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« Reply #300 on: November 11, 2012, 09:43:36 AM »
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No I'm not trying to rewrite his posts, what I am saying is;
The guy is no longer here so people are shitting all over him.   Grow some fucking balls and let the matter drop.  That wont happen here cause he hurt  'feelings'.


Mad props, Sommerjon.  Way to stand up.  

And Brendan, you referred to Mr GC as McGuy...  Not the same person.
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« Reply #301 on: November 11, 2012, 09:56:29 AM »
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And Brendan, you referred to Mr GC as McGuy...  Not the same person.


I wasnt trying to suggest that. Just got their names mixed up.

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« Reply #302 on: November 11, 2012, 11:42:56 AM »
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He didn't believe roleplaying saved classes from(his ideas of) gimphood.   He never said he didn't roleplay.  Now was his concepts of roleplay different than from others here, most assuredly.  That doesn't say much.   His fault was having ideas too vastly different from others here.

No I'm not trying to rewrite his posts, what I am saying is;
The guy is no longer here so people are shitting all over him.   Grow some fucking balls and let the matter drop.  That wont happen here cause he hurt  'feelings'.

No, seriously.

Re-read his posts if you will. The guy considered that excelling at roleplaying was only concerned with tweaking the systems to have the most effective PC. Period. Everything else = basketweaving, GM fiat, blahblahblah.

You have ideas too vastly different from others here and yet you are here. I play Sorcerer and other indie games and talk about them here, no problem.

And discussing why the guy was a fucking troll has nothing to do with balls or the lack of them. It is a topic regarding the site, and nothign else. He is not going to be hurt by some people talking shit about him.
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« Reply #303 on: November 11, 2012, 12:32:52 PM »
It never became clear to me what a standard adventuring day would contain. I must be missing out on something important.
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« Reply #304 on: November 11, 2012, 03:59:14 PM »
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« Reply #305 on: November 12, 2012, 11:54:27 AM »
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No, seriously.

Re-read his posts if you will. The guy considered that excelling at roleplaying was only concerned with tweaking the systems to have the most effective PC. Period. Everything else = basketweaving, GM fiat, blahblahblah.

You have ideas too vastly different from others here and yet you are here. I play Sorcerer and other indie games and talk about them here, no problem.

And discussing why the guy was a fucking troll has nothing to do with balls or the lack of them. It is a topic regarding the site, and nothign else. He is not going to be hurt by some people talking shit about him.

I did read his posts.  He never said he didn't roleplay.  This is you and others  putting words into his mouth so you can then shit on it to make yourselves feel better.

Grow the fuck up.
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« Reply #306 on: November 12, 2012, 01:05:55 PM »
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I did read his posts.  He never said he didn't roleplay.  This is you and others  putting words into his mouth so you can then shit on it to make yourselves feel better.

Grow the fuck up.


He never said he didn't roleplay, but he equated roleplaying with optimization, stating anyone who wasn't fully optimized was not roleplaying and wasn't even playing D&D. His position was unusual to say the least. I think taken exception to it is perfectly reasonable given his open hostility to non-optimized styles play.

What I think we ought not to do, is treat MR. GC as a standard representative of the optimization crowd. There isn't anything wrong with enjoying that part of the game, it is simpy a different playstyle. And you can roleplay, while being optimized(though i do think you tend to play a narrower range of characters simply because you only deign effective ones, but they can still be fully fleshed out, interesting personalities, acted out at the table).

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« Reply #307 on: November 12, 2012, 01:44:04 PM »
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I did read his posts.  He never said he didn't roleplay.  This is you and others  putting words into his mouth so you can then shit on it to make yourselves feel better.Grow the fuck up.


Yeah, that's entirely unecessary. GC said so much ignorant retarded crap that I can't believe anyone would bother to "make stuff up" as an excuse they really obviously don't need. I don't think you did read his posts, or at least didn't comprehend them. And this high horse that you think you're on? You're just defending a very obvious and stupid troll for no other reason than to jack yourself off on your own self-righteousness.
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« Reply #308 on: November 12, 2012, 03:14:51 PM »
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I did read his posts.  He never said he didn't roleplay.  This is you and others  putting words into his mouth so you can then shit on it to make yourselves feel better.

Grow the fuck up.


Yeah yeah, your high horse needs to be fed and cleaned because it is shitting all over you.

If you read his posts and missed the part where he spoke about how difficult to find "good players" are, and how good playing is all about effectiveness, i don't think I can do much for you. After all, I'm not your fucking therapist. Get one of your own.
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« Reply #309 on: November 12, 2012, 09:32:58 PM »
White Knighting GC? Jesus Wept, what a waste.
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« Reply #310 on: November 12, 2012, 09:39:46 PM »
This last sequence of posts demonstrates the exact same kind of gang-ban circlejerk that you see when RPGNet regulars circle the wagons around moderator actions: That guy's ideology doesn't match our ideology; burn him at the stake.

The ideological purity test is different, but the result is the same.

Sad to see it happening here.
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« Reply #311 on: November 12, 2012, 11:20:32 PM »
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This last sequence of posts demonstrates the exact same kind of gang-ban circlejerk that you see when RPGNet regulars circle the wagons around moderator actions: That guy's ideology doesn't match our ideology; burn him at the stake.

The ideological purity test is different, but the result is the same.

Sad to see it happening here.



Chill dude.  GC's POV was pretty much "You all suck and are losers because you can't min/max a PC like me." which was almost always preceded and followed by something blatantly objectively wrong he would claim.

He made his own bed; there's no circle jerk of ideology here.  Maybe if he wasn't such an asshole to everyone and decided to take one ounce of responsibility for all the blatantly wrong stuff he was saying, he would have been received better.

Calling an idiot troll an idiot troll doesn't make one the oppressor.  It's merely pointing out the obvious.
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« Reply #312 on: November 13, 2012, 08:06:35 AM »
Yeah, this isn't very edifying.

I presume everyone involved in 'actual play' from this thread has started up elsewhere or are now in Justin's game.

I don't think there's anything to be gained from leaving this thread open now.