tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post4859788283174582682..comments2024-03-28T22:00:35.840-07:00Comments on Playing D&D With Porn Stars: Relevant Retropost Saturday NightZak Sabbathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-63571795438838770182017-08-13T19:04:07.409-07:002017-08-13T19:04:07.409-07:00All true. (Also FM Geist's analysis.)
Also -...All true. (Also FM Geist's analysis.) <br /><br />Also - modules like White Plume Mountain (for example) also elicit nostalgia for an uncomplicated mindset of the mid-teens that is essentially unavailable for adults with, shall we say, any level of aesthetic, social or political sophistication. <br /><br />Because that nostalgia is so strong the emotional investment is too high for such a (now admittedly) crappy module to simply be shrugged off. So a reclamation or denunciation project is undertaken where a fairly crappy module retains a place of importance in some kind of navigation of adulthood when it should probably be left behind with pop tarts and after school cartoons. <br /><br />The emotional investment factor probably also includes the amount of besieged defensiveness a lot of former outcast nerds put in when being spitballed in the school library. They had to insist what they were doing was cool so much they now can't admit it probably wasn't. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02838439525844586628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-74802092632043187262017-08-13T15:03:42.253-07:002017-08-13T15:03:42.253-07:00I hope that isn't sarcastic cause I'm blus...I hope that isn't sarcastic cause I'm blushingFM Geisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06185541338779784634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-61991332657921629442017-08-13T14:17:43.502-07:002017-08-13T14:17:43.502-07:00solid analysis, girlsolid analysis, girlZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638993969706011706.post-70793223057181911902017-08-13T08:23:32.246-07:002017-08-13T08:23:32.246-07:00I think what's maybe pernicious (or specifical...I think what's maybe pernicious (or specifically pernicious) about the faux radical critique of mainstream production is the embedded assumptions that:<br />1) the use of something open ended (to varying degrees) will be most likely used in the most racist/sexist/classist/homophobic/whatever way [honorable mention: everything about racism and BitC] <br />2) there is a neutral arbiter that awards the "true interpretation" from someone who remedially learned basic concepts of critical theory from bastions of awfulness (SA, Gawker media subsidiaries, everyday feminism [which is run by the gross SWERF Polaris Project which maybe distorts their point of critique but it's problematic to criticize the progressive])<br />3) that ignores various additionally 101 theory claims that objects are also interpreted by subjects (trash nerds as outlined in 1&2) and by raising their voice about it (rather than, say, making something better) they are contributing to a larger discourse <br />Which<br />4) backfires insofar as it contains a paternalistic logic that on the basis of this 101 education and entitlement the trashnerd bastion knows that (product) is why women, POC, LGBTQAI, etc folx aren't playing (rather than they're a sanctimonious scold playing a boring story game that's about their mediocre 101 ideas about social issues)<br />5) and becomes particularly toxic when those groups in question *disagree* with their assessment (like all the critical fervor about representation via skin tone & gender changes among core artwork rather than hiring changes regarding those artists or buying indie games by the folx that they're supposedly trying to protect <br /><br />Which probably is why their ire is directed at smaller rather than larger producers of product for them to critique because it's easier to harass an individual than the customer support line for a large corporation and it feels more important for some reasonFM Geisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06185541338779784634noreply@blogger.com