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

[HaughtyFrank]

Is there some time window for editing posts on ERA where it does not get the "edited by" tag on it?

The reason I ask is this post.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-has-attacked-iran-and-declares-a-special-state-of-emergency-retaliation-strike-from-iran-underway.1217310/page-51#post-141553575

Initially, SolarPowered's post said "spoken like a good Israeli". I was gonna copy it here, but I refreshed the page to see if anyone quoted him on that, but then the post change to what you see below:

As a iranian I want to add my take on this. Its good the tv channel got destroyed. it was only sharing propaganda. the people working there are pro regime, these are the same people who captured our women off the streets for not wearing hijab. the same people who killed our students, please fuck off with these illegitimate target bullshits. all of the regime and all of the people who have oppressed our youth, our women, our lgbtq+ community, all of them have to fucking go. I don't care if these oppressors die. they have killed people for being gay, for loving who they wanted to love, so yeah this isnt a warcrime.

No, this is definitely not a good take.

But the post doesn't say that it was edited at all. 

Wrong thread? But yes there's a time window where it wont show that it has been edited. Maybe a minute or so

[Cauliflower Of Love]

jansen please share

[Daffy Duck]

I got you Daffy Duck.

This bsky poster is referencing this thread:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-deltarune-undertale-the-only-game-that-incorporates-the-distinction-between-the-player-and-the-protagonist-into-its-meta-narrative.1218801/

Which, on era, is pretty tame. But apparently the bsky person is getting mad at other bsky posters who are linking to to...the thread directly? xkeeper's own posts? this part's not clear...and making fun of the person who originally asked the question.

I read the thread….

Cum… that’s all I have to say, I don’t get the topic at all.

[Eric Cartman]

Plenty of people are going to continue just using the Internet as normal by posting their own shit, which the arbiters of these LLMs will simply steal in order to continue staving off that inevitable degradation. That's why all these fuckin' websites snuck in language in their TOS that they're collecting your data specifically to train AI by default and you've gotta put in some work to turn that shit off. Not that it matters at this point.

Theft of original thought to feed a machine meant to offload thinking. Honestly, the West can't fall soon enough.

You could offload smol bean to a fucking TI-82 to generate the same level of original thought, because its just a fucking 'did someone black do something wrong?' flowchart

This is why we don't invite y'all to the cookout, y'all ain't serious people, like, read a bizook my nizzle

[Eric Cartman]

Also, guess who works FOR PROFIT:

That's right, I get to work in a for profit nursing home so Israelis can have free healthcare and Gaza can have no functioning hospitals.

Seize the means of your grandparents production

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-has-attacked-iran-and-declares-a-special-state-of-emergency-retaliation-strike-from-iran-underway.1217310/page-12#post-141419934

 User banned (1 month): advocating for attacks on civilians

Just to give a bit of a counter narrative to the general positions in this thread:

This isn't some totally unjust action by Israel. It's clearly highly targeted to military, and specifically nuclear, targets, and the Iranian regime has throughout its recent history have been genocidal in its language against Israel.

So why now? Bibi is obviously a warmonger, but it's worth noting that Iran seems to have ratcheted up it's push for nukes. The UN nuclear watchdog very publicly criticised Iran for this. The UN and Israel are not friends, so this is likely not some propaganda but a genuine escalation from Iran.

Iran seems to know it won't be able to beat Israel by conventional means and its proxy armies have been severely battered in the last year, so nukes are looking increasingly tempting to them. Israel is perhaps legitimately acting in existential self defence here.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-iaea-uranium-7f6c9962c1e4199e951559096bcf5cc0

how THE FUCK is that 'advocating for attacks on civilians'?
It's not a fucking secret that Hamas literally use human shields, its one of the reasosn they are considered a terrorist organisation, and it objectively is a difference in how military operations would be handled in Gaza vs Iran.
There is nothing in that post in any way even implying a tacit endorsement of targetting civilians, let alone fucking advocating for it.

Is it literally just because these facts expose spineduke as a terrorist supporting asshole and the thin mod line still holds?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I think bo burnahm said it best, their all wearing funny hats.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Everyone should be aware this escalation on Iran is a way to move eyeballs from what they are doing in Palestine. 

They will continue in darkness.

[Eric Cartman]

Okay this is going to be a bit long but people don't bandy the term out carelessly. When people call it colonialism, that's because thay's exactly what it is.

<fucking snip>

[Eric Cartman]

Also that thread is getting low key hilarious with the number of "wow, I can't believe so many actual iranians are saying 'this is good, actually', this baffles my every understanding of middle eastern geopolitics that I became an expert in on october 8th" posts

[DavidCroquet]

Don't worry, it's just AI, bots, and the diaspora (who for some reason should have their opinion's summarily dismissed).

"But I'm Iranian posting in Iran, right now!"

Quiet you.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/northeast-us-people-what%E2%80%99s-up-with-this-awful-weather-especially-with-on-weekends.1213191/page-3#post-141473061
Messy knows the answer...

Gotta get used to it until USA gets its foot out of its arse and sort out global warming by stopping fossil fuels.

The United States using its military to shut down fossil fuel use worldwide kind of sounds like colonialism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-has-attacked-iran-and-declares-a-special-state-of-emergency-retaliation-strike-from-iran-underway.1217310/page-15#post-141425415

 User banned (2 months): inflammatory commentary

This genocidal death cult is determined to set the entire world on fire! Zionism is a plague, and Trump is chomping at the bit to join in. A modern day Holocaust wasn't enough, he wants to sacrifice Americans to defend these psychopaths. If anything here's hoping Iran shows some restraint, but they don't have to. Every violation of international law has been committed, the escalation is going to be fiece.

Israel has violated international laws. Again. It seems it is Friday.
But this time I won't be mad, the target is heinous and is the "sugar daddy" of almost all terrorist organizations, so it is an "Alien vs Predator" situation, both sides are evil.

Interesting there's no ban for the quoted post.

Once again, my country acts in the most shameful way when it comes to the middle east :/

Once again Israel is the poor victim, althewhile Israel attacks every country around it. This is so frustrating. Iran is a souveran country, how can you deny them development of a nuke, but then condem Putin for not accepting Ukraine to join NATO? Either both are right or both are wrong (and to be clear: Ukraine has the right to join NATO, Iran has the right to develop whatever weapon).

This is all so unjust, so obviously wrong, and the West supports the wrong one.

In response to Fantastic Toma.

That's a take.

Iran's Ayatollahs regime is not a democratically elected government. It's sovereignty is only because of 45 years of repression. Stopping tyrannic regimes from acquiring country destroying weapons remains an ongoing aim of the Western world.

Now this actually a take.. You really think the West are the good guys?

Looooooooool.

Western people really drink their own kool aid.

The USA has been the driving force for installing dictatorships and destabilising democracies in the world

It seems increasingly transparent that whatever the merits of having a democratic system, the West uses "democracy" in the same sense that it used "civilized countries" back in the age of colonization.

You should see what happened when Iran did have a democratically elected head of state.

But not stopping tyrannic regimes from committing a genocide. Do you ever break in half at the dissonance of it all?

Don't mind, these armies have spies and assets literally everywhere

There's no point in having democracy when the media and money can essentially decide the results. That's what the elites figured long ago and why they let us believe we're free

Democracy is my preferred mode of governance

That doesnt change the utter stupidity of that guys statement, the USA a democratically elected nation, has been the most viscous exporter of violence and oppression and suppression of democracy

Being a democracy doesnt make a country "good" its a flawed way of looking at the world

i find no value in westerners wanking to themselves over their democracy when their countries commit the most heinous acts post world war 2 under it banner

being a democracy is not a moral buffer to a country's actions, the only reason the USA isnt treated as the empire from star wars is because its citizens dominate the internet and do not want to actually think about what their country has done in the last 70 years

Some of them still coasting on past successes + small miracles.

I have nothing against democracies, really… but between lobbying - cuts in education - cuts in public services - the influence of big tech - massive wealth inequality - the media being owned by corporate interests - they're heavily compromised at this point.

i find no value in westerners wanking to themselves over their democracy when their countries commit the most heinous acts post world war 2 under it banner

being a democracy is not a moral buffer to a country's actions, the only reason the USA isnt treated as the empire from star wars is because its citizens dominate the internet and do not want to actually think about what their country has done in the last 70 years

This too. We are the baddies.

The fact I can go to the grocery store in the morning, buy fresh bread and say 'howdy neighbour' on the way there without actively engaging in bloodshed while pretending everything is fine does not mean I'm not complicit.

Apparently you're allowed to accuse Era posters of being spies/assets of Israel with no consequences, who knew.

Anyway:

So many conflicting news stories on this war. Who is winning right now? Turn to one channel and it's "Iran is done" and then another channel and it's "this is going to be a very long war with no end in sight". Is it somewhere more in the middle?

 Why no scoreboard bug to see the team ahead???

[benji]

 Backed some stupid regime changes in unstable countries that don't actually improve the interests of the United States, also includes Europe/Canada/Australia and the rest of the democratic countries who (mostly) never did any of this after World War II. Also includes everybody who decolonized their empires and many decolonized/democratized from the below group.

 Seals billions of people and half the globe in a totalitarian system that openly declares its desire to export it to every place on the planet, with tens of millions of deaths of their own citizens and just as many, if not more, wars, regime changes, and ethnic oppressions as the West over the same period. Literally operated a colonial system that extracts resources to send to the imperial core until 1991. The one benefit for these people has been the regimes partly adopting the economic system of the West, that I want destroyed, in recent times lifting billions out of poverty. Also includes the world's most repressive religious states.

[Jansen]

jansen please share

What? It was just two white meth heads

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/digital-foundry-mindseye-launch-disaster-performance-is-awful.1219641/

Redbullcola AGAIN. The studio is either operating under the thought that any publicity is good publicity or this dude just straight up has a massive hate boner for mindseye

[Jansen]

Or maybe ... it's a R* employee 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-naked-gun-official-trailer-aug-1-liam-neeson-pamela-anderson-paul-walter-hauser-cch-pounder-directed-by-akiva-schaffer.1219344/page-4#post-141556134

Looks like a solid ass comedy. Too bad I just don't fuck with Liam Neeson.

[Boredfrom]

 User banned (1 month): advocating for attacks on civilians

It's harm reduction. Like when you vote for a candidate you don't like because the other one is worse. I don't like Iran but Israel is worse because they are a rabid killing machine. I think our opinion is still fringe though. It takes most in the west two seconds of propaganda and they are oorah to bomb the Middle East. Americans in particular love that shit.

This cunt kept raging against Biden and Kamala but now he wants to talk about voting for the lesser evil? And the lesser evil is fucking Iran?

Honestly, that post should be a permanent ban because how stupid it was.

“Yes, the murderous corrupt theocracy that trains terrorists and is involved in proxy wars with almost everyone in the Middle East is a lesser evil than Israel”

Tell us why this is the case scuffed?

[Boredfrom]

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Is there some time window for editing posts on ERA where it does not get the "edited by" tag on it?

The reason I ask is this post.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-has-attacked-iran-and-declares-a-special-state-of-emergency-retaliation-strike-from-iran-underway.1217310/page-51#post-141553575

Initially, SolarPowered's post said "spoken like a good Israeli". I was gonna copy it here, but I refreshed the page to see if anyone quoted him on that, but then the post change to what you see below:

As a iranian I want to add my take on this. Its good the tv channel got destroyed. it was only sharing propaganda. the people working there are pro regime, these are the same people who captured our women off the streets for not wearing hijab. the same people who killed our students, please fuck off with these illegitimate target bullshits. all of the regime and all of the people who have oppressed our youth, our women, our lgbtq+ community, all of them have to fucking go. I don't care if these oppressors die. they have killed people for being gay, for loving who they wanted to love, so yeah this isnt a warcrime.

No, this is definitely not a good take.

But the post doesn't say that it was edited at all. 

Almost sure it does. I also encounter some posts that were edited fast to avoid the “it was edited” label.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-naked-gun-official-trailer-aug-1-liam-neeson-pamela-anderson-paul-walter-hauser-cch-pounder-directed-by-akiva-schaffer.1219344/page-4#post-141556134

Looks like a solid ass comedy. Too bad I just don't fuck with Liam Neeson.

Don't blame them

I don't fucks with anyone who can't climb a fence either

[benji]

Honestly, that post should be a permanent ban because how stupid it was.

“Yes, the murderous corrupt theocracy that trains terrorists and is involved in proxy wars with almost everyone in the Middle East is a lesser evil than Israel”

Tell us why this is the case scuffed?

They can't ban it because there's at least one post like that on every page in that thread, I didn't even bother quoting any from what I posted above, there were a handful just on those two pages. Every other post of spineduke is that.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Members only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-trans-non-binary-lounge-ot-there-is-power-in-pride.402967/page-72#post-141261726

I got news that I'm being evicted at the end of the month and to rub salt in the wound, they deadnamed me when telling me they'd be kicking me out.

What a wonderful day.

I'm so sorry, something similar happened to me 3 years ago.

[Jansen]

Touch It such a great song. Too bad Ariana Large Coffee is over 30

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mindseye-the-review-thread-delayed-by-no-critic-review-copies.1216689/page-10#post-141561861

One had a social media hate campaign against it, the other had a social media obfuscation campaign for it is the difference.

I won’t get into arguments about why Concord failed because I don’t wanna be gaslit that the hate against was just normal dislike of the game anymore. I know what I saw from people back then.

Lol they still think a hate campaign destroyed Concord

[benji]

Really the most fascinating thing about that thread to me is how few of them seem to have any kind of pattern recognition. In just the last year and a half they've enthusiastically supported the following losers thinking they'd somehow defeat Israel:
1. Hamas.
2. Houthi's.
3. Hezbollah.
4. Iran.

At what point do you stop and consider that maybe you don't know enough about the topic to handicap which backward ass group can take down a modern military in a few months?

There's tons of posts in that thread saying Iran is the "only thing" keeping Israel from conquering Lebanon and Syria. Like, what? What are you even fucking talking about? Where are they all getting this from?  

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Is there some time window for editing posts on ERA where it does not get the "edited by" tag on it?

The reason I ask is this post.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-has-attacked-iran-and-declares-a-special-state-of-emergency-retaliation-strike-from-iran-underway.1217310/page-51#post-141553575

Initially, SolarPowered's post said "spoken like a good Israeli". I was gonna copy it here, but I refreshed the page to see if anyone quoted him on that, but then the post change to what you see below:

As a iranian I want to add my take on this. Its good the tv channel got destroyed. it was only sharing propaganda. the people working there are pro regime, these are the same people who captured our women off the streets for not wearing hijab. the same people who killed our students, please fuck off with these illegitimate target bullshits. all of the regime and all of the people who have oppressed our youth, our women, our lgbtq+ community, all of them have to fucking go. I don't care if these oppressors die. they have killed people for being gay, for loving who they wanted to love, so yeah this isnt a warcrime.

No, this is definitely not a good take.

But the post doesn't say that it was edited at all. 

 User banned (3 months): deeply inflammatory commentary toward another member

Spoken like a good Israeli.

Mod edit: reverted for ban

[Boredfrom]

Did anyone at ERA imagined that the most progressive video game forum on the internet will devolve to batting for Iran because they hate the “Zionists” so much?

[DavidCroquet]

 User banned (3 months): deeply inflammatory commentary toward another member

Spoken like a good Israeli.

Mod edit: reverted for ban

[benji]

I just got a targeted Israeli propaganda ad on YouTube spinning this attack on Iran. I reported the ad in an attempt to get this shit off my feed, and took a screenshot showing the ad from "Israel's Foreign Affairs Ministry" is classified as "Books and Literature."

Is there any other country that gets this kind of pass for naked propaganda in the United States?

Continuing on from SolarPowered's post above:

It's a bad take, and a frustrating amount of Iranians hold that mindset. They really think Iran can't end up like Syria / Lebanon / Gaza / Afghanistan / Iraq and nothing you say will disavow them of that opinion. Strikes on civilian infrastructure are not okay.

That being said I extend extra grace to Iranians who are living under the terror of the Islamic Republic if they're not able to see past their hatred of the regime and have a reasonable take. It's understandable to just want the regime GONE.

I will say, and again I'm an American so my perspective may be skewed, but I have seen many Iranians say that Iranians wants this to happen so long as Israel doesn't kill any civilians. Now that they are killing civilians and targeting civilian infrastructure, the tune hasn't changed; they're still okay with this. What gives?

They think they are immune to becoming a puppet state, or they want to become a puppet state and think it will help them

You've got it the other way around. The diaspora are the ones seemingly dismissing the dangers of Israel and their agenda.

I always loathed iranian dictatorship. These days I learned a lot about Israel, that for instance, they took down every peaceful government in Gaza and they raised and funded Hamas dictatorship. I'm sorry for the helplessness a repressed population feels, and warn that Israel is not an ally, if they implement a puppet govt, the long run will be even worse.

One Iranian I know told me that military operation conducted by USA is the only way to overthrow the regime. In his opinion it was necessary evil. I was extremely surprised by it, because I was assuming Iranians hate USA by default and hoping your country would be invaded by external force, regardless of circumstances, is really unusual..

[benji]

Netanyahu is the Hitler of our time. He's trying to drag the world into a big war. He's a dangerous threat to humanity.

I love posts like this because it's supposed international and political topic experts admitting they don't even know what people are still in power around the world let alone what they've done.