Or when he played a more evil version of said bandito in Mag Seven? Or just Mag Seven as a whole. It’s probably the greatest western ever made, and virtually all of the main cast was white/Jewish, even though it was set in a Mexican village. Cue cries of color face and “white savior” propaganda.
I remember when people weren't completely insane and where anyone who complained about the very basis of the game they were playing would be just told to go somewhere else, if you don't like this game, fuck off and go play one you actually do like, if you're even capable of liking anything.
I suspect the only reason it hasn't been targeted for cancelling is because Magnificent Seven is a retelling of The Seven Samurai, and the original 1960 M7 film was so highly regarded by Kurosawa he sent a katana to the director as a tribute.
That is what makes me even more surprised that it hasn't been targeted for cancelling. Kurosawa may have loved it, M7 was still a "whitewashed" retelling of a Japanese movie. These people are willing to unperson the Founding Fathers, I doubt they would be so reluctant over a movie considered the best of a "problematic" genre.
They do not know this and would not respect it in the least. I've seen both films and they're both absolute classics in their own right though. As is anything by Kurosawa. I literally forgot the 2016 remake even existed because fuck you, leave that film alone you evil bastards.
The Magnificent Seven is the most triumphal example of the beautiful back and forth between American Westerns and Japanese Samurai films and I will not hear it slandered in my presence. Hell, they recently Remade unforgiven with Ken Watanabe.
The site had already been getting worse in the mid-2000s, and there was a failed woke coup in 2004 or 2005, as well as a major forum emigration in 2005-2006 (which created RPGNet's jealous ex, TheRPGSite). But the real date is probably around 2009 or 2010. This was the time when the modclique went full authoritarian and started to systematically purge posters from the site. There were unjust and politically motivated bans before, but they were single abuses of power, not a policy. What changed was that modding became blatantly biased (not just politically) without pretensions of fairness, and users would exploit this asymmetry by baiting unpopular users into getting permas, while they would get a slap on the wrist at worst for skirting the rules.
Who actually owns the site? Is there one person whose word is pretty much law like Null here?
I think it's the Wyzard guy, considering how he banned someone over making legal threats, a while ago.
In defense... and it makes my skin crawl to say that... if there's a legal issue or threat, then playtime's over. Trying to argue your case on Twitter or Youtube is stupid, and that also includes forums.
RPGNet is owned by Shannon Appelcline and Skotos Tech, an interactive fiction company. Their main business has apparently shut down last year (archive). Appelcline, who has written books on RPG history, does not get involved in day to day site management or moderation, leaving it to his pack of trained monkeys. He was never at the front of things.
You have to admit Eli Wallach was pretty convincing as a Mexican in both Magnificent Seven and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
If Skotos is dead, then rpg.net is basically living entirely off of ad revenue. That's easy to choke off.
Why hope for the death of that which hurts itself for the Farms amusement?
It's like how the SCA prefers to draw only from the 'fun' parts of medievalism. I'm not criticizing this, as it's supposed to be something you do for entertainment. It's not a historical project. Who wants to emulate the poor bastards who got trod on by the nobles on a regular basis?
