Who is "Double-D"?

Quote from: cavalier973 on May 14, 2024, 03:25:33 PMWho is "Double-D"?

Ah...it's the "Diversity & Dragons" host

Quote from: Omega on May 14, 2024, 06:36:04 AM

Quote from: Votan on May 13, 2024, 08:36:17 PMSo clever sculpting but if they wanted to highlight cool female characters, the Red Box has Aleena, who is both memorable and taught players important lessons about the way that the game was meant to be played. Sure, the character has a typical female presentation, but that isn't necessarily a bug in a game about heroic fantasies. Archetypes are good, right? Right? Or am I too old fashioned?

Some years back there was much bitching by the woke about how she was "Sexualized" and "pornographic" even. Because these idiots have no clue what those words even mean.

Then they are being silly. "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means" seems like the appropriate response.

Here is a post with her picture. It's a human in full armor (no gaps, which was nice) and a belted tabard. Long hair, but so does the male fighter with her. Wasp waisted, I guess, but that is also due to a belted tabard. The chain mail is form fitting, but period mail isn't supposed to sag (it's metal). I guess there is a bit more neck in one of the images than is ideal, but what are we -- Victorians to be scandalized by a bit of ankle?

What an odd line of argument.

Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on May 14, 2024, 02:51:40 PMFunniest goddamn thing I ever saw was dumbass 'art fixer'

People who "fix" art are worthless pieces of shit who should be collectively euthanized for the betterment of humanity.  Fuck these smug, self-important assholes.  I fucking detest these people.

Quote from: yosemitemike on May 20, 2024, 09:16:07 AMPeople who "fix" art are worthless pieces of shit who should be collectively euthanized for the betterment of humanity.  Fuck these smug, self-important assholes.  I fucking detest these people.

Like I said, I love watching it blow up in their face. Its especially egregious in a certain segment of anime Twitter where a specific demographic of normies/LARPers/interlopers love to 'recolor' existing white characters. These midwits did that to the little girl Anya from Spy x Family BEFORE the series aired and then promptly got their teeth kicked in when the episodes dropped and their shitty art was flipped back on them.

Quote from: yosemitemike on May 20, 2024, 09:16:07 AMPeople who "fix" art are worthless pieces of shit who should be collectively euthanized for the betterment of humanity.  Fuck these smug, self-important assholes.  I fucking detest these people.

They arent fixing anything. They are defacing it for their agenda. But of course the woke always twist words out of any meaning.

Police: "You shot him in the head?"
Woke: "I fixed him."

The 90s wave of this stupid did the same thing. A few old cartoons with black characters were either never shown again, edited out, or in a few cases replaced with a white person because apparently some (likely white) person bitched about it.

And here I thought making White characters Black was digital Blackface.

Quote from: Anon Adderlan on May 23, 2024, 06:52:27 PMAnd here I thought making White characters Black was digital Blackface.

Only till it is convenient to the woke for it to not be. I mean Disney have been doing this with Marvel as just one example. We are likely going to see worse over time.

Quote from: Anon Adderlan on May 23, 2024, 06:52:27 PMAnd here I thought making White characters Black was digital Blackface.

Its Schrödinger's Blackface: its usage depends on who is applying said colorization. And, at least from what little can be gathered, its people of a darker melanin persuasion than what is classified as 'white'. All things being equal, given its the Internet, the retards in question could just as easy be as pasty as my fat ugly ass.....but I wouldn't bet on it.

Not that it would matter, as these types love to gaslight everyone else into thinking they've never done so and/or its no big deal cause 'representation' or something. Amazing how they love to bitch and moan that anime (which is a medium NOT primarily aimed at non-Japanese audiences) lacks 'diversity'. Beyond the straight up xenophobia a lot of them exhibit towards east Asians, they hold the Japanese as being 'token Whites', since it gives them free reign to hate on them because they're 'really not racists or anything'.

Quote from: Votan on May 13, 2024, 08:36:17 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on May 09, 2024, 07:01:56 PMWotC (and Wizkids) are full of people for whom the word "truth" means something totally different from what that word means to normal people.
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I think the red box fighter thing was just trolling for attention. Tenkar's video on it led me to notice (after decades!) that it is the same fighter on the cover of all of the BECMI editions. There is also an action figure.

So clever sculpting but if they wanted to highlight cool female characters, the Red Box has Aleena, who is both memorable and taught players important lessons about the way that the game was meant to be played. Sure, the character has a typical female presentation, but that isn't necessarily a bug in a game about heroic fantasies. Archetypes are good, right? Right? Or am I too old fashioned?

Several years ago Aleena was condemned by the woke for being a 'sexualized' character. A tough female cleric fully dressed from neck to toe and covered by a tabard.

Quote from: RPGPundit on May 26, 2024, 03:54:40 AMSeveral years ago Aleena was condemned by the woke for being a 'sexualized' character. A tough female cleric fully dressed from neck to toe and covered by a tabard.

Being 'Woke' is a hell of a drug. It's also straight up Maoist philosophical bullshit. And anyone who thinks Aleena was sexualized is drooling imbecile that should probably be medicated and thrown into a padded cell for society's benefit.

Quote from: RPGPundit on May 26, 2024, 03:54:40 AMSeveral years ago Aleena was condemned by the woke for being a 'sexualized' character. A tough female cleric fully dressed from neck to toe and covered by a tabard.

Activism over all. Transgender are latest stick used by an activist-run company to promote their agenda over their own products at our collective expense, and especially at the expense of women.

Quote from: tenbones on May 26, 2024, 12:42:08 PMActivism over all. Transgender are latest stick used by an activist-run company to promote their agenda over their own products at our collective expense, and especially at the expense of women.

I'm sure WotC will say Aleena is a MtF trans with a 12-inch horse cock and that 'she was always trans!'

Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on May 26, 2024, 02:21:34 PM

Quote from: tenbones on May 26, 2024, 12:42:08 PMActivism over all. Transgender are latest stick used by an activist-run company to promote their agenda over their own products at our collective expense, and especially at the expense of women.

I'm sure WotC will say Aleena is a MtF trans with a 12-inch horse cock and that 'she was always trans!'

I suppose that would be the logical next step. If iconic male characters of D&D art are now being declared as "always having been canonically women", it would make sense for beloved female characters of D&D art were now declared as having "always been trans". Or "BIPOC". Or both.