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

[Boredfrom]

I remember how disappointed I was the grand conspiracy in the Utopia tv series was:

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

An antiNatalist plot.

And the worst part is that one of main characters agreed to it.

[benji]

A militant antinatalist? Thats not a type of person I was aware existed.

Gonna be real, I'm not shocked they exist. As someone that's worked with kids, even on here some dudes make comments that make me cringe.

The problem with the modern Internet is that, no matter your ideology, you can find people crazier than you and to push you to do or believe insane bullshit.

Not just the internet. It happens on certain forums too.

Like what's their vision of anti-natalism to think it's not insane or militant by default? It's not like some "I don't want kids" position, it's the position that all eight billion people's (and sometimes this includes animals, even wasps!) existence is immoral.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Absolute piece of shit. Someone that never grew out of self-pitying edgelordy nihilism and decided to take it out on others actually trying to live their lives.

[benji]

Absolute piece of shit. Someone that never grew out of self-pitying edgelordy nihilism and decided to take it out on others actually trying to live their lives.

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.

[benji]

Wait, I thought of another one:

fd signifier had a great video a few months back about making fun of maga edgelords and their ilk for identifying with the joker, homelander, private rico (starship troopers), etc.

i recommend the whole video, but he makes a point at the end that what attracts people to these characters is that the satire still dresses up the villain character (whether they're the protagonist or not) in cool outfits and gives them cool things to do. so maybe we need media out there that doesn't do that, and valorizes good people.

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.

[Polident]

There’s a moment in one of Grant Morrison’s Superman comics where Lex gets Superman powers. Stuff happens, and he’s about to lose them. He’s whining about how, with the powers and Superman gone, he could finally save humanity. Superman just tells him that he always could’ve helped at any time. All the excuses are to mask how it’s not in his character. Unwillingness to accept it and grow keeps him in a loop of bitterness and living unfulfilled. 

Point being these guys act like cartoon villains from children’s comics.

[Daffy Duck]

Those fucking pesky Jews

Something is definitely off about all those 12s for Israel. Like I haven't seen any buzz at all or excitement or anything about their song in Sweden. Everyone was just talking about Austria or Finland here

lol also this is gold, out of touch Era user questioning a userbase

How many people on there would it really amass to in reality and people actually voting? Even 100 people?

Flashback is by far the most popular forum in Sweden it has millions of users.

So much bigger than Era

[Besticus Maximus]

Thomas ligotti wrote an excellent antinatalist manifesto called conspiracy against the human race. If you’re into moralism it’s a powerful argument tbf.

[Jansen]

Holy shit lunar remastered collection is finally instock at Amazon. Time to get another game to not play.

[Kyon1988]

...........

How's this any different compared to the usual begging?
A fundraiser usually means doing something like streaming.

[Eric Cartman]

Absolute piece of shit. Someone that never grew out of self-pitying edgelordy nihilism and decided to take it out on others actually trying to live their lives.

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.

[Eric Cartman]

It's still technically illegal but the Abortion Act 1967 carved out exemptions to allow for legal abortion. Namely a 24 week limit and an evaluation from the two medical practitioners that continuing the pregnancy would cause more harm (mentally or physically) than termination. Which has worked well enough all these years, but the fact it's illegal just with exemptions leaves the door open to for the far-right to target. Which is what we're seeing here.

Trans people have been warning about it for years since when they come for bodily autonomy of women, they don't just stop with trans women.

[Jansen]

I tried Greek yogurt last night. I don't know who Greek is but they ain't got shit on yoplait

[Jansen]

[Jansen]

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No, I stop. I stop and laugh and then keep it scrolling 

[Eric Cartman]

Between the lady who reported on the neo nazi vtuber being harassed off the internet and the utter deluge of shit being dumped upon Alyssa Mercante, it's been a grim week.

I can't imagine what is wrong with people that it's gotten to this point. Turns out whining about "woke" games wasn't what was needed for GamerGate 2.0, it was going back to the classic misogyny and brigading of women. Utterly dire how these harassers are alowed to run rampant and whip up hate mobs with the platform corporate overlords staying hands off.

Where do we go from here?

I genuinely don't fucking understand how you can look at a paid journalist getting blowback on their multiple oped hitpieces on a fucking nobody, not on the grounds of them committing anything illegal that should be exposed in the public interest, but on the grounds that the journalist doesn't personally agree with their position on something and conclude that the person with a paid position at a large platform is the underdog in that dynamic.

Mercante cant get a fucking job anywhere because it is such a blatant and egregious breach of basic fucking ethics that she is entirely toxic in her field. Not because there is a huge conspiracy to silence her.

I also can't help but notice all of the 'how are they cancelled tho?' talking points era usually falls back on also fucking apply to alyssa mercante.

[Daffy Duck]

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Between the lady who reported on the neo nazi vtuber being harassed off the internet and the utter deluge of shit being dumped upon Alyssa Mercante, it's been a grim week.

I can't imagine what is wrong with people that it's gotten to this point. Turns out whining about "woke" games wasn't what was needed for GamerGate 2.0, it was going back to the classic misogyny and brigading of women. Utterly dire how these harassers are alowed to run rampant and whip up hate mobs with the platform corporate overlords staying hands off.

Where do we go from here?

I genuinely don't fucking understand how you can look at a paid journalist getting blowback on their multiple oped hitpieces on a fucking nobody, not on the grounds of them committing anything illegal that should be exposed in the public interest, but on the grounds that the journalist doesn't personally agree with their position on something and conclude that the person with a paid position at a large platform is the underdog in that dynamic.

Mercante cant get a fucking job anywhere because it is such a blatant and egregious breach of basic fucking ethics that she is entirely toxic in her field. Not because there is a huge conspiracy to silence her.

I also can't help but notice all of the 'how are they cancelled tho?' talking points era usually falls back on also fucking apply to alyssa mercante.

I’ve no idea what this whole thing is about but reading this post, yeah sounds about right for Era tbh

[DavidCroquet]

She should get a job at NuWaypoint. I hear they stand on business over there!

[Kyon1988]

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No, I stop. I stop and laugh and then keep it scrolling 

It annoys me. A dear friend committed suicide. He had a lot of mental problems. People like Melody make a mockery of his suffering.

[Eric Cartman]

Going back to earlier in the GAMERGATE TOO POINT ZERO thread as a refresher on how this retarded nonsense got started, and reminded again by the absolute sheer lack of self awareness era can display while screaming harassment as they play the crybully.



Guys, make sure you all brigade reports en masse against this fucking nobody who made a steam group, also go ahead and do the thing on his personal accounts posted earlier in the thread by a founder of sweet baby inc, who has no ulterior business motives in seeing this guy get harassed and shut down.

this is not targetted harrassment btw

Spoiler: Nor is this (click to show)(click to hide)

[Eric Cartman]

People that support Israel can easily show their support by voting for them, people that are against Israel can't really do anything.

They need to let us vote against a country.

That's definitely the spirit of a competition literally intended to unite countries across political boundaries through music

[StandingOvation]

Mod Watch

Literally have nothing better to do today, so I thought I'd write an update:

- Over 3 months have passed since they opened up for mod applications.....and the linked form has been deleted with no new mod announcements, so that went about as well as one of B-Dubs' tournaments lol
- aerie is now 'On A Break'
- Princess Bubblegum and Snormy are both 'back' from their 'On A Break's.
- Fairy Godmother, who was posting nothing but thread closure messages, if anything at all, is now suddenly very active.
- FelipeMGM, who despite not posting anything for almost 2 years, had a 1 day burst of activity in October 2024, then went dark again
- Kaitos, who did nothing but spout endless nonsense in the PoliEra thread has now gone cold turkey, not posting in there since early April and has now made Clair Obscur their entire personality.
- Morlas, I presume must be some other mod alt, as they do nothing but post in the Toonami thread, so I don't know why they bother being a mod, maybe to pad the numbers?
- Sheng Long is barely seen, having posted just 8 times this year.

And that's it; stay tuned for new moderators I guess......eventually?

[killamajig]

People that support Israel can easily show their support by voting for them, people that are against Israel can't really do anything.

They need to let us vote against a country.

That's definitely the spirit of a competition literally intended to unite countries across political boundaries through music

Yeah, I thought the spirit of the contest was to unite countries by leaving all the politics behind. But I'm from the U.S. so I don't really follow it.

[Boredfrom]

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Between the lady who reported on the neo nazi vtuber being harassed off the internet and the utter deluge of shit being dumped upon Alyssa Mercante, it's been a grim week.

I can't imagine what is wrong with people that it's gotten to this point. Turns out whining about "woke" games wasn't what was needed for GamerGate 2.0, it was going back to the classic misogyny and brigading of women. Utterly dire how these harassers are alowed to run rampant and whip up hate mobs with the platform corporate overlords staying hands off.

Where do we go from here?

I genuinely don't fucking understand how you can look at a paid journalist getting blowback on their multiple oped hitpieces on a fucking nobody, not on the grounds of them committing anything illegal that should be exposed in the public interest, but on the grounds that the journalist doesn't personally agree with their position on something and conclude that the person with a paid position at a large platform is the underdog in that dynamic.

Mercante cant get a fucking job anywhere because it is such a blatant and egregious breach of basic fucking ethics that she is entirely toxic in her field. Not because there is a huge conspiracy to silence her.

I also can't help but notice all of the 'how are they cancelled tho?' talking points era usually falls back on also fucking apply to alyssa mercante.

I mean, these dudes still think that Gawker had an unjust day on court because Hogan was supported by a billionaire. They can’t rationalize that Gawker was in the wrong and Hogan may deserved to win even if you think he is a huge piece of shit.

How many journos lamented the dead of Gawker than take it as a warning? 

“He only won because he was supported by a republicunt”

[Snoopy]

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Mod Watch

Literally have nothing better to do today, so I thought I'd write an update:

- Over 3 months have passed since they opened up for mod applications.....and the linked form has been deleted with no new mod announcements, so that went about as well as one of B-Dubs' tournaments lol
- aerie is now 'On A Break'
- Princess Bubblegum and Snormy are both 'back' from their 'On A Break's.
- Fairy Godmother, who was posting nothing but thread closure messages, if anything at all, is now suddenly very active.
- FelipeMGM, who despite not posting anything for almost 2 years, had a 1 day burst of activity in October 2024, then went dark again
- Kaitos, who did nothing but spout endless nonsense in the PoliEra thread has now gone cold turkey, not posting in there since early April and has now made Clair Obscur their entire personality.
- Morlas, I presume must be some other mod alt, as they do nothing but post in the Toonami thread, so I don't know why they bother being a mod, maybe to pad the numbers?
- Sheng Long is barely seen, having posted just 8 times this year.

And that's it; stay tuned for new moderators I guess......eventually?

To be fair it would be bad enough having to go through 50 pages of middle aged men crying about someone disagreeing with them. Imagine also having Nep and Dubs as your bosses.

[Jansen]

I can't believe it. I can't believe people won't just give me 24k for "reasons". Take the $461 and buy some drugs or something idk

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-point-of-dragon-quest-viii.1192311/

Im about 20 hours in, and at first I was enjoying the cosy vibes. Journeying across a land to chase a dude to get rid of a curse.



But it feels like the game has ground to a complete halt to force me through a half dozen filler episodes.



We need info, lets go to smart guy in thief town. Oh No our horse got stolen in thief town. Oh No the thief sold it. Oh No, the buyer ALSO sold it. the last buyer wants a gem, so we go through a lengthy and unremarkable dungeon to get the gem. Now we go to smart guy and learn hes over an ocean.



lets get a boat! Oh No we found a boat but its beached How do we unbeach it? lets go to a castle and hope theres a book. we found a book! it says there used to be water. that doesnt help.



Wowee, lucky moonshadow door portal! Now the elf dude can use the memory of the ocean to make the boat pretend its on water or something. Oh No elfs magical harp broke lets go find it.



Crystal ball mate says our depressed king friend has it. OH NO it was stolen from king friend??! Now we go chase some moles in a hole and one of them sings and its awful and DOES THIS EVER FUCKING END?!



Jesus tapdancing christ game what are you doing?



Is this a recurring thing? Is this forever? Is it just menial tasks that are constantly waylaid by more tasks until we punch Dhoulmagus on the face?



It doesnt help that the rpg systems are downright archaic. What the heck is this leveling system where you blindly assign points and hope for useful skills? was it designed to sell guides?

[Steven Snell]

To be clear, this is not a joke post and please don't use their thread to be weird or lewd. I'm also not talking about porn in this thread.


I have been going through some soul searching the past few days confronting a big anxiety of mine I've had for over a decade. If you've ever read my threads about fighting games, you probably can tell I'm a big proponent against objectification and heavy sexualization of women in fighting games. "sexy" shouldn't be a requirement for all fighting game women, fighting game women should be allowed to be over/look over 30 (looking directly at you Bandai Namco), not all women need sexualized clothing and men players don't need "rewards", cameras need to be less leery, fat women should be allowed in the games, old women, androgynous women, trans women, ugly women, scary women, women of all body types etc.

However, there has always been a part of me that makes me feel like a hypocrite, a liar and a shame to others; like I feel like I'm letting down other women who push for the same stuff, including a few users and mods here that I respect dearly; that I have to hide, downplay or constantly explain away my like for women characters that are many times some of the main sources of the objectification. That if people knew I liked them, they dismiss my critiques which frustratingly has happened.

However, more and more over the years, especially after realizing that I was a lesbian and after much soul searching and looking for advice in other threads and elsewhere online; I shouldn't feel guilty about this, I shouldn't feel shame or worry about people calling me a hypocrite. I can like Catwoman without wanting every woman to be Catwoman. I love Morrigan from DarkStalkers, she was a childhood crush of mine (though I wish they undo her flanderization and let her have her dorky and heroic self back), I love Cammy (though men fans being weird about her bum annoy me) and though her cat stretch in SF6 adorable and something I've done in the past (REVEAL HER AS LESBIAN CAPCOM!!!!):


I love Manon, she is amazing, another crush of mine and everything I'd want in a girlfriend (I admit that Manon thread was me testing the water). I think Mileena is MK's best character and she and Tanya are amazing together. Venessa is awesome. I want to look like Anna Williams, I wish I had that body, I wish I could look that stunning, Makoto from Blazblue is a great character despite no way can I justify her costume (her being canon queer, flirts with the trans woman Mai and has a fun personality). Do I want every character like that? No, but I can't deny I love these characters.

And this gets to the main point of the thread (sorry it took so long and the preamble), this was actually inspired by another user; and it got me too thinking about this and… I would like a Dead or Alive that was MADE FOR LESBIANS AND WLW, BY LESBIANS AND WLW. I've said to myself it's a game I would never play… But I can't deny I would love it and know many wlw and lesbians would also love it.

You can argue Dead or Alive or other T&A fighters like SNK's SNK Heroines already fit that bill; but at least from my perspective, those games are pretty clearly made first and foremost for the titillation and enjoyment of men (and one of the reasons why had to stop playing DOA was because it got too much) and while lesbians and wlw can enjoy that, it's not the same as stuff made for wlw and lesbians by lesbians and wlw. There is a vibe difference; a lack of leeriness, writing quirks and just attitudes you see and feel in art and stories drawn & written by men or for men (and in my experience, often just has a more fun, loving and compassionate feeling to it… same with mlm/gay art and writing).

I wouldn't want it to be an exact carbon copy of DOA (for one thing I'm not a fan of volleyball, Water polo is more fun, Captain Archer agrees).


I want more story, I want a lesbian/wlw dating sim where you grow relationships, go on dates, have cute and fun adventures, be tag partners in tournaments or even rivals etc. I want fun mini games like dancing (either a disco like one or a romantic), something like Fire Emblem's Three Houses's tea part mechanics but maybe it's at a burger bar or diner. I want more cute moments of the characters interacting.

And I'd still want more body types and diversity; I want characters like Rika from Pokémon, a stoic warrior like a Sister of Battle or VF's Vanessa, a big and buff woman like Marisa from SF6, a stylish Androgynous woman, a elegant autistic woman like Symmetra, the dashing rogue pirate lady, The creepy girl who loves spiders and the occult, the snarky "crazy" lady with the wicked smile, a femme fatale, a villainess that fits into the Doronjo trope, the Edelgard, a larger/fat woman who feels no shame, a silverhaired woman in her 50s/60s who still looks stunning and proud, a goth woman, the cool as fuck street artist/musician, a punk/Jolyne Cujoh woman, the snooty rival with the blonde ringlets, the fun outgoing sporty Goku-like best friend, the quirky vtuber, the sing/dancing friend to all animals nature lover, the furry fan, the shy dork, a fun wrestler like Tina Armstrong etc etc all lesbians or wlw… Actually I just named an entire roster's worth of examples… Oops.

Sadly, I just don't ever see a game like this happen, at least not from the AAA, not with male gaze being pushed onto it by publishers to make it more "marketable" and "appeal to our core demographic (men)"; outside of the indie scene I feel like it would get compromised (not to mention being live serviced).

But I feel it should exist; and I don't feel shame in saying that (similarly, a mlm/gay man version should also exist, so many gay men I know would love that if it was full of bears and arm guys).

Hope I haven't let anyone down posting this.

Wasn't enough to just post it in the Womens thread.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-would-love-a-t-a-all-women-wlw-fighting-game-like-dead-or-alive-for-women.1192314/

[DavidCroquet]

To be clear, this is not a joke post and please don't use their thread to be weird or lewd. I'm also not talking about porn in this thread.

But I think there should be a game like No Mercy that is wlw and trans friendly. NOT pervy.

[malfoyking]

Echoes!!!!!! They're just so entertaining.