Quote from: Morblot;1131606Don't ask me where "cis" comes from, I don't know.

In Latin, the prefix 'cis' means 'on the same side' and 'trans' means 'on the other side'.

Example: [from Wikipedia]  Gallia Narbonensis (Latin for 'Gaul of Narbonne', from its chief settlement) was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in southern France. It was also known as Provincia Nostra ('Our Province'), from its having been the first Roman province north of the Alps, and as Gallia Transalpina ('Transalpine Gaul'), distinguishing it from Cisalpine Gaul in northern Italy.

Quote from: Morblot;1131606In case you guys really don't know, cis is the opposite of trans; I was born with a penis and I identify as a man, so I'm cis. Don't ask me where "cis" comes from, I don't know.

Het is short for heterosexual.

Quote from: Anselyn;1131607In Latin, the prefix 'cis' means 'on the same side' and 'trans' means 'on the other side'.

Example: [from Wikipedia]  Gallia Narbonensis (Latin for 'Gaul of Narbonne', from its chief settlement) was a Roman province located in what is now Languedoc and Provence, in southern France. It was also known as Provincia Nostra ('Our Province'), from its having been the first Roman province north of the Alps, and as Gallia Transalpina ('Transalpine Gaul'), distinguishing it from Cisalpine Gaul in northern Italy.

So 'cishet' comes from Western civilization and its history. How racist!

That it's Latin tells you all you need to know: it comes from academia.

Good thing is we are starting to see pushback in many forms. Want to write comics only for SJws and nothing but we vote with out wallets.

Market and promote a movie and insult straight white people mostly men by saying it's not for them then also say they better go watch it or insert a wort that ends with "ist" or "phobic". Guess what we are not going to watch it.

I maintain their is pushback just not to the level of "reee" style SJW way of doing things.

Quote from: Morblot;1131606In case you guys really don't know, cis is the opposite of trans; I was born with a penis and I identify as a man, so I'm cis. Don't ask me where "cis" comes from, I don't know.

Het is short for heterosexual.

Cis means what one is born as.  It seems strange that we even need a special term to refer to that.  Anyway, I don't mean to offend or distract from the original thread topic.

I'm curious to see how WOTC treats the rest of Mearls' career with them.  Others in the industry will certainly take note.

https://www.change.org/p/hasbro-fire-mike-mearls

QuoteFire Mike Mearls

James Hargrove started this petition to Hasbro

Mike Mearls, former lead D&D developer, when contacted in confidence by self-identified harassment/abuse victims of Zak S. (aka Zak Sabbath, Zak Smith) who were concerned about your company's business relationship with this individual, dismissed their concerns, publicly attacked the veracity of their claims, and seemingly forwarded their personal contact information to the alleged harasser/abuser, directly facilitating more abuse.

In the not-too-distant past (end of April), it was formally announced by Jeremy Crawford via Twitter that Mike Mearls was no longer working on D&D and had not been "since sometime last year".

Yesterday, we learned that this was not true and that Mike Mearls is absolutely still working on D&D, but had been temporarily reassigned to work on video games.

This is unacceptable.

From both a human rights perspective (the seeming enabling of abuse and full on display of attacking victims publicly) and a security/trust perspective (seemingly forwarding, to an alleged abuser, emails and contact information provided to the company in confidence), this should end with the firing of Mike Mearls. Full stop.

Expecting his co-workers and subordinates to shoulder the responsibility of endorsing Mike Mearls, either explicitly or by omission, is not only unfair but actively hostile. Imagine having to choose between supporting your co-worker/boss and feeding your family, or standing up for decency. This should end with the firing of Mike Mearls. Full stop.

Fire Mike Mearls.

 

[Edit: Language of this petition has been slightly modified on advice of legal counsel.]

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I don't know how many people play D&D (I saw a figure of 9 million quoted somewhere.) So 400 signatures on a petition represents less than 1/100th of 1 percent of their audience. And of those 400, I suspect more than half are sock puppets.

Who the hell is James "Karen" Hargrove?

Quote from: mightybrain;1131688I don't know how many people play D&D (I saw a figure of 9 million quoted somewhere.) So 400 signatures on a petition represents less than 1/100th of 1 percent of their audience. And of those 400, I suspect more than half are sock puppets.

Those 400 signatures are worth even less when you consider that the entire premise of the petition is based on bullshit accusations of collaborating with someone else who (AFAIK) was also a victim of bullshit accusations. But unfortunately the internet has empowered mongoloids to believe that they're entitled to make bullshit demands based entirely on fantasies they want to believe are true despite lacking any corroborating evidence to back them up.

Quote from: Morblot;1131564I'm not an expert on Golarion, but I think they also have a Fantasy Egypt somewhere there. And of course the obligatory Fantasy Asia as well.

FR has Chult and possibly other lands. Where was Living Jungle set?

In Greayhawk, depended on the iteration as could one or more of the migration waves were of the african type or egyptian, or mediterranian, etc.

Mystarra had some as well, one of the two types of Thaytians was dark skinned, the other very pale skinned in RC I believe.

BX never says so like with the rest of it you can do whatever you want with the bare frame they provide.

BECMI I havent read through enough yet. But odds are they are the diametric opposite and hammer down every little detail and fill in every little space.

No clue what the hell Eberron  has to offer.

Quote from: DocJones;1131689Who the hell is James "Karen" Hargrove?

As far as I can tell, absolutely nobody.  He's super stunning and brave though, because he made a petition and then went and tried to delete basically everything he had on twitter.

https://twitter.com/akajdrakeh/status/1263783785687965702

QuoteI'm currently attempting to delete ALL of my tweets, except this thread. I'm not willing to court the "play dirty" anti-WotC brigaders or indulge the staunch Mearls/Zak defenders. And I'm not opening myself up to abuse by either group for those decisions.

Quote from: Omega;1131708FR has Chult and possibly other lands. Where was Living Jungle set?

In Greayhawk, depended on the iteration as could one or more of the migration waves were of the african type or egyptian, or mediterranian, etc.

Mystarra had some as well, one of the two types of Thaytians was dark skinned, the other very pale skinned in RC I believe.

BX never says so like with the rest of it you can do whatever you want with the bare frame they provide.

BECMI I havent read through enough yet. But odds are they are the diametric opposite and hammer down every little detail and fill in every little space.

No clue what the hell Eberron  has to offer.

Yeah, "Chult" is what I meant when I said "that wasn't just one island added in a campaign supplement almost like an afterthought" in the post that prompted that response.

Chult wasn't originally a standard part of the FR setting (IIRC), but rather a campaign supplement that was added later and you had to buy separately. It always seemed pitiful to me considering it was only an island cut off from the rest of the world, when Africa in real life is one of the largest continents in the planet, as well as part of a geographic location that included chunks of the classical world. But in FR if you want black people you have to go to some out of the way island to find them.

And everywhere else in FR when they mentioned "dark skinned" people usually what they meant was "Arab-looking". So there was no explicit mention of actual black people that were African-looking for sure (not merely "dark skinned") anywhere in D&D that I know of, outside of Chult.

Quote from: DocJones;1131689Who the hell is James "Karen" Hargrove?

Some whiny fuck...I recognize his name from an RPG Facebook group. Just another one of those "concerned citizens", i.e. brainwashed moron.

Quote from: Morblot;1131661James Hargrove started this petition to Hasbro

Of course he did!

(He used to be a poster here, you know. Same personality. Username 'jdrakeh')