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Kurieg posted:You need an account to read thread there now. This was his initial protest post. Gareth Michael-Skarka posted:Well, well, well. It's mostly pointing and laughing at him, because even by 2002 he'd earned his rep. Very different forum.
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GMS was also one of the loudest and most visible defenders of the Alleged Chik-Fil-A Pants Shitter. It wasn’t until a year or two ago when he finally came around on that front.
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Ok, so I'm doing the thing, and I already have regrets: The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Traditional Games > Thread of the Last Home: Let's Read Dragonlance
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Jul 18, 2019 23:06
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Godspeed you crazy bastard.
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NLJP posted:I'm very much A Casual when it comes to all things TG but is there a summary somewhere for far west and what happened? I also think cowboy western wuxia sounds rad but also like reading about things that sound like disasters. Well, there is also this which I did back (I am not that much of an idiot to trust anything Gary has to offer) and was completed and shipped. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brokenrulergames/high-plains-samurai
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Jul 19, 2019 03:55
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Desiden posted:Understanding the continued hilarity of Far West is also helped by understanding the context outside of GMS's kickstarter-specific faceplants. This is largely the crux of the matter. If GMS didn't spend practically his every waking hour training to win a gold medal in the rear end in a top hat Olympics nobody would even care about Far West and it would have been consigned to the collective memory hole, but he's such a miserably unpleasant, self-aggrandizing rear end in a top hat that watching him repeatedly eat poo poo became a spectator sport.
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Nystral posted:My parents were too smart to let me watch Wizards, but there is another 70’s era Sci Fi animated film that I saw but I can’t seem to find via google. I think this is "Isaac Asimov's Lightyears"?
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Kai Tave posted:This is largely the crux of the matter. If GMS didn't spend practically his every waking hour training to win a gold medal in the rear end in a top hat Olympics nobody would even care about Far West and it would have been consigned to the collective memory hole, but he's such a miserably unpleasant, self-aggrandizing rear end in a top hat that watching him repeatedly eat poo poo became a spectator sport. Yeah, the first appearance of a mod in the RPG.net thread I posted (when it was just 'Forum Administrator') immediately starts dunking on him.
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Jul 19, 2019 19:38
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Oh my loving god Skarka posts his home phone number 6 pages in.
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Jul 19, 2019 19:50
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The impersonator's "perfectly innocent" posting - even re-registering to make nice to GMS - had me dying laughing. What a glorious troll. Did any regular poster ever admit to being the fake?
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Lumbermouth posted:Oh my loving god Skarka posts his home phone number 6 pages in. I really hope someone just called to chat. Like no troll, just "I'm from ARR PEE GEE DOT NET and I want to ask you about elfgames."
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Didn't Skarka also make a lot of noise about how other folks were doing KickStarters wrong and generally disparaging people who had trouble fulfilling theirs? It's possible I'm thinking of some other jerk but I remember there being a certain kind of poetic justice to GMS becoming the poster child for failing to deliver on KS.
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Lumbermouth posted:Oh my loving god Skarka posts his home phone number 6 pages in. I like the follow up to that where someone tries calling it and GMS goes quote:Then I'm glad that I just used my callback feature, instead of resorting to the other, nastier, pervasive methods that my new job affords me. I could've accidentally gotten you in some serious poo poo.
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That's some real "Whoa, looks like we got a BADASS here" level poo poo.
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GMS at some desk in 2002: "Could ruin this phone-caller's life...." *finger hovers over the KILLALLNERDS.EXE button* "... but nah, I'm feeling merciful today" *presses the call back button while his glasses glint* e- you can tell Skarka is a pro hacker because he has access to a database of every human named Skarka since the middle ages Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jul 19, 2019 |
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So I wonder how he found out about the account. Did the forum have the search function back in the day? I would not be surprised he was an early proponent of ego-surfing.
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Dawgstar posted:So I wonder how he found out about the account. Did the forum have the search function back in the day? I would not be surprised he was an early proponent of ego-surfing. Per the OP he saw the "Welcome to our newest member:" thing which is pretty standard on lots of forums since forever.
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Zurui posted:I really hope someone just called to chat. Like no troll, just "I'm from ARR PEE GEE DOT NET and I want to ask you about elfgames." Read the thread, some people did. The whole thing is worth a read, if for nothing else to see people call each other cunts on rpg.net and not get in trouble.
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neaden posted:Read the thread, some people did. The whole thing is worth a read, if for nothing else to see people call each other cunts on rpg.net and not get in trouble. Kurieg posted:You need an account to read thread there now.
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That Old Tree posted:Per the OP he saw the "Welcome to our newest member:" thing which is pretty standard on lots of forums since forever. I forgot it used to be a bit more obvious.
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TG As An Industry: GMS poo poo his pants on RPG.net in 2002.
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Zurui posted:I really hope someone just called to chat. Like no troll, just "I'm from ARR PEE GEE DOT NET and I want to ask you about elfgames." Several people did just that, and one supposedly tried to hit him up for a writing gig. Then GMS whined to us mods about it via PM, and we laughed at him for posting his phone number. Supposedly he'd still get calls years later. Cessna fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jul 20, 2019 |
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Cessna posted:Supposedly he'd still get calls years later. The tale of the haunted internet rear end in a top hat remains a good ghost story to this day...
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Cessna posted:Several people did just that, and one supposedly tried to hit him up for a writing gig. Then GMS whined to us mods about it via PM, and we laughed at him for posting his phone number. I've never seen somebody drain all potential sympathy for themselves so quickly.
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Jul 20, 2019 12:50
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How hard is it to just change your phone number in the US?
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Warthur posted:How hard is it to just change your phone number in the US? In terms of getting the phone company to change it for you, it's nbd. They may just charge you a fee. But it's a big PITA to have to tell all your old contacts your new number and poo poo, and tell the government and your bank, and your dentist and doctor and everyone else you expect to call you.
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I'll also point out that we would have been perfectly okay with deleting his number from that post. We even told him we would. He didn't want to, and wanted us to ban anyone who called him. We didn't, of course.
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Cessna posted:I'll also point out that we would have been perfectly okay with deleting his number from that post. We even told him we would. What were the chances this is some weird elaborate performance art on GMSkarka's part?
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I'm getting weird Ironic War Criminal flashbacks from GMS' antics now.
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Libertad! posted:What were the chances this is some weird elaborate performance art on GMSkarka's part? At this point in 2019-land I think it's pretty well established that if any of Skarka's antics ever were just part of some elaborate schtick he was putting on that he fell into the inescapable black hole of Ironically Doing The Thing Is Still Doing the Thing and it took over his life to the point where he's basically torpedoed his odds of ever working in tabletop games again. I think he has a couple friends who'll occasionally throw him some pity work, the Tianxia kickstarter had him as a guest writer for a chapter in the fiction anthology they made as a stretch goal for example, but notably nobody that I'm aware of has invited him to actually put his name on a game they're working on, presumably because doing so would invite an endless recounting of all the dumb poo poo he's done over the last two decades plus.
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As a subject change, I saw that Lee Garvin (creator of Tales from the Floating Vagabond) has died suddenly. 
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Well that's bad. Has there been any word from his estate as to what will be done with the rights?
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Didn't that happen, like, a month ago? It was loving morbid, too, he was posting on Facebook about chest pains or shortness of breath or something, and people had to post GO TO THE HOSPITAL at him.
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So it looks like Catalyst might be in pretty serious trouble. They recently shipped a boardgame and, apparently, doubled up on sending people a $110 box for the boardgame rather than the much smaller expansion pack than was initially asked for. This is, apparently, because the distributor misread a skew. Apparently 'hundreds' of games have gone missing and they're scrambling to catch up. This scramble means that EU, CA and AU packages haven't been shipped at all. They've also announced the imminent arrival of Shadowrun 6th Edition; there was about a 4 month lag between the edition being announced and the edition being shipped (it's coming out at GenCon after, apparently, zero public playtesting). The feedback from podcasters and youtube-types that have played the game is overwhelmingly negative, with former team-members and freelancers speaking out publicly about the state of the new edition. It's usually difficult to tell how much of 'new thing bad' is because of people disliking change or how bad the new thing actually is but given the sheer volume (and the poor state of the QSR for SR6) I think it's safe to say that the GenCon release of the Core Rulebook might be a play for some quick cash. The funny part is, as always a Kickstarter, for a trailer to be pitched around as a TV series. Unbelievably, it doesn't pick up immediately after the events of A Night's Work, but it does look a whole lot like Shadowrun with the serial numbers filed off. It has Jason Hardy, the line developer for SR, as a consultant as well as a lot of other people that have worked for Catalyst as editors and writers. I can only assume that the new edition is in such a solid state that it no longer needs the full attention of a line developer, writers and editors.
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Sion posted:The funny part is, as always a Kickstarter, for a trailer to be pitched around as a TV series. Unbelievably, it doesn't pick up immediately after the events of A Night's Work, but it does look a whole lot like Shadowrun with the serial numbers filed off. It has Jason Hardy, the line developer for SR, as a consultant as well as a lot of other people that have worked for Catalyst as editors and writers. I can only assume that the new edition is in such a solid state that it no longer needs the full attention of a line developer, writers and editors. brb putting up a $15k KS for my larp group to get filmed, this can only go well also lol at a cyberpunk thing being set in Chicago with an all-white cast, fuckin punk as hell right there
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moths posted:Is 6e the "Shadowrun 6th World" box that's already out? Nah that's the quick start rules. Some of the character choices in it are bonkers (the rigger has to spend 40 karma to be able to take as many actions in a round as the mage does for free) and show that this is likely to be a version where magic totally runs away with combat. Also, Armor as a spell is flatly better than any kind of armor in that it provides damage resistance -and- additional dice to a soakpool instead of just additional dice to a soakpool. Also, since Armor is the first card alphabetically, it's the card that was finished first which means that Fireball and Firebolt and a third card I can't remember re-use everything from the armor card except the title of it because copy-and-paste sometimes bites you in the rear end.
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Remember Reality Check: The game of privilege, the alt-right pandering punch down game all about how to mock minorities? They absolutely took the time to reconsider their social media messaging and the whole game: https://twitter.com/gameofprivilege/status/1150898382715662336/photo/1 Wait, no, the other thing as the moment they were criticised, they doubled down on acting like complete shitheads (go through their twitter, there are too many to link to)
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