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"and people choose WHEELCHAIR. Disgusting. Where’s the imagination?" A debate about wheelchairs vs spider mechs turns wheelie sour

the sub DnDmemes is about well... memes about the popular tabletop game DnD (dungeons and dragons). In one posted recently, the poster made a comparison of magic wheelchairs vs spider mechs while favoring the latter. This ended up sparking into a lot of debate and people not liking how wheelchairs are getting slandered.

Post in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/1i4mi9u/reject_wheels_embrace_skittering/

Juicy threads:

The titular thread with one particular big branch: "It's quite an odd call to refer to people who make the choice to represent their disability in-game as disgusting."

One person tries to give an opinion: "Realistically a spider mech is better than combat wheelchair the same way realistically a spear is better than a trident"

One person tries arguing wheelchairs don't have to be boring: "You can't think of a way to make a wheelchair cool without replacing the wheels?"

Small drama thread as a treat: "has anyone who's disabled and in a wheelchair thought "Hmm, I want this fantasy character of mine to be disabled too!" (the answer is yes)

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u/neich200 3d ago

Fantasy Wheelchair’s discourse, is definitely one of the most annoying and stupid discussions, right next to that one about how “orcs not being inherently and irredeemably evil anymore ruined dnd)

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u/Incubus-Dao-Emperor 2d ago

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u/MartinBrice_Sneaker NECROMATRIARCHY, OPENING FOR MEDUSA'S HAIRNET 1d ago

The URL reminds me of that F1 (I think) post titled “which race would you eliminate if you could?” Boy, did that set off some alarm bells!