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

[Superstar]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/protests-against-trump-and-musk-are-growing-%E2%80%94-with-a-mass-demonstration-set-for-april-5.1144686/page-3#post-138079662

Kinda upsetting how short this thread is. Fifty pages about the Switch preorders being delayed. Three about an attempt to push back against fascism.

Mommmmmmm, they're posting about video games on the video game forum again.

[Boredfrom]

For better or worse, more people will participate in these threads if they were allowed to disagree with stuff.

Genuinely nice you are trying to protest, even if I don’t think it would be that useful, but people need something more than guilt tripping to participate on it.

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile the Ponies are triggered hard by an accurate description

It's a movie game and there's a TV show of the same story starting in one week. I'm going to save my money and watch the show. Definitely would have been more interested if they had timed the release of the pc version to be closer to the end of season 1 of the show, that's when the iron was hot

What makes it a movie game ?

I think TLOU is more interested in telling a story than being a game. There's definitely a place for that, and I think the stories in these games are at the peak of the medium. But the gameplay mostly functions as connective tissue to the cutscenes and dialogue sections. I think games like this suffer doubly from a long delay because a lot of people who are interested will have already watched the story on youtube, and they're actually not missing much by not playing the game. The gameplay isn't anything we haven't seen a thousand times before, it's the story and presentation that are the real selling points in my eyes. Cheers

You... have played TLOU2 right? It has the best TPS combat since MGSV, No Return mode highlights it and the final setpiece level is probably the best vertical slice since the MGS2 Tanker

You really don't know what you're talking about.

Movie game lol.

You should play the game before making assumptions on the gameplay.

TLOU2 has one of the greatest gameplay in the market, easily top 3 best TPS ever….


The game sold probably >50k units and is (probably again) already generating profit for Sony.

A shame they don't advertise it more, but I guess the show in 2 weeks will give it a nice boost.

I've "played" it for a couple of hours (the first few hours are mostly cutscenes and walking around listening to dialogue) , and I watched it on youtube years ago. Played through the first game one time and I loved it but never wanted to replay it because the gameplay was so shallow. I think TLOU2 has 11 hours of cutscenes so it doesn't seem like a huge stretch to call it a movie game. It's what they were going for and they were very successful.

Jeff needs to be more careful with his alts -

This is just factually incorrect, in terms of pure cutscene length it's probably 4 hrs at most, and as a 25 hr game for most people, that's still 20 hrs of game play most will get out of the game.

I actually think part 2 has much a greater portion of the game as gameplay versus cutscenes than part 1 has.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Tlou2 is without a doubt one of the best playing and smoothest third person shooters ever made.

Also not that it makes any real difference, but the length in total for all cutscenes is somewhere around 3 and a half hours and the game takes at least 25 hours to beat.

 


https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-part-ii-remastered-ccu-peaked-at-23-350.1156002/page-3

[almostheathen]

That gas station guy better watch out for that hookup knife.

[Snoopy]

Imagine his reaction when he sees her posting history

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/#post-138089244

Krazen, keeper of the PoliEra thread, with this incisive and urgent cultural commentary:

Marriage had become tied to capitalism; even as a man why would you take on a partner that can possibly be a financial or labor burden (which is sad btw). Then you get into the issue about how there's an obvious regression on how men value their SO's. I have heard anecdotally from my single female friends out there they talk the usual basic incompatibilities that always existed but also a darker undercurrent when dating. Dudes that will curse you out on text to save face after a few dates where its obvious on both sides there really isn't a spark. Which makes them less active in dating because its effectively more work labor and trauma.

But even skipping our social views on feminism going south, end of the day it does require money time and effort to get to the walk down the aisle point and we don't have that. It's tied to a bunch of things; lost of third spaces to meet people, lots of interactions happening on dating apps that only care about engagement not success, general exhaustion in the extra effort it feels to date after trying to make food on the table for just yourself or worse if you have kids on both sides

Who can forget those halcyon days when marriage was completely independent from capital or labor concerns...If only we could return the those good old days of Never A.D.

I think many people have forgotten that most marriages weren't out of love or finding the one. In a lot of cases people fucked around and got kids and were forced to marry or at least heavily encouraged to. 

Most in society don't want to go back to responsibility and loyalty and until we find an argument why we should do that and the majority agrees, things will remain as they are.
The opposite is happening though, ENM and open relationships are becoming more popular and very one sided (she fucks around, he doesn't). 

Even people that complain about it mostly want to get into the game of fucking around and not marriage. Which is why the Tate chads are cucking them twice with pseudo science about body counts and eyes that lose sparks. Their followers never stop to think who gave the girls those body counts.

[nampad]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-nintendos-switch-2-treehouse-livestream-is-just-a-flood-of-angry-comments-shouting-drop-the-price.1154502/page-17#post-138018432

User banned (permanent): Extremely inappropriate commentary over multiple posts. Account in junior phase.

Well maybe those making minimum wage need to rethink their priorities?

Ppl complaining about prices when they drive around with BMWs/rims/sound system and don't even own their own homes. You don't need the latest Galaxy/iPhone and you certainly don't need every new gaming device either. Whatever happened to waiting to get a console for your birthday or as a Christmas present? Folks today are very much of the mindset of "it's something I want and I want it now." Welcome to life.

Joined
Oct 27, 2017

Junior phase i thought Ree said they weren't doing that.

You mean like everything else they didn’t want to do?
Couldn’t even keep away the smallest things like those custom tags for prominent members.

[railGUN]

[Potato]

Never say that Nepenthe isn't one for class solidarity.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-2#post-138093084

The guy I've got a crush on right now is literally a gas station attendant. But you know what? I don't care. Because he treats me with kindness, humor, and respect. Meanwhile, the richest guys I've dealt with in my life have just been fucking assholes, hopped up on their own self-importance and self-entitlement to not bother with not being dehumanizing.

That guy doesn't know Nep's name, he just says please and thank you and makes a joke or two to kill the time when she goes to pay for her fuel in her clapped out Nissan Versa.

[Potato]

I'm just gonna say my peace. This is coming from a place of wanting my engagement here to work, but noting regular points of frustration that I'm baffled get overlooked while I get actioned for much less. Or maybe I'm the problem.

It's long. When I tried to edit down from 3 pages, it became 5, when I rewrote the whole thing it became 7.

You can't control how people react to your words. You can mean one thing, something takes it as something else. You can try to clarify and contextualize it, but they either see it your way or they don't. It sucks when that happens, but it is what it is. That said, I can notice when people add intent and malice to my words that isn't there to make themselves feel attacked. At which point, my intent seems completely irrelevant to how my words are perceived.

It's a forum, people are here because they're passionate about video games, movies, TV, manga, comics, books and other forms of media and hobbies and they want to hang around likeminded people. With that comes with preferences and attachments, this could be to creators, authors, directors, companies, but also brands. If I like this brand, I want to hang out with other people that like this brand, but I may not like it when people criticize the brand I like so I might get defensive and pushback on any criticism I read about that brand. How and why they criticize it doesn't seem to matter, I just don't want to read anything "negative".

The above can take shape in a lot of ways.

Era has members that practically command and demand positive echo chambers for their favorite brands. People pick fights with anyone that criticizes that brand whether it's coming from a fan who wants to see that brand be better or someone they just perceive to be a hater trying to stir the pot. No matter how much it's explained or clarified that not everyone criticism has to be read as an attack, some people have a compulsive need to maintain the status quo of, my brand is doing everything fine and anyone that says otherwise is a "vocal minority" that can be ignored. "Sales are high, therefore everyone is happy and they don't need to change anything." "That movie made a billion, everyone still loves the brand."

No discussion, no personal opinions, it made money therefore it's objectively good, therefore if you don't like it, it's a you a problem, not a problem with the product. Opinion via analytics. Just robots always needing to be "objectively" right and control the narrative for their favs. You can't even speculate without someone trying to correct you. Every criticism has to be spun into this intentional strategy that the poster would have no knowledge of and clearly just made up on the spot.

I legitimately do not understand why we watch that go down everyday and go "that's fine".

Textbook example. A person says "One of the reason why I didn't like this Pokémon game is because it was too easy." The rebuttal, "It's a game for kids, all Pokémon games are easy, what do you want, Dark Souls?" This is a nearly 30-year-old franchise. Each generation has had varying degrees of difficulty, there are specific entries you can point to and go "that one was kind of hard". The series, until recently, has had a least one difficultly option from jump. One generation actually added Easy and Hard difficulty options in a bafflingly convoluted way. And yet, that obtuse ass, disingenuous ass, made in poor faith ass argument is allowed thread after thread after thread, yes, I understand what hyperbole is, but no, "too easy" doesn't mean "I need it to be super difficult". So why suggest that? Just to push back on someone criticizing something you like by making their complaint seem irrational despite everyone knowing better. That's what people do over and over and over and what I'm supposed to be nice about it?

And the problem is, while it starts small, that kind of behavior seeps into other site issues. The way people are to each other when people don't like their thing. Criticism being read as an attack gives people a pass to retaliate. If can justify you criticizing what I like as an attack, I can return the favor with my own nastiness. Do you have concerns about the console I'm looking forward to? Is your speculation about something I'm looking forward to less than positive? I can just say you're concern trolling and dooming. Did you not like the game that has a 95+ Metacritic that sold 10s of millions of copies, well, you're objectively incorrect and likely means you have bad taste. Or maybe you just hate the brand and are mad that another brand doesn't the attention of the one that I like, maybe you're console warring.

The sales aren't enough, the reviews aren't enough, it has to be 100% universal acclaim in front view at ALL times.

And if no one goes for any of that there's always "Era doesn't like XYZ or XYZ fans". Suddenly the criticism doesn't matter. The site just collectively hates the brand and their fanbase for reasons, any and all nuance goes out the window and now that fanbase gets to act personally aggrieved, which seems grossly manipulative to me. I can point to games, movies, TV and anime people do this with, so don't even with the "he's obviously going on about X fans".

Other manipulations, if I don't like what you're saying, I can go after it in different ways. I can attack your tone. If I can paint you as overly angry, I don't really have to address your point, but can still claim superiority. I can even paint how you post as an act of aggression. "You barged in here and said this", "You're demanding everyone agrees with you", no, they clicked the thread and posted, just like you did. Why are you adding additional anger and malice just because you don't like what they said. Which brings us back to "if can justify you criticizing what I like as an attack, I get to return the favor."

So that's me speaking conceptually. Now let's go into the personal examples.

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My last argument in this thread started because people in another thread dogpiled someone that expressed a dislike of a popular game in the first post, the game was mentioned in the OP so it was actually relevant to the thread topic somewhat. I point to that as people taking something too personally, others defended it as a natural reaction to bait.

One person calls me argumentative and mostly ignores my point and others jump on. So maybe I'm the problem and need to change my behavior, but then why I can go into another thread and read that same person telling others they can't read in response to other not speculating positively on the subject they like. I get called argumentative for telling someone they're using words incorrectly, this person gets to call multiple people illiterate. I've made it a point to note when people clearly didn't bother to read the OP. But I'm hostile.

Maybe I'm overthinking it, maybe it's as easy as all of us just being nice to each other. Be nice and you'll never be actioned. Then why can I watch a dozen members walk on egg shells to politely argue around a popular site owner who gets a free pass to insult anyone who criticizes his favorite IP is ways he doesn't approve of all in the name of "curbing misinformation". I think I've been moderated more for pointing out the pattern of how that person operates, with the worst thing I've ever called them being a "martyr", than they've been on shutting down every take they don't agree with while spinning it as this altruistic act despite painting everyone they disagree with as uninformed liars.

So what's considered hostile?

I've been actioned for "attacking other members". I try to make it a point to explain the faults in people's arguments rather than say anything about them directly. Hostility from me is saying "people's parasocial relationships with companies can cloud how they see things to the point where they'll defend anything", this was said in a thread where people were literally defending a company for not crediting people who worked on a game.

That same day I watched people get mad at others for having critiques on things they were excited about, literally insulting people for not liking a game trailer or having doubts about the introduced concept. I literally shared a list of posts from that the same day with moderation to make the point, "you're telling me all these posts from today were okay, but just mine was over the line?" Did I directly insult anyone, no, but these people did? Another difference to me was criticizing a company that people like vs criticizing people that were criticizing a company that people like. What's more likely to get reported and why? Was a rule actually broken or is someone just bothered by my take and wants to get one over on me. Call it paranoid, but when I see people get away with calling others idiots for not liking a game trailer, tell me, what is my takeaway supposed to be?

A couple years ago there was a Street Fighter VI thread about the Cammy reveal and her redesign. Someone criticized her larger forehead in a rude way, even though I liked the design, I sort of got where he was coming from and tried to make their point better in a less rude way. That poster and I were both banned for sexism. I wasn't trying to be critical, but it was still shallow jab at a female character finally being less overtly sexualized which rubbed people the wrong the way, so I got it. Even though I know what I was trying to say, I understand why it wasn't liked and regardless I was still backing a shitty post. There was a clear, you did this, don't do it again lesson there.

Telling someone you're trying to be nice by referencing an alternative way you could've made your argument for the sake of proving that you're actually trying to argue in good faith with them isn't hostility.

Telling adults that they're overreacting to Switch 2 op-eds that aren't as positive as they want to hear for the purpose of satiating and validating their hype isn't console warring, which is especially insulting when it feels like I feel like 50% of gaming content here borders on that. I can watch people prop up their favorite companies' successes in threads about their competitors' layoffs. I can watch people derail sales threads about one company's successes and say they could do better by being more like another company. I can watch a company reach a successful milestone and then someone will just credit another company's example for the topic company's success. But I need to chill on the console warring.

I can be called dumb for making a light thread about how I thought Kevin Butler was a real person for an extended period of time as a teenager. I can be called a gross animal because I didn't feel like washing a couple dishes one day. Other posters can shit talk me to others right in front of me. But I need to be nicer to all of this. I can watch verified users tell people who piss them off to "fuck off into the sun", but telling people getting mad at op-eds to relax is over the line.

I watch people lie, misrepresent things, have selective memory, play dumb, and that's all okay for the sake of defending something they like, but calling it out seems like a thankless task that only gets you in trouble.

If I'm hostile, it's in response to people's unprompted condescension. I've walked away from many threads that went south / put plenty of people on ignore or if I run into someone I've but heads with before, I've even given them the "can we not do this for no reason" right before they went ahead and did it for no reason. I give people chances, I can get along fine with people who disagree with me, even people who've pissed me off, I can think "ah, they're normally cool, maybe that was just a bad interaction, I can let that one go". But when you're blatantly antagonistic, over someone not liking what you like …

I'm just asking for some consistency. It shouldn't be about liking or disliking people or communities or carrying a grudge. Call things for what they are. I've agreed with and backed people I've placed on ignore (site makes it too easy to see their posts) when I thought they've made good points. I can note when people I'm friendly with are arguing in a disingenuous way. I don't have to be a fan of a company to when I feel like they're being unfairly maligned. I CAN CRITICIZE THINGS AND STILL LIKE THEM. It's about calling something for what it is, not carrying a grudge from thread to thread. It feels like people's reports are often based on grudges or people being made about something they like being criticized.

I can note someone's parasocial attachment to a company, brand or IP, but I'm never going to play to people that demand this positive echo chamber where anything that isn't positive has to be dismissed. Sorry, you don't like seeing people criticize what you like, but you're 30, you're 30, you're 30, you're 30, you're 30, you're 30, you're 30, you're 30, you're 30, YOU'RE 30 and should recognize someone not liking something you like isn't a personal attack on you. But like I already suggested, that's not a misunderstanding, that's deliberate. If I constantly reiterate the hardships of being a fan, it makes it easier to lash out, sometimes preemptively.

People are not nice about things on this site, they're just selective about the digs they take offense to. If I can read "Hideo Kojima is an overrated hack 1000" times with rarely any pushback, where does anyone get off acting persecuted because someone is disappointed by an inanimate box or because someone suggests people's interest in a cinematic universe peaked 6 years ago. It's not about lazy drive bys or empty criticisms, you could write a nuanced 6-page essay and it's still getting the same treatment from people who don't want to hear it.

I get why this stuff isn't always called out. Pick your battles. Not everything gets the same response or treatment. Certain communities are going to be certain communities. Fandoms are going to be fandoms. We all have our preferences and baggage we bring into these conversations. Certain companies get passes for things others don't because the former has a more passionate fanbase willing to overlook things. That's fine, but then don't take offense when those inconsistencies are pointed out and then default to "Era hates XYZ".

There's a reason I'm constantly trying to spell out "those haters might actually be fans who want to see the thing they like improve" and that all criticism isn't negativity, people just want better for something they like, but it feels like there's no winning unless you play along with people's "you better like my thing, everyone better like it and say nice things about my thing or it means you hate it, everyone who likes it, and more specifically me" nonsense.

And then you get the bizarre instances where fans and detractors of something can co-exist with minimal fighting in something they're less personally invested in and suddenly there's nuance and understanding of different thoughts and criticisms, and it's the same people in both threads, so don't tell me it's not intentional or personal. For games, this is usually threads about third party games, unless it's Final Fantasy.

There's a reason, I'm always beating the drum of, "it's not what you say, it's who you say it about" and I'd love to play a game of "let's line up these posts and guess which one was reported and actioned" to prove that.

And if that seems whiny, I've never complained about or referenced anything I couldn't give you at least six examples of so I invite you to ask me for those receipts because that allowed me to get really specific. And it's not like other people don't point these things out in these threads. I don't have to go back further than a week to read someone saying "it's always concern trolling when it's something less than positive being said about this company" and I know you all see these trends, don't just play along just because it's in favor for something you like.

Otherwise, the takeaway is, it's okay to crash out when certain movies / brands / IP / companies you like get criticized because that poster attacked you first with their criticism, I'm just calling bullshit on the spin. And honestly, it doesn't even require actual criticism for someone to feel attacked.

Read this OP

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-is-going-to-get-the-lord-of-the-rings-treatment-im-trying-to-make-sense-of-this-narrative.1083252/

and tell me how we got here

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-is-going-to-get-the-lord-of-the-rings-treatment-im-trying-to-make-sense-of-this-narrative.1083252/page-2#post-134343951

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-is-going-to-get-the-lord-of-the-rings-treatment-im-trying-to-make-sense-of-this-narrative.1083252/page-2#post-134344497

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-is-going-to-get-the-lord-of-the-rings-treatment-im-trying-to-make-sense-of-this-narrative.1083252/page-2#post-134344599

and then tell me I'm making this stuff up. Apparently not knowing what an OP is referring to is reason enough to act like an ass. Hell, call me hostile in that thread (though I'd prefer sarcastic, tired and defeated by the cycle), but also note what brought it about. You get to troll people, rile them up until they snap and then you get to report them because they seemingly attacked your thing. Which is why I attack what people say, not them personally. Show them how their point doesn't make sense, let them know that I know that they're bullshitting.

But at the same time, people know what they're doing when trying to get under your skin. "You didn't like my thing so I'll say it's weird how you keep mentioning them and assume you have a grudge against a character I like."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-hero-academia-season-6-ot-all-war-no-recap.638601/page-12#post-103194886

You could say I could've been nicer (the post before this one was the nice one and they still doubled down), but when they've already been having a go at you for a while over nothing, what kindness is owed or can I just call it for what it is (without insulting them). Because that certainly ended the conversation when I gave them no room to spin anything. That's why I have to be direct because people are often full of it. Not trying to antagonize people, just saying cut the shit.

Is there a another solution besides, be nice to the communities that are best at acting personally aggrieved when not showered with constant praise while constantly attacking people they don't agree with. Fall in line and just eat it?

Hell, maybe the people I'm saying this to don't see this as a problem and I should just get with the program or leave because all it takes to dismiss everything I just said is a patronizing non-response like - "Wow … all this anger and aggression toward people for simply liking products, who hurt you?" or "Didn't know simply being a fan of something and wanting to talk about it with people positively was such a bad thing that caused you so much mental anguish." We've seen these posts.

I'm here because I actually like games, movies and other media, not because I have a personal vested interest in the profit gains of companies to use to win console war / east vs west debates. I want to learn and gain perspective and share stories and experiences, the good and the bad from fans with opinions, not PR volunteers damage controlling every criticism they see with some narrative they made up on the spot that'll age like milk in less than week and never be acknowledged. Forgive me for not being kind to that when it's often insisted upon me unprompted.

As maligned as the WWE is here, the reason I like that Hangout is because people are general fans of the product and can acknowledge the good and the bad without the constant need for damage controlling for the company and everyone's opinions. We're critical of the people who run it, we say what we like and say what we don't. We also get really frustrated at each other sometimes, but can reasonably hash it out without too much drama and then get back to celebrating the highs or the lows. A bad episode can be followed by a good one and a great event can be followed a terrible one. It's not about shutting down every opinion I don't like unless someone is going really over the top. A lot of Hangouts are like that and it's nice and people are less likely to have a compulsive need to control the way people talk about things.

I read like the first couple sentences and then skipped down to the last paragraph. I'm intrigued to find out how we got from whinging about Resetera to the WWE, but not retarded enough to go and read that whole mess. 

[HaughtyFrank]

Never say that Nepenthe isn't one for class solidarity.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-2#post-138093084

The guy I've got a crush on right now is literally a gas station attendant. But you know what? I don't care. Because he treats me with kindness, humor, and respect. Meanwhile, the richest guys I've dealt with in my life have just been fucking assholes, hopped up on their own self-importance and self-entitlement to not bother with not being dehumanizing.

Please be a dreamy white dude, please be a dreamy white dude

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamala-harris-speaks-out-for-first-time-in-months-%E2%80%9Di%E2%80%99m-not-here-to-say-i-told-you-so-%E2%80%9C.1155084/page-2#post-138030924

User Banned (1 Month): misogynistic commentary

typical neoliberal era garbage.

hahahaha look at this dude struggling now because he had standards to not vote a genocide pushing bitch. Definitely his fault that Trump is in power instead of the shitty democratic candidates and their crappy genocide pushing platform.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamala-harris-speaks-out-for-first-time-in-months-%E2%80%9Di%E2%80%99m-not-here-to-say-i-told-you-so-%E2%80%9C.1155084/page-5#post-138037770

User Banned (1 Week): Justifying sexist pejorative, account in junior phase

I was going to report this, but I see you already got banned. Calling her a "bitch" isn't it.

yeah we can't start calling people who enable genocide bad words. that's the line we are drawing while we question why we lost the election.

liberals are genuinely wild.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamala-harris-speaks-out-for-first-time-in-months-%E2%80%9Di%E2%80%99m-not-here-to-say-i-told-you-so-%E2%80%9C.1155084/page-5#post-138037770

User Banned (1 Week): Justifying sexist pejorative, account in junior phase

I was going to report this, but I see you already got banned. Calling her a "bitch" isn't it.

yeah we can't start calling people who enable genocide bad words. that's the line we are drawing while we question why we lost the election.

liberals are genuinely wild.

They're always so surprised when they discover that they've been posting on resetera.com

[Besticus Maximus]

I want as little money as possible going to this economy

You having money is the economy 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/united-states-tells-allies-that-it-is-going-%E2%80%98to-cease-all-future-military-exercises-in-europe%E2%80%99.1129149/page-2#post-136769604

User banned (1 week): advocating violence

I'm not gonna say it specifically, but we as US citizens need to consider taking drastic action for the sake of the world.

EDIT: This is *not* a call for violence. I want to be clear.

Why the edit? It's exactly what is needed. The world is being swayed easily by far right groups left unchecked because everyone else is too nice. It's OK to wish for the end of horror when simply saying "this ain't good" and hoping folks vote with at least one brain cell aren't working. That's as meaningful as "thoughts and prayers".

We need blood and fire ffs.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/united-states-tells-allies-that-it-is-going-%E2%80%98to-cease-all-future-military-exercises-in-europe%E2%80%99.1129149/page-3#post-136770765

User banned (1 week): attacking other users

When the FUCK are Americans going to do something about this shit?!

the best you'll get are snarky replies from americans here in the vibe of "wElL aCtUaLLy wHat do yOu ExPecT Us To dO"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/united-states-tells-allies-that-it-is-going-%E2%80%98to-cease-all-future-military-exercises-in-europe%E2%80%99.1129149/page-4#post-136780935

User banned (1 week): inflammatory commentary

Th US was an adversary of the EU/UK before trump even taken hold with how the force laws to be weakened against its tech giants and with all of its other medaling. It's just the mask is off now. Even if the Dems get in again only a very small amount of them seem to be unhappy with this so I doubt they would do anything to stop this from happening again. Even American citizens are generally pro trump/his actions, even here they defend it or dance around the subject and hand wave everything.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-post-%E2%80%9Ctrump-is-purposely-crashing-the-market%E2%80%9D.1155903/page-2#post-138079770

Then he and his admin should be executed as seditionists for wanting to destroy the US.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-post-%E2%80%9Ctrump-is-purposely-crashing-the-market%E2%80%9D.1155903/page-2#post-138081756

isn't that what the 2nd amendment is for?

[books]

The bans always amazes me in their nonsensical nature. Advocating murder is ok except when it's not. Racism is OK except when it's not. Marvel bashing is never allowed. Bashing Ubisoft is OK except when it's not. Bashing the USA is OK except when it's not. Etc. 

The three mod committee overseeing bans need to get their shit together.

Fake edit- the OP who wrote that long ass essay is gonna go postal soon.

[Besticus Maximus]

user banned: Reason; undermining american exceptionalism (the liberal good version)

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-post-%E2%80%9Ctrump-is-purposely-crashing-the-market%E2%80%9D.1155903/page-2#post-138079770

Then he and his admin should be executed as seditionists for wanting to destroy the US.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-post-%E2%80%9Ctrump-is-purposely-crashing-the-market%E2%80%9D.1155903/page-2#post-138081756

isn't that what the 2nd amendment is for?

Um prison and execution are bad. my understanding was that the reeeees wanted rehabilitation 

Trump can change... Just like my cousin that killed three people.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/welcome-new-members-introduce-yourself-here.119184/page-43#post-137664051

Mar 25, 2

Hello Everybody!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-2#post-138091938

One look at r/relationship_advice and you'll see the bar for men has been in hell for far too long. Women are finally realising they don't have to settle for the bare minimum and you know what?



Not to mention men going increasingly manosphere/alt-right.

Well, your comment didn't help.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-2#post-138092274

Why?

The main problem is that some of us have turned love/companionship/creating a union into a competition where one has to be above the other. The comment I replied too is an example of that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-2#post-138092943

How on earth is the comment you replied to an example of that?

The comment slanders one group with little evidence then puts the other in the "woe is me" category, how is that not creating division/competition?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-2#post-138093654

Like...it doesn't?

Oh, it doesn't? How silly of me, I forgot that men always exhibit low standards when they get into relationships and that women have been suffering in silence since the dawn of time. There's no nuance and its obvious that men are trash.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-3#post-138094155

Actually, in many societies we laude particularly Western Society? Yes. Motherfuckers couldn't vote until recently, lol

I know that women couldn't vote until recently and that's messed up, but if you drop comment akin to "men are low quality trash", how do you think some should respond?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-3#post-138094551

If that's how you read the comment, that is a you problem and I recommend you deal with that if you ever want a healthy relationship. That's the last I'll say on this because at this point it just seems like you're trolling.

something like "yeah men need to do better"

With a shrug because I am not a hit dog and understand the issues? End of the day this isn't behavior planned out by the feminine illuminati meeting who met over tea and crumpets; even if we take the critiques in this post the whole idea of finding a perfect man to take care of them and don't worry their pretty little hearts is propaganda perpetrated by men . It's a critique that as a collective we have failed and instead of tearing down patriarchy that only recently stopped serving the non super rich part of our group, many of us want to double down, lol.

Please cease with your messages, you have won. I've asked for an account deletion asap.

I only asked for nuance and you couldn't even give me that. Man, I'm a fucking fool.

I truly hope cancer comes for me soon.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Never say that Nepenthe isn't one for class solidarity.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-2#post-138093084

The guy I've got a crush on right now is literally a gas station attendant. But you know what? I don't care. Because he treats me with kindness, humor, and respect. Meanwhile, the richest guys I've dealt with in my life have just been fucking assholes, hopped up on their own self-importance and self-entitlement to not bother with not being dehumanizing.

B-Dumbs rn

[Jansen]

Today's dilemma is the desire to live beyond one's means

[Potato]

Never say that Nepenthe isn't one for class solidarity.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/page-2#post-138093084

The guy I've got a crush on right now is literally a gas station attendant. But you know what? I don't care. Because he treats me with kindness, humor, and respect. Meanwhile, the richest guys I've dealt with in my life have just been fucking assholes, hopped up on their own self-importance and self-entitlement to not bother with not being dehumanizing.

B-Dumbs rn

He will redouble his efforts to simp for her. Expect a wave of bannings for racism.

[Potato]

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Today's dilemma is the desire to live beyond one's means

Is the dilemma getting your fucking picture link to work?

[Boredfrom]

Good to hear! Wife and I used to live there, we were there when the Proud Boys got kicked off campus in 2022.

Just got back from second protest in Northampton MA, it was smaller but more focused and organized by the DemilitarizeWesternMass group. Cold and rainy but we were out there!

 

This dude.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/protests-against-trump-and-musk-are-growing-—-with-a-mass-demonstration-set-for-april-5.1144686/page-8

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/u-s-consumers-rush-to-buy-big-ticket-items-before-trump%E2%80%99s-tariffs-kick-in.1156212/page-3#post-138106434

I just got totally fuckec at the border over a hundred bucks in groceries. They charged me an additional 45 dollars due to tariffs coming back to Canada. On fucking basic groceries!!

[Jansen]

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Today's dilemma is the desire to live beyond one's means

Is the dilemma getting your fucking picture link to work?

They don't show up? Weird, it shows for me in the preview.

Let me know if it works now.

[Boredfrom]

Being angry at *posters* on resetera for actions of the US government is misplaced nonsense.

No one here is asking people to stop being angry at the Trump administration for wanting to annex foreign countries because of a well attended protests. Just, maybe stop pretending like no-one is doing anything because for the people that *are* it makes us feel like our efforts are for nothing... and I don't think anyone wants that.

[Potato]

In today's, we don't mock the Nintentards at famiboards enough news, dude with bear fucking fetish posts thinly veiled fantasy

https://famiboards.com/threads/bears.13084/

Spoiler: Profile pic is NOT a surprise (click to show)(click to hide)

[BIONIC]

Man, I'm a fucking fool.

I truly hope cancer comes for me soon.

Newsfeed please