AAR: Varshavianka- The People's War - Discussion thread

[JarlWolf]

Trying to maneuver a rover to that other farm: I can always destroy things quickly if I see reinforcements coming. Right now my priority is merely to take over all their resource harvesting operations, starve them and surround them. If I get the numerical advantage surrounding them their defencive bonus will drop significantly enough for my forces to take on his troops.

As for the monolith, I use it every once in a while. Right now time is budgeted, and I must be vigilant for the enemy.

[JarlWolf]

New update coming soon.

[JarlWolf]

I apologize for the wait, though you will be in for a special treat for this one.

[Buster's Uncle]

Don't get nekkid, man - please.

[JarlWolf]

Ah darnit now I can't post it-


just kidding.

[Buster's Uncle]

Don't cuss, man - please.

[JarlWolf]

There. Fixed, bad habit I need to kill.

Edit: Update will be coming shortly... I just have to get everything setup and I will be ready to capture more of it.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'll tell you a secret - there's worse words that the swear filter misses under conditions I'm not stupid enough to reveal.  I'm gonna have to square my shoulders, set my jaw, gird my loins and subject myself to the decidedly non-trivial lost time and considerable aggravation of fixing the swear list one of these days - I've had to edit WAY too many posts lately, and I hate using my powers on people.

[JarlWolf]

Which is why I went back and fixed it. I'll watch my mouth a bit more carefully- don't fret. I'm no fan of censorship personally but I understand the forum's reasoning so its fine.

Though I do have a question- does this apply to the stories as well?

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmm. Never thought of that.

Hmm.




If it's not swear filter terms -or ones the swear filter misses but shouldn't- I think we value the art in question enough to definitely let the likes of hell and ass and even damn and the like pass unremarked, and even without secret wincing.  Racial/ethnic/etc. slurs would be a problem, though, even if they belonged in the story because a character is a bigot - there's no way to turn the filter off for one place and not all the rest, and toxic slurs are as unwelcome at AC2 as the most nasty of vulgarities and blasphemies...

[JarlWolf]

Well with Centauri I have the beautiful excuse of "prejudice is aimed at ideology, not specific ethnic groups" because its presumed that bigotry now presides only socially and ideologically now, not ethnically. Because ethnic importance was lost with Earth. Of course the reality may be different but that's I avoid it. Bigots in my story are based on social or political stances, not racially. Unless its for Progenitors or something similar where its an actual difference in species/genetics: Like a Genejack or AI.

And as you know I am not writing the story in poor taste, I write it realistically or at least try to.

[Buster's Uncle]

Right.  Slurs include the [homosexual]s and the like, too.  I'm testing now to see if I can say [homosexual].

Okay...

[JarlWolf]

The only factions I can see using insults to homosexuality in my faction pack would be Iron Regime and possibly the Valhallans... though less so for the latter, more so for the former. And I doubt the Betrayed even care about sex. Jezebel's faction might care, depends on their stance. I think they wouldn't be very supportive of bi/homosexuality in the least.


The Comrade's don't care about homosexuality, they see all people's as equal, the Imperium actually experiments/has relationships quite a bit with bisexuality, and possibly even homosexuality within society, because while there is lots of slavery in the society its purely socio-economic: People aren't enslaved based on their opinions and such, its purely economic. Parents might sell their children if they are in debt, or if you fall in debt you'll literally end up in chains, or you may be a captured prisoner/criminal. And often you an have love both ways. (The society is like Rome/Ancient Greece in a lot of aspects.)

And the Machine Mandate doesn't have sexuality for the most part to begin with, with the exception of certain artificial humans, and even then its quite tolerant/uncaring, and the Valhallans might joke about it but they probably don't hate them. There is probably even bisexual/homosexual warriors in their society, homosexual relationships probably occur off and on.

The Iron Regime and the new Planet Cult are probably the ones who actually have a hatred towards homosexuals. The Iron Regime is a fascist state that believes in genetic purity, not so much ethnically but they believe that normal healthy human beings are the way to go. And they believe in "natural relationships," of what can work sexually. The Iron Regime is the type to round up homosexuals and people of other ideologies and send them to "resettlement camps" to be "processed."

And the Cult is based on Christianity+Planet Cult, and last I checked Christian faith is not very tolerant of homosexuality, regardless if its Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Celtic or whatever other sects and sub sects.

[JarlWolf]

Right. A post will be coming soon, I have already uploaded the images. Its just a matter of writing it now.

[Buster's Uncle]

Jezebel could always follow a Cha line on sexuality -which could be whatever one wanted to make up- instead of a Miriam Judeo/Christian one, or, I could probably think of a few labels archaically biblical enough to pass.

It's not like forbidding a few words makes hate speech impossible, and it the hate speech we don't want - but would not forbid in the right story...