ALTEREGO'S PROFILE

Well, I don't know you, but I'd still be inclined to say: "No". However isn't this like the second time you bring this up? What exactly are you trying to convince yourself of here? Have you been drinking "guilt by association" Kool-Aid by any chance? That stuff is not good, man... Just take care of yourself. And BE yourself. That's all you need to do. =P

Just to clarify a quote of mine posted above. I was referring to Max's "first contributions to this thread". When he was on-topic. Talking about how he approaches writing characters, and making some questions about the language used. That's all. I still maintain it was not cool to threaten him to be expelled from the discussion before he did anything wrong. And I don't see how me pointing that out is "jumping to the extreme ends of censorship" or anything. That did happen. I didn't make it up.
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Anyway, I re-read YM's post, and I understand now why Solitayre took issue with it (I missed a crucial detail the first time I read it). My bad... He's probably still reading too much into it, though. I doubt anybody thinks he's going to start banning people left and right. Only that if enough people keep pushing for this "rules of engagement" thing, it could become a reality. In a world where interest groups can put enough pressure in order to have someone banned from a social media platform, all the way up to be barred entry to a country, I don't think that's too irrational a concern to have, is it? xP ...If he says that's not going to happen here, then that's cool. But then I have to wonder how exactly are the rules going to change, in a way that is satisfactory for those asking for said changes. =P

Well, if you don't want people coming to "shit up" discussion, then maybe don't name-drop them? ...Look, if I'm being sincerely honest, I don't care what you believe. I don't care how many of you believe it. And I'd be more than happy to leave you the fuck alone to circle-jerk all day about it (In fact, that was my plan at the beginning of this thread, but eventually enough dumb things were said for me to want to pitch in) if only you were to leave other people the fuck alone. But I have no guarantee of that happening.

I can't really speak for anyone else here, but I'd say we don't want to shut down discussion, we want it to be re-framed in a way that does not give you license to boss people around, telling them what they can or cannot do or say, what is or what is not "acceptable" in 2015, which is the right hill to "go die on", or what makes a "decent" human being, and so on and so forth...

There's plenty of room to talk about representation in videogames without going to the extremes. For example, I'm Hispanic, and I would like to see more Hispanic characters in games, that go beyond the a)Drug dealer, b)Mariachi/Bandido c)Lucha Libre wrestler, and my favorite d)Aztec warrior... That alone is enough to spark interesting, meaningful discussions. But to go on a tirade of: "Ugh! Yet another white character, you're supporting white-supremacy, you'll get brown people killed everywhere!" Is not a very productive approach -to say the least- given the difference of opinions that is bound to happen on any -open to the public- space like this.

Face it, as long as you mix your "progressive" ideas with game development, threads like these remain of public interest. And discussion like these can pop up anywhere; anything and anyone can get the ball rolling... What's going to happen the day a heated discussion like this one occurs not on a dedicated thread, but on a non-dedicated thread like the "What are you thinking about" thread? Or in an article? Or a review? Are you going to "kick out" people from their own game-pages, so others don't feel "unsafe" and can have their ideas go unchallenged? I wonder how far could the administration of this forum let this rabbit hole go eventually.

What bothers me the most is how people keep saying they feel unwelcome, when no one is telling them: "You're not welcome here". I even urged the OP not to give up videogames because I can empathize with her at that level. Yet people in this thread are telling me and others: "You're not welcome here", almost verbatim. Some even calling for mass-bans... Go figure.

Sorry for barging in. I haven't read every post on this thread, but I believe early on it was said that making this version compatible with dynRPG was a possibility? Considering there has been several updates so far, I was wondering if that option was still on the table. Because with that, and now the ability to use a map as a custom title screen, I'm tempted to make the jump.