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Author Topic: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing  (Read 5667 times)

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #30 on: June 30, 2022, 02:43:58 PM »
These insufferable twats. Hasbro is a toy company. Of course they won't be outraged about RvW; why on Earth would they want their target demographic being murdered?  ;D ;D ;D

Disney's target demographic is children and it didn't stop them from throwing their lot with the woke.
I'm not so sure that's their target demographic any more.

I was thinking about this a bit last night. Was watching a video of one of the nicer, more modern designs for Transformers toys, and suddenly thought of something: who's buying this?

Kids? Don't be absurd, they're fuckin' expensive. Plus some of these toys are hard as hell for little fingers to work.

No, my money is on, let's be honest, immature adults. Manchildren.

So I wonder if Disney is really after the 'kid' demographic these days, or if they're courting the immature adult and creeper demographics instead.

I worked for Hasbro when My Little Pony was actually fun (adapting the dialogues meant finding all the hidden quotes that no kid could possibly know; I still remember one from "Midnight Cowboy"). It was no secret that the demographic included adults up to 35 years old.

After my job was finished I stumbled into the Hugo Award nominated documentary by Jenny Nicholson about the whole "Bronies" phenomenon. Let's say that I was glad to see it when I already had moved on.
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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2022, 04:52:01 PM »
These insufferable twats. Hasbro is a toy company. Of course they won't be outraged about RvW; why on Earth would they want their target demographic being murdered?  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2022, 05:56:48 PM »
These insufferable twats. Hasbro is a toy company. Of course they won't be outraged about RvW; why on Earth would they want their target demographic being murdered?  ;D ;D ;D

Disney's target demographic is children and it didn't stop them from throwing their lot with the woke.
I'm not so sure that's their target demographic any more.

I was thinking about this a bit last night. Was watching a video of one of the nicer, more modern designs for Transformers toys, and suddenly thought of something: who's buying this?

Kids? Don't be absurd, they're fuckin' expensive. Plus some of these toys are hard as hell for little fingers to work.

No, my money is on, let's be honest, immature adults. Manchildren.

As a 52 year old manchild with a toy collection, including Transformers, yes and no.

Something like The Ark is obviously aimed at adult collectors. And kids with very rich parents. But there's tons of "cheaper" Transformers aimed directly at children, like the Cyberverse Adventures line.

And, I'd like to point out that we're discussing this topic on a message board about a hobby where adults pretend to be elves. :)
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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #33 on: June 30, 2022, 06:02:11 PM »
These insufferable twats. Hasbro is a toy company. Of course they won't be outraged about RvW; why on Earth would they want their target demographic being murdered?  ;D ;D ;D

Disney's target demographic is children and it didn't stop them from throwing their lot with the woke.
I'm not so sure that's their target demographic any more.

I was thinking about this a bit last night. Was watching a video of one of the nicer, more modern designs for Transformers toys, and suddenly thought of something: who's buying this?

Kids? Don't be absurd, they're fuckin' expensive. Plus some of these toys are hard as hell for little fingers to work.

No, my money is on, let's be honest, immature adults. Manchildren.

As a 52 year old manchild with a toy collection, including Transformers, yes and no.

Something like The Ark is obviously aimed at adult collectors. And kids with very rich parents. But there's tons of "cheaper" Transformers aimed directly at children, like the Cyberverse Adventures line.

And, I'd like to point out that we're discussing this topic on a message board about a hobby where adults pretend to be elves. :)

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #34 on: June 30, 2022, 06:28:43 PM »
No, my money is on, let's be honest, immature adults. Manchildren.

Manchildren sounds about right.

Not even DINKs, but incel woke Manchildren with excess income (due to their ASD-incel ways).

Kinda like those D&D nerds who can't get laid and spend all their money on game books?  ;)
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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #35 on: June 30, 2022, 06:46:19 PM »
Bronies?

I remember liking the MLP:Friendship is Magic reboot, and even bought some merch... before I heard about all the Bronies.

And that ended my interest in My Little Pony.

No, my money is on, let's be honest, immature adults. Manchildren.

Manchildren sounds about right.

Not even DINKs, but incel woke Manchildren with excess income (due to their ASD-incel ways).

Kinda like those D&D nerds who can't get laid and spend all their money on game books?  ;)

My biggest household expense is Catholic school tuition for the kids, actually... but I'm also not the target audience for D&D's current incarnation, so there's that.

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #36 on: June 30, 2022, 06:54:09 PM »
Bronies?

I remember liking the MLP:Friendship is Magic reboot, and even bought some merch...

Now I think I'm being trolled...
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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #37 on: June 30, 2022, 08:47:43 PM »
Bronies?

I remember liking the MLP:Friendship is Magic reboot, and even bought some merch...

Now I think I'm being trolled...

LOL, I fully admit that my tastes are sometimes trash.

In the end, my judgment made me get away from the Brony stuff once I knew it was popular amongst pedos and weirdos.

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #38 on: June 30, 2022, 09:32:20 PM »
If anyone has any info on this, and just how many people are thus represented by @wizardsjustice , please let me know, even if in private (your anonymity will be guaranteed).
I would bet it's shit stirrer Jessica Price's account. 

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #39 on: June 30, 2022, 10:09:25 PM »
To be fair, I don't play Magic or D&D... because I don't give money to people who hate me.

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #40 on: July 01, 2022, 02:27:00 PM »
What I'm really curious about is their one-day walkout strike. Did it end up happening? Who participated?

If anyone has any info on this, and just how many people are thus represented by @wizardsjustice , please let me know, even if in private (your anonymity will be guaranteed).

Glancing at a few online comments its going to be about what you'd predict. Not many. And those that did were going to be probably circumspect about it. I was actually rather surprised WOTC has so few employees. A mere 1000??? Though I'd bet most are in the CCG side of it.

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #41 on: July 01, 2022, 06:16:00 PM »
These insufferable twats. Hasbro is a toy company. Of course they won't be outraged about RvW; why on Earth would they want their target demographic being murdered?  ;D ;D ;D

Disney's target demographic is children and it didn't stop them from throwing their lot with the woke.
I'm not so sure that's their target demographic any more.

I was thinking about this a bit last night. Was watching a video of one of the nicer, more modern designs for Transformers toys, and suddenly thought of something: who's buying this?

Kids? Don't be absurd, they're fuckin' expensive. Plus some of these toys are hard as hell for little fingers to work.

No, my money is on, let's be honest, immature adults. Manchildren.

As a 52 year old manchild with a toy collection, including Transformers, yes and no.

Something like The Ark is obviously aimed at adult collectors. And kids with very rich parents. But there's tons of "cheaper" Transformers aimed directly at children, like the Cyberverse Adventures line.

And, I'd like to point out that we're discussing this topic on a message board about a hobby where adults pretend to be elves. :)
Heh. Well played. But my point still stands.

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #42 on: July 01, 2022, 07:19:37 PM »
To be fair, I don't play Magic or D&D... because I don't give money to people who hate me.

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #43 on: July 02, 2022, 10:34:30 AM »
That dictum is made even more surreal by what directly follows it:

Such messaging only seeks to protect and validate those that seek to control, and is the wrong direction for any organisation with as diverse a customer base as ours.

Somehow "diverse" doesn't include "people with anti-abortion views". According to WotC, if you are anti-abortion you for sure don't play Magic or D&D because... reasons. The level of blind stupidity is astounding.


   If the EN World thread on the topic is any indication, they really do think that not only is their view right (as anyone does), but that no one can have a different view without being actively malign or something similar.

My God, the groupthink hivemind over at ENworld is so fucking ridiculous!  For any of those people who come over here to see what real forum freedom actually looks like... ABORTION IS MURDER!!!

Of course, everyone is free to disagree with me, but at least I have the right to speak my mind.

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Re: Wokist Wizards Employees Revolt Against Hasbro For Saying Nothing
« Reply #44 on: July 02, 2022, 12:06:52 PM »
People with different beliefs are not actively malign. I imagine most people on both sides of the aisle are just NPCs who buy the party line and don’t think critically about the consequences for policies that are genuinely idiotic and harmful. That’s just how human psychology works.