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Mors Rattus posted:That's signed James Means, not Lou Zocchi. I kind of assume Lou Zocchi doesn't know how to operate email. That may be for the best, but this email definitely isn't.
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Jun 15, 2020 01:04
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mllaneza posted:That may be for the best, but this email definitely isn't. Yeah, I have no idea how to parse this email but it reads like an rear end in a top hat wrote it.
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Jun 15, 2020 01:34
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Mors Rattus posted:That's signed James Means, not Lou Zocchi. I kind of assume Lou Zocchi doesn't know how to operate email.
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Jun 15, 2020 01:50
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That reads like standard middle-of-the-road white American old-timer to me. If you polled white people over 60, you'd probably get like 80% of them agreeing and 19% saying "yeah I don't agree with all of that, but it's just his opinion." Like, it doesn't even read as particularly Republican for that age group. If you told me that was written by Joe Biden or some other old-rear end Democrat, I'd have believed it up until it started talking about dice. PS Don't take this as me excusing him. Take it instead as me denouncing the lovely culture of nationalism and righteous genocide your old folks were raised in.
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Speaking of cops and current events, how's Paizo do-oh god drat it. Thread: https://twitter.com/doctorcomics/status/1268734661607321600 Aaaand Jessica Price thread: https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1272329346997313537 In short: "don't be so quick to assume our AP about playing as cops is going to be bad in this environment because you could use it to play good cops".
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Jun 15, 2020 02:56
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Jesus. "We support BLM! That's why we made an adventure about The Good Cops!" isn't the most tone-deaf thing I've heard in the last two weeks, but it might make the top five.
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Jimbozig posted:That reads like standard middle-of-the-road white American old-timer to me. If you polled white people over 60, you'd probably get like 80% of them agreeing and 19% saying "yeah I don't agree with all of that, but it's just his opinion." It reads like a document that has changed literally nothing but the one number since it was written in 1976.
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Jimbozig posted:That reads like standard middle-of-the-road white American old-timer to me. If you polled white people over 60, you'd probably get like 80% of them agreeing and 19% saying "yeah I don't agree with all of that, but it's just his opinion." It's also Flag Day in America, which is worth mentioning for context. RED IS FOR THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS stuff makes more sense in that light, and the socialism attacking America bit sounds like he got his politics in the cold war and hasn't examined them since. It's not good but it's far from the worst thing I've seen this week. Like you said, It's standard old people stuff.
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James is a jackass, yeah and ol' Lou hasn't been involved for a very long time. Not sure if the physical location is there anymore. Went there once, at the behest of my very black artist friend cause he wanted me to get some neat GameScience dice. The owner will conduct himself professionally more or less, nothing came up in the like 40 minutes I perused the shelves. More for my friends benefit than anything as they hadn't been there in a while. But between some of the stories he told me about James, and that the guy had a Trump Boardgame displayed quite front and center on a shelf you could not miss made me cringe pretty hard. My friend put it this way: Despite it being to the benefit of his business. James can't help but put his foot in his mouth. His personality reminded me of the guy that runs an even closer FLGS/Comic Shop. The difference being the owner of THAT place is very left leaning. Arthil fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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moths posted:It's also Flag Day in America, which is worth mentioning for context. RED IS FOR THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS stuff makes more sense in that light, and the socialism attacking America bit sounds like he got his politics in the cold war and hasn't examined them since. That bit about how each colour stands for different things is...is that real? Is that something old white American boomers believe? It's just so ridiculous.
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Loxbourne posted:That bit about how each colour stands for different things is...is that real? Is that something old white American boomers believe? It's just so ridiculous. Variations on that theme are taught widely in schools and civic programs in the USA, so I guess it depends on your definition of "real."
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Loxbourne posted:That bit about how each colour stands for different things is...is that real? Is that something old white American boomers believe? It's just so ridiculous. Is it what lots of people believe? Yes. Is it what was originally intended? No.
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senrath posted:Is it what lots of people believe? Yes. Is it what was originally intended? No. Once again, it’s Reagan’s fault.
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Jun 15, 2020 11:37
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Mercer telling bigots to gently caress off sure got lots of them riled up and angry (this was in response to Rowling's stuff in the news, he's gone on to say more with Trump's health care bullshit) https://twitter.com/matthewmercer/status/1270861656810110977
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PST posted:Mercer telling bigots to gently caress off sure got lots of them riled up and angry (this was in response to Rowling's stuff in the news, he's gone on to say more with Trump's health care bullshit) How on earth could that be news to anybody?
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Dawgstar posted:How on earth could that be news to anybody? There are a lot of people who watch his show to mock it for being sjw-ish, or who enjoy it except for the very conspicuous queer, trans, and nb representation, or just miss it. There are a lot of dumbass chuds in this hobby, and I'm very glad to see one of the bigger progressive figures speaking out aggressively rather than just passively.
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Dawgstar posted:How on earth could that be news to anybody? People are willfully blind to the fact that all media is in some way political, including the media they consume, because up until now that media has never challenged them in any way. And now that it is they want it to go back to being silent or agreeing with them.
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Dawgstar posted:How on earth could that be news to anybody? People like to assume that the things they like align ideologically. Critical consumption of media is not something that is widely taught, and if it were, there would probably be less chuds in the world.
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thespaceinvader posted:There are a lot of people who watch his show to mock it for being sjw-ish, or who enjoy it except for the very conspicuous queer, trans, and nb representation, or just miss it. Yeah not just a 'trans rights are human rights' tweet but outright 'we don't want bigots here'. Making bigots angry at the same time as supporting trans people is a two-for-one
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In somewhat related good (!) news: https://twitter.com/GregStohr/status/1272533169045200902?s=20
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WotC is (slowly) starting to get onto the "maybe the idea of evil races is bad" train. https://www.enworld.org/threads/wotcs-jeremy-crawford-on-d-d-races-going-forward.672716/
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dwarf74 posted:WotC is (slowly) starting to get onto the "maybe the idea of evil races is bad" train. I mean, holding up Eberron as some amazing sea change in WOTC's culture is bullshit since Baker made those decisions for Eberron nearly 20 years ago (And even then Eberron's Drow are still extremely problematic). And Exandria was created by Matt "Trans Rights are Human Rights" Mercer just up thread, they don't get to take credit for that. Meanwhile 5th edition Forgotten realms had Ao literally deus ex machina back in all the racist bullshit that 4th edition excised because it was "Correct". Sooooo.... Yeah, they don't get any bonus points for this, Not yet at least.
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Takes about five comments before people are arguing about the biotruths of minotaur skeletomuscular attachment points and saying that "Black people are actually brown, which is not traditionally a color associated in the West with evil!" EnWorld is trash.
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e: nm
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Plus, the latest thing leaked for them seems to be an adventure in Neverwinter, so unless they're planning on revising the entirety of the Forgotten Realms very soon, it's not going to bring much progress. Icewind Dale, not Neverwinter. Close geographically, very different thematically as shown by the name.
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Tooting about Eberron's relaxation on alignment restrictions for races, as if that wasn't a core pillar of Eberron since 3e and also something that would severely undermine the setting lore itself if they suddenly doubled down on it, is pretty funny. I'm dying to know how they plan to "address" the Vistani when WotC was more than happy to reproduce them uh... unaltered in Curse of Strahd four years ago. Do they plan on including an apology or revisions in reprints of the campaign book? Ignore it entirely and just let Ravenloft fall back into the murky shadows of embarrassing tabletop RPG history?
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theironjef posted:Takes about five comments before people are arguing about the biotruths of minotaur skeletomuscular attachment points and saying that "Black people are actually brown, which is not traditionally a color associated in the West with evil!" EnWorld is trash. https://www.facebook.com/356276981120264/posts/3309263179154948/  
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dwarf74 posted:The enworld fb post has even spicier takes. "Why don't we just remove alignment while we're at it!" proclaims one of the Facebook people, thinking this a statement of how mad this is, not realizing that yes, that would be a better idea.
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Night10194 posted:"Why don't we just remove alignment while we're at it!" proclaims one of the Facebook people, thinking this a statement of how mad this is, not realizing that yes, that would be a better idea. 
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Yes, the game has those issues, because Gary Gygax was weird racist slime and the sooner all that stuff is burned off it the better!
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dwarf74 posted:Here's my favorite one, in that context. That’ll be the same Kent Kelly who makes all this stuff: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/browser/publisher/7178
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Oh, he's OSR/OGL, that explains basically everything.
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Shocking to discover the people invested in the EN World posts would poo poo out the same knee-jerk defensive nonsense about SJWs ruining traditional gaming that every nudnik on any other social media platform spouts off. I expected better of the forum that originated the Knights of the Scarlet Women post.
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'if I can't say someone's race inherently influences their morality then you're making my ironclad and immutable view of morality seem almost BAD or something!' ~ someone who 100% thinks they're making a slam dunk point
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Jun 15, 2020 22:50
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Man, they're so close to almost getting it.
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Dawgstar posted:Man, they're so close to almost getting it. I mean, "Sarcastically asking a hyperbolic question to which the answer is an unironic and emphatic Yes." has practically become a conservative pundit talking point lately.
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sexpig by night posted:'if I can't say someone's race inherently influences their morality then you're making my ironclad and immutable view of morality seem almost BAD or something!' ~ someone who 100% thinks they're making a slam dunk point
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