Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Hap Shaughnessy]

If Nepenthe is in charge, poliEra is going to have a rough election cycle.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-237?post=118336485#post-118325193

I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs.

'Keep the peace'? That's definitely a take. You've let your fellow mods and admin cater and groom cliques and ran off reasonable posters whom weren't able to 'speak their individual truths' to screeching users who called disagreement genocide and bigotry. And when the remaining users would intermittently rise up and demand action and accountability... to.a.'t'. you circled the wagons, talked down to them, and derided them for even questioning those in authority.

Now, when you're showing signs of failing that purity test, you want to play the EXACT.SAME.FUCKING.CARD they do. "I'm so tired. It's killing me. It's damaging my health."

If this job is so abusive, then quit. But do NOT delude yourself as if you were powerless, scooter. You're part of the root of this problem.

Notice the implication that his position should be wielded against certain "individual truths" and that he's "given up a lot" by not shutting them down. (Which is a lie but whatever, we're talking about his "individual truth" here.) Never does he consider that the position of admin is not to bother with any of this or only do so at some very minimum level such as those outlined in the actual forum rules that haven't been used ever. He doesn't even disagree with his "friends" that supposedly wanted to shut down "individual truths" just claims that he was too committed to not silence the more marginalized people who don't have millions tied into video game stock prices.

We know what he's actually talking about, banning trans allies for transphobia because certain trans members demanded it or because his underlings demanded no views that disagree with theirs, banning allies who do or don't support the Democratic Party in the proper amount of the moment like banning anyone who didn't think Biden was a rapist and then turning around and banning anyone who called him a rapist, etc. It's not like real legit MAGA chuds are the ones getting cut down and complaining to B-Dubs, it's losers like TheHunter or ZeoVGM or marrec. People who wanted to deviate on one topic or a little bit on one area or whatever. B-Dubs feels he had to "give people space to speak their individual truths" which means no others were allowed. Which is how they got into this whole insane idea that the staff has to get informed ("and fast") about any and every topic that might come up then enforce only one set of "individual truths" so there's space for "people to speak" them.

If only all those bad actors hadn't resisted the productive discussion he wouldn't have had to lie awake reliving his "dark choices" with nothing but the night sky to comfort him. Like, dude, shutting the fuck up is free.

[Venice]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-237?post=118336485#post-118325193

B-Dumbs "On break"

I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs.

Thank you for your sacrifice, Forum Jesus

[Nintex]

Unban me B-Dubs, make me admin.

Anyone here that still posts on that shithole, now is the time to open threads to ask for the return of Nintex. 

I will get this shit sorted out ASAP. With your support we can make ResetEra great again. 

I've been on GAF, NeoGAF, TheBore, ResetEra, D-Pad Life, all the Discords and now The Bire. I get along with the Playstationers, Xbots, PC Master Race and Nintendies. I even have actual industry contacts. My ability to keep even the worst trolls in line is unmatched. I'm talking about turning literal anti-semites and Nation of Islam / Malcom X boys into cute little puppies. 
And no matter how many times the soys say "Fuck off Nintex" I never ever back down and they will leave by themselves. I won't even have to ban them.

I am the only one who can fix her and who is willing to fix her. I will give you back your freedom from the gang of lunatics that has hijacked your boards.
The videogame industry would respect you and start posting again. 

You all know it.

You should bring Shosta in as your running mate. Everyone needs a Kamala to blame any problems on. He's a little bitch and would probably love all the abuse anyway.

Well he still owes me for that time I send him money to pay his bar tab

[benji]

Somebody with an account or via one of our group accounts want to screencap that B-Dubs post?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/january-28-2024-deadline-snoop-dogg-says-he-has-%E2%80%9Cnothing-but-love-and-respect%E2%80%9D-for-donald-trump.810396/page-2?post=118339926#post-118339926

Jessica Simpson also endorsed Triumph. Disgusting.

[HaughtyFrank]

Let's assume for a second B-dubs speaks the truth and modding this forum has destroyed this guy's mental and physical health to the point of suicidal thoughts.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD STAY ADMIN

Who are you doing this for? Everyone hates the mods and the ones who don't are slime balls like red mercury who are just incredible eager to become a mod themselves. 
If you think the place would crash and burn without you then let it crash and burn because no one likes what you're doing

[nampad]

Let's assume for a second B-dubs speaks the truth and modding this forum has destroyed this guy's mental and physical health to the point of suicidal thoughts.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD STAY ADMIN

Who are you doing this for? Everyone hates the mods and the ones who don't are slime balls like red mercury who are just incredible eager to become a mod themselves. 
If you think the place would crash and burn without you then let it crash and burn because no one likes what you're doing

Honest question, what did he do for a living before he went on to be Cerium‘s bitch? Does he have any skills to make a living besides this?

[HaughtyFrank]

Let's assume for a second B-dubs speaks the truth and modding this forum has destroyed this guy's mental and physical health to the point of suicidal thoughts.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD STAY ADMIN

Who are you doing this for? Everyone hates the mods and the ones who don't are slime balls like red mercury who are just incredible eager to become a mod themselves. 
If you think the place would crash and burn without you then let it crash and burn because no one likes what you're doing

Honest question, what did he do for a living before he went on to be Cerium‘s bitch? Does he have any skills to make a living besides this?

He's very passionate whenever school and teaching comes up so I imagine somewhere that in that field

[Hap Shaughnessy]

I would like to point out that the Bire wasn't mentioned as a factor in B-Dubs imminent emotional and physical collapse. We need to do better, people.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-237?post=118336485#post-118325193

B-Dumbs "On break"

I'm saying this as just me, the other mods and admins have nothing to do with this, but I gotta say it.

The fact is, the idea that moderation around the Acti-blizz acquisition has been colored by my daring to mention the fact I actually bothered to try investing for the first time has been going around for about a year and a half now, maybe more. The Sony warriors have been on this stance for ages now, I got warned about it a long time ago. They've been pushing this nonsense for ages and seeing people I considered friends, people who knew what I've sacrificed ,seemingly buying into it was horrifying to me. People who said nothing in the face of the nonsense.

This pushing of the discussion point about posters and their investing is just people pushing that same stuff in a way they think people won't realize.

After all the insane shit I've been through, after all I've sacrificed--my mental health, my physical health, what is probably the future I should have had--nothing has offended me more than this. Nothing has made me angrier. Every time I've tried to write up a post about all this it just turns to furious anger, threatening fire and brimstone to those pushing this nonsense.

You know better than most some of the insanity I'm forced to carry around, some of the dark things and choices I'm forced to relive in the quiet moments of the night when there's nothing but me and the night sky.

There was someone earlier in this thread who mentioned how certain posters use progressive language to push platform warring and they are correct. Could we have been harder on the Xbox warriors? Absolutely. Were all the Sony guys in good faith? Hell no they weren't.

The new age of the platform warrior isn't about box power or game quality, it's been all about "my company is more moral/ethical than your company is."

That's the battle we're all fighting and we've all been aware of it for a few years now. You're all just catching up.

You can see it in some of the posts about how Sony managed to avoid this or how Iwata cut his salary first. It's all just a new age of platform warring, clad in leftist rhetoric so as to hide from those not paying attention.

None of these companies give a shit. They're all bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. Arguing which is the best is like arguing which is the best smelling turd. They all smell like shit and they always have.

I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind.

Basically, what I'm saying is the people pushing this whole "dubs is a millionaire bought out by M$" piss me off to a degree I've never dealt with before. I've been accused of 200 different kinds of bigotry and xenophobia over the years because we wouldn't let people go off on each other and break the rules without consequences. But this? I've never been as angry or offended in my life and I've been driven to suicidal ideation a few times.

Keep in mind this is all me on a personal level. If anything official gets said it won't be coming from me. I'm so angry I don't trust myself to do it and so it'll come from another admin. I just had to say something, to push back on the nonsense, or go insane.

Anyway, I'm taking some time away. Sorry to everyone on staff if I made your jobs harder, I just couldn't keep quiet anymore.

B-Dumbs, this all the fault of you letting certain groups on that forum walk all over you + useless fucks like Nepnep. These people are insidious and play you against people, JUST like they do with the rest of the forum like ban baiting. If you just stop letting people run their cliques on that forum between poliera, trans mafia era, console warriors, tankies, etc, things would be much better. 


"I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind."

this is the same shit many people on that forum experience from the cunts

Just fucking ban those stupid cunts. You and everyone and the forum would be better off. Get on it B-Dumbs and become B-Based. You might redeem yourself for your own sanity

start with nepnep

 

Man, the whole time I've been playing Palworld (plz no ban  ) and I missed out on B-Dumbs pulling a Finale Fireworker move
https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-just-want-to-say-thank-you-to-the-moderation-staff.155006/page-4?post=26787609#post-26787609

How things were going on the forum dictated my entire life. Would I eat? Would I sleep? Would I cancel my plans? Would I call in sick to work? Would I talk to my wife that night? My existing blood pressure problems began to agitate and worsen. I developed insomnia because I'd be afraid to go to sleep. I went on emergency health hiatus before my wedding. I couldn't continue to do something that had such a dramatic impact on my life that had nothing to do with my family. I could have kept going if I was stronger. But I wasn't. I had so much going on and something had to go. I retired due to my deteriorated condition and how much worse I would get if I didn't make a change.

I know exactly how much time and emotion it consumes to do this kind of work. It takes bravery. It takes sacrifice. It takes selflessness and compassion. It is prideless work. There is no such thing as a professional moderator. Nobody has the breadth of knowledge and context to address every single topic or situation with flawless judgment. We were just people, members of the community, trying their best for the benefit of everyone here. No decision is ever perfect, no situation is ever the same as one before it, and it never stops. However hard something hits you, or however long it took to resolve, the forum never stops. People always need you. There is always something happening somewhere. Doing that together for so long with so many people I cared so much about was one of the most enriching experiences of my life. But it was never, ever easy.

[Uncle]

So what exactly does the General Manager do if all their decisions are collective decisions and he can just go "On Break"?

perhaps he has been trying various non-confrontational ways to get rid of nepenthe for years now, and this is his latest scheme

she will have to do all the moderating for a month and will go insane and finally quit in a huff

[davepoobond]

Does he even get paid for this?  Really weird why he puts himself through it if he is so miserable otherwise. 

Also, not one word about the trans genocide in that post, tsk tsk

[Greatness Gone]

How things were going on the forum dictated my entire life. Would I eat? Would I sleep? Would I cancel my plans? Would I call in sick to work? Would I talk to my wife that night

What the fuck?!  

One thing that impresses me about B-Dumbs/Cerium is that they were somehow able to make sure each and every mod “hired” was mentally ill. How can every single one of them, past or current, be insane?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Unban me B-Dubs, make me admin.

Anyone here that still posts on that shithole, now is the time to open threads to ask for the return of Nintex. 

I will get this shit sorted out ASAP. With your support we can make ResetEra great again. 

I've been on GAF, NeoGAF, TheBore, D-Pad Life, all the Discords and now The Bire. I get along with the Playstationers, Xbots, PC Master Race and Nintendies. I even have actual industry contacts. My ability to keep even the worst trolls in line is unmatched. I'm talking about turning literal anti-semites and Nation of Islam / Malcom X boys into cute little puppies. 
And no matter how many times the soys say "Fuck off Nintex" I never ever back down and they will leave by themselves. I won't even have to ban them.

I am the only one who can fix her and who is willing to fix her. I will give you back your freedom from the gang of lunatics that has hijacked your boards.

You all know it.

I wonder if you would, like genuinely make an attempt to turn it around

though that would just align with banning all the main characters which everyone agrees is what needs to happen anyway, even if the healthy thing is the death of comedy

I won't have to ban anyone. I'm not going to ban anyone unless they post stuff that goes against very clearly defined rules of which there are few.

Under my leadership it would be like the good old days. You'd come home to post a few memes, watch a few trailers, learn some industry secrets and maybe dabble into some T&A, news or politics if you felt like it. Gaming would be the main thing but there wouldn't be any mandatory ideology or a set of ideals pushed on you. None of this 'holier than thou' shit. Back then your income didn't matter, it mattered that you could find all the skulls in HALO or some shit. 

What killed NeoGAF/ResetEra is conformity. We used to have gamers, journalists, yuropeans, americans, gays, japanese, conservatives, liberals, progressives, everyone together on the same board. You made fun of the Xboxers when the Xbox sold 3 units in Japan and then got laughed at when Nintendo charged $50 for a Super Mario All Stars ROM on a disk. However that was never the fault of 'capitalism' just company executives being retarded. 

We shared many great moments as a community and that is sadly not happening anymore on ResetEra. It could happen again if people made the right choice

Would you add Likes?

I'm pretty sure Resetera would thrive if everyone who didn't break any laws were unbanned and a like system put into place. Let it be the wild west.

[TylenolJones]

Does he even get paid for this?  Really weird why he puts himself through it if he is so miserable otherwise. 

Also, not one word about the trans genocide in that post, tsk tsk

Paid?

MOBA doesn’t even send that loser a fruit basket.

[Switters]

"You know better than most some of the insanity I'm forced to carry around, some of the dark things and choices I'm forced to relive in the quiet moments of the night when there's nothing but me and the night sky."

This the type of shit Drake would text Ed Sheeran to sound cool.

This the type of shit they left out of Twilight.

This is the youth group that wants to start a Christian Nu-Metal Band type shit.

My god.

[AldusMoneyPenny]

B-Dumbs is in a bad spot because if he bans the retards there would be no one left, they've ran all the normal people off. Imagine the recruitment drive they would have to do for users "we banned all the weirdos!! please come back!!"

This is literally what EvilLore did after he kicked out all the CHUDs 

I would like to point out that the Bire wasn't mentioned as a factor in B-Dubs imminent emotional and physical collapse. We need to do better, people.

I like to think that when I look up into the night sky, it's the same night sky B-Dubs is looking at

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/constructive-community-discussion.270630/page-237?post=118336485#post-118325193

B-Dumbs "On break"

I'm saying this as just me, the other mods and admins have nothing to do with this, but I gotta say it.

The fact is, the idea that moderation around the Acti-blizz acquisition has been colored by my daring to mention the fact I actually bothered to try investing for the first time has been going around for about a year and a half now, maybe more. The Sony warriors have been on this stance for ages now, I got warned about it a long time ago. They've been pushing this nonsense for ages and seeing people I considered friends, people who knew what I've sacrificed ,seemingly buying into it was horrifying to me. People who said nothing in the face of the nonsense.

This pushing of the discussion point about posters and their investing is just people pushing that same stuff in a way they think people won't realize.

After all the insane shit I've been through, after all I've sacrificed--my mental health, my physical health, what is probably the future I should have had--nothing has offended me more than this. Nothing has made me angrier. Every time I've tried to write up a post about all this it just turns to furious anger, threatening fire and brimstone to those pushing this nonsense.

You know better than most some of the insanity I'm forced to carry around, some of the dark things and choices I'm forced to relive in the quiet moments of the night when there's nothing but me and the night sky.

There was someone earlier in this thread who mentioned how certain posters use progressive language to push platform warring and they are correct. Could we have been harder on the Xbox warriors? Absolutely. Were all the Sony guys in good faith? Hell no they weren't.

The new age of the platform warrior isn't about box power or game quality, it's been all about "my company is more moral/ethical than your company is."

That's the battle we're all fighting and we've all been aware of it for a few years now. You're all just catching up.

You can see it in some of the posts about how Sony managed to avoid this or how Iwata cut his salary first. It's all just a new age of platform warring, clad in leftist rhetoric so as to hide from those not paying attention.

None of these companies give a shit. They're all bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. Arguing which is the best is like arguing which is the best smelling turd. They all smell like shit and they always have.

I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind.

Basically, what I'm saying is the people pushing this whole "dubs is a millionaire bought out by M$" piss me off to a degree I've never dealt with before. I've been accused of 200 different kinds of bigotry and xenophobia over the years because we wouldn't let people go off on each other and break the rules without consequences. But this? I've never been as angry or offended in my life and I've been driven to suicidal ideation a few times.

Keep in mind this is all me on a personal level. If anything official gets said it won't be coming from me. I'm so angry I don't trust myself to do it and so it'll come from another admin. I just had to say something, to push back on the nonsense, or go insane.

Anyway, I'm taking some time away. Sorry to everyone on staff if I made your jobs harder, I just couldn't keep quiet anymore.

B-Dumbs, this all the fault of you letting certain groups on that forum walk all over you + useless fucks like Nepnep. These people are insidious and play you against people, JUST like they do with the rest of the forum like ban baiting. If you just stop letting people run their cliques on that forum between poliera, trans mafia era, console warriors, tankies, etc, things would be much better. 


"I've given up a lot in doing this job. I no longer have a place in the communities I call home. I have friends that won't talk to me because I had to keep the peace and give people space to speak their individual truths instead of siding with them and my own beliefs. I can't make a blatantly obvious post that's literally just a point made by others without being completely misinterpreted, on purpose, and made to sound like I'm saying something I'm not. My mental health is shit and there's days my physical health isn't too far behind."

this is the same shit many people on that forum experience from the cunts

Just fucking ban those stupid cunts. You and everyone and the forum would be better off. Get on it B-Dumbs and become B-Based. You might redeem yourself for your own sanity

start with nepnep

 

B-Dumbs can piss off with this pity party he's trying to get going. Dude knows what they problems are with the place, but refuse to do anything out of cowardice of confronting nutbags like Nep and agreement with how things are run. He's a cowardly and incompetent admin that should have been shitcanned years ago.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

B-dubs should sign up here and become a community member instead of being staff for people who hate him. 

[kaleidoscopium]

These people are fucking retarded to the Nth degree.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/neuralink-has-implanted-its-first-implant-into-a-living-human.810729/page-2

It's not for healthy people, it's for tetraplegics so I don't think it's that hard to understand why they would do it. Especially considering the technology is well known and decade old, and has already shown it can help paralysed people for some tasks.


Yeah, let's shit on paralysed people for wanting to recover some autonomy by getting an implant based on a technology that has already proven to work.

Normal sane person.

I have to commend your lack of cynicism after everything Elon has said and done over the last decade. Chances are high that he has no intention for these implants to be used to actually help people but rather he intends to use this tech to enhance himself and his other rich friends or lead them to some form of immortality.

An insane person.

[Uncle]

Somebody with an account or via one of our group accounts want to screencap that B-Dubs post?

I want to get the whole page but it's too tall/large for chrome's "take full screenshot" tool, and you can't just grab like the lower half of the page instead



bonus



wish it was easier to copy paste entire conversations so you could speculate better about who he's infuriated with

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Ohio, Michigan Republicans In Released Audio: "Endgame" Is To Ban Trans Care "For Everyone"

Third page. Only 3 pages worth of responses.

Cis folks aren't even trying to hide it. 

[Uncle]

(btw PTO means paid time off, I'm not sure if GulfCoastZilla understands this)

[Boredfrom]

"You know better than most some of the insanity I'm forced to carry around, some of the dark things and choices I'm forced to relive in the quiet moments of the night when there's nothing but me and the night sky."

This the type of shit Drake would text Ed Sheeran to sound cool.

This the type of shit they left out of Twilight.

This is the youth group that wants to start a Christian Nu-Metal Band type shit.

My god.

Hero? Huh. You're talking to a villain, my dear. The hero inside of me died...many, many years ago when I was young.

[benji]

These people are fucking retarded to the Nth degree.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/neuralink-has-implanted-its-first-implant-into-a-living-human.810729/page-2

I have to commend your lack of cynicism after everything Elon has said and done over the last decade. Chances are high that he has no intention for these implants to be used to actually help people but rather he intends to use this tech to enhance himself and his other rich friends or lead them to some form of immortality.

I need Greg to explain how the latter happens if the former doesn't.

[Uncle]

benji please make a new forum account called SuperLikeBenjiAccount which is bold and sparkly and then you can log into it and like specific posts which have done you a particularly great service

[benji]

(btw PTO means paid time off, I'm not sure if GulfCoastZilla understands this)

B-Dubs didn't post his ko-fi so we can't donate to his mental health.

[Averon]

There needs to be something done more on this site for what is happening regarding the entire situation of trans genocide. A thread gets made of officials openly talking abouy plans, and it barely makes a blip. It's beyond disheartening and demoralizing on a consistent of basis of zero caring.

Lol. They noticed people are avoiding their insanity and are demanding mods somehow force people to engage with them. Tough shit. Spending the past 5+ years ban baiting and telling people to STFU only one opinion is allowed would do that. Eventually people get the hint and just avoid ya nutbags entirely.

[davepoobond]

(btw PTO means paid time off, I'm not sure if GulfCoastZilla understands this)

Pity time off?