Nu-TSR suing WotC: Schadenfreude is back on the menu, boys!

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The amount of energy taken to generate this much drama is mind boggling. I can barely do the laundry.
I struggle to spoon badly cooked rice into my mouth some days. This shit is ridiculous. There was another thing I was going to say, but in the interests of well, stuff, I won't. Suffice to say it's goddamn weird.
 
The Wizards filing, via TBP.


Notably, they're going for LaNasa by name as well as company. How common is that in US courts?

(They're ignoring Ernie entirely, probably wisely. If Ernie has the capacity for self reflection he should be very glad that LaNasa's fuckwittery hasn't rebounded on him legally, but I'm not convinced he does on current evidence).
I suspect it is because of paragraph 45 in their counterclaim as LaNasa signed a statement before the USPTO. That comes with it's own fines and penalties I understand that are separate from Wizard's case. Lastly, Davis Wright are big guns.
 
I believe all that was discussed in the earlier days of part one of this thread.
 
CW:EXTREME RACISM

Welp, looks like the guy writing the "new" Star Frontiers for TSR3 is an actual, no-shit nazi:

Props to users over at ENWorld for breaking this story.

Also, that dude can ess my dee
 
Ugh, I made the mistake of following the links in the links.

Even though I "know" people like this exist, I'm always caught off-guard when I actually encounter them, like I've stepped into some strange timewarp.

Legit feel a bit naseous.

I'm not sure they needed it, but that's definitely the final nail in nuTSR's coffin. I just wonder if Ernie is going to be able to extricate himself from this, with his already questionable comments.


PS - I thought stuff like that wasnt allowed on Twitter? Like I keep hearing stories of how certain groups are getting censored on that platform, so how can this guy just post dozens of the most vile bigoted and flat out Nazi memes?
 
Ugh, I made the mistake of following the links in the links.

Even though I "know" people like this exist, I'm always caught off-guard when I actually encounter them, like I've stepped into some strange timewarp.

Legit feel a bit naseous.

I'm not sure they needed it, but that's definitely the final nail in nuTSR's coffin. I just wonder if Ernie is going to be able to extricate himself from this, with his already questionable comments.


PS - I thought stuff like that wasnt allowed on Twitter? Like I keep hearing stories of how certain groups are getting censored on that platform, so how can this guy just post dozens of the most vile bigoted and flat out Nazi memes?
Could be dude curates his feed so only friends see it... No one reports it, well...
 
PS - I thought stuff like that wasnt allowed on Twitter? Like I keep hearing stories of how certain groups are getting censored on that platform, so how can this guy just post dozens of the most vile bigoted and flat out Nazi memes?
Twitter is like law enforcement in many other places: You don't get punished for committing a crime, you get punished for being obvious about it.
Did we go over that Varg Vikernes thing? Cause this doesn't surprise me at all.

JG
 
He's just a fun-lovin' wee scamp getting up to all sorts of mischief isn't he?
 
Could be dude curates his feed so only friends see it... No one reports it, well...

I can see his tweets so that's not it. Sad truth is there are so many of these neo-nazis and far right bots on Twitter that most just block them and even when reported most of the time nothing happens to them.

Oh and why is it that these guys either look like this, aka. complete dweebs or conversely liked roided-up bikers?

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PS. Can you imagine spending your free time obsessively posting that shit on Twitter? Wtf?
 
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I can see his tweets so that's not it. Sad truth is there are so many of these neo-nazis and far right bots on Twitter that most just block them and even when reported most of the time nothing happens to them.

Oh and why is it that these guys either look like this, aka. complete dweebs or conversely liked roided-up bikers?

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PS. Can you imagine spending your free time obsessively posting that shit on Twitter? Wtf?
In my experience, the dweeby neo-nazi's are trying to project an image of a intellectual or upstanding citizen. They're trying to project the image that their ideology is legitimate and that they have a clean nose (think like a 50's business man). Getting them talking about their ideas in public and they try and keep a modicum of restraint (i.e. not shouting, using terms like "urban", etc.). Whenever they feel that there is a shield between them and others, the dweeb will shed the facade and tell you what they really think. Basically they try and camouflage themselves to fit in better with society and get into positions of power.

Bikers and militia types are the opposite, they don't care what anyone else thinks and will be loud and proud about what they think. Partially because of this attitude they live on the fringes of society.

When I was trying to get a bachelor's in anthropology I wanted to make my senior capstone about this divide in American neo-nazi groups, in part because a employee at my highschool was the widow of the infamous Robert Mathews.
 
In my experience, the dweeby neo-nazi's are trying to project an image of a intellectual or upstanding citizen. They're trying to project the image that their ideology is legitimate and that they have a clean nose (think like a 50's business man). Getting them talking about their ideas in public and they try and keep a modicum of restraint (i.e. not shouting, using terms like "urban", etc.). ..
... Basically they try and camouflage themselves to fit in better with society and get into positions of power.
aka Salonfähig
 
Honestly my concern is that impressionable teenagers are going to see shit like this, think "wow, these political movements are cool, I get to fight things and take over the media!" and then find themselves quitting when they realise it's actually all zoom meetings, emotional explainer sessions with politicians, protesting to tiny crowds and disinterested police officers outside anonymous buildings, and eyeing up cute but oh so out of your league bar staff at queer pubs.

Activism, kids. Just say no.
PS - I thought stuff like that wasnt allowed on Twitter? Like I keep hearing stories of how certain groups are getting censored on that platform, so how can this guy just post dozens of the most vile bigoted and flat out Nazi memes?
Simple: twitter doesn't actually give a shit. It's not uncommon to see tweets of blatant breaches of twitter's rules, up to and including both doxxing and direct and plausible threats of assault, which their reporting feature returns as perfectly acceptable. A lot of what the alleged twitter account posts is also stuff that's got enough plausible deniability that it's safe to post, and is heavily steeped in dog whistles - things which look innocuous to the general public, but to people who actually understand them, they have clear and distinct meanings.

There's also a tendency amongst more extreme folk to over-react to any percieved sleight against them to be censorship against them, right down to something minor like simply not being agreed with. They typically can't take even a fraction of what they dish out.
 
PS - I thought stuff like that wasnt allowed on Twitter? Like I keep hearing stories of how certain groups are getting censored on that platform, so how can this guy just post dozens of the most vile bigoted and flat out Nazi memes?
Twitter's enforcement is remarkably Medieval. it depends on who you are. If you have a blue checkmark next to your name, you are basically untouchable and can be as horrid as you want to the peasants without repercussion.

Meanwhile, my account was automatically suspended for referring to a truly vile woman as "C*nty McC*ntface"
 
Twitter's enforcement is remarkably Medieval. it depends on who you are. If you have a blue checkmark next to your name, you are basically untouchable and can be as horrid as you want to the peasants without repercussion.
If only it was mediaveal. You could get a choice of wearing a scold's bridle, having your nose split or paying the church to pray away your transgression.
 
That twitter account is still there and most of those post are still there, but he's not got anything up since 2018. Unless newer stuff was removed. He's not following anyone, and no one responds to his tweets (which are over 5000 posts), so I'm not sure who he is posting to other than for himself.

A guy I was in the army with (also from Tennessee like Dave) posts stuff similar to this and when I ask him about it, he says he is just joking to piss people off. I don't think he is just joking.
 
I sat here for a full minute, fingers hovering over the keys, and then had to admit that nothing that I really wanted to say about this was going to be appropriate for the Pub. Ugh.
Yeah, this and two other threads almost make me long for a frank discussion about the Grappling rules. Almost...
 
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