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Monte Cook Is an RPG Maoist

Started by RPGPundit, September 12, 2019, 11:08:50 PM

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tenbones

#150
September 20, 2019, 12:02:41 PM
You sound like you're definitely on the right track!!!

I'm working on something KINDA similar... more sci-than-fantasy. But you're spot on in terms of the creative process. It's not that you can't have others chiming in - it means that someone has to be the stern hand on the rudder and knows which star in the sky this ship is sailing towards.

As an aside I look forward to hearing more about your project!

tenbones

#151
September 20, 2019, 12:14:05 PM
Quote from: RandyB;1104948Feature, not bug. The goal is "compliant and complacent workers", not "trained thinkers and leaders".

Sith Judo Throw!

Spinachcat

#152
September 20, 2019, 07:25:44 PM
Quote from: RandyB;1104948Feature, not bug. The goal is "compliant and complacent workers", not "trained thinkers and leaders".

As a former special education teacher, I can absolutely confirm THIS is the goal of the US education system.

Complaint and complacent as workers / consumers / voters. And it works baby!  Hey look everybody, a new fried chicken sandwich! We can eat that while we make believe the corporate owned government can solve all our problems!

When I see nonsense like Monte Cook's bullshit being gobbled down by clowns, I see the tendrils of idiocy laid down in US schools with its lack of real critical thinking, never being exposed opposing opinions nor challenges to popular dogmas, and a laughable disconnect between the ivory tower curriculum and the student's real world experience.

GeekyBugle

#153
September 20, 2019, 08:39:59 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1105213As a former special education teacher, I can absolutely confirm THIS is the goal of the US education system.

Complaint and complacent as workers / consumers / voters. And it works baby!  Hey look everybody, a new fried chicken sandwich! We can eat that while we make believe the corporate owned government can solve all our problems!

When I see nonsense like Monte Cook's bullshit being gobbled down by clowns, I see the tendrils of idiocy laid down in US schools with its lack of real critical thinking, never being exposed opposing opinions nor challenges to popular dogmas, and a laughable disconnect between the ivory tower curriculum and the student's real world experience.

This is the goal of ALL western education systems, and this includes all of Latin America and big chunks of Asia too. (Not so sure about the African ones)
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S'mon

#154
September 21, 2019, 02:40:19 AM
Quote from: GeekyBugle;1105230This is the goal of ALL western education systems, and this includes all of Latin America and big chunks of Asia too. (Not so sure about the African ones)

IME former British Empire African countries have education systems which still emphasise the imparting of knowledge, as well as the socialisation/obedience training you get in all mass education systems. So my African students tend to come in better educated than those from most other parts of the world - Germans are good too though, but for different reasons I think.

Spinachcat

#155
September 21, 2019, 05:02:18 AM
Quote from: S'mon;1105266So my African students tend to come in better educated than those from most other parts of the world

This was my experience at UCLA. The African students (both male and female) were better prepared that most US natives, both for the university academics and being an independent adult in college. Equal to them were the students from Hong Kong and Taiwan.


Quote from: S'mon;1105266Germans are good too though, but for different reasons I think.

I blame Hitler! :)

S'mon

#156
September 21, 2019, 07:29:02 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1105276This was my experience at UCLA. The African students (both male and female) were better prepared that most US natives, both for the university academics and being an independent adult in college.

Yep. It's quite striking. I value a 2.1 (ie good quality) degree from eg Nigeria or Ghana above its equivalent from almost anywhere else in the world. African students from blue collar and lower middle class backgrounds seem to be better educated than the elites from most of the world. I think you're right they tend to have a more mature attitude too (though I used to be surprised by the universal belief in witchcraft/magic - I'm used to that now.)

Gagarth

#157
September 21, 2019, 09:52:02 AM
Quote from: jhkim;1104907So, for example, I go to a Unitarian Universalist church. We're very big on tolerance. Suppose a new fundamentalist church opens in town and they start preaching that UU are evil and shouldn't be tolerated. It's still possible for us to tolerate them - in the sense that we don't say anything bad about them, and just continue to exist and keep doing our community and outreach work. We don't have to preach that fundamentalism should be banned. We would be countering their message not by being intolerant of them, but by showing who we are, and how our approach of tolerance is better.

Do Unitarian's Universalist's still use porn for sex education?
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jeff37923

#158
September 21, 2019, 04:53:35 PM
Quote from: Gagarth;1105300Do Unitarian's Universalist's still use porn for sex education?
I'm an agnostic and not real fond of jhkim's common argument tactics, but you can fuck right off with that statement.
"Meh."

Sunsword

#159
September 21, 2019, 04:55:50 PM
Quote from: Snowman0147;1103739Can we all agree to not drag in real life politics into gaming at all?  Can't we just do that?  I guess not thanks to the SJWs.

A SJW would tell you that everything IS political. Which, in my mind means nothing is political, then.

RPGPundit

#160
September 21, 2019, 10:09:32 PM
Quote from: tenbones;1105086AND/OR - more RPG's need the internal consistency of Lion & Dragon as a core design standard.

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Gagarth

#161
September 22, 2019, 06:28:17 AM
Quote from: jeff37923;1105324I'm an agnostic and not real fond of jhkim's common argument tactics, but you can fuck right off with that statement.

 The reason I ask this is because  I was told this by someone who who's family where members of a Unitarian Universalist church when he was a child and he experienced it. Also he was thoroughly brainwashed with SJW ideology as Jhkim obliviously has been.  So wind your fucking neck in.
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Bedrockbrendan

#162
September 22, 2019, 07:25:40 AM
Quote from: Gagarth;1105421The reason I ask this is because  I was told this by someone who who's family where members of a Unitarian Universalist church when he was a child and he experienced it. Also he was thoroughly brainwashed with SJW ideology as Jhkim obliviously has been.  So wind your fucking neck in.

Been here a long time and been in many discussions where Jhkim was involved. He isn't an SJW.

jeff37923

#163
September 22, 2019, 11:03:29 AM
Quote from: Gagarth;1105421The reason I ask this is because  I was told this by someone who who's family where members of a Unitarian Universalist church when he was a child and he experienced it. Also he was thoroughly brainwashed with SJW ideology as Jhkim obliviously has been.  So wind your fucking neck in.
I'm sorry that you are feeling butthurt for getting called on your bullshit there, cupcake.
"Meh."

Abraxus

#164
September 22, 2019, 11:32:09 AM
I'm not fond of JHkim debating tactics either. While I disagree with BRB about him being an SJW, what the fuck does his religion have to do with the discussion at hand. I could care less and that just smacks of desperation of not being able to find the right thing to say.

Quote from: jeff37923;1105442I'm sorry that you are feeling butthurt for getting called on your bullshit there, cupcake.

Seconded.
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