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[LordNothing]

the christmas commando looks happy to see me.

[Papaspud]

Klappspaten, on 21 November 2023 - 12:54 PM, said:

I get that a lot of people look forward to christmas because its a time for them to get together with their family or otherwise loved ones and that is perfectly fine. But there are also people out there for whom christmas is a time for profound loneliness because they do not have or are far away from their family.
Its rather short sighted to just shove it into everyones face all the time.

Translation=
I am lonely at Christmas and have no one who wants to listen to me.... so I will get online and complain. Hopefully I will get some virtue points and try to make other people feel bad about having family time. Is that about right?

[Davegt27]

[Akhri Mala]

Rondoe, on 22 November 2023 - 04:13 AM, said:

If you are so miserable get out of your yule nutshell and try to enjoy life outside of having your face stuck in some game-ffs.

Get a goddamn life instead of demanding everyone else stoop down to your level of being miserable.

Take your ace of spades title and let that determine the worth of your life because that is all you will ever amount to in life if you are that pissed off about stupid things. Worm!

Spoken like a true follower of Christ.

[Captain Caveman DE]

grown men going nuts on a forum dedicated to mechs
because of some xmas-deco.


nuff said.

[Viltor]

Captain Caveman DE, on 27 December 2023 - 01:39 PM, said:

grown men going nuts on a forum dedicated to mechs
because of some xmas-deco.


nuff said.

Are we celebrating holidays of preferred religion of MWO devs, or religious holidays in general? If it's first, then we are simply playing authoritarian version of "Simon says". If latter, then we should also celebrate Ramadan and Divali.
I would assume that most "grown men" would go ape-poop crazy if MWO would celebrate Islam holiday.

Edited by Viltor, 27 December 2023 - 02:02 PM.

[MechB Kotare]

Politics and religion themes should not be promoted in games. [redacted]
Its being done in almost all games nowadays though.

Im fairly neutral about this, as i like christmas, and i have people to spend them with, but i can totally understand frustration of people who don't have anyone, or simply have another reason, and they want, or need a sanctuary in games to escape from it.

Also, christmas have been twisted into symbol of capitalism and consumerism for few dozens, if not hundred years in western society.

I've been seeing christmass advertising from 1st of december, used by banks, clothing/food chains, insurance companies and other corpos, telling people how they should get joy, love and happiness for themselves and for their loved ones by buying their product, or subscribing to their services, totally abusing the meaning.

Out of 100 advertisements, only few will tell about Jesus Christ, or bible or whatever christianity info. They cleverly hide behind good intentions, by saying their product and/or service is good intention. I mean LOL. Only a blind person can't see that. Im not religious, but even i can see that.

Edited by Ekson Valdez, 04 January 2024 - 11:21 PM.

[Mark Yore]

I think my game is broken? I'm getting Hanukkah instead of Christmas and my background has dreidels and menorahs...

[Captain Caveman DE]

Viltor, on 27 December 2023 - 02:02 PM, said:

Are we celebrating holidays of preferred religion of MWO devs, or religious holidays in general? If it's first, then we are simply playing authoritarian version of "Simon says". If latter, then we should also celebrate Ramadan and Divali.
I would assume that most "grown men" would go ape-poop crazy if MWO would celebrate Islam holiday.

why would anybody care what is celebrated in a videogame?
it's a game.
at the WORST, it just wouldn't bother me, and at best I'm glad this content is in the game.
celebrate your Ramadan, your Divali, your Xmas, your WHATEVER-REALLY.
poke the devs, there's a good chance they include it in some way with an event or so.


if it's totally not my thing, I just shrug it off with a "whatever" and continue with the game.
doesn't take much AT ALL to behave a little open minded and grown up from time to time.


then again.. some people just never grow up. no point in having a discussion with those.

Edited by Captain Caveman DE, 30 December 2023 - 10:15 AM.

[Napoleon_Blownapart]

Mark Yore, on 30 December 2023 - 12:00 AM, said:

I think my game is broken? I'm getting Hanukkah instead of Christmas and my background has dreidels and menorahs...

try a mech with 9 flamers

[Sjorpha]

I agree with OP in principle, I would prefer to keep religious holidays out of games.

For example, how would an in game representation of Ramadan be perceived?

For me it's just a philosophical question though, it doesn't actually bother me. And you can also argue developers have a right to project their culture into the game if they want to.

[Relishcakes]

Christmas is in your game because you are playing a game that has a large base of people who celebrate Christmas. Its very much in the same vein as everyone saying "if you dont like political statement X, Ignore it." You'll live and so will everyone else.