That's because the whole project is all about aesthetics. All form, no function. Which is why they were very pikachuface.jpg when the chuds, AKA: people who expect religious aesthetics to be associated with some kind of faith, showed up.
Well to be honest, those chuds are fucking retarded. How long have these nerds been around? We have decades of fiction using religious aesthetics that are entirely divorced from their religion. How did they think that a gory, warped version of Christian aesthetics was going to represent the Christian religion?
I had to replace a player when my party was level 17 and I grabbed him from another game we were apart of. That's generally the easiest way to do it, I've found. If you need a few weeks, I'd just have an NPC they know/like show up and do stuff, maybe use a pregen character or monster for his stats and don't give him much to do the players don't push onto him.
You've got the wrong angle. It's not that the chuds are Christians or expecting Real Christianity™ in the game. It's that they expect the characters in the game universe to behave like religious fanatics. You know, people going around nailing crosses to their own flesh aren't going to be lovey-dovey and tolerant. So people discussing it are going to be talking about some pretty extreme subjects. As an example, that discussion mentioned earlier in their discord, about whether or not the Aztecs would side with the demons since their rituals involved a lot of death and suffering. It's a perfectly relevant discussion in a setting where demonic cults derive magical power from rituals. But it's "icky" to the people running the show, because it implies indigenous peoples weren't all lacing their arms together and singing kumbaya.
These people don't understand what "parody" means either. The best parodies are the ones played straight (see also: Airplane!, a movie where the characters are dead serious but the situation is a fucking farce), but they wouldn't know one if it bit them in the ass because everything has to be "ironic" (read: spelled out so nobody can get the wrong idea). Yeah, the Orks in 40K are a parody of soccer hooligans. Who cares? Shouting "WAAAAAAAAGH!" and using poor grammar while talking in a Cookie Monster voice are half the fun, parody or not.
My general rule for RPing a character with an absolutely insane ideology, even if it's hilarious, is to play it completely straight as if I actually believe it.
Leslie Nielsen was so good in these movies precisely because he'd been a serious actor in straight but (often) bad movies and could do it like he was completely unaware of any humor in the situation. He'd had to do it not for comedy.
That’s all there is to it, people just want to enjoy something that’s fun. The media literacy crowd struggles with that part because they can’t enjoy anything unless there’s a way they can relate it to their own politics. That begs the question of if they actually enjoy it or not, or if it’s just spiting those they dislike that they actually enjoy. I say that because you probably (most likely) never see any of these people at your LGS.
Psssst. The Elites don't want you to know about this but death of the author is free, and you can make up whatever interpretation you want I have 538 Fascist interpretations of ostensibly left wing works at home.
They literally are not literate in media. Worse, they don't even understand it. I doubt a single one of these faggots have read Marshall McLuhan and if they did, they didn't understand a word he said. It's funny how little these idiots understand about media when they have appointed themselves as its censors and Pharisees.
Yeah I'm going to look through my friend circle first. It's just going to be tough to find someone that: wants to play, can handle coming into a game late and can actually show up the day it happens.
And yet, historically, they were around in Japan. When the lord of the castle wasn't present it was his wife who was responsible for making sure the place ran smoothly and was properly garrisoned, even having her own cadre of female retainers to help her. Similarly, female ninja were quite present, and while they did prefer disguises and the honey pot for obvious reasons, they still knew how to sneak around and if necessary defend themselves.
The Japanese female warriors always sounded like bullshit to me. Like no shit well fed women with polearms in a fortified position were better against malnourished peasants with farming tools as makeshift weapons.
