Are we an RPG Discussion website or a Free Speech website?

[jackofshadows]

I'm mostly interested in oldschool RPGs, and this is still the best place for discussing those games. That is why it saddens me to see the signal to noise ratio getting worse lately. Moreover, I really wouldn't like the codex just to disappear, along with the immense amount of historical knowledge accumulated here on those older games, just because some people keep behaving like total idiots.

Dude, what are you on about? There's next to zero "noise ratio" in the dedicated threads like Wizardry series/M&M/almost any old-school, really. And if you can't stomach some occational jokes or slurs even there then maybe, just maybe this is not the best place for you to hang out.

As for "problematic behavior" - it's not all about current discussions, you know. You can always dig up "problematic" stuff if you wanna. Will see what the Codex future will bring us but for now it isn't going anywhere. All this talk about split and the word filter looks rather like a one big fucking joke if you ask me.

 

[Camel]

I don't really check any other gaming forums than the codex, so I literally have no idea what's going on in those forums. I'm mostly interested in oldschool RPGs, and this is still the best place for discussing those games. That is why it saddens me to see the signal to noise ratio getting worse lately. Moreover, I really wouldn't like the codex just to disappear, along with the immense amount of historical knowledge accumulated here on those older games, just because some people keep behaving like total idiots.

"Signal to noise ratio getting worse" is mostly because of the developers shoving woke stuff down the players' throats and many people don't like it and they complain. Old games/movies almost didn't have woke checklist like trannies, LGBT characters and romances with them, adding minorities where they didn't belong like black elves in the Witcher show, even if they added some wokeness it was far more subtle. Nobody was complaining about SJW when discussing old games and gaming was apolitical.

 

[Fowyr]

gaming was apolitical.

Even in the games that touched politics, it was done more tastefully. Often you had a choice or, at least, game was not taking itself too seriously. E.g. even Liberal Crime Squad, not to mention older games.
Now, all political themes are didactic shit that is shoved up your ass.

 

[Roguey]

"The progs are getting louder about their politics in games which in turn is causing reactionaries to get thin-skinned about things that wouldn't have bothered them ten years ago" is my assessment of the status quo.

 

[Theodora]

i strongly disagree with any political ideology that reduces any racial group to a tool for beating other groups into submission (i.e. wokeism or whitenat) but i don't think crying out for their censorship would produce anything meaningful here

Just get rid of ideology altogether and teach people to be the genesis of their own values. (If only it were that easy.)

Disco Elysium? The game that was made by guys from ex-USSR country? Color me impressed! (not)

Estonia is vehemently anti-Russian, and nostalgia for the USSR isn't exactly a norm.

I suspect Rincewind is in a far-left discord group or private chat that is devoted to censorship of "hateful" opinions online.

Making him out to be a cartoon villain to internet freedoms undermines the point.

 

[Viata]

Good to meet another sane human in the asylum

 

[Atlantico]

The autistic lizard furry is as far from a sane human as you can get.

 

[Viata]

pressuring people to play more RPGs.

Only people that played 90~100% of the top 70 rpgs should be allowed to post on codex, more so on GD.

 

[Anthedon]

As a consequence of the word filter it has become hard not to think of the word African American every time I read African American someplace that is not the Codex.

Was that the intention all along?

 

[GhostCow]

The autistic lizard furry is as far from a sane human as you can get.

Oh but he's been here for ten years so he definitely knows that

 

[Fowyr]

Estonia is vehemently anti-Russian, and nostalgia for the USSR isn't exactly a norm.

Way to miss the point. I meant that they are, being from Eastern Europe, are less pozzed than typical Cali developers. On the other hand, I can interpret your words that anti-Russian sentiments lead to the degeneracy.
Oh, nevermind.

 

[Theodora]

Way to miss the point. I meant that they are, being from Eastern Europe, are less pozzed than typical Cali developers. On the other hand, I can interpret your words that anti-Russian sentiments lead to the degeneracy.
Oh, nevermind.

Could be both.

Honestly, I think I misunderstood you because of the ratings. People don't seem very fond of Rincewind in this thread, and I think their misunderstanding got me too lol.

But yeah, anti-Russian sentiment is stupid because it blames a people for corruption they only inherited; and usually relies on the mistaken notion that one's homeland is magically better.

 

[LarryTyphoid]

There isn't any culture war noise in threads for truly old-school RPGs because those games aren't pozzed like new shit is. You only find that sort of discussion for games made by queers.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

The real knife in the back was not seeing people wanting someone gone, we don't have to like each other, but seeing people jumping in joy that ausfailia implementing soft censorship by "encouraging" websites to moderate with legal threats creates an opportunity to "clean up". Doesn't matter if the filter is gone, I will see grinning Snoos all around me from now on.

As a consequence of the world filter it has become hard not to think of the word African American every time I read African American someplace that is not the Codex.

Was that the intention all along?

Don't think of a pink elephant.

 

[Theodora]

Clockwork Knight That's kinda the problem, when communities get too big they either start forcing conformity and excising people (officially, or by mobbing), or they implode.

 

[Oberon]

As a consequence of the word filter it has become hard not to think of the word African American every time I read African American someplace that is not the Codex.

Was that the intention all along?

I love how the filter specifically refers to Americans

 

[Ol' Willy]

and usually relies on the mistaken notion that one's homeland is magically better.

Cosmopolitans are the worst

 

[Viata]

As a consequence of the word filter it has become hard not to think of the word African American every time I read African American someplace that is not the Codex.

Was that the intention all along?

I love how the filter specifically refers to Americans

Because most people hate niggers, but have nothing against Africans(mostly because they don't leave their country and invade your country like pajeets and rapefugees). Even Africans hate niggers.

 

[LarryTyphoid]

Africans(mostly because they don't leave their country and invade your country like pajeets and rapefugees)

Most American blacks in the modern day are descendants of willing African immigrants, not slaves. The difference between African Americans and Africans is only a few decades.

 

[Raghar]

gaming was apolitical.

Even in the games that touched politics, it was done more tastefully. Often you had a choice or, at least, game was not taking itself too seriously. E.g. even Liberal Crime Squad, not to mention older games.
Now, all political themes are didactic shit that is shoved up your ass.

LCS felt like author was in poverty because of liberals and hated them to the bone.

Thus it was properly made parody.

 

[Avarize]

Because most people hate African Americans, but have nothing against Africans(mostly because they don't leave their country and invade your country like pajeets and rapefugees).

Somalis would like a word.

 

[LarryTyphoid]

LCS felt like author was in poverty because of liberals and hated them to the bone.

Considering Toady's politics today, I doubt it.

 

[baud]

As a consequence of the word filter it has become hard not to think of the word African American every time I read African American someplace that is not the Codex.

Was that the intention all along?

I love how the filter specifically refers to Americans

Because most people hate niggers, but have nothing against Africans(mostly because they don't leave their country and invade your country like pajeets and rapefugees). Even Africans hate niggers.

it might depends on where you live, but here in France we have a lot of Africans, with quite a lot of racism against blacks and arabs; nobody care about African Americans (edit: with the word filter it's confusing; by AA, I meant blacks living in the US. Of course French can't stand their local negros)

 

[Atlantico]

it might depends on where you live, but here in France we have a lot of Africans, with quite a lot of racism against blacks and arabs; nobody care about African Americans

There are way too many niggers in Spain, mostly in the larger cities like degenerate BCN and MAD - but compared to France, we're nigger-free.

 

[DraQ]

While GD may be more "edgy" then it used to in the past, the gaming discussions are pretty tame these days compared to old days. I remember people dunking on those with "questionable" taste/opinions more brutal in the past.

Both are a problem.
Imagine people just walking around and posting as if their shit tastes were somehow acceptable.

The real knife in the back was not seeing people wanting someone gone, we don't have to like each other, but seeing people jumping in joy that ausfailia implementing soft censorship by "encouraging" websites to moderate with legal threats creates an opportunity to "clean up". Doesn't matter if the filter is gone, I will see grinning Snoos all around me from now on.

I'm definitely not jumping in joy for censorship. I would want to avoid it.
If it happens by ditching some dumbfucks with signal to noise ratio stuck firmly at 0, then good fucking riddance in addition to dodging the bullet.