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

[benji]

I clicked on that thread wondering why it was 18 pages, there's a lot I could say about what I read on the single page but I'm going to focus on how valuable they all think their useless identifying information is. Yeah, that's what companies want, to advertise to YOU [GOVERNMENT NAME OF SOME NEET] personally and there's huge money in this so that they'll waste gobs more money pulling it out of aggregate data.

This guy for example:

Finally, I just want to say there's no reason to comply early for a private company because some of the other overseas countries made it a law then immediately to pivot apply age verification to global for everyone like I mentioned they said they would already verify your real age based on my games and schedule? The only game I played in 2025 was FFXIV, and I listed my fav new game is Pokemon Z-A along with the fact I'm always on discord all day, even during the early morning if my insomnia is that bad too.

Yes, I know discord is already data-mining me since it's a free service and they can't break even on the goodwill and Nitro sales for ages for the last decade too. Most of the time I joined servers for my manga, BL fans, FFXIV, and tech servers which are mostly SFW servers, but even then I'm cautious of the idea that some people will be caught and forced to submit their PII.

Then I had no idea so many here were pro-government surveillance, esp considering everything happening in the USA for like the entire last year and ongoing now. There's no way that Discord can be "forced" to this unless they have a good idea how they can benefit from forcing their users to give up even more data for a future plan.

The private companies are not looking out for the average users most like they are looking for ways to make even more money even if meant angering a good portion of their main audience since this is what the company will always do it until they push the limits of what is acceptable to us.

edit: Also, why would Discord want to serve ads based on specific user data versus just having a probably already existing AI agent scan the messages of the Discord to determine what it's about? The former sounds like a bunch of work while the latter probably can automatically just plug into existing ad services.

[benji]

Jeff celebrates Microsoft Genocide:

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

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.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-enjoy-pooping.1431859/#post-151175323

It really depends on if you need to wipe or not. If you get one of those mythical poops where you wipe and it comes out clean, that magical.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-often-do-you-have-a-ghost-poop.1131810/

I've had these before and they are as surprising as they are pleasant.

[D3RANG3D]

[filler]

I like when the turd rubs against my prostate on the way out 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shitty-parent-mother-injects-feces-into-her-child%E2%80%99s-iv.1431652/


Something something no shocking news stories something something unless you're a mod

https://i.imgur.com/yPUuPQr.png

https://www.resetera.com/threads/shitty-parent-mother-injects-feces-into-her-child%E2%80%99s-iv.1431652/#post-151164181

He's probably mixing it up with the fact that in the 80's white butchers used to inject feces into meat sold to black customers.

[benji]

Even if I didn't wipe just to get what you might not see on paper, I'd wipe to get the underwear fuzzers out of my crack.

Speaking of mining for nuggets, I had an epiphany about why they all think their info is valuable. They think of "data-mining" like mining in video games where you get tons of useless shit and eventually find one tiny speck of gold. When it's more like, you know, real mining where you dig up tons of stuff for other purposes. So they think the value is in the specific user data, which is worthless, not the aggregate data which is what everyone actually wants. (Also, they're narcissists.)

[benji]

They think of "data-mining" like mining in video games where you get tons of useless shit and eventually find one tiny speck of gold. When it's more like, you know, real mining where you dig up tons of stuff for other purposes. 

FACT CHECK: Many video games, including Minecraft and most strategy games, depict the other kind of mining.

[filler]

Asexual just mostly means incel at this point tbh

[BIONIC]

Jeff celebrates Microsoft Genocide:

Tweet is only six hours old and he already retweeted it for some arcane reason. Also only 2 likes with one of them probably from himself

[Taco Bell Tower]

Jeff per usual spending his nights attacking women on Twitter

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

While I spend mine cataloguing his tweets

Like a coward, Jeff deleted the tweet

Has there ever been a discussion/theory/explanation on why he deletes the tweets? 

Lack of testicular fortitude? Afraid it will go viral? His job would look down upon it, but he still needs to get those comments in?

Not enough likes is likely the reason.  I swear he pwnz Nazis so hard but because it only got a few likes he deletes them 

[filler]

[filler]

me defending zeo

jeff got swindled 

[benji]

The problem with the sober regret theory of Jeff's tweets is that he'll tweet like ten times at some chud and then 15 minutes later delete them all. This is the same reason I rejected the idea that he looks here, he'll delete tweets that never get posted.

I honestly can't explain him. Not with the way he tweets on there 80% of the time (aggressive, at other people) or how he posts on Era.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mewgenics-has-some-problematic-meows-ethan-klein-hila-klein.1431916/

give it a fucking rest, jesus christ

[filler]

[benji]

Anyway, I had a tangential point to that post and it led me to find Nepenthe posting on Reddit again, the ultimate crime (source: Blueball):

Martin the Warrior Is Just Him
I have recently gotten back into the Redwall franchise just to make reading a habit again and to distance myself, ironically, from digital media. I read the original Redwall and parts of Mattimeo as a child; I've recently restarted and finished Mattimeo, read Mossflower, and am now on Martin the Warrior. I must say...

The discrepancy between Martin's saintlihood and how he was in his life is honestly amusing.

The Redwallers in later generations look up to him as almost a Biblical figure, a sage who will come to them in times of need with symbolic knowledge. Zoom back in time, and we open Mossflower with him fighting a bunch of vermin trying to kidnap him in the streets bare-handed. Whenever he is brought forth to the major villain, guarantee he's gonna try to bite them and they better be ready to withdraw in time. He's restrained? He's gonna be tussling regardless. You pile on top of him? He's gnashing like a little gremlin. He was laughing like a maniac, blood dripping down his body, while fighting Tsarmina, like "Finally, I get to kill this goddamn cat."

It is just Black Air Force energy up and down. He is absolutely ready to cash the checks he writes.

What made Martin amazing is not that he was any more moral than the other Redwallers. It's not that he was any smarter than them, or stronger, or even any braver....

It's just that he just didn't give a damn. Right was right; wrong was wrong. If you were wrong, he wanted the smoke immediately. Dude weighed a few ounces and wanted to meet in the streets. "Oh, you're a slaver? That's nice; face the wall now."

Unhinged little dude. The universe is lucky he wasn't ever corruptible because honestly he could've probably taken all of Salamandastron just off of sheer "I don't care" energy.

I love the idea of Redwall as a possible antidote to digital toxicity and addiction. Martin was my first, but it’s been a while since I’ve wielded the blade. May have to start gnashing again and relive the battles.

I was looking for a book- any book- around the house just to start with and noticed Mattimeo on my bookshelf. Forgot where I stopped all those years ago, so I started it over and was enthralled. I do actually read ebooks, mainly of the political variety, but it's just not the same. Once I finish Martin, it's back to the bookstore!

And I know if you're wielding the blade, we're all in safe hands.

I liked the back and forth between the chase of the slavers and the Abbey being holed up from a bunch of corvids, as well as almost everything going wrong for both heroic factions. It's just trouble at every turn in that one haha.

Martin probably looked saintly to the Abbeybeasts because a) he was chill as long as he didn’t need to throw paws, and b) he stood next to Gonff. The second in particular probably went a long way towards his modern reputation.

Martin is still Him.

It's very convenient that they didn't see his fight with Tsarmina because I think Skipper and Bella would've been like "Stop, stop! She's already dead!" And yes, extra points for having ol' Gonff as a companion haha.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/1qxuzt3/vendetta_is_genuinely_the_best_thing_to_happen_to/

Don't tell Doomfist Mains this. They have been going insane for the past couple of days.

For good reason. People are allowed to be upset about something. You guys always make it out to be that being angry about anything is always wrong.

This game is 10 years old. If you're like in your late 20s/early 30s spamming reaction gifs over a fictional character dying with everything happening in the world right now, log off and join and organization.

Why is this sub full of such braindead takes lol?

People are upset because Doom was fast enough to grab Tracer mid-blink, strong enough to one-punch Genji, and (supposedly) is a match (or maybe just below?) an ulting Winston.

But then Vendetta is able to land critical hits on him way too easily. If Vendetta was made to look faster or smarter in the showdown - people would be appreciative - but instead of Vendetta being made to look impressive, they just made Doom look pathetic instead.

Power scaling is important for a good story. Otherwise you’re always just at the whim of the writer - and nothing actually has to make sense. Characters go from having meaningful roles to being reduced to tools for the lazy writer who don’t know how to solve the problems that they build-up in their own stories.

There's more lore than just that cinematic (wherein he still lost). He lost against Orisa in her first real battle in the book "The Hero of Numbani," and he also tied Mauga. He's not invincible, and the fact that y'all ever thought he was shows that y'all were never paying that much attention to what came after that one cinematic.

Orisa was built just to hardcounter him. The draw with mauga means that mauga is one of the strongest characters in universe not that doom is weaker than people thought.

Neither of these really address the point, which is basically that Doomfist has lost before and that there are other new Heroes that can at least go toe-to-toe with him.

Furthermore, it's hypocritical that folks are mad at Vendetta getting the upper hand on him when they first meet (despite her being given significantly more development time and context before their fight) but were totally fine with him bodying someone who can blip through time in his introduction with no context, no build-up, nothing.

Generally, people overestimated this character's strength as Team Four elaborated on it over the years, basically hanging onto one random child's theory-crafting from an 11 year old short. It was Pokedex levels of exaggeration on that front but people ran with it even as Team Four was like "Mmmm, he got whooped by a gorilla tho."

Most of the reaction against the short is just based on vibes. And I get it. Doomfist has cool vibes. But he barely has any dubs; dude has jobbed more than people want to admit.

Gavin, listen to me. Just listen.

I am plat. I have always been plat. I likely always will be, barring changes in my lifestyle that allow me to grind comp like I sometimes think I'd like to. I'm fine with where I belong.

Why in the absolute hell then are you consistently putting me against high Diamond and low Master players in fuckin' Quickplay, with a GM and Top 500 every now and again? Why? This has been going on for about two weeks now, and I'm sick of it.

Are you saying my MMR is actually high enough to reasonably compete in these lobbies? The scoreboard would say otherwise. No, Gavin, it doesn't matter that I sometimes win and am getting used to just not peeking. I'm tired of fighting for my life when I just want to chill.

Am I gonna have to throw a bunch of games to tank whatever MMR I actually have so this can stop? Or just never play QP again?

I just want normal games, Gavin. I don't ask for much.

(tl;dr- anyone of average rank getting put in high level lobbies consistently lately?)

UPDATE:

So, I return to this post with egg on my face. I must apologize to Gavin. This entire time I was under the impression that I was not capable of consistently playing above Plat and expressed frustration that I was being thrown against people whom I was fairly disadvantaged against. So to achieve a so-called break, people suggested I play comp instead where the MM is more likely to make lobbies of narrow pools. And indeed, things were more chill. I felt more at ease. I felt like I wasn't struggling to survive. This is all I wanted.

Well, I sleptwalk through my my placements and a single game and achieved Diamond 5, the first time in my entire Overwatch career that I've ever touched the rank.

..... So Gavin, you win again. I admit it. I was wrong. You had far more faith in me than I ever had in myself. I understand now....

But I'm still pissed at you for a few of those Tracers though. Like what the actual fuck?

Assuming they’re playing the same role as you (as mentioned under ‘role delta’ in the recent matchmaking post), then the odds are that your Quickplay MMR in that role is actually higher than your Comp MMR. Conversely, these players could have a lower MMR in that role for QP than they do for Comp.

It could also be that these players are grouped up with a Plat-MMR friend who’s playing the same role as you - in other words you’re being set up as the ‘rival’ to their lower-ranked friend, not the high Diamond / low Masters players.

Finally, matchmaking is also looser in QP. You wouldn’t be pitched against a player of that rank in Comp, but if you’re playing an unpopular role (e.g. Tank), queueing during off-peak hours, and/or playing in a lower-population server region like Oceania, then the odds of you getting ‘perfect’ matchmaking go down.

I've been consistently checking the profiles lately just to make sure I'm not losing my mind, and it's usually the DPS and Supports that are higher ranked. I'm a Support player, so if it's the first possibility that's the issue, then I'll just say I'm a bit surprised that my QP MMR is that high. Like, I've watched my replays. I'm thinking "ain't no way." 🤣

The simple answer is because QP MMR is looser than Comp MMR, as well as not being the same as Comp MMR. If you play Quickplay a lot, but not very much Comp, your QP MMR will change far more than your Comp MMR does, so yes, it's very possible that your QP MMR is higher than your Comp MMR

I dealt with exactly this earlier last year, where I was mid-plat to low-diamond in Comp, but was being placed against high-diamond and Masters+ players in Quickplay. It's really what pushed me to trying comp a bit more, and after playing it here and there (Especially with Drives), I ended up being in very similar Comp lobbies to the ones I was being put in in Quickplay. My QP MMR genuinely did reflect my supposed skill level because I played so much of it, it just felt wrong because I had not played Comp enough yet to know if that was actually accurate, and it was generally just the mental battle (and also looser matchmaking) making it feel like a nightmare where I was matched with people way higher than me, when I wasn't

(Also, directing this towards Gavin specifically as if he's the god of matchmaking is really funny, sorry)

I may have to play comp then, if not to satisfy my curiosity to see if I'm actually Diamond than to get chiller games because let me tell you, it is wild to walk out of spawn and get my face eaten by Tracer.

(And that was the intended effect lol.)

If you want to play sweaty sometimes and chill on others it kind of doesn't matter which one you do it on, you just need to be consistent.

Like, if OP played QP chill and just didn't worry about dying they'd drop down and get chiller games.

I don't play to throw (unless a teammate is a bigot, in which case we're all going down.) But my level of "trying," from my myopic perspective, has never been anything special from a skill standing. So it's taken me off guard that my QP games have gotten this ridiculous.

Alright, I'll play comp lol.

Stop tilting over quickplay man. Lose a match and just move onto the next one. For you to go lurk everyone's profiles and then come post about it to the public it's because this is seriously affecting your mental health.

You seem to think I'm far more upset and this than I actually am, which is really weird. I thought that me addressing this post to Gavin Winter directly would've clued you in that this is not all that serious, but my bad for not expecting armchair analysis on from randos on the Internet who read much more into what's actually written.

I'm mainly more curious than anything because my own view of my skill doesn't actually match the lobbies I'm being put into. Seems I was wrong and am gonna test this in comp.

And the funny thing is I'm not always losing. My WR has been even.

Like I said, going all the way to analyse your opponent's ranks after a match and doing the effort to post about it alone is a strong evidence you're upset. Argumenting this is obviously not that serious because you're addressing it to a specific game designer is also a strong evidence you're upset. But yeah, you do you.

For one, I don't do it after a match; I do it during set-up to have an expectation on what I'm getting into. It takes like ten seconds. Yet another assumption you're making.

Is this how you normally act towards strangers on the Internet whom you know nothing about and cannot physically see and interact with? You just make stuff up and psychoanalyze folks without any relevant credentials backing what you're saying?

"Clicking the profile is proof you're upset." Lol, prove it, fam. Seriously, cite your evidence.

Now don't take this seriously; it's a rhetorical question to get you to hopefully understand that this presumptuous way you're acting is really weird and unproductive. I suggest you interrogate yourself on why you act like this to people you don't know. It might be uncomfortable at first, but I promise you growth awaits on the other side. If it's too uncomfortable for you to do alone, I'd suggest a professional human therapist. Don't turn to AI; shit is too agreeable.

I will indeed continue doing me and using the features in the game how I see fit.

I dunno, ya it sounded exaggerated but you are actually checking profiles and feel strongly enough to make a post.

I find it weird that you're so dismissive of seemingly well intended advice.

but my bad for not expecting armchair analysis on from randos on the Internet who read much more into what's actually written

What did you expect when posting on Reddit?

Talking about something on the Internet doesn't actually signify a negative mental state either. I'm not sure how many times we need to spin on this merry-go-round for you and the other dude to understand that the way y'all came to me was goofy. And the fact that you're not understanding this simple concept makes you double goofy. Their advice also wasn't well-intentioned either.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mewgenics-has-some-problematic-meows-ethan-klein-hila-klein.1431916/

give it a fucking rest, jesus christ

It's a shame that the game has zionist creators like Ethan Klein and Hila Klein contributing to the meow voices.

Hila Klein was an IDF soldier

As required for all Israeli citizens.

[Boredfrom]

Ethan Klein is a Zionist.  

And you bought your wife, stop with this shit you asshole.

[Boredfrom]

Messy was rocking a Neverhood avatar for years even after the creator was labeled a homophobic christo fascist.

[Daffy Duck]

Right on cue, a local MLA is blaming this on trans people. Not going to link it because fuuuuuck her.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-10-2026-10-dead-including-suspect-after-school-shooting-in-tumbler-ridge-b-c-canada.1431835/

Gun person…lmao

[filler]

i just recently got banned from tumblr 

[Besticus Maximus]

How can you psychoanalyse me, a god? Asks nepenthe
In the third edition of the 1000 page thread across two spin off forums dedicated to the job

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mewgenics-has-some-problematic-meows-ethan-klein-hila-klein.1431916/

give it a fucking rest, jesus christ

Cancel culture don’t exist tho

[Besticus Maximus]

Liquid Chris and Greg sestero in the same videogame?

[Boredfrom]

Another rage bait thread from Doops, but surprisingly a TransERA member calls him out:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/africanfuturist-museum-heist-game-relooted-currently-being-review-bombed-and-bombarded-by-racists-in-steam-forums-valve-still-nowhere-to-be-seen.1431955/#post-151181461

It has a total of 11 negative reviews, less than half those are ones complaining about "wokeness".

This forum needs to get a ban on the phrase "review bombing" because seemingly nobody fucking knows what it means

You mean black Twitter/BluSky lied to get brownie points? 

 

 Some of the positive reviews seem to be troll reviews, plus the number of ones that are genuine are getting spammed with troll reactions and comments. True, perhaps "any publicity is good publicity" is valid here, but it's still disgusting. (Not to imply you're saying otherwise)

What a scumbag.  

Also, the BCT remnants are pissed:

Nice you have your priorities straight. "Well aktuallyy only 4 were racist 🤓"

Just saying that it isn’t a massive campaign to review bomb a game but just some racist assholes getting mixed with legit criticism.

It stinks and Valve is a rotten company that refuses to deal with anything. I noticed this happening pretty much as soon as the game's Steam store page went up last year.

I want to buy it and I probably will end up doing so on Steam, but I sure wish there was a different platform I could support the devs with.

Also it's shocking how little attention games media gives to the way Valve handles this stuff.

“Why the press is not taking offense about a game having 11 negative reviews (4 of them racist)”

[HaughtyFrank]

https://steamdb.info/app/3255890/charts/

"All time peak: 57"

It's another Dustborn, huh?

[Boredfrom]

https://steamdb.info/app/3255890/charts/

"All time peak: 57"

It's another Dustborn, huh?

I mean, Dustborn at least had some video game veterans behind it.

I don’t mind the premise, it could be cool, but I hate the usual shit of “if people dislike the game the are racist Chuds MAGAs”.