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The Brains behind RPG Net Shannon Appelcline Interviewed

Started by Shasarak, November 03, 2019, 09:39:30 PM

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ElBorak

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I find it hilarious that the phrase "The Brains" is used to describe "Shannon Appelcline". Now that is an oxymoron. Of course it is not quite as bad as calling him an RPG historian.

Kyle Aaron

Bullshit.

I'm a moderator on bodybuilding.com. That's a site who had a guy CandyJunkie livestream his suicide and people said, "do it, phaggot." It's a site which had to answer subpoenas from the FBI because Elliot Rodgers posted there as SupremeGentleman.

That is, the site I help moderate has had suicides and murders. And it's not that stressful, mostly just annoying and boring dealing with clunky old software that doesn't work and whingeing members.

Bullshit, Applecline. Bullshit.
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Haffrung

I think what Applecline means is it's very stressful for him to have to deal with people who think differently than he does. So distressing that everybody doesn't simply agree.

The authoritarian mind sees the wider world as a scary and unpleasant place.
 

remial

Quote from: CRKrueger;1113026Now with the Internet, these people can infect multiple communities online, Left or Right, and play their games of domination and control.  Even worse, the entire social media sphere seems tailor-made for these people to thrive.

well, yeah, that's the kind of people who created them in the first place...

SavageSchemer

Quote from: Haffrung;1113345I think what Applecline means is it's very stressful for him to have to deal with people who think differently than he does. So distressing that everybody doesn't simply agree.

So much so that a simple web forum apparently needs almost as many (mentally ill) moderators as there are actual users on the site.
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Melan

Quote from: Haffrung;1113345I think what Applecline means is it's very stressful for him to have to deal with people who think differently than he does. So distressing that everybody doesn't simply agree.

The authoritarian mind sees the wider world as a scary and unpleasant place.
This seems to be the defining pattern of the decade. Narrow sects at one another's throat, each with its screaming ayatollahs - and over the pettiest issues one could imagine.
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Omega

Its allways over something insane. Or it starts off allmost reasonable but once they have the foot in the door the demands escalate because no matter what you do it is never enough. Or they were just pretending it was a simple demand when the goal was something insane all along.

Kyle Aaron

Quote from: SavageSchemer;1113409So much so that a simple web forum apparently needs almost as many (mentally ill) moderators as there are actual users on the site.
Tangency. Misc. Off Topic. The Off Topic section is always what causes the drama on a discussion forum, always. It attracts people with no interest in the topic of the site, and becomes larger than the rest combined, and arguments ensue, and rules must be made, and rules must be policed, and then rules argued over, and so on. Which means new mods.

And some of the new mods will be people who were enthusiastic participants in that off topic section, and who themselves have no interest in the topic of the site, so that if you suggest simply binning the section, they defend it hysterically. And the owners of the site see the viewcounts and get terrified of losing that, even though the people in the off topic section never buy anything.

As the off topic grows to absorb the entire site, people actually interested in the topic wander in, look around, and then leave. And viewcounts to the site decline, so that any suggestion of binning off topic is more hysterically reacted to. "But we're already declining!"

And so it goes on.
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RPGPundit

Yeah it must be very stressful to ban all those people for wrongthink.
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Omega

The stress is more like fallout from all the bannings rather than the act of banning. Lots of fallout.

RandyB

The stress is from continually coming into direct contact with wrongthink. "Why can't they just shut up and die already?" Never mind that the definition of "wrongthink" changes on an hourly basis.

soltakss

Quote from: Omega;1113186No a small group of morons decided to "embrace it" which just allowed these eurofucks to carry on insulting everyone.

Which is more insulting, Ameritrash or eurofucks?
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Omega

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Quote from: soltakss;1114113Which is more insulting, Ameritrash or eurofucks?

Which is being used in gaming and which is not? Thats right. No one called eurogames eurotrash.
Try again please.

soltakss

Quote from: Omega;1114130Try again please.

Okidoky.

Quote from: Omega;1114130Which is being used in gaming and which is not? Thats right. No one called eitogames eurotrash.

I have seen Eurotrash, it was a really funny TV Series, so I assumed that Ameritrash was the American equivalent. I haven't heard either being referred to gaming, although Eurotrash has been around for years.

Presumably, Amerifucks is the equivalent to eurofucks?
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