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[stufte]

Jesus fucking christ @ your avatar pic TVC. wtf.

She was kept alive for an unspecified period of time after being abducted. She’d probably been through many, many terrible things by the time that photo was taken.

No shit.

[stufte]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/paxwzg/wait-why-are-there-so-many-black-people-in-far-cry-5

[shosta]

Jesus fucking christ @ your avatar pic TVC. wtf.

She was kept alive for an unspecified period of time after being abducted. She’d probably been through many, many terrible things by the time that photo was taken.

Wait, who is this?

[Jansen]

brought to you by the user of this fine post https://www.resetera.com/threads/orientalism-is-alive-and-well-in-american-cinema.34003/#post-6353205

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tell-me-the-most-girly-or-feminine-game-you-can-think-of-please-❤.37130/

First of all, sorry if I'm making threads too frequently.

Second of all, I love girly games! My tastes skew very much towards the side of gaming people might called "feminine" or even "girly".

For instance: Panel de Pon!

[MEDIA=youtube]N6LehIELcsU[/MEDIA]

Or this Hello Kitty port of Balloon Kid.

[MEDIA=youtube]PhpXAVZP5uU[/MEDIA]

Also:

♡ Animal Crossing
♡ Magical Pop'n
♡ Balloon Kid
♡ Magical Pop'n
♡ Sailor Moon games
♡ Harvest Moon
♡ Gochi-Show! for Girls
♡ Magic Knight Rayearth
♡ Marl Kingdom/Rhapsody
♡ Kisekae Doll Dress Up/KiSS
♡Ojamajo Doremi
♡ Ninja Princess
♡ Tamagotchi
♡ Touhou Project
♡ Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Pink Edition Romhack
♡ Cooking Mama
♡ Touch Detective
♡ KuruKuru Princess: Tokimeki Figure Mezase!
♡ Princess Debut
♡ Lots of My Little Pony fangames
♡ Rokko-chan





You don't go by my examples and follow with them, though. Your definition of feminine or girly may differ from mine.
I would like to also know what you think of when you hear words like "girly" or "feminine" and game.

 

[EightBitNate]

Jesus fucking christ @ your avatar pic TVC. wtf.

She was kept alive for an unspecified period of time after being abducted. She’d probably been through many, many terrible things by the time that photo was taken.

Wait, who is this?

Murder victim. Photo taken while she was abducted (or just before). Pretty fucked up pic.

Speaking of which, is anyone watching Mindhunter? Excellent show.
 

[Mr Gilhaney]

Jesus fucking christ @ your avatar pic TVC. wtf.

She was kept alive for an unspecified period of time after being abducted. She’d probably been through many, many terrible things by the time that photo was taken.

Wait, who is this?

A month after Walsh's death, 14-year old Regina Kay Walters and her boyfriend, Ricky Lee Jones, both runaway teenagers from the Houston suburb of Pasadena, Texas,[6] disappeared. Like with Zyskowski, it is believed that after being picked up by Rhoades, Jones was killed and disposed of while Walters was kept. Photos seized during a search of Rhoades' home confirmed that he held Walters for a long time, based on the degree of hair growth and bruising. Jones' body was found on March 3, 1991, in Lamar County, Mississippi. He was not identified until July 2008. In Bond County, Illinois, Jones had been charged in absentia with Walters' murder.[7]

In the early morning of April 1, 1990, officer Mike Miller of the Arizona Highway Patrol found a truck at the side of I-10 with its hazard lights on. When he investigated inside the cab, he discovered a nude woman, handcuffed and screaming.[6] There was also a male present who identified himself as the driver of the truck. After failing to talk his way out of the situation, Rhoades was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, sexual assault, and unlawful imprisonment. After further investigation, the arresting detective, Rick Barnhart, was able to make a connection to the Houston case and noticed a pattern stretching over the course of at least five months.

In executing a search warrant for Rhoades' home, police found photos of a nude teenager who was later identified as Walters, whose body was found in September 1990. Also present were photos of Walsh, whose body was discovered that October.

Another one is Tara Calico


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Calico#Mysterious_photograph

[I'm a Puppy!]

I like to believe she was in the middle of doing the electric shuffle when the pic was taken. It makes it easier.

[cosmicblizzard]

Hmm I was hoping that my post would low-key spur a ranking discussion of ero-guro manga 

Kago Shintaro>every other ero-guro artist.

There's your ranking.

[nudemacusers]

I only appear masculine in comparison to the people on the bore. Everywhere else, I'm just the quiet nice boy.

You’re no better than us, we all put on our culottes one flared leg at a time.

[thisismyusername]

Seriously, this Fly Girl shit is the greatest lie foisted upon the American public since the Warren Commission. They just picked these bitches up from a club parking lot or something. There’s not even a pretense of talent or looking good

It kickstarted J. Lo's career.

[Great Rumbler]

you still look like a lil fancy boy here lol

(Image removed from quote.)

spoiler (click to show/hide)

We should have a Walton Goggins emote.

[close]

[shosta]

.

Knowing the context now makes me rock hard. TVC has excellent taste.

[stufte]

I'm so fucking triggered. Mods help.

[EightBitNate]

.

Knowing the context now makes me rock hard. TVC has excellent taste.

Am g next?

It's a cursive I and this joke was tasteless as fuck

[Jansen]

 goggins without the crazy hair?

[team filler]

 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-it-still-acceptable-to-refer-to-woman-as-b-in-hip-hop-music.37131/

lol @ all the users twisting to try and make it seem like bitch isn't generally used as a gendered insult

[EightBitNate]

Mmhmm

Anyways, IDK man. I say bitch and ho a lot, outside of rap music, but idk

Love LionPride's indecisiveness on this.

[stufte]

Mmhmm

Anyways, IDK man. I say bitch and ho a lot, outside of rap music, but idk

Love LionPride's indecisiveness on this.

If he's not a woman, he shouldn't be singing along to words like that.

[etiolate]

LionPride is a bitch so he has every right to use the word.

[Bravotyler]

brought to you by the user of this fine post https://www.resetera.com/threads/orientalism-is-alive-and-well-in-american-cinema.34003/#post-6353205

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tell-me-the-most-girly-or-feminine-game-you-can-think-of-please-❤.37130/

 

Wew lad, not a fetish. Just makes me feel kind of bad for them, though.

[TVC15]

Seriously, this Fly Girl shit is the greatest lie foisted upon the American public since the Warren Commission. They just picked these bitches up from a club parking lot or something. There’s not even a pretense of talent or looking good

It kickstarted J. Lo's career.

No shade on her. None of these episodes have featured her.

[TVC15]

Do you think these people on My 600 Pound Life ever want to eat their pets and loved ones? This one chick is so fat she cna’t even hold her infant any more. Do you think she has weird dreams where she’s like eating her baby as a part of a sloppy meatball sandwich? It would be combing her motherly instincts, which she can no longer fulfill, with eating, which she is very very good at fulfilling.

[nudemacusers]

No they squish kids tho

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/mayra-rosales-too-fat-to-kill_n_1952353.html

[team filler]

“When you first walk in, she’s got a blanket covering her; there’s pillows all around her and so you don’t know whether it’s pillows or whether it’s her,” he said. “If you reach back in again, you think this is all pillows. You make a circle and [you realize] that it’s Mayra.”

[benjipwns]

.

Knowing the context now makes me rock hard. TVC has excellent taste.

Am g next?

It's a cursive I and this joke was tasteless as fuck

stop slut shaming

[TVC15]

I just had a dream that it was a Christmas family get together thing, but Stosta wouldn’t perform for his uncle Steve Harvey. I half popped out his eye with th stem of a glass pipe. Then I woke up and Family Feud was over.

[thisismyusername]

Mmhmm

Anyways, IDK man. I say bitch and ho a lot, outside of rap music, but idk

Love LionPride's indecisiveness on this.

If he's not a woman, he shouldn't be singing along to words like that.

Seriously, this Fly Girl shit is the greatest lie foisted upon the American public since the Warren Commission. They just picked these bitches up from a club parking lot or something. There’s not even a pretense of talent or looking good

It kickstarted J. Lo's career.

No shade on her. None of these episodes have featured her.

I'm just saying, she's one of the Fly Girls in a few of the episodes.

Also kick-started Jim Carrey's career, but you already mentioned that.

...And "Men on Film" was funny.

[Joe Molotov]

I just had a dream that it was a Christmas family get together thing, but Stosta wouldn’t perform for his unlike Steve Harvey. I half popped out his eye with th stem of a glass pipe. Then I woke up and Family Feud was over.

Here’s what you missed

Steve: “We surveyed 100 men and [incredibly suggestive question].

Aunt Jebidissa: *titters* “Well Steve, I’m gonna say the [body part].”

Steve: “OH LAWD! OH JAYSUS! HAVE MERCY ON THESE SINNERS!” 

[shosta]

I just had a dream that it was a Christmas family get together thing, but Stosta wouldn’t perform for his uncle Steve Harvey. I half popped out his eye with th stem of a glass pipe. Then I woke up and Family Feud was over.

Perform what? Is this like a reverse minstrel show?

[nachobro]

Here’s what you missed

Steve: “We surveyed 100 men and [incredibly suggestive question].

Aunt Jebidissa: *titters* “Well Steve, I’m gonna say the [body part].”

Steve: “OH LAWD! OH JAYSUS! HAVE MERCY ON THESE SINNERS!” 

yeah that one is my favorite episode

[team filler]

 









































 

[nudemacusers]

‘Bitch’ seems to be causing a programming short over at reset.

[agrajag]

^ the spergpost to end all spergposts

[nudemacusers]

Given that the infamous prolific poster memoryman3 has come out with a statement today declaring that he intends to extricate himself from all avenues of online video game discussion to focus on his personal development, for which we're all proud of him on gaming side, I figured that the momentous occasion would be a fitting one to start a discussion I've been thinking about for a long time.

Forum culture is fascinating, and the intricacies of this community in particular are worth noting. But first, a brief profile on me. Like memoryman3, I in the past two months turned eighteen, becoming an adult. No longer was I marginalizing the sophisticated sanctity of ResetERA with my mere presence, much to my satisfaction. This comes after years as an adolescent lurker. For a few years beginning when I was nine or ten, I lurked on the premier forum for adult aficionados of LEGO bricks, Eurobricks. Leaked LEGO sets still occasionally draw my attention out of habit, to be honest.

From Eurobricks, I discovered NeoGAF. My earliest distinct memory of lurking on GAF was during Nintendo's E3 presentation of 2014, a phenomenal year. Living rurally, I did not have an adequate internet connection to watch the stream itself, so imagine my excitement trying to piece together Splatoon from such comments as "Bloopers?!" and learning via the forum that Captain Toad was getting a dedicated title. Prior to that, I remember purveying prerelease discussion of Mario Kart 8, which perhaps amusingly remains the only video game I've ever preordered.

Of course, games were only a piece of the puzzle. As I aged, I grew fascinated with the dynamic of the forum. It began with meager attempts to discern esoteric phrases and abbreviations like RTTP and OT (and OT meant and continues to mean, like, thirty different things, mind you). But as a traditional-style forum, the personalities began to compel me. Huge names like Fat4all (excuse me, big-boned names like Fat4All), blame space (whose sacred name I refuse to violate with capitalization), Neiteio (who I'm pretty sure was on GAF, but joined pretty late), and, of course, our departed memoryman3.

Memoryman3 is particular significance to me, as I will forever associate his alias with my early interest in participation in forums. As a pre-pubescent teen, I found a natural home at GameFAQs, where I was delighted to find no restrictions for making an account (to which we'll get later). Under a few names, the only one of which I remember being the innocent-meaning-but-ostensibly-perverse KingDoodleDong, I posted about Smash and Animal Crossing for Wii U, which is slated for release tomorrow, and, yes, butted heads with the young memoryman3.

Now, I don't know how many of you posted as teenagers, but if you have, you might've experienced this: young people on the internet always assume that everyone around them is a competent adult. Memoryman3 was an established member of the community, which I conflated with literal seniority. In fact, it would appear that memoryman3 was several weeks younger than me all along! As a staunch Animal Crossing puritan, I derided in 2014 a new spinoff character named Lottie, claiming that I didn't know who she was. To which, memoryman3, bless his soul, responded, questioning the validity of my enthusiasm for Animal Crossing. Ah, memoryman3.

On this platform I even tried my hand at long-form thread creation, once I had of course accrued enough of the so-called karma to do so. I remember distinctly pouring a great deal of time, or at least what felt like a great deal of time, into a satirical (a word I knowingly use loosely in this instance) script for a Nintendo E3. The original text has been lost to time and fun-killing moderation policies, but I will never forget the words of a single commentor: "this guy is actually pretty funny sometimes." It was then I knew I'd always be dependent on the approval of strangers on the internet.

And I was hooked! Or, I would be, if GameFAQs had even half the level of community and discourse of NeoGAF. A couple of other things about the forum drew me back to GAF as well. First, GameFAQs separates discussion by game, creating a dearth of quality content and a difficulty in finding genuine news and interesting discussion. Second, and much more critically to me as a burgeoning forum lover, was the lack of identity found on GameFAQs. Everyone had a screen name, but rather than having huge, colorful icons and space dedicated to profiles, like on GAF and Eurobricks, GameFAQs took a more Reddit-style approach (this is certainly anachronistic, but you know what I mean) to user identity, only specifying name and possibly rank, if I recall correctly.

So I was drawn back to lurking on GAF. As I grew older, I began to understand the community, the nuance to interaction, the types of arguments, which arguments were in earnest, which were in jest, and what made the forum so great. It was the interaction. People that were willing to talk to one another, to initiate conversations, to butt heads as often as they engaged as a community in solipsistic, self-laudatory shitposts. All of this, enabled by the shared interest in video gaming.

Enter EtcetERA.

Wait.

Enter Off-Topic.

Off-Topic Discussion was critical to me in my mid-teens. Already socially liberal by nature, the community on NeoGAF shaped my opinions on many issues, while also providing an outlet to witness debate and see critical logic in action. While often chided as an echo chamber, NeoGAF had perfect acoustics for any burgeoning critical thinker willing to question new ideas, while still being solidly liberal. Yeah, GAF didn't make me liberal, it merely made me informed.

By the time the NX rumor mill was at full capacity, the workers only leaving late into the night, that I began to really want in. Now, I'd always wanted to be a part of the community I'd examined for years, but the staunch limitations on membership stymied me. I needed an institutional or paid e-mail to prove my worth (and humanity), and wait times were notoriously long. However, this past October, I used a university e-mail I had gotten via attendance of physics seminars to apply for membership! Alas, I'd soon live my dream, earning the validation of complete strangers from all corners of the globe.

Weeks later, GAF disappeared.

I refreshed the forum one morning on my phone, as I was oft to do, the forum was missing. Super Mario Odyssey, a game that I had anticipated hotly, was launching in mere days, and I was unable to read the musings of strangers about aliasing and the like. Via other channels I pieced together what had happened, and was naturally crushed.

Then, like a dusty eighties film franchise, NeoGAF was rebooted. Rather than going with the natural choice, NeoNeoGAF, the new regime picked an only slightly inferior name, ResetERA, and had a site running just before Odyssey launched. Emily and Nibel saved Christmas, everyone!

That wasn't the only appeal, however. The unique circumstance of the move beget a miracle: easy applications for lurkers, effectively welcoming them into the community with open arms. Inevitably, I joined, and I am eternally grateful that I was able to do so. I already have a wealth of experience on ERA. Like when I talked about music with Fat4Al! Or when I pissed off the famed television panel connoisseur blamespace by disparaging Billy Joel, an infraction for which I will never be forgiven. I've also been trollen by a mod, a temporary propagator of Chibi-Robo facts, and even lost my beloved (if flagrantly derivative) avatar for a few weeks. And, I couldn't not mention the phenomenal support I received from members and staff alike during a period of poor mental health, with which I continue to fight, supported by the compassion of the community and others.

So, now that I've completed my brief introduction, it's time for the OP. Nah, I think I've made my point in the above twelve hundred words. So, instead, I turn to the community. Any other former lurkers? Any posters have thoughts on the nature of this long-standing community and its rich history? Also welcome, of course, are forum memories.

Also, hi lurkers! I know you're there. Don't feel too bad, for the most part you do the same routine as a member: scroll, refresh, scroll, refresh. Membership is overrated tbqh

didnt read lol just wanted to quote

[Momo]

[Jenkem]

the bore is a sony fansite

[I'm a Puppy!]

Given that the infamous prolific poster memoryman3 has come out with a statement today declaring that he intends to extricate himself from all avenues of online video game discussion to focus on his personal development, for which we're all proud of him on gaming side, I figured that the momentous occasion would be a fitting one to start a discussion I've been thinking about for a long time.

Forum culture is fascinating, and the intricacies of this community in particular are worth noting. But first, a brief profile on me. Like memoryman3, I in the past two months turned eighteen, becoming an adult. No longer was I marginalizing the sophisticated sanctity of ResetERA with my mere presence, much to my satisfaction. This comes after years as an adolescent lurker. For a few years beginning when I was nine or ten, I lurked on the premier forum for adult aficionados of LEGO bricks, Eurobricks. Leaked LEGO sets still occasionally draw my attention out of habit, to be honest.

From Eurobricks, I discovered NeoGAF. My earliest distinct memory of lurking on GAF was during Nintendo's E3 presentation of 2014, a phenomenal year. Living rurally, I did not have an adequate internet connection to watch the stream itself, so imagine my excitement trying to piece together Splatoon from such comments as "Bloopers?!" and learning via the forum that Captain Toad was getting a dedicated title. Prior to that, I remember purveying prerelease discussion of Mario Kart 8, which perhaps amusingly remains the only video game I've ever preordered.

Of course, games were only a piece of the puzzle. As I aged, I grew fascinated with the dynamic of the forum. It began with meager attempts to discern esoteric phrases and abbreviations like RTTP and OT (and OT meant and continues to mean, like, thirty different things, mind you). But as a traditional-style forum, the personalities began to compel me. Huge names like Fat4all (excuse me, big-boned names like Fat4All), blame space (whose sacred name I refuse to violate with capitalization), Neiteio (who I'm pretty sure was on GAF, but joined pretty late), and, of course, our departed memoryman3.

Memoryman3 is particular significance to me, as I will forever associate his alias with my early interest in participation in forums. As a pre-pubescent teen, I found a natural home at GameFAQs, where I was delighted to find no restrictions for making an account (to which we'll get later). Under a few names, the only one of which I remember being the innocent-meaning-but-ostensibly-perverse KingDoodleDong, I posted about Smash and Animal Crossing for Wii U, which is slated for release tomorrow, and, yes, butted heads with the young memoryman3.

Now, I don't know how many of you posted as teenagers, but if you have, you might've experienced this: young people on the internet always assume that everyone around them is a competent adult. Memoryman3 was an established member of the community, which I conflated with literal seniority. In fact, it would appear that memoryman3 was several weeks younger than me all along! As a staunch Animal Crossing puritan, I derided in 2014 a new spinoff character named Lottie, claiming that I didn't know who she was. To which, memoryman3, bless his soul, responded, questioning the validity of my enthusiasm for Animal Crossing. Ah, memoryman3.

On this platform I even tried my hand at long-form thread creation, once I had of course accrued enough of the so-called karma to do so. I remember distinctly pouring a great deal of time, or at least what felt like a great deal of time, into a satirical (a word I knowingly use loosely in this instance) script for a Nintendo E3. The original text has been lost to time and fun-killing moderation policies, but I will never forget the words of a single commentor: "this guy is actually pretty funny sometimes." It was then I knew I'd always be dependent on the approval of strangers on the internet.

And I was hooked! Or, I would be, if GameFAQs had even half the level of community and discourse of NeoGAF. A couple of other things about the forum drew me back to GAF as well. First, GameFAQs separates discussion by game, creating a dearth of quality content and a difficulty in finding genuine news and interesting discussion. Second, and much more critically to me as a burgeoning forum lover, was the lack of identity found on GameFAQs. Everyone had a screen name, but rather than having huge, colorful icons and space dedicated to profiles, like on GAF and Eurobricks, GameFAQs took a more Reddit-style approach (this is certainly anachronistic, but you know what I mean) to user identity, only specifying name and possibly rank, if I recall correctly.

So I was drawn back to lurking on GAF. As I grew older, I began to understand the community, the nuance to interaction, the types of arguments, which arguments were in earnest, which were in jest, and what made the forum so great. It was the interaction. People that were willing to talk to one another, to initiate conversations, to butt heads as often as they engaged as a community in solipsistic, self-laudatory shitposts. All of this, enabled by the shared interest in video gaming.

Enter EtcetERA.

Wait.

Enter Off-Topic.

Off-Topic Discussion was critical to me in my mid-teens. Already socially liberal by nature, the community on NeoGAF shaped my opinions on many issues, while also providing an outlet to witness debate and see critical logic in action. While often chided as an echo chamber, NeoGAF had perfect acoustics for any burgeoning critical thinker willing to question new ideas, while still being solidly liberal. Yeah, GAF didn't make me liberal, it merely made me informed.

By the time the NX rumor mill was at full capacity, the workers only leaving late into the night, that I began to really want in. Now, I'd always wanted to be a part of the community I'd examined for years, but the staunch limitations on membership stymied me. I needed an institutional or paid e-mail to prove my worth (and humanity), and wait times were notoriously long. However, this past October, I used a university e-mail I had gotten via attendance of physics seminars to apply for membership! Alas, I'd soon live my dream, earning the validation of complete strangers from all corners of the globe.

Weeks later, GAF disappeared.

I refreshed the forum one morning on my phone, as I was oft to do, the forum was missing. Super Mario Odyssey, a game that I had anticipated hotly, was launching in mere days, and I was unable to read the musings of strangers about aliasing and the like. Via other channels I pieced together what had happened, and was naturally crushed.

Then, like a dusty eighties film franchise, NeoGAF was rebooted. Rather than going with the natural choice, NeoNeoGAF, the new regime picked an only slightly inferior name, ResetERA, and had a site running just before Odyssey launched. Emily and Nibel saved Christmas, everyone!

That wasn't the only appeal, however. The unique circumstance of the move beget a miracle: easy applications for lurkers, effectively welcoming them into the community with open arms. Inevitably, I joined, and I am eternally grateful that I was able to do so. I already have a wealth of experience on ERA. Like when I talked about music with Fat4Al! Or when I pissed off the famed television panel connoisseur blamespace by disparaging Billy Joel, an infraction for which I will never be forgiven. I've also been trollen by a mod, a temporary propagator of Chibi-Robo facts, and even lost my beloved (if flagrantly derivative) avatar for a few weeks. And, I couldn't not mention the phenomenal support I received from members and staff alike during a period of poor mental health, with which I continue to fight, supported by the compassion of the community and others.

So, now that I've completed my brief introduction, it's time for the OP. Nah, I think I've made my point in the above twelve hundred words. So, instead, I turn to the community. Any other former lurkers? Any posters have thoughts on the nature of this long-standing community and its rich history? Also welcome, of course, are forum memories.

Also, hi lurkers! I know you're there. Don't feel too bad, for the most part you do the same routine as a member: scroll, refresh, scroll, refresh. Membership is overrated tbqh

[seagrams hotsauce]

Given that the infamous prolific poster memoryman3 has come out with a statement today declaring that he intends to extricate himself from all avenues of online video game discussion to focus on his personal development, for which we're all proud of him on gaming side, I figured that the momentous occasion would be a fitting one to start a discussion I've been thinking about for a long time.

Forum culture is fascinating, and the intricacies of this community in particular are worth noting. But first, a brief profile on me. Like memoryman3, I in the past two months turned eighteen, becoming an adult. No longer was I marginalizing the sophisticated sanctity of ResetERA with my mere presence, much to my satisfaction. This comes after years as an adolescent lurker. For a few years beginning when I was nine or ten, I lurked on the premier forum for adult aficionados of LEGO bricks, Eurobricks. Leaked LEGO sets still occasionally draw my attention out of habit, to be honest.

From Eurobricks, I discovered NeoGAF. My earliest distinct memory of lurking on GAF was during Nintendo's E3 presentation of 2014, a phenomenal year. Living rurally, I did not have an adequate internet connection to watch the stream itself, so imagine my excitement trying to piece together Splatoon from such comments as "Bloopers?!" and learning via the forum that Captain Toad was getting a dedicated title. Prior to that, I remember purveying prerelease discussion of Mario Kart 8, which perhaps amusingly remains the only video game I've ever preordered.

Of course, games were only a piece of the puzzle. As I aged, I grew fascinated with the dynamic of the forum. It began with meager attempts to discern esoteric phrases and abbreviations like RTTP and OT (and OT meant and continues to mean, like, thirty different things, mind you). But as a traditional-style forum, the personalities began to compel me. Huge names like Fat4all (excuse me, big-boned names like Fat4All), blame space (whose sacred name I refuse to violate with capitalization), Neiteio (who I'm pretty sure was on GAF, but joined pretty late), and, of course, our departed memoryman3.

Memoryman3 is particular significance to me, as I will forever associate his alias with my early interest in participation in forums. As a pre-pubescent teen, I found a natural home at GameFAQs, where I was delighted to find no restrictions for making an account (to which we'll get later). Under a few names, the only one of which I remember being the innocent-meaning-but-ostensibly-perverse KingDoodleDong, I posted about Smash and Animal Crossing for Wii U, which is slated for release tomorrow, and, yes, butted heads with the young memoryman3.

Now, I don't know how many of you posted as teenagers, but if you have, you might've experienced this: young people on the internet always assume that everyone around them is a competent adult. Memoryman3 was an established member of the community, which I conflated with literal seniority. In fact, it would appear that memoryman3 was several weeks younger than me all along! As a staunch Animal Crossing puritan, I derided in 2014 a new spinoff character named Lottie, claiming that I didn't know who she was. To which, memoryman3, bless his soul, responded, questioning the validity of my enthusiasm for Animal Crossing. Ah, memoryman3.

On this platform I even tried my hand at long-form thread creation, once I had of course accrued enough of the so-called karma to do so. I remember distinctly pouring a great deal of time, or at least what felt like a great deal of time, into a satirical (a word I knowingly use loosely in this instance) script for a Nintendo E3. The original text has been lost to time and fun-killing moderation policies, but I will never forget the words of a single commentor: "this guy is actually pretty funny sometimes." It was then I knew I'd always be dependent on the approval of strangers on the internet.

And I was hooked! Or, I would be, if GameFAQs had even half the level of community and discourse of NeoGAF. A couple of other things about the forum drew me back to GAF as well. First, GameFAQs separates discussion by game, creating a dearth of quality content and a difficulty in finding genuine news and interesting discussion. Second, and much more critically to me as a burgeoning forum lover, was the lack of identity found on GameFAQs. Everyone had a screen name, but rather than having huge, colorful icons and space dedicated to profiles, like on GAF and Eurobricks, GameFAQs took a more Reddit-style approach (this is certainly anachronistic, but you know what I mean) to user identity, only specifying name and possibly rank, if I recall correctly.

So I was drawn back to lurking on GAF. As I grew older, I began to understand the community, the nuance to interaction, the types of arguments, which arguments were in earnest, which were in jest, and what made the forum so great. It was the interaction. People that were willing to talk to one another, to initiate conversations, to butt heads as often as they engaged as a community in solipsistic, self-laudatory shitposts. All of this, enabled by the shared interest in video gaming.

Enter EtcetERA.

Wait.

Enter Off-Topic.

Off-Topic Discussion was critical to me in my mid-teens. Already socially liberal by nature, the community on NeoGAF shaped my opinions on many issues, while also providing an outlet to witness debate and see critical logic in action. While often chided as an echo chamber, NeoGAF had perfect acoustics for any burgeoning critical thinker willing to question new ideas, while still being solidly liberal. Yeah, GAF didn't make me liberal, it merely made me informed.

By the time the NX rumor mill was at full capacity, the workers only leaving late into the night, that I began to really want in. Now, I'd always wanted to be a part of the community I'd examined for years, but the staunch limitations on membership stymied me. I needed an institutional or paid e-mail to prove my worth (and humanity), and wait times were notoriously long. However, this past October, I used a university e-mail I had gotten via attendance of physics seminars to apply for membership! Alas, I'd soon live my dream, earning the validation of complete strangers from all corners of the globe.

Weeks later, GAF disappeared.

I refreshed the forum one morning on my phone, as I was oft to do, the forum was missing. Super Mario Odyssey, a game that I had anticipated hotly, was launching in mere days, and I was unable to read the musings of strangers about aliasing and the like. Via other channels I pieced together what had happened, and was naturally crushed.

Then, like a dusty eighties film franchise, NeoGAF was rebooted. Rather than going with the natural choice, NeoNeoGAF, the new regime picked an only slightly inferior name, ResetERA, and had a site running just before Odyssey launched. Emily and Nibel saved Christmas, everyone!

That wasn't the only appeal, however. The unique circumstance of the move beget a miracle: easy applications for lurkers, effectively welcoming them into the community with open arms. Inevitably, I joined, and I am eternally grateful that I was able to do so. I already have a wealth of experience on ERA. Like when I talked about music with Fat4Al! Or when I pissed off the famed television panel connoisseur blamespace by disparaging Billy Joel, an infraction for which I will never be forgiven. I've also been trollen by a mod, a temporary propagator of Chibi-Robo facts, and even lost my beloved (if flagrantly derivative) avatar for a few weeks. And, I couldn't not mention the phenomenal support I received from members and staff alike during a period of poor mental health, with which I continue to fight, supported by the compassion of the community and others.

So, now that I've completed my brief introduction, it's time for the OP. Nah, I think I've made my point in the above twelve hundred words. So, instead, I turn to the community. Any other former lurkers? Any posters have thoughts on the nature of this long-standing community and its rich history? Also welcome, of course, are forum memories.

Also, hi lurkers! I know you're there. Don't feel too bad, for the most part you do the same routine as a member: scroll, refresh, scroll, refresh. Membership is overrated tbqh

didnt read lol just wanted to quote

Think of the mobile posters.

Where is this even from?

[Momo]

the bore is a sony fansite

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[close]

[HaughtyFrank]

Guys I can't have a good laugh at labor trying to act as if other music genres rely on bitch as much as hip hop if you keep quoting the entire Bible

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-it-still-acceptable-to-refer-to-woman-as-b-in-hip-hop-music.37131/

lol @ all the users twisting to try and make it seem like bitch isn't generally used as a gendered insult

[VomKriege]

NO ONE HAS SAID IT IS NOT

SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS TOPIC, INCLUDING MYSELF, HAVE SAID IT MASSIVELY DEPENDS ON THE CONTEXT

[Momo]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-study-needs-to-be-done-about-sony-fans-the-community-is-amazing.37186/

ITT: Sony ponies jerking each other off.

ITT Opie has the most hilarious allergic reaction to his own body salt, thread laughs at him

[VomKriege]

The voices arguing in bad faith dominate the debate in spaces like this. You have most if not all of the black posters being insulted or ignored as well.

It's expected though so it's whatever

[Stro]

People arguing that "dick" and "bitch" aren't gendered insults because you can call the other gender it or something is . Calling a dude a bitch to compare him to a woman somehow isn't gender related or misogynistic at all. Other people trying to make it sound like people are just being racist by not calling out other genres is . Ublock locking down the page for dangerous links/ads is

[Momo]

your face is a bad faith

[VomKriege]

That bitch thread is amazing.

[Momo]

skimmed a few posts and im surprised it's not closed for not being productive or whatever

[VomKriege]

It's ripe for a "Are we the baddies ?" meme too.
LionPride trying to argue that it's acceptable (IN CERTAIN CONTEXTS) because it's allowed on mainstream television.

[Momo]

Anyone bring up how us cricketing commonwealthers call each other cunts like 90% of the time yet? 

[VomKriege]

Anyone bring up how us cricketing commonwealthers call each other cunts like 90% of the time yet? 

Yes.

[benjipwns]

Given that the infamous prolific poster memoryman3 has come out with a statement today declaring that he intends to extricate himself from all avenues of online video game discussion to focus on his personal development, for which we're all proud of him on gaming side, I figured that the momentous occasion would be a fitting one to start a discussion I've been thinking about for a long time.

Forum culture is fascinating, and the intricacies of this community in particular are worth noting. But first, a brief profile on me. Like memoryman3, I in the past two months turned eighteen, becoming an adult. No longer was I marginalizing the sophisticated sanctity of ResetERA with my mere presence, much to my satisfaction. This comes after years as an adolescent lurker. For a few years beginning when I was nine or ten, I lurked on the premier forum for adult aficionados of LEGO bricks, Eurobricks. Leaked LEGO sets still occasionally draw my attention out of habit, to be honest.

From Eurobricks, I discovered NeoGAF. My earliest distinct memory of lurking on GAF was during Nintendo's E3 presentation of 2014, a phenomenal year. Living rurally, I did not have an adequate internet connection to watch the stream itself, so imagine my excitement trying to piece together Splatoon from such comments as "Bloopers?!" and learning via the forum that Captain Toad was getting a dedicated title. Prior to that, I remember purveying prerelease discussion of Mario Kart 8, which perhaps amusingly remains the only video game I've ever preordered.

Of course, games were only a piece of the puzzle. As I aged, I grew fascinated with the dynamic of the forum. It began with meager attempts to discern esoteric phrases and abbreviations like RTTP and OT (and OT meant and continues to mean, like, thirty different things, mind you). But as a traditional-style forum, the personalities began to compel me. Huge names like Fat4all (excuse me, big-boned names like Fat4All), blame space (whose sacred name I refuse to violate with capitalization), Neiteio (who I'm pretty sure was on GAF, but joined pretty late), and, of course, our departed memoryman3.

Memoryman3 is particular significance to me, as I will forever associate his alias with my early interest in participation in forums. As a pre-pubescent teen, I found a natural home at GameFAQs, where I was delighted to find no restrictions for making an account (to which we'll get later). Under a few names, the only one of which I remember being the innocent-meaning-but-ostensibly-perverse KingDoodleDong, I posted about Smash and Animal Crossing for Wii U, which is slated for release tomorrow, and, yes, butted heads with the young memoryman3.

Now, I don't know how many of you posted as teenagers, but if you have, you might've experienced this: young people on the internet always assume that everyone around them is a competent adult. Memoryman3 was an established member of the community, which I conflated with literal seniority. In fact, it would appear that memoryman3 was several weeks younger than me all along! As a staunch Animal Crossing puritan, I derided in 2014 a new spinoff character named Lottie, claiming that I didn't know who she was. To which, memoryman3, bless his soul, responded, questioning the validity of my enthusiasm for Animal Crossing. Ah, memoryman3.

On this platform I even tried my hand at long-form thread creation, once I had of course accrued enough of the so-called karma to do so. I remember distinctly pouring a great deal of time, or at least what felt like a great deal of time, into a satirical (a word I knowingly use loosely in this instance) script for a Nintendo E3. The original text has been lost to time and fun-killing moderation policies, but I will never forget the words of a single commentor: "this guy is actually pretty funny sometimes." It was then I knew I'd always be dependent on the approval of strangers on the internet.

And I was hooked! Or, I would be, if GameFAQs had even half the level of community and discourse of NeoGAF. A couple of other things about the forum drew me back to GAF as well. First, GameFAQs separates discussion by game, creating a dearth of quality content and a difficulty in finding genuine news and interesting discussion. Second, and much more critically to me as a burgeoning forum lover, was the lack of identity found on GameFAQs. Everyone had a screen name, but rather than having huge, colorful icons and space dedicated to profiles, like on GAF and Eurobricks, GameFAQs took a more Reddit-style approach (this is certainly anachronistic, but you know what I mean) to user identity, only specifying name and possibly rank, if I recall correctly.

So I was drawn back to lurking on GAF. As I grew older, I began to understand the community, the nuance to interaction, the types of arguments, which arguments were in earnest, which were in jest, and what made the forum so great. It was the interaction. People that were willing to talk to one another, to initiate conversations, to butt heads as often as they engaged as a community in solipsistic, self-laudatory shitposts. All of this, enabled by the shared interest in video gaming.

Enter EtcetERA.

Wait.

Enter Off-Topic.

Off-Topic Discussion was critical to me in my mid-teens. Already socially liberal by nature, the community on NeoGAF shaped my opinions on many issues, while also providing an outlet to witness debate and see critical logic in action. While often chided as an echo chamber, NeoGAF had perfect acoustics for any burgeoning critical thinker willing to question new ideas, while still being solidly liberal. Yeah, GAF didn't make me liberal, it merely made me informed.

By the time the NX rumor mill was at full capacity, the workers only leaving late into the night, that I began to really want in. Now, I'd always wanted to be a part of the community I'd examined for years, but the staunch limitations on membership stymied me. I needed an institutional or paid e-mail to prove my worth (and humanity), and wait times were notoriously long. However, this past October, I used a university e-mail I had gotten via attendance of physics seminars to apply for membership! Alas, I'd soon live my dream, earning the validation of complete strangers from all corners of the globe.

Weeks later, GAF disappeared.

I refreshed the forum one morning on my phone, as I was oft to do, the forum was missing. Super Mario Odyssey, a game that I had anticipated hotly, was launching in mere days, and I was unable to read the musings of strangers about aliasing and the like. Via other channels I pieced together what had happened, and was naturally crushed.

Then, like a dusty eighties film franchise, NeoGAF was rebooted. Rather than going with the natural choice, NeoNeoGAF, the new regime picked an only slightly inferior name, ResetERA, and had a site running just before Odyssey launched. Emily and Nibel saved Christmas, everyone!

That wasn't the only appeal, however. The unique circumstance of the move beget a miracle: easy applications for lurkers, effectively welcoming them into the community with open arms. Inevitably, I joined, and I am eternally grateful that I was able to do so. I already have a wealth of experience on ERA. Like when I talked about music with Fat4Al! Or when I pissed off the famed television panel connoisseur blamespace by disparaging Billy Joel, an infraction for which I will never be forgiven. I've also been trollen by a mod, a temporary propagator of Chibi-Robo facts, and even lost my beloved (if flagrantly derivative) avatar for a few weeks. And, I couldn't not mention the phenomenal support I received from members and staff alike during a period of poor mental health, with which I continue to fight, supported by the compassion of the community and others.

So, now that I've completed my brief introduction, it's time for the OP. Nah, I think I've made my point in the above twelve hundred words. So, instead, I turn to the community. Any other former lurkers? Any posters have thoughts on the nature of this long-standing community and its rich history? Also welcome, of course, are forum memories.

Also, hi lurkers! I know you're there. Don't feel too bad, for the most part you do the same routine as a member: scroll, refresh, scroll, refresh. Membership is overrated tbqh

User was banned (Permanently) for: Eggressiously engaging in the practice of questionship of members humanity in comparison to non-members humanity, calling out specific members of the forum, discussing issues related to the existence of The Old Place without oversight from regulatory commissioners, not calling out other deserving members, and especially making adminphobic remarks by not naming all members of the administration staff in statement thanking the creation of this discussion engagement platform.

[mormapope]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-study-needs-to-be-done-about-sony-fans-the-community-is-amazing.37186/

ITT: Sony ponies jerking each other off.

Due to the hype cycle for God of War, I thought it already came out and people beat it. People lost their shit more than a week before release.

[Stro]

I'm amazed at the lack of warnings and bans

[shosta]

I mean, they said they'd loosen up and they did.

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-it-still-acceptable-to-refer-to-woman-as-b-in-hip-hop-music.37131/

lol @ all the users twisting to try and make it seem like bitch isn't generally used as a gendered insult

lp

Context

Context

Context

I have said it, others have said it

I ain't sayin bitch if I'm with a damn coworker period the fuck

And plus, you can say bitch on TV and it's fine.  You can say fuck, nicca, and cigarillo on tv.    Fuck on Broken Bad, nicca on Carmichael Show, and cigarillo on South Park. 

Context, context, context.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/6942323/


Labor

The premise of this thread and every version of it I've ever seen is that rap and by extension black men are inherently more misogynistic than non-black men.

Him and Deep Water have been running with the, It's ok to say bitch because you are all being racist against me.




It's the purest distillation of a race card since I argued my essay on The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven should get an A instead of a B because the Prof didn't know the true Lakota experience like I do.

[Stro]

"Bitch is a sexist dog whistle. "


I don't think this dude knows what the term "dog whistle" actually means.

[FreeNudeLyleLanley]

There is something funny about bitches and dog whistles though.

[benjipwns]

"I'm Rick James, bitch" - alt-right comedian Dave Chappelle sending a secret message to his Russian GamerGate supporters

[SmokyDave]

Anyone see that discussion on forum culture from a former forum lurker?