Recently got into MTG and I love LOTR so I was gonna buy a deck then I saw they made Aragorn a fucking black. I’ll stick to Yu-Gi-Oh.
just like make your own tcg and have a King of Ethiopia and make him a white guy
White aragorn might have pleased you (if you're real) but it would have also been forgettable and they wouldn't have sold nearly as many packs as they did.
>>94049967>blackwashing white culture is okay, as long as it makes corporations more moneyGreat.
>>94049992It's okay in any context. White Black Panther is fine. The leftoid hypocrites aren't here, it's just you parroting their arguments because you have no moral foundation of your own.
>>94049967>The of the most recognizable fantasy IP of all time doing a crossover with the #1 fantasy TCG wouldn’t have sold if they didn’t make an MC black I can hear your dreidel spinning from here.
>>94050118You know I'm right. I love their old concept art of white Aragorn, it fits better than Viggo Mortensen, but to most people it would have been like the Sam's Club version of Viggo Mortensen.
>>94050024Nobody mentioned anything about black panther. You’re the one parroting straw man arguments.
>>94049894Damn son, you been under a rock the last year? I ain't gonna tell you about the show Amazon made then.
>>94050182I’m not an ameritard so I don’t know what the fuck a Sam’s club is but you’re most definitely not right in any sense of the word.
>>94050024>Moral foundationJust parroting "current year" beliefs or being a homosexual universalist doesn't equate to a "moral foundation".
>>94050206Way I see it it’s just high budget fanfiction. I wasn’t gonna watch it anyway. But I was going to buy a MTG LOTR deck until I saw this.
>>94050219Imagine an Aldi but 3 times as big and not ghetto.
>>94050246That's exactly what it is, Fanfiction.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU HAVE YOUR OWN INTERPRETATION OF LORD OF THE RINGS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS ****LITERALLY**** WHITE GENOCIDE
>>94050247I’m not a europoor so idk what the fuck an aldi is either
>>94050275Your own interpretation? What the fuck does that even mean in this context? Aragorn isn’t a metaphor or a philosophy. He’s quite clearly described as being white in the books. Make him whatever colour you want in your gay fanfiction but this is my only available option for MTG and they’ve ruined it.
>>94050024Part of my moral foundation is that it isn't okay to blackwash white culture.Your post sounds like an AI wrote it.
>>94050368There's no such thing as 'blackwashing'. The whole reason 'whitewashing' exists is because of the long trend of making characters whose race doesn't matter white. TV shows had a sea of white faces for this reason and it becomes much more noticeable when this stuff starts encroaching on characters whose races DO matter. Unless we end up in a situation where every single character whose race is not specified ends up being black I don't want to hear your complaints.
>>94049894It's not just Aragorn
I dont care what they taught you, Aragorn was black
>>94050403Why is Gandalf black on some cards and Asian on others? Is he like a race skinwalker?
>>94050398>There's no such thing as 'blackwashing'.There is, and you're a bad person for pretending otherwise.>I don't want to hear your complaints.Too bad, don't care.
>>94050398No man, its literally the same thing as blackwashing, why do you think people complained about the white pharo picture, or anglosaxon romans, or the scandinavian jesuses? If you look at old enough textbooks you can find white hannibals.
>>94050237When people complain about "blackwashing" they're parroting liberal arguments about whitewashing. This is normal because English-speaking conservatives have no moral foundation of their own, they're appealing to normal western liberal values, just like the liberals are. >>94050368Why not? >>94050398I actually don't agree, Aragorn is a key figure in a fictional European creation myth, his race matters and if they make him black I think it's accurate to call that blackwashing. And there's nothing wrong with complaining about it as a matter of taste, but people keep asserting that it's morally wrong or that it's harmful to their culture, and the closest they come to defending their argument is to paraphrase arguments that liberals made about whitewashing 40 years ago. It's not as though people haven't been exposed to the idea of white Aragorn. White children don't need help to understand the fact that white people are allowed to be heroes and leaders. We may come to that point someday but we aren't there yet.I'll say this, the black children (in the English-speaking world) don't really need it anymore either, so all the Hasbro talk about the virtues of diversity is pretty hollow (the real reason they made Aragorn black was to stand out and create buzz because they wanted to draw attention to their One Ring lottery).
>>94050446He actually could be, but of course he isn't supposed to be, it's just cheap art with bad art direction.
>>94050548>Why not?Because I am white, and I have a moral duty towards my people.Part of that duty involves preserving white culture. In rather the same way that you have a duty to preserve a family heirloom.
There's no reason any character should be black desu
>>94049894Man I'm glad I'm not so fragile as this poor Caucasoid.Never in the books does Tolkien describe Aragorn's skin color. That's just the bottom line.Various factors /suggest/ Caucasian appearance, such as the general description of the Dunedain being fair complexion, and that Tolkien geographically centered his world building around historical real world where the people were largely Caucasian but art needn't labor under suggestions.He looks cool, if you'd get over your culture war for a second. Sorry they couldn't pay New Line for Viggo's likeness.
>>94050755>Frodo found that Strider was now looking at him, as if he had heard or guessed all that had been said. Presently, with a wave of his hand and a nod, he invited Frodo to come over and sit by him. As Frodo drew near he threw back his hood, showing a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes.
>>94050608You can be as petty as you want and you can get as offended as you want, no one can stop you, but that doesn't make it a moral duty.
>>94050784you can't expect these people to have read the source material
>>94050800I do have a moral duty, and what's more, it is a practical necessity as well.
Wait a second Aragorn is not normally black
>>94050755Black Aragorn really doesn't look cool.Does anyone have the old concept art for this where it's the same composition but he's white and has a better sword? I tried to google it but all I'm seeing are shoops with Viggo.
>>94050814lolLike I said, English-speaking rightoids don't have any moral foundation of their own.
>>94050835lol
>>94050849AI response
>>94050784Oh so it does. I checked my own book.To my defense a nigga's face can be described as pale if he's ashy or exhausted or something, but carry on. Now I wanna read again, scanning for that line reminded me of all the extra stuff in the Prancing Pony that was cut from the films.>>94050840That one doesn't, and that Anduril looks dumb, but the OP card looks fine. Cool old black guy with a beard.
>>94050849tell me what you mean by "english-speaking rightoids" right nowtell me what non-english-speaking countries have the democratic-republican bipartisan divide, and then tell me why whenever left-right bipartisanism is brought up it's because of americans I need informationif you can't articulate an intelligent response, you're a word salad regurgitation algorithm on the internet
>>94050898NTA, I'm pretty sure the guy you're replying to is a bot/AI
>>94050868Black Aragorn always looks smug and oafish (not because he's black but because of his facial expressions), it's not an Aragorn, it's more of a generic woke hero. Aragorn is supposed to project a constant sense of sternness with occasional stirrings of humor or compassion.
>>94049894RETURN OF THE KANG AND SHEEEEIT
>>94050898I mean English-speaking rightoids. Dumbass. I'm not saying anything about other cultures (not even through omission), I'm just pointing out that most English-speakers live in liberal western democracies and share certain values with other English-speakers.>>94050905lol
>>94050868It's extremely rare/impossible to have your face be ashy.I love you
>>94050182Faggot.
>>94050755Kindly keep your revisionist bullshit in Reddit where it belongs. All characters in LotR are white, and that is a simple fact.
>>94049894>upset about seeing a black person>decides to stick to Yu-Gi-OhInteresting choice.
>>94051004The badguys are swarthy.
>>94050755Retard.
>>94049894Leftists aren't actually the creative types that they make themselves out to be. All they can do is churn out vapid political propaganda
>>94050548>This is normal because English-speaking conservatives have no moral foundation of their ownThis isn't a real argument. This "moral foundation" could simply be true, and thus its invocation could be justified by both conservatives and "liberals"
Why does a URG card have lifelink + vig
>>94050548>When people complain about "blackwashing" they're parroting liberal arguments about whitewashingNo they're not.Blackwashing is animated by racially-aware, anti-egalitarian resentment of Whites. Complaining about blackwashing is animated by naive, colour-blind egalitarianism. These positions have fundamentally opposed moral foundations.
>>94049894Yeah this was one of the biggest things to push me out of the game, I'd hung on way to long.Also lol the fucking flavor text is about him fucking white women and having children. Muttslaw.
>>94049894Rightly so. If you give money to left-wing pigs, you are helping them erase your history and import foreigners to rape and murder your people. Imagine being a white person and playing games made by people who hate your entire race. Embarrassing!
>>94051738Das rite
>>94049894Tell me about your last match.
>>94049967Facetious Jew. Viggo's Aragorn is the most iconic fantasy human across any media ever created and is forever ingrained as the face of LotR even amongst turbo-autists that still endlessly seethe over the film trilogy not being perfectly lore accurate; they see his face when they close their eyes whether they want to or not. LTR sold because gambling addicts needed their fix of chasing a one of a kind The One Ring printing, but it would have sold even more if we got Viggo instead of Aracornrows. Will you make the argument next that McDonalds sells good food because people buy more of it when they ran the Monopoly promotions?
>>94051612How the meme of them being good at this came about I'll never know. The only thing anyone's going to remember about the Left is trannies and kangz. Especially given the Concord business you'd think they'd be backpedaling and trying to apologize, but instead they're doubling down on being anti-white and anti-woman, it's all trannies now.Crazy hill to die on.
>>94051773earth is a mulatto stud farm run by the devil.
>>94051831It's because the deadbeats used to try to be artists (and fail). And then the hippies came under the employ of the CIA who pumped out CIA funded "music" while CIA controlled media hyped frontmen up much like what they did with the introduction of rap "music" as part of their social psychiology research. Meanwhile they flooded the US with LSD. And then there's communist controlled hollywood which due to its prominence in the US and the FAG guild's intentional exclusion of anti-communists.
bros im addicted to bbc
>>94051962Based tranny
>>94049894Have you tried not being such a fragile little prison bitch that a piece of cardboard makes you freak out?
>>94049992>"White culture"What culture is that? Mayonnaise and Tuna, or getting into black culture thirty years after they do?
>>94052001Have you tried not being such a fragile little prison bitch that white skin makes you freak out?
>>94050868>"T-T-To my defense!"Fucking weak cuckold. Lmao.
>>94052008>>"White culture">What culture is that?Womens suffrage, gay marriage, trans rights, and immigration from brown skinned nations.
>>94052008pretty sure it's inventing language and spaceships, you fucking retard
>>94050275nobody cares unless the interpretation suckswhich it doesso suddenly we care
>>94052025Inventing hormone replacement therapy and gay pride month, you mean.
>>94052008High art, philosophy, science, medicine, advanced technological society, space travel etc.
>>94052062Yakub created those thousands of years ago
Magic is pretty fucking cringe now so it's nearly impossible to go wrong by just blanket avoiding it.
>>94052072i hope hermes trismegistus feeds you to a mechanical shark
>>94049967Why would we care about or factor in wotcs bottom line into our critiques as players though? I don’t care if bastardizing beloved franchises can be profitable for them it’s still against my interest as a fan of the IP and so I won’t just sit here and fellatio them for the sake of it. All this says to me is they don't care about any of this except for the money which just leverages the validity of all the critiques even more. >W-well they wanted outrage bait for advertising purposes so it's ok!Nah, you're just sucking wotc dick for no reason which is pathetic.
>>94052062Dogshit art filled with cultural wrecking ball moral values, satanism, AIDs/monkeypox, bottom surgeries, welfare, etc
>>94049894Hey, 2023, buy Nvidia. I know it's high already, but trust me.
>>94051693It's URW
>>94049894>recentlythis isn't recent. 16+ months is not recent.
>>94052386So it is, fug.
>>94052072Hanz also created those two thousands of years ago, before Yakub was even born
>>94052185aren't those a direct result of mixing black culture into white culture? or at least kowtowing to the angry yet stupid ladies that get offended on other people's behalf?
>>94049967>>94050024I thought you guys hated cultural appropriation so why is this ok?
>>94053389all political arguments online come down to one of two things:>pointing angrily at bell curve(s)>"it's ok when we do it" <- you are here
>>94050930LAWD OF DEM HERE RANGZ DAWG
>>94052008>>94052023>>94052062These are all accurate. White people invented a lot of shit, but culturally we're thieves and chameleons, and that's a big part of how we invented so much shit.
>>94051641Well yea, if you're asking me then most of our western liberal values are correct. And it's certainly possible for conservatives to claim some of those values and act on those values while still being conservative, but I don't see much of that. In general, a liberal thinks they have a point if they identify a problem and identify a way to mitigate said problem, whereas a conservative thinks they have a point if they catch a liberal saying something that contradicts a statement made by a different (possibly imaginary) liberal. >>94053389This guy for instance. >>94051698Your characterizations are remarkably self-indulgent, but you're welcome to them, no one is saying that both sides are the same.When liberals complain about blackwashing they're appealing to the idea that marginalization is bad (as explained by previous generations of liberals). When conservatives complain about blackwashing, they're also appealing to the idea that marginalization is bad, even though white people aren't actually being marginalized. They don't really operate on the level of identifying problems and solutions, they operate on the level of trying to counter liberals.To put it differently, they want to abolish the liberal victim olympics, but they also want to compete in the liberal victim olympics. The only time they articulate an alternative to the liberal victim olympics is when they fantasize about purging jews and trannies. >>94052159>Why would we care about or factor in wotcs bottom line into our critiques as players though?I honestly don't know. I suspect that you want to believe that you're part of a silent majority and that your nonparticipation will cause woke media to fail.
>>94058786You dropped these ((())).
