Admiral jimbob

On the Codex, it's less likely to be man/woman than man-woman.

Yeah, General Discussion's pretty much Stormfront lite. No idea why, or why so many people sign up to an RPG website to post three times in RPG Discussion then spend the next four years in GD hysterically wailing about the gay agenda. The admins attempted to crack down on it at one point (see the old "dear Nazi ****s" thread), but they've all pretty much given up. The moderators tend to do a good job of preventing it from bleeding into the other sections, the odd "how do black people play RPGs when they can't read?" thread gets expunged quickly enough. It's best just to ignore it.

Oh god, Prosper made it here? I speak for us all when I say that I'm so, so sorry.

It probably looks like that on the surface, but I honestly don't see it. The one group Codex posters hate more than people who don't post on the Codex are people who post on the Codex. At least 50% of the people on the site constantly express how much they hate being there. The place is split between people who hate everything made after 1992, people who only like Fallout and a couple of others and think no other RPG has ever been made, people who think we live in the golden age of RPGs right now (yes, there are some), people who spend most of their time talking about obscure Japanese dungeon crawlers, people who play games for the story, people who think choices and consequences are what define an RPG... the only general consensus is that games have, overall, gone downhill. As status quos go, it's not much of one compared to most forums. The thing with the Codex is just that everyone shouts really really loudly and it can be a bit deceiving.

He told me just after I registered that I was "wRONG like a lways. r00fles!1" for something that happened in his head. Not being used to Volourn at the time - or, indeed, anywhere less sanitised than the Bethesda forums - I never quite recovered.

This... is probably the best summary of the Codex I've ever seen. That said, I do love the place. I firmly believe that the internet is for mad people, and that that's the way it should be. Madness has its negative side, but if I want to talk to anything approaching normally functioning human beings, I'll leave the house. If I want mad, brilliant, maladjusted geniuses willing to wax lyrical about odd obsessions ranging from art direction in RPGs to racial purity to how golden retrievers are genetically modified mutants to how much they want trannies to poop on them, I go to the internet - and for all these things and many more, you can't beat the Codex. It takes a... special sort of person to survive there with sanity intact. I'm really, really not sure why everyone there is insane or why general discussion is a Nazi enclave, but there you go. For all their downsides, I don't believe there exists anywhere on the internet a collective of people who, as a whole, know quite as much about old-school RPGs as the Codex does. Work your way past the bile and the insane noise:signal ratio and you'll find that their hatred is motivated by the purest love. Love for a genre which has undeniably strayed far, far from its roots, with the original target market being told by the industry as a whole (not Obsidian; they've had their bad moments, but I really like them and think their hearts are in the right place at least) that nobody cares about them and they'll never be catered for again. From the endless well of tears left behind by this act, an act which echoed the way their dad left forever so long ago, the Codex came to be. And all the Codex wants is to look back on the good times, when dad would hold them close and make all the world's troubles go away. But now mum is coming home with another man, who's big and strong and handsome but just can't replace your dad, and every night he beats you and tells you that you're stupid and ungrateful for not calling him father, for not saying he's better than your old dad ever was, and everywhere you go, all the other kids are talking about how cool your new dad is and you know what I mean, right?