Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Uncle]

Again, the rule was ultimately a concession to not ban the topic outright. This is an anti-AI space, and staff don't necessarily owe it to anyone to make it more fair and neutral.

fuckin hell, resetera is only an anti AI space because you personally declared it one, you should serve what the community wants to talk about and not the other way around

[Uncle]

I love how this bitch says Reddit is right leaning when you fucking know for a fact she probably posts on the site on multiple furry sub reddits and other stupid shit.

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

she has some strong opinions about the ending of beastars and that's about it (of course ignoring all her secret alts)

[Propagandhim]

People legitimately got pilled into believing that technological development on its own within a capitalist framework is going to save humanity from fascism and climate collapse instead of humans working together with one another to organize for our collective benefit.

I know I mustve brought this up before, but I still can't get my head around why Nepenthe is so optimistic about working together with a group of people so inherently evil that they control the poverty and misery, perpetually, for entire groups of people both internally and on the opposite end of the world, over their arbitrary characteristics.  Why would you ever want to work with evil people like that, let alone trust them to cooperate with you?  Wouldn't you want to appeal and steer the behavior of these selfish, malicious people through incentives like money instead?  I just don't get it.

[ClothedMac]

But ultimately, ResetEra is not the vanguard of anything significantly important. Our conversational rules about not just AI, but literally anything here, are not going to have a strong material impact on any relevant industries or political processes. This is a space for minorities to talk about video games and other nerd shit without having to deal with the entire brunt of right-leaning chud bullshit from the rest of the gaming community on spaces like Reddit. That's all it is.

I’m sure that’s the exact pitch Cerium gave MOBA right before his nap.

Again, the rule was ultimately a concession to not ban the topic outright. This is an anti-AI space, and staff don't necessarily owe it to anyone to make it more fair and neutral.

fuckin hell, resetera is only an anti AI space because you personally declared it one, you should serve what the community wants to talk about and not the other way around

These are both great examples of that classic nep style.  Build things up and make it sound like the sky is falling and only Era holds it up, and then when confronted say, "heyyyyyyy, Era is just a dumb website that I don't even care about."   Followed by an appeal to "the staff/group/collective," being the ones who all decided it.  Can you think of all the times B-Dubs and the rest would get upset about the topic of AI?  I can't remember it happening either but I guess it's a group thing.

She's not allowed to talk politics anymore so now we get to hear how AI is actually a product of colonization. It's a shame Avatar 3 is so far away. I want to see her ban discussion for it's use of AI.  Who knows, I hear an AI Art Banksy sensation may emerge during sweeps!  

I mean,

[benji]

People legitimately got pilled into believing that technological development on its own within a capitalist framework is going to save humanity from fascism and climate collapse instead of humans working together with one another to organize for our collective benefit.

I know I mustve brought this up before, but I still can't get my head around why Nepenthe is so optimistic about working together with a group of people so inherently evil that they control the poverty and misery, perpetually, for entire groups of people both internally and on the opposite end of the world, over their arbitrary characteristics.  Why would you ever want to work with evil people like that, let alone trust them to cooperate with you?  Wouldn't you want to appeal and steer the behavior of these selfish, malicious people through incentives like money instead?  I just don't get it.

I shouldn't have to emotionally labor to convince you or them to simply do basic human decency and provide me with a dignified life.

Like, literally, this is their worldview. You simply want (I shouldn't have to emotionally labor to declare) what you want and not just all of society but all of existence, reality itself, physics, biology, mathematics, etc. should just conform to what you want. And it has a duty to do so. Or else it's doing violence to you.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-ballot-boxes-sabotaged-set-ablaze-in-portland-or-and-vancouver-wa.1021362/#post-130785732

User banned (2 weeks): antagonizing other posters

Not a good state of the union currently…..

since you dont care if harris or trump wins, whats the worry? let whatever happens happen right?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-lateness-the-most-maddening-breach-of-social-etiquette.1016898/page-2#post-130539150

User Banned (1 Month): Misogynistic commentary

most maddening breach of social etiquette is girls getting the cow ring on their nose.

[benji]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-icj-orders-halt-to-israeli-offensive-on-rafah-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-424#post-130793214

That said: This thread has slowed down extremely. Let's stay vocal, everyone.

a good portion of our regulars are currently banned, many of which over minor nonsensical things. it almost feels as if they're getting picked off on purpose.

I was banned for a month for downplaying concerns of anti semitism (I don't believe it was fair but then again more people got banned permanently for even less charges) ... I am sure many others probably left after being banned or perma banned. Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think pro Palestinian voices are actively silenced HERE especially right before the election.

i noticed a lot of the recent bans were basically timed to run out around election day lol

[benji]

The STAFF COMMUNICATION said the bans were going to go until the election.

[Chudder Barbarity]

Pardon my sperging, but if you preorder the game you have no right to complain about woke shit in games. Giving them money is tacit endorsement of their ideology.

[Rendle]

Maybe people would stop bringing up Skill Up in review threads if the mods make clear he's a banned source. But of course that can't happen for the "safety" of the mods. Apparently putting up an easily refer to list of banned sources puts B-Dumbs and company in "danger." The "danger" is never explained, of course, but we need to just believe B-Dumbs that listing banned sources is a danger to them.

The danger is that if there was a list, it would be embarassing how many things are on the list. Publications, people, twitter accounts, youtube channels, podcasts, games... you'd need a spreadsheet to list them all

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/theres-no-media-model-for-platonic-intimacy-in-male-friendships-i-think-thats-a-big-factor-in-whats-wrong-with-heterosexual-men-today.1021668/

Men have fewer and fewer friends these days and friendship is critical for human beings. The problem is that so many male friendships are just so damn shallow. But that's really all we're taught to have because the media we grow up on portrays friendships between heterosexual men in very specific ways. You can hug, but it's gotta be quick or loud. You can cry, but you have to do it no physically closer than sitting next to one another and at most with an arm on your shoulder. Two guys can't occupy the same space while neither has a shirt on. Can't share a bed no matter how much room there is or what the alternatives are. You're only allowed moments of sincerity and vulnerability when you're three sheets to the wind, and that includes telling them you love them.

Otherwise you're gay.

I don't think I have to elaborate to this forum that there's no issue with two men in love with one another. But nobody wants to be labeled as something they're not no matter how positive their views on the sexuality of others.

You go back and watch or read a lot of much older media and you can find examples of men being able to be intimate in a platonic sense with their friends. Modern audiences look at it and invariably declare that the characters are obviously in romantic love (and sometimes they are). But the loss of media that showed close friendships between men as being both close and friendships, I think, has done and is continuing to do long term damage.

I don't know, I've had this thought before and it's always one particular conversational topic that gets me thinking about it.

Bert and Ernie.

Now let me preface this by saying it's cute and sweet a lot of the portrayals of those two as romantic partners. And if anyone finds themselves identifying with them or having had any major self-discoveries due to them (I don't know if this happens, but I also don't know if it doesn't), I don't mean to take that away from anyone.

But why did we all know that Bert and Ernie were gay when we were growing up? Well, not all of us, but a whole hell of a lot of us who were allowed to know that gay men existed. Because, while I can't say anything about the show now, I can tell you for sure that that wasn't the objective in the 80s and 90s where the episodes we watched came from.

Just the fact that they lived in the same home (contrary to popular belief, they did not share a bed) and clearly cared about one another. That they were close (or, at least, from Ernie's perspective they were close, maybe not so much for Bert) and that kind of closeness wasn't really still being portrayed in the other media we grew up with.

And the urge persists today. Any time any two men in media show they care about one another to any degree deeper than Goku and Vegeta they must be in love, or they should  be in love and the writers are cowards.

I don't know, I'm rambling. I don't really have much more than the thesis statement of this topic. I think our relationships are poorer for the fact that they are, by social necessity, shallow. And that we will continue to get worse if we don't do something about it.

I'll just close out by saying this: Waldorf and Statler are obviously a couple, though.

[Nintex]

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MrSoyPlays

What a loser

[Chumbawumbafan69]

Maybe people would stop bringing up Skill Up in review threads if the mods make clear he's a banned source. But of course that can't happen for the "safety" of the mods. Apparently putting up an easily refer to list of banned sources puts B-Dumbs and company in "danger." The "danger" is never explained, of course, but we need to just believe B-Dumbs that listing banned sources is a danger to them.

The danger is that if there was a list, it would be embarassing how many things are on the list. Publications, people, twitter accounts, youtube channels, podcasts, games... you'd need a spreadsheet to list them all

There's no need to make a spreadsheet, messofanego can just convert his dossiers to a wiki page the mods can use.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/theres-no-media-model-for-platonic-intimacy-in-male-friendships-i-think-thats-a-big-factor-in-whats-wrong-with-heterosexual-men-today.1021668/

Begging people to learn that their own personal hangups are not everybody's.

[Eric Cartman]

Maybe people would stop bringing up Skill Up in review threads if the mods make clear he's a banned source. But of course that can't happen for the "safety" of the mods. Apparently putting up an easily refer to list of banned sources puts B-Dumbs and company in "danger." The "danger" is never explained, of course, but we need to just believe B-Dumbs that listing banned sources is a danger to them.

The danger is that if there was a list, it would be embarassing how many things are on the list. Publications, people, twitter accounts, youtube channels, podcasts, games... you'd need a spreadsheet to list them all

That and you'd have things like "Has a brother who makes clickbait videos" as reasons for excommunication of badthink

[benji]

I came across something very ancient, quarter of a century old, about the Toy Story 2 game, which is old news but I was struck by the comment made in the AP story:

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to change a sombrero-wearing character in the "Toy Story 2" video game because it offended some Hispanics.

The decision was announced Thursday after a peaceful demonstration outside the Santa Monica headquarters of Activision, which produced the game with Disney based on characters from the animated film. One level of the game features a villain with a mustache, bullet bandolier and a sombrero, which Hispanic activists said was a Mexican stereotype.

Players must shoot the symbol to advance to the next level of the game, said Oscar de la Torre, a counselor at Santa Monica High School.

"We feel it's degrading, it's dehumanizing. It stereotypes Mexicans as villains," he said. "It's a virtual game of genocide, the way we see it, because they're being ethno-specific."

[Besticus Maximus]

Remember when it was just about levelling up in a game where you could be evil to your party and go on adventures you didn't expect to find 

[Eric Cartman]

"What's wrong with heterosexual men today" is mainly people insisting on telling heterosexual men literally everything that's wrong with them at all times.

but y'all ain't ready to have that conversation

[imsotired]

But even then, I think parameters like "fulfillment" and "free time" must be examined in a more critical and dialectical lens. Like, the computer in a vacuum allows me more free time because of how fast it is at making calculations and processing data. But it also allows me unfettered access to addictive games and social media, potentially impacting the quality of free time it has in turn given me. Indeed, my social and mental health are significantly improved the more I get away from digital devices and spend time in nature or with other human beings, despite these being extreme advancements in technology that would kill a theoretical Victorian child, as it were lol.

Ok, I'm convinced.  Let's burn it all down and go back to pre-industrial days.  Most of the world will die, but the rest will be too busy doing subsistence farming to have any free time.

[Besticus Maximus]

A two part play in one post:

Indeed, my social and mental health are significantly improved the more I get away from digital devices and spend time in nature or with other human beings, 

despite these being extreme advancements in technology that would kill a theoretical Victorian child

[Uncle]

I came across something very ancient, quarter of a century old, about the Toy Story 2 game, which is old news but I was struck by the comment made in the AP story:

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to change a sombrero-wearing character in the "Toy Story 2" video game because it offended some Hispanics.

The decision was announced Thursday after a peaceful demonstration outside the Santa Monica headquarters of Activision, which produced the game with Disney based on characters from the animated film. One level of the game features a villain with a mustache, bullet bandolier and a sombrero, which Hispanic activists said was a Mexican stereotype.

Players must shoot the symbol to advance to the next level of the game, said Oscar de la Torre, a counselor at Santa Monica High School.

"We feel it's degrading, it's dehumanizing. It stereotypes Mexicans as villains," he said. "It's a virtual game of genocide, the way we see it, because they're being ethno-specific."

[jooseloose]

Can someone point to me whatever the fuck it was that got Skill Up banned from Era? I feel like every time someone posts a review of his there without knowing he's banned, some prick pops up with a reason that just snowballs into something bigger and bigger each time.

All they seem to ever mention is some mysterious channel from years ago? God forbid someone be forgiven for CHUD comments they've allegedly made in the past and moved away from that. Isn't that right, B-Dubs?

[BananaBlast]

I came across something very ancient, quarter of a century old, about the Toy Story 2 game, which is old news but I was struck by the comment made in the AP story:

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to change a sombrero-wearing character in the "Toy Story 2" video game because it offended some Hispanics.

The decision was announced Thursday after a peaceful demonstration outside the Santa Monica headquarters of Activision, which produced the game with Disney based on characters from the animated film. One level of the game features a villain with a mustache, bullet bandolier and a sombrero, which Hispanic activists said was a Mexican stereotype.

Players must shoot the symbol to advance to the next level of the game, said Oscar de la Torre, a counselor at Santa Monica High School.

"We feel it's degrading, it's dehumanizing. It stereotypes Mexicans as villains," he said. "It's a virtual game of genocide, the way we see it, because they're being ethno-specific."

Damn so I guess crazy SJWs existed even back in the 90s.

I know soccer moms and christian fundamentalists existed back in that time period, but I didn't know people said things about video games that sound just like a Ree mod off their meds.

Can someone point to me whatever the fuck it was that got Skill Up banned from Era? I feel like every time someone posts a review of his there without knowing he's banned, some prick pops up with a reason that just snowballs into something bigger and bigger each time.

All they seem to ever mention is some mysterious channel from years ago? God forbid someone be forgiven for CHUD comments they've allegedly made in the past and moved away from that. Isn't that right, B-Dubs?

I think it was his last of us 2 review. I'm pretty sure he merely mentioned that he didn't like things that were likely influenced by modern identity politics. (which I find to be 100% true)

[Besticus Maximus]

Noted moron Planetsmasher

It's amazing that the chud community actually thinks companies will get penalized for not putting pronouns in their games. Like there's a literal shadow cabal waiting to fine major publishers if they don't act more inclusively. Yet at the same time, they think that people who want inclusive or thoughtful language in games are a microscopic minority who don't represent the real consumerbase.

"The opposition is simultaneously all-powerful and powerless" in action.

Leave aside what he's actually talking about. What he has done there is manufacture two straw men and set them at war with each other to prove that the thread he's posting in doesn't exist and you're a chud nazi who should not be allowed videogames for acknowledging the possibility of people like him posting that you're a chud nazi for not doing the thing he says is fine not to do.

The argument is this, because he clearly doesn't understand.

1. Dragon Age used Sweet Baby Inc and this is a fact of the universe. (As I understand it they did actually work on the game? Is this not true?)
2. This might be why the game is edgeless because everything they get involved with ends up similarly edgeless.

They need to decide if the position is that everything they're working on is automatically a good thing or if we're supposed to ban talking about them at all.

[garamonde]

Can someone point to me whatever the fuck it was that got Skill Up banned from Era? I feel like every time someone posts a review of his there without knowing he's banned, some prick pops up with a reason that just snowballs into something bigger and bigger each time.

All they seem to ever mention is some mysterious channel from years ago? God forbid someone be forgiven for CHUD comments they've allegedly made in the past and moved away from that. Isn't that right, B-Dubs?

His brother ran a ragebait sjw Youtube channel and got flagged for it.

It don't matter it happened ages ago, it don't matter he no longer associates nor his brother with that kind of content. Look at MattyPlays, mate did his best at explaining what happened and some grade A cunts still say he's the leaker or demand his editor be fired (lol).

Same shit with AI, a bunch of children whining and crying for not getting what they want.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamala-harris-could-sit-down-with-joe-rogan-for-an-interview-in-the-final-stretch-of-the-u-s-presidential-campaign.1009581/page-12#post-130782471

I did not mean to troll with the who comments. I more so meant it as part "I genuinly do not know who that person is" and part "choosing not to be on rogan, but instead at this guy seems a bit weird".

Not to pile on since I think you get it- however the message should be clear to anyone else browsing this thread, that yeah Resetera has had a long history of white nerds tripping over themselves to brag about how they don't know [insert popular black artist] as a badge of honor, with the common "who??" drive-by. So even if you didn't intend it to be read that way, it comes off as purposely belittling. You can still ask if you genuinely don't know with a clearer, more intentional question. No one is shaming you for not knowing who this is, but the tone you ask with is worth keeping in mind.

[DavidCroquet]

Another win for Elon's block changes. 

"but he used an alt account to stalk me...see, I used my alt account to document the harassment!"

Ya'll all gay.

 

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[BananaBlast]

 

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What's the deal with Angelica Reed anyways?

She's pretty hot, but she's always hanging around SJWs like airbagged. I don't really get it. She looks like what the majority of them hate deep down inside.

I guess she's one of them except she has some really good genetics and went the onlyfans e-thot route.