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

[Boredfrom]

I love a wide number of neurodiverse people who see their diversity as a net positive,

Why?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I love a wide number of neurodiverse people who see their diversity as a net positive,

Why?

Discord love kittens.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Sure would be nice if no one would post spoilers about a game that came out less than a week ago and requires multiple playthroughs to see the true ending

In the true ending it's revealed that the schoolgirl was James Sunderland all along.

[benji]

Speaking of

[Boredfrom]

Speaking of

World is healing. 

[JoeBoy101]

Re-adjacent so putting it here:

Edit:

I cannot stress this enough. This game being a failure after being straight up championed relentless by the American gaming press is wonderful. Defining game, in what way?

Oh it was defining alright. I think we just disagree on the definition.

[DavidCroquet]

Anyway, the groomer got called out:

You probably mean well, but I know people with autistic kids - my brother included - who would find this extremely offensive.

As I'm sure you know, autism is a wide spectrum. I know that it can be debilitating and it can be a significant challenge for parents in certain cases, but I also know plenty of autistic people who make positive contributions to society. I know parents that wouldn't change a single thing about their autistic child, and parents that would.

What I was trying to get in my post is that I believe diversity of neurotypes is beneficial to a society. Neuro diverse people might offer solutions to problems that another group only containing one neurotype wouldn't come up with, and everyone in the more diverse group benefits from that solution no matter their neurotype.

It can be beneficial in a certain environment to being small or tall, evolutionarily speaking. If someone can reach higher fruits, or sneak into smaller spaces to retrieve resources, the whole community can benefit from that... but at a point being too small or too tall becomes a disability to that individual. If an environment is selecting for 'tall' you're going to get more individuals that are *too* tall than in an environment that doesn't. But if there's another community in the same environment who aren't likely to produce tall individuals, they're going to be out competed.

I apologize if any of this is coming over as too clinical or academic. I love a wide number of neurodiverse people who see their diversity as a net positive, and I agree with them. I recognize that many people don't feel that way too. But as to the question of how evolution drove us to where we are, I think nature does indeed select for diversity of neurotypes, even if that leads to some members of the community where the difference in how their brain works offers little to that community and is a challenge for that individual and their family.

Me, an ultra progressive identitarian leftist: "survival of the fittest, steal from competing tribes, compete for finite resources, tall man gets highest orange, dominant phenotypes, nature red in tooth and claw."

[JoeBoy101]

Re-adjacent so putting it here:

They're concerned about... the ... SPORE servers?



I mean, I think they have a point on is it really worth it to keep them running for the 15 (maybe) people playing on them.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

pussy, post the link to the subreddit.

[JoeBoy101]

this is something I've always wanted to do but I also need to go to a hospital every eight weeks or my insides will start becoming my outsides.

Diversity makes the tribe and community stronger.

That depends. According to the Plagarize Theory of Community Survival, one of them needs to be autistic. My Money is on the guy NOT walking the Appalachian trail.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

'Tha Veilguard' is an abomination of epic proportions, and no doubt they would do the same shit to Mass Effect.

I haven't played it since I did that politics test that revealed I was more progressive than benji.

I never even made it to the non-binary character. Probably for the best.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

'Tha Veilguard' is an abomination of epic proportions, and no doubt they would do the same shit to Mass Effect.

I haven't played it since I did that politics test that revealed I was more progressive than benji.

I never even made it to the non-binary character. Probably for the best.

malfoy is based and truth pilled

[Uncle]

I cannot stress this enough. This game being a failure after being straight up championed relentless by the American gaming press is wonderful. Defining game, in what way?

you allowed yourselves to be bought by saudis?! there's only one thing you can do

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

the one in the left middle looking cute

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deadline-disneys-risking-a-high-stakes-courtroom-showdown-about-what-really-went-down-over-jimmy-kimmels-much-criticized-suspension.1312099/
Disney:

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deadline-disneys-risking-a-high-stakes-courtroom-showdown-about-what-really-went-down-over-jimmy-kimmels-much-criticized-suspension.1312099/

Uhhh, how does the "executive editor, legal, labor and politics" not know about this?

1This books and records action originates from The Walt Disney Company’s response to Florida House Bill 1557. Disney initially took no public position on the bill,  which  limits  instruction  on  sexual  orientation  or  gender  identity  in  Florida classrooms.  After facing criticism from its employees, Disney reversed course and spoke out against the legislation. Florida’s Governor took issue with Disney’s stance and Florida’s legislature voted to dissolve a special tax district  encompassing  the Walt Disney World Resort.

Afterwards, the plaintiff—a longtime Disney stockholder—was solicited by counsel  to  serve  a  books  and  records  demand.    The  demand  asserts that Disney’s directors and officers may have breached their fiduciary duties to the company and its stockholders by opposing HB 1557.  The plaintiff’s theory of wrongdoing is that Disney’s  fiduciaries  either  put  their  own beliefs ahead  of  their  obligations  to stockholders or flouted the risk of losing rights associated with the special district.

Disney told the plaintiff that he lacked grounds to obtain books and records because its directors and officers had not engaged in mismanagement.  Nevertheless, Disney produced certain board minutes and corporate policies to the plaintiff.  The plaintiff was unsatisfied and filed litigation.

Weighty public policy questions surround the margins of  this  lawsuit.    But when they  are stripped away,  the  case  becomes  quite  simple.    The  court  must
2determine whether the plaintiff has demonstrated a proper purpose to inspect books and records.  He decidedly has not.

Delaware  law  vests  directors  with  significant  discretion  to  guide  corporate strategy—including on social and political issues.  Given the diversity of viewpoints held  by  directors,  management,  stockholders,  and  other  stakeholders,  corporate speech on external matters brings both risks and opportunities.  The board is empowered to weigh these competing considerations and decide whether it is in the corporation’s best interest to act (or not act).

This suit concerns such a business decision by the Disney board—a decision that cannot provide a credible basis to suspect potential mismanagement irrespective of its outcome.    There  is  no indication  that  the  directors  suffered  from disabling conflicts.  Nor is there any evidence that the directors were grossly negligent or acted in bad faith.  Rather, the board held a special meeting to discuss Disney’s approach to the legislation and the employees’ negative response. Disney’s public rebuke of HB 1557 followed.

The plaintiff and his  counsel may  disagree  with  Disney’s  position  on HB1557.  But their disagreement is not evidence of wrongdoing.  Regardless, the plaintiff has all necessary and essential documents relevant to his purpose.  Judgment must be entered for Disney.

Also the stock price is almost all the way back already?

[benji]

Et tu, Fj0823?

edit: Of course, they think Chapek got dumped over the Florida "don't say gay" stuff rather than because he seemed to not know or care how the company was doing: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/disney-succession-mess-iger-chapek.html

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In the first half of 2022, Disney was the worst performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, down nearly 40% as part of the “great Netflix correction.”

In late September, Chapek and McCarthy prepped the board on what to expect for the upcoming November 2022 quarter.

But this time, McCarthy began going off script. Not only did she reference numbers and forecasts the two executives hadn’t discussed, she bluntly told the board the quarter’s financials were on pace to be very bad, according to people familiar with what was said at the meeting.

McCarthy told the board that Disney earnings that quarter would fall dramatically short of Wall Street’s consensus estimate of 55 cents per share. Quarterly revenue would be more than $1 billion lower than projected. The quarter would be the company’s biggest miss relative to Wall Street consensus estimates in a decade, she said.

Chapek was blindsided by McCarthy’s responses. He had no idea the numbers would compare so poorly with Street estimates. McCarthy hadn’t told him she would be sharing such a blunt assessment of the business, according to people familiar with the matter.

“How could this happen?” asked board member Mark Parker, according to people familiar with what was said during the meeting. Directors Safra Catz, Oracle’s CEO, and Derica W. Rice, formerly president of CVS Caremark, peppered Chapek with questions about Disney’s forecasting techniques and how division heads shared finance information. Chapek struggled to answer and declined to blame anyone in the formal board meeting setting.

In an executive session alone with the board, Chapek argued that if anything was amiss, it was McCarthy’s poor financial management. After all, the division CFOs reported to her. McCarthy either wasn’t sharing the numbers with him or hadn’t grasped how bad earnings would be, he said, according to people familiar with the discussions. Chapek shared his frustration over McCarthy’s surprising diversion from the script with several of his colleagues. But he didn’t express it to her directly, other than telling her she’d unnecessarily upset the board, said people familiar with the interactions. 

Besides, Chapek didn’t believe the results were as dire as McCarthy was painting them to be. He pointed out Disney+ was still adding customers at a torrid pace — 12.1 million that quarter. As long as the streaming service was on pace to meet its goal of 215 million to 245 million subscribers by the end of 2024, Chapek believed, the company was in good shape. Disney ended that quarter with 164.2 million Disney+ subscribers.

“Kareem [Daniel] says we’re killing it!” he told several colleagues, according to people familiar with the conversations. In the previous quarter, Disney shares had risen 5% after the company’s revenue and earnings exceeded analyst estimates. By Chapek’s reasoning, even if the fourth quarter was a disappointment, it was still just one quarter.

McCarthy told colleagues she hoped her honesty with the board would jar Chapek into realizing his rosy outlook of the business wasn’t based in reality.

Coming out of the meetings, Schake and Quadrani told Chapek the reaction to the quarter could be devastating. Chapek began referring to Schake, Quadrani and McCarthy as “the mean girls,” a reference to the 2004 Lindsay Lohan movie, because he felt they were ganging up on him. Those who took a gloomy view of Disney’s prospects he referred to as “Eeyores,” a reference to Winnie the Pooh’s perpetually glum donkey friend, according to people familiar with the conversations between Chapek and his staff. 

On the day of the earnings call, executives met at Disney’s West 66th Street office in New York. The finance team advised Chapek to deliver a sober message acknowledging that the streaming division’s net operating losses were more than double that of the same period the previous year — while emphasizing that Disney was playing a long game and would ultimately emerge stronger.

Chapek refused to strike an apologetic note. McCarthy, in particular, was appalled at how cavalier Chapek seemed about the state of the business, according to people familiar with her thoughts at the time. She was particularly annoyed that instead of frankly addressing the results, Chapek waxed on about the promising ticket sales for Disneyland’s “Oogie Boogie Bash” Halloween event.

The day after the numbers were released, Disney’s share price dropped 13%, far underperforming the broader market.

[simiansmarts]

Speaking of

doops about to become doopette

[Orange Juice Box]

What will improve by you celebrating?
I do agree with you guys that a president prosecuting their political enemies is a bad thing. No president should be allowed to do this. Tyrannical governments can't govern and will eventually collapse. If they're going to destroy something, better to tear each other apart than someone actually innocent. Don't forget John Bolton is also part of this. Creating riffs amongst themselves and letting them cannibalize each other. Many tyrannical rulers historically are killed by their own people.

 
And then the last post in the thread is a screenshot from Andor.

Typical, "I am opposed to the death penalty, but in this case. . .,"  I guess we can add, "TV stations shouldn't be forced to carry programming they don't want, but in this case . . ."  When that happens in about 4 weeks when NewsMax starts a broadcast channel that carries conservative sitcoms.  

while japan has every right to make their games any way they like, I think what would annoy me most about new silent hill is the japanization

older games pretended to be set in the US, and now suddenly we're dealing with a japanese town full of japanese trappings, kind of loses the series identity

I like playing a game made by the japanese that tries to be thoroughly american.  The way certain things are amplified while also distorted by their own cultural views creates a world that could be made by David Lynch.  It feels hyper-american.  I'm sure there is a word for this I could ask a co-ed 15 years younger than me.  

[Orange Juice Box]

I'm hoping that blue states quickly start opening up themselves as refuge, and from there can help direct anyone that is there.

Clicky knows you can already just go to a blue state, right?

Are you willing to cover their travel expenses?  Premium economy or a premium sleeper chartered bus if you must.  Lodging while they find that job?  Filtered air.  Maybe AirBnB with private patio and rec area.

It's not like these people have resources afer what they've been through. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I'm hoping that blue states quickly start opening up themselves as refuge, and from there can help direct anyone that is there.

Clicky knows you can already just go to a blue state, right?

Are you willing to cover their travel expenses?  Premium economy or a premium sleeper chartered bus if you must.  Lodging while they find that job?  Filtered air.  Maybe AirBnB with private patio and rec area.

It's not like these people have resources afer what they've been through. 

Britts everyday life.. 

[PogiJones]

I don't got to explain shit to you. Educate y'allself.

Era like response. Go ahead.

Chud. Y'all don't understand, this time the US and Israel really mean it. It's totally not going to backfire like they want it to when Hamas refuses the deal while the US and Arab states who don't care about Palestine in the first place shake their head and wag a finger at Palestinians while the IDF rolls in for another killing spree.

That's not going to happen at all.

I hate it when Gameboy does a good bit, then someone doesn't get it and takes him seriously, and so he has to get so obvious with the sarcasm that it ruins the tone of the bit. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I should make my title "do not take my posts seriously"

or benji can give me a special color. 

[Uncle]

while japan has every right to make their games any way they like, I think what would annoy me most about new silent hill is the japanization

older games pretended to be set in the US, and now suddenly we're dealing with a japanese town full of japanese trappings, kind of loses the series identity

I like playing a game made by the japanese that tries to be thoroughly american.  The way certain things are amplified while also distorted by their own cultural views creates a world that could be made by David Lynch.  It feels hyper-american.  I'm sure there is a word for this I could ask a co-ed 15 years younger than me.  

yes! like deadly premonition

early resident evils had a bit of that sense to them, too

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

the one in the left middle looking cute

I didn't get far, but far enough to find that character annoying.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

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For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m a law enforcement officer with experience investigating both homicides and sex crimes.

When I was a rookie in 2007, there was a clear understanding that crossdressing men in women’s spaces were usually there for sexual reasons, and that if we were called to deal with one, he was to be trespassed from the premises if the owner/manager requested it (meaning criminal charges would be filed if he returned), and any women who were in the bathroom with him would be questioned to make sure they hadn’t been harassed or assaulted. After that, assuming no one had been assaulted and wanted to press charges, he would be released with a verbal warning to stay out of women’s bathrooms.

When I started working sex crimes in 2015, it was still understood that crossdressers did it for sexual reasons, and common knowledge that transvestitic fetishism is often found in men who display other predatory sexual behaviors. (I would also estimate that roughly 50% of the hard drives containing child sexual abuse material that I had to go through in my time there also contained images or video of the hard drive’s (male) owner dressed in women’s or adult-sized toddler/infant  clothing of some kind.)

By the time I made Homicide in 2017, you could hear the first rumblings of the impending eruption of narcissism and delusion, if you were paying close attention. I wasn’t, but you know what they say about hindsight being 20/20.

Between 2016 and 2018, I went to multiple law enforcement seminars and training events related to sexually motivated homicide, and from 2018-2020, I took classes in abnormal psych through a program my department has established with a local university.

At the seminars and training events, if speakers or instructors discussed killers like BTK or Col. Russell Williams (both of whom were crossdressers), they would discuss the rest of the subject’s psychology and case file in depth, but skirt around the issue of their TF with a deliberately casual, deliberately brief comment not designed to invite further questions.

When I tried to ask questions about the relationship between a killer’s TF and their crimes anyway (not out of TERFery; at the time, I knew basically nothing about the tactics or goals of the trans rights movement; I was interested only out of professional curiosity) I was either ignored or given the beginning of an answer that sometimes started out strong, but by the end of the reply had inevitably gone off the rails. No answer I was ever given had any real relationship to my actual questions.

There was a very obvious reluctance to go beyond recounting the bones of this part of these particular cases, and very little discussion of the part TF played in the motive or the psychology of the killers, a reluctance that was especially obvious when discussing crimes with a clear sexual aspect. Certainly no instructor ever tried to draw a link between a suspect’s TF and elements of the crime.

It was frustrating, but I chalked it up to personal feelings on the part of the speakers and instructors, who had clearly been uncomfortable discussing the subject - something I didn’t then understand, and which puzzled me.  The link between TF and sexually inappropriate and/or predatory behavior has never been a secret in law enforcement circles, and it seemed odd for them to be so reluctant to discuss what was basically common knowledge.

In my first abnormal sexual psych class, it was worse.If the subject came up, the professor would say something like “this is what we used to think, but recent studies have proven that TW are no threat to other women and that TF/AGP doesn’t exist/affects natal women also.” (He went back and forth on that one).

There is a deliberate effort being made to erase this knowledge from our collective memory.

Part of this made me think of an Era poster. Can you guess which part and who?

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-video-has-gone-viral-of-a-large-group-of-chicago-ice-agents-chasing-after-a-guy-on-his-delivery-bike-because-he-said-fuck-trump.1311664/post-145816684

"I'm safe from ICE because I'm a foreigner" 

I think he means he's a white Australian IN AUSTRALIA. Peak virtue signalling. And I can say that because i'm a white Australian in Australia.

Calling someone a nazi is the new calling someone racist. Neither term means anything anymore, nor does fascist, other than "someone who found themselves arguing with an idiot"

Get with the times, bro.  JD Vance said calling someone a fascists is how lefties give the order for a commie-fatwa he's going to crack down on those who  “organiz doxing campaigns, [and use] messaging designed to trigger, incite violence"

[Besticus Maximus]

Imgur have blocked the uk and ruined benjiposting

[jooseloose]

Speaking of

Also speaking off, drops tried to get a witch hunt going against a new Swery game that he thought used AI based on no proof other than vibes and completely failed. https://www.resetera.com/threads/suda51-and-swery65s-new-game-hotel-barcelona-caught-using-ai-art-and-voice-acting-for-some-in-universe-movie-trailers.1310986/

Imgur have blocked the uk and ruined benjiposting

VPN 

[Taco Bell Tower]

Speaking of

Also speaking off, drops tried to get a witch hunt going against a new Swery game that he thought used AI based on no proof other than vibes and completely failed. https://www.resetera.com/threads/suda51-and-swery65s-new-game-hotel-barcelona-caught-using-ai-art-and-voice-acting-for-some-in-universe-movie-trailers.1310986/

Locked by B-Dubs

Given there is an allegation and literally no proof, the thread is being locked.