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Welp, it's Official: Banned from RPGNet

Started by TaoJeannes, February 21, 2013, 01:08:58 PM

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TaoJeannes

February 21, 2013, 01:08:58 PM Last Edit: February 21, 2013, 01:11:01 PM by TaoJeannes
Note that I was in no way trying to get banned. In fact, I bent over backwards to try to find some kind of common ground, but not being liberal enough is the ultimate offense.

Ironically, they accuse me of the exact same kind of ulterior motives they have repeatedly displayed:

KaiTave: when he decides to start a thread I'm pretty sure he was aware would result in some sort of politically-motivated whargarble (but he's totally not trolling, scout's honor, he even says so in the thread title!), then runs to Trouble Tickets to demand it be reopened while expressing "sincere concern" over the off-topic forum's media neutrality, he perhaps isn't doing so in as good a faith as he would like it to appear.

The thread in question: Is MSNBC biased? CLEARLY trolling.

KaiTave is an old buddy of mine, one who has particularly enjoyed lecturing me. He even made a point to get in a dig AFTER I was permabanned:

[Must be paraphrased as it was deleted] I'm sure now you'll go run off to complain about us on other sites about how you were the squashed as the voice of reason.

In related news, KaiTave reads The RPG Site!

Also, he can read the future.
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- Luke McKinney, Cracked.com

Sacrosanct

#1
February 21, 2013, 01:18:04 PM
Quote from: TaoJeannes;630551N

[Must be paraphrased as it was deleted] I'm sure now you'll go run off to complain about us on other sites about how you were the squashed as the voice of reason.
.

Thanks for proving him right.  :nono:

Only unbeknownst to Kai, most people here don't like your posting style either.
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TaoJeannes

#2
February 21, 2013, 01:20:51 PM
Burned!

Well, I like to think my posting style here will now balance toward discussing RPGs, since now I have no alternatives.

Also, this was a personal attack. Don't post on this thread again.
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KenHR

#3
February 21, 2013, 01:22:38 PM
Congratulations, I guess?

I hope you feel special.
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One Horse Town

#4
February 21, 2013, 01:26:07 PM
Their loss is our loss.

TaoJeannes

#5
February 21, 2013, 01:27:11 PM
Quote from: KenHR;630557I hope you feel special.

I don't. Believe me, I would prefer not to be banned. I'm even considering appeal on the grounds that I stay out of OT, as that's where they want to put me in my place.

And to be honest, I do repeatedly poke them with a stick. But the general idea isn't to flamebait, but simply "Let's try to get you hippies to at least admit this incredibly moderate and reasonable position." I kept assuming that somewhere under the groupthink there were people who honestly wanted to be fair.
Memes are voluntary brain damage, short-circuiting higher thought processes with copy and paste, because these people view thinking as unpleasant homework and they\'d rather copy it off the Internet. They\'ve become a vehicle for regurgitating things they\'ve seen before, the textual equivalent of the winter vomiting bug. And about as fun to spend time with.
- Luke McKinney, Cracked.com

Exploderwizard

#6
February 21, 2013, 01:49:26 PM
Fuck TBP. I've been gone from that place for over a year and haven't missed the liberal shithole since.
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Sacrosanct

#7
February 21, 2013, 02:10:57 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;630572Fuck TBP. I've been gone from that place for over a year and haven't missed the liberal shithole since.

Hey now.  In some ways, I am a liberal, particularly when it comes to social issues.  Tangency isn't liberal.  It's left wing extremist that cares less about true equal rights and more about protecting those posters who love their white/male guilt and making sure you feel guilty too, all the while manufacturing reasons to attack and ban the person rather than the argument of anyone who doesn't fit into their viewpoint.

It's Animal Farm, essentially.  A certain group of the oppressed who only wanted equality, upon attaining power (protection of the site and staff), engage in the very same behavior they were complaining about earlier.
D&D is not an "everyone gets a ribbon" game.  If you\'re stupid, your PC will die.  If you\'re an asshole, your PC will die (probably from the other PCs).  If you\'re unlucky, your PC may die.  Point?  PC\'s die.  Get over it and roll up a new one.

Ghost Whistler

#8
February 21, 2013, 03:09:18 PM
17d6 will commence again if you try to take away our posting rights!
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#9
February 21, 2013, 03:10:32 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;630561Their loss is our loss.
:rotfl:  Thanks for the laugh.

gleichman

#10
February 21, 2013, 03:17:39 PM
Quote from: Exploderwizard;630572Fuck TBP. I've been gone from that place for over a year and haven't missed the liberal shithole since.

This place strikes me as just as liberal in practical terms, it's just not as politically correct.
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TaoJeannes

#11
February 21, 2013, 03:18:38 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;630582It's Animal Farm, essentially.  A certain group of the oppressed who only wanted equality, upon attaining power (protection of the site and staff), engage in the very same behavior they were complaining about earlier.

Yes, that. The thing is groupthink makes it impossible to see that about yourself, so whenever I encounter it I'm constantly asking myself "Am I the asshole?" Based on the beating I'm taking here, clearly the answer is yes. But that doesn't negate the assholeishness on the other side. TRPGP is a self-defined asshole, yet he's sometimes right.
Memes are voluntary brain damage, short-circuiting higher thought processes with copy and paste, because these people view thinking as unpleasant homework and they\'d rather copy it off the Internet. They\'ve become a vehicle for regurgitating things they\'ve seen before, the textual equivalent of the winter vomiting bug. And about as fun to spend time with.
- Luke McKinney, Cracked.com

Silverlion

#12
February 21, 2013, 05:41:10 PM
Welcome.  I to see more game talk myself.
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Spinachcat

#13
February 21, 2013, 05:58:11 PM
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;63061317d6 will commence again if you try to take away our posting rights!

Awesome!

Daztur

#14
February 21, 2013, 06:43:00 PM
Quote from: gleichman;630619This place strikes me as just as liberal in practical terms, it's just not as politically correct.

Yeah just about any place that has typical internet demographic skews (less than half American, mostly young, etc.) is going to look pretty damn lefty compared to the average American. There's just lefty and then there's undergrad soc major lefty...
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