Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Daffy Duck]

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Doing the old man yelling about walking up hill both ways in the snow—PC gaming for over a decade now has been piss easy. The only time you need to tinker is for features not in the console versions. And that’s been mitigated over the years. Mods are on Steam and a click away.

What happened to nerds, man. They used to be into Linux and esoteric shit software. Now windows is too complicated. They’re gonna bring back bonzi buddy at this rate.

Users on era aren’t nerds.

I’ve built 4 of my own PCs over the years and I’ve never had a problem with any of them with any game I’ve ever played or modded, you don’t spend hours tinker with ini files or anything, you download your game and play it. The only thing the OP mentions that’s correct IMHO is the crashes, but as they say it’s more a dev thing than your PC is broken (unless obviously you’ve built it badly which I’m guessing these folx don’t even do)

[Potato]

Shouldn’t we be applauding Dubs for gaslighting the vegetables? It seems like something we should be encouraging

If he wasn't so sincere in his idiocy, I'd believe it was all an elaborate troll. However, he really is just that fucking stupid.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2024-ot-1-doom-eternal.800787/page-23?post=117561624#post-117561624

I'm going to sound like an old man yelling at clouds (which I am most of the time) but when I was younger I feel that it was possible to debate people, especially people with bad/unpopular ideas, with sound reasoning and get them to a point where they're willing to admit that maybe they were wrong. That's no longer the case. In today's world it's just so easy to for people with bad ideas retreat into safe spaces filled with like-minded people willing to tell them that their terrible ideas are great and that they should actually go farther that's it's mostly a waste of time to even try.

I hate to sound so defeatist but it's just the reality of the way most people are interacting with each other and the internet. I feel like it's a problem that just going to continue to get worse over time because I'm seeing more and not less fragmentation of social groups as I get older.

 

Imagine saying that on a forum full of fucking tankies and thinking it actually only applies to "the other side".

[Potato]

I was thinking it might be fun to join a terrorist organisation but in an administrative position. Yes Hello, Hamas Central. No, sorry they’re not available at the moment. They’re busy doing evil stuff until lunch. Can I take a message?

I think I'd like to design their automated telephone messages.

Press 1 to blame the Jews
Press 2 to proclaim "Death to America"
Press 3 to access our "family of a suicide bomber support service"

[Potato]

Maybe some of you are better informed than me, but as of last month I had never heard the word "Houthi", and I can guarantee to you that neither had 90% of all these Houthi Experts that seem to be popping up everywhere, like we all have a Houthi working with us in the accounting department.

Nepenthe has almost finished reading a book about them.  And shes assured us it's not that hard to understand or pick a side.

It's not a book, it's just some conspiracy theory website named fuckthejews

Also, Slayven is reading a book too.

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It's actually a picture book

Edit: Holy shit, that website actually exists.

[Potato]

The staff just posted a toothless FINAL WARNING in the “What is Houthi?” Thread 

This shouldn't have to be said, but the Houthis are raging antisemites, in addition to their slave trading and other, um, issues. They've engaged in discrimination against various religious minorities, ethnic cleansing, have child soldiers, and reinstated literal slavery among other things. Their slogan literally features the phrase "A curse upon the Jews." These are not good people. Hell, just saying that is downplaying how bad they are.

Regardless of how you feel about the situation in Gaza, cheering these people on is a no go. It is totally unacceptable. They are taking advantage of the situation to escalate their actions and using the people of Palestine as a cover.

From this point on, anyone cheering these guys on, defending them, rationalizing their actions, or in any way whitewashing them is going to get a huge ban. How big will it be? You'll be lucky if we let you back in.

Honestly, this is exhausting. Since Israel has started its invasion of Gaza we have had to ban people for the following: blatant antisemitism, dismissing sexual assault, downplaying the actions of terrorist groups in regards to the treatment of kidnapped hostages despite hostage testimony, conspiracy theories, posting neo-nazis from twitter, platforming conspiracy theory outlets, and so on and so forth. It should go without saying that just because the IDF and Israeli government are engaging in horrific actions that we should not engage in antisemitism or any other sort of bigotry but this is something we've had to say a number of times at this point. Just because social media thinks bigotry is ok doesn't mean it is.

We shouldn't have to say it.

We shouldn't have to say this, but we are. This is the final warning staff is going to give out. Anyone posting bigoted nonsense that leaks through from twitter or tiktok or where-the-fuck ever will likely be forfeiting their account. Netenyahu being God's biggest shitlord doesn't give you the right to compete with him. Last chance.

People may think is okay to be a antisemitic leftie because the Hamas fan club thread gets a free pass with the weird defenses and comparisons.

Does this include retrospectively banning Nepenthe for her rampant anti-Semitism?

[Potato]

This is BS when a mod used "collective nation of Jews" with regard to the "right to genocide" and wasn't actioned and had to try and explain their language away. Where was the part of your job that "is to try and pushback against the polarization and inflammatory rhetorical stylings" then?

You've got to be reading what you want to read into Brady's post to come to the conclusion you did, whereas the mod post I'm referencing was clear as day, so much so they used an entire follow-up to try and explain it away.

This I've ignored until now because, if I can be totally blunt, it's a bad faith reading of a post that is literally just using a turn of phrase thrown at them to prove a point. Especially considering the staff member in question has been one of the louder voices internally trying to make sure we ban people who cross the line into antisemitism. Trying to frame this person as a bigot is dishonest and, frankly, insulting to all of us who work with them and see how much effort they put into making sure we try and get this right. If I can be frank, I'm personally insulted by it and making sure I could say as much, and how disappointed with people I am, is why I am responding to this instead of letting them handle it.

Maybe the fact that, even with all that effort, you're getting it so fucking wrong is an indication that the admin in question is a complete and utter fucking bigot and unsuited to the fucking job you stupid fucking idiot?

[Potato]

The distinction between the longevity of a state and a nation lies in their respective concepts and origins. A state typically refers to a political entity with defined borders, a government, and a system of laws, and its duration is measured by the establishment of its political structure. In contrast, a nation pertains to a group of people who share common cultural, historical, or ethnic ties, and the duration of a nation is often rooted in the historical continuity of its people. While the founding of a state is marked by political events and the creation of governing institutions, the existence of a nation is shaped by the collective identity and cultural heritage of its populace, spanning generations regardless of changes in political structures. Consequently, a state can be relatively young in terms of its establishment, while the nation it governs may have a much longer historical trajectory, reflecting the enduring character of its people. i.e. the age of Ukraine as a state in it's current form is distinct from Ukraine as a nation.

Literally no one in the thread was talking about Israel the nation in a cultural or ethnic context until this post. It was a completely irrelevant elaboration that only served to intentionally and maliciously muddy the point, which is that- yes, the nation Israel- the political state since 1948, not the cultural, historical, or ethnic nation of Israel- is and has been committing genocide against Palestinian Arabs in Gaza. This, in turn, this was all in the context of a larger discussion about why it was okay for people to abstain for voting for Joe Biden on this principle, and for people to not go after disaffected Muslim Americans who should be their allies. All I said was that even if every single Jewish person wanted the genocide to occur (which obviously they don't, hence the if I used in my original post and the if I'm emphasizing here,) that would still not make the genocide okay. Genocide isn't okay! This shouldn't be in contention!

What I said isn't antisemitic. I stand on that. However, what you and others need to do is go and ask disparate why he thought it was relevant to bring up the entire cultural nation of Jewish people when I was clearly talking about the political state that came to exist after WWII. Maybe ask him why he thinks Jewish people are a pawn to be used in nonsense video game forum arguments about voting.

Ultimately, I'm used to people disagreeing with my politics. I'm also used to cliques and Discords forming narratives about individual staffers and the overall intention of staff. But honestly, so long as you keep the nonsense out of the forums, I don't care. Think what you want. What I'm not okay with is people lying about me, to my face, with receipts right there if you just read the conversation chain. And it's with the intent of trying to make me out to be antisemitic on top of it?

This shit stops now.

Unless your Jewish NepNep, by your OWN standards, you don't get to decide that. Jewish people do. But then again, since when did any of these mods or admins follow their own standards?

If these PoliEra fuckers had any guts, they'd threaten to mass email MOBA with their receipts unless Nepenthe resigns.

#accountabilityculturenotcancelculture

[Potato]

Doing the old man yelling about walking up hill both ways in the snow—PC gaming for over a decade now has been piss easy. The only time you need to tinker is for features not in the console versions. And that’s been mitigated over the years. Mods are on Steam and a click away.

What happened to nerds, man. They used to be into Linux and esoteric shit software. Now windows is too complicated. They’re gonna bring back bonzi buddy at this rate.

I think the Venn diagram of iPhone users and these people is quite close to being a circle within a circle.

Edit: Apologies to everyone for the multiple posts. Obviously a big day in Resetera fuckery and I've been busy following the Tour Down Under cycling event all day.

[Nintex]

ree really is the only place on the internet that can't handle figuring out how to work a computer. I have never seen an enthusiast forum where every other user complains about  having to "tinker" with pc games until they finally run. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99ve-been-pc-gaming-for-about-2-years-now-and-i%E2%80%99m-really-not-feeling-it.805098/

[Eric Cartman]

Uhhhhh if Nepenthe isn't probably (one of?) the smartest people that ever lived, then how come they are literally right about every subject ever every single time, with no need to ever apologise under any circumstance, and are capable of superhuman feats of perspicacity like knowing someones blood alcohol level from their posting style?

checkmate atheists

[Eric Cartman]

Check your privilege so called 'pc master race' shitlords, just because if a RAM stick gets unsettled during shipping of your prebuilt you don't have to write multple posts about that being why Pc gaming sucks and have a full on tantrum until daddy can fix your boo-boo

[Polident]

ree really is the only place on the internet that can't handle figuring out how to work a computer. I have never seen an enthusiast forum where every other user complains about  having to "tinker" with pc games until they finally run. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99ve-been-pc-gaming-for-about-2-years-now-and-i%E2%80%99m-really-not-feeling-it.805098/

Learning how to edit files to see Mona Sax naked on some piece of shit compaq pc in 2003.

[Besticus Maximus]

The problem with PC gaming is windows, which is a heap of shite in general that people have been conditioned to love like Patty Hearst was by the symbionese liberation army.

[Nintex]

The issue with PC gaming is the following.

Ever since Xbox 360/PS3 became lead platforms and Sony/MS wanted to protect their platform secrets and later Epic and Unity their engine secrets the code, settings, config and ini editting etc. became less and less accessible. In time debug modes were entirely removed.

However developers depend on PC users to tinker with the settings themselves to find the optimal settings for their system.
They spend less time optimizing games for PC than they do for consoles because they can't possibly optimize everything for each system.

So you're left with games running at settings that aren't optimal for your system and no settings or very few settings to tinker with.

[BIONIC]

Did this part of B-Chuds’ constructive meltdown ever get posted? Cause it’s beautiful:

Thing is that nobody reported it and that's a big problem. We found it when we went digging during the initial investigation into the post we did put the banner on. It's part of why we read that post in that way because that's obviously how the poster is looking at the situation.

Frankly, the fact you guys didn't report that post when it was made is a huge red flag for us. Like it's really blatantly bad and it went totally ignored.

I get that people are frustrated with what they see as inconsistent moderation, but at the same time you guys aren't exactly doing a great job at holding each other accountable. That post, 1000%, should have been reported and the fact that nobody thought "Hey, conflating an actual government with the horrible terrorist group attempting to overthrow them isn't ok" is really not good.

Like, you guys are trying to turn this around on us but, frankly, the fact that a post that shitty went totally unreported is a glaring condemnation. I get that some of you might not have seen it, but some people literally quoted him and continued the discussion. That is not ok in any way, shape, or form.

Was trying to bold certain parts, but the whole thing is a work of art

[Uncle]

what the hell  

probably so used to getting a multitude of reports in every thread that it's weird when they DON'T get 50 of em

[benji]

Did this part of B-Chuds’ constructive meltdown ever get posted? Cause it’s beautiful:

Thing is that nobody reported it and that's a big problem. We found it when we went digging during the initial investigation into the post we did put the banner on. It's part of why we read that post in that way because that's obviously how the poster is looking at the situation.

Frankly, the fact you guys didn't report that post when it was made is a huge red flag for us. Like it's really blatantly bad and it went totally ignored.

I get that people are frustrated with what they see as inconsistent moderation, but at the same time you guys aren't exactly doing a great job at holding each other accountable. That post, 1000%, should have been reported and the fact that nobody thought "Hey, conflating an actual government with the horrible terrorist group attempting to overthrow them isn't ok" is really not good.

Like, you guys are trying to turn this around on us but, frankly, the fact that a post that shitty went totally unreported is a glaring condemnation. I get that some of you might not have seen it, but some people literally quoted him and continued the discussion. That is not ok in any way, shape, or form.

Maybe you should frankly ask Hecht?

Wanting the mods to enforce the rules evenly? What are you, a fucking narc?

I got banned for reporting people using the b-word as a pejorative. The ban said it was for "abusing the report system" or something.
But, if you are serious about banning people for using the b-word here are some posts to look at
[slayven post]
[fat4all post]

You reported three posts in three separate threads in a very short span of time. You were clearly searching for specific words and reporting the offending posts. Narc.

And yeah, we do try to action posts that break the rules, but there are more posts daily than we can ever look at, so some will get missed. That's just the nature of things. Are there any other users you want us to look more closely at? zero_suit and Treestump look suspect, no?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it-aint-easy-being-white.802896/page-2?post=117319485#post-117319485

[Eric Cartman]

"The problem with how I moderate is, frankly, that you aren't doing enough back-seat moderating (A Bannable Offence)"

[Averon]

It's always someone else's fault that B-Dubs is such a shitty admin

[kaleidoscopium]

Actual victim blaming from the mods 😂 incredible

[nampad]

I am sure I got on their shit list because I used that report button quite often to show them their hypocrisy. 

Still surprised I could troll them for so long with my posts which just reflected how crazy they are. The ban that I got in the end was for something every normal person would condemn, but of course we are speaking about a bunch of weirdos.

[PogiJones]

It is completely bonkers how insanely bad they are at one of the easiest "jobs" on the planet 

[Eric Cartman]

The finale episode of Echo centers on a showdown between the young anti-heroine, Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox), and her adoptive father figure, Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio), at the Choctaw Powwow. As the latter kidnaps Maya’s grandmother, Chula (Tantoo Cardinal), and cousin, Bonnie (Devery Jacobs), the nefarious Black Knife Cartel shows up aiming to collect the bounty on Maya's head.

While it could have been an all-out brawl, instead the creative team behind Echo leave the Black Knife Cartel to Maya's uncle, Henry Black Crow Lopez (Chaske Spencer), and her other cousin, Biscuits (Cody Lightning), who take them down with a bullet and monster truck respectively. That leaves Echo to save her cousin and grandma from the clutches of Kingpin. She does that by channeling the powers of her Choctaw ancestors and sharing them with the women in her family. In an interesting twist, we see her enter Kingpin's mind and "heal" his rage and pain, though whether this is a blessing or a curse we're yet to discover. The episode ends with Maya reconnecting with the family that Kingpin isolated her from while her surrogate father escapes before the police can catch him, leading us to our mid-credits sequence.

This sounds lame as shit, no wonder even the MCU-zombies are struggling to hype it

[Water Enjoyer]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/south-parks-new-special-not-suitable-for-children-is-out-on-paramount.797415/page-5?post=116691912#post-116691912

[bork]

Can someone link me to Nepenthe's original post?

[Echelon]

Finished up my news rounds and decided to check in on the asylum, but it seems the asylum is offline! Just as ZeroVagina finally came back! I hope none of them take this time to improve themselves.

[Nintex]

Like, you guys are trying to turn this around on us but, frankly, the fact that a post that shitty went totally unreported is a glaring condemnation. I get that some of you might not have seen it, but some people literally quoted him and continued the discussion. That is not ok in any way, shape, or form.

You saw it happen didn't you. You watched him do it with your own eyes and you didn't do nothin and you didn't say nothin.

You didn't call me or my pals to sort it out. Am I right? And now you pull this jew fucking bullshit on me.

Get out of my fucking face before my friend NepNep here shoves a broomstick up your ass, then we'll see who the real funny assclown is you fucking kike piece of shit.

[Echelon]

Like, you guys are trying to turn this around on us but, frankly, the fact that a post that shitty went totally unreported is a glaring condemnation. I get that some of you might not have seen it, but some people literally quoted him and continued the discussion. That is not ok in any way, shape, or form.

You saw it happen didn't you. You watched him do it with your own eyes and you didn't do nothin and you didn't say nothin.

You didn't call me or my pals to sort it out. Am I right? And now you pull this jew fucking bullshit on me.

Get out of my fucking face before my friend NepNep here shoves a broomstick up your ass, then we'll see who the real funny assclown is you fucking kike piece of shit.

I really don't understand why he defends this uppity furry so ardently. Everyone hates her. As far as I'm aware she's not part of the alphabet mob, so it's not like he would have another coup on his hands. At this point it has to just be the fear of admitting he's a drooling retard and getting rid of Nep would retroactively highlight dozens of times where he failed to do the world's easiest job.

[Shecky Fragbaum]

Resetera.com is offline

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

due to a large number of reports?

Edit: back after 26 minutes. Nothing to see here