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« Reply #45 on: March 28, 2008, 11:25:42 PM »
Welcome to the four new members we appear to've picked up from this kerfuffle.
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« Reply #46 on: March 29, 2008, 04:03:53 AM »
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I've bolded the relevant part of your post, just in case you really are confused as to why a site like RPGnet would take you to task over it. You identified a group, then attacked it by claiming it's members were "mentally unstable, physically unattractive, and financially instable -- i.e. subaverage women."

No.  That's not what I said.  You have a reading comprehension problem.

I was theorizing why mentally unstable, physically unattractive, and financially instable -- i.e. subaverage women -- seem to be drawn to gaming.  There is a very real and meaningful difference between what I said and how you are summarizing it.  You seem to be under the greatly mistaken impression that I was identifying women gamers as mentally unstable, physically unattractive, and financially instable.  That is not what I said at all.  I was attempting to explain why I had encountered so many subaverage women in my gaming career.  You can't attack subaverage women by identifying them as subaverage women.

There's nothing in what I said to get offended by, unless of course you can't actually comprehend written English.  Which I honestly think is a huge part of the problem.  I am constantly amazed by people's utter inability to read simple English.

Unless, of course, you consider acknowledging that subaverage women exist is an attack on women as a whole.  Which is exactly how people reacted.  But that's utterly irrational.  Subaverage women must exist, it's necessitated by the existence of average and above average women.

A rational person would agree that the average woman is not mentally unstable, physically unattractive, and financially instable, and that these are negative traits, and thus a woman displaying these traits must be subaverage.

It's really not that hard to comprehend, unless you're a moderator on rpg.net.
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« Reply #47 on: March 29, 2008, 04:39:00 AM »
Any appeal to rationality by a person who threatens physical violence and degredation is inherently ridiculous. You know what you did, and no amount of half-arsed, self righteous justification will distract from that.

I'm done with this. Enjoy your stay here.
 

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« Reply #48 on: March 29, 2008, 05:21:52 AM »
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Any appeal to rationality by a person who threatens physical violence and degredation is inherently ridiculous. You know what you did, and no amount of half-arsed, self righteous justification will distract from that.

I'm done with this. Enjoy your stay here.


Translation:  You can't actually defend what you just claimed, and refuse to admit you were wrong.

You're pathetic.
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« Reply #49 on: March 29, 2008, 05:39:42 AM »
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(On the plus sides, that does give me an idea for a My Life with Master character, and of course the whole episode has re-introduced me to this forum. :D   )


Welcome aboard, Motorskills, and might I ask: how did this incident serve to "re-introduce" you to this forum? How did you come to find out about theRPGsite due to this incident?

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« Reply #50 on: March 29, 2008, 09:41:04 AM »
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I was theorizing why mentally unstable, physically unattractive, and financially instable -- i.e. subaverage women -- seem to be drawn to gaming.  
Like attracts like.

Of course, it's just your experience, so...
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« Reply #51 on: March 29, 2008, 11:24:19 AM »
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That's when I decided to play Internet Terrorist.
 

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She wanted to cast me in the role of Dangerous Internet Person, and I played along.


Sounds to me like you walked right into being banned.  I can't imagine any reasonably run forum that would put up with someone posing as an "Internet Terrorist" or "Dangerous Internet Person" even if the script had been written by others.
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« Reply #52 on: March 29, 2008, 11:24:54 AM »
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And for that matter, welcome aboard Jackalope.  I don't give a fuck what you've been accused of on other sites; the only thing that will get you banned on this site would be your behaviour here: and stating your opinions is not a bannable offense.  Don't disrupt the functionality of the forums, don't commit any felonies or engage in harassment of other members, and you'll be fine.
And while you're extending such a warm welcome to a turd the size of Jackalope, you can extend a farewell to me and delete my account here.
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« Reply #53 on: March 29, 2008, 11:31:19 AM »
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And while you're extending such a warm welcome to a turd the size of Jackalope, you can extend a farewell to me and delete my account here.


I'm not normally into the translation business, but let me put the above into English.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
:bawling:

I get it, Jackalope's a dick, but as long as he doesn't bring the forum to a screeching halt with his douchebaggery, who really cares?
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« Reply #54 on: March 29, 2008, 11:43:00 AM »
There was a reference in one of the discussion threads that reminded me I needed to check up on this place.

Well I lurked here for a while about 6-12 months ago, I forget exactly.

I didn't save the link at the time, which was probably a mistake.  Whilst my spare time is at a premium, the general forum makes a refreshing change from "the other place". and there is useful gaming info here as well.
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« Reply #55 on: March 29, 2008, 12:08:55 PM »
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And while you're extending such a warm welcome to a turd the size of Jackalope, you can extend a farewell to me and delete my account here.

Remind me again, did you leave RPGnet after the Poison'd debacle?

TheRPGsite has dealt with assholes before (Nox, anyone?), but only for what they did here, not there.
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« Reply #56 on: March 29, 2008, 12:17:47 PM »
Jackalope is getting a warm welcome?

Well fuck, what's a cold welcome around here?

Or did O'Borg mean "warm" as in "flaming"? Is there anyone who, having responded to Jackalope at all, has not abused him?

Is this like how Obama has to go to his old pastor's house and brass it up with an AK-47 before anyone will believe he thinks the guy said some stupid stuff?
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« Reply #57 on: March 29, 2008, 12:22:38 PM »
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Jackalope is getting a warm welcome?

Well fuck, what's a cold welcome around here?

Or did O'Borg mean "warm" as in "flaming"? Is there anyone who, having responded to Jackalope at all, has not abused him?

Is this like how Obama has to go to his old pastor's house and brass it up with an AK-47 before anyone will believe he thinks the guy said some stupid stuff?


To heck with that, I have more of a problem of the old vocal (or is it postal on a fourm?), exit as some kind of moral stand, as I don't see any other reason to do so. I mean it's not like some dumbass posting stupid shit online is the evil that happens when good men do nothing.
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« Reply #58 on: March 29, 2008, 12:33:50 PM »
It's slacktivism, baby! O'Borg probably forwards emails about oppression in Tibet, and joins Facebook groups protesting the Iraq war.

Jackalope appears to be a cocksmock. But no doubt he will soon toke up again once more, calm down a lot, laugh and shake his head at himself, then settle down to not gaming at all and just dropping sarcastic comments in threads about gaming, apparently SOP for heavy tokers.
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« Reply #59 on: March 29, 2008, 01:48:14 PM »
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Translation:  You can't actually defend what you just claimed, and refuse to admit you were wrong.


Nope. I could have quite easily pulled your argument apart by highlighting your confusion between subjective experience and objective reality as the foundtion of a theoretical posture based largely on frothing misogyny.

I really couldn't be bothered though. You're a fucking internet stalker who's beyond reason.