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    BZPStuck - Official Topic

    in General Discussion

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    You're now banned from ever giving you a command again. [/size]

    ...So we are now banned from giving ourselves commands? :dontgetit: I'd like to see how that works.

     

    No come on, you aren't banned from giving -you- a command, you're banned from giving you a command! It's so obvious.

     

    <3

    BZPStuck - Official Topic

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by InnerRayg

    Woof, sorry for the delay y'all. Hope you're prepared for the ROAD TRIP update. That's right. Ten or so pages of flying. IT'S GOOD STUFF.

     

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    Are we there yet???

    I had to build up a lot of stuff but now it's mostly done so you should be seeing another update late tonight/early tomorrow.

     

    ..which happened, and then....

     

     

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    ....And Part 3 of the whole shebang went up.

     

    This is one of those times where I have pretttty much nothing planned so go nuts, as long as it's in character I'll probably use your commands haha.

    The Problem with Ninjago

    in Ninjago Discussion

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    The thing is, Lego didn't do this intentionally, so why should it be taken in an offensive manner?

    See the thing is when people unintentionally offend they still offend. The Washington Redskins aren't intentionally being offensive to the natives but it's still coming off that way.

     

    Yet I hear very little of people complaining about it.

    Maybe because it's not actually offending anyone?

     

    This is going to seem a little off topic, but I feel like jumping in on this comment will illuminate the problem many of you are having with understanding what some critics is trying to say. The post above me illustrates ignorance of an issue due to lack of visibility - this person obviously does not live in an area where Native American people are prevalent. Not unsurprising, when the vast amount of them live in places like Oklahoma. This also happens to be my home, and thanks to that, I have a front row seat to the reaction to these sorts of things from the actual people they offend. I'm not native myself, so I can't speak for them, but I can echo what I've heard said, which is that VERY UNDERSTANDABLY sports team names like these are in VERY BAD TASTE. Not only do the mascots and logos tend to be racist caricatures that diminish what is a wide swath of cultures and peoples, but they literally dehumanize native people by making them equivalent to animals or sock colors or whatever given minor entity is usually chosen from a sports team's name. Frankly it's a disgrace these kinds of things are still around and not some silly sidenote in a history textbook - but they are, and all too often they're defended by people because it's "all in fun", a "tradition", or something that has become part of "american culture". All in good fun, but at the end of the day the microcosm of ideas these racist caricatures perpetuate in people's minds (right alongside many other forms of the same thing; Disney has some particularly funny ideas about what native peoples are like in Peter Pan for example) will begin to form a grander picture for them that damages their understanding of reality to such an extent that they think it must be truth.

     

    The Ninjago argument isn't really about Ninjago. Ninjago is just a microcosm of grander forces at work - thousands of pieces of media each giving off their own misunderstandings and misappropriations of Japanese culture because "it's cool". And sure, taken one by one, none of them could be perceived as particularly harmful. The problem is the grander understanding created in people's minds by these memetic ideas, and I don't mean just "the dumb ones" when I say people's minds. I mean many of you arguing in this thread, I mean some of the most intelligent people I know. It happens, it's unavoidable, and the best thing you can do is try to correct the misunderstanding in whatever small way you can. That's all this is about, it's not a witch hunt for people who enjoy the toyline or call to riot. Let's try to keep it in perspective shall we?

    Spinosaurus

    in Bionicle-Based Creations

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    Got dang yo that's pretty freaking sweet. The only thing killin it for me right now is the gap in the mouth when turned sideways, otherwise this dude's pretty grade A solid. Really enjoying the cool underbelly coloration blending into the upper body black.

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