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  1. The police are notified if you make threats at school violence, killing the president, etc, via your facebook, twitter, or even text messages. Literally have four calls a week dealing with that. You don't have the freedom to text a friend privately anymore, let alone the freedom to say what you want in public without reprisal. And white knighting is not sexist, it's disgusting and creepy. It makes people come off like they want to skin the girl and wear her fask as a mask as they do a little kooky dance. Women who are gamers want to be treated as gamers, not women gamers. Equality is being treated the same as everyone else, regardless of any difference. If everyone just enforced treating women, LGBT people, handicapped, the same as we treat people of the same gender and race, it would not be a problem.
  2. So I figured I would hop in. Humanity in general is terrible, at our roots we are all selfish evil people. Nurture is attempting to civilize nature, and with certain people all the education and corrective actions can only take them so far. I've never seen someone get raped at a LGS or a con, but I am sure it happens. I've seen a ton of guys who creepily go all white night when a female gamer comes into the store (Hello m'lady, let me hold the door for you and pull out a chair for you, and is there anything I can get for you, would you like me to buy you water or some food from the food court, etc. etc. etc.) I've also seen the opposite where a clique of guys make snide remarks or talk trash a bit too loudly about said gamer as well. At my LGS we have a few players who are mentally handicapped, to be honest the same scumbag stuff happens to them if someone is not there to stop it. I live in a pretty racially inclusive area, so we have a large diversity factor, so I don't see a ton of racism, but I imagine if your LGS is in Oregon or Rhode Island when people of color come in they get treated like unicorns and or terrifying monsters. Changing the appearance or poses of miniatures is not going to make people stop being douche's to women. The only way to stop that would be to act as tough in person as people seem to do on the internet. See a guy harassing a woman playing? tell him to knock it off or get out. See a group of mouth breathers talking about what they would do to her in the corner while she is shopping? Call them out on it. embarrass them more then they already embarrass themselves with whatever chain wallet they are still wearing. (joking, but no seriously, stop wearing chain wallets) There are a ton of reasons people are the way they are, you won't change them, we can gentrify everything so that we play we flat tokens in appearance similar to checkers, and write missives so that rulesets can only refer to characters as Piece X or Piece 347. And if that's the direction you want to go, awesome, have it, write your own game. The other option is we treat bad gamers, men and women, like we treat cancer, and remove them from the body of the gaming community. Ban them from your events, forums, facebook pages. They will either adapt or move on to something else. Instead of trying to pass the responsibility on to the community at large or game companies, take the responsibility upon yourself and your group of friends / LGS. If you change it there, it will change nationally.
  3. I'd also be a bit further for a more detailed explanation of the new stricter non-negative moderation. Does this mean Wyrd is going to be emulating the games workshop forums of yesteryear where if you had an issue with model or rule and attempted to discuss it civilly it would be quashed because it was "detrimental" to the company. For instance. Avatar marcus is a terrible model. It could be one of the worst sculpts I've ever seen made, and as someone who frequents painting events and is a regular on on a certain paint judging website is no small statement, I've seen some bad models. Does the above post get me a warning? does it get locked and or deleted? What if I say I think the dreamer is too powerful in the current form. He was already pretty dominant as the best summoner in the game, and now we added an extra soulstone to his pool for why? Does the above post get me a warning? does it get locked and or deleted? Or are you more talking about when a post spirals down to "OMG, Wyrd is Amazeballs, your so stupid for disagreeing and thinking anything is wrong" and "Fanboy!, FANBOY! You suck, the rule sucks, this post sucks" Don't get me wrong, I totally think the kibash needs to be put on the latter. The former I think are good things for the community and forums. (well, maybe not the marcus thing, though in my defense the sculpts did get better after that. So post hoc, ergo propter hoc)
  4. The issue on the final game as I am aware is they wanted to have the game at the demo booth in the showroom. One board had a huge culverts with no ladders and giant buildings and such that completely would have hosed the levi player since the dreamer just ignores all of it. The other board was a cool raised train platform, but everything on the main level was basically open terrain, which hosed the dreamer player. They attempted to use the second board and add some terrain to it. but it was not considered enough. Most people I talked to said the terrain in the actual tournament hall was pretty spot on. not sure about pictures.
  5. They are going to be posting them on the wyrd announcement page. the TO just needed a few days to format it properly.
  6. I think I would honestly be fine with the model if her hand had cards floating from it or a dove launching or a jacket similar to her old one and the top hat. The goggles are what annoy me most about the artwork.
  7. But sure, why not. This is June Merlin, the first magician to perform the blamo box. This is Adelaide Herrmann. She performed for 35 years from 1870ish.
  8. It's not called the magician and her assistants.
  9. Except she was both? her crew is called the showgirls.
  10. I googled victorian showgirls, and while the results are varied, this is purportedly a Victorian era showgirl poster. Just for all the realists out there. Every other 1800's, early 1900's showgirl search that shows actual pictures are more glitzy and glam then these three.
  11. I'm still holding out hope the nightmare edition this year is Colette, and they leaked this picture to get me to shell out the extra cash for a version of her that is not so meh.
  12. You can tone down the flashy hooker look, but at least keep her a magician or a showgirl. She looks like generic steampunk explorer. and that's not what the fluff from m1, or rules, indicate she is.
  13. Well no one else's had. so why would hers? also, all of her rules are still either magician or showgirly. So why would they have not also changed. My real hope is that they put such a meh piece of artwork up for her so they can release a nightmare showgirl box. And I would gladly pay up to $200ish to avoid having to use the Colette based on that artwork.
  14. with goggles. Why does she have goggles? This is not as bad as avatar marcus, because its a nice sculpt. It's just bland.
  15. https://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/micro-art-studio/microartstudio-discworld/discworld-the-lugagge.html Is where I got mine.
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