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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-i%E2%80%99m-one-of-them%E2%80%99-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises.1080276/#post-134181429

Gonna be real, this was literally the most labor friendly presidency of the modern age. These people don't really care about pro-labor or any of that, they want someone to blame for their problems.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-i%E2%80%99m-one-of-them%E2%80%99-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises.1080276/#post-134181534

All I hear is "me me me".

At some point, based on the decisions you made your outrage is no longer relevant outside your circle. Live with it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-i%E2%80%99m-one-of-them%E2%80%99-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises.1080276/#post-134181939

these people have zero ideals and are a bunch of dumb assholes who think they're actually smart. simple as that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-i%E2%80%99m-one-of-them%E2%80%99-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises.1080276/page-2#post-134183856

Id actually be okay if they learned the hard way. The issue is I'm concerned there's no learning under any circumstance. People will go to their grave making excuses for their "team".

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-i%E2%80%99m-one-of-them%E2%80%99-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises.1080276/page-3#post-134186193

A lot of people decide what is truth, and work back from there. If their truth is "red team good, blue team bad", they will find a way to justify it. Especially if it means they don't have to admit they were wrong before.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-i%E2%80%99m-one-of-them%E2%80%99-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises.1080276/page-3#post-134186817

The prevailing sentiment among boys (first hand accounts and second hand accounts that come mostly from the first hand accounts) is that they feel like they're denied opportunity and socially oppressed. Like, in the lunch room level stuff. And instead of anxiety or worrying about how the future looks for them, they get angry because that's what young, testosterone fueled men tend to do, sometimes after a bout with nihilism.

It's white, male privilege. Like, crystallized. The lack of self awareness is astounding.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-i%E2%80%99m-one-of-them%E2%80%99-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises.1080276/page-3#post-134187621

Humans are racist and misogynist. Any hardship in life, they'd rather the convenience of blaming a minority to make them feel superior and avoid the hard work to actually make positive change. Trump validates their shortsighted laziness. Who's gonna rebuild after Trump burns everything down? I guarantee they haven't thought that far ahead.

Bonus:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-i%E2%80%99m-one-of-them%E2%80%99-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises.1080276/page-2#post-134183004

Right.

I'm no nihilist, but I"m starting to believe democracy doesn't work really. It's starting to reach end of life. Too easily gamed by propaganda.

[Propagandhim]

*the second my guy is out of office*

I don't think this democracy shit is working, fellas.


*the second I don't get donations after putting in my order for a  Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese on UberEats*

I think Dark Melody is coming out, fellas.  I can't control her.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fast-travel-and-level-design-a-constant-headache.1080342/post-134186841
TimeSmasher

I'm getting old myself and I just don't have the patience to spend 20 minutes in a car or on a horse just waiting for something actually interesting to happen.

As I'm getting older have nothing better to do than dick around in open world games.

If your getting older and having less patience maybe you could relax spend 20mins and listen to the RDR2 music while traveling and not stress. 

I was playing my own music just riding my horse around in RDR2 when this song kicked in and I almost had a emotional moment. 



If PSmasher got off reee half his problems would magicaly go away, like for most (ALL) people on there.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Why play an open world game if you don't enjoy the basic traversal?

[Mask]

The Dubsman can't have it both ways.

I'm sure he knows that all the people that think they're magnificent agents of virtue are the real shitters that ruin threads. Cracking down on the people that react to people shitting up the thread as well is the worst way to go about this.

You have to say enough is enough and call derailing for what it is. It's the first step of many to cleaning up the board. Your "staff messages" are going to do fuck all when the virtue pretenders feel like they're invincible and the threads are still ruined.

[Boredfrom]

Being fair with ERA, some of the quotes of that article are infuriating:

Woods, like many in Youngstown, sympathises with Trump's zero-sum view of the world – that if one group is benefiting, it is usually at the expense of another.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-preview-thread.1079187/page-4#post-134134416

User banned (1 week): attacking other posters

Is this guy still involved?

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

I don't have much to say about this game. I just wanted to bring this back to the forefront after a lot of effort has been put into distracting from the fact that if you purchase this game you are directly donating towards this.

User banned (1 week): attacking other posters

Thank you. All the "oh wow so I'm not allowed to enjoy a cool game?" posts in here forget that by buying this game they're effectively giving money to this piece of shit. You literally cannot divorce the man from the game and "just enjoy it". You're paying the studio's operating costs yes but you definitely are giving this man money. All other whataboutisms they might respond with still apply but the reality remains that by proceeding you know the risks and are still consciously opting to give a Nazi money.

If you're okay with that, go with god I guess

User banned (1 week): attacking other posters

And just in case anyone thinks pointing out that a Nazi wearing a T-shirt fit a Nazi band founded by a murderous Nazi is making much ado about nothing:

This is one of the director's favorite musicians. []

"Game looks cool tho!"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-preview-thread.1079187/page-6#post-134166708

User banned (1 week): ignoring the staff post

DAMN this thread is sad, when the game is out, are we gonna get an OT to discuss the game, or is gonna be like this?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-preview-thread.1079187/page-7#post-134176989

User banned (1 week): ignoring the staff post

Lol unfair. Cdpr was much more benign compared to the outward hostility of DV.
Stand for something or stand for nothing etc.

[Boredfrom]

And just in case anyone thinks pointing out that a Nazi wearing a T-shirt fit a Nazi band founded by a murderous Nazi is making much ado about nothing:

This is one of the director's favorite musicians. [Teehee]

"Game looks cool tho!"

That is also a Morrigan favorite.  

No one calls her out.

[Nintex]

your internal guild lines are fucked, get new ones

Imagine getting talked down by the cum riddler

[Polident]

The Cyberpunk thing is funny because it was banned over a molehill that was turned into a mountain.  Underneath it all, it was absolutely nothing.  Now they have to keep up the lie and pretend there is some coherent guidelines or standard if they don't want to ban every game.  The users are right, there's no reason why cyberpunk was banned and KC2 isn't, and the staff knows there's no way to articulate a reason to its users, so they just patronize and evade them until they stop asking.  Great community.   the moral of the story is, don't be a liar and lie because you'll have to keep lying for the rest of your life to keep it up.

It’s fun because of all games Cyberpunk has remained relevant. Be it as a benchmark for new hardware or talking about the game itself or that anime. The plan of ignoring it until it goes away hasn’t exactly worked out. When they announce a port on the Switch 2, still have to pretend it doesn’t exist?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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-20#post-134169129

rather than going overseas and aiding another country whose government and human rights record is far worse than ours.

Today I learned China eradicated an entire race of humans, enslaved a whole other entire race and popped the only 2 Atomic bombs the world has ever seen live on innocent civilians.

Also China lied about a War and killed 1 Million Iraqis

These other world nations got serious problems, but honest to god I really have no idea why we keep trying to downplay the sins of the United States

Chinas not perfect and has done and continues to do awful fucking things , but worse human rights overall??? Everyone has to do History Class again

[Boredfrom]

Everyone has to do History Class again

You first, my dude.

[Nintex]

I like how they always leave out why the US nuked Japan and how Iraq became a magnet for radical islamists looking for a beef with the US of A and the final casualty count had little to do with the actual war.

and also how gangster this crew was

[Potato]

This isn't hard, just have a respectful discussion and you can avoid getting banned.

Not hard to have a respectful discussion? More like Nightmare difficulty on ResetEra 

Yes dumbs, but respectful discussion on Reeesetera means agreeing 100% with the prominent members and keeping up with unpublished ever-changing rules.

[Mask]

your internal guild lines are fucked, get new ones

Imagine getting talked down by the cum riddler

I find it highly funny that the Era admins are willing to get shit on by this braindead manchild just to prove that we're not influencing them.

It's cool, you can shoot him. It benefits everybody.

[Boredfrom]

The Cyberpunk thing is funny because it was banned over a molehill that was turned into a mountain.  Underneath it all, it was absolutely nothing.  Now they have to keep up the lie and pretend there is some coherent guidelines or standard if they don't want to ban every game.  The users are right, there's no reason why cyberpunk was banned and KC2 isn't, and the staff knows there's no way to articulate a reason to its users, so they just patronize and evade them until they stop asking.  Great community.   the moral of the story is, don't be a liar and lie because you'll have to keep lying for the rest of your life to keep it up.

It’s fun because of all games Cyberpunk has remained relevant. Be it as a benchmark for new hardware or talking about the game itself or that anime. The plan of ignoring it until it goes away hasn’t exactly worked out. When they announce a port on the Switch 2, still have to pretend it doesn’t exist?

TransEra lucked out in that the game was released in bad state, so was the laughing stock for some years. But now that it isnt and the Hogwarts didnt have a technical related controversy...

[Hap Shaughnessy]

your internal guild lines are fucked, get new ones

Imagine getting talked down by the cum riddler

I find it highly funny that the Era admins are willing to get shit on by this braindead manchild just to prove that we're not influencing them.
It's cool, you can shoot him. It benefits everybody.

[Polident]

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-20#post-134169129

rather than going overseas and aiding another country whose government and human rights record is far worse than ours.

Today I learned China eradicated an entire race of humans, enslaved a whole other entire race and popped the only 2 Atomic bombs the world has ever seen live on innocent civilians.

Also China lied about a War and killed 1 Million Iraqis

These other world nations got serious problems, but honest to god I really have no idea why we keep trying to downplay the sins of the United States

Chinas not perfect and has done and continues to do awful fucking things , but worse human rights overall??? Everyone has to do History Class again

Notice how he’s allowed to be critical of the United States.

Try being critical of China’s cobalt mine operations in the Congo on Douyin.

[Potato]

I can believe that he's not making huge amounts of money as he tends to get cast for smaller parts which is a shame since he is a pretty good actor. Though that he's straight up struggling feels a bit hard to believe

sounds like poor personal life choices, like rather than saving/investing what he got he assumed he finally made it and bought a boat and two cars and a mcmansion and is now shocked that it was unsustainable

No one is owed a particular standard of living. This cunt just seems to think he deserves a certain level of income without having to put the effort in. Fuck him.

[Uncle]

Why play an open world game if you don't enjoy the basic traversal?

there are always things that cross the line one way or the other, I would say shadow of the colossus borders way too close on "boring point A to point B" even if that's the point as an artistic experience or whatever

no modern game has traversal that boring though, there are always emergent fun interesting things happening in botw, cyberpunk, etc

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-preview-thread.1079187/page-7#post-134192841

This is so pathetic. It's funny to me how ingrained he is with US politics and the bitch doesn't even live here.

[Nintex]

These people are just full throttle into culture war, culture war, culture war, culture and I am just tired.

Well they are not actually. They don't really think about it at all?

[Potato]

I see we're expanding the mental illness grift with a little DID role-play

What a nut.

No that's Melody. The nut is on the guitar.

[Uncle]

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-20#post-134169129

rather than going overseas and aiding another country whose government and human rights record is far worse than ours.

Today I learned China eradicated an entire race of humans, enslaved a whole other entire race and popped the only 2 Atomic bombs the world has ever seen live on innocent civilians.

Also China lied about a War and killed 1 Million Iraqis

These other world nations got serious problems, but honest to god I really have no idea why we keep trying to downplay the sins of the United States

Chinas not perfect and has done and continues to do awful fucking things , but worse human rights overall??? Everyone has to do History Class again

the word "whataboutism" was practically invented to describe what he's doing here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Although the term whataboutism spread recently, Edward Lucas's 2008 Economist article states that "Soviet propagandists during the cold war were trained in a tactic that their western interlocutors nicknamed 'whataboutism'. Any criticism of the Soviet Union (Afghanistan, martial law in Poland, imprisonment of dissidents, censorship) was met with a 'What about...' (apartheid South Africa, jailed trade-unionists, the Contras in Nicaragua, and so forth)."

[HaughtyFrank]

I like how they always leave out why the US nuked Japan

It's particularly funny in the context of China, one of the countries that still despises Japan over WW2

[Averon]

The Cyberpunk thing is funny because it was banned over a molehill that was turned into a mountain.  Underneath it all, it was absolutely nothing.  Now they have to keep up the lie and pretend there is some coherent guidelines or standard if they don't want to ban every game.  The users are right, there's no reason why cyberpunk was banned and KC2 isn't, and the staff knows there's no way to articulate a reason to its users, so they just patronize and evade them until they stop asking.  Great community.   the moral of the story is, don't be a liar and lie because you'll have to keep lying for the rest of your life to keep it up.

Al done by one specific user and their band of merry jerks too! That was a wild time in Era’s history.

A member, by the way, that ended up playing CyberPunk 2077, new game plussing it, and was active in the game's OT for the first few months after its release

It made the situation that much more absurd looking back. Anyone who of course questioned why Kyuuji's playing the game got instantly banned.

[Boredfrom]

Why play an open world game if you don't enjoy the basic traversal?

there are always things that cross the line one way or the other, I would say shadow of the colossus borders way too close on "boring point A to point B" even if that's the point as an artistic experience or whatever

no modern game has traversal that boring though, there are always emergent fun interesting things happening in botw, cyberpunk, etc

I mean, I don’t think anyone describes Shadow of Colossus as an Open World game.

[Averon]

The Dubsman can't have it both ways.

I'm sure he knows that all the people that think they're magnificent agents of virtue are the real shitters that ruin threads. Cracking down on the people that react to people shitting up the thread as well is the worst way to go about this.

You have to say enough is enough and call derailing for what it is. It's the first step of many to cleaning up the board. Your "staff messages" are going to do fuck all when the virtue pretenders feel like they're invincible and the threads are still ruined.

The only thing to expect from B-Dumbs is him making the worse decision to appease the cliques. That has been how the man led the forum for years now. He just capitulates to the forum's worst aspects and then bitch and wonder why ERA is terrible and why his work as an admin is so hard and frustrating. B-Dumbs will never admit that his terrible leadership is largely why ERA's a shithole.

[Boredfrom]

I mean, BDubs, like Nepenthe, is in for the power than any genuine desire to foster a a gaming community. Whatever genuine discussions or social interactions he has is reserved to Discord, the forum is there just to yell to people and complain about them and the world.

[Uncle]

Why play an open world game if you don't enjoy the basic traversal?

there are always things that cross the line one way or the other, I would say shadow of the colossus borders way too close on "boring point A to point B" even if that's the point as an artistic experience or whatever

no modern game has traversal that boring though, there are always emergent fun interesting things happening in botw, cyberpunk, etc

I mean, I don’t think anyone describes Shadow of Colossus as an Open World game.

plenty do, but it's not really a big deal, traversal should be fun regardless

https://gamerant.com/most-influential-open-world-games/