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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Medford, MA
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For my character Gianni, of course it isn't bigotry...because AIs and Bioroids aren't people--so you can't be bigoted against them. Just like you can't be bigoted against dogs or toasters. Of course, there were those who enslaved Africans last century who felt the same way. And that enslaving Aficans was really the most humane thing you could do because Africans couldn't really take care of themselves. PSR folk would disagree with that just as some abolitionists disagreed. For PSR folks, that you would see a Sapient being as radically different and artificial and therefore a valid target for slavery would definitely be bigotry. ETA: Hm. The next time I play THS, I think I want to go for someone very opposite of Gianni. I think I want to play a bioroid PSR-type next time around. Last edited by trooper6; 02-18-2013 at 03:26 PM. |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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P.S.: I actually find some modern social techniques to be unsettling, and I see a bit of hypocrisy in the way people are okay with charismatic social people or the likes of Paul Ekman, but are fearful of 'supernatural' telepathy. Last edited by vicky_molokh; 02-19-2013 at 03:48 AM. |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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But yes, I know this opinion will cause many, many conflicts. (But it's not like he yells it like a slogan on every corner. I'm trying to present it as a non-simple aspect of the character.) |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
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I think it's because natural manipulation is grandfathered in, and most people delude themselves into thinking that they aren't susceptible to such control. But magic doesn't have that assumption so is more viscerally frightening even if no more effective. As nearly autistic, I am a little more aware of such odd rules, and delusions of normal human interaction. Especially since one of my brothers is naturally charismatic to a weird level, and the other is a creepy mastermind at verbal manipulation. I once saw him talk my mother into actually apologizing for not giving him her money before he "needed" to take her purse out of her locked car. At least I didn't suffer the crazy girlfriends they attracted. :)
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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* == Same GM, different campaign. Didn't take off. Last edited by vicky_molokh; 02-19-2013 at 05:46 AM. |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
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It reminds me of how circuses used to be the only way "freaks" could make a living. After everyone got offended at such exploit, many are now destitute and homeless.... but at least they aren't being exploited, right?
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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This is the other challenge I braved myself into. Playing a rather social character. P.S.: What does 'creature comfort' mean? Last edited by vicky_molokh; 05-06-2013 at 08:01 AM. |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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Because I have very little idea who I'm going to play with. Yes, firewalling is a very important skill, but people aren't perfect, and I expect that at least subconsciously, some of the player's sentiment may slip into the behaviour of a character. Oh, and I generally see THS as neither dystopian nor eutopian - there are wonderful things in it, and there are horrific ones. Just like in real life. Hmm. Come to think of it, I guess Richard is more consciously aware of the horrific bits than I am. It even comes up as part of his justification for his views (basically, he'd pick his lifepath over that of a freeborn but Average* citizen of a 3rd/4th wave state). * == In the GURPS sense. |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Medford, MA
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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