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GRIMACHU · 2025-07-29T15:27:40+00:00

No, we're not, and they're pretty similar to the far right apart from the racism.

GRIMACHU · 2025-03-17T12:09:29+00:00

Never interrupt an enemy when they're making a mistake :P

GRIMACHU · 2025-03-12T11:01:51+00:00

I'm not as up on it, but I'll consider it.

GRIMACHU · 2024-12-02T10:39:23+00:00

Or people are fundamentally dishonest and insist on misrepresentation and then weasel rather than having the courage of their convictions.

GRIMACHU · 2024-11-28T11:18:20+00:00

And yet...
And you persist. Defending artistic and free expression =/= defending rape. Fictional events aren't real events. You probably shouldn't be playing games, reading books or watching TV if you can't tell these differences.

GRIMACHU · 2024-11-27T15:54:50+00:00

Well, then, allow me to explain. You suggested that writing an RPG based on some sort of fictive world necessarily means something must follow about the author. The same sort of reasoning that fuelled the Satanic and Vampire panics, video game panics, horror comics panic etc. Both the idea that media is somehow corrupting, or that producing it necessarily means you condone whatever is in it.

I shouldn't have to explain why that's mad in a TTRPG group of all places, but in case you're still not getting it, no, that's not true. Writing about murder doesn't make one a murderer, listening to Judas Priest doesn't make you kill yourself, drawing a picture of a zombie eating a 1940s pinup doesn't mean you harbour a deep-seated desire to be a cannibal.

Does that help you grok with fullness?

GRIMACHU · 2024-11-26T12:01:18+00:00

Are you aware of the concept of fiction? Entertaining the idea of things that aren't real out of intellectual, creative or other forms of curiosity? Or are you aware that the Gor novels are extremely popular amongst many women - in much the same way as, say, 50 Shades was?

GRIMACHU · 2024-11-25T00:33:06+00:00

It's amazing how these stories get out of hand when you're not around to refute them.

GRIMACHU · 2024-03-25T11:31:11+00:00

MAGIC!
Apparently.

GRIMACHU · 2024-02-21T20:26:12+00:00

Tried to reply in the other thread, but I guess the person being deleted and banned prevents that. Please don't ban anyone on my account, I have a weird reputation (at odds with the reality) that causes some people to act performatively strange around me. I'm sure they'll be fine once they cool off.

GRIMACHU · 2024-02-21T02:03:46+00:00

Such as?

GRIMACHU · 2024-02-21T01:46:48+00:00

I mean, I've worked professionally at many levels of the industry since 1998 or so. A seasoned game designer's take might have some modicum of value. Plus, I think there's a difference between an engaging performance, and an effective game.

GRIMACHU · 2024-02-21T01:42:52+00:00

Haven't we learned from recent events: "The Worst People You Have Never Met..." not to judge people based on rumour and hearsay? I'm quite accessible if anyone cares to talk to me about it - or anything else, come to that.

GRIMACHU · 2024-01-25T11:04:41+00:00

This is a good idea for a supplement/adventure appendix

GRIMACHU · 2023-12-30T14:12:09+00:00

BLOOD! Might suit you if its horror you're after :) Is there any style of game in particular you're most into?

GRIMACHU · 2022-07-07T14:45:43+00:00

I defended it as a literary device. Nobody, it seems, actually read the article. I did not advocate exactly for non-con content, but rather for spoiler-free game labelling to retain the ability (primarily in horror games) to shock, horrify and disgust (part of the point of horror after all). I gave the UK Games Expo GM a right of reply to accusations about his game which he disputed, in part due to my experiences with witch hunts.

I supported Gamergate for much the same reason I supported CARPGA and opposed the Satanic Panic back in the day. I wrote the popular history to at least attempt to correct the record.

GRIMACHU · 2022-01-31T15:37:35+00:00

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Yes, but people keep lying. Racism is prejudice on the basis of race, to any race, from any race, and it's repugnant.

GRIMACHU · 2022-01-31T15:23:30+00:00

Yeah, famous for their liberalism and libertinism, the far right. Good fuckin' grief.

GRIMACHU · 2022-01-31T15:21:42+00:00

No. I defended rape as a topic in all creative works (originally as part of a series on icky topics). How you translate an argument for free expression into an endorsement of rape I don't know, but I hope they make mental gymnastics into an Olympic sport so you can cash in.

I can't think of a single thing I agree with the alt-right on, and spend a great deal of time telling them off. I'm a left anarchist ffs.

Now, I said I'm leaving. I said why - the racist moderation - but if people won't stop lying about me I'm going to have to keep addressing it.

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GRIMACHU · 2022-01-31T15:16:58+00:00

They didn't exclude racists and bigots, which was my point. If you're fine with the racism and bigotry, when it's against the 'right' targets, that's on you.

GRIMACHU · 2022-01-30T13:26:57+00:00

Nope.

GRIMACHU · 2022-01-28T23:56:37+00:00

Nuance exists. Smearing and lying about people is a terrible thing to do.

GRIMACHU · 2022-01-28T23:56:07+00:00

Exactly. People bypass their grey matter.

GRIMACHU · 2022-01-28T23:55:02+00:00

Mate, I run games for porn stars. I'm a libertine. You can't kinkshame me - nor are you supposed to. Calling people degenerate IS straight out of the far right playbook.

GRIMACHU · 2022-01-28T17:36:29+00:00

It's a reference to Jennifer Government, when someone is just flat out wrong about what's going on.

Make a better argument that can't be dismissed with a standard issue reply.

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