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Antivehicular posted:Hashtag healing, hashtag inflictwounds, hashtag negativeenergy lmao also bravo Ettin
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Kai Tave posted:Circling back to this to add some context, while it's true that the way you get rich is by loving people over even if you have the money not to have to do so, one of the Kickstarters they stiffed people on raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $300,000 so they definitely had money with which to pay people what they were owed, which means they could have legitimately paid their freelancers and a lot of this poo poo would have never even gone public. There's a lot of other terrible behavior here to be sure, sexual harassment and bullying and abuse of all sorts, but as noted earlier in the thread if they'd simply paid their fuckin freelancers then a lot of this would have continued going unremarked as merely business as usual for the TRPG industry. What's funny is like at least another 25% of these exchanges that have been screenshotted wouldn't have happened with Jamison Stone if he could stop himself from talking like a JRPG final boss for a single paragraph.
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Nuns with Guns posted:What's funny is like at least another 25% of these exchanges that have been screenshotted wouldn't have happened with Jamison Stone if he could stop himself from talking like a JRPG final boss for a single paragraph. https://twitter.com/Gen_Ironicus/status/1535655561995460609
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Maxwell Lord posted:This is starting to make more sense, they get everyone to be intimidated by/focus on what incredible assholes they are so that nobody notices the theft.
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Warthur posted:That could be it: if the cost of getting your money back is having to interact further with Satine and Jamison, many people would say "gently caress it, I would pay twice that amount of money to simply never deal with them again." This is a standard tactic by a certain type of shitlord, and it is very deliberate. They always know exactly what they're doing (and it tends to be exactly this, too - screwing over freelancers for their own ego). They rely on people cutting their losses and not badmouthing them in a way that sticks, and not wanting to risk legal action. They'll never risk doing it to someone powerful or well-known enough that people would take a complaint from them seriously.
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Okay? I saw that tweet before, yes. There certainly would be more people who would be willing to hold their noses and deal with their bullshit if they were getting fair and timely pay. I'm not disagreeing there. It's just on top of it all a lot of those exchanges wouldn't even happen if Jamison Stone could resist reminding people he's a superior being and he's one bad day away from cleansing the world by dropping a meteor on us. Like it's not enough to just berate and gaslight people, but they have to prostrate themselves to his ascendant power. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:Okay? I saw that tweet before, yes. There certainly would be more people who would be willing to hold their noses and deal with their bullshit if they were getting fair and timely pay. I'm not disagreeing there. It's just on top of it all a lot of those exchanges wouldn't even happen if Jamison Stone could resist reminding people he's a superior being and he's one bad day away from cleansing the world by dropping a meteor us. Like it's not enough to just berate and gaslight people, but they have to prostrate themselves to his ascendant power. So far as I can work out this Jamison Stone dude is the sort of person you get in the influencer space who is famous largely because they have told you they are famous a lot, I suspect part of the way you get good at that is you simply never turn off the self-promotion circuit in your brain.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Okay? I saw that tweet before, yes. There certainly would be more people who would be willing to hold their noses and deal with their bullshit if they were getting fair and timely pay. I'm not disagreeing there. It's just on top of it all a lot of those exchanges wouldn't even happen if Jamison Stone could resist reminding people he's a superior being and he's one bad day away from cleansing the world by dropping a meteor us. Like it's not enough to just berate and gaslight people, but they have to prostrate themselves to his ascendant power. Yeah, my immediate reference with this was Luke Crane, who did his capricious wizard voice bullshit and involuntary Kickstarter cancellation stuff but was more often than not tolerated because he (as far as I know) paid people on time and ran well-regarded projects. It took the Koebel incident for him to be fully called out. It's still absolutely astounding at how arrogant Stone was for someone who, as far as I can tell, did no writing work on his own projects and whose most creative ideas as an idea guy was "what if bards were cool" and "me, but with a sword and glowing eyes."
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Nuns with Guns posted:Okay? I saw that tweet before, yes. There certainly would be more people who would be willing to hold their noses and deal with their bullshit if they were getting fair and timely pay. I'm not disagreeing there. It's just on top of it all a lot of those exchanges wouldn't even happen if Jamison Stone could resist reminding people he's a superior being and he's one bad day away from cleansing the world by dropping a meteor on us. Like it's not enough to just berate and gaslight people, but they have to prostrate themselves to his ascendant power. It's not uncommon for certain people to constantly be harboring fantasies of having a bag of silver bullets they could destroy everyone around them with at any time (you are supposed to backpat them for not doing this).
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https://twitter.com/lysapenrose/status/1536878044962430976 https://twitter.com/lysapenrose/status/1536878047869079552 https://twitter.com/lysapenrose/status/1536878051320995840 Rotten to the loving core, goddamn.
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It's worth noting that in 2018 Lysa was an admin for Adventurers League, so this has me Curious. 
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DressCodeBlue posted:It's worth noting that in 2018 Lysa was an admin for Adventurers League, so this has me Curious. She's also very entwined with Wizards, so I'm curious what isn't being said.
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In retrospect, the fact that his official character in Sirens Battle Of The Bards, the thing they are directly selling as a product, presumably his upcoming character on Twitch (I can only assume, but c'mon), is himself but as an elf with a lightsaber? Buddy, you're not even trying to hide that you don't actually care about any of this. Just nakedly acknowledging that this is part of a grift.
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That’s not part of the grift, that’s just evidence that he’s so loving boring that his character is a literal self insert.
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Bottom Liner posted:That’s not part of the grift, that’s just evidence that he’s so loving boring that his character is a literal self insert. *coughs loudly in the direction of own avatar*
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Froghammer posted:In retrospect, the fact that his official character in Sirens Battle Of The Bards, the thing they are directly selling as a product, presumably his upcoming character on Twitch (I can only assume, but c'mon), is himself but as an elf with a lightsaber? Buddy, you're not even trying to hide that you don't actually care about any of this. Just nakedly acknowledging that this is part of a grift. For those who haven't looked, it's as bad as it sounds. 
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And I believe the tattoos are originally the character’s and he got them on himself because he’s a massive loving mark.
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Tell me you have only a surface level understanding of Buddhism without saying so.
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What's with this guy's Ultimate Warrior cosplay? Are they tactical bicep ribbons?
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UrbanLabyrinth posted:For those who haven't looked, it's as bad as it sounds. this decker reboot looks sick
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UrbanLabyrinth posted:For those who haven't looked, it's as bad as it sounds. Like I don't object to Fantasy Buddhism, I don't even object to just having it be regular Buddhism with some minor adjustments, but c'mon, man.
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Halloween Jack posted:What's with this guy's Ultimate Warrior cosplay? Are they tactical bicep ribbons? Ultimate Warrior was a giant piece of poo poo grifter with a dumb lovely wife so it makes sense.
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Nessus posted:bruh, please otoh I think there's a seed for some pretty cool concepts with elves having a religion based on trying to withdraw from a karmic cycle of rebirth specifically because they're long lived, so could build up quite a ledger of pain. You could even crib a bit from the Eberon ancestor cult by having liches in a sort of bodhisattva role, where they're both inches away from escape, but also still sticking around due to helping others along the path.
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UrbanLabyrinth posted:For those who haven't looked, it's as bad as it sounds. Why is he holding the sword by the blade
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People paid a lot of money for that poo poo. A lot of money.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Are Buddhists heavy into vengeful crusades Historically yes. They are a religion, and have done all the poo poo other religions have done, good and bad.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Historically yes. They are a religion, and have done all the poo poo other religions have done, good and bad. "Historically"? The Rohingya genocide is ongoing. It's not "Buddhists", it's "some Buddhists", though.
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Piell posted:Why is he holding the sword by the blade Look, you don’t know how magic swords work.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Are Buddhists heavy into vengeful crusades Like if I looked at this guy from a Buddhist perspective the tragedy would be him falling into the binds of his karma and literally going to the hell realm to fight fire elephants and poo poo instead of embracing a wisdom path and seeking to liberate all suffering beings. There is as yet no Buddhist equivalent of DragonRaid; the marketplace has failed me.
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Mors Rattus posted:Tell me you have only a surface level understanding of Buddhism without saying so. You’re getting all the way up to surface level of understanding? Most of the stuff I’ve seen from him was just bullshit with a hippie store palette swap, so I’d argue it’s an actively misleading understanding. Motherfucker is basically Kevin Klein in A Fish Called Wanda.
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Kurieg posted:Travel to hell and punch Karma into Bhuddisatan. 
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Xiahou Dun posted:You’re getting all the way up to surface level of understanding? Most of the stuff I’ve seen from him was just bullshit with a hippie store palette swap, so I’d argue it’s an actively misleading understanding. I mean, dude was apparently involved in a “Buddhist inspired” liberal arts school in Colorado. https://mobile.twitter.com/TomTudbury/status/1535273524683603968 https://mobile.twitter.com/TomTudbury/status/1535276303691022336
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I think Elves being lovely Buddhists could be pretty great, if they persist at it despite being lovely at it.
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Piell posted:Why is he holding the sword by the blade Is he holding the sword at all? That looks to me like the artist forgot he was supposed to have a sword and just drew it separately and slapped it in the vague vicinity of his right hand.
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