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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/asmongold-seems-to-be-fully-leaving-otk-and-some-are-speculating-emiru-might-follow-him.1116072/page-4#post-136131030

User banned (permanent): Troll account

I'm probably not gonna be liked for this opinion of the situation but I think calling him a Nazi is overkill. We live in a time where Elon Musk can do a Nazi salute and people don't take it seriously because of how overused it is as an insult.

Asmon is a fucking idiot that being said. His content has turned into right wing bait. He acts like he understands what is going on in the world yet if you watched him it becomes increasingly clear he's not very smart and is isolated into his bedroom. I always saw that when I saw a videos of him playing games that weren't WoW but now it's worse because for some reason the dude turned to speaking on real life shit that he doesn't even understand.

Anyway when looking at people like Asmon, i like to think of the Halon's Razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-to-sign-executive-order-to-eliminate-department-of-education.1099869/#post-135315843

User banned (1 Month): Advocating violence

every person with a special needs child should storm the fucking capital and hang this piece of shit and all of his cronies on the front lawn

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-battle-for-the-bros-young-men-have-gone-maga-can-the-left-win-them-back.1136940/

This incessant coddling of men grows tiring.

Exactly sista, much better if we coddle men pretending to be women.

Much more worthwhile.

Can the left wing them back?

No.

 

Thanks to AI automating all the cozy WFH desk and planning jobs and putting more value into physical labour, it's fucking over. Especially because the NGO and government safety net is being dismantled by DOGE. The kings and queens will be people who can do things AI and robots can't easily do plus the people that build, prompt and know how to use and sell the AIs like Nintex. Young men will benefit most from this development because young women will lose their jobs and can't eat feminism.

[HaughtyFrank]

Here's my thing

Maybe lets try actually, honestly, confidently offering class based messaging with bold ideals and strong policies that would address people's underlying material conditions, reform the various systems we have into better ones, and get behind people that actually authentically believe in that ideal and can message it.

If that doesn't work, fine, we can all retreat into the liberal Curtis Yarvin headspace of "these morons are too stupid to know whats best for them and democracy is pointless"

Which seems like a lot of people are already doing

But a lot of the Democratic Party's navelgazing is little more than a bunch of "we have tried nothing new and we are all out of ideas."


I don't even understand the whole "it's pointless, they cant be won." Like literally the Democratic party post 2008 has time and again explicitly said they de-prioritize young voters cause "they don't show up." I can't even count the amount of times I have heard Democratic knowledge leaders or people I know that are into party organizing regurgitate the phrase about how "all that campus outreach to register young voters from Obama in 08 was actually wasted calories cause the turnout to investment ratio was so low." Even though it did deliver a multi decade high in youth turnout and that brief moment where Democrats tried to win youth voters still has dividends being paid today as Millennials, unlike every other generations before or since have not broken right nearly as hard.

Can take Nola out of The Bore but not The Bire out of Nola?

Oh no, a Nola post I agree with. I'm generally surprised that identity politics has been embraced so unquestionably while doing comparatively little for class discourse. Like Kamala's website had a list of planned policies for every identity under the sun (except white men, because ugh those guys) but this focus on identity doesn't seem to be something that actually brings people together beyond their own group. Arguably your telling people to only vote for the interest of their own racial/gender identity

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/drake-announces-his-new-album-%E2%80%9C-ome-exy-ongs-4-u%E2%80%9D-out-february-14th.1098885/page-4#post-135282510

User banned (Permanent): Troll

I think if there were any kind of concrete stuff about this guy, threads about him wouldnt be allowed here. AFAIK its just a shitload of smoke and a lot of "Yeah I could totally see this creep being.... a creep." But I don't think anything is concretely known. But I'll admit I don't be following these dudes newsfeeds like that. But like you said, he keeps company with some problematic people and you know... why would you do that unless?

It is bandwagoning and selective outrage, it's ruined hip hop discussions unfortunately. The bandwagon atm is Drake hate and people acting like he came to their house and spat on them or something and it get's to the point that TDE being sued for sexual assault is just ignored (on here at least, /r/hiphopheads has been discussing it). Not to mention the fact Kenrick had Dr Dre a well known woman beater introduce Not Like Us at the concert, threatening to pull his music if Spotify removed XXXTENTACION and R Kelly. The fact that somehow Kendrick/the internet has made it seem like he isn't around weirdos and defending known sex offenders and women beaters is just baffling to me. In terms of the Drake accusations, there's been nothing concrete/with any evidence of proof except one video where he kisses a 17 year old when he was like 22, which yeah he shouldn't have done but it was not pedophilia and the woman he kissed has defended him since.

Anyway, all of it is stupid, it is a rap beef, the fact people seem to have like a personal stake in it and are so passionate about being on Kendrick's side like he was taking down Osama Bin Laden or something is just weird behaviour.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/14-democrats-come-out-to-demand-mahmoud-khalils-release-schumer-and-jeffries-issue-statements.1131789/page-2#post-136907706

User Banned (Permanent): Inflammatory commentary, account in junior phase

The Dems would means test which Jews they would want to send to Auschwitz, as some of them are surely bad ones.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-posts-unhinged-ai-generated-video-of-gaza-being-converted-into-%E2%80%9Ctrump-gaza%E2%80%9D-with-gold-statues-of-trump-trump-hotels-and-trump-branded-casinos.1119105/page-3#post-136290696

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

kind of a tune though not gonna lie

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/chuck-schumer-who-should-resign-immediately-gave-what-can-only-be-described-as-a-beyond-atrocious-interview-with-the-nyt.1136100/page-3#post-137118294

User Banned (1 week): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Whenever people start playing genocide olympics I'm out, what a fucking insane thing to have on record.

Also seeing the OP just minimise the dems complicity in the current fascists regime, doesn't seem like this thread was created in good faith.

Tankie eats a ban. Which is good, given there is 100% something up with this account, either its an alt or it's some sort of bot/community meddler.
You can tell from the fact that the first 100 or so posts they made were nothing but Zelda, then the account goes dormant for a year, only to come back suddenly having zero interest in a gaming and a LOT of interest in a certain angle of US politics. Good riddance (at least for the week).

This always puzzles me about some of you guys. Why do you care what's good for the forum? I want to see the place burn so we can pick through the ashes and then I want to see the Phoenix site burn too. Some of you actually seem to still want that place to succeed.



This is not a personal criticism directed at you, just a general observation. I'm confused is all.

[Potato]

Booshka calling out non-voters...  

I'm sketching out something I call the Resetera Opinion Singularity Theory, wherein any off-topic active poster--with enough posts and given enough time--can be relied on to eventually assert every opinion, regardless of how it may conflict with past statements or their stated political leanings.

Like the room full of monkeys and typewriters and Shakespeare...

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-battle-for-the-bros-young-men-have-gone-maga-can-the-left-win-them-back.1136940/

This incessant coddling of men grows tiring.

Exactly sista, much better if we coddle men pretending to be women.

Much more worthwhile.

Can the left wing them back?

No.

 

Thanks to AI automating all the cozy WFH desk and planning jobs and putting more value into physical labour, it's fucking over. Especially because the NGO and government safety net is being dismantled by DOGE. The kings and queens will be people who can do things AI and robots can't easily do plus the people that build, prompt and know how to use and sell the AIs like Nintex. Young men will benefit most from this development because young women will lose their jobs and can't eat feminism.

So far, I haven't heard of robots or AI taking prison guard jobs anytime soon.

Anyone want to be a CO? They're always hiring for those who lose their jobs. And with the tough on crime attitude coming back it'll create more jobs and we can build more big beautiful prisons again. Just like back in the early 90s when crime rates shot up.

We're back baby!!!

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[StandingOvation]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rant-vent-im-fed-up-at-feeling-lesbians-arent-wanted-in-rpgs.1100052/page-3#post-135412026

User banned (permanent): Troll account

Not to disagree with your point as in "distinct romances" is also something I felt better than playersexual. However:

Who's funding the resource for developing better romance content?

I have played most of the games mentioned in the thread (BG3, PF:WOTR, 2077, etc), for the most part romance is not mandatory for progression and mostly a flavor item. In any of these games you have complex combat system, divergent plots, etc. I don't expect dev to put a huge amount of resources on romance because it will likely dilute the other content. Take PF:WOTR (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous) for example, romance will give some stat bonus and change some slides at the epilogue, but that's it. The game itself features complex PF1/DND 3rd style buff/attack/damage system that is probably require huge investment in dev resources. I imagine the resources allocation would be 90% core game play 10% romance or less even. So playersexual in these cases I feel are a good compromise, given that I play them not entirely for romance but also for combat and story too.


So to sum up, these combat-oriented RPG games would never put romance as a core focus. You'd better look for good romance writing in games like Life is Strange.

That's his first and only post 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/asmongold-seems-to-be-fully-leaving-otk-and-some-are-speculating-emiru-might-follow-him.1116072/page-4#post-136131030

User banned (permanent): Troll account

I'm probably not gonna be liked for this opinion of the situation but I think calling him a Nazi is overkill. We live in a time where Elon Musk can do a Nazi salute and people don't take it seriously because of how overused it is as an insult.

Asmon is a fucking idiot that being said. His content has turned into right wing bait. He acts like he understands what is going on in the world yet if you watched him it becomes increasingly clear he's not very smart and is isolated into his bedroom. I always saw that when I saw a videos of him playing games that weren't WoW but now it's worse because for some reason the dude turned to speaking on real life shit that he doesn't even understand.

Anyway when looking at people like Asmon, i like to think of the Halon's Razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/drake-announces-his-new-album-%E2%80%9C-ome-exy-ongs-4-u%E2%80%9D-out-february-14th.1098885/page-4#post-135282510

User banned (Permanent): Troll

I think if there were any kind of concrete stuff about this guy, threads about him wouldnt be allowed here. AFAIK its just a shitload of smoke and a lot of "Yeah I could totally see this creep being.... a creep." But I don't think anything is concretely known. But I'll admit I don't be following these dudes newsfeeds like that. But like you said, he keeps company with some problematic people and you know... why would you do that unless?

It is bandwagoning and selective outrage, it's ruined hip hop discussions unfortunately. The bandwagon atm is Drake hate and people acting like he came to their house and spat on them or something and it get's to the point that TDE being sued for sexual assault is just ignored (on here at least, /r/hiphopheads has been discussing it). Not to mention the fact Kenrick had Dr Dre a well known woman beater introduce Not Like Us at the concert, threatening to pull his music if Spotify removed XXXTENTACION and R Kelly. The fact that somehow Kendrick/the internet has made it seem like he isn't around weirdos and defending known sex offenders and women beaters is just baffling to me. In terms of the Drake accusations, there's been nothing concrete/with any evidence of proof except one video where he kisses a 17 year old when he was like 22, which yeah he shouldn't have done but it was not pedophilia and the woman he kissed has defended him since.

Anyway, all of it is stupid, it is a rap beef, the fact people seem to have like a personal stake in it and are so passionate about being on Kendrick's side like he was taking down Osama Bin Laden or something is just weird behaviour.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-posts-unhinged-ai-generated-video-of-gaza-being-converted-into-%E2%80%9Ctrump-gaza%E2%80%9D-with-gold-statues-of-trump-trump-hotels-and-trump-branded-casinos.1119105/page-3#post-136290696

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

kind of a tune though not gonna lie

^ all of these likely are alts. They're stopped using 'alt account' as a banning header and switched to 'Troll Account' in the last few months or so, likely to stop giving the impression that the whole forum is built upon numerous alts of the same members, all bickering back-and-forth with one another.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/chuck-schumer-who-should-resign-immediately-gave-what-can-only-be-described-as-a-beyond-atrocious-interview-with-the-nyt.1136100/page-3#post-137118294

User Banned (1 week): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Whenever people start playing genocide olympics I'm out, what a fucking insane thing to have on record.

Also seeing the OP just minimise the dems complicity in the current fascists regime, doesn't seem like this thread was created in good faith.

Tankie eats a ban. Which is good, given there is 100% something up with this account, either its an alt or it's some sort of bot/community meddler.
You can tell from the fact that the first 100 or so posts they made were nothing but Zelda, then the account goes dormant for a year, only to come back suddenly having zero interest in a gaming and a LOT of interest in a certain angle of US politics. Good riddance (at least for the week).

This always puzzles me about some of you guys. Why do you care what's good for the forum? I want to see the place burn so we can pick through the ashes and then I want to see the Phoenix site burn too. Some of you actually seem to still want that place to succeed.



This is not a personal criticism directed at you, just a general observation. I'm confused is all.

Also, no no, it's all good to say that, I get where you're coming from. I guess in that particular user's case, it's so bloody obvious that it's offensive. A well-crafted alt account takes time and patience to set-up, not just post-spamming a particular OT until you have 3+ figures posting numbers to then go on and talk about what you're really there for.

It's not that I care what's good, I just wish it wasn't so blatant/I wish that users would actually see a lot of the communication on the forum for what it is (vapid nonsense at best, trolling and fake otherwise).

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/chuck-schumer-who-should-resign-immediately-gave-what-can-only-be-described-as-a-beyond-atrocious-interview-with-the-nyt.1136100/page-3#post-137118294

User Banned (1 week): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Whenever people start playing genocide olympics I'm out, what a fucking insane thing to have on record.

Also seeing the OP just minimise the dems complicity in the current fascists regime, doesn't seem like this thread was created in good faith.

Tankie eats a ban. Which is good, given there is 100% something up with this account, either its an alt or it's some sort of bot/community meddler.
You can tell from the fact that the first 100 or so posts they made were nothing but Zelda, then the account goes dormant for a year, only to come back suddenly having zero interest in a gaming and a LOT of interest in a certain angle of US politics. Good riddance (at least for the week).

This always puzzles me about some of you guys. Why do you care what's good for the forum? I want to see the place burn so we can pick through the ashes and then I want to see the Phoenix site burn too. Some of you actually seem to still want that place to succeed.



This is not a personal criticism directed at you, just a general observation. I'm confused is all.

Speaking for myself  
When a poster with over a 1000 posts gets banned I know they must be upset. And when a resetera member is upset I get aroused. Please don't kink shame, I'm old and it's they only thing that gets me hard.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-battle-for-the-bros-young-men-have-gone-maga-can-the-left-win-them-back.1136940/

This incessant coddling of men grows tiring.

And this. I've never seen any other group being excused so much for their own behaviour. I don't even get when this shit started and became something to value. I was taught when I fuck up it's on me. Learn from it and grow from it don't point at everyone else and blame them for your shit.

This incessant coddling of men grows tiring.

For real....the shit that young women/teens have to deal with is innately on a daily basis far scarier and rougher than younge men, yet it feels like so many people say we have to be tone policing and hyper soft to explain why they shouldn't blame women and minorities for their issues.

Thank you ladies.

I love how all of these people concerned about how young women are treated were NEVER young women themselves and only became women well into their 20s and 30s.

[benji]

So far, I haven't heard of robots or AI taking prison guard jobs anytime soon.

Bentham solved it in the 18th Century.

I love how all of these people concerned about how young women are treated were NEVER young women themselves and only became women well into their 20s and 30s.

Also that they're continuing to demand "tone policing and hyper soft" coddling of themselves into far higher ages where their problems are always the fault of somebody else such as a children's book author.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/power-rangers-lightspeed-rescue-turns-25-a-nerd-essay-for-the-first-modern-pr-season.1108011/

[HaughtyFrank]

So far, I haven't heard of robots or AI taking prison guard jobs anytime soon.

Bentham solved it in the 18th Century.

Personally I prefer the rotating "Oops, I cut off your arms" Jail

[killamajig]

If I were trans I couldn't imagine telling bio women that I know better than them on girls/woman issues. The balls that would take.

Thats why I  hate the autogyno's on Era. They constantly talk over bio women when it come to womens issues. The audacity to go from incel to woman and immediately talk as if they were sweet little uwu girls all along. Thats why Kunty always puts on this  "high femme" act. They have to reaffirm their delusions with stereotypes of cutesy things.

[killamajig]

So far, I haven't heard of robots or AI taking prison guard jobs anytime soon.

Bentham solved it in the 18th Century.

Personally I prefer the rotating "Oops, I cut off your arms" Jail

At first I thought they were talking about prisons where they would have a control room in the center and cells all around it. But that shit is wild. Lol. I had to watch the thing to understand the reasoning to make a cell like that.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/columbia-university-expells-suspends-and-revokes-degrees-of-pro-palestinian-peaceful-protesters.1137207/

of pro-Palestinian peaceful protesters

of students who occupied a campus hall

[killamajig]

Columbia University has expelled, suspended or revoked degrees of students who occupied a campus hall during pro-Palestinian demonstrations in April 2024, the university said on Thursday.

Thats gotta suck.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/columbia-university-expells-suspends-and-revokes-degrees-of-pro-palestinian-peaceful-protesters.1137207/

The Fourth Reich is already here and the administration of Columbia University are full blown nazi collaborators.

[killamajig]

If anyone is interested where I worked....

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aMw3rGjTN7HmNPHp7

And yes, it's 2 miles from the Mexico border. Luckily, it's nothing but sand inbetween and no places to hide. Fun fact: if inmate breaches any fence in the prison, we are authorized to use lethal force without giving any warnings. Inmates are told, "The fence is your warning." If I worked perimeter and confirmed an inmate escape, I could run them over in my patrol truck.

[benji]

If it's so great why wasn't it on Lockup.

[benji]

Like the French resistance used to say and write everywhere, compliance is treason.

There's something uniquely evil in universities contributing to fascism. Of course most of them, like all institutions, are compromised by capitalism and/or state influence, but still. It's such a betrayal of the very concept of a university. These people should never be able to sleep at night again.

Yeah. It's a litmus test places like Columbia are failing spectacularly and they honestly shouldn't survive this whenever there's an "after" this.

They're failing on such a fundamental level with no guardrails it means they can't be trusted and shouldn't exist as they are.

                 MAGA/right-wing Twitter talking about what they want to do to the universities if Trump wins? Praise for DeSantis taking down the woke universities in Florida?

[killamajig]

So far, I haven't heard of robots or AI taking prison guard jobs anytime soon.

Bentham solved it in the 18th Century.

I love how all of these people concerned about how young women are treated were NEVER young women themselves and only became women well into their 20s and 30s.

Also that they're continuing to demand "tone policing and hyper soft" coddling of themselves into far higher ages where their problems are always the fault of somebody else such as a children's book author.

That's the dudes name. I was thinking it was one of thoses prisons, not that merry-go-round.

[kaleidoscopium]

I'm an openly bisexual jew living up here in NH, and I've been banging the drums to arm ourselves for a bit now.

I recently got my own handgun and have been practicing and visiting the range.

This is the time to arm ourselves, before it's too late and they take that right from us. They've already shown they're going to push and push us as far as possible, we are going to need the means to push back at some point if it keeps going this way.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-majority-black-town-starts-armed-protection-group-after-neo-nazi-rally.1135527/page-2#post-137155422

[killamajig]

Nothing wrong with suicidal people having a quick and deadly way out, near them.
Cool forum, BDubs.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/columbia-university-expells-suspends-and-revokes-degrees-of-pro-palestinian-peaceful-protesters.1137207/

of pro-Palestinian peaceful protesters

of students who occupied a campus hall

It was a peaceful occupation. Like China's occupation of Tibet or Russia's occupation of The Crimea...

[BananaBlast]

Hap Shaughnessy doing his part in posting all these deliciously stupid bans 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rant-vent-im-fed-up-at-feeling-lesbians-arent-wanted-in-rpgs.1100052/page-3#post-135412026

User banned (permanent): Troll account

Not to disagree with your point as in "distinct romances" is also something I felt better than playersexual. However:

Who's funding the resource for developing better romance content?

I have played most of the games mentioned in the thread (BG3, PF:WOTR, 2077, etc), for the most part romance is not mandatory for progression and mostly a flavor item. In any of these games you have complex combat system, divergent plots, etc. I don't expect dev to put a huge amount of resources on romance because it will likely dilute the other content. Take PF:WOTR (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous) for example, romance will give some stat bonus and change some slides at the epilogue, but that's it. The game itself features complex PF1/DND 3rd style buff/attack/damage system that is probably require huge investment in dev resources. I imagine the resources allocation would be 90% core game play 10% romance or less even. So playersexual in these cases I feel are a good compromise, given that I play them not entirely for romance but also for combat and story too.


So to sum up, these combat-oriented RPG games would never put romance as a core focus. You'd better look for good romance writing in games like Life is Strange.

Okay but why does a perfectly rational and reasonable comment get smushed as a "troll account"?

Not even a "dismissing concerns of homophobia" or something? Just "troll account"?

[Potato]

If anyone is interested where I worked....

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aMw3rGjTN7HmNPHp7

And yes, it's 2 miles from the Mexico border. Luckily, it's nothing but sand inbetween and no places to hide. Fun fact: if inmate breaches any fence in the prison, we are authorized to use lethal force without giving any warnings. Inmates are told, "The fence is your warning." If I worked perimeter and confirmed an inmate escape, I could run them over in my patrol truck.

That's pretty fucking wild. Not a dig at you, but did/does it occur to you that a concept like that is NOT normal or moral in any civilised society?

Edit: Holy shit. Looked it up and it's the same here. Insane.