ACKS is now a forbidden topic in TBP

Spinachcat · July 28, 2018, 03:22:22 AM

Quote from: Lurtch;1050084What is the statue of limitations on social media job lynch mobs?

They will exist until someone pushes back on them.

One of these days, an accused is going to turn the twitter bitches into the hunted. The tech is already out there.

Omega · July 29, 2018, 02:01:40 AM

It is rather appalling the sheer speed we are seeing this madness spread and the sheer amount of damage it is doing to various media.

Spinachcat · July 29, 2018, 03:25:18 AM

Quote from: Omega;1050723It is rather appalling the sheer speed we are seeing this madness spread and the sheer amount of damage it is doing to various media.

Our species has mistaken our ability to make better tools for an actual evolution into a better species.

Dave 2 · July 30, 2018, 06:54:34 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat;1050672One of these days, an accused is going to turn the twitter bitches into the hunted.

For starters, that's what happened with Gunn. The guy was all for Roseanne Barr getting fired, until the roles were reversed.

Haffrung · July 30, 2018, 09:33:05 AM

Quote from: Spinachcat;1050730Our species has mistaken our ability to make better tools for an actual evolution into a better species.

Well, we are getting better in a lot of ways. Violence has been trending down for centuries.

But yes, it is disheartening to recognize that modern society seems as vulnerable to tribalism, dogma, and moral panics as the Puritans were. It has become apparent that reason is a thin, thin crust over our uglier primal instincts.

RPGPundit · August 01, 2018, 01:10:58 PM

Please keep this ON-TOPIC for RPG Discussion ONLY.

Omega · August 01, 2018, 07:35:59 PM

So allmost a month later whats the effect been?

I'd guess the mob has moved on to fresher targets as they usually do with the occasional pot-shots just to remind the past victims to keep their heads down. I suspect after GenCon we will see some increased crazy.

Armchair Gamer · August 01, 2018, 08:43:40 PM

Quote from: Omega;1051157So allmost a month later whats the effect been?

I'd guess the mob has moved on to fresher targets as they usually do with the occasional pot-shots just to remind the past victims to keep their heads down. I suspect after GenCon we will see some increased crazy.

Oh, I think most of the Usual Suspects will have their hands full with the release of Vampire 5E.

RPGPundit · August 04, 2018, 07:04:47 AM

Eventually, I expect all games will be banned on tangency.net

Steven Mitchell · August 04, 2018, 09:23:18 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1051447Eventually, I expect all games will be banned on tangency.net

Maybe. They might ban all the users before they get to that point. The way the left has been turning on each other for being insufficiently woke, it wouldn't surprise me. Would the last moderator please turn out the lights before they ban themselves?

RPGPundit · August 06, 2018, 03:10:38 AM

Well, the gamers will be banned first because just BEING a gamer is rapidly becoming enough for accusation of Nazism.

Kyle Aaron · August 06, 2018, 03:38:04 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1051447Eventually, I expect all games will be banned on tangency.net

Nonsense! They'll keep the storygames.

Games where you kill orcs are Problematic, games where you rape cabin boy corpses are not.

HappyDaze · August 06, 2018, 03:39:13 AM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1051766Nonsense! They'll keep the storygames.

Games where you kill orcs are Problematic, games where you rape cabin boy corpses are not.

No, only the ones with approved narratives will survive.

Crawford Tillinghast · August 06, 2018, 09:05:17 PM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1051766Nonsense! They'll keep the storygames.

Games where you kill orcs are Problematic, games where you rape cabin boy corpses are not.

Isn't it the other way around?

Plow your way through a gilded hole, massacring everything in sight ("HEY! How much exp for smashing kobold eggs?") Not a prob.

Start talking about "seizing the booty" on the other hand...

Toadmaster · August 08, 2018, 04:03:44 PM

Quote from: amacris;1047968Toadmaster, that is *exactly* why I designed Heroic Fantasy Handbook. It has an entirely new system of magic (eldritch) with a method of casting spells (ceremonies) that is all inspired by swords & sorcery. You can use Heroic Fantasy Handbook with Labyrinth Lord, Swords & Wizardry, etc. fairly easily so you could just grab that book if that's your main interest.

I picked up most of the pdfs during the Drive Thru RPG sale. Although I'm not a big fan of "D&D" class / level games I like what I'm seeing so far and will be adding the dead tree versions in the future.

This is only my second purchase of core rules for a "D&D" based game since the d20 craze of the early 2000s. The other was Lion & Dragon earlier this year. Both have addressed areas I haven't liked in past class / level games. Again thank you to the controversy for bringing ACKS to my attention.

Quote from: Melan;1049425Going through old RPGNet threads is like going through old photographs of the Soviet Communist Party. Who knew all those people were secret traitors, spies, and fascists?

Very much so, I see even some of the mods have run afoul of the mob being demoted to regular members or banned. The place has become a train wreck of "right thinking".