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

[Uncle]

I also have a photoshopped SS tattoo, I've really been regretting it lately, been thinking of clone stamping it off

[JoeBoy101]

Just a friendly reminder that Jessie Jackson called NYC "Hymietown."

*/era RIP thread etiquette*

https://youtube.com/shorts/UhvzHYhTO4o?feature=shared

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-bds-movement-calls-for-a-boycott-of-xbox-and-microsoft-gaming-products-over-its-parent-companys-complicity-in-the-genocide-in-gaza.1155057/page-31


Almost a week since the last post. Mission Accomplished? 

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/02/17/xbox-game-pass-february-2026-wave-2/
Now they're really gonna boycott it frfr since that game is appearing on Game Pass 

[Snoopy]

Lost count the number of times I've seen those performative wankers saying they'll boycott Xbox the moment their stacked GP sub runs out, which is usually about 3 years away.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/s/yFFLjFi1ai
TIL Chris Chan meowed in Mewgenics

[Boredfrom]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/s/yFFLjFi1ai
TIL Chris Chan meowed in Mewgenics

Not surprising, even in Smiling Friends there was a plan to use Chris Chan for a voice. Maybe that one deserves a exclusion, but meh.

[HaughtyFrank]

Generally with the trans stuff I imagine a lot less people would care to begin with if there wasn't such a strong push to change laws or go against common sense like participating in women's sports 

[BIONIC]

Seems it's confirmed that the shooter was trans which will probably end up being the angle a certain section of the press runs with sadly

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/multiple-people-shot-at-pawtucket-ice-skating-rink/amp/

Edit - a search for this person shows they are very likely far right

The hell he was you fuck. 

Stop with the BS lies you vile assholes.

Eh, the dude literally had a SS style tattoo and seemed to be a Nick Fuentes fan. 

If I had to guess I'd say Narcissist who figured out the Trans Identity would make him immune from a lot of criticism that comes with being a narcissist.

But the sort of person who tries to annihilate their family, embraces a completely different identity which led to being estranged from their family, and proudly claims to have had their penis and scrotum inverted probably isn't going to have very stable politics.

Cool story, Benny.

Now do a list of all the shootings done by people who are not trans.

(You won't do that because you know it's a LOT more.)

This is why your side is falling off. Your obsession with trans people is creepy. You're just an angry, uneducated bigot.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

The tattoo is in more than one picture, I don't think it's a shop.

[Besticus Maximus]

 Holy Christ on a fuckin cross Ed

The forum is just these posts now. That one made me chuckle though, what sort of weirdo exclaims in such a way

[AldusMoneyPenny]

It's so annoying how funny he is sometimes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-endorses-%E2%80%9Call-three-republicans%E2%80%9D-in-texas-senate-primary-as-voting-starts-tomorrow.1437784/#post-151433446

Funny? I'm sorry what? It'll be fuckin hilarious when he has a stroke live. I'd pay to laugh in his face as it happens. What exactly is funny about this racist pedophile walking free?! I'll laugh if the journalist kicks him in the balls hard enough they come out his mouth and that isnt even 1% of what this shit stains deserves. Funny is the last thing that comes to mind for this vile cunt

You're on ERA. I can only assume you'd never support this guy but think about how acceptance has fallen generally that this is acceptable now. You called a pedophile funny and I figure you don't mean it that way but we CAN'T let the baseline fall like this. That's how the pedophiles intend to get away with it.

This isnt an attack on you BTW cause I can only assume you didn't mean it that way. But thats exactly the kind stuff we should be cautious of when theyre openly saying nobody cares about the epstein files and trying to move on

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-endorses-%E2%80%9Call-three-republicans%E2%80%9D-in-texas-senate-primary-as-voting-starts-tomorrow.1437784/#post-151438345

That escalated quickly...

Then maybe I'm just having another mood swing from the meds I have to be on currently, that's entirely possible. I just think laughing at someone that crosses that line is something I can't be comfortable with because I've known victims of similar things. Like I say though it may be partially med side effects too

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-endorses-%E2%80%9Call-three-republicans%E2%80%9D-in-texas-senate-primary-as-voting-starts-tomorrow.1437784/#post-151443370

Fwiw I can get that feeling. Sometimes the only thing you can do is laugh. Had a bad luck spree lately where I've done that multiple times so I get it. My wife had basically just put a knife through her finger by mistake and since we need someone waiting in for an engineer today I had to wait home while she goes to A&E and went into a panic. You caught the result of that for no reason so it's purely on me. Wife's fine thankfully, but yeah I completely overshot on what I was trying to say and I'm very sorry.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-endorses-%E2%80%9Call-three-republicans%E2%80%9D-in-texas-senate-primary-as-voting-starts-tomorrow.1437784/page-2#post-151447288

Thanks!! Fingers crossed

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-endorses-%E2%80%9Call-three-republicans%E2%80%9D-in-texas-senate-primary-as-voting-starts-tomorrow.1437784/page-2#post-151448032


Read the fucking room, bro

[Taco Bell Tower]

The hell he was you fuck. 

Stop with the BS lies you vile assholes.

Eh, the dude literally had a SS style tattoo and seemed to be a Nick Fuentes fan. 

If I had to guess I'd say Narcissist who figured out the Trans Identity would make him immune from a lot of criticism that comes with being a narcissist.

But the sort of person who tries to annihilate their family, embraces a completely different identity which led to being estranged from their family, and proudly claims to have had their penis and scrotum inverted probably isn't going to have very stable politics.

Cool story, Benny.

Now do a list of all the shootings done by people who are not trans.

(You won't do that because you know it's a LOT more.)

This is why your side is falling off. Your obsession with trans people is creepy. You're just an angry, uneducated bigot.

That's by far the worst gotcha Jeff Marvel has ever attempted.  Also, two likes so that tweet is gonna get deleted  

Edited: Of course 

[killamajig]

The hell he was you fuck. 

Stop with the BS lies you vile assholes.

Eh, the dude literally had a SS style tattoo and seemed to be a Nick Fuentes fan. 

If I had to guess I'd say Narcissist who figured out the Trans Identity would make him immune from a lot of criticism that comes with being a narcissist.

But the sort of person who tries to annihilate their family, embraces a completely different identity which led to being estranged from their family, and proudly claims to have had their penis and scrotum inverted probably isn't going to have very stable politics.

Cool story, Benny.

Now do a list of all the shootings done by people who are not trans.

(You won't do that because you know it's a LOT more.)

This is why your side is falling off. Your obsession with trans people is creepy. You're just an angry, uneducated bigot.

Cool story, Lil PopTart. Now post more pics of yourself to see if any E-Thots will touch your dick.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/canada-poliera-ot-2-the-north-remembers.149085/page-792#post-151428595

I do love that the curling scandal has given some of our American Era friends a vessel for trashing Canada. It would be funny if it wasn't so obvious.

It's insane how obvious it is. The vitriol Americans have towards Canada even in this site is insane.

Yep. Era and elsewhere, folks were just salivating at the opportunity to take Canadians down a peg or two. Unfortunate but not surprising.

The Yanks Strike Back.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hockey-drama-u-s-olympic-mens-hockey-team-snubs-fans-wanting-high-fives.1438468/

The Return of the Canucks.

[benji]

Just a friendly reminder that Jessie Jackson called NYC "Hymietown."

*/era RIP thread etiquette*

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-do-not-like-slasher-films-anymore.1438513/

I discussed a bit not so long ago in another thread I made but it's something that's been nagging me. I feel like sometimes I'm the only person who has this opinion but I just can't watch slasher films anymore (or at least the majority of them). This wasn't always the case, I want through hundreds of them, but now I just can't stand the vast majority of the genre because it's hard for me to notice how much of it, especially the very popular stuff like Friday the 13th reeks of Reagan era/right wing beliefs, especially around women and mental health.


I've had issues like this for years but they've gotten worse over time. One film that always bothered me was the film Freddy vs Jason which has a scene where Jason terrorizes a woman all the while in the real world she's getting sexually assaulted; and then Jason kills her and her assaulter. I've seen so many times fans say how "great" this scene is, how giddy it makes them and how they cheer at a woman being murdered while being sexually assaulted while she sleeps and then is murdered; to the point that back in the mid-10s I felt I was going crazy for having severe issue with that scene.


Friday the 13th in particular is a series that really bothers me (and that's not even getting into the real-world issues like the absolutely piss poor safety conditions or how young actresses were pressured and bullied into appearing nude which in one case resulted in one actress losing her teaching job). Yeah I despise the politics of these films, from the mentality women deserve to be punished for not being "pure" enough (I.E. enjoying sex (especially before marriage), taking drugs etc) and deserve to be brutalized for it (all while the audience is intended to cheer and find it funny) and do the constant push of "people with mental health issues are dangerous and WILL become killers" (Part V especially pisses me off with this); all of which feels like it's treated as okay by the fandom. I hate the mentality that I'm supposed to cheer on Jason or treat him like some hero, that I should be rooting for him on when he slaughters teens for no actual reason.


And even beyond that series, I just can't ignore the open ableism that perpetuates the entire subgenre, nearly all of them in some way push the agenda that people with mental health issues or the neurodivergent are inherently violent and dangerous to society (please ignore real world statistics about how people with mental health conditions or are neurodivergent are often the VICTIMS of violent crime, not like Hollywood writers care, got to vilify us for their slop). I brought this up the last time I discussed this but I was baffled by the opening scene of the 2018 Halloween film (a scene they plastered all over the trailers for it as well) where two agents go to the Psychiatric hospital Michael Myers is at and the scene just revels in being openly ableist and portraying psychiatric patients in the most awful, stereotypical way possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdg_G0g37qQ

Like that entire films has a pretty obvious "Therapy doesn't work, killing people with mental health issues is the "right" salutation sometimes because we're too dangerous" message... And again I feel like I'm going crazy because I feel I'm the only one with who has a problem with this, like the genre can just openly be ableist because it's grandfathered in (only with the rest of horror's casual ableism) and can never be criticized or addressed.


And no, I don't like "ironic" Slashers either Cabin in the Wood either because... Their just doing the same thing, just more aware of what their doing... While still just being the exact thing. One of the few slashers I still like is Wes Craven's New Nightmare (and 1 and 3, the latter especially for allowing people with mental health conditions to be treated as you know, people, actually be heroic and points out that we're often the victims of violent crime, not the perpetuators), in part because it defies so much of the genre's tropes, doesn't revel in the violence and feels like their is way more meaning to it's story rather then "Haha teen get killed, cheer!"

[benji]

So he wants a slasher film where a remarkably average person in great mental health starts murdering mentally ill people for no reason? With "THIS IS BAD" scrolling across the screen during the violence?

[HaughtyFrank]

I'd love slashers if it wasn't for all the killing

[BIONIC]

I'd love slashers if it wasn't for all the killing

[BananaBlast]

Link

I say they keep the sex in but make Kratos look worse for doing it. If ya going to remake the game, dive deep into the monster that he was in Greece. An armored guy breaking into a woman's room, demanding things. Make the player uncomfortable with the action. Hell, I hope they really nail how much he is a piece of shit in 3.

...No, actually, they probably should not turn the sex scenes into overt rape.

How about let's not turn Kratos into a rapist.

For... what purpose? You can make players uncomfortable and challenge them without making a rape scene playable.

When you're so fucking woke that you'd rather get rid of the consensual happy sex and and replace it with burglary and rape. 

[PogiJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/HOCKEY-DRAMA-u-s-olympic-mens-hockey-team-snubs-fans-wanting-high-fives.1438468/

Yes, this is the all-caps DRAMA!!! involving hockey today, some non-high-fives. Please rush into this thread, we have 50 posts now, compared to the 17 posts in the trans  ahem, far-right shooter killing his family at a hockey game thread that inexplicably died.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/canada-poliera-ot-2-the-north-remembers.149085/page-793#post-151452208

"Friends" lol.

I posted some hockey drama to balance the news.

Haha love it

This will cause a few masks to completely fall off and it,s kind of funny

Lol, but not us! (Checks curling thread, all Canadians are assholes)

Lmao.

"Pointless. What a nothing. Guess we need some drama."

Of course haha.

Nobody is obligated to give you attention or a high five.

Wow

[Boredfrom]

Just a friendly reminder that Jessie Jackson called NYC "Hymietown."

*/era RIP thread etiquette*

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/HOCKEY-DRAMA-u-s-olympic-mens-hockey-team-snubs-fans-wanting-high-fives.1438468/

Yes, this is the all-caps DRAMA!!! involving hockey today, some non-high-fives. Please rush into this thread, we have 50 posts now, compared to the 17 posts in the trans  ahem, far-right shooter killing his family at a hockey game thread that inexplicably died.

It got more replies than the shooting?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-16th-2026-3-dead-3-injured-after-shooting-at-r-i-high-school-hockey-game.1437814/

[Boredfrom]

Like that entire films has a pretty obvious "Therapy doesn't work, killing people with mental health issues is the "right" salutation sometimes because we're too dangerous" message..

 

Stick with Scooby Doo cartoons, my dude.

[Jansen]

Generally with the trans stuff I imagine a lot less people would care to begin with if there wasn't such a strong push to change laws or go against common sense like participating in women's sports 

Are you seriously asking a marginalized community to have some self-reflection

[Jansen]

Everybody's favorite sperg lord is back in constructive 

We really can't be having the Controversial opinions thread over and over again in different threads.



[url unfurl=true]https://www.resetera.com/threads/times-when-a-games-success-or-praise-truly-bothered-you-and-why.1437727/[/url]



IMO like I said in the previous thread, these kind of threads are the ones that make Era's more and more and more and more negative each day.

And not to point at OP at all, far from it, but I feel the answer from mods to "we can't do anything, the Internet is negative on itself" is at least control these hot takes threads. I really don't think they add anything other than hate.

That's your own interpretation of my thread. Not my intent at all. I don't even consider it negative. The purpose is literally self reflection. I see this and I kind of want to break down the reasoning, and I used myself as an example so I wouldn't come off as just being critical of others. But now people want to pretend they're all above the thing I'm describing when it's regular ocurence.



I also disagree with your interpretation of the last thread you had a problem with, you just took it more seriously than that OP did and wrote intent they never even stated. Just like you're writing a brand new sentence I never said for me.



"Controversial Opinion - I don't like Pokemon SV" - Come on, be serious.

Yeah its really tiresome.

Why does this thread tire you?

So once again I clearly state my intent and purpose behind something and people interpret it as something else while ignoring my point even when I jump in to clarify.



I am what you say I am regardless of what I say otherwise. It's not a pattern or anything clearly.



And then the response when this gets pointed out is none.

You haven't read your own thread have you?



Well we can start with the title. As someone who is so astute on the mindset of the average era user you must realize that era doesn't read the op. You decided to name it "Times When a Game's Success or Praise Truly Bothered You and Why?" (I mean you could have gone with so many different thread titles like "Hey Era, we need to grow up and not hate on games that are successful" or "When are some times you felt stupid hating on something popular?" to name just a couple off the top of my head. So what (extremely) predictably happened was that you got about a third to half of the posts calling your immaturity out, and the other 2/3rds to 90% taking the opportunity of bashing their current game that they hate. So the tiresomely predicitble outcome was pretty inevedibitle.



Then yhour OP is pretty bad also. Your first paragraph is just a fig leaf of what you really feel, to be honest that you elaborate in your third paragraph, which is you just shitting all over Pokemon Scarlett/Violet. Your only responses where where you defended your flawd approach, discounting people who saw through what you tried to peddle, or strangly (for a thread to point out our flaws) adding fuel to a poster's hatred of the extreme love E33 got throughout the year with a glib response of "I mean, we weren't wrong." Nah, you just wanted to take this opportuinity to shit on Pokemon Scarlett/Violet.



Then when you are called out on it you say "that's your own interpretation of my thread" like that is some sort of shield from true criticism. I mean, you do realize that the listener/reader's comprehension of what you communicate is just as important as what you say?



So basically I don't buy your bullshit that your thread was some sort of "learning opportunity" for Era and this is just some convoluted excuse to be an ass.



EDIT: And good on the mods for not falling for this bullshit and shutting it down.

No, I didn't read how you rewrote my thread in your head.

Derbel, I know you and I have not exactly seen eye to eye in the past, and if you choose to disregard what I say based on that, I am not going to fault you. With that said, I am a huge fan of people engaging in self reflection and I am going to choose to trust you when you say that you sincerely are making that thread to self reflect This forum desperately needs a lot of its membership to be doing that, and I want to believe the best in those who say they are trying.



To that end, I will say that I can see why people may not take that intent away from your first post in that thread as is because it feels like the actual self reflection aspect is extremely limited versus the relitigating of your frustrations with ScarVi's many issues juxtaposed against the game's success, pointing at people for saying things like "talent won", and then accusing people of parasocial relationships for buying and generally liking a game. Self reflection doesn't mean you have to admit you were wrong (so you don't need to just accept that all the people celebrating the success of a set of flawed games), but it does require there to be more in regard to trying to understand the point of why those games ended up resonating for people despite the legitimate problems with it, and maybe also understanding where there are some "flaws" that may not be as flawed to others as they exist to you.



I do not think your general idea of the thread is completely unworkable, because people do immediately come in with good examples of successful games that bothered them (HogLeg is THE big one, but there are others).

I can't imagine me making that thread without calling myself out having gone over well. I used the one instance I'm guilty of.







Good job on assuming the worse of people and patting yourself on the back for it.



I get called a bullshitter and an ass because I stand by my attempt to contribute something here.



But I'm the one that gets call hostile because I'm not nice to people who insult me unprompted.



Just consider for a moment, maybe I'm not lying or trying to pull something and consider how frustrating this interaction is from that perspective and how you're coming off for no real reason.

Right. Like I said, I am going to believe you on it and that it just maybe wasn't the best worded because you aren't used to it. And that's okay! This forum is full of people who desperately need to learn how to engage in self reflection and people aren't going to get it perfect all the time because we just aren't that kind of creature that is able to just always get it right.

The other thing that's frustrating is that my own thread creation history can't be taken into account. Am I the guy that just makes negative threads for the sake of it. Do I do passive aggressive threads, am I known for that? Has this been a reoccurring issue? Since when am I the half assed thread maker? Or have I just made topics about anything serious, silly, or about nothing. And even with the sillier stuff I made sure to put in effort. So what are we doing here?

Unfortunately, I think you do have that reputation and it has been an issue, which is why people (including myself at first glance when I saw) might have originally seen your thread and thought the worst. Then I saw what you initially said here and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. I'm genuinely rooting for you when you say you are self reflecting.

For making negative troll threads?

we already have a controversial gaming opinions thread anyway



[url unfurl=true]https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-controversial-gaming-opinions.938/page-537[/url]

1000th time. Not the intention or point of the thread. You can't just pretend that I didn't say that and explain what I was going for. Or maybe you can since that's what everyone else is doing.

But the kind of responses you should expect to get are basically things that belong in there. If it wasn't the intention or the point of the thread then it should have been elaborated on more or have a different thread title phrasing. Talk about your own opinion if that's really something to make a thread about. Why fish for more random opinions

Because why would anyone want to hear that? I don't even want to hear that so I didn't spent much time on mine.





I feel like there are issues with your suggestion you're overlooking, but somehow this is the most reasonable response I've gotten so far, so I'll just take it. So thank you for that.



There's misreading intent and just assuming the worse. This was definitely a case of the latter.



Going from what are times you were a hater about something successful and why to take petty snipes at popular things is straight up writing a brand new prompt. I like to think I've always been upfront about my thread intentions. I didn't think this needed the level of clarification and background as my thread about porn plots. And why, that's asking you to break down the reason. Why did you feel this way. That's the reflection. I felt. I resented. I felt like. I laid out an example.



By the logic applied here, could I not just assume this thread is also about being negative about games and have a go at them. Meanwhile they read my posts wondering where any of this is coming from. Which is how I feel now.



[url unfurl=true]https://www.resetera.com/threads/iffy-games-with-great-box-art.1437838/#post-151432564[/url]



The initial responses to this in this thread are way more negative than anything in my thread. The people supposedly tired of negativity jumping on someone because they want to assume everything is an attack and clearly I pissed the second person off with some take last year considering how quickly they went to insults.

I think the thread was locked because the title was "Times When a Game's Success or Praise Truly Bothered You and Why?"



Despite you trying to expand in the OP, the majority of posts were only ever going to be responses to that question.



There's no agenda against you here, or post history not being taken into account it's just a poorly titled thread that was only going to invite negative potshots at things people like (and the people that like them). It's not even "what popular things do you not like", it's asking for when popularity actively bothered you which seems to invite a more specific type of negativity aimed at the fans of something.



I'm not saying any of this was your intent, but it was the inevitable result and has been fairly shut down.

To be fair to Derbs there is another thread that is from yesterday (UK time) that is ripe for negativity and negativity towards popular series. No one seems to be singling that out.

[USER=128269]Derbel McDillet[/USER] I get you're frustrated with the closure of your thread but coming in here to complain isn't productive. Open a ticket and plead your case.

Which one?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-series-do-you-keep-giving-a-shot-to-no-avail.1437670/



I didn't want to single it out as I think negativity is a problem of the site, not that of thread creators really.

Part of this stems from other circumstances and previous instances. Some very recent. You suggest writing a ticket. But my last two mod inquiries were just straight up rejected, so I'm just not doing that anymore. Hence the "once again" because this has been a reoccurring thing in different ways. "You said this", "no I didn't", "yes you did", conversation locked.



People putting words in my mouth and straight up rewriting my intent is something I've always had an issue with and called it out at any moment.



You're being reasonable about it by going, hey you're thread could be taken this way. Yesterday, I was straight up accused of just trying to get one over and lying about it.



And one of the posters above that set the tone here clearly has a bone to pick.







I think reading that as an example of negativity is a straight up choice. "I'm trying to like this, but it's not clicking".



And that's just unfair to just put on people without even considering that wasn't the intent.

The point is, in any case, that people will come into a relatively benign topic that looks to have a wider discussion about something and without the OP "tending the garden" or whatever the same types of negativity keeps cropping up. If due care is not taken, threads like these get people crop dusting their "takes" about generally popular series that are negative and often only being negative. There is a controversial gaming takes thread that serves that purpose of a safer place to do that without spreading negativity throughout the site.



I think people can be critical of what they want to talk about without it automatically being negative, but people are lazy and prefer engagement so drop in one or two sentence posts that amount to "I don't like a thing". I just think thread creators can generally be better at minding threads, but I appreciate I say that as someone that doesn't create threads.



I highlighted that thread because no one is kicking up a fuss there, but instead decide to give you a hard time.

As someone that intentionally avoided engaging with Derbet's thread and posted in the one you shared, I don't think they're the same at all.

Then that's fair. I saw less of a difference in the framing.



I still think it's about the tending of a thread than the content of an OP, but I'll concede I may be wrong on the threads outlined.

[USER=128269]Derbel McDillet[/USER] - it's not unusual for you to come to these threads frustrated that your threads or wording is misinterpreted.

At a certain point, if it's happening again and again it's likely worth thinking about what you can do differently to make it less likely that happens.

When posting I often ask myself what the least charitable reading of what I'm saying might be and try to head that off, because many users on this site absolutely have an "oh you hate waffles?" issue.

To be blunt, you've made these Community Discussion threads about yourself multiple times now Derbel. In threads outside of this one, you seem to find yourself at the center of attention quite often, and not in a positive way. This doesn't seem to be a problem for anybody else on this website and yet it keeps happening with you.

I see what you're getting at, but looking back on those specific instances, I stand by what I said. There's misinterpreting and then there's flat out rewriting. There's getting the clarification and then outright ignoring it. If you do the above, that's your choice, not something for me to correct. You're telling me to be clearer when we're watching my clarification get ignored. This could've been a ticket, but it's not because of the way previous attempts as recent as two weeks ago played out. This isn't a misunderstanding. This is a choice.



We can watch people harp on the same game and troll threads for months and they'll literally tell you they're doing this, but asking what stems that feeling on is what we draw the line that at.



My personal favorite was - let's pretend a word doesn't have different connotations, insist you made it up and then laugh at you when you show examples of other people using that other connotation. But I need to be clearer.

I've read that OP multiple times. There is no clear call to discuss anything other than the title. And the title is that common "times XYZ" title we've all seen a hundred times such that you don't even need to read the OP to understand what they're asking for. And if you read that OP, there is nothing that contradicts that expectation.



There is nothing wrong with accepting that your thread didn't come out the way you wanted it to, and trying again with better phrasing for clarity. Although, don't quote me on that I'm obviously not a mod.

Not to pile on too much, but I feel that if the purpose of that thread was for self reflection and a bit of "hey don't we all act a bit silly sometimes", that doesn't come across at all in the OP.



I mean, it starts off with "this is not in response to what happened last year specifically", which I assume is a subtle wink wink nod nod to something, but I've no idea what. Then the bulk of the OP is taken up by the reasons why you hate a specific game. If you wanted the thread to be about self reflection, wouldn't it have been better to actually include some in the OP? "My example is Pokemon, I hated that it sold so well but now I've thought about it more, I realise how silly that stance was". Something along those lines? Instead it just sort of read like "here's my example of a game I hate, what games do you hate?", which I suppose is fine as a topic I 
suppose, but this forum already has a severe negativity problem so what does it add?



You've mentioned people taking your words the wrong way, but all we had to go off was what was in the OP. Maybe your intention was for something more lighthearted, positive or reflective, but even reading it over multiple times now, it just seems like an invitiation to be negative for no real reason.

[Alpacx]

Generally with the trans stuff I imagine a lot less people would care to begin with if there wasn't such a strong push to change laws or go against common sense like participating in women's sports 

Sports was the activists undoing, they believed "if we aren't women in this context we aren't in any other" which, yes, but people would probably be polite.

I think the bathrooms/changing rooms thing would have become untenable tooz eventually, with some creeps hanging around little girls in swimming pool changing rooms. I don't see how you can police "trans women can use those spaces if they aren't creeps" without throwing our some males who aren't acting creepy.

[Potato]

Swinging (she)dicks around in front of women and little girls was always going to be a losing position.

[Daffy Duck]

Yeah these last two posts represent the issue with the trans movement, the loonies simply took what grace people were giving the “quiet” ones (I hate using this term but you know what I mean by now) and they simply went too big with their goals and demands and it’s now blown up in their faces of people rejecting them wholesale (and in turn hurting the “quiet” ones.




Like decent people get live and let live, you do what makes you happy but don’t start trying to erode the lived experiences of actual women and being misogynistic when you don’t get your way and redefine what a woman is and all the things that go with their demands, that’s when you lose me I’m afraid and that’s when you cause real harm to the actual vulnerable people.