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https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1146636652028321792?s=20 If something on Twitter makes you feel good be suspicious. Edit: and if you see something really stupid and you have the urge to reply to it remember it's probably a bit account that is trying to get engagements to then run ads.
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TBF, it's DTRPG - after their managing of the Zak poo poo, or Green Ronin, any amount of fuckery is at least semi-plausible.
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Dec 9, 2019 02:13
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Is this the same person who recently got their perma appealed on RPG.net and then started bragging on their facebook about how they were going to target the mods for their centrism or some poo poo, starting with the one openly trans mod? And was then ranting about being "stalked" when she was immediately banned again after this stunning plan was found out? It sounds about as well thought out.
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Desiden posted:Is this the same person who recently got their perma appealed on RPG.net and then started bragging on their facebook about how they were going to target the mods for their centrism or some poo poo, starting with the one openly trans mod? And was then ranting about being "stalked" when she was immediately banned again after this stunning plan was found out? It sounds about as well thought out. No, that's someone else. No connection between those two at all, in fact.
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Dec 9, 2019 02:17
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The worst thing is... it shook out something that should alarm veteran F&Fers: https://twitter.com/ChrisAField1/status/1203846195803758592 
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Dec 9, 2019 02:22
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Stephenls posted:https://twitter.com/DriveThruRPG/status/1203827316830482432 lmao
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Dec 9, 2019 02:37
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StratGoatCom posted:TBF, it's DTRPG - after their managing of the Zak poo poo, or Green Ronin, any amount of fuckery is at least semi-plausible. Yeah, it's semi-plausible and that exactly why we have to be really careful not to be taken advantage of. This kind of abuse of our trust really sucks and basically forces us to walk around in a state of constant paranoia. I hate it when people do that, because it causes so much harm to our ability to believe and act when we actually need to.
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Dec 9, 2019 02:43
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I wasn't aware that publishers could edit that to look like whatever, so that's on me.
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Dec 9, 2019 03:10
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Kai Tave posted:I wasn't aware that publishers could edit that to look like whatever, so that's on me. I get the impression that most people, including rather a lot of people publishing on DriveThruRPG, were unaware.
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Dec 9, 2019 03:16
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Kai Tave posted:I wasn't aware that publishers could edit that to look like whatever, so that's on me. Yet another of the many ways that DTRPG is a piece of poo poo.
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Kai Tave posted:I wasn't aware that publishers could edit that to look like whatever, so that's on me. To be fair, I reckon most people wouldn't try to make it look like their product was unavailable on 1 of the, like, 2 online rpg book outlets.
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Dec 9, 2019 03:34
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For reference here is a normal use of that feature.
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Dec 9, 2019 03:39
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The longterm damage of this is that it's going to come back everytime someone harasses a trans person in the industry. "We can't take this accusation seriously because remember those two hours on December 8, 2019?" Thanks, rear end in a top hat!
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moths posted:The longterm damage of this is that it's going to come back everytime someone harasses a trans person in the industry. Yep, I'm super unhappy that whatever this person and their malfunctioning brain thought they were going to accomplish with this stunt, the fallout is inevitably going to make things shittier for people with legitimate grievances to be taken seriously.
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Dec 9, 2019 04:56
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what the gently caress happened, I apparently missed this 2 hour long scam?
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sexpig by night posted:what the gently caress happened, I apparently missed this 2 hour long scam? someone tried to make it look like DTRPG had removed their game from the storefront because it was hate speech against the police turns out the screenshots were doctored
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Dec 9, 2019 05:24
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gradenko_2000 posted:someone tried to make it look like DTRPG had removed their game from the storefront because it was hate speech against the police The screenshots were real, they just used DTTRPG's seldom-used page editing feature to make a fake ban message Which was an immediate red flag because I'm pretty sure DTTRPG doesn't do, like, specific ban messages
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Dec 9, 2019 05:25
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Person has one of their products temporarily hidden pending review. Person is not banned. Because person is not banned, person retains editing power over their publisher page. Person uses this power to change their other products to hidden, edits their publisher profile with a fake ban notice that claims they were banned for publishing products that were prejudiced against “a persecuted minority: the police,” then posts a complaint about it to their blog and tweets about it. Twitter notices and starts demanding an explanation from DTRPG. DTRPG provides that explanation. Everyone gets pissed at person for this stupid poo poo.
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Dec 9, 2019 05:36
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Dec 9, 2019 05:40
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Stephenls posted:Everyone gets pissed at person for this stupid poo poo. Not quite everyone, there's still a fair few folks on Twitter insisting it was justified and/or not the publisher creating a ban hoax. Just "a snarky, bitter comment" about Drivethru. That ... lied about a ban that didn't happen. Somehow a fake ban notice is not a hoax because ???
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taichara posted:Not quite everyone, there's still a fair few folks on Twitter insisting it was justified and/or not the publisher creating a ban hoax. Just "a snarky, bitter comment" about Drivethru. That ... lied about a ban that didn't happen. Somehow a fake ban notice is not a hoax because ??? Presumably because the initial product removal pending review was algorithmically generated bullshit, and unjust, and therefore deserving of reprisal in the form of an attempt to tank DTRPG’s PR.
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sexpig by night posted:what the gently caress happened, I apparently missed this 2 hour long scam? The original blog post with the screenshot appears dated to December 6th and the person behind it has apparently been vandalizing the RPG.net wiki with links to it (and to a second blog post accusing RPG.net moderation of... something) for a couple of days, but it really only exploded on social media tonight and DTRPG were quick to respond once people started messaging them about it.
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Dec 9, 2019 05:52
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What was the original product, anyway?
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Dec 9, 2019 05:53
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Blockhouse posted:What was the original product, anyway? A Lasers and Feelings hack that... honestly I convey its tone no better than it conveys in its own opening paragraph: quote:PLAYERS: CREATE CHARACTERS
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LatwPIAT posted:A Lasers and Feelings hack that... honestly I convey its tone no better than it conveys in its own opening paragraph: So nothing of value was lost.
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Dec 9, 2019 06:26
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LatwPIAT posted:A Lasers and Feelings hack that... honestly I convey its tone no better than it conveys in its own opening paragraph: Honestly that sounds like an accurate description of a cop in america
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Dec 9, 2019 06:45
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I don't believe that a table-top game that has mechanics to execute the verb 'sexual assault' is actually doing good for anyone, irrespective of whatever semi-satirical point is being made.
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Honestly that sounds like an accurate description of a cop in america A lot of people seem to agree with the sentiment. It's also a sentiment that's very controversial at the moment, which is probably why so many people flagged it on DTRPG and caused an automatic pull for review. Once you get past the sentiment though, there's just not much there. It says it's a game about "[acting] out a police procedure and see just how much it justifies police brutality.", but the neither the mechanical design of the game nor the presentation actually lets you do that. While there's some cool things that can be done with messages told through mechanics, this isn't that kind of game, and it runs into the problems you usually get with "comedy" and "parody" games, which is that that jokes are really, really stale. Like wow. A cops-eating-doughnuts joke. I'm betting you spent the whole night thinking about that one! A crude drawing of a pig in a police hat? Such original, much funny! Honestly, being badly written is perhaps the game's only saving grace, because if the game seemed like you could actually play it, a police brutality simulator would just be in really bad taste, even if the author has scribbled "satire" on the page with a crayon. LatwPIAT fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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LatwPIAT posted:Choose what passes for your cop’s personality: racist, queerphobe, ableist, wife-beater So what's the second option 
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Ettin posted:So what's the second option Got em
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LatwPIAT posted:A Lasers and Feelings hack that... honestly I convey its tone no better than it conveys in its own opening paragraph:
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Today was a real fun loving time to be a person whose ability to pay rent is dependent on DriveThruRPG.
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För the people more in the know, what are the alternatives to DTRPG? I've heard people are moving to itch , but is that comparable at this point? Is there someone else doing print on demand?
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Nessus posted:I can say without irony, sarcasm or pretense that Freebase! beat them to this particular form of critique twenty, thirty years ago. Freebase! has the best take on D&D alignment, period.
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Hel posted:För the people more in the know, what are the alternatives to DTRPG? I've heard people are moving to itch , but is that comparable at this point? Is there someone else doing print on demand? Itch is good if you just wanna move PDFs, but I don't think there's another option for PoD yet.
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I am glad Itch exists, and it seems... Fine? It is kinda the same problem as moving away from steam. I have so many years of purchases consolidated in one place that splitting my collection up isn't something I want to do. Hopefully people will sell their products both places, but I don't know how that works.
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You can technically make more from drive thru if you agree to be exclusive, but I think it's about 5%. Probably worth it to post to both places.
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oriongates posted:You can technically make more from drive thru if you agree to be exclusive, but I think it's about 5%. Probably worth it to post to both places. Yeah, I think it's probably harder to make money off of games going strictly with itch.io, it's still kind of early days and a lot of people are invested in using DTRPG for the same reasons people are invested in sticking with Steam, but I can't really think of a reason to go DTRPG exclusive rather than putting your games on both sites.
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