Darks wrote on May 11, 2022, 15:09:
On a side note, I'm in San Diego, We are very diverse here. I have a lot of Hispanic, Black and Asian friends, and they all play game's and I have never once heard them say anything about not being represented in a game. They love playing games, and that's what this should really be about.
Hear hear! I am not white and I don't give a damn about "my race" being represented in any (fictional) medium. Tying my self-esteem to something as superficial as skin color and facial shape is counterproductive and a recipe for unhappiness and leads to narcissism or depression or self-destruction (or even all of them). Victimhood as a lifestyle is a dead end - that is a life lesson that some people learn the hard way. It will eat you up from the inside like a parasitic wasp, believe me on this, I've seen it.
I feel sorry for those whose self-respect/self-esteem hinges on how physically alike to themselves an artist's character is drawn (or written). It should speak to their inner being. Not the outer superficial body! (Is that buddhist?)
I also grew up in a very diverse neighborhood, like Darks. None of my non-white ethnic newly immigrant friends had any issues with any of the characters of the videogames we played. Nor with the movies they've watched. But I guess back then we didn't have a victimhood indoctrination squad to tell us how horrible it must be to live among the whites*. Oh how ignorant we were - and how much better we were for that.
* No, our lives were not like the Koreans living in Japan from the AppleTV series, Pachinko. There is a reason why our parents chose North America to emigrate to.
This comment was edited on May 12, 2022, 02:38.