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AlienOne,
Posted on: 2009-10-01 18:02 in The Global Training Room Test Server
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I mean the "witch" killing one...
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, they were just the first two "anti magic" sort of titles I came up with - I'm sure there are betters ones
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Originally Posted by Shadow State
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Originally Posted by BigFish
"We could build a BRIDGE outa 'er!"
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How about "Weathered the Storm" ?
Or "Witching Hour" ?
Bewitched
Or it could be left alone.
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Originally Posted by Human_Being
Or it could be left alone.
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Defeasting? 0.o
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Originally Posted by enderbean
Defeasting? 0.o
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uggg.. Political Correctness from the baby witch wiccan crowd now..
how about we just leave it as is and get over it..
I'm not a witch or a wicca - I just don't think something like that badge title should be in the game if it's connected to defeating witches - it's very bad taste.
Well how about we remove that 100 years from history books too? Don't want to offend anyone..
if you think that is bad taste, you must live in a constant state of disgust, because there are plenty of worse things out there.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I'm not a witch or a wicca - I just don't think something like that badge title should be in the game if it's connected to defeating witches - it's very bad taste.
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Heh, that would be like wanting to take out the badges for defeating the Zues Titans and Kronos Titans because they're offensive to robots and giant robots everywhere.
Look, if we were always politically correct, we would have no holidays, heck, we wouldn't have groups like the Council, 5th Column or Arachnos because they're a reference of WW2 which is where the holocaust took place.
Granted that was a very horrific event that never should have happened and I hope all of those poor souls rest in peace, but would you want to take every single villain group that has a reference to something because it's a little bit, politically incorrect?
My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?
If the badge for defeating 5th Column was called Holocaust or Zyklon B, it would be offensive. I don't think anyone but Axis sympathizers could find any fault with an Axis-themed group that gets the stuffing beaten out of them on a daily basis. As for Malta Titan badges, please tell me where a group of innocents were killed for being falsely accused of being robots.
You fail at analogies.
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
Heh, that would be like wanting to take out the badges for defeating the Zues Titans and Kronos Titans because they're offensive to robots and giant robots everywhere.
Look, if we were always politically correct, we would have no holidays, heck, we wouldn't have groups like the Council, 5th Column or Arachnos because they're a reference of WW2 which is where the holocaust took place. Granted that was a very horrific event that never should have happened and I hope all of those poor souls rest in peace, but would you want to take every single villain group that has a reference to something because it's a little bit, politically incorrect? |
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Originally Posted by Astroburn
Well how about we remove that 100 years from history books too? Don't want to offend anyone..
if you think that is bad taste, you must live in a constant state of disgust, because there are plenty of worse things out there. |
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I think you're missing the point - we don't do anything to help the 5th Column - there's nothing in the game that makes us on their side, or portrays them as heroic - but the "Malleus" badge does portray something evil as being heroic - it lines us up on the wrong side of the battle between good and evil.
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My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It was way longer than 100 years - but history shouldn't be wiped away or hidden.
I don't object to references to evil events - but I do object to it being made into some thing "good". For example, if there was a medieval time travel zone we went to via the Midnighter Club, and a mission there had us rescue a woman accused of being a witch, and had us beat up the people who were going to kill her, then that'd be totally ok, because it'd be putting us on the right side, and would fit in with the whole heroic thing of protecting innocent people and fighting evil. So evil events are ok, as long as we're fighting against the evil - that's why the 5th Column are fine, but the "Malleus" badge isn't. |
My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
My best friend is actually a Wiccan and she isn't evil and I don't think she would find the badge names offensive.
Plus, those badges that you find offensive have been around for years. Why are they offensive now and not when they first came out? |
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
*shrugs* The game has good witches and evil witches, we could just say the ones we defeat are bad.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It doesn't matter if they're good or bad - it's the fact that the title of an horrible book that helped murder so many people is given out as a heroic badge title.
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My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?
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Originally Posted by Astroburn
Well how about we remove that 100 years from history books too? Don't want to offend anyone..
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| if you think that is bad taste, you must live in a constant state of disgust, because there are plenty of worse things out there. |
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
This is a pretty wild thing to say. Nobody's trying to deny history. But there's an ocean of difference between a history book and throwing something like that into a game, which is just for fun. There's no reason for it to be used, and plenty of healthy alternatives. There's a difference between trying to burn history books and saying "Hey the 5th Column should have concentration camps. That'd be fun, right?"
It doesn't offend me, but I can see how it might offend others. Can you not see that? Are you that insensitive that you don't CARE that it might offend other people? |
My Lego Models http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369639@N07/ lemur lad: God you can't be that stupid... I'm on at the same time as you for once, and not 20 minutes into it you give me something worth petitioning?