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I'm not so sure about that "desire to defeat evil". Are you perhaps confusing it with the desire to protect one's own? Example 1: Vecnauron lives far away, on the Island of Evil, doing evil things, such as maintaining sixteen skeletons. No one's in danger; he just likes using the skeletons as...

Anyways, back to the topic of harassment of cons. Would this count as harassment, if dozens of people did it: "The evil side of me wants to go up to the Green Ronin booth at GenCon, chalk up a big purchase, then stop before checking out and ask, “Wait, didn’t you people work to get Correia...

That's a fact. Jewish, Roma, Irish, Iberian, Slavic, and many others, all fall somewhere on the sliding scale of racism, to those who consider Anglo-Saxon heritage as the pinnacle, the Platonic ideal of whiteness. Nuances vary by location; an Irish background in Tokyo, and an Irish background in...

I disagree three ways: (A) You assume that online harassment caused Origins to disinvite Correia. Correia's history of trying to game an awards process, and when he failed, trying to *destroy* the awards process, was a significant concern for a con which holds an awards ceremony. You can read...

I figured that since I was the first one to mention Origins 2018 in this thread, I'd better err on the side of presenting the known events and third-party-verifiable facts in a relatively neutral way, even though I have strong opinions and loyalties, and a friend personally involved. In the...

I will attend a local gaming con later this month and I will keep this thread in mind while I am there. There may also be opportunities for observation at a major conference in June in the USA. Origins is a game industry convention. It's a convention of interest for anyone who writes...

On one hand, I'm not dismissing the value of defensive measures. On another hand, when what I hear from women at cons, is "I want men to offer more training and reading on how I can take defensive measures", THEN that's when I'll try to provide resources as asked. In the meantime, my impression...

Okay, fair enough. Yeah, the BWBBB (Boys Will Be Boys Brigade) has mostly hit and run. Not that I'm dropping my guard. SOME offers are welcome and SOME of those offers get accepted, and hey, I tip my hat to anyone who finds such joy at a con. I'm not out to impose chastity on a "dog in the...

You're here for rational, fact-based discussion, right? Let's try some fact-checking. Post #3 in this thread ended with a "chicks be crazy" argument. Though the specific phrase was "third wave feminism", the intent and tone were functionally equivalent When the thread had a total of 10 posts...

I remember that argument from somewhere... Some of live in jurisdictions in which judges shrug and say "accidents happen" after someone gets sloshed and crashes their sports car into a school bus. Some of us live in zero-tolerance jurisdictions, where a cop will pull you over just for weaving...

So we address them separately AND we address the interaction with alcohol? In parallel? I agree. I agree... again... that's twice on the same page! I will spend Memorial Day Weekend at Local Gaming Con. I intend to mainly observe, and ponder what I see in light of this thread. In chat with...

Shidaku and I might disagree on details of mental process. I am not a professional, and have only an amateur understanding of psychology and of cognitive science. So far as I know, mental processes are complicated, and many generalizations and simplifications fall apart under close scrutiny, or...

Ah. Insofar as "we" means "the people trying to do more good and less harm, with an awareness of power differentials", then yes, I agree. Those who are, at least, trying; with imperfect, mortal levels of success. Insofar as "we" means "the gaming con community as a whole", well, that's a...

True, but beware slippery slope. I have bad things in my mind too. I have made a categorical choice not to act on those bad things. No matter what fantasies I have about that cute/hot Princess Daphne cosplayer , I still recognize her as a *person*. My inhibition, against treating a person as a...

Alternate plan: without proficiency, shield provides +1 AC. (Even passively, a shield gets in the way of some attacks.) If you have proficiency with shields, then instead, shield provides (proficiency bonus) to AC, representing your trained ability to move the shield into the way of attacks...

It's almost as if there are men who don't want this conversation to happen! Some of them charge in shouting "FEMINAZIS!" and get banned, while others are more subtle and play the long game. Yup. Nailed it. Alcohol makes certain dynamics and motivations more *visible*. See also, guys who don't...

Whoops, never mind. Perhaps an Amazon-style "People who liked X also liked Y" is his best hope.

Wild speculative theory here, no claim of expertise: It might be useful, to add to the list of proscribed behaviors, "getting so intoxicated, that one neglects reasonable basic self care." If a participant is sloshing along the stairway so clumsily, that bystanders are worried that person will...

Procedurally generated planets... hey, did they write a TRPG for "No Man's Sky", then change the name to Elite?

I DMed for a group with a tiefling warlock PC. The previous DM had done the "you all walk into a tavern, NPCs are hostile to the tiefling" scene. I decided that the campaign city had a small tiefling population, and that the most prominent tiefling in town would take an interest in learning...