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

[BIONIC]

I'd probably argue that the only interesting woman character, and one of the only interesting characters at all, in the first two Borderlands is Patricia Tannis.

Not only playing Borderlands, but liking it enough to remember the cardboard cutout characters.

Common benji L, folx

[Taco Bell Tower]

I've told you before but it's not Jeff guys. I know you want it to be but he wouldn't post under a fake name. He's also a lot better at choosing his targets than this schlub.

Not to mention he hasn't said the Zeo famous lines too

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-10#post-144382674

I just walked to my local Safeway shopped and bagged and checked out while streaming from my iPhone hotspot Apollo on my Odin 2 Portal in my satchel (shoutout to CRKD Switch carrying case satchel). The Odin 2 Portal's Apollo is streaming 5G from my phone hotspot back to my gaming pc (9800x3D, RTX 5090, 96GB DDR5 6600 MHz RAM) where I have Delta loaded, and I plug in my Viture XR glasses into my Odin 2 Portal in my satchel and I basically played this game while shopping at Safeway. The future is here. I have no performance issues but then again my setup is beast.

bucca

my brain hurt reading this

[benji]

I'd probably argue that the only interesting woman character, and one of the only interesting characters at all, in the first two Borderlands is Patricia Tannis.

Not only playing Borderlands, but liking it enough to remember the cardboard cutout characters.

Common benji L, folx

First of all, FACT CHECK: me liking something has nothing to do with whether or not I remember it. Literally eugenics to suggest otherwise about me.

Second of all, that's my point, she's pretty much one of the only actual characters in the first two games. This dude is trying to turn the handful of lines Moxxi has into some kind of polyqueerwitchgoofball representation or something.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/page-3#post-144384753

 User threadbanned pending further review: Unsourced drive by in a sensitive thread

The alleged shooter is trans apparently, and the right wing grifters on X have already started with the hate and fear mongering.

Edit:

 User banned (Permanent): Drive-by posting unsourced information in a sensitive thread, account in junior phase

[BIONIC]

I'd probably argue that the only interesting woman character, and one of the only interesting characters at all, in the first two Borderlands is Patricia Tannis.

Not only playing Borderlands, but liking it enough to remember the cardboard cutout characters.

Common benji L, folx

First of all, FACT CHECK: me liking something has nothing to do with whether or not I remember it. Literally eugenics to suggest otherwise about me.

Second of all, that's my point, she's pretty much one of the only actual characters in the first two games. This dude is trying to turn the handful of lines Moxxi has into some kind of polyqueerwitchgoofball representation or something.

L + Ratio +

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cum

[benji]

Getting out from under your mountain of debt.

Playing Metal Gear Solid at the grocery store while wearing VR glasses.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-10#post-144382674

I just walked to my local Safeway shopped and bagged and checked out while streaming from my iPhone hotspot Apollo on my Odin 2 Portal in my satchel (shoutout to CRKD Switch carrying case satchel). The Odin 2 Portal's Apollo is streaming 5G from my phone hotspot back to my gaming pc (9800x3D, RTX 5090, 96GB DDR5 6600 MHz RAM) where I have Delta loaded, and I plug in my Viture XR glasses into my Odin 2 Portal in my satchel and I basically played this game while shopping at Safeway. The future is here. I have no performance issues but then again my setup is beast.

Did google search on these:
Apollo hotspot: ~$1000+
Odin 2 Portal: $330
Virtue XR glasses: At least $300, likely the $400+ models.
PC: has to be at least $4000 right?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-10#post-144382674

I just walked to my local Safeway shopped and bagged and checked out while streaming from my iPhone hotspot Apollo on my Odin 2 Portal in my satchel (shoutout to CRKD Switch carrying case satchel). The Odin 2 Portal's Apollo is streaming 5G from my phone hotspot back to my gaming pc (9800x3D, RTX 5090, 96GB DDR5 6600 MHz RAM) where I have Delta loaded, and I plug in my Viture XR glasses into my Odin 2 Portal in my satchel and I basically played this game while shopping at Safeway. The future is here. I have no performance issues but then again my setup is beast.

Did google search on these:
Apollo hotspot: ~$1000+
Odin 2 Portal: $330
Virtue XR glasses: At least $300, likely the $400+ models.
PC: has to be at least $4000 right?

Benji being against basic human decency and trans joy as always

[benji]

Oh, I forgot he's no longer employed even, liberated from that capitalist grind:

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/page-3#post-144384753

 User threadbanned pending further review: Unsourced drive by in a sensitive thread

The alleged shooter is trans apparently, and the right wing grifters on X have already started with the hate and fear mongering.

Edit:

 User banned (Permanent): Drive-by posting unsourced information in a sensitive thread, account in junior phase

as expected, details about this person are being scrubbed all across the internet

they had posted a bunch of crazy videos on youtube including a recording of their manifesto notebook and their channel was just wiped, but certain people online archived it

a lot of the manifesto seemed written in russian or ukrainian or something

the book's cover, at the start of the video:

[benji]

Authorities ask for accounts to get shut down on the grounds that it will stop copycats.

My expectations of a trans person would be purely the trans flag, not the progress flag in general.

[Ethan]

Nothing showcases the crazy american culture war more than the minutes/hours following a school shooting, when you can sense Internet warriors from both sides brimming with excitement in anticipation of the identification of the shooter, hoping they'll be the ones who'll get to unleash their talking points onto the world.

[benji]

Nothing showcases the crazy american culture war more than the minutes/hours following a school shooting, when you can sense Internet warriors from both sides brimming with excitement in anticipation of the identification of the shooter, hoping they'll be the ones who'll get to unleash their talking points onto the world.

My first permaban from GAF was for not doing this.  

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My second permaban was for tagging Evilore in a post as a joke.  

[Potato]

I've told you before but it's not Jeff guys. I know you want it to be but he wouldn't post under a fake name. He's also a lot better at choosing his targets than this schlub.

Not to mention he hasn't said the Zeo famous lines too

I'm thinking it's that fuckwit Hecht. He has the same "I'm the smartest retard in the special school" energy.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/page-4#post-144387231

Columbine was a genie that can never be put back into the bottle.

People know that if they do this, their names will be known and their stories will be told, and for desperate, and broken people who feel abandoned and invisible that can obviously be all too appealing. These kids and young adults used to leave the world barely noticed, with little more than an obituary in a local newspaper.

Now they go out leaving sizable scars on society. Filling newspapers with headlines. Fueling the culture wars that drove them to desperation in the first place. Making the world *worse* for the people they leave behind. Be it parents scared to leave their kids at school, or trans people scared of what new horrors they'll have to withstand in the wake of this.

Oh, also, *ban the lethal tools that facilitate this*.

[HaughtyFrank]

Wild to be in a fascist hellscape where military is all over the place...and yet this shit keeps happening at the same time.

It's not "yet", it's "as a result"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/post-144377448

At the risk of saying something controversial, but I don't think school shootings are a result of fascism

[benji]

Era posters leaving money on the table:

In a private group chat in June, dozens of Democratic political influencers discussed whether to take advantage of an enticing opportunity. They were being offered $8,000 per month to take part in a secretive program aimed at bolstering Democratic messaging on the internet.

But the contract sent to them from Chorus, the nonprofit arm of a liberal influencer marketing platform, came with some strings. Among other issues, it mandated extensive secrecy about disclosing their payments and had restrictions on what sort of political content the creators could produce.

In their group chat, influencers debated the details.

“Should we send a joint email (with all of our email addresses) … or, are we just going to send things separately and hope they change everything for everyone?” Laurenzo, a nonbinary creator in Columbus, Ohio, with over 884,000 TikTok followers, asked the group. Some joked about collective bargaining. “Any Newsies fans here?” Eliza Orlins, a public defender and reality TV star known for her appearances on Survivor, posted in the group. “‘We’re a union just by sayin’ so!’”

The influencers in the chat collectively had at least 13 million followers across social platforms. They represented some of the most well-known voices online posting in support of Democrats, and they’re key to wherever the party moves next. But ultimately, the group didn’t make much progress.

“Reading through this revised Chorus contract like: you win some, you lose some,” a reproductive justice influencer named Pari, who posts under the handle @womeninamerica, responded later in the thread. “I also think there’s at least 4 other things that should change 🤣but the vibe I got from their email was that there would be minimal, if any, changes.” (Laurenzo, Orlins, and Pari did not reply to requests for comment.)

“I don’t feel strongly about pushing tbh,” Aaron Parnas, a Gen Z news influencer who has been called the Gen Z Walter Cronkite and has been lauded in legacy media outlets, posted to the chat. “They aren’t going to modify it anymore. Seems like a take it or leave it.” (Parnas declined to comment.)

“I believe we are in Stage 5: Acceptance,” Pari responded. Creators began signing on to the deal.

Now, Democrats hope that the secretive Chorus Creator Incubator Program, funded by a powerful liberal dark money group called The Sixteen Thirty Fund, might tip the scales. The program kicked off last month, and creators involved were told by Chorus that over 90 influencers were set to take part. Creators told WIRED that the contract stipulated they’d be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the program. Some creators also raised concerns about a slew of restrictive clauses in the contract.

Influencers included in communication about the program, and in some cases an onboarding session for those receiving payments from The Sixteen Thirty Fund, include Olivia Julianna, the centrist Gen Z influencer who spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention; Loren Piretra, a former Playboy executive turned political influencer who hosts a podcast for Occupy Democrats; Barrett Adair, a content creator who runs an American Girl Doll–themed pro-DNC meme account; Suzanne Lambert, who has called herself a “Regina George liberal;” Arielle Fodor, an education creator with 1.4 million followers on TikTok; Sander Jennings, a former TLC reality star and older brother of trans influencer Jazz Jennings; David Pakman, who hosts an independent progressive show on YouTube covering news and politics; Leigh McGowan, who goes by the online moniker “Politics Girl”; and dozens of others. (The first two declined to comment; the rest did not respond to requests for comment.)

According to copies of the contract viewed by WIRED that creators signed, the influencers are not allowed to disclose their relationship with Chorus or The Sixteen Thirty Fund—or functionally, that they’re being paid at all.

The Sixteen Thirty Fund has emerged as a powerful funder in Democratic spaces in recent years. Its website notes that issues supported by the organization include economic equity, affordable health care, climate solutions, racial justice, voter access, and other “essential social-change goals.” The organization was founded in 2009 as a liberal response to conservative dark money groups and organizations like the Koch network, and under Trump it has soared.

In 2018, The Sixteen Thirty Fund provided $141 million to more than 100 left-leaning causes in order to bolster Democratic support during the midterms, according to a tax filing obtained by Politico. In 2020, the fund distributed more than $400 million, according to the organization’s public tax filing, which Politico said was used in “efforts to unseat then-president Donald Trump and Republicans’ Senate majority.” In 2022, The Sixteen Thirty Fund spent $196 million backing state ballot measures on abortion rights heading into the midterms, according to NBC. Just four donors accounted for close to two-thirds of the fund’s revenue in 2023, according to its tax filing. The largest donor gave the group $50.5 million, with others donating $31.4 million, $21.8 million, and $13.6 million.

Chorus, which is described in contracts reviewed by WIRED as a “project of” The Sixteen Thirty Fund that handles operations for the creator program, launched in November 2024 as a nonprofit arm of Good Influence, a for-profit influencer marketing agency aimed at helping content creators connect with social-good campaigns. Good Influence was founded in October 2020 by Stuart Perelmuter, the former communications director for representative John Yarmuth of Kentucky. Seeing an opportunity after Kamala Harris’ loss last November, Perelmuter cofounded Chorus with Democratic influencer Brian Tyler Cohen, who has over 4.6 million subscribers on YouTube and leads messaging check-ins for the creator cohort on “rapid response days.” According to records reviewed by WIRED, Chorus claims that its initial creator cohort has a collective audience of more than 40 million followers with more than 100 million weekly viewers and that the organization has “hundreds of creators signed up” and “ready to amplify” messaging.

“I’ve spent most of my career researching right-wing media and sounding the alarms about the collapse of our old information environment,” Ellie Langford, the director of programming at Chorus, said on a Zoom call with dozens of creators in June. “Our political systems haven’t been able to figure out a real solution, and I’ve been really excited to see you all treading the path forward. I deeply, deeply believe that the work you all are doing is what’s going to make the difference in supporting and frankly resuscitating our democracy.”

Already, creators in the program are creating content together. In a new weekly series titled “Good News in Politics,” six creators in the program shared a collaborative video running through political wins. “Follow these creators bringing you hope instead of doomscrolling: @sander_jennings, @eorlins, @jesscraven101, @tono.latino, @gemma_talks, @thezactivist,” they posted.

[Uncle]

Authorities ask for accounts to get shut down on the grounds that it will stop copycats.

My expectations of a trans person would be purely the trans flag, not the progress flag in general.

there's not really any way to know for certain unless it says so somewhere in the manifesto, or statements from friends/family, all there is to go on at the moment is the content of the videos, this is probably why people are running with that assumption



either they were legitimately insane, or larping as the joker ironically in a skibidi rizz zoomer way, they wrote memes all over their weaponry and also stuff like "death to israel" and the worst thing was "for the kids" on a mag

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/page-4#post-144387231

Columbine was a genie that can never be put back into the bottle.

People know that if they do this, their names will be known and their stories will be told, and for desperate, and broken people who feel abandoned and invisible that can obviously be all too appealing. These kids and young adults used to leave the world barely noticed, with little more than an obituary in a local newspaper.

This is obviously completely untrue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_California_State_University,_Fullerton_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(San_Diego)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Street_Massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Wilkes-Barre_shootings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_post_office_shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_shooting

These and more were all national stories.

[Propagandhim]

The University of Texas Tower shooting was particularly interesting.  Guy had a brain tumor that drastically altered his personality and made him want to kill, but he was still well enough to haul a cache of weapons up 28 flights of stairs and fired with professional accuracy.  Perverse story.

[Boredfrom]

Authorities ask for accounts to get shut down on the grounds that it will stop copycats.

My expectations of a trans person would be purely the trans flag, not the progress flag in general.

there's not really any way to know for certain unless it says so somewhere in the manifesto, or statements from friends/family, all there is to go on at the moment is the content of the videos, this is probably why people are running with that assumption



either they were legitimately insane, or larping as the joker ironically in a skibidi rizz zoomer way, they wrote memes all over their weaponry and also stuff like "death to israel" and the worst thing was "for the kids" on a mag

Looks like Carrot Top.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I've told you before but it's not Jeff guys. I know you want it to be but he wouldn't post under a fake name. He's also a lot better at choosing his targets than this schlub.

Not to mention he hasn't said the Zeo famous lines too

I'm thinking it's that fuckwit Hecht. He has the same "I'm the smartest retard in the special school" energy.

Fuck, that never came into mind 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/#post-144378663

So fucking dumb. Was busy writing a whole rant about how you can have like 2 trans athletes and get a whole minority banned. Yet weekly shootings at kids is not enough to ban or change the way they are per cured.

But it's just fucking dumb. I'm so tired

[Uncle]

you can't post setups for zingers on mass shooters, that's really irresponsible and I refuse to take part, someone else will have to

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/page-4#post-144387231

Columbine was a genie that can never be put back into the bottle.

People know that if they do this, their names will be known and their stories will be told, and for desperate, and broken people who feel abandoned and invisible that can obviously be all too appealing. These kids and young adults used to leave the world barely noticed, with little more than an obituary in a local newspaper.

Now they go out leaving sizable scars on society. Filling newspapers with headlines. Fueling the culture wars that drove them to desperation in the first place. Making the world *worse* for the people they leave behind.

I want to focus on this as another thing he said without any evidence.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/#post-144378780

FFS!
Just saw this too. We are being scammed as a nation

View this post on Instagram

Guess that user missed #satire

[cRumB]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/august-27-2025-school-shooting-in-minneapolis.1281897/page-3#post-144384753

 User threadbanned pending further review: Unsourced drive by in a sensitive thread

The alleged shooter is trans apparently, and the right wing grifters on X have already started with the hate and fear mongering.

Edit:

 User banned (Permanent): Drive-by posting unsourced information in a sensitive thread, account in junior phase

Soooooo back to pending?

[Boredfrom]

you can't post setups for zingers on mass shooters, that's really irresponsible and I refuse to take part,   someone else will have to

[benji]

Another chud fascist in the finding out stage:

[Uncle]

a slurchant