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<blockquote data-quote="Benji" data-source="post: 7679646" data-attributes="member: 6793743">There's an Alan Moore quote about the idea that having the nostalgia of the last century being our only entertainment and escape in this one can't be healthy and despite Moore's gift for hyperbole and general Brummy grumpiness, he's got a point. The issue for me doesn't arise from saturation but with what happens to our imaginative processes. We're slowly taught to think only in those universes. Anyone checked out the new programs starting in the TV schedule this year? Can we name one that isn't either a spin-off of an existing property, exisits in the same universe as an existing property or based on a book/comic/film? Where are the new ideas? Is this the end of post-modernism?As a gen X roleplayer, I can honestly say I kept the faith before the millennials arrived and dreamed of this day of the house of geek. But when we&nbsp; think about generations, how will the one after the millennials rebel in 10-20? It might be by throwing down the house of geek as 'shallow escapism'. That won't be the fault of those people who used comics/D&amp;D/geek movies to ask difficult questions. It'll be those who took those fresh new ideas and dumbed them down and marketed them over and over. To continue, I think geek stuff needs to get back to the ideals of science fiction - as a lens through which we view reality. Movies like Captain America: Winter Soldier were a step in the right direction and that stuff still exists - but I'm worried we're beginning to earn the title of 'shallow'. This is a wider concern that D&amp;D but what if we had an adventure that made us make hard choices occasionally? Would it be received well or thought of as 'too much navel gazing' have we rejected the idea our hobby can&nbsp; be taken seriously in any way?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benji, post: 7679646, member: 6793743"] There's an Alan Moore quote about the idea that having the nostalgia of the last century being our only entertainment and escape in this one can't be healthy and despite Moore's gift for hyperbole and general Brummy grumpiness, he's got a point. The issue for me doesn't arise from saturation but with what happens to our imaginative processes. We're slowly taught to think only in those universes. Anyone checked out the new programs starting in the TV schedule this year? Can we name one that isn't either a spin-off of an existing property, exisits in the same universe as an existing property or based on a book/comic/film? Where are the new ideas? Is this the end of post-modernism? As a gen X roleplayer, I can honestly say I kept the faith before the millennials arrived and dreamed of this day of the house of geek. But when we think about generations, how will the one after the millennials rebel in 10-20? It might be by throwing down the house of geek as 'shallow escapism'. That won't be the fault of those people who used comics/D&D/geek movies to ask difficult questions. It'll be those who took those fresh new ideas and dumbed them down and marketed them over and over. To continue, I think geek stuff needs to get back to the ideals of science fiction - as a lens through which we view reality. Movies like Captain America: Winter Soldier were a step in the right direction and that stuff still exists - but I'm worried we're beginning to earn the title of 'shallow'. This is a wider concern that D&D but what if we had an adventure that made us make hard choices occasionally? Would it be received well or thought of as 'too much navel gazing' have we rejected the idea our hobby can be taken seriously in any way? [/QUOTE]

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