Do these kinds of warning really deter their target audience?
>>97408453Given how much of a hissy fit people on here threw over the "you will not be missed" thing, I guess so.
Why wouldn't it? If the first thing someone does in their RPG book is virtue signal I know they've made nothing of worth and I can put it down without missing anything.
>>97408453Worked on me. I read this line and recognized that as a normal dude I can tell this game creator is too far gone to write a good game. It's the brightly colored hair thing all over again. It's actually a blessing they don't hide their intentions as it allows me to make informed decisions at a glance.
Stuff like this plus trigger cards exist for spergs unable to talk to people. 99% of the time simply talking with people works.
>>97408494This.>>97408453What system, what book, what pg number?
>>97408453I'm playing a fascist in Werewolf 5 right now so no.
>>97408453It's the equivalent of putting an overweight vitiligo obeaste in a videogame: by virtue signaling you've announced your game sucks and is forced to rely on performative culture war gimmicks to make sales. I'd think the same about a blurb that said something along the lines of WARNING: THIS GAME AIN'T FOR WOKE SNOWFLAKE SISSIES but you don't exactly see that much since it'd gey your game whisper networked to death like myfarog
>>97408453>Do these kinds of warning really deter their target audience?I think they do but not in the way they think they do.They deter me because they give me the impression that if I try to play games that have such warnings that I’ll be dealing with those that have a hair trigger of being triggered if I do much as exist in a way that can interpreted as problematic. So the safest option is to not play or carefully vet the players.Also I think it is a little sad that these kinds of warnings show just how rent free bigots and phobes are in the minds of game writers.
>>97408453Since woke freakazoids are too busy constantly thinking about performative gay race communism shit instead of learning to be competent at game design, or actually refining their taste with real art and literature, any time you see something like this you immediately know the whole product is worthless dogshit and you can safely put it down and save your money.
I have nigger and women fatigue.
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>>97408453deter the audience that they want to sell their game to? I’d say in most cases yes. I read this and I immediately know the writer has a crippling case of guilty conscience for making something considered heretical or verging on heretical for progressive types. This mental hangup with be an overarching burden on the quality of the writing and the quality of the game.
>>97408581This.
They cause a huge amount of seething and saltiness.
>>97408453I'm neither a phobe or a bigot, but I have no patience for this kind of performative bullshit or purity testing.
>>97408580You mad bro.
>>97408494fpbp and also /thread because most other replies ITT are /pol/acks throwing hissy fits
>>97408658Im still waiting to hear what game its from.
>>97408636>>97408650>>97408658>u mad brosays the triple reply 1 min apart
>>97408453>of any kind (except the ones we agree with)FTFT
>>97408453Well, are you talking about how much you hate and will never play them on 4chan?Seems like it's working exactly as intended, anon.
>>97408650I'm mad that retarded evil child molesting leftoids exist who are ruining every part of my country, culture, heritage, gaming spaces, flooding us with immigrants, etc? Making everything ugly, being constantly annoying and faggy both on the internet and in real life, making my life more expensive, being disruptive faggots everywhere all the time? Yeah, no shit dude, wow very observant of you. Can't imagine how anyone could get mad about that.
>>97408453probably made for Lawyers or Courts stuff?
>you will not be missed>ok, byehaha another nazi owned! did you see how he was soooo mad? a-anyone seen the epic pwn I just did here? destruction 100 amirite? that was like suuuuch an epic win xomradesEDIT: thank you for the gold kind stranger!
>>97408453I can only speak for myself: if a game has the mandatory label with the proformative olivia hill rule alike "le fascist/nazis not welcome" i just directly discard it because most likely not worth to invest time in. 9/10 is just an unfinished concept slapped on some halfassed pbta/fitd/5e engine or, at best, the new edition of an already established game with new content hamfisted on the old one.So, in short, yes it unintentionally works because it's self filtering in separating the chaff (mentally ill larpers, the ones that will engage with that label as something that exist in good faith) from the weat, genuine hobbyists (like me) that can single out that fake antagonistic front at glance.
>>97408703being a nazi isnt illegal unless you live in eur*pe
>>97408453No. Because the target audience was never going to buy it in the first place unless it had a stylish aesthetic so it can sit on a table or bookshelf to not be played like Mork Borg.People who actually play TTRPGs are not the intended audience.
>>97408703Don't be fucking ridiculous, anon.
>>97408453Now I'm imagining Nick Fuenty, Ye, Candace Owens, and Empathchan sitting down to play some PBTA slop and seeing the "No phobes" message and dejectedly going home.
>>97408756>xhe actually thinks about these lolcows unpromptedHoly fuck, that's the saddest thing I've read all day
>>97408756>Respect sex workersWhy should I respect the whores that constantly groomed me as a child on twitter? We need a new Jack the Ripper.
>>97408756Kek, these queermos will be this intentionally obnoxious and abrasive and then wonder why fascism is on the rise all over the western world.We're really gonna see Hitler 2.0 in the next 5 years I think.
>>97408703I legitimately hope that is the case.>>97408733I get similar feelings too.At worst these kinds of games are for the kind of someone that gets easily offended at anything really. Let the product distract those validates of bad stereotypes from what the rest of the lgs regulars are enjoying.
>>97408773erm... they have NO OTHER OPTIONS, chud
>>97408453In my experience it's the same when a frog has very bright colors or a woman has a nose ring and colored hair.It means you shouldn't come close because it will suck if you do, people that virtue signal are basically doing you a favor by broadcasting you shouldn't invest time or money on them especially if it's your hobby time and money.
>>97408780Literal rapist mindset.
>>97408453It feels like the people who make these warnings think far more about the people they're trying to deter than vice versa, considering that chuds can still buy these games and make them as transphobic as they want to in private
>>97408773These people justify their getting treats in any way they can. The myth of the empowered stripper paying for medical school is just that. Chances are the money is going to her abusive druggie boyfriend. Same with hookers, they'd rather not face the reality of trafficking. Read the NYT article about PornHub sometime. There's some surface levels liberal and leftist ideals but they're ultimately deeply selfish lazy people. EG if you say anything about Doordash exploiting its workers on Bluesky you'll get a bunch of these freaks saying that disabled people will starve without the app.
>>97408870Remember when they legalized sex work in Germany, and women were being hired by brothels and they had to accept or they were going to lose their unemployment benefits?
>>97408870>you'll get a bunch of these freaks saying that disabled people will starve without the app.Those are members of a paid harassment squad, anon.
>>97408550How long until you fall to the Wyrm
>>97408894No. Tell me more about it.
>>97408870>EG if you say anything about Doordash exploiting its workers on Bluesky you'll get a bunch of these freaks saying that disabled people will starve without the app.Both of this things can be true at the same time
>>97408773>whores that constantly groomed me as a child on twitterWhat were you doing in twitter as a kid? Did your parent knew you were talking to strangers? Is the same with gambling apps, shit needs to be look into but people also hate regulation.
>>97408978It was the hip new thing and I was a teenager, would you rather I was shitposting on 4chan?
It doesn't deter me, but it can be off-putting when written with such hostility or obvious virtue signaling. I'm technically "liberal" and "queer". But I don't really give a fuck. At worst it can be incredibly obnoxious when it's obvious rage-baiting or virtue signaling, as in the OP's example. But that won't stop me from trying a game, because the Author's opinions don't matter to me.I was reading a preamble for a new TTRPG last night, and this was at the end of it. Pretty tame, and not at all off-putting. Just stating expectations, and this was the only mention of it at all. Didn't really need to be stated, but it was in the 'expectations' section of the preamble, so it wasn't out of place.>Furthermore, if you have an issue with equal representation, this book is not for you. Its illustrations and writing features queer and diverse characters.
>>97409029That still reeks of "Advertising minority presence", which is as bad as tokenism if not worse
>>97409005Not really all that different
>>97408894It's really gross to commodify basic human interactions, sexuality, reproduction, etc. I'm pretty leftist but I'd have a huge crackdown on all this shit if I were in charge.
>>97409052Fair, also it happened on places like Gaia Online and MSN, camwhores were a problem back then as well so it wasn't purely a social media issue.
>>97409058Hard when prostitution is one of the oldest things in the world. For a long time men have been willing to pay for sex, and as they say, the product only appears when there's a demand for it. And no, having a partner doesn't really stop this, because married men buy prostitutes as well, sometimes just because they can.
>>97409058>I'm pretty leftist but I'd have a huge crackdownYeah I know.
>>97409068Wanna know another profession that's just as old? Slave trader.
>>97409087Capitalism doesn't mesh well with slavery since you need people to earn money so they can spend it. Now, you now with what Capitalism do mesh well with?
>>97409111Slavery. Just because your workers are paid doesn't mean they're not owned.
>>97408453>Do these kinds of warning really deter their target audience?Well, no, because that's not the intent; their intent is actually to show the "modern audience" (their target audience) just what "good guys" they are. On places like Reddit you can often see threads where they circlejerk about this kind of nonsense, both in /tg/ related games and video games subreddits.
>>97409087Nah, not really. Slave trading requires, at least, the idea of personal property, an actual market system, usually a secondary population to be enslaved. Trading food for sex is way older than that, you fucking retard. Farmers are an older profession than Slave traders and those took (comparitively) forever to exist before prostitution.
>>97409120>"Working a job is just like slavery you guys!"Midwit take
>>9740913350 years ago today is not the same as 50 years ago 5000 years ago.
>>97409037Normally I'd agree. But this wasn't placed in such a way as to even be noticed unless you were actively reading the entire preamble. You wouldn't even notice it at all if you were skimming. But I do agree with you, I've seen the blatant advertising plenty of times.
