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

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I bet y'all didn't even thank trans folx for this glorious second day of government shutdown. 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Also, the show was niche of the niche until LibsTikTok and Elon put it in the spotlight.

They fought so hard they got it cancelled in the past. Truly the heroes we deserve.



Also, Anti Racism Baby? What the fuck?

[benji]

wow

Islamophobic much?

I can't believe you're making me engage with this hasabra when I could be installing Fortnite.

[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/

Hi all....apologies for the depressing thread, there is nothing anybody can do to help nor do I expect that, just getting something off my chest really. I don't even have a plan for what I'm writing and it may end up being a long essay in which case I don't even necessarily expect anyone to read it all.



But if you do have some words that might help or have been through similar yourself I'd love to hear it.



I'm 34 from the UK, I met my wife (or girlfriend at the time) in 2017. We met on Reddit, I live in Wales, she lived in London. We had a cute online romance for a while and would travel to meet each other on the bus. On meeting her, I fell in love pretty much immediately. She is beautiful, intelligent, caring, aware of the world, funny, dedicated, HOT, a mental health nurse. She is even somehow a socialist and ally despite growing up with rich parents in a private Catholic girl's school in Oxford UK. Just, one of the best people in the world. I'm not even just saying that because of how heartbroken I am right now. Everyone who meets her says the same thing. She is the embodiment of a ray of sunshine.



Soon after meeting, she moved to Cardiff to be with me. She had been a nurse in London for a long time and was burnt out, traumatised, had an eating disorder, suffered from crippling anxiety, and had a past of being suicidal. She had been planning to move to Newcastle to be with her parents to escape London, and changed that to Cardiff when she met me.



The next few years were a dream come true. I supported her, loved her, helped her overcome her anxiety and eating disorders through love and care. She did the same thing for me with all my issues. We were as strong as a couple could be, we faced everything together and backed each other up in all situations. We bought a house near the coast - she grew up in the most central part of England so that was a dream come true for her, she couldn't believe her luck living by the beach. We had a lovely house and worked on improving it, I got into gardening and most summers we didn't have to buy vegetables or herbs at all, I got so productive at it. She still worked as a nurse because getting out of the NHS is hell, but her job here was easier than London and she went from critical accident and emergency jobs to a more office based position which cheered her up a bit. She also went from shift work to 9-5 which meant a good sleeping pattern and routine for the first time in her adult life. Looking at it back now is like one of those flashbacks in colour in a film when everything else is grey and depressing. Quite literally everything was perfect. And yes part of this was 2020. Even that year we were living the dream.



We got married in 2023. Unquestionably, the best day of my life. Certainly, the proudest. Fuck, you should see what she looked like, and how happy we were. I know everyone in that room was wondering how the fuck I got her. She gave a speech about how much she loved me and everything I'd done for her.



The rest of 2023 was great, just enjoying life together. In 2024, everything kinda went bad. Not with our relationship, just with life. Her brother fainted in a petrol station and smashed his head on the counter. The staff put him in his car and left him for 5 hours with a bleed on the brain instead of calling for an ambulance. He was in a coma and still hasn't fully recovered. I know that scarred her for life, she had therapy to deal with it. Then a bunch of other shit things happened, I can't even list all of them there's too many, I sprained my ankle in the middle of training for a trail run and could barely walk for weeks, I also had serious pneumonia from covid and was coughing up blood and basically still in bed for almost a month. We had leaks in the roof that cost 20k to fix. At the end of the year, after dealing with all of that, my boss let me go by surprise after an 8 year stable, well paid, career. Even worse, he told me I had done nothing wrong, and that he just was bored of that business and wanted to go into another. We were both crushed and in shock, I basically spent 2 days crying.



But my career had been in marketing, and I had made a lot of companies a lot of money in that time, so I knew I had the skills to fix things. I decided I didn't want to apply for jobs and essentially risk the same thing happening again in a few years, so instead I started doing the same marketing tasks on a self employed basis, reaching out to old clients and trying to build up my own business that way. At the start it was really hard and I was penniless, some days I couldn't eat. But it went well and I earned more and more every month and as of July I've been making as much as I was before. Don't get me wrong, my life is a lot harder, I have to go out and fight for it with new clients every month rather than just, making it from working every day like you do working for someone else. But I made progress and I felt good. The aim was to keep growing until hopefully she could stop working and have a rest.



My own routine and health took a MASSIVE hit in this time. I went from running and going to the gym most days and eating perfectly, to not running or going to the gym at all and not eating well. It was meant to be maybe for 2-3 months but I haven't gotten back to it all year. But I did this by choice, I needed to throw myself into work to improve our lives and any money spent on those things was better invested in things to help me get work or grow, or so I thought.



She trained for a multi stage ultramarathon this year - 250km in 5 days. It took a lot of training as you can imagine. With her focusing on that and me focusing on work, we haven't been going on dates or having fun as much as we used to. But, I thought this was ok, I thought it was purposeful. She was working on the biggest achievement of her life thus far, and I was working on fixing our finances and future. She achieved the ultra in September and I've never been so proud of anyone.



On Tuesday this week, she said she doesn't feel the same way about me anymore and we should take a break and not live with each other for 2 weeks....



I asked why and she straight up said I haven't done anything wrong and she hates to hurt me but she just doesn't feel the same and part of it is that the last year or two have been so hard. I don't understand that at all, it's not been hard because of us, and the relationship I thought was perfect. Yes life sucks but it does for everyone and we were a team through it all. Me spending so much time on work was only intended to make life better from us, I could have got an entry level job in a shop if I knew this would happen, I don't give a fuck about having money if it's not to make her life better and enjoy it with her.



I don't bring up the "I haven't done anything wrong" part to make me sound perfect, obviously we had ups and downs like any marriage, I have hurt her and annoyed her a lot of times in the past. But I bring it up to 1) compare to the fucking boss who essentially said the same thing, and 2) to clarify that there was no cheating, or big arguments, or aggression, or any clear cut thing that would explain this. She told everyone in her life I was the perfect husband and kept telling me how everyone at work was jealous of me. And now she just....doesn't know.



We're going to spend 2 weeks apart to think clearly and see how much we miss each other but I'm fucking terrified that it'll make us drift and make her realise she's better off without me. I can't do shit if that happens and have always thought she's too good for me so I'd essentially have to say oh well, that's done, lol. I don't want to be that clingy guy that won't leave her alone and keeps texting her while we're meant to be having a break but the alternative is sitting alone waiting and hoping and crying. Of course there is a chance things will turn out fine, I know marriages go through issues like this a lot, and we've always loved each other enough to get through anything - but she seems so distant now, she is not herself, she can't even hug me properly, it feels like I have cheated or something in the way she responds to me, but nothing fucking happened.



I'm just realising that in the time since we've met, I've slowly been shedding friends. I have my 3 or 4 closest friends from school that I still talk to, but most others I have fallen out of touch with. Partly because I was so happy with her that I didn't need anyone else but I Realise how fucking stupid that was now. Even for those close friends, their girlfriends and wives are good friends with her and we often went on double dates etc. I don't want to vent to them about everything because I'm not ready for them to know. I don't want our issues to be fucking dinner table gossip. But that means I have nobody to talk to about this except her, which I can't and I'm going insane.



If we break up I'm truly hopeless, everything I like about myself or have been proud of in the last almost decade has been related to her. And even if things work out and we stay together forever, I'm not sure I can ever get over this.



Anyway, sorry. Nobody here can help me and I wouldn't ask you to but even just typing that out has helped a little, lol.



Side note/broader topic - is the world just fucked now? I know it is politically and that knocks on with everything else but jesus christ. It feels like I get bad news every 3 months. Not just small bad news but the major type that would be life changing a few years ago. Now it's just a normal thing. Is it like this for everyone lately?

Lol, little rich girl finally got tired of her toy.

The real reason she's fucked off out of it -

Soon after meeting, she moved to Cardiff to be with me

Moved from London to Cardiff. A more enquiring mind might be curious about their partner's sudden interest in long distance running. More specifically why they're training to run 250 kilometers which is roughly the distance from Cardiff back to London

[Orange Juice Box]

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.

It's because year 0 is too capitalist for her.  Once man (and women!) built walls they became impure, property obsessed, materialists.  She imagines a pre-scarcity time.  Cavemen (and cavewomen) would simply find the proper amount of food to live before nature gently nudged down the population so humans (and huwomen) lived in a perfect harmony.  

I guess that's what pisses me most off about her Native America fetishism.  We aren't your saviors and your deification and need to make natives as the perfect race is just strange.  My mom once went to Russia and they treated her like some holy shamen with great wisdom.  It's what Nepenthe does and of course it's not tokenism or racist because it's her doing it.  And she's perfect. 

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.

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.

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

The Era she yearns for must be the biblical Garden of Eden.  Where you pluck a carrot from the ground and a new one takes it's place.  
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I wish, for once, she would try to explain it.  Instead she says, "I've explained it so many times . . ."  It's an especially dumb cop out that only the unquestioned abide too.  And she has built a forum that dares not question.  They can't even talk about AI because she alone made the decision on that!

[Boredfrom]

They sat down and did not walk out.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/october-2-2025-usa-today-gop-trump-get-more-blame-for-shutdown-than-democrats-poll-shows.1315312/#post-145952416

So stupid that even ERA called him out.

[Boredfrom]

Trump's "charisma" is that a depressingly large segment of humanity envies his fortune, boorish behavior, irresponsible selfishness and freedom from accountability. They want it for themselves, and for years Conservatives have sold the idea that you too can achieve this kind of wealth, fame and disassociation from responsibility, just vote for them! Trump managed to become the peak form of this movement/conditioning because he embraces inveterate, unapologetic shamelessness like no one before has.

When people with most misanthropic takes are the ones trying to dictate morality. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-79-clasps-both-hands-in-desperate-bid-to-cover-up-bruises.1280079/page-120#post-145953337

A key difference between Kirk and Trump passing away is the performance around Kirk was predicated on propping up Trumpism and MAGA. Everyone was, ultimately, performing for big strong daddy. Or doing it out of fear of retaliation from his administration if they did not.

When Trump goes, it's going to be chaos. The regime will be busy tearing itself apart in a power struggle. The media won't know what they're supposed to do and who they're supposed to keep happy.

The key difference is that Kirk got shoot a bullet in his neck and bleed out in front of college students, his death was filmed and shared in social media.

[benji]

Better?  Or more apologetic?

I'm sorry, it's just living in this constant transphobic hellscape where even the liberated nations are coming out against gender affirming care:

[benji]

A key difference between Kirk and Trump passing away is the performance around Kirk was predicated on propping up Trumpism and MAGA. Everyone was, ultimately, performing for big strong daddy. Or doing it out of fear of retaliation from his administration if they did not.

When Trump goes, it's going to be chaos. The regime will be busy tearing itself apart in a power struggle. The media won't know what they're supposed to do and who they're supposed to keep happy.

Could it be the new President J. D. Vance?

[filler]

neogaf sucks!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/legendary-pays-7-figures-for-%E2%80%98alchemised-%E2%80%99-book-that-began-life-as-%E2%80%98harry-potter%E2%80%99-fan-fiction.1293678/#post-144955359

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Concern Trolling; History of Inflammatory Commentary

Man those sounds like some rather regrettable shipping choices.

It's a person that goes by they/them while still attaching themselves to an IP where the people in charge are guaranteed to hate them with every fibre of their being. Making smart choices isn't their prerogative , clearly.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ea-announces-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-pif-silver-lake-and-affinity-partners-for-55-billion-kushner-saudi-arabia.1311322/page-19#post-145808920

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Islamophobia

JFC. Will The Sims even be allowed to have LGBT content anymore? Will The Sims even be allowed to have women who are free?

in 2026 the game will receive a patch where all women attire replaced with veils and burqa

So, financial idiot here: I understand why Saudi Arabia owning EA (or anything honestly) is bad because of what SA is. But: Isn't EA no longer being beholden to shareholders a good thing?

the company directive and approach will be at whim of the new owner, it seems the new owner aka saudis only interested in sports and GAAS part of EA, while games like the sims and biowares titles directly clash with saudis sharia value, which bring question, will those studio get culled? or all the upcoming game will be censored to align with saudis value (no more LGBTQ+ representation in EA games)?

in short, EA approach and handling with games, especially single player games with western value will likely change, and it will affect studios like bioware and others

this for example will likely cease to exist as it resemble a blowjob, which is haram

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ea-announces-agreement-to-be-acquired-by-pif-silver-lake-and-affinity-partners-for-55-billion-kushner-saudi-arabia.1311322/page-19#post-145808920

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Islamophobia

JFC. Will The Sims even be allowed to have LGBT content anymore? Will The Sims even be allowed to have women who are free?

in 2026 the game will receive a patch where all women attire replaced with veils and burqa

So, financial idiot here: I understand why Saudi Arabia owning EA (or anything honestly) is bad because of what SA is. But: Isn't EA no longer being beholden to shareholders a good thing?

the company directive and approach will be at whim of the new owner, it seems the new owner aka saudis only interested in sports and GAAS part of EA, while games like the sims and biowares titles directly clash with saudis sharia value, which bring question, will those studio get culled? or all the upcoming game will be censored to align with saudis value (no more LGBTQ+ representation in EA games)?

in short, EA approach and handling with games, especially single player games with western value will likely change, and it will affect studios like bioware and others

this for example will likely cease to exist as it resemble a blowjob, which is haram

If the Vatican had bought EA this dude would be made a mod for the post.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Better?  Or more apologetic?

I'm sorry, it's just living in this constant transphobic hellscape where even the liberated nations are coming out against gender affirming care:

if true and not pig western propaganda then this is based as fuck.

Thank you Friendly Father Kim Jong Un. 

[Potato]

EA App (formerly Origin) has new terms of service to agree to before you can use it, I just agreed to Sharia Law didn't I.

You are already beheaded! 

[Potato]

Basements are also of great benefit for anyone with unemployed adult trans children.

Just be sure to board up the entrance.

Do you think Melody would notice if his parents nailed his door shut?

[Orange Juice Box]

The ADL stuff is a great example of what I was mocking Clicky for saying the other day about how Orwell couldn't have predicted social media groupthink. That Era thread is little more than "we've always been at war with Eastasia."

Which, speaking of media literacy, is the whole story of 1984. Everyone accepts the lies, that's why it's the conclusion of the book.

They have TV's you can't turn off within the entirety of your home.  TV's with a host that will confront you and put you on blast to the rest of the viewers if you don't show enough pride.  You will be singled out and "asked" to do a proper stretch to show how much you believe in the ideals of fairness.  That is is the ultimate social media.  You broadcast everywhere at all times and everyone can see.

[killamajig]

The ADL stuff is a great example of what I was mocking Clicky for saying the other day about how Orwell couldn't have predicted social media groupthink. That Era thread is little more than "we've always been at war with Eastasia."

Which, speaking of media literacy, is the whole story of 1984. Everyone accepts the lies, that's why it's the conclusion of the book.

They have TV's you can't turn off within the entirety of your home.  TV's with a host that will confront you and put you on blast to the rest of the viewers if you don't show enough pride.  You will be singled out and "asked" to do a proper stretch to show how much you believe in the ideals of fairness.  That is is the ultimate social media.  You broadcast everywhere at all times and everyone can see.

[D3RANG3D]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/legendary-pays-7-figures-for-%E2%80%98alchemised-%E2%80%99-book-that-began-life-as-%E2%80%98harry-potter%E2%80%99-fan-fiction.1293678/#post-144955359

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Concern Trolling; History of Inflammatory Commentary

Man those sounds like some rather regrettable shipping choices.

It's a person that goes by they/them while still attaching themselves to an IP where the people in charge are guaranteed to hate them with every fibre of their being. Making smart choices isn't their prerogative , clearly.

[HardcoreRetro]

Best vtuber content just hit a million views. 



Kevin Lamar scared to diss these bitches.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Transistor next to be trans?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-you-feel-about-ghost-of-yotei-sales-potential.1314403/page-2#post-145921036

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-25#post-145940107

Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation

 American Eagle's "great jeans" ad led to a media outrage cycle after conservatives on X amplified a minority of liberal posts that claimed the ad had racist undertones.

Big surprise. It's exactly what most of us thought and I feel this is what happens with so many "controversies".

Always the true snowflakes

Yep. A big part of the right wing grift is to say the left is angry about shit that practically nobody is even talking about. Gotta keep farming for content and controversy.

I am sure I said it here in this thread previously, but particularly with Sweeney they have been trying for forever now to court her to the right by claiming the left is angry at her for various shit like having big boobs. It's all weird and transparent as fuck.

[PogiJones]

"It was never a real controversy," says post #1,206 on page 25 after countless bans for dismissing concerns.

[HaughtyFrank]

How is their head not exploding from the hypocrisy? People in that very same thread were banned for saying that it's not a eugenics ad.

[Besticus Maximus]

Nepenthe spent 3 days and half a shadow over innsmouth explaining that not only was it racist but the anger was the jumping off point for revolution

[JoeBoy101]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-eagle-sparks-backlash-for-touting-sydney-sweeneys-great-jeans.1255467/page-25#post-145940107

Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation

 American Eagle's "great jeans" ad led to a media outrage cycle after conservatives on X amplified a minority of liberal posts that claimed the ad had racist undertones.

Big surprise. It's exactly what most of us thought and I feel this is what happens with so many "controversies".

Always the true snowflakes

Yep. A big part of the right wing grift is to say the left is angry about shit that practically nobody is even talking about. Gotta keep farming for content and controversy.

I am sure I said it here in this thread previously, but particularly with Sweeney they have been trying for forever now to court her to the right by claiming the left is angry at her for various shit like having big boobs. It's all weird and transparent as fuck.

The ‘article’ coming from a company called ‘Open Measures’. Who are they?

Organizations use Open Measures every day to track trends related to networks of influence, coordinated harassment campaigns, and state- backed info ops.

Well shit, I bet they aren’t biased in the least.

Their methodology is… a thing. Here if you want to really delve into it: https://openmeasures.io/american-eagle-ad-backlash

[Eric Cartman]

The contradictions that plague the African continent for the sake of Western imperialism don't penetrate the news cycles not only because the West's cultural foundations are rooted in sheer antipathy to African and Black life, but also because many of these contradictions inevitably become intracontinental, such as Rwanda's role in the DRC's suffering, and so the conflicts are filtered as just "civil war" or "clashes" or "famine" back to the Imperial Core without any clarifying context as to our direct and indirect role within this mass suffering. The physical and narrative distance creates apathy compared to, say, anything Trump does because what Trump does directly affects people within the Core, humans who inevitably matter more than some mere "statistics" in Sudan.

Bitch, you wrote off russias invasion of the ukraine as wypipo nonsense, but because people don't record shit like the rwandan genocides as actually all the wests fault somehow, its because the news is rooted in anti-blackness?

Gaza was largely the same way up until recently, with most people just looking at the Middle East as this mishmash of "centuries'-long conflicts," as just "people who have been fighting forever and can't seem to get along." What happened is that not only were we given mountains of horrific 4K footage documenting what was always obviously a genocide, but Western politicians- even the "good ones"- were nonetheless in support of the cleansing despite people screaming at them to stop it, exposing a major contradiction that has always underlied Western hegemony and has thus chipped away at unbridled support in neoliberal institutions. Gaza was the curtain being pulled on the Wizard. The African contininent as a whole has not had its curtain-pulling moment yet for the masses.

PLEASE give me a TEDTalk on the historical roots of conflict in the middle east. PLEASE.

[Eric Cartman]

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/

She is even somehow a socialist and ally despite growing up with rich parents in a private Catholic girl's school in Oxford UK.

this is like, the least fucking surprising thing ever.
If it was a really really strict religous school its also super likely she is an absolute freaky slut, 'somehow' despite her intensively religious shame based upbringing

[Eric Cartman]

As a pony, I'm with the ponies.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ign-i’m-getting-bored-of-every-playstation-game-telling-the-same-story.1314757/page-9#post-145938331

There is some really awful takes in this thread. As someone that has being listening to Simon Cardy on the IGN UK podcast for years, the idea that he has no media literacy is laughable. He's an incredibly switched on guy and knows what he is talking about. You only have to hear him talk about his favourite directors(or snacks) for a bit to get this. You may not agree with the article/video but let's not be stupid. He is nowhere near the Boss Baby tweet and anyone should feel silly for posting it in relation to his work.

A games journalist with opinions on movies AND snacks? I deeply apologize for casting aspersions on this titan of intellect and analysis.

The funny thing is that ADL has been accused of being ProIsrael and anti Palestine way before the current conflict. ERA didn’t care enough until their favorite influencer started to bitch about it.

its because era hasn't always been the COOL FORUM full of COOL POSTERS that it is today.

Well, at least not as overtly such a COOL FORUM

[Cheers]

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/

She is even somehow a socialist and ally despite growing up with rich parents in a private Catholic girl's school in Oxford UK.

   

this is like, the least fucking surprising thing ever.
If it was a really really strict religous school its also super likely she is an absolute freaky slut, 'somehow' despite her intensively religious shame based upbringing

   

She sounds like a spoiled rich white girl who can’t take any type of hardship. She doesn’t work at all but does training for marathoning? If that ain’t the some of the most privileged shit…