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This is FANTASTIC. The mods at RPGNet decided that they had enough of the white supremacists and other racists, so they banned them.

When someone concern trolled the mods, this was their response.

As I have said elsewhere, “I prefer Coke to Pepsi” is an opinion and there can be a discussion about it. “Jews should all be murdered” is not merely an opinion, and it should be treated with the seriousness and severity that it deserves.

Pablo Hidalgo tweeted out some time ago that the Light is the sublimation of the self, while the Dark is the amplification of the self. Taken to each most extreme application, these ideologies are highly toxic.

One of the greatest failings of the Jedi of the Old Republic was the choice to, rather than engage with and develop methods for addressing the problem of personal attachment, to forbid it altogether. That’s the foundation for all of the truly bad things that make up what the Jedi became, and the source of many, many tales of succumbing to the Dark Side.

After all, if you’ve been told your whole life that this thing you want more than anything you’ve ever encountered is morally wrong and bad for you, and something the Force does not want, you’ll probably be more receptive to someone saying, “Hey, you can have all that and more. Accept this path, and you can have everything.”

The absence of a viable middle way essentially created the Sith. By identifying passion as a path to anger as a path to hate as a path to suffering, the Jedi rejected the concept of using passion or anger in the service of a selfless cause. So, too, did the Jedi ignore the possibility that pacifism and serenity at the expense of others’ suffering was an extremely selfish ideological bent. For example:

Passion, when it serves the self, is possessive, and can become destructive;

Anger, when applied in service of selfish ends, is overtly destructive;

Hate is always selfish, and once that is added to the mix, it rots everything else.

The Jedi’s uncompromising approach to this was like the medieval Catholic clergy. Anything that could lead to amplification of the self was to be expressly forbidden. Anything that was innately sublimating of the Self was accepted as doctrine. Palpatine was correct when he referred to the Jedi’s position as “the narrow, dogmatic views of the Jedi,” all while he offered a similarly narrow and dogmatic approach, but from the opposite ideological pole.

Why is the Light seen as the good guys? Because life is only sustainable in the Light. Everything must be balanced, but must be balanced on the Light side of the fulcrum. Why? Because the Dark, while necessary, and even desirable in some measure, is inherently destructive. Amplifying the self will always lead to the tendency to dominate, to impose one’s will over others. Sublimating the self will only sometimes lead to ill ends, and even then, because of passivity, not active application of selfish designs.

In short: the Light is the good side because it is the only place where life can flourish. The Jedi and the Light are not synonymous. Remember what Luke said:

To think that if the Jedi die, the Light dies, is vanity.

Men like Qui-Gon Jinn realized the Jedi Council was flawed, because they didn’t always follow the Force’s will. This is probably why they were losing their power. They were disrupting the balance, and the Force can’t flow through you if you refuse to follow it’s influence.

You sigh and look around. Literally every single person you can see has a hat, a cap or a helmet. It’s not reassuring.

You try to apply for jobs, but it doesn’t work out. The main reason why everything keeps crashing and burning is that you don’t know where to apply. You have never worried about your first job, knowing it would be given to you anyway. One after the other, you write CVs and applications and collect rejections. On one evening, you can’t think of another way to describe how flexible in a workplace you are and instead open a new document and start to rant. You write your feelings about graduation on a page, then another and another. You fall quickly into writing an essay about how unfair this predetermination is, how stupid to expect literal children to listen to an age old ceremony that could determine your entire life. Your best friend was smart. She was beautiful. She was inventive. Why should she slave away four years at a delivery company, risk bodily harm and physical strain and possible car accidents when she was going to be so much more one day? You have known her many years and you know she won’t be happy at this job. It will just be something to get by.

You don’t know what to do with the essay so you put it on your blog. Unexpectedly, it gains a lot of attention. People come forth expressing how much their first job has stumped them in carreers, some people to this day are still stuck in the job they had been determined back then and they are miserable. You keep in contact and slowly but surely other people come forth. People like you, who have been stuck at graduation without a returning hat. Who have been dropped into the world without care because they aren’t fit for anything. And when you talk you slowly see similarities.

They spend their life writing. Painting. With photography. Or dancing. Singing. Songwriting. There are people who collect everything to create collages and those who make videos. Some animate, some voice act, some sew or spin or knit or crochet. Many play instruments. Many are poets.

Together you realize how those without hats had time to evaluate themselves, to open their minds to creativity and creation. You call your best friend and talk about what you saw. She bursts into tears because her job has ruined her back and she is afraid she won’t be able to keep doing gymnastics which has brought her so much joy.

A year after, an updated version of your rant is printed in a magazine for youth educaiton. It gains traction. Kids appear to graduation ceremonies without their caps, refusing to let the world determine who they are. You get quite a bit of backlash, mostly from parents who just can’t understand why their kids do not want determined lifes. You know better.

Am I the only one who read this part and suddenly realized that Fred and George are absolute HEROES?!

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That obviously doesn’t fucking work now, and the only reason that was a thing in Sherlock is because Moffat is a pretentious asshole who thinks that a show being well written, sensible, and having a coherent plot structure is all for lesser writers, and the only thing he needs is to seem as clever as possible. Which admittedly, does work out for him for a few years, until the plot holes build up too much, and fans start to get pissed off about nothing ever being resolved but instead being thrown away for the new bigger mystery it led to, which then gets thrown away for the new bigger mystery that led to. Remember Doctor Who, how at the start of Moffat’s time as showrunner, he opened series 5 with ‘what caused the crack in Amy’s wall’? He never fucking answered that. He got distracted and wandered off into different plot threads that also never got resolved. He’s a very good writer when given a single episode to work with! His first episode on Doctor Who, he was just a guest writer, and he did the first Weeping Angels episode, and it was really good, because he only had that hour to tell the story. There was no follow up episode, no next season, just this amount of time, start a story, wrap it up satisfyingly, the end. He should NEVER have been put in charge of a show, because he’s the sort of writer that really needs something to reign him in and keep him on track, to remind him ‘hey you didn’t finish that plot, wrap it up before switching tracks’.

So it looks like he’s building this giant complex mystery, and keeps promising a satisfying answer to EVERYTHING once it’s over, but it’s never over because he doesn’t know how to let shit go - there’s always got to be another twist. The Weeping Angels can’t just zap you back in time and call it a day, they need to be made an EVEN BIGGER THREAT, they gotta be able to possess you! And steal the voices of dead people! and move while you’re looking! and be the statue of liberty! and instead of leaving you alone after the time warp, they hold you prisoner for the rest of your life now! No need to explain how or why, just escalate! And of course, Sherlock can’t just fake his death, take down moriarty’s organization, and then return to solving weird crimes, nope, there has to be a bigger threat than goddamn moriarty! he needs to have a secret evil sister! and secret dead childhood friend whose represented as a dog in his memories! and maybe moriarty isnt really dead - no wait, he is - no wait, he ISN’T - no wait, he is - OR IS HE? and john can’t just get married to a nice girl he loves, NOPE, gotta be more drama, she’s secretly an assassin and on the run from the government.

Moffat just keeps building and building and building, but eventually his stories start to collapse under their own weight because he’ll never let there be an end - he just can’t let go. And eventually fans will start to get bored and annoyed with the twists, and the show that used to make them feel smart will now just make them feel irritated. And they know there will never be a conclusion to the story, so they lose interest in the characters, because there’s no struggle - its never going to wrap up, so who cares? So they stop watching, and moffat starts dropping in viewers and ratings, and tries more desperate twists to bring people back, driving away the ones still holding on… lather rinse repeat until the network finally pulls the plug and makes him walk away.

also there is the dick joke one 

and the one they made in response to people misinterpreting the emoji one