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

[Vertigo]

That daughter turning trans thread could go either way.

I suspect a few bulls in china shops will rage into that thread to 'correct' the OP

[malfoyking]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-daughter-came-out-as-transgender-and-i-am-conflicted.1519297/

Yesterday my 12-yr old daughter came out to me as transgender. I gave them a hug and told them I loved them. The sexuality of my children really doesn't concern me; I'm happy if they are happy. I did ask them to give me some grace as I adjust from she/her to they/them/it. I mean, I still call my Subaru my Jetta, even though I've owned two other cars since I last owned a Jetta in 2015. I'm going to slip up.

That's not where my conflict lies. I am proud of them and support whatever they want to do, however, we live in an extremely right-wing and religious town. I fully intend to support them however I can, but I also want to caution them about broadcasting their sexuality in this town. I want to prepare them for what might come their way and I don't want it to seem like I am trying to silence them or that I am not proud of them. I'm just concerned about their well-being. They identified as gay earlier in the year, so I don't know if their identity will change again or not. I've never been a 12-yr old female that identified as trans; this is new to me. I just want to be there for them and make sure they are as happy as they can be.

Just today I had to pull my son out of high school for the day because a classmate said "I feel sorry for people of the LGBTQ community for being "like that" and that "instead of throwing the Jews in the concentration camps like they deserved we should throw the gays in there instead". We are Jewish. Was that kid was being a garden variety fuck or was he deliberately saying that to my son because of his sister? I don't know.

I want them to be safe and I am struggling a bit on how to have that conversation. Any suggestions would be welcome. My apologies if this comes off rambling; the concentration camp comment has be a bit fired up.

Your child, not your daughter. 

Edit:

If your child came out as non binary, which I'm assuming from the pronouns, then you don't have a "daughter" anymore.

You don't have a daughter anymore... hahaha.



This whole thing is still hands down the stupidest thing to ever affect society ever. ever!

[Boredfrom]

Also, why they are talking about the Op-Ed in the Iran war thread?  

Is about Palestine and not Iran, unless they think Iran has hand on certain terror organization that killed and taped people some years ago.  

Why would you celebrate that the “Zionist” are getting told by publishing an opinion piece about mass rape? After some days ago an actual investigation about mass rape on October 7 was made available public.

[benji]

In five years I'll be praying for a video game industry crash that kills the entire industry and burns it to ashes. There's no value in a creative medium that wants to kill creativity. It's just slop at that point. A game that eschews human creativity in favor of output from a robot doesn't need to exist.

Cool. And when we get there, I hope the industry dies. I'm not budging on this. Once we get there, "games" aren't games anymore. They aren't an art form, they aren't the product of real work. They have no value and they don't deserve to exist. They're just filler sludge.

You NORMALIZED this as a PROFESSIONAL game journalist when you didn't get VERY LOUD over SpeedTree or anti-aliasing.  

If your stance is, "Hasan isn't a smart person," the rest of your criticism is going to fall flat because of how clearly ridiculous that is.

His intelligence isn't really up for debate. He has a double major in political science and communication. He isn't just some random streamer talking a bunch of shit. He is a very educated person.

[simiansmarts]

 
 

 
 

[Boredfrom]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-daughter-came-out-as-transgender-and-i-am-conflicted.1519297/

Yesterday my 12-yr old daughter came out to me as transgender. I gave them a hug and told them I loved them. The sexuality of my children really doesn't concern me; I'm happy if they are happy. I did ask them to give me some grace as I adjust from she/her to they/them/it. I mean, I still call my Subaru my Jetta, even though I've owned two other cars since I last owned a Jetta in 2015. I'm going to slip up.

That's not where my conflict lies. I am proud of them and support whatever they want to do, however, we live in an extremely right-wing and religious town. I fully intend to support them however I can, but I also want to caution them about broadcasting their sexuality in this town. I want to prepare them for what might come their way and I don't want it to seem like I am trying to silence them or that I am not proud of them. I'm just concerned about their well-being. They identified as gay earlier in the year, so I don't know if their identity will change again or not. I've never been a 12-yr old female that identified as trans; this is new to me. I just want to be there for them and make sure they are as happy as they can be.

Just today I had to pull my son out of high school for the day because a classmate said "I feel sorry for people of the LGBTQ community for being "like that" and that "instead of throwing the Jews in the concentration camps like they deserved we should throw the gays in there instead". We are Jewish. Was that kid was being a garden variety fuck or was he deliberately saying that to my son because of his sister? I don't know.

I want them to be safe and I am struggling a bit on how to have that conversation. Any suggestions would be welcome. My apologies if this comes off rambling; the concentration camp comment has be a bit fired up.

Your child, not your daughter. 

Edit:

If your child came out as non binary, which I'm assuming from the pronouns, then you don't have a "daughter" anymore.

Real talk: the dude should ask her why she thinks she is trans and do a search in both her social media feed and friend circle. Not mentioning the fact to try to get her a real therapist before you start validating shit like pronouns.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I guess using Alinea Analytics is okay to use when it fits our agenda.

Fucking embarassing OP, and shame on the mods for still allowing AA to be used.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/saros-has-sold-300k-in-its-first-two-weeks-generating-over-22m-based-on-alinea-analytics-estimates.1518475/post-154910224



I'm mostly surprised no one blamed the chuds yet

User subforum banned (permanently): Repeated severe bans in sales related threads for hostility and console wars

[TylenolJones]

Holy shit guys, we have a Resetera game coming out on Steam!!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4654510/Erareset_Rogue_Forum/

[benji]

Seriously can't comprehend people talking about an industry made up of huge numbers of computer algorithms bitching and wanting mass suffering because unspecified certain newer computer algorithms are going to also be used. Total religious fervor about the hands of the Devil shit.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

 

[Jansen]

I'm also a poli-sci undergrad. Not from prestigious school like his but I would not say he displays anything unique or brilliant. I don't know if him being so reactionary and defensive about issues is part of his persona but it doesn't lend itself to higher discourse. These sort of streamer things are not for me, I detest them and really only see clips of the characters on bluesky or reddit and I'll say that I've never seen Hasan respond with the speed and wit of Dentiy. Maybe Hasan just acts too emotional but it doesn't make him seem like a thinker. Another thing I have in common with him is that I shoplift. Well, I did in college 20 years ago.

[simiansmarts]

I'm also a poli-sci undergrad. Not from prestigious school like his but I would not say he displays anything unique or brilliant. I don't know if him being so reactionary and defensive about issues is part of his persona but it doesn't lend itself to higher discourse. These sort of streamer things are not for me, I detest them and really only see clips of the characters on bluesky or reddit and I'll say that I've never seen Hasan respond with the speed and wit of Dentiy. Maybe Hasan just acts too emotional but it doesn't make him seem like a thinker. Another thing I have in common with him is that I shoplift. Well, I did in college 20 years ago.

The mention of Destiny just derailed in the entire thread, they HATE that guy   
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-is-the-democrats%E2%80%99-new-man-on-the-trail-whether-they-like-it-or-not.1517113/page-11#post-154933681 

If Destiny is so smart and quick witted, why couldn't he make more than like 6 posts here on ResetEra before getting permabanned?

 
 
#owned

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-is-the-democrats%E2%80%99-new-man-on-the-trail-whether-they-like-it-or-not.1517113/page-11#post-154929016

Imagine unironically believing this

Hasan isn't the best the USA has, he's sadly all the USA has because everyone else is a Nazi.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/overwatch-ot-the-reign-of-talon.1430929/page-98#post-154888720

I would rather Alec just call me the hard-R at this point with how they treat Lucio.

[simiansmarts]

 quoting myself because azan 
 

REEEE types like Jeff simping for Hasan to such an intense degree that they have a whole OT dedicated to him boggles my mind because he literally does nothing to meaningfully advance his cause. Hasan is nothing more than a politics slop streamer like Asmongold but for terminally online leftists who jerk off to the thought of purity testing each other over petty bullshit. This guy came from an extremely wealthy family, travelled the world for his education, nepobaby'd into a political commentator job and eventually spun-off on his own as a twitch streamer. He is the epitome of a champagne socialist. 
 
The most damning evidence of Hasan amounting to nothing in the politics space is that the conservative movement from their pundits to politicians DO NOT CARE about him because he is clearly not a factor or threat AT ALL. This guy doesn't canvas for politicians who align with him (in fact he does the exact opposite as with all hyper online leftists, trashing democrats on the regular to stroke his ego) and he certainly doesn't travel to speak to regular folks like college students to exchange ideas. All Hasan does is stream from his gaudy millionaire mansion, steal content to chair react to and do photoshoots in expensive clothing and jewelry to flaunt his wealth. The shock collar debacle is the most coverage Hasan has ever gotten across partisan lines simply because it's THAT funny.

[simiansmarts]

EMERGENCY there could be destiny fans on resetera RIGHT FUCKING NOW     
 
 
 
no wonder there has been an uptick in negative hasan opinions...it all makes sense now...

[Potato]

RFK carefully comparing Peter North cumshots to modern day

That man should be disected and studied for scientific purposes. Has a man ever been more of a man than Peter North?

[Potato]

The hype buildup for this show is going to be so fucking funny, will it top the highs of the hogwarts legacy backlash and success though? Only time will tell

I still don't understand the logic behind banning an entire IP on your discussion message board, especially when it is one of the more prominent ones in the zeitgeist. It always turns into this awkward dance of people referring to it as "Wizard Game" and the sales threads being an incomprehensible mess, plus your users are scared their account's going to get yeeted into the void for discussing the sale performance of the top 10 titles and accidentally mentioning the Voldemort in the room. Like, if Lucas has come out as anti-trans, would they kill any Star Wars discussion? Including Jedi Survivor or ResetERA favorite Acolyte (this show was fucking terrible, btw)? 

One would think the Cyberpunk debacle would make them rethink this stance 

You're giving them much too much credit for being able to think critically here...

[who is ted danson?]

YAAAAS QUEEEEN

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-daughter-came-out-as-transgender-and-i-am-conflicted.1519297/#post-154933783

I'm in the same boat OP. I'm a single dad of two girls, 11, and 12. The 11 year old is trans. I kind of knew this might be the case, as they'd often talk about wanting to be a boy even at an early age.

Dad of a boy and girl, not two girls.

[Boredfrom]

Honestly, somebody should link them to the Housewives thread here, so they know the kind of community Trans Era members support.

[Boredfrom]

Hasan critics so far haven't beaten the allegations of being disingenuous shit stirrers.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/my-daughter-came-out-as-transgender-and-i-am-conflicted.1519297/#post-154933783

I'm in the same boat OP. I'm a single dad of two girls, 11, and 12. The 11 year old is trans. I kind of knew this might be the case, as they'd often talk about wanting to be a boy even at an early age.

Dad of a boy and girl, not two girls.

It's kind of funny because it's now typical to refer to your trans daughter as just your daughter so I frankly have no clue what gender anyone has when they talk about it like that.

[Venice]

Destiny thread keeps on giving:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-is-the-democrats%E2%80%99-new-man-on-the-trail-whether-they-like-it-or-not.1517113/page-11#post-154933294

lol literally gave himself away with the destiny glazing amazing

Hey look he's right about Destiny, dude is very fast, so fast he doesn't even wait for people to come of age before being a sex perv with them

Pedo-Plagiarize (and a good 90% of Era's userbase):

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cannes-2026-paul-laverty-denounces-blacklisting-of-pro-palestinian-actors-shame-on-hollywood.1519390/

There is no such thing as cancel culture.

Edit:
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/susan-sarandon-hollywood-ban-gaza-ceasefire-speech-1236675199/

Susan Sarandon Says She Was Banned From Hollywood After Calling for Gaza Ceasefire: I Feel ‘Repression and Censorship’ in United States

It's not censorship, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

[benji]

His intelligence isn't really up for debate. He has a double major in political science and communication. He isn't just some random streamer talking a bunch of shit. He is a very educated person.

I'm also a poli-sci undergrad. Not from prestigious school like his but I would not say he displays anything unique or brilliant.

As someone with more than an undergrad poli sci degree, it's hilarious that they're trying to wield this as proof of intelligence or even being informed about politics. Poli sci is chock full of Era type morons who have basically can get by on in the past The Daily Show and reading the material to remember it for a couple weeks because it's the lowest totem easiest shit. I can tell you the same about dumbass conservatives who are the same just blindly devoted to Republicans instead because they're religious or whatever. It's a joke of a field. Even at the PhD level, I would say at least half the papers in major journals are worthless shit that doesn't "prove" anything because the models are garbage and determined more by what variables are available then what variables actually matter.

Although I can speak to plenty of fields I'll just compare to my other field, history, to say that poli sci basically stops at the 300 level. 400, 500, 600, etc. don't advance noticeably other than you read more pages of the same quality material. Most schools don't even teach methods until grad school and by "methods" I mean they tell you how to use a statistical package to run a regression and that this is magic that uncovers science.

There's also almost no theory taught in a poli sci degree. You're free to look at Rutgers website (where Hasan graduated, his second college) and see you're required, like at most schools, to take a single class in political philosophy and without looking at the bulletin they probably also only offer a couple every semester.

So then you should ask yourself, Hasan is taught in how the American system works and some comparative international stuff. We can evaluate his intelligence versus his degree on this easily, he regularly demonstrates he has no clue how the American system operates and definitely doesn't understand the international politics world. And this stuff isn't that hard but why would Hasan have any interest in learning about it? His method, mass indiscriminate violence, doesn't need any underpinning about the system. His entire rhetorical goal is to advocate destruction of the system, not operating within it. Even his "support" of Democrats is just an extension of his posturing and celebrity, he's no different than any other random dummy like a sports star or singer endorsing some politician. Literally meaningless to evaluate in these terms, it's trying to force the evidence to fit the theory.

"He tells people to keep fighting!" Absolute gibberish. This is like Nepenthe vomiting "organize" at every opportunity then screaming how nobody organizes while her only example of doing it is talking to your neighbors. I've posted her local Democratic Party's schedules before, they're doing things constantly. Yeah, most of it is worthless meetings and gatherings but that's the most essential component of both social and political action. How does Hasan promote this? He can't really because to him politics exists to display your revolutionary credentials not to meet with and work with other people on their interests.

Every lame ass boomer who does all of this does more politically than me reading all the theory that exists by myself or the sum total of every single Hasan stream put together. If you need that proven to you then look at why Joe Biden beat Bernie Sanders (and Harris and Bloomberg and etc.) in 2020. All those groups on those local Georgia Democratic schedules I posted? They activated and turned out for Biden as their influencers gave the word he was the guy. But their influencers, even when they're well known like Jim Clyburn, aren't national celebrities, they're some local pol, some city council dude, some pastor, some woman who's in every group, union fags, etc. The MAGA/conservatives are exactly the same, that's literally how they "organized" for even a celebrity like Trump in 2016. Trump had no campaign infrastructure but that already existed in the existing Republican and conservative groups. Those were co-opted against the leadership, that was the difference between Trump and so many others. (And something Bernie never did.) But this was all "unseen" except as he won the primaries and the rallies turnout he was getting. It's one of those variable errors I mentioned above to ignore all this simply because you aren't looking at it. And especially because you aren't participating in it.

[Let's Cyber]

The mention of Destiny just derailed in the entire thread, they HATE that guy    
 
https://www.resetera.com/threads/hasan-piker-is-the-democrats%E2%80%99-new-man-on-the-trail-whether-they-like-it-or-not.1517113/page-11#post-154933681 

If Destiny is so smart and quick witted, why couldn't he make more than like 6 posts here on ResetEra before getting permabanned?

 
 
#owned

I couldn't find the Destiny era posts, but there was this. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/destiny-streamer-to-have-his-twitch-partnership-revoked-for-encouragement-of-violence.284939/page-3#post-45092915

I'm curious what the original thread was about. Looks like it was deleted.

[benji]

I'm curious what the original thread was about. Looks like it was deleted.

It was about saying racial slurs or something. I'll check Kiwi Farms since they also follow Destiny they probably at least have a screenshot of his post.

[Boredfrom]

I remember Destiny being a dick to his black friend about the use of racial slurs.   

The kind of stuff that Nepenthe complains but actually happened on stream.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I'm curious what the original thread was about. Looks like it was deleted.

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/twitch-has-a-racist-problem.59828/page-7#post-11099812

 User Banned (Permanent): Homophobic and racial slurs have caused great pain for many members of our community and the defense of their use is not acceptable here.

Wew lads. It's really late and there are a lot of ideas running around here. I'll chime in with my two cents, but this post is gonna be pretty sloppy so bear with me.

Firstly, I am not your friendly, neighborhood progressive. If your previous view of me was that, erase that from your head right now. I do not care, intrinsically, about minorities, or women, or people, or racism, or anything like that. It is not part of my rhetoric to convince people that these things are morally bad, it is not part of my characters to be inherently concerned with these things. I believe that feminism and equal opportunities for minorities tend to produce better outcomes worldwide. This is why I end up at many of the same positions that progressives end up.

I am repeating this one more time, my internal thought process is not motivated by any pure, morally virtuous desire to help people or make people feel better.

Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about homophobic and racial slurs.

From a personal point of view, I don't think any word, inherently, should be off limits or out of bounds. There are times when using extremely vulgar language can achieve a great effect.

This, so far, should be undeniable.

Does racist language make a person racist? Does homophobic language make a person homophobic? Not necessarily, as much as it might upset some of you to consider this.

A person using homophobic language is not necessarily homophobic, though they oftentimes are unintentionally spreading homophobia.

This seems like a meaningless distinction, but I believe there's a great deal of difference between telling someone they are unintentionally empowering homophobic people vs being a homophobic person. Maybe you don't care, but to the person receiving the message, it matters, trust me.

As a public figure who lives in a society I have to be mindful of how I speak. Ultimately the way my message is interpreted by a viewer is my responsibility, or at least I believe I have some due diligence to ensure people aren't taking away the wrong message from my speech. This is why I generally avoid things like "faggot" or other types of heavy racial humor, and it's why I've been trying to edit out things like "retarded" and "autistic" from my vocabulary. I don't like the idea that people watching me could get an idea that I am homophobic in a way they might be, and I don't like the idea that racist people could listen to me and find companionship in what I'm saying, or some kind of affirmation in their horrible worldviews. I've written about this more extensively here, if you care to read.

Do I say offensive jokes privately that I would never say on stream? You better believe it. But why, what's the difference?

I have never much been concerned with the words themselves, but rather the thoughts/ideas they can spread.

A community that openly uses the word "faggot" probably feels unwelcoming because there are still a lot of gamers (and, larger, elements of society) that still act incredibly homophobic. If a friend of mine uses "faggot" in some insulting way in a private setting, I don't generally think twice about them saying it. If a stranger uses that word, I'm very uncomfortable around them because I don't know if they're actually a homophobic person.

These distinctions may be meaningless to you, and to some extent you can argue that using racial/homophobic slurs in ANY context should be off limits, and I'm fine with tackling those arguments. I generally don't like being called "racist" or "homophobic" because I believe my body of work (can u call a utube channel that tho) speaks for itself, but if you believe that my actions help to spread homophobic thought, maybe you don't care to make the distinction.

I'm sleeping and I'll answer what I can when I wake up, and maybe even proofread/edit this if there are major fuckups.

Stay safe my children.