Quote from: One Horse Town;662325While true, i notice that since the money started rolling in, we've seen no sign of ConTessa here.

This isn't the hobby OHT, it's a discussion forum about the hobby. Also I'm not sure what you're implying, can you clarify that a bit.

Quote from: The Traveller;662376This isn't the hobby OHT, it's a discussion forum about the hobby. Also I'm not sure what you're implying, can you clarify that a bit.

yeah, that threw me off too.  I wasn't talking about contessa herself posting here or there, but on the observation that the social justice crowd seems to be willfully ignoring a convention put on by women gamers because apparently Contessa folks aren't outragy enough.

I mean, here is a convention, hosted by women, to highlight games and women gamers who don't care about politics.  If you truly are wanting to be inclusive of women gamers in the hobby, why wouldn't you support that?

Personally, I think it's because the SJWs really don't care about bringing more women gamers into the hobby unless they are just as outragy as them.  And I'm sure it doesn't help their argument of "OMG, he looked at me!  I've been RAPED!" if a whole lot of other women react to that as, "WFT are you talking about?  Sexual assault is a very real, and horrible thing.  Someone who glanced at you and your "Natural 20s" boob t-shirt is not sexual assault.  And while you're at it, stop telling me what I should be offended at.  I just want to play the damn game."

Quote from: Sacrosanct;662468I wasn't talking about contessa herself posting here or there, but on the observation that the social justice crowd seems to be willfully ignoring a convention put on by women gamers because apparently Contessa folks aren't outragy enough.

I'm not terribly surprised that Contessa was put into conventry by the losers on rpgnet, if that is what happened, but I was referring rather to OHT's crack about her not posting since the funding link went up. It is particularly strange since it was myself who mentioned the idea in the first place as far as I know, so it's hardly as if she showed up with the hand out then took off with the princely sum of $650 as of this posting.

I await OHT's explanation for his comment.

Quote from: The Traveller;662244Is there any word about this on the bulging pendulous?

ConTessa Online: An Online Gaming Con by Women for Everyone

Quote from: Black Vulmea;662473ConTessa Online: An Online Gaming Con by Women for Everyone

Admittedly Libertad put it up last night, but it's been crickets ever since.

Quote from: flyerfan1991;662474Admittedly Libertad put it up last night, but it's been crickets ever since.

Probably because the social justice crowd thinks that it is a secret Patriarchy plot. Really, I doubt a lot of them can even concieve of something that was not specifically designed to be apolitical.

Quote from: flyerfan1991;662474Admittedly Libertad put it up last night, but it's been crickets ever since.

As I said, they read this site religiously

It's not typical to post replies in advertisement threads, and it's got 99 views as of today.

Also, the folks at Intangibility (comprised of rpg.net social justice advocate gamers) expressed support for the Con as well and are okay with its policies.

ConTessa is rather obscure; I haven't seen it mentioned on any other message boards I didn't advertise it on, not even Paizo who's supporting them. All it needed was some more exposure.

Quote from: The Traveller;662376This isn't the hobby OHT, it's a discussion forum about the hobby. Also I'm not sure what you're implying, can you clarify that a bit.

That it would be nice if they'd swung by a bit more. I'm not suggesting it was a take the money and run kind of deal, otherwise the con wouldn't have been started up in the first place without a funding option, would it?

Quote from: Libertad;662490Also, the folks at Intangibility (comprised of rpg.net social justice advocate gamers) expressed support for the Con as well and are okay with its policies.

Well, there goes my nerdrage.  What will I do for the rest of the day?

Quote from: Sacrosanct;662499Well, there goes my nerdrage.  What will I do for the rest of the day?

There's beers in the fridge, man.  And Free RPG Day tomorrow.  Sounds like a good upcoming weekend to me.

Quote from: flyerfan1991;662505There's beers in the fridge, man.  And Free RPG Day tomorrow.  Sounds like a good upcoming weekend to me.

Preach it, bro.

I ended up posting about it on TBP too. I would have sooner but I was trying to think of something eloquent to say about it.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;662499Well, there goes my nerdrage.  What will I do for the rest of the day?

Quote from: flyerfan1991;662505There's beers in the fridge, man.  And Free RPG Day tomorrow.  Sounds like a good upcoming weekend to me.

Quote from: Drohem;662507Preach it, bro.

Don't worry, be happy.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;662316Yeah, that is sort of eyebrowraising.  We know several people from both places read this forum religiously.  It's a bit telling that for people who are self-proclaimed champions of female inclusion, they haven't bothered to even mention Contessa.

Or maybe they really aren't "woman inclusive", if those women aren't as fundamental as them.  

Of course not.  They don't actually give a shit about women gamers.  They give a shit about appearing hip to whatever pseudo-activist causes they can be pretentious about.  Actually DOING something productive is completely outside of their interests.  And if more women actually did start gaming, gaming as-is, without radically censoring or deconstructing the entire hobby, it would prove the lie to all their bullshit.  Contessa is a threat to them.

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