Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

@DarkObsidian  
Orcs aren’t the only race on the side of the giant eye. You even said that he took inspiration from the mongolian in the design.

Goblins are Fairies  
It’s folklore canon

…So the main takeaway from this is that humans have to be depicted as the evil ones, otherwise your work will be seen as pRoBLeMaTiC?

@TheHappySpaceman  
If you insist on pleasing some specific people.

@Sparx  
Yup.
 
@WyrmSpawN  
Well then. I look forward to more media like James Cameron’s Avatar, or *wince* Z-O-M-B-I-E-S. (Gah, I hate that movie.)

@TheHappySpaceman  
 
A recent Power Rangers Beast Morphers episode established that no one will love you if you aren’t 100% human.

@Don’t  
Considering that forklore also had the goblins be the good race and faries the evil one…
 
@TheHappySpaceman  
Welcome to our world.

@Meanlucario  
Toph dammit…

Has anyone heard of this thing called “Transparency Tube”?

@NitroFury  
Yea , looks like a travesty waiting to happen.

@Sparx  
And the fact it is using Bots doesn’t help.

@Meanlucario
 
Yeah, so what? Of course, there are other races, but to what extent does this have to do with racism? My mention of the Mongolian Storm refers to the mounted battle on Wargs. And not the appearance. Or is it already generally racism to fight for the “wrong” side? If so, then we can also stop writing fantasy and sci-fi stories right away.
 
I could now be sarcastic and note that Marvel and Co. have been clichés about the German and Nordic gods for decades and that George Lucas has stolen the entire concept of Star Wars from the Third Reich, Italian Western and Japanese Samurai movies.
 
But I don’t because I personally don’t have a problem with that. What I have a problem with is that nowadays any idiot can anonymously give his/her/they opinion online unfiltered from him/her/themself, whether it is well-founded or not. And no, I don’t mean anyone in particular right now. I only have extreme reservations about the fact that we often take our personal opinion for far too important and then throw political slogans around us, whether it makes sense or not.
 
Yes, racism is bad. There’s no question. But I’m not sure if we’re even able to talk with each other in a reasonable way these days, instead of always defaming everything all the time.
 
We are no longer able to conduct a sensible political discourse, We can no longer talk about topics without having to deal with racism, sexism, gender debates and so on, and in the best case, we comment on topics that deal with sometimes very complex structures with a maximum of one to two sentences. As if the majority of our species now has the IQ and the range of attention of hamsters or guinea pigs. I apologize for insulting the feelings and rights of rodents right now.
 
These are the things I have personal problems with. And not whether orcs were inspired by Mongols, Haradrim by Indians or Easterlings by Persians, or not. And even if it were, that’s not racism. Just as it is not racism when Germans are always depicted in comics as Nazis, crazy scientists or crazy Nazi scientists. Decades after the end of the Second World War. Do you know that there are only two really good German characters in the Marvel universe? Nightcrawler and Dr Abraham Erskine. In the DC Universe, I don’t think there are any in the DC Universe. At least I don’t know any.
 
Do you understand what I’m trying to say? Just because an author and creator makes use of certain stereotypes and historical role-models does not make you a racist. And we should always judge books and movies in the context of the era in which they were published. And not because it is the trend right now to get upset about certain things.

@NitroFury  
Please enlighten me on this.

@Meanlucario  
To put it simply, it’s basically automated system that put Content Creator, and for some odd reason (and I don’t know if it’s true); the automated system categorize your channel based on the people who subscribed to you.

@NitroFury  
So a Youtube thing. And sounds like they’re looking for patterns base on viewers. I have no faith it will work, honestly, especially since Youtube has much bigger problems than categorization.

@TheHappySpaceman
 
@TheHappySpaceman
 
I’ve been thinking a little bit about this. Basically, I assume that humans in literature are basically the norm. A person who reads a book or watches a movie can simply better understand the world from the eyes of a human protagonist or antagonist. And because humans are the norm, they also recommend themselves as villains, because then you don’t have to explain so much.
 
But I think the real problem is, how do you write good villains these days? Whether as an individual character or antagonistic race. For the short stories I write, I have personally chosen not to work with stigmatizing tropes. Just because character X belongs to race X does not mean that the whole race X is equally evil. Or character X must be evil because race X is evil.
 
When you create a villain, you should always remember: not all Germans were Nazis. That helps, no matter what genre. The problem is that for many people it then quickly becomes too complicated. And whether people will like it then, I highly doubt. ;-)

@Meanlucario  
The categorizations are also all political labels.

@WyrmSpawN  
That will only cause problems.

@WyrmSpawN
 
@Meanlucario  
Even for channel that are 100% apolitical.

@WyrmSpawN  
Well that doesn’t sound good

Here’s the link to it, and while your at it; search some of the people you followed on Youtube.

“just get a new one” being common is proof that corporations have cucked the common man so fucking hard

@Don’t  
You never looked at how messed up the video game industry is than if it took you this long.

@Don’t  
The fact that the new one is overpriced doesn’t help either.

@Meanlucario  
I mean, it was even taught in my English class that corporations started encouraging this mentality almost a decade ago. It’s not like it’s a conspiracy