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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #135 on: February 02, 2021, 01:32:20 PM »
It's nice to see that Bcaugust54 doesn't think the Roma were historically persecuted or suffered under the Nazi regime.


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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #136 on: February 02, 2021, 01:37:56 PM »
I don't understand why that messageboard even exists anymore.

To be fair, there's enough of a genuinely creative community there that I haven't found anywhere else; the "101 Ideas" threads series were always immensely enjoyable and still look like they'd be fun.

I tend to think of it these days as a meadow which has lots of buried treasure in the centre, but has been ringed with a belt of land mines -- those who can instinctively navigate through the minefields, and those willing to put in the work to do so consciously, can still get value out of it, but those who simply can't so navigate or don't feel like investing the effort will eventually decide no treasure is worth the tsuris of getting to it.

(I fall into the latter group myself, less out of inability to avoid the landmines than out of eventually finally taking it personally that the mines existed at all, much less the arbitrary and unpredictable basis on which their tripwires seem to be triggered.)
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #137 on: February 02, 2021, 01:46:47 PM »
I don't understand why that messageboard even exists anymore.

To be fair, there's enough of a genuinely creative community there that I haven't found anywhere else; the "101 Ideas" threads series were always immensely enjoyable and still look like they'd be fun.

I tend to think of it these days as a meadow which has lots of buried treasure in the centre, but has been ringed with a belt of land mines -- those who can instinctively navigate through the minefields, and those willing to put in the work to do so consciously, can still get value out of it, but those who simply can't so navigate or don't feel like investing the effort will eventually decide no treasure is worth the tsuris of getting to it.

(I fall into the latter group myself, less out of inability to avoid the landmines than out of eventually finally taking it personally that the mines existed at all, much less the arbitrary and unpredictable basis on which their tripwires seem to be triggered.)

For me, what finally drove me away was less the land mines and more the various posters who apparently were only on the board to see who they could trip or push into a land mine that was otherwise being safely avoided.  Like the bad gaming/no gaming decision, there is no game content so great that I will put up with that extent of psychotic behavior to gain it. 

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #138 on: February 02, 2021, 01:54:34 PM »
Well...I can understand that sometimes you want to watch a train wreck for the amusement factor, but at some point you come to the realization that focusing on something so morbid has a negative affect on your life.

Also, even if there was some value to some of the threads, the mere fact you cannot make any sort of remark without it being scrutinized to the nth-degree is reason enough to avoid that place. People say this site is Mos Eisley, and I agree. You can get into a lot of trouble, but if you waste some dude with a lightsaber no one bats an eye. rpg.net is more like being a Jewish janitor at Auschwitz: you know you're going to be killed last, but it'll happen eventually, and until then you have to help clean up the bodies.

^^^see I couldn't even make that joke there without being persecuted for "insensitivity" or some bullshit so it's not even worth it.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #139 on: February 02, 2021, 02:36:04 PM »
Well...I can understand that sometimes you want to watch a train wreck for the amusement factor, but at some point you come to the realization that focusing on something so morbid has a negative affect on your life.

Also, even if there was some value to some of the threads, the mere fact you cannot make any sort of remark without it being scrutinized to the nth-degree is reason enough to avoid that place. People say this site is Mos Eisley, and I agree. You can get into a lot of trouble, but if you waste some dude with a lightsaber no one bats an eye. rpg.net is more like being a Jewish janitor at Auschwitz: you know you're going to be killed last, but it'll happen eventually, and until then you have to help clean up the bodies.

^^^see I couldn't even make that joke there without being persecuted for "insensitivity" or some bullshit so it's not even worth it.

If I wanted to bother, I could go over there, create an account, and get permabanned with two words and a punctuation mark.

"Hypersensitive much?"

Knowing that, I don't bother.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #140 on: February 02, 2021, 04:17:30 PM »
Well, I guess those other cultures can give back their blue jeans and automobiles if they don't like it.

That reminds me of the quintessential English dish: Chicken Vindaloo
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« Reply #141 on: February 02, 2021, 04:25:26 PM »
Well, I guess those other cultures can give back their blue jeans and automobiles if they don't like it.

That reminds me of the quintessential English dish: Chicken Vindaloo
I dish I actually ate back in the day, when I was working in London. The steam coming from the dish was basically tear gas 😂
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #142 on: February 02, 2021, 04:33:57 PM »
Well...I can understand that sometimes you want to watch a train wreck for the amusement factor, but at some point you come to the realization that focusing on something so morbid has a negative affect on your life.
Well, sometimes I do watch some of those "Painful fails" videos on YouTube to chill out - so, there you are. But I also think that a train wreck can be very instructive, and it is even better if it happens to someone else.

Anyway, just out of curiosity I checked the RPG.net "Rules & Guidelines". Is there someone alive who read all of them? They can basically ban you for anything, breathing included. I mean, they can ban you there for something you post here.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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« Reply #143 on: February 02, 2021, 05:43:17 PM »
That reminds me of the quintessential English dish: Chicken Vindaloo

Is this the thing where I can't open up my own taco truck if I'm not Mexican?
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #144 on: February 02, 2021, 05:52:29 PM »
That reminds me of the quintessential English dish: Chicken Vindaloo
Beware of the Vindaloovians they hate humans lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZbzIHGj8U

They even experimented on a dish of Vindaloo and it turned into a rampaging monster chasing the crew unfortunately I can't find it on Youtube.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #146 on: February 02, 2021, 06:26:21 PM »
That reminds me of the quintessential English dish: Chicken Vindaloo

Is this the thing where I can't open up my own taco truck if I'm not Mexican?

No, its kind of the opposite.  But if you are the type of person that worries about cultural appropriation then no British Vindaloo for you.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #147 on: February 02, 2021, 06:37:48 PM »
Beware of the Vindaloovians they hate humans lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZbzIHGj8U

They even experimented on a dish of Vindaloo and it turned into a rampaging monster chasing the crew unfortunately I can't find it on Youtube.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #148 on: February 02, 2021, 08:32:24 PM »
No, its kind of the opposite.  But if you are the type of person that worries about cultural appropriation then no British Vindaloo for you.

I actually ate Indian food for lunch today (local place run by a mother/daughter team, A+++ would highly recommend), but I'm half Irish so I have no idea what that means.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #149 on: February 02, 2021, 09:30:21 PM »
One of the things I like about this place is that I have never, ever seen a thread here where a poster timidly asks if it is “safe” for him or her to read a specific sourcebook.

Not because the poster wants to know if there is some sort of metaplot to be avoided, but because there might be some sort of disagreeable subject matter within the book.

This sort of thing makes me think there is no way in hell we’ll ever see Dark Sun come back.
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