So... like pretty much most mage characters in video games?Woodsey said:Their job is not to include all the religions you've taken up a personal beef with. You might have noticed that Hindu deities are rather interesting looking, whilst anyone important in Christianity, Judaism and Islam is a bloke with a beard. So yeah, no shit they're not included.Sleekit said:still no characters from the Abrahamic religions i see.The Plunk said:I trust the Penny Arcade guys to stand up to these enemies of free speech.
why is that exactly ?..
oh yes...they are shitebags.
still /golfcalp in the name of "freedom of speech" eh ?..
especially when its quite clear they won't actually dare offend anyone who might actually be able to mess with them in return.
cowards.
Respect for the avatar! <high-five>Spartan1362 said:"Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? - because you're not!' If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. If someone thinks taxes should go up or down you are free to have an argument about it. But on the other hand is somebody says 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday', you say, 'I respect that'.
Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support the Labour party or the Conservative party, Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that, Macintosh instead of Windows - but to have an opinion about how the Universe began, about who created the Universe ... no, that's holy? ... We are used to not challenging religious ideas but it's very interesting how much of a furore Richard (Dawkins) creates when he does it! Everybody gets absolutely frantic about it because you're not allowed to say these things. Yet when you look at it rationally there is no reason why those ideas shouldn't be as open to debate as any other, except that we have agreed somehow between us that they shouldn't be."
I, like Dawkins, will never grow tired of sharing the words of Douglas Adams.
Please, Jesus would totally scrounge up a scourge from somewhere and give those other gods a good whipping. Because that's how he rolls.Kargathia said:Rather dying for your ideals than use violence does not exactly constitute a good video game protagonist in a fighting game.Krantos said:What they really need to do is balance the books.
Make Jesus a playable character.
Not quite sure how that would work given his philosophy, but they should make it work.
As a Christian myself, I would love to see that and imagine The Man would get a kick out of it.
Yikes, tone down the atheist rage dude. Disagreeing with it doesn't make them scum, it just makes them normal. The deities may be fake to you but they very much believe in their existence; by extension feeling they should be held in a place of reverence.Lillowh said:They're offended? So what. It's a game. Are they trying to accurately depict your magical being that has no proof of existance? No? Then cry harder, because this is the real world, and those characters have every right to be in this game because not only are they fictional, they're also not owned by anyone, so it's not a problem. Disagreeing with their right to put them in the game just makes you scum who wants to keep speech limited to what you want the ignorant to hear. Sounds familiar... oh yeah:
...and how is religion different? Have fun teaching young people to continue to be closed minded believers of something whose existance in stted in a book that is in no way different than a fairy tale so they act the way you want them to.Andy Chalk said:"Videogame makers should be more sensitive while handling faith related subjects, as these games left lasting impact on the minds of highly impressionable children, teens and other young people."
Just look at her? Have you seen actual classic depictions of Kali? Just Google her and take a look, they aren't that far off. They'd be closer if she were wearing less clothes and a necklace of heads, though.Triforceformer said:To be fair, Hi-Rez are being dickheads. I mean, just look at Kali. That's just being a dickhead.The Plunk said:I trust the Penny Arcade guys to stand up to these enemies of free speech.
Edit: And the Hindus aren't opposing Free Speech. They're expressing THEIR right to THEIR free speech to say they don't like what Hi-Rez are doing and are politely asking conventions to not support the game. It works both way. Shocking, I'm sure.