Quote from: GeekyBugle;1136070Plus, if DTRPG bans you for being "problematic" would any of the other options not from OBS take you in?

Yes, I know, make your own, until they make your bank kick you to the curve, and payment processors cancel your accounts... Then what?

Have everything you do done in the name of a minority friend, ghostwriter style, I've got a lesbian or three who would happily put their names on whatever I asked and let me fill their paypal with sales for a small fee. Now what control freaks?

Quote from: Slipshot762;1136455Have everything you do done in the name of a minority friend, ghostwriter style, I've got a lesbian or three who would happily put their names on whatever I asked and let me fill their paypal with sales for a small fee. Now what control freaks?

It's not really about the "protected minority" my friend, they happily cancel women, lesbians, gays, trans, blacks, Mexicans, etc. the moment they dare step out of the plantation.

If it was really about that I should be safe from the mob, what with me Being a Maya and all.

We need to stop giving ground and fight to get our culture back.

Or else we'll find ourselves hiding to be able to play banned games, read banned books with the constant fear of the thought police knocking on our doors. Living in a hellish landscape mix of Cyberpunk/1984/Fahrenheit 451.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1136403With that over-sensitive sense of entitlement combined with laziness, you must be American.

And you are typical smug  leftest Australian twat.

Yeah those well known characteristics of Australians: smugness and leftism.

:confused:

Quote from: Rhiannon;1137754Yeah those well known characteristics of Australians: smugness and leftism.

You ever hear of the youtuber Daisy Cousins? She's from Australia.

Quote from: Tom Kalbfus;1137756You ever hear of the youtuber Daisy Cousins? She's from Australia.

Using Youtube as a guide for anything or anywhere would be the height of stupidity. Like treating Twitter as reflective of the real world.

Quote from: Rhiannon;1137754Yeah those well known characteristics of Australians: smugness and leftism.

So you know Australia then.

Quote from: Rhiannon;1137762Using Youtube as a guide for anything or anywhere would be the height of stupidity. Like treating Twitter as reflective of the real world.

That idea might have had merit 10 years ago, but that's long gone. The feedback loop between freaks on social media and the mainstream media is now the de facto source of our shared reality beyond the confines of our own lives.

Most news articles now quote Twitter and feature Tweets as the "fact" part of the story. Twitter is where the MSM goes to get news and to create news. As the majority of people get their information about the world through social media or the MSM, then how people interact in the real world becomes driven by the idiocy on Twitter.

That's why RPGPundit has made such an issue about "D&D Twitter" which seemed like the babbling of idiots nobody should have ever taken seriously, but now THEY determine the course of D&D as "geek media" heralds their causes and WotC embraces them.

This "Code of Conduct" stupidity is just waiting to be laid down by the woke mob. First, they will bray on Twitter enough to become the "trending topic" which gets retweeted by the mob's game designer allies, then the "journalists of geek media" will get involved and ask innocently, "why isn't this already the standard?" And then a few days of handwringing later, the woke and woke wannabe publishers will start jockeying for who can be the first to adopt the mob's Code of Conduct rules.  

Social media has fucked the world.

Quote from: Rhiannon;1137754Yeah those well known characteristics of Australians: smugness and leftism.

:confused:

They are characteristics of a certain set of Australians.  Were you confused by KA's  vastly wider stereotyping?

Quote from: Spinachcat;1137835Most news articles now quote Twitter and feature Tweets as the "fact" part of the story. Twitter is where the MSM goes to get news and to create news.

Even more now so since most of the media are posting from home while guzzling wine.

h/t the Clownfish video in the other thread:

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/07/03/wizards-of-the-coast-removes-lizbeth-eden-from-magic-creator-program-for-photos-featuring-nudity-and-sexualized-posing/

Quote from: Bounding Into ComicsAs you can see in the photo above, the email begins, "It has come to our attention that you have been distributing Magic content that is against our Code of Conduct, including photos featuring adult nudity and sexualized posting."

It adds, "This is a violation of your participation in the Magic Creator Program and Magic sponsored. As a result you will be removed from the program in accordance with Section 3 of the Wizards Creator Program Terms and Conditions."

They then state the Code of Conduct, Section 2, which reads, "Do not use, post, distribute or link to obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit, graphically or gratuitously violent, derogatory, demeaning, malicious, defamatory, abusive, offensive, hateful or discriminatory language or content. This includes "masking" language by using alternative characters/spelling /spacing to get around profanity filters or claims of profanity filter "testing."

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Receiving no response from Wizards of the Coast after asking for further details regarding the action taken against her, Eden speculated that a fake Magic: The Gathering card featuring a pin-up style photograph of herself was "why I was kicked out of the mtg creator program."

Arbitrary, uneven, unaccountable, and opaque one-sided enforcement of the "rules" because of content that was unrelated to and not produced for the program. WotC will never say, but I'd bet money that the joke about white knighting is the real reason Eden got the CoC banhammer dropped on her. I'm sure that being gorgeous didn't help her case, though.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1137835That idea might have had merit 10 years ago, but that's long gone. The feedback loop between freaks on social media and the mainstream media is now the de facto source of our shared reality beyond the confines of our own lives.

Most news articles now quote Twitter and feature Tweets as the "fact" part of the story. Twitter is where the MSM goes to get news and to create news. As the majority of people get their information about the world through social media or the MSM, then how people interact in the real world becomes driven by the idiocy on Twitter.

That's why RPGPundit has made such an issue about "D&D Twitter" which seemed like the babbling of idiots nobody should have ever taken seriously, but now THEY determine the course of D&D as "geek media" heralds their causes and WotC embraces them.

This "Code of Conduct" stupidity is just waiting to be laid down by the woke mob. First, they will bray on Twitter enough to become the "trending topic" which gets retweeted by the mob's game designer allies, then the "journalists of geek media" will get involved and ask innocently, "why isn't this already the standard?" And then a few days of handwringing later, the woke and woke wannabe publishers will start jockeying for who can be the first to adopt the mob's Code of Conduct rules.  

Social media has fucked the world.

Right. I thought this was an rpg forum? What are you lot going on about?

Quote from: Rhiannon;1137909Right. I thought this was an rpg forum? What are you lot going on about?

The post directly references  the recently released RPG creators Code of Conduct and Marxist / Entryist posting about DnD on twitter.  What the fuck are you going on about.

Right mate, if you think that tenous connection is enough to post a rambling essay on the MSM and whatever other nonsense you're all on about knock yourself out. I assumed from the guidelines when I joined here that tangential political rants were off topic.

I guess this place isn't for me even though my politics lean conservative I come to rpg sites to talk games not engage in QAnon type talk.

Quote from: Rhiannon;1138056Right mate, if you think that tenous connection is enough to post a rambling essay on the MSM and whatever other nonsense you're all on about knock yourself out. I assumed from the guidelines when I joined here that tangential political rants were off topic.

I guess this place isn't for me even though my politics lean conservative I come to rpg sites to talk games not engage in QAnon type talk.

It's not like anyone is forced to read every thread posted here.

Don't like a thread don't post or even look at it. It's as if posters act like their is someone pointing a gun at their head when reading the topics. If they don't read and respond to any and all topics they get shot.

Your not a victim in this scenario either move on and ignore topics and posts you don't like or find another forum.