Quote from: GeekyBugle on February 14, 2023, 11:23:26 PM
WotC fires the diversity.

They are CLOSING their LATAM offices, everybody got the boot.

Seeing the people leading it nothing of value was lost.

https://twitter.com/carolgsmoraes/status/1625287763007250432/photo/1

Kyle Brink was secretly Latino the whole time lol.

Quote from: Slambo on February 15, 2023, 07:16:16 AM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on February 14, 2023, 11:23:26 PM
WotC fires the diversity.

They are CLOSING their LATAM offices, everybody got the boot.

Seeing the people leading it nothing of value was lost.

https://twitter.com/carolgsmoraes/status/1625287763007250432/photo/1

Kyle Brink was secretly Latino the whole time lol.

I found footage of a news conference where he came out as a Latinx woman.

My favorite part about the three halflings interview was how Brink was not comfortable in the interview the entire time.  The only reason he put out the "I can't wait for whitey to die off" line, was he's a racist piece of filth so he wanted to give "blackie" what he thinks they want to hear.  Perhaps, now just hear me out, the three halflings aren't race grifters and they just want a good game.  I don't know that site at all, just putting it out there, perhaps they care about a good product over magic blood, just saying.

Mind you, when I hear a white leftist talk, based on their ideology, racist comes to mind.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on February 15, 2023, 09:34:24 AM
My favorite part about the three halflings interview was how Brink was not comfortable in the interview the entire time.  The only reason he put out the "I can't wait for whitey to die off" line, was he's a racist piece of filth so he wanted to give "blackie" what he thinks they want to hear.  Perhaps, now just hear me out, the three halflings aren't race grifters and they just want a good game.  I don't know that site at all, just putting it out there, perhaps they care about a good product over magic blood, just saying.

Mind you, when I hear a white leftist talk, based on their ideology, racist comes to mind.

At least from what Ive heard, they're politically-Black.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on February 15, 2023, 09:34:24 AM
My favorite part about the three halflings interview was how Brink was not comfortable in the interview the entire time.  The only reason he put out the "I can't wait for whitey to die off" line, was he's a racist piece of filth so he wanted to give "blackie" what he thinks they want to hear.  Perhaps, now just hear me out, the three halflings aren't race grifters and they just want a good game.  I don't know that site at all, just putting it out there, perhaps they care about a good product over magic blood, just saying.

Mind you, when I hear a white leftist talk, based on their ideology, racist comes to mind.

I certainly grant you that the Three Halflings interviewers asked serious, tough questions, which is more than you can say for the other interviews with Brink I've bothered to look at.

Also, if you watch the moment he says the "white people can't leave soon enough line" and look at the interviewer's faces, you know they both think he's an absolute moron.

Quote from: RPGPundit on February 15, 2023, 09:49:59 AM

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on February 15, 2023, 09:34:24 AM
My favorite part about the three halflings interview was how Brink was not comfortable in the interview the entire time.  The only reason he put out the "I can't wait for whitey to die off" line, was he's a racist piece of filth so he wanted to give "blackie" what he thinks they want to hear.  Perhaps, now just hear me out, the three halflings aren't race grifters and they just want a good game.  I don't know that site at all, just putting it out there, perhaps they care about a good product over magic blood, just saying.

Mind you, when I hear a white leftist talk, based on their ideology, racist comes to mind.

I certainly grant you that the Three Halflings interviewers asked serious, tough questions, which is more than you can say for the other interviews with Brink I've bothered to look at.

Also, if you watch the moment he says the "white people can't leave soon enough line" and look at the interviewer's faces, you know they both think he's an absolute moron.

Ok, I guess I'll have to give those guys more props, they seemed based from the questions.

Quote from: RPGPundit on February 15, 2023, 09:49:59 AMI certainly grant you that the Three Halflings interviewers asked serious, tough questions, which is more than you can say for the other interviews with Brink I've bothered to look at.

Also, if you watch the moment he says the "white people can't leave soon enough line" and look at the interviewer's faces, you know they both think he's an absolute moron.

100%. When I saw that interview (and I actually watched most of it), Brink is comes off as one of those white-lefties that apparently doesn't hang around actual non-white people with any regularity. The groveling he expresses is only worsened by his angle of discourse. You can see it on the Hobbit's faces clearly as the words come out of his mouth.

I was actually cackling. My wife wasn't even paying attention, and she looked up from her book and said "Did he just say what I thought he said?"... hahahahah. Man I laugh more at this stuff than I do with most modern garbage on TV (which these days I don't regularly consume). Watching WotC self-immolate is pretty entertaining.

Quote from: honeydipperdavid on February 15, 2023, 09:34:24 AM
My favorite part about the three halflings interview was how Brink was not comfortable in the interview the entire time.  The only reason he put out the "I can't wait for whitey to die off" line, was he's a racist piece of filth so he wanted to give "blackie" what he thinks they want to hear.

Spot on. He might as well just have blurted out "Some of my best friends are negro!"

Racists gonna racist.

Well I think you all should oblige him. All the white-people should leave D&D.

I want to watch what happens.

Quote from: tenbones on February 15, 2023, 10:35:45 AM
Well I think you all should oblige him. All the white-people should leave D&D.

I want to watch what happens.

You're not woke, ergo, don't count as non-white. Sorry, that's just how it works.

There are study after study where white left talking to blacks talk down to them.  What I want to see is a study when a white leftie is talking to perceived poor whites.  Anecdotally, I have a rich leftard that married into my family and whenever I listen to them talk its nothing but patronizing down to the poor white folk (trans one of the kids, prevented them from doing chores get a job at 16 to learn work ethic, didn't teach them to grow food or can and didn't teach them how to shoot - if the world goes to hell their kids are dead in 3 days).  You know, us poor whites who run million dollar businesses, IT workers who live rural - you know dirt poor.  I mean they must be retards because they grow their own food, can their own food, own firearms and have no issues defending themselves.  I mean they can't even afford a home in Connecticut for peats sake, damn poors.  I wonder what a white leftie would behave around whites who are not middle class?  I'd love to see that study.  /social class based rant.

I'd be surprised if the execs at WotC would even recognize their customers as humans if they aren't worth at least $500K+.

Quote from: Brad on February 15, 2023, 11:02:15 AM

Quote from: tenbones on February 15, 2023, 10:35:45 AM
Well I think you all should oblige him. All the white-people should leave D&D.

I want to watch what happens.

You're not woke, ergo, don't count as non-white. Sorry, that's just how it works.

Well I am Half-Asian (but I look totally Asian)! So I'm covertly white to the woke. My Race Card, tattered as it is, conveniently can get kicked into and out of all the parties!

Quote from: GeekyBugle on February 09, 2023, 02:16:06 AM

Quote from: Mistwell on February 08, 2023, 11:34:15 PM
He didn't say leave "the hobby" he was talking about WOTC higher up design positions.

But as usual we get "6 positions" turned into "EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! BURN IT ALL DOWN THEY HATE US ALL!!!!!!!!"

Yeah guys, he was "ONLY" talking about discriminating against white men in Wotzi hiring because they're white men, where's the racism/sexism in that?

In case you didn't get it that's sarcasm, not only he WAS talking about the player base, but your defense of the racist and sexist fuck doesn't make things any better.

You can call it a pony if you want I was making the point that this had nothing to do with saying ANYTHING about consumers of WOTC products and it just has to do with a very small department of guys working at WOTC.

Quote from: Mistwell on February 15, 2023, 04:56:23 PM
You can call it a pony if you want I was making the point that this had nothing to do with saying ANYTHING about consumers of WOTC products and it just has to do with a very small department of guys working at WOTC.

I've noticed this sort of posting style on this and other forums I frequent...someone comes to an obvious conclusion about what was said, on video, and a shill will appear and say something of the effect of, "That's not what they meant! Don't believe your eyes/ears!" Interesting.

Quote from: Mistwell on February 15, 2023, 04:56:23 PM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on February 09, 2023, 02:16:06 AM
In case you didn't get it that's sarcasm, not only he WAS talking about the player base, but your defense of the racist and sexist fuck doesn't make things any better.

You can call it a pony if you want I was making the point that this had nothing to do with saying ANYTHING about consumers of WOTC products and it just has to do with a very small department of guys working at WOTC.

I posted the transcript in the other thread. Here it is again:

QuoteJeremy Cobb: Can you identify any higher ranking positions that have been filled by people of racially diverse backgrounds?

Kyle Brink: I think if you look at the credits of our books, you'll see some lead designers there who are not cis men. You will also see a lot of primary authors on sources.

These are people who are coming up through the ranks and proving themselves and earning their respect not because of who they are but because of how they are as professionals - which is the best kind of respect. You don't want to be respected because you're the diversity hire. You want to be respected because you're awesome at your job. And that's happening more and more.

(#1) Guys like me, we're leaving the workforce, to be blunt. We're not the face of the hobby anymore. I'm not the majority of this hobby anymore.

(#2) And so it's important to me that my team of creators look like my players, and have the lived experience that my players do.

(#3) And I think there's been mistakes made in years past where people assumed that D&D players were all, y'know, white dudes in a basement. Which has been a faulty assumption for a lot of years and gets more and more false every day and so in my viewpoint, honestly, guys like me can't leave soon enough for this hobby.

And we owe you good games; we owe you good products. And so we need to make sure that everybody working on it is real good at it. And that means not just hiring but also developing. When we bring people in who are good, we need to empower them - give them more room to run. Give them guidance on what we learned when we were creating stuff so that they can create great stuff too.

I always hire people smarter than me, so that I can get out of their way. That's my approach. So as long as we stay on this trajectory, the face of D&D will literally change.

I added in bold markers for sections #1, #2, and #3.

In #1, he's admitting that the D&D management is 100% white male, but he is claiming that the current player base is less than majority white male (meaning under 50%).

In #2, he's saying that his target is for the management to look like the current player base. I presume this means having similar race/gender demographics, which would mean less than 50% white male.

In #3, he says that "guys like him" can't leave soon enough.

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I read it as him talking about the D&D management - reiterating his previous points. That was the question asked of him, and what he had been talking about. But one can make of it what one wills.

I don't believe him, but I think he was trying to explain why D&D management is 100% white male - and why he claims that is going to change.