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Things You Believe About Caves of Qud if You're Acting in Bad Faith or Extremely Not Paying Attention, a thread
1. Q Girl is a dev self-insert
I put Q Girl in the game before we had any other contributing writers
I put Q Girl in the game before we had any other contributing writers
2. The devs made Q Girl unkillable as a political statement
You can't kill Q Girl because, despite being cruel roguelike devs, we have hearts & feel bad when you brick your twenty-hour run by murdering a major quest giver.
You can't kill Q Girl because, despite being cruel roguelike devs, we have hearts & feel bad when you brick your twenty-hour run by murdering a major quest giver.
Reactionary stick-in-the-mud Otho, the other major quest giver, also can't be killed. Also (surprise!), they can actually both be killed.
3. You can't join the Putus Templar because of the devs' political views
You can't join any of the seventy factions in the game other than the ONE the main quest revolves around, the Barathrumites
You can't join any of the seventy factions in the game other than the ONE the main quest revolves around, the Barathrumites
4. I just wanna play the game without bringing politics into it. There's nowhere I can do that.
This one's gonna hurt but you can't construct a fictional world without bringing politics into it. You can recapitulate the dominant ideology uncritically, but that... is political.
This one's gonna hurt but you can't construct a fictional world without bringing politics into it. You can recapitulate the dominant ideology uncritically, but that... is political.
The thing you want, being able to talk about the game while leaving these specific thirteen rocks in your ideological rock maze undisturbed, actually exists all over the internet. The Caves of Qud channel in the Roguelikes discord is one example.
5. The devs are all furry communists
Only SOME of the devs are furry communists
Only SOME of the devs are furry communists
6. They're so angry all those tweets must be about Sseth
They're not about Sseth, they're about the knock-on dummies who get irate when we tell them they aren't entitled to this _one_ specific space that isn't even contained within the game they bought
They're not about Sseth, they're about the knock-on dummies who get irate when we tell them they aren't entitled to this _one_ specific space that isn't even contained within the game they bought
7. We're hurting the devs by torrenting the game!!
Not how marketing works
Not how marketing works
8. You can't talk about the Putus Templar on the discord
See the highlight:
See the highlight:
I'll say this for anyone who's earnestly questioning the implications of this kind of moderation: for every _1_ nuanced discussion about the Templar that's lost, 100 more flower in its place because the mods created a comfortable space for people who don't feel welcome elsewhere
