Just now, Yaccarus said:

#AlienLivesMatter

I'm not sure how mocking people helps. And here I thought I'd brought us back from threadlock with meaningful discussion.

1 minute ago, themensch said:

I'm not sure how mocking people helps. And here I thought I'd brought us back from threadlock with meaningful discussion.

Are you saying that alien lives don't matter?

4 minutes ago, themensch said:

Isn't that what started this whole discussion?

5 hours ago, HappyDaze said:

Just because you want to express your outrage doesn't mean there's actual racism present. The problem here is entirely in your perceptions and in your desire to escalate by (mis)playing the racism cry.

Conversely, one could point out that just because YOU don't see racism doesn't mean it's not there. I think it's a touchpoint many Americans are reevaluating in these past couple years. And that's where I take issue with everyone that thinks the X-card is a bad idea - hey that's great for you, but not everyone is like you.

It's not up to any of us to make decisions for another person, to decide what they find offensive, to decide how they should react to stimuli. It's great that everyone has their ivory towers from which they can issue edicts about How Thou Shalt Be but it's different in practice, in the real world, out of our own comfort zones. We can bury our heads in the sand and pontificate in forum threads, but our coffee cup philosophy doesn't extend much farther than that.

2 minutes ago, themensch said:

It's not up to any of us to make decisions for another person, to decide what they find offensive, to decide how they should react to stimuli.

No, these days it's apparently up to the media to decide that for us.

3 minutes ago, HappyDaze said:

and the original troll got what he was after, a bunch of discord.

1 minute ago, themensch said:

and the original troll got what he was after, a bunch of discord.

Be clear now; who is the original troll you speak of?

1 minute ago, HappyDaze said:

"Aliens being worse as PCs" is a lie.

There is only whether or not Mandalorians are a religion.

Through Mandalorians being a religion, we discuss changing canon

Through changing canon, we discuss the legends of past users.

Through the legends of past users, we discuss racism.

Through racism, we discuss the X Card.

Through the X Card, we discuss Aliens.

This forum shall set us confused.

Just now, HappyDaze said:

Be clear now; who is the original troll you speak of?

Now mind you, this is only my opinion and I don't expect anyone to share it, but OP posts provocative topics with incendiary replies. More power to 'em.

1 minute ago, Yaccarus said:

"Aliens being worse as PCs" is a lie.

There is only whether or not Mandalorians are a religion.

Through Mandalorians being a religion, we discuss changing canon

Through changing canon, we discuss the legends of past users.

Through the legends of past users, we discuss racism.

Through racism, we discuss the X Card.

Through the X Card, we discuss Aliens.

This forum shall set us confused.

I actually brought the X-card up in page one, but didn't answer a question about it until much, much later in this glorious dumpster fire of a thread. I like to think it's foreshadowing.

Just now, themensch said:

I actually brought the X-card up in page one, but didn't answer a question about it until much, much later in this glorious dumpster fire of a thread. I like to think it's foreshadowing.

Yes, yes, I remember. But it wasn't a full discussion at the time.

And by the way, congratulations to all of us on this thread getting 400 replies!

1 hour ago, themensch said:

I actually brought the X-card up in page one, but didn't answer a question about it until much, much later in this glorious dumpster fire of a thread. I like to think it's foreshadowing.

Wait... would that be the completion of our second circle?

Just now, Yaccarus said:

Wait... would that be the completion of our second circle?

One more and we're gunning for George Lucas' take on mythic themes.

1 minute ago, themensch said:

One more and we're gunning for George Lucas' take on mythic themes.

So if we complete our third circle, then we also get a fourth?

11 minutes ago, Yaccarus said:

So if we complete our third circle, then we also get a fourth?

Nope, we go straight to a fifth ... of whiskey.

1 hour ago, HappyDaze said:

No, these days it's apparently up to the media to decide that for us.

Social...media.

6 hours ago, Degenerate Mind said:

Infinite backpack? Please, tell me more about this infinite backpack of yours. Would one be capable of holding infinite grenades within this infinite backpack?

Search it out, quite the poopie fest. It was may more fun than this one though.

20 minutes ago, 2P51 said:

Social...media.

Is there any other kind these days?

2 minutes ago, themensch said:

Is there any other kind these days?

There is the regular media, but they're so dumbed down all they do is report what's on social media.

Just now, 2P51 said:

There is the regular media, but they're so dumbed down all they do is report what's on social media.

That was my point - last night a big-name talking head on a major cable network was reading peoples' facebook posts as if they were news. And who knows how much of that was bot traffic from external propaganda networks, much less from our own internally-facing propaganda networks. We're through the looking glass here, people.

9 hours ago, 2P51 said:

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! You cussed!!! You broke a commandant!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Where's my playdough? Where's my safe space?!?! I'm not listening! I'm not listening!!! Lalalalala!

#Triggered!

(that hashtag thing is what you kids all do these days, eh?)

1 minute ago, Maelora said:

#Triggered!

(that hashtag thing is what you kids all do these days, eh?)

Among other less endearing things, yes.

43 minutes ago, Maelora said:

#Triggered!

(that hashtag thing is what you kids all do these days, eh?)

Kids, ha! I still remember men walking on the moon!

6 hours ago, Darzil said:

And gets jumped on in a way that would actually justify a regular making an account to post their reasonable point.

I would prefer that this community which is usually so helpful and positive doesn't have this thread infect others. (Nothing against particular posters or particular sides of an argument - but things have got a little heated here)

This is definitely true, the level of prejudice I’ve experienced from a handful of comentors on here would certainly justify creating an alternate account in order to make my normal activity on here easier, but that is not the case, I made this account less than two weeks ago to ask ogdude if he had a version of his character generator that would work on the Mac for the convenience of my players, and then I saw this interesting topic being discussed which I felt I could add to.

So now as I want to continue my presence on the forum I have to deal with the fact that there are a handful of people that might potentially be hostile towards me due to what I’ve said here.

My using or not using my main account was not a question of having or not having “guts” as patchy tried to assert, as I have no other account, but simply because I lacked foresight and didn’t realize how vitriolic some people would find what I was pointing out to them.

However im hoping that this is not representative of the community at large and seeing the way that one of the peoples I had issues with responded positively to the x-card topic and how they are concerned about the well being of their players I’m hopeful that the misunderstanding between them and I was one of understanding rather than the topic at hand and that it doesn’t carry over into the rest of the forum.

1 minute ago, Norr-Saba said:

This is definitely true, the level of prejudice I’ve experienced from a handful of comentors on here would certainly justify creating an alternate account in order to make my normal activity on here easier, but that is not the case, I made this account less than two weeks ago to ask ogdude if he had a version of his character generator that would work on the Mac for the convenience of my players, and then I saw this interesting topic being discussed which I felt I could add to.

So now as I want to continue my presence on the forum I have to deal with the fact that there are a handful of people that might potentially be hostile towards me due to what I’ve said here.

My using or not using my main account was not a question of having or not having “guts” as patchy tried to assert, as I have no other account, but simply because I lacked foresight and didn’t realize how vitriolic some people would find what I was pointing out to them.

However im hoping that this is not representative of the community at large and seeing the way that one of the peoples I had issues with responded positively to the x-card topic and how they are concerned about the well being of their players I’m hopeful that the misunderstanding between them and I was one of understanding rather than the topic at hand and that it doesn’t carry over into the rest of the forum.

Nobody said anything racist to you, some disagreed with your pseduo intellectual social ranting, that doesn't make them racist. I actually didn't even care about that discussion.

To my knowledge no one called you names either,"patchy" . I think you're mostly a hypocrite that likes to apply labels and manners of conduct to others that you don't bother to follow yourself, and I am sure you and Stan Fresh are one and the same.