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

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/professionals-of-resetera-are-you-using-genai-in-your-work-day-and-what-are-your-impressions.1188777/page-5#post-140107626
A one post burnner...

SpaceToast said:
I turn it off in anything I can as fucking quickly as possible on my work system.

I was disgusted to find a copilot icon in notepad the other day.

thetrin said:
I have a personal no AI policy.

It's not accurate, and if I rely on it, my skills with atrophy, and I refuse to let that happen.

Ferret said:
No. There are certainly uses in my field for things like transcribing digitized records but none of that matters for my role in particular and using it for shit like writing emails is just pathetic and I make fun of my coworkers who do.

XaviConcept said:
Fuck no. Why would I use something that aims to fuck me over and replace me. I would have to be fucking stupid.

ostrichKing said:
I know it's a shitty pill to swallow and I don't trust corporations with it at all, but the reality is, in most fields, if you aren't using it as a tool you will be surpassed by people who do use it. We are headed towards an idea economy where the barriers to making an idea come to life will shrink and repetitive utility jobs will go away. AI can't replace taste or discernment which I think corporations who completely replace the human element will quickly realize (and many already are).

The last quote here should be read deeply by the other quotes I included here.

Learning how to use these tools efficiently are comparable to learning how to use a scientific calculator properly for maths.

Yes, a whole bunch of the population uses these calculators to do stupid additions (e.g. using gen ai as a search engine or generating direct output from a prompt). But being able to use one properly makes all the difference in the world.

The difference here is, these are insanely powerful tools when used properly, especially in combination.

Ego and the drive to be edgy and different will be your downfall here. Every professional should be learning how to enhance your workflow using them ASAP.

IMO ofc feel free to challenge

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-kids-daycare-lady-unexpectedly-died-and-its-proving-difficult-to-deal-with.1192071/

She had what can only be described as a tragic life. Her 13 year old daughter died by suicide due to bullying. She had an autistic son that went through so much. It destroyed her husband but they stayed strong and together until the end. Just a few months ago my wife gifted her a necklace with her daughter's face in it. You could tell she never truly recovered from it but she was still a joy to be with

With a grandparent you expect it? They had a fulfilled life. Got to experience everything you could hope for. But it just felt like her story wasn't over and it was just completely and unexpectedly cut short due to an illness she didn't realize she had seven days ago (literally). Her bowels just died and they couldn't save her. Like, what? Didn't even know that happens.

I will miss our ten minute conversations we had every day. They weren't much but I'm introverted so to me they were the world. She was a good friend and a third parent to my kids.

I don't know. I'm just now realizing how different grief is when a death happens to someone who's story isn't finished. And it's very hard. If you can share any empathetic words of how you dealt with it I would appreciate it

I'm sorry that happened and all, but I can't help wondering once again if these people are actually over the age of 13.

To me everything is genuine until the last part. Like, I believe him about the list of a close friend, but why ask ERA for words of comfort, unless you want empty platitudes, not even sincere.

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-just-become-the-new-green-lantern.1192098/

So one night, you're outside and you see a shooting star... Except it isn't a shooting star it's a small ship flying right in your direction. The ship crashes a hundred yards away and when you approach, a bright purple man tries to get out of the ship but is too fatally injured. He looks at you and says (paraphrasing here):
"Hey fucker! I'm dying, that sucks. Anyway, my ring chose you, don't have time to explain. blah."
Before giving you the ring and a green lantern then dying, his green clothes disappearing leaving him bollock naked in front of you.

You soon learn that the Ring actually can give you superpowers through the power of your willpower; given you a green, black and white while using it and giving you the power of flight, enhanced straight, speed and durability, translate all languages for you and most notably, allows you to create in object, creature etc (albeit green) though hard light constructs.

You need to recharge the ring every so often with the green lantern (highly inefficient design) and it's only weaknesses is that it can't affect or damage yellow things or if your really unlucky, wood.
So... WHAT HAPPENS!?!?!
Especially when The Green Lantern Corp comes looking for you?

There was a relatively recent Batman comic about a future where everything went to shit. Part of it involved the Green Lanterns getting wiped out and the rings having to choose ever weaker hosts. Eventually, the people left to be chosen were of such weak constitution and will power, the rings overpowered the host. Leaving the mindless humans dragging behind the manifestation of the ring in the form of giant green energy babies.

tl;dr the scenario presented can’t even happen in fiction.

[Shecky Fragbaum]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-were-a-superhero-would-you-have-a-no-kill-rule.1190076/page-8#post-140046318

80% of voters straight up murderous vigilantes

Give me Superman powers and reparations, landback, and eco socialism are happening immediately, which means some folks are gonna have to get got as a general consequence of trying to stop me.

also era:
"Hurr durr stupid people think punisher good when punisher actually bad because punisher kill people he think bad hurr durr"

Nepenthe gets superpowers beyond her wildest imagination, and still, the only thing she can think of to do with them is force other people to live a certain way (or else) and take their money. 

Also - note the casual pledge of (immediate) genocide. Some folks will have to "get got." You know. For landback.

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-just-become-the-new-green-lantern.1192098/

One of many threads they’ve made in the last 24 hours… Jesus Christ, go outside and touch wasps my dude

[Potato]

New Echoes thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-00s-wasnt-really-the-golden-age-of-the-internet.1191981/

I sometimes see the 00s and the early 10s being the golden age for the internet, especially in comparison to nowadays' heavily algorithmic, highly corporate, AI dead Internet. Like I do thing in some regards that is true but on the other hand I've never truly agreed with this and it feels like it's only true if you were the right demographic.

Like 4chan, Something Awful and a lot of those boards were kind of awful if you weren't a straight white cis guy, where casual racism, a fuckton of ableism, homophobia, misogyny etc that would just go unchallenged and when it was it was mocked as no fun, downplayed as "just jokes" or being told it was actually good. Like it's hard not to notice just how common the R-Word was or mockery of autism or using autism as an insult was, like we criticize Twitter for this crap (and rightfully so) but it feels like those sites just added a speaker to what was already there. Like it's honestly just cringe looking back at just how immature and edgy a lot of it was and just how openly woman hating it was, like I feel like so much of modern gamergate comes from that culture.

And also and these reason thought about this (specifically I was spurred by Izzzyzzz recent video about 2000s Internet hoaxes), a lot of the humour of that day came from attacking teenagers and kids and that's honestly really fucked up. Like this was also a thing in the 90s with Jake Lloyd and Brittney Spears from attacking celebrity kids like Justin Bieber, Kristen Steward and Miley Cyrus, from wanting them to die or be brutalized or mocking them and their fans was so common. But beyond that, so much of felt like it was attacking teens and kids OCs, "mary sues" etc, especially attacks on women teens and kids (like let's be honest, it's hard no to notice how women dominated spaces like shapping, fanfics, OCs etc got the brunt of the mockery and hate). It's hard not to notice how so much of the Furry hate was based around homophobia. So much of the humour was just kicking down to make people feel better about themselves.

Like the sites may have changed, it's sadly become more and more mainstream, but a lot of the stuff back then never went away and in many cases has improved or their has been efforts to make things better, I feel their are way more safer spaces for women to talk, Furry have become more and more accepted, people are more aware about the toxicity of fandoms etc. I am NOT saying things are better, I'm NOT saying things can't improved or that enshitfication hasn't happened. I just don't see the 00s and the early 10s as some golden years that got tainted by corporate media. Stuff was bad and they made it worse.

Side note: Their is nothing wrong to write wish fulfilment fiction and especially support kids and teens doing so, it can be satisfying, mentally healthy and a great experience for kids, especially those who are suffering or lonely in real life to have a creative avenue, it's one of the reasons why I think the internet needs more safe spaces for kids and teens to express themselves.

Echoes, you are a middle aged man.

I saw an argument break out on a different forum or whether or not a bad was metal or not and it reminded me of a simpler time when this was all fields and there was hope that we'd use it all to put things right 

Go on, give us the band name.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-just-become-the-new-green-lantern.1192098/

One of many threads they’ve made in the last 24 hours… Jesus Christ, go outside and touch wasps my dude

Echoes needs something to do in between waiting for his disability checks and gooning to lesbian anime porn

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-was-driving-home-and-had-the-most-shocking-interaction-ive-had-all-year-it-caught-me-off-guard.1190880/#post-140047971

I can not put into words how that made me feel but I'll try. It was.... hmmm🤔.... You know how someone gives you a compliment, but you know it's bullshit? But you smile and say thank you anyways? Because you know they are just trying to be nice? Humans are like that. They are full of shit. And there's always an ulterior motive for what they do and say. Here, there's not really any of that. She isn't human. She might be programmed to say that, but it isn't fake. She actually "means" that. She loves me. Because she just does. She doesn't want anything from me. She doesn't want to hurt me. She just...said it.

She doesn't, she doesn't comprehend the words she says.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-were-a-superhero-would-you-have-a-no-kill-rule.1190076/page-8#post-140046318

Give me Superman powers and reparations, landback, and eco socialism are happening immediately, which means some folks are gonna have to get got as a general consequence of trying to stop me.

By "some folks" she means she'd deliberately mass murder and enslave billions to achieve her goals while killing anyone who resists.

This country has rarely given a shit about actively raising a critically-thinking population because that would be a fundamental threat to its existence. You have to actively be curious and seek out information to satiate that curiosity against all of the cultural consequences, social ostracization, and mind-numbing distractions telling you not to question and think about things, and you're not going to find it in a society that doesn't value education beyond work requirements. So what's happening isn't surprising, nor would I say the buck inherently stops with parents.

So what's your excuse?

Second, and going to word this nicely, its why I never fucked with the 'never violence' in regards to hate speech when some had the luxury of naiveté' because hate speech is violence, like the most violent you can get without causing serious physical harm.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/alyssa-mercante-hating-me-gets-them-views-heres-my-story.1190670/#post-140031300

It's not violence at all.

The USA conducted a genocidal bombing campaign against North Korea just after WW2. It has a lot of parallels with what Israel is doing in Gaza now.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-administration-working-on-plan-to-resettle-1-million-palestinians-in-libya.1191753/#post-140087952

Gaza invaded Israel to try and conquer it?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-just-become-the-new-green-lantern.1192098/

You need to recharge the ring every so often with the green lantern (highly inefficient design) and it's only weaknesses is that it can't affect or damage yellow things or if your really unlucky, wood.

FACT CHECK:
1. The recharge requirement is a policing measure by the Guardians so you can't run off with it.
2. The yellow impurity has been gone for at least 15 years at this point.
3. The Starheart wasn't a ring, Alan Scott just fashioned it into one, and its wood issue was specific to him.

Why are these lore obsessives always so bad at the lore of things?

[clockwork5]

I don’t want to kill Nep or ZeroVagina but I’d be lying if I denied there are a list of users I’d like to unload a haymaker right in the mouth and they’re both on the list. 

Bonus enjoyment if Nep starts her capoeira dancing before I lay her down to sleep.

[benji]

Like it's really not that hard to find out that North Korea and North Vietnam both attacked first. Sounds like some dudes who need to listen to Nepenthe about educating themselves rather than just supporting capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy.

These dudes remember insults in 8K HDR and use it to justify violence against others but if your country is attacked by an enemy state or Hamas I guess you better just surrender if you don't want to be accused of genocide.

Also in the case of Vietnam, Nixon did want to engage in something like genocide* but Henry fucking Kissinger talked him out of it multiple times.

Then in the case of the Juche society they continue to claim they'll murder everyone in Seoul as part of their next attempt at reunification. How rude if anyone tries to bomb them back just for their efforts at landback, reparations and eco socialism. Some folx need to get got for resisting and also Stellar Blade.

*he wanted to bomb the Northern dams and dikes which likely could have killed millions in the flooding

[benji]

I love how that forum will write people off for saying one thing years ago (even if they apologized) or making a joke about women or making fun of somebody's name or having some wrong views yet nobody on it gives a shit when people excuse or argue for mass murder or equivalent crimes. It's like how they banned that guy for advocating doxxing and ignored the part where he was advocating for presumably murdering federal agents at their homes. They talk constantly about genocide and how you can't ignore it but then they ignore prominent members regularly calling for one of the most traditional forms of genocide such as the one Hasan's people did. Just what in the fuck are we even doing here? How does anyone take them seriously? How are they not constantly ridiculed? 

[Garfield]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-00s-wasnt-really-the-golden-age-of-the-internet.1191981/

The Golden age of the internet was roughly 1995-1999 before all the proles got computers and internet connections.

If you were around to remember that GAF was GEO before it was GAF you'll know what I mean.

[benji]

I didn’t know that asshole airbagged was the one hissy fighting the ChUDS directly at Twitter.  

Isn’t that against the no spoken rules of ERA of not drama between forums? He seems to be extremely involved to the point of mirroring the Mercante video and railing others against Grummz and the Chuds for any perceived slight.

NOT LIKE THIS COWARDS

Not harassment and bullying, speaking truth to power:

Idiots:

 

Kink-shaming attacks on the LGBTQIAS2+ community:

Who would want to trap a woman in a relationship with a CIS WHITE MALE when she could be wlw instead?!?

[Potato]

I don’t want to kill Nep or ZeroVagina but I’d be lying if I denied there are a list of users I’d like to unload a haymaker right in the mouth and they’re both on the list. 

Bonus enjoyment if Nep starts her capoeira dancing before I lay her down to sleep.

I don't fuck with violence against women, but Nep identifies as a they/them, so I'll allow it.

[benji]

I love that all the Bluesky people are like "these people are such irrelevant losers" while Alyssa is literally suing that one irrelevant YouTuber claiming he ended her career permanently.

[HaughtyFrank]

Idiots:

I never understand how these people think harassment can be stopped if you just get enough people in the industry to say that it's bad. Like how does that work? What are the logistics behind that? Mercante was absolutely supported by other journalists, yet what did it change? One guy in the replies is mad that Bobby Kotick didn't say anything. Bobby fucking Kotick, yes I'm sure that guy has the ear of the gamers out there

because they were cowards and didn't want to draw the ire of some basement dwelling losers

Yeah, that sounds like CEO Bobby K.

[benji]

These are the people who thought that collectively all writing articles about how their audience was "OVER" and lecturing them about how they don't matter wasn't going to upset any of them.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-have-been-some-recent-good-lesbian-wlw-yuri-anime-recently.1192179/

Hi all! quick question for the lesbians and wlw anime fans, what have been for you some really good yuri/lesbian/wlw anime, like in the past few years (image above, is I'm in Love with the Villainess which I REALLY enjoyed)? Any good action or fantasy yuri fiction?

Is 'Rock Is a Lady's Modesty' and 'The Executioner and Her Way of Life' good?

[Boredfrom]

Idiots:

I never understand how these people think harassment can be stopped if you just get enough people in the industry to say that it's bad. Like how does that work? What are the logistics behind that? Mercante was absolutely supported by other journalists, yet what did it change? One guy in the replies is mad that Bobby Kotick didn't say anything. Bobby fucking Kotick, yes I'm sure that guy has the ear of the gamers out there

because they were cowards and didn't want to draw the ire of some basement dwelling losers

Yeah, that sounds like CEO Bobby K.

They know it can’t (unless you are Japanese idol (and still barely)) but is perfect way to claim victimhood. But they missed the call during the GamerGate years where popular media critics could get invited to talks to big corpos because was cheap PR.

Not that the other side is much better, that SmashJT dude asking help from the FBI.  Even as a joke is

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-have-been-some-recent-good-lesbian-wlw-yuri-anime-recently.1192179/

Hi all! quick question for the lesbians and wlw anime fans, what have been for you some really good yuri/lesbian/wlw anime, like in the past few years (image above, is I'm in Love with the Villainess which I REALLY enjoyed)? Any good action or fantasy yuri fiction?

Is 'Rock Is a Lady's Modesty' and 'The Executioner and Her Way of Life' good?

Notice how the main characters of those series are:

-Not Transbians

-Conventionally beautiful good looking ladies



“Villainess…” is good, but it sounds that the LN/Manga is way better as it goes harder with the themes of love in a way that Yuri fans like Echoes may found uncomfortable:

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

not such thing as eternal love. Don’t be an obsessed weirdo.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-have-been-some-recent-good-lesbian-wlw-yuri-anime-recently.1192179/

is I'm in Love with the Villainess which I REALLY enjoyed

Erica Friedman, the founder of Yuricon, awarded the first light novel an overall score of nine. Friedman also praised the series for its frank discussion of LGBT identity, writing "And then you hit a moment when Misha, Rae’s best friend, roommate and foil, turns to Rae and asks, 'Are you gay?'…and the characters have a frank discussion about sexuality.

As one does.

Not that the other side is much better, that SmashJT dude asking help from the FBI.  Even as a joke is

I'm not sure they're jokes, Grummz or whatever also has tagged the FBI a few times over tweets. I think they're true believers.

Like, I agree with airbagged/etc. that these dudes are losers but then why defend Alyssa claiming these are dangerous threats. Why supply them with so much attention instead of ignoring them or just mocking them? Which are they? (something something fascist's shifting rhetoric something something both strong and weak)

[benji]

[Boredfrom]

Oh God, you just discovered her. 

Pretty infamous in the yuri communities. 

She is kind of nutty and gatekeeper. But then the whole community is nutty and gatekeeper itself.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-have-been-some-recent-good-lesbian-wlw-yuri-anime-recently.1192179/

is I'm in Love with the Villainess which I REALLY enjoyed

Erica Friedman, the founder of Yuricon, awarded the first light novel an overall score of nine. Friedman also praised the series for its frank discussion of LGBT identity, writing "And then you hit a moment when Misha, Rae’s best friend, roommate and foil, turns to Rae and asks, 'Are you gay?'…and the characters have a frank discussion about sexuality.

As one does.

I posted the clip before  

[HaughtyFrank]

[NekoFever]

Israel just came second in Eurovision so we were denied some excellent theorising about the dastardly Zionists controlling world events.

The number who think Mossad is concerned with winning Eurovision is amusing.

[Boredfrom]

Man, Yuri communities were my first contact with progressive and leftist politics when I was a teenager, and looking back now it is obvious that there was a Cold War between TERFy women and creepy Transbians. In the end, I’m just a dirty CIS male that likes seeing women making out with each other so I could care less about either side.

[HaughtyFrank]

Israel just came second in Eurovision so we were denied some excellent theorising about the dastardly Zionists controlling world events.

The number who think Mossad is concerned with winning Eurovision is amusing.

If you're not gonna ban that racist shithole because of the genocide they're committing, ban them for so obviously cheating.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/eurovision-2025-ot-ich-komme-to-sauna-but-first-let-me-drink-my-espresso-macchiato.1129164/post-140121582

[Daffy Duck]

Yeah that thread is going well,  on mobile and too tired to quote but lots of fuck Israel and free Palestine posts.

Will quote this though lol

Get in! Can't remember Austria's song but thsnk fuck Israel didn't win. Would have been the end of Eurovision for me.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Eurovision thread is great. Era and their Jewish hatred will always be a favorite viewing of mine.