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

[Jansen]

From constructive 

If theres one thing the team have done right, its keeping the AI hype machine where it belongs. I am *sick* to the core with people banging on about AI  - here and elsewhere - while people are being jailed and genocided with the same tools. If there is one commonality with proponents of AI its their indifference to the suffering of others. I can't afford any patience and kindness to those who would not afford it unto others.



As to why they can't outright ban it, its because this shit is practically everywhere - in media, in politics, in developing news - its a tall order to police and ensure that people don't mention it or discuss it in any capacity. It was hard enough with Harry Potter media, and now people are expecting this ubiquitous thing to just be outrighted banned from being mentioned in the bevy of new stories that hits Era everyday. Like, come on its wildly out of touch to expect something like that.

Fully agreed.

imagine writing up a lengthy, detailed, highly cited post and then doubling back around to say "i ain't mad tho"



this is like the third time by my memory this same poster has come into the community feedback threads to throw a fit and you'd think by now they'd get the picture but here we are



we need to bully ai-glazing harder

I agree with shitting on AI, but if guidelines aren't being enforced or followed, throw them out. It does look very silly to have them and then just ignore them.

I sincerely agree that we should be louder here in condemning and banning AI



There is no "fair" with pro-AI, since it is theft on multiple levels

Pretty much. Screeds from this user, about this subject, are so regular as to be useful to set one's calendar by. There's so many pro, or even neutral AI forums out there, with like-minded people. But I guess they really need another one? Why, I couldn't tell you.



I mean, realistically, they probably should have used AI to write that post, with the amount of time it surely took, and the result it will surely have.

Legit won't be long until AI derangement syndrome is an actual diagnosis

[Uncle]

4 posts in a row. Somethining must have happened. Did you get banned from some subreddit?

remember the Sacred Blueball Rule:

always accuses someone of posting at some website

So this schizo stalks multiple subreddits but doesn’t even post on them? I know he’s too much of a coward to confront people on forums (or even Twitter), but I figured he’d at least be able to handle Reddit echo chamber culture.


Also if you don't want people to think you don't post on x site maybe don't obsessively stalk that site. Or talk like a /pol/ reject. Like I'm supposed to think Nintex isn't a regular /pol/ user who posts racist shit and thinks women peak at 14?

Dummy.

Sacred Blueball Rule #2:

the reason he accuses people of posting at various websites is because the association is meant to be a grave insult, and is in fact the only insult available to him, since anything more biting like "retard" would mark him as a chud

in fact, this is pretty strong evidence that he shares these interactions in a discord somewhere, and needs his posts to "look good" for the benefit of the era posters he shares them with, or otherwise he'd have the confidence to actually speak his mind

the site-based insults are for their benefit rather than ours, since even blueball isn't stupid enough to think that being called a website user would make any normal person ashamed

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/11-years-old-kid-kills-adoptive-dad-over-confiscated-nintendo-switch.1409203/page-2#post-150182467

 User banned (2 weeks): ableist commentary

Just heard about this now. Wow WTF. Did the kid have ADHD or was autistic. There have been some cases of kids behaving so violently due to their phones, consoles or game was confiscated.

[Snoopy]

Wake up sheeple. Kirk got assassinated because his wife's software update failed. He walked in on some spooks doing a hard reset on her. So they hired some satanists to kill him before he exposed the truth. Look into it.

When you lay it out like that it seems pretty obvious.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hundreds-of-protestors-killed-in-iran-across-nationwide-protests-gov-cuts-internet-phone-access-update-2000-protestors-killed-10k-arrested.1395736/page-11#post-150263629

 User banned (permanent): personal insults, thread derail over a series of posts, account in junior phase

So what they're hiding then?

read your username and not surprised by this reaction.

[Alpacx]

Not strictly relevant but because I enjoyed that big Constructive post all but calling out Nepenthe REE: AI

[Uncle]

Not strictly relevant but because I enjoyed that big Constructive post all but calling out Nepenthe REE: AI

there are a lot of frankly irresponsible articles about AI datacenters destroying local water

poor old grandma is having her life destroyed living next to a georgia datacenter:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

but then you do the smallest amount of investigation, you look up when the datacenter was built:

https://plateauexcavation.com/projects/newton-data-center/

they broke ground on it back in 2018 and would've started planning to build it years before, so this isn't an "AI" datacenter (to this day practically no datacenters are "AI" datacenters, they're used for many purposes)

the article says she retired and moved there in 2016, so it's likely she could've found out the datacenter was going to be built there before she even bought the house

this is not to deny the experience she's having, but the article is meant to make mental connections and spread FUD to make you think that AI is draining people's water all over

practically all the datacenter stories cropping up in the press these days are from existing datacenters from before the AI boom, and they're just heartstrings human interest stories about the few people living next to them without honestly measuring the real environmental cost

they cite alarming-sounding numbers about how many millions of gallons of water are being moved around without putting any of it into context, the context being that all datacenter water usage is A) complicated and easy to be dishonest about from both sides, and B) absolutely dwarfed by orders of magnitude by agricultural water usage

[HaughtyFrank]

Making AI videos to scare people of AI 

[benji]

Not strictly relevant but because I enjoyed that big Constructive post all but calling out Nepenthe REE: AI
https://x.com/i/status/2013298395679465526

[Alpacx]

Not strictly relevant but because I enjoyed that big Constructive post all but calling out Nepenthe REE: AI
https://x.com/i/status/2013298395679465526

The data's stored in outdoor Tesla Coils. Watch some theory Red Alert Cutscenes

[benji]

We know techbros absolutely despise artists and don't understand art so they probably display all the generated images 24/7 on gigantic outdoor screens visible from miles away. I've watched Captain Planet so I know how corporations do things. The cruelty is the point.

[Boredfrom]

[Boredfrom]

Trump is posting telephone messages from Macron because this is the shit world we live on.  

He is a fucking lolcow.

[Orange Juice Box]

Not strictly relevant but because I enjoyed that big Constructive post all but calling out Nepenthe REE: AI

I was a little disappointed that they said, "all the mods," when it was visible (and factually true) that Nepenthe single handedly made that decision for the entire board.  She didn't hide it.  She was proud of it.  After several threads of her whittling down the number of people who wanted to talk about what AI could do she was the one who justified the ban to the peasants and proclaiming it an AI freezone.

[Boredfrom]

It truly feels like ERA just wants a leftist Trump. 

“Why is Macron not sperging at Trump!”  

“Why is Bernie Sanders not grandstanding?”

[Uncle]

as has been theorized in the past, they might've gotten a talking-to from moba about banning entire topics from discussion on...a discussion board

they were probably told "ok, harry potter, since you already made it a rule, but no more"

so now they officially ban nothing but unofficially treat neutral AI talk as if it's banned

[Nintex]

Donald mon cherie!

200% tarrifs we need Ibiza for national security 

Donald non

[Snoopy]

Trump can have Ibiza. It's an absolute dump filled with the lowest kind of trash.

[Straight Edge]

Trump can have Ibiza. It's an absolute dump filled with the lowest kind of trash.

Anime watchers?

[Boredfrom]

Unrepentant Trumptards.

[Nintex]

Unrepentant Trumptards.

[Snoopy]

Trump can have Ibiza. It's an absolute dump filled with the lowest kind of trash.

Anime watchers?

Much worse than them. The English.

[EaldNarche]

When Canada is part of the USA I'm gonna remember how mean and uppity these Canadians on ERA are being right now. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

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/page-4#post-150253180

Every thread about US-related politics is going to have Americans doing this in them, I guess.

That's the third meltdown I've seen this week alone. Someone in another thread said the #NotAllMen comparison broke minds and they couldn't have been more bang on.

Time to close the thread down again to spare their feelings!

Was just the other week when a ton of Canadians caught bans, while none of the Americans who riled them up faced any consequences. Mods are complicit in this American exceptionalism bs too.

 User Banned (3 Days): Antagonizing Fellow Members; Metacommentray; Modwhining

[Besticus Maximus]

Some days I wake up wondering which tyrant I want to see toppled more rapidly, Donald trump or nepenthe.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Come post on the Bire. You can say what you want about B-Dubs and benji hasn't banned me for being mean to Yanks yet.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-do-you-think-monster-hunter-wilds-didnt-blow-up-in-the-west-like-world-did.1409620/page-5#post-150239050

 User Banned (Permanently): Xenophobic Rhetoric; History of Inflammatory Commentary

Because shit is Japanese as hell.

There's barely any characters or story, what little story or characters that are there are as weeaboo as hell, everything is driven by archaic menus and inventory systems that seem like they were made deliberately over-elaborate to trick people into the game is deeper than it actually is - no game about hunting monsters should feel like filing your taxes.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gavin-newsom-agrees-with-ben-shapiro-that-israel-did-not-commit-genocide-in-gaza.1411006/



Clickycal 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/automaton-stellar-blade-developer-shift-up-makes-donation-to-families-in-need-intends-to-stay-%E2%80%9Ccommitted-to-fulfilling-social-responsibilities.1408072/#post-150133657

 User Banned (1 Week): Inflammatory Metacommentary; Account in Junior Phase

Still a misogynist company that makes misogynist games.
No surprise that they have a lot of fans on Era.

[Jansen]

Thanks for minimizing my life and life experience. I am a fucking ally to you. I support you and what you are saying. I do not disagree with anything you are saying..



I am hear asking what can we do without leadership foreign or domestic?



I'm not asking Europeans to fight for us or save us. But perhaps it would be to.Europes benefit to foster discontent by funneling money into the democratic party like the Russians. Why are we not using the weapons of our opressors???



Again, I want to fight for you, I want to fight for my family, all of the things I've done just seem to make everything worse. I am a horrible rebel. I'm not a leader. I'm not an entirely intelligent person.



But why would you kick those of us that support you into the ground? I just can not rationalize it. We are being killed. We are being politically persecuted. I don't want your empathy I want your fucking leadership.

You going to die yodabear