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

[benji]

Absolutely not. I took pictures of all those sluts after I killed them.

Egg post.

[Potato]

I love that we're a far-right Trump-worshipping Zionist hate site and yet we take their avowed principles more seriously than anyone on the staff or craven losers like Fat4all/ ZeoVGM does.

Yeah, but we don't talk about MS because their consoles and games are shit though...

[Potato]

https://bsky.app/profile/xaviconcept.bsky.social/post/3lqnw43kf5c23

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Ask Resetera to connect with you on Death Stranding in a LttP thread, spend time and effort putting your thoughts down on a post hoping to discuss its themes since the sequel is about to drop = 5 total replies

Make a thread about FPS campaign recommendations = 80+ replies in an hour

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rttp-death-stranding-design-by-subtraction-in-this-economy.1187094

Maybe it's because death stranding is kojima at his absolute worst

Death Stranding is awesome. Why are you giving ERA the benefit of doubt?

Metal Gear Solid 4 is kojima at his worst.

Saying he is at his worst implies he was ever at his best.

Series went downhill after MGS3, Kojima needs really good co-writers to reign in his wackjob ideas.
Shout-out to the English scriptwriter for MGS1, Jeremy Blaustein, the series wouldn’t have succeeded without him.

He really is the Kurt Sutter of video games.

[davepoobond]

Sony defense force just needed to incur Gaza to win. If they knew then what we knew now…

[Boredfrom]

MGSV is excellent. People angry that is incomplete is beside the point.  

But I agree that the game needed more zones like Ground Zeroes rather than open world.

[Potato]

MGSV is excellent. People angry that is incomplete is beside the point.  

But I agree that the game needed more zones like Ground Zeroes rather than open world.

Factually incorrect.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Why hasn't the bire put up its LGBT pride month banner? Don't tell me this place is just like those companies on bluesky and twitter who are refusing to do it suddenly..

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tinder-testing-new-height-preference-feature-following-drop-in-paid-users.1203921/page-5#post-140792292

I only date women that are 6'5 and above.

Ay, what-up? I'm 6'6.

Ok, Too-Tall.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Why hasn't the bire put up its LGBT pride month banner? Don't tell me this place is just like those companies on bluesky and twitter who are refusing to do it suddenly..

Pride? I exclusively celebrate Dairy Month.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

this is trans erasure in action

genocide

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

All according to keikaku*












"Keikaku" means trans genocide.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

From the community thread:

For what it's worth, it's one thing to just laugh at people behind their backs from off site over whatever. It's kind of another thing to do it over people saying "hey, this behavior you are protecting is hurtful to us." That it's a community leader doing it makes it even more hurtful.

We've previously had situations where staff vented off site and mocked people over shit like people being entirely too serious over game sales data (which, yes, there is additional context of prolonged trolling happening that had people extra testy about that situation), and the staff involved in that ultimately stepped down because it clearly crossed a line for people.

And this situation is inarguably over something much more sensitive.

I've never been a big ignore guy, shit I don't even think I have anyone on ignore, but this is getting beyond ridiculous. We should be able to ignore people who frequently  turn threads on important topics into a toxic, derailed mess.  Shit's been going on for years and folks are justifiably tired of it. Let us ignore whoever we want. It's not anything personal, it's just not wanting to read content that more often than not creates a toxic atmosphere in any given thread for pages on end.

Also wanna echo others in saying that lock post was on point, B-dubs. Good shit

[Averon]

Community Thread:

I've never been a big ignore guy, shit I don't even think I have anyone on ignore, but this is getting beyond ridiculous. We should be able to ignore people who frequently turn threads on important topics into a toxic, derailed mess. Shit's been going on for years and folks are justifiably tired of it. Let us ignore whoever we want. It's not anything personal, it's just not wanting to read content that more often than not creates a toxic atmosphere in any given thread for pages on end.

Also wanna echo others in saying that lock post was on point, B-dubs. Good shit

It's hilarious how everyone advocating for ignoring mods, or people reading said advocation, in that community thread knows they are talking about Neppy 90% of the time without even saying her name

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I don't know why they circle the wagons so hard for Nep. She must have lots of blackmail on B-dubs.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

Nep telling users that if they have a problem with being made fun of for being a small dicked bald headed loser they should go get therapy has to be the line that leads to users being able to ignore mods. They will then ban any user that uses this feature.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

well maybe they shouldn't be small dicked bald headed losers who should go get therapy?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-xai-is-poisoning-memphis.1205148/#post-140806677

A functioning state would disappear someone like Musk for this kind of shit.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

well maybe they shouldn't be small dicked bald headed losers who should go get therapy?

Sadly the venn diagram of people who fit that description and women on resetera is a circle.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I suspect, based on her appearance, that the reason Nepenthe identifies as nonbinary is that she was always getting mistaken for a teenage boy.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-xai-is-poisoning-memphis.1205148/#post-140806677

A functioning state would disappear someone like Musk for this kind of shit.

If I didn't know better, I would assume Booshka was a troll. Unfortunately, he's just another retarded tankie.



This is your brain. 

This is your brain on communism.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-xai-is-poisoning-memphis.1205148/#post-140806677

A functioning state would disappear someone like Musk for this kind of shit.

WTF? 

Not even pretending to care for human rights anymore, just straight up tankie.

How is this shit not fascism?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

it's not fascism if it's our side, chud.

[benji]

Why hasn't the bire put up its LGBT pride month banner? Don't tell me this place is just like those companies on bluesky and twitter who are refusing to do it suddenly..

Queer people should be celebrated and given money in every month.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-xai-is-poisoning-memphis.1205148/#post-140806677

A functioning state would disappear someone like Musk for this kind of shit.

WTF? 

Not even pretending to care for human rights anymore, just straight up tankie.

How is this shit not fascism?

Booshka hasn't been pretending for a long time, he was calling on Biden to disappear Musk for like a year or more.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

wow I can't believe moderation is dodging the need to be inclusive and have an LGBTQIA2S+ banner for our site.

[benji]

wow I can't believe moderation is dodging the need to be inclusive and have an LGBTQIA2S+ banner for our site.

I think you are ignoring the fact that there are indeed low cost options for getting therapy that exist.

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-xai-is-poisoning-memphis.1205148/#post-140806677

A functioning state would disappear someone like Musk for this kind of shit.

In China they possibly would dissappear some on like that.  And given how perfect Booska regards China he would live for the state to remove undesirables

[BIONIC]

Constructive thread mega quote dump. You won’t guess which former cunt mod defends nepnep!

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

How that thread went is forcing a line in the sand on a few things shouldn't be ignored or just left to inaction. I've seen boards die on this same concept a few times before. Hostility, hyperbole, hypocrisy, and hand waving have killed better places than this.

Some people just want to act like a toxic asshole and don't want to feel guilty about it. So they come up with all sorts of "progressive" reasons why they can be as toxic as they want and still somehow be "in the right."

The thing about that thread that was the craziest is that people were saying that body shaming is fine if its done to hurt truly awful people but those awful people aren't seeing your fucking posts on a gaming forum. You're literally just shouting body shaming insults where only your peers are. Even if it was on social media they still probably aren't seeing it and only your followers would be, so??????? Doesn't make any sense, literally none. The only reason to do it is because you want to, which, own up to that shit

When someone is saying something upsets them responding with multiple multi paragraph posts about how you don’t care and it’s not a big deal actually is a shitty thing to do. This forum is real bad about treating their fellow posters like there’s an actual human being on the other side of the screen and the embarrassing lack of empathy that happened in that thread is a good example of that. Do fucking better. Appreciate the lock post

Yet another example of a thread derail and behaviour that goes neatly into the "here's why staff shouldn't be posting as regular posters" folder.

Like, you really telling me that some of that wouldn't be actioned from a regular user? Respectfully, constructively — either it is actionable, or it isn't, and it shouldn't matter who engages in it.

Staff isn't a monolith and sometimes they will disagree. I don't think we need to add more fuel to the drama here by demanding statements or whatever, but maybe that's just me.

FWIW I don't think Nepenthe's opinions (kinda funny how everyone is dancing around naming her) were all that outrageous (even if I disagree with many of her takes), and I wouldn't want a regular member banned over them either. 🤷‍♀️

It was victim blaming plain and simple. As someone who's going to therapy a lot I wasn't amused reading her posts. They are unacceptable, especially coming from a admin from this website

I agree. Her opinion wasn't outrageous, but frankly I don't expect users or admins to be perfect in every social/topical issue. She also gave me some perspectives I had not previously considered. I still generally agree with the bdubz closing post though.

I agree that not every single disagreement with/between staff needs to be litigated here. Staff have had plenty of terrible takes over the years and yet I don't see this level of outrage for every other instance, nor should there be. Let cooler heads prevail.

For what it's worth, Nepenthe's take in that thread does not seem "ban worthy" to me.

I largely agree with this

Her gleefully talking about showing our posts to people to make fun of them was incredibly insulting and inappropriate.

I had considered making a thread about it being men's mental health month, but that thread basically convinced me that people would just respond with how it isn't as important as other things and other excuses to just be miserable to others

Yeah. Just a heads up...any time someone on here made a thread about mens mental health or any other issue regarding men... it turns very toxic fast.

This forum isn't capable of having a men's mental health discussion without it being completely derailed and things turning nasty.

It's fairly difficult to reconcile the viewpoints expressed over many posts over days with the presented official stances and guidelines of the board. Adding the casual mention off site ridiculing of posters to the equation it makes it really hard to ignore the "rules for thee but not for me" stance expressed by more than a few posters in here even before this incident considering the call out of off-site drama from discord/off site battles of the community by staff recently. Shrug, not the best example to show given the focus was already on staff separating themselves from the community in discussions of threads constantly being derailed and/or locked.

I shouldn't really be the one to talk since I wasn't one of the "good guys" of that thread, but I'll make it clear that I do understand that there are negative ramifications with that kind of humor or commentary and I applaud B-Dubs for sharing his truth. While I don't share the same views as everyone else on this topic, that's the beauty of having an internet forum. That said I feel like people have a proclivity to designate someone at odds with them as the enemy thus they need to be "held accountable" for their actions, which is a bigger driver as to why that thread went off the rails. I admit I should've been more sensitive on this topic as I wasn't aware that some feel very strongly about this issue, so I apologize for not being considerate of the space I was in.

As for moderators/staff mocking us behind my back, I'll be honest, I don't really give a shit if people laugh at me behind my back. I say stupid shit sometimes. I'm probably seen as an asshole by most people complaining about that thread! I'm probably ignored by dozens of people who can't stand me. I can't control that. Maybe I am hateable! You have every right to feel however you want about me. I'm not a perfect ally and this website invites this kind of animosity towards people who fall short of someone's standards. I'm not against that! I just don't subscribe to the notion that everyone must adhere to some professionalism that a website pretty clearly doesn't always adhere to. We are human and we always have an ugly side to our characters.

For what it's worth, it's one thing to just laugh at people behind their backs from off site over whatever. It's kind of another thing to do it over people saying "hey, this behavior you are protecting is hurtful to us." That it's a community leader doing it makes it even more hurtful.

We've previously had situations where staff vented off site and mocked people over shit like people being entirely too serious over game sales data (which, yes, there is additional context of prolonged trolling happening that had people extra testy about that situation), and the staff involved in that ultimately stepped down because it clearly crossed a line for people.

And this situation is inarguably over something much more sensitive.

[Polident]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-xai-is-poisoning-memphis.1205148/#post-140806677

A functioning state would disappear someone like Musk for this kind of shit.

In China they possibly would dissappear some on like that.  And given how perfect Booska regards China he would live for the state to remove undesirables

So, why don’t these people who glaze China move to China?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

it's like straights needing to bake the fucking gay cake, benji. WE NEED A BANNER!