Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[malfoyking]

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Didn't XCX upset ReeeEra? I never played the game but I faintly remember it pissing them off for some reason or it might have been GAF.

The Burka Brigade were upset at the main character having a harem of 3 pregnant women in one of the sequels or something.

Polyphonic-Era 

The guy deserved that harem. Rex went through hell in Xenoblade 2.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-know-the-american-nuclear-family-is-a-recent-thing-moreover-it-was-mostly-shaped-by-tv.1022148/

The name is a bit of a hint.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whens-the-last-time-you-used-texting-on-your-phone.1022142/

I'm talking about SMS texting, or these days I guess RCS. The other thread about Apple rolling out RCS got me asking.

In the UK it used to cost like 10 pence to send a text. This was back before contracts became popular with a fixed monthly price, people would "top up" their phone with a tenner or so, and then spend through their allowance.

By the time smartphones rolled around, or maybe even slightly before, texts were unlimited with fixed price monthly payment contracts which most people moved to, but everyone also moved on to using apps to communicate. These days everyone uses WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger to chat primarily.

With RCS becoming a thing, there's technically no need to use those apps anymore, but I can't see people going back to using their regular texting app in the UK. I haven't sent a text in like 12 years or something - just WhatsApp really. That's what everyone seems to do.

I get the impression from Era that texting is actually still popular in other countries, and that for some reason apps like WhatsApp didn't completely take over for chatting.

This is the same psycho who went apeshit when a elderly couple asked him where he bought his dog's collar
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-boomers-not-know-where-to-buy-things.542372/

The other day a fellow dog walking but boomer couple asked me where I got my dogs light up collar.

"Where did you buy that!? That's amazing. We could really use one of those."

Mate, literally fucking anywhere. Amazon, Argos, most supermarkets, most bargain retailers. What is it that you thinking I'm going to say? "There's a brick in the side of Tesco that you push and a secret alleyway opens, you then need to tell the troll the secret password which changes daily, you find the password on ResetEra.com"

Then today, "Oh, where do you buy smoke alarms?"

MATE LITERALLY EVERYWHERE WHY ASK THIS

Just for clarification.

I'm not angry. I just find it bewildering.

The two examples in the OP - people asking about dog collar, I know them for a long time. It's not a stranger just making small talk, there's no reason for them to do that. We have much deeper conversations all the time. They just legitimately have no idea where to buy light up collars, which confuses me. There's nothing special about the one I have, it's a bog-standard mass consumer one pound rubber thing. If it was a particularly special looking bit of equipment then yes I would understand the question.

The smoke alarm one is a Facebook post I saw, posted in the town Facebook page to thousands of people, asking the entire community where could possibly be selling smoke alarms. It'd be harder to find a large store that doesn't sell them. They could have copied their exact post into Google and it would have told them. That comes across to me as a lack of very basic smarts of being able to use the internet to check where to get things. That's the point I'm getting at with that one really.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-you-favourite-daily-interesting-addictive-web-sites.545990/#post-81173033

Era is the only website I use daily. I don't browse the internet anymore.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/schreier-firewalk-studios-is-being-shut-down.1022361/

I think we all knew this was coming but it still sucks to see it confirmed. The studio never really had a chance.

Poor firewalk studios. All they were ever given was a 200 million budget to create a game. No chance whatsoever

[HardcoreRetro]

Instead of bitching about games or ResetEra you guys should just listen to this banger that just popped up on my Youtube homepage.

[HaughtyFrank]

And once again the developers suffer for the sins of their management.

I don't think it was Sony who told them to create the anti thesis to every successful character design ever

[Orange Juice Box]

But even then, I think parameters like "fulfillment" and "free time" must be examined in a more critical and dialectical lens. Like, the computer in a vacuum allows me more free time because of how fast it is at making calculations and processing data. But it also allows me unfettered access to addictive games and social media, potentially impacting the quality of free time it has in turn given me. Indeed, my social and mental health are significantly improved the more I get away from digital devices and spend time in nature or with other human beings, despite these being extreme advancements in technology that would kill a theoretical Victorian child, as it were lol.

Ok, I'm convinced.  Let's burn it all down and go back to pre-industrial days.  Most of the world will die, but the rest will be too busy doing subsistence farming to have any free time.

To be fair, Nepenthe wants a pre-agrarian society.  A hunter gatherer society before wheats and grain colonized the mind of the pure native human man.  You know, her fetish with indigenous people that is exactly like Avatar but her's is good because it's her.  It's not bad like the Avatar movie because James Cameron made those.

[HaughtyFrank]

Lots of incredibly talented people just lost their jobs and years of their hard work and effort is gone forever because a bunch of lame dorks couldn't get over characters with pronouns and iffy, boring designs.

Great industry we have here. Great community.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-are-shutting-down-firewalk-studios-and-neon-koi.1022361/post-130837839

[Steven Snell]

The game was fucking mediocre as shit. With crap character designs. Yeah they tend to fail and when games fail these days, studios usually close down. Sad but that's the reality.

[Polident]

If this phantom cabal of chuds represents the broad audience, and has the power to make or kill media, maybe they’re the audience you should target?

Or maybe the game looked boring. Going to guess he didn’t buy it either.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Can someone check up on SunnyD Delicious or whatever his name is?  Dude was having a meltdown over Concord's CCU and said he would gladly pay over $1k for Concord.

[ComeAgain]

I think they could have done more. But it seems already widely accepted (sometimes even celebrated) when certain games get shut down weeks after or even before release.

Sony cultivated studios like Naught Dog, Insomniac and Sucker Punch over generations. Now they expect a newly acquired studio to put out instant hits. Find the error.

Naughty Dog had Crash Bandicoot early on, Insomniac had Spyro/Ratchet and Clank and Sucker Punch had Sly Cooper. All instant hits. Naughty Dog also had Jak and Daxter.

Firewalk was given 200+ million dollars out of the gate and produced maybe the biggest bomb in gaming history, right up there with the E.T. game 

“Find the error” the idiot says

[Taco Bell Tower]

I wish Sony revived Sly Cooper, damnit.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/theres-no-media-model-for-platonic-intimacy-in-male-friendships-i-think-thats-a-big-factor-in-whats-wrong-with-heterosexual-men-today.1021668/

Men have fewer and fewer friends these days and friendship is critical for human beings. The problem is that so many male friendships are just so damn shallow. But that's really all we're taught to have because the media we grow up on portrays friendships between heterosexual men in very specific ways. You can hug, but it's gotta be quick or loud. You can cry, but you have to do it no physically closer than sitting next to one another and at most with an arm on your shoulder. Two guys can't occupy the same space while neither has a shirt on. Can't share a bed no matter how much room there is or what the alternatives are. You're only allowed moments of sincerity and vulnerability when you're three sheets to the wind, and that includes telling them you love them.

Otherwise you're gay.

I don't think I have to elaborate to this forum that there's no issue with two men in love with one another. But nobody wants to be labeled as something they're not no matter how positive their views on the sexuality of others.

You go back and watch or read a lot of much older media and you can find examples of men being able to be intimate in a platonic sense with their friends. Modern audiences look at it and invariably declare that the characters are obviously in romantic love (and sometimes they are). But the loss of media that showed close friendships between men as being both close and friendships, I think, has done and is continuing to do long term damage.

I don't know, I've had this thought before and it's always one particular conversational topic that gets me thinking about it.

Bert and Ernie.

Now let me preface this by saying it's cute and sweet a lot of the portrayals of those two as romantic partners. And if anyone finds themselves identifying with them or having had any major self-discoveries due to them (I don't know if this happens, but I also don't know if it doesn't), I don't mean to take that away from anyone.

But why did we all know that Bert and Ernie were gay when we were growing up? Well, not all of us, but a whole hell of a lot of us who were allowed to know that gay men existed. Because, while I can't say anything about the show now, I can tell you for sure that that wasn't the objective in the 80s and 90s where the episodes we watched came from.

Just the fact that they lived in the same home (contrary to popular belief, they did not share a bed) and clearly cared about one another. That they were close (or, at least, from Ernie's perspective they were close, maybe not so much for Bert) and that kind of closeness wasn't really still being portrayed in the other media we grew up with.

And the urge persists today. Any time any two men in media show they care about one another to any degree deeper than Goku and Vegeta they must be in love, or they should  be in love and the writers are cowards.

I don't know, I'm rambling. I don't really have much more than the thesis statement of this topic. I think our relationships are poorer for the fact that they are, by social necessity, shallow. And that we will continue to get worse if we don't do something about it.

I'll just close out by saying this: Waldorf and Statler are obviously a couple, though.

He’s been schizo posting as the kids call it for a minute now:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-head-voice-has-started-to-intermittently-double-speed-itself-and-i-kinda-hate-it.1018668/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/batman-and-127-martial-arts.1018026/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-in-moments-like-these-that-i-remember-my-mom-raised-me-right.1012776/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-am-kicking-myself-over-a-food-related-bad-call.989706/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/way-too-much-fanwank-about-saiyans-by-yours-truly.970713/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-feel-the-electric-guitar-is-a-better-instrument-for-moonlight-sonatas-1st-movement-than-the-intended-piano.965613/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-11-30-pm-and-i-felt-like-cooking.959244/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-shouldnt-have-gotten-the-cheese-i-never-get-the-cheese.953565/

The Batman thread is my favorite. Just pure

[Uncle]

Lots of incredibly talented people just lost their jobs and years of their hard work and effort is gone forever because a bunch of lame dorks couldn't get over characters with pronouns and iffy, boring designs.

Great industry we have here. Great community.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-are-shutting-down-firewalk-studios-and-neon-koi.1022361/post-130837839

"a bunch of lame dorks"

you mean the entire population who didn't play it for myriad unknowable reasons?

there was no harassment campaign, no protest or boycott

if there was, ironically the game would've gotten more attention

this isn't like when a game like tlou2 comes out and sells millions and then a bunch of people are disappointed so sales fall off more quickly and then a remaster/sequel doesn't sell as well (I have no idea if this happened to tlou2)

if no one even plays it in the first place to find out if it's shit...there's no one specific who can be blamed

like what, oh johnny gamer, you would've loved this game for sure if you'd just given it a chance 

[Uncle]

people care so little about concord that on the game's official subreddit, no one has posted this news yet

https://www.reddit.com/r/ConcordGame/new/

[garamonde]

Can someone check up on SunnyD Delicious or whatever his name is?  Dude was having a meltdown over Concord's CCU and said he would gladly pay over $1k for Concord.

I myself am waiting for CrossingEden. Time for him to sperg out about how much or how little the game cost.

That thread is gonna be a good dish.

[Taco Bell Tower]

They gutted Bungie, who makes a successful GAAS. This was bound to happen.

Keep in mind they are the biggest gaming compnay in the world. Fuck Capitalism

Yet they're going to continue to buy from said company.  Ree users really don't care.

[kaleidoscopium]

The news that Concord did end up costing $400M makes these threads so fun to read  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/making-concord-didn’t-cost-400-million.988164/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-concord-director-steps-down-as-studio-behind-historic-playstation-flop-waits-for-sonys-decision.986304/page-10

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sacred-symbols-concord-was-the-most-expensive-game-sony-has-ever-released-at-400mln-budget-was-internally-referred-to-as-the-future-of-playstation.987219/

[HaughtyFrank]

The game was fucking mediocre as shit. With crap character designs. Yeah they tend to fail and when games fail these days, studios usually close down. Sad but that's the reality.

It's even more than just fail. Concord literally made 0$ for Sony because every purchase was refunded. When studios already get shut down for "not meeting expectations", then a studio that's responsible for probably the biggest flop in gaming of all time will of course get shot into the sun.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-are-shutting-down-firewalk-studios-and-neon-koi.1022361/page-2#post-130836882

This is unacceptable. The game was really fun to play. This is entirely on Sony and those at Firewalk shouldn't be losing their jobs over this.

Fun to play? Maybe.

Sold 10 copies.

How's that on Sony?

[Nintex]

They closed down the Concord Studio?

Please keep winning Mr. President  

I like how Hulst just threw them under the bus. 

"Thanks guys, didn't work out... eerrr Financials and stuff cya"

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-are-shutting-down-firewalk-studios-and-neon-koi.1022361/page-10#post-130841115

 

[AnnoyedCanadian]

I wish Sony revived Sly Cooper, damnit.

I want collections for Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, God of War and a few other Sony titles at 60 FPS 1440p or 4K on the PS5. Same with Xenosaga but it probably won't happen. I realize there are PS4 versions of some of them and classic versions, but native PS5 ones would be nice.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lord-of-the-rings-fans-praise-decision-to-bring-back-deceased-star-without-using-ai.1022421/

Still baffles the mind that this retard has all the time in the world and hasn't seen the actual movies but watches the TV show which is longer when you put all the episodes together. Logic does not matter on RetardEra.

[Uncle]

I wish Sony revived Sly Cooper, damnit.

I want collections for Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, God of War and a few other Sony titles at 60 FPS 1440p or 4K on the PS5. Same with Xenosaga but it probably won't happen. I realize there are PS4 versions of some of them and classic versions, but native PS5 ones would be nice.

really wild how every cartoon game studio went realistic and edgy over time

"we demand to be taken seriously"

[AnnoyedCanadian]

JigglesBunny

Lots of incredibly talented people just lost their jobs and years of their hard work and effort is gone forever because a bunch of lame dorks couldn't get over characters with pronouns and iffy, boring designs.

Great industry we have here. Great community.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sony-are-shutting-down-firewalk-studios-and-neon-koi.1022361/page-3#post-130837257

Typical games industry, set a studio up for failure then axe them when they do with no consequences for the people who actually caused the blunder and will inevitably do the same blunder again.

There's also no need to shut the entire studio down. Sony still need games, Firewalk can make games (pretty good ones!). It would make far more sense to keep as much of the team together as possible and have them work on something that isn't total GaaS market suicide instead.

You just know in 2 years time they're going to be trying to hire people and spending a bunch of money to make a 100 strong team for a new project somewhere when they could have just repurposed an existing one.

Does anyone know what games Firewalk Studios made?  I keep finding Concord unless they're talking Bungie veterans.

[HaughtyFrank]

 

Usually I might feel bad about the schadenfreude but when the devs also went on twitter to call people criticizing the game "talentless hacks" or got all triggered over someone daring to redesign the characters... I think this whole ship was rotten from top to bottom.

[Steven Snell]

I think they could have done more. But it seems already widely accepted (sometimes even celebrated) when certain games get shut down weeks after or even before release.

Sony cultivated studios like Naught Dog, Insomniac and Sucker Punch over generations. Now they expect a newly acquired studio to put out instant hits. Find the error.

Naughty Dog had Crash Bandicoot early on, Insomniac had Spyro/Ratchet and Clank and Sucker Punch had Sly Cooper. All instant hits. Naughty Dog also had Jak and Daxter.

Firewalk was given 200+ million dollars out of the gate and produced maybe the biggest bomb in gaming history, right up there with the E.T. game 

“Find the error” the idiot says

Games that clearly at the time of the release attracted players. Who the hell did they think would take Concord to their hearts? Like so many people involved in that development and no one was like: "Yeahh I don't know if this game as a whole is a good idea in this saturated as hell market".