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

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pornhub-to-restrict-access-for-uk-users-from-february-after-the-failure-of-online-safety-act.1417624/#post-150583285

So glad i got a girlfriend now

I don't see how those two relate.  Porn is for everything you wish and never, ever, under no circumstance want your significant other to do because how could you wake up and look them in the eye. It's like a goomah 

Dr. Ben Sobel: What happened with your wife last night?

Boss Paul Vitti: I wasn't with my wife, I was with my girlfriend.

Dr. Ben Sobel: Are you having marriage problems?

Boss Paul Vitti: No.

Dr. Ben Sobel: Then why do you have a girlfriend?

Boss Paul Vitti: What, are you gonna start moralizing on me?

Dr. Ben Sobel: No, I'm not, I'm just trying to understand, why do you have a girlfriend?

Boss Paul Vitti: I do things with her I can't do with my wife.

Dr. Ben Sobel: Why can't you do them with your wife?

Boss Paul Vitti: Hey! That's the mouth she kisses my kids goodnight with! What are you, crazy?

[Taco Bell Tower]

There's been several killings by cops of Black and Brown people with multiple camera angles and multiple witnesses all saying the same thing, especially in the age of body cams. We're just not empathetic victims in a white supremacist world; indeed, our deaths are the natural conclusion of a paradigm in which we still are not considered as little more than objects with which to perpetually mine labor and culture from, objects to throw away when they become useless or frustrating to deal with.

To the poster above that said that "now there's no room for doubt," the reason there was ever doubt about cop killings of Black people to begin with is because America fundamentally doesn't trust Black people, for anything: in interactions with police, in interactions with healthcare professionals, in interactions with the government, in interactions with the bank, in interactions at the traffic light, in interactions with any of y'all at the beach, the park, the store, our own homes and neighborhoods. Nothing.


I'm not saying Renee and Alex deserved to die. The videos are harrowing, especially when you take into account the fact that neither of them truly had any idea that they were in their last moments, that in that moment they truly expendable, a mere opportunity for some small man to finally reaffirm their masculinity and fantasy by experiencing the thrill of dishing out violence, of killing another human being, someone's family member. They were there one moment and then wrenched away by some pig the next. It's despicable.

I'm saying that to sit here and say that whiteness was not the most glaring factor here in the response to the sudden swell of support for ICE's abolishment, why you know Renee and Alex's names compared to every other Black and Browm person ICE has killed- tells me you all truly still do not understand or are even still in active denial of the fact- even with fucking Nazis marching down the streets in broad daylight- that the major political and cultural pillar of this country is white supremacy. They killed some of y'all own, treated them like dogs, and that's intolerable, unfathomable, a bridge too far. Because they were true humans. Full humans. Now something must be done.

Don't play in Black people's faces like that. Or at least, don't play in mine. Again, Nazis marching in the streets and y'all haven't grown, haven't truly figured this shit out yet. Like y'all still think you ever lived in a country of laws, of civility, of hope, that Trump took away from you, and not a fucking white capitalist outpost established across the Atlantic because it makes it easier to hoard wealth and avoid the troubles of barbaric European infighting.

The point of this country's existence was literally always brutal hierarchy under delusional white men, and white individuals who stepped too far out of line in protest of this delusion were always ripe for extermination. But folks didn't care. The benefits selfishly outweighed the inhumanity, like Cowslip's warren. Unparalleled opulence at the expense of Black peoples colonialism. Unrivaled economic and social stability, so long as no one ever said anything about all the bombings and kidnappings and rapes and coups. America was always the Land of the Free, at gunpoint.

 

That is a big ass leap of logic.

Honestly, I think they were probably the kind of people that would have agreed with ERA moaning that it needed two white people getting shoot to make the general population be more mad about ICE… at the same time, I feel that is better for everyone to not going full Nepenthe and lament that dead white people are the center of attention.

So why doesn't he leave the MAGA infested site?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-a-new-preview-for-his-upcoming-game-judas-ken-levine-claims-it-spent-five-years-in-r-d-because-of-its-intricate-choice-and-consequence-systems.1417993/

Further context, courtesy of Jason Schreier:

https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3lifpygjkbk2p

[malfoyking]

 

That is a big ass leap of logic.

Honestly, I think they were probably the kind of people that would have agreed with ERA moaning that it needed two white people getting shoot to make the general population be more mad about ICE… at the same time, I feel that is better for everyone to not going full Nepenthe and lament that dead white people are the center of attention.

I mean, it's boring picking on Nepenthe at this point, but the whole thesis of her message falls apart when you consider that poeple are still saying "well, Renee Good was peeling out with cops standing in front of her car...what did she expect?" or "Alex Pretti was locked and loaded at the protest...you're saying he was there just to take pictures?"

Nepenthe is asserting that Good and Pretti's innocence is automatically presumed because they're white (which wouldn't happen if they had been black), but this is pretty verifiably not true. If anything I think both of them are pretty analogous to many killed-by-cop stories involving black victims: "but why did they...how'd they get there...what's their background...." etc. etc.

Exactly. And I can almost guarantee you that it's the very same people who tried to find excuses for George Floyd's killing who are now trying to find excuses for Good's and Pretti's killing. This is just her typical bullshit yet again.

Mind you, reading her post you'd think this was the first time ever white people were shot by the police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver

This case for example rose to some minor prominence but in the grand scheme of things it didn't cause big protests. There will always be multiple factors as to why the killing of a person will reach international level or why it will only shortly pop up on the news. Reducing it only to race is so lazy, and to some part almost malicious, because she wants people to feel bad over feeling bad for Good or Pretti

I remember Daniel Shaver. Will never forget the video either. The bastard cop gave him different instructions, and he didn't know what to do, and the cop killed him. Daniel Shaver was still lying face down, too. Urgh.

[Boredfrom]

There's been several killings by cops of Black and Brown people with multiple camera angles and multiple witnesses all saying the same thing, especially in the age of body cams. We're just not empathetic victims in a white supremacist world; indeed, our deaths are the natural conclusion of a paradigm in which we still are not considered as little more than objects with which to perpetually mine labor and culture from, objects to throw away when they become useless or frustrating to deal with.

To the poster above that said that "now there's no room for doubt," the reason there was ever doubt about cop killings of Black people to begin with is because America fundamentally doesn't trust Black people, for anything: in interactions with police, in interactions with healthcare professionals, in interactions with the government, in interactions with the bank, in interactions at the traffic light, in interactions with any of y'all at the beach, the park, the store, our own homes and neighborhoods. Nothing.


I'm not saying Renee and Alex deserved to die. The videos are harrowing, especially when you take into account the fact that neither of them truly had any idea that they were in their last moments, that in that moment they truly expendable, a mere opportunity for some small man to finally reaffirm their masculinity and fantasy by experiencing the thrill of dishing out violence, of killing another human being, someone's family member. They were there one moment and then wrenched away by some pig the next. It's despicable.

I'm saying that to sit here and say that whiteness was not the most glaring factor here in the response to the sudden swell of support for ICE's abolishment, why you know Renee and Alex's names compared to every other Black and Browm person ICE has killed- tells me you all truly still do not understand or are even still in active denial of the fact- even with fucking Nazis marching down the streets in broad daylight- that the major political and cultural pillar of this country is white supremacy. They killed some of y'all own, treated them like dogs, and that's intolerable, unfathomable, a bridge too far. Because they were true humans. Full humans. Now something must be done.

Don't play in Black people's faces like that. Or at least, don't play in mine. Again, Nazis marching in the streets and y'all haven't grown, haven't truly figured this shit out yet. Like y'all still think you ever lived in a country of laws, of civility, of hope, that Trump took away from you, and not a fucking white capitalist outpost established across the Atlantic because it makes it easier to hoard wealth and avoid the troubles of barbaric European infighting.

The point of this country's existence was literally always brutal hierarchy under delusional white men, and white individuals who stepped too far out of line in protest of this delusion were always ripe for extermination. But folks didn't care. The benefits selfishly outweighed the inhumanity, like Cowslip's warren. Unparalleled opulence at the expense of Black peoples colonialism. Unrivaled economic and social stability, so long as no one ever said anything about all the bombings and kidnappings and rapes and coups. America was always the Land of the Free, at gunpoint.

 

That is a big ass leap of logic.

Honestly, I think they were probably the kind of people that would have agreed with ERA moaning that it needed two white people getting shoot to make the general population be more mad about ICE… at the same time, I feel that is better for everyone to not going full Nepenthe and lament that dead white people are the center of attention.

I mean, it's boring picking on Nepenthe at this point, but the whole thesis of her message falls apart when you consider that poeple are still saying "well, Renee Good was peeling out with cops standing in front of her car...what did she expect?" or "Alex Pretti was locked and loaded at the protest...you're saying he was there just to take pictures?"

Nepenthe is asserting that Good and Pretti's innocence is automatically presumed because they're white (which wouldn't happen if they had been black), but this is pretty verifiably not true. If anything I think both of them are pretty analogous to many killed-by-cop stories involving black victims: "but why did they...how'd they get there...what's their background...." etc. etc.

eh.
I think is obvious that  people are more willing to concede that there was abuse from the authority because both are white. Thought you may argue it was the combination of that and the perception of perfect victim (a gay mother and a male nurse).

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kelly-marie-tran-says-%E2%80%98trans-rights-are-human-rights%E2%80%99-in-reference-to-harry-potter-after-fellow-actor-benedict-wong-said-he-listened-to-new-audiobook.1417387/



Edit:

Fuck the cast member for listening to that shit, but good on her to recognize the importance of saying that.

Just ultimate virtue signaling

She's really got her finger on the pulse of the nation.

[Uncle]

(a gay mother and a male nurse).

so, two gays

[benji]

It's weird that that thread and the Bluesky thread are attacking Ken Levine so much for not releasing a new game while ignoring that Take Two's two giant NEW studios including the one charged with BioShock as a franchise haven't released a game in their seven years of existence and the leads of both studios have been canned since they opened. Whatever the faults of Levine's methods, a studio that's only 30-40 people isn't blowing out the budgets like those or Hanger 13.

[HaughtyFrank]

They're not even good at rage baiting anymore because there's a hundred times spicier Levine interview from yesterday

https://reason.com/2026/01/25/ayn-rand-the-video-game/

He even talks about the part in Bioshock Infinite RE complains about

This is part of why I wanted to ask you about what you think would happen if the BioShock games were released today, because we now view everything through such a political lens. A game like BioShock Infinite is political art. At the same time, there are people who are viewing these things not as art—just as politics. Is that constraining for video games as an industry?

It seems like you have tried to avoid that, but your last release was in 2014. You have not put something out into the world that we exist in now. How do you see this affecting this kind of art and culture?

There's a moment in Infinite where the revolutionary group, we make clear, has their own moral challenges vs. the oppressor group, which you see in the founders of the city. But the revolution is an extremely bloody and violent revolution, like most revolutions tend to be.

The American Revolution was relatively squeaky clean, but there was still a lot of death and a lot of people cleansed out. You've got the loyalists being chased out of their homes. It was a mess. But most revolutions—I think about the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, they really devolved into a bit of a mess.

There were people who were pretty angry at the fact that I portrayed the revolutionary side as also having their own challenges. And that was interesting because we try to be very fair to everybody and we try to explain why they were so angry and why that might spin out of control. The Russian Revolution, Maoist Revolution—these are all not great examples of immediate peace and harmony.

I got a lot of crap about that, because there was a very particular viewpoint that it was racist or something to assume that that group of the underclass or the marginalized group would not stage a purely noble revolution. I got a bit of that. Probably, if it came out in 2020, it would've been a much bigger conversation, and that might've made some people very nervous.

But to me, that's never a disincentive. If you're not going to be brave about these things, well, you really shouldn't be a writer.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/parents-prepare-your-wallets-mattel-reveals-first-set-of-k-pop-demon-hunters-dolls.1347205/page-3#post-150593083

These are so cursed

Why do they look so white

[Uncle]

   

so, two gays

[filler]

There's been several killings by cops of Black and Brown people with multiple camera angles and multiple witnesses all saying the same thing, especially in the age of body cams. We're just not empathetic victims in a white supremacist world; indeed, our deaths are the natural conclusion of a paradigm in which we still are not considered as little more than objects with which to perpetually mine labor and culture from, objects to throw away when they become useless or frustrating to deal with.

To the poster above that said that "now there's no room for doubt," the reason there was ever doubt about cop killings of Black people to begin with is because America fundamentally doesn't trust Black people, for anything: in interactions with police, in interactions with healthcare professionals, in interactions with the government, in interactions with the bank, in interactions at the traffic light, in interactions with any of y'all at the beach, the park, the store, our own homes and neighborhoods. Nothing.


I'm not saying Renee and Alex deserved to die. The videos are harrowing, especially when you take into account the fact that neither of them truly had any idea that they were in their last moments, that in that moment they truly expendable, a mere opportunity for some small man to finally reaffirm their masculinity and fantasy by experiencing the thrill of dishing out violence, of killing another human being, someone's family member. They were there one moment and then wrenched away by some pig the next. It's despicable.

I'm saying that to sit here and say that whiteness was not the most glaring factor here in the response to the sudden swell of support for ICE's abolishment, why you know Renee and Alex's names compared to every other Black and Browm person ICE has killed- tells me you all truly still do not understand or are even still in active denial of the fact- even with fucking Nazis marching down the streets in broad daylight- that the major political and cultural pillar of this country is white supremacy. They killed some of y'all own, treated them like dogs, and that's intolerable, unfathomable, a bridge too far. Because they were true humans. Full humans. Now something must be done.

Don't play in Black people's faces like that. Or at least, don't play in mine. Again, Nazis marching in the streets and y'all haven't grown, haven't truly figured this shit out yet. Like y'all still think you ever lived in a country of laws, of civility, of hope, that Trump took away from you, and not a fucking white capitalist outpost established across the Atlantic because it makes it easier to hoard wealth and avoid the troubles of barbaric European infighting.

The point of this country's existence was literally always brutal hierarchy under delusional white men, and white individuals who stepped too far out of line in protest of this delusion were always ripe for extermination. But folks didn't care. The benefits selfishly outweighed the inhumanity, like Cowslip's warren. Unparalleled opulence at the expense of Black peoples colonialism. Unrivaled economic and social stability, so long as no one ever said anything about all the bombings and kidnappings and rapes and coups. America was always the Land of the Free, at gunpoint.

 

That is a big ass leap of logic.

Honestly, I think they were probably the kind of people that would have agreed with ERA moaning that it needed two white people getting shoot to make the general population be more mad about ICE… at the same time, I feel that is better for everyone to not going full Nepenthe and lament that dead white people are the center of attention.

So why doesn't he leave the MAGA infested site?

lil pop tart is the last line of defense 

[Besticus Maximus]

You may think that people these days do not have the guts to stay true to their beliefs, but when the rich man built the underwater dystopia and instigated the end of the world I was extremely justified in not voting for Kamala

[Straight Edge]

So is Highguard the latest character shooter slop that is the best thing ever until it dies 3 months later?

[Uncle]

So is Highguard the latest character shooter slop that is the best thing ever until it dies 3 months later?

everyone seems to dislike it, it's a bit astroturf-disliked and is probably better than concord, but it's also anemic with just one game mode and hardly any content

3v3 only and the maps are too big to accommodate that, there's a mining/gathering phase where you probably won't see anyone for a long time

it's base defense only, you escort a big shieldbreaker to the enemy fort and use it to break in and blow up their generators, that's it, that's the whole game

[Straight Edge]

[Taco Bell Tower]

 

That is a big ass leap of logic.

Honestly, I think they were probably the kind of people that would have agreed with ERA moaning that it needed two white people getting shoot to make the general population be more mad about ICE… at the same time, I feel that is better for everyone to not going full Nepenthe and lament that dead white people are the center of attention.

So why doesn't he leave the MAGA infested site?

lil pop tart is the last line of defense 

Shoot, I didn't think of that 

[Propagandhim]

The problem with Highguard is it forces the player to fundamentally serve a white capitalist outpost to mine labor (see: crystal mining to "earn the right" to defend yourself?  oh, i have the right to not die?  thanks King Leopold the 2nd of Belgium.) to engage in barbaric Indo-European infighting. Don't play in my face acting shocked when the shieldbreaker opens the defenses and the base collapses because yall picked characters that don't address the real concerns - defending the imperial core with fortified walls or other defensive character kits like that which Lucio has.  Because we all know you were fine with the brutal hierarchy of mining for the imperial core for weapons until you got your ass clapped for not caring about a good support like me and it stopped benefiting yall asses.

[Uncle]

the problem with highguard is that it has 4 female heroes and only 3 male heroes, so woke

[Propagandhim]

You might say to yourself, "Wait, HighGuard is a free game and there are a million other games I could be playing.  I can just get up and move on to a new game." but no, no matter where you go on earth and what game you play, HighGuard will be there, sneaking, conniving, and influencing game design.   Universalized evil.  The f2p focus-tested slop model will always subvert any other model no matter what and make everything else economically nonviable and unable to thrive.  No matter where.  There's no escape.  Unparalleled opulence of the f2p model at the expense of novel, innovative gameplay.....unless we make a new game system that completely gets rid of the mouse and keyboard to escape it.  Until then, I'm going to play HighGuard for 8 hours a day and talk shit about it.



LAND
BACK

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/highguard-ot-go-outside.1416781/page-9

Why is there so much hate for this game? You'd think the devs were super problamatic or something the way people are dismissing it so quickly

Give it time and they will dig something up.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-assaulted-at-town-hall-sprayed-with-substance.1418128/

Thoughts and prayers

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/highguard-ot-go-outside.1416781/page-9

Why is there so much hate for this game? You'd think the devs were super problamatic or something the way people are dismissing it so quickly

Give it time and they will dig something up.

doops or visawife will crack at it

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-assaulted-at-town-hall-sprayed-with-substance.1418128/

Thoughts and prayers

Ree loathes her too.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tommy-robinson-he-likes-milkshakes.114787/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/burger-king-were-selling-milkshakes-right-wingers-political-violence.117836/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eggs-thrown-at-van-during-stephen-yaxley-lennon-campaign-event.117879/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nigel-farages-brexit-party-rally-in-turmoil-as-protesters-turn-up-holding-milkshakes.118471/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thought-slime-manufactured-milkshake-mass-hysteria.120118/

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-assaulted-at-town-hall-sprayed-with-substance.1418128/

Thoughts and prayers

I don't like her but that's a pretty scary situation

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-assaulted-at-town-hall-sprayed-with-substance.1418128/

Thoughts and prayers

This coincides with my latest order of Jansen Milk...

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pornhub-to-restrict-access-for-uk-users-from-february-after-the-failure-of-online-safety-act.1417624/#post-150583285

Tangentially, I'm wondering what Pornhub's angle is here. 

"We lost 77% of our traffic, so we'd rather give up 100% of it." 

Same with some US states where they are self-blocked. They constantly reiterate this thing about "less responsible" sites, but it's funny that these other sites are complying with age regulations while Pornhub repeatedly chooses to take their ball and go home.

Just what are you hiding, Mr. Pornhub?  

they want to annoy every prospective user until the people riot and the UK understands that their law and its implementation is utter shit

I wish every website would do this

"sorry, we're not putting up your dumb age verification, so instead we're just blocking your country entirely, have fun in your little nanny state with your personal super special internet just for you"

Seriously. I didn't vote for Trump so he could turn off my porn.  I voted for him so he would assassinate Charlie Kirk. Promises made, promises kept.  


https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-24th-2026-ice-officer-murders-a-second-us-citizen-in-minneapolis-graphic-content-warning.1415095/page-70#post-150586291

[I'm saying that to sit here and say that whiteness was not the most glaring factor here in the response to the sudden swell of support for ICE's abolishment, why you know Renee and Alex's names compared to every other Black and Browm person ICE has killed- tells me you all truly still do not understand or are even still in active denial of the fact- even with fucking Nazis marching down the streets in broad daylight- that the major political and cultural pillar of this country is white supremacy. They killed some of y'all own, treated them like dogs, and that's intolerable, unfathomable, a bridge too far. Because they were true humans. Full humans. Now something must be done.

Don't play in Black people's faces like that. Or at least, don't play in mine. Again, Nazis marching in the streets and y'all haven't grown, haven't truly figured this shit out yet. Like y'all still think you ever lived in a country of laws, of civility, of hope, that Trump took away from you, and not a fucking white capitalist outpost established across the Atlantic because it makes it easier to hoard wealth and avoid the troubles of barbaric European infighting.

The point of this country's existence was literally always brutal hierarchy under delusional white men, and white individuals who stepped too far out of line in protest of this delusion were always ripe for extermination. But folks didn't care. The benefits selfishly outweighed the inhumanity, like Cowslip's warren. Unparalleled opulence at the expense of Black peoples colonialism. Unrivaled economic and social stability, so long as no one ever said anything about all the bombings and kidnappings and rapes and coups. America was always the Land of the Free, at gunpoint.

The Y'a'lls are there.  But those em dashes (-) Ya'll seeing this?  Is Nepobaby using grok?  Y'all fired like dogs?  Oh, dear.   
And she says Cowslip's Warren?  A literary reference to Watership Down?  Oh, wait, there are several cartoon adaptations that are furry adjacent. 

I"m not sure why she didn't reference, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, instead.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-a-new-preview-for-his-upcoming-game-judas-ken-levine-claims-it-spent-five-years-in-r-d-because-of-its-intricate-choice-and-consequence-systems.1417993/

https://gameinformer.com/preview/2026/01/27/just-a-holy-fool

Further context, courtesy of Jason Schreier:

https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3lifpygjkbk2p

For a refresher on who Ken Levine is as a human:

Another pathetic doops thread

Bioshock Infinite has some of the most lukewarm and uninteresting political commentary in media. “Both the oppressors and the oppressed are bad in their own way!” is one of THE most well trodden tropes ever. I can’t imagine being this fucking mad unless you’ve never watched a movie/read a book/seen a play/experienced literally any fiction before.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-a-new-preview-for-his-upcoming-game-judas-ken-levine-claims-it-spent-five-years-in-r-d-because-of-its-intricate-choice-and-consequence-systems.1417993/

https://gameinformer.com/preview/2026/01/27/just-a-holy-fool

Further context, courtesy of Jason Schreier:

https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3lifpygjkbk2p

For a refresher on who Ken Levine is as a human:

Another pathetic doops thread

Bioshock Infinite has some of the most lukewarm and uninteresting political commentary in media. “Both the oppressors and the oppressed are bad in their own way!” is one of THE most well trodden tropes ever. I can’t imagine being this fucking mad unless you’ve never watched a movie/read a book/seen a play/experienced literally any fiction before.

I'm still not entirely sure if they're mad that the game has the revolutionaries commit child murder or if they're mad that murdering the child is portrayed as an evil deed.

Post October 7 I lean towards the latter