Quote from: NYTFLYR;1048789"Me: Cool. Are you open to some strongly worded criticism? Because here are the mental health consequences I'm personally already suffering, and here are the harms that I've been made aware of."

Mental Health Consequences?!? How does she manage to even survive in the real world?!?

The thing is, she wasn't always like this.  I knew Anna back in our college days.  Her husband was part of my gaming circle of friends.  We've gamed together, we've been to friends weddings together, etc.  She was fine back then, maybe a little uptight, but cool to hang out with.  

Now though?  Now she's a woman-appearing-person.  I read her blog over the years and it was like watching a train wreck happen in real-time.  People compare 4th wave feminism to cancer.  Seeing Anna change over the years, yeah... it's kinda like that.

A woman-appearing person...

I noticed they're pretty free with calling men "he"... LOL

What is this bizarro drug these people are on? It apparently makes them incapable of dealing with life... incites cannibalism, delusions of importance,  and a endless Outrage (which is the cheap knock-off of actual Rage).

Of note - she gets upset and put-out about him calling her response "vitriolic". Then she apologize after the face that when reading her own posts it suggests to herself that it was overly aggressive (because reasons) - but doesn't go so far to admit to an outsider, it might sound vitriolic. And that's just based on what she *didn't* post, because she clearly said a lot more.

the level of self-importance these people assign to themselves is insane.

[video=youtube;2m-e4PgiVfM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-e4PgiVfM[/youtube]

Quote from: rgalex;1048808The thing is, she wasn't always like this.  I knew Anna back in our college days.  Her husband was part of my gaming circle of friends.  We've gamed together, we've been to friends weddings together, etc.  She was fine back then, maybe a little uptight, but cool to hang out with.

Good to know.

QuoteNow though?  Now she's a woman-appearing-person.

And what the hell is that WAP thing supposed to mean?

QuoteI read her blog over the years and it was like watching a train wreck happen in real-time.  People compare 4th wave feminism to cancer.  Seeing Anna change over the years, yeah... it's kinda like that.

I think you mean 3rd wave feminism:)?

Quote from: tenbones;1048833A woman-appearing person...

I noticed they're pretty free with calling men "he"... LOL

What is this bizarro drug these people are on? It apparently makes them incapable of dealing with life... incites cannibalism, delusions of importance,  and a endless Outrage (which is the cheap knock-off of actual Rage).

Dunno, but I'd bet on hallucinogens mixed with uppers;).

Quote from: AsenRG;1048855I think you mean 3rd wave feminism:)?

Really?  Did Google lie to me.  It says 4th wave started in 2012 and is all social media influenced.  3rd wave was/is the 90s variety, which didn't seem to make as many problems.  Oh well, whichever it is that added all this insufferable inter-sectionalism, everything is sexist, everything is racist, etc etc etc shit.

I made it halfway... errgh.

Lovecraft's writing is actually quite shit. The world he paints is the ramblings of a deranged, lost person. Never really got on with that view of the world: nothing is ever unbeatable, there's always a way. Fuck, my own life is proof positive of that, will be even more so five/ten years down the line, guaranteed.

The racism adds nothing to his work. Anyone saying that (anything even remotely near that) sounds like they, like Paula Deen, would love to travel back to a time when Blacks were the minstrel-prancing help at parties, serving peach cobbler to "well-heeled" folk via hands gloved in white. Cut that shit out.

What I did like from the stories inspired by his dreary take on life that seethed with lunacy was nothing to do with him. Anchorhead. An adventure game I highly recommend to all: they re-released it recently in a paid, graphical version on Steam but you could quite easily grab a copy of the .z8 file off the web and run it with the Gargoyle interpreter (I customized the coloring on mine: a nice two-color green/black -- made reading and typing at two in the morning a lot more bearable... Ahem...). Game's actually genuinely unnerving, puzzles are generally good (some are a bit what-the-shit), you can put yourself in an unwinnable state or lock off score points if you do things in the wrong order though.

Also, when talking about these idiots, call them far-right or white supremacists. This covert word sabotage has got to stop.

With regards to the article, this guy is in his feels. He's ranting, that's fine. Problem is the people behind OPP (those the author is championing) are objectively evil because Beast: The Primordial was a thinly veiled justification for child molestors, rapists, abusers and trenchcoat mafia types. It's really uncomfortable reading. No wonder that one of the biggest voices in the SJW crowd and the lead designer on that game was outed for molesting a girl back in the day. Worst part was that the guy never denied it -- again, he never denied it. And once that hit the web, the team at RPG.net quickly shut it down, banned people talking about, deleted posts and threads, then did a half-hearted "apology" and announced he'd "resigned" from being staff member on the site. Like a republican caught getting his cock sucked by a coke-addled twink in a dirty motel somewhere, the response by the SJW crowd was very similar: fake left. That's not to mention the fact that they have been repeatedly alleged to not pay their freelancers on time or at all but that's for another thread...

Malcolm X warned us about this shit decades ago. Decades ago.

"It is the white liberal who usually poses as the friend of the Negro, who actually differs from the white conservative and in the same way that the fox differs from the wolf. Their appetite is the same, their motives are the same: it is only their mannerisms and methods that differ."

Quote from: PrometheanVigil;1048868Lovecraft's writing is actually quite shit. The world he paints is the ramblings of a deranged, lost person. Never really got on with that view of the world: nothing is ever unbeatable, there's always a way. Fuck, my own life is proof positive of that, will be even more so five/ten years down the line, guaranteed.

Nahh

And it just keeps getting more fucked up.

With the accompanying Reddit Thread.

Why? Just so that you can read it all in glorious Technocolor.

Quote from: PrometheanVigil;1048868Lovecraft's writing is actually quite shit. The world he paints is the ramblings of a deranged, lost person. Never really got on with that view of the world: nothing is ever unbeatable, there's always a way.

This "unbeatable hopelessness" thing sounds more like the revisionist modern version of the Cthulu mythos.

Lovecraft by contrast teaches us to hit Cthulu in the face with a boat.

Quote from: S'mon;1048877This "unbeatable hopelessness" thing sounds more like the revisionist modern version of the Cthulu mythos.

Lovecraft by contrast teaches us to hit Cthulu in the face with a boat.

I see it as a bunch of PR, basically a motivational spiel that Cthulhu and his ilk use to keep their spirits up each time their plans are foiled. "Sure, we lost THIS time (and all those times before), but what are the odds we fail 10,308,482 times in a row?! We HAVE to win sooner or later!"

Quote from: rgalex;1048857Really?  Did Google lie to me.  It says 4th wave started in 2012 and is all social media influenced.  3rd wave was/is the 90s variety, which didn't seem to make as many problems.  Oh well, whichever it is that added all this insufferable inter-sectionalism, everything is sexist, everything is racist, etc etc etc shit.

You are basically correct.  3rd wave feminism was still in many ways an intellectual movement.

Quote from: rgalex;1048857Really?  Did Google lie to me.  It says 4th wave started in 2012 and is all social media influenced.  3rd wave was/is the 90s variety, which didn't seem to make as many problems.  Oh well, whichever it is that added all this insufferable inter-sectionalism, everything is sexist, everything is racist, etc etc etc shit.

Not sure about the waves, but I do remember feminists going absolutely nuts on rpg.net in 2010-2011, and maybe before.

Quote from: rgalex;1048857Really?  Did Google lie to me.  It says 4th wave started in 2012 and is all social media influenced.  3rd wave was/is the 90s variety, which didn't seem to make as many problems.  Oh well, whichever it is that added all this insufferable inter-sectionalism, everything is sexist, everything is racist, etc etc etc shit.

Intersectionalism definitely existed in the 3rd wave version and was a major feature:). You could argue for the other two as well, there were certainly signs of them, though you can also say it did get worse post-2012;).
We got way too serious about my comment, though. It was a joke meant to remind you that you can't heap all the responsibility for those trends on the heads of the current version.

Quote from: Trond;1048901Not sure about the waves, but I do remember feminists going absolutely nuts on rpg.net in 2010-2011, and maybe before.

I'm not sure rpg.net ever had enough women to be able to go nuts. The population was like,

Male - 85%
Transgendered - 11% (entirely M2F)
Furries - 6%
Women - 1%
* does not add to 100% because of overlap and membership of multiple groups

Quote from: AsenRG;1048927Intersectionalism definitely existed in the 3rd wave version and was a major feature:).

1990s Feminist Political Correctness was quite different in several ways, and was definitely not dominated by Intersectionality. The cultural Marxist totem poll of victimhood status did exist (so eg feminist organisation NOW supported OJ Simpson, because he's black, rather than the family of the white wife he murdered - the man he murdered was of course of no interest), but the made up genders stuff wasn't much of a thing, and there was not a general recognition that a man identifying as a woman had higher status than an actual woman. There was also less of an emphasis on victimhood and mental illness as status markers generally.

I remember at my University about 10 years ago, it was quite confusing when visiting speakers started using "Radical Feminist" as a derogatory term - they became the even more derogatory TERFs when transgenderism became dominant in 2012. In the 1990s Left it was still Good to be a Radical Feminist.