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

[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.

[Orange Juice Box]

Grass everywhere is some yt european bullshit, literally, abolish it. It's fucking colonialism in the soil. I hate this fucking world, first NFTs and AI now this.

Fact:  Grass, or lawns, didn't exist until post-antebellum when they were created to show solidarity for the defeated southern plantations.  Then they started popping up in New England and became adopted by suburbs as a explicit reminder that black people were excluded from the 1950's housing boom.  Telling a white person to touch grass is empowering them to remember the "good ol' days."  Telling a minority to touch grass is ordering them to remember their place.

Fact: 

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.

I think about this in terms of the show Squid Games.  They go into a crazy competition to erase their insurmountable debt.  But if you die while playing you don't have to worry about debt anymore

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-found-a-wallet-with-at-least-7000-in-it.1503502/

From the genius behind the Appalachian trail thread comes a new lie

[Taco Bell Tower]

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

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

I appreciate you using one of Nintex's email burners so the riotious account lives on 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-found-a-wallet-with-at-least-7000-in-it.1503502/

From the genius behind the Appalachian trail thread comes a new lie

Uh? What lie? He did finish and took photos. I missed something?

[DavidCroquet]

"What the hell, my wallet had 10k cash in it when I lost it!!"

"I dunno man, I even posted a contemperanous thread in an online forum right when I found it stating clearly that the wallet had $7000 in it."

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i’m-thru-hiking-the-appalachian-trail-ama-ive-finished.1162509/page-15

 

What I’m missing?

[clockwork5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-found-a-wallet-with-at-least-7000-in-it.1503502/

From the genius behind the Appalachian trail thread comes a new lie

It was a super old man. It was in the basket of a motorized cart. He wasn't home so I gave it to his cousin that lives with him. I got no reward.

This dumbass went to the address on the ID and just handed the $7k to his “cousin” who said “he’s not home” lol

If that was your master plan you should have just kept the thing. Newsfeed lots of super old men have outdated IDs.

[Nintex]

The nintex burner email era 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-found-a-wallet-with-at-least-7000-in-it.1503502/

From the genius behind the Appalachian trail thread comes a new lie

Uh? What lie? He did finish and took photos. I missed something?

Bro just shut the fuck up and let me post 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/just-found-a-wallet-with-at-least-7000-in-it.1503502/

From the genius behind the Appalachian trail thread comes a new lie

Uh? What lie? He did finish and took photos. I missed something?

Bro just shut the fuck up and let me post 

I mean, dude actually did the thing he wanted to do. Credit where the credit is due.

[Snoopy]

It was an old man



I gave it to his cousin

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/you-do-not-hate-mike-ybarra-enough.1503727/#post-154289944

Can't spell miserable without ERA.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/diablo-iv-lord-of-hatred-ot-the-violence-you-long-for.1502023/page-3#post-154234333

 User Banned: Troll account

Thanks for letting us know?

I wanted to try doing the classic Resetera thing! I'm a longtime lurker, but so many regulars on the gaming side do drive-bys like this for franchises they're not interested in, I always thought it looked satisfying to do haha. Maybe I'll also throw in some complaints about the price? All in good fun though!

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-xiv-officially-announced-for-nintendo-switch-2-planned-release-for-august-2026-requires-separate-subscription-due-to-nintendo.1501222/page-4#post-154171396

 User banned (permanent): Troll account

Im 100% sure its greedy Square Enix.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot1-mega-midterm-mania.1452433/page-78#post-154292581

trans rights are autism rights are human rights.

[Orange Juice Box]

Did that NYT article not produce anything on Era? - Why petty theft might be the new political protest.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/shoplifting-political-protest-microlooting-whole-foods.html
https://archive.ph/HRyG2

From The Atlantic's summary.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/hasan-piker-stealing-podcast/686917/
https://archive.ph/nX7PT

On Wednesday a New York Times podcast hosted the Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and the New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino for a discussion of lawbreaking, which they both endorsed not as a habit of mind but as resistance to actual tyranny, today. They agreed that shoplifting from grocery stores such as Whole Foods is laudable, because (as Tolentino says, without evidence) “every major grocery chain” steals from workers and customers. Piker said he would steal cars, “if I could get away with it.”  Tolentino encourages people to steal from her own employer, The New Yorker, but does not explain which high crimes David Remnick has committed to earn this comeuppance.

They could not look or sound more unoppressed if they tried. Spiegelman invokes Jean Valjean, the Misérable who stole a loaf of bread to feed his family, but when offering a modern example of virtuous theft, she asks why she should have to pay for “organic avocados.” Piker says that “we’ve got to get back to cool crimes,” including Louvre heists, “bank robberies, stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature.” Crime, to these people, appears to be a series of Thomas Crown affairs, punctuated for some reason by free guacamole. Tolentino is at least self-critical. She lists the immoral acts that unsettle her conscience: “getting iced coffee in a plastic cup,” going on vacation in “so many planes,” and failing to organize workers.

(The belief that you are oppressed by Whole Foods, however, is a modern psychosis.) Among the remarkable aspects of this conversation is the ignorance of this long, eventful history—as if the upshot of the past century of leftism is that you can simply take things, and maybe the justice of it all will start to even out, as society gives way to what Piker approvingly calls “full chaos.”

I shoplifted fancy mustards when I was in college because I couldn't afford them.  But I didn't pretend I was leading a protest.  I knew I was doing it for the intrinsic sexual thrill.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/paramount-will-be-49-5-foreign-owned-after-wbd-merger.1503577/#post-154282549

Very cool, I love that the big strong USA's asshole can fit the entire forearms of the Saudis AND Israel at once. Oh there's room for a third, Russia get on in here.

[benji]

The belief that workers frequently get a raw deal is an old one; roughly 200 years of leftist R & D has gone into figuring out how to arrange governments to make it easier for labor to negotiate with management on fair terms. Also old is the idea that health is a collective responsibility, and that giving a dignified life to the poor is part of the government’s job. (The belief that you are oppressed by Whole Foods, however, is a modern psychosis.) Among the remarkable aspects of this conversation is the ignorance of this long, eventful history—as if the upshot of the past century of leftism is that you can simply take things, and maybe the justice of it all will start to even out, as society gives way to what Piker approvingly calls “full chaos.”

I'd say it's pretty in line with Lenin, Mao, Marcuse, Pol Pot, etc. who all advocated for something like "full chaos" so as to permanently collapse the status quo as the status quo was always and everywhere reactionary until it could be fully abolished for the new communist reality of the new man. Most of the "woke" shit, especially the constant struggle session of social media, is just the Cultural Revolution replayed, a bunch of credentialed elites who run the system telling everyone they need to destroy the system by engaging in petty random chaos and using revolutionary language as cover for settling petty personal clique scores all without any overall goal at all let alone an organizing principle or method.

See also:

What is really going on here? Spiegelman, the interviewer, is correct to notice that something is happening “with our moral code,” and that Piker is a driver of that moral change, or an example of it. “There are so many moral compromises I make every day,” she says. I am sure she is right: So do I. Fretting over trivia such as using a plastic cup, then treating weighty matters such as murder with the same gravity, may be a source of the moral vertigo.

Piker and Tolentino deserve some credit for sensing that their theory of social change is incomplete. They might even sense how pathetic they sound, when pretending to be outlaws, even though all that is at stake is a few lemons or a Netflix password. “We have lost the muscle that is built up to be able to engage in” collective action, Tolentino says. “We lack the willpower,” Piker agrees, “because we don’t even know what that would look like.”

Everything is political and now the task of change becomes impossible because the burden is too great. So you're left with just being a selfish anti-social asshole to everyone. Unfortunately the system, the status quo, pushes back:

Piker says, in my favorite part of the interview, that he hates stealing stuff because when Piker was a boy, his father caught him stealing from a friend and punished him. (Good dad.) Piker also says, rather gallantly, that he could not countenance dining and dashing, and that he would even cover the bill if he saw someone else steal services this way.

To them, it seems, theft is fine as long as you don’t have to look anyone in the eye when you do it, and as long as you get away with it. (Conveniently, corporations have no faces. It is no coincidence that Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was shot in the back.) This is the opposite of gallant—and I think the lack of willpower and “muscle” is related to the cowardice inherent in almost all the acts they endorse or excuse. Spiegelman calls shoplifting “micro-looting,” a euphemism whose purpose is to avoid the inglorious term shoplifting, because shoplifting is what children and petty criminals do.

Their radical rhetoric always exists in the abstract, in dialogue, and they never connect it to "what it would look like" because that invokes cognitive dissonance about themselves. See Nepenthe saying this to Morrigan:

Way to prove your inability to sense a joke. If you think I'd seriously be in favor of killing billions of people, then I don't know how we worked together for so long.

Even as Nepenthe quite regularly advocates for large-scale social actions that would kill billions if carried out while morally condemning anyone who opposes any of it and once made a thread seriously lamenting that nobody ever pictures the upside of an actual apocalypse for allowing a Year Zero.

[Boredfrom]

ERA suddenly forget how they were crying about Australia and payment processors just last year.  

I think where people are getting frustrated is that hosting literal Nazi groups, overtly racist and sexist games, and hate speech is also bad for PR and brings negative press, but Valve seems completely okay with ignoring that content. I think the most likely reason for this is that it was getting mainstream media attention and Valve didn't want that heat, and I don't think there's some conspiracy that they're removing this and not other things, but it's typical corporate bullshit to pull this because it's getting bad press and not pull all of the other reprehensible content on the platform because it doesn't actively have mainstream eyes on it.

 Yeah of course, I fully agree. Thankfully, Valve is actively being prompted by the Australian government to explain how it's identifying, preventing, and responding to extremism, and there are some big fines and ramifications if they don't comply and if they don't take action, so with any luck in the future it won't just be the stuff that gets mainstream media attention, but all of the repugnant shit

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-pulls-game-created-by-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect.1503445/page-2#post-154294564

Also, EatChildren is such a disappointing asshole.

[Boredfrom]

Why is ERA still bitching about people not being happy about Charlie Kirk death? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/system-of-a-down-really-fell-off-on-their-political-messaging-huh.1503790/#post-154295053



(I take my political opinions from 00’s nu metal bands  )

[benji]

Thankfully, Valve is actively being prompted by the Australian government to explain how it's identifying, preventing, and responding to extremism, and there are some big fines and ramifications if they don't comply and if they don't take action

Ideally they'd reply with "ACAB" and refuse to negotiate with terrorists. But now we suddenly love that businesses want to make money because it means they'll comply with authoritarian nonsense like this.

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[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-pulls-game-created-by-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect.1503445/page-2#post-154291603

In terms of PR moves, I get why they'd do it, but for the sake of philosophical argument - should guilt of a crime automatically mean erasure of activity?

Given how ERA loves to cancel people based on merely an accusation on social media, yes! For ERA, a criminal conviction often isn't even needed. Look at how they still try to erase Harry Potter from existence even today.

[benji]

"EXCUSE ME SIR, EXPLAIN how you are IDENTIFYING, PREVENTING and RESPONDING to extremism." -  

"I'm not." -

[Boredfrom]

I've been purposely ignoring especially US news because I don't feel particularly compelled to wallow in a play by play of the bad direction I've already known things are heading. Such as for instance the bullets meant for fascists. So I'm more surprised by that bit of bad news than that of Valve being Valve in response to it.

Though the problem isn't really independent libertarian bastion and brave adamant protector of free expression Valve, taking action in line with fascist government interests here, but its unwillingness to take action in line with the interests of its targets.

Valve confirms leaving negative reviews due to a game containing Muslims is valid and not subject to removal
https://bsky.app/profile/mikerose.bsky.social/post/3m7nfhwfwms2a
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

This reminder of Valve's position makes me have second thoughts about the Steam Controller. I'm at least less enthused about the idea of getting one next week.

  

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-pulls-game-created-by-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect.1503445/page-2#post-154291603

In terms of PR moves, I get why they'd do it, but for the sake of philosophical argument - should guilt of a crime automatically mean erasure of activity?

Given how ERA loves to cancel people based on merely an accusation on social media, yes! For ERA, a criminal conviction often isn't even needed. Look at how they still try to erase Harry Potter from existence even today.

Trying to shoot people and kill the president is not as bad as some dude being mean at Twitter.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/steam-pulls-game-created-by-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect.1503445/page-2#post-154291603

In terms of PR moves, I get why they'd do it, but for the sake of philosophical argument - should guilt of a crime automatically mean erasure of activity?

Though the problem isn't really independent libertarian bastion and brave adamant protector of free expression Valve, taking action in line with fascist government interests here

They just made it so you can't buy it anymore: https://store.steampowered.com/app/945530/Bohrdom/

Probably because people were buying it to post reviews about it just because of this. 99.9% of all the reviews all time of the game came since the WHCD.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

   

[benji]

Another "ally" who gives up instead of staying to fight the Zionazis and protect the trans community.

[Boredfrom]

not that i always had good intentions ofc but i mean even when i did have good intentions, it was still kind of a miserable experience posting
there lol