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 of effort for some races to systematically create racist analogies in the game, it makes sense that they would address that. It has nothing to do with your boogyman the "SJWs", and everything to do with a company catering to children and young adults wanting to make sure that they don't look bad.
Your whining about "SJWs" tells us a lot about you. Namely that since racism isn't a problem for you, you don't think that anyone else has to deal with it either. Sorry that your world is so small. If you haven't figured out by now that racism is a real thing that really effects people, I don't know what to say. You're trying very hard not to understand.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:46AM (#60225330)
This isn't racism. I know you really, really, really want it to be racism, but it's not. You're stretching really hard to make it taht.
WOTC changing this does nothing to people who want to keep using it for "racist analogies", whatever the fuck that means. Sounds like you're trying to police how people play the game. Fuck off.
Yes, SJWs are a problem. It's a fucking cult. And trying to equate this to actual racism is really disgusting and shameful. I can't tell if you're a weird extremist or just some troll; functionally, there's really no difference.
FYI racism has occasionally been a problem for me (or so I thought at the time; it's now hard to be sure), but I still try to confront virtue signalling claptrap when I see it happening. Antiracism and SJW are not the same thing, just as antiracism and Antifa are not the same thing.
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 of effort for some races to systematically create racist analogies in the game, it makes sense that they would address that. It has nothing to do with your boogyman the "SJWs", and everything to do with a company catering to children and young adults wanting to make sure that they don't look bad.
Your whining about "SJWs" tells us a lot about you. Namely that since racism isn't a problem for you, you don't think that anyone else has to deal with it either. Sorry that your world is so small. If you haven't figured out by now that racism is a real thing that really effects people, I don't know what to say. You're trying very hard not to understand.
It's not a good look.
Re:Ideology/Politics infesting passtimes (Score:4, Insightful)
This isn't racism. I know you really, really, really want it to be racism, but it's not. You're stretching really hard to make it taht.
WOTC changing this does nothing to people who want to keep using it for "racist analogies", whatever the fuck that means. Sounds like you're trying to police how people play the game. Fuck off.
Yes, SJWs are a problem. It's a fucking cult. And trying to equate this to actual racism is really disgusting and shameful. I can't tell if you're a weird extremist or just some troll; functionally, there's really no difference.
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FYI racism has occasionally been a problem for me (or so I thought at the time; it's now hard to be sure), but I still try to confront virtue signalling claptrap when I see it happening. Antiracism and SJW are not the same thing, just as antiracism and Antifa are not the same thing.
Re:Ideology/Politics infesting passtimes (Score:4, Insightful)
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.