Mexican popular media has much the same problems as in the US. It tends to ignore the existence of Mexicos large minority populations, especially Afro-Mexicans and First Nations Mexicans.
Yes, but those attempts came after the huge increase in overseas demand for Hollywood movies, they are not what caused the demand.
No, the point is that you aren't providing a clear standard for diversity that art can abide by. You have provided four different standards:
This seems deliberately hyperbolic. The buying habits of people doesn't even constitute evidence of peoples' priorities? And it's bizarre to describe my comment as an experiment and holding it to the standards of experimentation when it's not an experiment at all but an observation of peoples' behavior.
My comment wasn't about the optimal makeup of the cast of a Hollywood movie in order for studios to make money, it was about the double standard being used to judge Western media. JD wants to criticize Western creators for their lack of characters corresponding to global demographics and at the same time defend non-Westerners who have even less diverse art. His justification is to resort to consumption patterns of Westerners and non-Westerners. If it's wrong to use such evidence then complain to him about it.
Swimming way upthread. Sorry, I'm slow.
The difference here being that there are actual examples, either in text or in images, of EVERY one of those characters and archetypes. Not only can you play a half devil, to use that example, but, there are fifteen different images of what you look like, complete write-ups detailing your history in the game world and how you fit into it. Even, in some editions, suggestions for naming conventions.
Now, you can cue the argument over how big your horns and tail should be, but, even then, you have examples of both in text and in images.
But nowhere, for a very long time, were there any images of PC's of color. I remember back when the first D&D movie came out and it had a *gasp* black elf and this was actually an issue. People actually commented on this. Elves can't be black after all. Only evil elves are black... oops... ummm... err.. I guess it's ok to have a black elf... went the conversation.
For a very long time THIS:
was the face of D&D. Notice what's missing?
Why in all the worlds would there be a single, cut and dry, standard? Life is very nearly never that simple.
Sure, but JD seems to be very arbitrary in how he applies standards, which is the point.
