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

[Potato]

"Yalla Yalla Intifada"

It can be interpreted as an expression of sympathy for the acts of violence perpetrated by militant Palestinians against the Israeli civilian population in the first (1987 to 1993) and second (2000 to 2005) Intifada and therefore as a call for violent resistance

And that would be a bad thing?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/german-intelligence-has-labeled-pro-palestinian-flags-and-symbols-like-the-watermelon-as-extremism.1523527/post-155148448

Hey B-dubs, how is it going with members not being allowed to condone violence or terroism?

I'm not reading that shit, but please tell me someone is arguing that it's impossible for a watermelon to be a racist symbol. Please.

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/come-on-ebola-do-yo-thang.1523290/

 User Banned (Permanently): Inappropriate Commentary; Cheering on the Death of Millions

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/17/africa/ebola-outbreak-congo-uganda-explainer-intl

The king has returned, time for him to reclaim his crown. Imma watch Outbreak again with extra large popcorn this time. Remember that scene when those hillbillies tried to drive out of town in their pickup truck but get shot 800 times by that attack helicopter? Lmao good shit

Come on baby, get that shit percolating in Mar-a-lago

 
ClickyCarl almost went "hell yeah!" until he noticed the vibes of the threads were off 

Umm...?

 
 

[Besticus Maximus]

An actual post about a game set on a space station, starring an android character that happens to be a little girl.

Ask some of the girls you interact with how much Diana's hair would cost.

This because she apparently also has a blowout and highlights to go along with makeup and lip gloss.

in some places they grow these girls who have their own hair

[Chudder Barbarity]

Can this stupid chud forum spend just one fucking day not bullying our token Latinx representation? and you have the nerve to cry when people rightfully call this Nazi site out. i bet you're willing to find any excuse to sic ICE on him just to remove him from this forum because BIPOCs trigger y'all flat white asses o algo.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/after-finishing-it-interactions-with-the-android-child-diana-in-pragmata-always-felt-kinda-uncomfortable-and-i-think-i-know-why-its-her-makeup.1524070/page-5#post-155157595

I know most of this forum are guys so many haven't been on the receiving end of it, but do you have any idea just how exhausting this all is?

It appears most of the forum is going to great lengths to correct this issue so they to can take the moral high ground in these discussions.

Only a fucking TERF bitch would say that. RE has a LARGE and VALID women population...  
 

I’m pretty sure the correct term is invalid

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Pick whichever pronunciation, they both apply  

[Nintex]

Is there a cure?
There are currently no approved treatments or vaccines specific to the Bundibugyo virus, according to health experts.

There is always a cure



Sir did you carry out a tactical nuclear strike on Congo because of the Bundibugyo virus

No that wasn't us it was probably Iran. I told you fellas they should've never gotten a nuke. Millions dead possibly billions are you happy now CNN

[DavidCroquet]

I'm starting to feel really awkward about the Pragmata discussion on the site. I haven't even played the game, and yet it feels like half the time it comes up, the threads devolve into folks making weird and unhinged accusations of pedophilia and child sexualization towards people, either for liking and defending the game, or for finding aspects of its narrative and character designs weird. Just the most recent example: https://www.resetera.com/threads/after-finishing-it-interactions-with-the-android-child-diana-in-pragmata-always-felt-kinda-uncomfortable-and-i-think-i-know-why-its-her-makeup.1524070/

I don't really know what the solution might be, but it honestly kinda feels like a huge number of posters are showing their entire asses about this one. Like, I want to believe this community is mature enough to not be fucking weird about it, but evidence really suggests otherwise. Can we maybe just chill the heck out?

We already made a staff post concerning this game. No accusing each other of being pedos. Anyone doing that should get reported.

And so the pedos win. Good job bdumbs

Hey, the rules are clear.

Disallowed: "You're a pedophile", "The developers are pedophiles"
Allowed: "Is anyone else squicked out by..." *dabbing sweat from forehead, licking lips nervously* "...the subtle sheen of lipgloss on this vulnerable, barefoot angel. It certainly warrants close attention...scrutiny, I mean! It looks so questionable, especially paired with the tasteful rouge of her porcelain cheeks..." *heavy breathing intensifies*
Also Allowed: "The discussion around Pragmata is awkward. People are showing their entire asses. Can't somebody do something about something?"

[Taco Bell Tower]

This thread  The zoomed-in pics... "After finishing it, interactions with the android child Diana in Pragmata always felt kinda uncomfortable. And I think I know why: It's her makeup"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/after-finishing-it-interactions-with-the-android-child-diana-in-pragmata-always-felt-kinda-uncomfortable-and-i-think-i-know-why-its-her-makeup.1524070/

Closed

This thread is generating a high number of reports and is being locked while staff review these.

If it's decided that the thread won't be re-opened, this post will be updated.

[TylenolJones]

Okay bdumbs has another great idea to bring the site back after the Pokémon tournaments did nothing.

It’s going well

If I can ask, who is doing the Bond OT?

The idea just keeps getting worse

New Subforum Suggestion - "New Releases"

For a little while now, there have been discussions about creating a new subforum to handle new game releases. Right now, many of the threads about newly released games get locked and redirected to the OTs. This directly goes against the whole "new news, new thread" rule and builds a culture of not doing that. In addition, it is also a pain in the butt on our end.

The way we handle new game releases is for a single reason: to stop the main page of the gaming forum from getting overtaken by a single popular release. We don't want a single game to make it so nobody can see any other discussion and as a result we lock all sorts of interesting threads about these games and funnel them into the OT. We can all agree that this is not great. It stinks for people looking to discuss story stuff, it stinks for people in the OT looking to talk about the game itself, it stinks for people looking to discuss stuff outside of the game.

This is when we had a thought: why not use the embedded subforum system to solve this issue on a technical level?

The proposal is as follows: we create a "New Releases" subforum that will house all threads on brand-new releases. So, say the new Bond game comes out and it's a smash and everyone has a million things to say. Instead of pushing it all into a single OT, we put it all into the subforum. The OT will still exist, but it will largely be for people actively playing the game. Threads about story beats, themes, technical stuff, impressions, and all the rest of the sort of threads that normally get locked would now be allowed, they'd just be in the "New Releases" subforum. We would no longer have to police thread creation when a new game comes out because if people don't want to see those threads, they can just click a single button and make them all go away as they browse.

If we were to do this, people would have far more freedom to make threads to talk about specific things instead of clogging up the OT with everything under the sun and the people who don't want to see those threads can just rid of them if they so choose. Beyond that, it would free us up to handle actual pressing issues instead of just having to police thread creation to keep the main page from getting overcrowded.

We can also potentially mandate the usage of prefixes and add some new ones for that subforum only, to better allow people to filter and see the threads they are interested in. Hence, this thread.

The idea of the subforum has been met with positive feedback both internally and among users in the CCD, so we're moving to take the next step: figuring out how the prefixes will work. Right now, the plan for the prefixes is to move the "review," "OT," and all of the publisher tags over to the new subforum and to mandate the use of thread tags. This will allow users to more easily filter the threads they are interested in and what we need to know is what sort of other tags do you all think we should add? A "commentary" tag? A "story spoilers" tag? We want to know what you all are thinking here so we can get this right on our first go.

There have also been discussions about creating a thread with each major release for user reviews. Essentially, a thread for users to review and score newly released games. These scores would then be posted in a master thread that can be pinned at the top of the forum by those running the user review thread. We could use the vote tool as an easy way to average out the various scores. To avoid spam or trolls, we could mandate a minimum word count for this thread. We also want to know what people think of this idea.

 I guess that's one way to increase the number of threads per day.

For point two, the idea is to use the vote tool as a way to aggregate the scores at the end of the review window. The window would be, let's say, two weeks long? So, at the very end you would be able to see the score distribution given by users.

 He thinks the users are going to finish a game and then write a essay on the game in under two weeks

We give options for filtering, it's up to everyone to use them. If you don't want to, then that's kinda on you.

If staff has the manpower to manages this, then it's a terrific idea, i dont have any suggestions than what you presented, tag should be something like "new release" or something.

Great idea.

From our perspective, we don't actually need to do much of anything to make this work. All we would need is for users to post threads in the right place and put in the right tags. If you all do that, all we need to do is move the OT to hangouts at the end of the month. Nothing would change for us.

Well, it would give us more tools to handle people being jerks or trolls in threads about new games.

Already blaming the users for the inevitable failure of this. Also  at saying one of the benefits is that moderation is able to be stricter.

Yeah. TBH, what I need to do is set up a discussion with the OT OT regulars and hash it all out.

Yeah man, I'm sure they are lining up to have a meeting with you on this.

I don't have the energy for a long discussion about the reasons but I would like to register that I also think this is not a great idea.

This doesn't really help in the slightest. Reasons matter. Saying "I don't think thing is a good idea" without a why isn't helpful at all. Especially when there's so many people in here with basic misconceptions about how it would work.

 sure I might be explaining this poorly, but it's your fault for misunderstanding.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-subforum-suggestion-new-releases.1524535/

[benji]

 Despite the hilarious "ageism" accusations being thrown around by a few in the thread, this subject undeniably has a generational divide. While this obviously isn't absolute, Millennials and younger are much more easily able to see GenAI as a gimmicky grift because we've spent literally our entire lives dealing with the deregulated market , constantly having to be vigilant of grift tech, but Gen X and older still have a sort of fundamentally optimistic view that makes it harder for them to recognize grift tech. A lot of them rode the initial wave of computerization in the 80's and early 90's to success and still believe it's possible to see that sort of "all ships rising" style of new technology come again, not realizing that the world that made that possible is dead and gone.

Ah yes, the good old days when the government stepped in and prevented millionaires and billionaires from investing in things the government itself was massively investing in because the tech obviously couldn't lead anywhere. (Hey, no jokes about wind and solar power! That's totally different because I say so!)

I can never get over how they talk about how things have changed while having zero idea what the past was like. More gaming and computer companies have gone under or been bought out than stayed in business with zero layoffs for decades. But you'd think the latter was the norm for anybody setting out their shingle, it just turned into a multibillion dollar publisher, in all of history until now. A worldview which they base on... well, no examples. Just their own vibes about how they remember things when they were children I guess.

This is why life is so hard for us these days. You used to go "hey, I have a billion dollars to invest, what should I invest in?" And the helpful government regulator came along and told you which companies were perfectly safe producing actual products that will be successful for decades to come. And so, I shoved all my money into AOLTimeWarner and MCIWorldCom without having to worry and look out for "grift tech" which apparently any idiot ignorant of history on a "video game" forum can identify but nobody else can. No, they're not shorting those companies, they don't have the money to do that because of this fucking deregulation!

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/asmongold-says-its-cope-that-black-people-commit-crimes-bc-of-their-socioeconomic-status-claims-didnt-mean-theyre-inferior-without-explanation.1524928/



Starting off strong!

Man I wish he was fucking dead bro murder shouldn't be a crime if they deserve it

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/asmongold-says-its-cope-that-black-people-commit-crimes-bc-of-their-socioeconomic-status-claims-didnt-mean-theyre-inferior-without-explanation.1524928/



Starting off strong!

Man I wish he was fucking dead bro murder shouldn't be a crime if they deserve it

Closed.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/an-indian-high-court-has-ruled-that-the-medieval-kamal-maula-mosque-is-a-temple-originally-dedicated-to-a-hindu-goddess.1524778/

This shits just gonna keep on happening.

———
So it is or isn’t? 

Is not like Islam was above doing this. Catholics did it too.

[TylenolJones]

What Big Tech company could you most easily boycott?

For me personally, it would be Microsoft.

Once I clock out for the day, I never use MS products at home (forced to at work). I haven't owned an Xbox since 360, and I've turned my gaming pc on probably a dozen times total since Israel started doing genocide (partly funded by Microsoft). I've always found their products shitty even growing up.

Amazon would be my #2 I only place about 5 orders a year.

  

As long as I’m not being paid, I’ll boycott it. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-big-tech-company-could-you-most-easily-boycott.1524493/

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/asmongold-says-its-cope-that-black-people-commit-crimes-bc-of-their-socioeconomic-status-claims-didnt-mean-theyre-inferior-without-explanation.1524928/



Starting off strong!

Man I wish he was fucking dead bro murder shouldn't be a crime if they deserve it

Didn't take long for someone to take Doops place. It must the natural order of things

[TylenolJones]

Turns out doxxing is cool if you’re doxxing bad guys

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-mobile-has-already-got-hacked-allegedly.1524844/

[Boredfrom]

Once I clock out for the day, I never use MS products at home (forced to at work). I haven't owned an Xbox since 360, and I've turned my gaming pc on probably a dozen times total since Israel started doing genocide (partly funded by Microsoft). I've always found their products shitty even growing up.

Amazon would be my #2 I only place about 5 orders a year.

[Snoopy]

Someone needs to alert the Gazans. They have a new hero.

[HaughtyFrank]

It's a detail but it annoys me how many of them think that MS is funding Israel. How would that make any sense? The real reason to boycott is because MS is providing services for the IDF.

Get it right 

[Nintex]

Achievement Unlocked: BOMBED GAZA TO SHIT - 200 patriot points

Sponsored by Coinbase and Microsoft

Procurement DLC acquired (from the ResetEra member that builds missiles for Lockheed Martin)

[benji]

It's a detail but it annoys me how many of them think that MS is funding Israel. How would that make any sense?

User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing concerns of funding genocide

[benji]

But seriously, it just shows how quickly they'll start repeating something they saw someone else say without any thought other than how they've added another airtight radical concern to their arsenal of demonstrative phrases.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK

[benji]

Amazon would be my #2 I only place about 5 orders a year.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-big-tech-company-could-you-most-easily-boycott.1524493/

And Amazon Web Services which hosts the forum this thread is on and the other 11,297 posts by this poster.

Should go through the thread and see how many people say Amazon. Scrolling down just a few I already see:

Apple and Amazon are easy to boycott.

I order from amazon maybe 3 times a year.

I've been considerate of avoiding Amazon stuff as much as possible for quite a while.

I do unfortunately buy from Amazon however, I can easily switch to something else. I am not married to Amazon for anything else. In fact, my purchasing has went waaayyyy down in the last few years - I actually ended my Prime sub for about a year. I don't think there's anything else that uses Amazon except maybe there's an app that uses their servers or something that I'm not directly aware of.

Amazon is the easiest for me.

Amazon is another one that's easy as fuck.

It's kind of a toss up between Meta and Amazon, both would be easy for me.

People actually bring up AWS and Azure, so the OP replies:

AWS makes Amazon hard to boycott entirely.

True but I would say it probably doesn't count as AWS is practically unavoidable.

Oh, well, never mind then! It's only the most profitable and largest growing part of Amazon's business! (And Azure is what the IDF was using.)

[TylenolJones]

When did Resetera get a team of hackers?

Needless to say, if I don't get my account back, I'm retiring from gaming and podcasting forever. So let's hope it all works out!

Wonder if they’d be able to make a thread to celebrate or would that still be a ban?

Who’s going to make the thread?

Edit wait a sec: https://www.resetera.com/threads/hacker-targets-high-profile-playstation-podcaster-raising-concerns-about-account-security.1524559/

Newsbot thought he was slick

[benji]

Jeff tweeted this as a reply to Elon's tweet early yesterday but has since deleted that reply and is now tweeting it again as a quote tweet:


It's a stupid dunk because Elon has an actual daughter with Grimes and two daughters with that one Telsa executive. He has six kids with his first wife, who knows how many are actually female.

[Boredfrom]

One of the most stupid things i saw today is that losers like Grumzz and his AI loving dickrider Yorch were originally bitching about Subnautica 2 before release telling everyone to not buy it, then when it became a huge hit tried to claim the devs "listened" by "removing the woke characters" despite thsoe still being in the game so they should pay the deves, and now today they are once again bitching about statements the devs made they claim is "leftist propaganda"

How much I hate these assholes and the fact that despite how obvious is they are grifter losers continue to have an audience

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-“sweet-baby-inc”-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-204#post-155150410

[Geoff Marvel]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-doesnt-resetera-have-an-app.1524973/

So, there's actually a progressive web app that's already enabled. You can get that on your phone easy enough.

Moba did have us look into developing a bespoke web app though. Hecht (his job means he knows from this stuff) and I had all kinds of meetings with developers and we got input from the mods on potential features, but doing it right, to the level everyone expects, would be crazy expensive so we decided against it.

[benji]

Subnautica 2 is a pacifist ideology woven into a game.

Players have noticed you cannot defend yourself against attacking fish. Not even in self defense. Only passive means are available.

This was by design. You can't kill anything because the devs feel it would support gun violence and aspects of colonialism:

"Subnautica is one vote towards a world with less guns. A reminder that there is another way forward."

"We want people to feel like they're learning to adapt to the world, rather than being a conqueror or dominator."

"We aren't a killing game. Go play Sons of the Forest or something if you want to kill."

The anti-violence stance got stronger from Subnautica 1 -> 2, which now has a complete "no kill" policy even when the fish can still kill *you*.

I investigated the sources for the unsourced quotes:

Flayra
[developer]
Apr 2, 2016 @ 5:41pm
I haven't read all the comments here, but I'll chime in here, as I'm the main reason we don't have violent/weapons in the game.

Subnautica was being birthed right around the time of the Sandy Hook shooting. This was a particularly nasty shooting, although many people don't realize America has school shootings every day. Every. Single. Day.

(5/8/16 UPDATE: I meant to say "mass" shootings, not "school" shootings: http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting and http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shootings/2015)

Yet, for reasons I cannot understand, our people and the corporations that influence our country want to continue making it easy for people to get, carry and use pistols, semi-automatic and fully-automatic weapons.

I've never believed that video game violence creates more real-world violence. But I couldn't just sit by and "add more guns" to the world either.

So Subnautica is one vote towards a world with less guns. A reminder that there is another way forward. One where we use non-violent and more creative solutions to solve our problems. One where we are not at the top of the food chain.

One journalist, meanwhile, asked about the lack of weaponry in Subnautica 2, and pointed to the lack of defensive options in past Subnautica games as a source of frustration. To this, Gallegos responded:

"The studio started with the Natural Selections series, but when the Sandy Hook shooting happened in the United States, one of the studio founders Charlie Cleveland wanted to create a game that didn't push violence [...] I would still say the studio isn't like anti-violence in any of our games, but it is a core tenet of the Subnautica franchise

"The one thing we want to push is we want people to feel they're learning to adapt to the world, rather than being a conqueror or dominator, but I do know the theme of what we're doing where you started out on a colony ship, it would make sense that there'd be a means of self defence. We plan on tackling that in the story over time, but the player is not one of those people using weapons."

According to Gallegos, the team is focusing on making the player think about how to deter creatures and avoid combative situations, rather than pushing them to kill creatures.

"One of the things that always bothered me is that Subnautica 1 players would enter an area and try to figure out 'how am I going to kill this Leviathan so I don't have to deal with it anymore', which I think is unfortunate," Gallegos said. "It removes the tension of the region. But of course players do, as it's the optimal way of dealing with the creatures."
...
"I think it's a point of resistance that we'll get repeatedly while making the game, though we feel strongly about it," Galligos responded. "For us, the main thing is we want to listen to feedback from players who feel they can't defend themselves in an area or something like that, then we want to ideate on the means in which they can do that. But I think it's an important and interesting constraint to challenge players on how they can avoid things."

Galligos went on to speak about the earliest feedback rounds for the game, to find out what players would want from the series. From this, he revealed, the team received surprising feedback from certain players.

"There was one country that I won't name, and they overwhelmingly wanted to manufacture weapons. And it's like, man, I feel like people got a totally different vibe out of the original Subnautica than a weapon manufacturing video game."

In response to a player on Discord lamenting the fact they can't kill anything in Subnautica 2, level designer Artyom O'Rielly was pretty blunt: "We aren't a killing game. Go play Sons of the Forest or something if you want to kill."

Maybe let's ignore Grummz stupidity and focus on how this now gone developer was literally a Nazi posting in Nazi forums where Nazis are radicalized?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-doesnt-resetera-have-an-app.1524973/

So, there's actually a progressive web app that's already enabled. You can get that on your phone easy enough.

Moba did have us look into developing a bespoke web app though. Hecht (his job means he knows from this stuff) and I had all kinds of meetings with developers and we got input from the mods on potential features, but doing it right, to the level everyone expects, would be crazy expensive so we decided against it.

Yeah, it has to be the cost. They could do an app, but users would have to pay a month fee, and most wouldn't.

We could afford it, but without an app specific feature, without a killer app (lol), it's not super worth the time, effort, and money to do.

Makes sense. When did you decide against it?

Two or three years ago? If there was a killer app we could have added, we might have gone with it.

The benefits are that they can squeeze more information out of you. A web browser has privacy/anti-tracking settings and add-ons that you can enable, but an app largely removes the ability for users to use them.

Oh, advantage for users? Um... nothing, unless the website is intentionally given arbitrary limitations when accessed via mobile web browser.

We don't sell your information. I remember asking Moba about this straight up in a meeting early on and they laughed at the idea. Apparently our info ain't worth enough to be worth selling to anyone.

That's fair, I didn't intend to imply you/Era as "they," rather websites that push their apps over their mobile site in general. *cough*reddit*cough*

And that's all the more reason to not bother with an app.

When we looked at it, the idea was focused on giving people more ownership over what threads they saw. We actually found something really cool along these lines, but we would have had to get it customized to actually meet expectations so we didn't go with it.

Looks like he doesn't read MOBA's press releases.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Its always telling how they never get triggered when its fat women wearing skin tight clothing with their boobs out, but slim attractive women send them off the ledge.

They don't notice it when the characters aren't sexually attractive to them.

That lady is also wearing high heels, which is a big no-no.