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Mola Ram said:
For some reason it hits me as incredibly funny how unaware the RPG mod staff and the hysterical userbase are that treating national elections as nothing more than a betting game would do their psyches a world of good
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Some days, I think that most of the staff are probably on the spectrum. Or that they're just pulling this shit just to save face, otherwise the user base will eviscerate them just like they did when someone dove into the new owner's socials
 
Mola Ram said:
For some reason it hits me as incredibly funny how unaware the RPG mod staff and the hysterical userbase are that treating national elections as nothing more than a betting game would do their psyches a world of good.
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When you spend so much time obsessively ruminating over how awful the world is and how you're perpetually minutes away from genocide and the end of the world, of course that's going to make you miserable. But what is really interesting is how often they keep going back for more. IMO this says a lot about the habit-forming nature of social media.
 
Minor: how to give your mouse rectal cancer.

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Necro'd threads have a new addition.
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"This is an older thread. Posters you reply to from the first half dozen pages have probably been permabanned by now for wrongthink. You don't want the fascists to win, do you? DO YOU?"
 
"That's not a rule or even a frowny face", the faggiest damn thing I have read this month. Pure passive aggressive janny snark.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Honestly "as thou wilt" is what really sets me off. That's pure fedora tipping smugness.
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Especially because they don't mean it. They mean "post only whatever completely agrees with every aspect of current year," and they have perhaps the most obnoxious, censorious version of it even on an Internet where RetardEra exists.
 
They'll ban you without thinking for something like this, but they covered up for Black Hat Matt, who raped women.

edit: Hah! They are discussing Matt right below the tweet. I am not the only one who immediately thought of him.
 
To add some content, here is something funny from Twitter:
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That's right: Malcolm Sheppard was indeed among the original people who first tried to poz RPGNet back around 2004. He and a bunch of his friends from Tangency, most of whom never gamed, wrote a big gay open letter to the Shannon Appelcline demanding the kind of censorship, deplatforming and tone policing that later became the site brand. They threatened to walk off if their demands were not met; one crazy woman (redredderreddest) even created menstrual art against the site. No kidding, she was also a hoe ("sex worker"), and crazy as a fruit bat.

Malcolm was way before his time, and he was so obnoxious about it he got banned for his efforts, but a few years later, RPGNet went that direction anyway.
 
Loose Goose said:
They'll ban you without thinking for something like this, but they covered up for Black Hat Matt, who raped women.

edit: Hah! They are discussing Matt right below the tweet. I am not the only one who immediately thought of him.
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Duck call lass too, although they/them were less internet famous. Raped their partner and the mods covered for them for years.
 
Loose Goose said:
To add some content, here is something funny from Twitter:
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That's right: Malcolm Sheppard was indeed among the original people who first tried to poz RPGNet back around 2004. He and a bunch of his friends from Tangency, most of whom never gamed, wrote a big gay open letter to the Shannon Appelcline demanding the kind of censorship, deplatforming and tone policing that later became the site brand. They threatened to walk off if their demands were not met; one crazy woman (redredderreddest) even created menstrual art against the site. No kidding, she was also a hoe ("sex worker"), and crazy as a fruit bat.

Malcolm was way before his time, and he was so obnoxious about it he got banned for his efforts, but a few years later, RPGNet went that direction anyway.
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I like the implication that RPG net has drifted even further right. I remember when Malcolm was still on the site and how pissy he'd get at "the right wing cabal" that included future loony mods like Cessna and Darren MacLennan. Malcolm (or "eyebeams") almost certainly deserved his ban at the time. It's a shame, he was such a prickly, antagonistic asshole that he'd fit right in with the mod team these days.
 
Loose Goose said:
To add some content, here is something funny from Twitter:
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That's right: Malcolm Sheppard was indeed among the original people who first tried to poz RPGNet back around 2004. He and a bunch of his friends from Tangency, most of whom never gamed, wrote a big gay open letter to the Shannon Appelcline demanding the kind of censorship, deplatforming and tone policing that later became the site brand. They threatened to walk off if their demands were not met; one crazy woman (redredderreddest) even created menstrual art against the site. No kidding, she was also a hoe ("sex worker"), and crazy as a fruit bat.

Malcolm was way before his time, and he was so obnoxious about it he got banned for his efforts, but a few years later, RPGNet went that direction anyway.
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They're expert infiltrators; it's not just RPGNet. The jannies on /tg/ will ban you if you ridicule White Wolf / Onyx Path for pozzing World of Darkness. I'm not joking.
 
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