• remove his RPG section due to the pressure.

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Arelor on Sun Jan 30 21:54:00 2022
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Sunday 30.01.22 - 18:29, Arelor wrote to Jeff:

    The bad news is the friendly local game store I used to buy
    games from had to remove his RPG section due to the
    pressure. He had lots of orders cancelled, which was
    specially bad for this guy because he owns the sort of
    local business that struggles to pay its own costs every
    single month. But well, I guess the lynching mob does not
    care for collateral damages :-P

    I missed something. Why would he need to remove the RPG
    section? As an independent seller, can't he curate his own
    products?


    --- OpenXP 5.0.51
    * Origin: Ogg's WestCoast Point (21:4/106.21)
  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Ogg on Mon Jan 31 03:20:08 2022
    Re: remove his RPG section due to the pressure.
    By: Ogg to Arelor on Sun Jan 30 2022 09:54 pm

    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Sunday 30.01.22 - 18:29, Arelor wrote to Jeff:

    The bad news is the friendly local game store I used to buy
    games from had to remove his RPG section due to the
    pressure. He had lots of orders cancelled, which was
    specially bad for this guy because he owns the sort of
    local business that struggles to pay its own costs every
    single month. But well, I guess the lynching mob does not
    care for collateral damages :-P

    I missed something. Why would he need to remove the RPG
    section? As an independent seller, can't he curate his own
    products?

    Nosolorol used to be THE RGP publisher in Spain. This guy's RPG section was 95% Nosolorol products. Back then no publisher was carrying Dungeons and Dragons in Spain at all (at all!) so Spain was left with what Nosolorol imported (including the World of Darkness games, which are HUGE both in and out of Spain) or what Nosolorol wrote themselves. Every other publisher was a tiny microorganism in comparison to Nosolorol - maybe a small publisher such as Holocubierta would release a hit every now and then, but they were not the industry's engine.

    So when people stopped purchasing Nosolorol products and started hinting that stores carrying the games were guilty by association, he just got rid of that section and dedicated that shelving space to boardgames instead.



    --
    gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
    --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
    * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (21:2/138)
  • From Jeff@21:1/180 to Avon on Mon Jan 31 21:14:53 2022
    On 01 Feb 2022, Avon said the following...
    Can we please
    - keep the posts on topic in this echo
    That is a subjective request.
    Discussions about cancel culture etc. are not discussions about retro tech. There's nothing subjective here.

    I was a bit harsh with this, and I apologize. I quoted the bit above for context, but I'm referring to the whole post from which the quote came.
    Despite my words, I trust that it has not gone unnoticed that the
    conversation in question has ended, as requested.

    Jeff.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Cold War Computing BBS (21:1/180)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Jeff on Tue Feb 1 17:07:41 2022
    On 31 Jan 2022 at 09:14p, Jeff pondered and said...

    On 01 Feb 2022, Avon said the following...
    Can we please
    - keep the posts on topic in this echo
    That is a subjective request.
    Discussions about cancel culture etc. are not discussions about retro tech. There's nothing subjective here.

    I was a bit harsh with this, and I apologize. I quoted the bit above for context, but I'm referring to the whole post from which the quote came. Despite my words, I trust that it has not gone unnoticed that the conversation in question has ended, as requested.

    It's all good and thank you :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/11/06 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)