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

[Potato]

I think this is also correct. Which is part of why the anti-AI noise is so loud online, but will have basically zero impact. “The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”

Normies love AI.

I was out last night with my partner and her sister. During their discussion, my partner was saying she needed a logo for her new business and her sister starts playing around in Copilot generating ideas. This is two people who are not terminally online and who are usually late adopters of technology.

My partner herself has used NotebookLM to collect study notes and to assess her spoken responses to questions to prepare for verbal exams. 

These retards are trying to fight the use of AI when AI has already won.

in my experience notebookLM is not advertised or marketed anywhere, I'm curious whether she uses it because you saw us fucking around with it here and told her about it 

Nah, I think she picked it up through her work at the University she teaches at.

[Jansen]

Didn't respond to shit

[Propagandhim]

Not trying to be off-topic or anything, but was listening to a fascinating episode of This American Life and Nepenthe came up - like her whole story.  Bizarre coincidence, right?  Anyway, really shines some light on her behavior and I gotta say....I'm kinda more empathetic to her cause.   We. live. in. a. cynical. world.

You NEED to understand where she comes from:  https://vocaroo.com/1hgec7tyS5kr



I love a da poopoo.  *raises fist*

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/early-creature-vehicle-architecture-designs-and-costumes-you-wish-had-stayed.1371058/

wlw?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/r-art-subreddit-in-lockdown-after-mod-bans-artist-and-delete-their-history.1366354/page-4#post-148385755

Holy fuck. I would not want to meet those mods in real life. Probably the most unhappy people to fucking exist.
God damn talk about power tripping.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

RETARD FIGHT

Which one, here or Era?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-do-chinese-pc-gamers-afford-high-end-graphic-cards.1367059/

 User banned (1 month): Racist rhetoric

I was wondering: There are more high end graphics games coming out of China like Black Myth nowadays.

There is a significant audience of Chinese PC players when you look a the respective Steam pages.

How do Chinese gamers afford these high end graphic cards from NVIDIA to play these games? Are the cards significantly cheaper in China? Is the average income of Chinese people comparative to Western people nowadays? Is there a mainland / Taiwan / Hong Kong divide?

[Propagandhim]

China's average wages are much lower, but since they are a huge population, gamers that can afford cards (and no, they are not lower priced in China) are still a large absolute number.  


There you go Resetera. TheBire drops all that secret, forbidden knowledge you're not allowed to have.

[Besticus Maximus]

I think Dr Poop's circumstance goes to show that no matter how hard you work or how many privileges are afforded to you in this white power patriarchy hellscape, being a complete drama queen lunatic on a self-selected cocktail of heavy psych drugs will always be a barrier to stable employment

[simiansmarts]

Didn't respond to shit

He knows the next time he mentions his goddamn PhD, he’s getting banned lol

[HaughtyFrank]

Another nice tidbit regarding Ethan is that he basically admitted recently to believe into race science claiming that if you're born of "dumb parents" you'll likely be dumb yourself because apparently a Rabbi told him some bullshit about ancient Jewish history.

Any attempt at pretending he is not a Jewish supremacist zionist scumbag is laughable.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/idubbbz-has-posted-a-new-content-cop-on-ethan-klein-h3h3-productions-discourse-online-is-about-as-measured-and-reasonable-as-i-expected.1166349/post-144450162

That "Jewish supremacist" has entered the vernacular and no one even raises an eyebrow is crazy

[filler]

Dr. Poop getting permabanned would suck. His bipolar Consoom/Poverty posting is fun.

Plus I can't imagine there are many other places on the internet that would tolerate his bullshit.

Welcome home, dr 💩

[Uncle]

any era people we dunk on who get perma'd who want to come to le bire, it do be like this

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sabrina-carpenter-told-the-white-house-twitter-account-off-after-they-used-her-song-in-a-propaganda-video.1370431/page-2#post-148372531

They're [Talyor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter] good friends. It's as simple as that.

So give her a hug and roll around in a big pile of money together.

[D3RANG3D]

Not trying to be off-topic or anything, but was listening to a fascinating episode of This American Life and Nepenthe came up - like her whole story.  Bizarre coincidence, right?  Anyway, really shines some light on her behavior and I gotta say....I'm kinda more empathetic to her cause.   We. live. in. a. cynical. world.

You NEED to understand where she comes from:  https://vocaroo.com/1hgec7tyS5kr



I love a da poopoo.  *raises fist*

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

[Propagandhim]

Do these people think China's median income is as high as it is in the West or something?




I found a poor area in a high median-income country.  Now I'm gonna turn it around on you.     checkmate.






(Disposable income is total income minus taxes, so it represents the money people have available for spending on necessities/GPUs/discretionary spending/housing etc or saving after paying taxes.  Not "disposable" in the colloquial sense)

I. Households' Income


 
In 2024, the median of the nationwide per capita disposable income was 34,707 yuan, an increase of 5.1 percent, and the median was 84.0 percent of the average. Among them, the median of the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 49,302 yuan, an increase of 4.6 percent, and the median was 91.0 percent of the average; the median of the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 19,605 yuan, an increase of 4.6 percent, and the median was 84.8 percent of the average.

34,707 Chinese Yuan equals = 4,908.70 United States Dollar

How does a country where the typical person has around $5000 to spend on surviving can afford a $2000 state of the art graphics card?
Really?  Really?  You're asking this about China?  Of ALL places?  Do you just ignore Hassan when he speaks truth to power?




It's just a quick Google search, guys.   Just a quick search, can't you do a quick search guys?

 

Resetera: the place where everyone is employed in a dead-end, minimum wage retail job, but think the typical person elsewhere is a white collar professional in their nation's 2nd wealthiest city.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-releases-advent-calendar-full-of-ai-art.1370005/page-6#post-148390051
Dr. Nothing Loud

The AI threads here on Gaming side are garbage.

teletrong1

The GAF is really pro genAI with their best tits-and-ass threads full of genAI if you're looking for a more sympathetic crowd.

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/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

They need to find a connection between Swift and Sweeney to boost their incel dad posts

https://www.adweek.com/commerce/american-eagles-sydney-sweeney-and-travis-kelce-campaigns-grew-customer-loyalty-by-4/

[Jansen]

It's pretty valid to be frustrated with Taylor not using her platform enough to push back against Trump but it's weird to me that a thread about Sabrina Carpenter doing something good is 90% about Taylor Swift. Though I suppose I'm about to add to it.











Blake Lively was sexually harassed on the set of a movie, which is the thing that led to her "cancellation" that Taylor is referring to in that song. It doesn't matter what problematic things she may have done prior.



She was "cancelled" because she was sexually harassed, so your "just give her a hug and shut up" attitude ain't it.

I don't understand how you missed the months and months misogynistic attacks that Blake Lively faced in response to her coming forward about Justin Baldoni.



There was a literal organized smear campaign against her that was designed to make her look like the villain when she was a victim. It was deeply ingrained in social media and spread so far that people were even banned for spreading sexist misinformation about her here on Era.



It is not up for debate that her image was hurt very badly because of the smear campaign, which again, was done in response to her coming forward about sexual harassment.

You're arguing semantics.



Like, is your argument really, "Blake Lively wasn't cancelled. She was just publicly humiliated because she chose to come forward about sexual harassment?"



Think about that for a second. Stop being locked in on the word "cancelled" because you're just dismissing (and straight up mocking) the reason why Swift was defending her in the first place.

And you seem more focused on the word choice of "cancelled" rather than the fact that she was simply defending a friend who was publicly humiliated for coming forward about sexual harassment.



You're not actually making an argument and at no point in this thread did I defend a billionaire. Miss me with that nonsense. You don't get to be like "there are so many victims in the world but she chose to write a song about her friend that was sexually harassed??" and then claim that pointing that fact out is "defending a billionaire."



This will be my last reply to you on this topic. It's clear you're not coming at this from an unbiased point of view. Your "so give her a hug and roll around in a big pile of money together" was telling enough.

I don't believe she threatened to sue anyone but she did call out the use of AI images of her that were used to promote Trump in her endorsement of Harris.

There's a lot of legitimate criticism that can be thrown Taylor's way: her silence on Palestine, her not publicly calling out ICE, whether or not she's taking advantage of fans with the countless vinyl variants of her music, etc.



But the idea that she has never spoken up about anything or that she hasn't publicly called out Trump directly is objectively wrong. And it's frustrating that correcting those incorrect statements is then met with, "Oooh, so you feel the need to defend the shitty billionaire?"



No, but facts don't just stop mattering when it's about someone you personally dislike.



Swift has publicly called out Trump in the past, she endorsed Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024, she cast a trans man as her love interest in a recent music video (which was an undeniably clear statement and one that went further than simply sharing a pro-LGBTQ post on Instagram).



There is always a tightrope that is always being walked in these threads between "justified and fair criticism over legitimate issues" and "repeating falsehoods to push a personal agenda against someone they dislike," combined w
ith some crossover with the pop stan community that makes everything even more muddled.

[Jansen]

[Propagandhim]

It's going to kill Dr. Poop to never be able to bring up his credentials again.  He might just stop posting if he can't do that.

[simiansmarts]

https://imgur.com/a/qy1SE9J 
 
 
 
just a small sample

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/playstation-releases-advent-calendar-full-of-ai-art.1370005/page-6#post-148391362

Hysterical. I'm the one with the PhD in Data Science and Bioengineering with 10 years of post-secondary education in this. You read the room.

[simiansmarts]

Dr. Poops Loudly is like Frank Grimes if he was bugchasing homosexual with a serious drug problem who can't budget properly due to his unhealthy consumerism of the latest toys and gadgets and mentally falls apart when someone makes fun of him for being a 30+ year-old man who likes anime and Pokemon.

[Orange Juice Box]

It's pretty valid to be frustrated with Taylor not using her platform enough to push back against Trump but it's weird to me that a thread about Sabrina Carpenter doing something good is 90% about Taylor Swift. Though I suppose I'm about to add to it.



Blake Lively was sexually harassed on the set of a movie, which is the thing that led to her "cancellation" that Taylor is referring to in that song. It doesn't matter what problematic things she may have done prior.

She was "cancelled" because she was sexually harassed, so your "just give her a hug and shut up" attitude ain't it.

 . . . .

I don't understand how you missed the months and months misogynistic attacks that Blake Lively faced in response to her coming forward about Justin Baldoni.



There was a literal organized smear campaign against her that was designed to make her look like the villain when she was a victim. It was deeply ingrained in social media and spread so far that people were even banned for spreading sexist misinformation about her here on Era.



It is not up for debate that her image was hurt very badly because of the smear campaign, which again, was done in response to her coming forward about sexual harassment.

This one goes out to Zeo for defending a white woman on Era of all places.   

[HaughtyFrank]

just a small (stool) sample

Fixed

[DavidCroquet]

Can’t believe everyone is discussing taylor swift in a sabrina carpenter thread! Anyway blake lively.

[benji]

Some dude is getting dogpiled by the AntSteamWoke Squad because he dared to imply that Valve lack of forum moderation is not a big issue:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gi-biz-and-vgim-valve-accused-of-pulling-lgbtq-game-from-steam-only-in-russia-at-request-of-russian-government.1367941/page-5#post-148351150

I don't know about one piranha. But if someone told me that 0.3% of the lakes entire mass volume consisted of piranhas, I would probably think twice before going for a swim.

It's actually a perfect analogy because piranhas don't attack humans. They're garbage disposals, not manhunters.

[Taco Bell Tower]

It's pretty valid to be frustrated with Taylor not using her platform enough to push back against Trump but it's weird to me that a thread about Sabrina Carpenter doing something good is 90% about Taylor Swift. Though I suppose I'm about to add to it.











Blake Lively was sexually harassed on the set of a movie, which is the thing that led to her "cancellation" that Taylor is referring to in that song. It doesn't matter what problematic things she may have done prior.



She was "cancelled" because she was sexually harassed, so your "just give her a hug and shut up" attitude ain't it.

I don't understand how you missed the months and months misogynistic attacks that Blake Lively faced in response to her coming forward about Justin Baldoni.



There was a literal organized smear campaign against her that was designed to make her look like the villain when she was a victim. It was deeply ingrained in social media and spread so far that people were even banned for spreading sexist misinformation about her here on Era.



It is not up for debate that her image was hurt very badly because of the smear campaign, which again, was done in response to her coming forward about sexual harassment.

You're arguing semantics.



Like, is your argument really, "Blake Lively wasn't cancelled. She was just publicly humiliated because she chose to come forward about sexual harassment?"



Think about that for a second. Stop being locked in on the word "cancelled" because you're just dismissing (and straight up mocking) the reason why Swift was defending her in the first place.

And you seem more focused on the word choice of "cancelled" rather than the fact that she was simply defending a friend who was publicly humiliated for coming forward about sexual harassment.



You're not actually making an argument and at no point in this thread did I defend a billionaire. Miss me with that nonsense. You don't get to be like "there are so many victims in the world but she chose to write a song about her friend that was sexually harassed??" and then claim that pointing that fact out is "defending a billionaire."



This will be my last reply to you on this topic. It's clear you're not coming at this from an unbiased point of view. Your "so give her a hug and roll around in a big pile of money together" was telling enough.

I don't believe she threatened to sue anyone but she did call out the use of AI images of her that were used to promote Trump in her endorsement of Harris.

There's a lot of legitimate criticism that can be thrown Taylor's way: her silence on Palestine, her not publicly calling out ICE, whether or not she's taking advantage of fans with the countless vinyl variants of her music, etc.



But the idea that she has never spoken up about anything or that she hasn't publicly called out Trump directly is objectively wrong. And it's frustrating that correcting those incorrect statements is then met with, "Oooh, so you feel the need to defend the shitty billionaire?"



No, but facts don't just stop mattering when it's about someone you personally dislike.



Swift has publicly called out Trump in the past, she endorsed Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024, she cast a trans man as her love interest in a recent music video (which was an undeniably clear statement and one that went further than simply sharing a pro-LGBTQ post on Instagram).



There is always a tightrope that is always being walked in these threads between "justified and fair criticism over legitimate issues" and "repeating falsehoods to push a personal agenda against someone they dislike," combined w
ith some crossover with the pop stan community that makes everything even more muddled.

Bold should be a new Zeo quote.

[Geoff Marvel]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/horses-game-also-banned-on-epic-game-store-but-out-now-on-gog-and-itch-io-for-5.1370908/post-148383892

Exactly. Like I get gaming tends to be fairly isolated from other media but idk I've seen a fair amount of naked children in film. Like idk make the steam standards board watch Sweet Movie sometime.