racism in game design
Pros of khajiit: Theyre pretty animal people
Cons: Their design stuff feels real racist
racism in game design
@Daylight skyrim/the elder scroll's entire understanding of species-as-race and how all that interacts is sooo off tbh >.>
racism in game design
@pan yeah, i mean yeah, its fine i guess when they arent based on real world marginalized people, but like, they are lol
racism in game design
@Daylight idk if that's even always fine tho because it's totally possible to still model the dynamics of oppression in a way that doesn't reflect how things work
like for a start, writers in fantasy stuff conflate nationality and ethnicity and species/"race" a lot, which makes it seem like those are all the same thing to people who haven't spent time learning about it
racism in game design
@Daylight (ah not to discourse at u, just wanted to say)
racism in game design
@Daylight it is REAL racist.