Thread 96256290

Why'd they do it

Did an old gypsy woman curse you to repost this thread forever and ever or what's your deal?

to farm money by way of pissing off the dumbest cretins on 4chan

>>96256290 (OP)
To try and lure the yugioh demographic.

>>96256290 (OP)
You know why

>>96256290 (OP)

Yes, they were hoping to stir shit up. Controversy gets attention. It's like a liberal version of the Sydney Sweeney jeans fagfest.

I also feel it's pretty apparent they weren't actual LOTR nerds. EG they didn't seem to care about who was related to who. EG Eomer was white but Eowyn(sister) and Theoden(uncle) were black.

>>96256290 (OP)
BNWO

>>96256424
>>96256290 (OP)
Two reasons,
>They wanted to farm controversy
And,
>They wanted to differentiate themselves from the movies
Things make more sense when you notice all of the “evil invaders from the East” are dressed like Celts and Germans. It’s an intentional inversion of the books because the card makers knew what LOTR means to chuds and wanted to make a point.

Aragorn is supposed to be descended from the Numenoreans, so it does make a kind of sense that he'd be a visibly different ethnic group from the Northern Europe-influenced Middle Earth peoples. Personally I would've gone with making him more Islander-y like Jason Momoa perhaps, but that's just my opinion.

>>96256491
>Personally I would've gone with making him more Islander-y like Jason Momoa perhaps
If that was the case, he would have married Legolas

>>96256290 (OP)
blacks are an artificial homunculus race working directly for the evil god allah and they need to pretend they were always on earth

>>96256290 (OP)
DEI investor money. Investors are the target audience, not consumers.

>>96256491
you'd have a semblance of a point were it not for the fact that there's plenty of black rohirrim already posted in this very thread.

>>96256470
>It’s an intentional inversion of the books because the card makers knew what LOTR means to chuds and wanted to make a point
You'd think they'd want to make money instead

>>96256424
Those cards. Jesus. Let me guess there were no Asians or Latinos?

>>96256307
Autism and right OCD have significant overlap

>>96256424
What the fuck is that Glorfindel
I am convinced he was originally white and they repainted him

WotC employees are true believers and the Tolkien estate didn't forbid it. It's that simple.
Claiming it was some kind of controversy bait for marketing is bullshit. There was no mainstream controversy. The fags pushing that narrative are trying to pretend true believers don't exist so you stop noticing them.

This board doesn't have a single mod anymore, does it?

>>96256290 (OP)
Humiliation ritual

>>96256635
Name the rule being violated in this discussion about an mtg card

>>96256290 (OP)
Because capitalism.
/Thread

>>96256603
Chuds bought it anyway because MtG is the only game in town and it costs .02 to print a card you can sell for $20. Hasbro might be retarded but they do understand their sales.

>>96256635
Mods only delete political bait threads if rightoids start scoring points or getting too many agreeable posts.
Nonpolitical spam and bait threads, as well as any political thread where leftypol is being made to look good are allowed to stay.

>>96256672
Spamming/flooding.

>>96256621
Everyone knows true believers exist in most Western companies. We didn’t go through a decade of literal baby killers putting pride flags on their socks to just forget that.

>>96256290 (OP)
They knew it would upset people and that the series was dogshit, so they used a minority as a shield.

Again.

>>96256695
This is the first time I've posted this, but go off, queen, and file your report

>>96256676
>MtG is the only game in town
There's shit heaps of trading card games, and magic has had declining sales so obviously the chuds aren't blindly buying it

>>96256635
Not true, I got a 3 day ban last week for making fun of trench crusade

>>96256718
Sorcery not only looks great but is fun

>>96256290 (OP)
Why do leftoids do anything? To piss off people they don't like, usually to their own detriment, just so they can go on twitter and jerk each other off over punching nazis or whatever

>>96256424
>>96256617
Glorfindel looks like he should be playing keyboards for Prince in the 80's

>>96256615

There's a few. But overall black people are the squeaky wheel that gets the grease and the actual race dynamic in the USA is black vs nonblack, not white vs nonwhite.

>>96256790

It sounds schizo/poltarded but you really do get zero diversity points for Asians and Hispanic people. A few years back people were freaking out about this group of Huffpo editors being "all white".

>>96256470
The depiction of the Easterlings was almost more ridiculous than anything else in the set. If that doesn't show Wizards' agenda, then I don't know what does.

>>96256695
Why not use your mod powers to delete the post, if that's the case?

>>96256635
nu/tg/ is just Edgy Reddit.
As long as the political spam and shitposting adheres to the autistic philosophies of the mods and jannies, they don't care.
This was literally confirmed in the big leak.

>>96256424
Easterlings and Haradrim are white, so at least white people got race swap representation too!

>>96257184
Easterlings werre already white (well, slavs), weren't they?

How would black people respond if someone black in history was portrayed by a white man? Or a Chinaman? How would China react if a black person played one of their historical emperors?

Reminder that the (black) guy who voices Samurai Jack, a Japanese character, is on record saying "only black people should voice black characters". How does this make any sense? Whatsoever? How is someone so blind to a double standard?

Anyone who thinks that this world hasn't gone full crazy, is a part of the problem.

>>96256847
Because there are no mods left on /tg/.

>>96257276
They're genuinely stupid, anon. They can't think interchangeably. They are the kind of people who will say "but I've met tall Chinese people before" after you tell them "most Chinese are pretty short". They can't do abstracts. They can't do nuance. They can't do rates. They can't think. They. Can't. Think.

>>96257184
Ok but the vanguard looks fucking cool. They really should've kept the main characters as people knew them (largely from the movies) and just race swapped anyone and everyone else how they saw fit

>>96257276
What >>96257339 said.

There’s a very high level of uncritical think in the world at present, and it can be chalked up to bad genetics, inefficient rearing, and abysmal information bases. Everyone thinks they know better than everyone else. This is a consequence of being surrounded by an endless torrent of information. Everyone is absorbing poorer and poorer bases of information. Useless, bias reinforcing, or just downright malicious, misinformation. This is why the competency crisis is so horrific, since it’s only going to get worse before it gets any better, and covid really botched the masses ability to trust in the scientific community. Now we have a lot of people thinking that there’s nothing to experience, or that there’s nothing to authority. You can tell a person the sky is blue now and they still won’t believe you—especially if Trump said it. People can’t dissect a person’s qualities. They cannot listen to a leftist or a right winger without thinking “they’re my enemy, so obviously they are wrong”.

So, show that retard the double standard and they still won’t see it. He just won’t. It is impossible.

>>96256290 (OP)
>Why

>>96257276
>>96257339
They can think, they just think with the blood of their people. It's an ethnic mindset - "loyalty to my cousin, right or wrong".
There is no contradiction in their worldview, because race swapped examples are not at all alike to them. You might as well be saying "how can you be in favor of eating carrots when you are against eating cheese?" Your criticisms based on mutuality and symmetry are nonsensical garbage to the racial mind.
They look down us for being "unable to think" in just the same way we look down on them. There is no way to bridge the gap.

>>96256635
They're here to make the board worse, not better.

>>96256290 (OP)
I've told you before and I'll say it again. This is about the IP becoming public domain in short order. This was talked about aplenty when that Gollum video game came out - which was shat out ASAP because the value of IP rights dwindles as the public domain date approaches. The companies that buy IP licenses expect to re-sell them to someone else after they're done, so they want it used quick and dumped right away.

This anon >>96256470 has it right with
>They wanted to differentiate themselves from the movies
because one way to avoid YOUR treatment of a work becoming public domain is to make something DISTINCT. That way, you can go "hold up, we did black Gandalf first, that's an infringement on OUR rights" and claw that shit back. The controversy was the cherry on top, but it didn't really matter because the 1/1 One Ring lottery (pulled in Australia, sold to Post Malone for like $2.5mil) was what ended up really driving the sales (they nosedived after it was pulled).

I'm much more upset about what >>96256424 points out. LOTR is all about the bloodlines and their inherent power. Aragorn is the rightful king BY BLOOD. They fucked the visuals for money instead of bothering with internal consistency.

In hindsight, it was a clear indication of how things were going to go with UB.

>>96257629
Wait. Are you saying non-white people are retarded?

>>96257669
>In hindsight, it was a clear indication of how things were going to go with UB.
This is the weirdest fucking thing to say after Final Fantasy proved to be a completely nominal set with no radical elements whatsoever.

>>96257846
No, I'm saying the race-minded inhabit a different ontology and so will draw different conclusions regardless of IQ.
It's a problem of differing priors.

>>96256307
My politics make it so I can never be happy despite getting everything I ever wanted

>>96256687
Usually the opposite.

So how about them traditional games? Any of you ever played one?

Your time has passed.
Your kind won't last.
The time of the dust born is now.

>>96258075
Um. No. It’s entirely a matter of IQ. If you don’t see the double standard of “white people voicing black people is bad, but black people voicing white people is fine”, then you have a genuinely low IQ.

>>96258116
Here's your thread, king: >>96240152

>>96257890
>no radical elements
>he doesn't think making UB Standard-legal and filling it with power creep so it beats sales records and justifies doing it even more is a radical departure from prior Magic

>>96256290 (OP)
cause you can't have a white only set. Remember you can have a Japanese only set, and they want to do a black only set but know it won't sell but when they got the IP when they were allow to racechange everyone they had to change everyone good and loved into another race.

Because they knew it was cause controversy and keep people talking about it long after it's relevant. An anon earlier in the thread appropriately compared it to that new jeans ad.

>>96256290 (OP)
Californians like it, normal people don't care, some retards online get mad enough to give them free advertisement. Where's the downside?

>>96258541
>and filling it with power creep
That's the thing I just said anon. It's a completely nominal set. The only powerful creature is Vivi, and it's not like Vivi is unthinkably strong.

>current year +9
>there are still people doing the "there's no bad publicity" shtick
i guess it's impossible for those people to consider the possibility that the set did well in spite of raceswaps, not because of them.

>>96259933
They. Can’t. Think. At all.

>>96256307
I think it's a valid question, it would be like making Cloud black in the new final fantasy set, it's really ridiculous

>>96259933
It's common wisdom for a reason anon. Controversy sells.

>i guess it's impossible for those people to consider the possibility that the set did well in spite of raceswaps, not because of them.
So do you have any reason to believe this or is it pure cope?

>>96260174
well it was a chase set because of one card that ended up getting banned and then it stopped selling immediately

>>96259933
no bruh, you don't understand
bruh, it's like capitalism man
if you don't like black aragorn then you don't like capitalism
bro, read marx
just become socialist bruh this is capitalism's fault

>>96256290 (OP)
>Why
Because liberals are racist morons. They're too stupid to realize that racebending, rather than making anything new, is an insult to the race they're trying to "represent." Because it means they don't think those people are worth any real effort.

>>96256491
>>96256596
>you'd have a semblance of a point were it not for the fact that...
Numernoreans are described as pale skinned with dark hair and grey eyes.

>>96260518
No, capitalism made them do it. They did it because the market wants diversity!
It's just capitalism and corporate greed anon. Nothing to see here. Don't notice anything.
The diversity was only put in because it increases sales! There is an economic mandate for diversity! If it didn't increase sales it wouldn't be included. DO NOT THINK ABOUT THIS TOPIC AGAIN.

>>96260518
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/creating-the-look-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-tales-of-middle-earth
>Some characters may look different from previous depictions—and that's intentional. Great works of art like The Lord of the Rings are only enhanced by having multiple interpretations in the world. We believe ours will bring joy to many, many fans of both Magic and Tolkien. This fresh update was a conscious choice made in partnership between Wizards and MEE and was driven by two guiding principles:
>Diversity: The Lord of the Rings is about the different peoples of Middle-earth coming together to fight Sauron, finding strength in their diversity. Fans of all backgrounds have been enjoying these stories, characters, and locations for decades, and we wanted this set to reflect on that broad inclusion.
>Originality: The goal of this set is to express the story and setting of The Lord of the Rings through Magic: The Gathering Countless prior efforts have painted vivid pictures of this world, but our goal is a modern take on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, lovingly crafted for an ever-expanding fandom.

>>96256470
>>They wanted to differentiate themselves from the movies
That's well and good but the movies were hardly the only depiction of this series

NUT
BROWN
HARFOOTS

>>96260643
>ai generated article
Imagine my surprise

>>96256307
Bot or autism farming IPs. Your call.

>>96260518
Show me one (1) black person who's mad about black Aragorn

We
Wuz
Kangsssssss

the real answer is that the Tolkien state was really worried about the racist LOTR memes about orc refugees and "the age of men is over" poisoning the brand, so they overcorrected in the other direction.

>>96261616
My brotha, my cuh, my kang...

>>96261627
What are Jews in tolkiens world? Is that goblins? Smaug was sort of an uber Jew. He is like if you did something crazy like let Jews take over your government and endlessly funded their military and ethnostate.

>>96262066
The dwarves draw upon Norse and Jewish traditions. They're insular and don't share their true names with non-dwarves for example.

>>96256290 (OP)
Because you can’t compete
/thread

>>96256290 (OP)
i consider myself woke but even this was too much for me. i cant think of any reason to do this that isnt ragebait. i just dont get it man, i was looking forward to this set so much and after seeing this stuff i just tabbed out

>>96256290 (OP)
This was basically the final straw where I decided I just wouldn't be giving this corporation any of my money anymore.
>Let's antagonize our fanbase with a race-mixing pack!
???
What kind of normal, sane business does something like that? I would have thought previously that this was a satire of far left hatemongering, but they actually went and did this. Unbelievable.
It's literally humiliation fetish territory. Hell, even if you're on the left, this just isn't a respectable thing for a business to do, come on.

>>96256635
So, do you enter literally EVERY thread to bitch about how the mods need to delete it and ban everyone, or are there multiple people doing that?
Also, man-to-man, just this once, let me ask you a question: Do you actually have aspergers or something? Because in almost every fucking thread that isn't some shitty general, one of the first posts is always some guy whining about how the mods don't delete every thread on sight.
I really wish you'd fuck off, honestly.