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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/#post-147921595

 User banned (2 weeks): inflammatory commentary

Can he start with Chuck Schumer?

Mod edit: reverted for ban

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kevin-spacey-says-he%E2%80%99s-homeless-and-%E2%80%98living-in-hotels-%E2%80%99-claims-hollywood-exile-would-be-over-if-scorsese-or-tarantino-call-tomorrow%E2%80%99.1359460/#post-147925894

lol living in hotels != homeless

Also, costs are going out? Try buying less candles.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kevin-spacey-says-he%E2%80%99s-homeless-and-%E2%80%98living-in-hotels-%E2%80%99-claims-hollywood-exile-would-be-over-if-scorsese-or-tarantino-call-tomorrow%E2%80%99.1359460/#post-147926761

I mean, the whole concept of living in a hotel is pretty funny. Because it costs a whole lot more to do that than just go rent an apartment somewhere or even buy a normal person house in a comparatively inexpensive place that isn't NYC/LA/London or the like.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kevin-spacey-says-he%E2%80%99s-homeless-and-%E2%80%98living-in-hotels-%E2%80%99-claims-hollywood-exile-would-be-over-if-scorsese-or-tarantino-call-tomorrow%E2%80%99.1359460/page-2#post-147927157

Living out of a hotel for a month costs 10x more than renting.

I feel like era has talked a lot about how it's more expensive to be poor?

like if you have bad credit you have to accept worse terms and conditions, or how cheap items wear out faster so you have to replace them more often

also there is a certain other thread here where certain people were living out of hotels...

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/page-6#post-147931948

 User banned (2 weeks): trolling in a sensitive thread

This country has been fascist for the atleast the last 40 plus years, electing the same people from the same pool who all have the same goal of self profit. Thats how we got to this point.

Yall do realize democrats in power want this too?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/page-6#post-147932662

 User banned (2 weeks): trolling in a sensitive thread

Imagine both-siding in a thread where The Republican President literally called for the death of Democratic Congressmembers.

You think if these Dem Congressmen actually thought they were at risk to being murdered by the President, they be doing just a little bit more in opposing him. Or maybe Trump is a guy who just likes playing dictator that isn't taken seriously with these threats

[benji]

In other Call of Duty sperging:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-reaches-a-peak-of-100-332-ccu-on-steam.1354483/page-11

After 15 years as a fantasy where the US competently executed the war on terror, they should let us play as Iraqi resistance.

When has Call of Duty ever been about this?  

Also, the Iraqi resistance lost. Badly. It'd be completely asymmetrical gameplay where one side has every killstreak and the other side has suicide bombings that kill half their team.

I met a guy yesterday at Subway while I was waiting in line and just happened to be wearing a sports sweater with a small american flag on the sleeve. Dude pointed that out to me and told me he's a democrat that voted for Trump.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/november-18-2025-house-passes-epstein-files-transparency-act-up-senate-unanimously-approves-bill-to-release-epstein-files.1357267/page-13#post-147893857

 Does this dude just make up shit in every thread?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fallout-creator-tim-cain-says-todays-games-suffer-from-trying-to-be-everything-for-everyone-when-they-should-be-learning-from-older-focused-games.1357570/page-3#post-147882718 
 

If anything the real lesson is we need a better system then the current capitalists publisher relationship so devs and creatives can create what they want without interference and allowed to fail.

 

Where you going to get the money?

this shit from the interviewer is really dumb

—You believe that, deep down, everyone has some level of fondness for furries inside them?

Matsuyama:
That's right.

—Does that mean even I have the potential to be a furry?

why is everyone's first instinct to categorize themselves? liking something doesn't make you "a furry," if you're "a furry" then you're deep in the lifestyle and being unfathomably cringe and off-putting and probably fucking the family dog

but everyone can look at kung fu panda or zootopia and say "that's an appealing character design"

that doesn't make you a furry, it makes you normal, regular people are able to find all kinds of weird character designs relatable or fun, like the personification of emotions or little big planet guy or whatever

It's part of the motte-and-bailey all these people do constantly. Remember when they were all "being a feminist just means you don't hate women" and then five seconds later will have a giant list of requirements to continue being a feminist.

It's probably not intentional but it sets up a trap. Once you identify with a group there's a cost associated with unidentifying out of the group. Then after a death of a thousand cuts to stay a feminist you have to demand men have access to all women's spaces and the destruction of Israel. To stay pro-LBGT you have to believe that homosexuality isn't real. To stay pro-Sony you can't question if they're mismanaging their assets. Et al.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/some-maga-men-seem-to-think-women-don%E2%80%99t-have-rights-%E2%80%93-starting-with-their-wives.1357771/
EntremetGPT

Video of pastor.

I went to this guy's Twitter account. Man, I don't what to say lol. I didn't know this type of fundamentalism still existed in mainstream. Maybe Appalachian snake handlers? Not a guy with a suit and a beard proclaiming this from expensive video equipment.

I'm a Christian myself, but never seen these super conservative strains myself.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/

 Really? Never?

You already know Dr. Dossier couldn't resist chiming in

Shocked_Pikachu.png Fascism not just outside the house, but inside too?!

This just doesn't pertain to conservative couples, but also conservative men caging progressive women into abusive rt'ships by putting on a progressive front like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

None of these examples are fascism. Fundamentalist religions predate fascism by centuries. Abusive treatment of women predates both.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/#post-147921595

 User banned (2 weeks): inflammatory commentary

Can he start with Chuck Schumer?

Mod edit: reverted for ban

It's inflammatory to call for the legal punishment of genocidal Zionists now?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-the-handheld-pc-hit-asus-admits-rog-xbox-ally-x-demand-exceeded-expectations.1359526/#post-147928243

It's a great piece of hardware that gets even greater the sooner you install Bazzite on it

Aren’t supposed to be boycotting Microsoft?

That's him boycotting Microsoft.

"I bought the Microsoft partnered rog ally and then installed a Linux firmware"

I don't use the wird hero lightly...

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/windows-central-the-handheld-pc-hit-asus-admits-rog-xbox-ally-x-demand-exceeded-expectations.1359526/#post-147928243

It's a great piece of hardware that gets even greater the sooner you install Bazzite on it

Aren’t supposed to be boycotting Microsoft?

That's him boycotting Microsoft.

"I bought the Microsoft partnered rog ally and then installed a Linux firmware"

I don't use the wird hero lightly...

He's denying them his essence.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-think-the-50-20th-anniversary-illustrated-edition-of-grrms-a-feast-for-crows-is-ai-art-update-artist-receipts.1346461/page-9#post-147556363

 User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

You can literally see the digital brushstrokes in every single painting. Every element is made with intention, lacking in the random, thoughtless, superflouous cancerous mass of detail that AI relies on to convince idiots that it's "good". None of these are AI, and the people claiming they are, are utter imbecils.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-think-the-50-20th-anniversary-illustrated-edition-of-grrms-a-feast-for-crows-is-ai-art-update-artist-receipts.1346461/page-10#post-147845248

Yes, this is AI slop. Artist is lying through their teeth.

That's something you need to prove, because at this point the available evidence doesn't point that way.

Further...

He seems like a middle-of-the-road painter that is good and consistent enough to get top clients.

...so what's your excuse, brother nepenthe?

[benji]

Ultimately, reactions don't have to fall into either full saviorism or full condemnation.

                     dismissing concerns? Being centrist in a sensitive thread?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kevin-spacey-says-he%E2%80%99s-homeless-and-%E2%80%98living-in-hotels-%E2%80%99-claims-hollywood-exile-would-be-over-if-scorsese-or-tarantino-call-tomorrow%E2%80%99.1359460/#post-147925894

lol living in hotels != homeless

Also, costs are going out? Try buying less candles.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kevin-spacey-says-he%E2%80%99s-homeless-and-%E2%80%98living-in-hotels-%E2%80%99-claims-hollywood-exile-would-be-over-if-scorsese-or-tarantino-call-tomorrow%E2%80%99.1359460/#post-147926761

I mean, the whole concept of living in a hotel is pretty funny. Because it costs a whole lot more to do that than just go rent an apartment somewhere or even buy a normal person house in a comparatively inexpensive place that isn't NYC/LA/London or the like.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kevin-spacey-says-he%E2%80%99s-homeless-and-%E2%80%98living-in-hotels-%E2%80%99-claims-hollywood-exile-would-be-over-if-scorsese-or-tarantino-call-tomorrow%E2%80%99.1359460/page-2#post-147927157

Living out of a hotel for a month costs 10x more than renting.

I feel like era has talked a lot about how it's more expensive to be poor?

like if you have bad credit you have to accept worse terms and conditions, or how cheap items wear out faster so you have to replace them more often

also there is a certain other thread here where certain people were living out of hotels...

https://terrypratchett.com/explore-discworld/sam-vimes-boots-theory-of-socio-economic-unfairness/

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

Men at Arms

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/page-6#post-147931948

 User banned (2 weeks): trolling in a sensitive thread

This country has been fascist for the atleast the last 40 plus years, electing the same people from the same pool who all have the same goal of self profit. Thats how we got to this point.

Yall do realize democrats in power want this too?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/page-6#post-147932662

 User banned (2 weeks): trolling in a sensitive thread

Imagine both-siding in a thread where The Republican President literally called for the death of Democratic Congressmembers.

You think if these Dem Congressmen actually thought they were at risk to being murdered by the President, they be doing just a little bit more in opposing him. Or maybe Trump is a guy who just likes playing dictator that isn't taken seriously with these threats

I find it hilarious that the people most upset by this are also advocates for communist revolution where an unelected body of people would take the elected leaders out behind the shed and summarily execute them for the crime of not being communist.

[NekoFever]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-think-the-50-20th-anniversary-illustrated-edition-of-grrms-a-feast-for-crows-is-ai-art-update-artist-receipts.1346461/page-9#post-147556363

 User Banned (Permanently): Troll Account

You can literally see the digital brushstrokes in every single painting. Every element is made with intention, lacking in the random, thoughtless, superflouous cancerous mass of detail that AI relies on to convince idiots that it's "good". None of these are AI, and the people claiming they are, are utter imbecils.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-think-the-50-20th-anniversary-illustrated-edition-of-grrms-a-feast-for-crows-is-ai-art-update-artist-receipts.1346461/page-10#post-147845248

Yes, this is AI slop. Artist is lying through their teeth.

That's something you need to prove, because at this point the available evidence doesn't point that way.

I like how one of the pieces of evidence is that the steps of the throne look like they’re melting.

This is the Iron Throne, which was made by… melting down a great pile of swords.

[benji]

https://terrypratchett.com/explore-discworld/sam-vimes-boots-theory-of-socio-economic-unfairness/

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

Men at Arms

So Vimes knows this but continues to make the poor decision anyway?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/november-18-2025-house-passes-epstein-files-transparency-act-up-trump-signs-bill.1357267/page-18#post-147931600

All I'll say is this.....remember Eric Snowden?

No current scandals, for the most part things were ok. He decided it was up to him to let the American ppl know what shady shit the govt was doing.

I have to believe there are a few Eric Snowdens still around involved in FOIA, and hopefully on the Epstein files.

Lmao, I'm not gonna edit it, I meant Edward Snowden.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/november-18-2025-house-passes-epstein-files-transparency-act-up-trump-signs-bill.1357267/page-18#post-147936547

Did you ironically get Snowden's name wrong, lol.

Maybe just mixing him up with 76ers great, Eric Snow

Lmao, typing from a phone can cause problems.

[Potato]

https://terrypratchett.com/explore-discworld/sam-vimes-boots-theory-of-socio-economic-unfairness/

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

Men at Arms

So Vimes knows this but continues to make the poor decision anyway?

It's Vimes, it's kind of his thing. 

Also, the theory is that he can never amass the $50 needed to buy the good boots because bring poor is so damn expensive.

This subsequent quote sums things up nicely

The mansion was full of this big, solid furniture, bought by her ancestors. It never wore out . . . Lady Sybil Ramkin lived quite comfortably from day to day by spending, Vimes estimated, about half as much as he did.

Men at Arms

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/november-18-2025-house-passes-epstein-files-transparency-act-up-trump-signs-bill.1357267/page-18#post-147931600

I have to believe there are a few Eric Snowdens still around involved in FOIA, and hopefully on the Epstein files.

You wouldn't want him involved in FOIA, you'd want him with access to actual files that he could leak. FOIA is a completely toothless law, it can't compel disclosures and all departments and agencies are empowered to determine by themselves with no oversight what is open to FOIA. (Which is why they always decide that almost nothing is.) That's why you need a Snowden or Manning or Ellsberg, almost always someone young and idealistic, who circumvents the process completely because the security setup is based around nobody being willing to risk giving up their life.

But you're also posting on a forum where people regularly attack Snowden because he was/is vaguely libertarian, opposes Democrats too and also because he fled to an "enemy" rather than accept being thrown in a blacksite.

[benji]

Also, the theory is that he can never amass the $50 needed to buy the good boots because bring poor is so damn expensive.

I get that, but the example sucks. The $10 boots last for a season or two and he wears them into the ground anyway. He can't know when he needs the new boots, so he has to budget at least $10 available every season. He's paid monthly so he should only have to really risk pushing things maybe once to be in position to buy the good boots after his next payment.

This is why writers should learn basic math.

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I'm joking but this is mostly the basis of the argument, especially how Era uses it, the person like Dr. Nothing Loud is assumed to be incapable of budgeting at all.

[Potato]

Also, the theory is that he can never amass the $50 needed to buy the good boots because bring poor is so damn expensive.

I get that, but the example sucks. The $10 boots last for a season or two and he wears them into the ground anyway. He can't know when he needs the new boots, so he has to budget at least $10 available every season. He's paid monthly so he should only have to really risk pushing things maybe once to be in position to buy the good boots after his next payment.

This is why writers should learn basic math.

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

I'm joking but this is mostly the basis of the argument, especially how Era uses it, the person like Dr. Nothing Loud is assumed to be incapable of budgeting at all.

I know you know, but that's why I love Pratchett so much. He can pen a simple little theory like this and have actual economists debating it's merits. But he has also succinctly boiled down the financial issues of the everyman...people know what the good decision is but still can't make it because they have no self-control. 

Vimes is a raging alcoholic but complains about the affordability of boots. Never about the affordability of alcohol. It's only when he gets tangled up with "the rich" that he starts to make good decisions that benefit him. I think the message is that being poor is a self-fulfilling prophecy for many people.

[benji]

Discworld doesn't let you use your benefits on alcohol? Fucking hellworld.

[Potato]

Discworld doesn't let you use your benefits on alcohol? Fucking hellworld.

Or tampons

[benji]

Dumb cunt has a fucking bomba. Under $10 already. 🤣🤣🤣🤣




Yet idiots keep ruining their careers by attaching themselves to her.

[simiansmarts]

 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/people-think-the-50-20th-anniversary-illustrated-edition-of-grrms-a-feast-for-crows-is-ai-art-update-artist-receipts.1346461/page-10#post-147845248

That's something you need to prove, because at this point the available evidence doesn't point that way.

Further...

He seems like a middle-of-the-road painter that is good and consistent enough to get top clients.

...so what's your excuse, brother nepenthe?

 

Moderating a videogame forum is basically fighting on the frontlines against global white supremacist capitalist system. Cut her some slack.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/november-18-2025-house-passes-epstein-files-transparency-act-up-trump-signs-bill.1357267/page-18#post-147931600

All I'll say is this.....remember Eric Snowden?

No current scandals, for the most part things were ok. He decided it was up to him to let the American ppl know what shady shit the govt was doing.

I have to believe there are a few Eric Snowdens still around involved in FOIA, and hopefully on the Epstein files.

Lmao, I'm not gonna edit it, I meant Edward Snowden.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/november-18-2025-house-passes-epstein-files-transparency-act-up-trump-signs-bill.1357267/page-18#post-147936547

Did you ironically get Snowden's name wrong, lol.

Maybe just mixing him up with 76ers great, Eric Snow

Lmao, typing from a phone can cause problems.

If I recall right jroc74 has mentioned he works for the government, wonder why he's not pulling a Eric Snowden by leaking at Ree 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/golden-joystick-awards-2025-all-winners-clair-obscur-expedition-33-wins-ultimate-game-of-the-year.1359712/page-5#post-147942064

People already go nuts over Nintendo and Sony first parties, now imagine the PC master race crowd.

[Potato]

Dumb cunt has a fucking bomba. Under $10 already. 🤣🤣🤣🤣




Yet idiots keep ruining their careers by attaching themselves to her.

We won. It took 2 years, but in the end, truth, justice and the trans way have prevailed and we have finally ended the gravy train of funding to Joanne's genocidal efforts. I expect that she will be on the street begging and turning tricks any day now.

Mission accomplished comrades. 

[Uncle]

Also, the theory is that he can never amass the $50 needed to buy the good boots because bring poor is so damn expensive.

I get that, but the example sucks. The $10 boots last for a season or two and he wears them into the ground anyway. He can't know when he needs the new boots, so he has to budget at least $10 available every season. He's paid monthly so he should only have to really risk pushing things maybe once to be in position to buy the good boots after his next payment.

This is why writers should learn basic math.

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

I'm joking but this is mostly the basis of the argument, especially how Era uses it, the person like Dr. Nothing Loud is assumed to be incapable of budgeting at all.

I feel like his boots only last a season or two also because he is poor, and forced to work jobs that involve heavy use of boots

I bet he would find that the really good boots would also wear out quickly for him, and that the rich stay rich by simply not working outdoors, or not needing to commute far and wearing out their transportation, not to mention all the time wasted in travel or tedious, repetitive manual labor that they can instead spend on activities that directly earn or save them more money

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/november-18-2025-house-passes-epstein-files-transparency-act-up-trump-signs-bill.1357267/page-18#post-147930145

I always felt like he had God Mode on. Especially when he avoided the bullet.

I'm now firmly of the belief that situation was planned and the person who did die was hit accidentally.

[DavidCroquet]

Discworld doesn't let you use your benefits on alcohol? Fucking hellworld.

My dad ran up like a $200 bill calling the hintline for the discworld videogame. Seems like Pratchett knows a thing or two about keeping the working man down in the real world too.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deep-down-most-people-like-furries-they-just-don%E2%80%99t-know-it-yet-fuga-melodies-of-steel-and-aeruta-creators-talk-about-kemomimi-furries-appeal.1357552/page-6#post-147936709



Hidden ninja with the critical hit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/deep-down-most-people-like-furries-they-just-don%E2%80%99t-know-it-yet-fuga-melodies-of-steel-and-aeruta-creators-talk-about-kemomimi-furries-appeal.1357552/page-6#post-147937465

[Hap Shaughnessy]

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/page-6#post-147931948

 User banned (2 weeks): trolling in a sensitive thread

This country has been fascist for the atleast the last 40 plus years, electing the same people from the same pool who all have the same goal of self profit. Thats how we got to this point.

Yall do realize democrats in power want this too?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/page-6#post-147932662

 User banned (2 weeks): trolling in a sensitive thread

Imagine both-siding in a thread where The Republican President literally called for the death of Democratic Congressmembers.

You think if these Dem Congressmen actually thought they were at risk to being murdered by the President, they be doing just a little bit more in opposing him. Or maybe Trump is a guy who just likes playing dictator that isn't taken seriously with these threats

hmm...

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-calls-for-the-arrest-and-executions-of-democratic-congress-members.1359259/#post-147922372

this is the video he's freaking out about

https://bsky.app/profile/slotkin.senate.gov/post/3m5vtxjmgnk23

so, I agree that members of the armed forces should refuse illegal orders that violate laws or rights or the constitution

the problem with this is assuming the average service member knows the law well enough to be able to make that determination without fucking up their life completely

I'm picturing some left-leaning guy seeing this and then he's ordered to arrest someone and he refuses, and after a long court martial it's determined that the order was lawful

and then the consequences he suffers have a chilling effect on the rest of the military as they realize they don't really know which orders are lawful or unlawful themselves so they just do whatever they're told

not sure if this kind of message with what it implies should be done is a fully responsible one, but then again it is sentiment that should be allowed to be shared at any time, since on its face it is true