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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 8490120" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>I wonder that too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> <em><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>(The thread is almost exactly fourteen years old <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/new_icon.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":n:" title="newitem :n:" data-shortname=":n:" />)</em></span></em></p><p></p><p>What I wish for Christmas is that the tide soon turns - that tabletop rpgs can once again be discussed in similar ways to art, literature and film where there's no criteria for acceptability that all works need to please or even respect everybody. In art, literature and film you can have content that titillate or shock; annoy or offend. There you can openly discuss the incorrect and the avant-garde. There, the proper course of action if you dislike something is to ignore it, rather than argue for it to change and conform.</p><p></p><p>I have just fondly looked back at a bygone era, an era conjured by this very thread; an era where those people that didn't like nudity simply chose games without, instead of demonizing the games with. An era when liking games featuring things somebody else might dislike or feel excluded by (the nude female form, say) weren't cast with suspicion or projection or branded as attacking the sensibilities of others.</p><p></p><p>I have to believe the way forward to reach this turning of the tide is to see more games created that you like, so you can blissfully skip those you don't like. In the current climate of homogenizing the market to include everybody and offend nobody I worry for the future. And so should you, if our history of treating art is anything to go by.</p><p></p><p>And with that, cheers to more games that are offensive, lewd and generally just annoying! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🍻" title="Clinking beer mugs :beers:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f37b.png" data-shortname=":beers:" /> Not because we can then feel equally excluded and offended, but because diversity and risk-taking means we are more likely to both find something that astounds us! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🎄" title="Christmas tree :christmas_tree:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f384.png" data-shortname=":christmas_tree:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🎄" title="Christmas tree :christmas_tree:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f384.png" data-shortname=":christmas_tree:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🎄" title="Christmas tree :christmas_tree:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f384.png" data-shortname=":christmas_tree:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 8490120, member: 12731"] I wonder that too ;) [I][SIZE=3][I](The thread is almost exactly fourteen years old :n:)[/I][/SIZE][/I] What I wish for Christmas is that the tide soon turns - that tabletop rpgs can once again be discussed in similar ways to art, literature and film where there's no criteria for acceptability that all works need to please or even respect everybody. In art, literature and film you can have content that titillate or shock; annoy or offend. There you can openly discuss the incorrect and the avant-garde. There, the proper course of action if you dislike something is to ignore it, rather than argue for it to change and conform. I have just fondly looked back at a bygone era, an era conjured by this very thread; an era where those people that didn't like nudity simply chose games without, instead of demonizing the games with. An era when liking games featuring things somebody else might dislike or feel excluded by (the nude female form, say) weren't cast with suspicion or projection or branded as attacking the sensibilities of others. I have to believe the way forward to reach this turning of the tide is to see more games created that you like, so you can blissfully skip those you don't like. In the current climate of homogenizing the market to include everybody and offend nobody I worry for the future. And so should you, if our history of treating art is anything to go by. And with that, cheers to more games that are offensive, lewd and generally just annoying! :)🍻 Not because we can then feel equally excluded and offended, but because diversity and risk-taking means we are more likely to both find something that astounds us! 🎄🎄🎄 [/QUOTE]
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