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Dec 6, 2015 4:54:51 GMT
Post by Harkovast on Dec 6, 2015 4:54:51 GMT
Boobs, smoking AND Red_Ned pointed out to me that she is also making an obscene hand gesture. This really is the most controversial card ever made.
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Dec 6, 2015 5:03:06 GMT
Post by Horsie on Dec 6, 2015 5:03:06 GMT
Or kind of like the Serbian salute.
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Dec 6, 2015 5:41:30 GMT
Post by Canuovea on Dec 6, 2015 5:41:30 GMT
Ah, so that is the other thing, racism against Serbs. Appropriating their culture for their rude gestures!
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Dec 6, 2015 15:50:34 GMT
Post by Harkovast on Dec 6, 2015 15:50:34 GMT
Harkovast is about 70% offensive stereotypes and cultural appropriation at serbs. The anti serb agenda that runs through the whole thing is pretty horrifying when you get down to it.
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Dec 6, 2015 22:15:02 GMT
Post by Canuovea on Dec 6, 2015 22:15:02 GMT
Speaking a bit more frankly, though, cultural appropriation is the biggest complaint I expect people to have about Harkovast. Not because it is justified, per se, but people were complaining about Yoga being possibly cultural appropriation.
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Dec 7, 2015 18:44:28 GMT
Post by StyxD on Dec 7, 2015 18:44:28 GMT
Not really appropriation. Tokenism. Hark takes some overt visual characteristics of a real-world culture, the name of their most known military formation, sometimes even some superficial part of their pop-cultural representation (ex. Nymus being democratic and having their capital named after one of their goddesses), then uses it as a race in Harkovast. Someone's bound to actually get offended! Probably. Maybe. I mean, sometimes the mashup doesn't even make sense. Like with Anzlov, who are a nomadic, equestrian culture, and also have winged hussars. In reality, winged hussars were more often than not deployed against nomadic equestrian cultures, if you know what I mean.
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Dec 7, 2015 19:02:30 GMT
Post by Canuovea on Dec 7, 2015 19:02:30 GMT
Its a quibble over words, but I suppose.
Oh well though, what can you expect? So long as it turns out to be interesting, I don't mind. I mean, the Ivos are more politically stable than the Romans ever were. And if you think about it, if they were Romans, someone would have killed Dominius for being too popular by now... alright, fine, that would mostly have been in the later Empire, but...
And besides, lots of fantasy settings do similar things.
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Dec 7, 2015 22:45:25 GMT
Post by Harkovast on Dec 7, 2015 22:45:25 GMT
StyxD winged hussars are cool as fuck and I'm not going to get another opportunity to include them!
I imagine people will get upset at native american and african based countries, due to modern sensibilities.
And...and...and I have to think of an animal to make them look like! And draw them! That's hard work! Its an indepth process!
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Dec 7, 2015 23:33:20 GMT
Post by StyxD on Dec 7, 2015 23:33:20 GMT
Meanwhile, no one will care about how ancient Egyptians are portrayed as something out of a Monty Python sketch!
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Dec 7, 2015 23:40:44 GMT
Post by Canuovea on Dec 7, 2015 23:40:44 GMT
It isn't Ancient Egyptians being equated with the Tolpish. Egyptians aren't giant rabbits!
But more seriously, do you think that people will be bothered by that? I mean, Egyptians are the usual villains of the Exodus story, right? Look what they did with that Gods and Kings movie that came out, and nobody complained... even when they turned Moses into, basically, a terrorist is was okay because he was doing it to Egyptians.
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Dec 8, 2015 1:39:17 GMT
Post by Harkovast on Dec 8, 2015 1:39:17 GMT
Ouch, StyxD, very ouch.
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