RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)

[Armchair Gamer]

Socialists don't worship Mammon. But Moloch? Definitely.

  Look at 'woke capital' and tell me that the two formerly (supposedly) opposed fiends aren't now working openly hand in glove.

[Stephen Tannhauser]

Cerulean Lion is a publicly identified Christian, which makes him unlikely to give proper respect to TBP's patrons Mammon, Asmodeus, and Moloch.

Agreed, but I have generally observed that he takes the "judge as you would be judged / fix the mote in one's own eye first" approach to controversial topics, which usually helps keep things cool. That's where he addresses such things directly at all, which I very rarely remember him doing. Maybe that has changed in the years I've been off the site, but it's still surprising.

(Out of curiosity, if Mammon is avarice and Moloch is libertinism, what's the sin/vice of Asmodeus?)

[Armchair Gamer]

(Out of curiosity, if Mammon is avarice and Moloch is libertinism, what's the sin/vice of Asmodeus?)

  Asmodeus is typically associated with lust and wrath; Moloch, with power and profit in return for certain sacrifices ...

[Shasarak]

(Out of curiosity, if Mammon is avarice and Moloch is libertinism, what's the sin/vice of Asmodeus?)

  Asmodeus is typically associated with lust and wrath; Moloch, with power and profit in return for certain sacrifices ...

I would have put Asmodeus down for Pride myself.

[Stephen Tannhauser]

Asmodeus is typically associated with lust and wrath; Moloch, with power and profit in return for certain sacrifices ...

Ah, I see -- I'd sort of thought of Moloch as "lust" because the sacrifices typically ascribed to him are the ones made catastrophically common and easy by post-Sexual Revolution hookup culture (which I refer to by the term "libertinism" as a call-back to de Sade).

Mammon, Moloch and Asmodeus -- gotta remember that trifecta. Sort of encompasses much of Wokism generally, now I think about it.

[Armchair Gamer]

Asmodeus is typically associated with lust and wrath; Moloch, with power and profit in return for certain sacrifices ...

Ah, I see -- I'd sort of thought of Moloch as "lust" because the sacrifices typically ascribed to him are the ones made catastrophically common and easy by post-Sexual Revolution hookup culture (which I refer to by the term "libertinism" as a call-back to de Sade).

Mammon, Moloch and Asmodeus -- gotta remember that trifecta. Sort of encompasses much of Wokism generally, now I think about it.

  I often use Ashtoreth instead of Asmodeus, and it arguably works better if one accepts the theory that Moloch was Ashtoreth's consort in Canaanite religion. "Asmodeus" just comes to mind in the context of the RPG hobby.

[Pat]

(Out of curiosity, if Mammon is avarice and Moloch is libertinism, what's the sin/vice of Asmodeus?)

I've always considered Moloch more of a baby-eater, myself.

[Pat]

(Out of curiosity, if Mammon is avarice and Moloch is libertinism, what's the sin/vice of Asmodeus?)

  Asmodeus is typically associated with lust and wrath; Moloch, with power and profit in return for certain sacrifices ...

I would have put Asmodeus down for Pride myself.

If we can trust the MM, he's more about evil mustaches.

[Shasarak]

(Out of curiosity, if Mammon is avarice and Moloch is libertinism, what's the sin/vice of Asmodeus?)

  Asmodeus is typically associated with lust and wrath; Moloch, with power and profit in return for certain sacrifices ...

I would have put Asmodeus down for Pride myself.

If we can trust the MM, he's more about evil mustaches.

Asmodeus with his evil mustache and ass-less chaps.

[Ghostmaker]

You know, let it not be said that I don't give credit where it's due.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/npc-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-three-day-ban.894497/

Yeah, posting a gloomy 'Polish government sucks!' in a thread about the Polish equivalent of donuts? Asinine.

(Also, I'd be racially profiling if I was the Polish government too, to be blunt. Deal with it, you German commie bitchboi.)

[Stephen Tannhauser]

I would have put Asmodeus down for Pride myself.

If we can trust the MM, he's more about evil mustaches.

I've seen plenty of evil-looking mustaches at events dedicated to Pride.

[I]

I've seen plenty of evil-looking mustaches at events dedicated to Pride.

Plenty of assless chaps too, I'll warrant.

[Armchair Gamer]

I would have put Asmodeus down for Pride myself.

  Are you thinking Biblical or D&D Asmodeus?

  (He shows up in the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books, so not all Bibles will have it.)

[Shasarak]

I would have put Asmodeus down for Pride myself.

  Are you thinking Biblical or D&D Asmodeus?

  (He shows up in the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books, so not all Bibles will have it.)

The guy who would rather rule in hell then serve in heaven, which is more Milton then either the Bible or DnD.

[Stephen Tannhauser]

Plenty of assless chaps too, I'll warrant.

Thankfully surprisingly few; the obligatory media photos of the event that become impossible to avoid in Toronto during June will usually exercise at least some discretion.