Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Besticus Maximus]

That's a load of horseshit, they've just decided to redefine the majority of the sample to whatever mumbo jumbo makes them feel better

[DavidCroquet]

Came here to post about Tyrant’s “insightful” thread. These people literally cannot help themselves. 

Women with breast cancer getting mastectomies probably far outnumber transmen who get their “teets yeeted” too. You’re still retarded.

It reminds me of how the trans talking points tried so hard to co-opt intersex poeple and their situations. Ya’ll are never beating the “kicking in doors uninvited and making everyone uncomfortable” accusations.

[Snoopy]

Unsurprisingly Ree doesn’t understand the difference between medical and cosmetic surgery

[DocWager]

This it, Tyrant, appears to have gone off the rails.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/has-it-really-been-9-years-since-we-lost-satoru-iwata.929715/

It has actually. As I was playing Four Swords with fellow Era members, Iwata’s name appeared in the credits and I said “Always a little bittersweet when I see his name in the credits” and someone (I forget who) said “it’s been 9 years now.”

I remember a friend texted the news and my jaw dropped.

Where were you when you heard the news?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-skips-blood-mage-class-because-its-too-evil-nasty.929712/?post=125926248#post-125926248

We have numbers from previous bioware games on how many choose evil paths. Virtually no one chooses this stuff. It's probably not worth doubling the development work/cost so that 1 in 20 players can do evil shit.

That's an awful mindset to have when making a choice driven RPG tho.

There are going to be choices still. But a full blown, 2nd path like they've done in the past is a massive amount of work for a tiny group of people.

So you’re saying a minority of the population shouldn’t be catered to because it wouldn’t be profitable. Curious

[JoeBoy101]

DEI boosts morale, which makes people perform better and leads to more retention. That is more knowledge kept for longer, less costs on letting people go and training new ones.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-dei-lead-blasts-company-in-internal-email-after-team-is-reportedly-laid-off-ign.929130/page-2?post=125910588#post-125910588

In what ways do forced classes on ethnic groups or sexual minorities “improve morale”? It feels to me like these people have never experienced corporate DEI programs and just think they’re magical cures for something.


“Man I was feeling so down this week, but now that I know Martha in accounting is a black pansexual furry I can go to work with my head held up high!”

There just seems way too much crap attached to DEI that makes it such a culture war hot topic. If it just focused on outreach to minorities and increased hiring I'm sure you'd still have some people bitch about it but I imagine not as many as now. Like why does MS even waste time to tell their devs to make female videogame characters less curvy? Why does that matter for your workforce? Why do these horribly cringe introductions describing your race and pronouns?

Didn’t we have a Supreme Court ruling a while back that said companies were people/individuals, that caused all these same activists and groups to lose their minds? “Death of democracy, Corporations aren’t people, etc.”

Yet now, that corporation’s opinion on matters that have zero to do with their business or industry is of upmost concern and scrutiny.

Strange.

[JoeBoy101]

I don’t think Tyrant wants to get into a statistics argument with people on just about anything related to trans issues.

From number of trans atheletes beating records to the comorbidity between mental health issues and transgenderism, it won’t look good.

[Ethan]

Do you still get pedicures and manicures professionally done these days? 

I used to get these regularly before the pandemic. I then lost the habit.

But recently, prices for these have gotten pretty crazy after starting to go back. I'm questioning my choice lol.

There were always more expensive for dudes for the base packages. But I'm hearing from women I know that they've gotten super expensive of late as well for them, but they also do polish and such.

I went recently and the price was insane.

I guess I'm going to have learn how to do my own lol. But I always loved just getting these done for me.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-still-get-pedicures-and-manicures-professionally-done-these-days.929442/

The training of the model must be approaching completion if we're now at questions about pedicures.

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

Had no idea dudes getting regular manicures and pedicures was a thing.

[DocWager]

DEI boosts morale, which makes people perform better and leads to more retention. That is more knowledge kept for longer, less costs on letting people go and training new ones.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-dei-lead-blasts-company-in-internal-email-after-team-is-reportedly-laid-off-ign.929130/page-2?post=125910588#post-125910588

In what ways do forced classes on ethnic groups or sexual minorities “improve morale”? It feels to me like these people have never experienced corporate DEI programs and just think they’re magical cures for something.


“Man I was feeling so down this week, but now that I know Martha in accounting is a black pansexual furry I can go to work with my head held up high!”

There just seems way too much crap attached to DEI that makes it such a culture war hot topic. If it just focused on outreach to minorities and increased hiring I'm sure you'd still have some people bitch about it but I imagine not as many as now. Like why does MS even waste time to tell their devs to make female videogame characters less curvy? Why does that matter for your workforce? Why do these horribly cringe introductions describing your race and pronouns?

The DEI murdered my entire family, and the hitman who adopted me.

[wsippel]

I don't understand why Denmark banned them. If you buy a product with the character on the packaging in distress and spitting fire and it says spicy 1, 2 or 3 times and you're suprised it's actually spicy. You might just be an absolute retard.

Is this shit just stealth marketing to get me to buy a box of the curry chips?

I looked into this for a bit, and it turns out the Danish poison hotline got multiple calls related to Samyang instant noodles, got the DVFA (Danish Veterinary and Food Administration) involved, who then contracted a lab to check the products in question. The lab messed up somehow, and measured four times the actual capsaicin content, meaning the mildest of the three banned flavours would have been about as spicy as that Carolina Reaper tortilla chip. That error has since been cleared up, and two of the three products are back on shelves, but the most spicy variant (which apparently really is comparable to the Paqui chip) is still being looked at because of the poison hotline thing.

[DavidCroquet]

I don’t think Tyrant wants to get into a statistics argument with people on just about anything related to trans issues.

From number of trans atheletes beating records to the comorbidity between mental health issues and transgenderism, it won’t look good.

My   is that Tyrant isn't expecting any real responses or engagement. They're dropping breadcrumbs around the forum in preparation for the next Internal Forum Culture War Showdown.

[DocWager]

Tyrant is basically another shade of the TwoHearts demo of posters. Nep, and Keee-oooo-gee is in that category too.

Angry, antagonistic, and slowly losing their minds through a series of posts.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/donald-trump-suffers-ear-wound-at-pennsylvania-rally-in-probable-assassination-attempt-story-developing.926754/page-117

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-skips-blood-mage-class-because-its-too-evil-nasty.929712/?post=125926248#post-125926248

We have numbers from previous bioware games on how many choose evil paths. Virtually no one chooses this stuff. It's probably not worth doubling the development work/cost so that 1 in 20 players can do evil shit.

That's an awful mindset to have when making a choice driven RPG tho.

There are going to be choices still. But a full blown, 2nd path like they've done in the past is a massive amount of work for a tiny group of people.

So you’re saying a minority of the population shouldn’t be catered to because it wouldn’t be profitable. Curious

Nobody wants to play the evil routes on BioWare RPGS because they are badly written. Even the renegade stuff at Mass Effect is laughable bad. 

Is not about being evil but not feeling like a fucking cartoon villain that does stuff just because.

[Boredfrom]

I enjoyed BG3, but BG3 fans are going to become the most obnoxious fanbase in modern times with how every RPG is immediately going to have a BG3 comparison slammed over their head and used to criticize it if it's not making the same decisions as it

You are saying that like is a bad thing, specially talking about the company that made the OG games.  

Wasn’t Dragon age supposed to be the spiritual successor of Baldurs Gate?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/donald-trump-suffers-ear-wound-at-pennsylvania-rally-in-probable-assassination-attempt-story-developing.926754/page-118?post=125922621#post-125922621

Cult members don't adjust their views when met with facts.

 

[D3RANG3D]

[Boredfrom]

Just as it was dumb for republicans to jump to conclusions about the shooter before any information came out, I don't think we should be doing it either. Maybe he was Republican? Seems possible. But maybe he was rebelling against his Republican parents? Who knows! Let's just wait for actual solid info.

[Uncle]

DEI boosts morale, which makes people perform better and leads to more retention. That is more knowledge kept for longer, less costs on letting people go and training new ones.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-dei-lead-blasts-company-in-internal-email-after-team-is-reportedly-laid-off-ign.929130/page-2?post=125910588#post-125910588

In what ways do forced classes on ethnic groups or sexual minorities “improve morale”? It feels to me like these people have never experienced corporate DEI programs and just think they’re magical cures for something.


“Man I was feeling so down this week, but now that I know Martha in accounting is a black pansexual furry I can go to work with my head held up high!”

you know what else likely boosts morale?

working in a workplace full of people who are all about the same as you, same gender and skin color, sharing similar values, being able to tell dirty jokes without getting in trouble, everyone on the same page about what you're doing, arguments resolved amicably because at heart you're still all friends

doesn't matter if that workplace is all white, all black, all middle eastern islamic, all chinese

in every case, if you match the demographic it sounds like a fucking awesome work situation



I'm not saying that all workplaces should be this way, or that it doesn't have the potential to be "toxic" or whatever, only that you can't tell me that this wouldn't be a job with high morale

[DavidCroquet]

Uncle touches on the baby/bathwater problem with modern lefty thought.

X wasn't perfect, therefore X is entirely invalid and should be completely replaced. This logic cuts across everything they talk about.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-1-smoked-filled-mar-a-lago-rooms.826662/page-378?post=125913204#post-125913204

I know this wasn't directed towards me, as this is my first time posting in here, but there is very much a lot at risk for folks like me, and even though we aren't full on board on the doom and gloom train, seeing so many ERA people declaring "it's Joever" unironically and accepting defeat, pisses me off and scares me like nothing else. So many folks here are already giving up, and how is that supposed to make folks like me feel who have so much at risk in actuality? It scares the shit out of me and it's actively ruining my mental health. This site literally ruins my mental health and has for a long time. Between constant dooming over EVERY LITTLE THING (and to be fair, over things that ARE worth dooming over, but it becomes the site that cried "doom" like the boy who cried wolf when it's again, EVERY LITTLE THING) and the pessimistic outlook on everything in this world, I've told multiple people to stay away from the EtcetEra side of this forum if I advise them to join it all because it's such a shitty place for one's mood.

[Boredfrom]

Guess who? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/july-15-2024-biden-interviewed-by-speedy-on-complex-by-the-way-i’m-the-guy-who-did-more-for-the-palestinian-community-than-anybody.929226/

Smells like desperation now that people are focusing on the election cycle.

[Propagandhim]

I wouldn't put it past them to lack any sense of shame and to actually get a morale boost knowing they or their coworkers were only hired to fulfill a faceless management boards' decision to hire based.on arbitrary characteristics like race.  I bet that really gets them excited in the morning.

"We cant hire anymore Asians. Our Asian quota is filled. And now my morale is through the roof."

[Boredfrom]

I wouldn't put it past them to lack any sense of shame and to actually get a morale boost knowing they or their coworkers were only hired to fulfill a faceless management boards' decision to hire based.on arbitrary characteristics like race.  I bet that really gets them excited in the morning.

I want to think most people don’t care and there is genuinely good and talented people that got a chance that may not come otherwise.

[Boredfrom]

Remember that short period of time where we all thought there was a small possibility that this motherfucker was actually going see the consequences of his actions?

Yeah, me neither. Dude is out here dodging literal bullets. He's definitely earned the "Teflon Don" moniker at this point.

Not even Trumptards are this good in hyping the fat retard.

[Steven Snell]

Any updates on TwoHearts? Have things improved for they?

I'm honestly too creeped out to check their Bluesky out anymore.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-1-smoked-filled-mar-a-lago-rooms.826662/page-378?post=125913204#post-125913204

I know this wasn't directed towards me, as this is my first time posting in here, but there is very much a lot at risk for folks like me, and even though we aren't full on board on the doom and gloom train, seeing so many ERA people declaring "it's Joever" unironically and accepting defeat, pisses me off and scares me like nothing else. So many folks here are already giving up, and how is that supposed to make folks like me feel who have so much at risk in actuality? It scares the shit out of me and it's actively ruining my mental health. This site literally ruins my mental health and has for a long time. Between constant dooming over EVERY LITTLE THING (and to be fair, over things that ARE worth dooming over, but it becomes the site that cried "doom" like the boy who cried wolf when it's again, EVERY LITTLE THING) and the pessimistic outlook on everything in this world, I've told multiple people to stay away from the EtcetEra side of this forum if I advise them to join it all because it's such a shitty place for one's mood.

Trump ~250 pounds, 6'3 is out there dodging well aimed headshots in a time window of nanoseconds like Neo or he has god on his side.

Either way if that was my enemy I'd lose faith too.

[nachobro]

Some new bluesky posts:

Melody shreds now goes by "Melds"

nothing says "someone with a bunch of friends and an active social life" like coming up with your own nickname

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-uploads-a-really-mysterious-trailer-to-youtube-called-emio-%E7%AC%91%E3%81%BF%E7%94%B7-translates-to-smiling-man-rated-m-for-mature.923547/page-18?post=125895012#post-125895012

User banned (1 week): Body shaming. Hostility towards another member.

Maybe JeffGubb drops a rumor later today:

He had some solid Nintendo rumors in the past.

What's the rumor. I'll be fucked if I'm clicking on the video of a fat white guy with his mouth open.

MOD EDIT: Post reverted