This week there's been a series of scandals that has seen ttrpg SJWs vigorously cancelling their own. So why is Jessica Price untouchable in spite of having sold out to Wizards of the Coast?

When Jessica Price got fired, The Verge wrote: "ArenaNet's swift action to fire both Price and Fries sends a disturbing message to its fans, and especially its most toxic ones: that their power is directly correlated to how loud they yell." It's nice to see liberals recognize how horrible it is to bully someone out of a job, although it doesn't stop them when they feel like canceling someone. She got bullied out of a job but wants to fire Mearls, who is probably her boss now. OK.

lol'd at describing Swordsfall as a Minstrel Show.

There are one or two SJWs who have produced good games but agree most are full on garbage.

Great episode, thanks for this. Really needed a good laugh.

Is there any kind of link to the Swordsfall guy drama?  Looking around produces his multiple twitter apologies, but I'm having a hard time locating the initial claims of bad behavior.

Quote from: Valatar on March 04, 2021, 03:07:59 AM
Is there any kind of link to the Swordsfall guy drama?  Looking around produces his multiple twitter apologies, but I'm having a hard time locating the initial claims of bad behavior.

https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srjtdf

Considering how Jessica Price's original sacking blew up within the cesspit pit that is gaming """journalism""" the Usual Suspects probably don't want to risk inevitable comparisons being drawn to back to that (poor innocent womxn ruthlessly sacked because a m*n disagreed with her).

Although it's always funny seeing these people shriek about privilege and as soon as they get themselves fired there's a sea of Blue Ticks publicly offering them jobs in Twitter replies.

I think Iowahawk identified what's going on, and why the SJWs are giving Price a pass. She is a means to accomplish the following:
https://mobile.twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/664089892599631872?lang=en
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties

I was thinking that 6E wouldn't be coming soon, but if they hired Price then I have to change my mind and believe that 6E is going to happen soon.

Price is as much a scorpion as Dellorfano. I shall give no fucks when WOTC gets stung like the dumbass frog that it is.

Quote from: TobiasP on March 04, 2021, 05:57:24 AM

Quote from: Valatar on March 04, 2021, 03:07:59 AM
Is there any kind of link to the Swordsfall guy drama?  Looking around produces his multiple twitter apologies, but I'm having a hard time locating the initial claims of bad behavior.

https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srjtdf

Thanks kindly, that adds a lot of context!

Quote from: wmarshal on March 04, 2021, 08:28:01 PM
I think Iowahawk identified what's going on, and why the SJWs are giving Price a pass. She is a means to accomplish the following:
https://mobile.twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/664089892599631872?lang=en
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties

I was thinking that 6E wouldn't be coming soon, but if they hired Price then I have to change my mind and believe that 6E is going to happen soon.

Price is as much a scorpion as Dellorfano. I shall give no fucks when WOTC gets stung like the dumbass frog that it is.

I can sort of see that.

In the far lefty opinion, she isn't working for WoTC, she infiltrated it. To go back to Pundit's example, unlike if he started working for Iran, from a certain perspective it's more like someone from the CIA started working for Iran. They're just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Quote from: wmarshal on March 04, 2021, 08:28:01 PM
Price is as much a scorpion as Dellorfano.

Dellorfano is mad, and probably as much a danger to herself as others. I feel sorry for her - but am still scared of her, being a sad creature does not mean she's not very dangerous. And in a healthy society she probably would not have gone off the deep end.

Price though is just plain evil. She's the type who gets pleasure from hurting others.

I don't know about evil per se, but Price does strike me as a narcissist.

She got fired from ArenaNet for basically getting into a slapfight with a community member (Deroir) who had a LOT of pull. In my opinion, the whole thing was stupid; but the fact was that Deroir disagreed with her, she threw a fit at him, and then -- I'm sure much to her surprise -- got canned.

Prior to this, she had been fouling the nest at Paizo until even they got sick of her.

Clearly, this is a woman with a hilariously overblown sense of self-worth and ego. And when it comes back to haunt her, blames it on 'le patriarchy'.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 05, 2021, 08:35:31 AM
I don't know about evil per se, but Price does strike me as a narcissist.

Look at what she did to Frank Mentzer. There was a narcissistic element, sure, but it was mostly about hurting him as much as possible.

(disclaimer: Mentzer was a bit of a silly old goat with her, and a massive jerk the way he treated EOTB over on Dragonsfoot. He didn't deserve to have what was left of his career ruined over it.)

Quote from: S'mon on March 05, 2021, 11:01:18 AM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 05, 2021, 08:35:31 AM
I don't know about evil per se, but Price does strike me as a narcissist.

Look at what she did to Frank Mentzer. There was a narcissistic element, sure, but it was mostly about hurting him as much as possible.

(disclaimer: Mentzer was a bit of a silly old goat with her, and a massive jerk the way he treated EOTB over on Dragonsfoot. He didn't deserve to have what was left of his career ruined over it.)

I believe for Price even in her own mind it wasn't a matter of Mentzer deserving getting publicly dragged. I believe a lot of the people involved with newer games resent the bandwidth captured by the OSR. Mentzer handed her the opportunity to speed up the expiration of a significant member of the OSR, and to score virtue points. Honestly, I can't feel too sorry for Mentzer for attempting to creepily flirt with a scorpion. If he had a lick of sense he would have avoided that. I wish Mentzer hadn't done what he did with Price, but it was a dumb move, and I can't work up a lot of sympathy for being dumb.

It is almost inevitable that Price will find someone in the WOTC/Hasbro hierarchy wanting  in her view. It won't matter that they're on good terms now because the goal posts are constantly moving, and at some point they'll fall behind the latest expectations. She'll make a stink, cause headaches for WOTC/Hasbro, and I'll refuse to give a damn because they set themselves up for this.

(I have a SJW relation, and she got blown up on twitter for using 'womxn' in place of women. Apparently amongst some transgender faction womxn has gone from being inclusive to exclusive. It's all very similar to how Stalin would change positions on Marxism in the blink of an eye, and purge any fellow communist caught on the wrong foot. And no, I don't feel sorry for my relation either. She chose to play the evil word games SJWs use to go after other people, and got hoisted on her own petard.)

I play in a 5E campaign (enjoy it), but I have no need to buy anything more from WOTC, and from the direction they're going even if they come out with 5E Greyhawk it won't be anything I'm interested in.

Quote from: wmarshal on March 05, 2021, 12:18:36 PM
I play in a 5E campaign (enjoy it), but I have no need to buy anything more from WOTC, and from the direction they're going even if they come out with 5E Greyhawk it won't be anything I'm interested in.

I'm pretty close to that point too now. I prefer buying Kobold Press or other 3rd party stuff these days. Otherwise I mostly buy generic systemless stuff. I refused to buy/use/allow Tasha's and am very happy with my decision.

Swordsfall is absolutely a Minstrel Show. Just the modern version of it. In both cases, its a performer intentionally playing up to the stereotype that white Democrats expect him to be, for money.

Having sat in jury duty on a tort law case here in Texas... holy shit. If there's anything there, she's gonna wish her biggest problem is being cancelled.