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

[Nintex]

I'm scared about my sick mother, I'm scared about my sick cat, I'm scared about my local hedgehogs dying out, I'm sick of not being able to come out as trans, I'm sick of being such an introverted shy coward, I'm sick of constantly procrastinating, I'm sick of being an ugly wreck.

THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO FEAR, IS FEAR ITSELF.  

I feel like I can do nothing to stop it, my voice doesn't matter no matter how much I shout.

YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CARDS.  

[Snoopy]

Some loon on BSky told me I wouldn't get any mutual aid because I don't have any donation links.

[Nintex]

Some loon on BSky told me I wouldn't get any mutual aid because I don't have any donation links.

Just set up a https://ko-fi.com/ or some shit.

Go grab that bag

[StandingOvation]

Take a carrot, leave a carrot is happening in communities around you and you don't even know it:

Saved it? What are you gonna do with that carrot?

With the marinade it’s had, baby, you could get a stew going

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-want-to-say-something-positive-but-just-cant-anymore.1135224/

Damn. It's a shame there's literally no other apps or methods for communication.

If Discord and ResetEra were taken away from them, they’d likely have nothing else to live for, it’s just sad and frankly, pathetic.

[DocWager]

You don’t even need to try. Just copy, and paste, then re-skeet Melody, or whoever. They’ll re-skeet you back, and watch the suckers come in. Also purchase a wig from a black beauty salon, and take several pictures with a cat so you can have some proof that you exist.

[Nintex]

Thank you everyone, going to take a break of era and the internet to focus on things I can help locally and try to take care of myself. Thanks you everyone (:

[DocWager]

Thank you everyone, going to take a break of era and the internet to focus on things I can help locally and try to take care of myself. Thanks you everyone (:

This is like when a wrestler disappears, and repackages their act because it’s clear the dinosaurs fetish wasn’t getting over, then caused people to ignore them. They’ll probably use an alt to change it up.

[Polident]

Damn. It's a shame there's literally no other apps or methods for communication.

If Discord and ResetEra were taken away from them, they’d likely have nothing else to live for, it’s just sad and frankly, pathetic.

One could only imagine the agony of having to sit with their own thoughts without a barrage of stimulation and reinforcement as distraction.

[Nintex]

 Hello can I help

 Well this is the Shomer Shabbas Food Bank we can always use an extra pair of hands. World War 3? I don't keep up with the politics buddy but you can grab a crate and help out sally with the fruit

 You a man in a wig bruv? Whatever, help me lift these damn crates will ya

  That's a mans job I'm a woman. What's your favorite female Pokemon

 Look man no offense but... oh look a customer

 ..ohh uhhh hiiiii... I always get nervous around men teehee

 Nah thanks bro we good, I'll just get a Pizza

[JoeBoy101]

Eimi/Valkaria/Eternala/Modfedalt is ragebaiting in the Starfield thread
https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-we-admit-now-that-mods-arent-going-to-fix-starfield.1134837/page-4

Perhaps I attribute their actions to trolling as a person actually being like this would be too sad:



Someone ate the bait, keep an eye out for a ban:




It's threads like these that almost make me wish I had a sleeper Era account. Starfield defenders point to the game's metascore as a defense for why it doesn't need fixing, to that I would ask if they would make that same argument for Veilguard considering it bombed.

from page 1

Starfield isn't broken. Starfield is what Starfield is. It generally does what it is designed to do. What's broken is the gap between what it IS and what some players want that design to be.

You'd need to mod the players, not the game.

if you wanted to be charitable and technical, this is true

it's not relentlessly buggy, it's just not fun

like, you could make a very polished game about watching paint dry, and the game would not be "broken," it would just be boring as shit

what I find interesting about Starfield is how much it is honestly a modern Daggerfall, and how bad of a decision that is for modern player sensibilities...Daggerfall was also about "fast traveling" (teleporting) to specific procedurally-generated spots to do some work there and then teleporting back to the quest giver to turn it in, it was also massive and empty with little to do, a promise of "living a life" and freedom without delivering on it in an exciting way

also, Daggerfall actually was broken in a way that Starfield is not

I just find it interesting that it's like this 1996 game design got stuck in the mind of Bethesda like a virus and had to be allowed to crawl out to put it to rest

That’s actually for me, quite an interesting comparison Unc, thanks. That’s not praise though, because I’m an idiot who is easily impressed.

For me, Starfield has some merits to it. It’s generally a good looking game, NPCs aside. Combat is decent, but that’s a step up from their normal combat. The ship building mechanics are awesome. Most of the rest of the game is serviceable. Myself, I can suffer through the loading screens even.

But it has three massive downfalls. One, really poor dialogue that fails to flesh out characters or make you care. Two, really poor writing for the most part (few side quests, characters, and arcs aside). And the most unforgivable one at three, that you already touched on, the world is really really boring.

It’s a shame, because like Dragon Age 2, there are some good ideas in there, but it’s not worth suffering the rest of the game for them.

[killamajig]

[Cheststrongwell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-have-been-crying-for-an-hour-my-wife-had-to-kick-an-off-leash-dog-because-it-nipped-her-then-tried-to-jump-at-pram.1135428/

I am really shaken here. I just don't know what to say. I love dogs and so this situation really upset me because even though the dog was under zero-control I just couldn't deal with hearing that yelp. It was off-lead in a public park, it ran up to my wife and our dog off lead and started biting at my wife's feet before turning towards the pram, at which point my wife had to kick it.

The owner came up and screamed at my wife, calling her a psychopath and that she wanted our details to report us ti child services for being "violent in front of your children", and I just turned around at that point without responding, though my response would have been that letting an off lead dog run to a pram after nipping somebody would probably end worse for them… But at that point I just wanted to calm things. To be fair another gentleman in the park told her to step off and tried to more calmly explain things. As I walked off she shouted "kick my dog again and I'll kick you in the face"

I dunno. I feel awful. I feel awful for the dog and I feel terrible because I am circling in my head what could have been done differently. And just one last edit, because it's my fault for not including this, but I obviously feel awful for my wife too having to be put in that situation and she was right.

I am not expecting sympathy. I know what happened is terrible. I just needed to vent. I think I am just going to cry silently in my bedroom. I can't deal with this.

Edit: To add to this, I know my wife is right. Also my wife reacted first because she was behind me with the dog, and then the dog turned and went back to the pram, which is why she reacted first. I have no idea what I would have done but my wife was right. I think I am just in shock and scared

Jesus Christ...

[killamajig]

Take a carrot, leave a carrot is happening in communities around you and you don't even know it:

Why can't they just shit this out. It's hardly bigger than a turd

Nintex, there is only one way to prove your hypothesis. Good luck, we're all counting on you.  


Hey, I got a two for one joke. 

EDIT top of page palette cleanser

[JoeBoy101]

Take a carrot, leave a carrot is happening in communities around you and you don't even know it:

Saved it? What are you gonna do with that carrot?

:thinking :thinking :thinking

With the marinade it’s had, baby, you could get a stew going.

Nah. Stew would probably end up tasting like shit.

[Snoopy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-have-been-crying-for-an-hour-my-wife-had-to-kick-an-off-leash-dog-because-it-nipped-her-then-tried-to-jump-at-pram.1135428/

I am really shaken here. I just don't know what to say. I love dogs and so this situation really upset me because even though the dog was under zero-control I just couldn't deal with hearing that yelp. It was off-lead in a public park, it ran up to my wife and our dog off lead and started biting at my wife's feet before turning towards the pram, at which point my wife had to kick it.

The owner came up and screamed at my wife, calling her a psychopath and that she wanted our details to report us ti child services for being "violent in front of your children", and I just turned around at that point without responding, though my response would have been that letting an off lead dog run to a pram after nipping somebody would probably end worse for them… But at that point I just wanted to calm things. To be fair another gentleman in the park told her to step off and tried to more calmly explain things. As I walked off she shouted "kick my dog again and I'll kick you in the face"

I dunno. I feel awful. I feel awful for the dog and I feel terrible because I am circling in my head what could have been done differently. And just one last edit, because it's my fault for not including this, but I obviously feel awful for my wife too having to be put in that situation and she was right.

I am not expecting sympathy. I know what happened is terrible. I just needed to vent. I think I am just going to cry silently in my bedroom. I can't deal with this.

Edit: To add to this, I know my wife is right. Also my wife reacted first because she was behind me with the dog, and then the dog turned and went back to the pram, which is why she reacted first. I have no idea what I would have done but my wife was right. I think I am just in shock and scared

Jesus Christ...

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-have-been-crying-for-an-hour-my-wife-had-to-kick-an-off-leash-dog-because-it-nipped-her-then-tried-to-jump-at-pram.1135428/

I am really shaken here. I just don't know what to say. I love dogs and so this situation really upset me because even though the dog was under zero-control I just couldn't deal with hearing that yelp. It was off-lead in a public park, it ran up to my wife and our dog off lead and started biting at my wife's feet before turning towards the pram, at which point my wife had to kick it.

The owner came up and screamed at my wife, calling her a psychopath and that she wanted our details to report us ti child services for being "violent in front of your children", and I just turned around at that point without responding, though my response would have been that letting an off lead dog run to a pram after nipping somebody would probably end worse for them… But at that point I just wanted to calm things. To be fair another gentleman in the park told her to step off and tried to more calmly explain things. As I walked off she shouted "kick my dog again and I'll kick you in the face"

I dunno. I feel awful. I feel awful for the dog and I feel terrible because I am circling in my head what could have been done differently. And just one last edit, because it's my fault for not including this, but I obviously feel awful for my wife too having to be put in that situation and she was right.

I am not expecting sympathy. I know what happened is terrible. I just needed to vent. I think I am just going to cry silently in my bedroom. I can't deal with this.

Edit: To add to this, I know my wife is right. Also my wife reacted first because she was behind me with the dog, and then the dog turned and went back to the pram, which is why she reacted first. I have no idea what I would have done but my wife was right. I think I am just in shock and scared

Jesus Christ...

Damn, you really need to reassess how you handle things. Crying over this is not the correct response. Hopefully your wife doesn't also reassess who she is married to given your reaction to this situation. Sorry to be so blunt.

Did I just stumble into an Andrew tate forum? There's nothing wrong with crying, and saying there is a "correct" response is totally ridiculous

Damn, you really need to reassess how you handle things. Crying over this is not the correct response. Hopefully your wife doesn't also reassess who she is married to given your reaction to this situation. Sorry to be so blunt.

The hell?

Very bothered by the flippant and unempathetic responses to OP sharing something traumatic. A lot of people on here need to think "Is this how I would respond to someone telling me this in person?" Because a lot of era posters' first instinct is look for some dunk or criticism instead of empathy.

What? OP literally said they turned away from their wife while this was happening. In a confrontation you think the correct response is to turn away while your wife is being yelled at?? Also, I don't know if OP is even a man. Doesn't change the point, though.

You said crying over this is not the correct response. You didn't say that the way op handled it wasn't the correct resposne

You need to really investigate why you didn't react properly like how your wife did. Therapy if you're not already doing it.

Way too far. Please be nicer.

[Snoopy]

I’m starting to have doubts that these are the people who are going to destroy capitalism

[Alpacx]

Can we please stop quoting the shit-covered carrot

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-have-been-crying-for-an-hour-my-wife-had-to-kick-an-off-leash-dog-because-it-nipped-her-then-tried-to-jump-at-pram.1135428/

I am really shaken here. I just don't know what to say. I love dogs and so this situation really upset me because even though the dog was under zero-control I just couldn't deal with hearing that yelp. It was off-lead in a public park, it ran up to my wife and our dog off lead and started biting at my wife's feet before turning towards the pram, at which point my wife had to kick it.

The owner came up and screamed at my wife, calling her a psychopath and that she wanted our details to report us ti child services for being "violent in front of your children", and I just turned around at that point without responding, though my response would have been that letting an off lead dog run to a pram after nipping somebody would probably end worse for them… But at that point I just wanted to calm things. To be fair another gentleman in the park told her to step off and tried to more calmly explain things. As I walked off she shouted "kick my dog again and I'll kick you in the face"

I dunno. I feel awful. I feel awful for the dog and I feel terrible because I am circling in my head what could have been done differently. And just one last edit, because it's my fault for not including this, but I obviously feel awful for my wife too having to be put in that situation and she was right.

I am not expecting sympathy. I know what happened is terrible. I just needed to vent. I think I am just going to cry silently in my bedroom. I can't deal with this.

Edit: To add to this, I know my wife is right. Also my wife reacted first because she was behind me with the dog, and then the dog turned and went back to the pram, which is why she reacted first. I have no idea what I would have done but my wife was right. I think I am just in shock and scared

Jesus Christ...

Damn, you really need to reassess how you handle things. Crying over this is not the correct response. Hopefully your wife doesn't also reassess who she is married to given your reaction to this situation. Sorry to be so blunt.

Did I just stumble into an Andrew tate forum? There's nothing wrong with crying, and saying there is a "correct" response is totally ridiculous

Damn, you really need to reassess how you handle things. Crying over this is not the correct response. Hopefully your wife doesn't also reassess who she is married to given your reaction to this situation. Sorry to be so blunt.

The hell?

Very bothered by the flippant and unempathetic responses to OP sharing something traumatic. A lot of people on here need to think "Is this how I would respond to someone telling me this in person?" Because a lot of era posters' first instinct is look for some dunk or criticism instead of empathy.

What? OP literally said they turned away from their wife while this was happening. In a confrontation you think the correct response is to turn away while your wife is being yelled at?? Also, I don't know if OP is even a man. Doesn't change the point, though.

You said crying over this is not the correct response. You didn't say that the way op handled it wasn't the correct resposne

You need to really investigate why you didn't react properly like how your wife did. Therapy if you're not already doing it.

Way too far. Please be nicer.

I get not everyone has worked jobs where you are trained to run towards the danger BUT it's your fucking wife and kid?!?!?!?!

His reaction is to cry in a pillow, run to Era for sympathy and a bunch of other weak-ass bithes come in to say it's okay. 

Yep, we have nothing to fear from these ineffectual babies taking over. They won't even fight to save their own family.

[Uncle]

I get not everyone has worked jobs where you are trained to run towards the danger BUT it's your fucking wife and kid?!?!?!?!

His reaction is to cry in a pillow, run to Era for sympathy and a bunch of other weak-ass bithes come in to say it's okay. 

Yep, we have nothing to fear from these ineffectual babies taking over. They won't even fight to save their own family.

this is exactly why we must fear them

they are shameless, remorseless killing machines

they won't even bother to protect their own family, all they care about is the mission, the praxis

stone cold

[Snoopy]

I was going to post, sounds like you’ve had a ruff day. But I thought he might self harm

[Uncle]

Can we please stop quoting the shit-covered carrot

but she's the most interesting character on the forum

[HaughtyFrank]

RE terrified of media again 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deadline-%E2%80%98starship-troopers%E2%80%99-redo-in-the-works-at-sony-from-neill-blomkamp-writing-and-directing.1135137/

Going to say this isn't the time. Media literacy is dead.

Truthfully, my first take was no I don't like this, Blomkamp doesn't have much experience with satire :/ But then I remembered the satire was mostly Paul Verhoeven right? I do think Blomkamp's aesthetic would work with a more grounded take, but with the state of the world I worry it would be made and taken seriously.

[DavidCroquet]

Somehow the dog story reminds me of the supreme court thing a week or so back.

“The worst thing didn’t happen..oh god, somebody HOLD me!!!”

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-are-so-many-mormon-authors-in-fantasy-and-sci-fi.1135491/

The Mormons and the Scientologists actually do control genre fiction publishing btw, no jokes. The l ron Hubbard foundation more or less hand picks new sci fi writers.

[StandingOvation]

Can we please stop quoting the shit-covered carrot

2024: Take a carrot, leave a carrot 
2025: Insert a carrot, extract a carrot

[StandingOvation]

Sorry/not sorry for the double post but Jesus H. Christ:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-resetera-had-a-way-to-tip-the-mods-would-you.1135551/

If let's say Era started a completely volunteer tipping option to tip the mods, do you think you would ever contribute?

Some great replies already. Someone should bring up Nepenthe’s Ko-Fi account.

[Jansen]

You Reebok having motherfucker

[Eric Cartman]

I feel the only real Wii style casual success of the Switch era has been Ring Fit Adventure. Otherwise we are back to the Nintendo core franchises dominating their own ecosystem.

I think its pretty telling Just Dance gets announced in a Nintendo Direct, and I'd also say the eshop is a veeeerrrrrrryyyyyy different beast to the xbone or ps storefronts to what seems to be selling.

[Nintex]

Eshop is all animu and what the kids buy for $1 or $2.