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- Thread starter Randall Fragg
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No, they don't. They think they sound like badass internet justice warriors, instead of self-righteous idiots.
Start looking through their profiles, I think a few of them linked to their tumblr accounts.
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I'd say this all warrants an "Infected" tag, but me thinks we've gone past that and into "Terminal". I remember some cool threads on RPG.net, like Wields-Rulebook-Heavily's Let's Play of Limbo of the Lost. But these days it would probably consider a book like Princess: The Hopeful (a fan made splat for WoD that they helped to make) problematic.
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I avoid any forum that uses the phrase "problematic" unironically. It's a goddamn tabletop RPG. If it offends you, just drop the offending content if you're that sensitive, or don't play it. Better yet, get a thicker skin. The world is not required to respect your feelings.
Wallace
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All I knew about RPGnet was WRH's absolutely amazing Limbo of the Lost LP. Glad I never made an account there. I've always found the socio-political sperging about RPGs fucking ridiculous. There's like eighteen thousand different RPGs. Just ignore the ones you don't like?
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Or even better, make your own. I've seen a couple quick and dirty systems that were just made cause someone wanted an excuse to run Burn Notice as a TRPG. Don't like, don't buy, it's as simple as that.
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As much as how they can complain nazi's using Steam, do they not realize some people are just being edgelord's by having names like those to mess with people? Even then, seeing how they think having a name that says "anti-communist" or "sabaton" means "nazi", it makes one wonder how many of these people will just label anything they don't like as "nazi".
Wallace
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The thing that bothers me about this is that tabletop gaming is supposed to be about escapism and imagination.
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Indeed. Some of the best RPG worlds are dystopias. Is discussing a game set in a world where the Nazis won off-limits now? Or perhaps a world where a well-meaning government, in its quest to promote social harmony, became so authoritarian that it's worse than the ideologies it sought to suppress? Guess that's off limits too. Don't know why anyone would be interested in that.
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And, again, it's like... don't play those games. If you want to play socially progressive, lighter fare, there's shitloads of options out there. It's just like RPGPundit screaming about "STORY GAMES AND FATE AND WHITE WOLF AND MONSTERHEARTS ARE TRYING TO KILL DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" only switched around.
The forums themselves, however, are ridiculous.
The forums themselves, however, are ridiculous.
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Or just run GURPS. Rules for every genre and depending on player consesus can be played with as little or many rulea as possible.
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The reason they can't just not play the parts they don't like? SocJus is about power and control. By it's very nature it requires everyone to conform to it's demands less someone, somewhere, is triggered. So it will never be enough for a sjw to just not buy or participate in something they don't like, it must be banned and anyone who is suspected of liking it must be punished, because to a sjw the only reason your likes and dislikes could possibly not mesh 100% with theirs is because you're evil.
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The thread on how Steam is filled with literal Nazis continues unabated.
Well, at least the mods are more even-keeled, right?
Well, at least the mods are more even-keeled, right?
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I'm pretty sure that there have always been people who romanticized certain aspects of the Nazis, it's just more obvious now with the internet. There's also lots of people who just kinda like that aesthetic but aren't Nazis themselves.
Basically, lol calm down. That dude's getting hysterical with the slippery slope there.
EDIT: It's doubly ironic that he's named after 40K, which is a game that started as a parody of fascism and, as the original designers have left and new ones taken over, has almost forgotten that it's supposed to be a parody and is now played almost completely straight.
Basically, lol calm down. That dude's getting hysterical with the slippery slope there.
EDIT: It's doubly ironic that he's named after 40K, which is a game that started as a parody of fascism and, as the original designers have left and new ones taken over, has almost forgotten that it's supposed to be a parody and is now played almost completely straight.
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RPGNet?
AWWW YEEEEEEAH
I haven't given that place any thought in a loooong time... but it's no surprise they turned into a SocJus gulag. They were a hugbox long before SocJus entered the public consciousness. At least since I encountered them in the early 2000s, their moderators have been fanatical about making sure that none of their users get their feelings hurt. Apparently, some of those role-players' psyches are like big squishy blobs that can be horrifically wounded by the least little thing they find insulting. Some of the other role-players are autistic to the point that they'll rage on anyone who misunderstands what they're saying or disagrees with them on a minor point of lore in a fictional setting. In order to keep this volatile combination from exploding into a mushroom cloud of White Male Tears, the mods have a policy where you cannot say anything that upsets or disturbs another forum member. Period.
For example, one time there was a thread on child beauty pageants. Everyone was talking about how creepy they are, how they sexualize kids, etc., and then someone offhandedly said "I hope none of the posters here have kids participating in those pageants, if we find out anyone does we won't be able to dis on them anymore." They weren't joking. They've had a long list of verboten topics since forever, including the Westboro Baptist Church. Apparently, whenever a post about the WBC showed up, some posters would say "I disagree with them but you can't ban them because free speech." Then another faction would get butthurt at the free speech advocates "defending" WBC, and this escalated to the point where all discussion of the topic was banned.
Still, they used to have some wit in the old days, and could have a laugh at the expense of people who were blatantly too stupid for their own good. They weren't categorically opposed to games like Werewolf either. But the board culture made it an ideal breeding ground for SocJus, which must have entered like rabid rats invading a praire dog town. The mentality there was always like a one-way ratchet, towards stricter and stricter rules. Whenever someone's feelings got hurt, even to the smallest degree, a new fence was built and guards posted with orders to shoot on sight anyone who crossed.
Anyway, I've got some RPGNet deliveries for you all, I'll just need time to sort and giftwrap the material. Look forward to it...
AWWW YEEEEEEAH
I haven't given that place any thought in a loooong time... but it's no surprise they turned into a SocJus gulag. They were a hugbox long before SocJus entered the public consciousness. At least since I encountered them in the early 2000s, their moderators have been fanatical about making sure that none of their users get their feelings hurt. Apparently, some of those role-players' psyches are like big squishy blobs that can be horrifically wounded by the least little thing they find insulting. Some of the other role-players are autistic to the point that they'll rage on anyone who misunderstands what they're saying or disagrees with them on a minor point of lore in a fictional setting. In order to keep this volatile combination from exploding into a mushroom cloud of White Male Tears, the mods have a policy where you cannot say anything that upsets or disturbs another forum member. Period.
For example, one time there was a thread on child beauty pageants. Everyone was talking about how creepy they are, how they sexualize kids, etc., and then someone offhandedly said "I hope none of the posters here have kids participating in those pageants, if we find out anyone does we won't be able to dis on them anymore." They weren't joking. They've had a long list of verboten topics since forever, including the Westboro Baptist Church. Apparently, whenever a post about the WBC showed up, some posters would say "I disagree with them but you can't ban them because free speech." Then another faction would get butthurt at the free speech advocates "defending" WBC, and this escalated to the point where all discussion of the topic was banned.
Still, they used to have some wit in the old days, and could have a laugh at the expense of people who were blatantly too stupid for their own good. They weren't categorically opposed to games like Werewolf either. But the board culture made it an ideal breeding ground for SocJus, which must have entered like rabid rats invading a praire dog town. The mentality there was always like a one-way ratchet, towards stricter and stricter rules. Whenever someone's feelings got hurt, even to the smallest degree, a new fence was built and guards posted with orders to shoot on sight anyone who crossed.
Anyway, I've got some RPGNet deliveries for you all, I'll just need time to sort and giftwrap the material. Look forward to it...
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Wallace
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@Vaclev Do it, faggot!
More impotent handwringing about how the day after Trump gets elected, the new American gestapo will take to the streets. Anyone who isn’t white and cis will be murderaped in broad daylight while while everyone else looks the other way. “Seig Heil!” will be replaced by, “It’s about ethics in gaming journalism!”
A choice selection from a thread bemoaning how all those other ignorant white people aren’t sufficiently woke.
More impotent handwringing about how the day after Trump gets elected, the new American gestapo will take to the streets. Anyone who isn’t white and cis will be murderaped in broad daylight while while everyone else looks the other way. “Seig Heil!” will be replaced by, “It’s about ethics in gaming journalism!”
A choice selection from a thread bemoaning how all those other ignorant white people aren’t sufficiently woke.