Frostmarrow
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Numion said:
I don't know about that. Harry Potter was dragged to court on the basis of being witchcraft and Tolkien LARPers were arrested when they were playing in the woods. At least according to the news where I live.
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I don't know about that. Harry Potter was dragged to court on the basis of being witchcraft and Tolkien LARPers were arrested when they were playing in the woods. At least according to the news where I live.
johnsemlak
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Frostmarrow said:
I don't so much about such things, but it's certainly possible that fantasy stuff has been repressed here.
The RussianOrthodox Church is very anti-Harry Potter. I think they banned their worshippers from reading it (not that that is really significan't, the Orthodox church has a lot of medieval rules).
However, I think D&D might be outside of mainstream here enough (hardly anybody knows about it) to be safe.
And Tolkien is far too mainstream for the authortites to get rid off here.
Actualy playing in casinos happens right here in America. A Miami rpg club ran a Living Arcanis weekend at one of the tribal facilities for "that other type of gaming" earlier this month.
In some cases, this sort of echos what I saw when I took my New Years vacation in Sao Paulo, Brasil this year. (And then came home to find out that I got laid off)
There are some translations, but its easier just to buy the English language books if you speak English. The sad part is that you really have to love gaming or be rich to game in such contries because even a cheap game is like a small fourtune. A lot of gamers are not even touching books that cost $40 here because they are worth almost $200 of their own currency.
I don't know if this is average gaming behavior or just how my Brasilian friends behave, but according to them ...
There are quite a few female gamers in Brasil to the point that a girl can walk into a store without being the center of attention. If the store customers find out that she RUNS games, then you get the "ohhhhh, its a girl in the store." Reaction. People don't travel to the game store as much as Americans might, but when they do, they try to dress nicely and make a minor event out of it (like going out with your friends for a night.) When one girl showed me her "game store" outfit, I thought she was planning on going out on a date.
Different countries, different cultures.
[Edit: P.S. makes you wonder how our own culture would look at the hobby if gamers came to the store in Dockers, not Levis, and wore a shirt that had collar on it.]
In some cases, this sort of echos what I saw when I took my New Years vacation in Sao Paulo, Brasil this year. (And then came home to find out that I got laid off)
There are some translations, but its easier just to buy the English language books if you speak English. The sad part is that you really have to love gaming or be rich to game in such contries because even a cheap game is like a small fourtune. A lot of gamers are not even touching books that cost $40 here because they are worth almost $200 of their own currency.
I don't know if this is average gaming behavior or just how my Brasilian friends behave, but according to them ...
There are quite a few female gamers in Brasil to the point that a girl can walk into a store without being the center of attention. If the store customers find out that she RUNS games, then you get the "ohhhhh, its a girl in the store." Reaction. People don't travel to the game store as much as Americans might, but when they do, they try to dress nicely and make a minor event out of it (like going out with your friends for a night.) When one girl showed me her "game store" outfit, I thought she was planning on going out on a date.
Different countries, different cultures.
[Edit: P.S. makes you wonder how our own culture would look at the hobby if gamers came to the store in Dockers, not Levis, and wore a shirt that had collar on it.]
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Just as long as you realize that Kiev isn't in Russia, you should be OK...Fourecks said:
johnsemlak
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Joshua Dyal said:
Just as long as you realize that Kiev isn't in Russia, you should be OK...
Good point.
It's amazing how many people think of Kiev as a 'Russian' city, though. It's sort of burned that way in western consiousness, I think.
. . .johnsemlak said:
D'oh!
I'm not up with all that's new and improved. Eh, I saw a documentary about a year ago on the Vikings and how they transhipped and raided practically all the way to Moscow. One of the cities they took was Kiev and they settled there with the Viking leader becoming a king of sorts.
The documentary said Kiev was in Russia... blame the director!
johnsemlak
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Fourecks said:
Hey, I don't think it's a big deal personally. GURPS Russia, as well as many mainstream textbooks on Russian history, also call Kiev a 'Russian City". I think most people in the west grow up reading that Kiev was the first capital of Russia. There's a lot of subjective interpretation in the whole Russia/Ukraine thing.
However, (some) Ukrainians are trying to assert their own viewpoint now.
Dr. Strangemonkey
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johnsemlak said:
That's really too bad about the Orthodox church and Harry Potter. One of my greatest role-playing and fantasy reading friends is American Orthodox, the off shoot of Russian missionary work in Alaska, and he would be very dissapointed to hear that.
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