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Edge Studios has clarified in their Discord that this is not the end of L5R Fifth Edition, it's an alternate product line, sort of like how Cubicle 7 had both The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-Earth running in parallel (and, I gather, Fria Ligan is planning to do now that they have the license).
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Sep 15, 2021 13:23
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Did we get to how Paizo was in debt to the mob? I was morbidly curious about that one.
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Sep 15, 2021 14:17
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Dawgstar posted:Did we get to how Paizo was in debt to the mob? I was morbidly curious about that one. The magazine industry has mob ties and Paizo borrowed money from the mob, apparently.
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https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1437932525104553985 e; I'm gonna be honest and it's kind of a conversational swerve, but I really hope the whole "going to cons and getting shitfaced drunk" thing dies out sooner rather than later. I know there's been more pushback against it in recent years but it's honestly a little hosed that there's a pervasive attitude that cons aren't complete without some serious inebriation, not talking "have some drinks with friends" but the sort of "trying too hard to get hammered" sorta thing because man does it seem to be the source of a lot of really terrible decisions and behavior. Kai Tave fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sep 15, 2021 14:20
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frankly given the rest of the stuff in the thread, "mob ties" ranks pretty low in terms of lovely Paizo behavior like organized crime is bad, but even I vacuum my office more than once every 7 years
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Sep 15, 2021 14:29
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Isn't all licensing rent-seeking?
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Wow. There is so much wrong in that twitter thread, I hardly know where to begin. ...Mostly unrelated: I don't really know anything about Teosophy, but the knowledge that it has ties with racism makes me worry a bit about this Scion supplement that I saw: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/342090/The-Spiritual-Hierarchy-of-the-Ascended-Masters?affiliate_id=498510 paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sep 15, 2021 14:40
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Isn't theosophy a large part of where Hitler got his aryans from? Bits of it found their way into a ton of fantasy writing. IIRC the akashic records are part of it, for instance. Their whole thing was taking ~~mysterious oriental wisdom~~ and mangling it into the ~~secret teachings~~ of the ~~wise ancient masters~~ (in tibet) for the western audience. Wikipedia tells me they inspired gandhi so lol I guess it's a land of 19th century racist contrasts. 90s Cringe Rock fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sep 15, 2021 14:46
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Veritek83 posted:frankly given the rest of the stuff in the thread, "mob ties" ranks pretty low in terms of lovely Paizo behavior Honestly I'm inclined to agree on this one.
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Sep 15, 2021 14:52
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Isn't theosophy a large part of where Hitler got his aryans from?
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Sep 15, 2021 14:56
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paradoxGentleman posted:Wow. There is so much wrong in that twitter thread, I hardly know where to begin. The author of that is a friend of mine and has done a ton of research. Pablo Vazquez is super cool and knows a lot about the topic. The pdf acknowledges the racist history of Theosophy but focuses on the modern PoC communities that have adopted the Ascended Masters and made the religion their own. This is part of why Theosophy is complicated! Modern takes on it are often very far from its Victorian origins, which are undeniably super racist.
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Sep 15, 2021 14:59
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paradoxGentleman posted:Wow. There is so much wrong in that twitter thread, I hardly know where to begin. Its core belief is that the further back in time you go, the closer you get to real religion. This is a good listen, iirc, with an emphasis on how it influenced pseudo-archeology. Jeb Card loves talking about this poo poo. https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/pseudo/10
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Yeah, Brucato is a well-meaning and friendly guy, but he's just so... himself... and so tied into that early 90s zeitgeist.
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Sep 15, 2021 15:08
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I thought the whole "Aryan" thing was because European archaeologists and anthropologists got a good enough handle on India's place in the archaeological record, realized that there was a thriving, sophisticated culture there while Europeans were still doing the stone knives and bearskins hunter/gatherer thing, and concluded that no, there's no way a bunch of dark skinned savages could have invented civilization, it must have come from a group of hitherto-unsuspected white people living in the far north who invaded India and imposed it on them. It was an early dry-run for later theories of how aliens must have built the pyramids.
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Indo-Aryan theory is…complicated and hard to explain but a lot of the ideas behind the rise of 1880s to 1940s Aryan White People racism was aggressive misunderstanding of pop science stuff. What’s actually true is…still being figured out.
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Sep 15, 2021 15:21
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Mors Rattus posted:The author of that is a friend of mine and has done a ton of research. Pablo Vazquez is super cool and knows a lot about the topic. The pdf acknowledges the racist history of Theosophy but focuses on the modern PoC communities that have adopted the Ascended Masters and made the religion their own. Oh well, that's fantastic to hear! Thanks for the info and sorry about my knee-jerk reaction.
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Sep 15, 2021 15:45
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Halloween Jack posted:Is it like that bit in This Is Spinal Tap, where Fran Drescher tries to explain to them that the 60s are over? The host is kinda bowled over that he's talking to such a famous and influential guy, and to be fair, it's a pretty big coup to get The Mage Guy on your very first episode, so it's a pretty soft and friendly interview. But pretty quickly, Brucato gets off on a tangent about why he's called Satyr and not Phil, and how it's been rough because his friend Coyote isn't doing too well, and you can just see the Siouxsie and the Banshees poster and the side table covered in Amy Brown faerie statues, like the past 25 years hadn't really happened but they kept getting older for some reason...
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Sep 15, 2021 16:04
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I also knew a white guy named Coyote, but that was, indeed, almost 20 years ago Edit: He sold swords at the mall next to Belk Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sep 15, 2021 16:07
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He legally changed his name to Satyros and that tells you pretty much all you need to know about him.
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Maybe it was Satyr-ical. (No it wasn’t.) (I’m sorry.)
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Sep 15, 2021 17:22
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Toph Bei Fong posted:The host is kinda bowled over that he's talking to such a famous and influential guy, and to be fair, it's a pretty big coup to get The Mage Guy on your very first episode, so it's a pretty soft and friendly interview. You only had to look at his (dreadful, terrible, cringe-inducing, kinda gross) music RPG to learn he was a man stuck in time. He dedicated the book in part to the DJs who were flipping the bird to authority by playing certain bands and some of the bands he thought fought the power were very funny.
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Dawgstar posted:You only had to look at his (dreadful, terrible, cringe-inducing, kinda gross) music RPG to learn he was a man stuck in time. He dedicated the book in part to the DJs who were flipping the bird to authority by playing certain bands and some of the bands he thought fought the power were very funny. 
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Sep 15, 2021 18:55
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Please do go on. https://writeups.letsyouandhimfight.com/daeren/powerchords/ E: the review was abandoned shortly after it became increasingly, disgustingly, obvious that this was basically just Brucato's sexual fantasy written to paper. And said sexual fantasy has enough content warning red flags to make the USSR blush. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sep 15, 2021 19:40
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https://www.boardgamequest.com/the-gaming-goat-ceo-jeff-bergren-escorted-out-of-gen-con/ Gen Con starting off strong.
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Sep 15, 2021 20:05
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Oh, it’s the frog guy, he’s a chud.
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Sep 15, 2021 20:13
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I’m surprised there wasn’t any coverage itt of Bergren when that was all going down last week. He has a long history of being a poo poo head in this industry.
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Sep 15, 2021 20:46
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Please do go on. Kurieg has the link so you can read it for yourself, but I think the one that stands out to me was the B-52s. Now, if playing them was ever considered, I don't know, counterculture or rebellious or whatever Phil the Thrill is going on about then fine that's on me, but I raised an eyebrow.
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Sep 15, 2021 20:47
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As glad as I am to see frog guy get poo poo on, it wouldn't surprise me if this is calculated victimhood to draw more sympathy from the conservative crowd.
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Sep 15, 2021 20:52
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How old is the guy (E: Brucato) anyways?
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Dr. Clockwork posted:I’m surprised there wasn’t any coverage itt of Bergren when that was all going down last week. He has a long history of being a poo poo head in this industry. Kicked out of GenCon to own the libs.
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Dr. Clockwork posted:I’m surprised there wasn’t any coverage itt of Bergren when that was all going down last week. He has a long history of being a poo poo head in this industry. There was some discussion in the Kickstarter thread, kind of heating up here: SoftNum posted:It's likely not an accident. Jeff Bergren (owns TGG ang TGG games) is his own piece of work but here's directly from the frog's mouth as it were:
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Dawgstar posted:Kurieg has the link so you can read it for yourself, but I think the one that stands out to me was the B-52s. Now, if playing them was ever considered, I don't know, counterculture or rebellious or whatever Phil the Thrill is going on about then fine that's on me, but I raised an eyebrow. Yeah, you could make a case that 3 (iirc) of the members of the band are openly homosexual and they rose to fame in a world far more hostile to their identities, and have that tie into the power of music to allow people to transgress against society and be themselves in ways they normally couldn't. However, you'd probably need to actually explain that, and let's be honest, the RPG is probably more about how the bands he liked in his teens are cool and subversive (because he is cool and subversive) not an actual exploration of anything.
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Coolness Averted posted:Yeah, you could make a case that 3 (iirc) of the members of the band are openly homosexual and they rose to fame in a world far more hostile to their identities, and have that tie into the power of music to allow people to transgress against society and be themselves in ways they normally couldn't. However, you'd probably need to actually explain that, and let's be honest, the RPG is probably more about how the bands he liked in his teens are cool and subversive (because he is cool and subversive) not an actual exploration of anything. But yeah, the real reason they're in there is that Phil liked them when he was in college, therefore they are by definition the peak of what real important music is.
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That Old Tree posted:Speaking of Crystal backing her up: I always had that feel from Paizo.
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FMguru posted:But yeah, the real reason they're in there is that Phil liked them when he was in college, therefore they are by definition the peak of what real important music is. That is one thing millennials will always have over other generations. The music from that time period loving sucked.
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I mean, I'm fond of the music I listened to when I was going through the rough spots in my life (E.G. High school) but I don't think that Crawling is somehow a magic spell.
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FMguru posted:
"You scoff, but the Rock Lobster is my Spirit Guide and Power Animal who hath guided my hand through realms strange and arcane!"
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LatwPIAT posted:Isn't all licensing rent-seeking? If you mean by licensing out your IP, not really, no. Admiral Joeslop posted:https://www.boardgamequest.com/the-gaming-goat-ceo-jeff-bergren-escorted-out-of-gen-con/ What the gently caress is with people screeching about getting the lawyers every time they face mild criticism this is wild
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