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

[Propagandhim]

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.

the contextual socioeconomic framework.... with they whole ass

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

cum

[Boredfrom]

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.

Notice that, outside about bitching about Gacha, most of your complains in that paragraph are legit and related to health issues. 

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;

Most people that complain about accessibility for the non abled bodies are, in fact, able bodied.

People forget that there was a period of time pre Dark Souls where most mainstream releases were made piss easy. Most AAA games maintain this, and I don’t think is bad, but people conveniently forget that by default most devs make difficulty as accessible as possible for a perceived general audience, most of it body abled may remind. 

 

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.

[TylenolJones]

Guess who got a pc upgrade?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/full-6dof-motion-hand-control-vr-now-available-for-metal-gear-solid-Δ-pc-steam.1307442/

4090 -> 5090

i9 14900 K -> 9800 x3D

https://www.resetera.com/threads/post-your-gaming-setup-and-home-2025-edition.1074495/#post-133900401

[benji]

Guess who got a pc upgrade?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/full-6dof-motion-hand-control-vr-now-available-for-metal-gear-solid-Δ-pc-steam.1307442/

4090 -> 5090

i9 14900 K -> 9800 x3D

Tell me you're ignorant of the data crunching needs of a data scientist without telling me.

[benji]

[benji]

The detectives on are on the case:



What else is going on with the BskyEra sphere? Well, the rampant transphobia of the staff is exposed yet again:

Not all heroes:

[Taco Bell Tower]

Why are they still posting at ResetEra if they whine how awful it is?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I can't support game devs who advertise through friends on a nazi platform like X..

[benji]

Why are they still posting at ResetEra if they whine how awful it is?

And let it fall even more into the hands of transphobic libs like B-Chuds and the rest of the staff?

I can't support game devs who advertise through friends on a nazi platform like X..

He's putting marginalized developers in danger by directing Nazis to them. It's despicable. He knows exactly what he's doing.

[benji]

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

Did benji took control of Jansen's account?

Jansen's making himself impossible to false flag because those will never fit on bullets.

[imsotired]

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-8#post-145622337

Radicalized Centrist really is an overlooked constituency behind many of these shootings

The thing is, centrism isn't an ideology; it is the lack of an ideology.

And people who lack an ideology will absolutely be susceptible to the rhetoric of one of the country's two major parties, which now includes the President.

We have a new narrative, it was those dirty centrists.  Leftists are clean.  It's those centrists who have no ideology that are being radicalized!

[benji]

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-8#post-145622337

The thing is, centrism isn't an ideology; it is the lack of an ideology.

And people who lack an ideology will absolutely be susceptible to the rhetoric of one of the country's two major parties, which now includes the President.

Let's break how stupid fatty's two sentence post is:
1. First claim has no basis, he just asserts it. Even though there's multiple ways you could come to "centrism" especially because in our "system" both of the standard poles allow the center to include anarchists, libertarians, social democrats, complete totalitarians, Michael Bloomberg, Krysten Sinema, Joe Manchin, etc. despite significant ideological disagreement between these all. Centrism is a relative descriptor, not an absolute one. If centrism is a "lack of ideology" it's a lack of two specific ideologies, not all ideologies. Only by asserting that there are two and only two possible ideologies can Royalan even make his claim.
2. Second claim also has no basis, it presumes that the "lack of an ideology" means the person is seeking one and so will just adopt any even as they're rejecting those being offered. The vast majority of people don't have an "ideology" not because they don't actually have an ideology but because they're rejecting the established ones as they deviate too strongly from their own. Royalan assumes that they must just adopt whatever is offered, even though he says they lack one which would be impossible if Royalan's assertion is true. Having assumed a false choice, Royalan's conclusion is tautological and thus proves his assertion without any evidence but his original wrong assumption.
3. All of his claims are disproven by simply pointing to any issue polling of the American populace. Americans don't cleave to the standard two poles and the standard two poles are not consistent with nor do they adhere fully to the two party platforms. (As Era is constantly lamenting about the Democrats.) Same with all Western populations despite the abundance of two or dominant party systems including ones that have far more rigid parties over time. This should be obvious on a conceptual level as else only one party would ever win elections.
4. The countries two major parties have always included the President.

Final evaluation: revise and resubmit these two sentences before proceeding with paper.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I really don't like how they're trying to paint centrists as the killer. Y'all really think they can pull a trigger? They can't even decide between red and blue for God sake!  

[Besticus Maximus]

If centrists are doing all the shooting then, de facto, it is THEY who is doing the work

[Hap Shaughnessy]

[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

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-8#post-145622337

Radicalized Centrist really is an overlooked constituency behind many of these shootings

The thing is, centrism isn't an ideology; it is the lack of an ideology.

And people who lack an ideology will absolutely be susceptible to the rhetoric of one of the country's two major parties, which now includes the President.

We have a new narrative, it was those dirty centrists.  Leftists are clean.  It's those centrists who have no ideology that are being radicalized!

They really said it, radical centrists 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot-taco-trump-and-the-big-beautiful-bullshit.1236576/page-74#post-145573119

Can I ask why the mods keep playing musical chairs with my thread over the past day? I have gotten four different notifications of my thread being moved into a different forum than it was in previously in the past 24 hours. Not saying this to be passive aggressive or anything, I just don't know what's going on and why I keep getting notifications of the forum being moved. Four times in one day is ridiculous.

[Snoopy]

Please give me spot on your new show Terf Bitch.

[malfoyking]

lol is that new? I'm sure the usual suspects will be mad she didn't call JKR blah blah blah.

[Boredfrom]

Please give me spot on your new show Terf Bitch.

Yeah, wasn’t she the most opinionated of the trio?

[Boredfrom]

Many at ERA outright admitting they hate interacting with people and commuting for work:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/working-from-home-is-miserable.1307868/

You're gonna get many hard disagrees on this one

Resetera wants nothing more than to sit at home and "focus" without ever having to talk or interact with any other humans in a physical space because they hate them

I also agree. I like my coworkers and enjoy having friends at work and talking

i don't like my coworkers or driving an hour to the office so realistically theres no possible way it's worse than being in the office

i get the same amount of work done and can get chores done during the day at the same time instead of using my free time on them

*Replying the post above*

yeah it owns

i dont focus though, sometimes however i do go to the supermarket or take a nap

 

Interesting, forum devoted to older video game fans act like they are neurodiverse.

I'm fine having conversations with people at work, but I'd just prefer not to have them. I have pretty severe IBS and having to get up and go to a public toilet 3-4 times a day is pretty embarrassing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irritable_bowel_syndrome

Why the fuck would you reveal that?

[BIONIC]

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

Did benji took control of Jansen's account?

Jansen's making himself impossible to false flag because those will never fit on bullets.

Challenge accepted.

[Uncle]

my bowels don't have very strong emotions, they are not easily brought to anger

[HaughtyFrank]

When you try so hard to make a joke you come up with a completely non sensical thread title

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ps5-games-announcement-bayonetta.1308036/

and people actually respond with "omg, well played Slayven"

[DavidCroquet]

They really said it, radical centrists 

“We hit some new lows over the week with the Era gang trying to characterize this kid who killed an immigrant as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

[Daffy Duck]

It's hard to be excited when MS is actively involved in a genocide... sigh. This has been my (and pretty much everyone's) dream location for ever.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/forza-horizon-6-announced-releasing-2026-first-on-xbox-series-and-pc-ps5-after-launch-more-information-next-year.1308306/page-4#post-145634670

[D3RANG3D]

Guess who got a pc upgrade?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/full-6dof-motion-hand-control-vr-now-available-for-metal-gear-solid-Δ-pc-steam.1307442/

4090 -> 5090

i9 14900 K -> 9800 x3D

https://www.resetera.com/threads/post-your-gaming-setup-and-home-2025-edition.1074495/#post-133900401

>using live action disney slop to show off your setup...

[BIONIC]

my bowels don't have very strong emotions, they are not easily brought to anger

Challenge accepted.

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