Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

Btw, the cliched example of the tortured poet, Byron, was an extremely privileged Lord who once murdered a friend over whose huge estate had more game birds on it and got clean away with it out of privilege. The idea that art, especially poetry, is exclusively a poor person's province is ahistorical. You usually had to have some kind of privilege to be able to devote enough time and energy to it, or to have the education, never mind to actually be published and become known for it. Which sucks, of course.

Rare that I get to do it to such a terrible poster so:

[Besticus Maximus]

There are about 3 working class writers in the English language that anyone has ever heard of, regrettably

Even Orwell went to Eton

[benji]

Their ideology is closer to Ayn Rand than Karl Marx

It's quite obvious in Rothbard's play that Snyder should adapt instead:

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@MaGuFer
5 years ago
Holy crap! This garbage is uploaded and watched?
Bad acting and worse script defines this cheap criticism of a great mind and a much better writer than Mr. Rothbard.

[benji]

I think I posted this part to mock Kyuuji and co before:

CARSON (turning to KEITH): Keith, would you like a cigarette? Here, this is a particularly rational brand.

KEITH (a bit bemused): "Rational?" (A slight pause) Oh, I'm sorry, thank you. I don't smoke.

(Exclamations of disapproval from JONATHAN and GRETA.)

GRETA (lashing out): You don't smoke! Why not?

KEITH (taken back): Well, uh … because I don't like to.

CARSON (in scarcely controlled fury): You don't like to! You permit your mere subjective whims, your feelings (this word said with utmost contempt) to stand in the way of reason and reality?

KEITH (sweating again): But surely, Miss Sand, what other possible grounds can you have for smoking than simply liking it?

(Expressions of fury, dismay from GRETA, JONATHAN, and CARSON, "Oh!" "Ah!" etc.)

JONATHAN (bounding up): Mr. Hackley, Carson Sand never, never does anything out of her subjective feelings; only out of reason, which means the objective nature of reality. You have grossly insulted this great woman, Carson Sand, you have abused her courtesy and her hospitality. (sits down)

KEITH: But … but … what possible reason can there be … ?

CARSON: Mr. Hackley, why are you evading the self-evident fact? Smoking is a symbol of the fire in the mind, the fire of ideas. He who refuses to smoke is therefore an enemy of ideas and of the mind.

KEITH: Symbol? But then a match is even more of a symbol—

(Further expressions of fury, anger, exasperation.)

JONATHAN (bounding up, crossing over to KEITH): Enough! How dare you mock Carson Sand in that hooligan manner? You wouldn't mock God!

CARSON (once again in tight control): Wait, Jonathan, let us wait before passing final judgment. Perhaps his problem is on a deeper level.

JONATHAN: Of course, Carson. (JONATHAN crosses back, sits down)

Just keep dismissing concerns.

CARSON (temper rising): Mr. Hackley, we are being very patient with you because we extend every courtesy and every leeway to a lover of The Brow of Zeus. Let me put it this way: are you a mystic? (This question snapped out with flashing eyes, and hatred in her voice.)

KEITH: A mystic? Why no, I don't believe in this Zen Buddhist business, or—

CARSON (squirming with indignation): Oh! Really, Keith, I am trying to hold a serious conversation with you.

KEITH: Well, yes, but—

CARSON: Please give the courtesy of not interrupting me in the middle of a thought.

KEITH: I'm sorry, I—

CARSON: Surely, you must realize I'm not talking about the twisted, leprous, Asiatic bum sitting somewhere on a diaper — that's only the most obvious, the most blatant kind of mystic.

KEITH: I know; Los Angeles is full of queer—

JONATHAN: Mr. Hackley, why do you persist, again and again, in conscious and deliberate evasion of Miss Sand's frank and open questions? We both know you're running like hell.

[benji]

KEITH: Well, look, I told you that I don't take religion very seriously.

(The pause that now settles over the room is deathly.)

CARSON (explodes, agitated. She leaps up): My God, we are talking about life and death matters and he doesn't … Oh!! (CARSON sinks back on the chair, covering her head in fury.)

GRETA (in voice of low menace): Mr. Hackley, do you take anything seriously?

(Another long pause.)

(KEITH starts to get up to leave. CARSON summons up the last reserves of her patience and stops him.)

CARSON: Wait, Mr. Hackley, perhaps we can approach your problem through aesthetics. What composers do you like, for example?

KEITH (sinks back, a bit relieved, feeling erroneously on safer ground): Well, the usual, you know. I'm not much of a musician—

CARSON (quickly): That's all right. That doesn't matter. Your taste reveals your musical premises.

KEITH (puzzled): Oh? Well, I like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, the standard—

GRETA: Oh!

CARSON: Keith, how could you? I, who know the depth of depravity to which most men sink, even I have to ask myself, how can they? Beethoven, Mozart, who reek of naturalism, whose whole work tramples on values, whose every note displays the malevolent-universe premise.

KEITH (stunned): Malev—?

CARSON: Oh, Keith, can't you see the hatred of life in every bar of their music?

Exactly what these chuds are doing constantly and the staff don't care.

[benji]

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@zc8573
16 hours ago
The 70's were such a magical time. No phones, no texting, people just knew how to have fun.

@mynameisdillworth
13 hours ago
My mom saw the Flowerettes live in '72 — Linda was so blasted she mistook Nancy’s umbrella for a barf bag right in the middle of this hit. Apparently they kept on rolling, didn't miss a beat!

@Conbot50001
14 hours ago
Cheers from an olD timer, we used to cruise ot this song in my '67 Camaro with Steve, Terry, and terrys sister deBbie...rip Terry! back whEn yoU had to lErn to play yoUr instrUments the good old times......class of '74 johnson high!

[Not an Alt Account]

Our queen is all in on Stellar Blade:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/stellar-blade-previews-demo-thread-staff-post-threadmarked.831270/page-72?post=121826976#post-121826976

Funny thing is, the reeeeees on the "women bitch about videogame women" thread can't even call her out on that. Some of them must be so mad.

Daily "woman with agency" Sweeney:

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[Snoopy]

For comparison I'm homeless, I have disabling depression. My life is truly a living hell and I'm an actual tortured poet (I write poetry).

[benji]

Why are my YouTube recommendations always like this?  DAMN YOU ALGORITHMS

[HaughtyFrank]

Post in thread 'Taylor Swift announces new album The Tortured Poets Department out April 19' 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121822350

Real tortured poet speaks!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121822350

Lol

ohhhh my goooodddddd it's just a inside baseball goof on her ex boyfriend's stupid group chat name.

I don't really follow Taylor Swift but I'm very amused that the simple answer is that she's still writing about her ex boyfriends

[Daffy Duck]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-113?post=121826703#post-121826703

I love how the JK thread is now just the trans community thread, JK bringing them all together

[Not an Alt Account]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-113?post=121826703#post-121826703

I love how the JK thread is now just the trans community thread, JK bringing them all together

I wish every transphobe a very slow painful death, please and thank you.

Top of the page "definitely not a trans woman" Sweeney:

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[Snoopy]

Jeff Marvel gets bodied

Dang it's actually kinda amusing how you kept going back to the PS2 as evidence, as if a console that launched almost 25 years ago has anything at all to do with media consumption today. You're referencing a time when Blockbuster Video was still going strong, when people had 100 disc CD changers, when you had to shell out extra to buy a separate accessory to connect your console to the internet, none of that is relevant now. It wasn't even relevant 10 years ago. It wasn't even relevant 18 years ago when the PS3 launched. The Blu-ray capabilities of the PS3 were nowhere near the selling point of the PS3 that DVD was for the PS2. Your claim that "every console in someone's house is a physical media player" isn't even true any more! You've been able to buy xboxes and playstations without a disc drive for almost 5 years!

Physical media isn't "losing" the fight, it lost a long time ago.

4 page thread suddenly gets locked due to "sources"




https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-target-supposedly-will-stop-selling-physical-media-in-store-and-online-by-2025.847179/page-4

[kaleidoscopium]

i own a dvd player

i keep it in my closet

i bring it out for porn

i dont have many porn dvds, mostly just the ones i get for free ordering vibrating butt toys

they like to give away free porn dvds to anyone who buys pretty much anything

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-target-supposedly-will-stop-selling-physical-media-in-store-and-online-by-2025.847179/page-2?post=121818414#post-121818414

Resetera “comedy” or boys club rhetoric?

[Daffy Duck]

Jeff Marvel gets bodied

Dang it's actually kinda amusing how you kept going back to the PS2 as evidence, as if a console that launched almost 25 years ago has anything at all to do with media consumption today. You're referencing a time when Blockbuster Video was still going strong, when people had 100 disc CD changers, when you had to shell out extra to buy a separate accessory to connect your console to the internet, none of that is relevant now. It wasn't even relevant 10 years ago. It wasn't even relevant 18 years ago when the PS3 launched. The Blu-ray capabilities of the PS3 were nowhere near the selling point of the PS3 that DVD was for the PS2. Your claim that "every console in someone's house is a physical media player" isn't even true any more! You've been able to buy xboxes and playstations without a disc drive for almost 5 years!

Physical media isn't "losing" the fight, it lost a long time ago.

4 page thread suddenly gets locked due to "sources"




https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-target-supposedly-will-stop-selling-physical-media-in-store-and-online-by-2025.847179/page-4

Will the sources miraculously agree with their viewpoint?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-304?post=121826076#post-121826076

This is also my last post in the thread/forum, not only in solidarity but also as a woman of Palestinain descent; the way the whole thing went down was really, really, gross and I hate the hurt that it cause in a fellow Palestinian to be accused of conservatism because they criticize a media corporation. One that's been known to be horrible when it comes to certain subjects.

The end of the illegal occupation and apartheid is near and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea, is on the horizon. Inshallah.

[Daffy Duck]

I'm so sorry, I always saw this forum as at least attempting to be a safe place for POC and one of the best gaming forums for that, but I have just been savagely proven wrong.

I can't imagine how that feels for you with everything else that has gone on. I wish you safety and health.

This place isn't the same thing it aimed to be after moving on from the old place and that fucking hurts to be honest.

All it was from the beginning was a power play to grab the user base and profit off of it. Mission complete, now it’s the cesspool it was always destined to be when those twats took control of it.

A community is a reflection of those that are in the community…

[kaleidoscopium]

We also have decades of knowledge about treating trans kids with them.

It's never about fairness; ok, they will demand fairness from us, but not from themselves. They will fight with any dirty method they can think of.

We need to abandon the idea that this is a level playing field. It never was. They already have the leverage and they'll kick us while we're down.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/page-113?post=121827432#post-121827432

Do we? I recall the Cass report quite clearly saying it had to disregard years of low quality studies, are there some good studies out there on puberty blockers for trans kids that they missed?

[Besticus Maximus]

Considering Palestinians didn't exist until Israel became a state it's truly fascinating how many people are descended from them and post about it on the interent about 60 years later

Could it be that these are muslims looking to get digs into jews? 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Post in thread 'Taylor Swift announces new album The Tortured Poets Department out April 19' 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121822350

Real tortured poet speaks!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121822350

Lol

ohhhh my goooodddddd it's just a inside baseball goof on her ex boyfriend's stupid group chat name.

I don't really follow Taylor Swift but I'm very amused that the simple answer is that she's still writing about her ex boyfriends

Isn't a nearly all music about people you used to fuck or want to fuck?

[clockwork5]

Kimo's doing fine right now thankfully, but yeah she still needs quite a bit more to immigrate to Canada.

Are they ever not begging for money. Get a fucking job. Maybe your father won’t be so disappointed that you can’t open the pickle jar if you weren’t a worthless bum. Maybe learn how to actually play that guitar and go make a buck at the park downtown or something. Fucking Christ.

[DocWager]

1713444151[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-begins-bombing-of-southern-gaza-following-collapse-of-ceasefire-see-staff-posts-for-posting-guidelines.772478/page-304?post=121826076#post-121826076

This is also my last post in the thread/forum, not only in solidarity but also as a woman of Palestinain descent; the way the whole thing went down was really, really, gross and I hate the hurt that it cause in a fellow Palestinian to be accused of conservatism because they criticize a media corporation. One that's been known to be horrible when it comes to certain subjects.

The end of the illegal occupation and apartheid is near and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea, is on the horizon. Inshallah.

26 posts, “Woman”, and “Puerto Rican”.

[Snoopy]

I like to imagine Shreds and Morrigan trying to get past security at a lesbian bar

Sorry sir, it’s ladies only 

Morrigan I fucking am

Shreds Me too

Right lads, you’ve had your fun, fuck off

[Echelon]

B-tard must be seething at the thread, and you know he can't help himself. He's going to react somehow, and it won't be reasonable.

[kaleidoscopium]

Didn’t expect that hamas-Era would be the next group to leave, given how much rope they’ve been given thus far

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121827696
Kyuuji

Continuing with the theme of trans-relatable lyrics in Midnights, this section from You're On Your Own, Kid really hits when it comes to transition:


I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this
I hosted parties and starved my body
Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss
The jokes weren't funny, I took the money
My friends from home don't know what to say
I looked around in a blood-soaked gown
And I saw something they can't take away
'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned
Everything you lose is a step you take
So make the friendship bracelets
Take the moment and taste it
You've got no reason to be afraid

[Potato]

Post in thread 'Taylor Swift announces new album The Tortured Poets Department out April 19' 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121822350

Real tortured poet speaks!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121822350

Lol

These are adult men. Why are they listening to Taylor fucking Swift?

[killamajig]

i own a dvd player

i keep it in my closet

i bring it out for porn

i dont have many porn dvds, mostly just the ones i get for free ordering vibrating butt toys

they like to give away free porn dvds to anyone who buys pretty much anything

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-target-supposedly-will-stop-selling-physical-media-in-store-and-online-by-2025.847179/page-2?post=121818414#post-121818414

Resetera “comedy” or boys club rhetoric?

Or Ipecac?

[killamajig]

Post in thread 'Taylor Swift announces new album The Tortured Poets Department out April 19' 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121822350

Real tortured poet speaks!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121822350

Lol

These are adult men. Why are they listening to Taylor fucking Swift?

[Echelon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/taylor-swift-announces-new-album-the-tortured-poets-department-out-april-19.813021/post-121827696
Kyuuji

Continuing with the theme of trans-relatable lyrics in Midnights, this section from You're On Your Own, Kid really hits when it comes to transition:


I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this
I hosted parties and starved my body
Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss
The jokes weren't funny, I took the money
My friends from home don't know what to say
I looked around in a blood-soaked gown
And I saw something they can't take away
'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned
Everything you lose is a step you take
So make the friendship bracelets
Take the moment and taste it
You've got no reason to be afraid

Your genetic maleness?