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GENCON 2018 Guests ofHonor

Started by waltshumate, June 01, 2018, 06:31:42 AM

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Bradford C. Walker

Quote from: RPGPundit;1044620The entire real point of anti-harassment policies is to enable the would-be SJW-overlords of the hobby to kick out anyone they don't like, with no logical reason required, since their mere presence is 'offensive'.
This.

SJWs Always Project.

Therefore they seek do what they accuse of others, and using vague and easily games "harassment" policies or Codes of Conduct is now a well-known scam they routinely pull; put the tool in place, and then get put into place to wield it. Wield early and often to purge wrong-thinkers, completing the conquest and convergence of the organization/event.

Anon Adderlan

Quote from: RPGPundit;1044620The entire real point of anti-harassment policies is to enable the would-be SJW-overlords of the hobby to kick out anyone they don't like, with no logical reason required, since their mere presence is 'offensive'.

To say that all anti-harassment policies are bad because some folks use them abusively is a bit short-sighted. In fact there's technically one for this forum, which in my opinion you've over-enforced.

DocJones

Quote from: Doc Sammy;1041709I'm like Johnny Ringo, and I am standing up to Anita by NOT going to GenCon.

And besides, your mom won't let you go.

Christopher Brady

Quote from: DocJones;1045297And besides, your mom won't let you go.

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WillInNewHaven

Quote from: bayonetbrant;1043895I personally know of one who complained to GAMA about Larry's disinviting and was able to get her money back as a result.

That's great news.

RPGPundit

Quote from: bayonetbrant;1043895I personally know of one who complained to GAMA about Larry's disinviting and was able to get her money back as a result.

Well, that's appropriate at least.
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Here you go  the Anita Sarkeesian GENCON 2018 appearance showing she knows fuck all about TRPGs and even when given a softball question cannot even answer it properly. https://watch.thefantasy.network/gen-con-industry-guest-of-honor/season:1/videos/gen-con-conversations-anita-sarkesian
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kythri

Got a time stamp?  I can't force myself to sit through Crane and Sarkeesian's verbal mutual-masturbation.

Gagarth

Quote from: kythri;1089054Got a time stamp?  I can't force myself to sit through Crane and Sarkeesian's verbal mutual-masturbation.

40:45 is a good one.
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SHARK

Quote from: kythri;1089054Got a time stamp?  I can't force myself to sit through Crane and Sarkeesian's verbal mutual-masturbation.

Greetings!

My god, Kythri. Sarkeesian mentions on more than one occasion that she's an "activist." The special liberal buzz-words that spew from her mouth....*sigh* Oh, but it's all of those evil, white racists, misogynists, and bigots that want everyone in gaming to be so *oppressed*!!!:D

This chick is so dense and narcissistic she can't even begin to imagine why anyone would find her so repulsive.

I struggled through almost the whole thing--most of the latter half. The constant yammering about activism, oppression, sexism, problematic, on and on. What kind of games do these morons actually play? I love this one quote...she said something like.."Once you learn about all of the misogyny, racism, and oppression...you begin to see it everywhere!"

My mind wanted to explode from a grenade right there. Who the fuck is playing games at your table where they *see* all of this, everywhere? Furthermore, geesus...I wouldn't *want* to play with anyone that noticed all of this, everywhere. Before recent times, I can't think of any normal gamer that ever brought any of this stupid shit up.

*sigh* These delusional morons actually are baffled and so deeply shocked that so many gamers hate them? They are so shocked that so many gamers don't want to game with them, or come to see them at a convention? *SHARK smacks forehead*:D

Semper Fidelis,

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GeekyBugle

Quote from: SHARK;1089072Greetings!

My god, Kythri. Sarkeesian mentions on more than one occasion that she's an "activist." The special liberal buzz-words that spew from her mouth....*sigh* Oh, but it's all of those evil, white racists, misogynists, and bigots that want everyone in gaming to be so *oppressed*!!!:D

This chick is so dense and narcissistic she can't even begin to imagine why anyone would find her so repulsive.

I struggled through almost the whole thing--most of the latter half. The constant yammering about activism, oppression, sexism, problematic, on and on. What kind of games do these morons actually play? I love this one quote...she said something like.."Once you learn about all of the misogyny, racism, and oppression...you begin to see it everywhere!"

My mind wanted to explode from a grenade right there. Who the fuck is playing games at your table where they *see* all of this, everywhere? Furthermore, geesus...I wouldn't *want* to play with anyone that noticed all of this, everywhere. Before recent times, I can't think of any normal gamer that ever brought any of this stupid shit up.

*sigh* These delusional morons actually are baffled and so deeply shocked that so many gamers hate them? They are so shocked that so many gamers don't want to game with them, or come to see them at a convention? *SHARK smacks forehead*:D

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

She's not a zealot tho, she's a con artist getting all the bucks she can from the woke crowd. The smart ones usually don't believe the BS they peddle, just like the gay televangelists of yore.

As with communism/socialism (intersectionality is cultural marxism) the smarter ones don't believe and the morons are the zealots and useful idiots.
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Quote from: SHARK;1089072The constant yammering about activism, oppression, sexism, problematic, on and on. What kind of games do these morons actually play?
I think the simplest answer, while perhaps reductive, is "they don't."

Sarkeesian in particular has turned this sort of faux social outrage over hobbies she has never actually participated in (obvious from her multiple stories about how she got into videogames, RPGs, how her 'career' developed, etc. which blatantly conflict with each other in MAJOR ways) into a personal for-profit enterprise, but she's hardly the only one guilty of doing so.

Between stirring up (honestly more like 'conjuring up') new shit, offering terrible and overpriced 'services' (a few of which I'm pretty sure have been cons, but I haven't read into those far enough to know) that get purchased by people enamored with her message, and sucking imbecilic morons into her Patreon to fund... something, presumably... and because women (??).

Well, she's got a pretty good gig going. Particularly considering how she's wormed her way into the limelight consistently and repeatedly, now to the point of being invited to major panels and speaking events like she's some kind of fucking soothsayer for the 'marginalized,' giving her easy exposure for future ventures and virtually enshrining her presence in wider 'geekdom' for as many years as she cares to stay.

The most interesting part, to me, is how blatant she is about it. Even with the insane ideas she has about these hobbies, gamergate, blah blah she doesn't come off as remotely sympathetic or genuine about any of her causes. She's grinning through pointed teeth as she purposefully inflames/distresses/exploits people she claims to be 'fighting for' in the simple pursuits of cold, naked profit and personal notoriety.

Normally I'd say I wouldn't piss on her to put out the fire, but I think I'd honestly prefer watching my piss melt her into a puddle ala the Wicked Witch of the West.

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Mordred Pendragon

Quote from: Antiquation!;1089078I think the simplest answer, while perhaps reductive, is "they don't."

Sarkeesian in particular has turned this sort of faux social outrage over hobbies she has never actually participated in (obvious from her multiple stories about how she got into videogames, RPGs, how her 'career' developed, etc. which blatantly conflict with each other in MAJOR ways) into a personal for-profit enterprise, but she's hardly the only one guilty of doing so.

Between stirring up (honestly more like 'conjuring up') new shit, offering terrible and overpriced 'services' (a few of which I'm pretty sure have been cons, but I haven't read into those far enough to know) that get purchased by people enamored with her message, and sucking imbecilic morons into her Patreon to fund... something, presumably... and because women (??).

Well, she's got a pretty good gig going. Particularly considering how she's wormed her way into the limelight consistently and repeatedly, now to the point of being invited to major panels and speaking events like she's some kind of fucking soothsayer for the 'marginalized,' giving her easy exposure for future ventures and virtually enshrining her presence in wider 'geekdom' for as many years as she cares to stay.

The most interesting part, to me, is how blatant she is about it. Even with the insane ideas she has about these hobbies, gamergate, blah blah she doesn't come off as remotely sympathetic or genuine about any of her causes. She's grinning through pointed teeth as she purposefully inflames/distresses/exploits people she claims to be 'fighting for' in the simple pursuits of cold, naked profit and personal notoriety.

Normally I'd say I wouldn't piss on her to put out the fire, but I think I'd honestly prefer watching my piss melt her into a puddle ala the Wicked Witch of the West.

"What a world! What a worlddd..."

Anita Sarkeesian is the Fred Phelps of the Left.

Seriously, she needs to get her ass kicked by a guy like Archie Bunker.

After she gets beaten like the bitch she is, Anita Sarkeesian should make Archie a sandwich and give him a blowjob. And if she doesn't swallow his cum, then we'll deport her to North Korea!

Here is a great video where Archie Bunker utterly annihilates the concepts of "intersectionality" and "critical race theory"

[video=youtube;ffh09f4TdM8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffh09f4TdM8&t=7s[/youtube]

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Lurtch

There is nothing white people like more than a pretty white woman. Good thing she has no market power.

Mordred Pendragon

#179
Quote from: Lurtch;1089096There is nothing white people like more than a pretty white woman. Good thing she has no market power.

Indeed!

How else do you think a murderous hillbilly bitch like Amanda Knox was able to get away with murder?

She was a pretty white girl and the liberal media raised a stink, so the Obama Administration violated protocol and strong-armed Italy (one of our own NATO allies) into releasing a murderous redneck cunt.

Amanda Knox was the biggest miscarriage of justice since OJ Simpson.

Well, until the SJW harpies sent the Radfem Inquisition otherwise known as #MeToo after a talented and innocent voice actor like Vic Mignogna.

They slandered Vic for his religious beliefs (he is a devout Christian) and for his Italian-American heritage.

I'm no fan of Christianity but you don't ruin an innocent man's life because you don't agree with his personal religious convictions.

Also, the SJW's hate the proud Italian people since they helped lay the foundations of Western Civilization (Roman Empire, The Renaissance, and so forth) and they are not the precious "POC's" that the SJW's fetishize and they're not the inbred Celtic-blooded evolutionary cul-de-sacs like Amanda Knox or the SJW's themselves.

Most white SJW's tend to all be green-eyed micks. Either they're Shanty Irish urban hipsters in the coastal cities or they're inbred Scots-Irish hillbillies rightfully ashamed of their degenerate and inferior barbarian culture and have decided to overcompensate by adapting far-left intersectional bullshit.

The Reformation was a mistake and we should have turned the Scots-Irish away from the docks when they came to this country.

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