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Post by Shahmatt on Jul 31, 2017 20:44:57 GMT -5
Maybe I'm being petty but somehow I find this irritating.
Bots are things and don't have a gender!
Ok I'm off to my corner now to brood.
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Post by amidf on Jul 31, 2017 20:58:46 GMT -5
Maybe I'm being petty but somehow I find this irritating. Bots are things and don't have a gender! Ok I'm off to my corner now to brood. You must hate the Romance languages. What about Fembots? Did they have a gender? -Amid |
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Post by Shahmatt on Jul 31, 2017 21:00:58 GMT -5
Maybe I'm being petty but somehow I find this irritating. Bots are things and don't have a gender! Ok I'm off to my corner now to brood. You must hate the Romance languages. What about Fembots? Did they have a gender? -Amid Don't know any romance language to comment really. I'm referring specifically to the war robots' bots. |
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Post by amidf on Jul 31, 2017 23:32:21 GMT -5
You must hate the Romance languages. What about Fembots? Did they have a gender? -Amid Don't know any romance language to comment really. I'm referring specifically to the war robots' bots. OK. In the Romance languages, almost every noun, be it object or concept, has a gender. The War Robots have gendered names, like Natasha (female), the Wild West bots (male gunslingers), and the Arthurian Knights (all Sirs). Robots don't have genders, but they can resemble gendered people or be given gendered names. -Amid |
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Post by Shahmatt on Aug 1, 2017 0:31:49 GMT -5
Yes I understand the concept of associating gender to inanimate things in French, Spanish etc. But there is no reason to follow this method.
Even if bots appear to have female or male names not all bots are obviously female or male. For e.g what gender is the Griffin? Anyways I just find it odd and somewhat irritating.
In some Western cultures traditionally aircraft and ships are referred to as 'she' by their pilots but never 'he'. But I have always felt that is more appropriate IRL and not in a game.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 22:53:45 GMT -5
This is important why?
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Post by amidf on Aug 1, 2017 23:09:34 GMT -5
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Post by Firebeard on Aug 2, 2017 1:59:50 GMT -5
Assigning a Gender to a robot/mecha would be chauvinistic.
We should ask it, "Which one of the 37 genders, does it 'Identify as?" or "Does it prefer to remain non-gender bais?" ..
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Post by Shahmatt on Aug 2, 2017 2:11:29 GMT -5
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Post by Cdr. Crimmins on Aug 2, 2017 9:15:46 GMT -5
But maybe a chess enthusiast? If so, would love to play you with the forum chess widget. |
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Post by Shahmatt on Aug 2, 2017 9:33:19 GMT -5
But maybe a chess enthusiast? If so, would love to play you with the forum chess widget. Ha sadly I am the worst of chess players. I have little to no experience. When I was a kid I took part in a tourney because there was simply noone else to take part. And I named our team Shahmatt, after what I read in a book somewhere. And the name stuck somehow. I like Scrabble though and used to play competitively back in the day. |
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Post by Cdr. Crimmins on Aug 2, 2017 9:48:15 GMT -5
But maybe a chess enthusiast? If so, would love to play you with the forum chess widget. Ha sadly I am the worst of chess players. I have little to no experience. When I was a kid I took part in a tourney because there was simply noone else to take part. And I named our team Shahmatt, after what I read in a book somewhere. And the name stuck somehow. I like Scrabble though and used to play competitively back in the day. Dang it. |
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Post by HoneyNutCheerios on Aug 2, 2017 10:46:40 GMT -5
Can you please put a trigger warning alert in the title. Thanks hun. Bye.
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Post by Danny Linguini on Aug 2, 2017 11:08:36 GMT -5
Can you please put a trigger warning alert in the title. Thanks hun. Bye. Does anything in Rants really need a trigger alert?? |
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