Originally published at: WRITE 'N' FIGHT is a new video game where famous authors punch each other | Boing Boing
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Make that Octavia E Butler punching Lovecraft and you’ve got a deal.
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Morley Callaghan punching the snot out of Hemingway - like he did in 1929
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To Charles Dickens (on The Mystery Of Edwin Drood): “FINISH HIM!”
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No women writers in the lineup so far…
No Brontes, no Mary Shelley, no Willa Cather. Sounds like it sucks.
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Yah, came to say the same. The screenshots are lines of white men that, honestly, I can barely tell apart. 
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Woof, those animations are rough. And the move sets look pretty bland from what they show. As “clever” an idea it might be, I think the 36% is deserved.
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Apparently this game creator’s idea of “the greatest writers of all time” is exclusively white men. They can miss me with that bullshit.
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And no Toni Morrison! James Baldwin! Maya Angelou! Zora Neale Hurston! What a surprise someone with such a limited cultural and creative vision made a boring shitty game that can’t even muster more than a 35% rating from gamers who are typically happy to give a pass to shit that caters to white men.
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I just looked at the link above and the first author was Alexandre Dumas who was Black. Though I guess the game writer didn’t know this either!
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I was quite old before I realised the characters Heathcliffe and I think Mr Rochester in the Bronte’s novels were both Black too.
In fairness to their dad I would have changed my name from O Prunty too. One of those Irish names that when you Anglicise it ends up really horrible.
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Lots of people don’t seem to know that, sadly.
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For sure and my post wasn’t meant as a gotcha but rather as an invitation to some of the wonderfulness of the world. Lots of historical Black artists and figures and lots of historical women are erased by our ignorance of them. Sure the world was and is racist and sexist but we need to remember those people whose identity has been forgotten even as they are in plain sight.
That said I read The Count of Monte Cristo last year and I recommend that nobody else does! As I may have said elsewhere about 19th C writers: they got paid by the page and fuck me does it show! American pulp in the early 20thC revolutionised literature, much for the better in my opinion.
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The unabridged version is a mighty slog; there are some abridged translations that make it much more digestible to modern palates.
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Let me revise my recommendation to “read one of those!”
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Oh yeah! For sure!
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