Quote from: PrometheanVigil;1051571Let me know when en masse lynching of white men because they're white is a thing...

This isn't the 1870s USA you know.

Quote from: S'mon;1051575This isn't the 1870s USA you know.

No. Its 2018 and these social INjustice warriors are trying to roll the clock back to at least the 1950s because they sure as hell are advocating and enforcing segregation, prejudice, inequality and everything else wed done a fairly good job of diminishing up till what 2012? SJWs just put a new mask on the old ills and called it progress.

Quote from: Omega;1051541Um. No. Alot of people dress up in a certain way for the hell of it. For fun. You know. Like how alot of people play RPGs. For fun. And they can and do drop alot of money into these things for the same reason. For fun. I've known alot of costumers that dropped upwards of 5k on their costume. Others can get those amazing looking costumes from about 20$ worth of material and some godlike crafting skills.

Some cosplayers just like a character and happen to have a build that fits. Some costumes are skimpy, some arent. Depends on the character. "Slut Shaming" the ones for daring to show some skin is just another form of SJWing and Prude Patrolling.

Back on topic apparently the editor of the Nerdist is backing the attacker and calling for more attacks? W-T-F???

Sure, and I have no problem with that. But if you're showing videos of yourself shaking your ass, or waving your tits around and you're clearly not wearing a Bra underneath... while asking for money on your Patreon... Well, are you really doing it for the "art"? Or are you doing it to entice teenage boys into giving you money?

QuoteI live what I say man. I've been in enough trouble and fights (some of them pretty bad) growing up that if I didn't make a change much earlier in my life, I probably never would have gotten into RPGs when I got into em' because I never would have gotten to uni. Some of the worst were when I stood up for others or against racism because I was stupid enough at the time to think it standing up for others who can't fight for themselves or against racist cunts is a good idea.

Look out gentleman, we have a bonafided badass over here!

Quote from: PrometheanVigil;1051444Hah, I can't wait for all the shady crap Trump's involved in to catch up with him.

Trump's usual 40% approval rating tells us his supporters don't give a fuck about his "shady crap".

Much how MoveOn.org was created because large numbers of Democrats didn't care about Slick Willy's "shady crap" either.

Quote from: Omega;1051541Back on topic apparently the editor of the Nerdist is backing the attacker and calling for more attacks? W-T-F???

Links!!

Quote from: PrometheanVigil;1051571Let me know when en masse lynching of white men because they're white is a thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_bDc7FfItk

QuoteDo you? That sounds pretty sex positive to me -- it's almost as though the problem isn't with women but with how men are taught to VIEW women perhaps?

In the sense that men are all hormone driven rape beasts, and women should revert to modest behaviors, lest they be assaulted. I don't think this, but to extrapolate it to it's extreme conclusion.

Quote from: PrometheanVigil;1051571Let me know when en masse lynching of white men because they're white is a thing...

I cannot let this go unanswered:

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-africa-farm-attacks-brutal-crimes-landowners-face/news-story/dfaabafca743056b6d6656ea1fff49eb

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2018/06/12/malema-we-have-not-called-for-the-killing-of-white-people-at-least-for-now_a_23456601/

Will you now admit that it is a thing, or will you make up some feeble excuses?

Quote from: Spinachcat;1051585Links!!

http://boundingintocomics.com/2018/08/03/nerdist-producer-promotes-and-encourages-violence-in-wake-of-attack-on-jeremy-hambly/

QuoteBen McShane
I'm just relieved someone punched the Nazi

Ben McShane
Hi fascists and fascist sympathizers! Have you found me because I'm glad a Nazi got punched?

1) I don't owe you engagement.
2) Fascism,-gate misogyny, and racism pose an existential threat to my family, community, and country.
3) Public assault on Nazis is good and effective.

And more. Truely WTF.

Wazzup in this thread?

Politics?

*yawn*

You guys really need to get a game group. So does the loser assaulting people. Not, um, my group though thanks. Maybe that person could play a storygame like Amber or something.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1051597Wazzup in this thread?

Politics?

*yawn*

You guys really need to get a game group. So does the loser assaulting people. Not, um, my group though thanks. Maybe that person could play a storygame like Amber or something.

I dont think assaulting someone is "politics."

Quote from: Omega;1051540Unfortunately the attacker is/was apparently bragging about it online so yeah it did happen. Up till that point it was still a little nebulous as some werent exactly sure who the attacker was. Apparently he was an unknown to the victim till a witness IDed him. And even then it was a maybee thing.

Link?

Quote from: Omega;1051600I dont think assaulting someone is "politics."

It's not, but much of the drivel posted subsequently is. Including yours.

I'm running across several gamers who really want to brush this incident under the rug and pretend it never happened. Their outlook being that if it isn't acknowledged, then it doesn't exist, and they can go on back to being unconscious of this socjus problem in nerd culture.

From PrometheanVigil: "I live what I say man. I've been in enough trouble and fights (some of them pretty bad) growing up that if I didn't make a change much earlier in my life, I probably never would have gotten into RPGs when I got into em' because I never would have gotten to uni. Some of the worst were when I stood up for others or against racism because I was stupid enough at the time to think it standing up for others who can't fight for themselves or against racist cunts is a good idea."

"Growing up" is a key term here. Kids get in fights but grownups get in much more trouble. As for the rest, I was a kid from small-town Alabama who went on freedom marches in the Sixties. We weren't supposed to even hit back.. And I think that did more for racial tolerance than all of your white-knight virtue signalling. And there is _nothing_ that I can find out about The Quartering that makes him a "racist cunt."

Quote from: jeff37923;1051607I'm running across several gamers who really want to brush this incident under the rug and pretend it never happened. Their outlook being that if it isn't acknowledged, then it doesn't exist, and they can go on back to being unconscious of this socjus problem in nerd culture.

Are you really surprised I'm not. You can damn well bet if it happened to them it would be the end of the world and they would never shut up about it. Predictably no mention of it over at the TBP. Then again the victim was white, CIS and privileged so who cares right.

Apologies for the earlier off-topic post.  I generalized when a question was raised about this specifically.  That was my lack of reading comprehension.

In regards to the cosplay thing people are talking past each other in their definitions of cosplay.  I think there are miles of differences between people who cosplay as fans or people who cosplay semi-professionally or professionally (whether they are fans or not).  These latter ones (and here in Vancouver we had a guy one year who was wearing nothing but a fur loincloth and deer antlers plus loads of oily muscles) are about the same as the hottie servers working at whatever your local trendy young folks food chain employs or the models at car shows.  They don't deserve to be sexually molested (verbal or physical) but they are taking that chance by trying to use their sexuality in order to make money.

I'm both excited and scared to eventually cosplay with my girls.  On the one hand, "if you got it flaunt it", but on the other hand it's a scary world out there.

The "victim" cosplayer that Jeremy "attacked" had been complaining about being a sex object for nerds despite only choosing to dress up as the sexy MtG characters (even in cases where a non-sexy SJW alternative was available).  She then also took money on Patreon that was meant to fund her cosplay and instead spent it on Nursing School.

Finally, for those defending GenCon with the whole "It happened off GenCon grounds" how do you feel about a woman getting assaulted (let's just say physically for comparison sake) at an after party at a nightclub and then allowing the identified abuser to run a booth the next day at the convention?