My New Video: Do we Need a #DnDGate?

[Opaopajr]

The I Ching I recently rolled said to be in accord with these times one should: Hexagram 25 Without Embroilment, live without becoming embroiled.

So my answer to you is: Wouldn't be prudent.

(First and Six were the changing lines, btw. )

Wish you people would pay attention to divination more. It's a very useful magic school.

[Trond]

Trond, the Gamex convention at LAX is Memorial Day weekend. May 25th-28th
http://www.strategicon.net

Game Empire in Pasadena has their first Saturday of the month RPG day, hosts lots of weekly campaigns as do several other game stores in LA.

Get your ass to Mars! And a game table! No excuses for no gaming for years!

MAYBE we need a #DNDGate that gets gamers to tables.

Thanks for the tips!

[Warboss Squee]

For once, we agree on something.

We actually agree on a lot of things.

[Ratman_tf]

Gamergate was a shitstorm of epic proportions, but I think it might have been a good thing. Seeing how things are at RPG.net sometimes makes me think we MIGHT need a shaking up of things in the RPG community. However, I don't think the topic the Pundit brings up in the video is worth the trouble*. It's when publishers (or online store or whatever) try to bend over for some feminist outrage brigade that I start thinking......RPGs might actually be more infested with that than computer games.

EDIT: It's not NECESSARILY non-gamers that are always the trouble. Sometimes it's active gamers who think they are morally superior to others, in a hobby that is about fantasy gaming (as in NOT reality) and having fun.

*(On that topic; Sad to say, I haven't really been a gamer the last couple of years. Maybe I'll find time this summer)

The thing that made Gamergate explode was the glitch in the matrix. When the journalists locked down discussion and closed ranks on the narrative.

https://medium.com/@KingFrostFive/gamergate-august-2014-revisited-3b41832c061b

That's when people couldn't deny that there was a clique of journalists attempting to control the narrative.* Without such a controversy, Pundit's D&DGate will be stillborn.

*Well, they could, but it made them look like nitwits.

[Tait Ransom]

Before a few days ago, I would say, "No, absolutely not."

After reading this thread on TBP... Maybe.

That's actually a lot better than I generally expect over there, but still - wow.

[Tait Ransom]

It goes back in literature at least to the 70s, as the "shit on whatever's popular" crowd first turned its attention to Tolkien.  It had nothing to do with "justice," it was just a dumbfuck idea that could annoy people who liked Lord of the Rings.

I'm way more tired of the "shit on whatever's popular" crowd than of any other.

Amen, and again I say Amen!

[Anon Adderlan]

I remember in grade school, teachers had us pick "historical heroes" and then later in life, we learned many of them had epic moral failings. At that point, we get to choose. Do we honor them for their achievements? Vilify them for their failings? Or accept that human beings are flawed and even those who achieve things may have traits we do not find appealing or acceptable.

Someone should write a game about that.

It's not NECESSARILY non-gamers that are always the trouble. Sometimes it's active gamers who think they are morally superior to others, in a hobby that is about fantasy gaming (as in NOT reality) and having fun.

For me it's always the latter.

When the journalists locked down discussion and closed ranks on the narrative.

https://medium.com/@KingFrostFive/gamergate-august-2014-revisited-3b41832c061b

That's when people couldn't deny that there was a clique of journalists attempting to control the narrative.

So by controlling the narrative when accused of controlling the narrative they proved they were controlling the narrative.

Nice.

[Trond]

The thing that made Gamergate explode was the glitch in the matrix. When the journalists locked down discussion and closed ranks on the narrative.

https://medium.com/@KingFrostFive/gamergate-august-2014-revisited-3b41832c061b

That's when people couldn't deny that there was a clique of journalists attempting to control the narrative.* Without such a controversy, Pundit's D&DGate will be stillborn.

*Well, they could, but it made them look like nitwits.

The whole Gamergate thing was actually what turned me from mildly skeptical of the mass media, into highly suspicious of everything they write. After having seen multiple articles claiming that there is only one side worth writing about, it took me only a couple of minutes of internet searching to find a whole other perspective, and a pretty valid one too. The lack of interest and/or research among the journalists was mind-boggling.

[S'mon]

The whole Gamergate thing was actually what turned me from mildly skeptical of the mass media, into highly suspicious of everything they write.

Gamergate woke up a lot of people. Then with the media's unhinged reaction to the Trump candidacy, half the US population no longer trust them at all. I don't think their coverage of the Trump Presidency has helped either!

[ArrozConLeche]

I guess I could stick around and see where this goes. Maybe Pundit can listen to reason, he is an intelligent guy, after all.

You should definitely stick around and defend your positions. If you end up banned for some BS reason, at least you weren't no quitter. People on the Left quit too easily as if they can't stand the heat in the kitchen.

[Mordred Pendragon]

You should definitely stick around and defend your positions. If you end up banned for some BS reason, at least you weren't no quitter. People on the Left quit too easily as if they can't stand the heat in the kitchen.

Then I shall stand my ground til the end.

[S'mon]

Then I shall stand my ground til the end.

Just quit it with the fake drama Doc. Nobody believed your claim to be leaving. And try not to spam threads.

[Ras Algethi]

Just quit it with the fake drama Doc. Nobody believed your claim to be leaving. And try not to spam threads.

But his signature! I thinks he thinks he means it.

[Mordred Pendragon]

But his signature! I thinks he thinks he means it.

Oh, fuck off. I did mean it, but damn if my empathy for Pundit and Spinachat's pep talk didn't make me change my mind.

I'm serious. I am trying to save this forum from itself, lest it become a twisted mockery of RPG.net.

We're not there yet, but we could easily head in that direction if we're not careful.

[RPGPundit]

Closed for excess drama.