Bannings

[shit-piss-love]

@Kestrel said in Bannings:

simplications if you’re reading this:

No hard feelings. I felt awful that you got banned. If I’d read what I wrote from the perspective you had, I would have wanted to scream at me too.

I didn’t really understand what I was getting involved in. I’m not gonna say y’all over here are nice, but you don’t seem like you have malice.

[Jennkryst]

@shit-piss-love Disney made (almost) every villain queer and Mean Girls is iconic.

So like… being catty and sometimes mean about a thing has been programmed into many people. Also, text does not convey tone, so there is another level of communication mixup.

[tsar]

@shit-piss-love said in Bannings:

but you don’t seem like you have malice.

That’s only because we haven’t gotten into a rousing argument about pose order, social combat, or posing in past tense yet.

[Aria]

@tsar said in Bannings:

posing in past tense yet

You can pry the first 20 years of my RP style from my cold, dead hands.

[Mourne]

@tsar said in Bannings:

@shit-piss-love said in Bannings:

but you don’t seem like you have malice.

[blah blah blah] or posing in past tense yet.

I hate you so much right now.

So much.

For even reminding me this is a thing people do/did.

[Narson]

@Mourne said in Bannings:

@tsar said in Bannings:

@shit-piss-love said in Bannings:

but you don’t seem like you have malice.

[blah blah blah] or posing in past tense yet.

I hated you so much right now then.

So much.

For even reminding having reminded me this is a thing people dodid.

Fixed that for you.

[Jennkryst]

@tsar said in Bannings:

social combat

Look, I am not a world class diplomat (evidenced by how you all simply REFUSE to upvote everything I post), but sometimes I play one online, and they should be able to roll their diplomacy dice and convince other people of things when I do not word good.

Jumping to the inevitable ‘but what if seduction rollz?’ argument, then you have been blessed with the ability to spread post coital gossip about how that creeper talked a good game, but didn’t realize he was actually having sex with your thigh, or whatever.

Edit to add - IF they were being a creeper about it. If you’re into the flirty combat of it all, then this social combat is a boon, go forth and have fun.

Perhaps while holding the tip of a sword to my chin, and making me look up a bit?

[NotSanni]

I haven’t really had a stake in all of this, and mostly I’ve been following along for the hot goss, but this is the thing that’s so wild to me. This specific behavior of “you aren’t allowed to call Ghost a bully, but Ghost can call you a bully” truly boggles the mind.

In any case, if people just stop posting about this on MSB, it’ll probably slowly die off. Ghost and Derp will just quietly seethe and read this forum until someone tries to spark some kind of discussion they think is really, actually quite clever, or until Ghost can’t stand screaming into the void by themselves and rehashes this with some disingenuous post about toxicity or positivity.

[Jennkryst]

@NotSanni said in Bannings:

In any case, if people just stop posting about this on MSB, it’ll probably slowly die off. Ghost and Derp will just quietly seethe and read this forum until someone tries to spark some kind of discussion they think is really, actually quite clever, or until Ghost can’t stand screaming into the void by themselves and rehashes this with some disingenuous post about toxicity or positivity.

That’s what I brought up, uh… somewhere. It will quiet down, as all threads do, and weirdly, the whole MSB will go like. Two days with 0 posts anywhere.
Then Ghost or Derp or Hella will kick up a fuss on the thread again and life to the whole of MSB will return for a few more shouting match filled days.

[kalakh]

derp, this thread’s anger summed up in two words:

we are not a community.

We were.

[Selira]

@shit-piss-love said in Bannings:

I’m not gonna say y’all over here are nice,

frankly, neither will we.

[Kestrel]

@Selira

(except when sometimes I’m not even that, lol)

[sao]

@Kestrel this is exactly the gif i was thinking of, ty for posting it.

[IoleRae]

Living well is the best revenge.

[Herja]

The funny thing is that the ‘irrefutable evidence’ I was referring to was regarding the guy’s identity. As for what he did, I believe victims, so there is no way in hell Derp is ever going to understand how that works.

[Roadspike]

@Aria To be clear, I like political and military history (I even really like studying WW2 weapons, tactics, and officers, which means that I have several shelves about Wehrmacht officers and equipment), I enjoy Norse mythology (but am not obsessed), I love RPGs, and I spend way too much time playing Crusader Kings. I like Star Wars and think that the Empire has awesome designs. I am also not a Nazi.

@RightMeow said in Bannings:

I tried to not walk away from either board (obviously that changed today).

That was me too. And then shortly after I suggested that the best way to repair the hobby was to remove the missing stairs, or remove yourself from places that refused to remove the missing stairs, several of those missing stairs reminded me of how welcome they are there. So I removed myself.

[Jennkryst]

@Roadspike said in Bannings:

… the Empire has awesome designs.

I, too, lament the association of fascism with that sweet, sweet aesthetic. But also let’s go Star Wars game so we can properly punch some space nazis… preferably with suitably gay rainbow dice.

[Duke Whisky]

@Aria said in Bannings:

@Narson said in Bannings:

@Kestrel said in Bannings:

There are actually a fuckton of literal fascists in this hobby;

There are fascists in a lot of places, alas. Fascists in gaming is an interesting area people are working on, but the far right were early adopters of online spaces (including back in the BBS days). Their methods will only ever get a small percentage of the population, but if you have so many people you can access, you can get to a much greater proportion of that small number and…well.

As someone who is super into history, Norse mythology, Crusader Kings, punk rock, and RPGs, the amount of time I have to spend squinting at people with common interests and going “Okay, but are you a fucking Nazi?” is both alarming and exhausting.

You mean that time when we spent like 20 mins trying to work out if the flag in the background of someone’s 480p stream was a Nordic Cross? Also if their love of Odin was because they thought Odin was rad, or they were a spiritual Nazi? At least they’ve stopped talking to me.

Oh or that person who asked if anyone ever wondered what it was like to be a soldier on the Eastern Front of Operation Barbosa.

edit - oh no I did that thing where you reply to a conversation 14 hours ago but didn’t refresh the page or scroll down so assumed nothing else.

[L. B. Heuschkel]

@Whisky While I am not a believer (in any faith), let me assure you that Scandinavia is full of people with a historical interest and Asatru people who are royally pissed at how the alt-right pretty much yanked their cultural heritage and beliefs out under their feet and co-opted their imagery into neonazism.

It’s unusual to hear the term ‘cultural appropriation’ applied to Europeans (unless they’re the ones doing it) but in this case it is appropriate. (And, I suppose, it is still people of European descent at least, doing it).

Edit: An effective way to find out whether you’re dealing with a history/culture person or a nazi is usually to bring up the issue of whether there were people of colour in Europe at the time. The purist hailers will promptly insist that black people weren’t invented until the 1700s.

[Duke Whisky]

@L-B-Heuschkel They were from Alaska. But yeah, the alt-right yanking it and using the iconography and language as a dog whistle is ugh. Sometimes it is hard to work out how many dog whistles are coincidences, or they are straight up a nazi.