Another critical hit on the critics of the game world from Scrivonaut and Norayla on Splash Damage:
An upcoming series of adventures for Dungeons & Dragons is written entirely by black and brown folks, and Polygon just thinks that’s the greatest thing ever. We discuss why it’s racist to care so much about something as superficial as skin color along with Ash Parrish defending the new Halo TV show, Ars Technica’s article in defense of video game cheaters, and accusations of oppression against yet another video game developer.
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fake geek trash
by enemy soldiers, for faggots
I just care whether they know what they are doing. However if you tout the fact there are no white writers I’m going to assume it’s crap since these authors can’t stand on their own merit.
General thoughts:
When I heard about the D&D adventures, my first thought was "So are they writing the adventures with Orcs as protagonists? Because that's what the wokies keep telling us the Orcs are the real-world equivalent of..."
As soon as we learned that the Halo TV show wasn't going to feature Master Chief as the lead, we knew it was going to be a shitshow. As such it is unsurprising that Ash Parrish would be BLACK WOMAN'ing it up over the trash.
Cheaters in games are scum. Full stop. They shouldn't be looked at as a reason to do anything other than find ways to drive them out of the legit play or segregate them to playing with the others of their ilk.
I would love to see a group of black people writing these stories but the main characters are all white. That would really set these fucking racist heads on fire.
I doubt they'd miss a beat. They'd accuse the writer of internalized white supremacy or racism or whatever, and move on.
That's par for the course with woke doublethink. Woman writer that doesn't toe the line with nu-feminism? Internalized misogyny, they must be crushed. Black writer that doesn't go for the "white man bad, we wuz kangz" line? They're an Uncle Tom with internalized racism. Gay dude that doesn't make their characters all about "I'M GAY! I'M GAY! Did I mention I'M GAAAAAAAAAY!"? Internalized homophobia. It's the same pattern, on repeat, for any of their precious protected classes that don't meet their standards of performative wokeness, and par for the course to ostracize and eliminate the outliers that don't fit the narrative.
Not saying it is going to be bad but if you are going to advertise it based on race I can only assume there is nothing of value in it other then melanin level of the writer.
Glad I dropped D&D for the Onyx Path Storyteller system (WoD and most importantly Exalted).
I really was seriously disappointed by 3rd Edition Exalted-- both in terms of the content itself and how long it took to reach fruition. I love the setting, but I have quite thoroughly fallen out of love with the creators.
Wow, I found 3rd far better than 2nd. I even homogenized all 2nd ed WoD systems with Exalted 3rd in a titanic fusion system that amazing works. It's mostly powered by 3rd and then applies the supernatural templates to work with the system allowing mortals, to supernatural templates to exalted to all run off the same 3rd edition back bone. Though I will admit that 3rds content is taking for fucking ever to release which is why I said fuck it and just made my own fusion system.
I'm definitely biased. The delays in production turned me against the team. By the time they released, every single one of my players had moved on to 5E.
The salt is real.