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

[kaleidoscopium]

It's not just "one person," it's the founder and director of the studio. I'm really surprised folks have completely abandoned the "Nazi bar" adage.

Yeah, I'm just gonna be real, if I found out my literal boss was a Nazi (and not just that, but an out and proud Nazi who runs around bragging about BEING a Nazi) I would quit on the spot.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-‘baldur’s-gate-3’-maker-promises-‘divinity’-will-be-‘next-level’-turn-based-rpg-early-access-gen-ai-for-idea-exploring-placeholders.1384537/page-16#post-149158894

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-reaction-to-a-game-getting-lower-than-5-on-a-review-scale-is-telling.1388956/

YapYapYap

Anyway, happy weekend to everyone!

 

 

Spoiler: if you are curious (click to show)(click to hide)

I come across a lot of people who think just because a videogame is functioning and not completely busted, it can't get a lower review score than a 5. Your experience and feelings, be damned. There is an assumption that if a videogame gets below a 5, that it has to be busted. If it's not, people will be in disbelief about the critic and belittle them. Even if the critic argued their dislike well. The text or content of the review won't matter. It's why in part people will balk at EDGE's and Stephanie Sterling's reviews, as they use the full scale.

I think this perception of review scores most highlights the way people see videogames, whether they're seen as tech products or as art.

I obviously disagree with this. I don't believe in objectivity with critique. I find that boring. I'd rather read your 1/D/etc review if it's all about your feelings, experience, and opinions. It gives me far more insight into a person's experience with a piece of art. I can still disagree with the opinion, but it's more interesting than if a critic followed some objective measures or grading system. I get it, videogames have been born out as tech products, gadgets, toys, so that perception will still remain for some people. But if I genuinely want to know functionality, I'll check steam user reviews, or a review's technical sections talking about framerate/bugs/glitches/etc. The focus on the videogame working to some order can be overly magnified. If I really don't like a piece of art, I don't particularly care if it's functional. There are films or games or books I hated, even if they were critically acclaimed or fully functional. I don't care about functionality with other mediums of art. I don't care if a painting still looks like one, a book has all its pages, if a film can be viewed from start to finish, or a music album can have a beginning and ending or a certain amount of tracks.

[HaughtyFrank]

So, I just looked this clip up on social media and the joke starts off with a solid foundation. The idea was basically, "If white people kill someone like Charlie Kirk, then I'm definitely screwed."

Except it didn't end up being about racism, as you might assume. He instead made it about trans people: "And the news said, 'Apparently there were transgender messages on the bullet,' and I said, 'Oh no! I'm dead!'"

Get it? He attacks trans people, so trans people are going to try and kill him. Isn't that hilarious?

Well, trans people or their boyfriends

Does Zeo... does he not know that this is literally what happened? The guy shot Kirk over his trans rhetoric.

This is extra slimy from Resetera because we all know that if Chapelle would get his head blown off they'd all celebrate.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dave-chappelle-the-unstoppable-new-netflix-special-out-now.1388950/page-4

Good thing they keep bumping the thread promoting the new Chappelle special to talk about garlic, otherwise it would have dropped off the front page and been buried.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-i-want-to-send-some-written-work-i%E2%80%99ve-done-to-someone-to-read-securely-without-risk-of-ai-how-do-i-do-that.1389094/

[TylenolJones]

They’d probably enjoy it if they’d actually watch it. 

[kaleidoscopium]

Haha we are so quirky and random xDDDD love garlic hate transphobes!!

[TylenolJones]

Haha we are so quirky and random xDDDD love garlic hate transphobes!!

We have fun here.

Edit:

Considering the thread was made in poor faith and Chappelle's overall notoriety, this thread is now locked.

[Jansen]

Haha we are so quirky and random xDDDD love garlic hate transphobes!!

We have fun here.

Edit:

Considering the thread was made in poor faith and Chappelle's overall notoriety, this thread is now locked.

Phyre
Banned
User Banned (3 Days): Low-effort thread creation, previous action for low-effort 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/edge-419-february-2026-romeo-is-a-dead-man-cover-story-reviews-include-metroid-prime-4-beyond-kirby-air-riders-dispatch-routine-skate-story.1388734/page-11#post-149156569

Wow, that's some horrible scores. Seems like they want to be edgy.



Dispatch a 5? Seriously?

MP4 is at worst a 7 maybe a 6, but surely not a 4.

Air Riders isn't exactly groundbreaking but surely better than a 5.

Not really a fan of the newest cod but a 4 seems rather harsh as well.



Well in the end they are just opinions. Opinions of a dying medium, I wonder how long Edge will keep staying in business as one of the last print mags.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/edge-419-february-2026-romeo-is-a-dead-man-cover-story-reviews-include-metroid-prime-4-beyond-kirby-air-riders-dispatch-routine-skate-story.1388734/page-11#post-149157490

Not a good sign then, if your opinion no longer matches your audience it becomes problematic. Especially with print mags that arrive when others already played the games they score and widely disagree with the scoring.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-reaction-to-a-game-getting-lower-than-5-on-a-review-scale-is-telling.1388956/

YapYapYap

Anyway, happy weekend to everyone!

 

 

Spoiler: if you are curious (click to show)(click to hide)

I come across a lot of people who think just because a videogame is functioning and not completely busted, it can't get a lower review score than a 5. Your experience and feelings, be damned. There is an assumption that if a videogame gets below a 5, that it has to be busted. If it's not, people will be in disbelief about the critic and belittle them. Even if the critic argued their dislike well. The text or content of the review won't matter. It's why in part people will balk at EDGE's and Stephanie Sterling's reviews, as they use the full scale.

I think this perception of review scores most highlights the way people see videogames, whether they're seen as tech products or as art.

I obviously disagree with this. I don't believe in objectivity with critique. I find that boring. I'd rather read your 1/D/etc review if it's all about your feelings, experience, and opinions. It gives me far more insight into a person's experience with a piece of art. I can still disagree with the opinion, but it's more interesting than if a critic followed some objective measures or grading system. I get it, videogames have been born out as tech products, gadgets, toys, so that perception will still remain for some people. But if I genuinely want to know functionality, I'll check steam user reviews, or a review's technical sections talking about framerate/bugs/glitches/etc. The focus on the videogame working to some order can be overly magnified. If I really don't like a piece of art, I don't particularly care if it's functional. There are films or games or books I hated, even if they were critically acclaimed or fully functional. I don't care about functionality with other mediums of art. I don't care if a painting still looks like one, a book has all its pages, if a film can be viewed from start to finish, or a music album can have a beginning and ending or a certain amount of tracks.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-reaction-to-a-game-getting-lower-than-5-on-a-review-scale-is-telling.1388956/page-3#post-149159953

Please don't make reaction threads.

If you have a problem with posters in a thread, REPORT THE POSTS instead of blatantly breaking the site rules yourself

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile ree watches the first episode of Mad Men -

Thanks for the deeper insight, i did hear good things about this show so we both wanted to give it a try. Maybe it is an accurate representation of the time (as previous poster has said), but we didn't really enjoy the gender dynamic, and perhaps that's how it was back then, but it just seemed very over the top with it and not something we considered interesting. Infact it was coming across so strong it felt like a satire. Each to their own tough no one can be pleased with everything. Its a shame though as we were looking forward to watch something again after rewatching recently Better Call Saul and Downton Abbey.

I found the 1st season tough going but the weird moments kept me interested. It's probably best ree abandoned it because he'd probably faint if he saw what happened to Joan. 


https://www.resetera.com/threads/mad-men-is-now-available-to-stream-in-4k-on-hbo-max.1369558/#post-148361890

[Alpacx]

Meanwhile ree watches the first episode of Mad Men -

I found the 1st season tough going but the weird moments kept me interested. It's probably best ree abandoned it because he'd probably faint if he saw what happened to Joan. 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/mad-men-is-now-available-to-stream-in-4k-on-hbo-max.1369558/#post-148361890

Sex work is work, chud.

[simiansmarts]

It strikes me as a girl who just replaced her ex or the guy she is actually chasing with this guy. Had a couple of those they would self open up, drop random names and events as if I knew them. They hope that you can pull them out of it not be judgemental and change the topic.

But it's hard if they’re both stuck in that loop and play hard to get at the same time.

It either ends in a good reflection or conversation and we both learned something or she frustratingly leaves. If you're a real pro you can break that with "Find another therapist thanks for wasting my time bitch" followed by "sshhh it's ok baby just suck my dick behind a dumpster" ghost after and add to her trauma and poor decisions.

[Daffy Duck]

Haha we are so quirky and random xDDDD love garlic hate transphobes!!

We have fun here.

Edit:

Considering the thread was made in poor faith and Chappelle's overall notoriety, this thread is now locked.

Clutch those pearls

[Propagandhim]

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.

[Besticus Maximus]

Nothing is above critique. But that doesn't mean critique can't be lazy, misinformed, hypocritical, or otherwise flawed

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it-baffles-me-how-often-people-just-use-ai-for-anything-and-everything.1386508/page-10#post-149115847

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Trolling, long history of infractions.

You have no clue how art works

[Propagandhim]

It's not the fact that it's a misinformed opinion; the veracity of the opinion doesn't actually matter to the argument here. It's the quality of the assertion he made: "Mexico does not have much of a bread culture." This statement is a clear and deliberate criticism of an entire culture. This could have been true and it would still be fair to label it an attack or criticism.

And who cares where he lives? White supremacy is a thing; whites live all over the world and shit on the non-white cultures surrounding them on the daily.

Gee, who else does this with entire groups of people to the point of inventing global conspiracies to explain deliberate, malicious intent for underdevelopment of another group?

[Besticus Maximus]

Yeah, most of his clients are probably foreigners, because no respectable mexican would buy that shit.

 obvious, five alarm racism?

[HaughtyFrank]

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.

The weird thing with the internet and social media is often proportionality. Like why in the world would this matter enough to make international news? Like at best this story should be limited to Mexico and even then I question what kind of power this British chef has. This isn't colonialism 2.0, the british aren't going to invade and destroy Mexican bread. Nothing is going happen. "British guy doesn't like Mexican bread" well, who gives a shit, fuck him. Of course Nepenthe and co want to extrapolate this into a symbol for global oppression, but in the end it's still just about a guy who shit talked bread.

[HaughtyFrank]

It's not the fact that it's a misinformed opinion; the veracity of the opinion doesn't actually matter to the argument here. It's the quality of the assertion he made: "Mexico does not have much of a bread culture." This statement is a clear and deliberate criticism of an entire culture. This could have been true and it would still be fair to label it an attack or criticism.

And who cares where he lives? White supremacy is a thing; whites live all over the world and shit on the non-white cultures surrounding them on the daily.

Gee, who else does this with entire groups of people to the point of inventing global conspiracies to explain deliberate, malicious underdevelopment?

This statement is a clear and deliberate criticism of an entire culture. This could have been true and it would still be fair to label it an attack or criticism.

Wait... are we not allowed to make criticisms of culture? The US obviously has a food culture problem with very fatty and sugary food but I guess no one outside the US should ever be allowed to even say that?

Edit: this comes from the same person who said that if you're bald and offended by bald jokes you just need to toughen up

[Daffy Duck]

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.

She’s so racist lmao

[Jansen]

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

[malfoyking]

You’d have to be a fucking retard to think that.

[jooseloose]

UH OH JAWMUNCHER

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

[benji]

It's not just "one person," it's the founder and director of the studio. I'm really surprised folks have completely abandoned the "Nazi bar" adage.

Yeah, I'm just gonna be real, if I found out my literal boss was a Nazi (and not just that, but an out and proud Nazi who runs around bragging about BEING a Nazi) I would quit on the spot.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-‘baldur’s-gate-3’-maker-promises-‘divinity’-will-be-‘next-level’-turn-based-rpg-early-access-gen-ai-for-idea-exploring-placeholders.1384537/page-16#post-149158894

American Dental Association
7 yrs 6 mos

AMS/CRM Customer Service Specialist
Full-time
Nov 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Member Service Advisor
Jul 2018 - Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Party Breakdown of PAC Recipients, 2023-2024
 
Republican $582,000 62.71%

House Candidates, 2023-2024
imore info


Republicans $793,475 56.51%

Oof. Good luck with the job search.

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?

This doesn't mean anything.

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?

What about his privilege as a trained head baker who opens restaurants globally?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/e33-director-says-the-award-sweeping-hit-is-very-different-from-traditional-jrpgs-currently-in-france-there-a-movement-to-make-frpgs.1389241/

Oh no slippery slope

[kaleidoscopium]

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

[filler]

hogwarts is what you get when you go raw with girls from mesa arizona