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RPG.net user points out irony of mods "not wanting to ban people", gets banned

Started by Trinculoisdead, October 20, 2020, 11:50:36 AM

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Ratman_tf

#135
October 27, 2020, 09:18:24 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on October 27, 2020, 01:45:36 PM
I think we've kind of fallen far afield of the original topic. Can we get back to pointing and laughing at TBP? :)

How many ways can we say "They suck" until the next gossip happens?
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Kyle Aaron

#136
October 28, 2020, 02:22:27 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on October 27, 2020, 09:18:24 PM
How many ways can we say "They suck" until the next gossip happens?
What kind of a gamer would ask this question? Hello? Dice? Charts? Stats? We can quantify how much they suck!

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The tail at 48.36% the length of the whole animal appears to be wagging the dog.
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HappyDaze

#137
October 28, 2020, 05:49:32 AM
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on October 28, 2020, 02:22:27 AM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on October 27, 2020, 09:18:24 PM
How many ways can we say "They suck" until the next gossip happens?
What kind of a gamer would ask this question? Hello? Dice? Charts? Stats? We can quantify how much they suck!

Tabletop Roleplaying Open: Threads - 196,984, Messages - 5,317,922
Tangency Open: Threads - 109,161, Messages - 4,981,556

The tail at 48.36% the length of the whole animal appears to be wagging the dog.
Has anyone made a d666 random RPGnet modding encounter chart? Anyone want to?

lordmalachdrim

#138
October 28, 2020, 07:09:21 AM
Anyone know that happened to Ol' Jim on that site?

2 trouble tickets on 10/21
6 trouble tickets on 10/23 leading to a Permanent Ban

Ghostmaker

#139
October 28, 2020, 07:47:45 AM
Quote from: lordmalachdrim on October 28, 2020, 07:09:21 AM
Anyone know that happened to Ol' Jim on that site?

2 trouble tickets on 10/21
6 trouble tickets on 10/23 leading to a Permanent Ban
I think he's a test target for when they modify/refine their disciplinary system.

David Johansen

#140
October 28, 2020, 07:34:03 PM
Ol Jim is John Sumbitch's replacement because "bitch" is unacceptable language on rpg.net now.

It's funny how much the new orthodoxy looks like the old orthodoxy.
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Ratman_tf

#141
October 28, 2020, 09:52:00 PM
Quote from: David Johansen on October 28, 2020, 07:34:03 PM
Ol Jim is John Sumbitch's replacement because "bitch" is unacceptable language on rpg.net now.

It's funny how much the new orthodoxy looks like the old orthodoxy.

Heh. How ageist of them.
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Melan

#142
October 29, 2020, 05:19:51 AM
Quote from: David Johansen on October 28, 2020, 07:34:03 PM
Ol Jim is John Sumbitch's replacement because "bitch" is unacceptable language on rpg.net now.

It's funny how much the new orthodoxy looks like the old orthodoxy.
I was wondering why they retired poor John Sumbitch. Big if true! :D
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Dan Davenport

#143
October 29, 2020, 11:20:58 AM
Quote from: jhkim on October 26, 2020, 08:12:23 PM
Regarding abortion -

The thing is that as far as I know, no mainstream Christian organization has historically treated life as starting at conception. The traditional norm has been that life starts at birth. If a woman miscarries (as has happened throughout history), the remains were traditionally *not* given last rites and a burial on consecrated ground.

It's only in very recent times that there has been a movement to have funerals for a fertilized egg or embryo. And as far as I read, it's still not the standard.


To me, what makes someone a living human soul is not their DNA, but their existence as a thinking, conscious human being. For example, if a person is fully brain-dead, then I do not consider it murder to terminate them. I can respect those who feel otherwise, but I don't think that should be a legal mandate. That is, if someone terminates a proven brain-dead loved one, I don't think they should go to jail for premeditated murder.

Let us assume that an unborn individual does not count as a member of its species.

If that's the case, then there can be no objection to destorying bald eagle eggs. They aren't bald eagles.
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Bruwulf

#144
October 29, 2020, 01:06:13 PM
Quote from: Dan Davenport on October 29, 2020, 11:20:58 AM
Let us assume that an unborn individual does not count as a member of its species.

If that's the case, then there can be no objection to destorying bald eagle eggs. They aren't bald eagles.

Except that a potential member of an endangered species is still valuable if you're trying to conserve that species. The argument is not that a fertilized egg never will become something else, but when that happens.

shuddemell

#145
October 29, 2020, 01:07:40 PM
So your argument is that a potential bald eagle is more valuable than a potential human?
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Bruwulf

#146
October 29, 2020, 01:26:39 PM
Quote from: shuddemell on October 29, 2020, 01:07:40 PM
So your argument is that a potential bald eagle is more valuable than a potential human?

No, that's not my argument, but for the purposes of trying to conserve the bald eagle population, yes, it's true. A potential human will never become a bald eagle. A potential bald eagle might.

shuddemell

#147
October 29, 2020, 01:32:32 PM
Interesting, and basically that is your argument restated. And a potential human might become another Einstein, and a bald eagle never will. So the idea of evaluating the value of a person before they ever get to be born is ghoulish in the extreme.
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Dan Davenport

#148
October 29, 2020, 01:34:57 PM
Quote from: Bruwulf on October 29, 2020, 01:26:39 PM
Quote from: shuddemell on October 29, 2020, 01:07:40 PM
So your argument is that a potential bald eagle is more valuable than a potential human?

No, that's not my argument, but for the purposes of trying to conserve the bald eagle population, yes, it's true. A potential human will never become a bald eagle. A potential bald eagle might.

Ah. So by that logic, a bald eagle is more valuable than a human, and the killing of a bald eagle should carry a harsher sentence than should the killing of a human.
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Bruwulf

#149
October 29, 2020, 01:39:11 PM
Quote from: Dan Davenport on October 29, 2020, 01:34:57 PM
Ah. So by that logic, a bald eagle is more valuable than a human, and the killing of a bald eagle should carry a harsher sentence than should the killing of a human.

::)

Come on. I used to have a lot of respect for you back on TBP. You're just inventing things you want me to have said to argue with now.
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