RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)

[jhkim]

It would be hilarious if anyone posted about having irreconcilable differences with Blue Rose and it's dystopian aspects.

Isn't the supreme overlord in that game a magical stag or something? Doesn't sound like a very humanist place.

Blue Rose has a limited monarchy, where the monarch can be overruled by agreement by the three advising councils - nobles, merchants, and rhydan (talking animals). There's a magical hart that chooses the monarch's successor, but its only action is to pick the monarch's successor.

I wouldn't call it humanist. It's inspired by fantasy works like Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar.

[Eirikrautha]

It would be hilarious if anyone posted about having irreconcilable differences with Blue Rose and it's dystopian aspects.

Isn't the supreme overlord in that game a magical stag or something? Doesn't sound like a very humanist place.

Blue Rose has a limited monarchy, where the monarch can be overruled by agreement by the three advising councils - nobles, merchants, and rhydan (talking animals). There's a magical hart that chooses the monarch's successor, but its only action is to pick the monarch's successor.

I wouldn't call it humanist. It's inspired by fantasy works like Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar.

Well, if it's inspired by racists like Mercedes Lackey, no wonder it's so problematic...

[Ghostmaker]

The only practical difference between fascists and communists is their flags.

[Thor's Nads]

The only practical difference between fascists and communists is their flags.

The traditional Left<--->Right paradigm doesn't work to explain current politics. Freedom<--->Totalitarianism is much more accurate and useful.

The Left has become more fascist than the Right in America ever was. They've become totalitarian.

[Ghostmaker]

The only practical difference between fascists and communists is their flags.

The traditional Left<--->Right paradigm doesn't work to explain current politics. Freedom<--->Totalitarianism is much more accurate and useful.

The Left has become more fascist than the Right in America ever was. They've become totalitarian.

Agreed.

[wmarshal]

The only practical difference between fascists and communists is their flags.

The Left has become more fascist than the Right in America ever was. They've become totalitarian.

Currently true. I think that's in part because the Left dominates the personnel of the government, and in part because the administrative state dominates so many aspects of our daily lives. If the Right takes over the government and replaces the personnel to the point where a Right viewpoint also dominates the bureaucracy then I suspect the Right would become more totalitarian, and the Left less so. A strong government is similar to the Ring of Power. I'm not an anarchist at all. We need some government, but it's been tempting since the New Deal era to see the government as being able to answer all problems.

[Thor's Nads]

Currently true. I think that's in part because the Left dominates the personnel of the government, and in part because the administrative state dominates so many aspects of our daily lives. If the Right takes over the government and replaces the personnel to the point where a Right viewpoint also dominates the bureaucracy then I suspect the Right would become more totalitarian, and the Left less so. A strong government is similar to the Ring of Power. I'm not an anarchist at all. We need some government, but it's been tempting since the New Deal era to see the government as being able to answer all problems.

The Left has taken over virtually every major institution in America. Government agencies, most large cities, education, entertainment, news, big tech. Even the religious institutions have fallen to the Left. The Right has a few things like most of the governorships, some independent news outlets, and a thriving and growing underground.

I noticed when Obama took office he didn't do the typical reconciling with the other side to work together. He set out on a mission to destroy the Republican party and use every government agency as weapons against the Right. He even purged the military, which we are really starting to see now. Then when he ran for reelection he weaponized Identity Politics and divided this country against itself.

It is a dark time in this country, but not for the reasons mainstream media would have you believe.

[Mistwell]

So now The Big Purple is banning people if they say they think a creator is "charging a lot because they know they can get away with it."

Good lord, if you disagree with that opinion, just disagree. Banning for that cannot possibly be "against the rules" given no set of rules would cover such a benign thought.

[Reckall]

So now The Big Purple is banning people if they say they think a creator is "charging a lot because they know they can get away with it."

While RPGnet doesn't tell posters what is and is not worth their money, we have a firm stance in favor of writers, editors, artists, graphic designers, and other creatives being paid fairly for their work.

...Which is the very point the poster made: how the creators can put together schemes to ask for unfair prices.

I don't think that TBP is even woke anymore. I think that they are totally adrift.

[Eirikrautha]

So now The Big Purple is banning people if they say they think a creator is "charging a lot because they know they can get away with it."

While RPGnet doesn't tell posters what is and is not worth their money, we have a firm stance in favor of writers, editors, artists, graphic designers, and other creatives being paid fairly for their work.

...Which is the very point the poster made: how the creators can put together schemes to ask for unfair prices.

I don't think that TBP is even woke anymore. I think that they are totally adrift.

No, they are just at the end stages of woke.  The only reason they haven't started shooting anyone who doesn't immediately agree with everything a mod says is because they don't think they can get away with it yet.  They've reached the point where the first person to stop clapping goes to the gulag.  It's the natural end of every left-wing ideology...

[Fergurg]

How about this: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/need-some-redacting-of-posts-because-of-going-public.900419/#post-24459204

Basically, this guy, Moritz, wants to have some of his posts and threads deleted because they could "get [him] in trouble". When you consider that TBP's side is the believers of tracking down what a person said a long time ago to punish and humiliate, it's understandable. I can't search his posts (they banned me for pointing out that the FBI found "hands up, don't shoot" to be a lie back in 2016), but anybody else want to? After all, if "accountability" is to be consistent - along the lines of forcing the enemy to play by their own rules - then Moritz clearly has things that he is covering up.

[rytrasmi]

How about this: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/need-some-redacting-of-posts-because-of-going-public.900419/#post-24459204

Basically, this guy, Moritz, wants to have some of his posts and threads deleted because they could "get [him] in trouble". When you consider that TBP's side is the believers of tracking down what a person said a long time ago to punish and humiliate, it's understandable. I can't search his posts (they banned me for pointing out that the FBI found "hands up, don't shoot" to be a lie back in 2016), but anybody else want to? After all, if "accountability" is to be consistent - along the lines of forcing the enemy to play by their own rules - then Moritz clearly has things that he is covering up.

Yes, the mod says, licking her lips. Show us your violations so we can help you....cleanse....them...mooohahaha.

[Mistwell]

How about this: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/need-some-redacting-of-posts-because-of-going-public.900419/#post-24459204

Basically, this guy, Moritz, wants to have some of his posts and threads deleted because they could "get [him] in trouble". When you consider that TBP's side is the believers of tracking down what a person said a long time ago to punish and humiliate, it's understandable. I can't search his posts (they banned me for pointing out that the FBI found "hands up, don't shoot" to be a lie back in 2016), but anybody else want to? After all, if "accountability" is to be consistent - along the lines of forcing the enemy to play by their own rules - then Moritz clearly has things that he is covering up.

I think it's just "I'm LGBTQ+ and living in a foreign nation which doesn't like my kind" sort of thing. Previously they were anonymous but they're about to start a podcast and don't want to be outed by prior posts in a nation that tends to criminalize certain LGBTQ+ stuff.

[oggsmash]

  So much for being loud, proud, and stunning and brave I guess.  If you are the sodomy sort, wtf would you move to a country that criminalizes it? 

[Mistwell]

  So much for being loud, proud, and stunning and brave I guess.  If you are the sodomy sort, wtf would you move to a country that criminalizes it?

I mean, if you're the conservative sort, why would you stay in the US where you see the woke boogeyman around every corner? Why not follow Pundit to Uruguay where it seems things are not as bad regarding those kinds of issues? I imagine your answer is similar to this person's answer - there are a lot of reasons to be somewhere which take a higher priority than "There's a lot of people who don't like me here."