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Glazius posted:For the record, the screed that may or may not be in question: Ha-ha that's hilarious.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:You are coming across as incredibly insecure. If you haven't read the whole book - so that you see how this passage slots into the work as a whole - you are doing yourself a disservice. Get some context. Do you like hurting people?
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Jul 31, 2015 19:53
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ProfessorCirno posted:The idea that ALL MEDIA FOREVER involves a lot of violence because of crazy ol' Gygax and his wargames is pretty silly at best. Violence in a fictional setting can be and is pretty exciting - as the entire history of human beings telling stories goes. Before video games there were TV shows which were fine with using violence or the threat thereof to raise the stakes. Before that there were movies - hell, in 1903 The Great Train Robbery, grainy black and white with no sound, had an evil outlaw draw his gun up to shoot the audience. Are we going to claim books never had violence? That war has never been glorified in stories? How many mythological characters don't kill a dude? How many stories of heroism don't involve violence? If nothing else these violent board games are probably a nicer alternative to public hangings and gladiator matches.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:16
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Agreed. Okay you're right, gladiators own.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:23
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remusclaw posted:And they too were playing a game of violence that only rarely truly resembled the real thing. They were athletes who endorsed products, made stacks of money, fought mostly to first blood, and got better medical care than the masses. Death matches being the rare and heavily promoted exception to the rule. I knew all of that, but hitting each other with swords man. That's kinda violent. Confrontational, even.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:29
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I don't want to say Miyamoto ruined ALL MEDIA FOREVER (although man I could use a little less platform jumping in my ALL MEDIA FOREVER too) but considering how the next big Nintendo game going Statesways seems to be Mario: Maker Edition and nobody bats an eye, his ghost kinda haunts the hobby pretty bad.
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