Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Venice]

That TableManners person who made those Last of us threads is Zeo levels agressieve. Terrible person

Same person who made this dumb thread about Last of Us where he cries about a normal review

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-know-people-like-to-still-go-against-the-%E2%80%98let-people-enjoy-things%E2%80%99-mindset-but-damn.1194789/

Clearly he's just upset that anyone is mean about his Last of Us tv show but his second thread is going better because he invoked "critical drinker" and the ever elusive chuds while leaving all the criticisms vague. That's enough to have the rest of RE eat out of your hand

He's a terrible hypocrite as well, complaining about negativity in reviews while not being very positive himself:
He's also unnecessary hostile:

I went through that thread and you guys are right. He's basically ZeoVGM 2.0, except with none on the entertainment value Jeff brings to The Bore.

Kyon, I went through that thread and decided to tidy up your quotes by adding more and also some screencaps below.

I can just imagine 'TableManners' motive behind creating that thread. 100% thinking 'My Era homies will agree with me and we'll all own the chuds'.

Instead, it's an immediate thread backfire. TableManners makes a TOTAL fool of him/her/they-self.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-know-people-like-to-still-go-against-the-%E2%80%98let-people-enjoy-things%E2%80%99-mindset-but-damn.1194789/

Look I get it. The writing-about-games landscape is dead and corporations/tech bros killed it but this is where we're going? Just to add a bit of color to the remnants of whatever's left of Kotaku/Gamespot etc? I guess but at this point why not just start a vegetable garden or volunteer at a community center? Probably a more healthy way to earn some scratch.


I mean, Jesus.

Thread backfire begins with the very first reply.

So... someone has an opinion different from yours and wrote about it?

People are entitled to not like the tv show you like you know OP. I don't particularly like the last of us tv show either, yet I refrained making a topic telling everyone about it.

I don't understand why a negative review has less worth than a positive one? It's not like theyre being antagonistic or belittling. They just don't like it. I don't agree, but whatever

I was expecting something racist and/or sexist.

This is just a normal negative review.

we're... not doing negative reviews anymore?

What's the issue exactly?

Maximillian 

Yay. A backfire thread. I enjoy those 😌

Even Era's number one ass-kisser, VisaWife don't agree.

Huh? The review here seems fine? What are we doing here?

This spectacular thread backfire causes TableManners to activate full ZeoVGM mode and fling his shit like a frustrated gorilla in a zoo:

Holy fuck people, you think this is about me disagreeing with an opinion? This level of apathy and acceptance of the current state of post-games journalism culture article writing explains a lot about the world.

This causes an avalanche of backlash towards this dumb-dumb.

Rise up gamers this injustice cannot stand

But you haven't made clear what about this article you find so damning. It doesn't seem amazingly written, sure, but the headline and extract you screen capped are literally just the author giving their opinion.

You posted the examples and doesn't seem to be adding anything more on top of them. You just seem upset that people dislike S2 of TLoU show. Which is especially weird considering your context because it is not game, it's a very much standalone TV show.

The reactions are completely on point.

This is how you framed the thread. You offered no substance for any other conclusion to be drawn here by being upset at a bad review. You've given nothing for anybody to really discuss here.

This seems like something that might make a really good post on blue sky.

Why is this review representative of "the current state of post-games journamlism"? And what does that even mean?

You keep making allusions to points you're not really making cases for.

Or is it that people understand that not every review, article or criticism that gets published is going to be great, or even good. Some are going to amateurish, some are going to be terrible. It's been like that since people started offering public thoughts on art, this isn't something new.

Maximo with a nice, passive aggressive dig   :

Sometimes you gotta look in yourself, and really ask if your too terminally online.

Kinthey gets to the heart of the matter:

Holy fuck maybe explain what your issue with the review is?

But you're not providing any commentary, not giving your thoughts, it's hard to read this as anything other than you specifically disagreeing with an opinion. You're not engaging with the review or telling us exactly what you feel is wrong. It's not apathy and "acceptance of the current state of post games journalism culture article writing" to wonder what you think and why you created this thread

What is the current state of "post-game journalism culture article writing" and why does it explain anything about the world?

Odesu goes all in:

Yes, people writing negative articles about The Last of Us 2 is directly linked to the rise of fascism around the world. You cracked the code.

You have not shared a single point of criticism or explained what you think is wrong about the article. Nothing. Yet, you are shouting down from your high horse that it should be obvious what the issue is and that everyone who doesn't get it proves their apathy and thus directly connects to the current state of the world. Wow! Someone definitely should start a vegetable garden and touch some grass, but it's not the author of that article.

While Baji Boxer gets straight to the point:

Holy fuck people, you think this is about me disagreeing with an opinion?

Yes, that's 100% how you come across.

Starts here: 



Slap-back begins here:













We all do, Maximillian. We all do  :





TableManners goes into full meltdown:



That post gets quoted countless number of times:



























TableManners bailed on his own thread after that post. Didn't post again after the backlash. 

Couldn't stand the heat, so the pussy ran out of the kitchen 

[Potato]

More than anything, I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed with Planescape: Torment for wasting both our times on this drivel. If women really are such shallow and uninteresting creatures, ones only occasionally worthy of having their own names, only good for fucking and dying and even then not doing any actual fucking, why include them in the first place?

And I’m disappointed to see that something this obviously misogynistic has received unchecked blanket praise for so long. It’s an RPG for people who think females, the word spat out like that, don’t belong in the genre unless they’ve got their tits out. Yes, some people were teenagers when they first played it. Or children. Some grown adults weren’t even born when this game came out. They didn’t know better, and that’s OK.

But those people aren’t kids now, and more importantly, the writers weren’t then.

That game is nearly 26 years old, why are they complaining about it last year?

Because the writer is probably 24 and only just found out they're a woman after growing up as a male chud who was racist, sexist and misogynistic.

[DavidCroquet]

Planescape Torment, a game notable for enthusiastic endorsement of the main character’s past mistreatment women and basically any other human who had the misfortune of crossing his path.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-is-the-gaming-hobby-full-of-massive-gatekeeping-energy.1203453/
entremetGPT

I saw a Tiktok of a young woman (gender is also an issue as we know) asking how is the show based on games. She thought games were more free form and not story based and linear. She thought that gamers would have full control of Ellie and that control would lead to different story beats.

This is a pretty common sentiment for non-gamers, in my experience. Many are unaware of high budget narrative games with cutscenes. Especially since the biggest casual games are not narrative based--Fortnite, etc.

Amazing how some random non-gamer on TikTok can better encapsulate the valid criticisms of modern "PlayStation" gaming than the multiple "gaming journalists" who seem more concerned about writing about Palestine or gender issues.

We have a "fuck streamers" thread, but we need a "fuck gaming journalists" thread too.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

We can start Gamergate 3.0

[Jonsey]

I am watching the champions league final and now linkin park is playing and I have to listen to them.
Damn, zeo really simped for that shitty new singer? 🤣

There song about the crown sounds so rough with her voice

[Potato]

so critics shouldn't exist? James Stephanie Sterling would like a word with you.

What’s amusing is Critical Drinker’s critique had a lot to it, but hinged on the show not having an actor with enough skill and weight after they killed off Joel. Sorry, Bella ain’t got it even if she looked liked what ‘chuds’ wanted. It’d still be shit.

His dragging was far more aimed at Druckmann because he refused to steer away from the mistakes in the games story and reiterated them in the show.

For better or worse, it sounds like Druckmann genuinely thinks that only haters and CHuDS hated TLoU2, so he was incentivized to ignore them.

Contrast with Robert Kirkman in his adaptation of Invincible.

Druckmann writes for videogames because he's a shit writer and no one (except the retards) gives a fuck about gaming stories (because they're all shit).

Basic level revenge stories like this are typical straight to video streaming fodder that don't even make a blip on the radar in the film world. The fact that it's held up as some masterpiece of the genre says more about gaming than 10,000 words from the latest trans-identified gaming journalists that just discovered the conflict in the middle east.

[Potato]

I am watching the champions league final and now linkin park is playing and I have to listen to them.
Damn, zeo really simped for that shitty new singer? 🤣

I laughed when the chorus kicked in and I realised who it was.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nyt-on-the-campaign-trail-elon-musk-juggled-drugs-and-family-drama.1202718/

Thanks for reporting on this a year late, media.

I would imagine people are a lot more willing to talk now on the record and it's easier to get confirmation of details.

Who needs sources? This is online journalism, you just need to scroll through Reddit and write opinion.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rumor-hunter-schafer-eyed-to-play-princess-zelda-in-live-action-zelda-movie.1202184/page-12#post-140706807

That was solely Illumination. They did that because it's tradition for them to have celebs do the voices. For live action Zelda, they already stated they wanted young actors for Link & Zelda. Not too many popular young celebs.

Most aren't "big big" though. Illumination used celebs because it's tradition for them.

Very few actors are. Illumination does it due to tradition.

It isn't though. Most people didn't see the Mario movie because of Charlie Day. The industry does it because it's tradition. Also the novelty of having a celeb do voice work in an animated film is welcoming for the artists.

The Mario Movie doesn't need celebs to make a profit.

What the industry thinks is irrelevant to the facts. The facts showcase that celebs do minimum effect to box offices for animated movies like Mario. Most didn’t see it due to Charlie Day or Fred Armisen. That’s a fact.

So you think most people saw the Mario Movie because of Charlie Day?

Mario is the marketing value. You don’t need Charlie Day to voice Luigi when Luigi is the draw. Most didn’t see the film because of Charlie Day.

If you truly believe most saw the movie solely because Charlie Day was casted, you can think that sure. But the marketing of the IP will be the biggest draw, not Fred Armisen.

Isn't the whole point of celeb voices as you said is to bring people in? I thought Charlie Day brought people to see the Mario Movie? According to you and another poster.

You can explain to me if you want? Another poster said they do it too bring people in then you say no one saw the film because of Charlie Day.

I'm free to listen on why they are a box office draw even when you said otherwise. Are they necessary for animated movies to make profit or not?

So if the Mario Movie only used the ingame voice actors and no celebs, you think the film would make significantly less?

It means if the Mario Movie didn't have celebs and used the ingame voice actors, the film would flop. I have met people online who thought Chris Pratt is the main reason why the Mario Movie made its profit.

And do you think most people had the same judgement? Or were most going to see it because it was marketed heavy & the familiarity of the IP?

Is your movie an animated feature about a bankable/big property?

I’m not just a guy in the internet. I’m THE guy on the internet.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/may-28-2025-yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans-haaretz.1203363/page-2#post-140692773

Vast majority of these Israelis are not even humans. This poll pretty much confirms that.

The vast majority of these votes are pretty telling. Netaneyahu is not the main problem, the whole fucking population of Israel is except for a small minority.

These people are literally imps/devils in disguise of a human. Disgusting cretins. No wonder they vote for a genocidial maniac. Its amazing how the western people and their leaders actually are in support for animals like them, they are actually on par like the savages western people despise.

Even their leftist political members are the worst shitheads going by their comments.

Nice place you got there B-Dubs.

 User banned (permanent): using literal antisemitic language and stereotypes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/may-28-2025-yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans-haaretz.1203363/page-2#post-140694267

 User banned (1 month): equating Hamas with the Palestinian people

Hamas isn't Palestine.

And who's the current government in Gaza?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-up-with-the-girl-i-thought-i-was-going-to-marry-after-8-years.1203660/

Sorry this is going to seem like such incoherent rambles because I'm so fucking broken right now. Probably won't even have many details cause I hate airing out business mine or other people

I think I'm going to die. I just wasn't happy anymore. Small things I overlook at the start of the relationship over time just grows and grows and grows…. You beg and plead and it's always promised shit will change but it always goes back to the "norm" until the cycle repeats… I guess I just had enough

I fucking love her. And she loves me more than anything in the world and I feel so lost and like a dick for ending it but I'm just so unhappy and can't emotionally connect with her anymore.

She was my best and only friend. She was my life, and I was hers. Now I have to plan a life without her. And I fear so much for her what she's going to do :( she doesn't have a family to go home to. She can't afford it out here without me. But I have to try to stop worrying about that.

Taking a couple weeks to collect and pack stuff and moving back with parents for a month or two. Might move across the country and reset my entire life. I have no clue what I'm going to do. But this is the worst fucking pain I've felt in my life.

Also no this wasn't on a "whim" it's something I've felt for years and always thought I was just over reacting. Not everything can be perfect and every time I brought up we can't emotionally connect I learned to hold it back in and pretend it's all fine. But my emotions are real and I've come to terms I can't keep wasting her and my life if I'm so unhappy and I feel there's an emotional disconnect

I'm so cooked

I've had a ring for a year and a half and could never bring myself to do it. My subconscious and brain knew before my heart did. No idea what to do with it.

So many memories :(

Guys if you feel these small things actually mentally effect you vocalize it and please don't waste years and years waiting to be loved the way you want to be loved.

I'm so afraid I'm going to end up alone and no one will ever love me the way she does… fuck she loves me so fucking much and I'm throwing this all away. Just cause it wasn't the way I wanted doesn't make her love not real. She's a good person and I hate to see that it's come to this point and I can't even be happy and accept the way she gives it.

I don't know if I'll even get comfort posting this or hearing from other people. But I really feel my life falling apart before my eyes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-up-with-the-girl-i-thought-i-was-going-to-marry-after-8-years.1203660/#post-140707953

Was it you figuring out you weren't compatible or something worse?

Nothing worse. Just not compatible emotionally. She did nothing wrong. I don't believe ive done anything wrong. We were never alike interest wise and she doesn't have many hobbies. So I'd want her to partake in/ show interest in stuff I do. Start of relationship obviously she tries. But over years it becomes quite evident she doesn't enjoy anything i do. And it becomes forcing her to enjoy time with me. From going out, music, tv, video games. Nothing. She would always be on her phone or asleep within minutes. But in her words she loves my company and just likes hanging out with me. She doesn't have emotional needs like that but I do.

And there's also like I feel an intellectual difference where I feel I can't talk to her about certain subjects or things cause she just won't get it. And I've struggled with that a lot. Also emotional intelligence. I would vocalize all these needs I feel I have and how I want her to improve. Vocally and over text. And I would never get an actual proper response. She'd freeze up and avoid conflict and I guess I was supposed to forget and act like it was normal… which I did. Constantly. Cause I didn't want to lose her

It's just incompatibilities. Like when I vocalize it it feels so small… but it is so real and so big to me and ate at me for years

She dodged a bullet.

[DavidCroquet]

Era’s approved position on this topic is that Hatsune Miku is the official governing body of Gaza.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/may-28-2025-yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans-haaretz.1203363/page-2#post-140692773

Vast majority of these Israelis are not even humans. This poll pretty much confirms that.

The vast majority of these votes are pretty telling. Netaneyahu is not the main problem, the whole fucking population of Israel is except for a small minority.

These people are literally imps/devils in disguise of a human. Disgusting cretins. No wonder they vote for a genocidial maniac. Its amazing how the western people and their leaders actually are in support for animals like them, they are actually on par like the savages western people despise.

Even their leftist political members are the worst shitheads going by their comments.

Nice place you got there B-Dubs.

 User banned (permanent): using literal antisemitic language and stereotypes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/may-28-2025-yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans-haaretz.1203363/page-2#post-140694267

 User banned (1 month): equating Hamas with the Palestinian people

Hamas isn't Palestine.

And who's the current government in Gaza?

But he didn't equate Hamas with the Palestinian people, he merely said he isn't 100% pro Palestine because of Hamas. That alone implies that he has a problem with a percentage of Palestinians (that percentage being Hamas) but not all of them.

It blows my mind how this something considered worth banning but when former mod Spineduke called October 7th armed resistance it was cool.

Well at least they weren't okay with Ashen One completely losing his mind

[DavidCroquet]

ironically from the same thread:

The government is a reflection of their people.

unbanned because this is ok to say about acceptable nationalities.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-up-with-the-girl-i-thought-i-was-going-to-marry-after-8-years.1203660/

Sorry this is going to seem like such incoherent rambles because I'm so fucking broken right now. Probably won't even have many details cause I hate airing out business mine or other people

I think I'm going to die. I just wasn't happy anymore. Small things I overlook at the start of the relationship over time just grows and grows and grows…. You beg and plead and it's always promised shit will change but it always goes back to the "norm" until the cycle repeats… I guess I just had enough

I fucking love her. And she loves me more than anything in the world and I feel so lost and like a dick for ending it but I'm just so unhappy and can't emotionally connect with her anymore.

She was my best and only friend. She was my life, and I was hers. Now I have to plan a life without her. And I fear so much for her what she's going to do :( she doesn't have a family to go home to. She can't afford it out here without me. But I have to try to stop worrying about that.

Taking a couple weeks to collect and pack stuff and moving back with parents for a month or two. Might move across the country and reset my entire life. I have no clue what I'm going to do. But this is the worst fucking pain I've felt in my life.

Also no this wasn't on a "whim" it's something I've felt for years and always thought I was just over reacting. Not everything can be perfect and every time I brought up we can't emotionally connect I learned to hold it back in and pretend it's all fine. But my emotions are real and I've come to terms I can't keep wasting her and my life if I'm so unhappy and I feel there's an emotional disconnect

I'm so cooked

I've had a ring for a year and a half and could never bring myself to do it. My subconscious and brain knew before my heart did. No idea what to do with it.

So many memories :(

Guys if you feel these small things actually mentally effect you vocalize it and please don't waste years and years waiting to be loved the way you want to be loved.

I'm so afraid I'm going to end up alone and no one will ever love me the way she does… fuck she loves me so fucking much and I'm throwing this all away. Just cause it wasn't the way I wanted doesn't make her love not real. She's a good person and I hate to see that it's come to this point and I can't even be happy and accept the way she gives it.

I don't know if I'll even get comfort posting this or hearing from other people. But I really feel my life falling apart before my eyes

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-up-with-the-girl-i-thought-i-was-going-to-marry-after-8-years.1203660/#post-140707953

Was it you figuring out you weren't compatible or something worse?

Nothing worse. Just not compatible emotionally. She did nothing wrong. I don't believe ive done anything wrong. We were never alike interest wise and she doesn't have many hobbies. So I'd want her to partake in/ show interest in stuff I do. Start of relationship obviously she tries. But over years it becomes quite evident she doesn't enjoy anything i do. And it becomes forcing her to enjoy time with me. From going out, music, tv, video games. Nothing. She would always be on her phone or asleep within minutes. But in her words she loves my company and just likes hanging out with me. She doesn't have emotional needs like that but I do.

And there's also like I feel an intellectual difference where I feel I can't talk to her about certain subjects or things cause she just won't get it. And I've struggled with that a lot. Also emotional intelligence. I would vocalize all these needs I feel I have and how I want her to improve. Vocally and over text. And I would never get an actual proper response. She'd freeze up and avoid conflict and I guess I was supposed to forget and act like it was normal… which I did. Constantly. Cause I didn't want to lose her

It's just incompatibilities. Like when I vocalize it it feels so small… but it is so real and so big to me and ate at me for years

She dodged a bullet.

This is what happens when you think your real life should be just like your animes...

[Rendle]

 User banned (permanent): using literal antisemitic language and stereotypes

His crime was using literal antisemitic language. Disguised antisemitism is fine.

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-up-with-the-girl-i-thought-i-was-going-to-marry-after-8-years.1203660/#post-140707953

And there's also like I feel an intellectual difference where I feel I can't talk to her about certain subjects or things cause she just won't get it. And I've struggled with that a lot. Also emotional intelligence. I would vocalize all these needs I feel I have and how I want her to improve. Vocally and over text. And I would never get an actual proper response. She'd freeze up and avoid conflict and I guess I was supposed to forget and act like it was normal… which I did. Constantly. Cause I didn't want to lose her

It's just incompatibilities. Like when I vocalize it it feels so small… but it is so real and so big to me and ate at me for years

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1kydss2/nhs_rejected_me_for_therapy_because_im_trans/

NHS Rejected Me For Therapy Because I'm Trans

Ok so I have had to take off a month off work due to depression and anxiety regarding the lack of support my work has shown during the supreme court ruling.

I did the fact finding session. They came back and said they can't help me because they don't have anyone trained in trans issues or in helping people with transphobia. Like they didn't just fail me, they didn't even turn up.

Like imagine they said that about other intersectional minorities? They'd be outcry, on TERF Island it's just policy, it's socially acceptable.

I just need to vent. I'm struggling financially due to divorce, I'm a currently paying for a mortgage AND rent. Plus bills, so I can't afford therapy.

I do a lot of lyrical writing, so I'm processing shit, but I feel another song coming in about this bullshit! 🤨

[Hap Shaughnessy]

The government is a reflection of their people.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

so who is the government of gaza?

[simiansmarts]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-up-with-the-girl-i-thought-i-was-going-to-marry-after-8-years.1203660/#post-140707953

Was it you figuring out you weren't compatible or something worse?

Nothing worse. Just not compatible emotionally. She did nothing wrong. I don't believe ive done anything wrong. We were never alike interest wise and she doesn't have many hobbies. So I'd want her to partake in/ show interest in stuff I do. Start of relationship obviously she tries. But over years it becomes quite evident she doesn't enjoy anything i do. And it becomes forcing her to enjoy time with me. From going out, music, tv, video games. Nothing. She would always be on her phone or asleep within minutes. But in her words she loves my company and just likes hanging out with me. She doesn't have emotional needs like that but I do.

And there's also like I feel an intellectual difference where I feel I can't talk to her about certain subjects or things cause she just won't get it. And I've struggled with that a lot. Also emotional intelligence. I would vocalize all these needs I feel I have and how I want her to improve. Vocally and over text. And I would never get an actual proper response. She'd freeze up and avoid conflict and I guess I was supposed to forget and act like it was normal… which I did. Constantly. Cause I didn't want to lose her

It's just incompatibilities. Like when I vocalize it it feels so small… but it is so real and so big to me and ate at me for years

She dodged a bullet.

Is that not normal?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-up-with-the-girl-i-thought-i-was-going-to-marry-after-8-years.1203660/#post-140713449

I don't know you, and you've got no reason to listen to anything I have to say. From what little you've shared, it sounds as though you were being selfish. I don't say that to suggest you did something wrong, just a personal observation, and I'm guessing you are interested in hearing this kind of stuff, otherwise why share in the first place.

You were unhappy because she doesn't like the stuff you do. You were depressed. You wanted more from her. It sounds like it's all about you.

I've been with my wife for 31 years. It's actually a really similar story to yours. At the beginning, she showed plenty of interest in what I liked doing. And over the years, she became more honest, and now actively avoids the same things we used to do together. Watching movies, sports, games… she wouldn't touch any of it with a 10' pole now. She hates her job, likes to garden and spends far too much time on social media. She says she's lonely sometimes. Me too.

But you know what, we aren't about to leave each other because of it. We've built a life together. And that life is a long highway. This is the scenario we find ourselves in right now. Is it perfect? Ideal? Nope. But who cares. But a year from now? Five? Ten? Thirty? This period of our lives that is currently "less than ideal", will merely be a sign that we drove by and can no longer recall.

So many things can change as we journey through our lives. If you think that finding someone that loves everything you love is the key to happiness, more power to you. For me though, there's far more important things in life. Having someone I can trust. Someone I can share with. Someone that will back me no matter what. Someone that will call me on my bullshit. Someone that loves me and my kids as much as I them.

A partner doesn't have to share your interests. They just need to tolerate them, lol. What they do need to do is treat you with kindness, prop you up when you need it and be willing to lean on you when they need it.

That's my two cents, I wish you the best with a tough situation. Good luck to the both of you.

[almostheathen]

Maybe she should fuck her landlord for a rent break.

[Averon]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-do-you-want-as-the-main-character-for-re9.1203462/#post-140695641

A lesbian, especially a trans lesbian (:

[benji]

"What are ya buyin?"
"I'm a trans lesbian."
*inventory screen comes up*

"What are ya sellin?"
"I'm a member of S.T.A.R.S. and a trans lesbian"
*inventory screen comes up*

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/who-do-you-want-as-the-main-character-for-re9.1203462/#post-140695641

A lesbian, especially a trans lesbian (:

Hear me out...

Make the protagonist of Residential Evil 9 s trans lesbian but the only people they can romance are other trans women. Make romancing a mandatory action from time to time to not go insane but getting rejected by actual women makes your character depressed and less effective  romancing other trans identifying men causes cognitive dissonance and distress in its own right that causes you to lose control.



When you think about it the Erin Reed "I'm going to get with so many lesbians after my genital transition surgery", to not getting with any, to settling for a relationship with another trans woman is its own horror game.

[benji]

"Jill... here's a lockpick, it might be handy if you, the master of unlocking and a trans lesbian, take it with you."

[benji]

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[Cauliflower Of Love]

And there's also like I feel an intellectual difference where I feel I can't talk to her about certain subjects or things cause she just won't get it.

What a fucking asshole. 

This isn't "she's dumb", this is "i think she's dumb, but I don't even try because I'm probably dumb and don't want to be challenged".

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/broke-up-with-the-girl-i-thought-i-was-going-to-marry-after-8-years.1203660/#post-140713449

I don't know you, and you've got no reason to listen to anything I have to say. From what little you've shared, it sounds as though you were being selfish. I don't say that to suggest you did something wrong, just a personal observation, and I'm guessing you are interested in hearing this kind of stuff, otherwise why share in the first place.

You were unhappy because she doesn't like the stuff you do. You were depressed. You wanted more from her. It sounds like it's all about you.

I've been with my wife for 31 years. It's actually a really similar story to yours. At the beginning, she showed plenty of interest in what I liked doing. And over the years, she became more honest, and now actively avoids the same things we used to do together. Watching movies, sports, games… she wouldn't touch any of it with a 10' pole now. She hates her job, likes to garden and spends far too much time on social media. She says she's lonely sometimes. Me too.

But you know what, we aren't about to leave each other because of it. We've built a life together. And that life is a long highway. This is the scenario we find ourselves in right now. Is it perfect? Ideal? Nope. But who cares. But a year from now? Five? Ten? Thirty? This period of our lives that is currently "less than ideal", will merely be a sign that we drove by and can no longer recall.

So many things can change as we journey through our lives. If you think that finding someone that loves everything you love is the key to happiness, more power to you. For me though, there's far more important things in life. Having someone I can trust. Someone I can share with. Someone that will back me no matter what. Someone that will call me on my bullshit. Someone that loves me and my kids as much as I them.

A partner doesn't have to share your interests. They just need to tolerate them, lol. What they do need to do is treat you with kindness, prop you up when you need it and be willing to lean on you when they need it.

That's my two cents, I wish you the best with a tough situation. Good luck to the both of you.

My wife actively avoids watching movies with me or spending any time at all with me.  Who cares?! I don't! I don't care!  This barely affects me!  We just have to tolerate each other.  She says she's lonely and hates her life.  Who cares?!??  We're like roommates who can't stand being with each other..only we have even less in common that most roommates.  Whom amongst us in the crowd whomst careseth, let ye cast the first stone.  Is this an ideal situation?  No.  Is this a bad situation?  Yes.  Is this a really bad situation?  Yes.  Unequivocally yes.  But I ask you, no, I beseech you:  is this worse than Gaza?  Exactly.   And who knows, 5 years from now maybe we *will* stand being with each other.  Maybe it'll take 10 years before she can sit in the same room with me and watch a movie.  Maybe 15 years for a long commercial.  But, goddamnit, isn't that something worth fighting for?  Isn't that something worth dying for?

I dunno   Who cares.