The worst thing an RPG do to kill interest in it is get political. Take Eclipse Phase for example. It went overtly political and made the factions analogous to modern politics, and now people go into it instantly deciding what they like based on what their current politics are.Warhammer 40k on the other hand does this much better. The factions hold no relation to modern politics, there are conservative and liberal reasons to like every faction so anyone can like any faction.
>>98509213Furry "fandom" goes on >>>/trash/Friendly reminder that the retarded captcha and verification measures are entirely to try to counter furfags attempting to kill the site.
>>98509213Once you have three human (or human adjacent) characters you have politics. Deal with it.
>>98509341But that doesn’t mean it’s analogous to real world politics
>>98509440The thing about real world politics is that it's so large and so all-consuming that any basic political premise can be considered an analogy to _something_.
Nigga clearing out the rats from the basement is political
>>98509257He was so real for this.
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>>98509341daily reminder that "politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed," that whether or not a work has themes or has characters or has characters that interact all have very little to do with whether the work is "political," and that what is required for a work to be "political" is for its creation to assert power over another actual person in some way.this means that roughly four things you can do with media are political:(1) in a circumstance where there is a community based on using or participating in the work (common with "fandoms," TTRPGs, etc.), making massive changes to the fundamental assumptions the work is based on, with the deliberate intention of trying to hold people's friendships in the community hostage if they don't eat the shit you're pushing. "Second Edition of [popular participatory media] introduces prominent themes that are deliberately distasteful, which were not in First Edition" is probably political, "First Edition has identical themes" probably isn't.(2) "no refunds" -- bait-and-switching people you don't like in order to take their money and thereby bleed them a bit.(3) making media that challenges the power of a censorship authority (whether a formal one or otherwise) by skirting the line with juuust enough plausible deniability that they look weak and ignorable if they let it through, and/or look like deranged fanatics if they bring the hammer down. "Everybody Draw Mohammed" is certainly political.(4) making an open and obvious show of bending the knee to that same authority, Havel's Greengrocer style, with the opposite intent.these are fairly narrow cases, most things do not in fact meet them, and they map pretty closely to what people actually do bitch about.
>>98509787it's funny because warhammer fans are like the left depiction these days
>>98509213>Take Eclipse Phase for example. It went overtly political>wentThere was no point at which Eclipse Phase was not overly political. You are a mental retard.
>>98509213Yiff in hell furfaggot>>98509642Skaven women are bloated monsters given over purely to breeding.
>>985103121 means having non-evil gay characters, or non-evil rich characters or evil black characters, or anything else the viewer doesn't vibe with2 means having the temerity to create in a genre and not hold the political opinions of the viewer3 is perhaps an overt IRL political act but easy to accuse perfectly innocent behaviour of it, same with 4So in short: your post is blather.
>>98509341Try being a little less disingenuous.
>>98515836Can you give better examples of 1 and 2? I feel like 3 and 4 were covered OK.
>>98509341>Said the man who can't tell the difference between Metal Gear Solid and Dustborn, smuckling to himself.
>>98518725I've never heard of Dustborn.
>>98518725Also, MGS is extremely political.
People would hate furries less if they didn't inject their sexual fetish into every piece of media they touch.
>>98509341>>98509489>>98509579>missed the part where OP specified his issue is with modern day politics and jumped to the illogical extreme "you must mean EVERY POLITICS EVER"
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>>98519292It's only politics if it's political messaging you don't like. Otherwise it's just honest right-thinking naturalism. Got it.
>>98509213I feel this would be used for an Arch thumbnail video
>>98509213I am going to telekinetically explode your brain
>>98509257What if you're playing Hc Svnt Dracones though
>>98509257>board policing wannabe janny
Why are fantasy politics kino and makes me want to learn about the world and it's factions and who knows who and what's been done while real world politics is boring as sin?
