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"I don't want Politics in my Gaming!"
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Nah, they've long fallen to the usual cycle of "here is a species of interesting antagonistic creatures" -> "Oh wow, that sounds interesting. I want to play them" -> "Yeah sure, here's a playbale variant of that species. We've removed all traces of evilness and uniqueness because god forbid players playing evil characters". Same as Drow, Orcs, Fairies and Goliath.
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man I just wanna play my lyre and have an adventure and have fun. I don't wanna argue over politics. I game to get away from all that. I think it's ok to want to have some space between stuff.
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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 don't get to pretend that your entertainment is "free of politics".
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I mean I can understand having occasional exceptions to the rule so the players can get an interesting non standard experience, but straight evil aligned critters should always be present in fantasy settings especially ttrpg and DND specifically.I'm not sure about always. That's just lazy world building to have orcs naturally evil instead of predominantly mind controlled or ruled by evil leaders or some sort of blood fued. It's the same with good aligned races. Unless you want to focus on the definition of good and evil.
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When I say "I don't want politics in my gaming," I mean it literally. Like, I don't care for the Star Wars prequels because they spend a lotta time just doing politics instead of space battles. I don't 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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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 don't get to pretend that your entertainment is "free of politics".
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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 don't get to pretend that your entertainment is "free of politics"."Politics are genuinely fun and everyone wants to see them all the time, and the people who say they don't want to see it like it even more, they just wish they were seeing *different* politics." -hbomberguy
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"I don't want to talk about/see politics" is always synonym to "I support the status quo, and I will aggressively reject anything that goes against it". Nothing that happens on a public space is free of politics, even when it's not controversial.
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But you're making the statement that it's okay to kill people if you want their stuff. The politics are there even if you don't choose to examine them.
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How come gay people don't already have rights in your setting?
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That doesn't make any sense. If they already have rights then what are they arguing for?
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That doesn't 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 doesn't 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 don't get to pretend that your entertainment is "free of politics".
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No, I'm not. Because my mental development moved past three years old and I'm 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 don't *have* to examine it, but that doesn't 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 don't get to pretend that your entertainment is "free of politics".All I want is more nice unpolitical games like Bioshock or Wolfenstein And not the woke nonsense of having female or PoC 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 doesn't appreciate their valiant efforts towards weaponized inclusivity enough.Sounds like you're either not picking up on the fact that your world isn't actually supportive of gay rights (because of subconscious prejudice or something) or you're bad at communicating that it is, or both. "Weaponized inclusivity" jesus christ so its clearly the former
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When everyone around you seems like a dipshit, you're probably the dipshit.
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man I just wanna play my lyre and have an adventure and have fun. I don't wanna argue over politics. I game to get away from all that. I think it's 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.
