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How is the Big Purple handling "current events" lately?

Started by Neoplatonist1, November 09, 2024, 08:00:56 PM

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Armchair Gamer

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.

weirdguy564

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. 
I'm glad for you if you like the top selling game of the genre.  Me, I like the road less travelled, and will be the player asking we try a game you've never heard of.

Omega

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."

tenbones

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.

Bruwulf

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.

zircher

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

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Kyle Aaron

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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.
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honeydipperdavid


honeydipperdavid

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



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.

Armchair Gamer

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.

Jason Coplen

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.
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Omega

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..

Stephen Tannhauser

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."
Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain

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yosemitemike

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? 
"I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice."― Friedrich Hayek
Another former RPGnet member permanently banned for calling out the staff there on their abdication of their responsibilities as moderators and admins and their abject surrender to the whims of the shrillest and most self-righteous members of the community.