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[Baraadmirer]

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In case you were wondering, Velma fans do exist.

I wonder how they're going to justify the bastardisation that Scooby Scoobi is now allegedly a black female food critic.

 

[Loose Goose]

They are enjoying it as much as a bunch of stooges clapping for Dear Leader so they don't get shot for showing insufficient enthusiasm are enjoying their thing. They are not allowed to dislike Diverse and Modern Show, so they put on the fake smile and take it for the Party.

Well deserved, too. This is the world they helped create, let them inhabit it.

 

[Loose Goose]

Sometimes you just know by the title a particular thread will deliver. Featuring: insane screeching about D&D monsters and colonialism.




Then we get to the real business:



Apparently, the new Wizards clauses just don't go far enough. They must begin the purges on themselves!

 

[Moral Decay]

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That's right, let the guy with brown-skinned goblin avatar talk about equating minorities with DnD monsters. Good optics.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

I know they talk about taking over D&D and holding WotC to their standards but are there any industry people left on rpg.net besides a bunch of freelancers and wannabes? All the old-timers got banned and fucked off to rpgsite or rpgpub. People in the OGL thread keep getting banned for posting info from the "wrong places" but no one on big purple is stepping up with jucy bits of insider info.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I know they talk about taking over D&D and holding WotC to their standards but are there any industry people left on rpg.net besides a bunch of freelancers and wannabes? All the old-timers got banned and fucked off to rpgsite or rpgpub. People in the OGL thread keep getting banned for posting info from the "wrong places" but no one on big purple is stepping up with jucy bits of insider info.

I've worked on a few fan-made RPGs but why would anybody ever want to promote anything on that website it's f****** toxic

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I've worked on a few fan-made RPGs but why would anybody ever want to promote anything on that website it's f****** toxic

Answer's in the name. People think 'this is the big clearinghouse for RPG reviews, opinions, discussion, etc.'

And then you enter the forum and realize it's run by a back of narcissistic clowns who'd make old-school Usenet spergs look flat fucking normal by comparison.

 

[Kongo-Müller]

I know they talk about taking over D&D and holding WotC to their standards but are there any industry people left on rpg.net besides a bunch of freelancers and wannabes? All the old-timers got banned and fucked off to rpgsite or rpgpub. People in the OGL thread keep getting banned for posting info from the "wrong places" but no one on big purple is stepping up with jucy bits of insider info.

They are still living in the past when White Wolf briefly surpassed AD&D sales. WW and its associates are no longer "the industry" as they did in the early 00s. RPGnet has always sneered at anything D&D and D&D-adjacent as "the McDonalds of TTRPGs for the unwashed masses" - that's why they created the d20 ghetto board when they could no longer ignore the resurgence of 3.x, to have a containment board they can ignore without bleeding into the TTRPG general. When later Pathfinder could steal the top spot during the 4E debacle, all discussion of that also happened in the d20 ghetto, and other boards like GiantITP or Enworld where more relevant for Paizo products.

The fantasy RPG de jour on RPGnet was Exalted, and there was the common sentiment that Exalted would overtake D&D if players were just exposed to it and would see how much cooler, mature and "role-play not roll-play" it is. One of the most shining examples of how alienated the average perpetually online RPGnet user was and is to the actual player base that went to the basement every weekend to actually pretend to be an elf.

 

[Wallace]

The fantasy RPG de jour on RPGnet was Exalted, and there was the common sentiment that Exalted would overtake D&D if players were just exposed to it and would see how much cooler, mature and "role-play not roll-play" it is. One of the most shining examples of how alienated the average perpetually online RPGnet user was and is to the actual player base that went to the basement every weekend to actually pretend to be an elf.

I seem to recall some of the mods were also writers on Exalted.

 

[Loose Goose]

Answer's in the name. People think 'this is the big clearinghouse for RPG reviews, opinions, discussion, etc.'

And then you enter the forum and realize it's run by a back of narcissistic clowns who'd make old-school Usenet spergs look flat fucking normal by comparison.

It is a lot like going to sex.com because there might be sex there, and finding it overrun by degenerates specifically advocating furry sex.

 

[deepFriedBaka]

And then you enter the forum and realize it's run by a back of narcissistic clowns who'd make old-school Usenet spergs look flat fucking normal by comparison.

I'm showing my age here, and I fully expect someone to bitch-slap me for being a goddamn young whippersnapper who wasn't around for Usenet, but what was so bad about old Usenet spergs?

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I'm showing my age here, and I fully expect someone to bitch-slap me for being a goddamn young whippersnapper who wasn't around for Usenet, but what was so bad about old Usenet spergs?

Honestly, nothing really. Whatever their quirks and foibles, it was actually hard to get most of them riled. Usually because new 'netizens' learned the ropes and stopped acting stupid.

Then Eternal September hit and, well... yeah, here we are.

 

[Wallace]

That entire thread is an absolute train wreck.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Yes, let's alienate our fan base even harder as we work to fully monetize our lifestyle bran-uh I mean game.

They should absolutely try to blackmail WotC into giving them free rein, it would be like the Titanic's first officer staging a mutiny against the captain as the iceberg is scraping against the side of the ship.

 

[Wallace]

The really funny part is how they think that ultra-woke Wizards of the Coast, a company that has spent years bowing and scraping to try to appease the alphabet people, and with disastrous results, is planing to use the OGL's morality clause against them.

Zeea you fucking troon, have you been paying attention for the last five years? The entire industry has bent over backwards to try and make you and your kind happy, and it has never been good enough for you. Because nothing is ever good enough for troons, and nothing ever will be. Shit, why would anyone create any art at all, if it's just going to be used to impugn your moral character by a bunch of troons who only care about themselves?

I'm sick of this bullshit. My weekends are to precious to be surrounding myself with emotionally unstable autists that throw tantrums the moment they don't get their way. The troons can have D&D for all I care. The entire industry is dead to me.

 

[Loose Goose]

This is what happens when you cultivate friendless, mentally ill, backstabbing lunatics as your target audience. Not only your target audience, your preferred target audience at the exclusion of normal people. They caved on every temper tantrum, so the people who saw their temper tantrums succeed are now throwing new temper tantrums. Who coulda foreseen that.

In this case, the two sides absolutely deserve each other, and I hope they will eventually burn together.

 

[Henri Barbusse]

The really funny part is how they think that ultra-woke Wizards of the Coast, a company that has spent years bowing and scraping to try to appease the alphabet people, and with disastrous results, is planing to use the OGL's morality clause against them.

It's an unintentional bit of foresight, since part of what makes morality clauses so bullshit is that they're so vague they can be applied to almost anything. If winds change, the same clause could be used against them.

 

[Kongo-Müller]

It's an unintentional bit of foresight, since part of what makes morality clauses so bullshit is that they're so vague they can be applied to almost anything. If winds change, the same clause could be used against them.

We are always just one new Satanic Panic away from WotC culling all references to male-on-male buttsecks and genderfluids for the fear of Christian soccer moms stopping to buy D&D books for their kids. And in this perpetually online age they wouldn't even need media support, one angry post in some Christian mom Facebook group that goes viral would be sufficient.

We already have a relatively recent example for a renewed moral panic from both sides with Harry Potter. The right has attacked it for being too satanistic and occult, the left has attacked it because muh Terfs and Rowling dgaf on Twitter. Both attacks have been limited to the lunatic fringe of either side, but that doesn't mean that there couldn't be a future narrative that is a much stronger sell to off-center moderates.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

It's an unintentional bit of foresight, since part of what makes morality clauses so bullshit is that they're so vague they can be applied to almost anything. If winds change, the same clause could be used against them.

Also they know that if they were in Wizards position they absolutely would use it against people like them. Insufferable sorts that they are the moderators also know that if anyone could moderate them they would do so in a heartbeat and with a clean conscience.

 

[AnOminous]

And then you enter the forum and realize it's run by a back of narcissistic clowns who'd make old-school Usenet spergs look flat fucking normal by comparison.

Except even the Usenet turbo spergs were nearly unanimous that it was an anything-goes set of forums. Anyone who would go after people irl because of their Usenet posts was considered a complete piece of shit by nearly everyone.