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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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[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Closest I've got, which I'm surprised nobody has mentioned, is the very concept that entertainment is a worthwhile pursuit, and that we aren't made solely to work. Pong serves no functional utility, which is a statement unto itself.

That said, it feels a bit like a cop out to me, from what that quote is supposed to mean. I'd be content to rephrase it to "any sufficiently complex entertainment has politics in it". For example, I feel like this could almost certainly be said about stories in general, but I'd struggle to find the politics in many simple children's books, besides "children should be read to". Although the more I think about it, teaching all children to read was once quite political.

[–] stray@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Children's stories have tons of politics. They're almost always intentionally pushing a message of some kind, like "Be nice to ugly people because they might turn out to be really hot and/or magical later."

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

We are trying to indoctrinate children though