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A week late, this just came across my twitter feed. https://twitter.com/Brucedraws/status/1206651388760977409
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Froghammer posted:He's pretty clearly into both revolutionary politics and kink, so of course those two things are major themes in his work and worlds. You can be passionate about something and still be a complete rear end in a top hat about it, and revolutionary politics have never stopped anyone from being abusive.
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Dec 23, 2019 09:28
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The UK's TERF problem stems primarily from the fact that our country's slow progress towards LGBT rights isn't as hampered by far-right religious extremist culture pervading our society, due to our somewhat secular nature. So said far-right religious extremists needed an "in" to start attacking LGBT folks and dismantling their protections under the law, and that was trans folk. Every bit of anti-gay propaganda from the 80s and earlier, "dangerous bathroom predators out to convert your child to a life of sin" and etc., has been repurposed and repackaged to cover trans folk. It's a divide-and-conquer methodology, trying to get us queers to slowly abandon each other and be a smaller, more manageable opponent for their horseshit. American groups have been sinking a lot of money into promoting TERF poo poo here, but it's hardly all down to foreign influence. The UK has always had a serious problem with bigotry of all kinds. I remember back when I was a kid, "gay" was basically a synonym for "bad", to say nothing of how much comedy shows used crossdressing and blackface. Can't help but think the bigotry thing is going to be getting a lot, lot worse over the next few years 
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Dec 23, 2019 12:58
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Kai Tave posted:A week late, this just came across my twitter feed. Didn't they do this to writers not all that long ago, too?
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Dec 23, 2019 13:55
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A while back, although that was due to embezzlement and mismanagement, not direct malice, as appears to be the case here.
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Dec 23, 2019 13:57
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Honestly at this point it'd be more astounding for Catalyst to produce something without bilking some creative talent that helped make a product.
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Dec 23, 2019 13:58
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Whoever said that british feminism feels like it never intersectioned is pretty much spot on.Fuego Fish posted:American groups have been sinking a lot of money into promoting TERF poo poo here, but it's hardly all down to foreign influence. The UK has always had a serious problem with bigotry of all kinds. I remember back when I was a kid, "gay" was basically a synonym for "bad", to say nothing of how much comedy shows used crossdressing and blackface. Apparently there has been nothing funnier to british people than a dude with a beard wearing women's clothes. I don't think there's a single Monty Python thing where Terry Jones doesn't play a woman at some point. The panto dame is just.. A Thing.
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Dec 23, 2019 14:04
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Fuego Fish posted:The UK's TERF problem stems primarily from the fact that our country's slow progress towards LGBT rights isn't as hampered by far-right religious extremist culture pervading our society, due to our somewhat secular nature. So said far-right religious extremists needed an "in" to start attacking LGBT folks and dismantling their protections under the law, and that was trans folk. Every bit of anti-gay propaganda from the 80s and earlier, "dangerous bathroom predators out to convert your child to a life of sin" and etc., has been repurposed and repackaged to cover trans folk. It's a divide-and-conquer methodology, trying to get us queers to slowly abandon each other and be a smaller, more manageable opponent for their horseshit. All of this, for tax cuts. EthanSteele posted:Apparently there has been nothing funnier to british people than a dude with a beard wearing women's clothes. I don't think there's a single Monty Python thing where Terry Jones doesn't play a woman at some point. The panto dame is just.. A Thing. Nessus fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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Dec 23, 2019 14:32
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Nessus posted:What the hell is up with that, anyway? Like is it an outgrowth of theater being a lot bigger there than here (the US in my case)? Is there some kind of sociocultural analysis of why this seems to be the height of English comedy? Someone must have written a paper at some point. If not, congratulations any aspiring students in that general field reading this, now you have a topic. if you're talking about panto it's because it's a Long Standing Christmas Thing like how the dutch will never give up their blackface elf. all the really horrid european christmas traditions are that way because they have roots in the medieval or early modern. but all the funny and good ones do too, some people just can't selectively give things up if it's all Tradition Mister Olympus fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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Dec 23, 2019 15:00
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Men dressed as women is considered the height of comedy in several countries of Asia too, even in Thailand where gender fluidity and trans people are pretty common and largely accepted. In Korea and Taiwan whenever we had a performance during a school festival, there'd always be cross dressing by students and teachers and it was the most popular act of the night. If video games have taught me anything, Japan is similar.
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Dec 23, 2019 15:18
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Fuego Fish posted:The UK's TERF problem stems primarily from the fact that our country's slow progress towards LGBT rights isn't as hampered by far-right religious extremist culture pervading our society, due to our somewhat secular nature. So said far-right religious extremists needed an "in" to start attacking LGBT folks and dismantling their protections under the law, and that was trans folk. Every bit of anti-gay propaganda from the 80s and earlier, "dangerous bathroom predators out to convert your child to a life of sin" and etc., has been repurposed and repackaged to cover trans folk. It's a divide-and-conquer methodology, trying to get us queers to slowly abandon each other and be a smaller, more manageable opponent for their horseshit. That's a transphobe problem. The TERF problem I'd blame at entrenched trans-negative radical feminists that won a lot of victories in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and are now skirting along on past fame and gratitude well past its use-by date, instead of being replaced with slightly more sensible people. Like how Julie Bindel can continue to vomit transphobia onto the pages of every British newspaper because she used to be someone back when pogs and slap bracelets were fashionable.
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Dec 23, 2019 15:45
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EthanSteele posted:Whoever said that british feminism feels like it never intersectioned is pretty much spot on. The thing is, it has, but it's a yoof thing, and, well... LatwPIAT posted:The TERF problem I'd blame at entrenched trans-negative radical feminists that won a lot of victories in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and are now skirting along on past fame and gratitude well past its use-by date, instead of being replaced with slightly more sensible people. Like how Julie Bindel can continue to vomit transphobia onto the pages of every British newspaper because she used to be someone back when pogs and slap bracelets were fashionable. LatwPIAT is entirely correct. It's another symptom of the suicide pact old people have signed with this country. Everyone under forty is on their own.
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spectralent posted:The thing is, it has, but it's a yoof thing, and, well... Yeah, that's fair, if there's anything britain is good at its letting awful people get entrenched and then not calling them out until after they're dead.
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Dec 24, 2019 01:54
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Or just quietly burying their legacy after they've died while launching a bunch of governmental investigations into the aftermath.
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Dec 24, 2019 02:11
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Hostile V posted:Or just quietly burying their legacy after they've died while launching a bunch of governmental investigations into the aftermath. Haven't you heard? That's just spaffing money up the wall.
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Dec 24, 2019 14:33
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Fuego Fish posted:Haven't you heard? That's just spaffing money up the wall. the hell is spaffing
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Dec 24, 2019 18:24
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Mors Rattus posted:the hell is spaffing Toff-speak for "ejaculating", our current prime minister said that exact thing with regards to investigating the sexual abuse of children.
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Dec 24, 2019 18:28
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I'm late but can someone give me a source on the mieville thing because this is the first time I'm hearing about it and google isn't really telling me anything useful?
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Dec 25, 2019 10:47
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it's a harrowing read CW: very frank discussion of abuse
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Dec 25, 2019 11:48
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Halloween Jack posted:Didn't he have a list of dozens of "Salieris" conspiring to destroy him on one of his harassment blogs? I think you’ll find that was the exact post I was talking about.
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Dec 25, 2019 12:26
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Dreqqus posted:it's a harrowing read I neither have personal experience with this kind of emotional abuse, nor have I read articles before that go into detail on the actual things the abuser says the way this article does. Things that are grim truths about the world to others are things to me that, while I know intellectually, I haven't put words to or considered in detail. I doubt anything about this style is unique; there are probably many "functioning" sociopaths out there working off the same playbook. But I'm disquieted and disturbed that there are people out there who can say the things in the "I can barely write this" paragraph and then baldly say, when the game falls apart or they lose interest, that "I never told you I loved you, I was very careful about that."
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Dec 28, 2019 05:26
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Mors Rattus posted:Didn't they do this to writers not all that long ago, too? They still do this to writers. They posted earlier this year for writers for their live campaign... asking for spec work that might lead to getting to write a module at less than 1c a word. 
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Dec 28, 2019 09:54
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Liquid Communism posted:They still do this to writers. They posted earlier this year for writers for their live campaign... asking for spec work that might lead to getting to write a module at less than 1c a word. lmao I completely forgot about this scam because of the overriding haze of all their other scams
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Dec 28, 2019 10:18
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At this point I assume that after final manuscript delivery for anything for Shadowrun, the Mr. Johnson has you attacked by a corporate security team.
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Dec 28, 2019 10:30
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Me, an idiot planning a kickstarter: "Hmm, can i get away with paying my writers .20 pr word? i want to pay them generously and make sure i don't devalue their work" Shadowrun missions, big brain geniuses: "You'll get .01 after you to spec work for us."
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Dec 28, 2019 12:13
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There was a 'for exposure' thing recently where some YouTuber said they wanted a whole lot of art and animation and ended it with '$50.' The artist said 'uh, no, that's way too low.' And the YouTuber says "you fool, you absolute buffoon, $50 was the bargain price you'd pay ME for the exposure." I pray CGL never reads that because it might give them ideas.
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Dec 28, 2019 14:41
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Dawgstar posted:There was a 'for exposure' thing recently where some YouTuber said they wanted a whole lot of art and animation and ended it with '$50.' The artist said 'uh, no, that's way too low.' And the YouTuber says "you fool, you absolute buffoon, $50 was the bargain price you'd pay ME for the exposure." I pray CGL never reads that because it might give them ideas. There are whole channels of freelancers and creative types posting horror stories about rip-off gigs and clients: https://twitter.com/forexposure_txt https://clientsfromhell.net/
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Dec 28, 2019 17:41
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The freelancer creed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGAmPRxV48&t=14s
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Magnusth posted:Me, an idiot planning a kickstarter: "Hmm, can i get away with paying my writers .20 pr word? i want to pay them generously and make sure i don't devalue their work" Average 1 cent. They pay flat rate.
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Dec 30, 2019 04:46
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As best I can tell, one of the shareholders of By Night Studios, the folks making the current V:tM LARP rules, is some kind of violent MAGA fire who likes to post on FB about shooting immigrants. Does anybody have more information?
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Dec 30, 2019 16:32
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Looking at their Facebook/Twitter page, they are "taking it seriously" and will make a decision about something soon. Plenty of people on the FB page just going "why haven't you shitcanned this one guy yet?"
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Dec 30, 2019 17:52
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Green Intern posted:Looking at their Facebook/Twitter page, they are "taking it seriously" and will make a decision about something soon. Plenty of people on the FB page just going "why haven't you shitcanned this one guy yet?" Not trying to be snarky: can you shitcan shareholders?
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Dec 30, 2019 19:45
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Bruceski posted:Not trying to be snarky: can you shitcan shareholders? Yes. Though it gets harder if he owns more than 25%.
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Dec 30, 2019 19:47
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HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, ANTEDILUVIAN?!
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Dec 30, 2019 20:39
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So, yeah. Shane Robinett is one of their shareholders. Someone found some fairly disgusting stuff he posted on Facebook. Most of it was just fairly standard "Waahhh! It's so hard to be a white Christian male" whining, but there was also one saying that the US needs to start murdering immigrants using drones with .50 caliber guns. By Night Studios has said they will make a statement tomorrow (12/31). EDIT: According to their website, he's "Project Lead for Technology; Partner; Investor."
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Dec 30, 2019 21:01
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well, that article about the terrible poo poo mieville did was horrifying, but is there anywhere that gives more evidence that it is him, so i can show it to someone who is a fan of that monster (and a friend of mine) and they don't go like "well it doesn't mention him so therefore it MUST not be true" or some loving similar bullshit, I do believe the accusation, but I find people just straight up refuse to accept evidence when stuff depicting their favorite creators as terrible people appears.
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Dec 31, 2019 10:38
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the original version of the blog post named names and was changed in response to legal threats, it's unlikely you're going to get anything better than that
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Dec 31, 2019 10:46
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By Night Studios has released the one shareholder partner. An "apology" and resignation letter was posted to their Facebook page as well. Shane forgives everyone who labeled him a "Nazi" (quotation marks his) for their "hateful comments" and hopes that everyone can forgive him for the hurt he has caused. Also apparently there was some fiasco with him not thinking that artists needed to be paid, judging by the letter. All around a real piece of work.
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We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from him.
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Mandy Morbid's GoFundMe has raised $10K for her legal defense, and she seems to be in a better emotional place right now if the latest update is any indication. So that's good news, I think.quote:Hi
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