Quote from: moonsweeper on January 14, 2021, 06:58:50 PM

Quote from: Steven Mitchell on January 14, 2021, 06:48:13 PM

Their lack of self-awareness is also how they avoid having their heads explode.  I've known people with serious mental illnesses that showed more self-awareness.

Yep.

I have a friend who works with the mentally ill and they say the same thing.  I've interacted with a number of their clients and the impression I get is that the people who know they are mentally ill, understand they have a problem and actively try to cope with or work on it.

I compare it to alcoholics/drug addicts who know they have a problem and try to work on it versus those who 'don't have a problem'...I think that is why SJWs explode when someone tries to point out the problems.  You are attacking a lynch-pin of their perceived reality.

I think most SJWs are like that, but TBP does it just to be arseholes imho.

See, here's the thing.

You don't negotiate with evil. You stall it until you find a big enough rock to dash its brains out, then you do so.

The left in general, and TBP's staff in particular, have firmly convinced themselves that any wrongthink or contrarian thought is evil. So if you argue or disagree, they jump straight to 'purge the wicked'. 40k Inquisitors would be quite impressed.

Depressing thing is they still seem to be one of the biggest sites to talk about non-D&D RPG stuff, but I really, really don't like their moderation.

I have a rarely-active account in case I need to look something up.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on January 01, 2021, 11:06:02 AM


It no longer surprises me that they ran interference for (until they couldn't deny it) a known sexual offender.

Who were they defending?

Matt McFarland, formerly of Onyx Path, etc. When things started coming out, RPGnet hurriedly stripped him of his mod position and banned him, but there was a LOT of suspicion that they had run interference for him and his wife.

Thirty day ban for "cultural appropriation"

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/daz-florp-lebam-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-cultural-appropriation.876492/

I can't find the original blog, but thankfully someone reblogged this entry by a native american on "cultural appropriation" in the video game Overwatch.

https://coelasquid.tumblr.com/post/147459403888/castleships-okay-im-only-gonna-say-this-once

Quote from: Ratman_tf on February 01, 2021, 03:13:14 PM
Thirty day ban for "cultural appropriation"

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/daz-florp-lebam-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-cultural-appropriation.876492/

I can't find the original blog, but thankfully someone reblogged this entry by a native american on "cultural appropriation" in the video game Overwatch.

https://coelasquid.tumblr.com/post/147459403888/castleships-okay-im-only-gonna-say-this-once

The problem with the 'cultural appropriation' sin is that it runs right up into their desire for 'inclusivity' and 'diversity'. Are people simply supposed to behold these curious cultural things and take nothing from them? Seriously?

Where does it end? Where does it go next?

I don't object to 'hey if you're going to do this, show some respect'. That's fair. But the overreactions we see would be hilarious if they weren't so vitriolic and angry. And invariably, the loudest voices aren't even part of the culture. There was an infamous little story that made the rounds about a young girl who dressed up as a Japanese geisha and put on a tea ceremony for her class. The usual idiots started their freak out, only to be shut down hard by actual Japanese people who said they liked it.

Unless you plan to hedge your society with the cultural equivalent of moats and barbed wire, you're always going to have cross-contamination and pollination. Things get passed back and forth and before you know it you have fusion cuisine, white guys rapping, and Hawaiians demonstrating how to make sushi with spam. And that is glorious. Bonkers, yes, but glorious.

Quote from: Ratman_tf on February 01, 2021, 03:13:14 PM
Thirty day ban for "cultural appropriation"

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/daz-florp-lebam-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-cultural-appropriation.876492/

I can't find the original blog, but thankfully someone reblogged this entry by a native american on "cultural appropriation" in the video game Overwatch.

https://coelasquid.tumblr.com/post/147459403888/castleships-okay-im-only-gonna-say-this-once

So somebody's cleric wanted to create a religious ritual...and they call it offensive cultural appropriation because the idea is based off a religious ritual...??

Quote from: Ghostmaker on February 01, 2021, 03:22:36 PM


The problem with the 'cultural appropriation' sin is that it runs right up into their desire for 'inclusivity' and 'diversity'. Are people simply supposed to behold these curious cultural things and take nothing from them? Seriously?

Where does it end? Where does it go next?

I don't object to 'hey if you're going to do this, show some respect'. That's fair. But the overreactions we see would be hilarious if they weren't so vitriolic and angry. And invariably, the loudest voices aren't even part of the culture. There was an infamous little story that made the rounds about a young girl who dressed up as a Japanese geisha and put on a tea ceremony for her class. The usual idiots started their freak out, only to be shut down hard by actual Japanese people who said they liked it.

Unless you plan to hedge your society with the cultural equivalent of moats and barbed wire, you're always going to have cross-contamination and pollination. Things get passed back and forth and before you know it you have fusion cuisine, white guys rapping, and Hawaiians demonstrating how to make sushi with spam. And that is glorious. Bonkers, yes, but glorious.

I find it kind of ironic how they claim that a particular 'racist' culture needs to be made more diverse, yet when that culture adds stuff it is cultural appropriation...

Quote from: moonsweeper on February 01, 2021, 03:55:50 PM
I find it kind of ironic how they claim that a particular 'racist' culture needs to be made more diverse, yet when that culture adds stuff it is cultural appropriation...

Once you accept that the charge made isn't intended to affect repentance from the accused (as calling out a sin is in, say, Christianity, is), but to give permission to the rabid pack to destroy the accused, it all makes sense.

The SJWs aren't out to change the world or RPGs... they're here to burn it down because, like the Puritans they are the latest incarnation of, their own inner loathing is offended at the thought that someone somewhere might be happy.

Quote from: Chris24601 on February 01, 2021, 04:49:55 PM

Quote from: moonsweeper on February 01, 2021, 03:55:50 PM
I find it kind of ironic how they claim that a particular 'racist' culture needs to be made more diverse, yet when that culture adds stuff it is cultural appropriation...

Once you accept that the charge made isn't intended to affect repentance from the accused (as calling out a sin is in, say, Christianity, is), but to give permission to the rabid pack to destroy the accused, it all makes sense.

The SJWs aren't out to change the world or RPGs... they're here to burn it down because, like the Puritans they are the latest incarnation of, their own inner loathing is offended at the thought that someone somewhere might be happy.

Yeah, I was mostly being sarcastic with that one...

Well, I guess those other cultures can give back their blue jeans and automobiles if they don't like it.  But of course like most of the left wing dog whistles, it's an imaginary non-issue invented by university outrage specialists looking for targets because they know full well that our culture's natural response to a shrill, freak out is placate and appease.  They take advantage of our civility to advance their careers on the backs of the very minorities they claim to protect.

But I'm not bitter...

Let me be bitter for you. Because for me this is go-round number 3 of this cyclic wave of hatemongering. And thats all these screeds really are.

Same retortic. Same tactics. Just new buzzwords.

Infiltration and Co-opting groups, Ever more stringent demands for Censorship, Feminist Agenda, Discrimination and Segregation under the guise of Social Justice, Violence.

Always with calls to "just ignore them" and "give them what they want and they will be appeased and go away."

This is why some of us resisted so hard when this new wave started up in the 2010s because we recognized it from the 1990s or 70s. And we will be right back here again in the 2030s.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/thane-of-fife-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-declaring-representation-is-too-much-work.876587/

Now your only allowed to write an rpg product if every, any single segment of society is not offended and surly represented. If you say otherwise your banned. Sorry if I'm not getting paid extra I ain't going to bend over backwards to make sure everyone and anyone will not be offended by my product.

I regularly get emails from STIHL about maintaining my chainsaw and how it's a good idea to wear long sleeves whenever cutting down trees. In fact, I just got one right before perusing this thread. While somewhat banal and redundant at times, I would rather wade through five million STIHL emails outlining the benefits of their 50-1 fuel over the competition's than waste a nanosecond entertaining the notion that reading rpg.net is at all worthwhile. In the first case, I might actually find some legitimately interesting factoids that are applicable to real life. In the second case, I can only assume my brain will atrophy, decreasing my IQ more rapidly than a full frontal lobotomy.

I don't understand why that messageboard even exists anymore.

Quote from: Brad on February 02, 2021, 11:21:38 AM
I would rather wade through five million STIHL emails outlining the benefits of their 50-1 fuel over the competition's than waste a nanosecond entertaining the notion that reading rpg.net is at all worthwhile.

As someone who, literally, started to read RPG.net today I can say that the first impact is... amazing. I spent a couple of hours reading their fora: they just keep on giving. Of course it is not different than going to the zoo. And it gets old fast.