Bioware games in general seem to treat the whole LGBTQ thing very maturely. It's not treated as something special, or to push some kind of agenda, it just is. No different from heterosexual relationships, really. The closest they come to woke was in Inquisition, during Dorian's character arc...
Centuries-old tradition, actually, going back to the Tokugawa Shogunate. It's an unspoken recognition that while social expectations require people keep their fetishes and the like from the public eye, those same fetishes will still exist. This led to the so-called 'floating world' where class...
English dubs are pretty much hit or miss these days. Actually, no, that'd be a lie, English dubs of Japanese anime have generally been bad, barring a short period in the late 2000s to the early 2010s* when they got good after figuring out what they were previously doing wrong. Then the...
Maybe it was because the girl wasn't alone in trying to defend herself, but her fellow Japanese were rallying around her. Basic mob mentality, it's all good when you're picking on someone alone, but when the other side starts building up mass of its own, the first mob starts rethinking their...
Ha! I remember one funny incident back in college, when I still lurked on FB or Meta or whatever it's called these days. Basically, some girls posted pictures of herself in a kimono while in various poses. Cue the righteous lectures on cultural appropriation and other BS, only for the girl to...
I think I read a news article the other day, about a school readopting Native American mascots in sports, before dropping the bombshell that the previous board dropped it on the basis that a Washington-based left-wing activist org had decided Native Americans had never actually lived in the...
Well, there's also this, from long before I was born.
From what I know, it pretty much doubles-down on the slapstick, although it very accurately portrays Lupin and Fujiko's 'relationship'.
Oh, that's what it was. Sad that it might not be true, but still a good read. I mean, everyone has their kinks, no one is perfect, but that GM got what was coming to him. Don't force your fetishes on other people, lol, that's just basic decency.
I remember reading about one 40k RP group whose GM went out of the furry closet during a game, with the players proceeding to totally mess it up out of spite. Don't remember where I read it, though.
Oh, God. Just reading about that game was...I don't know. Messed up...? To say the least...
In all honesty? All the GMs I've met and played with are pretty much up with anything...well, almost anything. Furries are one thing we've never been willing to stomach*. The other is FATAL, although we never really knew about it until I looked up 'bad RPGs' and that one came up on top.
It's...
Not necessarily bad. Remember Record of Lodoss War? That was basically the result of the writers deciding to make a D&D RPG session into an actual anime. And more to the point, remember the iconic elf of Japanese media, Deedlit?
She's Hiroshi Yamamoto's character, meaning there's a guy...
Roman racism was very different from what we'd call racism today. In fact, I wouldn't even call it racism as much as it was cultural exceptionalism. Barring very few exceptions - Persia, Greece, and Ethiopia - the Romans didn't so much as see themselves as a superior race as much as they were...