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PaperclipPerfector  8mo ago (text post)   2438 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 1, 2023

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Starfield has a black scientist named Vladimir who speaks in a Russian accent and wears what appears to be a telnyashka. They basically made a stereotypically Russian character, named him after the Russian president, and then also made him a black dude.

quickly checking setting and lore of the game

Starfield is set in an area that extends outward from the Solar System for approximately 50 light-years called the Settled Systems.[16] Around the year 2310, the two largest factions in the game, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective, engaged in a conflict called the Colony War.

In this case, unlike various medieval fantasy worlds where tiny villages in nowhere are perfectly diverse and multiracial, this is realistic and all nerd rage is misplaced. Easily to imagine 24th century where white race is long extinct, but modern nations still exist, only all black (some might see it as utopia, some as dystopia).

this is realistic and all nerd rage is misplaced

I skimmed the thread you linked... Where do you see the nerd rage?

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