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Author Topic: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)  (Read 306576 times)

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #105 on: August 26, 2021, 10:45:08 AM »
Another example how a thread being labeled A-game really means “don’t disrupt the narrative”:

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/macd21-receives-a-🔴-warning-and-threadban.886048/

The Afghanistan thread has been running excuses on how Biden couldn’t have done anything different that would’ve resulted in a better outcome. Macd21 went against the grain on that, and for that he was threadbanned for “heating up the thread”. You can’t interrupt posters in an A-Game thread from the dominant thread narrative. In this case the dominant thread is a lot of Biden supporters rationalizing how their guy actually hasn’t screwed up.

For them, Biden is the real victim in all this mess, and by extension his domestic agenda of giving me free stuff. Don’t hinder his ability to give me extended unemployment benefits, keep the rent moratorium in place, forgive my student loans, etc. Sadly, a big motivation on their part is probably the desire to minimize the ability of the MAGA folks (Full disclosure, I didn’t vote for Trump. I considered it, but wound up voting for the Libertarian ticket both times.) from owning them online. For the millions of women being thrown back into subhuman status? Well, sadly that’s collateral damage.
They handed out a 30 day for 'racism and bad takes' as well (aka, how dare you speak something inconvenient).

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-radioactivist-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-racism-and-bad-takes-on-an-a-game-thread.886011/

Unsurprising, as TBP's statist mindset means 'no irregular force can stand against a proper military one' (which is incredibly hilarious in light of recent events).  But then, they also would rather wring their hands and cry, rather than airdrop in guns and instructions on how to use them, and exhortations to not let the Taliban disarm them.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #106 on: August 26, 2021, 11:38:35 AM »
Kinda makes me think that mobilizing a meme army to invade TBP would be glorious. Make an account, spam memes drive the mods crazy, get banned, make a sock puppet account, rinse and repeat until they cry for mercy. It could be the second great meme war
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #107 on: August 26, 2021, 12:35:47 PM »
Kinda makes me think that mobilizing a meme army to invade TBP would be glorious. Make an account, spam memes drive the mods crazy, get banned, make a sock puppet account, rinse and repeat until they cry for mercy. It could be the second great meme war
We observe and argue here. I don’t think we deliberately create cross-forum drama/brigade here. This isn’t a chan site. Besides, I doubt any kind of meme/troll action you seem to describe would have any other effect than allow the mods there to award themselves points for being righteous victims. I don’t think TBP is a site to be “defeated” somehow (not sure how that’d even work out), but rather mourned as its users fall deeper into the SJW cult. Occasionally I’ll see a member recognize what’s going on, and step back from the abyss. If TBP ever goes away it will likely be due to an implosion from one of their struggle sessions tearing the site apart from within. Sort of like how the Japanese United Red Army destroyed itself for the most part.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #108 on: August 26, 2021, 02:58:46 PM »
Kinda makes me think that mobilizing a meme army to invade TBP would be glorious. Make an account, spam memes drive the mods crazy, get banned, make a sock puppet account, rinse and repeat until they cry for mercy. It could be the second great meme war

The only positive thing in all this mess are the droves of people who are realising how the Real World doesn't give a fuck about Twitter and "cancelling".
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #109 on: August 27, 2021, 03:16:27 AM »
They handed out a 30 day for 'racism and bad takes' as well (aka, how dare you speak something inconvenient).

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-radioactivist-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-racism-and-bad-takes-on-an-a-game-thread.886011/

You can see why we are losing right there.
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #110 on: August 29, 2021, 02:06:22 PM »
Kinda makes me think that mobilizing a meme army to invade TBP would be glorious. Make an account, spam memes drive the mods crazy, get banned, make a sock puppet account, rinse and repeat until they cry for mercy. It could be the second great meme war

Apparently Gamergate is responsible for the rise of Trump, and fascism. So hey prove them right by launching a meme invasion into Afghanistan. Naruto run into the Taliban. Show up those arseholes on RPGnet.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #111 on: August 29, 2021, 04:31:21 PM »
They handed out a 30 day for 'racism and bad takes' as well (aka, how dare you speak something inconvenient).

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-radioactivist-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-racism-and-bad-takes-on-an-a-game-thread.886011/

You can see why we are losing right there.
>losing
>TBP hasn't cracked 250 registered members online in the last year and a half

Mmm. If you say so. Personally this looks more like a slow suicide and I am happy to watch them down one poisoned cocktail after another.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #112 on: August 29, 2021, 07:20:56 PM »
They handed out a 30 day for 'racism and bad takes' as well (aka, how dare you speak something inconvenient).

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-radioactivist-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-racism-and-bad-takes-on-an-a-game-thread.886011/

You can see why we are losing right there.
>losing
>TBP hasn't cracked 250 registered members online in the last year and a half

Mmm. If you say so. Personally this looks more like a slow suicide and I am happy to watch them down one poisoned cocktail after another.

I have seen it hit 250-260 once just a few weeks ago, but yeah, it was ONE time

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #113 on: August 29, 2021, 07:31:43 PM »
Mmm. If you say so. Personally this looks more like a slow suicide and I am happy to watch them down one poisoned cocktail after another.

Oh man, I remember back in the heyday before the fascists took over. The main rpg forum page would have hundreds of threads, new that day. I'd be reading something earlier in the day and if I wanted to find it I'd have to go six, seven pages to find it.

Now, it's normal to have two to three days worth of topics on the main page alone. It's stagnating and dying....and I'm glad. They have killed off the best rpg posters. All that is left is lickspittles and non rpg players.
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #114 on: August 29, 2021, 09:15:59 PM »
Naruto run into the Taliban..

I'm down for that. Someone set up a date.
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #115 on: August 31, 2021, 02:48:49 PM »
They handed out a 30 day for 'racism and bad takes' as well (aka, how dare you speak something inconvenient).

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-radioactivist-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-racism-and-bad-takes-on-an-a-game-thread.886011/

You can see why we are losing right there.
>losing
>TBP hasn't cracked 250 registered members online in the last year and a half

Mmm. If you say so. Personally this looks more like a slow suicide and I am happy to watch them down one poisoned cocktail after another.

No, you misread me. With "We" I meant "The West" in Afghanistan.
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #116 on: August 31, 2021, 07:52:32 PM »
They handed out a 30 day for 'racism and bad takes' as well (aka, how dare you speak something inconvenient).

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-radioactivist-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-racism-and-bad-takes-on-an-a-game-thread.886011/

You can see why we are losing right there.
>losing
>TBP hasn't cracked 250 registered members online in the last year and a half

Mmm. If you say so. Personally this looks more like a slow suicide and I am happy to watch them down one poisoned cocktail after another.

No, you misread me. With "We" I meant "The West" in Afghanistan.
Ah. Although I would argue that winning wasn't an option unless we planned to depopulate and terraform the place. But you're not wrong.

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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #117 on: September 01, 2021, 12:39:14 AM »
Ah. Although I would argue that winning wasn't an option unless we planned to depopulate and terraform the place. But you're not wrong.

First you need to know what your goal is, then you can look to see if you won or not.

I would say that a trillion in war spending seems like a big win to me.
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #118 on: September 01, 2021, 06:35:48 AM »
They handed out a 30 day for 'racism and bad takes' as well (aka, how dare you speak something inconvenient).

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/the-radioactivist-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban-racism-and-bad-takes-on-an-a-game-thread.886011/

You can see why we are losing right there.
>losing
>TBP hasn't cracked 250 registered members online in the last year and a half

Mmm. If you say so. Personally this looks more like a slow suicide and I am happy to watch them down one poisoned cocktail after another.

No, you misread me. With "We" I meant "The West" in Afghanistan.
Ah. Although I would argue that winning wasn't an option unless we planned to depopulate and terraform the place. But you're not wrong.

If you Google "Jung problematic" (*) you will see that he is under fire, among other things, for defining some peoples/cultures "primitive". Of course no one actually reads his writings, thus noticing, for example, that Jung doesn't use the term in an offensive way, but only descriptive. He even points out how on the road of becoming "civilised" we lose a lot, and that the best possible outcome would be to integrate the civilised and primitive values so to live a fullest life.

Anyway, Jung studied "primitive" cultures by literally living among them (in East Africa and, IIRC, among the Indians of the American Southwest). Tl;dr: they are different.

"Different" means that you can neither apply your "civilised" ways and values and expect the same results, nor delude yourself that a primitive culture will become civilised overnight. Which is what the West, instead, gave for granted both in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So, the correct approach should be to understand how these cultures are different from ours and how you can help them in their own terms. But the very moment you "cancel" the concept of "primitive" (like this idiot Mod on RPG.net does) you also cancel the opportunity to speak about some cultures in real terms - with the tragicomic results we all just witnessed.

(*) This is becoming a little pastime of mine: to think about an entity (man, institution, cartoon character...) add "problematic" and Google it. I almost always get returns. C.G. Jung, J.W. Campbell, The Pink Panther, Forrest Gump... Feel free to try!
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Re: RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)
« Reply #119 on: September 01, 2021, 06:45:36 AM »
I tried 'Reckall Problematic' but it keeps suggesting 'Recall' or 'Rectal', both of which can be problematic it seems.
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