Recent content by datreus

Given the predominance of neurodivergent individuals in RPG hobbies, I'd be VERY concerned at anyone using APA support and ACT theory as their basis for a therapeutic process. There's a better than good chance that you're just paying for gaslighting with extra steps.

The issue here is that I think you misunderstood what that part of the conversation was about and I didn't understand that you didn't understand, so apologies for that. That's right. The issue is that some people are misreading the book pretty obviously and propagating very misleading ideas...

yeah, I was very cautious about this game initially but it - and the pretty unjustified treatment it is receiving - has made me reflect on some of the more troubling views from earlier editions that I had internalised and that's a good thing.

These aren't faceless masses, but specific people putting it down for what are often very clearly reasons far beyond anything contained within the text. I'm not disregarding opinions when I point out statements are flat out untruths. I've repeatedly discussed the good qualities and it's bad...

I don't think it sets out to answer that rather than ask it, but that would probably be the closest response I think. It's a game that's more 'hopeless' than previous editions and I think that's rubbing a lot of people the wrong way - understandable, but not the grounds for some of the...

And this is the problem. Nowhere, not once, in the book is it suggested to 'buddy up with the corpos'. Quite the opposite, repeatedly, loudly and violently. But thanks to 'people on the internet', this notion is now circling the bowl. That's the real problem right now. The game is fine - and...

I think you misunderstand what this game is about. Earlier editions were written for the Gen X 90s zeitgeist 'If you turn into furry captain planet, smash through the window of the big evil corporation, kill that wyrm infested CEO and hoowwwwll then you can save the world!' It was a superhero...

That's my reading of W5 and so far I like it. The complaints I'm seeing seem to be from people who actually know this is what the game is about, don't like it, but are reaching for more internally palatable arguments. Either that or a lot of people are just making stuff up based on nothing.

'Companies aren’t themselves bad by definition. Companies represent one approach to large-scale cooperation. Even accumulations of capital aren’t inherently bad, so long as they’re put to positive use.' ...is what it actually says. So feel free to tell me why my homeless food kitchen company...

That's always the point of WW - but in earlier editions it was 'Hey you're a furry superhero, go magihack that pentex facility, kill dozens of goons, then give a soliloquy before killing the CEO who is OBVIOUSLY possessed by a spirit, yay!' while this version is more like 'Sure, you can probably...

That's kind of the sad thing about some of the commentary I'm seeing around at the moment. From reading W5, it's clear they took a 'hands off' approach to a lot of sensitive cultural issues - with the recognition that these are not universal experiences, and that individual voices do not speak...

That's kind of the problem with a game that co-opts such a variety of emotive issues into its baseline. It's even more of a problem when its majority audience - and creators - are middle class white folks. These are generally issues it's near impossible to handle well under those...

You seem to be purposefully misunderstanding what was said. 'Indigineity' is a different experience for each person from a given Indigenous background, much less people from different backgrounds. That post comes VERY close to the 'I speak for all Indigenous peoples due to having some...

That reads very, very much like two people with significant personal and creative differences clashing rather than the - no pun intended - black and white portrayal it is presented as. There's quite a few elements of that post that are very problematic - to start with, 'Indigineity' is not a...