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Bedlamdan posted:What is SA TG's opinion, of Fred Hicks's opinion, of gun control?? It probably doesn't go far enough. 
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I'm not a lawyer, but keep in mind that while generally game mechanics aren't copyrightable (though you can apparently patent them?) the law isn't going to look fondly at you if you produce something that could be mistaken for the original or an approved copy/derivative work of the original. Hence, if you make Catacoombs & Cyclopses 5e and release with a front cover that could be, by a lay person, mistaken for the actual D&D front cover, you're not going to be safe from a lawsuit. One concrete example I can think of is the layout of GURPS 4e book covers. Though you wouldn't be copying any specific design per se, SJG will sue you if you publish something with the same four-rectangle pattern, because it could be mistaken for an official SJG publication.
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OK but the Onyx Path Podcast has like three hosts, if recurring names are anything to go by.
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Jul 9, 2018 14:54
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I mean I'm also kind of confused by how someone who less than a week ago talked about their pitch to WW thinks that it's somehow damning for a single OPP employee to also write for WW. If you wanted to convince me that OPP weren't innocent victims, writer overlap in an industry with 99.9% freelancers isn't the way to do it.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:03
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If it's the email address he uses with to communicate with the public in his public-facing persona, it's probably not actually doxxing.
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Jul 9, 2018 16:42
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Kurieg posted:Iirc there was a trans Nosferatu in the text adventure named after a real life transperson that [REDACTED] had a personal problem with. She was Ventrue and would hire male Uber drivers to ask them questions about how OK they were with transwomen. If they were insufficiently accepting, she would eat them. If they were sufficiently accepting, she would have sex with them. The way the whole thing was written it was unclear at best whether she used Dominate to have sex with the sufficiently accepting taxi drivers, and whether her criteria for "sufficiently accepting" was "would have sex with me".
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Jul 13, 2018 14:47
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Liquid Communism posted:Then there's For some strange reason Alan Alexander doesn't get much work these days. I mean, aside from nearly every V20 book.
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Aug 6, 2018 18:26
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Rand Brittain posted:Alan Alexander was also the one who decided that Exalted was too gay and too matriarchal, so he made a point of nailing down all unspecified NPCs as hetero and all nations as patriarchal. Perfect guy to write V20 supplements. 
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Aug 6, 2018 20:33
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Infernals is easily my favorite charmset of the edition thematically, and almost all of their actual mechanics were pretty rad, like Acts of Villainy. All of the Moran-derived demon stuff was really evocative and cool. Unfortunately, it's anchored to several chapters of Surprise Demon Sex and other distasteful nonsense. Infernals is an excellent study in mechanics-as-message, thematic design, and carrot-mechanics.
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Aug 7, 2018 03:44
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Joke's on you! People who care about diversity usually think this is a broke take. 
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Aug 12, 2018 00:12
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Oh wow that is some of the weakest stuff to be grandstanding about how great MCG is over.
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Aug 12, 2018 02:24
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Subjunctive posted:Do solo practitioners really work from a word budget? I figured that was well downstream of writing whatever needed to be written, so I’m surprised that a designer would say “I carved 500 words out of the encumbrance rules, so I can finally add that example I wanted”. Have you heard a solo designer say “I wanted to add a better example and knew what it would be, but I didn’t have words to spare”? Especially given the prevalence of PDF delivery, it would be a sad surprise to me. It's a truism that good writing comes from working within restrictions. Writing without a word budget is a quick way to get bloated text. You wouldn't be getting more good stuff, you'd be getting the same stuff spread out over more text.
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Aug 16, 2018 21:21
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Comrade Koba posted:As he reads this, Zak S furiously starts one-handed typing a 40-page short story about lesbian Tzimisce dominatrixes in Auschwitz. He can reuse the breast table from A Red & Pleasant Land!
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Sep 22, 2018 17:08
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Twits: quotas are bad, the best person for the job should get the job, that's not racism Also twits: if a black person gets a job on merit it's racism against whites
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Oct 1, 2018 15:51
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Sage Genesis posted:I loving hate that myth. The age of modern rocketry arguably began with Robert Goddard, an American scientist, in the goddamn 1920's. Yes, during the war Germany developed the V2 - poster child of the potential of the rocket. But that was just a logical iteration of pre-existing technology, rockets would've been developed with or without the Nazis just the same. Pretty much all technology is just the logical iteration of pre-existing technology and pretty much all technology would have been developed eventually. Nonetheless, rocket science is the one field that the Nazis were ahead in. Not terribly far ahead, what with the V-2 being based on Goddard's designs, but the experience learned in going from a design to a working rocket is significant.
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Oct 21, 2018 07:19
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Liquid Cannibalism posted:Who are you going to sue? The NSA? Every offshore hosting outfit in a country that doesn't recognize EU law and which there is no legal standing to force to comply? At the first remove you tell customer-facing service provider Website X to delete the data or else. If Website X claim they don't have the data, they sold it to a third party they can't control, you roll your eyes and take them to court for failing to comply with regulations for keeping personal data private, that is, not selling it to other people who'll abuse it. If non-EU regulations prevent you from enforcing compliance on a non-EU party you roll your eyes some more and issue a directive noting that it's now punishable for EU ISPs to assist Website X in data mishandling, and watch as Website X loses 99.9% of its EU customers because the only way to visit Website X is through a proxy in Switzerland. This is rarely done, but the short of it is that a state can deny a foreign business from doing service in their country for failing to comply with local regulation, and this extends to online business too.
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Oct 30, 2018 16:19
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Liquid Cannibalism posted:Sure, if you want to balkanize your network and make it impossible for your citizens to do business on the Internet. If the businesses commit crimes, it would be nothing but prudent to protect your citizens from being abused by the practices of such businesses.  If the businesses want to do business with your citizens, then they have to obey local law as it applies to your citizens. This is the principle by which all other businesses work, there's no reason it shouldn't apply to ones you contact via phone lines.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:26
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moths posted:Jesus, what a mess. Not if things don't completely break down, and the fact the GDPR got passed in the first place means they've not broken down yet. It's a right and you can't waive it, and any contract that would try to get you to waive it is unenforcable.
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Oct 30, 2018 20:20
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spectralent posted:Do people not have tablets or something? Tablets are expensive. Not everyone has that kind of money to spend on luxuries.
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Nov 6, 2018 11:59
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Nessus posted:Sweden has like, workers' rights and poo poo, so it may just be that the firing process isn't instant the way it is in America An employer must give notice at least one month in advance of a termination. For employees that have been employed for at least two years, this extends to two months, then two three months after six years, four months after eight years, etc. up to six months. There's a few exceptions but they wouldn't apply here. If an employee resigns, they must give one month's notice.
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Nov 17, 2018 09:48
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That Old Tree posted:lol Trey Gowdy and Jill Stein Which guy?
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Nov 21, 2018 02:42
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Warthur posted:Joshi likes to claim that Lovecraft also softened his views and became a socialist in his later years, though if you read the political essays Joshi bases this on it's clear that Lovecraft supports socialism largely because he thinks it will appease the masses and thereby preserve the social status quo. That is a softer position compared to, say, "better dead than red". I don't think it makes him a socialist, but going by his depictions of the Yithians in A Shadow Out of Time, he seems to think that an ideal society has some elements of socialism to them. Also, on a more general point: I think it's a mistake to think that just because a horror author depicted something as terrifying in their books they were personally terrified of the same thing. A lot of the elements of religious terror in Lovecraft's works are mostly taking the piss, for instance. Also Cirno, the idea that cosmic horror is no longer terrifying is like... You're speaking on behalf of a lot of people. The most obvious counterexample I can think of are all the people who are unsettled reading about concepts like Deep Time, who are experiencing exactly the same anxieties Lovecraft's cosmic horror was supposed to invoke.
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Dec 8, 2018 11:02
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Kurieg posted:Most adventures assume that you're going to rest in the dungeon. Because the dungeons are loving huge. Time to bring back Wandering Monster rolls! 
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gradenko_2000 posted:yea I was gonna say "doesn't this also apply to GURPS?" GURPS does have Infinite Worlds for when you want a robot centaur, an elf sharpshooter, an autistic rat-woman engineer, a vampire, a wizard, a lightsaber-wielding nobleman, and a knife-throwing, acrobatic thief to go on adventures together.
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Personally I wish my condition wasn't constantly associated with transcendence, magic, and otherness. Being mundane for once would be nice.
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People sometimes use it about trans people, often out of ignorance, but in any case it's a word people use to describe trans people wrongly, so it carries a lot of bad and painful associations of being misunderstood and forced into an ill-fitting box.
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Libertad! posted:I do not have direct quotes cuz social media, but I recall the Tome of Foe's take on sex-shifting elves being viewed as iffy some in my circles on account of the unnecessary gamification of the subject ("you can change your sex once per long rest") along with the implicit implication of it being an elf-only thing. I can give you one right here and now: I don't like transness and other forms of queerness being made the domain of specific fantasy creatures, because it implies being trans/queer is like being a fantasy creature, sets up the trans/queer as an Other, and implies that humans should be cishetero.
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Andrast posted:I want to skip animations in difficult fights too! The fight with the Krogan warlord in Mass Effect 1 autosaves before the loading screen which leads to the boss fight, which opens with a cinematic and a dialogue. Death means going through all that over again. And over again. And over again. I'm against capital punishment, but...
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Dec 31, 2018 21:40
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Warthur posted:There's also the way that GURPS seems to have been hijacked entirely by those who really liked high levels of crunch, and the major releases for it seem to pander to that crunch, whereas back in the glory days of 3rd edition (which feels like GURPS' peak in terms of reach and visibility) you didn't go to GURPS for a thick, expensive, glossy, colour book full of crunch - you went to it for cheap and cheerful supplements which covered a particular genre or setting, and unpacked them with a sufficient level of insight that the books were drat useful even if you didn't use them with GURPS itself. The "glory days" of 3e were also the days of GURPS: Vehicles 2nd edition, which fifteen years after a new edition still haunts the game. The current 4e line spans the range from Action to Technical Grappling. Dungeon Fantasy is probably the most popular sub-game of GURPS and was also popular enough to be released as a game of its own that cuts away the detailed rules of GURPS. I'd say GURPS has never been as diverse and tooled towards low-crunch play as it currently is. They do need more setting/genre books though, that I agree with. The hurdles you have to go through to use GURPS for a simple science fiction game can be downright ridiculous: Basic Set + Space + Ultra Tech + Spaceships is the bare minimum for your standard sci-fi setting, and that's four books and a PDF-only supplement.
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Man, I know it was pages and pages ago, but I love lovely fantasy maps, so did anyone know the context of this one? I think it's from one of the 4chan cartography threads, and is mocking common criticisms of maps.
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Rand Brittain posted:I’ve historically been pretty indifferent to claims that RPGnet needs better conflict of interest rules, because, um, I honestly can’t think of any. But I feel like things are reaching the point where the industry’s ongoing incestuousness is creating problems, and not because of things like “nobody lets me say mean things about White Wolf games.” Opaque moderation procedures wherein the users cannot know what is going on behind the scenes, combined with a decent handful of OPP luminaries and freelancers in moderator positions, while threads about OPP properties were being moderated in ways that stifled criticism, did not look good. Apparently RPG.net had procedures to ensure there was no conflict of interest, but there was literally no way to tell: from what I recall (this happened years ago) any claim about there being a conflict of interest was met with "there isn't one" if not snide mockery. There weren't any guarantees offered, just assertions there wasn't a problem. And, you know, when you come to the staff of a place with "so hey this looks like it might be a problem" and all you get in response is a kind of brusque "there isn't a problem", when there's no apparent safeties or checks, it doesn't inspire confidence. Terrible Opinions posted:Hence saying "for a good long time" rather than just leaving it at the refuse. 2014 was long after it was known that Zak was a serial harasser. "Was known" is a very nebulous concept in abuse situations. Often when you hear about some abuser in the news you can find people speaking up about it years before - but there was no critical mass of people getting the message out. A decent chunk of people often know that someone is an abuser, but this doesn't mean that everyone knows. With Zak specifically I felt people were dragging their feet about recognizing it for an overly long time, but I also think of Marion Zimmer Bradley, whose malfeasance was known for decades by people who had actual court transcripts as evidence - but it was only recently that it got any traction. Or whatshername, RequiresHate. That she was an abusive twit was known within select fandom communities - but it took until someone put in a major effort in collating the evidence and broadcasting it for that to really penetrate the wider Internet consciousness.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:No. In Zak's rebuttal he claims that Mandy's signature is on the payment for Vivka's breast implants, so clearly he didn't pay for them and couldn't have lorded it over Vivka. But I figure that, if true, it just means that Zak paid for the breast implants with money that wasn't his.
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Dawgstar posted:Ah, yes. Surely Mandy paid for them, it being common knowledge how she was the one who supported Zak financially and held that over his head and everything. I mean, yes, that doesn't mesh much but it's not unheard of in this kind of financial abuse for someone to both give and take - possibly both, to make sure the victim is always reliant on the gift. Mostly speculation, though. The important point is that even if Zak can produce an actual copy of a a receipt that says "1x Breast implants, -Mandy Morbid", that doesn't invalidate anything Vivka or Mandy said.
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That Old Tree posted:It absolutely scans with Mandy's "I was your precious doll, not a woman" accusation. That line just kills me every time. I don't know why.
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Feb 14, 2019 12:48
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That Old Tree posted:Despite the revelation about "Mandy's" past posts, it doesn't seem cool to un-person someone even when they're being lovely. The strategy I've been using so far is to treat their testimony as honest (which is not the same as absolving Zak: I just assume it's true that Freddie did live with them, didn't see anything, and doesn't believe Zak abused Mandy) while at the same time doing my best to not drag them deeper into this in case they, like Mandy, are feeling lovely over this. It's surprisingly easy: since Zak is trying to DARVO, just not engaging with the people who are helping him D, A, and RVO is already the best strategy.
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thefakenews posted:The thing is: none of the direct factual claims in the statements made in support of Zak actually disprove any of the allegations against him. The fact that Zak's defenders didn't witness abuse, and don't believe it happened, is not evidence that the abuse didn't happen. Pretty much, yeah.
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PST posted:Well this doesn't look at all like Zak's normal MO and obsession with 'asking questions' does it? So far the questions haven't been the usual throwing-Zak-a-softball-setup, and he seems to prefer real-seeming people over an obvious alt account. At the same time pestering Stokley and Kane (or Vivka, who is a victim and definitely shouldn't be forced to constantly remember this stuff) with questions isn't something we should be doing - for one it buys into Zak's framing that their answers can somehow absolve him of the accusations, and it allows him to control the conversation since his supporters are the only people available to answer questions. Zak leaves a reply for Questio that really doesn't show what Zak think it shows, though. LatwPIAT fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Feb 15, 2019 |
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Loomer posted:Just like that, that Reddit post has been removed. Fortunately I have screenshots. I recommend against sharing them in public until there's a very good reason to do so. If Frankie chose to retract her statement, deleting it is a fairly reasonable thing to do.
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Comrade Gorbash posted:http://cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2019/02/thoughts-on-zaklash-personal-stuff.html At the bottom there's an excerpt from a chat with Zak where he says "she won't talk to the accused. like most accusers on the internet" which is certainly a demand to place on an abuse victim.
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Frankie's unlocked her Twitter again, but please don't go and bother her over all this, it's probably a very complicated and painful situation for her. Rebuke her defence, but don't attack her. Instead, I suggest signal-boosing this gal: https://twitter.com/LadyNasse/status/1096610854580207617 She's one of Mandy's close friends, was mentioned in Frankie's defence of Zak, and has words to say about how the situation has been misrepresented and how she's been used as a weapon against Mandy.
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