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

[Nintex]

never 4get starfox command and its sub-deviantart tier artwork for its melodramatic furry soap opera endings

https://starfoxwiki.info/wiki/List_of_Star_Fox_Command_endings

where Krystal is tormented by her decisions and changes her name to Kursed

Well lets look at it objectively

She replaced princess treatment from general scales 6"4 toxic af buff bilionaire Chad Dinosaur with the traumatized 5"1 drifter Fox McSoy and his foster parent, retarded frog and gay friend. And Fox isn't even the best pilot, Falco is. 

Now she's stuck with Tricky a kid that isn't even hers with a guy that flies a toy space plane for scraps and medals

[Jansen]

The debate about likes keeps coming back because the debate about this forum being an incredibly hostile place even for casual video game opinions keeps coming back.



And while the likes debate has been definitively settled (B-Dubs is never doing it), the debate about what to do about hostility has accomplished absolutely nothing. All as the forum grows increasingly hostile and more and more members who used to post quality threads and posts abandon it.



The likes themselves are secondary to all this. If you fix the hostility and find some other way to actually promote positive, quality interactions, the likes discussion will stop as well.



I imagine people just keep suggesting them because it's something everyone is familiar with since they are a core feature of most discussion forums I'm aware of (including every Era successor/splinter forum I k
now of).

If only there was someone that could do something 

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-kristi-noem-and-her-husband.1479310/page-2#post-153310096

Honestly I think there has been always some broad conflation as you call it between trans and crossdressing communities from the crossdressing community itself, like the MTF subreddit (maybe the biggest subreddit for trans women) was recently found out to have a crossdresser mod for years that had to be removed because they were found to be allowing all kinds of crossdressers to post hypersexual content in the community carte blanche. Most older spaces for trans women (forums, irl groups etc) are more designed for crossdressers/sissies etc, and a lot of trans women only spaces both online and IRL have to weed out crossdressers that come to them in bad faith purely because they are horny

It's very confusing to navigate even for me as a trans woman in these spaces so I imagine it's even more confusing from the outside from cis people's perspective, it's very likely why there's so many laws and stereotypes about trans women potentially being predators and perverts, because there's a broad class of cis men (of which there are way way more cis men with a crossdressing fetish than there is self identified trans women) with a fetish who essentially are identical looking to how a trans woman can superficially look

Like many relatives and previous friends of mine don't even talk to me anymore because they think I'm someone like this, the confusion is deep in society

and a lot of trans women only spaces both online and IRL have to weed out crossdressers that come to them in bad faith purely because they are horny

Wait... there's trans women only spaces and they get mad if someone joins who doesn't belong?

...

So by that logic women should be able to “weed out” all of the transbians who come to them in bad faith purely because they are horny? (In other words, all of them.) No it doesn’t work that way?  

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scottish-school-pupils-use-ai-to-create-explicit-sexual-and-violent-images-of-their-teachers.1481113/#post-153341710

Said it in a similar thread, but the children responsible need to be charged as adult sex offenders, with all the consequences that brings

it'll probably ruin their life, but the only way to get a handle on this quickly, given how easy and accessible the tech is to use, is making shocking, well publicised examples of the offenders

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scottish-school-pupils-use-ai-to-create-explicit-sexual-and-violent-images-of-their-teachers.1481113/#post-153342127

kids are immune to ANYTHING. the law does not apply to them. And what's worse is they know.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scottish-school-pupils-use-ai-to-create-explicit-sexual-and-violent-images-of-their-teachers.1481113/#post-153342712

Unfortunately doesn't seem to be the case in my area. Kids here are immune to any sort of enforcement and they know it. They just run riot. Parents don't care.

A lot of "kids will be kids" mentality no matter what heinous shit they're getting up to.

[Shecky Fragbaum]

Not to mention that this site is an (albeit limited) testing ground for how to kill the mainstream relevancy of the franchise thanks to the ban (reminder of the HP ban btw.). So let's keep ignoring the franchise itself.

lol

These morons think very highly of themselves.

Banning HP talk at the 'set has cost them more members than it will ever cost Joanne in dollars.


Absolute  delulu

[Nintex]

MOBA shareholders

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-passes-law-making-death-penalty-default-sentence-for-palestinians-convicted-of-lethal-attacks-against-israelis.1477744/page-5#post-153329761

Must be a pretty heated debate happening in the background...no statement after several days.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-passes-law-making-death-penalty-default-sentence-for-palestinians-convicted-of-lethal-attacks-against-israelis.1477744/page-5#post-153336424

What I'm trying to understand is the silence. What does that mean? I won't infer intentions without a full data set.

You can, and should. Maybe it's not all the mods who love diminishing genocide by banning people who accurately compare israel's actions to nazi germany's, but the ones who don't clearly aren't going to break ranks or quit. I'm sure they'll keep privately voicing concerns, politely and quietly, and delude themselves that they're working to change the system from the inside.

Not by doing anything, though. That might have repercussions for them, or make the rest of the team look bad.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-324#post-153340669

We are in a timeline where China has become the lesser of three superpower evils.

You said that like China hasn't been the lesser of the evil superpowers for most of this timeline.

[D3RANG3D]

[Snoopy]

Oh fuck. It's over

As a former fan of Louis, fuck this, and I'm cancelling my Netflix subscription.

Netflix execs right now

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scottish-school-pupils-use-ai-to-create-explicit-sexual-and-violent-images-of-their-teachers.1481113/#post-153341710

Said it in a similar thread, but the children responsible need to be charged as adult sex offenders, with all the consequences that brings

it'll probably ruin their life, but the only way to get a handle on this quickly, given how easy and accessible the tech is to use, is making shocking, well publicised examples of the offenders

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scottish-school-pupils-use-ai-to-create-explicit-sexual-and-violent-images-of-their-teachers.1481113/#post-153342127

kids are immune to ANYTHING. the law does not apply to them. And what's worse is they know.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scottish-school-pupils-use-ai-to-create-explicit-sexual-and-violent-images-of-their-teachers.1481113/#post-153342712

Unfortunately doesn't seem to be the case in my area. Kids here are immune to any sort of enforcement and they know it. They just run riot. Parents don't care.

A lot of "kids will be kids" mentality no matter what heinous shit they're getting up to.

REEE always has the most psychotic takes on disciplinary action towards young boys, likely a result of the internalized misandry they’ve built up over the years. It’s never “these kids need psychiatric help and their parents should do better” but instead “LOCK UP THESE LITTLE INCEL MEN AND THROW AWAY THE KEY!!!   “

[Taco Bell Tower]

 UH OH  



https://www.resetera.com/threads/community-discussion-thread-2026.1432741/post-

"Feels icky"

A trigger warning next time plz 

[Jansen]

[





You are right, except GAAS are not art.



It is actually in the name: they are services. They don't express a vision, they don't act as the vessel for their creator's mindset, they don't try to trigger some emotions or messages or make you think and reflect. They are services which only purpose is to bring money to their publishers. Those publishers are ready to change everything in a GAAS if it is needed to make more money - look at what Fortnite was and how different it is now.



This is the opposite of art.



Single player games may be art, by nature: they are static, what you get when you buy them is what you'll still get 10 years later. They come with a vision and this vision remains mostly untouched once the game is released.



If a publisher wants to provide a service, they must be ready for the service to be treated as such: from a rational profitability point of view. And consumers should too.



You pay for a service expecting, well for the service to be provided. If this service can't be guaranteed, not
 paying is legit.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamespot-enjoy-marathon-now-before-sony-kills-it.1480087/page-7#post-153325867

Excellent trolling 

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-passes-law-making-death-penalty-default-sentence-for-palestinians-convicted-of-lethal-attacks-against-israelis.1477744/page-5#post-153329761

Must be a pretty heated debate happening in the background...no statement after several days.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-passes-law-making-death-penalty-default-sentence-for-palestinians-convicted-of-lethal-attacks-against-israelis.1477744/page-5#post-153336424

What I'm trying to understand is the silence. What does that mean? I won't infer intentions without a full data set.

You can, and should. Maybe it's not all the mods who love diminishing genocide by banning people who accurately compare israel's actions to nazi germany's, but the ones who don't clearly aren't going to break ranks or quit. I'm sure they'll keep privately voicing concerns, politely and quietly, and delude themselves that they're working to change the system from the inside.

Not by doing anything, though. That might have repercussions for them, or make the rest of the team look bad.

Just love how they're always looking for new avenues of oppression. In the off topic section the greatest crime possible is being unable to compare Israel to Nazis, in the gaming section the greatest crime is DLSS5

[jooseloose]

fucking hell https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-ad-reporting-thread.60928/post-151050352

[Jansen]

The hostility is something that neither moderation nor any single person can really fix. It depends entirely on the users themselves, and some users will not perceive themselves as part of the problem either.



Some people are also really bad at reading tones in the written word on the internet. That has never changed either, because people don't realize when they're coming off as too aggressive in a business email.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/digital-foundry-hands-on-with-dlss-5-our-first-look-at-nvidias-next-gen-photo-realistic-lighting.1464238/page-131#post-153349603

My God all they do is provide technical analysis why are people freaking out

[LoverOfCycles]

**Yes, M.O.B.A. Networks (wearemoba.com) does work that involves and uses generative AI, both directly and through partnerships/monetization strategies.** Their core business is operating large gaming communities, websites (e.g., MOBAFire, League of Graphs), and in-game desktop apps (notably Porofessor.gg, a popular League of Legends companion tool with millions of installs). They focus on player stats, real-time insights, matchmaking, and advertising/monetization for gamers.

### Direct Involvement in Generative AI
- **AI-powered features in products**: They are actively developing and rolling out **AI-enhanced insights** and **AI-powered coaching** in the Porofessor app (e.g., more personalized recommendations, macro/drafting advice, and gameplay analysis for premium users). This is part of their 2025–2026 roadmap for the standalone Electron-based version and Overwolf app. While not every detail specifies “generative,” these features rely on modern AI/ML techniques common in gaming companions (e.g., personalized content generation or predictive coaching).
- **Use of generative AI in marketing**: They have produced ads for Porofessor that use **AI-generated voiceovers** of League of Legends content creators (e.g., synthetic voices mimicking creators like Azzap). This has drawn community discussion on Reddit about the AI voice synthesis. Voice cloning/synthesis is a clear example of generative AI.
- **Data licensing for AI/LLM training**: M.O.B.A. Networks has a growing licensing business around their massive gaming community and user data (from millions of players across apps and sites). They explicitly target **AI training data licensing**, particularly for large language models (LLMs). The CEO and reports describe this as a high-potential, recurring revenue stream expected to generate deals starting in 2026. LLMs are foundational to generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT-style models).

### Through Divestment and Earn-Out Structure
In February 2026, they divested their YouTube network (Union for Gamers / UFG) to focus on core in-game apps and communities. However, the deal includes an earn-out where **M.O.B.A. retains 80% of net proceeds from any AI-related license agreements** entered during the earn-out period (paid quarterly). This directly ties them to ongoing AI (including generative AI) monetization.

### Partners and Collaborations Involving AI
- **Tourn International** (strategic partnership announced August 2025): Tourn handles video content production for M.O.B.A. and the two companies are jointly **exploring AI training data licensing** and other forward-looking AI ventures. The partnership explicitly calls out “high-potential emerging markets such as AI training data licensing” as a revenue opportunity. Tourn itself has AI/ML expertise in content and digital growth.
- Other ad/sales partners (e.g., Venatus, Execute Media, Galaktus, Config Ads) focus on traditional gaming advertising and do not appear to involve generative AI based on public info.

In short, generative AI is not their primary business (they’re a gaming community/ad-tech company), but they actively **use it in marketing**, **develop AI features in flagship products** like Porofessor, and **monetize their data for LLM/generative AI training**—with dedicated partnerships and earn-out structures built around it. This positions AI licensing as a meaningful future growth area alongside their traditional ad revenue.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

And before some fool decides to jump up and down on my head, yes we are actively talking about the other thing.

They're going to cave on not letting people call Jews Nazis.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/scottish-school-pupils-use-ai-to-create-explicit-sexual-and-violent-images-of-their-teachers.1481113/#post-153344002

One of the most dehumanizing experiences as a teacher is finding a video or photo of you on social media taken by a student without your knowledge and edited to humiliate you. Someone sent my wife a video of her in the classroom a couple years ago when they had filmed her without knowing and were singing "big back bitch" over and over in the video. She was in tears. The school said because we didn't catch them with the phone, there's nothing they could do.

[HaughtyFrank]

The hostility is something that neither moderation nor any single person can really fix. It depends entirely on the users themselves, and some users will not perceive themselves as part of the problem either.
Some people are also really bad at reading tones in the written word on the internet. That has never changed either, because people don't realize when they're coming off as too aggressive in a business email.

I love when one of the cunts who creates the hostility joins the discussion and is all 

[HaughtyFrank]

Just love how....

I love when...

Wow, get a room, weirdo

[Boredfrom]

And before some fool decides to jump up and down on my head, yes we are actively talking about the other thing.

They're going to cave on not letting people call Jews Nazis.

Totally.

The worst thing is that there is no real reason to cave outside discord fights and internet friendships. They could totally ignore it as the fucking Mario Galaxy film flame wars has more community engagement.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-fires-attorney-general-pam-bondi.1481209/page-8#post-153351379

Probably TMI, but I had a nightmare a few weeks ago where I was being raped by Pam Bondi. It was not enjoyable.

[Jansen]

From constructive 

For a long time, we have asked members not to compare Israel to Nazis for two reasons: firstly because it is fairly problematic on the face of it, for what should be obvious reasons; and second, because the comparison is a sort of white supremacist and neo-nazi shibboleth, a way for them to signal to each other while hiding in plain sight, much like the term "zio," which was literally invented by David Duke himself.



However, as time has passed and the Israeli government has fallen further and further into fascism and their actions became more and more genocidal, this has become a harder ask. While the reasons for us asking users not to make the comparison have not changed, the situation around Israel and Palestine has intensified and made the comparison more and more relevant as time has passed.



As a result, we have gotten together and decided to allow the comparison. We would like to ask that people not overuse it and try to limit it's use to moments where it is called for and not just throw it out randomly just because a thread happens to be about a Jewish person or someone who is from Israel. If this turns into some kind of spam post across the forum we will reevaluate this, so please try not to over do it.



All that said, we have been getting a myriad of complaints from Jewish users, even those who feel the Nazi comparison is apt and shouldn't be banned, that some of the rhetoric users have been pushing has been inching uncomfortably close to bigotry, if not actually crossing the line. As such, while we will allow the comparison, people need to be aware that they, for example, cannot just replace the word "jewish" in a sentence with the word "zionist" and everything is ok and you've done enough to avoid sounding bigoted. If you're writing a post and you replace "zionist" with "jewish" and it sounds bigoted, maybe the point needs to be reframed. The genocide that Israel is conducting is horrific, but that doesn't mean bigotry should be on the table.



Beyond that, and this is a more general point, please do be more careful with the social media accounts you post. When the Iran war thread started, there were quite a few literal Nazi and white supremacist accounts that were posted. While we were nice and just removed said tweets, we will start actioning people who do post Nazi accounts. So please, just give the accounts a quick look over, maybe google the name to see if it's legit, it isn't a huge ask on our part.



Anyway, we are going undo the bans that are under contention and adjust internal and external guidelines going forward.

Caved like a lil bitch as expected

[DavidCroquet]

[killamajig]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

[killamajig]

**Yes, M.O.B.A. Networks (wearemoba.com) does work that involves and uses generative AI, both directly and through partnerships/monetization strategies.** Their core business is operating large gaming communities, websites (e.g., MOBAFire, League of Graphs), and in-game desktop apps (notably Porofessor.gg, a popular League of Legends companion tool with millions of installs). They focus on player stats, real-time insights, matchmaking, and advertising/monetization for gamers.

### Direct Involvement in Generative AI
- **AI-powered features in products**: They are actively developing and rolling out **AI-enhanced insights** and **AI-powered coaching** in the Porofessor app (e.g., more personalized recommendations, macro/drafting advice, and gameplay analysis for premium users). This is part of their 2025–2026 roadmap for the standalone Electron-based version and Overwolf app. While not every detail specifies “generative,” these features rely on modern AI/ML techniques common in gaming companions (e.g., personalized content generation or predictive coaching).
- **Use of generative AI in marketing**: They have produced ads for Porofessor that use **AI-generated voiceovers** of League of Legends content creators (e.g., synthetic voices mimicking creators like Azzap). This has drawn community discussion on Reddit about the AI voice synthesis. Voice cloning/synthesis is a clear example of generative AI.
- **Data licensing for AI/LLM training**: M.O.B.A. Networks has a growing licensing business around their massive gaming community and user data (from millions of players across apps and sites). They explicitly target **AI training data licensing**, particularly for large language models (LLMs). The CEO and reports describe this as a high-potential, recurring revenue stream expected to generate deals starting in 2026. LLMs are foundational to generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT-style models).

### Through Divestment and Earn-Out Structure
In February 2026, they divested their YouTube network (Union for Gamers / UFG) to focus on core in-game apps and communities. However, the deal includes an earn-out where **M.O.B.A. retains 80% of net proceeds from any AI-related license agreements** entered during the earn-out period (paid quarterly). This directly ties them to ongoing AI (including generative AI) monetization.

### Partners and Collaborations Involving AI
- **Tourn International** (strategic partnership announced August 2025): Tourn handles video content production for M.O.B.A. and the two companies are jointly **exploring AI training data licensing** and other forward-looking AI ventures. The partnership explicitly calls out “high-potential emerging markets such as AI training data licensing” as a revenue opportunity. Tourn itself has AI/ML expertise in content and digital growth.
- Other ad/sales partners (e.g., Venatus, Execute Media, Galaktus, Config Ads) focus on traditional gaming advertising and do not appear to involve generative AI based on public info.

In short, generative AI is not their primary business (they’re a gaming community/ad-tech company), but they actively **use it in marketing**, **develop AI features in flagship products** like Porofessor, and **monetize their data for LLM/generative AI training**—with dedicated partnerships and earn-out structures built around it. This positions AI licensing as a meaningful future growth area alongside their traditional ad revenue.

I know the mods all say they have lives and jobs so they cant action stuff right away but how fast would that get nuked if it was posted on Reeee?

[simiansmarts]

From constructive 

For a long time, we have asked members not to compare Israel to Nazis for two reasons: firstly because it is fairly problematic on the face of it, for what should be obvious reasons; and second, because the comparison is a sort of white supremacist and neo-nazi shibboleth, a way for them to signal to each other while hiding in plain sight, much like the term "zio," which was literally invented by David Duke himself.



However, as time has passed and the Israeli government has fallen further and further into fascism and their actions became more and more genocidal, this has become a harder ask. While the reasons for us asking users not to make the comparison have not changed, the situation around Israel and Palestine has intensified and made the comparison more and more relevant as time has passed.



As a result, we have gotten together and decided to allow the comparison. We would like to ask that people not overuse it and try to limit it's use to moments where it is called for and not just throw it out randomly just because a thread happens to be about a Jewish person or someone who is from Israel. If this turns into some kind of spam post across the forum we will reevaluate this, so please try not to over do it.



All that said, we have been getting a myriad of complaints from Jewish users, even those who feel the Nazi comparison is apt and shouldn't be banned, that some of the rhetoric users have been pushing has been inching uncomfortably close to bigotry, if not actually crossing the line. As such, while we will allow the comparison, people need to be aware that they, for example, cannot just replace the word "jewish" in a sentence with the word "zionist" and everything is ok and you've done enough to avoid sounding bigoted. If you're writing a post and you replace "zionist" with "jewish" and it sounds bigoted, maybe the point needs to be reframed. The genocide that Israel is conducting is horrific, but that doesn't mean bigotry should be on the table.



Beyond that, and this is a more general point, please do be more careful with the social media accounts you post. When the Iran war thread started, there were quite a few literal Nazi and white supremacist accounts that were posted. While we were nice and just removed said tweets, we will start actioning people who do post Nazi accounts. So please, just give the accounts a quick look over, maybe google the name to see if it's legit, it isn't a huge ask on our part.



Anyway, we are going undo the bans that are under contention and adjust internal and external guidelines going forward.

Caved like a lil bitch as expected