Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Propagandhim]

Nah, ya boi's stayin

[JoeBoy101]

It's really frustrating, and I get the idea that it feels like they have been constantly setting POC talent up for failure.

This garbage series had a budget in the realm of Dune 2, has been greenlit since 2020, and has been totally in the hands of the director and not suits from Lucasfilm.

PLEASE someone explain to me, preferably with crayons, how THIS is setting POC talent up for failure. The path was lined with pillows and sparkling water and they still fell down, broke their leg, and landed on their face.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Melody posting Loli art on their Bluesky now. These the people you support, Dubs? 

[Boredfrom]

Dune 2 also had diversity, Latin speaking people playing Space Muslims, and lesbian Witches. And it was awesome.  

What was your excuse Disney?

[Taco Bell Tower]

It will be so amazing if the HP show comes, has many POC's in it and is received better than this Star Wars tripe lol. Of course we know they'll ignore it though lol.

They'll just pirate it to not give that TERF BITCH JOANNE any cent

[benji]

It's hilarious how they make clear the show was entirely irrelevant. What matters second most is the people behind it had the right skin colors and identities. What matters first most is that I attached my perceived personal status to it so if it got renewed I felt like I was getting a win and now I've been denied and because of that assumption I now feel like the chuds are getting a win over me. It's just like high school all over again. It's just like Thanksgiving all over again. It's just like...

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Just make good shows. Seems pretty simple to me. 

[Propagandhim]

I like the guy that implied shows with white people don't get cancelled if they suck.  Disney, the capitalist, multinational media conglomerate must be putting the capitalism on hold to do POC a favor and let them on some shows despite having access to the golden goose that is white people...only to trick POCs in the end and set them up to fail.  But why?  Why waste millions of dollars in this cutthroat, dog eat dog, system?   The cruelty.  The cruelty is the point.

[D3RANG3D]

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[Superstar]

One of the most expensive pieces of entertainment ever made, terribke ratings, disliked by the audience and eventually critics alike. How could resetera possibly act surprised by the cancelation? the only surprising thing is Kathleen Kennedy still has a job but even that seems in doubt now.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-3-walzing-into-the-future.947364/page-366#post-127378131

User banned (2 weeks): dismissive and inflammatory commentary

what a bubble to be in for that kind of miscalculation. therearedozensofus.gif

very heartening to see

Well, maybe more stragglers will show up.

hopefully not:

    Voters continue to hear mostly good things about Harris: For the fourth week running, voters remain more likely to say they heard something positive (43%) than negative (31%) about Harris by a double-digit margin. What voters hear about Trump, meanwhile, has trended slightly more positive over the past two weeks since dipping to 20 points underwater at the beginning of August.


if this thing peters out, and voters continue to hear good things, we have a chance at being able to vote at all in 2028 and my daughter won't be stripped of her rights

[Boredfrom]

From the dude that said “setting up minorities”:

The Acolyte had a hate campaign before anyone saw a second of footage. I love Diego, but he benefits from being a lighter skinned latino man. He's not going to net the same intenese reaction from bigots that a Black female lead is going to get.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/star-wars-ot3-somehow-this-thread-returned.164356/page-327#post-125983716

Jul 18, 2024

I am confident Acolye will get a season 2.
You don't end with HIM. And then do nothing

[kaleidoscopium]

It will be so amazing if the HP show comes, has many POC's in it and is received better than this Star Wars tripe lol. Of course we know they'll ignore it though lol.

A harry potter big budget HBO show is going to do insanely well if it’s even mediocre. The talent attached to it thus far suggests it’ll be more than mediocre. 

Hoping their site is still around by then to see the meltdown

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/star-wars-the-acolyte-canceled-after-one-season.957378/page-10#post-127398231

The Acolyte had a hate campaign before anyone saw a second of footage. I love Diego, but he benefits from being a lighter skinned latino man. He's not going to net the same intenese reaction from bigots that a Black female lead is going to get.

Not sure if you're saying otherwise but Amandla Steinberg is definitely light skinned.

[Averon]

Seeing Reee utterly confused that the Diversity Disney slop they push so hard for being a total commercial failure is hilarious.

"Bu..bu..but all the evil racist, sexist, and transphobic yts are not in the show. How could it fail? I don't understand!" 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-3-walzing-into-the-future.947364/page-366#post-127378131

Dug through some of the endless COOMING over everything DNC to find some of this discussion, but I'm not going any further:

I don't expect a policy change on Israel that might risk a controversy that could lead to a loss of votes. Win the election, then make changes.

It feels like the best we can hope for on Gaza (at this point) is a situation where Harris doesn't campaign on it, but is harsher on Bibi when she gets in.

Shits dire. Hope the protestors make some noise.

Ah. Fantastic. Fuck Joe Biden, fuck the Democratic Party and, if Kamala Harris ends up acting according to this, fuck Kamala Harris too.

That platform is utter garbage but expected. I hope the protests are massive and get a ton of attention. The Biden Administration has had almost a year to stop the ethnic cleansing and all they can muster is rhetoric of sweet nothings to placate supporters while materially enabling all of it. Dems have slow walked and drawn everything out, normalizing Palestinian death.

No amount of "we support a ceasefire" means anything when the current ceasefire proposal allows for Israel to continue occupation and military action anytime they want. This is just not a serious effort. For Dems to not adjust support for Israel when Israel is being ruled by extremists that are provoking wider conflict is weird to say the least.

Pretty crazy to just see it in writing that the Democratic Party position is denouncing the United Nations while they fully support a genocidal apartheid regime.

On brand but still insane.

I fucking hate Biden so much. I hope every remaining day he has on this earth is as painful and miserable for him as possible.

It's the same racist language of eradication that they've adopted. Framing Palestinian existence as only through Israel is just one of the means to deny Palestinians their own agency. It's extremely disappointing and frankly disgusting that the Dems cannot abandon racist rhetoric about Palestinians. It's just cheering along genocide.

jon bones post

Pretty insensitive comment. You could say nothing, or God forbid, show some solidarity. People's daughters are getting blown up in a horrific conflict that your country is a party to.

i am showing solidarity against Republicans

the less damage or perceived damage the protestors do to the opposing party, the better it is for America - can't argue that

Absolutely infuriating, myopic, kick-the-can down the road bullshit.

Can't say I'm surprised about this Or that Democratic platform being such shit. American's generally don't care as much as we should and Israel propaganda has been so effective within the entire electorate.

It's a shame Dems can't even confidently stand up to Netanyahu without fear of handing this country over to those who will make it a white-Christo-fascist state

Seriously, this is maddening af. So is that Palestinian panel at the DNC just for optics?

jon bones post

Its so disheartening to see post like this mixed up with the good vibes here.

Insensitive? Really? You read their whole comment and that's your reaction?

Why does it always have to be a "the cause I'm invested in is the most important one so screw you" type of thing? It's infuriating to me and increasingly so.

The importance of this election and what's at stake isn't revolving around a single issue, as important as it might be. And yes, what you're talking about IS freaking important. Like you say, people are literally dying and frankly, the current policies are ridiculous. But come on, it's far from being the only thing of capital importance hanging in the balance here.

Because all I really hear from people holding that kind of discourse and wanting to "ruin the DNC" like I read in another recent comment here is:
- Fuck women's rights.
- Fuck LGBTQ+ rights.
- Fuck reproductive rights.
- Fuck immigration, and fuck immigrants' rights.

So sorry if I don't want to do stuff that could seriously prevent Harris from being elected in this very close and particularly important electoral race. We could all try to work together toward common goals, but no. Let's "ruin the DNC" and call someone rightfully worried about the future of their daughter "insensitive". 🙄

Except I don't see people here trying to dismiss the rights you listed.

But hey, if you think that's a great to say "It's so heartening to not see too much people protesting against a genocide" well, I don't know what to say.

Honestly, between the Palestinean panel, this "ceasefire," and the DNC platform, I can't help but hear the words of James Baldwin and Malcolm X in my head.

People wanting to do things that would seriously prevent Harris from being elected just for the sake of a single cause are absolutely dismissing the rights I listed. Because if Harris isn't elected, the outcome will be disastrous. For so many people. Let's "ruin the DNC", huh? Sure... 🙄

Who here is saying any of that?

It is you trying to frame anti-genocide protests as the enemy of those things.

Which my guess is if pushed stems from the feeling that if protests over genocide are too large, it can take away from the "vibes" and fragile support for Harris, which could cost them the election.

But ask yourself a simple question, why is opposition to Palestinean genocide in tension with the current Democratic Party and the Harris campaign, and who has the power to bring them into alignment?

Right then in that case we can say that you and every others who wants to prevent these protests are also dismissing the genocide in Gaza for the sake of a "single cause".

Massively insensitive and their follow up worse.

Protesters protesting know well whats at stake here, they are not stupid. It takes courage to stand up for whats right when you could be effected by doing it. The optics of trying to brush all this under the carpet while the people you're voting for are supporting a genocide is very poor. Its actually changed how I view people, like yourself, on this forum.

As I said, you could say nothing or just show some solidarity. American lives !> Palestinian lives.

'a single cause' is the ongoing extermination of an entire people.

i do not have the energy at this point to argue in circles here but you can at least respect the severity of this 'single cause' before you dismiss it out of hand.

Your money is, as we speak, being used to blow up someone's daughter. It's not an indirect thing. It's not a scheme. It's not a gotcha. You can track this if you want and do the math. You'll reach the exact number of sweat drops from your brow and the ratio with which they were transformed in droplets of Palestinian blood. The apartheid tactics are being exported worldwide and being used to repress the people who will fight for your rights. That is already happening, and with your money and labor.

This is not a single issue. It's a system, and Gazans are the people being murdered right now very directly by it. In other cases there is, of course, a chain of causation and the entire world is interconnected. You get to decide what you feel personally responsible for, and to which degree. Everything happens so much after all. But not about this. The platform is up, the actions of the government are clear, and claiming protesting about this is opposite to defending women's rights when uncritical support and active suppression of dissent is fueling a genocide, is abhorrent and you should reflect on it.

I'm sorry, but "kill them less" is not a winning strategy. People can and should absolutely protest. So sorry that the ongoing genocide is killing the vibes.

Even if you want to dismiss all of that and want to be selfish, if you think the current destabilisation in the Middle East will have no impact on you in the USA, I have a bridge to sell you.

Also this:

I am still trying to figure out how to break through to her. It's like some kind of fucking deprogramming I have found that being more aggressive is not the road to take. She gets very defensive, so I am trying a more steady approach. I want a relationship with her but it's being stretched thin tbh

Genuinely, you may want to look into cult deprogramming methods and how they work.

[ClothedMac]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-383#post-127397799

Yes, Trump is even more of a genocidal lunatic than Biden. But JK Rowling is arguably a more direct threat to trans people than Trump, yet I can't imagine anyone advocating voting for Trump in a hypothetical election because JK Rowling would be worse. This comparison is the only way I can possibly illustrate how maniacal Biden's handling has been.

[kaleidoscopium]

So much for that boycott

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukong-has-hit-930k-concurrent-players-on-steam.957483/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukong-has-hit-930k-concurrent-players-on-steam.957483/#post-127397757

Depressing that a game made by such horrible devs gets rewarded. Just genuinely sad.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukong-has-hit-930k-concurrent-players-on-steam.957483/page-2#post-127398453

Gamers REALLY just DON'T CARE, huh.

[LegendOfSwagda]

make products that don't spend most of it time attempting to own some subset of a group and actually tries to be good. Especially legacy franchises.

All they have to do is make a Star Wars series in which characters do cool force shit and not attempt to own the patriarchy. Most of Disney's Star Wars stuff seem to spend so much time basically going "that shit you liked? Well guess what it actually sucks and so do you" and then they wonder why some of the easiest to piss off lames go apeshit lol. The best Star Wars thing they did recently was Visions because it was just basically action figures smashing to together with pretty animation (and they ruined that by making the next batch a bunch of artsy bullshit lol)

Stop trying to make these franchises deep and about some real life lesson shit and just make shit go boom. Its not that deep.

[benji]

They literally were praising this article that says the Democrats should be completely dishonest and refuse to speak about anything they want to do.

Mainstream media outlets and their columnists and reporters are what the zoomers might call “big mad” about Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign refusing to provide grist for the bad-faith mill by releasing hyper-specific policy details and goals. These mainstream pundits are seething over the Harris campaign’s refusal to play the same old game that these outlets rely on to create a close presidential race that will generate clicks and views and, of course, ad revenue.

Journalists and pundits alike are throwing tantrums about Harris and her campaign refusing to spell out exactly how she might run the federal government when she wins the presidency. They very much want the Harris campaign to release a healthcare plan in which Americans might finally receive affordable healthcare services, something that improves on the Affordable Care Act. They want these details not because they plan to cover the plan fairly, but because they desperately want to run headlines about Kamala Harris’ healthcare plan costing $420 trillion or whatever the number would be (no one cares and cost doesn’t matter as long as folks get better healthcare).

They fiend for those nitty gritty policy details so the bad-faith media beast can bellow from the deepest depths of its bowels: How are you going to pay for that?

Simply doing what needs to be done – spending money to avoid a climate apocalypse – is enough for today’s Democrats. Avoiding the mainstream-media-to-bad-faith-right-wing pipeline is paramount.

These mainstream outlets want nothing more than for Harris to talk about raising taxes, not on working people, but on those with their fangs sunk into the working and middle classes. This generates endless coverage of the Harris-Walz plan to raise taxes by $69 trillion a year with absolutely zero specificity about how that tax revenue would come to be. Stuff that information into the right-wing media project and you have entire segments on commie Kamala wanting to take more of your hard-earned money even though they know the tax hikes would be centered on the wealthiest of the wealthy.

In the above referenced piece by Jay Caspian King, he worries that American voters need to know the truth about Kamala Harris’ stance on fracking, as if that matters to anyone but people making gobs of money from the environmentally hazardous practice. Fracking, seriously, is an issue for which Kang wants answers. The people must know if they will have their precious fracking in a Harris administration. Muh fracking, I need muh fracking. That no one give a shit about fracking beyond cable executives desperate to fill a 24-hour news cycle is apparently not part of this equation. Kamala must give an interview in which she answers 100 questions about her stance on fracking.

It’s not only that the New York Times and other mainstream outlets would create the kind of coverage that is devoured and intentionally misinterpreted by far right propaganda outfits, but that these mainstream papers and news channels would run to the nearest centrist think tank or former Obama administration official now working for some insane right-wing Silicon Valley billionaire and ask them for their thoughts on the latest progressive policy ideas. The mealymouthed centrists, proudly proclaiming that better things aren’t possible, will dismiss the progressive idea was pie-in-the-sky and unrealistic and chastise the Democratic policymakers for not working with their Republican counterparts, who want a swift end to American self governance and have never asked Democrats for their input in policy making. Millennials know this formula well because we have seen it play out over and over again in what has been a maddeningly unfair fight between Democrats stuck in the 1990s and Republicans ready and willing to break down any democratic guardrail to get their way (All those supposed guardrails we read about after Trump’s election: They’re all gone).

This kind of coverage feeds the far-right media echo chamber and puts the Democratic candidate on defense. Harris would be on her back foot, trying to explain away the cost of such vital programs and policies both to respectable mainstream outlets and bad-faith operators working for Republican propaganda outlets like Fox News. Harris’ people saw this happen to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who played the game the way major media companies want it to be played: You give us your ideas and we’ll cover those ideas in ways to open you up to Republican attacks. The Harris campaign, extremely online and clearly scornful of the Obama approach to politics, rightfully wants no part of that cycle, so the policy details will continue to be sparse.

The Harris campaign is the first Democratic campaign to understand that once you throw policy details into the wind, they will be used against you, never for you.

In a perverse way, the American left has learned this lesson from none other than Donald Trump himself.

My hope is that Harris and Walz don’t give in to media members’ howling about sit-down interviews and a spelled-out agenda for what they will do when elected. I hope Harris and Walz remember that no one outside the media cares whether they’re offering one-on-one interviews, or how they handle carefully-crafted gotcha questions, or how they’re going to pay for this or that.

Democrats are finally, at long last, rejecting the media-crafted game designed to put them on their back foot and feed the bad-faith machine. They rightly see no upside – only downside – to releasing reams of details about what they would do with power. Politics is a game, and the point of a game is to win. They are finally saying no to Leslie Knope politics.

I can see why they love this guy:
https://bad-faith-times.ghost.io/our-descent-into-bad-faith-hell-is-complete/
https://bad-faith-times.ghost.io/elon-musk-and-the-gates-of-bad-faith-hell/
https://bad-faith-times.ghost.io/the-free-speech-warriors-and-their-bad-faith-game/

Also:

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Democracy and capitalism coexisted for a while. The one that must grow or die ended up overpowering the one designed to maximize citizen participation and the common good. Probably this shouldn’t come as a shock. Karl Marx says he told ya so.

Equating the most vile political movement of the 20th century with an ideology bound and determined to protect human beings from capitalist excesses and exploitation is as bad as the faith gets. Doing so is a surefire way to keep any kind of socialist policies or priorities outside the political mainstream (my long-held idea for how to introduce socialist reforms in the United States would be calling them the Freedom Agenda and dressing their advocates in the most grotesque jingoistic outfits imaginable, since presentation is all that matters in politics).

Socialism is an international project, a way of organizing the economy and the world's resources in an unapologetically humane way. Its goal is to allow humans to be human, not cogs in some rich guy's machine. Socialism was never meant to be a private, exclusionary utopia for only certain kinds of people depending on skin tone or region or religion or however else a people might be divided. National socialism in this way is little more than a dog whistle to those who understand they are (or can be) in the in-group. You can be showered with the many benefits of socialism if you join the party, if you follow our orders, if you ingest our poison and keep up your hatreds like a good boy (or girl).

National socialism is a lie. It has never been and can never be.

...

The first people purged by the party were nazis who had boisterously advocated for a socialist economic platform. And by purged, I mean brutally murdered in extrajudicial killings, along with their friends, families, and political allies. The party was not going to fuck around with members who might bring Marxism into the fold. They had to go.

How anyone can know this history and conflate national socialism with actual socialism is beyond me, though I suppose it is an effective bad-faith interpretation that can muddle the ideological playing field and turn leftist economic policies into something toxic and utterly unpalatable to the normies among us.

If the goal is protecting capitalist domination and shutting down discourse around leftist economics, this bad-faith trick works just fine.

[kaleidoscopium]

so the best selling game of 2023 and probably 2024 can both go in the trash.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukong-has-hit-1m-concurrent-players-on-steam.957483/page-2#post-127398720

Being so often shown your views don’t matter over and over must be demoralizing

[Averon]

So much for that boycott

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukong-has-hit-930k-concurrent-players-on-steam.957483/

Remember this comment
https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukongs-content-creator-guidelines-include-not-mentioning-feminist-propaganda-politics-etc%E2%80%99-up-confirmed.955914/page-16#post-127352958

This feels like it's going to be another Stellar Blade where the chuds rally behind it as some kind of saviour of gaming then no one talks about it again after 2 weeks

Pretty sure this game will be talked about for longer than 2 weeks.

[Uncle]

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Do you think they know the Spanish are white? How can they claim to despise colonialism so much and not register the fact that like 90% of indigenous americans got replaced with Pedros and Diegos from España. Ooh I'm so cultural uWu.

Me and my mom got confused as Spaniards by French people when we were vacationing in Europe

 It was weird, we are both light brown. We don’t get confused when we are in the States.

[kaleidoscopium]

So much for that boycott

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukong-has-hit-930k-concurrent-players-on-steam.957483/

Remember this comment
https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukongs-content-creator-guidelines-include-not-mentioning-feminist-propaganda-politics-etc%E2%80%99-up-confirmed.955914/page-16#post-127352958

This feels like it's going to be another Stellar Blade where the chuds rally behind it as some kind of saviour of gaming then no one talks about it again after 2 weeks

Pretty sure this game will be talked about for longer than 2 weeks.

Gonna be some fun cross referencing in the next 24 hours

[Boredfrom]

Burka thread talking about us

This seemed like the only topic where I could appropriately discuss this, but I was browsing Google doing searches on my username as I tend to do occasionally because of harassment happening in the past on GameFAQs, and came across a place called TheBire?

Much to my surprise it's another forum that seems terminally online to shit talk what other users on ResetERA do, especially minorities and people who are opposing political alignments. And, apparently, I'm a popular subject of shit-talking on that platform.

Should I be worried? lol

Is it normal to have an entirely different forum and thread devoted to spying on Reset 24/7? It just seems like a really weird thing to do.

 

My dear, you are not even popular here. 

[Boredfrom]

Why are you dumb enough to mention “lol I got harassed by Gamefaqs and I use the same user name.”

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-420#post-127399722

[malfoyking]

Burka thread talking about us

This seemed like the only topic where I could appropriately discuss this, but I was browsing Google doing searches on my username as I tend to do occasionally because of harassment happening in the past on GameFAQs, and came across a place called TheBire?

Much to my surprise it's another forum that seems terminally online to shit talk what other users on ResetERA do, especially minorities and people who are opposing political alignments. And, apparently, I'm a popular subject of shit-talking on that platform.

Should I be worried? lol

Is it normal to have an entirely different forum and thread devoted to spying on Reset 24/7? It just seems like a really weird thing to do.

 

My dear, you are not even popular here. 

Lol. Wasnt yesterday the first time they were ever mentioned lol. And its hilarious watching era people calling others terminally online. those assholes that consume every peace of pop-culture nonsense available very minute.