Is Paizo Evil?


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Scarab Sages

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Yes. They steal all my money and make me enjoy it.

Scarab Sages

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No, because they have PMG and Sara Marie, who in no way paid me to say this.


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Aberzombie wrote:
No, because they have PMG and Sara Marie, who in no way paid me to say this.

but if they would like to Aberzombie is taking donations. ;)

Paizo Employee Malaise-Inducement Construct

Certainly not!


Preposterous!


I AM NOT EVIL. I AM ROBOT.

Jon Brazer Enterprises

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Depends who you ask.
Me: no.
My wallet: yes.

Paizo can make my wallet cry itself to sleep cuddled up to my never-used d12. They tell stories to each other. And they try to understand each other's pain, but they are both jealous of the other.

This is not a complaint, just me trying to be silly.


Cosmo's Slightly More Evil Twin wrote:
Certainly not!

Oh great. That's settled, then. I was worried for a moment...


There's only one way to find out: the Goatee Test.

If more than 50% of Paizo employees have goatees, Paizo is evil.


Millennium_Falchion wrote:

There's only one way to find out: the Goatee Test.

If more than 50% of Paizo employees have goatees, Paizo is evil.

All those pictures of the staff with mustaches should speak for themselves. (And no whining about them not being real - just putting one on makes you a dark-hearted cad.)

Yep. No two ways about it. EVIL.


Indications are that they aspire to be evil, but aren't quite there yet. If they were actually evil, there'd be a succubus in charge, or at least in charge of 'public relations'.
Trusting that this post has been useful, your tireless (including frequent extended lunches on expenses) crusader for the naked truth,

Ask A Succubus Journalist.

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

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Millennium_Falchion wrote:

There's only one way to find out: the Goatee Test.

If more than 50% of Paizo employees have goatees, Paizo is evil.

Sorry—mostly mustaches.


They are EVIL!!! I've been told there are no PrCs on UC. Leaving us PrC fans orphaned? EVILLLLL!!!


Vic Wertz wrote:
Millennium_Falchion wrote:

There's only one way to find out: the Goatee Test.

If more than 50% of Paizo employees have goatees, Paizo is evil.

Sorry—mostly mustaches.

I don't know about the evil part, but clearly the dwarven trait for facial hair is dominant; even the women have mustaches! Certainly this is further proof of the conspracy by dwarven alchemists sneaking Numerian nanoprobes with dwarven mustache RNA payloads into the water supply and snack machines!

Dark Archive

Even if they are evil, they produce some pretty damn good products.

Scarab Sages

So, a further detail to the question:

If they are evil (I remain unconvinced), then are they a lesser evil, or a greater one?


I would say they are NOT evil. If you payed more than you can afford, that is your fault, not theirs.

No, let's examine what they actually do. They listen and respond to their customer base, creating quality, thought out products, and charging an industry appropriate amount for them. They also provide PDF versions more cheaply, and ultimately GIVE all the information in these products away for free via the PRD. Consequently, they are charitable, and provide value to their customers!

Their actions improve the economy - if it didn't, they would not remain profitable, and would go out of business. Therefore, since their very existence leads to a better world... they are, in fact, good.


The greatest evil that Paizo is guilty of is releasing new subscription PDFs in waves. I'm going absolutely bananas waiting for the email saying I can download the PDFs, all the while knowing that some people already have it!! It's more cruel than the vilest BBEG from the darkest AP could conceive.


Millennium_Falchion wrote:

There's only one way to find out: the Goatee Test.

If more than 50% of Paizo employees have goatees, Paizo is evil.

I have 100% of a goatee, does that make me evil? :) And my mom swore I'd never amount to anything.


stormraven wrote:
Millennium_Falchion wrote:

There's only one way to find out: the Goatee Test.

If more than 50% of Paizo employees have goatees, Paizo is evil.

I have 100% of a goatee, does that make me evil? :) And my mom swore I'd never amount to anything.

No, your Mirror Universe counterpart has a double-goatee. I wouldn't think anyone could pull that off, but he does. EvilPeople just voted him in their Top 10 Sexiest Evil People of 2011.


No. But stupidity is evil.


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Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
No, your Mirror Universe counterpart has a double-goatee. I wouldn't think anyone could pull that off, but he does. EvilPeople just voted him in their Top 10 Sexiest Evil People of 2011.

:{)> <-- me in my single goatee smiling

>:{{)>> <-- the Mirror Universe me in double goatee smiling evilly

Grand Lodge

Evil?!?

No one cares about that.

The question is if Paizo is Lawful or Chaotic!

The Exchange

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
No. But stupidity is evil.

Stupid is, as Evil does?

Sovereign Court

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
No. But stupidity is evil.

So when people play Lawful Stupid Paladins, do their characters immediately become ex-Paladins?


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Am I Evil?

...Yes I am.

Had to be done :)


We can answer this question by answering the opposite question:

Is Paizo Good?

Yes. therefore, it is NOT evil. (except the beautiful Lilith.)

Sovereign Court

Lilith wrote:

Am I Evil?

...Yes I am.

Had to be done :)

<looks at the half-eaten cookie in his hand>

Wha ... what exactly is in these cookies of yours?


zylphryx wrote:
Lilith wrote:

Am I Evil?

...Yes I am.

Had to be done :)

<looks at the half-eaten cookie in his hand>

Wha ... what exactly is in these cookies of yours?

Soylent Green, of course.

Scarab Sages

Mrgh.

Scarab Sages

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I will not flag too much.

Scarab Sages

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The Exchange

Lilith wrote:

Am I Evil?

...Yes I am.

Had to be done :)

FIFY ;)

Scarab Sages

I fixed something once.....

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

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Paizo isn't evil. Paizo is Paizo. (And I am Spartacularitus!)

As Spartacularitus famously said, "We'd like these "is [blah] evil" threads to pass quietly into the archives sooner rather than later."

Sovereign Court

Gary Teter wrote:

Paizo isn't evil. Paizo is Paizo. (And I am Spartacularitus!)

As Spartacularitus famously said, "We'd like these "is [blah] evil" threads to pass quietly into the archives sooner rather than later."

So you are saying the "Is [blah] evil" threads are evil?

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

Possibly.


Nice passive aggressive approach you're attempting there with the cross postings, PMG. I personally think wielding Mjolnir would be more effective. Or Force Lightning. But that's me. ;-)

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

You can call it passive aggressive I suppose. I prefer "non-heavy handed."


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Sometimes, it feels good to lay the pimp hand on the malefactor that's tampering with your baby. There's just way too much work one creates for themselves to placate the unruly out of a sense of fairness when they mistake it for self-entitlement. This where you need to step in and declare: this is not a democracy; it's a PMGocracy. *click*

Shadow Lodge

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I agree

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