• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        You don’t know Shakespeare until you heard it in the Klingon original

    • muddi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It’s just mythology, third take. So humans are always the main characters of the universe.

      Humanity is the middle race between extremes, between some lowly race like demons or dwarves, and some highly race like angels or elves. Tolkien just rephrased it, and so did scifi. Basically all of fiction where there are other humans with weird bodily features other species besides humans is just this trope redone.

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        1 year ago

        And here I am always playing boring human characters in pen and paper role playing games ^^

        Well, 99% of the time I’m a GM, but when I get to play, I pick the most generic bland flavour - willingly ^^

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          1 year ago

          Nothing wrong with the classics! I play as a human usually too, sometimes an elf

          Tropes are only annoying if done badly, or have become outdated. But the question of humanity will always be something we should ask