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Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

Often Abbreviated posted:

weird that no-one in the D&D modding thread has suggested "no pedos" as a criteria. that would be item no. 1 on my list.

the largest issue with D&D is that it has a Something Awful Forums stylesheet

a Facebook Group-inspired stylesheet would be more appropriate for the quality of posting going on here these days

there are a lot of people who simply do not give a gently caress whether their posting aligns with observable reality anymore, and the forum's population is so overwhelmingly on board with it that I don't think it's possible to moderate it away. even Guyovich-style purges wouldn't be enough

giving up on D&D's current vision and Zucking it up would be more reasonable than trying to cling to ancient obsolete SA trends like "expecting people to have any loving idea what they're talking about"

SA doesn't have politics discussion anymore. It just has politics venting, and then public brawls between people who got into an argument about the venting and decided to nurse a grudge about it for the rest of their lives. and every other interesting discussion topic has fled long ago toward forums with friendlier communities

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TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

Often Abbreviated posted:

weird that no-one in the D&D modding thread has suggested "no pedos" as a criteria. that would be item no. 1 on my list.

I'm not accusing anybody of anything in case any fat admins are reading this thread right now but I do think it's interesting that the most commonly advocated choice there thus far is a dude who once got probed for making an unsettlingly enthusiastic post about Obama punishing his daughter by having Harvey Weinstein molest her

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Uncle Wemus posted:

the largest issue with D&D is that it has a Something Awful Forums stylesheet

a Facebook Group-inspired stylesheet would be more appropriate for the quality of posting going on here these days

there are a lot of people who simply do not give a gently caress whether their posting aligns with observable reality anymore, and the forum's population is so overwhelmingly on board with it that I don't think it's possible to moderate it away. even Guyovich-style purges wouldn't be enough

giving up on D&D's current vision and Zucking it up would be more reasonable than trying to cling to ancient obsolete SA trends like "expecting people to have any loving idea what they're talking about"

SA doesn't have politics discussion anymore. It just has politics venting, and then public brawls between people who got into an argument about the venting and decided to nurse a grudge about it for the rest of their lives. and every other interesting discussion topic has fled long ago toward forums with friendlier communities

he's not wrong, which is nice to see. there's something of the guy he was before he became Captain Actually Sometimes Whores Lie still kicking.

d+d is a place for venting, for people who don't feel they can vent in cspam, and it is being moderated accordingly. it just so happens that attempting to moderate for a bunch of people whose demand is "everyone else has to be nice to me and I don't have to be nice to them" is an utterly thankless job that drives you insane, and also forces you to take on some REALLY monstrous positions in the name of pretending that's not what you're doing

Organ Fiend
May 21, 2007

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TheIncredulousHulk posted:

I'm not accusing anybody of anything in case any fat admins are reading this thread right now but I do think it's interesting that the most commonly advocated choice there thus far is a dude who once got probed for making an unsettlingly enthusiastic post about Obama punishing his daughter by having Harvey Weinstein molest her

Why the gently caress do you think he was nominated?

Populon
Mar 1, 2008

What's the matter,scared?

I am not suggesting that these users are assholes; an established pattern of trolling or bad faith is not the same as just "being an rear end in a top hat". I am saying that they are trying to manipulate the discussion of moderation so that moderation is made more difficult and/or amenable to their forms of abuse, and in pursuing this, they're going to be deeply disingenuous. If they seem like they have a good idea, it means you need to apply a lot of scrutiny to why it seems like a good idea, and what other motives they may have.

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica
simply put most low post count dnd threads back in gbs. Bing bong

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011


yep i called it as soon as i saw that puff piece that described her as a girlboss single mom who cut her small business teeth managing a casino lol

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

https://twitter.com/PatrickHastie/status/1433608099563249670?s=20

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1433790338569736192

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

lmao imagine being white

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

zegermans posted:

lmao imagine being white

gently caress you, I refuse to do this

BoosterDuck
Mar 2, 2019

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

gently caress you, I refuse to do this

be white?

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

https://twitter.com/JennieTetreault/status/1433441254612758531

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!


:thanks: :thumbsup:

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012


yes

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002



if Bernie had specifically campaigned on killing half a million Americans he would have won

McNugget Buddy
Aug 14, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

https://twitter.com/conrad_hotdish/status/1433860348000546817

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


imagine liking joe biden

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1433614249692127240

wow weird how all of a sudden the voting machines arent secure anymore now that were about to have an election where the democrats are expected to underperform

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Jazerus posted:

imagine liking joe biden

hosed up, op

Often Abbreviated
Dec 19, 2017

1st Severia Tank Brigade
"Ghosts of Honcharivske"

Some Guy TT posted:

wow weird how all of a sudden the voting machines arent secure anymore now that were about to have an election where the democrats are expected to underperform

is it that, or do "security experts" just want a taste of the 2020 election audit gravy train? gotta move fast on claiming election interference if you want any of that sweet pillow money

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Jazerus posted:

imagine liking joe biden

hey whoa don't just wildly encourage self-harm like that

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

why would they need security experts at all; they just need to wait for some pillow crackhead to libel them and sue for $infinity

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

Doesn't mittens romney own dominion or something

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

Uncle Wemus posted:

Doesn't mittens romney own dominion or something

why yes there's several links (not direct ownership, thats far too crass)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickun...causes-concern/

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1433470109742518273?s=20

:nsa:

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

see this is why i always lol at those VPN ads that say it'll hide your poo poo. like all these companies have given the government backdoors, the only way to avoid having the government read your poo poo is to be boring enough to be ignored

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

Raskolnikov38 posted:

see this is why i always lol at those VPN ads that say it'll hide your poo poo. like all these companies have given the government backdoors, the only way to avoid having the government read your poo poo is to be boring enough to be ignored

didnt we JUST have a "unhackable" cellphone company turn out to be a scam and all of its users busted?

lmao people are so gullible

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Jazerus posted:

imagine liking joe biden

If his number drop far enough becoming a Biden bro will power move for any professional poster. I'm expecting to make the switch sometime by February.

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
maybe you should've voted for the guy who offered free college and then we could both have what we want

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

I'm sure President Sanders would have no problem getting Manchin and Sinema on board with a radically progressive agenda

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

:ssh: he would gladly let them kill it like they are with his good friend Joe

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Excelzior posted:

I'm sure President Sanders would have no problem getting Manchin and Sinema on board with a radically progressive agenda

that's why we need president goku

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
just lmao imagine wasting any headspace on bernie in 2021. that motherfucker died over a year ago.

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Jazerus posted:

imagine liking joe biden

him pissing off the natsec blob and making the establishment media and the likes of david frum and tom friedman :qq: over afghanistan has unironically made me like him in that respect

gotta give credit where credit is due

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

just lmao imagine wasting any headspace on bernie in 2021. that motherfucker died over a year ago.

He's gonna run again in 2024

YOLOsubmarine
Oct 19, 2004

When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

"Motherfucking, what's that big dragon shit? That orange motherfucker. Charizard."

Raskolnikov38 posted:

see this is why i always lol at those VPN ads that say it'll hide your poo poo. like all these companies have given the government backdoors, the only way to avoid having the government read your poo poo is to be boring enough to be ignored

If they all had back doors the NSA wouldn’t need to push companies like Juniper to install their special key generation algorithm.

McNugget Buddy
Aug 14, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Chillgamesh posted:

He's gonna run again in 2024

If we have President Harris by then, how mad will K-Hive be

Does K-Hive still exist or are they also in hiding

theCalamity
Oct 23, 2010

Cry Havoc and let slip the Hogs of War
Also, as someone who posts much more regularly in CSPAM than D&D these days, I don't think anyone who is a CSPAM regular should complain about D&D's "insularity". When I post in CSPAM I regularly get called names like "dipshit lib" and told to gently caress off simply on the basis that I'm a D&D regular, despite the fact that my opinions are fairly aligned with that forum at large (with the exception of a few specific topics). My current red text is the latest product of that.

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uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
i'm not white, i'm "mottled" or as i prefer to describe it "parti-colored like the merry Harlequin."

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