Anybody who thinks this SJW craze is just politics as usual is in for a rude awakening. Its a full blown religious cult. You will bow down before it at all times. And if you don't they will pursue you into any field you go and any past time you try to escape to and make you bow down.
And anyone who thinks you have a point other than whining because you no longer feel special needs a rude awakening.
There is absolutely zero wrong with fleshing out the former mook/cannon fodder races in a fantasy game. None. And there are especially good reasons to do so if people have been dragging real world racism into the fantasy game using those races as a vehicle because they lack depth or nuance.
WOTC exists to make money. If they're finding that a small number of racist asshats are using their lack
It's important to remember that they used to call themselves "social justice warriors." The name wasn't invented for them, it was invented BY them. Tumblr was infested with them.
Their over-the-top screetching about every microaggression imaginable made them ridiculous, and when formerly normal people start acting like SJWs, calling them SJWs isn't a dog whistle or a sekret Internet code. It's accurate, and descriptive.
You may be too young to remember, but at one time anybody who said something like "man, modern pop music is pretty degenerate" would be called a member of the Moral Majority. This was an actual thing whose members got agitated if Prince sang about how he liked to bone women. It got turned into an insult because of how crazy the organization was. I can only assume that if you got zapped back to 1984 you would be angry about misusing the Moral Majority label too.
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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
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And anyone who thinks you have a point other than whining because you no longer feel special needs a rude awakening.
There is absolutely zero wrong with fleshing out the former mook/cannon fodder races in a fantasy game. None. And there are especially good reasons to do so if people have been dragging real world racism into the fantasy game using those races as a vehicle because they lack depth or nuance.
WOTC exists to make money. If they're finding that a small number of racist asshats are using their lack
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Your whining about "SJWs"
It's important to remember that they used to call themselves "social justice warriors." The name wasn't invented for them, it was invented BY them. Tumblr was infested with them.
Their over-the-top screetching about every microaggression imaginable made them ridiculous, and when formerly normal people start acting like SJWs, calling them SJWs isn't a dog whistle or a sekret Internet code. It's accurate, and descriptive.
You may be too young to remember, but at one time anybody who said something like "man, modern pop music is pretty degenerate" would be called a member of the Moral Majority. This was an actual thing whose members got agitated if Prince sang about how he liked to bone women. It got turned into an insult because of how crazy the organization was. I can only assume that if you got zapped back to 1984 you would be angry about misusing the Moral Majority label too.