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

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dexerto-hollow-knight-silksong-devs-address-difficulty-concerns-%E2%80%9Cyou-have-choices%E2%80%9D.1302201/page-17#post-145559910

The Tiktok is not necessary.



I agree with her though, to an extent. I think there is a fine line between frictionless society, and a society that is needlessly difficult.



Conflating game design with societal friction, is... interesting.



I am one of the few who views Silksong as arguably EASIER than HK. Primarily due to the number of things Hornet can do, and how much more acrobatic she is. I am also a proponent for accessibility.



I don't think Modern Controls in SF6 are bad at all (but I do think if they became the default with no choice or advantage to motion it would be bad for the game). Modern Controls make the game EASIER to input at the cost of reward. Your reward is lesser than if a Motion player opened you up.



Silksong does not require an insane amount of dexterity. It requires some, but it is far and away one of the more accessible games, and it opens Hornets moveset up slowly... and puts you in combat arenas to practice these new moves.



Also your example of gatekeeping (via the "nazi bar" story) isn't even a fair or accurate comparison. You are comparing keeping out a culture of hatred and evil (arguably a culture of gatekeeping ironically) from a safe space to filtering people based on their ability engage with media.



Very drastically different things. Team Cherry doesn't OWE anybody anything obviously... but they don't get to slip past criticsm for not taking into account accessibility. The game has next to zero accessibility options. Bilewater alone is probably a complete nightmare for colorblind folks.



Sure I'm a defender of the games difficulty, it's just right imo. I didn't run into issues until later into Act 2, and by then I'd mastered Hornet... so every death felt like my fault. I think it's fine to debate the difficulty of the game. It is still at the end of the day a harder game - but it's not so impossibly hard or annoyingly hard that you can't just get better and re-engage.



It doesn't change that the game could do with some accessibility options. Steel Soul unlocks after you beat it and that makes it even harder... so why couldn't
 they include an easy mode?

[Alpacx]

I still feel kinda sorry for him because teachers and schools refuse to discipline unruly shithead kids so classrooms end up being an unmanageable hellhole.

But that was the exact wrong way to go about things and he might not be fit for teaching if he thought it was a good idea.

[Jansen]

I don't feel sorry for the. AT ALL. IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE GOOD SENSE TO NOT SAY THE THINGS THAT HE SAID HE HAS NO BUSINESS BEING IN THE POSITION THAT HE WAS IN. 

OKAY I DID NOT MEAN FOR THIS TO BE IN ALL CAPS FUCK SPEECH TO TEXT

[Uncle]

wow now I have to imagine every jansen post said out loud by some guy alone immobilized by pain in his dim apartment or something

[Eric Cartman]

What are the odds of two dudes using the same exact username both named Jason Fox? And there also being another Jason Fox who was coaching in a middle school in Oklahoma two years ago? Incredible.

[Eric Cartman]

The colour of her skin is not in doubt (snip)

But the quality of her character sure is

[Taco Bell Tower]

Members only so log into the riotous account
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vent-ive-been-asked-to-resign-my-teaching-position-over-a-bullying-talk.1305621/

I moved it over to Members-Only before making my post, so nobody can see it outside of those of us with accounts on the site. So there's no need to worry about that.

Good thing the fucking moron didn't post the same damn thing on a far bigger website under the same username:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1noozjp/asked_to_resign_need_advice/

They deleted the Reddit post. 

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/multiple-fatalities-in-apparent-sniper-attack-on-detainees-at-dallas-ice-shooter-is-dead.1307019/

I see no lessons were learned about instantly ascribing a motive about a shooting we know little about.

Could it have been a Nazi? Sure, but why give up your life to shoot immigrants who are already getting deported?

THEY'RE LITRALLY REDOING THE CYCLE IN REAL TIME
"it was definitely a nazi, no doubt"
"Oh, those pictures suggesting the literal opposite probably aren't real"
"You can't trust anything coming from any authorities or investigators about this"
"Okay, looks bad, but its probably a false flag"
<-----WE ARE HERE

[Eric Cartman]

This feels like at most a false flag if not outright evidence tampering by the FBI. Like, there's one bullet they wrote on, which is in unspent casing so it's not one of the bullets they fired, and they wrote anti-ice in hurriedly scrawled marker? By a shooter who only actually shot detainees? Like that screams bullshit. Like even if the shooter had bad aimed or confused targets, it seems unlikely that by luck they'd only hit three detainees and zero actual ICE agents if that was their intent

A false flag by someone in 2025 seems so ridiculous but I saw a big video yesterday about the Charlie Kirk shooting and it really makes you doubt the current administration version of events for anything.

fucking brain worms man

[Eric Cartman]

             issuing a fucking ultimatum of demands to the fucking vice president as a response to a shooting?
                /




Edit:

Spoiler: image repost because if hes not completely retarded hes gonna delete it (click to show)(click to hide)

[jooseloose]

So the one videogame I do play, is borderlands. The OT is gone on resetera? Why tf would something like that get deleted/ privated

They really made it members only 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/borderlands-4-ot-zanzibart%E2%80%A6forgive-me.1291206/page-76

Why on earth is the Borderlands 4 thread members only? Did I miss drama?

[Eric Cartman]

Call me crazy but I actually don't think the FBI is wholesale fabricating evidence for national news.

ENJOY YOUR BAN FASH

[kaleidoscopium]

Poor noodlesoup catches a ban

Yeah...his Ukraine commentary remains nonsense tbh

In what way? The conflict in Ukraine is a war between imperialist powers. Always has been. It's a perpetual cycle of direct—and structural—violence that will continue as long as those in the ruling class have a means to furthering their selfish endeavors.

Now, am I going to be banned for this again?

If you are banned it's because you're peddling garbage propaganda takes.

The conflict in Ukraine isn't a war between imperialists, it's a unilateral invasion of a sovereign country by one imperialist power. That Ukraine was materially aided in its defense by the US/EU countries doesn't make it a war between imperialist countries.

Stating it like that absolutely undermines Russia/Putin's absolute agency in making the decision to invade for no reason and to no end but their singular imperialist ambitions.

User banned (2 months): justifying imperialism over a series of posts, dismissing war crimes
Trump made it abundantly clear last year that Ukraine is a tool to be used in a war. It's a proxy war — an act that the United States has been employing since the Cold War and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I'm not denying that Russia/Putin is an irredeemable, imperialist ghoul; of course, they are. But you're kidding yourself if you think that this is a mere David vs. Goliath situation. Why do you think that the US/EU is materially arming Ukraine? NATO isn't a saintly international organization. Everything that has happened since the end of World War II has been in the service of a years-long chess game to prevent eternal peace from ever being achieved. It'll only be exacerbated once climate change ravages the Global South over the next couple of decades and the Global North takes advantage of desperate peoples in desperate times. Heat waves, food insecurity, all serious catastrophies that can be solved but won't; once again, neoliberal capitalism necessitates these conflicts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/brazilian-president-luiz-in%C3%A1cio-lula-da-silva-un-speech-was-an-inspiration.1307178/#post-145585944

[Taco Bell Tower]

So the one videogame I do play, is borderlands. The OT is gone on resetera? Why tf would something like that get deleted/ privated

They really made it members only 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/borderlands-4-ot-zanzibart%E2%80%A6forgive-me.1291206/page-76

Why on earth is the Borderlands 4 thread members only? Did I miss drama?

Logged into the riotous account and can't see why other than spoilers.

[Jansen]

wow now I have to imagine every jansen post said out loud by some guy alone immobilized by pain in his dim apartment or something

Now I have to search for cameras cuz ur obv watching me 👀

[Boredfrom]

Man fuck his comments on Ukraine. It's almost amazing how you can go from being pro Palestine but then being a Russian boot licker.

[Propagandhim]

So I just got Raptured. Heaven is pretty slick.


- Lots of sex, actually. They give you amorphous spirits to bang.
- There’s a meatloaf buffet featuring wagyu, very good!
- There’s a spiritual CTRL+F function to search for people.
- Can confirm Charlie Kirk is not here.

Poor noodlesoup catches a ban

Yeah...his Ukraine commentary remains nonsense tbh

In what way? The conflict in Ukraine is a war between imperialist powers. Always has been. It's a perpetual cycle of direct—and structural—violence that will continue as long as those in the ruling class have a means to furthering their selfish endeavors.

Now, am I going to be banned for this again?

If you are banned it's because you're peddling garbage propaganda takes.

The conflict in Ukraine isn't a war between imperialists, it's a unilateral invasion of a sovereign country by one imperialist power. That Ukraine was materially aided in its defense by the US/EU countries doesn't make it a war between imperialist countries.

Stating it like that absolutely undermines Russia/Putin's absolute agency in making the decision to invade for no reason and to no end but their singular imperialist ambitions.

User banned (2 months): justifying imperialism over a series of posts, dismissing war crimes
Trump made it abundantly clear last year that Ukraine is a tool to be used in a war. It's a proxy war — an act that the United States has been employing since the Cold War and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I'm not denying that Russia/Putin is an irredeemable, imperialist ghoul; of course, they are. But you're kidding yourself if you think that this is a mere David vs. Goliath situation. Why do you think that the US/EU is materially arming Ukraine? NATO isn't a saintly international organization. Everything that has happened since the end of World War II has been in the service of a years-long chess game to prevent eternal peace from ever being achieved. It'll only be exacerbated once climate change ravages the Global South over the next couple of decades and the Global North takes advantage of desperate peoples in desperate times. Heat waves, food insecurity, all serious catastrophies that can be solved but won't; once again, neoliberal capitalism necessitates these conflicts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/brazilian-president-luiz-in%C3%A1cio-lula-da-silva-un-speech-was-an-inspiration.1307178/#post-145585944

[Uncle]

wow now I have to imagine every jansen post said out loud by some guy alone immobilized by pain in his dim apartment or something

Now I have to search for cameras cuz ur obv watching me 👀

live video feed of jansen

[EaldNarche]

They've made the JKR mald thread members only again.   That's my favorite thread... can anyone on the inside go and perform recon there? Emma Watson said something compassionate towards JKR and I'm sure they're really upset about it.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-gen-zs-media-literacy-really-this-bad.1307325/

So I was scrolling on Tiktok and came across this video:

@blsxkyxx

 

It's of Hassan Piker on a podcast and he mentions that One Piece is political and all the dudes around him bust out laughing and looking at him like he's crazy.

This actually blew my mind. I'm genuinely confused as to how someone could read/watch something like One Piece and not come away thinking it's political?

To me, this is like him saying "2 + 2 = 4" and then having them laugh and say "how?"

ok so

sure, you can look at anything through any framing you want

but how the fuck does it matter?

are we supposed to assume that the creator had a political message he wanted to share? or maybe he just wanted to tell a fun story using tropes that have been around forever? or if that's the case, do we go "death of the author" and say it's still important commentary and blah blah blah?

what is the practical, real-world result of recognizing that one piece is political

are we smug and happy that today's youth are learning to rise up against oppression through the lens of one piece? or does the average person put escapism in its own box and say well that's clearly fantasy and I enjoy it as such, I'm not taking any political message from that?

and what do you do when people don't behave the way you want them to behave based on the media they consume? "nooo you can't be anti-immigration, that's so anti-luffy, did you learn nothing from the series?!"

also can't anyone choose to interpret any media as leaning any direction they want? the last airbender is about resisting oppression, but it's also about embracing tradition, so is it left leaning or right leaning

[Uncle]

is there any popular media that cannot be argued to be leftist because everything is about struggling against some kind of oppression, if you want to torture that word into meaning "any conflict whatsoever"

[Jansen]

They've made the JKR mald thread members only again.   That's my favorite thread... can anyone on the inside go and perform recon there? Emma Watson said something compassionate towards JKR and I'm sure they're really upset about it.

Nothing has been posted in there since Monday.

https://people.com/emma-watson-makes-rare-comments-about-relationship-with-jk-rowling-11816284

Here you go reee's start the outrage post/thread already!

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/no-kings-2-second-nationwide-protest-on-october-18th.1306188/

[Squirrel Killer]

Interesting that someone deleted the vent thread after someone else asked if deleting the thread would constitute destruction of evidence and someone claiming to be a lawyer confirmed that it would but who would possibly know?

[DavidCroquet]

Jimmy Kimmel tonight: “Wow folks these MAGA shooters just won’t quit!”

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Another shooter! This one can't be part of my ideology!

-The Right and Left America

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I also can't believe the world post Charlie Kirk's (PBUH) assassination sparked such fear in Resetera. They had no issue with keeping threads cheering for the assassination attempt on the president of the united states public but the moment conservatives ramp up consequence culture it's time to lock down and hide.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/september-24-2025-one-dead-two-injured-in-apparent-sniper-attack-on-detainees-at-dallas-ice-shooter-is-dead.1307019/page-6#post-145592370

The shooter was unemployed and going to move back in with their parents. Not saying that's a reason for this event, but rising youth unemployment and unemployment in general are often followed by a rise in crime and violence.

Every day, visionaries at Era uncover bold new frontiers of rationalization.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I don't feel sorry for the. AT ALL. IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE GOOD SENSE TO NOT SAY THE THINGS THAT HE SAID HE HAS NO BUSINESS BEING IN THE POSITION THAT HE WAS IN. 

OKAY I DID NOT MEAN FOR THIS TO BE IN ALL CAPS FUCK SPEECH TO TEXT

this is what not listening to soda pop for a day does to a person

[DavidCroquet]

I just know a true leftist assassin would’ve written much cooler zingers on his ammo.