The chicken is back!

Do your duty. Lay some eggs for Amuhrica.

You didn't explain anything, you presented your personal interpretation of the laws of a country that broke away from yours. You're free to have an opinion on things but neither you, nor any other foreign power, get to dictate how we operate in my country.

Sure, it's not the United States in and of itself, but we were a huge part of laying down the infrastructure, the standards, the customs for the internet. The internet has always been about freedom: free expression, freedom of information, freedom to 'travel' (in the digital sense).

I'm not at all against forums and internet communities having rules. The problem is that the heavier-handed your moderation becomes, the less pleasant of an experience that community becomes for all but the select few who happen to align 100% perfectly with those ideologies. I speak from decades of experience on this matter, having been an admin or moderator to many different forums and internet communities over the years. Moderation and rules should be there to guide and facilitate healthy, civil discussion. They shouldn't be there to police every action of everyone so that overly-sensitive folks don't get triggered.

Moreover, the point I'm making is that people need to grow up, grow thicker skin, and stop getting offended by literally everything. You like to claim that those mods are "racist" or "inciting genocide"; I haven't looked at the mods myself but if the mod removes a character that's historically inaccurate, that's not racist. Likewise, having an opinion on geopolitics that doesn't go along with the narrative doesn't equal "incitement of genocide". And as for the "homophobic" mod, guess what: people have a right to play games without DEI and current-day ideologies injected into everything.

Ultimately, that's the beauty of modding a game: if you don't like what a game says/does, if the game has mod tools, you can edit that game to suit your preferences. For a community like GOG, which promotes DRM-free (which, in GOG's founder's own words, is freedom), one would think most of y'all would agree that players should have that right even if you personally disagree with their mod idea. I've seen literal anti-Christian mods added to video games without a single bit of backlash, and do I get offended? No. I block it/ignore it and move on like an adult, and my life is significantly more peaceful because I don't let opposing opinions throw me into a tantrum.

There's no contradiction. I'm encouraging people to block and ignore the people who say things they don't like. Modding out content they don't like is the software-level equivalent.

Nevermind.

Blocking or modding content is not developing a thicker skin. A thicker skin is accepting the content exists and not letting it bother you.

Mods don't allow people to develop an acceptance of the content, they remove it. Same as blocking people in a conversation - you're denying content from even reaching you and not teaching you to live and let live.

Are you in favour of the age ratings, content warnings, and trigger warnings that are attached to every piece of media these days? Don't know why they don't just tell people to grow thicker skin and watch/play whatever content is in it. Personally, if it were up to me, everyone would be shamed into watching and playing things they don't like because that's what builds character, these kids need to learn.

Hehe, you’re free to believe that. So when I quoted a U.S.A. Supreme Court ruling stating: 'The First Amendment does not guarantee the right to communicate one’s views at all times and places or in any manner that may be desired,' - that’s just my opinion, right?

Would you like court rulings and constitutional law (from your own country, which you apparently aren’t familiar with) regarding content restrictions as well? I’d just need to know which state you’re in, because of the 10th Amendment. (But I don’t need to explain what that is or the implications of it… do I?)

As the quote goes: 'Facts don’t care about your feelings

And people outside of the USA have the right to not only use the internet but to have a pleasant experience using it, free of your bullshit. "What I'm saying is not illegal to USA law!!" is neither a valid defense for breaking online rules nor is it a good one.

Sure, let's not moderate everything at all. I'm sure it'll go down great when your vibrant community whittles down to a bunch of internet trolls talking about thicker skins, people getting offended, sensitivity, and the evil "DEI and current-day ideologies".

At this point you're getting banned on a forum with real moderation with no chance for an appeal. You not only broke "no racism" but also you doubled down on it. The rest of your paragraph solidifies the case against you.

Again, GOG is not the US government so no First Amendment. It's a Polish business and it has a CoC. They have the right to platform whatever they want, and we have the right to voice our opinions and continue business with them or not. I've clearly said this mod shouldn't be linked here because it breaks a few rules such as openly being homophobic or racist among others. Not only that but these are rules that have been present on the internet since forever before internet trolls intertwined their rhetoric with US politics.

Nevermind.

We definitely need them. But by the way, it's 'Murica. You're not from around here, are you?

Hell no!


I just got an email from GOG with a discount for House Party. The next whining thread is incoming. :D

It shows. Gotta love nothing more than foreigners who think they understand my country more than us Americans. You europeans are especailly bad. I see foreign news (I watch news from around the world) America this, America that. It's because of this.. you don't know a f*cking thing about my country, so f*ck off. Telling us Americans what we should do or what you think you know of us, you don't know anything. And visiting once or twice isn't enough. If you're not born and raised here, you don't know our culture. I don't give a sh*t who you think you are. By the way, I'm not saying this to you specifically foad1 (I might call you Toad though if you're a d*ck), just any off-worlders that think they know my country better than us Americans. Sorry, 'Muricans. It's a derogatory term we use to make fun of our own country.... than you can screw off.

edits: fixing typos.

I see. There is one big question here.

What is your original account? You are the third guy with an alt account in this thread. Are you also evading a forum ban?

It looks like this thread is an alt account magnet.:D