Quote Originally Posted by Lurina View Post
It didn't feel appropriate to put it in those exact terms myself, but, well. I definitely do think there's sometimes a settler-colonialist undertone in the way that the playerbase talks about the Ancients at times. "They were doomed and already dying out anyway", "their culture was rotten so they had it coming" "They were intrinsically defective and so had to be swept away to bring about a prosperous future" are all rhetorical beats that I've heard a lot (though more "in the wild" in Reddit or on youtube comments than here) and evoke some uncomfortable grandpa conversations.

To be clear, I don't think it's bigoted to express those sort of sentiments in this context; if anything it's the fault of the writers for making those ideas part of the setting in the first place. Players cannot be blamed for correctly understanding a story's intent, even if that intent is, well, a little careless.

But it does make me kinda uneasy.
All that says is that you don't understand those issues in the real world, so you apply those same misguided notions, intentionally or unintentionally to this situation.

You should probably stop.