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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?

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.