Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[jooseloose]

Hogwarts Legacy is also surprisingly progressive for a Rowling universe game.
Still I much rather have talks and promotional content on the most prominent transphobe on the planet and an unapologetic Gamergate pilled Nazi off this site, thanks.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-%E2%80%98baldur%E2%80%99s-gate-3%E2%80%99-maker-promises-%E2%80%98divinity%E2%80%99-will-be-%E2%80%98next-level%E2%80%99-turn-based-rpg-early-access-gen-ai-for-idea-exploring-placeholders.1384537/page-16#post-149152522

The post below that, SilentPanda with yet another copy & paste, H1 Header, collection of quotes and a link post

[Boredfrom]

Here we go:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/noisy-pîxel-former-critical-reflex-employee-mouthwashing-lunacid-arctic-eggs-publisher-alleges-harassment-and-unfair-labor-practices.1389265/

In addition to labor concerns, Zemljic alleges she was subjected to repeated sexual harassment. She claims the behavior came from both producer Ted Hentschke, who was employed at the company at the time, and Critical Reflex founder and CEO Rita Lebedeva. According to her statements, this included inappropriate comments and questions unrelated to her work, such as being asked about personal Twitch activity and having personal topics raised in internal company chats without her consent.

[Boredfrom]

According to Zemljic, she worked at Critical Reflex for roughly two years and seven months as a junior community manager. During that time, she says she was involved with projects including ORX and Freaked Fleapit. In her video, titled I worked at the creepiest publisher in indie games (Critical Reflex), she alleges that she was never provided with a formal employment contract throughout her tenure. She claims that when she questioned why no contract existed, the company's founder and CEO failed to give a clear explanation.

 

Why you keep working with them?

[benji]

Zemljic also states that she worked full-time hours, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, for a monthly salary of €720. According to her account, this was below Cyprus' legal minimum wage. She further alleges that there were no benefits beyond paid leave, no internal channel for whistleblowing or reporting misconduct, and significant wage disparities among community managers, with other employees earning between €1,100 and €1,500 per month.

I wonder why there would be such a wage disparity...

Dog Walker
Freelance · Freelance
2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs
Bávaro, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic · On-site
As a teenager, I worked as a dog walker around my neighborhood. I also taught dogs basic commands and bathed them! 🐕

Sales Clerk
Gift Shop Sky · Part-time
2017 - 2018 · 1 yr
Bávaro, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic · On-site
As a teenager, I worked here part time!

English Second Language Tutor
Self-employed · Self-employed
2020 - 2024 · 4 yrs
Moscow, Russia · Remote
I taught Russian preschoolers and elementary school students English!

Community Manager
CRITICAL REFLEX · Full-time
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos
Remote
✿ Discord ✿
- Took care of the Freaked Fleapit, CR Channel, Complex SKY, and ORX communities on their respective servers ♡
- Server setup from scratch (bots, visuals, rules, etc)
- Created emojis, stickers, and sounds for the sounboard
- Organized server events

What could it be...

[Potato]

I imagine Prime 4 will meet Nintendo's expectations since they wouldn't have ever expected it to do better than around 1 million sales. Dread's the odd ball in the franchise.

Dread is an excellent game. It really is.

Prime 4 is decent. I'm enjoying it, but it is definitely not in the same league as Prime 1. Jury is out on the order of the other Prime entries. They each have their issues.

[benji]

Here we go:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/noisy-pîxel-former-critical-reflex-employee-mouthwashing-lunacid-arctic-eggs-publisher-alleges-harassment-and-unfair-labor-practices.1389265/

Welp, that sucks. I think I'll be taking Mouthwashing off my radar.

Imagine being this soft and weak. You see a headline about something and instantly need to tell people how you're dropping interest in some obscure thing you don't really care about in the first place.

More, including more evidence, at: https://noisypixel.net/critical-reflex-harassment-labor-allegations/

There's literally no evidence of anything at all on there except her mental health diagnosis after assaulting a police officer. Oh, and that her bosses thought she did no work and was trying to blame it on self-diagnosed autism.

[Potato]

Almost like reviews are opinions. Weird.

While that's true, folks are very clearly treating these as more then that across the board. You wouldn't have people acting like Nintendo's output is in trouble just because of some numbers aren't big enough otherwise.

Because Nintendies never jerk off when a Nintendo’s game gets a high score.  They never use good reviews to passive aggressive attack games and industry trends that perceive as a threat.

I think is not controversial to say that, review wise, Nintendo had a pretty mediocre output compared with other years.  That doesn’t mean Nintendo is doomed, because we cannot say the PS5 first year was not mocked with “PS5 has no games”. But is concerning that very anticipated games underperformed critically or with fans.

Prime 4 is a very delayed game that suffered development hell. Yes, highly anticipated, but only the worst of the fanboys thought it would be without issues. Kirby was not anticipated at all and dropped very soon after its surprise reveal. It's also the very definition of niche passion project and you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would say it was "very anticipated".

Bananza was fantastic, as you would expect from the Mario Odyssey team.

The post-Christmas Nintendo Direct will be a good indicator of whether the Switch 2 is going to be anything more than a Switch Pro in the next 12 months.

The thing with the PS5 was that it had no games in the first, second, third and fourth year. Arguably, it still hasn't dropped its PS4 Pro+ reputation.

[benji]

Here we go:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/noisy-pîxel-former-critical-reflex-employee-mouthwashing-lunacid-arctic-eggs-publisher-alleges-harassment-and-unfair-labor-practices.1389265/

having personal topics raised in internal company chats without her consent.

Her superiors were discussing her personal problems/excuses and how it was "preventing her from working" and was going to get her fired. These are the messages she shared that the story has attached. She's trying to allege this is creepy harassment. 

[Boredfrom]

I guess is harassment season yet again.  

Time to drown real harassment cases with Borderline Personality Disorder slop.

[Potato]

On a more positive note. I was watching Channel 5 guy interview some off grid retards. Apparently they regard us Scots as being one of the racially pure breeds. Fuckin result. We’ll be getting reparations before Nep.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/another-white-chef-had-to-apologize-for-criticizing-mexican-food.1387861/page-5

He's a white man, so how is he not a product of white supremacy when the very designation of "whiteness" is a white supremacist construction?You say you understand white supremacy but continually say things contradictory to a basic understanding of white supremacy. For example:

"I just think it is healthy to be able to view things from a non white-supremacist view and ask ourselves the likelihood of this person actually being a demon."

How can you make a meaningful, post high-school level analysis of a white Brit talking down about Mexican culture and not take into account the existence of white supremacy? You then say he made the comment from a place of privilege, but what do you think white privilege is a product of? You think that concept came out of some college think tank? You think folks haven't penned down the benefits of white supremacy in critique since whiteness was invented?


Ultimately, is this a situation where you're upset that people are taking his whiteness into account at all and thus trying to defend his honor from being construed as some KKK member in disguise or, as you put it, a "demon" when ultimately no one is doing that? Are you doing that thing where people pretend whiteness and white supremacy can only be displayed in outrageous acts of evil? Because it is almost 2026 and we should have moved on from ironically performative defenses for whites making dumb insensitive statements by now and recognize what time that white people are on all the time.

To reiterate, a man said he didn't like a certain Mexican bread.  That's where this is all coming from.

...and the person criticising him also said, "yes the bread is cheap and shit, but it's meant to be cheap and shit".

[benji]

I guess is harassment season yet again.  

Time to drown real harassment cases with Borderline Personality Disorder slop.

Shit, this guy looked at the actual stuff attached to the article instead of the claims:

I did not watch the video yet but from the screen shoots are a bit weird with the HR employee or i am reading them wrong.
How can you work and receive a salary for 2 years without a contract?
She told she was autistic and that she did not want to go to a doctor and refused to communicate?

The last image is from an psychiatric hospital.
It says she was brought by the border police because she was aggressive, started undressing and then bit a policeman. Its also mentioned that she said she was fired and is stressed because she got fired (she also said that she did not sleep for a few days) and is on the way to her husband in Vienna.

Its also mentioned that she said she has no history with mental problems (but visited a psychiatrist when her mom died) and that she did not take any drugs or alcohol.

She got diagnosed with acute polymorphic psychotic disorder.

Dunno il watch a video to get more context when i find a bit of time.

She wasn't told she was autistic. According to those messages a psychiatrist told her she was special and she decided this meant she had autism. And that's why she can't work and needs to spend time on 4chan or something.

[filler]

On a more positive note. I was watching Channel 5 guy interview some off grid retards. Apparently they regard us Scots as being one of the racially pure breeds. Fuckin result. We’ll be getting reparations before Nep.

guy was helping the whites chase around other chinese kids and calling them chinky 


he's the chinese clayton bigsby 

[Nintex]

Switch 2 is having a fantastic start and Nintendo directors like Aonuma are already hinting at mainline sequels for Zelda, Mario etc.

Now I'm not sure if we can survive another 5 - 6 year Zelda hype cycle so hopefully it drops sooner but I think Nintendo is going to open the flood gates now that the cross-gen titles have been released. Overall I think Nintendo just has no reason to announce games early like they did with Prime 4 that usually just bites them in the ass.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/another-white-chef-had-to-apologize-for-criticizing-mexican-food.1387861/page-5

He's a white man, so how is he not a product of white supremacy when the very designation of "whiteness" is a white supremacist construction?You say you understand white supremacy but continually say things contradictory to a basic understanding of white supremacy. For example:

"I just think it is healthy to be able to view things from a non white-supremacist view and ask ourselves the likelihood of this person actually being a demon."

How can you make a meaningful, post high-school level analysis of a white Brit talking down about Mexican culture and not take into account the existence of white supremacy? You then say he made the comment from a place of privilege, but what do you think white privilege is a product of? You think that concept came out of some college think tank? You think folks haven't penned down the benefits of white supremacy in critique since whiteness was invented?


Ultimately, is this a situation where you're upset that people are taking his whiteness into account at all and thus trying to defend his honor from being construed as some KKK member in disguise or, as you put it, a "demon" when ultimately no one is doing that? Are you doing that thing where people pretend whiteness and white supremacy can only be displayed in outrageous acts of evil? Because it is almost 2026 and we should have moved on from ironically performative defenses for whites making dumb insensitive statements by now and recognize what time that white people are on all the time.

To reiterate, a man said he didn't like a certain Mexican bread.  That's where this is all coming from.

...and the person criticising him also said, "yes the bread is cheap and shit, but it's meant to be cheap and shit".

He said to make clear that is the economic reality of why people eat this food. You could argue is the same idea but one is more blunt than the other, but that was his basic point.

I read of another Mexican chef defending him as just being blunt about something is well known outside social media hate machine.

[Jansen]

Yesterday while at the doctors I wondered why I weighed 10 more pounds than last time. Today my toilet found out why.

[Boredfrom]

I’m inclined to believe he was being blunt given how misquoted he was with the gentrification stuff. At least I hope is the case given I don’t want another Jeremy Clarkson disappointment in my fellow man.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-tell-me-im-not-the-only-one-who-thought-double-d-was-a-girl.1389079/

Yes i made this mistake at first but quickly realized Votes: 36 7.0%
Yes. I made this mistake for a Long Time Votes: 23 4.5%

[Boredfrom]

“I made the mistake because Double D is such a wuss and effeminate that may as well be a woman.”  

[Uncle]

I never watched the show and at some point I remember wondering whether one of them was a girl just for the sake of 90s diversity, any group of 3 or more characters needs at least 1 girl

if I was going to guess which one was the girl it would be that one, but again I never watched it

[benji]

I think non-binary/androgynous makes a LOT of sense for Double D yeah. They are a boy, but I can definitely see this with their character.

And the "Double D" innuendo kind of hints at it too I think. "Double D" as in "hehe big boobz, get it!!!" and Double D as in "double identity".

And Edie is a woman's name too, typically singular "d", so the extra emphasis here is also a bit suggestive in a way.

So yeah, I can see it and believe it.

Maybe stick to Concord and fascism hysteria.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I think non-binary/androgynous makes a LOT of sense for Double D yeah. They are a boy, but I can definitely see this with their character.

And the "Double D" innuendo kind of hints at it too I think. "Double D" as in "hehe big boobz, get it!!!" and Double D as in "double identity".

And Edie is a woman's name too, typically singular "d", so the extra emphasis here is also a bit suggestive in a way.

So yeah, I can see it and believe it.

Maybe stick to Concord and fascism hysteria.

Boys rhetorical club post?

[benji]

[books]

Switch 2 kinda sucks ass so far. Its a guess if games are even on the cartridge or not. It cant even run Skyrim. At the very least on a positive note, its my Dragon Quest machine, which a 3ds was already able to do tho.

[Taco Bell Tower]

UH OH JAWMUNCHER

https://www.resetera.com/threads/limited-run-games-being-sued-for-2-7-million-in-class-action-lawsuit.1389205/

Incoming bans

Wouldn't ever be surprised this is LRG we are talking about after all

Wow that's scum of them. Fuck LRG, nothing but terrible experiences with them.

LRG remains gross!

Sad that their shitty service to other countries extends to not being able to participate in this, too.

Edit - LRG, not LGR. LGR is great.

LRG games, wtf

Honestly, not surprised to get that. XP

If you'd have told me back in 2015 buying Vita games the direction the company would have gone (and not on the official mightyrabbit forums lmao) I'd have never believed it.

But fuck, I'm STILL waiting on an order from last year lol. Really disappointing overall.

I cancelled all my plans of buying games there after the Shantae fiasco, now it's even more clear this group of crooks should go bankrupt

There's the like, social/moral stuff aimed at their CEO here on Era, and then on their subreddit it's just a bunch of pissy manchildren misplacing anger at USPS handling practices at LRG, not to mention the anger about wait times.

Turns out something as niche as physical game production of small indie and retro titles draws some… hardcore fans out.

I worked there for 7 and a half years and this is the first I've heard of this (left a few months ago). Seems like they got caught up in some wide net loophole thing but idk.

LRG has its fair share of annoyances, but I gotta say it was extremely rough to work there and see the way people talked about us online. You'd think we all were working for God damned Cobra Command or something.

As someone who's bought a million games from them (I seem to be one of the few people who has no issue with them and likes what they're doing), I don't have an email about this in any of my inboxes.

And yes, I'm in the US.

[benji]

As someone who's bought a million games from them (I seem to be one of the few people who has no issue with them and likes what they're doing), I don't have an email about this in any of my inboxes.

And yes, I'm in the US.

Maybe read if it applies to you?

You are included if you are a Person in the United States who, from January 1, 2016, to and through June 20, 2025, watched a pre-recorded video through Limited Run Games Service and/or purchased a video game containing cutscenes from Limited Run Games Service. Limited Run Games Service is defined as the website LimitedRunGames.com, the iOS or Android mobile applications, or any other digital platform or application owned and operated by Defendant where video content is available to be viewed by subscribers and video games containing “cut scenes” are available for purchase.

[benji]

It means they chose to pay up now to make it go away rather than go to court. Which usually means they know they are guilty and would lose. But technically they were not found guilty.

No, it doesn't. It means the cost of settlement is less than the cost of litigation. Especially in this case where as explained in that thread, it's a fucking racket with no wrongdoing:

Actually there's law firm that's uses this law to extortsue lots of web stores, because law is not adapting to digital age.
Check this thread
https://www.resetera.com/threads/iam8bit-lawsuit.972072/

What did LRG do to bring this on?

The same thing as basically every other website sued under the VPPA: they have videos on their site (and sell video games that have cutscenes, which they're interpreting as applying to this VHS-era law), and they have analytics on their site (including a Facebook tracking pixel), so in theory Meta could correlate your account to the trailers you're watching and the video games you're buying. It's all pretty bog-standard stuff; nothing mwa-ha-ha nefarious.

This is scummy though of them selling out info to Meta, but they're the only ones doing it, but they got caught

As far as I'm aware, there's no indication that any information was sold to Meta. They had a Facebook tracking pixel on their website, as many, many sites do. LRG is one of a whole bunch companies that have been hit with VPPA class action lawsuits because they had both a tracking pixel and video on their sites, including GameStop, The Athletic, AARP, the NBA, DirectToU/Alliance Entertainment, the Criterion Channel, etc.

Also you're technically not found guilty of being a fucking moron who can't handle simple budgeting.

[benji]

Here we go:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/noisy-pîxel-former-critical-reflex-employee-mouthwashing-lunacid-arctic-eggs-publisher-alleges-harassment-and-unfair-labor-practices.1389265/

Welp, that sucks. I think I'll be taking Mouthwashing off my radar.

Imagine being this soft and weak. You see a headline about something and instantly need to tell people how you're dropping interest in some obscure thing you don't really care about in the first place.

More, including more evidence, at: https://noisypixel.net/critical-reflex-harassment-labor-allegations/

There's literally no evidence of anything at all on there except her mental health diagnosis after assaulting a police officer. Oh, and that her bosses thought she did no work and was trying to blame it on self-diagnosed autism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/noisy-p%C3%AExel-former-critical-reflex-employee-mouthwashing-lunacid-arctic-eggs-publisher-alleges-harassment-and-unfair-labor-practices.1389265/#post-149178307

...I JUST fucking bought Lunacid and Mouthwashing both on Steam Winter Sale.

Edit: just refunded them both. I had like 7 minutes in Lunacid and none in Mouthwashing, so that should be another $20 I can spend on a decent developer.

[Taco Bell Tower]

As someone who's bought a million games from them (I seem to be one of the few people who has no issue with them and likes what they're doing), I don't have an email about this in any of my inboxes.

And yes, I'm in the US.

Maybe read if it applies to you?

You are included if you are a Person in the United States who, from January 1, 2016, to and through June 20, 2025, watched a pre-recorded video through Limited Run Games Service and/or purchased a video game containing cutscenes from Limited Run Games Service. Limited Run Games Service is defined as the website LimitedRunGames.com, the iOS or Android mobile applications, or any other digital platform or application owned and operated by Defendant where video content is available to be viewed by subscribers and video games containing “cut scenes” are available for purchase.

The impossible at ResetEra, they never read before throwing in their hot takes and all.

[benji]