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

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Im always gonna be pissed at MGS3 because I beat it at like 2am on a work night and then it proceeds to have a 45 minute cutscene that I could barely stay awake for. I was just done at that point.

Similar situation when I picked up MGS4 at a midnight release and I proceed to stare at Snake smoking a cigarette for the next hour as it installed and then I fell asleep.

Cum

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/usatoday-republicans-in-congress-open-probe-into-wikipedia-for-alleged-bias.1283559/page-2#post-144445764

Should have been obvious to people that they don't like being censored themselves but they love censoring others.

dang whats with leftist transgender individuals with connections at google and streamers right-wing government trying to censor websites? Ugh..

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

exaggerated facial expressions and animation is deeply unsettling

I've long felt this way about Disney/Pixar style stuff. Very off-putting.

This k-pop stuff is a breath of fresh air by comparison.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

If you're a scientific savant, couldnt you study anything you want...?  Yet you pick logs of shit?  Ahh yes, I was the runner up for the Wolf Prize for my work on denatured proteins...now I'm going to apply it to this turd specimen that just came out of a butt.  But sir, we have learned all there is to know about human shit, surely we could use your expertise in other mat...
Silence...my calling is fat turds, Watson.  Fat, corn-laden turds.  Doodoo butter.  God gave me superior intelligence for a reason, and that reason is to figure out why farts and shit smell so alike.  there are confounding variables

I don't remember eating corn? This looks like a job for Dr. Nothing Loud!

*cue intro sequence (think Doctor Who but intestines instead of swirly time vortex)*

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Pixar ugly animation and shitty "stories". 

Beautiful Asian animation with beautiful people, a fun story, and catchy songs. 

Better learn from this cumskins.

[Uncle]

I don't partake in media from a culture where literally every girl's top desired gift is extensive facial surgery and their parents always oblige because you're rejected by society if you don't

what the fuck

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

sigh... that's capitalisms fault ok?

[simiansmarts]

I get why Kpop's character designs and animation is appealing to so many people. They aren't afraid to give the characters ugly looking expressions and it doesn't have that godawful beanmouth look that plagues every modern Pixar movie.

[benji]

Dr Poop lore drop:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-15#post-144442710

Naomi is the reason I became a bioengineer savant because I idolized her in metal gear solid 1 and I wanted to do and unlock things like what she was talking about with genetic engineering so I spent 20 years of my life dedicated to Bioengineering to do it.

"Savant" dedicated to bioengineering for "two decades" aka guy who spent 10 years in school for a 3.6 GPA and has worked a single job in his life:

[El Derpo]

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Dr Poop lore drop:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-15#post-144442710

Naomi is the reason I became a bioengineer savant because I idolized her in metal gear solid 1 and I wanted to do and unlock things like what she was talking about with genetic engineering so I spent 20 years of my life dedicated to Bioengineering to do it.

"Savant" dedicated to bioengineering for "two decades" aka guy who spent 10 years in school for a 3.6 GPA and has worked a single job in his life:

1. No actual savant calls themselves a savant
2. Biomedical engineering is a degree you can do if that’s really what you are dedicating your life to
3. A savant would be able to do better maths because 15 is not 20

Not a psychologist, but I can confidently say the dude is a classic narcissist

[Boredfrom]

I don't partake in media from a culture where literally every girl's top desired gift is extensive facial surgery and their parents always oblige because you're rejected by society if you don't

what the fuck

Burka thread is in ERA

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

The film is from the USA  

[Daffy Duck]

Messofangeo asking the tough questions 

How is the gender politics or satire on the album?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sabrina-carpenter-announces-7th-album-mans-best-friend-out-august-29-new-single-manchild-out-now.1215972/page-10#post-144449946

[El Derpo]

Messofangeo asking the tough questions 

How is the gender politics or satire on the album?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sabrina-carpenter-announces-7th-album-mans-best-friend-out-august-29-new-single-manchild-out-now.1215972/page-10#post-144449946

Gotta do the research if you want to fill the dossiers

[benji]

Not a psychologist, but I can confidently say the dude is a classic narcissist

FACT CHECK: It's the ex-husband that's the narcissist:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/an-update-on-my-life-thoughts-about-graduating-with-my-phd.849447/

Some may recall that sometime last year I posted I was getting a divorce. I've had a really devastating last 9 months...fast-forward to today: it was brutal, he's an absolutely evil narcissist and it took multiple mental health professionals, friends, and family to rescue me out of a narcissistic, coercive abuse cycle from my ex. The divorce is finally finalized, but it left me financially vulnerable in a way I've never been. I've needed some good news lately. I've been doing lots of therapy to deal with the fallout/trauma of the divorce with someone I trusted with my life for 7 years that turns out they were the very worst person I could have trusted. Now I need to get a job, fast, to pay for my expenses, as 5 years of graduate student wages and life have been suffocating here in Seattle.

Well I finally got the good news I needed recently.

- My first science publication got accepted to a top 1% medical journal. It was a 9-month revision process but it's finally over and accepted. It will be published in a couple of weeks. Just have to zip them my final files.
- I had a couple more seminars left to take for my computational molecular biology certificate and I talked to the program coordinating professor and they counted some of my other credits for the seminar so I don't have anything left to take. I just got the certificate.
- I explained my circumstances to my own program coordinator and she counted another course I took as sufficient to get my the data science title on my PhD, so that worked out as well without me having to take more quarters.
- All this cleared me for getting ready for graduation.
- So I'm done with all my degree requirements.
- With all that solidified, the last thing left to do was to talk to my boss on if he was going to let me graduate this summer like I expected. I was really nervous about it but he said since I published now that I'm free to go. I'm working on a second paper and a co-authorship but I can finish that in tandem with my the rest of my life plans and graduating. It went well.
- I've registered for graduation now and scheduled my dissertation defense. It's really happening.
- I talked to a headhunter who scouted me for a position I already applied for and it looks like I'm a really good candidate, I'm hoping I can get a job offer asap. Looking for positions in Seattle currently.

Why did I write all this? Because I've been silent, on social media (because I'm paranoid about my ex snooping about my life through reconnaissance with our mutual friends), and hermited almost (my ex-spouse's abuse on my triggered an agoraphobia I've never dealt with in life before), about my life for about 9 months now but it's truly been a living hell. I needed to write out that things are turning around for me. And take a moment to acknowledge myself...I've survived a lot. I thought I wouldn't get to graduate at all. I had mused about suicide plans or just quitting everything and running away. I had been so emotionally betrayed by the divorce that I thought the daily sobbing and wailing was going to consume me forever. I thought I was going to die from the devastation of my divorce. It's the hardest thing I've ever experienced, like cutting off half my body to save the other half. I honestly did not think I would make it this far. I was very sick in December, like deathly ill literally, from recovery from weed addiction/withdrawal plus torment and abuse from my ex-spouse on his way out of my life. I had basically given up on everything. I was about to lose my home, my previous life, and I had no money and had to take on 99% of the marital debts despite me making 1/3 of his income because he refused to do an inexpensive, uncontested divorce with me unless I did so...just a lot of stress and tragedy. Alongside my family getting sick, stepfather getting dementia (the third person I've cared for with dementia that dies/will die soon of these symptoms...) and they're far away while I've been recovering in Seattle. It's been a challenging road. All while I've had to finish my PhD work or I wouldn't graduate.

Well now it's happening. I'm graduating, I'm getting that PhD, and I'll be eligible for a high-paying job soon that will rescue me from this devastating blow my ex-spouse did to my life. And hopefully I'll get to keep my house. It's exciting but I'm not used to good news in my life so part of me is anxious/doesn't believe that this is real. But I'm trying to settle into the reality that it is.

When I took care of my Colombian grandmother with dementia before she died, she used to call me her "doctor", as if to speak into existence a reality that wasn't yet so. Because I was the only grandson that cared for her and visited her, and she only had a 4th grade education, so she used to think so highly of me she would call me "Doctor".

Now I'm registered for hooding ceremonies in June and the excitement is building up. Grandma died a couple of years ago, but I dedicate my dissertation to her and my graduation to her, since I wouldn't be here without her sacrifices in her life. My dissertation defense is scheduled for mid-August and I'm looking for jobs now!

Just remember that even during the worst times, if you just survive one more day at a time, just linger one day longer in this world, each day, bad memories will fade and good opportunities will come your way, little by little, more and more each day. It's worth sticking around and seeing what life can offer you if you just survive one day, each day at a time.

And thank you to Era. If it wasn't for being able to log on and read and participate in the daily activities of this forum, the Retro Portables thread, emulation threads, occasional news threads, etc. I wouldn't have a healthy distraction from my life and I wouldn't have had nearly as much enriching conversation in my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Era, for providing me a space to be me and to talk with you guys during a terrible year for myself.

It feels like I'm dreaming, but I keep waking up and it's all still there, still real.

because I have all the comorbid mental diagnoses you can get (ADHD, C-PTSD, OCD, GAD, MDD, thanks genetics and trauma) and it's hard to keep them at bay. But doing that will only worsen the situation and take time from me applying to jobs. But now my health insurance runs out in 2 weeks. I have no backup plans. I simply didn't find a job in the timeframe I hoped I would, because I was so busy in court and in school, and now I don't know what to do. I have a big mortgage for this house I just fought 1 year in court to keep, and I ironically may have to move out and be homeless, with a PhD, if I don't find a W2 within like a month. I'm scared, discouraged, and the suicidal ideation is beckoning again. What a life. It's been a year since my truamatic divorce with a complete abusive narcissist who nearly made me lose my home, then I got to keep it, now I might lose it again. My family sold their house to move here to help me survive with the bills, but seattle is just not making it possible, so all 3 of us might be homeless soon. My life has been nothing but turmoil ever since I fled Colombia in a helicopter when I was an infant. I'm so discouraged from even going on anymore. This forum is all I have these days. I'm too depressed to be with friends, I'm too triggered living with my parents at 33 and all 3 of us getting at risk of homelessness, and I'm too poor to do anything fun or of meaning. Creditors calling me from 8AM every single day. Bills I have no hope of paying. My accounts are overdrafted and empty. Every job I apply to feels like "why bother submitting all these materials and cover letters...they're just going to find someone else with a PhD with better experience than me" in this city full of techbros and nerds. My ex really screwed my life up and probably permanently tanked my sense of self-esteem and my mental health. I just had to vent and didn't know how else to do so...thanks for listening. :(

[Daffy Duck]

Looking at the two music videos in this thread, you'll see both paint the modem manosphere as incompetent, infantilizing, unattractive losers. While I'm not into the country twang or disco revival sounds, the message should be played around the clock, as far as I'm concerned.

[Boredfrom]

I really fell sorry for Nothing Loud’s ex. Imagine dealing with him for years just to end with him cursing you for not enabling his bullshit anymore.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

imagine listening to white girl music. 

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-42#post-144445035

Gavin Newsom shocks LGBTQ allies with criticism of transgender athletes

I'm well aware of this and I still support the guy. Everyone here who even casually glances at political threads is aware of it. But I'm gonna be straight with you, this shaming shit isn't gonna work with me. "Oh so you like X, that means you support Y"… that 0 or 100 mentality is just not how real life works, and it's not how you win an election.

Whether it's Newsom or someone else, whoever brings this kinda energy to the table is who I'm gonna support. Frankly it's so far away it's silly to even think about right now but I'm happy someone's stepping up and putting in a little early groundwork.

Embiid is going to be permabanned sooner or later.

Dr Poop lore drop:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-15#post-144442710

I am happy to tell you that metal gear solid delta/3's story is among the best self-enclosed stories in video games like I put it up there with the last of us and such. Metal gear solid changed and affected me. Naomi is the reason I became a bioengineer savant because I idolized her in metal gear solid 1 and I wanted to do and unlock things like what she was talking about with genetic engineering so I spent 20 years of my life dedicated to Bioengineering to do it. And here I am playing in VR it's wild and come full circle because the game I love even more than that is metal gear solid 3/delta. I'm so excited to play through this in VR

Such a savant he couldn't get a job when he graduated.

[Daffy Duck]

Given it three spins so far and just not vibing with it. I hope it grows on me. The lyrics are the biggest barrier at the moment.

They….they’ve listened to it three times already?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

it's okay to not like an album. 

[Averon]

Messofangeo asking the tough questions 

How is the gender politics or satire on the album?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sabrina-carpenter-announces-7th-album-mans-best-friend-out-august-29-new-single-manchild-out-now.1215972/page-10#post-144449946

Gotta do the research if you want to fill the dossiers

Speaking of dossiers, Messy finally getting a slap on the wrist for pulling out his:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/polygon-the-gaming-industry-deserved-more-lead-time-before-silksong.1282719/page-25#post-144449841

[Taco Bell Tower]

[Potato]

Im always gonna be pissed at MGS3 because I beat it at like 2am on a work night and then it proceeds to have a 45 minute cutscene that I could barely stay awake for. I was just done at that point.

Similar situation when I picked up MGS4 at a midnight release and I proceed to stare at Snake smoking a cigarette for the next hour as it installed and then I fell asleep.

Cum

Playing Kojima games should be classed as self harm.

[Potato]

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Dr Poop lore drop:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-15#post-144442710

I am happy to tell you that metal gear solid delta/3's story is among the best self-enclosed stories in video games like I put it up there with the last of us and such. Metal gear solid changed and affected me. Naomi is the reason I became a bioengineer savant because I idolized her in metal gear solid 1 and I wanted to do and unlock things like what she was talking about with genetic engineering so I spent 20 years of my life dedicated to Bioengineering to do it. And here I am playing in VR it's wild and come full circle because the game I love even more than that is metal gear solid 3/delta. I'm so excited to play through this in VR

A double faced person that nobody is sure with side she is on until she dies? And ends fucking an insecure manchild while traumatizing for life… again.

I don't know what's worse...your encyclopaedic knowledge of paedo anime or your knowledge of Kojima games. 

[HaughtyFrank]

Dr Poop lore drop:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-15#post-144442710

I am happy to tell you that metal gear solid delta/3's story is among the best self-enclosed stories in video games like I put it up there with the last of us and such. Metal gear solid changed and affected me. Naomi is the reason I became a bioengineer savant because I idolized her in metal gear solid 1 and I wanted to do and unlock things like what she was talking about with genetic engineering so I spent 20 years of my life dedicated to Bioengineering to do it. And here I am playing in VR it's wild and come full circle because the game I love even more than that is metal gear solid 3/delta. I'm so excited to play through this in VR

If you're a scientific savant, couldnt you study anything you want...?  Yet you pick logs of shit?  Ahh yes, I was the runner up for the Wolf Prize for my work on denatured proteins...now I'm going to apply it to this turd specimen that just came out of a butt.  But sir, we have learned all there is to know about human shit, surely we could use your expertise in other mat...
Silence...my calling is fat turds, Watson.  Fat, corn-laden turds.  Doodoo butter.  God gave me superior intelligence for a reason, and that reason is to figure out why farts and shit smell so alike.  there are confounding variables

Life is mysterious. There's people going through medical school right now and deciding that they want to work on peoples buttholes for the rest of their life.

[HaughtyFrank]

Messofangeo asking the tough questions 

How is the gender politics or satire on the album?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sabrina-carpenter-announces-7th-album-mans-best-friend-out-august-29-new-single-manchild-out-now.1215972/page-10#post-144449946

I forgot that they got mad over the album cover

[Jansen]

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Dr Poop lore drop:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-15#post-144442710

"Savant" dedicated to bioengineering for "two decades" aka guy who spent 10 years in school for a 3.6 GPA and has worked a single job in his life:

1. No actual savant calls themselves a savant
2. Biomedical engineering is a degree you can do if that’s really what you are dedicating your life to
3. A savant would be able to do better maths because 15 is not 20

Not a psychologist, but I can confidently say the dude is a classic narcissist

 I'm sure they meant idiot savant

[Snoopy]

Okay but what are you wanting me to do here? I am a lesbian and I'm talking about a game I wish exited and I could make, I want more wlw and lesbian media, I'm not sure how I can write about that without mentioning lesbians?

All it needs is one brave soul to say the thing and shut this fucking idiot up.

It's been mentioned before that men identifying as trans lesbians is a way for them to transition from being looked down on for their sexual interests / perversions, to being praised for those exact same desires (see: era user Lady Dimitrescu). 

"I wish I was a lesbian..." = "You're a man, lesbians have no interest in you, stop being such a pervert." = keeping your desires limited to the porn you watch in secret.

"I am a lesbian!" = "You're so brave! You should be celebrated!" = making your desires public and anyone who objects is just a bigot.

It's why you have wives that are initially supportive of their husbands, only to end things when the husbands previously unknown sexual desires are now something she needs to celebrate and take part in (see: era user Lady Dimitrescu).

I think that Echoes probably is averse to sex in some way (anything more than cuddling is gross/shameful) for whatever reason, so he thinks how he communicates his attraction to women is somehow above reproach.

Echoes is a great example of how far gone the moderation on that place is. Everyone on there knows he's not a lesbian, but they're so entrenched in their culture war bullshit they would rather enable him than call him out

[Uncle]

Dr Poop lore drop:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-15#post-144442710

If you're a scientific savant, couldnt you study anything you want...?  Yet you pick logs of shit?  Ahh yes, I was the runner up for the Wolf Prize for my work on denatured proteins...now I'm going to apply it to this turd specimen that just came out of a butt.  But sir, we have learned all there is to know about human shit, surely we could use your expertise in other mat...
Silence...my calling is fat turds, Watson.  Fat, corn-laden turds.  Doodoo butter.  God gave me superior intelligence for a reason, and that reason is to figure out why farts and shit smell so alike.  there are confounding variables

Life is mysterious. There's people going through medical school right now and deciding that they want to work on peoples buttholes for the rest of their life.

[Propagandhim]

Dr Poop lore drop:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metal-gear-solid-%CE%94-snake-eater-ot-ive-given-you-weapons.1280244/page-15#post-144442710

If you're a scientific savant, couldnt you study anything you want...?  Yet you pick logs of shit?  Ahh yes, I was the runner up for the Wolf Prize for my work on denatured proteins...now I'm going to apply it to this turd specimen that just came out of a butt.  But sir, we have learned all there is to know about human shit, surely we could use your expertise in other mat...
Silence...my calling is fat turds, Watson.  Fat, corn-laden turds.  Doodoo butter.  God gave me superior intelligence for a reason, and that reason is to figure out why farts and shit smell so alike.  there are confounding variables

Life is mysterious. There's people going through medical school right now and deciding that they want to work on peoples buttholes for the rest of their life.

For sure, I'm just kidding.  3.7 chemical engineering at a pretty good school like A&M is good, too!  He'd be a pretty interesting guy if he wasn't such a conceited, narcissistic goof.