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Fine if so, then.

Cut it out of secret, entirely agree. Everyone goes the system override route when they do not need to. No AI I have ever seen really bothers to toy with the crew, try to make them play certain games, etc. There was one, actually, but they aren't around anymore.

My concern is that airlock in the back there. I anticipate RCD memes.

I did the skimming work for you, borya. There is not an even spread of people agreeing/disagreeing about your initial assessment, Marlon. There are roughly 12 (not 9!) people in this thread not counting myself calling your assessment a stretch, whereas the overall verdict is that the uniform can be changed but not that it is necessary. There is a staunch majority of people overall who outright have said that they did not even have it occur to them that there was somehow Nazi imagery in the Necropolis uniform. Probably because a normal person's optics are not adjusted to look for Nazi symbolism, and I wouldn't even constitute as normal because I've unfortunately had to do research on Nazi iconography before for a project on propaganda. I don't see Totenkopfs, two thunderbolts or Swastikas on the Necropolis uniform, sorry. You have ultimately chosen to interpret that it is Nazi symbolism, so I guess that's your problem alone to get wound up over, really. I wouldn't have personally guessed it was somewhat similar to a Nazi uniform either until you pulled a specific example from Rhodesia. The resemblance isn't quite on point either. All things considered, the Necropolis uniform was modified based off the NanoTrasen security uniform. Sheer coincidence that the color palette was light brown and tan, honestly, a lot of nations have used the palette. I would've thought it looks more similar to the United States Brown Beret/Army Green dress uniform at first glance.

Agreed.

Yeah, even then, I think the spriter understands the difference between an accent or uniform stripe, contrasting to that of an armband. Whether others do remains to be seen.

It more resembles a stripe or an accent rather than an actual armband, yes. Actual arm-bands in the game are far thicker with greater depth, so the initial OP was stretching but still highlighting broad problems throughout all of the lore and design. think you honestly have to be looking for Nazi imagery on purpose to actually find them here though.

There are 10,000 different ways that could've been better put for the argument to change the current status quo, but none of them were really taken. There's a reason why Godwin's Law exist, and it's mostly designed to prevent impromptu conversations about Nazism and otherwise making normal people uncomfortable. This thread had to be the most inflammatory display possible, and lo and behold this thread still hasn't gotten very far in spite of the efforts of the people in the replies to get this on track. The examples skull provided are not whataboutism. Whataboutism is, in response to someone pointing out an issue, claiming that there are "much bigger problems than this!" in attempt to divert from the original issue. Skull brought up another ideological foil to Nazism - the Soviet Union - in attempt to test if the OP's logic still held up. He did not bring up any of his points to completely distract from the initial point, either. Since there are more people alive today who were victims of the Soviet regime than the Nazi regime, doesn't it stand to reason that Soviet aesthetic in the lore/game world is equally or more problematic because of the risk it holds in offending people? Which rounds about to what the actual issue is, which is not Nazi imagery specifically. The actual issue is using imagery in our game that is essentially parallel to existing (or formerly existing) regimes or powerful forces in real life that hurt people for one reason or another, whether it's due to fascism, racism, imperialism, authoritarianism or whatever else negative connotation you want to use. Completely open to interpretation on that point, feel free to add to it. Steps we should take to avoid that, imo, is completely dialing back if not shutting the door on real-life parallels in design and lore. We were going to have that conversation eventually, so it might as well be said now. Aurora needs to be its own thing, not some sociopolitical experiment to get people woke about real life bullshit when a strong majority of people come to Aurora to have fun in a video game and not have these extremely difficult and uncomfortable conversations about politics. The Auroraverse can tell its own story about how authoritarianism and fascism impacts its own universe without needing to use Nazi or Soviet Union imagery to convey a point when virtually anything creative and remotely original would do the same thing.

posting in a weird fuckin thread Nazi accusations aside, could the red accents not just be dark brown instead?

You can mostly run with what Kyres did with the hardsuit sprites. Do stuff like actual overalls and jumpers, stuff tuck 'n roll professional mercs would wear. Their outfits should appear 'rough around the edges' like a merc would be.

Hitscan weapons are not getting powerpacks. Fuck that -1

Gonna have to agree with Marlon here. The merc outfits should stand out more

Yeah just asking for a way to extract seeds from plants in a ghetto fashion so that you're not punished for harvesting single-harvest plants if you're not hydroponics.

Guess my avatar is furry now. ? Ahegao faces and shit like that is already bannable, so I do not really see what the issue is here. You can also disable seeing avatars in settings for discord if Darkwolf McFurryDude disturbs you.

I'll miss you! Take care, the Aurora family waits and will receive you to come back at any time.

oh i didn't know that. Actually, don't close this, it only works on plants inside dirt plots. Some plants are single-harvest plots, so.

Throwing plants into the seed extractor currently (to my knowledge) extracts 3x seed packets from the inherent plant item thrown into it. Hoes should extract only 1 seed packet (and then delete the harvested plant item as sacrifice to Gaia), particularly to help visitor-gardeners continue to sustain their garden and not be screwed on produce - while not necessarily being as efficient as hydroponics.

sorry guys this stopped being cool 6 months ago

i dont have a job as atmos tech if explosions don't happen on a somewhat uncommon basis

No thank you. -1.

2020 is rolling around the corner in a little over 2 weeks. It'd be really nice if we get to see compiled statistics of various metrics like we've seen in previous years, like characters and their players who have died the most in a round-by-round basis over the course of a year. I'm not sure if the database would possibly count overall janitor tears (aka leftover messes), but the excel-compiled statistic threads in previous years were really fun to read and I hope to see these before or slightly after the year of 2019 ends.

Yes. Not everyone asks for meds for the same reason and there's always room to scrutinize as to why someone's inquiring for something that isn't normally prescribed to them. Even smaller interactions can pave way to making friends with others. Don't take this so seriously.