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

[killamajig]

*types in word*
person of gender

Well, I guess not here 

[EaldNarche]

*types in word*
person of gender

Well, I guess not here 

Rupaul isn't even allowed to say it on her own show anymore, so it's no surprise. Facebook suddenly allowing it is more surprising honestly. 

[kaleidoscopium]

Tides feel a bit weird on era this year already, if you search Hogwarts you can find 2 pages of people talking about Hogwarts legacy already in positive ways, including one guy who’s posted like 30 pics in their screenshot channel about it. 

Kyuuji and the trans mafia are slippin 

https://www.resetera.com/search/29734551/?page=1&q=Hogwarts&o=date

[BananaBlast]

In other news, airbagged got banned from twitter. Good riddance.

[kaleidoscopium]

In other news, airbagged got banned from twitter. Good riddance.

He’s got a few alts he is already back with, truly Twitter brained.

[kaleidoscopium]

Yeah, when it comes to our personal info or disinformation I genuinely don't trust Musk or Zuckerberg any more than the CCP at this point.

I have absolutely zero illusions that any social media has my "interests" in mind and I am absolutely certain that, above anything else, the CCP aren't the ones feeding me fascist muck constantly.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cbs-tiktok-says-it-plans-to-shut-down-site-in-the-us-unless-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-forcing-it-to-sell.1078593/page-11#post-134096202

[Eric Cartman]

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

but its made of cardboard and costs $90

[Eric Cartman]

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.

                     gaslighting?
                   /

[Potato]

Do you think he knows how much he sounds like an SS officer on trial at Nuremberg?

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-takes-one-for-the-team-is-seated-next-to-his-successor-at-jimmy-carters-funeral.1078227/page-4#post-134058921

Keep saying 'This is a funeral'. Maybe it'll make sense if you keep saying it.
But no, this is a fucking funeral, haven't you been at a funeral?!?! Gotta keep decorum my guy! Have you been living under a rock all this time?!

Fuck off with your decorum.

Must be a big fan of the tactics of the westboro baptist church who also sneer at the decorum of funerals

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cbs-tiktok-says-it-plans-to-shut-down-site-in-the-us-unless-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-forcing-it-to-sell.1078593/page-9#post-134083539

Yeah, because kids are kids and have developing minds. They're not prepared to be aware of, much less want to willingly fight against, the effects on attention spans that ALL social media- not just TikTok- but ALL social media was deliberately engineered to possess. This is not solved by banning a single platform. It is solved by heavy regulation of our Internet landscape, but methinks that some of the regulation that might actually be necessary is going to be fought against by my generation anyways. Like, I seriously think some level of anonymity has to eventually go away and that criminal prosecution must be allowed to be more easily leveled against users for things like harassment and bigotry . KiwiFarms shouldn't be a thing. I also think that all entertainment and algorithmic-based social media platforms should be heavily restricted to users under 18.

Apropos of nothing, anyone remember when a forum admin posted a dog whistley anti semitic post about the "collective nation of jews", then got explicitly anti-semitic posts from their personal social media exposed, and it was the people exposing that who got banned under the pretense they didn't kow-tow by handing over adminstrative access to an unrelated discord?

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-intercept-have-obtained-internal-meta-documents-revealing-an-array-of-sample-posts-that-are-now-allowed-under-new-hate-speech-rules.1078707/

Benji, why can they say the t word on facebook but we can't here??
 

also anyone remember only a few years ago when "   you only have first amendment protections from the government, twitter is an independent company and gets to set their own rules, don't like it? build your own social media  "

[Uncle]

anyway a lighthearted merry other other forum romp

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/1hrujjz/aita_for_accidentally_ruining_my_autistic/

Am I the asshole for accidentally ruining my autistic boyfriends safe food

submitted 8 days ago by stewlessinseattle

My boyfriend loves stew, he wants to eat it every day for every meal. His favorite stew is beef tips and vegetables from a local place, but it’s really expensive. Like $47 for a big bowl (they don’t do small orders for takeout) and he is grossed out by leftovers so more than half of it gets wasted. We’ve had a couple of arguments about it, he says I don’t understand his brain, I say he doesn’t understand our budget.

recently I looked up some recipes, including doing a dissection of the takeout soup, and tried my hand at making a home cooked replacement for stew night. He loved it for a few days, and then one night he was hanging out with me in the kitchen and saw me put tomato paste into the pot, he was really upset and demanded that I make the soup without the paste. I told him it wouldn’t taste the same and he said it would be better because he hates tomatoes, they’re not a safe food for him. So I made the soup with no tomato paste and big surprise, something felt off about it to him. Instead of admitting that the tomato paste was necessary he threw a fit and told me he didn’t want home cooked food anymore if I was going to “play with him” and not take his safe foods seriously, he thinks I changed more than just the tomato paste in an effort to get him to admit he was wrong.

$400 in stew orders later I had an idea to ask the chef when we were picking up the order if there was any tomato products in the stew, and lo and behold there is tomato in the recipe, fucking tomato paste. In my mind this was great because I thought he would get over it if he knew his original perfect stew had tomato paste like “oh I guess tomato paste isn’t so bad then” but it was the exact opposite. He walked out of the restaurant without saying anything and then refused to eat the stew that night and hasn’t ordered it again, and he’s been ignoring me while sulking around the house, using his whiny voice a lot, and slamming things. His sister also texted me to tell me I’m a selfish asshole for needing to “get back at him” by taking his favorite food away.

I literally just wanted to stop spending insane amounts of money on stew, I wasn’t trying to hurt him or ruin his life. I’m not autistic, I can’t really wrap my head around caring this much about a single ingredient, I genuinely didn’t see this reaction coming. We’ve been together for four years and he’s only had three other fits like this, the other ones were pretty reasonable. Those were also a little less intense and didn’t include input from his family, this is the first time anyone in his family has EVER spoke to me like this. So I’ve been back and forth between “yall are overreacting” and “what have I done”.

AITA? It sounds so dumb when I write it all out but living it has made me feel physically sick with regret, I can’t think straight anymore.

ETA: I’m getting ready for work right now so I can’t respond to individual comments but there’s some recurring confusion/questions I wanted to clear up because it might effect the answers:

1/ The stew place is a catering place with a mini-restaurant, so every time we order takeout we’re ordering a catering amount pretty much, it’s not stew made of gold lol 2/ We order from there 2-3 nights a week, it’s not the only thing he eats it’s just the top 5 foods for him, he doesn’t eat this unreasonably every single day. 3/ He has a job and contributes with money, I’m not funding his entire diet. We do mix money, so even though “he” pays for the meal half the time it does still feel like “we’re” losing money. He works part time and I work full time, bills are probably split 70-30.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/obama-takes-one-for-the-team-is-seated-next-to-his-successor-at-jimmy-carters-funeral.1078227/page-4#post-134058921

Keep saying 'This is a funeral'. Maybe it'll make sense if you keep saying it.
But no, this is a fucking funeral, haven't you been at a funeral?!?! Gotta keep decorum my guy! Have you been living under a rock all this time?!

Fuck off with your decorum.

Must be a big fan of the tactics of the westboro baptist church who also sneer at the decorum of funerals

Screaming and shouting at a funeral, that's how we win elections!
And how even dare you suggesting that's a bad idea!

[Cheers]

I didn’t even knew what it was until I googled it… man, the USA is genuinely obsessed about race.

Kinda hard not to be with the history this country has.

But you guys are making everyone else insane.

No shit teachers shouldn’t make any group feels excluded, why the fuck you think is a good idea to prioritize one over another… specially in education.

There are a lot of racists in this country. It definitely sucks. And a sizable portion thinks systemic racism doesn’t exist anymore. 

Instead of trying to be revolutionary and change it, I decided to be as successful as I can, financially and with my career, to offset it. Complaining online and wishing for a benevolent dictator wasn’t going to cut it.

[DavidCroquet]

The truth is that nobody ever really had to walk on eggshells, they just had to not be an asshole or a troll.

On that we agree.


Then religion can't be blamed for the shit that men would do if religion didn't exist. It's not real.


Fake God has nothing to do with this therefore, all the text in the holy books that can be stripped of his influence are able to stand on their own merit. I say judge it based on what it's saying and not what it's supposedly connected to.


Now, if you believe in God or Buddha or whomever, then these text take on different context.



*Note: This is not meant to come off as misogynistic, it's just a real life example that I have spoke with men and women about in secular and religious circles that seems to be true. I can edit or delete if it feels anymore than that.


It doesn't work as intended. I withdraw. Sorry

 User Banned (Permanently): Misogynist Commentary; History of the Same

Maybe Dubs is trying to say that is that walking on eggshells is useless, because this tiptoeing-timidity is interpreted as an admission of guilt? You don't have to walk on eggshells, because we will ban you anyway (and more harshly)!

[Disco55]

anyway a lighthearted merry other other forum romp

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/1hrujjz/aita_for_accidentally_ruining_my_autistic/

Am I the asshole for accidentally ruining my autistic boyfriends safe food

submitted 8 days ago by stewlessinseattle

My boyfriend loves stew, he wants to eat it every day for every meal. His favorite stew is beef tips and vegetables from a local place, but it’s really expensive. Like $47 for a big bowl (they don’t do small orders for takeout) and he is grossed out by leftovers so more than half of it gets wasted. We’ve had a couple of arguments about it, he says I don’t understand his brain, I say he doesn’t understand our budget.

recently I looked up some recipes, including doing a dissection of the takeout soup, and tried my hand at making a home cooked replacement for stew night. He loved it for a few days, and then one night he was hanging out with me in the kitchen and saw me put tomato paste into the pot, he was really upset and demanded that I make the soup without the paste. I told him it wouldn’t taste the same and he said it would be better because he hates tomatoes, they’re not a safe food for him. So I made the soup with no tomato paste and big surprise, something felt off about it to him. Instead of admitting that the tomato paste was necessary he threw a fit and told me he didn’t want home cooked food anymore if I was going to “play with him” and not take his safe foods seriously, he thinks I changed more than just the tomato paste in an effort to get him to admit he was wrong.

$400 in stew orders later I had an idea to ask the chef when we were picking up the order if there was any tomato products in the stew, and lo and behold there is tomato in the recipe, fucking tomato paste. In my mind this was great because I thought he would get over it if he knew his original perfect stew had tomato paste like “oh I guess tomato paste isn’t so bad then” but it was the exact opposite. He walked out of the restaurant without saying anything and then refused to eat the stew that night and hasn’t ordered it again, and he’s been ignoring me while sulking around the house, using his whiny voice a lot, and slamming things. His sister also texted me to tell me I’m a selfish asshole for needing to “get back at him” by taking his favorite food away.

I literally just wanted to stop spending insane amounts of money on stew, I wasn’t trying to hurt him or ruin his life. I’m not autistic, I can’t really wrap my head around caring this much about a single ingredient, I genuinely didn’t see this reaction coming. We’ve been together for four years and he’s only had three other fits like this, the other ones were pretty reasonable. Those were also a little less intense and didn’t include input from his family, this is the first time anyone in his family has EVER spoke to me like this. So I’ve been back and forth between “yall are overreacting” and “what have I done”.

AITA? It sounds so dumb when I write it all out but living it has made me feel physically sick with regret, I can’t think straight anymore.

ETA: I’m getting ready for work right now so I can’t respond to individual comments but there’s some recurring confusion/questions I wanted to clear up because it might effect the answers:

1/ The stew place is a catering place with a mini-restaurant, so every time we order takeout we’re ordering a catering amount pretty much, it’s not stew made of gold lol 2/ We order from there 2-3 nights a week, it’s not the only thing he eats it’s just the top 5 foods for him, he doesn’t eat this unreasonably every single day. 3/ He has a job and contributes with money, I’m not funding his entire diet. We do mix money, so even though “he” pays for the meal half the time it does still feel like “we’re” losing money. He works part time and I work full time, bills are probably split 70-30.

It's AITA so most likely it is a fake story.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wccftech-ci-games-will-not-integrate-dei-elements-in-their-games-to-maximizing-player-enjoyment-lords-of-the-fallen.1079157/

In one hand, I remember Lords Of Fallen having “DEI” in the form of black characters in their trailers, they looked cool. Is exasperating how the term DEI is used in stuff that is not necessarily woke and bad. The political landscape of right wing and leftist grifters have fucked the term to be a negative.

In the other hand: lol in the context of video games, seems like stuff like Concord got them spooked. European studios don’t seem to give a fuck. Hopefully the “no DEI” doesn’t mean “we are afraid of the gays and Arabs” and more like “we are not wasting resources in creating Dustborn”.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wccftech-ci-games-will-not-integrate-dei-elements-in-their-games-to-maximizing-player-enjoyment-lords-of-the-fallen.1079157/#post-134102196

These dudes are just fucking cowards who are trying to make sure they don't attract the attention of the griftosphere.

If you stand for nothing, you stand for nothing.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wccftech-ci-games-will-not-integrate-dei-elements-in-their-games-to-maximizing-player-enjoyment-lords-of-the-fallen.1079157

Thy never define exactly what DEI is

I don't understand what DEI means in context. Minorities in games isn't DEI. Women in games isn't DEI. Not like there's a videogame character job that people can apply for.

DEI is about real people. Minority characters in games is about reaching new markets and representation in media.

Or am I mistaken?

What the fuck does this even mean. DEI is a hiring practice, you dont implement that shit into the game.

Tf does it even mean

What are DEI elements in a souls-clone anyway? Less enemy/design variety? Just generic-ass grimdark knight designs? I'm so confused

"Hey, quick follow up question. What the fuck does that mean?"

More "What is DEI even anyway" + "YOU BETTER HAVE IT IN YOUR GAME, BITCH" dissonance, presented for the Bire's enjoyment.

[nachobro]

It's AITA so most likely it is a fake story.

that sub and resetti have a lot in common. all the stories are "i'm actually a perfect angel and breaking my back to work with XYZ entity who is an unyielding force of pure evil causing strife in my ideal existence. what do i do, am i the bad one here?"

but resettis aren't even smart enough to make things up, they just end up exposing themselves after a page or two.

[kaleidoscopium]

All this feels like a stretch and an attempt to find issues where there aren't any.

You are talking to Minthara. 😂 His need to spotlight "problematic" issues and constantly raising awareness about it is unheard of, and annoying when reaching for it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/james-gunn-analyzing-the-sexist-and-racist-tropes-in-his-superhero-work-marvel-dc-spoilers.1079124/#post-134103396

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wccftech-ci-games-will-not-integrate-dei-elements-in-their-games-to-maximizing-player-enjoyment-lords-of-the-fallen.1079157/

In one hand, I remember Lords Of Fallen having “DEI” in the form of black characters in their trailers, they looked cool. Is exasperating how the term DEI is used in stuff that is not necessarily woke and bad. The political landscape of right wing and leftist grifters have fucked the term to be a negative.

In the other hand: lol in the context of video games, seems like stuff like Concord got them spooked. European studios don’t seem to give a fuck. Hopefully the “no DEI” doesn’t mean “we are afraid of the gays and Arabs” and more like “we are not wasting resources in creating Dustborn”.

it's got everyone spooked, if Ubisoft is literally trying to sell the company before they release their Yasuke game

after all that stuff came to light that 99% of his story was extrapolated and exaggerated, after all the backlash from Japanese people who just want to play a Japanese samurai, the numerous missteps like the broken arch figurine, probably bad internal playtesting and polling data, slow preorders...they're too done with the game to pivot so they have to stay the course with what they've got, and after their other sales flops that were meant to save the company and didn't, if it fails as badly as projected it's just going to bury them

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wccftech-ci-games-will-not-integrate-dei-elements-in-their-games-to-maximizing-player-enjoyment-lords-of-the-fallen.1079157/

In one hand, I remember Lords Of Fallen having “DEI” in the form of black characters in their trailers, they looked cool. Is exasperating how the term DEI is used in stuff that is not necessarily woke and bad. The political landscape of right wing and leftist grifters have fucked the term to be a negative.

In the other hand: lol in the context of video games, seems like stuff like Concord got them spooked. European studios don’t seem to give a fuck. Hopefully the “no DEI” doesn’t mean “we are afraid of the gays and Arabs” and more like “we are not wasting resources in creating Dustborn”.

it's got everyone spooked, if Ubisoft is literally trying to sell the company before they release their Yasuke game

after all that stuff came to light that 99% of his story was extrapolated and exaggerated, after all the backlash from Japanese people who just want to play a Japanese samurai, the numerous missteps like the broken arch figurine, probably bad internal playtesting and polling data, slow preorders...they're too done with the game to pivot so they have to stay the course with what they've got, and after their other sales flops that were meant to save the company and didn't, if it fails as badly as projected it's just going to bury them

I mean, is a shame given that a Yusuke game could be cool if done right. Is not like Japan hasn’t made alternate and exaggerated historical games before.

In that regard, is DEI pushing Yosuke so hard to the point of exaggeration in a franchise that sell’s itself as historical accurate? The fact that westerners have used Yusuke in a cynical way just to sell books, cartoons or films? Or the whole company whole “we are composed of people of various religions and ethnicities” rings hollow given how corporate behaves?

[EaldNarche]

All this feels like a stretch and an attempt to find issues where there aren't any.

You are talking to Minthara. 😂 His need to spotlight "problematic" issues and constantly raising awareness about it is unheard of, and annoying when reaching for it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/james-gunn-analyzing-the-sexist-and-racist-tropes-in-his-superhero-work-marvel-dc-spoilers.1079124/#post-134103396

Even Era is pushing back on this one. You know you've completely lost the plot if that happens.

[Boredfrom]

While I dislike the abuse of the term “DEI” by Chuds and grifters… Leftists have been awful defending it or reacting against stuff like this

https://www.resetera.com/threads/lionsgate-announces-story-spark-tool-not-ai-to-analyze-diversity-and-intersectionality-in-film-and-tv-scripts.898698/

 Get ready for those people to start fuming all over YouTube.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/barbara-furlow-smiles-former-facebook-and-nike-diversity-manager-gets-5-years-in-prison-for-5-million-fraud.874416/

the chuds will be unbearable 

These (insert slur of choice here) are tryin' to move into the white man's grift. These funds should be going into white scammer pockets! Privatization. "Business Consultants" (shouts to McKinsey), etc.

Not self critical at all, but demanding others to “be better… OR ELSE”.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wccftech-ci-games-will-not-integrate-dei-elements-in-their-games-to-maximizing-player-enjoyment-lords-of-the-fallen.1079157/

In one hand, I remember Lords Of Fallen having “DEI” in the form of black characters in their trailers, they looked cool. Is exasperating how the term DEI is used in stuff that is not necessarily woke and bad. The political landscape of right wing and leftist grifters have fucked the term to be a negative.

In the other hand: lol in the context of video games, seems like stuff like Concord got them spooked. European studios don’t seem to give a fuck. Hopefully the “no DEI” doesn’t mean “we are afraid of the gays and Arabs” and more like “we are not wasting resources in creating Dustborn”.

While some recent video games have taken the opportunity to implement "social and political agendas" within their experiences, Hill continued, the lower than expected commercial performance of some of these games shows that many players do not appreciate these elements.

Big oooooof.
Why cant they just say "We have nothing to talk about when it comes to this."

"Big oof, why cant they just lie?"

All this likely means is that they just won't hire some consultant company or a grifter like Sarkesian. RE and co will not stop telling you about how games have always been woke before DEI, so what exactly are they worried about? The most tangible effect will probably be that you can't select your fucking pronouns or something and who literally gives a shit about that except some weirdos who declare Astro bot a nonbinary icon

[kaleidoscopium]

Hi all, so one thing I don't think I've mentioned on era much is that I enjoy watching Golden Age Cartoons (besides the cringe racism and misogyny that depressing common, one of the reason why I don't watch the Classic Superman shorts much because they can be hard watches), a lot of it due to having several VHS full of classic Disney, Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera shorts.

My mother loves them as well and we're currently having a debate (a fun one, not serious), which classic cartoon character is better; Goofy (my favourite character) or Daffy Duck (my Mother's favourite classic character)?

Debate!!!!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/help-settle-a-family-debate-who-do-you-prefer-goofy-or-daffy-duck.1079166/#post-134102571

Thank you cyborg for making the fun topic of the day

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wccftech-ci-games-will-not-integrate-dei-elements-in-their-games-to-maximizing-player-enjoyment-lords-of-the-fallen.1079157/

In one hand, I remember Lords Of Fallen having “DEI” in the form of black characters in their trailers, they looked cool. Is exasperating how the term DEI is used in stuff that is not necessarily woke and bad. The political landscape of right wing and leftist grifters have fucked the term to be a negative.

In the other hand: lol in the context of video games, seems like stuff like Concord got them spooked. European studios don’t seem to give a fuck. Hopefully the “no DEI” doesn’t mean “we are afraid of the gays and Arabs” and more like “we are not wasting resources in creating Dustborn”.

it's got everyone spooked, if Ubisoft is literally trying to sell the company before they release their Yasuke game

after all that stuff came to light that 99% of his story was extrapolated and exaggerated, after all the backlash from Japanese people who just want to play a Japanese samurai, the numerous missteps like the broken arch figurine, probably bad internal playtesting and polling data, slow preorders...they're too done with the game to pivot so they have to stay the course with what they've got, and after their other sales flops that were meant to save the company and didn't, if it fails as badly as projected it's just going to bury them

I mean, is a shame given that a Yusuke game could be cool if done right. Is not like Japan hasn’t made alternate and exaggerated historical games before.

In that regard, is DEI pushing Yosuke so hard to the point of exaggeration in a franchise that sell’s itself as historical accurate? The fact that westerners have used Yusuke in a cynical way just to sell books, cartoons or films? Or the whole company whole “we are composed of people of various religions and ethnicities” rings hollow given how corporate behaves?

What's funny is that Ubisoft even literally said that they're using Yasuke as an insert for the western audience because Japan is apparently just too exotic, nevermind that Ghost of Tsushima did just fine without it. I'm pretty convinced they could have easily made a Yasuke Spin-off, after Shadows released, without too much drama over it, it is an interesting character after all, but introducing the setting of Japan with him just really stretches people's limits, especially when every other AC game that came before had someone native to the region. Just imagine instead of Yasuke it was a white guy. Places like RE, Kotaku etc. people would flip so hard.

[kaleidoscopium]

And looks like our new hot button game of the year will be kingdom come deliverance 2, with outlets praising it in previews today and users crying about Daniel Vavra not being woke friendly. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-preview-thread.1079187/

Will be funny to see if it holds interest through the year and into GOTY discussions