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SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« on: October 01, 2020, 06:18:40 AM »
The ttrpg SJWs are now claiming that all fantasy kingdoms are bigoted "ethno-states"

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2020, 08:18:05 AM »
Of course. Theres no down like a doubledown.

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2020, 08:32:17 AM »
Pundit, please stop reading Twitter. While I'm sure that it gives you a lot of laughs, the concentrated stupid of that communications mode just makes everything more dumb. I believe that Twitter does indeed cause brain damage.
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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2020, 08:39:17 AM »
So true.

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2020, 09:01:55 AM »
Translation = a handful of crackpots on Twitter decided to troll people and say something inflammatory.

Stop the presses.

(C'mon, how would you like everyone to stigmatize gamers by the handful of crackpots who claimed that F.A.T.A.L. was a good idea?  +1 to Jeff.)
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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2020, 09:14:20 AM »
Pundit, please stop reading Twitter. While I'm sure that it gives you a lot of laughs, the concentrated stupid of that communications mode just makes everything more dumb. I believe that Twitter does indeed cause brain damage.

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2020, 10:03:01 AM »
The problem is and I see why Pundit keeps bringing this up is that rpg companies and other companies in general listen to those crackpots. It's one thing iif like in the past they were ignored. Not only are they catering to them the companies while losing money doubledown insisting that the sJWs are their core market and telling everyone and anyone who disagrees to politely duck off .

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2020, 10:23:21 AM »
The dildo that is Social Justice, is about a mile long.  And every one of these huge gaming companies is competing to see just how much of it they can stuff up their collective asses.

Their acrobatics will only undermine them as smaller, hungrier, designers create better stuff because they deliver what the gamers want.
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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2020, 11:04:39 AM »
I can see why, as a historian, Pundit has his panties in a wad over this...just pure bullshit being pumped out by retards that some gaming companies might use to shape their products. It's amazing to me that it only takes a few moronic tweets to shape policies.
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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2020, 12:08:31 PM »
Well then, these socjus types shouldn't have any problems making new, properly aligned worlds and kingdoms, right?

Oh wait. There's a whole horde of issues involved, not the least of which is 'they'd have to do REAL work'.

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2020, 01:38:52 PM »
Well then, these socjus types shouldn't have any problems making new, properly aligned worlds and kingdoms, right?

Oh wait. There's a whole horde of issues involved, not the least of which is 'they'd have to do REAL work'.

Far easier to demand that existing worlds be 'trans'formed to suit their preferences - or removed from publication and sale altogether, so the SJW's own garbage is the only product available. For the latter, see: pink slime SF.

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2020, 02:54:59 PM »
This same complaint can be leveled at afrofantasy and asian fantasy, too. We all know why it is not.

All multicultural societies that aren't bigots will eventually homogenize into ethnostates due to assimilation and intermarriage. However much work you put into creating a multicultural society, it will eventually homogenize into an ethnostate unless you write the constituent cultures as racists who frown upon intermixing. That's just how genes and memes work.

I think I know what these SJWs want. They want a generic eurofantasy setting where everybody is black. Somebody should write that.

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2020, 05:27:46 PM »
My take away is that supposedly there is no such thing as historical ethno states, there are just states where everyone is the same ethnicity.
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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2020, 06:59:29 PM »
Translation = a handful of crackpots on Twitter decided to troll people and say something inflammatory.

The "handful" has the ear of WotC and most of the RPG publishers, and as we've seen the RPG "glitterati" of writers and designers are often among the crackpots or eagerly agreeing with them.


It's amazing to me that it only takes a few moronic tweets to shape policies.

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Re: SJWs Declare All Fantasy Settings Bigoted
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2020, 08:54:28 PM »
I think I know what these SJWs want. They want a generic eurofantasy setting where everybody is black. Somebody should write that.

Greg Stolze already did that.
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