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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-appears-at-afd-german-far-right-party-rally-and-says-germans-have-to-overcome-their-past.1092096/page-2#post-134879688

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Rhetoric

Tätervolk gonna Tätervolk I guess. The excuse used to be that the Versailles treaty was "unfair" and insulted the feelings of proud, hot blooded Germans and that economic conditions did the rest. There is always someone else to blame even in our supposedly enlightened reappraisal of German history.

The reality is that this time around a wealthy and well fed German people with tons of time and disposable income on their hands who are living in country that basically leads Europe are turning into Neo Nazis out of sheer fucking boredom. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise down the line. It'll be the same shit as it was back then: they supposedly didn't know, they were taken advantage of, "the first nation the Nazis conquered was their own" etc.

Being a far right asshole has become a social media trend like owning a fucking air fryer or stuffing yourself with Dubai chocolate.

[Boredfrom]

Dunno why we can't embed YouTube shorts
https://youtube.com/shorts/klwCNnektPE?si=X7wUUZkwMgA-dTs3

The Hans Zimmer’s drone music is what sells it.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-appears-at-afd-german-far-right-party-rally-and-says-germans-have-to-overcome-their-past.1092096/page-2#post-134879688

It'll be the same shit as it was back then: they supposedly didn't know, they were taken advantage of, "the first nation the Nazis conquered was their own" etc.

I mean, the Nazis did literally establish a totalitarian dictatorship.

[benji]

Dude used to write about autism in the same way he now writes about lesbians.

Found a mid-period.  

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

(Note, I originally posted this on the Battle.Net forums, but after much abuse, I decided to give up on it for a while until deciding to post it here)

Greetings, I have really enjoyed my time playing Overwatch, both with the Beta and the final game and I am really glad that the game has been a big hit and has been beloved by many. However, I have one request that I feel could improve the game and potentially help a group that rarely gets acknowledged in the mainstream.

I am gender fluid and I feel the series would be better if it incorporated a gender fluid character into the game. To clarify, gender fluidity describes people like myself whose gender varies over time. For me, understanding this about myself opened a lot for me because I no longer felt conflicted about who I was and why I felt confused a lot of the time.

Sadly, there is very little census data to show how much of the population we represent (as is with most non-binary groups), however we have made great strides for equality and recently, with organizations like the Oxford Dictionary, the UK’s National Rail and EA with the Sims with their new gender options improving representation and awareness of gender fluidity and other non-binary genders.

As such, I would be really great and heartwarming to me to see a gender fluid character in Overwatch that can be awesome and be treated like an equal alongside Tracer and Reinhardt, while also someone who can be a role model for gender fluid people like myself, a group who rarely gets any acknowledgement in the media.

For me, I would like to see a gender fluid character be one with a more slender physique and can be fashionable and behave in ways that don’t conform to what is expected like being sassy and sexy in how they act without being mocked for it. However, even something as simple as being described in gender neutral pronouns like they or them would be a subtle but a very effective move and would be very welcoming to many gender fluid people.

And on a personal reason, I discovered my gender fluindess a while back after much soul searching. One of the things that helped me and I realise this sounds silly and daft was Leo from the Tekken series, a gender fluid character who could kick !@# like every other character, was never discriminated for what they were and was allowed to be a normal person (well as normal as you get with a series with a Kung-Fu Bear and a Velociraptor as playable characters).

I honestly feel more characters like Leo could do some real good for the gaming industry and you have an excellent opportunity with Overwatch to do it. Your video game already contains a blue woman, a gorilla and the Grim Reaper, I don’t think a gender fluid character would be out of place.

Plus, it would give players more choice and to be able to play as characters that more relate to them on a personal level. To be able to get more invested with the series and enjoy it more. None of those are a bad thing and I feel would be an excellent opportunity for Blizzard to try out.

Another alternative that would still be affirming for gender non-conforming players would be an effeminate male character, because at the moment, while you have created an impressive and wide range of male characters, all of them seem to draw from male power fantasies like the bulky knight in shining armor with Reinhardt, the post apocalypse biker type with Roadhog and the brave and noble samurai with Hanzo.

There is of course, nothing wrong with any of these characters and it is great that many people are having fun with them. However, adding an alternative for those who are either less interested in those power fantasies or wish to see their identities better represented in fiction would be a really good move. Like with the gender fluid character, it would give effeminate men a character that allows them to be kick $%^ and take names, something that rarely happens in fiction.

Like for example, a character who can be a male equivalent to the femme fatale. Who dresses in more feminine clothing and is allowed to be sexy, classy and seductive in ways that men are rarely allowed to be in fiction other than as joke characters. There are exceptions to this like Ash Crimson in the King of Fighters, a character I personally adore for being able to both be sexy & classy as well as be a serious threats and their sexuality not being treated as a bad thing.

I hope Overwatch continues to be a huge success. Even if nothing comes from this, I feel better about myself and my gender for having the nerves to ask you for this request.

And then there is Leo. A more recent character in the series but one that means a lot for me for how the character helped me. Leo helped me realise that I was gender fluid in a time I was confused and unsure about my own gender and sexuality.

It was subtle things like how the way the game never use gendered terms with them, allowed them to wear both male and female clothing and just there general personality and look helped me understand my own better.

Dear creative staff of Steven Universe,

I really appreciate what you have done with Stevonnie and how you have treated the character. Stevonnie is a great addition to the show in many ways and I can tell that they have helped many NB and trans people I know feel accepted and they is a vast improvement on what we usually get in fiction. They aren’t evil, they aren’t treated as a deviant and they are accepted as who they are. You’ve overall done a good job with them (:

However, I feel the show would benefit from including or at least mentioning more non-binary, trans and gender fluid characters that weren’t fusions or magical in nature as I feel it would help improve diversity in fiction, make the show better and help show that us non-binary people are real and deserve respect.

I realized I was gender fluid mid last year after much soul searching and getting advice from friends. It felt so right and helped me understand so much more about myself. I’ve been wanting to see more representation of non-binary and gender fluid characters in fiction, which has sadly resulted in me getting lots of vile and hate thrown at me such as what happened back in March when I requested whether Blizzard would be willing to include a gender fluid character in Overwatch:

Like I said before, Stevonnie is great, however, as much I hate saying this, I struggle liking the character because they fall into a negative trope about NB people in fiction that pains me, the idea that all NB characters must be magical.

It’s a problem I’ve found most Sci-Fi and Fantasy has, where the only time gender fluid and NB characters are featured is when they are spirits/god-like/fusions/aliens/magical in nature and rarely if ever do the works acknowledge that NB people who aren’t magical exist. It gives the impression that we are this idea that can’t possibly exist in the real world, that there has to be a reason for having a NB character in a work rather than just being there like cis men or women and gives the impression that our gender isn’t real, that our gender is just a work of fiction that shouldn’t be taken seriously.

I think the show would really benefit from including non-binary and gender fluid characters that weren’t magical in nature or fusions, but were just normal humans. Even something as simple as a character who prefers using neutral pro-nouns like they and them or at least some acknowledgement that NB people exist in real life would be greatly appreciated and would go a long way. It would help show that our gender is real, valid and not a far out idea that only exists in the realm of fantasy.

Like I said, I don’t want Stevonnie to go away as many of my NB and trans friends do find them to be great and feel like for the first time they feel accepted in fiction and I would never want that to go away. But I feel that you can do more to make non-binary people like us feel more accepted and get more representation in the media.

Again, thank you so much for being so progressive and understanding about the LGBTQ+ community and social issues. It’s very clear that you are all really cool and progressive people and seem willing to listen. I’m so glad a show like Steven Universe exists and is helping so many people out there.

Over the past two years, I realized I was Non-binary (trans gender fluid to be exact) and I have a simple message for the media, please don’t erase our gender.

This happens all the time, from bigots who think we’re liars, attention seekers and should be shamed. From the countless number of forum posts discussing confirmed NB character’s “real” gender as if being gender fluid or bi gender isn’t good enough. To adaptations hetronormalising us like adaption of Attack on Titan do to Hanji Zoe.

As I said in that threa, I’m not happy O’Deck has done the same to Marvel’s Loki (a character confirmed to be NB for years now) in the Valentine’s Day Twinja Madness and I really wish you had either had a nb category or not treated gender as MUST being a male or female and hetronormalizing NB characters. It made me really uncomfortable seeing that when someone linked that post to me and I’m surprised something like that was allowed.

O’Deck was the place where I first realized I was NB and was a place I was comfortable discussing that and I felt safe. I know this was was likely an oversight or a mistake, but still it’s a bit sad for me.

Sorry for this post, I just need to say it.

[benji]

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!

*man

It really bothers me when they're all "us lesbians".

[Boredfrom]

Echoes sure loves labels. 

“I discovered I was NB  ”

A decade later: “I discovered I was a lesbian.  ”

[benji]

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

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/innuendo-studios-releases-the-last-the-alt-right-playbook-video.1093398/

and here's an excerpt from the patreon post announcing they would end the series in november.

but I have to contend with the simple fact that the fuel I started the series with was long depleted. I've found alternate sources - guest artists, new animation tricks, a collaboration in the works - but none are the thing that made me start the series in the first place. for me, the rest is busywork, and the busywork has been the majority of the series' existence. an obligation.

after yesterday's election, I don't know that I can even defend it as obligation.

the re-election of Donald Trump, I feel, makes the series all but pointless to complete. I mean, there are still logistical reasons to keep making it - it is still financially successful, and I have no idea if I can survive as a video essayist without it - but how on earth do I defend making this series anymore? "how did we get here?" is not a relevant question: we know exactly how we got here, and we just watched the Dems repeat their mistakes with full knowledge of how that turned out in 2016. The Alt-Right Playbook is a series about rhetorical tactics, and we are past rhetoric now. rhetoric is over. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post - what use is a video about how conservatives manipulate the media once the conservatives have bought the media? when one billionaire white man who stands to benefit from a Trump presidency can nix a Harris endorsement and then personally pen a glowing approval for Trump after the fact? what is the point of a video showing how grifters game Twitter algorithms when a grifter bought the entire fucking platform and handed the keys to Trump for the 24 hours before the election? what is the purpose of a video about how fascists deradicalize when the problem isn't that the Right's base is growing - it's not - it's that the liberal base shrank by 14 million votes? I'm supposed to talk to you about conservative debate tactics when they can skip the debate entirely and still win?

all the euphemisms are dead. they held a Nazi rally. he stopped fantasizing about locking his opponent up and talked about having her shot. they spend $215 million on ads attacking trans people, which isn't even popular. he's openly saying he shouldn't have left when he lost the election. the Supreme Court has said he can do whatever he wants.

I'm not saying "this is it." I'm not saying "the fascist dictatorship is here." I don't know the future, he is still a deeply inept man with even fewer mental faculties than last time and for all we know he'll fail to get anything off the ground. we are just talking about me, and my nonsense little channel.

I don't know what The Alt-Right Playbook is for in this reality. I have never been so delusional as to think my series was going to change things. I, at best, felt like I could maybe contribute in some small way to movement that was happening with or without me, maybe help some people understand things better, maybe feel less alone. and I've gotten a lot of word from people who said my work helped them exit the Far Right, which was never my intention and far more than I ever hoped for. I don't consider my work meaningless, or a failure. I am very proud of what I have accomplished.

it hasn't been what I need for a long time. I no longer thing it's what the audience needs.

You shouldn’t be proud about what have you done. I bet the people that “changed sides” are the same assholes that harass another people and made others miserable. You just helped to run the bubble to the ground and to its logical conclusion.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-appears-at-afd-german-far-right-party-rally-and-says-germans-have-to-overcome-their-past.1092096/page-2#post-134879688

User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Rhetoric

Tätervolk gonna Tätervolk I guess. The excuse used to be that the Versailles treaty was "unfair" and insulted the feelings of proud, hot blooded Germans and that economic conditions did the rest. There is always someone else to blame even in our supposedly enlightened reappraisal of German history.

The reality is that this time around a wealthy and well fed German people with tons of time and disposable income on their hands who are living in country that basically leads Europe are turning into Neo Nazis out of sheer fucking boredom. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise down the line. It'll be the same shit as it was back then: they supposedly didn't know, they were taken advantage of, "the first nation the Nazis conquered was their own" etc.

Being a far right asshole has become a social media trend like owning a fucking air fryer or stuffing yourself with Dubai chocolate.

Which mod is an airfryer fan?

[Daffy Duck]

Can we not joke (or post shitty gifs) and be openly be gleeful about an AI that uses mass art theft for it's models and can (along with other gen-ai) and likely will to be used to hurt real artists even more? Like I get people are happy this hurts tech bro scum but can we not pretend this itself is also dangerous for real artists? Like how am I supposed to take the use of the gif in the OP as just not giving a damn.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deepseek-releases-new-janus-pro-7b-image-generation-model-claims-that-it-beats-rival-image-generation-models.1093206/#post-134950632

Lol

[Potato]

Can we not joke (or post shitty gifs) and be openly be gleeful about an AI that uses mass art theft for it's models and can (along with other gen-ai) and likely will to be used to hurt real artists even more? Like I get people are happy this hurts tech bro scum but can we not pretend this itself is also dangerous for real artists? Like how am I supposed to take the use of the gif in the OP as just not giving a damn.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deepseek-releases-new-janus-pro-7b-image-generation-model-claims-that-it-beats-rival-image-generation-models.1093206/#post-134950632

Lol

The following was said with no hint of irony at all

AI bros in silicon valley having a bad day

Karma for kissing the ring of a dictator.

They really are retards.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.thelchat.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5512067#p5512067
How old were you when you came to terms with the idea that you will never have a girlfriend?

You Berthas really need to relent with the constant lamentations and whining about not being able to find a girlfriend and move your asses.
I'm nothing special on a good day and verging on the fugly on the bad days, picked the most unstable career one can pick in life, was broke as a sewer rat up to five years ago before my business exploded and now I'm constantly busy and never home, on top of it I'm a huge asshole and a jackass and still never had trouble dating.

Put your asses to work, less complaining and more putting yourself out there and giving it a honest try. There's a sweet lesbian girl dreaming of holding you through the night out there wondering why you are taking so long, move that ass.

I repeat, move that square, lethargic mass of rancid lard and go get your gurl.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Can we not joke (or post shitty gifs) and be openly be gleeful about an AI that uses mass art theft for it's models and can (along with other gen-ai) and likely will to be used to hurt real artists even more? Like I get people are happy this hurts tech bro scum but can we not pretend this itself is also dangerous for real artists? Like how am I supposed to take the use of the gif in the OP as just not giving a damn.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deepseek-releases-new-janus-pro-7b-image-generation-model-claims-that-it-beats-rival-image-generation-models.1093206/#post-134950632

Lol

it could make wlw art..

[El Derpo]

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

If there is one thing lesbians* love, it's being referred to as non-men.

Also big fans of terms like "front hole" and "girl dick".

* or women in general.

Holy shit that quote is beyond insane, fucking incels trying to warp reality around them. It furthers my working theory that most of the Era trans community are a bunch of maladjusted weirdos who are so fucking weird that the only WLW relationships they will ever be in are exclusively discord based.

It’s not hard. Lesbians are women who are overwhelmingly or exclusively attracted to women, that may or may not include MTF women, but it sure as shit doesn’t include “tee hee I’m NB do you like my dick?”, or fantasy relationships with pre-pubescent Pokémon characters.

I can guarantee women found them creepy when they were men, and they find them equally as creepy now that they are women. Because regardless of how they identify, they remain creeps.

[jooseloose]

From the Constructive thread:

Serious question. Given that Lady Dimitrescu was given a ban for hostility to another person on here and, as mentioned many times, the GM was allowed to edit their ban-worthy post without any repercussions and go about their day for the same thing would it not be reasonable to issue people with a 24hr warning that they'll receive a ban if they don't amend their post where it's not something blatantly racist/homophobic etc?

Seems crazy to me that someone angrily replying to a post that was designed to be inflammatory doesn't get a chance to amend it when they've calmed down.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Yeah after calling the UK a Nazi country.

[Jansen]

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

Keep the mask on

[BananaBlast]

Is this a ree user?

[Taco Bell Tower]

Is this a ree user?

It's the wlw horndog Echos

[Boredfrom]

Is this a ree user?

Is Echoes.

[Uncle]

You're slacking mate.

https://www.reddit.com/user/Gretnablue/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/29l2jq/ive_been_working_on_a_screenplay_about_aboriginal/

[StandingOvation]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/prince-charles-cinema-in-london-is-at-risk-due-to-landlord-contract-dispute.1093596/#post-134974017

That's a shame. It's a great cinema and I had many great times there watching classics such as Lawrence of Arabia. Was a member too until I left the UK for Egypt.

I imagine every asinine comment regarding Egypt coming out of his mouth to be delivered just like this guy above.

[Daffy Duck]

Is this a ree user?

It's the wlw horndog Echos

Wait wait… really?

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deepseek-releases-new-janus-pro-7b-image-generation-model-claims-that-it-beats-rival-image-generation-models.1093206/#post-134950632

edit -> Removed the GIF

Phew, I was almost harmed.

[Besticus Maximus]

For the americans, this is like saying your local cinema is the one in the middle of times square

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/prince-charles-cinema-in-london-is-at-risk-due-to-landlord-contract-dispute.1093596/#post-134974017

That's a shame. It's a great cinema and I had many great times there watching classics such as Lawrence of Arabia. Was a member too until I left the UK for Egypt.

I imagine every asinine comment regarding Egypt coming out of his mouth to be delivered just like this guy above.

You know this guy never had any friends because he’s never been told to shut the fuck up about egypt.

[StandingOvation]

As a diagnosed autistic person, and also as someone who knows this and tries hard to mask it and fit in, it always boggles my mind that other, clearly autistic, people have so little self-awareness that they don’t see how creepy their fixations (wlw media, Egypt, sock colour, headmates, poly queer landlord/fuckbuddies) are to normal people.

[Besticus Maximus]

As a diagnosed autistic person, and also as someone who knows this and tries hard to mask it and fit in, it always boggles my mind that other, clearly autistic, people have so little self-awareness that they don’t see how creepy their fixations (wlw media, Egypt, sock colour, headmates, poly queer landlord/fuckbuddies) are to normal people.

Autism is too much of an internet jargon shortcut for it, there are tons of complex behaviours overlapping in the purple prison of Resetera. It's like a microcosm of contemporary internet phenomena and that's partly what makes it so fascinating to watch.

Some of them are clearly diagnosed autistic but I think both the chuds and the goods are way too quick to place the blame of any weirdness or social maladjustment or interest or obsession as being down to innate autistic traits. 

Dantes for example, just seems to enjoy being the one eyed man in the land of the blind. None of the egypt stuff requires an obsession or deep thinking or learning, he just knows a bit more about egypt than Kyuuji does and enjoys whipping it out for all to see.

Echoes of the Cyborg is a different category of weirdo and the obsessive behaviour is largely documenting and sharing his current fetish. But is it down to autism? Some of it, maybe, but a lot of it is just anti-social hypersexual weirdo loony stuff.

Tyrant/Lady Dimitrescu goes on like a narcissist more than he comes across as being on the autism spectrum.

Then you've got cases like Nepenthe, where she might actually just be a massive cunt and everything else is wired up fine. The sonic and furry business muddies this water.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

You can develop your own legislative agenda and run for election.  What?  You have no experience or expertise in anything, have a past filled with petty thievery, sonic cum novellas, and defaulting on your bills and you're well into adulthood and have never lived anywhere but your childhood bedroom so nobody will vote for you?  Not to mention you believe fringe bullshit that the majority of people don't want anything to do with?  Guess you're going to have to get "meaningful power over the course of your life" in a way that doesn't involve pushing your unelectable agenda over everyone else, you dictator-loving, fascist twat.

I see she's still team killmonger.


Ironically, killmonger probably voted.

[StandingOvation]

As a diagnosed autistic person, and also as someone who knows this and tries hard to mask it and fit in, it always boggles my mind that other, clearly autistic, people have so little self-awareness that they don’t see how creepy their fixations (wlw media, Egypt, sock colour, headmates, poly queer landlord/fuckbuddies) are to normal people.

Autism is too much of an internet jargon shortcut for it, there are tons of complex behaviours overlapping in the purple prison of Resetera. It's like a microcosm of contemporary internet phenomena and that's partly what makes it so fascinating to watch.

Some of them are clearly diagnosed autistic but I think both the chuds and the goods are way too quick to place the blame of any weirdness or social maladjustment or interest or obsession as being down to innate autistic traits. 

Dantes for example, just seems to enjoy being the one eyed man in the land of the blind. None of the egypt stuff requires an obsession or deep thinking or learning, he just knows a bit more about egypt than Kyuuji does and enjoys whipping it out for all to see.

Echoes of the Cyborg is a different category of weirdo and the obsessive behaviour is largely documenting and sharing his current fetish. But is it down to autism? Some of it, maybe, but a lot of it is just anti-social hypersexual weirdo loony stuff.

Tyrant/Lady Dimitrescu goes on like a narcissist more than he comes across as being on the autism spectrum.

Then you've got cases like Nepenthe, where she might actually just be a massive cunt and everything else is wired up fine. The sonic and furry business muddies this water.

To be fair, I was using shorthand to make it less of a word salad, that said, I agree on the whole with your assessment.