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PBS article on D&D. OSR Racist???

Started by Omega, January 03, 2023, 09:36:20 AM

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Secrets of Blackmoor

#75
January 05, 2023, 01:51:47 PM
I am a bit sick of it.

We are free to think what we want. Individuals can say what they want. Yet, when a publicly funded organization, yup they get your tax dollars, PBS begins to spout opinion as news and perpetuate another satanic panic I fight back.

The majority of their funding is via donations.

I am posting on Twitter. If you think their article is crap please swamp Twitter with tweets and use #DefundPBS

My slogan is: The next time PBS comes begging for donations - Make a Zero Pledge to PBS #DefundPBS.

FYI - PBS News Hour has me blocked so I cannot tweet at them anymore. They must have noticed me.

I am on as @blackmoor_film

Lets get a anti bad D&D article trend going.

Armchair Gamer

#76
January 05, 2023, 02:09:16 PM Last Edit: January 05, 2023, 02:11:06 PM by Armchair Gamer
Deleted as uncharitable speculation.

PulpHerb

#77
January 05, 2023, 03:41:37 PM
Quote from: Chris24601 on January 05, 2023, 10:36:00 AM
It's only ruined if you let it be. Until they can prevent sales of non-woke products they're just sound and fury. Look at how well their efforts went with other traditional companies where the woke outrage just drove normal people to buy more from them and actually improved their sales.

I for one plan to make no apologies for my non-OGL traditional heroic virtues based fantasy game.

Even if they prevent sales those of us who own them can still play them and unlike the USSR we all have the ability to easily make and distribute samizdat.

Omega

#78
January 05, 2023, 06:32:50 PM
Quote from: Redshirt451 on January 04, 2023, 10:46:51 PM
Quote from: Thorn Drumheller on January 04, 2023, 10:04:37 PM
So it's kinda funny. I occasionally go to the OSR subreddit.....can't stand 'em most of the time, but they're whinging and hand-wringing about the unfair portrayal in the PBS article as well. My thought was, well take the medicine like we've been doing. Doesn't taste very well do it?

Exactly my thought. I got downvoted to hades there when I mentioned liking Dark Albion. Now they're upset they're getting the same treatment they give us.

Every time I even glance at Reddit. I am reminded why not to use Reddit.

Omega

#79
January 05, 2023, 06:37:18 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on January 05, 2023, 11:34:53 AM
Quote from: Brad on January 05, 2023, 10:31:12 AM
Quote from: Monero on January 05, 2023, 10:28:15 AMYou WILL be assimilated and partake in Right Think and you WILL do it with a smile on your face or you WILL face the consequences.

Nahh, just turn off your computer and play whatever you want.

Because the fascists will stay on nsocial media and their shit will never filter down to the real world right?

Ask Dr Peterson about his license to practice.

Exactly. This mental disease is in the game stores and at conventions and creeping into homes. One of my players is just short of full on cultist and quotes the dogma near verbatim.

KindaMeh

#80
January 05, 2023, 08:46:04 PM Last Edit: January 05, 2023, 08:51:53 PM by KindaMeh
It's disturbing that this kind of thing is permitted on PBS, if perhaps not super surprising. Also, this matters to the hobby, because it affects image, recruitment, community zeitgeist, events annd conventions, and more. Woke BS narratives can do damage to all of the above. And just ignoring it does not solve the problem.

GeekyBugle

#81
January 05, 2023, 09:01:37 PM
Quote from: Omega on January 05, 2023, 06:37:18 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle on January 05, 2023, 11:34:53 AM
Quote from: Brad on January 05, 2023, 10:31:12 AM
Quote from: Monero on January 05, 2023, 10:28:15 AMYou WILL be assimilated and partake in Right Think and you WILL do it with a smile on your face or you WILL face the consequences.

Nahh, just turn off your computer and play whatever you want.

Because the fascists will stay on nsocial media and their shit will never filter down to the real world right?

Ask Dr Peterson about his license to practice.

Exactly. This mental disease is in the game stores and at conventions and creeping into homes. One of my players is just short of full on cultist and quotes the dogma near verbatim.

I would have kicked any such player to the curb at the first hint of cultish behaviour.
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

Two Crows

#82
January 06, 2023, 12:55:30 AM
It's true, OSR is teh Racist!!!





(Don't worry, it's satire, not woke preaching.)
If I stop replying, it either means I've lost interest in the topic or think further replies are pointless.  I don't need the last word, it's all yours.

Banjo Destructo

#83
January 06, 2023, 09:06:38 AM
I have given some respectful feedback to PBS, you could do the same.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/contact-us
My story is that I was bullied, had violence in my home from my father, had an over-bearing mother, and was dealing with them divorcing as well, to be a victim of all of these circumstances AND THEN being told i'm bad or wrong because of how I play D&D just shows how these people are the new bullies, and we need to tell them that they are bullies.

So yeah, send feedback, push back against them, but do it in a sympathetic way instead of an antagonistic way.
If we play games to escape from the bad things in our lives, it also makes sense to play games to escape from politics
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