Quote from: Larsdangly;1083816The animosity for this site that you'll find at TBP and some other places didn't come out of nowhere. The top page of active threads pretty much always contains multiple highly political themes, the person who administers the site is highly political in much of what he posts, and there is a modest-size but very active core of members who constantly blather about 'feminazis' and 'SJW's' and all the rest of the alt-right-light BS. It is pretty irritating, and is why I have dramatically reduced my time spent here. I don't think a neutrally inclined person could say there is much difference in the quality of discussion between the worst threads here and at TBP.

BUT, what clearly distinguishes this site from TBP is the fact that I can come here and say all that without having a jack booted dip shit jump down my throat. The content of their politics is neither here nor there; it is pretty much as stupid as every other echo chamber you find online (including all the 'SJW' threads here). The problem with TBP is their mod's and frequent posters' performative outrage. At this point their only response to even the slightest note of real or (more often) imagined disagreement is to use a bunch of ham fisted, made up rules to shut you up.

I feel like Rpgpub is pretty much the only forum right now that is active enough to keep my interest and hasn't been overtaken by hard-right or hard-left blow hards.

Without a doubt there is a broader range of opinion here than on TPB.  True, some members have conservative opinions, but I also usually see more liberal members challenge them as well.  I remember when that used to happen on TPB.  Right now I tend to go to rpg.net to view what's going on with the newer, trendier side of gaming and therpgsite to see what's going on with the older, OSR crowd.  That's making sweeping generalizations about the content of both sites, but usually it runs around those lines.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1083816BUT, what clearly distinguishes this site from TBP is the fact that I can come here and say all that without having a jack booted dip shit jump down my throat. The content of their politics is neither here nor there; it is pretty much as stupid as every other echo chamber you find online (including all the 'SJW' threads here). The problem with TBP is their mod's and frequent posters' performative outrage. At this point their only response to even the slightest note of real or (more often) imagined disagreement is to use a bunch of ham fisted, made up rules to shut you up.

For an echo chamber, there sure are a lot of people disagreeing here.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1083816The animosity for this site that you'll find at TBP and some other places didn't come out of nowhere. The top page of active threads pretty much always contains multiple highly political themes, the person who administers the site is highly political in much of what he posts, and there is a modest-size but very active core of members who constantly blather about 'feminazis' and 'SJW's' and all the rest of the alt-right-light BS. It is pretty irritating, and is why I have dramatically reduced my time spent here. I don't think a neutrally inclined person could say there is much difference in the quality of discussion between the worst threads here and at TBP.

BUT, what clearly distinguishes this site from TBP is the fact that I can come here and say all that without having a jack booted dip shit jump down my throat. The content of their politics is neither here nor there; it is pretty much as stupid as every other echo chamber you find online (including all the 'SJW' threads here). The problem with TBP is their mod's and frequent posters' performative outrage. At this point their only response to even the slightest note of real or (more often) imagined disagreement is to use a bunch of ham fisted, made up rules to shut you up.

I feel like Rpgpub is pretty much the only forum right now that is active enough to keep my interest and hasn't been overtaken by hard-right or hard-left blow hards.

I think most of us here are just soft left liberals who didn't change our views. If we were soft left in 1996, we're hard right now.

Quote from: Dr. Benton Quest;1083823Without a doubt there is a broader range of opinion here than on TPB.  True, some members have conservative opinions, but I also usually see more liberal members challenge them as well.  I remember when that used to happen on TPB.

By my reckoning, the trend there was cemented when Open became yet another Tangency.

Quote from: S'mon;1083827I think most of us here are just soft left liberals who didn't change our views. If we were soft left in 1996, we're hard right now.

That describes me.  I'm pretty much center-left.

Although if I tell my old gaming group that I got kicked out of a forum for not being liberal enough, they would laugh their ass off.  They are all died in the wool conservatives and I'm the dirty hippy.

It's political everywhere.  People are simply more honest about that fact here.

Quote from: S'mon;1083827I think most of us here are just soft left liberals who didn't change our views. If we were soft left in 1996, we're hard right now.

Words of truth right there, although I would put the date even farther back in my case.

Just the other day I asked my wife, who has known me since the late 80s, if my opinions on Government, Law Enforcement, Civil Liberties, etc. had changed any over that time.  She told me 'No.'  I asked her why I was viewed as a slightly left liberal type back then but now I am some sort of Alt-Right Nazi...she didn't have an answer.

Side note:  She was a feminist back in the 80s when she was in college and even she thinks these people are fucked in the head...of course maybe she can just recognize that stuff since she works in the mental health field.

Quote from: Dr. Benton Quest;1083830That describes me.  I'm pretty much center-left.

Although if I tell my old gaming group that I got kicked out of a forum for not being liberal enough, they would laugh their ass off.  They are all died in the wool conservatives and I'm the dirty hippy.

That's because you are probably an actual 'Liberal' as opposed to a 'Progressive'...they seem to get conflated a lot.

Quote from: sureshot;1083811Apparently according to RPG.net we are the bad guys when it comes to forums. They have bi-partisan mods, ones who not only shut down threads with made up imaginary terms. Insult posters for trying to hear both sides of the story yet also block them just before they insult them. Have turning the site into one giant leftist fully woke narrative of a website where no one is allowed to post if they think differently. We are the worst place.

Voros remember snitches get stitches

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/sjg-offering-partial-refunds-and-continuing-to-work-with-bill-webb-see-redtext-in-post-163.844606/page-20



Remember though we are the much worse than them when it comes to rpg forums. You were banned with the use of an imaginary purelly rpg.net invented terms. We are bad because we don't bend over backwards to indulge in whatever current narrative is in vogue over at that cesspool.

Thank you for standing up for us here at the site. Though be careful because you did that you are know in the rpg.net mods bad graces. They will use any excuse if not possibly perma ban you for defending this site.

I thought Voros didn't hang out here anymore...

One of the most disturbing things in that thread (to me at least) is in the last post on that page. (post #200)
It isn't the post itself...it is the user's by-line/status..."socially engineered"

What kind of mentally-diseased, sad excuse for a human being would use that as a tag line in anything other than a humorous way...

Are they actually proud that the collective has told them how to think??

Voros was banned here - unfairly I think, he was no Biscuit. He's understandably sore.

I see from that rpgnet link that Pundit provides rpgsiters with Blackjack and hookers, presumably in a sub forum. I was not aware - could someone give me the access code please?

Quote from: S'mon;1083851Voros was banned here - unfairly I think, he was no Biscuit. He's understandably sore.

I must have missed the ban.  I just hadn't seen him in a long time.

Quote from: S'mon;1083851I see from that rpgnet link that Pundit provides rpgsiters with Blackjack and hookers, presumably in a sub forum. I was not aware - could someone give me the access code please?

I am sure they said that like it was a bad thing.

Quote from: S'mon;1083851Voros was banned here - unfairly I think, he was no Biscuit. He's understandably sore.

I see from that rpgnet link that Pundit provides rpgsiters with Blackjack and hookers, presumably in a sub forum. I was not aware - could someone give me the access code please?

Greetings!

Hell yeah, my friend! Don't be hide'in out on me, now. You gotta share, damnit! Blackjacks and Hookers! Woot! OOH RAH!:D

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: moonsweeper;1083855I must have missed the ban.  I just hadn't seen him in a long time.



I am sure they said that like it was a bad thing.

Greetings!

LOL! Hey Moonsweeper!!!! Yeah, you know they didn't mean it as a compliment!

God, these people over there...honestly, they sound worse than someone's mom for God's sake. They're all whining and shrill, clucking their tongues at us like we're a bunch of terrible neanderthals.

Can you imagine what these folks are like at a party? Where there's lots of booze flowing, cigars being smoked everywhere, hot women wiggling about everywhere like they're barefoot on Georgia asphalt in summer. Some folks watching porn on a big screen. Loud, crazy music. Girls outside on the patio taking jello shots as they get shaken upside down. Women shrieking and giggling everywhere. Smoking hot women all decked to the nines, smoking in little groups. Other women, half naked, guzzling shots of tequila, dancing on top of the tables, shaking their asses everywhere. Here and there, couples making out. Other rooms locked up from people doing their thing. Laughter and screaming everywhere.

Geesus. All that sex and misogyny, all that awful "harassment" going down. So many people laughing and having fun. All the alcohol and people smoking like crazy.

I can't see them having any fun in a place like that. LOL.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Ahem.

If you're not aware of the ongoing drama regarding a former Funimation Studios voice actor by the name of Vic Mignogna (who also plays Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek Continues, it's understandable.  However, it is about to blow up.  Here is a good article on what has happened:

https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/vic-mignogna-sues-funimation-1203193225/

...what this has to do with this thread, and the price of Tea in China is this:

Nick Reikeita is an attorney in Minnesota, who has a youtube channel where he covers legal matters and discusses them so that mere mortals can understand.  He's also a gaming nerd, who plays 40k, etc.  He's been watching this (and other legal cases) very closely, and recommended attorney Ty Beard (who, in addition to being a lawyer in Texas is an OG gamer and actually created the wargame A Fist Full of TOWs).  Ty has been in very close contact with Nick and gone on streams with him to discuss the aspects of the case he can.  They're very dedicated to protecting Vic and getting him his pound of flesh from the people who ran him out of his career, and out of the industry altogether.

Beard's law firm has officially filed suit against Funimation Studios and several people for defaming Vic; the paperwork was filed yesterday so it's official, so they could fully discuss it on stream last night (they meaning Reikeita and Beard).  During the stream, Ty Beard said he had a "special announcement", and when he said what it was I knew instantly what was going on.  A case that they said was almost identical to the Vic Mignogna lawsuit, is happening in Texas, Ty Beard is representing the Plaintiffs who are, and I quote "a Table Top gaming company" that has been defamed.  Except, Ty Beard stated, it would go a LOT faster because there's a LOT more evidence.  Now if you've followed the Mignogna case, you know that there is a shitton of evidence (for example, 400 tweets and that's just to start) against the defendants in the lawsuit.  Again, that's only to start!

Ty Beard stated last night (and I will link to the stream and try to get a time stamp) that the table top gaming company defamation suit that is coming is more open and shut!

So what this has to do with Steve Jackson Games, and this situation is: I think SJG is getting ready to sue Jessica Price and associated individuals and I cannot fucking wait for the shoe to drop.

Here's last night's stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzP7TdTZHq8

Skip up to 1:48:51

It's either Stacy Dellaforino, or Jessica Price.  I hope it's BOTH OF THEM.  Both.  Of Them.  I hope they get fucking dragged out kicking and screaming.  Fuck both of those harpies.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1083869Ahem.

If you're not aware of the ongoing drama regarding a former Funimation Studios voice actor by the name of Vic Mignogna (who also plays Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek Continues, it's understandable.  However, it is about to blow up.  Here is a good article on what has happened:

https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/vic-mignogna-sues-funimation-1203193225/

...what this has to do with this thread, and the price of Tea in China is this:

Nick Reikeita is an attorney in Minnesota, who has a youtube channel where he covers legal matters and discusses them so that mere mortals can understand.  He's also a gaming nerd, who plays 40k, etc.  He's been watching this (and other legal cases) very closely, and recommended attorney Ty Beard (who, in addition to being a lawyer in Texas is an OG gamer and actually created the wargame A Fist Full of TOWs).  Ty has been in very close contact with Nick and gone on streams with him to discuss the aspects of the case he can.  They're very dedicated to protecting Vic and getting him his pound of flesh from the people who ran him out of his career, and out of the industry altogether.

Beard's law firm has officially filed suit against Funimation Studios and several people for defaming Vic; the paperwork was filed yesterday so it's official, so they could fully discuss it on stream last night (they meaning Reikeita and Beard).  During the stream, Ty Beard said he had a "special announcement", and when he said what it was I knew instantly what was going on.  A case that they said was almost identical to the Vic Mignogna lawsuit, is happening in Texas, Ty Beard is representing the Plaintiffs who are, and I quote "a Table Top gaming company" that has been defamed.  Except, Ty Beard stated, it would go a LOT faster because there's a LOT more evidence.  Now if you've followed the Mignogna case, you know that there is a shitton of evidence (for example, 400 tweets and that's just to start) against the defendants in the lawsuit.  Again, that's only to start!

Ty Beard stated last night (and I will link to the stream and try to get a time stamp) that the table top gaming company defamation suit that is coming is more open and shut!

So what this has to do with Steve Jackson Games, and this situation is: I think SJG is getting ready to sue Jessica Price and associated individuals and I cannot fucking wait for the shoe to drop.

Here's last night's stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzP7TdTZHq8

Skip up to 1:48:51

It's either Stacy Dellaforino, or Jessica Price.  I hope it's BOTH OF THEM.  Both.  Of Them.  I hope they get fucking dragged out kicking and screaming.  Fuck both of those harpies.

Greetings!

SWEET BABY GEESUS!:D Oh now this is what I'm talkin' about! See, Conservatives need to find ways to fight back against all of the true hate speech; the true slander, defamation; character assassination, and mob-justice that ruins businesses, livelihoods, and reputations. In a just land, if there is anyone anywhere that still loves justice, the wheels of retribution must be allowed to roll these scum back. The SJW's need to be dragged into court, given a wake up call and dressed the fuck down so hard like they're thunderstruck, and have majestic, ass-fucking fines and penalties applied to them like an 800 pound gorilla.

I say this, because in our otherwise litigious society, good up-bringing, manners, and a sense of mature respect and dignity have not seem to have been taught to these jackasses. Thus, this is the kind of ass-whooping they need, again, and again, and again--for individuals, and or companies and "organizations" like Contessa. In whatever vehicle they seek to hide behind, they need to have their ass fucking worked over. After enough of them get jackhammered like this, they'll start waking up to fucking reality again.

And if they don't? Then like one T-shirt at a Ren Faire I saw, Flogging Molly or something, saying then "The Floggings will continue."

Make them pay fucking hard in shame, money, fines and penalties, and jail time, and that should remind them they live in a civilized land--not some lawless sandbox where they can roam around, leading mobs to ruin people left and right with impunity. They need to be forced to PAY.

I hope they hang 'em high! Make them shriek and howl as the hammer comes down.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK