Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Re: ...!?

An actual answer, fair enough -- you just don't care.


On Tue, May 20, 2025, 11:08 PM David Crosswell <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> wrote:

On 21/5/25 15:14, Samuel B wrote:
> Help me (and anyone else) understand something about the attitudes and
> dispositions of the OpenBSD project.
> Please, just tell me why this even here.
>
> Looking in source files for "battlestar" in the default install sets,
> (src/games/battlestar/command*) function names and strings clearly
> show that rape and murder are deliberate features of the game; and it
> really delights in describing horrible things you do to people. (E.g.,
> functions "ravage" (clearly, "sadistic violence") and "murder", among
> other things.)
> Basically, the player's meant to be a psychopathic killer  and rapist.


Better to do it on-screen than out in the street, the way I used to!

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`To be an enemy of America can be dangerous,
but to be a friend is fatal'.

— Henry Kissinger

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