(08-05-2025, 11:47 AM)Daffy Duck wrote: SinnyIndonesian wrote:"Manosphere is a symptom, not a cause" who the hell cares, it's just the current form of misogyny and the patriarchy. It's all the same shit it's been since forever, call it whatever you want, it's the same shit. Why are some of you so bothered that it's getting "blamed" for shit.
This guy is fucking weird
The manosphere is pretty gay tbh
Become the indifferent illusive man that doesn't take women seriously. Take them on a linguistic rollercoaster and be busy all the time. It works.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-sydney-sweeney-registered-as-a-member-of-the-republican-party-of-florida-in-june-of-2024.1261632/page-5#post-143521167
Kevers wrote:-JD- wrote:I've seen this article posted a few times between this thread and the other thread... but I feel like it should come with the needed context or disclaimer:
"with her WHITE co-stars":
I feel like that is significant in this case, especially if people keep posting that article as a response to people commenting about her poc co-stars, explicitly stated or otherwise. Hunter Schafer is a Trans Woman also, don't just discredit her because she's white.
-JD- wrote:Yeah, I know Hunter is trans, and nowhere am I discrediting her, but she is white and this scandal and backlash is primarily one revolving around discussions of race and the upholding of traditional white American beauty standards. Even Sweeney's promo lines regard hair color, eye color, skin color. Everything I said before about context and that article people keep throwing around I feel still holds. Of course, I'd still welcome her opinion on this as she does a lot of progressive advocacy work.
Messofanego wrote:This is about white supremacy and privilege though.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-sydney-sweeney-registered-as-a-member-of-the-republican-party-of-florida-in-june-of-2024.1261632/page-5#post-143527995
Zache wrote:....why not? She's still a blue-eyed, blonde white woman and this controversy all stems from an dog-whistling ad with the subtext that blue-eyed, blonde white women have superior genes.
Y'all are making me want to hate Sydney Sweeney now 
(08-05-2025, 12:49 PM)Nintex wrote: (08-05-2025, 11:47 AM)Daffy Duck wrote: SinnyIndonesian wrote:"Manosphere is a symptom, not a cause" who the hell cares, it's just the current form of misogyny and the patriarchy. It's all the same shit it's been since forever, call it whatever you want, it's the same shit. Why are some of you so bothered that it's getting "blamed" for shit.
This guy is fucking weird
The manosphere is pretty gay tbh
Become the indifferent illusive man that doesn't take women seriously. Take them on a linguistic rollercoaster and be busy all the time. It works.
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Just set a date for friday with 29f while taking a shit
"I see you had 3 wines, shall I bring a bottle of champagne"
"Sure I'd love that"
"Wednesday?"
"[Wall of text about horse riding roster and her parents finding out if she doesn't show]"
"Any other options?"
"Friday"
"Probably works for me give me your number so I can text to confirm later"
"[number]"
Honestly I expected a little more pushback
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-are-men-avoiding-fiction-so-much-at-least-when-it-comes-to-literature.1262148/page-2#post-143526252
Servbot24 wrote:All of my reading is audiobooks. So I'll read while driving, walking, working out, etc. If it weren't for audiobooks I would barely read anything. 
(08-05-2025, 07:10 AM)Jansen wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/era-can-we-please-stop-aging-ourselves-and-generalizing-what-teens-young-20s-play.1262112/
Soulflarz, post: 143521038, member: 536 wrote:I'm mainly making this thread because it's been a really consistent issue across this forum as we all get older. For context: I'm 28, and that's probably on the younger side of things here...but also, I was literally the youngest old site member for some time, joining when I just turned 14. I vividly remember the old site saying my age group doesn't care at all about single player games since all we do is play cod and halo with our friends, etc etc...except I had a ton of friends my age who played jrpgs and single player games and multiplayer games - the real difference was the mainstream games with my age group weren't necessarily the same. We had some final fantasy, oblivion, etc, but yeah, very few of my friends will ever touch breath of fire or xenogears or such. Plenty of people my age played a variety of games regardless of the old site heavily implying otherwise and basically acting like the age group was a different species re: game taste just due to a 5-10 year age gap. This has been a conversation ever since multiplayer games got popular basically - the exact same conversations would've applied when I was 14.
I'm bringing this up because now that we're all significantly older, it feels like many people here are barely older than me and are hard generalizing an entire age group again as if they're incapable of playing the stuff we like. Yes, no one who I'm friends with who's 23 has played FFX unless their older brother had a copy, but plenty sure as hell have read danganronpa and adore persona, even if we swear they only play roblox and fortnite. Hell, I have a relative who just turned 16 and he loves xenoblade chronicles and I get confused where they even found the series.
It just feels like a really weird sense of deja vu where we're all slowly becoming the old disconnected group that heavily generalizes an entire generation after being annoyed people did it to us too. Let's try to not have an old man yells at clouds moment just because our favorite series aren't selling as well anymore or are failing to adapt to the times...which honestly is a lot of them. That's a problem with those series, not necessarily them "only playing roblox so we can't get them to try it", and I'm really trying to push back against this generalization. It feels like a scapegoat for whenever a series we like fails to bring in new fans as opposed to simply saying the game wasn't good enough to bring in fans at the level we were hoping for at the expense of actual constructive discussion.
 He's crying because of this thread
https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-naoki-yoshida-accomplished-his-goal-of-bringing-new-and-young-people-to-the-series-with-ffxvi.1262100/#post-143520747
Quote:I don't think "young people" are leaving their 'Games as a Service' such as Roblox and Fortnite.
Soulflarz
Quote:Can we not have this conversation weekly
I'm really close to just making a "era please stop aging out an entire generation as if the age group above you didn't do it too" thread just because teens have different tastes than you. Persona sold a metric fuckton and just because it's not the JRPG series of your choice doesn't mean jrpgs are dead, etc etc. 22 year olds still play JRPGs. I personally have family friends who are in high school who play xenoblade and I've never remotely once given them insight into what I play yet they ended up there on their own. etc etc
(08-05-2025, 01:04 PM)Jansen wrote: Y'all are making me want to hate Sydney Sweeney now
She calls her right boob Hitler, and her left boob HitMe
(08-05-2025, 12:59 PM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-sydney-sweeney-registered-as-a-member-of-the-republican-party-of-florida-in-june-of-2024.1261632/page-5#post-143521167
Kevers wrote:-JD- wrote:I've seen this article posted a few times between this thread and the other thread... but I feel like it should come with the needed context or disclaimer:
"with her WHITE co-stars":
I feel like that is significant in this case, especially if people keep posting that article as a response to people commenting about her poc co-stars, explicitly stated or otherwise. Hunter Schafer is a Trans Woman also, don't just discredit her because she's white.
-JD- wrote:Yeah, I know Hunter is trans, and nowhere am I discrediting her, but she is white and this scandal and backlash is primarily one revolving around discussions of race and the upholding of traditional white American beauty standards. Even Sweeney's promo lines regard hair color, eye color, skin color. Everything I said before about context and that article people keep throwing around I feel still holds. Of course, I'd still welcome her opinion on this as she does a lot of progressive advocacy work.
Messofanego wrote:This is about white supremacy and privilege though.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-sydney-sweeney-registered-as-a-member-of-the-republican-party-of-florida-in-june-of-2024.1261632/page-5#post-143527995
Zache wrote:....why not? She's still a blue-eyed, blonde white woman and this controversy all stems from an dog-whistling ad with the subtext that blue-eyed, blonde white women have superior genes.
Thread is literally about Sweeney being a Republican
Messo and fellow idiots: "This is all about the ad she made"
(08-05-2025, 11:47 AM)Daffy Duck wrote: SinnyIndonesian wrote:"Manosphere is a symptom, not a cause" who the hell cares, it's just the current form of misogyny and the patriarchy. It's all the same shit it's been since forever, call it whatever you want, it's the same shit. Why are some of you so bothered that it's getting "blamed" for shit.
This guy is fucking weird
I think that's the same guy who tried to get his old ex to cheat on her husband with him.
Still fucking hilarious the entire shit show was over a pun about JEANS. Thats it. Thanks for yet again confirming your incel filled board though, Era. The moment a woman does something you deem bad, the veil is dropped and boy oh boy does it get nasty.
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Thread with a bunch of posts joking that Trump should kill himself.
Here are the bans.
User Banned (2 Weeks): Armchair Diagnosis of Mental Health
Quote:Dementia? Epstein distraction? Both?
Quote:Old man with Dementia.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/
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(08-05-2025, 02:55 PM)NeppyNep wrote: Still fucking hilarious the entire shit show was over a pun about JEANS. Thats it. Thanks for yet again confirming your incel filled board though, Era. The moment a woman does something you deem bad, the veil is dropped and boy oh boy does it get nasty. Scratch a trans rights leftist and a virulent misogynist bleeds.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-good-pr-week-continues-john-cena-i-dont-care-who-hears-it-i-love-vince-roman-reigns-i-support-our-president-trump-is-one-of-those-guys.1167879/page-13#post-143500527
Dirtyshubb wrote:There is literally no difference between Rowling and WWE. Both people/heads use their funds and products to further their harmful ideology and enact discriminatory policies within government which is why Harry Potter was banned here.
The argument could be easily made that WWE is in fact way more guilty than Rowling is considering the decades of history of abuse and worse within that company that those in power currently were aware of and swept under the carpet.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/wwe-good-pr-week-continues-john-cena-i-dont-care-who-hears-it-i-love-vince-roman-reigns-i-support-our-president-trump-is-one-of-those-guys.1167879/page-13#post-143501877
Altazor wrote:they don't care, literally don't care. It's either "I don't watch it for Vince/HHH politics, I just care about the talent and the storylines" or "they can support whatever they want in their private lives, it's their right, even if I disagree with it! I still like the product and I'm invested" or whatever. They don't care. They know but they don't care because they can "separate the art from the artist" and there's always an excuse. Hell, there's even the situation that merely suggesting an alternative is being "unnecessarily pushy" or descending into "tribalism" and whatnot, because it's either WWE or nothing.
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Dyle wrote:Books are the slowest form of media and no one has time for that. If you only have so much time to consume fictional works, your time will be spent more efficiently on TV, film and games. In the time it takes to read a book you can watch a whole TV season and a lot more will happen along the way. 
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Alright chaps. The LESBIANS thread brought me back here after accidentally uncovering it; I was having such a fun couple of weeks without Era occupying my thoughts, I strongly recommend trying it out!
I see there are a couple of new members, welcome to the fold.
Imagine if that TERF BITCH JOANNE made a appearance on a WWE episode 
entremet wrote:This makes it more expensive. This has been researched, but modern conservative thought is diseased. what is "it"? "more expensive" for whom?
Quote:No one ever has a birthday or a cheat day?
Quote:Decreased usage leading to decreased funding is always the goal when imposing restrictions on public benefits.
Completely fucked in a country like the US where food deserts are so common. Driving through the southeast US it is nothing for 40 miles between Dollar Generals. What are fresh fruit and veggies doing for you when you don't have a stove, microwave, or a home? You already can't use SNAP benefits for hot meals/pre-prepared foods(rotisserie chicken!?). This doesn't even get into who is actually designating what is or isn't junk food and what else they are going to restrict?
Fret not, bleeding hearts! Looking into these state-by-state restrictions it's clear that birthdays, cheat days, and diets of exclusively pre-prepared food for e-beggars are still on the menu!
08-05-2025, 05:00 PM
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That Street Fighter 6 costumes thread is one of the most unhinged ones I've seen in a while
Brawndo Addict wrote:EDIT: Shit, I let this get so far out of proportion with where I originally wanted to go with it. It got to me as I was writing, I'm just gonna keep it anyway, might want it later, so screw it.
I'm gonna give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the particular concerns raising kids. But if you think it's a clever retort to bring up displays of cartoonish violence, I'd just prompt you to try to imagine what kind of real-world harms we're actually seeking to avoid when it comes to the target audiences of a T-rated game.
Do you honestly think we're grasping at pearls out of fright that our toddlers might try to imitate a four hundred pound Russian wrestler flying through the air doing a spinning piledriver? Or perhaps the real concern parents have always had with violence is the omnipresent fear buried in the back of your mind that they might not come from school one day because it's our turn to live through some version of Adolescence (2025)? That perhaps the cultural influences and systemic prejudices being injected into our kids through their media consumption might be increasingly putting them at risk of physical harms due to extremist conditioning?
If you're having trouble deciphering what my through-line is here, let me try to weave it out a little more. The age of children we're worried about with this shit are our adolescents and teenagers; you know, the very ages when we were all going through puberty and first romances. When issues of beauty standards, self worth, gender norms, and sexual behavior all begin to consume your day-to-day life? But now you're armed with the prescient knowledge of all the fucked up shit that entails and the best you can ever hope for is that you've provided your children with enough tools and support that they can survive on their own in an unjust and uncaring world?
If that's still too much subtext, fine, let's just skip to a concrete example and I'll talk about the inevitable question that everyone who raises a daughter hopes will never come up, but which we all know is inescapable. They come home sullen and withdrawn, straight to their room. You softly knock to check in on them, but instead of being rebuffed or accepted, they don't say anything at all. You lean the door open and see they're completely still, head buried in pillows. You take a breath, walk up and sit next to them on the bed, being silent but present, sitting in the moment with them for as long as they need.
Finally there's a sniffle, a wipe of the eye, as they sit up and draw their eyes to yours. Their quivering voice betrays palpable and lifelong devastation...."Dad, am I ugly?"
This shit fucking matters and it's not just about "yucking your yum". You want me to be fucking crass about it? What exactly do you think teenage boys are jacking off to these days, or hell, what are you using as masturbation aides? Forget an increasingly unhinged real-world detachment from the realities of what actual women look like, now we've introduced virtual sex dolls that even porn actresses would struggle to compete with if for no other reason that they age. How exactly do you think we should be normalizing attractiveness of different body shapes and sizes for teenagers that might play video games as their primary mode of entertainment?
Boys want to talk about feeling emasculated and ashamed seeing Marvel tier-physiques everywhere that is impossible to obtain, and I think that's a great conversation to have and a very real problem. But why can't we continue with simply acknowledging the inverse that girls have to deal with everyone they're supposed to emulate being 90-pound beach bikini blondes with FF busts?
ED: I won't proffer an argument beyond admitting it was beyond poor taste for a wholly unnecessary rhetorical flourish of trying to call back the Adolescence reference. Even re-worded however desired (terming it men&women), it would not be defensible. I'll strike it because I think fuck ups like that deserve to be preserved beyond existing in quotes.
You know what the difference is between a boy who feels like no one can ever love him because he's a skinny loser and a girl who believes no one can ever love her because she has the wrong skin tone, curly hair, or smaller busts? The girl will commit suicide, but the boy will murder her.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/street-fighter-6-costume-4-trailer.1261239/page-4#post-143509980
If I didn't know better I'd think this was a troll
this is what sent him over the edge:
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Chun Li's thighs breaking brains
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(08-05-2025, 04:52 PM)DavidCroquet wrote: entremet wrote:This makes it more expensive. This has been researched, but modern conservative thought is diseased. what is "it"? "more expensive" for whom?
Quote:No one ever has a birthday or a cheat day?
Quote:Decreased usage leading to decreased funding is always the goal when imposing restrictions on public benefits.
Completely fucked in a country like the US where food deserts are so common. Driving through the southeast US it is nothing for 40 miles between Dollar Generals. What are fresh fruit and veggies doing for you when you don't have a stove, microwave, or a home? You already can't use SNAP benefits for hot meals/pre-prepared foods(rotisserie chicken!?). This doesn't even get into who is actually designating what is or isn't junk food and what else they are going to restrict?
Fret not, bleeding hearts! Looking into these state-by-state restrictions it's clear that birthdays, cheat days, and diets of exclusively pre-prepared food for e-beggars are still on the menu!
This is what happens when you remove governmental regula… wait…
08-05-2025, 05:05 PM
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Quote:Stupid fucking mods in this thread. I guess in today's day and age saying someone might have demintia is a ban hammer conviction. Well, he might have dementia. Weirdos.
and now the Trump on roof thread has been locked
Cash Money wrote:As for non-Dale thoughts, the show really did pick up like it had never left. I have small gripes with the animation quality but it is what it is. The strength of the writing and the characters are still there. Even where I feared they would misstep (seeing in the descriptions there would be a "cultural appropriation" episode seemed a likely candidate) they still handle the material with both respect and good humor. The Girl Scout scene at the end of the first episode really nails the core ethos of the show in classic "out of the mouths of babes" fashion: it's nice to be nice. Really gets you to wondering where everything went so wrong that so many people choose to live for the sake of contempt instead.
Gee, I wonder.
Why ERA is so in love with King of the Hill? Is the most “both sides” show ever and humanizes people they hate IRL.
New king of the hills first episode has a joke poking fun at “all genders bathrooms” and gender “presenting” 😂
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