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Dude, read what you are writing. Does not matter to what degree it is discussed, it is all sex shaming.

First of all, I am not questioning someone that worked/works in the sex industry being in the TTRPG space. That would hit pretty close to home for me and I have said several times in this thread that in my opinion it ok and I think it is a valid topic for discussion. You are thinking too much...

It is not sex shaming to question the porn industry. Again, right to that canned response. Porn is restricted to 18+ in the USA. Child porn is a serious criminal offense. There are documented and peer reviewed studies that show it can be harmful (and others that show it is not and all sorts of...

There is a difference between people not reading their contracts and having unrealistic views on how contractors get paid and the allegations that people were not paid at all. One I have a small amount of sympathy with the business owner. The other is a huge issue. And the examples that people...

It is not. I don’t invest in tobacco companies and would have an issue with someone being prominent in promoting that product being a spokes person for a hobby I enjoyed. In this particular case I both do not think it is relevant and I personally have no problem with her former profession. I...

I wonder is wandering off into the weeds and the lectures about sex shaming really have that firm a place here. Immediately going to sex shaming whenever the topic comes up is just a canned response without nuance or context. I can be ok with the porn industry and understand that society as a...

That is a pretty broad brush you are painting there.

She was playing D&D before that show. In my personal groups over the years I have had players from all walks of life. The fact that porn actors or actresses play D&D is not surprising to me. Is the next attack going to be against Joe Manganiello because of Magic Mike being about male strippers?

I grew up in a nice Catholic family and have been on the internet (and what was before) via slow dial-up modems. You used to be about to download sexy pictures in the form of text and use a program to turn it into the picture. I am not concerned that somehow Satine will cause kids to find porn...

I have only had positive interactions with people that I have done work with in the TTRPG space. Always been paid, zero drama. I also don’t think that speculating publicly on Satine/Jameson does anything. The people that had a negative interaction said what they felt about it. I have zero idea...

Activists were defeated in a landslide in a vote by shareholders.

I only started a few years after you did and early D&D was also a thinking person game. Highly lethal with XP for gold which rewarded avoiding combat. The issue I have always had with SF campaigns is the limits of technology. The freedom of movement and access to information in SF is well...

http://kck.st/3GCLKHe Reign of Discordia got taken down and then restarted as a new Kickstarter.

No change in SFWA statement or any clarification. As I said, I do not expect any.

The recent ones I ran for my groups have been fun. LMoP was perfect for me coming back to DMing after a long break and great at teaching me 5e. Princes of the Apocalypse/Storm Kings Thunder - I ran these as a pair with Princes immediately following LMoP (even in the same general region) and...

Sad Puppies was 7+ years ago and really had nothing to do with SFWA. And I am pretty sure that Mercedes Lackey and her husband were opponents to them. The Romance Writers association and awards are directly inline with the SFWA and very recent.

That is a completely different award. I am pretty sure the much more recent complete meltdown of a similar organization was on their minds. I also think it was their intent to use the chance they were given.

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-highlight/2020/6/17/21178881/racism-books-romance-writers-of-america-scandal-novels-publishing Fear. And policy.

I do not believe that she is a racist as well. Even if it was not a mess up, a verbal stutter that she said happened, but instead she did use the word, that is not evidence of racism to me if there is nothing that backs that up. At worst insentitive. My comment was both sarcasm/parody and...

That Twitter will be Twitter?