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

[JoeBoy101]

im just tired                tired of walking on eggshells, tired of my sexuality being judged, of my life experiences being truncated and unrespected

Cum

Edit: Dammit Frank!

[benji]

The community now attracts neo-puritan woke scolds who clutch pearls over the violence in a fucking Wolverine game. 

I didn't know so many people around here were pearl clutchers about video game violence. That conservative societal shift hitting everyone, huh?

Feels like I'm back in the 90s.

There are many valid reasons why people dislike violence that isn't them being like a conservative.

In fact, the assertation that they are lacks empathy that's ironically more similar to actual conservatives.

And I say this as someone who loves ultra violence like this.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The guy who threw a tantrum because people were allowed to discuss Kingdom come deliverance suddenly all bitchy about how there's no fun allowed on Resetera 

"Resetera sure does suck", say the people that made it suck.

Amazing how they always love ruining people's fun and getting people banned until it happens to them.
Curious.

morganfreemanhesright

[Daffy Duck]

keep adding to it, one day it will be a masterpiece.

Maybe one day EchoesofWLW will have it as an avatar, maybe sprinkle a queen wasp in it?

[benji]

Anyone unhappy about Era is just mad they got banned for being a bigot troll.

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/billie-eilish-eating-meat-is-inherently-wrong-you-can-eat-meat-go-for-it-you-can-love-animals-but-you-cant-do-both.1510063/page-18#post-154592182

It's that way with anything on Era. Any topic implying people should change their behavior is met with extreme hostility lol.

Many posters here pride themselves on their social and cultural values, such as pointing out the inherent problems with capitalism or the inexcusable behavior of racists and transphobia.

Pointing out the absolute brutality and unimaginable suffering they choose to inflict on trillions of animals every year is a challenge to that pride that will not go unchallenged, the big problem is they know they can't logically defend their meat addiction so they come in with ad hominem, appeal to nature fallacies, straw man, and right wing talking points.

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/billie-eilish-eating-meat-is-inherently-wrong-you-can-eat-meat-go-for-it-you-can-love-animals-but-you-cant-do-both.1510063/page-18#post-154592182

It's that way with anything on Era. Any topic implying people should change their behavior is met with extreme hostility lol.

Many posters here pride themselves on their social and cultural values, such as pointing out the inherent problems with capitalism or the inexcusable behavior of racists and transphobia.

Pointing out the absolute brutality and unimaginable suffering they choose to inflict on trillions of animals every year is a challenge to that pride that will not go unchallenged, the big problem is they know they can't logically defend their meat addiction so they come in with ad hominem, appeal to nature fallacies, straw man, and right wing talking points.

But let's call a spade a spade.

Yikes! ERA not beating those racism allegations.

You also aren't following those same rules in all aspects of your life as well so why even make such a big deal about this one? Are you willing to cut off internet to save the millions of people who have Data centers in their backyards contaminating their water and ground supply not only poisoning that resource but also the food that grow in those area's as well?

Sure this is a topic YOU care about a lot, but I'm sure you don't care about others in the same vain, so what is even the point of this?

  Whataboutism?

Or more to the point..

[Snoopy]

Don’t care about meat eaters. I do care about people who put pineapple on their pizzas. Uncivilised beasts.

[benji]

Meat eating is pretty Zionist-coded imo.

[filler]

only faggots eat meat 

[Ethan]

10$ he didn't press Submit after screenshotting that and will be back in 3 months.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-still-listen-to-michael-jackson%E2%80%99s-music.1510993 

Annie are you okay

[Jansen]

To be honest, both sides of this have a point. Giuliani is, and has generally always been, an asshole. I'm not going to sit here and ban people for being sad he's on death's door, I'm not going to ask the mods to ban people for not being sad he's fucked, he's a horrible person and has done a lot to hurt a lot of vulnerable people over the years. That said, some users definitely carry the energy and behavior from those threads, where it is totally justified, into pretty much every single topic on the forum and treat their fellow users like absolute garbage for even the most minor of disagreements. These days, it feels like most bans get handed out for people being schmucks to each other over literally nothing.



The most recent example is those stupid-ass CCU threads. There's been a tag that can be turned off for months, we made a subforum that you can turn off with the click of a button, there's literally an ignore threads feature, and yet people charge in and shit on people. We give more options to ignore stuff you don't like or don't want to see than anywhere else and yet, look at how many infractions get piled up in these nothing threads.



My mom used to say this when I would get frustrated with something, "Is it actually affecting you in any way? Is it actually hurting someone?" The idea being, if nobody is being harmed, why am I letting this bother me? Why am I giving it space? Why am I giving it control over me by being frustrated or angry? If someone is being hurt, if someone is being a bigot or a bully or something like that, then frustration is totally justified so long as it's turned into action. If someone says something racist, speak up; if someone is being a bully, step in and help; if someone is being hurt, then you should do something about it; but if none of that is true then why waste your time getting angry or frustrated?



I think a lot of us can take that to heart more, I know I've been trying to, even if I do fail sometimes. There's times when we should get angry or take action, but there's also times when we should feel the emotion, take a breath, ask if it's productive, and then let it moment pass if it isn't. My point is, who cares if people are shitting on Giuliani? But also that we don't need to go into every single thread at 11 and that we can, and maybe should, ignore stuff that makes us angry or frustrated for no good reason. It's not like we don't have the tools to do so? We give everyone more options for that than pretty much anywhere else online, use them.

No wonder he dropped the hammer on fat4all he mad af

[Bootsthecat]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-still-listen-to-michael-jackson%E2%80%99s-music.1510993 

Annie are you okay

Gotta love it,  jk dropping a relative pittance considering her wealth, for a bio women shelter was clearly worth throwing away all her works they all love, but listening to a baby raper or watevers songs is ok as long as they didn't buy the songs?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-still-listen-to-michael-jackson%E2%80%99s-music.1510993 

Annie are you okay

Gotta love it,  jk dropping a relative pittance considering her wealth, for a bio women shelter was clearly worth throwing away all her works they all love, but listening to a baby raper or watevers songs is ok as long as they didn't buy the songs?

filler is a singer??

[Boredfrom]

To be honest, both sides of this have a point. Giuliani is, and has generally always been, an asshole. I'm not going to sit here and ban people for being sad he's on death's door, I'm not going to ask the mods to ban people for not being sad he's fucked, he's a horrible person and has done a lot to hurt a lot of vulnerable people over the years. That said, some users definitely carry the energy and behavior from those threads, where it is totally justified, into pretty much every single topic on the forum and treat their fellow users like absolute garbage for even the most minor of disagreements. These days, it feels like most bans get handed out for people being schmucks to each other over literally nothing.



The most recent example is those stupid-ass CCU threads. There's been a tag that can be turned off for months, we made a subforum that you can turn off with the click of a button, there's literally an ignore threads feature, and yet people charge in and shit on people. We give more options to ignore stuff you don't like or don't want to see than anywhere else and yet, look at how many infractions get piled up in these nothing threads.



My mom used to say this when I would get frustrated with something, "Is it actually affecting you in any way? Is it actually hurting someone?" The idea being, if nobody is being harmed, why am I letting this bother me? Why am I giving it space? Why am I giving it control over me by being frustrated or angry? If someone is being hurt, if someone is being a bigot or a bully or something like that, then frustration is totally justified so long as it's turned into action. If someone says something racist, speak up; if someone is being a bully, step in and help; if someone is being hurt, then you should do something about it; but if none of that is true then why waste your time getting angry or frustrated?



I think a lot of us can take that to heart more, I know I've been trying to, even if I do fail sometimes. There's times when we should get angry or take action, but there's also times when we should feel the emotion, take a breath, ask if it's productive, and then let it moment pass if it isn't. My point is, who cares if people are shitting on Giuliani? But also that we don't need to go into every single thread at 11 and that we can, and maybe should, ignore stuff that makes us angry or frustrated for no good reason. It's not like we don't have the tools to do so? We give everyone more options for that than pretty much anywhere else online, use them.

No wonder he dropped the hammer on fat4all he mad af

I feel BDubs took the wrong message from his mother. I wonder if he has legit rage issues and is the reason why he overcompensates when he get called out.

[Uncle]

In college I knew an Earthy girl who strongly believed you needed to personally kill an animal if you were going to eat meat. Like she would eat vegan most of the time, then sometimes go on a killing spree to eat a hamburger. She also talked about making kombucha a lot.

can you do a carbon offsets type thing where you kill one cow but don't eat it's meat specifically, you just sort of obtain cosmic permission for one cow's worth of meat

[Jansen]

The rest of constructive is basically nothing but people bickering about the Giuliani thread and the what you're having for lunch posts in it 😂

[jooseloose]

This is especially funny because of all the times on Bluesky they were openly saying they wouldn't leave Era until B-Dubs permabanned him

Could have gone out on a high with a post that would get them permabanned but instead they cried like a little bitch and want their account deleted.

[simiansmarts]

Despite being an empathetic woman (as demonstrated by half their pictures on Bluesky being them giving the camera the finger, a very feminine pose because they're just not like other girls) Suswave didn't even read the post correctly before determining that lexony must have the same problem he did. Lexony isn't "disassociated from" himself or feeling hollow, he's hyper aware of himself. He isn't putting on a persona, he's afraid himself is too much for others. It's almost the inverse problem. But in any case, that's something HRT obviously will fix. It's literally fucking magic. And that's just science.

*Know how we know they're lying in these stories? We ask them what SSRI's and similar they're also on.

edit: Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

The "HRT will fix all your problems" thing feels deeply rooted in their own limited and misogynistic view of women.

[Snoopy]

But then Cunty Cal and The High Femme appear 

Not that we need to cater to them, but this kind of stuff is definitely not acceptable anywhere else and would be considered insanely toxic.

I see this stuff all over Bluesky

.

Should see how Rowling is spoken about in trans circles and by parents of trans children.

[simiansmarts]

To be honest, both sides of this have a point. Giuliani is, and has generally always been, an asshole. I'm not going to sit here and ban people for being sad he's on death's door, I'm not going to ask the mods to ban people for not being sad he's fucked, he's a horrible person and has done a lot to hurt a lot of vulnerable people over the years. That said, some users definitely carry the energy and behavior from those threads, where it is totally justified, into pretty much every single topic on the forum and treat their fellow users like absolute garbage for even the most minor of disagreements. These days, it feels like most bans get handed out for people being schmucks to each other over literally nothing.



The most recent example is those stupid-ass CCU threads. There's been a tag that can be turned off for months, we made a subforum that you can turn off with the click of a button, there's literally an ignore threads feature, and yet people charge in and shit on people. We give more options to ignore stuff you don't like or don't want to see than anywhere else and yet, look at how many infractions get piled up in these nothing threads.



My mom used to say this when I would get frustrated with something, "Is it actually affecting you in any way? Is it actually hurting someone?" The idea being, if nobody is being harmed, why am I letting this bother me? Why am I giving it space? Why am I giving it control over me by being frustrated or angry? If someone is being hurt, if someone is being a bigot or a bully or something like that, then frustration is totally justified so long as it's turned into action. If someone says something racist, speak up; if someone is being a bully, step in and help; if someone is being hurt, then you should do something about it; but if none of that is true then why waste your time getting angry or frustrated?



I think a lot of us can take that to heart more, I know I've been trying to, even if I do fail sometimes. There's times when we should get angry or take action, but there's also times when we should feel the emotion, take a breath, ask if it's productive, and then let it moment pass if it isn't. My point is, who cares if people are shitting on Giuliani? But also that we don't need to go into every single thread at 11 and that we can, and maybe should, ignore stuff that makes us angry or frustrated for no good reason. It's not like we don't have the tools to do so? We give everyone more options for that than pretty much anywhere else online, use them.

No wonder he dropped the hammer on fat4all he mad af

If a normal user posted this they would quickly get banned for "downplaying transphobia/genocide" 
 
Telling a forum that has active chudwatch threads to cool it with their anger and venom is a fool's errand.

[TylenolJones]

we can do with less canned peaches



same

but also i think ResetEra is not up to date on canned food companies like we are on Marriott hotels

careful they might ban you for 3 months for talking about Big Marriott

https://www.resetera.com/threads/california-farmers-to-destroy-420-000-peach-trees-following-del-monte-bankruptcy.1511179/#post-154603624

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-here-got-into-their-peak-fitness-level-in-their-30%E2%80%99s.1511038/ 

We see a lot of posts online how our bodies begin to fall apart as soon as we finish the third decade of our life, which honestly has weighed down on me. I'm 33 now, and I'm not in terrible shape or anything, but I'm trying to get really into a consistent workout routine to get into the best shape of my life. I've been chronically ill since 17, and at least half of my 20's were a total wash as far as actually enjoying life was concerned. Combined with lifelong battles with anxiety and depression, and my second suicide attempt last fall, and needless to say I'm beyond ready to feel good about myself and my life finally.

But online discourse would have me believe my shot at life is already over, that I missed it, and that my best days/peak is behind, and I should just start making plans for my funeral or whatever.

But this thread is to say fuck that, it's never too late to start living life and being happy and healthy. Feel free to share your personal journey of not getting into the greatest shape of your life until after you hit the big 3-0. Or hell, anytime after that too. I've seen people get shredded in their 40's and 50's too.

Feel free to brag as much as you want about your success, this is a feel-good thread to be proud about yourself. And if you're like me who is getting into their journey of peak personal fitness, we can get the inspiration we need that it's never too late!!

 
 
why are they always like this

[Lonewulfeus]

Our very own davepoobond has no problem making ableist posts on resetera but not on thebire cause he knows we dont tolerate ableism here

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-maga-came-up-to-me-in-wal-mart-and-started-venting-out-a-bunch-of-racist-shit-for-10-minutes.1511287/

This happened yesterday, and I was in the frozen veggie aisle. This random older guy walked up to me, and immediately started off with (paraphrasing) "Those Somalis are taking all of our money! And them fucking Mexicans!" He then went off with all of that, and I just kept nodding and saying yep. He even at one point in this rant said something like "Idk if I sound like a jerk, but something has to be done." He surprisingly didn't get into transphobia, but I tried getting out of that ASAP ofcourse. He saw me as a white person, and therefore 'safe' to go off to. These people are just so fucking brain rotted deranged. Not something as common in this part of Illinois, but shows they are still everywhere.



edit-also he sourced BBC for all of this and said they were exposing the "real truth".

Clickycarl y u lyin

[HaughtyFrank]

You didn't instantly tell him "fuck off and die you old racist shit!"?

Seems like the perfect opportunity to do that

I'm trans, so absolutely the fuck not am doing that with some crazy fuck that could have a gun or weapon.

[Let's Cyber]

Why am I giving it control over me by being frustrated or angry? If someone is being hurt, if someone is being a bigot or a bully or something like that, then frustration is totally justified so long as it's turned into action. If someone says something racist, speak up; if someone is being a bully, step in and help; if someone is being hurt, then you should do something about it; but if none of that is true then why waste your time getting angry or frustrated?

bdubs is confusing his forum for real life and he also doesn't take his own advice. Same thing with bluesky or twitter. Online shitposters are legion and you're not a martyr for doing battle in those endless digital trenches. In real world situations, yes, we have a moral obligation (IMO) to defend the weak and powerless. And also engage with our local communities in a positive way. 

Endless screaming into the void and fostering an online community that distribute brownie points for who ever can be the most offended and scream the angriest isn't productive. You've help create this monster and you're not defeating chuds and racists by purity testing your like 90% leftie forum into oblivion. You're only insolating an already out of touch group of people from uncomfortable feelings and replacing growth for endless righteous indignation that goes nowhere. 

Of course, a good chunk of the heavy users in this hugbox are there precisely because they can't or won't do scary things like VOTE or LEAVE THEIR HOUSE or TALK TO STRANGERS IRL. God forbid you run into someone with different ideas than you! If you do run into someone toxic, just don't let them waste your time and move on. And as someone who's deal with mental health issues and social anxiety, seeing these mewling fucking cows reinforce each other's issues and helplessness is just sad and frustrating. 



TL;DR: Go outside.

[malfoyking]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-maga-came-up-to-me-in-wal-mart-and-started-venting-out-a-bunch-of-racist-shit-for-10-minutes.1511287/

This happened yesterday, and I was in the frozen veggie aisle. This random older guy walked up to me, and immediately started off with (paraphrasing) "Those Somalis are taking all of our money! And them fucking Mexicans!" He then went off with all of that, and I just kept nodding and saying yep. He even at one point in this rant said something like "Idk if I sound like a jerk, but something has to be done." He surprisingly didn't get into transphobia, but I tried getting out of that ASAP ofcourse. He saw me as a white person, and therefore 'safe' to go off to. These people are just so fucking brain rotted deranged. Not something as common in this part of Illinois, but shows they are still everywhere.



edit-also he sourced BBC for all of this and said they were exposing the "real truth".

Clickycarl y u lyin

Yeah im sure that hapenned bud.

[TylenolJones]

Okay bdumbs has another great idea to bring the site back after the Pokémon tournaments did nothing. 

So, I'm a bit curious of what people think of a "user reviews" thread for new games. Ideally, it would be community run, people could write their own impressions up and then, maybe use the vote tool, to assign a score, that way every score given has some words to go along with it. At the end, we'd have a "Resetera Score" for the games with actual critique to go along with it. We can even set a minimum if people wanted. Do we think people might be interested or find that useful? I'm asking here because this is generally where stuff surrounding new games gets organized.

So, like I said, ideally this would be user run. You guys would come up with the rules and grading scale and whatnot. So if you all think that the thread should just be users posting reviews, that is totally fine. My only suggestion would be setting up the vote tool, have it run for like two weeks, and having users use that to assign a score at the end of their review. That way it's automated and nobody has to sit around doing math. But if that isn't what people like, totally cool. Could also have a yearly thread that the results get posted into, so when goty come along, or someone is looking for something to play, there's a repository.

I know it's my idea, but if nobody likes it or wants to do it, that is totally fine. It's just that, if I do it then it's an official thing and there's a lot of baggage that comes along with it. Tbh, I do think it's important that it's not just me or people on staff organizing this stuff.

What does this general manager do?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-ot-ot-index-volunteer-coordinate-collaborate-read-op.1100/page-107#post-154595737