I just love how on social media, apparently whenever anyone tries to push this as a good thing, people keep getting replies reminding everyone Wotc sicced the pinkertons on a YouTuber..
Since they got bought by Hasbro. I dunno when that actually is. There have been gameplay and aesthetic changes people didn't like, but the main rub now is profiteering at the expense of the brand. Which is 5b dollar company shit.
All companies are hostile to their fans, since the early 2010s. That's what all the consultants tell the CEOs at all their conferences and seminars "Your fans are toxic pieces of shit, here's how you can get new ones." Mysteriously it never works, yet they keep doing it.
They seem to be placing all of their bets on the white population of every country being replaced by blacks (and hispanics in the US), and they perhaps rightfully believe that starting to raceswap everything will garner them praise as they try to build a "fanbase" of blacks and hispanics who will become loyal consumers in the future....
You step back and take a look with even a tiny little objectivity and it's bizarre as hell. Trannies are like .001% of the population, yet Target was willing to torch their entire brand to entice that demographic? Are they insane? (yes). It's why lolbertarians are so stupid. No, these companies are not motivated by profits, they think because of the magic of free handouts and financialization, they are immune from market forces. They're driven by race hatred, pure and simple.
Yes exactly. Like there are these all-female groups of D&D players chomping at the bit to play a pretty pretty pink princess RPG. On fucking Mars. Lol.
Since the 90s, but they were more subtle then. They were infected with the first big push of what we called "PC" back then and never completely shook the stink.
I'll give you an example. One guy on the WotC discussion boards pointed out something about an update to the Forgotten Realms setting: with the death of the King of Cormyr, all the "good" rulers and most of the powerful NPC's were female (there were a few men like Elminster, but they were rare and more often than not more morally gray than the women) and all the villains were male. Most of the people on the board didn't realize it, but - something that wouldn't happen in this day - they had a rational discussion about it. That took place before 2000.
'Swarthy' I believe was Tolkien's preferred term. With the possible exception of the Slavic-sounding Variags of Khand, the Easterlings were intended to be Middle-earth's equivalent to the Asiatic nomad hordes which periodically invaded Europe - Huns, Avars, Turks, Mongols, etc. - so 'swarthy' would seem about right for all but the northernmost of their kind. Compare, for example, modern Turkmens (not Southeast Asian dark or Abo black, but not exactly as snow-pale as the Chinese/Japanese/Korean ideal of beauty either) to fanart of Easterlings from the books.
It's the Far Haradrim who Tolkien intended to be the LOTR equivalent to truly black, sub-Saharan Africans. (The Near Haradrim, the sort who were more heavily represented in Sauron's armies and who fielded those Oliphaunts at the Pelennor Fields, weren't generally described as black but also 'swarthy' and approximated to the Arabs - Middle Easterners and North Africans, of course, are as a rule not 'black' either.)
I just love how on social media, apparently whenever anyone tries to push this as a good thing, people keep getting replies reminding everyone Wotc sicced the pinkertons on a YouTuber..
"'Look over here! Not at the guy who we sicced the Pinkertons on last month!'' -WOTC
How long has WOTC been antagonistic towards their fans?
Since they got bought by Hasbro. I dunno when that actually is. There have been gameplay and aesthetic changes people didn't like, but the main rub now is profiteering at the expense of the brand. Which is 5b dollar company shit.
Someone said since Revised, so I don't feel that bad.
You got the point though, and I agree. Hasbro is the problem, but it wasn't that bad for a long time.
I would say at least since Revised, but I might be unusually angry.
1994 was a long time ago, so your anger is justified as you are just matching their long standing demeanor.
All companies are hostile to their fans, since the early 2010s. That's what all the consultants tell the CEOs at all their conferences and seminars "Your fans are toxic pieces of shit, here's how you can get new ones." Mysteriously it never works, yet they keep doing it.
They seem to be placing all of their bets on the white population of every country being replaced by blacks (and hispanics in the US), and they perhaps rightfully believe that starting to raceswap everything will garner them praise as they try to build a "fanbase" of blacks and hispanics who will become loyal consumers in the future....
You step back and take a look with even a tiny little objectivity and it's bizarre as hell. Trannies are like .001% of the population, yet Target was willing to torch their entire brand to entice that demographic? Are they insane? (yes). It's why lolbertarians are so stupid. No, these companies are not motivated by profits, they think because of the magic of free handouts and financialization, they are immune from market forces. They're driven by race hatred, pure and simple.
That or with majority male hobbies they are being told there is this mythical group of women just dying to enter the hobby
Yes exactly. Like there are these all-female groups of D&D players chomping at the bit to play a pretty pretty pink princess RPG. On fucking Mars. Lol.
Since the 90s, but they were more subtle then. They were infected with the first big push of what we called "PC" back then and never completely shook the stink.
I'll give you an example. One guy on the WotC discussion boards pointed out something about an update to the Forgotten Realms setting: with the death of the King of Cormyr, all the "good" rulers and most of the powerful NPC's were female (there were a few men like Elminster, but they were rare and more often than not more morally gray than the women) and all the villains were male. Most of the people on the board didn't realize it, but - something that wouldn't happen in this day - they had a rational discussion about it. That took place before 2000.
Yea i. The 90s or early 00s that wouldn’t have registered with me either
They should change their name to "Whizzards of the Coast" because they just cannot stop forcing their magical realm on people.
Here is the card from a MTG site in case you just want to share this with normies sans commentary.
https://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-spoiler/easterling-vanguard/
Actually it does have comments at the bottom, and for some reason they've mixed in comments from years ago about other cards. Weird.
Archive.
I'm sure some retarded motherfucker is out there, already explaining about how whitewashing in this instance is perfectly justified.
I hate this timeline.
AragoRN - the "RN" stands fo "Real Nigga".
'Swarthy' I believe was Tolkien's preferred term. With the possible exception of the Slavic-sounding Variags of Khand, the Easterlings were intended to be Middle-earth's equivalent to the Asiatic nomad hordes which periodically invaded Europe - Huns, Avars, Turks, Mongols, etc. - so 'swarthy' would seem about right for all but the northernmost of their kind. Compare, for example, modern Turkmens (not Southeast Asian dark or Abo black, but not exactly as snow-pale as the Chinese/Japanese/Korean ideal of beauty either) to fanart of Easterlings from the books.
It's the Far Haradrim who Tolkien intended to be the LOTR equivalent to truly black, sub-Saharan Africans. (The Near Haradrim, the sort who were more heavily represented in Sauron's armies and who fielded those Oliphaunts at the Pelennor Fields, weren't generally described as black but also 'swarthy' and approximated to the Arabs - Middle Easterners and North Africans, of course, are as a rule not 'black' either.)
Tolkien described them as 'Swarthy' people from a 'dry and arid climate' so...dark skinned desert dwellers.