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

[Potato]

Multiple personality Melds is back, baby! 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-thru-hiking-the-appalachian-trail-ama.1162509/page-3#post-139259091

He started his walk
RIP

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i%E2%80%99m-thru-hiking-the-appalachian-trail-ama.1162509/page-4#post-139284114

last update Tuesday night

RIP

Alive!

Ugh, I want to update this thread more but service out here is so sporadic. I also really want to reply to people but I'm so very tired every night. I promise I will tomorrow morning. In the meantime here a quick update and some more photos:

Day 3 complete.
Miles for the day: 15.8
Overall miles: 39.8
Weather: Heavy rains this morning, scattered showers through the afternoon, clear skies into evening.
Terrain: Mountains, hella mountains. Climbed Blood Mountain today in Chattahoichee National Forrest.
Elevation: 4,458
Mood: Going strong.

Say what you will about this guy, but at least he's following through...

[Jansen]

This is just like one of my anime's

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamala-harris-praises-cory-booker-chris-van-hollen-maxwell-frost-jasmine-crockett-aoc-and-bernie-sanders.1178448/page-3#post-139376787

User Banned (Permanent): Inflammatory rhetoric towards another member in the context of genocide, previous ban for downplaying genocide

watching your country get bombed to oblivion by money you yourself helped fund and men and women getting shot in the fucking head thrown into holes like nothing really makes this not as deep as you think

harris stood by while that genocidal maniac did everything he could to support israel, booker spoke out in support of israel in his shit filibuster speech, bernie got the police involved on protestors and aoc is just passively existing doing nothing

so yes, trash

You yourself are standing by and doing nothing. Be the change you want to see.

[benji]

Debating male sports advantages with someone who rejects biology is about as productive and intellectually sound as William Lane Craig using mathematical probability to calculate the odds of the Resurrection.



You're giving them too much by even listening to them.

Breh, it's even better. Arguing that trans women have no advantage is a own goal. So you're admitting they're male?

Okay, fine, there's no advantage. Women are allowed to exclude males for any reason, right, fellow feminists?

"But but but HRT's changed my biology." Oh, so there's a biological difference between the sexes huh? Dig up stupid.

"But but but there's no way to tell without fisting people, you have to take my word for it!" Well, how about we just let the women police their own spaces, community self-policing, right?

No debate on trans sports and abusing children is so key not just because it's the most upsetting to the normies, it's because it's where all their contradictory rhetoric goes to die by their own rhetoric.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamala-harris-praises-cory-booker-chris-van-hollen-maxwell-frost-jasmine-crockett-aoc-and-bernie-sanders.1178448/page-3#post-139376787

User Banned (Permanent): Inflammatory rhetoric towards another member in the context of genocide, previous ban for downplaying genocide

watching your country get bombed to oblivion by money you yourself helped fund and men and women getting shot in the fucking head thrown into holes like nothing really makes this not as deep as you think

harris stood by while that genocidal maniac did everything he could to support israel, booker spoke out in support of israel in his shit filibuster speech, bernie got the police involved on protestors and aoc is just passively existing doing nothing

so yes, trash

You yourself are standing by and doing nothing. Be the change you want to see.

[Daffy Duck]

You mean a lot of men only see women as objects of desire versus actual human beings, and thus ironically only refer to other men with regards to what women are after?

Never would've guessed

https://www.resetera.com/threads/this-internet-poll-is-breaking-mens-brains-article-on-the-before-and-after-pics-and-male-versus-female-gaze.1179273/#post-139384188

Only on the first page but this will be a good one. Saw the discourse online before the thread and the interesting conversation.

Jumped to the last page

Damn that right picture really goes hard on the classic "dating profile of dude bro with shirtless pic on bathroom flexing", it just has tremendously bad vibes (completely unrelated to the actual human being in the photo OFC), the kind of bad vibes that don't really affect men (straight men anyway), so yeah even if the right look wasn't preferred (which it is) that photo was destined to lose from the jump lol.

Wouldn’t be Era without posting hate against men, wonder if it’s a similar theme across the thread

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kamala-harris-praises-cory-booker-chris-van-hollen-maxwell-frost-jasmine-crockett-aoc-and-bernie-sanders.1178448/page-3#post-139376787

  User Banned (Permanent): Inflammatory rhetoric towards another member in the context of genocide, previous ban for downplaying genocide

watching your country get bombed to oblivion by money you yourself helped fund and men and women getting shot in the fucking head thrown into holes like nothing really makes this not as deep as you think

harris stood by while that genocidal maniac did everything he could to support israel, booker spoke out in support of israel in his shit filibuster speech, bernie got the police involved on protestors and aoc is just passively existing doing nothing

so yes, trash

You yourself are standing by and doing nothing. Be the change you want to see.

How can they possibly ban for that when it's the rhetoric of half the threads on there? Hell, it's the same rhetoric the other poster is using.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-yall-want-to-talk-about-the-100-men-vs-1-silverback-gorilla-hypothetical.1175430/page-19#post-139266138

What exactly do you think a gorilla is made of? They have all the same weaknesses as a human body. You can easily damage a gorilla in the same ways you would just a human.

And I'll just point out animals can easily die from exhaustion or being unable to properly defend/escape from the exhaustion. It's the main way humanity was so successful as hunters.

The idea that "a gorilla's body is just like a human's" is pure fantasy.

Gorillas have muscle mass up to four times greater than humans, with bone density built to withstand stresses that would easily snap human bones. Their bite force exceeds 1,300 PSI, and their tendons and ligaments are thicker, tougher, and far more resistant to tearing. Even their skin is denser, especially over the chest, neck, and limbs — exactly where a human would try (and fail) to attack.

A gorilla isn't just a bigger human. It's heavier, stronger, faster, and biomechanically superior in every way.

Pretending you can "easily damage" one isn't science — it's wishful thinking.

Deep down, you already know who wins. You're just looking for a version where it hurts less.

👏 Beautiful post.

❤️🦍

Famous Last Words:


I certainly didn't read the 28 pages of that thread, but I'll note that the pro-gorilla side seems to believe it's impossible for 100 humans to coordinate, plan, and fashion tools despite this being humans entire advantage in the world. In fact, this poster in one of his data-driven debunkings claims that humans coordinating at all in this scenario is "magical" thinking. Even though it happens constantly all the time and has for all of human history. 

He claims others are tipping the scales, and they probably are, with their weird imagined scenarios but his scenario designs claim that humans would fail because they couldn't hold the gorilla down forever. But they don't need to, they only need the largest humans to hold it down until the others determine and/or fashion a way to kill it. The gorilla needs to stay free the entire time. Heck, the humans don't even actually need to hold down the gorilla if they can mostly avoid it or distract it to preserve the killing design subgroup if necessary.

A lot of the pro-gorilla scenarios also write off the idea that any of the humans would sacrifice themselves, even though the scenario itself seems to posit some kind of fight to the death rather than the gorilla choosing to refuse to engage and the humans accepting this. This is required because the most rational course for both the humans and the gorilla is to avoid conflict so it's the most likely scenario to occur, the design has to remove this or there's not a debate to have. But making it a fight to the death means that some humans will sacrifice for the group even if not necessarily by choice. Almost all the scenarios on both sides on the one page I did read seem to act as if the goal is to have no deaths by the humans, but that seems like a different scenario than "who will win?" Isn't 99 human deaths and 1 gorilla death a win scenario for the humans? It's odd because many of the posters in that thread generally have no problem sacrificing others for their personal goals, to pick just one example Nepenthe is willing to kill billions in order to take a carrot, leave a carrot.

If there's room for argument is precisely because the person that originally came up with it thought so highly of Gorillas that to balance that they made the amount of humans way too high. Chances are they probably imagined the thing going down as a fight with men trying to punch the Gorilla, almost even with the men taking turns.

[benji]

Anyway, if any of the humans can smuggle in some HRT it would take away the gorilla's advantages immediately.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bessent-if-holiday-orders-are-not-placed-it-could-be-devastating-for-china%E2%80%99s-economy.1178511/page-3#post-139385022

China's safety nets are limited to party elites and employees of strategically vital state-owned enterprises. Regular blue-collar workers and farmers are the human minerals that China is willing to sacrifice to weather the storm and back Xi's strongman approach.

This is not a new dilemma that China has faced. Since Trump entered office for the first time, there has been a need to expand domestic consumption in China, and the Chinese government has consistently emphasized that it must do so, but there have never been effective actions to directly increase average people's salaries or widely distributed relief funds. Recently, China's health insurance system has been plagued by scandals involving the purchase of large quantities of poor drugs, resulting in frequent medical problems and making it more difficult for regular people to get treatment.

In terms of political stability, China will likely last longer in a trade war than the US. Chinese people have endured things ten times harder than this. The Chinese internet is now full of self-deprecating jokes about 'learning to eat grass again'. But in terms of quality of life for those below the middle class, the Chinese will be more traumatised than the Americans, and this has always been the case in US-China conflicts.

I think much of this is nonsense but we'll see I guess how "traumatized" the Chinese will be and how chilaxed America is lol

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bessent-if-holiday-orders-are-not-placed-it-could-be-devastating-for-china%E2%80%99s-economy.1178511/page-3#post-139386351

I was just trying to chip in and point out some economic and systemic issues in China that influence the tariff war that are not well-known in the West, which are mainly absent from this discussion.

Consider another example: the issue of importing American soybeans. Many people here believe that importing soybeans from Brazil would be cheaper for China, but this is not the case right now. The reasons for this include the fact that loading at Brazilian ports is less efficient than in the US, resulting in higher transport costs, and the fact that Brazilian soybean prices have risen due to increased demand from China, all of which, along with a number of other factors, have contributed to recent price increases for soybeans and related products in China. And, of course, this has an impact on Chinese civilian lives.

This is not a "my team will last longer than yours" conversation for me. If you believe that economic information from China is unnecessary for the conversation and is "nonsense," that is fine with me; perhaps someone else will find that information worth reading.

I don't think of this is as absent from discussion there are almost daily yt videos talking about how China is fucked. I've been seeing them for years. That perspective is actually the most prominent in the west. Of course they have economic hardships but so does the U.S. At the end of the day America has atrocious leadership. Trump is a moron and so is everyone in his government. You can't ignore the mental acuity of leadership in accessing who will "win" in a conflict. I think it's THE most important aspect. Leadership in America is so bad that it overwhelms all other factors.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bessent-if-holiday-orders-are-not-placed-it-could-be-devastating-for-china%E2%80%99s-economy.1178511/page-3#post-139388436

And you continue to assume that I intended to argue whether Trump will "win" when I made it clear in my prior reply that:



As a Chinese, I just tried to discuss the potential harm to the Chinese people as a result of the trade war, as well as why this could become a long-term problem, and I was immediately presumed to be on the US's side. This is a common issue in political debates on this forum: people hunt for opportunity to misinterpret others and make it into a console war.

I don't care what side you are on. The thread is about Bessent and his assertion and I think it's more the opposite of what he says and that the American economy will suffer more. I think the pivotal factor is leadership in which America fails miserably.

You can talk about how much China will suffer all day if you want. The entire planet is under threat from Trump's megalomania. I don't want anyone to suffer. I also don't know what I would ever get out of talking about that extensively. We all know things are going to get bad. I am more interested in Trump's defeat and analyzing how foolish and delusional he and everyone around him is. Watching him continue to walk things back is proof enough to me that he doesn't have the cards.

[DavidCroquet]

I'm choosing to believe the pro-gorilla scientist or whatever is doing some long-con anti-trans performance art.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bessent-if-holiday-orders-are-not-placed-it-could-be-devastating-for-china%E2%80%99s-economy.1178511/page-3#post-139388436

I don't care what side you are on. The thread is about Bessent and his assertion and I think it's more the opposite of what he says and that the American economy will suffer more.

In other words, I don't care what you have to say about China I reject that information and cling to my fantasy. Now let me lecture you about how what really matters is something completely unrelated that prioritizes me posting ignorant shit on "video game" forums and refusing to learn from others.

I also want to note that Ceerious original post supports what he claims is his argument (that China can outlast Trump*) but he didn't even read it before taking issue and calling it nonsense.

Always love the Western posters informing Ceerious that China is basically a Scandinavian welfare state rather than an one-party state with a bureaucratic elite and a very restricted safety net.

*which they can because they don't have alternatives

[NekoFever]

Anyway, if any of the humans can smuggle in some HRT it would take away the gorilla's advantages immediately.

It’s misogynistic to suggest that women aren’t as strong as men

[imsotired]

Anyway, if any of the humans can smuggle in some HRT it would take away the gorilla's advantages immediately.

How many pickle jars before the gorilla gets tired?

[benji]

Spoiler: NEVER FORGET (click to show)(click to hide)

[benji]

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Gaming journalism died with the death of early G4. 

If I can't watch Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb shit on JRPGs then games aint worth playing.

[benji]

"We're watching the death of an institutional video games media in real time" - guy whose entire career comes after the internet (and the sites he's worked for being prominent in this) killed off pretty much all print video game media but the magazine subsidized by GameStop.

[benji]

Remember, Scoops is the guy who told ResetERA.com that he deliberately buries important gaming stories because he's afraid of the Kiwi Farms.

edit: Of course it was in the Kiwi Farms thread:

[Boredfrom]

Patrick Klepek’s revisionist history of Polygon wasn’t unexpected but still disappointing to see. 

Is everyone that worked at Gawker in self denial?

[Boredfrom]

Remember when Patrick Klepek shilled Brianna Wu’s game?

[benji]

Klepek falsely claimed that Waypoint was profitable and it was shut down for being too brave in its views.

Because of Jeff, Ryan and Vinny roasting him on the podcast was the only time he's ever been halfway honest.

[Boredfrom]

That post aged well. 

[benji]

Game journalists are one of the biggest groups of people constantly whining about how they want to serve up worthless slop to people they hate and are upset that the audience goes to places with more favorable slop instead of just eating whatever shit someone offers them. It's some kind of ironic metaphor for the industry they cover and openly also hate.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

are we getting chud games from now on?  

[Polident]

Spoiler: NEVER FORGET (click to show)(click to hide)

Wonder if this guy will ever have a moment of introspection. He, possibly more than anybody else, represents the failings in that industry.

[benji]

are we getting chud games from now on?  

Yes, it's literally the end of the world as we know it (which is a never ending hellscape) for the right side of history (rich white college educated people employed by giant media conglomerates to talk about their opinions of entertainment products) because of capitalism:

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[benji]

Along with some of the above, Klepek also retweeted this:

I thought his complaint was the loss of institutional video games media? Yet he's promoting the competition that's undermining those institutions? He says words he doesn't even know the meaning of (or that he doesn't mean) and thinks that should make us appreciate his ability to form words into thoughts to where we give him lots of money for it.

That's aside from the fact that it's taking place on Bluesky and is a list for following these people on Bluesky, which like Twitter is itself a threat to those institutions! I don't need to go to their site and suffer their ads or even their shitty writing when they spend all day delivering their dreck directly to my feed that I scroll all day. You post everything to Twitter/Bluesky, where all the conversation now takes place, nobody needs your sites for that anymore dummies. (And it keeps them away from your site and work lest they experience FOMO.) Plus now everyone sees all the shit they used to not know about you or any of your stupid idle thoughts you think they need to know. Congrats, you've done it to yourself.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

but you don't get paid for your xeets.