D20 'philosophy' cramping my style

[Nisarg]

With all due respect my friend, why on earth should I care what you think?

DB

Not at all, except you seem to be overly concerned with people taking you seriously on here.
You mention things like your "vast experience" with writing for RPGs; well, on a forum like this you are using that in an attempt to justify yourself, to give weight to your arguments, to make it clear that you aren't just a bozo.
If you want me to accept that as giving you some kind of authority, then you need to be able to back up that claim with some kind evidence that you ARE in fact an industry writer with experience.
If you don't do that, you look like a much bigger bozo than you would have otherwise.

Its like if you went onto a board about physics, claimed you'd been published in various Scientific Journals so people should believe your theory about neutrinos, but then refuse to give your name or the name of the articles you were published in.

Guess what? Just saying that you are published isn't enough. This is the internet, anyone can do that.
I bet you don't know that I'm secretly the Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani, right?
Well I am.
I'm also a small mexican fruit bat.

See? Its ridiculously easy to lie on the internet.
So if you make any claim about just about anything relating to your identity and then conspicuously fail to back it up with at least some names, I will relegate you to the default category of "faker", as will many people on this kind of forum. Something that will actually weaken your arguments far more than if you hadn't made absurd claims in the first place.

Nisarg

 

[Drifter Bob]

I work full time in the industry, feel free to voice my opinion whenever I feel it's necessary, and put my name at the bottom of almost every post.

I'm sorry to be rude, but I really don't care what you think. There are people here who know work I have done, a book I wrote this year was reviewed on ENworld. I am not going to name any names, including my on (not that again, it's that hard to find out) because I have had very negative experiences in the past, including people writing hate mail to publishing companies I worked for, and people stalking me and even trying to get my internet account yanked (for posting a 9k picture of a samurai to a text only newsgroup, in response to a bogus argument which turned out to be a troll/ trap).

So, with all due respect, as I'm fond of saying, love it or lump it.

DB

 

[Drifter Bob]

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See? Its ridiculously easy to lie on the internet.

Again, I'm sorry to be rude, but iIt's also ridiculously easy to make a fool of yourself on the internet, which you have also simultaneously demonstrated. You are going to look a little silly if your theory turns out to be not only wrong, but under the circumstances, stupid.


DB

 

[Drifter Bob]

Ol' Monte Cook ranted about this over a year ago ...

Surprisingly, I found mr. Cook and I are in nearly 100% agreement.

DB

 

[Nisarg]

Again, I'm sorry to be rude, but iIt's also ridiculously easy to make a fool of yourself on the internet, which you have also simultaneously demonstrated. You are going to look a little silly if your theory turns out to be not only wrong, but under the circumstances, stupid.


DB

No, I won't.
If you choose to actually give me your name, it turns out that you're a real rpg writer, then I will simply be satisfied, and you will stop looking like a faker.

As it stands, you are the one who currently looks at worse like a liar and a fake, and at best extremely naive to expect everyone on here to just believe you're an industry prof because you said so.

Nisarg

p.s. Its like Patrick Y. said; it doesn't seem particularly heroic or righteous to crow on about liking to "ruffle feathers" when you don't have the guts to sign your name to what you're saying

 

[Drifter Bob]

p.s. Its like Patrick Y. said; it doesn't seem particularly heroic or righteous to crow on about liking to "ruffle feathers" when you don't have the guts to sign your name to what you're saying

Seeing as how literally anybody can be reading this stuff, it is only common sense not to sign your real name. If you voice any of the kind of opions I regularly have as Drifter Bob, I would be stupid to do so. It doesn't mean you have guts, it just means you are reckless. I cannot retaliate against anonymous worms on the internet who take any number of contemptable underhanded steps to try to harm me. Meet me one day in real life, and I'll be glad to tell you my name.

It also incidentally doesn't take a lot of guts to insinuate that someone is a coward over the internet either, when you reside thousands of miles away. Anyway, I've had enough of this sub-thread. Like the man said, "arguing over the internet is like entering the special olympics... even if you win, you are still retarded."

DB

 

[Dark Jezter]

p.s. Its like Patrick Y. said; it doesn't seem particularly heroic or righteous to crow on about liking to "ruffle feathers" when you don't have the guts to sign your name to what you're saying

That reminds me of a part from a fantasy novel I read a while back where an apprentice wizard suggests sorting the books in a library according to subject because many of them are by anonymous authors, and the elder wizard states "Hmmmfph. Never trust anything that a man will not set his reputation and name upon."

The novel itself was only okay, but that line stuck with me.

 

[Mark]

Seeing as how literally anybody can be reading this stuff, it is only common sense not to sign your real name. If you voice any of the kind of opions I regularly have as Drifter Bob, I would be stupid to do so. It doesn't mean you have guts, it just means you are reckless. I cannot retaliate against anonymous worms on the internet who take any number of contemptable underhanded steps to try to harm me. Meet me one day in real life, and I'll be glad to tell you my name.

It also incidentally doesn't take a lot of guts to insinuate that someone is a coward over the internet either, when you reside thousands of miles away. Anyway, I've had enough of this sub-thread. Like the man said, "arguing over the internet is like entering the special olympics... even if you win, you are still retarded."

DB

Wow.

 

[Drifter Bob]

That reminds me of a part from a fantasy novel I read a while back where an apprentice wizard suggests sorting the books in a library according to subject because many of them are by anonymous authors, and the elder wizard states "Hmmmfph. Never trust anything that a man will not set his reputation and name upon."

The novel itself was only okay, but that line stuck with me.

So what is your real name, address, and home phone number then, "Dark Jester"?

DB

 

[Drifter Bob]

you don't have the guts to sign your name to what you're saying

And lets see your name, address, home phone number, and work number, in case I want to talk to your boss, since so many people in this thread evinced a desire to speak to mine....

DB