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

[malfoyking]

Fuck, this show was hilarious.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-i%E2%80%99m-getting-bored-of-every-playstation-game-telling-the-same-story.1314757/

 they're coming

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-wife-said-she-doesnt-feel-the-same-about-me-ive-never-felt-so-alone-in-my-life-also-is-the-world-just-completely-fucked-now.1314745/

blah blah blah my wife doesn’t love me pls tell me im a good boy videogame forum blah blah 

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it-genuinely-feels-like-the-vibes-of-xbox-as-a-brand-have-never-been-lower.1314748/

Listen y'all, I promise you this is not a console warring thread or whatever

Did the brand ever matter much to most people? At the end of the day it's just another electronic toy to pass the time that will eventually get thrown in the trash by someone.

My real life friends on Xbox don't give a shit about all this nonsense they spew on that forum. A couple of them are really enjoying the FF Tactics remaster since Square Enix had the sense to go multiplat.

[nachobro]

I just want to know who Nep is educating. It can’t be normal adults. No one with a functioning brain would put up her nonsense.

the mirror in her bedroom, mostly

[Yulwei v2]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-i%E2%80%99m-getting-bored-of-every-playstation-game-telling-the-same-story.1314757/

 they're coming

68 posts in 12 minutes. all the biggest ponies are in there like agitated ants

[Snoopy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-wife-said-she-doesnt-feel-the-same-about-me-ive-never-felt-so-alone-in-my-life-also-is-the-world-just-completely-fucked-now.1314745/


Game Pass sub goes up. Wife suddenly announces she no longer loves being poor. Coincidence?

[Straight Edge]

Summation- she had a lot of mental issues when they met but she was so hot he ignored them. She let him “fix” her but he has now outlived his usefulness.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-wife-said-she-doesnt-feel-the-same-about-me-ive-never-felt-so-alone-in-my-life-also-is-the-world-just-completely-fucked-now.1314745/

Sorry you're going through this, I also lost who I thought was the love of my life and know the pain. Just know that there's plenty of life ahead of you if you do break up.

everything I like about myself or have been proud of in the last almost decade has been related to her.

This part stuck out to me of where you might've gone wrong, as well as sounding unhealthy mentally. You also mentioned how your goal was to make it so she didn't have to work. Men are brought up to think all their worth lies in their ability to provide, and then in relationships they'll get caught up focusing just on work and lose sight of everything else that's important to a relationship. You need to be your own person, sounds like you lost sight of that.

Alright which one of y'all is this cuz I don't believe in coincidences

[benji]

It's been too long since we've had some Nepenthe so I needed a second helping.

This isn't actually sustainable, especially in perpetuity. How many "once in a lifetime" economic downturns have we had within our living memory? Our parents' living memory? How much war and genocide has been wrought specifically because of this system? How much underdevelopment of the Global South and the millions of deaths resulting simply from lack of access to a basic standard of living has happened because of this system? How many of us have died from its pollution and infrastructure failures?

Well, far far less than the alternative systems. As a wise non-binary once said: read a book.

How many years do we actually have until we hit 4c degrees warming (it's probably shorter than what the media is reporting in order to not cause panic)?

A perfect example of Era posters, especially the staff, insisting they're well informed while displaying basic ignorance. The UN IPCC consensus is something like 1-1.5C over the next century. And it's been dropping because CO2 output has been dropping massively in the West and even in China/India as wealth affords them more controls on it. But Nepenthe is spinning a media conspiracy covering up something the IPCC has never predicted that she believes is about to come about in the near term when every climate change prediction has always been over a century from the date of the prediction.

Nobody on the forum ever challenges her about this.

Capitalism, by design, isn't actually sustainable in terms of stability and health for the majority of humanity or even our ecological systems.

Actually it is. If you understood how prices work you'd know it has a perfect regulatory system built in and that most of the things you lament are involving efforts at destroying prices because people are mad about something and think enough violence can change prices for the better.

As scarcity of a resource increases, prices increase, decreasing usage of the resource in favor of alternatives. And vice versa when abundance occurs. You have literally lived through one of the biggest transitions of all time as the internet undercut the information and communication cost of nearly every system in existence. Look at your bills, or I guess your parents bills, and see how they will literally charge you more a month to have to send a paper bill. That's a cost they used to have to eat for everyone because there wasn't an alternative method and now there is and it costs almost nothing to do.

We know she doesn't understand prices or the system at all not just because of her fantasy utopia where everything is just available to take and never needs to be replaced, she also has a bunch of posts where she denies that scarcity exists. She outright believes that there is an infinite abundance of everything everywhere and the limitations are all deliberately imposed by capitalists so they can charge for it. It's an argument that you don't even have to demonstrate is wrong with examples because it inherently denies the existence of time. In her mind everything from food growing to Switches being assembled to techbros stealing art with prompts takes zero time at all, it just appears instantly.

It's funny because she works retail so she gets paid by the hour. It never enters her mind to ask or find out why the hourly wage system came about in the first place. She probably doesn't know people in manufacture used to get paid by the week and then the day and there's a reason this accounting kept getting finer. Service workers like retail and apprentices often weren't even really paid wages or were by the month. This was less than a century ago. She wants to go back further to times of greater labor for less reward but isn't interested in any of these changes and why.

All because she believes it means people will respect her and honor her for being an artist that produces no art. That they'll just work hard for her to laze around and amuse herself. Something she earnestly believes the Black Brazilians of Bahia would currently do for her just because they also have African roots.

It must be the system, it can never be me. I'm perfect.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/golden-retriever-boyfriends-and-ick-lists-gen-z%E2%80%99s-dating-rules-are-making-them-%E2%80%98constantly-disappointed%E2%80%99.1314763/#post-145928803

i just stick to blowing truckers, that way i never hear their opinions on k-pop

[Mediocre Lager]

It's been too long since we've had some Nepenthe so I needed a second helping.

This isn't actually sustainable, especially in perpetuity. How many "once in a lifetime" economic downturns have we had within our living memory? Our parents' living memory? How much war and genocide has been wrought specifically because of this system? How much underdevelopment of the Global South and the millions of deaths resulting simply from lack of access to a basic standard of living has happened because of this system? How many of us have died from its pollution and infrastructure failures?

Well, far far less than the alternative systems. As a wise non-binary once said: read a book.

How many years do we actually have until we hit 4c degrees warming (it's probably shorter than what the media is reporting in order to not cause panic)?

A perfect example of Era posters, especially the staff, insisting they're well informed while displaying basic ignorance. The UN IPCC consensus is something like 1-1.5C over the next century. And it's been dropping because CO2 output has been dropping massively in the West and even in China/India as wealth affords them more controls on it. But Nepenthe is spinning a media conspiracy covering up something the IPCC has never predicted that she believes is about to come about in the near term when every climate change prediction has always been over a century from the date of the prediction.

Nobody on the forum ever challenges her about this.

Capitalism, by design, isn't actually sustainable in terms of stability and health for the majority of humanity or even our ecological systems.

Actually it is. If you understood how prices work you'd know it has a perfect regulatory system built in and that most of the things you lament are involving efforts at destroying prices because people are mad about something and think enough violence can change prices for the better.

As scarcity of a resource increases, prices increase, decreasing usage of the resource in favor of alternatives. And vice versa when abundance occurs. You have literally lived through one of the biggest transitions of all time as the internet undercut the information and communication cost of nearly every system in existence. Look at your bills, or I guess your parents bills, and see how they will literally charge you more a month to have to send a paper bill. That's a cost they used to have to eat for everyone because there wasn't an alternative method and now there is and it costs almost nothing to do.

We know she doesn't understand prices or the system at all not just because of her fantasy utopia where everything is just available to take and never needs to be replaced, she also has a bunch of posts where she denies that scarcity exists. She outright believes that there is an infinite abundance of everything everywhere and the limitations are all deliberately imposed by capitalists so they can charge for it. It's an argument that you don't even have to demonstrate is wrong with examples because it inherently denies the existence of time. In her mind everything from food growing to Switches being assembled to techbros stealing art with prompts takes zero time at all, it just appears instantly.

It's funny because she works retail so she gets paid by the hour. It never enters her mind to ask or find out why the hourly wage system came about in the first place. She probably doesn't know people in manufacture used to get paid by the week and then the day and there's a reason this accounting kept getting finer. Service workers like retail and apprentices often weren't even really paid wages or were by the month. This was less than a century ago. She wants to go back further to times of greater labor for less reward but isn't interested in any of these changes and why.

All because she believes it means people will respect her and honor her for being an artist that produces no art. That they'll just work hard for her to laze around and amuse herself. Something she earnestly believes the Black Brazilians of Bahia would currently do for her just because they also have African roots.

It must be the system, it can never be me. I'm perfect.

Yes you are 

[DavidCroquet]

Summation- she had a lot of mental issues when they met but she was so hot he ignored them. She let him “fix” her but he has now outlived his usefulness.

This part stuck out to me as the buried lede:

I decided I didn't want to apply for jobs and essentially risk the same thing happening again in a few years...

I had a great job for 8 years. When I lost it, I thought to myself "self, why risk dusting off my resume and getting another great job that lasts almost a decade? That's simply an insane amount of risk!"

So instead I decided to take the risk-free option of being 100% self-employed. Now I have zero of the fringe benefits a traditional job offers, while working myself to the bone and becoming a sickly diseased wastrel who does nothing but hustle for every copper penny I earn.

Anyway, out of nowhere my wife is unhappy!

[nampad]

Gameboy Nostalgia alt identified:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-wants-to-add-battleships-to-the-us-navy.1314346/#post-145913059

Drone warfare has changed up the game. A lot of ships are obsolete. Aircraft carriers will be out the door eventually because you will want air superoririty with cheap drones who will dive bomb you by the 100s. It's a large waste of money. Like, it'll go to war and a drone army shaped like Rumi from K-pop demon hunters is gonna dive bomb it while playing golden.

[NekoFever]

These people are mentally unwell

Absolutely fuck off. I hope all the victims can pull through.
Edit: One dead, one critical... Horrible. Absolutely fucking horrible.

How bad is it that my mind automatically & immediately defaults to "I hope the wanker responsible is white?" Every time something like this happens it is the first thing my mind goes to, just because we don't need to embolden our right-wing nutters.

White nationalist terrorism? I wouldn't be surprised given Reform senior party members and their bullshit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/attack-at-synagogue-in-manchester-uk-up-2-victims-confirmed-dead.1314547/

My assumption was instantly white nationalist. But I've since been seeing other assumptions which are more dangerous, so I get your comment.

Bearded guy with IED belt, obviously a white nationalist

Imagine hearing that someone had attacked a synagogue and predicting white nationalist ahead of Islamist or keffiyeh-wearing leftist.

[HaughtyFrank]

How many years do we actually have until we hit 4c degrees warming (it's probably shorter than what the media is reporting in order to not cause panic)?

A perfect example of Era posters, especially the staff, insisting they're well informed while displaying basic ignorance. The UN IPCC consensus is something like 1-1.5C over the next century. And it's been dropping because CO2 output has been dropping massively in the West and even in China/India as wealth affords them more controls on it. But Nepenthe is spinning a media conspiracy covering up something the IPCC has never predicted that she believes is about to come about in the near term when every climate change prediction has always been over a century from the date of the prediction.

Nobody on the forum ever challenges her about this.

I also just hate this sleazy argumentive style where she preemptively claims that there's a huge media conspiracy in case you correct her that we're far off from a 4c increase. Like cool, I guess you're automatically correct because facts don't exist anymore.

[benji]

Gameboy Nostalgia alt identified:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-wants-to-add-battleships-to-the-us-navy.1314346/#post-145913059

Drone warfare has changed up the game. A lot of ships are obsolete. Aircraft carriers will be out the door eventually because you will want air superoririty with cheap drones who will dive bomb you by the 100s. It's a large waste of money. Like, it'll go to war and a drone army shaped like Rumi from K-pop demon hunters is gonna dive bomb it while playing golden.

Wouldn't this be the same risk from regular airplanes? Those only turned aircraft carriers into the most valuable thing in existence? 

edit: Would this tactic that's been used against SCUDs not continue to be viable?
1. Drones launch.
2. Move aircraft carrier slightly to out of range.
3. Watch drones all fall into ocean.
4. Move aircraft carrier back and bomb place into oblivion.

Also, the US doesn't have battleships because there's no other navies to fight. Trump's afraid of China so it would be reasonable in his view. Drones don't change this, drones won't be fighting in shipping lanes in the open ocean.

[Shecky Fragbaum]

Hey look more political violence, I sure hope the perpetrator is white.

Update: whoops, false alarm, it was an accidental muslim, we can wrap discussion on page 2

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

oh look someone's talking shit about playstation?!

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

Gameboy Nostalgia alt identified:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-wants-to-add-battleships-to-the-us-navy.1314346/#post-145913059

Drone warfare has changed up the game. A lot of ships are obsolete. Aircraft carriers will be out the door eventually because you will want air superoririty with cheap drones who will dive bomb you by the 100s. It's a large waste of money. Like, it'll go to war and a drone army shaped like Rumi from K-pop demon hunters is gonna dive bomb it while playing golden.

Wouldn't this be the same risk from regular airplanes? Those only turned aircraft carriers into the most valuable thing in existence? 

edit: Would this tactic that's been used against SCUDs not continue to be viable?
1. Drones launch.
2. Move aircraft carrier slightly to out of range.
3. Watch drones all fall into ocean.
4. Move aircraft carrier back and bomb place into oblivion.

Also, the US doesn't have battleships because there's no other navies to fight. Trump's afraid of China so it would be reasonable in his view. Drones don't change this, drones won't be fighting in shipping lanes in the open ocean.

Yeah, pretty sure Aircraft carriers and submarines have made large battleships already mostly irrelevant since world war 2. They don't make sense to invest in compared to an aircraft carrier.

edit: these memes have been around for ages

[Jansen]

brb downloading fortnite rn

[JoeBoy101]

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How many years do we actually have until we hit 4c degrees warming (it's probably shorter than what the media is reporting in order to not cause panic)?

A perfect example of Era posters, especially the staff, insisting they're well informed while displaying basic ignorance. The UN IPCC consensus is something like 1-1.5C over the next century. And it's been dropping because CO2 output has been dropping massively in the West and even in China/India as wealth affords them more controls on it. But Nepenthe is spinning a media conspiracy covering up something the IPCC has never predicted that she believes is about to come about in the near term when every climate change prediction has always been over a century from the date of the prediction.

Nobody on the forum ever challenges her about this.

I also just hate this sleazy argumentive style where she preemptively claims that there's a huge media conspiracy in case you correct her that we're far off from a 4c increase. Like cool, I guess you're automatically correct because facts don't exist anymore.

Yes, the media. Industry notable in holding stories back to prevent panic.

[benji]

Yeah, pretty sure Aircraft carriers and submarines have made large battleships already mostly irrelevant since world war 2. They don't make sense to invest in compared to an aircraft carrier.

Battleships in terms of the turn of 20th century version are obviously outdated but battleships as a more colloquial term for ships designed to fight other ships would have value in a global navy that seeks to operate everywhere against other navies. There's only one of those and nobody else is even trying to do this and probably couldn't do it if they wanted to.

Navies are "obsolete" because the US has lapped everybody so many times over that we just park the carriers out of range and bomb everything. The concern about China is that they may eventually be able to delay this for a few weeks in one specific sea in the world. I don't think some in that thread get that modern aircraft carriers are basically floating cities in terms of their capabilities, they just don't cart planes around. A single one outdoes most of the world's entire militaries, not just their air force. In Afghanistan the US demonstrated that we even know how to use them to control land now. They're frankly absurd and need to be nerfed for game balance.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-i%E2%80%99m-getting-bored-of-every-playstation-game-telling-the-same-story.1314757/page-7#post-145934101

The reaction from some of the posters to a fairly harmless opinion piece is frankly embarrassing

They have to be young, is the only explanation, to feel this parasocial to a faceless entity is crazy.

Counterpoint: https://x.com/zeovgm?s=21&t=JPGKEBNYMJUqJDkxKVmPjA

[BIONIC]

Also has been going on a tear at the chuds since yesterday. Hope he’s doing okay :(

[benji]

Yes, the media. Industry notable in holding stories back to prevent panic.

Actually now that I think about it her theory is that the media is covering this up because there would be panic which implies that it's reasonable to panic over this information. Because it is after all information saying an apocalypse is about to happen and it cannot be stopped.

Yet she knows the information, despite the cover up, and she is doing absolutely nothing but lecturing people on a "video game" forum about it and from time-to-time telling people to commit terrorism.

So either she's not reasonable and we can therefore dismiss her arguments or she is reasonable demonstrating it through revealed preferences and we can therefore dismiss her arguments.

[benji]

Isn't the complaint that they're making every character look the same rather than actual diversity?

Also, shots fired at Era posters:

[Besticus Maximus]

Unlike little lord jeff I've never even been inside a house with a real basement 

[JoeBoy101]

‘Obsessed with slurs like in 5th grade’

…

‘What a loser’

If it were anyone other than Jeff I’d credit them for the subtle verbal play there. In his case though, five-head is just that stupid.

[JoeBoy101]

Unlike little lord jeff I've never even been inside a house with a real basement 

Grew up with one and they’re great. You can put your exercise equipment down there, tools, supplies, fursuits, and it’s still fairly climate controlled, unlike your garage. Saves room so you park in your garage.

Haven’t had one for the past 30 years and have hated it.