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It's move-out weekend for most of the students here at Syracuse University. And there's nothing like move-out weekend to bring out the worst in spoiled rich a~+*@!@s. People have been junking and throwing out everything they can so that all of their crap can fit in their cars. It's like the Dust Bowl, only with spoiled rich kids from NYC instead of poor dirt farmers. A few hours ago, I watched a guy dump a large cardboard box full of shoes into a trash compactor. After my shift got out at 1:30 AM, I drove around campus stealing s@$! out of dumpsters, and managed to get a nice desk chair, a full set of sheets (still in their packaging), a cork bulletin board, a bookcase, a full set of pots and pans, and a half-sized refrigerator. These kids don't know how the world works.

New interview for tomorrow.

You know what, several of us here are deeply offended at the title of this thread. If you want to engage in discussion about how Paizo represents women in our products, please take a minute to read some of the previous threads about this topic, and start a new thread with a less inflammatory title. (And if your excuse is "it's the best that came to my mind", think harder.)

The "eff off" stuff needs to stop right now.

I am strongly tempted to begin enforcing a ban on "look at me and my problems"-type threads. Paizo.com is not your therapist. Feel free to start a blog and post this stuff there.

Adam and I have been getting into trouble together at shows and rolling dice at the gaming table since we were too young to buy beer legally. Some of the best times of my life have been had with Daigle at my side, and I wouldn't even be writing in the biz if it wasn't for his relentless insistence that I get into the freelance game. Going to be tough not having him a mile up the road or next to me at our weekly game sessions, but I'm unbelievably excited that he's going to be doing what we love as a full-time job.

Here's to you, Adam. Wind in your sails and all that. Paizo's getting the best of us, and it is good to know that my future work will be in the hands of my best friend. Don't you dare change a word of it! Hahaha.

Sail away, and find your way to Mariana, my friend.

The article and some of the people here are taking almost the polar opposite stance: that saying something offensive makes the person ignorantbadwrong and they need to change their behavior to accommodate the new person.

Well, I can't speak for the rest of the posters here, but the article struck me as, "Here are some attributes of geek culture worth noticing and considering if you haven't already."

As I've said before, if that makes a person defensive, they probably aren't of the right mindset to give it fair consideration.

HD, you're making the same mistake Gailbraithe made (and I do not mean that pejoratively...) You're not addressing the substance of the article: how the author's girlfriend perceived geekdom due in part to male privilege and in part to overzealous defense of that privilege by socially incompetent people.

That's all it's about. And I've seen it first-hand in many instances.

Now, the author does get a bit preachy, and more than a bit hypocritical. But this whole thing isn't about "cover up the sluts on comic book covers"... It's about making an attempt to understand what it's like to be of the gender portrayed in that manner*.

There have been more than two sides to this conversation. A number of women have identified with the issue while also embracing that characters can be sexual. Many times people have said that sexuality is great but there's still something "off".

Now, I'm personally very critical of some of this stuff. You could say I'm offended. But I'm not offended by sexuality, I'm offended by bad writing and one-dimensional characters, who are included to embody sex and ONLY to embody sex. There's a host of good writing that crosses all sorts of "decency" lines that puritans may draw. They're not on trial here (by me).

The people who I'd like to malign are sloppy writers who use sex as a crutch instead of understanding it.

Seriously though, there's no need for you to defend male sexuality. It doesn't need the help, and it's hardly under assault. You'll be doing right by everyone in this conversation if you just make some effort to understand what it must be like to be a girl and walk into a (highly) stereotypical nerd dungeon full of mouth-breathers, the walls bedecked with nigh-porno. If you can grok that, that's all that's being asked. I don't think anyone wants the stuff pulled from the shelves.

* EDIT: Why? So that we don't become the socially incompetent people with ZERO ability to reconcile what appeals to us sexually to an actual flesh-and-blood female person. The article is essentially an instruction manual on how not to scare girls — hence my calling it somewhat hypocritical since it tacitly presumes the entire Kotaku readership is male. He may have been unsuccessful, but I've met many dudes who really need those basic empathy lessons.

I'm sitting at an Outback Steakhouse getting all teary-eyed. :)

I'm utterly flabbergasted. You folks are all amazing and I'm just... I'm so thankful that you guys seem to love us as much as we love you :D

I'm speechless so I'm just gonna favorite gary's post.

You people are crazy and wonderful and we love you all!

Steve (the owner) Called this morning, he is going to give her back to us!! We just have to call his brother and work out a time to pick her up. What a wonderful morning! <3

Morning FAWTL folks.

So lately our three year old has been asking for a puppy. Last night he tells me that he "pray for Christmas doggy". And last night a beautiful siberian husky walked into Solnes' store without tag or collar on, then proceeds to obey every command she is given. The dog is now in our house, as she followed my wife to her truck and jumped right in at the end of the night. She's housebroken, leash trained, and obeys very well.

Guess the Big Guy heard the little guy's wish.

Are all generalizations bad?

Ahem...

"Of course, everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do."

Attribution: Steven Brust, Issola

Since the late 80's, some studies have been done. Recidivist juvenile delinquents have extremely high rates of having grown up receiving severe and frequent CP. PhD graduates usually report none or that it was rare.

In fact, in juvenile facilities, the most common factor between all inmates is CP. It isn't race, gender, economic status or parental education levels.

Since I work daily with juveniles imprisoned for serious offenses and adjudicated as adults, allow me some input. My responsibilities require me to review their criminal and personal histories, so I have some experience in this area.

Corporal punishment is not the most common factor tying together these teens: Arbitrary and chaotic home discipline is. Some were punished using corporal punishment; others were not.

Many do come from abusive or neglectful homes. The vast majority suffered a home life or background that failed to imprint them with a sense that "cause precedes effect".

We hope to be able to announce something within the next week or so!

You've been around here long enough to know that we consider things before we act; and where it makes sense, we seek input from our community when we're considering major changes.

We're not considering major changes right now, so we don't have a specific plan, other than "maintain business as usual until it appears that that's no longer the right thing to do."

pew pew

Gary: Also, I bet I haz moar favorites than anybody!

Sara Marie: How about in ratio to how many posts they've made?

Gary: pfft

Gary: sara versus gary

Gary: Note that mine goes to 3 pages!

Sara Marie: I need numbers!

Gary: Someday I'll get around to making a "popular favorites" page or something... that's where I'm a viking!

Sara: Gary has 104 pages of comments with 3 pages of favorites.

Gary: Math is no use to you here!

Sara: I have 33 pages of comments with one page of favorites. And its not the number of individual posts that are favorited, its the number of favorites TOTAL!

Gary: k fine

sara: Because some of my comments have lots of favorites.

Gary: Yeah, those are the ones that are quotes from me!

Gary: favorites for posts created by me: 382
favorites for posts created by sm: 165

Sara: Gary's ratio is 13.513089
my ratio is 9.9757575

Crystal: No love for sara :( Well... 50% love for Sara

Gary: To be fair, her posts are all business. My posts are all about whoring for favorites.

Sara: Gary wins. Time for me to go favorite whoring!

Sara: Paizo.com > Off Topic Forums > Overheard at the Paizo office > Add new post

Brian Carpenter wrote:

What about the campaign setting books that intersect with the AP, such as the Land of the Linorm Kings or Dragon Empires Gazetteer? Will material be drawn from them for the AP?

Nope. As a general rule the 64 page Campaign Setting books that tie into an Adventure Path aren't necessary to run the Adventure Path, but they're REALLY handy if you want to expand upon those portions of the AP. They're usually the "sandbox extensions" in other words.

Although just to be safe you should probably buy every Paizo product. ;)

Brian E. Harris wrote:

Intentional thread derailment SHOULD be considered unacceptable...

...It's, IMO, childish and extremely passive aggressive...

It's always been my observation that the little blue guys don't show up until after the thread has already been derailed by the "serious" commenters. If the thread has stopped being about discussion and has turned into yet-another-head on the GRAR-hydra, then the thread has already been derailed. Maybe I'm just missing it, but the little blue guys don't show up in threads where the topic or opinions are merely disagreeable; they are attracted to GRAR. Maybe it's better to think of them as a "check engine" or "out of gas" light on your car.

Also, smurf.

I never post in these threads, but this seemed like a special occasion.

Hey, Gailbraithe, guess what? I just flagged every single post of yours from the last two pages. Why, you ask? Because for the first bit, every single post you wrote made me ashamed to be reading them. After a while, I just started flagging them on principle.

Speaking as an *actual* member of the working poor, I think that your ideas on class are absolutely ridiculous, and what's worse, insulting. Go take your faux-revolutionary screed elsewhere, and stop polluting our minds.

Holy moly! Two people missed their seats on the last plane to Indy, so we are sitting in them right now, just waiting for pushback. Sara will get her True Dungeon after all!

*blink*

I believe I am popping in to say hello quickly.

I believe that the current trend of evil/broken/polititroll threads have made the forum poisonous.

I believe that although the moderators and staff of Paizo are proud of their allowing of political posting, that their assumptions of basic member civility are based on a much smaller membership from three years ago.

I believe that if these threads are not contained, either with a separate subforum, or a complete ban, that by the time the 2012 election rolls around there will be a huge outpouring of venomous crap, flowing over the boards in a tidal wave of bile.

I believe that this will be very counterproductive to Paizo as a company, especially with the looming release of the Basic game and the inevitable influx of web-savvy children to the site.

I believe that even a grizzled old board member like myself is seriously pondering cutting ties and walking away at this point. I may be alone in this, but somehow, I don't think so.

I believe I will spend a little more time away from the computer and ponder my descision at this point. Until later folks..

*blink*

I really hate how this keeps coming back to my item.

This really isn't about why or why I didn't get rejected.

The reason it keeps coming back to you—and it's you much more than your item—is that you came onto our boards, trashed our judges and employees, and called us a bunch of glorified copy-and-pasters, with posts dripping in sarcasm and attitude, painting yourself as the victim all the while.

I'd especially point out these parts:

...looking over the stuff [Clark's] company has published and the comments he's made before, and listening to his stuff here, I just don't see how his opinion is worth anything.

And in your very next post, you state:

Now nothing I said so far has been inflammatory...

Either you don't understand how you come across, or you don't understand the meaning of the word "inflammatory."

And then you write this:

I think you should realize that you are representing yourself and your company to your audience, the people that buy your stuff.

You know, you also need to realize that people are judging you by the things you say, and though you called Clark a "a giant, over-glorified troll," well, I'll just note that the trolling being done here is all by you.

I'll tell you this: if Paizo *had* ever given you an assignment, after seeing the way you conduct yourself on our forums, I'd ensure that we never gave you another one.

I don't look forward to the next contest knowing he is a judge.

I hope you follow through with the indications you've given that you won't be entering. You'd be wasting everyone's time, because you're disrespectful, and in comportment, you're as far from an RPG Superstar as you can be. I'm glad you think highly of Neil, because you could learn quite a lot from him—and I'm talking about in life, not just in game design.

Work which is paid for and expected by a certain time and doesn't materialize sucks.

Not naming any names...

Did someone say something? I could not tell over the screams of the player characters dying...;)

Remember, they can only die twice. ;)

Anyone else notice that the pmg just rolled out a "like button"? Check out the little + in the upper right corner of each post.

Looks like it tracks them too, so you can go back and see what you marked as a favorite.

Edit: most importantly, I can like my own posts.