The entire point of my earlier thread was to see how easily offended people on this board are. Sorry to do that to you, but every site from YouTube to Fanfiction.net has had its users think me the damned Antichrist himself. It seems some people can take a billion and a half sex jokes tied together with a half-baked plot easier than they can a few jabs at Christendom and a few characters who preach something very similar to what Fredrik Nieztchie wrote about. Sorry if I got you guys all riled up and that I kinda disturbed the peace, but I needed to test it this time before I go submitting anything that might get me banned. I figured I could get banned right now and save myself the trouble of making a game and getting banned for it later.
I know people have already stated that this is a pretty liberal (not in a political sense) open place, but SUPPOSEDLY so were a number of the sites that I submitted my short stories to. Many of my short stories had heavy Christian themes, though not in the sense that "Left Behind" has Christian themes (more like The Da Vinci Code, but probably even less so), and even though many of my stories had a number of facts in them about the religion, some just didn't want to hear it. Even on a more open site, you can still get banned if enough people want you gone. Again, sorry.
In a way, the topic did backfire on me a bit. I wrote some things I really didn't give one hoot or another about and distorted a few of my own opinions for good measure. I want to say I didn't want to offend anyone, but that was the purpose all along. In the end, I decided that I wanted to just leave because of the backlash the topic caused. Then I remembered I'm more stubborn than that. You can't get rid of me that easily, suckers!
...but, this was also a learning experience. The last topic and some of your responses has inspired my to change a bit of the storyline. I think the God Gene will become a better game because of this. Thank you.
And if you still hate me or want to ridicule me for saying that I was gone and then coming back, well then...shove it! --What the hell am I saying? I'm one of the worst "Please like me" people you'll ever know. I'm too conscious of other people's opinions and the this and that last topic prove it. So go on, make with the roasting.
P.S.: Seeing as how my last topic had degraded into a discussion obout Monolith Soft's Xenogears and Xenosaga, I'd like to add my two cents:
Both Xenogrears and the Saga had tremendous potential. Xenogears was an excellent story...in theory. It was a good story but with a horrible telling of it. Takahashi just doesn't no how to write a damn story. He's an idea man pure and simple. And Xenosaga started out stronger than Gears, what with a more philisophically driven story (although they do retain many of the religious references, if you look deeply enough into Saga's strange hodgepodge of mixmatched belief systems and pantheons, they really do have a point and the ending to Episode III was a good comentary on both existentialism and Nietzchie's idea of the true "Uber Masch" or Over Man). But then, Namco turned traitor and kicked Takahashi off of his own project and hired a new director. Smart move, there, Namco! And Episodes II and III became disc two of XenoGears all over again. Wasted potential.
In fact, both Saga and Gears are what really inspired me to turn the pages and pages of was was The God Gene into a game: To see if what the Gears and Saga team set out to do could really be pulled off: To create a Sci-Fi game that is as sophistically realavent as any Asimov or Dick or O. S. Card novel.
Ultimately, it will be up to you to decide wheter or not I achieved that. But I didn't want to put this game in a place that wasn't going to give it fair treatment. Again, sorry for having doen this, and sorry for even being suspicious in the first place, but this ain't the first time a creation of mine has been ripped apart by legions of people (from more than one religious or philisophical backround) that all found my work offensive.
(And JPS, you can have the Caveman theme if you want it. I'll find something else later.)
See you later, Space Cowboy (Yes that is ONE anime I do like, thank you.)
I know people have already stated that this is a pretty liberal (not in a political sense) open place, but SUPPOSEDLY so were a number of the sites that I submitted my short stories to. Many of my short stories had heavy Christian themes, though not in the sense that "Left Behind" has Christian themes (more like The Da Vinci Code, but probably even less so), and even though many of my stories had a number of facts in them about the religion, some just didn't want to hear it. Even on a more open site, you can still get banned if enough people want you gone. Again, sorry.
In a way, the topic did backfire on me a bit. I wrote some things I really didn't give one hoot or another about and distorted a few of my own opinions for good measure. I want to say I didn't want to offend anyone, but that was the purpose all along. In the end, I decided that I wanted to just leave because of the backlash the topic caused. Then I remembered I'm more stubborn than that. You can't get rid of me that easily, suckers!
...but, this was also a learning experience. The last topic and some of your responses has inspired my to change a bit of the storyline. I think the God Gene will become a better game because of this. Thank you.
And if you still hate me or want to ridicule me for saying that I was gone and then coming back, well then...shove it! --What the hell am I saying? I'm one of the worst "Please like me" people you'll ever know. I'm too conscious of other people's opinions and the this and that last topic prove it. So go on, make with the roasting.
P.S.: Seeing as how my last topic had degraded into a discussion obout Monolith Soft's Xenogears and Xenosaga, I'd like to add my two cents:
Both Xenogrears and the Saga had tremendous potential. Xenogears was an excellent story...in theory. It was a good story but with a horrible telling of it. Takahashi just doesn't no how to write a damn story. He's an idea man pure and simple. And Xenosaga started out stronger than Gears, what with a more philisophically driven story (although they do retain many of the religious references, if you look deeply enough into Saga's strange hodgepodge of mixmatched belief systems and pantheons, they really do have a point and the ending to Episode III was a good comentary on both existentialism and Nietzchie's idea of the true "Uber Masch" or Over Man). But then, Namco turned traitor and kicked Takahashi off of his own project and hired a new director. Smart move, there, Namco! And Episodes II and III became disc two of XenoGears all over again. Wasted potential.
In fact, both Saga and Gears are what really inspired me to turn the pages and pages of was was The God Gene into a game: To see if what the Gears and Saga team set out to do could really be pulled off: To create a Sci-Fi game that is as sophistically realavent as any Asimov or Dick or O. S. Card novel.
Ultimately, it will be up to you to decide wheter or not I achieved that. But I didn't want to put this game in a place that wasn't going to give it fair treatment. Again, sorry for having doen this, and sorry for even being suspicious in the first place, but this ain't the first time a creation of mine has been ripped apart by legions of people (from more than one religious or philisophical backround) that all found my work offensive.
(And JPS, you can have the Caveman theme if you want it. I'll find something else later.)
See you later, Space Cowboy (Yes that is ONE anime I do like, thank you.)
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