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

[Garfield]

Hey all,

I have a little rant forming I guess, and I need somewhere to let it out...

So I have a meta (Aspen, F) who has been with our partner (Birch, M) about 2 years longer than I have been with Birch.

I've always found Aspen to be very territorial, e.g. calling during dates for non-emergencies, talking about highly personal romantic topics in front of me when I was only seeing partner for a couple of months at that point and meeting Aspen for the first time, having an emotional meltdown when I visited even though her other partner Cedar was also around for her to spend time with.

Whatever, all very annoying, all sort of things I've managed to avoid/mentally file away and dismiss for the sake of my mental health and the relationship with Birch which I value very much.

This is where this might take an unexpected turn:

I had reached a point of peace with and compassion for meta, understanding that her behaviours were rooted in deep insecurities and fears, and we seemed to have found a better equilibrium. That is until recently.

Where my partner Birch lives, he is part of a minority group that has been discriminated against and mistreated for centuries. Aspen, on the other hand, is a member of the oppressing group. I always thought it was neat how they didn't let that affect their relationship, love conquers all etc. But the last time I was visiting Birch. Aspen was there, and she started to talk about how Birch is so silly for disliking the (deeply racist) marches that the oppressive group do, where it's commonplace for them to attack the houses of the minority group, burn effigies representing the minority group, etc etc.

The whole time that Aspen was talking, Birch was ignoring her and focusing on his phone, and subtly hinting that it was time for her to give us space (it was our date night). I haven't said anything to Birch about this, because I don't want to stir anything or seem like a jealous partner trying to undermine their relationship. But what in the absolute hell is this?

And then I remembered another thing. Aspen's ex was a trans woman (Cedar). One time, Aspen was talking about how she started dating Cedar before Cedar had transitioned, and Aspen deadnamed Cedar and referred to her as "he" in front of me.

Cedar had been in earshot at the time, so I assumed she was okay with this, but it struck me as really inconsiderate and erasing.

So now, I feel like I'm losing respect not only for Aspen (long gone now), but also a little for my partner Birch for tolerating this. I don't know. Just needed to let it out, but it weirds me out.

Note:this woman is in England, and apparently her (shared) boyfriend is either Pakistani or Indian

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tourist-seriously-injured-after-yellowstone-bison-launches-man-8-feet-in-the-air.1575475/#post-157856209

With how this US admin is attacking and politicizing park services and national wildernesses, I'm surprised there haven't been packs of wolves, bears and moose roaming more public campsites. There aren't enough Rangers around to watch for forest fires let alone protect the people and animals.

 ...has this guy ever been to a national park? Or any park? Or outside his home?

[DavidCroquet]

Meanwhile Birch laughing his way to the bank as these triflin' females eliminate themselves from the rotation due to their self-inflicted interior chaos...onto the next one (or 2 or 3!).

[TylenolJones]

Does the bore take referrals?

What threads do you want to make but don't, since you know they would be a bad idea?

User banned (2 weeks): Attempted doxxing and harassment
MOD EDIT: Content removed

Posted this on Bluesky earlier.

The way I want to solicit methods to overflow this dude's email, sms, and physical mailbox are overwhelming, but likely frowned upon.

Thank you mods for protecting non members from harassment by your users. Big issue with the ResetEra userbase.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-threads-do-you-want-to-make-but-dont-since-you-know-they-would-be-a-bad-idea.1575382/page-2#post-157880287

[TylenolJones]

Zeo got banned on Saturday and y'all got nothing on it, shame!

Yeah, and [Thor] had a serious arc in that film. Serious doesn't have to mean the absence of levity. I mean, one look at his last two solo movies and how he was in the last two Avengers should tell you that

He had a serious arc that was treated like a joke with fat-shaming for half of it. Endgame is amazing but they did Thor dirty in it.

I don't agree.

You can disagree with him being done dirty. But it's a fact that they wrote him as a big fat-shaming joke for a good portion of Endgame, which you should be able to admit is not okay.

User banned (1 week): Thread derail & antagonizing another user

My thing is why are you trying to make the conversation about this instead of how serious they will or won't take Gambit

So you admit that the fat-shaming stuff for Thor in Endgame was not okay?

 what a fucking loser

https://www.resetera.com/threads/official-concept-art-for-%E2%80%98avengers-doomsday%E2%80%99-enter-at-your-own-peril.1574980/page-6#post-157807717

[TylenolJones]

What's your favorite Will Smith movie?

User Banned (2 Weeks): Racist Joke

Welcome to erf!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-favorite-will-smith-movie.1574164/#post-157754743

[TylenolJones]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-playstation-%E2%80%98no-disc-no-buy%E2%80%99-boycott-immediately-splinters-in-the-face-of-black-ops-ports.1574947/#post-157794544

 User banned (1 week): trolling

Yes. We're at war and people have chosen their sides.

One side fights for the benefit of both digital and physical gamers.

The other side are corporate asslickers that dont like people being mean to their favorite toymaker.

Sad state of affairs

Image of actual resetera mod who pressed the ban button

[DavidCroquet]

One side fights for the benefit of both digital and physical gamers.

The other side are corporate asslickers that dont like people being mean to their favorite toymaker.

Sad state of affairs

One side tantrums for toybaby rights!

The other side is just playplay with toytoy all day!

[Boredfrom]

I like to own the things I pay for.

[Boredfrom]

The Sony Corporation is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep buying that garbage.

That legit made me laugh.

[Lonewulfeus]

I like to own the things I pay for.

You can’t own sex

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-threads-do-you-want-to-make-but-dont-since-you-know-they-would-be-a-bad-idea.1575382/

channel your inner entremet

don't let a single thought go to waste, they are all worthy of a new thread

[benji]

The Sony Corporation is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep buying that garbage.

That legit made me laugh.

They heard I was removing games from my wishlist denying them an irrelevant level of accuracy in their precious aggregate data.

[Uncle]

And why didn't they put it in their recently released "hysterically funny" memoir about being a gay male sex worker abused into realizing they're actually and have always been a woman?

if trans women are women and have always been women that means graham was straight

[Superstar]

Zeo got banned on Saturday and y'all got nothing on it, shame!

Yeah, and [Thor] had a serious arc in that film. Serious doesn't have to mean the absence of levity. I mean, one look at his last two solo movies and how he was in the last two Avengers should tell you that

He had a serious arc that was treated like a joke with fat-shaming for half of it. Endgame is amazing but they did Thor dirty in it.

I don't agree.

You can disagree with him being done dirty. But it's a fact that they wrote him as a big fat-shaming joke for a good portion of Endgame, which you should be able to admit is not okay.

User banned (1 week): Thread derail & antagonizing another user

My thing is why are you trying to make the conversation about this instead of how serious they will or won't take Gambit

So you admit that the fat-shaming stuff for Thor in Endgame was not okay?

 what a fucking loser

https://www.resetera.com/threads/official-concept-art-for-%E2%80%98avengers-doomsday%E2%80%99-enter-at-your-own-peril.1574980/page-6#post-157807717

He was just posting so I think the ban just came in even if the post was from Saturday. That said, zeo goes out ATTACKING Marvel? Not my Jeff.

[benji]

This is the guy that said he’d go through a 94+% THC vape in a day. That’s way more than what people get out of smoking bud. It’s no longer “weed” at that point being so concentrated. 

Some YouTuber walked into the ocean or something, people were like "he took some drugs and it fried his brain." You read a little more about him and turns out he was dosing increasing amounts of ayahuasca plus who knows what else every three hours. 

Anyway, it just goes to show how much more powerful and dangerous the drugs are these days than back when we were kids. You could do all kinds of sketch comedy and films while doing speedballs without any problems rather than your life falling apart.

All the more reason to get high purely on organizing and theory and children's cartoons.

[benji]

I like to own the things I pay for.

The single source of all the problems in the world. Thanks a lot. Sounds about white.

[benji]

 Ban the libs and kill them.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trump-slashes-the-size-of-two-utah-national-monuments-by-more-then-90.1576654/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/michigan-cases-of-intestinal-disease-from-parasite-soar-to-over-2-600.1576621/

And countless other threads.

Why is some fucker from Taiwan obsessed with spamming a shitty video game forum with US politics news?

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

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/levelup-ea-confirms-fate-of-criterion-leaving-the-need-for-speed-franchise-on-life-support.1576561/

How will nepnep learn about discriminatory traffic stops now?!!?!

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/levelup-ea-confirms-fate-of-criterion-leaving-the-need-for-speed-franchise-on-life-support.1576561/

Nah. I don't have a console capable of playing Vice City right now (no, I'm not buying a remaster) and even if I did I'm not really interested in replaying a GTA game I've played like 10 times in advance of a GTA game I don't think I'm gonna buy at all.

This cunt literally buys every single game he says he’s not buying

[Potato]

Hey all,

I have a little rant forming I guess, and I need somewhere to let it out...

So I have a meta (Aspen, F) who has been with our partner (Birch, M) about 2 years longer than I have been with Birch.

I've always found Aspen to be very territorial, e.g. calling during dates for non-emergencies, talking about highly personal romantic topics in front of me when I was only seeing partner for a couple of months at that point and meeting Aspen for the first time, having an emotional meltdown when I visited even though her other partner Cedar was also around for her to spend time with.

Whatever, all very annoying, all sort of things I've managed to avoid/mentally file away and dismiss for the sake of my mental health and the relationship with Birch which I value very much.

This is where this might take an unexpected turn:

I had reached a point of peace with and compassion for meta, understanding that her behaviours were rooted in deep insecurities and fears, and we seemed to have found a better equilibrium. That is until recently.

Where my partner Birch lives, he is part of a minority group that has been discriminated against and mistreated for centuries. Aspen, on the other hand, is a member of the oppressing group. I always thought it was neat how they didn't let that affect their relationship, love conquers all etc. But the last time I was visiting Birch. Aspen was there, and she started to talk about how Birch is so silly for disliking the (deeply racist) marches that the oppressive group do, where it's commonplace for them to attack the houses of the minority group, burn effigies representing the minority group, etc etc.

The whole time that Aspen was talking, Birch was ignoring her and focusing on his phone, and subtly hinting that it was time for her to give us space (it was our date night). I haven't said anything to Birch about this, because I don't want to stir anything or seem like a jealous partner trying to undermine their relationship. But what in the absolute hell is this?

And then I remembered another thing. Aspen's ex was a trans woman (Cedar). One time, Aspen was talking about how she started dating Cedar before Cedar had transitioned, and Aspen deadnamed Cedar and referred to her as "he" in front of me.

Cedar had been in earshot at the time, so I assumed she was okay with this, but it struck me as really inconsiderate and erasing.

So now, I feel like I'm losing respect not only for Aspen (long gone now), but also a little for my partner Birch for tolerating this. I don't know. Just needed to let it out, but it weirds me out.

Note:this woman is in England, and apparently her (shared) boyfriend is either Pakistani or Indian

Chances of any of them being actual women is zero.

[Potato]

What's your favorite Will Smith movie?

User Banned (2 Weeks): Racist Joke

Welcome to erf!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/whats-your-favorite-will-smith-movie.1574164/#post-157754743

Black people don't speak no good English. Doncha knows that mistah?

[Besticus Maximus]

Of all the mad things since resetera, the golden idol will smith stuff is the most baffling

It can only be that Nepenthe really likes him

Anyway I have to start posting this guy, you need to learn about this guy

   

Any competent narrative professional can tell you why Marie Kondo's model, and by extension the model of the modern game industry, is broken.

Kondo's mantra was "does it bring joy?" Which is precisely the sort of reductive, memorable slogan that's quotable and goes great on tote bags and t-shirts. In practice, however, it becomes a bit more complicated.

The problem word there is "joy". You see, joy has a very specific meaning. Joy carries with it the baggage of a sort of transcendent happiness beyond the everyday. It's an elevated state, but by definition, if it's elevated, it's not sustainable.

Asking something to provide joy constantly is just fast-tracking the burnout of your dopamine receptors. The item may provide joy now, but in a week? A month? A year? When it could and should have settled into a comfortable happiness and familiarity, by Kondo's measure, it should still be burying the needle. That's like asking every day of a fifty year marriage to be as dizzyingly in love as the day the couple met cute, and for all the mythology around romance, real life teaches that there are other valuable gifts to be had after that initial burst of joy.

Narrative folks know this. We know that every scene can't be the most powerful, the loudest, the most impactful. We know that you need to give players time to rest and recover before cranking the volume all the way up. We know that if you hit them with constant crescendo, it becomes white noise and they tune it out. They know can't keep infinitely upping the ante, because sooner or later you run out of places to go. You need moments of joy, yes, but also moments of quiet satisfaction, and recharging and prep. It can't all be adrenaline (or joy) all the time, or it quickly becomes empty.

And that in turn leads to the business model of the industry. Not every quarter can be the best quarter ever. The math doesn't support the line always going up. Sometimes the best approach for long term growth and survival is to hunker down for a quarter or two and invest in content, in technologies, in getting teams ready for the harder road ahead. It can't always be nothing but joy, even for investors who don't play games and want massive returns right now. Doing that through cuts, through aggressive resource extraction, through impossible targets means that sooner or later the system will burn out and there will be nothing but a feeble scrambling for a more that cannot exist.

Joy is great. But it's not everything, and it never could be. Let that be a lesson to all of us, courtesy of your friends in narrative.

Currently found writing lore on linkedin

[Snoopy]

Surprised Nep isn't getting ready for whitey invading Atlanta this week

[BIONIC]

Of all the mad things since resetera, the golden idol will smith stuff is the most baffling

It can only be that Nepenthe really likes him

Anyway I have to start posting this guy, you need to learn about this guy

Any competent narrative professional can tell you why Marie Kondo's model, and by extension the model of the modern game industry, is broken.

Kondo's mantra was "does it bring joy?" Which is precisely the sort of reductive, memorable slogan that's quotable and goes great on tote bags and t-shirts. In practice, however, it becomes a bit more complicated.

The problem word there is "joy". You see, joy has a very specific meaning. Joy carries with it the baggage of a sort of transcendent happiness beyond the everyday. It's an elevated state, but by definition, if it's elevated, it's not sustainable.

Asking something to provide joy constantly is just fast-tracking the burnout of your dopamine receptors. The item may provide joy now, but in a week? A month? A year? When it could and should have settled into a comfortable happiness and familiarity, by Kondo's measure, it should still be burying the needle. That's like asking every day of a fifty year marriage to be as dizzyingly in love as the day the couple met cute, and for all the mythology around romance, real life teaches that there are other valuable gifts to be had after that initial burst of joy.

Narrative folks know this. We know that every scene can't be the most powerful, the loudest, the most impactful. We know that you need to give players time to rest and recover before cranking the volume all the way up. We know that if you hit them with constant crescendo, it becomes white noise and they tune it out. They know can't keep infinitely upping the ante, because sooner or later you run out of places to go. You need moments of joy, yes, but also moments of quiet satisfaction, and recharging and prep. It can't all be adrenaline (or joy) all the time, or it quickly becomes empty.

And that in turn leads to the business model of the industry. Not every quarter can be the best quarter ever. The math doesn't support the line always going up. Sometimes the best approach for long term growth and survival is to hunker down for a quarter or two and invest in content, in technologies, in getting teams ready for the harder road ahead. It can't always be nothing but joy, even for investors who don't play games and want massive returns right now. Doing that through cuts, through aggressive resource extraction, through impossible targets means that sooner or later the system will burn out and there will be nothing but a feeble scrambling for a more that cannot exist.

Joy is great. But it's not everything, and it never could be. Let that be a lesson to all of us, courtesy of your friends in narrative.

Currently found writing lore on linkedin

Of course that word diarrhea is brought to you by one of the great minds behind most of the Ubislop over the past 20 years: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3835598/

Also one the most obvious cases of creating and maintaining your own Wikipedia page that I’ve ever seen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dansky

[BIONIC]

Sorry, I forgot to log into my Benji account

[Jansen]

This is specific to the Schreier video threads that get posted, but is relevant to the entire forum: I think it's in the community's best interest to enforce better OPs. This applies to all threads in general, but especially threads about a specific video or any long form content. Threads generally respond first to the title rather than the contents of the OP, there's no changing that. But there's a value add by having some sort of priming right at the outset, so people can have a better idea what they're engaging with on a level deeper than just the title.



My definition of "better OP" would be at least two or three neutral sentences explaining what the contents of the video are. Best case scenario is a bullet point summary on the major topics, but I think that's a bit much to *require*.

Bullet point summaries for videos would be appreciated. Too many times you'll get a vid like a DF analysis where posters rush to create a thread and add 0 detail to it, only adding it after the fact when its honestly too late. Sometimes I dont wanna watch an entire video, or at least get the idea if the vid is worth my time.

Now posting a link to a Youtube video of more than 10 minutes and expecting to people to just spend time watching it should be warning-worthy. If you want to share something but can't even bother to spend a couple of minutes summarizing, why should thousands of people spend anything from 15 minutes to UP TO AN HOUR watching that shit. It's such a disrespect to other people's time.

It's a youtube video, get a grip. Titles and thumbnails tell you what it's about. Watch it or don't. Your time isn't anyone else's responsibility, you're already "wasting it" by being here.

By the same metric people should just post links to twitter posts or website pages and just have people figure it out. Its just darn right lazy, Im not going to just watch a video because it gets a thread, I want to at least know why I should bother watching it - a few sentences as a brief summary isnt exactly a big ask - and no, thumbnails are often either hyperbolic or just silly (thank the Youtube Algo for that) and the same people posting this stuff dont always do a good job with informative thread titles, so again, more (or any) effort would be appreciated.

Fully agreed, but without any specific examples I'm not completely sure what the issue is exactly. The balance is fine from what I can see. Context/summaries are given when it makes sense to do so.



As a recent example, a thread for a new video by Schreier titled "Why Big Game Companies Don't Make Small Games" was created without any summary, and I don't think it's an issue. Most people are aware of who he is, what he does and the title explains what it's about.

I, and everyone here, already get titles and thumbnails from my subscription feed. I am, indeed, already wasting enough of my time by being here and reading the posts of people who make an effort. If you're trying to get anyone to watch and discuss something, at least bother to tell us why beyond 'this exists and I couldn't help myself from ctrl+V'ing the url'.

If you don't want to watch a youtube video then don't watch a youtube video. You don't need to engage with everything posted to Era. Talking about a youtube video like someone is wasting your time by forcing you to spend 45 minutes watching it and they should be given warnings (which contribute to bans) because they didn't undermine the video by summarizing it for you is absolutely ridiculous. To be blunt here, your time isn't precious and if you spent it on something you ultimately wish you didn't, that's your responsibility. If someone is spamming threads like this then I could understand mods doing something but posting here asking for warnings over the very action of posting youtube videos is silly. You're taking both yourself and Era too seriously.



Also way too much of this thread is spent on people being upset about threads existing or wanting to see people moderated for harmless shit and it's getting weird. Is this what it was like when mods talk about how before 2020 people wanted them to be harsher with moderation?

Yeah, that's where I am as well. Sometimes a summary is posted and that's all people discuss. If you've not got time or desire to watch a video, you don't have to contribute to the thread.



I do think OP's should put in more effort to actually start a discussion, but I don't think they need to summarise a video.

Yeah. I also think OPs who just post content and then don't engage in the thread/conversation are sometimes strange but I don't know how mods could enforce change there without overreach. I wouldn't have said anything if the notion of moderating people for posting videos without summaries wasn't brought up because outside of that the topic of "I don't want to watch youtube videos" is like... okay.

I don't think you can really stop/change the people who post a thread and don't engage... that and you don't really want to, often these people are weirdly needed for new threads being made on forums because most people would rather just reply than make a thread.

I do think it's kinda crazy to want to have an opinion and talk about a video, and not wanting to watch the video at all. Like, where do you draw the line? Should people get warned too for making a thread about something that happens in a game and not summarizing it for everyone that doesn't want to play the game?

Given exactly this is in the era posting guidelines, I agree:

I brought this topic up because it is a downstream effect of a policy change that *this* thread lobbied for: namely that posts in mega threads get ignored, so people wanted to make discrete threads for more visibility.



I think a more informative OP than literally just a link to the YouTube video is a bare minimum ask that can have a lot of upside given that currently, threads don't even *discuss* the contents of the video, but rather their gut reaction to however they rationalize the thread title.



As a member who has never made a report for an infraction in my entire existence in this community, it's not about being punitive. Having a standard of discussion encourages better engagement, which I think we can all agree has been on the downswing of quality as of recent. So a bit of housekeeping can go along way, especially since this behavior has become *more* of a thing since a recent policy change.







I wasn't going to mention that what I asked for is literally the rules, because I felt it was self evident.

Personally I think the shame of comments calling OP out for no description is just as effective as a warning without having to rely on mods creating a stodgy atmosphere

As with almost everything, I think it's a case by case basis.



I think in many situations that rule as written is not needed. All it leads to is people needing to perform some extra function to make a thread. Does anyone really need "hbomberguy - Plagarism and Youtube" summarized in an OP along with a reason why people should watch it? "This video is about plagarism and youtube, he calls out x, y, and z for it. I think you should watch it because it's good." That OP getting a pass but not including that getting a Warning, Ban, or Thread Making Privileges revoked or what have you is so arbitrary. It's rules for the sake of rules. It's a youtube video. Watch it and join the conversation or don't. If someone is clearly spamming threads of videos with no commentary and it becomes a problem then mods can step in. Of course there are cases where some commentary from the OP might be more warranted, some videos that require it. But those threads often naturally die anyway because people don't engage. I also don't really think it's the OP's responsibility to pre-emptively counter bad poster behavior, they're sharing a youtube video not herding cattle.

Focusing on this since it is the ethos of your entire post.



I fundamentally disagree. Creating a thread should have higher expectations and standards than just a regular post. It's the first thing people see when they click into the thread. And it fundamentally sets the tone of discussion, which is why more intention should go into it (and the creator should have more care about what they put into the OP).



Dropping a Schreier video YouTube link raw with no context into the Schreier OT no one will think twice about. It's another leaf on the branch, which is why some people wanted more visibility by being able to create redundant individual threads.



But if you take up forum real estate with a discrete thread, delivering more context should come with it. Raising the floor of discussion should be a goal of every participant.

Some people aren't in a position to watch a video at the moment but the topic may interest them for later on. That's why a basic one-sentence description would be helpful over a thread title that may be vague or even misleading.



Give me the impression you watched the video and found it informative rather than mindlessly pressing the share button.

To be clear, everyone's time is precious and I don't feel the need to engage with everything posted to Era. If someones creates a thread about a Youtube video and they don't even bother to describe what it's about or why people should watch it, I do not watch the video in the hopes that I'll have an opinion on it that I can share on Resetera. That doesn't change the fact that with Youtube videos, as there is often with news, there is a trend of people just making a thread because they want to be the first, as if they're a live subscription feed, and not because they want to contribute. The effect usually is a thread derail because people start talking about the lack of comment or they just start talking about the headline without watching the video. In that case, even if it's a good video, it's a shitty thread.



In the end it's pretty simple. If Era doesn't take itself seriously, why this need for people to be the first to post something if instead they could just wait for someone to actually do it well? And yeah, if people can't help themselves, warn them. No one is saying ban people for this. Just make them aware. You're vastly inflating the importance of having a little box at the top of a post and a notification that tells you to put SOME effort in.

an op with of just a link to a video is a bad op, which makes a bad thread

I'm not necessarily saying low-effort threads with just links to videos should be moderated, but wrt the bolded, yeah I think that's exactly what people should do.



Even if you opt not to summarise a piece fully to avoid people reading your summary and not engaging with the content, a basic expectation that an OP expresses why they thought something was noteworthy seems entirely reasonable.



I often see stuff posted by creators I've never heard of, and I'm unsure of whether to watch the full thing or not, but am often swayed by an OPs thoughts on why it was good. I've been introduced to lots of creators this way on Era.

Yeah if you have nothing to say except a link what's the point. Surprised this is even up for discussion

Why do they take posting on a video game message board so seriously

[Cheers]

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This is the guy that said he’d go through a 94+% THC vape in a day. That’s way more than what people get out of smoking bud. It’s no longer “weed” at that point being so concentrated. 

Some YouTuber walked into the ocean or something, people were like "he took some drugs and it fried his brain." You read a little more about him and turns out he was dosing increasing amounts of ayahuasca plus who knows what else every three hours. 

Anyway, it just goes to show how much more powerful and dangerous the drugs are these days than back when we were kids. You could do all kinds of sketch comedy and films while doing speedballs without any problems rather than your life falling apart.

All the more reason to get high purely on organizing and theory and children's cartoons.

Was reading that YouTuber was injecting gold as well. Who knows what else he was doing, like steroids or coke.

[Uncle]

someone should've said "point taken, I'll paste the youtube link into notebookLM and get an AI summary for the thread"