D&D Jihad: People Who Are Unwell

[zarionofarabel]

I utter and completely gave up on humanity when Flerfs became not only a thing, but a thing so prevalent that respectable scientists were forced to address the issue. Whatever is happening with whatever this thread is about is just a regular Tuesday now. If you know what "The Great Filter" is, that's definitely the answer to the Fermi Paradox.

 

[aco175]

Isn't this a live and let live thing? If you are not into Jesus-D&D, or Old School-D&D, or LGBT-D&D, or whatever type of D&D, that is fine. One can stay away and let those that like that style play their way.

It is nice that the OP let everyone know what is going on, but the way it was put out certainly tries to portray it as badwrongfun and not informational.

 

[Scribe]

Isn't this a live and let live thing? If you are not into Jesus-D&D, or Old School-D&D, or LGBT-D&D, or whatever type of D&D, that is fine. One can stay away and let those that like that style play their way.

You would think so, but each of those camps have attacked people out of their own puritanical self righteousness.

The real answer is to delete social media, and build your own local community, play group, whatever, and forget that once some people get an audience, they go full crazy.

 

[Agamon]

Sick Puppies is a great band, don't dis them lol

I left Twitter back when it was still called that, and I'm not sure why people who aren't, um, problematic, actually still use it...

 

[Mannahnin]

Isn't this a live and let live thing? If you are not into Jesus-D&D, or Old School-D&D, or LGBT-D&D, or whatever type of D&D, that is fine. One can stay away and let those that like that style play their way.

It is nice that the OP let everyone know what is going on, but the way it was put out certainly tries to portray it as badwrongfun and not informational.

I tend to agree that it's better not to give those sorts attention.

 

[Umbran]

A few years back, a group of discontented white men found a hack into the Hugo Awards nominating procedure

There was no "hacking" involved. There was merely an attempt to control who was nominated for Hugo awards by presenting a slate of candidates, and having supporters all nominate that slate, to concentrate voting power.

While they managed to stack the nominations a couple of times, it wasn't particularly effective at getting awards to works on the slates. Frequently the final voters preferred to give no award, rather than give one to a slate-sponsored work.

They called themselves 'the sick puppies.'

The original, in 2013, were "Sad Puppies", originally led by Larry Correia. In 2015, the "Rabid Puppies", led by Vox Day, also started presenting a slate. No Puppies slate has been offered since 2017.

 

[Belen]

I read this thread and still have no idea what it is about other than the OP was feeding the trolls by giving them the time of day.

 

[Umbran]

Mod Note:

I would like to remind folks that while discussion of social phenomena within our hobby is usually fair game, discussion and/or commentary of real-world politics and religion are not.

There have already been a couple of steps over the line, including in the OP itself. Please do not continue along those lines.

 

[billd91]

Isn't this a live and let live thing? If you are not into Jesus-D&D, or Old School-D&D, or LGBT-D&D, or whatever type of D&D, that is fine. One can stay away and let those that like that style play their way.

Depends. Does it sound like the BrOSRs are "living and letting live"? Or is toxicity spreading beyond their own community? If it looks like the latter, then I don't think the toxicity should go unchallenged in the public sphere given its propensity to hurt people who are vulnerable.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah, stay off Twitter generally. It's mostly crazies, racists and crazy racists now.

Bluesky has a pretty healthy RPG community and I'm told Mastodon does, too.