Darksen is phonetically similar to dark skin, it might be entirely coincidental but it is unfortunate and confused Jan and Ben. I am extremely suspicious of everyone claiming you can't possibly hear the similarity, they aren't out to smear the game, so why are you forming a mob to shame them for even mentioning racism against people with dark skin tone? Hitting a bit too close to your own prejudice perhaps?
@jeff Jeff those movies are retold as the 2 opening arcs of Dragonball Super, maybe worth watching but super adds some pacing with little bits of filler of everyone hanging out. Depends if you feel like watching the same stuff twice.
@dasakamov: Theres nothing wrong with sound, animation, or even new rules, I guess I didn't mean to exclude those completely, but no board game video game does those things really well and invariably they all come over as inferior versions. Most people just want to be able to play their favourite board game online without any 'improvements' and in the most authentic way possible (thats why tabletop is number 1 on steam and why game devs should be following its example), if a board game game doesn't offer that its already a failure, if they can get the basics right then sure lets start adding things to expand the experience.
Terrible tables of numbers in awful font is my big bugbear, but the scythe board game only gets the sound right, i've not seen any attempts at rule variation. The animations are not great, and even if you don't want a full sim on the play mats (which is the way to do it) they could have at least animated the upgrade counters, rather than half-assing an awful UI.
Every official board game game annoys me so much and as much as I love the physical version I refuse to waste my money on them. None of the devs seem to understand that the elements they change (invariably bad scoretracks and player mats with terrible fonts) just take away from the game. I am hopeful that in 5 years time we will start seeing devs who have actually played tabletop simulator and understand why its the best way to play most board games on a pc. The only computer augmentations I want in my board game simulation is something in the background that maybe keeps track of the game state and provides automation if requested, something that flagged illegal moves at the end of turn could be useful.
@curiosus: @shaanyboi:To be clear, I was referring to military security. You wouldn't call an American soldier racist for questioning how good of an idea it is to have Russian and Chinese operatives operating freely aboard a top of the line stealth submarine. That's the kind of scenario I saw that scene as; more about "nations" than about species. I was in no way trying to justify racial discrimination as a security concern, and can absolutely understand how you can feel that way from the dialogue.
I know you meant military security and this is not the equivalent of American's having the Chinese on board. Its more like the French having a German on board post-WW2. Its fairly well established that the human's and turians are now close allies and that some like Saren and Ashley can't deal with that because of past conflict. The line from Shephard calling Ashley out is exactly right, she shouldn't be questioning her superiors because of personal prejudices.
@ebinbraveheart: You are deeply confused about what racism is. Its just hatred of the other, you might have good reason for that like a war, but its still racism. Stop trying to excuse it, you make yourself sound like one.
Ashley gets a bad rap by being called racist. Her concerns about aliens on the ship is based on military security, not race. Several points in the game she expresses disgust with actual racists, and her mistrust of turians is specifically tied to the First Contact War being so recent. It bums me out that Vinny is shaping Alex's impressions of her based on misconceptions. :/
She's a racist and you are being deeply unfair to military personnel by painting racism as a security issue implying they would all behave the same way. The damn ship they are on was built by humans working with turians and payrolled by the council. If you are running around calling your close allies who built the damn thing a security threat then you are probably a space racist.
@curiosus: I said the emulator can't contain any proprietary OS code either, along with distribution of the BIOS. That's where the grey area is, FOR THE END USER. No, the laws are well laid out for the devs of said emulators, but we are also trusting that they developed them in adherence to those laws.
If the developer concealed the use of copyrighted code and then distributed it there is no way the end user is going to be held responsible by a court. Thats not really something to worry about. Even ethically speaking if you object to breaking copyright the end user is still not doing anything wrong.
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