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How is the Big Purple handling "current events" lately?

Started by Neoplatonist1, November 09, 2024, 08:00:56 PM

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Fheredin

#45
November 22, 2024, 05:32:28 PM
Few things convince me that someone has zero awareness of politics outside of their own bubble quite like equating or implying Trump to a Nazi demagogue. Trump wears the mantle of the avatar of electoral wrath.

The more these nuts repeat that their opposition is a bunch of Nazis, the more they establish that they are wildly out of touch.



 



Omega

#46
November 22, 2024, 07:46:02 PM
Quote from: mikelaff on November 22, 2024, 10:32:53 AMAgree with most of what you say.
But — there's a non-zero chance some posters here are very focused on big purple. It comes up a lot over here.

I think thats because theres alot of folk here who were senselessly banned over there, or banned for the flimsiest of reasons, or no reason at all it seems.

I have never had any problem over there and seem to have somehow missed everything. But then I keep pretty much to a few subs.

Koltar

#47
November 23, 2024, 10:44:33 AM


TWO Questions:
1) Does it matter what the 'Big Purple" thinks one way or the other?
...and ...
2) Does this topic belong in the gaming section?

- Ed C.
The return of \'You can\'t take the Sky From me!\'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

Still here, still alive, at least Seven years now...

Stephen Tannhauser

#48
November 23, 2024, 01:24:21 PM
Quote from: Koltar on November 23, 2024, 10:44:33 AMTWO Questions:
1) Does it matter what the 'Big Purple" thinks one way or the other?

Insofar as it's a useful insight into a mentality about gaming, fandom, and the current dynamics therein, I'd say it's a topic of interest.

It doesn't matter in the sense anyone here is obliged to give two pins about it, but as a former participant there, it has a certain sad nostalgia value for me. (Vaguely-relevant digression: The literal translation of "nostalgia" is "an old returning pain", from Greek.)

Quote...and ... 2) Does this topic belong in the gaming section?

One could argue it does, but I agree, there would be more room to explore non-gaming aspects of the topic in Pundit's Own.
Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain

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Anon Adderlan

#49
November 25, 2024, 11:33:23 PM
Quote from: Trond on November 17, 2024, 07:01:00 PMI'm attaching an official statement from Zeea



"Some of our users don't entirely understand that things they say on the internet are visible to other people."

I can't even...

Quote from: Jason Coplen on November 18, 2024, 06:17:07 PMNot to be snarky, but a therapist could rake in the money from those people.

Bold of you to assume those people have money.

Quote from: blackstone on November 19, 2024, 08:01:48 AMThis has to be the weirdest thing to me. I just don't get it. For the longest time, playing RPGs was to escape reality and be somebody else. In the past five years or so, it has morphed into YOU being you in a RPG.

It's because escapism is a threat to the revolution, so any represented reality must match an existing or intended one.

Stephen Tannhauser

#50
November 26, 2024, 07:09:19 PM
Amusingly, the TBP thread in question has now been locked due to two of the posters getting so angry at the Hispanic voting bloc no longer voting as a bloc that they started discussing Hispanic voters' motives en masse ... which somebody reported as a group attack, and the posters in question each incurred a 30-day ban.

If I still cared enough to incur a ban myself I would point out that the one thing they need in order to understand their loss -- i.e., a coherent explanation of their opponents' perspectives and interests from the horse's own mouth, as it were -- is the one thing their policy prevents anyone providing to them. But I think irony is beyond those in that headspace at the moment.
Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain

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yosemitemike

#51
November 27, 2024, 12:01:23 AM
Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on November 26, 2024, 07:09:19 PMAmusingly, the TBP thread in question has now been locked due to two of the posters getting so angry at the Hispanic voting bloc no longer voting as a bloc that they started discussing Hispanic voters' motives en masse ... which somebody reported as a group attack, and the posters in question each incurred a 30-day ban.

The standard line seems to be that Latinos didn't vote for Harris because they hate women.  The fact that 65% of Latinos voted for Hilary in 2016 is ignored.   
"I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice."― Friedrich Hayek
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Hzilong

#52
November 27, 2024, 02:44:14 AM
Quote from: yosemitemike on November 27, 2024, 12:01:23 AM
Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on November 26, 2024, 07:09:19 PMAmusingly, the TBP thread in question has now been locked due to two of the posters getting so angry at the Hispanic voting bloc no longer voting as a bloc that they started discussing Hispanic voters' motives en masse ... which somebody reported as a group attack, and the posters in question each incurred a 30-day ban.

The standard line seems to be that Latinos didn't vote for Harris because they hate women.  The fact that 65% of Latinos voted for Hilary in 2016 is ignored.   

Let's take it at face value that Latinos hate women and just agree with the premise. We would likely assume it's Latino men who would be most strongly opposed to female politicians. That would then mean it is a bad idea to allow huge numbers of Latino males into the country with little to no vetting. If only there was a name for this issue...
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blackstone

#53
November 27, 2024, 08:38:58 AM
Quote from: Cathode Ray on November 20, 2024, 11:18:32 AM
Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on November 19, 2024, 09:54:05 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer on November 19, 2024, 09:16:13 AMDid you see the post where someone said "I ran "Comrades" at a socialist convention in 2017 or so. Very well received."?

I'm not familiar with the game, or I'd probably have gotten the joke.

I take it it's a satiric thing?  (A game based on the film The Death of Stalin would make for some serious black comedy.)

ETA:  Just looked it up on DriveThruRPG.  Good grief.  Under the Description: "Playing as characters like the Soldier, the Student, the Propagandist, and the Worker, your comrades will mount rallies, stage coups, evade the secret police, and fight fascist goons." And then under "A Note About Content": "This game does not advocate for political violence, and is instead designed to help players explore the limitations of the use of force for political ends." Judas Priest, I haven't seen a game try this hard to backpedal away from its own inevitable implications since the new edition of Ravenloft tried to make the Demiplane of Dread not scary.

THIS DISCLAIMER IS A LIE.
Do not buy the game.
The game COMRADES, both in the introduction, and on its crowdfunding site, BOLDLY ADVOCATES REAL-LIFE VIOLENCE.  I'm not talking about in-game violence, although it advocates that.  But the actual content laments where the "Real" revolutionaries have gone, and invites the gamers to, after pretending to be good little communists, to get involved in real "activism", telling them to act like such groups as The Weather Underground, a real-life domestic terrorist organization who bombed the pentagon before Al Qaeda got the idea, murdered a federal judge, and engaged in other goodness.

I reported this to DriveThru several times.  They didn't do anything about it, since it's a violation of their TOS that conforms to an agenda with which they align.  Instead, the Comrades page reacted by putting up a disclaimer (the reason for their "backpedaling" that you mention).  It doens't change a thing about the game, or Drive Thru allowing material advocating violence on their site, but somehow this lie makes everything fine now.

If you're curious about reading the game's advocacy of violence, don't get it.  The author is a bona-fide communist, and we wouldn't want to disappoint him by giving him any profit for his horrible product.  There are other was to find what's in it without engaging in evil capitalism.

It's a platinum bestseller.

Two questions:

1. WHAT?
2. DA FUCK?
1. I'm a married homeowner with a career and kids. I won life. You can't insult me.

2. I've been deployed to Iraq, so your tough guy act is boring.
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