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EverettLO posted:For anyone needing more input on the Zweihander guy, he's the kind of guy who puts out a mini-supplement based on a Twitter meme within 24 hours. Lawl, already removed from DTRPG.
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EverettLO posted:For anyone needing more input on the Zweihander guy, he's the kind of guy who puts out a mini-supplement based on a Twitter meme within 24 hours.
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neaden posted:It's already gone, I assume it had to do with 30-50 hogs? Yes, it was a 30-50 hogs encounter.
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Unless it was very blatantly mocking the 13th Age authors in a mean-spirited way, why would DTRPG remove it? Unless Fox removed it himself? I don't think being a spicy memelord is a bannable offense for products.
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Libertad! posted:Unless it was very blatantly mocking the 13th Age authors in a mean-spirited way, why would DTRPG remove it? Unless Fox removed it himself? I don't think being a spicy memelord is a bannable offense for products. one of the two comments i saw on the product while it was still up seemed to be under the impression it was mocking victims of mass shootings, so maybe dtrpg staff thought that too
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Aug 6, 2019 22:40
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What does any of that have to do with 13th Age?
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Libertad! posted:Unless it was very blatantly mocking the 13th Age authors in a mean-spirited way, why would DTRPG remove it? Unless Fox removed it himself? I don't think being a spicy memelord is a bannable offense for products. Fox removed it, because he now now believes the original tweet was a Nazi dogwhistle apparently.
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moths posted:What does any of that have to do with 13th Age? I believe it originated with this tweet. The 30-50 feral hogs meme apparently has roots from someone questioning the need for assault weapons (which is itself not an actual technical term for firearms, but conjures the mental image of a fully automatic weapon). One of the people responded by saying that rural Americans may need to defend themselves from masses of wild animals overwhelming their property. The Wild Hogs meme could me intended to make fun of the Twitter user. I found this Forbes article on the subject. Libertad! fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Aug 6, 2019 22:51
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Huh. This all seems to have more to do with the absurdity of gun culture than mocking victims or designers.
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yeah the comedy comes from this guy saying that everyday he let's his kids out to play and within minutes they're beset by 30-50 wild hogs and he has to shoot all of them
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Aug 6, 2019 23:00
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Yeah I don't really know what the Zweihander product could have spun on that to get yanked then.
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moths posted:Yeah I don't really know what the Zweihander product could have spun on that to get yanked then. As I mentioned above, Daniel Fox took it down. He believes the tweet is a Nazi dog whistle because 30+50 is 80 and 3+5 is 8, so 88. Edit: https://www.facebook.com/432706683412255/posts/2894653487217550/ thefakenews fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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thefakenews posted:As I mentioned above, Daniel Fox took it down. He believes the tweet is a Nazi dog whistle because 30+50 is 80 and 3+5 is 8, so 88.
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Aug 6, 2019 23:15
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The whole point of dogwhistles is to be subtle and be deniable. Who would ever say they have 30-50 feral hogs attacking their house seriously, unless it makes it easier to dogwhistle
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Cat Face Joe posted:yeah the comedy comes from this guy saying that everyday he let's his kids out to play and within minutes they're beset by 30-50 wild hogs and he has to shoot all of them You can't shoot that many hogs! They're feral! It's to shoot his kids.
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theironjef posted:You can't shoot that many hogs! They're feral! It's to shoot his kids. One needs crew-served weapons to fend off a platoon of hogs.
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thefakenews posted:As I mentioned above, Daniel Fox took it down. He believes the tweet is a Nazi dog whistle because 30+50 is 80 and 3+5 is 8, so 88. yeah that seems like a real stretch to me not least of all because it's twitter, nazis don't have to dogwhistle
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alg posted:The whole point of dogwhistles is to be subtle and be deniable. Who would ever say they have 30-50 feral hogs attacking their house seriously, unless it makes it easier to dogwhistle Like I can even outline in my head what they'd probably say: "heh heh they didn't realize we meant hitler! and the pigs were minorities!" or alternately "heh heh they're saying the number they're saying the number." or "heh heh they're afraid of a number now, rofl owned, lol just lmao" The answer is "who gives a poo poo." If people are actually shoving the Hitler number into things on the regular - the Invoke Prejudice card seems to have been an honest freak coincidence - then yes, but these people do not hide it if they are actually trying.
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Yeah the feral hogs thing is just transparently some guy trying to explain why it's actually vital for private citizens to have the firepower to blow away a small European country, and creating a truly unhinged hypothetical. That's all it is. When cash shitheads are loudly waving their numbers and the OK sign and so on, it's really obvious.
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theironjef posted:You can't shoot that many hogs! They're feral! It's to shoot his kids. God, I wish I could find the Bushman posts in TFR. He's a goon in Louisiana whose family raised rice. Feral hogs kept rampaging through the paddies and destroyed thousands and thousands of dollars of the crop, so Bushman went positively medieval on their piggy asses.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:God, I wish I could find the Bushman posts in TFR. He's a goon in Louisiana whose family raised rice. Feral hogs kept rampaging through the paddies and destroyed thousands and thousands of dollars of the crop, so Bushman went positively medieval on their piggy asses. Yep. Flushing them with drones and then spearhunting pigs barefoot in the rice paddies. Dude knew what he was about.
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In publisher news, https://twitter.com/DawnforgedCast/status/1158886290344910848
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Who the gently caress are they and how can I make sure they never get any of my money?
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Aug 7, 2019 05:27
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moths posted:Who the gently caress are they and how can I make sure they never get any of my money? They don't link to or talk about any products. I think they're "just" a semi-prominent (165k subs) TG Youtuber. Their intro video on their Youtube page seems pretty friendly, so it's too bad about that I guess.
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Protip if you're typing the word "negroid", really stop and think. I'm doing it right now even just to mention how it's a bad idea. loving gross.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-H0dDeG38 Dawnforgedcast was also the guy that made this video whining about how they weren't picked for a roll20 thing because they were five white dudes
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-H0dDeG38 And he feels like he's a good enough source to discuss the racism inherent in putting on accents in DnD from different dialects and cultures. I don't want to give him the watch/vid time, but I'm gonna guess it's not a great piece, based on his twitter interaction above.
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That Old Tree posted:Their intro video on their Youtube page seems pretty friendly gradenko_2000 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-H0dDeG38 Spiteski posted:And he feels like he's a good enough source to discuss the racism inherent in putting on accents in DnD from different dialects and cultures. I don't want to give him the watch/vid time, but I'm gonna guess it's not a great piece, based on his twitter interaction above. lmao well
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Wow this boy about to break out his calipers for this one and explain to us about his characters and their haplogroups.
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IT KEEPS GOING: https://twitter.com/DawnforgedCast/status/1158931550634799104
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https://twitter.com/DawnforgedCast/status/1158933035644940288 "By using big scientific terms I am the winner in this social engagement."
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Today I learned there's a direct correlation between someone using words like 'tis in regular typed speech and my deep instinctive dislike of them. also the weird racism stuff.
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Kurieg posted:Also the Gencon Exclusive LOTFP book boldly emblazoned with "Zak S had nothing to do with this book" has a screed about how punishing people monetarily for being rapists is actually a bad thing for you as you are denying yourself their "great art". My friend was wandering the con and ended up by their booth, he's not a fan by any means, and overheard someone asking about where Zak was. The guy at the booth vehemently stated that they have not talked to Zak in 3 months and that they assume he's in California somewhere. LoFP is a publisher of many contrasts.
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Given Hollywood/media accounting I expect it to show they lost a billion dollars. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/thr-esq/wil-wheaton-sues-geek-sundry-web-series-profits-1229358
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:My friend was wandering the con and ended up by their booth, he's not a fan by any means, and overheard someone asking about where Zak was. The guy at the booth vehemently stated that they have not talked to Zak in 3 months and that they assume he's in California somewhere. LoFP is a publisher of many contrasts. They were still selling one of Zak S's books.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:My friend was wandering the con and ended up by their booth, he's not a fan by any means, and overheard someone asking about where Zak was. The guy at the booth vehemently stated that they have not talked to Zak in 3 months and that they assume he's in California somewhere. LoFP is a publisher of many contrasts. I assume Raggi is not the guy at the booth? I’d certainly steer clear of gencon if I were him.
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Kurieg posted:They were still selling one of Zak S's books. I imagine a good deal of the OSR community are "enlightened centrists" who pride themselves on not reading the news or taking "partisan stances", which they do all the time about chud adjacent or related stuff, and weren't aware or think it's just rumors. It would be hard for them to sell any of their big books because they jammed him into things after a Red and Pleasant Land got accolades. Has anyone else also found it troubling, even more so now, that Zak latched on to a book that was written by an alleged pedophile that has similar, bad associations with it? I've flipped through it, I got it in a charity bundle years ago, and it just seemed like bullshit artsy nonsense that people take as profound but is actually just half baked ideas presented in a way that makes them seem good. DalaranJ posted:I assume Raggi is not the guy at the booth? I’d certainly steer clear of gencon if I were him. My friend didn't say but I doubt he knows what Raggi looks like. I honestly didn't until last Gencon.
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