parthenocarpy posted:

took a couple hours and a late run to walmart for more ink (lol that stuff is expensive!!) but i got the ships printed out. gota figure out a way to make these babies waterproof. they will serve as a roof above my head, expecing an eviction notice in two weeks. been a while since the last rent payment but in my defense been alot of good ship sales recently and less mouths to feed around here lately with the fam out of my way so why not is my perspective.

spacetoaster posted:

Lord Binky posted:

it took me a second to realize the one serious guy in the middle isn't real

Eonwe posted:

Hey guys

Eonwe posted:

Hey guys

Lord Binky posted:

it took me a second to realize the one serious guy in the middle isn't real

spacetoaster posted:

Can you recommend a good one for my kids and I to play? We do Space Hulk, Battletech, and Deathstorm (pretty much every GW boardgame too). I've been looking for something new to try.

dans posted:

Being funny or not isn't the point, we were idiot edgelords shooting our mouths off, we never expected any of this stuff to go outside our little network of weirdos.

Eonwe posted:

Hey guys

dans posted:

It's all super innocent, we were just a bunch of weirdo Wing Commander IRC babies with too much time on our hands, we had lots of time saved up from not dating to come up with really dumb in-jokes that just sort of perpetuated themselves. We had a rule that we had to say "shields up!" whenever Brooke Shields came on TV so we started saying it in the late 1990s, then it became the 2000s, and now here we are in 2016 and just a few days ago by force of habit I said "shields up" because I thought I saw Brooke Shields on TV.
This is all intensely stupid and that weird kind of innocent bullshit that comes from a bunch of weirdos with nothing better to do than try to make each other laugh. Like a vaguely-Wing Commander-themed FYAD before there were the SA forums.

dans posted:

It's not like he's a creeper any more than the average FYAD poster is a creeper. I've said tons of stupid poo poo I don't believe in FYAD that I wouldn't say anywhere else, it's like that. It's performance. It's us holding on to dumb poo poo we did twenty years ago, it's not going to be particularly good, we were children.

Lord Binky posted:

I hope some dude isn't going to lose his job because of irony

Otisburg posted:

"it's no worse than fyad" is apologism akin to "waterboarding? psh, let me tell you what they do to prisoners in north korea! we're pretty lenient when u think about it"

a hole-y ghost posted:

Why not. That would be awesome

Skellybones posted:

This is a level of humour you just wouldn't 'get'

Tace Vim posted:

heh

Otisburg posted:

what even is that

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Maldoror posted:

Did you know Lesnick was LOAF?

Anyway, goons didn't dig it up. Lesnick tweeted it himself thinking it would be funny.

WebDog posted:

Ben as a person is quite literally a mile wide

dans posted:

Being funny or not isn't the point, we were idiot edgelords shooting our mouths off, we never expected any of this stuff to go outside our little network of weirdos.

dans posted:

Being funny or not isn't the point, we were idiot edgelords shooting our mouths off, we never expected any of this stuff to go outside our little network of weirdos.

AlmightyPants posted:

I understand this. Lots of kids go through this phase. I know I did.

The difference was I was a teenager. A lot of this poo poo was said when Ben was a loving adult. The dates back this up. He was at the age where he should've known better.

Now you can go with the "oh, well we were just friends making edgy comments to one another" argument. Again, I can understand that. My friends and I say atrocious things around and to each other. It's friends being jerks together, one of my favorite activities.

The difference here is that we do not loving archive tens of thousands of said things in a searchable format on a public website for years on end. And even, for whatever reason, if anything truly heinous was written down, one would assume that it would be kept privately. Again, not in a searchable, public format.

Ben is the face of a $112 million dollar company. When this whole thing broke and I actually became offended at his casual antisemitism, I tweeted him, asking for an apology or retraction. Because, you know, that's what normal people would do in this situation. Not just go, "ha ha ha I sure said some unfunny jokes a while ago". And then nothing.

I feel like an old man sometimes, but I've read some awful poo poo on the internet and very little offends me. The fact that your buddy Ben, instead of sending out an apology or retraction or something, spent the weekend tweeting about seeing movies offends me. It offends me that this very public figure, supposedly representing and managing the community of over a million people could be so callous and disrespectful.

And ultimately, his worst sin is not in saying bad poo poo in the past. It's his complete inability to apologize for it in the present.

WebDog posted:

But you fail to make the distinction between the fact while it is immature ramblings, even when taken out of the context in which they were said, they are far from appropriate at any age.

In Ben's mind this is like when some celeb posts on twitter about some embarrassing style they wore back in the 80's. He fully expected people to laugh with him as if he didn't know better....at age 25. If this was just the spider facts page that would be the case.

Ben as a person is quite literally a mile wide and an inch deep when it comes to have any substance to his self worth.
Sure he got the short end of the stick as a kid but then no effort was really made to get him out and about and socialising with people and so he retreated into a safe space that he hasn't really been able to leave. I also get the feeling that he's been so wrapped up in cotton wool that he has quite the case of arrested development going on.

Him dropping out of college only just shows he has trouble doing things without some sort of adult assistance. And this still appears to be the case regarding him having to move states to work on SC.

He found the WC community as the one thing that accepted him and attached himself to it like some desperate leech and has spent the better part of twenty years obsessively immersing himself to the point where it's defined the only self worth he's ever known. As a result he becomes cocky and arrogant slowly pushing out other community leaders with such vitriol, even rejoicing in their deaths, till only he is left to run the ship of fools.

To make things worse this behaviour gets validated as he's eventually rewarded for his years of service as being the public face of his idol's latest creation.
You're talking about a person who at that point is verging on borderline shut-in and lives off a menial admin job at a school while writing up news posts that hallucinate potential sequels from nearly forgotten game franchises of the 90's. Now he gets paid to sit around in cushy digs with free food to live his dream - and the tragic irony is that's literally killing him.

On top of that he's given the controls to a new community from the ground up and sets up ridiculous rules about what can or can't be posted and mandatory polls dishing out the law at every moment. Plus he's an individual who has very little solid experience outside his comfort zone to deal with sensitive subjects in a proper way.

Of course he runs into the dilemma where you have backers who are just as broken and even more so as himself (see WulfKnight).
People so ostracised from social norms that they try to buy themselves some sort of community acceptance in the thousands of dollars expecting some sort of say in the creation of a dream video game or even buying people ships to try and gain their affections.

So to save the company coffers they get a light slap on the wrist for posting CP while valid concerns get banished to the wasteland as there's only so many hours in the day and free doughnuts to eat and sitting around watching all the Star Wars movies on company time.


Keep in mind this the public face of a company that has been publicly accused by former employees of racist and discriminatory hiring practices, done at a whim because the person hiring subjectively picks and chooses people based on broad assumptions of their personal grooming. Yup, someone wasn't hired because she was claimed to look like someone who doesn't shave down there.

And then you have the self described "job tourist" who claims he ran a baseball team in his teens yet until someone put the clippers to him looked like a hobo they'd let in. Said hobo leaked 34gb of game assets onto a public FTP, including a working build of the game and somehow kept his job.

TL;DR
90's video game obsessed manchild gets wrapped in cotton wool and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for his actions that are now damaging the reputation of the company he works for. Said company too afraid of community reprisals and potential loss of money to fire him.