I really think people blow this crying about Orcs out of proportion, there was NEVER an actually interesting villain in this game whose reasons of being a villain boil down only to “I’m an Orc, Goblin, Drow or other evil race”. And saying a whole species is inherently evil effectively diminishes all evil they do because you are saying they never could choose not to do it, which reduces them to children who don’t know better. People should move on and stop flooding my yt feed with identical videos repeating the same points.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    Seems more like a youtube hobby problem. Small YouTuber makes a good point, big YouTuber steals point, small YouTubers steal point.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    Ontologically evil creatures as sole justifications for being villains are boring and anyone who defends their existence is too uncreative to be playing tabletop RPGs

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    6·
    8 days ago

    One of the frustrating things about humans and mass communication is the “for me it’s Tuesday” effect. For someone, this is the first time they’ve encountered “maybe orcs being innately evil isn’t a good idea”. They want to explore it and go through their feelings and blah blah blah. It’s a day that might change their life. For someone else, it’s Tuesday. We’ve had this conversation a thousand times before. It’s old hat.

    It’s hard to be patient to faceless newcomer #3742 when you’ve already done this conversation so many times. They feel stupid and slow because they blend in with all the other people who brought this up. They’re bringing up points they feel are fresh and clever but have been discussed and settled already. But they’re a person seeing it for the first time. Somehow.

    It feels like “are you stupid? We just went over this”, but that’s an illusion. It’s new to them .

    (This doesn’t account for bad faith actors, who are trash and should go away)