On the plus side, it means more critiques will be in non-Latin scripts, and thus an opportunity to challenge one's own linguistics skill.

Right?

Quote from: yabaziou;828591But I'm somehow worrying that the decent reponse by decent people will prompt not so decent people to made libellous campaigns to change things in RPGs books that unpleased them.

Naw. That could never happen.

Quote from: S'mon;829774Naw. That could never happen.

I know but I can be such a worrywart sometimes ...

Quote from: tuypo1;829754yeah im really not sure what gamergate has to do with it. but you are right a lot of the problem was the fact she was female but that was not the activists fault (they did act like massive arseholes though) that was because it gave feminists something to fight.

but come to think of it lately i have seen a lot of people trying to bring gamergate into unrelated discussions.

Given that game developers, and not just video games but TSR and WoTC and White Wolf have all g, have been getting death threats for the stupidest things in the game.  But it's the current political climate and the internet that makes this a thing.

And the problem I have with this in general (not in context of this, as I don't know if anyone did) is that using a death threat to change something, anything, is using fear to get their way.  And you know who uses fear to get their way?  Terrorists.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;829837And you know who uses fear to get their way?

Of course I do: good generals and efficient militaries, all organized states, the penal system, police, street gangs, organized crime, clans and tribes, religions, employers, the list goes on and on.

You know what else all those organizations have in common...the members all eat food. So do terrorists....oh nos.

Quote from: Opaopajr;829772On the plus side, it means more critiques will be in non-Latin scripts, and thus an opportunity to challenge one's own linguistics skill.

Right?

i dont get it.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;829837And you know who uses fear to get their way?  Terrorists.

i feel its important that people be reminded of that or they start throwing the word around and using it where it really does not fit

Fuck the SJW shit.

Let's talk more about the Cannibal Bird!!!

Anyone have a favorite post by this author?

Also, anyone used Pacific Northwest Native myths in their games?

Quote from: Spinachcat;829883Fuck the SJW shit.

Let's talk more about the Cannibal Bird!!!

Anyone have a favorite post by this author?

Also, anyone used Pacific Northwest Native myths in their games?

Yeah, and Fuck your Cultural Appropriation thinking you can take and own every culture that doesn't belong to you and turning it into your personal playthings at the expense of the original owners of the culture while you continue on with your own racism not to mention you are more than likely turn around and hypocritically respecting your dominant culture.

Cultural Appropriation are acts of Imperialism and Colonialism that you blindly happen to support and benefit from not to mention you're also privileged due to the fact it's far less likely that your own dominant culture is going to be appropriated in the same way especially without a more than likely major hypocritical uproar.

Quote from: Bren;829842Of course I do: good generals and efficient militaries, all organized states, the penal system, police, street gangs, organized crime, clans and tribes, religions, employers, the list goes on and on.

You know what else all those organizations have in common...the members all eat food. So do terrorists....oh nos.

You missed game publishers and game designers. :banghead:

Quote from: Cryptofblood;829924Yeah, and Fuck your Cultural Appropriation thinking you can take and own every culture that doesn't belong to you and turning it into your personal playthings at the expense of the original owners of the culture while you continue on with your own racism not to mention you are more than likely turn around and hypocritically respecting your dominant culture.

Cultural Appropriation are acts of Imperialism and Colonialism that you blindly happen to support and benefit from.

Drinking and posting rarely go well together.

Quote from: One Horse Town;829934Drinking and posting rarely go well together.

Yeah, more like I was "drunk" with knowledge and education when I posted that.

And you hypocritical allow the person I was quoting saying "Fuck SJW" and somehow don't label that as "drunk posting" which is strange....

Quote from: Cryptofblood;829936Yeah, more like I was "drunk" with knowledge and education when I posted that.

And you hypocritical allow someone saying "Fuck SJW" and somehow don't label that as "drunk posting" which is strange....

It might have something to do with the poster you quoted wanting to talk about the cannibal bird and the content of the guy's blog - which you then go off on a totally unrelated weird rant. You post had fuck-all to do with the post it quoted.

That's why i pointed you out and not him.

You're currently derailing a thread about a native American's blog and his work on Monte Cook's game with unrelated rants at random passers by about cultural appropriation - in a thread about a designer from the culture that is being discussed.

Methinks you doth protest too much.

Quote from: One Horse Town;829938It might have something to do with the poster you quoted wanting to talk about the cannibal bird and the content of the guy's blog - which you then go off on a totally unrelated weird rant. You post had fuck-all to do with the post it quoted.

That's why i pointed you out and not him.

You're currently derailing a thread about a native American's blog and his work on Monte Cook's game with unrelated rants at random passers by about cultural appropriation - in a thread about a designer from the culture that is being discussed.

Methinks you doth protest too much.

I know what this thread is originally about and actually the ones are doing the derailing is people like you and all I did is called it out.

Quote from: Cryptofblood;829924Yeah, and Fuck your Cultural Appropriation thinking you can take and own every culture that doesn't belong to you and turning it into your personal playthings at the expense of the original owners of the culture while you continue on with your own racism not to mention you are more than likely turn around and hypocritically respecting your dominant culture.

Honest question: how is this at the expense of these cultures?

For the record, I do agree that some forms of cultural appropriation are at the the very least insensitive and insulting. Some perpetuate often harmful stereotypes. But I don't think that the lives of people on reservations are getting even worse because nerds are talking about games on an internet forum. None of us are going: "haha wow Tibet is a fucked up fantasy world of monsters: I'm gonna post memes and jokes about Tibetans on facebook and twitter now".

There are real-world issues affecting these people. I think that you should spend your anger-fuelled energy on some real-world cause, like a non-profit organization or make donations to some charity, or something. Not type out angry posts on the fucking internet on one of the least-known RPG forums.

Or you're just trolling. In which case, well done: you played me like a fiddle!