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

[Snoopy]

Disney thread is up to 7 pages of autistic screeching now

Making this thread is loser behavior to be honest, and I don't even mean that in an ad hominem way believe it or not. Do some soul searching.

Do some soul searching.

[Besticus Maximus]

And despite my crippling anxiety, chronic ineptitude, wisftul laziness and grubby appearance since childhood my biggest issue has been a certain redolent lament at the world failing to listen to the answers to the big issues ive been thinking on all that time

[benji]

LRG is garbage, but what’s the point here? This person claims/ appears to be a dev, but never looked at mGBA’s license? LGR doesn’t need to ask for permission - mGBA is under the MPL 2.0: https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/blob/master/LICENSE

Edit: I can’t be arsed to look into it much further, it’s possible LRG violates the license by not disclosing the use of mGBA source code and not making the source code available (if they made any modifications), but they still wouldn’t need express permission to use mGBA. It’s called Mozilla Public License for a reason.

endrift is the mgba developer and also the person who gave it that license. Look at the author of the commit: https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/commits/master/LICENSE

Don't worry, big bucks are coming their way according to the experts:






Related thoughts from some of the replies/quotes around this:






90% of the replies/quotes were some mild variation of FUCK LRG/NEVER SUPPORT LRG.

[jooseloose]

mGBA is open-source, no?

[normalindividual]

Wow a trans retro emulator developer?

edit:

Jeffrey (now Vicki, but not in 2002, so, for purposes of this story, I will refer to my younger child as Jeffrey)
...
 and would throw huge tantrums as part of the cycle).

I don't think using past tense is correct in this instance.

[Besticus Maximus]

“This child has no mazel”

New forum motto?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-286#post-153090694

The more Israel reaches a breaking point and it goes beyond that, the more I have hope for a better world. Muslims, Jews and Christians (and atheists) lived in peace in the occupied land before Israel became a thing and I hope we get closer to a world like this. The younger generation know a lot more than before. I hope their humanity continues to shine through and ruin the lives and careers of every Zionist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-385#post-153570421

100% - Jews, Christians and Muslims and even Atheists coexisted in the land before "Israel" became a thing. There is no need for a racist supremacist ethnostate.

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-286#post-153090694

The more Israel reaches a breaking point and it goes beyond that, the more I have hope for a better world. Muslims, Jews and Christians (and atheists) lived in peace in the occupied land before Israel became a thing and I hope we get closer to a world like this. The younger generation know a lot more than before. I hope their humanity continues to shine through and ruin the lives and careers of every Zionist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-385#post-153570421

100% - Jews, Christians and Muslims and even Atheists coexisted in the land before "Israel" became a thing. There is no need for a racist supremacist ethnostate.

Edit:

What Israel was taught that the world will never put up enough of a fight to counter Israel's expansionism and they are rewarded for their terrorism. Does a nation state that continually functions this way since its inception have a right to exist? If Apartheid South Africa had to be dismantled, if Nazi Germany had to be dismantled, than I would argue that Zionist Israel has to come to an end. That doesn't mean that Jews are to be slaughtered wholesale like many are eager to depict, but the entire political, legislative and security structure has to be flushed down the toilet and replaced with a system that gives equal rights for all. One country for many peoples.

The Jews won’t be slaughtered, just made utterly helpless with no political strength whatsoever, while surrounded by hostile countries. 



What fucking idiot would believe this driv-

THANK YOU for saying it far better than I could have.

Precisely. As someone deeply interested in the history of the Palestinian lands pre-1948

…

Nevermind.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/welcome-new-members-introduce-yourself-here.119184/page-48#post-152875393

Mar 21, 2026

Hello to the ResetEra Community,

I hope everyone is okay in these trying times. Plus, I want to thank the admin/mod who approved my account, you're a star.

I wish everyone good tidings and hope to have some engaging conversations.

[Jansen]

From Constructive 

Black Chamber, and subsequently other people started either downplaying the transphobia or saying it didn't need to keep being stated. As well as the fact that the calls against transphobia with the game were initially because of the Mix It Up poster being trans fetishizing, which is still in the game.

They also gave the cosplay award to the woman in a basic outfit (relative to the rest) but had a light up dildo stuffed down her pants lol. Then you have elements like this which is like something you might expect to find in San Andreas lol. Not really what I'd call positive rep.

Is a little weird to be rehashing it all over half a decade later just because it got a PS5 Pro upgrade lol. Feels a bit like that Jumanji meme.

I sort of understand why people who weren't there might be confused by Cyberpunk's ban, but the people that were and ultimately responsible never learned from it. People really like to gaslight those impacted by bigotry that what they see isn't there and if it turns out that if it is there, it isn't a big deal. I have some posters burned into my memory from then who still go on to downplay every social issue that pops up in their favorite games. And you could say the fact this continues to happen means Cyberpunk shouldn't be singled out, but I think it ended up being partly an apology by the mod team as well so it would feel kind of scummy to reverse that without trans posters on Era having that say, considering they were the ones impacted by the "just be hyped" crowd.

What is the actual official reason for the discussion of the game being banned outside of the one OT? Was it really just the one poster in game? Or the social media content? It just feels so strange and tame compared to stuff in other games (or especially chud social media accounts or directors) that aren't banned or restricted, like most GTA games, Kingdom come, etc. I see so many calls on here to ban XYZ game or topic, then Bdubs shoots it down instantly.

It was never about one poster. The cis posters on this board couldn't be normal about trans members asking for awareness on Cyberpunk's problems and stuck their heads in the sand in the name of multiple back to back hype threads only for it to be discovered the transphobe making those threads was intentionally stirring up shit. At that point they got their hype threads taken away and were stuck to an OT. Even if there has been other games with problematic people, it has never ended up with such a big goose egg on faces as that one. I wouldn't be remotely surprised if there are other shit stirrers around here, but nothing where one is so directly driving the discussion while leaving a paper trail elsewhere at the same time as the affected community is being downplayed.

It got to the point where two of the people involved had a discussion with the staff at the time, who then came back to say they'd agreed to take a ban for a set amount of days as a show of good faith. That's how far out of alignment it all was. The entire thing was a mess at a point in the forum where transphobia and trolling trans members wasn't handled in the same way it is now, and led to some trans members leaving. It's only relatively recently you don't hear that referenced in some of the more contentious discussions here. Really, the fact it is so unique should indicate how significant the rift was.



Pulling a couple of quotes from the last Community thread to save retyping it all:





and an admin:





Both of which sum it up pretty well.

Yeah, it was a unique circumstance, a fucked up confluence of events that led to a lot of hurt and bitter conversations. Rehashing it every time there's some minor Cyberpunk 2077 news is frustrating, and it really shouldn't be used as a precedent for other issues.

Apologies for bringing the topic of CP2077 back up in this thread. I only wanted to query why that one thread was allowed to remain unlocked, I didn't mean to start a relitigation of the entire issue.



I've just checked and the thread in question has since been locked.

That entire situation was so weird. And the user that did all that stuff, if I'm remembering right, basically played staff or fooled them and bragged it about it elsewhere. The entire thing and how it was handled was a mess.

I'm sure i wasn't the only one but the situation got even weirder when i got PMs a year later by other era accounts (which i assume were that users alts) advertising that he was now posting on other forums (which i never heard about) and was in the process of making a elden ring OT in that other forum which he wanted me to know about for some reason.

It was so genuinely awful.

Yep, he went to "ye old place" and bragged about playing the mods and whole forum.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-disney-adults.1485928/



Having been on the receiving end of this kind of thing myself, I'm not just gonna complain when it happens to me, but is it necessary to keep this dogpile going just to guilt trip the OP for stuff they never said or implied.



OP was poorly thought out. Everyone made their point. What are we accomplishing still?

Era members pretend to be anti-bullying, but so many of them sure love dogpiling people.

Some people told some really great, touching stories. Some people properly defined the term Disney Adult.



The OP is at worst rude, but I read it as "how is this fun for people without kids especially at this price".



It was completely fair to emphasize the adult activities, but if we're still doing "adults can't have fun?" / "you must be fun at parties" by page 8, what are we doing?

threads can be closed at the OP's request



OPs made of steel keep their threads open

The thing with dogpiles is, I think they are more often completely organic, than participated in with malice.



Let's say it's an especially bad take, which is guaranteed to get instant replies all saying the same thing. If it hits three pages of almost simultaneous, insta-replies before anyone reads anyone else's comments, then that's it. Because very few people read the first page, let alone a further two, and so the chance of people reading all three and saying 'yeah okay, it's covered here' are low.



I'm not saying that's good, at all, and I'm not saying it's what happened here. But I think that's often the pattern, and its born out of forum dynamics, I think, more than people seeing a victim and wanting to stick the knife in too.



The real solution is to a) have people read more of the thread before they post, and b) think twice about whether they really need to post. If we had cures for those then the internet in general would be a better place, for sure.

That certainly does happen, but it also seems like there are times in which some recognize that someone becomes a "valid target" and they just take out their misery and frustration on the poster even though 5, 10, or 20 people have already done so. As a "community" (a laughable term for this place) we're always at each other's throats it seems.

For sure, and I don't mean to be dismissive or imply those 'hunting' threads don't exist.



My barometer for telling them apart is, "are most of the replies in here short and standalone, or are they quoting each other?"



If it's the former, I'm inclined to say it's just snap-replies without thinking. If it's people building on each other's dunks, furthering some made up conversation with OP or whate
ver, then that I think tips into more what Derbel is talking about.



But when I noticed the difference, I found the former tends to outweigh the latter. Again, not saying either are good.

[Besticus Maximus]

Even atheists! Checkmate, 1-0 allah's mercy

[killamajig]

KSweeley should be getting paid by Baltimore for his tireless efforts

https://www.resetera.com/threads/april-7-2026-baltimore-ravens-to-unveil-new-set-of-uniforms-dubbed-%E2%80%98the-next-flight%E2%80%99-for-2026-season-on-april-16th.1484830/
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/april-9-2026-orioles-unveil-camden-yards-inspired-city-connect-jerseys-new-uniforms-will-make-their-in-game-debut-this-friday.1486582/
crying already in this one

on Sunday day games they wear BLESS editions.

not thread whining...but kinda - why is there a 1 team city connect thread lol.

You in a MDCrabcakefan thread...

It's gonna be about Baltimore lol

Damn, I'm sorry if I'm not wanted on Era.

[Jansen]

I'm certain the mega-toxic Disney Fanatic exists, like they do for everything. But even most hardcore Disney Adults aren't that.







This was entirely harmless until the last sentence, and on some level you knew that or you wouldn't have added it.

It's actually not entirely harmless though? You can't have a conversation with my in laws without them either referencing Disney or relating the conversation to Disney. There's no relationship there because the two of them legit live in a fantasy. They drive over 24 hours to stay at a surrounding motel so they can ride the monorail and brag they pooped at the grand Floridian.







It's thoughtless at best and they're actively trying to troll us at worst. I'd rather them save their money and that's why we stopped giving gifts.



Sounds like we have differing opinions on my nephew and that's fine. But I wouldn't raise my son with like…literally all Mario stuff. Mario clothes. Decorations. Baby products. It's absurd but I'm not here to change your mind.

Tell that to my wife who's devastated she basically lost her father and step mom to Disney. But sure, entirely harmless! It's pretty clear nothing will change your mind so I wish you the best and hope when you're at a park hotel you don't follow after one of my in laws who had a juicy one stewing for hours jus
t to take a dump at Disney.

[HaughtyFrank]

From Constructive 

They also gave the cosplay award to the woman in a basic outfit (relative to the rest) but had a light up dildo stuffed down her pants lol. 

These cunts will call this transphobic and then celebrate drag queens and insist that they should perform in front of children

[Taco Bell Tower]

From Constructive 

Yeah, it was a unique circumstance, a fucked up confluence of events that led to a lot of hurt and bitter conversations. Rehashing it every time there's some minor Cyberpunk 2077 news is frustrating, and it really shouldn't be used as a precedent for other issues.

Who the fuck was hurt and bittered from said conversations?  Yasssssss kween Kyuiji was fucking giggling like a schoolgirl when he did the Australia trick to get Cyberpunk 2077 early and posted how much he came from playing it.

[Snoopy]

10 pages of autistic screeching about Disney. 

Not just this, but people taking issue with others enjoying themselves is manufactured negativity for the sake of it which is absolutely unhealthy. As others have said, it's ofc a far milder form, but this is where stereotyping comes from and to keep walking that trail leads to things like racism, homophobia etc.

Hell if we really take it a step further some of the adults I know who enjoy it have a physical disability. You get special treatment under this case at the park (only been to Paris) and often in regular life that special treatment you'd get would be negative. It's the opposite in the park so it makes a nice short break from a rough reality.

I doubt the people arguing against adults going to the park alone would argue against the disabled feeling a little more cared for briefly ofc. That's why it's silly to be judging people from a glance. If there's some other toxic group of fans, shock and awe, that exists in every fandom so if anything the thread should be complaining about toxic people, while the topic itself is toxic ironically.

Anyone who laughs at middle aged men going to Disney is 1 step away from becoming a homophobe

[Alpacx]

310 guests?

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-your-common-food-cravings.1486870/

entremet-bot back to asking the hard hitting questions.

I'm not a sweet tooth. I do enjoy soft serve in the summer and nice chocolate chip cookie, preferably from a bakery not supermarket mass market stuff.

I am a huge fat and salt tooth, tho.

Pepperoni pizza, gourmet cheeses, burgers, French fries, bagels, soul food, ramen (shop, not instant)

Those are my cravings.

Hbu?

Why does he ask questions about personal tastes? My answer to all his threads are "who gives a shit?" 

You like pineapple on pizza? Cool. You like anchovies on pizza? Cool. You like a birthday cake with candles on your pizza? Have at it. 

There is a real need for Reeee members to have whatever thing they're into be validated. Why else would anyone bother to post in those dumb threads.

[Nintex]

That doesn't mean that Jews are to be slaughtered wholesale like many are eager to depict, but

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/history-buffs-is-napoleon-bonaparte-considered-the-best-general-in-history-with-relatively-modern-armies.1487158/

Relatively modern meaning actual ranking systems and organization. The Romans were probably among the first to have organized armies — centurions, etc.

Moreover, he implemented many innovative strategies, such as having self-contained units of soldiers, with support, cavalry, and infantry, all in one unit. This aided in speed and mobility. This has been copied ever since. As a tactic RPG fan, it makes sense!

Again, not an expert here, but he seems to be held in very high esteem as a military leader and the top dude.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/history-buffs-is-napoleon-bonaparte-considered-the-best-general-in-history-with-relatively-modern-armies.1487158/

Relatively modern meaning actual ranking systems and organization. The Romans were probably among the first to have organized armies — centurions, etc.

Moreover, he implemented many innovative strategies, such as having self-contained units of soldiers, with support, cavalry, and infantry, all in one unit. This aided in speed and mobility. This has been copied ever since. As a tactic RPG fan, it makes sense!

Again, not an expert here, but he seems to be held in very high esteem as a military leader and the top dude.

edit: bot has made 29 threads in one week.

oops, meant to edit not quote myself. doh

[D3RANG3D]

310 guests?

I want you!

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To not make an account...!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-disney-adults.1485928/page-10#post-153588772

Guy I know married a Disney adult that turned out to be a psychopath. She drained their savings accounts and daughter's college funds to support the habit and go VIP on a Disney cruise.. She tried to kill him after he found out and during the trial it was discovered that she took a life insurance policy out on him. Don't get me wrong I love Disney but that woman would kill for Disney.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-disney-adults.1485928/page-10#post-153588772

Guy I know married a Disney adult that turned out to be a psychopath. She drained their savings accounts and daughter's college funds to support the habit and go VIP on a Disney cruise.. She tried to kill him after he found out and during the trial it was discovered that she took a life insurance policy out on him. Don't get me wrong I love Disney but that woman would kill for Disney.

[benji]

What Israel was taught that the world will never put up enough of a fight to counter Israel's expansionism and they are rewarded for their terrorism. Does a nation state that continually functions this way since its inception have a right to exist? If Apartheid South Africa had to be dismantled, if Nazi Germany had to be dismantled, than I would argue that Zionist Israel has to come to an end

But the world didn't dismantle Apartheid South Africa? (And exactly how expansionist was it?) Nor Nazi Germany until it attacked everybody or declared war on them because Japan did?

And how ignorant do you have to be to think "Israel taught the world" this when there's the entire history of the post-war period? What countries have been dismantled in response to "expansionism"? Russia's been gobbling up Ukraine for over a decade at this point. There's countless other examples, it took a decade and another excuse for Saddam's Iraq to be "dismantled" after annexing Kuwait, something which everybody on there disagrees with having been done. North Korea was never dismantled for trying to conquer South Korea. China never dismantled for conquering Tibet or threatening/attacking neighbors. et al.

[Potato]

Tell that to my wife who's devastated she basically lost her father and step mom to Disney. But sure, entirely harmless! It's pretty clear nothing will change your mind so I wish you the best and hope when you're at a park hotel you don't follow after one of my in laws who had a juicy one stewing for hours just to take a dump at Disney.

How the fuck was THAT the part you bolded in that quote?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-your-common-food-cravings.1486870/

entremet-bot back to asking the hard hitting questions.

I'm not a sweet tooth. I do enjoy soft serve in the summer and nice chocolate chip cookie, preferably from a bakery not supermarket mass market stuff.

I am a huge fat and salt tooth, tho.

Pepperoni pizza, gourmet cheeses, burgers, French fries, bagels, soul food, ramen (shop, not instant)

Those are my cravings.

Hbu?

Why does he ask questions about personal tastes? My answer to all his threads are "who gives a shit?" 

You like pineapple on pizza? Cool. You like anchovies on pizza? Cool. You like a birthday cake with candles on your pizza? Have at it. 

There is a real need for Reeee members to have whatever thing they're into be validated. Why else would anyone bother to post in those dumb threads.

Typical behaviour of bullied autists whose parents didn't really like them.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/all-you-had-to-do-is-pay-us-enough-to-live-worker-says-as-he-lights-paper-on-fire-at-a-kimberly-clark-warehouse.1487038/#post-153591397

The "protest shouldn't inconvenience anyone!" brigade is out in full force I see.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/all-you-had-to-do-is-pay-us-enough-to-live-worker-says-as-he-lights-paper-on-fire-at-a-kimberly-clark-warehouse.1487038/#post-153591604

He could have written a strongly worded letter and posted it in the company suggestion box!

There's nothing CEOs fear more than a letter that they immediately throw in the trash!


If people are clutching pearls over stuff like this, they're going to faint over what people start doing next. "Respectability politics" and "protesting the right way" (I.e. easily ignored) never works.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/all-you-had-to-do-is-pay-us-enough-to-live-worker-says-as-he-lights-paper-on-fire-at-a-kimberly-clark-warehouse.1487038/page-2#post-153592111

"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics"

^^That was a suffragette but honestly it applies. Asking people to continue to behave rationally while they are ground down to dust beneath the boots of capitalism is a failing endeavor. A few more of these are more likely to bring about structural change than holding a funny sign in a designated protest zone.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/all-you-had-to-do-is-pay-us-enough-to-live-worker-says-as-he-lights-paper-on-fire-at-a-kimberly-clark-warehouse.1487038/page-2#post-153593188

"All you had to do is pay us enough to live," then proceeds to ensure no one gets paid again. Literal dumbass.

I bet you'd hate to learn why sabotage is called sabotage.

His coworkers are going to suffer horrifically in the wake of this while the people responsible for their low wages will get to collect insurance.

Why can't change just be painless and convenient and happen from my comfy couch 😭

The "protest shouldn't inconvenience anyone!" brigade is out in full force I see.

Yep, the clowns and liberals are present and accounted for.

Support of revolution and fighting back…except for the revolution and fighting back happening now. Always good as long as nobody is inconvenienced. The types that will say they supported and were there all along. No critique of the capital owners actions that led workers to sabotage; only critique for the workers.

Like clockwork.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/all-you-had-to-do-is-pay-us-enough-to-live-worker-says-as-he-lights-paper-on-fire-at-a-kimberly-clark-warehouse.1487038/page-2#post-153594721

Nice. Just don't film yourself.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/all-you-had-to-do-is-pay-us-enough-to-live-worker-says-as-he-lights-paper-on-fire-at-a-kimberly-clark-warehouse.1487038/page-2#post-153594934

A-fucking-men. Protests that aren't disruptive aren't protests - they're virtue signalling, self-congratulatory theater.

That still has a place, to be clear. But if that's *all* you have, you aren't really trying to make change. Change requires power and leverage, period.

[benji]

Why don't they ever cite any examples of these supposedly successful violent protests?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-up-with-disney-adults.1485928/page-10#post-153588772

Guy I know married a Disney adult that turned out to be a psychopath. She drained their savings accounts and daughter's college funds to support the habit and go VIP on a Disney cruise.. She tried to kill him after he found out and during the trial it was discovered that she took a life insurance policy out on him. Don't get me wrong I love Disney but that woman would kill for Disney.

You'd think a story like that would be all over the internet...