Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;399783It's a way of insulting him.

Which is almost unnecessary, because his existence is insult enough.  

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;399783It's a way of insulting him.

Ok I can see that.

It's still weird a guy who was supposedly an abused fat kid would be so abusive to overweight people, tho. His original wraethu review had to be cut due to the extremity of the hate in it.

Quote from: Cylonophile;399795Ok I can see that.

It's still weird a guy who was supposedly an abused fat kid would be so abusive to overweight people, tho. His original wraethu review had to be cut due to the extremity of the hate in it.

Is this related to the notion of people who were severely abused as kids, become abusers as adults?

Quote from: ggroy;399797Is this related to the notion of people who were severely abused as kids, become abusers as adults?

Hmm, I think it's more like people often have their justified hate against their abusers turn into self hatred if they can't strike back enough to vent it.

 Understanding this might make me fell a little sorry for maclennan, but if I meet him anywhere I'm still going literally  to spit in his face.

Quote from: Benoist;399274I feel warm inside. :pundit:

Set a man on fi-oh shit we did that already.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;399809Set a man on fi-oh shit we did that already.

That's right. I feel just as warm outside, now.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;399809Set a man on fi-oh shit we did that already.

That is actually one of the tests I used to have for console RPGs.  Can I run my dude into a fire and take damage?  Further, was the graphic effect of running around after immolating him cool or not?  

Quote from: ggroy;399469Television is most effective brainwashing device ever invented.  :rolleyes:

Incorrect.

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;399853Incorrect.

Ha! The leaders of the world's main religions sneer at hypnotoads ability to turn people into mindlessly obedient willing slaves to it's whims!

Quote from: StormBringer;399830That is actually one of the tests I used to have for console RPGs.  Can I run my dude into a fire and take damage?  Further, was the graphic effect of running around after immolating him cool or not?  

The best video game series of all time, and your theory is a nice corollary to it, is Syphon Filter.  Syphon Filter has a "non-lethal" method of subduing your opponents: use a taser.  However, if you tase your target too long, they'll die.  Then begin to smolder.  Then catch fire.  The longer you tase them, the more furious they'll burn.  The game has no real built in limit on how long this can last.  You can hit a target with the taser and put a book on the fire button and come back in a couple of hours to your agent standing a few feet from a twitching, blackened, flaming vertical human match.

let's slag off rpg.net some more.

And the fucker i lent my copy of 1e DC Heroes too who never returned that box of delights.

And Virgin megastore for giving up on selling rpgs.

And Travelling Man for being utterly clueless as a games (and comics/memoraibillia) shop.

And Daedalus Games for dying onits arse off the back of feng shui and the rather brilliant shadowfist.

And white wolf for releasing 2 equally crapulent editions of Exalted and ruining it with the worst ruleset i've ever seen while abandoning the brilliant Trinityverse.

And every gaming shop for never stocking Book of Sigils for Falkenstein.

Don't get me wrong, Darren's moderation (heh there's an oxymoron if I ever saw one) was hilarious back when tbp was still a free and open forum for public discussion.  The problem was that for a couple years after they clamped down he was still out there being a complete dick while his victims weren't even permitted to reply in kind.  Which led to the frustration and flaming of the mod wars that went on for years.

What eventually came out of it all was the biggest independant rpg forums becoming sanitized and stale.  Try to discuss anything with the least bit of passion or deviation from the enforced politically correct ideology and you're banned.

The only time I ever got banned was for discussing D&D and its fans.  And that was for a pretty tame statement that the largest game would automatically have the most cat-piss men.

So yeah, I'd nominate Darren McLennan for one of the biggest villains.  His methods are largely responsible for the big purple toilet as it exists today.

You guys are joking right?

He doen't even qualify as a mini-me.

My last official act on TBP was to report Darren for violating site rules, per his goading "suggestion".

You see how well that worked.

One of the things that took me from Tangency cliquer to Mod shitlister was going after Maclennan for his bullshit, and Eric Brennan for his refusal to do anything about it.