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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Standard Disclaimer: I'm not Scrivonaut and I'm not associated with the show, I'm just reposting this from Reddit.
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.