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<blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8508160" data-attributes="member: 6778210">Yeah, I just don't get this. People are expressing problems with people who likely aren't familiar with the cultures they are trying to take cues from and pointing out problems. That you see a lot of it going on is because people are more comfortable to try and express this compared to other years.And I don't know how to bridge the disagreement, either, because I find that the situations you talk about are so different in scale and severity from what I talk about. Talking about how creators feel worried about how their works on minorities might be perceived is just such a different thing than watching minorities get yelled at online because they think D&amp;D has some problems.I'm not a fan of Zinn, but I disagree with you on decolonizing. When you talk about a &quot;cultural revolution&quot; from the arts, I feel like you lose me because so much of decolonization in stuff like D&amp;D is more about moving away from the exotic and creating something that other people beyond myself can feel comfortable in. There are plenty of easy-to-find articles online from people within the community on the subject, and it largely centers around moving away from badly-coded language and away from standard tropes that have been used to demonize indigenous peoples and minorities alike. I suppose that's revolutionary in a sense, but comparing it to Mao feels inappropriate. We do, but I'm also an American who kickstarted a Wild West game made by Swedes, so... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Justice and Rule, post: 8508160, member: 6778210"] Yeah, I just don't get this. People are expressing problems with people who likely aren't familiar with the cultures they are trying to take cues from and pointing out problems. That you see a lot of it going on is because people are more comfortable to try and express this compared to other years. And I don't know how to bridge the disagreement, either, because I find that the situations you talk about are so different in scale and severity from what I talk about. Talking about how creators feel worried about how their works on minorities might be perceived is just such a different thing than watching minorities get yelled at online because they think D&D has some problems. I'm not a fan of Zinn, but I disagree with you on decolonizing. When you talk about a "cultural revolution" from the arts, I feel like you lose me because so much of decolonization in stuff like D&D is more about moving away from the exotic and creating something that other people beyond myself can feel comfortable in. There are plenty of easy-to-find articles online from people within the community on the subject, and it largely centers around moving away from badly-coded language and away from standard tropes that have been used to demonize indigenous peoples and minorities alike. I suppose that's revolutionary in a sense, but comparing it to Mao feels inappropriate. We do, but I'm also an American who kickstarted a Wild West game made by Swedes, so... :P [/QUOTE]

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