a couple of things on that. how old are those games, times are changing and people are offended by everything today.
If feel like your missing the point twenty, as he said at the start in his language french the word used isn't offensive it is everyday speech. Imagine someone said you're not allowed to use the word Rationale because in Chinese it sounds like death. You're like I will just make my new materialist empire, now for a name "The rational collective"...
What do you mean I am in a time out? Then someone says...
.... so everyone just take off your tin foil hats, put down the kool-aid and come up with another way to say what you want and get on with enjoying the game
He isn't wearing a tin foil hat man. Read through the comments, I know I have seen you be rational in other places. Remember this isn't removing bad concepts within a game like genocide, slavery, or forced genetic modification. This is what the user puts in they aren't allowed to say bad words, this isn't content coming from the game it is from the user. That is censorship, not allowing people do something with something they own is censorship. Not only that his not EVEN trying to say anything bad his just French.
Your take is bad dude read again.
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Look at the extreme levels of censorship on the forums, you can hardly argue a point against the state of the game let alone someone else's genuinely stupid opinion without it being considered "toxic" or "trolling"
If that isn't China level Orwellian censorship, then idk what is. The only difference is they can't actually arrest me, they can't kill me for being a dissident. But I am sure if they can have people extradited and arrested for "toxic behavior" on their forums they would absolutely do it.
Still, don't see how that means they should censor things not only in the game but through out the entire community too. Don't see how literally censoring negative criticism as "toxic" has anything to do with children
Dude, stop projecting. You are the only person to use the term toxic here. It is obvious that for some reason you think your behaviour is and with how you compared yourself to a Chinese internet slave. If you want to talk about "paid shills" you're looking more like one, because they make their opponents look bad, and that is how bad you look. You're on the right side of a good argument and you look so bad you're tainting the argument. Revaluate dude.
If you keep using the term toxic, you know why you're doing it and it isn't because what anyone is doing or saying here.
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Okay since this is still going. I will try, try and be short.
There will always be a new blasphemy and if you don't like that description for people censoring words maybe reevaluate, because that is what it ultimately is. That is how people treat it. Words are words, in my day people would say sticks and stone can break your bones, but words will never hurt you. They are wrong in that will never hurt you, but what they are saying you must make it so words will never hurt you.
There will always words that will hurt and they don't need to be blasphemy of wrong think. Some examples from my life "I never loved you I just needed you, so I said I love you" "She has cancer in her tongue that's why it is hard for her to eat, you have to make a decision here" -a vet to me about my cat, we buried her a few days ago "We aren't going to prosecute its too hard."
Read any one of these statements and think of them in a context in your life and tell me you wouldn't want the situation that they came from to replaced with someone screaming a racial slur, a derogatory term, or other slight.
Yeah, its not nice to be called some of those things, but this the privacy of someones home. Let them blow off some steam by calling someone a bad name. Not being allowed to say it in a game isn't going to make them less likely to use the word its going to make them more likely because it is forbidden.
Let people have the badly named Empires and then let join multiplayer and then have someone say hey were not playing with you, because you named your empire X. That will teach the lesson far more than not letting them use it. Stop being censorious let the chips fall where they may and I think you will be pleased with the result.
Okay, are we done?
Or will something else come up where I look and shake my head again...
