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Wallace said:
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.
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The fucking arrogance on display here is staggering. First off, imagine having the gall to demand a contractually binding permanent guarantee that France won't mobilize over Serbia Techbro won't scrape the page with his fancy AI's, or you won't post ever again.

Then demanding the deletion of posts so said owner can't AI scrape your oh-so unique scribbling anyway. As if Joaquin can't demand the latest forum backup or isn't scraping already without telling anyone.

Once again, bonus points to Miss Atomic Bomb for thinking there will be any negotiation between the histrionic mods and Joaquin when "the owner's stances conflict with the community's"

He's the owner. He will simply order the mod team to bend the knee, and they will do so because they have no lives outside of RPGnet and other jannies are literally free.


What a delusional bunch of cunts. I love this.
 
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Mods convincing the owner they're the only ones who can wrangle the user base? Dunno how well this is going to go but posting this and immediately relocking the thread isn't a sign of confidence.
 
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FuckMeGentlyWithAChainsaw said:
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.
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That's why it's in parentheses and explicitly described as a separate issue.
FuckMeGentlyWithAChainsaw said:
Knights had support personnel.
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That's kind of my point, and why I specified the situation of one solitary knight against 10+ peasants.
FuckMeGentlyWithAChainsaw said:
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.
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That really depends on who the knight is. Peasants are not going to be fighting knights from their own liege, because more knights are going to show up and quite literally "go medieval" on them. If it's an invader, though, it was culturally expected that everyone would fight back against invaders. It's not like they were going to be let into the castle part anyway, and they could expect to be the first to starve in a siege.

However, if they repelled invaders, they could expect anything up to their own fee simple estate in land of their own. Such an estate was the ultimate reward for loyal vassals. They were very well worth risking your life for if your family was guaranteed inherited land, something above pure serfdom.

Most "peasants" were also not outright slaves or serfs. They had some limited land ownership rights, and the chance of being rewarded more for loyalty and service. The importance of knights is often vastly overrated.
 
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Mods convincing the owner they're the only ones who can wrangle the user base? Dunno how well this is going to go but posting this and immediately relocking the thread isn't a sign of confidence.
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I hope the new owner really enjoyed his personal struggle session at the hands of the unpaid jannies thanks to his radical hateful position of liking a weird Democrat instead of Biden.
 
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"We made it through the critical make-or-break moment." If Joaquin wanted to put up a geocities "IN CONSTRUCTION" gif and nuke the entire database, that would be fine, and not something a janny would have input on.

"You go through this with every owner." WHO SAYS SHIT LIKE THIS? There's a fucking high horse that needs knocking.

"I adjourned us shortly afterward" Hang up on your boss people, total power move. Of course they locked the thread against commentary.
 
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robobobo said:
I hope the new owner really enjoyed his personal struggle session at the hands of the unpaid jannies thanks to his radical hateful position of liking a weird Democrat instead of Biden.
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It's really funny that for all the platitudes about fighting oppressive power structures, at the end of the day, RPGNet's user base is only comfortable with boilerplate DNC politics. They sometimes talk the talk, but never walk the walk. It is a site of aging, cowardly liberals.
 
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Hugbox Kommissar said:
Mods convincing the owner they're the only ones who can wrangle the user base? Dunno how well this is going to go but posting this and immediately relocking the thread isn't a sign of confidence.
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More like the owner telling them that he did not purchase this thing for charity work. He'll do what he wants and since they're actively driving traffic away from the site then the choice is to wrangle the idiots or he'll run the site with moderators who can.
 
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ZipDisk said:
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."
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She's a volunteer moderator. She isn't paid to do any of that kvetching and ass kissing to the troons she does. So yeah, she can just as well not do it, kek.
 
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Do we know what he actually paid for this shit? There's no way it's worth that much, traffic has probably plummeted and it's impossible to grow the site as long as the current moderation has control over it. I just struggle to see the value here. Unless he's just going to perform humiliation rituals on the jannies and mindbreak them little by little. For most of them their ability to ban people on a shitty dying forum is the only power they have in this world. They'll probably tolerate anything short of a total MAGAchud breach and if that happened they would probably try to make their own shitty splinter site that would get even less traffic until it died in obscurity in a year or two.
 
Flexo said:
Hey! I'm right here!

Anyway, this recent development got featured on the show of our own overlord.

If the timestamp doesn't work, it's the 59:35 mark.
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Dear Feeder obviously has no clue about RPGNet, but he makes a great point that didn't occur to me: Miss Atomic Bomb and the mods may be thinking of establishing their own Resetera style offsite, and trying to deliberately provoke the new owner to force the jump. That'd give them some patreonbux and of course all the janny power. Josh understands how these people think, so I'll go with his hypothesis.
 
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