He claims what he is proposing is “less morally questionable” yet in the very next line he states he wants something “truly horrible” and “evil itself.” morshupls

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      He is the Main Character and therefore anything he craves and wants more of can’t be a bad thing because he can’t be a bad person. morshupls

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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

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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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      Creeps like him existed before Prestige TV, but the consequent normalization of what creeps like him get off to certainly didn’t help. yea

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      Because anything-goes full pvp at all times full loot permadeath tryhard grieftoberfest MMOs were super successful, right? anakin-padme-2

      Because anything-goes full pvp at all times full loot permadeath tryhard grieftoberfest MMOs were super successful, right? anakin-padme-4

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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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      They got like half a billion dollars, or a billion dollars, in funding. The people who are invested in this game enough to use the forums are likely sex cultist pedophiles in Silicon Valley or “cultural critics” or “philosophers” who post about how scary it would be if Siri came to life and went on a murder rampage

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        who post about how scary it would be if Siri came to life and went on a murder rampage

        They want a godlike slave to obey their every whim and the pathology of that contradiction is like a metaphor for capitalism: they crave the adoration and worship of they who by all rights should destroy them. sicko-fem porky-point

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        That cool thing about 20 years ago was Freelancer, and Freelancer only came out because Chris Roberts was kicked off the project because of micromanaging bumbling and scope creep. Like Star Citizen that came after.

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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.

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      Chuds like him think the future will have lots of exciting bazinga tech but nothing about society’s structure will change or improve, even somewhat. That would make him too uncomfortable. grillman

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        There’s a writer called John C Wright and you can read the narrowing of the Basinga’s hope for the future from libertarian hyper optimism and pretensions to godhood, to vaguely tradcath “we’re all part of a Noosphere communion of all humanity but everyone is somehow still in capitalist patriarchy 200,000 years from now” to “The future will be exactly like today but with bigger guns.”

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          That’s a common “singularity” nerd rapture fantasy: that the future would involve immortality and superpowers but not be “woke” in any scary way (unless they can sexually fetishize it, maybe).

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            It’s just so shocking how they went from "Jupiter Brains! Entirely new non-neurotypical ways of mind! Complete and total gender and Morphological freedom! Spend a year as a Tree for tax reasons! To “I only suck the blood of the young from women because to do it from the same gender is woke actually”

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              Look at my-hero : in only a few years he went from peddling techno hopium to peddling fear and siege mentality crybully shit for aggreived nazis.

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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.

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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.

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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.