Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-samba-tv-viewer-data-for-streaming-services-being-used-as-viewer-metrics.741324/

lmfao

: the thread

[Besticus Maximus]

Ah yes if only there was a simple way for a human being to go to such a magical, inaccessible land as Brazil

Also they're all fat as fuck and live in near enough tropical climates, they're going to reek

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Brazil: "No, thank you."

[jooseloose]

Girl no, not like this 😭

Yup every day. Personally I need to to feel clean, and it's a really important mental flush too. Just always elevates me up a bit and can come out of it clean and strong. Plus there's so many nice shower items, from soaps to shampoos and conditioners. It's a nice little comfort pass, a slice of me time in any hectic day.

yasss qweeen

[NekoFever]

Brazil, the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery?

Brazil, the country that imported more slaves than any other in the world?

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bungie-wins-lawsuit-against-racist-who-harassed-its-employees-almost-500k-in-damages-and-fees.741582/


uhhhhhhhhhhh.... for such a self-proclaimed anti-establishment / anti-capitalist / anti-corporate forum they seem real fucking happy that

we got -- as a CONCLUSION OF LAW -- that when an employee is harassed *by reason of their employment,* that harassment damages the employer as well, and the employer can enforce the recovery of those damages in civil court.

the really exciting news comes in at the end. In addition to finding that Washington employers can recover for damages for harassment of their employees under standard torts like nuisance and invasion of privacy, the Court also held that it would recognize A NEW TORT.

By recognizing a new tort based on the Washington criminal statutes outlawing cyber and telephone harassment, the Court has created a path for those with the resources to identify stochastic terrorists and hold them accountable to do exactly that and recover their costs in court.

Because only good corporations could use this precedent for virtuous causes

[MJBarret]

Era sowing:  "Fuck yeah, I just love swingin' this double-edged sword!"

....

Edit: top page totty

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bungie-wins-lawsuit-against-racist-who-harassed-its-employees-almost-500k-in-damages-and-fees.741582/

the Court has created a path for those with the resources to identify stochastic terrorists and hold them accountable to do exactly that and recover their costs in court.

lol no and lmao no to the bolded

edit: omg didn't realize this quote was the lawyer at first, no she did not win anything for the non-crime of stochastic terrorism especially because this wasn't an example the guy did it all himself and then didn't even present a defense of any kind

Good. This becomes a precedent for future harassment

Well this sounds like a good precedent in these times when racists and homophobes are trying to force their will on every major corporation.

Almost $400k to be a racist fuckstick. Hope this sets a precedent going forward against these assholes who think they can threaten employees with no consequences.

I hope this means companies like Target take the bigoted fucks who harass their employees over pride displays to court.

Nice, now more game companies can just refer to this case to win theirs.

lol no

I actually hope that Bungie in good faith re-invest the money back into the recovery and livelihood of their employees tbh. Racist attacks and trauma, especially when compounded with a lifetime of racism and discrimination has a compounding effect that absolutely ruins people's lives, and every dollar possible for their recovery and support is necessary to bring people back from the brink that it sends them to. If you want productive employees to keep on making money for you, you better invest in them and remove as many obstacles as possible so that they do not continue to be disadvantaged.

lol

 Cohen is an anti-LGBTQ woman hater who attacks his ex-wife on social media during their ongoing court cases and claims he went through the process of registering copyrights to pictures of his children so he could sue people for making fun of them online. (IIRC, he also once attempted to buy Kiwi Farms from Null.)

And like Alex Jones, the person didn't even make a defense:

The guy was not guilty of racism or anything like that, he personally was calling the people, ordering pizzas to their house and then calling them again to ask about the pizzas, all of which is standard harassment literally nothing any of the idiots above seem to think this case was about, especially since this was not online harassment except that he used an internet phone to make the calls: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14s3qU7K78oeSvWW1YL8RD3cofI-7mCaU/view

But never the less, unlike in other ResetERA.com threads, everyone's celebrating the guy being in debt for life to a video game company:

Good on Bungie for this. Put the fear of god (or perpetual poverty) in these clowns.

hope that fuckin puts him in debt forever

What happens next? Wage garnishment (assuming he’s got a job besides being a piece of shit)

This is amazing

You love to see it.

Good shit

fucked around and definitely found out.

More of this, please.

They're already salivating at the idea of financial legal consequences for people they don't like who are exactly like them:

good. There needs to be hard consequences for harassers who hide behind computer screens.

I love seeing accountability!!! Hopefully this acts as a deterrent from others who think anonymity is a one way street allowing them to disrespect whoever. Hold more people responsible for their behavior.

A dickhead on the internet actually gets hit with punishment, nice.

One troll (registered Oct 2017 so likely a Russian infiltrator) sneaks in though:

Well, let's hope it doesn't backfire when companies start defending bigots.

Not defending harassment, just that there is no clear definition of what constitutes (online) harassment.

[MJBarret]

Thank god CD Project Red have a legal recourse for the horrible online harassment they face. I wonder if the Hogwarts Legacy devs have heard the news yet.

[Uncle]

Uncle content:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baldur’s-gate-3-leaps-up-steam-charts-after-bear-sex-reveal.741507/page-3#post-108880029

I would argue both are gross, awful and harmful. Pedophilia it's much worse and victimizes children, but beastiality is also awful and there is no justification for it.

How is a druid shaped as bear bestiality and fucking any alien in mass effect not? bears that talk and can consent are as fantasy as an alien.

——

If the scene was heterosexual and the druid was an attractive woman people wouldn't be saying shit about how 'immoral' it is

wow

I'm just applying the same argument and being consistent. Pedophilia is wrong, and it is still pedophilia even if you claim the person is a 1000 year dragon.

I'm also saying beastiality is wrong even if you claim the person is actually a druid.

You can't strip all context and "x is y so z is y" stuff like this. There is a reason 1000 year old dragon is a harmful trope, because it exists in a society where pedophilia is a widespread problem. It's like saying putting a man in bikini armor is sexist because putting a woman in bikini armor is.

depicting bestiality is actually ok because it's not a widespread problem 

let's get a game with some necrophilia next, that's even less prevalent

[Uncle]

Tide continues to turn against the transmafia and their supporters.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-13/qld-medical-insurer-drops-cover-private-doctors-gender-dysphoria/102592298

News of its decision to deny private doctors cover for assessing children and adolescents as suitable for gender transition and for initiating cross-sex hormone treatment to patients under 18 years of age comes amid huge demand on public hospital gender services.

As of May 9 this year, the Queensland Children's Gender Service had 642 children and young people, ranging in age from four to 17, on its waitlist for assessment.

count on capitalism to save the day  

not because it's the right or wrong thing morally, but because the liability is tremendous if an adult sues over what was done to them as a child 

[benji]

wow

I'm just applying the same argument and being consistent. Pedophilia is wrong, and it is still pedophilia even if you claim the person is a 1000 year dragon.

I'm also saying beastiality is wrong even if you claim the person is actually a druid.

You can't strip all context and "x is y so z is y" stuff like this. There is a reason 1000 year old dragon is a harmful trope, because it exists in a society where pedophilia is a widespread problem. It's like saying putting a man in bikini armor is sexist because putting a woman in bikini armor is.

depicting bestiality is actually ok because it's not a widespread problem 

let's get a game with some necrophilia next, that's even less prevalent

Uh, what's the proper amount of pedophilia for a society to have?

[Uncle]

Uh, what's the proper amount of pedophilia for a society to have?

juuuust enough so that you can make media with socially acceptable 1000 year old lolis 

[Straight Edge]

Ree: I wash my chicken, not my body.

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bbc-documentary-inside-the-global-network-torturing-baby-monkeys.741444/#post-108884682

Why the fuck is there a thread about this, I have been on reset eta ever since we left that shit hole forum… I think I’m leaving after this, it’s becoming non stop hey guys look at this horrible thing! Wtf! Everyone knows that people are horrible, that shit like this happens to animals and to women etc. every single day in all places on earth. Murder, torture rape etc. this does nothing to help stop it, all you are doing is finding the worst of humanity and throwing it in the face of people. We get it, humans are gross and cruel. Some people want to not have to hear about it non stop. And to live their life’s as best as they can. I’m sure you meant well, but seriously how does this stop such gross shit? All posting about his does is traumatize other people. I don’t get it truly, I want to believe op has good intentions but I don’t see any by making a thread about this shit.

And then it got locked by a mod, 5 hours later when it had already died 😂

[Straight Edge]

Actual baby monkey genocide taking away the spotlight from the trans genocide.

[Snoopy]

I get why they freaked out. I saw it on the BBC app and thought it was about vivisection and evil scientists. Watching a documentary about scumbags paying to torture animals for kicks seems a lot more disturbing. Sometimes you're just better off not knowing.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baldur’s-gate-3-leaps-up-steam-charts-after-bear-sex-reveal.741507/page-5#post-108895008

If consent was the sole reason of why bestiality is illegal, eating animals would be as illegal.
There's also a moral reason for why it is illegal. It's not only because an animal can't consent. It's also because it's gross af.

I hate even getting into this because it's really just thought experiments and people love to miss the point about those, but "gross af" isn't a proper basis for moral reasoning. There has to be an actual ethical problem for why and in this case it's gross af because they can't consent. In a hypothetical world where a non-human animal had the sapience to actually consent to sex, they'd be deserving of all the rights and freedoms as humans. Which will obviously never happen on Earth as long as we're around but is basically what the situation would be if we discovered sapient aliens, and people are pretty cool with the idea of fucking aliens.

And the reason eating animals isn't illegal is because we're omnivores. If all humans could easily live without ever eating meat and we had the resources to easily support that across the planet there would be a strong moral argument for it to be made illegal.

[Eric Cartman]

oooohhhhhhhhhhhh okay, got it, the reason bestiality is borderline okay is because its a bunch of fucking degenerate furries

[RetiredSkunk]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/baldur’s-gate-3-leaps-up-steam-charts-after-bear-sex-reveal.741507/page-5#post-108895008

If consent was the sole reason of why bestiality is illegal, eating animals would be as illegal.
There's also a moral reason for why it is illegal. It's not only because an animal can't consent. It's also because it's gross af.

I hate even getting into this because it's really just thought experiments and people love to miss the point about those, but "gross af" isn't a proper basis for moral reasoning. There has to be an actual ethical problem for why and in this case it's gross af because they can't consent. In a hypothetical world where a non-human animal had the sapience to actually consent to sex, they'd be deserving of all the rights and freedoms as humans. Which will obviously never happen on Earth as long as we're around but is basically what the situation would be if we discovered sapient aliens, and people are pretty cool with the idea of fucking aliens.

And the reason eating animals isn't illegal is because we're omnivores. If all humans could easily live without ever eating meat and we had the resources to easily support that across the planet there would be a strong moral argument for it to be made illegal.

I'm going to guess that person is in at least 3 government aid programs.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-store-june-2023’s-top-downloads.741636/

The gaps in the list

Actual fucking babies

[Besticus Maximus]

For the unaware



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE (née Hutcheson; 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001)[2] was a British teacher and conservative activist. She campaigned against social liberalism and the mainstream British media, both of which she accused of encouraging a more permissive society. She was the founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, through which she led a longstanding campaign against the BBC. A hard-line social conservative, she was termed a reactionary by her socially liberal opponents. Her motivation derived from her Christian beliefs, her aversion to the rapid social and political changes in British society of the 1960s, and her work as a teacher of sex education.[3]

Whitehouse became an art teacher, at the same time becoming involved in evangelical Christian groups such as the Student Christian Movement (which became increasingly more liberal leading up to, and after, a 1928 split with the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship) and Moral Re-Armament. She became a public figure via the Clean-Up TV pressure group, established in 1964, in which she was the most prominent figure. The following year she founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, using it as a platform to criticise the BBC for what she perceived as a lack of accountability and excessive use of bad language and portrayals of sex and violence in its programmes. During the 1970s she broadened her activities and was a leading figure in the Nationwide Festival of Light, a Christian campaign that gained mass support for a period. She initiated a successful private prosecution against Gay News on the grounds of blasphemous libel, the first such case for more than 50 years. Another private prosecution was against the director of the play The Romans in Britain, which had been performed at the National Theatre.

My point is, they're all just Mary Whitehouse

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-store-june-2023’s-top-downloads.741636/

And these people claim to be "allies" but just like centrists they're willing to go halfway to genocide.

[killamajig]

I used to but not anymore.

So I shower every Tuesday and Thursday morning. That's when I go to work at the office.

I shower every Tuesday night, that's when iplay bball. that'll be back to 2x week come Sept.

I shower every time I exercise but that's probably only like... 1 a week at the most these days.

And I shower anytime I do yard work or anything strenuous to be sweaty.

But since the pandemic and being the default parent at home I rarely shower on the weekends unless it's some specific thing that requires it. This would have sleeved me out 4+ years ago but honestly it's kinda sad I just have no fucking time to myself Saturday and Sunday and when I do have to e to myself (like 930 after putting my kid to bed) I'll want to play videogames or watch TV or something. Most times on sat / sun im just go go go with parenting stuff from 730 am until 930 pm. If my wife has the kid away for some reason like she goes to my in laws (which almost never happens without me) then I'll usually do yard work or something I've put off like cleaning/organizing, in which case I do shower.

But man like the time I have to myself is nill sometimes.

How do these people not have five minutes a day?

Well, first gotta get the Aquaman bubble bath......then get Little Mermaid bath toys.......then put Spiderman footy Pjs in the dryer so they are warm and toasty.......then....

See? Can't do all that in 5 mins.

[BisMarckie]

Ban stochastic terrorists like benji and kill them in Gitmo

[Averon]

To justify them dismissing brown people as PoC, accused them for historically being part of the white supremacist power structure:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/edge-387-ff16-oxenfree-2-aliens-and-more.741618/page-3#post-108893640

The transatlantic slave trade, the colonization of the Americas, and the idea of whiteness originated with Mediterranean people who legally and morally differentiated themselves from the Black people they enslaved.

It was well defined before the British showed up. Well defined literally centuries before the US was founded. It always included the Spanish, the Portugese, and the people of the Ottoman empire, which stretched from Austria over to the caucasus, down through Greece, Turkey, the middle east, and back across north Africa.

It's never been a reference to literal skin color. It's not like Norwegians came up with this shit. That's not who needed to differentiate between the free and the enslaved. The people who came up with the categories of white and Black had skin that was all sorts of tan and brown and olive. Again, whiteness is not, and has never been, about literal skin color.

From this post, any group/society that had sub-Saharan African slaves are part of the modern day white power structure and can thus be dismissed as being PoC.



https://www.resetera.com/threads/edge-387-ff16-oxenfree-2-aliens-and-more.741618/#post-108890433

"The absence of people of colour is notable in a game about slavery"
Having a whole world where most of its people are pasty white mannequins is a problem and the reasoning for it is bullshit, no doubt, but themes of slavery requiring people of color is a weird sentiment to say the least.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/edge-387-ff16-oxenfree-2-aliens-and-more.741618/page-2#post-108892887

I’m sick and tired of games media (and sadly you see it a lot on era also) taking representation to only mean black/dark skinned representation and fuck everyone else. This kind of reverse colourism fucking sucks and you see see it time and time again.

There are no brown people in XVI, really? As a brown mfer there sure seemed to be people who looked like me in the game but apparently we don’t count and aren’t PoC. We can demand better without shitting on other PoC or making other groups feel like they do not matter.

[BIONIC]

I see lots of concern dismissing

In other news, messmess is back posting

[BIONIC]

The main thing that bothers me about the bear stuff is how this was framed as appealing to furries. I've seen countless memes and jokes about it.
But it feeds on the terrible narrative that furries are into beastiality and want to fuck real animals, which the community has tried for several years to get the hell away from. Keep on making memes if you want, but please for the love of god do not involve furries. It reinforces a bad stereotype.

The true victims in all this

[DocWager]

“No we want to fuck non-existent talking humanoid animals because we watched a lot of Disney growing up, and it fucked us up in ways we are trying to defend because we are a complete mess.”

[benji]

To justify them dismissing brown people as PoC, accused them for historically being part of the white supremacist power structure:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/edge-387-ff16-oxenfree-2-aliens-and-more.741618/page-3#post-108893640

The transatlantic slave trade, the colonization of the Americas, and the idea of whiteness originated with Mediterranean people who legally and morally differentiated themselves from the Black people they enslaved.

It was well defined before the British showed up. Well defined literally centuries before the US was founded. It always included the Spanish, the Portugese, and the people of the Ottoman empire, which stretched from Austria over to the caucasus, down through Greece, Turkey, the middle east, and back across north Africa.

It's never been a reference to literal skin color. It's not like Norwegians came up with this shit. That's not who needed to differentiate between the free and the enslaved. The people who came up with the categories of white and Black had skin that was all sorts of tan and brown and olive. Again, whiteness is not, and has never been, about literal skin color.

Race as we understand it today wasn't even invented as a concept until the end of the 18th century. None of the people he calls "the Spanish" would have recognized themselves as "Spanish" let alone "white" and thus having something inherently in common (lacking souls) with all the other yts in the highly racially diverse area of Europe. He's projecting modern understandings backwards through time before they were conceived to explain how everyone back then acted and thought.

I've mentioned this before, slavery did not have a racial component anywhere but the Americas. The Europeans of the time didn't understand the American justifications even if they were also white supremacists and all of them had all the ethnic-based hatreds they maintain to this day.