Decline How the Codex stopped being a site for the free discussion of RPGs

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Mebrila is working with scruffy to put you on a watchlist for the cia, joe biden signed a secret executive order to look for undesirables and sent you to guacamole bay.

It's about time. I love me some guacamole.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Let me summarize my point of view. For many years, "real CRPGs" were a dead genre. Therefore, nothing that happened on this site actually mattered. Everybody could just let loose and have fun, dancing on the grave of their dead hobby.

But then CRPGs came back. Inevitably, the atmosphere on the forum shifted as the community geared itself toward anticipation and analysis of this new wave of titles. Not everybody was happy with that change. And some of them decided to blame the guy they felt was most responsible for putting it front and center.

"Stop posting about these games so much! Why is this megathread 500 pages long, how am I supposed to read this? You're not supposed to care this much! It's all popamole! It's all woke! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

People often take umbrage to others autistic needs to regulate shit.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Mebrilia the Viera Queen

I say this as a friend, but you need to move on from this. You are way too overinvested in this drama. Whenever I check this thread (or the woke list) you are brawling with people for no purpose.

I know this seemingly means a lot to you, but the Codex isn't going to change in the way you want.

You've already made your point multiple times, and at this point, it isn't healthy.

Look what have you done, she nuked herself. Are you happy now?!

She'll be back. This is just the latest in dramatic attention grabs.

She had been considering it for several days.

So she was lying here:

So i will enjoy my permanence there and i will stay here soley for the trash factor.

I don't much care what Meb does or doesn't do. I doubt she's actually gone. She came for the drama and she'll likely be back for it.

But if she is gone, my hope is that Theo and co will follow her soon enough.

The Watch is calling you, Tacgnol. Listen to its siren song.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Infinitron is genetically incapable of comprehending why some people might be upset with him.

"Why do they persecute me so?"

FTMP, he dindu nuffin. He's been a pretty balanced admin, and a pretty balanced moderator before that.

It's just stuff like the "neutral positive" reviews that I didn't like. And maybe some of the thread merges, but he seems to be doing those less.

It's kind of funny to see people blame him for everything, when DU is in the background, laughing and spamming chaos magic.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Mebrilia the Viera Queen

I say this as a friend, but you need to move on from this. You are way too overinvested in this drama. Whenever I check this thread (or the woke list) you are brawling with people for no purpose.

I know this seemingly means a lot to you, but the Codex isn't going to change in the way you want.

You've already made your point multiple times, and at this point, it isn't healthy.

Look what have you done, she nuked herself. Are you happy now?!

She'll be back. This is just the latest in dramatic attention grabs.

She had been considering it for several days.

So she was lying here:

So i will enjoy my permanence there and i will stay here soley for the trash factor.

I don't much care what Meb does or doesn't do. I doubt she's actually gone. She came for the drama and she'll likely be back for it.

But if she is gone, my hope is that Theo and co will follow her soon enough.

The Watch is calling you, Tacgnol. Listen to its siren song.

Fuck off with all that. Why don't you go to the hq and keep rusty company rather than try to chase people away here? You can always log in to two sites if you want so we can continue to remind you what a retard you are.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

lick my rank feet

Some hardcore roleplaying right here.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

SDG reactions to Meb nuking her account?

Fuck off with all that. Why don't you go to the hq and keep rusty company rather than try to chase people away here? You can always log in to two sites if you want so we can continue to remind you what a retard you are.

 

[Gregz]

Let me summarize my point of view. For many years, "real CRPGs" were a dead genre. Therefore, nothing that happened on this site actually mattered. Everybody could just let loose and have fun, dancing on the grave of their dead hobby.

But then CRPGs came back. Inevitably, the atmosphere on the forum shifted as the community geared itself toward anticipation and analysis of this new wave of titles. Not everybody was happy with that change. And some of them decided to blame the guy they felt was most responsible for putting it front and center.

"Stop posting about these games so much! Why is this megathread 500 pages long, how am I supposed to read this? You're not supposed to care this much! It's all popamole! It's all woke! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

The years of systematic discouragement and silencing of (((certain topics of discussion))) was just a byproduct of keeping the forum neat and tidy? Poor misunderstood Infinitron. He only wanted what was best for us, and site was dead anyway, so who cares?

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." or a "dindu nuffin'" play? I don't buy it.

 

[Sunri]

-1 old whore

 

[KIss My Ass]

SDG reactions to Meb nuking her account?

 

[Skinwalker]

Jonathanna "Squee Pipimimi is very upset at this sudden development.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

But then CRPGs came back.

they did?

The release of Legend of Grimrock in 2012 ended the 'wasteland' era of CRPGs and inaugurated a glorious age of hemi-semi-demi-incline, in which a number of games were released that harked back to earlier periods and subgenres (also a bunch of action RPGs, mostly Souls-likes). Unfortunately, this period of CRPG history in retrospect lasted only through 2018, since 2019 was a singularly horrible year for the genre. Starting in 2020, there's been something of a renaissance in squad-based tactics games, including some with enough RPG elements to be considered part of the Tactial RPG subgenre, but not much else of quality in RPGs.

 

[Correct_Carlo]

I think this month's instance of Gregz getting another grain of sand wedged in his vagina and lashing out at people in typical schizo fashion is interesting, as we don't have to just speculate what codex would be like if Infinitron conceded to Gregz's demands and stopped quarantining endless political posting, we now have an actual test case in the form of RPGHQ.org. Would codex be the paradise of enlightened discussion that Gregz claims? Please join me as we take a facinating look at what codex would be like in an alternate universe where Infinitron had never been born:

Spoiler

Browsing RPGHQ's game forum, it's kind of comical how there's near-zero discussion of games. Everything is approached from a purely political angle and everyone's competing to out-edgelord eachother all the time. Here are a few samples:

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader:

First post is complaining that the game is "anti-facist" (controversial, no?).

Pathfinder:

Transgenderism comes up in the first post before bitching about political pandering.

Cyberpunk 2070:

Takes two posts for politics to come up, just 4 before transexuals are mentioned.

Jagged Alliance 3:

This thread is a model of restraint, as things don't turn racist until a full 4 posts in.

Honestly, I don't understand Gregz et. al.'s hysteria. You men have your new paradise of completely free discussion and you are free to go there and never return here, yet for some reason, you all can't stop visiting codex. Makes me wonder if you sense, subconsciously, that your new paradise is actually a hell, but you're all just too fucking stupid to realize it.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

Jonathanna "Squee Pipimimi is very upset at this sudden development.

 

[King Crispy]

"anti-facist"

?

 

[LarryTyphoid]

If you think the Codex isn't right-wing enough then I don't know what to tell you. The politics forum is basically /pol/ and half of the website says the holocaust never happened and that you're a Jewish shill cuck if you do. I don't participate in modern CRPG discussion much because I don't care about those games, but there's no shortage of people dumping on games like Wrath of the Righteous for the tranny content. The HQ isn't even that different when it comes to game discussion because like 80% of the people there are also Codex posters; same goes for the IRC channel.

I get that some people have problems with the Codex's moderation team, and I like a lot of the people who have gone HQ-exclusive, including Rusty himself, but all the doomsaying for the Codex is retarded. At the end of the day, the Codex has existed for 20 years and has a lot of history with RPGs, with notable devs both interacting and actively posting on the site throughout its lifespan. I browsed the Codex for half a year before making an account just because you can get so much out of it simply by reading old threads. The HQ doesn't have that appeal, and it's never going to have it as long as such a significant portion of its userbase does nothing but gossip about the Codex and its users.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

You can always post on Rusty's site, it's safe from Infinitron

You poor sad bastards really have no idea do you? Nothing is safe from Infinitron.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person here who likes Infinitron. Dude hooks me up wit my dope avatars. Infinitron is a bro.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I've never read more retarded shit. It's hilarious gregz is posting it as some kind of damning evidence

 

[Gregz]

I've never read more retarded shit. It's hilarious gregz is posting it as some kind of damning evidence

Strangling discourse in lockstep with globohomo is 100% anti-consumer. Commonwealth eurofags, like yourself, who expect their thoughts broadcast to them by an (((authority))), probably don't see an issue. To any freedom-loving people, that is a grotesque disfiguration of the human spirit. The cheering screeching apparatchik faggots ITT, like wrong_carlo, who want nothing more than the adoption of your police-enforced jew-homo-nigger-tranny social norms, are cancer.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I've never read more retarded shit. It's hilarious gregz is posting it as some kind of damning evidence

Strangling discourse in lockstep with globohomo is 100% anti-consumer. Commonwealth eurofags, like yourself, who expect their thoughts broadcast to them by an (((authority))), probably don't see an issue. To any freedom-loving people, that is a grotesque disfiguration of the human spirit. The cheering screeching apparatchik faggots ITT, like wrong_carlo, who want nothing more than the adoption of your police-enforced jew-homo-nigger-tranny social norms, are cancer.

Dude, you need a break.

 

[Tacgnol]

I've never read more retarded shit. It's hilarious gregz is posting it as some kind of damning evidence

Strangling discourse in lockstep with globohomo is 100% anti-consumer. Commonwealth eurofags, like yourself, who expect their thoughts broadcast to them by an (((authority))), probably don't see an issue. To any freedom-loving people, that is a grotesque disfiguration of the human spirit. The cheering screeching apparatchik faggots ITT, like wrong_carlo, who want nothing more than the adoption of your police-enforced jew-homo-nigger-tranny social norms, are cancer.

Did you just roll your face across a keyboard filled with buzzword macros?

 

[El Presidente]

A few ratings in this page that made me laugh

 

[Axel_am]

This place is crazy.

Spoiler

Can't wait to make a year.

 

[Gerrard]