Quote from: Howard on November 15, 2023, 01:48:05 AM
SJG update from their blog (2023-11-15 posting)- they are dumping their X ('nee twitter) account because:

QuoteOur website and new games will no longer show the logo of the slowly spinning sack of sewage formerly known as Twitter, nor will we ask you to find us there. This caused a little angst here – because we miss the Twitter that was – but the Twitter that IS has no value to anyone but the producers and consumers of hate speech.

SJG's petty and very childish rant against Twitter persists.  It reminds me of some of the un-professional antics from Howard Thompson after Steve left Metagaming Concepts, and took his hit Ogre with him.  Posting on his new crowdfunding project, he dreams of bringing Twitter back to the sewer.

Is there an actual incident that is motivating them to make this move? Something specific they're reacting to?

Quote from: Cathode Ray on November 30, 2023, 09:08:52 PM

Quote from: Howard on November 15, 2023, 01:48:05 AM
SJG update from their blog (2023-11-15 posting)- they are dumping their X ('nee twitter) account because:

QuoteOur website and new games will no longer show the logo of the slowly spinning sack of sewage formerly known as Twitter, nor will we ask you to find us there. This caused a little angst here – because we miss the Twitter that was – but the Twitter that IS has no value to anyone but the producers and consumers of hate speech.

SJG's petty and very childish rant against Twitter persists.  It reminds me of some of the un-professional antics from Howard Thompson after Steve left Metagaming Concepts, and took his hit Ogre with him.  Posting on his new crowdfunding project, he dreams of bringing Twitter back to the sewer.

Oh, come on. That's funny.

Quote from: Baron on November 30, 2023, 09:12:05 PM
Is there an actual incident that is motivating them to make this move? Something specific they're reacting to?

Musk has a much more 'hands off' approach to Twitter thought enforcement, though this attitude is slow to trickle down because the company is riddled with true believers. He's been restoring accounts of people who were banned for wrongthink, and worse, inserted the new 'community notes' system which has been used to clown on morons spouting progressive gibberish and propaganda.

So of course, Musk is now also Hitler.

(Sidenote: I have to admit, Musk telling advertisers who boycott him to go fuck themselves is pretty chad-level energy. And this was in public, in a televised interview.)

Quote from: Ghostmaker on December 01, 2023, 08:14:22 AM

Quote from: Baron on November 30, 2023, 09:12:05 PM
Is there an actual incident that is motivating them to make this move? Something specific they're reacting to?

Musk has a much more 'hands off' approach to Twitter thought enforcement, though this attitude is slow to trickle down because the company is riddled with true believers. He's been restoring accounts of people who were banned for wrongthink, and worse, inserted the new 'community notes' system which has been used to clown on morons spouting progressive gibberish and propaganda.

So of course, Musk is now also Hitler.

(Sidenote: I have to admit, Musk telling advertisers who boycott him to go fuck themselves is pretty chad-level energy. And this was in public, in a televised interview.)

To Baron: Unsurprisingly, there is no examples provided, just a typical liberal generalization "everything bout it is evil."

To Ghostmaker: Musk wasn't addressing advertisers who boycott him.  He was addressing people who clamor to intimidate companies to boycott.

Quote from: Cathode Ray on December 01, 2023, 03:04:39 PM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on December 01, 2023, 08:14:22 AM

Quote from: Baron on November 30, 2023, 09:12:05 PM
Is there an actual incident that is motivating them to make this move? Something specific they're reacting to?

Musk has a much more 'hands off' approach to Twitter thought enforcement, though this attitude is slow to trickle down because the company is riddled with true believers. He's been restoring accounts of people who were banned for wrongthink, and worse, inserted the new 'community notes' system which has been used to clown on morons spouting progressive gibberish and propaganda.

So of course, Musk is now also Hitler.

(Sidenote: I have to admit, Musk telling advertisers who boycott him to go fuck themselves is pretty chad-level energy. And this was in public, in a televised interview.)

To Baron: Unsurprisingly, there is no examples provided, just a typical liberal generalization "everything bout it is evil."

To Ghostmaker: Musk wasn't addressing advertisers who boycott him.  He was addressing people who clamor to intimidate companies to boycott.

No, he said, "Hi, Bob!" right afterward, referring to Bob Iger who was in the audience.  I believe he said he was directing it to those who would try to use money to blackmail him into not speaking out and not allowing others to speak.  That fits advertisers...

Quote from: pawsplay on November 30, 2023, 09:18:59 PM

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Oh, come on. That's funny.

I guess it could be funny if things weren't so serious these days, and to the contrary, I'm often told the best humor is rooted in truth.  Returning Twitter to the days where government and the military's censorship industrial complex worked with Twitter to commit physiological terrorism on its users and set up bot accounts to interfere with public opinion isn't my type of humor.

On a lighter note, I just sold another RPG bundle.  At this rate, maybe I can buy Steve Jackson Games from Steve Jackson and rescue the company!
Probably not.  Dag nabbit.

Now, that's funny!

Darrington Press should go into red for Candela Obscura.  Some tidbits from the quickstart

ON CHARACTER CREATION
When crafting your character, it is crucial to
avoid the harmful stereotypes often present in the
historical and horror genres. For instance: if you
are creating an Explorer, they should delve into
their own cultural history instead of appropriating
another's. Similarly, Mediums should not use other
cultures' attire as a costume, and Doctors should
not indulge in any historical practices that are
rooted in racist and ableist ideologies. Although
PCs may be ill-disposed, tactless, or even cruel, you
should always strive to construct your protagonists
with integrity

All the usual talking points.  Muh cultural appropriation et cetera

The section on scars is much more concerned with lecturing the reader about how problematic they are than actually providing any rules to cover this.  Overall, they game is much more concerned with telling you how you should be playing than little things like games rules. 

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Quote from: yosemitemike on December 18, 2023, 02:04:59 AM
Darrington Press should go into red for Candela Obscura.  Some tidbits from the quickstart

ON CHARACTER CREATION
When crafting your character, it is crucial to
avoid the harmful stereotypes often present in the
historical and horror genres. For instance: if you
are creating an Explorer, they should delve into
their own cultural history instead of appropriating
another's. Similarly, Mediums should not use other
cultures' attire as a costume, and Doctors should
not indulge in any historical practices that are
rooted in racist and ableist ideologies. Although
PCs may be ill-disposed, tactless, or even cruel, you
should always strive to construct your protagonists
with integrity

All the usual talking points.  Muh cultural appropriation et cetera

The section on scars is much more concerned with lecturing the reader about how problematic they are than actually providing any rules to cover this.  Overall, they game is much more concerned with telling you how you should be playing than little things like games rules.

Candela Obscura is such a scam, but Critical Role will make mad cash on it. It is BARELY a game, but there are so many weirdos out there who love CR they will gobble it up.

Just seeing the cast of CR I knew it was going to be woke nonsense and I downloaded the quick start rules and imagine my shock when the character sheet had pronouns. Anything they put out should be RED.

Quote from: grimshwiz on December 18, 2023, 02:15:04 AM
Candela Obscura is such a scam, but Critical Role will make mad cash on it. It is BARELY a game

i think it's, basically, just a Blades in the Dark clone, right? so might as well skip it entirely.

Quote from: Klava on December 18, 2023, 02:19:33 AM

Quote from: grimshwiz on December 18, 2023, 02:15:04 AM
Candela Obscura is such a scam, but Critical Role will make mad cash on it. It is BARELY a game

i think it's, basically, just a Blades in the Dark clone, right? so might as well skip it entirely.

it's as if Vampire the masquerade and Call of Cthulu had a back alley baby and the delivering doctor was Dylan Mulvaney.

The thing that bothers me about Candela Obscura is not the wokeness, we all knew it would have been there and in extreme amounts too, it's the fact that it's a whole book without fucking rules, it's not even a blades in the dark clone since the whole structure of blades is actually clever and well designed for it's intended purpose, in Candela obscura rules seems to be an afterthought, put there to con people into thinking that they are buying an rpg instead of a badly written improv manual.

Anyone has anything on Evil Genius Games? From a cursory look of their page they seem definitely woke although I can't find any preaching stuff from them, their line about classic movies like the crow seems interesting but I'm not sure...

Is there anything communists can't fuck up?

Quote from: Brad on December 18, 2023, 11:12:09 AM
Is there anything communists can't fuck up?

If there is, they have yet to find it.