Post by alfred.r on Sept 22, 2013 6:14:05 GMT -5
This is a game of urban cultures, insular identity, and trying to make a life for yourself by taking what you need in an unfair world. While it is true that these concepts most definitely includes a ton of white people, it would be a weird and mixed up treatment if we pretended that our (less than great) history and culture as the US has not resulted in many PoC disenfranchised; unfairly treated by the system, and making due.
It's a game of economic strata -- and that cuts across racial lines.
It won't be the most polite game. People will swear. Because of the people involved -- and te fact that it is the modern day, not some apocalyptic future or teenage drama -- people may use slurs, though I don't condone their use in real life. Not always, not as a stereotype, but for the reason anyone might. Frustration, emphasis, habit.
Add on top of that, language has a history of being subverted and remixed by those it has been used to oppress and suddenly the slurs are friendly, inviting, and just another hello.
There will be violence. It won't be graphic, unless someone gets ahold of a weapon to make it graphic. But violence will happen, definitely.
And there will be drug use, and some drug use isn't pretty. Some of it is as plain and appealing as sitting around smoking -- some of it is messy, with needles, blood and belts.
My point is: this game is about economic disparity, wanting more than you have, and making it big. In these conditions -- in real life -- things get messy. People get unhappy, people get tense, and people lose their heads. On the sympathetic end, people bend the rules to provide for them and theirs. People break the rules entirely. Some People decide the rules simply don't work, and they do whatever they want and build a lifestyle around it.
But all of these people are real, and capable of stratospheric highs amid these social lows. They have friends, loved ones, parties, hobbies, music, passion, day's off, time to watch tv or read or go out. It isn't all bad, and to pretend every single moment is, is to delve Ito ghetto exotification in "dark heart of America."
I won't be doing parody, farce, or after school special. I will be using what we consider as bad language, and occasionally terrible language that I can only get away with in text an not aloud. I will write about violence, drug use, and other more sever moral breakdowns. I will write about these people being vivid, passionate, and wanting more. I will write about humans in hard times.
Trust in me. Work with me. We'll do right and be respectful.
Thanks.
It's a game of economic strata -- and that cuts across racial lines.
It won't be the most polite game. People will swear. Because of the people involved -- and te fact that it is the modern day, not some apocalyptic future or teenage drama -- people may use slurs, though I don't condone their use in real life. Not always, not as a stereotype, but for the reason anyone might. Frustration, emphasis, habit.
Add on top of that, language has a history of being subverted and remixed by those it has been used to oppress and suddenly the slurs are friendly, inviting, and just another hello.
There will be violence. It won't be graphic, unless someone gets ahold of a weapon to make it graphic. But violence will happen, definitely.
And there will be drug use, and some drug use isn't pretty. Some of it is as plain and appealing as sitting around smoking -- some of it is messy, with needles, blood and belts.
My point is: this game is about economic disparity, wanting more than you have, and making it big. In these conditions -- in real life -- things get messy. People get unhappy, people get tense, and people lose their heads. On the sympathetic end, people bend the rules to provide for them and theirs. People break the rules entirely. Some People decide the rules simply don't work, and they do whatever they want and build a lifestyle around it.
But all of these people are real, and capable of stratospheric highs amid these social lows. They have friends, loved ones, parties, hobbies, music, passion, day's off, time to watch tv or read or go out. It isn't all bad, and to pretend every single moment is, is to delve Ito ghetto exotification in "dark heart of America."
I won't be doing parody, farce, or after school special. I will be using what we consider as bad language, and occasionally terrible language that I can only get away with in text an not aloud. I will write about violence, drug use, and other more sever moral breakdowns. I will write about these people being vivid, passionate, and wanting more. I will write about humans in hard times.
Trust in me. Work with me. We'll do right and be respectful.
Thanks.