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

[DavidCroquet]

Zeo's instagram career is likely going to be as storied and interesting as his Twitch career. 

I already processed my pre-emptive disappointment when he first announced the incoming post.

[benji]

Yeah sure, exacerbating racist tensions against one the most vulnerable populations during an overt fascist wave is bad, but I'll get my Kojima video games faster so really it's more of a win than a loss.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/october-31-2025-racist-ai-videos-of-black-women-complaining-about-their-ebt-cards-go-viral.1340845/page-2#post-147102508

Weird how this AI topic is allowed though lol

First of all, I doubt Kojima is using Gen video AI, secondly, neither me or Kojima can do anything but video gen AI existing, so why are you angry at me?

As usual, she has to force an all or nothing choice that's rigged: either you support racists making false videos (with AI) as part of upholding white supremacy or you don't want any algorithms that have access to large amounts of data to ever exist. It's easy for her to choose to be a good person, why are you struggling with it?

And it guarantees that everyone else will fail her because nobody's going to delete these from existence and block them from ever being created again, it's more likely that governments will take up AI for things because it's an unaccountable bureaucrats dream. The "nudgers" and "market socialists" are going to come back around with "how AI can solve capitalism" in no time and start demanding the state use it to replace standard decision making. Then she'll be able to cast them out like she was the "Abundance" guys (who were all previously on board with nudging and before that market socialism) a few weeks ago and blame them for all the problems of the world.

[BIONIC]

ZeoVGM is my favorite poster and in solidarity I will not be posting again until after his Instagram post. 

Oh no! We're never gonna hear from Gameboy Nostalgia again! 

Wow. That’d be so disappointing. The quality of discourse here will really lower without him being around.

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/october-31-2025-racist-ai-videos-of-black-women-complaining-about-their-ebt-cards-go-viral.1340845/page-2#post-147102508

Weird how this AI topic is allowed though lol

First of all, I doubt Kojima is using Gen video AI, secondly, neither me or Kojima can do anything but video gen AI existing, so why are you angry at me?

As usual, she has to force an all or nothing choice that's rigged: either you support racists making false videos (with AI) as part of upholding white supremacy or you don't want any algorithms that have access to large amounts of data to ever exist. It's easy for her to choose to be a good person, why are you struggling with it?

And it guarantees that everyone else will fail her because nobody's going to delete these from existence and block them from ever being created again, it's more likely that governments will take up AI for things because it's an unaccountable bureaucrats dream. The "nudgers" and "market socialists" are going to come back around with "how AI can solve capitalism" in no time and start demanding the state use it to replace standard decision making. Then she'll be able to cast them out like she was the "Abundance" guys (who were all previously on board with nudging and before that market socialism) a few weeks ago and blame them for all the problems of the world.

It's called socialism with english characteristics 

[benji]

Watch Benji play titanfall 2

Read a 1000 word Benji post about Jeff

Would be a lot of 2K26 MyCAREEER story recently since it was 50% off. Some of the world's worst writing, acting and dialogue intersped with a few minutes of me grabbing tons of rebounds and never shooting outside three feet because my ratings are too low to risk anything else. They even got a new voice actor for MP this year and it sounds like he's whining with every sentence he says.

Also I was inspired by a street baller in one cut scene who had a completely yellow outfit down to his shoes to find out how you edit the shoe colors in game and made some hilariously disgusting looking Chuck Taylors (ideal arch support for a 2025 professional player), though I spend all my VC on my ratings so I can't buy them from the store yet. (The regular black ones are 3000 VC, my ones titled "barf" are 7500 VC. The store charging the artist more for his own shoes? Fucking capitalism.) That would have been riveting to watch as I tried to decide which colors looked worst on which parts of the shoe.

[Besticus Maximus]

Watch Benji play titanfall 2

Read a 1000 word Benji post about Jeff

Would be a lot of 2K26 MyCAREEER story recently since it was 50% off. Some of the world's worst writing, acting and dialogue intersped with a few minutes of me grabbing tons of rebounds and never shooting outside three feet because my ratings are too low to risk anything else. They even got a new voice actor for MP this year and it sounds like he's whining with every sentence he says.

Also I was inspired by a street baller in one cut scene who had a completely yellow outfit down to his shoes to find out how you edit the shoe colors in game and made some hilariously disgusting looking Chuck Taylors (ideal arch support for a 2025 professional player), though I spend all my VC on my ratings so I can't buy them from the store yet. (The regular black ones are 3000 VC, my ones titled "barf" are 7500 VC. The store charging the artist more for his own shoes? Fucking capitalism.) That would have been riveting to watch as I tried to decide which colors looked worst on which parts of the shoe.

[benji]

You won't be posting that after Jeff drops his expose.

[Boredfrom]

Did Kyuuji just disappeared after that alleged fallout with Uzzy? We don’t even know what happened because someone forgot to post receipts.

[benji]

Did Kyuuji just disappeared after that alleged fallout with Uzzy? We don’t even know what happened because someone forgot to post receipts.

Posting like normal about standard high femme interests:

Maybe this will put us back on the good timeline.

Omg this is amazing! The pet backpacks season is the one season I missed and have hated not having them since, as they never came back or did others lol. Maybe we'll eventually get the kitsune back in pet form 🤞

+1. The April test was my first time playing an extraction shooter and combined with this it's been a great introduction - playing mostly solo but with a few sessions duo. I'll apply and keep my fingers crossed for any other test between now and release, which suddenly feels too far away lol.

Survey sent. Hope it helps them though needless to say I'm locked in for release at this point.

Yup lol, I miss those maps already.

Just here for the OT, great job Knight 💐

[kaleidoscopium]

Kyuuji regularly posts on the nfl thread too, not because he is a fan of any team, but because of Taylor swift… lol…

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it-finally-happened-an-imperial-measurement-broke-me.1339954/

I live in a Euro country so metric is my jam. But my parents grew up on imperial, so I know both systems. Weight's fine, volume's fine, speed's fine.

But as someone currently doing a bit of home DIY and watching a bunch of DIY videos, measurements smaller than an inch have broken me. Why do you measure stuff as 1/16" of an inch? It's not 1mm, it's not 2mm. It's 1.58mm. What point is that? Even most UK builders who use imperial use millimeters for precise measurements.

One sixteenth of an inch. Two and three-eighths of an inch. Why? Just...why man.

I went through this with fishing weights lol, 1/32 of an oz? that's 0.886 grams? why?

It's bad. I actually thought you'd be agreed with universally op.

It sounds simple to just say it like that. But it stops being that simple as soon as you need to add or subtract something. 2mm+5mm is 7mm but 3/16ths+1/2in all of the sudden breaks the simplicity of it's all halves. Like yes if you're used to this you know to change 1/2 to 8/16ths, and now it's easy... But there's an extra step in here, it can't be easier than a single step problem

I can see how they got there if the starting point was breaking things into 1/4, but the second it got to 1/8 and below they should have reconsidered.

  They literally cannot comprehend fractions? Or that people needed to weigh things before the metric system was invented and standardized?

[benji]

How far do I have to go into this this thread before someone blows everyone's minds by mentioning that a gram is based on the weight of an orb of some material in France that no longer weighs what it once did?

[Boredfrom]

And still is way better than the Imperial shit.

[jooseloose]

Kyuuji regularly posts on the nfl thread too, not because he is a fan of any team, but because of Taylor swift… lol…

Just girly things.

[benji]

And still is way better than the Imperial shit.

Non-sequitur about waffles. My point was that if you believe metric is somehow beyond just an established standard I'm not surprised you can't comprehend fractions or the idea that a system can't be based on something it predates. Something which some people in that thread are trying to falsely claim (mostly by pulling out their education credentials) against someone who does know better and has posted so.

This is the most relevant thing posted in that thread:


There's gobs of posts in that thread complaining about and demanding the Imperial System be abolished by force because they can't figure out what an ounce is supposed to be or why something would be measured in an ounce at a store. That's stupid, you're stupid, it's literally no different as if it was listed in liters because you don't need to know both systems at all for this. And I know you can't "guess" what 30 milliliters would look like either, your problem isn't solved. Metric may be superior but this isn't a relevant complaint that the metric system addresses because the metric system can't solve your inability to do abstract thinking.

"It makes me unsafe that I have to ask Google to convert this recipe for me and I don't know why the measures that were chosen were chosen!" Get the fuck over it. 

[clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/capri-sun-has-horrible-product-design-what-else-has-bad-design.1341172/#post-147119920

The struggle to get to the juice is the point.

You see in the capitalist, colonial west we make it as hard to get the juice as possible. The struggle is the point. We need to teach these kids to bootstrap. You think we just gonna give y’all the juice? No. You gotta work for the juice.

In the global south you know how they get the juice? They grab the fruit off the tree and suck it out. What? That sounds even more difficult than a capri sun?

Y’all ain’t serious people.

[jorma]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/it-finally-happened-an-imperial-measurement-broke-me.1339954/

I live in a Euro country so metric is my jam. But my parents grew up on imperial, so I know both systems. Weight's fine, volume's fine, speed's fine.

But as someone currently doing a bit of home DIY and watching a bunch of DIY videos, measurements smaller than an inch have broken me. Why do you measure stuff as 1/16" of an inch? It's not 1mm, it's not 2mm. It's 1.58mm. What point is that? Even most UK builders who use imperial use millimeters for precise measurements.

One sixteenth of an inch. Two and three-eighths of an inch. Why? Just...why man.

I went through this with fishing weights lol, 1/32 of an oz? that's 0.886 grams? why?

It's bad. I actually thought you'd be agreed with universally op.

It sounds simple to just say it like that. But it stops being that simple as soon as you need to add or subtract something. 2mm+5mm is 7mm but 3/16ths+1/2in all of the sudden breaks the simplicity of it's all halves. Like yes if you're used to this you know to change 1/2 to 8/16ths, and now it's easy... But there's an extra step in here, it can't be easier than a single step problem

I can see how they got there if the starting point was breaking things into 1/4, but the second it got to 1/8 and below they should have reconsidered.

  They literally cannot comprehend fractions? Or that people needed to weigh things before the metric system was invented and standardized?

People needed to transport things before lorrys and trains were invented too and then people promptly stopped using "horsecart" as the delivery method on their amazon shopping, because it was clearly the inferior method

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/capri-sun-has-horrible-product-design-what-else-has-bad-design.1341172/#post-147119920

How come they're still in business?

A lot of people agree it's terrible.

Rudolf Wild invented the drink in 1969 and introduced it in West Germany as Capri-Sonne (a name retired in favor of the English name in 2017). It has come to be sold in over 100 countries, with licensees including Kraft Foods in the United States (as Capri Sun)[b] and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners in parts of Europe.[c] It is one of the most popular juice brands in the world; as of 2023, roughly 6 billion pouches are sold per year globally.

In 2009, Capri-Sun's global sales of 1.106 billion liters of absolute volume (243 million imp gal; 292 million U.S. gal) ranked third in the world among fruit juice brands, after Tropicana and Minute Maid.[22] At that time, per capita consumption in the United States and Germany was around 6 Capri-Sun pouches per year, while the French island of Réunion—a major Capri-Sun exporter where the juice sells for the same price as water[23]—had the highest per capita consumption at 9.6.[10] As of 2023, Capri-Sun sells an estimated 6 billion pouches per year globally.[1] As of 2024, Forbes reports sales in more than 100 countries, netting roughly $500 million per year.[24]

Wow, I had no clue.

The shape is trademarked in Germany, where SiSi-Werke has won multiple court cases defending it.[115] Capri Sun GmbH has filed some lawsuits in the United States to defend its trademark on the pouch design, securing a $650,000 licensing fee from Faribault Foods in one case. In 2017, Capri Sun GmbH sued the pouch manufacturer American Beverage, claiming that the pouches it supplied to SunnyD and 23 other brands constituted trademark infringement.

"At least that's a real property concern unlike owning land or houses." - 

[benji]

People needed to transport things before lorrys and trains were invented too and then people promptly stopped using "horsecart" as the delivery method on their amazon shopping, because it was clearly the inferior method

Look at Jeff Bezos over here pursuing domination instead of recognizing the natural moral purity of the horsecart, the horsecart makers and the horsecart operators.

[Besticus Maximus]

messofanego

Around my age? I think it's just one of my friends, and he's never been in a relationship. He's been mainly focused on work and saving himself for marriage. He loves 40K, is there an equivalent of a wizard in that universe?

They’re called women, fascist

[davepoobond]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/capri-sun-has-horrible-product-design-what-else-has-bad-design.1341172/#post-147119920

How come they're still in business?

A lot of people agree it's terrible.

Rudolf Wild invented the drink in 1969 and introduced it in West Germany as Capri-Sonne (a name retired in favor of the English name in 2017). It has come to be sold in over 100 countries, with licensees including Kraft Foods in the United States (as Capri Sun)[b] and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners in parts of Europe.[c] It is one of the most popular juice brands in the world; as of 2023, roughly 6 billion pouches are sold per year globally.

In 2009, Capri-Sun's global sales of 1.106 billion liters of absolute volume (243 million imp gal; 292 million U.S. gal) ranked third in the world among fruit juice brands, after Tropicana and Minute Maid.[22] At that time, per capita consumption in the United States and Germany was around 6 Capri-Sun pouches per year, while the French island of Réunion—a major Capri-Sun exporter where the juice sells for the same price as water[23]—had the highest per capita consumption at 9.6.[10] As of 2023, Capri-Sun sells an estimated 6 billion pouches per year globally.[1] As of 2024, Forbes reports sales in more than 100 countries, netting roughly $500 million per year.[24]

Wow, I had no clue.

The shape is trademarked in Germany, where SiSi-Werke has won multiple court cases defending it.[115] Capri Sun GmbH has filed some lawsuits in the United States to defend its trademark on the pouch design, securing a $650,000 licensing fee from Faribault Foods in one case. In 2017, Capri Sun GmbH sued the pouch manufacturer American Beverage, claiming that the pouches it supplied to SunnyD and 23 other brands constituted trademark infringement.

"At least that's a real property concern unlike owning land or houses." - 

I’m surprised Capri Sun is classified as juice.  I never knew what I was drinking.

[benji]

Not sure if a guy who got his relationship from a website where you have the entire thing chaperoned should be critical of other dudes who may not be having a lot of relationships.

[benji]

ZeoVGM is my favorite poster and in solidarity I will not be posting again until after his Instagram post. 

y'all better not have been bullying him.

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[benji]

Youtube comments. I wonder what's this dude's life. Wake up at 14, log in, check resetera targets, check bluesky's targets (and probably masturbate to them by the amount of fetish posts he makes), check youtube comments, then reddit?

This, on the other hand, is a good example of a post projecting. 

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[DavidCroquet]

ZeoVGM is my favorite poster and in solidarity I will not be posting again until after his Instagram post. 

y'all better not have been bullying him.

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I am sincerely shocked that mainstream-consumer-slop-chaser par excellence ZeoVGM is only just now tuning into KPop Demon Hunters.

Is he a misogynist or something?

[Taco Bell Tower]

ZeoVGM is my favorite poster and in solidarity I will not be posting again until after his Instagram post. 

y'all better not have been bullying him.

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Is this the big announcement he was building up before deleting his announcement tweets?  That's it?  

[Taco Bell Tower]

Youtube comments. I wonder what's this dude's life. Wake up at 14, log in, check resetera targets, check bluesky's targets (and probably masturbate to them by the amount of fetish posts he makes), check youtube comments, then reddit?

This, on the other hand, is a good example of a post projecting. 

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Says the guy who wants Hasan to plow him 

[Besticus Maximus]

I told you all it would be an admission he was wrong and nobody listened 

[benji]

Jeff didn't post any of his big expose announcement tweets on Bluesky, only Twitter.

He did retweet this though:

Which I must emphasize is literally not something the literal Nazis literally did. Especially because it wasn't even a thing that existed at the time. Ironically (to those ignorant of the Nazis like Chris and Jeff), the Nazis were responsible for a massive expansion of the German public health insurance system that had comparatively languished after Bismarck moved on.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-don%E2%80%99t-think-i%E2%80%99ve-ever-been-happy-once-in-my-life.1338808/#post-147018544

This is a thread born from a rough couple of days and fragile mental state, just as a heads up.

I've been thinking more and more of how in my 32 years of life, I don't think there was ever a point in time where I felt happy. Obviously I have felt the emotion of "happiness" before, you know, the feeling of excitement and energy accompanied with, say, getting a good grade on a exam or hanging out and having fun with friends. But in terms of being in a general state of happiness about life, no, I don't think I ever did.

I don't think there was ever a period of time in my life were I could say I enjoyed living life. It's always been from a perspective of survival for me - "making it through the day" or getting through a stressful event and not fucking up something as bad as I thought I would. Laying down in bed at the end of the day and reviewing in my mind how well or unwell the previous day went, and never looking forward to the next or just being content with the general state of everything in my life. Days are just an obstacle to overcome.

A large part of this I'm sure has to do with having Crohn's Disease for over half of my years thus far. Life tends to just boil down to making through the minute by minute ordeals when you have such an illness. The other end is having what seems like a default state of chronic depression. I've suicide ideated since I was about 15 and on a fairly consistent basis up through today. Twice the ideation led to an actual attempt, but mostly it's just an ever present background thought that the choice is always there for me if things ever get that bad. Almost like a grotesque comfort for me that I could easily end it all if it ever gets that bad. I've gaslit myself into thinking it's a totally normal thought to have, and it wasn't until an actual attempt materialized out of it that I realize that, no, it's fucked up.

There's no singular point I'm trying to reach here with this thread. It's a little rambling word vomit I feel like getting off my chest in this vulnerable state I'm in right now. Maybe someone here can commiserate, but otherwise I'm just getting these thoughts written down to help piece together my own messed up thoughts of my sad and broken brain.

Also can a mod make this members only? I don't know how to do that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/random-grievances-of-a-chronically-ill-person.1340875/

I was never shy about sharing my lifelong journey with Crohn's Disease with others. Both the highs and the rock bottom lows. I guess 15 years of experience has given me a good intuition cause I had a feeling going into 2025 it was going to be one of the rough ones.

As I sit in constant pain and anxiety awaiting further medical tests to see what my future holds, I can safely say the disease has managed to beat me down and leave me feeling hopeless and drained to rival my initial years with it.

Ive been through this song and dance before, and I made it through each one, which is what gives the motivation to continue pushing through this moment and leave it behind as just another challenge I overcame, but being deep within the moment is a form of despair I wished I never had to feel again.

Maybe it was young naivety that made me a bit more oblivious to any overarching dread about what exactly the illness would mean for my life back in the early days. But going through it again as a 32 year old, it is now accompanied with a new sense of regret, loss, and longing that is making the pill all the more bitter to swallow this time.

One year from now, I hope I can say I no longer concern myself with these thoughts. But venting can be a great momentary relief and so that's what I'll do now: I hate this disease and what it did to me. I hate what it did to my life. I hate the happiness, the joy, and the excitement of youth it stole from me, and of which I'll never get back. I hate how it made me a bystander to my own life, watching the years disappear and fantasizing of all the things I knew I wanted to do but didn't have the strength, health, or energy to ever make materialize. I hate all the dark thoughts it put into my head over the years that there was ever only one true definitive way to get out of this misery that had enveloped my life and that maybe, just maybe, I should consider it. (I'm not quite in this headspace currently).

I'm tired of the pain, and the need to meticulously think out every plan, every event, every attempt at fun well in advance and working out scenarios in my head of how to improvise if things should ever go sideways. I'm tired of being tired all the damn time with a lack of energy accompanied by a self-gaslighting that, no, maybe I'm actually just fucking lazy and useless. I'm tired of the endless guilt I feel for not being able to be present all the time, to always be there for others while I'm battling this, as much as I wish to be.

I'm tired of being sad all the time and feeling the need to isolate myself from everyone. I'm tired of having to face the unknown of what treatments, meds, and surgeries are in my future.

I'm tired.

To top it all off, it's a hell of a time to be going through this shit in a time when society seems to be continuously draining itself of all semblance of empathy and compassion for others, when the dog eat dog, fuck-you-got-mine capitalist mentality has firmly implanted itself in nearly all core aspects of American life. I know there are still tons of communities of supportive and kind people, both in my personal life and society in general, and I can't thank those people enough. The louder political landscape though has damaged my perception of the trustworthy and supportive nature of many people and makes this, probably undeservedly, a more lonely feeling type of struggle than it already was.

I don't have a singular point I'm trying to get to with this message. I'm struggling, and I can't hide it much anymore. That's the post. This isn't a cry for help, but an acknowledgment of the state I'm currently in and the challenges ahead. In the past, times like this would inevitably light a fire under me to make changes, and remembering that fact as a recognition of my own strength will keep me going this time.

If you made it this far, thank you for taking the time to read this. As it always was, I'm beyond grateful for the people in my life who have always supported me. They're the only reason I'm still here today.