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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #75 on: September 17, 2021, 10:45:26 AM »
I was making more than that freelancing  for Paizo and others "for fun" during the early 00's while working my day-job at Microsoft.

I know this is slightly off topic but out of intrest what freelance stuff did you do for them?

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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #76 on: September 17, 2021, 10:48:26 AM »
The thing that is actually annoying me about it is all this talk about customer service managment etc and no one there seems to give a shit for the warehouse staff dunno if that seems weird but it's just something that stood out to me.

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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #77 on: September 17, 2021, 11:10:26 AM »
(*) Whose videos I always liked, BTW.

I find watching Lindsay Ellis a bit like watching a horror film. She says a bunch of smart insightful stuff, I'm nodding along contentedly, then she says something Absolutely Horrific (but SJW-compliant). She had a long video on the history of using the Nazis in humour, lots of goods points ...and wrapped it up with:

"And that's why Mel Brooks is allowed to make jokes about the Nazis, but you aren't."  :-X

I didn't watch everything she did but I found her videos about Disney cartoons from the '90s very interesting - esp. the ones about The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which actually made me read "Notre Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo) and Pocahontas.

Yeah, every then and now she skids. But, as a wise Jew said of Lovecraft:

"It’s the literary equivalent of a cringeworthy reference to “darkies” by an older relative who you otherwise love spending time with."
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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #78 on: September 17, 2021, 11:13:04 AM »

This reminds me of something I read back when Lindsay Ellis (*) was cancelled: if your main supporters are woke/SJWs, they will be the first ones who bury you.

(*) Whose videos I always liked, BTW.

Yeah, I like her in general, but her level of self-awareness in the situation she's in is very low, at least publicly in what she presents.

Maybe that's the right road. Don't engage and move on. Anything you say in these situations - from "I'm Hitler" to "I'm Jesus Returned" will be used against you.
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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #79 on: September 17, 2021, 11:19:54 AM »
That thread is the perfect picture of SJWs doing their Cannibalism among their own. Seriously, like every post in there is the script they operate by.

One thing that always baffles me - but maybe it is the very symbol of "cancel thought" - is the derision of the "I have gay friends" argument.

Personally, I'm etero, pro gay-rights, and, yes, I have gay friends. What does this crowd want from me? "I don't burn gays. I first impale them." (?)

And then, of course, there is "the burden of proof is on the accused". 5,000 years of civilization thrown away just like that.
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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #80 on: September 17, 2021, 11:29:14 AM »
I was making more than that freelancing  for Paizo and others "for fun" during the early 00's while working my day-job at Microsoft.

I know this is slightly off topic but out of intrest what freelance stuff did you do for them?

I freelanced for Paizo specifically as a "Feature Writer" for Dragon. It was a handful of freelancers that they relied on to do articles on topics the editors were interested in. We were paid more than other writers because we could produce good quality on sometimes very short deadlines. We were also given much more leeway on the projects we wanted to work on, as most of us were fairly experienced and opinionated in the things we wanted to work on. I know the Paizo offices used my features to run their in-house campaign which was pretty cool. They'd talk about it in the Editors section of Dragon.

Mike Mearls was in that group - and as our names were showing up with more frequency the networking inevitably led to projects with other companies that were everywhere at the time. I had to be pretty picky as my day-job was (and remains) pretty intense. But I did some stuff for Goodman Games as did my wife. I dropped out of the scene to focus on my career and family, and then I started to dip my foot back in as a writer for the last Talislanta game, and now I'm working on my own thing I plan to release under Savage Worlds and my own system later (at least that's the goal).







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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #81 on: September 17, 2021, 11:33:35 AM »
That thread is the perfect picture of SJWs doing their Cannibalism among their own. Seriously, like every post in there is the script they operate by.

One thing that always baffles me - but maybe it is the very symbol of "cancel thought" - is the derision of the "I have gay friends" argument.

Personally, I'm etero, pro gay-rights, and, yes, I have gay friends. What does this crowd want from me? "I don't burn gays. I first impale them." (?)

And then, of course, there is "the burden of proof is on the accused". 5,000 years of civilization thrown away just like that.

Well that's just it, isn't it? The reason why you never apologize is because right from the start the unspoken rule that normal people aren't aware of is that the outraged SJW isn't really looking for an apology, nor do they care about the topic du jour, they care about exercising their passive-aggression on you in order to control you and silence and shame you *at all costs*.

There is zero intention of good faith. Anything you say, or do will *always* be twisted into the worst light. Which is where all the projection comes from - because *they* are the ones that are actual assholes and by their own standards the very things they say they hate. Which of course is pretty twisted.

Now it's just a deathcult.

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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #82 on: September 17, 2021, 11:36:02 AM »
I freelanced for Paizo specifically as a "Feature Writer" for Dragon.

Over $30K freelancing is pretty impressive. About 16-18 years ago I somehow saw some WoTC salary numbers, I was pretty gobsmacked that Chris Perkins was apparently making under $30K! Hopefully a fair bit more now.  ??? But current Paizo staffers making under $30K is a bit less surprising in that light, even if their janitor-who-won't-clean likely makes more...

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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #83 on: September 17, 2021, 11:51:36 AM »
I freelanced for Paizo specifically as a "Feature Writer" for Dragon.

Over $30K freelancing is pretty impressive. About 16-18 years ago I somehow saw some WoTC salary numbers, I was pretty gobsmacked that Chris Perkins was apparently making under $30K! Hopefully a fair bit more now.  ??? But current Paizo staffers making under $30K is a bit less surprising in that light, even if their janitor-who-won't-clean likely makes more...

Well to be fair - I wasn't just freelancing with Paizo, but most of it was. What I meant to illustrate was that as paid full-time employees even back then you could make that much, or more, freelancing.

And to put a finer note note on that - I did that while I was working 60+ hour weeks at Microsoft with a newborn child *on the side*. Yeah it was hectic, but I'm saying that anyone complaining about "living wage" while putting out low-effort is getting exactly what they're willing to put out for.

Watching Jessica Price caper through this cottage industry and setting it on fire puts me of two minds - On one hand it's a testament to the grotesque levels of entitlement Jessica and SJW's like her with their infantile views of reality are willing to leverage in order to ruin everything they say they care for. But it also is a good thing because these companies allowed their ranks to be filled by these ideologue morons and they deserve to reap what they sow because they were too scared to stand up for themselves.

And maybe they believe in this garbage too? Clearly they say as much. They weren't like that when I was working with many of them - but that's because it wasn't as politicized. Well now it has, and Paizo and WotC have chosen their side - and I'm fine with the results. I'll enjoy the carnage from my hilltop as Nero plays something fun.

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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #84 on: September 17, 2021, 11:51:48 AM »
That thread is the perfect picture of SJWs doing their Cannibalism among their own. Seriously, like every post in there is the script they operate by.

One thing that always baffles me - but maybe it is the very symbol of "cancel thought" - is the derision of the "I have gay friends" argument.

Personally, I'm etero, pro gay-rights, and, yes, I have gay friends. What does this crowd want from me? "I don't burn gays. I first impale them." (?)

And then, of course, there is "the burden of proof is on the accused". 5,000 years of civilization thrown away just like that.

  I am hetero, NOT pro gay rights (I think everyone should just have the same rights, no gay or straight ones) and have no gay friends.  Imagine what a field day those people would have with me.  Honestly, I think they would go harder on the guy who says he has gay friends.   The fact is, once they want you, there is nothing to be said or done, beyond literally falling on a sword that will satisfy them, and even then they are likely to hope you are burning in hell.

  I should also qualify the word friend fully, that is a person that if I call them to help me bury a body they are coming over.   

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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #85 on: September 17, 2021, 11:56:41 AM »
hahaha that thread is now talking about boycotting Paizo...

Yesssssss....

Edit: I should add, I'm interested in the thread's temprature. I don't care if they actually boycott Paizo or not. That's on them. But reading the mental gyrations of self-justification while virtue-signaling is the rhetorical equivalent of watching a room full of people peeing into each other's mouths while singing Village People songs.

It's hard to not watch. Fuck I have work to do... but...
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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #86 on: September 17, 2021, 12:14:30 PM »
…equivalent of watching a room full of people peeing into each other's mouths while singing Village People songs.

Dear lord. During your quiet times, admit it…you scare yourself a little. It’s okay. Be vulnerable with us.

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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #87 on: September 17, 2021, 12:15:49 PM »
hahaha that thread is now talking about boycotting Paizo...

Yesssssss....

Edit: I should add, I'm interested in the thread's temprature. I don't care if they actually boycott Paizo or not. That's on them. But reading the mental gyrations of self-justification while virtue-signaling is the rhetorical equivalent of watching a room full of people peeing into each other's mouths while singing Village People songs.

It's hard to not watch. Fuck I have work to do... but...

Yeah like I said thats one of the things that gets me they talk about boycotting and giving cash directly to the customer service and creators but apparently the warehouse staff (You know the ones who  make sure you get your physical product and unlike the customer service and designers did not have an option to work from home during a pandemic) Are basically ignored

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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #88 on: September 17, 2021, 12:22:08 PM »
hahaha that thread is now talking about boycotting Paizo...

Yesssssss....

Edit: I should add, I'm interested in the thread's temprature. I don't care if they actually boycott Paizo or not. That's on them. But reading the mental gyrations of self-justification while virtue-signaling is the rhetorical equivalent of watching a room full of people peeing into each other's mouths while singing Village People songs.

It's hard to not watch. Fuck I have work to do... but...

Yeah like I said thats one of the things that gets me they talk about boycotting and giving cash directly to the customer service and creators but apparently the warehouse staff (You know the ones who  make sure you get your physical product and unlike the customer service and designers did not have an option to work from home during a pandemic) Are basically ignored

Because fuck the little guy, that's why, those little guys are probably not very "Progressive", maybe they are even against racial/sexual discrimination!
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Re: Jessica Price goes ballistic on Paizo
« Reply #89 on: September 17, 2021, 12:28:09 PM »
…equivalent of watching a room full of people peeing into each other's mouths while singing Village People songs.

Dear lord. During your quiet times, admit it…you scare yourself a little. It’s okay. Be vulnerable with us.

You have no idea...