(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/476326897370791947/817672131722215464/osr_auraacc.jpg)
The worst kept secret is out, and another virtue signalling wonder - AuraTwilight, owner of the soyman OSR Discord server - has been outed for "abuse, emotional manipulation, and grooming" (https://oblidisideryptch.blogspot.com/2021/03/allegations-against-auratwilightpaimon.html), and removed from faer (correct pronoun use, folx!) position.
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/476326897370791947/817672005779456000/osr_auraaccusations.png)
It all began in a very promising way:
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/476326897370791947/817680182164455464/osr_aurabeginnings.png)
And then BAM! grooming scandal!
Whoa! Who could have seen this coming? I mean, after THE PREVIOUS top mod (Not Chris McDowall, the original founder, but another genderweird) was outed for THE SAME FUCKING THING. It just keeps happening.
And of course, another pit of the Woko Haram has been proven to shelter sex pests. These claims were not new. They were around for months. They were posted on various sites, including /tg/'s OSR thread. Yet these fine people did FUCK ALL until now, while posting glibly about the problematic elements in the OSR. How nice. Well hey, I may be a crusty old white man with bad views, but I am sure as fuck happy I am not part of THAT crowd.
Yiff in hell, motherfuckers!
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/476326897370791947/817675791701377034/kelly_welcome.jpg)
Quote from: Melan on March 06, 2021, 03:52:49 AM
The worst kept secret is out, and another virtue signaling wonder - AuraTwilight, owner of the soyman OSR Discord server - has been outed for "abuse, emotional manipulation, and grooming"...
And of course, another pit of the Woko Haram has been proven to shelter sex pests. These claims were not new. They were around for months. They were posted on various sites, including /tg/'s OSR thread. Yet these fine people did FUCK ALL until now, while posting glibly about the problematic elements in the OSR. ...
Quell Surprise.
Quote from: Melan on March 06, 2021, 03:52:49 AM
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Whoa! Who could have seen this coming? I mean, after THE PREVIOUS top mod (Not Chris McDowall, the original founder, but another genderweird) was outed for THE SAME FUCKING THING. It just keeps happening.
At first it was just LGB. Then LGBT. Currently LGBTQ.
LGBTQP - The acronym of the future, here today.
This is my shocked face => -_-
It won't be OSR, but I can't wait for the Wok-andans to go after my game because I have zero paragraphs dealing with gender identity or homosexuality or how you can two daddies or mommies or picking your pronouns and all 30 of the example PCs are "cis" (well, except the golems technically, but they also "present" as the same sex they were built to resemble). In fact, other than which species can crossbreed I don't discuss sex at all.
This is because...
A) None of those things requires rules and I have limited page count.
B) The implied setting is two-centuries past an apocalypse that saw the population crash from 8 billion to 8 million and 200 years has only gotten back to about 60 million (population growth of just over 1%) because of regular monster attacks. If your public face isn't trying to perpetuate the species then you're most likely going to be expelled from the community as a waste of resources.
Frankly, anyone as obsessed about ANY topic as the wokeratti are about sex/gender is almost certainly mentally ill. That they continue to prove it? Again, this is my shocked face... -_-
"Hypno-abuse"? :o
I left the OSR discord when McDowell turned the server over to "it" and that screed was posted. Glad I did. The conversation there was never really worth participating in anyways. Completely unsurprised by the accusations.
Cue that Fry gif. "I am shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked."
I mean, good gravy, it's like every time you scrape a 'woke' guy, or 'male feminist', lo and behold...
Quote from: Reckall on March 06, 2021, 09:12:54 AM
"Hypno-abuse"? :o
Not just hypno-abuse,
furry hypno-abuse.
That's a rock I'm not turning over any further.
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_29_shKT4Elw/R1L0LSjRtsI/AAAAAAAACSo/J5mUYyrb-y4/s1600-R/geeks.gif)
Quote from: Thornhammer on March 06, 2021, 10:07:12 AM
Quote from: Reckall on March 06, 2021, 09:12:54 AM
"Hypno-abuse"? :o
Not just hypno-abuse, furry hypno-abuse.
That's a rock I'm not turning over any further.
I loved "The Big Bang Theory" but I never considered it a documentary...
Edit: I must however admit that reading about this specific brouhaha here...
https://nyeog.me/stories/beware-paimon-prowler-auratwilight
...Kind of stimulates my intellectual curiosity - a bit like those zoologists who study the behaviour of monkeys when they throw their feces against each other.
Quote from: kreegan on March 06, 2021, 09:30:40 AM
I left the OSR discord when McDowell turned the server over to "it" and that screed was posted. Glad I did. The conversation there was never really worth participating in anyways. Completely unsurprised by the accusations.
I joined way back, but never posted because they never seemed to talk much about gaming at all. This desire didn't increase when the weirdos took over. I wonder if this furry wonder even played. A lot of the posting crowd seemed to be non-gamers, or at best tourists.
Tenkar should be glad to have been banned from that Discord. I never joined that Discord, but it doesn't surprise me to hear from others that very little gaming discussion occurs there. It sounds like it's probably used more as a way for groomers to identify targets.
Also, being a furry is more of a sign of derangement than any shade of color someone decides to change their hair to. Have purple hair? Ok, a bit of an odd choice, but really doesn't prevent me from hanging out with you and having a conversation. Want to think of yourself as an animal and dress in weird fetish costumes? Run the hell away from that as quick as one can!
What did he get banned for?
Quote from: Thornhammer on March 06, 2021, 02:33:40 PM
What did he get banned for?
Basically for not being super supportive of Contessa, not anything specific that I know of.
(sarc)Tenkar focuses too much on the games, don't you know? (/sarc)
You can read up on some of the background here:
https://www.tenkarstavern.com/2019/03/youve-been-banned-pexxs-experience-with.html?m=1
Quote from: Jaeger on March 06, 2021, 07:03:09 AM
At first it was just LGB. Then LGBT. Currently LGBTQ.
LGBTQP - The acronym of the future, here today.
I like LGBTQWERTY. Most people young enough to be really into the acronyms don't get the reference.
LGBTQWERTY, that's when you headdesk hard onto your keyboard, right?
Quote from: wmarshal on March 06, 2021, 02:46:44 PM
Quote from: Thornhammer on March 06, 2021, 02:33:40 PM
What did he get banned for?
Basically for not being super supportive of Contessa, not anything specific that I know of.
(sarc)Tenkar focuses too much on the games, don't you know? (/sarc)
You can read up on some of the background here:
https://www.tenkarstavern.com/2019/03/youve-been-banned-pexxs-experience-with.html?m=1
I glanced at that page, and I can tell you this: I do have a lawyer, and to get him to simply read
that I would have to fork 500 Euro - minimum.
Why people do think that...
"...I was banned for these events on the Sloooper Discord underscroll by Diamond Rick right while SuperHupe and THEnCoffee on Blabberchat were telling me this but not before Dabben1ng (on the Flouride4Hide server) had defamed me by lying about the conversation log between me and Zerona..."...should make people more sympathetic to your cause will always be beyond me. Life is short.
Imagine my shock. I've never known anyone seriously in to the whole woke thing who didn't have serious skeletons in their closet. The whole genderweird subset seem particularly prone to mental illness and poor character.
I did look in to the discord a while back but it was clear that osr games were ancillary at best to whatever the fuck it is they're doing over there. That said does anyone know of any discords or the like with actual conversation on the subject?
Quote from: Jaeger on March 06, 2021, 07:03:09 AM
Quote from: Melan on March 06, 2021, 03:52:49 AM
The worst kept secret is out, and another virtue signaling wonder - AuraTwilight, owner of the soyman OSR Discord server - has been outed for "abuse, emotional manipulation, and grooming"...
And of course, another pit of the Woko Haram has been proven to shelter sex pests. These claims were not new. They were around for months. They were posted on various sites, including /tg/'s OSR thread. Yet these fine people did FUCK ALL until now, while posting glibly about the problematic elements in the OSR. ...
Quell Surprise.
Quote from: Melan on March 06, 2021, 03:52:49 AM
...
Whoa! Who could have seen this coming? I mean, after THE PREVIOUS top mod (Not Chris McDowall, the original founder, but another genderweird) was outed for THE SAME FUCKING THING. It just keeps happening.
At first it was just LGB. Then LGBT. Currently LGBTQ.
LGBTQP - The acronym of the future, here today.
I am afraid you're woefully behind the times.
The full recognised acronymn is LGBTQQIP2SAA. Apparently.
Make of that what you will.
The topic as a whole is daft, but this bit is game rules so is interesting:
Quote from: Chris24601 on March 06, 2021, 08:43:43 AM
A) None of those things requires rules and I have limited page count.
From
Traveller:
A NOTE ON GENDER AND RACE
Nowhere in these rules is a specific requirement established that any character (player or non-player) be of a specific gender or race. Any character is potentially of any race or of either sex.Sexuality isn't mentioned at all in any of Books 1-3. That was 1977, by the way. It was as you say: "This doesn't require rules, play who you want, have fun."
I take it that by grooming they do not mean convincing that one guy with the cheeto fingerprints on his sleeve to take a shower?
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on March 06, 2021, 06:51:22 PM
The topic as a whole is daft, but this bit is game rules so is interesting:
Quote from: Chris24601 on March 06, 2021, 08:43:43 AM
A) None of those things requires rules and I have limited page count.
From Traveller:
A NOTE ON GENDER AND RACE
Nowhere in these rules is a specific requirement established that any character (player or non-player) be of a specific gender or race. Any character is potentially of any race or of either sex.
Sexuality isn't mentioned at all in any of Books 1-3. That was 1977, by the way. It was as you say: "This doesn't require rules, play who you want, have fun."
Still hateful and insufficiently inclusive by the standards of the woke. The phrase "either sex" is to be considered a tool of 'The Patriarchy'™️ used to enforce the gender binary. They'll require warning labels at the very least for any future pdfs or reprints at the least.
Quote from: Thornhammer on March 06, 2021, 10:07:12 AM
That's a rock I'm not turning over any further.
Wise advice more people should follow.
In all honesty these people (oh god, did I do a racism?), or rather their equivalents, were the ones RPGers in general were always trying to avoid. My experience is certainly different from the American one, but weirdos exist everywhere.
Quote from: wmarshal on March 06, 2021, 07:47:37 PMThe phrase "either sex" is to be considered a tool of 'The Patriarchy'™️ used to enforce the gender binary. They'll require warning labels at the very least for any future pdfs or reprints at the least.
I did think of that. But then - going on the old-fashioned premise of playtesting rules before criticising or praising them - if someone at the game table said, "I'll be neither/intersex", the referee would raise a quizzical eyebrow, shrug and tell them to go on to throwing dice for their terms of service. Nobody would care.
All 44 years of social justice in roleplaying has added is lengthy text in place of the referee's indifferent shrug.
The lesson is, woke-ness is about power. All the isms are just the levers they use.
Quote from: Ratman_tf on March 06, 2021, 11:09:21 PM
The lesson is, woke-ness is about power. All the isms are just the levers they use.
This is why "woke" people believe everything is about power (they're projecting again). Even sex apparently.
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on March 06, 2021, 06:51:22 PM
From Traveller:
A NOTE ON GENDER AND RACE
Nowhere in these rules is a specific requirement established that any character (player or non-player) be of a specific gender or race. Any character is potentially of any race or of either sex.
That the characters could be of any sex or race was, BTW, written at the beginning of the original
Alien script by Dan O'Bannon. It was Ridley Scott who decided that "Ripley" was female and defended his choice amid the producers' perplexity (even when he still had to meet Sigourney Weaver his first choice was Veronica Cartwright). The result speaks by itself. Scott also choose Yaphet Kotto as Parker to "add diversity" to the cast. This to show how, back in 1979, people already made the kind of creative choices that today are forced by hysterics, based only on what they did feel was better for the story. That was 1979.
(Walter Hill and David Giler, meanwhile, came up with the idea that Ian Holm's character "race" was "robot", another thing unspecified in the original script and one of the best things in the whole franchise).
And if not at the time of writing of
Alien, by the time of
Aliens they'd decided that Lambert was transgender - back in the dark medieval days of 1986.
(https://i.redd.it/7tznmag9qcw01.jpg)
The example of Ash being a robot, along with these other things the initial script left open, is a good example of how a game can be incomplete - and that's a good thing (https://www.thevikinghatgm.com/2021/02/ct-books-1-3-you-fill-in-blanks.html). Because we can fill the gaps with our imagination, including playing the ethnicity, gender, sexuality or whatever of our choice.
QuoteFor example, in AD&D1e the description of "fighter" makes no mention of home culture or era. Is this a saxon thane in the line against Viking invaders? The Viking invaders themselves? A lamellar-clad model for the terracotta warriors of Qin? French heavy infantry at Agincourt? A young squire daring to seek out and fight a werewolf? The girl fighting the jabberwocky? A bronze-clad warrior of Sparta? A daring Amazon of the Crimea, firing her bow from her horse at Greek invaders? An Iron Age warrior of Kush? A samurai? It doesn't say. You fill in the blanks! If it were more complete, you could not do this.
When the writer explicitly lists all these possibilities as separate choices, they stifle the player's imagination. And this really is the issue with overly-detailed and ideologically-oriented games: they stifle imagination.
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on March 07, 2021, 05:57:50 AM....When the writer explicitly lists all these possibilities as separate choices, they stifle the player's imagination. And this really is the issue with overly-detailed and ideologically-oriented games: they stifle imagination.
The difference between art and propaganda is that art is a process of exploration, while propaganda sets out to make a specific statement. The artist doesn't know what he is going to do when he starts; he explores, creates, and at some point he stops. So the work of art is the process of exploration frozen in time. As such, the work has many interpretations. But the propaganda has only a single interpretation, which makes it dull and uninteresting.
The first movie or game in a "franchise" is usually the best, because it's a process of exploring unknown territory and it has unlimited potential.
The original Alien movie has many different interpretations. The monster itself is the work of artist HR Giger. It is not really an alien, it is a demon of the imagination (https://vanguardia.com.mx/sites/default/files/field/image/necronom_v.png), a twisted and perverse mockery of human sexuality (http://getwallpapers.com/wallpaper/full/9/3/d/23096.jpg). One could say that it's Satanic, not alien at all, but very much at home in medieval mythology and art.
Aliens, while a good action movie, removes any alternate interpretation and tells us that it's just a big bug with a queen and hive, like a colony of ants. All very mundane and scientific, not at all mythological.
Quote from: Cloyer Bulse on March 07, 2021, 08:35:12 AM
Aliens, while a good action movie, removes any alternate interpretation and tells us that it's just a big bug with a queen and hive, like a colony of ants. All very mundane and scientific, not at all mythological.
I think Prometheus was an attempt to restore the Alien's mythic quality. I also think Ridley Scott's got his head so far up his ass that the results were murky and confused.
Quote from: Ratman_tf on March 07, 2021, 12:38:19 PM
I think Prometheus was an attempt to restore the Alien's mythic quality. I also think Ridley Scott's got his head so far up his ass that the results were murky and confused.
What I think happened is that Scott got both lucky and unlucky. It is known that he was very interested to do a follow-up to Alien back in the early '80s, centered on the idea of the "Engineers" (the original Space Jockey found on the derelict). He wanted to explore the idea of sentient beings playing "gods", creating life in the process and seeing things go pear shaped when their creatures rebelled.
Then his brother died unexpectedly, something that caused him a lot of grief. He thus decided to shoot a movie to put his head on something, and the first script he liked was... Blade Runner! - which nicely covered the same topic. In this he was lucky. It is telling, however, that after BR he shelved "Alien 2" indefinitely. I guess that, consciously or unconsciously, he said what he wanted to say on the matter.
"Prometheus" was "Alien 2 Resurrected" after James Cameron invited Scott on the set of Avatar, and Ridley got angry asking himself "why he was doing Robin Hood when what he wanted to do was sci-fi!" (Cameron said that he wondered the same...) By then, however, the good ideas were both stale, unfocused and already explored better in earlier movies. Prometheus was conceived as "The Proper Sequel to Alien", "The Proper Prequel to Alien", "A new movie with some of the some ideas but nothing to do with Alien" and "A new sci-fi movie by Scott, full stop" - all at the same time. Add that superhack, Damon Lindelof, helming the script (the guy who killed Charlize Theron by making her unable to turn while running ::) ) and the result was "Ridley Scott and Alien present... Something. Actually, don't bother."
There's lots to think about in Cloyer's post here. I'll just take a couple of things.
Quote from: Cloyer Bulse on March 07, 2021, 08:35:12 AM
The first movie or game in a "franchise" is usually the best, because it's a process of exploring unknown territory and it has unlimited potential.
This is a great insight. This also explains why there are fan films and retroclones which are better than the professionally-made sequels, for example
Predator: Dark Ages (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRD8jAk274I) is better than
Predator 2. Not being beholden to a larger enterprise they can be creative and explore new ideas.
QuoteThe original Alien movie has many different interpretations [...] Aliens, while a good action movie, removes any alternate interpretation and tells us that it's just a big bug with a queen and hive, like a colony of ants. All very mundane and scientific, not at all mythological.
To a degree, this movie-to-movie arc is a continuation of the traditional gothic narrative. Gothic horror stories inevitably have a Man of Science who creates or encounters a monster and tries to understand or conquer it, and a Man of Myth who understands it almost instinctively, and which of them shall conquer it? Usually the Man of Science
becomes a Man of Myth. And there's always a labyrinth.
For example, in
Predator, the Man of Science is Dillon, who insists the monster is just guerillas, etc - and of course is killed. Billy is the Man of Myth, the Savage, the cliched Amerindian in touch with the Earth, and he understands it. "He's killing us one by one." "Like a hunter," Billy says. And of course, "There's something out there huntin' us... and it ain't no man... We're all gonna die." In the end Dutch destroys the monster not with modern weaponry, but by stripping off his military gear and painting himself and using a log trap - the Man of Science becomes a Man of Myth.
Alien presents the monster in a mythological form, but in the end its destruction is a science problem. The crew try many different solutions until Ripley blows it out of the airlock. Ripley is both a Woman of Science and a Woman of Myth.
Aliens, on the other hand, comes firmly down on the side of Science as the solution. "Take off, nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure."
Horror movies typically follow the gothic narrative, but they sometimes have the Man of Science defeat the monster. This is to reassure the audience, who after all live in a world of science - we want to believe that science will save us from our problems. "They'll think of something... human innovation... Progress!" In this respect we make science into a myth - not something to be analysed, but to be believed in.
Characteristic of the Woke is that they are white, mostly anglo-saxon, middle-classed and secular - and their parents were before them. Lacking religion or any other cultural continuity, they have no myths, only science. Science offers much to the body and mind, but little to the spirit. And so they create new myths. Thus identitarianism and the like.
I'd rather create the myths at the game table.
I'd go further and say they aren't even creating myths really. At best a simulation of myth. Rather like the alien in The Thing.
Which is why there is a terrible disquiet in their mind and soul. A lot of the identity politics is an attempt to understand and fill the void that used to be filled with culture: Tradition, stories, myths etc. This also speaks to the preoccupation of seeing RPGs in real world political terms rather than mythical terms.
For example in mythical terms a completly evil race like orcs is perfectly acceptable because they are simply a stand in for evil and brutality however you define it.
It's only when you reject the premise of myth as a core concept and give the fantastical a literal reality that you tie yourself up in knots trying to work out whether it is problamatic trying to rid the local area of goblins or whether destroying Sauron represents the colonialisation of another equally valid culture or whatever.
Ironically by giving everything a literal reality it eventually means a failure to differentiate the real world from the nonsense that happens at the gaming table. 10 years ago past Visitor Q would assume that present Visitor Q was being hyperbolic saying this but apparently this is what has happened.
What follows is the odd situation of ascribing real world consequences to the entirely fictional events depicted in a role play game (e.g killing orcs or saving a princess actually leading to the emotional abuse and oppression of real people etc)
Which is all quite odd to watch and read about because separating fact from fiction during play is a skill that a three year old can master.
Quote from: Visitor Q on March 07, 2021, 05:30:45 PM
I'd go further and say they aren't even creating myths really. At best a simulation of myth.
That's simply because their myths are new. What's the difference between a cult and a religion? The death of its founder and about a hundred years. Each religion in its early years had many different stories floating around, only a few survived to become the dominant myths of that culture.
And of course, there are countless religions which could have been, but failed to get enough interest, or were absorbed into other religions.
We've yet to see whether the Woke becomes its own religion, is absorbed by another, or perishes entirely. I think the perishing is most likely, since movements which rely on self-punishment, like the medieval flagellants or communism - well, they get quite a few adherents but they don't have legs, they don't last. In the end, most people don't want to inflict physical or emotional pain on themselves for the sake of it.
I think most likely aspects of the Woke will be absorbed into the rest of the culture. People do enjoy a bit of penitentialism, but only as a salt, not the main course. And of course everyone likes defining us and them, with us being superior beings. Like the Daleks. "We are superior beings!" Mate, you're a slug in an electronic box.
Who knows right? But my sense is there is a fundamental and in some cases potentially conscious rejection of myth as a concept rather than merely replacing it with for example some kind of left wing secular or woke identity myth.
Myth requires engaging with the metaphysical and sometimes spiritual on at least some level and certainly based on their engagement with rpgs this is completly absent. It is compeletly grounded in literal political concerns.
In any case I suspect your prediction of its perishing and the reasons for it is correct. The analysis of whether woke culture had genuine myth or merely self congratulatory propaganda will no doubt preoccupy sociologists in a few generations time and be a footnote to everyone else. :)
One reason why I think woke culture will perish with rpgs is simply that the soil is barren and the foundations sand (choose your metaphor) for the politics they are pushing. The core concepts and sometimes even mechanics of probably 99% of rpgs that people are actually playing is just fundamentally anathema to woke culture. There's no sustainable throughline.
Well, the woke stuff tends to do well when people have secure jobs in which they are given some latitude to be unproductive, either because outcomes are hard to measure properly, or their bosses are too scared to sack them, like in this article (https://quillette.com/2021/03/06/how-a-single-anonymous-twitter-account-caused-an-indigenized-canadian-university-to-unravel/) about how one anonymous twitter account sent the woke part of the uni crazy,
QuoteBrock's strategic commitment to decolonization has created a sort of reverence around Indigeneity that offers me privileges and protections as an Indigenous scholar. All of the Indigenous-centered initiatives I've put forward have been well-supported, both in terms of funding and widespread institutional support. At the same time, as the only tenured female First Nations professor at Brock University, my departure could undermine the university's stated commitment to decolonization.
In other words: "my job is secure so long as they feel the need to virtue-signal." The positions of diversity managers in large banks and that sort of place are likewise secure whether they produce anything tangible or useful or not.
This situation does not obtain in the roleplaying game industry, which as a few people have noted here recently, should be called an "industry." An academic can put their own book on the student reading list, and imply to the university that if they're fired they'll sue, and even worse, make a fuss on social media. But an rpg writer can't make anyone buy their stuff, and if they make a fuss on social media nobody cares, not even
The Guardian will write about it. So an rpg writer has to create content people are actually interested in.
Likewise, a gamemaster or player can indulge in all sorts of nonsense in the game, but they can't make anyone else show up to the session.
Just as people polled claimed they weren't voting for Trump but once they got into the secrecy of the voting booth they did, so too when surveyed, or during DIE meetings in the workplace, people may nod along with things. But when it comes time to spending their money on or showing up to hobby sessions their true views will be expressed.
And people just do not give a shit. Gamers by and large will accept any friendly person at their game table, and are indifferent to their ethnic background, gender or whatever. Most game groups reflect the demographics of the GM's social circle, and if it's an open game table, the demographics of the local area. As for your character, a hobby where someone or other will let you play a gnome-drow paladin is certainly not going to blink an eye if you decide your character is transgendered.
Quote from: BronzeDragon on March 06, 2021, 10:23:52 PM
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In all honesty these people (oh god, did I do a racism?), or rather (and) their equivalents, were the ones RPGers in general were always trying to avoid. My experience is certainly different from the American one, but weirdos exist everywhere.
This. 1000 times this.
In the early days RPG's were a niche thing, that got made fun of in popular culture.
But we were all just basically normal kids looking for a bit of escapist fun.
Some fearmongers worried that kids who played the game might have trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality.
Never in a million years would it have occurred to them that some people would self-identify as a pink horse before they even sat down to play!
Quote from: Kyle Aaron on March 07, 2021, 10:09:32 PM
[But an rpg writer can't make anyone buy their stuff, and if they make a fuss on social media nobody cares, not even The Guardian will write about it. So an rpg writer has to create content people are actually interested in.
Likewise, a gamemaster or player can indulge in all sorts of nonsense in the game, but they can't make anyone else show up to the session.
Just as people polled claimed they weren't voting for Trump but once they got into the secrecy of the voting booth they did, so too when surveyed, or during DIE meetings in the workplace, people may nod along with things. But when it comes time to spending their money on or showing up to hobby sessions their true views will be expressed.
It goes even further because even if you write gaming adventure content people want GMs can and do discard all the woke stuff (or any other ideology) they don't like in actual sessions.
This is combined with with the fact that maybe a year after an rpg is produced (or less) someone is going to put a bootlegged pdf of it online. Therefore it is trivially easy for a consumer to get the benefit of 100% of content they like for free whilst only
paying for content they agree with.
(Interesting article btw)