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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3629253" data-attributes="member: 307">I think that this thread pretty much demonstrates that &quot;Magic Walmart&quot; is a useless term, because debating the offensiveness or non-offensiveness of the term has entirely taken over the thread. Which is pretty much also what happens when someone says &quot;pokemount&quot; or any of the other, loaded terms that get bandied about. The discussion screeches to a halt while everyone goes off on a seven page tangent about what the terms means, whether it is offensive or not, and how, even if it might be offensive, they were just using it in a non-offending way and so on.Which pretty much occludes the actual nature of the issue which is this: what level of commodification of magic is appropriate, and has anyone actually gamed in a campaign in which magic was treated as being available in a similar way to the goods in a discount department store?But instead everyone is arguing over whether dismissive and (as originally conceived) derisive terms are or are not dismissive and derisive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 3629253, member: 307"] I think that this thread pretty much demonstrates that "Magic Walmart" is a useless term, because debating the offensiveness or non-offensiveness of the term has entirely taken over the thread. Which is pretty much also what happens when someone says "pokemount" or any of the other, loaded terms that get bandied about. The discussion screeches to a halt while everyone goes off on a seven page tangent about what the terms means, whether it is offensive or not, and how, even if it [i]might[/i] be offensive, [i]they[/i] were just using it in a non-offending way and so on. Which pretty much occludes the actual nature of the issue which is this: what level of commodification of magic is appropriate, and has anyone actually gamed in a campaign in which magic was treated as being available in a similar way to the goods in a discount department store? But instead everyone is arguing over whether dismissive and (as originally conceived) derisive terms are or are not dismissive and derisive. [/QUOTE]

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