Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-review-thread.962400/page-3#post-127617546

It's more of a 7 that's getting undue hate for a lot of bad reasons. People mad since May 2023 that PlayStation dared publish multiplayer service games. Bigots mad about "not enough white people" and "pronouns"

[TylenolJones]

Not Era, but

Banks first appeared in the gaming industry in August 2015. An X/Twitter account called ‘OneOddGamerGirl’ appeared to share the perspective of a “Deaf, Muslim, queer, disabled, gamer nerd” through accessibility reviews and interactions with varying studios and advocates.

I am shocked to find out this was a larp

Within months of Craven’s introduction of Banks, Craven claimed Banks had been hospitalized after dropping a KitchenAid mixer on her foot, according to both an anonymous former business associate of Craven's I spoke to, and my own past conversations with Craven. Several hours later, her leg was allegedly amputated, and nearly 48 hours after the first operation, her other leg was amputated as well.

[malfoyking]

Pronouns are fine... in the fucking character bio screen. Not in the goddamn character selection screen. What is the point of that? Do the pronouns somehow aid in how the characters play? It was just added for virtue signalling shit.

[DocWager]

Goddamn Sony is slumping with some of this shit. AstroBot can’t come soon enough.

[malfoyking]

New cope just dropped.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-myth-wukong-has-sold-10m-copies-3m-peak-ccu-all-platforms.961929/page-10#post-127612179

XR. Said:
Damn, that's crazy. A shame no one will remember it in 4 months.

[Nintex]

Goddamn Sony is slumping with some of this shit. AstroBot can’t come soon enough.

They're sending Astro Bot out to die. Releases in 14 days, 0 marketing or ads.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

If there is one thing that get under Nepenthe's skin other than "the collective nation of Jewish people", it's uppity Asians pointing out racism. 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/angela-collier-how-star-trek-picard-ruins-star-trek-for-fans-of-jenny-nicholson.962604/

Wtf at these 4 hour videos

[D3RANG3D]

Nu-Drek

[DocWager]

Not Era, but

Banks first appeared in the gaming industry in August 2015. An X/Twitter account called ‘OneOddGamerGirl’ appeared to share the perspective of a “Deaf, Muslim, queer, disabled, gamer nerd” through accessibility reviews and interactions with varying studios and advocates.

I am shocked to find out this was a larp

Within months of Craven’s introduction of Banks, Craven claimed Banks had been hospitalized after dropping a KitchenAid mixer on her foot, according to both an anonymous former business associate of Craven's I spoke to, and my own past conversations with Craven. Several hours later, her leg was allegedly amputated, and nearly 48 hours after the first operation, her other leg was amputated as well.

Melody Shards previous grift.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rolling-stone-can-the-best-of-star-wars-survive-the-worst-of-its-fans.962613/

"Star Wars fans won't watch what we tell them to."

[EaldNarche]

Can Nep even see over the steering wheel?? she's probably a menace on the road.  

[books]

[Garfield]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/men-drivers-what-is-wrong-with-yall-vent-thread.962463/page-3
[QUOTE="PaperSparrow, post: 127616031, member: 126"]
We are on a forum, dominated by men, about gaming, which is dominated by men, in societies dominated by men. A woman has 50/50 odds of becoming the US President for the first time in history running against toxic masculinity personified, who is partly responsible for taking away women's rights. Finding and replacing words is not a gotcha. It just tells me you think words have no meaning beyond what the dictionary says.

prime example of a FUCKING RETARD jesus christ these people are drama queens

Which women's rights are they saying Trump took away?

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/men-drivers-what-is-wrong-with-yall-vent-thread.962463/page-3
[QUOTE="PaperSparrow, post: 127616031, member: 126"]
We are on a forum, dominated by men, about gaming, which is dominated by men, in societies dominated by men. A woman has 50/50 odds of becoming the US President for the first time in history running against toxic masculinity personified, who is partly responsible for taking away women's rights. Finding and replacing words is not a gotcha. It just tells me you think words have no meaning beyond what the dictionary says.

prime example of a FUCKING RETARD jesus christ these people are drama queens

Which women's rights are they saying Trump took away?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rolling-stone-can-the-best-of-star-wars-survive-the-worst-of-its-fans.962613/

"Star Wars fans won't watch what we tell them to."

*Article talks about "best of star wars"*

*Ignores Andor*

We already had the best of star wars, it was diverse, anti fascist etc. all the stuff you guys like and yet the Chuds liked it too. Just make a good show and it'll work.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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-6#post-127315833

User Banned (Duration Pending) - Racist rhetoric

Pretty racist belief, tbh.

'Chinese' isn't a race lol. A 'studio' does not have an ethnicity either, 'Chinese studio' means the studio is located in China. The CCP have strict control over all forms of media in China and use it to push the country's ideologies, which affect the human rights of its populace, while restricting the populace's exposure to progressive ideals of the west to prevent the spread of these ideals within China. Chinese video game developers have to conform to the policies set by the CCP by upholding the same stances in their creations, whether they, individually or collectively, disagree with them or not. Even western developers have to conform to the policies of the Party when releasing their games there. It's not very odd in the west to assume that most media from China will conform to these restrictions and affect the stance developers are forced to take. It deserves criticism.

[D3RANG3D]

Just like I posted on the the old bore just make a basic bitch movie and or show, recent examples, Top Gun 2, Despicable Me 4, Inside Out 2, Deadpool x Wolverine, and Twisters these are just movies made for entertainment, and were met with success. Shocking I know right?

As for TV Cobra Kai embraces the old and the new, and clowns boomers and zoomers both.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

RLM shit talks Star Trek Picard = CHUDS
Trans woman shit talking Star Trek Picard = Oh okay they have good points!

[BananaBlast]

God the bans are always just so horribly inconsistent.

The Black Wukong thread is filled with people who voice that they fully agree with the virtue signaling crap, but they still get banned because they say one little thing that would mess up the flow of the virtue signaling. Doesn't matter how truthful it is, doesn't matter if it's still on guidelines with the site's political agendas, if the moderators don't wanna hear it, they will ban them.

Such as your typical dolt saying "Yes, I totes agree the developers are sexist and misgoynostic, and see women as nothing but sex objects, but I don't think this is any different than certain other games and companies that have simillar practices" (user banned 1 month: dismissing concerns of misogyny.)

Just how the hell are they "dismissing concerns of misogyny" when they already said they agreed? FFS. Can't even bootlick without getting your head stomped on.

[LegendOfSwagda]

anybody stupid enough to go against the grain in those threads deserve the ban lol.

Just ignore the crazies. It will drive them nuts but as long you don't directly engage you can't get got.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

What is the deal with Nissan Altima drivers?

👀

[Echelon]

God the bans are always just so horribly inconsistent.

The Black Wukong thread is filled with people who voice that they fully agree with the virtue signaling crap, but they still get banned because they say one little thing that would mess up the flow of the virtue signaling. Doesn't matter how truthful it is, doesn't matter if it's still on guidelines with the site's political agendas, if the moderators don't wanna hear it, they will ban them.

Such as your typical dolt saying "Yes, I totes agree the developers are sexist and misgoynostic, and see women as nothing but sex objects, but I don't think this is any different than certain other games and companies that have simillar practices" (user banned 1 month: dismissing concerns of misogyny.)

Just how the hell are they "dismissing concerns of misogyny" when they already said they agreed? FFS. Can't even bootlick without getting your head stomped on.

I'll admit I don't follow the ban chimpouts that closely, but this feels like the biggest one in a while, and it's extremely bad for their optics. When they do it with this many users, it's really easy to notice that a thread has become a "graveyard" and the people spared will definitely be mad/worried about their accounts while some of the banned users might actually realize what massive cunts the mods are.

It's especially bad when compounded with Nep's latest projection of her inabilities to operate a nissan shitbox. Now all we need is for B-dumbs to have a temper tantrum over something insignificant, call a few users morons, go on break for 6 hours and then magically come back well rested and ready to do his insignificant job again.

Cherry on top of this fun day in retard land: Concord is now at less players in the evening than midday.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-131#post-127618512

Is that link a massively right wing conspiracy site? Because just the url is giving me "covid 5g" and "turning the frogs gay" vibes

The author is a piece of shit TERF scientist.

It's like the PhDs who believe in creationism, but he went TERF instead of Noah's ark.

[benji]

Didn't Activision allegedly push one of their employees to suicide? Yet they are fine gushing about the latest CoD without every thread of the game getting a performative "warning" of how terrible Activision is.

Too lazy to dig up the post but I remember B-Dubs once saying something to the effect "well all companies have problems" when asked about why Ubisoft and Activision don't get the cyberpunk thread treatment with a giant warning post on the top of every page.

Resetera is such a hypocritical, performative forum from top to bottom

I'm bringing this up because B-Dubs did worse than this, he smeared every company in the industry: https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-isnt-activision-ubisoft-discussion-limited-to-about-their-work-cultures.465195/

[benji]

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-6#post-127315833

User Banned (Duration Pending) - Racist rhetoric

Pretty racist belief, tbh.

'Chinese' isn't a race lol. A 'studio' does not have an ethnicity either, 'Chinese studio' means the studio is located in China. The CCP have strict control over all forms of media in China and use it to push the country's ideologies, which affect the human rights of its populace, while restricting the populace's exposure to progressive ideals of the west to prevent the spread of these ideals within China. Chinese video game developers have to conform to the policies set by the CCP by upholding the same stances in their creations, whether they, individually or collectively, disagree with them or not. Even western developers have to conform to the policies of the Party when releasing their games there. It's not very odd in the west to assume that most media from China will conform to these restrictions and affect the stance developers are forced to take. It deserves criticism.

Literally saying it's racist to criticize authoritarian states now?

[BananaBlast]

I'll admit I don't follow the ban chimpouts that closely, but this feels like the biggest one in a while, and it's extremely bad for their optics. When they do it with this many users, it's really easy to notice that a thread has become a "graveyard" and the people spared will definitely be mad/worried about their accounts while some of the banned users might actually realize what massive cunts the mods are.

It's especially bad when compounded with Nep's latest projection of her inabilities to operate a nissan shitbox. Now all we need is for B-dumbs to have a temper tantrum over something insignificant, call a few users morons, go on break for 6 hours and then magically come back well rested and ready to do his insignificant job again.

Cherry on top of this fun day in retard land: Concord is now at less players in the evening that midday.

Yeah, I feel it's even bigger than the Stellar Blade spergout, which was already pretty huge.

However I do think it's too far in the site's lifetime (it's been up for seven years by now) and I think nearly all of the users have already experienced this before, and have already made up their mind, especially since nearly all of them have been registered longer than 3 years. They're holding onto the crumbling castle and just don't want to let it go. Or even worse, they approve of the batshit moderator's banning sprees.

They'll keep bootlicking and sucking up, get spooked by the ban wave, which mostly leaves them two options: crash out and say "fuck you mods, I'm out" (this almost never happens) or continue to bootlick, this time treading even more carefully than before, praying that they don't slip up and disappoint their dear masters again.

[benji]

Is Sony still pushing this as a big exclusive for them? All of the things I'm learning about the studio are gross, and it's a bit shocking if PlayStation wants to get behind that as their brand.

Sony pushed Stellar Blade and the studio is just as worse and you think they don't get behind problematic games?

Sorry, literally every publisher and studio in the industry is guilty of trying to end women's rights globally.

[BananaBlast]

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-6#post-127315833

User Banned (Duration Pending) - Racist rhetoric

'Chinese' isn't a race lol. A 'studio' does not have an ethnicity either, 'Chinese studio' means the studio is located in China. The CCP have strict control over all forms of media in China and use it to push the country's ideologies, which affect the human rights of its populace, while restricting the populace's exposure to progressive ideals of the west to prevent the spread of these ideals within China. Chinese video game developers have to conform to the policies set by the CCP by upholding the same stances in their creations, whether they, individually or collectively, disagree with them or not. Even western developers have to conform to the policies of the Party when releasing their games there. It's not very odd in the west to assume that most media from China will conform to these restrictions and affect the stance developers are forced to take. It deserves criticism.

Literally saying it's racist to criticize authoritarian states now?

It's funny because I'm pretty sure there have been several instances of favored users criticizing China and have gotten away scot free.

Again, this is what's so terribly confusing about the shithole. There's just so many things that are entirely dependent on the moderator's moods and mental states, which obviously aren't even remotely healthy to begin with. That's the only logical reason I can think of why this user got banned for saying something others have said before.

If the timing is right and you're in good graces with the moderators, you may be allowed to criticize the cultural aspects of foreign nations and get away scot free. If the timing is wrong, you will be instantly shut down for "racism, bigotry, discrimination, dismissing concerns of blah blah blah, etc.", likely ending in a lengthy or permanent ban.

[ClothedMac]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/angela-collier-how-star-trek-picard-ruins-star-trek-for-fans-of-jenny-nicholson.962604/

Wtf at these 4 hour videos

People actually watch these things.  And they watch a 24 year old explain what racism is.  Or explain the Vietnam War in four 2-hour chunks.  And then they consider the host a "Para-social friend."

Go do something outside.  Start a race war between guys at the park or something useful.