Dammit Victor
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If you wanted to ban me, all you had to do was press the button.What if we just ban the discussion of games entirely and become a recipe forum?
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If you wanted to ban me, all you had to do was press the button.What if we just ban the discussion of games entirely and become a recipe forum?
For the record, I'd be entirely in favour of banning the term "culture war" entirely outside of mods having to go "stop talking about the culture war".
I can think of no legitimate reason for its use out of that.
I understand nowadays it's all about drawing lines and taking sides in The Culture War (TM), but what the hell happened to artistic value?
Now, the overall concept is this: Rings of Power is crap, and not because of the skin color of the actors, but because it's genuinely crap. But apparently you can't say that because both sides of the fence are using the "political argument" to shut down the opposition and reduce the evaluation of artistic merit to taking a political stance.
Honestly, I don't see how you can avoid this if you're commenting on the series, given the overall context.
The hope at least is that by banning the word it will help remind people to try and avoid the subject more generally.,All you will get is circumlocutions which make it pretty obvious what they're referring to.
Fair. I missed that completely because of not being a Tolkein fan.Also, about your second sentence: I guess it was my post in the "What are you watching" thread which was being referred to. The capital sin of mentioning it was in this sentence:
Now, the overall concept is this: Rings of Power is crap, and not because of the skin color of the actors, but because it's genuinely crap. But apparently you can't say that because both sides of the fence are using the "political argument" to shut down the opposition and reduce the evaluation of artistic merit to taking a political stance.
Honestly, I don't see how you can avoid this if you're commenting on the series, given the overall context.
[EDIT] Just to make it clear: you can certainly avoid the words "culture war", but the point is, you'll use either some other variation or some kind of "the thing which cannot be named" and the resulting effect will be the same i.e. everyone will know what you're talking about.
If you end up seeing the violence inherent in the system you'll know you're being repressed.Are we banning discussions about Rings of Power? Because I really like the dwarves in it. Can I talk about how much I like them? Am I being repressed????
Oh that's it, Disney! Murder my childhood memories on the altar of Political-Correctness gone mad! If I wasn't pushing 50 and completely disinterested in any film made by you after 1987 and the kind of person who enjoys confected rage I'd...I...I don't know. It took all my effort to write these two lines.But at least no one here is talking about the Little Mermaid.
No one does. Just post something and act like you know what you're doing.Not quite sure what's going on in this thread anymore TBPH.
I think someone secretly replaced their regular coffee with Folgers crystals. Let's see what happens?!Secretly, the mod direction here is south for the winter.
I think best practices for discussions of any media that is controversial here on the Pub is
1) don;t ascribe or hypothesize on the motivations of other people,especially theorizing why they hold an opinion. You can debate the opinion itself in good faith and without assuming the worst.
2) Dont attempt to argue with people who aren't at the Pub. They don't matter, you can't have a conversation or debate with them here, so it's just talking about people or hypothetical people behind their backs, which serves no purpose.
3) Don't ascribe people to groups, treat them like individuals. Lkewise, don't ascribe to your personal experiences the assumption of universal experiences.
It is clearly about what fowl creatures we can discuss. I mean, at first it was about geese. Lately, there have also been posts about ducks. If we don't cull this in time, what's next? Chickens? Magpies? Crows?
BrowniesNo one does. Just post something and act like you know what you're doing.
This would be great advice for the general population. So much of the general rancor out there is people ignoring context and what someone "might" mean by their words rather than what was actually said.
So many of the hip phrases used in CW arguments are really nothing more than ploys to end discussions without any merit, woke, dogwhistle, mansplanning, none have any inherent value, they are just short cuts intended to shut people down without actually addressing their statements.
It is possible that saying I hate red hats, means I actually hate red hats with no further meaning behind it. But no these days everything has a hidden agenda.
Clearly the Emu threat is growing.
My time is limited but there is a cabal of "flightless" birds, they already hold 3 continents the penguins have Antarctica, Ostrich Africa and Emus Australia. The flightless bird thing is a myth, they can fly they are just biding their time before launching their attack on Canada via the Antarctic -Arctic tunnel, from Canada the world.
Emus are though.It goes even deeper. Birds aren't real.
Honestly, who would even notice?What if we just ban the discussion of games entirely and become a recipe forum?
What if we just ban the discussion of games entirely and become a recipe forum?
Now, the overall concept is this: Rings of Power is crap, and not because of the skin color of the actors, but because it's genuinely crap. But apparently you can't say that because both sides of the fence are using the "political argument" to shut down the opposition and reduce the evaluation of artistic merit to taking a political stance.
Honestly, I don't see how you can avoid this if you're commenting on the series, given the overall context.
I also think we need to seriously consider banning discussion of FASERIP. We don't want *those* people here.
Ok, but we're going to have to determine if FitD is PbtA firstYou mis-spelled PbtA
Both are known by their initials.You mis-spelled PbtA
PbTA... "Pee-Bee-Tah"... what a classic.
Is Faserip a Mythras hack?
And you misspelled MythrasYou mis-spelled PbtA
I'd like to... Fase... RIP Meg. Wink wink nudge nudge knowhutimean?You may be thinking of MEGS...
And you misspelled Mythras