Why?

We’re all in public, and if you’re interesting enough to stare at, we gonna stare at you. Be less interesting.

“Shit like this” is a conversation, which you can ONLY have with other members of the Left. The authoritarian Right isn’t worth talking to as it doesn’t accomplish anything.

“Maybe we should replace some of GandalfUnicorn’s best friends with other people in order to fulfill a quota.”

You can connect with the setting without appropriating traditional clothing of a real-world culture. Design something that is appropriate for desert wear without dressing like you’re cosplaying Aladdin. Dune is a great example of this (in costuming only - all of the Jihad stuff is a big yikes): the stillsuit has…

I noticed the same thing - it’s because your ad blocker removes affiliate links, and then it collapses the whitespace so there isn’t even a blank left behind.

He killed Nazis because he wanted to be the only one to plunder other cultures, not because he’s some kind of “hero.” I enjoy Indiana Jones as much as the next person, but it’s pretty easy to see that he’s an opportunistic asshole. In the same way that I can both enjoy Rick and Morty and also recognize that Rick is a…

Wow, well if your two friends didn’t care, that must make it just fine for everyone! You’re arguing in SUCH good faith. You’ve gone from “what, I can’t even make fun of the British?” to “well I’ve played a game as the genocidal psychopaths who raped, murdered, and enslaved countless thousands of people, and a couple…

That’s not even remotely similar to what’s happening here. The example from a Spanish perspective would be if you wrote a campaign based in the pre-colonial Americas, and then promoted your “sensitivity” by releasing a video where you wore conquistador costumes.

“At a certain level, going so far out of your way to complain about every little thing becomes an oppression all it’s own.”

That’s not in any way my argument. This is about an extremely public, extremely well-funded performance - not about personal games. They vowed to involve this setting thoughfully and are falling woefully short. Why not address the actual discussion at hand instead of making up strawmen to argue with?

Yes, you’re right, the most vocal contingent are ALWAYS correct. What a thoughtful point.

Easy tip to not being accused of appropriation: don’t set your game in a SWANA-inspired setting and then invite your one brown friend, pop on a “safari hat” and call it a day. It’s really not that hard.

It takes a truly weak white person to look at a thoughtful piece like this and call it “outrage journalism.” Check yourself for outlandish overreaction before you start accusing everyone else of it.

How is thoughtful critique “eating” anyone? I’m a white person, and goddamn are we embarassingly thin-skinned. If any of y’all whining in the comments could muster half the thoughtfulness that this post required, maybe an interesting discussion could happen. But it never will because you’re so inordinately upset by…

How about spending a little money on designers to make costumes that adapt European styles for the climate of the new setting? You don’t have to appropriate traditional attire in order to dress appropriately for the setting.

You really think the only two options are “costumes of historical colonizers” and “traditional attire of the local culture”? You’re either arguing in bad faith, or suffer from a sad dearth of imagination.

Uh huh, so you admit it wouldn’t “end” any existing jobs. Thanks. Why can’t people online just be like “Oh, I misspoke, I meant it would prevent them from creating new jobs.”

Wow, you really opened my eyes to the massive amount of pity I should have for astronomically wealthy kids in the Bay area who get into Stanford just to drop out. Super well-analyzed there - you really pinpointed the terrible harm this TV show will do.

Yo, how those boots taste? The rich will never be your friends - get real friends, dawg.