Editorial 2011: The Year in Review

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Another fucking Black Pussy love in this has turned out to be. Sorry fatties, it has already been conclusively proved that Black Cat belongs to the ultimate in manufactured 'counter-culture', created by the Man to fleece fools into buying the latest in dubious black 'fashion' items, churned out en-masse by Chinese slaves. The irony is that Jennifer Hepler is much more of a real RPG lovers 'woman' than BC.

Cursed be the day I saw Ishar for the first time.

Also, wtf that shitbrick-laying simulator is doing among "2011 RPGs"? Sure, there weren't any RPGs released in 2011, but you got to draw a line somewhere. What comes in 2012, Tetris or Minesweeper?

I think your rock-star lifestyle in fashionable Paris would suit her quite well actually

Well, DU really likes Minecraft. I thought we've established a long time ago that RPG = game you like a lot.

FINALLY someone mentions the best part of the forum (well, maybe except workshop, but there's like a post per month there).

You have to kill everyone here and start anew to make it more female friendly , i am not sure its even worth the effort, i have really not met many females gamers in the last 10 years, gaming democratized itself a bit more with xbox and mmos , you can find them more often on world of warcraft and other popular blizzard games but in overall they are still very few.

He's cracking. The stress of running Codex is nothing to sneer at.

I really don't know - if the people aren't insane, there's definitely something insane about the site itself, Necronomicon-style.

Put it this way: on most sites, if someone posted in meticulous and graphic detail how they killed and then ate a drifter, and I mean really heavy detail - what they used, how they took the body apart and cooked it, how they dissolved the bones and non-edible parts in acid, how they picked out the victim and made sure that it was someone with no friends or close family, so they could pretend to befriend them before finding an opportunity to do the deed and get away with it - I would notify the fucking police.

Put the same post in the codex, however, and I'm not sure that I'd even flag it for moderation

Are you sure? Cannibalism would be instant target of punishment, I should think. Considering the tubgirl gif incident.

If the Codex is the Necronomicon of forums, then is Grimoire the Necronomicon of games?

Well the one person who claims to have come into contact with Grimoire in its fullest form (I'm talking about Cleve, of course), who was previously a reasonably hirable mid-level professional game designer+programmer, has since degenerated into a raving loon hiding from humanity in his (going by his description) fortified bunker surrounded by death-traps. Given the rate of his deterioration, and his apparent disappearance (save from one mammoth shitstorming thread on the Codex), it's reasonable to estimate that by now he is a flesh-eating demonically possessed zombie who spends his nights preying on travellers in the Australian wilderness, and his days replaying Grimoire.

I wonder what rpgwatch's yearly reviews are like

probably quite scary indeed

"The Beast in the Bunker", one of Lovecraft's earlier, lesser-known tales.

Pretty much.

Heh. I'm sure plenty of us are sane. I hope.

For some reason, I think it's weirder/a bigger problem that there are people who have no interest in RPGs that still come to the Codex to visit their fellow weirdos. DU, plz fix.

As far as I know, "pardon my French" is mostly used when you use the word "fuck"; the joke being that it's close in pronunciation to the word "phoque".

Unless you're doing a "why don't you make like a tree and get outta here".