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To de-escalate just means that they are brushing off the crimes of an old white woman who made a much less powerful younger black woman feel poorly. Just because of a few extra words said which obviously are just because that old woman was caught saying out loud what she believes in her heart...

I think the average person will think, “wow, these people are crazy about what they get upset about.” And “boy, did SFWA overreact. They must have real issues.” Neither of those are bigoted responses but don’t help if other issues come up later.

I read a lot of Delaney when I was younger and continue to think he is an excellent writer. I have a hard time being positive about him (as opposed to his work) because of his association with an organization almost everyone would have an issue with.

I agree that a bigot is a bigot. I think you missed the point here, though. People who see such encounters but have not engaged yet have a much higher chance of a negative emotional response and can easily serve to push them to harden their opinions. Ask yourself what the average person’s...

They cannot de-escalate. The conference is over and the panels she was removed from are done and gone. Her husband was also kicked off and those are done and gone. The public statement saying what she said was a slur with zero context has already been done.

SFWA is more likely to say that she just revealed her actual bad think feelings and bury her further as admitting weakness to the mob is not their style.

SFWA is a private organization and they have published policies with pretty harsh action laid out. Their general philosophy and their leadership is well known. This type of reaction is not really a surprise. The smart thing to do is not join their organization and not participate in their...

I live 2 towns to the east of Hayward down 580. I am from Montreal, which is a lot of towns away. :) And that is a strange place for prejudice where you have to hear someone speak to figure it out.

If that is where you live vs. where you are from, we live just a couple of towns apart.

I view the NAACP use of the word as a sign that their success as the people it was founded to help chose their own names. Personally, I much prefer black or Black as it is a color like white (and neither is accurate for the actual skin color). I honestly don’t know about others and how they want...

The panelist (who is black) appeared to be offended on her own sake, not on Delaney’s sake. The SFWA decided that the word violated their policies and took action. I believe that there is so previous group (romance writers) that went with something else in similar circumstances and, in Twitter...

The was not Delaney that had the issue, it was another panelist who had the problem and went to Twitter about it after the panel.

I think White Star is an amazing example of how to do a pretty rules light SF system. Space combat, for example, just treats the ships as monsters and you run the combat using the same rules as you generally do. Rules light does not mean that there is not a lot of content in the rulebook, just...

I find another thing about SF games is that many recent ones have been tied to movies/tv show IP. Meanwhile, interesting releases like this struggle to get as noticed: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/owenkcstephens/reign-of-discordia-2nd-edition

I back way too many. Close to 400 now. I am getting pickier and pickier. For books, it needs to be written and ready to go to next stage (small publishers that mean editing and art and then printing. Big ones I really want final polish and print). I have had zero creators fail to deliver...

Alta Fox has stopped supporting Finkel for the board. They pared down their request to three people, and Finkel is not one of them. By far, he was the least qualified for a Board seat in their proposed slate.

I backed the board game in Kickstarter and it was a pile of burning garbage for delivery plus the rules were so so. I am not surprised this is bad. The company is terrible. Just look at their past kickstarters and the comment sections.

Accounting. Worked for a Big 8 (now big 4 firm) when I graduated. Eventually became a CFO of several public companies, so went about as far as normally hoped for with an accounting degree. I enjoyed college. Went to both English universities in Montreal.

Yes, It has been mentioned as unoffical and not blessed. Could be shut off as an abuse of the API. Could be left alone. Could be blessed.

I think that any VTT that relies on integration with D&D Beyond for free may become increasingly at risk. Fandom may have been willing to look the other way as it meant more sales for them, but WoTC does not have a similar track record.