Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Steven Snell]

[hide]www.threads.net/@xkyuuji

Here's Kyuuji's threads as well. Nothing since 2023 though.[/hide]

[Besticus Maximus]

Ada Lovelace was Lord Byron's only child, fact fans

[PogiJones]

When the Benji the Doxxer joke is no longer just a joke

[Vertigo]

Just hearing Kyuuji's voice lets me know they transitioned into a very unconvincing 'munter'

[killamajig]

estrogen deleting my libido and all the hot trans girls on here posting lewds working to restore it

[Rendle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-defense-of-looting.215862/

[Snoopy]

Fair play. He might look like a fat old bag but at least he's made an effort. Your move Nep.

[Jansen]

[hide]www.threads.net/@xkyuuji

Here's Kyuuji's threads as well. Nothing since 2023 though.[/hide]

Most surprising tidbit is they only started hrt last year.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-devil-is-beating-his-wife.944511/page-2#post-126734358

If you didn't know.

That term came from COPS the TV show. When they would show up for domestic disputes the guy would often have on what is classically called an A Shirt

The term existed long before cops was on tv dumbass

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-people-will-permanently-leave-the-games-industry-due-to-continual-layoffs.944457/

ITT we pretend to be game devs

Not currently thinking about leaving, because I still have a job, but I could see myself leaving it if I can't get another project or job spun up after this one releases.

Most people I know are still looking for the work they want, but there's only so long a person can do that..

Lead Designer, Iridium Studios

https://playiridium.com/

Lol, LMAO even. Guess melody shreds will start referring to herself as a game developer soon.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-defense-of-looting.215862/

So many brave voices from that thread banned by B-Dubs and Nepenthe like many of these from the last page.  

Your post already shows the dozens of increasingly fine lines in the sand that can be drawn to criticize every property-destructive action protesters take. Rhetoric that puts the moral burden on protesters to act perfectly is always used to justify violent crackdowns and suppression against them, by the institutional powers that have no interest in change. Protest will always be presented as "negative" and "not helping" unless it's people standing in a designated area and not causing any disruption to anyone - which is when the protest will in fact not help anyone, because it will be completely ignored.

Conservative media will always blame the protesters, regardless of what they do. You can see that happen in real time as police inflicting violence on protesters ends up in headlines as things like "Forces of order combat violent protests." That narrative will always be presented. What makes it become the focus is that otherwise liberal people stop prioritizing the important issue, which is the police murdering people by kneeling on their necks, because they get distracted hand-wringing over the plight of the small business owners.

The solution is to stop prioritizing discourse over the damage from looting and arson until it's actually a bigger problem than police violence. That is not going to be for a long, long time at this rate.

In a vacuum, looting is bad and destroying small businesses that are unrelated to police brutality and killings is bad. Big chains have insurance policies to bounce back; smaller storefronts face much tougher headwinds in doing the same, and have more immediate and destructive impacts on the livelihoods of their owners and workers. But...this shit doesn't happen in a vacuum. Protesters are often driven to the point of rioting and looting and property damage because *every other outlet of expression available to them has been denied*. When you're told that your peaceful protests can't be allowed and your silent protests can't be allowed because it's offending someone or it's un-American or it's anti-police or whatever the fuck, and then on top of that you're met with continued aggression and violence by police -- not just in terms of police officers killed unarmed black men, but police then escalating resulting protests into violent situations because of their own involvement and tactics -- then of course protesters are going to be pushed to a point of desperation and anger with destructive consequences.

I'm sympathetic to the small business owners and families who lose the stores that they depend on as collateral damage for protests. I don't think looting in and of itself is a good thing. But I think it's the least bad thing in a chain of bad things that ultimately leads to looting and property damage.

But these protests don't start out destructive, they're made destructive by police -- by police escalating situations, and starting these situations with murders in the first place. There were heartening videos over the weekend of police who joined in their communities protests. I would be very curious if these cities saw similar or worse levels of rioting and looting and destruction, because if I had to guess, I would say probably not.

Thanks for saying this. Articulated what I think I was trying to get at better. The burden is always on the oppressed to prove that they deserve their humanity. It's never on the oppressors for stripping it. This is why this looting conversation is annoying. People want to make their support conditional so they can go back to not having to think about this shit. The media and State knows this and feeds them this propaganda constantly. This conversation is a waste of time because the moment we're put into a position where it seems like we're defending looting were already two steps behind the oppressors. If you all truly care about the movement of you truly care about blacks lives and if you care about the communities being looted aim your ire at the cause of the looting. Don't Finger wagging on the internet and don't make your support conditional. Support justice. Full stop

This. People want to find any excuse to dismiss the movement because the truth that a people are oppressed and suffering is inconvenient and uncomfortable. They have the privilege to simply have no sympathy and ignore things and live a relatively peaceful life. It's only now that it's effecting them through destroyed property and saturating their social media that they are forced to confront it and they want to go back to normal which is the silence of oppressed people.

People condemning riots only have to stop and think first.
1. What is causing the problem in the first place?
2. How can I help make a difference?

We don't know the percent of protestors that decided to riots. That doesn't mean the whole #BlackLivesMatter is wrong or that George Floyd's death isn't an issue. Don't use this to dismiss a whole movement.

Im looking a bit sideye at people who condemn the riots only but don't seem interested at police brutality, racism and use of force.

Everybody who is asking for the rioting to stop for the destruction to stop, for the looting to stop is asking them to protest in a way so they can be easily ignored.

Exactly this. All the moral grandstanding against protesters to distract from the police target who don't follow the social contract. Looting isn't in a vacuum and just repeating but there isn't a leader who can say don't attack the small businesses.

Looters hurt the movement.

Looting is a response to when police get violent. Looting wouldn't happen if other forms of protest worked. If police didn't oppress or terrorise and get away Scott free. Looting is indiscriminate and leaderless. If people's support of a movement relied on the protester's being good model citizens, they didn't deeply care about the movement in the first place.

We can condemn the bad actors who specifically target small businesses and intentionally miss out on the institutional targets, they might have ulterior motives such as neo Nazis or far right trolls to diminish the movement. However, they're a tiny minority and are easy to spot, such as here:

Yep, people are conditioned to care about money, property and possessions over people. Those things are what culminate as comfort in our society. Some ignore injustice because they're evil but I think a great amount of people ignore it because they need their comfort above all else. They have to be apathetic or find a reason to dismiss to return to their comfort zone. The quicker you dehumanize black people the easier you can move on from their murder and oppression and live your comfortable life.

Alot of you value property over Black Life

You guys are incredible for being able to articulate this and putting it into words.

Thank you.

#BlackLivesMatter

Also the OP requested that thread locked because people kept posting bad stories about looting.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I WILL play Melody's RPG maker gamer and I WILL give it the review it deserves! 

[kaleidoscopium]

I WILL play Melody's RPG maker gamer and I WILL give it the review it deserves! 

*Matthew's, until they pay the $132 !

[benji]

Speaking of Black voices, I don't want you guys to belittle Nepenthe ever again rather than recognizing her as a future historical Black figure:

Emphasising unity between Africans and the African diaspora, he campaigned for an end to European colonial rule in Africa and advocated the political unification of the continent. He envisioned a unified Africa as a one-party state, governed by himself, that would enact laws to ensure black racial purity. Although he never visited the continent, he was committed to the Back-to-Africa movement, arguing that part of the diaspora should migrate there. Garveyist ideas became increasingly popular and the UNIA grew in membership. His black separatist views —and his relationship with white racists like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the interest of advancing their shared goal of racial separatism— caused a division between Garvey and other prominent African-American civil rights activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois who promoted racial integration.

In 1923 Garvey was convicted of mail fraud for selling the company's stock and he was imprisoned in the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta for nearly two years. Garvey blamed Jewish people, claiming that they were prejudiced against him because of his links to the KKK.

In June 1922, Garvey met with Edward Young Clarke, the Imperial Wizard pro tempore of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) at the Klan's offices in Atlanta.[235] Garvey made a number of incendiary speeches in the months leading up to that meeting; in some, he thanked the whites for Jim Crow.[236] Garvey once stated:

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. I like honesty and fair play. You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.[237][238]

At the start of the trial, Garvey's attorney, Cornelius McDougald, urged him to plead guilty to secure a minimum sentence, but Garvey refused, dismissing McDougald and deciding to represent himself in court.[266] The trial proceeded for more than a month.[267] Throughout, Garvey struggled due to his lack of legal training.[268] In his three-hour closing address he presented himself as a selfless leader who was beset by incompetent and thieving staff who caused all the problems for UNIA and the Black Star Line.[269] On 18 June, the jurors retired to deliberate on the verdict, returning after ten hours. They found Garvey himself guilty, but his three co-defendants not guilty.[270]

Garvey was furious with the verdict, shouting abuse in the courtroom and calling both the judge and district attorney "damned dirty Jews".[271] Imprisoned in The Tombs jail while awaiting sentencing, he continued to blame a Jewish cabal for the verdict; in contrast, prior to this he had never expressed antisemitic sentiment and was supportive of Zionism.[272]

In 1928, Garvey told a journalist: "When they wanted to get me they had a Jewish judge try me, and a Jewish prosecutor. I would have been freed but two Jews on the jury held out against me ten hours and succeeded in convicting me, whereupon the Jewish judge gave me the maximum penalty."[273][274]

"Race first" was the adage which was widely used in Garveyism.[375] In Garvey's view, "no race in the world is so just as to give others, for the asking, a square deal in things economic, political and social", but rather each racial group will favor its own interests,[376] rejecting the "melting pot" notion of much 20th century American nationalism.[377] He was hostile to the efforts of the progressive movement to agitate for social and political rights for African Americans, arguing that this was ineffective and that laws would never change the underlying racial prejudice of European Americans.[378][237]

He argued that the European-American population of the U.S. would never tolerate the social integration which was being advocated by activists like Du Bois because he believed that campaigns for such integration would lead to anti-black riots and lynchings.[379] He openly conceded that the U.S. was a white man's country and thus, he did not think that African Americans should expect equal treatment within it. Thus, he opposed attempts to socially and economically integrate the different races which lived within the country.[380]

Arguing that Garvey "imitated white supremacist ideas at random", the scholar John L. Graves commented that "racism permeated nearly every iota of his ideology," with Garveyism representing "a gospel of hate for whites".[390]

Garvey told the historian J. A. Rogers that he and his followers were "the first fascists", adding that "Mussolini copied Fascism from me, but the Negro reactionaries sabotaged it".[406]

Garvey never visited Africa himself,[407] and he did not speak any African language.[408] He knew very little about the continent's varied customs, languages, religions, and traditional social structures,[409] and his critics frequently believed that his views of the continent were based on romanticism and ignorance.[410]

For instance, the Jamaican writer and poet Claude McKay noted that Garvey "talks of Africa as if it were a little island in the Caribbean Sea."[410] Garvey believed in negative stereotypes about Africa which portrayed it as a backward continent that was in need of the civilizing influence of Western, Christian states.[411]

Moses stated that instead of being based on respect for indigenous African cultures, Garvey's views of an ideal united Africa were based on an "imperial model" of the kind which was promoted by western powers.[413] When he extolled the glories of Africa, Garvey cited the ancient Egyptians and Ethiopians who had built empires and monumental architectural structures, which he cited as evidence of civilization, rather than the smaller-scale societies which lived on other parts of the continent.[414] In doing so, he followed the lead of white academics of that era, who were similarly ignorant of most of African history and who focused nearly exclusively on ancient Egypt. Moses thought that Garvey "had more affinity for the pomp and tinsel of European imperialism than he did for black African tribal life".[414]

Grant noted that Garvey had a "tendency to overstate his achievements",[435] but Cronon thought that Garvey tended to surround himself with sycophants rather than more competent advisors.[450] In 1947, the Jamaican historian J. A. Rogers included Garvey in his book, the World's Great Men of Colour, where he noted that "had [Garvey] ever come to power, he would have been another Robespierre", resorting to violence and terror to enforce his ideas.[451]

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-people-will-permanently-leave-the-games-industry-due-to-continual-layoffs.944457/

ITT we pretend to be game devs

Not currently thinking about leaving, because I still have a job, but I could see myself leaving it if I can't get another project or job spun up after this one releases.

Most people I know are still looking for the work they want, but there's only so long a person can do that..

Lead Designer, Iridium Studios

https://playiridium.com/

Lol, LMAO even. Guess melody shreds will start referring to herself as a game developer soon.

To be fair he made a proper game 'There came an echo' but I'd really like to know how an indie studio can survive when It hasn't released a game for a whole 9 years and the game they released 9 years ago wasn't even a hit

[benji]

When the Benji the Doxxer joke is no longer just a joke

Tone policing marginalized people resisting their oppressors.

[benji]

Don't believe them when they say they just want to be left alone, they always reveal they want the state to enforce their views and silence those who disagree at gunpoint:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/post-126708756

I'm increasingly of the belief that there does need to be a high profile court case to start pushing back against the rampant transphobia.

It wasn't that long ago that TERFs tried to hijack the memory of Terry Pratchett and had to admit defeat when they got into an arguing match with his own daughter when she pointed out he was loudly trans positive. If they tried that today, they wouldn't back down at all and the media would likely cement that narrative despite all evidence to the contrary.

When they can spread demonstrably false narratives about an olympic athlete's sex, and not even be called wrong by the media, they're at a point where they can basically say any hateful thing they like unopposed. A big, juicy lawsuit would hopefully reverse some of that, or at least make them pause for thought before posting the hateful bile of the day.

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-not-watching-comedian-josh-johnson-you-really-should-be.944583/post-126736266

He truly has lived the fullest life. Wonder why he gave it all up to post on resetti about games being too hard for him?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-people-will-permanently-leave-the-games-industry-due-to-continual-layoffs.944457/

ITT we pretend to be game devs

You can tell the people with actual experience or at least who aren't ignorant, they're pointing out this isn't anything new.

Then you have the regulars:

how many ppl are joining the industry who have yet to have their spirits broken

It's crazy that this even needs to be asked, considering records are being broken almost left and right.

All of these companies are doing fucking amazing.

Yet they chase short term profits, over the security of their people. When there's such a power imbalance, the workers always get screwed.

Anyone not scrambling to keep as many of their people as possible, is losing the most in the end. It's never a winning strategy.

The only remedy to this shit are unions. It shouldn't be this easy to fire people, especially when your business is doing well.

If the videogame industry was unionised like other creative fields are, I think that would help in terms of job security, work/life balance, and stability. Cause I imagine a lot of companies are able to get away with the lack of job security due to not having to meet the demands of the workers, and people who haven't collectively organised yet. The lack of job security, I don't believe, is due to this being a field of passion, but rather down to the active choices such as corporate mismanagement, mass layoffs, short-term profit chasing, private equity meddling, an shareholder priority. Now bigger companies are unionising like Activision Blizzard, Zenimax, SEGA, CD Projekt Red, Avalanche Studios, Bethesda Gake Studios, and more. So there is hope for the industry to get better if that passion can be used to fight for sustainable careers.

[benji]

I worked on games for 3 years, and when my last freelance gig ended in January I couldn't find work anywhere. I ended up getting a stable state job with good benefits after looking for work for 6 months.

I'll keep working on personal projects in my own time but I'd be surprised if I ever went back as a career. The industry is shit.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-people-will-permanently-leave-the-games-industry-due-to-continual-layoffs.944457/

ITT we pretend to be game devs

Not currently thinking about leaving, because I still have a job, but I could see myself leaving it if I can't get another project or job spun up after this one releases.

Most people I know are still looking for the work they want, but there's only so long a person can do that..

Lead Designer, Iridium Studios

https://playiridium.com/

Lol, LMAO even. Guess melody shreds will start referring to herself as a game developer soon.

To be fair he made a proper game 'There came an echo' but I'd really like to know how an indie studio can survive when It hasn't released a game for a whole 9 years and the game they released 9 years ago wasn't even a hit

Also as I was thinking about iirc he has also done some voiceover work for games.

[benji]

Boom. "Doxed."
https://www.robertgiarrusso.com/
https://x.com/roubjon
https://bsky.app/profile/roubjon.bsky.social
https://www.threads.net/@roubjon.gee

I'm Rob Giarrusso! I've worked in the games industry for over 5 accumulated years as a programmer and game designer. I've helped ship two projects to release and would love to ship many more.

I have an even split of Unity (C#) and GameMaker Studio experience and am comfortable working within existing code bases. I'm quick to learn the ins and outs of a project's many intricacies and love collaborating with others to help in any way I can.

I got my start in game development during my time at university, where I was brought on-board the Olympia Rising team as an assistant programmer. As development progressed I was tasked with bringing the project to the finish line as the lead programmer on the project.

I learned to love working on games with Olympia Rising and started Beak Breakers shortly afterward. It's a project I slowly chipped away at as a way to keep my skills and passion for game development close to my heart.

Pocket Squirrel and Cross Blitz taught me a lot over the past 3 years and am excited to move onto a new project. If your team needs a programmer with a great eye for artistic detail, pharmaceutical level communication skills, and a knack for always coming through to get stuff done, then maybe I'd be a great fit

Lead Programmer / Game Designer
Independent Video Game Project
Jul 2016 - Jan 2020 3 yrs 7 mos
Albany, New York Area
• Two person independent project
Programmed all features in the game
• Collaborated with the artist to design and develop gameplay ideas.
Implemented all artwork with a careful attention to detail to mimic the flourish and polish of the artist's vision.
O Backend Developoment, GameMaker Studio and +6 skills

Programmer
Askiisoft • Freelance
sep 2020 - Jan 2022 1 yr 5 mos
Quickly prototyped new gameplay ideas, such as updates to mini-games and core-progression systems.
Created an internal level editor tool to accommodate flexible development requirements.
Adhered to the development standards set by the lead engineer to create a polished and even project.
O Backend Development GameMaker Studio and +8 skills

Programmer
Takoboy Studios • Freelance
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024. 1 yr8 mos
Remote
Developed and implemented gameplay and IJI elements to provide a fun and functional user experience in the
unity development environment.
Assisted with implementing deck-building systems so players can quickly and smoothly update and modify
new and existing decks.
Overhauled the user interface of various game systems, such as cutscenes and shops, to accommodate the
changes to the game throughout development.
Updated and reformatted all of the text in the project to work with the Chinese and Simplified Chinese
languages through thoughtful coordination with our localization liaison.
• Further improved and expanded upon internal cutscene and level design development tools.
O C#, Backend Development and +9 skills
Cross Blitz - Official Early Access Release Date Trailer

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/explain-what%E2%80%99s-on-your-avatar-and-why-did-you-choose-it.943815/post-126705666

Booshka

Just a selfie I liked and stuck with it.

It is him. Self dox.

Massive serial killer vibes

[Jansen]

Major filter usage vibes as well.

[Potato]

Ada Lovelace was Lord Byron's only child, fact fans

Yeah, but what about her sister Linda?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-people-will-permanently-leave-the-games-industry-due-to-continual-layoffs.944457/

ITT we pretend to be game devs


Lead Designer, Iridium Studios

https://playiridium.com/

Lol, LMAO even. Guess melody shreds will start referring to herself as a game developer soon.

To be fair he made a proper game 'There came an echo' but I'd really like to know how an indie studio can survive when It hasn't released a game for a whole 9 years and the game they released 9 years ago wasn't even a hit

Also as I was thinking about iirc he has also done some voiceover work for games.

yeah it was Danganronpa. How could they justify working on such a problematic series ???

[Steven Snell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-people-will-permanently-leave-the-games-industry-due-to-continual-layoffs.944457/

ITT we pretend to be game devs


Lead Designer, Iridium Studios

https://playiridium.com/

Lol, LMAO even. Guess melody shreds will start referring to herself as a game developer soon.

To be fair he made a proper game 'There came an echo' but I'd really like to know how an indie studio can survive when It hasn't released a game for a whole 9 years and the game they released 9 years ago wasn't even a hit

Also as I was thinking about iirc he has also done some voiceover work for games.

Yeah he's in the Danganronpa games and famously went on Wipeout back in the NeoGAF days.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-many-people-will-permanently-leave-the-games-industry-due-to-continual-layoffs.944457/

ITT we pretend to be game devs

Not currently thinking about leaving, because I still have a job, but I could see myself leaving it if I can't get another project or job spun up after this one releases.

Most people I know are still looking for the work they want, but there's only so long a person can do that..

Lead Designer, Iridium Studios

https://playiridium.com/

Lol, LMAO even. Guess melody shreds will start referring to herself as a game developer soon.

To be fair he made a proper game 'There came an echo' but I'd really like to know how an indie studio can survive when It hasn't released a game for a whole 9 years and the game they released 9 years ago wasn't even a hit

Steam/PSN/eShop/XB desperation sales promotions would be my guess.

[Jansen]

If I wanted to see images of ugly people I'd look in the mirror (non-trans Kyuji looks like an average looking dude?)

A palate cleanser: 

Lol don't look up what she looked like before all the plastic surgery and a lot of the pics she posts are warped to shit in the background around her waist  

[Jansen]

To be fair he made a proper game 'There came an echo' but I'd really like to know how an indie studio can survive when It hasn't released a game for a whole 9 years and the game they released 9 years ago wasn't even a hit

Also as I was thinking about iirc he has also done some voiceover work for games.

Yeah he's in the Danganronpa games and famously went on Wipeout back in the NeoGAF days.

I liked the first two (never played v3 even tho I own it). Ultra Despair Girls creeped me out on the first 30mins and I never touched it again. God the psvita sucked. Every game worth playing on it got ported somewhere else.