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[AnOminous]

What I'd like to see is a chart showing the rate of bans/infractions over on RPGnet.

While it would be cool, unless it's really easy, I doubt @CrunkLord420 would bother doing it for such an irrelevant shithole. Really only the pathetic inmates there and some of us on the Farms even care about this site.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

While it would be cool, unless it's really easy, I doubt @CrunkLord420 would bother doing it for such an irrelevant shithole. Really only the pathetic inmates there and some of us on the Farms even care about this site.

True enough, I guess.

 

[Wallace]

Wrongthink must be purged!

 

[Shaka Brah]

Wrongthink must be purged!

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It's especially ironic that he justifies it with a quote from Elie Weasel, who's one of the biggest hypocrites there is on the subject. He denied the Armenian Genocide and Guatemalan Genocide (a genocide of Mayan natives carried out with Israeli weapons and by personnel instructed by Israeli combat advisors) because the Israeli government told him to downplay both for political reasons.

Here's an excellent article from Counterpunch about him: https://archive.is/UrdnE

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Tankies btfo.

Wrongthink must be purged!

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The jew cries out in pain as he dismantles your national sovereignty.

 

[Wallace]

It's especially ironic that he justifies it with a quote from Elie Weasel, who's one of the biggest hypocrites there is on the subject. He denied the Armenian Genocide and Guatemalan Genocide (a genocide of Mayan natives carried out with Israeli weapons and by personnel instructed by Israeli combat advisors) because the Israeli government told him to downplay both for political reasons.

Hypocrisy for political gain is very much in character for NPCNet.

EDIT:

Maybe this is why these spergs hang out in a forum dedicated to role-playing games: they can't tell the difference between delusion and reality.

 

[Wallace]

Oh brother. Though in fairness, CrazyIvan hasn't been a mod for very long, so he's not as emotionally invested in the role as others.

A sanitized safe space surrounded by emotional minefields is the opposite of inclusive and welcoming.

This thread's still open so the commoners can fawningly grovel over the mods for all their hard work, but I'd give some pretty high odds that it get shuttered as soon as the mods get criticized.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Obviously not a new statement, but RPGNet Forums talking about current day politics are contradictory by nature. Most RPG fans only care about the Western turn based games rather than the JRPG ones.

Western RPG ones (at the least ones I played) like to stray away, or at least do away, with current day politics since it deviates from the story in the game. It makes me wonder if any of those posters are even real RPG fans, or political junkies craving for people to read their posts.

 

[AnOminous]

Wrongthink must be purged!

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Like a single one of these fat pussies, troons and other joke people have ever stood toe to toe with a skinhead.

A sanitized safe space surrounded by emotional minefields is the opposite of inclusive and welcoming.

This thread's still open so the commoners can fawningly grovel over the mods for all their hard work, but I'd give some pretty high odds that it get shuttered as soon as the mods get criticized.

This is almost a sensible modpost. Too bad it has no resemblance to what actually goes on on SA (or RPGnet for that matter).

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

We're not actually keeping score

And other hilarious jokes the mods will tell you.

Speaking of, I happened to go back through an old creative worldbuilding thread (hey remember those?) started by OG admin and longtime poster Bailywolf, and it looks like he's taking a quiet hiatus from the forums. Hadn't been posting regularly since March/April and hasn't even logged in since the end of July. Wonder if it all got to be too much.

 

[PancakesPancakesPancakes]

Speaking of, I happened to go back through an old creative worldbuilding thread

Longstairs?

 

[Dom Cruise]

The intensely negative tone of Tangency was noted many years before it sank into its current state by Darren, who coined the phrase "black bug room" to describe certain threads where somebody apparently posted something just to say, "Look how awful this thing is". The post he made about it was intensely memorable, describing "pale naked humanoids" lying helplessly in a pit of despair, only to burst into a ghastly chorus of wails and moans every so often whenever someone would come along and command them to look at this horrible thing only to eventually return to lying helplessly in despair again until the cycle repeated. The phrase "black bug room" originated in an issue of X-Men where a telepath showed Cyclops his inner "black bug room", the part of his mind he keeps all his despair and misery. Despite being warned well in advance, the staff were not able to turn things around, nor were they able to escape being sucked into the misery themselves. Now, they too are now pale naked humanoids lying helplessly in a pit of despair along with the rest of RPG.net's userbase.

The insane thing about this to me is, just what is the fucking appeal of this shit? Imagine how miserable it must be to be offended over every little thing, why do people do it?

The fact that anyone buys into SJW culture is like guys just deciding to take ballpeen hammers to their nuts every minute of every day and get ANGRY at you when you say "dude, maybe lighten the fuck up a bit? Why are you doing that to yourself?", to get ANGRY at the thought of anyone trying to stop them from inflicting horrible pain on themselves for every waking moment.

Just what is the appeal?

Basically, it all started with the theory of co-op games, where mechanics took a back seat to player interaction, the lack of a need for a GM, stuff like that.

I stayed out of most of it, because to me it looked like a fountain of faggotry.

From there, you spawned a couple of superstars, most of which I don't even remember. One guy built The RPGSite IIRC.

The whole thing started with "We need more inclusive language, stop using him/her and use them more!" and then complaints about big tittied chicks and Conan-esque dudes with "They don't represent the people in the hobby and make people feel unwelcome" about 2002. ENWorld was a positive seething mass of this shit, mainly around one guy's advertisements.

You had the typical superstars out championing for the Right Way the Hobby Should Be Played.

(Funny thing, I know for a fact that at least 1 of the superstars went to jail for child porn, at least 2 others embezzled funds, and one major company didn't pay out their contributors since the guy who ended up with the company didn't feel the need to pay any of the authors the child porn dude hired)

Then there was the big shit-fit about Anthony Valterra putting out the Book of Erotic Fantasy, which led to a change in the STL with Wizards, which just gave the Forge crowd more ammunition.

It became very quick: This is the proper way to play.

One game in particular, maybe two, were linchpins: My Life With Master, and Dogs in the Vineyard (I never looked at either, I was busy). Which were all about inclusion and player choice with limited rules.

The Forge were advocating for getting rid of random scores, ensuring everything was perfectly balanced, and there was talk of reducing ability scores to just the bonuses, so it would run -4 to +4 only.

"Narrative Gameplay" was thrown around a lot.

One game, all I remember was it had a fucking magic deer, was called Blue Rose, and this caused an even bigger shit storm.

Now, remember, this was in the days before YouTube streamers so it was just long ranting screeds and posts. Most of the sites are gone, and ENWorld suffered a server crash which wiped away a lot of shit.

This was the whole early 3.0/3.5, which was just a tsunami of spergery about everything.

Then 4.0 came, Pathfinder happened, and everything crashed for a lot of people. Most of the people faded out.

Some went into video game design, including one person who was tangentially involved in the Forge Wars but then was a big name in Gamergate, I shit you not.

Now, like Gamergate, it's already been fought, only in the case of TTRPGs, for the most part, the gamers who built the game, who supported the companies before they got big, they got colonized and wiped out in purges.

It was all just cheeto dust in the wind.

I'm actually incredibly shocked and incredibly disturbed to think this kind of shit would date all the way back to the 2000s, it's kind of heartbreaking really, I like to think of the 2000s as basically being paradise when it comes to nerd hobbies and nerd culture, but to think the seeds were being planted even back then is very distressing to think about.

 

[AnOminous]

The fact that anyone buys into SJW culture is like guys just deciding to take ballpeen hammers to their nuts every minute of every day and get ANGRY at you when you say "dude, maybe lighten the fuck up a bit? Why are you doing that to yourself?", to get ANGRY at the thought of anyone trying to stop them from inflicting horrible pain on themselves for every waking moment.

It's like they're dudes who you're yelling at "quit hitting yourself, quit hitting yourself!" But you're not even grabbing their arms and hitting them with their own arms, they're actually doing it voluntarily.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It's like they're dudes who you're yelling at "quit hitting yourself, quit hitting yourself!" But you're not even grabbing their arms and hitting them with their own arms, they're actually doing it voluntarily.

And it's insane, the thought of people willingly buying into an ideology that makes them miserable and takes any semblance of fun or joy out of their lives is just fucking insane.

But that's the thing, I think we're dealing with people who have genuine mental issues like depression, they're people who fundamentally hate themselves and think they don't deserve any happiness and they externalize and justify it with left wing politics.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

The fact that anyone buys into SJW culture is like guys just deciding to take ballpeen hammers to their nuts every minute of every day and get ANGRY at you when you say "dude, maybe lighten the fuck up a bit? Why are you doing that to yourself?", to get ANGRY at the thought of anyone trying to stop them from inflicting horrible pain on themselves for every waking moment.

Just what is the appeal?

They're like modern day flagellants.

 

[Dom Cruise]

They're like modern day flagellants.

I guess some of these losers put up with the "male feminist" schtick in hopes to get laid, but other than that I really don't see any appeal or point to putting up with this shit.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

It makes me wonder if any of those posters are even real RPG fans, or political junkies craving for people to read their posts.

It's actually been common knowledge for a long, long time that a lot of people who post in Tangency Open, and to a lesser extent the video games and media forums, are at best casual or lapsed rpg players, and there were at least a handful that were not in any meaningful sense rpg players to begin with.

 

[Loose Goose]

A sanitized safe space surrounded by emotional minefields is the opposite of inclusive and welcoming.

This thread's still open so the commoners can fawningly grovel over the mods for all their hard work, but I'd give some pretty high odds that it get shuttered as soon as the mods get criticized.

LOL, that's the narrative they are telling the userbase (and themselves) all right. Watch anyone who steps out of line to question the post get infracted and banned (because mods are obviously nOt KeEpInG sCoReS). It is "celebrate thoughtfully" or get the bullet to the back of the head.

I can at least imagine Tangency is not their main problem area anymore. Tangency infighting was never the main problem anyway - Tangency infecting other subforums and encouraging batshit mod policy and a toxic forum culture was. By this time, Tangency has been purged so thoroughly that any stray mod bullet inevitably hits faithful, Kool Aid-drinking cultists, because that's all that's left. Of course they don't generate too much conflict anymore. The conflict usually occurs when some outsider starts posting seemingly sensible stuff in the game forums, and gets noticed by one of the Tangency snitches.

Extra LOL at "Not Wanting to Ban You". Yeah right. "I did not want to maul that baby", says nervous pitbull standing next to by a bloody pile of eviscerated toddlers. Same about not keeping scores. Sure I believe you, shady guys who actively went after your former forum and offsite enemies once you got mod powers.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Longstairs?

The mythos superheroes thread actually, although Longstairs is probably one of the best setting concepts they've come up with.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/necro-mythos-supers-oh-what-may-be-wrought-with-this-hideous-might.398547/

I guess some of these losers put up with the "male feminist" schtick in hopes to get laid, but other than that I really don't see any appeal or point to putting up with this shit.

To receive the approval of their own conscience. "I'm following all the rules, even when it inconveniences me, I must be a good person!"

 

[Wallace]

The insane thing about this to me is, just what is the fucking appeal of this shit? Imagine how miserable it must be to be offended over every little thing, why do people do it?

The fact that anyone buys into SJW culture is like guys just deciding to take ballpeen hammers to their nuts every minute of every day and get ANGRY at you when you say "dude, maybe lighten the fuck up a bit? Why are you doing that to yourself?", to get ANGRY at the thought of anyone trying to stop them from inflicting horrible pain on themselves for every waking moment.

Just what is the appeal?

Maybe it's the shot in the arm of saccharine moral superiority that comes from having a truly vile villain to compare yourself down to. I've referred to the Anti-Kitten Burning Coalition before, but it still seems like an apt comparison. So maybe they are into RPGs after all. They're roleplaying as someone morally superior to an imaginary monster.