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Again, all production and all consumption has environmental impact. Period. Anything not made from animal or plant matter is made from minerals mined out of the ground. And animals and plants reproduce, by definition, while minerals are finite resources. Granted, the scale at which we use animal...

Barbarian - Promarily red, secondarily green. They use their emotions to tap into primal powers. Bard - blue, red, and green They are scholars of a kind, but they study the lore of nature, and perform magic through, well, performance and affecting the emotions of those who hear them. Cleric -...

I just think if one finds one’s self defending parties who are actively harming marginalized groups in order to defend one’s self from perceived implications that one is a bad person, merely because others are choosing not to support said parties financially… one probably ought to reflect on...

Where are you getting that statistic from?

Yes, there are examples of that happening. That doesn’t make it the case that boycotts are generally ineffective, as you claimed.

This take is entirely vibes-based, and not consistent with actual evidence.

Boycotts are highly effective when they’re organized. That should be pretty evident to D&D fans given the results of the mass D&D Beyond cancellations in the wake of the OGL-pocalypse. “Boycotts aren’t effective” is what people tell themselves to justify their own unwillingness to participate in...

Yes, that is true. And, it is also true that geek culture has always been shareholder value. The world is complex and multiple things can be true simultaneously.

Nobody said anyone was a bad person.

That is true, and certainly to disengage with a brand/product/franchise/etc completely is a more effective form of protest than simply not buying it. But, a boycott is about cutting off the money flow, and that’s easier to get more people onboard for if you don’t also demand that they get rid of...

That’s not just geek culture, that’s all of late-stage capitalism. Our entire society is based around making the line go up, and you can only make the line go up by either reaching more people with your product, or once you’ve achieved peak market saturation, charging the people who are already...

That’s the thing about models. All models are wrong; good models are still useful.

Yeah, same. Generally, if players in my games want to choose an alignment and write it on their character sheet they are more than welcome to, but I don’t require it and I don’t put any more importance on it than hair color, eye color, height, weight, etc. Maybe a useful roleplaying tool for...

Well yeah. The point of a boycott is “stop giving them money,” not “your possessions are tainted.”

Also, why exactly are we sealioning in JK Rowling’s defense here…?

Sure, fine, but compared to smart glass? Absolutely not. The environmental cost of extracting and processing those minerals is significantly worse. Everything not made from animals or plants was mined from the ground. All production and all consumption carries environmental costs. If one...

Both of which are explicitly discussed in the opening post. And you’re claiming smart glass is better for the environment? Pull the other one.

Is that a thing people do anywhere…?

Huh? Every post in the thread has been directly related to the topic in the opening post… Why wouldn’t paper be legal and why would Meta glasses be better…?

It’s all nonsense. Define “true neutral” in whatever way makes sense to you for your games and there shouldn’t be any problem.