Worldbuilder's Anvil

Worldbuilder's Anvil

Do you have visions of fantasy world’s dancing through your head? Are you a gamemaster that wants to tell stories in your world? Are you a fiction writer who wants your next setting to be your best? Do you want to build better fantasy worlds? Then the Worldbuilder's Anvil podcast is for you. Learn to create the physical world, characters, cultures, kingdoms, races, species and monsters. Learn it all, with some banter to boot. Join Michael and Jeffery on the weekly podcast that looks at storytelling, game mastering, pop culture and life through the lens of fantasy world building. Subscribe TODAY! Listen to new episodes every Monday and BUILD BETTER FANTASY WORLDS.

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episode 15: Is Cyberpunk 2077 really problematic

Today's Topic – A real conversation about the place of fiction in conversation is needed

 

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Podcast Show Flow
  • Disclaimer about qualifications and knowledge on the subject
  • Disclaimer this is not about gameplay or bugs
  • The Cyberpunk 2077 complaints sounds familiar
    • Transphobic
    • Poor Haitian Star
    • Poor treatment
    • Cultural appropriation
    • Toxic Fan-base
    • Causing Seizures
    • … I will miss many and for that I apologize
  • The Genre is mean to show a punk backlash vs a corporate world where everyone is marginalized… taking the way we marginalized people and expanding it.
  • Cyberpunk vs our world
    • Algorithms not implants
    • Influencer vs Followers
    • Marinizing individuals
    • Too much white noise
    • THE TRAFFIC
    • Large corporations us information to try and segment people to buying their products. Smaller corporation try the same to start carving out a niche
  • Conclusions
    • NOT CLOSE TO PERFECT
    • It is more than okay to be offended by a cyberpunk setting… dystopian fiction must do this
    • More time is needed to see if genre was used as cover to generate buzz
    • Should we want fiction devoid of images that are offensive and is that even possible?
      • Even being offended can be offensive
    • Where is the line been fasciation and appropriation
    • Is a corporation that point to problematic behavior to get attention committing the same problematic behavior?
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                Consider challenging thoughts in your art

RW  Task

Do a good deed in opposition of every offense you see

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https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/06/12/cyberpunk-2077s-e3-demo-has-weak-gunplay-and-unimaginative-stereotypes/

 

https://nichegamer.com/2019/06/17/cyberpunk-2020-creator-mike-pondsmith-to-cyberpunk-2077-detractors-stop-telling-me-what-to-be-offended-by/

 

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