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

[PogiJones]

https://famiboards.com/threads/nintendo-switch-2-speculation-thread-st-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-2.7757/post-1469149

I really want to see at least a montage with the big games from the supporting 3rd-parties like
Witcher 4, Cyberpunk Complete, Monster Hunter Wilds, Okami 2, Onimusha, Resi, Final Fantasy, Silent Hill 2, Metal Gear, EA FC, Madden and perhaps things Elden Ring, Nioh1+2, Assasins's Creed, Starfield e.g.

Then someone quoted and removed the word "Cyberpunk" leaving it as just "Complete"  

I really want to see at least a montage with the big games from the supporting 3rd-parties like
Witcher 4, Complete, Monster Hunter Wilds, Okami 2, Onimusha, Resi, Final Fantasy, Silent Hill 2, Metal Gear, EA FC, Madden and perhaps things Elden Ring, Nioh1+2, Assasins's Creed, Starfield e.g.

Just a heads up, try to avoid mentioning CD Projekts most recent game here! Witcher is okay to discuss I believe though.

  

He got warned feedback

[imsotired]

https://galileospendulum.org/2024/12/17/goodbye-bluesky/

So, I deleted my Bluesky account.

...

While early Bluesky — which was invitation-only — had a lot of fun, there were problems with it as a Twitter replacement from the beginning. First, following Jack’s vision, Bluesky didn’t have a way to block other users’ accounts; blocking is necessary for any number of reasons from “I just don’t want to see this person’s posts because they’re annoying” to “this account is a literal Nazi/other evil entity”. Black users of Bluesky noted early on the lack of a trust and safety (T&S) department, which facilitates prevention of harassment, and despite official policies against racist activity, the network was very slow to respond.

Under pressure, Bluesky added a very powerful block function and ultimately opened up to all users without invitations in late 2023, finally implementing T&S. But a lot of the heavy lifting of moderation was left to users, who took on the task of building lists of bad actors, reporting them to T&S as they had time and energy. Some of those volunteer moderators turned out to be bad actors themselves as a result of the disorganized nature of things.

And then, my Worst Colleague™ joined the network.

My Worst Colleague™
Jesse Singal is a science journalist whose output is almost entirely committed to attacks on trans people’s healthcare, particularly trans children. He is probably most infamous for a cover story in the establishment liberal magazine The Atlantic; in that story, he asked rhetorically if trans kids were really trans and if they were worthy of receiving care. The story had many problems: misgendering the kids he profiled, implying kids were casually transitioning as a fad when trans medical care is actually very difficult to receive for adults and kids alike, and so forth. Meanwhile, a prescient story by Ed Yong tucked into the corner of the same Atlantic cover warned — before COVID-19 hit — that the United States isn’t ready for a pandemic. Other stories Singal has written exposed private medical information about children.

(As an aside: some have objected to me calling Singal a science journalist. However, that’s his job title. It’s not a statement about his ethics, which are questionable, or the quality of his work, which is unmentionable. Pretty sure he doesn’t regard me as a colleague, if it comes to that.)

Singal, like J.K. Rowling and many other anti-trans bigots, has pretty much made opposing rights for trans people his entire public personality. In addition to his articles in high-profile publications, he frequently threatens to sue people for mild criticisms, and encourages his social media followers to harass his critics, particularly those from marginalized groups.

When Singal joined Bluesky, many of us protested, asking he be banned preemptively based on his documented behavior on Twitter — all the more urgent because Bluesky has a lot of trans users who have been with the network since the beginning. As a science journalist myself, I asked the moderators to consider what values they express by allowing an open bigot like Singal on the network, whether they weighed his presence and that of his followers more than that of his targets. Users even organized a Change.org petition asking Bluesky to enforce its rules, which was signed by ordinary nobodies like me up to pop superstar Lizzo and trans filmmaker Lilly Wachowski of The Matrix fame.

Meanwhile, Singal was organizing harassers on Twitter to sign up for Bluesky to attack people there, and after he was temporarily suspended, he threatened to sue the network for enforcing their own rules. Bluesky ultimately announced organizing harassment on Twitter didn’t break their rules because they can’t police behavior elsewhere.

That argument falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. If nothing else, a lot of the worst right-wing harassment campaigns such as GamerGate on Twitter were organized on 4chan, 8chan, Reddit, and other off-site networks. However, unlike the channers, Singal isn’t anonymous: he’s literally a cover-story writer for The Atlantic, something the vast majority of journalists will never achieve in decades of work. He organizes harassment openly under his own name, not to mention his habit of threatening lawsuits willy-nilly. By saying he can break rules against harassment as long as he organizes using Twitter, the moderation team has laid out a rulebook by which everyone from stalkers to Nazis can attack Bluesky.

It’s really worrisome that Bluesky decided to wreck things for … Jesse Singal, who despite being fairly high profile in my profession is not super famous. He’s not a celebrity: a lot of people (including possibly a lot of you) hadn’t heard of him before this incident. Even I wasn’t aware of the extent of his bullying until fairly recently, though obviously his anti-trans positions alone should be enough to ban him in a reasonable world. Overturning your own network’s rules for him is like setting your house on fire for a $75 insurance payout. He’s not even benefiting the network by his presence: his account is currently the most blocked on Bluesky, with over 70,000 people blocking him. Imagine picking Singal over Lizzo.

In other words, this was a horrible set of decisions on the part of Bluesky’s management from start to finish. In the few days since they announced Singal is allowed to break their rules, he has sent cease-and-desist orders to various users — including finding people’s real names when they were posting under pseudonyms. Emboldened by all of this, a new group of trolls has descended to threaten violence against trans and other marginalized users. I decided that I personally couldn’t tolerate being on a network that encourages anti-trans harassment, not least perpetrated by an ostensible colleague.

So, I deleted my Bluesky account.

Which sucks. I joined Bluesky because some of my friends and colleagues had already moved over there from Twitter. I’ve been using the site seriously for over a year now. It genuinely looked like a network where writers like me could operate, similar enough to Twitter but with certain advantages, and a few disadvantages naturally. It was a long arduous fight to get Nazis kicked off Twitter, not that I’m claiming any credit for that; I just joined my voice to others pushing for their removal. I don’t even want to have that battle again. (With Musk in charge, the Nazis are back anyway, so any victory we had was short-lived.)

Honestly I would like to go back for the people I know there. Without Twitter, Facebook, and now Bluesky, I am completely without a social media presence for the first time since 2007 or so. (I don’t count LinkedIn, although a very nice-looking lady with a lot of cleavage messaged me there to tell me she’s visiting my city soon and would like to meet, the type of thing which is a hallmark of all true social media networks.) Maybe I will return eventually, though with the holidays here I’m deferring any decision until 2025. However, I’m thinking today of all the people Singal is harassing, wishing Bluesky had not made the wrong decision and failed to learn the lessons of multiple other social media networks over the past 20some years.

I'm so tired.

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The stealth brag about the linked-in lady with cleavage in the midst of all this angst about ̶J̶e̶s̶s̶e̶ ̶S̶i̶n̶g̶a̶l̶ literally Hitler being allowed to have a social media account is

[Besticus Maximus]

Isn't it so weird how getting other people banned for wrongthink is so integral to the trans crusade

[jooseloose]

A 2 month ban for calling someone a bitch 

Beyond parody

[Daffy Duck]

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https://famiboards.com/threads/nintendo-switch-2-speculation-thread-st-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-2.7757/post-1469149

I really want to see at least a montage with the big games from the supporting 3rd-parties like
Witcher 4, Cyberpunk Complete, Monster Hunter Wilds, Okami 2, Onimusha, Resi, Final Fantasy, Silent Hill 2, Metal Gear, EA FC, Madden and perhaps things Elden Ring, Nioh1+2, Assasins's Creed, Starfield e.g.

Then someone quoted and removed the word "Cyberpunk" leaving it as just "Complete"  

Just a heads up, try to avoid mentioning CD Projekts most recent game here! Witcher is okay to discuss I believe though.

  

He got warned feedback

These mfers need to learn some coping mechanisms, Jesus Christ what a load of babies

[Snoopy]

ADDENDUM (10/29/24): In particular, we want to call out the use of gendered language when referring to groups of people. Please try to avoid using terms like "guys", "boys", "lads", "fellas", etc.

I thought it was some kind of parody site but no, these people are real. 

[benji]

Fellas, it is problematic to call the guys you hang out with lads when they aren't boys?

[Polident]

ADDENDUM (10/29/24): In particular, we want to call out the use of gendered language when referring to groups of people. Please try to avoid using terms like "guys", "boys", "lads", "fellas", etc.

I thought it was some kind of parody site but no, these people are real. 

No woman has ever been offended by these. Not even the most extreme believer of Dworkin thought would take issue.

[Uncle]

It's funny how she understood that immediately... her father probably was confused but I really didn't care what his opinion is.

Kids understand. They figure things out. And if they don't? They ask. C;

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar’s-‘win-or-lose’-streaming-series.1063782/page-3#post-133140960

They always say this, showing how little they know. For one thing, it ignores that kids will abruptly stop asking questions and go silent when they don't understand the response they've gotten, especially from strangers. They aren't "understanding" and "figuring things out" they're dismissing it as irrelevant or useless to inquire more and moving on.

They think every kid is like two year olds who never stop asking questions. Older kids are developed enough to not be fascinated by this line of discovery anymore. It doesn't mean they're accepting of what you've said, let alone that they understand what you said. And jesus fucking christ if you think they understood what you meant but didn't say. ("I'm boldly challenging millennia of gender norms that apply only to my interpretation of the specific current culture I live in by braiding my hair and going to Disney!")

In fact, this exact example is not the kid "understanding" anything because the (likely fake) reply is literally meaningless: "I smiled and explained that 'honestly I'm just me today but thank you very much for noticing!'" Smiling and saying this indicates to her that she did something positive even if she doesn't understand what she did, at no level does it imply you should assume understanding of your being a weirdo. If anything she likely privately asked her father to explain since asking you was completely useless.

These assholes are always lecturing people about empathy, understanding, etc. but never in their life do they bother considering other people as acting in any way but how/why they want them to act or think they should act. No wonder they're obsessed with turning every social interaction into how cults operate.

the "honestly I'm just me" thing is some shit built up from decades of consuming cartoons, hallmark specials and motivational tumblr memes where the lesson of the day is "just be yourself" and "just be you, YOU are enough" where most of what is intended by that is left unsaid and you're just supposed to sit there, overwhelmed, processing all the layers of meaning as a tear rolls down your cheek

or like the end of the dark knight, "Batman! why's he running, dad?" "because we have to chase him." yeah thanks for being all inspiring to yourself and an imagined audience while saying absolutely nothing to the confused kid

being mysterious and "wise" does not carry over into the real world

[kaleidoscopium]

That may be their goal but there will still be trans kids and some of them will still live their truth even if less do so. That's what is so frustrating in all this. The other side believe that people are 'made trans' by being exposed to 'trans ideology'. We know that isn't true at all. Heck we know that every culture in history whether it accepted us or not has had trans people in within it.

The tragic part is that we have no idea how much suffering we all have to go through before people start to understand that a small percentage of people are born trans and nothing can be done to change that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar’s-‘win-or-lose’-streaming-series.1063782/page-4#post-133160607

So it’s not mental illness that you need many procedures and medications to manage, it’s just something you are and will always be, nothing can ever change that? So why does a kids show need to cover that then?

[EaldNarche]

That may be their goal but there will still be trans kids and some of them will still live their truth even if less do so. That's what is so frustrating in all this. The other side believe that people are 'made trans' by being exposed to 'trans ideology'. We know that isn't true at all. Heck we know that every culture in history whether it accepted us or not has had trans people in within it.

The tragic part is that we have no idea how much suffering we all have to go through before people start to understand that a small percentage of people are born trans and nothing can be done to change that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-from-pixar’s-‘win-or-lose’-streaming-series.1063782/page-4#post-133160607

So it’s not mental illness that you need many procedures and medications to manage, it’s just something you are and will always be, nothing can ever change that? So why does a kids show need to cover that then?

Because putting it in kids shows somehow helps reduce the nebulous "otherness" the trans kids feel!!  Nevermind the fact that the actual audience for these plotlines seems to be 30+ trans posters on era.

[Superstar]

Lmao that guy calling her out is one of those Tariq Nasheed following buck breaking lunatics. Shame I can't find this forum anywhere.

https://ablackweb.harlock.co.uk/

Might be that forum. I see some resetera/gaf posters on there and there was a similar poll for 2023.

[Uncle]

the tweet underneath that one says she has a white step dad. if this is true...     
EXPLAINS EVERYTHING

without proof I'm gonna assume it's fiction meant to embarrass her and make her cry NUH-UHH!!!

[Uncle]

She needs to call the cops on Elon:

don't mind me

https://archive.is/C4xrn
https://archive.is/tfns9

Lmao that guy calling her out is one of those Tariq Nasheed following buck breaking lunatics. Shame I can't find this forum anywhere.

https://ablackweb.harlock.co.uk/

Might be that forum. I see some resetera/gaf posters on there and there was a similar poll for 2023.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+COTY
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+resetera
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+nepenthe

might be behind a login wall/private forum/unindexed

[Uncle]

https://galileospendulum.org/2024/12/17/goodbye-bluesky/

Jesse Singal is a science journalist whose output is almost entirely committed to attacks on trans people’s healthcare, particularly trans children. He is probably most infamous for a cover story in the establishment liberal magazine The Atlantic; in that story, he asked rhetorically if trans kids were really trans and if they were worthy of receiving care. The story had many problems: misgendering the kids he profiled, implying kids were casually transitioning as a fad when trans medical care is actually very difficult to receive for adults and kids alike, and so forth. Meanwhile, a prescient story by Ed Yong tucked into the corner of the same Atlantic cover warned — before COVID-19 hit — that the United States isn’t ready for a pandemic. Other stories Singal has written exposed private medical information about children.

I read something like this and I question whether this would've even mattered

people would still hate him just as much, and they would just leave this one "data point" out of their collections of reasons to hate him (or find some twisted reasoning to keep it in, "questioning whether they are really trans is tantamount to misgendering")

it's all so pointless, everything is just a wedge to insert or lever to pull

[Echelon]

Just to make sure I'm summarizing the arguments on this topic correctly:

• Gender is a social construct and is separate from sex which is about the physical and biological characteristics you are born with.
  
• Also: Transgender people want to take hormones and have surgeries that change their physiological characteristics to feel more like [checks notes] the gender they are.
  
• Also: Gender is a social construct but all transgender women seem to want to wear female-coded clothing even though gender is whatever we make of it and has no coding other than the coding we ascribe to it.
  
• Also: People's brains aren't fully developed until 27 but we put them in jail for breaking the law or expect them to be able to sign loans for college at 18. This is child abuse.
  
• Also: Children say things like they want to be dinosaurs when they are 8 years old. This is silly.
  
• Also: We should give boys who are 8 years old hormones that will permanently destroy their natural physiology because they say they want to be girls, a gender, which is a social construct. 
  

These people belong in institutions.

[Straight Edge]

She needs to call the cops on Elon:

don't mind me

https://archive.is/C4xrn
https://archive.is/tfns9

Lmao that guy calling her out is one of those Tariq Nasheed following buck breaking lunatics. Shame I can't find this forum anywhere.

https://ablackweb.harlock.co.uk/

Might be that forum. I see some resetera/gaf posters on there and there was a similar poll for 2023.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+COTY
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+resetera
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+nepenthe

might be behind a login wall/private forum/unindexed

A black man called her a coon. This gives me life.

[Straight Edge]

Triple post

[Straight Edge]

Benji, fix your site.

[HaughtyFrank]

A black man called her a coon. This gives me life.

An unexpected twist

[Uncle]

She needs to call the cops on Elon:

don't mind me

https://archive.is/C4xrn
https://archive.is/tfns9

https://ablackweb.harlock.co.uk/

Might be that forum. I see some resetera/gaf posters on there and there was a similar poll for 2023.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+COTY
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+resetera
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+nepenthe

might be behind a login wall/private forum/unindexed

A black man called her a coon. This gives me life.

don't mind me 

[Besticus Maximus]

One can only imagine how many times since childhood Nepenthe has been condescended to by the people she is trying to emulate. Probably the key source of the withering bitterness that eats at her very soul.

[Snoopy]

It’s why her one attempt at actually doing community work lasted less than a month

[Polident]

One can only imagine how many times since childhood Nepenthe has been condescended to by the people she is trying to emulate. Probably the key source of the withering bitterness that eats at her very soul.

There are, in fact, many such cases. It’s understandable when people grapple with those identity issues at teenage years or even early college. They tend to grow out of it by 22, at the latest.

[Uncle]

https://imgur.com/gallery/that-time-of-year-again-9szEtEi



the last line  

[Straight Edge]

don't mind me

https://archive.is/C4xrn
https://archive.is/tfns9




https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+COTY
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+resetera
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fablackweb.harlock.co.uk%2F+nepenthe

might be behind a login wall/private forum/unindexed

A black man called her a coon. This gives me life.

don't mind me 

[Jansen]

https://atlantadailyworld.com/2024/12/18/derek-chauvin-allowed-to-test-george-floyds-heart-tissue-in-new-motion/

Era thread yet?

[Uncle]

I'm sure the mental image from that headline is intentional

[HaughtyFrank]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1869460069014016250
[/tweet]

Blue sky has been pretty amazing so far

[Averon]

As these people constantly tell others who they get banned, make your own safe space, then. Blue Sky is under no obligation to acquiesce to their every childish whim.