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  1. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    What on earth are you even talking about?
  2. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Citations needed. :) From my education in evolutionary psychology, ethics, and even personal life experiences, I’m pretty sure the majority of your premises are factually wrong and you provide no evidence to the contrary. With faulty premises, the whole argument falls apart. So I guess I will...
  3. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    They have already argued with moderation, called people stupid, said they were leaving the thread but posted more, been thread banned, and then posted again. So I’d recommend dropping this and moving along. They aren’t interested in listening to anyone, even Morrus.
  4. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    “Interesting that...” is right up there with “some people say...” as one of those rhetorical tricks to imply something without actually backing it up. Just hold your hands up and say, well, I didn’t claim that. For example: Some people say the EN World servers run on the blood of Morrus’s...
  5. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Just as a quick aside - I think you had some bad cut-n-paste or quote tags there. Caliban said that, not me, and with the snark levels you two are getting to, I'd rather not be caught in the middle if I don't have to. Thanks! :) Edit to add: No prob! Computers can be weird sometimes.
  6. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Probably not worth the time responding to "ZanzibarJones" since the account was created an hour after Aguirre Melchiors was thread-banned and amazingly they not only have similar ideas but even the same birthdate! Just sayin'. :) (and reported - it's the mod's call on that) In other news...
  7. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Even if it was a coincidence in timing, I doubt the ad was created and scheduled 5 months ago before PaizoCon. So even after this incident happened, and there was a formal report against Bill, and an internal investigation involving the partners of the company - they still felt it was something...
  8. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    This is a very difficult but important question that gets missed in this. On the one hand, you have respecting what the victim requested being very important. (And given my personality, if I was that person, I might have very well made the same decision.) However, there is the issue of safety...
  9. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Agree entirely. "Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" is the standard of evidence in criminal trials (and if it went to criminal trial, I would wholeheartedly support that). Even civil trials don't even meet that standard and instead rely on "preponderance of evidence." But...
  10. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    No, it doesn’t make many of us feel any better. Sure, they aren’t going to get burned at the stake, but most people aren’t satisfied with a bar set that low. “Better than history” is not the best we can do. I’m thinking you have some apples and oranges in that pie. But even if it is true, so...
  11. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    So some guy probably got in a knife fight with Bill and almost died but the [-]girl[/-] grown adult woman had to beat him unconscious with a fire extinguisher to barely escape with her life. I mean, if we are going to just invent imaginary versions of the incident that conflict with actual...
  12. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Yes. Read the article above (or any of the witness accounts). One Paizo staffer was injured trying to stop Bill. So yes.
  13. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Were you a witness to the incident? Do you have information that every other witness who has spoken up does not have? That would be good to know. Because all of the people who were actually there disagree with every single thing you claim here. Personally, I believe the people who were...
  14. kenmarable

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Be surprised then. Robert says he was a direct witness in the PaizoCon incident (rather than a trusted confidant reporting what others have told him like with the PFS issue), because he was nearby and had to help physically stop Bill from stalking the victim through the hotel. Other witnesses...
  15. kenmarable

    News Digest: Empyrea Canceled, New Stranger Things Game, Warhammer 40K Comics, and more!

    The original discussion was about a news article about someone being groped on a bus. Discussion moved to talk about freezing up in those situations as Mentzer was saying how he didn’t believe that would happen. Then one (or more?) other friends of Price spoke up in hopes of correcting Mentzer...
  16. kenmarable

    News Digest: Empyrea Canceled, New Stranger Things Game, Warhammer 40K Comics, and more!

    No Price is not actually arguing that. She has never said that and no one involved with that conversation has ever insinuated sh said that. This isn’t about two differing opinions. This is about when a rape survivor speaks up and says “Frank, I’m a rape survivor, and this is a real response.”...
  17. kenmarable

    The Actual Table of Contents for Xanathar's Guide to Everything

    I keep hearing this, but it doesn’t make any sense. Like the Tortle Package, they can say “SCAG counts as Xanathars for PHB + 1.” Then it has the exact same effect with 1 sentence. *Shrug* Of course, I already pre-ordered it at DDB, so it’s not like I’m not excited to see it. But I keep hearing...
  18. kenmarable

    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    Yes, absolutely! It just needs to not be penalized/suboptimal/worse-than-average (not sure best phrasing). That's one of the reasons I really like how 5e (mostly) avoids ability score penalties. No race (for the most part) is bad at any class. Sure, some may be fit better than others, but (other...
  19. kenmarable

    D&D 5E (2014) Fivethirtyeight Article About D&D Race and Class Combos

    Yes, absolutely! It just needs to not be penalized/suboptimal/worse-than-average (not sure best phrasing). That's one of the reasons I really like how 5e (mostly) avoids ability score penalties. No race (for the most part) is bad at any class. Sure, some may be fit better than others, but (other...
  20. kenmarable

    Human Fighters Most Common Race/Class Combo In D&D

    It's also entertaining for long-timers to see the same debates popping up every year or two and seeing how it plays out in similar and in different ways to the past. :) Personally, there's never going to be a one-to-one match since they weren't written with D&D in mind obviously. If a character...
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