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

[HaughtyFrank]

Doesn’t Druckman have an Era account?

Does the Druckman files held by Messy count as harassing another Era user?



If Neil does have an Era account as well should he be banned from Era due to the Messy files?

I don't think he has a Ree account or else lot of screeching Ree would @ him, demanding answers before going for his head.

Yeah I wasn’t 100% sure but thought I remembered him posting once, I think the crazies would know better than to tag someone of that stature though because theyd be banned for sure if they did.

He has an account but was wise enough to only post two times. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/resetera-games-of-the-year-awards-2020.389810/post-60228260

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-last-of-us-hbo-official-trailer.660664/post-97539235

Too bad there isn't a "last time active" stat in the profile. Would like to know if he still lurks. I'm sure he's a big fan of them dismissing anti-semitism

[HaughtyFrank]

Between endless complaints about fealty to source material, 'but the budget' bean counters, or just typical brigading from culture warriors it's a volatile time for female led fantasy shows. Doubly so if the cast isn't super white (there were targets on rings of power and acolyte before a single episode aired of either.) There is a huge and largely untapped market here. But these shows are continuing to dwindle and people will look around in 5 years time like "why don't they make stuff like this anymore?"
Because we can't have shit, that's why.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98the-wheel-of-time%E2%80%99-canceled-by-prime-video-after-3-seasons.1197768/post-140395707

If there is then why did the show bomb? I doubt it was because of the evil chuds or else Twilight would have never been a success. Looking at book bestsellers it also seems like women are all that interested in fantasy stuff like Wheel of time but instead the super horny fantasy stuff like "A Court of Thorns and Roses". Going by those stats a women focused fantasy show would have to be full of romance, love triangles and lots of muffdiving and cocksucking. Now where is the streaming service brave enough to make those shows?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-please-dont-get-sifu-or-sloclaps-upcoming-football-game-rematch%E2%80%94their-creative-director-follows-jk-rowling-radio-genoa-liza-rosen-and-more.1197855/page-3#post-140395389

User banned (permanent): Troll account

I will buy want I wanna buy.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-please-dont-get-sifu-or-sloclaps-upcoming-football-game-rematch%E2%80%94their-creative-director-follows-jk-rowling-radio-genoa-liza-rosen-and-more.1197855/page-5#post-140400960

User Banned(permanent): Troll Account

I've scrolled the entire Layani's feed and there's literally nothing, it's 99.9% tweets about video games. If I had to boycott stuff because one person may have some opposite or bad views I would have to boycott everything. There's zero chance that in a software house every person share the same views and that they're all "good" people.

I played REMATCH's beta, game is fun but not great and bound to turn into F2P eventually, imho.

[Boredfrom]

Day 30. Takumi's been fine so far but he's starting to annoy me with his obsession towards Nozomi. Let it go, you freak.

 

Says the dude willing to break a marriage. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-hundred-line-last-defense-academy-ot-students-of-despair.1169295/page-38#post-140416983

[Besticus Maximus]

If there's anything that website was missing it was more banned users who liked videogames

[simiansmarts]

Between endless complaints about fealty to source material, 'but the budget' bean counters, or just typical brigading from culture warriors it's a volatile time for female led fantasy shows. Doubly so if the cast isn't super white (there were targets on rings of power and acolyte before a single episode aired of either.) There is a huge and largely untapped market here. But these shows are continuing to dwindle and people will look around in 5 years time like "why don't they make stuff like this anymore?"
Because we can't have shit, that's why.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%98the-wheel-of-time%E2%80%99-canceled-by-prime-video-after-3-seasons.1197768/post-140395707

If there is then why did the show bomb? I doubt it was because of the evil chuds or else Twilight would have never been a success. Looking at book bestsellers it also seems like women are all that interested in fantasy stuff like Wheel of time but instead the super horny fantasy stuff like "A Court of Thorns and Roses". Going by those stats a women focused fantasy show would have to be full of romance, love triangles and lots of muffdiving and cocksucking. Now where is the streaming service brave enough to make those shows?

 
I'm surprised the success of the 50 shades movie didn't open the floodgates for popular erotica targeted at women being adapted to film and television. That genre seems to be particularly popular in the fantasy space. Maybe because there's a stigma against watching erotic content due to its association with pornography versus reading erotic content.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-2#post-140311881

User Banned (3 Weeks): Inflammatory commentary in a sensitive thread, long history of infractions

Lot of people in this thread mourning the loss of genocide perpetrators, disgusting

Edit: before I get banned for "supporting murder", I think grieving anyone involved in an active genocide is abhorrent and is tacit support of the genocide.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-4#post-140316594

User Banned (2 Weeks): Conspiracy Theorizing

After all this time we get (afaik) the first deaths in this ordeal on US soil and it's two Israeli ambassadors outside of a Jewish Museum and they happen to maybe be slightly pro-Gaza, right as Israel's making a fuss and threatening to fire missiles at Iran over the possibility of a deal with Trump? That timing is a little too suspect to jump to conclusions before more comes out.
clusions before more comes out.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2-israeli-embassy-employes-shot-killed-in-washington-dc.1195905/page-4#post-140318337

User Banned (2 Weeks): Dismissing concerns around antisemitism.

Are you implying the shooter knew this specific person was a Christian Zionist and not Jewish?

Because I significantly doubt it.

Wouldn't be antisemetic either way. Doesn't matter at all.

They shouted free Palestine, not an antisemetic slur. So if there is one thing we know from all this, it's because they're Israeli.

[Venice]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-could-wish-somebody-would-fall-in-love-you-would-you.1198086

This thread is one of the best thread-backfires in ages.

'If you could wish somebody would fall in love with you, would you?'

I bet OP thought the premise of this thread sounded all cutesy-wootsy, like a 1990's rom-com sitcom in his head.

And I bet he thought his fellow greasy, loser Era members would all be agreeing with him, and sharing anecdotes about the love of their lives they stare at like maniacs while they sit, drooling and slobbering over themselves on the other side of the train.

But then he goes and posts a whole bunch of 'rules' and...

Well, he's just too fucking nuts. Super insane parts highlighted in bold:

Often when getting wishes in media free will is a red line that can't be messed with and you can't wish that somebody would love you. If you were given a wish that would make somebody fall in love with you would you do it? It can be anybody: a celebrity, an old fling, that barista, a friend, etc. Would you be willing to step on somebody's free will to be with the person you want.

Rules:
• Nobody will ever know unless you tell them

• The only aspect of their free will that changes is they will romantically love you. Their original personality is unaltered to the extent that is possible.

• If you select a person from across the country/world who's never met you, you will need to at least get to them to speak to them to trigger it. A person who is unaware of you will not instantly know who you are, drop what their doing, and come to you.

• They will leave whoever they're with to be with you. Depending on their personality they might do that themselves right away or you might have to persuade them to.

• The relationship itself isn't guaranteed to be perfect. It will progress as it would naturally with the only change being that they will for sure love you and they'll never leave you. But your compatibility with the person will dictate how smooth the relationship is not the wish. They might love you, but that doesn't mean they'll never disagree with you or do something you don't like.

• If you ever tell them about the wish they'll have their true, unaltered, free will restored. And they will understand what you did. It doesn't mean they'll instantly fall out of love with you, it just means there's now no magic forcing them to now. If they're happy with the relationship and do still love you they can choose to stay with you despite your altering of their free will. If they're unhappy for whatever reason, they can now leave.

Most of the immediate responses are "no".

But a few call out the OP for, more or less, exactly what it is:

No.
That's... well there's a word for that but we'll just leave it at "no".

Exactly my thoughts, It's basically rape.

I mean that's basically rape, so no. As a horny teenager certainly had those kinds of power fantasies though.

That sounds like rape.

No. Ethically speaking it'd be a monstrous thing to do. Absolutely disgusting.

SuperRiko, however, seems to have taken this thread very personally and goes in particularly ultra-hard on OP, lol

Actually disgusting, no. How much of lost cause loser do you need to be, to have to force someone to like you.

It's evil and pathetic rolled into 1 thing.

Also as an Aromantic/Asexual, the idea that somone forces me to like them like that is abhorrant and I'd rather die.

Most people saying yes are side stepping the hypothetical to be clever or funny, and one was too coward to give any reason why he'd be okay removing someones Freewill so he could have a brainwashed lover.

Why we pretending like this isn't incel shit?

So you are saying you would brainwash someone to love you?

It's also disingenuous to say brainwashing someone to be forced to love you is the same as buying somone a drink. The only time thats true is if you roofied that drink.

No you are trying to downplay the hypothetical to get some imagined highground above it. Using magic to influence someones freewill is wrong, and it is a form of manipulation even if you don't believe in freewill or whatever incel stuff you uttered before.

did you read the OP? heres a snippet

"They will leave whoever they're with to be with you. Depending on their personality they might do that themselves right away or you might have to persuade them to."

Its subtle sure, but it doesn't make it less wrong. As an Aromantic person, The idea I could be talked into it by someone via magic first opening me up to the idea is nasty.

Oh and Also the OP themselves said in this thread that saying yes was immoral and hard to defend. This is about brainwashing someone just enough to love you via magic. Which is wrong. Consent is always needed

SO It's wrong to brainwash people into loving you, yes? I do have control over myself, but I wouldnt if I was magically forced not to. see the difference?

The best part?

Poor OP realises he's made a massive fuck-up in creating this thread and desperately tries to backpedal with a 'Just asking ethical questions, tee hee' post:

I mean it's pretty hard to defend lol. Idk how you could make the case that it's an ethical thing to do. It's about as selfish and action a person could take

Kahhhhyle, don't be like EchoesOfTheCyborg: not every single dumb fucking thought that enters your head needs to have a thread.

Edit: Superkiko now facing off against B-Dumbs. Expect either a ban or a thread lock within a few hours:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-you-could-wish-somebody-would-fall-in-love-you-would-you.1198086/page-2#post-140417340

A more interesting scenario would be "They magically find you attractive." They might still hate or be indifferent toward you, they'd just think you were cute.

This is just straight brainwashing lol

So like you'd think its interesting lets say, if a lesbian were suddenly controlled to find a man attractive? still seems gross to me.

There's something refreshing about someone calling B-Dumbs 'gross' directly to his face.

Go, go, go, SuperKiko. Fuck that loser up! 

[Alpacx]

I think the lesson to take from Era moderation is the Nazis would have got away with everything if they leaned into the crossdressing and/or identified as trans.

Great forum you have there B-Dubs.


(The pro-Hamas people are so lucky the shooter just happened to randomly shoot Israel embassy employees outside the Jewish museum )

[simiansmarts]

Yeah but what if OP was a trans woman and the thread was about making a woman fall in love with you for epic wlw lesbian sexyyyy time?? Like in my favorite hentai anime!! 

Ever thought about that?? 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/characters-whose-popularity-comes-mainly-from-their-design.1198212/#post-140413848

I found her off putting. I'm a straight guy and don't necessarily hate fan service characters, but something about this one was just weird to me. Maybe uncanny valley or something.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/characters-whose-popularity-comes-mainly-from-their-design.1198212/#post-140413848

I found her off putting. I'm a straight guy and don't necessarily hate fan service characters, but something about this one was just weird to me. Maybe uncanny valley or something.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dusk-golem-resident-evil-9-started-as-a-big-open-world-multiplayer-game-starring-leon-jill-before-rebooting-revelations-3-cancelled-in-2022.1196790/page-7#post-140409549

Please for the love of god can we get a woman protagonist? I'm tired of Chris and Leon. They've had their time in the sun.

I agree. Give us a woman protagonist with juicy ass and full steamy scenes on top of action.

Princess Bubblegum definitely didn't ban or sign on because they would agree 

Should have added wlw between steamy and scenes and this would have got the moderator gold star post treatment.

[killamajig]

It's different due to someone else orchastrating and benefitting from the control they are asserting. Personally I have never fallen in love before and the idea is gross to me, Being controlled to experience that would be violating to me as a person. if you aren't defending brainwashing then we don't need to talk anymore so Im glad you aren't

Totally normal people. Why wouldn't you ask these weirdos for advice? Or anything?

[Taco Bell Tower]

Sad messofanego isn't in that thread.

[benji]

Personally I don't agree. Someone like Rowling has done measurable, tangible damage to a very marginalized group. The Cyberpunk stuff in retrospect might be different, I don't know…I wasn't here but got a cliffs notes on it. Harry Potter tho is a no brainer. There's tangible, widespread harm being done there that's actually lead to discriminatory laws being enacted thanks to her crusade. It's on a completely different level, I'm happy it's banned here.

There has? Like what?

Cyberpunk wasn't even banned, it was restricted to an OT that has 38,500 posts and now has a second OT for the NS2 release.

Okay, so we can limit Microsoft and The Last of Us to a single OT each too right?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gizmodo-googles-veo-3-is-already-deepfaking-all-of-youtubes-most-smooth-brained-content.1198272/

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gizmodo-googles-veo-3-is-already-deepfaking-all-of-youtubes-most-smooth-brained-content.1198272/

Title got a change
[Gizmodo] Google's Veo 3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube's Dumbest Content

[clockwork5]

You know Echos voted yes on that “make somebody love you” poll because it’s perfectly fine to do that in a wholesome wlw kind of way 

[BIONIC]

Yeah, that. If there’s no add-on already available you can just commission someone on the xenforo forums and they’ll make it, probably less than a 100 bucks and it would be a massive QoL improvement for the board, one of the biggest ones yet. I used to be an admin on a dead NBA forum that used xenforo. I remember one time I commissioned a custom add-on and the guy only asked for $15… add-on was flawless and clearly took hours so I gave him $75 and dude was ecstatic lol. I’m sure the tech folks that work here already know this but if anyone else is curious here’s where you can commission a custom one: link

You guys should add a few more perks to Clear, like image hosting and 3 get out of jail (bans) free cards each year.

I'll see if the image hosting is possible. You need to understand though, we're way bigger than all but two other xenforo forums. And for both of those, we definitely use more images as they're literally fanfiction repositories.

We're the biggest forum of our kind and that means stuff that works for smaller forums doesn't necessarily scale up to the point where it works for us and even if it does, it might be too expensive to make possible. I remember Ceri being annoyed at me over how much the vote tool cost. Thing took months to develop. The dude who said shit costs $15, that's for small forums that have a dozen or so active users.

It’s just an add-on. You commission it from someone on the official Xenforo forums and they’ll make it for you. From there it takes about 5 seconds to install it.

The image hosting wouldn’t be your servers. It’s just an upload button where the other text editing buttons are that automatically uploads the image to imgur and lets you embed the pic with one click.

It has nothing to do with how big or small a forum is.

Proceeds to ignore that post to talk about some dumb shit

[KillRideMedley]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/characters-whose-popularity-comes-mainly-from-their-design.1198212/#post-140413848

I found her off putting. I'm a straight guy and don't necessarily hate fan service characters, but something about this one was just weird to me. Maybe uncanny valley or something.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-showing-his-dementia-at-west-point.1198173/

Armchair diagnosis of mental health?

[El Derpo]

I would be fascinated in the analytics that Dubs is privy to regarding forum engagement and active members. There is no way that it hasn’t completely collapsed.

The scope for what people are actually allowed to discuss and disagree on is becoming insanely narrow. There are people who show up in a thread and you know that someone will ultimately be banned, because what is and isn’t grounds for banning isn’t based on rules, but identity.

It’s ultimately become a forum where a bunch of shut in incels, who now identify as women, lecture other people about what sexualised content is allowed while they openly fantasise about video characters being lesbians rocking sexualised pre-pubescent anime character profile pics.

[Snoopy]

Surprised none of them have asked Dubs if MOBA gets any of the revenue from all those sweet Era Clear subs.


Also those FAQS

What does this subscription get me?

Fuck All.


What about ad block?

We hope that you will consider whitelisting us. We do everything we can to try to ensure that our ads are as safe and inoffensive as possible. That said, we will not ban you for using an ad blocker. Just try not to brag about it; that's rude not just to us but also to the paying subscribers.


Why don't I get anything other than ad removal?

Because we have absolutely no original ideas and nothing of value to offer

We have made the decision not to gate any special features, functions, or status behind a paywall. The idea is that members should feel equal and have access to the same forum experience. We offer Era Clear to serve those who don't want to see ads but still want to support us.

[Orange Juice Box]

Cyberpunk wasn't even banned, it was restricted to an OT that has 38,500 posts and now has a second OT for the NS2 release.

Kyuuji, it's this barefaced lying and hypocrisy that marks you out as one of the premier cunts of the entire internet. There is a vietnam style graveyard filled with all the digital accounts you have deleted from human history for liking cyberpunk 2077 and you yourself went and completed the game. Seething etc. You want to talk about social justice? Someone hold kyuuji to account, please, for once, I beg of thee

Someone tried and got a ban for it.  Laughing Banana was the one.

Link?

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile Dubs and his wife -

Oh Hai. We saw you across the bar and really liked your vibe



We have an open relationship just so you know

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-space-marine-chapter-would-like-to-get-focus-in-a-live-action-warhammer-40k-series.1197501/

Hello Warhammer 40Eras! So as we've known for a while now, their is possibly a live action Warhammer 40k series coming... Maybe, god knows given how much of mess Hollywood seems to be right now.

 Strange, I didn't think women were into Warhammer

Why can't anything be as pure Slaanesh Tyranids impregnating Daemonculaba, UwU :

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-people-still-doing-on-x-twitter.1198110/page-4#post-140425242

The Rest of The World doesn't care about USA Drama.

Bluesky is pretty useless for non English content.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-people-still-doing-on-x-twitter.1198110/page-4#post-140427390

And the world doesn't revolve the US, and if I want local update from politician and my countries various ministry on other stuff, Facebook and Twitter is sitll what's used, and if I want to contact my local representative, Twitter and facebook is still the best way to reach them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-people-still-doing-on-x-twitter.1198110/page-4#post-140427801

Just look at the recent WHO not allowing us to partiicpate again, when we were allowed and served as a an example during COVID, we're not a prop for your own political agend.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Another "You need to quit X or we will shame you" thread? B-dubs, why are you letting a small minority harass your users? This thread wasn't made in good faith at all.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-game-post-report-marathon-delay-likely-as-sony-cancels-all-paid-marketing-plans.1198263/

So they closed the thread because they hate Colin Moriarty 

Stop posting Colin Moriarty horseshit Jesus fuckin Christ