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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-we-will-have-the-sex-minigame-on-the-god-of-war-remakes.1436470/page-5#post-151378363

 User banned (1 week): Concern trolling

Are they wrong?

Yes…pretty sure the reason they are remaking the games is not so they can make Kratos "woke" in 2026.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-we-will-have-the-sex-minigame-on-the-god-of-war-remakes.1436470/page-6#post-151381429

 User banned (2 weeks): Misogynistic trolling

They did nothing for me originally and dont care if theyre in or not. But just for the sake of seeing the meltdown here i hope it is included.

[HaughtyFrank]

I will say (and have always said), if you allow bigotry and hate speech because of freedom of speech, you probably stand on the same side as pedophiles. I DARE someone to allow that because of free speech. I fucking dare you.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-%E2%80%98this-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-normal%E2%80%99-developers-speak-out-about-bigotry-on-steam-the-world%E2%80%99s-biggest-pc-gaming-storefront.1437310/post-151460908

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nbc-news-aoc-leaning-closer-to-a-2028-presidential-bid-than-a-senate-run-will-offer-%E2%80%9Cworking-class%E2%80%9D-perspective-on-foreign-policy-in-munich.1435000/page-12#post-151321165

 User Banned (1 Week): Misogynistic Concern Trolling

I've come to really love AOC, but I worry about her image, as even I was kind of put off of her for how angry she always seemed. Given how bad things have gotten, I totally "get" her now and understand her frustration. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat, but she'd need to campaign in such a way that allowed her to show her softer and legitimately caring side without always seeming like she wants to knock a bunch of old policy and people down in order for her to win. I get that much of what she stands for requires serious change, but she has to be more likable to the general population, and I don't think that's so easy when most of the photos you see circulated of her by news outlets make it seem like she perpetually wants to punch someone in the face.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mewgenics-has-some-problematic-meows-ethan-klein-hila-klein.1431916/page-2#post-151181563

 User banned (1 week): Dismissive commentary

I respect all purchasing decisions, but punishing a developer for two folks doing 1 voice line in the entire game maybe is a bit too much?

It's a bit more than two, but I do agree, especially since we're apparently only talking about "problematic meows" (that IS a funny term tho).
Everyone is free to make the decisions they want, but I do think some of the pearl-clutching in here is a bit much.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mewgenics-has-some-problematic-meows-ethan-klein-hila-klein.1431916/page-3#post-151188799

 User banned (1 week): Trolling

100% spend your money however you please. Personally if this was a hill I decided to die on, I might aswell never buy another video game ever again.

Pretty much.

I refuse to believe that some of the folks here are actual people and not just characters championing moral superiority in all things righteous & virtuous.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mewgenics-has-some-problematic-meows-ethan-klein-hila-klein.1431916/page-5#post-151193251

 User banned (1 month): Dismissive commentary around racism

He literally accused his Asian friends of being Chinese friends.

One of them isn't even Chinese.

He is a racist piece of shit. That's a fact, not an opinion. And it says a lot that you're defending him and ignoring what I just pointed out.

Dude was talking about the people going with him, he knows freaking Austin and the other dude aren't freaking chinese. This is what I mean by scrutinizing everything he says. He's talking about the people who went with him on the trip. Yeah he said it in a stupid way, but he wasn't calling anyone chinese, he's refurring to the people he went with on the trip. He referred to them all going over there with him. This is literally what I mean and why I didn't even take that as racist.

[filler]

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

*/era RIP thread etiquette*

[benji]

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.

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.

In other words, the more women ask for basic human rights necessary for survival the more you want them genocided as punishment for asking to be treated with basic human decency.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mewgenics-sells-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week.1438792/

Oh they're seething

[HaughtyFrank]

New policy idea: If you're a shrink who declared someone mentally stable who later goes on to be a mass murderer it should be highlighted on your resume

[DavidCroquet]

New policy idea: If you're a shrink who declared someone mentally stable who later goes on to be a mass murderer it should be highlighted on your resume

I actually had a real life conversation about this somewhat recently.

The professional expectation (across multiple fields) is that if someone asks, and they don't try to rip your jugular out of your neck with their teeth in the process, the etiquette is to simply sign-off and keep it pushing.

[filler]

if you're a shrink who posts on reeee it should be tattooed on your forehead

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mewgenics-sells-1-million-copies-in-its-first-week.1438792/

Oh they're seething

20 posts, how long til the thread burning starts

[BIONIC]

if you're a shrink who posts on reeee it should be tattooed on your forehead

What if you’re a shrink that posts on the bire?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/which-evil-clown-is-the-worst-pennywise-it-or-art-terrifier.1438375/page-2#post-151459273

I can see Pennywise in modern times eating some kid and seeing how obsessed he is with Roblox starts using that to target and attack his prey.

I wrote a horror script back in college with a premise like this. The villain was an immortal demon who was stuck inside the walls of a house and had to live through the entire 20th and early 21st centuries absorbing pop culture from the people who lived in the house since it couldn't leave the physical space, so when a bunch of idiots started exploring the house it started fucking with them like an internet troll with a TV addiction.

[EaldNarche]

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.

he'd do numbers in the gay community

[filler]

if you're a shrink who posts on reeee it should be tattooed on your forehead

What if you’re a shrink that posts on the bire?

BAN THE SHRINKS AND KILL THEM!!

[Lonewulfeus]

if you're a shrink who posts on reeee it should be tattooed on your forehead

What if you’re a shrink that posts on the bire?

What if you’re a twink that posts on the bire?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-%E2%80%98this-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-normal%E2%80%99-developers-speak-out-about-bigotry-on-steam-the-world%E2%80%99s-biggest-pc-gaming-storefront.1437310/page-3#post-151415485

 User banned (1 week): inflammatory attacks on other users

I'm actually shocked at apparently how common place it is in CS2, more than a couple of times my friend group have had people see my friends name (Nick) and immediately try ask about gears or some stupid shit just so they can say the n-word, or just straight up have people typing that they "hate jews" in chat.

I don't know why this is a surprise to anyone though.

For a long time PC gamers were deliberately calling themselves the master race, they're just allowed to be less subtle about it now, if you could even call it that before.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-%E2%80%98this-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-normal%E2%80%99-developers-speak-out-about-bigotry-on-steam-the-world%E2%80%99s-biggest-pc-gaming-storefront.1437310/page-4#post-151430380

 User banned (1 month): Dismissing concerns of bigotry over multiple posts

Yea that one. I see way more negative discourse about EGS than I do about the very racist and hate speech filled platform cesspool that Valve has very profitably let Steam become.

almost never hear about anything other than those 2

Epic tried to transform PC gaming into some walled garden bullshit, buying exclusives for their platform. Why do you think people would love that??

It'll forever remain as the platform I get free shit (and buy Alan Wake 2, eventually).

It really is quite dire, as it seems there aren't many ethical alternatives, but even then people will jump ship on those two much faster than they will for Steam, because convenience takes priority.

People have massive libraries on Steam. It's pretty easy to understand why people do not want to leave it.

Do they, though? People were ready to start swearing off GOG and itch for things that they wouldn't do if Steam did it (in the case of GOG using AI art) and actively didn't do when Steam did it (caving to pressure to remove certain content because of a right wing campaign).


To be honesty, this is kind of the thing right here. EGS has legitimate issues, but let's not pretend that people don't sometimes work backwards from hating that it exists and is big enough to net exclusives to finding *more* reasons to hate on it to the point that it just looks like console warring with people basically doing the equivalence of portbegging when it comes to talking about wanting steam releases of stuff.

eople hated it because it was buying exclusives to a barebones store. The rest is just people imagining shit where it does not exist (like you're doing saying people wouldn't be pissed off if they started using AI assets for their store banners). Epic is a lot worse than Steam even with all this community bullshit (that you can easily choose to ignore or not engage).

I would never support a store that started saying Steam was the devil and buying exclusivity.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-guardian-%E2%80%98this-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-normal%E2%80%99-developers-speak-out-about-bigotry-on-steam-the-world%E2%80%99s-biggest-pc-gaming-storefront.1437310/page-5#post-151439506

 User banned (1 week): inflammatory attacks on other users

Sure I shop at the Nazi-friendly store where the Nazis hangout. But I don't support Nazism, and I just ignore the Nazi's there. And where else would I buy my coffee, they make the best coffee. Plus I already have a loyalty card.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hiring-managers-and-senior-folks-what-do-you-think-of-tech-certs.1438510/

As a note, I'm in sales, but I sell to a technical audience, so I do try to know what I'm talking about lol. Sold in the DevOps and API space. Also, while sales are great, it can be a grind, so I am looking to diversify my skillset.

I've also been a tech enthusiast since a kid, so I'm definitely above most sellers. I've created web pages, am comfortable with Bash and the command line, have deployed software, know Git and branching, have learned Python (intermediate), have built computers, know basic security, etc.

From talking to clients over the years, there's a mixed reaction. Some like them. Others think they're garbage, even with experience.

Curious, since we have a lot of tech people, what are your thoughts?

[BIONIC]

if you're a shrink who posts on reeee it should be tattooed on your forehead

What if you’re a shrink that posts on the bire?

What if you’re a twink that posts on the bire?

You start a discord that leads to the death of the website

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-obama-just-reveal-the-existence-of-aliens.1436434/page-3#post-151374898

 User banned (permanent): inflammatory commentary toward other users, account in junior phase

They're real in as much as there is almost certainly other life in the universe is what he's saying

Cool that we like do it like the MAGAs and play oracle, interpreting what (ex)presidents are saying instead of taking it at face value.

If thats what he was getting at, he would have said so! Granted, i would have hoped for follow-up from the interviewer, i dont understand why he did not dig a bit more.

I do think that Obama knows stuff, he has said so during multiple interviews. "We see flying things in our skies that defy logic and known physics but they are not ours" (paraphrased) And with the epstein revelations being absolutely batshit insane, is it really that unbelievable that we can also take the second part of what he said at face value?

In a world where the crazy is normal, the insane is mundane, everything is hypernormalized, would it really be that much of a stretch?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/anyone-else-live-with-parent-s-by-choice.1437745/page-2#post-151454599

No offense to anyone who does without regrets, but I would rather put a bullet through my head than ever live with my mother or father again. The two greatest days of my life will be when I put them both into the ground.

[Jansen]

Constructive 



Literally shit talking himself and doesn't realize it

[Jansen]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/anyone-else-live-with-parent-s-by-choice.1437745/page-2#post-151454599

No offense to anyone who does without regrets, but I would rather put a bullet through my head than ever live with my mother or father again. The two greatest days of my life will be when I put them both into the ground.

[FUME5]

Got a new forum for you to comb through benji, find me some gold thanks

https://forum.looksmaxxing.com/

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-16th-2026-3-dead-3-injured-after-shooting-at-r-i-high-school-hockey-game.1437814/#post-151467538

This was just a quick drive away from where I live and I can say that this person had a history of acting unhinged in public.

And yeah, this is all obviously available through pictures and their social media at this point but they were a straight up Nazi. They had Nazi tattoos and Twitter posts referencing "1488" alongside their open love for MAGA.

So of course, all the most disgusting right-wing pieces of trash are focusing on the fact that they were trans but glossing over the fact that they were literally a Nazi.

It's so transparent and so gross. And I can tell you that no one around here is talking about their gender identity. They're talking about how a Nazi used a gun to murder their family members in a domestic violence incident.

[Geoff Marvel]

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

he'd do numbers in the gay community

As a Top or Bottom? 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-16th-2026-3-dead-3-injured-after-shooting-at-r-i-high-school-hockey-game.1437814/#post-151467538

This was just a quick drive away from where I live and I can say that this person had a history of acting unhinged in public.

And yeah, this is all obviously available through pictures and their social media at this point but they were a straight up Nazi. They had Nazi tattoos and Twitter posts referencing "1488" alongside their open love for MAGA.

So of course, all the most disgusting right-wing pieces of trash are focusing on the fact that they were trans but glossing over the fact that they were literally a Nazi.

It's so transparent and so gross. And I can tell you that no one around here is talking about their gender identity. They're talking about how a Nazi used a gun to murder their family members in a domestic violence incident.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/vqtQpOu.png[img]

And of course, the comments on my local news social media posts are now being flooded with out-of-state comments like, "The media is trying to hide the fact that they were trans!"

Motherfucker, you didn't say a god damn word when "cisgender" was left out of articles for the majority of the 420 mass shootings throughout 2025. You only care in the rare instance when a mass shooting is not perpetrated by a cis man.

It's fucking infuriating.

[killamajig]

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.



https://www.resetera.com/threads/times-when-a-games-success-or-praise-truly-bothered-you-and-why.1437727/



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



https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-controversial-gaming-opinions.938/page-537

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.



https://www.resetera.com/threads/iffy-games-with-great-box-art.1437838/#post-151432564



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.

And after all that back and forth we get this .........

https://www.resetera.com/threads/your-totally-reasonable-very-non-controversial-food-opinions.1438774/

Mint ice cream is just frozen toothpaste. Yuck.

Onions should be deleted from our dimension, plain and simple. No exception.

How food feels in your mouth is just as important as taste.

Cheese sucks

Nothing stops the "I hate ________" threads on Era. Where does that guy think he is?  

Oh and as a Wisconsinite

Cheese sucks

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-16th-2026-3-dead-3-injured-after-shooting-at-r-i-high-school-hockey-game.1437814/#post-151467538

This was just a quick drive away from where I live and I can say that this person had a history of acting unhinged in public.

And yeah, this is all obviously available through pictures and their social media at this point but they were a straight up Nazi. They had Nazi tattoos and Twitter posts referencing "1488" alongside their open love for MAGA.

So of course, all the most disgusting right-wing pieces of trash are focusing on the fact that they were trans but glossing over the fact that they were literally a Nazi.

It's so transparent and so gross. And I can tell you that no one around here is talking about their gender identity. They're talking about how a Nazi used a gun to murder their family members in a domestic violence incident.

Not sure Zeo is exactly mounting the defense he thinks he is.

“Anyone who knew this person isn’t talking about their transness, they’re just saying ‘oh wow its that fucking insane man who was quite evidently a danger to himself and others this entire time’”

[filler]

zeo giving zero shits about trans identity 

#mygoat #teamzeo