Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Besticus Maximus]

Will do, thank you. I apologize if this isn't the place to ask this, but i'm short on context. Is this forum just like... RE expat forum?

Think of it as vital ethnography for internet culture

Games forums built the internet and we are charting the decline and fall

Or Peer-reviewing the Milgram experiment

[PogiJones]

To keep this post pithy,

[Nintex]

Will do, thank you. I apologize if this isn't the place to ask this, but i'm short on context. Is this forum just like... RE expat forum?

It's a bonfire for drug dealers, gamergate, weebs, criminals, Russian agents, Serb nationalists and some I assume good people

[Eric Cartman]

Hitting my favourite part of a thread ignoring transphobia (often in threads about comedians) where I play my favourite game of searching post histories with the word "trans" and try not to be surprised when antagonistic or dismissive posters come up empty.

Hey, LARPing as a secret policeman agent provocateur for the authorities while acting like a huge obnoxious cunt online is my favorite game too!

Do you wanna meet on Discord and talk about how many guns we've both recently bought in order to overthrow the government, and any concrete plans we are ready to enact sometime?

[Eric Cartman]

Also your friends names so we can all hang out together too

[PogiJones]

visit the gaming forum occasionally.

[Megamandrn001]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-and-brazil%E2%80%99s-lula-are-meeting-in-new-york-to-discuss-labor-and-climate-issues.766493/post-112362992

It’s almost like a battle between good and evil is occurring and a certain South American leader is prevaricating

In a thread about Biden and Lula meeting to discuss positively actual important leftist ideology that would effect the working class in huge parts of the hemisphere, something even me, a virulent anti-centrist has to give Biden props for, RE immediately makes it about whether Lula stans Ukraine or not.

I cannot express to you how much of a toddler you are if you simplify a war between two soveriegn nations with their own self interests as 'Good vs. Evil'.

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/biden-and-brazil%E2%80%99s-lula-are-meeting-in-new-york-to-discuss-labor-and-climate-issues.766493/post-112362992

It’s almost like a battle between good and evil is occurring and a certain South American leader is prevaricating

In a thread about Biden and Lula meeting to discuss positively actual important leftist ideology that would effect the working class in huge parts of the hemisphere, something even me, a virulent anti-centrist has to give Biden props for, RE immediately makes it about whether Lula stans Ukraine or not.

I cannot express to you how much of a toddler you are if you simplify a war between two soveriegn nations with their own self interests as 'Good vs. Evil'.

They aren't leftists and I don't mean that in a childish tantrum sense. They literally aren't. By any meaningful measure they fail at the point of entry. They are typical american liberals, using ethics as a jumping off point for their own personal aggrandisement while actively railing against anti-authoritarian positions like anticlericalism, secularist policy and even most taxation if it isn't the 1%.

They package in things like, you must be completely subservient to the latest trans internet drama, because by any of the normal standards of socialism they are the bourgeois

[Megamandrn001]

They aren't leftists and I don't mean that in a childish tantrum sense. They literally aren't. By any meaningful measure they fail at the point of entry. They are typical american liberals, using ethics as a jumping off point for their own personal aggrandisement while actively railing against anti-authoritarian positions like anticlericalism, secularist policy and even most taxation if it isn't the 1%.

They package in things like, you must be completely subservient to the latest trans internet drama, because by any of the normal standards of socialism they are the bourgeois

I'm sorry, by "They" do you mean the aforementioned childish RE posters I sassed, or Biden and Lula? I'm unclear.

I'm fully aware that your typical RE poster that stumbles over themselves to kick the door open and mention this or that percieved slight is a centrist, i.e. not leftist.

[Besticus Maximus]

They aren't leftists and I don't mean that in a childish tantrum sense. They literally aren't. By any meaningful measure they fail at the point of entry. They are typical american liberals, using ethics as a jumping off point for their own personal aggrandisement while actively railing against anti-authoritarian positions like anticlericalism, secularist policy and even most taxation if it isn't the 1%.

They package in things like, you must be completely subservient to the latest trans internet drama, because by any of the normal standards of socialism they are the bourgeois

I'm sorry, by "They" do you mean the aforementioned childish RE posters I sassed, or Biden and Lula? I'm unclear.

I'm fully aware that your typical RE poster that stumbles over themselves to kick the door open and mention this or that percieved slight is a centrist, i.e. not leftist.

The reset idiots. And biden tbf, if we're being literal.

[Megamandrn001]

The reset idiots. And biden tbf, if we're being literal.

Gotcha. I also agree about Joe "Holy Fuck We Need More Cops Also Strom Thurmond Was My Best Fucking Friend" Biden

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Leftists are leaving in droves

[Besticus Maximus]

Leftists are leaving in Nissans

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

This fucking arsehole in the community thread:

Also we STILL have a problem with Cis user talking over trans users, suggesting we're either over reacting to something or what they have to say about it is somehow more insightful than our thoughts on the matter. this has been getting exremently frusterating and its been happening more and more. and there's rarely anything thing to report regarding it because they're rarely breaking any rules...

It's literally impossible to "talk over" someone on an internet forum.

Also not the first time I've seen someone complain about not being able to get others banned because they aren't actually doing anything wrong, other than not agreeing with you. Should be an "am I the baddie" moment, but that would require not having your head so far up your arse that you're inside out.

[Potato]

Your mistake is believing their internet bullshit that trooning out has anything to do with being left wing

they're (mostly) middle class boojlord whiteboys and richkid minority failsons. Each and every single one of them would suck off the first tory in the queue if they threw a bit of red meat at nonsense troonery.

Wonderful to see that even your average lurker at Resetera is ready to seize the means of conversation back from the mary whitehouse brigade. Trooning out gives them 2 things.

1. Sex acts with forum perverts online
2. The power to ban their enemies to smithereens

It has absolutely squarely fuck all to do with women or being a woman. Case in point Melody Shreds, a self declared mentally ill nonsense who looks like punished Meatloaf and lives in a dystopian teenage bedroom from a cut scene in American Pie

Not up on my lingo there, sorry.

Speaking of, did anyone see that thread that MelodyShreds posted where she said she was going to kill herself because a mod was being a dick to her? No mod ever came out and apologized.

Also, this thread has been enlightening. I've lurked since the GAF days but I had no idea about any mod drama, i.e. with the sales threads and such.

Welcome. The vibe of this place pretty much boils down to, "Don't be a dick, no one really cares about your politics."
Vent about Resetera, have fun, be dumb, visit the gaming forum occasionally.

Will do, thank you. I apologize if this isn't the place to ask this, but i'm short on context. Is this forum just like... RE expat forum?

Forgot to mention, hit the like button. A lot.

[Besticus Maximus]

This fucking arsehole in the community thread:

Also we STILL have a problem with Cis user talking over trans users, suggesting we're either over reacting to something or what they have to say about it is somehow more insightful than our thoughts on the matter. this has been getting exremently frusterating and its been happening more and more. and there's rarely anything thing to report regarding it because they're rarely breaking any rules...

It's literally impossible to "talk over" someone on an internet forum.

Also not the first time I've seen someone complain about not being able to get others banned because they aren't actually doing anything wrong, other than not agreeing with you. Should be an "am I the baddie" moment, but that would require not having your head so far up your arse that you're inside out.

[Averon]

They are literally trying to make it bannable to ignore them. It's not enough that they essentially control the site and have the entire mod team wrapped around their greasy fingers. You must constantly acknowledge them and their every delusional whim and suck their lady cock or you're a "bad ally."

Any competent mod team will tell these nutcases to shut up and pound sand, but like half the Ree mods are just as mentally ill themselves, so they agree with this absurdity.

[Polident]

I’m struggling to find some caveat or way to soften this statement. But maybe the users who are miserable black holes of despair shouldn’t dictate the discourse. Like hiring a morbidly obese personal trainer. I don’t think they have the answers.

[Daffy Duck]

They’re hilarious to read. 

Just a bunch of outcasts with zero social skills shouting into the void

[Snoopy]

Emote please

[Besticus Maximus]

The failure in moderation is what makes things like Melody Shreds a sad case. It's in their interest, and the forum's wider interest, not to allow someone with such obvious mental health problems a platform to advertise their own personal information. They need a quiet word and some time out of the limelight, not more limelight.

And also, stop trying to force everyone to get involved in person of gender business for fucks sake

[Snoopy]

I wonder how many rees who donated sad bucks to the fat man got banned

[BIONIC]

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I just registered here because after leaving Twitter I've felt somewhat homeless on the internet. Forums like this used to be how people talked and discussed, but it seems like all of that imploded and I suck at finding new places to frequent (especially since it relies on like... finding hidden discord channels or something. I'm old).

Anyway, one of the places I always lurked was Resetera, but I was never a member. I really didn't feel the need, but also it was clear that even if I did register, I would get banned probably inside of a month. I have never been a fan of places that are obsessed with civility, and I am even less a fan of places that enforce selective civility. Nothing wrong with hearing or giving someone a good old "fuck you" as far as I' m concerned when it's warranted. I used to prefer, in literal decades past, places like 4chan, but that place now is an actual incel Nazi cesspit, and literally incapable of discussing anything. They know their porn though, I'll give them that.

I used to just read the videogame side, but I started going over to the other side as well, since a lot of news broke there. I like aggregations I can skin at a glance. Over the last few years I've gone through a significant political journey however, and learned a lot as I rocketed leftward. And god damn do the Neolibs over there make my blood pressure spike. I probably wouldn't get along with a lot of you either, but unlike people over there, I'm not really upset when someone isn't on my exact point on the left side of the political spectrum. I have pretty extreme views, but I know I'm weird. Let other people be normal.

I'm not sure about this forum yet. I'm seeing some stuff I like, some stuff I disagree with, but that can all be hashed out later as I lurk more and get the vibe. What's important is that I can complain about the stuff I see on RE that pisses me off. In fact, I found this forum searching Google about someone who pissed me off that you guys know well: Hachikoma. I searched this thread and didn't see this RE thread mentioned: 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/had-to-purge-my-youtube-subs-after-some-of-the-creators-revealed-some-right-wing-leanings.695359/post-110286445

This thread is where I learned about them. In a thread about Youtubers who had right wing leanings and suggestions for good media to watch instead (something I was actually interested in), half the thread devolved into whining over Hasan Piker of all people, quite possibly (to me at least) the best leftist voice to listen to on  Youtube (or Twitch. Whatever, you know what I mean).

Why? Well, he's anti-trans you see. He's anti-trans because he said that boycotting the HP game wouldn't work, and instead what he wanted to do was stream it while having trans people on as guests, and donate all the money from that stream to pro-trans causes. This was an affront to the entire trans community, who told him, as a single unit acting as one monolith according to Hachikoma, that it was a terrible idea and boycotting the game was far more important and effective.
Of course it wasn't, it went on to be one of the best selling games of the year, absolutely nobody gave a single squirting fuck about the boycott and Hasan was 100% right, but he disagreed with the Grand Trans Council, so he's out. Hachikoma deals with... laws? I guess? So she's obivously the best choice for community monolith arbiter.

And she might be right! After all, look at this clip of Hasan screaming at a trans chatter sassing him! What's that? Hasan yelled at that chatter for them trolling him poorly about not being as good on trans issues as Vaush, a stance Hachikoma agreed with by the way, didn't know the chatter was trans, and that chatter also sent Hasan a gift afterward and made up? Irrelevant. He yelled once you see. After all, Hachikoma knew the chatter was trans by the way they constructed their sentence:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/had-to-purge-my-youtube-subs-after-some-of-the-creators-revealed-some-right-wing-leanings.695359/post-110281210

i assumed the banned person was trans purely based on the message the streamer banned them for - i've never seen a cis person stick up for us with gentle confidence like that.

(The "gentle confidence" was, again, that chatter joking that Vaush was better on trans issues).

What's that? Hasan has one of the largest trans viewerships on Twitch, and every single bit of footage I've seen over the last 6 months has him being incredibly pro trans? I'm sorry, you say that youtube comments on his videos have tons of trans people saying "Thank you for your stance on this, it means a lot?". Well, those are the wrong kinds of trans people obviously:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/had-to-purge-my-youtube-subs-after-some-of-the-creators-revealed-some-right-wing-leanings.695359/post-110279608

I'm glad that there's trans people that feel safe & welcome in his community, I'd never tell them they're wrong for that. I just wish they won't take everything he says as gospel & much rather use his opinions as a starting point to form their own.

Not Hachikoma there, but someone equally unhinged. Clearly, you're not complete in your trans journey if you still like Hasan.
Hasan is the single largest donator to the Amazon Strike Fund, but he's a grifter, unlike Hachikoma who works with trans orgs and has worked on trans legislation, none of which matter or get passed or have helped at all, also she got fired, but never mind that. Why isn't she important, It should be HER getting all the attention instead of some guy streamer!
I'm pro trans people and trans rights. Three of my best friends are trans people and I love them dearly. I'm firmly anti this lunatic however, and an increasingly large chunk of Resetera as well.
Special shout out to poster Hodgy, who wins my award for Most Consistently Wrong, Ill-Informed Poster on The Whole Dang Site. I don't think I've ever seen a post from him that wasn't confidently stated, easily proved wrong whitewashed lib nonsense and I'm shocked he's not mentioned more in this thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/had-to-purge-my-youtube-subs-after-some-of-the-creators-revealed-some-right-wing-leanings.695359/post-110317600

Post hog

[kaleidoscopium]

They're trying to get Twitter links banned... again 😂 

Is there an approved way to discuss/debate forum policies on allowed or disallowed sources of news and links etc?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-tw%F0%9D%95%8Ftt%F0%9D%95%8Fr-dr%F0%9D%95%8Fm%F0%9D%95%8F-%F0%9D%95%8Ft-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4.649272/page-932#post-112369433

Constructive should be juicy if anyone can get in

[Straight Edge]

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Are there even transmen on Ree, at all?  Always transwomen

Wait till you see how many of the trans women are also lesbian. It’s almost like -shock- they’re just confused men.

[kaleidoscopium]

Reading that Hasan thread, hilarious btw good find, I learned that fat4all is banned again. Anyone know for what and how long?

[Straight Edge]

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1695278462[/url]']Will do, thank you. I apologize if this isn't the place to ask this, but i'm short on context. Is this forum just like... RE expat forum?

It started as a Gaf expat forum then it was a Gaf/Restera expat forum now it's a Gaf/Resetera expat expat forum.

Hope that clears things up/confuses things further

This is a place where straight men can post hog and feel good about it.

[MJBarret]

Wait till you see how many of the trans women are also lesbian. It’s almost like -shock- they’re just confused men.

It strikes me as the flip side of the incel coin. 

Anger, entitlement, disaffection, self-loathing and instead of looking inward they direct their energy outward toward women, but instead of derisive hatred, they take to covetous idolatry... 

...and then circle back to hating all those bitch terf cunt ciswomen!

[Uncle]

Constructive should be juicy if anyone can get in

it is, but nobody's trying to get twitter links banned, not really anything new recently

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[Uncle]

Reading that Hasan thread, hilarious btw good find, I learned that fat4all is banned again. Anyone know for what and how long?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-releases-february-29th-2024.764636/page-18#post-112054727

  User Banned (1 Week): Boys Club Behaviour

Sephikura finally canon