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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Here
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#2 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
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I'm sorry. I have to ask this of the staff of SJ Games. Please stop with scaremongering comments. It is making me utterly miserable. I love your company and GURPS, but I keep seeing this and I don't know I can keep coming here.
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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It's their site. They can and will post whatever they want. If you don't like it, stop reading their blog. Steve Jackson has posted some controversial stuff himself and basically said the same thing. They won't restrict the subjects or content of their blog just because some rando on the internet got butt hurt.
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GURPS Line Editor
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Montréal, Québec
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Unpopular Canadian opinion: One cannot remain apolitical and neutral in highly politicized and polarized times, and also remain moral. That goes for individuals and companies alike. Not take a stance is the same as endorsing the status quo, which is fine if one supports it but not if one doesn't support it. It might not even be fine if one supports it; however much I might dislike something myself, "support by default" makes me doubt the intelligence and industriousness of the silent party, adding "clueless and lazy" to my feelings about them, and perhaps biasing me a little too far against them.
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Hmm, looks like Earth, circa CE 2020+
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I understand being uncomfortable about political issues being brought up in this forum. But this post only briefly touches on that. And frankly, I think it's perfectly reasonable for anyone in the publishing industry to be concerned about censorship.
I personally was involved in a case where an unpublished written work was praised by more than one reviewing professional in one part of the USA. When it was put up for review in another part, it was seized. It was described as being "without literary or artistic merit" and thus illegal. That wasn't by a professional writer/editor. That was by a small-town cop. But in America, that can happen. And as America has been increasingly divided in the past several years, that's an increasing concern. I do hope all commenters will be respectful of each other. One of the nice things about games is that different people with different views can have fun together.
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GURPS Line Editor
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Montréal, Québec
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Yep. And it's perfectly reasonable for anyone who lives in Canada but earns their living working with a U.S. company – like me – to be concerned about the overarching political situation.
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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I remember being taught in grade school homeroom during the social studies section(what is was called then), the saying "I disagree with what you said but I will defend to the death your right to say it" as part of the discussion on freedom of speech. Today that seems to have morphed into "I disagree with what you said. That can't be allowed. You must be cancelled!" The 2nd one is one of the main reasons we can't have civil discourse. Everyone is so quick to claim offense when encountering an uncomfortable opinion and then going to state the need for a "safe place". While I don't want this site to turn into yet another political free fire zone, site ownership has its privileges and SJG can do what what they wish.
Another takeaway from the posting is opportunities can arrive via many methods. Don't be so resistant to weird ideas that you miss out. |
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: New England
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Expressions of concern for the First Amendment are most easily respected when they are consistent. Perhaps memory fails me, but I do not recall much concern expressed here at the government's well-documented involvement in the throttling of free speech over the past several years, some of which effectively squelched serious scientific discourse that had serious potential for lessening human suffering.
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Join Date: Jan 2024
Location: Small town red state hell.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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No we aren't, it will just turn into a trainwreck (I'm reasonably confident I know what he's talking about, but will avoid discussing it here).
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