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<blockquote data-quote="Scribe" data-source="post: 8946922" data-attributes="member: 6807152"><img src="https://media4.giphy.com/media/8ozmNq7zPnKRW8QyfZ/200.gif" alt="Season 3 Ugh GIF by The Office" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />There is a character in a game I am playing, who was sold into slavery. This character goes on to betray the main character several times, and when (if) caught, the topic of their slavery, and how the law abiding did nothing about it, is brought to light.There is a lot of darker stuff going on in the game, and a lot of light stuff (my character is a paragon of virtue, which sometimes means laws are broken) but if that darker content is all obliterated because its just not acceptable anymore and someone may encounter it, then entire arcs in the game I am playing would be removed, and it would be a (vastly) lesser product because of it.This is not to downplay the serious historical, and present day! issues of slavery, trafficking, trauma, abuse, mental illness, and so on, but if we refuse to have these topics be at all engaged with in our media, in our storytelling, something is lost there.Which is all a moot point, because as far as Wizards is concerned, these topics are not to be discussed at all, because it will hurt the bottom line, and we simply cannot have that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scribe, post: 8946922, member: 6807152"] [IMG alt="Season 3 Ugh GIF by The Office"]https://media4.giphy.com/media/8ozmNq7zPnKRW8QyfZ/200.gif[/IMG] There is a character in a game I am playing, who was sold into slavery. This character goes on to betray the main character several times, and when (if) caught, the topic of their slavery, and how the law abiding did nothing about it, is brought to light. There is a lot of darker stuff going on in the game, and a lot of light stuff (my character is a paragon of virtue, which sometimes means laws are broken) but if that darker content is all obliterated because its just not acceptable anymore and someone may encounter it, then entire arcs in the game I am playing would be removed, and it would be a (vastly) lesser product because of it. This is not to downplay the serious historical, and present day! issues of slavery, trafficking, trauma, abuse, mental illness, and so on, but if we refuse to have these topics be at all engaged with in our media, in our storytelling, something is lost there. Which is all a moot point, because as far as Wizards is concerned, these topics are not to be discussed at all, because it will hurt the bottom line, and we simply cannot have that. [/QUOTE]

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