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

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spider-man-peter-parker-finds-out-his-ex-hooked-up-with-his-other-ex-has-the-appropriate-reaction.1455118/page-3#post-152224210
Jeff Marvel

Another hot take being dropped on a forum that is ridiculously and overly negative about Spider-Man comics:

ASM has been good lately and Norman in the suit was a cool idea.

Edit: Didn't even see the above post before typing this.

Worst comic in existence.

People are ignoring him 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spider-man-peter-parker-finds-out-his-ex-hooked-up-with-his-other-ex-has-the-appropriate-reaction.1455118/page-4#post-152268562

Before his hot takes ! 

[benji]

The moral of these stories, especially with the Saudis, is that there is no infinite money glitch. Never has and never will, at least not in our current economic system. You can spend money you don't have and money that isn't yours, what you can't spend is money that doesn't exist - it still has to be made somehow, somewhere.

We ain't getting an infinite money glitch until we, like, kill capitalism or something.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-netease-will-stop-funding-nagoshi-studios-in-may.1456345/page-4

Money has no intrinsic value, it exists purely to facilitate transactions by serving as a stand-in for the actual value. An infinite money glitch would in fact render it useless as money. Happy to help.

They seem to understand the world through video games where money does in fact have intrinsic value and only the player actually uses it. In the real world, that's just narcissism.

I like how he realizes that money/resources should come from somewhere but fails to understand that also applies “after killing capitalism or whatever.”

Socialism presumes no scarcity of any kind (not even time), so he's technically correct, the best kind of correct.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ultima-i-ii-iii-iv-v-vi-vii-viii-spin-offs-retrospectives-by-majuular-up-ultima-viii-pagen.883764/page-8#post-152255890

 User banned (permanent): Suspicious account activity

Great retrospective! Ultima's influence on dungeon crawling RPGs is undeniable. For a modern take on this classic formula, check out Claritas Dungeon Crawler RPG, available on Steam and Google PlayStore. It's a turn-based dungeon crawler that honors the legacy while being accessible on modern platforms.

Well, I guess if you're going shill something, probably best not to make your username EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE FUCKING SHILLING!

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/demi-human-relationships-would-likely-be-terrible.1456414/

Nerds love to dream about getting an alien girlfriend or a vampire boyfriend or a robot but if you’ve ever had a high maintenance ex, you know that they’re always comes a point when the hotness is overwhelmed with the drama and struggle.

I’ll take aliens for example. You have all the same drama as you were with a human (jealousy from both sides, every day annoyances, egos) but amplified.

Maybe she sweats diesel fuel or helium.
Maybe his brain stops functioning 3 days a week and he goes into berserker rage mode.
The language barrier.
Maybe they give birth to 100 babies at a time - maybe they can impregnate YOU with 100 babies regardless of gender.

Everyone thinks Starfire is hot. But when Starfire fucks up your toilet because her 3 hour shits are acidic and eat away at your plumbing, maybe the human is gonna look better and better and you end up with Barbara.

How the fuck is this not a ban for misogynistic rhetoric or some such fucking retarded reason?

[Besticus Maximus]

Money has no intrinsic value, it exists purely to facilitate transactions by serving as a stand-in for the actual value. Happy to help.

This cocksucker explains it all well

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://wearemoba.com/investor-information/single-press-release-eng/?slug=m-o-b-a-network-completes-divestment-of-union-for-gamers

M.O.B.A. Network completes divestment of Union for Gamers
6 mars 2026 17:20:00
Regulatory

M.O.B.A. Network AB (“M.O.B.A.” or the “Company”, and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") today announces that the divestment of its Union for Gamers (“UFG”) business, through the sale of its subsidiary Magic Find Inc. to Multiverse ApS (the “Transaction”), has been completed. All closing conditions have been fulfilled and the Transaction was closed on 6 March 2026.

As previously communicated on 18 February 2026, M.O.B.A. has prior to closing of the Transaction carved out and retained ownership of the web-based assets previously held by Magic Find Inc. These assets have been transferred to a newly formed Swedish subsidiary within the Group. The shares of this subsidiary have been pledged in favor of the creditors under the Company’s outstanding bond loan and working capital facility (the “Secured Parties”) in accordance with the existing financing arrangements.

Transaction summary

    Upfront cash consideration of approximately SEK 95 million at closing.
    The cash consideration, net of transaction costs, has been deposited into an escrow account subject to security in favor of the Secured Parties in accordance with the existing financing arrangements.
    An earn-out entitling M.O.B.A. to 80 percent of any EBITDA generated in excess of UFG’s LTM EBITDA, measured after an 18-month period.
    M.O.B.A. will also receive 80 percent of net proceeds from any AI-related license agreements entered into during the earn-out period, payable quarterly.
    Three employees have transferred to the buyer in connection with completion.

Financial and strategic impact

The divested business represented, on a pro forma basis (Q4 LTM 2025), approximately SEK 7 million in EBITDA and SEK 177 million in revenue. While the transaction reduces the Group’s revenue base, it improves earnings quality through a higher relative margin profile and simplifies its operational structure.

Subject to consent from the Secured Parties, the Company intends to use the net proceeds to redeem outstanding bonds. A dialogue with larger bondholders and the bond agent regarding a potential pro rata bond redemption and improvements to the Company’s debt structure will now formally proceed. The Transaction is expected to significantly reduce leverage.

Following completion of the Transaction, M.O.B.A. operates a more focused portfolio centered on high-margin web platforms and consumer-facing apps, with reduced financial risk.

“This marks an important milestone for M.O.B.A. We have now completed the divestment of UFG, strengthened our balance sheet, and sharpened our strategic focus on scalable, high-margin assets. With reduced leverage, we are better positioned to execute on our long-term growth agenda,” says Anders Ribbing, CEO of M.O.B.A. Network.

[benji]

Money has no intrinsic value, it exists purely to facilitate transactions by serving as a stand-in for the actual value. Happy to help.

@meatwadisgod
3 years ago
Commodity fetishism in a nutshell. What a great character.

@plape1344
3 years ago
yeah this is more like hearst explains the commodity form

 They didn't listen to Hearst or Marx.

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

@yogurtb4757
2 years ago
He's right, if you have wealth in this world (be it gold, cash, other forms of currency and valueables) you are everything in this world.  Money can't buy happiness or love but it can just about buy every single other thing on this planet.  90-95% of the people in this world get up every day and go to work just to have a little bit of cash, just enough to get by and be able to live in society.  They'll never know the kind of wealth Hearst is talking about.  Sadly I don't think I ever will either lol.

@AB-tg1fd
1 month ago
You need to organize some friends and seek the color dm me

[Hap Shaughnessy]

1466 Guest(s) 

[benji]

https://wearemoba.com/investor-information/single-press-release-eng/?slug=m-o-b-a-network-completes-divestment-of-union-for-gamers

    Three employees have transferred to the buyer in connection with completion.

Like, in shipping crates?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anyone-else-hate-online-courses.1456396/
entremetGPT

I'm not talking about credentialed institutions. I have no experience with that.

I'm talking about all these online courses where you have recorded videos, do an assignment, and there's some discussion board or Discord. I've spend too much money on these things.

I learn better in person, but everything is online these days.

I may check out my local community college for some things.

[Daffy Duck]

Zero out here keeping it real

There are multiple people openly admitting that they watch Peanut in Marathon threads. It's insane.

Just a reminder, and a trigger warning, obviously:

BurntPeanut (Vtuber of the Year 2025) says the F-slur

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-reaches-steam-peak-of-88-337-in-first-24-hours.1455688/page-25

[simiansmarts]

Zero out here keeping it real

There are multiple people openly admitting that they watch Peanut in Marathon threads. It's insane.

Just a reminder, and a trigger warning, obviously:

BurntPeanut (Vtuber of the Year 2025) says the F-slur

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-reaches-steam-peak-of-88-337-in-first-24-hours.1455688/page-25

 
First people admit they went to go see Scream 7, now they admit to watching [insert twitch streamer here] 
 
Is RE chud central!? 

[Lonewulfeus]

Zero out here keeping it real

There are multiple people openly admitting that they watch Peanut in Marathon threads. It's insane.

Just a reminder, and a trigger warning, obviously:

BurntPeanut (Vtuber of the Year 2025) says the F-slur

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-reaches-steam-peak-of-88-337-in-first-24-hours.1455688/page-25

He calls Irish Catholics fenians?  

[HaughtyFrank]

Zero out here keeping it real

There are multiple people openly admitting that they watch Peanut in Marathon threads. It's insane.

Just a reminder, and a trigger warning, obviously:

BurntPeanut (Vtuber of the Year 2025) says the F-slur

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-reaches-steam-peak-of-88-337-in-first-24-hours.1455688/page-25

Can we not have you doing this all over again once the Horizon game comes out? Go do something else.

At least Piscatella does this for a living

[DavidCroquet]

Zero out here keeping it real

There are multiple people openly admitting that they watch Peanut in Marathon threads. It's insane.

Just a reminder, and a trigger warning, obviously:

BurntPeanut (Vtuber of the Year 2025) says the F-slur

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marathon-reaches-steam-peak-of-88-337-in-first-24-hours.1455688/page-25

Got it. Peanut is evil and vile, and anyone who watches him is immediately under suspicion of Nazi affinities.

By extension, it's proper to assume that Bungie is even more Hitler-aligned, as they have literally paid money to This Foul Peanut, so it is appropriate to hope for their game to fail and their company to close, while we relish and laugh at their misfortune. Right?

Well, I'm glad you're no longer hiding that you're finding humor in the potential of a game doing poorly.

How strange.

[Besticus Maximus]

lilpoptart

There are multiple people openly admitting that they watch Peanut in Marathon threads. It's insane.

Just a reminder, and a trigger warning, obviously:

BurntPeanut (Vtuber of the Year 2025) says the F-slur

[benji]

It's even funnier if you actually watch the video he linked, he doesn't even fully say the word:


edit: age-restricted

[benji]

The comments section in that video is a mess but I should have expected that.

The comment section was really tame, I had to click "show replies" until I finally found some heat:

@TKJLIVE
3 days ago (edited)
Idk why, gay people are killed and thrown off of roofs, black people were just part of a slave trade like every other race on the planet. White people have been slaves too but no one cares. We just focus on the black slave trade. There is still slavery in Africa and the Middle East to this day. People need to go and complain about that instead of something that ended 200 years ago. It only ended because of the English (white people) putting a shit load of money and resources into stopping it, a debt the British tax payer has only recently finished paying too by the way😂

[benji]

Why didn't Jeff post this in the thread instead?  

[benji]

Furries aren't necessarily animal cosplayers. They're self-ascribed members of the Furry Community. There is no qualifier for a Furry (you don't need a fursuit) beyond self-identification. Therians are people who believe on some spiritual level that they have an animal spirit inside them, are guided by an animal, are part animal, etc.. It's an emotional/spiritual thing.

The former to me is a hobby and one I partake in; the latter has always seemed like it's tackily jacking Indigenous cultures, and as a result I don't really fuck with it.

 

Americans have been conditioned to resent, fear, and distrust one another for decades. A century. Part of it's to service consumerism. Atomized people buy happiness from the store rather than get it from community and human interaction.

It's really this.

Have a society forcibly based upon sociopathic colonialism, zero-sum individualism, and consumerism as human expression, and you cannot be surprised not only when the people forced to grow and live in that society turn out to be selfish, but when (the royal) you in turn find them irredeemable (you're not irredeemable though. You're a special individual.)

[Taco Bell Tower]

Why didn't Jeff post this in the thread instead?  

You really think Jeff would expose himself as a Nazi at Ree?  He would get a perm ban instantly!

[davepoobond]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ultima-i-ii-iii-iv-v-vi-vii-viii-spin-offs-retrospectives-by-majuular-up-ultima-viii-pagen.883764/page-8#post-152255890

 User banned (permanent): Suspicious account activity

Great retrospective! Ultima's influence on dungeon crawling RPGs is undeniable. For a modern take on this classic formula, check out Claritas Dungeon Crawler RPG, available on Steam and Google PlayStore. It's a turn-based dungeon crawler that honors the legacy while being accessible on modern platforms.

For a forum that is infamous for hilariously specific ban messages, they use weirdly general language for this particular ban.

The posters name is "ClaritasRPG" and they post saying "Check out Claritas RPG, now available on PC and mobile!". Why not just say "banned for being a shilling shill who shills"?

if being a shill were bannable, half the forum would be long gone

[Snoopy]

I cannot say what I wanna say, but you know

Loud and clear pal. I'm right there with you. I can't even fathom being treated like that. I'm for sure a misanthrope now. Fuck everything

[HaughtyFrank]

RE thread creators really slipping on making drama threads

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Why didn't Jeff post this in the thread instead?  

The bire still promotes Elons nazi site? Cool, cool cool. Anyone who still uses that platform has no excuse anymore, you are a nazi sitting at a table with 9 other nazi.

[benji]

Staff sacrifice massive amounts of time and emotional labor to monitor Nazi threats to ensure member safety.

[benji]

Death to all yt libs like Mamdani:

[Yulwei v2]

RE thread creators really slipping on making drama threads

I remember browsing the animation industry subreddit and twitter/bsky a while back and it was just a nonstop flood of depressed people talking about leaving the industry because no jobs.

The industry would probably be in a better place had these people not used cartoons as a therapy session for themselves and their nepo baby friends for years.

[Boredfrom]

RE thread creators really slipping on making drama threads

Is curious, because it also sounds like the film tested very poorly internally and Docter said he wanted to respect families decisions to those themes on an early age.

Sounds like a lot of families still prefer heteronormative stuff for better or worse.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ultima-i-ii-iii-iv-v-vi-vii-viii-spin-offs-retrospectives-by-majuular-up-ultima-viii-pagen.883764/page-8#post-152255890

 User banned (permanent): Suspicious account activity

Great retrospective! Ultima's influence on dungeon crawling RPGs is undeniable. For a modern take on this classic formula, check out Claritas Dungeon Crawler RPG, available on Steam and Google PlayStore. It's a turn-based dungeon crawler that honors the legacy while being accessible on modern platforms.

Well, I guess if you're going shill something, probably best not to make your username EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE FUCKING SHILLING!

Buy my book "Potato", written by me, Potato. Now available at Potato.com

Era mods: Hmmm, not sure about this Potato guy...