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

[Nintex]

Reactionary, regressive and even conservative.

Unlike Islam and Hamas who are very good people the best actually, I'd let them run the schools, planned parenthood and the HRT clinics. Let's get these highly skilled experts on liberalism and human rights some visas.
 

[Taco Bell Tower]

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. ☺️

The way that user posts reminds me of this one sadistic user at GAF who enjoys inflecting pain to his patients.  Forgot his name.

[Alpacx]

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

B-Dubs should throw a
Have a Draw Muhammed Era tournament

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

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

B-Dubs should throw a
Have a Draw Muhammed Era tournament

Era moderation were fine with Anti-Religious threads during Ramadan and Christmas.   Your idea would fit right in with their non-progressive attitudes toward Muslims.

[Bootsthecat]

Ok I promise to never again 'ask questions'....

But if you are a 'lesbian and fellow queer woman', yet were a forever alone middle aged man up until last November, have a cock, and beard stubble, and autism, are a gamer, and regularly exhibit childlike male rage...

Are you a gay guy, or a straight guy? Or a queer woman?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-genuinely-hate-marijuana.1073445/

I'm going to start this post by very clearly stating that I almost certainly have a bias here. THC even in small doses gives me severe panic attacks 75% of the time. On occasion, I'm ok with it but typically I'm losing my mind and having genuine breakdowns when I consume THC. So this definitely alters my perspective a mite.

That being said, I've decided that I pretty much just hate Marijuana anyway because of the way it affects people. Look, I'm not going to judge you, I get it. Everyone needs an escape. But I think we're at a point with consumption where people are essentially erasing their personalities in favor of just having marijuana. I actually think a lot of the voter apathy of the last election is exacerbated by its use. I know that the majority of people I speak to who are younger than I am just wish to do nothing but work, come home, smoke (or take eddies etc) and shut their brains off. I know far too many people that are like this, and it feels like that number just grows every day people come of age.

I'm sorry to be the ultimate square, but pushing 30, I've struggled to succumb to any vices. Maybe it's actually worse that I haven't. I have had a junk food problem for a very long time, but other than that, it's pretty much just straight and narrow for me. Sometimes I hate myself for it, especially in social situations where people try and hand me a joint or shove a drink in my face and I just have to be boring and decline.

Maybe this is all moreso my issue, but I'm curious if anyone else here is similar, or even has any counterpoints to this. Please don't hate me, haha.

I should elaborate that the example of person I'm discussing here is not ANYONE that partakes, but those that have relegated their lives to pretty much always being high any time they can.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-genuinely-hate-marijuana.1073445/#post-133777437

OP have you been around actual alcoholics or serious drug addicts? I'd much prefer all of them to be stoners than alcoholics or meth heads. No question. For their sake and everyone elses.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I expect a Disney boycott on Era or else they're part of the genocide.

[Nintex]

Wait you don't want to do this very specific Snorlax fetish thing in a public place like a coffee shop but at some river where no one can see us?
And you also don't want to tell me where you live, the contact information of your family, your workplace, credit card number and social security number?

Help Police I'm being human trafficked!!

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I am questioning why Era is trying to make skin color be a political issue. Disney isn't going to stop making moves with a diverse cast. 

[kaleidoscopium]

The MCU has Feige leading them, who has pushed for diversity in most (not all) chances he's gotten.

Ike Perlmutter tried to spin the failure of the Marvels and other recent MCU projects on the female leads and the black leads when he tried to grab power.

I can assure you there's a ton of Disney execs that feel just like him and the only reason they can't stop it is because Feige's name is too big. But the moment that goodwill runs out or Feige walks I am sure the MCU would become much less diverse.

Hell, a part of me fears we're already there even with the recent successes

Meanwhile LFL has Kathy Kennedy also pushing for diversity. But Guess who got an entire South Park special calling her the culprit of making media "Lame and gay" by forcing studios to "put a chick in it and make her gay"?.

Pressure is being put on the people making this stuff from all angles to make the products less diverse.

The "Just make good movies" narrative is part of the reason we're in this mess.

Diverse stories should not have to be perfect infalible pieces of subversive work to exist. White led media pulls out utter shite like "Anything But You" that's succesful all the time and no one is declaring it the death of cinema.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politics-is-bad-for-business-why-disneys-bob-iger-is-trying-to-avoid-hot-buttons.1073334/page-3#post-133788108

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

After actually reading the article it's Era blowing things out of proportion again.   It's nothing new, just a rehash of pulling the transgender episode. AcademicSaucer is pulling a reddit and fishing for karma.

[Potato]

Members only? TheEchosOfTheCyborg?

Edit:

Choice quotes for my close and personal friend:

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

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.

Dude likes boob armour.

Dude is also a massive troll.

Or a paedo.

Or both.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

What if Potato is Echos and this is just some long term con to see how much he can get away with.

[Potato]

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

B-Dubs should throw a
Have a Draw Muhammed Era tournament

No risk of a Charlie Hebdo attack on that one.

No one participates in his tournaments, even with the threat incentive of interacting with NepNep

[Potato]

I expect a Disney boycott on Era or else they're part of the genocide.

Just gonna have to chalk ANOTHER genocide up to the "good guys"...

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/its-still-wild-to-me-that-quagmire-raped-marge-simpson-and-killed-the-simpsons-for-a-joke.1073667/

Time for Family Guy to be canceled. 

[Potato]

The MCU has Feige leading them, who has pushed for diversity in most (not all) chances he's gotten.

Ike Perlmutter tried to spin the failure of the Marvels and other recent MCU projects on the female leads and the black leads when he tried to grab power.

I can assure you there's a ton of Disney execs that feel just like him and the only reason they can't stop it is because Feige's name is too big. But the moment that goodwill runs out or Feige walks I am sure the MCU would become much less diverse.

Hell, a part of me fears we're already there even with the recent successes

Meanwhile LFL has Kathy Kennedy also pushing for diversity. But Guess who got an entire South Park special calling her the culprit of making media "Lame and gay" by forcing studios to "put a chick in it and make her gay"?.

Pressure is being put on the people making this stuff from all angles to make the products less diverse.

The "Just make good movies" narrative is part of the reason we're in this mess.

Diverse stories should not have to be perfect infalible pieces of subversive work to exist. White led media pulls out utter shite like "Anything But You" that's succesful all the time and no one is declaring it the death of cinema.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politics-is-bad-for-business-why-disneys-bob-iger-is-trying-to-avoid-hot-buttons.1073334/page-3#post-133788108

I present to you, the cast of The Avengers, by Kevin Feige, who has "pushed for diversity in most (not all) chances he's gotten".

• Robert Downey Jr. (White cis male)
  
• Chris Evans (White cis male)
  
• Mark Ruffalo (White cis male)
  
• Chris Hemsworth (White cis male)
  
• Scarlett Johansson (White cis female)
  
• Jeremy Renner (White cis male)
  
• Tom Hiddleston (White cis male)
  
• Stellan Skarsgård (White cis male)
  
• Samuel L. Jackson (Black cis male)
  

[Boredfrom]

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.

After how many years how do you guys don’t get it? Liberal Christians and Jews get it, but you guys, deep down, want to be privileged over others. Is a shame for the people in your religion that gets it but they need to shut up or get lepered by their families/communities.

[Potato]

What if Potato is Echos and this is just some long term con to see how much he can get away with.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/politics-is-bad-for-business-why-disneys-bob-iger-is-trying-to-avoid-hot-buttons.1073334/post-133772472



https://www.resetera.com/threads/politics-is-bad-for-business-why-disneys-bob-iger-is-trying-to-avoid-hot-buttons.1073334/post-133772757



https://www.resetera.com/threads/politics-is-bad-for-business-why-disneys-bob-iger-is-trying-to-avoid-hot-buttons.1073334/post-133772823



https://www.resetera.com/threads/politics-is-bad-for-business-why-disneys-bob-iger-is-trying-to-avoid-hot-buttons.1073334/post-133773036

it doesn't matter what words you use to describe it

"thing we have been doing" hasn't been working, so we are doing "other thing" now

"LGBT people aren't political!!!" well ok then, gee I guess we used the wrong word, whatever you want to call it we're not doing it, get fucked

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I think Disney should do what they want to boost profits. 

[Boredfrom]

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.

You are a huge hypocrite and you naive if you think the reassurances of ERA mean shit when they are from a morally bankrupt community.

You are smart enough to understand the dissonance between what you say and what you believe but also dumb as fuck to take advice from a bunch of people that DO THE SAME THING. 

In any case, people usually have problems with you because sound like a genuine creepy pervert that role plays as a teenager in a video game forum.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-syrian-government-refuses-handshake-with-germany%E2%80%98s-female-foreign-minister.1073703/

The newest Anti-Muslim drama just hit Era. HamasEra can't catch a break.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-syrian-government-refuses-handshake-with-germany%E2%80%98s-female-foreign-minister.1073703/

The newest Anti-Muslim drama just hit Era. HamasEra can't catch a break.

These savages will be killing each other before the end of 2026.

[Polident]

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.

After how many years how do you guys don’t get it? Liberal Christians and Jews get it, but you guys, deep down, want to be privileged over others. Is a shame for the people in your religion that gets it but they need to shut up or get lepered by their families/communities.

The “draw muhammad day” came in response to Islamists threatening to murder South Park creators and Comedy Central’s capitulation to terroristic threats. Fundamentally, it was about freedom of expression. This was a few years before Charlie Hebdo, which I’m sure this guy totally condemns. 

More recently there was the story in France of a teacher beheaded. Era had a defense force justifying it. Last month the girl who started those events admitted she lied about it to cover her school suspension.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

#UnbanRustyNails

[Greatness Gone]

do they not have grandparents? everyone knows old people like to have a task/reason to wake up in the morning. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-new-retirement-is-no-retirement-baby-boomers-are-keeping-jobs-well-into-their-sixties-and-seventies-because-they-%E2%80%98like-going-to-work%E2%80%99.1073721/

I think they're brainwashed by capitalism.

Like...what?

[kaleidoscopium]

A game with a metacritic score of 81 shouldn't win GOTY over games scoring in the 90's. China putting in work here.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-awards-2024-winners-black-myth-wukong-wins-game-of-the-year.1071894/page-4#post-133793004

[Daffy Duck]

Blueballs is jeffmarvel imo

The timing matches up, he signs up and starts angry posting about stalking the day after benji posts jeff's house

I find it amusing that you’re so unused to having your echo chamber disrupted that you can’t engage in a debate without trying to figure out the other person's identity.

It must be tough when you can’t just make up a bunch of stuff about someone

What is it you’re trying to debate? That it is strange that we laugh at you? That we all (for the most part) actually like each other and that our sensibilities align in a way that we find enjoyment in poking fun at the hypocrisy and ineptitude that has been the driving force behind the palpable decline of resetera? Is it strange that we enjoy the irony that your forums most prominent members are the same ones who have driven away every relevant gaming industry personality? That gaming journalists won’t even mention the name Resetera, that every gaming community outside of your own views your community as a toxic cesspool of mental illness and the instigator of harassment campaigns across the industry? Is it strange that we often disagree with each other and are able to hash out our grievances without resorting to smashing the report button and crying in the Constructive Community Feedback thread, where you all are just ignored like children throwing a temper tantrum? 

Sure, maybe we are a bit strange. But that’s okay, we like each other and we like it here. 

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

Damn son, you didn’t have to go that hard 

[Daffy Duck]

Blueballs is jeffmarvel imo

The timing matches up, he signs up and starts angry posting about stalking the day after benji posts jeff's house

I find it amusing that you’re so unused to having your echo chamber disrupted that you can’t engage in a debate without trying to figure out the other person's identity.

It must be tough when you can’t just make up a bunch of stuff about someone

Well you didn't respond to my question when I asked so let me try again.

What is it that you like about ResetEra and the community?

Because all the community seems to do is ban bait, fight, backstab, grift, cum on guitars/pokemon, threaten to kill themselves and run to the boss when things spiral out of control like the average Trump campaign aide. And just like orange man B-Dubs and NepNep respond by throwing the victim under the bus, blaming everyone else or throwing more fuel onto the fire.

What's your take on someone that claims they can't afford food or healthcare and are the victim of a genocide but buys a $500 handheld console and tells folks not to mourn their loved ones getting shot because they probably deserved it.

These are great people?

 

Damn boys, we really cooking this evening…