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

[Vertigo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-2025-the-best-year-game-pass-has-ever-had.1279284/

I think even you like Gamepass and you don't want to unsubscribe, at least don't create threads praising the service and propping it up. Read the BDS thread and at the very least, stop spreading any sort of hype around a Microsoft service. It's the very least people can do if they don't want to boycott MS.

I love how most people have started to talk around these lame virtue signaling posts.

These frauds are picking and choosing which companies are on the naughty list whilst ignoring the ones they use.

Just all round shitbag behaviour.

[Potato]

Snoop dogg literally killed a man and got away with it, but yes let us focus on what he said about some movie

Snoop just caused a little chaos my friend. That's perfectly acceptable at Resetera.

[Potato]

Please god give us a flood of polls showing this dude's approval rate tanking so he'll stop with this cringe-ass schtick.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-opens-the-patriot-shop.1279386/#post-144271467

The meltdowns over Newsom are going to keep being so funny lol

I don't look much at MAGA spaces so maybe they're just as deranged, but leftists hate Newsom so much and are so ridiculous about it that this whole thing is a good way to indicate he's not a he/they Stalinist weirdo furry.

That's probably a winning strategy in itself.

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-2025-the-best-year-game-pass-has-ever-had.1279284/

I think even you like Gamepass and you don't want to unsubscribe, at least don't create threads praising the service and propping it up. Read the BDS thread and at the very least, stop spreading any sort of hype around a Microsoft service. It's the very least people can do if they don't want to boycott MS.

I love how most people have started to talk around these lame virtue signaling posts.

These frauds are picking and choosing which companies are on the naughty list whilst ignoring the ones they use.

Just all round shitbag behaviour.

I'm surprised Transistor wasn't in there immediately with his usual smarmy "GeNoCidEboX" post he seems to be doing in a lot of Microsoft threads lately.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

nazi? check
genocide? check

it's an era thread.

[Kyon1988]

Transistor is such a stupid hypocrite. Era still makes money because Microsoft discussion generates them views.

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jason-schreier-team-cherry-said-they-wont-be-sending-out-review-codes-for-silksong-since-it-wouldnt-be-fair-to-kickstarter-backers.1277328/page-36#post-144242196

dude was never actually "fun" but hes describing the fat dog

He’s also describing 95% of his user base

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

As they spend more time on these platforms they go from laughing and funny to angry, bitter, and extremist on even the smallest issues. They go from fun to asshole.

[Daffy Duck]

No one, no matter how bigoted, should complain about how they explained the lesbian couple in Lightyear to their kids considering they had to spend half an hour explaining relativity and light speed travel first.

These takes are so fucking brain dead

[BananaBlast]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/raja-jackson-son-of-mma-legend-rampage-appears-to-brutally-assault-pro-wrestler-in-disturbing-video.1279311/page-2#post-144273048

 User banned (2 weeks): Continuous inappropriate trolling and conspiracy theorizing over multiple posts

How did the blood appear on his face? CGI?

Wrestlers are extremely tough. They literally cut themselves to bleed all the time. Punches to the face is nothing.

Rare Ree Mod ban W

Seriously, how fucking dumb do you have to be to think all of that was staged?

[kaleidoscopium]

Oh hey, would you look at that, another Era thread where marginalized folks are tut-tutted for not wanting to be thrown under the bus for political expediency

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-opens-the-patriot-shop.1279386/page-5#post-144287811

[DavidCroquet]

couldn’t the general “we” argue that Trump as president is a violation of “our” human rights, and that those who shame us for supporting whatever dem opponent are dismissing our concerns?

[jooseloose]

Not going to lie I would love for the staff to do something about the weird lesbophobia that this site keeps pumping.

Generalizing about (insert country and developers from country here)? Not cool.
Generalizing about lesbians and lesbian representation? Let me open the door for you.

[Snoopy]

The first time Trump got in it could be passed off as Hilary being an evil, murdering witch and Trump being an entertaining troll vote. The 2nd time was purely ree's fault. Immediately after the election they had a massive thread all about how they were going to change, but they haven't changed. They've gone right back to doing the same shit that got Trump into office.

[kaleidoscopium]

The fact that people aren't getting the satire is so disconcerting

Everyone understands the satire. Maybe read through the thread a bit more to understand the actual issues people have with this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-opens-the-patriot-shop.1279386/page-5#post-144291684

You sure about that Jeff? 

[Venice]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-the-pettiest-smallest-reason-youve-ever-seen-a-relationship-end.1279521/#post-144284727

Had a friend dump a girl because he found out she had to drink at least 6 miller lite's to be able to sleep.

I can understand this. Miller lite.

Short, but amazing, thread because new lore unlocked: PlanetSmasher has just shown up and shared details of his love life!! 

The whole post is funny:

I remember one time I ended things with someone because the relationship was exclusively on her terms. If I wanted to see her, I had to ride the fucking Metra out to the Chicago suburbs. She wouldn't drive into the city to see me. If I wanted to get dinner, it had to be on a night she wanted to get dinner (which, yes, meant I would need to get a Metra ticket day of and ride the train an hour out to her suburb and an hour back after dinner). If she came into the city, it was for a band she wanted to see and I could either come along or stay home, or because she wanted to go to a museum or a punk club or whatever. Activities were always on her time and the few times she actually agreed to a date I planned, she would always have some believable (but eventually sus) reason to cancel pop up at the last second.

Eventually it just became clear that she didn't value the relationship all that much and was fine with spending time with me as long as she didn't have to put any excess effort in on her part, but never lifted a finger to meet me on my side. So after a month or two of that, I let it drop. I was young and stupid and I was DEEPLY invested in her but it took me too long to realize she just wasn't invested the same way in me. Oh well.

PlaSma, that wasn't a relationship.

You were just her PayPig who was there to pay for her free shit, while she was out there looking for someone better to come along and getting fucked by other dudes 

I do have a tiny bit of sympathy though. I feel as if PlanetSmasher is the bitter, angry, nasty individual he is today because of all these multiple cruel life experiences that started at an early age and just carried on continuing.

On the other hand... he just seems to have this repulsive personality that turns everyone off, both online and in the real world.

[Ethan]

Not going to lie I would love for the staff to do something about the weird lesbophobia that this site keeps pumping.

Generalizing about (insert country and developers from country here)? Not cool.
Generalizing about lesbians and lesbian representation? Let me open the door for you.

I can't quite tell if the poster is Echoes doing her usual wlw whining of it's an actual lesbian whining about Echoe's wlw threads.

[Jansen]

How is it lesbo phobia if one of them or both have a penis

[HaughtyFrank]

Someone noticed that all the AAA female main characters have either gay or bi romance options and that made them upset

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-the-witcher-4-has-romance-options-do-you-think-its-inevitable-that-there-will-be-at-least-one-female-option.1279401/

[Venice]

Someone noticed that all the AAA female main characters have either gay or bi romance options and that made them upset

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-the-witcher-4-has-romance-options-do-you-think-its-inevitable-that-there-will-be-at-least-one-female-option.1279401/

There's one golden post in there.

The entire thread is a bunch of creeps yapping excitedly about how Ciri is definitely, 100% bisexual (despite the games Ciri never going down that road, and the books only lightly touching on that subject).

But only one person in the whole thread actually appears to have read the books and makes 2 huge points about Ciri's dalliance with the same sex:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-the-witcher-4-has-romance-options-do-you-think-its-inevitable-that-there-will-be-at-least-one-female-option.1279401/#post-144273681

Ciri's case in the books is problematic as her only experience with a woman happens while she's being raped… and she's 13. She doesn't show any interest for women outside of that event.

But I'm pretty sure the game will allow her to date women, as I've yet to see a game that forces male players to date male companions.

That's right. The whole 'Ciri is a lesbo bisexual' is based on:

i) Ciri being raped
ii) Ciri is 13 while being raped

At the time I'm making this post, absolutely NO ONE has responded to Yam's comment.

So to these 40+ year old greasy virgin paedophiles, it doesn't matter Ciri is a little kid who got raped, all that matters is that it means she's definitely 100% a SEXY WLW LESBIAN!!! so plz, plz, plz, CD Projekt, let us have our lesbian Ciri bisexual romance options!!!1!!1

Absolute creeps on that forum, always conveniently ignoring facts when it gets in the way of their wank fantasies.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-35#post-144264537

The reality is Trump has lived an incredibly unhealthy life and it's a contest between that, and him being enmeshed in a massive machine designed to keep the president alive at any cost.

He could be around for some time to come, but in a nearly disabled state. A typical president might step down if it got to that point, for national security reasons if nothing else. But Trump is too valuable as a nearly mindless puppet occupying the seat.

It would be ironic if his handlers refuse to let him die or rest no matter how much he's suffering.

How would that be ironic?

Also, the only disabled President, a progressive considered by most to be one of the greatest due to increasing the power of the state and involving the country in a war, not only hid the disability and refused to step down but tried to run for a third term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Woodrow_Wilson#Incapacity,_1919%E2%80%931921

[Jansen]

Nintendo cherry picking which third parties get special treatment during the initial stage of the console launch would be good for the consumer in terms of us maybe getting more top quality products on the system, problem is we are getting close to nothing, or titles that frankly won't be system sellers (while leaving some that would out of the table too).



I get that they want their own games to be the focus of their console, but in the great year of 2025 you'd hope their mentality changed a bit. Not to mention, it doesn't even seem like they are sending out any dev kits out now, meaning this situation will likely stay the same for the next forseeable future. It's so odd.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/digitalfoundry-lots-of-developers-at-gamescom-said-they-arent-able-to-get-switch-2-dev-kits-nintendo-seems-to-be-almost-discouraging-s2-development.1279923/#post-144300138

"good for the consumer" 

Nintendies never fail to disappoint.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-do-understand-french-but-i-refuse-to-speak-it.1278945/page-2#post-144303891

Oh, so this isn't an exclusive phenomenon to France then lol. I have heard many stories from people I know about French people telling them their French-language skills suck.

Which is hilarious considering how bad they are at languages. I mean they suck. They really really suck. They're so bad it hurts sometimes.

Worst part is, they're not even good at French. Terrible, in fact. They're butchering it on a daily basis.

What the fuck?

[Taco Bell Tower]

Not going to lie I would love for the staff to do something about the weird lesbophobia that this site keeps pumping.

Generalizing about (insert country and developers from country here)? Not cool.
Generalizing about lesbians and lesbian representation? Let me open the door for you.

Shouldn't it just be homophobia?

[Boredfrom]

Nintendo cherry picking which third parties get special treatment during the initial stage of the console launch would be good for the consumer in terms of us maybe getting more top quality products on the system, problem is we are getting close to nothing, or titles that frankly won't be system sellers (while leaving some that would out of the table too).



I get that they want their own games to be the focus of their console, but in the great year of 2025 you'd hope their mentality changed a bit. Not to mention, it doesn't even seem like they are sending out any dev kits out now, meaning this situation will likely stay the same for the next forseeable future. It's so odd.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/digitalfoundry-lots-of-developers-at-gamescom-said-they-arent-able-to-get-switch-2-dev-kits-nintendo-seems-to-be-almost-discouraging-s2-development.1279923/#post-144300138

"good for the consumer" 

Nintendies never fail to disappoint.

Hilarious given how hard they shilled the Swicth 1 as an indie machine. Now it doesn’t matter, fuck them.  

Hard to buy the "not enough resources to handle dev kits" chatter. They're Nintendo! They have so much cash!

It means “we don’t want to spend money”.

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-do-understand-french-but-i-refuse-to-speak-it.1278945/page-2#post-144303891

Oh, so this isn't an exclusive phenomenon to France then lol. I have heard many stories from people I know about French people telling them their French-language skills suck.

Which is hilarious considering how bad they are at languages. I mean they suck. They really really suck. They're so bad it hurts sometimes.

Worst part is, they're not even good at French. Terrible, in fact. They're butchering it on a daily basis.

What the fuck?

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[Hap Shaughnessy]

Not going to lie I would love for the staff to do something about the weird lesbophobia that this site keeps pumping.

Generalizing about (insert country and developers from country here)? Not cool.
Generalizing about lesbians and lesbian representation? Let me open the door for you.

Constructive thread?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-do-understand-french-but-i-refuse-to-speak-it.1278945/page-2#post-144305337

What the fuck...



This is a seriously fucked up thing to say.



I really dislike this :(



[very sensitive to English / French things as a bilingual Canadian, but still]







I've had good luck in France by just trying to imitate their accent as best as possible.



They notice me trying, and immediately switch to French with me, even though my French is very out of practice.



Never hate on people for wanting me to show some sort of observance of local culture, custom, and flavour, and it always seems to go well when I do.



Hilarity always ensues though when they try and figure out where I'm from [because I don't have a Quebec or NB / Acad
ien accent either lol].

Oh yes let's get that faux outrage started

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-the-witcher-4-has-romance-options-do-you-think-its-inevitable-that-there-will-be-at-least-one-female-option.1279401/page-4#post-144295020

Masterpiece of a reply right there. Reading your reply made getting through this lesbophobic thread worth it. God, the way this website treats lesbian relationships is so fucked. As a bisexual woman who frequents sapphic spaces, I can PROMISE y'all that straight men fucking hate lesbians. The amount of lesbophobia I hear about (or worse: have to witness) is fucking UNREAL! Just because they jack it to "lesbian" porn categories doesn't make them pro-lesbian. How do I know this? Because those same guys jack it to the "transexual" tabs as well! These chuds love jacking it to all types of woman, but you'll NEVER see a chud okay with confirmed trans girls and confirmed lesbians.



Why? Because fetishization DOES NOT EQUAL approval!!!

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-the-witcher-4-has-romance-options-do-you-think-its-inevitable-that-there-will-be-at-least-one-female-option.1279401/page-4#post-144300546

I'm sorry but I can not really reply to this when you have read my post and replied me this. It feels like I'm going in circles. I'm sorry. Again the same point, and the same point, and the same point, and the same point centering men in a conversation about lesbian characters and lesbian relationships. V is a playersexual character. Precisely because if I don't hit on anyone on W3 Geralt is not suddenly asexual, it doesn't mean that V, Kassandra or Aloy are lesbians. They are not. They are playersexual characters.



Ciri will be bisexual. And bisexual women who are into games will be happy. And the fact that maybe a stupid ass straight guy jerks off isn't the fault of Ciri being bisexual. It's the men's fault. Should I direct the conversation in regards to gay men with their presence on TV and fujoshis? How overwhelming the presence of BL content is in books, TV shows and movies all around the world while lesbian works get very little time and very little budget? Should I speak about Heartstopper? Is Heartstopper only for the fujoshis? Is it not really about gay teenagers? Is that the parallel line I should be writing about so that finally you guys get it? Are we going to keep on and on and on and on and on and on and on centering men men and more men when it comes to lesbianism on media? Because at no point has my post said "There should be no more representation of gay men in media". That was not the debate. That was not the point the quoted user was making.



Alright. I'm tired of speaking about this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-the-witcher-4-has-romance-options-do-you-think-its-inevitable-that-there-will-be-at-least-one-female-option.1279401/page-4#post-144294450

You know what, yeah. I'm going to ask for a ban soon so why not go all out. It's not the first time I post these exact points, but today has just been the day someone has ticked me off. First of all, you are not a lesbian, so I'd kindly ask you to keep the condescending tone down if you have any amount of actual respect for lesbians after what you have posted in this thread.







When you have a lesbian character, you cater to lesbians and bi people who are okay feeling represented by a lesbian character. Not straight men. Because she's a lesbian, and lesbian characters and people who define themselves as a lesbian are not just there for the existence of men, as you so kindly keep writing. In the case of Ciri, she's going to represent bi women, because she's a bi woman. She doesn't pander to male audiences.







LGBT inclusions are NOT concessions for straight male audiences. Whether straight male audiences enjoy the porn category described as Lesbian or Trans, our representation is not a concession for them. A gay guy on a fucking TV show is not a fucking concession to straight women who like gay fanfic: it's a fucking gay guy representing gay guys. A trans woman in a fucking videogame is not an appeal to goons who enjoy shacking their dick in their hand when they go to a porn site: it's a representation (hopefully good!) of a trans woman.





Have we? Let's do the list again, because again, I've already done this list so many times on this board that really seems to have a bone to pick with lesbians.



Lesbian characters in AAA games, with explicit confirmations that they are lesbian in the game, no playersexual characters:

Ellie, from The Last of Us (and The Last of Us II). It is explicitly shown in-game.

Sera, from Dragon Age: Inquisition. It is explicitly shown in-game.

I'm letting you think of more characters here.



Bi women characters in AAA games, with explicit confirmations that they are bi in the game, no playersexual characters:

Ciri, from The Witcher 3. It is explicitly shown in-game.

I'm letting you think of more characters here.









Isn't it a great thing to throw the "male-gaze" thing around when it comes to any scene with two women? Did you see the reactions to Ellie and Dina kissing in that trailer of TLOU II? Did you think that was male-gazey? Did you think the scene of Max and Chloe kissing in Life is Strange 1 was male-gazey? What about it called as something that was centered around how a straight man would look a woman? Was it the camera angles? What about in the letters of This Bed We Made, did any of their content feel to you like it was pandering to men? Does Liara T'Soni and Fem!Shep feel pandering to the male gaze to you?







Sure, it offends me. Because I am a lesbian. Because representation for any given minority doesn't mask anything else: it is and consists of representation of that minority. And I'm also refutting your points because I think you, and everyone else who has parroted this point of "Hey, sapphic women have a lot of representation on videogames" is actually just kind of lying anyway.



Snoop Dogg has just demonized sapphic representation on a movie.



Do you guys remember how straight men GOONED to the E3 2018 trailer of The Last of Us II when they showed Ellie and Dina dancing together? Because I don't. In fact what I remember was straight men hating the trailer. And it seems like I'm not too far off, because Hobbyconsolas did back in June 2018 a whole article about the disappointing reactions to the kiss. On IGN's post of the trailer back then you see some very nice comments about how they gooned off to them both. Adding some of them because according to you fetishization is representation (and not lesbophobia). Note that there's many of them that I can't add since it's been 8 years and they have been deleted for breaking terms of service, board rules, etc:







And I could go on and on but honestly I kind of just have enough homophobia crammed down my throat on this thread so I don't think I need to look for anything else anyway. I'd imagine the same kind of thing that happens in gaming happens on both TV and movies, since if there's something a straight man likes is a lesbian. Turns out GLAAD on their latest Where We Are on TV report for the 2023-2024 season says that in terms of overall queer gender representation gay men outnumber both lesbians and bi women both:





In their 2025 Studio Responsibility Index that looks at 250 movies from different 10 distributors that are released both theatrically and through streaming in 2024 gay men once again outnumber lesbians:







Note that they say "bisexual+ characters", without pointing at the gender in that category in specific.



You will likely, as many others keep doing here, keep pointing that straight men will feel pandered however I think it's pretty clear that they don't based on reactions to TLOU2 trailers (and the game itself), reactions to Life is Strange and the overall gamergatey attitude they have with AAA developers like Naughty Dog or Bioware. And even if those things hadn't happened, truth is, lesbian characters still do not pander to straight men. Straight men, entirely on their own, decide to fetishize lesbian and bisexual women. They do this by when you reveal you are in a relationship asking you whether you scissor or not, by masturbating to male-gazey lesbian porn (which does pander to them, and that is extremely different from all the cases that have been talked about in this thread) or by seeing lesbian relationships as a challenge in which a man isn't present and they need to insert themselves, which is an inherently rape fantasy.



This is once again, not something that happens with lesbian representation, because the lesbian representation is that: a character that happens to be a lesbian. That happens because of straight men and rape culture. It doesn't happen because Hey, Being A Lesbian Is Cool Now! Lesbophobia happens to be an intersectional type of hate, where the lesbian (or the perceived lesbian) is hated both by their condition of homosexual and also by the condition of being a not a man.



Straight men are NOT pandered by the existence of lesbian and bisexual women, and the data we have on lesbophobic violence shows it. SOS Homophobie recorded 268 cases of lesbophobic violence in France, quoting that "Sexualization always accompanies lesbophobic harassment". Switzerland reported around 150 cases of violence against women and 55 of them had specifically chosen to.



And it's posts like yours and from some other users here that honestly just kind of extend the myth of lesbian safety both in online spaces and ultimately in real life, because that's what representation is about.





Like for example this. Horizon has Aloy who is not even confirmed lesbian. Assassin's Creed most notable character is Ezio, whose romance with Sophia in Assassin's Creed Revelations takes a step forward in importance throughout the Act 2 and Act 3 of the game (having had previous a lover in Assassin's Creed 2), and where Kassandra and Eivor are both playersexual. The Last of Us has Ellie, which we have talked about, and same as Assassin's Creed, Cyberpunk is a game where you choose what you want to do, so you can be straight, as you would in Baldur's Gate 3.



All of these narratives that seem to be pushed because of the fact that Era is mostly men (including gay and bisexual men who can be misogynistic and lesbophobic) are ultimately just not true not just in the data, but in the experience of the queer women and non binary lesbians who end up playing games. And through that myth building we end up building other things, like for example the false notion that lesbians have more domestic violence cases in their relationships when the study that people always quote is about domestic violence victims perpetrated by men by bisexual women or lesbians who had not come out. So bit by bit, the myth builds, and we end up with false data, allegations, and just like in this thread, repeated sentences that no one has actually properly checked, but that justify the feeling of the straight heterosexual majority of this forum that enjoys having the chance of feeling oppressed. But it is likely that this post ends up as a worthless effort. It's not like ERA has ever taken this, or anything related to misogyny seriously.



Goodbye.

Goddamn that witcher 4 relationship thread got crazy