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

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-choice-paralysis-how-can-i-overcome-this.1196505/

I go 3 days a week in the office and I do my best to get shit done in those days so I can chill in my 2 WFH days. Obviously I do work but I get free time during the day which I could be using to consume media, play my games or even study something interesting.

Thing is, I have no idea what to do since there's so many options. Good TV shows and multiple classic films I haven't seen (seriously, the list is huge), games I could play (not that many now since I ended my PS+ subscription, but I could visit my slightly older PC games), and I'm transitioning my career from psychology to project management so there's always more to learn. Ugh I fucking hate feeling like I'm doing nothing, and then I punish myself with doomscrolling/watching some random YouTube video. and that's not even considering the times when I get literally addicted to Football Manager which is a PC game that I get around 1000~1500 hours a year. luckily they canceled this year's edition so I didn't get addicted this year (yet)

Anyone feels like this as well? What do you do to overcome it?

So this dude is in the Psych field and needs Era for mental health help.?.?  

What the fuck is going on over there?   They can't do anything without some form of guidance, even when it's in their own field.

I like this other bolded part.

I use my free time to:
A) vaguely consume media (watch cameltoe dance on tiktok)
B) play vidja
C). OR EVEN--and I preface it this way because it is my least frequently chosen and most surprising option--study something interesting.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-choice-paralysis-how-can-i-overcome-this.1196505/

So this dude is in the Psych field and needs Era for mental health help.?.?  

What the fuck is going on over there?   They can't do anything without some form of guidance, even when it's in their own field.

Eh, you know therapists go to other therapists? 

Not mention the dude can be bad on his job.  


Technically, Messy is also a therapist.

Edit: the dude is already in an office job.

Okay but again why is he asking Era? Ask his therapist or coworkers at his job IN PSYCHOLOGY   

Not to mention the additional irony of switching to project management and using the opportunity to admit you have no personal discipline or ability to productively structure your day.

He's kind of the perfect psychologist-cum-project-manager for Era, if you think about it.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

wait it's wrong to say Palestinians shouldn't be killed, fuck settlers, and Israel has a right to exist? 

[killamajig]

Burr seems to be the voice of The Bire. Which probably means we need a name change.

an excuse to post these

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[Hap Shaughnessy]

fauxtrot

Weepy ass lib bullshit all over this thread lmfao, get fucked there are children being purposefully starved to death and y'all are pearl clutching over some of the most historically repressed countries in the world that have taken up arms to not be slaughtered by Western powers. No one in Kneecap is supporting anti-LGBT rhetoric, have some fucking critical thought about why those needed cultural changes haven't happened yet in these places. That's the same kind of pinkwashing ass bullshit that Israel uses to paint all arabs & muslims as human animals that deserve to be slaughtered.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-member-of-kneecap-has-been-charged-with-a-terror-offence.1195608/page-2#post-140290731

User Banned (1 Month): Inflammatory and hostile commentary towards other users, long history of similar behavior

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/give-me-your-controversial-music-takes.1194786/page-3#post-140264610

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

Rap is the biggest piece of crap ever created, how anyone can listen to that load of degrading shit and like it is beyond me. It can't even be considered music.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-cant-see-a-scenario-in-which-most-switch-1-games-dont-look-worse-on-switch-2-in-handheld-mode.1193892/page-2#post-140221251

User Banned (1 Month): Hostility; History of the Same

Sure let me check my Switch 2 real quick to see

why are you an ass in every thread good god

[Orange Juice Box]

Giving Bill Burr a shit ton of money to have a nicer podcast to compete with Rogan would do 100x more than whatever the hell this is

Burr is becoming more progressive each day, but he still has some crazy beliefs.

The other day he went on a rant on his podcast about billionaires and how far to the right we've gone, which was great to hear, but then he said something like... "it's because the left went crazy a few years ago and would cancel you for not getting someone's gender correct". Like, dude, you can not in good faith equate people wanting to be acknowledged with the correct pronouns with folks being deported to foreign prisons without due process. We barely inched left and American society went apeshit and attached the pendulum to a rocket heading towards fascism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nyt-democrats-plan-to-raise-tens-of-millions-to-build-a-left-leaning-presence-online.1196433/post-140335332

Maybe there's no leftist Rogan because the left freaks the fuck out the moment someone isn't perfectly aligned with their beliefs

I watched this just now and it made me think how much Nepenthe would rep him if he wasn't a white man.  He could've molested a kid but she would low-key support him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1ksfjsh/bill_burr_on_ice_and_corporate_america_they_never/

[simiansmarts]

This trans shit fucked up so much of the Left. Somehow, pronouns get equal footing with deported families being torn apart. I can’t even begin to understand how to have a conversation with someone who thinks those two issues cause the same level of human suffering.

The trans culture war shit is also primarily a white upper-middle class issue in addition to already being an EXTREMELY small population subset. The right hammers hard on culture war stuff above all else because that's what riles up their audience which makes it extremely effective when paired with a steady stream of social media ragebait.  
 
It's a no-win situation all around for democrats. The online left thinks you're actively sending the trans people to conversion camps and the online right thinks you're actively sending school kids to reassignment surgery clinics.

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/give-me-your-controversial-music-takes.1194786/page-3#post-140264610

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

Rap is the biggest piece of crap ever created, how anyone can listen to that load of degrading shit and like it is beyond me. It can't even be considered music.

BS ban. You can't ask for controversial opinions and then get mad when someone gives one. Especially when they're right

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

white folx wanting to be oppressed, nothing new. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-3#post-140313078

User Banned (2 Weeks): Victim Blaming

Their whole existence? What does that even mean?

How do you even know that's the case? I don't understand how anyone can make such judgements based on limited information released via the news media and a LinkedIn account.

I'm totally fine with condemning someone based on their actions and if they get discovered with a Twitter account calling for genocide and reveling in it or some concrete information on their role within the the government, I'm ready to wish them the worst in hell.

This guy didn't show up and shoot Netanyahu or someone making actual decisions of consequence. He shot two embassy workers he knew nothing about. It's tragic and wildly selfish given what he could have chosen to do with his life instead.

They worked at the Israeli embassy. They knew exactly where they worked and what their country is doing and didn't care. To pretend they are wholey innocent is just foolish and at worst defending genocide enablers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-3#post-140315148

User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

I can't help but think Trump or someone let this happen because of what might result from it. I know it's irrational, but something about this feels off to me.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-4#post-140315745

User Banned (3 Days): Hostility towards other members

He is Christian not Jewish according to his tweet

But what an antisemitic attack this was! The zionist brain rot in this thread is alarming.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-5#post-140319795

User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive and hostile commentary

A lot of really gross posts in this thread. The shooter's goals and the couple's individual viewpoints or religion are irrelevant to whether this attack was antisemitism. The fact is this person targeted individuals leaving the Jewish Museum, with absolutely no knowledge of who they were, completely conflating being Jewish with supporting Israel. That's textbook antisemitism. I'm Jewish, and I vehemently oppose the Israeli government. It should just be open season on me because I am leaving an event on Israel and Palestine at the Jewish museum? Or we decide whether it was okay or not post facto by judging my twitter posts? Because that's where the logic in many of these comments goes. It's fundamentally dangerous to downplay that targeting the Jewish Museum as a location is antisemitism and plays right into the hands of people trying to conflate all criticism of Israel as attacks on Jews.

The place they are shot has nothing to do with it was antisemitism or not. Shut the fuck up, you are not helping Jews everywhere by immediately trying to paint the shooting as an act of antisemitism. The shooter shot two people, he didn't go on a killing spree, he didn't have antisemetic iconography on him, he didn't shout anything antisemetic.
You are Jewish, pushing this narrative is so insanely harmful to you and myself.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

didn't anti-biden posts in the cancer thread get longer bans? 

We see the priorities, dubs.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fda-will-limit-covid-vaccines-to-people-over-65-or-at-high-risk-of-serious-illness-leaders-say-all-covid-vaccines-not-just-novavax.1194132/page-5#post-140237100

User Banned (1 Month): Spreading Vaccine Misinformation; Account in Junior Phase

Yeah this is roughly in line with most of the EU.

Over 65s
Immunocompromised
Diabetes
Cardiovascular disease
Cancer
At risk conditions
Front line workers
Pregnant women

All can get the vaccine for free. Nobody else really needs it to be honest.

More risk from the vaccine in a child than there is from COVID. It simply isn't that risky in children.

[simiansmarts]

Deranged death wish posts for Joe Biden getting cancer, conspiracies about the Israeli embassy shooting, vaccine misinformation: one or two week ban, a month at most. 
 
Making fun of a trans user for gooning over videogame and anime women repeatedly: PERMABAN, BEGONE TRANSPHOBE SCUM!  

[Boredfrom]

This trans shit fucked up so much of the Left. Somehow, pronouns get equal footing with deported families being torn apart. I can’t even begin to understand how to have a conversation with someone who thinks those two issues cause the same level of human suffering.

The trans culture war shit is also primarily a white upper-middle class issue in addition to already being an EXTREMELY small population subset. The right hammers hard on culture war stuff above all else because that's what riles up their audience which makes it extremely effective when paired with a steady stream of social media ragebait.  
 
It's a no-win situation all around for democrats. The online left thinks you're actively sending the trans people to conversion camps and the online right thinks you're actively sending school kids to reassignment surgery clinics.

I suppose that’s why Labor decided to rip the band aid after the Cass Report in the UK.

Is probably more difficult to do in the U.S. because how integrated is identity politics.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-bans-the-words-%E2%80%9Cpalestine-gaza-and-genocide-in-internal-emails.1195929/page-3#post-140336529

Let's be real, if we ban all MS everything from gaming side then that chunk of the community will just leave and go somewhere else where they can totally ignore the problem.

im trying to be more sympathetic in general as a dog since yesterday, so I wont be mean or aggressive, and I don't mean to.

there's been a lot of times in this forums history where large groups of folks were made to feel unwelcome and left, specifically the trans community and asian community

we're at a point where a lot of Palestinian Era is in tatters, and who knows if it can be salvaged, made to feel unwelcome as a result of how handling of the genocide has been

whether you do something or not, even if it's just a small thing and not a full ban on MS in general, will matter a lot right now, be it notes on every MS thread or containment threads or whathaveyou you

I know I've been very aggressive towards you before, but I do care a lot about era, and im very worried it's becoming less inclusive in general, and I hope something is done

Edit:

Censorship, suppression and fear tactics are actually only increasing.

[Steven Snell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/give-me-your-controversial-music-takes.1194786/page-3#post-140264610

User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

Rap is the biggest piece of crap ever created, how anyone can listen to that load of degrading shit and like it is beyond me. It can't even be considered music.

Funny considering former beloved mod Morrigan dissed rap and hip hop in a similar manner back in the NeoGAF days.

[Boredfrom]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-3#post-140313078

User Banned (2 Weeks): Victim Blaming

Their whole existence? What does that even mean?

How do you even know that's the case? I don't understand how anyone can make such judgements based on limited information released via the news media and a LinkedIn account.

I'm totally fine with condemning someone based on their actions and if they get discovered with a Twitter account calling for genocide and reveling in it or some concrete information on their role within the the government, I'm ready to wish them the worst in hell.

This guy didn't show up and shoot Netanyahu or someone making actual decisions of consequence. He shot two embassy workers he knew nothing about. It's tragic and wildly selfish given what he could have chosen to do with his life instead.

They worked at the Israeli embassy. They knew exactly where they worked and what their country is doing and didn't care. To pretend they are wholey innocent is just foolish and at worst defending genocide enablers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-3#post-140315148

User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

I can't help but think Trump or someone let this happen because of what might result from it. I know it's irrational, but something about this feels off to me.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-4#post-140315745

User Banned (3 Days): Hostility towards other members

He is Christian not Jewish according to his tweet

But what an antisemitic attack this was! The zionist brain rot in this thread is alarming.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-5#post-140319795

User Banned (1 Week): Dismissive and hostile commentary

A lot of really gross posts in this thread. The shooter's goals and the couple's individual viewpoints or religion are irrelevant to whether this attack was antisemitism. The fact is this person targeted individuals leaving the Jewish Museum, with absolutely no knowledge of who they were, completely conflating being Jewish with supporting Israel. That's textbook antisemitism. I'm Jewish, and I vehemently oppose the Israeli government. It should just be open season on me because I am leaving an event on Israel and Palestine at the Jewish museum? Or we decide whether it was okay or not post facto by judging my twitter posts? Because that's where the logic in many of these comments goes. It's fundamentally dangerous to downplay that targeting the Jewish Museum as a location is antisemitism and plays right into the hands of people trying to conflate all criticism of Israel as attacks on Jews.

The place they are shot has nothing to do with it was antisemitism or not. Shut the fuck up, you are not helping Jews everywhere by immediately trying to paint the shooting as an act of antisemitism. The shooter shot two people, he didn't go on a killing spree, he didn't have antisemetic iconography on him, he didn't shout anything antisemetic.
You are Jewish, pushing this narrative is so insanely harmful to you and myself.

Pygrus deserved like one month at least. 

Even the Hamas regulars decided to skip the thread outside of Spineduke that has exmod immunity.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/maga-budget-reconciliation-bill-would-ban-medicaid-coverage-of-all-transgender-care-including-hrt-for-minors-and-adults.1196181/

This is a code red situation for trans health care in the US. Even beyond the 150,000+ trans people on Medicaid (which includes me!), this would likely ripple out and cause private insurance to drop or reduce coverage as well. Hormones are necessary medical care for trans people, especially for those of us who no longer produce any internally (also me!). Stopping HRT would leave me with next to no estrogen or testosterone in my body, instantly dropping me into severe menopause and causing osteoporosis among other problems.

Everyone in the US should call your representatives and loudly oppose this bill. Make sure you specifically call out the trans health bans, this is a crucial time for cis allies to speak up and make it known that this is unacceptable.

CODE RED

  

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-bans-the-words-%E2%80%9Cpalestine-gaza-and-genocide-in-internal-emails.1195929/page-3#post-140336529

Let's be real, if we ban all MS everything from gaming side then that chunk of the community will just leave and go somewhere else where they can totally ignore the problem.

im trying to be more sympathetic in general as a dog since yesterday, so I wont be mean or aggressive, and I don't mean to.

there's been a lot of times in this forums history where large groups of folks were made to feel unwelcome and left, specifically the trans community and asian community

we're at a point where a lot of Palestinian Era is in tatters, and who knows if it can be salvaged, made to feel unwelcome as a result of how handling of the genocide has been

whether you do something or not, even if it's just a small thing and not a full ban on MS in general, will matter a lot right now, be it notes on every MS thread or containment threads or whathaveyou you

I know I've been very aggressive towards you before, but I do care a lot about era, and im very worried it's becoming less inclusive in general, and I hope something is done

Something has...*blushes*...well, changed about me...

And I'm feeling more *uwu*...

So I won't be a meanie old grumpus to my favorite daddy...

But can we pwease do something about mean ol' microsoft...

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-bans-the-words-%E2%80%9Cpalestine-gaza-and-genocide-in-internal-emails.1195929/page-4#post-140339832

B-Dubs said:
I would ask you to read the next paragraph, where I say that we're going to be putting a banner about this in each MS game OT, and major MS-related OT, going forward. I'm not going to be the one announcing it formally because, frankly, another mod asked if they could handle it and I've got a ton to do for this site already and am more than happy to let people handle stuff when they want to step up and take on that responsibility.

As for your other point, it's not just here where people are acting worse and worse, it's across the internet. Intersectionality has become a dirty word for a lot of people and we're living in an age of politics as team sports, something you will see across the internet, where the team needs to be defended from all accusations no matter what they are and while we try our best to fight against that, there's only so much that can be done there. Our power to fight broader internet trends is limited. We will do our best and continue to do so, but everyone needs to understand we only really have power over the forum. We can't control the dudes on bluesky or discord or whatever or stop them from spreading their nonsense.

But that's literally the point, the admin and mods have the power in this forum, the reason why a lot of people here migrated from GAF when that place crumble was because this place was meant to be a safe space. Why do the admins and mods think they have to fight the broader internet rather than continue to foster the community that it was supposed to be its foundation?

People in real life are willing to lose their job to stand for what they believe in. Majority of posters in that MS/Linux thread are doing what they can to purge themselves of anything MS related. Why can't the Admins who has the power to fight and stand against genocide can't even do a simple thing like banning MS discussions? Is it because the fear of losing traffic? If it is, just say so. Don't give a half-baked excuse that you are fighting the broader internet when Resetera was built to be the safe space for the marginalized community but when push comes to shove, the solution has always been half-baked to not lose the traffic that the site gets from it users.

Attica!!. Attica!!!  

EDIT:
Damn I forgot about the whole trans plot in this . guess i need a rewatch it

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-bans-the-words-%E2%80%9Cpalestine-gaza-and-genocide-in-internal-emails.1195929/page-3#post-140336529

Let's be real, if we ban all MS everything from gaming side then that chunk of the community will just leave and go somewhere else where they can totally ignore the problem.

He Admit It!  Era cares more about money than doing what's morally correct.  Nepenthe is has blood on her hands. 

 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/making-kids-conceiving-vs-raising-them.1195353/page-2#post-140339727

Raising them is the challenge for me but my kids are a blessing. Concieving has never been the issue. I have two kids and probably over 7 abortions from previous relationships. Not my choice, it was theirs.

Couldn't figure out how a condom works?

[Boredfrom]

Loco is so fucking stupid.

[TylenolJones]

Bdumbs really thought he could get one over on Palestinian ERA. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/maga-budget-reconciliation-bill-would-ban-medicaid-coverage-of-all-transgender-care-including-hrt-for-minors-and-adults.1196181/#post-140326839

It's this simply. A huge percentage of humans are sick...the sickness being a lack of any basic empathy.

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

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/making-kids-conceiving-vs-raising-them.1195353/page-2#post-140339727

Raising them is the challenge for me but my kids are a blessing. Concieving has never been the issue. I have two kids and probably over 7 abortions from previous relationships. Not my choice, it was theirs.

Couldn't figure out how a condom works?

Damn, I only paid for one and I learned my lesson

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/maga-budget-reconciliation-bill-would-ban-medicaid-coverage-of-all-transgender-care-including-hrt-for-minors-and-adults.1196181/#post-140326839

It's this simply. A huge percentage of humans are sick...the sickness being a lack of any basic empathy.

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

This is why I'm not on Era. My first post would be me quoting all the hypocritical posts, saying "This you?" and getting banned immediately

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

when you're a gaming site and it's the social justice warriors on etcetera who want to ban everything.