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

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-6#post-132267993

They were clearly saying we lose elections because we try to shame people any chance we get. It's being said in various threads since the election. It's meant as a troll, but more importantly it's false.

The idea of Democrats trying to reframe Thanksgiving as "Truthsgiving" would just be easy ammunition for the right wing. It's a stupid thought exercise because it's not going to happen, but the broader idea of Democrats not connecting with voters because they're smug and self-righteous is a real concern in my opinion.

And I think that's what most people were responding to with the OP before it was edited. The post has an air of smugness and shame, like, "I just educated myself and I WILL NOT BE ENGAGING IN THIS PRACTICE ANYMORE".

And of course the Era brigade has to come in and start shitting on white people and their fragility, even though no one was denying the actual content in the OP. Great community we have here.

Sort of shocked Bjomesphat hasn't been banned yet for "dismissing concerns."

[DavidCroquet]

I’m busy, so I’m sad it can’t be me, but someone could easily string together a few of Nep’s recent posts to build a full-throated defense of Thanksgiving.

Between “Trump voters are people too!” and “community pod racing”, she basically already espouses the position herself.

[Nintex]

Thats crazy tho.  Systems of oppression and shit, nah but for real, thats like sooo nuts tho.  Hey could you pass the stuffing?  Oh no, its cool, take your time - you have plenty of it.  You're not winning any elections any time soon.

  

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eurogamer-what-we-learned-about-the-witcher-4-from-speaking-to-cd-projekt-red-bigger-than-witcher-3-technical-ambitions-switch-to-ue5.1048353/page-2#post-132277515

Okay let me be more specific. Play the entire game as a woman. Lore wise it says women don't survive the mutagen process that makes someone a Witcher. Thus Ciri hasn't undergone it and can't use things like Witchers potions. I want them to say fuck the lore and let me play as the character I want.

I agree and I hope they do this. I wonder how gamer gate 2.0 will reconcile their favourite 'anti woke' developer doing something like this lol

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-terraforming-inhabiting-mars-a-better-prospect-than-cleaning-up-earth.1048356/#post-132275754

No magnetic field on Mars is a deal-breaker man.

[Jansen]

I. Bought an ounce on a black Friday deal. Um fuck me weeb is strong these days.

[Jansen]

And it was the cheapest they had. Goddamn four puffs and I am gone RN fucking ganon is laughing or satan

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-2#post-132248634

I'm not allowed to our "traditional" family gathering. Years ago I stood up at the table and volunteered to do the blessing. Short and to the point, I said "Happy "we were on the white side" day. Sat down then ate. 15 other people were silent and just stared at me.

I think F3AR is supposedly a irl cop.

[DavidCroquet]

Thats crazy tho.  Systems of oppression and shit, nah but for real, thats like sooo nuts tho.  Hey could you pass the stuffing?  Oh no, its cool, take your time - you have plenty of it.  You're not winning any elections any time soon.

  

You can’t blame minorities for voting for Trump. They’re desperate, and too stupid to make an informed analysis of the choices being presented to them. Also, their voices and votes are insignificant and pointless.

To think otherwise is deeply racist.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/advice-on-socialising-at-very-large-events.1048440/

I'm talking around 700 people as that's my work Christmas party this evening.

Fair enough it will be a smaller group which slowly gets bigger before the main event. As an autistic person, I find when there is too much noise and convo I go within myself. And everyone else seems to be fine and I get lost.

Wondering if anyone has any last-minute advice on dealing with this. I can't rely on the same people all night to chat with, essentially, and I don't want to force convo for people that don't want to talk with me.

This is by far the biggest social event I have even been to.

Enough alcohol to be pleasantly buzzed.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/advice-on-socialising-at-very-large-events.1048440/#post-132281487

Yeah free bar all nights lmao!

Problem solved.

[Uncle]

And it was the cheapest they had. Goddamn four puffs and I am gone RN fucking ganon is laughing or satan

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-6#post-132267993

They were clearly saying we lose elections because we try to shame people any chance we get. It's being said in various threads since the election. It's meant as a troll, but more importantly it's false.

The idea of Democrats trying to reframe Thanksgiving as "Truthsgiving" would just be easy ammunition for the right wing. It's a stupid thought exercise because it's not going to happen, but the broader idea of Democrats not connecting with voters because they're smug and self-righteous is a real concern in my opinion.

And I think that's what most people were responding to with the OP before it was edited. The post has an air of smugness and shame, like, "I just educated myself and I WILL NOT BE ENGAGING IN THIS PRACTICE ANYMORE".

And of course the Era brigade has to come in and start shitting on white people and their fragility, even though no one was denying the actual content in the OP. Great community we have here.

Sort of shocked Bjomesphat hasn't been banned yet for "dismissing concerns."

I really hate the term "Karen", but Resetera really is a whole forum full of Karens who think that because they have blue hair and tuck their cock between their legs that they aren't a stereotypical Karen.

The whole forum just wants to constantly speak to the manager report posts to the mods...and the mods encourage the behaviour.

[DocWager]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eurogamer-what-we-learned-about-the-witcher-4-from-speaking-to-cd-projekt-red-bigger-than-witcher-3-technical-ambitions-switch-to-ue5.1048353/page-2#post-132277515

Okay let me be more specific. Play the entire game as a woman. Lore wise it says women don't survive the mutagen process that makes someone a Witcher. Thus Ciri hasn't undergone it and can't use things like Witchers potions. I want them to say fuck the lore and let me play as the character I want.

I agree and I hope they do this. I wonder how gamer gate 2.0 will reconcile their favourite 'anti woke' developer doing something like this lol

 Not too many are talking about it, but watch TransEra make it about them, then NepNep says “White people… Something something… Colonialism… Whatever”.

[Switters]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eurogamer-what-we-learned-about-the-witcher-4-from-speaking-to-cd-projekt-red-bigger-than-witcher-3-technical-ambitions-switch-to-ue5.1048353/page-2#post-132277515

Okay let me be more specific. Play the entire game as a woman. Lore wise it says women don't survive the mutagen process that makes someone a Witcher. Thus Ciri hasn't undergone it and can't use things like Witchers potions. I want them to say fuck the lore and let me play as the character I want.

I agree and I hope they do this. I wonder how gamer gate 2.0 will reconcile their favourite 'anti woke' developer doing something like this lol

1 hour in character creation (Masc Femme w/ vitiligo and Killmonger Dreads, i.e.., the perfect woman)
5 hour prologue leading up to the Trial of Grasses.
Drink the concoction
Die screaming
GG

[books]

Obviously it's Gamergate!

Problem solved. *looking smug*

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eurogamer-what-we-learned-about-the-witcher-4-from-speaking-to-cd-projekt-red-bigger-than-witcher-3-technical-ambitions-switch-to-ue5.1048353/page-2#post-132277515

Okay let me be more specific. Play the entire game as a woman. Lore wise it says women don't survive the mutagen process that makes someone a Witcher. Thus Ciri hasn't undergone it and can't use things like Witchers potions. I want them to say fuck the lore and let me play as the character I want.

I agree and I hope they do this. I wonder how gamer gate 2.0 will reconcile their favourite 'anti woke' developer doing something like this lol

1 hour in character creation (Masc Femme w/ vitiligo and Killmonger Dreads, i.e.., the perfect woman)
5 hour prologue leading up to the Trial of Grasses.
Drink the concoction
Die screaming
GG

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/we-need-to-talk-about-the-nazi-past-of-smogon-competitive-pokémon-fan-site-cecilly.1048092/

TL;DR:

* Smogon, the competitive Pokémon fan community as it began in 2004 was very, very different to its modern self.
* It's name and mascot is an artifact of a gas chamber joke and both a trolling device for, and I quote, "edgy teenagers".
* At its inception it was split into 2 main forums: a Pokémon Strategy General forum; and a "Smogon's Great Nazi Empire" one. The latter forum was the one with the most amount of activity.
* While unconfirmed, it's believed some of its early members were genuine pro-Nazis.
* Saying the current Smogon community is a whole different beast now is a massive understatement, to the point it's origins being uncovered back in last year came up as a massive shock to many.
* Cecilly thinks people quickly moving on from the previous revelation is worrying as it underplays just how invasive, toxic, and dangerous Nazi imaginery can be, more so given that the site started, by some of its early members' admissions, as a way for edgy tennagers (the target demography most susceptible to propaganda) to mock Nazism.
* Why didn't Smogon succumb to its roots? Simple: it became diverse and accepting of others while being loud about it. And that goes against everything fascism stands for.

So the problem… already sort itself out? 

She wants everyone there to be perpetually depressed and being sorry for shit they didn’t know about until a year ago?

It is a coincidence that the person that made video is a TransFemale looking for attention?

Shit, I was using a Nazi site for so many years.  Pokemon communities literally turned me into a Nazi 

[Snoopy]

Reminder Y'all that Nep works for the pharmaceutical industry. Indeed, she has a direct role in oppressing the poorest in her community. Many of whom are indigenous and depend on the coupons she sneers at. Indeed, as MLK once said, "Fuck that posing, fake ass bitch."

[Besticus Maximus]

I'm genuinely fascinated by what Nepenthe thinks she believes versus what she actually demonstrably believes.

Can see in that thread that more than a few are tired of her bully boy racist bullshit infecting every thread she interacts with. She barely even puts up a defence, just pretends she actually meant something else and you're too stupid for not reading her amazing and brilliant and pure mind.

[Greatness Gone]

I agree and I hope they do this. I wonder how gamer gate 2.0 will reconcile their favourite 'anti woke' developer doing something like this lol

there isn't a single thing about the witcher 3 or cyberpunk that are "anti-woke," especially in the latter's case which is probably on the more diverse side of AAA gaming. like what the fuck?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mexico-shuts-watchdog-agencies-intensifying-fears-for-its-democracy.1048458/

What the fuck is Sheinbaum doing. I thought she was an AMLO-style leftist.

What the fuck is Sheinbaum doing. I thought she was an AMLO-style leftist.

Did you simply not pay attention to AMLO's presidency? He had been shutting down watchdogs (and trying with the electoral institute) left and right

Did you simply not pay attention to AMLO's presidency? He had been shutting down watchdogs (and trying with the electoral institute) left and right

To be fair, I've only heard glowing things about AMLO from leftists generally. But come to think of it, none were actually from Mexico

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/#post-132245199

User banned (1 week): dismissive commentary not engaging with the source material

Cheers *takes another shot

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/#post-132247374

User banned (1 week): inflammatory commentary in a sensitive thread

It's just asking to reflect on something that still impacts indigenous people today, and a lot of y'all are like lol who cares.

The OP is not a call to action. Didn't ask any of y'all to actually DO shit.

Because "reflecting" is performative horsecrap that does nothing for anyone that isn't yourself. The point of reflecting is to inculcate a sense of moral righteousness; those that want to help, do. Reflecting is the "thoughts and prayers" of activism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-4#post-132256287

User banned (1 month): dismissive commentary

This is why we lose elections

Truth

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-8#post-132283923

User banned (2 weeks): thread whining and inflammatory commentary

I have made an attempt in the OP to explain why Thanksgiving has a problematic history. I don't know what else I can do in an attempt to placate everyone who is directly and indirectly attacking the OP and me.

You don't need to placate anyone. Even if you were like "we need to cancel thanksgiving", you're allowed to have an opinion. What's odd, is you and many others in this thread being surprised by the reaction.

You may disagree, but your title was antagonistic, and now you're bearing witness to how headlines catalyze, which is why people say shit like "this is why we lose elections."

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-8#post-132283983

It's awful, I feel like I'm being attacked as an Asian American, specifically Korean American simply for pointing out the actual history of Thanksgiving and I don't appreciate it one bit.

[railGUN]

Props to skillzilla81 MDCrabCakeFan86 and others for wading through the tone policing, concern trolling, and bad faith posting throughout this thread. Such folks know they can't argue against the actual message otherwise they would get rightly dogpiled, so they cherry pick, focus on respectability politics, and communication SKILLS.

Folks can't argue against anything because REE is a giant hug box safe space and anyone who dissents even slightly gets dogpiled and then banned for breaking non-existent rules.

You won't let "such folks argue against the actual message" because you will lose, and lose bad. It's hilarious and pathetic.

You can't be on the wrong side of history Nepenthe.

[Averon]

Only three(!) people with any connection to Native Americans actually posted in that thread. All three said Thanksgiving is fine. All three ignored. The OP, Nep, and her simps are still raging on the behalf of a people who didn't ask for their performative "reflection."

That entire thread is just Nep and skillzilla81 spouting performative bullshit and Nep banning people for any sort of push back.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Only three(!) people with any connection to Native Americans actually posted in that thread. All three said Thanksgiving is fine. All three ignored. The OP, Nep, and her simps are still raging on the behalf of a people who didn't ask for their performative "reflection."
That entire thread is just Nep and skillzilla81 spouting performative bullshit and Nep banning people for any sort of push back.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-reminder-thanksgiving-is-a-problematic-holiday-celebrates-a-myth-of-colonialism-and-white-proprietorship-of-the-u-s.1047771/page-5#post-132258549

You all fucking suck.

That includes MDCrabCakeFan86, Nepenthe and skillzilla81 for taking part in the colonial system that oppresses and genocides his people.

[Uncle]

I agree and I hope they do this. I wonder how gamer gate 2.0 will reconcile their favourite 'anti woke' developer doing something like this lol

there isn't a single thing about the witcher 3 or cyberpunk that are "anti-woke," especially in the latter's case which is probably on the more diverse side of AAA gaming. like what the fuck?

here is what happened

• GAYMER GAYTE
  
• journalists are being harassed which moves them higher on the marginalized stack
  
• their persecution legitimizes anything they say, we must agree with them to own the chuds
  
• journalists declare mix it up ad transphobic and cdpr a chud company
  
• era forced to agree
  
• "well if they're anti-woke but still popular, I bet all the chuds like cdpr because they're so anti-woke"
  
• culminating in an entire alternate reality constructed in the mind of an era user
  

https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/4/22058784/cyberpunk-2077-marketing-cd-projekt-red-transphobia

It sucks that Cyberpunk 2077’s edgelord marketing worked so well

My skepticism started when the game revealed its controversial “Mix It Up” promotional poster back in June 2019. This poster featured a feminine model with what can only be described as a huge, bulging penis. Her skin-tight leotard left nothing to the imagination; even the veins were visible. At the time, some fans called out the imagery as exploitative, mocking, and transphobic, though CDPR defended the poster. “I like how this person looks,” said Kasia Redesiuk, the artist who designed the poster, at the time. “However, this model is used — their beautiful body is used — for corporate reasons. They are displayed there just as a thing, and that’s the terrible part of it.”

I don’t buy it. While a cutting critique of queer commodification might have been part of the idea’s nucleus, the outcome is a commodification itself, objectifying trans people as creatures of deviance, defined by their genitals and suitable only for sexualization or rejection.

The Mix It Up poster is so brazenly exploitative of trans people, conjuring up very transphobic images and ideas that indelibly link trans people to the contents of their underwear, images that are responsible for real-world harm to trans people. Yet, there’s a deep irony in that it offers trans people one of the few opportunities to see ourselves and play as ourselves in gaming.

Because of all of that, Mix It Up has arguably become the single most divisive, most controversial moment in the entirety of Cyberpunk 2077’s marketing, yet it’s the one they’ve decided to build around. Since then, the game’s official Twitter account has joked about canceling their FIFA 78 pre-order due to the lack of vagina options, a joke which pokes fun at their own potentially progressive non-gendered character creator, again tying any positive representation of trans people to mockery, exploitation, and humiliation. CDPR also included a cisgender cosplayer as the Mix It Up girl among their cosplay contest finalists. Even if you buy the company line that the poster represents how queer bodies have been appropriated for marketing, their entire argument is negated when they have a cis person dress up in that queer body as part of their own video game marketing.

[railGUN]

I'm not ever gonna be the one to act surprised at how people are the way they are. I know why y'all act like this. So I'll be the one to tell y'all when you act out that you ain't shit and leave it at that.

... and ban you for:

• dismissive commentary not engaging with the source material
  
• inflammatory commentary in a sensitive thread
  
• dismissive commentary, prior bans for similar behavior
  
• dismissive commentary
  
• dismissive commentary
  
• dismissive commentary
  
• dismissive commentary
  
• thread whining and inflammatory commentary
  

The only reason you don't get pile driven into the ground in every topic you inject yourself into is because you have the power to ban the people who would deliver said pile driver. You fucking drone on about corporate this and corporate that, while volunteering for a multimillion dollar corporation that doesn't give a single fuck about you. Think about that. You hypocritical fucking annoying ass bitch.

[HaughtyFrank]

CDPR also included a cisgender cosplayer as the Mix It Up girl among their cosplay contest finalists. Even if you buy the company line that the poster represents how queer bodies have been appropriated for marketing, their entire argument is negated when they have a cis person dress up in that queer body as part of their own video game marketing.

And the same idiots celebrate drag queens

[Boredfrom]

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I'm not ever gonna be the one to act surprised at how people are the way they are. I know why y'all act like this. So I'll be the one to tell y'all when you act out that you ain't shit and leave it at that.

... and ban you for:

• dismissive commentary not engaging with the source material
  
• inflammatory commentary in a sensitive thread
  
• dismissive commentary, prior bans for similar behavior
  
• dismissive commentary
  
• dismissive commentary
  
• dismissive commentary
  
• dismissive commentary
  
• thread whining and inflammatory commentary
  

The only reason you don't get pile driven into the ground in every topic you inject yourself into is because you have the power to ban the people who would deliver said pile driver. You fucking drone on about corporate this and corporate that, while volunteering for a multimillion dollar corporation that doesn't give a single fuck about you. Think about that. You hypocritical fucking annoying ass bitch.

I think, in Nepenthe’s mind, she earned that mod protection. Whenever is because she is friendly with others in discord, she made connections with the right people on old Gaf or she being miserable IRL, she considers her mod powers the minimum that is owed to her.