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    To Hell With Space Elves: Misanthropy in Science Fiction

    Not stupider... more... in awe of the type of people who come up with such a setting and play it straight... I wasn't kidding when I said it read like you'd expect a PARODY to...
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    To Hell With Space Elves: Misanthropy in Science Fiction

    I did... it is, to be honest it reads like you're expect a PARODY of what a Woke setting would be, this is, seriously, the opening paragraph of their background information: "...vaulted itself majestically dick-first into space..." I looked over their design doc linked above too... just...
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    To Hell With Space Elves: Misanthropy in Science Fiction

    Media coming out now was initially planned and written and developed a few years ago. Hollywood's attitude tends to shift with the political landscape. 3 years ago the Hollywood attitude towards things was decidedly bleak since in their view Evil had Won...
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    To Hell With Space Elves: Misanthropy in Science Fiction

    Well, if that's your ideal then... you're not going to find many instances pre-Tolkien? After all, "elves" in that sense are ENTIRELY a creation of Tolkien. There are certainly noble savage idealization that has longer roots in western literature, tracing back to the Romantic Movement of the...
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    To Hell With Space Elves: Misanthropy in Science Fiction

    Well, one could argue that Red Martians from the Barsoom series can kinda quality, depending on what you mean by "space elves", those were first published in 1912. If we use a broad enough idea then perhaps the Eloi from The Time Machine might also count, pushing the date back to 1895. But it...
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