Looks pretty good :) Wishlisted and entered the giveaway. I'll surely buy it once it gets a bit higher discount.
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Oooh, awesome! I voted for this one on Greenlight. Thank you, Ducky! (:
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They technically only need to create one Steam emote; they can reuse game art/promotional assets for the card pictures and Steam backgrounds. (Most HOGs do that anyway.) It is also a good way to generate some additional decent revenue if the game gets bundled (self-published first HOGs on Steam usually do eventually).
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BUMP
Wait a moment, I remember this game 0_0
EDIT: Now I remembered! Developer added me when it was on greenlight, WOAH time flies so fast, it was not long ago but still.
Congrats on release!
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"Her"? This is an Indian company, and the person who lobbied through the entire HOG community with this game (to the point where it was frankly annoying) was a guy.
(Not to mention that I have worked with over a hundred Indians in the past years but I am yet to see any female among them, especially in the IT sector. The Indian company the floor below us hires exactly one woman, the receptionist, who is local.)
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I have a different experience. Among my Indian colleagues some developers and testers are women. For a few years our head of R&D was an Indian woman. I'm not saying they're the majority, but the number is not insignificant.
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But is it an Indian company or a company that hires Indians? There is quite a big difference.
(Additionally, do they also take the elevator to go down one floor? Initially I thought it was the one company in our old office building, but now after meeting four company worth of them, it seems like all of them do this. It is as if they are genetically allergic to stairs or something. I am really just curious if it is some strange quirk that is not just localised here.)
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Have I just not noticed this before or have you started to become borderline racist/sexist and some other -ists I can't think of right now π€
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Nope, just realist. Always was. I don't care about race or sex, I care about what I see and what I experience from other people. When I talk shit about Russians on this site, it is because nearly two-third of the people I had to report for rule-breaking were from the RU-CIS region (granted, this percentage is dropping now thanks to Taiwanese users). What I said about my experience with Indians is also trueβthat elevator thing has been actually mentioned by quite a number of people in our current building and at the client's office building as well (there is one tech support center in both building, on the first floor, interesting enough). (And I didn't get into how much of my current time is spent by fixing the hundreds to thousands of database errors they manage to make each month in a company aftermarket database, because it is just one company and that doesn't necessarily represent a larger whole.)
The thing is, stuff like "it is usual for a nationality" very much exist. Jokes have been based on them for millenia. It is just political correctness have really gone to such lengths that people are now not just laughing at them or reflect on them, but try to be offended by them. It's like how they call you a fascist if you say Jews are stingy, even though they themselves literally wrote books full of jokes of how stingy they are. (I even read two of them as a kid.) And, frankly, this is a bit dumb.
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Yeah that's exactly how it starts off: a few harmless racial cliches and quips that make you chuckle "Asian's can't drive, and Brits have bad teeth", soon you start seeing people differently around you, "That's that Vietnamese guy", "Go the other way, the Pakistani woman is cooking again" You start applying your in-consequential microcosmic experiences to generalise every person you meet and form some sort of prejudice about, even though you haven't ever spoken to them and probably never will. You make fun of "those Indians who can't even walk down 1 floor, how lazy are they" and using your warped idea of the world and people to justify it "I've never met an Indian woman in IT and I never will", "Russian games are terrible and only pass because of RU reviews, ignore all RU/CIS games". Eventually, those start to annoy you and that 'harmless banter' becomes something more hateful and dangerous. It doesn't have to but it can.
What's dumb is how someone as intelligent as you doesn't even realise what they're doing. When you stop seeing people as individuals and start seeing them as a race/sex or any other sub-sect you have assigned to them in your mind, you have become ignorant. Just because people have joked about them does not make it okay. Just because people around you joke about it still does not make it okay. Think about what you are doing and how jokes aren't funny when the only person laughing is you. Not all racists are hate-mongering loud-mouths but that is their eventuality. I hope that does not become true in your case. For now I have to put you on my ignore+BL list even though you probably wouldn't ever enter any of my giveaways, you can do the same to me. I really hope you have a change of heart, you seemed nice Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
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Don't forget one thing: stereotypes exist for a reason. People are individuals, but we are raised in a certain culture and all cultures have their own set of attributes. This is the kind of stuff you can usually see in tourist books when they tell you that because some culture's habit's are not the same as yours, that doesn't mean they are necessarily bad. (Although those who were Westernised by the British Empire in the 19th century may disagree on this notion, I guess.) Like how they tell you if you decide to rent a car in Argentina, get ready because traffic rules are handled more like recommendations, not laws. There are dozens of quirks like that for all nation, and sometimes to certain groups within nations. And when you work with people from other countries, you learn to recognise these quirks and just accept them, even if they can be strange, not understandable, or downright annoying (like never taking the stairs).
My only thing is that I talk about these in the open and not just murmuring about it.
Also, hey, I'm Hungarian. I may be among the like one thousand actual liberals in this country, but we are also known as one of the most xenophobic and pessimist nation on the planet. I cannot fully deny the element I was raised in.
(By the way, just dropping it here, I also have to add: Russians are also probably the greatest to have around if you just want to have a party. They really, really know how to have a good time. If you can ever go out with some, do so, it is worth it. ^.^)
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Or another person who originally contacted us, probably. In a hindsight. :) Wouldn't be the first time a small company uses a common account and different people accessing it. For a time I was almost 100% sure that the Artifex Mundi Steam account is also a group effort, now maybe they have a dedicated PR person on it.
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looks awesome, Artifex Mundi quality boy! Congrats to her, really good work, hope I get lucky with the giv :D
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I knew, even voted for the game on Greenlight some time ago. I actually checked to see how it was doing yesterday and saw it was released. Congratulations! :)
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