Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1086927It's good to have dissenting opinions, right?

Eh, I prefer arguing with people to the Right of me.

Quote from: SHARK;1086825Well, Jhkim, that is merely me being emotional. It is pleasant to not live in a militantly anti-Christian environment. It is refreshing to not have hordes of stupid protesters with purple hair and piercings everywhere, screaming about everything.

Quote from: SHARK;1086825(re: Idaho) It is not an environment that empowers militant atheists and others that are anti-Christian. That's what I mean by choke on it. They don't have power here. It's nice to see Christians and others (Yeah, including non-Christians!) living in peaceful, reasonable, sane and happy communities that are not bonfires of constant outrage, screeching, protest, and anti-Christian bigotry and hatred.

I don't know what your experience is, but personally, I don't experience much problems in northern California from being a Christian. I have a Catholic church two blocks from my house which is well-attended. I've recently started attending more at a Unitarian church which is slightly longer walk away. (I grew up Presbyterian, but I find the Unitarians here to be very welcoming and good people.) Last night I was at a volunteer event with several groups including my church, and everyone was very congenial.

There are certainly anti-Christian atheists around, but I don't experience any problems from them. Then again, I don't shy away from disagreement. (That might be clear from my presence here on theRPGsite.)

Quote from: jhkim;1086972There are certainly anti-Christian atheists around, but I don't experience any problems from them. Then again, I don't shy away from disagreement. (That might be clear from my presence here on theRPGsite.)

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I pity them.  The hole in their spirit is usually obvious. I noticed it's usually the result of parents cramming religion down their throats when it should be personal journey with a willingness.

Edit. This thread is way off topic . I’ve never been a GURPS fan but I’m inclined to make some purchases and show some support to SJG.

Quote from: Larsdangly;1086891I spout off when I see people post way-over-the-line crap that should bother you unless you are an Incel or neonazi or something If you see this sort of thing and it bugs you and you just move on, then you are part of the reason why this site is almost completely rotted out.

Bolded emphasis mine.

You wanting to be a voice of reason and measure on this site is antagonistic with the bullshit which I bolded above. I suspect that in your social circles it's okay to reflexively call people you disagree with "Incel" or"[something]nazi", but this kind of kneejerk stupidity does not hold water around here.

The reason I don't jump on my keyboard to chastise someone like, say, Doc Sammy, is that I know that he's prone to bizarre rants which I suspect he himself does not take very seriously (most of the time). I find his failings more honest than your "holier than thou" attitude, so typical of a leftie.

Incel ? I'm happily married with a kid [and yeah, I'm married to a woman ! The audacity ;-) !]

Neonazi ? You've got no idea what a real Nazi was, boy. I'm French and I know better. Crack open an history book and go educate yourself !

Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1086927It's good to have dissenting opinions, right?

There's folks with dissenting opinions who converse in good faith, and then there's pants-shitting lunatics like Larsdangly, sooo...

To directly answer your question, yes, dissenting opinions makes for interesting conversation, and is a good thing.  Larsdangly, not so much.

The only amusing thing about that idiot is that he's butthurt about getting banned from TBP, and is trying to earn a ban here, not realizing that this place doesn't hand out bans like candy at Halloween, unlike his formal trolling grounds.  His attempts at being provocative are pretty fucking weak, and only serve to reinforce what a festering shit-pit TBP is.

Isn't it time this thread ends now that the subject matter is not being discussed and its turned into another non-gaming related political discussion?

Quote from: Omega;1086598Was glancing at the locations of customers and noted one was in India. Which goes to show what little impact RPG.net's censoring had when your game ended up bought round the world.

How does one do that?!

Quote from: Omega;1086600Yes! You can buy Idaho potatoes in most grocery stores! :rolleyes:

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Quote from: SHARK;1086622Greetings!

Yes, it's full of church-going fanatics. MAGA hats are everywhere! Overall-wearing, chain-smoking Ogres that keep guns in their trucks, or even carry them concealed! The Dark Lord that rules the masses of brute hillbillies here recently signed into law and the constitution that allows every law-abiding citizen to carry weapons openly, or concealed, as they so choose. No extra supervision or bureaucratic hoops to jump through and heavily restrict gun ownership to just the military and police! Armed militia's everywhere, and the local sheriff merely looks on at all the heavily armed ogre hillbillies, and smiles. "That's right, boys! Arm up! Stay strong!" It's such an violence-loving, patriarchal society!:D Lots of ogre hillbillies here fervently believe in carrying a gun in one hand, and the Bible in the other!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

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Quote from: Lynn;1086765Let me share a bit of hypocrisy though. Last year I attended a party in which many retired tech executives were present. They are all extremely liberal and were also previously residents of Oregon, Washington and California. Guess where they moved once they retired? They were all very proud of the 'blue dot' they live in, in Idaho.

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Quote from: Larsdangly;1086781It's a free country, brother. People who don't align with theocratic, sexist and/or authoritarian principles you value can buy property next to you and walk and talk in public. You can hate it all you want, but you can't stop it.

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Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1086788It's not free. It costs and too many of those SHARK is lamenting are unwilling to pay the price, be it in service to the country that they're blessed to be in or simply in respecting others. To your points of "theocratic, sexist and/or authoritarian principles", those aren't Conservative principles. If there's a theocratic religion it's Islam. Sexism* is a word that's so misused it's almost nonsense now and Conservatives are far from authoritarian.

*The Left is obsessed with wrongly branding those who disagree with them with "ists and isms".

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Quote from: Alderaan Crumbs;1086934Could you please give an example of something you think is way-over-the-line?

He won't. After all even when it is proven beyond a shadow of doubt that their are worse places than here. We are apparently worse than anyone and everyone else. It is all about the narrative and anything that goes against does not exist. One could threaten to throw a brick at his head and he will still insist we are the worst forum imaginable even if it meant avoiding an injury. After we are incels or nazis or whatever SJW nom de jour is cool.

Quote from: kythri;1087002There's folks with dissenting opinions who converse in good faith, and then there's pants-shitting lunatics like Larsdangly, sooo...

To directly answer your question, yes, dissenting opinions makes for interesting conversation, and is a good thing.  Larsdangly, not so much.

The only amusing thing about that idiot is that he's butthurt about getting banned from TBP, and is trying to earn a ban here, not realizing that this place doesn't hand out bans like candy at Halloween, unlike his formal trolling grounds.  His attempts at being provocative are pretty fucking weak, and only serve to reinforce what a festering shit-pit TBP is.

seconded.

The truly sad part is he thinks he is being really smart and intelligent and a glass one quarter full has more brain cells then him. To get banned so he can run off and go to his like minded buddies "Mooommm the mean Pundit banned me again can I join the oppression Olympics now. " is truly sad.

The above warnings are NOT JUST FOR SPECIFIC PEOPLE. It is for EVERYONE on this thread trying to veer the thread away from the gaming hobby and into general politics. This is NOT ALLOWED on theRPGsite.

I really don't want to go further with this, but I will. I will NOT close this thread. I WILL BAN people who cannot keep control over what they post by staying on the topic. The topic is about the RPG hobby, woke morons IN the RPG hobby, steve jackson games, and the attacks of those woke morons against SJG and their attacks in general IN THE HOBBY.

Not about what's happening in larger american politics. Or how bad LA liberals are (we all know they're bad), or about other things not related to the RPG hobby.

Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;1086844The SJWs take an L.

The Quartering wins his civil suit against the man who attacked him at GenCon. The settlement forces an apology out of the attacker and--and this is what I know stings something fierce--has to confess that Quartering is not a Nazi. Video is here.

Watch the usual places to see if the salt flows over this. This is tame compared to other suits various SJWs face in the legal sphere, but a win is a win.

See, this IS gaming related, and therefore allowed!

However, it could probably be worthy of its own thread.

Huge props to The Quartering! He made Matt Loter his little bitch.