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• ACKS is written by Alexander Macris.
• Macris founded the Escapist and then sold it, and it became Defy Media.  He stayed onboard.
• He didn't buy the anti-gamergate smokescreen and was critical of Quinn and other gaming sites involved in the Quinnspiracy. - STRIKE ONE
• For Defy media, he ran Break.com, a series of sites that were more Red than Blue in outlook and audience. - STRIKE TWO
• Based on that (and the fact that he's highly intelligent, educated and knows how to run internet businesses), he was offered and accepted the CEO position of Milo Inc, headed by Milo Yiannopolis. - STRIKE THREE
• After Milo's empire imploded once his biggest backer died, Macris lost some of his titles, but still is involved with Milo's other businesses to some degree I think?

So yeah, to a SJW, Alex is basically Hitler. :rolleyes:

...not a single thing you wrote makes sense except to remind me why I avoid mixing real life and gaming. However thanks for explaining as best you can to this apolitical slob.

This is like all those nonces on the TBP wringing their hands because that guy who wrote something for Battletech has been accused of something and owning it makes them tainted by association. Of the other guy from who wrote some savage worlds stuff SPF. Or the Last Citadel guy...is their anyone in the RPG world not sexually harassing, molesting or looking at someone in the wrong way?

I now exit this thread grateful to CRKrueger for enlightening me to the madness *loses d10 sanity

Quote from: HorusArisen;1043718...not a single thing you wrote makes sense except to remind me why I avoid mixing real life and gaming. However thanks for explaining as best you can to this apolitical slob.

Basically it just means if you're not a hardcore, virtual signaling progressive, you might as well be burning down orphanages.

Quote from: Anon Adderlan;1043698Let's say they were. Then being removed from the panel, or shut down by the moderator, would be the answer.

I followed Alison Tieman's youtube stuff (The person in question) for a while before the Calgary Expo incident. She likes to talk, and talks a lot.
But the panel was asking what they probably thought was a rhetorical question, and Alison offered to answer it. When they said "Go ahead" (or something similar, I'm paraphrasing) they gave her permission to speak.
Alison politely, if emphatically, said her piece, and then sat down. The recording is uploaded for all to hear it. (Always be recording. That's something she learned from being an MRA. The "opposition" love to lie about details like that.)

Quote from: HorusArisen;1043718...not a single thing you wrote makes sense except to remind me why I avoid mixing real life and gaming. However thanks for explaining as best you can to this apolitical slob.

This is like all those nonces on the TBP wringing their hands because that guy who wrote something for Battletech has been accused of something and owning it makes them tainted by association. Of the other guy from who wrote some savage worlds stuff SPF. Or the Last Citadel guy...is their anyone in the RPG world not sexually harassing, molesting or looking at someone in the wrong way?

I now exit this thread grateful to CRKrueger for enlightening me to the madness *loses d10 sanity

I have always wanted to play ACKS, and met Tavis years ago at a convention. Seemed like a cool guy.

If Macris has been targeted for wrongthink, and for being politically unreliable, it gives me even more reason to purchase the game and start playing it.

Quote from: HorusArisen;1043708However my morbid curiosity is enticed, what does ACKs have to do with genocide?

See how hard it is to ignore

And I encountered this individual in a thread full of people trying to shame others into not buying ACKs, because once you know the connections doing so makes you a garbage human.

Quote from: HorusArisen;1043718is their anyone in the RPG world not sexually harassing, molesting or looking at someone in the wrong way?

No.

It really is as bad as women say. The problem is the 'community' they foster enables this kind of harassment. And you just need to look up 'reset the clock' to see how many of their members have been outed for sexual harassment, pedophilia, or being on the fucking sex offender registry.

There also comes a point where you have to worry about the connections when/if you discuss gaming with non-gamers, which is exactly the kind of thing necessary to expand the 'community'. And while they may not be familiar with #Gamergate, they've likely been exposed to MSM stories which paint us as misogynists, Nazis, and school shooters.

In short, certain members of the gaming community continually paint their community as being full of bad people, shame people who are unaware of this nonsense, attack people who don't want to deal with this nonsense, and then wonder why there aren't more good people involved. Like a lot of game designers they've created a system which does exactly the opposite of that intended, and all they'll be left with are a handful of bitter angry people ruling over an empire of ash.

Quote from: Anon Adderlan;1043745See how hard it is to ignore

And I encountered this individual in a thread full of people trying to shame others into not buying ACKs, because once you know the connections doing so makes you a garbage human.



No.

It really is as bad as women say. The problem is the 'community' they foster enables this kind of harassment. And you just need to look up 'reset the clock' to see how many of their members have been outed for sexual harassment, pedophilia, or being on the fucking sex offender registry.

There also comes a point where you have to worry about the connections when/if you discuss gaming with non-gamers, which is exactly the kind of thing necessary to expand the 'community'. And while they may not be familiar with #Gamergate, they've likely been exposed to MSM stories which paint us as misogynists, Nazis, and school shooters.

In short, certain members of the gaming community continually paint their community as being full of bad people, shame people who are unaware of this nonsense, attack people who don't want to deal with this nonsense, and then wonder why there aren't more good people involved. Like a lot of game designers they've created a system which does exactly the opposite of that intended, and all they'll be left with are a handful of bitter angry people ruling over an empire of ash.

Lol I just assumed there was some fantasy equivalent of the killing fields going on. I won't buy ACKs because it uses a system I don't like anything else is just white noise polluting the gaming airwaves.

As to the rest I shall blissfully go back to my ignorance.

Quote from: HorusArisen;1043766I won't buy ACKs because it uses a system I don't like anything else is just white noise polluting the gaming airwaves.

All good and moral decent humans have a sacred duty to buy ACKS!

And Dwimmermount, if you're feeling really hardcore.

Quote from: jhkim;1043524If regular convention attendees are being ejected for no good reason, then talk about that. That sounds bad to me if it is really happening.

Instead, the tragedies that I'm hearing about is that some people are being denied their God-given right to be guest of honor, or people are being horrendously forced to have a politically-related talk somewhere in the same hotel that they are gaming at.

The injury is not so much to Larry. It is to the people who wanted to see him at the con. Most of them were going to the con anyway. Some of them were thinking about going and his invitation pushed them over the edge. Others, I only know one who fit this description, were not even considering going but decided to go because of Larry. I don't think any of those people can get their money back. I don't know any of the people who complained about his being invited but, if the data could be gotten, that a large minority of them or more had no plans to attend.

Quote from: S'mon;1043810All good and moral decent humans have a sacred duty to buy ACKS!

And Dwimmermount, if you're feeling really hardcore.

When he converts it all to BRP I’ll take a look

Quote from: HorusArisen;1043879When he converts it all to BRP I'll take a look

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Quote from: WillInNewHaven;1043849Others, I only know one who fit this description, were not even considering going but decided to go because of Larry. I don't think any of those people can get their money back.

I personally know of one who complained to GAMA about Larry's disinviting and was able to get her money back as a result.

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Thanks but I was joking, I'm pretty sure I could hack an ACKs style game using Mythras and say Empires and classic fantasy. There's never a good reason to waste time or money on a D&D/d20 derived game, it's usually being done better elsewhere.

Quote from: HorusArisen;1043896Thanks but I was joking, I'm pretty sure I could hack an ACKs style game using Mythras and say Empires and classic fantasy. There's never a good reason to waste time or money on a D&D/d20 derived game, it's usually being done better elsewhere.

So was I. That book is a relic of a bygone age.

Quote from: Nerzenjäger;1043900So was I. That book is a relic of a bygone age.

Ah well played sir :cool:

The entire real point of anti-harassment policies is to enable the would-be SJW-overlords of the hobby to kick out anyone they don't like, with no logical reason required, since their mere presence is 'offensive'.