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What do you get out of D&D edition wars?

Started by thedungeondelver, May 04, 2011, 12:32:03 PM

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Gene Weigel

#180
May 18, 2011, 04:53:06 PM
Gosh! Lordvreeg just sucked in one cheek so hard that the entire universe is imploding!!!!

By all that is holy I've got to get back to that basement*... (How did he know about the basement? Must have watched the YouTube game session videos**... )

[ANNOTATION FOR THE WEIGEL IMPAIRED: *Not another esoterism! **N.B. no longer available on the net.])

Gene Weigel

#181
May 18, 2011, 05:12:09 PM
Quote from: Benoist;459018So that clarifies the brevity of the posts and not rambling on and on about stuff you already talked about zillions of times on the net. I get that. But what about the clarity, now? Why make an allusion instead of point-blank one-liners everyone can understand? "This game is shit, and the author is an asshole who tries to appropriate the work of EGG by publishing it with the numbers filed off under his name." I understand that better than obscure references like you were engaging in a few posts ago (not that I would agree at all, mind you, but I understand better the words themselves).

Your saying this as if I want to reach a consensus. I don't. I'm saying to you, Benoist, right now, that that notion that I once had of a grouping is all gone. I want no part of it. If I'm stamping on the nuts of the OSR then lets get this straight it is because I want it well known that is not my deal. I hope they benefit off of that but in same breath I don't give a shit what becomes of them. Does that make sense?

Cole

#182
May 18, 2011, 05:15:13 PM
Basically I hear "Because I Got High" by Afroman playing over the last couple pages of this thread.
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Aos

#183
May 18, 2011, 05:22:29 PM
Quote from: Cole;459036Basically I hear "Because I Got High" by Afroman playing over the last couple pages of this thread.

Really, because what I hear is the squealing inarticulate anti-logic of a menstruating  eighth grade girl.
You are posting in a troll thread.

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Cole

#184
May 18, 2011, 05:25:46 PM
Quote from: Aos;459038Really, because what I hear is the squealing inarticulate anti-logic of a menstruating  eighth grade girl.

You may be listening too closely.
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Gene Weigel

#185
May 18, 2011, 05:31:33 PM
I don't know what they're talking about either... WAIT... THATS ME!

stu2000

#186
May 18, 2011, 06:01:56 PM
Quote[ANNOTATION FOR THE WEIGEL IMPAIRED: *Not another esoterism! **N.B. no longer available on the net.])

That's too bad, because I got a kick out of those.
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Drohem

#187
May 18, 2011, 06:10:28 PM
Quote from: stu2000;459054That's too bad, because I got a kick out of those.

Me too, bummer. :(

LordVreeg

#188
May 18, 2011, 07:04:32 PM
I'm sorry I missed the vids.  I bet they were a hoot.
But I'll be honest.  The Basement was just a safe assumption.

Gene.  Thank you for the lucid post. :D
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Benoist

#189
May 18, 2011, 08:06:40 PM
Quote from: Gene Weigel;459035Your saying this as if I want to reach a consensus. I don't. I'm saying to you, Benoist, right now, that that notion that I once had of a grouping is all gone. I want no part of it. If I'm stamping on the nuts of the OSR then lets get this straight it is because I want it well known that is not my deal. I hope they benefit off of that but in same breath I don't give a shit what becomes of them. Does that make sense?
Yes it does to some extent, though I'm not quite getting what prompted this apathy on your part.

David Johansen

#190
May 18, 2011, 11:42:05 PM
Quote from: Gene Weigel;458957I came Now! Go carry out my penultimate plan... to destroy GURPS once and for all....


So, you're going to buy lots and lots of Munchkin?

Oh well, I think what he's saying or not managing to say directly about the source of his his apathy (actually I think it's probably hostility but he's trying to be civil or something) is that the flaming egos and trolling and general stupidity that led to first the division of the C&C and OSRIC crowds and followed by the general OSR disporea, have reached the point where he no longer cares. (or is quitely bitter) What he wanted to see was a united movement under a single open old school banner and all he got was an edition war in cheap OGL drag.
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ggroy

#191
May 19, 2011, 12:16:08 AM Last Edit: May 19, 2011, 12:18:14 AM by ggroy
Several stoner friends from decades ago, spoke in a similar incoherent manner in person.   :rolleyes:  (Typically it was from too many years of abusing lsd, cocaine, meth, etc ... and/or smoking marijuana every day).

Only other individuals I've known over the years who spoke in a similar incoherent manner, were guys who were slightly mentally retarded.

skofflox

#192
May 19, 2011, 12:37:20 AM
Quote from: greylond;458828Fun! Plus laughter...
*snip*...

this...:)
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Gene Weigel

#194
May 19, 2011, 09:01:10 AM
Quote from: Benoist;459095Yes it does to some extent, though I'm not quite getting what prompted this apathy on your part.

Its compiled. Convention prompts just turn in to the same "shunted mini-GenCons". Same distance, same people, why bother? (Honestly, I'm the life of the game all the time and this leads me to believe that most gamers are susceptible to post-Weigel depression... ;) )

But if it was just cons then that would be fine but nobody wants me to help with anything without a huge compromise (from debilitating exclusive contracts to just plain old freaking over my feedback) and thats been the tone for years.

So why bother with the consensus? If my blog is good enough (and it will be because it'll be free) then I'll make the "school"...

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