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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-deal-with-any-family-bullshit-this-thanksgiving.1048497/page-2#post-132295566

I had to deal with my wife asking what are my parents doing? where they're going? what time are we meeting? can her mom come along? We set everything up then, when Thanksgiving came along, her and her mom both bailed on me and, for whatever reason, didn't think I was going either.

It's not like she had plans to cook anything simple for us either, she only had enough leftovers for herself. I guess she just assumed I'd be eating peanut butter sandwiches for Thanksgiving?

Whatever.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-deal-with-any-family-bullshit-this-thanksgiving.1048497/page-3#post-132297810

I'm gonna be completely honest with all of you. I'm 45 years old and I live halfway across the country from my super Maga family. As I said in an earlier post, I have thankfully been removed from other families due to deaths.

It is incredibly great on the self-esteem, your mental anxiety, and everything else to cut people off. Being away from my family and not even in a confrontational way. Just being "too busy" or "working" is a valid excuse.

Don't do it for your kids. It would be better for your children because they can feel when there's anxiety and anger in the air. My kid is extremely happy, not having to see his cousins and aunts and uncles anymore.

Cut them off. It is not fucking worth it."My kids need to know their family" is not a great idea as much as it sounds romantic to you, your family will take advantage of that and try and poison not only your relationship with your family, but your kids relationship with the family.

Don't let your own emotions in romanticism and nostalgia for your past color the future going forward. We will never go back to the days of the family getting together and having a couple of arguments but then having jokes and playing cards and watching movies together like we did in the past. The world has changed, Donald Trump has made sure that your families are incredibly political and caustic, and toxic, and they are not the same people they were.

Cut them off.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-deal-with-any-family-bullshit-this-thanksgiving.1048497/page-3#post-132300105

Every election my mom is like "are you cutting me off yet?" and I always say the same thing, "should I?".

This election, since my son came out, she hasn't asked.

So I answered her by posting on Facebook where the last few family I keep around me are available: "kid's gay, this isn't a political discussion. I cut people off when I just a loudmouth white, straight ally and you said I shouldn't stand up for black people or gay people or native people because "it won't save the world and just make us hate you more" as my uncle said. Now I am involved. You people love walls and torches. So I'm building walls up against the people I can't cut off and I'm burning bridges where you have no value for me" and "if you're dying, text me. If I need to sign legal documents, text me. If someone died, text me. Otherwise, you're not getting pics of my kid or christmas cards or nostalgia texts and cute memes. That's done. Forever."

No one responds to me on Facebook anymore. Wonder why...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-deal-with-any-family-bullshit-this-thanksgiving.1048497/page-3#post-132301896

Also invited my stepson's friend and Mom. Friend is great but Mom is obnoxious. Wouldn't leave me alone until I tried this alcohol she brought over from her culture. I repeatedly said I don't drink but wouldn't stop until I tried it so I gave in to just appease her. Then she went about touched my stuff to prop up a phone to play some version of Pictionary on my television. I don't like when outside people touch anything of mine without asking. I just removed myself from the situation.

[Uncle]

I don't know if it's the universe's cruel prank on me with dating apps but I attract the "non binary" and trans women more than others. I have no earthly idea why.

These motherfuckers are getting all in a huff over Thanksgiving and I'm trying to figure out why these apps suck so hard nowadays.

well I notice your name is annoyedcanadian and 90% of the canadian populace is non binary or trans as per the last census so I feel like that might be your problem

[railGUN]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-regret-to-inform-you-the-cybertruck-is-now-the-third-best-selling-ev-in-the-us.1048752/



REE stays losing, they're so tired, just so tired. They can't even...

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nov-26-2024-harris-is-telling-her-advisers-and-allies-to-keep-her-political-options-open-exploring-2028-presidential-run-or-run-for-ca-govenor.1046037/page-5#post-132174969

User Banned (1 Month): Sexist Commentary

Oh, just give it a rest. People like you, but not enough to elect you. You wouldn't have been in that position if not for Joe Biden.

this is one of those bans thats dumb even for Era standards.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sorry-but-the-pssr-launch-is-a-disgrace.1047522/page-14#post-132308130

There are gaming PCs out there that I think offer a better value proposition this Black Friday/holiday than the PS5 Pro, let alone that + PS5 PS VR 2 capability. There seem to be some good deals out there for a $500-1000 gaming PC, which gives you the Steam library + all that cloud capability for streaming/Moonlight/Steam Link, etc, native DLSS/FSR, etc. I just don't understand what Sony is doing. PSSR doesn't work half the time and it's the main value proposition for the $700-800 (if you need disc drive) console that has all that power confined to the isolated PS5 ecosystem and library. And if you want to play PS VR2 on your PS5 Pro? That's on sale but it's another few hundred dollars and it's just too much of a barrier to such a sparse ecosystem (I mean the PS5 library being confined to this hardware) and features that aren't working as expected at launch. PSSR needed to be developed to a point that it "just works" like the features of Apple, Meta, etc. but an algorithm that is hit-or-miss and certain games would look better with your worse console? Just a mess, to go into a holiday season like this as a console manufacturer.

This thread can be summed up by this worthless post. This is a bad faith take and typical of the type of post an over-exaggerated thread title attracts. "PSSR doesn't work half the time" indeed. Shit thread, because there is a legitimate issue that is just lost in this mess.

I'm sorry but as a founding member of Era and a migrant from the old place, who puts thoughtful crafting into my posts whenever needed/possible although I am not perfect and don't know every gaming thing ever, I don't enjoy the notion that I'm acting in bad faith with a "worthless" post that had legitimate points and comparisons (which nobody seemed to address individually, so I don't really know what to say to such an insult), and as an end-user that has owned almost every system including many retro handhelds since gaming in 1994, everything *EXCEPT* a PS5 Pro including a gaming PC, precisely because it's the first time a console has really felt superfluous and not a good value proposition whatsoever to me even as a hardcore gamer.

I have not delved super deeply into every PSSR thread, but the headlines and casually perusing some of the articles and snippets, I've gotten the impression that PSSR is really hit-or-miss, which is just as I said, in terms of providing a superior image quality experience to the base PS5. Is that incorrect? Because plenty of threads have talked about it. It just doesn't seem competitive of a feature set in this holiday marketspace to me. 8K + PSSR + better specs that have not materialized into better games yet...I don't think the Pro will sell well in an economy where everybody voted Trump because of "economic anxiety" (amongst bigotry and other things but lets not go there) people are experiencing where there are MULTIPLE $100-1000 entertainment toy options this holiday and this is by far the biggest price tag to not-working-ideally features ratio I have seen in a long while, maybe since the Meta Quest Pro's $1,500 2022 launch (like...what the fuck)

If you're such high and mighty posters with impeccable post quality, why don't you explain to a dumb dumb like me how well PSSR works from your knowledge and experience, and why it and the Pro are worth a $700-800 upgrade (maybe half that price if you trade in a previous PS4)?

But also

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

HamasEra hiding in their Israel threads and dodging the Syria one. 

Where you at effingvic? Shouldn't you be talking up Hezbollah? 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Slept through Thanksgiving dinner...

How is there no leftovers?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Sleep all day, game all night, no Thanksgiving dinner in sight.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sorry-but-the-pssr-launch-is-a-disgrace.1047522/page-14#post-132308130

and as an end-user that has owned almost every system including many retro handhelds since gaming in 1994, everything *EXCEPT* a PS5 Pro including a gaming PC, precisely because it's the first time a console has really felt superfluous and not a good value proposition whatsoever to me even as a hardcore gamer.

Okay, but what's the value proposition for, say, an unemployed person with a million dollars worth of debts that's bringing down his entire family?

[Potato]

ComedySmasher

Speaking as someone who has the same body type as Chalamet, it can be absolutely brutal when you're trying to put on weight or muscle and your body just will not allow it no matter how much you eat or work out. I don't know if Tim has the same kind of body dysmorphia I've had my whole life but it's so unbelievably frustrating to deal with.

At the end of the day it looks like he lucked out and his pivot wound up leading him into getting parts that catapulted him into a way higher stratosphere in Hollywood than the leads of those sexy-boy YA action dramas, but it still must've been so frustrating to live through in the moment.

New lore for Comedy as well with the dysphoria?

Who was the one that called the gender smasher trans turn a while back? He's just laying the groundwork now.

Also, Tim? You're not on a first name basis friend smasher. Stop trying to act like you are part of the Hollywood scene.

[books]

Nep should move to Brazil if she hates America so much. Live in squalor in a favela and give up your earthly possessions.

She shits on castes yet wants them like every other leftist idiot.

They'd call her a poser. She's an upper middle class (maybe higher since her bro has a tesla? and she all the time in the world to shit post on the internet instead of working and has a budget to dress up like a dog as a hobby) selfish 'Murican that people can see through in an instant. She'd get beat up for the nerd she is.

Edit- nep deleting thanksgiving posters like they were injuns.

Sleep all day, game all night, no Thanksgiving dinner in sight.

Ima bet she blasts music from her room without turning it down while her folks knocked to let her know family is here and to say hi, but she was jerking off and/or putting together gundam.

[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-5#post-132256506

User banned (1 week): hostility toward other posters

Hostile? Literally how? Oh the fragility...

Calling nep's bullshit out is basically genocide

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-deal-with-any-family-bullshit-this-thanksgiving.1048497/page-2#post-132295566

I had to deal with my wife asking what are my parents doing? where they're going? what time are we meeting? can her mom come along? We set everything up then, when Thanksgiving came along, her and her mom both bailed on me and, for whatever reason, didn't think I was going either.

It's not like she had plans to cook anything simple for us either, she only had enough leftovers for herself. I guess she just assumed I'd be eating peanut butter sandwiches for Thanksgiving?

Whatever.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-deal-with-any-family-bullshit-this-thanksgiving.1048497/page-3#post-132297810

I'm gonna be completely honest with all of you. I'm 45 years old and I live halfway across the country from my super Maga family. As I said in an earlier post, I have thankfully been removed from other families due to deaths.

It is incredibly great on the self-esteem, your mental anxiety, and everything else to cut people off. Being away from my family and not even in a confrontational way. Just being "too busy" or "working" is a valid excuse.

Don't do it for your kids. It would be better for your children because they can feel when there's anxiety and anger in the air. My kid is extremely happy, not having to see his cousins and aunts and uncles anymore.

Cut them off. It is not fucking worth it."My kids need to know their family" is not a great idea as much as it sounds romantic to you, your family will take advantage of that and try and poison not only your relationship with your family, but your kids relationship with the family.

Don't let your own emotions in romanticism and nostalgia for your past color the future going forward. We will never go back to the days of the family getting together and having a couple of arguments but then having jokes and playing cards and watching movies together like we did in the past. The world has changed, Donald Trump has made sure that your families are incredibly political and caustic, and toxic, and they are not the same people they were.

Cut them off.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-deal-with-any-family-bullshit-this-thanksgiving.1048497/page-3#post-132300105

Every election my mom is like "are you cutting me off yet?" and I always say the same thing, "should I?".

This election, since my son came out, she hasn't asked.

So I answered her by posting on Facebook where the last few family I keep around me are available: "kid's gay, this isn't a political discussion. I cut people off when I just a loudmouth white, straight ally and you said I shouldn't stand up for black people or gay people or native people because "it won't save the world and just make us hate you more" as my uncle said. Now I am involved. You people love walls and torches. So I'm building walls up against the people I can't cut off and I'm burning bridges where you have no value for me" and "if you're dying, text me. If I need to sign legal documents, text me. If someone died, text me. Otherwise, you're not getting pics of my kid or christmas cards or nostalgia texts and cute memes. That's done. Forever."

No one responds to me on Facebook anymore. Wonder why...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-deal-with-any-family-bullshit-this-thanksgiving.1048497/page-3#post-132301896

Also invited my stepson's friend and Mom. Friend is great but Mom is obnoxious. Wouldn't leave me alone until I tried this alcohol she brought over from her culture. I repeatedly said I don't drink but wouldn't stop until I tried it so I gave in to just appease her. Then she went about touched my stuff to prop up a phone to play some version of Pictionary on my television. I don't like when outside people touch anything of mine without asking. I just removed myself from the situation.

First one is just depressing. Dude, that's a toxic relationship. Seek help. Stop being a bitch. 

Bengraven is just cope personified.

Last one is just autism. Extreme autism.

[books]

My kid is extremely happy, not having to see his cousins and aunts and uncles anymore.

Cut them off. It is not fucking worth it."My kids need to know their family" is not a great idea as much as it sounds romantic to you, your family will take advantage of that and try and poison not only your relationship with your family, but your kids relationship with the family.

Shit, I'd call CPS for the isolation. Dude sounds psycho. I love thanksgivingEra.

[Potato]

Sleep all day, game all night, no Thanksgiving dinner in sight.

Ima bet she blasts music from her room without turning it down while her folks knocked to let her know family is here and to say hi, but she was jerking off and/or putting together gundam.

It was absolutely a Resetera-inspired temper tantrum

[TylenolJones]

I ❤️KSweeley

I have the unfortunate duty to inform you that there are Cybertrucks in Baltimore City. I've seen at least two in Baltimore City and they both have Maryland license plates on them. I was near the Inner Harbor with my dad a few months back and I saw a Cybertruck and my dad saw it too and he asked "What is that?" and pointed at the Cybertruck. I said to him "Huh, I believe that's an Elon Musk Cybertruck, first time seeing one in Baltimore City."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-regret-to-inform-you-the-cybertruck-is-now-the-third-best-selling-ev-in-the-us.1048752/page-3#post-132309990

[books]

How is there no leftovers?

The underaged personality ate it all. That bitch!

[Uncle]

My kid is extremely happy, not having to see his cousins and aunts and uncles anymore.

Cut them off. It is not fucking worth it."My kids need to know their family" is not a great idea as much as it sounds romantic to you, your family will take advantage of that and try and poison not only your relationship with your family, but your kids relationship with the family.

Shit, I'd call CPS for the isolation. Dude sounds psycho. I love thanksgivingEra.

kid is probably only happy because his parents poisoned him against his cousins and aunts and uncles

"now honey, don't get too close to them or talk to them too much, they're trump supporters which makes them bad people, remember they are evil"

the kind of situation where in 20 years there's a post online from the kid talking about how he hasn't been speaking to his hateful parents and reunited with his uncle tearfully and they've been having a great time getting to know each other and deprogramming all the lies and dogma

[Nintex]

Squeeeeeeeze every last drop out of of those insolent, un-Western peasants.

"CHINA WILL PAY FOR THIS" - his voters right now probably before they realise that all their Temu and Shein crap becomes twice as expensive.

The local CCP response to Trumps threat of 100% tariffs for China, Russia and the rest of the BRICS if they issue a new currency.

[Propagandhim]

I believe that's an Elon Musk Cybertruck

[Boredfrom]

We don't want our heroes, crushes, nostalgia, happiness to bother us.

We don't want our moral responsibility to bother us.

We work 8 hours, then watch Fight Club and listen to Michael Jackson and eat at Chik Fil A, then go vote for the guy who's going to cut our taxes instead of the one who's going to protect the people who are struggling.

Our moral core was shattering before this election and it's been happening for years.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-brad-pitts-abusive-behavior-didnt-became-a-bigger-story.1048638/

Fucking bitch ass fake crocodile tears.

[DocWager]

Why? Because Jolie is crazy.

[HaughtyFrank]

I ❤️KSweeley

I have the unfortunate duty to inform you that there are Cybertrucks in Baltimore City. I've seen at least two in Baltimore City and they both have Maryland license plates on them. I was near the Inner Harbor with my dad a few months back and I saw a Cybertruck and my dad saw it too and he asked "What is that?" and pointed at the Cybertruck. I said to him "Huh, I believe that's an Elon Musk Cybertruck, first time seeing one in Baltimore City."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-regret-to-inform-you-the-cybertruck-is-now-the-third-best-selling-ev-in-the-us.1048752/page-3#post-132309990

Can you apply for license to diagnose autism over the internet? Because damn it must be easy

[railGUN]

I believe that's an Elon Musk Cybertruck

                             |/

[Daffy Duck]

We don't want our heroes, crushes, nostalgia, happiness to bother us.

We don't want our moral responsibility to bother us.

We work 8 hours, then watch Fight Club and listen to Michael Jackson and eat at Chik Fil A, then go vote for the guy who's going to cut our taxes instead of the one who's going to protect the people who are struggling.

Our moral core was shattering before this election and it's been happening for years.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-brad-pitts-abusive-behavior-didnt-became-a-bigger-story.1048638/

Fucking bitch ass fake crocodile tears.

What is it with these people and just constantly wanting to tear people down and live in a misery pit, they they are such doom goblins

[clockwork5]

They aren’t the same person. Calm down. 

KSwee is from Baltimore.

KoreanCrabCake is from Baltimore City. 

I rest my case.

[benita]

I ❤️KSweeley

I have the unfortunate duty to inform you that there are Cybertrucks in Baltimore City. I've seen at least two in Baltimore City and they both have Maryland license plates on them. I was near the Inner Harbor with my dad a few months back and I saw a Cybertruck and my dad saw it too and he asked "What is that?" and pointed at the Cybertruck. I said to him "Huh, I believe that's an Elon Musk Cybertruck, first time seeing one in Baltimore City."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-regret-to-inform-you-the-cybertruck-is-now-the-third-best-selling-ev-in-the-us.1048752/page-3#post-132309990

This may be a deep cut but what was the thread where a teacher said some shit to ksweeley and he relayed it as though he were being called mentally challenged in the queens English or some shit?

[Besticus Maximus]

Can’t believe some fat unfuckable nerd from America is Nepenethes best friend.

[clockwork5]

Seriously though, who calls it “Baltimore City?” It’s never been called that. No one has ever called it that.

Idk maybe it’s thing there now? But I live a short drive away in Philadelphia City so I feel like I would have heard it at some point.

[HaughtyFrank]

Who the fuck calls it "Elon Musks Cyber truck" 

Our boy Ksweeley, that's who