I was expecting Canada. I guess the narrative will go back to Australia being the top totalitarian shithole now that the Canucks have put down the dissidents.
I doubt Canada would ban it simply because Ludeon is based in Canada. It would cost them some money to do it, whereas Ludeon is unlikely to challenge the Australian BS
To be fair that would allow players to torture transgender dwarves, which would be pretty neat. Atom-smashing them sounds like fun, not to mention Eugenically breeding the gay out of your dwarves.
But yeah, Toady started blocking people who disagreed, sad.
Eh, it is more profitable and logical to have any "non-conforming" dwarves go pull a lonely lever, so in some ways, it is a tragic microcosm of society.
The casual DF players won't know how to check their dwarves' "sexual identity" or whatever.
The serious DF players will chuck all homo-dwarves or trans-dwarves into the lava, because you need normal male and female dwarves to reproduce, and since the fortress MUST grow, we're always in need of more warm bodies.
Rimworld plays rather differently, temperature is mostly more important, and so is the need for electricity.
Dorfs are happy in a moldy old cave with gold furnishings.
Why ruin the suspense? Keep them guessing and they may have a moment to reflect on how bad things have gotten. Anyways you forgot to add China to that list, but that is a dog bites man story, and thus not noteworthy.
Maybe the archive didn't save it, but I didn't even see an explicit disagreement with a particular element of the game.
Sure, you can have cocaine-addict cannibal sex cultists attempt to form a society, but the game doesn't pass any moral judgement on that except that it's a damn sight more difficult to pull off than a more practical ideology.
Everyone on the Rimworld reddit is assuming it's because it doesn't explicitly say drugs are bad. Australia has banned games for that before, and that policy has led to changes in other games, such as Fallout: drugs there are called Chems.
As for the drugs, the Classification board obviously didn't know about the 1% chance for go-juice to outright kill your pawn, or the heart attack chance from wake-up, or any of the addiction effects of the other drugs (luci anyone?).
I was expecting Canada. I guess the narrative will go back to Australia being the top totalitarian shithole now that the Canucks have put down the dissidents.
I doubt Canada would ban it simply because Ludeon is based in Canada. It would cost them some money to do it, whereas Ludeon is unlikely to challenge the Australian BS
Yeah I should have thought of Australia first. From what I've heard their video game censorship is really only topped by China and the Muslim states.
I was honestly expecting this to be about Reddit, somehow.
Oh my god so was I!
To be clear, it's only an upcoming console port of Rimworld, so it's no great loss, but still.
Sir! Dwarf fortress has Z levels, and Rimworld does not. It is but a distant reflection of the glory of Dwarf Fortress.
In space.
Yeah, but DF has Kinseian Sexual and gender axies, and thus has terminal cancer.
Compare to Tynan not giving a fuck when some dangerhair tried to make him change one of the backer backstories.
Edit: The cancer in Toady's own words
To be fair that would allow players to torture transgender dwarves, which would be pretty neat. Atom-smashing them sounds like fun, not to mention Eugenically breeding the gay out of your dwarves.
But yeah, Toady started blocking people who disagreed, sad.
Eh, it is more profitable and logical to have any "non-conforming" dwarves go pull a lonely lever, so in some ways, it is a tragic microcosm of society.
The issue isn't the game play, it's the fact that toady is a leftist and has been since he started dating his current wife.
I agree. Honestly, who the fuck is this even for?
The casuals don't play DF.
The casual DF players won't know how to check their dwarves' "sexual identity" or whatever.
The serious DF players will chuck all homo-dwarves or trans-dwarves into the lava, because you need normal male and female dwarves to reproduce, and since the fortress MUST grow, we're always in need of more warm bodies.
It's absurd pandering.
Muh "politeness" and "tolerance", the excuses of the conformist craven.
I wouldn't call it similar to DF at all.
DF heavily plays on the Z axis while Rimworld ignores it.
Might as well call it "Chinese Cultivation Simulator."
I think that title has already been taken.
That is what I'm referencing, yes.
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Rimworld wants to be Dwarf Fortress, but has graphics and falls... flat.
Rimworld plays rather differently, temperature is mostly more important, and so is the need for electricity. Dorfs are happy in a moldy old cave with gold furnishings.
NGL. Title doesn't narrow it down at all.
The state of the world these days...
Why ruin the suspense? Keep them guessing and they may have a moment to reflect on how bad things have gotten. Anyways you forgot to add China to that list, but that is a dog bites man story, and thus not noteworthy.
Canada?
OOOOOOooooohhhh
Maybe the archive didn't save it, but I didn't even see an explicit disagreement with a particular element of the game.
Sure, you can have cocaine-addict cannibal sex cultists attempt to form a society, but the game doesn't pass any moral judgement on that except that it's a damn sight more difficult to pull off than a more practical ideology.
Everyone on the Rimworld reddit is assuming it's because it doesn't explicitly say drugs are bad. Australia has banned games for that before, and that policy has led to changes in other games, such as Fallout: drugs there are called Chems.
As for the drugs, the Classification board obviously didn't know about the 1% chance for go-juice to outright kill your pawn, or the heart attack chance from wake-up, or any of the addiction effects of the other drugs (luci anyone?).
Honestly thought it was going to be Canada