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And don't forget the big one "NO SPECULATION", everything must be well-sourced links. So (in theory) no one's allowed to interpret events or draw inferences or in any way connect the dots to maybe gain a better understanding of the topic. Unless of course you're a mod or mod pet, in which case rules don't apply.
Well yeah, because only Bad People would ever consider the Bad People talking points or methods of debate. So if you do that, then you're a Bad Person, and it's morally righteous of the mods to give you the B&.
 
Banned for 3 days for arguing over the many flavors of atheism or something. It never gets old on how the mods are desperate to enforce an narrative; looks like they're still obsessed with upholding the rights of the Injuns...by banning an idea for an RPG that only the hobbyists would care about.
That Judaism thread sure is great, it's been non-stop bans. I saw that second one recently too. I love how Miss Atomic Troon basically guts the entire premise of D&D - brave adventurers going off into unknown/uncharted territory in search of riches, and kill whatever monsters are there. That's not allowed because god forbid there's monsters there instead of natives living in their blissful woketopia, clearly that's erasure.
 
It is always acceptable to regurgiate site consensus, though. That doesn't come with the "Source? Source??? Where is your SOURCE???" hyperventilation. It is a rotten game, and people should not be playing it.
Two of their peasants have recently pointed this out
and were told by an tranny janny that the mods have seen some fucked up shit and would rather have the community play an guessing game than be more straightforward about it.

I love how Miss Atomic Troon basically guts the entire premise of D&D - brave adventurers going off into unknown/uncharted territory in search of riches, and kill whatever monsters are there. That's not allowed because god forbid there's monsters there instead of natives living in their blissful woketopia, clearly that's erasure
Anything can be discriminatory if you think hard enough
 
That Judaism thread sure is great, it's been non-stop bans. I saw that second one recently too. I love how Miss Atomic Troon basically guts the entire premise of D&D - brave adventurers going off into unknown/uncharted territory in search of riches, and kill whatever monsters are there. That's not allowed because god forbid there's monsters there instead of natives living in their blissful woketopia, clearly that's erasure.
This makes me think my Stormbringer campaign was probably the most unwoke thing of all time, despite being very loyal to the original works of Michael Moorcock (ironically a raging commie).

The PCs were mostly Melnibonean/Pan Tangian, both cultures that were based on pure degeneracy, sadism, drug abuse, and slavery. Everyone wanted to play these spellcaster types, whose power items were generally derived from dealing with or enslaving demons and binding them into objects.

They were also tremendous glass cannons, generally incapable of physical combat in a world where fighting was the norm.

So nearly every party would start out with some of these sick freaks and a collection of NPC barbarians, so disposable that I made a running gag of giving them names that were basically just anagrams of two or three names. These would nearly always die fighting the melee battles (or get sacrificed to a demon or killed just as a joke).

The rare choice to play in hard mode would be to pick a rogue, a normal human, sort of like Moonglum, with top-notch combat and stealth skills. It was ridiculously hard to stay alive like that.

One important thing about Stormbringer. Don't ever let anyone have anything remotely like Stormbringer (the sword not the game). They'll try. Don't let them.
 
One important thing about Stormbringer. Don't ever let anyone have anything remotely like Stormbringer (the sword not the game). They'll try. Don't let them.
This made me remember there was atleast an attempt on a board game based around Amber Chronicles. How do you even play that without a complete-ass lost prince/chaos sue? Nobody else really can do anything?
 
This made me remember there was atleast an attempt on a board game based around Amber Chronicles. How do you even play that without a complete-ass lost prince/chaos sue? Nobody else really can do anything?
Amber has a diceless roleplaying system, with stats and skills. From what I remember, you're meant to get 100 points each and then bid for the stats in a silent auction so that nobody knows exactly where everyone stands - though there was another step so you had an idea. Something like you were meant to know everyone's ranks in relation to each other but not the actual number, or you knew the numbers but not who had them, something like that. You're also not meant to be playing the characters from the books but their children, who may or may not be around depending.

Considering the setting's possibilities it requires a much higher maturity level in gaming than most people on RPGNet can muster, because you have to be able to trust the other players and especially the ST are going to keep control of the bullshit levels. When there's no randomness via dice and you can fuck around in any kind of shadow you want, your average RPGNetter is going to need to be told 'no' for reasons they can't blame on luck, and that won't be considered acceptable.
 
Two of their peasants have recently pointed this out
and were told by an tranny janny that the mods have seen some fucked up shit and would rather have the community play an guessing game than be more straightforward about it.
If these are the ones you mean, they sound like abused spouses.
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Though further down you really get the type of people who still bother to post there.
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Yes, and I'm sure those lines will never be blurred, move, or applied selectively.

Nerd communities have a lot of autists in them, and SocJus culture is a minefield of hidden social codes, which for autists can be hard to pick up on. This makes for lots of drama as newfag autists step on those proverbial mines early and often by asking forbidden questions, using the wrong context, not agreeing hard enough or in the approved way, or not keeping up when the rules inevitably change. All of those welcoming and inclusive people in kweer nerd communities will turn on you in a heartbeat the moment you make even the smallest faux pas. Nothing says welcoming and inclusive like a zealous and hyper-vigilant police state that mercilessly crushes anyone who puts a toe out of line.
 
Yes, and I'm sure those lines will never be blurred, move, or applied selectively
Another random idea that was shut down....

All of those welcoming and inclusive people in kweer nerd communities will turn on you in a heartbeat the moment you make even the smallest faux pas.
around an week later

But, hey! Who cares about the possibility of the newbie being misinformed about the culture or the various dogwhistles that the jannies keep inventing when there's an very real possibility that someone's heritage was insulted by this blatant display of cultural appropriation!
 
All of those welcoming and inclusive people in kweer nerd communities will turn on you in a heartbeat the moment you make even the smallest faux pas. Nothing says welcoming and inclusive like a zealous and hyper-vigilant police state that mercilessly crushes anyone who puts a toe out of line.
It's good motivation to troon out, along with the social contagion/cult/coomer aspect of it. You can either live in fear of getting kicked out for the tiniest infraction that you didn't even know you made, or you can grow your hair out and suddenly have all the power. Also, the moment anyone points out this obvious flaw in the social system they've set up, they'll get accusations of bigotry and hatred because troons are so persecuted that no one would ever pretend to be something they're not. That is, in a community devoted to people pretending to be something they're not, where deviations from the norm are celebrated, and any hint of troon persecution will get the perpetrator summarily banished and the troon showered in attention, affection and sympathy.

One of the most disingenuous, morally bankrupt behaviours in leftist spaces but especially in a potentially anonymous forum like RPGNet is their absolute insistence that there can never be a benefit for someone to pretend to be trans. Even anonymously online in a forum that practically has in its rules a demand to regard the troon posters as more correct than anyone else, they will get angry if you even suggest that being trans has social capital in any circumstances, let alone one where absolutely no evidence is required. They do it with all idpol, of course - can't be racist towards white people, women always suffer under The Patriarchy, etc. - but places like RPGNet especially are such hugboxes for troons. They'll even act like the bigots and TERFs are secretly posting all around, ready to ban every troon poster, when anything that can be possibly twisted into a transphobic reading will get you permanently banned.

These are people suffering from severe paranoid delusions, lying about how they are treated and often even (as has recently happened again on Something Awful) false flagging their own harassment, but you cannot question the narrative. The best you can hope for is when the troons start trying to take each other down, which is when you get someone like Dave 'Olivia' Hill banned from RPGNet not for any of his most egregious sins, but because he annoyed other trannies. From what I can gather it's not even possible to just stick to talking about games and avoid the Tangency politics side; if you're still posting on RPGNet you're complicit in treating the troons as the local high priests while hypocritically denying that they receive any benefits from their ostentatious troonery.

Tl;dr: Autistic nerds become troons and ruin the hobby they were in, many such cases. Sad. They need to be burned out at the root.
 
That is, in a community devoted to people pretending to be something they're not, where deviations from the norm are celebrated, and any hint of troon persecution will get the perpetrator summarily banished and the troon showered in attention, affection and sympathy.
This is something I have noticed always comes up. As soon as I ask, "how do you filter out/account for malicious actors?" they BSOD and lock up. I noticed it back when I asked someone at the start of all this giving the "troons don't want to assault anybody, they just want to be accepted!" and it never seems to get answered whenever leftist ideas are bandied about.
 
Sure, the original Imperium is a fucky mishmash of Rome, feudal Europe, and the Industrial West bolstered by Sci-Fi tropes and featuring Guard Regiments and Astartes chapters for almost every warrior group to ever exist, but doing the same with East Asia is an unforgivable act of racism! Seriously, fuck these guys, they wouldn't know fun if it stuck a chainsword up their ass!
 
If these are the ones you mean, they sound like abused spouses.
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This makes me think they have quite a few Henris on their site.
:story: I read a lot of Manhua, and can tell you this is not too far off from what the Chinese themselves often write, so I don't know how it's a racist stereotype. This would actually be pretty tame by the standards of something like Cultivation Chat Group.
 
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but doing the same with East Asia is an unforgivable act of racism!
The White Scars are the Mongols on steroids, but they've been shunted off to the side in the grand scheme of things; except for this one captain whose job is to hunt down and behead random guys who pissed off his chapter.

There's also the Thousand Sons, but that's more of an Egyptian/Arabic vibe...But they're evil, of course
 
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The White Scars are the Mongols on steroids, but they've been shunted off to the side in the grand scheme of things; except for this one captain whose job is to hunt down and behead random guys who pissed off his chapter.
That does remind me, have they ever addressed where the Mongols stack on the heirarchy? I mean they were a bunch of colonizers, but they are non-white and it was white people they were colonizing.
 
That does remind me, have they ever addressed where the Mongols stack on the heirarchy? I mean they were a bunch of colonizers, but they are non-white and it was white people they were colonizing.
Saw an opinion on Tumblr that it does not count as opression if nobody being opressed was black.
 
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