Quote from: CRKrueger;1052493"I'm going to fucking kill you!"

Nice way to turn an assault and battery charge into Attempted Murder.

Unfortunately theres probably no way of telling if that was actually said or if its made up by the news or what. Wouldnt surprise me if he did say it though. He's got enough ego to admit to a prior assault in an interview so all bets are off.

Back to gaming.

Aside from the loony of cons like PAX and a few others it has overall not been this fruitcake. You could go to a con after con and never see a single problem.

And thats been 90% of my experience. Immense fun. Even when twice in a row I got gyped out of a room at the 11th hour and slept in the corner of the video room. Sleep dep+convention makes for a surreal experience. :eek:

Unfortunately Ive been to one con where the prude patrol staged an attack which pretty much ruined the con and was the catalyst for its demise as one of these nuts then took over the con and a year or so later it was DOA.

I had more trouble with the RPGA dicking off events, or other stuff like the occasional artist and publisher backstabbing going on in the background at cons than any real trouble. We had more trouble with just attendees being a weeee bit too enthusiastic and occasionally getting themselves or someone else roughed up accidentally.

Quote from: S'mon;1052491I'm sure you say that whenever a Nazi attacks a left-wing Youtube commenter.

Fun fact: If you search for the word Charlottesville on this site you turn up almost nothing, and none of it related to the most dramatic event of purely political violence in recent history. Hard to say why, and perhaps if I rolled up my sleeves and really dug through the pages from a year ago I'd find something. But one possibility is that it's because the douches who lead the charge on the 'SJW' rants around here are completely uninterested when a young man who identifies as a Nazi murders and maims innocent people, but enjoy wallowing in 50 pages of catastrophizing self pity when an alt-light attention seeker gets a light punch up. So, you can roll your argument up into a little ball of false equivalence and stuff it up your ass.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1052502Fun fact: If you search for the word Charlottesville on this site you turn up almost nothing, and none of it related to the most dramatic event of purely political violence in recent history. Hard to say why, and perhaps if I rolled up my sleeves and really dug through the pages from a year ago I'd find something. But one possibility is that it's because the douches who lead the charge on the 'SJW' rants around here are completely uninterested when a young man who identifies as a Nazi murders and maims innocent people, but enjoy wallowing in 50 pages of catastrophizing self pity when an alt-light attention seeker gets a light punch up. So, you can roll your argument up into a little ball of false equivalence and stuff it up your ass.

That is because the Search function does not work in Punditry, fucknugget. Thank you for demonstrating the reason why.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1052502Fun fact: If you search for the word Charlottesville on this site you turn up almost nothing, and none of it related to the most dramatic event of purely political violence ...blah, blah, blah, blippity -blah -blah...... up into a little ball of false equivalence and stuff it up your ass.

Why?

Why the Frak would there be talk about the Charlottesville crap on here?
The assault or incident we've been talking about at least has a tenuous connection to gaming since both of the children in men's bodies were attending Gen Con and might have been wearing their attendee badges at the time. Plus, people are stretching so far to connect it to Gen Con to it that they are almost pulling muscles or giving themselves leg cramps.

Personal politics should stay out of gaming.

Just say : "Its just a game for fuck's sake!" - and try to have some fun.

- Ed C.

Yeah, it's stupid-crazy for some guy to use the lack of discussion of Charlottesville in a gaming forum to spew more ideological crap. SJWs gotta SJW, obviously.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1052502Fun fact: If you search for the word Charlottesville on this site you turn up almost nothing, and none of it related to the most dramatic event of purely political violence in recent history. Hard to say why, and perhaps if I rolled up my sleeves and really dug through the pages from a year ago I'd find something. But one possibility is that it's because the douches who lead the charge on the 'SJW' rants around here are completely uninterested when a young man who identifies as a Nazi murders and maims innocent people, but enjoy wallowing in 50 pages of catastrophizing self pity when an alt-light attention seeker gets a light punch up. So, you can roll your argument up into a little ball of false equivalence and stuff it up your ass.

Is this that Whataboutism I keep hearing about?

Quote from: Baron Opal;1052458I always wear a suit. I find nothing says "fair warning - I will eat your soul if you let me" like being impeccably dressed.

That's awesome!!

Quote from: Larsdangly;1052502Fun fact: If you search for the word Charlottesville on this site you turn up almost nothing, and none of it related to the most dramatic event of purely political violence in recent history.

We babbled LOTS about that debacle when it happened.

If Pundy did a blog about it (I don't remember), then he'll repost it 1 year later as he often does.

If so, I'm sure we'll babble about it again.

And considering how staged and orchestrated Charlottesville was, I guess "most dramatic event" is a good description.

Quote from: Koltar;1052512Why the Frak would there be talk about the Charlottesville crap on here?

We crap about all kinds of nonsense in Punditry. We crapped much about the Tiki Bro brigade back then.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1052502Fun fact: If you search for the word Charlottesville on this site you turn up almost nothing, and none of it related to the most dramatic event of purely political violence in recent history. Hard to say why, and perhaps if I rolled up my sleeves and really dug through the pages from a year ago I'd find something. But one possibility is that it's because the douches who lead the charge on the 'SJW' rants around here are completely uninterested when a young man who identifies as a Nazi murders and maims innocent people, but enjoy wallowing in 50 pages of catastrophizing self pity when an alt-light attention seeker gets a light punch up. So, you can roll your argument up into a little ball of false equivalence and stuff it up your ass.

I will take that as a No then.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1052502Fun fact: If you search for the word Charlottesville on this site you turn up almost nothing, and none of it related to the most dramatic event of purely political violence in recent history. Hard to say why, and perhaps if I rolled up my sleeves and really dug through the pages from a year ago I'd find something. But one possibility is that it's because the douches who lead the charge on the 'SJW' rants around here are completely uninterested when a young man who identifies as a Nazi murders and maims innocent people, but enjoy wallowing in 50 pages of catastrophizing self pity when an alt-light attention seeker gets a light punch up. So, you can roll your argument up into a little ball of false equivalence and stuff it up your ass.

How many are there about the attack on the baseball game in Alexandria, VA ?

Quote from: Larsdangly;1052502Fun fact: If you search for the word Charlottesville on this site you turn up almost nothing, and none of it related to the most dramatic event of purely political violence in recent history. Hard to say why, and perhaps if I rolled up my sleeves and really dug through the pages from a year ago I'd find something. But one possibility is that it's because the douches who lead the charge on the 'SJW' rants around here are completely uninterested when a young man who identifies as a Nazi murders and maims innocent people, but enjoy wallowing in 50 pages of catastrophizing self pity when an alt-light attention seeker gets a light punch up. So, you can roll your argument up into a little ball of false equivalence and stuff it up your ass.

Could you be dishonest?

Quote from: Lurtch;1052539Could you be dishonest?

Not any more than usual.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1051740Except that the guy who assaulted Quartering was at Gencon the next day.

Imagine if, say some nerdo had just shouted at, not even laid a hand on, Anita Sarkeesian at a bar.  Do you believe that nerdo would have been allowed  into Gencon the next day? Do you believe Gencon would have been PROMOTING HIS PRODUCTS the next day on their social media?!

To be fair, the incident happend in a bar outside GenCon, so they wouldn't really have any grounds on banning people. Had it happened onsite then there would be strong grounds.

Quote from: soltakss;1052566To be fair, the incident happend in a bar outside GenCon, so they wouldn't really have any grounds on banning people. Had it happened onsite then there would be strong grounds.

I think the heart of Pundit's statement still holds true though.  If Sarkeesian had been at that bar instead of Hambly, and someone with a booth, doing product promotions, had shouted at her, then that person would've been tossed out of GenCon.

Quote from: Omega;1052362Alleged? Are you really that ignorant? Go back and read where a report was filed and police are investigating.

It depends where you are from, I suppose. In the UK, everything is "alleged" until it is taken to court and then proven or not. There is a lot of contempt of court stuff in the UK that basically stops people commenting on incidents and saying that something definitely happened. So, the Incident definitely happened, but whether it was an assult remains to be proven.

USA laws obviously differ and I have no idea if the same principles apply.

But, IANAL.