(08-02-2015, 02:07 AM)Shoshopu Wrote:(08-02-2015, 01:42 AM)Flashhelix Wrote: As it's been said multiple times before in the thread. Not wanting to RP something because it disturbs or otherwise makes you uncomfortable is 100% fine, but don't try to act as if it doesn't exist in the setting. People don't come to a game or roleplay community, say "Man, I'd like to play a /huge dickbag racist/" and then go at it. They play the game or read into the lore, see things like that, and decide to give their characters flaws that are stated to be real problems in Eorzea.
I don't know what more proof people want. This argument should've ended a page ago with
Koji Fox Wrote:Most of the races don’t really like each other
He's literally not saying it doesn't exist, though. He's just explaining his perspective and experiences as they relate to this sort of RP. He even said "from my point of view". That's not arguing. He's just saying they're lightly touched upon, relatively, compared to other themes- and I'm sure it seems especially so relative to his own life. (And argue about the IC/OOC separation stuff all you want, but there's a real human behind every RP character and their lives do effect their RP, even if the degree of it varies from person to person.) If you'd never played lancer you wouldn't be exposed to that plotline, for example. There's lots of ways you could miss it, the game honestly does gloss over it most of the time. It's mentioned, it exists, but it's not in your face or directed towards you most of the time.
edit: Sorry to come off like the tone police, I just feel like this thread (not you specifically) is coming off as overly argumentative, bordering on being a little hostile, on this particularly sensitive subject. It's very subjective and personal to a lot of people, and that too needs to be acknowledged just as much as the oft-stated fact racism exists in this setting. Which it does, and I don't think anybody's really trying to argue about it at this point.
Actually, he said
(08-02-2015, 12:03 AM)Akos Wrote: The setting from my point of view has very little racial tension or actual racism in it.Which is wrong. The setting has plenty of racism. If he'd said that the racism in the game's setting was not a main focus on the storyline, then he might have something, but to say it just doesn't have it is simply wrong.
If somebody doesn't have knowledge of the setting, then maybe it's not best to come into a thread and say "X doesn't exist in the setting." That's a recipe for disaster. We've been over the subjective part multiple times and people seem to get it. It's completely alright to not be comfortable with mature or dark themes in RP. The objective part, that racism and prejudice between the races is prevalent in the setting, is the part that people seem to be having trouble with.
roleplay?
