• argh_another_username@lemmy.ca
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    I think that’s the joke.

    They’re marginalized by society, they need to resort to illegal stuff to survive. In the end, that’s a vicious cycle that affects many of us, too.

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        It’s an extra special touch with half of them labeled drug dealer when skooma is part of their religion. It’s prohibition targeting a religious and racial minority.

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          Semi related: in the USA, marijuana came with Mexican immigrants, so a lot of the criminalization stems from racism and xenophobia. The same applies to Brazil, since it was typical to find natives and blacks smoking it.

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            Yooo weed came from Mexico? La FIESTA! 🪇 🌮 🎈 🇲🇽🫔🎁🎉🎵🎺

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          If I remember moon sugar is part of the religion but people took that and refined it into the narcotic skooma. UESP says the Dunmer were the ones who refined skooma originally and that moonsugar is more potent for non-khajiit. So drug dealers from other lands take something they aren’t physically adapted to consume, refine it, sell it, and malign khajiit as drug addicts for using it natively.

          Like a teetotaler fainting at the fumes of a beer and calling you an alcoholic.

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        To be fair he may not actually be a rapist. He calls himself “defiler of daughters”, but he’s doing so in a theatrically rogueish list of reasons people would want to kill him, so it could just as well be consensual but the parents are furious about it.

        However even if that is the case, he actually is also a self-described murderer and thief who implies that he runs a dangerous gang of some sort and regularly has people trying to kill him

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    “This one resorts to crime to survive because racist nords won’t give it a job.”

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    Careful, “Blacks are always criminals” territory. How do you think a Khajiit makes a living where nobody gives them a job?

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      Everyone is racist in the Elder Scrolls.

      I have roleplayed a different flavour of racist in the last three games, and I am hardly unique in that sense. Every race is defined by their racism or the racism they face.

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    The people updooting this probably believe white supremacist myths about “black crime rates”

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    You can’t be a fence if you never knew the stuff you’re buying was stolen, which was the case in Morrowind, the only person you couldn’t sell stolen stuff to was the owner.

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    Wait, there is a rapist in Oblivion? I thought Bethesda is too milk toast for such content.

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      yeah…do NOT read up on how vampires came about in the elder scrolls…or anything about the daedric princes…or the dwemer…or the slough…or the falmer…especially not the bosmer…

      …actually, if you think the lore of the elder scrolls is in any way milquetoast, you clearly haven’t read ANY of it anyways.

      ES is among the most fucked up fantasy worlds in all of fantasy…like…H.P. Lovecraft/Stephen King levels of fucked up. worse, in some cases.

      but there’s tons of absurdly funny shit too!

      that’s part of what makes the ES lore so great; it’s got quite literally everything!

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        It used to be. TES was metal AF before Todd Howard took over. Starting with Redguard it’s been nothing but milquetoast Tolkien fanfic.

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      There are at least three rapists in Morrowind, although technically it isn’t really rape when somebody only wants to gently rape your corpse. So let’s keep it at two.

      Anyway, it seems they were already toning it down quite a bit in Oblivion if there was only one to be found.