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Nessus posted:"Content engagement" seems to mean "We seem to detect you are not yet upset enough to make us money, regular user... can we fix that?" Yeah, assholes get the most clicks, and the most clicks get the most recommends, so evincing the barest hint of an interest in politics means maybe you want to see what a bunch of Nazis have to say.
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Pocky In My Pocket posted:Oh thank god, i was worried it was just me. Nah, I can still see Wendig. I was just surprised because I've never been blocked by anyone before (that I know of). I wouldn't be surprised to find Bohl blocks a lot of people and uses tools to do so that are rather indiscriminate. He took on Zak S and became the target of Zak's coordinated harassment gang. Getting on the bad side of those sorts of assholes would make anyone just start mashing the block button. Jimbozig fucked around with this message at 02:41 on May 7, 2021 |
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poo poo, I thought Bohl blocking me was a personal thing. Good to know I'm in good company, but now it makes me wonder who I'm following/talking to that got me on this list.
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May 7, 2021 02:46
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The Darkest Dungeon narrator had me blocked and I never figured out how that happened, it's just one of those things.
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Is Wendig bad now? The only venue i saw him in was Twitter, and I haven’t been on in probably five years.
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It's almost like using huge compiled lists that tell you who to block(or do it for you) is a bad idea, or something.
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actually3raccoons posted:Is Wendig bad now? The only venue i saw him in was Twitter, and I haven’t been on in probably five years. People accused him of suing archive.is. https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1334568088646414338?s=20
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actually3raccoons posted:Is Wendig bad now? The only venue i saw him in was Twitter, and I haven’t been on in probably five years. He's been associated, fairly or otherwise, with attempts to shut down the internet archive's ebook lending system
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Pretty fairly IMHO. He actually went full Lars Ulrich and called library lending piracy, and is still whining about how mean the left is being to him for not standing up for 'workers rights' by being hostile to the corporate-written hellhole that is US IP law. In his own words, while trying to do damage control: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2020/03/31/my-statement-to-npr-on-the-internet-archives-emergency-library/ quote:To continue my commentary here a little — when I spoke about this on Twitter, it poured gasoline on an already roaring fire, and I endured what could best be described as a deluge of awfulness from corners of the internet both predictable and unpredictable. (The alt-right and the far left are definitely high-fiving on this one, forming a complete circle.) The alt-right side is, as noted, predictable — but I am surprised that the left has embraced a site run by a Bay area tech mill/billionaire over the rights of artists and writers, who I’d think would more commonly be embraced as the “workers” so commonly thought of in workers’ rights. He's not a terrible person as far as I know, but it was a real bad take that came out in a reactionary moment when he felt his own livelihood was threatened. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 05:28 on May 7, 2021 |
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May 7, 2021 05:25
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The Internet Archive was going to get sued for its (harmless) relaxation of e-lending book scans during a pandemic no matter what, but Chuck Wendig decided to slather a mixture of honey and pulped salmon all over his body and drive into the twitter bear den to outrage tweet about the audacity of the unlimited e-lending, bringing the whole matter to the attention of a lot more people with him dead in the center being an rear end about it all. Outside of that, he's just one of those kind of smarmy lefty white guys who are endemic to social media.
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Nuns with Guns posted:The Internet Archive was going to get sued for its (harmless) relaxation of e-lending book scans during a pandemic no matter what, but Chuck Wendig decided to slather a mixture of honey and pulped salmon all over his body and drive into the twitter bear den to outrage tweet about the audacity of the unlimited e-lending, bringing the whole matter to the attention of a lot more people with him dead in the center being an rear end about it all. This is basically it, plus he's not that good a writer. People would be defending him more if he had not put the sentence "The TIE wibbles and wobbles through the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrrann rooftops - it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight." to paper.
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Liquid Communism posted:I'm more impressed that got past an editor. You must not read a lot of star wars books.
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Arthil posted:It's almost like using huge compiled lists that tell you who to block(or do it for you) is a bad idea, or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0GGgykj3E
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Arthil posted:It's almost like using huge compiled lists that tell you who to block(or do it for you) is a bad idea, or something. Sure, but Twitter is a “the only winning move is not to play,” situation. If you’re getting brigaded by Nazis and don’t want to just leave the platform it might be the best option you have.
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Ultiville posted:Sure, but Twitter is a “the only winning move is not to play,” situation. If you’re getting brigaded by Nazis and don’t want to just leave the platform it might be the best option you have. just set your account to private? you don't need to post on twitter (especially since we have this place), but it is great to read imo
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Kavak posted:You guys still have Twitter? It rules for following my favorite sports team.
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Nuns with Guns posted:The Internet Archive was going to get sued for its (harmless) relaxation of e-lending book scans during a pandemic no matter what, but Chuck Wendig decided to slather a mixture of honey and pulped salmon all over his body and drive into the twitter bear den to outrage tweet about the audacity of the unlimited e-lending, bringing the whole matter to the attention of a lot more people with him dead in the center being an rear end about it all.
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Thanks for info! My only memory of Wendig was him trying too hard to be funny while giving generic encouragement. I’m disappointed that he’d have Bad Opinions about lending materials, but I work at a public library, so I’m pretty biased about that.
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Kavak posted:You guys still have Twitter? Yes, please participate in four job fiesta*. *You no longer need a twitter account to participate.
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May 7, 2021 15:35
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DalaranJ posted:Yes, please participate in four job fiesta*. I hosed up and didn't complete even one run last year, I must do penance. FJF is a blast and everyone should give it a try, FFV is one silly, silly, pretty short JRPG that's worth playing to make goons donate to charity.
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actually3raccoons posted:My only memory of Wendig was him trying too hard to be funny while giving generic encouragement. I’m disappointed that he’d have Bad Opinions about lending materials, but I work at a public library, so I’m pretty biased about that. He had that brief moment of everybody thinking he was funny when he and Sam Sykes had that twitter thread on 'Am I An 80's Slasher?' or something like that. (Sam Sykes himself is a fantasy writer whose work I initially enjoyed but not so much anymore, although he left for a while when his bout of unwanted advances on women at conventions surfaced. I think he's back now, though.)
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neongrey posted:where else can I get a constant, confusing stream of cat pictures, boob pictures, and rage inducing political opinions besides Twitter?
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Hostile V posted:Tumblr, if you can tolerate the pornbots that didn't actually get banned after all of the smut artists and sex workers left. Hm, at least I hope they aren't posting female-presenting nipples, or my monocle might pop off.
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I did my time in the tumblr mines. ive never seen so much legit stalking with my own eyes before. never again.
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Darwinism posted:I hosed up and didn't complete even one run last year, I must do penance. I didn't even complete a run, and I had Blue Mage/Mystic Knight/Ninja/Chemist one year!
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Twitter is unfortunately the only major networking social media place for indie RPG designers that isn't a discord server you don't know about or something, Google Groups is dead as hell, Facebook is significantly worse than Twitter in a number of respects, Reddit means dealing with downvotes and subreddit mods and the general quality of Reddit which is also bad, so I mean I'm certainly not going to defend Twitter as a positive force in the world but also where else are you gonna go to stay hooked into a lot of that stuff? Like yeah a lot of Twitter is poo poo and bad but a huge number of the people I follow are indie RPG designers whose work I follow, artists I have/would like to commission, etc. I'm not getting that on RPGnet where they still as far as I know have weird rules about self-promotion.
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Hostile V posted:Tumblr, if you can tolerate the pornbots that didn't actually get banned after all of the smut artists and sex workers left. Haha you silly goose, tumblr will never ban porn bots, because that might demonstrate that they've got the infrastructure to mass ban neo-nazi accounts.
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This seems to be a weird alt-right turn from the creator of Stars Without Number. https://twitter.com/MadBitchEnergy/status/1392275621317861379?s=19
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Eastmabl posted:This seems to be a weird alt-right turn from the creator of Stars Without Number. This isn't some "weird alt-right turn." Crawford has been trying to address these issues in varying ways since pretty much the beginning of his RPG career, and especially in his fantasy work. It's an attempt to solve the problem of fantasy "races" from the path most designers don't take, the Tolkien orc idea of creatures made irreparably evil by magical forces beyond their control. Not to assign it to straight biology or some idea of "natural difference" but squarely putting it in the fantastical, weird, and magical. He's spoken about how this tension has underlaid his work before, like in the Red Tide setting, and this is a continuance of that. It's just RPG Twitter being RPG Twitter, as always.
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Eastmabl posted:This seems to be a weird alt-right turn from the creator of Stars Without Number. Crrawford has been dealing with 'irredeemably evil races' since his very start in RPG writing, and puts effort into developing the viewpoint of the side of a conflict that could be reduced to 'always chaotic evil' at every turn. He also took up the challenge to make a succesful RPG that did not assume a euro-centric view in 'Spear of the Dawn' and actually made a good RPG with a setting based on West Africa. To call him alt-right is absurd.
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It sounds like a continuation of the same thing that came up with Crawford being mentioned in relation to "solving" race issues in D&D 5e: that of being concerned with an in-universe reason to justify the ongoing existence of an "always chaotic evil" humanoid race because of some feeling that D&D and D&D-like dungeon crawling fantasy games must have that convention. This is running up against the other position that's been kind of gradually building that maybe if this is so deeply embedded in D&D, we shouldn't still be supporting D&D altogether. It's the same kind of nasty tension you get with whether or not Westerns are still an acceptable genre if certain conventions are "necessary" to be a Western in someone's mind.
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Nuns with Guns posted:It sounds like a continuation of the same thing that came up with Crawford being mentioned in relation to "solving" race issues in D&D 5e: that of being concerned with an in-universe reason to justify the ongoing existence of an "always chaotic evil" humanoid race because of some feeling that D&D and D&D-like dungeon crawling fantasy games must have that convention. This is running up against the other position that's been kind of gradually building that maybe if this is so deeply embedded in D&D, we shouldn't still be supporting D&D altogether. It's the same kind of nasty tension you get with whether or not Westerns are still an acceptable genre if certain conventions are "necessary" to be a Western in someone's mind. Yeah, but if you're looking for "maybe we should stop playing games like D&D" Kevin Crawford is not the place you look. Like the dude tries to deal with the issues in D&D head on and has squarely always been doing that, not making not-D&D games all of a sudden. It's just the same bullshit RPG Twitter has always been doing, again and again and again.
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Having dealt with the tension with Westerns from a writing perspective - there isn't a solution there to play out the genre and also make it okay morally. I want to find one but it doesn't really exist. Not if your players want to play the settlers, the cowboys, etc. Resisting colonization by a foreign power? That you can make work. But you are leaving the mold of the Western in the process. YMMV on whether that's what you want. I have a feeling trying to emulate these particular fantasy trappings falls into the same pit where you just can't really salvage it without fundamentally changing it to not be what you're originally after. (edit to clarify: "what you're originally after" being "always chaotic evil enemies, who are also sapient") SkyeAuroline fucked around with this message at 19:30 on May 12, 2021 |
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It's not a weird alt-right turn but  at anyone who thinks "no people is Always Chaotic Evil" is somehow incompatible with D&D.
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SkyeAuroline posted:Having dealt with the tension with Westerns from a writing perspective - there isn't a solution there to play out the genre and also make it okay morally. I want to find one but it doesn't really exist. Not if your players want to play the settlers, the cowboys, etc.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Does Little Big Man not count as resisting because the protagonist is still white? You know what - good point, it had slipped my mind while writing it.
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SkyeAuroline posted:Having dealt with the tension with Westerns from a writing perspective - there isn't a solution there to play out the genre and also make it okay morally. I want to find one but it doesn't really exist. Not if your players want to play the settlers, the cowboys, etc. I mean, if the characters themselves aren't moral or presented as correct or good, that's one approach, right? Most spaghetti Westerns are about utter bastards and people who are slightly less bastards.
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