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

[benji]

Realistically I think all deepfakes should just be banned and making any, consensual or not, shouldn't be allowed. The benefits of the technology are just so low compared to the potential for abuse and even letting consensual deep fakes be legal makes it easier for nonconsensual ones to be made and spread. That would also allow the target to be painted on the people spreading the tech to make deep fakes itself rather than the content made using it, which would probably help curb some of these free speech abuse issues since you'd cut down on cases drastically just by making it way harder for people to even try to make them in the first place. From there just use existing laws about extortion/defamation/harassment etc to handle those cases

Realistically, they should just ban printing presses and printing anything shouldn't be allowed. That would allow the target to be painted on the people spreading the tech rather than the content made using it, which would help curb some of the free speech abuse issues since you'd cut down on blasphemy cases drastically just by making it way harder for people to even try to make them in the first place.

Realistically, they should just ban computers and generating anything shouldn't be allowed. That would allow the target to be painted on the people spreading the tech rather than the content made using it, which would help curb some of the free speech abuse issues since you'd cut down on computer image cases drastically just by making it way harder for people to even try to make them in the first place.

[benji]

Also, this law probably means there will be at least one guy at the FBI's job which is literally to try and tell by the pixels and from having seen a lot of deepfakes in his time.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/give-me-your-controversial-film-takes.1193541/page-2#post-140200071

Takes? Sure, I have takes.

 The Force Awakens and Revenge of the Sith are better than 2/3 of the original trilogy.
 Aliens is a disappointing sequel.
 La La Land is a masterpiece.
 Hellraiser is an awful film.

[benji]

My ACAB nerve senses are activated by the idea of a defense where you claim that no Scarlett Johansson did really make this video with you and she's just embarrassed to admit it and how the feds would have to disprove this in court. Of course she's going to deny it, why should we believe her testimony about not having done it if that's the only evidence against my client? (And what if it's my clients lived experience?)

Then you move for a bad court thingy.

[DocWager]

“Honestly this bill is clearly designed to go after the trans community!”

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-an-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer.1192491/page-2#post-140149146

User banned (1 month): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Spare me. Go watch what the bombs he sent Israel did to children instead of pulling this shit on me.

I lost my father to cancer and watched it slowly destroy him. I was with him the moment he drew his last breath. I know very well how horrific cancer can be.

And that is exactly why I am glad that this genocidal monster is suffering. It's a tiny little measure of justice.

Don't use the suffering of Palestinians to justify your bloodlust for revenge. Biden having cancer and suffering from it isn't going to help them.

There's a difference between not shedding a tear and whatever this is.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-an-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer.1192491/page-4#post-140150502

User banned (1 month): inflammatory attacks on other posters

Whatever pain he suffers is nothing compared to what he did to the people of Gaza.

May it be long and deadly.

People like you are the absolute worst and a cancer to society.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-an-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer.1192491/page-6#post-140151318

User banned (1 month): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Why because Biden isn't being coddled enough? No worries though people against Biden's Genocide had all threads locked instantly whenever we mentioned it outside of our quarantine zone for most of the year so it makes sense to lock this one too. One last favor for Joe.

I'm more disturbed by all the cancer apologists and cheerleaders.

Again, you don't need to care about Biden, but this thread is also making cancer sound like a good thing.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/give-me-your-controversial-film-takes.1193541/page-3#post-140204850

Kilmonger is a mixed bag. Much of his anger, and the implication of Black folks' anger, is towards the African continent for essentially "abandoning" those who were enslaved which makes sense only from a naively and flattened ahistorical perspective. Ultimately the real problem is white supremacy and European colonialism, which he is perfectly justified in wanting to fight through violence, but then he goes on to want to subjugate the rest of the world in turn which is the obligatory "we can't let an angry oppressed person have a point that even our illiterate American audience might pick up on, so just make them cartoonishly evil" shtick that American companies shit out as a matter of neoliberal adherence. And ultimately what the film ends up saying is "You don't need any of that revolutionary junk! What you need is a school in the projects! Yeah, that'll do it!" And then they threw in a token white CIA agent to help out in the final battle. Like....

The more that time goes on and the more I actually learn about the world, the more my opinion on Black Panther's politics sour.

So here she admits she was clueless about "the world" when she first watched Black Panther way back in ye olden days of.......2016 when presumably an adult   .

Neppy, if you were naive enough to have the wool pulled over your eyes by a kids Marvel movie, what makes you think anyone reading your contradictory ramblings now would believe you've learned... well, anything worth preaching to others?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/doug-bowser-says-diversity-is-important-to-nintendo-it-was-in-place-years-before-people-starting-using-the-dei-acronym-and-it-will-stay-in-place.1180596/page-3#post-140194113

User banned (permanent): concern trolling, account in junior phase

What this forum has yet to understand is the real use the corporations makes of statements like theses.These corporations are the epitome of hypocrisy and bad faith actors.

Public statements like theses, are clear indicators for investors and shareholders that they should put a lot of money in nintendo's shares and work as intended, as insider trading.

What does it mean ? There is a clear pattern from each and every studio that announced the same kind of virtue signaling for just the sake of virtue signaling, that they are going to use it as an excuse, a path for mass firings without any blowback in every sections / departments after a launch of a game or a product just so they maximize shareholder's profit.

The pandering to DEI / ESG is then used as a scapegoat later to engage in mass firings after the launch of a product or a game to keep massive amount of profits and send tens of thousands to unemployment.

These corporations are absolutely not your friends, that's the kind of predatory scheme they happily engage in. profiting from both political isles to minimize the backlash and look like they did their best, while their intentions were allways to fire people right after.

You may not like the harsh reality of it, but the repeated pattern of behaviour from every single game studio or corporations doing this for the last 2 years is absolutely crystal clear to me and is the most predatory thing i've seen in my whole life.

[Potato]

wlw = wholesome
mlm = wholesome
mlw = perverted

Do I have the math right?

Mathematics is racist, chud! 

[Kyon1988]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-an-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer.1192491/page-2#post-140149146

User banned (1 month): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Spare me. Go watch what the bombs he sent Israel did to children instead of pulling this shit on me.

I lost my father to cancer and watched it slowly destroy him. I was with him the moment he drew his last breath. I know very well how horrific cancer can be.

And that is exactly why I am glad that this genocidal monster is suffering. It's a tiny little measure of justice.

Don't use the suffering of Palestinians to justify your bloodlust for revenge. Biden having cancer and suffering from it isn't going to help them.

There's a difference between not shedding a tear and whatever this is.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-an-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer.1192491/page-4#post-140150502

User banned (1 month): inflammatory attacks on other posters

Whatever pain he suffers is nothing compared to what he did to the people of Gaza.

May it be long and deadly.

People like you are the absolute worst and a cancer to society.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-an-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer.1192491/page-6#post-140151318

User banned (1 month): inflammatory accusations toward other users

Why because Biden isn't being coddled enough? No worries though people against Biden's Genocide had all threads locked instantly whenever we mentioned it outside of our quarantine zone for most of the year so it makes sense to lock this one too. One last favor for Joe.

I'm more disturbed by all the cancer apologists and cheerleaders.

Again, you don't need to care about Biden, but this thread is also making cancer sound like a good thing.

This and that WLW thread on the same day. Era truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

[Potato]

Seriously, it’s time for the mods to be called out on this. It’s total bullshit, and super performative. You can’t just sit comfortably with shit on the tip of your nose without you saying something. These “trans” posters are so obvious, and the biased towards them can’t be ignored forever.

Wanna take a bet on that?

[Shecky Fragbaum]

These motherfuckers have been trying to summon an E.L.E. asteroid since the McRib went back into hiatus, rooting for cancer is barely Busch League for this death cult.

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

just for any guests on the fence - cancer is nobody's ally

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion-2025.1193208/

We decided it was time to update to a brand new CCD. This thread will be re-launched in January 2026. Here is a reminder on the rules and topics of discussion.

• If this thread is going to be useful to anyone, it has to be constructive. We absolutely want to hear about issues with moderation and/or the community, but that has to be conducive to an actual discussion. Coming in here to simply throw fuel on the fire and attack people is not going to fly. Full stop. We want this to work and we will enforce this to make it work.
• This thread is NOT to re-litigate specific bans, or to call out specific members or moderators. We are talking about the community as a whole here, we are not going to get bogged down with "why was X banned" derails. Making this about individuals is not going to help. Any user(s) brigading for or against an individual will receive at least a threadban from this thread. To litigate a ban (preferably your own) please submit a ticket here
• Keep in mind we're just trying to keep up with hundreds of reports each day. We react, we don't prescribe.
• This should not be a matter of "Us vs. Them". Staff knows very well the part they have to play in making this a better community. Almost every staff member came from an established segment of this larger community, and we all did so because we want to make the site better than it is. But we can't do that if brigades are bent on treating staff as the enemy or as bad people. We do our best to communicate to members with respect, but members also have a role to play in that.

Do you have any ideas on how the forum can be improved? Feel free to suggest fun ideas too. The world is terrible and getting worse, we'd like this corner of the internet to be a fun & safe space.

I've seen some serious hypocrisy from Resetera in my time, but this one takes the fucking double decker cake!

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/give-me-your-controversial-film-takes.1193541/page-3#post-140204850

Kilmonger is a mixed bag. Much of his anger, and the implication of Black folks' anger, is towards the African continent for essentially "abandoning" those who were enslaved which makes sense only from a naively and flattened ahistorical perspective. Ultimately the real problem is white supremacy and European colonialism, which he is perfectly justified in wanting to fight through violence, but then he goes on to want to subjugate the rest of the world in turn which is the obligatory "we can't let an angry oppressed person have a point that even our illiterate American audience might pick up on, so just make them cartoonishly evil" shtick that American companies shit out as a matter of neoliberal adherence. And ultimately what the film ends up saying is "You don't need any of that revolutionary junk! What you need is a school in the projects! Yeah, that'll do it!" And then they threw in a token white CIA agent to help out in the final battle. Like....

The more that time goes on and the more I actually learn about the world, the more my opinion on Black Panther's politics sour.

So here she admits she was clueless about "the world" when she first watched Black Panther way back in ye olden days of.......2016 when presumably an adult   .

Neppy, if you were naive enough to have the wool pulled over your eyes by a kids Marvel movie, what makes you think anyone reading your contradictory ramblings now would believe you've learned... well, anything worth preaching to others?

I see a much worse crime of reasoning actually. Nepenthe completely ignores the specific situation of Wakanda. No, listen, take the fiction seriously for a second and you can see just how bad her take becomes. No states have the situation of Wakanda. None. Not the United States and especially not any Global South one.

Nor does Kilmonger propose a revolutionary war of liberation, he proposes a conquering war of imperialism. He literally can't propose the first, Wakanda is not a colony, it's an independent state more advanced than almost any other. It's Switzerland, not German East Africa or Tanganyika Territory. He seeks to impose Wakanda's (really his) goals on everyone on the continent.

There's also another distinction she misses, the African experience is different from the African-American one. Kilmonger's thing is deliberately ahistorical, she seems to think the movie wants to be real, and it's to deliberately connect to American audiences not African ones. That's why it fails her theory, it's not intending to be historical, it's intending to give American audiences something to grasp which was the crime of slavery. Americans didn't colonize Africa, most of the world didn't.

It also helps to show Kilmonger's war of imperialism is deluded, which is plot-necessary. And also is why it sticks in her craw. Both Watson and T'Challa have an interest in preserving the status quo, yes, but they also have an interest in stopping Kilmonger because his plan is insane.

edit: Sorry, forgot, blah blah blah media literacy.

[benji]

Also the villain having an evil plan isn't "a matter of neoliberal adherence" it's writing villains. Kilmonger isn't supposed to be the hero, he isn't supposed to be right. That's not his purpose in the story. Characters in stories aren't real, they exist for a purpose.

BLACK PANTHER
by Nepenthe
(DO NOT STEAL)

Kilmonger: We should launch of war of liberation across the globe!

T'Challa: Wow, you are right, I agree we should do that.

CIA Watson: Your theory is impeccable, I am resigning to be an ally.

THE END

edit: Or maybe she's thinking more like this:

BLACK PANTHER
by Nepenthe
(DO NOT STEAL)

Kilmonger: We should launch of war of liberation across the globe!

T'Challa: You are wrong, we should not kill all white people!

Kilmonger: CENTRIST! I challenge you to a fight to the death!

*T'Challa defeats Kilmonger*

T'Challa: Kilmonger was right but he went too far, some white people I assume are good people, they will be spared if they agree to slave labor for centuries.

CIA Watson: Kilmonger's theory was impeccable, I am resigning to be an ally.

THE END

[Potato]

If resetera had another Amir0x situation, the mods would nuke that user from the books to save face and thebire would be the only archive of that person ever existing on resetera

I'm curious about this new member. Seems very familiar with the bire vibe and lore, but it's only new. 

Long time lurker or Resetera refugee or both?

[Shecky Fragbaum]

Do you have any ideas on how the forum can be improved?

Allow discussion.

Feel free to suggest fun ideas too. 

Mods are mutable/ can only post from regular, forward-facing accounts that can be subject to the same moderation and actions as the rest. Accountability...now that sounds fun.

While we're spitballin here, wuddabowt term limits? Surely some fresh eyes and perspectives could be healthy. And fun!

Maybe stop hating the Je can't think of anything realistic to add so I'll just hang up and listen.

[KillRideMedley]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-employee-disrupts-satya-nadella%E2%80%99s-keynote-to-protest-complicity-in-war-crimes.1193631/

From the river to the sea!

Glad to see more people standing up against Microsoft.

[BIONIC]

If resetera had another Amir0x situation, the mods would nuke that user from the books to save face and thebire would be the only archive of that person ever existing on resetera

I'm curious about this new member. Seems very familiar with the bire vibe and lore, but it's only new. 

Long time lurker or Resetera refugee or both?

Post simian hog

[benji]

Do you have any ideas on how the forum can be improved?

Allow discussion.

I feel like maybe the staff just haven't banned enough stuff that they don't tell anyone has been banned. But I'm confident that's already been taken care of, I think we should just stay quiet and wait for when Nepenthe and Hecht finish the rules rewrite. Once that's finished we won't even need the January 2026 new thread because the only problem left will be how there's not enough trans staff members.

[nachobro]

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I wanted look up the thread again where it all fell apart for twohearts but turns out they nuked the whole ass thread out of existence.

Us discussing this shit is the only proof it ever happened

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3&pid=62974#pid62974

that shit was from a year ago and there's a wholesome wlw thread being linked   echoes is quite dedicated

[simiansmarts]

If resetera had another Amir0x situation, the mods would nuke that user from the books to save face and thebire would be the only archive of that person ever existing on resetera

I'm curious about this new member. Seems very familiar with the bire vibe and lore, but it's only new. 

Long time lurker or Resetera refugee or both?

I've been on resetera for a while and passively watched their insanity unfold for before learning about the bire from another era user. I'm glad this forum exists to keep the receipts of every incident that goes down on that forum. My presumption is a lot of people here are fellow resetera refugees.
 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/give-me-your-controversial-film-takes.1193541/page-2#post-140200071

Takes? Sure, I have takes.

 The Force Awakens and Revenge of the Sith are better than 2/3 of the original trilogy.
 Aliens is a disappointing sequel.
 La La Land is a masterpiece.
 Hellraiser is an awful film.

Retard outs himself. News at 11!

[Potato]

If resetera had another Amir0x situation, the mods would nuke that user from the books to save face and thebire would be the only archive of that person ever existing on resetera

I'm curious about this new member. Seems very familiar with the bire vibe and lore, but it's only new. 

Long time lurker or Resetera refugee or both?

Post simian hog

Can't help you there, but here's a root vegetable that might be appropriate. 



Please note: My clever pun is lost on you savages who don't speak Australians.

[Potato]

If resetera had another Amir0x situation, the mods would nuke that user from the books to save face and thebire would be the only archive of that person ever existing on resetera

I'm curious about this new member. Seems very familiar with the bire vibe and lore, but it's only new. 

Long time lurker or Resetera refugee or both?

I've been on resetera for a while and passively watched their insanity unfold for before learning about the bire from another era user. I'm glad this forum exists to keep the receipts of every incident that goes down on that forum. My presumption is a lot of people here are fellow resetera refugees.
 

Where was this bire underground railroad? I'm assuming discord or something?

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-employee-disrupts-satya-nadella%E2%80%99s-keynote-to-protest-complicity-in-war-crimes.1193631/

From the river to the sea!

Glad to see more people standing up against Microsoft.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

From the river to the sea, Wakanda forever!

[TylenolJones]

From the river to the sea, Ruthkanda forever!

FTFY.

[benji]

I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. I cannot be ignored. Kilmonger was right!

[BananaBlast]

I've been on resetera for a while and passively watched their insanity unfold for before learning about the bire from another era user. I'm glad this forum exists to keep the receipts of every incident that goes down on that forum. My presumption is a lot of people here are fellow resetera refugees.
 

Hey, you're just like me! I've been an ERA lurker for a while, only first discovering this site in August of 2024 when a certain user complained about the bire in the "why women criticize sexualized character designs" thread.

Welcome to the club!