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"I don't want Politics in my Gaming!" (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by juergen_hubert@ttrpg.network to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you don't get to pretend that your entertainment is "free of politics".

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[–] LwL@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah generally when talking about a thing you draw a circle around the thing, that's how that works. My glass from ikea isn't making any political statement or assumption in its design as a finished product (unless you consider presumed size requirement for a beverage container to be political, though inherently nothing about it even states its purpose, so even that is doubtful) the process behind its design, manufacturing, and sale very much is political as fuck though.

[–] sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 days ago

You slightly moved the goalposts there. The assertion is not "Everything is making a political statement" it's "Everything is political." Your ikea glass reflects your social class, the international relations between where you are and where it was made. It may have been made by an oppressed person in some third world shithole (or even sweden!) It may even be a political statement, like a designer somewhere made it curvy because he thinks people are more likely to buy something with a "feminine" silhouette.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk -1 points 3 days ago

Okay, well I'm drawing a circle around how much more interesting it is to talk about politics than whatever this was.