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

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/made-a-huge-mistake-at-work-and-think-im-gonna-get-fired.1309185/

I don't want to get too specific for obvious reasons, but I've been working on a big event for my job in the media industry and through a series of miscommunications the marquee guest has pulled out. I think our partner is going to cancel the whole event, so a giant wash for us.

I had never done this kind of producing before. it's a contract job and it wasn't really my job brief (I was a researcher originally), but I was trying to take initiative because I do like the company and wanted to show my boss I could take on more. now it's all fucked. I'm an at will contractor and assume a fuckup this big is just going to lead to termination. I basically didn't communicate a really pivotal change in the event decided by the partner that was a complete nonstarter for the guest, and now it's too late to get an alternative guest.

I've been laid off before, but never fired due to a fuckup on this scale. I really needed this job. I know it's really stupid but I have just been having constant panic attacks since this all went down yesterday. I keep crying like a fucking idiot. (it's a remote job so not at the office thankfully) have spent today trying to savage it but I don't think it's gonna happen.

anyway, just needed to vent I guess, have you ever fucked up massively at work?

Why do these people always rush to Era...

They're Nigel No-friends. What do you expect?

[benji]

Encountered an Era take in the wild:

https://bsky.app/profile/otsumamiboy.bsky.social/post/3lzmpzf2wuk2w

Do you think this guy, and the 1400 likes, believe the "tent" is literal rather than a metaphor for how political parties need to be inclusive of many interests to maximize the size and thus win elections? You aren't kicking centrists out of your tent, you're leaving their tent for your own smaller tent that won't be able to defend itself from the arsonists because it chose to deliberately reduce its manpower.

I think so many Americans, and beyond really, have this narcissist conception of politics where someone with self-declared perfect morals just yells their demands and then like all of reality reshapes itself to match the interests of the main character. Other people, other interests, simply don't ever exist except as this sort of nebulous evil opposition that refuses to obey the Chosen because the cruelty is the point. It's obvious, and has been obvious, in progressive circles for many decades, the Obama campaign was literally this idea nearly personified. But these days MAGA isn't any different, especially because this is and has always been Trump's own perception of how, well, everything works. Politics has been abstracted away entirely from "politics" as the "engaged" practice it. The frontlines are Jimmy Kimmel not elections, those exist merely as the scoreboard of who is winning the endless war where politics is everything and so nothing and in the end politics itself isn't ever a concern.

If you want political power the burden is on you to place your interests below enough other people's until you achieve a majority that brings your interests in with it. This should be so obvious that it need not be said but so many on Era, Bluesky and Twitter seem to believe otherwise that they must not actually want political power. As Zack Snyder said "with great power comes great responsibility" and the last thing they want is responsibility of any kind. In the case of Era, you can just look at how they moderate their video game forum. More broadly how nothing is ever their fault, it's always bad luck and systemic issues or narcissist abusive ex-husbands putting them in debt. I have no agency as I demand everyone else submit solely to my agency at all times.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Sometimes I think Benji's lost it.. then he hits us with a 2+ paragraph post that makes me nod to myself and say "I ain't reading that."

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I'll still give it a like though

[Daffy Duck]

This popped up on my feed (Emma Watson) and this reply was just…

[Taco Bell Tower]

Drag those losers Jeff.

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

He said the thing:


Failed actor who was the lead in two 100+ episode TV shows and has nearly 200 credits on imdb:

Did Jeff Marvel Superman missed this thread?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-didnt-realize-kevin-sorbo-was-such-a-piece-of-shit.374361/

[Snoopy]

One of ree's more deranged Ponys gets mad -

"Yup, Nazi loving leadership can get bent, skipping their shitty game because of it."

"People really shouldn't support this MAGA studio"

Stupid, irresponsible takes that go against the wishes of the person who was fired.

"That's their prerogative, i am still not buying their shitty game, now what?"

You don't have to buy it but calling their leadership Nazi loving or calling SP a "MAGA studio" are deranged takes. Be serious, this kind of rhetoric is extremely unhelpful.

You can call the studio leadership cowards and be disappointed in their actions but calling them MAGA or Nazis is some wild shit, anyone engaging with that sort of rhetoric is a deeply unserious person.

"People were saying in the thread specifically about that issue that you're complicit in facism if you buy this game.

Just insanity."

Cretinous behaviour, I don't know how these people can co-exist with other people in the real world.

 

And then Visawife appears -

The issue here is Sucker Punch leadership under Brian Fleming, who was her boss and called for her to get fired because she made a joke about a Nazi's murder. She is probably speaking about the rest of the developers she worked with. She is not likely praising Brian here. And I don't see people directing animosity at all Sucker Punch developers, but their leadership that kowtowed to fascists.

I know what the issue is, just don't call them, whether it's SP as a whole or just the leadership, MAGA or Nazis. It's not difficult, don't be a crazy person.

I don't see it as crazy that people will call a studio MAGA or Nazi bootlickers when their leadership is the one calling all the shots. And like others have said, she probably wants to still be hired, so she is not likely going to blast Brian Fleming's leadership while she is unemployed.

If you think that's reasonable and rational discourse then you have questionable judgement. You are not helping the cause.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghost-of-yotei-review-thread.1308534/page-12#post-145664604

[Potato]

Encountered an Era take in the wild:

https://bsky.app/profile/otsumamiboy.bsky.social/post/3lzmpzf2wuk2w

Do you think this guy, and the 1400 likes, believe the "tent" is literal rather than a metaphor for how political parties need to be inclusive of many interests to maximize the size and thus win elections? You aren't kicking centrists out of your tent, you're leaving their tent for your own smaller tent that won't be able to defend itself from the arsonists because it chose to deliberately reduce its manpower.

I think so many Americans, and beyond really, have this narcissist conception of politics where someone with self-declared perfect morals just yells their demands and then like all of reality reshapes itself to match the interests of the main character. Other people, other interests, simply don't ever exist except as this sort of nebulous evil opposition that refuses to obey the Chosen because the cruelty is the point. It's obvious, and has been obvious, in progressive circles for many decades, the Obama campaign was literally this idea nearly personified. But these days MAGA isn't any different, especially because this is and has always been Trump's own perception of how, well, everything works. Politics has been abstracted away entirely from "politics" as the "engaged" practice it. The frontlines are Jimmy Kimmel not elections, those exist merely as the scoreboard of who is winning the endless war where politics is everything and so nothing and in the end politics itself isn't ever a concern.

If you want political power the burden is on you to place your interests below enough other people's until you achieve a majority that brings your interests in with it. This should be so obvious that it need not be said but so many on Era, Bluesky and Twitter seem to believe otherwise that they must not actually want political power. As Zack Snyder said "with great power comes great responsibility" and the last thing they want is responsibility of any kind. In the case of Era, you can just look at how they moderate their video game forum. More broadly how nothing is ever their fault, it's always bad luck and systemic issues or narcissist abusive ex-husbands putting them in debt. I have no agency as I demand everyone else submit solely to my agency at all times.

I'm assuming the guy is some sort of anarcho-communist, sooooooo, who exactly is trying to burn the tent down?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

She betrayed Rowling once already. Will the age gap wlw romance be saved or..

[benji]

Sometimes I think Benji's lost it.. then he hits us with a 2+ paragraph post that makes me nod to myself and say "I ain't reading that."

LOUDER 👏 FOR 👏 THOSE 👏 IN 👏 THE 👏 BACK 👏

[BananaBlast]

For some reason, SilentPanda posted this NIKKE parody comic panel in the burka thread.

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

Update: The images were silently removed by Staff, although they spared SilentPanda from a ban.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aftermath-the-right%E2%80%99s-charlie-kirk-cancellation-spree-has-emboldened-gaming%E2%80%99s-worst.1309602/

Not a single acknowledgement of their own history of getting employees fired for "speaking their minds"

[Eric Cartman]

Kamala should grow a beard and run again under a different name

Somebody gave Pete Buttigieg that same advice. He misunderstood and grew facial hair.

too good for a driveby like

[Eric Cartman]

Ban gamers from owning guns and the mass shootings in the US will immediately drop to zero

his steamlist 


https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

[Eric Cartman]

Do you think this guy, and the 1400 likes, believe the "tent" is literal rather than a metaphor for how political parties need to be inclusive of many interests to maximize the size and thus win elections? You aren't kicking centrists out of your tent, you're leaving their tent for your own smaller tent that won't be able to defend itself from the arsonists because it chose to deliberately reduce its manpower.

and also the underlying unstated assumption of everyone in that small tent is that it is your moral imperative to burn down everyone elses tents because they don't deserve a tent like you do

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aftermath-the-right%E2%80%99s-charlie-kirk-cancellation-spree-has-emboldened-gaming%E2%80%99s-worst.1309602/

Not a single acknowledgement of their own history of getting employees fired for "speaking their minds"

Remember when one ree weirdo had personal beef with LRG and he creepily dug for whatever he could until he managed to get their community manager fired for the crime of being excited for a Harry Potter video game and they all thought that was just and normal well-adjusted behavior?

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aftermath-the-right%E2%80%99s-charlie-kirk-cancellation-spree-has-emboldened-gaming%E2%80%99s-worst.1309602/

Not a single acknowledgement of their own history of getting employees fired for "speaking their minds"

Remember when one ree weirdo had personal beef with LRG and he creepily dug for whatever he could until he managed to get their community manager fired for the crime of being excited for a Harry Potter video game and they all thought that was just and normal well-adjusted behavior?

LRG?
The company that after they fired their social media after an unhinged twitter user digging up deleted tweets was heavily signal boosted on era until it made general gamign press?
And that the person they hired as a replacement is a current resetera mod?
A mod who regualrly posts LRG announcements but does not disclose their employment at thaty company?
That LRG?

[Daffy Duck]

Lmao

[Straight Edge]

Also I want to burn down the entire tent building industry because some people have a bigger tent than me

[Taco Bell Tower]

One of ree's more deranged Ponys gets mad -

"Yup, Nazi loving leadership can get bent, skipping their shitty game because of it."

"People really shouldn't support this MAGA studio"

Stupid, irresponsible takes that go against the wishes of the person who was fired.

"That's their prerogative, i am still not buying their shitty game, now what?"

You don't have to buy it but calling their leadership Nazi loving or calling SP a "MAGA studio" are deranged takes. Be serious, this kind of rhetoric is extremely unhelpful.

You can call the studio leadership cowards and be disappointed in their actions but calling them MAGA or Nazis is some wild shit, anyone engaging with that sort of rhetoric is a deeply unserious person.

"People were saying in the thread specifically about that issue that you're complicit in facism if you buy this game.

Just insanity."

Cretinous behaviour, I don't know how these people can co-exist with other people in the real world.

 

And then Visawife appears -

The issue here is Sucker Punch leadership under Brian Fleming, who was her boss and called for her to get fired because she made a joke about a Nazi's murder. She is probably speaking about the rest of the developers she worked with. She is not likely praising Brian here. And I don't see people directing animosity at all Sucker Punch developers, but their leadership that kowtowed to fascists.

I know what the issue is, just don't call them, whether it's SP as a whole or just the leadership, MAGA or Nazis. It's not difficult, don't be a crazy person.

I don't see it as crazy that people will call a studio MAGA or Nazi bootlickers when their leadership is the one calling all the shots. And like others have said, she probably wants to still be hired, so she is not likely going to blast Brian Fleming's leadership while she is unemployed.

If you think that's reasonable and rational discourse then you have questionable judgement. You are not helping the cause.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghost-of-yotei-review-thread.1308534/page-12#post-145664604

Oh but they post a Xbox Wikipedia page that lists games and studios, freakin studios to avoid playing from

[DavidCroquet]

i just remembered before embiid got banned for transphobia, he was the only poster defending the single trans person in the house of representatives 

[BIONIC]

i just remembered before embiid got banned for transphobia, he was the only poster defending the single trans person in the house of representatives 

Defending her for transphobic reasons, chudlord

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-era-ot2-trans-rights-are-human-rights-youre-joking-not-another-one.1300074/page-10#post-145685562

My college cafe staple was chilli, chips, and cheese for £1.85. Solid portion, chunky chips. chilli that tasted like it had been left to cook for hours, all hot enough for the cheese to insta-melt. Foundational memory lmao.

High femme " Solid portion,"

[kaleidoscopium]

#JustGirlyThings hehe got my chilli chips and cheese with the gals down at the pub, girls night out! 

[Besticus Maximus]

#JustGirlyThings hehe got my chilli chips and cheese with the gals down at the pub, girls night out! 

If nintex hung around a taxi rank at 2 am with a portion of cheesy chips he'd be drowning in top class women

[Propagandhim]

Kyuuji shitting like a 45 year old alcoholic man the night after downing a huge helping of dive bar chili cheese fries then raising his hand to his lips and giggling on the toilet like a dainty woman

[kaleidoscopium]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-louisville-high-school-banned-phones-all-day-including-lunch-library-book-check-outs-jumped-67.1309791/

waiting for clicky carl and the usual suspects to show up screaming how smartphone use is essential for teenagers again...

[Jansen]

Our brains just were not designed to handle smartphones and the dopamine fix, so glad to see it net positive results.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Our brains just were not designed to handle smartphones and the dopamine fix, so glad to see it net positive results.

Ironic since his dossiers are football stadiums long.

[Boredfrom]

So South Park went “both sides” with PalestineVSIsrael while making clear that Netanyahu is a cunt… more disliked episode at ERA.