Post: The Follow-upping

Regarding the whole “Pimp” fiasco:

nailed it at dinner tonight:

“It would have been ironic and funny if the card art and presentation were clearly upper-middle-class white boys aping the whole “pimp culture” thing. THAT would have been making fun of the glorification, which is ripe to be made fun of.”

But they didn’t. They went with the racial stereotypes, “blackcent” and all.

Minstrel show, as so aptly noted.

Oh, and those of you who are wondering: Take a look at the growing comments on the last post (and, hell–probably this one as well), and note the number of strangers popping by to call me “fag”, etc. You’re looking at Reason Numero Uno why working in this business sometimes SUCKS ASS. The realization that a depressing large portion of the audience are the sort of mouth-breather that you’re never associate with in your life.

Post: The Follow-upping

Regarding the whole “Pimp” fiasco:

Laura nailed it at dinner tonight:

“It would have been ironic and funny if the card art and presentation were clearly upper-middle-class white boys aping the whole “pimp culture” thing. THAT would have been making fun of the glorification, which is ripe to be made fun of.”

But they didn’t. They went with the racial stereotypes, “blackcent” and all.

Minstrel show, as a friend of mine so aptly noted.

Oh, and those of you who are wondering: Take a look at the growing comments on the Livejournal version of the last post (and, hell–probably this one as well), and note the number of strangers popping by to call me “fag”, etc. You’re looking at Reason Numero Uno why working in this business sometimes SUCKS ASS. The realization that a depressing large portion of the audience are the sort of mouth-breather that you’re never associate with in your life.

I’m Uptight and Humorless

…according to White Wolf.

White Wolf, via their “Ohmygosh-aren’t-we-cutting-edge-indie-street-cred” imprint Arthaus, is releasing Pimp: The Backhanding a “humorous” card game all about the illegal sex trade, degredation and abuse of women, and racial stereotypes. They pass this shit off with a mealy-mouthed disclaimer about how this is just all in fun and that WW takes the REAL issues very seriously–look, we’ve even got a link to Amnesty International!

…and, of course, they’ve got the lovely tag-line: “If You Like Being Politically Correct & Never Laughing, Don’t Buy This Game.”

I’ll type this slowly for you, WW:

F…… U…… C…… K …… Y …… O …… U.

Not funny. Not even a little bit.

This has appeared on a few friend’s LJs already, but I’m putting in my two cents because I know that I’ve got a few readers here.

As I said in the comments on a friend’s journal, I have always found something in at least one White Wolf product per year, which reminds me that they are, at their core, a bunch of crackers from Georgia. Everything that I despised about living in Atlanta in one over-hyped package.

Bluntly, I’m ashamed to have ever done work for them.

LATER THAT DAY EDIT: Writing WW’s public relations folks does no good–Conrad Hubbard is notoriously a class-A fucktard, as can be seen in his jaw-dropping reply emails which have been posted here: (Click the link).

If you want to fill the mailbox of someone who actually has decision-making authority, contact Steve Wieck, one of the owners. His email is stevew@white-wolf.com

Yes, that’s his real email.

No, I don’t give a shit that I just publicized it.