So I'm new here after reading but rarely posting on rpg.net for years. This Bill Webb thing is the last straw.  I'm seeing people banned for posting "guyz...do you think maybe kinda sorta ruining a persons life over this is going too far?...maybe...sorta...a litttle?"  There are calls to ruin unrelated companies over this shit. I agree there should be consequences for sexual misconduct but the posts I'm reading are bullshit. I consider myself a "liberal" or whatever the fuck that means but I appreciate diversity of thought and thinking for yourself.  

So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense. I don't know much about this forum other than from critics and registered without really reading a lot of the content. So I have a question.  Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

Welcome to the rpgsite.

Greetings!

Indeed, Myleftnut, welcome to our forums here! The "Smoking Lamp" is lit. Pour yourself a good drink, and lite up a fine cigar. Make yourself at home here!

Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and creativity are values that are cherished here.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense. I don't know much about this forum other than from critics and registered without really reading a lot of the content. So I have a question.  Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

  It's more like pre-moderation RPGNet. There's a lot of hostility towards "SJWs" and progressivism, but it's not enforced by moderator directives. If you have a thick skin, you can hold nearly any position short of outright calling for the deaths of members and survive here.

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

Oh yeah, we're all right wing alt-right fascist extremists here. Disagree with us and we'll sic 4chan on you!

Naw, this place is full of disagreement, and probably just as many or more disaffected liberals as conservatives. Plus a few doctrinaire Progressives to argue with.

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801I consider myself a "liberal" or whatever the fuck that means but I appreciate diversity of thought and thinking for yourself.

Liberal? Diversity of thought? You're obviously a Naughty Nazi!

Why should anyone think for themselves when Facebook's algorithms do that for you? You might accidentally start thinking the wrong thing and wind up joining theRPGsite! :eek:

Welcome aboard!

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense.

I don't know if we have much common sense, but we do have freedom of speech.

Many of us here fervently disagree with each other (and by fervently, I mean "choke on shit you ignorant motherfucker"), but we also fervently support the right for everyone to express themselves.

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

You support diversity of thought and your forum name suspiciously points to the possibility you might have a sense of humor so you're probably a dreaded Alt-Right monster!!!

Here's the real deal about this place.

1) RPGPundit's personal forum is a wondrous political cesspool. Plenty of vomit from all political corners. If you want to avoid most politics and stick to gaming, ignore that forum.

2) Unfortunately, everything is political now so politics boils over into the main forum gaming threads IF the topic is something like the Bill Webb lawsuit or yet another RPG company engaging in activism. If you want to avoid politics and stick to gaming, ignore those threads.

3) If you're in a gaming thread that's just about gaming and one of us fucknuts starts crapping out our politics, call it out. Feel free to say "Yo fucknuts, stick to the OP and save the politics for Pundy's forum."

4) Too many of us enjoy threads that wander all over the damn place. I'm utterly guilty of this. If you start a thread about "Cool Shit Fighters Can Do" and we start babbling about cleric vs. mage spells, call that out too and refocus the thread OR have a great time wandering down our various weirdo paths.

This is a rare example of a site that is not over-moderated, and worse, moderated towards a particular agenda. As long as you don't try to talk about politics in this subforum (which is for gaming), you'll be fine.

You can disagree with someone, or even call them names, without silly filters blocking your words, or being told to "play nice" by the moderators. Everyone is expected to be a grown up and behave accordingly.

Quote from: Kiero;1084810Everyone is expected to be a grown up and behave accordingly.

Or nutbag teens on a deserted island.

Welcome myleftnut, I hope you enjoy your stay.

I use to come here to read and cooldown from political nonsense in RPGs. In the end, I became a poster. I should have done that a long time ago.

The only quirk that you might find here is that Story games go to "other games" section.

Have a great weekend

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801So I'm new here after reading but rarely posting on rpg.net for years. This Bill Webb thing is the last straw.  I'm seeing people banned for posting "guyz...do you think maybe kinda sorta ruining a persons life over this is going too far?...maybe...sorta...a litttle?"  There are calls to ruin unrelated companies over this shit. I agree there should be consequences for sexual misconduct but the posts I'm reading are bullshit. I consider myself a "liberal" or whatever the fuck that means but I appreciate diversity of thought and thinking for yourself.  

So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense. I don't know much about this forum other than from critics and registered without really reading a lot of the content. So I have a question.  Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

What is the Bill Webb thing?

Quote from: CarlD.;1084817What is the Bill Webb thing?

Not sure if you're being sarcastic but he's a game designer whose work I like, who got drunk at con and offered a woman a cigarette and had his room number on his sleeve or something.  The woman took it as a sexual advance and now people on rpg.net are wanting him out off the hobby. If you believe restraint is needed you get banned.  Trying to boycott Steve Jackson Games over not being extreme enough in their response shows a dangerous precedent.  The level of outrage has become rabid on the site.

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense. I don't know much about this forum other than from critics and registered without really reading a lot of the content. So I have a question.  Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

This is the Mos Eisley Spaceport of RPG forums, or at least we like the sound of that. Welcome to the Adult Swim.

We are definitely not what the RPG.net critics have claimed us to be.

Quote from: jeff37923;1084820We are definitely not what the RPG.net critics have claimed us to be.

But we try hard to achieve that dream every day!

RPG.net critics? Bwahaha.

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense. I don't know much about this forum other than from critics and registered without really reading a lot of the content. So I have a question.  Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

Welcome to the site!

Welcome to the site!

Quote from: myleftnut;1084801So I'm hoping I can find a place to read and post about games where people have common sense. I don't know much about this forum other than from critics and registered without really reading a lot of the content. So I have a question.  Is this just a "right wing" equivalent to rpg.net or are all options welcome?

Isnt every other site right wing compared to rpg.net?