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

[benji]

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Gal Gadot did that movie a favor. She could've been focusing on a better franchise like Fast and the Furious. 

[Propagandhim]

For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world.  This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth. If you really didn't earn your lot in life, how can you then justify being well-off or rich? Why do you deserve to live better than most of the people on planet? Well, you have to find something to justify it, right? You can't just admit you were one of the lucky ones; even if it required some level of "sacrifice" like going to school, or networking, or dropping all of the distracting consumption like video games to focus on the hustle...is that truly enough? I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation? How do you balance these meager acts of working hard against all of the other factors that had to have gone your way, such that you weren't born in a lot in life where you had to do fucking sweatshop work?

I dont know what the fuck this gobbledygook, pseudo-philosophical cognitive dissonance shit is.  This is called life.  And normal, well-adjusted, people recognize and have gratitude for the things in life that they have, that they were gifted through complete chance.  They recognize the inherent unfairness of life.  Doesn't everyone?  None of the people I know spend their days wrestling with the kind of guilt-versus-entitlement dilemma here - they are perfectly aware that being born in a safe country, having access to medical care, schools and job opportunities, being born healthy and not sick or disfigured, is a stroke of luck and most of them feel genuine gratitude for that luck, and if they're good people, try to pay it forward where they can and don’t need to invent these weird, elaborate moral justifications for their relative comfort.  It's just life.  Doesn't mean you stop striving and trying to improve your lot, no matter where you are in the world.  If they did have trauma from the guilt, access to therapy is cheap, anyway.   

And if material well-being must be justified down to the last dollar, does she apply the same standard to every other unearned advantage? Do you routinely question whether you “deserve” your eyesight, your mobility, or the fact that you weren’t born in a war zone?  Whether attractive people "deserve" their advantage over ugly people?  People that struggle to find romantic partners for whatever reason that they have no control over vs others that are in a loving, gratifying relationship?  That some people are born dim and others bright? That you have loved ones alive and around you?   And if not, why single out income or class as uniquely in need of constant self-examination and claiming its the point of isolation for people?

[Propagandhim]

All I gotta say is, life is a highway. 











....and I'ma ride it all night long.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

based

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/learning-microsoft-excel.1272024/

I'm trying to learn Microsoft excel in general but mostly geared towards finance
any free resources to recommend? I know there's a lot of videos on this but if anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it!

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/

No Nepenthe posts, curious

She literally couldn’t resist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/page-2#post-143960553

Part of it is sheer myopia. Most people are only ever immersed alongside people and opportunities relevant to their own class and thus do not actually have significant amounts of direct experience with those several tiers lower than them to reasonably gain perspective. So the things they struggle with are struggles inasmuch as they present friction between their current lifestyle and whatever theoretical state of "success" they have in their mind is. Your friend being "broke" despite being in a condo paid for by his family could be technically true in that he has poor spending habits or high bills or whatever, and this is a "struggle," but he doesn't know any better to understand that this issue doesn't actually put him in a position of precarity because he doesn't know what "precarity" even means without anything to actually compare it to.

The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.

For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world. This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth. If you really didn't earn your lot in life, how can you then justify being well-off or rich? Why do you deserve to live better than most of the people on planet? Well, you have to find something to justify it, right? You can't just admit you were one of the lucky ones; even if it required some level of "sacrifice" like going to school, or networking, or dropping all of the distracting consumption like video games to focus on the hustle...is that truly enough? I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation? How do you balance these meager acts of working hard against all of the other factors that had to have gone your way, such that you weren't born in a lot in life where you had to do fucking sweatshop work?

You can't, if you're honest with yourself. Hence, the appropriation of struggle.

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I did not read one word of this drivel

Was totally expecting a pic of nep's house in that spoiler.

You fucking failed me Lonewulfeus

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/
No Nepenthe posts, curious

She literally couldn’t resist.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-many-rich-and-privileged-people-appropriate-struggle.1271889/page-2#post-143960553

Part of it is sheer myopia. Most people are only ever immersed alongside people and opportunities relevant to their own class and thus do not actually have significant amounts of direct experience with those several tiers lower than them to reasonably gain perspective. So the things they struggle with are struggles inasmuch as they present friction between their current lifestyle and whatever theoretical state of "success" they have in their mind is. Your friend being "broke" despite being in a condo paid for by his family could be technically true in that he has poor spending habits or high bills or whatever, and this is a "struggle," but he doesn't know any better to understand that this issue doesn't actually put him in a position of precarity because he doesn't know what "precarity" even means without anything to actually compare it to.
The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.
For those who are well-off or rich, this contradiction is even more blatant. You not only outpace most of the world, but you outpace most of the people around you who in turn outpace most of the world. This is inherently isolating and painful to deal with when your moral fabric is shaped by a society that insists on the meritocracy myth. If you really didn't earn your lot in life, how can you then justify being well-off or rich? Why do you deserve to live better than most of the people on planet? Well, you have to find something to justify it, right? You can't just admit you were one of the lucky ones; even if it required some level of "sacrifice" like going to school, or networking, or dropping all of the distracting consumption like video games to focus on the hustle...is that truly enough? I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation? How do you balance these meager acts of working hard against all of the other factors that had to have gone your way, such that you weren't born in a lot in life where you had to do fucking sweatshop work?
You can't, if you're honest with yourself. Hence, the appropriation of struggle.

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I did not read one word of this drivel

[Potato]

The other part is Westerners' general inability to recognize and analyze contradictions. We live in a sea of competing and contradictory myths, motivators, and moral outlooks that persist for the sake of maintaining the state of imperialism and class unconsciousness, and a lot of people either don't question any of them or lack the skills and emotional maturity to do so with a reasonable analytical framework. Like, people want to be seen as having "earned" their lot in life due to the capitalistic myth of meritocracy and the moral value of a "work ethic"- that humans who work hard are fundamentally better human beings than those that don't (which, lol) without ever acknowledging that the very country they live in in only exists on the back of rampant imperialism and theft that traps billions of human beings in a state of destitution they will likely never experience, that people who work much harder than they ever have, even those who escaped Western impoverishment, will never achieve even that level of a pittance of an income.

Isn't this fair? You said that working harder isn't evidence of deserving anything. Seems like you lack the skills and emotional maturity to develop an analytical framework that doesn't self-contradict at step one.

Especially when you can't illustrate how your thesis is even supposed to work, how the less hard working impoverished Americans stole and still steal all the capital from the hard working wealthy Global South.

I mean, how do you begin to even quantify being "deserving" of anything material within a system fundamentally built on exploitation?

How do you? You're constantly talking about the life you deserve where you have greater material rewards on the backs of other people doing more labor for you. You spend almost all your time bitching that people don't offer you goods/services for free spiritual rewards and instead seek compensation for their labor.

Let them eat...Lucio fanart.

[Potato]

Perfect example:  How can anyone take seriously the opinion of an adult who has never even attempted to leave their childhood home on whether meritocracy in America is a myth?

I don't actually care about that, it's just funny to poke at her persona, I think the more important factor is that her own theory can't explain how anything happens. It's all handwaved about "the system" as if this is an explanation. Why is Jeff Bezos or even just America specifically rich? "God The system works in mysterious ways" apparently.

What's the goal of this system? "To perpetuate itself." But how does each thing that happens achieve that goal? Again, she has no explanation, she simply asserts that everything that happens achieves it. That's not even a theory.

We can go further, why do people do things that perpetuate the system? "Because the system conditions them to do it." Again, how? Why was Jeff Bezos conditioned to create Amazon and make billions so he could use those billions to buy the Washington Post and not endorse Kamala who shouldn't be endorsed because she supports genocide? There's an element where she's saying that if it wasn't Bezos it would have been someone else because everyone is interchangible cogs to achieve the systems purpose, but why was it Bezos then and the way he did it? How is this not just saying that's the way God designed everything to work?

And as you said, all of it is just a self-serving explanation for why she's not happy and why that can't be her doing. The "algorithms" of "the system" just organized against her. In a different world, or one where we seize control of the system (even though we're all conditioned to perpetuate it*), that would be different, the system would do what she deserves.

*notice that never does she consider that her rabble rousing on a video game forum is part of perpetuating the system, perhaps by driving off chuds and libs who then work to strengthen the system rather then posting about video games. The system is only ever as smart and capable as she can imagine it.

Nep's worldview and theory of everything all makes sense if you follow her simple framework:

1. Nep is poor and anyone earning $1 more than her is rich
   
2. Everything can be blamed on "the whites", or any race that most resembles the whites at that particular moment in time
   
3. "The system" is both weak and ready to fall and all powerful at the same time. It is corrupt and also able to make better decisions than individuals.
   
4. When the system falls and we enter Nep's utopia, of course she will be unanimously and spontaneously chosen to lead, even though she has no skills whatsoever.
   
5. Fan art and fursuits will be hard currency in the coming utopia
   

[benji]

And if material well-being must be justified down to the last dollar, does she apply the same standard to every other unearned advantage? Do you routinely question whether you “deserve” your eyesight, your mobility, or the fact that you weren’t born in a war zone?  Whether attractive people "deserve" their advantage over ugly people?  People that struggle to find romantic partners for whatever reason that they have no control over vs others that are in a loving, gratifying relationship?  That some people are born dim and others bright? That you have loved ones alive and around you?   And if not, why single out income or class as uniquely in need of constant self-examination and claiming its the point of isolation for people?

In her post the other day, as I pointed out, she believes all people are inherently cruel, so it follows that none of them deserve anything. Hence why she wants mass suffering. To punish all of us for our sin. Only by repenting our sinful ways, by abolishing capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy (aka anything Nepenthe doesn't like), can our souls be saved and we finally can deserve to have His Kingdom on Earth to take a carrot, leave a carrot.

Reading the theory, organizing, neighborhood pods, selflessly moderating a video game forum, etc. are all just examples of good works. She never argues for these on their merits, they're always framed as either the means to combat sin or as displays of faith that others lack.

[BIONIC]

No, it’s not me.

[benji]

Jeff, you need to update your Bluesky profile, it still lies that you're going to stream:

[Hap Shaughnessy]

That last one is going to be hilarious when he deletes it.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

jeff will always be my most favorite poster. He's just so comfy. 

[Taco Bell Tower]

We need to screenshot Jeff Marvel Superman tweets. I'm so tired of him deleting his tweets of pwning people 

[simiansmarts]

Jeff, you need to update your Bluesky profile, it still lies that you're going to stream:

“he/they” 
 
Yooooo is JeffMarvel going to become JaneMarvel and join the Bluesky polycule soon??

[benji]

Somehow the funniest thing to me about Echos scenario threads remains how boring the scenarios are: you get a new neighbor, you're wearing some clothes, someone talks to you, etc.  

They never even have any kind of debatable moral dilemma like "Kamen Rider comes into your store and wants to use more than three coupons" or "Chun-Li slights the great caloric value of Arby's."

[NekoFever]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-trans-non-binary-lounge-ot-there-is-power-in-pride.402967/page-73#post-143898801

Since T4T was mentioned I think I should say have 3 trans girlfriends including a certain Era doggo.
and I'm gonna move in with one of them next year <3

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🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

More like…

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I'm definitely gonna move in with one of them next year <3

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

On the 24th of October 2017, a great powerful group known only as the Democrats created thousands of AGP young MtF individuals for when the human race needed them most and now, on the 16th of August 2025, they do just that, sending them throughout the internet around the country to save the world!... Or conquer it! Or just raise hell! Do what you want!

You receive from a mysterious stranger your dysphoria (that changes you forever) and enough bathtub HRT to pinkpill over a million young children.

but there's one person standing in your way! California Governor Gavin Newsom!

So... WHAT HAPPENS?!

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-22#post-143965881

Messy showing that stalker vibe of his by pulling up posts from 2019 to try for a gacha moment. 

Edit: Adding the post since it could be deleted later.

One thing to remember with ICE is that the deportation cops make up less than a third of their workforce and the majority of their staff are doing boring and uncontroversial work inspecting imports and investigating smuggling rings. A simple "abolish ICE" tagline will get called out, not incorrectly, as an open invitation for fentanyl and whatnot to flood the country. We do need ICE, even if we definitely do not need the bigoted blackshirts. The message needs to focus on the inhumane immigration agents themselves and their leaders rather than the agency as a whole.

How come you changed your stance on ICE from supporting the abolishing of ICE to now?

Seems like an odd stance, you can both abolish ICE and establish a new organization to do the not heinous thing ICE also does. They aren't mutually exclusive and rolling back her previous statement seems like a mistake

https://www.resetera.com/threads/warren-changes-her-stance-on-ice-from-abolish-to-we-need-ice-just-focused-on-real-threats.152705/page-4#post-26397866

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-22#post-143965881

Messy showing that stalker vibe of his by pulling up posts from 2019 to try for a gacha moment. 

Another instance of him showing he can't read, those posts don't disagree with each other.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-44#post-143963415

oh no no hasanbros.. era is turning on their golden boy. Zeo, please get in here!

[imsotired]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-44#post-143963415

oh no no hasanbros.. era is turning on their golden boy. Zeo, please get in here!

It's something that has always put me off Hasan, he can't take criticism when he knows it's justified and becomes a massive baby and lashes out. I still remember him being a piece of shit about cyberpunk 2077, his utter refusal to listen to peoples concerns about the transphobia of it and the company. He even fucking compared people complaining about it to right wing grifters who complain about the left, all because he didn't want to give up a game he was looking forward to.

I don't think Zeo wants to tackle this one.

[Greatness Gone]

Half of the reason Hasan is liked in the first place is because he’s attractive and ree fags want to suck his fat, hairy Turkish hog. 


Or maybe that’s just me. 

[Averon]

Lol this reply made them so mad they immediately went to the resetera mods to get their name changed. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/peta-takes-time-out-of-their-busy-schedule-killing-animals-to-complain-about-the-mario-kart-world-cows-nose-ring.1271460/#post-143924757



Name was jitteryzeitgeist 

A prominent burka thread member being a hypocritical "gooner" offsite is the least surprising thing ever. Only people with a deep seeded, self-hating guilt about sex would bitch and whine endlessly like they do in the burka thread about fake, digital tits and ass. It's the same thing when you hear those stories about loud, angry Evangelical preachers being caught having gay sex.

[Daffy Duck]

Thread from 2018 gets bumped by supposedly the person who reported them, they’re then banned for racism

https://www.resetera.com/threads/b-c-family-questioned-for-id-for-using-the-pool-in-their-own-townhouse-complex.56295/#post-143966688

Wild, pretty legendary bump though and my headcanon is that they aren’t a troll and it’s legit

[Besticus Maximus]

First, this bump is egregious.

Second, even if this guy could prove his identity to staff, we're not about to entertain him trying to explain away his unconscious biases. Sucks to suck, don't ask random Black people for ID like you have that authority.

Thread locked.

Cops straight onto fitting up the perp 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-44#post-143963415

oh no no hasanbros.. era is turning on their golden boy. Zeo, please get in here!

It's something that has always put me off Hasan, he can't take criticism when he knows it's justified and becomes a massive baby and lashes out. I still remember him being a piece of shit about cyberpunk 2077, his utter refusal to listen to peoples concerns about the transphobia of it and the company. He even fucking compared people complaining about it to right wing grifters who complain about the left, all because he didn't want to give up a game he was looking forward to.

I don't think Zeo wants to tackle this one.

"hey, wait a minute... This guy sucks actually!"

[Greatness Gone]

Lol this reply made them so mad they immediately went to the resetera mods to get their name changed. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/peta-takes-time-out-of-their-busy-schedule-killing-animals-to-complain-about-the-mario-kart-world-cows-nose-ring.1271460/#post-143924757



Name was jitteryzeitgeist 

A prominent burka thread member being a hypocritical "gooner" offsite is the least surprising thing ever. Only people with a deep seeded, self-hating guilt about sex would bitch and whine endlessly like they do in the burka thread about fake, digital tits and ass. It's the same thing when you hear those stories about loud, angry Evangelical preachers being caught having gay sex.

I doubt it's that deep for him. Posting in that thread just give you easy good boy points and puts you in good standing with the transbian cult. I don't think the ones who identify as straight males actually believe in any of that stuff.