Real-world sensitivities and game names

[Strider]

As MaxWilson says, this is a valid topic. Shrapnel and some mods are interested in people's views concerning this. We just aren't interested in people making it personal against one another. Most understand that when it comes to religion and politics, it's difficult, at times, to control tempers...even so, we ask that posters please do so.

[Tyrant]

lch said:
You'll notice that there seems to be a hard limit on the DoB for names of prominent people given by HoneyBadger above, too.

Perhaps so Ich, but not long ago there was an black American athlete named Hitler. I alternate goggling and giggling over that guy.

[Tyrant]

I've been amazed and pleased that there has never been a peep about this that i have seen. My guess is that the only people who play fantasy wargames are wargamers and fantasy fans and as such they have gotten over it long ago. Nearly all fantasy fiction draws on stereotypes and plays with supernatural concepts. All wargames per force involve playing at committing vile atrocities. Both escape reasonable moral censure because they are make believe. Beyond that, in an era where GTA is ok Dominions doesn't even rate a raised eyebrow IMO.

[Halancar]

triqui said:

I dont know anyone named "Judas". Some names became *really* unpopular.

Among Christians, certainly. On the other hand, it is also the name of Judas Maccabeus , one of the great warriors of Jewish History, and so, I suspect, far less unpopular among Jews.

[dirtywick]

Halancar said:

Among Christians, certainly. On the other hand, it is also the name of Judas Maccabeus , one of the great warriors of Jewish History, and so, I suspect, far less unpopular among Jews.

Uh, that guy lived ~175 years before the name Judas became infamous.

[MaxWilson]

dirtywick said:
Uh, that guy lived ~175 years before the name Judas became infamous.

It took me a second, but I think he means that someone might name their kid after Judas Maccabeus--not that Judas Maccabeus himself was named after (/despite) Judas Iscariot.

-Max

[triqui]

Among Christians, certainly. On the other hand, it is also the name of Judas Maccabeus , one of the great warriors of Jewish History, and so, I suspect, far less unpopular among Jews.

There are several famous Judas before the one that betrayed the mesias of christian religion. Including one of them that was a saint apostle (Judas Thaddeus). Even then, few people (if any) will name his son "Judas", becouse everybody will think about Iscariot first. Same goes with "Nero","Herodes" or "Torquemada". No Greek will name his child "Ephialtes" and so on.

Those names aren't taboo, and actually there are very good reasons to use them, as most of them have high tradition (like Judas Thadeus. However, they are underused becouse of unpopularity none the less.

I also would like to point that NONE of the prominent "Adolfs" named previously was born after 1945. Which might be a proof of it's unpopularity as well

[Kuritza]

I think Dominions developers wont have any serious problems with raging mobs until they finally make a muslim-inspired nation

[johan osterman]

Someone a while back took offense at the glyph pretender. The glyph is based on the Muslim declaration of faith, and he found it's inclusion in the game offensive and possiblt blasphemous. But it was huge no deal and he dropped the subject after a few emails, there certainly were no mobs involved. And a Hindu gentlemen was concerned about the Deva, since he found it disrespectful that people would be hitting and killing an image of a divinity. To the best of our knowledge no one rioted because of that either.

Most people are reasonable even when offended.

[Leif_-]

johan osterman said:
To the best of our knowledge no one rioted because of that either.

Well, no, but that's primarily because you still haven't added peasant infantry armed with torches and pitchforks to the game.