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

[TylenolJones]

We literally just banned an American in this thread for pulling some bullshit...

Hi 👋 I'm back from my 1 week ban. Since I was the only person banned in this thread, I'll assume that you are referring to me as the "American". Just to clarify, I'm Canadian, and I would appreciate if you could refrain from spreading any type of information about my nationality, correct or incorrect, without my consent - thanks.

Just wanted to clarify that my post:

Every single thread for Europeans and Canadians has some American saying "I'm just a bystander and not the bully". In first grade of school they teach you that bystanders are just as guilty as bullies. Dismissive attitude towards an issue as serious as splitting up a country seems incredibly inappropriate.

Was in agreement with both Dashful and thecowboypoet, and not intended to antagonize. I'm sorry if that was unclear and either of you were offended by my use of quotes.

Within a minute

I wasn't even talking about you. Other people did get banned.

And don't bump old threads just to complain about your ban.

And locked 



https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-admin-officials-have-reportedly-held-several-secret-meetings-with-far-right-canadian-separatists-who-want-to-break-free-from-the-rest-of-country.1419718/page-4#post-151033504


Edit: got banned for misrepresenting moderation

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jeffrey-epstein-advisors-helped-push-microtransactions-in-call-of-duty-im-all-for-indoctrinating-kids-into-an-economy.1428928/#post-151020244

The fascism has been visible within technological spaces for awhile for anyone who has been paying serious attention, so this little revelation slipping out was fully believable. Prey on them early and often, and get them to see abuse as compassion. Video games are the perfect insidious vector for this.

When you start to see a ton of modern video game and technological design as reflections and systemizations of abuse and oppression, it isn't much of a shock/leap in logic to see the broader culture-at-large begin to bend to the abusive psychic environments.

Guy who has only seen Fascism Baby watching his second movie...

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I can't click on this thread for my own mental health can I?

[HaughtyFrank]

From Constructive 

If you ask me the defenders come off a lot more toxic than the people making fun of the game. The former go after people the latter after a 100 million project from a company

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/canada-poliera-ot-2-the-north-remembers.149085/page-789#post-151033717

So the thread about American meetings with Alberta separatists was closed, even though it's barely over a week old. Why? Because someone dared to question the mods. Easier to just sweep it under the rug than actually address valid complaints. I'm sure this would be a good thing to bring up in the Constructive Criticism thread, but I can't even see that thread (since I probably have too few posts). And they'd just ignore it anyways.

"Don't bump old threads". Old threads from the long-long ago of January 29th.

Me when I saw that bump + close combo

Oh wow they caught a ban again too, that wasn't there when I first saw it

Feelings were clearly hurt lol.

No, they weren't banned when the thread was closed initially. Someone's in their feelings.

I know moderation is a thankless job, but if a hypothetical person is ten-ply soft, maybe they shouldn't accept a position of authority over a large community, since said position is going to face a lot of criticism on the best of days. Hypothetically.

Sounds about right from Ex-NYT darling B-Dubya.

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[Besticus Maximus]

Well who is going to stand up for the truth? That cunt nepenthe? lol imagine, just imagine. It’s actually easier to imagine Jeffrey Epstein dismantling capitalism given all the work and organising he got done.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-releases-march-5-2026-pre-order-trailer.1410034/page-22#post-150989128

Pretty glad I only just started to pay more serious attention to this, as I'm now feeling pretty gripped by the hype and am fiending to get hands on with this ASAP. Am in thrall with excitement now!

If I'd have been paying much closer attention in the last year+ since the initial unveiling and ARG stuff, the wait would have been absolutely brutal. Especially after they justifiably delayed it.

Really hoping this helps to fill the Concord void in my life. The more I've watched/learned about the game, the more I'm absolutely convinced that Sony, Bungie, and the now defunct Bungie spin-off studio Firewalk were all working pretty close together between the two games. Freegunners on one side, runners on the other.

That they were absolutely wanting Concord and Marathon to be like a yin-yang type of synergistic Bungie-style, Destiny-successor PVP experiences. Where Concord was pure Crucible action gameplay, no gear, Marathon was finally them delivering on the Patrol zone gank squad fantasy that existed since OG Destiny. Concord was the low stakes, "let's just hop in for 5 minutes and blast other people for funzies", no labor evolution of Reach/Shadowrun/Destiny multiplayer. The gameplay without the issues gear inject. While Marathon is obviously high stakes, "let's intelligently hunt the enemy scalps and hedge our bets", labor intensive evolution of those with all the pros and cons that itemization provides.

There's a lot I could write about the two and how their two designs elegantly intermingled across a bunch of aspects, but I'll probably save a lot of those thoughts until the game hits and we can actually put some real hands on time into it.

But man, I'm feeling really excited. I'm ready for them to blow the doors off of this and for the open beta to hit. Sub 4 weeks now; March 5th will be here in a blink of an eye really. Then this game itself is shaping up to be a serious (dangerous) time melter too...

[HaughtyFrank]

Why is he talking about Bungie creating Destiny successors when they're still busy working on Destiny

[Orange Juice Box]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jeffrey-epstein-advisors-helped-push-microtransactions-in-call-of-duty-im-all-for-indoctrinating-kids-into-an-economy.1428928/#post-151020244

The fascism has been visible within technological spaces for awhile for anyone who has been paying serious attention, so this little revelation slipping out was fully believable. Prey on them early and often, and get them to see abuse as compassion. Video games are the perfect insidious vector for this.

When you start to see a ton of modern video game and technological design as reflections and systemizations of abuse and oppression, it isn't much of a shock/leap in logic to see the broader culture-at-large begin to bend to the abusive psychic environments.

When you look for the number 33 you realize it's everywhere!  

Gah, that sentence was 13 words and 53 characters.

53 + 13 = 66.  66 as in a multiple of 33!!!!!!   Damn you the Jewish part of Epstein!

[Boredfrom]

Mekanos and toy are the last True & Honest Socialist at ERA and is irritating how dumb they are.  In the Japanese Margaret Thatcher thread they  keep discussing that No Imperal Core nationalism is good and true, while the other is bad for the world.

[DavidCroquet]

Welp, sorry to Bungie but Marathon just got the ultimate kiss of death: DeliciousSunnyD's enthusiasm.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-posts-video-on-truthsocial-depicting-the-obamas-as-gorillas.1427758/page-2#post-150978082

 User Banned (1 Month): Racist Rhetoric

Awful, though to be a bit nit-picky with this AI trash, Barack looks to be an orangutan rather than a gorilla, which I suppose does make some kind of sense given the years he spent as a kid in Indonesia. Ridiculous that this is a near daily occurrence

 User Banned ( 2 Month): Racist Rhetoric

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/la-protestors-tear-down-ice-facility.1421767/page-3#post-150741829

 User Banned (1 Month): Xenophobic Concern Trolling; Account in Junior Phase

Morally speaking, I feel like this is morally good in a lot of ways. I guess some bad side effects might happen like if say destruction freed some truly bad people (people who are a threat to others) for example but hopfully any bad thing can be properly dealt with legally on a separate moment.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-posts-video-on-truthsocial-depicting-the-obamas-as-gorillas.1427758/page-2#post-150978082

 User Banned (1 Month): Racist Rhetoric

Awful, though to be a bit nit-picky with this AI trash, Barack looks to be an orangutan rather than a gorilla, which I suppose does make some kind of sense given the years he spent as a kid in Indonesia. Ridiculous that this is a near daily occurrence

 User Banned ( 2 Month): Racist Rhetoric

Tomorrow will 3 month 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/end-of-deep-alliance-between-canada-and-u-s-not-inevitable-top-former-biden-official-says.1428961/page-4#post-151037461

 User banned (1 week): trolling

They're auditioning for a pundit job on a talking head panel show. At least I assume they want a job as a conservative analyst with that "sure some racism, but acckkshualllllyyyyyy economic anxiety!" top shelf analysis of the American electorate.

Yeah, you're right. I'm just a dumb-dumb. Take the keyboard away. You're right. The classic political phrase really should just be "It's racism, stupid!" Wow, close the thread. We're done here. Murca racist, ya'll = worst country and should never be an economic/strategic partner. Case closed.

[Jeff_at_the_laughfactory]

I will never understand how Horizon has managed to hook in so many people to inspire an eleven page thread of crashouts about some multiplayer game that will be dead in a year. I guess robot dinosaurs are cool, but not cool enough to get me to drop real money on a ubisoft open world delivered through a 40 something year old millennial script writer chasing their failed dream of being a Young Adult novelist. Sony fans are something else.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

That horizon game is the dying gasps of the ‘make it purple and put a fat woman in it’ era of vidya. Who has enough free cash and time to actually buy this game and play it every day? Not the fatties, that’s for sure.

I'm surprised no one argued to remove that character. Not only makes it your game a blatant target, it's hardly a character I can imagine people truly desire to see. Even on Resetera I have not seen anyone excited about that character. On top of that, the design of the character is just completely inconsistent with the rest of the designs, her head is so tiny it looks absurd.

I guess either someone from the higher ups truly believes into this 400 pound woman or they'd be afraid that if they remove her someone leaks it to the press and it causes a "Sony removes overweight woman from game" scandal

Look, I can accept robot dinosaurs, but they expect me to believe that not only can that incredibly fat woman with the tiny head run, but that her peg-leg is capable of supporting all that weight?

[Snoopy]

Andddd there goes the America and Canada deep alliance thread thanks to American whataboutism and feeling like a victim.

Would be nice if just one freaking thread wouldn't devolve into that.

If someone really wants to get the Alberta thread going again just use the news report I posted a page ago. It's chock full of info and more than enough.

I'm not going to do it though. Dont want to deal with fucking Americans.

[davepoobond]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-posts-video-on-truthsocial-depicting-the-obamas-as-gorillas.1427758/page-2#post-150978082

 User Banned ( 2 Month): Racist Rhetoric

Tomorrow will 3 month 

Was this guys post really just “this is racist because it wasnt the right type of ape”

[davepoobond]

Double post

[TylenolJones]

Xboxera rebrand to DayOne

Well, at least they're dissociating their brand from ResetEra, that's a step in the right direction I guess.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/xboxera-rebrand-to-dayone.1429177/#post-151037719

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anyone-else-been-disowned-discarded-by-their-family-for-failing-at-life.1429207/

I don't usually have them but this morning I had a dream about my cousin and in it we were still friends,  a closeness which in reality has not existed anytime recently. Naturally when I woke up, I felt really uneasy.

Growing up and through the decades even we were so close but I haven't seen her in like 5 years and I haven't talked to her in over 14 months. I'll probably never know why she stopped caring about me, what I did to be discarded like a total stranger and I don't think it will ever not hurt. I mean I -do- understand on a psychological level yet still it baffles my dumb empath ass almost daily to the point that I actually wish there was something tangible I did that caused it because then I could at least understand. It would make sense, there would be closure. To add insult to injury she was always the only person in the family to have my back.

Hearing about other peoples families, man... I want to tell them I would give anything for that. Even just one single family member, one ounce of support. I don't because I don't want to make anyone else feel bad but when I explain my situation and familial relationships, they all say the same thing. " that is so fucked up, how could your FAMILY do that to you? What did you do?"

I don't have an answer for them, because my family doesn't have an answer for me.

My mother's response when I ask her variations of the following questions -  "what have I done?" "What have I done to make you hate me?" -  is always the same: "Nothing Matt. You've done nothing."

Okay, rando on the internet... Surely there IS something you did. Something you've omitted!

Nope. I'm kind, polite, giving. I'm not a criminal.  I had great relationships with that chunk of my family until my abusive ex cut me off from everyone for 5 years and I wasn't able to provide or take car of myself. I haven't stolen money to buy drugs or whatever like you would imagine it's like for most "tough love" scenarios. Hell, until now I've never talked shit or even had a negative thought about my cousin. Before all this she could have come to me in my situation and I would have said, no, fuck that, I have (at the time) a spareroom (she has two). Ill get you out here and make sure you're okay. They will just not lift a single finger....it's like it's rooted in resentment.

Recently in a thread someone mentioned the concept of "failure to launch," for the first time. But a few years ago  I coined the term "merit based love family" to describe the exact phenomenon, which, I've just learned is wholly cultural. And my family was certainly raised with this mentality and certainly applied it to me.

Bear in mind I have CPTSD diagnosed by multiple doctors covering multiple extended traumas. since 2021 I've been disabled and have spent the majority of the last 3 years in the backseat of car. My cousin meanwhile, is a officially a doctor, having finished her residency some time last year, now making a doctors salary in a practice somewhere in South Texas. No student loans, no car payment, no mortgage. School and house paid off by dad in advance. Her fiance, is in the financial sector and along with the rest of that side of the family  (my mom, who, by most global and domestic metrics is also rich, excluded) are actual multi- millionaires. Her dad is one of the most renowned doctors in the county where we grew up. A heart surgeon. Her stepdad is a banker. all these people have multiple properties, timeshares, super fancy boats, etc..my cousin, at 39, still got an allowed of  $3k a month from her dad, but I don't know it's still the case at 40 now that she is working. And of course she has plenty of time for Facebook and Instagram. Weekly she posts pics of her eating hundreds of dollars of sushi at Uber fancy Japanese restaurants. And yet the way she last told it when I asked her 8 months ago asking for money to eat, when shaming me in return from bothering her....she is poor, worse off than me. It's maximum guilt trips and gas lights.


Anyway, after the dream I reached out to her.. it was only the second time in a year and a half and I don't know why because I don't ever expect her to have a sudden change of heart or actually talk about the issue or be anything but annoyed. And to be honest I feel guilty about it knowing med school and residency are really really rough, but our ambiguous divorce is on my mind almost every day, and I don't know how many more years would pass if I waited for her to reach out to me.

The fucked up thing is that it's not even about the money. I have been in situations where I've had to do really depressing up stuff for money, and it takes on a new aura when you don't have any for so long. But on God, If I had to choose between money and love, I would choose love every time. I would trade what little I had left for a loving mother, even if we were beggars together on the street.

But there is no love. No compassion. Just "get a job" and deal with your issues yourself.

Thats all, that's the end of my thought.

TL;DR : My entire family are heartless narcissists, and it really sucks to not have anyone

[Kazuma_Kiryu]

Looking at MOBA Network's stock ResetERA may not be long for this world either.

[Boredfrom]

Okay, rando on the internet... Surely there IS something you did. Something you've omitted!

Nope. I'm kind, polite, giving. I'm not a criminal. 

[Boredfrom]

That horizon game is the dying gasps of the ‘make it purple and put a fat woman in it’ era of vidya. Who has enough free cash and time to actually buy this game and play it every day? Not the fatties, that’s for sure.

I'm surprised no one argued to remove that character. Not only makes it your game a blatant target, it's hardly a character I can imagine people truly desire to see. Even on Resetera I have not seen anyone excited about that character. On top of that, the design of the character is just completely inconsistent with the rest of the designs, her head is so tiny it looks absurd.

I guess either someone from the higher ups truly believes into this 400 pound woman or they'd be afraid that if they remove her someone leaks it to the press and it causes a "Sony removes overweight woman from game" scandal

I can see people playing her if she was a joke character on a multiplayer mode on single player paid game.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Yeah, good luck with that. They don't have the number to do anything like that on a country-wide scale and blue states will shut that shit down.

California won't tolerate it. We're proudly one of the states that lets non citizen residents vote.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steve-bannon-“you’re-damn-right-we’re-gonna-have-ice-surround-the-polls-come-november-”.1427563/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steve-bannon-%E2%80%9Cyou%E2%80%99re-damn-right-we%E2%80%99re-gonna-have-ice-surround-the-polls-come-november-%E2%80%9D.1427563/page-3#post-150995932

Anyone can get a California ID if they can prove residency and then register to vote on the same form. I have family and friends that all voted in the last election that are either DACA or green card holders.

Ok again, no state allows non-citizens to vote in federal elections. It's illegal. So you're either mistaken or you should not be advertising this…

[Boredfrom]

Loco, you are such a stupid motherfucker.  

You probably deserve a deportation to a random country.

[Potato]

It is quite literally Fortnite character models with Spider-Verse-style texture work on top. Pretty much THE most derivative and unimaginative art style they could have made, but since it's Soyny it must be defended no matter what. 

Only positive is that the gameplay looks better than the mainline Horizon series.

Low bar

[Straight Edge]

I've been disabled and have spent the majority of the last 3 years in the backseat of car.

[Boredfrom]

I had great relationships with that chunk of my family until my abusive ex cut me off from everyone for 5 years and I wasn't able to provide or take car of myself.

That actually sounds like a big deal, specially if that ex was specially vindictive against your family. 

Maybe you are not into drugs, but it sounds like you are actually omitting a “legal” vice that may prompt your family to say t you “get a job”.

[filler]

I've been disabled and have spent the majority of the last 3 years in the backseat of car.

backseat message board moderating is a full time job tbh