Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Steven Snell]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kim-possible-or-totally-spies-which-teenage-super-spy-show-was-better.863955/page-2?post=122635329#post-122635329

I like the character development of kim possible, and i like the disney style in general (though I wish it allowed for more queerness) but I do like all the bondage in Totally Spies. So it's a tossup

I know Totally Spies was a pretty horny show, but bondage?

[benji]

I know Totally Spies was a pretty horny show, but bondage?

I searched and among all the actual and massive amounts of porn for this show I found this which inspired a lot of that porn:


edit: This YouTube account appears to be dedicated to cartoon characters being tied up:

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/protests-at-columbia-university-continue-as-groups-on-both-sides-of-the-aisle-call-for-action-to-be-taken-university-shifts-to-hybrid-classes.851787/page-31?post=122650314#post-122650314

Faculty letter opposing the administration's decision to suspend and arrest us has reached over 100 signatures and is now making the rounds in the local news.

Should hopefully pressure the university to revoke it.

[benji]

Shit guys, we missed it:

[Straight Edge]

Roylan preach you fatass!

Soapbox preach you fucking lunatic!

These Philly bros clapping back at all the suburban blacks is actually great. It’s not about skin color, it’s about culture and you ain’t got it.

I don’t care if they are both idiots, most people here in Philly are, but man it’s nice to see my boys fighting back against the black racists. 

Again I moved here about two years ago, and as a white dude,  I’m literally the blackest I’ve ever been. And if the black dudes I run into daily,  say what’s up to with the occasional fist bump, heard me say that I’m sure they would just grin and nod along.

Ya but did you get invited to the cookout?

[Snoopy]

I just wish I knew of a country that'd support me as a refugee and has nationalised healthcare.

My only current hope is Scotland becoming independent, but they're in political shambles. My wife is reluctant to move too.

I'm currently figuring out if there's a point to existing right now. 😥

https://www.resetera.com/threads/trans-children-could-be-%E2%80%98forced-to-medically-detransition%E2%80%99-under-leaked-nhs-england-plans.864291/?post=122636271#post-122636271

"I just can't live in a world where kids can't take hormones made in a bathtub and bought on catboy ranch discords"

I don't know what fantasy world this clown lives in. If wouldn't matter if we went independent or not. He wouldn't be able to just move here and access the healthcare system. If he thinks he'd be able to come here as a "refugee" and get free trans surgery on the NHS he might as well jump in front of a bus now and save himself the bother.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tiktok-sues-u-s-government-saying-potential-ban-violates-first-amendment.864363/page-6?post=122656182#post-122656182

So basically, US social media platforms can fuck up electoral and social outcomes for its own citizens and other nations, but not Chinese social media companies.

Yes.

[benji]

Does she think only the U.S. government should be allowed to do that?

[BIONIC]

Prop no longer taking prisoners

[Snoopy]

3 days since Lebowski was freed from prison and still no back pat from Nep

[benji]

He's not mad, don't put in the paper that he's mad:

So many takes politicians have had about Tiktok have been based on anti-youth mindset, including the multiple times they've reported that they're doing this in order to control the narrative and gaslight people into suddenly ok with genocide. Because you see, CHINA is the reason the youth don't agree with genocide, or a housing crisis, or women not having bodily autonomy, or the erosion of democracy, or the creeping fascism, or the lack of generational wealth, the erosion of the middle class, unchecked rising costs of living, etc.

the youth would have no problem with those things if they didn't have their damn tic tacs. We need to get back to a time wherein the most watched news source in America is the one that's admitted multiple times that they actively lie to the public. 👿

Tiktok should be banned world wide.

Why? Where should marginalized communities gather and communicate on a large scale? What's your suggestion?

Whats wrong with twitter?

Literal nazi Elon Musk literally JUST personally unbanned the nazi pedophile known as Nick Fuentes, this action coming a month after directing his followers to attack a consulting company for promoting diversity in gaming. This comes after making it extremely easy to spread misinformation on the platform, which does include, targeted harassment. If you're that out of touch with what's going on with social media companies, especially as it pertains to why the youth are choosing one thing over another, then read up on it before posting about a topic.

If you ever find yourself agreeing with Tom Cotton on any given issue it really is time for self reflection. Especially as it pertains to how vulnerable you are to the US government's gaslighting. 🤔

What is your actual position here? That tiktok isn't actually owned by a Chinese company?

No, my point is that the China scaremongering is very transparent Sinophobia. Which has on multiple occasions been people, members of this forum included, implying that Singapore and China are one and the same. As I said above, those same people most likely didn't start referring to Tango Gameworks as an American game developer just because it was owned by Microsoft. At least the politicians are honest about it.

Oh I forgot to mention that the latest change to twitter is that blocking no longer stops people from viewing your posts. So Elon personally made it easier for trolls to cyberstalk people. Especially people like Mark Kern who's entire grift is targeted harassment against game developers. 🙃

This isn't true, blocking no longer hides posts if you unblock, reply to people, then reblock them. This is anti-harassment since it's a well known harassment method.

If you're wondering why I linked to that article that is only one of multiple examples of racism from the main. Below is him displaying some pretty blatant anti-asian racism to a Singaporean man.

Btw, the person above just this week referred to the protests on campuses happening across the US as "disgusting little Gazas."

So again, if you find yourself agreeing with his stance on an issue, and he's only one of many abhorrent people pushing for the ban the most, maybe reflect on why you're going "Gotta hand it to him this time." 🙃

Speaking of abhorrent people, ANOTHER person i'd never wanna be siding with is Mitt Romney:

It is stunning tbh. Because the outcomes have to be
-Some posters are genuinely so out of touch with how social media is used today that they are genuinely falling for gaslighting by the US government in the form of the same kind of scaremongering that works on Facebook's user base without actually thinking too deeply about it
-Some posters are fully aware and are playing dumb while silently supporting the ban of an app that's very important to marginalized communities and the youth that has to deal with an increasingly out of touch government that's on the brink of full blown fascism.

What do you mean by this. sometimes the Squad and the freedom caucus align on some issues, we're going to pull out the 'if you agree with MTG, its time for reflection?'

On this specific issue, one wherein the politicians are openly spelling out their motivations, and are openly being racist assholes on camera, you don't gotta hand it to them. Because yes it IS co-signing those viewpoints. Even if unintentionally, hence the need for self reflection. Because this is like the tenth thread on this issue where people try to use the exact same China scaremongering rhetoric that's completely out of touch with three generations of people. Millenials, gen Z, and Gen alpha dont feel threatened by China, because the biggest threat to the US is the US itself.

I don't know how many times this needs to be said. It's not a ban it's a divestment mandate. And yes that's important because those other companies you mentioned they aren't ran or held by foreign powers so there would be no reason for a divestment mandate.

As it is those other companies, as awful and irresponsible as they are, they are subject to US government oversight and regulation in a way that an app run by a foreign country is not.

Neither companies have suffered any meaningful consequences for genuinely selling user data to foreign adversaries let alone not only refusing to do anything about the abuse and spread of misinformation on their platforms which contributed to what is the current largest threat to America atm but they straight up BOOSTED that shit. Yet I'm supposed to be concerned about TikTok? If anything, I have no reason to believe that TikTok, owned by America, wouldn't be demonstrably worse.

The national security threat is a direct result of it being under the purview of the hostile foreign power. It's the core of the reason why it's a security threat.

So Sinophobia and addressing an issue that is, very out of touch with what three generations of Americans actually care about instead of addressing the issues America is currently facing. Got it. 👍

Hope they lose. I'm so sick of TikTok.

Then just don't use it. How fucking difficult is that to do instead of co-signing racist politicians?

"Ugh I'm tired of this app that's completely optional to use. Like I literally have a choice to not use it. Forget all the reasons why it's a bad thing for the US government to ban what has been for years a really good resource for organizing, marginalized communities, safe spaces, and an algorithm that doesn't boost alt right rhetoric by shoving it down our throats, I hope they ban it."

Do yall not hear yourselves?

Someone asked what's wrong with Twitter earlier and this person having a blue check mark means that their takes get boosted on the algorithm and one look at their account tells you why that's a bad thing. I could be wrong though, surely the dude retweeting John Fetterman and wrote an anti-China book has some great takes that aren't based on any form of Sinophobia at all.

The internet has always had places for any group including marginalized ones to gather and communicate on a large scale.

That doesn't answer my question. So instead of this non answer, try answering the question. Because it's certainly not Twitter.

The 2016 election, the rise of right-wing violence, all of this is elevated by these social media algorithms.

People organizing on TikTok is literally one of the reasons Trump lost the last election. The rise of the alt right was conducted on American social media website/apps that DELIBERATELY went out of their way to boost that content despite the warnings about the spread of misinformation.

Gambling is illegal for a reason, these things operate on the same principals, but are way more addictive and the damage they do is way more dangerous.

Ok so, I'll just repeat that frarmongering doesn't work on three generations of Americans. Of which I am apart of. And will kindly ask you to answer again, in the event of something as disruptive as a Tiktok ban. What viable alternative is there for people who're part of marginalized communities? Bonus question, does that platform have a history of boosting alt right content and is it currently owned by a libertarian sociopath like Zuckerberg or a literal nazi like Elon Musk?

I reject the idea that there needs to be a direct replacement for tiktok or any other algorithmic social media at all.

So you reject the idea that marginalized communities should have safe spaces online where they can communicate, organize, or otherwise not be subjected to bullshit in large numbers? As a person who's part of the marginalized I'm far more concerned with losing a good online space than I am with China using my data for nefarious reasons or an algorithm being pertinent to interests I would seek out on my own in the first place. I don't need a government to decide that for me. Especially not as it pertains to serious matters because in the last few months I've watched my government downplay the severity of a genocide while simultaneously attempting to gaslight the public, mainstream news networks included, using rhetoric that stopped working ever since the Bush administration,

Many in Congress do

Lmao no they don't. Otherwise far more would've been done about things like Meta.

Did I forget to mention that Meta literally pays politicians to malign TikTok?

Besides, you're literally posting on what I feel like is the perfect version of social media, a place that embodies the original ideas of how the internet should be without corporate manipulation via dopamine hits and hyper capitalistic bullshit.

Era is not what I would call a perfect example of social media in anyway shape or form.

They are concerned about user data being in the hands of a hostile foreign power that has shown it is happy to use that data to its own ends.

Then they should do something about what Facebook's been doing for more than a decade.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/05/facebook-gave-data-access-to-chinese-firm-flagged-by-us-intelligence.html

He really doesn't get that different laws apply to companies from different countries does he?

Republicans are solely and singularly driven by the idea that they cannot give Biden a win.

Let's say anti-TikTok people are right and there's massive National Security vulnerabilities to keeping the app without Americans running it. Why are Republicans, who would and have voted down bills they proposed because it would look like a win for Biden, supporting him on this?

If you're telling yourself that this issue is just so grave that it must be dealt with right now by a united front, from the same people who actively encouraged Russia to interfere on behalf of Republican candidates, does any of this actually make sense with recent history?

The government isn't trying to ban Fox News though. That's the sticking point.

If there was the political will to re-introduce the Fairness Doctrine, I wouldn't think that appearing on Fox News to make the case for it would undermine the argument, make it hypocritical, or prove that advocates of the doctrine are liars. The demise of the fairness doctrine has led to greater polarization and contributed to misinformation by unregulated media companies, and yet, advocates for reinstating it would have to appear on those same media platforms that they're critical of. Sure, they could maintain the highest degree of moral righteousness by only appearing on the platforms that they find to be righteously moral, but that's not where the people are.

This guy has no idea what the Fairness Doctrine was. Responding to Nepenthe thinking the government not being able to ban journalism is some gotcha about TikTok?

[benji]

That thread is full of all kinds of jabbering about free speech this or that or disinformation on social media or SINOPHOBIA or blah blah blah, but there's no posts about how states control their borders and imports. Which is the specific power the state is using to justify its claim that it can keep TikTok out. Duh, it can't do this to Meta or Twitter or Fox News, those don't cross the border.

[benji]

Somebody in there thought they had a gotcha that "the government wouldn't try to do this if TikTok was Japanese!" Yeah, exactly, you figured it out! The relationship with China is different! Did you miss all those recent extra sanctions on Russia instead of Ukraine or France or the UK?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/helldivers-2-has-been-delisted-on-steam-in-countries-where-psn-isnt-available.862554/page-23?post=122524353#post-122524353

while I think that Arrowhead should take part of the blame for not properly implementing this at day one, this is still a "Playstation Studios" game, it's not just funding the game, but also taking part in its developement and management (even if many here don't like the idea)

if a PS game has racist or sexist content people should blame Sony too, not just the developers, same goes if the game is, more simply, broken or bad.

Stellar Blade has entered the thread.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

That thread is full of all kinds of jabbering about free speech this or that or disinformation on social media or SINOPHOBIA or blah blah blah, but there's no posts about how states control their borders and imports. Which is the specific power the state is using to justify its claim that it can keep TikTok out. Duh, it can't do this to Meta or Twitter or Fox News, those don't cross the border.

Their real issue is that the chuds don’t like China. It’s radical Islam all over again.

[benji]

Notice the chuds aren't calling on Congress to more severely restrict Korean imports via Japanese conglomerates.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/helldivers-2-has-been-delisted-on-steam-in-countries-where-psn-isnt-available.862554/page-19?post=122521812#post-122521812

CORPORATIONS RISE UP!
You should take a step back from posting.

As someone with a new account here, you really think you should be moderating my posting?

Who was that dude who always replied to users with low post counts with their post counts?

TheKree I believe, who at one point tried to escape his reputation and changed his name to Dog Faced Pony Soldier

I know Totally Spies was a pretty horny show, but bondage?

I think it was a french made show and is well known for covering basically every single fetish known to man at some point

bondage is one of the tamest

[HaughtyFrank]

He's not mad, don't put in the paper that he's mad:

Can Crossing Eden ever be fucking normal? Just yesterday he argued with the same energy about the reduction of Hollywood sex scenes (he's of course in favor of removing them)

[Uncle]

You can definitely construct a solid argument that Microsoft have always been a reactive player in the console wars and that the xbox/360 era represented a high point in the quality of their output that they've declined from since. Partly, imo, because they didn't understand what people wanted from their games and got distracted by non-games related nonsense (Kinect, xbox one all digital/tv integration that only worked in america and Gamepass subscriptions being famous examples).

I don't think this was planned in any way but that generation was hilarious for how much it showed sony and microsoft were envious of nintendo's success and blatantly copying off their homework without understanding the specific mechanisms of why they were successful

oh it's not the combination of low price and the lightning in a bottle of wii sports, no, it's the MOTION ITSELF, that's all you need 

I think nintendo did try to see if they would bite on some other intentionally retarded ideas just as a troll but it didn't work

[Boredfrom]

You can definitely construct a solid argument that Microsoft have always been a reactive player in the console wars and that the xbox/360 era represented a high point in the quality of their output that they've declined from since. Partly, imo, because they didn't understand what people wanted from their games and got distracted by non-games related nonsense (Kinect, xbox one all digital/tv integration that only worked in america and Gamepass subscriptions being famous examples).

I don't think this was planned in any way but that generation was hilarious for how much it showed sony and microsoft were envious of nintendo's success and blatantly copying off their homework without understanding the specific mechanisms of why they were successful

oh it's not the combination of low price and the lightning in a bottle of wii sports, no, it's the MOTION ITSELF, that's all you need 

I think nintendo did try to see if they would bite on some other intentionally retarded ideas just as a troll but it didn't work

Is more like Nintendo itself didn’t understood why it worked.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/helldivers-2-has-been-delisted-on-steam-in-countries-where-psn-isnt-available.862554/page-28?post=122528034#post-122528034

User warned and threadbanned: Trolling over multiple posts

Ok that's it, I had enough!!
You lazy pc gamers you don't deserve it but I made it regardless because it just takes <2 minutes.

I made a PSN account for every single user on ERA, it wasn't a big deal as I said just <2 minutes, you've done it for every other company out there, you just want to be mad.

I think they forgot the /s  

[Potato]

Any anti-capitalism stuff from them rings hollow as fuck after their defense of Sony all weekend.

Sony was trying to defend art from the chuds.

It's ironic that Sony is the main reason why the CHUDS even play video games...

[Potato]

Somebody in there thought they had a gotcha that "the government wouldn't try to do this if TikTok was Japanese!" Yeah, exactly, you figured it out! The relationship with China is different! Did you miss all those recent extra sanctions on Russia instead of Ukraine or France or the UK?

Did Japan just recently hack the UK Ministry of Defence?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68967805

Oh, that was China? Never mind, carry on.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

the amount of complaining about those complaining about not wanting to make a PSN account is getting comical. 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/helldivers-2-has-been-delisted-on-steam-in-countries-where-psn-isnt-available.862554/page-34?post=122534475#post-122534268

I've seen a lot of hemming and hawing that Arrowhead should've just been good little partners and not have thrown Sony under the bus and taken all the blame because they're the ones that allowed us to skip. What's the expectation here? That the game kept a not functioning not-so-necessary account link implemented on launch day so no one could play the game? Seriously? I would much rather Sony take the hit on this than Arrowhead, an independently contracted developer that worked their asses off.

Since when is transparency with your customers a bad thing? As time has demonstrated, the game clearly didn't need the PSN link on PC to function so expecting them to "enforce" it on launch day come hell or high water meanwhile the game would've been refunded before players even had a chance to experience it is fucking abhorrent corporate apologism at the expense of a relatively small business. Not to mention counter intuitive, that would've killed a majority of the launch momentum. What a joke.

CenaToon

In the end, if there's any damage of this, arrowhead are only doing it to themselves. Before HD2 arrowhead did:

Magicka (74 MC)
The showdown Effect (68 MC)
Gaunlet 2014 (76 MC)
Helldivers (80 MC)

Even with this uninpressive resumé, sony gave them 7-8 years of time and funding for Helldivers 2. I dont know what other major publisher would give them 7 years of trust with that 4 games in their portfolio, and if arrowhead decides to cut ties with sony in the future (or sony cutting ties with them in the future), lets see if any major publisher trusts a company with a leadership like arrowhead's CEO.

And nobody is excusing sony for this. They needs to fix their shit together and fix playstation network once and for all, and make it real available in more countries.

[Potato]

Bend me over Sony daddy and jam your strong and proud she-cock into my he-vagina!!!!

[Uncle]

He's not mad, don't put in the paper that he's mad:

People organizing on TikTok is literally one of the reasons Trump lost the last election.

does eden think the US government has less information than he does? why doesn't he burst through the doors of congress holding a stack of printouts saying "WAIT! WAAAIT, BIDEN! THE DATA SHOWS THAT YOU'RE RUINING YOUR CHANCES AT RE-ELECTION! WHY DO ALL THE DEMOCRATS SUPPORT THIS BAN?!"

[Ribosome]

I thought Trump was the biggest reason Trump lost the last election.

[Uncle]

He's not mad, don't put in the paper that he's mad:

Tiktok should be banned world wide.

Why? Where should marginalized communities gather and communicate on a large scale? What's your suggestion?

maybe make a new app that's based in the US and tell everyone to go there?

wait, what's wrong with the discords y'all are in? isn't that more away from the prying eyes of bad actors anyway?

Whats wrong with twitter?

Literal nazi Elon Musk literally JUST personally unbanned the nazi pedophile known as Nick Fuentes, this action coming a month after directing his followers to attack a consulting company for promoting diversity in gaming. This comes after making it extremely easy to spread misinformation on the platform, which does include, targeted harassment. If you're that out of touch with what's going on with social media companies, especially as it pertains to why the youth are choosing one thing over another, then read up on it before posting about a topic.

so when it comes to supporting a terrorist organization, riot and protest and rant and rave on campuses, but when something happens on twitter you don't like, you just cede that ground without a fight?

[kaleidoscopium]

Why is it worse for the youth to be fucked over by China than be fucked over by the US? Fox News and twitter run by Elon Musk and youtube are far worse influences than even the worst case scenarios for Tiktok

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tiktok-sues-u-s-government-saying-potential-ban-violates-first-amendment.864363/page-7?post=122663448#post-122663448