The War Against Desborough and Mongoose Publishing

thedungeondelver · June 25, 2012, 12:53:20 PM

Quote from: Sigmund;552768I'll bet psychologists absolutely love that site.

It's...interesting, to say the least. The fiction and humor that's posted out on the main page (including the "WTF D&D" section and the now-discontinued but still archived "The Barbarian's Dojo") is generally some great stuff.

J Arcane · June 25, 2012, 12:55:54 PM

Quote from: thedungeondelver;552774It's...interesting, to say the least. The fiction and humor that's posted out on the main page (including the "WTF D&D" section and the now-discontinued but still archived "The Barbarian's Dojo") is generally some great stuff.

The site was kind of funny when I was 13, and foul-mouthed reviews of bad porn movies still held shock appeal. It lost it's charm a long time since.

I will say this, though. Paired with a good team of writers, Lowtax himself can actually be pretty funny. His work on Rifftrax was actually pretty good.

What he spawned though, is the original Internet circle of adolescent hell.

thedungeondelver · June 25, 2012, 12:56:13 PM

Quote from: J Arcane;552773This is a site where profligate swearing and accusations of sexual perversion are considered valid points in an argument. A whole gaggle of shits who behave like a 13-year old who's just discovered the word "fuck" and the existence of anime porn.

Don't you mean "gently caress"?

(For reasons I have yet to ascertain, if you don't have a paid account you can't see swear words in SA's forums - they're bowdlerized with the most ridiculous substitutions: "gently caress" instead of "fuck", "surprise sex" instead of "rape", "making GBS threads" instead of "shit", etc. What this is supposed to accomplish is utterly beyond me.)

Sigmund · June 25, 2012, 12:57:36 PM

Quote from: thedungeondelver;552778Don't you mean "gently caress"?

(For reasons I have yet to ascertain, if you don't have a paid account you can't see swear words in SA's forums - they're bowdlerized with the most ridiculous substitutions: "gently caress" instead of "fuck", "surprise sex" instead of "rape", "making GBS threads" instead of "shit", etc. What this is supposed to accomplish is utterly beyond me.)

They are probably under the delusion that it's funny.

thedungeondelver · June 25, 2012, 01:01:24 PM

Quote from: J Arcane;552777The site was kind of funny when I was 13, and foul-mouthed reviews of bad porn movies still held shock appeal. It lost it's charm a long time since.

I will say this, though. Paired with a good team of writers, Lowtax himself can actually be pretty funny. His work on Rifftrax was actually pretty good.

What he spawned though, is the original Internet circle of adolescent hell.

Zack Parsons' work ("That Insidious Beast", "Instructions For A...", the all-too-brief "Conex@Lambspoke Prison" series, etc.) is just amazingly good horror/sci-fi stuff.

And I agree; Lowtax's work (did you ever listen to his music? Good industrial stuff, although he gave it up a while ago - once upon a time he interviewed JG Thirwell - no BS, no mocking, just a great interview) is really good. He did a front page update recently. Wish he'd do more.

jeff37923 · June 25, 2012, 01:44:43 PM

And this slams the door shut on any disagreement to MalaDicta's claim on TBP.

Quote from: Mod at TBPThere's little place on rpg.net for the accusation that somebody is manufacturing rape threats in order to back out of a petition. As such, you're permabanned.

-Darren MacLennan

If you dispute the veracity of her claims of rape threats, you will be permabanned. The woman has obviously lied about the reasons for starting her petition against Desborough, but her claims of rape threats are above reproach.

RobMuadib · June 25, 2012, 01:48:24 PM

Quote from: _kent_;552685Can someone explain what kind of forum and thread 'somethingawful.com' and 'grognards.txt' are without venting, Im looking for clarity?

I noticed them when they put chunks of my blog in their endless thread (why one thread?). Above they are characterised as trolls but they don't often put direct links to blogs/forums instead lifting the text out which seems sly and not very troll-like. Are they a gathering of young sneerers contemptuous of early rpgs? Are they old and jaded turncoats?

It's one thread because they're making fun of old school gamer's or basically any game stuff they don't dig. Which currently falls into -ist gamers that aren't PC, and lulzy, he doesn't like this cause he's old. The rest of the TG forum seems to be pretty usual stuff, a lot like 4chan /tg/. I haven't spent much time reading the rest of the site.

It looks mostly like Ettins & Mors rattus pet thread to gather lulz and feel good about their elfgame superiority. But there is a definite theme of lets get people we don't agree with banned for great justice from like page 1965+ on. I guess the SA mods limit it to one thread so they don't flood the board with their lulz for justice shit.

One Horse Town · June 25, 2012, 01:52:01 PM

Given the sick state of some folk, i fully expect that she has recieved them.

The numbers seem staggering though. How many people were even aware of the petition?

James Gillen · June 25, 2012, 01:54:02 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;552662We now have by far the best reviews sub-forum around. Plus the two most prolific and solicited reviewers around: myself and Davenport.

"Will see"? Perhaps you haven't noticed how many industry guys are coming here nowadays (sometimes even instead of, not just in addition to, there)?

You'll note that when the Redbrick thing happened, the Redbrick guy wrote here, not there.

We've been getting several of those kind of scoops lately.

Oh, and of course, three of the big consultants that WoTC got are frequenters of this site and not the other one, including the owner/operator of this site, yours truly:

RPGPundit

You're right. But then that might be because it's a lot easier to get banned over there (usually after a long process of getting 'zebra'd'), and because contrary to their belief, not everybody here is B.T.

JG

Kemper Boyd · June 25, 2012, 01:56:59 PM

Quote from: One Horse Town;552807The numbers seem staggering though. How many people were even aware of the petition?

Easily somewhere over ten thousand or more, the whole thing has been pretty widespread on Twitter, Facebook and G+, after all.

At my day job, I do stuff like analyze threats. That kind of volume is towards the upper limit of what tends to happen, but it's most def not unheard of. In many cases, it's a smaller number of people who each send multiple threats.

James Gillen · June 25, 2012, 01:57:03 PM

Quote from: Ian Warner;552690I already have a ratings system of sorts: There is a content advisory for each product in my catalogue and if you don't like said content you can fuck right off.

Do not continue to read if you are offended by the following sentence:
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog;
what a fuckin' asshole."

thedungeondelver · June 25, 2012, 01:58:08 PM

Quote from: Kemper Boyd;552810Easily somewhere over ten thousand or more, the whole thing has been pretty widespread on Twitter, Facebook and G+, after all.

This is an OUTRAGE.

People still use G+ ?!

James Gillen · June 25, 2012, 02:02:57 PM

Quote from: thedungeondelver;552812This is an OUTRAGE.

People still use G+ ?!

People EVER used G+??

Benoist · June 25, 2012, 02:04:39 PM

Quote from: One Horse Town;552807Given the sick state of some folk, i fully expect that she has recieved them.

The numbers seem staggering though. How many people were even aware of the petition?

What is that number of threats she claims to have received?

Ladybird · June 25, 2012, 02:05:22 PM

Quote from: jeff37923;552801And this slams the door shut on any disagreement to MalaDicta's claim on TBP.

If you dispute the veracity of her claims of rape threats, you will be permabanned. The woman has obviously lied about the reasons for starting her petition against Desborough, but her claims of rape threats are above reproach.

Well, okay.

Grim has mentioned getting rape threats too earlier. Do you believe his claims?

Unfortunately I've been on the internet too long to believe there's a lower limit to the fuckwittery of some people, so while I agree MalaDicta is a liar, this is likely to be true.