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PST posted:I mean, after posting a (hastily deleted) all lives matter posts, publishing mechanically incentivised child abuse, continuing to go with 'cop lives matter' ap, ignoring the sexual harassment of her staff and the sexual assault of other people at her conventions, trying to cover all of the above up and get employees and contractors to cover for it, she clearly needs her retirement.
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Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I think it's optimistic to assume any of that factored into her departure.
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JackMann posted:Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I think it's optimistic to assume any of that factored into her departure.
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I have to inform you that Greg Stolze is still a consummate professional dedicated to making the game world a better place.
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Zurui posted:I have to inform you that Greg Stolze is still a consummate professional dedicated to making the game world a better place. I literally have an Unknown Armies tattoo, you're not allowed to scare me like that
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Zurui posted:I have to inform you that Greg Stolze is still a consummate professional dedicated to making the game world a better place. vvvv e: Ah, that makes sense. There have been a number of high-profile comic creators accused of being creeps lately (Warren Ellis and Cameron Stewart among them). FMguru fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jun 17, 2020 |
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FMguru posted:Is there a particular sex pest RPG company staffer that he's subtweeting? Or is this more aimed at the large, undifferentiated mass of RPG company sex pests? I think this one is about comics right now actually
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FMguru posted:Is there a particular sex pest RPG company staffer that he's subtweeting? Or is this more aimed at the large, undifferentiated mass of RPG company sex pests? There's been a fresh round of discourse around men and especially male guests at comic and gaming conventions acting inappropriate, creepy, or straight up assaulting women. Also a related discourse about adult men in comics grooming and flirting with underage fans or generally making spaces unsafe for non-cis men in comics.
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It's a bit of both, as substantial accusations against Warren Ellis and Cam Stewart dropped today in addition to the resurfacing of "Zak is a loving creep" (who apparently used to run private games in his hotel room with fans).
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Oh no, not Ellis, I liked Ellis. 
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The accusations against Ellis are less extreme than Stewart but yeah Ellis doesn’t look great from this, he seems to have been an rear end in a top hat to women entering the comics space and I learned the term ‘bluebeard’ in a non-murder context. It’s not a huge shock (his blog used to post surprise images of extreme penile body mods occasionally, he definitely has the kind of libertine sensibility that crosses boundaries for fun) but it’s a disappointing surprise. I will point out that the women accusing him of being an rear end in a top hat are also saying ‘don’t cancel him’ and ‘I’m still fond of him’ so I don’t feel like I need to reject Transmetropolitan and all its works, but it’s still a gut punch.
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Joe Slowboat posted:The accusations against Ellis are less extreme than Stewart but yeah Ellis doesn’t look great from this, he seems to have been an rear end in a top hat to women entering the comics space and I learned the term ‘bluebeard’ in a non-murder context. It’s not a huge shock (his blog used to post surprise images of extreme penile body mods occasionally, he definitely has the kind of libertine sensibility that crosses boundaries for fun) but it’s a disappointing surprise. Ellis has always been, at the best, sketchy towards women. On his forum there was the infamous thing where he'd only make women mods and called them, like, his sexy deadly henchwomen or something.
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Ellis is the least surprising of all, his writing is basically a confession.
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Yeah, much as I loved Warren Ellis' assorted works, I find myself wearily resigned to discover that he's a sex pest rather than shocked.
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"Habitually an rear end in a top hat and bad partner" is a far cry from "habitually predatory towards young women", but yeah it's not a good look for Ellis. Stewart can gently caress off forever though
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Dawgstar posted:Ellis has always been, at the best, sketchy towards women. On his forum there was the infamous thing where he'd only make women mods and called them, like, his sexy deadly henchwomen or something. Well that’s information I both wish I’d already had and find unpleasant to know.
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potatocubed posted:Yeah, much as I loved Warren Ellis' assorted works, I find myself wearily resigned to discover that he's a sex pest rather than shocked. same I love Ellis stuff but as the metoo movement began to expand to more niche things like comics I was just waiting for 'yep, Ellis is a creep' to be confirmed. I was hoping he was better than my lowest assumptions about him but welp. Dexo posted:Never have favs
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The amount of times I've run into that poo poo in old RPGs, all "I love women more than anyone! That's why I dub them my sexy battle babies!" and poo poo is only slightly less appalling that how easily it seems to work on everyone.
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Froghammer posted:"Habitually an rear end in a top hat and bad partner" is a far cry from "habitually predatory towards young women", but yeah it's not a good look for Ellis. Yeah, the stuff about Ellis is unfortunate but unsurprising. The stuff against Cameron Stewart is a whole other level. Especially someone who has done so much work focused on young female characters and fans... Which makes a really gross amount of sense now.
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theironjef posted:The amount of times I've run into that poo poo in old RPGs, all "I love women more than anyone! That's why I dub them my sexy battle babies!" and poo poo is only slightly less appalling that how easily it seems to work on everyone. too many people think 'randy old man' is a genuinely charming affectation and not one that people will put up with as long as you keep your hands to yourself. Unless you go full uber sex positive where you just wanna see everyone who wants to be fuckin having a good time, hedonism bot is the one good randy old man.
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sexpig by night posted:too many people think 'randy old man' is a genuinely charming affectation and not one that people will put up with as long as you keep your hands to yourself. It's definitely part horny old, but also part "I can get away with whatever I want to do in my portrayal of women as long as I call them queens often enough." You know all "I love women so much I can't help but draw or describe them exclusively as big-titty chainmail turbo warriors, but hashtag slay am I right?" theironjef fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jun 17, 2020 |
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sexpig by night posted:too many people think 'randy old man' is a genuinely charming affectation and not one that people will put up with as long as you keep your hands to yourself.
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theironjef posted:It's definitely part horny old, but also part "I can get away with whatever I want to do in my portrayal of women as long as I call them queens often enough." You know all "I love women so much I can't help but draw or describe them exclusively as big-titty chainmail turbo warriors, but hashtag slay am I right?"  I just love their hearts. Big, beautiful, soft, bouncing hearts.
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theironjef posted:It's definitely part horny old, but also part "I can get away with whatever I want to do in my portrayal of women as long as I call them queens often enough." You know all "I love women so much I can't help but draw or describe them exclusively as big-titty chainmail turbo warriors, but hashtag slay am I right?" It reminds me of C.A. Sulemain's terrible "apology" letter, where he claimed to love women (he has a mother! And sisters!) so much he almost couldn't help try and seduce them.
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Zurui posted:It's a bit of both, as substantial accusations against Warren Ellis and Cam Stewart dropped today in addition to the resurfacing of "Zak is a loving creep" (who apparently used to run private games in his hotel room with fans).
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Warthur posted:What's the new details about Zak? Always good to have receipts handy when his defenders resurface. The original tweets were deeply divisive even before Baron von Pantshitten showed up at have since been deleted, but here is a relatively even-handed summary. Edit: However, the criticism of the original thread to "not make waves" was written with the unfortunate implication that you shouldn't call out missing stairs or toxic elements, and people (including me) are pretty upset about that idea being so pervasive even in subtext. Zurui fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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I do think it's good of Stolze to outline what to expect from him in a social encounter because it gives people something to hold him accountable to while also helping him put pre-emptive boundaries out there.
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quote:Here’s what we’re doing to improve: Find "We have fired Mike Mearls." ... 0 results. Okay then.
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quote:Later this year, we will release a product (not yet announced) that offers a way for a player to customize their character’s origin, including the option to change the ability score increases that come from being an elf, a dwarf, or one of D&D's many other playable folk. This option emphasizes that each person in the game is an individual with capabilities all their own. lol
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I actually think the Ancestries & Cultures release by Arcanist Press should probably just be used instead. Check it out here . Took them 2 months compared to however many years for WotC. Gray Ghost fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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Oh, neat. Going to block quote this for future reference: quote:Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is strength, for only a diverse group of adventurers can overcome the many challenges a D&D story presents. In that spirit, making D&D as welcoming and inclusive as possible has moved to the forefront of our priorities over the last six years. We’d like to share with you what we’ve been doing, and what we plan to do in the future to address legacy D&D content that does not reflect who we are today. We recognize that doing this isn’t about getting to a place where we can rest on our laurels but continuing to head in the right direction. We feel that being transparent about it is the best way to let our community help us to continue to calibrate our efforts. I'm glad they're doing something substantive about the Vistani and committing to taking on sensitivity readers, and I hope that it helps with future products. Nice of them to come around to almost the same conclusion 4e had about racial bonuses again. Now do away with alignment for real, cowards.
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Gray Ghost posted:I actually think the Ancestries & Cultures release by Arcanist Press should probably just be used instead. Check it out here . A thing I backed on Kickstarter, A Deadman's Guide to Dragongrin, took the approach of separating what you are physically and what you are culturally as well. Was a pleasant surprise, though what's in that book is focused on that specific setting rather than the more broad approach above.
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What insensitive stuff is in Tomb of Annihilation? My group's running that right now and I may as well brace myself.
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Bruceski posted:What insensitive stuff is in Tomb of Annihilation? My group's running that right now and I may as well brace myself.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Imagine a bunch of white people writing about Africa There's also a seventeen-year-old refugee who wants to get dicked down by the adult male PCs, and they come within in an inch of describing her as a yandere slut.  She's also black, so they gotta find a way to call her lazy, but in a like, a backhanded way.
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GreenMetalSun posted:There's also a seventeen-year-old refugee who wants to get dicked down by the adult male PCs, and they come within in an inch of describing her as a yandere slut. good god that's really bad
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