Man... The reddit thread on YSDC is absolutely fascinating:
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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.
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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.
I remember them before they locked down and they created a library of props, a wiki of published materials, and they pioneered actual play stuff.
I had a friend who posted there and he said it was mostly old lags slapping their fins on the water and getting nostalgic while not really engaging with people trying to do anything new but they had a reputation.
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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 found that place very weird and a bit sad, moons ago. I can now see why it felt like that.
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@Taskerland I found that place very weird and a bit sad, moons ago. I can now see why it felt like that.
@Printdevil It's a really interesting and quite uncommon failure mode.
It puts me in mind of isolated old people who get found in their homes months after they die. Rooms full of hoarded stuff and six locks on the front door. Doormat covered in concerned notes from neighbours and social workers, all of them unopened and unread.
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@Printdevil It's a really interesting and quite uncommon failure mode.
It puts me in mind of isolated old people who get found in their homes months after they die. Rooms full of hoarded stuff and six locks on the front door. Doormat covered in concerned notes from neighbours and social workers, all of them unopened and unread.
@Taskerland I feel so seen.
"Man found in workroom surrounded by forged documents and maps of Antarctica"
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@Taskerland I feel so seen.
"Man found in workroom surrounded by forged documents and maps of Antarctica"
@Printdevil You aren't like that at all. Silly sausage.
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@Printdevil You aren't like that at all. Silly sausage.
@Taskerland "clutching a jade dagger. his walls were bookcases full of satanic reference material, relatives have been contacted"
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@Printdevil You aren't like that at all. Silly sausage.
@Taskerland The slow throwing out of children's toys and "hoarding" look very similar at first sight
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@Printdevil It's a really interesting and quite uncommon failure mode.
It puts me in mind of isolated old people who get found in their homes months after they die. Rooms full of hoarded stuff and six locks on the front door. Doormat covered in concerned notes from neighbours and social workers, all of them unopened and unread.
@Taskerland A lot of the "old school" CoC people were quite intensely weird if I remember correctly, there was far too much of staring into the Abyss about them all.
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@Taskerland A lot of the "old school" CoC people were quite intensely weird if I remember correctly, there was far too much of staring into the Abyss about them all.
@Taskerland @devilsjunkshop We played CoC back in the 1980s with a person who became a missionary and was exactly the sort of character who goes mad in Lovecraft stories, had a fixation with the Hong Kong Police, made Super8 films and ended up dying from a tropical disease.
He also looked 45 when in his teens.
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@Taskerland @devilsjunkshop We played CoC back in the 1980s with a person who became a missionary and was exactly the sort of character who goes mad in Lovecraft stories, had a fixation with the Hong Kong Police, made Super8 films and ended up dying from a tropical disease.
He also looked 45 when in his teens.
@Printdevil @devilsjunkshop I used to play with a Jehova's witness who had an ill-fitting glass eye and a pair of black leather gloves that he never took off.
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@Printdevil @devilsjunkshop I used to play with a Jehova's witness who had an ill-fitting glass eye and a pair of black leather gloves that he never took off.
@Taskerland @devilsjunkshop This gentleman was very much in that idiom as well.
Forensic knowledge of poisons, ammunition and expressions like "the Malay" that implied a religious maniac racism we perhaps didn't intuit in our early teens.
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@Taskerland @devilsjunkshop This gentleman was very much in that idiom as well.
Forensic knowledge of poisons, ammunition and expressions like "the Malay" that implied a religious maniac racism we perhaps didn't intuit in our early teens.
@Printdevil @devilsjunkshop He sounds like an aspiring colonial policeman. Beige uniform and swagger-stick.
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@Printdevil @devilsjunkshop He sounds like an aspiring colonial policeman. Beige uniform and swagger-stick.
@Taskerland @devilsjunkshop Due to issues with living in Northern Ireland, he chose the missionary in "savage lands" approach, popular amongst aspiring Paisleyites.
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@Taskerland I feel so seen.
"Man found in workroom surrounded by forged documents and maps of Antarctica"
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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 For what it's worth, as a member, I would generally see a batch of new member approvals each day. So I don't think it's just that he wasn't doing it, which would be the way I'd be likely to fail at something like that.
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@Printdevil And where are the Mountains of Madness on that map?
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@Printdevil And where are the Mountains of Madness on that map?
@Taskerland "A few clicks south of paying HPLHS for their doctored version" Sir.
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@Taskerland For what it's worth, as a member, I would generally see a batch of new member approvals each day. So I don't think it's just that he wasn't doing it, which would be the way I'd be likely to fail at something like that.
@RogerBW Is it that there was a backlog or some IT problem maybe?
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@RogerBW Is it that there was a backlog or some IT problem maybe?
@Taskerland I have no reason to suppose that. I think there may have been reluctance to join a thing when you couldn't see what you got until you joined; and judging by some of the Reddit comments people conflated "sign up" with "subscribe". Overall I think it was just not enough money coming in.
