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Just know that character creation is reminiscent of the oldest D&D types, where you'd roll randomly. It is possible (I read a review of the game, not the system itself, thank god) to have a negative circumference of the anus.
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This post did not contain any content.I have a morbid fascination with it, and one of the things that keeps dragging me back to it is the very weird ways in which it is, surprisingly, *progressive*. FATAL makes a distinction between sex and gender (though throws it away), and also recognises asexuality as valid (despite not understanding it).
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[There are people here who've probably never seen the greatest review of the worst RPG of all time.](https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml) >There is no God, and the proof of this can be found in a .pdf file from Fatal Games.
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Zigmenthotep on YouTube covered F.A.T.A.L as part of their "Let's make us a character" series. It took *four* episodes, in a format that is usually one-and-done. However bad you've heard the game is, I assure you it's worse.
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[There are people here who've probably never seen the greatest review of the worst RPG of all time.](https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml) >There is no God, and the proof of this can be found in a .pdf file from Fatal Games.My favorite thing about fatal is that you can read several reviews of it, all will be summed up vety similarly, but it induces a verbose disgust that leads to every review being a distinct archive of points where each reviewer got sufficiently pissed off at the creator of the game for publishing it. For all I hear of the misogyny, of which I trust the reviewers is abundant, every review leaves me thinking that this man believes things about men that should offend the entire human species.
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I have a morbid fascination with it, and one of the things that keeps dragging me back to it is the very weird ways in which it is, surprisingly, *progressive*. FATAL makes a distinction between sex and gender (though throws it away), and also recognises asexuality as valid (despite not understanding it).It's a racist, sexist rape fantasy simulator.
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Palladium was foundational to everything in RIFTS and it was clear the overlap was just supposed to be implied knowledge, especially from the later rulebooks.I just wish someone would combine TMNT & Other Strangeness's character creation (any animal etc.,) with Spore or some other creature creation engine in a CRPG. it'd be tough to balance but holy hell would that be something fun
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This post did not contain any content.i just looked it up and jolty fucking shit how are most comments here about its mechanics rather than how it's apparently Violent Misogyny: The Game
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Rimworld was originally coded so that all women were at least slightly bisexual, if not fully gay, while all men were either gay or straight. According to the creator - who vociferously defended this stance claiming it was based on "research" - bisexual men like me don't exist. That's honestly just the start of the rabbit hole. The game was hardcoded so that men always prefer younger partners and women always prefer older partners. Also women were eight times less likely to be willing to hit on someone. This is, to be clear, supposed to be a scifi game set in the future, but modelling sexual politics apparently taken from 1980's TV. There's an amazing breakdown of the whole thing here; https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rimworld-code-analysis You can find the creator of Rimworld in the comments defending all of his nonsense and making a total ass of himself in the process. Unfortunately the rest of the comments are a total shitshow. I'm told they eventually changed some of this stuff after enough backlash, years later, for whatever that's worth. Maybe the creator actually did some learning and growing, and if so, good for them.
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Based on the fact that all that nonsense was removed even before the release, and that I've never heard about him being weird like that, I want to believe he grew as a person since then, and pulled a reverse Notch.
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It's a racist, sexist rape fantasy simulator.It sure is, but the author had a very particular *type* of bigoted worldview combined with a very particular *type* of pseudo-academic obsession. Without that, it would be an utterly unremarkable cookie-cutter grimderp RPG from the 2000s. The exact, half-baked layout of the trainwreck presenting as high-speed rail is what makes FATAL into **FATAL**.
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Harping on rimworld, One of the most moddable games ever made, for the creator not understanding the depths of human sexuality is a little obtuse to say the least. There are a lot of things that people won't understand and there are so many mods to resolve this it seems silly to expect the creator to "get it". I've been around gay and trans people my entire life but I still don't think that I fully understand human sexuality or our cultural relationships with gender norms. Undoubtedly if I were to architect something like Rimworld I would get it wrong but I hope I would have the foresight to leave an amendment process so that it could be modded into fitting with people's understanding in the future.> There are a lot of things that people won't understand [...] it seems silly to expect the creator to "get it". The creator said they had done research into this. Not only that, if you don't know the rate of bisexual man, just leave it the same as woman of something. And even if it's wrong *it doesn't change anything* (until Biotech)
let the computer handle the calculations and all
