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News Digest: White Wolf Dissolved, MORE New D&D Releases Announced, RPG Now Closing (kinda), and mor
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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 7765881" data-attributes="member: 1288"><p>The problem is not that WW used Chechnya. The problem is not that WW used the horrors going on in Chechnya. If they'd done it right, done it well, it could have been not just acceptable, but powerful.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that they <em>trivialized it</em>.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that they dismissed real people, suffering in the real world, as "cover" for the machinations of the Kindred. The problem is that they glossed over the real horror in order to showcase fictional horror. They actually made a real-world wanna-be Hitler into a thin-blood vampire.</p><p></p><p>If you go back and look at White Wolf and Vampire at their peak, you'll notice that they never blamed vampires for most real-world horrors. Instead, they let human evil be human evil, and showed how vampires <em>reacted</em> to that, took advantage of it. They portrayed the vampires as existing in the same world as those travesties, but not as the <em>cause</em> of them.</p><p></p><p>It makes a huge difference. <em>Huge.</em> Especially to people of the same demographics that are being persecuted. I can tell you straight up, as a Jew of Eastern European descent, that if White Wolf had blamed the Holocaust on vampires, I'd have instantly ceased being a fan or a customer--let alone writing for them. And that's something that happened sixty years before the time I was involved with WW, let alone something happening <em>right now</em>.</p><p></p><p>So, yeah. I don't want to hear that "this is what WW's always done" or "this is what the World of Darkness is about." It's not, and it never was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 7765881, member: 1288"] The problem is not that WW used Chechnya. The problem is not that WW used the horrors going on in Chechnya. If they'd done it right, done it well, it could have been not just acceptable, but powerful. The problem is that they [I]trivialized it[/I]. The problem is that they dismissed real people, suffering in the real world, as "cover" for the machinations of the Kindred. The problem is that they glossed over the real horror in order to showcase fictional horror. They actually made a real-world wanna-be Hitler into a thin-blood vampire. If you go back and look at White Wolf and Vampire at their peak, you'll notice that they never blamed vampires for most real-world horrors. Instead, they let human evil be human evil, and showed how vampires [I]reacted[/I] to that, took advantage of it. They portrayed the vampires as existing in the same world as those travesties, but not as the [I]cause[/I] of them. It makes a huge difference. [I]Huge.[/I] Especially to people of the same demographics that are being persecuted. I can tell you straight up, as a Jew of Eastern European descent, that if White Wolf had blamed the Holocaust on vampires, I'd have instantly ceased being a fan or a customer--let alone writing for them. And that's something that happened sixty years before the time I was involved with WW, let alone something happening [I]right now[/I]. So, yeah. I don't want to hear that "this is what WW's always done" or "this is what the World of Darkness is about." It's not, and it never was. [/QUOTE]
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