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And seriously, our last game was named after an Irish terrorist organization. God, sira, stop being so OVERSENSITIVE! Can't you see it's about them and their games and not about you and us and the *real life things that've happened*? They stole my Lucky Charms. I can't be expected to react with a suitable tone at moments like this :( It was a joke. We didn't name the last game in fact. We inherited it. Clearly, the internet has to be serious business all of the time. Oh, a joke. I see! Well, I guess that's fine. This is just like LOLCats or RickRolling or an OKCupid quiz that'll tell you which My Little Pony you most resemble. How silly of me to not find the Troubles amusing. I'm Irish, I was in that game, my last name is Duffy and my first is a river in Ireland, do you really want to go down that road? What? And? If you didn't feel offended, nobody else have to? I am? Do explain to me how it's ridiculous for me to be offended and hurt by the appropriation and trivialisation of a period of my national and familial history which is not yet even fully over. Please. I'm all ears. It's a GAME. Like any other GAME, it is not to be taken into real life. When you roleplay something bad, do you often have it roll over into your real life? I'd wager not. It's controversial to touch down on real subjects, but it happens. TV, books, IT HAPPENS and while you may not like it, it doesn't mean the people who do it are bad people or that they should restrict creative freedom to suit every single person's needs because what YOU'RE talking about it is censorship and the thought of living in a country that oppressive and ridiculous is sickening. No, what you're saying is not logical. You're taking something which happened in real life and using it for entertainment purposes. You're taking a game and giving it real life resonance, and if you do that, you have to expect it to have particular consequences for you, and particular impact on people who have, for instance, personal connections to the Shoah or the Troubles. No one here is advocating censorship, and it is disingenuous of you to say so, or to say that I have ever wanted censorship. Okay so everything that does touch down on real events for entertainment should be taken away? Let me offer you a point of my own. I saw Cloverfield, I am from New York - I was a senior at the time the towers collapsed and to this day and for the rest of my life, I will never forget how it happened and what it felt like to have no cell phones work to call people who I knew in the city and people who I knew that were by those buildings. Cloverfield, in example, mimicked the way they fall with that cloud of dust in the early parts of the film and while I felt a bit disturbed watching it, I did not turn off the movie because of it. Things mirror real life often. It happens. It's called realism and it helps people connect to things. In Television and in novels and any other creative works. This has been stated, and they're not, for the millionth time mimicking or taking away from what happened. No, that is quite obviously not what I'm saying. No one is saying that it is wrong to draw on real events. What I think people are saying is that while there may be no inherent obligation or responsibility on the behalf of an artist or a writer or a film-maker to make an ethical piece of art, many people would feel that they have an obligation to act as an ethical and empathetic human being, and that that feeling of obligation shapes their work and how they present it. Honestly, I know enough about people to know that no matter what a single opinion is, someone, somewhere thinks differently. I don't know that I could pull one event and have it reflect that much upon me. There are bad things and I'm the kind of person who will watch something upsetting and be empathetic enough to cry about it, and I've seen countless of this time period and I've seen things glorify what happened sickeningly. I'm 24 - I've seen a lot. I knew people who thought Hitler had the right idea, I knew people who denied the Holocaust and I knew people who were terribly hurt by it and some it didn't bother. To me, it's tragic, one of the largest tragedies that will ever occur for no good reason besides a person's hatred for nothing. There was a film I believe it was called 9/11 and if I watch it and it hurts me, I will get back to you, but I've honestly not seen it yet so I cannot compare a severe personal experience to anyone this effects. Wow, that's kind of ridiculous seeing as you don't even know me? Please grow up, really, I feel for your husband or wife to be lopped with someone so immature as to bash someone they do not know on the internet. Grow up, for the sake of your maiden name. Oh, the IRONY. Why should I defend myself? I don't hate anyone or any specific group of people, rather. I am an intelligent enough human being to hate someone for who they truly are. I don't care what you think of me, but I'm going to defend something I believe in. And you can sit and say I'm racist, but that doesn't make me it. So yeah, I'm the jackass, 'cause I attacked you and all? Ok! You're the jackass, because you are participating in something that demeans and trivializes the pain, suffering and death experienced by millions of people. Mkay and Law and Order, and various movies do that everyday. Understand THAT? No, I don't assume you do. Write a letter of complaint to NBC and Jack Ketchum while you're at it for trivializing the pain of a fifteen year old girl who was beaten for three months for no good reason until she died. You don't like it, I get it, the mods get it, but it's not changing, why? Because it happens everyday. As far as the name goes, I don't know, not mod, but as far as the game BARELY reflecting life as JKR did herself? Yeah, hold your hand on your ass for that to change, mate. CONTEXT. They don't TRIVIALIZE it, they DEPICT it. http://asylums.insanejournal.com/asylum |