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

[Vertigo]

Too many crazies to quote. What I love is people like BNWO Superfan Clicky whining about being mispresented, It must be a different person who'd get threads they didn't like brigaded and locked.  

that thread really does lay certain things bare... the fact that it's the same guy derailing the thread with baseless claims, exhibiting total silence when asked to explain his claims (besides some ad hominem bullshit), and then locking the thread a few hours later when nothing has really changed other than countless users co-signing the need for explanation. it's pretty embarrassing stuff

Lol say his name coward

Leftists actually believe and fight for something.

The fact that people are openly allowed to still call Hasan a dog abuser...

Sorry, Hasan has questionable takes on Ukraine so we're gonna have to stick with the 80 year old walking skeleton establishment democrats that are slaves to Israel and Genocide



I don't make the rules

It is way better than it was a few years ago but I don't think most of ERA aligns with him. This place is filled with back to brunch liberals who think the Dems are doing a great job. It's baffling.

This is the open secret of this forum. I have been here effectively day 1 but seen far too many mass exodus of underserved minority groups. The moderation always choose preserving the feelings of the privileged faux-progressives. I would say the resounding politics of this forum is KHive-lite.

Era has always been far more conservative than they think.



Hell, I remember the general consensus in threads about tattoos at work was the typical right wing "it's unprofessional to have them on display and would make me think less of you if I saw them".



It's centrist city here and any suggestion that they aren't as left as they think they are is met with anger and accusations of you actually being a right wing provocateur.

The more you pay attention, the more examples you see of just how non left wing and privileged the average user here is, ESPECIALLY American users.

And at the same time, I've been banned for "transphobia" for saying "dude".



I'm non-binary.







But yeah, it's not like this is the first time I've noticed contradictory political stances on this forum.



I guess I'll just refrain from involving myself here to protect my own mental sanity.

It suuuure is weird how blatant Islamophobia, derailing, and trolling never get punished in those threads. Or that they always get locked. I'm sure it's totally a coincidence.

The thread getting derailed by a yet another troll who appears out of nowhere days later and then the thread getting locked is hilarious

Era has been shitty performative liberals for a long time now, the mass exodus of non binary posters and how badly they were treated years ago, transgender posters were speaking up, and alot of left as well, ect.



The place is fine for game talk, but there's a reason I blocked all political threads last year and have been way better off for it. Socialist and progressive ideology and discussion is frankly fucking exhausting when the majority of posters are American, especially posters who are financially probably doing better than most.

[benji]

Threads like that make me wonder how many posters work with the government. If the news starts firing up Hasan Ukraine takes, take notice lol.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/post-158703562

I've got some bad news if you want a electorally viable Democratic Party without people who work with/for the government.

[HaughtyFrank]

Does Clicky know that Hasan defended Cyberpunk?



Btw. His voice used to be so high pitched lol

[benji]

the mass exodus of non binary posters and how badly they were treated years ago

 This isn't a thing that happened.

[Greatness Gone]

PlaSma directed a play?! This fucker had an autistic multi day crash out because he couldn’t complete the first major dungeon in Baldur’s Gate 3 how on earth could he ever manage actual human beings?

Absolute BULLSHIT

[clockwork5]

I don't know what has worse discourse on here: Hasan threads, threads about Steam as a platform, Marathon CCUs, or a topic about vtubers outside of the OT.

OMG all my favorite topics!!!

[Potato]

[/b]

Translation: Why living with my dogs is like living with a homicidal abusive spouse

OR

Everyone needs to teach their infant children the proper way to approach dogs (via parachute drop, coming in from the 10 o’clock angle at a speed slower than a casual jog) so that I can bring my killing machines into public spaces without guilt

Teaching kids how to behave around dogs is actually sensible. 

Expecting every random little kids to know how to differentiate when an ear twitch means "pet me" vs "Initiate IDF training" is not sensible.

If your dog can't handle happy little kids being excited to see him, then stop bringing him to Chuck E. Cheese. It's no different than bringing a trembling, pissing teacup poodle to a 4th of July celebration and musing smugly that the event planners don't understand how this cacophony affects your pet.

Don't disagree on any of those points. It still stands that it's a good idea to teach kids how to behave around dogs.

[Let's Cyber]

Says a lot when some of the most prominent posters on the forum run off to the Hasan thread to cry about how shitty ResetEra.com is. Like, you dumbasses realize YOU ARE Era, right? Your posts are doing the enshittenifying. 

The cringe is coming from inside the house. 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ariana-grande-is-%E2%80%98taking-a-step-back-from-visibility%E2%80%99-after-tour-due-to-public-scrutiny-intensifies.1593613/page-3#post-158705416

 User Banned (1 Week): Concern Trolling; Account in Junior Phase

When someone is obese and clearly unhealthy, it's bad to mention that. You probably wouldn't tell a random fat person they should eat less.
Imagine seeing a picture of a fat singer or actor and commenting "they need therapy". Everyone would call you out for it...

Sure, Ariana Grande is too thin and that's not healthy. But is that really worse than being obese?
What happened to "body-positivity"?

Imagine arguing that starving yourself to death is no worse than being a fatty...

[HaughtyFrank]

It's actually the other way round. History has repeatedly shown that progressives are willing to compromise to a far greater extent than radical centrists and right wingers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gop-secretly-admits-socialists-will-be-harder-to-defeat-than-moderate-democrats.1595101/post-158767498

They're unironically saying "radical centrist"

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ariana-grande-is-%E2%80%98taking-a-step-back-from-visibility%E2%80%99-after-tour-due-to-public-scrutiny-intensifies.1593613/page-3#post-158705416

 User Banned (1 Week): Concern Trolling; Account in Junior Phase

When someone is obese and clearly unhealthy, it's bad to mention that. You probably wouldn't tell a random fat person they should eat less.
Imagine seeing a picture of a fat singer or actor and commenting "they need therapy". Everyone would call you out for it...

Sure, Ariana Grande is too thin and that's not healthy. But is that really worse than being obese?
What happened to "body-positivity"?

Imagine arguing that starving yourself to death is no worse than being a fatty...

Also the thing is if Keanu Reeves showed up to his next movie with a body weight that would also let him star in "My 600 lb. Life" people would instantly be concerned about his health. Ariane Grande isn't just thin, she's at the extreme end of the spectrum.

[benji]

PlaSma directed a play?! This fucker had an autistic multi day crash out because he couldn’t complete the first major dungeon in Baldur’s Gate 3 how on earth could he ever manage actual human beings?

Absolute BULLSHIT

He's had an extensive amount of schooling in theater and it was probably in that, he legitimately did go to "comedy school" aka attended a Second City branch as anyone can do. Typically you would produce/direct a play through these. He also seems to have tried to make it in actual theater but mostly as a hanger on from what I could tell. I could find a listing for him in a play many many years ago but it also was close to when he would have been in college so may have been why he was in it. He also did a one-act one-person play as part of his time in college.

[benji]

It's actually the other way round. History has repeatedly shown that progressives are willing to compromise to a far greater extent than radical centrists and right wingers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gop-secretly-admits-socialists-will-be-harder-to-defeat-than-moderate-democrats.1595101/post-158767498

Oh, so they weren't really progressives.

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I always wonder what examples they're thinking of. And how many of them would get attacked by others like Nepenthe.

[benji]

There's a lot of dumb shit in that thread, but especially the entire framing of it from Messofanego. (By way of some shitty YouTuber of course.) It's not the GOP admitting anything, it's campaign consultants hired by one Republican candidate saying there would be increased turnout in a single media market, Milwaukee, because that's the base of her campaign. They're not talking about "socialists", especially everywhere in the country, they're talking about this one specific candidate in Wisconsin versus the other Democratic candidates in Wisconsin.

Moderate dems aren't moderate, because they think that's what you want. They're moderate, because that's what they want.

Then shouldn't they have lost every primary ever?  

Oh, they know. They've known for awhile.

They've known since 2016 when they submarined Sanders.

Oh, so that's why they win anyway.

The idea that independents, swing voters, and such are centrists or moderates has never really held up to scrutiny. Sure some people are there because they're genuinely in the middle, but most are vibes based and lack any guiding ideology. The stronger an actual political stance you have, the more likely you are to heavily favor one party or the other because even if you're moderate one side will land closer to you.

That's how "moderate" and "centrist" is defined. You're under the illusion that "left" and "right" are objective things guided by ideology and perfectly represented by the parties rather than entirely relative and vibes based.

Candidates who are real people with popular positions who bring enthusiastic voters into the process instead of nominating Holden Bloodfeast Jr. (he's less of a war criminal than his Republican father, we swear!) and hoping he'll get people out to vote for him because he's 1% less awful than his opponent, The Literal Reincarnation of Adolf Hitler?

Could never work. Would never work. Certainly hasn't been working lately. Don't try, just succumb to the imperialist shitlibs. And if Holden Bloodfeast Jr. doesn't actually work out, well, you know, it would have worked if it weren't for those goddamned leftists.

Ironically, this was the argument Hitler made.

Also, this is the woman who called the police on anti-genocide protesters. Yet Era is stanning for her. Sounds about white. That's how you know Era isn't remotely progressive. Exactly why the non-binary community fled.

[benji]

 CLOWN ALERT

PlaSma directed a play?! This fucker had an autistic multi day crash out because he couldn’t complete the first major dungeon in Baldur’s Gate 3 how on earth could he ever manage actual human beings?

Absolute BULLSHIT

He's had an extensive amount of schooling in theater and it was probably in that, he legitimately did go to "comedy school" aka attended a Second City branch as anyone can do. Typically you would produce/direct a play through these. He also seems to have tried to make it in actual theater but mostly as a hanger on from what I could tell. I could find a listing for him in a play many many years ago but it also was close to when he would have been in college so may have been why he was in it. He also did a one-act one-person play as part of his time in college.

It's actually the other way round. History has repeatedly shown that progressives are willing to compromise to a far greater extent than radical centrists and right wingers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gop-secretly-admits-socialists-will-be-harder-to-defeat-than-moderate-democrats.1595101/post-158767498

Oh, so they weren't really progressives.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I always wonder what examples they're thinking of. And how many of them would get attacked by others like Nepenthe.

There's a lot of dumb shit in that thread, but especially the entire framing of it from Messofanego. (By way of some shitty YouTuber of course.) It's not the GOP admitting anything, it's campaign consultants hired by one Republican candidate saying there would be increased turnout in a single media market, Milwaukee, because that's the base of her campaign. They're not talking about "socialists", especially everywhere in the country, they're talking about this one specific candidate in Wisconsin versus the other Democratic candidates in Wisconsin.

Moderate dems aren't moderate, because they think that's what you want. They're moderate, because that's what they want.

Then shouldn't they have lost every primary ever?  

Oh, they know. They've known for awhile.

They've known since 2016 when they submarined Sanders.

Oh, so that's why they win anyway.

The idea that independents, swing voters, and such are centrists or moderates has never really held up to scrutiny. Sure some people are there because they're genuinely in the middle, but most are vibes based and lack any guiding ideology. The stronger an actual political stance you have, the more likely you are to heavily favor one party or the other because even if you're moderate one side will land closer to you.

That's how "moderate" and "centrist" is defined. You're under the illusion that "left" and "right" are objective things guided by ideology and perfectly represented by the parties rather than entirely relative and vibes based.

Candidates who are real people with popular positions who bring enthusiastic voters into the process instead of nominating Holden Bloodfeast Jr. (he's less of a war criminal than his Republican father, we swear!) and hoping he'll get people out to vote for him because he's 1% less awful than his opponent, The Literal Reincarnation of Adolf Hitler?

Could never work. Would never work. Certainly hasn't been working lately. Don't try, just succumb to the imperialist shitlibs. And if Holden Bloodfeast Jr. doesn't actually work out, well, you know, it would have worked if it weren't for those goddamned leftists.

Ironically, this was the argument Hitler made.

Also, this is the woman who called the police on anti-genocide protesters. Yet Era is stanning for her. Sounds about white. That's how you know Era isn't remotely progressive. Exactly why the non-binary community fled.

[HaughtyFrank]

This forum is mostly white liberals and all that entails

Most of this forum are white affluent liberals, so it's not that out of left field when socialism is truly gaining ground that all of a sudden everyone gets real conservative.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/post-158700526


They have no clue who the main demographic for all these DSA candidates is

Mamdani did best with college educated whites

[benji]

That's always who has supported "socialism" in America.

They can't even remember 2020 when Biden beat Bernie and what the demographics for the two were. Or 2016 when Hillary beat Bernie.

edit: Add Bernie+Warren and then add everyone else to Biden to see how the party split the same in 2020 as 2016:



Bernie's "affluence" share is only dragged down by the youth vote. It would change drastically if you assigned them their parents wealth as they're largely college educated upper-middle class or higher.

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-79

I also think the push by some to equivocate the situations in Ukraine and Palestine was disgusting and a new low for this place.

Please elaborate further; I'd love to hear your detailed and nuanced take. 

We all know who's making the real changes and who's pushing for them!

Definitely not Hasan, nor is it his predominately white, non-voting stans.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-79

I also think the push by some to equivocate the situations in Ukraine and Palestine was disgusting and a new low for this place.

Please elaborate further; I'd love to hear your detailed and nuanced take. 

Oh surely he means the difference that Ukraine never attacked Russia and was invaded without provocation

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These people flip the fuck out over suggesting that Hamas should give up and then demand that Ukraine gives in to Russia because fighting is pointless

[Orange Juice Box]

Nah, I get you now! Yeah, there's no test to take or licensing to get to become a dog trainer. Honestly, with the knowledge in my head alone (no meaningfully practical experience), I could call myself a dog trainer legally today and no one could say otherwise.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jon-bernthal-fear-of-pit-bulls-is-like-being-a-racist.1593901/post-158756209
How is no one calling out this bullshit?

That's quite humble of her.  Normally she's telling us how more knowledgeable and important she is than history/economics professors and medical professionals. 

Non exhaustive Nepenthe quotes:

You know, dialectics.

Here's another good video on it:

lol, there she reveals where her expertise comes from.  A youtube of some guy saying pittbulls are black dogs so now she repeats it verbatim and uses it as an example of colonialism.  You know, dialectics.

[benji]

Like, Era is an enthusiast forum for video games, it's full of college educated retail and customer service workers with a few New Class bureaucrats. It's a perfect place for modern anti-capitalism which is reactionary and conservative but thinks it's progressive because it's narcissistic and tunnel visioned. That's why they love Hasan and the rest. The forum does little else than scream about how somebody needs to do violence to stop change or force people to do something especially if it would preserve their status or grant them the one they imagine they deserve by birthright. They aren't open minded about anything and escalate fights over opinions about mass and children's media to existential levels. Everything's a status battle between factions of the same small group. They literally repeat phrases and say nonsensical things just because other group members have said them. Their rhetoric is little other than violent, conspiratorial and apocalyptic. They are regularly singling out groups and people they fervently hate and want erased for no legitimate reason. Their main desire is for an unchecked state to eliminate anything they don't like and literally steal from people to give it to them simply because they're them. And also never allows anyone else to ever have any kind of say.

It's been almost a decade since they spun off from the already reactionary and conservative NeoGAF.com and they've spent this entire time whining that a more rigid groupthink version of that isn't as progressive (aka reactionary and close-minded) as they wish. Yet they think all of this will (finally and rightly) lead them to real world power if only they were even more reactionary and conservative.

Thank god they're immune to any kind of self-awareness. Can you imagine if they obtained it?

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[benji]

Another day, another marginalized woman for the Nazi to harass on the Nazi site:


Also this:

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-79

I also think the push by some to equivocate the situations in Ukraine and Palestine was disgusting and a new low for this place.

Please elaborate further; I'd love to hear your detailed and nuanced take. 

Oh surely he means the difference that Ukraine never attacked Russia and was invaded without provocation

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

These people flip the fuck out over suggesting that Hamas should give up and then demand that Ukraine gives in to Russia because fighting is pointless

I would assume they probably are talking about the fact that Ukraine is an established sovereign state with centuries of historical lineage versus something that exists because none of the surrounding states wanted the population after the previous state fell and the population has never bothered to establish their own state in any recognizable way.

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Which remains relevant because the Palestinian leadership (and Hamas especially) refuses to establish itself as a state because that would require them to recognize Israel as a legitimate one.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stephen-a-smith-has-gone-full-mask-off-as-a-transphobe.1595491/




Mask off full blown transphobia is when you support trans people but think they have an advantage in sports

[Alpacx]

Today I learned there were two trans "women" in the French women's basketball 2nd Division

During the 2025-26 season for a club team in Monaco, Tétart dominated the second-tier French women's basketball Ligue 2 by dropping 21 points per game while grabbing 20 rebounds

Meanwhile, Tétart destroyed Ligue 2 so badly that there were collusion allegations being made against league captains and coaches who voted on the MVP award.

Those same voters are alleged to have excluded 43-year-old trans player Aurore Pautou (14.4 PPG, 7.7 RPG) from winning postseason awards.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stephen-a-smith-has-gone-full-mask-off-as-a-transphobe.1595491/page-2#post-158774104

I mean speaking of sports, how many sports were segregated because a woman beat a man at it? You won't ever hear them mention stuff like that.

[DavidCroquet]

cross thread drama, ban misrepresentation, and mod whining in the Hasan OT.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-77#post-158697319

Enjoy the laugh comrades

Threads like that make me wonder how many posters work with the government. If the news starts firing up Hasan Ukraine takes, take notice lol.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/post-158703562

I'm getting the impression they don't actually mind Hasan's Ukraine takes 

Circa 2023: 
"Guys, you're talking like single-issue voters" 
"Genocide is so much more than a single issue, and you are downplaying, whatabouting, dismissing, and trolling. SIC EM, MODS!"

2026 (aka Hasan Era Year 1): 
"Hasan has insane takes on Ukraine" 
"Oh sure, if you pick and poke you can find one little issue no one even cares about to criticize Hasan the Christ...way to tell on yourself, 🤡!"

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stephen-a-smith-has-gone-full-mask-off-as-a-transphobe.1595491/page-2#post-158774104

I mean speaking of sports, how many sports were segregated because a woman beat a man at it? You won't ever hear them mention stuff like that.

First off I'd like to hear some examples but secondly... so what? The whole point of segregating sports by sex is to avoid having one gender dominate the entire sport so that also applies if women outdo men

[benji]

First off I'd like to hear some examples but secondly... so what? The whole point of segregating sports by sex is to avoid having one gender dominate the entire sport so that also applies if women outdo men

Because it exposes you TERF hypocrites:

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Also, a few years ago that one PhD "expert" on Twitter who originally popularized this claim revealed the only example she had was skeet shooting.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-government-legislates-for-the-public-segregation-of-trans-people-now-in-force.1577950/page-5#post-158685295

It's frankly incredible how effective the misinformation machine that is now the internet has become at rapidly accelerating the worst kinds of people and giving them outsized influence relative to their bullshit.