Quote from: honeydipperdavid on March 07, 2024, 11:13:00 PMI just want to say these leftard "influencers" do tend to have very lonely and sad endings.  They do not get ahead in life chasing Marx, they end up alone, bitter and childless.  Speaking of which "Good News" /fansworth.  This Anita Sarkeesian's ending, its cat urine and ice cream till she dies now.  She was an ice breaker in censorship and did a number on game studios dumb enough to listen to her.  A lot of the commisar's based their grift on her grift.

https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1765798926425243909/photo/1

I'm waiting for her OnlyFans debut, like Rachel Dolezal

I'll see myself out now....

Quote from: tenbones on March 08, 2024, 10:28:44 AM
Joseph Ravitts honored my Hispasian brethren in Dragon #124... /sigh yes it was Stickfighting. But! he did a great job. Kahanga-hanga, Joe!

I'd post the rest, but it's 4-pages... It's a solid class for OA tho. I remember using it back in the day.

And the truly pathetic thing is that today these woke cultists would decry that article as racist and it would likely never pass their "sensitivity" thugs.

Quote from: tenbones on March 08, 2024, 10:28:44 AM
Joseph Ravitts honored my Hispasian brethren in Dragon #124... /sigh yes it was Stickfighting.

RPGs may stereotype your people, but someone cared enough to make a Filipino centric video game, so that's something.

Ironically, this is how I look at most people playing 5e. We've come full circle.

Quote from: tenbones on March 09, 2024, 01:41:25 PM
Ironically, this is how I look at most people playing 5e. We've come full circle.

Wait till "Still totally 5e despite being a new system!" comes out.

We are going to find wotc actually can get UNDER a bar set really low.

Quote from: Omega on March 09, 2024, 04:00:13 PMWe are going to find wotc actually can get UNDER a bar set really low.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on March 07, 2024, 11:13:00 PM
A lot of the commisar's based their grift on her grift.

https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1765798926425243909/photo/1

She was a true pioneer in the art of using the threat of cancel culture and digital lynch mobs to extort money out of game publishers.  Many other worthless parasites have followed the trail she blazed.

This thread reminds me of junior high where everyone would make racist jokes about each other then watch Transformers and eat cookies together.

Quote from: yosemitemike on March 10, 2024, 05:33:59 AM

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on March 07, 2024, 11:13:00 PM
A lot of the commisar's based their grift on her grift.

https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1765798926425243909/photo/1

She was a true pioneer in the art of using the threat of cancel culture and digital lynch mobs to extort money out of game publishers.  Many other worthless parasites have followed the trail she blazed.

I think you are giving this woman too much credit.

She existed because thousands of game companies had already had killed the golden goose by hiring too many problem-glasses women into HR (& elsewhere) to balance out the insanely-male demographics of game/software engineering. The problem she's associated was basically made inevitable as a result of stupid/evil judges & politicians from the 1960s.

Quote from: Brad on March 10, 2024, 08:44:36 PM
This thread reminds me of junior high where everyone would make racist jokes about each other then watch Transformers and eat cookies together.

That's my typical weekend.

Quote from: Omega on March 09, 2024, 04:00:13 PM

Wait till "Still totally 5e despite being a new system!" comes out.

We are going to find wotc actually can get UNDER a bar set really low.

I don't get this as marketing at all.  If it's still totally 5e, what the hell do I even need it for?  I already have 5e. 

Quote from: Zelen on March 10, 2024, 09:12:41 PM
I think you are giving this woman too much credit.

She existed because thousands of game companies had already had killed the golden goose by hiring too many problem-glasses women into HR (& elsewhere) to balance out the insanely-male demographics of game/software engineering. The problem she's associated was basically made inevitable as a result of stupid/evil judges & politicians from the 1960s.

No, I think she was a real trailblazer when it comes to using this particular style of grift in the video games industry.  She was one of the first to be really successful at creating an imaginary problem out of thin air, whipping up the Twitter mob about it and then offering to solve it for a fee.  She truly is the Gail Simone of video games. 

Quote from: yosemitemike on March 11, 2024, 02:41:18 AM

Quote from: Omega on March 09, 2024, 04:00:13 PM

Wait till "Still totally 5e despite being a new system!" comes out.

We are going to find wotc actually can get UNDER a bar set really low.

I don't get this as marketing at all.  If it's still totally 5e, what the hell do I even need it for?  I already have 5e. 

Quote from: Zelen on March 10, 2024, 09:12:41 PM
I think you are giving this woman too much credit.

She existed because thousands of game companies had already had killed the golden goose by hiring too many problem-glasses women into HR (& elsewhere) to balance out the insanely-male demographics of game/software engineering. The problem she's associated was basically made inevitable as a result of stupid/evil judges & politicians from the 1960s.

No, I think she was a real trailblazer when it comes to using this particular style of grift in the video games industry.  She was one of the first to be really successful at creating an imaginary problem out of thin air, whipping up the Twitter mob about it and then offering to solve it for a fee.  She truly is the Gail Simone of video games.

Greetings!

Exactly, Yosemitemike! There is a reason everyone knows her fucking name. Even if they aren't certain of all the details, or the what's and How's--everyone knows that Anita Sarkeesian is bad news for people or organizations. There is also a reason why we don't hear about others before her. Some may have existed in various companies, but they never monetized the grift and publicized the grift like Anita Sarkeesian did.

So, yes, she is definitely a trailblazer as a corrupt, lying, manipulative grifter. She is in many ways, merely a digital Demagogue, like from the old days of some crazed freak ranting on a street corner, or scurrying about the neighborhoods, passing out pamphlets.

The difference is, however, in past ages, society at-large possessed enough common sense and wisdom to view grifting demagogues as what they were--hence why such people gained little followings within the public sphere, and remained mostly figures of derision and ridicule, as well as suspicion. In a similar manner, corporations were hard-nosed, and ruthless, and typically very sharp about identifying grifters, demagogues, and criminals. Corporations usually ignored such crazy people entirely. If they paid public attention to such people, it was in the form of hostile lawyers dragging such people into courtrooms for a laundry-list of charges and suits.

And, of course, having regular teams of armed ruffians on call to beat such people senseless and leave them barely alive down by the river, that too, was a method frequently embraced by different corporations.

Nowadays though, we have much stupider generations and feminized corporations, run by weak manlets instead of hard men.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: Zelen on March 10, 2024, 09:12:41 PM
The problem she's associated was basically made inevitable as a result of stupid/evil judges & politicians from the 1960s.

Don't forget the bureaucrats.

Quote from: S'mon on March 11, 2024, 11:01:35 AM

Quote from: Zelen on March 10, 2024, 09:12:41 PM
The problem she's associated was basically made inevitable as a result of stupid/evil judges & politicians from the 1960s.

Don't forget the bureaucrats.

People can just say Lawyers. That covers lawyers, Judges, and half the bureaucrats and Politicians.

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Quote from: RPGPundit on March 03, 2024, 07:52:01 PM
There are different kinds of Latinos. There's the kind that eat tacos and wear sombreros, and then there's the ones who actually win at soccer.

Technically, Brazilians aren't Latinos.

Wrong, Portuguese IS a romance languaje, it also comes (at least in part) from the Latin. Therefore, Brazilians, comming from a Portuguese colony ARE Latinos.

Braizilians are not hispanic. They ARE Latinos.

Spaniards are Hispanic, but not Latinos.

The Portuguese are neither Hispanic nor Latino.

Being a Brazilian of a certain age and having spoken to other Brazilians about this subject, I can tell you a couple of things about this word "latino" in our context.

If you are a Brazilian over 40 years of age and you are not trying to evoke a socialist Latin American fraternity spirit, you don't consider yourself a latino. Latino is a stereotype that we probably got from American movies: it is a tanned guy who sings bolero in Spanish and can dance salsa or can tango. (And the latina is the feminine version of that.)

We may begrudgingly admit we are technically Latin American—as others have said, Latin America is defined by the countries in the Americas that are successor states of Spaniard or Portuguese colonies—but not a latino.

On the other hand, younger Brazilians who were raised up with a lot more American culture will think of themselves as latino; but these are the same who would use latinx instead—so, their opinion may not count. Of course, Brazilians living in the U.S. will mostly just accept being called a latino. And, for political reasons, you may find an older Brazilian calling himself a latino, but that is just being neighborly.

To sum up, an older Brazilian may be crossed if called a latino because he will confuse the denotation of the world in the English language with one of the connotations of the same word in the Portuguese language.

And, yeah, we are definitively not hispanic. We came from the former Roman province of Lusitania and we speak the last flower of Latium, thank you very much!