Quote from: Domina on April 23, 2024, 06:00:20 PMIn what way does it harm the hobby?
Why is storygaming bad?
Quote from: Neoplatonist1 on Today at 12:41:52 AMQuote from: SHARK on April 23, 2024, 06:03:38 AMGreetings!
Well, my friend, I personally oppose the Woke based on two things--(1) My Christian faith; and (2) Traditional American Values.
The Woke are Marxist, evil, and traitors to our nation, our Republic, and our people.
And yes, as long as Americans are divided, distracted, and brainwashed with weakness, then the Woke Marxists will win. Americans need to unite, and become hard and fierce. Americans need to harden themselves in doing what needs to be done to heal our land, our nation, and our people.
"Voting harder" will not cleanse our great land, and make us strong. The hard times are coming, and America will need hard men to restore our nation if we are to have any kind of future. Otherwise, we will be choked in diverse rainbow jello and enslaved to a Marxist elite tyrant mommy-state.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
SHARK,
How do you square your Christian faith with the commandments, "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good", and "But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
How can we defend the West from evil, without violating these commandments? This paradox vexes me. What are your thoughts on it?
Neoplatonist1
Quote from: SHARK on April 23, 2024, 06:03:38 AMGreetings!
Well, my friend, I personally oppose the Woke based on two things--(1) My Christian faith; and (2) Traditional American Values.
The Woke are Marxist, evil, and traitors to our nation, our Republic, and our people.
And yes, as long as Americans are divided, distracted, and brainwashed with weakness, then the Woke Marxists will win. Americans need to unite, and become hard and fierce. Americans need to harden themselves in doing what needs to be done to heal our land, our nation, and our people.
"Voting harder" will not cleanse our great land, and make us strong. The hard times are coming, and America will need hard men to restore our nation if we are to have any kind of future. Otherwise, we will be choked in diverse rainbow jello and enslaved to a Marxist elite tyrant mommy-state.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Quote from: Eric Diaz on April 23, 2024, 09:10:50 AMGURPS kinda recognized this by publishing the "lull" supplement I mentioned but unfortunately can't find.
Quote from: Anon Adderlan on April 22, 2024, 10:37:59 PMSo I've read the latest beta watched a session, and I have thoughts.
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Quote from: Eirikrautha on April 23, 2024, 03:53:14 PMEhhh, no, that recognition predates Studio C by a long time. Joseph Campbell was talking about monomyth in the seventies. It is, in fact, one reason why modern games and media mostly suck. Because politics comes and goes, but the human condition never changes. And the "progressives" want to assert that there is no human condition, nor is there anything within us other than the product of culture and politics. And that is why they fail...
QuoteThe world of man — state, society — as Marx had it is the social structure that he creates for himself and that he, indeed, imprisons himself within. Man creates society and embodies that creation in the State, and the society, shaped by the State, in turn creates Man. Marx called the creation of society "praxis" and the creation of Man by society "the inversion of praxis." Praxis is theory-informed activism, so activism or "the work" done in light of Marxist Theory. It is the transforming activity done by Man on the world of man. The inversion of praxis is social conditioning. The society that Man has created for himself socially conditions him almost completely deterministically. Man is limited and thus psychically incarcerated by the limitations of his social conditioning through the inversion of praxis.
Quote from: jeff37923 on April 23, 2024, 02:28:24 PMQuote from: Neoplatonist1 on April 23, 2024, 12:18:39 AMQuote from: jeff37923 on April 22, 2024, 11:46:37 PMQuote from: Neoplatonist1 on April 22, 2024, 03:17:00 PMIt occurred to me that the main thing holding back the Wokification of all media products is what we might call anthropological realism...
Before I touch this subject, I'd like you to define "anthropological realism" because I have not been able to find a definition online.
As ForgottenF put it above, (1) writing fantasy as if it were history, to which I'd add (2) employing races, sexes, cultures, and religions logically as derived from the inspiring mythos or cultures from which the given fantasy comes.
It doesn't make sense to have Africans in Rohan, for example. In fact it defeats the whole purpose. LotR is a European fantasy, the Rohan are an Anglo-Saxon horse culture; the other races of man are geographically and culturally peripheral.
OK, but doesn't that go back to before Tolkien? In Beowulf there was Grendel, and even Grendel had a mother. In it's most basic form, that is "anthropological realism" in that it is a copy of western family structure.