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

[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.

[benji]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Meanwhile Plagiarize has a new hat



Rather spiffing wot

His transformation into Mary Poppins with a penis is now complete

Factually incorrect.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Not sure if he deleted them yet, but last night he was throwing a fit on Twitter and replying with leaked spoilers to chuds who were factually incorrect about the movie and it stars’ complicity in genocide

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scream-7-official-trailer-feb-27-neve-campbell-courteney-cox-isabel-may.1339117/page-4#post-147052225

 User Banned (3 Days): Posting Unmarked Spoilers; Antagonizing Fellow Members

I sure hope you didn't just post a huge unmarked spoiler for this film.

Spoiler: Mod Edit: Spoilers (click to show)(click to hide)

Who cares, no one's watching this slop anyways.

Anna Camps character pretends to be Stu's sister and is obsessed with Sidney. Asa's character gets run over by Gale.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-senate-republicans-to-%E2%80%9Cinitiate-nuclear-option%E2%80%9D-on-filibuster-immediately.1340005/page-5#post-147081283

 User Banned (1 Week): Misogynistic Slur; Don't Do It again

Do it cunts

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dutch-election-exit-polls-liberal-d66-of-rob-jetten-beats-far-right-of-geert-wilders-up-the-anp-has-declared-jetten-d66-the-winner.1338676/page-3#post-147076915

 User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

Is the entirety of the EU shifting towards the right? :(

[yetanotheraccountholyf]

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. 

blueballs if you are not an idiot then just make fun of benji forever for stanning imperial mumbo jumbo made up units

it’s all arbitrary yeah ok grandpa its also garbage

[benji]

blueballs if you are not an idiot then just make fun of benji forever for stanning imperial mumbo jumbo made up units

it’s all arbitrary yeah ok grandpa its also garbage

Sometimes I really have to question if some of you guys are illiterate.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-senate-republicans-to-%E2%80%9Cinitiate-nuclear-option%E2%80%9D-on-filibuster-immediately.1340005/page-5#post-147081283

 User Banned (1 Week): Misogynistic Slur; Don't Do It again

Do it cunts

Don't Do It Again

Literally asking them to do it again 

[benji]

Has anybody seen a "Don't Do It again" admonishment on a ban for say, advocating murder or racism?

[benji]

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.

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Daryl Palumbo famously has Crohn's.

This one's actually about it:

[nachobro]

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.

put the straw in the bottom

you'd think a forum full of homos would understand the concept

[Shecky Fragbaum]

New “men hate” (specifically white men) thread just dropped

Ngl, why do we keep saying "working class men" when the issue is really just "white men" for the most part? Which isn't to say men of color can't fall down the manosphere, but come on. I can't be the only one who noticed that every time we use the words "working class" it's largely just meant to be another way to say "white."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-young-men-don%E2%80%99t-like-the-democrats.1340200/

Every time an article, thinkpiece, post-mortem etc. comes out and attempts to interrogate and reason out why the Democrats lose, it's always met with deflection, with the "leadership" setting the tone. 

Q: "What about our messenging isn't getting thru to men?"

A: "Men are trash! That's why!" (Signed: a man.) 

- "I think you mean WHITE men, slick. "

- "Better make that cis/white/neurotypical men with stable jobs, kinda sus to leave that out ngl."

- "Praxis... and gobs of pretext."

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[benji]

Dunno why we keep saying men when the issue is really just WHITE MEN:



I love how they never ever question themselves enough to bother spending a couple seconds looking anything up before dropping their scorching take. Fucking algorithms.

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Apparently other races only have one gender.

[benji]

I have helpfully made a graph to better demonstrate how much the issue is really just white men:

[HaughtyFrank]

Dunno why we keep saying men when the issue is really just WHITE MEN:



I love how they never ever question themselves enough to bother spending a couple seconds looking anything up before dropping their scorching take. Fucking algorithms.

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Apparently other races only have one gender.

Clearly democrats didn't double down on Latinx hard enough

[benji]

 We've been telling y'all about basic media literacy.

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

[HaughtyFrank]

 We've been telling y'all about basic media literacy.

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Now hold on a second. Two seasons of Rings of Power and four seasons of the Witcher have taught me that only chuds complain about inaccuracies and misunderstandings of the source material

[Boredfrom]

Metric may be superior but…

Okay, thanks for that admission.

[simiansmarts]

I’m waiting in bated breath for Jeff’s big takedown post on insta 
 

[Daffy Duck]

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

Was in the arc raiders thread saying they’re waiting to jump on so they can play with their partner

[benji]

Metric may be superior but…

Okay, thanks for that admission.

I didn't admit shit. You apparently did your bad faith asshole thing again and now you've got another illiterate doing the same fucking thing.

[Daffy Duck]

I’m waiting in bated breath for Jeff’s big takedown post on insta 
 

Has he purged his account? Looking at it just shows profile not available

[Boredfrom]

Calm down Benji, I was not serious for once.

[benji]

Has he purged his account? Looking at it just shows profile not available

It's still there: https://www.instagram.com/zeovgm/

[NekoFever]

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?

They changed its definition to a physical constant in 2019

[benji]

They changed its definition to a physical constant in 2019

Yeah, great, but now when I go to bake something I have to check if the recipe was published before then or not, how is this any easier or better?

[benji]

Calm down Benji, I was not serious for once.

Just ignore his endless fetish posts, man.

[Daffy Duck]

Has he purged his account? Looking at it just shows profile not available

It's still there: https://www.instagram.com/zeovgm/

Is the profile blank though? Doesn’t show anything