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"Gaming Saves the World" Seminar--Doesn't Sound Like a Good Idea ...

Started by Armchair Gamer, April 08, 2017, 09:15:22 PM

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Tristram Evans

#75
April 15, 2017, 09:39:19 PM
Quote from: Voros;957316This brings up the general effectiveness of any artform in creating political change.

Artforms have a great amount of sway to alter public opinion. For example, its impossible to underrate the effect of the film Philadelphia on galvanizing the public towards the cause of gay rights.

On the other hand, playing games of make believe is not an artform.

Shipyard Locked

#76
April 15, 2017, 10:04:33 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;957456MODS!! Please damn this thread to Pungency!!



I second this motion, and I feel the same about the Green Ronin one, for the record.

Quote from: jhkimI do think that RPGs can have positive real-world change - because the hobby is active and often encourages reading, learning, problem-solving, teamwork, and imagination.

It also encourages things like 'dangerous' probing looks at the lessons of actual history and why societies work the way they do rather than the way we wish they would.

Voros

#77
April 15, 2017, 11:40:46 PM
Quote from: The_Shadow;957328Clearly these panels are preaching to the converted. Just as on Facebook and similar venues, you will encounter an unending stream of more or less progressive content served up to those who agree with these values, much of it outrage-bait, while the more right-leaning folks, who are perhaps just short of 50% of the US population, simply don't engage in as much of this.

If you're seeing that in social media like Facebook that's because the people you follow are lefties, if you had more right wing friends that's what you'd be seeing. i.e. if you care that much get new friends.

Warboss Squee

#78
April 16, 2017, 12:07:00 AM
What happened to the new mod anyway?

TheShadow

#79
April 16, 2017, 04:03:35 AM Last Edit: April 16, 2017, 04:05:50 AM by The_Shadow
Quote from: S'mon;957253I can pretty much do that in the RPGnet d20 forum. The occasional trap threads are pretty obvious. RPG General forum not so much - I got a ban for "insulting Vietnam War Veterans", I think it was. :D

Reminds me of a warning or suspension I got - I pointed out that in the Vietnam War, 18,000 American male conscripts died, and no females. In my view, this should somewhat color ideas of the "evils of sexism" in the period, which was the matter under discussion. But the mod informed me that citing this fact amounted to calling for the deaths of women :D
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Voros

#80
April 16, 2017, 05:12:54 PM
Quote from: Warboss Squee;957484What happened to the new mod anyway?

 Yeah seems like the inmates are running the asylum.

S'mon

#81
April 16, 2017, 07:52:11 PM
Quote from: The_Shadow;957500Reminds me of a warning or suspension I got - I pointed out that in the Vietnam War, 18,000 American male conscripts died, and no females. In my view, this should somewhat color ideas of the "evils of sexism" in the period, which was the matter under discussion. But the mod informed me that citing this fact amounted to calling for the deaths of women :D

RPGnet moderators are truly some of the loveliest, most charming people you could ever hope to meet.
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Warboss Squee

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April 16, 2017, 09:42:50 PM
Quote from: The_Shadow;957500Reminds me of a warning or suspension I got - I pointed out that in the Vietnam War, 18,000 American male conscripts died, and no females. In my view, this should somewhat color ideas of the "evils of sexism" in the period, which was the matter under discussion. But the mod informed me that citing this fact amounted to calling for the deaths of women :D

Link? I could use a chuckle.

TheShadow

#83
April 17, 2017, 12:39:12 AM
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crkrueger

#84
April 17, 2017, 01:17:03 AM
Well, to be fair, this forum includes the topics of thr RPG Industry and Industry Gossip.  As long as you have game designers preaching their Fundamentalist Left Religion through RPG products and how they run their company, it's going to be an awful close line between the act and the belief behind it.
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RPGPundit

#85
April 20, 2017, 03:57:56 AM
Threads that deal with political statements or elements of politics DIRECTLY in the gaming hobby are allowed on the main forum, as long as they STAY ON TOPIC. I ask anyone who posts in them to STICK to talking about the subject at hand, and not veering off into discussions about gerrymandering or the larger political climate or abortion or trans-bathrooms or whatever.

That said, I think this thread has run its course, so I'm just going to close it. If someone felt there was more to say about the specific subject at hand, they're welcome to open a new thread, with the same rules I explained just now.
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