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

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scott-pilgrim-ex-demo-now-available-on-steam.1436962/page-2#post-152094430

 User Banned (1 Month): Concern trolling over misogyny

Christ Almighty, is there any thread on this forum that doesn't have people up in arms about something? Some dude on the very first page is talking about how he doesn't support the people that made the music. Another dude is complaining that boobs jiggle. I get not wanting to overly sexualize things but boobs do move when women move.

There's another thread on this forum where someone said they swear some members actively post with the controversies tab open from Wikipedia. This feels like another example of that. Can we just talk about the game?

Benji. Banner. Now.

[PogiJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scott-pilgrim-ex-demo-now-available-on-steam.1436962/page-2#post-152094430

 User Banned (1 Month): Concern trolling over misogyny

Christ Almighty, is there any thread on this forum that doesn't have people up in arms about something? Some dude on the very first page is talking about how he doesn't support the people that made the music. Another dude is complaining that boobs jiggle. I get not wanting to overly sexualize things but boobs do move when women move.

There's another thread on this forum where someone said they swear some members actively post with the controversies tab open from Wikipedia. This feels like another example of that. Can we just talk about the game?

Banning each and every sane poster for being sane.  

[PogiJones]

Brakes are oppression, ban them all, accelerators only 

[filler]

She knows that she can just go to Vietnam, right? It's actually much easier for an American to move to Vietnam than for a Vietnamese to move to America. Let's not think about why that is.

vietnam doesn't have ice 

[nachobro]

how do they keep their drinks cold?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

how do they keep their drinks cold?

frozen capitalist tears

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/karen-is-a-new-steam-game-where-you-throw-tantrums-in-a-mall.1456102/#post-152253187

[Vertigo]

So I guess Marathon is a trans protected game on Reeeee an unholy union between the Resetera trans and Sony fanboys.

You only need to see who made the OT, worlds biggest Cyberpunk fan Kyuuji to see why its getting the leeway it is. Any other studio would be rightfully getting mocked without mods feeling that they need to play defense for it as well.

All the whining about CCU threads like little bitches.  

The arrogance of Bungie to ask for reviewers to hold onto their reviews for a few weeks when people are paying their own cash to buy your game is pathetic.

Then I see Zerovagina doing his "Factually incorrect" act in one of the threads yesterday castigating people for saying how whack that is.

[Boredfrom]

All the whining about CCU threads like little bitches. 

No defending Sony ponies… but everyone bitches about the CCU when is about a game the my want to succeed.

[Mask]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scott-pilgrim-ex-demo-now-available-on-steam.1436962/page-2#post-152094430

 User Banned (1 Month): Concern trolling over misogyny

Christ Almighty, is there any thread on this forum that doesn't have people up in arms about something? Some dude on the very first page is talking about how he doesn't support the people that made the music. Another dude is complaining that boobs jiggle. I get not wanting to overly sexualize things but boobs do move when women move.

There's another thread on this forum where someone said they swear some members actively post with the controversies tab open from Wikipedia. This feels like another example of that. Can we just talk about the game?

This guy has gotten shot by the mods so many times, it's a wonder that he still posts there. Especially with that being his latest post.

[killamajig]

So I guess Marathon is a trans protected game on Reeeee an unholy union between the Resetera trans and Sony fanboys.

You only need to see who made the OT worlds biggest Cyberpunk fan Kyuuji to see why its getting the leeway it is. Any other studio would be rightfully getting mocked without mods feeling that they need to play defense for it as well.

All the whining about CCU threads like little bitches.  

The arrogance of Bungie to ask for reviewers to hold onto their reviews for a few weeks when people are paying their own cash to buy your game is pathetic.

Then I see Zerovagina doing his "Factually incorrect" act in one of the threads yesterday castigating people for saying how whack that is.

Big Sis is watching

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-reaches-steam-peak-of-88-337-in-first-24-hours.1455688/page-12#post-152255113 

Peanut was playing Marathon offstream because the hate brigade is so awful.

Peanut is also a bigoted piece of garbage and it's horrifying that so many children watch him.

I don't feel too bad about him getting heat for his gaming.

"THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" says the childless, single millennial gamer  

[Besticus Maximus]

I bet you ten thousand pounds Kyuuji has a new love interest within the year that comes from his marathon boyfriend pipeline discord

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/justice-department-publishes-documents-with-sexual-assault-allegations-against-trump.1455988/page-2#post-152256046

If you own a penis...

Edit:

As a penis owner...

[Lonewulfeus]

I bet you ten thousand pounds Kyuuji has a new love interest within the year that comes from his marathon boyfriend pipeline discord

I bet that boyfriend is ten thousand pounds.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-28-2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed.1449391/page-121#post-152177455

700,000 people trying to flee. Almost half the city. This is collective punishment. Fuck these Nazis

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-28-2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed.1449391/page-124#post-152193523

boy i wish we didn't enable this nazi state for over 2 fucking years

every zionist should rot

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-28-2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed.1449391/page-136#post-152257960

Hopefully they get smoked . Nazi fucks cowards. Only good at lasering babies from the air

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-reaches-steam-peak-of-88-337-in-first-24-hours.1455688/page-12#post-152254315

Look. I've seen you've been coping for awhile and jumping through hoops to justify whatever it is you want to.

Launching a Sony backed gamed Bungie game and only hitting 10 on launch day is bad.

And saying this as someone who didn't hate or love the game in the server slam.

I was replying to you incorrectly using the word 'objectively.' It is too early to objectively say Marathon had a bad launch. As I said, it's not a smash hit out of the gate and it's not terrible. That means it's too early to come to any sort of conclusion.

I'm not coping. You're just biased and have a clear agenda. You want the game to fail.

I haven’t seen Jeff mald this badly in a while, almost makes me wonder if he loves Sony more than Marvel.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-benjamin-netanyahu-still-in-power.1455439/#post-152231065

He is a perfect representative of their electorate.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-benjamin-netanyahu-still-in-power.1455439/#post-152231152

He seems to be a pretty good representation of their collective electorate.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-benjamin-netanyahu-still-in-power.1455439/#post-152234665

It's a representative democracy, and he seems to represent the majority political opinion of his country quite effectively. He's also amazing at manipulating things to always keep himself just out of reach of legal consequences for his own corruption.

Sounds like they don't have term limits and maybe after a while he becomes a familiar nostalgic face to a lot of voters?

We probably would have elected Bill Clinton again years and years later if we could have

Why is Donald Trump still in power?

And because the political class in Israel is so right wing, murdering Palestinians gives him a bit of breathing room

I will always remember his little evil smirk when asked about Mamdani saying he'll be arrested if he ever goes New York.

It's the smirk of knowing he's untouchable.

Laws mean nothing if they're not enforced.

I mean, this really says it all. Populism sells. Easiest populism swing is an eternal enemy that must be defeated. Flexing the power of the state against that enemy in perpetuity is like jingling keys in front of a baby, it just works.

backed by the US and the US keeps helping him evade Israel's own efforts to get him out of office.

And as others have mentioned, he has a lot of support. So tons of support and protection from any form of consequences.

Same reason Trump is still in power - the majority population who support and vote for them.

Voters (and non-voters) are ultimately responsible for everyone they elect or don't at least vote against.

You know the saying that if a country does something terrible it's not the people's fault, it's the government? Well Israel is one of those cases where the people are are at fault.

The majority of Israel supports Netanyahu, much like how the majority of western nations such as Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, etc. support the Trump administration in spite of the bickering they play up for theatrics.

He was ousted once, but Israel politics being what they are, his successor fucked up, Netanyahu came back and now he will die in office--he'll make sure of it.

Americans(?) learn how to understand parliamentary systems challenge (impossible):


The opposition bloc is currently slightly leading (by a couple of seats or so) in most of the polls for this years election.

More fun:

Unfortunately, his sick viewpoints are seen the same by the majority of israeli society. The whole place is trash.

He does the West's dirty work for them. Idk why ppl don't understand or are blind to the fact that Israel exists as a Western Bulwark and colonialist project.
I really hope the last few years has also unironically awoken ppl/americans up to the reality that America is foundationally a deeply evil empire and so are the vast majority of the west. war, terror, genocide, displacement and death have been inflicted upon the global south for 100s of years now.
Obama was the drone strike king

The Israeli people are morally compromised. Chosen my ass.

The only course available to the average citizen in the face of decades of apartheid and ethnic cleansing is to reconcile that they are somehow on the righteous path and those they face are not worthy of living. You see it in their comments from their ministers, to their talk shows and online interactions. Otherwise they're faced with their own inhumanity. Decades of this has led to societal acceptance of committing genocide among other disgusting things (like the post below where they demanded their soldiers rights to rape Palestinians). There are some that can see above all this, but they are by far a tiny minority.

Israelis are even more blood thirsty and depraved than Americans. They are in a bubble that's even more insulated than the average Americans.

I am trying to word this delicately but Israel is a very bad society.

Yeah, I work with Israelis pretty much every day and it's like... They're very direct, very nice, and very desensitized to the atrocities their government commits on a daily basis.
This is just me gleaning this from casual conversation, but in general their policy of mandatory military service has everyone invested in the conflict in a very not objective way.
I have to bite my tongue a lot, because I unfortunately do want to keep my job.

The real question to me is.. how the hell does the have almost the entire west entirely wrapped around his finger?

From not objecting if not even actively supporting genocide, to supporting a war that other states have zero benefit from.. how did he manage to coerce everyone to fall in line behind them, especially - on a global scale - we're talking about a tiny country

Black mail and bribes.

It's a largely genocidal society. Its built around the same tenets of divine superiority that the United States was, and with that supremacist ideology comes brutally violent racism. They simply do not view Arabs as people, even children, so the genocide had wide spread support. Easy to manipulate people in a society as sick as that, no matter who's in government.

Israelis, by and large, want to cleanse the Earth of Palestinians.

The reason for this is indoctrination starting nearly at birth.

The natural result of creating a country out of whole cloth based purely on a racist ideology.

Diseased society and culture.

Any dissent against Bibi's genocide of Palestinians centers around his lack of focus on ensuring safety of the Israeli hostages. The Israeli populace does not care one fucking iota about the people of Gaza being massacred.

The courts brought up "hey maybe we shouldn't be sexually assaulting the Palestinian prisoners we have," and people attempted to storm the building in anger for daring to even suggest such a thing.

Is the populace really that far gone? I don't think the CCP even has that amount of feverish support.

At some point there will have to be a real discussion about the deradicalization of Israeli society. He wins because his ideas are popular. Polls that come out of Israel show an overwhelming far right wing society that truly believes in Jewish supremacy.

                   genocidal rhetoric?
 

EXPERT ALERT:

The real question to me is.. how the hell does the have almost the entire west entirely wrapped around his finger?

From not objecting if not even actively supporting genocide, to supporting a war that other states have zero benefit from.. how did he manage to coerce everyone to fall in line behind them, especially - on a global scale - we're talking about a tiny country

You've got it backwards. Israel does not lead the West. The West leads Israel.

It does not actually matter the history, demographics, specific leader, etc. of the country in question when it comes to why Israel exists and is allowed to do whatever it wants; Biden literally said this, that "if Israel didn't exist, we'd have to make one." Israel has a specific geopolitical function for the West, which is to in simplistic terms act as a bulwark against MENA solidarity against Western imperialism. The moment the MENA countries unite against the US and Western Europe, then they cannot be economically and militarily exploited for their resources and favorable locations anymore. Enter Israel, where the chaos of the genocide has caused logistical, moral, economic, and sociopolitical fracturing amongst the surrounding neighbors.

It's just divide-and-conquer. The US and Western Europe backs the genocide because, in a roundabout way, it just means cheaper resources for them. At this point they would probably rather nuke the planet than to cooperate and create a socioeconomic system where the Global South has primary control and autonomy over their own fucking land and resources.

EDIT: Furthermore, the idea that Netanyahu has anything on our leaders is ludicrous because the assumption implies that blackmail exist as a concept on the table- that there would be consequences if he were to reveal the undesireable information. What people have still failed to come to grips with is that there are no consequences for these people. Folks have read the Epstein files, have understood that they are led by a bunch of sociopathic, racist pedophiles, and have done nothing about it. There's been nothing in the way of direct action, uprising, revolution- nothing. Completely toothless population.

Trump and his ilk could openly say "Alright, we're going to start genociding x demographic now," and what would anyone reading this actually- physically- do about it? Nothing. No one is putting their life on the line for anything because, as the livestock for capital (you're not a human to these people), we're fed just enough trash food and distracting entertainment to be content and weigh the risk of actually making a power play, of actually doing the right thing, as not worth it. It'll be "vote harder in the midterms." Blackmail. Yeah sure Jan. I'll believe that when people find out where their politicians live.

This is pretty insightful.

Also:

Because Israelis overwhelmingly support the genocide. They're disgusting people and if they wanted any different Benji would have been outa there long ago. But he wasn't. They LOVE what he's doing.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-uploaded-the-full-first-episode-of-wonder-man-on-youtube.1455217/

Marvel really seems to have got its groove back but I don't think the public cares or even will care.

Fantastic Four did well last year. Ironheart had good viewership. Lots of discussion around Wonder Man. And we have Born Again S2, Spider-Man and Avengers coming up.

Marvel is never going back to that MCU Phase 3 period for a number of reasons but they'll be just fine.

Jeff who is holding you hostage?

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Also not even a full page of replies and first day of the thread is almost finished. Dead show.

[benji]

[Snoopy]

If Jeff had any ambition he could have been a trad wife with strong Christian values.

[Boredfrom]

The US and Western Europe backs the genocide because, in a roundabout way, it just means cheaper resources for them

[Boredfrom]

Entremet thinks that Pokemon games used to be difficult:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-pokemon-games-be-hard-again.1456222/

But replaying FRLG, I'm shocked how challenging this game is--a game that was tailored to kids, but GameFreak tilted the dial a bit too easy in the recent mainlines.

Kids still beat this game going off all the social media takes of now adults saying how they grinded to beat E4 on the original GBA.

Struggle is good sometimes.

[benji]

The US and Western Europe backs the genocide because, in a roundabout way, it just means cheaper resources for them

The best part of her theory is that the only thing that has united any "MENA solidarity" in the last century was opposing Israel.

[jooseloose]

Entremet thinks that Pokemon games used to be difficult:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-pokemon-games-be-hard-again.1456222/

But replaying FRLG, I'm shocked how challenging this game is--a game that was tailored to kids, but GameFreak tilted the dial a bit too easy in the recent mainlines.

Kids still beat this game going off all the social media takes of now adults saying how they grinded to beat E4 on the original GBA.

Struggle is good sometimes.

Whitney's Miltank 

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-28-2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed.1449391/page-136#post-152257960

Hopefully they get smoked . Nazi fucks cowards. Only good at lasering babies from the air

Only...? I think they have lots of neat skills.

[Boredfrom]

boy i wish we didn't enable this nazi state for over 2 fucking years

every zionist should rot

lol wat?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Entremet thinks that Pokemon games used to be difficult:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-pokemon-games-be-hard-again.1456222/

But replaying FRLG, I'm shocked how challenging this game is--a game that was tailored to kids, but GameFreak tilted the dial a bit too easy in the recent mainlines.

Kids still beat this game going off all the social media takes of now adults saying how they grinded to beat E4 on the original GBA.

Struggle is good sometimes.

FR / LG introduced the VS seeker. How can you call grinding bikers on cycling road that hard?

[Boredfrom]

In one side you have Trump being an infuriating dumbass that doesn’t understand (or care) why these conflicts have backfired for the U.S. most of the time… and then you have retards in the internet thinking that the US intentionally killed high schoolers at Iran.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Entremet thinks that Pokemon games used to be difficult:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-pokemon-games-be-hard-again.1456222/

But replaying FRLG, I'm shocked how challenging this game is--a game that was tailored to kids, but GameFreak tilted the dial a bit too easy in the recent mainlines.

Kids still beat this game going off all the social media takes of now adults saying how they grinded to beat E4 on the original GBA.

Struggle is good sometimes.

Whitney's Miltank