Yes and still as ancient as ever.

CGL's twitter actually tried pushing it over the weekend and immediately blocked any replies on their post.  They're doing this now for pretty much all their postings.  Also telling is the fact there is zero mention of the email issue on the sub-reddit.  I really wish someone would make another that has nothing to do w/ CGL. r/grognard_Battletech or something.

Yeah, the bg.battletech.com forum is still there and ticking over pretty well.

Don't try and discuss any of the hot button topics though.

Unless of course you're doing it from the side with privelige and power:

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=djc014r54bm2r2hu9ivd0ivdv4&topic=84406.0;all

Than your topic will be allowed to go on for a while, no matter how controversial and sensitive it is in reality.

You can still find a bunch of stuff on the megamek subforum:

https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=djc014r54bm2r2hu9ivd0ivdv4&board=29.0

It's not completely gone and lost to the weird, but you can see the veins in it now.

ETA:

I didn't see the direct mention on the BG.BT forums, I caught a few threads on dumpshock (the unofficial official shadowrun forum) back when the misuse of company funds happened, and saw mention of how they abused their freelancers and authors. IIRC they were dumb enough to even screw up payments to stackpole.

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SVEN dropped the latest video in his history of the 2nd succession war:



His stuff is not to be missed for anyone interested in the setting.

@Paulie771

https://battletechfuture.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/battletechfandom

https://discord.gg/WPESpHEj2K

https://twitter.com/i/communities/1752116268994363816

https://twitter.com/i/communities/1781458505259524535

https://www.reddit.com/r/NormalBattletech/

Razorfist just did a livestream talking with a YT channel about the details and etc of the recent goings on with a good number of details that have not been mentioned yet.



Skip to 56 minutes to get to the BT stuff; or if you want to watch it on YT, hit the link and it'll take you to the right time in the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrKJJVg7qU8&t=3360s

I didn't know about the "starleague" discord server wtih the auto-deleting posts full of cgl staff and that there was goading going on.

Razorfist repeats they had a list built beforehand, built a blocklist of everyone that followed any twitter accounts that they didn't like.

ETA: Razorfist is saying that russel zimmerman was encouraging valk (brisneo - paint your minis dude who says he's a chick upthread) in some doxxing...

This kind of shit is why people move to the Outworlds Alliance.

You can always come move out with us in the davion outback.

Life is slower here, but you don't put up with a lot of the nonsense.

https://archive.is/34Vtu

Yeah, but then there's the Federated dropship schools that fly around and you never know if you're going to get a dynamic, great physics teacher from NAIS or if you're going to get some demented cultural weirdo indoctrinator who believes that Kentares IV was justified because Jinjiro felt ethnically oppressed.

Well, yeah, but if you want some fun, bring banjos down to the landing pad when the green star corp ship lands.

It reminds them of that time they sent a group out to try and mess with the local farmers and the group never showed up again.

Them pigs was fat-uns at the county fair that yar!

ROFLMAO! Looks like CGL and their shipping fiasco is about to burn bright again. People are starting to report updated shipping costs that are only a few dollars less than they were originally.  For mine, it dropped from ~$30 to $21 for the basic box and a few packs of dice.  Fuck these guys, man. Luckily, the card I used to pay originally was compromised so the they can't charge me as I haven't updated it to the new card.  Very tempted to just eat the few dollars I did pay so they have to sit on the product.

Absolute farce of a company.

As expected:



https://archive.is/Z1cpA

https://web.archive.org/web/20070515000000*/https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Anastasius_Focht

Earliest copy wayback machine has:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071202034913/https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Anastasius_Focht

Who's the troll "author" ?

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Bryan_Young

Here's his stuff, if you are inclined to dispose of it or avoid it:

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Category:Works_by_Bryan_Young

Focht  (frederick steiner) was never trans, never hinted to be trans, never implied to be trans, etc. In the novels focht was being researched by the invading clanners and there is (iirc, I'll have to find the reference than take a picture of the actual page in the book) mention that the clans even went so far as to see if there was a sex change operation in focht's past.

Young is just being a sleazy fanfic writer.  

I wonder who in his immediate family has gone the route of being mutilated and reinforcing that kind of self destructive delusion.

If you have the old print books, hold onto them. With this kind of irrational destructive of people brain rot going on, I can't see them not starting to do major retcons.

ETA: nm.

The immature jerk hoisted himself on his own petard.

Behold, a "author" who thinks this implied that focht was trans:

pic.twitter.com/1vRtJn2km4

Bryan Young  (@swankmotron) May 5, 2024

I guess if you're willing to believe males can be females, not being able to read at a third grade level is just expected.

So, let's do the hard part for the "author" who can't read.





There isn't anyhing implied there. Zilch. And than the very text he cited (where the people who say they investigated to see if a sex change was involved) continued to refer to Focht as a he. Oh, and the references? They are to Focht before AND after his "rebirth."

For some reason or the other BY is willing to make a complete absolute fool of himself in public over this stuff.

It's like he's trying to cover a guilty conscience or something.

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Eta:

Well that explains it.

My middle kid, Scout is Trans-non-binary. They work as a dog groomer.

They have a super loving and accepting home (some of the distant family not as much, but that’s a different story.) Before the pandemic, my house always seemed to be the hangout for all their trans friends. \uD83E\uDDF5

Bryan Young  (@swankmotron) April 20, 2022

https://web.archive.org/web/20220420233431/https://twitter.com/swankmotron/status/1516923158728638465

He calls his kida  they.

He was involved with his kid being transed.

He's a complete radical. He will never admit trans is wrong, because to do so, makes him (at the very least) complicit in horrifically mutilating his child's mind and emotions. If he was involved in getting his kid castrated and mutilated...

There isn't anything he won't do to avoid admission that he's a child mutilationist.

Of course he's flailing and grasping at anything he can to try and say "no, no, what I was involved with perpetrating on my own children is completely normal!"

ETA: Or he's just going along with the self destruction of his family and his child if the kid is older and out of the house, which is only a few hairs better.