I think he finally gets it, or at least is finally seeing that something is Wrong at TBP:

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=347610

His "pale humanoids" analogy is particularly apt.

QuoteIf you wanted me to paint an approximate picture of what I imagine these threads look like, imagine a bunch of naked, pale humanoids sitting in a concrete room. At irregular intervals, somebody flashes an image on the far wall of something horrible, and the humanoids all moan desparingly and wish that they were dead, occasionally pausing to flap their hands against another humanoid's shoulder in an attempt to comfort them or to join in an apathetic trampling of one of their number who decided that maybe the image wasn't so bad after all. There's always Joy Division playing in the background, just to top off the misery quotient.

If McLennan is feeling it, it MUST be bad.

Darren: The problem is that over the last few years, Tangecites and their enablers, the Mods, have driven off anyone who disagrees with their hive-mind world-view. That's what happens when anyone who dares disagree with the Gestalt is hounded and slandered and banned when they try to defend their contrary point of view. No life, no spirit, no debate, just "Man, look at this - dosn't it suck?" and 45 pages of "Yep, sure does!" replies.

I have read Tangency for a couple of weeks now, and the funny thing is - I don't even have the urge to participate anymore. Wheras before, a certain topic might have had my blood boiling, now I just smirk and roll my eyes.

Enjoy the misery!

A place that cannot offend lacks the depth of discussion to hold any value at all.

Quote from: David JohansenA place that cannot offend lacks the depth of discussion to hold any value at all.

Profoundly true. Consider yourself quoted.

Quote from: Werekoala...now I just smirk and roll my eyes.

Cut the snark -- eye-rollies have been explicitly forbidden on this forum.  Consider yourself warned.

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Quote from: WerekoalaI have read Tangency for a couple of weeks now, and the funny thing is - I don't even have the urge to participate anymore. Wheras before, a certain topic might have had my blood boiling, now I just smirk and roll my eyes.

I agree with the sentiment in your OP wholeheartedly.  But I have to say that reading Tangency for a couple of weeks is, in a sense, participating.  I get that you meant posting to the board and such, but if you really want to cut ties with it, then don't even read it -- even if its just to point and laugh.

Personally I think the problem with rpg.net's poor quality of discourse isn't just the particular topics, be they negative or positive, but that everyone tries so fucking hard to be the "clever one".  RPG.net is a large, inbred community of mostly one-liners, tired jokes, cliches, "have a laugh point", dittoes and metoos.  All that shit just sucks.  I could be overgeneralizing, but I'm not going to waste my time of day finding out.

Well, it was morbid curiosity got the better of me. I'm reading the RPG threads that strike my fancy as well. But I'm really surprised at what's changed in Tangency since I was an outted member of the board. It was bad back then, but now -  may as well be reading MySpace or DailyKos for god's sake.

Must be Monday.

Quote from: One Horse TownMust be Monday.

True - who's starting the Porn thread?

How 'bout we have Gorn Monday?



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Uh ... that looks plenty pornographic to me.

Quote from: TonyLBUh ... that looks plenty pornographic to me.

I will never understand why that sit eis moderated so 'vigourously'. They take anything and everything so personally.

Actrually its more of a GORNagraphic.


That thread is 11 plus pages now . Oy Vey!!
 Its strange that he is surprised by the monster that he helped to create.


- Ed C.

Quote from: KoltarIts strange that he is surprised by the monster that he helped to create.

Doctor Frankenstein was too, although he'd probably have been quicker to kill his creation if all it did was run around spouting the same tired jokes day-in-day-out and yelling "KEETOM!" as a stock answer to lifes woes.

Pushing a child down a well is fairly benign, comparitively.

I wonder if Darren will receive a warning for a group attack on Tangency Open.

Hey, any other poster, and it'd happen.

Does it not occur to them that they can just... dump Tangency, and talk about rpgs? It is rpg.net, after all.