Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Venice]

Are game devs ok?

Melody Shreds sure is looking good these days

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-one-bring-to-a-sex-party.963081/post-127671963

echoshifting
I have returned from the supposed orgy.

To be fair I got there very late. Nina Flowers was playing tonight and I wanted to see her first. But when I got there it was really winding down, everyone was leaving and basically nobody had sex after we got there. Oh well! There were some fun outfits. Sorry to let you down Era

Same energy: Sex party dysphoria NSFW

. I cried in the bathroom for like half an hour before my friend found me. While I was in there a few people knocked wanting to use it and I told them to go away mid cry. On the other side of the door I heard someone even said “I think that girl is still in there”.

Full post:

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Sex party dysphoria NSFW

Hi /r/ftm

Throwaway because my main account has posts in my college subreddit.

This happened pre-covid. I was invited to a sex party (for men only) on a January weekend by a guy I know from my a queer group at my college. I was really excited to go, as he is queer and very inclusive of others and it was extremely validating to be asked to join. I asked him if the people there would also be inclusive and he told me not to worry about it (vague I know but I trusted him). However at the house the party was held it was quite a different story. 100% of the men there were cis.

Now this isn’t a problem generally but I expected it to be more of a queer get together with men of all gender expressions (like our queer group) and not just run of the mill masc4masc cis gay men. I quickly noticed that I wouldn’t fit in even though I sort of pass (FYI 2 months on T and pre top and pre bottom but I dress really masc and I have a smallish chest). The stares didn’t help me feel any more at ease. It’s like nobody wanted to interact with me even though I made a lot of effort to talk to people and approach them.

They all had this deer in the headlights type expression. They just would end up leaving the conversation abruptly or making some bullshit excuse to go hit on another guy. I ended up just clinging to my friend for most of the night. The only thing I could really do is try to ease my nerves by getting more drunk (I’m 21 relax).

The party gradually progressed into people taking more clothes off and eventually there were people full on “doing it”. My friend tried to convinced me to join in the fun after a pep talk that the people there weren’t transphobic just icy. I was feeling more confident because of the Dutch courage anyway so I ended up taking my shirt off (like he suggested) and moving into the main space where everything was happening.

I wish I didn’t listen to him. People physically recoiled from me when I walked near them and made faces at me. It was like I had a literal fucking force field around me :(. It felt like hours cruising around but it was really only about 2 minutes before I had enough. I cried in the bathroom for like half an hour before my friend found me. While I was in there a few people knocked wanting to use it and I told them to go away mid cry. On the other side of the door I heard someone even said “I think that girl is still in there”.  I had never felt dysphoria like this before and I don’t think I can go on with life this way. I know I’m a man but Id never felt more invalid than that point in my life.

Here I was thinking this would be an inclusive space but it was not in the slightest. I insisted on leaving even though he tried to convince me to stay. He said that I need to keep trying and that we all get rejected sometimes. It’s like he wanted to purposefully embarrass me and set me up to fail. I left and didn’t look back and haven’t spoken to him since despite him apologising.

I feel like ending it all after that. I still haven’t dealt with it, but being stuck at home alone makes me fester in my thoughts. My worst experience to date and it really makes me lose hope in cis men if they treat people like that and it seems like I’ll never be accepted in their spaces. Should I tell the queer group how I was treated? I still don’t know how to handle this situation. I went from feeling really good about my transition to the worst ever after this and it still hasn’t gotten better over the months. I thought by posting I could get it off my chest. Sorry just venting

A real man wouldn't cry in the toilet. He'd get out there and have gay sex.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-does-one-bring-to-a-sex-party.963081/post-127671963:goty

Same energy: Sex party dysphoria NSFW

. I cried in the bathroom for like half an hour before my friend found me. While I was in there a few people knocked wanting to use it and I told them to go away mid cry. On the other side of the door I heard someone even said “I think that girl is still in there”.

Full post:

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Sex party dysphoria NSFW

Hi /r/ftm

Throwaway because my main account has posts in my college subreddit.

This happened pre-covid. I was invited to a sex party (for men only) on a January weekend by a guy I know from my a queer group at my college. I was really excited to go, as he is queer and very inclusive of others and it was extremely validating to be asked to join. I asked him if the people there would also be inclusive and he told me not to worry about it (vague I know but I trusted him). However at the house the party was held it was quite a different story. 100% of the men there were cis.

Now this isn’t a problem generally but I expected it to be more of a queer get together with men of all gender expressions (like our queer group) and not just run of the mill masc4masc cis gay men. I quickly noticed that I wouldn’t fit in even though I sort of pass (FYI 2 months on T and pre top and pre bottom but I dress really masc and I have a smallish chest). The stares didn’t help me feel any more at ease. It’s like nobody wanted to interact with me even though I made a lot of effort to talk to people and approach them.

They all had this deer in the headlights type expression. They just would end up leaving the conversation abruptly or making some bullshit excuse to go hit on another guy. I ended up just clinging to my friend for most of the night. The only thing I could really do is try to ease my nerves by getting more drunk (I’m 21 relax).

The party gradually progressed into people taking more clothes off and eventually there were people full on “doing it”. My friend tried to convinced me to join in the fun after a pep talk that the people there weren’t transphobic just icy. I was feeling more confident because of the Dutch courage anyway so I ended up taking my shirt off (like he suggested) and moving into the main space where everything was happening.

I wish I didn’t listen to him. People physically recoiled from me when I walked near them and made faces at me. It was like I had a literal fucking force field around me :(. It felt like hours cruising around but it was really only about 2 minutes before I had enough. I cried in the bathroom for like half an hour before my friend found me. While I was in there a few people knocked wanting to use it and I told them to go away mid cry. On the other side of the door I heard someone even said “I think that girl is still in there”.  I had never felt dysphoria like this before and I don’t think I can go on with life this way. I know I’m a man but Id never felt more invalid than that point in my life.

Here I was thinking this would be an inclusive space but it was not in the slightest. I insisted on leaving even though he tried to convince me to stay. He said that I need to keep trying and that we all get rejected sometimes. It’s like he wanted to purposefully embarrass me and set me up to fail. I left and didn’t look back and haven’t spoken to him since despite him apologising.

I feel like ending it all after that. I still haven’t dealt with it, but being stuck at home alone makes me fester in my thoughts. My worst experience to date and it really makes me lose hope in cis men if they treat people like that and it seems like I’ll never be accepted in their spaces. Should I tell the queer group how I was treated? I still don’t know how to handle this situation. I went from feeling really good about my transition to the worst ever after this and it still hasn’t gotten better over the months. I thought by posting I could get it off my chest. Sorry just venting

A real man wouldn't cry in the toilet. He'd get out there and have gay sex.

This guy fucks.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

not his gf, but his "gaming friends".

[Polident]

Sometimes you finish Halo on legendary but the code red still has you zonked

[Nintex]

"So it was about 4 years ago during the COVID pandemic that me and some friends thought it would be funny to organize an orgy with a queer group of redditors to blow off some steam on a january weekend. Now the problem was that you couldn't get decent plumbing because of the lockdowns so everything was already clogged up and there was only 1 bathroom for 15 of us and this girl had a panic attack and wouldn't leave the bathroom."

[DavidCroquet]

I enjoyed the phrase “men of all gender expressions”.  

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-debuts-on-steam-with-600-player-ccu.962340/page-44#post-127679526

Well apparently there are folks who take pride in deleting all gamertags from the Google doc in the OT or adding nicknames like 'killalltrans' and 'Trump2024'. Apparently some folks can't live with the fact that there are people who enjoy playing the game and they feel the need to do something as sad and pathetic as that. Unfortunately there's no hard proof it is an ERA user because a Google Doc is anonymous. Either way, what a sad little live one must live if one feels the need to do that.

lol

[Propagandhim]

No would miss Nep if she were removed from the site.

HARD disagree.  Countless hours of entertainment wrapped up in a little dogsuit.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-debuts-on-steam-with-600-player-ccu.962340/page-44#post-127678794

Concord has saved PlayStation gaming from shifting its focus towards live service games.

Personally, I'm forever grateful to Firewalk for bombing this hard, in perfect sync with Black Myth Wukong's earth-shattering success.

This will move the needle.

[Jonsey]

Everyone roasting the characters now. Wonder if someone will start shouting at them about inclusivity

Crossing Eden seems to be the first on the job.

Good god.... Crossing Eden.... where to even begin with this prick? This guy is one of the snobbiest, most obnoxious, whiniest, emotionally fragile, most aggressive assholes the gaming side of the internet has ever had the displeasure of knowing. He's easily in the upper echelons of "most awful ResetERA users", and that is no easy feat.

Break down how each of those designs aren't coherent. Like your take genuinely makes zero sense in any sense of the way character design works. 🤔

Well I could start with one simple thing, and that is how vomit inducing the color palettes are. Brown skin, navy blue lipstick, metallic pink streaks, all atop an ugly bright green and olive is just an assault on the eyes.

I am no character designer (neither are you, Crossing Eden, you don't even have a single credited job to your name despite pretending you're some expert) but to say "you just don't understand character design" over designs absolutely nobody seems to like is just laughable.

He’s the worst black guy ever

[Nintex]

Why isn't Concord's Steam community page showing the concurrent players anymore? It seems to only be in this community, from what I can see

It's an automated system, if a game has below 300 ccu then Steam will not be displaying it anymore.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

full disclosure, i've been interacting with an ai forum posting bot, and i think we're posting on here.

[Potato]

No would miss Nep if she were removed from the site.

I would miss her. A lot of us would. We're here to laugh at Resetera and we can't laugh if the actors are removed.

Remember the golden rule. Don't touch the animals. 

But you just know that B-Dumbs would make the absolute worst choice to replace her. If we lost Nepler, we would have the opportunity for ModeratorZeo!!

[Potato]

it's so simple. Why didn't they just make a bunch of hot women and shirtless men? IT'S SO SIMPLE! 

COOMER SHOOTER!

That game would have done so much better if they just did that. Whether these idiots want to agree or not, people watch shit with attractive designs in it. That's just reality. Look at Overwatch.

Pretty Little Liars is stupidly stupid show. But I watched all 7 seasons because it had good-looking people in it..... I also had to know who A was. llol

Nepler based her whole personality on one of them...

[Potato]

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You know, I am extremely fucking sick of ResetERA repeatedly saying that "men are fragile" everytime there's pushback against some nut crying about straight men.

ResetERA is the one of most fucking fragile places on the internet. Anything and everything can end up hurting a mentally ill person's fragile feelings at any given moment.

Terminally online leftists and queer people do this shit all the time, and it's extremely frustrating. Gaslighting at it's worst.

You know this thread is for laughing and not for getting actually buttmad right?

Cue "I'm not mad" post

Newfag clearly has an axe to grind. Relax bro. Just make fun of the retards. I like this forum due to the fact no need to get too riled up, v little legit arguing among us...because, why? Love is laughter, laughter is love. Retards are hilarious.

It's a process. Dude just has to release years of pent up Reeesetera energy. He'll get it out soon.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-debuts-on-steam-with-600-player-ccu.962340/page-44#post-127679526

Well apparently there are folks who take pride in deleting all gamertags from the Google doc in the OT or adding nicknames like 'killalltrans' and 'Trump2024'. Apparently some folks can't live with the fact that there are people who enjoy playing the game and they feel the need to do something as sad and pathetic as that. Unfortunately there's no hard proof it is an ERA user because a Google Doc is anonymous. Either way, what a sad little live one must live if one feels the need to do that.

lol

El_Dabrah

How is this thread so huge? Y'all should instead by buying Concord and playing it.

[HaughtyFrank]

yeah none of the sponsored streamer for beta didn't come back on launch day, even summit/shroud who usually willing to give fps game a try

Kinda hope this gives companies an iota of consciousness about the fuckers that are "sponsored streamers", but we all know they'll just throw money at them for the next big release anyway. God I hate'em.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-debuts-on-steam-with-600-player-ccu.962340/page-46#post-127683570

Lmao, what's his problem

[Potato]

yeah none of the sponsored streamer for beta didn't come back on launch day, even summit/shroud who usually willing to give fps game a try

Kinda hope this gives companies an iota of consciousness about the fuckers that are "sponsored streamers", but we all know they'll just throw money at them for the next big release anyway. God I hate'em.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-debuts-on-steam-with-600-player-ccu.962340/page-46#post-127683570

Lmao, what's his problem

Envy is the best drug

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/men-drivers-what-is-wrong-with-yall-vent-thread.962463/post-127671177

There is also a component of whom the OP is, which adds fuel to their fire (as in their fire is already there), since regardless of if the rule would be enforced for a normal user or not, I think we all know that it certainly won't be enforced by other mods on another mod, since I'm sure ERA moderators are no different from other places, as in they don't like to moderate posts of other moderators, and I don't think it is a controversial statement to say that when the person who is supposed to enforce the rules, breaks said rules it always feels more wrong than when a non moderator does it.

So mods are basically cops?

User banned (permanent): inflammatory comparisons concerning staff, account in junior phase

[Nintex]

Concord will see a big bump in the player base once folx are done playing DUSTBORN

[Averon]

Be antisemitic...2 week ban

Carry water for terrorist orgs...1-2 week ban

Even imply mods are cops...instant perrma ban

You just know it was Nep who doled out that perma ban.

[Propagandhim]

There's something really sad about meticulously watching the metrics of a game with 500 players.  This is like if I made a tetris game called Squirly Squares, where the blocks were made of raw squirrel shit - like no multicolored blocks, all just brown shitblocks (we call them squirelly squares in the game) and none of the blocks cleared until the super acorn fell down on the screen, and the super acorn never dropped.  The tutorial shows that there's a super acorn, but who the fuck knows when it drops.   And everyone is like "wtf this game sux there's no way to clear the poo blocks" and one dude is like "you gotta get the super acorn, you just gotta play it more.  Also they're called squirelly squares, not poo blocks.  A little less cultural insensitivity and heteronormativity would be nice, thanks.  do better." and everyone is like "I don't see this super acorn, but i swear i'm not racist".  Then after about a week, i patch in the super acorn but all it does is fall into the squirrel shit, like deep INTO THE shit, and nothing clears, so effectively the patch is worthless.  You just get a new graphic with an acorn that is embedded deep into shit.  And 500 people are left playing it - trying to figure out if they're doing the acorn thing wrong.   And people are watching steam.db graphs for a weekend surge for squirelly squares.  It's not happening.  Go fuck yourself.

[Uncle]

There's something really sad about meticulously watching the metrics of a game with 500 players.  This is like if I made a tetris game called Squirly Squares, where the blocks were made of raw squirrel shit - like no multicolored blocks, all just brown shitblocks (we call them squirelly squares in the game) and none of the blocks cleared until the super acorn fell down on the screen, and the super acorn never dropped.  The tutorial shows that there's a super acorn, but who the fuck knows when it drops.   And everyone is like "wtf this game sux there's no way to clear the poo blocks" and one dude is like "you gotta get the super acorn, you just gotta play it more.  Also they're called squirelly squares, not poo blocks.  A little less cultural insensitivity and heteronormativity would be nice, thanks.  do better." and everyone is like "I don't see this super acorn, but i swear i'm not racist".  Then after about a week, i patch in the super acorn but all it does is fall into the squirrel shit, like deep INTO THE shit, and nothing clears, so effectively the patch is worthless.  You just get a new graphic with an acorn that is embedded deep into shit.  And 500 people are left playing it.   And people are watching steam.db graphs for a weekend surge for squirelly squares.  It's not happening.  Go fuck yourself.

this will be the post that prevents

[Propagandhim]

dude they wouldn't let me be a bank teller in taliban-led Afghanistan, i am never holding office anywhere

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-debuts-on-steam-with-600-player-ccu.962340/page-44#post-127679526

Well apparently there are folks who take pride in deleting all gamertags from the Google doc in the OT or adding nicknames like 'killalltrans' and 'Trump2024'. Apparently some folks can't live with the fact that there are people who enjoy playing the game and they feel the need to do something as sad and pathetic as that. Unfortunately there's no hard proof it is an ERA user because a Google Doc is anonymous. Either way, what a sad little live one must live if one feels the need to do that.

lol

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p1TeXotGQR_TQcnub-6UxvHpCgxC0JHbVNIgDhOwlZc/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[HardcoreRetro]

You know guys, it's time for a non-problematic and non-political game.

*starts remaking that Slave Tetris game, but gives one of the slaves vitiligo*

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dnc-2024-ot-we-love-life-and-love-ourselves-we-can-govern.957351/page-177#post-127666026

User banned (2 weeks): inflammatory accusations

He's a jackass, maybe they shouldn't have invited any of them. Popularity doesn't make someone not a jackass.

Ah yes silence more Pro-Palestinians/anti genocide folks, that is the right call huh.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dnc-2024-ot-we-love-life-and-love-ourselves-we-can-govern.957351/page-177#post-127673163

User banned (2 weeks): inflammatory accusations

You're replying to a person that banned several pro-Palestinian users (including one of the few Palestinians in this community, who promptly left) for daring to talk poorly of liberal media's manufacturing of consent for the genocide in Gaza and never even had the decency of apologizing for it publicly.

More broadly, you won't ever get equitable treatment of brown voices vis-à-vis white ones from these types. NYT and other rags have propagated far worse stuff than anything Hasan ever has, but that's a bunch of white libs doing the writing so it's ok actually

[Besticus Maximus]

It's even more pathetic than that, she's a pharmacy cop who beats down on people who are using legitimate discount coupons

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-debuts-on-steam-with-600-player-ccu.962340/page-44#post-127679526

Well apparently there are folks who take pride in deleting all gamertags from the Google doc in the OT or adding nicknames like 'killalltrans' and 'Trump2024'. Apparently some folks can't live with the fact that there are people who enjoy playing the game and they feel the need to do something as sad and pathetic as that. Unfortunately there's no hard proof it is an ERA user because a Google Doc is anonymous. Either way, what a sad little live one must live if one feels the need to do that.

lol

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p1TeXotGQR_TQcnub-6UxvHpCgxC0JHbVNIgDhOwlZc/edit?gid=0#gid=0

2 PC players, 17 PS5 players, this game is doing numbers

Hi wanna play Concord?