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Gen Con Announces Badges Can Include Pronouns

Started by Skullking, January 19, 2022, 05:38:53 PM

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Ruprecht

#45
January 27, 2022, 12:13:45 PM Last Edit: January 27, 2022, 12:17:05 PM by Ruprecht
If only two or three people specified their pronouns would Gen Con admit it?
Or would they just announce the new pronoun initiative was a great success.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ~Robert E. Howard

squirewaldo

#46
January 27, 2022, 02:14:39 PM
Quote from: Trinculoisdead on January 26, 2022, 09:48:29 AM
My "cheaper local convention" just sent me an email advertising a new grant program for marginalized game designers.

https://www.bigbadcon.com/blog/our-new-story-synth-microgrant-program/

Basically, submit an application and create a game in 6 months and you'll be awarded $300 dollars and micro-transactions whenever anyone accesses your game online.

But, of course, I can't apply unless I pretend to be a faggot or something. The application is only open to: "Marginalized Gender, Disabled, BIMPOC (???), LGBTQUIA+, and Identity [Other].

Oh, and get this, you can check multiple boxes, and website says the program is focused on helping game designers at the intersection of these identities. So if I were a morbidly obese black lesbian they would drool all over my application.

As a straight white, able-bodied male who works construction... odds are not so good.

I don't think I shall be attending this year BigBadCon, you furry-loving pricks.

I think I shall make a submission: I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body, and I identify as black because I love soul food... and who doesn't???? Now for my submission that I need to polish up a bit: SJW RPG:  Who to Cancel Next?!

HappyDaze

#47
January 27, 2022, 04:13:03 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on January 27, 2022, 12:13:45 PM
If only two or three people specified their pronouns would Gen Con admit it?
Or would they just announce the new pronoun initiative was a great success.
If those two or three people were happy, then sure. No guarantees they'd be happy though.

rytrasmi

#48
January 27, 2022, 04:37:26 PM
Quote from: Shrieking Banshee on January 21, 2022, 01:46:49 PM
Pronouns are nonsense fetish material. But its no-suprise from gen-con at this point.
Exactly. It's a fetish of rare identities. It's cool to be trans/non-binary these days, but not everyone is that cool, but we can be cool adjacent by specifying our pronouns!

I've seen this in the wild on several occasions. Here is how it plays out:

<1% have pronouns that surprise you (cool kids)
95% have the regular pronouns you would expect (idiots)
5% based assholes like me with the blank ("fuck this shit")


The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout
Be merry my friends
Be merry

DocJones

#49
January 27, 2022, 11:15:44 PM
Gen Con is also requiring you to show your papers to gain entry.

Jam The MF

#50
January 27, 2022, 11:21:55 PM
Quote from: DocJones on January 27, 2022, 11:15:44 PM
Gen Con is also requiring you to show your papers to gain entry.

Papers!!!  Papers!!!

They should rename it, Nazi Con.
Let the Dice, Decide the Outcome.  Accept the Results.

Mind Crime

#51
January 28, 2022, 12:44:19 AM
Quote from: DocJones on January 27, 2022, 11:15:44 PM
Gen Con is also requiring you to show your papers to gain entry.

i use JOBS 1.25s. But I'm cheap.

CookieMonster

#52
January 28, 2022, 02:26:41 AM
Quote from: DocJones on January 27, 2022, 11:15:44 PM
Gen Con is also requiring you to show your papers to gain entry.
Glory to Arstotzka, Comrade.

oggsmash

#53
January 28, 2022, 12:44:55 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze on January 27, 2022, 04:13:03 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on January 27, 2022, 12:13:45 PM
If only two or three people specified their pronouns would Gen Con admit it?
Or would they just announce the new pronoun initiative was a great success.
If those two or three people were happy, then sure. No guarantees they'd be happy though.

  I have some serious doubts that anyone serious about their pronouns is ever happy.

HappyDaze

#54
January 28, 2022, 05:08:14 PM
Quote from: oggsmash on January 28, 2022, 12:44:55 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze on January 27, 2022, 04:13:03 PM
Quote from: Ruprecht on January 27, 2022, 12:13:45 PM
If only two or three people specified their pronouns would Gen Con admit it?
Or would they just announce the new pronoun initiative was a great success.
If those two or three people were happy, then sure. No guarantees they'd be happy though.

  I have some serious doubts that anyone serious about their pronouns is ever happy.
That was my point, though I'd like to be optimistic and think that there might be exceptions.

Omega

#55
January 28, 2022, 05:10:37 PM
Oh they are happy.

When they can use it as a weapon against someone else.

DefNotAnInsiderNopeNoWay

#56
January 28, 2022, 05:58:09 PM
Quote from: rytrasmi on January 27, 2022, 04:37:26 PM
5% based assholes like me with the blank ("fuck this shit")

Hey guys, this fucking retard thinks they can call themself based proving that they don't even understand what the word means.

HO-LEE shit you're all dumb as a fucking brick.

DocJones

#57
January 29, 2022, 07:37:29 PM
Quote from: DefNotAnInsiderNopeNoWay on January 28, 2022, 05:58:09 PM
Quote from: rytrasmi on January 27, 2022, 04:37:26 PM
5% based assholes like me with the blank ("fuck this shit")

Hey guys, this fucking retard thinks they can call themself based proving that they don't even understand what the word means.

HO-LEE shit you're all dumb as a fucking brick.

1.   having a base, or having as a base ; supported
2.  wearing, or protected by, bases
3.  founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms
4.  addicted to crack cocaine
5.  being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger
6.  a general term of praise, as if "un-woke"

I found a number of definitions of "based" in dictionaries and other places on the internet.
I don't know, because it's new to me.
What do you think the poster was trying to say?


rytrasmi

#58
January 29, 2022, 10:16:01 PM
Quote from: DefNotAnInsiderNopeNoWay on January 28, 2022, 05:58:09 PM
Quote from: rytrasmi on January 27, 2022, 04:37:26 PM
5% based assholes like me with the blank ("fuck this shit")

Hey guys, this fucking retard thinks they can call themself based proving that they don't even understand what the word means.

HO-LEE shit you're all dumb as a fucking brick.

Oh boy you sure showed me!
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out
The ones that crawl in are lean and thin
The ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come tumbling down your snout
Be merry my friends
Be merry

squirewaldo

#59
January 30, 2022, 10:04:22 AM
Quote from: DefNotAnInsiderNopeNoWay on January 28, 2022, 05:58:09 PM
Quote from: rytrasmi on January 27, 2022, 04:37:26 PM
5% based assholes like me with the blank ("fuck this shit")

Hey guys, this fucking retard thinks they can call themself based proving that they don't even understand what the word means.

HO-LEE shit you're all dumb as a fucking brick.

Why would you attack someone in such a way because they disagree with you... I presume. That said, other than you having a negative view of someone, what exactly are you talking about? I don't understand what you are saying?
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