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After Valve says no, Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs unite to get "very serious" about their very silly demand for a dwarf tag on Steam, and they want your help (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 9 months ago by jonesy@aussie.zone to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Lots of fantasy creatures are based on a phenotype of human. Our ancestors didn't know anything about anything so they made up a bunch of shit to explain it. If you plan to argue that the entire fantasy genre needs to go - no more elves, gnomes, halflings, hobbits, vampires, orcs, goblins, bugbears, etc - you're gonna have a bad time.

[+] mathemachristian@lemm.ee -9 points 9 months ago (7 children)

If you plan to argue that the entire fantasy genre needs to go

yes, by valve not putting in "dwarf" as a tag to make it easier for its customers to search for games the entire fucking genre dies. Put ASoIaF fans on suicide watch lmfao

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Hey, you're the one saying the word "dwarf" is offensive. I'm just extending your logic, to illustrate for you why I think it's a bad take. I'm glad you got it!

(Narrator: They didn't get it.)

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No you are trying to extrapolate from what I said into some generic ideal that I supposedly have. That's not extending someones logic, thats strawmanning.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Let's recap:

This is a story about Valve not putting a "dwarf" tag on their Steam platform
Your first post I replied to said there would be "able-ist connotations" to putting a dwarf tag on Steam
I want to know what "able-ist connotations" there are to a tag on a video game platform for the word "dwarf"
You replied with a video showing little people being exploited, with the comment "This kind of shit"

If your own video and comment and the entire context of this thread aren't relevant to your point, that isn't strawmanning on my part; that's you not knowing how to make a reasoned argument.

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago

What ableist connotations are there between "dwarf" and "entertainment media"

Video of people being exploited for entertainment because they are the stereotypical "dwarf"

dont see the relation bro, it must be because you just hate fantasy in general and want to kill everything fun

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