Golden Girl

Have you looked for any references to the movie "Ghostbusters" in paragonwiki, or is the badge called "Buster" for defeating Halloween ghosts a reference to something in game?

No, that's not incorrect.

That's the very reason why it's an awful name for the badge.

You're getting totally the wrong way around - it's because the badge makes a reference to the mass murder of "witches" that's it's horrible - not that it doesn't acknowledge men killed for being "witches".

That's not the reference the badge is making - if it was, then it would be for all the Halloween mobs, not just the witches.
It's a reference to the "Malleus Maleficarum" and "defeating witches", just like the Halloween vampire one is "Hunter", as in vampire hunting, and the Ghost one is "Buster", as in ghost busting.
There's totally no connection between the Malleus Mundi and the Halloween Witches - the badge is about the "Maleus Maleficarum", and needs to be changed.

Or the word "Rikti" might not be from Latin

If only the game didn't have so many zone missions, then you'd be able to spend most of your gamign time on a mission map and avoid any trouble.

No it isn't - the "witches" who were murdered weren't real witches, because those don't exist - it was like accusing and murdering people for being elves or fairies or pixies - mass-murder for the "crime" of being something that never existed.

The witches in the game are "real" witches - so they have totally no conenction to the women who were murdered for being "witches", so the badge title is not only crass and offensive, it doesn't even make any sense either.

The "Malleus Maleficarum" is filled with mysogynistic rants to try and justify gendercide - it's one of the main parts explaining how people could identify "witches" - a lot of the "proof" presented just comes down to "she's a woman, so she should be suspected of being evil".

Some men were murdered as "witches" too - but the vast majority of the victims were women.

This has got nothing to do with trying to "sweep it under the rug" - it's quite the opposite - the full horror of the mass-murder of "witches" is still not as well known as it should be.
This is about not using a reference to crimes against humanity as the title for a badge - the "Malleus Maleficarum" helped bring about the deaths of thousands and thousands of women for being "witches" - so a badge for defeating witches in the game should nerver, ever have been called "Malleus".

It's from the title of a book called "Malleus Maleficarum", which means "The Hammer of the Witches" - it was written in the middle ages, and is one of the most evil books ever - it's all about how to identify, put on tiral, and murder "witches", and it was the standard reference book for the authorities in the centuries of the witch killings, which resulted in the deaths of countless thousands of women.
It's a "how to" guide for mysogyny and gendercide, and is not something you should reference in a badge title for beating up witches.

They've already changed one badge after a similar bad taste problem - the original "Untouchable" badge for defeating 100 Family bosses used to have an Italian flag on it instead of the bullet holes on a brick wall that it has now - and this changing the name of the "Malleus" badge would be even easier, as the artwork can stay the same - it just needs the name changed.

And if they really want to keep that name for a badge, then as it's a Latin word they could make it the name of a badge in Cimerora, for defeating something like Minotaurs or Cyclopses, for example - or just add it for to any new badges in upcoming Issues - anything, really, just as long as they get rid of any link with it to witches and the mass-murder of women.

The timer doesn't actually mean you'll fail the mission - it's just how long you have left until the Clockwork ambushes start.

They could always save themselves the trouble of sketching and just take a look at a WW comic

I think that map will be used a lot in the MA for any stories about magic/the lack of magic in Praetoria.

But shouldn't that mean the Faultline Widow disguise power would work too?

I've heard there's a witch in the Tiberian Bluff area of Imperial City who gives you the bonus slot.

Is that still canon? Because I know the old version of Tyrant would probably just have said "lol, pwned by a n00b", I think the new version of Tyrant might have thought it was not so good for her to kill her mother.