"I don't want Politics in my Gaming!"
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When I say āI donāt want politics in my gaming,ā I mean it literally.
Like, I donāt care for the Star Wars prequels because they spend a lotta time just doing politics instead of space battles.
I donāt wanna sit through boring ass senate sessions listening to motions and passing votes. I wanna blow shit up!
Let me introduce you to Spec Ops the Line. A game where wanting to blow stuff up is the political statement.
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He changed it to Calvin, but this comment is hilarious now.
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This comment is really funny now that OP is using the new format, please leave it up.
Hah, gotta edit it at least a bit. Iāll leave the original viewable.
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Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you donāt get to pretend that your entertainment is āfree of politicsā.
Meanwhile every Ubisoft title, no matter how inoffensive, add the disclaimer:
This game was created by a diverse team of people with different beliefs, sexual orientations, and gender identities
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Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you donāt get to pretend that your entertainment is āfree of politicsā.
āPolitics are genuinely fun and everyone wants to see them all the time, and the people who say they donāt want to see it like it even more, they just wish they were seeing different politics.ā -hbomberguy
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āI donāt want to talk about/see politicsā is always synonym to āI support the status quo, and I will aggressively reject anything that goes against itā.
Nothing that happens on a public space is free of politics, even when itās not controversial.
Anything they see in there that goes against their own personally DESIRED to be status quo is an insult. Theyve just got shit views so well rounded culture shocks them and it reminds them all about how their shit stinks and they arenāt really all that smart or morally sound. Cause if they were, they wouldnāt have identified with any that stuff to begin with or realized the perils.
And it makes them know the cringe at how theyāre viewed (but they say its just how theyāre PORTRAYED to pass the buck on being that way being their own fault and indicative of their lack of stats and general lack of character)
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But youāre making the statement that itās okay to kill people if you want their stuff. The politics are there even if you donāt choose to examine them.
No, Iām not. Because my mental development moved past three years old and Iām able to differentiate reality from fiction. Do you also believe that Super Mario players advocate for animal cruelty towards turtles?
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How come gay people donāt already have rights in your setting?
They do. Doesnāt stop dipshits from arguing though. Case in point.
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They do. Doesnāt stop dipshits from arguing though. Case in point.
That doesnāt make any sense. If they already have rights then what are they arguing for?
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That doesnāt make any sense. If they already have rights then what are they arguing for?
As I wrote in my original post, some people just have a narcissistic need for self-promotion. They will preach to the choir and bring irrelevant political topics into the game because they feel like the real world doesnāt appreciate their valiant efforts towards weaponized inclusivity enough.
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Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you donāt get to pretend that your entertainment is āfree of politicsā.
I donāt want North-American politics in my gaming.
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No, Iām not. Because my mental development moved past three years old and Iām able to differentiate reality from fiction. Do you also believe that Super Mario players advocate for animal cruelty towards turtles?
I mean the statement is being made within the universe. Super Mario does advocate for violence against koopas. You donāt have to examine it, but that doesnāt make it apolitical.
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Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you donāt get to pretend that your entertainment is āfree of politicsā.
All I want is more nice unpolitical games like Bioshock or Wolfenstein
And not the woke nonsense of having female or PoC main characters.
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As I wrote in my original post, some people just have a narcissistic need for self-promotion. They will preach to the choir and bring irrelevant political topics into the game because they feel like the real world doesnāt appreciate their valiant efforts towards weaponized inclusivity enough.
Sounds like youāre either not picking up on the fact that your world isnāt actually supportive of gay rights (because of subconscious prejudice or something) or youāre bad at communicating that it is, or both.
āWeaponized inclusivityā jesus christ so its clearly the former
āNarcissistic urge for self-promotionā insane statement. Check your prejudice.
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They do. Doesnāt stop dipshits from arguing though. Case in point.
When everyone around you seems like a dipshit, youāre probably the dipshit.
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man I just wanna play my lyre and have an adventure and have fun. I donāt wanna argue over politics. I game to get away from all that.
I think itās ok to want to have some space between stuff.
The point is that there are politics in your game, like it or not. Whether you make them a central focus is another story entirely.
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Exactly. What theyāre really mad about is the fact that thereās a black person, a gay person, or woman with normal sized tits in the game.
I hate normal sized tits!
/s Just in case
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As I wrote in my original post, some people just have a narcissistic need for self-promotion. They will preach to the choir and bring irrelevant political topics into the game because they feel like the real world doesnāt appreciate their valiant efforts towards weaponized inclusivity enough.
Your language choices give a phobic vibe, just FYI. ā[ā¦] they feel like the real world doesnāt appreciate their valiant efforts towards weaponized inclusivity enough.ā Like you know theyāre suffering actual IRL oppression, right? Stuff like that could be giving LGBT players the impression that youāre hostile towards them.
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When everyone around you seems like a dipshit, youāre probably the dipshit.
Oh, quite the opposite. Most people around me are awesome. And Iāve gotten pretty good at sorting out the few who arenāt. In fact, after deleting Reddit, pretty much my entire dipshit intake stems from Lemmy. I sometimes really do wonder what Iām still doing here. Because clearly, this entire community has some serious issues to work through.
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Your language choices give a phobic vibe, just FYI. ā[ā¦] they feel like the real world doesnāt appreciate their valiant efforts towards weaponized inclusivity enough.ā Like you know theyāre suffering actual IRL oppression, right? Stuff like that could be giving LGBT players the impression that youāre hostile towards them.
My language choice is not phobic, itās aggressive, because Iām once again realizing, why half of this sub is permanently looking for groups.
I can assure you, that there is no inclusivity issue in any of my worlds. But itās also not anything I pay any mind to at all unless my players are looking for connections or love interests. Other than that I try to avoid heteronormativity for the very few occasions NPCs are actually in a relationship that matters to the game and thatās it.
And as I commented before, if you want a world and story FOCUSED on inclusivity and LQBTQ issues, then Iām sure there are countless DMs who will be happy to provide that. Because I am not. My games focus on adventuring, nature and mystic, long forgotten places and thatās exactly how I and my players like it!
