What if we split the Codex into two sites: RPG Codex + Political Codex?

[Ranselknulf]

X to doubt. People who are supposedly making outrageous posts to farm ratings would not carry on for years without them. Ratings here are just a bunch of emojis, they're not like "likes" on social media, they don't give boosts to visibility, hide low rated posts or flag posts in any way. There's already little encouragement as it is.

I think it's more about the negative ratings.

People get butthurt about having a dozen retard ratings in a game thread. If somebody is being dumb, use words.

That's where interesting discussions pop up.

People did use words, they would make short poasts like "retard detected". I don't like getting spammed with "retarded" or "edgy" ratings either, but it wouldn't make much difference if they were removed imo. I have suggested before that the button parade be purged of obvious "you are correct" and "you are wrong" ratings, but at that point you're in the "disabling things to protect users from themselves" territory.

I joined in 2012, but iirc, back then people who spammed low quality one liners got their posts retardo'd frequently and eventually prosperized.

Edit..

I went back and did a brief look.

Retardoland of 2012 https://rpgcodex.net/forums/forums/retardo-land.17/page-78

Retardoland of today: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/forums/retardo-land.17/

It appears that back then one liners and duplicate topics was the subject of moderation.

I dont see many one liners getting moderated today. I do see long swathes of conversations retardo'd though. Not sure if they are off topic or there is a butthurt moderator in the past day or two.

That's my quick observation comparing the moderation today from a decade ago.

 

[Ol' Willy]

"Raycist codexers can't help but complain all the time if one lone nigger appears in some new RPG!"

Meanwhile, on the other side:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-02-20-kingdom-come-deliverance-review
https://unwinnable.com/2018/03/02/deliverance-myth-making-and-historical-accuracy/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...le_are_getting_extremely_upset_because_there/
https://thefandomentals.com/kingdom-come-representation/

 

[Tacgnol]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...le_are_getting_extremely_upset_because_there/

That one is particularly cancerous because the reddit mod basically says there is no evidence for diverse Bohemia but then swings it around to saying it doesn't matter because games should be diverse for the sake of it.

Also the fact he wrote a whole essay for something he could have said in a single sentence.

 

[Ol' Willy]

That one is particularly cancerous because the reddit mod basically says there is no evidence for diverse Bohemia but then swings it around to saying it doesn't matter because games should be diverse for the sake of it.

The most ironic thing is that I suspect there's very few negroes in modern day Bohemia, let alone the medieval one.

But whom do we question? I once got aware about one Kwanzanian movie where 101st paratroopers were fighting nazi-zombies; of course, they included one nigger as a part of 101st division despite US Army being segregated up until 1947. "Historical accuracy is not the goal of this movie, it's about zombies!" I was answered. Well, if so, where are nigger-nazis? Nigger-nazi-zombies, to be exact?

 

[NJClaw]

People who want to discuss the writing of a game and not its gameplay are kinda like people discussing writing in porn, weird

The number 1 game on the Codex's Top RPGs list has next to no gameplay worth discussing and owes its reputation and popularity to writing alone.

what game is that, please remind me

Disco disco.

 

[Sweeper]

Why would you want to interact with such a pansy tho?

If he stopped ignoring me I wouldn't, but since he does, I do.

The most ironic thing is that I suspect there's very few negroes in modern day Bohemia, let alone the medieval one.

Been to Prague a while back, I don't remember seeing a single nigger. Might have changed since then, but I doubt it. Prague is a white people city.

 

[Lambach]

Disco disco.

Say, are you trying to piss me off on purpose?

 

[Haba]

But this is the current year. If “gaming press” shits all over KCD because there are no niggers in 15th century Bohemia, if the likes of Neil Cuckman openly state on social media that they are waging a crusade to push their political agenda through vidya, if various cucks try to get games like Six Days in Faluja canceled because they show US troops fighting mudslimes, while at the same time games are by and large getting dumbed down, then people are logically going to spend less time talking about lore, gameplay and mechanics and more about the political aspects that are being emphasized by the devs and “journalists” themselves. Again, look at Underrail (old-school RPG with interesting lore, mechanics and gameplay) thread and TLoU2 (pozed popamole shit created explicitly to push homo/tranny agenda) thread – it should be obvious why these threads are very different in terms of content and tone.

If you want to limit the discussion of the political aspects of contemporary gaming, you are attempting to normalize the shit that mainstream devs and “jurnos” are trying to push on their audience. I respect your right to do that, but you should do so openly (this is a free speech forum with a large cuck population after all) instead of trying to prevent people who disagree from even speaking up. This "bro, just talk about gameplay" argument doesnt hold.

The best way a man can combat irrationality is to remain rational.

You have to realize that the egregious crime and restriction of the sacred freedom of speech people are referring to is splitting threads. No-one has been shutting down legitimate conversation.

Constantly sperging about a minor aspect of a game, one that as I pointed out, doesn't even have any impact on the actual gameplay itself (unless we are talking about a VN or something), is what I'd consider "toxic behaviour". If there is a separate topic where it has been established, that should be enough. Most of the 'dex would still like to hear how shitty the actual game itself is.

Being against the cancel culture does not mean that you need to start behaving like your enemies do.

 

[Gregz]

Anyone is free to make a thread for discussing gameplay mechanics, or anything else.

 

[Sweeper]

Being against the cancel culture does not mean that you need to start behaving like your enemies do.

That is exactly what it means.
>Just because your enemies kill you doesn't mean you have to kill them back
Go back to running Canada into the ground Trudeau.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Constantly sperging about a minor aspect of a game, one that as I pointed out, doesn't even have any impact on the actual gameplay itself (unless we are talking about a VN or something), is what I'd consider "toxic behaviour". If there is a separate topic where it has been established, that should be enough. Most of the 'dex would still like to hear how shitty the actual game itself is.

There was a lot of political sperging in CP77 pre-release thread, of which I proudly was a part of. Back then, very few info about the game was known; even gameplay videos were rare. If not for politics and such that thread would have been dead and dry

Once the game was released I stopped posting in any CP77 related threads, lol

 

[Tacgnol]

Constantly sperging about a minor aspect of a game, one that as I pointed out, doesn't even have any impact on the actual gameplay itself (unless we are talking about a VN or something), is what I'd consider "toxic behaviour". If there is a separate topic where it has been established, that should be enough. Most of the 'dex would still like to hear how shitty the actual game itself is.

There was a lot of political sperging in CP77 pre-release thread, of which I proudly was a part of. Back then, very few info about the game was known; even gameplay videos were rare. If not for politics and such that thread would have been dead and dry

Once the game was released I stopped posting in any CP77 related threads, lol

Most of the political sperging about CP77 was pre-release from what I remember. Most of the post-release stuff was rants about the game's various problems.

Sure there was a lot of bitching about the sexuality of various NPCs, but most of that was after the existing rants had dried up.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

It's just a thread for the lulz.

Don't make him prove that it is not...

 

[1451]

Congratulations for being cd projekt's useful idiot who kept advertising their game by talking about it when the gameplay wasn't even finalised.

 

[Tacgnol]

Congratulations for being cd projekt's useful idiot who kept advertising their game by talking about it when the gameplay wasn't even finalised.

Well that confirms that 1451 is definitely one of those squirrely fuckers who puts people on ignore and then shows ignored content.

Have the decency to show a little bit of manliness and commit to your decisions.

 

[IDtenT]

Congratulations for being cd projekt's useful idiot who kept advertising their game by talking about it when the gameplay wasn't even finalised.

Well that confirms that 1451 is definitely one of those squirrely fuckers who puts people on ignore and then shows ignored content.

Have the decency to show a little bit of manliness and commit to your decisions.

It's more like a name in his black book to emphasise that there has been a disagreement in the past. Many such cases. Sad!

 

[A horse of course]

 

[SausageInYourFace]

What infuriated me most about this whole thread was Wrong_Carlo blaming everything on the buttons. Don't you dare touch the buttons!

 

[Tacgnol]

What infuriated me most about this whole thread was Wrong_Carlo blaming everything on the buttons. Don't you dare touch the buttons!

Carlo has a strange complex about being rated. Maybe people shouted "retadred" or "butthurt" at him when he was a youth and it traumatised him.

Either way, it triggers him badly.

 

[IDtenT]

My brother called me names all my childhood. If anything it built immunity.

 

[Lady Error]

There is a community here and even those who discuss politics are also interested in RPG's.

Because this is a place to discuss RPGs. If your primary focus is discussing politics, then...

What counts in RPG discussion is quality, not quantity of posts. Case in point: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...t-atomic-vaxxination-cyclopean-chasms.137646/

Also, you missed the "God & Wealth of Nations" part - I post a lot about investing and in spiritual threads that have little to do with politics.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Carlo has a strange complex about being retarded

Fixed

 

[Correct_Carlo]

What infuriated me most about this whole thread was Wrong_Carlo blaming everything on the buttons. Don't you dare touch the buttons!

Carlo has a strange complex about being rated. Maybe people shouted "retadred" or "butthurt" at him when he was a youth and it traumatised him.

Either way, it triggers him badly.

I don't care about being rated at all. I rail against all rating systems on social media. I think their introduction fundamentally changed the internet for the worse. It did the following:

1. Turned the internet into one big Skinner box where people seek out dopamine hits they get via low effort approval of others.

2. Segregated the internet into political and cultural tribes of like minded people existing in filter bubbles.

3. Made posting habits more geared toward low effort attempts at garnering community approval, rather than quality discussion.

4. Made all communities more extreme versions of what they were, as in most cases, people would start espousing louder and more attention grabbing versions of a given community's ethos to stand out and get approval.

Overtime, all of these things shift the culture of the internet drastically. You can see this everywhere at present, not just Codex, with it being more pronounced on many sites like Reddit/Facebook which prioritize what people see based on how highly they are rated.

 

[Lady Error]

Yes, it was the ratings that caused the extreme divide and not the "divide and conquer" strategy of the so-called elites.

 

[Joggerino]

The most ironic thing is that I suspect there's very few negroes in modern day Bohemia, let alone the medieval one.

Unfortunately there's a shitload of them in the capital selling drugs and other shit. Definitely the worst thing in Prague.