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The RPG.Net SJW ban nazis are at it again

Started by Batjon, December 28, 2020, 03:18:59 PM

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Wntrlnd

#840
May 13, 2021, 09:51:04 AM Last Edit: May 13, 2021, 09:53:39 AM by Wntrlnd
Quote from: Ghostmaker on May 13, 2021, 09:36:40 AM

Every once in a while, the idiots run the 'female spess mehreens' idea up the flagpole to see who salutes. The problem there is that GW has (probably unintentionally) undercut that argument with the new Sisters of Battle push.


Heh, when I played 40k I painted some (2-3 models) Sisters in Space wolf colors and had them join the other Wolves because.. Valkyries man, can't have space vikings without space valkyries. But thats also the only SM chapter I would ever consider doing something like that.

RandyB

#841
May 13, 2021, 09:57:41 AM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on May 13, 2021, 09:36:40 AM
Quote from: Marchand on May 13, 2021, 09:29:17 AM
I've been (thinking about) getting back into tabletop miniatures wargames, and have joined a couple of wargames forums (non-GW/Warhammer, independent sites).

And there is just no politics. At all. (I'm almost reluctant to post this in case I jinx it.)

I suppose SJWs would say ah-ha, there is implicit unspoken race bias etc. So I mean in the old-fashioned sense, there is no explicit discussion of politics.

I was wondering if it was because a load of gents of a certain age who care about what kind of backpack a Civil War soldier wore are never going to offer fertile territory for an SJW advance guard, but a lot of the traffic on the forums I joined (seeing on the order of dozens of posts daily) is on fantasy and SF gaming of various kinds.

Maybe modelling the patriarchy in miniature (and competitively) is just irredeemably evil from an SJW perspective. But then in theory I could imagine a "game" where players co-operate in charge of heroic indigenous warriors against evil colonialists or whatnot. That is, an SJW wargame is no more (or less) inherently ridiculous a concept than an SJW RPG.

Maybe it's just a matter of time.
There's been attempts, but tabletop wargaming has been pretty resistant thus far. There's been some wokeist crap out of GW occasionally ('Warhammer is for everyone!') but the outlay of money, time, and effort helps gatekeep a bit. Plus, at the end of it all, you still gotta roll the dice to see if your guys win or lose.

Every once in a while, the idiots run the 'female spess mehreens' idea up the flagpole to see who salutes. The problem there is that GW has (probably unintentionally) undercut that argument with the new Sisters of Battle push.

Now some will bitch about it, but everyone knows the Sisters have been getting the short end of the stick for a while up till now. Most players, regardless of army, are happy to let the bolter bitches get some time in the sun instead of being jobbers for other factions.

I think it's intentional. GW is trying for a via media, a middle way, establishing the Sisters as the de facto "fehmaal spess mehreens" while leaving the Astartes de jure all-male. Note the "special effectiveness" of the Sisters in recent battle zones, for example.

Ratman_tf

#842
May 13, 2021, 10:05:14 AM
Quote from: Marchand on May 13, 2021, 09:29:17 AM
I've been (thinking about) getting back into tabletop miniatures wargames, and have joined a couple of wargames forums (non-GW/Warhammer, independent sites).

And there is just no politics. At all. (I'm almost reluctant to post this in case I jinx it.)

I think (not-big-IP) wargaming is far to small and niche of a hobby for social justice types to notice or care. It's the big names that draw their attention.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

KingCheops

#843
May 13, 2021, 10:18:47 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2021, 10:05:14 AM
Quote from: Marchand on May 13, 2021, 09:29:17 AM
I've been (thinking about) getting back into tabletop miniatures wargames, and have joined a couple of wargames forums (non-GW/Warhammer, independent sites).

And there is just no politics. At all. (I'm almost reluctant to post this in case I jinx it.)

I think (not-big-IP) wargaming is far to small and niche of a hobby for social justice types to notice or care. It's the big names that draw their attention.

For now.  These people are locusts.

Ratman_tf

#844
May 13, 2021, 10:36:38 AM
Quote from: KingCheops on May 13, 2021, 10:18:47 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2021, 10:05:14 AM
Quote from: Marchand on May 13, 2021, 09:29:17 AM
I've been (thinking about) getting back into tabletop miniatures wargames, and have joined a couple of wargames forums (non-GW/Warhammer, independent sites).

And there is just no politics. At all. (I'm almost reluctant to post this in case I jinx it.)

I think (not-big-IP) wargaming is far to small and niche of a hobby for social justice types to notice or care. It's the big names that draw their attention.

For now.  These people are locusts.

They did go after the knitting community.  ???
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Pat

#845
May 13, 2021, 10:42:41 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2021, 10:36:38 AM

They did go after the knitting community.  ???
The tale of Knitler is a yarn of pure evil.

KingCheops

#846
May 13, 2021, 10:51:02 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2021, 10:36:38 AM
Quote from: KingCheops on May 13, 2021, 10:18:47 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2021, 10:05:14 AM
Quote from: Marchand on May 13, 2021, 09:29:17 AM
I've been (thinking about) getting back into tabletop miniatures wargames, and have joined a couple of wargames forums (non-GW/Warhammer, independent sites).

And there is just no politics. At all. (I'm almost reluctant to post this in case I jinx it.)

I think (not-big-IP) wargaming is far to small and niche of a hobby for social justice types to notice or care. It's the big names that draw their attention.


For now.  These people are locusts.

They did go after the knitting community.  ???


Historical gaming forums seem like they'd be easy pickings.  Look at all those evil nazis and confederates that they are idolizing!

<Nervously looks at his large collection of 21st Panzer aufklarungsschwadron minis>

Reckall

#847
May 13, 2021, 11:10:45 AM
Meanwhile, in the real world, Germany finally cancelled the ban on using the Swastika in videogames.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45142651

...Which, coming after that Extra Credits video, is just hilarious  ;D

Now it only remains to be seen if the PC crowd feels itself above the German Government.
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

Stephen Tannhauser

#848
May 13, 2021, 11:26:37 AM
QuoteThe tale of Knitler is a yarn of pure evil.

Eh, it's no skein off my nose.
Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain

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Bunch

#849
May 13, 2021, 11:59:02 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2021, 10:36:38 AM
Quote from: KingCheops on May 13, 2021, 10:18:47 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2021, 10:05:14 AM
Quote from: Marchand on May 13, 2021, 09:29:17 AM
I've been (thinking about) getting back into tabletop miniatures wargames, and have joined a couple of wargames forums (non-GW/Warhammer, independent sites).

And there is just no politics. At all. (I'm almost reluctant to post this in case I jinx it.)

I think (not-big-IP) wargaming is far to small and niche of a hobby for social justice types to notice or care. It's the big names that draw their attention.

For now.  These people are locusts.

They did go after the knitting community.  ???

Pretty sure the knitting community is a couple orders of magnitude larger than the wargaming community.

nope

#850
May 13, 2021, 05:40:28 PM
Arcane1:
QuoteWhere there any other gods that got it on at the same level as Zeus? Just bastard kids everywhere? In any pantheon, not just Greek/Roman.

CrazyIvan's modtext:
QuoteA reminder you're talking about a fictional serial assaulter, and referring to that as flippently as 'got it on' is not okay. Take a warning.

:o

wmarshal

#851
May 13, 2021, 05:41:51 PM
Zeus is cancelled. When discussing the myths around a pagan god who hasn't had a sizable following for more than a thousand years, one must do so with the gravitas acknowledging the utter barbarity of those myths. I wonder if any neo-pagans are going to take the mod to task for calling one of their deities fictional.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/arcane1-receives-a-🔴-warning.881362/

nope

#852
May 13, 2021, 05:46:22 PM
Quote from: wmarshal on May 13, 2021, 05:41:51 PMI wonder if any neo-pagans are going to take the mod to task for calling one of their deities fictional.
That would make my day.

HappyDaze

#853
May 13, 2021, 06:04:47 PM
Quote from: wmarshal on May 13, 2021, 05:41:51 PM
Zeus is cancelled.
But Disney/Marvel is putting him in the next Thor film. Did they not get the memo?

Stephen Tannhauser

#854
May 13, 2021, 06:05:11 PM
Quote from: wmarshal on May 13, 2021, 05:41:51 PMI wonder if any neo-pagans are going to take the mod to task for calling one of their deities fictional.

Are there active Zeus-worshippers among modern neo-pagans?  Back when I had any contact with the community they almost always engaged solely in pseudo-Celtic goddess worship, by way of Graves and Alexandrian Wicca.
Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain

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