Looks like with Comic Books there was a whisper network working behind the scenes on the TTRPG Industry.
This kind of a "no shit" thing. After all, the whisper network has been unearthed in several industries already.
Quote from: BadApple on January 26, 2024, 10:11:42 PM
This kind of a "no shit" thing. After all, the whisper network has been unearthed in several industries already.
There's a difference between: Knowing and KNOWING with the evidence to back it up tho.
Obviously people in a shared industry talk and gossip. And obviously some people are shitty cunts. But in this scenario and others like it, you go past the usual assholes and into people who are going out of their way to torpedo others' livelihoods. Both in gamergate and comicsgate groups of "professionals" got caught organizing specifically to wreck anyone who wasn't part of their clique when leaks came out of their correspondence, and this looks similar. You can bet none of these groups of RPG people included Pundit as a member, for example. And the fact that they at least tacitly endorsed falsely accusing people of crimes to smear them shows the caliber of person we're dealing with here.
The funny thing to me is that the author is openly disdainful of D&D people but shocked that the woke end of it is so nasty. Thus I would conclude that she hasn't been involved in the community nearly enough to be commenting on it.
HERE IS A LINK TO THE FULL AUDIO CLIPS FROM THE INTERVIEWS IN THE ARTICLE GRIM JIM IS DISCUSSING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GJAJNbF2Tg&list=PPSV
Quote from: GeekyBugle on January 26, 2024, 10:28:17 PM
Quote from: BadApple on January 26, 2024, 10:11:42 PM
This kind of a "no shit" thing. After all, the whisper network has been unearthed in several industries already.
There's a difference between: Knowing and KNOWING with the evidence to back it up tho.
Its been known for a long time that people get blacklisted behind the scenes. Sometimes justifiably for being difficult to work with. Same in board gaming. You act like a primadonna with some companies and word spreads fast by the grapevine that you are not going to work out and thats the end of your designing carreer.
But now these groups are coopted to target the "undesirables" who oppose woke infestations.