Quote from: Abraxus on March 21, 2023, 12:09:57 PM
It' puts the sword back into the scabbard or it gets the hose again.

Quote from: Feratu on March 21, 2023, 12:48:14 PM

Quote from: Abraxus on March 21, 2023, 12:09:57 PM
It' puts the sword back into the scabbard or it gets the hose again.

"Wait, how'd I get in this pit? Why is that Kender wearing a rubber suit? Why does my butt hurt? Is that a bottle of lotion in the basket?"

GM: "Roll for initiative."

Quote from: Grognard GM on March 21, 2023, 03:17:55 PM

Quote from: Feratu on March 21, 2023, 12:48:14 PM

Quote from: Abraxus on March 21, 2023, 12:09:57 PM
It' puts the sword back into the scabbard or it gets the hose again.

"Wait, how'd I get in this pit? Why is that Kender wearing a rubber suit? Why does my butt hurt? Is that a bottle of lotion in the basket?"

GM: "Roll for initiative."

Quote from: Grognard GM on February 08, 2023, 04:32:05 PM
So I post and read here because it seemed to be the last rpg site where you don't need to genuflect to Chairman Mao to be a member, when a new friend started telling me how great EN World is. The general impression he gave was that RPGnet is a cesspool, but this place leans too right, so EN World is a sweet spot, where it's just about the games.

It just so happened that while searching today, a link lead me to EN World. Remembering the recommendation, and wanting to give it a sniff test, I looked up their thread about the Kyle Brink interview and HOLY HELL! The place reeks of RPGnet about 2016.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/kyle-brink-d-d-exec-producer-on-ogl-controversy-one-d-d-summary.695136/

It's well worth reading the whole thing, if you can avoid throwing up your stomach lining. Here are a couple of gems, from site Mods, a sure guarantee that the site is a dead zer walking.

So a poster named Halfling Rogue makes a few posts with HIDEOUS bigotry like "you can't fight racism with racism." When people say Brink just wants to turf out leadership for being disgustingly White, not players, Halfling says:

Quote from: halfling rogueI don't see how his statement is any less racist just because he's talking about leadership at WotC.

In swoops a Moderator like a Superhero.

Quote from: UmbranMod Note:
Statements that desire for a diverse corporate makeup is somehow racist are a problem. Please don't suggest that.

To answer your question (in a way that I know does not brook further discussion) is that, like it or not, modern concepts of racism are dependent on socio-economic power disparity. Racism generally requires, "punching down," so to speak. Discrimination, racism, and bigotry then are not equivalent.

That, from a place of privilege, a move towards equity feels like someone is punching down at you doesn't make it so.

Halfling, at the 'die on your feet or live on your knees' intersection, replies:

Quote from: halfling rogueModern concepts of racism sounds like a bunch of commie gobbledygook.

The Mod swoops back in, to ban Halfling:

Quote from: UmbranMod Note:
You should know by now that moderation posts are not invitations for further commentary. Even if you forgot that is in the rules, I mentioned it explicitly in the post.

So, you are done in this discussion.

After the banning, any dissenters are VERY careful with their milquetoast posts of disagreement, and swarmed by activist types. But the crowning glory, the cherry on the shit cake was when the second Mod arrived, like Zeus' thunderbolt.

Poster Kai Lord had posted:

Quote from: Kai Lord"Fighting racism with racism" is still itself racist and wrong and shows that WOTC and Kyle Brink are really only about the optics of appearing inclusive when they are anything but.

He, however, had underestimated the IQ 1000 Mods, as he was told:

Quote from: DannyalcatrazMod Note:

You're not going to win people over with that position. We've actually got actual USA case law- some involving my own law school- that explicitly states that considering race to rectify past racism is not itself racism. Considering the harmed does not harm others; giving someone a hand up to your level after they been denied that progress doesn't push you down.

So you've played this card, but it isn't a winning one. You gambled and lost; all of your poker chips are gone. And so you must leave this particular table.

This thread has it all, purity spirals, "actually my son is biracial!", a professional grievance counsellor chiming in, wow.

Warning: reading 30 pages by gaslight may strain your eyes.


TLDR: EN World has joined the ranks of every other hobby forum, hollowed out by activist beetles, leaving only a husk of its former self.