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So? So what does that have to do with Role Playing Games?
Why are you even bringing them up at all? Do the Orcs in your game speak with a southern accent and the medieval cart version of pickup trucks?

- Ed C.

Yay! :D Reminds me of my WH40k orcs, back when orcs painted their carts red because "red wunz go faster". My orcs always had their artillery hooked to the vehicle and always dropped the artillery without stopping. Silly, and bad tactics, but there were rules for it and it seemed to fit the orcs personalities.

I'm actually thinking of making the orcs in my game the technologically, magically, and philosophically sophisticated race.

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Yay! :D Reminds me of my WH40k orcs, back when orcs painted their carts red because "red wunz go faster". My orcs always had their artillery hooked to the vehicle and always dropped the artillery without stopping. Silly, and bad tactics, but there were rules for it and it seemed to fit the orcs personalities.

Huh.  Minus the red paint, we called that an Iraqi Drive-By back in the day.

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Huh.  Minus the red paint, we called that an Iraqi Drive-By back in the day.

LOL In this case "back in the day" is pre-Iraq War. Before Desert Storm. Before Desert Shield. So, back before "back in the day".

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Remember how Tangency swallowed RPGnet?

I'm not saying it's gotten to that point but I've felt that the site as a whole has gotten less interesting since the election, probably because all the discussion is being drawn over here. Maybe that will die down. Maybe it won't.

I'm not put off by the political natterings, I even look from time to time, and I'll grant that, unlike Tangency, the political stuff doesn't seem to be leaking back to the main fora. (One or two posters excepted.) But I'll give this friendly suggestion: talk about whatever you like here, but provide a way--at least as an option--so that when people click New Posts, they'll get everything but this forum.


If there was a way for us to do that, and by 'us' I really mean Brett, I'd have no objection.
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I think I managed that, but not sure.

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If there was a way for us to do that, and by 'us' I really mean Brett, I'd have no objection.

LOL See, in the RPG area, I want an "ignore thread" button. There comes a point in a thread's life when it should be left to die in peace. :)

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I think I managed that, but not sure.

It looks like it works for me, logged in. I clicked on "What's New?" and nothing on the resulting page was from Pundit's Forum.

I tried it in a different browser, and it worked not logged in too.

I went back 2-3 days.

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Using tags in the subject header to mark a thread as [Politics], [Gaming], etc in Pundit's forum might help.
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LOL See, in the RPG area, I want an "ignore thread" button. There comes a point in a thread's life when it should be left to die in peace. :)


You could, you know, just not read it.
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Using tags in the subject header to mark a thread as [Politics], [Gaming], etc in Pundit's forum might help.

If people want to add those kinds of tags, I'm not opposed. But I do think that most of the time, the titles make it pretty clear for the most part what the subject matter is going to be about.

As for threads that I start in this subforum, they're usually either linking to articles I just published at Break (MOST of which are not political these days), or archived blog entries from a year ago (again, most of which are not political).
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You could, you know, just not read it.

Free will seems to be too much for some people.

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You could, you know, just not read it.


   Although it would arguably make things easier if we could put you on the Ignore List. :D

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You could, you know, just not read it.

That's what I do. ;)

I was thinking of it helping other people that keep threads alive long past their "consume by" dates.

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You could, you know, just not read it.


What kind of Common Sense gibberish is this?! :D
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