The Pundit's "Parlor"

First of all, for fuck's sake, it should be The Pundits Parlour. That's Parlour, with a "u". The way the Queen and god intended it.

Got that?

Right. Now, as to the Parlour itself, here are my thoughts from on high:  the Mods created this room as joke. Pooka has already made it clear that its existence is of limited scope, for, as he said, as long as "its teh funneh".

And I get, that the Nutkinlanders are basically a bunch of good guys, who make the same point, when you get down to it, that I do: RPGs aren't rocket science; they aren't high art. They should be fun. And they add to this the point that RPG forums should not be run as though they were forums on rocket science or high art.  When I first arrived on Nutkinland,  I hadn't immediately grokked that this was their point. But I get it now, and it is a good point.

Not that this means that an RPG forum needs to descend to being rampant idiocy.  Just like an RPG, for being fun, doesn't have to descend to rampant idiocy. The point is to take everything with moderation.

That said, I'm already doing my bit at cutting at the Swine of the world, often in a funny way, in my very own Parlour, of my very own choosing. Namely, this Xanga site.  So I'm afraid that the Nutkins might find themselves more than a little disappointed with the degree to which I will give a fucking rat's ass about being their dancing monkey for them.

Now, if you, my loyal readers, want to go onto the Pundit's Parlour and write long articles about anti-swinery, go apeshit. Its your choice. Just remember that it is a joke and that's all the Nutkins really want it to be, and a big part of the joke is the amusement some of them seem to get from watching people express very serious views about how the RPG hobby shouldn't be taken seriously. Feel free,  my Proxies, to post to your heart's content, let out your best anti-swine screeds; especially if you can do it tongue-in-cheek to remind yourself that as soon as you take "punditism" as seriously as the real Swine take their Swinedom, then you have become as deluded as they are.

My joke is of a different sort: my amusement comes in using seriousness as a bludgeon to frustrate and vex the Swine on their own turf.  Watching them go into seizures at having their own impotence exposed. My humour is, in the end, perhaps more cruel; and instead of the slapstick and satire the Nutkins seem to so enjoy for its own sake, it is a mocking political humour.

And considering that, and considering how very seriously the Nutkins seem to take making a joke out of everyone; I would suggest that my proxies could do better in mocking the Nutkins themselves, than playing their game for them. For starters, one could say a lot about Oddveig's inability to form coherent sentences; or the Pooka's unusual sexual attraction to Greyhound Buses.  Or the fact that every man-jack of them is a repressed furry fetishist. Go nuts.

So don't expect me to spend much time in the so-called "parlor".
If you want me, I'll be in my blog or posting on threads where I can get my own kind of bizzare kicks.

RPGPundit

Currently Smoking: Ferndown Bulldog + GL Pease's Charing Cross

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NKL's first flameout. I'm so proud!

No, I would say having read this, that you still don't understand the purpose behind the forum.

It's funny how, in striving not to be a dancing monkey, you've managed to do it anyway.

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Quote from: RPGPunditSo I'm afraid that the Nutkins might find themselves more than a little disappointed with the degree to which I will give a fucking rat's ass about being their dancing monkey for them.

You were, to my thinking, paid a compliment of the highest order - you're interesting enough to be worthy of this joke.

I'd think that would be worth a few circuits around the man grinding the organ.  But that's me.

Well he did start the longest thread on the board.  But it is dangerously close to moving into realm of asshattery itself.

Quote from: HreidmarWell he did start the longest thread on the board.  But it is dangerously close to moving into realm of asshattery itself.

"Dangerously close"? You are a generous little squirrel, aren't you? I'd say that the horse in question on that thread has been dead for at least the last 30 pages or so.

RPGPundit

I didn't set out to make you the butt of any jokes RPGPundit, but you've managed to turn a joke you could be a part of into a joke aimed squarely at you. Congratulations.

So can I take this as an offer of surrender, Pundit?  I'll spare the womenfolk and the miniatures, but the d20's going to have to answer for its crimes against gaming.

You're completely misrepresenting me; not just my actual position but my motivations as well (again, the old "he's a homophobe" argument? Don't you stupid fucks have anything else to use? I've got a ton of positions on life that are controversial and at least truly my own, why not use one of those? Like, call me a misogynist, or talk about my hatred of the Basques, or racist things I've said against the Irish).
Given that I really don't feel very motivated to respond to you.

This whole thing that the Nutkins have put up with the "duelling fora" would only really be funny if I actually did believe there was an "X-Files" like conspiracy to try to subvert gaming.

But since the whole "joke" is based on your premise, and your entire premise is wrong (I don't believe in any "shadowy conspiracy", only people with individual prejudices and preferences, which often take first place over either business sense or quality of game design), its just not funny.

RPGPundit

Quote from: RPGPunditYou're completely misrepresenting me; not just my actual position but my motivations as well (again, the old "he's a homophobe" argument? Don't you stupid fucks have anything else to use? I've got a ton of positions on life that are controversial and at least truly my own, why not use one of those? Like, call me a misogynist, or talk about my hatred of the Basques, or racist things I've said against the Irish).
Given that I really don't feel very motivated to respond to you.

This whole thing that the Nutkins have put up with the "duelling fora" would only really be funny if I actually did believe there was an "X-Files" like conspiracy to try to subvert gaming.

But since the whole "joke" is based on your premise, and your entire premise is wrong (I don't believe in any "shadowy conspiracy", only people with individual prejudices and preferences, which often take first place over either business sense or quality of game design), its just not funny.

RPGPundit

Au Contraire, it just keeps getting funnier.  Now with 100% more racism!

Quote from: MaddmanAu Contraire, it just keeps getting funnier.  Now with 100% more racism!

Ok, I see you really don't want to talk about it; that's fine. I can see how you'd rather avoid the embarrasment of having to admit you don't understand something.

Go ahead and continue with your little jokes. It changes nothing. Your "shadowy conspiracy" is still fake, but the Swine are still real. And you're still clearly an idiot.

RPGPundit

He fails the test of humor, he fails the test of sarcasm, he fails the test of Irony...

He said he takes is punditry about a non-serious topic very seriously. he's like a sad clown, too wrapped up in his own pathos to know why he's funny.

Can we get a sad-clown avatar for him. pleeeeeeeeese?

Quote from: PookaI didn't set out to make you the butt of any jokes RPGPundit, but you've managed to turn a joke you could be a part of into a joke aimed squarely at you. Congratulations.

Since the "Joke" was based on Maddman's false claims about my positions; essentially claiming "RPGPundit is just a conspiracy nut", I don't see how you could ever have intended for it to be anything other than a joke at my expense.  The Swine get their little forum where they can run around very slightly exagerrating their real views and pretending that this in turn means they don't actually use gaming as a psychological crutch for a superiority/inferiority complex; and then there's this forum to do.. what?

For me to act all "conspiracy-nutty"? I don't see the fucking point of that.

It was a sucker's game you made, Pooka. No matter what I did, I'd end up looking like the "loser". So I'd rather not play.

RPGPundit

Quote from: RPGPundit...  or racist things I've said against the Irish ...

The Irish are a 'race'?

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Quote from: RPGPunditOk, I see you really don't want to talk about it; that's fine. I can see how you'd rather avoid the embarrasment of having to admit you don't understand something.

Go ahead and continue with your little jokes. It changes nothing. Your "shadowy conspiracy" is still fake, but the Swine are still real. And you're still clearly an idiot.

RPGPundit

So you don't believe in a 'shadowy conspiracy', but you still hold that 'the Swine' are real, that there's a vast horde of gamers that want to suck all the fun out of gaming for their own self-importance or whatever.  I really don't see the difference, you're still tilting at windmills and seeing maliciousness where there is none.

So I'll continue to make my little jokes.

How many Pundits does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, they seem to like it in the dark.