was my hideous naked skeleton. I backed out of the doorway, went to the office, and never bothered her again.

This taught me that people repeat behavior they've seen, even bad behavior, because they do not perceive themselves as being bad. They normalize their own impulses, they rationalize their own actions, and anybody is capable of harassment.


3. When I was 25, I started working in a corporate environment at an extremely progressively-minded company. In my department, there was a man and a woman who used to date. The woman broke it off a year before, and was six months pregnant, and the man refused to let her go.

The man was always telling her how they were meant to be together. How he would wait for her. He would get angry when she talked to other guys in the office in any capacity. He was constantly demanding she explain herself, or tell him what she was doing, and was always leering at her over the desk partition. Not only did it make her work environment hostile, it was extremely uncomfortable for everyone around them who knew what was happening.

One day, he insists the two of them go to lunch together. She goes with him. But he doesn't take her anywhere, and he won't talk to her, and he won't stop the car. She texts me that she is afraid and doesn't know what happening. She is afraid she might be getting kidnapped. I immediately make a dart for Human Resources and tell her I will call the police. But then she texts me not to and says he is turning around. She says she will deal with it when she gets back.

She returns safely, but I still go to HR. I lay it all out. I pull no punches and describe everything that happened, has been happening, and how it affects everyone in the office. The responses I got were maddening.

I was told everything I relayed was hearsay and inadmissible. This kind of report would need to come from one of them and I couldn't make a claim like this on somebody else's behalf.

I was told that since the "kidnapping" occurred during an unpaid lunch break and off of company property, it wasn't a company issue and there was nothing that could be done.

I was told that, since the two of them used to date, I couldn't be sure it was sexual harassment and shouldn't make such bold claims.

This taught me that, even at the best companies, the first instinct of Human Resources is to diminish and downplay the situation to make you doubt its seriousness. They ask how you can be sure, they say there is another side of the story, and they say they are powerless to do anything unless very specific criteria is met. At the end of the day, their job is to make problems go away by taking the path of least resistance. Sometimes this mean justice for the victim and sometimes it means sweeping it under the rug. Whatever can be done most easily and most quietly is what will be done.



These experiences in my life have made me extremely passionate about workplace abuse. I do not stand for it at all. More awareness, more conversation, and more victims coming forward is the best thing that can happen here. Companies need to learn that protecting their employees is the only way to protect their company. They need to be held responsible for what happens under their roofs. Challenge their reputations, make them answer for their failures, and force their hand for change.


That's how I feel.

[Daffy Duck]

I think a great many men contemplated fucking a pie after that movie just to know.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-pie-turned-25-years-old-today-original-release-date-was-july-9th-1999.923337/

I can’t believe how incredibly transphobic this is, women have penises too!

[Boredfrom]

Most(all?) of the "misery" that happened during Trump's presidency was due to covid (caused by the CCP) and the damage from the blm/antifa riots in 2020.

[Besticus Maximus]

situational inaccessibility 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I was searching for something else and came across this:

Nice to know Nep left the plantation after such a misguided post. 

[benji]

What are the chances you’re right about everything? An epistemic challenge for modern partisanship

Abstract
The American political landscape exhibits significant polarization. People’s political beliefs cluster around two main camps. However, many of the issues with respect to which these two camps disagree seem to be rationally orthogonal. This feature raises an epistemic challenge for the political partisan. If she is justified in consistently adopting the party line, it must be true that her side is reliable on the issues that are the subject of disagreements. It would then follow that the other side is anti-reliable with respect to a host of orthogonal political issues. Yet, it is difficult to find a psychologically plausible explanation for why one side would get things reliably wrong with respect to a wide range of orthogonal issues. While this project’s empirical discussion focuses on the US context, the argument generalizes to any situation where political polarization exists on a sufficiently large number of orthogonal claims.

On the face of it, these propositions seem to be orthogonal.1 That is, your position on one of them doesn’t commit you to any particular position on the others.

Yet, in the context of the current political climate in the US, particular answers to these questions are strongly correlated. For instance, if you find that a randomly selected individual agrees with Abortion and disagrees with Policing, what would you expect them to say about Guns? You’d probably expect them to disagree with that claim. Likewise, if a person agrees with Wages and disagrees with Immigration, you’d expect them to disagree with Affirmative Action. Of course, not every individual will answer in this way, as there are people who do not fall neatly within either cluster of opinion. However, there are two noticeable clusters of opinion in the American context, and the partisan divide has been getting stronger.2

The fact that doxastic attitudes toward orthogonal propositions cluster together among the population raises an epistemological problem. Suppose a person finds herself having the beliefs that are typical of one of the clusters of political opinion. Such a person, I shall argue, should moderate her political beliefs. For, the orthogonality of the issues involved makes it highly likely that something is going awry epistemically – either her beliefs have been subject to problematic irrelevant influences or she is in possession only of a biased subset of relevant evidence.3

   

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Lesbian fetish mod who's on break is getting bodied 

I thought she had left Tango because she was expecting a child?

Princess Bubblegum

Please ignore my post.

I did not want a derail but this involves Kamiya so what did I expect?

Even though I am a lesbian, it isn't right of me to speculate about her personal life. (I was going off some stuff she had publicly shared on social media but that doesn't change much.)

Edit: I'm leaving the thread.
Last edited: Yesterday at 9:40 PM

Thank god. I almost forgot that Princess Bubblegum is a lesbian. Thanks for reminding me!

[jooseloose]

Lmao wtf is Princess Bubblegum talking about

She edited it cuz she made an ass out of herself
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ikumi-nakamura-unseen-has-an-in-depth-conversation-with-an-unemployed-hideki-kamiya.921393/?post=125606472#post-125606472

Kinda wish she wasn't propping up these veterans men well due for retirement. Though I suppose it's a necessity for a woman in the industry. *sigh* I want to see her direct a game goddamnit! Still mad she got fucked over by Zenimax and didn't end up directing The Evil Within or anything at Tango Gameworks.

All the more frustrating when it's obvious she's queer.

I can't see why she would want to interview the chauvanist pig whose games she bonded over with her father over and was behind her entering the game industry in general

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikumi_Nakamura

Early life
Ikumi Nakamura enjoyed horror media with her father growing up. They watched horror films together, and enjoyed playing the Resident Evil and Devil May Cry series, both produced by Capcom. She developed an appreciation for the studio and dreamed to work there when she was older. While studying at university, her father died in a motorcycle accident. His death reinforced her desire to work at Capcom.[1] She attended an art school in Tokyo, and later studied game design at the Amusement Media Academy.[1]

But I forgot that she was a lesbian icon after doing a presentation at e3 once! nevermind all this other stuff

Is it actually "obvious" she's queer or is this another case of lesbian fanfic headcannon thinking that someone that's even mildly quirky is queer? 

"She has blue highlights in her hair yasss qweeeen!"

[Chudder Barbarity]

Ahem.
"Differently abled", please.

[HardcoreRetro]

Is taking a shit while shitposting on the Bire also a situational disability?

I'm disabled as fuck at the moment.

[Echelon]

I'm afraid to ask what they think the Dome of the Rock is.

[Polident]

She edited it cuz she made an ass out of herself
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ikumi-nakamura-unseen-has-an-in-depth-conversation-with-an-unemployed-hideki-kamiya.921393/?post=125606472#post-125606472

I can't see why she would want to interview the chauvanist pig whose games she bonded over with her father over and was behind her entering the game industry in general

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikumi_Nakamura

Early life
Ikumi Nakamura enjoyed horror media with her father growing up. They watched horror films together, and enjoyed playing the Resident Evil and Devil May Cry series, both produced by Capcom. She developed an appreciation for the studio and dreamed to work there when she was older. While studying at university, her father died in a motorcycle accident. His death reinforced her desire to work at Capcom.[1] She attended an art school in Tokyo, and later studied game design at the Amusement Media Academy.[1]

But I forgot that she was a lesbian icon after doing a presentation at e3 once! nevermind all this other stuff

Is it actually "obvious" she's queer or is this another case of lesbian fanfic headcannon thinking that someone that's even mildly quirky is queer? 

"She has blue highlights in her hair yasss qweeeen!"

Creepy dudes project their own wants and desires onto women they’ve never met. Like John Hinckley believing Jodie Foster is heterosexual.

[Besticus Maximus]

Has anyone read the manga and if so can they confirm whether or not there's a chance the devil may cry lady might have been born as a girl but raised by her father as a boy because he really wanted one?

[benji]

Is it actually "obvious" she's queer or is this another case of lesbian fanfic headcannon thinking that someone that's even mildly quirky is queer? 

"She has blue highlights in her hair yasss qweeeen!"

Seeing a lot of cishet dismissing of a heckin queer trans icon like happened with Spider-Gwen and the confirmed canon lesbian Splatoon characters.  

Listen to queer voices:
https://zellkabellk.tumblr.com/post/654546976449396736/for-those-who-dont-know-ikumi-nakamura-is-the

CATGIRLFORESKIN

Happy pride month to her and her exclusively

https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/qv3bi0/about_figures_and_ikumi_nakamura/

Tomskeleton87
3y ago
Never has a piece of information surprised me so little. This explains so much to me.
Upvote
419

ReasyRandom
3y ago
That explains why Bayonetta is lesbian-coded.

CiCiplz
3y ago
Ooooohhhhhh so THAT'S why the Bayonetta games are horny but like
In a not straight sense
Upvote
199

JusticeRain5
3y ago
I love that it's possible to tell when a game is straight-horny or gay-horny.
Upvote
46

CiCiplz
3y ago
I think its def something people can notice due to its aspects instead of just vibes, but I'm gonna call it vibes anyways

[benji]

Cishets wouldn't get it, queers can always tell other canonical queers even if they're eggs.

[Potato]

I was 10 when Super Smash Bros Melee came out and I was fascinated by Mr. Game & Watch. Despite the character featuring in what would be a generation-defining game, I felt very strongly that this was a fringe abstract character concept that only I knew about. This character was underground. This character could blow your damn mind. This was unlike anything I'd ever seen and I was certain nobody else had ever seen it either.

As a result, I started using the name "Mr. Game & Watch" as a weird alias. I would write it like it was my codename. I changed all my screen names and email addresses to be some variant of Mr. Game & Watch. I drew the character in my notebook and told people I came up with him. I named characters or made references to Mr. Game & Watch in my school writing assignments and passed him off as my own creation.

On the first day of school one year, the teacher was asking people to say their name and share if they have "a nickname." In retrospect I understand what she meant was if a kid's name was Kenneth but he went by Ken, or a girl's name was Candice by she went by Candy, but in the moment I was stunned this cool teacher was asking us to give ourselves nicknames. I was expecting kids to say their name was "Thunder" or "Rocket" but nobody was. I was not going to miss the opportunity to give an awesome nickname even if these kids ignoring the opportunity. When it came to my turn, I said my nickname was Mr. Game & Watch.

She asked if people really called me that, and everyone in the classroom looked at me, and I said no. I did not realize this was a prerequisite. She said she'd just call me by my regular name.

I don't know when this phase ended or what changed, but sadly my obsession with Mr. Game & Watch did not end there like it should have. I am sure I did more embarrassing things after that.

I guess he's not embarrassed about that time he sexually assaulted his co-worker.

These people are mentally deficient. Like, if that was a kid in my class, his nickname from that day on would have been Mr Retard or something else like that.

[Potato]

Lore drop

ngl as an emetophobic I would've had to have found a way to end it all

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ryanair-%E2%80%98flight-from-hell%E2%80%99-diverted-for-emergency-landing-after-mass-brawl-among-passengers.922158/post-125564016

They just can't help but collect imaginary conditions and syndromes.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-1-smoked-filled-mar-a-lago-rooms.826662/page-267?post=125600868#post-125600868

I'm thinking, he should take the recent SCOTUS decision to heart, and make use of his unlimited immunity. Announce that you begin project "Clean Up The World", which entails giving the US army and all special forces a list of names, which will include high profile politicians abroad and in the US, important business people and other VIPs, who the POTUS has determined after careful consideration need to be liquidated to make the world a better place.

Say what you want about bloodthirsty strongmen, but no one will dare publicly talk about Biden's old age or demand him stepping down in such a scenario.

I think they might considering the decision did not give unlimited immunity, that U.S. law allegedly forbids assassination and that using the Army would be an actual act of war towards foreign countries and illegal to use against U.S. citizens without a declaration of martial law.

LIAR!!!!! The US Supreme Court just made the president an omnipotent GOD!!! Stop spreading fake news!

[Potato]

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

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

[Potato]

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

How long until the news breaks that the dismembering and murder was done by the trans girlfriend?

Edit: And there it is...

Don't expect a ResetERA.com thread on this unless it already exists from before details came out, it's a case where the 14 year old went on GRINDR and met up with a 29 year old gay man of color.

[benji]

These people are mentally deficient. Like, if that was a kid in my class, his nickname from that day on would have been Mr Retard or something else like that.

You got me to read that more closely. Look what I noticed:

I was 10 when Super Smash Bros Melee came out and I was fascinated by Mr. Game & Watch. Despite the character featuring in what would be a generation-defining game, I felt very strongly that this was a fringe abstract character concept that only I knew about. This character was underground. This character could blow your damn mind. This was unlike anything I'd ever seen and I was certain nobody else had ever seen it either.

As a result, I started using the name "Mr. Game & Watch" as a weird alias. I would write it like it was my codename. I changed all my screen names and email addresses to be some variant of Mr. Game & Watch. I drew the character in my notebook and told people I came up with him. I named characters or made references to Mr. Game & Watch in my school writing assignments and passed him off as my own creation.

On the first day of school one year, the teacher was asking people to say their name and share if they have "a nickname." In retrospect I understand what she meant was if a kid's name was Kenneth but he went by Ken, or a girl's name was Candice by she went by Candy, but in the moment I was stunned this cool teacher was asking us to give ourselves nicknames. I was expecting kids to say their name was "Thunder" or "Rocket" but nobody was. I was not going to miss the opportunity to give an awesome nickname even if these kids ignoring the opportunity. When it came to my turn, I said my nickname was Mr. Game & Watch.

She asked if people really called me that, and everyone in the classroom looked at me, and I said no. I did not realize this was a prerequisite. She said she'd just call me by my regular name.

Am I wrong for reading it like this nickname event came later in his mid-teens?

[HaughtyFrank]

Is it actually "obvious" she's queer or is this another case of lesbian fanfic headcannon thinking that someone that's even mildly quirky is queer? 

"She has blue highlights in her hair yasss qweeeen!"

Seeing a lot of cishet dismissing of a heckin queer trans icon like happened with Spider-Gwen and the confirmed canon lesbian Splatoon characters.  

Listen to queer voices:
https://zellkabellk.tumblr.com/post/654546976449396736/for-those-who-dont-know-ikumi-nakamura-is-the

CATGIRLFORESKIN

Happy pride month to her and her exclusively

https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/qv3bi0/about_figures_and_ikumi_nakamura/

Tomskeleton87
3y ago
Never has a piece of information surprised me so little. This explains so much to me.
Upvote
419

ReasyRandom
3y ago
That explains why Bayonetta is lesbian-coded.

CiCiplz
3y ago
Ooooohhhhhh so THAT'S why the Bayonetta games are horny but like
In a not straight sense
Upvote
199

JusticeRain5
3y ago
I love that it's possible to tell when a game is straight-horny or gay-horny.
Upvote
46

CiCiplz
3y ago
I think its def something people can notice due to its aspects instead of just vibes, but I'm gonna call it vibes anyways

This reminds me of people losing their fucking shit over Bayonetta being straight

[Potato]

These people are mentally deficient. Like, if that was a kid in my class, his nickname from that day on would have been Mr Retard or something else like that.

You got me to read that more closely. Look what I noticed:

I was 10 when Super Smash Bros Melee came out and I was fascinated by Mr. Game & Watch. Despite the character featuring in what would be a generation-defining game, I felt very strongly that this was a fringe abstract character concept that only I knew about. This character was underground. This character could blow your damn mind. This was unlike anything I'd ever seen and I was certain nobody else had ever seen it either.

As a result, I started using the name "Mr. Game & Watch" as a weird alias. I would write it like it was my codename. I changed all my screen names and email addresses to be some variant of Mr. Game & Watch. I drew the character in my notebook and told people I came up with him. I named characters or made references to Mr. Game & Watch in my school writing assignments and passed him off as my own creation.

On the first day of school one year, the teacher was asking people to say their name and share if they have "a nickname." In retrospect I understand what she meant was if a kid's name was Kenneth but he went by Ken, or a girl's name was Candice by she went by Candy, but in the moment I was stunned this cool teacher was asking us to give ourselves nicknames. I was expecting kids to say their name was "Thunder" or "Rocket" but nobody was. I was not going to miss the opportunity to give an awesome nickname even if these kids ignoring the opportunity. When it came to my turn, I said my nickname was Mr. Game & Watch.

She asked if people really called me that, and everyone in the classroom looked at me, and I said no. I did not realize this was a prerequisite. She said she'd just call me by my regular name.

Am I wrong for reading it like this nickname event came later in his mid-teens?

He was definitely older than 10 when he said the nickname thing...which is old enough to not be an embarrassing retard.

[kaleidoscopium]

Looks like noodlesoup will be back on court July 31  

[kaleidoscopium]

Unrelated but the twohearts bluesky account has now been dormant for nearly a week. Coincides with both bans, curious

[Straight Edge]

lol that fucking name.