General / Off-Topic Dehumanizing your opponents = Not Cool
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Yeah, it really is. Like how the dehumanizing term "vermin" is used in-game, while other odious terms are, thankfully, not.
I encourage all players to put Hercules on their KOS list. It would be fun, emergent content for Mr. Hercules.
Edit: I wonder how tough Hercules is when he isn't funneling Asps into an Anarchy mailslot.
Edit: I wonder how tough Hercules is when he isn't funneling Asps into an Anarchy mailslot.
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Well this thread didn't make sense too much.
verminstar
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Im just the one with many personalities, but anyway...
'verminstar' was the name given to a strontium dog bounty hunter and vampire previously known as 'Durham Red' from the 2000AD comics about 12 to 15 years ago...first used as what I called a 'cyno alt' account when I played eve...an entirely unique account which had a very specific purpose of infiltration to use a cyno, which then had me in my main account jump in in something a lot more dangerous. Working alone, this had advantages and trust was never an issue as I used both account simultaneously on two separate pc...the good old days ^
Became my new name after I lived upto the 'vermin' name, and did something really bad to a corp in said game...robbed them of almost a trillion isk all told and helped setup their leader when they were alone in a very rare ship for a humiliating assasination. The consequences of which were...a defining moment of pride from almost 5 months of prep work that a great plan came together flawlessly.
Sounds pretty objectionable to me ^
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What's this? Another trainwreck SJW thread about a videogame?
So would you be cool with referring to NPCs using sexual, racial, or gender terms? I don't think you would be, and for good reasons, because of the pain those terms have caused over the centuries. "Vermin" has led to those same atrocities.
And you learned so much, you had to quote from an irrelevant source that actually doesn't really support your obvious thought.
Clearly you must have served sandwiches.
What about those poor homeless people fleeing from conflicts in the galaxy and viruses? How dare FD put it in the game!
[video=youtube;Qt2mbGP6vFI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI[/video]
Just think about it. #fakeoutrage
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I don't share OP's objection to the use of the word vermin in game.
But justifying anything with "it's a game" is ludicrous.
E: D is sold with a Pegi 7 rating, and for example no descriptor giving warning for game content that could encourage discrimination.
Just because "it's a game" does not absolve the publisher for responsibility regarding suitability of game content.
These fora! Jeez.
But justifying anything with "it's a game" is ludicrous.
E: D is sold with a Pegi 7 rating, and for example no descriptor giving warning for game content that could encourage discrimination.
Just because "it's a game" does not absolve the publisher for responsibility regarding suitability of game content.
These fora! Jeez.
Nonsense. For so many reasons. Stop playing any game that includes violence and aggravation and death if you`re going to play some kind of sjw\victim game. In fact, I know this is a huge troll post.
Just... stop.
STAHP.
Even the game trailers have warnings on them for references to slavery and drugs.
If the game offends you (in general) so much, uninstall, and log off from these forums, and just move on. I'm being serious here - if you (in general) get THIS offended at a videogame, go expend your life's energy and time doing something else which won't affect you (in general) so negatively!
Would you be cool with killing NPCs? Oh wait, you are. Seriously, your sense of "values" are beyond skewed and I strongly suggest that you need to uninstall ED and go play Candy Crush. Anything else is probably just too traumatizing.
Your entire premise is beyond idiotic - to compare a mass genocide of REAL PEOPLE to a load of pixels on screen.
I understand what you are saying but I have to point out to you what is blindingly obvious to me from what you have written.
You have taken part in the genocide. This did not bother you in the slightest - not a single word of regret for your actions have been posted. But, when you go to hand in the mission and get paid the credits owed for your murder spree you start to complain about the wording used... Yet you murdered these 'virtual people' referred to as vermin.
Ignore the whole game thing please as you are relating this to real life so lets just forget that barrier.
So my question to the OP is why is it acceptable for you to murder people but not vermin?
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Minonian
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You got a point i will give you that! But let me ask you this?
You dehumanising em, or they are inhumane? It does matter!
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No, it's what leads to the mass genocide of real people. Normalizing terms like "vermin", even in a video game, leads to atrocities.
You carried out the murders before the word was used... You were quite prepared to murder the virtual people but not the virtual vermin?
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