Quote from: ArrozConLeche;1047912The tthing about BGG is that if you see the 'likes' on the various threads, it would seem  that the user base largely is sjw. Anyone who doesn't  toe a certain line seems to get downvoted or just not upvoted as much. I don't  know if the fact that upvotes aren't  anonymous  factors into that  in light of how the site is moderated as of late.

The user base certainly skews left, as educated people under 50 tend to skew left. However, BGG has a huge user base, and 90+ per cent of them engage with it strictly as a gaming forum and database. The portion of users who engage in these types of debates, even just thumbing posts, is vanishingly small. Which shows how a small number of relentless zealots can essentially take over a site if a third or so of users are vaguely sympathetic to their aims, and most of the rest don't give a crap. And by the time more users do give a crap because ideological bullshit and crusades are swamping their hobby discussion, it will be too late.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1047980And an ANTIFA/BLM leader was recently convicted of statutory rape, and has a juvenile history of sex crimes. Will TBP now ban anyone associated with them? Will all the lefty storygamers be banned? Of course not. Alt-right bad, ctrl-left good.

Nope.  1) Gay people can't rape because they are a protected minority, 2) gays are all for pedophilia because to paraphrase leftist darling George Takei that's how you learn you're gay -- child abuse.

Quote from: Haffrung;1048013..as educated people under 50 tend to skew left.

Its almost as if having to pass through an ideological temple for a series of years during a period of ones life when they have complete freedom, but little life experience to serve as an immune system against bad ideas, results in widespread indoctrination.

Adding to this would be the widespread background belief that paying for higher education, means purchasing some degree of enlightenment. Which creates a deeper susceptibility to the messages being broadcast by said temples staff.

Not that a cush lifestyle largely removed from demanding labor, environmental hardship and where 'survival skills' means buying necessity goods from the auto checkout at Walmart helps. What it does do, is create a lot of leisure time for people to begin to tirelessly dissect their home regions for the purpose of perfection / utopia

So as long evolved purposeful skills meant for survival (food harvesting, construction, security from predators, territorial management) go un-used in earnest, what isnt used becomes an anxiety, and what is used becomes an aggressive native environment societal assault that can be described as : dissection toward butchery  

Calhoun's experiment was about more than mice, it was about the hazards to social animals when insulated almost entirely away from their thousands to millions of years evolved components.

It isnt ' uneducated ' communities introducing absurdities like 'switch rape'/constant consent or 'RAPE', 'fat positivity' or birthing ideologies that have replaced an old world end point evil like "Satan", with half the human population (human males. See: 'muh patriarchy').

I couldn't give a monkey's chuff what the guys behind ACKS think politically. It is, imho, one of the very best works in the OSR.

Brilliant, brilliant work. Absolutely.

Quote from: KingCheops;10480922) gays are all for pedophilia because to paraphrase leftist darling George Takei that's how you learn you're gay -- child abuse.

I knew the guy was a mixed bag, but . . . are you fucking kidding me?!?!?

Quote from: KingCheops;1048092gays are all for pedophilia

Quote from: KingCheops;1048092Nope.  1) Gay people can't rape because they are a protected minority, 2) gays are all for pedophilia because to paraphrase leftist darling George Takei that's how you learn you're gay -- child abuse.

1. This Micah guy isn't gay, he's bisexual; as mentioned in the article, he's also been done for sex with a 17yo girl, legal in some states but the one he was in at the time (and no, he doesn't appear to have used that as a defence). You would know this if you'd read the article, at the moment you are suffering from premature speculation, I understand they have treatments for that now.

2. Takei didn't say that.

On the Howard Stern show, where he, in his own words, plays the "naughty gay grandpa" and says some things that weren't true just to get a laugh, he said of being molested as a 13yo by 18-19yo camp counsellors, "It was both wonderful and scary and kind of intimidating, and delightful," he says. "I mean, all those opposites." And this is true in some cases, because the body can be aroused while the mind is disgusted and afraid; this is one of the traumatic aspects of child abuse, since the victim may have been physically aroused but still terrified, and because of their physical arousal blame themselves for the abuse, and so on.

He said that it was a summer of discovering his sexuality. Sometimes a person can suffer a crime and not be traumatised. It's still a crime. But the victim is not waking in cold sweats 20 years later, and their suffering does not define their life. When it comes to sexual stuff the left is hopelessly confused, and the right just wants to shake its fist in manly righteous fury and put everyone in prison for life, so both struggle with this idea: not everyone is traumatised by being a victim of crime, and you are not the worst day of your life. Both left and right struggle with a victim of sexual abuse who says they're not traumatised. It doesn't fit the narrative.

Given Takei's persona on the show, he was probably making it up for laughs anyway, he's never mentioned it before or since; his description of the camp counsellor as tall, Nordic-looking, muscular and so on is more like a fantasy than reality. It's the Howard Stern show, a large part of which is dedicated to saying supershockedgy things with a sexual turn to them. Howard Stern probably plays Poison'd with Ron Edwards.

You are a festering knobjockey, Cheops. You probably let your players in D&D use point-buy and never bring any snacks.

What in the fuck does pedophilia have to do with a good game becoming a banned topic on tBP?

Amacris -- any future printing or future PODs should proudly bear a "First RPG banned from RPG.net!" star. You've achieved what FATAL could not, and I think that's worth something.

Quote from: Paraguybrarian;1048196Amacris -- any future printing or future PODs should proudly bear a "First RPG banned from RPG.net!" star. You've achieved what FATAL could not, and I think that's worth something.

I hadn't realized I had achieved such storied heights. My own game is a killing word.

Quote from: amacris;1048226I hadn't realized I had achieved such storied heights. My own game is a killing word.

Dammit Macris, now I have to go watch Dune again

Actually, hmm, Dune wouldn't be too bad a setting for my next campaign. Maybe get some more use out of Kanahu after all...

Quote from: amacris;1048226I hadn't realized I had achieved such storied heights. My own game is a killing word.

You should send them a thank you for additional sales. If the ass handedness can get me to buy an OSR game I reckon you got a few more out of it.

So the reply to a threat of legal actions is not saying sorry and make it right but it is to ban the game and topic? Wow! New lows on TBP. Sadly, nobody is surprised by it.
And yes i know, it wasn't even a threat of legal action...which makes it even worse.

If we ever need a picture for the definition of hypocrite/hypocrisy in a lexicon we can just post a pic of TBP and its staff. Their so called moderation is a joke. The rules only apply to people they do not like (and are especially not applicable on themselves). What a fucked up place it has become. And it honestly makes me sad. Because it was once a very inspired place (yes, i know, some might not like to hear that...but who cares).

Quote from: jeff37923;1048191What in the fuck does pedophilia have to do with a good game becoming a banned topic on tBP?

Nothing. One guy has an axe to grind, and all of a sudden we find ourselves in a tool shed.

Quote from: Baron Opal;1048294Nothing. One guy has an axe to grind, and all of a sudden we find ourselves in a tool shed.

It was worth it for that metaphor.