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Re: Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra

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Post by hitekker » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 8:19 PM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #180

hitekker wrote: post #178

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This comment comes late, but I've recently learned that "just curious" without qualification is a fair indicator of hubris. A self-described "curious" person will seek out connections where none exists, force others to entertain their "great ideas", and eventually arrive at what looks like knowledge but is merely an illusion borne of their pride. If curiosity is not balanced by humility, anyone could end up like the…

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Maybe. I just wanted to write down my idea that curiosity is less a virtue, forged through careful self-discipline, and more of an urge, a strong itch that can't quite ever be scratched. Like a sexual impulse for bored nerds. I’ve heard the buzzwords “intellectual masturbation” and “insight porn” thrown around, maybe some of them can be, in some fashion, could be applied to HN.

Re: Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra

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Post by Rule35 » Fri, Apr 09, 2021, 12:22 AM UTC

anoncake wrote: post #159

b0rsuk wrote: post #155

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Eww, equality. If you make it equal, you remove the drama. If you force equality onto history, you falsify it. Case in point: Edward II, king of England. He had affairs with Gaveston and Despenser the Younger, all the while in a marriage with queen Isabella. He wasn't too subtle about what he was doing, showered his lovers with gifts, prestige and land. His nobles pressured him send him away, but he was the KING, and…

You start falsifying history the moment you unpause the game. Equality shouldn't be there at the start of the game, nor the most common outcome, but there is no reason the game engine needs to forbid it.

Not equality of people, equality of paths. In an FPS the shotgun and the rocket launcher shouldn't be equal or there's no need for both.

imho the thing to do is take OPs suggestion, Paradox should make gay-marriage possible but have people refer to it in variable ways. Some egalitarian societies can call it marriage, others sodomy, etc. And then add other cross-cultural restrictions too, where civilizations may not recognize bi-religious or bi-racial marriages for various reasons.

In other words don't minimize the issue, lean into it in a CK way, deeply and unsettlingly.

Re: Legalizing gay marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra

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Post by ponow » Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 9:11 AM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #123

ponow wrote: post #117

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But the time and effort put into writing that code was a significant part of their lives, and that code was only shared with those who agreed with their rules.

>>and that code was only shared with those who agreed with their rules. This is the point of contention though. In EU courts have ruled over and over and over again that you cannot be bound by terms set AFTER the purchase of any software. As a result, EULAs are pretty much worthless, because they are presentented post-purchase. If you went to a store and bought a copy of this game then that's it, you haven't agreed t…

We're getting into legal details here, but in principle one can construct a contract where software use plus onerous rules are exchanged for money.

Thanks for the European perspective. Not a big fan of EULAs myself, especially ones where the cost to properly analyze by your own lawyer is likely much greater than the value of the software itself, which is the case for most consumer software.