I've been a longtime fan of rimworld and the new dlc, ideology, came out. I have a major problem with its handling of real world religions, my religion of Islam as well as others like Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism are featured as game mechanics and factions. They all have randomized names like the blue Islam cannibalism cult or the buddhist people's nudist temple. I find it pretty offensive that I would have to fight other muslim factions in game and these factions often have beliefs (called memes in game) that are just contradictory to what Islam actually practices. When I bought this I was expecting something a little more secular. I wouldn't have bought this knowing how my religion is treated as a tasteless game mechanic. I'm not gonna play rimworld again unless there's a patch that removes all references to real world religions. Islam doesn't need to featured in a game where the primary mechanics are death camps and cannibalism, it's absolutely not okay.

Lol https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2553766942

  • Woly [any]
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    3 years ago

    Rimworld is a Dwarf Fortress ripoff without any tact, change my mind.

    • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      it's openly inspired by, but that doesn't make it a 'ripoff'. they focus on different things, DF is more about a huge fortress and the grand narrative of that in a large living world, while RW is a lot more about the individuals and the struggle of building a small community. they also play very differently in terms of combat and other mechanics. as for tact, honestly they're both as bad as each other on the absurd and edgy things players do

      • Woly [any]
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        3 years ago

        Damn you might have actually changed my mind

    • epicgamer666 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I like both, rimworld is definitely the better of the two. But the fanbases, they're almost as bad as the fallout or hearts of iron franchises in term of chuds.

      • Woly [any]
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        3 years ago

        The nice thing about dwarf fortress fanatics is that there are so few of them you can basically live your life without running into one

      • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Of recent, a good amount of people on the DF sub tend towards leftism and shit. Toady himself came out in favor of the Floyd protests IIRC. But yeah I imagine like HOI theres very few people in between.

      • Woly [any]
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        3 years ago

        I don't like dwarf fortress

        :disgost:

          • Woly [any]
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            3 years ago

            What, you don't like learning an entire programming language just to play a video game?