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?


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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.



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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.

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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 :)

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