Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[JoeBoy101]

From the community thread:

All the sentiment I saw in the Sam Altman thread was along the lines of "mmhmm, anyway, what's for breakfast?" I didn't see a lick of "I can't wait for the sequel!"

Now, I could have easily missed the latter, and I'm not at all saying it wasn't there. But I'm getting the strong vibe the discourse in this thread is conflating the two sentiments at this point, which is easier to do given the thread(s) in question was straight up nuked. It might be worth clarifying where the lines were crossed in this case (not referring to specific posts, just clarifying where sentiment got out of hand): were there actually calls to attack Sam Altman's home and was that, specifically, the issue?

Also, on top of folks here seemingly conflating expressing indifference to something bad happening to Sam Altman and actually calling for political violence, I can't help but wonder if that banned member's call out, which was plausibly disingenuous, spooked some folks on staff? Aside from that member's annoying mission to get us to be more positive on AI, I recall him trying to not so low key put legal pressure on staff in the past (my post responding to him on that point: https://www.resetera.com/threads/co...discussion-2024.859116/page-44#post-137701074). Seeing a burst of thread nukes out of nowhere just makes one wonder what happened here, exactly.

Someone literally posted we should breed a army of Luigi.

lmao

Gets his entire post proven wrong in one quick line, “lmao”.

Mod alt? You decide!

[BIONIC]

Oh, my dude, you don’t know? 



Inb4 Bionic tries to claim I’m a furro bitch like him: is a fucking Sseth video. 

I never claimed that you were a furry, just asserted that you are a pedophile smelly Nazi bitch who has no friends and women actively avoid and run away from

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-deadline-disney-to-lay-off-up-to-1-000-employees-in-first-cuts-under-new-ceo-josh-d’amaro.1486099/#post-153564226

16 posts since last Wednesday

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-disney-adults.1485928/

11 pages of posts in under 48 hours, posted on the same day as the news of upcoming disney layoffs

Curious how the rabid anti-capitalist class at Resetera doesn’t seem to have much to say about their favorite megacorp laying off employees

[Boredfrom]

Oh, my dude, you don’t know? 



Inb4 Bionic tries to claim I’m a furro bitch like him: is a fucking Sseth video. 

I never claimed that you were a furry, just asserted that you are a pedophile smelly Nazi bitch who has no friends and women actively avoid and run away from

[Uncle]

which accusation is worse 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/edge-423-ontos-cover-story-and-reviews-of-crimson-desert-pok%C3%A9mon-pokopia-marathon-people-of-note-and-life-is-strange-reunion.1490401/page-2#post-153753775

User banned (two weeks): Inappropriate comparison

The millions of people playing it daily.

Millions of people also voted for Donald Trump. You are acting as if the majority is always right, or that critics need to echo the opinion of the majority, which would be very boring (and dangerous), and the exact opposite of what art is or what a writer's take on art should be.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/leaked-clips-from-the-avatar-aang-movie-up-entire-movie-leaked.1488952/page-4#post-153699199

 User banned (1 week): trolling

that's not how burden of proof works

The one that makes the claim bears the burdern of proof. You have to prove that it's AI.

I'm not trying to argue in a court of law or some shit lmao.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-best-way-to-play-light-gun-games-on-modern-displays.1484005/#post-153482980

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Ableist Slur

https://retroshooter.com/rs3-reaper/

Retro Shooter Reaper.

You will need to attach a few small ir sensors to your tv/ monitor, but they are pretty out of the way and it works very well. Compatible with damn near any front-end emulator. Batocera is an amazing one as you can load it onto a mini pc or even Pie and have it be a dedicated console-like emulator box and it has full Reaper support for any emulated light gun game. All the Time Crisis games across arcade or console including.

I prefer them to the Sinden as that is very finnicky with light given it uses cameras and a white screen border to track position( instead of ir sensors), but it can go blind very easily and spazzes out if lighting isn't perfect in the room(no natural light from windows for instance). Some will be annoyed by the white border too.

Plenty of videos on YouTube about the Reapers, it's a very popular set of light guns for good reason.

[davepoobond]

why would you get banned for Spetsnazing out

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-best-way-to-play-light-gun-games-on-modern-displays.1484005/#post-153482980

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Ableist Slur

https://retroshooter.com/rs3-reaper/

Retro Shooter Reaper.

You will need to attach a few small ir sensors to your tv/ monitor, but they are pretty out of the way and it works very well. Compatible with damn near any front-end emulator. Batocera is an amazing one as you can load it onto a mini pc or even Pie and have it be a dedicated console-like emulator box and it has full Reaper support for any emulated light gun game. All the Time Crisis games across arcade or console including.

I prefer them to the Sinden as that is very finnicky with light given it uses cameras and a white screen border to track position( instead of ir sensors), but it can go blind very easily and spazzes out if lighting isn't perfect in the room(no natural light from windows for instance). Some will be annoyed by the white border too.

Plenty of videos on YouTube about the Reapers, it's a very popular set of light guns for good reason.

I love posts like these because it's always an investigation, reading the post very carefully to find the spot where they said spaz or gypped

[BIONIC]

You get less (or no time!) for advocating murder

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-best-way-to-play-light-gun-games-on-modern-displays.1484005/#post-153482980

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Ableist Slur

https://retroshooter.com/rs3-reaper/

Retro Shooter Reaper.

You will need to attach a few small ir sensors to your tv/ monitor, but they are pretty out of the way and it works very well. Compatible with damn near any front-end emulator. Batocera is an amazing one as you can load it onto a mini pc or even Pie and have it be a dedicated console-like emulator box and it has full Reaper support for any emulated light gun game. All the Time Crisis games across arcade or console including.

I prefer them to the Sinden as that is very finnicky with light given it uses cameras and a white screen border to track position( instead of ir sensors), but it can go blind very easily and spazzes out if lighting isn't perfect in the room(no natural light from windows for instance). Some will be annoyed by the white border too.

Plenty of videos on YouTube about the Reapers, it's a very popular set of light guns for good reason.

"Guys, we don't have eyes everywhere. It's frankly unfair to ask us to notice that the "Sam Altman firebombed" thread is full of people asking to firebomb him, and anyone who claimed they reported the thread is lying"

*Guy said "spaz" 2 weeks ago in a completely obscure thread*

"NOT SO FAST YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!! THOUGHT YOU GOT AWAY, HUH?"

[Jansen]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-threw-a-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altman%E2%80%99s-home.1488097/page-4#post-153703321

Good. It's time to grow an army of Luigis.

Rune Walsh has not been banned.

[Jansen]

I love how sandwiched between all the madness one poor bastard is just worried about review threads

[Boredfrom]

My man, foolhardy, pretending he doesn’t go batshit for stupid shit or doesn’t partake in maximalist arguments.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-362#post-153501979

 User banned (1 month): advocating violence

I have a flight to Japan tomorrow, could you maybe chill out or #### the president

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-390#post-153598135

 User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing Concerns of Ongoing Genocide over a Series of Posts

Oh, please. Israel is literally doing what the nazis did to them, and everyone has to tiptoe around it because they're afraid of being called anti-semitic

don't think they literally do what the Nazis did to them. Were you ever at a real concentration or even extermination camp site?
What is happening in recent decades is not industrially optimized murder on a grand scale. It should not be compared to the actual Holocaust. It makes the evil of the Wannsee conference and all that followed look less and slowly but surely helps whitewash those insane crimes to normal levels. it normalizes it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-393#post-153623083

 User banned (2 weeks): conspiracy theories

On one hand America screwed up big time and never should've started this, on the other hand, is the world just going to be okay with letting a dictatorship who recently killed 10,000s of their own people in cold blood control the global economy unchecked?

You mean the uproars which were admittedly incited by the US and Israel as well?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-394#post-153624835

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissing Concerns of State Violence

On one hand America screwed up big time and never should've started this, on the other hand, is the world just going to be okay with letting a dictatorship who recently killed 10,000s of their own people in cold blood control the global economy unchecked?

This is all complicated but is every nation okay with Iran holding that much power over the entire world economy?

Can we please stop quoting the 10000s or even 60000 killed, when there is not a single reputable source that can verify that? Pro Pahlavi-zionist media outlets that cite "anonymous sources" are not reliable or serious. Do you think 50000 people can just be killed like that in a couple days without any proper evidence, footage of that? When Israel claims they have CCTV footage everywhere in Iran? Gaza is completely flattened, entire towns are destroyed, yet you think in 2 days the Iranian regime killed just as many protestors as Israel killed Palestinians in 2 years? Where is the footage? Where is the actual evidence other than anonymous source saying "50000 died, trust me"?

All reputable sources say it was around 5000 deaths. WHICH IS TERRIBLE, but repeating the zionist media numbers does nothing but promote Israel propaganda and talk down the actual 50000 deaths in Gaza. And I fucking hate that everyone on the left falls for this propaganda without even second guessing or questioning the numbers, especially on this site.

Mind you there is footage of protestors walking around with machine guns, talking with huge with satellite phones, burning mosques and you have Trump openly admitting to giving protestors guns and inciting violence and one has to be pretty damn naive or blind not to see through the US-Israeli operation that was happening.

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-390#post-153598135

 User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing Concerns of Ongoing Genocide over a Series of Posts

Oh, please. Israel is literally doing what the nazis did to them, and everyone has to tiptoe around it because they're afraid of being called anti-semitic

don't think they literally do what the Nazis did to them. Were you ever at a real concentration or even extermination camp site?
What is happening in recent decades is not industrially optimized murder on a grand scale. It should not be compared to the actual Holocaust. It makes the evil of the Wannsee conference and all that followed look less and slowly but surely helps whitewash those insane crimes to normal levels. it normalizes it.

How the fuck is that ban worthy?

B-Dubs: bans reasonable people pushing back on hyperbole and then wonders why his website is an extremist shithole calling for death all the time.

Edit: and a ban twice as long as zonibo's IslamicRepublican posting.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Maybe letting the forum make a hero out of Mangione and celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk sent the wrong message to the user base of Era.

[huffs]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-threw-a-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altman%E2%80%99s-home.1488097/page-4#post-153703321

Good. It's time to grow an army of Luigis.

Rune Walsh has not been banned.

Delurking to say that banned AI guy was sharing a screengrab of the nuked Altman thread in an RE adjacent server yesterday:

https://i.imgur.com/COrJme4.png

Lots for Nerokis to "lmao" about

RE general guide: "Advocating murder will always result in a permanent ban." 🤡

Nice checklist to see who does get banned, if any

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-threw-a-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altman%E2%80%99s-home.1488097/page-4#post-153703321

Rune Walsh has not been banned.

Delurking to say that banned AI guy was sharing a screengrab of the nuked Altman thread in an RE adjacent server yesterday:

https://i.imgur.com/COrJme4.png

Lots for Nerokis to "lmao" about

RE general guide: "Advocating murder will always result in a permanent ban." 🤡

Nice checklist to see who does get banned, if any

[NeppyNep]

The replies to this

Apologies if some of them aren't actually white guys... But you gotta know how this looks in this particular climate, or is this intentionally a MAGA thing?

Is this just from the same dude's linkedin? 
Zero variation to any of them.
Whiter than a loaf of wonder bread

The great part is that I guarantee that 99% of the people complaining are white too

Trying to figure out what specifically makes these guys Trump lovers besides “oh no white folx”

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-israels-favorability-among-american-men-under-age-50-has-cratered.1491187/#post-153779110

There's the rub: a not-insignificant proportion of these individuals will seamlessly shift from opposition to Israel's genocidal/expansionist policies to actual antisemitism.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://wearemoba.com/investor-information/single-press-release-eng/?slug=m-o-b-a-obtains-the-bondholders-approval-in-the-written-procedure-under-its-outstanding-bonds-and-gives-conditional-notice-of-a-partial-redemption-of-its-outstanding-bonds

M.O.B.A. obtains the bondholders’ approval in the written procedure under its outstanding bonds and gives conditional notice of a partial redemption of its outstanding bonds
14 apr. 2026 16:00:00
Regulatory

M.O.B.A. Network AB (“M.O.B.A.” or the “Company") announces that the written procedure initiated on 24 March 2026 (the “Written Procedure”) under the terms and conditions of its outstanding senior secured bond loan with ISIN SE0020050540 (the “Terms and Conditions” and the “Bonds”, respectively) has been successfully concluded.
M.O.B.A. initiated the Written Procedure in order to request the holders of the Bonds’ (the “Bondholders”) approval to, inter alia, extend the maturity date and to make certain amendments to the terms and conditions for the Bonds (as further described in the press release dated 17 March 2026 and the notice of the Written Procedure which are available on the Company’s website).

A sufficient number of votes were obtained to form a quorum and a requisite majority of the voting Bondholders voted in favour of approving the request set out in the Written Procedure. Accordingly, the agent, CSC (Sweden) AB, has today concluded the Written Procedure. The amendments of the Terms and Conditions will come into effect upon execution of the amended and restated Terms and Conditions and will be made available on the Company’s website.

In addition, pursuant to the notice of the Written Procedure, the Company shall apply the proceeds, net of transaction costs, from the disposal of Magic Find, Inc., completed on 6 March 2026, towards, inter alia, an early partial redemption of the Bonds. The Company therefore hereby gives conditional notice that it intends to redeem Bonds in a nominal amount of EUR 9,000,000 (the “Initial Partial Redemption”). The Initial Partial Redemption is conditional upon the fulfilment of all conditions precedent for the Effective Date, as set out and defined in Section 4 (Effective Date) of the notice of the Written Procedure (the “Conditions”). If the Conditions are satisfied, the Initial Partial Redemption will become irrevocable and Bonds in a nominal amount of EUR 9,000,000 will be redeemed at a price equal to 100 per cent. of the nominal amount by way of reducing the outstanding nominal amount of each Bond pro rata. No accrued but unpaid interest will be paid in respect of the nominal amount redeemed pursuant to the Initial Partial Redemption.


Subject to the Conditions, the Initial Partial Redemption will be carried out on 28 April 2026 to Bondholders who are registered as a bondholder in the debt ledger maintained by Euroclear Sweden as of the record date, 21 April 2026.

For questions for the Agent regarding the administration of the Written Procedure, please contact the Agent at se.trustee@cscglobal.com or +46 70 833 52 90.