DTRPG Says 'Don't criticize us or we'll ban you'

[Jd Smith1]

I think you certainly do have a line. I know of very, very few people that would want to open an RPG work and be confronted with something like child pornography.

Yeah, but that is a matter covered by criminal law. Not to mention by allowing onto a site would make the owners of the site criminally liable. That's hardly in line with the discussion at had.

My personal views on politics and art/entertainment I enjoy are also pretty broad and there are lots of writers that I probably would not like but I enjoy their books quite a bit.

I think that the hostile marketing policy from OBS is pretty much common sense - don’t insult us and cause a fuss just because we need to look at your work.

I agree.

 

[Jd Smith1]

So when someone frets about such things enough to create a video? You have to wonder... what do they really want to say (or publish).

People create videos all the time; YouTube and TikTok are full of them. There are people who have scores of videos how to repair home appliances, or discussing the variables of the Remington Model 700 over the years, for example.

In this day and age, creating a video really isn't proof of anything but a certain about of technical skill.

 

[Morrus]

I ignore the political leanings of people whose sole purpose in life is to entertain me,

Just for the record, nobody’s sole purpose in life is to entertain you.

 

[Jahydin]

Did Daniel Fox get up to something? I hadn't heard anything...

I know not everyone is happy with him getting a certain archive of "free" RPG PDFs taken down. Think Metallica vs Napster.

Some think this goes against his Communist/Marxist (I really don't remember which one he claimed) principals. And for others, the fact he makes money off stolen rules further makes him a hypocrite.

To be clear, I don't have these issues; just what I've seen on other forums. I think Zweihänder is an amazing product.

 

[aramis erak]

Strictly speaking, I've noted before that I don't think they are a monopoly, but rather have monopoly power, which is different (e.g. you don't need to control 100% of a market to have a massive influence over it). Other outlets certainly exist, but when publishers reach something like 85% of their customers via that one platform (to use a number that one publisher estimated), that makes the presence of alternative venues a lot less important in reality than they might otherwise look on paper.

Extant case law in the US shows that 70% is plenty for being declared in violation of the monopoly laws... See also Microsoft's being declared an effective monopoly on OS's with (at the time) about 70% market share, not counting their chunk of investment into their largest competitor at the time (Apple). So I think of monopoly being functionally the power itself, not the absolute monopoly of, say, Ma Bell in the 60's.

 

[Morrus]

I think Zweihänder is an amazing product and could care less Fox is a jerk, haha.

Could we not use this forum for namecalling, please. Thanks.

 

[Jahydin]

That video is the first time I ever heard of the guy.

And since he seems to be motivated to defend a neo-nazi troll I feel free to mock him accordingly. He wants to avoid being associated with neo-nazis he should be more judicious about whom he leaps to defend.

No idea who you're referring to, but if its Venger:

Side bar: so, DTRPG's policy is basically a response to actions carried out by someone who actually calls himself Venger Satanis. I mean, like, in public. Even at the age of 12 I would have considered that name too embarrassing to use for anything except a comedy villain sidekick. But this numpty uses it in the real world...

Just wanted to point out Venger is taken from the D&D Cartoon series. I really don't think he's trying to be serious.

 

[darjr]

Oh Venger. Like RPGPundit is also saying things like that. They have supported each other and defended each other and may still be doing so. I think they show up in each other’s videos too, didn’t they?

But as to Nazis and rpgpundit, I’m not sure I trust what he says anymore.


Same with Satanis, actually.

 

[Jahydin]

Oh Venger. Like RPGPundit is also saying things like that. They have supported each other and defended each other and may still be doing so. I think they show up in each other’s videos too, didn’t they?

Funny, from the Twitter thread I found RPGPundit was one of the ones giving him a hard time:

Maybe he's learned better since that last quote?

 

[Jahydin]

Back to Drive-Thru's new guidelines...

I'm playing through the old Baulder's Gate games for the first time and realizing it breaks a few of the rules and would be considered unsuitable. Kind of funny considering the popularity of it.