• SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Already in a CW thread so here goes. CW anyway:

    I heard a story that some kind of very early online game, some kind of mixed graphical/text RPG, was really dedicated to adding as many things from reality as possible. Devs would just add any interaction they could think of. So like different styles of fighting, pickpocketing, shaking hands, riding under the bottom of a wagon, or whatever, all this was easy to implement as it was mostly just text to display or numbers to change, and if necessary could be handled by a d20 roll or something.

    So someone had the idea to add sex. Sure. They added it. But some asked, what if… a player chose that option and the other person… refused? The devs were persuaded to follow their sort of ethos about allowing any real thing into the game. So they added rape next. Handled by d20 rolls I assume.

    Well, pretty soon 90% of the player base was role playing rapists. All their little profiles were about why they became rapists and why they rape people. That's all the game was anymore, just rapists running around, constantly stopping people so that the text would pop up and describe them committing rape. Every time you'd go to a town to buy arrows or whatever, you'd wait around getting raped

    The sheer uniqueness of the feature drew that sort of person to the game, and drove most of the other people out.

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      Once that feature was put in place, I assume anyone that said it was a mistake or to remove that feature was called whatever that era's version of a wokescold was and the removal proposal was seen as censorship from the nanny state that is against the very mature grown-ass Vincent AdultMen in the room. ![heated-gamer-moment](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/b2540093-3ed8-4922-9f32-23811a184e6f.png "emoji heated-gamer-moment")

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      Reminds me of HellMOO, though that was post apocalyptic and made in the early 2000s by a bunch of Something Awful and 4chan users to be as edgy as they possibly could be. Otherwise it was a MUD/MUSH like what you describe. Actually there was one big difference: actually engaging with the sexual mechanics was considered creepy and cringe by the community in general instead of being celebrated.

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    Something tells me this guy would be upset if they also added the historically accurate features of hazard pay, voting, paying prostitutes and respecting their consent, having black ex-slaves as equal members, and getting killed by your underlings if you keep the loot to yourself or get too many people killed.

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    This guy talking about "historically accurate" and all I can think of is one of if not best games at least critically acclaimed games ever made Sid Meyer's Pirates. Not even 10 years apart(SC initial dev launch).

    This is the sort of take not even Roberts or whatever the fuck his name is would be willing to follow imo, like goodbye your game ever getting anywhere close to the mainstream, and that is considering it is already a joke within "gamers" circles.

  • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    These people are such freaks.

    He literally wants "his avatar" to be sexually assaulted and humiliated while he watches. Just cut out the middle man and watch some porn or something–don't demand that everyone else participates in your fet.

    Reminds me of that vile fanfic you posted which was just heaps of torture porn. Why are these people so drawn to this game?

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      He literally wants "his avatar" to be sexually assaulted and humiliated while he watches.

      I think that was a misdirection on his part; I'm pretty certain he wants to be the assaulter but that would look unsavory in the post. It's like those creepy posts in porn sites that repetitively and even predictably say "I wish that was me" for whatever it is.

      Reminds me of that vile fanfic you posted which was just heaps of torture porn. Why are these people so drawn to this game?

      It's always presented itself as some "saving the genre" to aging gamedads, the kind that hate "wokeness" and the like. It's about a white-coded Roman LARPing human supremacist empire killing Orientialist-coded aliens. I think the chuddery just stacks and draws more chuddery in like a gravity well.

      • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        It's about a white-coded Roman LARPing human supremacist empire killing Orientialist-coded aliens

        Very original.

        They need to make WH40K satire again, piss off all the chuds, and then they can migrate over to star citizen, and I can have 40K back, and they can throw money at spaceship NFTs or whatever.

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      It would, except ten years later and about 590 million dollars more later and the game keeps making the Roberts grifter family richer.