Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I'm not a shareholder I instead use all my time and effort to complain on social media about games I would never buy in the first place.

[Boredfrom]

I feel like I read a lot of driveby responses in regards to the stock market that are indicative of a lack of basic understanding. Not just this thread, but especially this thread.

You know if you have a bank account and a computer you can sign up and buy shares in any publicly traded company in under 5min with as little as $1, and that would technically make you a shareholder, right? And that anyone with a 401k or IRA retirement funds are greatly invested in the stock market.

It's not just some rich guy mazerati shit.

Yeah, but the level of vitriol against the investors while shilling overpriced video game consoles like your life depended of it still points the inherent hypocrisy of a leftist video game forum.

Hell, some of the most spoken lefties, like Advance Wars Sgt, have mentioned having a stock portfolio worth thousands. 

Shit is ridiculous.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-everyone-a-shareholder-here-now.1185138/

EA is a very safe one to invest in if you follow patterns and want risk-averse investment. Value usually fluctuates between 110 and 150 so if you are not after quick massive and risky gains you could buy on the dip and wait 6 months or something to cash out. Value drops roughly every 3 months and hits high every 3 months.

That's not remotely risk-averse investment.

[benji]

also anyone who doesn't like it probably wants to fuck me. delusional

Wow, sounds like somebody has a hard-on for Ana and is angry because they're embarrassed about it.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-everyone-a-shareholder-here-now.1185138/

EA is a very safe one to invest in if you follow patterns and want risk-averse investment. Value usually fluctuates between 110 and 150 so if you are not after quick massive and risky gains you could buy on the dip and wait 6 months or something to cash out. Value drops roughly every 3 months and hits high every 3 months.

That's not remotely risk-averse investment.

Value usually fluctuates 34%. Safe. lol

[benji]

EA is a very safe one to invest in if you follow patterns and want risk-averse investment. Value usually fluctuates between 110 and 150 so if you are not after quick massive and risky gains you could buy on the dip and wait 6 months or something to cash out. Value drops roughly every 3 months and hits high every 3 months.

The fuck is this idiot talking about, the red line is Nasdaq, green line is S&P500:


I don't think this dude even knows why EA might have a drop in their stock price every three months.

[Boredfrom]

Some people at ERA definitely work at video game corpos while not disclosing it, no that they should unless they are mods (hey Jawmuncher  )

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

isn't the place jawmuncher working for scammers?

[benji]

elenarie used to have in his title that he worked at EA, now it's just "Game Developer" but he's a QA guy at DICE: https://www.mobygames.com/person/771985/angel-kavazov/

[benji]

Oh, so now we're concerned about vague restrictions on freedom of speech and slippery slopes from having the state police it. Haven't they heard about the paradox of tolerance? 

edit: https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/5/lee-bill-establishes-obscenity-definition-across-states

This is literally the existing Miller Test.

Lee has also introduced this bill every Congress since 2021.

[Greatness Gone]

jesus christ 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-help-me-out-explaining-puberty-blockers-to-someone.1185876/

Sorry for the clunky title

I'm a cis het male, very progressive

I have a close friend who has good takes on 95% of issues, but he has this extremely visceral reaction to the issue of puberty blockers being given to minors.

I admit this isn't an issue I'm extremely well-versed on, my attitude is very much 'live and let live' and I don't involve myself with the decisions that a parent makes when it comes to their child.

My friend has no issue with gender-affirming care for minors in a general sense, but he balks at the issue of puberty blockers. He's of the opinion that kids shouldn't be making such decisions at a young age. I try to explain to him that blockers are reversible, and that the regret rate is below 1%, but he tends to get fixated on anecdotal examples he finds of people regretting gender affirming care...

He's a good guy, very very empathetic and progressive, but he has a 'protect the children at all costs' point of view that tends to give him a myopic view on certain issues.

Any tips on how to approach this? I obviously want to approach this with love, and come from a place of science and facts, while not discounting his very real concern for the welfare of children.

Any input from trans-ERA or anyone else is appreciated

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-help-me-out-explaining-puberty-blockers-to-someone.1185876/

Maybe stay in your lane and not get involved in things you have no clue about?

[Potato]

I feel like I read a lot of driveby responses in regards to the stock market that are indicative of a lack of basic understanding. Not just this thread, but especially this thread.

You know if you have a bank account and a computer you can sign up and buy shares in any publicly traded company in under 5min with as little as $1, and that would technically make you a shareholder, right? And that anyone with a 401k or IRA retirement funds are greatly invested in the stock market.

It's not just some rich guy mazerati shit.

Yeah, but the level of vitriol against the investors while shilling overpriced video game consoles like your life depended of it still points the inherent hypocrisy of a leftist video game forum.

Hell, some of the most spoken lefties, like Advance Wars Sgt, have mentioned having a stock portfolio worth thousands. 

Shit is ridiculous.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-help-me-out-explaining-puberty-blockers-to-someone.1185876/
Maybe stay in your lane and not get involved in things you have no clue about?

I think you're trying to bring a rational argument to someone who is thinking emotionally.

If they can be rational maybe you can ask them to construct their reasons for not believing in data and science.

[benji]

If they can be rational maybe you can ask them to construct their reasons for not believing in data and science.

How's that going to help him when they ask him to show them the data and science that doesn't exist?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-help-me-out-explaining-puberty-blockers-to-someone.1185876/
Maybe stay in your lane and not get involved in things you have no clue about?

I think you're trying to bring a rational argument to someone who is thinking emotionally.

If they can be rational maybe you can ask them to construct their reasons for not believing in data and science.

If it's the right of a child to do what they want with their body then they should be allowed to work a full time job, smoke, and drink. 

[benji]

All you're doing at worst, is delaying puberty. It's to allow the kid to make a more informed choice as an adult without hampering the results they can expect if they do decide to transition.

If they want to transition it avoids surgeries like breast reduction or painful hair removal depending on their birth assigned gender.

Even the hack job that was the Cass report found *zero* cases of people physically harmed by them.

Then explain to him that that's the exact point of puberty blockers; so that a decision isn't made immediately. The point is you have someone young and entering puberty who's trans, and is afraid of entering a period of irreversible change to their body that they may come to regret later. So the option is given for them to stall puberty, giving them time and space to make the decision in either respect later. It's important to emphasise that stopping that child from accessing blockers is the greater risk of irreversible harm to them, and may result in them needing surgery at a later date they could otherwise have avoided. If he accepts trans people exist, he accepts that there are trans children. Therefore these instances occur, and giving those children options and time to make a decision is important. It's literally the position he's advocating for without realising it.

The alternative is, he imagines himself a teenage boy forced to go through puberty and grow breasts. That is the level of distress he is advocating trans boys should experience, as opposed to giving them time to consider their decision prior to any major physical change.

Not trans, but I think one important point (not the only point) to make about their safety is that they are used normally for for cis-gender kids as well. https://www.vice.com/en/article/no-one-had-a-problem-with-puberty-blockers-when-only-cis-kids-took-them/

Like the article headline says, no one cares or has a problem when they are used with cis kids.

This as well. Ask him if he has an issue with cis children being given the same drug for the same purpose – delaying the onset of puberty.

1. Having puberty early is incorrect and so they receive it to delay puberty until it's supposed to happen. Those children do not receive puberty blockers as cosmetic optimism that they can do the impossible.
2. Delaying and halting puberty when it's supposed to happen is inherently harmful, it prevents brain development and other essential development, the children are permanently stunted. And for what?
3. It does not prevent them from needing breast reduction and hair removal because when the blockers are removed puberty happens anyway.
4. Your argument is that children should be allowed to halt natural necessary growth in case they don't want to do it despite having no frame of reference to comprehend let alone decide anything about this, even though it cannot be avoided and it will only harm them. This is inhumane and cruel.
5. The entire reason you want children to be able to do this, especially without parents permission, is because you're clinging to a delusional fantasy that if you had just been able to do it you would be a beautiful sexy woman despite not realizing you were a woman until decades later and despite the fact that this wouldn't have helped you not look like the creepy freak you are.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-help-me-out-explaining-puberty-blockers-to-someone.1185876/
Maybe stay in your lane and not get involved in things you have no clue about?

I think you're trying to bring a rational argument to someone who is thinking emotionally.

If they can be rational maybe you can ask them to construct their reasons for not believing in data and science.

If it's the right of a child to do what they want with their body then they should be allowed to work a full time job, smoke, and drink. 

If children have bodily autonomy, why amirox in jail? 

[benji]

If children have bodily autonomy, why amirox in jail? 

I think you're looking for these guys: 
https://prostasia.org/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProstasiaFoundation/videos
https://bsky.app/profile/prostasia.org

This famous Twitter activist was previously associated with them:
https://bsky.app/profile/nberlat.bsky.social
https://www.everythingishorrible.net/about

[Potato]

All you're doing at worst, is delaying puberty. It's to allow the kid to make a more informed choice as an adult without hampering the results they can expect if they do decide to transition.

If they want to transition it avoids surgeries like breast reduction or painful hair removal depending on their birth assigned gender.

Even the hack job that was the Cass report found *zero* cases of people physically harmed by them.

Then explain to him that that's the exact point of puberty blockers; so that a decision isn't made immediately. The point is you have someone young and entering puberty who's trans, and is afraid of entering a period of irreversible change to their body that they may come to regret later. So the option is given for them to stall puberty, giving them time and space to make the decision in either respect later. It's important to emphasise that stopping that child from accessing blockers is the greater risk of irreversible harm to them, and may result in them needing surgery at a later date they could otherwise have avoided. If he accepts trans people exist, he accepts that there are trans children. Therefore these instances occur, and giving those children options and time to make a decision is important. It's literally the position he's advocating for without realising it.

The alternative is, he imagines himself a teenage boy forced to go through puberty and grow breasts. That is the level of distress he is advocating trans boys should experience, as opposed to giving them time to consider their decision prior to any major physical change.

Not trans, but I think one important point (not the only point) to make about their safety is that they are used normally for for cis-gender kids as well. https://www.vice.com/en/article/no-one-had-a-problem-with-puberty-blockers-when-only-cis-kids-took-them/

Like the article headline says, no one cares or has a problem when they are used with cis kids.

This as well. Ask him if he has an issue with cis children being given the same drug for the same purpose – delaying the onset of puberty.

1. Having puberty early is incorrect and so they receive it to delay puberty until it's supposed to happen. Those children do not receive puberty blockers as cosmetic optimism that they can do the impossible.
2. Delaying and halting puberty when it's supposed to happen is inherently harmful, it prevents brain development and other essential development, the children are permanently stunted. And for what?
3. It does not prevent them from needing breast reduction and hair removal because when the blockers are removed puberty happens anyway.
4. Your argument is that children should be allowed to halt natural necessary growth in case they don't want to do it despite having no frame of reference to comprehend let alone decide anything about this, even though it cannot be avoided and it will only harm them. This is inhumane and cruel.
5. The entire reason you want children to be able to do this, especially without parents permission, is because you're clinging to a delusional fantasy that if you had just been able to do it you would be a beautiful sexy woman despite not realizing you were a woman until decades later and despite the fact that this wouldn't have helped you not look like the creepy freak you are.

Someone needs to explain the multitudes of penis-having wlw transbians who are still women and biologically female that didn't have puberty blockers yet are all well adjusted, not suicidal , not autistic and definitely not mentally ill.

If they can all lead successful lives without puberty blockers, then why give them to kids at all? 

Unless there's something you're not telling us about the transbian community?

[benji]

I don't know why we force kids into school, why not delay things until they can make a more informed choice?

[Taco Bell Tower]

jesus christ 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-help-me-out-explaining-puberty-blockers-to-someone.1185876/

Sorry for the clunky title

I'm a cis het male, very progressive

I have a close friend who has good takes on 95% of issues, but he has this extremely visceral reaction to the issue of puberty blockers being given to minors.

I admit this isn't an issue I'm extremely well-versed on, my attitude is very much 'live and let live' and I don't involve myself with the decisions that a parent makes when it comes to their child.

My friend has no issue with gender-affirming care for minors in a general sense, but he balks at the issue of puberty blockers. He's of the opinion that kids shouldn't be making such decisions at a young age. I try to explain to him that blockers are reversible, and that the regret rate is below 1%, but he tends to get fixated on anecdotal examples he finds of people regretting gender affirming care...

He's a good guy, very very empathetic and progressive, but he has a 'protect the children at all costs' point of view that tends to give him a myopic view on certain issues.

Any tips on how to approach this? I obviously want to approach this with love, and come from a place of science and facts, while not discounting his very real concern for the welfare of children.

Any input from trans-ERA or anyone else is appreciated

Professional child groomer plagiarize

All you're doing at worst, is delaying puberty. It's to allow the kid to make a more informed choice as an adult without hampering the results they can expect if they do decide to transition.

If they want to transition it avoids surgeries like breast reduction or painful hair removal depending on their birth assigned gender.

Even the hack job that was the Cass report found *zero* cases of people physically harmed by them.

Edited: Beaten 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I Am Jazz went on puberty blockers as a child. Their micro penis made it hard for bottom surgery after due to it.

As Abigail Shrier reported, when Jazz was finally ready for the operation, her “penile inversion” surgery was complicated because the puberty blockers she went on at 11 meant she had a micro-penis, not enough tissue to work with. The surgeon, Marci Bowers, used some stomach lining.

At first, Jazz’s surgery seemed to have gone fine, but soon after she said experienced “crazy pain.” She was rushed back to the hospital, where Dr. Jess Ting was waiting. “As I was getting her on the bed, I heard something go pop,” Ting said in an episode of “I Am Jazz.” Jazz’s new vagina  — or neovagina, as surgeons say — had split apart.

She had to have several corrections to the surgery; the operation has a high complication rate. Later, Jazz revealed “that she had never experienced an orgasm and may never be able to.” As Bowers later admitted, she’d never seen boys able to orgasm who were blocked at Tanner stage 2 of puberty. We don’t know much about sexual function for these socially-then-medically transitioned kids who’ve gone through the full gender-affirming medical protocol, because there has been no research (as far as I know—please correct me if I’m wrong). Shrier reports that Jazz underwent three further surgeries, and delayed her entry to Harvard because of depression.

https://www.broadview.news/p/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about

[Snoopy]

[Jansen]

The fuck are y'all up to today

[Jansen]

The toy cannot be inserted anally due to its shape.

Wanna bet? 

[Jansen]

[killamajig]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-administration-%E2%80%98looking-at%E2%80%99-suspending-habeas-corpus.1185765/page-2#post-139764465

They've been pumping the prime for a trans genocide for a long time now. Neurodiverse folks are on the list. Anyone with a complexion darker than Miller, eventually.

A trans genocide is currently happening.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/please-help-me-out-explaining-puberty-blockers-to-someone.1185876/
Maybe stay in your lane and not get involved in things you have no clue about?

I think you're trying to bring a rational argument to someone who is thinking emotionally.

If they can be rational maybe you can ask them to construct their reasons for not believing in data and science.

If it's the right of a child to do what they want with their body then they should be allowed to work a full time job, smoke, and drink.