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

[benji]

And at least we can go five minutes without somebody posting a thread about how badly they want to fuck the cast of Pokémon.

Yeah, cis don't care.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Look, everything is political. 

I would fucking hate for a neutral writer to pen something about anything with tippy toes. 


The best written things have a sharp edge to them. 


also lol at bananas post

[benji]

"Iron Man", which kicked off Disney's biggest entertainment franchise, was about an American arms dealer trying to make up for the actions of his own company.

Iron Man has an anti-war theme, yet it’s basically an afterthought to the action, and special effects. It ultimately doesn’t matter to the overall product.

Tony maintains his entire company and empire, it's suggested that it's even larger and more powerful, all to fund his own personal war.

It's not anti-war. Especially in the MCU. Tony escalates to the point of Ultron, then he splits up the Avengers because they don't submit enough to state control.

What's "political" about this? Certainly not what they want, because it's about a billionaire obtaining greater power rather than as a mere supplier to states to the point where has to moderate his own private war against other vigilantes he's encouraged to operate outside the system of government. (When their ties to the government in the first place were through SHIELD a massively unchecked secret military force.)

This is what's terrible about their claims that everything is political and "no politics just means right-wing politics" and everything else. They don't actually engage in the politics, which I would prefer to call philosophy or ideology, of these works in the first place. How often are they yelling "way not to listen to the message of Star Wars/Halo/Harry Potter/etc." or whatever? It's an entirely superficial notion of all these things that you simply swallow what you're shown, think about it not at all, certainly don't evaluate it yourself, and just regurgitate it to others as if you've been informed.

I wouldn't call my above analysis the "message" or "politics" of Tony Stark in the MCU either, I did it in part to show how these surface-level analysis can be complicated merely by what's been done for plot reasons. This is something they also never do, insisting that there's only the "obvious" message they took away, all while pretending they're deconstructionists celebrating the death of the author.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

benji is my ultron

[Besticus Maximus]

It's all very christian heresies.

No he doesn't have 3 natures he actually has 2 natures   if you persist with this we're all going to die in hell forever for not stopping you

[clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-most-sus-thing-happened-to-me.1073337/

So, I've been in communication with someone regarding a fetish thing. And I'm like trying to vet this guy and it was absolutely sus.

 I have his first name and his phone number, but he's very carefully but obviously skirting around very important vetting questions. 😒

I keep pushing with questions, and we play with the idea of meeting up, and I'm okay with a vanilla meet up (if he finally answers my questions beforehand but I obviously want to meet in a coffee shop or something incredibly public,  But again only if I can establish some kind of legitimacy from the guy,

So now I'm Nancy Drewing this guy using his WhatsApp number, no socials including Linkedin, but his phone number is public in the minutes of the meeting for where he works. His name is legit and I start finding his address and the properties he owns including an old pump station, that I'm assuming is no longer in use. 

I discussed that he absolutely needs to resolve all my questions including sending me selfies and a video of him like making a cup of tea, something that's simple but is still relatively hard to fake using AI without errors somewhere with fingers or the spoon and the tea.

Although thankfully I use a pseudonym until absolute trust is established with play partners.

This guy who gave me his real name and phone number won’t answer my questions. 

Thankfully I gave him a fake name because him giving me his real name was like the most sus thing I’ve ever experienced.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Also, Black Panther is a fascist.

e: ugh, top of page, this might actually be the most beautiful woman I've come across (no disrespect to my partner)

[benji]

It's also obvious that nobody saying this means their works are going to cease to have ideas, what they mean is that they works are going to not so obviously lecture on contemporary partisan politics. Of course, ResetERA.com always interprets this as meaning that people of color or LGBT will no longer appear because they think the mere appearance of a Black person in something means the work is an anti-Republican at least, anti-capitalist at most, jeremiad against the chuds and everything ResetERA.com hates. They literally believe the "other side" (aka anyone who disagrees on anything) wants the extermination or subjugation of all non-white cishet males as their main and only "political" goal.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-most-sus-thing-happened-to-me.1073337/

So, I've been in communication with someone regarding a fetish thing. And I'm like trying to vet this guy and it was absolutely sus.

 I have his first name and his phone number, but he's very carefully but obviously skirting around very important vetting questions. 😒

I keep pushing with questions, and we play with the idea of meeting up, and I'm okay with a vanilla meet up (if he finally answers my questions beforehand but I obviously want to meet in a coffee shop or something incredibly public,  But again only if I can establish some kind of legitimacy from the guy,

So now I'm Nancy Drewing this guy using his WhatsApp number, no socials including Linkedin, but his phone number is public in the minutes of the meeting for where he works. His name is legit and I start finding his address and the properties he owns including an old pump station, that I'm assuming is no longer in use. 

I discussed that he absolutely needs to resolve all my questions including sending me selfies and a video of him like making a cup of tea, something that's simple but is still relatively hard to fake using AI without errors somewhere with fingers or the spoon and the tea.

Although thankfully I use a pseudonym until absolute trust is established with play partners.

This guy who gave me his real name and phone number won’t answer my questions. 

Thankfully I gave him a fake name because him giving me his real name was like the most sus thing I’ve ever experienced.

He’s a 10 but owns property adjacent to soft soil.

[benji]

You'd think they would take "less political" as a good thing considering how much they hate Democrats for carrying out a genocide, aren't they concerned that Hollywood is going to inject that pro-genocide message into everything to try and stop Palestinian liberation? Strange how they don't fear this from the people they say control everything.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

They're fucking idiots, so you can't really expect them to be critical.

[EaldNarche]

What you guys are missing is that Zootopia 2 is literally all some era posters have left to look forward to in this miserable fallen world. If this stuff with Disney impacts that somehow, they've got blood on their hands. But cis don't care.  

[benji]

It's just so weird how the elites who control everything and that they're against always are expected to side with them in how things should be and will use their all-encompassing power for basic human decency by propagating politically correct woke uh... basic human decency culture. Like, what are the odds? (And why is the status quo different then?)

[benji]

(And why is the status quo different then?)

ALGORITHMS

WHITENESS  

MEN  

CISSUPREMACY

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-443#post-133740558

Westerners are weird creatures. They are always are on high horse and know better. Here we are Gaza after 1 year. This fucking platform is the monument of everything wrong. Left - right, all of them same. I'm telling you Era, you know shit. I won't forget GAZA. Never. I will mock every claim of Westerners and mock them as a duty. Now everything you stand for, I'm against you. Every smug behavior of yours will return back. Fuck this forum. Fuck your ideologies. Fuck your humanity. Watch children burn alive and Netanyahu having standing ovations for hours in American congress.

Damn right, word by word. A couple of this place's admins have pulled off some disgustingly racist shit, classic white trash.

A lot of it is a lot easier to understand when you remember that ResetEra is a direct off-shoot of a forum in NeoGAF that very gleefully had its own "Draw Muhammad Day." I don't doubt many of the same people drifted over here. Basically a direct "fuck you" to its own very liberal Muslim community.

This place is not the actual left-wing's wet dream. When even a default reddit sub of all things like r/news has its head on a lot more straight when it comes to Palestine, that's all you really need to know. Because that bar is subterranean.

ResetEra is the most bizarre "progressive" forum I have ever been a part of, by far, both at once beautiful and open yet in some ways also oddly reactionary and regressive, and even conservative. I tend to charitably think people hate religion as a whole here so much that it also extends to Muslims, and they deeply struggle with some makeshift cognitive dissonance there, that doesn't actually exist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-443#post-133744248

reactionary and regressive, and even conservative

Spot on. It's exactly this and it's maddening to watch members here try to contort reality to fit their own confirmation bias. I'm always grateful to the users who are able to consistently stand against all the backwards-ass thinking here.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

She's married, with a husband, with a 4 year old child, and has a roommate? What the fuck is going on over there?

Another wife?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_Indonesia

[BIONIC]

And at least we can go five minutes without somebody posting a thread about how badly they want to fuck the cast of Pokémon.

https://thebore.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=355

[Polident]

The best plot line running through Marvel movies is how they solved the energy crisis, have magical alien technology, time travel, etc. yet everything is exactly the same as it is in our world. There’s the detail in Watchmen that all cars are electric, because Manhattan and Veidt made it happen. Maybe BP lobbies against Hulk and Goku and whatever.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-most-sus-thing-happened-to-me.1073337/

So, I've been in communication with someone regarding a fetish thing. And I'm like trying to vet this guy and it was absolutely sus.

So he's pressing all the right buttons for me and I'm into what he's offering, although I'm lesbian leaning, buuuuut I'll take a guy who's interested in me if it means he's into what I'm wanting. Anyway so I then start talking on WhatsApp and I have his first name and his phone number, but he's very carefully but obviously skirting around very important vetting questions. 😒

I keep pushing with questions, and we play with the idea of meeting up, and I'm okay with a vanilla meet up (if he finally answers my questions beforehand but I obviously want to meet in a coffee shop or something incredibly public, make sure I've got a codeword set up with my friend to call her when I'm done, share my location etc. But again only if I can establish some kind of legitimacy from the guy, anyway he wants to meet....IN A CARPARK and have a "nice romantic walk by the river" GIGANTIC RED FLAG like Christ on a bike. And really not properly assessing my concerns. 😦

So now I'm Nancy Drewing this guy using his WhatsApp number, no socials including Linkedin, but his phone number is public in the minutes of the meeting for where he works. His name is legit and I start finding his address and the properties he owns including an old pump station, that I'm assuming is no longer in use. But like if alarm bells weren't already ringing, a place with plenty of soft soil next to a river puts me into red alert. 😧

I discussed that he absolutely needs to resolve all my questions including sending me selfies and a video of him like making a cup of tea, something that's simple but is still relatively hard to fake using AI without errors somewhere with fingers or the spoon and the tea. And he said he'll cut things off now while we're "in a good place" I established with him all I want to do is establish he's legitimate and not a serial killer or part of a human trafficking ring, and something ominous sits with me..

He says "Well I'm not a serial killer.." but deliberately missed out human trafficking. Now I'm like worried I potentially came into contact with someone involved with human trafficking. Now I'm incredibly spooked. Although thankfully I use a pseudonym until absolute trust is established with play partners.

I'm quite cautious and if someone refuses or skirts around important questions it's a no go, but I don't know what to do with my suspicions about him and the knowledge I gained about him without his knowledge?

What do you think I should do regarding my slightly worrying experience? 😕

I already have plenty of people I inflict pain on and they volunteer it 😈

That's a shame, I'm a switch and I do inflict such delicious pain onto those that want it. Your username suggests you'd like some figging....👀

I mean minor chemical burns inside you id pretty painful 😅

That's fine I'm much more happier with being a soft domme / goddess. The only time I'm sadistic is if it's voluntary, my sub has to enjoy and want it. ☺️

That's a little bit of an illegitimate question if there ever was one. All you need to know it involves a fetishes unless you want to fuck me there's no need to know what I'm into or what others are into in this case - I'm only revealing what I'm comfortable with revealing on a public space. ☺️

[Besticus Maximus]

Harmful to women: Stellar Blade + Wu Kong

Not harmful: internal chemical burns

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-most-sus-thing-happened-to-me.1073337/

So, I've been in communication with someone regarding a fetish thing. And I'm like trying to vet this guy and it was absolutely sus.

 I have his first name and his phone number, but he's very carefully but obviously skirting around very important vetting questions. 😒

I keep pushing with questions, and we play with the idea of meeting up, and I'm okay with a vanilla meet up (if he finally answers my questions beforehand but I obviously want to meet in a coffee shop or something incredibly public,  But again only if I can establish some kind of legitimacy from the guy,

So now I'm Nancy Drewing this guy using his WhatsApp number, no socials including Linkedin, but his phone number is public in the minutes of the meeting for where he works. His name is legit and I start finding his address and the properties he owns including an old pump station, that I'm assuming is no longer in use. 

I discussed that he absolutely needs to resolve all my questions including sending me selfies and a video of him like making a cup of tea, something that's simple but is still relatively hard to fake using AI without errors somewhere with fingers or the spoon and the tea.

Although thankfully I use a pseudonym until absolute trust is established with play partners.

This guy who gave me his real name and phone number won’t answer my questions. 

Thankfully I gave him a fake name because him giving me his real name was like the most sus thing I’ve ever experienced.

The question is, did transisistor tell the guy that she's packing heat? Is that the fetish? Or is he going to find out later and then bury the bitch by the river in a heated moment of regret?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-443#post-133740558

Westerners are weird creatures. They are always are on high horse and know better. Here we are Gaza after 1 year. This fucking platform is the monument of everything wrong. Left - right, all of them same. I'm telling you Era, you know shit. I won't forget GAZA. Never. I will mock every claim of Westerners and mock them as a duty. Now everything you stand for, I'm against you. Every smug behavior of yours will return back. Fuck this forum. Fuck your ideologies. Fuck your humanity. Watch children burn alive and Netanyahu having standing ovations for hours in American congress.

Damn right, word by word. A couple of this place's admins have pulled off some disgustingly racist shit, classic white trash.

A lot of it is a lot easier to understand when you remember that ResetEra is a direct off-shoot of a forum in NeoGAF that very gleefully had its own "Draw Muhammad Day." I don't doubt many of the same people drifted over here. Basically a direct "fuck you" to its own very liberal Muslim community.

This place is not the actual left-wing's wet dream. When even a default reddit sub of all things like r/news has its head on a lot more straight when it comes to Palestine, that's all you really need to know. Because that bar is subterranean.

ResetEra is the most bizarre "progressive" forum I have ever been a part of, by far, both at once beautiful and open yet in some ways also oddly reactionary and regressive, and even conservative. I tend to charitably think people hate religion as a whole here so much that it also extends to Muslims, and they deeply struggle with some makeshift cognitive dissonance there, that doesn't actually exist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-443#post-133744248

reactionary and regressive, and even conservative

Spot on. It's exactly this and it's maddening to watch members here try to contort reality to fit their own confirmation bias. I'm always grateful to the users who are able to consistently stand against all the backwards-ass thinking here.

Religion, especially deeply conservative patriarchal religion, is actually progressive. 


Paging bluewballs. We need your take on this one.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-embarrassment-and-hypocrisy-i-feel-about-loving-villainesses.1073508/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Members only? TheEchosOfTheCyborg?

Edit:

[DavidCroquet]

Draw Muhammad Day is deeply offensive to this progressive, enlightened, and modern religious tradition.

And fuck Salman Rushdie.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

The best plot line running through Marvel movies is how they solved the energy crisis, have magical alien technology, time travel, etc. yet everything is exactly the same as it is in our world. There’s the detail in Watchmen that all cars are electric, because Manhattan and Veidt made it happen. Maybe BP lobbies against Hulk and Goku and whatever.

I made a joke once about how Wakanda failed to  protect their king from a timothy clone, having literal nanotech suits. 

Room fell silent.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

So he's pressing all the right buttons for me and I'm into what he's offering, although I'm lesbian leaning, buuuuut I'll take a guy who's interested in me if it means he's into what I'm wanting.

 

[BIONIC]

Members only? TheEchosOfTheCyborg?

Edit:

Choice quotes for my close and personal friend:

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I feel like I am going to regret posting this thread.

If you've ever seen my writing on Resetera (besides being a dork for mythology and palaeontology, trying to make Hobgoblin Fart magic an accepted Resetera Trope and being a massive Daisy fan), you can probably tell I am a massive feminist who has serious issues with sexualization and objectification in media, especially in video games AND ESPCIALLY in fighting games. I hate how damn difficult it can be to have fatter and older women in fiction, I hate the mentality that women characters need to justify their existence by being attractive someone, the idea ugly women shouldn't be in games, I hate the double standards, I hate "Summer" (Bikini) skins etc etc etc.

However and I've mentioned this elsewhere that I always feel a tinge of hypocrisy at times for this because I love femme fatales (when their well written and I wish their were more examples of heroic Femme Fatales), I love characters like Ada Wong (and her RE4 OG dress, I wish had the body to wear something amazing like that :( ), I love characters like Anna Williams, Mileena (especially starting with MKX) and Morrigan (though I feel she suffers so much from fladerization that takes away so much of her likable and dorky aspects to just make her character just "sexy" or turn her into a straight villain and rapist, fuck you Udon for that... I'm going off topic) and ever since I was a kid... I've loved villainesses.

It's been a thing ever since I was kid, Power Rangers being a big influence for that...

... Can't say I can put my foot on why though.

But the other big influences were characters like Blackfire and Poison Ivy from DC comics, Figures from myths and folklore like Eris, Enyo, Lilith (I refuse to call her a villain, she did nothing wrong!); Maleficent, Queen Beryl and Jessie from Pokemon, the latter especially (and the big reason why I love the Doronbo Gang trio trope, Doronjo especially) and honestly, the Delia x Jessie craze from a few years back was really adorable and relieving for me knowing I was not the only woman who had those feelings growing up.

When I wrote this in another thread:

That was barely a joke, when I was 8 seeing Fellowship for the first time in theatres, I really did say that, my parents nearing catching me doing so (side, Cate Blanchett is a master of playing villainesses, being able to be camp and chew the scenery while also genuinely being sinister and fun to watch her being evil; also I don't care what others say, Morfydd Clark does a good job at Galadriel, any flaws with ROP's version not being her fault, okay back on topic again).

To be clear, I'm not exclusively attractive to villainesses growing up, I've mentioned in other threads how characters like Pokemon's Cynthia and Gardenia and Sailor Mercury meant a lot to me when I was growing up; but I can't deny I've always had a thing for Super Villainesses. I love the assertiveness, the refusal to back down, being proud about themselves, being happy with their sexuality etc. Like Having fantasies of a Villainess sweeping me off my feet and seducing me, me being her heart, be befriending and earning the respect of her put underlings through kindnesses and use of of explosives, being by her side as we ruled the world to make it better (kitties for everyone!) etc etc.

I'm not even sure I'd even want to that in real life, I doubt that would be a healthy relationship but I love the fantasy and honestly with their was some wlw game or work of fiction that really did that. It's one of the reasons it annoys me so many fiction writers assume villainesses HAVE to be "redeemed", especially when that means stripping them of everything that made the fun and interesting and I can't stand awful prequels that damage the characters (am I talking about Maleficent, yes, I'm talking about Maleficent).

So where am I going with this besides feeling like I'm embarrassing myself in front of a crowd, well it all relates to what I said at the beginning of the thread. I sometimes feel embarrassed and shameful for having those fantasises, loving these characters because I feel like it makes me a hypocrite. Like several of the characters I've mentioned in their own works are the main source of fan service, made my men who didn't care about women loving these characters and in some cases; I can't and refuse to justify the objectification of these characters.

This is especially something that has been nagging me more and more and more the past year with the every growing rise of the chuds, feeling like I'm letting women down and no matter what reassurance I get, whether from friends or good ERA users here, I can't stop but feeling shame for it.

Power rangers ruined(?) a generation of young men.

I'm not a man

I was actually thinking about myself when I said that, but fair point, I clearly only skimmed the OP.

The only way to let women down in this context would be to reject these designs you love as 100%/inherently invalid expressions of feminity, rather than the more nuanced reality they actually inhabit. We can apply various critical lenses and acknowledge potentially problematic motivations in design without outright declaring such designs as morally verboten.

When so much woman-led and queer art often draws heavy inspiration from such visual tropes, it's clear attempts to categorise enjoyment of any design as feminist or anti-feminist is nonsense.

Chuds will be chuds, and to dismiss these designs are solely for the chuds is to dismiss a myriad of experiences and opinions, often from other women who view their relationship to feminine expression, female sexuality and feminism as more complex than Victorian notions of how much skin is acceptable to show.

I have a lot to say about this as a lesbian and fellow queer woman, but TL;DW is I don't think you feel hypocritical about it. First of all villains themselves tend to be queer coded, and also I find that at least in videogames, they tend to have a more distinct costume/design compared to the goody protagonist. Then, there's also the allure of confidence that evil gives villains in general, which can be attractive, and when you put that together with maybe coldness, maybe even overt innuendos, a much higher amount of self-expression and self-interest I think it's understandable.

I think what's important is that 1) you can feel attracted to them without shame, because that's just gonna bring you problems 2) you can feel attracted and also be critical of it. Holding two emotions at once.

I think Black Widow is a cool example. Do I consider her (both in comics and movies) not attractive? No. I have eyes, and they make a heart for her. Do I also think if Black Widow was a guy, we would likely see much less of that martial arts movement where she chokes someone with her legs.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-443#post-133740558

Westerners are weird creatures. They are always are on high horse and know better. Here we are Gaza after 1 year. This fucking platform is the monument of everything wrong. Left - right, all of them same. I'm telling you Era, you know shit. I won't forget GAZA. Never. I will mock every claim of Westerners and mock them as a duty. Now everything you stand for, I'm against you. Every smug behavior of yours will return back. Fuck this forum. Fuck your ideologies. Fuck your humanity. Watch children burn alive and Netanyahu having standing ovations for hours in American congress.

Damn right, word by word. A couple of this place's admins have pulled off some disgustingly racist shit, classic white trash.

A lot of it is a lot easier to understand when you remember that ResetEra is a direct off-shoot of a forum in NeoGAF that very gleefully had its own "Draw Muhammad Day." I don't doubt many of the same people drifted over here. Basically a direct "fuck you" to its own very liberal Muslim community.

This place is not the actual left-wing's wet dream. When even a default reddit sub of all things like r/news has its head on a lot more straight when it comes to Palestine, that's all you really need to know. Because that bar is subterranean.

ResetEra is the most bizarre "progressive" forum I have ever been a part of, by far, both at once beautiful and open yet in some ways also oddly reactionary and regressive, and even conservative. I tend to charitably think people hate religion as a whole here so much that it also extends to Muslims, and they deeply struggle with some makeshift cognitive dissonance there, that doesn't actually exist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-443#post-133744248

reactionary and regressive, and even conservative

Spot on. It's exactly this and it's maddening to watch members here try to contort reality to fit their own confirmation bias. I'm always grateful to the users who are able to consistently stand against all the backwards-ass thinking here.

They're not banned yet but they will be since B-Dumbs visits this site

[Straight Edge]

Exhibit B
Your turn blue balls