Transformers: Now with pronouns!

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[–]Clown_Chan 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

Well, they're called TRANSformers, after all. It's quite fitting, actually lol

Though, I'm not sure why do Hasbro bother with such pandering, it's just hurting the brand. I don't think Tumblrinas buy or even care about Transformes at all.

[–]bife_de_lomo[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

I wonder if it started with My Little Pony, it waswoke before lots of other properties.

They're taking a similar line with Dungeons & Dragons, much to my consternation.

[–]Clown_Chan 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Well, about D&D, I kind of understand that because plenty of LGBT people play it. I don't see a problem with that, D&D is for everyone, you like it or not. I'm afraid you'll have to just deal with that, lol

But Transformers.....that's a different thing. There's no need for any gender bullshit in a CHILDREN franchise. Who the fuck gives a damn about a pronouns of a fucking ROBOT, anyway? It's a robot, it doesn't even have a gentials in the first place.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The problem with the woke in a role playing game is they are the antithesis of fun. I don't really give a fuck if you've got gay orcs or whatever, it does pose a problem when you've got some braindead tumblrite demanding that they change the backstory of the orcs to be peace loving pacifists because their deep hatred of the elves is genocidal and genocide is bad even pretend genocide.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It’s a power play, it’s all about forcing publishers to do as they say and once they’ve done that and the publisher has debased their product sufficiently the crybullies move on to the next “issue” leaving a ruined game/tv show/film/franchise/novel in their wake.

As someone who grew up in the 80s playing ADnD 2nd edition, amongst other games, we just adapted the rules to our group style of play (and limited budgets meant we couldn’t run out and buy all the supplements so we had to be picky as the ones we bought).

There was zero reason for anyone to complain about “races” or whatever shit they were complaining about, because they could just add/subtract that to/from their game themselves and everyone would be happy. But it was never about that, it was about forcing the publisher to make changes because they could.

I mean, do you need rules to have gay characters? Does troonery make sense in a world containing magical transformations including magical sex changes (the funniest cursed item, in my 1980s schoolboy opinion)?

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

And of course you hit the nail on the head. You can just make your own rules since it's a game. And it doesn't matter.

Is what I'd say if I was an idiot. Are you crazy? You think you can make your own rules? My god? What's gonna happen when the kids think they can just stick a portable hole in a bag of holding and just pretend there's nothing wrong with that. My god! You are a menace!

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I wonder if it’s partly to do with the fact that kids for the past twenty or so years have had less and less time where they weren’t being “managed” by adults, teachers and helicopter parents.

They need an authority figure to tell them how to play.

There used to be a game called MERP (middle-earth roleplaying game) which had tables and charts for everything - you’re a hobbit camping in The Shire and you need to take a shit, roll 2D10 and consult chart 23 to see what happens!

My friends who loved Tolkien suffered through that game until someone, not me, pointed out that they could just play with ADnD rules in the Middle Earth setting. So we did and had a lot more fun.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's probably some of that, I'm a bit skeptical though, I think you're better off letting the kids go off and manage their own shit but I think you're always gonna have some kids that wait for others to tell them what to do and others that will just take charge regardless.

I'm of course frustrated by some of the idiocy I see younger people display but I'm surprised by their lack of idiocy fairly often as well, depends on the person. I've definitely taken to being an old grump towards them when they are stupid though.

These days it's kids and telephone phobia that grinds my gears. "Oh no the website for this shop doesn't have an E-mail only a phone number what do'

Wow what a pickle! I guess the best thing to do is just assume a fetal position until death takes you. Better than than making a phone call.

[–]Clown_Chan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well , don't play with them, then. Wokies usually just play with each other, you know.

Also, unfortunately, they are spending the money and buying the books too thus they have right to demand from authors whatever they want. Producents just don't really have a choice but to pander to them too, they like it or not, cuz wokies are also a customers.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, I don't, but it doesn't really take more than a few of them to really disrupt any kind of social dynamics. Remember there's two types of workers, there's the ones that suffer from some kind of socially anxious fixation on being nice, they're harmless but tend to be easily bullied into doing anything, and there's the borderline personality disorder candidate psychos, who basically use anything "woke" as a way to guilt people into doing what they want, sometimes for no reason other than they can.

As far as the books care, yeah I sorta agree with you. If people want to buy the woke shit they'll write that for them. I don't buy it and will just do something else, I think that's the majority of people actually, but I'm also the type who questions why is buy much of any DND merchandise in the first place when I can use a poker chip in place of a figure and it works perfectly well.

Whole point is imagination, why do I need to buy shit to use my imagination?