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[ZipDisk]

The whole thing with communities is these fucking censorist shitheads invade slowly and change "policy" to what they prefer, making our homes their hell, but the idea that a techfin can literally buy it out from under the cesspit is fantastic.

I hope the first thing he does is dissolve whatever "code of conduct" they managed to foist on the community.

"He supports rights for LGBTQ"

shit.

The idea that a moderator told the site owner not to post is fucking wild.

"We worked up a Pledge, and we don't care what YOU think" Ew.

A Jewish raised trans pagan has no friends. Shocker.

Miss Atomic Bomb: "I was going to do my job today, but now I'm not." Stellar. I want a job where I can decide if I want to work or not without the risk of being fired. I don't believe I ever have had a boss who gave a shit if I "Had enough spoons". For me it's always been "show up or get fucked."

 

[skunt]

Mods, every time.
They're always the first to freak out and set the tone for everyone else. Then they brainstorm and deliver their own statement, as if anyone asked or wanted it. WE'RE YOUR MODERATORS

also lol, "jaoquin" and the guy looks like an AI delivered the most white CEO possible.

 

[Public Disrespector]

The new owner has deviating opinions and everyone treats it like the goddamn July Crisis. Urgent messages, clarifications, promises and grumbling among the plebs. Bonus points for the Jewish tranny pagan kvetching about not having friends and that Joaquin "hid" his opinions from them. By posting them openly on social media. Troonshine truly rots the brain.

Even more bonus points for Miss Atomic Bomb needing a multiple hour break, probably to "process" the fact that Joaquin's opinons don't align with the leftist tranny cesspit he bought as an investment.


To use RPG parlance: my sides failed their Fortitude save and flew off into orbit. This truly is the sweetest schadenfreude i've had in a long time, and i hope their suffering is prolonged, vocal and ultimately archived.

I came to say all this, except less perfectly. What the fuck do these people even do in the real world and not immediately burst into ashes?

 

[Kirtto]

Happening in progress: RPGNet users realize their new techbro master is a serious wrongthinker, who likes tweets by people RPGNet would ban you for liking. Hilarity ensues.

This was the site that banned all the positive discussion of trump back in 2018.

Of course they being insane lefties would result in the site declining and getting bought. I even heard about that and discussed it on the Pathfinder thread here but I wasn't expecting the guy that bought it was a Right-wing libertarian lmao.

I think the best thing the right can do is bought this left wing websites and break the echo chamber down.

 

[Mr. Manchester]

I've only heard of them but it might be kind of fun to just go and have fun discussions RPGs and insult people that whine about it once they sweep the old jannies.

 

[daniel day]

I have no idea who these people are, but I think we can all agree that mods that believe they have any power freaking the fuck out when their hugbox gets a little rattled is hilarious. This techbro showed up with the most milquetoast middle of the road libertarian politics and it made an entire group of people's brains snap in two.

Hooray for fascism.
Fashys: 1
Troons: 0

 

[Great Sun Jester]

I've only heard of them but it might be kind of fun to just go and have fun discussions RPGs and insult people that whine about it once they sweep the old jannies.

There sure are a lot of people that I want to personally call retarded faggots down there, you have my axe.

 

[PhoBingas]

also lol, "jaoquin" and the guy looks like an AI delivered the most white CEO possible.

That's not a human. You could take a roofing hammer to it's skull and you'd find computer chips in there, or maybe a little lizard piloting the thing.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

I think the best thing the right can do is bought this left wing websites and break the echo chamber down.

Only worth it if they have some impact that needs to be curtailed, otherwise you're handing good money over to lefties who can just start a new site for $100, find free jannies anywhere and do it all over again. ResetEra might be worth destroying since I hear game developers and other industry insiders visit there, so a >$200 billion industry is giving it legitimacy and sucking up its poison. Is RPGnet that way for the already cancerous tabletop gaming industry?

 

[3deadniggers]

He might have bought it for the URL and he's going to gut the place. Anything that destroys these hug boxes and has the potential to create a space trannies and faggots aren't allowed is a huge win.

Only worth it if they have some impact that needs to be curtailed, otherwise you're handing good money over to lefties who can just start a new site for $100, find free jannies anywhere and do it all over again. ResetEra might be worth destroying since I hear game developers and other industry insiders visit there, so a >$200 billion industry is giving it legitimacy and sucking up its poison. Is RPGnet that way for the already cancerous tabletop gaming industry?

When a forum goes full leftist like this the owner is usually hands off and doesn't want to be directly involved any more. They're happy to earn the money coming in while the mods keep the site alive enough to profit.

Any game dev willing to visit Resetera is beyond saving any way.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

Imagine owning something, and someone who now works for you telling you what to do and not do. I'd tell "her" not to let the door hit her on the ass on the way out because I don't want ass prints on my new door.

He just bought a community and doesn't want it to immediately die before he gets any return on investment. If he cans the mods immediately then the users will also flee.

If I had the money, I'd buy a community like this, just to rip out it's beating heart, would be worth every cent.

 

[Baraadmirer]

I've only heard of them but it might be kind of fun to just go and have fun discussions RPGs and insult people that whine about it once they sweep the old jannies.

I'd be willing to return if I didn't have to double-check all my posts before submitting them to make sure I don't get banned in what is pure gaming content. I hope that happens.

 

[PositiveHatred]

On one hand it'd be hilarious if he just uses the site to scrape data for AI learning, the seething would be delicious. On the other hand I really hope it doesn't happen, these people's ideas need to die with them. We don't need an Ai that has the brain of an rpgnet user

 

[figgernaggotte]

On one hand it'd be hilarious if he just uses the site to scrape data for AI learning, the seething would be delicious. On the other hand I really hope it doesn't happen, these people's ideas need to die with them. We don't need an Ai that has the brain of an rpgnet user

train a bot to spot subtle, subconscious woke tendencies and then microaggress on them

 

[AnOminous]

On one hand it'd be hilarious if he just uses the site to scrape data for AI learning, the seething would be delicious. On the other hand I really hope it doesn't happen, these people's ideas need to die with them. We don't need an Ai that has the brain of an rpgnet user

What if he used it to scrape retard thinking and eliminate it from the model?

 

[Gremperor]

Seething meltdown:

"Not trusting the media or the government is antisemitic" -jew

"I'm leaving and never coming back" user does, in fact come back:

"Anyone that opposes grooming minors is anti lgbt!" -Fag

It's always nice when they admit you're right.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

These "people" are a hoot lmao

 

[Wallace]

The seething continues, as a poster asks for their own thread to be nuked rather than let the new techbro overlord get his AI on it.




Also, can we admit it's a little funny that a site which loved to claim how diverse and inclusive it was is now shitting itself over encountering someone different from their hugbox?

 

[FuckMeGentlyWithAChainsaw]

With even rudimentary small unit tactics, things like pikes, halberds, even knives and hooks mounted on a pole could be used in formation to great effect.

Everything you say assumes Renaissance era landsknechts or similiar. Medieval peasants didn't have the training and they certainly didn't have fancy halberds.

By comparison, a knight was relatively hampered by the lack of support personnel. For every knight you had a dozen or more grunts.

Knights had support personnel. They were nobles with a personal retinue and in a medieval armies they were outnumbered ten to one by their own troops. The standard tactic was for the grounded troops to engage the enemy while the knights hit the flank, a reliably devastating attack.

From horseback, a knight would be formidable, but a single jerk from a billhook and that knight would be on the ground.

Your single jerk has a lance pointed at him that has a full horse power concentrated at its tip which is pointed at his center mass and is coming at him at 30mph. He'll be bloody tatters before he does anything with a billhook. And his buddy standing next to him is not doing any better because knights ride in close formation. What they don't spear they'll trample. They'll each kill two or three peasants before they even pull their swords out.

These types of primitive tactics, often using improvised weapons, didn't really rely much on skill.

They relied heavily on morale though, which medieval peasants were dogshit at.

Now a group of armored knights could probably easily rout a rabble, but a single one against a dozen or more? That dude is fucked.

A knight on horseback can kill two or three peasants within seconds of first engagement. By the time the knight pulls his sword screaming "Death or Glory!'' the survivors are throwing down their sharpened gardening tools and run away faster than the piss down their legs.
Even if your peasants manage to pull a knight from his biting and kicking warhorse while his feet are in the stirrups and he's slashing his long sword at them, he is still wearing armor that's near impervious to the damage a peasant can dish out.

(And of course knights effectively became obsolete nearly overnight with the development of the longbow but that's a different issue.)

The English Longbow relied on years of dedicated training and would never be available to peasant armies in notable numbers. Due to handguns it became obsolete before knights did.

 

[LMlurker]

I can kind of see why someone starting an TTRPG startup would buy the place. Most tabletop forums online are extremely normie, so they deal almost entirely with D&D and Warhammer. All the more complicated, niche RPGs are tough to find discussion on. A lot of it is on old 4chan threads, and a lot of it is on RPGnet. If you want to read a thread about something avant garde like Nobilis or something brainy like a new Troika module, RPGnet will have the SEO on lock.
Of course, the fact that they're all insane, raving trannies makes that SEO pretty useless, but then again insane trannies have been a pretty big part of the hobby since at least the 90s. Tabletop was always pretty autistic, and the White Wolf games like Vampire the Masquerade brought in a shitload of fringe leftists, anarchists, what have you. Chuddy communities can sustain interest in Warhammer and MtG, but there's too much theater-kid in role-playing for it to be right coded. As a result, I doubt the new ownership will change the site much. Even if all the insane trannies were swept away, there isn't really a sufficient body of under-served centrist or right-wing RPG enthusiasts to fill a site.