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

[DavidCroquet]

I only had to "hyperanalyze" Biden's speech patterns because I could barely understand what he was saying during his detailed non sequitur about white girls who were brutally raped and murdered by illegal immigrants.

[TacoWallace]

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

There's always at least one sycophant waiting to defend their honor.

If they don't know something that takes 5 seconds to google, they shouldn't be moderating a forum.

And certainly not one that was sold for millions to some Swedish assholes a few years ago.

[DavidCroquet]

If a mod has 30 seconds to update the title after the banning spree is complete, it wasn't because "nobody knows why," it's because he's "inspecting the construction of the ballroom" for what used to be the Rose Garden.

A lot of the people joining the thread speculating the he's off his rocker wandering around the roof alone might not have to speculate.

Tan suit ass thread.

 

To be fair, it's as likely that that's what they came up with on the spot to explain it as any other reason people in the thread speculate.

[DavidCroquet]

B-Dubs overstepping his power like usual probably

Jul 11, 2025
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Interesting twist: OliverMijumaru edited this post to say Nepenthe instead of B-Dubs. And immediately RainsJitt airdropped in to voice suspicions.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-7#post-143545497

[Jansen]

B-Dubs overstepping his power like usual probably

Jul 11, 2025
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-8#post-143546304

Your expert opinion after only being here less than a month?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-8#post-143546676

Fun fact people can browse a site even before they have an account and see when admins overstep their power. Especially when people on bluesky post about said admins overstep their powers. Hope this helps

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-8#post-143546748

How is dementia not a mental illness? Like what's the classification criteria for that? Just talking casually it sure seems like an illness that affects you mentally.

Just asking questions, eh? 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-8#post-143547012

Definitionally, dementia is a neurodegenerative disease, which means it falls under the same umbrella as something like alzheimers. It can impact mental health, but it's a physical neurological process characterised by damage to brain cells.

For the purposes of this thread though, getting hung up on the definitions of mental illness and dementia is broadly pointless though.

 

[kaleidoscopium]

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.

Suzi has been on their shit list a while since she also loves cyberpunk 2077 and is friends with known bigot Gene park  

[BIONIC]

B-Dubs overstepping his power like usual probably

Jul 11, 2025
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-8#post-143546304

Your expert opinion after only being here less than a month?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-8#post-143546676

Fun fact people can browse a site even before they have an account and see when admins overstep their power. Especially when people on bluesky post about said admins overstep their powers. Hope this helps

Banned and don’t see a message as of yet

[Jansen]

You could just not ban people for discussion on a discussion forum, that is an option?

My dad died of dementia and Trump has plenty of the calling signs. That's not armchair diagnosis, thats lived experience by no doubt many people on the forum. Dementia isn't something you go to a doctor about for second opinion either; it's fairly obvious when its full swing. If you're not allowed to talk about a clear talking point of this news incident, are we just supposed to post anecdotes about roofs?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-is-standing-on-the-roof-of-the-white-house-and-nobody-knows-why.1262538/page-8#post-143547180

[Jansen]

The mods have made it pretty clear that they don't care so why do the users continue with the faux outrage

[Taco Bell Tower]

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.

Suzi has been on their shit list a while since she also loves cyberpunk 2077 and is friends with known bigot Gene park  

If Gene is a known bigot why is he allowed to post on Ree?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-are-men-avoiding-fiction-so-much-at-least-when-it-comes-to-literature.1262148/page-2#post-143525352

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.

Games as a narrative are categorically awful and that's not only because the writers are usually hacks, but the structure of a game and the agency of the player means that pacing is always an issue. Arbitrary gameplay lengths means there's always a bunch of pointless busy work and filler.

The fact that the conflict resolution is universally violence and almost every single game with a narrative is sci-fi or fantasy also reduces variety and choice. 

If you have 10+ hours to play dogshit brain-dead Soyny angry dad simulators, you have enough time to read a book.

As always, Resetera members pull back the curtain just a little and show themselves as barely functioning...

[Boredfrom]

So this maybe a bit of an awkward and a personal question, do you think their has been good bikini costumes in fighting games that didn't feel like exploitative or objectifying? Both in design and how it's presented in the fighting game (such as camera positioning?)

Rest is hidden content.

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-477#post-143547855

Like I told you, his problem was not the costumes but that ‘males’ like them. He is a good transbian girl  , so he needs the correct info.

[BIONIC]

Constructive:

I posit that bans for "armchair diagnosis of mental health" as seen in the Trump on the Roof thread are un-useful, and are being enforced in massively bad faith.

Those have been going off for awhile now, I caught one a few weeks ago for saying the same thing about Trump in a different thread. IDK lol

Remember people, we must submit tickets if we would like to raise concerns on moderation. Complaining in this thread wont get you anywhere and will likely be punished as well. Calmly express your concerns via the ticket system.

This sounds like a brilliant way of making sure we can't openly discuss heavy handed moderation and come to a community consensus on unfair judgments, and I'm going to assume that I am allowed to say that in what I am lead to believe is the Constructive Community Discussion.

I'm also going to state openly that I've submitted ticket requests for bans on my own and on others behalfs that have gone ignored so I don't exactly have any faith in it.

Your thoughts and feelings on it are valid and have been echo’d, however we cannot expect the moderators to be right and fair and follow the rules if we do not, and this was a new rule set in place after the Donkey Kong thread fiasco a few weeks back.

So we gotta do our part correctly, if we want/expect them to do their part.

What is this, some kind of community hall monitor gimmick?

People are putting in tickets for the things they want to and also posting here for transparent open discourse which can (when not turned into shit piling) lead to insights about issues and how to resolve them.

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I'm just going to say this, we've been doing those bans for over four years now, at the urging of the broader community. We literally started doing these bans because people advocated for them and found the constant "Biden has dementia" stuff, an attack with right-wing roots that was started over four years ago, ableist. If this sort of ablism is bad when aimed at Biden, and everyone felt it was very much so, then it's bad here too. Just don't use actual illnesses when you think his brain is going, if you think his brain is mush then just say that. There's plenty of room to talk all kinds of shit without going into "well, let's diagnose mental illnesses and use them as a cudgel" because the people who suffer, or have family that suffer, from those illnesses do not appreciate that sort of thing.

I know people are thinking "we're just attacking Trump" but the fact is that by using mental illness as the cudgel when doing so, you are also inadvertently hitting innocent people who agree with you and making them feel like shit. This is also why we don't let people use racism, sexism, and anti-LGBTQ bigotry as a cudgel in these situations: it's just offensive to the people from these groups and signals that we only really care about that stuff when it's coming from the other side. We should care when it comes from our side too. People might say "oh we need to fight dirty" but that doesn't mean we should be ok with embracing bigotry in service of our goals.

I don't personally agree with that policy and I had members of my family suffer with dementia but whatever. I don't give a shit if people say Biden has dementia or Trump has dementia, but if the "broader community" feels otherwise, so be it.

Maybe people should start being more original in finding insults instead. My dad has dementia. It's destroying his life, my mom's life, my sister's life, my life. It's an unending whirlpool of suffering and stress. I don't need you comparing my dad, and others suffering from this absolutely horrible disease that won't end until my dad literally forgets how to eat and breathe, to Trump just because he's taking a walk on the rooftop of his office.

Edit: there's also a massive difference between an earnest "is he alright? He's acting strange lately" and "He's doing something out of character for a president, must be senile, amirite fellow posters, please upvote". Trump deserves to be mocked, but I'm sure there qre plenty of different ways to do that.

And stuff like this is why we started doing it:



It wasn't just because we said "hey, let's start doing this" but because A LOT of members of the community were complaining that a horrible condition that was tearing their families apart was being used as an insult by people who couldn't care less and were just looking for a new way to say something mean to someone that would never hear it.


Just saw this edit and this is literally what we're saying. We just got done talking about how there is a difference between "lol Trump has dementia" and "Trump is acting like my grandpa, who has dementia" and how the two things are not the same. One is just using it as an insult, in the way you are talking about in the second example, and the other is more like the first. All we're really asking is that people don't do the second thing you're talking about. There's a million different ways to mock him here, tons of funny jokes that can be made, instead of weaponizing this.

1. It's not a mental illness.

2. You are desperately out of touch with your own user-base. Most people are not offended by positing that Trump might have dementia, we are not that precious. I have had multiple family members go through neurodegenerative conditions and I would not have wanted them to be the most powerful person in the world in their state prior to them passing. Conversely to compare people commenting on his decline to actual bigotries is deeply offensive.

3. NYT and TheHill have posted opinion pieces about Trump's cognitive decline, are these banned sources now?

Are we able to have the same stance about body shaming? It's unfortunate that threads that make fun of people for their weight or balding or small penis jokes still occur, despite the push for these other areas you've outlined.

Not to mention, we literally have moderation staff commenting on his cognitive decline:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-says-he-took-a-cognitive-test-during-his-physical-and-%E2%80%98got-every-answer-right%E2%80%99.1162959/post-138449727

Are we only allowed to speculate in approved threads?

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Keep up the good work mods!

[BIONIC]

I just wanna know why Trump is an acceptable exception target for encouraging and joking about suicide, but not ageism. If the latter isn’t allowed then surely the former shouldn’t be either?

Still waiting on an answer for this too. Been over an hour since I asked, People are still asking in the thread too now. If there’s an "except for evil pieces of shit" rule in place for suicide jokes for the mod team or not? Because as you said, why excuse one but allow another? I'd love to hear the reasoning so at least we know as a community where the line is drawn here so people can know what's going to draw a ban or not at least.

Suicide isn’t a joke to be clear, never has been, but at this point if there’s going to be an exception made for those jokes I’d like to at least know.

Given how four mods completely sidestepped the suicide aspect of the convo in that thread, we might not actually ever get the answer to this

[Jansen]

All the constructive whining is surely going to result in a positive outcome this time 

[TylenolJones]

I agree with the mods, you should be able to tell other Resetera users to unalive themselves!!!

[simiansmarts]

Waiting for that Trump roof thread to close so B-Dubs can deal out the quiet bans a few hours later.

[kaleidoscopium]

If only they had sent in some kindly worded tickets this could all be solved like rational adults in the shadows, but noooo these posters want “transparency” 🙄

[HaughtyFrank]

Self hating gooner Kordova is back to making "Whoa, can you believe how fat that ass is   " posts again

This hype post is even more unexpected. Capcom is something else.

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/post-143548776

[Averon]

To Era Members:
Either go over B-Dumb's head to MOBA to get him axed or leave and form another community. Otherwise, shut the hell up with all your whining and performatively puffing your chest to the mods if all you do is continue to post on ERA like an abused wife going back to their husband.

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

But really don't shut up since your whining at B-Dumbs and crew is very entertaining.

[Averon]

Self hating gooner Kordova is back to making "Whoa, can you believe how fat that ass is   " posts again

This hype post is even more unexpected. Capcom is something else.

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/post-143548776

They are really perplexed at how someone of the "right" demographic--a transwoman!--could possibly have a different opinion about women portrayal than them.

[Boredfrom]

Most probably because Suzy can pass and makes the effort for it.

[Boredfrom]

That Chun Li swimsuit is truly something. With the open back and nonexistent butt coverage she looks pretty much naked from the back which in turn makes a lot of her moves ridiculous and goofy. Like she is already sexualized wearing clothes, this is just.. so blatant. And don't even get me started on the garterbelt.

Almost like Street Fighter is an inherently goofy concept.

 If they are insistent on swimsuits, then it simply has to be both genders. Luke is 100% the type to wear an obnoxiously small speedo and yet he's in board shorts while Chun is wearing… that.

Okay, you are gonna buy that speedo? People said that people stopped playing Genshin because not Husbandos in the Gacha (I suspect that is not the reason, given that ZZZ is also doing that) so is like voting with you wallet doesn’t work. 

I will be curious how much of those Marvel Rivals male thongs sell at the end.

Literally went "wow" irl. Absolutely wouldn't want to be doing any exercise in that. These designs aren't just objectifying they're just plain dumb sometimes lol.

No shit.

[HaughtyFrank]

Why aren't they playing their de sexed mortal Kombat then? They're doing the thing again where absolutely everything needs to cater to their exact taste

[Boredfrom]

No there are a few claiming the outfits aren't that oversexualizing

And no being able to disable them isn't really a point, when Capcom went through the effort of animating and presenting women like this, in such an objectifying way. They chose to include these costumes they chose to include those types of physics on female characters. It's highly questionable to try and excuse or write it off, they are pursuing money off of this objectification, it's sexist when they refuse to do similar with male characters while gleefully doing so with women.

Like these costumes were literally getting hype on the main stage of Evo. It's disingenuous to act like there some simple thing to ignore.

Collective Shout will be proud.

[simiansmarts]

Who’s gonna finally tell them that the gay dollar isn’t an actual thing?  
 

[Averon]

I can't imagine how they'd react to a day at the beach in Miami in the summer if they think those swim suits is too much.

[Averon]

Suzy going for the "I don't care about the discourse I just care about the game being good or not" with Stellar Blade gave me a bit of pause but I guess this is more of a pattern than I thought…?

Suzi is on the verge of being branded a heretical chud.