WoW has it’s own concepts. I was thinking about this sort of stuff the other day. If there could be a horror game with a warcraft setting. Y’know, those games like Amnesia? I think there’s plenty of window for it.
Might get tricky within WoW, but it’s definitely possible.
I’m your new Sphagetti Afraido… 
While that’s fair, but with culture and representation, how can you take into consideration the thoughts of many individuals without stepping on someone’s toes? When you’re trying to bring these cultures and beliefs into media that’s going to be available to anyone (may be behind a paywall, but that’s still pretty easy access), if you care about the individuals of said cultures and beliefs, you would want to represent them respectfully. You wouldn’t just ask one person from that particular background about it, ideally you would try to get as many and as diverse of input as possible to take into consideration.
It’s just in the case of the Navajo, being respectful may mean not representing some things at all. Ultimately, if anyone were to want to add aspects of the Navajo culture in a respectful, well-informed manner, they should consult with the Navajo people and hear and take into consideration the shared and not shared thoughts. Someone mentioned WoW talking to the Inuit people for the Tuskarr, I haven’t seen anything about that, but I also don’t tend to look at much WoW/Blizzard articles/interviews. But Blizz doing that is a sign of respect, and it allows for a group, of individuals, to weigh in on how they’re being represented.
Blizzard could want to add a Skinwalker, and if they were to talk to Navajo people about the addition of an entity in game based off of Skinwalkers, they could be asked not to do that, have strict stipulations on how it’s represented in game, or neither of those things may be the case. I don’t know how the group that weighs in on such matters is determined, so could the individuals giving their input have a narrow view of how things should be compared to those not giving input? Absolutely. There’s no perfect solution to it, but there’s ways to go about it that are more considerate than others.
Great life advice, I’ve never been one for social media. Twitter though… there’s certainly some takes on there.
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it makes me think of a big plate of spaghetti & eyeballs
April 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh6LliLOXoc
The creepypastas ready.
I’m still trying to figure out if this is my (IC) wife or not…
So… uhh, worgen druids?
I have to know the individual because I believe the only representation that matters requires more than my just looking at you or knowing your country of origin. Representation regarding life experience, thought, politics, religion, socio-economic status, medical history, etc. are all important. But I think we use things like race or country of origin as a proxy for these things because we assume all people of a certain type think a certain way and have certain life experiences. It’s lazy and demeaning.
Generally speaking, I give little thought to offending groups of people. I preoccupy my thought with making sure I’m kind and respectful to every individual I encounter. I can no more offend the Navajo people than I can offend the Nike corporation. Both are just a collection of individuals. Now, if a Navajo person said something I did offended them, I would listen to their grievance and apologize if warranted.
Edit: to be more clear I reject this paradigm of talking about the “fill in the blank” community as if they have collective thoughts and feelings. And my eyes roll out of my head when people begin many of their sentences with “as a (fill in the blank person” unless it refers to experience. Like, as a person who grew up poor or as a surgeon I think…
So you mean that whole thing I said after and even lightly mentioned in what you quoted about going and asking people who are of that group while trying to get a broad selection of opinions to see what different stances people have on the subject regarding their own culture and representation?
I think so. I would want to talk to individuals if I cared to know something, but I honestly wouldn’t really care about what they thought might harm their culture. I can’t think of any example I would care about where a culture is harmed yet no individuals were harmed. And harm ≠ having your feelings hurt.
For instance, if I made reference to a priest and a religious observer (or a group of them) had objections about my specific use of this priest concept, I would listen and likely move on anyways. I don’t expect anyone to respect my “sacred cows” either. Same for Navajo individuals. Concern over some of their member’s regarding “appropriation” of a skinwalker concept doesn’t even register with me.
TLDR: I care about the individual Navajo, and unless they speak on this skinwalker issue as a monolith, which is highly unlikely, I don’t really care if some individuals object. Unless, it was a bad idea, it violated a law or my personal concepts of decency, or I wouldn’t like someone treating me in a similar manner.
How is it yours, and yours alone? Though I see the cultures you mention make tons of content about things that are not related to their own culture, so there is that.
Given the history of skinwalkers,it’s one of the most creepiest myths I ever read about ,beside a ulleng. If they ever decide to portray one of these creatures it would surly scare the woollies out of people.
It’s not mine and mine alone, but it’s mine.
And given how many Simpsons episodes Brazil has refused to air because they mocked Brazil, I’m probably not alone lol
(just to be clear, that’s not a random reference to Brazil. I am, in fact, Brazilian lol)
Surely, no one in Brazil practices a religion that isn’t related to them and them alone or has anything there created by others
Not sure where you’re trying to go with this.
Practicing a religion because you believe it to be true is very different from making a video game for profit.
Context matters.
I think the point is that “Brazilians” are likely trying to protect/gatekeep their culture while taking freely from other cultures without seeking consent from members of those cultures.
Maybe various aspects of American culture and popular religious culture not indigenous to Brazil are in mind here.
Omg that was great! Well played.