Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Don't worry: things can and will get dumber still.


Now, the rebuttal is that "hey, we were just going to discuss the issue of why white has to go first."

But...really?

This is what is left of your future, what's-left-of-Western-civilization: having even your hobbies and games questioned--and then Minitru'd--by the Woke Police.

The good news is that that future won't be a lengthy one.

The bad news is that it will seem like forever.

Thomas Mann once pointed out that "everything is politics."

Now we are seeing what happens when that dictum is imbued with a religious frenzy that would have made Torquemada say "hey, slow your roll there, champ."

It will only get worse.




2 comments:

  1. Didn't you see the bit about orcs and some D&D updates?

    Oh it's so much worse than you know, Dale.

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  2. Oh, I've known about it since it dropped 10 days ago (?). Hard to keep track of the endless reset.

    And Jeremy Crawford hasn't been shy about dropping his Easter eggs into the narratives.

    5e is having enough trouble with flawed product (e.g., releasing $50 modules that require weeks of DM prep to run). Making it even woker won't help.

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