What are you exactly alluding to ?
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 22:33, Kai Antweiler wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to send this mail to the glob2-devel mailing list, but it has > been rejected automatically. This might be good, because I do not know > if it would have been the right place anyway. Decide for yourself: > > > I had planned to join the globulation2 project in a few month. > But I changed my mind after what I read at: > http://globulation2.org/wiki/Universe_Background > > In my opinion it is wrong to include the personal dislike for real > living people in a game like glob2. Even when you do not respect them > yourself you might know someone who does - maybe a friend, a client, > your boss or your next boss. > > It is unnecessary. It does not improve the ambience of the game to > make pun on names or connect real names with negative attitudes. > (By the way: the human background story sounds weird. The development > of the individual civilizations is too much and should be skipped. > To use a pseudo-german name for a strange scientist does not go well > with me either.) > > If you want to criticize politics, religion or cultures there are > better ways to do this. It does not have to be superimposed on a game > that naturally has nothing to do with it. > This only keeps people from joining the project or even from > playing glob2. > > To be well understood: > The subject matter is not: favouring or not favouring the politics of > someone. It is the opposite. Criticism is a good thing to have, but > it does not fit in everywhere. I just cannot see the connection between > a game with a kindergarten atmosphere and the sarcasm and negative > feelings I saw at some spots of that page. > > > > p.s: I do not like the idea that human and globule history should be > linked. Part of the fascination that the ambience of glob2 induces > comes from the fact that it does not connect to the real world. > (traffic jams, broken washing machines, bureaucracy, ...) > Why destroy that? > You could at least put this part of the background as one possible but > not generally approved history of the globulish civilization. _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
