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

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Not that much with the EN side of things. Many of their identities are open secret.

Honestly, I don’t mind they don’t being attractive IRL, but more that the avatar allow them to be more “open” than not having it. I said before, but Hololive sometimes feels like Giant Bomb at its best:



PD: Potato, words matter.

THE FUTURE IS NOW OLD MAN.

  BASED AS FUCK! 

[Boredfrom]

How soon until he flips on it?

That being said: we need to realize the Americans are never getting better and are not allies or friends anymore.

My sweet child, is not about the U.S. getting better but the U.S. being the less worse option.

[HaughtyFrank]

So full on MAGA Effect to appease the shitheads i'm guessing.

More ass shots, more "ow the edge" and as much high end non cartoony graphics as the hardeare can manage...

Only beautiful women with big tits and perfect asses. Males can be ugly and fat though. Only 2 genders for humans and non binary "aliens" to slaughter.

And no politics.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-ea-is-restructuring-bioware-following-dragon-age-the-veilguard-moving-some-developers-onto-other-projects-within-ea-bioware-focused-on-me5.1095120/post-135039162



(also why is he describing just Mass Effect 2)

Weren’t people complaining that Veilguard was particularly toothless about its world compared with other Dragon Age games? Was also actionized as hell.

Yes, an edgy Dragon Age or Mass Effect is actually perfectly in line with the series but the worst of Resetera want these game to wholesome or whatever.

[Eric Cartman]

Mask Off

So funny that he didn't hit China too especially since they cite Fent. All this shows is that American trade agreements or any agreement with them aren't worth the paper they are written on. We need a full on initiative to form robust trade ties with others, namely China. Trusting the U.S. when every 4 years they can just flip the table is pointless.

 

Do you understand why and what we trade with the U.S.?

reading this post I can't help but keep thinking about Breaking Bad. As it aired, I thought both the american small manufacturer cornering the market through product quality and the turn to the mexican cartels were the two "weak" things that kind of went beyond my suspension of disbelief. That they were too "cartoonish" and "over the top" as to be a bit too unbelievable for the show's context.

But you're talking about drugs, right? you sell lots of drugs

[Boredfrom]

Mask Off

So funny that he didn't hit China too especially since they cite Fent. All this shows is that American trade agreements or any agreement with them aren't worth the paper they are written on. We need a full on initiative to form robust trade ties with others, namely China. Trusting the U.S. when every 4 years they can just flip the table is pointless.

 

Do you understand why and what we trade with the U.S.?

reading this post I can't help but keep thinking about Breaking Bad. As it aired, I thought both the american small manufacturer cornering the market through product quality and the turn to the mexican cartels were the two "weak" things that kind of went beyond my suspension of disbelief. That they were too "cartoonish" and "over the top" as to be a bit too unbelievable for the show's context.

But you're talking about drugs, right? you sell lots of drugs

I’m talking about revenge… revenge guac

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

Era keeps going in on this trans actress. I'm starting to side eye some of y'all..

[Daffy Duck]

Do they know the reason why Trump unfrozen MediCaid? Because he knows that shit is popular with his base and there is no way they will not feel not having it. Is so silly that they still think the disruption plan is not as hollow as accelerationists doom talk.  

Maybe people deserve to feel the heat from a Trump second term, but if they don’t want another Trump in your foreseeable future, they need to stop the self pity and blaming everyone else. Yes, I think is fair to call people out that think this is not  him being a racist prick, but the culture war shit shouldn’t be the priority, like it or not is about he being a incompetent asshole that shouldn’t be in a position of power and things will get worse with him. No doomsday worse, but genuinely worse.

Dunno, people like nep made their bed, now they get to lie in it for 4 years.


Yes it sucks for people who  will genuinely suffer from the orange dip shit, but their inaction led directly to this, pound sand

[Daffy Duck]

Benji… summit gotta be done about mobile optimisation for this forum lol, sometimes it’s just impossible to zoom in on the text entry for a post lmao

[Daffy Duck]

Kyuuji still not banned? Uh-oh, HamasBros. I don't feel so good. 

Already week 2 of the Trump Era and moderation is throwing Muslims and Pro-Palestinian protestors under the bus by allowing their continued harassment on Era to go unchecked.

Can't believe this. 

What did she post?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

Era keeps going in on this trans actress. I'm starting to side eye some of y'all..

This movie is legit insane. Like it was made with the sole intention to insult Mexico

https://www.resetera.com/threads/emilia-p%C3%A9rez-director-jacques-audiard-spanish-is-the-language-of-developing-countries-of-modest-countries-of-poor-people-and-migrants.1095486/

[Boredfrom]

Saturday: 25% TARIFFS!
Sunday: TARIFFS ARE RESCINDED!

I dont know I feel like the trust is broken. U.S. leadership is a clusterfuck and very volatile they are not serious people. We need to plan like this can happen anytime so we need to find actual allies.

“trust”



The average Mexican will not describe the U.S. government as trustworthy (neither the Mexican government but for a different context). People here are just surprised how brazen Trump still is about it. I’m sure as hell not a lot of people are getting particularly thrilled about China either.


Obviously, cooperation and trade is way better than the Zero Sum game that Trump wants to play so badly, but Scuffed is acting like this is the first time the U.S had a bully as a president. Or that people don’t know there is other bigger bullies out there.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Kyuuji still not banned? Uh-oh, HamasBros. I don't feel so good. 

Already week 2 of the Trump Era and moderation is throwing Muslims and Pro-Palestinian protestors under the bus by allowing their continued harassment on Era to go unchecked.

Can't believe this. 

What did she post?

It's your own post!

I hope everyone involved in enacting this from people snitching to those enforcing it get… hit by a tree from a rogue hurricane. Can't even say what should be said at this point because apparently even a gif of a Nintendo character towards out and out nazis is beyond the pale. Let alone what should actually happen to them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-trump-eo-will-jail-teachers-for-using-trans-kids-names-and-pronouns.1095405/page-4#post-135052974

You missed the best bit…calling out Nep

I hope the absolute fucking idiots that couldn't be bothered to get up off their ass and vote out of sheer laziness remember this the next opportunity they have to, you know, prevent a fascist from entering one of the most powerful positions on the planet.

They didn't vote because of laziness, they refused to vote out of protest! 

It's anti-Palestinian adjacent especially after their tirade within a protest thread that they then had to apologize in.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/page-7#post-134698341

Can we stop the oppression olympics garbage please.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-not-confident-in-gaza-ceasefire-expected-to-lift-us-suspension-of-2000-lb-bombs-to-israel-and-reverse-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlers.1087860/page-7#post-134701779

At that point you're just looking to get into a ranking of who cares about which minorities the most on here, which itself isn't something easily picked apart beyond an artifical sense based on topic density. Even that is obscured by which members of which minorities even feel comfortable posting and speaking to their issues on here, making threads on them and taking the time to educate others. Not to mention the communities that have left the forum in the past through feeling like people here didn't care about their issues. I'm not going to hang my coat on the idea that a majority here would take any meaningful action in support of any minority cause based solely on their ability to post 'this is shit' posts.

It all speaks past intersectionality as well and the fact that trans Palestinians exist, who face dealing with both forms of oppression. Creating a clean divide between "trans issues" and "the issues of Palestinian people" in order to evaluate who would care when is nonsense. Neither minority group comes at the expense of the other and if anything it's been that that's made abundantly clear over the past few years with minority groups at large coming under increased threat in a multitude of ways. That is the issue. This is a thread about the threat of continued violence and destruction in Gaza under Trump. That should be the concern centred in this thread, not a meta-squabble about gauging some leaderboard of minority struggles on the forum.

It took three minutes of this thread being open for posters to step over the graves of Palestinians and start lobbing told ya so's at the direction of victims and their allies. To turn this into a continuation of the longstanding Era trend of smugly speaking down toward Palestinians or their allies for not standing firm with Democrats or having the audacity to cling to any hope that maybe by some miracle the fascist will want wins more than he would want to continue the Democrats genocide and ethnic cleansing. 3 minutes it took to turn this thread into a rallying point for liberals to claim themselves atop the morality leaderboard once again. Which is where the evocation of minorities came from in the first place(same way it gets brought up in 99% of threads on this topic), which is as a way to tell victims and allies that genocide is not a sufficient reason to withold voting Democrat.

And you were part of it:

I hope not many people trusted that an open fascist signalling intense discrimination against minorities domestically would suddenly be all about the interests of the Palestinian people.

I let my frustration get in the way of sense and made a stupid and insensitive post. I'll own up to that and apologise for it. It ultimately downplayed an action that saw much needed relief, regardless of how short-term, to people who need it. I'm under no illusion that Harris would have put a stop to it at this point either had she won, I didn't mention democrats or votes in the post. I believe there may have been more opportunity for resolve in the longer-term than under Trump but that's neither here nor there now Trump is in office. It was in reference to his previous action being any indicator of his long-term view of, or plans for, Gaza. Which still side-stepped the fact that any relief is better than what has been ongoing prior to him taking office. Something I should have had in mind before I jumped in with that take.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-even-more-emilia-p%C3%A9rez-news-actress-karla-sofia-gasc%C3%B3ns-has-recent-tweets-containing-racism-islamophobia-and-more-cw-hateful-rhetoric.1096167/

Era keeps going in on this trans actress. I'm starting to side eye some of y'all..

This movie is legit insane. Like it was made with the sole intention to insult Mexico

https://www.resetera.com/threads/emilia-p%C3%A9rez-director-jacques-audiard-spanish-is-the-language-of-developing-countries-of-modest-countries-of-poor-people-and-migrants.1095486/

He is not totally wrong, but he forgets that a lot was because European powers like Spain (that was THE Empire before England) and other European powers… like France.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_French_intervention_in_Mexico

(Is more complex than the Wikipedia article mentions. Maximilian was not exactly a despot or as conservative as his supporters expected)

Yes, you can find a ton of good Spanish speaking actors in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia… etc.


Maybe I should see the film to see if is as bad a people say.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

You are not obligated to vote for evil.

Remember that, Kyuuji. 

[StandingOvation]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-you-strong-enough-to-post-baby-fotos-give-em-here.1095867/
Baby photos thread, if you care about that.

Benji… summit gotta be done about mobile optimisation for this forum lol, sometimes it’s just impossible to zoom in on the text entry for a post lmao

That, and selecting emojis is a lesson in pain. 

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/

I need to preface this by saying I am not saying what trump and his ilk are doing is in any way defensible or needs to be treated as anything other than an immediate threat on the US and the world before people jump on the title without reading the thread. I also had to either do sensitive topics or US Politics so I'm sorry to those who have US Politics blocked.

I'm coming at this from a point of view of being autistic and having a mental block when it comes to specific words so feel free to tell me I'm off the mark.

Preface over, is calling trump and the maga flock nazis doing a disservice to the messaging of the actual real harm being done by the American far right? I worry that people who NEED to hear of these atrocities may hear the word nazi and immediately just assume hyperbole, leading to them not realizing just how dire things are for literally everyone who isn't a wealthy shit man (i actually wrote white man but my phone autocorrected and it also fits). Basically i worry that using a term that is generally thought of as the German far right hitler party may lead people to not take the threat we face seriously.

I'm not sure if I'm making any sense (i second guess myself a lot) so please let me know if you have thoughts.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Please think of the optics!

Your mistake was thinking terminally online liberals care about optics.

[JoeBoy101]

I let my frustration get in the way of sense and made a stupid and insensitive post. I'll own up to that and apologise for it. It ultimately downplayed an action that saw much needed relief, regardless of how short-term, to people who need it. I'm under no illusion that Harris would have put a stop to it at this point either had she won, I didn't mention democrats or votes in the post. I believe there may have been more opportunity for resolve in the longer-term than under Trump but that's neither here nor there now Trump is in office. It was in reference to his previous action being any indicator of his long-term view of, or plans for, Gaza. Which still side-stepped the fact that any relief is better than what has been ongoing prior to him taking office. Something I should have had in mind before I jumped in with that take.

I have to respect Kaiju in that he's taking his transition seriously by acting like a little bitch as well.

Why are you taking a knee to this one-issue wonder who thinks the election was about only Gaza, and ignored EVERYTHING else that Trump said and promised he would do? Someone who even said, " cling to any hope that maybe by some miracle the fascist will want wins".

Cling to a hope that by some miracle. THAT was this moron's basis for putting support, via vote or abstention of said vote, for Trump.

Why are you apologizing to him? Because Palestinians suffered? We just going to let them do whatever they want under the justification they are afraid, beaten and deserve to be reckless?

Fuck off.

[benji]

While true, we're never going to have access to this information. Trump is going to bury any investigation that is remotely negative to his administration. In light of that, I'm going to continue to assume he is partially responsible.

Why would pilot error and/or circumstance be negative to the administration? These guys really think the government is God.

That's how it works for the US because their market is in such high demand. The Chinese had no choice but to keep selling stuff to the US and pay the tariffs (same as the Chinese automakers in Europe) because there aren't other buyers. Yes, they do put some of that cost on the consumer but China sells shit at a loss (government subsidized) to push out the competition. However, there is a limit to how low they can go if they have to pay the tariffs because either they increase their prices or they take a bigger loss (i.e. more government debt).

Canada and Mexico face the same problem. There aren't other buyers to step in and shipping overseas or dealing with EU regulations is more expensive than just driving goods over the border. A lot of the goods made in Mexico and Canada are often produced specifically to meet the demand of the US market.

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

So funny that he didn't hit China too especially since they cite Fent. All this shows is that American trade agreements or any agreement with them aren't worth the paper they are written on. We need a full on initiative to form robust trade ties with others, namely China. Trusting the U.S. when every 4 years they can just flip the table is pointless.

Yeah, if there's anybody you can trust to hold to signed trade agreements it's China. Not like the United States where new administrations will seek new agreements, for better or worse, when they find them insufficient. Way better to know you have an agreement the other party doesn't bother to abide by ever rather than this uncertainty.

Scuffed is Canadian, he should look at how many sitting WTO disputes Canada has open regarding China. Or why his government feels the need to issue these kind of press releases of which I picked just a single one that was pretty recent:

However, Canadian auto workers and the auto sector currently face unfair competition from Chinese producers, who benefit from unfair, non-market policies and practices. China’s intentional, state-directed policy of overcapacity and lack of rigorous labour and environmental standards threaten workers and businesses in the EV industry around the world and undermine Canada’s long term economic prosperity. Recent consultations with stakeholders have confirmed that exceptional measures are required to address this extraordinary threat.

Today in Halifax, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, announced a series of measures to level the playing field for Canadian workers and allow Canada’s EV industry and steel and aluminum producers to compete in domestic, North American, and global markets.
First, the Government of Canada intends to implement a 100 per cent surtax on all Chinese-made EVs, effective October 1, 2024. This includes electric and certain hybrid passenger automobiles, trucks, buses, and delivery vans. This surtax will apply in addition to the Most-Favoured Nation import tariff of 6.1 per cent that currently applies to EVs produced in China and imported into Canada.

Second, the federal government intends to apply a 25 per cent surtax on imports of steel and aluminum products from China, effective October 15, 2024. This measure aims to protect Canada’s workers from China’s unfair trade policies and to prevent trade diversion resulting from recent actions taken by Canadian trading partners. An initial list of goods is being released today for public comment. The final list of goods subject to the surtaxes will be announced by October 1, 2024, with the surtaxes taking effect on October 15, 2024. The surtaxes will not apply to Chinese goods that are in transit to Canada on the day on which these surtaxes come into force.

Third, the Government of Canada will launch a second 30-day consultation concerning other sectors critical to Canada’s future prosperity, including batteries and battery parts, semiconductors, solar products, and critical minerals. A consultation notice will be released in the coming days to help inform any further government action.

Key likeminded trading partners such as the United States and Mexico have identified similar concerns with Chinese policies and practices in the steel and aluminum sectors. Most notably, on May 14, 2024, the United States announced an increase in its Section 301 tariffs applicable to a range of products imported from China including steel and aluminum.

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-calling-them-nazis-going-to-have-the-wrong-effect.1096557/

I need to preface this by saying I am not saying what trump and his ilk are doing is in any way defensible or needs to be treated as anything other than an immediate threat on the US and the world before people jump on the title without reading the thread. I also had to either do sensitive topics or US Politics so I'm sorry to those who have US Politics blocked.

I'm coming at this from a point of view of being autistic and having a mental block when it comes to specific words so feel free to tell me I'm off the mark.

Preface over, is calling trump and the maga flock nazis doing a disservice to the messaging of the actual real harm being done by the American far right? I worry that people who NEED to hear of these atrocities may hear the word nazi and immediately just assume hyperbole, leading to them not realizing just how dire things are for literally everyone who isn't a wealthy shit man (i actually wrote white man but my phone autocorrected and it also fits). Basically i worry that using a term that is generally thought of as the German far right hitler party may lead people to not take the threat we face seriously.

I'm not sure if I'm making any sense (i second guess myself a lot) so please let me know if you have thoughts.

From that thread:

Why call them something they're not / why do we need to change it from Nazi? It's just calling a spade a spade. Needing to make up another word to call them is not needed

I'm thinking you need to look up the etymology of that phrase before throwing it around.

Nazi.

[Ribosome]

What if it turns out just to be a tragic mistake by the helicopter crew?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

are we sure that we can't just blame this on DEI or wokeness?!

[benji]

Why call them something they're not / why do we need to change it from Nazi?

Because they don't share much with the National Socialist German Workers' Party other than things found in almost every slice of politics?

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-trump-eo-will-jail-teachers-for-using-trans-kids-names-and-pronouns.1095405/page-5#post-135099111

Echos
Fucking evil and I hope the fuck something like this never gets passed. Though as already pointed out in the thread, it doesn't matter whether this passes because the threat (and I'm going to assume this is the first of many) already has power. Fuck Trump.

User subforum banned (1 week): antagonizing other members
EmergencyPasta said:

Yep, plenty of people on this very website did that exact thing.

Babu93 said:

Some of the discussion on here around whether or not to vote for Harris was extremely frustrating going into the election. Including from prominent senior members. People talking about the consequences of witholding their vote as if it was in the abstract. Folks acting as if they're living in a civics lesson and not real life.

You know what, no. As a trans woman, I ain't going the revise and erase history of another minority group, especially ones that include trans people who put in one of the most fucked up situations possible. If we're talking about people on this site, to be blunt nearly all the times I saw that here were Arab Americans, Muslims and others who were directly or indirectly by the Genocide in Gaze and the surrounding area with no hope in site and the people in charge actively supporting Israel, with their feelings constantly downplayed, dismissed or shouted down and just vote for the people actively aiding the genocide of Arabs, "for their own good". I ain't even going pretend to know how it must have felt for trans Arab Americans last November given everything, especially when it constantly seemed they were constantly being erased from the trans community to create the fucking narrative of trans people vs Arabs in some people's minds.

I'm sorry I ain't faulting any Arab Americans who chose not to vote or voted third party that election (those who voted for Trump on the other fucking hand is another story) and I'm especially not going to erase their feelings of hopelessness just so it's easier to vilify them, I am so fucking sick of minorities every fucking time used as scapegoats.

They didn't cause the rise of Trump, the fucking middle-class white Americans who cared more about their fucking egg prices and have never ever gave a single fucking damn about the concerns of minorities, people who never fucking showed human decency fucking failed them, Biden and his Pro-Israel behaviour fucking failed them. The media and fucking billionaires who used their power to push a tyrant like Trump fucking failed them. The system failed them the same way we are fucking failed by the system now.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-trump-eo-will-jail-teachers-for-using-trans-kids-names-and-pronouns.1095405/page-5#post-135099111

If we're talking about people on this site, to be blunt nearly all the times I saw that here were Arab Americans, Muslims and others who were directly or indirectly by the Genocide in Gaze and the surrounding area

I guess it's the "indirectly" part that includes Nepenthe and B-Dubs among other prominent members including now banned ones like Thordinson and Mekanos.

[kaleidoscopium]

Unban Huawei plz

https://www.resetera.com/threads/apple-in-talks-to-resume-buying-ads-on-nazi-social-network.1096503/#post-135100020

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Can't believe it's Echo's dabbing on BLUEMAGA.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-ban-on-gun-sales-to-adults-under-age-21-is-unconstitutional-under-bruen-court-rules.1096461/

This headline challenges ResetEras reading comprehension.

[kaleidoscopium]

I fucking hate Tim Cook. I say this as someone that has been a huge Apple fan all of my life and grew up really admiring a lot of Steve Jobs' vision (despite him not being the best person). He's such a nothing person. He could use all of his wealth and platform to be a proud gay man and stand up for our community. Instead he always acts ashamed of who he is, cozies up to dictators, and is an all around piece of shit.

I used to work at Apple, and it was wild to see how focused on diversity and inclusivity a lot of their policies and trainings are, meanwhile their CEO is an absolute shitbag

https://www.resetera.com/threads/apple-in-talks-to-resume-buying-ads-on-nazi-social-network.1096503/#post-135101163

[Nintex]

It's hilarious that you don't even know who pays tariffs but you're trying to tell us how they work and how great they are. Why doesn't your town place tariffs on any goods that come from outside it, Nintex?

We actually put tariffs on everything in Europe but we just call it 'carbon tax', 'sugar tax' or 'plastic tax'.

In my town we even have some additional 'service fees' for companies not based in our town that want to sell stuff at our tourist markets that local companies don't have to pay. 

We also have way higher parking costs for folks that don't live here. I pay 20 Euro a year to be able park everywhere in town basically.
If you're not from this town you pay 5 Euro an hour if not more.

The 2023 parliamentary election our town voted 80% right wing and 20% left wing
Mostly because they merged us with another town which mostly has farmers and polish immigrants.
Otherwise it would've been 90/10 as before. The national government has filed countless of lawsuits because we don't build any social housing.