Post by jkarr on Jul 11, 2017 21:00:01 GMT -5
*movie trailer voice* in a cruel post apocalyptic world ruled by bloodthirsty despots and sorcerorkings, where thousands are enslaved and public torture and brutal murder is a daily part of ur existence...
we bring u
This word comes with negative real world connotations and we do not wish to promote or see this in our game world. Please refrain from using the slang word 'necker' in game.
Note: This is an official rule moving forward, it is not an optional rule. Players who choose to continue to use the term in game will be viewed as having broken one of the game rules and be given the appropriate warnings and follow up.gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,52685.0.html
hey guys lets ban certain words because some of our pbase arent mature enough to separate thematically accurate (yes its reasonable to expect elves necks along with their limbs to be proportionately leaner and longer than humans, just like dwarves can be expected to have shorter squatter necks) gameworld slurs from shit that triggers their white guilt irl
thankfully not everyones a moron
In every single MUD I've ever played, it seems the administration tries to curb players aggressively rather than allow them to reach a point where they'd 'get bored' of playing by killing their characters off.
I've seen it multiple times, and the worst aggressor, being Armageddon.
I've seen points where I nearly lost a character to a game-breaking bug, that until I was nearly losing my mind, that they finally recinded and realized that it was, indeed, a gamebreaking bug. This led to the changing of the climbing system.
I've had a long-time character killed almost directly through admin intervention through spawning multiple AOE attacks on a group of characters through every single place they moved with little to no animations given.
I've bashed heads with the administration here despite having extremely little say or speak in the GDB as a whole. I was thinking about giving the game another try, a -real- try considering other muds have let me down again and again.
But when I heard that real world politics were leaking into a game about fucking cavemen elves, men, and dwarves, and that preceived IC racism was 'wah this word sounds too similar to another word', I was fucking shocked.
It may seem like a small thing, but the implications of it insist that even pretend racism against fucking elves using a word that is supposed to be in-characterly derogitory is not allowed because it sounds 'similar'?
You're seriously policing words?
People should be allowed to say what they want, despite your preconceived notions of flagellant racism against dark-skinned people, when in fact it's a referral to an actual fucking factual different race of demi-humans entirely during which racism is and should be a thing considering they're battling for survival of the fittest. Unlike human to human, where skin color doesn't matter because we're all human beings, elves are not fucking humans, and like the setting clearly defines, they should hate and distrust the other because they want their species to be the dominant one.
Racism in the real life variant shouldn't even be considered in a game like this. If you want to call an elf a necker, call them a fucking necker because they have long necks that you want to strangle. If you want to call them a sharp, then call them a fucking sharp because they have long pointed ears that you want to shove into their eye-holes.
And on the other hand, if you're an elf, look at those stupid little fucking men with their high-and-mighty attitude, their shitty little round ears. They're god damn morons. Their legs aren't even good enough to carry them across the desert, they're weak-ass punks that have to rely on animals to get them around??? They're about as lowly as beasts if they have to rely on them as such.
I mean, god damn, there's no real life racism in my god damn game about men, dwaves, and elves, so stop fucking pretending like there is. Don't ban words. Whoever thinks there's any link between 'necker' and 'n****r' (blocked to spare your compassionate eyes the strain of seeing an UGLY word that may hurt your fucking fee fees) is a god damn neanderthal subhuman, no matter your race, religion, creed, or culture, and should be fucking beaten over the head with hundreds of years of history and oppression that exists to give that word it's own offensive meaning.
Fuck.
Jesus christ.
God damn.
Stop bringing your politics into videogames, it's fucking stupid.
gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,52596.msg991476.html#msg991476
but but guys he said that word is politics thats racist
we bring u
ArmageddonMUD said:
Staff have made a decision to remove the usage of the word 'Necker' from the game. This word comes with negative real world connotations and we do not wish to promote or see this in our game world. Please refrain from using the slang word 'necker' in game.
Note: This is an official rule moving forward, it is not an optional rule. Players who choose to continue to use the term in game will be viewed as having broken one of the game rules and be given the appropriate warnings and follow up.
hey guys lets ban certain words because some of our pbase arent mature enough to separate thematically accurate (yes its reasonable to expect elves necks along with their limbs to be proportionately leaner and longer than humans, just like dwarves can be expected to have shorter squatter necks) gameworld slurs from shit that triggers their white guilt irl
thankfully not everyones a moron
AdamBlue said:
In every single MUD I've ever played, it seems the administration tries to curb players aggressively rather than allow them to reach a point where they'd 'get bored' of playing by killing their characters off.
I've seen it multiple times, and the worst aggressor, being Armageddon.
I've seen points where I nearly lost a character to a game-breaking bug, that until I was nearly losing my mind, that they finally recinded and realized that it was, indeed, a gamebreaking bug. This led to the changing of the climbing system.
I've had a long-time character killed almost directly through admin intervention through spawning multiple AOE attacks on a group of characters through every single place they moved with little to no animations given.
I've bashed heads with the administration here despite having extremely little say or speak in the GDB as a whole. I was thinking about giving the game another try, a -real- try considering other muds have let me down again and again.
But when I heard that real world politics were leaking into a game about fucking cavemen elves, men, and dwarves, and that preceived IC racism was 'wah this word sounds too similar to another word', I was fucking shocked.
It may seem like a small thing, but the implications of it insist that even pretend racism against fucking elves using a word that is supposed to be in-characterly derogitory is not allowed because it sounds 'similar'?
You're seriously policing words?
People should be allowed to say what they want, despite your preconceived notions of flagellant racism against dark-skinned people, when in fact it's a referral to an actual fucking factual different race of demi-humans entirely during which racism is and should be a thing considering they're battling for survival of the fittest. Unlike human to human, where skin color doesn't matter because we're all human beings, elves are not fucking humans, and like the setting clearly defines, they should hate and distrust the other because they want their species to be the dominant one.
Racism in the real life variant shouldn't even be considered in a game like this. If you want to call an elf a necker, call them a fucking necker because they have long necks that you want to strangle. If you want to call them a sharp, then call them a fucking sharp because they have long pointed ears that you want to shove into their eye-holes.
And on the other hand, if you're an elf, look at those stupid little fucking men with their high-and-mighty attitude, their shitty little round ears. They're god damn morons. Their legs aren't even good enough to carry them across the desert, they're weak-ass punks that have to rely on animals to get them around??? They're about as lowly as beasts if they have to rely on them as such.
I mean, god damn, there's no real life racism in my god damn game about men, dwaves, and elves, so stop fucking pretending like there is. Don't ban words. Whoever thinks there's any link between 'necker' and 'n****r' (blocked to spare your compassionate eyes the strain of seeing an UGLY word that may hurt your fucking fee fees) is a god damn neanderthal subhuman, no matter your race, religion, creed, or culture, and should be fucking beaten over the head with hundreds of years of history and oppression that exists to give that word it's own offensive meaning.
Fuck.
Jesus christ.
God damn.
Stop bringing your politics into videogames, it's fucking stupid.
but but guys he said that word is politics thats racist