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

[Jansen]

Lol as you would expect from the jump, can't have any positivity on here.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-cena-is-just-so.1279011/

So much dismissing concerns in this thread. 

Mods help or is peacemaker that popular

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-snyder-cult-a-complete-history-firewood-media-casual-zs-fan-sets-out-to-make-an-impartial-video-on-his-fanbase-realises-theyre-just-insane.1279029/

[url unfurl=true media=youtube:nAkIrraknU8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAkIrraknU8[/url]

[Video Length: 1:48:38 (Though it's a supercut of 5 shorter video essays in one video)]



[h2](Ignore the provocative thumbnail; I promise that the guy who made this isn't a chud.)[/h2]
[h2](FYI, this also isn't a pure hate video of Zack Snyder as a person or a creative.)[/h2]

This was in my YT recommended feed this week and found it to be a really good watch, since I myself could be considered a casual fan of Snyder's work once upon a time.



Video essays don't normally get great reception on Era, especially about contentious topics, but this one is actually a supercut of 5 shorter video essays that were made and brought out over the course of the last year or two, so you can just watch them individually at your own pace or just focus on what interests you, if you'd prefer.

Another attempt at stirring up bullshit

[benji]

Wtf is Shreds talking about, he's still living with his parents

https://www.resetera.com/threads/news-trump-admin-bans-coverage-for-trans-govt-employees-mandates-conversion-therapy-coverage.1276656/page-3#post-144190587

We're in this together my love, I'm sorry that this shit affects you too now :c
This shit is so monstrous, and he's not gonna stop unless someone stops him. I'm not convinced he'll leave office at the end of his term either.

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-terrified-for-my-transgender-parent-and-i-feel-like-theres-nothing-i-can-do.1277811/#post-144190728

I wish my own family could fucking do that.

I'm sorry. Being trans in the US is so fucking hard right now, it's getting hard to find the rights words of advice for those with trans loved ones when you're going through this shit yourself. It's a nightmare

Like, what's a nightmare, exactly? You brought this all on yourself, you don't leave the house so none of this materially affects you. So everything is just jerking off all day to weird porn, posting doom, and sleeping.

Same with fatz. What "hard mode" ?  You look like a guy. You're not taking hormones. Wtf changed in your reality, outside of being even more of a fucktard internally.

Love it

It gives their lives meaning, says they matter and are as important as they believe they are. And the narrative structure allows them to believe they will triumph, and the world will treat them personally as they believe they deserve, thanks to the arc of history bending towards justice. Their being oppressed is the necessary second act before the redemption comes. So they're desperate for it to manifest, remember these are people who have been saying it's a genocide for years. Things are supposed to be worse and "hard mode" now even though it was a genocide before, and Fat4all opted into that knowing it was a genocide. Now he's oppressed and he can get people to praise him and say comforting shit just by declaring his existence. Nobody cared who they were until they put on the woman mask.

"After the revolution" talk is the same thing. That's when Jesus comes back and rewards them while their perceived enemies are condemned to eternal suffering.

These are all people who have an external locus of control. MAGA posters and the chuds they hate aren't any different. If you have no agency and seek no agency, everything is always someone else's fault. This is also why so many of them desire to be "disabled" because they believe disability means helplessness and places a duty on others to care for you. All this is also why they're constantly obsessed with things that don't really exist like gender or "the system" since it allows them to believe the world is deliberately structured against them.

There's a fundamental dishonesty in their sense of self. They don't really embrace being a NEET or pervert or whatever, they need others to embrace it and thus uplift them without them needing to change. It's not "fair" that others prefers other things than what they prefer.

And they're desperate for everyone else to believe all this because other people might actually do something about it (like violently destroy all of society for something stupid) and they could benefit from that. Plus they get to imagine the result will be one that prizes them uber alles.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anime-against-fascism.1278984/

How anime fans view themselves 

Anime fans in real life

What about AI doing realistic depictions of children in porn?  The victim is everyone who has to live next to these sick bastards.

Boredfrom, come get your man!

[kaleidoscopium]

any time newsom and pritzker are both in the news it's like fucking night and day

I just wish he wasn't a zionist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-34#post-144246579

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-cena-is-just-so.1279011/page-2#post-144246252

This thread is legitimately disturbing.

I do not know how often you people need to signal that others are not safe around you. You don't need to celebrate somebody who excuses a rapist.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-snyder-cult-a-complete-history-firewood-media-casual-zs-fan-sets-out-to-make-an-impartial-video-on-his-fanbase-realises-theyre-just-insane.1279029/

[Video Length: 1:48:38 (Though it's a supercut of 5 shorter video essays in one video)]



[h2](Ignore the provocative thumbnail; I promise that the guy who made this isn't a chud.)[/h2]
[h2](FYI, this also isn't a pure hate video of Zack Snyder as a person or a creative.)[/h2]

This was in my YT recommended feed this week and found it to be a really good watch, since I myself could be considered a casual fan of Snyder's work once upon a time.



Video essays don't normally get great reception on Era, especially about contentious topics, but this one is actually a supercut of 5 shorter video essays that were made and brought out over the course of the last year or two, so you can just watch them individually at your own pace or just focus on what interests you, if you'd prefer.

Another attempt at stirring up bullshit

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-hollywood-touch-heads-to-show-love-trope-why.1279038/#post-144247893

but you've never been in one?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-cena-is-just-so.1279011/page-2#post-144246252

This thread is legitimately disturbing.

I do not know how often you people need to signal that others are not safe around you. You don't need to celebrate somebody who excuses a rapist.

I can say for certain that I'd feel less safe with skillzilla than with John Cena

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-hollywood-touch-heads-to-show-love-trope-why.1279038/#post-144247893

but you've never been in one?

Blowing a dude on the side of the road in his car is a relationship, albeit a very short, transactional one.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anime-against-fascism.1278984/

How anime fans view themselves 

Anime fans in real life

What about AI doing realistic depictions of children in porn?  The victim is everyone who has to live next to these sick bastards.

Boredfrom, come get your man!

Did I say anything?

[BananaBlast]

Lol as you would expect from the jump, can't have any positivity on here.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-cena-is-just-so.1279011/

God, fuck ResetEra. John Cena is probably one of the least controversial celebrities out there, seems like a genuinely great dude who cares for people, and yet these sanctimonious ingrates STILL need to hate, hate, hate, hate. Suddenly he's the devil now because he didn't throw a huge public tantrum against his Vince McMahon or whatever. Nothing will satisfy these fucking vultures. They just want people to be a tool of their bitter vengeance, and then turn on them the minute the hivemind machine detects a mistake.

Don't worry OP, John Cena seems like a stand up dude and actually lives in reality and isn't terminally online

If we had signatures this would be mine

link

[Snoopy]

Oh now ree wants to separate the art from the artist

don't get what you're point is, does that invalidate the politics of One Piece? Does the creator even matter in the first place when interpreting art?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anime-against-fascism.1278984/#post-144243519

[simiansmarts]

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Oh now ree wants to separate the art from the artist

don't get what you're point is, does that invalidate the politics of One Piece? Does the creator even matter in the first place when interpreting art?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anime-against-fascism.1278984/#post-144243519

[Boredfrom]

They are the type that spout stuff about the series not being political

QisTopTier is another old head that got dumber as the time went on. 

It's best to understand there are two types of propaganda "shock value" and " comfort/guard down" style, this is the second. People respond to different types differently where someone might avoid the shockvalue kind and find it disgusting or hard to believe and blunt seeing messaging tied to simpler things can work to grab attention and slowly ease in.

Oda counting his piles of money with Toei executives: Yeah, sure, let’s go with that.

[Boredfrom]

Don’t let Nintendies drink:

It's telling that this is the game that people are for some reason taking a hard stance on no review codes on. A from what I read 3 person dev team that want to make sure the folks that Kickstarterted the og game like a decade ago get a long promised bonus early and people are acting like reviews need legal protection?

And to be clear and honest, I didn't Kickstart hallowknight and actually have issues with its core design. If reviews and reviewers are that important to you don't buy the game until a satisfactory amount of reviews that you clicked on an read (just reading era or metacritic don't count) from. Start to finish before you buy it.

Also also. I'm drunk. This topic is stilly that it has become a grand crusade over a indie game.

Bonus: BDubs being clueless yet again.

Man this place hosts some corny fuckin debates sometimes.

I still can't get over "extremely morally reprehensible". The fuck happened to perspective?

The algorithm killed it along with any stance that isn't extremist in nature.

[Boredfrom]

When people found out that there was no big behind the scenes drama to explain why the game took as long as it did to release I knew people would try to manufacture some outrage since hype is up.

I mean, seven years developing the game and 6 years of radio silence tend to do that.  

Having so much goodwill and trust from your community after all that is a privileged position that even popular indie studios don’t have.  

Again, is less about the developer and more about ERA being incapable of being coherent with themselves or explain it beyond empty platitudes (“no early reviews mean that fascists won!”  “ the press just want free games”  and “why my forum has so much extreme disposition?”  )

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-team-cherry-said-they-wont-be-sending-out-review-codes-for-silksong-since-it-wouldnt-be-fair-to-kickstarter-backers.1277328/page-36#post-144242196

dude was never actually "fun" but hes describing the fat dog

[Boredfrom]

From the dude that enabled and encouraged that behavior. He acts like he put any resistance to that.

Honestly, you know why people went bitter? Because people started to take everything seriously and become so paranoid that dissident opinions were blasphemous. And this goes for both sides of the political spectrum.

[BananaBlast]

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Yeah OP, ignore the haters as much as Cena is ignoring decency by being a rapist ally. He's such a lovable guy, don't let those sad Era posters shit on your thread <3

It's true. The problem is with us.

Can't trust someone like you in the first place, name and profile pic NOT matching. Confusing as FUCK. Reported.

lmao I'M SORRY

[BIONIC]

How anime fans view themselves 

Anime fans in real life

Boredfrom, come get your man!

Did I say anything?

BatmanAndYoullNeverHaveTo.gif

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-team-cherry-said-they-wont-be-sending-out-review-codes-for-silksong-since-it-wouldnt-be-fair-to-kickstarter-backers.1277328/page-36#post-144242196

you can easily tell who spends most of
their time on platforms like twitter/tiktok/bluesky/etc etc etc, because they're a lot more aggro and tend toward more extremist takes--even when those takes don't make a whole lot of sense.

[nachobro]

"you can easily tell who the worst posters are here. anyway i'm going to continue to ban everyone but them."

[Boredfrom]

there are still some out there that think we are gonna have fair elections in this country lol.

There is people here that think Trump is a competent dictator.  

These guys panicking by Trump’s usual pussyfooting.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pentagon-working-on-plans-for-military-deployment-in-chicago-washington-post-reports.1279071/

Yea the people pulling the strings behind Trump have something brewing. I can't even imagine.

[Boredfrom]

I have no words

Thoughts and prayers. 

Oof.

Yikes.

[Potato]

Don’t let Nintendies drink:

It's telling that this is the game that people are for some reason taking a hard stance on no review codes on. A from what I read 3 person dev team that want to make sure the folks that Kickstarterted the og game like a decade ago get a long promised bonus early and people are acting like reviews need legal protection?

And to be clear and honest, I didn't Kickstart hallowknight and actually have issues with its core design. If reviews and reviewers are that important to you don't buy the game until a satisfactory amount of reviews that you clicked on an read (just reading era or metacritic don't count) from. Start to finish before you buy it.

Also also. I'm drunk. This topic is stilly that it has become a grand crusade over a indie game.

Bonus: BDubs being clueless yet again.

Man this place hosts some corny fuckin debates sometimes.

I still can't get over "extremely morally reprehensible". The fuck happened to perspective?

The algorithm killed it along with any stance that isn't extremist in nature.

There it is. Right on cue. Not even anything to do with Nintendo. 

[Boredfrom]

[Boredfrom]

BDubs in denial about forum engagement:

Gonna be real, modern social media is structured around creating controversy at every turn and we're surprised that any and all discourse turns into controversy at the drop of a hat? The algorithms are specifically designed to keep you on your feed, to make you comment on stuff, and the easiest way to do that is to get you mad, whether or not that anger is justified, so that you feel the need to comment. All these platforms do it and that behavior then seeped into the rest of the internet over the years, seeped into our actual societal discourse, and now everything is controversial even when it shouldn't be. Nobody can have a reasonable take these days, and, if you do, people will read into it and assume you are making some insane take, assign your take meaning it never had, and attack you as if you had made the take you didn't instead of the one you did.

Basically, social media has cooked society.

To be entirely blunt, I've been feeling for a bit like games discussion (among other things) has been dying off here because it feels like that social media bleed of outrage, hot takes, and general negativity has really taken over a lot of the forum, running off a lot of genuine discussion, and leaving behind the negativity (and also making it even harder to ignore the threads everyone hates that are functionally people's shower thoughts or people just posting their RSS feeds).

A notable third party Switch 2 release came and went without an actual OT and the last big thread on it was a Digital Foundry thread about the demo (not even the game itself!) where people complained about some numbers, because people cared more about arguing over those numbers than they did about discussing the game itself. Shit sucks, man.

Actually, we did have a thread about the release of Wild Hearts S. It just didn't last very long because seemingly no one had much interest in the game. I mean, it's literally a two year old game, which had a release on pretty much every single platform previous to the Switch 2--including PC. There's only so much excitement or even discussion to expect from something like that.

That said, I'm not looking to derail the thread with this. I just wanted to correct this idea is all.

“Is because is a shit as old game, not because most people avoid the community”  

Dude, are you reading the thread? Is already derailed with post intentionally killing any discussion by referencing that dumb post about fascism. All coordinated by the Reddit pervert that changed his username to avoid getting called out.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-team-cherry-said-they-wont-be-sending-out-review-codes-for-silksong-since-it-wouldnt-be-fair-to-kickstarter-backers.1277328/page-37#post-144252075

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-hollywood-touch-heads-to-show-love-trope-why.1279038/#post-144247893

but you've never been in one?

Just a regular human person with lots of weird body parts that I regularly use to touch the weird body parts of other regular humans who have lots of weird body parts. 

@danielcropley

 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

they can always do what happened organically with the Palworld threads.

They had a player driven fun thread and a small minority cry fest thread. It made things a lot better. 

Tell all shitposters, haters, and drive bys to go to their designated shit street with warnings and bans and let the actual gamers have fun in their OT.