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I apologize for getting political, but most countries do in fact ban hate speech. It IS an "us or them" when the whole philosophy of transphobes, nazis and white supremacists is the elimination of an entire group of people. As soon as you start wanting to allow their opinions in public and start...

Somewhere inside WotC and/or Hasbro, there is a PR staffer yelling at the top of their lungs "WE DO NOTHING!! WE SAY NOTHING!!"

I know more than one artist has said they only felt they had truly hit it big when they got a call from Weird Al asking permission to satirize one of their songs.

I think we are seeing the live origin story of a comic book villain.

sigh Most companies know that if you want to get into a war of words (that could end up in court), you do it with companies your own size, especially if it is small. 3pps will avoid legal processes (to the best of their abilities) because they simply don't have the money to deal with a long...

Right now, if anyone asks WotC about this, they can sit back and say "While we greatly respect Gary Gygax and his invention of D&D, we have never had any business association with Ernie Gygax. WotC remains committed to ensuring that Dungeons and Dragons is a space that is open and welcoming to...

I wonder if anyone over in TSR (3) land did an actual business analysis of the potential market they alienating and the potential market they seem to be trying to attract. I am by no means a businessman, but everything I have seen says that reactionary OSR may talk a big game in saying they will...

Probably not, but your statement was written as if it was a 100% certainty that people of that age/generation would hold those views. I feel it is important to point out that no, they don't. They may have been brought up with those views, but they do not need to retain those views for their...

My dad is in his 70s, spent his entire adult life in the army, and doesn't care what sexuality or gender people are. He may not understand it, but as long as they are happy and aren't hurting people, it doesn't bother him.

They happen at about the same rate as other false accusations for other crimes. Yet, as has been noted elsewhere, you never see handwringing about yellow journalism or witch hunts in those cases.

Of course not. Because for many people, they understand that murder (to use your example) is wrong, while, according to some people in this thread, harassing women is OK if you are socially awkward or need to get a date.

I just wanted to isolate this and re-emphasize it. The rate of false accusation is so insignificantly small as to be non-existent. People should be much more concerned with the number of assaults that do not get reported because of the way the justice system (and society as a whole, as...

Wow, the stench of MRA in this thread is impressive.

I am not saying that you, as an individual cannot or should not stat those things up if you want. You do you and your group. I am saying that I do not think it is appropriate for Paizo, as a company, to provide (and publish) stats that boil down to "+2 charisma every time you molest a child" in...

Rape culture in not just about rape. Every time someone uses "well, she didn't go to the police, so it wasn't that serious" to dismiss a complaint, that is rape culture. Every time someone says "well, she/he never actually physically harmed him/her" as a reason for it not being worth worrying...

Have you...I mean...I don't know...have you missed the last couple of years?? READ ME

Repeating "We can do some bad things, so all bad things are acceptable" over and over and ignoring the varied and different points that people are making when saying why the stat block for Falco is bad comes across as just a little bit intellectually dishonest. Now, you may honestly not be...

To me, this statblock comes across as trying to be "LOOK AT HOW MATURE THIS BOOK IS!! SO INCREDIBLY MATURE!! SEE!! PURE MATURITY! LOOK!! ADULT TOPICS!!"

It's the difference between providing someone with a fully stocked chemistry lab, and letting them decide what they want to do with it, knowing they could do something bad, and providing someone with a series of one-button synthetic procedures to make date rape drugs.

For me, "reaching the moon" was exposing people for their harassment. And if I gave the impression that we have done that, so we can stop exposing people, I apologize for my words, I never, ever meant to indicate so. Rather, we need to continue doing so, and making it such that people realize...