Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

The problem is that most men are never taught the importance of maintaining a strong social framework into adulthood, so most friendships just wither away

It's so weird how often they're talking about how they weren't taught something and how everyone needs to be taught something. Never any burden on yourself to learn.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/toyota-won%E2%80%99t-promote-lgbt-events-anymore-refocuses-its-dei-initiatives.1001937/page-2#post-129794574

Hate is an incredibly powerful motivator. People will devote their entire lives to the things they hate, and it boosts their own ego to feel like their justly fighting an evil. I've really never seen allyship consume people the way that hate does. To be fair that's not really wrong, nothing should consume someone's life that much because it's truthfully poisoning and takes away from living your life - but it does result in a lot more power to shape society, so as it stands we're normalizing hatred to the point that less-active "live and let live" types succumb to their casual ignorance and absorb the bigoted lies being spewed by the more active hatemongers.

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But just look at how this is playing out in our society's actual *political* sphere: trans folks are desperately ringing the alarm bells to the fact that Democrats are running away from us, leaving us to the endless barrage of vitriol from conservative attacks, and Democratic *voters* become vitriolic at us for bringing it up and how we should be grateful and shut up. UK Labour have now taken power explicitly opposing trans existence. In the realm of politics itself trans people are treated like we're radioactive, so yeah of course corporations aren't going to have our backs either.

I wonder if they've ever considered that maybe "allies" simply don't believe their lies.

Saying that shit when chinas poverty reduction programs are the most impressive we've seen in the history ofof human existence is nuts. Socialism does not mean sunshine and rainbows and it's an ever changing target. I'm not trying to throw on the poms poms but come on man.

The "poverty reduction program" called Dengism?

What cases you talking about because in capitalist countries or let's just say private sector first countries, that can't really happen. There are too many moving parts with different agendas.

So his complaint is that people are allowed to do things they want rather than forced to do only a single thing by the monopoly corporation. At least he's an honest socialist.

Chief Malik

We do not believe you have to harm minorities for the better of the majority dawg.

Wait, aren't you telling everyone you're a socialist? What else could you believe? And weren't you just complaining about how "private sector first" countries don't do this enough?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jodie-turner-smith-the-acolyte-blasts-disney-for-not-saying-or-doing-anything-when-the-cast-got-dog-piled-online.1002222/

"They've got to stop doing this thing where they don't say anything when people are getting fucking dog-piled on the internet with racism and bull****. It's just not fair to not say anything. It's really unfair. It would just be nice if the people that have all the money were showing their support and putting their feet down.

Say this is unacceptable: 'You're not a fan if you do this.' Make a really big statement and just see if any money leaves. I bet you it won't, because people of color, and especially Black people, make up a very large percentage of buying power. They might find that it's actually more lucrative for them, but everyone's using 'woke' like it's a dirty word."

Disney never defends their stars. It's reprehensible and the fact that they have yet to learn is horrible…or they just don't care because it means the attention isn't on them but their scapegoats.

She's right. Disney does a terrible job protecting their stars. Throws them right under the bus as soon as the first racist shows up.

 Not the big corporation telling me I'm not a fan! Whatever will I do? My whole life is shattered without a giant media conglomerate affirming me personally.

[benji]

"benji is a real fan and people who disagree with him don't understand Nintendo." - Shigeru Miyamoto

[benji]

As a lifelong Trek fan it's amusing to watch the histrionics over the small amount of non-approval of Star Wars big budget slop.

[Steven Snell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-%E2%80%9Csweet-baby-inc%E2%80%9D-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-111#post-129780645

A big problem with society as a whole that I also see on Era every now & then is that people think a D/DD cup = large boobs when that's far from the truth. The problem is that so, so, so fucking many people wear ill fitting bras, most need (much) bigger cup sizes & smaller band sizes. And a cup size alone also doesn't say shit, because you can be a properly fitted UK 28D/EU 60D like my mum & have boobs a regular person will think are A/B cups at best (she wore B cups for as long as I know up until a few weeks ago when we used the proper calculator to figure out her size). Not like even a UK 40D/EU 90D will look like what dudes have envisioned D/DDs to be, but of course a larger band size with the same cup sizes naturally means you'll have a bit more breast volume, which will be more obvious once you get into the bigger cup sizes. All a cup size really says is how small or big the difference between the measurement under your breast roots & the one across them is, with 1" or roughly 2,5cm per cup.

Like, I wore a EU F/UK E cup with all kinds of different band sizes most of my teenage years & early adulthood as that usually was the biggest cups could go here in regular German stores & due to them obviously not fitting properly in the cups I always thought I just needed a larger band size to compensate. Turns out my proper bra size is a UK 36HH/J/JJ depending on the bra manufacturer & if I'm ovulating for once which is a EU 80 L/M/N & utterly impossible to find in regular clothing shops. Thankfully there's some fantastic bra manufacturers out there specifically making bras for larger cups like Ewa Michalak in Poland, but they also tend to cost twice or often thrice as much lol.

So what I wanted to point out is that the vast majority of people, especially men, think of D or DD cups as these huge boobs you oftentimes only see on porn stars with silicone boobs when their bra sizes are never fucking accurate to begin with lol. Look up the Irish Bra Lady on Instagram so you don't have to take my word for it (or I'll just link one of her posts at the bottom), but a proper fitting D or DD cup is frankly not large unless you get super high in the band size (meaning nowhere near close to what the women people always think of would wear), but even then it's clearly on the low end of the spectrum given how many letters of the alphabet follow. I wish the A Bra That Fits calculator & it's community on Reddit were more known & that bra companies would give people that calculator instead of the useless "just measure under your boobs & around them once & add 5cm in the band " that makes so many people believe they fit into much smaller cups while spilling out like crazy or not having the band sit like it should, oftentimes being either too large or too small. Becuase it's the only calculator I can think of that also makes you take multiple different measurements that take your breast shape & volume into consideration. So yeah, right at this moment most women in the western (& I'd argue the general) world probably aren't wearing well fitting D cups - because they'd fit better inside larger cups. Properly fitting D/DDs would still be really common though, but of course they would "lose their appeal" from straight dudes once they find out their magical DDs aren't as big as their heads lol.

Hell, just look at how people (including the developers iirc?) ran with Tifa having DDs when that is so comically wrong to anyone who spent a little bit of time finding their proper bra size & reading up on bra sizes & how they function in general. She's got a small frame so I'm thinking something around a UK 26 for the band. But going by the breast volume, she'd be much closer to my cup size than a DD lol. Probably a UK G or GG, potentially bigger. Smaller frames also tend to make your boobs look bigger, especially if you're skinny & have a small waist as well, simply due to them looking more overwhelming on a smaller frame & I guess there's some optical illusion at play as well? Not sure how to explain this well lol. Back in school I had a friend who wore the same bra size as me, like we could swap out bras & regularly wore the same ones lol. Obviously looking back we both needed drastically different band sizes, but due to me having broad shoulders while being 173cm & her having a small frame while being 155cm, depending on the clothes you could've thought she wore bigger bras than me even though our breast volume was identical lol. Mine were also always impossible to ignore, but thanks to my broad shoulders they fit my frame better despite a small waist & weren't as much of a point of focus for teachers & fellow students as hers were. Not like the dudes didn't spend most of their time in class comparing our boobs anyway, shit was so gross.

Sorry for the TED Talk lol, this topic is just always something that really frustrates me to read about, especially when cis men are involved, because with all due respect 99% of them don't know shit about boobs & even less so about sizing.

[benji]

Being anti-woke seems exhausting.

[benji]

That thread is currently baffled that Angry Joe can be both anti-Trump and an anti-woke chud.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-forgot-how-lonely-the-world-can-be-for-men-living-on-their-own.1001994/

Fucking cis white guys don’t know how good they’ve got it!

The problem is that most men are never taught the importance of maintaining a strong social framework into adulthood, so most friendships just wither away

No, that's not most men. Autistic shut-ins that want to be 12 forever, yes most.

Also doesn't help when they're told they should cut off their friends and family upon the first instance of perceived chuddery.

[Boredfrom]

Being anti-woke seems exhausting.

The Lex dude has an avatar with a bisexual female character.

She has a threesome with gender flipped King Arthur and the “people die when they are killed” dude. Just to recharge mana, btw.

[Boredfrom]

I also heard that Little Goody Two Shoes is good, and is the lesbianism that antiWoke dudes usually like, so dunno why he is bitching about it.

[benji]

[ClothedMac]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/toyota-won%E2%80%99t-promote-lgbt-events-anymore-refocuses-its-dei-initiatives.1001937/page-3#post-129805284

When will these performative ass corporations realize that bending the knee to the fragile, intolerant, vocal minority is not a smart business decision?

These incel assholes are offended by everything that doesn't cater to their cisgendered white world view. They're professional victims and will always find something else to be irrationally terrified about.

I think that's ERA's business plan.  Cede all power to a fragile, intolerant, vocal minority.

[benji]

Uh, isn't a LGBT event inherently one catering to a minority?

They so hate capitalism and "rainbow capitalism" when it's the only system that encourages catering to minorities. As Chief Malik showed, they seem to think socialism prioritizes minorities when it's the deliberate abolition of any minority views. The entire complaint socialists have with capitalism is that it wastes too many resources on unnecessary things that minorities want.

[AnnoyedCanadian]

As a lifelong Trek fan it's amusing to watch the histrionics over the small amount of non-approval of Star Wars big budget slop.

I'm just hoping the 4th Kelvin movie is eventually made. I really liked all 3 movies. It sucks balls that Anton passed away, the guy was super talented.

Karl Urban is perfect as Bones, not sure if I like him more than DeForest Kelley in the role. Both are great and different portrayals.

The Next Generation is still the GOAT science fiction show in my opinion

I'm surprised people from my generation (millennials) haven't found a way to complain about the show yet.

[benji]

I'm just hoping the 4th Kelvin movie is eventually made. I really liked all 3 movies. 

Sorry, Beyond is the only not completely awful one. Consider this a warning for dismissing concerns about JJ Abrams.

Both Pine and Urban were perfect.

[benji]

Both Pine and Urban were perfect.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jodie-turner-smith-the-acolyte-blasts-disney-for-not-saying-or-doing-anything-when-the-cast-got-dog-piled-online.1002222/#post-129816228

You cut them off. You shut them down by discrediting what they have to say. These people are no longer customers when they already get to the point where they are harassing people. And you know that deep down they're still going to watch the movies and the shows anyway because these people just can't stay away from whatever they're hating on. They need to consume in order t to fuel their hatred.

[Polident]

At some stage Star Trek 4 involved time travel and bringing back Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk. The director signed on back then went on to direct Madame Web.

We’re at a point where two of the biggest movies recently, Barbie and Oppenheimer, had very little action or huge costs. Time is ripe to make a boring Star Trek where balding old men sit around talking philosophy and ethics for two to three hours.

[benji]

How does one both "cut them off" and "discredit what they have to say"? Especially if they "are no longer customers"?

[benji]

"You don't like it? Well, guess what, you're no longer allowed to like it!"

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Valkaria has been exposed!

Turns out they were Deleted member 180285 all along.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jodie-turner-smith-the-acolyte-blasts-disney-for-not-saying-or-doing-anything-when-the-cast-got-dog-piled-online.1002222/#post-129816228

You cut them off. You shut them down by discrediting what they have to say. These people are no longer customers when they already get to the point where they are harassing people. And you know that deep down they're still going to watch the movies and the shows anyway because these people just can't stay away from whatever they're hating on. They need to consume in order t to fuel their hatred.

Is not the whole problem that not enough people watched the series?

[benji]

Is not the whole problem that not enough people watched the series?

Don't worry, they have a plan for this: tell people who didn't like it they're not allowed to watch the next series because it's not for them anymore.

[benji]

See, what we're developing is a self-sustaining economy from a proper fandom:

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jodie-turner-smith-the-acolyte-blasts-disney-for-not-saying-or-doing-anything-when-the-cast-got-dog-piled-online.1002222/#post-129816228

You cut them off. You shut them down by discrediting what they have to say. These people are no longer customers when they already get to the point where they are harassing people. And you know that deep down they're still going to watch the movies and the shows anyway because these people just can't stay away from whatever they're hating on. They need to consume in order t to fuel their hatred.

They can’t be this unaware of the irony here can they?

[Taco Bell Tower]

Pour one out for KSweeley

User Banned (3 Days): Copying Entire Article, previously warned.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/october-4-2024-washington-d-c-business-journal-burger-chain-fuddruckers-plans-return-to-chinatown-d-c-plans-additional-locations-outside-of-d-c.1001400/#post-129730512

So why doesn't DrForester/Edmund Dantes get banned for doing the same thing on the Edmund Dantes alt?

[Snoopy]

Ted Bundy writes -

I'm really bad at it myself because I usually don't like imposing on people. When I left the city where most of my friends were the first time, I only remembered to text a small group of my friends and basically all of the other friendships withered on the vine, but I could never tell how much of that came from me not being good at texting people, and how much came from the fact that being friends with actors means 98% of your relationships are 100% transactional and instantly evaporate the moment you're no longer valuable for potentially getting each other stage time. When I came back to the city a year later the overwhelming majority of that friend group had moved on and only a small fraction reestablished serious ties with me, mostly consisting of the people I did still text semi-regularly with while I was out of town.

Now that I've left again, I talk to even less of them than I did the last time I left, but that's also because at this point in my life I'm pretty much done with that lifestyle and don't have any energy to put into people who don't have any energy for me.

I wonder which actors he murdered

[wsippel]

Just had to check if Era is shilling hard for The Forever Winter, considering the studio founders are mostly PoC, the CEO and creative director is black, and the game is quite political and artistic, but nope - nothing. Probably because they're not shouting it from the rooftops?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I can't believe Cool hand luke of Iconera asked staff on resetera to delete their Valkaria account. The troll was doing so well.

[remy]

Just had to check if Era is shilling hard for The Forever Winter, considering the studio founders are mostly PoC, the CEO and creative director is black, and the game is quite political and artistic, but nope - nothing. Probably because they're not shouting it from the rooftops?

Not on playstation = no care

Have you seen astrobot?????????????????

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jodie-turner-smith-the-acolyte-blasts-disney-for-not-saying-or-doing-anything-when-the-cast-got-dog-piled-online.1002222/#post-129816228

You cut them off. You shut them down by discrediting what they have to say. These people are no longer customers when they already get to the point where they are harassing people. And you know that deep down they're still going to watch the movies and the shows anyway because these people just can't stay away from whatever they're hating on. They need to consume in order t to fuel their hatred.

I wonder how Princess Bubblegum got on with Stellar Blade.