Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mississippi-bill-looks-to-create-bounty-program-and-lifetime-imprisonment-for-illegal-aliens.1091412/

I have no idea what chance this has of passing, but this bill puts $1000 bounty on finding illegal aliens.

And the penalty for it is lifetime imprisonment with no chance for parole.

Keep in mind that slavery is legal in prison. So you get caught as an illegal alien and you're essentially a slave for life.

I don't think prison/labor economics works out as you think you do in this case.

[malfoyking]

Anyone could see that journalists were overcompensating for Dragon Age because the games media loves all that gender identity crap like twitter/era/reddit/bluesky gender cultists.

Game is a solid 7-8/10 and that is it. Absolutely nothing special about it. Witcher 3 is so much better than the Veilguard.

[DavidCroquet]

I have to roll my eyes at the suggestion that 'No no, he's merely taking money from the awful people to go and present an award for the enjoyment of all the awful people watching at home so that's not as bad as if he was one of them' is any kind of a defense.

Because it's not. 'Will sell out people and principles for money despite not needing said money' speaks volumes about a person's character and it's the same here as it is for Snoop Dogg.

I guess this is fair, at least someone is equating the two. Wait, a mod wrote this? Where are all the permabans in the Snoop Lion thread!? 

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - FD Signifier

[Boredfrom]

What principles he is selling out? Dude mock reviews retro games for a living.

[Potato]

Have they bothered to explain what intersex people are supposed to do yet?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rubio-instructs-state-department-to-stop-issuing-passports-with-‘x’-gender-marker-tells-staff-“sex-is-not-changeable”.1090842/#post-134795922

I love how this is their constant attempt at a gotcha card whenever gender comes up

Have you bothered to ask what intersex people would like to do yet?

[kaleidoscopium]

Same. I deactivated my FB at least 10 years ago, but I have a few groups who insist on using Messenger. Trying to detach them and move over to Discord or something.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/business-insider-the-calls-for-a-meta-boycott-dont-seem-to-be-having-much-of-an-impact-data-finds.1091478/#post-134825523

I’m imagining it went something like this: 

“Guys, can we pleaaaaasseeeee get off Facebook? You all know Zuckerberg is a ZIONIST and a FASCIST Trump supporter, right???” 

Everyone else: “who?”

[Venice]

I just read this retarded post by PlanetSmasher in the James Rolfe thread.

Tl;dr, PlaSma is upset James Rolfe doesn't give a shit about online drama and actually has a life in the real world. But then PlaSma gets super creepy (bolded below)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/angry-video-game-nerd-james-rolfe-finally-going-all-ass-out-on-gamergate-game-awards.1090881/page-6#post-134811765

Keep in mind, he used to be friends with Craig. Like they literally worked together. So I have to imagine it was as simple as 'my old friend asked me to do a gig, sure fuck it why not'.

Does that excuse him? Fuck no. But I have to imagine that "google my friend from 15 years ago to see if he's a chud or not" probably didn't even register in his brain. And as a result, now he has to own his association with this event, regardless of his intention or lack of intention.

I don't feel bad for him at all at this point, since this is just another in a very long line of him having associations with problematic people and skirting past criticism for it, but I also am not shocked at all that it happened. Dude just seems to be a completely offline person who's infuriatingly loyal to his old friends even when they turn out to be horrible people. He's made this bed for himself at least four times at this point so he's gotta lie in it.

PlaSma... why the fuck does it "infuriate" you that James Rolfe is loyal to his real life friends??

We all know you're a totally insane, completely unhinged maniac who can't fit RAM into a computer.

But this is new levels of craziness. Why?? Why the fuck does it fill you with rage who someone who you don't know, and will never, ever meet, is a good friend to his real life friends?

ResetEra is a forum that gets all holier-than-thou, regularly points fingers and laughs at people who form parasocial relationships with e-thots and e-celebs.

But here you have a thread with over 400+ posts all shitting on AVGN over a 2 minute guest appearance for some troll awards, topped off with loonies like PlanetSmasher enraged over another man's offline life.

Just nuts.

[benji]

He's arguably one of the most influential people in the gaming media

[benji]

With the political climate in the US being what it is, it would only take someone tweeting a screenshot to Musk for the Eye of Sauron to focus on Resetera. You can't be too careful these days.

Honestly I feel like it is just a matter of time before this happens regardless. Era is a big target for a certain group that now have an almost direct line to the American government. If I was a betting man I would put my money on era being impacted by some push to silence dissident voices at one point in the next 4 years.

Meanwhile, over in their ‘Constructive’ thread.

With the political climate in the US being what it is, it would only take someone tweeting a screenshot to Musk for the Eye of Sauron to focus on Resetera. You can't be too careful these days.

Honestly I feel like it is just a matter of time before this happens regardless. Era is a big target for a certain group that now have an almost direct line to the American government. If I was a betting man I would put my money on era being impacted by some push to silence dissident voices at one point in the next 4 years.

We're a police abolition cup of sugar commune and Kiwi Farms has a culture about not touching the display subjects. Meanwhile, theirs is a forum that literally has called the cops on another forum at least once that we know of and is full of members who not only respond to everything by demanding people get thrown under the jail but have multiple prominent members who have been yelling for the President of the United States and other governments to illegally imprison and even exile anyone they perceive as political enemies with zero pushback from anyone let alone staff.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

They really should send AVGN to some kind of camp to teach him not to be a chud.

[Potato]

It's just so utterly depressing that the world works in such a way that an utter shit stain depravity like Musk is allowed to be the richest guy in the world. Just depressing to think.

Conservative complaining about the gauche newly built wealth of immigrants and their uncouth lower class culture wishing that the elites could keep everyone in their proper place or "progressive" "video game" forum whining about a guy who owns a website they loved?

Such a naive childish world view in that place.

Musk is not "allowed" to be the richest guy in the world. 

They are always so passive in their understanding of how things work. There's always some higher power which grants people wealth, opportunity, success, jobs, skills, education, experience, girlfriends, non-Nazi family members. 

The idea that someone could take a risk and succeed is so alien to their personal philosophy. They actually hate the idea so much. Their most common complaint is, "Why did the good thing have to happen to someone so horrible, yet someone as good as me cannot succeed?"

They never ask the question, "What do I need to do to have the success that I want?"

[benji]

They really should send AVGN to some kind of camp to teach him not to be a chud.

 Cancel culture.

 Accountability camps.

[DavidCroquet]

What did Gamergate even do this time around?

Alyssa Mercante was ambiguously fired from kotaku? Who gives a shit? 

It is a leap of logic even for Era to blame the failures of Concord/Dragon Age/Dustborn on gamergaters lol

[benji]

These are people who think YouTubers who get thousands of views have bullied Disney into no longer casting Black people and women in superhero movies by sabotaging their box offices.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Honestly, yeah, this is... At the best way to read it, incredibly pathetic.

Feels like James Rolfe has become the encyclopedic-definition of a Has-Been. Pure "Paycheck Collecting" mode where he's just reading off other people's scripts and not vetting anything his handlers try to attach him to.

Guy handed the keys to his brand to a Multi-Channel-Network years after the jig was up that MCNs are where YouTube creative-careers go to die.

Has become? You're like 8+ years late to the party, kiddo.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

These are people who think YouTubers who get thousands of views have bullied Disney into no longer casting Black people and women in superhero movies by sabotaging their box offices.

The same Disney that canceled The Acolyte, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, and removed a pro-trans episode from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. But I guess Disney is still fine to consume because it's a "safespace" for gays at their parks. 

[benji]

You can see their theory of how it all works and it's based on the premise of nobody else but themselves having any agency.

People go on YouTube -> algorithm feeds them chud videos smearing quality media -> they blindly watch all of it for hours upon hours and fall for the lies -> they refuse to purchase it -> Trump wins.

The "alternate scenario" they imagine also has nobody with any agency, where people just blindly buy whatever you put in front of them. At no point does anyone evaluate anything for themselves but the chuds who pull the strings of every world event as part of their master conspiracy. And even they don't really because they're just out to do cruelty to people.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-had-firey-phone-call-with-danish-pm-about-greenland-financial-times.1091484/page-2#post-134827656

We're really going to do it, we're just going to invade another country unprovoked.

Wouldn’t even be the first time this century numbnuts

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/angry-video-game-nerd-james-rolfe-finally-going-all-ass-out-on-gamergate-game-awards.1090881/#post-134799543

Never having watched his stuff personally, I hear that he was never really big into the gaming space, he was more of a film buff and Mike Matei wrote a lot of his character's gaming opinions. He tried to move on from his character and go into film proper and failed, only remaining because it pays the bills and allows him to support his kids and spend more time with them. So in that sense, I wouldn't be surprised if he was not particular attuned to the gaming space at all and what's going on there.

On the other hand, his best friend was Mike fucking Matei, the guy who drew the Loco Bandito. So I also am hardly shocked by the idea of him being a megachud.

Never watched his shit, but has encyclopediac knowledge of his career and relationships

[Potato]

'Sounds true' speaks more to our own biases. If you don't want to fall for manipulation, things that 'sound true' to you are the things you need to look hardest at.

Moderator at a forum which believed that this guy's story "sounded true" and permanently banned people for disagreeing.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Awesome news, let's try to get people up on BSky as fast as possible.

Why won't they listen to B-dubs? Social media is part of the algorithm and the algorithm is bad. What's going to happen when Bluesky continues to allow controversial figures to use their platform? Era is only running from one platform to another instead of solving the problem of being too heavily reliant on a twitter-like platform.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-had-firey-phone-call-with-danish-pm-about-greenland-financial-times.1091484/page-2#post-134827656

We're really going to do it, we're just going to invade another country unprovoked.

Wouldn’t even be the first time this century numbnuts

[Potato]

I knew it. I knew Ree was super desperate to go after James Rolfe. Even after he never got himself in any big controversy that you'd probably expect for an "angry gamer nerd" to get himself into. Even after some users absolved him from any major wrongdoing, and agreed to go after his more problematic buddy, Mike Matei, instead. Even after most people describe James Rolfe as a pretty nice dude; the opposite of the character plays.

But Ree just wasn't satisfied. You can never satisfy them. You can only delay the inevitable if you pledge full on woke allegiance. They needed something, anything, to turn their greasy flabby backs against the big man himself. You really gotta love how these fucking desperate twats were just waiting for any single bread crumb like a pack of starved mole rats, and this was their opportunity.

James Rolfe shitting on Concord, Dragon Age, Dustborn, Suicide Squad feels as natural as a deer feeding on grass in the forest. Amazing how they pretend to act like that's some shocking act of betrayal.

He's arguably one of the most influential people in the gaming media, so I don't think the thread's at fault for that.

Although granted, that's a historical thing. At this point he's well past his prime and just riding out what remains of his popularity.

Hey at least James Rolfe made a legacy of being a gamer nerd. One that changed the course of the entire internet. All of you terminally online gossip queens have literally nothing going for yourselves, and will have no positive legacy to speak of, other than leaving behind some of the most cringe terminally online takes ever.

He should go back to film school and not complain like a fucking child when he has to, y'know, learn things. But that would require him not being a fucking loser.

Gee this sounds like this is directed to a certain other user 

Reeesetera is the philosophy of envy. They envy that the guy made it big as a gaming personality so they must tear him down. They'll never do anything to try to replace him because that would require effort and application, but they do love seeing those they're envious of get dragged down to their level.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/angry-video-game-nerd-james-rolfe-finally-going-all-ass-out-on-gamergate-game-awards.1090881/#post-134799543

On the other hand, his best friend was Mike fucking Matei, the guy who drew the Loco Bandito. So I also am hardly shocked by the idea of him being a megachud.

Well, hold on, we shouldn't call this chud a megachud until we know all the facts. Do we know if he attended any weddings this guy was at?

[DavidCroquet]

Yeah, I haven't been on TikTok since the day it came back. You can tell things felt really off, and now that censoring is in full effect, it's just not useable anymore.

TikTok was tremendously helpful for getting leftist content and conversation goings. I would say TikTok was instrumental in getting the pro-Palestine movement so strong in west over the last year and a half. It's a shame that progressives lost a very valuable communication line.

Crazy that TikTok only just now started manipulating results to influence the users. Back when they definitely 100% were not manipulating the algorithm for any particular purpose or outcome, things were awesome (and thankfully it helped me decide not to vote)!

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-palpatine-have-gotten-a-trial-or-was-mace-windu-right-when-he-said-he-was-to-dangerous-and-needed-to-be-killed.1091310/

Mace was Right

I guess the Jedi purging political rivals and suppressing the sith religion is perfectly fine. I would like to think a progressive forum like Era would be able to look deeper into the Star Wars story and not be caught up in the layman's ideas of "Good" and "Evil". The Jedi is an ultra-orthodox force that steals children from their parents, refused to free slaves, and became the military arm of a corrupt senate that, need I remind you, refused to aid Naboo in their time of need. The senate they were attack dogs for also refused the Confederacy of Independent Systems the right to simply exist.

But I guess some of y'all ain't ready for this type of thought.

Is this the thread where we get to talk wistfully about fascists getting merc'd but it's not bannable because it involves fictional characters?

[Boredfrom]

Yeah, I haven't been on TikTok since the day it came back. You can tell things felt really off, and now that censoring is in full effect, it's just not useable anymore.

TikTok was tremendously helpful for getting leftist content and conversation goings. I would say TikTok was instrumental in getting the pro-Palestine movement so strong in west over the last year and a half. It's a shame that progressives lost a very valuable communication line.

Crazy that TikTok only just now started manipulating results to influence the users. Back when they definitely 100% were not manipulating the algorithm for any particular purpose or outcome, things were awesome (and thankfully it helped me decide not to vote)!

That reminds me… has Fiction commented about TikTok being now CHUD central? She was so proud about combating fake news.

[Potato]

Of course, one of the biggest signifiers of living in a true democracy is the state seizing a citizens assets and then deporting and exiling them despite having commited no crime or even being accused of such.

Uncle, you can post the actual article without the crazy twitter dude editorializing it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9w4n6gp5o.amp

Fuck Twatter lunatics, but seriously...

The new law allows for expropriation without compensation only in circumstances where it is "just and equitable and in the public interest" to do so.

This includes if the property is not being used and there's no intention to either develop or make money from it or when it poses a risk to people.

The president's spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said that, under the law, the state "may not expropriate property arbitrarily or for a purpose other than... in the public interest".

"Expropriation may not be exercised unless the expropriating authority has without success attempted to reach an agreement with the owner," he added.

Yes, that nebulous "in the public interest" is an interesting term which is NEVER going to be used by a politician "in their personal interest".



Zimbabwe 2.0 is not incorrect.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

All land should be collectively owned by the people.  

[Potato]

lol, a super detailed list that someone on Resetera made about all the positive Dragon Age impressions is now used by the evil chuds as a reminder that previews are worthless

It's like a who's who of outlets that publish those retarded gaming is racism think pieces and Gamergate 2.0 alarmism.