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

[Taco Bell Tower]

I still remember Dr. Nothing cried on Ree how some foreign 18 or 19 he tried to hook up with called hiim a weeb 

[benji]

I still remember Dr. Nothing cried on Ree how some foreign 18 or 19 he tried to hook up with called hiim a weeb 

From 2022: https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-got-insulted-by-a-college-student-for-liking-ghibli-miyazaki-movies%E2%80%A6.594615/

Lol I'm kind of dumbfounded.

This guy on Grindr just moved here from Princeton for a summer internship in Big Tech. He's a 21 year old software engineering student that is from Rwanda. He didn't seem Ivy League smug or anything so I've been chatting with him on Grindr and he became obsessed with messaging me throughout this week, checking in on me "how's your day", "what are you up to", "can we hang out this weekend" etc

So then he asks me what I'm doing on Friday and I tell him I'm watching Ghibli movies, ie Princess Mononoke. He asks me what that is and I have to explain to him that they're famous animated movies often done by Hayao Miyazaki. He asks for an example and I'm like I told you, Princess Mononoke. He then says "oh…like anime movies?" To which I confirm yes. Then he tells me "Oh well this conversation wasn't bad so far, but now I've got to be an adult lol"

Lol excuse me? I was so taken aback. Do people in 2022 really still look down on others for liking "anime movies" let alone fucking award winning Miyazaki movies? The nerve of this kid condescending me. Like you're not impressive Mr Princeton. Everyone in this city is a software engineer at big tech and to come after me at 21 years old when I'm a rising 4th year phd student in computational biology and tell me you can't enjoy "anime movies" because you have to be an adult. I just can't lmfao. Blocked him on everything.

Does anyone still harass or shame you for liking nerdy things? I'm 31 and I'm like dumbfounded that a college kid had the ego and nerve to say that to me. I hope I wasn't that kind of trash when I was 21. Have you ever experienced someone trashing you for liking Miyazaki or "anime films" or anything else nerdy?

[simiansmarts]

This guy sounds like an insufferable narcissistic fag and I’m not talking about his sexuality

[Greatness Gone]

i liked when he got lipo and posted the photos on ree

[Bootsthecat]

The "ban Microsoft" non-stop hammering is annoying the normie gamers as of late, eh?

I couldn't care less if there was no gaming forum tbh, but the pushback on insanity of the self/everything-haters is hilarious today. I wonder what, if anything, will come of this. Hopefully something dumb n funny

[Kyon1988]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nearly-a-third-of-female-gamers-feel-guilty-about-their-hobby-%E2%80%93-new-study-uk.1284192/#post-144467667
NepNep

I play games far less than I used to in my youth, and what time I do spend now is limited to focus on other things in life. Every round of Overwatch after like the fifth one is spent going "You could be making art right now." I don't mind the guilty voice winning out.

I will also say that I don't consider myself a hardcore gamer, both out of a lack of investment in the hobby and also general embarrassment and moral reservations with the culture.

So why is someone like this administrator of a gaming forum?

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nearly-a-third-of-female-gamers-feel-guilty-about-their-hobby-%E2%80%93-new-study-uk.1284192/#post-144467667
NepNep

I play games far less than I used to in my youth, and what time I do spend now is limited to focus on other things in life. Every round of Overwatch after like the fifth one is spent going "You could be making art right now." I don't mind the guilty voice winning out.

I will also say that I don't consider myself a hardcore gamer, both out of a lack of investment in the hobby and also general embarrassment and moral reservations with the culture.

So why is someone like this administrator of a gaming forum?

To meet a quota

[Potato]

It's one of those aspect of media that I always feel is very unfair, that comedy writers often get less respected, less accolades or treated less seriously as writers because of their genre of choice; same with comedy actors who feel the need to perform in serious films to be considered a real/serious/good actors in the eyes of their peers/press/audiences. That being in a comedy is lesser to being in drama.

And to me, in some ways that should be the other way round because comedy is WAY harder to write then drama. This was something I really began to appreciate when I was in University doing a Film and TV BA and MA (and reappreciating again writing my novel), something funny in your head can fall flat when typed out on a script, or is funny on script but then fails when acted out for one reason or another. Comedy is far more subjective then tragedy in my experience, it's way easier to make a crowd cry then it is to make them all laugh. Comedy writers deserve more respect.

That is not to say writing drama is easy either, you can easily fall into a trap of being over dramatic or it falls into being unintentionally funny territory; just in my mind, comedy is much harder to pull off well, especially to a wide audience because I feel their are so many more factors that can make a joke fail; including the fact that a lot of comedy can become easily dated due to references becoming forgotten to new audiences, sarcasm missed, overuse of a joke (either by the work or the fandom) or people forgetting a work was intended to be a joke in the first place for very old works.

New echoes of wlw lore just dropped. Maybe they should team up with PlaSma on a show.

[HaughtyFrank]

The "ban Microsoft" non-stop hammering is annoying the normie gamers as of late, eh?

I couldn't care less if there was no gaming forum tbh, but the pushback on insanity of the self/everything-haters is hilarious today. I wonder what, if anything, will come of this. Hopefully something dumb n funny

With Resetera these kind of protests against games rarely feels sincere. What I see instead are people being given permission to be assholes and happily taking it. It was the same with cyberpunk and Harry Potter and whatever other game they declared to be the end of the world

[Potato]

How can so many people have no self-awareness whatsoever

It should say “Computer games are my passion”. Or alternatively “Computer gaming is my passion”.    

Depends how you read it. For example:

"[Making] computer games is my passion."

[Jansen]

So, I just started Persona 5 (yeah, I'm late to the game) because I was craving some old school turn based rpg and pretty much every review gives the game praise. I never played a Persona or Shin Megami Tensei game before, so it's all new to me. The gameplay is pretty fine and I'm enjoying, the art is gorgeous and the story...well, I'm just in the beginning, trying to take down the first palace, but I understand some of the delicate themes (it would be better if the characters were in an University, but it's Japan, I guess.) and I can endure some of the anime tropes. But damn...poor Ann. I like her character and I can empathize with her struggle. Once we're inside the palace though...the game does her very dirty. I can take the catsuit, sure, especially since her body isn't over exaggerated and the themes of her Persona, but why does her fighting stance needs her to be bending forward while propping her ass up, with the camera right behind her as I choose her actions (I can understand the Black Cat and Catwoman inspirations, two overly sexualized characters, but not even them appear like that in a game. And they're both adults)? And when she's dizzy it's even worse...everyone crouches or looks dizzy, while Ann lays with her upper body down on the ground and her ass up. And considering she's supposed to be...what, 16 or so? Not gonna lie, it makes me roll my eyes hard. The other playable female characters receive the same treatment? At least so I can prepare myself for more eye rolling.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-you-buying-silksong-on-day-1.1279314/#post-144267876

Buying it no

Playing it day 1? Yes, Game Pass it is

[benji]

So why is someone like this administrator of a gaming forum?

bad luck and systemic issues

[HaughtyFrank]

As I recall, Miriam in Bloodstained idle animation is pretty terrible IMO as it's made to maximize female objectification.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/worst-idle-animations-youve-come-across.1284372/post-144476187

[Alpacx]

The "ban Microsoft" non-stop hammering is annoying the normie gamers as of late, eh?

I couldn't care less if there was no gaming forum tbh, but the pushback on insanity of the self/everything-haters is hilarious today. I wonder what, if anything, will come of this. Hopefully something dumb n funny

It's only thread derailing if it happens in the train regions of France.

[benji]

The "ban Microsoft" non-stop hammering is annoying the normie gamers as of late, eh?

I couldn't care less if there was no gaming forum tbh, but the pushback on insanity of the self/everything-haters is hilarious today. I wonder what, if anything, will come of this. Hopefully something dumb n funny

Don't expect anything, the staff don't care about genocide. That's why they won't ban Microsoft, the New York Times, Gavin Newsom, etc. The staff will do anything to protect their blood money from it which is why almost all the anti-genocide voices on the forum have been silenced.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I love when a member of staff throws up a drive by post in a microsoft thread instead of actually rallying his fellow mods to ban a company that's aiding in a genocide.

[benji]

If you're posting on a forum with nine people paying for Genocidebox Genocide Pass, I see ten Zionists.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

Why do yall think we got so fuckin good at making water guns?   Why do yall think we do this art?  It's called Water Joy as Public Policy.  Play as Joy.   Turning public policy and corporate investment in Water Play (as Joy) recaptures, filters, and reuses spray as water as play which communicates a progressive truth: care for the commons scales best when it’s a delight.  Northern Europeans are still at the Water as Use form of the dialectic.  How do yall think we got so good at this shit?! A lot of y'all seem to enjoy shooting water at each other and watching water shooting videos on Twitter, Italian YouTubers like IlMareWorld, etc., but never really asked where it comes from and why the fuck we're so fucking good at doing it. It's because we practiced that shit on each other lol.

*breaks spaghetti*

I'm gonna fucking drown you.

Jesus Christ, read the fucking room...

[Boredfrom]

you want a lesbian fighting game with women you can date and you also before mentioned a sexy fighting game. You've made numerous posts about lesbians and while it's okay to express your love of women and advocate for more representation, it seems more like fantasizing in a borderline creepy way which feels like fetishization. I appreciate that you want more representation but consistently fantasizing in threads online rubs me the wrong way. I just feel like 'lesbian' has become a word that is thrown around a lot online without much respect for other lesbians. Wish people would consider things at least from a layperson's perspective before sharing things like this.

I'm sorry you feel that (even though I'm confused how you know I post a lot about lesbians given your account is a few days old), but I'm sorry I'm not going to stop talking about being a lesbian or pushing for the type of media I want and want to make. Please ignore my account if I bother you because I'm wanting to upset anyone. Learning I was a lesbian was such a relief for me, it helped me figure so much; I don't feel comfortable being told to stop or tone it down.

One of the few times when the manchild mask slips, as he implies “troll account” without saying it.

Enabling Echoes just made him more likely to make stupid creepy threads that would be a permaban for anyone else. He outright saying he is going to make shit threads even if people don’t like them. 

To be fair, all your thread titles are unique and hilarious, and super specific. When I read one I know it's you immediately, even if I will never learn your name. I always chuckle when I see a new thread from you.

People lurk before making accounts, and there's a waiting period before it gets accepted, no? Not strange for someone with a new account to know who a thread creator is when their threads follow a pattern, especially if they're both from the same community.

I bet you this dude will say “you are the laughingstock of the forum. Don’t suggest people are trolls for their post count” if he could.

[Taco Bell Tower]

(even though I'm confused how you know I post a lot about lesbians given your account is a few days old)

You post about them everyday!  

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-you-think-an-indie-dev-hasnt-copied-resident-evil-4-2005-yet.1284471/

When I say copy, I mean mechanically the tank controls as well as stun and melee combinations. It's one of the most popular and influential games. Surely there's an audience for this. I think this concept could even work in other formats like isometric.

What I don't mean is using an over the shoulder camera and saying it's inspired by RE4.

[Besticus Maximus]

Been asking everyone I know whether they would like a wullawuh game featuring fighting. So far nobody has made one.

[benji]

(even though I'm confused how you know I post a lot about lesbians given your account is a few days old)

Because you can read the forum without an account? What a non-sequitur.

Learning I was a lesbian was such a relief for me, it helped me figure so much

The hell does this even mean?  

I don't feel comfortable being told to stop or tone it down.

[Boredfrom]

Scuffed think the Wired has any reputation left:

I know I'm late but Taylor Lorenz also receives money from chorus lollll. Chorus has funded the group that pays her the same damn 8k stipend she wrote that "dark money" article about. Good lord man.

The purpose was to rile people up, which was successful. Too bad it's over something as benign as this. The infighting is killing me. It's getting worse.

It wasn't some blog or Tiktok it was a Wired article. Some are treating this like she posted this shit on Facebook. This entire story was vetted by Wired who have a very good reputation. For some reason they aren't getting any smoke. As it stands now it's become fans of various influencers fighting on socials. It's a parasocial cringe fest. Let's not bring it here.

“Infighting is good unless is with someone I simp for.”  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-44#post-144483858

Wired had good reputation like 15 years ago. They burned it spectacularly.

[benji]

"AGH STOP STABBING ME, YOU'RE KILLING ME"

"I don't feel comfortable being told to stop or tone it down."

[Straight Edge]

I still remember Dr. Nothing cried on Ree how some foreign 18 or 19 he tried to hook up with called hiim a weeb 

From 2022: https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-got-insulted-by-a-college-student-for-liking-ghibli-miyazaki-movies%E2%80%A6.594615/

Lol I'm kind of dumbfounded.

This guy on Grindr just moved here from Princeton for a summer internship in Big Tech. He's a 21 year old software engineering student that is from Rwanda. He didn't seem Ivy League smug or anything so I've been chatting with him on Grindr and he became obsessed with messaging me throughout this week, checking in on me "how's your day", "what are you up to", "can we hang out this weekend" etc

So then he asks me what I'm doing on Friday and I tell him I'm watching Ghibli movies, ie Princess Mononoke. He asks me what that is and I have to explain to him that they're famous animated movies often done by Hayao Miyazaki. He asks for an example and I'm like I told you, Princess Mononoke. He then says "oh…like anime movies?" To which I confirm yes. Then he tells me "Oh well this conversation wasn't bad so far, but now I've got to be an adult lol"

Lol excuse me? I was so taken aback. Do people in 2022 really still look down on others for liking "anime movies" let alone fucking award winning Miyazaki movies? The nerve of this kid condescending me. Like you're not impressive Mr Princeton. Everyone in this city is a software engineer at big tech and to come after me at 21 years old when I'm a rising 4th year phd student in computational biology and tell me you can't enjoy "anime movies" because you have to be an adult. I just can't lmfao. Blocked him on everything.

Does anyone still harass or shame you for liking nerdy things? I'm 31 and I'm like dumbfounded that a college kid had the ego and nerve to say that to me. I hope I wasn't that kind of trash when I was 21. Have you ever experienced someone trashing you for liking Miyazaki or "anime films" or anything else nerdy?

If he was trying to hook up with a 21 year old chick, they would nail him to a cross.

[HaughtyFrank]

Scuffed think the Wired has any reputation left:

I know I'm late but Taylor Lorenz also receives money from chorus lollll. Chorus has funded the group that pays her the same damn 8k stipend she wrote that "dark money" article about. Good lord man.

The purpose was to rile people up, which was successful. Too bad it's over something as benign as this. The infighting is killing me. It's getting worse.

It wasn't some blog or Tiktok it was a Wired article. Some are treating this like she posted this shit on Facebook. This entire story was vetted by Wired who have a very good reputation. For some reason they aren't getting any smoke. As it stands now it's become fans of various influencers fighting on socials. It's a parasocial cringe fest. Let's not bring it here.

“Infighting is good unless is with someone I simp for.”  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-44#post-144483858

Wired had good reputation like 15 years ago. They burned it spectacularly.

The Taylor Lorenz article is so funny because she herself admitted right away that the part about being "paid to push the party line" isn't true

[Boredfrom]

I respect Wired as a publication too, but they are absolutely getting flamed over this. As of last night they've had to correct the article no less than three times. So whatever vetting they did before they hit 'Publish', clearly it wasn't enough.

But also, I think it goes a bit deeper than parasocial cringe fest when even creators who aren't associated with Chorus (and in some cases don't even fuck with the Democrats) are being harassed. That's not cool. That should be called out. Hell, one of the creators (AB, whose video I linked to in this thread), was being harassed despite having never worked with Chorus, and in fact she even posted receipts of her turning them down because they only wanted to offer her $250 a month. 8k where? There's so much to the framing of this article that is misleading to the point of being malicious, especially when its resulting in people being harassed.

And also, just thinking more broadly...this whole thing is reminding me of that rant I went on in here a few weeks ago about narratives. When shit like this happens, who is really being served? Is the truth being served? Absolutely not, because the way that article has been so thoroughly debunked by this point it's clear Lorenz (nor Wired) cared much about the truth. Did this help the left? Any part of the left? No. It helped Lorenz. I'm sure the right is loving this. I'm going to guess Wired is probably second guessing their decision to publish this.

I'm sure the right is loving this

Man, is almost like Taylor Lorenz reputation has always being terrible but leftist spaces whitewash her as hard as they can.

Also, just above you:

Taking 8 grand a month to spew Democratic Party talking points while agreeing not to criticize them nor reveal you're getting paid might not be scandalous but it is deeply fucking pathetic. Like what the fuck are we doing as folks supposedly on the left? It's a huge stain on the credibility of the people taking the money and their alleged "independence" - it should 100% be called out and that's not infighting.

[Boredfrom]

I'm glad I know this because I think it's important. You just don't think it's important. I also don't think anything has been debunked at all. I don't think big influencers got 8k a month just for being awesome dudes! I do not believe in free money.

I don’t disagree but you also need to have ironclad reporting when reporting this stuff, specially if you reporter also takes money for it. This isn’t Lorenz or The Wired first rodeo, they just don’t care anymore.

Just above you have someone saying “paying to spew the party line” when it was debunked that not, they didn’t specify this.