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

[HaughtyFrank]

Was wondering if famiboards had any greatest hits and came across the one where they were banning people for liking the wrong posts

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=336&pid=109032#pid109032

[TylenolJones]

Who’s alt account is this?

[Uncle]

It’s too funny. The third post in the red/blue button thread is some retard who mixed up the colors. 

I MIXED UP THE BUTTONS! lol

I meant to say blue

That’s why I am pushing the red button. Too many people are so stupid that they don’t even know what button they are pushing. I’m not potentially putting my life in the hands of people who don’t even know which button does what.

That and the fact that 100% of people who have a child who depends on them are pressing the red button, excluding the idiots who get confused and push the wrong button, of course.

Maybe I'm too stupid to understand the conundrum, but how is this even a difficult question? Everybody who presses the red button survives regardless, meaning blue is the "maybe suicide" button. So only people who don't want to live should even consider pressing the blue button.

because they ascribe responsibility to you for the deaths if you push red

if red wins, then your choice makes you directly responsible for killing all those blue people, and you knew going into it that not everyone was going to choose blue so you were well aware that choosing red contributed to murder

the question seems to be one of how far removed you can be from bad consequences and still be held directly responsible, people who push red are like "I can't control anyone else's decisions, it's not my fault someone else picked the shitty kill yourself button" and people who push blue are like "I have to save those poor people by potentially sacrificing myself as well"

[Mediocre Lager]

Was wondering if famiboards had any greatest hits and came across the one where they were banning people for liking the wrong posts

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=336&pid=109032#pid109032

This is exactly what would happen if Era had likes, and exactly why they should implement it.

[Mediocre Lager]

Was wondering if famiboards had any greatest hits and came across the one where they were banning people for liking the wrong posts

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=336&pid=109032#pid109032

This is exactly what would happen if Era had likes, and exactly why they should implement it.

GENOCIDE!!

[benji]

Some of the people in that WHCD thread seem to be arguing that because Trump lies it's impossible for anyone to know what's really true or not and so nobody should be criticized for believing whatever they want. And like... no? That's not how things should work.

[Boredfrom]

Fiction acting like she was actually useful  against misinformation and not another corpo tool with her own bias.

This mistrust towards media didnt start with fucking AI but with people like her playing favorites.

She doesn’t even dare to remind everyone that she was fired from TikTok.

[simiansmarts]

Who’s alt account is this?

This MJ discourse can be summed up as a bunch of soy millennials coming to shocking revelation that not that many people believe MJ touched kids

[Boredfrom]

That is sad for his victims.

[Boredfrom]

Stupid thread with some stupid posts:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hot-take-you-ever-get-the-feeling-that-americans-just-dont-get-video-games.1502764/

I will say that capitalism does not understand videogames, as it does not understand art.
And this is represent where the capitalism is more rampant, being it the AAA Videogame industry from USA mainly, but also Japan, China and Korea in some practices.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot1-mega-midterm-mania.1452433/page-78#post-154273111

Texas Tech issues memo to staff forbidding the teaching of "gender fluidity" or LGBT topics.

The wording of the memo could negatively affect students who were soon to graduate with womens study degrees and such. The genocide is progressing.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/russia-has-begun-a-full-scale-invasion-in-ukraine-read-staff-posts.556366/page-3247

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-palestine-the-ongoing-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-ipc-confirms-famine-in-gaza-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-502

[Uncle]

gendercide

[Jansen]

That is sad for his victims.

But some of y'all continue to be weird about this

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mothership-how-vaginal-imagery-in-metroid-prime-4-redefines-samus-%E2%80%94-and-why-it-matters-for-shooters-possible-spoilers.1502926/

Seems like a very dumb article that somehow tries to tie vagina imagery and colonization together but I mostly just hope someone trans gets upset over all the vagina focus

Edit: actually never mind, I shouldn't be surprised that the author is trans

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-miss-filler-episodes-of-tv.1503337/

Just come to thebire, you’ll have all the filler content you can handle and then some.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-pulls-game-created-by-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect.1503445/#post-154277095

ERA upset that the wannabe assassin's game got pulled.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-pulls-game-created-by-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect.1503445/#post-154277566

They would do more if they cleaned up their forums that breed nuts like the dude

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mothership-how-vaginal-imagery-in-metroid-prime-4-redefines-samus-%E2%80%94-and-why-it-matters-for-shooters-possible-spoilers.1502926/

Seems like a very dumb article that somehow tries to tie vagina imagery and colonization together but I mostly just hope someone trans gets upset over all the vagina focus

Edit: actually never mind, I shouldn't be surprised that the author is trans

Same, all the women I know who were playing or watching the game immediately clocked it and were talking about it during the opening hours. It's not subtle and I am surprised how you could miss it.

The visual (and audio) direction is one of the few things about this game I have a hard time faulting. While I think a lot of the maternal themes fall by the wayside as the game goes on a little bit, and they also arguably feel a little stereotypical ("Samus is a woman, clearly she's a mother figure") it's also a perspective you so rarely see depicted in any kind of action game. Other series starring women protagonists very rarely touch on gender and sexuality, especially in these kinds of more subtle ways.


Insecure men upset that anything womanly could appear in "their" beloved games and refusal to acknowledge or engage with those themes. A tale as old as time.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-pulls-game-created-by-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect.1503445/#post-154277566

They would do more if they cleaned up their forums that breed nuts like the dude

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mothership-how-vaginal-imagery-in-metroid-prime-4-redefines-samus-%E2%80%94-and-why-it-matters-for-shooters-possible-spoilers.1502926/

Seems like a very dumb article that somehow tries to tie vagina imagery and colonization together but I mostly just hope someone trans gets upset over all the vagina focus

Edit: actually never mind, I shouldn't be surprised that the author is trans

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Disgusting

[Nintex]

People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.  

Jimmy Kimmel is like the reverse of Santa Clause he only brings hate and DEATH. Someone stop this deranged lunatic while we bomb Iran 

Thank you debra. We need absolute slu... I mean supporters like you 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-dmitry-glukhovsky-the-author-of-the-metro-book-series-who-is-directly-working-on-metro-2039-with-4a-games-is-a-zionist-and-a-genocide-denier.1494103/#post-153881686

 User Banned (1 Month): Inflammatory Generalization; Antagonizing Fellow Members; History of the Same

Just what the world needs, another milkshake duck.

Are we going to give him a pass here like with Daniel Vavra or?

Half this forum has given Microsoft a pass, who did much worst. Including some people in this thread. So I imagine it is going to be largely overlooked.

So, not only have these retards corrupted the definition of genocide, they are also co-opting concepts like "genocide denier" too?

Fucking shameless.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-pulls-game-created-by-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect.1503445/#post-154277566

They would do more if they cleaned up their forums that breed nuts like the dude

Are you trying to get me banned on Era? B-Dubya reads this thread. 

[Boredfrom]

Kinda telling that this one gets pulled and other far more atrocious things stay there.

If anything, these assholes should ask what is the common denominator between the games that get pulled out and if there is an overreach.

Honestly, I want to see Valve reasons remove the game, even if obvious, just to some place that is not ERA has a real conversation about it.

Well yeah, it was plausible that he would get hit with a terrorism charge and that would make for a logistical nightmare. Easier to just pull the game.

Oh, I wasn’t thinking about that…

[Potato]

Honestly, dude sounds like a Resetera member

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-27/what-we-know-about-cole-allen-white-house-shooter/106610236

[simiansmarts]

Honestly, dude sounds like a Resetera member

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-27/what-we-know-about-cole-allen-white-house-shooter/106610236

We saw his bluesky account, he's exactly that.

[HaughtyFrank]

Honestly, dude sounds like a Resetera member

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-27/what-we-know-about-cole-allen-white-house-shooter/106610236

There really is a decent chance he was on there

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mothership-how-vaginal-imagery-in-metroid-prime-4-redefines-samus-%E2%80%94-and-why-it-matters-for-shooters-possible-spoilers.1502926/

Seems like a very dumb article that somehow tries to tie vagina imagery and colonization together but I mostly just hope someone trans gets upset over all the vagina focus

Edit: actually never mind, I shouldn't be surprised that the author is trans

Literally the first thing I thought of when I saw that thread was "what are the chances the author is trans"  

Some of the articles from that site btw

https://www.mothership.blog/you-know-what-resident-evil-requiem-fatness-isnt-scary/

https://www.mothership.blog/disco-elysium-and-the-myth-of-the-male-loneliness-epidemic/

https://www.mothership.blog/pokemons-character-customization-lets-me-live-like-the-girl-i-want-to-be-and-im-not-the-only-one/



You'll be shocked to learn the site was started by Maddy Myers.

[Nintex]

When Karoline with the cross dangling before her cleavage said message boards I thought she was talking about Resetera.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/mothership-how-vaginal-imagery-in-metroid-prime-4-redefines-samus-%E2%80%94-and-why-it-matters-for-shooters-possible-spoilers.1502926/

Seems like a very dumb article that somehow tries to tie vagina imagery and colonization together but I mostly just hope someone trans gets upset over all the vagina focus

Edit: actually never mind, I shouldn't be surprised that the author is trans

Same, all the women I know who were playing or watching the game immediately clocked it and were talking about it during the opening hours. It's not subtle and I am surprised how you could miss it.

The visual (and audio) direction is one of the few things about this game I have a hard time faulting. While I think a lot of the maternal themes fall by the wayside as the game goes on a little bit, and they also arguably feel a little stereotypical ("Samus is a woman, clearly she's a mother figure") it's also a perspective you so rarely see depicted in any kind of action game. Other series starring women protagonists very rarely touch on gender and sexuality, especially in these kinds of more subtle ways.


Insecure men upset that anything womanly could appear in "their" beloved games and refusal to acknowledge or engage with those themes. A tale as old as time.

Literally who has been upset by vagina doors? Vagina doors aren't new either, it has been a sci-fi aesthetic since forever. 
Instead of fighting strawmen they should be more concerned about the author popping a lady boner while playing

But this imagery is far from simple shock value. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's yonic symbolism enhances player curiosity, making Viewros an erotic element to the player — something they are compelled to open and explore with care.