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

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

When did Echos become part of the "We"? They don't even present offline. 

I love it when folx join the trans struggle by proclaiming they're trans online and put in no effort in the real world.

[Boredfrom]

the exact shame shit Arabs and Muslim Americans were expected to do last year and so many minority groups in America for decades and decades; the very same attitudes that have caused so much of this voter apathy, unwillingness to vote for a party that has made it clear doesn't care for them and is one the big reason American Democracy has degraded so badly because Dems are so willing to give Republicans and bigots more inches for the hope of votes

 

“Wait, what was my point?”

*some hobgoblin farted*

[benji]

Echos in that thread

All this reads is that you'll be happy to sacrifice us in order to get what you want and then expect us trans people to vote for our own sacrifice and not speak out for the "greater good"; the exact shame shit Arabs and Muslim Americans were expected to do last year and so many minority groups in America for decades and decades; the very same attitudes that have caused so much of this voter apathy, unwillingness to vote for a party that has made it clear doesn't care for them and is one the big reason American Democracy has degraded so badly because Dems are so willing to give Republicans and bigots more inches for the hope of votes.

That is a rotten system and you don't clean the rot with more rot.

How is human rights now considered something acceptable to sacrifice? Do you REALLY think electing a Dem who will continue or not care about the blight of trans people or any minority group is someone who will actually change anything thing for the better, change and improve the system? If the Dems can't elect a nominee who actually care for all human rights, then their is no hope for the US.

I wish these losers would just call for a violent overthrow of the state against the will of the population instead of this pussy shit all the time.

[NeppyNep]

How bad do they think trans people had it under the last two Democratic presidents??? First and foremost, Obama and Biden were never talking about labeling them domestic terrorists like the fascists in charge now want to do.

[benji]

uwu I'm just a smol bean radical but could somebody like maybe if they could suddenly and dramatically destroy all of society and violently refashion it in the image I personally want without any compromise with anyone else pls no bully 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/recommend-me-scary-horror-games.1289979/
EchoesOfTheWLW

One thing that bothers me about a LOT of mainstream horror games is that their not actually scary for me or fails to retain any tension, horror or suspense by the halfway mark (Hi Resident Evil!). This is often because they are so focused on action, or playing into player's power fantasies, over rely on the same 5 cheap "scares" over and over and over and over and over again (Hi Doom 3, Dead Space and FEAR!) or like with games like Resident Evil 7, make you so armed by the end that the final parts of the game are a breeze.

As such, what are good SCARY horror games you would recommend?

Some additional things I'm looking for:
Horror games that DON'T vilify, mock or imply mental health issues make you evil/violent/a monster/a freak (and preferably not villains or enemies at all). Also does not mock mental health patients or treat them as cheap fodder (it's depressing just how common that is in horror games and even non-horror games).
Horror games that don't rely on cheap scare mechanics like spawn enemies behind you (especially constantly to the point it's just a chore and annoying, hi again Doom 3!), hiding nonsensically in closets (Hi again Doom 3!) or just constantly hiding in front of door for seemingly no reason (And hi Doom 3!).
Horror games that AREN'T power fantasies like Resident Evil (which to me has always been more about the SURVIVAL horror rather then the survival HORROR) where you get stronger as the game goes on and constantly getting better gear, that ruins the horror for me. Preferably games without guns or very limited guns and get HARDER as the games goes on.
Actually have a sense of dread, tension, suspense etc. Have atmosphere and allow that to keep the player fearful rather then feeling the need to constantly throw things at the player to scare them (which so often does the opposite).
Well written and well acted if it has voice acting.
Preferably LGBTQ+
Not Alien Isolation. Not because I don't like it, I do, but because I already have it.
Also to be clear, I don't hate Resident Evil, I'm looking forward to Requiem, it's just not a scary series to me.

[Keetongu]

New talking point just dropped.

These terrorgram groups have been actively grooming children and teens into doing terrible acts that they can share and laugh about it in their channels. It's as clear as day to me that this shooter was in these channels and if I'd hazard a guess, was encouraged to do it by others. You can also likely draw a link between this shooting with those performed by a girl earlier this year and another one, performed by a black student. All of them have a culprit that does not fit the archetype for mass shootings but who were described as "loners"; all of them have weaponry and manifestos alluding to online nihilist & neo-nazi memes or co-opted imagery like KMFDM. This particular shooter had a Twitter account where she tweeted about some alien figure, Drill Sgt. Grey (or something like that), which is apparently an in-joke on these servers.
It's also a well reasoned suspicion of mine that these groups have been trying to get non-cis het white men to do them and that particularly, they've wanted a trans-woman to commit these shootings, not for any policy driven reason, but because that detail makes it funnier to them while the resulting tear in the social fabric is just an added joke for them. As stated in above posts, these groups do want to stoke cultural divisions and start *something* helter skelter or whatever but ultimately, on a base level, they just think it is funny and that they have a right to do this.
I don't know what you do to combat these groups and it almost makes me think the UK is onto something. Their recruitment methods are scary and persistent. They are very tech-literate and will find workarounds and to be frank, the public platforms they operate on are too large in scale to be properly moderated. I don't think we can properly address this particular shooting and the narrative being formed around it until we understand the networks that now exist, in part due to derelict moderation practices, whose primary purpose is to destroy the lives of targeted individuals through coercion, humiliation and abuse.

Excellent Wired article on 764

Serious CW for the above article, please heed the disclaimer at the top.

Literally the right wing schizo theory of the "glowies" pushing people to commit mass shootings for nefarious social reasons.

[Boredfrom]

Oh yeah, I think the Steam list was about Sweet Baby Inc, something that started with people like that streamer and then spread everywhere.

So yeah, people from a non-english speaking country made a list on Steam that was used by chuds to attack and harass developers with arbitrary "DEI" criteria.

It's also really funny to see how Chinese, Japanese and Korean players are treated like innocent babies that couldn't do no harm when they're often even more toxic than the chuds we see in the western internet. They got this "anti-dei flag" and ran with it like crazy, with the added anti-western sentiment those people carry.

I imagine because people don’t speak their idiom and the people that genuinely do are interested in other stuff from those countries than explain international net culture.

Also funny you are complaining about anti western sentiment in Resetera.com

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

nazi
nazi
chud
nazi
sigh
so tired
cum

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-150#post-144735936

I'm never going to be able to be openly trans off the internet won't I, I fucking hate so much of this.

To the surprise of absolutely no one here, Echoes is male presenting.  Really makes all those wlw posts even creepier.

This is the guy who claimed he couldn't date because of bigotry.

If a lesbian tells you to fuck off because you are a male ass man, that's not bigotry, that's you being a creep.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wuthering-heights-official-teaser-feb-14-2026-margot-robbie-jacob-elordi-directed-by-emerald-fennell.1288095/#post-144662589

 User Banned (1 Month): Dismissing Whitewashing; Previous Severe Infractions Related to Bigotry

I'm all in. Fennell is two for two so far so I'll see this as soon as I can.

you'd hope that actually means something, but it could easily be just for the vibes. either way the most i've heard of this movie is people being premptively pissed off by it which doesn't bode well

I know people are preemptively pissed because Heathcliff is described as "dark-skinned" in the book. That doesn't bother me, though. For one, adaptations don't have to be perfect representations of the source material.

More importantly, it's hypocritical to be cool with casting a black character in a new version (like Hermione or Ariel) but get angry when a white actor is cast for a character who was originally darker.

Heathcliff was not black.



Now I need to know if Gen Z has ever heard the term "tall, dark, and handsome".

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

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so uh

what percentage of trans people is that

Let me help…

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6830528/

We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses among transgender patients in clinical care using an all-payer electronic health record database. Of 10,270 transgender patients identified, 58% (n=5940) had at least one psychiatric diagnosis compared with 13.6% (n=7,311,780) in the control patient population (p<0.0005). Transgender patients had a statistically significant increase in prevalence for all psychiatric diagnoses queried, with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder being the most common diagnoses (31% and 12%, respectively).

This is from 2019 though, so I’m sure that % has gotten better. Right? RIGHT?

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

A real American hero

I would have gone with "a massive cunt".

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-would-love-a-lesbian-medieval-gothic-punk-mech-based-fighting-game.1283031/#post-144440682 

you understand that there's more nuance to objectification, right? you can still perpetuate objectification even if you're a woman while simultaneously being a victim. Misogyny is a societal norm and impacts so much of our world, even if we are not cognizant of it. Everyone needs to be careful of this.

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?

 
Did he mention he's a lesbian? Because he's totally a lesbian and probably a more valid lesbian than actual women. 
 
Echos is dialing up the discord transmafia as we speak to get this low-post user permabanned for transphobia.

I gotta go back to this comment because it's even funnier upon learning Echoes doesn't actually present as a woman lmaooo

He's a online roleplayer to his core

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

A real American hero

I would have gone with "a massive cunt".

Benji? C-word usage. Ban please.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Keetongu returns to us. Based.

[Potato]

I am of the opinion that anyone who played Concord for more than an hour and came away thinking negatively is someone whose opinions on things can be summarily disregarded.

This game exposed, and continues to expose, lots of people and their ability to judge/discern. In that way, it's an incredible work of art.

Redfall was obviously poor and unfinished without even having touched it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ex-concord-devs-interview-on-a-life-well-wasted-podcast-it-was-the-most-beautiful-car-that-we-crashed.1289436/page-3#post-144732501

Era continues being the last bastion of Concord true believers against the hordes of gamers who shunned that masterpiece 

The hypocrisy of Resetera in one post

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-hasan-piker.1289370/page-8#post-144754188

 User banned (3 months): denying ethnic cleansing, prior ban for the exact same thing

So this is a team sport for you? I mean it makes some sense and why so many people have one set of views for Palenstine and a completely set of views for Ukraine.

If you can't see the differences between Palestine and Ukraine, I don't think you are looking very hard.

You can deny ethnic cleansing...twice...and still come back, but criticise the mods just once and you take a forever holiday.

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-hasan-piker.1289370/page-8#post-144754188

 User banned (3 months): denying ethnic cleansing, prior ban for the exact same thing

If you can't see the differences between Palestine and Ukraine, I don't think you are looking very hard.

You can deny ethnic cleansing...twice...and still come back, but criticise the mods just once and you take a forever holiday.

unless you criticize them on bluesky, then its totally fine and not offsite drama.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

one is white folks who are aiding western imperialistic NATO while the other are being genocided by a fascistic settler apartheid state who also are propped up by the capitalistic United States.

That ban was unjustly served. Moderation should be ashamed of themselves.

[Potato]

https://bsky.app/profile/yodoops.bsky.social/post/3ly4hco7r6c2f

https://bsky.app/profile/yodoops.bsky.social/post/3ly4h2khpt22y


Funny thing is, pretty sure doops was one of the ones pushing for the ban in the first place

Where did doops even come from. Feel like at the start of the year I never even heard of him and now he's quickly becoming one of the prime virtue signalers

i feel I’d seen him before, but he got a job working at a review site this year and his resetera presence definitely stepped up. 

https://www.rpgfan.com/author/yodoops/

Hi, I'm Tom! (I go by doops/YoDoops online.) My first video game was Snowboard Kids on the N64 in the early 2000s and I was captivated from then on. After that, the first RPG I ever played was Final Fantasy X. Couldn't tell you what was going on in the plot at the time, but it sure looked neat!

When I'm not playing games, I'm usually writing about them, reading about them, or reading writing about them. I channel all my passions into my writing here and wherever I roam, so thanks for stopping by!

"job"

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-you-think-about-hasan-piker.1289370/page-8#post-144776439

It was maybe progressive in the past, but I'm not gonna pretend that a PAC that's led by Brianna Wu and prominently platforms Destiny is not a pro Israel PAC. It may have been progressive in the past, but I'm pretty sure none of the creators that you mentioned (maybe besides Vaush) talked about PV in a long time.

I'm genuinely confused about the doxxing issue though. These were all FEC filings, which are public record. I thought doxing needed to have that info illegally obtained or something?

Screw him and Noah for platforming BE for that long though

doxxing just means deanonymizing someone online, has nothing to do with legality, I don't think doxxing is illegal in any way

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

but why did nep call the cops on a doxx?

[Boredfrom]

this might come as a surprise to westerners (hopefully not), but most of the world, rightly so, shares no kind feelings for the U.S/Europe nexus. the middle of the road take on Russia/Ukraine is literally Hasan's point of view on anywhere in the world except U.S/Europe (80% of the world and the vast, vast majority of the population) aka condemning Putin but staying the fuck away from endorsing U.S/Europe

that's what Hasan is great at. he reminds people that, in reality, western countries are actually the global minority and the rest of the world's population is not obligated to accept their words as the truth.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

A real American hero

I would have gone with "a massive cunt".

Benji? C-word usage. Ban please.

As an Australian it's part of my culture and you can't deny me that. Here the word isn't even an insult and the fact that I only ever use it as an insult is irrelevant.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I apologize! I didn't know it is your culture. 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I apologize! I didn't know it is your culture. 

But it's white culture.. and we all know whites have no culture. 

[Taco Bell Tower]

[Garfield]

this might come as a surprise to westerners (hopefully not), but most of the world, rightly so, shares no kind feelings for the U.S/Europe nexus. the middle of the road take on Russia/Ukraine is literally Hasan's point of view on anywhere in the world except U.S/Europe (80% of the world and the vast, vast majority of the population) aka condemning Putin but staying the fuck away from endorsing U.S/Europe

that's what Hasan is great at. he reminds people that, in reality, western countries are actually the global minority and the rest of the world's population is not obligated to accept their words as the truth.

This may come as a surprise to non-westerners, or better yet non-americans, but we (Americans) don't really give a shit about what's going on in camel land /shitstan

[benji]

that's what Hasan is great at. he reminds people that, in reality, western countries are actually the global minority and the rest of the world's population is not obligated to accept their words as the truth.

What non-Western views does Hasan hold or promote?

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

Remember it's a smear and a lie to say he's promoted the Houthi's.