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Alzrius

The EN World kitten
I like to watch the occasional anime series while watching other shows - mix things up so I'm not just binging one thing.

Annnnnnnnyway..... I stated watching Bastard!! on Netflix. It's ... well, on the one hand, it's something that's right up the "D&D" alley in the sense that it actually references a LOT OF D&Disms (really- it has cockatrices and magic missiles and all that). And some funny heavy metal references (a lot of things are named after metal bands).

...but it's really ... ew. And I don't mean in the usual "anime is kinda perv-y" way. Let's just say it doesn't consider basic things like ... age differences and ... who raises who ... in a very considered or nuanced way.
I remember seeing the six-episode anime of that back in the 90s at Gen Con. There was a scene where Arshes Nei is fondly reminiscing to herself, "Dark Schneider, my father and my lover," and although the show had made it clear that she was his adopted daughter, you could still hear several audience members go "huh?!"
 

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Snarf Zagyg

Notorious Liquefactionist
I remember seeing the six-episode anime of that back in the 90s at Gen Con. There was a scene where Arshes Nei is fondly reminiscing to herself, "Dark Schneider, my father and my lover," and although the show had made it clear that she was his adopted daughter, you could still hear several audience members go "huh?!"

Let's just say it is handled as crassly as it was before.

Of course, you get it from both sides since Dark Schneider is in love with Yoko, who loves him because she raised him as a young child (and he transforms between the two) ... it's just ick all the way around.
 

I am going to assume that poster has you blocked but I will put the quotes up

"As I have often said, I am a biological determinist, and there is no question that male and female brains are different. It is apparent to me that by and large females do not derive the same inner satisfaction from playing games as a hobby that males do. It isn't that females can't play games well, it is just that it isn't a compelling activity to them as is the case for males."
Gary Gygax

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TSR - Q&A with Gary Gygax

This is the multi-year Q&A sessions held by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax here at EN World, beginning in 2002 and running up until his sad pasing in 2008. Gary's username in the thread below is Col_Pladoh, and his first post in this long thread is Post #39.
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"A number of the chaps with families are bound to bring them next year so that thay can enjoy the charms of Lake Geneva, a true tourist trap with plenty to amuse women and children not enthralled by the lure of gaming."
Gary Gygax

www.enworld.org

TSR - Q&A with Gary Gygax

This is the multi-year Q&A sessions held by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax here at EN World, beginning in 2002 and running up until his sad pasing in 2008. Gary's username in the thread below is Col_Pladoh, and his first post in this long thread is Post #39.
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www.enworld.org

"20 years? Way to short a period. The fantasy and SF pulp zines in the 1940s were rife with scantily clad women. Frazetta and Boris became famous for such work.

Now that's not politically correct. Tough :D It still is fun, and it sells."

Gary Gygax

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For everyone who piles on Avalanche for their covers, please look

King Stannis, I'm not trying to start a flame war. I just take it very personally when someone implies that I'm a hypocrite. I've tried to live a life free of hypocrisy, so I'm a bit touchy about such loose accusations. However, it is not hypocrisy to be able to put an issue in context...
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www.enworld.org

"Just so. The only limit I placed on female PCS was no Str above 18. In actual history female participation in what would be considered adventuring was virtually nil. i am always amused when history programs on the tube attempt Political Corectness by featuring the only examples of female duelists, pirates, warriors, etc. They represent less than one percent of the whole being considered, and featuring one-armed men in the same roles would be at least as meaningful historically. Frankly, not only did society generally prevent such participation, but I believe most women were generally not the least interested in engaging in such dangerous and questionable activities."
Gary Gygax

www.enworld.org

TSR - Q&A with Gary Gygax

This is the multi-year Q&A sessions held by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax here at EN World, beginning in 2002 and running up until his sad pasing in 2008. Gary's username in the thread below is Col_Pladoh, and his first post in this long thread is Post #39.
www.enworld.org
www.enworld.org

I can't stress enough that he said this stuff -here-. On ENWorld. Before it became against policy to say stuff like this.

I wonder how folks will judge us and our posts decades from now?
 



I wonder how folks will judge us and our posts decades from now?
hopefully our world view either changes in that time or isn't seen as that bad...

I said in another thread that Star Trek the orginal series was SUPER progressive for the 60s but if you wrote Strange new worlds useing that you would be seen as a monster. (women can't be captains... duh)

edit: and I can not stress enough this isn't something dumb he said once at the age of 20 in the 60s or 70s... this was 2008
 

hopefully our world view either changes in that time or isn't seen as that bad...

I said in another thread that Star Trek the orginal series was SUPER progressive for the 60s but if you wrote Strange new worlds useing that you would be seen as a monster. (women can't be captains... duh)

edit: and I can not stress enough this isn't something dumb he said once at the age of 20 in the 60s or 70s... this was 2008

2008 seems an eternity ago, a more innocent time, masks were for Halloween and cosplay, Europe was at peace, and things still seemed hopeful and exciting. I'm depressed now.
 




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