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

[Potato]

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?

It also remains one of the most inclusive and trans positive games in history.

[Potato]

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

Holy shit. Imagine thinking imperial Japan was a sane enemy and the better option was launching a full on ground invasion after 7 years of global war...

[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-22#post-134203896

There are a lot of people, including marginalized people, who rely on tiktok to communicate, connect with others, and even to make a living. They deserve our understanding and respect. We need to acknowledge where they are coming from and recognize that this ban is going to cause them real harm.

This use of broad terminology like “marginalized people” always seems an attempt obfuscate the fact they can’t give a real example.

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-rivals-quick-play-is-infested-with-bots-and-netease-put-them-there.1080339/

nintenyearold throws a tantrum cause they are shit at marvel rivals and get matched with bots by the sbmm

[nachobro]

FACT CHECK


https://bsky.app/profile/idontbeatgames.bsky.social/post/3lfljah5xzc27

[nachobro]

the dog is insanely mad about being banned what a feg

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-heard-of-the-term-childism-age-based-prejudice-and-discrimination-against-children.1080225/

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-rebecca-adami-about-her-book-childism-intersectionality-and-the-rights-of-the-child.html

I've learned about this recently. And theres lots of intersectionality here. It's also challenged my own notions. I'm not a parent to be clear. I generally like kids too. I've mentored kids of many ages in various contexts. I'm anti corporal punishment as well.

But I grew in a more traditional family, where kids were seen as basically "property". This is no hate to my family. I had a pretty good childhood, but these systems are rather deep.

Today, when I kid throws a tantrum, I know that's pretty developmental approriate based on their age. Kids aren't as cognitively mature to have adult level self control. Child development has taught us this. But, my parents didn't know this. Many don't. Many still don't. Even non parents! Who go nuts whenever they see a disregulated child in a public place. They blame the parents instead, of you, know you, biology! We also have a very low tolerance for this, at least in America.

Moreover, looking at things legally, we see how SCOTUS has allowed schools to tell kids that they have authority over all sorts of thing, including hairstyles, dress, and so on. Regarding hairstyle, we also know the main targets here.

And to bring the intersectionality angle, we're seeing a huge attack on LGBTQ youth of late, especially in the US and the UK.

Also, this not to say that that kids should not be raised, taught and disciplined--without hitting them. Kids need involved parenting. I'm not saying that kids are independent agents. But just something that I've been thinking of late.

Have you heard of childism? What are your thoughts on it?

Why is he such a vapid AI-sounding cunt?

[HaughtyFrank]

fat4all is such a sad troll character he can't even get banned right. Meanwhile Blame space cut straight into the soul of the mods with his comment

[Echelon]

The cultural revolution under the communists in China is estimated to have killed upwards of 80 million people when you include the great leap forward, land reforms and resulting famines. It's estimated that there were 50 million total people in the entire Americas pre-colonization. Not to mention that the majority of them died before the United States existed as an entity.

They are so fucking stupid.

[Uncle]

Can someone give me the lore on why they refuse to perma ban him when they perma ban anything that walks?

moba network told them they have to stop permaing people because they need engagement, they need an active audience and userbase

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

B-dubs cries about fake news and social media but gets whipped into coddling the tiktok kids.

[Mask]

I didn't consider the forum activity angle. The Era admins are so scared of losing forum activity of any kind that they're willing to be abused by some greasy furry over and over just to keep the numbers up.

Probably why they're OK with slaughtering some nobody versus giving repeat chances to people in the moderators' good graces. They wouldn't dare permaban someone who spends way too much time on the forum.

[Echelon]

Can someone give me the lore on why they refuse to perma ban him when they perma ban anything that walks?

moba network told them they have to stop permaing people because they need engagement, they need an active audience and userbase

Speaking of those fine imbeciles, the stock just hit its all-time low this month.



Imagine investing, and then losing 40% of that investment to keep fat4all posting about slurping cum out of assholes.

Also, Google says they have a total of 10 employees?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

FACT CHECK


https://bsky.app/profile/idontbeatgames.bsky.social/post/3lfljah5xzc27

They banned Hachikoma, the actual most liked member of the Era community. Cum4Fat is nothing but a blip.

[imsotired]

The cultural revolution under the communists in China is estimated to have killed upwards of 80 million people when you include the great leap forward, land reforms and resulting famines. It's estimated that there were 50 million total people in the entire Americas pre-colonization. Not to mention that the majority of them died before the United States existed as an entity.

They are so fucking stupid.

The white man created smallpox to keep down indigenous folks just like they did with the tsetse fly. 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Women of his age generally don't describe themselves as "a girl".

[Uncle]

yeah, but what about girls of his age?

[Potato]

In girl years he's 5.

[Jonsey]

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

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

Holy shit. Imagine thinking imperial Japan was a sane enemy and the better option was launching a full on ground invasion after 7 years of global war...

Idk maybe the rape of Nanking wasn’t that bad

[Averon]

40 year old middle-aged man still living with and mooching off his elderly parents larping as a little girl to e-beg online because he is too lazy to get a job. According to ERA, if you don't take someone like this seriously, it's you who are the asshole, apparently.

[BIONIC]

Imagine getting talked down by the cum riddler

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-preview-thread.1079187/page-7#post-134191254

User banned (1 month): Modwhining, extremely long history of same behavior

Can someone give me the lore on why they refuse to perma ban him when they perma ban anything that walks?

fat4all is such a sad troll character he can't even get banned right. Meanwhile Blame space cut straight into the soul of the mods with his comment

You dare question the sacred internal guidelines, chudlords

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

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?

It also remains one of the most inclusive and trans positive games in history.

But the nice trans lady in the game refers to her truck as a "beast" which was a well known trans slur before the games release and remains a well known and commonly used trans slur to this day!

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-got-death-threats-when-men-thought-i-put-feminist-gesture-in-video-game-bbc.1080183/#post-134175729

"I wish I could get a proper education, but affirmative action makes it so no college will accept me"

It's all bullshit, but they believe it. And it's been going on for decades.

I've never heard this one, literally anywhere. Ever. Because nobody in America believes it's impossible to get into college, because it's not. We get too many people into college, the standards are essentially non-existent, which is why failure rates are so high.

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.

Yeah, MAGA people believe in Marxism. But it's hard to blame them when our world has spent so long telling them it's true, that they're being exploited by capitalism.

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-22#post-134203896

People need to cool down, this thread has gotten far too heated.

The US TikTok ban is almost assuredly driven by sinophobic intent and not a desire to protect citizens from the issues with social media. That needs to be understood by everyone taking part in this discussion. What also needs to be understood is that people aren't going to like social media platforms for very valid reasons, not everyone who doesn't like tiktok is coming from the same place that the ban is coming from.

There are a lot of people, including marginalized people, who rely on tiktok to communicate, connect with others, and even to make a living. They deserve our understanding and respect. We need to acknowledge where they are coming from and recognize that this ban is going to cause them real harm.

However, there are also a lot of people, including marginalized people, who have been marginalized or hurt, both physically and otherwise, by tiktok and that should also not be ignored. There's a litany of instances where people have been wronged or hurt in many different ways and people are going to take issue with that.

The fact is that this discussion is more complicated than good or bad and we need to recognize that. However, that doesn't mean the ban is a good thing or should be happening in the slightest.

Here's your problem, you think the ban would be a good thing if it was because the cops were trying to "protect citizens" from social media.  

Also, Google says they have a total of 10 employees?

It's not like an actual company, it's a bunch of Swedish "venture capitalists" and their secretaries. All they do is buy online sites, pretty much ignore them completely, then go to a new bunch of investors and tout how many users they now have in their "network" to get new investment. ZIRP ending was always going to crunch their business plan.

[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

Holy shit. Imagine thinking imperial Japan was a sane enemy and the better option was launching a full on ground invasion after 7 years of global war...

Idk maybe the rape of Nanking wasn’t that bad

[kaleidoscopium]

Meta just updated their official policy that they specifically allow its platform to call people like me a mentally ill freaks - explicitly, in text, based on my gender identity this specific carve-out is allowed.

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-22#post-134210787

No, they just removed the shield that you can claim someone called you a mentally ill freak based on your gender identity, now you’re on equal footing with everyone else. 

Equality is pretty cool, weird that some don’t want it.

[benji]

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

When did the United States do either of these?

Also, way more Japanese civilians would have died if the Allies had to invade the home islands. Allied regular and firebombing had probably already killed more Japanese civilians than the two atomic bombs did but I'm not going to look this up at the moment to confirm. Maybe DigitalOp prefers the Allies had sealed off the islands, like a guy sitting outside a preschool in his car, until they were starved into surrender.

[benji]

Japan fucked around and found out.

NOT LIKE THAT

[Ribosome]

Meta just updated their official policy that they specifically allow its platform to call people like me a mentally ill freaks - explicitly, in text, based on my gender identity this specific carve-out is allowed.

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-22#post-134210787

No, they just removed the shield that you can claim someone called you a mentally ill freak based on your gender identity, now you’re on equal footing with everyone else. 

Equality is pretty cool, weird that some don’t want it.

Am I misinterpreting this? It does seem to read as a carveout.

Do not post: 

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality...

https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/hateful-conduct/

[kaleidoscopium]

The carve out isn’t “you can only call gay or trans people this because they’re so weird and mentally ill” though, it’s saying you can call people that on the basis of their gender identity/sexuality if you want. So people can call straight people crazy, cis people weird, trans people stupid, etc 
They’re reading it as an attack on them specifically when it’s not, they’re just an example given in the text.

[benji]

Yes, that's a carve out. You can't say people have mental illness for anything else. They should scrap the rule altogether and give us an example about Italians.