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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #435 on: March 22, 2021, 11:09:12 AM »
I have Netflix. I'm not interested in "365 Days" - and no one will be able to "force" me to watch it. It is physically impossible! But I have already earmarked "Mank" and "The Trial of the Chicago Seven" and I'm currently watching "Starblazers 2199". Thank you, Netflix. You don't like my choices? You have my blessing to watch what you want.

At least their suggestions algorithm seems to have improved. Years ago I watched Downfall, and based on that one movie, Netflix decided that I must be obsessed with all things Hitler/Nazi related. For weeks my "suggestions for you" list was full of The Shocking Secrets of Hitler's Hairdresser! type documentaries.

As for TBP, I haven't managed to deleted my account either, and I haven't visited there in nearly 10 years.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #436 on: March 22, 2021, 02:07:42 PM »
Your choice. I don't find the juice worth the squeeze. There's an occasional good post with productive ideas about role playing, interspersed among lots of discussions that were old when the internet was dial-up*, and a LOT of ideological bullying.
I registered there a couple of months ago in the mistaken belief that you had to register if you wanted to access all the sub-fora (this is the rule in some forums I know).

I still haven't found a reason to post there even once.
I think you have to register to read the Tangency forum.

Why this is the case, I will leave to others to speculate.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #437 on: March 22, 2021, 02:51:55 PM »
Did you have the same username Ratman? I thought I recognized it.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #438 on: March 22, 2021, 03:25:22 PM »
*speculator*
Tangency was put Invisible for non-members because:
- it had NSFW stuff, and in order to become a member you had to confirm you were not under-age (except the Oglaf thread, but that had no direct links). And who would lie about that?
- it had personal stuff that people didn't want to show up in search engines.
- probably a third reason too, but I'm already putting too much time and effort in this. And to paraphrase the wise man 'where's the money in that?'...
*spec off*
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #439 on: March 22, 2021, 03:39:40 PM »
They have a thread right now in "Tangency" titled:

Anti Asian-American violence escalates with murders in Atlanta.

I guess there is a clue in-there...
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #440 on: March 22, 2021, 09:19:53 PM »
Did you have the same username Ratman? I thought I recognized it.

Exact same one.  :)
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #441 on: March 23, 2021, 06:02:55 AM »
There is zero evidence that it was a racially motivated shooting, but regressives are trying to cook up tenuous justifications to make it about race.
It was obviously gender, not race. He was tempted by women, not by men, nor by Asian women in particular. This should be something which fits easily into the progressive narrative of women as victims.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #442 on: March 23, 2021, 09:45:34 AM »
There is zero evidence that it was a racially motivated shooting, but regressives are trying to cook up tenuous justifications to make it about race.
It was obviously gender, not race. He was tempted by women, not by men, nor by Asian women in particular. This should be something which fits easily into the progressive narrative of women as victims.

Since George Floyd, race has been a much more important identity for the regressives. I think that's why they're focusing on the asian victims and ignoring the others.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #443 on: March 24, 2021, 07:23:36 PM »
There is zero evidence that it was a racially motivated shooting, but regressives are trying to cook up tenuous justifications to make it about race.
It was obviously gender, not race. He was tempted by women, not by men, nor by Asian women in particular. This should be something which fits easily into the progressive narrative of women as victims.

It was obviously religious, sex adict that wants to be a devote muslim...

I once had a sect of this type of religious zealots thrown our way by the DM, we first thought it was a single murderer, but alas it was a lot of them, thank fuck some of us were aware of Jack the Ripper so we could lay a trap and capture one.

We ended up murderizing all and then tracking the sect across several kingdoms.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #444 on: March 24, 2021, 07:37:46 PM »
They have a thread right now in "Tangency" titled:

Anti Asian-American violence escalates with murders in Atlanta.


That reminds me, has Pundit ever done a trans-racial race for DnD? 

I guess Changeling or Shifter could work.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #445 on: March 24, 2021, 07:53:32 PM »
Another round of bans in the Infractions subforum. I gotta say, I've never seen an administrative base so damn eager to hand these things out.

Every time I start to think about joining and posting on TBP, I just go by Infractions, and the desire vanishes.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #446 on: March 25, 2021, 11:17:07 AM »
The Infractions forum would be a goldmine for a psychology student looking to do a PhD thesis on the exercise of authority in social media. I expect it would be easy for anyone trained in the field to identify the various pathologies of  the moderators.
 

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #447 on: March 25, 2021, 11:25:57 AM »
The Infractions forum would be a goldmine for a psychology student looking to do a PhD thesis on the exercise of authority in social media. I expect it would be easy for anyone trained in the field to identify the various pathologies of  the moderators.

If you could find one these days who isn't in agreement with them.

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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #448 on: March 25, 2021, 01:37:06 PM »
I expect it would be easy for anyone trained in the field to identify the various pathologies of  the moderators.

It might be more useful to be able to review the user reports to which the mods (by their own testimony) are mostly reacting. I don't know if the users get a comment box to explain exactly why they find posts offensive, but if they did it would be interesting to analyze them for frequency of complainers and frequently-repeated themes of complaint -- it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the environment is a product of an intransigent minority being willing to demand things too many of the majority no longer bother objecting to.
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Re: The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again
« Reply #449 on: March 25, 2021, 02:17:21 PM »
I think quite a lot of the infraction tickets are basically harassment to drive certain members off the site.  Considering that basically any post expressing an opinion can be interpreted as an infraction if you are assuming bad faith on the part of the poster this strategy is quite effective.

It has always struck me as a microcosm of a hard left state.  It is particularly amusing when you see users who are banned who previously were espousing the virtues of the SJW creed.  It's very Soviet.