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Children of Morta dev receives court summon (from the government of Iran) over the game not complying with Islamic rules
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Yes, that's right. Dark humour is the same as killing someone.
There are some parts of the world were you never mess with religion. Its so messed up
Hope nothing happens to the developer like what happened to the devs of Devotion. They should be proud a critically praised videogame comes from their country instead of gatekeeping and harassing artists.
The fuck? Yes I know their security is what comes first, thats bloody obvious. I'm still allowed to worry about their product as well.
c'mon you're saying you hope this doesn't affect content when the devs could be in harm.
I hope they'll be fine.
Your comment reads as if you're more concerned about the game's development than the actual developer. May or may not have been your intention but that's how it reads
Yeah no, that's not the worst...
Best case if this truly goes to the sharia courts? Fines and the game pulled. Worst case we're looking at literally flogging of the developers and long prison times in addition to fines and the game pulled. You really can not mess around with the religious police over there unfortunately :(
this is the same stupid sort of crap humor that people flooded twitter with to make idiotic and insulting WW3 memes despite how it spikes anxiety up very high for people like me who either know someone in the military, know friends in the country, or just don't want anyone to get hurt or die. Knock this shit off, it's the wrong board for this talk anyhow.
The devs could be in grave danger if they're in the country still and I do hope they can find some way out of this. Anyone know if they made a physical version of this game yet so I could support these devs? I swore I heard this mentioned as a Switch physical release a while ago as the name's one I recongize but I don't seem to remember if it's out or planned or not
Who could have ever imagined that when you expressed concern about their roadmap but not about their safety, people could somehow interpret it as you being concerned about their roadmap but not about their safety?
Truly mindboggling situation, indeed.
I know it's not but I'm hoping for the best. I hate how religion dominates law in these countries. Like I would think the idea of flogging someone would be something they wouldn't even consider but that's an actual that can happen. It's insane
In fact, Iran and Pakistan are the only two countries that have the death penalty explicitly written into their blasphemy laws. As you said, it's insane.
As a Pakistani, that disappoints me. It's something that very much should stay in the dark ages
I hate this shit so much and I hate that we can't even talk about it without feeling uncomfortable or hateful. I wish it was easier to criticize this shit.
It shouldn't make you feel hateful. Thinking an idea or belief is stupid/backward/destructive/insane doesn't make you hateful or bigoted. It's when you take your criticism of the belief/culture/idea and apply to people that it becomes hateful.
Iran was a pretty progressive and open place before being handed over to a bearded asshole in 1979.
Fucking tragedy what happened to it. There's nothing wrong with criticizing the barbarian government or the imperialists who allowed it to happen. The people shouldn't have to live under this mess.
Fucking tragedy what happened to it. There's nothing wrong with criticizing the barbarian government or the imperialists who allowed it to happen. The people shouldn't have to live under this mess.
Wasn't it Iranians that decided they wanted this, the Shah himself was pretty corrupt and they wanted him out. And it was US backed and armed Saddam Hussein that inflamed the situation that saw the nation lose over a million men/women, that's an entire generation of children without complete families devastated by war. I don't think it's as simple as saying bearded men, I can see why so many would be cautious of outsiders after they were on the brink of annihilation. We're definitely responsible for some of this.
Some Iranians, but not all, were upset by the Shah's corruption and the fact that he had been a puppet of the US and UK, and Russia was more than happy to help Khomeini if it meant an anti-US regime in the region. Of course, if the US and UK hadn't gotten rid of Mossadegh in the 50s, none of this would have happened, but it doesn't make Khomeini defensible in the least.
You get lashed for playing rock music, so yeah... people here shouldn't make jokes.
Luckily the developers are (apparently) in Texas. So the government can take their summons and shove it.
I guess this warrants a visit to an embassy and then result in a kidnapping.
Please say I am wrong..
Please say I am wrong..
That is awesome news, I work in an office full of iranians who come to iraq for work and they constantly get harassed by their government over meaningless things
Looking at their Linkedin it seems many are in Iran though?
Hope so. THat's a really silly reason to go to court on.
Off topic but, there are a few games developed/published by an Arab team
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Abdulla Hassan Al-Farsi
Pretty sure there are various other Iran developed/published games
They need to seek asylum if this is true because they will not get a fair trial.
This makes me feel better. Hopefully that means they're safe since they can presumably seek aslyum
So are they implying there is a right and wrong way to fight demons?
Becuase I'm actually interested to hear what they consider to be the correct method.
I don't think that's true. At least in the tweet it says that they were brought in by ethic police and told that they'd have to appear in court. From the tweet it sounds like they are in Iran.
Unless all of their families are also not in Iran (which I highly doubt), I wouldn't celebrate just yet.
I think the person who tweeted this, was forced to remove the tweet! I'm not sure tho.
I didn't even say that, and the guy you defended was banned for his comment, because the two of you aren't intelligent enough to know when and where to make such comments.
Dark humor that comes off as incredibly insensitive and ignorant in inappropriate topics gets you banned if you haven't realized that already.
Tell us how you really feel deep inside of you, we're listening.
It's not a fight worth having. Or at least I'm tired already of needing to deal with something like that.