Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-4#post-143537649

Lmfao at dementia posts catching bans but posts telling him to commit suicide are fine

Mods are so cooked

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-4#post-143537649

Lmfao at dementia posts catching bans but posts telling him to commit suicide are fine

Mods are so cooked

Always hilarious where they draw the lines. Meanwhile speculating and joking about Mitch McConnell having a stroke was completely fine with the mods.


It's almost as if there's an advantage to writing down a set of rules and adhering to them.... 

[Boredfrom]

I mean if the police won't help then I have to assume that it's something like the farmers using public land to farm with. Not sure if it's illegal to camp on public property. Feels like there is more going on here then the farmers are sharing. You have to remember the video was made and distributed by the farmers.

Also feel like assaulting people with excrement is probably also a crime.

 

For a forum that is constantly saying “fuck the police” they are incredibly naive about this stuff. 

I’m not European but I can tell you that most probably was private property but those guys didn’t care. Is not to be discriminate against them, but knowing similar experiences and stories.

Yaps the cops not intervening to defend the capital owners interests is a bit of a dead giveaway that it is almost certain that the farmers are in the wrong on this one and hiding something about the situation.

“Or they don’t want to displace the caravan because it would generate a PR disaster to the local government.”

[Daffy Duck]

New fume just dropped…

So much for no Harry Potter topics or news, it’s ok to talk about in the crimes of JK thread though

Welp add Hugh Laurie, among these other actors to the bin. Goddammit!

Even has a link to an article about the story.

There's no excuse anymore. So yeah...fuck 'em all.

Yeah that one hurt the most. I've been a big fan of his work for ages now, not to mention his activism too :/ Another reminder that most simply do not care about the hate Rowling preaches, especially if they're getting paid.

Makes you wonder if they'd act differently if she was more openly racist and/or homophobic...

[Boredfrom]

What are fresh fruit and veggies doing for you when you don't have a stove, microwave, or a home?

Newsfeed.

[HaughtyFrank]

Makes you wonder if they'd act differently if she was more openly racist and/or homophobic...

Yes.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Members only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/in-the-hell-that-is-2025-the-more-i-learn-about-myself-the-more-confused-i-get.1262373/

I've been debating posting something so personal, especially because trying to eloquently explain my thoughts is so hard. Actually had made one or two attempts before, but scrapped it last minute because it didn't feel right. This time, I'm going to post it, because I need to in order to help unscramble some of my thoughts, and maybe some responses can help me orientate myself. I know therapy would be the best option to help with this, but between living in Texas, the state of the US, and it currently being not something bogging down my mind too much (this is the first time this has popped back into my head in months), that's an option I don't plan on taking currently.

So for context, grew up in a very conservative and religious household. In that bubble, quite a few strict teachings were ingrained either directly or indirectly. For the purposes of what I will be talking about, I'll mention the most relevant ones. The idea that I should find a partner and that sex should only happen after marriage. Heteronormative stuff such as the man being the bread winner and only men and women can be romantic partners and attracted to each other (and in some circles of my life, the idea of being just friends with women was not possible). Lastly, the whole God made you who you are, so while I thankfully didn't learn about transgender people until after I started discarding my old beliefs, it was still foundational in me for other outlooks for a while.

I have three things that I have started questioning, though one I have come to accept about myself. Content warning, while not going into explicit detail, I will still get a bit personal at times about certain things. Also, being a mess in how I try to talk about myself, It may be a bit messy to read, so apologies ahead of time. Going to spoiler each section just to keep the OP smaller.

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

Growing up, I just assumed I was what I was taught was "normal and natural". So up through College, and well after, I assumed I only could be attracted to Women. Over the past 4 to 5 years, I have come to accept that I experience sexual attraction with more than just women. There are real life people I met or know about online where I suddenly think "Hmm, you know, if that person asked if I wanted to fuck them, I'd say yes". This is all I have to say on the subject, since I have accepted that aspect

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

My thoughts on everything in the thread reignited because of the thread on the aromantic spectrum. While I have had plenty of sexual attraction, I am extremely less certain about if I have ever been interested in somebody romantically. Earlier this year, I had thread where I talked about how a friend was trying to get me and another friend of hers together. Long story short, things happened where said friend reached out to me and we talked a little about expectations on relationships. We figured out quickly that a relationship would not work due to no common ground in that area, and remain good friends.

In the past, I have had people ask me what I would want out of a romantic partner, and after having that discussion with the friend about if we would want to try to be romantically involved, and seeing that aforementioned thread, I'm starting to think I am on the aromantic spectrum. It's impossible for me to say anything that I want, and I can only go "I don't know, I guess I have to see who I fall for and figure out why from there?" Part of me wants to say this is due to me never having been in a relationship, but I know people who haven't been in one that have at least an outline. There's nothing for me there.

People talk about attraction, but that is a very nebulous thing as well. I talked about my sexual attraction briefly, but part of that comes down the personality of the person. If I'm thinking about a person while masturbating, it's not just the looks but an attractive personality I'm interacting with. This confuses me more on my idea of romantic attraction, because it feels conflicting to say I don't feel romantic attraction, but if I wanted to be intimate with a person, I want some basis of familiarity and an understanding of them as a person that makes me find them attractive.

I also wonder If it's less me being Aromantic, and more I'm just selfish (not saying aromantic people are selfish, this is more a personal feeling I am trying to sort out). When I think about being in a relationship, there's a lot of balancing life with the other person and making decisions as a unit. While with friends it can be fun at times to come to a decision as a group, I don't find the idea that being a constant appealing. It would also mean that while both me and my potential partner are still allowed to have our separate lifes, there's still an aspect in which you are intertwined a good bit, and that feels constricting to me in a way.

So currently, as it stands, I am currently happy with life as a single person, and am doing things more to meet new people and have fulfilling and healthy friendships. Maybe I will come across someone that I want to form a stronger relationship with, but I am uncertain of that.

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

This is the most confusing on for me to figure out, mainly as despite all the years listening and reading about Gender and other trans experiences, I feel less and less certain what the hell gender means, and what it means to be a man, woman, or nonbinary. I can listen/read something, think I finally understand it, then thinking about it for more than a few seconds, I'm more confused. I understand gender is a social construct and can be more about presentation, but when I think about it you can have a woman, man, and enby wear a dress, love sports, and love romance novels, and their genders respectively are still theirs. It feels all encompassing and personal, but there are practically no differences between a gender and what that gender can be that it almost feels meaningless. So many other people seem to understand the concept of gender so well, I feel like a dumb ass for being this clueless despite years of trying to understand.

I'm going to post various identities and my various thoughts on where I stand with my identification on them

Woman

At first glance, the obvious answer would be no. When thinking of how it feels if someone would refer to me as she/her, it doesn't feel right to me. Though being tall, pretty round and hairy, and a person would see as a man by any visual metric could blur my personal view of myself. Still, the idea of being a woman as my identity doesn't gel with me.

When thinking about other things, this idea feels more complicated. Even back in middle school, with games like Pokémon, I preferred to be the girl characters rather than the boys, and I felt embarrassed by that fact. I'm more comfortable being upfront now, where if there's a choice with a male/female option, I always go female.

When it comes to fully realized characters in games/books/movies, outside a few exceptions, if I relate to a character or wanted to be a character, said character would be a girl/woman. In the Trails series, Estelle is my favorite character and I'd love to be her. That boundless optimism, her ability to connect with others and help others with their emotional vulnerability, her ability to smack talk pricks. Everything about her I love and would want to be. There's been many women lead books where I find so much more connection to the women, where men lead books, or men characters in general, I find less interesting. The books "Killers of a Certain Age" and "The Rose Code" (A story of a group of retired lady assassins and a trio of women WW2 code breakers respectively) had all the various heroines be so interesting and relatable in so many aspects to me.

Another major aspect I've heard where one might be a Trans woman, is how I sometimes think about waking up as one. There are times I come up with thoughts, either in real life or fictional settings, where I found myself in what's considered a woman's body, with very feminine features. I'm fine with the idea of that, and even think about the idea of what it would be like to interact with the world as a woman.

despite all of the above, the few times I question if maybe I'm a woman, my conclusion is no pretty quickly. I'm fine with my current self, and being called she/her doesn't bother me if those pronouns were used, but doesn't feel right either.

Man

Part of me wonders if I would discount this faster if I questioned myself at a much earlier age. Being 35 and only questioning it recently means I'm more familiar and comfortable with my presumed identity as a man. I'm still sticking to that identity since I'm most familiar with it.

There's also an aspect where I feel my thoughts are coming from a disingenuous place. There are good men out there, but with how many ghoulish men there are and the unfathomable harm they are causing, it makes me uncomfortable to consider myself a man personally, and that making me question my gender identity feels like an insult to others that struggle with identity. It feels like it's more a convenience to distance myself from being a man, than to be ok with being a man while dealing with the fact so many shitty men exist.

On the other hand, when I think about other aspects, it feels like I just accepted my identity at birth, rather than question it. There's been a lot of various times in life where what people expected a man to be, and most of it did not sound appealing to me. Of course a lot of it involved toxic masculinity, but even the best presented ones just feel like it doesn't fit. Ascribing me as a man just doesn't feel right, and that's where my questioning really starts.

Whether it's the worst of men has to offer like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, to the best men have to offer, and all in-between, I think the word man in when I look in the mirror, I just don't really see it. Much like a woman can be all encompassing, the same can be said for man, and while I use that currently, it feels more and more foreign to me. People can say space for men, and I feel like I'm not meant for that place, even if such a place was a positive example of men's space.

Nonbinary, Agender, and Genderfluid

While society doesn't discuss these identities as much, a lot of failure to grasp these are my fault for not trying to dig deeper. My understanding of these are nebulous at best, so I'm just going based on my minimal understanding on how I feel these fit me.

Nonbinary is kind of the same as the last two. I think of being neither but an inbetween, and it still doesn't feel right.

Agender feels the most apt. If no gender seems to fit, this one feels most right. My biggest issue is with how gendered society is, it's harder to think in those terms. Plus, there are ideas of being both man and woman that appeal to me. Genderfuid I rule out, because from my understanding your gender you feel changes, is in Flux, and that just doesn't seem like me.

The more I type out, it feels like my personal identity is just a bigger mess. If someone were to ask my gender, it feels easier to just say I'm Franky D Tank, and as for my gender, I'm just me and that's it. Not being able to have a complete grasp on myself and my identity can feel frustrating, and the more I think about it, the dumber I feel for what should feel like a simple thing. Still, saying I'm just me is the most comforting thought in regards to my identity, simple as that is.

[Averon]

Era prudes can't understand why one of their approved trans creators would like such smut:

Didn't expected that from Suzy. I mean, she always hypes Capcom up (she's part of their partner project, they send her free stuff and hire her for official lives and events, so I can understand why. This doesn't bother me), but this is an unnecessary way to hype things up, especially with the photos she selected.

Nah, Suzi always liked this stuff she loves Stellar Blade(except the story) and other games with female "sexy" designs.
It's less about Suzi's post specifically and more about the common sentiment i see on social media, i just didn't want to flood my post with multiple examples, cause there are a ton out there.

Yeahhh... I don't mean to derail the thread, especially this one of all, with YouTuber drama crap, but I haven't been following Suzy for quite some time because of this, the convenient shunning of remakes (despite her love of the Resi remakes) right around the time Silent Hill 2 came out to stellar reviews, and her saying something to the effect of how she's 'not an SJW' (she may not have said that exactly, but that was definitely the sentiment behind it.

So, seeing this from her is no surprise, unfortunately :/

Trans streamer Suzi is now sus for liking what Era prudes don't like, thus, making her chud-adjacent. Making enemies out of seemingly allies because they aren't as prudish as you. They really give Evangelical Christians a run for their money when it comes to puritanism.

[Boredfrom]

Wasn’t Suzy an ex-sex worker? Why would she dislike smut?

[DavidCroquet]

What are fresh fruit and veggies doing for you when you don't have a stove, microwave, or a home?

Newsfeed.

What am I gonna do with a pack of fresh blueberries—nature’s superfood—without a microwave????

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-5#post-143542827

We have, for over four years now, been banning members who engage in diagnosing people with mental illnesses. This has been known by everyone for ages, we started doing it at the urging of users, many many users, who found that the weaponization of mental illnesses was ableist in nature and therefore unacceptable. After a discussion with the broader community we agreed and began actioning those posts. As has been mentioned, this has been going on for over four years now. We action these posts when they target left-wing politicians and right-wing ones, as bigotry and ableism should not be used as base insults. This is not new. We ask people to stop derailing the thread with metacommentary and just focus on the actual topic.

[HaughtyFrank]

Yeahhh... I don't mean to derail the thread, especially this one of all, with YouTuber drama crap, but I haven't been following Suzy for quite some time because of this, the convenient shunning of remakes (despite her love of the Resi remakes) right around the time Silent Hill 2 came out to stellar reviews, and her saying something to the effect of how she's 'not an SJW' (she may not have said that exactly, but that was definitely the sentiment behind it.

So, seeing this from her is no surprise, unfortunately :/

I like how he threw in "she doesn't like the Silent Hill remake despite previously liking remakes" which is completely besides the topic and honestly who gives a shit. But they always do this, looking for the smallest crap to fill their glass of fresh cancel water.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-5#post-143543277

It's a neurodegenerative disease, not mental illness. Neurodegenerative diseases are not classified as mental illnesses.

[Jansen]

Yeah I'm going to assume this is for the ballroom. Still odd to be on the roof, I'm actually surprised you can get up their through normal means, is their much use for that in most normal cases?

Ableism doesn't become acceptable based on the target. That implies that people with mental health issues, are neurodivergent or have a Neurodegenerative disease should only be treated with respect and dignity as long as their "well-behaved" (and often used to imply people with these conditions are inherently bad or evil people, implies our conditions make us more likely to be awful people (it doesn't); or that Trump and othe people like him's evil actions are the result of mental health conditions and diseases) which should not be the case and would absolutely appalling trying to apply that same logic to other groups. Ableism is wrong, full stop.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-6#post-143543622

[Bootsthecat]

What are fresh fruit and veggies doing for you when you don't have a stove, microwave, or a home?

Newsfeed.

What am I gonna do with a pack of fresh blueberries—nature’s superfood—without a microwave????

Like, you can make a ham sandwich on a sidewalk, fucktard

[DavidCroquet]

For once, EchoesofaCyborg is right.

And as someone who is not "able" to have a full head of hair or a massive cock, I think such rules should be applied more consistently. 

[Jansen]

Why the hell are people being banned on the first page for saying he's demented? But not everyone's getting banned either? What the fuck is this place?

It's The Good Place

So if I made a joke about the moderation team having dementia, that would be bannable, but not a joke about them offing themselves?

Like how do you find the first 2 weeks bannable but not suicide jokes?

Dementia isn't a fucking mental illness

Bro, what the fuck is going on with this forum

I don't want people to be banned for making suicide jokes either, and my husband of 20 years died in 2020 of it.

Just wish people were a little less eager to make jokes about it and a bit more respectful.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-6#post-143543886

User banned (2 weeks): trolling and misrepresenting moderation over a series of posts

Watch out now, you wouldn't want to get banned for making fun of the orange fascist.

The banHammer cometh again

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/coming-to-game-pass-assassin%E2%80%99s-creed-mirage-9-kings-game-preview-rain-world-and-more.1262307/#post-143530149

Amazing Additions as usual, i have never been disappointed before.

Transistor out here making alts while the rooftop Trump thread is going full revolt mode again...

Dementia isn't a fucking mental illness

Bro, what the fuck is going on with this forum

Agreed, rules are rules I think everyone understands that. It's that apparently rules are rules only applied to some things.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-6#post-143544231

I hate it here

Quit then.

[Boredfrom]

Ableism doesn't become acceptable based on the target. That implies that people with mental health issues, are neurodivergent or have a Neurodegenerative disease should only be treated with respect and dignity as long as their "well-behaved" (and often used to imply people with these conditions are inherently bad or evil people, implies our conditions make us more likely to be awful people (it doesn't);

That is not why people are polite and considerate about it, you fucktard. But hey, you just compared being neurodivergent to having a disease… so baby steps.

[DavidCroquet]

I think Slayven means America. But same advice applies. DO A FLIP!

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Given that the thread has been derailed to be about staff action, we've locked the thread. We will reopen it once we've handled oustanding reports and internal discussions. Thank you for your patience.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Jansen]

It looks like the revolt is to be short-lived. Unless they are in the constructive community thread crying

[Jansen]

Mods should ban themselves I'm offended they are calling dementia a mental illness when it’s not. People often commit suicide due to mental illness though and they are fine with that.

Mods must be feeling extra unsafe now

[simiansmarts]

I hate it here

Quit then.

But then he won’t have a captive audience to his low-effort comic book threads that he shits out every day!

[Boredfrom]

Mods should ban themselves I'm offended they are calling dementia a mental illness when it’s not.

No, you are not.  

You probably interchange illness with disease regularly until when this discussions come around.

[Averon]

This is just the mods forcing them for once to live by the standards they so championed and set for themselves. In which case I'm rooting for B-Dumbs and Nep for once.

[Jansen]

B-Dubs overstepping his power like usual probably

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[Jansen]

Come on now, you know this is being pedantic. Not everyone knows dementia isn't definitionally a mental illness. It doesn't take away from the point that is; Don't be an ableist asshole. People suffering from dementia aren't targets for mockery.

However, as I said in community discussion, I'm struggling to see what is a cudgel against dementia sufferers in recognising a public display of dementia symptoms, at a time where increasing numbers of experts are saying Trump is exhibiting later stages of dementia. And I'm saying this as someone who lost their grandmother to dementia, and recognises erratic wanderlust and the incoherent explanation for deciding why to act on it as among those symptoms.

It's not the same thing as hyperanalysing Biden's speech patterns and behaviour because of conspiracies spread by the alt-right.

Thank God someone showed up to defend the mods

[DavidCroquet]

B-Dubs overstepping his power like usual probably

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"Actually I used to be a mod here"
- every low post count user who showed up in the past 3 months and is questioned about their tenure

[Jansen]

this forum is messed up, the staff here have completely mishandled offenses and behaviors numerous times. when the staff come back with a staff post/administrative post, it's usually counter-intuitive, causes more problems, and snarky as hell. 

what the hell happened here? why have the staff been such power-hungry ego trippers for the last few years? 

also, dementia is not a mental illness. additionally, why are suicide posts not being treated as warnings or bans? 

the moderation on this site has gone to complete shit.

It's shit; but you won't stop posting there 

[DavidCroquet]

Come on now, you know this is being pedantic. Not everyone knows dementia isn't definitionally a mental illness. It doesn't take away from the point that is; Don't be an ableist asshole. People suffering from dementia aren't targets for mockery.

However, as I said in community discussion, I'm struggling to see what is a cudgel against dementia sufferers in recognising a public display of dementia symptoms, at a time where increasing numbers of experts are saying Trump is exhibiting later stages of dementia. And I'm saying this as someone who lost their grandmother to dementia, and recognises erratic wanderlust and the incoherent explanation for deciding why to act on it as among those symptoms.

It's not the same thing as hyperanalysing Biden's speech patterns and behaviour because of conspiracies spread by the alt-right.

Thank God someone showed up to defend the mods

Ok, this actually rules, because The Gummy Bear is unironically suggesting that it is MORE reasonable to call Trump demented than Biden. 

The entire country heard Biden's crinkling, overflowing diaper and saw him drooling into a cup in that last debate, c'mon now.