D&D General Alleged disgruntled NuTSR insider spills the beans.

Ralif Redhammer · Feb 10, 2022

Yeah, the stakes are pretty darn low. No one is likely to look at it and come out with a new opinion of LaNasa (supporters will either not believe it or will approve of LaNasa, and people that don't like him will continue to not like him), nor does the poster stand to benefit particularly from the account. Other than the bit about him trying to directly go after Luke Gygax, it doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know about LaNasa.

Umbran said:
Yeah, which is exactly why we should question it. As you note - confirmation bias is a thing, and we should question that which matches out expectations too cleanly. Thus I asked.

Mind you, there's precious little at stake here, so we don't need a whole lot of confidence - for now, Deset Gled's testimony will do.

I'm not saying it would hurt more than a lake of fire, but boiling hot grits would be pretty awful, too. I've burned my mouth often enough checking to see if they were done to know that.

Sacrosanct said:
In hell you're constantly swimming in a lake of fire. Here? It's grits.

DLIMedia · Feb 10, 2022

Damn it, can we go just one goddamn day without this crap?

Snarf Zagyg · Feb 10, 2022

DLIMedia said:
Damn it, can we go just one goddamn day without this crap?

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Is this a surprise? How many people are really that involved with nuTSR? I can think of three ...

LaNasa. Ernie. And Michael.

Michael left, so if there was a leak, it was going to be Michael or Michael-adjacent. It's not rocket science.

(Sure, there might be other possibilities, but that I assumed everyone else had the same thoughts I did?)

Umbran · Feb 10, 2022

Snarf Zagyg said:
(Sure, there might be other possibilities, but that I assumed everyone else had the same thoughts I did?)

I had similarly wondered how many employees they had. I hadn't considered Michael an option, because, well, his taking the position at all seems to signal acceptance of who LaNasa is. It isn't like it was hidden, right?

I guessed that if this was real, it was from someone not public-facing that we know nothing about.

But also, this "Horatio Jones" isn't really breaking any news - he's making an unsupported assertion. Internet rumors are not news.

Charlaquin · Feb 10, 2022

Willie the Duck said:
This is always a fine line. I think it is safe to say that we're giving them more attention and publicity than they otherwise could generate themselves. However, since online womn'haders and wannabe Nazis and stuff morphed from 'ignore them, they are harmless dead ends' to major political forces, I never know whether ignoring people on the internet or calling them out with 'don't get swayed by these guys' admonitions is the right course of action. I don't know exactly what these guys could end up doing, but it's safe to say I want to keep my eye on them until I know they are harmless.

These types should neither be ignored, nor taken seriously. The solution is mockery. Make laughing stocks of them and you take away any power they might have had either from being allowed to act in secret or from being given serious attention. And it hurts their ability to recruit because the types of people who they prey on tend to have fragile egos and hate nothing more than being perceived as fools.

Sir Brennen · Feb 10, 2022

Snarf Zagyg said:
Michael left, so if there was a leak, it was going to be Michael or Michael-adjacent. It's not rocket science.

Yeah, that's the most likely scenario.

But if it is Michael, nuTSR's former PR person, whose job is supposed to be communicating, he's pretty bad at it as Chad. Not that he was great as Michael. Chad, though, seems to think over-communicating about all the stuff he could show, but only actually showing a fraction of it, is a convincing indictment. Not to mention grammar and spelling fails. I mean, I know it's Twitter, but c'mon.

Snarf Zagyg · Feb 10, 2022

Umbran said:
I had similarly wondered how many employees they had. I hadn't considered Michael an option, because, well, his taking the position at all seems to signal acceptance of who LaNasa is. It isn't like it was hidden, right?

It's easier to accept the grift when you think you're the one who might be getting a payday.

Once you fully accept that you're not the grifter, but another griftee, things tend to change.

Umbran · Feb 10, 2022

Snarf Zagyg said:
It's easier to accept the grift when you think you're the one who might be getting a payday.

Once you fully accept that you're not the grifter, but another griftee, things tend to change.

Yeah, but grift succeeds in large part because people are generally unwilling to admit they they were taken in. It is a blow to the ego to admit, "I was suckered".

DLIMedia · Feb 10, 2022

Snarf Zagyg said:
Is this a surprise? How many people are really that involved with nuTSR? I can think of three ...

It has been suggested that "Chad" is in this picture... Michael is 2nd from the right.

Sacrosanct · Feb 10, 2022

DLIMedia said:
Damn it, can we go just one goddamn day without this crap?

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What's with these guys' insistence with using someone's middle name? Every time, it's like a dog whistle to dox someone, which is something they literally just got done ranting about how this Chad person is doxing Justin by this account. I just don't get the blatant hypocrisy.

D&D General Alleged disgruntled NuTSR insider spills the beans.

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