from the tone of his post, it doesnt appear that he cares much about the sensitivities of the local population
Freed from the shackles of communism, Polish software developers feel at liberty to go as far as they want
Freed from the shackles of communism, Polish software developers feel at liberty to go as far as they want
@ Dez
They do watch movies, just not American ones with all the cursing. Bollywood is as big (bigger?) as Hollywood, and you'd have to dig deep if you were to find nudity or cursing in such movies. I don't know exactly what movies they watch in Israel, but I wouldn't be surprised if the were more along the lines of Bollywood than Hollywood.
However, the "freed from the shackles of communism" comment is just plain silly. I don't know how much this reviewer knows about communism and the Soviet Union, but he should've looked that part up before writing about it. If they were Russian developers it would make sense; it makes very little sense when talking about Polish developers.
Well, developers in the Soviet Union certainly didn't have "freedom of speech". Far from it. The Witcher touches subjects like racism and war, which is certainly not something the Soviet government would allow. Every kind of media in the old Soviet Union was pretty much controlled by the government, so "going as far as the want" (which is what the author mentioned) would've been impossible.
Still, the comment was aimed towards Poland, and in Poland they've had liberty for quite a long time.
Still, the comment was aimed towards Poland, and in Poland they've had liberty for quite a long time.
Still, the comment was aimed towards Poland, and in Poland they've had liberty for quite a long time.
Prime Junta said:But the main point is that the 20-ish developers making games in both countries would have been in primary school when all that went down. They're certainly not enjoying the first wild, heady days of freedom after a lifetime of oppression.
Maylander said:I know it might seem very strange to someone born and raised in the West, but they really do see things quite differently. I know quite a few in China, for example, and they'd consider it a far bigger insult if you said "Fuck you" than try to beat the crap out of them. Most of them consider our ways of constantly cursing "barbaric" and "stupid", and I can't say I disagree.
*sigh* Appearances can be deceiving , you know.Alrik Fassbauer said:Well, the twins were about to change that, as it appears to me.
Hm, I think Tetris is one of the few games that can be enjoyed by people worldwide. I may be wrong, though.
Welcome to the forums, Unrestigered. Too bad you were too chicken to post that under a "restigered" identity.
You know what's really sad? It's that anti-Semitism is very real -- but your kind of ranting that sees it even when it's not there trivializes and even legitimizes it. Not to mention implicitly conflating Zionists and Jews like in your parenthesis.
Put another way, it can't be right if I'm only allowed to dislike someone if he's white (but not Jewish), secularized, and left of center, just like my little self.
(By the way, there's been plenty of criticism -- and more than criticism -- of Muslims both individual and collective here; just leaf through some threads in Politics & Religion.)
Conflating as in grouping all the Jews that live in the only Jewish country in the world together with all the Jews that don't live in that country who believe that Jews should be able to live in that country, and saying they make up an overwhelmingly vast enough percentage of the total Jewish world population that the term Zionist and Jew can be used interchangably, than yes. Yes, I conflated. I'm a conflator. An implicit conflator. I know, I know, its crazy. Or I'm crazy. Crazy like glue.
I think people should review the term narrative. Lets say the Jews played The Witcher, and decided to review it with a Jew Narrative in mind, and found it prefectly suitable for Jew consumption. Thats when people should say, "Huh? Thats crazy! The Jews have lost their Jew minds! "
I know it might seem very strange to someone born and raised in the West, but they really do see things quite differently. I know quite a few in China, for example, and they'd consider it a far bigger insult if you said "Fuck you" than try to beat the crap out of them. Most of them consider our ways of constantly cursing "barbaric" and "stupid", and I can't say I disagree.