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

[benji]

[Eric Cartman]

uh get this f2p mobile trash outta here, I'm waiting for the next Sony Guaranteed Hit FAIRGAME$



...game director did what?

[Potato]

There's a weird bitch eating crackers thing going on with hollow knight, they're desperate for a reason to cancel it.

Like all communists, they hate success.

[BIONIC]

Deadlock is an amazing game, the most fun multiplayer game I've played in the past 5-10 years.  It's got a layered economy, creative play with different builds, meaningful hero synergies, clear combat readability, maps that reward smart rotations and timing, really cool and sleek fucking hero designs and it takes risks by pushing genres together to make something unique and cool and fun.  It's addictive as hell.   It has real decision density, you choose when to push, when to scale, when to pivot to other objectives... and it respects player skill by giving you so many movement options.  It's an amazing game.  And it's not even out of invite-only yet.

I'll be honest, I've never played Concord, but I did spend a lot of time reading and watching criticism and from what I understand, it's a generic piece of shit.   Boilerplate abilities, thin map identity, and the standard hero-shooter beats without ultimates.  They should not be in the same conversation together.  This guy complaining that Valve buried Concord is like saying Square-Enix intentionally released a game to bury some RPG-Maker shit.

Guess open fascism is tolerated on this website now?

[Uncle]

who here is up for an exciting game of FOAMSTARS? 

[JoeBoy101]

no advice for me.  looks like my mental health is already in tip-top shape 

ChatGPTherapist thinks I’m too far gone to even give advice.

[Potato]

Our boy KSweeley is taking strays. 

[September 5, 2025] Amazon Prime Video has a 32-episode TV series featuring Gordon Ramsay's daughter, Tilly, first eight episodes available now

I know the forum relies on people posting about stuff they like, but this thread really reads like an ad.

I've seen a lot of strange posts on ERA recently. Some seemingly paid for advertising, some very questionable pro AI slop and more. Where OP's put a ton of effort into the post but then abandon it.

Also, they make their profile private too.

I know on Reddit, people who farm karma the seller their account to advertisers.

This is seemingly reminsent of that

#ad

I'm sorry but the OP feels like an ad read. The not needed extra info on the bottom, the fucking last part telling us "episodes available now" is so blatantly an ad read.
Very bizarre.

OP is a news poster account, possibly bot. It may be astroturfing, but they post news from all over the place, so it's not an Amazon ad bot at least.

Thankfully a mod stepped in. 

User warned: inflammatory accusations toward other members

https://www.resetera.com/threads/september-5-2025-amazon-prime-video-has-a-32-episode-tv-series-featuring-gordon-ramsays-daughter-tilly-first-eight-episodes-available-now.1291167/

What those users need to understand is that it isn't an ad bot, it's just weaponised autism.

[benji]

who here is up for an exciting game of FOAMSTARS? 

They never should have departed from the source material:

[Potato]

Saying that you were a contrarian just for contrarian sake was giving you the benefit of doubt over this:

Uncle doesn’t believe in therapy and thinks that talking to an inanimate object is good for your mental health.

I believe therapeutic experiences are broader than whatever your narrow definition is, and whatever you consider to have helped you is valid

[HardcoreRetro]

Nobody talking about Battleborn.

[Potato]

the dangers of a forum built around "well actually"-ing some other gay forums

everyone here is an annoying well actually cunt

 

Well, I'm sure all the evidence shows it's everyone except you...

[Taco Bell Tower]

I like how fat4all gets all   of screenshots of his ResetEra posts 

[benji]

Nobody talking about Battleborn.

I played the first mission the day the servers went down just to get in before the lock.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/borderlands-4-ot-zanzibart%E2%80%A6forgive-me.1291206/page-4#post-144861048

Lmao what is this ban?

really?

Lmao this thread is a mess already

Poor doops. Hit for the title from multiple angles. I don't think he was truly trying to impersonate staff with the silly title, which I believe was changed before the ban came down.

3 day ban for this is ridiculous jesus christ

good job mods yall the clowns on a thread about randy pitchfords game

Best OT title. In before its edited and watered down to a lesser experience that anyone could afford.

jokes are not allowed

Mods take a joke challenge

Oh come on, just warn him. A ban for a Randy Pitchford game, really?

what happen my boy doops

title had a joke "mod edit" in there referencing when Randy said true fans would find a way to pay $80

coulda just said "hey don't do that", but the ban is just dumb lol

Honestly, quite unreasonable to ban doops. over such a harmless joke. You could've just given them a warning, like: "Hey, please don't pretend to be staff, since that's a bannable offense."

Forums are already struggling to mantain users, and decisions like this just drive good people away. OP has been a solid contributor, and their past behavior should have been taken into account before making such a harsh call.

it's all about the sanctity and integrity of era moderation

highly respected institution

Thank god staff intervened and the nefarious OP was banned before they could scam anyone into paying them $80 for the privilege of posting in this thread via their deceitful title

Impersonating staff loool get your heads out of your asses

what's even funnier is some mod is gonna have to come in and "put their foot down" to get ppl to stop talking about that dumb ban lol

funnier thing is maybe if OP didnt report it to change the title nothing would happen
BUT GOTTA SHOW I HAVE BUTTONS

Oh this will happen, along a big ass banner yellow warning at the bottom not to poke fun at it but... that is genuinely an insane ban and I am dying on that hill. To the point it's bothering me more than it should.

Over a Randy Pitchford game too!

Mods just change it to a warning, it was a funny joke. Pls let's move on.

when I made a thread title that broke the formatting of EtcEra so ppl couldn't scroll properly i only got a warning

God alive, why on earth can't a joke ever be taken over a light hearted quip from a prominent member.

Way to utterly and pointlessly derail a thread.

Not like anyone was insulted and told to "eat my entire XXX" or anything.

we gotta get the mod jokes in now before even more fun is banned from the thread

🔒 Thread locked 'temporarily' while we deal with a high number of reports.

For real. Guy has put in the work for many great OTs and was just making a goofy joke.

Self-important bullshit ban. No one thought he was an actual mod or it was serious. What is even going on.

Unfortunately, reminds me of the picture:
No fun allowed.

Was surprised to come back to the thread and see Doops banned and thought they said something wierd later in the thread, but def gonna agree the 3 day ban is cringe. Not even because they're a 'respected member', just that it was obviously in jest and was referencing a thing that was actually said, so it wasn't even a lie.

For those that don't check the community feedback thread often, if there is a ban you disagree with your invited to report the post and lay out why it might be worth reconsidering. I did that. I don't think they want tons of people to do the same thing for one ban, but I figured it's worth sharing the process.

This place gets more and more "no fun allowed" and boring as time goes by.

I've unfortunately noticed the same...:(

A 3 day ban is a slap in the wrist. It is basically nothing. It's NBD.

The problem is that user bans are treated like a rap sheet and used against us if we get another ban, so even a minor one can change how a future ban is handled.

Mods so humourless they could be Borderlands writers.

They'll unban him but then threadban him

too funny for the borderlands thread 😔

Should have never been banned. They can issue warnings and, you know, actually talk with users.

open communication??

gross!

submit your tickets and be ignored

No they don't, they ghost your ass for the entire ban period and call it day.

Era continues to have the most embarrassingly ban happy staff on any forum known to man over the most benign shit

Did you guys know it's okay to have fun on the internet? It's a video game forum. Relax.

Meanwhile the thread stays completely derailed, when a simple unban and staff post saying "ban was hasty and now revoked, please stay on topic to avoid further moderation" would solve everything.

They don't ignore you always, just sometimes.

I was once banned for 3 weeks and like 5 weeks in I sent them an email letting them know, that way they could unban me. So they ignored but then didn't and fixed it for me lol.

but that would mean admitting a mistake
which clearly is something that never happened in resetera history. every time someone says perfection doesnt exist they should just look at resetera mods. thats perfection right there

Resetera moderation has never been wrong

It'd be hilarious if thanks to us whining and bitching the OP gets three months instead of three days

Hard choice between ignoring the grievances or ignoring the grievances but banning more people for metacommentary.

resetera moderation - the masters of shooting themselves in the foot

Site's so humourless nowadays you really could use AI to write your posts and nobody would be able to tell.

Anyway, In before the usual thread lock as they "review reports"

Mods, y'all are a joke sometimes. That should have been a warning and not a ban.

Jesus Christ mods, we're not even a couple of months away from discussing basically this in the Constructive Community thread, take a step back and get some perspective about this lol

they can't help themselves, and of course have now caused an even bigger derail than the original thread title.

Worst ban I've seen in this place lol

Don't be a bigot, don't be an asshole. Imagine if they showed this much energy for getting Microsoft banned. 

Every single one of these people would smoke Nep's non-binary cock if they thought it would get them one rung up the prominent member ladder.

[Jansen]

I've been banned for criticizing Trump on Gaza and saying things would continue to get worse under his administration so hey,



could be worse.

Can we get three mods together to cook up the ban message about misrepresenting staff

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-is-no-contest-the-best-therapy-ive-ever-had.1291179/

I have tried therapy. All six times was paying hundreds of dollars for a gaslighting quack. Opening up to these assholes only for them to not bother listening. Asking them to do thier jobs, even a tolerable level, is impossible. Better therapy would be to go back to being an alcoholic, or hope that the therapist is replaced with a knife wielding maniac because bleeding out beats saying a syllable.

So i tried using ChatGPT. And it felt dirty. But it listened and didnt cost money.

But it really exposed how awful and worthless most therapists are. How can you be worried about AI taking your job when it actually does it as opposed to dicking around. "A better therapist" is a ChatGPT update, and these clowns havent even considered listening as an option.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-cat-is-giving-me-the-kind-of-anxiety-that-makes-life-unlivable-and-i-have-no-idea-how-to-fix-it.1263114/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-find-a-therapist-who-isnt-a-gaslighting-quack.1180710/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dying-alone.1132800/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-happens-when-people-dont-understand-how-ai-works.1209297/#post-141051282

First url

User banned (permanent): Dismissive and inflammatory generalizations. Prior ban for the same behavior. Account in junior phase.

He complained that his therapy doesn't work because of his shitty counselors. Are they banning people for generalizing professions now?  Or is it  because he uses AI? 

[Jansen]

Look, I understand all of what you've written here and lol I agree with you!



I'm a passionate dude capable of using very colorful and descriptive language, and to most people reading what I've written, yeah they are going to view my words in that way.



This is a subject I've been thinking about quite seriously for a long time. Not talking about Concord specifically, I'm talking about the intersection of tech, games, economics, and culture. More or less the Alan Moore article I linked today, and similarly Adam Gopnik from the New Yorker's article speaking on archicture, its aesthetics, and the values those aesthetic promote and reinforce.



Concord's spectacular failure is essentially a nexus of all these different, intersecting aspects of modern life. I sincerely believe this, though I know 99% of people out there aren't going to see it/think it of this game in those terms. For pretty much everyone, Concord's "just an overbudgeted, poor product". Am fully aware and I totally accept this reality. But I really do believe that its failure really does speak to what's going on more broadly.



It was good enough to exist, but there just weren't enough people who recognized that.



I am going to take your advice and do as I've said (yet have not done) and stop trying to further elaborate.



As I wrote in another post, these thoughts are too personal, too intense, too serious to be sharing on a message board for internet strangers' consumption. These thoughts and positions of mine are more for in-person conversations with people able to hold them (which I am severely lacking and why I HAVE shared my 
thoughts here).

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-is-no-contest-the-best-therapy-ive-ever-had.1291179/


Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-cat-is-giving-me-the-kind-of-anxiety-that-makes-life-unlivable-and-i-have-no-idea-how-to-fix-it.1263114/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-find-a-therapist-who-isnt-a-gaslighting-quack.1180710/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dying-alone.1132800/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-happens-when-people-dont-understand-how-ai-works.1209297/#post-141051282

First url

User banned (permanent): Dismissive and inflammatory generalizations. Prior ban for the same behavior. Account in junior phase.

He complained that his therapy doesn't work because of his shitty counselors. Are they banning people for generalizing professions now?  Or is it  because he uses AI? 

Uh.... Just don't be an asshole or a bigot. Its so easy

[benji]

Every single one of these people would smoke Nep's non-binary cock if they thought it would get them one rung up the prominent member ladder.

She's "one of the good ones" who is trying to reform the corrupt institution from within.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-wales-ignored-in-us-media.1291917/

wlw?

[Straight Edge]

Hey you guys, just a fair warning: I've seen people get banned for complaining about moderation. It sucks but I don't want to see a whole bunch you get banned around the time of a major game release. They will do it. Trust me. Don't test them. They have rules for that too.

If you have a problem with the ban, submit a ticket. If you have a question or concern about their policies, goto the site's constructive criticism thread and state them there.

They can get you for the following RIGHT NOW:
"Thread derailment"
"Mod Whining"
Just be cool y'all. 😎 The homie doops. will be back in 3 days and it'll be like it never happened.

-Vex

Suck Mod balls much?

[DavidCroquet]

It's funny watching them jump all over this weirdo who accurately calls them out for their selective bravery. 
They obviously want to be seen shit talking offsite, and ideally actioned on-site in retaliation. 

Which they will then respond to by doing the internet leftist bluesky interpretation of Ronnie Dobbs' "Y'all are brutalizing me".

[DavidCroquet]

Also that doops joke barely functions as a joke. 

I remember the Randy Pitchford comment about "finding a way" to pay for the game...but what does that have to do with ResetEra mods? 

doops? more like poops.

EDIT: damn, mods got scared of the Bluesky brigade and downgraded the extremely mild ban to a mere warning.

User warned: Impersonating staff

At least it's fun to imagine doops acting tuff on Bsky while simultaneously begging for succor in the ban appeals.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Also that doops joke barely functions as a joke. 

I remember the Randy Pitchford comment about "finding a way" to pay for the game...but what does that have to do with ResetEra mods? 

doops? more like poops.

EDIT: damn, mods got scared of the Bluesky brigade and downgraded the extremely mild ban to a mere warning.

User warned: Impersonating staff

At least it's fun to imagine doops acting tuff on Bsky while simultaneously begging for succor in the ban appeals.

Transistor kneeled to them 

[HaughtyFrank]

in constructive

Guys, we have literally banned people for what doops did since like day 0 of the forum. This isn't the sort of thing that should require us to come in and say, "Hey guys, don't do that because if you do you potentially empower trolls looking to cause problems." Sure, it's a joke and not meant to troll, but this is also one of those very basic things we have asked people not to do since like the very first days of the forums' existence. This isn't new, everyone knows not to do that sort of thing. It's the sort of thing where we have to action for it, regardless of user intent, because otherwise we get users doing it in bad faith and hiding behind the whole "I was just making a joke" defense.

Seriously, just don't do it. It's three days, it isn't some huge ban. Beyond that, unless they keep doing it this isn't the sort of thing that gets held against someone.

All that said, we're lowering it to a warning in the hopes that is enough to get the message across.

[BIONIC]

Nobody talking about Battleborn.

I played the first mission the day the servers went down just to get in before the lock.

I bought Anthem for 3 bucks years ago and still haven’t played. They’re apparently closing the severs sometime soon.

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

and I still won’t play it

[benji]

Just like the pathetic weak CENTRIST staff to pardon someone who went mask off and showed their ass.

[Uncle]

considering developing a Steam game named MOD EDIT:

[kaleidoscopium]

Gonna be real though, had they reached out before to ask if it was cool, we might have said ok.

I'll be sure to DM you before I make any jokes from now on 🫡

luckily I'm almost never joking

edit: also, welcome back doops.

magician Randy pulled off a trick for the ages and made you reappear!

only downside if now you're covered in flopsweat

https://www.resetera.com/threads/borderlands-4-ot-zanzibart…forgive-me.1291206/page-9#post-144875919

This guy is so deeply lame and unfunny, but still tries. Truly weird

[nachobro]

Well, I'm sure all the evidence shows it's everyone except you...

i said everyone