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[team filler]

wizard game>>>>>>>>>>>>>trans right! 

 

[Nintex]

Street racing in a nissan versa 

[Daffy Duck]

Imagine posting a thread about a guy who killed someone whilst drag racing on a public road and talking about how it damages their “draft stock”

Jesus fucking christ

[BIONIC]

Sports ball > Human life 

[Greatness Gone]

WHEN ARE NEOXON'S PARENTS GOING TO FORCE HIM TO GET A FUCKING JOB?! Every and I mean EVERY fast food place is hiring in America.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi-has-a-medieval-approach-to-diversity.692200/

It’s good to see the developers being held accountable for the lack of diversity, & I highly recommend that you read the rest of the article. Ash did a fantastic job writing it. As for my thoughts, this pretty much solidified the death of my hype for FFXVI. As I’ve mentioned previously, it takes a lot to make Smash Ultimate & Genshin Impact look diverse. And FFXVI somehow managed to do it. It’s not exactly something to be proud of.

(Anime Game of Thrones Final Fantasy 16 looks based as hell btw can't wait to play it)

[HaughtyFrank]

Source: The Verge

 

[Jansen]

https://www.reddit.com/r/UneasyAlliance/comments/113zmyq/comment/j947oz8/
ZeoVagina having a meltdown

Yeah, that never actually happened to you. Cute story though.
Though I kind of hope it is. The idea that you -- someone who is clearly not brave enough to defend Hogwarts Legacy over there as you are both here and on the MinnMax Reddit -- are having conversations about me is actually hilarious.
Trust me, I'm okay with someone who obsessively defends Hogwarts Legacy on Reddit not liking me.

“Not brave enough”? The game is banned from being discussed over there  but we see with how nobody is backing you up that this is how you do outside the Era bubble.
Now quick. Back to Era for you. Someone else just said mean things about the new Ant-Man! Loser

Why isn't Atomic Heart banned for sending money to Russia? Why isn't any Activision game banned for sending money to rapists? Why isn't any Ubisoft game banned for sending money to rapists? Why wasn't FIFA World Cup discussion banned when promoting it sent money to anti LGBT extremists?
Face the facts here kiddo, the mods went for a low hanging fruit to virtue signal. The fact they won't ban anything else and are instead banning people for asking Atomic Heart to now be banned should tell you how the Hogwarts ban is going.

Zeo is a little coward. Literally does nothing but whine to his dipstick mod friends everytime anyone is mean to him or his precious mcu.
Literally days ago, era users tired of his schtick called him out and then he whined to the mods to get them banned. And we know era mods are just the worst.

 

Zeo deleted his posts

[Taco Bell Tower]

WHEN ARE NEOXON'S PARENTS GOING TO FORCE HIM TO GET A FUCKING JOB?! Every and I mean EVERY fast food place is hiring in America.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi-has-a-medieval-approach-to-diversity.692200/

It’s good to see the developers being held accountable for the lack of diversity, & I highly recommend that you read the rest of the article. Ash did a fantastic job writing it. As for my thoughts, this pretty much solidified the death of my hype for FFXVI. As I’ve mentioned previously, it takes a lot to make Smash Ultimate & Genshin Impact look diverse. And FFXVI somehow managed to do it. It’s not exactly something to be proud of.

(Anime Game of Thrones Final Fantasy 16 looks based as hell btw can't wait to play it)

His hype suddenly died cuz lack of diversity?  Did they not play FF7 or FF12?

[HaughtyFrank]

WHEN ARE NEOXON'S PARENTS GOING TO FORCE HIM TO GET A FUCKING JOB?! Every and I mean EVERY fast food place is hiring in America.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi-has-a-medieval-approach-to-diversity.692200/

It’s good to see the developers being held accountable for the lack of diversity, & I highly recommend that you read the rest of the article. Ash did a fantastic job writing it. As for my thoughts, this pretty much solidified the death of my hype for FFXVI. As I’ve mentioned previously, it takes a lot to make Smash Ultimate & Genshin Impact look diverse. And FFXVI somehow managed to do it. It’s not exactly something to be proud of.

(Anime Game of Thrones Final Fantasy 16 looks based as hell btw can't wait to play it)

At this point I just don't really know anymore. Does it really matter so much if the next Final Fantasy game is diverse? Add to this that the studio is all Japanese. I guess if the cast was all Asian it would have been okay again?

Edit: oh, and when Hogwarts Legacy made a diverse 18th century Scotland, Polygon thought that the diversity felt too artifical

[Pissy F Benny]

Remember when ree couldnt decide whether Barrett was whitewashed in FF7 Remake (based off one bad screen shot) or was a racist sterotype

[Averon]

If the main thing that comes out of this HL debacle is more hostility towards trans people, then that's sad, but not surprising given how they acted. Yelling and screaming in people's faces for playing a video game as your introduction into the wider public was ill-advised to say the least. Their hyperbolic "we're being genocided!!!" because strangers play a video game with naturally cause people to not take you seriously. Now, to cope, they are doing /pol/-like mental gymnastics that it was really the transphobes who harassed people.

Almost every wrong move the trans community could make in reaction to HL, they made.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/42-british-students-stranded-in-us-after-hotel-destroys-passports.691810/page-2#post-101998303

Is this satire or do you really think not being able to use a sexist insult is a form of discrimination?

 

there are multiple foreign language phrases and songs that english speakers link to and giggle because of what it sounds like they're saying

for example this one

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/us/usc-chinese-professor-racism-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

so yes, saying "you cannot use this word that means something bad in my language but not your own" is probably a form of discrimination

[HardcoreRetro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/42-british-students-stranded-in-us-after-hotel-destroys-passports.691810/page-2#post-101998303

Is this satire or do you really think not being able to use a sexist insult is a form of discrimination?

 

there are multiple foreign language phrases and songs that english speakers link to and giggle because of what it sounds like they're saying

for example this one

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/us/usc-chinese-professor-racism-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

so yes, saying "you cannot use this word that means something bad in my language but not your own" is probably a form of discrimination

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-driven-drunk.692206/

 

[Pissy F Benny]

Sports ball > Human life 

SOYONIC

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/box-office-ant-man-quantumania-posts-the-worst-second-weekend-drop-of-the-mcu.690955/page-12#post-101986342

While that was the biggest second weekend drop to date for an MCU film, it's not significantly higher than most Phase 4 films were:

As you can see, Phase 4 films generally had a greater problem than prior phases with audience retention in their second weekend. Of the eleven MCU films to have drops over 60% in their second weekend, seven have been part of the Multiverse Saga, and of those seven all of them comprise the seven largest drops in the series. Why this is isn't clear. It's not that audiences are souring on the MCU, considering that No Way Home was a massive success, Multiverse of Madness and Wakanda Forever did very well, and Love & Thunder did about on par with Ragnarok. Shang-Chi was the only Phase 4 film to have a second weekend drop of under 60%, though that could have been a result of its relatively soft opening weekend (lower than Black Widow, even, and not much higher than Eternals) followed by somewhat better legs.

Now, while there is a correlation between second weekend drops and overall legs, it's not a strict one-to-one relationship. For example, the below graphs ranks MCU films up to Wakanda Forever in terms of both how big their second weekend drop was (top) and how that looks in chronological order (bottom):

As you can see, there is a general trend towards the first week being a higher percentage of a film's lifetime gross, but not one strong enough to make very accurate predictions of a film's lifetime gross. The impact of the second weekend drop is even less significant when it comes to how much a film's lifetime gross happens in the first four weeks, showing that the second weekend drop isn't always indicative of the rate of decline in subsequent weeks. While there's an obvious trend over time towards larger second weekend drops in the MCU, it's a far less pronounced trend for first week grosses as a share of lifetime grosses, and an almost non-existent one for the first four weeks' share. No Way Home and Wakanda Forever rank, respectively #3 and #5 for largest second weekend drops, but rank #10 and #14 for how much of their lifetime share was in their first week. Their legs were far better that you'd expect looking solely at their second weekend drop. Just because a film has a big drop in its second weekend doesn't necessarily mean it'll continue to have very large drops every week after that.

When we're only ten days into a film's release, the lifetime gross is going to have a very broad range of possible figures. Based on other recent MCU films' long-term performances, we can probably guess that Quantumania will gross somewhere in the $230-260 range domestically, and it'll be between 2.1 to 2.3 times that for its worldwide gross based on its current domestic/international split.

Also, I hope we don't become too fixated on legs as the defining measure of success. I remember back in December 2017 when The Last Jedi's 67.5% second-weekend drop (which was in large part because that Sunday was Christmas Eve, historically a bad day for theater attendance, relatively speaking) was held up as evidence of the movie's supposed failure. Even when it went on to gross over $620M domestic and over $1.3B worldwide, naysayers were constantly trying to point to it being more front-loaded (and that it dropped a good bit from The Force Awakens) in order to downplay its success, despite the fact that sequels tend to be more front-loaded than their predecessors (we saw this happen with the OT and PT as well). I remember on another forum a few years back where one user was arguing that the 2017 Jumanji film having better legs than TLJ was being used to argue that that metric alone made Jumanji more successful despite the significantly lower lifetime gross, and that it made TLJ a "disappointment" despite how much money it made.

In any case, as I said in another thread, I honestly don't know what people expected out of Quantumania's box office returns. It's an Ant-Man movie, and of all the MCU sub-series, it has consistently performed the worst. It'll do about as well as one would expect from an Ant-Man movie. If it ends up not making a profit, that's on Disney for giving it the same budget as every other post-Endgame MCU film. Ant-Man simply is not a major box office draw. Maybe they felt it was necessary for the story they're trying to tell, but there was no way an Ant-Man 3 was ever going to do as well as films led by more popular characters.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/box-office-ant-man-quantumania-posts-the-worst-second-weekend-drop-of-the-mcu.690955/page-12#post-102033121

While Christmas Eve was during NWH's second weekend, so was Christmas Day, which is usually a good day for cinemas, so they arguably cancel each other out. Also, Dec. 26 usually has a good holdover from Christmas Day, which helps as well. Had that not been a holiday weekend, things could have gone far worse. Both NWH and TLJ had identical -67.5% drops in their second weekend, yet I noticed that the same people who raked TLJ over the coals for that drop were silent regarding NWH, despite TLJ not even having Christmas Day in its second weekend.

Seeing the Monday gross for Quantumania, the top end of that range I offered does seem unlikely now. Still, it is already well on its way towards passing the first film domestically, and is still over $32M ahead of where the second one was ten days in. That lead will shrink over time, but it could still pass the second film lifetime. It should gross around $39-40M this week, so it will be sitting at around $174-175M by the end of Week 2, meaning it'll only need to gross another $42-43M to match Ant-Man & The Wasp. That's definitely doable. Black Widow was the most front-loaded film in the series in terms of first week as a share of lifetime gross (57.6%). If Quantumania about matches that, it could still pass $230M. Even if it's more like 60% for the first week (because of President's Day). We're still looking at $225M. Once you add in overseas returns, the film should at least break even (assuming WW needs to be $500M).

In any case, after three consecutive Ant-Man films having worse showings than other MCU films, this should clearly demonstrate that the character simply isn't a box office draw and cannot carry a film to major success by himself. He has the worst average of any MCU sub-series. In wrestling terms, he's a mid-carder at best. You wouldn't have a major PPV where the main event was between, say, Billy Kidman and X-Pac. It's going to be the guys who put butts in seats as the main event, like The Rock, Triple H, or Cena. Ant-Man would be better suited for a Disney+ show if they want him to still have standalone adventures.

I posted similar graphs before that post and gave more context for it. Just as Alexandros said, looking at the second weekend drop in isolation is not a good indicator of overall success, and that we've already had several successful films since theaters rebounded with the release of No Way Home. While the first three Phase 4 films were kneecapped by COVID, No Way Home bested every film in the series domestically except Endgame (Infinity War edged it out WW, but even then it's still #3 in the series), Multiverse of Madness and Wakanda Forever did very well, and even Love & Thunder did about on par with Ragnarok.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/box-office-ant-man-quantumania-posts-the-worst-second-weekend-drop-of-the-mcu.690955/page-12#post-102043387

Oh, I know. It was actually a "conversation" (if you can call it that) back during TLJ's run on another forum where some people were going on about its second weekend drop.

I just think Disney may end up needing to reevaluate whether or not some characters should be in a feature film.

We know Dr. Strange is still a draw, with MoM doing even better than the first one.

Wakanda Forever showed that even without T'Challa, both the supporting characters and Black Panther as a superhero mantle are all still popular.

Thor is still a mid-level draw.

As I mentioned before, Ant-Man demonstrated three times already that he's just not as popular as the other Avengers. Sure, the hardcore fans will watch (I certainly enjoyed Quantumania), but he's a harder sell for general audiences.

Shang-Chi and Eternals didn't get proper tests because of COVID, though the former did have decent legs and was the highest-grossing film between the start of the pandemic and when No Way Home caused theaters to almost-but-not-quite-fully rebound. One wonders how the first three Phase 4 films would've done had COVID never existed.

The GotG had two successful films, so Vol. 3 should do well for itself (probably $350-400M domestic).

Falcon & The Winter Soldier seemed to do well, showing that a new Captain America could still work, so New World Order should do well.

Thunderbolts is going to be interesting, with all those secondary heroes teaming up like a B-team Avengers. That's a toss-up on whether they can collectively carry a movie in the absence of a bigger name.

Captain Marvel did well, but the Ms. Marvel show didn't have quite the viewership of some other Disney+ MCU shows, and there's no buildup to Endgame. Should still do well, though. I doubt we'll see some massive drop-off from the first.

Blade is another toss-up. The old Wesley Snipes films did decent for R-rated action-horror films, but it's hard to say if Blade can pull in the kind of money other MCU films do.

Overall, I think that once Phase 5 concludes, it's a safe bet that Quantumania will likely be its lowest-grossing film. Thunderbolts and Blade are the only other ones that I think could potentially fail to gross over $250M domestic. It'll probably depend on word of mouth. If they do well under the average for an MCU film, then Disney definitely has a situtation on their hands. It would demonstrate that only certain characters are capable of being big draws, and that not every MCU film without "Ant-Man" in title is going to be a success. We could see fewer movies and more series as a result as fewer characters get the big-budget feature film bucks thrown at them.


Of course, during the Infinity Saga the debuts of the original MCU Avengers was inconsistent as well. The first two Iron Man films did well, but Hulk, Thor, and Captain America had rather lackluster showings in Phase 1 by comparison. Hulk, Thor, and Cap only had a combined domestic gross of $492.5M, so despite making up half the films of Phase 1, they made up only 28% of the total gross of the phase, and far less than the $631M combined Iron Man 1 & 2 made. So, while Iron Man was hot with audiences, the rest of the Avengers couldn't manage that level of popularity at first, at least not in their standalone films.

In Phase 2, Thor & Captain America saw improvements over their originals, but The Dark World and The Winter Soldier still fell well short of Iron Man 3 (which did even better than the first two) and even Guardians Vol. 1 (which did about on par with the first two Iron Man films). So, while Cap & Thor were getting more traction, the Guardians were hot right out of the gate. Ant-Man meanwhile had the worst performance of any MCU film since the first Captain America, and the worst overall of any film in Phases 2 & 3 combined.

By Phase 3, Cap and Thor had gotten much more popular (though Cap didn't exactly carry Civil War by himself). Ant-Man didn't get much more popular despite the second film directly following Infinity War. Dr. Strange meanwhile did only okay as an unproven and unfamiliar character. But other debuting characters like Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Spider-Man did very well (though Spidey is always a draw). So even though Phase 3 was overall much more successful on average, it was still uneven in popularity at points.

TL;DR: Maybe the Multiverse Saga is having similar growing pains as the Infinity Saga did. It's a massive change to the status quo with a bunch of new heroes taking the helm. Popular established characters are still doing well, the one established character that didn't do well wasn't popular before, and it may take time for audiences to warm up to the newbies. Even then, some newer characters may struggle to find widespread appeal.

 

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-final-fantasy-xvi-has-a-medieval-approach-to-diversity.692200/page-3#post-102043501

They're never going to admit that they just didn't consider the inclusion of PoCs from the outset because they wanted the game's aesthetic to resemble GoT and Tolkien which are, you know, fantasies written by white men. But they wouldn't be in this position if they didn't give the bullshit answer of "we're basing it on real Medieval Europe!"

what difference does the reasoning make as to why they made the cast all white? you would have bitched about diversity either way.
I think it's obvious they wanted a GoT/Witcher vibe since that's the kind of fantasy that's popular in 2023, they don't need to say it.

[Joe Molotov]

Don’t worry, it’s still on par with the beloved MCU Phase 4.

[cosmicblizzard]

The issues with HL and vtubers have been going on since before the game came out, and basically every part of it has made the online trans community look AWFUL.

A timeline of the big stuff:

.Pikamee talks about her excitement with the game pre-release, gets harrassed into not playing it and goes radio silent for 3 weeks.
.Silvervale plays Hogwarts Legacy, cries on stream after being harassed in chat and through DMs and takes a break
.The harassment gets covered by big streamers including Xqc and Asmongold, the latter of which gives her his full support and has triggered some good growth for her
.Many Japanese vtubers stream the game and many try to harrass them over it, but they can't speak English, so it doesn't work. The ones that do understand English just block everyone attacking them.
.People get skeptical of Silvervale's claims of harassment.  Ironmouse, arguably the most respected vtuber in the English-speaking sphere, supports her and talks about her being afraid to go to sleep and how awful she feels about the whole thing.
.Silvervale returns to play more Hogwarts Legacy to massive support and calls out the terminally online "freaks" harrassing her. The people attacking her obviously aren't a fan of this, which makes said attacks more potent.
.A small vtuber announces that their cousin (who is also a vtuber) committed suicide over HL, intensifying attacks on Silver where I saw some truly heinous stuff being said.
.It turns out the small vtuber LIED about their cousin committing suicide, and said cousin does not exist and was their alt account they used to beg for money.  The people attacking Silvervale did not apologize and tried to deflect, with the only thing they lamented being their lack of research of a claim that had very obvious red flags right from the beginning.
.Pikamee returns to the announcement of her retirement. Some are arguing it was finalized before the HL controversy, but even if that's true, it still caused her to not stream for nearly a month, and graduating vtubers want to spend as much time as they can streaming/with their fans when they know the end is near.

Some trans vtubers absolutely are getting harrassed, but as far as wider discourse goes, this is going to be the stuff people focus on.  And no one is going to develop a hint of self-awareness to see that a lot of this is their own fault while people that have nothing to do with the shitshow will continue to suffer.

[Kurt Russell]

Zeo deleted his posts

Update: He deleted his entire fucking account.

[Greatness Gone]

The issues with HL and vtubers have been going on since before the game came out, and basically every part of it has made the online trans community look AWFUL.

A timeline of the big stuff:

.Pikamee talks about her excitement with the game pre-release, gets harrassed into not playing it and goes radio silent for 3 weeks.
.Silvervale plays Hogwarts Legacy, cries on stream after being harassed in chat and through DMs and takes a break
.The harassment gets covered by big streamers including Xqc and Asmongold, the latter of which gives her his full support and has triggered some good growth for her
.Many Japanese vtubers stream the game and many try to harrass them over it, but they can't speak English, so it doesn't work. The ones that do understand English just block everyone attacking them.
.People get skeptical of Silvervale's claims of harassment.  Ironmouse, arguably the most respected vtuber in the English-speaking sphere, supports her and talks about her being afraid to go to sleep and how awful she feels about the whole thing.
.Silvervale returns to play more Hogwarts Legacy to massive support and calls out the terminally online "freaks" harrassing her. The people attacking her obviously aren't a fan of this, which makes said attacks more potent.
.A small vtuber announces that their cousin (who is also a vtuber) committed suicide over HL, intensifying attacks on Silver where I saw some truly heinous stuff being said.
.It turns out the small vtuber LIED about their cousin committing suicide, and said cousin does not exist and was their alt account they used to beg for money.  The people attacking Silvervale did not apologize and tried to deflect, with the only thing they lamented being their lack of research of a claim that had very obvious red flags right from the beginning.
.Pikamee returns to the announcement of her retirement. Some are arguing it was finalized before the HL controversy, but even if that's true, it still caused her to not stream for nearly a month, and graduating vtubers want to spend as much time as they can streaming/with their fans when they know the end is near.

Some trans vtubers absolutely are getting harrassed, but as far as wider discourse goes, this is going to be the stuff people focus on.  And no one is going to develop a hint of self-awareness to see that a lot of this is their own fault while people that have nothing to do with the shitshow will continue to suffer.

all of this makes me think v-tubers are just as mentally ill as the trans twitter brigade. it's hard to feel sorry for a group that is this distinguished mentally-challenged. 99% of v-tuber chat mindlessly fellates the v-tuber they're watching anyway, not sure why it matters what they play.

[Uncle]

Zeo deleted his posts

Update: He deleted his entire fucking account.

seems still there

https://www.reddit.com/user/zeovgm

[team filler]

People being incapable of realizing that they were the baddies is interesting to watch

https://twitter.com/kreitzen_2/status/1626146860988796929

https://twitter.com/LavenderGhast/status/1630929751752712193

This whole Hogwarts Legacy situation exposed these terminally online activists so hard

as a high ranking official within the terminally online community. we do not accept them   



mods, we need jk rowling emoticon desperatley. she earned it tbh


 


ROWLING DA GAWD IS UNDEFEATED 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/DailyBlackChars/status/1631025442520956929

And to think he had the gall to say this on Black History Month (I assume that's when the interview happened).

 

[BIONIC]

Sports ball > Human life 

SOYONIC

How’s your Funko collection these days?

[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/DailyBlackChars/status/1631025442520956929

And to think he had the gall to say this on Black History Month (I assume that's when the interview happened).

 

https://twitter.com/SullyMcguire/status/1631026609594552324

He/Him #BlackLivesMatter , #TransRights 🏳️‍⚧️ Proud LGBT 🏳️‍🌈 & Furry Writer. Turrican, Terranigma & ESO ❤️

upholding the firm principled stance of all terminally online everywhere

[Taco Bell Tower]

Zeo deleted his posts

Update: He deleted his entire fucking account.

Yeah, still there unless he blocked ya.  I know I have Ree people block me after I pointed out their hypocrisy in FFXIV subreddit lol

[D3RANG3D]

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://twitter.com/DailyBlackChars/status/1631025442520956929

And to think he had the gall to say this on Black History Month (I assume that's when the interview happened).

 

SF World Tour as rpg

[cosmicblizzard]

The issues with HL and vtubers have been going on since before the game came out, and basically every part of it has made the online trans community look AWFUL.

A timeline of the big stuff:

.Pikamee talks about her excitement with the game pre-release, gets harrassed into not playing it and goes radio silent for 3 weeks.
.Silvervale plays Hogwarts Legacy, cries on stream after being harassed in chat and through DMs and takes a break
.The harassment gets covered by big streamers including Xqc and Asmongold, the latter of which gives her his full support and has triggered some good growth for her
.Many Japanese vtubers stream the game and many try to harrass them over it, but they can't speak English, so it doesn't work. The ones that do understand English just block everyone attacking them.
.People get skeptical of Silvervale's claims of harassment.  Ironmouse, arguably the most respected vtuber in the English-speaking sphere, supports her and talks about her being afraid to go to sleep and how awful she feels about the whole thing.
.Silvervale returns to play more Hogwarts Legacy to massive support and calls out the terminally online "freaks" harrassing her. The people attacking her obviously aren't a fan of this, which makes said attacks more potent.
.A small vtuber announces that their cousin (who is also a vtuber) committed suicide over HL, intensifying attacks on Silver where I saw some truly heinous stuff being said.
.It turns out the small vtuber LIED about their cousin committing suicide, and said cousin does not exist and was their alt account they used to beg for money.  The people attacking Silvervale did not apologize and tried to deflect, with the only thing they lamented being their lack of research of a claim that had very obvious red flags right from the beginning.
.Pikamee returns to the announcement of her retirement. Some are arguing it was finalized before the HL controversy, but even if that's true, it still caused her to not stream for nearly a month, and graduating vtubers want to spend as much time as they can streaming/with their fans when they know the end is near.

Some trans vtubers absolutely are getting harrassed, but as far as wider discourse goes, this is going to be the stuff people focus on.  And no one is going to develop a hint of self-awareness to see that a lot of this is their own fault while people that have nothing to do with the shitshow will continue to suffer.

all of this makes me think v-tubers are just as mentally ill as the trans twitter brigade. it's hard to feel sorry for a group that is this distinguished mentally-challenged. 99% of v-tuber chat mindlessly fellates the v-tuber they're watching anyway, not sure why it matters what they play.

There's a ton of issues with the vtuber community in how the fanbases have evolved, and I'm not going to pretend someone choosing to stream as a funny anime person on the internet is more likely than not to be a stable person (you can say the same about streamers in general tbf). That said, they're still popular, and this is an extension of the whole "content creators vs people mad about Hogwarts Legacy" that probably will have lasting effects on the conversation, and the ones on the side of the HL boycott certainly aren't winning.

[BIONIC]

(Image removed from quote.)

Mommy JK can genocide me any day

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://twitter.com/Neoxon619/status/1631026374591885315
 

[BIONIC]

Why is this dork so obsessed with Sakurai?

[team filler]

(Image removed from quote.)

the genocidal maniac of our dreams 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-driven-drunk.692206/page-2#post-102046795

Nope. I accidentally took a sip from one of my friends drinks thinking it was water and still called a cab. Didn't want to risk it. I picked up my car the next day.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-driven-drunk.692206/page-2#post-102046843
MIMIC

Just FYI, you can be prosecuted for drunk driving (at least in Florida) by merely being in the front seat of a car while intoxicated, even if the car is off. I’m a prosecutor and even I didn’t know this lol.

[nobody of note]

https://twitter.com/Neoxon619/status/1631026374591885315
 

I honestly wasn't expecting FFXVI to finally disrupt the mindless and slavish fanboy devotion to YoshiP but, you know, I'll take it.

[Greatness Gone]

https://twitter.com/Neoxon619/status/1631026374591885315
 

there is no other explanation outside of autism at this point. he even screams into the void like zeovgm by posting things on twitter that get literally ZERO traction.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tesla-car-crash-in-china-cause-2-death-and-multiple-injuries.653874/post-102030670

Report comes out that it was driver era,

era goes full

[team filler]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-driven-drunk.692206/page-2#post-102046795

Nope. I accidentally took a sip from one of my friends drinks thinking it was water and still called a cab. Didn't want to risk it. I picked up my car the next day.

they learned from their boy shosti's bad example 

[nobody of note]

Normal post in a normal thread in a normal forum:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/proposed-florida-bill-would-eliminate-florida-democrat-party.692020/page-2#post-102046627

Just wait until some Florida legislator proposes a bill that would allow citizens to a private right of action if they accuse someone of being a democrat, because democrats favor slavery and killing babies.   The Supreme Court won’t weigh in on bounty laws so this will more than likely be the natural progression of things.

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-the-olsen-twins-are-fraternal-and-not-identical-twins.692203/

As someone who has a fraternal twin who is the opposite sex as me, I can't tell you how many times I get asked if we're identical twins. Like do you know what the word identical means?

Maybe they think one of you is trans?

 

[Greatness Gone]

the person who believes they have multiple people living inside their head has weighed in on the Yoshida discourse. I wonder which of her/his personalities posted this?

https://twitter.com/AndroidSophia/status/1631028118998720518

[Joe Molotov]

Should have just asked an Era mod to test their blood-alcohol content online first to see if they were still cool to drive.

[Greatness Gone]

android sophia's alternate personality getting tired of being attached to android sophia

https://twitter.com/AndroidLiz/status/1627757198456619008

might be the biggest fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow on resetera

[CHOW CHOW]

Prime Joanne

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-the-olsen-twins-are-fraternal-and-not-identical-twins.692203/

As someone who has a fraternal twin who is the opposite sex as me, I can't tell you how many times I get asked if we're identical twins. Like do you know what the word identical means?

Maybe they think one of you is trans?

 

This is absolute fucking gold, I fucking burst out laughing, I expect that user to get banned

[Jansen]

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Prime Joanne

[Pissy F Benny]

Sports ball > Human life 

SOYONIC

How’s your Funko collection these days?

In the bin

[Polident Hive]

Never not weird demanding media from other countries and cultures to conform to American centric standards.

[team filler]

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:joanne

[Boredfrom]

The issues with HL and vtubers have been going on since before the game came out, and basically every part of it has made the online trans community look AWFUL.

A timeline of the big stuff:

.Pikamee talks about her excitement with the game pre-release, gets harrassed into not playing it and goes radio silent for 3 weeks.
.Silvervale plays Hogwarts Legacy, cries on stream after being harassed in chat and through DMs and takes a break
.The harassment gets covered by big streamers including Xqc and Asmongold, the latter of which gives her his full support and has triggered some good growth for her
.Many Japanese vtubers stream the game and many try to harrass them over it, but they can't speak English, so it doesn't work. The ones that do understand English just block everyone attacking them.
.People get skeptical of Silvervale's claims of harassment.  Ironmouse, arguably the most respected vtuber in the English-speaking sphere, supports her and talks about her being afraid to go to sleep and how awful she feels about the whole thing.
.Silvervale returns to play more Hogwarts Legacy to massive support and calls out the terminally online "freaks" harrassing her. The people attacking her obviously aren't a fan of this, which makes said attacks more potent.
.A small vtuber announces that their cousin (who is also a vtuber) committed suicide over HL, intensifying attacks on Silver where I saw some truly heinous stuff being said.
.It turns out the small vtuber LIED about their cousin committing suicide, and said cousin does not exist and was their alt account they used to beg for money.  The people attacking Silvervale did not apologize and tried to deflect, with the only thing they lamented being their lack of research of a claim that had very obvious red flags right from the beginning.
.Pikamee returns to the announcement of her retirement. Some are arguing it was finalized before the HL controversy, but even if that's true, it still caused her to not stream for nearly a month, and graduating vtubers want to spend as much time as they can streaming/with their fans when they know the end is near.

Some trans vtubers absolutely are getting harrassed, but as far as wider discourse goes, this is going to be the stuff people focus on.  And no one is going to develop a hint of self-awareness to see that a lot of this is their own fault while people that have nothing to do with the shitshow will continue to suffer.

all of this makes me think v-tubers are just as mentally ill as the trans twitter brigade. it's hard to feel sorry for a group that is this distinguished mentally-challenged. 99% of v-tuber chat mindlessly fellates the v-tuber they're watching anyway, not sure why it matters what they play.

Hello, lolcow.farms. Acting like pricks, I see…

Is also, more like wrestling than the cult like behavior of the terminally online transexual community.

[Yulwei]

Are the alt-right fucks claiming woke Disney is spiraling again? I know they were quick to claim Lightyear’s failure for their own.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/box-office-ant-man-quantumania-posts-the-worst-second-weekend-drop-of-the-mcu.690955/page-12#post-101995318

 

[Propagandhim]

I could also crack open the history books to point out that medieval Europe was never all white all the time (the Moorish kingdom of Spain sends its regards).

Glorifying brutal colonizers is wrong, though.  Good on Square for having the ethical foresight to not include them. 

[Nintex]

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:joanne

[ShutUp]

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Prime Joanne

 

[ShutUp]

Bunch of privileged white Americans telling Japanese developers what is or isn’t racist. Amazing stuff.

[Uncle]

also it's not even racist to just choose to tell a story featuring any random selection of attributes for your characters

not even couching it in "oh it's historical so we have to"

anyone should feel comfortable in making a game about any kind of people they want, the racism comes in when you literally include racism in the end product like having a character loudly proclaim "boy I'm glad none of us are black"



I'm confident that in the next couple years we'll see some 100% non-human game, like aliens or furries and people will genuinely be making the argument that the characters are all "white-coded" so the game is racist anyway

some of the characters will even be voiced by black people, won't matter, they'll say "god how could these traitors stand to recite this white-ass dialogue, they should be ashamed"

[joeboy101]

also it's not even racist to just choose to tell a story featuring any random selection of attributes for your characters

not even couching it in "oh it's historical so we have to"

anyone should feel comfortable in making a game about any kind of people they want, the racism comes in when you literally include racism in the end product like having a character loudly proclaim "boy I'm glad none of us are black"



I'm confident that in the next couple years we'll see some 100% non-human game, like aliens or furries and people will genuinely be making the argument that the characters are all "white-coded" so the game is racist anyway

some of the characters will even be voiced by black people, won't matter, they'll say "god how could these traitors stand to recite this white-ass dialogue, they should be ashamed"

Your not being slick with this online front, James Cameron.

[PogiJones]

Knock it off, or face moderation.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/virtual-youtuber-ot2-clap-clap-next-thread.452203/page-1224#post-102030013

This twisting of the meaning of moderation and moderator to mean the exact opposite of what they're supposed to mean and do is probably the most destructive root of their entire forum. "Face moderation" doesn't even make sense as a threat if your freaking moderators acted like moderators instead of cops. Your job as a moderator is to facilitate discussion, not burn it to the ground.