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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mat-piscatella-ps5-was-the-lead-platform-for-re-requiem-in-the-us-during-february-below-50-of-dollar-sales-but-a-meaningful-margin-over-pc.1466278/#post-152731378

 User banned (permanent): Hostility. Long history of and multiple prior bans for hostility.

CCU extrapolation will always be hilarious. As will the posters rushing to defend PC's honour - it selling best on X platform doesn't mean it was a failure on Y but hey that doesn't suit the consoles dying narrative.

Raigor hello mate, feel free to hold that L with some dignity

[Ribosome]

Did RustyNails really not try to come back for this Iran thing?

[Ribosome]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot1-mega-midterm-mania.1452433/page-30#post-152850775

Kat confirmed in her stream today she isn't running again and really has no interest to. Hope Biss winning is worth it.

If it makes Clicky feel better Kat is probably also doing a little time for a retarded scuffle with a federal agent.

[Besticus Maximus]

New claim to authority just dropped benji, update the twelve tables

As someone who saw a LOT of stories about toxic work environment in here

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Did RustyNails really not try to come back for this Iran thing?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-28-2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed.1449391/page-75#post-152041144

 User banned (permanent): antisemitism, account in junior phase

What is the main goal for Israel? Take the whole middle east land and put jewish babies like crazy to populate the region and create a big jewsih land? I mean serious, their end goal is to take the land from whole middle east?

The answer to all your questions, is yes to all of the above. They are that insane, no question about it.

[Boredfrom]

I'm kind of jealous of independent voters. It must be such a privilege to life such a carefree, windswept life where you never have any foresight whatsoever so there's never a sense of dread. You also get the add-on benefit of only being affected by direct, in-the-moment stimuli. Like a trash bag blowing in the breeze. Just going wherever life takes you and being happy or sad at what comes with that brain-turned-off lifestyle.

Letting others live their life.  

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-trump-approval-on-cost-of-living-hits-colossal-record-low-most-troublesome-sign-for-gop-midterms.1468024/page-2#post-152805133

“People should be like me. Being a miserable and obsessive fucktard that only contributes in be a Karen in a dying video game forum.”

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/declared-war-on-my-downstairs-neighbor-mistake-or-time-to-double-down.1469362/

So, gonna try to keep this brief.

About, I want to say - Two years ago roughly, new tenant moves in to the apartment below mine, I'll refer to him as The Douchebag from here on - Previous tenant was an elderly couple who weren't long for this world, and ones before them some hooligans who were constantly yelling slurs (not sure if directed or just irony-poisoning) of whom I'm not sure if they were kicked-out or left on their own (but that's beside the point). The Douchebag immediately installs a doorbell camera on his unit which was a massive Vibe Check Fail in my book, but eh whatever - However eventually after about a month or so he confronts me about walking on the grass in front of his unit, so you know what, I comply and stop taking that shortcut, because hey, in this case he's got a point.

Fast forward to, not sure particularly when it started, but at some point after that he started to develop a habit of going around thumping/slamming on my floor/his ceiling, over the noise of my, well, existence as a human being. Eventually this "behavior" evolves into him playing loud and obnoxious music, and/or "ambience" at absurdly loud volumes - And then eventually blasting Joe Rogan and/or other chud podcasters at high volumes around 8AM Sharp, daily.

I believe around April 2025 (I have the exact timestamp on one of my drives, will check later), neighbor from other side of the building (Henceforth "Concerned Citizen") is clearly getting fed up with this and leaves a handwritten note complaining about it on both the front doorstep of both me and The Douchebag (I guess they didn't know which one of us was the source of the audio) - I check with the building manager, they acknowledge they know it's not me and somethingsomething looking into it. A week later, Concerned calls the cops, they talk to Douchebag, Douchebag directs them to me and insists I'm the problem because "[he] can hear [my] TV!" and "[he's] only loud because [I'm] loud!". I make it known to the cops that I'm not the one who made the call, citing Concerned as being the likely person who did. Cops decide this isn't their problem and leave.

From that point on, Douchebag's aggression starts turning up more and more, I guess he'd decided that I am The Enemy and the one who talks to the cops. Morning of August 23rd (2025), when I'm getting myself ready and packing my last few essentials for a flight to New York for AnimeNYC, Douchebag engages in a particularly spirited round of Floor-Slamming, culminating in yelling insults at me through my floor of which I unfortunately fumbled my attempt to record in a panic, with my phone camera being in Picture mode instead of Video - At this point I had started proactively documenting incidents of Douchebag knocking on my floor. At the airport I did make a point of calling my town's police department (non emergency of course) about the incident and his aggression, for which frankly I was starting to develop safety-concerns, however the response I got from them essentially boiled down to this not being their problem. At some point in the days prior, there had been another instance of yelling through my floor which had prompted me to start recording, after the sound of me getting up to take a piss at 4AM seemed to have also woken him up.

To be clear, these instances of Thumping/Slamming aren't just noise - Shit in my apartment is getting knocked over by how hard he's hitting his ceiling (Honestly I'm sure he's damaged his ceiling at this point). Anyway, a week later I get back from New York, which actually brings me to another matter of attempted diplomacy - I'd realized while in New York staying at a hotel that my bed's box-spring was in bad condition and made audible noise when I got on and off the bed, so, first order of business was buying a new one so I wouldn't make loud noises going to/from bed. For a week I had silence from downstairs, but I realized that it was because Douchebag was on his own vacation and his parents were occupying the apartment to dogsit for him. Naturally, upon his return, the aggression started once more. I don't have a clear timeline at this point (but I'm sure reviewing my recordings+timestamps will help), but it's a slow march of this getting worse and worse.

Eventually, by the start of 2026, Douchebag has started to play music at volumes loud enough that the building is literally shaking. Either end of January or start of February I finally reach out to the building manager about this, which I really ought to have done sooner. They're not dismissive outright, but they basically downgrade this matter to just "noise complaint" in their notes, but I do get a nugget out of them that firmly confirms that Concerned has indeed also been making complaints. Two separate notices get posted on Douchebag's door - I do not know their contents because I don't snoop (make a note of this), and for a while Douchebag behaves. He's still playing music and podcasts, now at merely discourteous volumes instead of building-shakingly, and stopped marching around pounding. Life is good.

March 7th. I wake up around 6AM (right on time), and very shortly after (within minutes), someone who I assumed to be Concerned was yelling/ranting about Douchebag apparently having been playing his music at 4:30 AM, presumably at Douchebag's doorbell-camera judging by the lack of another party speaking. I'm not sure how I slept through it if music was being played at 4:30, but Concerned seems to indicate that they've got no choice but to leave (I don't remember exact phrasing as I don't record stuff going on outside, plus I had just woken up). After this point, Douchebag is back on his bullshit again on Sunday, but cows-out from March 9th through March 19th after I shout back down at him in response to another Thumping-Session. Life is good.

Today, March 20th - I'm busy working from home - Perfectly still at my desk, working. I'm not walking around or doing anything that should make "nuisance" levels of noise. Douchebag is going around, thumping, and multiple times makes particularly hard thumps directly under my feet at my standing-desk, where I HAVE BEEN STANDING STILL. I thump back once in annoyance, and he seems to take that as permission to accelerate, and starts running around doing more thumps. Eventually I hit my time for lunch break, and rather than eat at home with this shitload of fuck going on, opt to walk over to the pseudomexican fast-food restaurant I need not name that's a five minute walk from my apartment for lunch.

Walking back, his window and blinds are wide open, right next to the front door to the building such that in order to not look through it, I would have to either close my eyes or look into the other neighbor's window. In my casual glance, I see him standing in the window, staring directly at me, and our eyes lock - Reflexively, I snap and flip Douchebag the middle finger, which prompts him to very angrily accuse me of being a "creep" who is spying on the neighbors/him, and we quickly get into a shouting match yelling at eachother - I make it fucking known that I'm sick of his shit and want him to stop thumping on my ceiling, make it clear that I wasn't the person complaining about the music, and well, say some things that my lawyer would advise not to repeat online in anger at him. His response is to, 1 - Double-down on the "creep" accusations, 2 - Insist I am the nuisance who is slamming because "the first and last thing [he] can hear each day is [me] walking/"stomping around" (For ref, I can't hear my own footsteps, so X - Doubt), 3 - Claim that his "slamming" is just him "spring cleaning", and 4 - Proclaim that Concerned "isn't" complaining and that he turned down the volume. I don't have exact recording of what he said, but the more I play it back in my head, the more and more it sounds like flagrant Gaslighting, which only makes me more and more enraged at him.

I avoid contact with him for the rest of the workday - I realized that getting into an argument might have been a blunder since he's got a doorbell-camera which probably caught all of it), with a plan to contact Concerned and others who potentially could've been plaintiffs to Douchebag's behavior so I can get an aligned narrative on Douchebag's behavior established, but Concerned doesn't answer their door, and the other unit bordering Douchebag refuses to answer their door - Their dog barks and I hear them telling the dog to shut up, but no one comes. Oh well, time to head over to the theater to watch Project Hail Mary with my friends (really good movie).

Anyway, I get back from that, and once again try to establish contact with Concerned & Friends. I realize Concerned's lights aren't on, but I realize when I check the mailboxes that their Nametag is gone - They've, like they said they would, moved out. So, I try "Other Neighbor" - Once again, dog barks, and now two people yell at the dog to shut up, and neither answer the door. So uh, I guess I'm officially going-it-alone on this.

Anyway, I guess my gameplan now is to properly compile and formalize the evidence I've been building since August (+ the scraps from beforehand), and my account of this two years or so of continuous harassment in one big email - And I guess send it off to the Building Manager/Landlord (whomever the office email goes to) to make it clear and establish context, either proactively ahead of him possibly forwarding that doorbell-camera footage, or correcting the record if he already has (But I believe he hasn't, as no notices have been posted to my door, unlike how quickly they were when I complained).

But you know what? Fuck, it felt GOOD to look him in the eye and let my thoughts on him be known. I'm not going to fucking bend the knee to his Alpha Male bullshit. We ball, we STAND AND FIGHT where I'm from.

TLDR I'm just going to assume they're crazy.

At worst, everyone is the arsehole here. Otherwise, blame the Reeeetard entirely.

[Potato]

Normal person on seeing new neighbour’s ring cam - Huh. I suppose they’re security conscious. Probably quite sensible.

Ree on seeing new neighbour’s ring cam - Wait. Is that a security camera? But why? What’s going on? Are they filming me? Who are these people? Have they been watching me? Do they know? But I always use a VPN. 

Normal person on hearing angry banging from neighbour downstairs - That guy sounds pissed. I should go ask him where the noise is coming from and see if I can sort it out. 

Ree on hearing angry banging from neighbor downstairs - Fuck that guy. I’m calling the cops.

ACAB, especially the ones who won't arrest and execute my neighbour.

[Potato]

Well we already knew she wasn’t particularly interested in running back when she was missing pre-planned campaign appearances to take a siesta instead.

But it's in her CULTURE to be late, to not show up to her own events and to platform terrorists. 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/declared-war-on-my-downstairs-neighbor-mistake-or-time-to-double-down.1469362/

...prompts him to very angrily accuse me of being a "creep"...

....Double-down on the "creep" accusations...

Crazy how the neighbour knew this guy was a creep without even seeing his avatar. He must have a creep face.

Can you imagine having to live below some fucking anime retard with anime and jerking noises coming through your ceiling 24/7? Justifiable homicide imho.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mat-piscatella-ps5-was-the-lead-platform-for-re-requiem-in-the-us-during-february-below-50-of-dollar-sales-but-a-meaningful-margin-over-pc.1466278/#post-152731378

 User banned (permanent): Hostility. Long history of and multiple prior bans for hostility.

CCU extrapolation will always be hilarious. As will the posters rushing to defend PC's honour - it selling best on X platform doesn't mean it was a failure on Y but hey that doesn't suit the consoles dying narrative.

Raigor hello mate, feel free to hold that L with some dignity

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

Best emote ever!

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot1-mega-midterm-mania.1452433/page-30#post-152850775

Kat confirmed in her stream today she isn't running again and really has no interest to. Hope Biss winning is worth it.

What to expect from a person who allegedly has sex with Ben Collins.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-248#post-152868616

And Zelensky allying himself with the perpetrators of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians and the on and off ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon will not go well for him.

I love when they act like they're speaking for the vast majority and leadership of states rather than a fringe niche mostly limited to social media. Zelenskyy is going to really hate what they say about him on Bluesky!

I'm kind of jealous of independent voters. It must be such a privilege to life such a carefree, windswept life where you never have any foresight whatsoever so there's never a sense of dread. You also get the add-on benefit of only being affected by direct, in-the-moment stimuli. Like a trash bag blowing in the breeze. Just going wherever life takes you and being happy or sad at what comes with that brain-turned-off lifestyle.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cnn-trump-approval-on-cost-of-living-hits-colossal-record-low-most-troublesome-sign-for-gop-midterms.1468024/page-2#post-152805133

How is this any different from Era? They jump from stimuli to stimuli, never have any foresight that they act upon, never change their lives, never take any action of any kind for that "sense of dread", etc. The extent of their "caring" is to bitch endlessly to and lecture like minded people online and then every couple years either vote straight-ticket Democrat or come up with some reason, generally a refusal to compromise on a single subject, not to.

[HaughtyFrank]

Did RustyNails really not try to come back for this Iran thing?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/february-28-2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed.1449391/page-75#post-152041144

 User banned (permanent): antisemitism, account in junior phase

The answer to all your questions, is yes to all of the above. They are that insane, no question about it.

Sometimes I'm surprised what they ban after all.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-248#post-152868616

Americans have effectively lost the propaganda war in incredible time. Hilarious really.

And Zelensky allying himself with the perpetrators of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians and the on and off ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon will not go well for him. At least so publicly anyway. The racist apartheid colonial outpost in occupied Palestine needs to be utterly isolated and destroyed. That "project" is simply unsalvageable.

Example of correct think on absolutely not ghoulish forum resetera.com llc.  Where you at blueball?

[Nintex]

Americans have effectively lost the propaganda war in incredible time. Hilarious really.

And Zelensky allying himself with the perpetrators of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians and the on and off ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon will not go well for him. At least so publicly anyway. The racist apartheid colonial outpost in occupied Palestine needs to be utterly isolated and destroyed. That "project" is simply unsalvageable



I bet this sounded better in the original Russian

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vex-im-at-a-point-now-where-no-character-creator-no-buy.1469425/

Im at the point now where if your game doesn't have a character creator, there's a good chance I'll not play it. (cosmetic, not stats). It just makes almost every game like 10x more fun. I love Team ninja for this (Nioh, etc). Love making my guy/gal and just being dropped into a world to explore.


I'm just not interested in a generic, one-note character anymore. And most games have this drawback nowadays imo. There's really no reason not to do one (provided you have the resources to execute of course). I want to roleplay my own character. I want them to look cool or badass. I want to customize their their eyes, face, hell even their toenails. That's just as much "game" as the gameplay is. And everyone loves it.
Who doesn't spend hours in a good character creator?!? Why do we do it? Because we LIKE it. It gives you a little agency. And who doesnt like a little agency?


Anyways, is anyone else starting to feel the same way?

Recent games I wish would've had it:

Crimson Desert
Stellar Blade
Pragmata (Demo) GODDAMNIT what a generic GUY.
Sekiro
Lies of P (can you imagine creating your own "puppet"?)
Ghost of Tsushima

Dayum! I really wish those games had it !!! Ask yourself this: would you really miss those characters above if those games had character creation instead of them?



Thanks,
-Megaman Vex

Same dude who shared his rape fantasies of Chris Redfield ravishing him.  The title and how he ends his posts 

[Jansen]

Vex is a mod sanctioned troll

[D3RANG3D]

I think Chris Redfield something something your boulders would be just a tad painful. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-248#post-152868616

Americans have effectively lost the propaganda war in incredible time. Hilarious really.

And Zelensky allying himself with the perpetrators of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians and the on and off ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon will not go well for him. At least so publicly anyway. The racist apartheid colonial outpost in occupied Palestine needs to be utterly isolated and destroyed. That "project" is simply unsalvageable.

Have they? The gulf states are still aligned with the capitalists powers, the west is still sucking America's dick (sadly). They really need to step out from their bubbles.

Do you really think any of these capitalist countries actually care about the deaths in Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, or the middle east all together outside of big money cohorts and oil princes? Y'all are over there playing video games one moment and crying on a forum the next and doing jack shit when it comes to real revolution.

Maybe go start a food bank and worry about your own communities? But y'all ain't ready to hear that.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-threatens-democrats-with-switching-unpaid-tsa-with-ice-agents.1469506/page-3#post-152877658

If your dad is MAGA, don't waste a single second of your time on this. Many of us know from experience. Your energy is better served elsewhere.

Yep, why I cut my mum from my life because she refused to see any logic. And we are Australian...

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/vex-im-at-a-point-now-where-no-character-creator-no-buy.1469425/

Im at the point now where if your game doesn't have a character creator, there's a good chance I'll not play it. (cosmetic, not stats). It just makes almost every game like 10x more fun. I love Team ninja for this (Nioh, etc). Love making my guy/gal and just being dropped into a world to explore.


I'm just not interested in a generic, one-note character anymore. And most games have this drawback nowadays imo. There's really no reason not to do one (provided you have the resources to execute of course). I want to roleplay my own character. I want them to look cool or badass. I want to customize their their eyes, face, hell even their toenails. That's just as much "game" as the gameplay is. And everyone loves it.
Who doesn't spend hours in a good character creator?!? Why do we do it? Because we LIKE it. It gives you a little agency. And who doesnt like a little agency?


Anyways, is anyone else starting to feel the same way?

Recent games I wish would've had it:

Crimson Desert
Stellar Blade
Pragmata (Demo) GODDAMNIT what a generic GUY.
Sekiro
Lies of P (can you imagine creating your own "puppet"?)
Ghost of Tsushima

Dayum! I really wish those games had it !!! Ask yourself this: would you really miss those characters above if those games had character creation instead of them?



Thanks,
-Megaman Vex

Same dude who shared his rape fantasies of Chris Redfield ravishing him.  The title and how he ends his posts 

A very roundabout way of saying that you don't want to play a Japanese guy in the historical Japan game

[Propagandhim]

Who doesn't spend hours in a good character creator?!? Why do we do it? Because we LIKE it.

I’ve never once manually built a character in my life. I hit that random button until it gives me something cool. I honestly don't get the appeal of spending hours in a creator menu when I can just gamble on a generated look.  Life is a highway, i'ma drive that bitch all night long.

[Ethan]

Every leftist I know is in Cuba right now. Damn.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/post-152862178

Is the leftistlawyer part of the convoy flotilla influencers' field trip?

Yesterday I missed the 3 hour stream. Today I missed the 1 hour abruptly cancelled stream. If it wasn't for the mobile app I would have lost my 139 day watchng streak.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-ot-oh-your-such-a-big-man-hasan.321886/post-152876260

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-it-seems-like-extremely-skinny-bodies-are-back-in-fashion.1469782/

The ERA bubble.

[Boredfrom]

Finally, it's my time to shine.

(yes, the Ozempic Face is scary and I don't wish it on anyone who doesn't genuinely need it and the medication for their own health)

[BananaBlast]

Yeah it's fash-core + backlash to the "unnatural BBL" curves that the "least desirable" types of women happen to be more likely to naturally have and the aesthetic components that came with them. Just more white supremacy basically.

Can't tell if Rinoa is a troll or one of the all time Era nutcases 

The biggest eating disorder out there is overeating. It's ever persistent food noise and not being able to turn that off or control it. Current medications help with that.

As a natural blonde and skinny woman who has had cosmetic surgery I don't know how to take this at all. I guess I'm a fascist by appearance? I don't know. I was born this way 🤷‍♀️

You do not have to be a fascist to benefit from a turn towards it. All privilege works this way. The very best men benefit from patriarchy, non rich people in the west benefit from the structure of western imperialism

This is a psychotic and borderline dangerous take. I hope in public you keep your opinions to yourself.

Lol

This post is deranged on so many levels

There's such a thing as Mar a Lago face too. Body positivity has been deemed woke and the culture has shifted in the other direction. Eating disorders are massively on the rise and even here on Era people will sometimes justify it.

It's a really worrying time out there. Terrifying how normalized this is becoming for everyone, especially other women.

Psychotic? Wow.

All I said is GLP-1s are good. IDK why you are all so resistant to that idea.

I guess I'm deranged too.

Thanks. This place is so welcoming towards women.

Love you all ❤️

Using GLP-1s IS NOT AN EATING DISORDER lol.

[benji]

I like how modern progressivism is hyper atomistic individualism that labels all past historical progressive thought as "fascist" as if that's all that's needed to reject it. You can't serve the community, aka the state, if you're fat and unhealthy. That's why all the past progressive movements, including fascism which was a progressive movement of the time, focused on mandatory exercise for fitness. Self-sacrifice for the state, not individual goals, is the ideal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_Movement

Capitalists receive money for being idle, that's bad, that's exploitation, as anti-capitalists you're supposed to be against that. That's why socialism fixes the problem and he "who does not work does not eat" and glorifies the worker who works himself to exhaustion and death. The one who shirks his duties and tries to malinger away from hard physical labor is a traitor to the community, a troll. Socialism doesn't need ozempic because the forced labor and rationing ensures nobody gets fat in the first place except those members of the community who need to be.

[HaughtyFrank]

focused on mandatory exercise for fitness. Self-sacrifice for the state, not individual goals, is the ideal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_Movement

Excellently portrayed in 1980's 'The Apple' where the futuristic government dictates 1 hour of collective exercise



For some reason the movie was a massive flop

[Boredfrom]

Body positivity has been deemed woke and the culture has shifted in the other direction.

When I was a kid I was taught that mocking fat people was wrong not because being obese was good but because it didn’t help them to be in a good head place to actually try to lose weight, it doesn’t help them and is mostly cruel.

Then, during adulthood, people took to another direction and said that being fat was either not your fault (genetic lottery  ) or something that was only bad because our culture just celebrates one body type (not totally wrong about celebrating one body type, but self serving considering who usually are the body positivity activists ).

I will be blunt and say that body positivity was most of the time people coping about being over weight, and the proof is in how rapidly collapsed after Ozempic became a thing. And people are so vain that social media is mostly bitching about Ozempic Face rather than arguing about how the drug seem to be only accessible to rich people.