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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wincenworks" data-source="post: 9603632" data-attributes="member: 7038835">As I am but a humble visitor here I will spare you my opinions on the community elements, aside to point out that among the many other sins the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum engaged in was looking for was to deliberately and publicly deadname Janelle shortly after her passing.  Later Ernie would invite the owner/operator to his wedding.  Ernie's dead, he can never read anything anyone says about him ever again, nor can he ever change who he was. His family, including Donna, are pretty sure to know to avoid this topic.  People who were hurt by him aren't "being righteous", they're also coping with the realization that he's gone and now they'll never hear him express regret for what he did, etc.  I personally think they need some grace and empathy too - particularly since many of them live their life under constant attack and so frequently denied their authentic voice due to the world we live in.I truly feel for the Gygax family, it has to suck to have people wanting to drag you into conversations about the worst things that your father and your late elder brother did, especially when you're trying to latch onto the memories and find people who have memories of them to share. I'm glad that everything which was marked with the "stamp of approval" from him is off the market forever. But trying to make it a race for respectability while the other side weaponizes it isn't neutral or classy, it's just helping reactionaries, who absolutely are trying to exploit this.Here's an example - Michael wanting to use this make it about him being the better guy who was super good friend with Ernie, like he hasn't been <a href="https://x.com/search?q=from%3AGpaperarchitect%20grummz&src=typed_query&f=top" target="_blank">continuing nuTSR's mission (or is it ursurp the mission by rebrand?) by cozying up to people</a> like Grummz (of GamerGate and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrA_GMbXWo" target="_blank">GamerGate 2 infamy</a>).[ATTACH=full]398450[/ATTACH]I don't know Donna or any of the Gygax's personally, I can't see into their hearts - but I don't think this is the sort of character reference they want for Ernie. Maybe you should sit this one out and take advantage of the fact that unlike Ernie, you still have time to change who you are and what your legacy will be.  Maybe you can spare who you leave behind the awkwardness and hearbreak.He posted that in response to two right-wing reactionary figures who are infamous for generating Ian Miles Cheong (stillgray), a guy who used to be a video game journalist but now positions himself (a Malayasian man, mostly living in Malayasia) as an expert on what the soul of America needs to restore itself to its constitutional values - and a disgraced video game developer who is being heavily criticized by his own fanbase for being too reactionary and too invested in the culture wars: Mark Kern (Grummz).  Both of whom Elon follows.  Elon did not follow nuTSR nor did he show any signs he knows it exists.[ATTACH=full]398452[/ATTACH]So now you know why Michael wants to be Mark's friend, that and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFVhqOdwYP8" target="_blank">Mark seems to be way better at this milking people for money thing than Justin ever was</a>.During the fiasco while the Hobby Shop Museum was up, it did tweet at him a few times hoping to get Elon's attention and then once (hilariously) to abuse him when Elon mentioned he'd gotten vaccinated because "I thought you were smart!"  I don't have the screenshot for that one on hand, but I did find this one (yes he did post at Elon multiple times with the account privated, meaning Elon didn't have any chance to see the posts... not that it would have mattered given the like, 44,800+ replies):[ATTACH=full]398451[/ATTACH]As a side note, and to give credit where it's due - Stephen Dinehart, aka Wonderfilled aka GiantLands guy aka Guy who started this mess with the transphobic insult, did post some rather nice tributes to Ernie.  Nothing amazing, but at least he's had the good grace to not try to turn Ernie's corpse into a bludgeon to fight the culture wars with.[ATTACH=full]398457[/ATTACH]I'm hoping he can just quit here and not do like he did with Jim Ward and try to make it all about him and his (all but forgotten) game.(If you're curious what Dave Johnson had to say... nothing really, he did 1 retweet and then went straight back to raging about right-wing politics with his "no politics" account, The Evil DM also managed a reasonable but unremarkable "prayers with the family" post with no further comments.)</blockquote>

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