Editorial 2011: The Year in Review

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That's what you get for ignoring Dark Souls...

Rice vs Potato: which is better and why?

GJ DU for making me read through a retardo thread I would have never noticed otherwise.

You do realize when you put it out there for all to see HEY LOOK HERE EVERYONE WE HAVE DRAMA TOO you invite an audience that doesn't give two shits about RPGs and only craves the emotional engagement of internet drama? And the Chefes and Black Cats and other live action roleplayers that follow in their wake. Was that your intention?

You have the numbers, you have the stats, you see the popularity of the Codex exploding. How much of that is thanks to its nature as a hardcore RPG site (that votes Witcher for GOTY every year) vs. the undeniable appeal of GD?

Well good thing I hardly ever visit the GD and apparently miss majority of fucked up and retarded shit. Time to avoid it for another decade.

Wait, Vaarna_Aarne is a crazy fuck? I though he was just projecting his typical Finnish butthurt insecurities after being curbstomped by Russia for the last million years.

Particularly when you consider that quite a few of them don't have any interest in crpgs in the first place. There's a few out there who I've never seen in any of the codex's gaming fora aside from when people (well, myself, but I'm sure there have been others) have suggested that any required bandwith-savings for the codex should come from dropping all those who only ever post in GD.

I've been flamed for this before, but fuck it: how fucking desperate for human contact (of a kind where folks can't effectively tell you to fuck off) must you be, for you to bypass all the shitty internet chat communities, including 4chan and other dens of paedo-fascist-homophobia, and regularly frequent an rpg site despite declaring 'lol, I don't play rpgs'???.

At least Black Cat and Andhaira have an interest in crpgs. Admittedly, I've only ever seen BC talk about jrpgs, but Andhaira has a surprising knowledge of 80s-era crpgs for a guy who is basically outcast around here.

Yeah. Because gaming, especially cRPGs, are serious business and you should speak about them, if not then gtfo, because this is prestigious forum.

I had more than my share of certifiably insane clients when I was a lawyer (as in: they had schizophrenia or extremely severe cases of bipolar, and were quite literally certified). And this place is still a madhouse.

Why is a "friend" coming to the forum and making an unsupported claim to cast a negative light on Vaarna, any different than someone coming into a thread and saying that all Russians are Hitler because Karelia?

Where the fuck is DU pulling this shit from? Unevidenced troll claims on the internet suddenly become gospel, not someone winning an argument. Why the fuck would Black Cat bother frequenting a forum where the joke of the month for 3 years was "inb4 tasteful rape", or posters like Turisias and Major_Blackhart talk about paedo-rape near constantly?

Get the fuck out.

DU is trying to make Codex more female-friendly so you dumbasses could procreate.

Holy fucking shit people how obvious does your benevolent leader have to make it?

Don't you want a woman that hates popular culture, loves cRPGs and can tell apart the different pigeons in Hatoful Boyfriend?

Perhaps add a subscription based user-to-user Emotional Interface Device Coupling.

We mustn't deny pleasures of this type from our Codexian brethren!

For me the art of the XIXth century was the novel, the one of the XXth was cinema and the one of the XXIst is the video game. You'll soon have stupid old fucks in universities droning about "Monotheism in Lord British's Canon". I still think that video games are the greatest contemporary form of art. RPG Codex is the only board on the internet that shelters people with great taste and a genuine love and interest in the medium. We are crazy but we also are quite clever. I also like the punk side of the RPG Codex, it belongs to our way of thinking out of the box. But I can understand DU: sometimes there are people who are just total morons screaming "Look at me! Look at me!" while splashing their own shit on their face. But I don't think that Andhaira or Black Cat belong to them. Like Azrael said, they are genuinely interested in the medium and quite erudite. Black Cat writes very well and has a unique way of thinking, she's an artist. I would marry her tommorrow if she asked me to.

Why is it that every time I read this sentence, I keep seeing flashes of scenes from 28 Days Later, Pontypool, I am Legend, Rec and various other 'infection takes over and destroys/devours mankind' films?

Pontypool being particularly apt, given the zombie-infection in that film is transmitted via language.

Then, even if I was gay, I think that I'd be wary of Andhaira: a fat pakistani bodybuilder under medication writing RPG rules is just fucking weird mate. It sounds like someone from a John Waters movie.

The Codex is one of the few shining lights of real freedom and the heinous chaos that comes with it.