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

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bad-bunny%E2%80%99s-halftime-show-was-incredible.1429579/page-6#post-151092904

Trying so hard to make out the show was amazing, and if you don’t agree you’re sus!!

It was pretty mid.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bad-bunny%E2%80%99s-halftime-show-was-incredible.1429579/page-6#post-151092904

Thread is full of stuff like this

I'm a fucking fluent ny latino and I still couldn't make out everything he was saying LOL

But that is the best half-time show I've ever seen. Was choking back tears by the mid-point to the end. Beautiful, positive message and production. That really affected me in a way I haven't been in a long time.

   

 

can everyone just shut the fuck up and stop the posturing from all sides

"you don't like it? well then  I  love it" 

[HaughtyFrank]

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/page-505#post-150990943

This is why it can be so frustrating to have these conversations in a large platform. It feels like the opinions of women and NB folks only seem to matter when they can be used to deflect criticism. We aren't a monolith so we don't all feel the same and shouldn't be expected to, so it really sucks when people prop up this or that user's opinions to push back against the others or have one person even be made an example of how we should all feel... seeing people hide behind the one person they chose as their shield is deeply frustrating too. That person's views, explanations and experiences no longer matters, it's all about whether or not they're not getting in the way of fanservice and can be used to maintain the status quo.

High Femme ruining the charade for everyone

Ok, so why the fuck should I care about your opinion? 

Fact is, you constantly claim to speak for all women

[killamajig]

Even this thread has typical Era infighting. 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/lindsey-vonn-crashes-and-is-airlifted-in-last-run-before-olympics-comeback-says-dream-is-not-over.1421032/page-2#post-151070764

For such a progressive, inclusive message board the amount of people pissing on her here last week after her fall is pretty ridiculous. I'm sure if any of you in her shoes would have done the thing. I know I would have.

Yes the weird take is to NOT let someone fly down a mountain on one leg because reasons. And let's not think about the down stream effects of our actions, because that would get in the way of mah freedum and this attitude totally isn't symbolic of many of our biggest problems.

You're arguing that an able bodied person is roughly as safe on one good leg as they are fully healthy when flying down a mountain, do you hear yourself?

I feel like I'm really hitting a cultural nerve here by daring to question mah freedums and having the AUDACITY to point out that even though all of our decisions are our own to make, there are consequences for other people.

Etc 

[HaughtyFrank]

I mean what did she have to lose. One last shot at glory or go out trying. She went out trying. Got to hand it to her.

Uh.... The ability to walk?

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-era-ot2-trans-rights-are-human-rights-youre-joking-not-another-one.1300074/page-112#post-151094500

To be fair, this is era, where many posters, including certain moderators, believe Comic Books have compelling writing.

[malfoyking]

Definitely a "Did you know some 'who cares' comic book shit happened to some comic book shit" Slayven shot.

[Averon]

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/page-505#post-150990943

This is why it can be so frustrating to have these conversations in a large platform. It feels like the opinions of women and NB folks only seem to matter when they can be used to deflect criticism. We aren't a monolith so we don't all feel the same and shouldn't be expected to, so it really sucks when people prop up this or that user's opinions to push back against the others or have one person even be made an example of how we should all feel... seeing people hide behind the one person they chose as their shield is deeply frustrating too. That person's views, explanations and experiences no longer matters, it's all about whether or not they're not getting in the way of fanservice and can be used to maintain the status quo.

High Femme ruining the charade for everyone

Ok, so why the fuck should I care about your opinion? 

Fact is, you constantly claim to speak for all women

Their entire argument is literally that you should listen to them, some rando on the internet, over their own female friends and family members because of "reasons." It's incredibly weak reasoning, but it will never be called out on ERA because doing so is a guarantee ban.

[Lonewulfeus]

I mean what did she have to lose. One last shot at glory or go out trying. She went out trying. Got to hand it to her.

Uh.... The ability to walk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman%27s_dilemma

Top athletes are made this way, this isn’t at all surprising

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-40#post-150963526

Has anyone seen the FBI file released with everything that identifies that someone who posted about Epstein being switched out for a body double on 4chan (before he was reported dead) was indeed a real security guard working at the facility?

Honestly I am not convinced he is even dead at this point, if we suggest he was killed rather than having committed suicide, what significant difference does it make if he was actually moved out and someone took his place?

Where was he buried, who has actually seen the body?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-43#post-151073602

Keeping this to those who've posted in this thread. Trigger warning:

.

Edit: Not interested in leading to further drama. Please investigate and come to your own conclusions.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-44#post-151081750

I really really doubt Epstein was eating people dude. As explained in the comments of that reddit post, it's talking about girls with great bodies and ugly faces. Basically just objectivism of women again. Anything taking about eating the kids is likely just sexual euphemism. You guys are falling into qanon/the Jews eat babies shit.

Like y'all don't talk about women you have sex with with food euphemism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-44#post-151084270

Just asking, do you think the files or Jmail are reliable sources? Because by C****** references it is literally written in them.

Now, some people think these files could have been seeded with inaccurate information. And in that case, perhaps these files aren't real. I certainly hope they are.

But assuming that these are genuine emails from Jeffrey Epstein, they're horrifying.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 11/EFTA02674630.pdf

Also I can say personally that I've never referred to anyone using food euphemisms in my life and would be grossed out if I ever heard anyone saying as such.

I have enough self hatred toward men as it is. I'm disgusted how much rape culture permeates our society.

Edit:

Seriously, falling into the qanon shit just makes the rest of the crap he actually did that was horrific less believable or downplayed.

"Why are you talking about rape when he was eating babies and an immortal vampire?" Shit like that. Just stop it. Take a breath. No one's eating kids. Just straight up the oldest antisemitic conspiracy being recycled over and over again.

Dude was a monster, but a human one and you damned well should remember that humans are capable of this, especially powerful ones.

Who said he was a vampire? Human beings have eaten human beings for millenia, unfortunately. Human sacrifice is well understood to have been a thing in certain cultures. Sadly this is an all too human atrocity.

Also who was saying "why are you talking about the rape"? Literally the rapes and murders that been somewhat reported are horrifying as well.

I hadn't seen anyone discuss these things, so I brought them up. They're in the files. Please look, rather than dismissing it.

I'd certainly prefer it to be just sexual crimes, raping of minors, murdering of witnesses, etc. At a certain point though the leap between the "more sane" and acceptable crimes to talk about to the utter depravity that are talked about directly in the files seems not too far for the absolute sociopaths Epstein surrounded himself with and was himself one of.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-44#post-151084774

This is literally qanon conspiracy stuff dude. It's time to take a breath. You are going to find some weird shit in anyones hundreds of thousands of emails. There are famous restaurants that have that word in the name too. You are falling for the psyop that prevented a lot of people from actually looking into this shit years. No one was eating kids or people. They were doing horrific things to them, possibly even murdering them, but they were not involved in a satanic cannibal cult harvesting adrenochrome to live forever and eating people.

And I'm sorry to say but the most common term for giving a woman oral sex is "eating them out" or "eating out".

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-44#post-151085527

Is "eating out" considered derogatory? Sorry, that wasn't even on my mind at all as to what you were referring to. Those who I've been with have liked the term in my experience.

I thought you were talking about something much more sickening, like misogynistic "hot piece of ass" objectifying terms.

Overall, I think we should just actually look into these things rather than dismissing it as too sensational or insane to even fathom.

If we can investigate the criminals for sex crimes and murder, we should at least entertain the possibility that when they talk about suspicious shit, they aren't just super enthusiastic about beef jerky.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 11/EFTA02316569.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 11/EFTA02305655.pdf

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-44#post-151086415

Why are they analyzing beef jerky? Jerky that they appear to make at the ranch..
https://jmail.world/thread/EFTA02368899?view=inbox

This feels like screaming into the void.

This is my last post on this for the time being.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-45#post-151093939

I didn't expect such a dramatic response. I encourage all to take a look for themselves.

It makes me sad to see such dismissal, but alas.

Food related terminology is very suspicious in these files (including the p word), but sure, let's assume that indeed they were just child rapists for everyone's sanity.

One way or another, justice must prevail. I hope we can come together to agree on that.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-justice-department-releases-heavily-redacted-cache-of-jeffrey-epstein-files.1388710/page-45#post-151100377

Do you see what happened here? And why this shit is so toxic and shouldn't be entertained?

What happened here? Where were the SA allegations being downplayed, or dismissed, or trivialized, or ignored? Can you name one post that does so? Where is the toxicity? Who is fighting who here? What SHOULD the discussion look like, according to you?

Why are you acting like people can’t be concerned with MULTIPLE things at the same time? You think discussing whether or not Epstein was a cannibal somehow completely precludes being concerned about all the horrible SA allegations against him? Can I ask you, are you American? Because I find it rather annoying how you keep yapping about how “improbable” it is that these exploitative rich monsters could also have been eating humans, when we KNOW that imperialist America did indeed eat the flesh of the Africans they enslaved as well as that of the indigenous Americans. Along with all the other horrible shit they did to their bodies. We know what the monsters at the tippy top of the Western world are capable of, and engaging with that probability doesn’t erase all discussion of/concern for the SA and other allegations made against Epstein.

I'm not sure why when - we have it in the files right here that they were discussing genetically engineering girls to not have limbs so they cannot run away, the importance of eyes etc, we know there was on-site healthcare team that delivered babies - but discussing odd mentions of food items is the bridge too far.

The issue was more that user deciding the spoiler the post which led to the thread derailing. I didn't see any serious discussion or rabbit holing on it outside of "uh yikes".

Hi, I'm Navajo, I know exactly what the fuck I'm talking about. I also am a subject matter expert in misinformation and disinformation like, this shit is literally my job. And the fact that the last few pages have been completely detailed bu the same old tired variation Jews eating babies conspiracy theories because there was a mention of a FAMOUS CHEF WHO OWNS A RESTAURANT WITH CANNIBAL IN THE NAME OF THE RESTAURANT CAUSE HE THINKS ITS HIP AND CLEVER is fucking insane.

You do realize that was EXACTLY what qanon was about right?

Edit: And of course because disgusting rapists and sex offender men were talking about genetically engineering girls who can't run away means they actually did that and weren't just being disgusting pigs about victims right?

You guys are falling down the conspiracy rabbit hole right before our eyes and I'm begging you to fucking think and take a breath and realize the monsters are human and not evil satanic vampires eating babies. Occams razor guys.

I don’t see anyone falling down any rabbit hole. You draw the line at these people being rapists and sex offenders; others think there is a possibility they could be capable of more. And such thinking is not without basis on historical precedent. I genuinely don’t see anyone here downplaying the SA-related aspects of these files. Until anything is confirmed, what options do we really have, anyway, but to discuss what we’re presented with? You know the Western world is fucking evil. I’d too hope Jeff and his pals weren’t eating other people, but shit like that has happened before, and speculating about it does not detract from the discussion on his sex crimes.

There is also historical precedence for conspiracies about Jewish people eating babies. I've lived in the disinformation world for forever and qanon is completely just this.

If there were legit evidence that Epstein was eating people I'd be happy to discuss it, but when people make such incredible logical leaps from a famous chef with a weirdly named restaurant teaching him how to make jerky to he's eating people because the chefs weirdly named restaurant has cannibal in it is legit insane.

They are openly discussing their crimes in these emails they are using pizza gate like code to discuss cannibalism.

And it does take away from the actual crimes because the story shifts to the insanity of eating people instead all the rape and child abuse and likely murder that happened. Because eating people is the scarier crime and more sensational than the real crimes.

Official Staff Communication

I'm going to say this once: get off the cannibalism shit. There's literally zero actual evidence for it and all you are doing is distracting from the actual crimes committed.

This thread has been dancing around the conspiracy rabbit hole for a little bit now and we've largely been hands off, but if people are actually going to start seriously posting conspiracy theory crap then we are going to have to start stepping in. 

[BananaBlast]

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-anran-face-comparison-change-voice-fareeha-2000666873

“I got to mourn Anran between the design I had hoped for her and the design we ended up with,” Andersen says. “Because I think in her comic and the cinematic Elemental Kin, there was a precedent set by it. There was an unspoken promise that said, ‘We are going to challenge the beauty standards plaguing—ransacking—media these days,’ right? The ozempic-chic, the ‘contour your nose, you have no nose, the tiniest nose,’ and I think because of that precedence, people feel understandably let down.”

She continued, “Overwatch is a trailblazer at challenging that, right? Of trying to break those molds, trying to explore the bounds of what it means to be good, what it looks like to be heroic, and I think the result we got says something else. It says something that leaves a bad taste in our mouths. It’s not the bold, optimistic swing that we know Overwatch to make.”

So.... the voice actress for the new Overwatch 2 character is.... saying that she's "mourning her character" because the devs betrayed the character by "enforcing toxic beauty standards" on..... the character she's voicing? 

Also, isn't it weirdly prejudiced to say that certain facial features (small nose, big eyes) automatically make you appear "docile" and "submissive"? 

[HaughtyFrank]

What happened here? Where were the SA allegations being downplayed, or dismissed, or trivialized, or ignored? Can you name one post that does so? Where is the toxicity? Who is fighting who here? What SHOULD the discussion look like, according to you?

Why are you acting like people can’t be concerned with MULTIPLE things at the same time? You think discussing whether or not Epstein was a cannibal somehow completely precludes being concerned about all the horrible SA allegations against him?

"Who is downplaying anything? We can discuss multiple issues at the same time! No one denies that Epstein was a pedophile! Anyway back to evidence #3/B as to why Epstein was a lizard person...."

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/state-of-play-returns-this-thursday-february-12-with-60-min-show.1429804/page-12#post-151108525

Knowing I almost always get disappointed when I get hyped, let's do the reverse:

- Wolverine or whatever Marvel bullshit
- Marathon (AKA Concord 3)
- FairGame$ ( AKA Concord 4)
- A new Until Dawn remake
- more trailers for already announced 3rd party games

Wow so original and funny.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-anran-face-comparison-change-voice-fareeha-2000666873

“I got to mourn Anran between the design I had hoped for her and the design we ended up with,” Andersen says. “Because I think in her comic and the cinematic Elemental Kin, there was a precedent set by it. There was an unspoken promise that said, ‘We are going to challenge the beauty standards plaguing—ransacking—media these days,’ right? The ozempic-chic, the ‘contour your nose, you have no nose, the tiniest nose,’ and I think because of that precedence, people feel understandably let down.”

She continued, “Overwatch is a trailblazer at challenging that, right? Of trying to break those molds, trying to explore the bounds of what it means to be good, what it looks like to be heroic, and I think the result we got says something else. It says something that leaves a bad taste in our mouths. It’s not the bold, optimistic swing that we know Overwatch to make.”

So.... the voice actress for the new Overwatch 2 character is.... saying that she's "mourning her character" because the devs betrayed the character by "enforcing toxic beauty standards" on..... the character she's voicing? 

Also, isn't it weirdly prejudiced to say that certain facial features (small nose, big eyes) automatically make you appear "docile" and "submissive"? 

Never hire streamers

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/twitch-makes-u-turn-on-overwatch-streamer-ban-366075/

[TylenolJones]

Loudninja is the OG Sony Pony. 

Been copying and pasting Sony press releases for at least a decade. 

I hope he’s getting paid for it.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/estimates-suggest-the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-paid-more-to-air-and-produce-its-super-bowl-commercial-than-the-total-budget-for-developing-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-z-a.1429864/

Too much to quote, but the tears in thread are wonderful especially by bitchass Serebii

Need the Nintendo/Pokémon equivalent of this emoticon

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-rogan-defends-jeffrey-epstein-the-young-women-were-manipulating-the-men-for-their-connections.1429339/page-5#post-151065013

The mother of the most prominent Epstein victim interviewer went missing and Joe Rogan is defending pedophilia all within a week. Really not hard to see dots trying to be connected.

Wake up sheeple. 

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-rogan-defends-jeffrey-epstein-the-young-women-were-manipulating-the-men-for-their-connections.1429339/page-5#post-151067233

I watched the vid and think it is pathetic how he goes along with that guest, it is very obvious what they try to do here.

But, did he actually say the quote in the title of this thread? Maybe I am an idiot and I missed it?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-rogan-defends-jeffrey-epstein-the-young-women-were-manipulating-the-men-for-their-connections.1429339/page-5#post-151072699

I was hoping for short clips of Rogan defending Epstein I can send to my dumbass friends, but (please correct me if I'm wrong) when scrubbing through all I'm seeing is this asshole Benz talking and Rogan's incomprehensible caveman interjections. I can't listen to the whole thing but I will if what I'm looking for is in there somewhere.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joe-rogan-defends-jeffrey-epstein-the-young-women-were-manipulating-the-men-for-their-connections.1429339/page-6#post-151092151

Same here, can somebody link to the quote in the title?

Yeah I also asked it

The podcast is rightfully and thankfully getting shit on, but the quote is extremely bad and I could not find it

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Starts here:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2025-ot2-the-2025-elections-the-government-shutdown-and-the-redistricting-reckoning.1320466/page-222#post-151105834

Are we seriously conflating AIPAC and J Street? Is that where we're at? We going to start seeing "Jew" in these graphics sooner rather than later.

[Nintex]

Never thought Joe Rogan and Keir Starmer would end up at the same side of the political divide.

I guess Joe Rogan was the Joe Rogan of the left after all.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-crashes-out-over-bad-bunny%E2%80%99s-halftime-show.1429582/page-4#post-151112791

Conservatives are such dorks. Offended by absolutely everything. They've become the liberal caricature they all claimed to despise.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/estimates-suggest-the-pok%C3%A9mon-company-paid-more-to-air-and-produce-its-super-bowl-commercial-than-the-total-budget-for-developing-pok%C3%A9mon-legends-z-a.1429864/

Too much to quote, but the tears in thread are wonderful especially by bitchass Serebii

Need the Nintendo/Pokémon equivalent of this emoticon

By, the way the leak this number comes from has the release for Legends ZA dated for 2024, a full year before its actual release.

I don't know how it could be made more clear that the number is at very least outdated

HOLD THE PRESSES

It's possible they spend 16 million on the game instead of 13 million!!!!

[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-5#post-151113733

Wait, that chart confuses me. It's only a +19% jump to a score of 62 from 2024?

Wouldn't that mean that well over 40% of Canadians viewed the US as a risk before Trump's second term?

Edit:

Note, not %, some index.
The report mentions:
To produce the final risk index score for each risk in each country we add the mean scores for all five of the inputs above – overall risk, trajectory, severity, imminence, and preparedness. The resulting total is then rescaled to run from 0 to 100 for ease of interpretation

But it does also show a % of people who considers something an imminent risk. 28% in 2023, 64% in 2025. So very close to the index number regardless.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ap-fbi-concluded-jeffrey-epstein-wasn%E2%80%99t-running-a-sex-trafficking-ring-for-powerful-men-files-show.1429546/page-2#post-151094029

Deep state and conspiracy shit are fully on display in the open right now, why is it there's a lack of conspiracy theorist going apeshit?

The conspiracy theorists are predictably latching on to the dumbest details they can find and distracting people from the real issues that way. In the last week we've had body doubles, resurrected fortnite accounts and beef jerky cannibalism.

On Era.

[HaughtyFrank]

That Pokemon thread lmao. There's really too much to quote

The funny thing is there's no winning here when you think about it. Either they gave these games way too small of a budget or they gave these games a big budget and the results look worse than any other big budget game out there. Both options suck

[HaughtyFrank]

A few of the new substories also add a dash of misogyny to Kiryu's dialogue that blindsided me, such as condemning the risks of false information and unchecked sources on the internet until he's suddenly convinced by the promise of 'free sexy pictures of luscious ladies'.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/yakuza-kiwami-3-cuts-the-original-games-trans-acceptance-substory-that-was-originally-removed-for-the-west-but-added-back-in-later-with-the-remaster.1430275/post-151112128

HOW IS THIS MISOGYNY?

Keep journalists away from yakuza, jesus christ 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hooray-tax-return-season-officially-opens-up-on-jan-26.1416091/page-3#post-151067704

The company I worked for went belly up in December and I have no idea how I'm gonna get my 2025 W2. There's no one left to get ahold of there

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-verge-discord-will-require-a-face-scan-or-id-for-full-access-next-month.1429924/

Discords about to collapse on themselves….

[Boredfrom]

The international fascist surveillance state of tech continues to grow.

A lot of far-right channels will suddenly vanish with this update

Yeah, only far-right.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

"Social media needs to regulated to deal with the alt-right."

"Hey wait, these rules are going to apply to me too?"

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/japans-ultraconservative-pm-sanae-takaichi-set-for-a-big-election-victory.1429099/

I'm not conservative, but I find it funny that almost everyone in this thread is groaning about Japan being so conservative. I think voting for lefties wouldn't improve anything.

Japan already has some of the decent stuff the left supports, like a good public transport system, universal health care, gun control, a great education system, decent labor laws, legal abortion and I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting. Their economy isn't great but the lefty position of giving everyone money would just increase inflation. Gay and lesbian rights could be a little better, but they're no way near what the US was before the 2000s. Also women in Japan have more rights than women in most Muslim countries.

Electing lefties would just lead to a flood of immigrants, which would lead to identity politics which would create more conflict in the country.

Nationalism is already identity politics.  

In any case, seems this is more about Korea/Japan/China sperg fighting rather than letting white or brown people in, at least to certain level. And is not like ERA didn’t celebrate discrimination when is about countries they don’t like.

 
Young people voting for conservatives all over the world  after center and Center-left governments fail them


You would think people as miserable as ReePosters would recognise miserable people voting for something different

[Boredfrom]

Eh, with Japan is a PRI situation. They only had had a lefty government like 15+ years ago and the conservative governments after that were nasty corrupt.

So no… That Nick Kapur dude is retarded.