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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Blueballs at it again.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/boyfriend-of-suspect-in-border-agent-killing-accused-of-murdering-california-man-3-days-earlier.1097292/#post-135160908

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T5RzkFcNpRdckGauu/link-a-community-alert-about-ziz

https://web.archive.org/web/20230531044115/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/

https://zizians.info/

https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509

https://www.resetera.com/threads/boyfriend-of-suspect-in-border-agent-killing-accused-of-murdering-california-man-3-days-earlier.1097292/#post-135162837

The old guy who got murdered recently, Curtis Lind, was the landlord in the below incident and they're all part of the same group I guess (which is largely trans as I understand, so that will be fun if/when the media makes enough sense of things to fearmonger about it)

Two seem to be bandmates from Dethklok.

[Uncle]

why would you name your band dethklok, I mean when you think about it a lot of people enjoy life rather than death so that's just alienating half your audience right out the gate

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-state-department-has-replaced-%E2%80%9Clgbtqi-%E2%80%9D-with-%E2%80%9Clgb%E2%80%9D.1097589/page-3#post-135165225

Trans folx. Arm up. Learn to shoot. You've every right to defend yourselves against erasure like this by any means necessary.

[DavidCroquet]

I think turning a sexual orientation class into some sort of comedy grab bag of any-fucking-thing was probably not a good idea to begin with. 

But also Era is filled with users who implicitly or sometimes explicitly exclude asians when they say things like "PoC" and "minority" so... 

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pride-and-prejudice-is-pretty-much-an-overbearing-ceo-novel-right.1097610/#post-135155127

Raftina
It predated the popularity of the genre by about 200 years, sure, but it seems to exhibit similar plot patterns. Are there any older, well known overbearing CEO stories? Not Cinderella--there are not enough details about Prince Charming or their romance to work as an overbearing CEO story.

What is the overbearing CEO genre?
The genre is named after the male lead. He is a wealthy and influential person (and generally very competent, even if he was born into wealth)--typically the CEO and chairman of a huge conglomerate--with a very domineering personality. Almost always he will be overbearing toward the female lead at first, though he will mellow out later (often a lot later in the story). But even then, he is still likely domineering toward others, only showing his soft side to the female lead.

The female lead varies a bit more. Most often she is from humble background. However, it's also not very uncommon for her to be a successful businesswoman or a wealthy heiress, but even then she is far less financially successful and influential compared to the male lead.

Yes, it is a subset of Cinderella stories, but it is specific enough and popular enough that it has its own genre name.

Pride and Prejudice?
Pride and Prejudice seems to fit the genre pretty well. Darcy is the aloof and domineering male lead. At the start of the story, he is overbearing to the female lead Elizabeth. Eventually he mellows out toward her, but everyone else besides Elizabeth still finds him to be frightening. Mr. Bennett describes him as "the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse anything which he condescended to ask," while Mrs. Bennett is rendered almost speechless in his presence toward the end. And Elizabeth (half jokingly) describes Bingley has having received permission from Darcy to marry Jane.

Elizabeth and Darcy are both in the gentlemen class, so it's not quite the wealth and humble origins disparity. But her family has fallen on hard times, while Darcy is much wealthier and better connected, so it still works.

B-Dubs
No, just no.

Not gonna lie, I am really exhausted with people confusing identifying tropes with literary analysis.

B-Dubs
If you want an interesting question, try this one:
Is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain an isekai novel?
The main character is hurt and then wakes up in another world, using his knowledge of his own world to his advantage. However, he is not in a game and there are no stat screens.
This question also applies to the movie Black Knight, starring Martin Lawrence.
EDIT: Guys, it's a joke.

yami4ct
I agree the OP is confusing trope and genre which is a general problem with media critique, but this is also doing the same thing. If we accept Isekai itself is a full genre, it doesn't mean games and stats. The whole reincarnated in an MMO trope came later. The genre itself is far broader and encompasses anything involving getting transported to another world, reincarnation and stuck in an mmo are individual tropes within that. I think it's generally understood the structure grew out of the popularity of Alice in Wonderland.

B-Dubs

At literally no point did I call it a genre dude. It's also an in-joke because of how pissed off I know it makes certain users.

The General Manager posting stupid shit and irritating members just to make a inside joke.   

Bdumbs, keep it up 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/boyfriend-of-suspect-in-border-agent-killing-accused-of-murdering-california-man-3-days-earlier.1097292/#post-135160908

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T5RzkFcNpRdckGauu/link-a-community-alert-about-ziz

https://web.archive.org/web/20230531044115/https://sinceriously.fyi/rationalist-fleet/

https://zizians.info/

https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509

https://www.resetera.com/threads/boyfriend-of-suspect-in-border-agent-killing-accused-of-murdering-california-man-3-days-earlier.1097292/#post-135162837

The old guy who got murdered recently, Curtis Lind, was the landlord in the below incident and they're all part of the same group I guess (which is largely trans as I understand, so that will be fun if/when the media makes enough sense of things to fearmonger about it)

Discord polycule.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

it's okay when Mao rises up against landlords but not Trans folx.

ok 

[Besticus Maximus]

the Womanson Family

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/federal-employees-told-to-remove-pronouns-from-email-signatures-by-end-of-day.1097385/#post-135143151

they trying to start a war or something? Like, I'm getting pissed

A war over pronouns? 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/federal-employees-told-to-remove-pronouns-from-email-signatures-by-end-of-day.1097385/#post-135143151

they trying to start a war or something? Like, I'm getting pissed

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-state-department-has-replaced-%E2%80%9Clgbtqi-%E2%80%9D-with-%E2%80%9Clgb%E2%80%9D.1097589/page-3#post-135165225

Trans folx. Arm up. Learn to shoot. You've every right to defend yourselves against erasure like this by any means necessary.

Who do I have to shoot to get pronouns in federal e-mail signatures and more letters in initialisms on obscure government websites?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

The Great Neo-Pronoun War

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/federal-employees-told-to-remove-pronouns-from-email-signatures-by-end-of-day.1097385/#post-135143151

they trying to start a war or something? Like, I'm getting pissed

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-state-department-has-replaced-%E2%80%9Clgbtqi-%E2%80%9D-with-%E2%80%9Clgb%E2%80%9D.1097589/page-3#post-135165225

Trans folx. Arm up. Learn to shoot. You've every right to defend yourselves against erasure like this by any means necessary.

Who do I have to shoot to get pronouns in federal e-mail signatures and more letters in initialisms on obscure government websites?

Nut up or shut up, "Ally". If my passport gets changed from X back to Male then you're the first on the chopping block.

[benji]

Very sane productive discussion:

I feel sick.

They're gonna try to kill me, aren't they? They're going to try to kill me.

I really pray the American army stands by their oath to the constitution. I know many won't.

As someone not doing well in the past year... the last few weeks have really made me numb. Feels like the whole world hates me.

die, die you fucks. suffer

What next election ? We already know it's going to be stolen. They already stole the previous one by purging the registration of millions of legal voters and they're only going to triple down on it.

I've been saying this since before the election, but these types are pedophiles and it won't be long until age of consent is drastically lowered.

I've been telling people at work that the way his supporters talk, the only thing holding them back is because they legally can't. NOT because it's morally wrong and fucking disgusting, but... Because. They. Can't. And when it happens, I'm afraid we still don't have people in power or with power to do something about it if we keeping letting this shit slide.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

So if you don't include pronouns in your e-mail you're a pedophile?

[Snoopy]

Is this Eugene Levy's new film?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-state-department-has-replaced-%E2%80%9Clgbtqi-%E2%80%9D-with-%E2%80%9Clgb%E2%80%9D.1097589/page-2#post-135157698

Looking for that solidarity now that there's another genocide spinning up

Where y'all at?

People been yelling that this is a genocide for years.

Other folks would rather blame us for losing an election.

Best way to get support is ostracizing your own supporters for not doing enough. 

Can PlanetSmasher somehow make a post in a thread that's obviously bad news for trans people allllllll about himself?

You betcha!





https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-state-department-has-replaced-%E2%80%9Clgbtqi-%E2%80%9D-with-%E2%80%9Clgb%E2%80%9D.1097589/#post-135153879

I was in the car driving in a terrible rainstorm when I got this notification and I seriously almost drove it into a fucking pole. This administration is just day-in-day-out nightmares. With how bad the past three weeks have already been, I'm really feeling like if my cat had died back in December I wouldn't even have made it through the first week of this hell.

WTF does your cat dying have to do with the government removing the T from the LGB??? 

PlaSma's ego, and ability to make every thread about himself with some shitty anecdote, is off the scale. Truly an oddball.

Also...

"I got a notification about this while driving in a terrible rainstorm and nearly drove my car into a pole" 

Yeah, right. Dude's entire life is one big fairy tale

What I find hilarious is that he's receiving a fucking notification about a news story. No wonder these idiots are always complaining about the algorithms. These retards can't control their technology to avoid receiving shitty notifications about news articles. Who leaves news push notifications on? That shit is annoying.

[Polident]

The Hideous Six is one of two possible outcomes to their psychotic violent thoughts. The other is more common.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/federal-employees-told-to-remove-pronouns-from-email-signatures-by-end-of-day.1097385/#post-135143151

they trying to start a war or something? Like, I'm getting pissed

"Look at those dumb conservatives caring so much about pronouns"

*Some time later*

"What the fuck? I will literally kill and die for pronouns!"

[Snoopy]

Ever noticed how ree rakes in thousands of those Microsoft bucks every month?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-rewards-ot-where-you-get-game-pass-xbl-gold-and-more-for-free.65980/page-316

How are they doing it? I'm lucky if I get around 500.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/federal-employees-told-to-remove-pronouns-from-email-signatures-by-end-of-day.1097385/#post-135143151

they trying to start a war or something? Like, I'm getting pissed

The war already started when they attempted to turn all of government into a WFH DEI hide-out for anti-capitalist activists and funneled billions in taxes to NGOs to pressure the government into more activism. The turning point was probably when they could segregate the vaxxed and unvaxxed and get rid of the last remaining 'chuds' in the process. 

It's now clear why the Biden administration was so toothless and incompetent. Those tasked with carrying out the orders were too busy dillating to Hamas or simply refused to do what they had been told and apparently only 4% of the federal workforce showed up at the office at all.

[StandingOvation]

Ever noticed how ree rakes in thousands of those Microsoft bucks every month?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-rewards-ot-where-you-get-game-pass-xbl-gold-and-more-for-free.65980/page-316

How are they doing it? I'm lucky if I get around 500.

It used to be worth the time investment, but it’s been withered back to almost nothing and the amount of time that needs to be put in just to get a $10 gift card…,you might as well just not bother, and use the time for literally anything else more productive.

[killamajig]

Ever noticed how ree rakes in thousands of those Microsoft bucks every month?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-rewards-ot-where-you-get-game-pass-xbl-gold-and-more-for-free.65980/page-316

How are they doing it? I'm lucky if I get around 500.

It used to be worth the time investment, but it’s been withered back to almost nothing and the amount of time that needs to be put in just to get a $10 gift card…,you might as well just not bother, and use the time for literally anything else more productive.

This is a perfect example to show how stupid they are. What kind of idiot thinks that's a good trade-off? I'm going to spend hours of my time researching and doing things to get a $10 gift card.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-state-department-has-replaced-%E2%80%9Clgbtqi-%E2%80%9D-with-%E2%80%9Clgb%E2%80%9D.1097589/page-3#post-135165225

Trans folx. Arm up. Learn to shoot. You've every right to defend yourselves against erasure like this by any means necessary.

"erasure like this"  

no longer being mentioned on a web page = justified violent shooting of somebody, somewhere

imagine there's some site listing popular baby names and they take Francis off of it

"what?! but I'm named Francis! this is an outrage! I have a right to defend myself against erasure!!!!!"

[DavidCroquet]

If a trans person lives in the real world, and there isn’t a bluesky mutual aid thread to document it, do they even exist?

[Snoopy]

Ever noticed how ree rakes in thousands of those Microsoft bucks every month?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-rewards-ot-where-you-get-game-pass-xbl-gold-and-more-for-free.65980/page-316

How are they doing it? I'm lucky if I get around 500.

It used to be worth the time investment, but it’s been withered back to almost nothing and the amount of time that needs to be put in just to get a $10 gift card…,you might as well just not bother, and use the time for literally anything else more productive.

This is a perfect example to show how stupid they are. What kind of idiot thinks that's a good trade-off? I'm going to spend hours of my time researching and doing things to get a $10 gift card.

So I take it they’re just doing constant Bing searches to rack up that amount of points. Absolute madness

[Uncle]

It used to be worth the time investment, but it’s been withered back to almost nothing and the amount of time that needs to be put in just to get a $10 gift card…,you might as well just not bother, and use the time for literally anything else more productive.

This is a perfect example to show how stupid they are. What kind of idiot thinks that's a good trade-off? I'm going to spend hours of my time researching and doing things to get a $10 gift card.

So I take it they’re just doing constant Bing searches to rack up that amount of points. Absolute madness

there was a time when a small group of people were minmaxing this and absolutely fleecing microsoft for real

they set up hundreds of accounts with bots to make hundreds of searches at random times for popular topics like celebrity news and such

people were making like 1000 per month from this or more

by the time I found out about this it was obviously mainstream enough that people like me found out about it and they really started cracking down on people gaming the system and what they were giving out

[DJ Bedroom]

It used to be worth the time investment, but it’s been withered back to almost nothing and the amount of time that needs to be put in just to get a $10 gift card…,you might as well just not bother, and use the time for literally anything else more productive.

This is a perfect example to show how stupid they are. What kind of idiot thinks that's a good trade-off? I'm going to spend hours of my time researching and doing things to get a $10 gift card.

So I take it they’re just doing constant Bing searches to rack up that amount of points. Absolute madness

I used to do this before they changed it about two years ago. You could get about 350ish points per day within about two minutes if you searched for like "a" and then "b," etc. at five points per search. That mixed with the points you get for just playing Xbox meant it was super easy to get the 12000 or whatever per month you need to pay for game pass. Unfortunately, they did clamp down to where searches are worth only like 1 point and the Xbox stuff is harder to get and as such, my game pass is gonna finally run out this month after having it for free for nearly six years.

[nachobro]

It used to be worth the time investment, but it’s been withered back to almost nothing and the amount of time that needs to be put in just to get a $10 gift card…,you might as well just not bother, and use the time for literally anything else more productive.

This is a perfect example to show how stupid they are. What kind of idiot thinks that's a good trade-off? I'm going to spend hours of my time researching and doing things to get a $10 gift card.

So I take it they’re just doing constant Bing searches to rack up that amount of points. Absolute madness

there's a script you can run to collect all the points for each day
https://github.com/jack-mil/bing-rewards

[Eric Cartman]

Typical Resetera reaction. People are asked for their opinions and existed to discuss the topic, they approach in good faith and give their thoughts, some mod takes personal offence and starts the bloodletting. 

I wonder if they understand how fragile this makes them look? People say plenty of negative things about long distance relationships too but why would that bother you if you're in a happy one?

ACTUALLY my futurist rejection of societial norms is far superior to the boring grey cishet aspiration of a recipocral commitment to always be there for each other no matter what, and I have absolutely no unaddressed anxieties that someone else is always going to be first choice, and definitely no denial about a deep seated existential angst that ultimately my companionship as a human being is as ephemeral a choice as whether to get pizza or tacos