Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Taco Bell Tower]

Another TheEchosOfTheCyborg wlw thread
https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-will-be-your-personal-canon-going-into-dragon-age-veilguard.1018416/

So with 7 days till the release of 4th mainline Dragon Age, I've been going back to Dragon Age Keep (yes I know Veilguard doesn't use it, but I find it useful) to decide what my personal canon is going to be going into the game, who my Warden, Hawke and Inky were, what my key decisions were etc.

As such, what is everyone's personal canons going into the 4th Game?

For Me:
Dragon Age Origins:
Warden: Dwarf Commoner Lady (Rogue, Duel melee)
Romanced: Leliana
Story: Brokered Peace between the Elves and Werewolves, Defeated Branka and destroyed the Anvil, Behlen king, Sided with the Mages, Alistair and Anora rule and Killed Arch daemon but didn't die because of Morrigan's baby.
DLC Story: Saved both town and fort and let the Architect live.

Dragon Age 2:
Hawke: LadyHawke (Rogue, Duel melee)
Romanced: Merrill
Story: Let Carver die, Bethany became a Grey Warden, killed the Arishok, Sided with the Mages, let Anders Live.
DLC Story: Sided with Larius

Dragon Age Inquisition:
Inky: Dwarf Lady (Rogue, Archer)
Romanced: (Josephine (would have picked Sera but love the idea of Sera x Dagna))
Story: Sided with the Mages, Kicked Corypheus in the balls, Briala rules through Gaspard (I was not having her get back together with someone who secretly slaughtered her family), Wardens rebuilt.
DLC Story: Saved the mine and Didn't dissolve the Inquisition.

[Potato]

I'm of the left, an Anacro-Communist actually.

Just like when guys refer to themselves as "alpha", in my mind I immediately think "Oh, you're a wanker".

Every single time I see a podcast or something with the word "Alpha" in it, they are always the most beta cucks ever.

Like, somehow, these two fat useless cunts have convinced people that they are anything but fat useless cunts...

[D3RANG3D]

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

Was this taken before or after they fluffed their wifes boyfriend. 

[Bootsthecat]

Ree says he spent $7000+ on WWE tickets. This well go well

Last night I bought 3 Wrestlemania 41 tickets and the price was per ticket 2300 USD + insane fees. Today I checked seats next to the ones I bought and the price is now 1100 USD. Of course I can't refund … I wanna throw myself out of a window…

Anyone wants to share their story so I feel a bit better?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-massively-overpaid-on-ticketmaster-thanks-to-dynamic-pricing-and-i-feel-like-shit.1018041/

Fuck dynamic pricing. How that shit is legal is beyond me.

While I agree the Ticketmaster stuff is insane, and they should be facing major antitrust for that + owning venues/dictate terms of big entertainment events...in the end it's the buyers choice?

It's not as if they paid for one price n were billed another etc etc

Performers could be and large organize n protest, but they don't bc, get that bag baby! Pearl Jam being a good example

[NekoFever]

MoonsaultSlayer

Can religion go away? The shit everyone does while hiding behind their fucking fantasy is what I view as rot.

Fuck.

Banned for Islamophobia?

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shawn-layden-japan-studio-closure-wasnt-necessarily-a-surprise-and-japanese-devs%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98legacy-malaise%E2%80%99.1018350/

jfc what the fuck is wrong with these executives man

Racist and anti-worker all in one.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

The word woke has lost all meaning to me with how many times people use it online, like with many other words.

Then again when I hear the word I put in the context of "I woke up" followed by more words to complete a sentence, not online shit.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

The word woke has lost all meaning to me with how many times people use it online, like with many other words.

Then again when I hear the word I put in the context of "I woke up" followed by more words to complete a sentence, not online shit.

Almost like youve just gotten woke to language.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

Amazing that the guy who referred to Jews Israeli's as rats still hasn't been banned neither have all the other HamasEra posters.

I want to know how B-Dumbs sleeps at night, if he's getting paid at all to keep the site going.

Like what the fuck is this post?

Fantastic "October 7th was hilarious" Toma

If anyone else can properly embed this, I still can't, not sure why I cannot embed Tweets.

Anyway: Germany Forgein Office seriously uses the same old "people getting murdered by Israel in Lebanon is Hezbolla's fault, because they keep hiding behind civilians" argument. WTF. In what world do we live where it's nonchalantly accepted that entire buildings, hospitals, etc are bombed with everyone inside dying, only to get some potential terrrorists somewhere in there?!

I assure you: That would NEVER be allowed in Germany. The mere thought is infinitely absurd that a bulding in Germany, full of innocent people, would be blown up only because there's terrorists hiding inside. IT-WOULD-NOT-HAPPEN. And here we have the Germany government excusing exactly that behavior.

It's surreal. As a German citizen, it is surreal what my "moral" government is allowing. I feel like I switched dimensions and entered some paralell universe where Germany won WW2 ...

It's like a Trans and Muslim Stormfront forum at this point.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/with-four-more-years-like-2023-carbon-emissions-will-blow-past-1-5%C2%B0-limit.1018959/#post-130623837

Let's just die. Fucking kill yourself. There's no point to living on this clown of a planet anymore. So fucking sick of all this, kill me now

Kill yourself for climate change. Kill everyone if you care about the planet at all. No one deserves what we have

More hurricanes, melting glaciers, sea levels rising. Pollute all our rivers, all our streams. Microplastics in everything

Drouts, water wars, failing crops, summer heat yet you have to drive to work in hour long traffic. No point in all this shit

Call me a doomer. Try to shield yourself from the fantasy that there's a future. Why not just end it now while it's still good?

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zach-hodel-and-michael-cusack-smiling-friends-creators-decided-to-share-their-thoughts-on-the-2024-elections.1018524/#post-130608954

Is it me or do the caricatures of Harris and Clinton look way worse and more detached from reality than the Trump ones? Looks a bit misogynistic to me, but maybe I'm reading too much into it. I don't know these people.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/halloween-is-fast-approaching-what-is-everyone-going-to-play-to-celebrate.969837/page-7#post-130588338

The OP for that now locked thread asked this question....

Turnscr3w
They/Them
Can I ask if anyone can recommend me spooky games that aren't very scary?
I wanna play something spooky, but not on the level of Dead Space or like that.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/zach-hodel-and-michael-cusack-smiling-friends-creators-decided-to-share-their-thoughts-on-the-2024-elections.1018524/#post-130608954

Is it me or do the caricatures of Harris and Clinton look way worse and more detached from reality than the Trump ones? Looks a bit misogynistic to me, but maybe I'm reading too much into it. I don't know these people.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/halloween-is-fast-approaching-what-is-everyone-going-to-play-to-celebrate.969837/page-7#post-130588338

The OP for that now locked thread asked this question....

Turnscr3w
They/Them
Can I ask if anyone can recommend me spooky games that aren't very scary?
I wanna play something spooky, but not on the level of Dead Space or like that.

I'm a pussy when it comes to horror movies, shows and games, but Dead Space is not scary in the slightest. The second one has a few jump scares with Nicole and the third one isn't scary at all. Resident Evil 4 was spooky but the only scary parts for me were failing the QTE's with Krauser, distancing myself from the chainsaw enemies and the chanting in the castle. I haven't played the remake but am looking forward to diving into it one day.

FEAR on the other hand was a freaky game I found. Shame the sequels weren't as good as the original.

[DocWager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shawn-layden-japan-studio-closure-wasnt-necessarily-a-surprise-and-japanese-devs%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98legacy-malaise%E2%80%99.1018350/

jfc what the fuck is wrong with these executives man

Racist and anti-worker all in one.

Holy shit, they made it sound like he walked in and slapped the fortune cookies out of those chink’s hands.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

Did RetardEra ever react to FEAR 2's ending? I remember the main shitty video game sites and Gaf went insane over the "implied" rape threat for the Tomb Raider reboot.

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

Alma rapes the protagonist where it is actually shown, no genitals or anything though. Then it shows her pregnant afterwards.

[Nintex]

Now that Plan A has failed the Plan B to solve climate change of Eric Schmidt and others is to built more power plants so ChatGPT can tell us how to solve climate change. 

[AnnoyedCanadian]

Booshka

Guy helping to conduct a genocide in the present apologizes for a genocide in the past. No learning, can't apply history to the current historical and material conditions.

Whatever Joe, maybe read and reflect a little.

Distantmantra

Please don't try to hijack my thread. I know most people on ERA don't have much interest in indigenous issues, but this is important to me and your post isn't helping.

Such a nice way of telling him to shut the fuck up. Booshka would be like the guy who Bill Burr is talking about in this clip around 50 seconds in.

[CHOW CHOW]

Are there genuinely some in this thread who want Trump to win? 

Mostly just Nintex.

I’ll be voting Kamala. Can we get an official Bire poll going?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/with-four-more-years-like-2023-carbon-emissions-will-blow-past-1-5%C2%B0-limit.1018959/#post-130624356

fuck capitalism

fuck capitalism and everyone who enables it by being proponents of it by right-wing politics

fuck capitalism and everyone who enables it by accepting "liberalism" as a solution to any of our problems while everyone is fucked

corporations and politicians are our enemies and we all should strive for the end of liberal democracy

[AnnoyedCanadian]

MonkeyB0y

Of course they do. Is there anyone on the whole planet surprised by this? Isn't that what they have done for decades now? It's not even funny anymore how obvious their goals are

I wish that happened to all of HamasEra.

[D3RANG3D]

Did RetardEra ever react to FEAR 2's ending? I remember the main shitty video game sites and Gaf went insane over the "implied" rape threat for the Tomb Raider reboot.

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

Alma rapes the protagonist where it is actually shown, no genitals or anything though. Then it shows her pregnant afterwards.

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

The MC shouldn't dress like he was asking for it!

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-poised-to-announce-massive-ai-initiative.1018992/

[BananaBlast]

Again, I haven't been posting lately because my stupid PC is still pretty fucked up for some reason, and it's such a hassle to interact with so many websites, including this one, that I've just been giving up most of the time. It has gotten better though, which is why I'm posting now.

Anyhoo, I must say how sad it is to see the B-Dumbs vs. Nep drama go out with such a weak whimper. I actually thought Nep was gonna lead a resistance against his sorry ass to the point where he at least got a demotion. Especially when people were twisting it as "saying eat me out is literally sexual harassment", since I thought that could've sealed the deal. But of course they were too cowardly to take a stand, the inmates are institutionalized after all.

The return… of the dreaded R SLUR…! 


https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-heavy-resurgence-of-the-r-word-slur-recently-even-by-many-people-on-the-left.1017549/

Seeing that word triggers me.

(Got called that a lot in school as an insult)

I haven't heard it said aloud in real life in years. The only times I see it dropped online are usually from chuddish folks who are obviously bigoted anyway.

Generally people aren’t going to say it to your face NepNep, about you in the break room however…

I do feel like like I've been seeing more of it lately but I think that might be the impact of how loose social media moderation has become, especially on Twitter. I never hear it in real life and when I see it online, it's usually from a right-wing chud.

Your own favorite streamer Hasan uses retard quite casually

ClickyCarl is absolutely right though. I too have also noticed a sharp uptick of woke progressives using words like "autistic" and "retarded" as casual insults, and it's unironically disgusting. One reason being that because these are the people that were part of the movement that completely demonized such behavior, and another reason being these are the first people to screech "you can't say that anymore, you sick ableist!"

I myself have avoided calling people "retarded" or 'retards" for awhile now partially because I've been subconsciously influenced by these movements. I thought by using such language, I could've been more of an asshole then necessary, and that these people would hold themselves to the same responsibility, yeah? So why backtrack now? 

Perhaps it was all about gaining the moral high ground until you're positioned enough to where you can slowly do more and more what you want without reprucussions of being an asshole.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-has-seemingly-removed-ps-store-wallet-funds-from-ps-stars-rewards.1017663/page-5#post-130578504

There is a concerning amount of people who genuinely appear to enjoy spending points on the JPEGs that Sony calls "Collectibles."

Personally, if wallet funding isn't an option, I won't be engaging with the program anymore.

You're on a video game forum, get off your high horse

[AnnoyedCanadian]

I only use the word when talking about complete buffoons and idiots online, not people with profound intellectual disabilities.

[Nintex]

They're not NFTs they are digital collectibles

[Nintex]

I use the word retard mostly in combination with the words Xbox and Controller. 

Because it really drives home the shift from DOA titties, Ninja Gaiden, guns and race cars to Gaylo and the Xbox retard controller ft. Sea of Trans.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/with-four-more-years-like-2023-carbon-emissions-will-blow-past-1-5%C2%B0-limit.1018959/#post-130623837

Let's just die. Fucking kill yourself. There's no point to living on this clown of a planet anymore. So fucking sick of all this, kill me now

Kill yourself for climate change. Kill everyone if you care about the planet at all. No one deserves what we have

More hurricanes, melting glaciers, sea levels rising. Pollute all our rivers, all our streams. Microplastics in everything

Drouts, water wars, failing crops, summer heat yet you have to drive to work in hour long traffic. No point in all this shit

Call me a doomer. Try to shield yourself from the fantasy that there's a future. Why not just end it now while it's still good?

User Banned (Permanent): Extremely inflammatory rhetoric over multiple posts

https://www.resetera.com/threads/with-four-more-years-like-2023-carbon-emissions-will-blow-past-1-5%C2%B0-limit.1018959/#post-130625670

Emissions of carbon, nitrous oxide, and methane at record highs in 2023. Expected to be exceeded at 2024 and beyond! Why even care about an election when it'll solve nothing. Degrowth will never happen. Insatible greed will always prevail. You, me, everyone here have no future.

[Besticus Maximus]

More like cooling rhetoric if you think about it

[DocWager]

Booshka

Guy helping to conduct a genocide in the present apologizes for a genocide in the past. No learning, can't apply history to the current historical and material conditions.

Whatever Joe, maybe read and reflect a little.

Distantmantra

Please don't try to hijack my thread. I know most people on ERA don't have much interest in indigenous issues, but this is important to me and your post isn't helping.

Such a nice way of telling him to shut the fuck up. Booshka would be like the guy who Bill Burr is talking about in this clip around 50 seconds in.

He puss’d out, and edited his post.

Booshka the fearless? No, the coward.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_Empire#Environmental_impact