Did anybody happen to gain access to an article titled "The Turtenwald Monster" on the mothership today?
I found it about an hour ago, opened it in a new tab to come back to it later, and now it is "access denied" and gone from the main site (or at least I cannot find it).
I accessed it this morning right after articles go live. It was a one-page comic using Lovecraftian-type descriptors of the Turtenwald monster that finished with the author meeting him and realizing he is just a person.
I believe this was removed because the reference to Houston in the first panel was being taken out of context due to severe flooding currently happening in Houston.
I predict someone on this thread complaining that WOTC is being too "PC" by removing the comic. Sad.
Only thing sadder is that some people likely complained that it was insensitive to satisfy their offended requirements for the day.
Where'd you find enough straw for that man?
Just because you don't find something offensive doesn't mean that other people are faking it.
I live right near Houston. I have a lot of friends who live in Houston, and I visit them regularly. Never, at any point when I was reading this comic, was I offended. Other people may have been "offended"...I'd be curious to know exactly why. I suppose we'll never know.
Or hey, maybe people were offended by the idea of "unholy amalgams in the countryside"! And I can definitely say that madness (especially during rush hour) in Houston is something I've encountered so that could be it too.
Having a girlfriend who is a high school teacher, and recently learning about "trigger warnings" (I apparently don't get out much), things like this frustrate me even more. I swear to god people like to touch themselves while taking abject offense to nonsense.
Anybody notice the bold letters in it spell "TMNT!"? T and M in the first picture is obvious, the N in "IN" on the 2nd to last picture seems bold along with the T below and lastly the ! is bolded. Maybe it has something to do with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Edit. The more I look at it, the more I see other bolded letters. I may be hallucinating. I didn't have enough coffee this morning.
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RIP Batman guy. I hope somebody picks up the slack now that you are gone. Sick children need their Batman.
If you can't understand why it might be a good move for WotC to pull a goofy comic that references "utter devastation" in Houston when there is currently actual real world utter devastation in Houston then you might just be a completely broken human being or a robot. Not only is it a smart business move to avoid appearing insensitive in the face of a natural disaster, but there's a little thing called "compassion" where humans avoid making light of real world events that are currently taking and ruining the lives of real people. This isn't just your "PC culture" strawman, things have always been this way. It's entirely possible (even likely) that NO ONE complained or became outraged about this comic and Wizards decided to remove it preemptively.
But for the robots out there, let me break this down:
-cons of leaving the comic up: risk appearing insensitive in the face of a real world tragedy, potentially hurting revenue
-pros of leaving the comic up: have a goofy comic on the site, give a marginal hype bump to a pro player, likely make no positive impact on revenue
Also, for those of you who don't knwo, trigger warnings are meant to be used like an allergy warning label but for mental trauma. They warn people what a particular piece of media contains before they get into it. Warning sexual assault victims of sexual assault being present in the content, warning abuse victims of abuse, and warning those who suffer from epilepsy of a potential epilepsy trigger and so on. You know that scene in a bunch of movies when a character sees something very similar to something horrible they went through and then they have a terrible flashback or break down? That really happens to be people and if you, the person reading this, don't have to deal with that, be thankful. Honestly, if trigger warnings somehow upset you then you really must hate peanut allergy labels and movie ratings for no reason too.
Also, this isn't really the thread for this and this is quite the derailing.
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Dammit, I had a whole long response to the 'trigger warning' posters but I lost it.
TL;DR - Please stop behaving like you have any clue what actual trauma victims go through because you took Psych 101 or read some armchair psychologist's blog. I've been going to group therapy for nearly a decade, have met dozens if not hundreds of other people with PTSD, and have had this discussion at least half a dozen times in the past few years: raw, realistic depictions of traumatic events can trigger flashbacks, anxiety / panic attacks, periods of extreme depression, and more, but in a decade I've literally never met even one person who personally would, or knew anyone else who would, be triggered by a single word mentioning the trauma they had been through. The only time I've seen someone that sensitive was while in a psych ward, but trigger warnings online wouldn't make a difference because they don't have internet access.
I thought the comic was funny, and while it's in good taste for Wizards to pull it, I wouldn't be pissed off if they had left it up.
To those of you who feel like you have to speak on behalf of trauma victims: most of us are more than capable of speaking for ourselves and wish you'd stop painting us as weak, incompetent husks of our former selves. Personally, I'm more offended by that than 99.9% of the stuff I see online over the course of a month.
I predict someone on this thread complaining that WOTC is being too "PC" by removing the comic. Sad.
Only thing sadder is that some people likely complained that it was insensitive to satisfy their offended requirements for the day.
Where'd you find enough straw for that man?
Just because you don't find something offensive doesn't mean that other people are faking it.
But since when is it an unforgivable sin to offend someone? People are too sensitive these days. A lot of people think they have the right to not be offended by anything ever. It's all "triggered" this and "safe space" that.
Also, for those of you who don't knwo, trigger warnings are meant to be used like an allergy warning label but for mental trauma. They warn people what a particular piece of media contains before they get into it. Warning sexual assault victims of sexual assault being present in the content, warning abuse victims of abuse, and warning those who suffer from epilepsy of a potential epilepsy trigger and so on. You know that scene in a bunch of movies when a character sees something very similar to something horrible they went through and then they have a terrible flashback or break down? That really happens to be people and if you, the person reading this, don't have to deal with that, be thankful. Honestly, if trigger warnings somehow upset you then you really must hate peanut allergy labels and movie ratings for no reason too.
Also, this isn't really the thread for this and this is quite the derailing.
The problem is that 90% of the people being "triggered" are crying wolf. It's so melodramatic and insincere. People have been victims for all of human history, but we're to believe that only now has the other shoe dropped and people simply cannot bear the weight should anything ever upset them? How did anyone function in daily life before "trigger warnings" came to be?
Being offensive is the new form of implicit censorship. Since it's illegal and unconstitutional to pass laws of explicit censorship, the cultural marxists, authoritarians, and self-righteous busybodies like to force and impose self-censorship onto others, thereby bypassing any hurdles and headaches of legal and government systems. Such tactics also pervades into private and personal communications and expressions, and allows them to control speech, writing, conversations, and arts under the guise of sin, trauma, incompassion, and immorality, and now offensiveness.
BTW Wizards should stop making Magic altogether, since 99% of the cards they make are offensive in some way. Fire and Lightning cards? Traumatic to those who have been in fires and hit by lightning. Horror and zombies? Traumatic to those who are afraid of the dark. Island? Traumatic to those who been stranded on a deserted island. Cards about violence and war? Traumatic to war veterans and victims of violence.
Being offensive is the new form of implicit censorship. Since it's illegal and unconstitutional to pass laws of explicit censorship, the cultural marxists, authoritarians, and self-righteous busybodies like to force and impose self-censorship onto others, thereby bypassing any hurdles and headaches of legal and government systems. Such tactics also pervades into private and personal communications and expressions, and allows them to control speech, writing, conversations, and arts under the guise of sin, trauma, incompassion, and immorality, and now offensiveness.
BTW Wizards should stop making Magic altogether, since 99% of the cards they make are offensive in some way. Fire and Lightning cards? Traumatic to those who have been in fires and hit by lightning. Horror and zombies? Traumatic to those who are afraid of the dark. Island? Traumatic to those who been stranded on a deserted island. Cards about violence and war? Traumatic to war veterans and victims of violence.
This is very clearly NOT mocking or in any way referencing flooding in Houston. People are absolutely ridiculous these days, and it's embarrassing that Wizards kowtowed to a couple of morons writing self-righteous complaints.
How exactly does this reference Houston Texas in any way? The one comic image on the thread doesn't seem to have anything that would even come close to it.
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I found it about an hour ago, opened it in a new tab to come back to it later, and now it is "access denied" and gone from the main site (or at least I cannot find it).
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/inkwell/turtenwald-monster-2016-04-20
That seems to be quite a random reason ...
But random enough to be true.
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I predict someone on this thread complaining that WOTC is being too "PC" by removing the comic. Sad.
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Only thing sadder is that some people likely complained that it was insensitive to satisfy their offended requirements for the day.
Where'd you find enough straw for that man?
Just because you don't find something offensive doesn't mean that other people are faking it.
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I live right near Houston. I have a lot of friends who live in Houston, and I visit them regularly. Never, at any point when I was reading this comic, was I offended. Other people may have been "offended"...I'd be curious to know exactly why. I suppose we'll never know.
Or hey, maybe people were offended by the idea of "unholy amalgams in the countryside"! And I can definitely say that madness (especially during rush hour) in Houston is something I've encountered so that could be it too.
Feels: the most delicate resource on earth.
Having a girlfriend who is a high school teacher, and recently learning about "trigger warnings" (I apparently don't get out much), things like this frustrate me even more. I swear to god people like to touch themselves while taking abject offense to nonsense.
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Edit. The more I look at it, the more I see other bolded letters. I may be hallucinating. I didn't have enough coffee this morning.
RIP Batman guy. I hope somebody picks up the slack now that you are gone. Sick children need their Batman.
But for the robots out there, let me break this down:
-cons of leaving the comic up: risk appearing insensitive in the face of a real world tragedy, potentially hurting revenue
-pros of leaving the comic up: have a goofy comic on the site, give a marginal hype bump to a pro player, likely make no positive impact on revenue
You sound like my mother.
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That's because it is!
Also, for those of you who don't knwo, trigger warnings are meant to be used like an allergy warning label but for mental trauma. They warn people what a particular piece of media contains before they get into it. Warning sexual assault victims of sexual assault being present in the content, warning abuse victims of abuse, and warning those who suffer from epilepsy of a potential epilepsy trigger and so on. You know that scene in a bunch of movies when a character sees something very similar to something horrible they went through and then they have a terrible flashback or break down? That really happens to be people and if you, the person reading this, don't have to deal with that, be thankful. Honestly, if trigger warnings somehow upset you then you really must hate peanut allergy labels and movie ratings for no reason too.
Also, this isn't really the thread for this and this is quite the derailing.
-Chandra Nalaar
TL;DR - Please stop behaving like you have any clue what actual trauma victims go through because you took Psych 101 or read some armchair psychologist's blog. I've been going to group therapy for nearly a decade, have met dozens if not hundreds of other people with PTSD, and have had this discussion at least half a dozen times in the past few years: raw, realistic depictions of traumatic events can trigger flashbacks, anxiety / panic attacks, periods of extreme depression, and more, but in a decade I've literally never met even one person who personally would, or knew anyone else who would, be triggered by a single word mentioning the trauma they had been through. The only time I've seen someone that sensitive was while in a psych ward, but trigger warnings online wouldn't make a difference because they don't have internet access.
I thought the comic was funny, and while it's in good taste for Wizards to pull it, I wouldn't be pissed off if they had left it up.
To those of you who feel like you have to speak on behalf of trauma victims: most of us are more than capable of speaking for ourselves and wish you'd stop painting us as weak, incompetent husks of our former selves. Personally, I'm more offended by that than 99.9% of the stuff I see online over the course of a month.
But since when is it an unforgivable sin to offend someone? People are too sensitive these days. A lot of people think they have the right to not be offended by anything ever. It's all "triggered" this and "safe space" that.
The problem is that 90% of the people being "triggered" are crying wolf. It's so melodramatic and insincere. People have been victims for all of human history, but we're to believe that only now has the other shoe dropped and people simply cannot bear the weight should anything ever upset them? How did anyone function in daily life before "trigger warnings" came to be?
BTW Wizards should stop making Magic altogether, since 99% of the cards they make are offensive in some way. Fire and Lightning cards? Traumatic to those who have been in fires and hit by lightning. Horror and zombies? Traumatic to those who are afraid of the dark. Island? Traumatic to those who been stranded on a deserted island. Cards about violence and war? Traumatic to war veterans and victims of violence.
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