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Thoughts Provoked by the Den Invasion(TM)

Started by Spike, August 19, 2012, 01:56:25 AM

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#240
August 30, 2012, 11:42:07 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;578522:boohoo:

(golf clap)
(taken during hurricane winds)

A nice education blog.

gleichman

#241
August 30, 2012, 11:43:08 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;578521Don't be like that.

Be like the guys who want to integrate into a new site they've recently discovered.  



In fact, do pretty much anything but continually antagonise a largely old-school board.


Come now, you have to admit that basically the only way to do that is totally sign away any type of independent thought. It's basically the old-school way or the highway here (where highway means being endlessly subjected to vulgar personal attacks).

I do a nice neutral thread like the one on PC Communication and Pundit himself jumps in to threadcap it.
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"The purpose of an open mind is to close it, on particular subjects. If you never do — you\'ve simply abdicated the responsibility to think." - William F. Buckley.

One Horse Town

#242
August 30, 2012, 11:44:17 PM
Quote from: Lord Mistborn;578530Sorry I didn't prepare Detect Sarcasm today.

Are you saying if I start a thread for discussing game design than it will always dissolve into trolling regardless of what I do.

Dunno, depends whether the opening post sets the trend.

Design threads obviously go in the design sub-forum.

Are you going to start a thread in the design sub-forum? I look forward to it.

Lord Mistborn

#243
August 30, 2012, 11:45:42 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;578522:boohoo:

Do I need to page though Benoists posts and quote him calling people autistic rather than responding to their arguments.
Quote from: Me;576460As much as this debacle of a thread has been an embarrassment for me personally (and it has ^_^\' ). I salute you mister unintelligible troll guy. You ran as far to the extreme as possible on the anti-3e thing and Benoist still defended you against my criticism. Good job.

gleichman

#244
August 30, 2012, 11:46:43 PM
Quote from: Lord Mistborn;578536Do I need to page though Benoists posts and quote him calling people autistic rather than responding to their arguments.

That would be nearly any post that didn't consist of people praising him in some manner.
Whitehall Paraindustries- A blog about RPG Theory and Design

"The purpose of an open mind is to close it, on particular subjects. If you never do — you\'ve simply abdicated the responsibility to think." - William F. Buckley.

One Horse Town

#245
August 30, 2012, 11:49:57 PM
Quote from: gleichman;578533Come now, you have to admit that basically the only way to do that is totally sign away any type of independent thought. It's basically the old-school way or the highway here (where highway means being endlessly subjected to vulgar personal attacks).

I do a nice neutral thread like the one on PC Communication and Pundit himself jumps in to threadcap it.

I haven't read the thread, so i can't comment.

If you know the site is a largely old-school one, then surely you come here to discuss old-school games (mainly, it's not exclusive, just largely) and meet your fix of other games at other sites?

If that isn't the case, then why not the highway? There are plenty of sites to discuss other games.

gleichman

#246
August 30, 2012, 11:56:28 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;578538I haven't read the thread, so i can't comment.

Here it is, take a look. Pundit's threadcap and insult is post 36.


Quote from: One Horse Town;578538If that isn't the case, then why not the highway? There are plenty of sites to discuss other games.

As I've said before, there's a subset of posters I enjoy reading here.

However since you brought it up, is it the official position of therpgsite that only old-school posters are welcomed here?
Whitehall Paraindustries- A blog about RPG Theory and Design

"The purpose of an open mind is to close it, on particular subjects. If you never do — you\'ve simply abdicated the responsibility to think." - William F. Buckley.

Lord Mistborn

#247
August 31, 2012, 12:00:04 AM Last Edit: August 31, 2012, 12:03:15 AM by Lord Mistborn
Quote from: One Horse Town;578538I haven't read the thread, so i can't comment.

If you know the site is a largely old-school one, then surely you come here to discuss old-school games (mainly, it's not exclusive, just largely) and meet your fix of other games at other sites?

If that isn't the case, then why not the highway? There are plenty of sites to discuss other games.

I'm here because that's where the debate is. If this month has taught us anything it's that only having argeement is toxic to site culture. Everyone here is welcome at TGD. (well as welcome as anyone else) I think this exchange of ideas is ultimately a good thing. I know my view of old-school gaming has changed greatly from being on this site.
Quote from: Me;576460As much as this debacle of a thread has been an embarrassment for me personally (and it has ^_^\' ). I salute you mister unintelligible troll guy. You ran as far to the extreme as possible on the anti-3e thing and Benoist still defended you against my criticism. Good job.

One Horse Town

#248
August 31, 2012, 12:01:31 AM
Quote from: gleichman;578540However since you brought it up, is it the official position of therpgsite that only old-school posters are welcomed here?

No. But it isn't rocket-science is it to realise that that is the majority?

Come in all guns blazing telling folk they're crazy-wrong isn't going to go down well is it?

Differing opinions on gaming are fine in my book, but coming here to shit on people? No.

One Horse Town

#249
August 31, 2012, 12:06:14 AM
Quote from: Lord Mistborn;578541Everyone here is welcome at TGD. (well as welcome as anyone else)

But you only have 1.25 posts at the Gaming Den.

Sorry, mate, but at this point, you're not really fooling anyone - well, maybe except Brian.

Lord Mistborn

#250
August 31, 2012, 12:09:52 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;578544But you only have 1.25 posts at the Gaming Den.

Sorry, mate, but at this point, you're not really fooling anyone - well, maybe except Brian.

13 actually most of it is in Apparently Expeditious Retreat, Swift is broken where I bitch about my new gaming group.
Quote from: Me;576460As much as this debacle of a thread has been an embarrassment for me personally (and it has ^_^\' ). I salute you mister unintelligible troll guy. You ran as far to the extreme as possible on the anti-3e thing and Benoist still defended you against my criticism. Good job.

gleichman

#251
August 31, 2012, 12:10:28 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;578542Differing opinions on gaming are fine in my book, but coming here to shit on people? No.

But you're good when regulars sh*t one people in threads like the one I pointed out for you?

Look, I understand what you're shooting for here. But you must be aware that much of what you're getting is earned. Pundit turned this site into his personal war against the swine, and the regulars by posting their old-school opinions while constantly using terms like OCD and aspergers to describe other styles have continued the tradition. If that hadn't been so consistant here, the denners would have likely never noticed.
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"The purpose of an open mind is to close it, on particular subjects. If you never do — you\'ve simply abdicated the responsibility to think." - William F. Buckley.

beejazz

#252
August 31, 2012, 12:15:10 AM
Quote from: gleichman;578533Come now, you have to admit that basically the only way to do that is totally sign away any type of independent thought. It's basically the old-school way or the highway here (where highway means being endlessly subjected to vulgar personal attacks).

I do a nice neutral thread like the one on PC Communication and Pundit himself jumps in to threadcap it.

That was a pretty minimal portion of that thread though. I think the main reason it petered out was just that few people use rules for that sort of thing.

As for the old-school or the highway thing, you can see how much feedback the four threads on my system-in-progress got. It's unapologetically modern. Same goes for Soul Fantasy: largely constructive feedback, continuous traffic, all that good stuff.

As usual, I'd really recommend some of the threads on that subforum. It's where most good things happen on this site (as entertaining as the silliness on the main forum sometimes is).

Kaelik

#253
August 31, 2012, 12:17:44 AM
Quote from: One Horse Town;578542Come in all guns blazing telling folk they're crazy-wrong isn't going to go down well is it?

Differing opinions on gaming are fine in my book, but coming here to shit on people? No.

Except that's not what happened. What happened was that people had different opinions than this board, so this board blazed guns about how crazy wrong people are and shat on us.

I mean, Benoist literally spent an entire thread explaining in great detail how we are all terrible people, he would kick us out of the game, autistic this and that, how dare we play the way we play, anyone who builds a Cleric that fights in melee and doesn't serve their proper roll deserves to be punched in the face, ect.
Quote from: FrankTrollmanReally, the only thing the "my character can beat up your character" challenges ever do by presenting a clear and unambiguous beat down is to have the loser drop of the thread and pretend the challenge never happened.

gleichman

#254
August 31, 2012, 12:18:51 AM
Quote from: beejazz;578548That was a pretty minimal portion of that thread though. I think the main reason it petered out was just that few people use rules for that sort of thing.

I thought that it would be rather short, in fact it was longer than I expected and I got some surprising answers in it.

But despite being short, it still drew undeserved fire.
Whitehall Paraindustries- A blog about RPG Theory and Design

"The purpose of an open mind is to close it, on particular subjects. If you never do — you\'ve simply abdicated the responsibility to think." - William F. Buckley.
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