Seriously. Every form of entertainment has baked-in political assumptions, and that definitely includes #ttrpg . You might choose not to examine them, but this is an active choice on your part, and you don’t get to pretend that your entertainment is “free of politics”.

  • Enerhpozyks@eldritch.cafe
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    That’s a false argument your are making here.

    First : it’s a TTRPG group. You can’t have TTRPG without world building, story goals, etc.
    Second : Pong is not a TTRPG. AFAIK.
    Third : In case you don’t know, people who tend to say “no politics in my gaming” (like gamergaters) actually do a very political statement as for them “being black” or “being gay” or “being a woman” etc. is often seen as “politics in [their] gaming”.

    Sure, you can try to argue with the words, but it’s not just words, they exists in a context and the context is that it’s a fascist dog whistle.

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      The statement was “every form of entertainment”. Tbh tho yea i didnt really notice it being rpgmemes so it wasnt super relevant, that statement was surely not just meant for ttrpgs tho.

      I fully agree you can’t have a ttrpg without political assumptions