Greetings!
You know, in reading through the article, the clown also discussed how great it would be to have options and accessories for characters that are blind, deaf or disabled. Whatever. It struck me though that Pundit has talked about the whole diabled fetish thing in gaming, and we had at least two threads in the main forum about the growing trend. Then we have it referenced here in this article by some clown complaining about not being supported in these options....it makes me really boggle.
WTF is wrong with these people? I can understand the distinctions between portraying a hero--and being a superhero, ala Superman. I much prefer a "normal" hero, or perhaps a more mythic hero character somewhere *between* normal hero and crazy uber superhero. If you all get what I'm saying.
But the whole, I want to play a disabled character, and the DM, the game world, and everyone else has to kiss my ass and treat me special? WTF is wrong with these people?
Maybe I am showing my grognard, ancient dinosaur roots. *laughing* I just really do not even understand these "gamers" whole motivation for *wanting* fucked up, crippled, weird, socially-ostracized, rebel freak characters. LGBQ, gender-fuck me I'm Fluid, drug-addicted, abused, tattoos everywhere, more piercings than a fucking metalshop, screaming freaks. Why are these people so fucking dysfunctional? They are angry, bitter, full of hatred for everything and everyone around them, while at the same time being utterly soft, emotionally weak, spoiled, entitled and total emotional trainwrecks that are full of self-righteous and smug entitlement.
I remember when we all used to think the "Goths" were dysfunctional and weird. Before that, it was your garden-variety metalheads, stoners, and punks that were a bit rough, stupid, and rebellious, but damn, these new crops of people today have really dialed up the fucking crazy meter to 11, you know? I see this whole ideology and syndrome reaching into *everything* today in a huge way, obviously politics and shit, social fucking media, but also into music, books, film, and even the attitudes and styles and such of gamers in our hobby.
I need to get me some more coffee.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK