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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7739347" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>For me the orcs aren't an analogy of the Blackafrican community, but they are inspired in the European barbarians before the Middle Age. </p><p></p><p>A example of how fiction is a softer way to tell about reality is the honored matres from the Frank Herbert's Dune saga is (without spoilers) to tell us the slaves from yesterday can become the tyrants of the tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>We have to take care. If there is a RPG about the far west, we can talk about the stereotype of the Northamerican indigenous in the fiction. If we are talking about the action-live of "Assasin Creed" somebody can says Hollywood has told the truth about the reconquest of the Granada kingdom. We talk about History, one of the main source of inspiration for fiction, and RPGs, but we don't want to be having a hard time with controversies.</p><p></p><p>We aren't only in the internet age. Also we are in the cultural contrarevolution. This means a sector of public opinion is starting to rebell againt certains stereotypes from the main media, for example the character Joseph Seed, the main antagonist from the videogame "Far Cry 5". </p><p></p><p>I am Spanish and I live in Spain. I can tell the things from my own point of view, and I say from here most of people know about USA is (almost) only New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, because amost all the soap operas and high school teleseries happen there. We can't to point in the map where are Ontario, New Yersey, Idaho or Minessota, because here in the school we study the European capital cities. How to telling it politely? If you think the cartoon show "A family guy" or "Sourth Park" are offensive for Christian community, you can't imagine any covers from the satiric magazine "el Jueves". (the Spanish equivalent "Charlie Hebbo" or "MAD magazine"). Here the anti-clericalism in the media is very strong, and we have suffered some incidents. And now lot of people are wondering why nasty hostility againts Catholic church is allowed but the respect for Muslim community because we have to stop islamophobia. </p><p></p><p>Do you remember the sentinel robots from the comics of X-Men? This teachs us we can't trust who presents themself as defenders to the masses against those who have more power because they may be a worse menace. We can say mutant-hunter robots, but also we could say the same about who warns us againts the preachers like the (false) reverend Harry Powell from "the night of the hunter", but they may be the true wolves in lamb's clothes. Warning, the new Harry Powell now aren't preaching about God and the Gospel but about freedom and revolution. Do remember Robespierre's terror. </p><p></p><p>If you really want to help to stop hate and fanaticism, then you must defend the respect of human dignity. If we don't defend the human dignity, then Joffrey Baratheon with a crossbow can shot a tied woman, or Sansa Stark can send a hungry pack of dogs to devour her ex-husband. Without respect for the human dignity then we are tainted by the "dark side of the Force" and the monster-hunter becomes a monster too. Without respect for human dignity the rebel againts the oppression becomes a new tyrant, like the character Magneto, from the X-Men comics. "Friends of Humanity", other antagonist faction, suffer the same mistake, they are villains because they want to protect (some) innocents but they have fogorten their "enemy" too are being humans with rights and dignity. (And now the mutants haven't a very good relation with the new inhumans. It is curious, because it is the behavior than flatscans' in the past). </p><p></p><p>Please, we need nobody to make remember us what Torquemada did in the past, because now we are too busy reporting about capital punishment againts Asia Bibi. (Don't you know who is her?). Can you imagine how I feel when I see the new edition of the rpg "7th Sea" and I imagine Castilla and the Vatican Church according to the author's vision, with their possible predjucices? I don't forget this quote from the back cover of "los Vagos": a terrifying Inquisition drags innocent citizens from the homes". The real inquisition by the Vatican Church in the real-life Castilla didn't that. Who dragged innocet cittizens from the homes? The communists in Spain 30's. They were trying a genocide, and today in the facade of the church is written "¡ARDERÉIS COMO EN EL 36!" ( = you will burn like in (year 19)36!". You can write the phrase in Spanish languange in image google to find real photos of this words. Why have I to feel ashamed about what happened in "Castilla" centuries ago, but the anti-Christians don't worry about to fall "in the dark side of the Force"? Too I am angry with Games Workshop and the church of Sigmar from Warhammer Fantasy, with those cliché about close-minded clery who wants destroy all they can't understand (and the "church" from Warhammer 40.000. Other example about stereotypes with the clery are the "universal church" from the rpg "Fading Suns". I don't like the cliche "priests don't like science". Please! do you know the father of the teory of the Big Bang was a priest, George Lemaître? </p><p> </p><p>In the fiction the atheist gives a speech againts the religious hipocrisy and bigotry, and he doesn't find an answer, but in the real life you can find a Christian who isn't like Ned Flanders, has readen Maria Valtorta's vision of the life of Jesus and tells you a lot of things you don't know, for example the brutal massacre in the region of la Vendée, Mao's cultural revolution, tortures in the chekas or about Madam Roland's last words ("Oh liberty! what crimes are commited in your name!"). </p><p></p><p>How to say it softly? Do you remember the Technocracy from the rpg "Mage: the Ascesion"? Haven't you wondered any time maybe you are receiving a lot of propaganda againts anything because the true reason is it can't be controlled by them, or it's an obstacle againts their plans of social ingeneering? John Jonah Jameson says everytime Spiderman is a public menace, but you can't believe all is told by the Daily Bugle, can you? </p><p></p><p>* We love ancient Egypt, and this is a greate source of inspiration for fantasy fiction, but we know nothing about the Copt community, the true folk who built the pyramids. Can't we play Stargate SG-1 rpg because this may offend Egyptians?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 7739347, member: 6802378"] For me the orcs aren't an analogy of the Blackafrican community, but they are inspired in the European barbarians before the Middle Age. A example of how fiction is a softer way to tell about reality is the honored matres from the Frank Herbert's Dune saga is (without spoilers) to tell us the slaves from yesterday can become the tyrants of the tomorrow. We have to take care. If there is a RPG about the far west, we can talk about the stereotype of the Northamerican indigenous in the fiction. If we are talking about the action-live of "Assasin Creed" somebody can says Hollywood has told the truth about the reconquest of the Granada kingdom. We talk about History, one of the main source of inspiration for fiction, and RPGs, but we don't want to be having a hard time with controversies. We aren't only in the internet age. Also we are in the cultural contrarevolution. This means a sector of public opinion is starting to rebell againt certains stereotypes from the main media, for example the character Joseph Seed, the main antagonist from the videogame "Far Cry 5". I am Spanish and I live in Spain. I can tell the things from my own point of view, and I say from here most of people know about USA is (almost) only New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, because amost all the soap operas and high school teleseries happen there. We can't to point in the map where are Ontario, New Yersey, Idaho or Minessota, because here in the school we study the European capital cities. How to telling it politely? If you think the cartoon show "A family guy" or "Sourth Park" are offensive for Christian community, you can't imagine any covers from the satiric magazine "el Jueves". (the Spanish equivalent "Charlie Hebbo" or "MAD magazine"). Here the anti-clericalism in the media is very strong, and we have suffered some incidents. And now lot of people are wondering why nasty hostility againts Catholic church is allowed but the respect for Muslim community because we have to stop islamophobia. Do you remember the sentinel robots from the comics of X-Men? This teachs us we can't trust who presents themself as defenders to the masses against those who have more power because they may be a worse menace. We can say mutant-hunter robots, but also we could say the same about who warns us againts the preachers like the (false) reverend Harry Powell from "the night of the hunter", but they may be the true wolves in lamb's clothes. Warning, the new Harry Powell now aren't preaching about God and the Gospel but about freedom and revolution. Do remember Robespierre's terror. If you really want to help to stop hate and fanaticism, then you must defend the respect of human dignity. If we don't defend the human dignity, then Joffrey Baratheon with a crossbow can shot a tied woman, or Sansa Stark can send a hungry pack of dogs to devour her ex-husband. Without respect for the human dignity then we are tainted by the "dark side of the Force" and the monster-hunter becomes a monster too. Without respect for human dignity the rebel againts the oppression becomes a new tyrant, like the character Magneto, from the X-Men comics. "Friends of Humanity", other antagonist faction, suffer the same mistake, they are villains because they want to protect (some) innocents but they have fogorten their "enemy" too are being humans with rights and dignity. (And now the mutants haven't a very good relation with the new inhumans. It is curious, because it is the behavior than flatscans' in the past). Please, we need nobody to make remember us what Torquemada did in the past, because now we are too busy reporting about capital punishment againts Asia Bibi. (Don't you know who is her?). Can you imagine how I feel when I see the new edition of the rpg "7th Sea" and I imagine Castilla and the Vatican Church according to the author's vision, with their possible predjucices? I don't forget this quote from the back cover of "los Vagos": a terrifying Inquisition drags innocent citizens from the homes". The real inquisition by the Vatican Church in the real-life Castilla didn't that. Who dragged innocet cittizens from the homes? The communists in Spain 30's. They were trying a genocide, and today in the facade of the church is written "¡ARDERÉIS COMO EN EL 36!" ( = you will burn like in (year 19)36!". You can write the phrase in Spanish languange in image google to find real photos of this words. Why have I to feel ashamed about what happened in "Castilla" centuries ago, but the anti-Christians don't worry about to fall "in the dark side of the Force"? Too I am angry with Games Workshop and the church of Sigmar from Warhammer Fantasy, with those cliché about close-minded clery who wants destroy all they can't understand (and the "church" from Warhammer 40.000. Other example about stereotypes with the clery are the "universal church" from the rpg "Fading Suns". I don't like the cliche "priests don't like science". Please! do you know the father of the teory of the Big Bang was a priest, George Lemaître? In the fiction the atheist gives a speech againts the religious hipocrisy and bigotry, and he doesn't find an answer, but in the real life you can find a Christian who isn't like Ned Flanders, has readen Maria Valtorta's vision of the life of Jesus and tells you a lot of things you don't know, for example the brutal massacre in the region of la Vendée, Mao's cultural revolution, tortures in the chekas or about Madam Roland's last words ("Oh liberty! what crimes are commited in your name!"). How to say it softly? Do you remember the Technocracy from the rpg "Mage: the Ascesion"? Haven't you wondered any time maybe you are receiving a lot of propaganda againts anything because the true reason is it can't be controlled by them, or it's an obstacle againts their plans of social ingeneering? John Jonah Jameson says everytime Spiderman is a public menace, but you can't believe all is told by the Daily Bugle, can you? * We love ancient Egypt, and this is a greate source of inspiration for fantasy fiction, but we know nothing about the Copt community, the true folk who built the pyramids. Can't we play Stargate SG-1 rpg because this may offend Egyptians? [/QUOTE]
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