Quote from: KindaMeh on December 04, 2023, 05:24:31 PM
I'm pretty  sure it was less "allow them on their site" and more just the former part of "make such [false and defamatory] accusations". Also doing so as formal site representatives, for the rpg.net incident that is the only real controversy there that can be referenced. And he didn't even threaten to sue I don't think, he just called people he thought he knew and had previously supported and asked if they would stop said representatives from continuing doing something obviously sketchy and wrong. To which they responded by accusing him on the internet of planning to sue and banning the discussion of both him and his games from the site. Because apparently they couldn't be assed to correct issues nor could they trust their own ACTUAL site representatives (not regular posters, but accredited mods and blah) not to also do something morally wrong to begin with for which they would be theoretically answerable in court. Or more likely because they wanted to damage him and his business with no real repercussions and then cry victim.

Relatively confident  I'm right on this?

That's absolutely correct. The idea that I "threatened to sue RPG.net" is just another lie. What I did was point out to a business contact that his subordinates were libeling me and asked him to take care of it.

Via The Escapist, I had been a sponsor of RPG.net for many years and had been on good terms with its owner. When the moderators began to libel me, I went directly to him and politely asked him to put a stop to it. His moderators would not desist, so he instead made me a banned topic. I emailed him afterwards to say that his solution was acceptable to me and that my intent was to live and let live, and he agreed. He even updated his post about me to reflect my response to his moderators. I have not, and do not speak, ill of him for this reason, and as far as I know he has also never commented on me again.

Anyone who doesn't believe me is welcome to DM me for the proof. I have all the receipts on this.

Quote from: crkrueger on December 04, 2023, 05:08:46 PM
It may have already been said, but one of the main reasons Alex is banned is because the Woke Cult will call him a Nazi, he's been literally accused of being an alt-right terrorist who is responsible for hundreds of death by the raving lunatic Frank Trollman. 

As a result, he will sue people for libel/defamation if they make such accusations or allow them on their site, so to avoid having to mod their users and remind them how delusional they are, they simply do not allow conversation on him, or ZakS, who has has sued and won several such lawsuits.

Frustrating, really. If I were actually a terrifying supervillain with the blood of hundreds on my hands, at least I could exact a bloody vengeance on these curs in the years until SEAL Team Six raids my secret compound, captures me, and forces me to play story games in Gitmo.

Oh well.

Quote from: amacris on December 05, 2023, 01:23:35 AM
That's absolutely correct. The idea that I "threatened to sue RPG.net" is just another lie. What I did was point out to a business contact that his subordinates were libeling me and asked him to take care of it.

Who are you saying, is saying that?

The topic ban on RPG.net states

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I have at this point twice received emails from Alexander Macris, the designer of ACKS and the owner of Autarch, that I personally took as legal threats because of his status as a lawyer and the language he used, which included words like "defamation" and "reputational harm". The posts that Macris was responding to were made by RPGnet volunteers who were acting in their personal capacity as regular posters to this board; they offered their personal opinions on Macris' political allegiances primarily based on his association with Milo Yiannopoulos and used that to suggest that gamers shouldn't support Macris' roleplaying concerns.

which sounds pretty much what you said.

Quote from: Kiero on December 03, 2023, 07:07:14 AM
Game? You think the haters even have the first idea what ACKS is?

They're moronic bandwagon-jumpers, someone else told them to hate Macris, so they do. Most of them don't even play RPGs anyway.

BGG is made of this. I lost count of the threads where someone was bitching incessantly about this or that game or RPG or designer because someone told them to. The woke are made of this as well. Cattle.

Quote from: amacris on December 05, 2023, 01:25:54 AM
Frustrating, really. If I were actually a terrifying supervillain with the blood of hundreds on my hands, at least I could exact a bloody vengeance on these curs in the years until SEAL Team Six raids my secret compound, captures me, and forces me to play story games in Gitmo.

Oh well.

It's super lame this isn't real because that'd be a lot better than some hand-wringing moronic bullshit over asking some messageboard mods to stop making up stories about your associations with people who they don't like.

Quote from: pawsplay on December 05, 2023, 02:42:35 AM
which sounds pretty much what you said.

"Stop making up crap about me. Thanks."
"OMG THREATENING LAWSUIT!"

Sure

I can pretty much confirm this is the case.  Alex actually posted the letter on his Discord before he sent it.  To see the way it was (to me) twisted on RPG.net was very eye-opening, and actually marked the last time I ever logged on to the site.

It's kind of similar to the whole Hobbs situation, in which he praised ACKS then quickly backtracked when he was embattled by the woke (and to protect his chances at an Ennie I'd wager).  It particularly pissed me off because he was participating on the Discord and talking to Alex directly, yet he didn't once try to verify or discuss the situation in any manner.  I tried to ask Hobbs about that afterwards and he blocked me on all social media.  Pathetic.

Quote from: amacris on December 05, 2023, 01:23:35 AM

Quote from: KindaMeh on December 04, 2023, 05:24:31 PM
I'm pretty  sure it was less "allow them on their site" and more just the former part of "make such [false and defamatory] accusations". Also doing so as formal site representatives, for the rpg.net incident that is the only real controversy there that can be referenced. And he didn't even threaten to sue I don't think, he just called people he thought he knew and had previously supported and asked if they would stop said representatives from continuing doing something obviously sketchy and wrong. To which they responded by accusing him on the internet of planning to sue and banning the discussion of both him and his games from the site. Because apparently they couldn't be assed to correct issues nor could they trust their own ACTUAL site representatives (not regular posters, but accredited mods and blah) not to also do something morally wrong to begin with for which they would be theoretically answerable in court. Or more likely because they wanted to damage him and his business with no real repercussions and then cry victim.

Relatively confident  I'm right on this?

That's absolutely correct. The idea that I "threatened to sue RPG.net" is just another lie. What I did was point out to a business contact that his subordinates were libeling me and asked him to take care of it.

Via The Escapist, I had been a sponsor of RPG.net for many years and had been on good terms with its owner. When the moderators began to libel me, I went directly to him and politely asked him to put a stop to it. His moderators would not desist, so he instead made me a banned topic. I emailed him afterwards to say that his solution was acceptable to me and that my intent was to live and let live, and he agreed. He even updated his post about me to reflect my response to his moderators. I have not, and do not speak, ill of him for this reason, and as far as I know he has also never commented on me again.

Anyone who doesn't believe me is welcome to DM me for the proof. I have all the receipts on this.

Wait, wait, wait. Via the Escapist? Is the Escapist funding TBP?

Quote from: Brad on December 05, 2023, 09:21:44 AM
"Stop making up crap about me. Thanks."
"OMG THREATENING LAWSUIT!"

Sure

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What I did was point out to a business contact that his subordinates were libeling me and asked him to take care of it.

It does look like he is accusing people of a specific, actionable crime and cause for civil action.

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 01:27:12 AM
It does look like he is accusing people of a specific, actionable crime and cause for civil action.

He also just stated he's not a supervillain, but if he was he'd kill all of them, so obviously you should call the FBI for his terroristic threats against so many POCs and trannies.

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 01:27:12 AM

Quote from: Brad on December 05, 2023, 09:21:44 AM
"Stop making up crap about me. Thanks."
"OMG THREATENING LAWSUIT!"

Sure

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What I did was point out to a business contact that his subordinates were libeling me and asked him to take care of it.

It does look like he is accusing people of a specific, actionable crime and cause for civil action.

Show us on the doll where the bad man touched you.

Quote from: Brad on December 06, 2023, 04:50:12 AM

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 01:27:12 AM
It does look like he is accusing people of a specific, actionable crime and cause for civil action.

He also just stated he's not a supervillain, but if he was he'd kill all of them, so obviously you should call the FBI for his terroristic threats against so many POCs and trannies.

He's not a supervillain, but he is a lawyer. If Lex Luthor said, if I were a supervillain, I'd kill you, I would call the cops.

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 06:37:53 PM

Quote from: Brad on December 06, 2023, 04:50:12 AM

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 01:27:12 AM
It does look like he is accusing people of a specific, actionable crime and cause for civil action.

He also just stated he's not a supervillain, but if he was he'd kill all of them, so obviously you should call the FBI for his terroristic threats against so many POCs and trannies.

He's not a supervillain, but he is a lawyer. If Lex Luthor said, if I were a supervillain, I'd kill you, I would call the cops.

So someone who asks politely to have their subordinates cease criminal activity is a supervillain now?  If he was such a dick why didn't he just sue them without warning? This is exactly why you cannot play nice or give so much as an inch to fucking leftists. No good turn goes unpunished.

Quote from: Exploderwizard on December 07, 2023, 12:22:29 PM
So someone who asks politely to have their subordinates cease criminal activity is a supervillain now?  If he was such a dick why didn't he just sue them without warning? This is exactly why you cannot play nice or give so much as an inch to fucking leftists. No good turn goes unpunished.

I didn't say that. Can you explain to me what you mean, so we can resolve this misunderstanding?

Quote from: Exploderwizard on December 07, 2023, 12:22:29 PM

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 06:37:53 PM

Quote from: Brad on December 06, 2023, 04:50:12 AM

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 01:27:12 AM
It does look like he is accusing people of a specific, actionable crime and cause for civil action.

He also just stated he's not a supervillain, but if he was he'd kill all of them, so obviously you should call the FBI for his terroristic threats against so many POCs and trannies.

He's not a supervillain, but he is a lawyer. If Lex Luthor said, if I were a supervillain, I'd kill you, I would call the cops.

So someone who asks politely to have their subordinates cease criminal activity is a supervillain now?  If he was such a dick why didn't he just sue them without warning? This is exactly why you cannot play nice or give so much as an inch to fucking leftists. No good turn goes unpunished.

If you just go straight to suing without making that kind of attempt first, you're probably not going to win. You need to show you made some effort to resolve the situation without a lawsuit before resorting to one.

Quote from: migo on December 08, 2023, 05:37:08 AM

Quote from: Exploderwizard on December 07, 2023, 12:22:29 PM

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 06:37:53 PM

Quote from: Brad on December 06, 2023, 04:50:12 AM

Quote from: pawsplay on December 06, 2023, 01:27:12 AM
It does look like he is accusing people of a specific, actionable crime and cause for civil action.

He also just stated he's not a supervillain, but if he was he'd kill all of them, so obviously you should call the FBI for his terroristic threats against so many POCs and trannies.

That is exactly what reasonable people do.

He's not a supervillain, but he is a lawyer. If Lex Luthor said, if I were a supervillain, I'd kill you, I would call the cops.

So someone who asks politely to have their subordinates cease criminal activity is a supervillain now?  If he was such a dick why didn't he just sue them without warning? This is exactly why you cannot play nice or give so much as an inch to fucking leftists. No good turn goes unpunished.

If you just go straight to suing without making that kind of attempt first, you're probably not going to win. You need to show you made some effort to resolve the situation without a lawsuit before resorting to one.

That is exactly what reasonable people do.