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

[HaughtyFrank]

This kind of genocidal bigotry is exactly why The Bire needs equity cards:

these people will be the first sent to the country side after the real revolution.

They invented the race card

[simiansmarts]

New dad here (first kid on the way, due in a few months). I'm 6'0" 195lbs, decent frame, been lifting since high school so solid base genetics. Wife is 5'7" 140lbs non-pregnant, slim but healthy, no obesity in family. We're both white, no major health issues.

Want to give this kid the absolute best shot at elite stats from DAY 1. Height is priority #1 (hoping for 6'4"+), then frame width, jawline, bone density, etc. What's the full playbook from birth (or even prenatal) to puberty?

Prenatal: Supplements for mom? Diet tweaks? Anything to boost IGF-1 or growth factors in utero?
Birth to 1yr: Formula vs breast? Sleep maxxing? Early mewing or head shaping?
Toddler/Childhood: Nutrition stack (milk, eggs, bone broth?), HGH tests if lagging? Ortho interventions?
Puberty prep: When to start peptides/SARMs safely? Braces/mewing routine? Weight training age?

Budget isn't an issue, private docs, clinics, whatever. Already researching donor milk and custom formulas. Post your protocols, studies, or success stories. Chadmax this kid pls.

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Wish I had a father like you. 5'8 with a 5'4 mother and 6'2 dad. Was nutritionminned and estrogenmaxxed because I was a faggot most of my life due to not being masculine from my lack of any male role model.

I was listening to NPR today and they had a segment about looksmaxxing. This fringe semi-ironic internet shit gotta stop being given mainstream attention. Let it rot and fester in their dark corners. 
 
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5728208

[Alpacx]

Isn't that the trans suicide bridge?

[Uncle]

waow

[simiansmarts]

https://famiboards.com/threads/buy-a-trans-woman-a-pizza-day-2026-is-march-31st.17017/ 
 
>mod pinned thread

 
A few years from now we are going to have studies on this social contagion in online gamer spaces. Also I love how it's specifically "trans women" as opposed to LGBT or trans people, not even hiding that they view themselves as the default/primary audience. Typical white male behavior.

[DavidCroquet]

brb making a famiboards account for free pizza. I'll even post hog if they need proof that I'm trans. 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-301#post-153197284

How good the USA army would fare in a ground invasion?

The real question is, how many American's will be killed in a ground invasion? The follow up question is, How many Americans will be killed for what exactly?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-301#post-153198313

The better question is how many Iranian civilians will be killed by American soldiers. American soldiers have a horrific history of torture, rape, and murders. And the number of Iranain civilians killed will certainly be many times higher than Americans

[JoeBoy101]

Pretty sure most armies have a horrific history of torture, rape and murder. Those that have been in War anyways.

Wait… maybe War itself is the…. NAaaah!

[BIONIC]

brb making a famiboards account for free pizza. I'll even post hog if they need proof that I'm trans. 

Yet you won’t post hog for us

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/andy-weir-author-of-project-hail-mary-does-interview-with-right-wing-content-creator-shitbag-the-critical-drinker-to-promote-the-film-adaptation.1475038/page-7#post-153214591

Unfortunately Meiville has had allegations of abuse against him.

Damn, that is unfortunate if true. He's like the posterchild of male progressive role model.

[D3RANG3D]

brb making a famiboards account for free pizza. I'll even post hog if they need proof that I'm trans. 

Yet you won’t post hog for us

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[Jansen]

From Constructive 

I think some kind of intervention is needed in the Digital Foundry DLSS 5 thread. The last few pages have been full of people attacking Oliver Mackenzie personally and I find it very distasteful. I too feel that his views on AI are horribly misguided but he is otherwise a nice person who doesn't deserve this torrent of abuse. Please, do something to stop this.

I read those pages following the post of what he said, and don't really see anything abhorrent. People are rightfully calling him out at a total AI tech bro shill who is supporting a very dangerous thing. As long as no one is personally harassing him, calling out that shit seems fair. Dude literally said training AI on other people's work is totally fine...I mean, how do you expect people to react?

Did you report the problematic replies?

Oliver is just a guy, people can simply voice their disagreement with him and ignore his content. There are much bigger and more deserving targets of our collective wrath than a single person with bad opinions on AI.







No. I've said before that reporting tens of problematic posts isn't realistic for a single person. In cases of mass potential infractions I believe that a mod post is way more effective.

We all have actual jobs that need attention, we cannot be everywhere, as previously requested, please report the posts you find problematic.

Will do, thanks for replying.

I agree and disagree with this. If people were directly attacking Oliver on Era (not even sure if they have an account) or there was brigading or an effort to rally the troops to harass or whatever else then yeah, that shit needs to stop. The staff did the right thing by editing the post from a cross-site drama perspective, I'll say that much. But aside from that? Oliver is just another person in the industry and in this in instance, they were openly advocating for art theft at a time where video games artists' livelihood is at stake. Thousands of people are currently being put out of work as a result of AI art theft. So when somebody in the industry voices their support for it, people are going to have a visceral reaction to it.



People can express their disgust with Gabe, Tim Sweeney, or other billionaires in the industry making unscrupulous decisions. They can express their disgust whenever Jonathan Blow decides to pop into the scene to be an extremely ignorant person. They can express their disgust when companies they've supported for years lay off thousands of workers. They can express disgust when games include problematic artwork, ideas, or expressions towards marginalized communities of people.



It's just one person and one moment, but when the one person is advocating for something that is morally reprehensible, people are going to react appropriately.

I mean, stuff like that is just unnecessary. I'm not linking to the direct quote because my goal isn't to get anyone banned, but there's no reason for personal attacks like that.

I don't get this - if your values are harming people, why would they be off limits for being called a bellend?



I'm so fucking tired of this nonsense about "it's just an opinion".

You could always just say, "Your values are harming people."

This just reads like tone policing, and you are the one inferring the level of vitriol in the choice and use of bellend. If I were to call someone that, or in this case refer to someone as that, it's not a genuine attempt to hurt someone but more of a way of ridiculing. Like "fuck", there's a lot of differing tones to the word. Doesn't help to presume the most venomous or hurtful.

Asking someone to rise above childish insults is tone policing now? Cool.

I ended up reporting a homophobic slur used against him and that was just seen on the latest page (as of an hour or two ago) after casually clicking in a "huh why has this thread got so many replies?" manner.



There were multiple more non-slur posts about Oliver that were just outright bringing the conversation down too. It's embarrassing, and makes me think twice about being part of this community when having a different initial impression (not even a thorough review) of a screen-space visual filter inspires such childish vitriol.



Especially when I see we had Oliver's colleagues at DF also posting in the thread and receiving some real fucking weird messages thrown their way.





"tone policing" is something to be criticised when the target of said policing is for example someone from a minority speaking in anger after oppressive hurt



asking people to not lose their heads and resort to offensive personal attacks towards journalists isn't a negative. if you want to label that as "tone policing", then tone policing is a good thing in contexts like these.

Are we as a community above childish insults? Aren't we allowed to be childish? It's not like this is a work place setting. Is it childish? or is it just more informal?



I didn't have a less loaded term than tone policing, so apologies if that came off harsh - just sounds like you're asking people to behave in their language which...everyone has different standards so ok, but words here are often read as more vitriolic as maybe intended?







Fair on my wording, more of a loaded term than I intended as mentioned above. It just feels like a "behave" command when over the site people are afforded to not always behave in the most "sensible" manner and I just see a lot of tut tutting or out right aggression based on an inference of tone some times. I just don't see why calling someone a bellend is all that serious as to warrant highlighting when there are, like you say, far worse comments that are worth highlighting perhaps.

Asking someone to just be more polite is absolutely tone policing, yes.

No it isn't. You can remain pissed of at someone and express that anger without insults.

And you could just scroll past posts that aren't breaking any rules.

So you're saying people should watch their tone?

For me it is the difference between punching up and punching down. You want to rip apart Jensen Huang verbally? I will gladly join you. Oliver is just a guy making and editing videos for DF. People all over the internet calling him names is punching down. Criticizing his opinion and/or not watching his content should be enough.

Honest question, do you extend the same grace to any Fox News reporters?

I do mean this respectfully, insulting a member of the gaming media would not be punching down for me personally - I have no platform, no reach, earning less money, far reduced access to technology, etc



In what way is a forum member, unless they have a known amount of power or privilege over that of a media personality, punching down?



By all means, if there is an expected level of decorum that people have missed I can understand...but the entire site is guilty of that towards known figures and towards each other.

Yes, in some cases they should.







I am not american but I'll answer anyway, absolutely not. The comparison you drew is making my point for me I think. A reporter for a powerful and evil media organisation is the definition of punching up.

I suppose if the tone you're going for is "I'm a belligerent ahole who can't express anger without ad hominem attacks.", then sure.

Whoa, easy there.

I know right!?

They absolutely should like everyone else. Since when are fine with just hurling insults at each other here?



If i insult you i will get a warning or a ban. Not exactly a new concept and as far as i know it hasn't exactly been a controversial rule until now

A fair question. The amount of posters doing so makes it punching down. One person saying "fuck Oliver" is whatever, hundreds or even thousands doing so online becomes bullying. The collective force of many people engaging in this behavior makes it punching down.

So should we nominate who gets to have a dig? Only one of us gets to express themselves?



I'm not having a go, if that isn't clear, I'm just feeling bemused by the sentiment.

He's not oppressed, so I'm not seeing how this is punching down. He's a privileged white man with a platform that has more reach than 99% of people out there. Why would he need to be protected?



If he's behaving like a bellend, people will call him a bellend. That's how the world works, and I think it's childish to pretend otherwise. Actions have consequences and he's responsible for his own.

Or you could just act like an adult and tell him what actions of his are indicative of a bellend. But I guess since we disagree with his opinions, it's ok to not just voice that, but to also insult him personally.

It would be fine if you were having a go, I understand that this is a difficult discussion to have. My concern is the mental aspect, I can't imagine what it's like having thousands of people all over the internet calling you names. My impression of Oliver is that he's a gentle person and although I completely disagree with him on AI I don't want him to suffer mentally because of it. There are far bigger targets that fully deserve the internet's ire.

I think it's weird that people are finding it unacceptable that you are expected to self "police" your tone in a social and public setting. That's a normal and reasonable expectation! That's basic social skills.




Also, what the hell did this Oliver guy do? This is about AI in video games? We're comparing him to Fox News? People are losing the plot with that.

Since it involved AI/israel/capitalism or whatever you can stake a stance as not allowing any dissent

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-says-u-s-will-completely-obliterate-iran%E2%80%99s-energy-infrastructure-kharg-island-without-deal-to-immediately-reopen-hormuz-strait.1477489/page-2#post-153216163

Trump woke up and figured he'd add potential genocide to his resume.

He's already been enacting it domestically on trans people. This is another genocide he'd be culpable for.

[HaughtyFrank]

From Constructive 

I read those pages following the post of what he said, and don't really see anything abhorrent. People are rightfully calling him out at a total AI tech bro shill who is supporting a very dangerous thing. As long as no one is personally harassing him, calling out that shit seems fair. Dude literally said training AI on other people's work is totally fine...I mean, how do you expect people to react?

[benji]

Oliver is just another person in the industry and in this in instance, they were openly advocating for art theft at a time where video games artists' livelihood is at stake. Thousands of people are currently being put out of work as a result of AI art theft. So when somebody in the industry voices their support for it, people are going to have a visceral reaction to it.

It's just one person and one moment, but when the one person is advocating for something that is morally reprehensible, people are going to react appropriately.

Like 95+% of avatars on Era? Or did you personally compensate the original artist for yours?

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-says-u-s-will-completely-obliterate-iran%E2%80%99s-energy-infrastructure-kharg-island-without-deal-to-immediately-reopen-hormuz-strait.1477489/page-2#post-153216163

Trump woke up and figured he'd add potential genocide to his resume.

He's already been enacting it domestically on trans people. This is another genocide he'd be culpable for.

basically the same thing

[Besticus Maximus]

The DLSS argument is completely deranged and incoherent, it's just a flood of actual morons calling a man names because he has a different opinion on the future of rendering videogame graphics. And coming up with increasingly deranged justifications for their wild claims and accusations. If the problem was what they said it was, they wouldn't need to leap to demonstrable bollocks about boiling the planet within the paragraph.

Seems to me that oliver lad is just doing his job, fairly well, which is more than can be said for the AI iconoclasts who are about to be shoryukened out of their industry. Which is good because then they can sit in their pants and play hand drawn 3D games on their non-AI developed emulator.

[benji]

He's not oppressed, so I'm not seeing how this is punching down. He's a privileged white man with a platform that has more reach than 99% of people out there. Why would he need to be protected?

Maybe he's gay. Or an egg. Or disabled. Or self-diagnoses as a system. If you type his name into Google it suggests "lisp" so presumably that's like being bald or having a small penis.

[benji]

I love that nobody took the position that Era shouldn't personally insult game industry or game journalist people because the purpose of Era is to be a welcoming bonfire for the zeitgeist of the gaming community.

[malfoyking]

Feels like Carl wants to become the new Kyuuji or just another infamous trans cult member. They are everywhere complaining about this and that.

[Besticus Maximus]

There won't be a need for digital foundry if ai can just fake it all.

Yeah, if DLSS 5 is allowed to be released unto the world, there is absolutely no point in videos about games on the internet, everything is lost 

[Taco Bell Tower]

Old Hasan shit coming up again because people are stupid and can't ignore him, but Jeff's there too:

Dumb tweet for context, Jeff again proves he's paying for Twitter, no idea what he deleted:

How long has Jeff been paying for his blue checkmark, like 2 years ish?

[Taco Bell Tower]

New pfp 
User banned (Pending): Promoting bigotry and trans genocide via profile picture.  Do better.

[Snoopy]

[D3RANG3D]

[Chudder Barbarity]

https://famiboards.com/threads/buy-a-trans-woman-a-pizza-day-2026-is-march-31st.17017/ 
 
>mod pinned thread

 
A few years from now we are going to have studies on this social contagion in online gamer spaces. Also I love how it's specifically "trans women" as opposed to LGBT or trans people, not even hiding that they view themselves as the default/primary audience. Typical white male behavior.

Awfully suspicious choice of meal. When they say "buying pizza", is this some sort of dog whistle to encourage doxing or do they mean the other kind of "pizza" that members of that community tend to be into?  Either way, they knew exactly what they were doing.

[Uncle]

https://famiboards.com/threads/buy-a-trans-woman-a-pizza-day-2026-is-march-31st.17017/ 
 
>mod pinned thread

 
A few years from now we are going to have studies on this social contagion in online gamer spaces. Also I love how it's specifically "trans women" as opposed to LGBT or trans people, not even hiding that they view themselves as the default/primary audience. Typical white male behavior.

how fucking arbirary

when's Buy A Trans Woman A Used 1992 Cadillac Seville That Has Under 200,000 Miles On It Day

[Boredfrom]

We all have actual jobs that need attention, we cannot be everywhere, as previously requested, please report the posts you find problematic.

Maybe having actual rules written out would help you out?

[DavidCroquet]

A fun instance of forum jannies acting like actual, real-life janitors.

"I'm not even sure what goes on in this building, I just come through once a night to clean up."

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-says-u-s-will-completely-obliterate-iran%E2%80%99s-energy-infrastructure-kharg-island-without-deal-to-immediately-reopen-hormuz-strait.1477489/page-2#post-153216163

Trump woke up and figured he'd add potential genocide to his resume.

He's already been enacting it domestically on trans people. This is another genocide he'd be culpable for.

This shit is just getting zero pushback on Resetera. The person who made the initial post apologized for forgetting about the trans genocide. It's insane