D&D General Hey, are we all cool with having to buy the same book twice, or what?

[Guest 6801328]

I objectively did not do that.
It is genuinely insane to suggest that the position that thieves aren’t “scum” is a statement in support of thieves.

No, it means that you are using the same terminology that people use to excuse talking about shooting thieves.

Generally, calling a broad group of people scum is in line with rhetoric used to excuse violence against those people. That doesn’t mean that everyone who calls thieves or any other group “scum” wants to personally act out violent retribution against them, it just means that you’re using the same rhetorical terminology.

And that aside, calling petty thieves scum is just fracking disgusting.

One of your strangest posts yet. Well done.

 

[darjr]

I’m not a sheeple!!! I’m a goat!

 

[Guest 6801328]

I guess technically I bought the Player's Handbook four times. Once for me, once for my wife, a third time to replace mine when it was lost/stolen, and a fourth time when I bought one for a friend as a gift. Oh, and I bought an electronic copy of it on Roll20.

I still don't feel mistreated.

Chihauahu called it. The fact you that you don't feel mistreated just confirms that the corporations control your mind.

 

[Ash Mantle]

That's because you've been thoroughly brainwashed, sorry to say.

Chihauahu called it. The fact you that you don't feel mistreated just confirms that the corporations control your mind.

I must thoroughly be in the throes of corporate control, as I too have multiple copies of all of the 5e books, one for rules use, one for reading, one for the collection, and one for any kids I may have. Damn those mind flayers at Wizards for their deviousness!

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I objectively did not do that.
It is genuinely insane to suggest that the position that thieves aren’t “scum” is a statement in support of thieves.

No, it means that you are using the same terminology that people use to excuse talking about shooting thieves.

Generally, calling a broad group of people scum is in line with rhetoric used to excuse violence against those people. That doesn’t mean that everyone who calls thieves or any other group “scum” wants to personally act out violent retribution against them, it just means that you’re using the same rhetorical terminology.

And that aside, calling petty thieves scum is just fracking disgusting.

No, stealing the work of others is fracking disgusting. If you steal PDF because you aren't willing to financially support a creator, especially in the case of D&D where all the basic rules are free (so there is no reason to steal other than greed), you are scum.

And stop throwing that denouncement in the same category as real-life murderers (I see the current news). You're taking something objectively obvious (that piracy is wrong) and somehow trying to make it controversial. Being vocal that piracy is wrong, and literally murdering petty criminals are not in the same category at all, and you honestly look insane for saying that.

 

[Morrus]

I objectively did not do that.
It is genuinely insane to suggest that the position that thieves aren’t “scum” is a statement in support of thieves.

Why did you have to make me do this? You know that challenging moderation is a zero tolerance policy. Now you can’t post in the thread any more, and you have another warning point.

 

[FlyingChihuahua]

I'm sorry, but the fact that it seems like "thread" got auto-corrected or whatever to "trash" is hilarious to me.

 

[Xenonnonex]

I'm sorry, but the fact that it seems like "thread" got auto-corrected or whatever to "trash" is hilarious to me.

Morrus dropping the Mic.

 

[Umbran]

That's because you've been thoroughly brainwashed, sorry to say.

Mod Note:
So, you're done in the thread.

 

[Lanefan]

The one thing that annoys me to no end - and that I feel should be somehow legislated into oblivion - is paying for a product but only then getting access to said product for as long as the company behind said product decides to allow or support it, after which access is removed or blocked.

If I pay to buy something (as opposed, say, to rent it) I naturally expect to own that thing for as long as I want to own it*. Never an issue with a physical thing I can touch such as a book or a shirt or a bicycle, but seemingly more and more often an issue with digital content that has no physical form.

* - thievery and suchlike notwithstanding, of course...