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

[benji]

I feel like there's at least an 80% chance that the Discord she was talking about is all Era members.

[Snoopy]

It's going to be like the end of There Will Be Blood when she gets booted out

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/t-mobile-launches-fiber-internet-service-in-the-u-s-with-a-five-year-price-lock-the-verge.1206351/

Thats pretty pricey

I'm using a local internet company that gives me 5 GB for $100.

That's the speed not the amount of data you are allowed.

Amount of data allowed? You mean a data cap? No data cap for the plan I have

I'm so confused by this thread.
Are people using GB (Gigabyte) for Gbps (Gigabit per second), or do people mix some data caps with speed?

[Tucker's Law]

See, what Dubs really needs is to appoint a special mod whose job is not tending to the regular forum moderation "beat" but instead is freed up from doing that so they can solely focus on internally reviewing the "affairs" of the mod groups; an Internal Affairs Admin, if you will, that can action others in the site team when they break the site "laws".  No such thing exists anywhere else in any manner of "enforcement" departments, does it?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-signed-proclamation-to-ban-travel-from-several-countries-sources-say.1207824/#post-140939766

I had a friend from Laos in elementary school.

Wow, stay safe.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/t-mobile-launches-fiber-internet-service-in-the-u-s-with-a-five-year-price-lock-the-verge.1206351/

Xfinity is basically the only option in my neighborhood. There's ATT DSL but fuck that shit.

it's the same for my area as well, Comcast/Xfinity is the only option available for true high-speed broadband internet. There's much slower speed internet available such as DSL,

AT&T discontinued DSL years ago.

I wish Verizon stuck to their original rollout plans for FiOS so my city (Baltimore, Maryland) could finally have fiber internet. FIOS is available in the surrounding county but not in my city.

When Verizon originally announced their rollout plans for FiOS, Baltimore City and County was on the initial rollout list, then a few months after the initial FiOS rollout list was released, Verizon released a revised FiOS rollout list, and it was immediately noticed that Baltimore City was no longer on the rollout list, but Baltimore County was still on the rollout list.

I emailed Verizon to try to find out why they removed Baltimore City from the FiOS rollout list, and they sent an email to me from their governmental affairs department stating that a pre-existing agreement that the Baltimore City Council had with Comcast precludes Verizon from rolling out FiOS to Baltimore City and they suggested I contact my City Councilperson so I did that. My City Councilperson claimed that there was absolutely nothing precluding Verizon from bringing FiOS to Baltimore City.

Baltimore City did make an attempt to bring Google Fiber to Baltimore City and sent in an RFP to Google but Google didn't choose Baltimore City.

I'm wondering if T-Mobile could be successful in bringing fiber to Baltimore City since they already have their 5G mobile home internet service deployed in Baltimore City.

I wish he'd specify the City in all his posts about Baltimore.  

Rural places like mine won't get stuff like this, but it would be nice to quadruple the speeds we have now for 1/2 the price

Don't worry the government is rolling out fiber to more rural places, wait actually hold on, they're pulling the budget for that and giving it to Starlink, sorry.

While I understand that you can't necessarily run fiber to every home in the US, there should be a major backbone of it to all towns and then people too far away that would need new nodes built to service them would end up on satellite internet like Starlink but pulling some of the funding for fiber is just so stupid.

Dude should look into what the government has done with that broadband fund after three years. (Hint: literally nothing at all and half of the proposed territory is no longer eligible for it despite this.) Also there already is a major backbone of fiber into all towns, the phone and cable systems are on fiber just not at the consumer level.

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Not that Starlink should get anything ever.

Love how nobody in that thread seems to realize that their lack of options is because the government is protecting them from capitalist greed like they always demand.

[benji]

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2/603805/switch-2-genderless-mii

The Nintendo Switch 2 has changed Mii character creation, Polygon can confirm after going hands-on with the console. When creating new Mii avatars, players won’t be able to choose between male or female options like the Switch, but rather between two “styles.”

[HaughtyFrank]

"Select your style*"

*Style means gender




Seriously, what's the point?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mii-return-on-nintendo-switch-2-and-are-now-genderless.1206747/#post-140882289

 User Banned (Permanent): Transphobia, account in junior phase

shouldn't the rightwing nutjobs be happy? Nintendo has given up the use of (trigger warning)

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pronouns.

Here is a crazy thought.
You can be a big left supporter and also think pronouns are ridiculous

[benji]

Objection to pronoun declarations doesn't have to be transphobic. I refuse to allow anyone to order how I can refer to them in conversations with others especially where they're not present. I don't fucking use British titles either.

[Uncle]

In any case, tell me what are the best Marvel games that are not fighting games.  

the ultimate alliance games are pretty well-liked

[simiansmarts]

We should ban Marvel videogames for 10 years at minimum, their gluttony knows no bound. 
 

[BIONIC]

We should ban Marvel videogames for 10 years at minimum, their gluttony knows no bound. 
 

We should ban Marvel games until we can figure out just what the hell is going on

[HaughtyFrank]

It's clear how the members are going after Nep for being the only POC, trans, women with authority.  Excluding all the other the other minority, trans mods.  Spicy.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-t%C5%8Dkon-fighting-souls-announced-coming-2026-4v4-tag-fighter-by-arc-system-works-ps5-pc.1207398/page-7#post-140920380

Cool looking game, excited for it.

But

Did the tone of the video feel SUPER disrespectful to Capcom to anyone else?

[DocWager]

That Marvel game is way too anime. I prefer something closer to Marvel house-style. But on the other hand, does Marvel have a house style anymore?

[Uncle]

AT&T discontinued DSL years ago.

[DocWager]

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2/603805/switch-2-genderless-mii

The Nintendo Switch 2 has changed Mii character creation, Polygon can confirm after going hands-on with the console. When creating new Mii avatars, players won’t be able to choose between male or female options like the Switch, but rather between two “styles.”

It looks like two different Ryan’s.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-461#post-140875617

Part of that image does give me "AI-Assisted" vibes too, especially with the character on the right. Some of her nails are painted orange/gold, and some are not, and that seems like a feature someone would easily overlook if they weren't already planning for her nails to be part of her color scheme. If you're drawing and intending to have her nails be painted, that's something you work into the composition, and you wouldn't easily forget that notion if you planned it out all along from the very beginning. It can't simply be written off as a case of "Oh, I forgot." because the nails that are painted are not even remotely the same color either.




And, that sliver of uncovered skin in her lower groin region is a pretty good indication that she's wearing the thinnest of bikinis underneath that poofy jacket. The girl on the left is somehow covered more in that department.

Wow, thanks for all this important work. I’m glad you were to spot all those blemishes in the art while you were masturbating to it.

[simiansmarts]

It's clear how the members are going after Nep for being the only POC, trans, women with authority.  Excluding all the other the other minority, trans mods.  Spicy.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-t%C5%8Dkon-fighting-souls-announced-coming-2026-4v4-tag-fighter-by-arc-system-works-ps5-pc.1207398/page-7#post-140920380

Cool looking game, excited for it.

But

Did the tone of the video feel SUPER disrespectful to Capcom to anyone else?

Street Fighter 6 crossed 4.4 million units last December, I assure you Capcom is not hurting from Marvel doing a fighting game with ASW instead of them. 
 
If anything, Capcom is probably glad the albatross around their neck that is Marvel is finally gone. Now they're free do a different versus game should they return to that sub-series and Marvel fans can go play the ASW game. Variety is the spice of life, people!

[BIONIC]

Things getting spicy in community. Too lazy to do the in-quotes from the first post, so someone else can do that or screenshot:

CW: body-focused insults

Swear to GOD y'all are a bunch of snowflake, pearl-clutching, liberal-brained losers. Even more so given the overbearing presence of cis, white, male users on here that routinely collectively center themselves No Matter What™️. You all cannot step outside your hurt fee-fees or mole hill-turned-mountain struggles long enough to give the same consideration to other people as you are barking over not receiving. NONE of you can actually read, let alone digest what another person has to say once you're offended by what you think you've read. And all that comes of this is gaslighting, demonization, ostracization, and punishment of anyone who has a different viewpoint from your own but doesn't present it on a velvet cushion. It's pathetic, especially when you all band together as you're doing now, wasting calories upset that an admin (Nepenthe. We can just say 'Nepenthe') doesn't just kowtow to the impossible task of making sure everyone feels good about themselves all the time.

Let's take a look at what Nepenthe actually said:


Correct!
Comparing bald or tiny-dick jokes to the actual oppression of queer people is absurd and Nepenthe was right to call it out. You're just going to have to come to terms with the fact that male patterned baldness has never gotten anyone thrown onto a pyre or shot in front of their own burned-down home while mourning their dog alongside their husband. Grow the fuck up. Bald jokes bad? Fine, but as moderation on here and the other side has said multiple times, find a better comparison.

[RIGHT]"So just because other people suffer more means they can make fun of other people?" I ain't looking for the post, but someone decided that this is what Nepenthe said. This is a shitty false dichotomy and if you said anything like this, you should feel bad. No one is giving minorities or marginalized people carte blanche to make dick jokes. But comparing dick jokes to homosexuality or even female body-shaming and demanding the same care and consideration should absolutely be called out and fucking ridiculed if I'm to be honest.[/RIGHT]


Correct!
Attacking insecurity is a valid form of resistance that, as Nepenthe explained, disempowers oppressors and emboldens the oppressed. Taking jabs at physical appearance or unchosen, unchangeable traits is valid! Hurting people is valid! Bald jokes aimed at shitty people aren't a condemnation of bald people or the state of being bald. They are a direct needling of a specific person to hurt their specific feelings. It's up to anyone catching strays from that to manage their insecurity.

The people in power that are being made fun of are willingly and through knowing, direct action *killing us and our planet,* but y'all would rather make an 8-page-long thread finger-waggling their opponents for resisting their power The Wrong Way than go out into the street and enact meaningful, material change. Hell, even in this thread y'all are more than likely spending more energy trying to punish and get an apology out of a member of the resistance for simply disagreeing with you on a subjective topic than doing anything to counteract the real top-down harm being committed outside the borders of your screens.


Correct!
Nepenthe did not anywhere state that someone had to go and could only go to therapy in order to fortify themselves against dick jokes, but somehow this turned into them being called, of all things, anti-poor. Y'all should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. You are responsible for your insecurities and your self-image. Responsibility does not mean fault! It means ownership! We are at war with like 4000 people and their million sycophants who want us all dead. Bald heads and tiny dicks are not on the list of chopping block traits! If catching a stray over a joke aimed at a planet-destroying maniac causes someone to spiral out, it's on them to bounce back.

[RIGHT]"So women who are body shamed for their weight are primarily responsible for feeling insecure over that above the men doing the body shaming?"
I want to call out this response to the above quote. I'm too lazy to quote the person and at the end of the day who it is doesn't matter because several people were thinking or spouting the same nonsense. But y'all love trotting out actual minorities and their struggles to try to win lesser arguments and demonize your opponents and it's lame as fuck. And you do this shit while leaving out everything but the most shallow perspective on whatever issue your comparing because you know this shit falls apart if considered for longer than anyone's attention span on this damn forum. Or maybe it's because the issue really doesn't matter to you except needing just enough to one-up somebody on the internet. The ongoing issue of how women view their bodies isn't limited to insults from men: it is inaccurately described medication. It is dismissal of health issues. It is denial of sexual abuse. For young girls, especially young girls of color, it is perception of maturity and even earlier predation by bald-headed tiny-dicked men. Systemic discrimination that has material effects. So, like with the comparison to homosexuality, find another comparison to make, and Nepenthe is again not wrong for calling out how this topic and many of the posters trivialized real issues to defend a fucking fascist's feelings.[/RIGHT]



Y'all sure are some sensitive bullies. Literally people alive today on this very forum upset because of the vague awareness that someone, somewhere, was "shaking their head and laughing" at maybe them? Maybe? Laughing at what exactly? "This is fucking gross for an admin to say." Please grow as a person. It's also fucking gross to take Nepenthe's words out of the context of intersectionality that she presented it in. And I'm not saying this to just the person that said it, because multiple people have brought it up. Now we're clutching our pearls that other people have opinions on what we say on here. Have you considered that the people Nepenthe is referring to are members of this forum that have given up having any kind of meaningful conversation on here because of how y'all act? How y'all are acting?



This was another quote that y'all completely misrepresented. More than once now Nepenthe reaffirmed that her gripe was on the comparison of bald- and dick jokes to real oppression. More than once they simply stated context was important, and that blanket banning or finger waggling any instance of a joke aimed at immutable bodily traits was unreasonable. In the first quote they even point an example where the same behavior would be reprehensible.

[RIGHT]"You're making an individual feel bad for something they can't help. Why would you want to justify doing that?"
Because some people need to fucking feel bad, Jerry. Do you hear yourself? I dunno what you want? Y'all are so obsessed with being perfect Nice People Who Never Hurt Anyone™️ that you lose sight of the world we live in. Some people need to be taken down a peg and outside of abject bigotry, outside of actually punching down, all bets are off. Sorry if that hurts your natural, unchosen feelings (which is clearly illegal), but if it makes you feel better than other people then go for it.[/RIGHT]


The response to this? "Again, you can just say you don't care. It's okay." This is the kind of callous trivialization and mischaracterization that people in this very thread are leveraging to demand punishment and apology, and again, you nignogs should be embarrassed. Nepenthe was right to call it out. You can't have a rational conversation in here because calling out fallacious statements without coddling the person intentionally bullshitting you is viewed as abhorrent. It's absolutely ridiculous. Y'all want empathy and consideration but throw that shit right out the window the second you're upset instead stepping back, doing some selfcare, and coming back fresh and focused to reanalyze what anyone's saying.

I'm not even bothering with the last two pages of that thread and how almost everyone quoting Nepenthe did so from disingenuous angles or without having reviewed let alone digested any of Nepenthe's earlier remarks. You all latched onto them saying "go to therapy" and "toughen up" when they didn't say those things at all, but still you're in here whining and moaning having turned them into a boogeyman. That it all got flattened into "arguing body shaming is ok" (looking at YOU, Perfect Entity BDubs) while ignoring the fact that the body positivity movement was started to enact meaningful change against conditions that were literally getting women fucking killed. Coopting that to "uwu I feel bad" over bald and dick jokes is sick and you should be ashamed of yourself. Y'all should all be ashamed of yourselves!

(And as a tangential comment on the state of this forum, that fact that a member of staff can come into a thread, give their own opinion and tell their anecdote, effectively entering the conversation, only to lock it is fucky. If you wanted to close the thread then say something impartial and close it. But if you want to say your piece, then the thread should've been left open for others to respond instead of you getting the undeserved last word in and running off.)

TL:DR (actually never mind)
The calls for moderation or action against Nepenthe are so unfair and out of touch I can't put to words my full disgust with y'all. Ya'll propped up "body shaming" as some cardinal sin with no exceptions, no context, no tolerance and refused to broker any discussion on its subjectivity or intersectionality. And since Nepenthe dared challenge that while also fielding dumbass misrepresentations and twisting of their words y'all want to run here and tattle-tale and lament not being able to block genuine diverse arguments that might dare shake your perfect sensibilities. But God forbid someone on this forum complimented "big dick energy;" a bunch of meme-addled losers would clap! No one would bat a fucking eye! We can talk about a handsome man's full head of hair and suddenly nobody's fucking insecurities matter!

Like, can anyone actually answer: what did Nepenthe actually say that demands repercussions? Even an apology? What did she say that wasn't a response to other members putting words in their mouth or other members focusing on a (misunderstood) point? How much of this is a bunch of adults just upset that they aren't being centered and can't make everyone else feel the way they do and hallucinating statements that were never fucking uttered?

Anyway, y'all need to take a hike; demand apologies from and mod action on yourselves.

...

Actually I'm not done. Because while y'all are here crying over what Nepenthe said, here are some actual quotes from members who couldn't spare any of that "consideration" to Nepenthe that we're demanding of her, despite her not going after anyone else.













Y'all are annoying. Improve your reading comprehension. Up your emotional regulation. Do something before posting on here again. The idea that commentary on a person's body is entirely intolerable is an easily refuted opinion no matter how much y'all like your high horses. The idea that anything that hurts someone's feelings is bad and must be banned is a privileged take. Voluntarily offering up your personal experiences to be commented on and then getting offended when the current topic is applied to them is insane! And always "going high" and tip-toeing around not hurting anyone's feelings isn't progressive; it's the same middle of the road, moderate sensibility that prioritizes comfort over change and landed us in an election where both political opponents championed genocide. Do better.

(And get your glazing jokes off offsite.)

Just want to say this is an incredible post and you've confronted the issue better than I could have. Thank you.

So, here's the thing for me. I mostly agree with Nepenthe's affirmation that it's up to the individual to manage their insecurities when they are either directly targeted by body shaming, or if they simply catch a stray. I feel like maybe she could've said that in a different way, but I sure as shit ain't here to tone police her.

For me, a queer trans person, baldness is a HUGE insecurity. It's legitimately part of the reason I'm still closeted/consider myself trans non-binary instead of a transwoman. It's a complicated thing because yes, attacking fascists' appearances or bodies can be a valid way of tearing them down. Ultimately, those attacks can SOMETIMES make me feel insecure or depressed or trigger a panic attack. Again, though, it's on me to control those things.

One method I can use to deal with those insecurities is to ignore/block/report people depending on the platform. Now, I wouldn't ignore Nepenthe because I—again, mostly—agree with and appreciate her posts. BUT, if there were a mod or admin on here that made me feel uncomfortable repeatedly, I'd love to ignore them. I can't though, and that's part of the underlying issue here. If a user browsing that thread DID feel like ignoring Nepenthe would help, they wouldn't have that option. All they could do is ignore the thread.

The only thing I took absolute issue with was the mention of her and other folks laughing at the thread off-site. Whether it was other Era users in a Discord or her IRL friend group, it still felt a bit shitty. This is another thing that is very personal for me though because some of my posts here, under an old username, were posted on other sites and mocked. To be clear, I AM NOT COMPARING WHAT NEPENTHE DID TO PEOPLE CROSS-POSTING ON KF OR REDDIT OR TWITTER OR WHATEVER. I'm not sure what the answer for this is, other than to, I guess, learn how to not panic when people might, maybe, POSSIBLY laugh at me and my posts. This is something I've been dealing with in some way or another for most of my 40 year-old life, both online and in the real world. I have multiple anxiety and panic disorders. Yay.

I feel like I've lost the plot here at the end as I'm rambling and just...yeah. I would definitely love it if people were a little more considerate before blasting body shaming comments out into the ether, but I'm also not going to rail against those types of comments until they cross my own personal lines (disabilities, race, gender, etc.). Instead I'll just ignore the user or thread and move on. Unless they're a mod or admin in which I'll have to do what I can to not see the thread or comments anymore.

Apologies if this makes no sense.

Ya veo porque casi nadie aqui se atreve a decir algo del staff.

[Google translate: I can see why almost no one here dares to say anything about the staff.]

Not to get myself in trouble, but some rando who barely posts on the board and every single post since 2021 has been in here or another official thread like it and then with a post like this is more than a little sus.
And every post is pretty much just fluffing mods and staff? Go back to whatever cave you came from.
Just like the posts that started this whole thing you come in doing the same exact blather and handwave what everyone feels or says.

"I had nothing to actually say so I looked up your post history." Loser. We're all fucking randos.

Like I said in my first post, I agree with some of the things they said. But I am an asshole who does not represent a message board that is supposed to be better than that and bigger than that and listen and show empathy for all, not just what fits in their bubble.
As many others have said if others took the same approach they would have been banned. And then when people express their opinions that this may affect them, doubling down and mocking people who are affected, whether I think their feelings are justified does not matter it is up to each person to have their comfort. And saying what people are feeling does not count because others deal with worse shit? I mean again, so be it say it but don't have two sets of rules and do not have a place that selectively decides what it is ok to handwave people's feelings and when it is not.

I have had alot to say, and have made quite a few posts. I looked up your post history because I smelled bullshit.
Thanks for proving my point.

Nah, you had nothing valuable to say, so you didn't! Sorry man; I don't make the rules. Whether or not a person posts a ton or posts infrequently when they're moved to has nothing to do with the quality or correctness of what they say.

But yeah, thanks for proving myyyyy point ^_^!

(Also get your nose checked; its scenting's off.)

My apologies but I am not very good and communicating like this...I want to be above petty insults now so I'll elaborate a little further on my thoughts: Simply put , most users are just tired of staff here getting away with saying "bad" or questionable things and never getting punished. The staff should not be above any of the rules this site has created and I have seen many many examples of staff posting stuff that would get a normal member quickly banned with no exception. It's just frustrating feeling like staff is getting away with stuff other members of the site would never be able to get away with. Staff should realize that they are supposed to be pillars/examples for every user on this site and right now they are not doing a good job of that. I understand that most people won't want to talk about this or bring it up in fear of getting in trouble but it has to be very thoroughly discussed. Most users that raise this issue just feel neglected and disregarded when staff stays quiet and offers no real updates on this.

That's just how I feel , feel free to disagree with me and disregard my thoughts.

[benji]

Things getting spicy in community. Too lazy to do the in-quotes from the first post, so someone else can do that or screenshot:

We are at war with like 4000 people and their million sycophants who want us all dead. 

 

Things getting spicy in community. Too lazy to do the in-quotes from the first post, so someone else can do that or screenshot:

And always "going high" and tip-toeing around not hurting anyone's feelings isn't progressive; it's the same middle of the road, moderate sensibility that prioritizes comfort over change and landed us in an election where both political opponents championed genocide. Do better.

[BIONIC]

AmethystArcana‘s last page worth of posts is literally just either shitting on B-Dubs during his drama with nep last October in the last constructive thread or sucking up to nep in the Reset Era sells out to MOBA thread from 2021

[DocWager]

I mean, just straight up say that Nep is a chicken shit using her alt to insult other users.

[benji]

Literally Nepenthe's "absolute best friend":

[Taco Bell Tower]

So AmethystArcana is NepNep's alt?

[DocWager]

What a fucking troll.

[Propagandhim]

Everyone has to walk on eggshells around  Nepenthe while she monologues about how soft everyone is. 


cult forum

[Uncle]

stumbled across this highly upvoted front page post, made me think of era

https://imgur.com/gallery/happy-pride-month-be-proud-of-who-you-are-XYYnQ08

[Boredfrom]

Just want to say this is an incredible post and you've confronted the issue better than I could have. Thank you.

What a bitch.

[Polident]

007 looked based af but naturally…

https://www.resetera.com/threads/007-first-light-announcement-trailer-2026-io-interactive.1207392/

Not a fan of generic white man face

He's a generic white finance bro ugh...

Most generic ass white dude character model I've ever seen in my life smh

With the exception of Q, all the regular cast aren’t white. And he’s only white because they had to model him after an older JFK Jr.