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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9338685" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>So, once again, we have a tempest in a teapot.</p><p></p><p>First and foremost, I just don't see this as some major event in the first place, regardless of the appropriateness of the action. This is a series of plastic trinkets that didn't exist* a few days ago and, barring us or someone we know actually buying one of them, quickly will exit everyone's experience. It is an ephemeral money-making effort by the company that rather bluntly said a decade ago that they were hoping to make more money off D&D branded items than just the game books. It does not need to be treated as anything different from some licensed mobile game that features your favorite comic book hero (perhaps in an interpretation you might not enjoy). </p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px">*as a product, I'm aware they may still not <u>physically</u> exist at this exact moment. </span></em></p><p></p><p>The company that holds the IP gets to declare what is official, and we get to declare how much we care. This is true. However, even within that, I don't agree with this premise. Unless WotC declares such, I feel they've only really made this figurine based on the cover art to be female, with the original still in a superstate of uncertainty.</p><p></p><p>Side note - I would pay crazy money for a fantastic Elmore mini -- not of his art, of Elmore. They did one of H. R. Giger about a decade ago that I didn't buy that I still wish I had.</p><p></p><p>I'll just refer back to this:</p><p></p><p>And that's it. From my perspective, if the artist didn't say the thing in the song, or put the thing in the picture, it isn't there. It may be too many content-mill articles titled similar to 'you won't guess what <famous song> is really about*' have left me jaded, but there's no secret reality that you have to check with the author/creator to find out what something really means (particularly to your own experience of the thing). Larry can tell us twelve ways to sunrise what his intentions were, and perhaps they matter, but if the picture doesn't specifically depict one gender or another than it doesn't specifically depict one gender or another. </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><em>*it's always nuclear war or sex, or both. </em></span></p><p></p><p>Exactly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 9338685, member: 6799660"] So, once again, we have a tempest in a teapot. First and foremost, I just don't see this as some major event in the first place, regardless of the appropriateness of the action. This is a series of plastic trinkets that didn't exist* a few days ago and, barring us or someone we know actually buying one of them, quickly will exit everyone's experience. It is an ephemeral money-making effort by the company that rather bluntly said a decade ago that they were hoping to make more money off D&D branded items than just the game books. It does not need to be treated as anything different from some licensed mobile game that features your favorite comic book hero (perhaps in an interpretation you might not enjoy). [I][SIZE=2]*as a product, I'm aware they may still not [U]physically[/U] exist at this exact moment. [/SIZE][/I] The company that holds the IP gets to declare what is official, and we get to declare how much we care. This is true. However, even within that, I don't agree with this premise. Unless WotC declares such, I feel they've only really made this figurine based on the cover art to be female, with the original still in a superstate of uncertainty. Side note - I would pay crazy money for a fantastic Elmore mini -- not of his art, of Elmore. They did one of H. R. Giger about a decade ago that I didn't buy that I still wish I had. I'll just refer back to this: And that's it. From my perspective, if the artist didn't say the thing in the song, or put the thing in the picture, it isn't there. It may be too many content-mill articles titled similar to 'you won't guess what <famous song> is really about*' have left me jaded, but there's no secret reality that you have to check with the author/creator to find out what something really means (particularly to your own experience of the thing). Larry can tell us twelve ways to sunrise what his intentions were, and perhaps they matter, but if the picture doesn't specifically depict one gender or another than it doesn't specifically depict one gender or another. [SIZE=2][I]*it's always nuclear war or sex, or both. [/I][/SIZE] Exactly. [/QUOTE]
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