by Daarwyrth » Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:26 pm
by Trotterdam » Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:31 pm
Don't tell me what I did.Daarwyrth wrote:even you, @@LEADER@@, decided to send your precious saliva to complete strangers in a lab.
by Daarwyrth » Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:34 pm
by Trotterdam » Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:40 pm
Having a brother or sister isn't something people in real life get to decide whether to do. Sending bodily fluids to a genetic testing service is.Daarwyrth wrote:But isn't it innocent in this case? I mean, there are issues out there that tell you that you have a brother or sister, which might not be how someone plays their @@LEADER@@.
by Daarwyrth » Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:48 pm
Trotterdam wrote:Having a brother or sister isn't something people in real life get to decide whether to do. Sending bodily fluids to a genetic testing service is.Daarwyrth wrote:But isn't it innocent in this case? I mean, there are issues out there that tell you that you have a brother or sister, which might not be how someone plays their @@LEADER@@.
Yes, roleplayers do often want to decide things about their characters that real-life people don't get a choice in too, but we have to draw the line somewhere, and I'm pretty sure the issue editors have mentioned in the past that this is where they chose to draw the line. (Plus, there's the grandfather clause, because @@LEADER@@'s family members had already been a fixture of issues long before we got as serious about player autonomy as we are now. Player autonomy was less of an issue back in the days before there was even a @@LEADER@@ field, anyway, since people were less inclined to try to write issues that are about the leader rather than the nation.)
by Australian rePublic » Sat Aug 10, 2019 6:56 pm
by Baggieland » Sat Aug 10, 2019 11:09 pm
Australian rePublic wrote:Or @@LEADER@@'s sibling could send in the sample. They definately have the same ansestry.
Australian rePublic wrote:the queen of England is secretly Muslim, just because she was decendant from Mohammed (yes, people have actually made that claim)
by Trotterdam » Sat Aug 10, 2019 11:30 pm
by Daarwyrth » Sun Aug 11, 2019 2:23 am
Australian rePublic wrote:Or @@LEADER@@'s sibling could send in the sample. They definately have the same ansestry. Either way, who fudge blames a modern person for the actions of their dead ancestor? That's as stupid as claiming that the queen of England is secretly Muslim, just because she was decendant from Mohammed (yes, people have actually made that claim)
Trotterdam wrote:Royal families had a tendency to have flaws passed down through the generations, both due to upbringing (growing up in a decadent environment won't do wonders for your own attitude) and due to massive inbreeding (which tends to keep family features in the family as well as bring out the worst ones). Even then, the magnitude of this is exaggerated in fiction compared to real life.
If you're descended from some utter bastard twenty generations back but without constant incest between there and here, it's really going to have a pretty negligible effect on your own nature. If you need genetic testing to even find out you're related, then you clearly haven't been upholding the family traditions, either.
I get that A Game of Thrones is a very popular series these days, but "I read about it in a book once" is not a sensible reason to pick up the torches and pitchforks.
by Great Robertia » Sun Aug 11, 2019 3:07 am
by Trotterdam » Sun Aug 11, 2019 3:38 am
by Daarwyrth » Sun Aug 11, 2019 4:57 am
by Australian rePublic » Sun Aug 11, 2019 5:39 am
Daarwyrth wrote:I've decided to cancel this an all other of my drafts because I just get too tired by continuously have my enthusiasm shut down. I understand that nothing is perfect from the get-go, but as someone said before, I do feel there is too much nitpicking when it comes to these issues. I wish everyone else good luck with their issues, but all my motivation and enthusiasm is gone for this, sorry.
by USS Monitor » Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:56 am
Daarwyrth wrote:I've decided to cancel this an all other of my drafts because I just get too tired by continuously have my enthusiasm shut down. I understand that nothing is perfect from the get-go, but as someone said before, I do feel there is too much nitpicking when it comes to these issues. I wish everyone else good luck with their issues, but all my motivation and enthusiasm is gone for this, sorry.
by Australian rePublic » Tue Aug 13, 2019 1:52 pm
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