Man... The reddit thread on YSDC is absolutely fascinating:
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@Taskerland I cancelled my subscription in 2025. At that point I had the forum, but no access to the files or the live shows. (And no private messages.)
@RogerBW Despite you having a subscription? That is very weird.
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@Printdevil Interestingly, I found a shop that sold RPGs the other day and while they didn't have any CoC they did have the Arkham horror game.
@Taskerland I think it's very prevalent because it's sold along with the board games, and comes "with"
Good shelf game. Showy, whereas CoC stuff looks like tatty magazines after a while.
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@Taskerland @devilsjunkshop Due to issues with living in Northern Ireland, he chose the missionary in "savage lands" approach, popular amongst aspiring Paisleyites.
@Printdevil I do remember being shocked on discovering that his career choice turned out to be 'missionary' and not 'mercenary'. @Taskerland
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Man... The reddit thread on YSDC is absolutely fascinating:
Dozens of people talking about how they have been trying to join and to give that guy money for *years* only to be ignored or turned down.
I complain a lot about parasociality and predatory influencers in RPG spaces but this is somehow even more pathetic and sad.
Guy builds up a forum and then begins locking it down as he grows more paranoid and exclusionary while people are begging him to take their money.
@Taskerland I wouldn't put much faith in the comments on that thread, to be honest. Paul certainly is not paranoid or a scammer. I do regret that he didn't communicate more openly about the impending closure and approach it in a more staged, structured way, as its abruptness caught almost everyone out.
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@Taskerland I wouldn't put much faith in the comments on that thread, to be honest. Paul certainly is not paranoid or a scammer. I do regret that he didn't communicate more openly about the impending closure and approach it in a more staged, structured way, as its abruptness caught almost everyone out.
@BigJackBrass I think a lot of the grievance in that thread is down to the way that YSDC's reputation lingered in the community long after the site had been locked down and he had put up multiple roadblocks to joining.
I don't think he's a scammer but I think the failure of the site was avoidable and entirely a product of his weird ideas.
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@BigJackBrass I think a lot of the grievance in that thread is down to the way that YSDC's reputation lingered in the community long after the site had been locked down and he had put up multiple roadblocks to joining.
I don't think he's a scammer but I think the failure of the site was avoidable and entirely a product of his weird ideas.
@Taskerland The scammer allegation crops up in the Reddit comments more than once.
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@Taskerland The scammer allegation crops up in the Reddit comments more than once.
@BigJackBrass I don't think it, but I can see why they would think that.
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@Printdevil I do remember being shocked on discovering that his career choice turned out to be 'missionary' and not 'mercenary'. @Taskerland
Having seen pictures of his missionary work, there was a hint of "manifest destiny" about it.
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Having seen pictures of his missionary work, there was a hint of "manifest destiny" about it.
@Printdevil @devilsjunkshop Converting the locals into corpses.
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@Printdevil @devilsjunkshop Converting the locals into corpses.
@Taskerland @Printdevil Which he then reanimates into an unstoppable army.
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@BigJackBrass I don't think it, but I can see why they would think that.
YSDC suffered from a lack of Bok
