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« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2014, 02:39:38 PM »
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I still have my boxed set.


There were three of us????
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« Reply #31 on: December 05, 2014, 02:55:43 PM »
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Please. You're not "the Daily Show", you're like a White Power Radio Show. Its not news, its just pure unadulterated hate mixed in with invariably asinine, offensive and unsophisticated humor by a gang of semi-illiterates.

I'm not YDIS. (I hear he's taller.)

The White Power thing is funny though. I'm only aware of a couple posters in the comments on YDIS who hold racist views, but they're routinely mocked ferociously for their ignorance. On other forums those dudes post at their racism is never even brought up.

Also, aren't you the guy who was crying about how you were being painted as a homophobe, yet you used the word "gay" as a pejorative in a post on this very site? Oh, here here's your unconvincing excuse for it: http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?p=799891

Maybe that's not your stone to throw from the glasshaus.

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And it's pretty clear you're a huge fan of the site, so why stop pretending you're a neutral party in all this?

I find a lot of the stuff there funny; some of it I feel goes too far. Big whoop

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« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2014, 03:06:11 PM »
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Copy-pasting does not a good game make...

Given how much he seems to dislike using similar rules, this guy must really hate the various versions of FATE.
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« Reply #33 on: December 05, 2014, 03:43:07 PM »
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Am I the only person who wants to buy Arrows of Indra because of this review?

Putting aside the polemic and bile and reading between the lines, this does sound like the kind of setting that I would enjoy.


Please do it. I'd almost want to offer you a free copy but the whole point would be that this review LITERALLY and DIRECTLY ends up making me money.

Most of the things my opponents do to try to "take me down" only ends up making me more money, but it would be especially funny in this case.
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« Reply #34 on: December 05, 2014, 03:46:01 PM »
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I'm not YDIS. (I hear he's taller.)

The White Power thing is funny though. I'm only aware of a couple posters in the comments on YDIS who hold racist views, but they're routinely mocked ferociously for their ignorance. On other forums those dudes post at their racism is never even brought up.

Also, aren't you the guy who was crying about how you were being painted as a homophobe, yet you used the word "gay" as a pejorative in a post on this very site? Oh, here here's your unconvincing excuse for it: http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?p=799891

Maybe that's not your stone to throw from the glasshaus.


And wasn't YDIS, who are regularly posting things that are blatantly or implicitly homophobic, the ones who tried to dredge this up yet again (after the consultantgate guys did some time earlier)?  

I continue on a process of evolution, what is your excuse?


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I find a lot of the stuff there funny; some of it I feel goes too far. Big whoop


It is when on other threads you pretend that you're a "neutral party", even though its very clear your role here is to be an instigator and agent.
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« Reply #35 on: December 05, 2014, 03:59:54 PM »
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And wasn't YDIS, who are regularly posting things that are blatantly or implicitly homophobic, the ones who tried to dredge this up yet again (after the consultantgate guys did some time earlier)?


Beats me. I don't document everything that gets said there, or pay particular attention to who said what. Hell, I miss entire posts there because I've got stuff going on.

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I continue on a process of evolution, what is your excuse?


I don't need an excuse. Seriously, find something that I said that was homophobic. Then we can talk about what my excuse is.

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It is when on other threads you pretend that you're a "neutral party", even though its very clear your role here is to be an instigator and agent.


Shit, son, why's everything got to be some shadowy conspiracy with you? I don't have a dog in this fight, like I said, because I have no interest in either EPT or AoI.

What I gave you was the opportunity to say, "These guys are full of shit, here's why the percentage of what they say I copied isn't true." The fact that you haven't addressed that makes me doubtful that you can.

I might make my custom title "Instigator and Agent" now though because that is ballin' swag.

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« Reply #36 on: December 05, 2014, 04:29:34 PM »
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Beats me. I don't document everything that gets said there, or pay particular attention to who said what. Hell, I miss entire posts there because I've got stuff going on.



I don't need an excuse. Seriously, find something that I said that was homophobic. Then we can talk about what my excuse is.


You hang out on, and are now acting as an agent and messenger-boy for a website that still routinely uses the term "Tranny", and is currently engaged in a riveting debate about whether "Taylor Swift has ever taken it up the bum", and whether she or that "Spic chick from beakman's world" is hotter for being sodomized.

When I criticized the OP (who on the YDIS version of this review used the term "tranny" IN THE REVIEW), their response in the comments section was to claim that I must myself be one (of course, because if not what possible reason could someone have to be supportive of "trannies", right?).

Those are the people you are representing, and unlike this place, which is a forum with a diversity of views, YDIS is a single blog with a community groupthink.

You have NO fucking ground to stand on here in the "offensiveness" department.
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« Reply #37 on: December 05, 2014, 04:32:53 PM »
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You have NO fucking ground to stand on here in the "offensiveness" department.


No, I'm only responsible for things I've said. I'm not responsible for anyone else's statements or beliefs.

If I was, you'd be on the hook for the guys here who are homophobic and cry about how they're called bigots because of it. But you're not responsible for them, are you? Why would you be?

Good on you for calling them out as bigots, but I wouldn't hang their bigotry at your doorstep.

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« Reply #38 on: December 05, 2014, 04:40:14 PM »
For the record, while I'm not transgender, I am "half-spic", as you'd put it.

I want to put that out in the open, before I get accused of some kind of evil subterfuge for something that was known and obvious except to you and your friends at YDIS.
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« Reply #39 on: December 05, 2014, 04:42:49 PM »
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No, I'm only responsible for things I've said. I'm not responsible for anyone else's statements or beliefs.


You are if you're acting as their messenger-boy and trying to promote their hateful bullshit.

There's a difference between "there's some guy on theRPGsite who might be racist", and "I'm acting as the main representative and shit-slinger for a blog where EVERYONE routinely expresses sexism, racism, and homophobia for shits and giggles and does so as part of their 'site culture'".
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« Reply #40 on: December 05, 2014, 04:43:27 PM »
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For the record, while I'm not transgender, I am "half-spic", as you'd put it.


I've never used that word in my life. Or ever thought about your ethnic heritage, for that matter.

Sorry, but your guilt-by-association nonsense isn't sticking. That dog don't hunt.

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« Reply #41 on: December 05, 2014, 04:46:54 PM »
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There's a difference between "there's some guy on theRPGsite who might be racist", and "I'm acting as the main representative and shit-slinger for a blog where EVERYONE routinely expresses sexism, racism, and homophobia for shits and giggles and does so as part of their 'site culture'".


I'm not the emissary for YDIS. I'm not their representative, main or otherwise. As far as I know there is no concerted effort, no YDIS-flavored Machiavelli pulling the strings. No one is feeding me lines. Anything I've said here is solely my own expression.

I am not a number, I am a free man!

You're making up your claims about me wholesale.

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« Reply #42 on: December 05, 2014, 04:54:32 PM »
Seriously, asshole? Do you think I can't read?  I suppose you think I might not stoop to reading the comments section of YDIS, but the fact that I'm quoting the grotesque and disgusting things they're saying there right now should have been a clue to you.

Maybe you didn't read the part where they outed you as their boy?

In any case, I'm going to be extremely generous: You claim to be a neutral third party with no interest or particular concern in this fight. That was your claim. So I'm going to assume that is the case.  You also said you never read AoI (or at least that you don't own it).  So let's presume that to. You imply you have no personal beef with me. Fine and dandy.

In that case, get the fuck out of the "magic in AoI" thread, because you don't have anything to say and are not interested in the subject.  You are neutral and not partisan, therefore have no reason to stir up conflict, and you have no familiarity or expertise with the system, and thus can't be of help with the subject matter.  And if you're really disinterested and not acting out of a deep resentment-based personal hatred for me, you'll have no particular reason to just hang around on a thread about a game you don't own and have no stake in.

And get the fuck out of this thread, for exactly the same reasons.

If you don't, I will be forced to assume you are a lying sack of shit, you have an enormous personal interest and a tremendous personal stake in 'taking me down' for whatever fucking reason, and are therefore engaging in site disruption on behalf of YDIS.

Your call.
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« Reply #43 on: December 05, 2014, 06:16:05 PM »
I haven't been interested in AoI yet, but that spell chain with escalating pre-requisites (write current language, write old language, control of self etc.) sounds a lot like Midgard - which has also started out as a derivative of EPT (the "zero"th edition from 1979 was originally 20 typewritten (!) pages of house-rules for EPT) before it became a slightly more original stand-alone game in 1981. Since then it has soldiered on, with no one crying out the similarities to M.A.R. Barkers game.

Maybe YDIS should start a witchhunt against it too. I'm certain it could use the sales boost ;)
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« Reply #44 on: December 05, 2014, 07:42:02 PM »
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Am I the only person who wants to buy Arrows of Indra because of this review?


I wasn't particularly interested in it until I read this thread. Now I want to check it out.
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