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« Reply #30 on: September 13, 2006, 09:19:55 PM »
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If the Pundit says "Uh, could we not talk about GNS?" I think most of the posters on the board are strong-minded enough to say, "Hm, interesting." or "Screw you, Pundit, pry my Forge theory from my cold, dead fingers."


I don't see it as a question of being strong-minded, it's one of basic politeness. His board and all you know.
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« Reply #31 on: September 13, 2006, 11:30:08 PM »
Pundit, here is a suggestion, make a subforum call it "Forge Talk" or some such. i doubt it will slow posting on the rest of the board, and people wont feel they're being pushed around, or whatever it is that people feel when they percieve a topic ban.
Change your request from "don't talk about it," to "talk about it all you like but keep it in here" - kind of like an adult forum, but sans the porn and charm. That way, if a given thread starts to go "wrong" you can split it, remname it and move it over. Nothing lost, nobody pissed off and silenced. Furthermore, anyone who doesn't give a rats ass about theory (me for instance) can avoid the same.
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« Reply #32 on: September 14, 2006, 12:12:04 AM »
No, I think that would be a terrible idea, it would just focus discussion on Forge-type theory. Better that everyone should just get it out of their system. It'll be a great day when somebody comes here to bash the Forge and everyone just yawns.

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« Reply #33 on: September 14, 2006, 02:10:55 AM »
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How so? Could you please explain your objections and why you think switching around the naming order of two forums is the first step to the board going bad?

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I wasn't talking about changing forum names, and I think you know that.  I'm talking about the other bit - where you want to discourage conversations about GNS.

I see this request as your way of trying to change the board's tone from what it is - a pretty good selection of people and viewpoints - to something closer to your ideology.

That's a pretty big step towards driving a lively board into the shithole, if you ask me.

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« Reply #34 on: September 14, 2006, 03:38:07 AM »
You bitches don't seem to see that the Pumpkin has retreated from his original stance. He's softened his language. Compare the Landmarks thread.

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« Reply #35 on: September 14, 2006, 04:05:11 AM »
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This reminds me a little bit of HinterWelt's thread focusing on players upset that the rules don't let them make the type of character they want.

If the Pundit says "Uh, could we not talk about GNS?" I think most of the posters on the board are strong-minded enough to say, "Hm, interesting." or "Screw you, Pundit, pry my Forge theory from my cold, dead fingers."

Authority figures are only authority figures if you let them be.

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Or.. you know.. maybe "Hey, the Pundit's got a point, making our own systems and theories sounds like something more worthwhile than bitching about the Forge". Just maybe.
Anyways, it looks like this announcement had the desired effect, judging by the new threads since its statement.

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« Reply #36 on: September 14, 2006, 04:08:43 AM »
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I see this request as your way of trying to change the board's tone from what it is - a pretty good selection of people and viewpoints - to something closer to your ideology.

That's a pretty big step towards driving a lively board into the shithole, if you ask me.
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It doesn't have to be anything to do with "my ideology".  Shit, you can make up theories that I utterly despise, if you like. You can make suggestions (like the one about combat-free games, or players determining parts of the game world) that I hate.

Just make something new.  I'm afraid I don't quite see how a request and a re-iteration of this board's actual purpose is in any way the first step of a slip into fascism.

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« Reply #37 on: September 14, 2006, 05:48:01 AM »
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"Pain"? My lower intestine developed bleeding polyps at the mere thought of it.


Then my work in this thread is done :)

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« Reply #38 on: September 14, 2006, 06:00:11 AM »
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One of the main political issues surrounding RPG forums is the issue of freedom of speech.

Oy vey. Yet again an American starts babbling about his freedoms which nobody at all is actually suppressing.

Here, let's test it. Hey, RPGPundit! You're a cocksmock! Ron Edwards roxxorz! The praxis of contemporaneous roleplaying dialectic is one characterised by excessive circumlocution and pretentious verbiage designed to obscure the banality, or indeed one might be not-unjustified in saying, concealing the hollow vacuum of the ideological paradigm of the dominant heirarchy.

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When you, a person in authority, starts making statements about how we shouldn't talk about something, it sends out unpleasant shockwaves.

Authority my hairy arse. If you don't like what he says, tell him to fuck off. Or you could screw up your little eyes with your tiny little fists, and run off crying like a little girl, like gleichman likes to do. "Waa waah I'm being oppressed!" :melodramatic:

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I'm leaving anyway. Internet isn't my thing anymore. All this does is perhaps speed it up a bit.

So you keep promising. You've quit forums and come back almost as many times as Gareth-Michael Skarka has "quit the industry."

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Just make something new.

You fucking tyrant! You know what I say to you, huh?!

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« Reply #39 on: September 14, 2006, 06:13:45 AM »
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Oy vey. Yet again an American starts babbling about his freedoms which nobody at all is actually suppressing.


  I'm not an American you shit-eating Abo-basher!  Keep that up and there'll be NO BARWORK for you young man.

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« Reply #40 on: September 14, 2006, 06:16:24 AM »
JimBob, without in any way wishing to discourage you from your rants, Mr Analytical is no more American than I am.

Otherwise, I think you've had better rants.:unitedkingdom: :serenade:

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« Reply #41 on: September 14, 2006, 06:30:57 AM »
Fellas, fellas, fellas.  I'm an American (albeit one living in Spain at the moment).  Please, direct your bashing here.  There's no need for Commonwealth-on-Commonwealth hate when you've a perfectly good ugly American to abuse.
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« Reply #42 on: September 14, 2006, 06:57:13 AM »
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So you keep promising. You've quit forums and come back almost as many times as Gareth-Michael Skarka has "quit the industry."


And yet, I never stay more than two or three weeks- and never return to the same place (this isn't nutkinland anymore).

PS: For any interested, while I'm basicaly done here (ahead of my schedule again, you got to love Admins don't you) I'll hang out in 'my' thread (http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1738) for a while more, some stuff to finish up there.
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« Reply #43 on: September 14, 2006, 07:29:08 AM »
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Anyways, it looks like this announcement had the desired effect, judging by the new threads since its statement.


lol

It had already just about ran it's course anyway. If you'd kept your big fat mouth shut I seriously doubt there would have been much of a difference.
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« Reply #44 on: September 14, 2006, 10:53:30 AM »
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Or.. you know.. maybe "Hey, the Pundit's got a point, making our own systems and theories sounds like something more worthwhile than bitching about the Forge". Just maybe.
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