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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8032771" data-attributes="member: 18">Obviously they will though. That's the thing. This is a fantastical fear imo. I've never seen it play out in the way you're concerned about. I've seen racist and sexist and other bigoted elements removed from stuff my whole lifetime. So have you. Unless is something is "made of racism", removing racism isn't going to ruin it, is it? TNG, compared to TOS, is a massively expurgated thing, massively more "PC" as some people put it. Especially after S1 and S2, when ironically Roddenberry was holding it back. Yet those post-Roddenberry seasons are when TNG starts to shine, and when it becomes this totally beloved TV series.Ironically, the most recent TNG-relative is, if anything, not PC enough! Picard was not the natural progression from TNG, but if anything a bit of a regression in a TOS-like direction.So this idea that we're going to see some D&D which is nothing because everything "offensive" has been cut out to me seems laughable. D&D just doesn't have that many offensive elements (really we're looking mostly at two races, and one concept - that concept being alignment fixed by birth). I mean, the basic setup is terrifying, but no-one is addressing that, nor are they going to. Kill people and take their stuff is arguably the most offensive thing about D&D, but equally it's not something that's going to be addressed by our culture any time soon.Is this low-quality satire? This feels like a very bad attempt at satire. I guess by your own logic you can't dismiss my feeling that you're engaging in low-quality satire, if that's the sad game you want to play, but good god, this some silly stuff.More to the point, it's outright bad-faith argument, and a transparently bad-faith one too.</blockquote>

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