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Decolonization in RPGs!

Started by Alderaan Crumbs, January 23, 2020, 03:01:08 PM

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SavageSchemer

#45
January 26, 2020, 09:09:22 AM
My theory of the entirety of the "woke" movement(s) can be neatly summed up as:

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The more clichéd my group plays their characters, the better. I don't want Deep Drama™ and Real Acting™ in the precious few hours away from my family and job. I want cheap thrills, constant action, involved-but-not-super-complex plots, and cheesy but lovable characters.
From "Play worlds, not rules"

Opaopajr

#46
January 26, 2020, 09:30:26 AM
I... guess this can be useful? I don't see the clamoring for such tools (outside of the fictive universe known as Twitter). I mean, yeah, I could see the appeal if I wanted to explore alt histories (e.g. Wild West or French Algeria) or some fictional setting histories (e.g. Maztica or Blue Planet). But its biggest problem is it's attached to FATE which really limits its appeal. :o :p
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

Mordred Pendragon

#47
January 26, 2020, 10:54:05 AM Last Edit: January 26, 2020, 12:51:20 PM by Doc Sammy
1. FATE sucks

2. If that's what "decolonizing" the hobby looks like, then I say we should recolonize the RPG hobby instead. I'll take "colonized" RPG's that are actually fun instead of preachy, pretentious, and boring.

Manifest Destiny!

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For Glory, God, and Gold! And the hobby of RPG's!
Sic Semper Tyrannis

Luca

#48
January 26, 2020, 02:36:58 PM
Quote from: GameDaddy;1119951Mrrr? Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Moscow, St. Peterburg, Macao, Chad, Sudan, Italy, Turkey. Something like that. I would love to see them trying out their social justice in true socialist, or communist societies, where the free speech we have here in the West, is absolutely not tolerated. That would be entertaining to observe them in such a place for an extended amount of time.

If you seriously believe Italy is communist, you've no fucking clue what you're speaking about.

GameDaddy

#49
January 26, 2020, 04:22:23 PM
Quote from: Luca;1120036If you seriously believe Italy is communist, you've no fucking clue what you're speaking about.

Oh forgive me. I meant the "Democratic" Party or whatever the fuck they are calling themselves these days... Centre Left Coalition.. Five Star Movement, ...whatever.
Blackmoor grew from a single Castle to include, first, several adjacent Castles (with the forces of Evil lying just off the edge of the world to an entire Northern Province of the Castle and Crusade Society's Great Kingdom.

~ Dave Arneson

Luca

#50
January 26, 2020, 04:43:19 PM
Quote from: GameDaddy;1120042Oh forgive me. I meant the "Democratic" Party or whatever the fuck they are calling themselves these days... Centre Left Coalition.. Five Star Movement, ...whatever.

Yep, you know nothing about Italy's politics.
If there's even a single communist in either of those two parties, I'm an alien from the Magellanic Cloud.

Shasarak

#51
January 26, 2020, 04:45:30 PM
Quote from: luca;1120046i'm an alien from the magellanic cloud.

i knew it!
Who da Drow?  U da drow! - hedgehobbit

There will be poor always,
pathetically struggling,
look at the good things you've got! -  Jesus

Xuc Xac

#52
January 26, 2020, 06:46:39 PM
Quote from: SHARK;1119881Try going to India, China, or Mexico, and scream about how important YOU are, and how everyone else needs to gulp and duck their fucking heads and watch what they say, and worry about what offends you?

I don't think these "culturally sensitive" activists would enjoy the response they would get in those countries if they went there, and demanded everyone change their attitudes and how they do everything. I don't think they would like the response at all.

That literally happened already. A bunch of white people showed up and demanded that the locals cater to their whims. That's the reason India and Hong Kong speak English and Mexico speaks Spanish.

Shrieking Banshee

#53
January 26, 2020, 07:36:02 PM
Quote from: Xuc Xac;1120060That literally happened already. A bunch of white people showed up and demanded that the locals cater to their whims. That's the reason India and Hong Kong speak English and Mexico speaks Spanish.

SJW-ism does indeed have MUCH more in common with colonialism then they wish to admit.

I knew a guy that decried colonialism on one hand (for enforcing viewpoints on others) but made an instant pivot about the current (SJW) culture is the best because it promotes the best values and how its good to always push it onto others.

I am of the opinion that SJW-ism is gonna get much hotter then what people think. The stakes are too large and the plans too far reaching to just die off. SJW brainwashing is some of the most advanced I have ever seen or heard about. Thats not gonna wash off with some flopped films and low sales.

Melan

#54
January 27, 2020, 04:59:31 AM
Quote from: Brad;1119826Does anyone else find it ironic that people making and playing games in rich, industrialized nations are complaining about "systemic oppression"? I wonder if Evil Hat will send all the kids starving in Africa a copy of this so they can play FATE instead of scrounging for food.
The irony is not lost on gamers from countries the average USian would consider underdeveloped. Those I know (gamers from Russia and a few from less developed post-communist countries) tend to find these attitudes the fantasies of hypocritical, pampered tossers. Proverbial "first world problems", either laughable (compared to real social issues) or contemptible (privileged whining).

But there is really nothing unique about these views. Most people in the West have fairly similar opinions about moralist busybodies. Most people don't like being policed and being judged for trivial shit. They are just concealing their views better because there are real social costs to being mobbed, or attacked by the corporate structures which have been successfully infiltrated (typically HR departments) or entirely taken over (most universities, the press, big tech) by SJWs. Find a working-class community where these rules don't apply, and you will suddenly get something a lot less filtered.

The only sad thing about gaming is, this hobby collectively used to know better due to the 1980s moral panic, and then drank the Kool Aid without a peep just because it was a flavour they liked better. Those who don't learn from history...
Now with a Zine!
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Melan

#55
January 27, 2020, 05:00:21 AM
Quote from: GameDaddy;1120042Oh forgive me. I meant the "Democratic" Party or whatever the fuck they are calling themselves these days... Centre Left Coalition.. Five Star Movement, ...whatever.
Shut up about Italy, you ignorant doofus. Or, for that matter, Russia.
Now with a Zine!
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GameDaddy

#57
January 27, 2020, 10:57:50 AM
Quote from: Melan;1120082Shut up about Italy, you ignorant doofus. Or, for that matter, Russia.

Heh, yeah. Exactly what criminals and communists want from the masses. Shadup, or we'll make you shut-up.

Fuck You.
Blackmoor grew from a single Castle to include, first, several adjacent Castles (with the forces of Evil lying just off the edge of the world to an entire Northern Province of the Castle and Crusade Society's Great Kingdom.

~ Dave Arneson

DarcyDettmann

#58
January 27, 2020, 02:49:54 PM Last Edit: January 27, 2020, 02:56:24 PM by DarcyDettmann
So, i got the Fate of Cthulhu's pdfs. and i cringed so hard reading it.

H.P. Lovecraft was a racist and anti-Semite!

But, married a Russian Jew, and had friends who are Jew. And if i remember right, he was basically a Proto-weeboo. Btw, anyone have read any one the stories suggested, who "fixed" Lovecraft racism? I'm just curious if they're any good or one got an "Golden Star" for "Diversity Points".

DarcyDettmann

#59
January 27, 2020, 02:57:23 PM
So, i got the Fate of Cthulhu's pdfs. and i cringed so hard reading it.

H.P. Lovecraft was a racist and anti-Semite!

But, married a Russian Jew, and had friends who are Jew. And if i remember right, he was basically a Proto-weeboo. Btw, anyone have read any one the stories suggested, who "fixed" Lovecraft racism? I'm just curious if they're any good or one got an "Golden Star" for "Diversity Points".
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