Video Game NPCs Are 'Racist'



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  1. So I saw this right, saw the Extra Credits stuff right, and I was like "Huh…", so i was watching a different video because tabs and then I realized that it's April Fools' day. I was like "Oh, maybe this is just a joke", but just to double-check, I went to Extra Credits' youutbe channel, and no, this is a legitimate and real video on thier channel.

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  2. The irony is that aside from your decent delivery, a good portion of your content revolves around “oversimplifying a non-issue to search way too deep into it, to make a problem of it.” This vid for example.

    I know I know, creating content for 12yros 24/7 requires its own set of strategies

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  3. I think that painting one class or group is lazy. I don't however play 40k and think "omg wow these orks are just like minorities". I like dynamic games and story! If one race is just bad because… THAT'S SUPER LAZY! I think this video has a good title, like I don't want no story in my games, lore is a big part of my favs, (Doom Eternal, Halo MCC, D2). I like the Extra credits yt, but c'mon guys. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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  4. He's missing the point: the societies in fantasy such as orcs are rarely presented as inherently or prescriptively evil, it's the societal and cultural aspects that make them evil, it's sociological, we may find fascism deplorable but we aren't making an essenyialist argument that Germans are evil

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  5. First it was “Goblins are an allegory for Jewish people.”, and now it is, “Orcs are an allegory for black people.” Racists sure love to project their own prejudices onto fantasy creatures while pretending to fight against harmful stereotypes.

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  6. The only game that actually fits the theme of that entire video is Divinity Original Sin and that's because everybody doesn't trust magic users period after the equivalent of a living God had to save the world from a secret order that was bent on bringing back their master through the very same magic that made some people's lives very easy. Doing some magic is fine but doing too much just results in the magic Inquisition kicking down your door, it also doesn't help that a war is about to start and everybody's on edge.

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  7. I honestly due sort of understand what he's saying like for example let's just back up here he's not comparing a troll or something to a caucasian and saying that it's bad and evil or something he's not being an SJW he's just saying that hey the way some people compare minorities to fictitious races may not be exactly cool and kosher I think it was just a bad take.

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  8. they didn’t think it’s possible the species would have been enslaved or employed by the actual villain and the games in 40k is just showing one perspective if ppl asked I bet you would see more races perspective actually I think there are already

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