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Sorry, but if you look at an Orc, Troll, etc and think "Black Person", it's YOU who are the racist.
The whole point of the game is to give you enemies who aren't necessarily other PEOPLE to fight.
This is stupid virtue signaling, turned up to 11, and nothing more.
Look at what this woke crap has done to other industries, like comics.
Sure, the MOVIES make zillions.
But the actual comics industry is now in the toilet, in the process of being flushed.
And it's starting to metastatize in gaming.
Oh well. A 40-odd ye
Society's global lack of philosophical maturity makes it hard for fictitious creations to not be compared inevitably to some marginalized group.
It's too bad humans are so primitive, such that we can't discuss fictitious creations without worrying about whom we're offending.
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Ideology/Politics infesting passtimes (Score:5, Insightful)
Sorry, but if you look at an Orc, Troll, etc and think "Black Person", it's YOU who are the racist.
The whole point of the game is to give you enemies who aren't necessarily other PEOPLE to fight.
This is stupid virtue signaling, turned up to 11, and nothing more.
Look at what this woke crap has done to other industries, like comics.
Sure, the MOVIES make zillions.
But the actual comics industry is now in the toilet, in the process of being flushed.
And it's starting to metastatize in gaming.
Oh well. A 40-odd ye
Re:Ideology/Politics infesting passtimes (Score:3)
Society's global lack of philosophical maturity makes it hard for fictitious creations to not be compared inevitably to some marginalized group.
It's too bad humans are so primitive, such that we can't discuss fictitious creations without worrying about whom we're offending.