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Bullying works well when a relatively homogeneous community wants to preserve its heritage.

In this community, RPGs were what brought us together regardless of our differences. We grew up playing them because they were fun. What's been happening lately is different. Modern RPGs are being designed to offer acceptance fantasies to fringe minorities. These groups are being deliberately catered to, by design, as a marketing segment. Apparently there was an enormous latent appetite for idpol LARPing grounds, and our hobby has been hijacked to serve that purpose.

So, when the primary goal of these newer RPGs is to virtually empower oppressed minorities, politics is the topic. Deliberately stifling that subject, here or elsewhere, makes any genuine discussion of RPGs impossible. Which I guess is the idea.
 

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Fuckin gregz left too? Wtf, this place is goin to shit and fast. Pretty soon it's just gonna be me talking to myself just like aweigh.
 

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Fuckin gregz left too? Wtf, this place is goin to shit and fast. Pretty soon it's just gonna be me talking to myself just like aweigh.

No one actually knows what has happened to Gregz (he has disappeared for a while previously, so it is possible he is just taking a break), though it isn't looking good judging by his last post.
 

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because you guys are just gross and icky...

gregz is fucking DEAD, and you people are laughing... you're LAUGHING

Who?

His last words:

Bullying works well when a relatively homogeneous community wants to preserve its heritage.

In this community, RPGs were what brought us together regardless of our differences. We grew up playing them because they were fun. What's been happening lately is different. Modern RPGs are being designed to offer acceptance fantasies to fringe minorities. These groups are being deliberately catered to, by design, as a marketing segment. Apparently there was an enormous latent appetite for idpol LARPing grounds, and our hobby has been hijacked to serve that purpose.

So, when the primary goal of these newer RPGs is to virtually empower oppressed minorities, politics is the topic. Deliberately stifling that subject, here or elsewhere, makes any genuine discussion of RPGs impossible. Which I guess is the idea.

I mean he wasn't wrong. Though knowing the rightoid identitarian types, this was all just a roundabout way of saying "REEEEE A BLACK PERSON GET OUT"
 

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Bullying works well when a relatively homogeneous community wants to preserve its heritage.

In this community, RPGs were what brought us together regardless of our differences. We grew up playing them because they were fun. What's been happening lately is different. Modern RPGs are being designed to offer acceptance fantasies to fringe minorities. These groups are being deliberately catered to, by design, as a marketing segment. Apparently there was an enormous latent appetite for idpol LARPing grounds, and our hobby has been hijacked to serve that purpose.

So, when the primary goal of these newer RPGs is to virtually empower oppressed minorities, politics is the topic. Deliberately stifling that subject, here or elsewhere, makes any genuine discussion of RPGs impossible. Which I guess is the idea.

he will be missed.
 
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The site has been collapsing in slow-mo for like at least 5 or 6 years at this point. It's the closest experience you can have to living through the final days of the Soviet Union in an Eastern Bloc country. Very unique and something you can't really get anywhere else.

I like Gregz but that last post is just an extended low-pitched whine. Talk about going out with a whimper. Videogames offering FANTASIES? No way! Now excuse me while I go save the world as an unstoppable musclebound ubermensch with an impossibly attractive chainmail-bikini girlfriend in a good old 90s RPG, back before the genre was just offering cheap power fantasies.
 

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The site has been collapsing in slow-mo for like at least 5 or 6 years at this point. It's the closest experience you can have to living through the final days of the Soviet Union in an Eastern Bloc country. Very unique and something you can't really get anywhere else.

I like Gregz but that last post is just an extended low-pitched whine. Talk about going out with a whimper. Videogames offering FANTASIES? No way! Now excuse me while I go save the world as an unstoppable musclebound ubermensch with an impossibly attractive chainmail-bikini girlfriend in a good old 90s RPG, back before the genre was just offering cheap power fantasies.

You just want gay and nigger shit in video games while we, normal people, don't.
 

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You just want gay and nigger shit in video games while we, normal people, don't.

Remember the rallying cry back in the GamerGate days? God, it causes me physical pain to write the word "GamerGate" in 2021.

The cry was "if you SJWs want games that represent you, then stop complaining that the world doesn't cater to you and make games for yourselves!" Often followed by a round of human-centipede-esque circular cocksucking and high-fiving.

Congrats, they followed the advice. Now you have a bunch of IDpol-obsessed* Californian weirdos who drink Soylent making games that cater to them and their views. The response of many people here and elsewhere is to sit around complaining that the world doesn't cater to them anymore.

If you don't like it, get up off the computer chair and make your own personal dream game where everyone's white or whatever. Well, I guess you wouldn't have to get up off the computer chair. You know what I mean.

*though they're still not quite as IDpol obsessed as people who see a black character in a game and instantly shit their pants
 

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The site has been collapsing in slow-mo for like at least 5 or 6 years at this point. It's the closest experience you can have to living through the final days of the Soviet Union in an Eastern Bloc country. Very unique and something you can't really get anywhere else.
Well the whole society is collapsing, this place is great all things considered.
 

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Yes humanity isn't in a good state right now, and this site is humanity in a nutshell.

It's still a time to find endless LULZ though.
 

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I think writers sincerely hold the views they're putting into the game. Have you seen some of the people working as game writers? Some of them look like people who have been generated by an AI designed to pump out the most stereotypical pronouns-in-bio, hair-dye-explosion, saying-"welp"-every-oither-word, watching-Critical-Role, American-racial-politics, porn-addicted, saying-BLM-but-having-no-black-friends, gender-identity-obsessed, "basic-fucking-empathy-my-dude", "i-don't-know-how-to-explain-that-you-should-care-about-other-people", Twitter-addicted, tank-top-wearing hipsters imaginable.

That said, I've played a lot of the newer RPGs - albeit not to completion because a lot of them are a bit shit - and I've not come across too much of this stuff, definitely the odd line here or there which strikes me as out-of-place and pandering to certain people on Twitter, but overall people here seem to tend towards having an aneurysm whenever a non-white/female/gay character is present at all, as if that's rare in a videogame. You can guarantee that if Fallout 2 came out today people here would be decrying it as worthless SJW propaganda because the shotgun marriage scene doesn't care what sex your character is, and First Citizen Lynette is black and female and in an authority role.
 

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