@Cube6392

*nods*

I like that the broader hobby is at least trying right now - even with as small of changes as shifting from ‘race’ to ‘ancestry’ or ‘background’ for establishing starting character genotype/phenotype - but it’s depressing how much pushback even that gets from folks who want to defend the way it’s always been.

The fact that most of the folks looking to defend the racism are *also* the ones who want to insist that incredibly sexist worlds are “historical”… in a fantasy game?

@Shyfer Not gonna lie, I’m surprised this has to be said?

Like… everything I’ve *ever* heard about Gygax pushed the idea that he was THE prototypical grognard that causes the TTRPG hobby so much trouble.

Dungeons and Dragons, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, all the way up through at least 3rd Ed and with continuing themes past that… it has obvious racist and sexist roots in so much of how things are set up, and that’s always the first thing I try to throw out any time I run a game.

@Yoz @Gregu

Pretty much this TBH. Like, complaining that Adobe doesn’t want to support Firefox is like complaining because your Norton Antivirus doesn’t like your VPN. It’s kinda to be expected.

Combining that with all the anti-Microsoft talk in the thread just makes it funnier to me, as a combination Linux and Windows user who uses almost an entire program suite of free or cheap alternatives to the big names (Krita/Blender/etc. instead of Adobe, Firefox, LibreOffice, etc.)

Am I the weirdo?