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

[kaleidoscopium]

Fuck Snoop Dogg. But also good. I'll always take more representation. But still fuck him. I'll take the net good, but this feels 100% like a PR move. Not trusting this to mean much after performing for Trump and saying what he said about Lightyear.

These people are just never ever happy.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/snoop-dogg-is-using-his-animated-kids-show-to-support-lgbtq-families.1327312/

They can’t admit that they misunderstood what he said in the interview, nope has to be that Snoop is a raging bigot and trying to improve his image with the online freaks

You insinuated it was more nuanced than it is.

It simply isn't. He's a piece of shit. We can leave it at that.

[Snoopy]

Just waiting for Woody Allen to die so I can go on ree and post. Never seen any of his movies but I always got weird vibes from that guy. I just felt like there was something off about him

[Cheers]

Is it safe to say Benji obviously jacks off to this and has a fetish?

Blueball, you probably jack off to Melody Shreds.

Sorry, to break it to you, but the only interactions I have with this Melody individual is through your obessive posts. This said...

link

Honestly this censorship annoyed me. It's already censored enough in an artistic way in the original. The remake just makes the entire scene feel pointless because you can barely see jack shit. And the people who claim to be anti-censorship were mostly very silent on this one, because it didn't involve a waifu.

This guy claims "artistic reasons" of why it annoyed him, but the truth is that he's a gay man upset there isn't more male fanservice in games. Said so himself. 

Reminder this guy constantly whines about women being sexualized in the burka thread, under the pretense of feminist virtue signaling bullshit, but in reality it's mostly because he's grossed out by women, and salty his homoerotic fantasies aren't being catered to.

it's clear several people here have weird sexual fantasies about era users.

It’s clear that Melody posts loli porn on her blusky. Do you support loli porn? If so, why? 

It’s clear era does not give room for certain people to “improve” or “grow”. But they leave exceptions for others. Why is this ok?

It’s clear era does not allow straight cis males to express any type of lust or adoration for women, but these rules don’t apply to the lgbt crowd. Do you support this? Why?

How come they have so many unwritten rules, where it’s obvious nobody can keep up with them, but won’t bother to actually list them out for their users?

The forum constantly calls for Obama to be arrested or executed as a war criminal but never mention Bush. Why is their attention solely on the black president who provided their lazy asses with healthcare? Can you touch on any of these topics?

[JoeBoy101]

Is it safe to say Benji obviously jacks off to this and has a fetish?

Blueball, you probably jack off to Melody Shreds.

Sorry, to break it to you, but the only interactions I have with this Melody individual is through your obessive posts. This said...

link

Honestly this censorship annoyed me. It's already censored enough in an artistic way in the original. The remake just makes the entire scene feel pointless because you can barely see jack shit. And the people who claim to be anti-censorship were mostly very silent on this one, because it didn't involve a waifu.

This guy claims "artistic reasons" of why it annoyed him, but the truth is that he's a gay man upset there isn't more male fanservice in games. Said so himself. 

Reminder this guy constantly whines about women being sexualized in the burka thread, under the pretense of feminist virtue signaling bullshit, but in reality it's mostly because he's grossed out by women, and salty his homoerotic fantasies aren't being catered to.

it's clear several people here have weird sexual fantasies about era users.

Christ, this boomerfied edginess again?

[Uncle]

Sorry, to break it to you, but the only interactions I have with this Melody individual is through your obessive posts.

keep it up fellas, he's getting a real education 

[BIONIC]

#JeSuisBlueball

[filler]

blewnuts can suck my fat hog!!

[Eric Cartman]

“You’re still our son.”
“Factually incorrect.”

[jooseloose]

Planetsmasher is BACK after his arduous 3-day ban.

The fact enemies can literally slide across the battlefield without even moving their feet to hit you like they have shoes made of soap, while Atsu doesn't even have a single gap-closer of her own is making me so angry. Why can't we get a gap-closer? Why do enemies get them and we don't?
It makes fights look fucking silly (it's getting to the point where I literally make cartoon "slippery" noises with my mouth whenever I see an enemy do it, and it's often) AND it makes Atsu feel like she has absolutely zero range.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghost-of-y%C5%8Dtei-ot-hone-wolf.1314208/post-146509633

[Eric Cartman]

Hello, could we maybe get an explanation on why everyone in the Hasan thread got warned and threadbanned for posting/discussing a new video of his, regarding well-known racist Asmongold, which had absolutely nothing to do with the dog issue that got (rightly) shut down?

I'm assuming an accident 'cause the situation was heated, but I really do not understand. That thread is for discussing his content, no?

Thank you.

also COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY they're shitting up the Penguinz0 thread about him saying "Guys, I've got enough money, I am no longer accepting any kind of donations" DEFINITELY NOT because he called Hasan out as a weaselly fucking liar dude about the shock collar.

Its actually so transparent and pathetic.

[Eric Cartman]

Capitalist realism rears its head again.



The idea that the vague corporate talking points (and indeed, that vagueness is the point- what exactly are those tasks that are deemed to be "tedious?" They never explain. Gee, I wonder why) about generative AI's boons to the arts are sincere is laughable when not only are the companies themselves or their sycophants not actually providing the metadata necessary to prove these talking points as fact, but the affected workers are telling you to your faces that they are experiencing massive layoffs, displacement and isolation, and decreased efficiency.



This is not even counting the fact that the very nature of the system of capitalism is mired in the contradictions of lofty, seemingly humanistic promises to smooth over nakedly economic and imperialist ends for the few. The car was supposed to "free the man." Social media was supposed to "bring us together." And now, gen AI is supposed to "democratize art." It's always meaningless, feelgood paff that nonetheless gets swallowed whole by the undiscerning masses constantly waiting for this magical technological boom that is supposed to "save them" from the dehumanization of the very system they place their hopes in.



It is especially apparent with generative AI that this is all really an attempt to exponentially increase the level of exploitation and profit theft not just within the arts but everywhere this shit is being pushed when you fundamentally understand that profit solely comes from the exploitation of human labor, both physical and intellectual. You can't exploit an algorithm and magically pay it less than what it costs to operate the machinations necessary for its "work" (which I put in quotes because robots, algorithms, etc. do not actually classically perform labor like humans because they are fundamentally not autonomous beings acting independently to change the world through that labor), meaning it can't be exploited. If it costs $1000/mo. to operate Midjourney, then that's just what it costs.



But humans can be exploited. You can enslave humans or just simply not pay them the value of what they produce, hence the very existence of profit. (And don't act like we still don't engage in slavery just because it's not happening on your great-great-great grandpappy's backyard anymore). And what better goldmine of exploitation than pretty much all of the art in human existence that was scraped without the consent of its creators and privatized through legally-dubious means, all of that physical and intellectual labor just gobbled up by craven capitalists and being sold back to you under these enticing Faustian promises that you will finally be that artist you always dreamed of being or that you will have to wait less time for your distracting little treats to be made? GenAI is not a tool in the traditional sense that it is an object meant to vacuously increase the potential of human labor power; it is also a medium based upon and through which human exploitation occurs simultaneously.



This, of course, is just on top of the fact that the data centers necessary to power these things are massive energy sinks which, in a society actively dying due to rapid climate change, are fundamentally unsustainable (hey, did you know we just reached a tipping point with coral reef death? Welp, now you can't un-know that). Electricity costs are soaring. Towns are having their drinking water sucked dry. Forests are being cleared and polluted. Going back to exploitation, African data workers are the ones who are having to manually pick through all of the violent imagery, CSAM, and other gnarly shit that was inevitably nabbed up by these data scrapers, leaving them riddled with psychological issues and turning to drug abuse. All of this misery and destruction so some nerd on the Internet can create an ugly fake Ghibli screenshot, or some rich asshole like Kojima can not deal with the "tedious tasks."



Granted, I know none of this matters within the context of a hobbyist culture founded on little more than mindless consumerism. I just mistakenly expected better
 at this point.

OOOHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh okay, I get it;
Nepenthe is saying that hip-hop isn't real music, because the so called 'artists' didn't actually learn any instruments, and instead just misappropriated other peoples work for their own benefit and have no true artistry of their own.

[malfoyking]

Is it safe to say Benji obviously jacks off to this and has a fetish?

Blueball, you probably jack off to Melody Shreds.

Sorry, to break it to you, but the only interactions I have with this Melody individual is through your obessive posts. This said...

link

Honestly this censorship annoyed me. It's already censored enough in an artistic way in the original. The remake just makes the entire scene feel pointless because you can barely see jack shit. And the people who claim to be anti-censorship were mostly very silent on this one, because it didn't involve a waifu.

This guy claims "artistic reasons" of why it annoyed him, but the truth is that he's a gay man upset there isn't more male fanservice in games. Said so himself. 

Reminder this guy constantly whines about women being sexualized in the burka thread, under the pretense of feminist virtue signaling bullshit, but in reality it's mostly because he's grossed out by women, and salty his homoerotic fantasies aren't being catered to.

it's clear several people here have weird sexual fantasies about era users.

Bluebitch, your schtick is old , Ya boring. Find something else.

[malfoyking]

Blueball, you probably jack off to Melody Shreds.

Sorry, to break it to you, but the only interactions I have with this Melody individual is through your obessive posts. This said...

link

This guy claims "artistic reasons" of why it annoyed him, but the truth is that he's a gay man upset there isn't more male fanservice in games. Said so himself. 

Reminder this guy constantly whines about women being sexualized in the burka thread, under the pretense of feminist virtue signaling bullshit, but in reality it's mostly because he's grossed out by women, and salty his homoerotic fantasies aren't being catered to.

it's clear several people here have weird sexual fantasies about era users.

It’s clear that Melody posts loli porn on her blusky. Do you support loli porn? If so, why? 

It’s clear era does not give room for certain people to “improve” or “grow”. But they leave exceptions for others. Why is this ok?

It’s clear era does not allow straight cis males to express any type of lust or adoration for women, but these rules don’t apply to the lgbt crowd. Do you support this? Why?

How come they have so many unwritten rules, where it’s obvious nobody can keep up with them, but won’t bother to actually list them out for their users?

The forum constantly calls for Obama to be arrested or executed as a war criminal but never mention Bush. Why is their attention solely on the black president who provided their lazy asses with healthcare? Can you touch on any of these topics?

Don't forget the energy they still have for Kamala too who's just living her life.

[Eric Cartman]

He claims he sees nothing but porn games on Steam, which if he's not exaggerating, literally only happens if you actually buy/play porn games. And then, despite being a little bitch who whines about sexualized characters, refuses to turn the option off. Even though it'd only take literally a few seconds. 

He basically ran into that thread to say he never sees it on Switch because he buys a wide variety of stuff but does see it on Steam because he only ever opens Steam to buy porn games.

Switch sends you an email at the end of the year saying what games you've been playing and how long you've spent playing them
Steam lets you turn selected titles visibility and playtime off so nobody (including your post-nut clarity self) knows what you've been playing and for how long

[Eric Cartman]

Real talk, in high school I met a guy who, had the word "incel" been around there, I suspect would have fallen down that hole immediately. You could tell by looking at him interacting with women that he would immediately lose interest in conversation when it was clear that it wouldn't lead to losing his virginity. Don't think he had much interest in talking to guys for the same reason.

He was also the gladiatorial champion, and super fucking into wasps

[DavidCroquet]

Hello, could we maybe get an explanation on why everyone in the Hasan thread got warned and threadbanned for posting/discussing a new video of his, regarding well-known racist Asmongold, which had absolutely nothing to do with the dog issue that got (rightly) shut down?

I'm assuming an accident 'cause the situation was heated, but I really do not understand. That thread is for discussing his content, no?

Thank you.

also COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY they're shitting up the Penguinz0 thread about him saying "Guys, I've got enough money, I am no longer accepting any kind of donations" DEFINITELY NOT because he called Hasan out as a weaselly fucking liar dude about the shock collar.

Its actually so transparent and pathetic.

No, it's not because of the Hasan thing!

Penguinz was friends with Asmongold...well, he used to be! 
And also...donations are a smaller slice of his income, so really he's not doing anything that significant!
Um...does anyone know if Penguinz is currently donating to any charities? Pretty sus if not...and I don't know of any...
He only rejected MAGA and called it a Genocide this year. Typical fence-sitting nazi lib jew bullshit!

You see, there are many very solid and not at all strained-to-the-point-of-shattering reasons to completely hate this guy. In fact I think he should be a banned source on Era, before he says more bad things about Hasan continues to equivocate on the omnicause!

(For those who can't find the thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/popular-streamer-moistcr1tikal-aka-penguinz0-aka-charlie-asks-people-to-stop-giving-him-money-in-one-of-the-best-displays-of-i-have-enough-stop.1321570/ )

[PogiJones]

You've all been using the internet for 30 years and you guys still haven't learned that getting mad at him just gives him what he wants while sounding dorky.

Smh, blueball was right about this place

[Uncle]

You've all been using the internet for 30 years and you guys still haven't learned that getting mad at him just gives him what he wants while sounding dorky.

Smh, blueball was right about this place

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

that's the whole point, we have to give him enough attention to keep him coming back

[Eric Cartman]

Why people just don't use magic eyes? I mean a little hole with a fisheye lens that's standard and incredibly cheap and not enabler of a fascist state?

...because a lot of people aren't shut ins 24/7?

[Lonewulfeus]

You've all been using the internet for 30 years and you guys still haven't learned that getting mad at him just gives him what he wants while sounding dorky.

Smh, blueball was right about this place

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

that's the whole point, we have to give him enough attention to keep him coming back

Yea I’m not sure that’s a good thing.  It’s the same era shtick of ignoring anything that’s bad for you while cherry picking the worst possible interpretation of something innocuous, but it’s here instead of on Tylenol personera.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-63#post-146516908

Missed opportunity for Cuomo to bring CollarGate, clearly a pressing issue worthy of the debate among other things such as Hasan bajillion dollar house.

"Why won't Zohran condemn Hasan Piker for electrifying his dog?"

[JoeBoy101]

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also COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY they're shitting up the Penguinz0 thread about him saying "Guys, I've got enough money, I am no longer accepting any kind of donations" DEFINITELY NOT because he called Hasan out as a weaselly fucking liar dude about the shock collar.

Its actually so transparent and pathetic.

No, it's not because of the Hasan thing!

Penguinz was friends with Asmongold...well, he used to be! 
And also...donations are a smaller slice of his income, so really he's not doing anything that significant!
Um...does anyone know if Penguinz is currently donating to any charities? Pretty sus if not...and I don't know of any...
He only rejected MAGA and called it a Genocide this year. Typical fence-sitting nazi lib jew bullshit!

You see, there are many very solid and not at all strained-to-the-point-of-shattering reasons to completely hate this guy. In fact I think he should be a banned source on Era, before he says more bad things about Hasan continues to equivocate on the omnicause!

(For those who can't find the thread: https://www.resetera.com/threads/popular-streamer-moistcr1tikal-aka-penguinz0-aka-charlie-asks-people-to-stop-giving-him-money-in-one-of-the-best-displays-of-i-have-enough-stop.1321570/ )

I hate when people change for the better. They should have done more, and sooner. Maybe if Charlie had been born pure and morally perfect (like me) he could have done some real good by complaining about himself on a message board.

I see this for it’s meant sarcasm, but there’s definitely some ERA posters whom truly believe it.

[Snoopy]

Capitalist realism rears its head again.



The idea that the vague corporate talking points (and indeed, that vagueness is the point- what exactly are those tasks that are deemed to be "tedious?" They never explain. Gee, I wonder why) about generative AI's boons to the arts are sincere is laughable when not only are the companies themselves or their sycophants not actually providing the metadata necessary to prove these talking points as fact, but the affected workers are telling you to your faces that they are experiencing massive layoffs, displacement and isolation, and decreased efficiency.



This is not even counting the fact that the very nature of the system of capitalism is mired in the contradictions of lofty, seemingly humanistic promises to smooth over nakedly economic and imperialist ends for the few. The car was supposed to "free the man." Social media was supposed to "bring us together." And now, gen AI is supposed to "democratize art." It's always meaningless, feelgood paff that nonetheless gets swallowed whole by the undiscerning masses constantly waiting for this magical technological boom that is supposed to "save them" from the dehumanization of the very system they place their hopes in.



It is especially apparent with generative AI that this is all really an attempt to exponentially increase the level of exploitation and profit theft not just within the arts but everywhere this shit is being pushed when you fundamentally understand that profit solely comes from the exploitation of human labor, both physical and intellectual. You can't exploit an algorithm and magically pay it less than what it costs to operate the machinations necessary for its "work" (which I put in quotes because robots, algorithms, etc. do not actually classically perform labor like humans because they are fundamentally not autonomous beings acting independently to change the world through that labor), meaning it can't be exploited. If it costs $1000/mo. to operate Midjourney, then that's just what it costs.



But humans can be exploited. You can enslave humans or just simply not pay them the value of what they produce, hence the very existence of profit. (And don't act like we still don't engage in slavery just because it's not happening on your great-great-great grandpappy's backyard anymore). And what better goldmine of exploitation than pretty much all of the art in human existence that was scraped without the consent of its creators and privatized through legally-dubious means, all of that physical and intellectual labor just gobbled up by craven capitalists and being sold back to you under these enticing Faustian promises that you will finally be that artist you always dreamed of being or that you will have to wait less time for your distracting little treats to be made? GenAI is not a tool in the traditional sense that it is an object meant to vacuously increase the potential of human labor power; it is also a medium based upon and through which human exploitation occurs simultaneously.



This, of course, is just on top of the fact that the data centers necessary to power these things are massive energy sinks which, in a society actively dying due to rapid climate change, are fundamentally unsustainable (hey, did you know we just reached a tipping point with coral reef death? Welp, now you can't un-know that). Electricity costs are soaring. Towns are having their drinking water sucked dry. Forests are being cleared and polluted. Going back to exploitation, African data workers are the ones who are having to manually pick through all of the violent imagery, CSAM, and other gnarly shit that was inevitably nabbed up by these data scrapers, leaving them riddled with psychological issues and turning to drug abuse. All of this misery and destruction so some nerd on the Internet can create an ugly fake Ghibli screenshot, or some rich asshole like Kojima can not deal with the "tedious tasks."



Granted, I know none of this matters within the context of a hobbyist culture founded on little more than mindless consumerism. I just mistakenly expected better
 at this point.

OOOHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh okay, I get it;
Nepenthe is saying that hip-hop isn't real music, because the so called 'artists' didn't actually learn any instruments, and instead just misappropriated other peoples work for their own benefit and have no true artistry of their own.

Nep also seems to have conveniently forgotten that many artists were funded by these capitalists she hates so much.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/page-63#post-146516908

Missed opportunity for Cuomo to bring CollarGate, clearly a pressing issue worthy of the debate among other things such as Hasan bajillion dollar house.

"Why won't Zohran condemn Hasan Piker for electrifying his dog?"

Controversial opinion but when you're campaigning to become the Mayor of New York it's worth talking about how you hang out with a guy who said that America deserved 9/11 (which happened in New York). It arguably matters more than his opinion on Israel and Palestine (which is not in New York)

[Eric Cartman]

But humans can be exploited. You can enslave humans or just simply not pay them the value of what they produce, hence the very existence of profit.

Nep also seems to have conveniently forgotten that many artists were funded by these capitalists she hates so much.

Nep has some fucking bizarre zero sum notion of how, fuck, basic commerce works, as exemplified by this dumb shit PROFIT = EXPLOITATION take.

Like... if I grow an apple, thats worth a variable price based on how much somebody wants my apple.
Someone allergic to apples values my apple as worth fuck all, somebody desperate for an apple will pay big time for my apple, there is a continuum between nothing (which lets say includes everything up to my personal valuation of how much I reckon it cost me in labour + materials + my own desire to not sell my apple) up to something way more than I 'think' its worth.

But if someone buys my apple at what I consider a fair cost, then travels the fucking country specifically looking for people who will pay over the odds so that they make more than I did, I'm not being fucked over because I didn't go round the fucking country looking for those people, they did.

And if one of those people turns premium apples into delicious apple pie and charges even more over what I think an apple is worth, they are also not fucking me over, because they are also adding additional labour that I didn't fucking do to create a 'profit'.

And if someone then takes those apple pies round the country to find the specific people who will pay way more for those apple pies than average... the fucking cycle continues.

Like... a fucking child would understand this.
The only way you wouldn't is by starting with the premise anyone making more money than me on a product is only doing it by fucking me over somehow, which is legitimately retarded

[Eric Cartman]

Talk about clickbait ragebaiting

It's a nothing Instagram post

[simiansmarts]

Talk about clickbait ragebaiting

It's a nothing Instagram post

Look at Zack Snyder making instagram posts of his own movies like he owns the place. Doesn't he know that David Cornsweat is Superman now?? 
 

[TacoWallace]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-crew-2-offline-mode-now-available.1327852/#post-146518999

If you would've actually clicked the link, the REASON I posted that was because that specific POST had the info that the update had released in it. They already said new news new thread, so you could've just moved along, like I did.

What is THIS, a PLANETSMASHER alt? 

"Moved along" yet comes back 20 min later all pissed off...

Dude linked a thread with no context, instead of the appropriate link from that other post, and expects people to navigate his laziness/brain rot.

I've seen a lot of Oct. 25 2017 posters acting out lately.

The upcoming birthday of ResetEra should be a celebration, not a gathering of miserable failed Sephiroth-clones like the reunion in FFVII.

[Greatness Gone]

James Gunn made (dozens of) jokes about raping children and that was forgivable, but Zack Snyder making bad movies isn't? 

[nachobro]

Planetsmasher is BACK after his arduous 3-day ban.

The fact enemies can literally slide across the battlefield without even moving their feet to hit you like they have shoes made of soap, while Atsu doesn't even have a single gap-closer of her own is making me so angry. Why can't we get a gap-closer? Why do enemies get them and we don't?
It makes fights look fucking silly (it's getting to the point where I literally make cartoon "slippery" noises with my mouth whenever I see an enemy do it, and it's often) AND it makes Atsu feel like she has absolutely zero range.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ghost-of-y%C5%8Dtei-ot-hone-wolf.1314208/post-146509633

hes so shit at games