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

[Boredfrom]

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Holy shit, someone wants to bat for Iran: 


https://www.resetera.com/threads/several-killed-as-iran-protests-over-rising-cost-of-living-spread.1395736/page-2#post-149782663

He sure could be better on the details because what the hell does right wing even mean in Iran? Isn't the regime already super conservative?

I think he's trying to point out, as diplomatically as possible, that the real world isn't as simple as Right Wing = Bad, Left Wing = Good.

It was posted right after this exchange:

Since this is probably related I'll ask here.  I saw a parade of cars with Iranian flags the other day here in Toronto.  A lot of them had a picture of a man, some with "make Iran great again" slogans on it.  Who is that man and what is the context of the support for him?  I'd appreciate some info or links to understand more about whatever movement I saw was.

I would guess it's the prince in exile, the descendant of the last Shah. A portion of the protesters, and a big swathe of the emigre community seems to see him as the most promising future leader for Iran. I'm guessing they're hoping to reestablish a constitutional monarchy when the current regime collapses.

Ah yeah that was probably him thanks!  Do his supporters lean more to the right given the adoption of the MAGA slogan?

The people of Iran hate the Islamic extremists currently in power, want a return of the monarchy, and a return of the more Western Iran of the past.

I took that posters "Might be unreal for you" remark to basically be a nicer way to say "Just because their views are what you consider right wing, that doesn't make them the bad guys, you fucking morons, you absolute fucking imbeciles".

Nah, is giving him too much credit much credit. Mentalist explain it more concisely. There is no reason for the thin veil unless the Tankies and Hamas ERA come there.

"Just because their views are what you consider right wing, that doesn't make them the bad guys, you fucking morons, you absolute fucking imbeciles".

Honestly, this is what ERA needs to hear more. If the intention was to explain this, people like Orochi got the wrong message.

[benji]

Kind of hard to get amped up to overthrow the government over grabbing Maduro or some cops shooting somebody when we've been living under multiple years of genocide and the shutting down of Concord not to mention the crushing every day existence under capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy plus people trying to use too many coupons at once.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fd-signifiers-problematic-white-guy-tier-list.1399207/

The S tier is labeled "Who's coming to the cookout".

[benji]

Really we should emphasize less the pettiness of that coupon story and more how Nepenthe is a vigorous defender of corporate revenue against some old Black lady saving 35 cents on shampoo or whatever the fuck.

[TylenolJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fd-signifiers-problematic-white-guy-tier-list.1399207/

The S tier is labeled "Who's coming to the cookout".

Yep. Red Letter Media needs to get the business more. They get away with too much shit. They ain't slick. They bigots. I fucking hate the "plausible deniability" image that they've cultivated. Tbh, I wish they'd just be open with their fuckery so we could at least not have an OT dedicated to them on this very site.

They are easily one of the biggest YT crew that gets away with it by their fans because they don't say anything "explicitly" bigoted, which is enough for lots of folks to close their eyes.

But yea, they aren't slick at all. Ick vibes since the beginning.

The quote. 

"Red Letter Media are the most 'I don't know any black people' mfers I've ever seen on YouTube." and then he says I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

There is no reason for the thin veil unless the Tankies and Hamas ERA come there.

They're always lurking.

If the intention was to explain this, people like Orochi got the wrong message.

That's the problem with having to explain things in a way that won't get you banned.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

"Red Letter Media are the most 'I don't know any black people' mfers I've ever seen on YouTube." and then he says I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content.

I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content, but they are not allowed to attend my BBQ.

Oh no!

I never understood that whole idea of being "invited to the cookout" as being some great honour. Has big "magical negro" vibes.

[benji]

Yep. Red Letter Media needs to get the business more. They get away with too much shit. They ain't slick. They bigots. I fucking hate the "plausible deniability" image that they've cultivated. Tbh, I wish they'd just be open with their fuckery so we could at least not have an OT dedicated to them on this very site.

They are easily one of the biggest YT crew that gets away with it by their fans because they don't say anything "explicitly" bigoted, which is enough for lots of folks to close their eyes.

But yea, they aren't slick at all. Ick vibes since the beginning.

Isn't it weird how it's always everyone else who falls for the obvious "plausible deniability" lies by these non-slick Nazis whose fuckery is so apparent but never gets listed?

[benji]

Oh, so you're saying Rich Evans didn't make a deliberately racist joke once and they didn't mock Paul Feig?

[Polident]

"Red Letter Media are the most 'I don't know any black people' mfers I've ever seen on YouTube." and then he says I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content.

I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content, but they are not allowed to attend my BBQ.

Oh no!

I never understood that whole idea of being "invited to the cookout" as being some great honour. Has big "magical negro" vibes.

You don’t get it. No other culture gets together with friends and family for barbecue.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

They are easily one of the biggest YT crew that gets away with it by their fans because they don't say anything "explicitly" bigoted, which is enough for lots of folks to close their eyes.

But yea, they aren't slick at all. Ick vibes since the beginning.

Isn't it weird how it's always everyone else who falls for the obvious "plausible deniability" lies by these non-slick Nazis whose fuckery is so apparent but never gets listed?

This reminds me of a complaint, either in the community thread or the burqa thread, about the frustration of not knowing what to do about the posters that aren't posting anything sexist, but they're just convinced they are sexist. Might have been about not knowing how to word a report. 

"Dearest Administrator,

I know the post to which this report refers to doesn't itself contain anything objectionable, but I'm absolutely convinced that the user is indeed a very bad person guilty of very bad thoughts. Please permaban them immediately.

Regards,

Fragile Retard"

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

"Red Letter Media are the most 'I don't know any black people' mfers I've ever seen on YouTube." and then he says I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content.

I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content, but they are not allowed to attend my BBQ.

Oh no!

I never understood that whole idea of being "invited to the cookout" as being some great honour. Has big "magical negro" vibes.

You don’t get it. No other culture gets together with friends and family for barbecue.

This is INSANELY unAustralian!

Benji please ban

[benji]

I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content, but they are not allowed to attend my BBQ.

Oh no!

I never understood that whole idea of being "invited to the cookout" as being some great honour. Has big "magical negro" vibes.

Another of those worthless hostages that narcissists take. Pre-emptively disinviting you from a party you don't want to go to. What you're saying they aren't the center of your universe and their whims don't guide your decisions? Yeah, sure, buddy, whatever. Nice try. And that's exactly why you're not invited to the cookout.

[benji]

Though to be fair, I'd love to go to an Era prominent member cookout. Like can you imagine.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-uh-i-won-square-enix-games-for-life-at-a-pax-pannel-9-years-ago-and-square-enix-just-started-ghosting-me-unsure-how-to-proceed.1400080/

As some of you may or may not know, a little over 9 years ago I won "Square Enix Games for life". The story on how it happened was:



I attended PAX West 2016. One of the panels there was for Tomb Raider celebrating it's 20th anniversary and promoting the PS4 release of Rise of the Tomb Raider. If you remember, Rise was originally a timed Xbox One exclusive and Rise released on PS4 a year later which happened to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the series and the PS4 version was called "Rise of the Tomb Raider 20 Year Celebration" and included extra content like a PSVR mode for Croft Manor and whatnot. Square Enix owned Crystal Dynamics and the Tomb Raider franchise at that point. This was before they sold it to Embracer.



I like Tomb Raider so I decided to go to the panel and they decided to give away prizes at this panel and one of the prizes was Square Enix Games for Life. For some reason they didn't advertise they were giving away anything let alone "Square Enix Games for Life" so the panel room was not even half full. Greg Miller was hosting the panel and near the beginning of the panel he asks everyone to look under their seat and under some seats are cards with prizes. Art Books, Plushes, Games, other random stuff and under one seat is "Square Enix Games for Life"



So everyone looks under their seats, several people yank off "Do not remove under penalty of law" upholstery tags, other people have cards with various prizes on them. One of the Crystal Dynamics devs says "Hey there are probably some cards under the empty seats over there(points to the right side of the panel room that was basically empty as everyone was on the left side closer to the panel) so you might want to check under those seats at the end of the panel. So far everyone stays put. Then Greg says "Of look now if you want, I don't care" and that was all the permission everyone needed. Myself and a few other people with no shame got up and went over to the empty rows. I picked an empty row, got down on all 4's and crawled across the row looking for cards. I saw one in the row behind mine, stood up, leaned over to get it and knocked over a couple chairs in the row I was hunting in crashing into the empty row behind. People start laughing at me and rightly so! I grab the card, get up and start my walk of shame back to my original seat without even looking at the card yet.



I get back to my seat, the panel starts proper and I look and I see this is what was on my card:







Under that piece of paper is an email to contact.



At the end of the panel, prize winners are told to come up to receive our prizes. I go up and say "Hey I won free games for life". They congratulate me, take my picture and tell me to email the address on the card. If they posted anything publicly, I never saw it.



I email the email address attaching the above photo and the person who's email is on that card forwards me to someone else at Square Enix who is responsible for fulfilling the prize. They ask me if I would like physical or digital copes. I say physical and they send me a care package with a handful of games they had on hand at the time. I remember one of them was Life Is Strange, another was whatever Deus Ex game came out that year and a couple more. Then from that day on, every time a game came out I would email them, ask for it, and they would overnight Fedex it from their LA offices.



The parameters of the prize though not explicitly stated on the card were "Square Enix published games". So that meant stuff like Bravely Default didn't count because it was Published by Nintendo, but Square Enix published a ton of games in North America for European developers/publishes that didn't have North America infrastructure. I got a bunch of Deep Silver games including Shenmue 3, a bunch of Milestone racing games among others as examples.



Along the way they stopped mailing me games and started emailing me codes instead for obvious reasons. Those codes were usually for the Digital Deluxe Editions or whatever the highest tier digital version available was. I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect my prize was being fulfilled through whatever internal mechanism Square Enix had to give staff free copies of games they worked on or something.



Anyway, everything has been smooth as butter for the past 9 years. The same person has been providing me the games the entire time. The last code I got was for DQ 1+ 2 HD2D. back at the end of Oct. and I'm Canadian so after I got the code I replied "Thanks, PS Go Blue Jays!" and they replied "NOOO Go Dodgers!" so everything seemed fine.



Fast forward 1 month and I email for a code for Octopath Traveler 0 and I get no response. I email a week later. No response. I email a couple weeks later again, no response. I was expecting them to goat about the Dodgers, not no response.



So I am kind of at a loss here. My emails are not bouncing. So I do not know what happened. Did the person I was emailing change jobs or are on an extended leave and the person handling their inbox has absolutely no clue who I am and has seen each email and said "Who the fuck is krae_man and why would I send them a code?", or did Square Enix tell them "Don't send krae_man anymore codes and just ghost them"? I have no idea.



Where's Lionel Hutz when you need him?







TL:DR



Won Squre Enix games for life 9 years ago. Been ghosted since about a month ago.

[benji]

 


Bubblebathgirl being factually incorrect was right there.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-uh-i-won-square-enix-games-for-life-at-a-pax-pannel-9-years-ago-and-square-enix-just-started-ghosting-me-unsure-how-to-proceed.1400080/

The person I've been emailing still lists Square Enix as their current employer on Linkdin(No, I am not going to reveal the name or email) for whatever that means.

I don't know if stalking a person on LinkedIn is appropriate. Contact the company.

What's your goal with this comment?

you can't be serious

They looked up the public social media that lists people's employers after numerous people suggested they were fired and you suggested they're stalking them, I'm not sure you can be serious with this take lol.

LinkedIn is a site for a private person to interact with employers, not somewhere for you to gripe about a customer service issue.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fd-signifiers-problematic-white-guy-tier-list.1399207/

The S tier is labeled "Who's coming to the cookout".

Yep. Red Letter Media needs to get the business more. They get away with too much shit. They ain't slick. They bigots. I fucking hate the "plausible deniability" image that they've cultivated. Tbh, I wish they'd just be open with their fuckery so we could at least not have an OT dedicated to them on this very site.

They are easily one of the biggest YT crew that gets away with it by their fans because they don't say anything "explicitly" bigoted, which is enough for lots of folks to close their eyes.

But yea, they aren't slick at all. Ick vibes since the beginning.

The quote. 

"Red Letter Media are the most 'I don't know any black people' mfers I've ever seen on YouTube." and then he says I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content.

REEE's impetus for RLM "showing they whole ass" was them making fun of the coming out of the closet scene in Stranger Things.  
 
You know, the scene that EVERYONE was making fun of. 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-7-2026-ice-agent-fatally-shoots-woman-during-protest-in-minneapolis-mn.1399654/page-18#post-149787643

You gonna get banned

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fd-signifiers-problematic-white-guy-tier-list.1399207/

The S tier is labeled "Who's coming to the cookout".

They are easily one of the biggest YT crew that gets away with it by their fans because they don't say anything "explicitly" bigoted, which is enough for lots of folks to close their eyes.

But yea, they aren't slick at all. Ick vibes since the beginning.

The quote. 

"Red Letter Media are the most 'I don't know any black people' mfers I've ever seen on YouTube." and then he says I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content.

REEE's impetus for RLM "showing they whole ass" was them making fun of the coming out of the closet scene in Stranger Things.  
 
You know, the scene that EVERYONE was making fun of. 

They are not slick.

[simiansmarts]

"Red Letter Media are the most 'I don't know any black people' mfers I've ever seen on YouTube." and then he says I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content.

I don’t think they are racist and I enjoy their content, but they are not allowed to attend my BBQ.

Oh no!

I never understood that whole idea of being "invited to the cookout" as being some great honour. Has big "magical negro" vibes.

The "cookout" thing is terminally online slang that's exclusively used in american leftist spaces.  
 
It reeks of "you aight whiteboi" cringe. Every FD Signfier thread brings out the self-congratulating cretins. 
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fd-signifiers-problematic-white-guy-tier-list.1399207/#post-149756254 

That's such a diabolical read.

 

As a white Wisconsinite that also knew 0 black people, FD's read on Red Letter Media is 100% correct.

  

[Snoopy]

Does the cookout thing count if you got invited to a South African's birthday party?

[Boredfrom]

A usual white cookout:

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-7-2026-ice-agent-fatally-shoots-woman-during-protest-in-minneapolis-mn.1399654/page-18#post-149787643

You gonna get banned

The post a couple down from there:

This is part of why I think all Dems need to jump on this. This story is heartbreaking and can resonate with the majority of Americans.

The dems won't do anything except say "you're making us consider doing something about this"

The right and admin will celebrate the cop.

Some Americans will go out and have a peaceful protest which won't do anything.

The rest will get angry as heck behind their keyboard but do even less than the above.

And a week from now, this will be forgotten about, and America will continue to spiral while the rest of the world watches in horror.

Americans will say "wait for the next election", of which there probably won't even be one.

America has been reduced to a virus that's infecting itself and the rest of the Western World at a breakneck speed. So fast that again, this will be forgotten about in a week in light of a brand new tragedy or war crime or threat or whatever.

We're probably all fucked and it's because too many fucking morons either voted for Trump, didn't vote, or thought they were being smart and special by voting for a third party candidate instead of the very obvious lesser of two evils. That, or the election was rigged and this was always fucked.

[Boredfrom]

As an American I say if any US troops invaded then I hope they're torn to shreds as they would deserve it for following an evil fuck's illegal orders.

I can do better:

As a human I hope no one dies because the insane whims of a fat orange retard.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/danish-troops-told-to-shoot-first-ask-questions-seek-orders-later-if-us-invades-greenland-which-denmarks-defence-minister-confirms-as-protocol.1400104/

[benji]

As an American I say if any US troops invaded then I hope they're torn to shreds as they would deserve it for following an evil fuck's illegal orders.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/danish-troops-told-to-shoot-first-ask-questions-seek-orders-later-if-us-invades-greenland-which-denmarks-defence-minister-confirms-as-protocol.1400104/

There's literally more US troops on Greenland than Danish troops almost all the time already. There's a US base, the Danish "forces" are a couple little single digit man outposts in random places. Why would the US allow the Danes to land troops after they take the island? 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Does the cookout thing count if you got invited to a South African's birthday party?

I think that makes you a turbo racist.

[benji]

Well of course, what kind of army just gives up? Even a small unit can inflict heavy losses to a superior enemy.

open armed conflict is one of the few things I think would turn core Republicans against this administration, especially an invasion. MAGA voters going down with the ship.

Yeah, America deserves a lot of bad karma for electing Trump, but this is a WW3 type of scenario that I hope doesn't come true. Also, ending NATO over this would be a disaster.

I don't want it to come to that but like, what choice do they have? We aren't fucking owned Greenland no matter what the nazi with the most punchable face ever says.

Not as many as you think, I expect. They would simply do mental gymnastics to make it seem like US troops were there to have a friendly chat and were killed in cold blood, and so actually military retaliation and invasion by the US would now be good, actually. These people will always find a way to avoid admitting they were wrong or duped. Always.

Unbelievable that this is where we're at now. You just know rabid drunk wannabe tough guy Hegseth and meth head nazi Miller, and probably Rubio too are egging Trump on even more. A world war will not be far behind if the US enters a war of aggression with fucking Denmark of all countries.

You know all those bases we have all over the world that form the backbone of American global power? They become a massive liability if countries decide collectively that we have to get the fuck out or taste steel.

These dudes all think Greenland is like England or somethin don't they. Rather than a giant ice sheet with a small area where there's 50k people with a density that would make Dr. Poop cry about the wasted space.

The Danes aren't stupid enough to even try and fight an actual US invasion because it would be over instantly. They'll just wait until a non-insane administration comes into power to hand it back.

And the constant World War III fantasies over everything.

[Boredfrom]

They'll just wait until a non-insane administration comes into power to hand it back.

That is still a terrible outcome.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-7-2026-ice-agent-fatally-shoots-woman-during-protest-in-minneapolis-mn.1399654/page-20#post-149790085

And just tonight I found a photo of my grandfather wearing a fucking Nazi uniform and I am SO DONE.