Those leftist "liberal" bastards are at it again, huh? 
RMN: The ugly side.
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 On 11/03/2013 at 06:06 PM by BrokenH See More From This User » |
"Seem "welcoming"? Yeah right! But maybe you would have better luck than I did!"
So,just have to get this off my chest. Why are so many people at RMN so damned uppity? Whenever I go there it's like laying in a bed of thorns. When I first went there it really seemed like a great way to premote my rpg. I thought it would be nice to have my own page. I met some nice individuals too but very quickly I found even more folks were taking cheap shots at me.
My most recent offense? Bolding text. Apparently site-owner "Big Ken"-tona doesn't like bold text. Why do I do it? Mainly because I don't have the greatest eyes. I'll enlarge text for the same reason. I can read "normal text" but I still have to squint and concentrate a bit to do it.
What grinds my gears is Kentona wouldn't have said a damned thing at all but it just so happens I responded to some kid being snarky to me with my own snarky retort. You know how that goes,right? "We are part of the same collective,F-you,outsider!" Ken might actually be a decent person. This just is not one of his better days.
Admittedly I haven't been the nicest guy there lately myself. But hey,if you throw rocks at a dog long enough don't be surprised when it jumps up on you and bites your smug face off. This is why when kids end up getting shot at their highschool I don't always have automatic contempt for the perpatrators. Usually the violent agressor was picked on,beaten up, and psychologically belittled before deciding to go trigger happy. No, it isn't the "correct response" to the problem but I can at least feel sympathy and understand why these incidents happen in the first place. Moral of the story? People shouldn't be dicks to each other. Seems simple,doesn't it?
This all started over my female character art. People thought it was vulgar,gratuitous,misogynistic,and just about every other negative connotation you can give to something.Yeah,I can see how my art could in fact be offensive to a certain crowd. Still,it's my right to put it up so long as it fits within the rules and guide-lines. The artist isn't obligated to make stuff EVERYONE will like. (And many problems could have been solved peacefully if people who had issues with my page would simply refuse to go there again. I'm not keeping them there as if they're hostages!)
The next wave of angst was over one of my female characters being a rape survivor. Some people said it wasn't "edgy" enough. They thought because this particular character was female I was automatically trying to denounce the fact rape also happens to men. Then the same whiners who haven't even played my game said they doubted I could portray the rape in a progressive enough manner.
What hurts is if I created a generic rpg about generic heroes generically saving the world noone would be on my shit right now. If all my stuff was watered down politically correct garbage I'd be rubbing elbows with the brass and smoking their metaphorical cigars while simultaneously drinking from their metaphorical wine glasses.
I thought the whole point of indie game design was to be able to make games we normally wouldn't be able to. What's the point in having a fucking indie scene if the community discourages certain ideas and certain themes?!
I've never been madder at gaming than I am right now. This takes the cake.
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