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Steve Jackson's Total TDS Brain Rot

Started by RPGPundit, November 04, 2024, 04:36:00 PM

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Habitual Gamer

#60
March 04, 2025, 08:12:56 AM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on March 04, 2025, 07:23:35 AMThe latest: Steve Jackson is moving out of Texas.  Partly because of politics.

QuoteAfter 50 years, give or take, in the Austin area, I'm packing a whole lot of boxes and moving to the Peach State.

There are several reasons. The current Buda climate doesn't really agree with my gardening hobby. The Texas political climate makes it hard to read the news, over and above the daily disasters emanating from DC

This is great news.  Steve Jackson leaving Texas takes a great state, and makes it even better.

"I don't like the way my electoral democracy is going so I'm moving!"
"Have you thought about staying and working to make your local government more reflective of your views, so that it can in turn have a stronger impact on the federal level?"
"What?  No!  I want to move where everybody thinks like I do, so we can all complain when our fixed number of delegates doesn't have enough power to overcome the other side!"

Interestingly, I've heard both sides threaten this (I outright laughed when conservatives said they'd move to Canada or Mexico if Hillary won back in 2016), but only ever seen the Left actually shoot themselves in the foot over it.

zircher

#61
March 04, 2025, 09:45:36 AM
I applaud the move.  I should send him a nice plant as a parting gift.  I hear kudzu grows well in Georgia.  :-)
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Godsmonkey

#62
March 04, 2025, 10:18:03 AM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on March 04, 2025, 07:23:35 AMThe latest: Steve Jackson is moving out of Texas.  Partly because of politics.

QuoteAfter 50 years, give or take, in the Austin area, I'm packing a whole lot of boxes and moving to the Peach State.


Does he not realize that outside of the ATL and a few leftist pockets, Georgia is as right leaning than Texas?

Ruprecht

#63
March 04, 2025, 10:53:58 AM
Is he moving the company or just moving himself?
Might be a good time for him to retire and enjoy his grandchildren over there in the Peach State.
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Cathode Ray

#64
March 04, 2025, 12:33:34 PM
Just moving himself.  The headquarters is still there, probably to enjoy all the tax benefits of having a company in Texas while not living there, because of the freedom that goes along with the politics he hates so much.  It's really more of a de facto company these days, so why not?
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Ruprecht

#65
March 04, 2025, 01:06:21 PM
They are hiring a warehouse worker so they must have a functioning warehouse.
Bet the workers will be glad to have him leave. Even true-believers have to worry about not being blue enough.
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RNGm

#66
March 04, 2025, 01:19:56 PM
He's moving to GA?  Unless he's going to live within the ATL city limits, his TDS brain rot will likely worsen due to proximity to common sense.

D-ko

#67
March 05, 2025, 03:59:53 AM
I've actually lived in Georgia for a couple years. Good boiled peanuts, plenty of waffle houses, and you might just even meet a famous rapper or two.
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#68
March 05, 2025, 04:36:09 AM
Kudzu, Japanese arrowroot, is a remarkably productive starchy tuber. If he wants to feed goats and chickens it'd be great to be in Georgia. Though he'd probably want younger people to dig out the root to roast it for the starch. :D Maybe SJ will make noodles out of the starch and hold kick-ass bar-b-que & ramen parties! Or maybe the magnolias don't survive the heat so well in his stretch of Texas?

Happy retirement, Steve Jackson. :) I hear a tour of the Coca-Cola factory is a to-do while in Georgia. That and ghost hunting in Savannah.
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Cathode Ray

#69
March 05, 2025, 07:41:21 AM
Quote from: Ruprecht on March 04, 2025, 01:06:21 PMThey are hiring a warehouse worker so they must have a functioning warehouse.
Bet the workers will be glad to have him leave. Even true-believers have to worry about not being blue enough.

I don't know about this one.  He seems to discriminate in his hiring practices; unwoke or merit based applicants need not apply.  The 3d dept is headed by a TDS sufferer, the new CEO is a figurative "blue hair" extremist, and the new head of game development is Possum Creek's Jay Dragon, a male autogynophiliac who proudly proclaims himself as a "DEI HIRE". 

Incidentally, does anyone know the circumstance about Phil Reed's departure as the CEO?  Whether he quit, or was fired, I'm expecting it to be politically motivated, based on the state of the company these days.
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Fheredin

#70
March 05, 2025, 08:18:18 AM
You see, one of the interesting things about GEORGIA is that they don't issue CCW permits. Oh, no. They're now a constitutional carry state where you are generally allowed to pack heat without a license.

They do issue a license for reciprocity reasons called a Weapons License, and just like the name indicates, it is not dedicated to CCW handguns...it's an all purpose weapons license. Pepper spray, batons, tasers, tear gas grenades...I imagine that most Georgian cops would let a WCL license holder carry a rocket launcher if you could legally acquire it.

Georgia is straight-up Metal Hillbilly.

zircher

#71
March 05, 2025, 11:29:30 AM
Maybe that's his plan, he wants to build an Ogre.  :-)
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Zalman

#72
March 05, 2025, 01:07:13 PM
Quote from: Fheredin on March 05, 2025, 08:18:18 AMYou see, one of the interesting things about GEORGIA is that they don't issue CCW permits. Oh, no. They're now a constitutional carry state where you are generally allowed to pack heat without a license.

Well, he's coming from Texas. They literally have supermarkets for guns there.
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Ratman_tf

#73
March 05, 2025, 02:03:01 PM
Quote from: zircher on March 05, 2025, 11:29:30 AMMaybe that's his plan, he wants to build an Ogre.  :-)

That would actually be awesome.
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D-ko

#74
March 05, 2025, 02:35:42 PM
Obviously real-life violence and destruction isn't something to celebrate, but this guy and his 'Killdozer' seems worth mentioning here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
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