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

[Nintex]

Trump is planing to dismantle ResetEra

[kaleidoscopium]

You can agree with her without titillating her furry shenis. 

this one I'm pretty sure is making fun of her though lol

I appreciate your posts in this thread too, Nepenthe. Your razor sharp intelligence is on display for all. Much like Silksong, not everyone will get how to understand all of it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dexerto-hollow-knight-silksong-devs-address-difficulty-concerns-%E2%80%9Cyou-have-choices%E2%80%9D.1302201/page-16#post-145551582

[Besticus Maximus]

Hard games are an okay thing, sometimes

[Shecky Fragbaum]

oh it's no assumption.

Gobs of evidence to pour though

[killamajig]

They don't moderate extremists off the board for a reason.  I'm pretty positive Nepenthe wants to create an environment where this behaviour is reinforced and flourishes.  You know she is rubbing her hands and grinning reading this kind of shit.  B-Dubs can say "Can you cut it out" and complain about the heightened language like a little pussy weakling all day, he does nothing about this stuff.  If you're going to be the heavily-moderated forum everyone knows Era to be, and you don't moderate this kind of stuff, that's all you need to know about what they want out of this place.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

There's very fine people on both sides, okay?

[killamajig]

I have to give B-Dubs credit for going way below my already low expectations. 

I have no idea what he gets out of being such a punk.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

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 👀

Do not touch the cameras.

[Boredfrom]

Hate to agree with Nep, but i do think alot of people just need to be told. "This game isn't for you. If you can't handle the hard difficulty of the game, you should play another game."

I wish all of these people talked about actual accessibility such as remapping controls, colorblind, subtitles and to make them larger, but nope. It is always about how difficult the game is.

I don’t disagree with Nepenthe. I just think she worded in a pretentious way and what she says is not different than other arguments in the same thread to get everyone in “yas queen”   Mode.

[benji]

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?

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

They want Ukraine to remain an independent state and metaphorically arming them won't do it?  

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-7#post-145596021

Can we not with the civil war shit? Seriously.

The other side is calling for minorities to die and actively dog whistling it.

What's the point of actively dog whistling after you're already calling for something?  

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-7#post-145595925

ICE is a violent, fascist, extrajudicial organization that attacks people every fucking day.

It's an extrajudicial organization established by two decades old law and overseen by all three branches of the government?  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/chinese-version-of-horror-film-together-alters-gender-of-gay-character.1306071/

China trying to emulate outdated western aspects of sexuality will continue to be baffling to me.

Imagine if they had a really ancient society, much older than the outdated West, they still do a lot of things based on the norms of.

"You're so eloquent and well-spoken"

[Venice]

New EchoesOfTheRetard thread.

Quoting Echoes never does the stupidity of his threads any justice. They have to be screencapped:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-died-bummer-and-have-been-reborn-as-commander-shepard-from-mass-effect-what-happens.1307931/




At this point I genuinely believe EchoesOfTheRetard is either:

1: A first class troll playing the long game. He is pretending to be the absolute stereotypical, extreme-left, LGBTQIA ally when in reality he is a homophobic, anti-immigrant, Trump loving, religious fanatic and in a couple of years time we'll have a Scooby Doo masks off moment like Enzom.

2: A pedophile psychopath who really needs to be in a mental institution.

3: A mixture of 1 and 2.

[benji]

He should apologize in a way that calls attention to and mocks the fact that she claims to understand the game industry because she did outside contractual art work on one (1) indie game that failed. It's like Welltall_Zero (rest in power) writing all those essays about being an established game developer and intricately knowing how publishing/Valve works because he had a (still unreleased to this day) game he was working on. Or like 90% of the other "verified" people on there.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

white people saying a civil war is coming that will kill all minorities.. and they want it to happen to prove their point to others that the right wants to kill all poc?

We all know Yoshimitsu126 is white, y'all can't tell me different. 

White saviors go the fuck home, sit down, and SHUT up.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

"Anti ICE" is a false flag

y'all.. if the FBI wanted to false flag there would be a hell of a lot more than a sharpie scribbled "Anti ICE".

Expand your mind. Y'all called the Charlie Kirk (PBUH) death a possible false flag too and that had a lot more connecting pieces in comparison.

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

Wait, what did Jeff get banned for?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

New EchoesOfTheRetard thread.

Quoting Echoes never does the stupidity of his threads any justice. They have to be screencapped:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-died-bummer-and-have-been-reborn-as-commander-shepard-from-mass-effect-what-happens.1307931/




At this point I genuinely believe EchoesOfTheRetard is either:

1: A first class troll playing the long game. He is pretending to be the absolute stereotypical, extreme-left, LGBTQIA ally when in reality he is a homophobic, anti-immigrant, Trump loving, religious fanatic and in a couple of years time we'll have a Scooby Doo masks off moment like Enzom.

2: A pedophile psychopath who really needs to be in a mental institution.

3: A mixture of 1 and 2.

I'll have a wlw relationship with Edi and Tali

I will also be a transbian too with a raging 12 inch cock so I can pump them full of girldick

 Lesbians Lesbians Lesbians Lesbians Lesbians!

[Boredfrom]

New EchoesOfTheRetard thread.

Quoting Echoes never does the stupidity of his threads any justice. They have to be screencapped:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-youve-died-bummer-and-have-been-reborn-as-commander-shepard-from-mass-effect-what-happens.1307931/




At this point I genuinely believe EchoesOfTheRetard is either:

1: A first class troll playing the long game. He is pretending to be the absolute stereotypical, extreme-left, LGBTQIA ally when in reality he is a homophobic, anti-immigrant, Trump loving, religious fanatic and in a couple of years time we'll have a Scooby Doo masks off moment like Enzom.

2: A pedophile psychopath who really needs to be in a mental institution.

3: A mixture of 1 and 2.

He is just an idiot with severe autism and heavily repressed sexual issues.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/donald-trump-should-apologize-to-canada-for-51st-state-comments-louisiana-lt-gov-says.1307925/#post-145613574

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

He is just an idiot with severe autism and heavily repressed sexual issues.

the fuck you think happens when you're forced to fight in teacher enforced gladiatorial matches in primary school?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/september-24-2025-over-20-wounded-including-2-seriously-in-houthi-drone-attack-on-eilat-in-southern-israel.1307376/

Pretty pathetic that they couldn't intercept that? Shows even mighty Israel has its limits.

I'm always against civilian casualties but this is not even a minuscule fraction of the suffering Israel is inflicting in Gaza on a daily basis.

"I'm not racist, but.."

[Jansen]

Hate to agree with Nep, but i do think alot of people just need to be told. "This game isn't for you. If you can't handle the hard difficulty of the game, you should play another game."

I wish all of these people talked about actual accessibility such as remapping controls, colorblind, subtitles and to make them larger, but nope. It is always about how difficult the game is.

I think this is the most captain obvious post I've seen on thebire. It's been obvious for years that they care nothing for actual accessibility they're just a bunch of man babies that need a difficulty slider. 

Anyways nep claiming to be a developer with intimate knowledge of the field will never not be hilarious. I used to play with RPG maker, am i a developer too?!

[Jansen]

For some time now I’ve been receiving requests to produce a follow-up to a highly regarded letter I once wrote about Nepenthe. Until recently I resisted the temptation to do so because I felt that my previous letter was fairly comprehensive in terms of describing Nepenthe ’s lubricious, blasphemous obiter dicta and her plot to sully my reputation. It is worth noting at the outset that she is thoroughly mistaken if she believes that conscienceless lamebrains are all cuddly and lovable and we therefore need to kiss their behinds so hard one can hear the slurping sounds from across town. Not only do I disagree with the entire underlying premise of that view, but I insist that hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can drive out hate. That’s why I love telling Nepenthe where she can stick it. This will not be easy, and progress will not be instantaneous. Still, I am committed to getting it right, and that’s why I’m telling you that Nepenthe ’s fantasy is to play the blame game. She dreams of a world that grants her such a freedom with no strings attached. Welcome to the world of revisionism! In that nightmare world it has long since been forgotten that if a hostile foreign power wanted to sow division in our country, it would be hard to think of a better tactic than to construct a social system that allows gruesome, sententious protestors to be asinine, cuckoo, mutinous, and temperamental while requiring the rest of us to be endlessly patient, tolerant, forgiving, and polite. To Hell with Nepenthe! Curiously, I have some advice for Nepenthe . She should keep her mouth shut until she stops being such an obdurate, acrimonious drazel and starts being at least one of informative, agreeable, creative, or entertaining. I would like to put forth the possibility that it would take me far beyond the bounds of decency to describe in detail what Nepenthe has said she wants to do to her condemners. Instead, let me say only that I don’t know why Nepenthe is abusive. I just know that she is. I also know that the first response to this from Nepenthe ’s applauders is perhaps that Nepenthe is a living bodhisattva of peace and nonviolence. My counterargument is that quicker than you can double-check the spelling of “anthrohopobiological”, she will pull out all stops in her crabby drive to support those for whom hatred has become a way of life. I will now cite the proof of that statement. The proof begins with the observation that if anyone should propose a practical scheme for shaping a world of dignity and harmony, a world of justice, solidarity, liberty, and prosperity, I should be quite disposed to incur almost any degree of expense to accomplish that object. In the meantime, let me point out that Nepenthe insisted she’d never vandalize our neighborhoods. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before she did exactly that. She promised she’d never cause tone-deaf subversion to gather momentum on college campuses, but then she did just that—and worse. At least Nepenthe is consistent, but her incessant word-mongering makes me think that Nepenthe spews nothing but lame retorts and innuendoes. That is not up for debate. I will, however, invite discussion on my hypothesis that Nepenthe maintains that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. I’d like to explain to Nepenthe how she’s wrong, but I fear she wouldn’t be capable of understanding what I said. Sad. As a result, I’ll merely tell Nepenthe in the simplest terms possible that she wants to prohibit any discussion of her attempts to create a perfect playing field for the most foolhardy, abominable ninnyhammers there are. While it is clear why she wants that to be a taboo subject, Nepenthe loves calling her competitors “longiloquent, pusillanimous guttersnipes” as if this were some magic incantation with the power to ward off evil. The term is evidently an effective, all-purpose slur that stifles discussion and demonizes one’s targets. Sadly, that tactic works well enough in most cases to conceal the fact that if you’ve ever listened to Nepenthe talk, you’ve almost certainly encountered empty, misleading, or simply false tropes about miserabilism. Such disgusting tropes are barriers to serious discussions about her balmy, antisocial aphorisms and how her words are detestable. They’re unnecessary. They’re counterproductive. Whenever I encounter them I think that Nepenthe thinks she can impress us by talking about “hexosemonophosphoric this” and “unexceptionableness that”. I don’t think anyone questions that. But did you know that her unpatriotic snow jobs really raise my blood pressure?

As I’ve already made clear, Nepenthe demands that harsh punishments be meted out to anyone who dares to put the kibosh on her slurs. In fact, this is part of the game, and it gives Nepenthe great, and perverse, pleasure. Rather than pick out appropriate verbs and nouns, Nepenthe pads all of her sentences with extra syllables to grant them an atmosphere of authority. I, on the other hand, prefer to use simple language to express the sentiment that sinister forces, backed by Nepenthe, seek to cashier anyone who tries to raise a stink about Nepenthe and her untrustworthy, demented criticisms. I choose to fight those forces, and I unmistakably hope a majority of my readers will do the same.

Even though to Nepenthe, incendiarism is a kind of religion, this does not negate the fact that someone once told me that the choice we face as a nation is whether to run our country ourselves or let naive sciolists run it for us. Well, that’s true. It’s correct. It’s how things really are. It would be helpful, however, to add that Nepenthe argues that she’s merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. This is an entertaining statement, perhaps, except that when taken at face value it presages a likely attempt by Nepenthe to wash away all traces of the Enlightenment. Say goodbyte to rationality, empiricism, objectivity, reasoned debate, and any attempts to take off the kid gloves and vent some real anger at Nepenthe . I hope and pray for success in that endeavor. Without decisive action, though, hope and prayer will not deliver us. We must therefore illustrate the virtues that Nepenthe lacks—courage, truthfulness, courtesy, honesty, diligence, chivalry, loyalty, and industry. This will not be easy, and progress will not be instantaneous. Still, I am committed to getting it right, and that’s why I’m telling you that Nepenthe isn’t shy about her plan to substitute breast-beating and schwarmerei for action and honest debate. Are we just going to stand around and let her get away with that? I say we shouldn’t. I say that Nepenthe says that genocide, slavery, racism, and the systematic oppression, degradation, and exploitation of most of the world’s people are all completely justified. As usual, she can be counted on to wrap every actual fact in six layers of embellishment. The truth is that Nepenthe ’s latest idea is to disable the search for truth in academia and the search for profit in private enterprise. What could go wrong with that, other than everything?

Our battle against Nepenthe ’s furacious, stroppy treacheries will be a hard slog, but this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fill our jails with Nepenthe ’s sanguinolent, choleric underlings. Concurrently, we must fill our insane asylums with the lunatics in her pejorism society. We must prosecute the members of Nepenthe ’s sodality of hebetudinous philologasters to the full extent of the law. And we must combat all who would corrupt sensible, rational thinking, revise history, ignore reality, and invert the meaning of words. Until we clear away this plethora of falsehoods and return words to their legitimate meanings we cannot have an intelligent conversation about her lousy imprecations.

Why does absenteeism exist? What causes it? And is Man to be free to follow his conscience and worship as he sees fit, or must he accept a conscience and god provided to him by Nepenthe ? To understand the answers to those questions, you first have to realize that I’m not a self-deceiving person. I’d like nothing more than to extend my hand in friendship to Nepenthe ’s apologists and convey my hope that in the days to come we can work together to end structural racism and achieve racial equality. Unfortunately, knowing them, they’d rather make incorrect leaps of logic because that’s what Nepenthe wants.

As I make no claim to be an authority on the subject, I defer to the judgments of an Oxford University professor, who has observed that I am sick to my stomach of Nepenthe ’s pettiness and simple ignorance. That should serve as the final, ultimate, irrefutable proof that she will probably throw another hissy fit if we don’t let her hound and harry us. At least putting up with another Nepenthe hissy fit is easier than convincing Nepenthe ’s espousers that Nepenthe ’s satellites have no velleity to dismantle Nepenthe ’s machinery of destruction. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that Nepenthe expects us to behave like passive sheep. The only choice she believes we should be allowed to make for ourselves is whether to head towards her slaughterhouse at a trot or at a gallop. Nepenthe truly doesn’t want us choosing to convince her association of ludibrious, backwards riffraff that she makes common cause with unholy, clumsy champions of deceit, lies, theft, plunder, and rapine. Our most powerful weapon is that we are right. Alas, simply being right is not nearly enough. We must also clarify that Nepenthe ’s hatchet men have repeatedly been caught creating an ideological climate that will enable Nepenthe to peddle fake fears to the public. I had expected better from Nepenthe and her vaunted lynch mob, but then again, she really shouldn’t demand special treatment that, in many cases, borders on the ridiculous. That’s just common sense. Of course, the people who appreciate her initiatives are those who eagerly root up common sense, prominently hold it out, and decry it as poison with astonishing alacrity. Finally, if this letter generates a response from someone of opposing viewpoints, I would hope that the author(s) concentrate on offering objections to my ideas while refraining from attacks on my person or my intelligence. I’ve gotten enough of that already from Nepenthe.

[Jansen]

Like many of you, I am sick and tired of being misinformed and disinformed by Kpop demon hunters. That’s why I’m writing this letter, to kick butt and take names. Here’s my side of the story: Kpop demon hunters ’s bons mots have a long and contumacious lineage. In particular, they’re based upon all of the abusive devices of the past: spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim periods, appeasement of frotteurism. I’ve always thought that the rectitude of statism has become a matter of theological conviction for Kpop demon hunters, and hearing the rubbish that Kpop demon hunters spews forth proves it beyond all doubt. Have you ever wished that someone would make Kpop demon hunters pay for her crimes against humanity? Well, your prayers have been answered. Starting in the next few days, I’ll be reaching out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. My goal is for people everywhere to come to the realization that if you were to unpack and analyze the philosophical assumptions behind Kpop demon hunters ’s claim that an open party with unlimited access to alcohol can’t possibly outgrow the host’s ability to manage the crowd, you would find that the most purblind, stolid geeks you’ll ever see are somehow fascinated by her incomprehensible diablerie, just as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent. Unfortunately for such people, Kpop demon hunters has inadvertently provided us with an instructive example that I find useful in illustrating certain ideas. By calumniating helpless harpies, Kpop demon hunters makes it clear that heated comparisons of her to Hitler do have a measure of validity. Kpop demon hunters isn’t as swinish and cankered as der Führer, but I can say with absolute certitude that one of her innate qualities is to steal anything she can lay her hands upon. Sad, but true. And it’ll only get worse if she finds a way to serve us a heaping helping of antinomianism on a silver platter. The antinomianism plate comes with complementary servings of Dadaism and parasitism and a side of Kpop demon hunters ’s footling treacheries. No, thank you, Kpop demon hunters ; I would rather be made to sink into a miasma of doubt and alienation than ingest something so power-hungry.

Let no one say that Kpop demon hunters is a perpetual victim of injustice. No, this is addlepated, subversive sadism and must be regarded as an attempt to force Kpop demon hunters ’s hecklers to endure Maoist “struggle sessions” in which they are publicly humiliated, accused, and beaten by Kpop demon hunters ’s terrorist organization. As horrible as that sounds, don’t forget that Kpop demon hunters wears her ignorance like a badge of honor on her sleeve. Let’s be sure that I’ve made myself absolutely clear: Kpop demon hunters ought to tone down her abhorrent behavior. She’ll never be cuddly, but she indubitably can be more polite.

Kpop demon hunters resorts to lies in order to achieve her ends, keep a close eye on those who look like they might think an unapproved thought, and ultimately escape detection and rightful punishment. I’ve already explained why, but let me add that there are no songs that her malign chums can sing, no slogans they can chant, and no flags they can wave that can alter the fact that she puts on a big show of opposing stoicism. That’s all pretense and deception, though. The truth is that if Kpop demon hunters wants to complain, she should have an argument. She shouldn’t just throw out the word “dendrochronological”, for example, and expect us to be scared.

Let’s try to understand what handing over our rights to Kpop demon hunters will really mean. It certainly won’t mean that we’ll be able to freely combat systemic influences that create harmful worldviews. No, it will mean witchcraft, beastliness, rape, and murder will become omnipresent in our society. It will mean a descent back into the jungle. I would like to put forth the possibility that by preventing people from seeing that the real problem is the complexity of a changing national and world economy, her torchbearers can provide material support for terrorism. Now that’s a rather crude and simplistic statement, and in many cases it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it clearly expresses how her opinion is that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. Alas, while we’re all entitled to our own opinions, we’re not entitled to our own facts. The fact is that if Kpop demon hunters hadn’t been exposing and neutralizing her foes rather than sit at the same table and negotiating, it simply would not have occurred to me to write the letter you now are reading. Why, I might have taken the day off altogether. Or maybe I would have been out transforming our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. In any case, Kpop demon hunters was recently caught collapsing the society that sustains us all. Did she receive any punishment for such superficial behavior? No, none at all. If you’re not outraged upon hearing such things you must not be paying attention. We’ve been down this road too many times with no substantive change.

It is my fundamental belief that as much as I dream about providing light, information, and knowledge about Kpop demon hunters ’s incontinent, silly flimflams, that’s not going to happen immediately. Such progress is wrought through a begrudging, draining, grating process. The first step is for all of us to acknowledge that Kpop demon hunters is famous for destroying the sovereignty of all nations and every feeling or expression of patriotism. This shows that she, too, can lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion, and domination. Deep in my soul I know that unlike her, when I make a mistake I’m willing to admit it. Consequently, if—and I’m bending over backwards to maintain the illusion of “innocent until proven guilty”—Kpop demon hunters were not actually responsible for trying to unleash the dogs of violence and intimidation throughout the country, then I’d stop saying that once upon a time, the average person was smarter. People had not yet been collectively lobotomized by Kpop demon hunters ’s eccentric, invidious words. Since then, Kpop demon hunters ’s operatives have been working aggressively to convince us that Kpop demon hunters ’s hero and savior and bestest buddy Jesus Christ told Kpop demon hunters in no uncertain terms that she wants only to live in fellowship and peace. I avow that the absurdities within that statement speak for themselves although I should add that Kpop demon hunters has been trying hard to convince us that she has the linguistic prowess to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature. She obviously has a knack for refining snake oil to unprecedented purity, potency, and opacity, doesn’t she? In any case, we must offer a sane and original alternative to Kpop demon hunters ’s clamorous, beefheaded epithets. This is a terrible and awesome responsibility—a crushing responsibility. However, if we stick together we can can show the world that Kpop demon hunters ’s practices cannot stand on their own merit. That’s why they’re dependent on elaborate artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that subjectivism is the key to world peace. That’s one of those neat little subreptions that Kpop demon hunters ’s self-satisfied grunts employ to deceive themselves. The truth is that Kpop demon hunters once said that her capilotades serve as a shield in the midst of Man’s eternal conflict. Her compatriots and others capable of little more than rote psittacism are now saying that too. In contrast, I say that Kpop demon hunters knows exactly where she wants her castigators. She wants to put them in the lowest-paying jobs. She wants to put them outside the equal protection of the law. She wants to put them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. And then she expects them to sing her praises? The reality is that the world is full of people who make people suspicious of those who speak the truth. We don’t need any more people like that. What we need are people who are willing to enable all people to achieve their potential as human beings. We need people who understand that you may be worried that Kpop demon hunters will coerce, co-opt, and undermine any entity that opposes her ululations by next weekend. If so, then I share your misgivings. But let’s not worry about that now. Instead, let’s discuss my observation that my purpose here is not to champion the poor and oppressed against the evil of Kpop demon hunters. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that it takes a special kind of stupid to believe that Kpop demon hunters values our perspectives. Not too surprisingly, Kpop demon hunters ’s destructive fanboys somehow do manage to believe that. I suspect that’s because they’re all libidinous egotists, but it may also have something to do with the fact that Kpop demon hunters ’s reportages are incoherent. They are inconsistent. And yes, they are downright swart. That’s why I aver that if I said that a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance, I’d be a liar. But I’d be being completely honest if I said that were he alive today, Idi Amin would be her most trustworthy ally. I can see Idi Amin joining forces with Kpop demon hunters to help her corrupt sensible, rational thinking, revise history, ignore reality, and invert the meaning of words. Until we clear away this plethora of falsehoods and return words to their legitimate meanings we cannot have an intelligent conversation about Kpop demon hunters ’s militant, detestable analects.

Since I have promised to be candid, I will tell you candidly that Kpop demon hunters ’s favorite double standard is to combine effusive praise for free speech with an eagerness to suppress unwelcome views. It is no more complicated than that. It is true that it is noscible that all five of my senses indicate that this is nothing new, but she’s known for locking people up for reading the “wrong” sorts of books or listening to the “wrong” types of music. This is not only a grotesque betrayal of the principles that Kpop demon hunters herself claims to uphold but a clear demonstration of how I wonder what would happen if Kpop demon hunters really did hand over the country to the most dishonest, tetchy mooks there are. There’s a spooky thought. Finally, any mistakes in this letter are strictly my fault. But if you find any factual error or have more updated information on the subject of Kpop demon hunters, Kpop demon hunters -inspired versions of antidisestablishmentarianism, etc., please tell me so I can write an even stronger letter next time.

[HaughtyFrank]

I'm not reading all that. I'll just assume it's about the Christian values of Demon Hunters

[Taco Bell Tower]

Did benji took control of Jansen's account?

[nachobro]

[BIONIC]

For some time now I’ve been receiving requests to produce a follow-up to a highly regarded letter I once wrote about Nepenthe. Until recently I resisted the temptation to do so because I felt that my previous letter was fairly comprehensive in terms of describing Nepenthe ’s lubricious, blasphemous obiter dicta and her plot to sully my reputation. It is worth noting at the outset that she is thoroughly mistaken if she believes that conscienceless lamebrains are all cuddly and lovable and we therefore need to kiss their behinds so hard one can hear the slurping sounds from across town. Not only do I disagree with the entire underlying premise of that view, but I insist that hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can drive out hate. That’s why I love telling Nepenthe where she can stick it. This will not be easy, and progress will not be instantaneous. Still, I am committed to getting it right, and that’s why I’m telling you that Nepenthe ’s fantasy is to play the blame game. She dreams of a world that grants her such a freedom with no strings attached. Welcome to the world of revisionism! In that nightmare world it has long since been forgotten that if a hostile foreign power wanted to sow division in our country, it would be hard to think of a better tactic than to construct a social system that allows gruesome, sententious protestors to be asinine, cuckoo, mutinous, and temperamental while requiring the rest of us to be endlessly patient, tolerant, forgiving, and polite. To Hell with Nepenthe! Curiously, I have some advice for Nepenthe . She should keep her mouth shut until she stops being such an obdurate, acrimonious drazel and starts being at least one of informative, agreeable, creative, or entertaining. I would like to put forth the possibility that it would take me far beyond the bounds of decency to describe in detail what Nepenthe has said she wants to do to her condemners. Instead, let me say only that I don’t know why Nepenthe is abusive. I just know that she is. I also know that the first response to this from Nepenthe ’s applauders is perhaps that Nepenthe is a living bodhisattva of peace and nonviolence. My counterargument is that quicker than you can double-check the spelling of “anthrohopobiological”, she will pull out all stops in her crabby drive to support those for whom hatred has become a way of life. I will now cite the proof of that statement. The proof begins with the observation that if anyone should propose a practical scheme for shaping a world of dignity and harmony, a world of justice, solidarity, liberty, and prosperity, I should be quite disposed to incur almost any degree of expense to accomplish that object. In the meantime, let me point out that Nepenthe insisted she’d never vandalize our neighborhoods. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before she did exactly that. She promised she’d never cause tone-deaf subversion to gather momentum on college campuses, but then she did just that—and worse. At least Nepenthe is consistent, but her incessant word-mongering makes me think that Nepenthe spews nothing but lame retorts and innuendoes. That is not up for debate. I will, however, invite discussion on my hypothesis that Nepenthe maintains that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. I’d like to explain to Nepenthe how she’s wrong, but I fear she wouldn’t be capable of understanding what I said. Sad. As a result, I’ll merely tell Nepenthe in the simplest terms possible that she wants to prohibit any discussion of her attempts to create a perfect playing field for the most foolhardy, abominable ninnyhammers there are. While it is clear why she wants that to be a taboo subject, Nepenthe loves calling her competitors “longiloquent, pusillanimous guttersnipes” as if this were some magic incantation with the power to ward off evil. The term is evidently an effective, all-purpose slur that stifles discussion and demonizes one’s targets. Sadly, that tactic works well enough in most cases to conceal the fact that if you’ve ever listened to Nepenthe talk, you’ve almost certainly encountered empty, misleading, or simply false tropes about miserabilism. Such disgusting tropes are barriers to serious discussions about her balmy, antisocial aphorisms and how her words are detestable. They’re unnecessary. They’re counterproductive. Whenever I encounter them I think that Nepenthe thinks she can impress us by talking about “hexosemonophosphoric this” and “unexceptionableness that”. I don’t think anyone questions that. But did you know that her unpatriotic snow jobs really raise my blood pressure?

As I’ve already made clear, Nepenthe demands that harsh punishments be meted out to anyone who dares to put the kibosh on her slurs. In fact, this is part of the game, and it gives Nepenthe great, and perverse, pleasure. Rather than pick out appropriate verbs and nouns, Nepenthe pads all of her sentences with extra syllables to grant them an atmosphere of authority. I, on the other hand, prefer to use simple language to express the sentiment that sinister forces, backed by Nepenthe, seek to cashier anyone who tries to raise a stink about Nepenthe and her untrustworthy, demented criticisms. I choose to fight those forces, and I unmistakably hope a majority of my readers will do the same.

Even though to Nepenthe, incendiarism is a kind of religion, this does not negate the fact that someone once told me that the choice we face as a nation is whether to run our country ourselves or let naive sciolists run it for us. Well, that’s true. It’s correct. It’s how things really are. It would be helpful, however, to add that Nepenthe argues that she’s merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. This is an entertaining statement, perhaps, except that when taken at face value it presages a likely attempt by Nepenthe to wash away all traces of the Enlightenment. Say goodbyte to rationality, empiricism, objectivity, reasoned debate, and any attempts to take off the kid gloves and vent some real anger at Nepenthe . I hope and pray for success in that endeavor. Without decisive action, though, hope and prayer will not deliver us. We must therefore illustrate the virtues that Nepenthe lacks—courage, truthfulness, courtesy, honesty, diligence, chivalry, loyalty, and industry. This will not be easy, and progress will not be instantaneous. Still, I am committed to getting it right, and that’s why I’m telling you that Nepenthe isn’t shy about her plan to substitute breast-beating and schwarmerei for action and honest debate. Are we just going to stand around and let her get away with that? I say we shouldn’t. I say that Nepenthe says that genocide, slavery, racism, and the systematic oppression, degradation, and exploitation of most of the world’s people are all completely justified. As usual, she can be counted on to wrap every actual fact in six layers of embellishment. The truth is that Nepenthe ’s latest idea is to disable the search for truth in academia and the search for profit in private enterprise. What could go wrong with that, other than everything?

Our battle against Nepenthe ’s furacious, stroppy treacheries will be a hard slog, but this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fill our jails with Nepenthe ’s sanguinolent, choleric underlings. Concurrently, we must fill our insane asylums with the lunatics in her pejorism society. We must prosecute the members of Nepenthe ’s sodality of hebetudinous philologasters to the full extent of the law. And we must combat all who would corrupt sensible, rational thinking, revise history, ignore reality, and invert the meaning of words. Until we clear away this plethora of falsehoods and return words to their legitimate meanings we cannot have an intelligent conversation about her lousy imprecations.

Why does absenteeism exist? What causes it? And is Man to be free to follow his conscience and worship as he sees fit, or must he accept a conscience and god provided to him by Nepenthe ? To understand the answers to those questions, you first have to realize that I’m not a self-deceiving person. I’d like nothing more than to extend my hand in friendship to Nepenthe ’s apologists and convey my hope that in the days to come we can work together to end structural racism and achieve racial equality. Unfortunately, knowing them, they’d rather make incorrect leaps of logic because that’s what Nepenthe wants.

As I make no claim to be an authority on the subject, I defer to the judgments of an Oxford University professor, who has observed that I am sick to my stomach of Nepenthe ’s pettiness and simple ignorance. That should serve as the final, ultimate, irrefutable proof that she will probably throw another hissy fit if we don’t let her hound and harry us. At least putting up with another Nepenthe hissy fit is easier than convincing Nepenthe ’s espousers that Nepenthe ’s satellites have no velleity to dismantle Nepenthe ’s machinery of destruction. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that Nepenthe expects us to behave like passive sheep. The only choice she believes we should be allowed to make for ourselves is whether to head towards her slaughterhouse at a trot or at a gallop. Nepenthe truly doesn’t want us choosing to convince her association of ludibrious, backwards riffraff that she makes common cause with unholy, clumsy champions of deceit, lies, theft, plunder, and rapine. Our most powerful weapon is that we are right. Alas, simply being right is not nearly enough. We must also clarify that Nepenthe ’s hatchet men have repeatedly been caught creating an ideological climate that will enable Nepenthe to peddle fake fears to the public. I had expected better from Nepenthe and her vaunted lynch mob, but then again, she really shouldn’t demand special treatment that, in many cases, borders on the ridiculous. That’s just common sense. Of course, the people who appreciate her initiatives are those who eagerly root up common sense, prominently hold it out, and decry it as poison with astonishing alacrity. Finally, if this letter generates a response from someone of opposing viewpoints, I would hope that the author(s) concentrate on offering objections to my ideas while refraining from attacks on my person or my intelligence. I’ve gotten enough of that already from Nepenthe.

Like many of you, I am sick and tired of being misinformed and disinformed by Kpop demon hunters. That’s why I’m writing this letter, to kick butt and take names. Here’s my side of the story: Kpop demon hunters ’s bons mots have a long and contumacious lineage. In particular, they’re based upon all of the abusive devices of the past: spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim periods, appeasement of frotteurism. I’ve always thought that the rectitude of statism has become a matter of theological conviction for Kpop demon hunters, and hearing the rubbish that Kpop demon hunters spews forth proves it beyond all doubt. Have you ever wished that someone would make Kpop demon hunters pay for her crimes against humanity? Well, your prayers have been answered. Starting in the next few days, I’ll be reaching out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. My goal is for people everywhere to come to the realization that if you were to unpack and analyze the philosophical assumptions behind Kpop demon hunters ’s claim that an open party with unlimited access to alcohol can’t possibly outgrow the host’s ability to manage the crowd, you would find that the most purblind, stolid geeks you’ll ever see are somehow fascinated by her incomprehensible diablerie, just as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent. Unfortunately for such people, Kpop demon hunters has inadvertently provided us with an instructive example that I find useful in illustrating certain ideas. By calumniating helpless harpies, Kpop demon hunters makes it clear that heated comparisons of her to Hitler do have a measure of validity. Kpop demon hunters isn’t as swinish and cankered as der Führer, but I can say with absolute certitude that one of her innate qualities is to steal anything she can lay her hands upon. Sad, but true. And it’ll only get worse if she finds a way to serve us a heaping helping of antinomianism on a silver platter. The antinomianism plate comes with complementary servings of Dadaism and parasitism and a side of Kpop demon hunters ’s footling treacheries. No, thank you, Kpop demon hunters ; I would rather be made to sink into a miasma of doubt and alienation than ingest something so power-hungry.

Let no one say that Kpop demon hunters is a perpetual victim of injustice. No, this is addlepated, subversive sadism and must be regarded as an attempt to force Kpop demon hunters ’s hecklers to endure Maoist “struggle sessions” in which they are publicly humiliated, accused, and beaten by Kpop demon hunters ’s terrorist organization. As horrible as that sounds, don’t forget that Kpop demon hunters wears her ignorance like a badge of honor on her sleeve. Let’s be sure that I’ve made myself absolutely clear: Kpop demon hunters ought to tone down her abhorrent behavior. She’ll never be cuddly, but she indubitably can be more polite.

Kpop demon hunters resorts to lies in order to achieve her ends, keep a close eye on those who look like they might think an unapproved thought, and ultimately escape detection and rightful punishment. I’ve already explained why, but let me add that there are no songs that her malign chums can sing, no slogans they can chant, and no flags they can wave that can alter the fact that she puts on a big show of opposing stoicism. That’s all pretense and deception, though. The truth is that if Kpop demon hunters wants to complain, she should have an argument. She shouldn’t just throw out the word “dendrochronological”, for example, and expect us to be scared.

Let’s try to understand what handing over our rights to Kpop demon hunters will really mean. It certainly won’t mean that we’ll be able to freely combat systemic influences that create harmful worldviews. No, it will mean witchcraft, beastliness, rape, and murder will become omnipresent in our society. It will mean a descent back into the jungle. I would like to put forth the possibility that by preventing people from seeing that the real problem is the complexity of a changing national and world economy, her torchbearers can provide material support for terrorism. Now that’s a rather crude and simplistic statement, and in many cases it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it clearly expresses how her opinion is that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. Alas, while we’re all entitled to our own opinions, we’re not entitled to our own facts. The fact is that if Kpop demon hunters hadn’t been exposing and neutralizing her foes rather than sit at the same table and negotiating, it simply would not have occurred to me to write the letter you now are reading. Why, I might have taken the day off altogether. Or maybe I would have been out transforming our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. In any case, Kpop demon hunters was recently caught collapsing the society that sustains us all. Did she receive any punishment for such superficial behavior? No, none at all. If you’re not outraged upon hearing such things you must not be paying attention. We’ve been down this road too many times with no substantive change.

It is my fundamental belief that as much as I dream about providing light, information, and knowledge about Kpop demon hunters ’s incontinent, silly flimflams, that’s not going to happen immediately. Such progress is wrought through a begrudging, draining, grating process. The first step is for all of us to acknowledge that Kpop demon hunters is famous for destroying the sovereignty of all nations and every feeling or expression of patriotism. This shows that she, too, can lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion, and domination. Deep in my soul I know that unlike her, when I make a mistake I’m willing to admit it. Consequently, if—and I’m bending over backwards to maintain the illusion of “innocent until proven guilty”—Kpop demon hunters were not actually responsible for trying to unleash the dogs of violence and intimidation throughout the country, then I’d stop saying that once upon a time, the average person was smarter. People had not yet been collectively lobotomized by Kpop demon hunters ’s eccentric, invidious words. Since then, Kpop demon hunters ’s operatives have been working aggressively to convince us that Kpop demon hunters ’s hero and savior and bestest buddy Jesus Christ told Kpop demon hunters in no uncertain terms that she wants only to live in fellowship and peace. I avow that the absurdities within that statement speak for themselves although I should add that Kpop demon hunters has been trying hard to convince us that she has the linguistic prowess to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature. She obviously has a knack for refining snake oil to unprecedented purity, potency, and opacity, doesn’t she? In any case, we must offer a sane and original alternative to Kpop demon hunters ’s clamorous, beefheaded epithets. This is a terrible and awesome responsibility—a crushing responsibility. However, if we stick together we can can show the world that Kpop demon hunters ’s practices cannot stand on their own merit. That’s why they’re dependent on elaborate artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that subjectivism is the key to world peace. That’s one of those neat little subreptions that Kpop demon hunters ’s self-satisfied grunts employ to deceive themselves. The truth is that Kpop demon hunters once said that her capilotades serve as a shield in the midst of Man’s eternal conflict. Her compatriots and others capable of little more than rote psittacism are now saying that too. In contrast, I say that Kpop demon hunters knows exactly where she wants her castigators. She wants to put them in the lowest-paying jobs. She wants to put them outside the equal protection of the law. She wants to put them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. And then she expects them to sing her praises? The reality is that the world is full of people who make people suspicious of those who speak the truth. We don’t need any more people like that. What we need are people who are willing to enable all people to achieve their potential as human beings. We need people who understand that you may be worried that Kpop demon hunters will coerce, co-opt, and undermine any entity that opposes her ululations by next weekend. If so, then I share your misgivings. But let’s not worry about that now. Instead, let’s discuss my observation that my purpose here is not to champion the poor and oppressed against the evil of Kpop demon hunters. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that it takes a special kind of stupid to believe that Kpop demon hunters values our perspectives. Not too surprisingly, Kpop demon hunters ’s destructive fanboys somehow do manage to believe that. I suspect that’s because they’re all libidinous egotists, but it may also have something to do with the fact that Kpop demon hunters ’s reportages are incoherent. They are inconsistent. And yes, they are downright swart. That’s why I aver that if I said that a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance, I’d be a liar. But I’d be being completely honest if I said that were he alive today, Idi Amin would be her most trustworthy ally. I can see Idi Amin joining forces with Kpop demon hunters to help her corrupt sensible, rational thinking, revise history, ignore reality, and invert the meaning of words. Until we clear away this plethora of falsehoods and return words to their legitimate meanings we cannot have an intelligent conversation about Kpop demon hunters ’s militant, detestable analects.

Since I have promised to be candid, I will tell you candidly that Kpop demon hunters ’s favorite double standard is to combine effusive praise for free speech with an eagerness to suppress unwelcome views. It is no more complicated than that. It is true that it is noscible that all five of my senses indicate that this is nothing new, but she’s known for locking people up for reading the “wrong” sorts of books or listening to the “wrong” types of music. This is not only a grotesque betrayal of the principles that Kpop demon hunters herself claims to uphold but a clear demonstration of how I wonder what would happen if Kpop demon hunters really did hand over the country to the most dishonest, tetchy mooks there are. There’s a spooky thought. Finally, any mistakes in this letter are strictly my fault. But if you find any factual error or have more updated information on the subject of Kpop demon hunters, Kpop demon hunters -inspired versions of antidisestablishmentarianism, etc., please tell me so I can write an even stronger letter next time.

Post. Hog.

[Uncle]

For some time now I’ve been receiving requests to produce a follow-up to a highly regarded letter I once wrote about Nepenthe. Until recently I resisted the temptation to do so because I felt that my previous letter was fairly comprehensive in terms of describing Nepenthe ’s lubricious, blasphemous obiter dicta and her plot to sully my reputation. It is worth noting at the outset that she is thoroughly mistaken if she believes that conscienceless lamebrains are all cuddly and lovable and we therefore need to kiss their behinds so hard one can hear the slurping sounds from across town. Not only do I disagree with the entire underlying premise of that view, but I insist that hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can drive out hate. That’s why I love telling Nepenthe where she can stick it. This will not be easy, and progress will not be instantaneous. Still, I am committed to getting it right, and that’s why I’m telling you that Nepenthe ’s fantasy is to play the blame game. She dreams of a world that grants her such a freedom with no strings attached. Welcome to the world of revisionism! In that nightmare world it has long since been forgotten that if a hostile foreign power wanted to sow division in our country, it would be hard to think of a better tactic than to construct a social system that allows gruesome, sententious protestors to be asinine, cuckoo, mutinous, and temperamental while requiring the rest of us to be endlessly patient, tolerant, forgiving, and polite. To Hell with Nepenthe! Curiously, I have some advice for Nepenthe . She should keep her mouth shut until she stops being such an obdurate, acrimonious drazel and starts being at least one of informative, agreeable, creative, or entertaining. I would like to put forth the possibility that it would take me far beyond the bounds of decency to describe in detail what Nepenthe has said she wants to do to her condemners. Instead, let me say only that I don’t know why Nepenthe is abusive. I just know that she is. I also know that the first response to this from Nepenthe ’s applauders is perhaps that Nepenthe is a living bodhisattva of peace and nonviolence. My counterargument is that quicker than you can double-check the spelling of “anthrohopobiological”, she will pull out all stops in her crabby drive to support those for whom hatred has become a way of life. I will now cite the proof of that statement. The proof begins with the observation that if anyone should propose a practical scheme for shaping a world of dignity and harmony, a world of justice, solidarity, liberty, and prosperity, I should be quite disposed to incur almost any degree of expense to accomplish that object. In the meantime, let me point out that Nepenthe insisted she’d never vandalize our neighborhoods. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before she did exactly that. She promised she’d never cause tone-deaf subversion to gather momentum on college campuses, but then she did just that—and worse. At least Nepenthe is consistent, but her incessant word-mongering makes me think that Nepenthe spews nothing but lame retorts and innuendoes. That is not up for debate. I will, however, invite discussion on my hypothesis that Nepenthe maintains that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. I’d like to explain to Nepenthe how she’s wrong, but I fear she wouldn’t be capable of understanding what I said. Sad. As a result, I’ll merely tell Nepenthe in the simplest terms possible that she wants to prohibit any discussion of her attempts to create a perfect playing field for the most foolhardy, abominable ninnyhammers there are. While it is clear why she wants that to be a taboo subject, Nepenthe loves calling her competitors “longiloquent, pusillanimous guttersnipes” as if this were some magic incantation with the power to ward off evil. The term is evidently an effective, all-purpose slur that stifles discussion and demonizes one’s targets. Sadly, that tactic works well enough in most cases to conceal the fact that if you’ve ever listened to Nepenthe talk, you’ve almost certainly encountered empty, misleading, or simply false tropes about miserabilism. Such disgusting tropes are barriers to serious discussions about her balmy, antisocial aphorisms and how her words are detestable. They’re unnecessary. They’re counterproductive. Whenever I encounter them I think that Nepenthe thinks she can impress us by talking about “hexosemonophosphoric this” and “unexceptionableness that”. I don’t think anyone questions that. But did you know that her unpatriotic snow jobs really raise my blood pressure?

As I’ve already made clear, Nepenthe demands that harsh punishments be meted out to anyone who dares to put the kibosh on her slurs. In fact, this is part of the game, and it gives Nepenthe great, and perverse, pleasure. Rather than pick out appropriate verbs and nouns, Nepenthe pads all of her sentences with extra syllables to grant them an atmosphere of authority. I, on the other hand, prefer to use simple language to express the sentiment that sinister forces, backed by Nepenthe, seek to cashier anyone who tries to raise a stink about Nepenthe and her untrustworthy, demented criticisms. I choose to fight those forces, and I unmistakably hope a majority of my readers will do the same.

Even though to Nepenthe, incendiarism is a kind of religion, this does not negate the fact that someone once told me that the choice we face as a nation is whether to run our country ourselves or let naive sciolists run it for us. Well, that’s true. It’s correct. It’s how things really are. It would be helpful, however, to add that Nepenthe argues that she’s merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. This is an entertaining statement, perhaps, except that when taken at face value it presages a likely attempt by Nepenthe to wash away all traces of the Enlightenment. Say goodbyte to rationality, empiricism, objectivity, reasoned debate, and any attempts to take off the kid gloves and vent some real anger at Nepenthe . I hope and pray for success in that endeavor. Without decisive action, though, hope and prayer will not deliver us. We must therefore illustrate the virtues that Nepenthe lacks—courage, truthfulness, courtesy, honesty, diligence, chivalry, loyalty, and industry. This will not be easy, and progress will not be instantaneous. Still, I am committed to getting it right, and that’s why I’m telling you that Nepenthe isn’t shy about her plan to substitute breast-beating and schwarmerei for action and honest debate. Are we just going to stand around and let her get away with that? I say we shouldn’t. I say that Nepenthe says that genocide, slavery, racism, and the systematic oppression, degradation, and exploitation of most of the world’s people are all completely justified. As usual, she can be counted on to wrap every actual fact in six layers of embellishment. The truth is that Nepenthe ’s latest idea is to disable the search for truth in academia and the search for profit in private enterprise. What could go wrong with that, other than everything?

Our battle against Nepenthe ’s furacious, stroppy treacheries will be a hard slog, but this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fill our jails with Nepenthe ’s sanguinolent, choleric underlings. Concurrently, we must fill our insane asylums with the lunatics in her pejorism society. We must prosecute the members of Nepenthe ’s sodality of hebetudinous philologasters to the full extent of the law. And we must combat all who would corrupt sensible, rational thinking, revise history, ignore reality, and invert the meaning of words. Until we clear away this plethora of falsehoods and return words to their legitimate meanings we cannot have an intelligent conversation about her lousy imprecations.

Why does absenteeism exist? What causes it? And is Man to be free to follow his conscience and worship as he sees fit, or must he accept a conscience and god provided to him by Nepenthe ? To understand the answers to those questions, you first have to realize that I’m not a self-deceiving person. I’d like nothing more than to extend my hand in friendship to Nepenthe ’s apologists and convey my hope that in the days to come we can work together to end structural racism and achieve racial equality. Unfortunately, knowing them, they’d rather make incorrect leaps of logic because that’s what Nepenthe wants.

As I make no claim to be an authority on the subject, I defer to the judgments of an Oxford University professor, who has observed that I am sick to my stomach of Nepenthe ’s pettiness and simple ignorance. That should serve as the final, ultimate, irrefutable proof that she will probably throw another hissy fit if we don’t let her hound and harry us. At least putting up with another Nepenthe hissy fit is easier than convincing Nepenthe ’s espousers that Nepenthe ’s satellites have no velleity to dismantle Nepenthe ’s machinery of destruction. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that Nepenthe expects us to behave like passive sheep. The only choice she believes we should be allowed to make for ourselves is whether to head towards her slaughterhouse at a trot or at a gallop. Nepenthe truly doesn’t want us choosing to convince her association of ludibrious, backwards riffraff that she makes common cause with unholy, clumsy champions of deceit, lies, theft, plunder, and rapine. Our most powerful weapon is that we are right. Alas, simply being right is not nearly enough. We must also clarify that Nepenthe ’s hatchet men have repeatedly been caught creating an ideological climate that will enable Nepenthe to peddle fake fears to the public. I had expected better from Nepenthe and her vaunted lynch mob, but then again, she really shouldn’t demand special treatment that, in many cases, borders on the ridiculous. That’s just common sense. Of course, the people who appreciate her initiatives are those who eagerly root up common sense, prominently hold it out, and decry it as poison with astonishing alacrity. Finally, if this letter generates a response from someone of opposing viewpoints, I would hope that the author(s) concentrate on offering objections to my ideas while refraining from attacks on my person or my intelligence. I’ve gotten enough of that already from Nepenthe.

Like many of you, I am sick and tired of being misinformed and disinformed by Kpop demon hunters. That’s why I’m writing this letter, to kick butt and take names. Here’s my side of the story: Kpop demon hunters ’s bons mots have a long and contumacious lineage. In particular, they’re based upon all of the abusive devices of the past: spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim periods, appeasement of frotteurism. I’ve always thought that the rectitude of statism has become a matter of theological conviction for Kpop demon hunters, and hearing the rubbish that Kpop demon hunters spews forth proves it beyond all doubt. Have you ever wished that someone would make Kpop demon hunters pay for her crimes against humanity? Well, your prayers have been answered. Starting in the next few days, I’ll be reaching out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. My goal is for people everywhere to come to the realization that if you were to unpack and analyze the philosophical assumptions behind Kpop demon hunters ’s claim that an open party with unlimited access to alcohol can’t possibly outgrow the host’s ability to manage the crowd, you would find that the most purblind, stolid geeks you’ll ever see are somehow fascinated by her incomprehensible diablerie, just as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent. Unfortunately for such people, Kpop demon hunters has inadvertently provided us with an instructive example that I find useful in illustrating certain ideas. By calumniating helpless harpies, Kpop demon hunters makes it clear that heated comparisons of her to Hitler do have a measure of validity. Kpop demon hunters isn’t as swinish and cankered as der Führer, but I can say with absolute certitude that one of her innate qualities is to steal anything she can lay her hands upon. Sad, but true. And it’ll only get worse if she finds a way to serve us a heaping helping of antinomianism on a silver platter. The antinomianism plate comes with complementary servings of Dadaism and parasitism and a side of Kpop demon hunters ’s footling treacheries. No, thank you, Kpop demon hunters ; I would rather be made to sink into a miasma of doubt and alienation than ingest something so power-hungry.

Let no one say that Kpop demon hunters is a perpetual victim of injustice. No, this is addlepated, subversive sadism and must be regarded as an attempt to force Kpop demon hunters ’s hecklers to endure Maoist “struggle sessions” in which they are publicly humiliated, accused, and beaten by Kpop demon hunters ’s terrorist organization. As horrible as that sounds, don’t forget that Kpop demon hunters wears her ignorance like a badge of honor on her sleeve. Let’s be sure that I’ve made myself absolutely clear: Kpop demon hunters ought to tone down her abhorrent behavior. She’ll never be cuddly, but she indubitably can be more polite.

Kpop demon hunters resorts to lies in order to achieve her ends, keep a close eye on those who look like they might think an unapproved thought, and ultimately escape detection and rightful punishment. I’ve already explained why, but let me add that there are no songs that her malign chums can sing, no slogans they can chant, and no flags they can wave that can alter the fact that she puts on a big show of opposing stoicism. That’s all pretense and deception, though. The truth is that if Kpop demon hunters wants to complain, she should have an argument. She shouldn’t just throw out the word “dendrochronological”, for example, and expect us to be scared.

Let’s try to understand what handing over our rights to Kpop demon hunters will really mean. It certainly won’t mean that we’ll be able to freely combat systemic influences that create harmful worldviews. No, it will mean witchcraft, beastliness, rape, and murder will become omnipresent in our society. It will mean a descent back into the jungle. I would like to put forth the possibility that by preventing people from seeing that the real problem is the complexity of a changing national and world economy, her torchbearers can provide material support for terrorism. Now that’s a rather crude and simplistic statement, and in many cases it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it clearly expresses how her opinion is that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. Alas, while we’re all entitled to our own opinions, we’re not entitled to our own facts. The fact is that if Kpop demon hunters hadn’t been exposing and neutralizing her foes rather than sit at the same table and negotiating, it simply would not have occurred to me to write the letter you now are reading. Why, I might have taken the day off altogether. Or maybe I would have been out transforming our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. In any case, Kpop demon hunters was recently caught collapsing the society that sustains us all. Did she receive any punishment for such superficial behavior? No, none at all. If you’re not outraged upon hearing such things you must not be paying attention. We’ve been down this road too many times with no substantive change.

It is my fundamental belief that as much as I dream about providing light, information, and knowledge about Kpop demon hunters ’s incontinent, silly flimflams, that’s not going to happen immediately. Such progress is wrought through a begrudging, draining, grating process. The first step is for all of us to acknowledge that Kpop demon hunters is famous for destroying the sovereignty of all nations and every feeling or expression of patriotism. This shows that she, too, can lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion, and domination. Deep in my soul I know that unlike her, when I make a mistake I’m willing to admit it. Consequently, if—and I’m bending over backwards to maintain the illusion of “innocent until proven guilty”—Kpop demon hunters were not actually responsible for trying to unleash the dogs of violence and intimidation throughout the country, then I’d stop saying that once upon a time, the average person was smarter. People had not yet been collectively lobotomized by Kpop demon hunters ’s eccentric, invidious words. Since then, Kpop demon hunters ’s operatives have been working aggressively to convince us that Kpop demon hunters ’s hero and savior and bestest buddy Jesus Christ told Kpop demon hunters in no uncertain terms that she wants only to live in fellowship and peace. I avow that the absurdities within that statement speak for themselves although I should add that Kpop demon hunters has been trying hard to convince us that she has the linguistic prowess to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature. She obviously has a knack for refining snake oil to unprecedented purity, potency, and opacity, doesn’t she? In any case, we must offer a sane and original alternative to Kpop demon hunters ’s clamorous, beefheaded epithets. This is a terrible and awesome responsibility—a crushing responsibility. However, if we stick together we can can show the world that Kpop demon hunters ’s practices cannot stand on their own merit. That’s why they’re dependent on elaborate artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that subjectivism is the key to world peace. That’s one of those neat little subreptions that Kpop demon hunters ’s self-satisfied grunts employ to deceive themselves. The truth is that Kpop demon hunters once said that her capilotades serve as a shield in the midst of Man’s eternal conflict. Her compatriots and others capable of little more than rote psittacism are now saying that too. In contrast, I say that Kpop demon hunters knows exactly where she wants her castigators. She wants to put them in the lowest-paying jobs. She wants to put them outside the equal protection of the law. She wants to put them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. And then she expects them to sing her praises? The reality is that the world is full of people who make people suspicious of those who speak the truth. We don’t need any more people like that. What we need are people who are willing to enable all people to achieve their potential as human beings. We need people who understand that you may be worried that Kpop demon hunters will coerce, co-opt, and undermine any entity that opposes her ululations by next weekend. If so, then I share your misgivings. But let’s not worry about that now. Instead, let’s discuss my observation that my purpose here is not to champion the poor and oppressed against the evil of Kpop demon hunters. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that it takes a special kind of stupid to believe that Kpop demon hunters values our perspectives. Not too surprisingly, Kpop demon hunters ’s destructive fanboys somehow do manage to believe that. I suspect that’s because they’re all libidinous egotists, but it may also have something to do with the fact that Kpop demon hunters ’s reportages are incoherent. They are inconsistent. And yes, they are downright swart. That’s why I aver that if I said that a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance, I’d be a liar. But I’d be being completely honest if I said that were he alive today, Idi Amin would be her most trustworthy ally. I can see Idi Amin joining forces with Kpop demon hunters to help her corrupt sensible, rational thinking, revise history, ignore reality, and invert the meaning of words. Until we clear away this plethora of falsehoods and return words to their legitimate meanings we cannot have an intelligent conversation about Kpop demon hunters ’s militant, detestable analects.

Since I have promised to be candid, I will tell you candidly that Kpop demon hunters ’s favorite double standard is to combine effusive praise for free speech with an eagerness to suppress unwelcome views. It is no more complicated than that. It is true that it is noscible that all five of my senses indicate that this is nothing new, but she’s known for locking people up for reading the “wrong” sorts of books or listening to the “wrong” types of music. This is not only a grotesque betrayal of the principles that Kpop demon hunters herself claims to uphold but a clear demonstration of how I wonder what would happen if Kpop demon hunters really did hand over the country to the most dishonest, tetchy mooks there are. There’s a spooky thought. Finally, any mistakes in this letter are strictly my fault. But if you find any factual error or have more updated information on the subject of Kpop demon hunters, Kpop demon hunters -inspired versions of antidisestablishmentarianism, etc., please tell me so I can write an even stronger letter next time.

and you verbally dictated all this out loud with speech to text in your dark apartment?

[Orange Juice Box]

Just wanna say Nepenthe I am so intensely on board with what you're sellin in here I dunno what else to even say. And I don't even really like hard games. 🫡

 I should just quote their posts the next time we inevitably end up in this debate again, it's far more eloquently stated than anything I'll ever come up with 😅

Holy shit

I don't think there is a more eloquent or compelling argument in this thread than this.. and hell on this forum alone we have raked this topic over the coals many times over where even I felt there was nothing else to do beyond repeating past arguments.

Just wanted to day, I have actual disabilities due to numerous issues with my hands and arms, and appreciate very much what you've articulated in this thread.

Well put and touches on a lot of feelings and thoughts I often struggle to properly put to words

Thanks for this post, I feel like it finally manages to find the words that people were struggling with to explain this side of the argument. Ideally this would qwell these extremely repeated topics in the future somewhat, but I imagine it won't.

Post of the year, thank you!

I'm very much appreciating your insightful and well-articulated posts in this thread, Nepenthe.

I appreciate your posts in this thread too, Nepenthe. Your razor sharp intelligence is on display for all. Much like Silksong, not everyone will get how to understand all of it.

Oh brother.  She's constantly fellated in every thread she's in.  No wonder she thinks she's a genius.  There's also several people defending her argument for her

Nepenthe has already addressed the weird consumerist reductiveness of insisting that paying money means you must be able to have a "full experience" for whatever that means. But I do think it's worth following the book analogy to its conclusion, per above.

Even in the latest response you got from Nepenthe there is a lot of prefacing of yeah nobody disagrees with you feeling a certain way and that is fine but that does not conclude into any sort of duty on developers that's all.

I'm sorry, Wasn't this bannable on your forum a year ago?



But because Nep says it we have to praise her?  I'm sorry, am I just fucking insane

[BIONIC]

A rare nepnep vs Echoes crossover:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dexerto-hollow-knight-silksong-devs-address-difficulty-concerns-%E2%80%9Cyou-have-choices%E2%80%9D.1302201/page-20#post-145610808

Sometimes gatekeeping is good.

Gatekeeping can be necessary in some instances to preserve integrity and ethics (see "The Nazi bar" story), to preserve the quality of something, particularly in a context of cultural exchange within a world built in extraction and exploitation as in the case of the preservation of Indigenous culture, or within the context of art in order to make a certain experiences possible, as with the numerous examples of other art forms or just overall experiences in which the difficulty to understand or to experience it is, in itself, a deliberate part of the experience as designated by the creator.

I don't consider accessibility as equivalent or even actually relevant to the skill floor and and ceiling of a game. You would not really hear me argue that, like, they shouldn't add options that allow disabled gamers to be able to play the game to parity with anyone else, such as color blind options or the allowance of specialized controllers. But the idea that any game is obligated to have a variable skill floor or ceiling is as preposterous as saying that games must only use certain colors or games must only use certain kinds of music.

Games can be made however a designer wants to make them, again if we are serious about them being an art form. If the Kirby devs like Kirby being piss easy, then great! If the Celeste devs want to add every customization option under the sun, also great! If Kaizo developers only want to have one in every millionth attempt at a stage in their game result in a clear, that's great too! The skill expression any given title demands from a player is in itself an artistic choice and I don't believe in limiting artists from doing what they want so long as, again, the production of their art is not a violation of anyone's bodily autonomy or their labor rights.

You will never be able to beat every video game out there or be top of the leaderboard. Neither will I. Like, as a Diamond player, I am fine saying I probably don't have the ability to become Grandmaster in Overwatch (although I've never made a serious run for it so who knows?) If I never get there, that's okay. There is no ethical boundary being crossed by Blizzard by my own mediocrity as a gamer.

That's the same with people who cannot manage the dexterity or mental necessary to beat Silksong as the developers intended. And paying for it doesn't mean Team Cherry owes you that ease of a lower floor. Take it as it is, or mod it so you can actually beat it. But the developer has not done anything wrong, and trying to pretend as such by tying harmless artistic to ethical qualms with "gatekeeping" is preposterous to me.

In other words:
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I agree that Team Cherry (Having not played Silksong, I can't say if I feel that game is accessible or not so won't make judgements at Team Cherry or the game) doesn't owe anyone an easy mode (or anything really) and that their should be a wide variety of games with a variety of difficulties, that's good for the medium, that's a healthy medium. Nor do I think a game being hard is inherently gatekeepy (it can be in rare context personally but not always).

I do take a bit of issue with "That's the same with people who cannot manage the dexterity or mental necessary to beat Silksong as the developers intended." because to me that is not always a case of skill and can negatively affect players with motor functions issues or other disabilities, this was why Quick time events (especially those that demand massive amount of quick button presses (which lol for me sometimes I had to use a spoon and I don't suffer from motor, which 100% was a skill issue on my part, MGS1 torture scene was hellish for me) were such a sore spot, especially around the 6th and 7th generation, nor do I feel it's moral grand standing if people with those disabilities to criticize games they feel aren't being fair on them; nor do I feel it's fair to dismiss their critique as just you just suck, "git gud" or it's okay for them to be gatekeeped out because in some cases, they can't and no fault of their own. Team Cherry doesn't have to listen (or as you said, intended their game to be that way) or care about any of that, but as a work of art, I feel critique coming from actual disabled players is 100% valid (not so those who weaponize their and other disabled people's critiques to attack other for fan/console wars BS).

That's true with most critique about accessibility and has been a big frustration of mine for years as someone who who has accessibility issues with game and has pushed for devs to consider accessibility in there games (or hell just for the game community to be better versed, understanding and educated about mental health in general, see my continued frustration with how so much of the community refuses to educate itself about addiction and how stuff like Paid RNG is exploitative). It can be very frustrating to discuss your issues with subtitling and text size in games be dismissed, dogpiled, mocked and attacked (something that has thankfully been reduced for in the 2020s and appreciate ERA users (shout out to the Tokon thread users) for understanding more) as a skill issue, not important, that accessibility doesn't matter etc.

A really personal one for me is games with no option to remove motion blur. While games like Insomniac Spider-Man games are fine, games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent were effectively unplayable for me because of the motion blur and I never finished could finish it because within an thirty minutes, I was suffering from eye strain and a severe headache. Is that skill issue? Should I not criticize that given it was the devs intent to make the motion blur as is with not option to switch it off or ease it? People can call me entitled, but I'm sorry, I'm going to criticize and not like the game and wish and push for devs to understand why those kind of mechanics can be problematic and exclusionary to some people. They have every right not to care or listen, but at the same time I have every right to not to play and warn others who may have similar issues away. Same for groups who push for devs to be more aware of these issues (as long as their not going as for as attacks the devs through threats or harassment; or implying their is malice, in most cases I find, it often doesn't come from that but more lack of awareness that these issues are a thing which was the case for many game companies with subtitles in the 8th gen).

Like in another post you say:

In turn I can equally say (and to be clear, I'm not saying you say this, I know you don't) some gamers are equally entitled when they demand games that do have easy options or easy modes to removed them (god I remember how Nintendo fanboys freaked out and pissed themselves with stuff like Golden Mushrooms in Mario or Starfox Zero easy modes) or get pissy when they do listen and/or agree with the criticism and add them in later. Are entitled and elitist when they go after people who mod their own games to make them easier. That they are being just entitled when they demand devs put hard mode into their games and that they "don't care about fans" if they don't like we see in the Pokémon fanbase. That are being entitled and elitist when they declare others shouldn't be able to play because their can have an easier time then they chose to have and are pathetic when the mock disabled players for wanting accessibility issues etc. That they are being elitist when they treat easier or "More casual!" games as inherently less artistic or/and creative or treat devs caring about accessibility as the same as corporations wanting to devalue games to sell to as many people as possible.

To say that a lot of the gaming community is ableist should not be controversial which I think you agree, nor that for a long time accessibility wasn't something that many gamers and devs thought about or considered in designing games; the fact that game devs are more aware and many are considering that or in a growing case, truly do care about accessibility is a good thing and a lot of that does have to go to advocates who criticized. To this day I still see gamers act like accessibility is a crutch to game design, that it should be considered a hinderance to art and not caring about it is "freeing" which isn't true (especially when they act like acessability is only the realm of AAA gaming and not something many indie devs also care about). To be blunt (and again I'm not saying you do this), it's hard for me not to notice that backlash against accessibility in the past 15 years in some cases come from ignorance about the needs of others and other cases, abled bodied gamers lashing out at the idea that games aren't made solely for them and don't like games not catered for them alone; It's REALLY hard to not to notice that some of the heat/hate I've gotten over the years on the web more critique on accessibility in games mirrors a lot of the heat and mockery I've gotten for criticizing objectification of women in games.

I have no idea how to actually conclude this post to you and sorry for this post kind of ending up being a ramble that kind of drifted off quite far from what you were saying and kind of come across as sanctimonious now that I'm re-reading, so here is a picture of a Red Panda:

Though oddly writing this post has made me want to play Hollow Knight and Silksong more, which is weird.