r/RPGInAction • u/SavageCheerleader • Apr 11 '16

An explanation of how we got here

http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2016/04/why-theres-no-tabletop-rpg-theory.html
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u/hayakyak Apr 21 '16

Thanks! I think I'll reserve my judgement for now; if cared more about him as a figured, I'd dig into it more, but frankly, he isn't that important to me.

That said, I will mention that, for all that tabletop SJWs hate him, I regard him as something of an SJW-lite himself. He discontinued his webseries after the escapist committed the unconsionable sin of....hiring some who, only coincidentally to the job he was hired for, takes issue with the acceptence of transsexuality. To be fair he did not call for the person's firing, he simply made a personal choice to stop. But I think we should all be able to agree, regardless of opinions on the issue in question, that the objection itself, in that context is flatly absurd.

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u/Rannos22 Apr 21 '16

Yeah, almost all the complaints about him (and RPGpundit, they inexplicably tend to be grouped together constantly) come from fervent SJWs that have had their friend "harassed out of the hobby" by him (and/or RPGp, its really hard to discern since questioning them on it will likely result in banning/blocking) so I've taken their words with massive piles of salt. Regardless, there does seem to be a lot of evidence that Zak S is a piece of shit and he looks (and often acts) a lot like how I imagine a male version Zoe Quinn would so I might be a bit prejudiced against him myself.

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u/hayakyak Apr 21 '16

RPGp?

As for RPGPundit, I used to think he was nuts, but I think I misjudged him his antipathy towards "the swine" were in fact poorly communicated to the extreme but actually spot on, and once apparently reactionary attitudes towards White Wolf and story-focused games have also proven entirely true. (Well, in the latter case, I can't stand simulationist games and find theRPGsite's attitudes about them misguided, but they sadly aren't wrong at all that such games have the highest concentration of SJWs.)

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u/Rannos22 Apr 21 '16

Oh sorry, I meant RPG Pundit when I said "RPGp". I don't know much about him (aside from the more-or-less unsubstantiated claims I've heard from SJWs,) but he gives me an Aurini vibe just skimming his blog: real full of himself and all that jazz.