Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Boredfrom]

I didn't realize Nepenthe had a whole back and forth where three people call her a cold, emotionless robot with no empathy.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fetishization-of-empty-gestures-is-a-fascinating-thing-completely-part-of-the-theory-of-dystopia-as-aspiration-that-were-constantly-being-sold.995856/page-3#post-129492462

Nepenthe not being able to understand why people cling to symbolic gestures during a crisis is because she comes from a privileged middle class background and has faced absolutely no adversity at all in her life.

But their ideology on Era is chock full of symbolic gestures, so you'd think she'd get it - trans flag avatars and site logos, Palestine flags, etc.

Maybe she thinks all that is BS and she just uses it to fit in and control others.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Nepenthe not being able to understand why people cling to symbolic gestures during a crisis is because she comes from a privileged middle class background and has faced absolutely no adversity at all in her life.

But their ideology on Era is chock full of symbolic gestures, so you'd think she'd get it - trans flag avatars and site logos, Palestine flags, etc.

Maybe she thinks all that is BS and she just uses it to fit in and control others.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I didn't realize Nepenthe had a whole back and forth where three people call her a cold, emotionless robot with no empathy.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fetishization-of-empty-gestures-is-a-fascinating-thing-completely-part-of-the-theory-of-dystopia-as-aspiration-that-were-constantly-being-sold.995856/page-3#post-129492462

Nepenthe not being able to understand why people cling to symbolic gestures during a crisis is because she comes from a privileged middle class background and has faced absolutely no adversity at all in her life.

But their ideology on Era is chock full of symbolic gestures, so you'd think she'd get it - trans flag avatars and site logos, Palestine flags, etc.

I guess ukraine flags, coconuts, and water melons don't matter much Nepnep? 

[kaleidoscopium]

2 days since stevy's last donation to the Shreds. Is the free ride over bros? 

Seems so, no more hood burgers… 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/happy-emu-spreads-havoc-at-petting-zoo-no-children-spared.996714/#post-129519549

A giant emerald macaw screamed directly in my face when I was like 3 and I basically froze solid from sheer terror.

[Vertigo]

From what I've been told there is no way to quickly fix this dumpster fire of a game and all these last minute adjustments will only increase the number of bugs 
 

I can't even imagine the backlog of bugs that have to be dealt with by the dev team and knowing how many experienced QA people got fired this year makes it even more ludicrous.

Another game I'd probably avoid at launch is Dragons Age: Veilguard. They had the same issues, a ton of experienced QA people were let go as they tried to unionize, Bioware hired cheap replacements overseas who can't really handle the amount of work thrown at them. They had to draft in people from other parts of EA to help get it through its current sprint.

Old friend of mine drafted in said they found a shocking amount of bugs. I hadn't really been following the game but checked its release date Oct 31st lol good luck

Doubt they'll whip it into good enough shape in time.

As usual, management are utter wankers.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-22#post-129534210

correct, and the US won't be safe from this hate also

And it's hard not to think we deserve everything that's coming to us.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-22#post-129536205

Genuine question. Is there any reason countries around Israel don't just team up and go at them in the name of defense? Is it due to them having the US and NATO behind them?

the simple answer is they are absolute cowards with no backbones.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-22#post-129536205

Genuine question. Is there any reason countries around Israel don't just team up and go at them in the name of defense? Is it due to them having the US and NATO behind them?

the simple answer is they are absolute cowards with no backbones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

[Anti-Monitor]

Ubisoft is actually addressing some inaccuracies in AC shadows and RE instantly declares they're just bowing to the chuds

So sad that devs have to waste time fixing "historical accuracy" just so they get less hate from idiots online instead of using this time to improve the actual videogame

https://www.resetera.com/threads/insider-gaming-exclusive-%E2%80%93-context-around-the-assassin%E2%80%99s-creed-shadows-delay.996855/post-129526005
Crazy idea, but maybe the game that's trying to be authentic should be authentic

Remember, historical accuracy in fantastical games is a chud complaint, unless it’s about women’s armour, in which case realism is of the utmost importance.

Especially in realistic video games such as Dragon Age, Mortal Kombat and Stellar Blade

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-22#post-129534210

correct, and the US won't be safe from this hate also

And it's hard not to think we deserve everything that's coming to us.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-22#post-129536205

Genuine question. Is there any reason countries around Israel don't just team up and go at them in the name of defense? Is it due to them having the US and NATO behind them?

the simple answer is they are absolute cowards with no backbones.

You need to love self radicalization. 

If they allowed racial slurs it would become a leftist /pol/.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-22#post-129534210

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-22#post-129536205

Genuine question. Is there any reason countries around Israel don't just team up and go at them in the name of defense? Is it due to them having the US and NATO behind them?

the simple answer is they are absolute cowards with no backbones.

Has to be a troll. Surely?

[NekoFever]

You can tell they’re new to this conflict.

“Why don’t they team up against Israel for the fourth (?) time and get absolutely bodied and lose huge swathes of territory in a matter of days again?”

[Besticus Maximus]

Unfortunately, the ummah is run by hypocrites who do not fully believe in allah 
They side with the demons too
Many such cases

[Polident]

Better question is what’s stopping them from joining the fight? Cost of a ticket is less than a PS5 Pro. Less, considering it’ll be one-way. If you’re willing to demand countless people across the ocean get sent to war, surely it’s a cause you like really super care about and stuff.

[NekoFever]

As for how these issues fell through the cracks, I'm told that historical experts were brought onto the project much later than usual for a project of this magnitude and that miscommunication between teams and cutting corners when it came to the approval process of assets to meet deadlines were also at play.

I can’t imagine why they would have delayed letting the chud historians get a look at this one until much later than usual.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

FantasticToma is going to get a knock on the door if he keeps posting in that thread. 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-%E2%80%9Csweet-baby-inc%E2%80%9D-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-106#post-129523308

Everyone's favorite banbaiting troll from IconEra is up to their tricks again. 

From what Ive seen on twitter seems like one person brought his personal feelings into their job(hes community manager right managing acc) and just started blocking people after he made some posts not releated to anything about engine and got called out?
Also there are screencaps of them using n-word on discord quite a bit, so yeah... Hopefully they get rid of them and some competent person clears this up

You're really not as slick as you think you are…

Post in thread 'Black Myth: Wukong's content creator guidelines include not mentioning 'feminist propaganda, politics, etc' [UP: Confirmed]'

Post in thread 'Tom Henderson/Insider Gaming: Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows'

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Something's starting to smell fishy 👀

[Snoopy]

Welp. Somebody just earned himself a place on Nep's hit list -

In the midst of destruction, people find gestures like this to be comforting, even if you don't, because it reminds them that there is structure to things and that it's possible all is not lost. This isn't a foreign concept or something that's hard to grasp. I understand why it may appear to be an empty gesture and why some folks may not care for it based on their feelings for this country but it's not hard to understand why some folks would gravitate towards something like this.

Also, people wouldn't give a trump flag the same deference that they would a trump flag and it wouldn't get posted/reported on the same way because a Trump flag isn't the American flag, and you know that. There's absolutely no scenario where that wouldn't be made fun of and you know that too. Why even bring up that scenario? You KNOW that no one would defend that shit and it would get clowned on by EVERYONE.

If you don't like nationalism that's fine, but this really feels like some edge lord nonsense with an complete miss on understanding that gestures like this happen BECAUSE people are seeking normalcy in a situation where nothing is normal. It's an attempt to try and restore order for people who have lost homes, their livelihoods, family members, everything. I don't think there is anything wrong with trying to put some order into the chaos for them, even if it takes the form of something you don't care for because of your personal politics.

And I say this as someone raised in a military family, who hates all this lip service and "support the troops, honor the flag" type mother fuckers that exist all around me. I can't stand that shit because the people who scream that shit never actually mean it and they're the ones who are the first to support Ted Cruz and the fucks that want to fuck our soldiers and first responders over. But this isn't that and shouldn't be confused with those types of fake-flag-waving mother fuckers and what the reason for this "gesture" is and why it had meaning to some folks.

How long til she finds an excuse to perm? A week?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fetishization-of-empty-gestures-is-a-fascinating-thing-completely-part-of-the-theory-of-dystopia-as-aspiration-that-were-constantly-being-sold.995856/page-3#post-129504855

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

USA USA USA 

[DocWager]

I love that she preaches “Socialism”, and yet any act of social kindness makes her sick to her stomach.

[Snoopy]

I noticed she immediately went to the old playbook and started attacking her community then playing the victim as soon as they dared question her retard logic

Well, I say that, but some of you all were feeling Trump when he posed after his assassination attempt because it looked "badass", so who knows?)

And you wanna talk about Reddit? I personally feel like I'm on r/conservative with how sensitive people are being at the mere idea of simply not being gung-ho for this tweet.

Okay, THAT will be my last post on the matter. Because I honestly can't explain this more plainly, and it's clear my politics and viewpoint aren't welcome.

She did the exact same thing in the old politics community. Posted a dumb shit opinion on topic. Got mad when they raised doubts. Insulted them. Cried about being made to feel unwelcome. Waited a few days. Hit the ban button.

[Boredfrom]

Okay, THAT will be my last post on the matter. Because I honestly can't explain this more plainly, and it's clear my politics and viewpoint aren't welcome.

Your politics and view points permeates all the site.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Okay, THAT will be my last post on the matter. Because I honestly can't explain this more plainly, and it's clear my politics and viewpoint aren't welcome.

Your politics and view points permeates all the site.

The collective nation thanks her for her sacrifice.

[DocWager]

I absolutely hate people like her. She has no actual affection for people. She is an absolute nihilist, and she won’t admit it, but all her reactions to every little story about war, and death show it. She’ll only show “compassion” for her fellow man to be able to point out who she feels is guilty, to create the image she likes to paint herself as “The Better Man”. That’s it… Outside of that she’s unfeeling to everyone else. It’s all performative. She’ll admire a culture from afar, but she doesn’t sympathize with them on a personal level. And when you call her out on it, she snaps back because she won’t admit it. She would rather use her position on the forum to play the person of high moral fiber, when she actually has none. 

Unlike my fellow Birerer, I don’t deep down love her. If I saw her hitchhiking on a desert road wearing that dog costume on, I’d turn my steering wheel to the right, and end this madness.

[Polident]

Have to wonder when they consider Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Quora, Instagram, the UK, Canada, et al. to be toxic shitholes… maybe they’re the problem? 

Nah it’s everybody else.

[Besticus Maximus]

Nepenthe is Jim Jones with none of the jesus

[benji]

AshenOne (you fucking guessed it, Palestine flag)

This disgusting behavior from the western allies is really is something.

If this somehow leads to world war 3 or some big war. Its totally on them.

They are one sidedly giving ammunition to multiple genocides in the middle east.

They do not deserve to remain unscathed or have their freedom.

Why do they never say what they think the sides would be?  

You don't have to use the photo mode either. Nothing is saying that you have to. It's a feature you can use if you want and ignore it if you don't want to.

Ah, but that's the problem. They know they can't resist and so they know everyone else can't either.

Most of the prominent users use the same username on EVERYTHING. Same goes for passwords going by how they get phished easily and fooled by fake websites (no surprises on being naive and dumb on the internet).

Like I get using the same username on a few things (I do myself, but I keep a super low profile with everything), but on multiple when you are talking MAD SHIT and making an ass of yourself is one of the stupidest fucking things you can do. Then they start crying when people find their accounts and see it as doxxing when it's just a simple Google search with quotations.

And they wonder how they get "doxxed" 

A crime worse than stealing people's stuff we've learned.

Valkia (new Era main character) dropping some more takes

I watch quite a few trans creators on YouTube (majority of which aren't even gaming channels) and I think it affects my algorithm in a negative way.

I searched for "Ghost of Yotei" because I wanted to rewatch the trailer on my TV, and the first 8 out of 10 results were all videos about how it is "woke" or even one saying that the protagonist is "trans". I had to keep scrolling just to find the actual freaking trailer. And even worse, because it is search results, I cannot click "don't recommend" on these. This type of content very rarely if ever appears in my general recommended section.

God I fucking hate this platform right now. "Oh, seems like you're trans? Here let us bombard you with content from people who despise your existence". YouTube are doing so much damage to the culture war.

100% this. Youtube has been fertile ground for this shit for so long.

I too did a search and you're correct.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-%E2%80%9Csweet-baby-inc%E2%80%9D-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-105#post-129500181

How... how do they think YouTube is doing this? Can they explain it to me?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/north-carolina-reels-from-helene%E2%80%99s-devastation-as-crews-rush-to-deliver-aid.996618/#post-129516516

It's weird how quiet the media seems to be about this. When Katrina happened I feel like you couldn't NOT hear about it, but I just am not really hearing much outside of my own circle of friends and some posts on Twitter. Am I just missing something or not paying enough attention?

I said the same thing yesterday, wherein it seems like the coverage on mainstream televised outlets isn't as hyper-focused as it was during Katrina. There's a lot of social media presence from people affected though. Your theories may abound as to why that is.

The lack of a major city needing to be evacuated?

Is Katrina's focus not also because of how it would (did) affect gas prices? Which is bullshit because it was just an excuse to raise them permanently, but nonetheless...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/north-carolina-reels-from-helene%E2%80%99s-devastation-as-crews-rush-to-deliver-aid.996618/

But this didn't happen?

Top page collective nation:

She needs nintex to donate some money for Trump burgers to put some meat on those bones!

Or she needs to star as Wonder Woman in two more Zack Snyder Justice League pictures.

I didn't realize Nepenthe had a whole back and forth where three people call her a cold, emotionless robot with no empathy.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-fetishization-of-empty-gestures-is-a-fascinating-thing-completely-part-of-the-theory-of-dystopia-as-aspiration-that-were-constantly-being-sold.995856/page-3#post-129492462

Nepenthe not being able to understand why people cling to symbolic gestures during a crisis is because she comes from a privileged middle class background and has faced absolutely no adversity at all in her life.

But their ideology on Era is chock full of symbolic gestures, so you'd think she'd get it - trans flag avatars and site logos, Palestine flags, etc.

Imagine if her suburban house flooded and all the Lucio merchandise was damaged.  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-intensifies-military-operations-in-lebanon-around-500-dead-and-over-1-600-injured.989493/page-22#post-129536205

Genuine question. Is there any reason countries around Israel don't just team up and go at them in the name of defense? Is it due to them having the US and NATO behind them?

the simple answer is they are absolute cowards with no backbones.

Maybe they aren't as wanton as you at sacrificing their own people? (Despite being mostly unchecked authoritarians and/or religious fanatics.)

[benji]

I love that she preaches “Socialism”, and yet any act of social kindness makes her sick to her stomach.

I absolutely hate people like her. She has no actual affection for people. She is an absolute nihilist, and she won’t admit it, but all her reactions to every little story about war, and death show it. She’ll only show “compassion” for her fellow man to be able to point out who she feels is guilty, to create the image she likes to paint herself as “The Better Man”. That’s it… Outside of that she’s unfeeling to everyone else. It’s all performative. She’ll admire a culture from afar, but she doesn’t sympathize with them on a personal level. And when you call her out on it, she snaps back because she won’t admit it. She would rather use her position on the forum to play the person of high moral fiber, when she actually has none. 

Although she's easily one of the worst, this is the bulk of that forum. They absolutely despise everyone else while thinking the problem must be everyone else and therefore the utopia is those people being forced to obey them. 

Their fantasies have literally zero connection to reality and they spend all day on these. They talk endlessly about how half the country is entirely unreachable and at least half of the other half are just as bad. Where do they get the idea that a more mandatory socialist state would privilege them over 75-80% of the country? Or a global one over 95% of the planet? Nothing except their own belief in the infallible nature of themselves.

Some of the shut-ins or autistics or what have you, you can have some sympathy for their anti-social ways, they can't help it entirely, they don't get interacting with other humans. But people like Nepenthe, PlanetSmasher, Jeff, etc. are all taking their self-disappointment out on everyone else as a justification to be anti-social and proud of it. They do nothing and yet the world denies them, which justifies their hatred of the world. They don't have careers, they don't have family, they don't have education, they don't even really have friends because their social cliques are all about power, and yet all their rage is how they aren't given these things by others despite being relentlessly anti-social. Nepenthe has a forum under her sway and she can't stop chastising it for disappointing her by not knowing her every wish at all times. She can't stop bitching about the people closest to her in politics, behavior, personality, etc. She thinks less of them than white people in general. She thinks less of them than us. 

It's a typical trait of authoritarians and the self-aggrandizing wannabes like Trump that they despise the toadies and respect those who push back. Mao never fully purged Deng because ultimately he respected him, something he didn't for any of immediate Gang of Four who he relentlessly abused then made them perform over the top loyalty. Look at Nepenthe's Israel kerfuffle, she won't speak about the issue because a handful of PoliEra (who then got purged) pushed back against her. Even though the forum is now far past her original position and people post every day about wanting mass bloodbaths of not just Israelis but Americans. Yet she's still afraid to share her thoughts on this topic even with backup like spineduke and plagiarize and B-Dubs. She's scared to death she'll be exposed to criticism again. 

They feel they have no control over their lives because they willingly reject it out of fear of responsibility so they decide the answer needs to be their personal absolute control over everything in existence. Never in their minds are they the ones not given this control because that just doesn't work, that's not how a utopia would be. Other people simply don't matter to them other than how they can be used for their personal wants.

That they live in a hell of their own making is perhaps evidence there is some kind of cosmic justice in the universe.

[DavidCroquet]

When I came to the Bire, I noticed ya'll pick on entremet all the time, and I was like...I remember entremet being pretty normal???

But I get it. I finally get it now.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/one-of-the-things-that-suck-about-adulting-is-the-less-time-to-learn-deep-skills-for-fun-and-pleasure.997203/
[quote]One of the things that suck about adulting is the less time to learn deep skills for fun and pleasure.[/quote]
It's both grammatically incorrect, but also like it was written by highly intelligent alien interloper.

"Hello fellow humans, I too enjoy and engage in "fun" and "pleasure". Do any of you fellows derive these qualities from the acquisition of skills?"

What's going on with this dude?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/one-of-the-things-that-suck-about-adulting-is-the-less-time-to-learn-deep-skills-for-fun-and-pleasure.997203/

One of the things that suck about adulting is the less time to learn deep skills for fun and pleasure.

But this is wrong? Nothing consumes your life "adulting" like school did. I have vastly more time now to pursue learning than I did even into college. I think I've learned far more since then and would love to be able to go back with it to redo many of my school years from like junior high or so. The biggest advantage would be knowing just how much doesn't actually matter but felt like it did. (And I mean this about things outside of school too.)

One of the most damning condemnations of our pre-adulting methodology is that we've only increased the time required by schooling to at best zero measurable effect and plenty of decrease in certain areas. Including the fact that our education system literally spent decades teaching kids a method that makes it impossible to properly read. (And as someone who can do math I'm not sure we haven't done the same there.)