…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.
*pats you on the head* Good for you.
Sockfucking mouthbreather?
Not the most creative thing I’ve heard, but I’m wondering about the mouthbreather part. Besides your nose, how else do you breathe?
A little more thought and effort next time, neh?
Re: Not my cup of tea…
She does, she does. I got her permission first, naturally!
I should know better, but…
Thank you, crazyelf, I now have a better appreciation of the critisism ‘people swear because the haven’t the imagination to express themselves better’.
That was…well… repetitive, dude. In fact, I was so distracted by the repetition (and not just of the swear words), I nearly missed the gist of what you were trying to say.
Perhaps a greater variety of adjectives and a tightening up of the prose to remove the repetition of concepts would help get your point across.
Re: Not my cup of tea…
I can SO see it! :D
Mouthbreather = Slack-jawed idiot
Don’t they teach you kids anything these days?
‘specially since it’s Elle’s fault most of us are here… ;)
We fucking better, since I’m going to be insulted before I’d even made my opinion know.
Indeed. Elle’s fault a majority of us are. So does that mean she’s more “evil” than Moo?
Or am I just taking a thought that is congenitally uber-retarded and turning it up to Eleven?
Damn. You just made me feel a whole lot better about the possibility of having to live in Houston when I graduate.
Houston is not the south. You get a bit of Austin with a lot more urban tacked on. Hell, UH has a Bangladeshi students association. We have wonderful diversity and that is why I stay here. We also have people from Jersey and stuff ;-)