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Why does everyone now have to drop F-bombs in everything, even if beeped. The main promo video: "Those f*king pirates!". Makes me not want to support the game.

Why does everyone now have to drop F-bombs in everything, even if beeped. The main promo video: "Those f*king pirates!". Makes me not want to support the game. I know it's petty or prude but it's just not edgy anymore, just kinda dumb.

goldenkey 4y ago
We've advanced past the point of caring about expletives. Thinking curses are gonna somehow screw people up, especially kids, is akin to thinking shooting games create school shooters. Victorian thinking is a bygone. Censorship and fragility go hand in hand. If we don't want the newer generations to be fragile, then we need to let them get with the fucking program! ;-) I for one, love a good fuck bomb. Come to think of it, bomb is a worse word than fuck - for anyone who has been injured by one or been in combat. If we avoid all triggers, we'd be left with no words in our vocabulary. Trigger itself is a trigger word for those who've been in traumatic shooting scenarios. Sigh.
- pfarrell 4y ago
  Maybe it's a demographic thing, and I don't think I'm a fuddy-duddy (though, just this morning, I was horrified by the lyrics of Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" while dropping the kids off at school), but the bleeped-expletive made think "They're trying to be edgy. Why not spend an extra few minutes finding the mot juste rather than the lazy f-bomb? Everything else seems really thought out and put together."
- UberFly 4y ago
  Who mentioned it was going to screw up kids? It's just that like your comment, it's tacky and classless.
  - goldenkey 4y ago
    It's implied. What other reason is there to restrict our vocabulary? Classless is pretending to be a puritan. I suppose if I put on a suit and tie and use proper etiquette while monopolizing the country, I'm a high-class monopoly man. But curse and do good and I'm a dreg of society. Yeah, that's great boomer logic, we're moving past that. Good fucking riddens.
1shooner 4y ago
Many people consider 'dumb' more offensive to use as an epithet than than fuck is.
- 0des 4y ago
  Why?
  - necovek 4y ago
    "Fuck" is said randomly and arbitrarily without really having any meaning except to emphasise something. "Fuck, this is good" means that this is really good. "Fucking pirates" means that they are really annoying pirates. I understand that there's a whole world where swearwords are a big no-no, but half of them are jokingly used between adults: as long as people know when or how to use them non-threateningly, I don't think it's a big deal. "Dumb", on the other hand, is almost never used jokingly, though it can sometimes be used in a self-depreciative way.
  - Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
    Because "dumb" used to be a speech disability and then became an insult to intelligence which is offensive to those with speech disabilities.
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BlueTemplar 4y ago
Yeah, I found it a bit cringe... and surprising : I could understand it coming from Satisfactory devs of Goat Simulator fame... but a serious-looking game like this ??

goldenkey 4y ago

We've advanced past the point of caring about expletives. Thinking curses are gonna somehow screw people up, especially kids, is akin to thinking shooting games create school shooters. Victorian thinking is a bygone. Censorship and fragility go hand in hand. If we don't want the newer generations to be fragile, then we need to let them get with the fucking program! ;-) I for one, love a good fuck bomb. Come to think of it, bomb is a worse word than fuck - for anyone who has been injured by one or been in combat. If we avoid all triggers, we'd be left with no words in our vocabulary. Trigger itself is a trigger word for those who've been in traumatic shooting scenarios. Sigh.

pfarrell 4y ago
Maybe it's a demographic thing, and I don't think I'm a fuddy-duddy (though, just this morning, I was horrified by the lyrics of Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" while dropping the kids off at school), but the bleeped-expletive made think "They're trying to be edgy. Why not spend an extra few minutes finding the mot juste rather than the lazy f-bomb? Everything else seems really thought out and put together."
UberFly 4y ago
Who mentioned it was going to screw up kids? It's just that like your comment, it's tacky and classless.
- goldenkey 4y ago
  It's implied. What other reason is there to restrict our vocabulary? Classless is pretending to be a puritan. I suppose if I put on a suit and tie and use proper etiquette while monopolizing the country, I'm a high-class monopoly man. But curse and do good and I'm a dreg of society. Yeah, that's great boomer logic, we're moving past that. Good fucking riddens.

1shooner 4y ago

Many people consider 'dumb' more offensive to use as an epithet than than fuck is.

0des 4y ago
Why?
- necovek 4y ago
  "Fuck" is said randomly and arbitrarily without really having any meaning except to emphasise something. "Fuck, this is good" means that this is really good. "Fucking pirates" means that they are really annoying pirates. I understand that there's a whole world where swearwords are a big no-no, but half of them are jokingly used between adults: as long as people know when or how to use them non-threateningly, I don't think it's a big deal. "Dumb", on the other hand, is almost never used jokingly, though it can sometimes be used in a self-depreciative way.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
  Because "dumb" used to be a speech disability and then became an insult to intelligence which is offensive to those with speech disabilities.

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BlueTemplar 4y ago

Yeah, I found it a bit cringe... and surprising : I could understand it coming from Satisfactory devs of Goat Simulator fame... but a serious-looking game like this ??