No Tears for piltoggs: Nazis Get BANNED
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Re: No Tears for piltoggs: Nazis Get BANNED
Grognard comes from Napoleonic era soldiers and was basically the denonym for vets/old soldiers to my understanding. It is also used to describe the Old School (tabletop) gamer afaik; the type that won't shut up about d&d 2e and the likes - in lego realms these are your classic space and 80s lego worshipping killjoys.
I'll leave the rest of that novella for the others to have fun with!
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According to the real grognards, D&D players are tree hugging hippies.
My first understanding of the g word is in relation to war gamers that play Avalon Hill board games or table top WWII or Napoleonic miniatures.
My first understanding of the g word is in relation to war gamers that play Avalon Hill board games or table top WWII or Napoleonic miniatures.
Re: No Tears for piltoggs: Nazis Get BANNED
Well, yeah! Being mindful doesn't mean never do anything, it means think about the consequences and decide where your efforts are best spent. It's not about affecting people; "DEUS VULT" doesn't affect people with any kind of moral center either but it does signal to a bunch of people that this is the kind of place where they're not welcome. Lynching humor is the same kind of signal, so I'm (working on) removing it from rotation.Craigallot wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by your last paragraph. That we should be mindful of every little thing we do, because it 'might' have a negative effect somewhere? Where that is concerned, I think, it's impossible to predict everything anyway, and the responsibility always lies with the stupid people doing bad things. We get in touch with stuff that could influence us in a bad way on a daily basis, if you're a good person with strong morals, it won't affect you.
Which is not to say I'm making any hard rule against yellow vs peach warfare, I'm just saying we should be mindful when we're touching those nerves.
The only censoring anybody's talking about is banning nazis. And that's not because they "MIGHT" have a bad effect, it's because they are the bad effect.Craigallot wrote:That doesn't mean I think we don't have any sort of responsibility. I run my own Discord and just today told two separate people not to use the word 'sexy love gentlemen', or spout the phrase 'DEUS VULT'. This to me, are two examples of obviously harmful stuff that we should oppose. But censoring something because it MIGHT have a bad effect on SOMEONE, that goes too far.
Have they ever been the obvious villains? The only time I can think of was Collete's al-kind-of vignettes. I keep advising people they have to make the villains more obvious, but nobody ever listens.Craigallot wrote:Yellows fighting Peaches 'cos they're peaches though? Psh. Even with the interpretation you described, I don't think it's bad if the Yellows are the obvious villains.
John Cleese hails from an age before memes were weaponized to incite online hate mobs, and I don't think he's caught up with the times. The world has changed and the consequences are different than they used to be, especially for everyone who isn't a retired celebrity.Craigallot wrote:I don't remember who said it, but I believe it was John Cleese, and he said that the best jokes are usually the ones that make people slightly uncomfortable.
I was pretty sure it was a mistake then, but I know it'd be a mistake now. If Goatse Bunker took place in 2018 I would not make the same choices. I'd still put in the giant Goatse though because offending people with Goatse never goes out of style! The stereotype squad is dehumanizing people who are already getting it bad enough in the age of Trump, while goatse dehumanizes no one. It's life-affirming and magical.Craigallot wrote:In Battle of the Goatse Bunker, we had a team, 'The Black Stereotypes', or something. A stupid person might think you put them there to actually make fun of black people, when it's actually the exaggeration of the stereotype itself, and the fact it exists that's been making fun of. Stupid people won't get that. You cannot account for stupidity.
You're pretty late to that joke, it's all over the rulebook already.Craigallot wrote:I just remembered though, that LEGO is sexist by design, with inequal representation of male vs. female minifigs, stereotyped gender roles etc., which is difficult to overcome even if you try to buy more female minifig heads / torsos (the design of which may be sexist in itself).
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stubby wrote: ... goatse dehumanizes no one. It's life-affirming and magical.
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List of longest written works ever published:
1. That one Super Smash Bros. fanfic.
2. Atlas Shrugged.
3. Whatever that post by Brag was about.
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This is off-topic, but I think it's pretty funny what RM's post count was when he got banned for being a Piltogg (1939).
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I guess the tl;dr is that everything you do is going to offend some people and not bother others, everything is going to hit somebody's sore point. That doesn't mean never do anything, but it also doesn't mean don't take any responsibility. Some people can afford that pain better than others, and being selective about where you do your damage doesn't make you a hypocrite.
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Yeah, I actually teared up when I read this. That thing was like 10 years old, with two major revisions in its life. One of the most iconic mocs in all of Brikwars 23 year history (You feel old Mike?).Colette wrote:Holier shit.Natalya wrote:Recently I disassembled my SHIP
Not to de-rail, but do you still have the same views on LGBT you held a few years back?Colette wrote:Hell, I even made an LGBT character once (the CFO of Goldman Sucks).
Just to be certain, I'm not going to earn a ban for wanting to systematically exterminate peaches, and showing this in a provocative manner? As I really don't like peaches. Years of Brikwars have instilled in me a genuine physical hatred of them that is likely comparable to what actual racists feel. I don't think that is going to change soon.
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When I talk about toning down anti-peachism I'm mostly talking about in the "official" channels - the rulebook, the newsfeed, etc. I can't speak for anybody else, but for me bans are still more about stuff that targets people rather than stuff that targets minifigs. (Obviously some people can use stuff about minifigs as a way of targeting people, so I'm not saying go crazy with lego Piltogg worship or anything.)
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Yes. This is why Colette is banned from the BW Chat.dilanski wrote:Not to de-rail, but do you still have the same views on LGBT you held a few years back?Colette wrote:Hell, I even made an LGBT character once (the CFO of Goldman Sucks).
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Yikes, what are these views?Natalya wrote:Yes. This is why Colette is banned from the BW Chat.dilanski wrote:Not to de-rail, but do you still have the same views on LGBT you held a few years back?Colette wrote:Hell, I even made an LGBT character once (the CFO of Goldman Sucks).
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Up skirtTheCraigfulOne wrote:Yikes, what are these views?Natalya wrote:Yes. This is why Colette is banned from the BW Chat.dilanski wrote:Not to de-rail, but do you still have the same views on LGBT you held a few years back?Colette wrote:Hell, I even made an LGBT character once (the CFO of Goldman Sucks).
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IIRC it was stuff along the lines of not supporting the lifestyle, although not outwardly aggressive. Can still understand why he'd get banned for them.TheCraigfulOne wrote:Yikes, what are these views?Natalya wrote:Yes. This is why Colette is banned from the BW Chat.dilanski wrote:Not to de-rail, but do you still have the same views on LGBT you held a few years back?Colette wrote:Hell, I even made an LGBT character once (the CFO of Goldman Sucks).
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Aaaaand we have a winner for this thread (and a qquote tunnnel!). Also, we have a new word buttplug for "qquote tunnnel.Tzan wrote:Up skirtTheCraigfulOne wrote:Yikes, what are these views?Natalya wrote:Yes. This is why Colette is banned from the BW Chat.dilanski wrote:Not to de-rail, but do you still have the same views on LGBT you held a few years back?Colette wrote:Hell, I even made an LGBT character once (the CFO of Goldman Sucks).
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