tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116962779728480800.post995455169359618342..comments2024-03-25T03:52:40.426-07:00Comments on The Ongoing Campaign: Gah! Not More Inspiration…faoladhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03691952430041394614noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116962779728480800.post-47691347572734243292012-01-12T18:12:24.524-08:002012-01-12T18:12:24.524-08:00Until Canada credibly apologizes for Justin Bieber...Until Canada credibly apologizes for Justin Bieber, we will fight them in the fields, we will fight them in the convenience stores, we will fight them in the coffee shops…faoladhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691952430041394614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116962779728480800.post-47768243296460325972012-01-12T16:50:48.613-08:002012-01-12T16:50:48.613-08:00WE AM NOT! WE IS BIZZY MAKING PLANS TO TAKE YOU Q...WE AM NOT! WE IS BIZZY MAKING PLANS TO TAKE YOU QUIETLY BAK INTO HER MAJISTEES COMMINWELTH WHEN YOU ARE CALLAPSE!!1<br /><br />DON'T WORRY, WE WILL TREET OUR NEW SUBJECTS WELL, YOU ARE WILL HAVE HELTHCARE WHILE YUO TOIL IN TEH MINES!<br />:p<br />NUNYAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116962779728480800.post-52961492390582980732012-01-12T12:16:21.801-08:002012-01-12T12:16:21.801-08:00No, I see exactly what you're saying. I've...No, I see exactly what you're saying. I've been considering exploring the implicit racism of traditional fantasy in the Fantasy West game by making orcs into the Peculiar Institution, complete with being shipped unwillingly from across the sea. It would be difficult to handle sensitively (I'd probably take some cues from <i>Steal Away Jordan</i>), but I'm fairly confident that I can treat it well.<br /><br />That's a damned interesting way to look at it. Anyone with half a brain can look and see that the West in general, and the US in particular, is approaching the end of its time. It's doing all the same things that every other empire in history has done, and its world of culture seems to be concentrating on the same things that every other dying empire's world of culture concentrates on. If we're elves, we're more like Drow or Melnibonéans than Sindarin. We sure as heck aren't singing quietly on our way to the Grey Havens. Well, maybe the Canadians are.faoladhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691952430041394614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116962779728480800.post-23186915904128636742012-01-12T10:21:10.651-08:002012-01-12T10:21:10.651-08:00I had a similar thought years ago while watching &...I had a similar thought years ago while watching "Last Man Standing" on Discovery Channel (short version: strong and fit Western athletes travel the globe to participate in trials of strength, speed and fitness and performed by indigenous 3rd world cultures) but I couldn't find a way to phrase it without sounding like a total douchebag racist. <br /><br />If you'll take it as read that I am not consciously or intentionally being a douchebag racist, here was my thought:<br /><br />We, the Western world, are Elves. We live longer, have better diets, and are better educated than these aboriginal cultures. In return, we reproduce less(especially in Europe) and have a slowly decaying civilization built upon a legacy of former glory and artifacts of global destruction. <br /><br />These aboriginal cultures... crap diet, no formal education to speak of, smaller than most of us... but damn if they don't have a strong warrior spirit and are thriving in locations that would kick all of our asses. They're orcs, but I don't mean to imply they're ugly or stupid, just very, very different. <br /><br />I look at them, and then I look at us, and I think: We're on our way out, aren't we?Erin Palettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.com