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« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2016, 01:12:44 PM »
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Dude, not cool. A person's spiritual beliefs are their own, and shouldn't be mocked unless they directly hurt others.

Pundit is a pathetic piece of shit for so many reasons, use some of those. He thinks he is the Hunter S. Thompson of RPGs when he is really Joseph McCarty. He judges people based on their birthplace and cultural background, he fervently denies being a homophobe while using 'cocksucker' as his favorite insult. His whole output hasn't sold as well as a single printing of Dungeon World, one of many RPGs he claims no one buys. He claims understanding of world politics, the inner workings of the EU and Polish affairs while displaying none or factually wrong knowledge on any of these subjects. He claims to have singlehandedly saved D&D while being one of eight consultants on the product among dozens of contributors. And the list goes on!

Obviously, you aren't friends with any proudly self proclaimed cocksuckers.

Regardless, since straight and gay people suck the cock, feel free to fuck right of with that claim.

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« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2016, 02:24:51 PM »
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Obviously, you aren't friends with any proudly self proclaimed cocksuckers.

Regardless, since straight and gay people suck the cock, feel free to fuck right of with that claim.

I honestly have no idea what you mean here.

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« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2016, 02:28:43 PM »
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I honestly have no idea what you mean here.

Straight women. :rolleyes:
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« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2016, 07:48:40 PM »
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Number of times Kyle has claimed to be able to work 'teh real world magicks': Also 0


If he did, maybe he'd have been hired to work on D&D.
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« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2016, 07:53:19 PM »
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he fervently denies being a homophobe while using 'cocksucker' as his favorite insult.

Cocksucker is not my favorite insult! That would probably be bitch. Like you, little bitch!

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His whole output hasn't sold as well as a single printing of Dungeon World, one of many RPGs he claims no one buys.

I have no idea what DW's output has really been, or how many people even play it. Since it blatantly ripped off the OSR in an attempt to be popular, I'm sure it's probably the most-played Swine Game, since its the one most passingly similar to D&D.
But D&D 5e is part of my output, and it has VASTLY outsold everything the forge/storygames crowd have ever written, in just one printing.

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He claims understanding of world politics, the inner workings of the EU and Polish affairs while displaying none or factually wrong knowledge on any of these subjects.

By 'wrong' you mean 'has humiliated me with the truth', little bitch?


 
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He claims to have singlehandedly saved D&D while being one of eight consultants on the product among dozens of contributors. And the list goes on!

I never said singlehandedly. Mike Mearls helped a great deal, by hiring me to help save D&D from the disaster the Forge had put it in (and thus admitting I was right about everything all along), listening to my advice and exchanging hundreds of emails with me to make sure the game was done right.
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« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2016, 07:55:04 PM »
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Straight women. :rolleyes:

Pretty sure Little Bitch Ronin has no acquaintance with women as a subject.
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« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2016, 08:51:01 PM »
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I never said singlehandedly. Mike Mearls helped a great deal, by hiring me to help save D&D from the disaster the Forge had put it in (and thus admitting I was right about everything all along), listening to my advice and exchanging hundreds of emails with me to make sure the game was done right.
Not sure what the forge really had to do with it. I mean really? A niche, of a niche, of a niche hobby destroyed the hobbies biggest name? Shenannigans to that. WotC didn't really need help fucking things up (I'm looking at you 4E). Maybe you you did have a big effect, maybe you didn't. I don't really care either way. But put away the trumpet Pundy, the tooting of the horn is so loud.
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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2016, 12:38:13 AM »
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Straight women. :rolleyes:


Thank you.

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Obviously, you aren't friends with any proudly self proclaimed cocksuckers.

Regardless, since straight and gay people suck the cock, feel free to fuck right of with that claim.


Now you are going down into semantics rather than focusing on the context. When Pundit, as he often does, use cocksucker as an insult that would not be in praise of any who enjoy the activity.

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« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2016, 12:49:03 AM »
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Cocksucker is not my favorite insult! That would probably be bitch. Like you, little bitch!

I have no idea what DW's output has really been, or how many people even play it. Since it blatantly ripped off the OSR in an attempt to be popular, I'm sure it's probably the most-played Swine Game, since its the one most passingly similar to D&D.
But D&D 5e is part of my output, and it has VASTLY outsold everything the forge/storygames crowd have ever written, in just one printing.

By 'wrong' you mean 'has humiliated me with the truth', little bitch?

I never said singlehandedly. Mike Mearls helped a great deal, by hiring me to help save D&D from the disaster the Forge had put it in (and thus admitting I was right about everything all along), listening to my advice and exchanging hundreds of emails with me to make sure the game was done right.


You can dish it out, but you can't take it. You resort to schoolyard slurs against any who question your overblown ego. You have a twisted view of the world, no better than a paranoid. And that is not even right because that would be an insult to paranoids everywhere.

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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2016, 10:53:44 AM »
Ronin why are wasting your time?  Come on your better than this.

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« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2016, 01:25:20 PM »
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Ronin why are wasting your time?  Come on your better than this.
Because it's fun to make fun of the pundy persona?

Come on, he just admitted to having to work 'teh real world magicks' on WotC in order to get them to hire him on as a consultant.
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Frankly, who gives a fuck. :idunno:

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« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2016, 02:21:59 PM »
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Ronin why are wasting your time?  Come on your better than this.

Thanks for saying that man. I admit I was in an agitated state when I wrote the initial messages.

I've been pretty pissed at Pundit since he called my family Nazi collaborators. That shit made my blood boil, and sometimes I just go overboard.

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Because it's fun to make fun of the pundy persona?

Come on, he just admitted to having to work 'teh real world magicks' on WotC in order to get them to hire him on as a consultant.

While I have my disagreements with the Pundit, I still retain that knocking a person's spiritual beliefs is wrong. I still do find the whole 'I saved D&D!' shtick a little tiring too.

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« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2016, 03:24:10 PM »
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While I have my disagreements with the Pundit, I still retain that knocking a person's spiritual beliefs is wrong. I still do find the whole 'I saved D&D!' shtick a little tiring too.

  Especially since he keeps blaming the Forge without being able to produce any solid evidence for it. (A handful of years-later references to 4E as 'gamist' do not convince.) I have no fondness for the Forge, but I do like 4E, and I don't much care for the Pundit's paranoid megalomania. :)

  Of course, by his criteria as expressed in this thread, I can call myself a New York Times-bestselling writer ...

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« Reply #28 on: August 18, 2016, 03:50:18 PM »
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While I have my disagreements with the Pundit, I still retain that knocking a person's spiritual beliefs is wrong. I still do find the whole 'I saved D&D!' shtick a little tiring too.
Why do you equate believing da magicks be real'mon as spiritual?
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« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2016, 04:13:56 PM »
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Why do you equate believing da magicks be real'mon as spiritual?

It can be part of a spiritual/religious tradition, and I feel that understanding and respecting such beliefs is an important part of engaging with and understanding other people(s). While I don't believe in it, and certainly don't have a respectful relationship with the Pundit, it is still a matter of personal conviction that religious/spiritual  world views should not be belittled.