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

[benji]

Historian Philip Wayne Powell argued that the Black Legend was still active in modern history, and plays an active role in shaping Latin America–United States relations. His book provides examples of what he viewed as divergent treatment of Spain and other powers, and illustrates how this allows for a double narrative that taints Americans' view of Hispanic America as a whole:

Spaniards who came to the New World seeking opportunities beyond the prospects of their European environment, are contemptuously called cruel and greedy "goldseekers," or other opprobrious epithets virtually synonymous with "Devils"; but Englishmen who sought New World opportunities are more respectfully called "colonists," or "homebuilders," or "seekers after liberty." ... 
— Tree of Hate (2008 edition), page 11

But, I mean, this is largely true? The whole point of the Spanish Empire was extraction for the state in the name of the monarch, the English/Dutch more had this sense of that they were pulling a fast one on dummies who were willing to go suffer just to own land and were largely ignored by the home state. The French were this weird hybrid.

The English colonies were rather famously a drag on the state, especially because of the lack of customs. This led to a whole thing at one point.

Not to mention the centralization. Nobody in the Spanish New World could have fucked off and started their own colony with blackjack and hookers like led to Rhode Island.

[Lonewulfeus]

ironically(?) some of the very few spaces allowed to be exclusionary toward trans are porn subs where like if you want to see vags up close, you don't want to see a carved up trans vag

Also known as an "open flesh wound"

They’re all gaping flesh wounds

[benji]

Why is it always connected back to Jews

signed hasan piker

You say "but there's no evidence" and I say "that's just because of how good Zionists are at hiding the strings."

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-here-has-mostly-given-up-on-relationships.1581823/

What the title says. Have you all but given up on relationships? I basically have, despite never really trying. I'm a heteroromantic ace (as far as I know), which already makes my prospects dim. But there's also the the cases that I'm lazy, ugly, useless, dumb, disabled, broke, usive, abusive, have no charisma, have nothing to offer, have some specific desires and conditions, don't know how really start or carry one out in practice, kind of like being single (though not totally), have been single most of my life, am arguably too old to start, have no real experience, am emotionally distant and shutin, past my "prime desirability" range, have trauma from past events, have never had real interest in a real person (beyond passing fancies/fantasies), I'm creepy, I'm not ready, I'd just make the other person suffer, selfish, worried I'll just find bad people, etc. Plus I hear endless horror stories from others, many other people do just fine single, it's seen as "tougher" to be single, many relationships seem cutthroat, etc. I can't completely give up lest I live a lie (part of my brain wants one) and my brain gets horribly bent out of shape and dysfunctional. But there's no real reason to try. The positives seem unobtainable, possibly fleeting, perhaps too "sappy" and "weak", and more. It's pretty inconsiderate for me to be in the dating scene when I'm such a bad potential partner instead of staying out the way and giving others a slightly higher chance of finding the right person.

Anyways, that's enough rambling from me for now... what's your take?

[Polident]

I'm a heteroromantic ace (as far as I know)

What does this even mean

[Boredfrom]

Another leftie witch hunt:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/comic-writer-tom-king-says-he-was-against-the-iraq-war-yet-for-years-used-his-service-as-a-selling-point.1581835/#post-158159962

This thread got me curious and I ended up reading this blog post. This strikes me as a better articulated concern.

https://thepolypost.com/opinion/2025/02/04/weve-normalized-war-criminals-now-theyre-writing-comics/

WE’VE NORMALIZED WAR CRIMINALS, NOW THEY’RE WRITING COMICS

GTFO 

Jesus, Christ…

L_Thammy, your favorite anime genre is based on the war experiences from the people of a nation that are currently accused of never confronting their own fucking war crimes. GET A GRIP FOR ONCE.

You fuckers didn’t care until the GL HBO show and that Supergirl comic got adapted to a motion picture.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

So this guy (black) told me he loved ham sandwiches.

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-here-has-mostly-given-up-on-relationships.1581823/

They have a version of this thread every month

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I'm a heteroromantic ace (as far as I know)

What does this even mean

Heteroromantic refers to a person who experiences romantic attraction exclusively toward individuals of a different or opposite gender.

Ace refers to a person who doesn't get laid.

Hope this helps. 

[Boredfrom]

One comic fan and social media advocate for Palestinians and other Southwest Asian and North African countries affected by violence from the West commented on how she feels to know people like King can still attract so much success in the comics industry. Her internet name, which is the name she prefers to go by, is Zahra, also known as user @spinninggaround.

So a literal nobody from Twitter.

"It is so demoralizing," Zahra said. "As an Arab fan, I do not feel like my voice and people are at all valued in comic books spaces. How can I? Someone whose career was spent murdering my people and justifying our mass murders is praised constantly."

That fake ass Arab solidarity.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://thepolypost.com/opinion/2025/02/04/weve-normalized-war-criminals-now-theyre-writing-comics/

WE’VE NORMALIZED WAR CRIMINALS, NOW THEY’RE WRITING COMICS

In 2003, he planned the invasion of Iraq

“I was 22 at the time in charge of the [f——] Iraq invasion,” King said in an interview with wordballoon on YouTube.

A 22 year old planned the invasion of Iraq?



Here's a tip, calling people war criminals doesn't actually make them a war criminal. It just makes the accusation meaningless.

[Boredfrom]

Are they taking all he is saying literally? Are leftist just dumb autists?

Yeah, this is the thing.

"Here i was chilling with the guy planning the iraq war" is somehow reading as "here's a guy who just takes pride in his job" to some maniacs. If you took pride in yourself as a human, you didn't hang around people who organized this.

[Uncle]

So this guy (black) told me he loved ham sandwiches.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Here's a tip, calling people war criminals doesn't actually make them a war criminal. It just makes the accusation meaningless.

Works for the ICC

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/‘blue-maga’-has-entered-the-chat.1581829/

In recent days, moderates have applied the label to supporters of Graham Platner, the progressive Maine candidate who dropped his bid for the U.S. Senate after a rape allegation against him surfaced. (Platner has denied the allegation.) Even before that, Platner had faced questions about a tattoo that appeared to display Nazi imagery, as well as incendiary online postings.

"I have been shocked to watch my party embrace what I believe is blue MAGA," Shannon Watts, an advocate for gun control, said on a podcast. She was describing her shock at "the amount of hate and vitriol I have endured online, on X, because of my opposition to Graham Platner."
Click to shrink...
Khanna now rejects the term, however. "I wouldn't call myself 'Blue MAGA,'" he said in a text message. "I call myself Team America."
Piker, the streamer, said that ultimately, the phrase was more reflective of fissures in internet culture than real-life divisions.
"I think we're just having a little bit of fun," he said.

Era is going to take the wrong message, isn’t it?

These primaries are an ultimatum. If the left flank is sabotaged during the midterms, we need to go third party immediately.

Pls, do it.

[benji]

Another leftie witch hunt:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/comic-writer-tom-king-says-he-was-against-the-iraq-war-yet-for-years-used-his-service-as-a-selling-point.1581835/#post-158159962

This thread got me curious and I ended up reading this blog post. This strikes me as a better articulated concern.

https://thepolypost.com/opinion/2025/02/04/weve-normalized-war-criminals-now-theyre-writing-comics/

WE’VE NORMALIZED WAR CRIMINALS, NOW THEY’RE WRITING COMICS

Are they taking all he is saying literally? Are leftist just dumb autists?

Yeah, this is the thing.

"Here i was chilling with the guy planning the iraq war" is somehow reading as "here's a guy who just takes pride in his job" to some maniacs. If you took pride in yourself as a human, you didn't hang around people who organized this.

Another meeting of "leftists against anyone ever serving the entity they want absolute control over" on their path to victory. Surely, it's a greater offense that King worked for the CIA at all rather than that he was in a meeting with his boss?

[Uncle]

Here's a tip, calling people war criminals doesn't actually make them a war criminal. It just makes the accusation meaningless.

no accusations online have any meaning anymore, they're all transparent attempts to score points and everyone on both sides knows it

oh he's a war criminal, really? did he stroll into a civilian area during wartime and rape a random person? did he deploy child soldiers? or did he just participate in a war and you consider all war to be evil and criminal?

oh he's a nazi? does he literally agree with hitler's beliefs? or just disagree with some of yours?

oh he's a transphobe homophobe pedophile bigot?

oh joanne is out there murdering trans people in the street? and you know this based on an article she wrote where she said she feels for trans people and wants them to be able to live their best life, but also wants the same for cis women?

it's all just completely played out and tiresome at this point

[benji]

Who needs institutional experience when you have evidence-free and evidence-resistant theory?

[benji]

Oh, of course, we should just allow corrupted sinners to have a say in the running of Heaven on Earth?

[Boredfrom]

But guys, you don’t understand, it feels bad when someone I dislike purely for perceived slights gets big on comics:

”Someone whose career was spent murdering my people and justifying our mass murders is praised constantly."

He was also a ISIS operative?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-here-has-mostly-given-up-on-relationships.1581823/

What the title says. Have you all but given up on relationships? I basically have, despite never really trying. I'm a heteroromantic ace (as far as I know), which already makes my prospects dim. But there's also the the cases that I'm lazy, ugly, useless, dumb, disabled, broke, usive, abusive, have no charisma, have nothing to offer, have some specific desires and conditions, don't know how really start or carry one out in practice, kind of like being single (though not totally), have been single most of my life, am arguably too old to start, have no real experience, am emotionally distant and shutin, past my "prime desirability" range, have trauma from past events, have never had real interest in a real person (beyond passing fancies/fantasies), I'm creepy, I'm not ready, I'd just make the other person suffer, selfish, worried I'll just find bad people, etc. Plus I hear endless horror stories from others, many other people do just fine single, it's seen as "tougher" to be single, many relationships seem cutthroat, etc. I can't completely give up lest I live a lie (part of my brain wants one) and my brain gets horribly bent out of shape and dysfunctional. But there's no real reason to try. The positives seem unobtainable, possibly fleeting, perhaps too "sappy" and "weak", and more. It's pretty inconsiderate for me to be in the dating scene when I'm such a bad potential partner instead of staying out the way and giving others a slightly higher chance of finding the right person.

Anyways, that's enough rambling from me for now... what's your take?

This thread explains so much about this fucking website:

Y'all in therapy?

Nah those guys basically get paid to keep you there

One of the most overrated parts of life because of how we are conditioned.

I can barely find people who tolerate being my friend.

You don’t say

My heart will forever be receptive to proposals, but my days of pursuing are through. I had an amazing relationship that lasted for about fourteen years from my senior year of high school, but we reached one of those lamentable junctures where to continue on as a couple would have required one of us to sacrifice their happiness in life for the sake of the other's, and that is not how love should be. That was early 2020. She was married by the end of the following year. I have not had a single date. Being a man seeking a woman on the modern dating scene is a terrible curse.

I am also a heteroromantic asexual, and I will not marry unless I can be a homemaker, as I have dreamt of being since childhood. Finding a woman both able and willing to be the sole breadwinner is rather challenging.

And so, I gave up on actively pursuing romance late last year. I am not unhappy. I am a man of many passions, and life is good more often than bad for me. I probably will try again, just not this year at a minimum.

Jesus fucking Christ

I am putting in way too much effort for my non-romantic relationships. The people I grew up with are just not interested in hanging out or doing anything. They are boring. I initiate all the effort to do anything.

As a specific example, They don't see movies or TV, they don't play games, they don't play sports, whenever I tell them about some movie or show I watched they say a youtuber told them it was lame. I tell them not all entertainment has to be amazing, it's just something to enjoy or discuss.

Half my conversations are like this;

"do you want to see the new star trek?"
"no, since spock has a sister now, it's non canon so I refuse to engage with it."
"Oh okay, do you want to do anything at all?"
"maybe some other time"

I started with one relationship and then I said fuck it why not seven

It's not worth it.

I've been so much happier since I punted the entire concept from my life. I'm happy for others who value companionship, but it's not for me at all.

In fact, the only hard part is other people not understanding it. I was brought up to be polite, inquisitive, and charming irl (so, not like I am here lol) , so getting on with new people has always been really easy, and them wanting to be around me is pretty common. I just find it all so exhausting and have shut off multiple relationships in my past due to it, and it's not fair to them at all and entirely not their fault. So I try very carefully to not put myself in that position anymore to avoid causing hurt, and I've been way happier for not having to worry about it.

This is a weird one for me because for a long time there I was perfectly fine being on my own. But for whatever reason the last few months I have felt increasingly lonely.

Another miserable constructive thread regular cock gobbler. Never would’ve guessed

I'm happily in a relationship, if I wasn't though I'm an attractive woman in the way society defines it seemingly so there would be like thousands of dating options and I'm sure someone else would win my attention

10/10 thread tbh

[Boredfrom]

When people quote randos from social media it reminds me that time when Paul Levitz was accused of sexism and misogyny because he pointed out that comic books are mostly directed to the male demographic because they are their bigger consumer base. 

The old days of Tumblr and Comics Alliance.

[BIONIC]

This is genuinely one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen.

The fact that you quote-tweeted @PaulTassi instead of replying, because you thought you had a banger response, makes it even funnier.

The reason why you went with Metacritic is that EVERY other metric available for audiences, critics and box office goes against your agenda. The movie is being review-bombed on Metacritic by bigoted chuds like you because you don't need to buy a ticket to review a film there.

The "average person" is not giving it a 5.1 after leaving the theater. They are giving it an A, as shown by the CinemaScore reveal. CinemaScore has been around for decades and actually polls people after leaving a film.

Paul is not the one who needs a reality check. You, with your embarrassing AI slop profile picture, is the one who needs a reality check.

You lost. It's okay to admit you were wrong.

I’m not mad (or pay Elon for a blue checkmark that I hide out of shame). Please don’t put in the newspaper that I’m mad (or pay Elon for a blue checkmark that I hide out of shame)

[Uncle]

But guys, you don’t understand, it feels bad when someone I dislike purely for perceived slights gets big on comics:

”Someone whose career was spent murdering my people and justifying our mass murders is praised constantly."

He was also a ISIS operative?

   

[Boredfrom]

“Getting mad about a meta critic user score or using a meta critic user score to validate your opinion?”

 

[Snoopy]

As a man of many passions

[Chumbawumbafan69]

I'm a heteroromantic ace (as far as I know)

What does this even mean

I'd be more worried about his 

specific desires and conditions

that make him undateable.

[Besticus Maximus]

I’ve got a piece coming out soon in a magazine on what fiction writers can learn from game writers, and yes, I am quite serious. I like to think I’m reasonably well positioned to speak on the topic, seeing as I am A) a game writer and B) a fiction writer, and have had at least some small success in each arena. (Yes, Publishers Weekly starred review for Firefly Rain, I cling to you still.)

The reaction I get when I mention this to a lot of people, though, is a snort of disbelief. What can game writers possibly have to offer fiction authors? After all, games are new and young and weird, while fiction is an ancient and honorable and esteemed craft that has been honed in MA programs and expensive workshops over centuries. There are also those whose reaction is less knee-jerk and more thoughtful, but largely as negative. They point out that I like to point out that there is a fundamental difference between writing fiction (and linear media) and writing games, namely interactivity. For a writer, interactivity means surrendering absolute control of what is being written to the player, and instead writing in a way that is predictive and reactive around the player-shaped hole the true hero of the narrative inhabits. How can that gap possibly be bridged from the other side?

To the former, I say “neener neener neener.” This argument functionally privileges fiction over game writing, which is poppycock. This sort of thinking is informed by notions like “The writing in the latest FPS isn’t up to Herman Melville’s standards”, and we can all see through that. There is great fiction writing. There is also great games writing that packs emotional wallops and shows superb craft. There is also terrible fiction writing, which partially explains why I am liquidating 5% of my book collection, along with that bad game writing, and to say that writing is better just because it comes in a different format is to say that you have never read, say, Guy N. Smith’s legendary giant killer crabs series of horror novels.

The meatier argument seems harder to counter, but it’s flawed because it’s absolutist. No, skills are not 100% transferrable between media, but they never have been. But, /some/ things game writers have learned as they have developed their own craft can be picked up, tweaked, and made useful in older but still evolving forms. I’m not going to give away what’s in the piece, but there are numerous smaller but important areas where the strictures of game writing have forced the development of approaches that can then be gifted to writers in other forms. It’s not all or nothing, but it’s definitely something, and if nothing else, I know my writing is the better for it.

He has to be on Resetera

[normalindividual]

I will never forgive the Spanish for their genocide against the peace loving Moors.

[Uncle]

I'd be more worried about his 

specific desires and conditions

that make him undateable.

Christopher John Goldberg, 32, of Jasmine Drive in A Pocono Country Place, told investigators he believed the images he downloaded aren't illegal if they depict no sexual acts.

[...]

Goldberg told investigators he has many fetishes and had downloaded many different types of porn including images of nude children, Webbe said. He indicated downloading these images was an outlet for his urges and that he believed what he had downloaded isn't illegal.