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Did they ban the topic of the election entirely, or are they raging and reee-ing? Does anyone have an account there so as to report back to us?

Total ban on the topic last I looked.  It's too bad, the sweet, sweet, bitter tears would have sustained me.

There is a post-election discussion thread in the registered users' other-topics forum, and it's going about as one would expect. But we should probably ask this topic to go to Pundit's Own.

Their tears, are delicious.

Their long standing policy is that you can talk about Trump but you can't support him in any way.  I expect their policy is still essentially the same.  You can talk about the election as long as you are anti-Trump.

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Quote from: yosemitemike on November 11, 2024, 07:25:50 AMTheir long standing policy is that you can talk about Trump but you can't support him in any way.  I expect their policy is still essentially the same.  You can talk about the election as long as you are anti-Trump.

I got perma'd long ago when the rule was 'posting in support of Trump' so rather than do that I changed my avatar to a photo of him. It was not received well.

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I mean, anyone looking to mine salt cares.  There's a hell of a lot of salt.

Big Purple?

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Quote from: blackstone on November 12, 2024, 12:14:00 PMBig Purple?

Rpg.net there called big purple because of there color sceem.

Quote from: kosmos1214 on November 12, 2024, 12:34:52 PMrp

Quote from: blackstone on November 12, 2024, 12:14:00 PMBig Purple?

Rpg.net there called big purple because of there color sceem.

Also sometimes called TBP = The Big Purple.

RPG.net is basically the reddit of rpg communities. Just a complete left-wing cesspit echo chamber.

They have a thread about how Trump's Chinese Tarrifs are going to completely destroy the RPG and Boardgame industry and ruin all Kickstarters.

It's been pointed out most of the industry doesn't use China anymore anyway, but that doesn't stop them from Gloomcasting.

Quote from: Orphan81 on November 15, 2024, 12:58:03 PMThey have a thread about how Trump's Chinese Tarrifs are going to completely destroy the RPG and Boardgame industry and ruin all Kickstarters.

It's been pointed out most of the industry doesn't use China anymore anyway, but that doesn't stop them from Gloomcasting.

That same Gloomcast is making the rounds of Reddit. I think they all got the idea from Steve Jackson being a doomer over the election.

Quote from: Orphan81 on November 15, 2024, 12:58:03 PMThey have a thread about how Trump's Chinese Tarrifs are going to completely destroy the RPG and Boardgame industry and ruin all Kickstarters.

It's been pointed out most of the industry doesn't use China anymore anyway, but that doesn't stop them from Gloomcasting.

Took companies long enough to realize that manufacturing through China was a dice roll if if anything would ship correctly. Underhanded factories. Underhanded docks, and so on.

Quote from: Orphan81 on November 15, 2024, 12:58:03 PMIt's been pointed out most of the industry doesn't use China anymore anyway, but that doesn't stop them from Gloomcasting.

  Has Pinnacle stopped doing Chinese manufacturing? That was one of the reasons I backed off from Savage Worlds.

I hate that site.  I even got a suspension for making criticisms of my own religion. 

It also got weird that time I  defended this guy called RPG Pundit who wrote a few RPGs I recommended.  When the author's identity came up it was fine to bash him and boycott his products, but saying nice things or asking politics to not brought up gets you a one week suspension.

It is totally a free speech website,  but it has to be their free speech. 

Quote from: weirdguy564 on November 15, 2024, 10:13:53 PMIt is totally a free speech website,  but it has to be their free speech. 

Better than BGG then where and I quote Aldi the site owner. "Free Speech is not a right on this site."

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on November 15, 2024, 06:06:04 PMHas Pinnacle stopped doing Chinese manufacturing? That was one of the reasons I backed off from Savage Worlds.

I can't confirm, unfortunately I believe they do.

Quote from: weirdguy564 on November 15, 2024, 10:13:53 PMI hate that site.  I even got a suspension for making criticisms of my own religion.

I got permabanned a year or so after I had left the site of my own volition for "harassment". I don't know what I said that someone reported back as harassment. Clearly something.

Maybe this forum should start posting badges.  A lot of folks can get a 'purple heart' for getting banned there.  :-)

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I'm attaching an official statement from Zeea

(https://www.therpgsite.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=4129;image)

Quote from: zircher on November 17, 2024, 06:51:40 PMMaybe this forms should start posting badges.  A lot of folks can get a 'purple heart' for getting banned there.  :-)

Hey, I got permabanned there years ago and I didn't even talk about politics! Just RPGs.

The reason given in the popup on the screen when I tried to log in one day was, as I recall, "being generally bad for the site."

They're not fond of anything published before 2000 or so.

Quote from: kosmos1214 on November 12, 2024, 12:34:52 PMrp

Quote from: blackstone on November 12, 2024, 12:14:00 PMBig Purple?

Rpg.net there called big purple because of there color sceem.

In reality, it should be called: The Big Purple Dildo

Quote from: Trond on November 17, 2024, 07:01:00 PMI'm attaching an official statement from Zeea

(https://www.therpgsite.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=4129;image)

I guess its time to start monitoring a few sites and start reporting them to the FBI.  Given with how the FBI now is, it would give them more assassins to use, so I'll wait until February to start reporting the emotionally unhinged front holes who use rpg.net.

My favorite line on the ban from rpg.nets is this:

7. For the record, "Globalists" is almost always code for "Jews," particularly if it's in concert with anything about Soros. [ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413356-trump-says-lock-em-up-after-calling-for-unity ]

You know you are dealing with a race marxist when you are not allowed to post in favor of your nation and being against Soros, a jackass who is pro-globalist, meaning and ideology of a single world government where all nations bend the knee and do what they are told by a world government organization typically ruled by corporations. 

Buy yep, because Soros was a jew who as a child was "taken care of" by a nazi member and he stole money and jewelry off dead jews means if you criticize Soros you are anti-jew?  Soros is anti-jew by his behavior and betrayed his own people.  Just saying wtf.

Meanwhile, over in Tabletop Roleplaying Open, they are eagerly making recommendations of 'anti-fascist/Nazi-punching' RPGs as a way to cope with the current events.

Not to be snarky, but a therapist could rake in the money from those people. I imagine they're loving business right now with all the leftist lunatics out there.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron on November 17, 2024, 09:32:13 PM

Quote from: zircher on November 17, 2024, 06:51:40 PMMaybe this forms should start posting badges.  A lot of folks can get a 'purple heart' for getting banned there.  :-)

Hey, I got permabanned there years ago and I didn't even talk about politics! Just RPGs.

The reason given in the popup on the screen when I tried to log in one day was, as I recall, "being generally bad for the site."

They're not fond of anything published before 2000 or so.

Their open dislike of older RPG designers was known way back even. This from a few game designers I used to know over there. Never understood why the dislike or even hostility towards the pre-2000 stuff..

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on November 18, 2024, 05:53:20 PMMeanwhile, over in Tabletop Roleplaying Open, they are eagerly making recommendations of 'anti-fascist/Nazi-punching' RPGs as a way to cope with the current events.

One suggestion for which, The Price of Freedom, was rejected because it "is largely about being All-American and punching communists. That's exactly what I'm not looking for in an anti-fascist RPG."

I read that and thought in disbelief, "Holy crap, you guys have literally become the freakin' Weimar Republic and you don't even know it."

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on November 18, 2024, 05:53:20 PMMeanwhile, over in Tabletop Roleplaying Open, they are eagerly making recommendations of 'anti-fascist/Nazi-punching' RPGs as a way to cope with the current events.

TBP: Where people still use the phrase "bash the fash" unironically.  Is it 2017 again already? 

Quote from: Omega on November 18, 2024, 11:51:41 PMNever understood why the dislike or even hostility towards the pre-2000 stuff..

Because people enjoy it, and it has no Deeper Meaning.

Like most political extremists, they're puritanical, which means that they are distressed at the idea that someone, somewhere is having fun - especially if they're having fun in a bad way (whatever that is this week). And because the personal is political, every act is imbued with political meaning, but because the political extremist is not very smart, this has to be explicitly spelled-out.

That's why for example their attempt at including disabled people in their games isn't, "Hey Jim, come play D&D with us," but it's making models of adventurers in wheelchairs - because hey, disabled people really really want to play someone disabled - after all, doesn't a fat accountant want to play a fat accountant, and a ditch digger play a ditch digger, and a housewife a housewife? Absolutely nobody plays RPGs to play someone different and more able than they are. Nobody. Never happens. Except all the times it does happen, which is basically always.

Imagine that, eh? You invite Jim in his wheelchair to play, he rolls up to the table and picks up his dice, and you hand him a figurine of a character in a wheelchair, "This is your guy." That's like, inclusive - if you're some pasty-faced fat-arsed blue-haired middle class dickhead who's never actually met a disabled person.

So it's all got to be deep and meaningful, and everyone knows depressing stuff is more deep and meaningful than having fun.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron on November 19, 2024, 05:12:04 AMThat's why for example their attempt at including disabled people in their games isn't, "Hey Jim, come play D&D with us," but it's making models of adventurers in wheelchairs - because hey, disabled people really really want to play someone disabled - after all, doesn't a fat accountant want to play a fat accountant, and a ditch digger play a ditch digger, and a housewife a housewife? Absolutely nobody plays RPGs to play someone different and more able than they are. Nobody. Never happens. Except all the times it does happen, which is basically always.

Imagine that, eh? You invite Jim in his wheelchair to play, he rolls up to the table and picks up his dice, and you hand him a figurine of a character in a wheelchair, "This is your guy." That's like, inclusive - if you're some pasty-faced fat-arsed blue-haired middle class dickhead who's never actually met a disabled person.

This has to be the weirdest thing to me. I just don't get it. For the longest time, playing RPGs was to escape reality and be somebody else. In the past five years or so, it has morphed into YOU being you in a RPG.

Now there have always been a few people who have played that way. But that was the exception, and not the norm. For me, for people who play at being themselves in the game, lack a certain amount of creativity.

I could see for a new player that's the most comfortable way to "get into it". IT's a new experience and being yourself doesn't require effort.

But to make it appear as being part of the accepted meta? It just seems weird.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron on November 19, 2024, 05:12:04 AMThat's why for example their attempt at including disabled people in their games isn't, "Hey Jim, come play D&D with us," but it's making models of adventurers in wheelchairs -

They don't care about being inclusive.  They care about virtue signaling about being inclusive.

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on November 19, 2024, 12:10:17 AMOne suggestion for which, The Price of Freedom, was rejected because it "is largely about being All-American and punching communists. That's exactly what I'm not looking for in an anti-fascist RPG."

I read that and thought in disbelief, "Holy crap, you guys have literally become the freakin' Weimar Republic and you don't even know it."

    Did you see the post where someone said "I ran "Comrades" at a socialist convention in 2017 or so. Very well received."?

    Someone on the EN World counterpart to that thread recommended Day After Ragnarok. I expect recommending it on TBP would raise their ire for its anti-Stalinist leanings and its vilification of the Serpent. :)

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on November 19, 2024, 09:16:13 AMDid you see the post where someone said "I ran "Comrades" at a socialist convention in 2017 or so. Very well received."?

I'm not familiar with the game, or I'd probably have gotten the joke.

I take it it's a satiric thing?  (A game based on the film The Death of Stalin would make for some serious black comedy.)

ETA:  Just looked it up on DriveThruRPG.  Good grief.  Under the Description: "Playing as characters like the Soldier, the Student, the Propagandist, and the Worker, your comrades will mount rallies, stage coups, evade the secret police, and fight fascist goons." And then under "A Note About Content": "This game does not advocate for political violence, and is instead designed to help players explore the limitations of the use of force for political ends." Judas Priest, I haven't seen a game try this hard to backpedal away from its own inevitable implications since the new edition of Ravenloft tried to make the Demiplane of Dread not scary.

Quote from: blackstone on November 19, 2024, 08:01:48 AMThis has to be the weirdest thing to me. I just don't get it. For the longest time, playing RPGs was to escape reality and be somebody else. In the past five years or so, it has morphed into YOU being you in a RPG.

Sometimes it feels like the storygamers pushing "bleed" to the point it becomes a psychosis is part of this.

But it is more marketing pushing fake ideals. "No one will play an RPG unless they are "represented". And that you can not play something you are not. Some SJWs were even pushing that you should not be allowed to enjoy media of things you are not. Which is so far beyond insane.

Never saw much of that over on TBP when I was active there.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron on November 19, 2024, 05:12:04 AM

Quote from: Omega on November 18, 2024, 11:51:41 PMNever understood why the dislike or even hostility towards the pre-2000 stuff..

Because people enjoy it, and it has no Deeper Meaning.

Like most political extremists, they're puritanical, which means that they are distressed at the idea that someone, somewhere is having fun - especially if they're having fun in a bad way (whatever that is this week). And because the personal is political, every act is imbued with political meaning, but because the political extremist is not very smart, this has to be explicitly spelled-out.

That's why for example their attempt at including disabled people in their games isn't, "Hey Jim, come play D&D with us," but it's making models of adventurers in wheelchairs - because hey, disabled people really really want to play someone disabled - after all, doesn't a fat accountant want to play a fat accountant, and a ditch digger play a ditch digger, and a housewife a housewife? Absolutely nobody plays RPGs to play someone different and more able than they are. Nobody. Never happens. Except all the times it does happen, which is basically always.

Imagine that, eh? You invite Jim in his wheelchair to play, he rolls up to the table and picks up his dice, and you hand him a figurine of a character in a wheelchair, "This is your guy." That's like, inclusive - if you're some pasty-faced fat-arsed blue-haired middle class dickhead who's never actually met a disabled person.

So it's all got to be deep and meaningful, and everyone knows depressing stuff is more deep and meaningful than having fun.

Don't be a bigot against the combat wheelchair.  The left used the combat rascal wheel chair at the Senate today with a Whale Half Manatee rogue who failed her stealth check due to her fat rolls.

(https://i.postimg.cc/4yHCWYnG/combat-wheelchair-spotted-Nov-19-2024-in-Palestinian-protest-US-Senate-building.png)

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on November 19, 2024, 09:54:05 PM

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on November 19, 2024, 09:16:13 AMDid you see the post where someone said "I ran "Comrades" at a socialist convention in 2017 or so. Very well received."?

I'm not familiar with the game, or I'd probably have gotten the joke.

I take it it's a satiric thing?  (A game based on the film The Death of Stalin would make for some serious black comedy.)

ETA:  Just looked it up on DriveThruRPG.  Good grief.  Under the Description: "Playing as characters like the Soldier, the Student, the Propagandist, and the Worker, your comrades will mount rallies, stage coups, evade the secret police, and fight fascist goons." And then under "A Note About Content": "This game does not advocate for political violence, and is instead designed to help players explore the limitations of the use of force for political ends." Judas Priest, I haven't seen a game try this hard to backpedal away from its own inevitable implications since the new edition of Ravenloft tried to make the Demiplane of Dread not scary.

THIS DISCLAIMER IS A LIE.
Do not buy the game.
The game COMRADES, both in the introduction, and on its crowdfunding site, BOLDLY ADVOCATES REAL-LIFE VIOLENCE.  I'm not talking about in-game violence, although it advocates that.  But the actual content laments where the "Real" revolutionaries have gone, and invites the gamers to, after pretending to be good little communists, to get involved in real "activism", telling them to act like such groups as The Weather Underground, a real-life domestic terrorist organization who bombed the pentagon before Al Qaeda got the idea, murdered a federal judge, and engaged in other goodness.

I reported this to DriveThru several times.  They didn't do anything about it, since it's a violation of their TOS that conforms to an agenda with which they align.  Instead, the Comrades page reacted by putting up a disclaimer (the reason for their "backpedaling" that you mention).  It doens't change a thing about the game, or Drive Thru allowing material advocating violence on their site, but somehow this lie makes everything fine now.

If you're curious about reading the game's advocacy of violence, don't get it.  The author is a bona-fide communist, and we wouldn't want to disappoint him by giving him any profit for his horrible product.  There are other was to find what's in it without engaging in evil capitalism.

Who fucking cares? The more you talk about them, the more relevant they remain. Personally? I want to see them completely slide into irrelevancy and completely fade away. No longer be a thing anyone talks about. And just be a bad memory.

We have this place to talk about gaming. Pundit made it for real gamers to talk about games and gaming. So let's get to it! Cut the irrelevant crap and be an actual successful gaming forum.

When I poked in yesterday one thing really perplexed me.

Why does the site look so... primitive? Compared to how clean and browsable it looked just maybe 5 years ago?

Quote from: Darrin Kelley on November 20, 2024, 04:27:38 PMWho fucking cares? The more you talk about them, the more relevant they remain. Personally? I want to see them completely slide into irrelevancy and completely fade away. No longer be a thing anyone talks about. And just be a bad memory.

We have this place to talk about gaming. Pundit made it for real gamers to talk about games and gaming. So let's get to it! Cut the irrelevant crap and be an actual successful gaming forum.

Agree with most of what you say.
But — there's a non-zero chance some posters here are very focused on big purple. It comes up a lot over here.

Quote from: Darrin Kelley on November 20, 2024, 04:27:38 PMWho fucking cares? The more you talk about them, the more relevant they remain. Personally? I want to see them completely slide into irrelevancy and completely fade away. No longer be a thing anyone talks about. And just be a bad memory.

We have this place to talk about gaming. Pundit made it for real gamers to talk about games and gaming. So let's get to it! Cut the irrelevant crap and be an actual successful gaming forum.

The culture war is all consuming for most posters here.

Quote from: mikelaff on November 22, 2024, 10:32:53 AM

Quote from: Darrin Kelley on November 20, 2024, 04:27:38 PMWho fucking cares? The more you talk about them, the more relevant they remain. Personally? I want to see them completely slide into irrelevancy and completely fade away. No longer be a thing anyone talks about. And just be a bad memory.

We have this place to talk about gaming. Pundit made it for real gamers to talk about games and gaming. So let's get to it! Cut the irrelevant crap and be an actual successful gaming forum.

Agree with most of what you say.
But — there's a non-zero chance some posters here are very focused on big purple. It comes up a lot over here.

Ignoring this crap is how it got to be so pervasive.

Pundit himself has made hay over "The Swine", and so it's not like therpgsite is just about gaming. It's always been about gaming in the context of culture and communities.

Quote from: zircher on November 17, 2024, 06:51:40 PMMaybe this forum should start posting badges.  A lot of folks can get a 'purple heart' for getting banned there.  :-)

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Not sure I have the space for all those medals. 

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on November 18, 2024, 05:53:20 PMMeanwhile, over in Tabletop Roleplaying Open, they are eagerly making recommendations of 'anti-fascist/Nazi-punching' RPGs as a way to cope with the current events.

Someone should recommend The Invisible College on there... the Order of Thule (nazis) are major villains. Of course, not as powerful as the main villains of the Black Lodge (WEF).

Few things convince me that someone has zero awareness of politics outside of their own bubble quite like equating or implying Trump to a Nazi demagogue. Trump wears the mantle of the avatar of electoral wrath.

The more these nuts repeat that their opposition is a bunch of Nazis, the more they establish that they are wildly out of touch.



 

Quote from: mikelaff on November 22, 2024, 10:32:53 AMAgree with most of what you say.
But — there's a non-zero chance some posters here are very focused on big purple. It comes up a lot over here.

I think thats because theres alot of folk here who were senselessly banned over there, or banned for the flimsiest of reasons, or no reason at all it seems.

I have never had any problem over there and seem to have somehow missed everything. But then I keep pretty much to a few subs.

TWO Questions:
1) Does it matter what the 'Big Purple" thinks one way or the other?
...and ...
2) Does this topic belong in the gaming section?

- Ed C.

Quote from: Koltar on November 23, 2024, 10:44:33 AMTWO Questions:
1) Does it matter what the 'Big Purple" thinks one way or the other?

Insofar as it's a useful insight into a mentality about gaming, fandom, and the current dynamics therein, I'd say it's a topic of interest.

It doesn't matter in the sense anyone here is obliged to give two pins about it, but as a former participant there, it has a certain sad nostalgia value for me. (Vaguely-relevant digression: The literal translation of "nostalgia" is "an old returning pain", from Greek.)

Quote...and ... 2) Does this topic belong in the gaming section?

One could argue it does, but I agree, there would be more room to explore non-gaming aspects of the topic in Pundit's Own.

Quote from: Trond on November 17, 2024, 07:01:00 PMI'm attaching an official statement from Zeea

(https://www.therpgsite.com/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=4129;image)

"Some of our users don't entirely understand that things they say on the internet are visible to other people."

I can't even...

Quote from: Jason Coplen on November 18, 2024, 06:17:07 PMNot to be snarky, but a therapist could rake in the money from those people.

Bold of you to assume those people have money.

Quote from: blackstone on November 19, 2024, 08:01:48 AMThis has to be the weirdest thing to me. I just don't get it. For the longest time, playing RPGs was to escape reality and be somebody else. In the past five years or so, it has morphed into YOU being you in a RPG.

It's because escapism is a threat to the revolution, so any represented reality must match an existing or intended one.

Amusingly, the TBP thread in question has now been locked due to two of the posters getting so angry at the Hispanic voting bloc no longer voting as a bloc that they started discussing Hispanic voters' motives en masse ... which somebody reported as a group attack, and the posters in question each incurred a 30-day ban.

If I still cared enough to incur a ban myself I would point out that the one thing they need in order to understand their loss -- i.e., a coherent explanation of their opponents' perspectives and interests from the horse's own mouth, as it were -- is the one thing their policy prevents anyone providing to them. But I think irony is beyond those in that headspace at the moment.

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on November 26, 2024, 07:09:19 PMAmusingly, the TBP thread in question has now been locked due to two of the posters getting so angry at the Hispanic voting bloc no longer voting as a bloc that they started discussing Hispanic voters' motives en masse ... which somebody reported as a group attack, and the posters in question each incurred a 30-day ban.

The standard line seems to be that Latinos didn't vote for Harris because they hate women.  The fact that 65% of Latinos voted for Hilary in 2016 is ignored.   

Quote from: yosemitemike on November 27, 2024, 12:01:23 AM

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on November 26, 2024, 07:09:19 PMAmusingly, the TBP thread in question has now been locked due to two of the posters getting so angry at the Hispanic voting bloc no longer voting as a bloc that they started discussing Hispanic voters' motives en masse ... which somebody reported as a group attack, and the posters in question each incurred a 30-day ban.

The standard line seems to be that Latinos didn't vote for Harris because they hate women.  The fact that 65% of Latinos voted for Hilary in 2016 is ignored.   

Let's take it at face value that Latinos hate women and just agree with the premise. We would likely assume it's Latino men who would be most strongly opposed to female politicians. That would then mean it is a bad idea to allow huge numbers of Latino males into the country with little to no vetting. If only there was a name for this issue...

Quote from: Cathode Ray on November 20, 2024, 11:18:32 AM

Quote from: Stephen Tannhauser on November 19, 2024, 09:54:05 PM

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on November 19, 2024, 09:16:13 AMDid you see the post where someone said "I ran "Comrades" at a socialist convention in 2017 or so. Very well received."?

I'm not familiar with the game, or I'd probably have gotten the joke.

I take it it's a satiric thing?  (A game based on the film The Death of Stalin would make for some serious black comedy.)

ETA:  Just looked it up on DriveThruRPG.  Good grief.  Under the Description: "Playing as characters like the Soldier, the Student, the Propagandist, and the Worker, your comrades will mount rallies, stage coups, evade the secret police, and fight fascist goons." And then under "A Note About Content": "This game does not advocate for political violence, and is instead designed to help players explore the limitations of the use of force for political ends." Judas Priest, I haven't seen a game try this hard to backpedal away from its own inevitable implications since the new edition of Ravenloft tried to make the Demiplane of Dread not scary.

THIS DISCLAIMER IS A LIE.
Do not buy the game.
The game COMRADES, both in the introduction, and on its crowdfunding site, BOLDLY ADVOCATES REAL-LIFE VIOLENCE.  I'm not talking about in-game violence, although it advocates that.  But the actual content laments where the "Real" revolutionaries have gone, and invites the gamers to, after pretending to be good little communists, to get involved in real "activism", telling them to act like such groups as The Weather Underground, a real-life domestic terrorist organization who bombed the pentagon before Al Qaeda got the idea, murdered a federal judge, and engaged in other goodness.

I reported this to DriveThru several times.  They didn't do anything about it, since it's a violation of their TOS that conforms to an agenda with which they align.  Instead, the Comrades page reacted by putting up a disclaimer (the reason for their "backpedaling" that you mention).  It doens't change a thing about the game, or Drive Thru allowing material advocating violence on their site, but somehow this lie makes everything fine now.

If you're curious about reading the game's advocacy of violence, don't get it.  The author is a bona-fide communist, and we wouldn't want to disappoint him by giving him any profit for his horrible product.  There are other was to find what's in it without engaging in evil capitalism.

It's a platinum bestseller.

Two questions:

1. WHAT?
2. DA FUCK?