I wonder who the SJW wont try to ban in their quest to kill the past. Eventually they will run out of history to blame. What will they blame then? Hopefully not the future, a thought crime that hasnt happened yet is the hardest to disprove(this was never an option thou). Seriously thou, Social Warriors. The name spells their true alliegance quite well.

Quote from: jeff37923 on March 10, 2021, 05:06:25 PM
So cartoon character Pepe le Pew is banned, but when Biden exhibits the same kind of creepy behavior he becomes president?

I'm confused.....

It's the French accident. Obviously...

Quote from: Warder on March 10, 2021, 06:04:22 PM
I wonder who the SJW wont try to ban in their quest to kill the past. Eventually they will run out of history to blame. What will they blame then? Hopefully not the future, a thought crime that hasnt happened yet is the hardest to disprove(this was never an option thou). Seriously thou, Social Warriors. The name spells their true alliegance quite well.

That's the point, actually. They want their Year Zero, where the past is swept into the trashbin and we can move forward to our glorious future.

Never mind that it never, ever works out well.

Quote from: horsesoldier on March 08, 2021, 01:13:58 PM
Is that why the logo changed? I had looked it up when it changed to see if it was pre or post Floyd; seeing it was pre I had assumed it wasn't for wokeshit reasons.

They removed the old "floyd" logo and replaced it with the new

QuoteBGG welcomes all gamers, whatever your level of experience or particular tastes, and updating the logo reflects our belief that gaming is for everyone, not just geeky guys with glasses. Whatever our differences individually, gaming brings us together. Our new symbol is a nod to BGG's past, while also inviting you to see yourself in that silhouette — or to find your passion for play represented in that "game flame".

Because making a "womens only" "safe space" subforum was not enough virtue signalling at the forefront of the "cause"...

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on March 10, 2021, 04:28:18 PM

Essentially, SJ criticism rests on the assumption that the audience's subconscious minds are far stupider and more easily influenced than their conscious minds, especially if they're mostly children. In practice I should think a simple diagram showing how few fans of Pepe le Pew in childhood go on to be antisocial sexual aggressors in adulthood should put paid to this thesis, but SJPs aren't the only group who only believe statistics when they reinforce their preferred conclusion.

They dont even need doctored statistics. Just "belief" or better yet, just agenda.

Its pretty much the argument Extra Credits used on YouTube to claim that playing a Nazi in a wargame opens you up to becoming a REAL nazi. Stop "normalizing" Nazis! (and then when all hell broke loose they try and claom that not what they really meant. Honest!) Or that whole movement to have anything "rape" removed from media and literature because rape is bad! Except their idea of rape starts to of course approach "everything on earth" to the point Prince Charming kissing Snow White to save her is now rape.

Quote from: Warder on March 10, 2021, 06:04:22 PM
I wonder who the SJW wont try to ban in their quest to kill the past. Eventually they will run out of history to blame. What will they blame then? Hopefully not the future, a thought crime that hasnt happened yet is the hardest to disprove(this was never an option thou). Seriously thou, Social Warriors. The name spells their true alliegance quite well.

Thats easy as they are allready doing it from practically the get-go.

They ban demonize the past SJWs as bad wrong racist misogynists and a few other ists in there for good measure.

Then the 2030 wave will point at them and do the same.

and so on ad nausium as we have to go through this again and again.

And people laughed when I kept TWO full sets of encyclopedias...

Every game site I just checked out has a thread on just how freakily Big Purple has lost the plot. That's a pretty bad sign.

To think that was the place with The Tangency Ape

Quote from: Jim in Oz on March 12, 2021, 09:13:59 AM
Every game site I just checked out has a thread on just how freakily Big Purple has lost the plot. That's a pretty bad sign.

  Got links?

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on March 12, 2021, 09:31:03 AM

Quote from: Jim in Oz on March 12, 2021, 09:13:59 AM
Every game site I just checked out has a thread on just how freakily Big Purple has lost the plot. That's a pretty bad sign.

  Got links?

Nah. Enworld was one. Another was a guy who had a small forum, he did a ton of reviews and the cancelled him for really strange and shifting reasons. Can't remember the others.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/ramidel-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-abstract-academic-cost-benefit-analysis-of-the-magical-benefits-of-chattel-slavery.878508/

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/rupert-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-abstract-academic-cost-benefit-analysis-of-the-magical-benefits-of-chattel-slavery.878509/

This just makes my head spin. If I were Ramidel or Rupert, I would shake the dust off my sandals and never go back to RPGnet. Because holy shit. This wasn't a promotion of slavery, it wasn't a justification of slavery, it was an analysis of fictional slavery in a fictional setting.

At the rate they're going, the only games they'll be willing and able to discuss are Candy Land and Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 12, 2021, 10:11:11 AM
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/ramidel-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-abstract-academic-cost-benefit-analysis-of-the-magical-benefits-of-chattel-slavery.878508/

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/rupert-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-seven-day-ban-abstract-academic-cost-benefit-analysis-of-the-magical-benefits-of-chattel-slavery.878509/

This just makes my head spin. If I were Ramidel or Rupert, I would shake the dust off my sandals and never go back to RPGnet. Because holy shit. This wasn't a promotion of slavery, it wasn't a justification of slavery, it was an analysis of fictional slavery in a fictional setting.

At the rate they're going, the only games they'll be willing and able to discuss are Candy Land and Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

One can't talk about simulationist aspects of a setting in a thread about GURPS, a prime example of a simulationist game system. They should just bite the bullet and ban all discussion of games and settings that are simulationist to any real degree, and only allow narrative focused games to be discussed so long as the correct talking points are used. Even Blue Rose with the stupid magic deer will one day fail their standards.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 12, 2021, 10:11:11 AM
This just makes my head spin. If I were Ramidel or Rupert, I would shake the dust off my sandals and never go back to RPGnet. Because holy shit. This wasn't a promotion of slavery, it wasn't a justification of slavery, it was an analysis of fictional slavery in a fictional setting.

At the rate they're going, the only games they'll be willing and able to discuss are Candy Land and Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

Literally. Europa Universalis IV has "slaves" as the main resource for some territories. In my current game I won some land as Portugal in West Africa and selling slaves is now part of my economy.

Quote from: Ghostmaker on March 12, 2021, 10:11:11 AMThis wasn't a promotion of slavery, it wasn't a justification of slavery, it was an analysis of fictional slavery in a fictional setting.

Anything that facilitates understanding how people could be slave owners or traders, by discussing slavery's economic benefits and feasible logistics, encourages people to "normalize", and thus lose their moral horror at, slavery and exploitation. Or so the thinking goes.

If "to understand all is to forgive all," then by definition anything held to be unforgiveable must also be considered incomprehensible, and any attempt at explaining it is ipso facto a defense of it.

I saw this on rpg.net (I have to admit it's a guilty pleasure of mine reading the infractions list because it is comedy gold. Virtually a parody of itself).

I thought this one was myopic even by TBP standards.

If you are a sane, moral person in the present day you think slavery is bad. You also think murder is bad along with many other crimes. This should be taken as a given. Does it need to be restated every time a crime is dicussed how morally repugnant it is?

Will people be banned for dispassionately discussing how to create the perfect murder mystery rpg scenario without periodically reminding everyone that murder is in fact a horrible thing to do and the criminal is indeed an immoral person?

The more I read this stuff the more I am genuinly coming to the view that there are adults who cannot distinguish fact from fiction, even when fiction is explicitly presented as such.