What is a "Swine" game?

J Arcane · August 31, 2008, 03:41:38 PM

Quote from: JDCorley;242457Only J Arcane could make not having an answer the other guy's fault.

And only JDCorley would wander blindly into a thread just to make a snarky comment completely ignorant of context of past forum history, just so he can continue to feel all smug and self-satisfied about how much "better" he is than the rest of us.

Fuck off back to RPGnet already.

Claudius · August 31, 2008, 03:54:36 PM

Quote from: TonyLB;242452But if people play a narrowly focussed game because they enjoy the type of play that it provides, does that make them swine?

In my opinion, no. If they thought their style of gaming is above mine, I would consider them swine, just as one could consider me a swine if I thought my style of gaming is so much better than theirs.

The problem a lot of people (me included) seem to have with certain Forgies (not all) is that they've seen them shit on traditional gaming a lot of times.

Mike S. · August 31, 2008, 04:22:47 PM

Quote from: NotYourMonkey;242256Well, how do you define a swinish game? What is a swinish game? Why?

Simple: There are no swine games, as there are no swine. There are different gamers playing different things.

Swine is a term that comes from the mentally ill brain of The Pundit. The Pundit only wants to use it to breed hatred and split the gamer community further then it already has been split.

Please don't help try to legitimize a BS term by starting threads like this.

Mike S. · August 31, 2008, 04:26:17 PM

Quote from: Alnag;242342I would say, although I don't use the term much, that swine game is game designed without considering the players. Game which doesn't expect to provide fun and excitement to its consumers but rather offers some garbage instead pretending that this garbage is important and that it educates you about something and usually, that it is really innovative stuff.

Funny though, that The Pundit craps on Forge games and says that they aren't having fun, yet people say they play them and are having fun.

So I guess swine games=games The Pundit doesn't like.

Me, I don't know anything really about Forge games. They don't interest me in the least bit so I don't pay any attention to them.

Koltar · August 31, 2008, 04:44:07 PM

Nope, there ARE "Swine Games" and people can delude themselves into saying they were having fun at something that pretends to be a game.

- Ed C.

Ghost Whistler · August 31, 2008, 04:59:05 PM

Quote from: Abyssal Maw;242372what we know now is that "brain damage" was the actual beginning of the end

What?

shalvayez · August 31, 2008, 05:01:34 PM

So all this talk of Swine games, when is White Wolf going to release Pigfucker: The Shitrolling?

droog · August 31, 2008, 05:35:18 PM

Quote from: Koltar;242466Nope, there ARE "Swine Games" and people can delude themselves into saying they were having fun at something that pretends to be a game.

Like their brains are damaged or something?

Silverlion · August 31, 2008, 05:49:56 PM

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;242467What?

It's a LONG long story, beginning with a gaming blog, and ending with a topic ban on RPG.net (for a long time), and a general significant lost of credibility for Ron and the Forge.

Fritzs · August 31, 2008, 05:57:16 PM

Quote from: KoltarNope, there ARE "Swine Games" and people can delude themselves into saying they were having fun at something that pretends to be a game

I have fun at playing several Forge games... apparently I only deluded myself... and, well, Koltar, how do you know I haven't had fun...? Do you have some sort of mind reading ability or what...?

HinterWelt · August 31, 2008, 06:17:10 PM

Quote from: Koltar;242466Nope, there ARE "Squine Games" and people can delude themselves into saying they were having fun at something that pretends to be a game.

- Ed C.

Corrected your typo. You really should not rag on the Squine Nation. We will send out or Ninja Squirrels to deal with you.

Bill

J Arcane · August 31, 2008, 06:33:30 PM

Quote from: Mike S.;242464Funny though, that The Pundit craps on Forge games and says that they aren't having fun, yet people say they play them and are having fun.

So I guess swine games=games The Pundit doesn't like.

Me, I don't know anything really about Forge games. They don't interest me in the least bit so I don't pay any attention to them.

I find it sad and sort of pathetic when people try to "make a stand" for a movement they don't even have any part in, especially when it's a movement that actively loathes them.

Your pathetic "rebellious" act doesn't make you cool, or even iconoclastic at this point since so few have attempted the same schtick. It just makes you a tool. A tool for fucksticks who honestly have a far lower opinion of the rest of us than any of us ever possessed for them.

In seeking to lash out against the big scary (non-)authority figure, you've wound up latching onto a bunch of utter shitheads without realizing it, and for that I pity. It's like a Jewish kid joining a skinhead gang to rebel against his parents.

TonyLB · August 31, 2008, 07:23:29 PM

Quote from: J Arcane;242480I find it sad and sort of pathetic when people try to "make a stand" for a movement they don't even have any part in

Wow ... between:

(a) "You're part of the movement, and therefore I devalue your opinion because it's motivated only by your desire to proselytize" and
(b) "You're not part of the movement, and therefore I devalue your opinion because you clearly don't believe it yourself"

... you've really covered all the bases. And all without ever once responding to people's actual statements. Very internet of you.

David R · August 31, 2008, 08:19:01 PM

Quote from: Koltar;242466Nope, there ARE "Swine Games" and people can delude themselves into saying they were having fun at something that pretends to be a game.

This is just so full of dumb, Ed. I can understand saying something isn't an rpg but assuming people are deludung themsleves.....shit, this is the height of Swine thinking. I've played a few Forge games, some I didn't like, some I did, and in the latter I'm pretty sure everyone was having a good time only because we knew exactly what didn't make the former fun for us.

Regards,
David R

J Arcane · August 31, 2008, 08:32:24 PM

Quote from: TonyLB;242488Wow ... between:
(a) "You're part of the movement, and therefore I devalue your opinion because it's motivated only by your desire to proselytize" and
(b) "You're not part of the movement, and therefore I devalue your opinion because you clearly don't believe it yourself"
... you've really covered all the bases. And all without ever once responding to people's actual statements. Very internet of you.

Come off it, you miserable sleazebag. We all know why the fuck you're really here, so just drop the fucking act already.

I said what I said to you and you alone, because it's exactly your fucking purpose here and always has been. Just like Morningstar and Luke Crane's little "good cop/bad cop" routine the other week, it's nothing more than pathetic guerrilla marketing.

Fuck off back to where you belong, and take your slimy tactics with you.