How Far We Have Fallen

Never did I ever imagine we would have Bugs Bunny put in a game where kids use high-power military assault weapons to kill each other. If this were the 1980s, this would have been enough to get a CEO and the entire board of directors fired and run out of the entertainment business for life.

But here we are.

No wonder D&D sucks. This is the corporate thinking these days. This is the Wall Street zeitgeist. This is where "you can't die in a role-playing game" comes from. You can take a shotgun blast to the face and sleep it off in D&D 5E. This whole notion that stabbing someone or shooting them "doesn't do anything" makes me want to vomit. This is why roleplaying sucks. There are zero consequences for actions; the game has safety tools to prevent the referee from using them, death is impossible, and avatars are goofy animals in silly costumes. The entire game is a fantasy fulfillment simulator with self-identity coding and sexual overtones.

D&D owners and shareholders, this is where you went wrong. You don't need a survey to tell you what is right in front of your own eyes.

Foxy the cute fox man can't have his head blown off by a 5.56mm NATO assault rifle! You will scar me for life! It's "damage"; this is a "game." I am throwing up an X now! I identify as him! Sorry, that is a real weapon, and we treat real weapons with respect. We are too far down this road in real life to ignore this now. The world is at war. This may come home at any time. Shootings are on the news nearly every day. Foxy was cute, but he is dead. There are fox brains all over the wall behind him. Roll a new character.

There is a quote in this video:

"I don't think he understands that weapons don't do anything here..."

As the players get on a school bus.

God, I miss the 1980s. Do you know the outrage this would cause? Multiple state attorneys general would be on their ass about this. Donahue would be running this for two weeks. The nightly news would lead with this for days, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and the rest, all with grave undertones of what this is doing to our children's impressionable minds. Front page news around the country. Time and Newsweek would be doing stories on how corporations are militarizing our children and how gun manufacturers are profiting.

Are all you 1980s liberals dead, or did you just never believe the things you were saying back then? Where are you, people? We need you. This is your last chance to make a stand and say what is right. I know I am. But I am just one Gen-X'er with a stupid blog.

And here we are.

Now they got to Bugs Bunny, and that part of me will forever see this.