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

[Boredfrom]

What I was actually hopeful is Trump’s administration cutting the BS and revealing how connected MORENA Politicians were with the Narcos. But that shit doesn’t appear in the U.S. newspapers so…

[Potato]

https://www.reddit.com/r/lokean/comments/1onsscg/hi_everyone/

Hi Everyone

Hi I've had a lot of profound religious experiences with Loki the last few months. I am a Death and Fate witch. And know know death well.

A few months back I had them puppet me about and it spoke out of my mouth. I even experienced my duvet depress. And long story short it got to the point where it eventually claimed to be Loki and it was my God.

Although on Saturday 27th of September I [redacted] myself, but I woke up, covered in dried blood and a trickle of dried blood from my throat. The voice told me someone had cut my throat in the night after I have pictures of the aftermath of what happened, however miracles happen, but I know there's rules against disturbing images on Reddit. But if you want to discuss I can show you pictures over DM because I want to respect Reddit's rules.

There's so much more to to the story unfortunately if I told it in full you'd find it unbelievable, but Gods are real, Loki is very real. A Death wytches' path can be lonely and dangerous.

But Loki says hi, and he loves you, hates you equally.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fuck-amphetamines-are-great.931551/

This is your brain on Marvel movies kids. Don't do Marvel movies.

[HaughtyFrank]

Imagine going on a subreddit for crazies and then the crazies don't even upvote or reply to your post. Might just kill yourself right then and there.

[books]

Trump watching too much Sicario



Sure looks cool but as soon as some rando civilian ends up in the crossfire its a shitshow

The next Ice Cube will be discovered in these gangster/cartel movies. 

Is Pedro Pascal available?

[books]

Geez, that is a perfect example of why nerds should be shunned from society. Wtf.

[Geoff Marvel]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/teen-vogue-seemingly-laying-off-all-political-journalists-staffers.1342549/






a bunch of men reading teen vouge

[books]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/teen-vogue-seemingly-laying-off-all-political-journalists-staffers.1342549/






a bunch of men reading teen vouge

Fag4All getting political. Love it like a Dildo in my ass so I splooge on my guitar.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/lokean/comments/1onsscg/hi_everyone/

Hi Everyone

Hi I've had a lot of profound religious experiences with Loki the last few months. I am a Death and Fate witch. And know know death well.

A few months back I had them puppet me about and it spoke out of my mouth. I even experienced my duvet depress. And long story short it got to the point where it eventually claimed to be Loki and it was my God.

Although on Saturday 27th of September I [redacted] myself, but I woke up, covered in dried blood and a trickle of dried blood from my throat. The voice told me someone had cut my throat in the night after I have pictures of the aftermath of what happened, however miracles happen, but I know there's rules against disturbing images on Reddit. But if you want to discuss I can show you pictures over DM because I want to respect Reddit's rules.

There's so much more to to the story unfortunately if I told it in full you'd find it unbelievable, but Gods are real, Loki is very real. A Death wytches' path can be lonely and dangerous.

But Loki says hi, and he loves you, hates you equally.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fuck-amphetamines-are-great.931551/

No mental illness here.

[Propagandhim]

i started taking amphetamines and now i can focus on wikipedia articles about the taxonomy of turtles for 3 hours straight.  i finally feel like everyone else in teh world.

[El Derpo]

https://www.reddit.com/r/lokean/comments/1onsscg/hi_everyone/

Hi Everyone

Hi I've had a lot of profound religious experiences with Loki the last few months. I am a Death and Fate witch. And know know death well.

A few months back I had them puppet me about and it spoke out of my mouth. I even experienced my duvet depress. And long story short it got to the point where it eventually claimed to be Loki and it was my God.

Although on Saturday 27th of September I [redacted] myself, but I woke up, covered in dried blood and a trickle of dried blood from my throat. The voice told me someone had cut my throat in the night after I have pictures of the aftermath of what happened, however miracles happen, but I know there's rules against disturbing images on Reddit. But if you want to discuss I can show you pictures over DM because I want to respect Reddit's rules.

There's so much more to to the story unfortunately if I told it in full you'd find it unbelievable, but Gods are real, Loki is very real. A Death wytches' path can be lonely and dangerous.

But Loki says hi, and he loves you, hates you equally.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fuck-amphetamines-are-great.931551/

No mental illness here.

What doctor in their right mind would prescribe this person amphetamines…

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/voting-dilemma-those-sobs-that-raised-my-property-taxes-by-23-are-up-for-re-election-but-the-only-other-choice-i-have-is-to-vote-for-the-republican.1342690/
Soapbox

This is the real battlefield. Local Government. I really want to vote them out and the only person on the council that didn't vote to raise taxes by such an insane margin was a red.

I don't want to reward mismanagement by voting them back in but I also don't want to vote for the red.

Guess I'm running for County Office next term.

[D3RANG3D]

[yetanotheraccountholyf]

Not trying to make a compelling argument so much as I'm making a point that the hate campaign, especially for the reasons the hate campaign existed in the first place, was a problem. It sounds like you're in agreement with the original poster I quoted, the hate campaign had 0 affect on the game's performance. Alright then.

 Don’t make me think.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/an-employee-of-yours-was-involved-in-a-car-crash-the-night-before-the-report-reaches-your-desk-two-days-later-it-turns-out-he-was-driving-drunk.1342675/#post-147205885
First post

Drunk driving ruins lives and families. Fire them so they can have a good long think about what they've done.

Didn't even read the first sentence

No one died.

 

Do you fire them?
Yea
Votes: 145.   62.0%
Nope
Votes: 88       37.6%

These hypocrites hate cops because they ain't cops!

I got more sympathy for criminals and I was a prison guard. 😂

its killing me whenever the bore has a pop at era over something silly when there is so much goodness to choose from

fuck police and fuck drunk drivers isnt really non-compatible. you do not have to give it to the drunk drivers normmcdonald.jpg

[Shecky Fragbaum]

I'd gladly go down there and kill a couple Americans if they dared to set a single toe on that line

[D3RANG3D]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/lokean/comments/1onsscg/hi_everyone/

Hi Everyone

Hi I've had a lot of profound religious experiences with Loki the last few months. I am a Death and Fate witch. And know know death well.

A few months back I had them puppet me about and it spoke out of my mouth. I even experienced my duvet depress. And long story short it got to the point where it eventually claimed to be Loki and it was my God.

Although on Saturday 27th of September I [redacted] myself, but I woke up, covered in dried blood and a trickle of dried blood from my throat. The voice told me someone had cut my throat in the night after I have pictures of the aftermath of what happened, however miracles happen, but I know there's rules against disturbing images on Reddit. But if you want to discuss I can show you pictures over DM because I want to respect Reddit's rules.

There's so much more to to the story unfortunately if I told it in full you'd find it unbelievable, but Gods are real, Loki is very real. A Death wytches' path can be lonely and dangerous.

But Loki says hi, and he loves you, hates you equally.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fuck-amphetamines-are-great.931551/

[ Removed by moderator ]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-i-switched-from-chrome-to-firefox-today-and-is-it-suppose-to-run-like-complete-ass.1342864/#post-147219589

You changed to the wrong browser. I have moved to Brave and never looked back.

reminder the founder of brave is a piece of shit and he got forced outta mozilla cause of that

crazy how people forget this shit

[BananaBlast]

link

The People using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies

https://www.thecut.com/article/would-you-use-chatgpt-to-cheat-at-hobbies.html

Recently, Betty, a Wisconsin art-school student who works at a local escape room, monitored a group of 20-somethings as they made their way through a spy-themed experience. About three-quarters of the way in, the players were stumped. They stood in front of a painting, magnet in hand. To solve the final puzzle and escape, they had to look behind the painting, where they'd find a diagram that would lead them to a nearby locker, which they could unlock using the magnet. One of the players "pulled out her phone," Betty recalls, "and was like, 'I'm just gonna ask ChatGPT how to do this.'"

The rest of the team was unfazed. Are you serious? Betty thought. "It's over $100 for a group that big. So you're spending a lot of money to go to this place where the entire point of going there is to try doing these things on your own." It's Betty's job to offer clues that help players through the game, and unlike ChatGPT, she's seen the room with her own eyes. The group "was asking it what to do with the magnet, which is really weird because you'd think you'd be able to deduce that," Betty continued. Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT's response proved useless — the team didn't end up escaping in time.

(etc. etc)

This isn't just cheating--it's lame.

But jokes aside a good chunk of us saw people outsourcing their daily thinking to AI as an inevitable thing that would happen eventually. Well! We're here! We're at eventually!

On a few occasions you see people using AI to make Resetera posts. It speaks to what the underlying promise of AI actually is:

You're a worthless fucking loser and you'll always be a worthless fucking loser no matter how you try, so instead of getting in contact with people who could help you improve yourself which you're too useless to do - gaining experience and learning from other people so you're interesting enough that people will want to hear what you have to say, practicing art so that you can learn how to make art that people will want to look at, just finding a friend or lover so you aren't lonely - instead you get this product to be competent instead of you while you take all the credit because it's all that a loser like you is capable of.

User banned (3 days): Excessive hostility

That totally wasn't necessary nor all that relevant to the article. Projecting loser just needed to release some pent up aggression.

I know I'm a loser.It's fine I'm a loser. I'm going to kill myself anyway. Hopefully soon. So you people will be happier. bye.

I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to understand where you were coming from better, so I did take a look to see what you've said about how you've used AI before to get an idea of why this was important to you.

You mentioned that you turn to AI because you have anxiety and struggle to make real relationships. First off, I hope that you understand that your anxiety around talking to other people isn't totally unique. It's common for people to feel discomfort when they have to speak to someone on the phone, or in front of crowd, or other such situations where they're outside of the social circle they're most acclimated with. The anxiety you feel is clearly much worse, but that doesn't mean that you're a loser - from what I can see, the difference between you and others in this regard is that you're still in the process of learning to cope with that anxiety.

And, in fact, I think you've made effort towards learning to deal with real people, even if you may not appreciate that you've done so. Even going on a message board like this to share your thoughts with others is taking a risk that a conversation might go wrong; you're showing courage and taking control of your interactions with real life people by exposing yourself to interactions with real people on this forum.

My concern is that by using AI as a substitute for real people, you're denying yourself the opportunity to build on those skills and learn how to control your social anxiety. Instead, you've put yourself in a safe environment where you don't have to learn those skills and aren't improving. You've said multiple times before that you're a loser, so it seems to me like you're struggling with your perception of yourself. You shouldn't have to feel ashamed to struggle, but if that perception continues to cause you pain, than maybe it's something that you need to actually address, and I feel like AI has not been helping you do so if you're still talking about yourself that way. You aren't a loser, and by continuing to tell yourself that you are, you may be creating the idea that you're permanently stuck feeling that way.

Self-confidence isn't something everybody has for free, but is also something people learn from experience. You can build it up by finding things that you're confident at that you can focus on, or looking for areas of yourself that you aren't confident in but can improve on until you are. I think it's something you can also have, but you'll need to look for ways that you can build it for yourself.

Other people have suggested therapy to you, and you've said that you find seeking it difficult. I can understand why you'd find it difficult; again, you shouldn't have to feel ashamed to be struggling. But that's a potential avenue for you to not just continue surviving through the problems that you have, but to learn how to address them so that your life becomes easier going forward. It's worth considering, not just because other people are telling you that it's what you're supposed to do, but that it might have more value to you than the methods you're using to deal with your struggles right now.

Nuh-uh, no backtracking. You said what you said.

[D3RANG3D]

Oh sweet summer child...Vanilla Chrome is ass and, the same goes for vanilla Firefox!

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

Brave is good, if you are in need of a chrome alternative but that's only if you are not going to be a little bitch about the creators politics! 

[BananaBlast]

Oh, and speaking of "being a fucking loser"

link

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

This strikes me as boy's club behaviour. Women = physical beauty, men = physically ugly. He's announcing this in public to the world, which includes men and women who may feel one way or another about their looks, gay men who aren't attracted to women, professionals who are trying to create an image for themselves which isn't based on how attractive they are, what have you.

Beyond that, he wasn't asked for his opinion on women, he was asked his opinion on boobs, so going on about them is naturally equating the two. Like imagine if someone asked him about "dicks" and his opinion is that men are hairy. It doesn't really follow, does it?

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

Not much to comment on this one, I'd just say that this is typical stereotyping. There are plenty of women who grew up on video games in the '80s and '90s. Maybe some of them didn't make it into their primary hobby, that's okay. Maybe some of them were more interested but felt like they were pushed out of the hobby. Plenty of them are still there. Look around retro gaming and speedrunning communities, you'll find women doing those.

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

This is weird because of how specific his demands here are. He isn't interested in women as a rounded individual, he seems like he specifically needs them to have the exact relationship with video games he wants. He specifically points out women that are interested in his hobby, but not in the correct way. He can't be the one putting in the work to find a mutually beneficial relationship, either the woman meets his demands exactly or she's not worth his time.

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

Not as sure about this one, but I think people are viewing it as mocking women for being independent, which does kind of line up with the above posts where he doesn't really seem to be interested in women who exist outside of his interests.

It.... it was a... pun. She gets trapped in the pendant. "in... da.... pendant".... "independent"....

Congratulations L Thammy, you have managed to look like 10x more like a fucking loser by overanalyzing the fuck out of a geeky youtuber's throwaway tweets just to hop on the cancel brigade that has now currently lost all its steam. Pathetic.

[jooseloose]

Lol, Hogwarts Legacy was one of the biggest games of the year it released, and they think Epic will be turning down having HP characters in the game?

TBH, most of the folks grandstanding know they secretly played HW Legacy. The jig was up once I saw how popular that Cyberpunk on Switch 2 thread was, a game we were told was so evil it could only be discussed in 1 catch-all thread lest it contaminate the entire gaming side.

We all know the ban was dumb as hell and made the mod team have to make excuses for why other material found to be 'offensive' to the weridos on there can't also be banned.

Never forget how the biggest advocate of banning CyberPunk, Kyuuji, went on a months long campaign to get it banned, succeeded, and then immediately gushed about the game and new game plussed it out in the open on release. Was one of the biggest contributors to the CyberPunk OT in the first few months after release.  

Anyone that tried to call Kyuuji out on that got an immediate ban. 

Uzzy (609) and astro (477) are the two top posters in the Cyberpunk OT  Kyuuji (201) is not far behind at 11th.

Hypocrites.

[Besticus Maximus]

I was arrested for drunk driving a few years ago (no accident, fortunately; I was stopped for speeding). I told my employers about it as soon as I was able, and they basically just said, "Please get the help you need." That is the way. (But also my job doesn't involve driving. If it did, that'd probably be a different story.)

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/lokean/comments/1onsscg/hi_everyone/

Hi Everyone

Hi I've had a lot of profound religious experiences with Loki the last few months. I am a Death and Fate witch. And know know death well.

A few months back I had them puppet me about and it spoke out of my mouth. I even experienced my duvet depress. And long story short it got to the point where it eventually claimed to be Loki and it was my God.

Although on Saturday 27th of September I [redacted] myself, but I woke up, covered in dried blood and a trickle of dried blood from my throat. The voice told me someone had cut my throat in the night after I have pictures of the aftermath of what happened, however miracles happen, but I know there's rules against disturbing images on Reddit. But if you want to discuss I can show you pictures over DM because I want to respect Reddit's rules.

There's so much more to to the story unfortunately if I told it in full you'd find it unbelievable, but Gods are real, Loki is very real. A Death wytches' path can be lonely and dangerous.

But Loki says hi, and he loves you, hates you equally.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fuck-amphetamines-are-great.931551/

[ Removed by moderator ]

When you're too weird for the people who worship Loki.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-breaking-news-dick-cheney-is-dead.1342984/

Well guess what's going on itt

[Taco Bell Tower]

link

The People using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies

https://www.thecut.com/article/would-you-use-chatgpt-to-cheat-at-hobbies.html

Recently, Betty, a Wisconsin art-school student who works at a local escape room, monitored a group of 20-somethings as they made their way through a spy-themed experience. About three-quarters of the way in, the players were stumped. They stood in front of a painting, magnet in hand. To solve the final puzzle and escape, they had to look behind the painting, where they'd find a diagram that would lead them to a nearby locker, which they could unlock using the magnet. One of the players "pulled out her phone," Betty recalls, "and was like, 'I'm just gonna ask ChatGPT how to do this.'"

The rest of the team was unfazed. Are you serious? Betty thought. "It's over $100 for a group that big. So you're spending a lot of money to go to this place where the entire point of going there is to try doing these things on your own." It's Betty's job to offer clues that help players through the game, and unlike ChatGPT, she's seen the room with her own eyes. The group "was asking it what to do with the magnet, which is really weird because you'd think you'd be able to deduce that," Betty continued. Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT's response proved useless — the team didn't end up escaping in time.

(etc. etc)

This isn't just cheating--it's lame.

But jokes aside a good chunk of us saw people outsourcing their daily thinking to AI as an inevitable thing that would happen eventually. Well! We're here! We're at eventually!

On a few occasions you see people using AI to make Resetera posts. It speaks to what the underlying promise of AI actually is:

You're a worthless fucking loser and you'll always be a worthless fucking loser no matter how you try, so instead of getting in contact with people who could help you improve yourself which you're too useless to do - gaining experience and learning from other people so you're interesting enough that people will want to hear what you have to say, practicing art so that you can learn how to make art that people will want to look at, just finding a friend or lover so you aren't lonely - instead you get this product to be competent instead of you while you take all the credit because it's all that a loser like you is capable of.

User banned (3 days): Excessive hostility

It's about time he got a ban

[Uncle]

i started taking amphetamines and now i can focus on wikipedia articles about the taxonomy of turtles for 3 hours straight.  i finally feel like everyone else in teh world.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Lol, Hogwarts Legacy was one of the biggest games of the year it released, and they think Epic will be turning down having HP characters in the game?

TBH, most of the folks grandstanding know they secretly played HW Legacy. The jig was up once I saw how popular that Cyberpunk on Switch 2 thread was, a game we were told was so evil it could only be discussed in 1 catch-all thread lest it contaminate the entire gaming side.

We all know the ban was dumb as hell and made the mod team have to make excuses for why other material found to be 'offensive' to the weridos on there can't also be banned.

Never forget how the biggest advocate of banning CyberPunk, Kyuuji, went on a months long campaign to get it banned, succeeded, and then immediately gushed about the game and new game plussed it out in the open on release. Was one of the biggest contributors to the CyberPunk OT in the first few months after release.  

Anyone that tried to call Kyuuji out on that got an immediate ban. 

Uzzy (609) and astro (477) are the two top posters in the Cyberpunk OT  Kyuuji (201) is not far behind at 11th.

Hypocrites.

Oh yeah, I remember astro's excuse: His friend apparently family shared with him. He was "resisting" on installing Cyberpunk 2077, caved in to try it out and said he was going to uninstall it right away but couldn't stop that he was having a bloody blast 

[Uncle]

its killing me whenever the bore has a pop at era over something silly when there is so much goodness to choose from

fuck police and fuck drunk drivers isnt really non-compatible. you do not have to give it to the drunk drivers normmcdonald.jpg

I'm a big fan of fictional drunk drivers because then they can fictionally do whatever you want like fictionally give you a million dollars, thanks drunk driver man, you're alright in my book, especially because I know that fictionally you're also gonna stop drunk driving and become a fictional model citizen

[BIONIC]

Never forget how the biggest advocate of banning CyberPunk, Kyuuji, went on a months long campaign to get it banned, succeeded, and then immediately gushed about the game and new game plussed it out in the open on release. Was one of the biggest contributors to the CyberPunk OT in the first few months after release.  

Anyone that tried to call Kyuuji out on that got an immediate ban. 

Uzzy (609) and astro (477) are the two top posters in the Cyberpunk OT  Kyuuji (201) is not far behind at 11th.

Hypocrites.

Oh yeah, I remember astro's excuse: His friend apparently family shared with him. He was "resisting" on installing Cyberpunk 2077, caved in to try it out and said he was going to uninstall it right away but couldn't stop that he was having a bloody blast 

Still replaying it to this day:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/aside-from-these-games-see-op-which-games-to-you-replay-a-lot-from-the-start-but-rarely-finish.1335301/

So, getting it out of the way... Skyrim, Bethesda games (including New Vegas) are obvious answers here, so to try to stop the thread being dominated by those games let's put those aside.

I'm currently doing another playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077. Before I did I finished up a my second run through Phantom Liberty with the other V and the second route, but instead of going for an ending I decided to just restart the game with a fresh file. This is my 6th time playing the game and I've only seen the ending 2 times. 4 of my runs I stopped early, took a break, and when I came back I just started over. The only two endings I've seen were The Star on my first run and The Tower on my first PL run.

For me I think it's all the promise the game holds at the start, especially when you can try a variety of builds, routes, dialogue choices, characters, etc... If I come back to a game after a break sometimes I'm so clsoe to the end it feels like I'm not going to get much out of it so I just restart.

I'm determined to make it through to the end and see one of the final endings (not PL this time), but who knows if I'll get there amd just start this all over again next time.

So yeh, which games do you replay a lot from the start but rarely finish?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/white-house-launches-mysafespace-site-plays-music-states-its-a-place-for-dems.1342795/#post-147210862

Every last person who approved this, worked on it, etc., should have a devastating cardiac event.