[CW: sexual assault] Adam Koebel (Dungeon World)’s Far Verona stream canceled after players quit due to sexual assault scene. - this is just a link to a Reddit thread discussing it, but the comments contain relevant links (the clip, cancellation announcement, Koebel's tweets, and the directly affected player explaining why they quit), plus text summaries of what happened and discussion thereof.

(For reference, I've never watched the show before, but I did watch the segment in question after I found a link in that thread.)

Oh, funny, Austin Walker's talked about his experience with discomfort around a similar situation (with Koebel) before. It just keeps happening, huh.

unfortunately, the information about such things happening doesn't ever spread perfectly, so sometimes someone does something once and not everyone getting involved with them knows until they step in it

I'm using it more to emphasize why my disappointment is immeasurable. Koebel should know better, by all means.

I agree, a lot of people should know better than to do things that they do (including things like putting horrible scenes of sexual assault in games)

:/

Let's try and focus on the people who need help and support, and using this as an opportunity to identify practices we can incorporate in our own gaming spaces.

"It's time to stop RELYing on safety tools. Being prepared for what happens when they fail needs to be a part of the safety kit." (twitter thread by Leona Maple)

"Every publisher and system should... build [consent and safety] into the game and make it as basic as owning some dice and a pencil." (Matt Sanders)

And any conversation about this needs to include the voice of the person most affected.

fair enough

@NautArch just fyi, there's a user you noticed behaving a little strangely a week or so ago. We've been keeping an eye out and taking note of some things, and agree there's some weirdness. But there's no real way in the mechanical flag-handling to let you know that, so I wanted to say thanks for the pointer and that there's more eyes on it now.

@nitsua60 grazie, but the problem may be solving itself.

@NautArch Looks like it--just wanted you to have the feedback/thanks =)

@nitsua60 Thank you :)

OK, I can't help myself, but this story made me laugh out loud in disbelief. Shades of Ben Hur, and "Ramming Speed" followed by a Homer-Simpson-like "DOH!"

@KorvinStarmast I saw, yes -- I have NO CLUE what was going through the head of the navy ship's captain