GuerillaGrue

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@firefox

Hi. I'm one of the millions of AFGNCAAP users of your browser, and have been since like 2005.

I've stuck with you through memory leaks, and through struggles loading basic sites, and through security issues at my bank because they were idiots and you were safer to use than they wanted you to be.

So... please. Don't start pulling a Chrome about giving my data to advertisers.

Adding tracking in is bad enough. Not opting out by default is worse. Not ASKING ME TO?! That's being petty.

D&D Co-Creator Gary Gygax was Sexist. Talking about it is Key to Preserving His Legacy. in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[โ€“] GuerillaGrue@hachyderm.io 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@Cube6392

*nods*

I like that the broader hobby is at least trying right now - even with as small of changes as shifting from 'race' to 'ancestry' or 'background' for establishing starting character genotype/phenotype - but it's depressing how much pushback even that gets from folks who want to defend the way it's always been.

The fact that most of the folks looking to defend the racism are *also* the ones who want to insist that incredibly sexist worlds are "historical"... in a fantasy game?

D&D Co-Creator Gary Gygax was Sexist. Talking about it is Key to Preserving His Legacy. in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[โ€“] GuerillaGrue@hachyderm.io 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

@Shyfer Not gonna lie, I'm surprised this has to be said?

Like... everything I've *ever* heard about Gygax pushed the idea that he was THE prototypical grognard that causes the TTRPG hobby so much trouble.

Dungeons and Dragons, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, all the way up through at least 3rd Ed and with continuing themes past that... it has obvious racist and sexist roots in so much of how things are set up, and that's always the first thing I try to throw out any time I run a game.