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

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-director-of-publishing-for-udon-comics-seems-to-hate-dei-the-same-udon-that-only-exists-due-to-capcom-ips.1116636/

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He should have told that biaaaatttccchhhh that he doesn't like vapid judgmental bitches!

[Boredfrom]

She likes social activities a lot. And I don't mind that, but being social exhausts me sometimes.

You don’t have a chance.

[DavidCroquet]

Isn't Vex the same poster who talks about pumping loads out to Chris Redfield?

I mean, bi people exist, but I'm more thinking that "I play video games" is the least of his radioactive secrets vis a vis this girl.

[Jansen]

$60000 goal

Just a drop in the bucket

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Trans people are not lieing.

When biological males claim that they are, and always have been, biological females? That's called lying.

[Potato]

Here's my two cents: Everyone should be treated with respect and dignity. No one should be unfairly discriminated against. People shouldn't be discriminated against on the basis of what they are or where they're born. People should be judged by their words and actions, not by what they are made up of.

I have no problem with trans people who are quiet, chill, not bothering anyone, not pushing woke nonsense, not spreading delusional and annoying ideologies, not being a total weirdo freak, not calling you a bigot for applying 5th grade basic biology, etc. etc. Even extends to non-binary and asexual demi-people, even if I find them confusing.

I'll be honest... I was never really a fan of the whole "trans people are creeps coming for your kids" or "trans people are all invading women's locker rooms" narrative. To me, just like any other group of people, there's your good and your bad, to oversimplify things. Of course you have some trans creeps who are actual pedophile groomers, and those who just want to invade women's spaces just for infinite spank bank material. And you have your low level creeps, who probably won't be caught committing any serious crimes, like your Melody Shreds and your Princess Bubblegums, but they're still creepy loser perverts. But all those should be seen as individuals, and not the leaders of a hivemind.

Now all that being said.... yeah the trans community is just chock full of bad, stinking, apples. It's really, really, bad to be honest. It feels like everything I've been seeing about trans people has just.... to sum it up really quickly and crudely, annoyingly stupid or disturbingly insane. Lately I've been finding myself not caring about misgendering, like how I just called Malds "he" instead of dancing around it. Maybe it has something to do with Trump becoming president and the "mask coming off" with a lot of the policies and the formal pleasantries. I don't know.

In the end, I guess people should just be a little more careful in choosing their words so they're not throwing innocent people under the bus. It's pretty easy most of the time, trust me.

The crazy part is that it hasn't needed a conspiracy from the politicians or questionable investigative work from the media to expose all this kind of behaviour. They have done all of the hard work themselves and have self-published it on Twitter, Resetera, Tumblr, Reddit and BlueSky.

When Malds's BlueSky is available for all to see and the "mutual aid" freaks are posting unironically then you have to look internally in your community for someone to blame. Hell, if the fucking feminists think you're annoying then you done fucked up good.

[Ribosome]

I believe people that were on the feminine man with same sex attraction to trans women pipeline a lot more than these 40ish transbians that were awoken by posting on Discord.

[Potato]

It’s because, and let’s be honest here, there’s too much shouting with those people. They need to stop with all the yelling and calm down. It’s undignified.

Not sure if talking about the transes or the jews/palestinians...

[StandingOvation]

I believe people that were on the feminine man with same sex attraction to trans women pipeline a lot more than these 40ish transbians that were awoken by posting on Discord.

As someone who knows several very lovely trans people in his life, all leading happy and normal lives in regards to their relationships both romantic and work-based, comparing them to the “I was awoken by Discord/My Little Pony/Hazbin Hotel/Splatoon/Digimon” crowd is like comparing night and day.

[DocWager]

Definitely I would say the recent additions to the trans community are nothing more than lonely people desperate to apart of a community. Not that different from a Star Wars fan community. But that community didn’t become assholes about needing allies, and giving them money.

[Lonewulfeus]

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I believe people that were on the feminine man with same sex attraction to trans women pipeline a lot more than these 40ish transbians that were awoken by posting on Discord.

This is where I’m at.  95% of women are straight but 99% of trans women are gay?  Come on son!  I have no problem with trans women who date men but transbians can fuck all the way off.

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

That Echoes rant thread got locked. The thread backfired and our schizo friend pulled out the "I'm just a smoll bean transbian, why is everyone being so mean to me?" after slandering several gaming communities that are popular on Era. I'd recommend archiving any posts now if you want to, strong chance a mod quietly deletes it later.

[Nintex]

   
who is ready for some wlw action folx, don't worry it's safe we just shat some monthly blood

[benji]

Notice that the Israel thread shows up, and gets knocked back instantly even with somebody posting new news with big bold letters? People either don’t care anymore, and was just a crux for bad actors to use during the election cycle, or because everybody put that thread on ignore.

I think you say it’s both really.

I mean, they have been saying that all of Palestine is destroyed and everyone is dead for months.

Definitely I would say the recent additions to the trans community are nothing more than lonely people desperate to apart of a community. Not that different from a Star Wars fan community. But that community didn’t become assholes about needing allies, and giving them money.

[benji]

That Echoes rant thread got locked. The thread backfired and our schizo friend pulled out the "I'm just a smoll bean transbian, why is everyone being so mean to me?" after slandering several gaming communities that are popular on Era. I'd recommend archiving any posts now if you want to, strong chance a mod quietly deletes it later.

Ha, that's what I expected when I saw there was pushback, but there was even more since my post:

Yeah, cant agree with the Pokémon part at all, like, AT ALL. Its been years and if people want to take shortcuts so that they can finally play competitively, let them.
Also, didn't expect this to be an FGC callout as I find it tends to be one of the most diverse and welcoming communities compared to others (especially MOBAs). Yeah, there are gonna be bad actors and assholes, but they tend to be weeded out by the community itself. As for the whole Mai stuff and sexualizing her, I do agree some people went overboard with it, hell, Capcom themselves did too and I wish they didn't, at least not to the degree they did.

Your Pokémon example is not really good because saying competitive players don't want to play the game while that is a design issue and if it was fixed it wouldn't affect non-competive players. The Pokémon competitve scene has a lot of problems. But the competitive players are also as mysoginistic as in anoy ther esports so it also affect the scene in that point.

The shade thrown against competitive Pokemon players is weird and hypocritical. Is a few players getting caught in scandals around hacking in their teams enough to cast judgment over the entire scene? Is just wanting to play the aspect of the game they enjoy not "actually playing the game"?

Bizarre thing to bring up next to actual issues like bigotry. The VGC scene is very outspoken against that stuff. In all honesty I think the entire OP is overly judgmental to an extent because these issues extend far beyond just competitive players, but I'll leave it at that.

Another fgc hit piece. Could have been more honest with your title

Kinda tired of the casuals (derogatory) discourse in regards to competition. Neither is more "important" than the other. They care about different things and the competitive type happen to be the most visible. You think Skullgirls is still around just because of its competitive scene? Not because of the artists, lore masters, and mobile players that are literally the people keeping it funded? Evo had 10k competitors and almost 20k spectators, but none of them are casuals? Okay.

Tournaments thrive on community and competition. There are people who are begging for better single player and QoL features just to entice more people to actively get involved in their communities. Not everyone showing up to tournaments are there to compete! And they are no better or worse than the ones that are.

Jesus.

Especially ironic, considering that the people who feel most strongly about how competitive players ought to operate... literally are the people who aren't playing the games, competitively or otherwise, basing their arguments on rose tinted memories of Pokemon multimedia and franchise catch phrases and marketing taglines and shit.

Really not liking the implication there to be honest.

To me, the issue for me is using those hacks to create your perfect team (which yeah is still against rules, even if The PKMN company didn't enforce it until recently, they were always playing on ice doing that at offical tournaments) and then turning around and declaring other players who do take the time playing within the systems (including those training their team legitimately which in my experience are usually players trying to get into the scene, younger fans etc) like Nuzlocke, Shiny Hunters or just players who care about single player stuff as lesser fans, not as dedicated as competitive players or wasting their time feels incredibly insulting. Not to mention feels like double standards when Shiny Hunters do get shit if their caught using hacks to make it easier to get rarer ones, I've seen many Shiny Hunters get upset when their falsely accused of hacking because they do take pride playing the games legitimately. It feels incredibly hypocritical to give them shit for that but then give the competitive scene a free pass for using the same hacks, why is one okay but the other isn't, why should the competitive scene get privileges just because their tournament players, even when their against the rules?

Kinda tired of the casuals (derogatory) discourse in regards to competition. Neither is more "important" than the other. They care about different things and the competitive type happen to be the most visible. You think Skullgirls is still around just because of its competitive scene? Not because of the artists, lore masters, and mobile players that are literally the people keeping it funded? Evo had 10k competitors and almost 20k spectators, but none of them are casuals? Okay.

Tournaments thrive on community and competition. There are people who are begging for better single player and QoL features just to entice more people to actively get involved in their communities. Not everyone showing up to tournaments are there to compete! And they are no better or worse than the ones that are.

Jesus.
To be blunt no, none of those Skullgirls fans are "casuals" to me, their all fans different fans that by your own post, love the work for different reasons and I find it insulting to dismiss them as calling their time less important or "casual" or implying their existence is to support the competitive scene. A fan artist that dedicates their time, weeks, months etc into making fan art is just as dedicated to the series as a competitive player who takes the same amount of time improving their skills. To me casual is only valid when it's self-descriptive, like I would call myself a casual Sonic fan or Fatal Fury fans, no one fan has the right to dictate who is and isn't a real fans or just a casual.

No fan of Street Fighter, Tekken, Smash etc are obligated to support or even care about "their" (aka a group of competitive players) communities, they never signed anything Their is no code ordering them to care and especially in cases like Smash, may have never even heard of it; their only obligation is to play the game they bought and hopefully fun with it, not to support some tournament scene. Same with fans of any video game, Marvel Rivals have no obligation to care about that game's tournament or completive scene, or MOBA players, MMO players, FPS players etc etc. It's why I don't like the term FGC (and why for a while used the term CFGC; especially certain few members within it take it to extreme and declare games not fighting games, EVO fighter or FGC games etc like Smash or Mortal Kombat, declaring any fan, even competitive players are casual fans) because I think it's misleading.

I'm not playing SF6 because I give a damn about the tournment scene, I didn't buy it to be "enticed" by a community that has done nothing for me but make me uncomfortable, frustrated and unwanted; I actually find the notion that QOL features and Single Player content should only exist to bribe and entice/force players into the competitive scene insulting; no that content should exist because fans enjoy it (in fact as I've said in the past, I want more fighting game not focused on the competitive element and away from that scene to focus on single player and story like FRPGs (Fighting Role Playing games) sim fighters etc, I feel like the genre being tied solely to one element/fandom not a healthy one).

And what makes the FGC the only valid community? What if a player enjoys Tekken 8 and gets deep in the lore or the shipping community? Why are they not valid?

Everything else seems like a very black and white (and a bit misinformed) take on things. But it also feels like OP is trauma dumping so I'm not going to dogpile further.

Yeah this thread confuses me. I'm not sure how much I want to dwell on it.

These are wildly differing issues here lol.

The Pokémon stuff is absolutely harmless. Like I think people who are competing in official tournaments for cash prizes, where the rules state that you should use legit Pokémon, should just suck it up and breed some legit Pokémon, and it's on them if they don't and get caught out, but if I'm playing online and my opponent used some third party software to skip hours of grinding or having to buy an entire game to get a specific Legendary, I see absolutely zero issues with that.

It's hard to respond to this when I've never seen it implied that anyone needed to only care about the comp scene or that the fandom in general isn't valid. Who is even saying the artists and general fans aren't valid because they don't play the game at a high level? The fanart scene is too huge for that to be true.

You are making laser focused complaints that apply to a fringe minority, then dumping the paint can on the entire group.

I feel like you misunderstood or I misspoke. I'm not asking for spin-offs, I'm asking for fighting games that aren't focused on being competitive fighters first and foremost (which you can argue exist in games like Sparking Zero and Smash) and in particular, focus on story. like an FRPG isn't that far out an idea since it's basically replacing turn based combat for fighting game combat and a concept already been explored with games from Mortal Kombat Deception to SF6's World Tour; I want fighters that really focus on that because I think you could make something special. Outside of that, I also think fighters could be used to tell really personal not traditionally "fun" game like a fighter during the height of Mafia control of boxing that dealt more with the psychological and human element and went out of it's way to be more brutal in it's gameplay and show the long term effects of professional fighting.

I feel like my takeaway from the OP is "I hate the faux-exclusionary nature of competitive games; here is my list of people that do not belong as fans of the game."

When on earth did I say anyone didn't belong? Are we talking about people who disrespect women, speaking for others (which is not the same as saying their own opinions don't matter) or being toxic/hateful/exclusionary to others? What?! Like re-reading my OP, I'm not even sure where you got that conclusion?

I've reread the Pokémon bit several times now and am finding it difficult to come away with any read that isn't exactly what you are accusing others of.

I don't care if they use hacks, they have their own separate scene in Smogon when they can do whatever if they want to use them away from the PKMN Company's banhammer, I just find it very unfair and hypocritical to use them and then look down at others, especially groups who dedicate their time to stuff like shiny hunting and act that their superior. They aren't their both fans, neither is more authoritative. In hindsight, I really did a piss poor job explaining this and let my frustration get the better of me.

You're pulling a lot of shit that I didn't say, but to be clear, I don't think "casuals" are less than or are not even fans. It's a catch-all term in this context as people who are not involved in the competitive side of the community. A competitive minded person does not have the same concerns as the lore master or artist, and vice versa. That's really the only distinction, in my opinion. Neither are better or worse. They're all important. They are all fans. Again, you'd be wrong if all of the almost 20k people at Evo are solely interested in competing.

But if you just wanna be angry at something, go off fam.

The problem is that isn't how I've experienced it, especially back in the early to mid-10s, it felt like I couldn't discuss story or lore without being told "No real fans care about story in fighting games!" or it being dismissed as not important or just "casual talk". That's not even getting into the shit I got for talking about sexualization and objectification of women in fighting games and the weird and gross attitudes toward women characters. It felt like in places like Reddit and especially Eventhubs "casual" were constantly blamed for everything, told their getting in the way, that only the "right" fans should be allowed to play etc (which always felt excluded women).

I've mentioned this in the past but the moment I decided I was done with FGC was after the release of Street Fighter 5 when got spammed for not being a real fans, that I didn't belong and I should piss because I was a casual who's opinion wasn't valid off because I was disappointed with the OG release of that game (being incomplete, lack single player content); despite I was fucking hype for that game and spent the month prior writing about it, discussing the "leaks", rumours etc and making fan roster or posting about my fav SF character (God I miss the site Observation Deck :( ). It's why I simply can't buy their is no negative element to term in fighting game talk, even ignoring the wider use of the term in gaming where it is used to dismiss people (especially women, it's hard not to notice genres and games more popular with women often get dismissed as "casual games").

I'll add to the "I find single player pokemon fans FAAAAAAAAAAAR more likely to act superior and to lash out at competitive players and call them fake fans than the other way around."

I mean, I guess my only question would be, why do you feel like you have to interact with the fandom at all? I agree, most of it is overbearing but I also feel like most of it is functionally useless.

Should I close this thread? I'm really regretting this and feel like I shouldn't have posted this when I so frustrated this morning.

That's why I think goal is a factor too. Or maybe not your goal but your mindset. If someone has 500 hours in a fighting game but they put those hours in the within the first month of the game, then that person is probably pretty hardcore into the game. If they have 500 hours in like 2 years or something, it's probably more casual and they can probably admit as much. If you play a game A LOT but don't compete or even play ranked, you're also probably not casual. It just depends what you're trying to get out of the game. Like I said, I think most people use it this way. Anyone who doesn't is a weirdo that's shunned by the community itself.

That's kind of my issue though, if someone calls them self a casual fan, I have no issue, it's a fine self-descriptive term, like I said earlier in the thread I'd happily call myself a casual Fatal Fury fan or Sonic fan etc. My issue is that don't think it's fair to call others casuals because I don't think their ever is a qualifier that doesn't fall into personal preference or no true scotsman (plus I don't like the term itself, both for personal reasons and issues I've already brought up in the thread). Like with your example I'd argue someone with 500 hours in 2 years is still dedicated, especially if they other commitments like family, work etc that limits their free time or needed to take health/burn-out breaks or dedicate themselves to other parts like fan art.

Edit: Also like I pointed out in the OP with the Kuma example, I think the term casual is problematic when making sweeping generalizations or declarations, like one I remember seeing prior to Ultimate I remember seeing semi-frequently on ERA was "casuals don't like large rosters" (seeming based solely on Tekken Teg 2 and SFxT not doing the best) which never made sense to me and as shown with Smash Ultimate and other games like DB Xenoverse 2 and Sparking Zero, wasn't really true because you simply can't make sweeping statements outside of vague "Players like good games" because you're talking about fans with a wide range of opinions and wants. Plus for me, it can feel like someone talking for me which I don't like if haven't asked.

Thread locked at OP's request.

Also this post:

The competitive scene of every game is very mysoginistic and not safe for LGTBQ people, and I think that is partly fault of games creators and how they moderate their chat / chat voice and their politics towards hate and sexism.

They think developers can actually actively watch and listen to all of chat?

[Taco Bell Tower]

I rarely if ever play online games anymore, in the past year the closest was 1-2 days playing Marvel's Rivals before getting bored with it, playing some Operations missions online in Space Marines 2 and playing the occasional unranked match in Street Fighter 6. Even as someone who has loved fighting games all my life I tend to avoid it because I'm just sick of the culture around the competitive scene and how it affects games and overall fandom.

1. I really despise the notion the competitive/tournment scene is the REAL fandom, something you're expect to care about, WANT to join and aspire to be a part of; that their the only fans that matter and everyone else is "casuals", when really loudest loudmouths in the fandom who take all the space. I hate the term "casual" when it comes to gaming, partly because of the years of misogyny tied to it (because can't be "real" fans, games more popular women can't be REAL hardcore games etc) and I hate we treat competitive players as the authority of who and who can't be real fans and just "casuals", as if their scenes are the only way to determine care for the fandom. Hey people who love making fan rosters, love deep diving into the lore, people who spend years making fan art, fan music, animation, guides, love single player content etc, none of can be "real" fan unless your arbitrarily like a single aspect of these games you're just a filthy "casual". The Pokemon fandom I find can be real pathetic for this when I've seen fan pull this shit because no, I'm going to argue shiny hunters, nuzlocke players etc have every right to call themselves real fans to players who openly admit they don't actually want to play the games and expect everything on a platter (the complain when their caught out on cheating).
   
2. Related to the above, I'm so sick of the elitism tied to it. Too many times have I seen competitive player try to dictate who's opinions are valid (aka just blatant No True Scotsman nonsense) based on arbitrary nonsense, treating competitive fans opinions as the only valid ones, treating "casual" fans as some high mind to be placated while their needs and wants take the priority or act like they can speak for everyone. One of the vindicating things for me was competitive Tekken players (this was around the time of Fated Retribution) decided to declare no one likes the Bears and tried to make sure they weren't in Tekken 7, only for most of the rest of the fandom to tell them to shut the fuck up because that wasn't true. I've seen "Casual players only like X" or "Competitive players love Y" from competitive players way too much and rarely are they ever true (because it's based on the mentality that "casuals" are a hivemind and not, you the majority of the fandom who have varied wants).
   
3. I'm sick of competitive fandoms promoting toxic white cis guys who act like arseholes or are pretty obviously bigoted yet this shit gets defended, downplayed or justified because "yeah but they play good!" or "It's just a character!" (it never is). So many fucking arsehole men I've seen get pushed by competitive, given huge platforms again and again, whether on streaming sites or at tournaments and they nearly always turn out to be racist/misogynistic/homophobic/ableist/right wing pricks. Even when their not, it feels so often they encourage toxic ideas like losing being the worse thing ever rather then just a thing that will happen, shit that encourages fans to be toxic arseholes.
   
4. Speaking of, I'm sick of toxicity that always comes with competitive scenes. Players who care way too much about tier lists and "Meta" (largely thanks to those streamers and tournament players) and scream and be abusive when the random players their playing with won't automatically listen to their orders (abuse) or blame everyone for their losses. I'm sick racism, homophobia, sexism being treated as okay. I'm sick of fans downplay this shitty behaviour (Looking right at you MMO players) and victim blame with shit like "Yeah it's sucks you were told to you should have been aborted but you were playing Symmetra/Didn't have the exact right +1 Boots/Didn't listen to screaming kid bellowing orders/made one mistake so really it's your own fault!" Like fuck off with that.
   
5. Related to the above, I'm just of being expected to have to put up with misogyny. I'm sick of being expected to have to stay quiet when men are weird and gross about women and women characters or get mocked and shat on for it with shit like "It's JUST A JOKE!", "THERE ONE OF THE GOOD ONES!!!", "HER BUTT IS PART OF HER CHARACTER!!!! "REAL FANS DON'T CARE!", "FUN POLICE!!!!" (or worse). I admit that one of things that made me initially made me write this was seeing this being rightly criticizing the FGC treatment of women and how I'm supposed to find men like MattMcMuscles and Diaphone funny when their being weird about characters like Mai or Poison. the FGC in particular I have personal issues with because I remember back in the early 10s where you had shit like harassment of women is "Part of our culture" rhetoric, I remember how so many FGC fans (who no, the FGC will not get shit from me for associating itself with r/Kappa for so long) would whine and downplay sexism whenever that shit was reported, I remember when Kotaku had to call this out directly because they'd constantly be spammed by players complaining they were being picked on. I remember so often it was made clear that a good chunk of the FGC cared more their communities reputation then the safety and feelings of women and I can never not feel cynical when it feels like the FGC only started to clean up their act when it started hurting the ESPN deals and the like. It's one of the reason I refuse to consider myself part of FGC, I love fighting games, I ain't apart of that group.
   

Sorry for the rant, here are some highland cows to end this on a positive note:

Jesus christ my guy, please press Enter once in a while

[clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-found-focusing-on-something-you-dont-like-to-stop-thinking-about-something-you-hate-helps.1116702/

Echos made a follow up thread trying to explain aspects of their autism and why it leads them to make insane posts.

[Mask]

I don't see any difference between blackface and womanface, and the fact that "passing" or "attractiveness" makes right, is honestly right up there with religion throughout history...

[quote="benji" pid='115616' dateline='1740328616']

Jesus christ my guy, please press Enter once in a while

(This image is way too useful)

[Nintex]

Yet, he did not ask the most important question.

Would you betray Ukraine and make love to Cammy or sell out free Taiwan and do Chun-Li?

And no you cheaters you can't do both.

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

I really like that one post that says they're not going to go too hard because they can tell Echoes is having a meltdown. That had to have cut deep

[Nintex]

Pretty much what the title says, like if trying to focus on something you enjoy doesn't work or you're so wound out and angry because of something, you find that venting or focusing on something you don't like to a lesser degree "helps" in distracting you or cool you off? I've been feeling like this the past few months with the constant barrage of news coming out of the US and my fears about my friends and trans people in the UK and US, I find I get so frustrated that thing that I normally do to calm myself down or cheer myself up don't work and I can't focus on writing so I end up focusing on something I don't like such as a film, and old controversy or past memories.

I say "help" in quotes because while can be helpful at the moment, it honestly doesn't feel good in the long-run when you feel like an arse, especially if you do something stupid during it like post a thread you regret (me) or vent out on someone, even if they were being understanding about it (also me) or feel like you've wasted your time being angry.

Men will truely do anything but go to a therapist

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pope-francis-in-critical-condition-after-medical-event.1116339/page-3#post-136167954
Mammoth Jones comes in to finger wag the grave dancing..

Please be better than this r/atheism horseshit. Please.

The Era response

The don't defend child rapists soap box? that's not a soap box. Weird standards

But you do you. Keep tone policing and speaking up for a child rapist defender. A bit weird if you ask me.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-found-focusing-on-something-you-dont-like-to-stop-thinking-about-something-you-hate-helps.1116702/

Echos made a follow up thread trying to explain aspects of their autism and why it leads them to make insane posts.

Pretty much what the title says, like if trying to focus on something you enjoy doesn't work or you're so wound out and angry because of something, you find that venting or focusing on something you don't like to a lesser degree "helps" in distracting you or cool you off? I've been feeling like this the past few months with the constant barrage of news coming out of the US and my fears about my friends and trans people in the UK and US, I find I get so frustrated that thing that I normally do to calm myself down or cheer myself up don't work and I can't focus on writing so I end up focusing on something I don't like such as a film, and old controversy or past memories.

I say "help" in quotes because while can be helpful at the moment, it honestly doesn't feel good in the long-run when you feel like an arse, especially if you do something stupid during it like post a thread you regret (me) or vent out on someone, even if they were being understanding about it (also me) or feel like you've wasted your time being angry.

Ohhhhh, I see, the plight of trans women on TERF Island is like the competitive scene calling other gamers "casual" or other aspects of the gaming community not considering certain gamers legit gamers. Let's explore those thoughts.

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

Pretty much what the title says, like if trying to focus on something you enjoy doesn't work or you're so wound out and angry because of something, you find that venting or focusing on something you don't like to a lesser degree "helps" in distracting you or cool you off? I've been feeling like this the past few months with the constant barrage of news coming out of the US and my fears about my friends and trans people in the UK and US, I find I get so frustrated that thing that I normally do to calm myself down or cheer myself up don't work and I can't focus on writing so I end up focusing on something I don't like such as a film, and old controversy or past memories.

I say "help" in quotes because while can be helpful at the moment, it honestly doesn't feel good in the long-run when you feel like an arse, especially if you do something stupid during it like post a thread you regret (me) or vent out on someone, even if they were being understanding about it (also me) or feel like you've wasted your time being angry.

Men will truely do anything but go to a therapist

What exactly happened...?
Option 1: Echoes went to the fighting ground in Street Fighter 6 (the social/non-ranked pvp mode) lost badly enough that their opponent called them out/offered unsolicited tips.

Option 2: Echoes spent too long on a pokemon that ended up being nonviable in a competitive setting (I don't know much about comp pokemon other than it's grindy as fuck).

I do feel bad for Echoes as they are clearly unwell, but their meltdowns are too entertaining to look away from.

[Besticus Maximus]

So I poured my heart out and you guys pushed back a tiny bit and now I have no choice but to write another 1000 words about me. I'm so tired.

[nachobro]

It always feels like Echoes is just fighting windmills because the examples are always just so vague. Are you really telling me a YouTuber making a little joke about Mai being hot (I assume that's what it is, since again, no example) is the biggest problem with the FGC? Like that's what keeps women away?

Meanwhile this is not untypical to see at a live event:




Not even saying that the FGC has to change it's culture, but if I really wondered what scares some people off this is where I'd start

Why the fuck is this fat maladjusted man child trying to act like he's in the WWE?

Another fandom to add to the public execution list I guess...

this is smash, not fgc

[Nintex]

Wow I didn't know the pope was sick, last I heard he said some bad things about our favorite President and his policies. I hope he gets better soon. 

[killamajig]

It always feels like Echoes is just fighting windmills because the examples are always just so vague. Are you really telling me a YouTuber making a little joke about Mai being hot (I assume that's what it is, since again, no example) is the biggest problem with the FGC? Like that's what keeps women away?

Meanwhile this is not untypical to see at a live event:




Not even saying that the FGC has to change it's culture, but if I really wondered what scares some people off this is where I'd start

Why the fuck is this fat maladjusted man child trying to act like he's in the WWE?

Another fandom to add to the public execution list I guess...

this is smash, not fgc

I just posted this in the sports thread...

This is how real fighters end a fight. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

It always feels like Echoes is just fighting windmills because the examples are always just so vague. Are you really telling me a YouTuber making a little joke about Mai being hot (I assume that's what it is, since again, no example) is the biggest problem with the FGC? Like that's what keeps women away?

Meanwhile this is not untypical to see at a live event:




Not even saying that the FGC has to change it's culture, but if I really wondered what scares some people off this is where I'd start

Why the fuck is this fat maladjusted man child trying to act like he's in the WWE?

Another fandom to add to the public execution list I guess...

this is smash, not fgc

 Smash is a party game and there is no FGC any more. No gootecks, no Fchamp, everything going politically correct, r/kappa is dead, fuck them all.

[Mask]

Era death threads. A different flavor of horseshoe ice cream.

Also Nintex "OUR" president? lol