{"id":8972,"date":"2010-08-12T05:37:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T10:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2010-08-12T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:25:54","slug":"please-rise-for-a-message-from-rutskarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8972","title":{"rendered":"Please Rise for a Message from Rutskarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/splash_spoiler_warning1.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='splash_spoiler_warning1.jpg' title='splash_spoiler_warning1.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?p=8951\">Last episode<\/a>, I claimed that the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nma-fallout.com\/\">No Mutants Allowed<\/a> had a pronounced elitist bent, and that it was hostile or arrogant towards certain types of players and playstyles. Firstly, this is incorrect: the editorial staff of No Mutants Allowed demonstrates a level tone, and the community, while it has its bad patches, isn&#8217;t any worse than you&#8217;d find on neutral sites such as The Escapist. In part, my statements were a result of a few outside links to forum threads coloring my judgment; upon reviewing the recording, however, I think the biggest problem was that I accidentally referred to the wrong damn site.<\/p>\n<p>As my track record suggests (Enclave!=Brotherhood), I have a habit of occasionally referring to one thing while talking about another, especially if they occupy the same spot on my brain&#8217;s mental map (morally questionable dudes in power armor trying to turn on a water purifier and get Reginald killed). In this case, the site I intended to refer to was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpgcodex.net\/\">RPG Codex<\/a>, a site whose forum was (in the weeks leading up to Fallout 3&#8217;s release) a hive of grognard elitism that frequently engaged in ship-to-ship combat with Bethesda&#8217;s forums. Frankly, the staff aspect of that site isn&#8217;t much better; they would sit around waiting for news to come down the pipe, then ambush it with a suitably snarky editorial, even when the news was positive or inconsequential. I swear, if another game site had posted an article like, &#8220;Pete Hines really enjoys peaches,&#8221; they&#8217;d have posted a front-page snippet saying, &#8220;Reknowned Donkey Molester Pete Hines enjoys peaches, ruining gaming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s besides the point, which is that NMA doesn&#8217;t deserve the payload I&#8217;d intended for a totally different site. I&#8217;d like to formally apologize to the staff and community over at NMA. Please don&#8217;t nuke my house.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Rutskarn<br \/>\nAKA Dogmeat Genocide Device<br \/>\nAKA Stimpack Magnate<br \/>\nAKA Richard Nixon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last episode, I claimed that the site No Mutants Allowed had a pronounced elitist bent, and that it was hostile or arrogant towards certain types of players and playstyles. Firstly, this is incorrect: the editorial staff of No Mutants Allowed demonstrates a level tone, and the community, while it has its bad patches, isn&#8217;t any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}