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

[Taco Bell Tower]

B-Dubs in the community thread:

There's actually a five minute window in which you can adjust thread titles. Part of why it's not longer is that we have a history of users who would totally abuse the power in order to make posters they dislike look bad and attack them. It's part of the reason ban histories aren't public: we have people who would 1000% abuse the feature in order to engage in their dumb discord feuds and attack users they personally dislike. Hell, we have users who have literally admitted to using kiwifarms in order to engage in this behavior.

Yes that's exactly what happened

Oh, phew he said kiwifarms and not thebire 

[D3RANG3D]

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[Taco Bell Tower]

Legends Arceus had a more appealing artstyle but everything else looked incredible

also remembering why i stopped going on gaming forums so much everyone loves being a total downer including me, toxic

“Fuck, I hate to remember that I still have some standards.” 


https://www.resetera.com/threads/pokémon-legends-z-a-releases-late-2025.1120350/page-2

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He does realize he's posting in a gaming forum, right? 

[Bootsthecat]

Ur gonna get raped

Makes me wonder who's the pitcher n who's the catcher

[DavidCroquet]

Dubs descends the mountain to bequeath his wisdom...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-house-official-threatens-to-redraw-canadian-border.1120662/page-7#post-136366281

Donald Trump has been in power for a little over a month and the world as a whole is in chaos. The US is in chaos, the EU is in chaos, and dictators are literally being given the keys to the store while bad faith actors run around and celebrate.

People living in Canada are literally sitting at home, watching Trump, and his goon squad, talk about annexing their country by force. If people can't understand why they are angry and afraid, I don't even know what to say. Maybe give them a bit of space to be angry as they're in a horrifying situation. Not everything is about us Americans.

As far as moderating these threads go, the stupid jokes from Americans are not helping things at all. Yes, some people vent through gallows humor, but what you're doing also scares the shit out of the Canadians looking for a bit of solidarity. Maybe knock it off and keep it to yourself. It's not helping, all you're doing is making things worse. Maybe show a little solidarity instead of joking around.

Then we've got the Canadians calling for violent coups. You need to understand that you cannot do this. It actively puts the entire forum, and all of its members, at risk. We don't let the Americans do it and we can't let you do it. If someone tries something and it turns out they browse the forum, we're all screwed. You want to call for more action, that's fine, but we can't be having people call for coups. That's where we have to draw the line.

In the end, attacking each other in anger isn't going to do anything. We're going to be banning the people making stupid jokes and calling for violent coups, but what we need from Americans is to stop making it personal. Americans, the Canadians venting aren't talking about you specifically so don't take it so personally. All the fighting over that stuff does is make it so the original topic is forgotten. So please knock it off.

Weird that this same logic didn't apply in the Non-Voter Wars of Winter 2024.

Also Nepenthe conspicuously absent from the entire thread.

[HaughtyFrank]

B-Dubs in the community thread:

There's actually a five minute window in which you can adjust thread titles. Part of why it's not longer is that we have a history of users who would totally abuse the power in order to make posters they dislike look bad and attack them. It's part of the reason ban histories aren't public: we have people who would 1000% abuse the feature in order to engage in their dumb discord feuds and attack users they personally dislike. Hell, we have users who have literally admitted to using kiwifarms in order to engage in this behavior.

Yes that's exactly what happened

is he talking about the fact banbot was hosted on kf as 'going to' kf?
everyone knows why era dont make ban histories public. its not to make posters look bad.

The explanation for the lack of ban history never made a lick of sense and it's so painfully obvious it's meant to obscure the double standards of the mods. Really don't know why anyone over there doesn't push back against that

[Besticus Maximus]

I am 100000% convinced Nepenthe's actual opinion is that there should be some kind of holy war between canada and the US so land can be given back to natives and anyone who is even kind of like her except all white people except the ones she likes for some reason

[Uncle]

I am curious how many pages of this thread do not contain the string "nep"

I realize this would also include all the times we call people inept or our many long discussions about Nepal, but just as a baseline overview

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

I already haven't been to Starbucks in a year and a half because they're on the BDS list.

Surely, the way to get me and others back is by getting rid of options. Brilliant stuff.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/starbucks-discontinuing-13-drinks-from-its-menu.1120410/page-2#post-136346424

I'm not sure what he's trying to say here, because the implication I'm picking up on is if Starbucks added more items he'd drop the boycott. What an ally.

[benji]

The Amouranth thing is so stupid because, who exactly is she trying to cater to? GGers and alt-right men hate women who do adult content.

And literally the first post I checked about it had a comment from a bluecheck saying "even a whore like her thinks you're all freaks." Girl wake up, THEY HATE YOU TOO.

Exactly my thought. Why are so many people sideing with groups that hate them?

I truly believe it's some kind of survival/coping thing for a lot of people. When you realise on some level that the odds are stacked against you just because of your immutable characteristics, but you don't really want to accept that on a more conscious level, it's not unusual to distance yourself from that. Maybe you even agree that women (or any other minority group) are "inferior", but you're "special", you're one of "the good ones", and surely that means even people that hate women will accept you, right?

Of course not. Any "alliance" is circumstantial, and they will be the first to be thrown under the bus when it's convenient. But trying to appease people that threaten them may feel like the "safer" alternative than to distancing from them and having to accept the unfortunate reality that there's a lot of bigots in this world, and many can and do have the power to make life worse for you just because of who you are.

The funny thing is that this argument can go just as easily for their side. Because you're not a straight white man, you belong on our side and you must our adopt our batshit crazy beliefs, or else we will cast you to the wolves, minority.

I was going to say... don't they hate her? Why would she want to side with them? Especially if she disagrees with them? She should abandon her opinions to side with people who also hate her?

The "gun rights" will come in handy for me to "end fascism" when the "community" tries to enforce the "solidarity" on me of "communism" and "trans rights" through a claim of a monopoly on the use of violence.

[Eric Cartman]

Then we've got the Canadians calling for violent coups. You need to understand that you cannot do this. It actively puts the entire forum, and all of its members, at risk. We don't let the Americans do it and we can't let you do it. If someone tries something and it turns out they browse the forum, we're all screwed. You want to call for more action, that's fine, but we can't be having people call for coups. That's where we have to draw the line.

Imagine being an admin on a games forum where the way you've run things means you legitimately believe there is a non-zero chance you've managed to radicalise someone into an actual terrorist threat.

Now imagine your biggest problem with that is that someone in authority will notice and you'll look bad

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Oh no Trump is going to invade Canada.. 

[benji]

This is the only Amouranth thing I know about and ever want to know about:

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Re is surprised a streamer hate them? Wow. It's almost as if to be a streamer you need to be a narcissistic piece of shit. 

[Uncle]

I am curious how many pages of this thread do not contain the string "nep"

I realize this would also include all the times we call people inept or our many long discussions about Nepal, but just as a baseline overview

I sort of figured it out

I used the search thread function at the bottom to search for "nep"

there are 1737 posts in this thread which contain "nep" out of 20,969, which is 8.3% of posts

since there are 30 posts per page, there is a 97% chance that "nep" appears at least once on every page

given that probability across 699 pages, there are about 21 pages that do not contain "nep"

however, this does not account for the likelihood of bursts of activity containing lots of quoted posts containing "nep" which are repeated and clustered around a single event, which would mean the "neps" may not be evenly distributed across the entire thread

[Nintex]

Then we've got the Canadians calling for violent coups.

How the hell does he do it

Also amouranth is a great business woman

 

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[Potato]

B-Dubs in the community thread:
Yes that's exactly what happened

is he talking about the fact banbot was hosted on kf as 'going to' kf?
everyone knows why era dont make ban histories public. its not to make posters look bad.

The explanation for the lack of ban history never made a lick of sense and it's so painfully obvious it's meant to obscure the double standards of the mods. Really don't know why anyone over there doesn't push back against that

You know which other forum doesn't have a ban history page?

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thebire

Kill the mods and burn their corpses in the public square!

[Potato]

I am curious how many pages of this thread do not contain the string "nep"

I realize this would also include all the times we call people inept or our many long discussions about Nepal, but just as a baseline overview

Inept and Nep go hand in hand though 

or

Can't say inept without Nep 

[BananaBlast]

I was going to say... don't they hate her? Why would she want to side with them? Especially if she disagrees with them? She should abandon her opinions to side with people who also hate her?

As far as I remember, Resetera simped for Amouranth a while because A. she was getting criticism for her hot tub twitch earnings, and Ree wanted to push their "sex work is real work" virtue signaling, and B. she had a violently abusive boyfriend who was forcing her to make content when she didn't feel like it (something to this day which I still don't know is entirely true or not). 

Anyway, it's a leftoid recruiting tactic. Because she's a female sex worker, and because tradcons typically dislike sex work, she should join Resetera in their insanity so they could ""protect"" her from the tradcons.

[Nintex]

Anyway even if Trump decides to order the Panzer divisions into Canada it wouldn't happen anytime soon. Forward posts, staging areas, supply lines etc. . It'll take a lot of prep work to launch a military operation of that magnitude.

According to grok the bare minimum would be 200k - 300k troops but probably 500k or more to ward off counter attacks. 

It also notes that a winter war would be difficult

Canada’s got fewer roads and rail lines per square mile than most developed nations, and winter could grind an army to a halt.

Grok says 150k - 200k would be enough to knock out Mexico although it could turn into a cartel quackmire.

What’s the hypothetical aim here? Quick regime change or total control? That swings the numbers big time.

An invasion of Canada is not a real concern until the next presidency (Vance?) and then Trump would have to take appropriate steps to prepare for it now. 
The whole thing is just very unlikely.

[Potato]

Then we've got the Canadians calling for violent coups. You need to understand that you cannot do this. It actively puts the entire forum, and all of its members, at risk. We don't let the Americans do it and we can't let you do it. If someone tries something and it turns out they browse the forum, we're all screwed. You want to call for more action, that's fine, but we can't be having people call for coups. That's where we have to draw the line.

Imagine being an admin on a games forum where the way you've run things means you legitimately believe there is a non-zero chance you've managed to radicalise someone into an actual terrorist threat.

Now imagine your biggest problem with that is that someone in authority will notice and you'll look bad

Why would it mean everyone is screwed if someone who commits terrorism is a member of their forum? I know the tankies and Nep love the idea of collective punishment, but legally it ain't anyone else's problem what an individual does...unless, like our esteemed colleague Cartman mentions, your forum had been used to recruit and radicalise vulnerable mentally challenged individuals to join terrorist groups and commit terrorism. But why would that be a problem of you've been a competent moderation team?

[HaughtyFrank]

Then we've got the Canadians calling for violent coups.

How the hell does he do it

Also amouranth is a great business woman

 

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The real surprise about that clip from her stream is that she sits there in baggy clothes and shit. What happened to the number one titty streamer

[BananaBlast]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-“sweet-baby-inc”-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-165#post-136350363

We usually get the bad news only here so I wanted to share this:

One of our news writers recently did a news post about a new trailer for an AVGN game. Saw that and it rubbed me the wrong way after the whole shite anti game awards. So I brought it up to the owner of the side and those news are now a thing of the past.

Both him and the writer didn't know about Rolfes involvement (good for them honestly) because they aren't as terminally online as I am.

So yeah. As always:

Fuck the chuds

[benji]

Weird how the staff can tell everybody to pound sand, write essays about why they need to ignore their concerns and ban all sorts of opinions but then boldly talk about how we need a safe space so people can feel valid about being afraid that America is going to invade Canada. But no calls for violent coups because we could get in trouble if a violent coup actually happened. Like, fucking seriously?

[benji]

STAFF COMMUNICATION
-America is not going to invade Canada.
-A violent coup is not going to happen, especially one that spawned from ResetERA.com.
-You can call for violent coups in America all you want because it's not illegal and nobody fucking cares.

[Alpacx]

STAFF COMMUNICATION
-America is not going to invade Canada.
-A violent coup is not going to happen, especially one that spawned from ResetERA.com.
-You can call for violent coups in America all you want because it's not illegal and nobody fucking cares.

But what about blaming nonvoters? 
You must address this Benji!

[Nintex]

A violent coup is going to happen. Donald Trump will take the country back from the 47th President. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

STAFF COMMUNICATION
-America is not going to invade Canada.
-A violent coup is not going to happen, especially one that spawned from ResetERA.com.
-You can call for violent coups in America all you want because it's not illegal and nobody fucking cares.

How can I know this is the truth when it has no staff highlight?

[benji]

Blame everybody for everything.

But don't put staff in danger.

[StandingOvation]

Is the A new? I think the I is indigenous?

Asexual and Intersex, chudlord

Intersex might be the weirdest inclusion, unless I'm confusing it with something else. It's an actual chromosome anomaly as far as I'm aware, not an identity or whatever. It also either has barely any effect at all, or it can cause very severe disabilities depending on the specific mutation. Those affected usually either never notice or die relatively young.

I once had sex with an Intersex woman, that was an experience, let me tell you.