Eh. Estar is pretty mild compared to some other posters I've seen. Pundit isn't sacrosant, and I think Estar has a point in his comments.
Thanks.
But then I also think Pundit has a point in that this "deconstruction" shit is stupid.
Never found much use or value in the technique in any subject.
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For other folks reading this, what it boils down is that I have a disagreement over how RPGPundit markets himself and his products and how that intertwines with this site. I don't think the Pundit is "evil", I don't think his products suck because of this issue. If I have problem with something else, then I talk about that thing.
Nor to do I feel the need to spam the internet about this one specific issue because the only place where it intersects with anything I am interested in is here on the TheRPGSite.
To be clear, I don't care what the Pundit and the poster who started this think about Kingdom borders. I got an opinion of course but it is irrelevant to the point I made.
And to be clear, if I had my way, I would jettison all the political crap on this site as off-topic. The only reason it exists the way it does now is because Pundits feels it is the most effective way of marketing his work.
For those of you who are not familiar with me from when I was a moderator here, my approach after the first warnings, was to mock for not following instructions, and use my ability as moderator to move the topic or post to a different subforum. Beyond the free speech policy of this site, I personally don't care for the ban game. The forum software gives moderators more than enough control over posts without resorting to bans in all but the most egregious cases.
Undoubtedly some of you will still try to lump in with the RPG.net assholes. Feel free to do so if that make you feel better.
Now all of this is my opinion. It is the Pundit's site and he can choose to do what he wants with it. I am well of aware of this. He doesn't owe me anything nor I owe him anything. He done good work with his product in the past and he probably will continue to do good work in the future.
As you may already noticed he brought points like " ASSUMES Western Civilization is Racist in such a way that you can't respond to the statement itself without inherently accepting that premise".
The Pundit has his opinions on well everything including the above. What drives his approach that he believe in what folks like Marshall McLuhan teaches. For example the Medium is the Message.
The problem with taking this approach of McLuhan and other similar thinkers is that it only useful for when the channels of communication are limited. Thus can be monopolized. On the internet channels of communications are not limited. What limited is your attention span, the fact there are only 24 hours in a day. So what you see, what you think is happening is largely, but not always, influenced by what you choose to pay attention too. I am no exception to this.
For example if you read nothing but D100 blogs, forums, videos, and books, you may think that D100 based RPGs play a bigger role in the hobby and industry than they really do. However these days that is pretty much OK if you do a lot of your shopping and reading on the internet. Because it so cheap and inexpensive to distribute D100 material there quite a bit of it out there. The same with a lot of other RPG niches, like the OSR.
So a clever author who happens to know a few media tricks, is willing to work at it, can build an audience by deliberately making provocative statements, designed to attract reader and listeners. Especially if those messages tie into a larger societal trend. Basically filling the attention span one has for a hobby.
I intensely dislike that approach. I don't care what being tapped into whether it is politics left or right or something else.
So just keep in mind while discussing SJWs, bigoted fantasy settings, and saving western civilization that you are doing it in a place that over the past five years been structured to do one thing, to sell the products that the Pundit has written.
Why I am bothering with this at all? I been posting here since 2007 I do have some feelings invested in here and I got my opinions. Circumstances were such on this post, I shared them. Like I say with my other stuff whether it just shared or commercial; if you feel it useful great, if you don't I understand.