Quote from: Vmerc@;478838Wittgensteinian is it?  Well then, imagine he's comforted that you're here to figure all this out for him, being as he is beset by all these imponderables beyond the labors of his small mind.  

Things are looking up for you, John.

One day, you may discover that there is this thing called "history". Look it up next time you're flipping through the dictionary trying to pad out your shitty, low-content posts. Morrow and I have had it out many times on the topic of his moral "theory", and it should be well known by now that his understanding of morality and psychology is ill-informed, ill-thought through, and serves mostly as an expression of his own parochial view of how people ought to act rather than something that deserves to be called a "theory".

Quote from: One Horse Town;478827Of course there is, otherwise the guy wouldn't have bothered wasting a few hours of his time formulating it.

The amount of hand-wringing this has prompted is hilarious. Divide and conquer baby.

I also have to wonder if Pseudo is actually an Ettin, his head is so far up his own arse.

I recently invented a time machine to go back and find the last substantive, insightful or valuable comment you made about roleplaying on this forum, but it turns out that the machine won't go to "Never".

Holy shit, this thread brought David R. back. It is has now totally redeemed itsefl in a functional sense, even if the pure fumes of delight preceding him drove a bunch of pretentious shitheads out from under their rocks and into it.

here comes the storm

Quote from: Sigmund;479001In summary, If I wanna talk about this or any other relevant topic on this forum, I'm damn well gonna for as long as the actual owner of the site allows. Nobody is sitting in your fucking house with a gun making you read this thread, so feel free to find or make threads more to your liking and stop being a whiny bitch in this one.

Oh, trust me, you and the other outrage addicts have 'whiny bitch' pretty much covered.

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;478233At this point, other than a handful of posters (Frank amongst them), this thread is full retard.

Let's go down the full retard list:

1) Morrow pretending to be a psychologist / moral philosopher rationalising a society of psychopaths, something that has never actually existed
1a) Someone mentions the Arabs / Muslims in relation to this

2) Misuse of the term "moral relativism" as a pejorative against some moral position the writer dislikes despite it actually being a more universal or absolute principle than the writer holds

3) Irrelevant fulminating against LIBRALZM and "white guilt"

4) Consistent confusion of authoritative citation of source material and facts with whims, desires, dreams & half-memories, also what you can find on the first page of Google that seems like it kind of supports what you said

5) A flood of low-post-count posters with indistinguishable and ignorant opinions jackal-wanking one another

6) Laziness, ignorance and stupidity deriving from privilege & the exploitation of the hard work of others are valorised by people too unimaginative to even make up sensible or interesting imitations of the world. The valorisations are used to explain why their laziness, ignorance, and stupidity are wonderful, and actually a sign of discerning taste & skill.


Yeap, it's a full retard thread all right.

I probably should have more carefully read this part of the thread, instead of catching the last few bits after I forgot I replied to Peregrin's post on the first page of a 6 page thread.  Then I only would have had to post "Agreed" and save myself the time.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;479013Not at all. In my first post to this thread I concluded with,

Part of the issue is that I replied to a post on the first page, forgetting the thread had grown to six pages by then.  I backtracked a page or so, found people still having the butthurt that some dude scolded them, and were still expressing outrage over the mere existence of the comparison (as much as the OP had to stretch to make it in the first place).

QuoteI believe that is essentially what you're suggesting, that we should conclude the guy's over-reacting and dismiss him contemptuously.

Yeah, that would have been a good deal more efficient.  While the topic makes him feel all weirded out, it simply bores me.  I am far more in the mood for complexity in my games these days.  He does have some other interesting world-building points hidden in there, too, that were being overlooked in the rush to play out the rampant persecution complex.
(caveats:  It would bore me to tears for an ongoing campaign.  If it was more of a "Hey, let's play through all the B-modules" and that took a half dozen sessions or so with essentially throw away characters, I'm down)

Between this thread and that other one, I had just about had my fill of folks demanding their sloppy bullshit be taken seriously.

QuoteThe rest of my posts have simply be reiterating that point and mocking people. And mockery of pretentious semi-literate cocksmocks never gets old. So fuck you, Stormy, fuck you with a large pointy d4.

You can fuck right off with your d12, because no one like those either.

Quote from: CRKrueger;478835Hmm, lets look at that, shall we?

A bit late, but thumbs up. That was a great post. :hatsoff:

Quote from: StormBringer;479073*snip*
You can fuck right off with your d12, because no one like those either.

now wait a minute buster...I have a whole SYSTEM that uses d.12's with Astro. #'s having special effect if rolled...I like them just fine.
And loves me some longsword vs "L"!

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;479054One day, you may discover that there is this thing called "history". Look it up next time you're flipping through the dictionary trying to pad out your shitty, low-content posts. .

Rare is the day I pad my posts with words.  Most I can usually summon for the task is straw.

Having turned down academic pursuits as a waste of time, I came to this site to rub shoulders with my betters and I see my luck holds.  Though cudgeling a common intellect with your advanced tools of mind is, while fair in a universal sense, still cruel.

I dont question the motives of those with the rod.  I'm only thankful when the beatings cease.

QuoteIt should be well known by now that his understanding of morality and psychology is ill-informed, ill-thought through, and serves mostly as an expression of his own parochial view of how people ought to act

I suppose next you'll say he's puerile.  Are you talking to him or me in this quote because I have yet to comprehend the term parochial.  What small means I have are spent on whiskey.  Despite what you have been told, dictionaries are a luxury of which I rarely think.

Quote from: Vmerc@;479042Sadly, I am not the fine man you take me for.

You'll fit right in here.

Welcome to the wretched hive of scum and villainy in regards to RPGs.

Quote from: skofflox;479046I raise my glass in brotherhood...I suspect you would be a hoot to game with!:p

Huzzah

Totally agreeing with David R's comments.

Also I totally mentioned killing dragons way back in the thread so don't dare say we didn't cover it

I would say Dragons totally have free will and could decide to be good or evil. I think the study of dragons is really more about the corruption of absolute power than about inherent 'evilness'. I woudl put demons and devils int eh same category.
The idea that devils and demons are inherently evil is almost counter intuitive because the whole point of the judeo-christian 'Devil' is that he chose through his own free will to take an "evil path" (although reading the source material he does nothing actually evil just refused to obey without question, then pursuades Eve to disobey in order to gain knowledge, but now we are getting all gnostic and irrelevant) so making him inherently evil is a bit like turning him into a big, barky, dog.

Sigmund's comments which focus on 'it's all make beleive so none of it matters'  is a bit odd in a forum where we talk about RPGs and world building and immersion and all that stuff. One wonders why someone with that world view would get emeshed in this thread at all.

Quote from: CRKrueger;478984Oh he said a bit more then that, as my detailed post shows. (one of the only ones to actually quote the OPs words, none of yours do for example).

OK, he said more things. Again, so what?

I'm with Kyle in this. There's not much more to do but say "What a cocksmock" and dismiss the idea.

By the way, what's all the shit between Ben and Stormbringer, and what is the Team Left? Is it the new Swine? Am I a member without knowing it? Inquiring minds want to know!

Quote from: Vmerc@;479079Rare is the day I pad my posts with words.  Most I can usually summon for the task is straw.

Having turned down academic pursuits as a waste of time, I came to this site to rub shoulders with my betters and I see my luck holds.  Though cudgeling a common intellect with your advanced tools of mind is, while fair in a universal sense, still cruel.

I dont question the motives of those with the rod.  I'm only thankful when the beatings cease.



I suppose next you'll say he's puerile.  Are you talking to him or me in this quote because I have yet to comprehend the term parochial.  What small means I have are spent on whiskey.  Despite what you have been told, dictionaries are a luxury of which I rarely think.

I think you are channeling Jack Vance, which is awesome

Also, be very welcome to the site. Hope to see you more around here