[ SECRET POST #3720 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3720 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Really early today, sorry! Have stuff to get to.

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 42 secrets from Secret Submission Post #531.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

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06. http://i.imgur.com/1bVzpQ5.png

[(Anonymous)]

Maj'Ehal sounds like what someone who forgot the name of it would call the Taj Mahal.

[(Anonymous)]

HOLY SHIT THAT WAS ALSO MY THOUGHT

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I've read that an earlier version of the game was called Tales of Middle-Earth, although I'd never know it from the game's current content. It's definitely not the kind of story Tolkien wrote.

[(Anonymous)]

maybe the reason people can't complain that it's stereotyping real groups is because IT'S NOT STEREOTYPING REAL WORLD GROUPS

Like there just seems to be a really fucking weird analysis of cause-and-effect in this secret, is all I'm saying. It seems very strange to focus on The Discourse as the central, important point here. Al I'm saying.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

There's a pretty big difference between using real-world elements to inform your creation of fictional cultures and just vomiting stereotypes onto the page.

FWIW, what inspired me to make this secret was the realization that there's absolutely no way to link this game to the "orcs are just a stereotype of black people, so no one should ever write orcs" talk. You'd have to be delusional to claim the orcs in this game have anything to do with a real-world ethnic group.