Real-world sensitivities and game names - Page 3

Tyrant · #21 July 12th, 2008, 11:57 PM

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You'll notice that there seems to be a hard limit on the DoB for names of prominent people given by HoneyBadger above, too.

Perhaps so Ich, but not long ago there was an black American athlete named Hitler. I alternate goggling and giggling over that guy.

Tyrant · #22 July 13th, 2008, 12:09 AM

I've been amazed and pleased that there has never been a peep about this that i have seen. My guess is that the only people who play fantasy wargames are wargamers and fantasy fans and as such they have gotten over it long ago. Nearly all fantasy fiction draws on stereotypes and plays with supernatural concepts. All wargames per force involve playing at committing vile atrocities. Both escape reasonable moral censure because they are make believe. Beyond that, in an era where GTA is ok Dominions doesn't even rate a raised eyebrow IMO.

PvK · #23 July 13th, 2008, 12:23 AM

I think the game discriminates against undead by making generic holy spells that banish them, and by giving such low stats to soulless... fortunately, the undead can make their own corrective mods.

People thinking that maybe a medieval fantasy game should consider avoiding the random name "Adolf" is hilarious to me. People are so silly.

On the other hand, I can think of at least one parody name that does seem a bit out of place, not because it's so offensive but because it's unthematic and a bit silly. But it's so rare it's sort of an Easter egg.

But uh, this game has virgin hunts and sacrifices and cannibalism and blood orgies and demons and horrors and... etc... and it's all just a game.

People who are offended should just avoid it. It's not like it's getting broadcast on television (unlike adds for male enhancement drugs and dozens of other depraved, nauseating and inappropriate products).

MaxWilson · #24 July 13th, 2008, 02:50 AM

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How many non Indians know that the Rakshasas were an actual historical people?

Huh? At the risk of going back on-topic to Dominions--they were? I knew that Devas and Asuras are swapped in Zoroastrianism--Devas are the bad guys--but are Rakshasas the same way? Or do they come from somewhere else? Wikipedia just says they're demons and I couldn't find anything about historical connections. Do tell.

-Max

Zeldor · #25 July 13th, 2008, 03:11 AM

Lch:

You treated my post seriously?

That topic is not serious. Some people simply seek things to offend them. And truth is that Jews and Muslim are now best at it, better than Christian fanatics. You can read newspapers or listen to TV and you find a guy like that. Then you send him dominions, ask if it insults him and he will find 50 bad things about it and demand it banned.

Halancar · #26 July 13th, 2008, 04:02 AM

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I don't see a reason why the name "Adolf" would incite hysteria. It became largely unpopular, that's true, but I don't think that it causes offense or should be a taboo.

I dont know anyone named "Judas". Some names became *really* unpopular.

Among Christians, certainly. On the other hand, it is also the name of Judas Maccabeus , one of the great warriors of Jewish History, and so, I suspect, far less unpopular among Jews.

dirtywick · #27 July 13th, 2008, 04:15 AM

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I don't see a reason why the name "Adolf" would incite hysteria. It became largely unpopular, that's true, but I don't think that it causes offense or should be a taboo.

I dont know anyone named "Judas". Some names became *really* unpopular.

Among Christians, certainly. On the other hand, it is also the name of Judas Maccabeus , one of the great warriors of Jewish History, and so, I suspect, far less unpopular among Jews.

Uh, that guy lived ~175 years before the name Judas became infamous.

MaxWilson · #28 July 13th, 2008, 04:44 AM

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Uh, that guy lived ~175 years before the name Judas became infamous.

It took me a second, but I think he means that someone might name their kid after Judas Maccabeus--not that Judas Maccabeus himself was named after (/despite) Judas Iscariot.

-Max

Tifone · #29 July 13th, 2008, 06:06 AM

Meh. Censorship on an intellectual and art work makes no sense to me, no matter what.

JimMorrison · #30 July 13th, 2008, 06:48 AM

Just watched the documentary "The Yes Men" tonight, good stuff.

It's about a couple of guys who impersonate representatives from the WTO, through a mock website that is remarkably similar to the real WTO website.

Anyway, they got their start by doing the same thing with George Bush's personal website. They obtained a VERY similar URL, and made a replica of the website, with certain subliminally satirical twists.

Anyways, they showed a news clip where GW Bush was asked what he thought about this kind of spoof website, and whether they had "taken things too far", and it yielded this lovely quote-

"Sure, I think there should be limits, limits on freedom."
George W Bush

So maybe there should be, right?