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

[clockwork5]

I can absolutely assure you VisaWife has checked out the linked in and instagram of every female who has ever messaged him back

Even the infamous Emily Kent.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-fell-for-the-steam-discord-unlawful-purchasing-illegal-activities-false-report-emily-kent-scam.718384/

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-dont-know-whats-going-on-between-my-landlady-and-i.1092480/page-11#post-134949531

Given just three weeks ago OP came to the conclusion her would-be fetish hook-up was a human trafficker because they owned a gas station, I'm not surprised they see mixed signals when staring directly into the event horizon of a CERN-scale green light.

Not a gas station and old abandoned water pumping station. Big difference and you can absolutely fuck off with your shitty dismissal of my concerns. I shouldn't have to give you fucking context to why meeting someone for the dynamic I was entering attracts a lot of bad people, so get off your shitty judgemental horse and fuck yourself with a cactus.

User Banned (3 Days): Hostility towards another member

Really, this post?  Not the one where they called someone's country a Nazi country which is UK?

[StandingOvation]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-dont-know-whats-going-on-between-my-landlady-and-i.1092480/page-11#post-134949531

User Banned (3 Days): Hostility towards another member

Not a gas station and old abandoned water pumping station. Big difference and you can absolutely fuck off with your shitty dismissal of my concerns. I shouldn't have to give you fucking context to why meeting someone for the dynamic I was entering attracts a lot of bad people, so get off your shitty judgemental horse and fuck yourself with a cactus.

B-Dubs: "For antagonising other members and being a overall weirdo, you're banned for a month."
Also B-Dubs: ".....however, you generated great content and good engagement, so we've reduced it to just 3 days."

[StandingOvation]

Absolutely not a troll thread just seens that I don't even have sex in this particular situation and I'm getting more action than a lot of people on this forum which they seemingly find impossible 😂

{In the most snooty voice I can muster}

A woman, no a trans woman exploring her sexuality and having such casual and open intimacy with another woman, whilst also having sexual and emotional intimacy with other women (and men)? Fuh fuh fuh, impossible I say! Burn the witch for her lies!

{Insert more snooty noises here}

Talk about sexually repressed people here jesus....

And there it is

As per usual for a Lady Dimitrescu thread's lifecycle;

Start OP with unbelievable smug nonsense -> feed into it further here-and-there with selective replying to certain posters -> gets too big-headed and slips up -> feels persecuted and begins to attacks posters - > posters start pushing back


By my calculations, we're about 4-6 hours away from a thread lock, at most.

To note, the thread was locked exactly 6 hours after me posting this message 

[killamajig]

STRIKE ONE DOWN AND ANOTHER WILL APPEAR

https://www.resetera.com/threads/feeling-more-comfortable-about-considering-myself-a-lesbian.1093260/

Another MtF trans lesbian on ResetEra dot com?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jan-6-rioter-pardoned-by-trump-shot-killed-by-indiana-sheriff’s-deputy-while-resisting-arrest-up-yes-very-sad-anyways-transistor-made-bread.1093251/page-2

Isn’t Transistor suppose to close these threads?

[BananaBlast]

Why is Echos so obsessed with Cammy being a lesbian? Isn't this the seventh time in a row? 

She can't be gooning she/her girlcock to Cammy right? You can't just do that, not after talking about problematic, misogynistic, and horrible it is for years, right?

[killamajig]

Get a load of this place......

https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-today-marks-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-auschwitz-birkenau-nazi-germanys-biggest-concentration-camp.1092804/

Fuck off, era

[Boredfrom]

However thanks to some really amazing users on this site, I was able to clear my mind and they helped me understand myself better. Thanks to them I came to terms that liking NB people did not mean I had to exclude myself from the lesbian community and should proud to use the term that I felt most comfortable with.

Who the fuck is encouraging him? How in good consciousness could anyone encourage him?

[Snoopy]

They must be on some kind of rota. Ok Larry, you do your post about rubbing swords with your landlady, and Jeff can do his about being a wickle gurl who wuvvs kitty cats tomorrow

[nachobro]

However thanks to some really amazing users on this site, I was able to clear my mind and they helped me understand myself better. Thanks to them I came to terms that liking NB people did not mean I had to exclude myself from the lesbian community and should proud to use the term that I felt most comfortable with.

Who the fuck is encouraging him? How in good consciousness could anyone encourage him?

the whole thing is very funny. just obsessed with all these categories and checked boxes on what you're allowed to call yourself or whatever

[Besticus Maximus]

Dear lesbian community

On deep reflection, I have decided not to exclude myself from your scheduled activities, reversing an earlier decision.

I hope that you will forgive me for my earlier voluntary recusal. If you would like to discuss this, please inbox my dms.

[Propagandhim]

It's my new years resolution to be more vocal about the viscosity and temperature of my seminal fluid that I've been keeping track of in my jizz diary...

No no no no that's ok nooo *everyone yells in protest


4.93 MILLILITERS AT 9.35 CENTIPOSE. 20 DEGREES CELSIUS 1 HOUR POST EJACULATION

[DavidCroquet]

However thanks to some really amazing users on this site, I was able to clear my mind and they helped me understand myself better. Thanks to them I came to terms that liking NB people did not mean I had to exclude myself from the lesbian community and should proud to use the term that I felt most comfortable with.

Who the fuck is encouraging him? How in good consciousness could anyone encourage him?

Can a woman* be a lesbian if they attracted to women, but ALSO attracted to people other-than-women? The answer may surprise you!

(of course we all know that the NBs Echoes is talking about are very likely to be your typical "she/they"-but-still-obviously-feminine)

*man

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-today-marks-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-auschwitz-birkenau-nazi-germanys-biggest-concentration-camp.1092804/

Imagine wanting to go back to this. Imagine thinking this was great.

I will never forget this shit. Being in Auschwitz as a student was... Messed up.

We can't allow ourselves to forget. We can't allow ourselves to get complacent, especially during these trying times.

Motherfuckers like Trump would no fucking doubt push to repeat something like this. People need to stand up to this shit!

"Maybe the collective nation of Jewish people should go back where they belong then." -  

And yet, here we go again it seems.

We are literally seeing this each year. One with Afghans, another with Sudanese, Palestinian, Libyan, choose your "undesirable" and you will find that as much as we have changed we've actually not changed at all.

[Boredfrom]

Like, this is Chris Chan levels of trolling/harassing. Echoes is not mentally well. Is a 30+ something that wastes 24 hours not his life creating a shitty collage for a avatar that no one would get what the fuck is going on.

How can you see this and think “this is normal behavior.”

[killamajig]

STRIKE ONE DOWN AND ANOTHER WILL APPEAR

https://www.resetera.com/threads/feeling-more-comfortable-about-considering-myself-a-lesbian.1093260/

Having a bit of a rough week (sicks cats and well, everything news related) and feeling that been Ms Negative today (sorry about that) so I want to end the day of something positive (besides eating that 2 litre carton of Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream that I discovered untouched in the freezer from Christmas).

So the past few years I've been having frustrations with my identity as a bisexual, feeling frustrated about it because it always felt it gave the wrong impression about me, aka, that I was interested in men which I don't, but I never felt calling myself a lesbian felt right either because I did find some non-binary and gender fluid people attractive, both fictional and in real life, as such I generally ended up constantly being frustrated and trying to use other terms like wlw and sapphic and that frustration peaked around early November of last year.

However thanks to some really amazing users on this site, I was able to clear my mind and they helped me understand myself better. Thanks to them I came to terms that liking NB people did not mean I had to exclude myself from the lesbian community and should proud to use the term that I felt most comfortable with.

It's been my new year's resolution to be more open, feel more comfortable and be louder about my sexuality, something you may have noticed.

Also been pushing myself to find more lesbian and wlw fiction, especially from lesbian and wlw indie writers and devs.

Now to end this OP; Capcom? Please reveal Cammy as a Lesbian, make me and so many fans happy! It's been something we've been wanting since the 90s and lets be honest you've been hinting at! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!!! DO IT!!!! DO IT!!!!! DO IT!!!!!!

The bolded is why I know this story ain't true. No way a guy that can scarf down 2 litre of ice cream leaves it in there untouched that long. 

nice try,   y

[Hap Shaughnessy]

1738006038[/url]']

I demand to know who's alt this is 

Oh! You’re talking about me and not the users I was referencing lol

I’m not an alt for any currently active user of ResetEra.com

Former user who has been banned or had their account closed.

[DavidCroquet]

The kid that pranked the retard from Resetera sounds cool. Can we get him/her on the Bire?

STRIKE ONE DOWN AND ANOTHER WILL APPEAR

https://www.resetera.com/threads/feeling-more-comfortable-about-considering-myself-a-lesbian.1093260/

Having a bit of a rough week (sicks cats and well, everything news related) and feeling that been Ms Negative today (sorry about that) so I want to end the day of something positive (besides eating that 2 litre carton of Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream that I discovered untouched in the freezer from Christmas).

So the past few years I've been having frustrations with my identity as a bisexual, feeling frustrated about it because it always felt it gave the wrong impression about me, aka, that I was interested in men which I don't, but I never felt calling myself a lesbian felt right either because I did find some non-binary and gender fluid people attractive, both fictional and in real life, as such I generally ended up constantly being frustrated and trying to use other terms like wlw and sapphic and that frustration peaked around early November of last year.

However thanks to some really amazing users on this site, I was able to clear my mind and they helped me understand myself better. Thanks to them I came to terms that liking NB people did not mean I had to exclude myself from the lesbian community and should proud to use the term that I felt most comfortable with.

It's been my new year's resolution to be more open, feel more comfortable and be louder about my sexuality, something you may have noticed.

Also been pushing myself to find more lesbian and wlw fiction, especially from lesbian and wlw indie writers and devs.

Now to end this OP; Capcom? Please reveal Cammy as a Lesbian, make me and so many fans happy! It's been something we've been wanting since the 90s and lets be honest you've been hinting at! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!!! DO IT!!!! DO IT!!!!! DO IT!!!!!!

The bolded is why I know this story ain't true. No way a guy that can scarf down 2 litre of ice cream leaves it in there untouched that long. 

nice try,   y

Is Echoes making a Kyuuji origin story reference?

[benji]

How did we miss this Echos thread from last week?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-users-are-now-gods-lets-create-an-island.1090149/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/feeling-more-comfortable-about-considering-myself-a-lesbian.1093260/#post-134954163

I once saw a video about a person defining lesbians as "non men who like non men" and as counter intuitive as it sounds at first, it fits so perfectly to my experience with people in the LGBT+ community

[benji]

lmao I didn't realize just how many stupid threads this dude creates about random shit beyond WLW:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/opinions-on-bounty-hunters-in-star-wars.1092465/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-ever-stop-to-think-about-the-beauty-of-our-planet.894861/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-a-fighting-game-have-a-dating-sim-mode.704174/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-become-your-avatar-for-the-two-weeks.962916/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/could-a-street-fighter-game-set-in-the-modern-day-work.241246/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-celebrate-christmas-yule-kwanzaa-hanukkah-saturnalia-winter-holiday-of-choice-with-your-favourite-video-game-characters.1068906/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-their-is-live-action-pok%C3%A9mon-series-about-red-who-should-be-on-his-team.1008513/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-fictional-character-would-you-want-to-give-you-a-big-comforting-hug-and-tell-you-everything-is-okay.1042221/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-how-do-you-like-your-elves.1010220/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-find-battleboarding-aka-who-would-win-debates-incredibly-boring-and-silly-especially-with-online-fans-a-rant-sorry-in-advance.1071030/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/alternate-gaming-history-what-should-a-pokemon-anime-without-ash-satoshi-be-like.107026/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-would-love-for-sword-and-sandal-80s-style-high-fantasy-movies-to-have-a-big-resurgence.741768/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/works-of-fiction-you-feel-work-best-when-their-campy-silly-or-light-aka-why-i-love-campy-he-man-and-she-ra.1086258/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-wondered-about-the-in-universe-reason-the-decepticon-logo-is-based-on-soundwave.1022724/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/clothes-era-what-clothes-from-fiction-would-you-want-to-wear-in-real-life.1043802/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-important-life-lessons-do-you-think-kids-should-learn.1061064/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-your-views-of-charlies-angels.1081698/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-your-favourite-fey-or-fey-like-beings-creatures-in-folklore-myths-and-urban-legends.805659/

[Daffy Duck]

Goddamn what did fantastictoma do this time to get banned: 😂

  User Banned (1 Month): Antisemitic Rhetoric  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/friedrich-merz-likely-next-chancellor-of-germany-publically-opposes-international-law-and-promises-to-help-rehabilitate-israels-netanjahu.1091955/post-134860233

Despite already having the lowest of low expectations for this man and his party (CDU/CSU), this interview statement is another escalation of shocking to me. The likely next chancellor of Germany publically announcing that he will do whatever he can to protect Netanjahu, oppose the ICJ, and make it so he can visit Germany again. In his opinion it is unthinkable that Germany would take Netanjahu into custody.

Who needs international law, human rights and simply basic human decency, huh? Protecting the man responsible for the the worst genocide since WW2. Germany has learnt nothing from its own history. The lesson should have been "never again will we let such crimes happen again". Instead modern German politicians and journalists have twisted it into "let's support jews blindly no matter what they do". Sickening.

Look, I’ve been pretty hard against a lot of Hamas-ERA rhetoric and the vileness that steeps out of the far left, but this is silly. I get the conflating Jews with Israel, but it’s mild at best. Pretty clearly mods are using this as an excuse.

Today of all days

[No. 1 Boss Jocker]

she said "Good, because out of everyone on that website you were the only person I was interested in having in my house"

she opened some wine, put on some chill music and we got to know one another on her couch, after our second bottle she filed down my nails, painted them

..peeing in front of each other..


Would anyone be that surprised if the landlady turned out to be Kyujii? 

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

Or Miss Dimetrescu is an alt Kyujii

[Taco Bell Tower]

However thanks to some really amazing users on this site, I was able to clear my mind and they helped me understand myself better. Thanks to them I came to terms that liking NB people did not mean I had to exclude myself from the lesbian community and should proud to use the term that I felt most comfortable with.

Who the fuck is encouraging him? How in good consciousness could anyone encourage him?

Especially said collage has underage girls 

[DocWager]

Only 3 days… “Hey crazy people, keep posting here until we make you disappear for going too far!”

The fact that B-Dubs eggs them on pretty much shows how insane that place is. It’s like the corpse of a dead brand that barely has any clout due to its association with another more famous place, controlled by a parasite.

[benji]

2020 thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/it-feels-sometimes-like-the-gaming-community-is-too-juvenile-to-discuss-sex-romance-content-warning.351637/

NOTE: DO NOT POST EXPLICIT SEXUAL VIDEOS OR IMAGES, while this thread discusses sex, it's not done in a way to raunchy or explicit.

I don't really know how to start this thread other then over the years, I've kind of given up discussing these topics. I'm fully aware this isn't a gaming exclusive issue, Star Wars and Star Trek fandoms in my experience have a long history of handling these issues well either. But I find it infuriating with gaming given that more and more games are having serious discussions about sex and romance, especially when it involves non-cis and straight people yet we as a community still seem like were incapable of handling and discussing those topic in a mature and adult fashion.

Let's get the obvious out of the way, a lot of people in the gaming community, when sex and romance is discussed that doesn't appeal to straight men getting angry and nasty. These gamers not only like the idea of sex or loving couples or swings other then ones that appeal to them is bad, but ANY discussion riles them up to know end at best, we sadly know to well how they react many times... Screw those people and doubly screw those who harass and threat fans, devs, women and LGBTQ+ people.

But besides the obvious, it just feels to me a lot of the time that when trying to discuss the topic of sex or romance or anything sexual is rather difficult, especially if you're trying to be deep, serious and discuss in a mature fashion. Most of the time it degrades into juvenile and shallow jokes and puns about sex or how it arouses them or angry demands about having to appeal to their fantasies and petty fighting.

One aspect that's always bothered me when it comes to fandom is the discussion of romantic/sex partners in games like Bioware games, Bethesda games etc. As the avatar probably gives away, I'm a bi woman, but I am not a fan of the "All Bi" thing some games do nor do I like it when non-bi people push for that or declare it's the only "correct" way of doing sex and romance in games. For me, so many games and people who argue for this treat bisexuality as nothing more as an easy game mechanic, a convenience for their fantasies to be allowed to have a sex with anyone regardless of those characters feelings, preferences, history etc. That doesn't feel like good representation to me, but fetishization of us. We Bi people are more then that. We won't bang you just because you ask or want us to and games really should treat bisexuality more seriously, it ignores that just because many bi people are attracted to men and women, doesn't mean we want to date men or women or NB people or even attracted to men at all but are to women and NB people. Or you know, a bi people may simply not be interested in you.

That's not even getting to the fact that these discussion also imply gay and lesbian people are "bad" or an "Inconvenience" that shouldn't be in games. I've seen this against games like Mass Effect 3 and DA Inquisition for including gay and lesbian companions, I remember their was this Marvel app game years back that promised to add a dating sim aspect to it but had included gay characters in the game like Northstar and saw fans say they shouldn't be in the game because they'd "ruin" the dating or should be made bi.

Stuff like the above and other stuff like shipping wars, discussion of sexualization in gaming (which before I go any further, I want to say that those who run Resetera's 'Why women criticise sexualised character designs' thread a great and made one of the few places in gaming where it feels discussion of sex and sexualization has been done in a mature and constructive manner) etc, gaming is simply so much of the time is simply incample of discussing sex and romance in any meaningful without it getting nasty, juvenile or toxic.

Game Journalism feels like on the whole incapable discussing romance or sex in a meaningful way as well. Most of what I mentioned before applies to many journalists and overall, whenever I've seen mainstream gaming sights tackle these topic, they often end up feeling shallow or just juvenile. Around the height Witcher 3's popularity was a big example of this where sites like Kotaku just kept posting rather shallow articles about the sex in that game, like they were a 14 year old giggling because of the pictures they saw in the secondary school biology class. I can't help but eye roll when I see game sites peddling stuff like that because it feels like it's just perpetuates the shallowness and in someway perpetuates some more sexists aspects of gaming, intentionally or not.

And quite bluntly, after what we've heard over the years about certain game companies behind the scenes, companies like Oblivion, Riot, Rockstar and ESPECIALLY Ubisoft for protecting sexual predators and abusers, I really do not feel comfortable seeing these companies do sex scenes or doing stuff explicit knowing some of the messed up shit that nearly got into Ubisoft games or that creeps were behind that content to begin with.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-poll-reveals-over-half-of-gen-z-in-uk-thinks-a-dictatorship-is-a-better-way-forward-a-strong-leader-who-doesnt-have-to-bother-with-parliament.1093113/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/donald-trump-is-the-47th-president-of-the-united-states.1028550/page-13#post-131255292

Funny enough. I've been losing faith in democracy because of examples like this. The electorate is too short sighted. Maybe we need to be more like Singapore?

I don't think democracy works. Too easily gamed with propaganda.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/schumer-moves-to-add-antisemitism-awareness-act-to-2025-defense-bill.1037601/#post-131726652

Propaganda works. That's why I've been way more critical of democracy of late. It's easily gamed.

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.

[benji]

Here's some of Echos ongoing issues with gaming in chronological order:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-feel-like-you%E2%80%99re-nearly-done-with-the-gaming-community.100553/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-to-better-clarify-what-we-say-in-gaming-forums.118984/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-an-online-multiplayer-game-that-doesnt-focus-on-competitive-angle-possible.126815/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-tier-lists-taken-too-seriously-and-misunderstood.127552/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/it-feels-like-its-getting-harder-to-discuss-thing-calmly-in-the-gaming-community.135450/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-the-gaming-community-becoming-out-of-touch-overall-conoravirus-related.204726/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/does-the-gaming-fandom-have-a-scapegoat-creator-problem.495102/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-cant-play-online-games-anymore.484552/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-think-ive-lost-my-passion-for-gaming.607308/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/has-anyone-else-felt-as-theyve-gotten-older-that-they-have-less-tolerance-for-repetition-and-busy-work-in-video-games.1086597/

Unrelated:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-jezebel-still-considered-a-feminist-website.121390/

[benji]

Never fully but I did feel embarrassed liking Pokémon, fantasy, cartoons like SpongeBob and Transformers and anime like Evangelion and being shunned for liking stuff like palaeontology, old movies, history etc and not "Only caring about tits and football!" like I was told multiple times was expected of me (it made so much sense when I realized I wasn't a man;