[OT] Good taste, bad taste? Take a look at this promotional campaign...
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Wormwood
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BiggusGeekus said:
Nope. See below.
BiggusGeekus said:
My point exactly.
White Wolf *wants* someone to respond to this. Hopefully angrily, hopefully en masse (just like the poster suggested).
They *desperately* want attention, any attention. Why else should they bother to stick pins in everyone's favorite bogeyman, Jack Chick and the (booga booga) evil evangelicals?
If you want to be offended, that's your business. My advice is to reject the knee-jerk urge to feed into their passive-aggressive marketing. Ignore them and they will most assuredly go away.
In other words...relax.
BiggusGeekus
That's Latin for "cool"
Wormwood said:
OK, I think I have a better idea where you're coming from.
However, I would respectfully submit that there are a large number of Christian gamers who are doing a lot of good P.R. for our hobby and this site doesn't exactly do them any favors. But, as you said, if ignored any advertisement will go away. And in that spirit consider this the last post of mine on this thread ... well, barring any "Biggus Geekus fondels ocelots" posts.
-BG
PS I of course, meant no disrespect to the ocelot or, in point of fact, any noctournal animal of the felis family. The ocelot is a brave and noble animal who gives joy an courage to all residents of Centeral and South America. Where would we be without the ocelot? Nowhere, I say! And I would be the first to condem any man (or woman) who would so much as approach an ocelot with an offer the likes of which we will not delve into, as Eric's Grandmother surely would object.
Oni
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I found that to be terribly demeaning, and I am more than a little sad that White Wolf would stoop so low. I do not think that I will be buying anymore White Wolf products, nor the products of any of their related publishers. I urge you to join me in this, and while I doubt it will make any difference with their legion of loyal fans I don't mean to give anymore of my money to a company that behaves in this manner.
Heap Thaumaturgist
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I take it this is all a twisted ad campaign for a new game they're coming out with called: "Demon: The Fallen" ... seeing as that matches the rest of their games.
I've never been a HUGE White Wolf fan, but I really liked some of the aspects of Mage. Mostly, though, I stole those ideas out of the books and am working them into my own modern campaign ... far less magic, but some of the same twisted ideas.
Playing a fey is sort of interesting (Changeling), playing a Mage is pretty cool (Mage), playing a Werewolf is, eh, (Werewolf), and I never could get into the whole Vampire thing. WAY too many people with bad silver jewelry and black clothes. There's only so much emotional masturbation I can stand from fat chicks and depressed geeks as they pretend to be ... ooooo ... vampires. How ... how totally ... emotional. And romantic.
Demon, while no doubt more twisted than Mage, doesn't seem like it would be as interesting. I mean, you've got In Nomine for the demon/angel thing ... so just going around killing people for sadism's sake in a bid for power ... oi ... sounds like pandering directly to that totally juvenile and repressed subgroup that plays Evil Campaigns all the time and gets off on breaking the rules when they can't get caught.
The ad campaign doesn't piss me off or make me laugh ... it's a little annoying. You read the comic and have to say: "Ah, yes, point for you." but it's not really THAT big an accomplishment because, in the end, it's all twisted juvenile promotion for what will be a twisted juvenile game, I do not doubt.
The good side to this is I shall easily be able to weed out the nutjobs, crazies, losers, arses, and possible mass murderes by seeing who is wearing Demon: The Fallen T-Shirts and is asking me to play. "Dude, we're totally killing some passengers on a bus ... I've got loads of evil points! Soon I'll be more evil than the devil and I'll TAKE OVER!"
--HT
"Man it's so COOL to play a demon, man ... they hurt inside. I mean, they really hurt inside. It's ... I'm misting up over here ... give me a second."
I've never been a HUGE White Wolf fan, but I really liked some of the aspects of Mage. Mostly, though, I stole those ideas out of the books and am working them into my own modern campaign ... far less magic, but some of the same twisted ideas.
Playing a fey is sort of interesting (Changeling), playing a Mage is pretty cool (Mage), playing a Werewolf is, eh, (Werewolf), and I never could get into the whole Vampire thing. WAY too many people with bad silver jewelry and black clothes. There's only so much emotional masturbation I can stand from fat chicks and depressed geeks as they pretend to be ... ooooo ... vampires. How ... how totally ... emotional. And romantic.
Demon, while no doubt more twisted than Mage, doesn't seem like it would be as interesting. I mean, you've got In Nomine for the demon/angel thing ... so just going around killing people for sadism's sake in a bid for power ... oi ... sounds like pandering directly to that totally juvenile and repressed subgroup that plays Evil Campaigns all the time and gets off on breaking the rules when they can't get caught.
The ad campaign doesn't piss me off or make me laugh ... it's a little annoying. You read the comic and have to say: "Ah, yes, point for you." but it's not really THAT big an accomplishment because, in the end, it's all twisted juvenile promotion for what will be a twisted juvenile game, I do not doubt.
The good side to this is I shall easily be able to weed out the nutjobs, crazies, losers, arses, and possible mass murderes by seeing who is wearing Demon: The Fallen T-Shirts and is asking me to play. "Dude, we're totally killing some passengers on a bus ... I've got loads of evil points! Soon I'll be more evil than the devil and I'll TAKE OVER!"
--HT
"Man it's so COOL to play a demon, man ... they hurt inside. I mean, they really hurt inside. It's ... I'm misting up over here ... give me a second."
Anabstercorian
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I can't find the comic
Where is it? Someone give me some help here? Maybe post a direct link?
Where is it? Someone give me some help here? Maybe post a direct link?
RogueJK
It's not "Rouge"... That's makeup.
Daniel Knight
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Heh… I thought it was actually extremely clever. Maybe it’s just my twisted sense of humour though.
gregweller
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I'll certainly be standing in line to pick up a copy of that game. It's about time someone pushed the envelope again! I really feel sorry for people that fail to see the black humor potential in something like this. Now...what kind of demon do I want to be ....
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