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

[Vertigo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spiderboy-got-that-spiderswag-his-first-villain-love-interest-and-you-never-guess-who-it-is-bonus-spiderboy-is-closer-to-the-mcu-than-miles.1078590/

I love how anything 'straight' is seen as ewwww by a lot of these weirdos.

More queer rep is cool imo.

Awww I love this

Kidpool is a girl in this one

Wait what

aaaaand I'm back out lol

[Nintex]

From what I'm hearing the Switch 2 reveal will lead to an absolute dumpster fire ResetEra thread 

[killamajig]

Too bad the Jimmy Carter funeral thread was locked. It was hilarious watching people like ClickyCal' and Scuffed getting all angry and agitated
Could have had some great bans for "Dismissing Concerns."

That the people at the top don't actually totally despise each other always seems to surprise them. Although I doubt that Obama would ever hang with Trump like he does with Bush

Dubbya is rad. Seems like the kinda person you can talk hours with about anything, and not get bored.

Turns out Jr is the most normal person up there. He fucked up his fair amount of shit too, but he's the only guy up there that I could have a regular conversation with.

[Lonewulfeus]

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From what I'm hearing the Switch 2 reveal will lead to an absolute dumpster fire ResetEra thread 

Pfft that’s like saying the suns gonna rise in the morning.

[Uncle]

From what I'm hearing the Switch 2 reveal will lead to an absolute dumpster fire ResetEra thread 

is it not backwards compatible

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spiderboy-got-that-spiderswag-his-first-villain-love-interest-and-you-never-guess-who-it-is-bonus-spiderboy-is-closer-to-the-mcu-than-miles.1078590/

I love how anything 'straight' is seen as ewwww by a lot of these weirdos.

More queer rep is cool imo.

Awww I love this

Kidpool is a girl in this one

Wait what

aaaaand I'm back out lol

Spiderboy is 10 years old.

[Uncle]

wait I have another idea

there's an adapter to make the switch 2 a headset and they're partnering with meta to bring oculus games to it

[Potato]

I'm not going look fondly at this time however bad things get. Since the election I've been bracing because I know I'm about to get hit by a truck and ever since November 5th it's been apparent that more people wanted to believe the known liar was telling the truth this time about turning their dreams into reality than gave a shit about what was going to happen to people like us.

But they have no fucking idea how hard trans people are going to fight to live our truth. I doubt there is much they could do to me that is worse than what I've already faced down to stand here today.

Why aren't you doing the fun plagiarize. 

Sorta Off topic but is there a plugin or a forum filter to hide all politics related threads? I just want to completely tune out for 4 years. I'm already tired of feeling like America is rejecting me, my friends and my family.

le sigh

What's with narcissists making everything about themselves? 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spiderboy-got-that-spiderswag-his-first-villain-love-interest-and-you-never-guess-who-it-is-bonus-spiderboy-is-closer-to-the-mcu-than-miles.1078590/

I love how anything 'straight' is seen as ewwww by a lot of these weirdos.

More queer rep is cool imo.

Awww I love this

Kidpool is a girl in this one

Wait what

aaaaand I'm back out lol

Cyborg Echo person is gonna be pissed off with no wlw

[Nintex]

Turns out Jr is the most normal person up there. He fucked up his fair amount of shit too, but he's the only guy up there that I could have a regular conversation with.

Trump and Bush are really the most interesting guys to hang out with from that line-up.
Imagine sitting at the Mar-A-Lago, eating McDonalds and watching a Ninja Turtles cover band with the President of the United States, like what the fuck.

Bush like Trump should start doing the podcasts. He's always great in interviews.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spiderboy-got-that-spiderswag-his-first-villain-love-interest-and-you-never-guess-who-it-is-bonus-spiderboy-is-closer-to-the-mcu-than-miles.1078590/

I love how anything 'straight' is seen as ewwww by a lot of these weirdos.

More queer rep is cool imo.

Awww I love this

Kidpool is a girl in this one

Wait what

aaaaand I'm back out lol

Spiderboy is 10 years old.

Echoshifting can make the case that it was just the tip your honor

[Uncle]

Turns out Jr is the most normal person up there. He fucked up his fair amount of shit too, but he's the only guy up there that I could have a regular conversation with.

Trump and Bush are really the most interesting guys to hang out with from that line-up.
Imagine sitting at the Mar-A-Lago, eating McDonalds and watching a Ninja Turtles cover band with the President of the United States, like what the fuck.

Bush like Trump should start doing the podcasts. He's always great in interviews.

trump would only be interesting to talk to if he was in some magical scenario where he was compelled to give his actual true feelings about things, to be the locker room "grab her by the pussy" trump

he's a "good politician" in the sense that he knows enough to say people pleasing things, "the best people, really amazing people," but he's embarrassingly awful in that it couldn't be more transparent that it's all marketing and he's never really giving his true thoughts

bush seems actually down to earth, it's crazy listening to speeches of "stupid moron dubya" from back then and how much of a step up it feels to the last 12 years of candidates

[killamajig]

Turns out Jr is the most normal person up there. He fucked up his fair amount of shit too, but he's the only guy up there that I could have a regular conversation with.

Trump and Bush are really the most interesting guys to hang out with from that line-up.
Imagine sitting at the Mar-A-Lago, eating McDonalds and watching a Ninja Turtles cover band with the President of the United States, like what the fuck.

Bush like Trump should start doing the podcasts. He's always great in interviews.

Yeah, I used to listen to Stern and Trump was always ready to talk about anything. But you are right, Trump would make $$$ having his own podcast. He's the only guy that has a chance to dethrone Rogan (by taking his audience). If Trump and Bush did a podcast together would anyone listen to anything else? 

I didn't think Howard ever re-released those Trump interviews. I had already stopped listening to him but keeping those private was a bitch move by Howie. Showing he's softer than Sal's dick. *cue Fred playing Mr Softy ice cream truck jingle*

[Nintex]

Turns out Jr is the most normal person up there. He fucked up his fair amount of shit too, but he's the only guy up there that I could have a regular conversation with.

Trump and Bush are really the most interesting guys to hang out with from that line-up.
Imagine sitting at the Mar-A-Lago, eating McDonalds and watching a Ninja Turtles cover band with the President of the United States, like what the fuck.

Bush like Trump should start doing the podcasts. He's always great in interviews.

trump would only be interesting to talk to if he was in some magical scenario where he was compelled to give his actual true feelings about things, to be the locker room "grab her by the pussy" trump

he's a "good politician" in the sense that he knows enough to say people pleasing things, "the best people, really amazing people," but he's embarrassingly awful in that it couldn't be more transparent that it's all marketing and he's never really giving his true thoughts

bush seems actually down to earth, it's crazy listening to speeches of "stupid moron dubya" from back then and how much of a step up it feels to the last 12 years of candidates

Trump is just Trump really. If he's faking it he's the greatest actor of all time.

Doesn't work with the zoomers though, they don't push back enough.

Watch Trump and Theo Von or Trump and Rogan. He tries to stay on script for maybe 10 minutes but he just can't. 

[kaleidoscopium]

From what I'm hearing the Switch 2 reveal will lead to an absolute dumpster fire ResetEra thread 

Harry Potter and kingdom come deliverance launching with it?

[Uncle]

Trump and Bush are really the most interesting guys to hang out with from that line-up.
Imagine sitting at the Mar-A-Lago, eating McDonalds and watching a Ninja Turtles cover band with the President of the United States, like what the fuck.

Bush like Trump should start doing the podcasts. He's always great in interviews.

trump would only be interesting to talk to if he was in some magical scenario where he was compelled to give his actual true feelings about things, to be the locker room "grab her by the pussy" trump

he's a "good politician" in the sense that he knows enough to say people pleasing things, "the best people, really amazing people," but he's embarrassingly awful in that it couldn't be more transparent that it's all marketing and he's never really giving his true thoughts

bush seems actually down to earth, it's crazy listening to speeches of "stupid moron dubya" from back then and how much of a step up it feels to the last 12 years of candidates

Trump is just Trump really. If he's faking it he's the greatest actor of all time.

Doesn't work with the zoomers though, they don't push back enough.

Watch Trump and Theo Von or Trump and Rogan. He tries to stay on script for maybe 10 minutes but he just can't. 

no, he's poorly hiding how he really feels at all times and the fact that it's so transparent means he's an awful actor

example: the RBG death clip, where his mind is racing and he's thinking "fuck yes I get to pick a new justice who will be favorable to my businesses, holy shit the old bitch finally bit it," so he composes himself slightly and says "you're telling me now for the first time" to excuse himself if he can't come up with a good speech, mumbles something non-specific about her being amazing and GTFOs

I watched him on rogan and the only time he was being candid was when he was talking about how he didn't care about the environment and wanted to exploit it for energy and resources, because somehow it didn't occur to him that this might be slightly unpopular even with his own base

when it seems like he's "tellin it like it is" and ranting in all caps on truth social, even that is performance to his base, what he thinks people want to hear most of the time

[Kyon1988]

Edmond Dantes, bless him, is single-handedly making a ton of interesting threads based on recent archeological discoveries and they're always super fascinating. Yet, we had to ban someone in one of those threads for directly attacking him over his formatting of the OPs of all things. I'm staring at this going, "What the fuck?" Dude is trying to expand people's horizons and talk about really interesting shit and we're going to crap on him?

Also amazing that he declares this this as exemplary behavior. All Dantes does is copy news articles (sometimes in their entirety) and adds absolutely nothing to it. At one point he literally posted a wikipedia entry about some fucking food. https://www.resetera.com/threads/koshari-a-national-dish-of-egypt-would-you-try-it.799812/
This guy isn't a "fun member" he's an AI-bot in everything but name.

The most interesting thing about him is his sudden hatred of Tolkien

He's probably someone suffering from autism who can have only one thing he's truly obsessed about. The way he suddenly talks about Tolkien is not how a normal person would talk

[killamajig]

[Potato]

It is wild that any random district judge can overturn the president.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-9-2025-ap-judge-scraps-biden’s-title-ix-rules-reversing-expansion-of-protections-for-lgbtq-students.1078407/#post-134062371

Civics education is seriously this bad…

I know it is just pure, vile hate fueling these people, and I promised I wouldn't cry or get emotional over this, and I also don't want or need an answer as this entire next sentence is rhetorical and just me venting:

I do not understand why these people hate us all so much. We have done nothing, All we do is exist, and we want to exist and be happy and live our lives. If I could live in a world away from them so they didn't have to bear witness to a queer person, I would. But I live here and this is my world as well, and why do I have to fight every single day to have the right to exist and not get harassed and why do my friend have to fight to exist and be called by the correct pronouns and why do any of us have to spend all of our energy trying to validate our existence because people who have it easier than all others in this world seem to just hate us because we exist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-9-2025-ap-judge-scraps-biden’s-title-ix-rules-reversing-expansion-of-protections-for-lgbtq-students.1078407/#post-134067084

That would be all well and good if that’s all your lot did, but it’s not, is it? You instead force your beliefs on others, and if they don’t kowtow you will harass their employers to get them fired and blacklisted across the public sphere. Why lie about this? You don’t want to “just exist” you want to create that separate world you pine for in this very post.

"We want to exist and be happy and live our lives."

"Ok, sounds reasonable. What's stopping you from achieving that the same as others?"

"My choices have marginalised me and it's not fair. Others have it so much easier than me. I need special treatment."

"Ok, well we live in a free society where everyone has the same simple inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What more do you need?"

"Well, I need you to force everyone else to agree with me about my choices. Then I need you to punish those who don't agree with my choices. Then I need to be given everything that I want without needing to work for it or pay for it."

[Potato]

Maybe Bdubs will do some soul searching about why no one wants to make fun topics anymore and realize that the excessively strict moderation practices are to blame and do a policy update that lets everyone say the r word again and talk about harry potter? 

[Potato]

From what I'm hearing the Switch 2 reveal will lead to an absolute dumpster fire ResetEra thread 

is it not backwards compatible

Get this...it kills trans people.

[BIONIC]

From what I'm hearing the Switch 2 reveal will lead to an absolute dumpster fire ResetEra thread 

is it not backwards compatible

Get this...it kills trans people.

With kindness

[BIONIC]

Mega constructive dump. Lots of choice B-Dumbs quotes for you chuds:

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Ok. That's a lot and most of it not specifically related to what I was saying, which was that I got why the thread was closed but also didn't see why it couldn't have been said when people asked, as it seemed like a known position. I get using the comment as a springboard though, just kind of a lot to dump out there in direct response to that post lol.

A few points though since, like, it is in direct reply to me and I don't know if any of these things are weird barbs:

I don't 'hide' in any OT and any OT I spend time in is obviously where I find fun on the forum at the time. I'm not looking for any more 'fun threads' than there are usually either because between the ones that exist and the OTs mentioned I have a good time on the forum. I usually try to bring the vibes in the threads even if I'm not making silly ones as often anymore.

In general I like community the most, and the OTs I'm in feature a really lovely sub-section of the forum with wonderful people. I like the small communities that are formed in them and the space to enjoy games among those people. I like to put effort and positivity in there, like in the ZZZ OT, and I don't think that's any less valuable to the forum honestly. It's also why I like making OTs occasionally as well, as it's nice to create a little home for whatever community forms in the space.

Speaking to the general point though I think it's both sides of the same coin. People want more fun threads and some are also anxious that the amount of Trump threads on the horizon will make navigating the fun aspects of Etcetera more difficult. They can ignore US Politics as a whole but there might be more local elements they want to be attuned to without the sewage of Trump's general stream of consciousness clogging it up. I'll make it clear again as well that the thread wasn't there to shove everything Trump into one space, it was a place for the in-between items to be discussed and housed that might not necessitate a thread on their own. I'm not personally bothered by it either way. I'd have followed the posts in that thread the same as I will now as separate threads. It seemed like a thing people wanted to try though and since the people asking for it are likely the ones wanting to de-clutter mentally, they're unlikely to front it so I thought why not? Still, I get the point on not wanting anything important to be stuck in the thread or in limbo of people trying to decide which place is most worthy. Makes sense.

All in all I think the forum is fun. I have fun here and try to be positive in the majority of interactions I have. For the issue you're speaking to, I do think think it's a split between creating the fun and being able to curate a little better, rather than one or the other. Not that I pretend to know a hidden solution for it, though I think we might see calls to have Etcetera split between entertainment and news/politics crop up again in searching for a way to cleave the negative from the positive/fun more cleanly.

Kyuuji, I was just using your post as an excuse to talk about something that's been bugging me for a while. I'm not tossing barbs at you. If that wasn't clear, I apologize. This whole Trump OT just gave me an excuse to talk about an issue I've been struggling against for a bit now.

My point is largely this: people need to stop taking everything so seriously, it's an internet forum. People should be here to talk about the things they enjoy, find important, and to have fun with each other. Instead a lot of people get bogged down in interpersonal drama and hate campaigns via toxic discord chats that largely exist to essentially cyber-stalk users they dislike. I'm saying, for the people reading and not to you, Kyuuji, directly, that if people want to break free of the cycles of anger and frustration the modern internet creates that they have to be willing to take a step in that direction and be the change. Choose to have fun, choose to be silly, choose to go out for a drink with your friends. Don't just get bogged down in being angry.

Appreciate you making that clear, thanks. I don't disagree on the general point either, the way I use and interact with the forum has shifted heavily over the years and I feel better for it. I just think it's a blend of the two sides of creation and curation. Which isn't to come off as 'what are you going to do' as I know it's something that's long-since been discussed internally, and the ability to block the US Politics side of the forum is one many users are thankful for. Just that ultimately when these coming years hit I can see some calls for a split/more curation being renewed if things continue to sour in the world as we expect they might. You're right that it rests on the community to be a general source of positivity here though, in the threads that populate the forum. We'll need it to weather the bad.

The last time we tried to do a physical split of the forum, it got compared to the Iraq War and Ceri, and the other admins at the time, got compared to George W Bush and his cabinet. And that was from a former mod, there was definitely worse getting thrown around. Then there was when we implemented the prefixes system that apparently everyone likes now and wants to be mandatory, meanwhile that shit still gives me anxiety for all the personal attacks thrown at me when it was first turned on.

We'll be doing a quasi-split on gaming side, in the same way as how the Etc/US Politics split works, but it's going to require people actually posting new threads instead of just hiding out in OTs and mega threads. If it works out, we'll probably do the same on Etc side.

That said, for any of it to work people need to be willing to take the reins and actually engage with each other in a positive way and actually post the sort of threads they want to see. Nearly 100 people signed up for a Pokemon TCG Pocket tournament, but nobody thought to make one until I did. I'm not roasting anyone or shitting on people, what I'm saying is that people need to be willing to take initiative and try shit. I was worried it wasn't going to work out, but now I'm sitting down with Serpens and we're plotting out a larger tournament that would be far easier to run/compete in. If people wan to play games with each other, and there's obviously interest there, just start something. I don't need to be the one to do it. If people want to grab a drink after work or on the weekend with people in their town, make the thread. If nobody shows up, big deal. Hell, you can use the tournaments feature for that too, it's got an event sign-ups category for exactly that sort of thing. Someone just needs to be willing to take a leap of faith, I've found that the community will generally reward you if you do.

Also, gonna be 1000%, I can literally set it up so that you can get alerts to your phone/computer whenever a new thread from a console/platform you're interested in gets posted. I been testing it out, the tech is already implemented, and it's pretty cool. There's also a few other things getting kicked around at the moment that are honestly pretty awesome looking. But all that doesn't do much if people get caught in their doom spirals.

What I'm saying is, if you want the forum to look a certain way, it can't just be us doing it. We can punish people for breaking the rules or add new features to the forum, but what the day to day looks like is all on you guys. I want to note, people get worried about activity numbers from time to time, but at no point did I ever mention being worried about that. I'm not. Moba isn't either. We're all talking about investing into this place and making it better, but part of that comes with all of you doing your part. That just means having fun and talking about shit that you find interesting.

Lastly, as for creating fun threads/post, good luck. When people feel like they have to walk on eggshells, then they rather not post at all. I noticed you guys aren't doing as many permanent bans as much as you used to (for non-trolly accounts at least), so that's a step in the right direction.

Ngl I know you're speaking generally and to the staff/members split but the 'you guys' is throwing me off when I don't really feel a lack of positivity on here in general. Honestly the only thing I've wanted to suggest is a poop tag to be able to ignore those threads lol. A half truth, half tongue-in-cheek suggestion I didn't float (...) because the thread and/or the staff are discussing more important things. I don't have any complaints when it comes to my day to day time here.

I do remember the forum split, and can appreciate the resulting hesitation in treading down that path again. I really can. I'd err on not closing it off entirely from at least discussion here between staff and members though if it recurs over the coming months or years. It's not something I have strong feelings either side of but can see where the request for it comes from, and think that will grow as Trump comes into office and starts to enact the things he plans to. My 2c at least.

I'm curious to see the changes planned for gaming side! I'm not into the console/platform discussions as much but always happy to see things being tried. Glad to hear activity isn't a concern or overriding motive either. Didn't really enter my head but it's a healthy reassurance from your position.

This is actually kind of funny because, if anything, we're harsher now than we were back then. Easily. I'll see stuff in people's history from 2018 and think, "Three days? That'd be a perm today!"

The difference is this: back when Era started, everyone was given a clean slate. So all the trolls, console warriors, and bigots that Bish and all them got rid of over their 15-20-ish year run were let back in, all at once. As a result, we wound up having to redo a huge amount of their work because most of their bans were totally legit and earned. I had a conversation with him when I took over running this place and he remarked to me that we had kinda just been speedrunning all the bans they had issued over the years and he found it funny.

So when you remark that we're perming less people, that's why. It's not that we're all loosey-goosey with moderation now, it's just that a lot of the users who were causing constant issues when the forum started are gone now and there's not as many people who need to be permed. The truth is that nobody ever really had to walk on eggshells, they just had to not be an asshole or a troll. We just had a huge console warrior/troll/bigot problem when the forum started as a result of the general amnesty and it needed solving and quick. So, we all did what needed to be done to solve the issue.


Let me put it this way: the thread that got me to join this community was a deeply stupid yet complicated and interesting one. It was literally, "which would win, 6 navy seals or the collective armies of the civil war?" I saw that and said, that is both incredibly stupid but also a really interesting question and so I signed up. As stupid as that question is, there's a lot of moving parts in that question that can change the answer and the thread was sitting there going through each of them one-by-one. What kind of weapons do they have? Are there limits on their ammo? How is everyone positioned? What's the effective range of the modern guns vs the vintage ones? Is there artillery available for either side? And so on and so forth.

I'm not saying every thread should be like that, but silly and wacky discussions have their value and place. They're what help build community.

It's also stuff like the tournaments and in-person hang outs and threads like the guy who was wondering if he should ask out that girl who comes into his store to chat with him. The first two things I mentioned are the sort of thing that can be done by anyone, it doesn't need to be me or a member of staff doing it. It's just a matter of taking initiative and taking a chance. I mean, I was nervous about the Pokemon TCG Pocket thing and it worked out better than I expected. People will show up for fun stuff if given the chance. People just need to give them the chance.

Oh I do get it. That thread sounds both fun and interesting as you say, I can see why it pulled you in. I still remember that time in this thread when everything slipped away and people had fun page after page. I can't even recall what event surrounded or provoked it, but I do remember how nice it was. There is fun and laughter here and those vibes have been and remain the glue of the community. There are many truly wonderful people here, who radiate positivity whenever I see them. It's important. I probably won't be the one creating the tournaments, challenges or events (pm if curious) but I do try to weave the sentiment into the posts of threads more often than not. Whether it's making threads or responding to them, it all has a part to play in the feeling of being here day to day and any positivity threaded into that will only be appreciated more and more as these coming years wash over us all.

Despite what some staff will say, from my perspective it can be a little inconsistent on what is and isn't allowed sometimes. There will be a silly thread that gets locked with a "do we really need this"

Yeah.... I would completely agree with encouraging fun threads, but I've seen a lot of what I saw as completely harmless "fun"/silly threads that got locked as "troll threads", with users being punished. Or harmless jokes get punished as "trolling". 🤷‍♀️

[Potato]

That's the thing, right, and the thing that the Resetera loonies don't get. Every bloke has objectified a lot of women. We do it constantly. Even the trans wlw do it constantly. We're sexual beasts that are driven by hormones to objectify them. I can guarantee that every single man on this planet has looked at a woman and wanted to fuck them without any other interaction whatsoever. That's objectification. Women as a sexual object. We've all joked about it, laughed about it with mates and even behaved like Trump and the boys in the locker room. 

What it doesn't mean is that we're not also capable of respecting women and loving them and treating them as equals.

Once again, the Resetera black and white autisty view of the world is colouring their dialogue.

[Potato]

Mega constructive dump. Lots of choice B-Dumbs quotes for you chuds:

Yeah.... I would completely agree with encouraging fun threads, but I've seen a lot of what I saw as completely harmless "fun"/silly threads that got locked as "troll threads", with users being punished. Or harmless jokes get punished as "trolling". 🤷‍♀️

Morrigan is desperate to just pull back the curtain and take a massive steaming dump on all the mods. Give the bitch some credit that she hasn't...yet.

[BIONIC]

That's the thing, right, and the thing that the Resetera loonies don't get. Every bloke has objectified a lot of women. We do it constantly. Even the trans wlw do it constantly. We're sexual beasts that are driven by hormones to objectify them. I can guarantee that every single man on this planet has looked at a woman and wanted to fuck them without any other interaction whatsoever. That's objectification. Women as a sexual object. We've all booked about it, laughed about it with mates and even behaved like Trump and the boys in the locker room. 

What it doesn't mean is that we're not also capable of respecting women and loving them and treating them as equals.

Once again, the Resetera black and white autisty view of the world is colouring their dialogue.

All the parties locker rooms I go to are full of activists feminists

[Boredfrom]

That's the thing, right, and the thing that the Resetera loonies don't get. Every bloke has objectified a lot of women. We do it constantly. Even the trans wlw do it constantly. We're sexual beasts that are driven by hormones to objectify them. I can guarantee that every single man on this planet has looked at a woman and wanted to fuck them without any other interaction whatsoever. That's objectification. Women as a sexual object. We've all booked about it, laughed about it with mates and even behaved like Trump and the boys in the locker room.

What it doesn't mean is that we're not also capable of respecting women and loving them and treating them as equals.

Once again, the Resetera black and white autisty view of the world is colouring their dialogue.

 

Trump is a rapist.

[books]

The fun police talking about making fun threads? Lol. That's like a man talking over women about women's issues or something.

[books]

Gimme ten minutes with Trump and we'll be snorting pills and signing accords and shit. Obviously I think he's a racist, rapist, and retard, but I think I'd be able to squeeze him for for a cabinet position. I'd make a positive difference from the inside.

90s-00s Stern was next level greatest radio ever.

[benji]

I get that the internet isn't really a place for fun anymore, as a result of social media algorithms focusing on making people angry and frustrated so they get into fights and stay on the platforms, but we don't have an algorithm here. We never will.

Also, gonna be 1000%, I can literally set it up so that you can get alerts to your phone/computer whenever a new thread from a console/platform you're interested in gets posted. I been testing it out, the tech is already implemented, and it's pretty cool. There's also a few other things getting kicked around at the moment that are honestly pretty awesome looking. But all that doesn't do much if people get caught in their doom spirals.

Well, that didn't take long.

Then there was when we implemented the prefixes system that apparently everyone likes now and wants to be mandatory, meanwhile that shit still gives me anxiety for all the personal attacks thrown at me when it was first turned on.

 

The difference is this: back when Era started, everyone was given a clean slate. So all the trolls, console warriors, and bigots that Bish and all them got rid of over their 15-20-ish year run were let back in, all at once. As a result, we wound up having to redo a huge amount of their work because most of their bans were totally legit and earned. I had a conversation with him when I took over running this place and he remarked to me that we had kinda just been speedrunning all the bans they had issued over the years and he found it funny.

Look, cop talk.